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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August 31, 2025

Breitbart: President Donald Trump trolled leftists who questioned where he was and spread baseless rumors on social media of his death over the weekend, informing them that he has “never felt better.” – The New York Post reported that Trump was seen “leaving the White House” on Sunday morning and arriving at Trump National Golf Club Washington, DC, located in Sterling, Virginia…

PJ Media: As reported last week, the US and various other Western Hemisphere countries are putting pressure on the illegitimate Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela, and it’s looking more and more like his time is running out. – This story is developing pretty quickly, and here are a few updates: – Another U.S. Warship Crosses the Panama Canal – More Pressure From Other Countries – Maduro’s Recent Flights to Nicaragua…

One America News: In This Exclusive Interview, Benjamin Netanyahu Discusses The War In Gaza, Hamas Hostages, And U.S. Support – He also addresses rising antisemitism, media bias, and the threat posed by Iran and its proxies. – This in-depth conversation offers rare insight into Israel’s fight for security and the global implications of the conflict.

Gateway Pundit: Guatemala Requests Their Migrant Children Be Returned, But A Biden Judge Blocked Reunification Efforts, Keeping The Children Trapped at American Shelters – The reality is that these children were smuggled into the United States, often at the hands of cartels, and wound up stranded in federal custody. – Now, instead of being sent back to their families, they are trapped in American shelters…

American Spectator: It Is Time for the Republican Congress to Legislate, Legislate, Legislate – Republicans did a great job passing the Big Beautiful Bill. However, there are several outstanding matters that they must address immediately. – No Illegal Aliens in the Census – Zero Rights for Illegal Aliens – Secure Election Integrity – DOGE Into Dollars – Codify President Trump’s Executive Orders – No More Mass Rule by Autopen…

Townhall: Maryland Governor Wes Moore’s Bronze Star Falsehood Implodes Under Scrutiny – Moore defended himself, saying he’s just “proud to have served,” and insists the Bronze Star was “never a central part” of his story. – However, his public record tells a different tale. – His biography, speeches, campaign literature, and media appearances all featured the honor, that is, until he got caught.

Zero Hedge: The Harsh Truth About Life In Canada Today – Canada is often portrayed as a land of freedom, opportunity, and prosperity. Reality, however, tells a different story. – Statist policies, crushing taxes, bloated bureaucracy, and a society overtaken by woke ideology have shattered Canada. – As if economic hardships aren’t enough, Canadians are also oppressed by the Orwellian newspeak that woke culture is creating…

American Thinker: New Hope for America’s Unemployed Engineers – Probably the strangest, saddest specter on the employment front in the U.S. is the inability of U.S. engineering graduates and older engineers to secure jobs in today’s market. – The new website, Jobs Now, combats H1-B visa rigging for importing foreign talent into the U.S. job market…

Townhall: 28 alleged members of a Chinese organized crime ring have been charged in four federal grand jury indictments in a $65 million fraud scheme targeting thousands of seniors across the US. – The criminal network has operated since 2019, based in Southern California. – Many are illegal immigrants. Fraudsters posing as technical support agents, government officials, or bank employees took the calls…

Western Journal: Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a fractured vertebra and other injuries following a car crash in New Hampshire. – Giuliani’s vehicle was struck from behind while traveling on a highway Saturday evening. – “He sustained injuries but is in good spirits and recovering tremendously.” – “This was not a targeted attack.”

Breitbart: The Israel Defense Forces announced Saturday that the so-called Houthi “prime minister” and several other senior Houthi leaders had been killed in an airstrike last week on a facility that hosted dozens of senior officials in Yemen’s capital city, Sana’a. – The strike was made possible by seizing an intelligence opportunity and completing a rapid operational cycle, which took place within a few hours….

Epoch Times: President Trump announced that he has decided to issue an executive order requesting that federal elections require voters to present a valid ID in order to cast a ballot. – “Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. No exceptions!” – “I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!”
The president did not give a timeline for his order…

Zero Hedge: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has fired 24 workers at FEMA after a cyber breach was discovered, threatening national security. – FEMA spent nearly half a billion dollars on IT and cybersecurity measures in fiscal year 2025. – News of the firings came days after nearly 200 current and former FEMA employees signed a declaration protesting the Trump administration’s disaster response changes…

Townhall: College campuses across the country were thrown into turmoil this week after a series of coordinated fake active shooter threats sent students and staff scrambling. – These false alarms, known as “swatting” incidents, triggered lockdowns, emergency alerts, and full-scale police responses, only to be revealed as calculated hoaxes. – On Monday alone, at least six universities issued warnings about active shooters…

American Thinker: The Imperial Judiciary – By now, we are accustomed to lower courts misappropriating their roles, acting as if they occupy the role of the chief executive. – As these cases reach the Supreme Court, they are being overturned, but not without a cost to the president’s agenda. – This week, there are several examples of cases where plaintiffs have asked the courts to assume presidential powers…

American Thinker: Justice Gorsuch issues a warning, pointed warning, criticizing lower courts for repeatedly defying Supreme Court decisions – Will Congress act, while Republicans have the power to act, to keep our representative republic and prevent disunion or civil war? – The Supreme Court is the only court established by the Constitution. – Every inferior court is the invention of Congress, which has the power to regulate them…

American Thinker: Iran Has Its Eye on a New Proxy – So, which country will become the ayatollahs’ latest plaything? – The Islamic Republic of Iran is exploiting Sudan’s ongoing civil war and instability to expand its influence, raising fears that Tehran could turn the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) into a proxy force. – Since late 2023, Iran has been supplying the SAF with military equipment…

American Thinker: A California school district goes trans crazy – The Temecula Valley Unified School District has come up with a stunning new rule. If a girl feels uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with biological males, she can’t just use a private facility. – No, she must file a “Mental Health Accommodation Request” under the federal disability law…

American Thinker: Newsom Drives Refineries Out Of California – Is $8/Gallon gas on the way? – Professor Michael Mische disputes Newsom’s claims, finding in his recent research that the state’s high gas prices are “self-inflicted.” – His study of 50 years of gas prices found no widespread evidence of price gouging, either by gas station owners or refiners or oil producers in the state…

American Thinker: The ‘Follow the Science’ Crowd Seldom Does – It’s really fascinating to learn how the people who tout their science credentials routinely fail basic logic, along with the gaping hole in their approach to reality. – So let’s do it for them. Let’s look at several things they really haven’t thought through. – 1. X/Y Men & X/X Women & “Gender-affirming care” – 2. X/Y Men & X/X Women & Sports – 3. Climate change…

Slay News: America First Legal launched a bombshell lawsuit against the FDA concerning a cover-up by the Biden administration on the side effects of puberty blockers on children. – AFL is trying to get its hands on Biden-era records related to the government’s internal guidance on the use of puberty blockers and the negative side effects on children. – This lawsuit comes after the AFL filed a FOIA request…

American Thinker: The Capital Gains Tax on Home Sales Must Go – It Is Unwise and Discriminatory. – First, the present deduction benefit after a minimum two-year hold significantly discriminates against those who have held their residences for longer periods of time. – Someone who has owned their home for, say, 20 years will likely have suffered from far more inflation than those who have owned their homes for only two years…

August 30, 2025

One America News: IDF Says Gaza City has been declared a ‘dangerous combat zone,’ and the bodies of 2 hostages have been recovered. – The IDF once again urged civilians in Gaza City to evacuate southward. – The conflict began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas fighters launched a large-scale attack on Israel, killing around 1,200 people and abducting 251...

Townhall: It’s Happening: Missouri to Hold Special Session to Redraw Congressional Districts – Democrats were warned this would end badly for them, and it all stems from California Gavin Newsom’s latest move. There is no way they can win a redistricting war. – Enough dancing around this issue: gerrymandering is legal. Both parties do it. It’s time to obliterate the Democrats, who cannot win this fight….

Epoch Times: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Signs Order to Block Possible Troop Deployment – The mayor’s order bars city police from assisting federal agents in immigration or joint patrols, calls on federal officers to identify themselves and wear body cameras, and directs city departments to explore legal and legislative steps to resist federal actions. – It also urges President Donald Trump to “stand down” from deploying troops.

One America News: A woman has been arrested after attempting to run over U.S. Border Patrol agents assisting in the arrest of two illegal immigrants in Maine. – DHS stated that Olivia Wilkins, 24, has been arrested and faces charges including aggravated reckless conduct, criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, reckless driving, hindering arrest, obstructing government functions, and failure to stop for an officer…

Resist The Mainstream: Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired a DOJ employee after she repeatedly bragged about flipping off National Guard personnel outside her office building in Washington, DC. – Elizabeth Baxter worked as a paralegal in the DOJ’s environmental division. – Bondi confirmed the firing in a statement Friday after reviewing security footage and witness testimony.

Zero Hedge: According to CDC data, synthetic opioids, i.e., mostly fentanyl, are now involved in 7 out of 10 overdose deaths in the U.S. after having contributed to a dramatic surge in drug-related mortality over the past decade. – This chart illustrates what makes fentanyl such a vicious drug. – Incredibly potent and dangerous on its own, it turns the use of other drugs into a deadly gamble…

Washington Free Beacon: Why China Poses a Real Threat to Our Democracy – For instance, The New York Times reports that the Chinese Communist Party has co-opted many of the city’s traditional Chinese-American associations. – In San Francisco, diaspora groups harass and intimidate human rights protesters…

Center Square: President Trump lashed out Friday after a federal appeals court said he didn’t have the power to issue the sweeping tariffs central to his economic agenda. – In a 7-4 decision, the court said tariff power rests with Congress, not the president. – It also found that the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act didn’t grant the president such authority. – Ten of the twelve judges were appointed by Democrat Presidents.

Populist Times: No More Free Housing for Illegal Aliens – Illegal immigrants will no longer be permitted to live in taxpayer-funded housing. – A joint initiative titled “American Housing Programs for American Citizens” ends what officials described as the “wasteful misappropriation of taxpayer dollars to benefit illegal aliens instead of American citizens.”

Townhall: Tom Homan Reveals How Many of the Unaccompanied Children Lost Under Biden Have Been Located – “Out of the 300,000 children, I looked at the numbers just yesterday, we located over 23,000 of them.” – “So, 23,000 locations of the 300,000. But President Trump is committed. – We’re not gonna stop until we find every one of them or at least run every lead down of those 300,000 children…

American Thinker: The Democrats’ Cult of Human Sacrifice – Democrat politicians are terrified that the President’s intervention in D.C. is working. – From January through July of 2025, the monthly number of homicides in the District averaged over 13. – Since the deployment of the National Guard, homicides in the District have fallen to zero…

Gateway Pundit: Maryland Governor Wes Moore, a Democrat often described as a future presidential contender, just admitted what Democrats never like to say out loud: they can’t govern their own cities without federal support. – In a nationally televised interview, Moore declared he would “absolutely welcome federal support” to help clean up Baltimore.

American Thinker: Another New York lower court ignores SCOTUS – New York State, and particularly New York City, considers itself outside the Constitution and federal law, and above both.- This is particularly obvious where the Second Amendment is concerned. – The Second Circuit essentially told the SCOTUS they don’t have to listen to the Supreme Court. Now it’s back to the Supreme Court, which is becoming increasingly annoyed at lower courts.

American Thinker: Transitioning and Detransitioning, The Tragic Truth – A notable trend is emerging where people are realizing they made a mistake in transitioning and are then pursuing detransitioning. – Here is a partial list showing why: Physical or mental health concerns of using hormones – A feeling of pressure to perform their new gender, which feels uncomfortable – A change in one’s perspective on gender identity…

Breitbart: The number of people who think the United Kingdom is in a “bad state” continues to rise, and a plurality think it’s doing worse than other Western countries. – A massive 82 per cent of respondents said the UK is in a bad state, and 36 per cent viewed the country as being in a “very bad state.”…

Zero Hedge: From Blacklist To NIH Director – Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Discusses Fauci, Bioweapons, And The Collapse Of Free Speech In Science – Fauci’s Censorship Apparatus – A Strong Stance Against “Biodefense” – Woke Science – Science and Free Speech…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Societal Suicide Edition – To be honest, most of this week’s news was pretty bleak. – The positive highlight was probably Taylor Swift’s and Travis Kelce’s engagement, but somehow that didn’t lead to a lot of memes.

August 29, 2025

Just The News: U.S. generals ran cover for Taliban, despite violent attacks during bungled withdrawal – Generals Milley, McKenzie, and other Pentagon officials claimed the Taliban wasn’t attacking the U.S. during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, then contended that the Taliban was businesslike and helpful during the chaotic and deadly evacuation that ensued. – Neither narrative was true.

Zero Hedge: Brace For Another Huge Negative Payrolls Revision, Green lighting A 50bps September Rate Cut – For years, ZeroHedge noted that Biden’s BLM was massaging the jobs data to make the economy appear stronger than it was, chronically revising every prior month’s data lower while overestimating the current month (until next month’s downward revision) using every trick imaginable to cover up the deteriorating reality…

Gateway Pundit: US Attorney General Pam Bondi Responded to The Federal Appeals Court Decision to Strike Down Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Impose Tariffs – The judges of the Federal Circuit are interfering with the President’s vital and constitutionally central role in foreign policy. – This decision is wrong and undermines the US on the world stage. The DOJ will appeal this decision…

American Thinker: A deep dive into Trump Derangement Syndrome – What makes these poor afflicted souls so full of rage? – An unspoken but evident and fanatical vow among sufferers of TDS is never, ever to acknowledge or give Trump any credit for good and positive things he does for America. – Instead, TDS-afflicted individuals relentlessly and tirelessly criticize and disparage Trump for any proposal he suggests or policy he introduces…

Epoch Time: Vance Says Trump in ‘Incredibly Good Health,’ but Is Prepared to Step Up If Needed – “Yes, terrible tragedies happen,” Vance responded, “But I feel very confident the president of the United States is in good shape, and is going to serve out the remainder of his term and do great things for the American people.

Breitbart: The left is lashing out as the Trump administration prepares to use Chicago’s Great Lakes Naval Station as a base for immigration enforcement sweeps in Chicago and Illinois. – Trump border czar Tom Homan told reporters that the administration plans to dedicate a “large contingent” of forces to Chicago. – Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has been vociferously opposing any ramping up of ICE activity in the Windy City…

Associated Press: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit finds Trump’s sweeping tariffs unconstitutional but leaves them in place for now. – The decision complicates Trump’s ambitions to upend decades of American trade policy completely on his own. Trump has alternative laws for imposing import taxes, but they would limit the speed and severity with which he could act.

Wall Street Journal: President Trump Revokes Kamala Harris’s Secret Service Protection – Harris was entitled to six months of Secret Service protection after leaving office. – That period was extended by a year by former President Joe Biden before he departed the White House, but Trump has canceled the extension.

American Thinker: Trump’s Pragmatism Will Save Ukraine From Its Courageous Naïveté – Donald Trump is working to stop Ukraine and Europe from sleepwalking into a decade of unending war. – Volodymyr Zelensky has been playing military commander, but he’s never had a workable strategy for winning or even ending the war. Donald Trump’s pragmatism is forcing Zelensky to face reality, which may ultimately save Ukraine from having Russia seize it inch by inch in the coming years.

Zero Hedge: Trump Unveils Another $825M Arms Sale To Ukraine, While Talking Peace – Crucially, this package will include long-range missiles and supporting equipment, ostensibly to strengthen Ukraine’s defense capabilities, though the Kremlin is going to interpret this as another act of US escalation, given the long-range capability.

Zero Hedge: On Thursday night, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte dropped a second criminal referral against Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook based on evidence that she entered into a 15-year mortgage on a third property which she listed as her “Second Home.” – On an ethics form signed with the government, however, Cook noted it as an “investment/rental property.”

Daily Wire: President Trump Slashes $5 Billion In Foreign Spending Using Rare Executive Pocket Rescission Maneuver. – Marco Rubio said that some of the programs that were cancelled included $2.7 million for “inclusive democracy” in South Africa and $4 million for “global LGBTQI+ awareness.” – “None of these programs are in America’s interest, which is why the President is taking decisive action to put America and Americans first.”…

American First Report: The U.S. government is overhauling undersea cable rules for the first time since 2001, tightening restrictions to keep companies linked to adversaries such as China, Russia, and Iran out of the supply chain. – The FCC approved proposed rules that bar adversary-based firms from working on U.S.-owned undersea cables or supplying related equipment…

American Wire: Trump-backed challenger Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy is poised to primary ‘RINO’ Senator Lisa Murkowski – “Trump has talked to him before about running and wants him to run,” according to a source close to the governor. – “Gov. Dunleavy has been not only a successful governor, but a pretty strong ally for him,” another source added…

Gatestone Institute: The Famine That Wasn’t, Or How the UN, Media and Hamas Waged a War of Disinformation – Behind this narrative lies a calculated strategy: the weaponization of humanitarian suffering, orchestrated by Hamas — the entity that controls Gaza and its distribution of aid — and amplified by willing accomplices in the United Nations system and global media.

American Thinker: Dear Democrat, Nobody longs to be close to you – A lot of Americans look at the party and wonder where their father’s Democrat Party ran to. – Worse than that, every Democrat that I’ve spoken to knows that the Left is going to destroy them, but they are scared to challenge them. – They fear cancellation, a mob in front of their house or business office, or being called something that ends in “ism.”

American Thinker: Maybe the girl with the axe should run Scotland – A fourteen-year-old Scottish girl has more courage to fight evil pedophiles invading her country than all the governments of Europe. – By now you’ve seen video of Mayah Sommers, the heroine brandishing a long knife and axe while defending her twelve-year-old sister from two Muslim men making sexual advances…

American Thinker: Climate Inquisition Silenced a Generation of Scientists – When researchers abandon empirical observation in favor of predetermined conclusions, science transforms into propaganda. – In climate sciences, funding agencies and international political bodies have dictated outcomes while authentic scientists faced systematic marginalization for questioning the prevailing narrative…

A Department of Health and Human Services official has been selected to serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, several days after President Donald Trump fired the agency’s director. – Trump has chosen HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill as the CDC’s acting director.

Zero Hedge: Labor Day Gas Prices Lowest Since 2020 A New Analysis Finds – GasBuddy, which monitors national gas prices, projected in an Aug. 26 report that the cost of fuel will be $3.15 per gallon this Labor Day weekend. – By comparison, the average price for a gallon of gasoline on Labor Day was $3.29 last year and $3.77 in 2023.

Cal Matters: Governor Newsom launches new task force to clear California homeless encampments – Newsom’s office expects to deploy the team within the next month to camps in California’s 10 largest cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego, Sacramento, San Jose, Long Beach, Anaheim, Bakersfield, and Fresno. It will address encampments on state property, such as along highway medians, on and off-ramps, and under overpasses.

Epoch Times: Governor Newsom Deploys State Police for Crime Crackdown in California Cities – California Highway Patrol crime suppression teams will work in Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area, the Central Valley, and the Inland Empire, focusing on high-crime areas in coordination with local police.

Slay News: A Federal Court Has Reopened the Case of a 24-Year-Old Who Died of COVID Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis – George Watts Jr. Watts, a 24-year-old college student, died from complications of COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis. – Watts believed he was getting Pfizer’s fully licensed Comirnaty vaccine, but instead received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine authorized for emergency use.

August 28, 2025

Just The News: A general and an admiral turned down last-minute chances to keep the Taliban out of Kabul – A U.S. General turned down an offer from the Taliban allowing the U.S. to secure Kabul, and a U.S. Rear Admiral nixed a proposal by Afghan generals that might have kept Kabul out of the hands of the Taliban. – Both decisions are little-known, but they had devastating consequences…

Media-ite: A New Gallup Poll Shows That Literally 0% of Democrats Are Satisfied With How Things Are Going in the US – New polling shows that partisanship in the United States has reached new heights, with less than 1% of Democrats satisfied with the direction of the country under President Donald Trump, compared to 76% of Republicans.

Red State: The GOP Is Raising Big Bucks for the Mid-Terms, but Is a 100-seat House Gain Really Feasible? – Yesterday, President Trump announced that he and his various campaign groups, including his Super PACs, have raised an unprecedented $1.5 billion for the coming 2026 mid-term elections. – This is all part of his campaign strategy to hold both the U.S. House and Senate…

U.S. Department of Defense: Hegseth Calls for an Anti-Drone Task Force – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced today that he has directed Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll to formally establish a joint, interagency task force to counter hostile unmanned aerial systems, commonly referred to as drones. – He noted that hostile UASs are being operated overseas and at our borders while seeking to harm U.S. warfighters…

American Thinker: Who believes what Democrats are saying anymore? – The left’s reaction to Trump’s D.C. law enforcement measures is starting to look desperate. – As is usually the case with the left, most of what Raskin and others are saying is demonstrably false. The POTUS isn’t trying to militarize our society. While his actions may be intimidating to his opponents, his stated goal was to make D.C. a safer and cleaner place.

Washington Free Beacon: The Democrats Said Trump’s Move To Keep a Michigan Coal Plant Open Would Cost Millions. – Federal Figures Show It’s Actually Profitable. – Energy Secretary Chris Wright has argued that the US needs to keep existing power sources online as demand skyrockets…

One America News: Two years ago, before the heartbreaking school shooting in Minneapolis claimed the lives of two children, leaders of independent and Catholic schools in Minnesota wrote to Governor Tim Walz and the state’s lieutenant governor asking for help in securing non-public schools and keeping their students safe. – However, despite the urgency of their written warnings, their concerns were ignored.

American Spectator: Transgender Mass Murderers, The Drugs and Demons That Drive Them – Drugs, hormones, ideology, and the devil make for a deadly cocktail. – The Catholic targets were intentional. – The killer asked, rhetorically, “Who’s listening to your prayers now?” – He mocked God, and he mocked Christian Catholics. – And like many people consumed with self-loathing and hatred, he was angry at God and those who prayed to God…

Gatestone Institute: Qatar Does Not Seem Interested in Any Deal that Ends the Rule of Hamas in the Gaza Strip – While the Qatari government claims to the Trump Administration that it is working to release the 50 Israeli hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip, al-Harmi, closely associated with Qatar’s leadership, is calling for kidnapping more Israelis – whom, by the way, he described as “rats.”

Breitbart: The U.S. economy expanded faster than earlier estimated, as Americans spent more freely and businesses stepped up investment, according to revised government data. – GDP rose at a 3.3% annualized rate in the second quarter, up from the Commerce Department’s initial 3.0% estimate and above the 3.1% pace economists had forecast. – This acceleration follows modest growth in the first quarter.

Issues & Insights: Are We Better Off Than We Were A Year Ago? – Trump’s presidency is a vast improvement over the mess that entangled us a year ago, and far better than the debacle we would have had to live through had Harris won in November. – Consider the peaks we have reached in August 2025 on the border, energy, green radicalism, median household income, crime, and peace…

American Conservative: The Democrats’ Crime Convulsion – Downplaying public order to stick it to Trump is a risky bet. – Democrats are in denial about crime in big blue cities, and to pretend that Washington, DC, or Chicago is Andy Griffith’s Mayberry is delusional. – Many liberals have low standards for what constitutes acceptable city life…

Breitbart: Peter Schweizer, “Crime Isn’t Down in Cities, Democrats Are Just Encouraging People to Tolerate It More.” – “Donald Trump has the constitutional authority to take action, since D.C. is not a state.” – “The deeper issue, though, is why crime has been tolerated to the extent that it has in these cities?” Seeing Trump’s early success in D.C., Schweizer asks: “Why are these leaders not willing to take steps to address it and deal with it?”

Daily Fetched: – DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Credits Trump’s Law Enforcement Surge for Their Huge Drop in Crime – “We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city.” – Carjackings, she said, were the “most troubling” crime that plagued D.C. in 2023. – In the 20 days since the federal takeover, there has been an 87% drop in carjackings and a 15% fall in crime overall compared to the same period last year…

Townhall: A Major Shakeup Is Coming as President Trump and the GOP Plot a Sweeping Crime Crackdown – President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is working with Republican lawmakers to craft a new crime bill. – Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, and Leader John Thune are working with me and other Republicans on a Comprehensive Crime Bill. – It’s what our Country needs, and NOW! – More to follow. – MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

Daily Wire: On Thursday, President Trump called for the Republican Party to hold its national convention before the 2026 midterms, which breaks with the traditional practice of waiting until the presidential election year. – I am thinking of recommending a National Convention to the Republican Party, just prior to the Midterms. It has never been done before. STAY TUNED!!! DONALD J. TRUMP…

Daily Fetched: – The AP Is Forced to Admit Trump’s Highest Approval Rating Ever – A 45% nationwide approval rating – Overall handling of crime at 53% – Within the GOP, 88% support Trump’s crime policies – The commander in chief must be doing something right if the very outlets that declared war on him are being forced to report on his approval numbers soaring with the American people on several major issues.

Center For Immigration Studies: Espionage 101, Don’t Enroll 600,000 Chinese Communist Party Spies at American Colleges – It is a key component of CCP plans to achieve military supremacy. – There are already too many students from the People’s Republic of China in the U.S. — 277,398 in the 2023/24 academic year, totaling fully one-quarter of the entire foreign student population…

American Thinker: Sky-high utility bills are causing anxiety for Americans. – Big Electricity is expanding in wind and solar energy thanks to misguided policies and large subsidies, but not because wind and solar are naturally more reliable or affordable. – Unfortunately, Big Electricity is working closely with Big Green. – It doesn’t have to be this way. – If we simply tap into our vast reserves of natural gas, oil, and coal, the U.S. economy could thrive.

Zero Hedge: US Natural Gas Consumption To Hit A New Record In 2025 – “Natural gas remains the most prevalent source of electricity generation in the United States, but so far in 2025 natural gas has lost market share in the electric power sector to coal, solar, and wind,” according to EIA numbers. – Electricity demand is expected to rise about 3% in 2025 and 4.5% in 2026, due to new data centers and AI infrastructure growth.

American Thinker: A Chicago Woman Who Is Living In TDS Wonderland – There’s a venerable saying that goes like this, “A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.” – That kind of miraculous metamorphosis is possible, but it’s still not a sure thing. – It appears even when one’s bones are broken, that’s not enough to convince some blue-city dwellers that Democrat policies are just a bit faulty…

American Thinker: Gerrymandering vs. Persuasion – Democrats are coming to the realization, for the first time in a generation or two, that votes must be earned, not gained through scams. – Their gerrymandering game has run out of runway. – And it’s not just options they’re losing. And not just people in general, they’ve noticed they’re losing, it’s people of color…

Wall Street Journal: Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook sued President Donald Trump on Thursday, seeking to block his move to fire her from the central bank. – The lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., federal district court alleges Trump violated the law by attempting to remove Cook from her post without a valid reason. – The lawsuit tees up a high-stakes court battle over the president’s authority to remove members of the central bank’s board…

American Thinker: Will the ‘Maryland Man’ Be Sent to Mamdani’s Homeland? – Is Uganda a respected sovereign nation, or off-limits forever, and why isn’t he gone already? – Mr. Maryland is a Salvadoran national with allegations of MS-13 associations and domestic violence claims in state protective-order cases. – If illegal aliens are to receive new protections beyond those in statute, that begins in the legislature, not in a judge’s chambers…

Wall Street Journal: CDC Director Susan Monarez Has Been Removed From Her Post – Monarez, who led the agency for less than a month, clashed with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and members of his staff, according to a senior Trump administration official. – Lawyers for Monarez said that she was notified Wednesday night by a White House staffer in the personnel office that she was fired….

City Journal: Even Federal Prosecutors Still Practice DEI – A dubious wire-fraud case illustrates how far the Trump administration still has to go to stamp out racialism. – Through its executive orders and enforcement actions, the Trump administration is bringing corporations and universities to heel for unlawful DEI programs. – But this case reveals the far-flung corners in which this noxious ideology still finds allies and the severity of punishment that it can inflict.

New York Post: The Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman confessed he was ‘tired of being trans’ – “I can’t cut my hair now as it would be an embarrassing defeat, and it might be a concerning change of character that could get me reported. – Westman’s chilling writings revealed his violent fantasies about killing children, including wanting to be the “scary, horrible monster standing over those powerless kids.”…

Red State: The Trump Administration Is Launching An Investigation Into Possible Links Between Psychiatric Drugs and Trans Violence After The MN Shooting – SSRIs are a class of antidepressant medications that are used to treat depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders. – Some studies suggest a possible association between SSRI use and increased risks of violent behavior, particularly in adolescents and young adults…

Townhall: The U.S. Air Force will provide full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran fatally shot inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by then Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd. – This comes after Judicial Watch wrote to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth urging him to “make a new determination granting military funeral honors” for Babbitt, which the Biden administration had denied.

Washington Free Beacon: President Trump Withdraws a $716M Biden-Era Loan for A New Jersey Green Energy Project, Dealing the Latest Blow to the Wind Industry – Trump energy officials, ‘The Trump administration is done subsidizing projects that ultimately raise energy prices.’

American Thinker: Abandoned Shopping Carts, Litter, and the Decline of Black America – The black community’s disengagement from ordinary acts of civic responsibility harms America, but mostly, it harms blacks. – To save their communities and a coherent American society, blacks must reengage with normative polite conduct across America. – To appreciate this point, consider the tales told by abandoned shopping carts and litter…

August 27, 2025

Gateway Pundit: John Bolton Transmitted Classified Emails Over A Private Server and They Were Intercepted by A Hostile Foreign Country’s Spy Service – As reported last week, John Bolton is reportedly under investigation for violating the Espionage Act. – The investigation into John Bolton began in 2020 when he used classified information to write his book titled “The Room Where It Happened.”…

Just The News: General Mark Milley crafted the Biden Admin’s fiction that Afghanistan fell in just ‘eleven days’ and thus could not have been predicted, despite experts and military personnel on the ground in Afghanistan saying otherwise. – In reality, the Taliban takeover unfolded over multiple months following then President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal “Go-to-Zero” order on April 14, 2021.

Gateway Pundit: A Georgia Judge Ordered Fulton Commissioners to Pay $10,000 Per Day Over Rogue Democrats Refusing to Seat GOP Election Board Nominees – Beginning on Friday, August 29th at 12pm, the Board will be fined $10,000 for every day that they fail to appoint the Republican Party’s members to the Board of Elections. – The fine “is to be paid daily,” but the judge stopped short of holding the respondents in criminal contempt.

American Spectator: Confronting China’s Espionage and Organ Harvesting Schemes – Most Americans cannot comprehend just how grotesque and systematic China’s organ harvesting operations are. – Melissa Mackenzie, Scott McKay, and Jan Jekielek, senior editor at the Epoch Times and host of American Thought Leaders, examine China’s infiltration efforts, the dangers posed to America, and how the US might turn this challenge to its advantage.

City Journal: The Broken Chain of Trust in Pediatric Gender Medicine – The AMA has consistently supported “gender-affirming care,” which includes puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries administered to minors. – They have done this despite gold standard evidence-based medicine showing weak evidence for these treatments’ mental health benefits, and despite the corresponding health risks…

American Thinker: The darn climate won’t cooperate with the dire predictions, but don’t worry, the dire predictions will continue – Scientific data and reality have never been considerations for the climate whack jobs. – The climate is and has always fluctuated cyclically and naturally throughout billions of years. – There are hundreds, if not thousands, of natural variables that affect the climate…

New York Post: An active shooter situation occurred at a Catholic school and church in Minneapolis early Wednesday. – First responders and law enforcement swarmed the area surrounding the Annunciation Church just after 8:30 a.m. following reports of heavy gunfire. – According to law enforcement sources, the gunman is dead. – At least two people are dead and up to as many as 20 are injured…

New York Post: The Minneapolis school shooter has been ID’d as trans woman Robin Westman with an apparent manifesto that included ‘kill Trump’ and a previous connection to Annunciation Church. – A.J. Lagoe, Robin Westman was formerly known as “Robert.”

American Thinker: How Chinese Communist Operatives Infiltrate and Operate – Kathy Hochul and Grace Meng have disturbing connections to the CCP, yet the government is looking the other way. – You will be unsurprised to learn that the Chinese communists seem to be cut from the same cloth as progressive Democrats. – The non-profits, infiltration into our government offices (remember Dianne Feinstein’s chauffeur?), and the dirty money. – Then there’s this…

Breitbart: 24 State Financial Officers Urge the SEC to Block American Investment in Chinese Communist Party Companies – The 24 Republican cosigners state that action is urgently needed to protect U.S. investors and national security because most FPIs are now registered in the Cayman Islands and based in China. Until recently, most FPIs were based in Canada and the United Kingdom.

American Thinker: Can Israel Survive A Total Victory? – If Israel actually roots out the terrorists, they’ll still have to face an angry, pro-Hamas progressive West. – Hamas’s propaganda machine is overwhelming. – Unfortunately, the truth is not being publicized. – Even the U.S. is seeing a decline in support of Israel. – Democrats in particular have increased their criticism of Israel…

Daily Wire: Germany Stands With Israel and Rejects The Push To Recognize A Palestinian State – “Support for a ‘two-state solution’ is nothing less than support for the annihilation of the Jewish state,” said an Israeli International Affairs Advisor. – The arguments against recognizing a Palestinian state are many and varied. The criteria of statehood are reflected in the 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States…

Daily Wire: How the UN’s Famine Authority Engaged in Data Fraud to Undermine U.S. Humanitarian Aid – UN declaration distorts reality with bad science. – A forensic review of the data found that the declaration leaned on flimsy modeling and buried evidence. – That matters because the declaration undercuts a U.S.-backed aid model that is actually delivering…

Daily Wire: European Powers Poised to Reimpose U.N. Sanctions on Iran This Week – Britain, France, and Germany, collectively known as the E3, plan to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran as early as Thursday. – “In a letter dated August 8, the E3 warned Iran it would proceed with ‘snapback’ if Tehran didn’t reach a ‘satisfactory solution’ to the nuclear issues.

Wall Street Journal: Mexico’s Cartels Are Exporting Their Bloody Rivalry to Ecuador and Beyond – The two most powerful drug rings are locked in a turf war over control of a key South American smuggling route, and the bodies are piling up. – Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa cartels have spread to more than 40 countries as they work to meet surging demand for cocaine in the U.S., Europe, and Australia…

American Wire: DNI Gabbard found ‘burn bags’ full of documents about 2020 election corruption – Documents showing that the so-called “most secure election in history” was “corrupt” would validate Trump, who has long insisted that there was something very stinky about his 2020 loss to Biden in an election that was heavily influenced by the massive amount of mail-in votes due to the COVID pandemic…

Zero Hedge: How Trump May Have Solved the “Raise Revenue Without Raising Taxes” Problem – Below, we show how Washington taking a minority stake in a strategically important firm isn’t socialism. – It’s an instrument of industrial policy used in highly capitalist countries such as Singapore…

Zero Hedge: President Trump’s additional 25% tariff on India became effective at midnight on Aug. 27, bringing the total rate to 50% on many imports entering the United States. – In an Aug. 6 executive order, Trump implemented an additional 25 percent tariff on India, saying its government is “currently directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil.”

Daily Wire: The Trump Administration Warned States To Remove Their Gender Ideology ‘Poison’ Or Lose Funding – Accountability is coming. – Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation.” – The only states not listed as recipients of these letters were Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Texas, and Virginia…

Zero Hedge: The Single Most Important Chart in the World is Flashing “Danger” – We now have $3.4 trillion in municipal debt, $14 trillion in corporate debt, $20 trillion in household debt, and $37 trillion in Federal debt outstanding. – The U.S. has had a debt problem for years. – What IS new is that the bull market in bonds, the macro setup that allowed the U.S. to issue all this debt, is OVER…

Zero Hedge: A DOGE-Led Audit Will Put 400,000 Pentagon Contracts Under Scrutiny – Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson, “Reforming the antiquated defense acquisition processes is a long-recognized problem that has received bipartisan support, and we are taking swift action to fix it at the President’s direction.” – American Enterprise Institute analyst Todd Harrison says, “The only way they will be able to it is to use some sort of automated generic algorithm.”

American Thinker: President Trump has broken the Democrat party – How do we know the Democrat party is broken? – Because Trump has them defending the indefensible, all manner of criminals – rapists, child molesters, murderers, as well as robbers, wife-beaters, shoplifters, vicious gang members who travel in packs in cities like D.C., Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles, creating chaos and carnage; not to mention the millions of illegal aliens they are harboring…

American Thinker: The 80-20 Rule And Crime – The 80-20 rule states 80% of all outcomes are derived from 20% of causes. – But when it comes to crime, it’s more like 5% of criminals commit 95% of the violent crimes. – So if you want to reduce crime, take the 5% off the street, and it is certainty that crime will fall by a tremendous amount…

Western Journal: Deploy the National Guard? – The question after this weekend should be whether or not Trump should send the National Guard into more Democrat-run cities to bring down crime, specifically Charlotte, North Carolina, where a 23-year-old woman who fled from the war in Ukraine was stabbed to death at a light rail station on Friday, allegedly by what the media is describing as a “career criminal.”

Breitbart: 5K Criminal Aliens Removed from The Sanctuary City of Los Angeles by Trump’s Enforcement Actions. – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, “The law enforcement actions in the illegal alien sanctuary city led to the removal of gang members, child predators, and murderers.” – “Criminal alien 5,000 was identified as a convicted drug trafficker and aggravated felon from Mexico who had been previously deported.”

Hot Air: ICE and DHS to Illegal Aliens, Pay Up or Get Out – Since Trump took office, the DHS has begun issuing civil penalties of nearly $1000 a day for those ignoring legitimate judicial deportation orders. – Now they plan to either collect that money, with fines that could reach into millions of dollars for some, or hand out $1000 to each person in exchange for self-deportation…

Washington Examiner: President Trump floats racketeering charges for George and Alex Soros – Reports indicate that the Open Society Foundations has helped fund activists protesting the president’s takeover of the police in Washington, D.C., and though Trump did not mention D.C. by name, he claimed their history of donations and grants meets the standard for charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

American Thinker: Cross-Regional Analysis of Renewable and Dispatchable Energy Sources – This should dispel the myth, often propagated, that renewables are the cheapest form of energy. – For my study, I chose four regions: the U.K., Spain, Texas, and California. – The most telling statistics are the capacity factors. The capacity factors for wind, solar, and natural gas, operating in concert, are quite low compared to natural gas operating alone…

American Thinker: ‘Green’ Europe’s industrial masochism – Europe’s leaders are driving an energy hearse toward self-destruction. – EU policy choices have led to so-called renewable sources, primarily wind and solar, constituting more than one-third of the European electricity mix, surpassing coal by a significant margin. – However, the growth in renewables is not keeping pace with rising global energy demand…

John Daniel Davidson: Civil War Is Coming To Britain – Britain’s political leaders have lost all legitimacy. – The entire sordid history of Britain’s civic collapse, stretching back decades to the Rotherham rape gangs scandal and forward to today, is in some ways contained in the striking image of this wisp of a girl with a knife and a hatchet in her hand, facing down a predatory migrant. – She was arrested while he went free…

Breitbart: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Fed Governor Lisa Cook’s Alleged Mortgage Fraud – “We Haven’t Heard Her Say ‘I Didn’t Do It’” – The Fed is an unaccountable institution, and its relationship with the American people depends on a high level of trust. – Incidents like this puncture that trust, so President Trump is trying to make sure that anyone who serves at this institution has the trust of the American people.”

Breitbart: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy – The DOT will be “reclaiming” management of Union Station in Washington, DC, because it has “fallen into disrepair.” – In 1981, Congress passed the Union Station Redevelopment Act, which was signed into law under President Ronald Reagan. – The Act stated, “the Secretary of Transportation shall provide for the rehabilitation and redevelopment of the Union Station complex primarily as a multiple-use transportation terminal.”…

Epoch Times: The Judge Accused of Helping an Illegal Immigrant Evade Arrest Lost Her Bid to Drop Charges – A federal judge rejected the defense’s claims of judicial immunity and violation of separation of state and federal powers. – Dugan’s attorneys said they were disappointed by the ruling but remain confident in her defense…

August 26, 2025

Daily Wire: President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is prepared to impose economic sanctions against Russia if Vladimir Putin fails to agree to a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine. – “It’s very, very serious what I have in mind, if I have to do it, but I want to see it end,” Trump told a reporter who asked if Putin would face consequences.

Daily Wire: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that customs duty revenues from President Donald Trump’s tariffs may top $500 billion a year, with a substantial jump from July to August and likely a bigger jump in September. – During a White House Cabinet meeting, Bessent said his prior estimate of a $300 billion annual tariff collection rate was too low.

Issues & Insights: As Trump Whips Inflation, Media Invent A New Word To Make Him Look Bad, ‘Sneakflation’ – In July, inflation came in lower than expected, which “defied fears of further price increases as a result of Trump’s tariffs.” – That’s been happening a lot lately. – Over the weekend, CNN Business ran a story headlined: “‘Sneakflation’: How Trump’s tariffs are gradually raising costs for American consumers.”

American Conservative: President Trump to Appoint Dan Scavino to Run Presidential Personnel Office – The appointment would put Scavino in charge of staffing the administration. – White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, “There is nobody better to ensure the president’s administration is staffed with the most qualified, competent, and America First-driven workers. There is much still to be done, and Dan’s leadership will ensure the highest quality, most dedicated workforce ever.”

Daily Caller: Ex-Democrat Strategist Slams Party After Day 1 Of The DNC Summer Meeting – Dan Turrentine, “The Democrat Party was repeating its past mistakes that led it to its current diminished state.” – “We haven’t lost 4.5 million voters, nor is our brand at a historic low, because we don’t fight hard enough. It’s because we remain completely culturally disconnected, and we have absolutely no agenda.”

One American News: President Trump announced his intention for the DOJ to seek the death penalty in all murder cases occurring in Washington, D.C., stressing that capital punishment is a “very strong preventative” against crime. – However, this proposal directly challenges the District’s longstanding anti-capital punishment stance, as it has been abolished locally since 1981, and a 1992 referendum overwhelmingly rejected its reinstatement…

One American News: Vanity Fair employees have reportedly threatened to walk out in protest if First Lady Melania Trump is chosen to be featured on the magazine’s cover. – Some even suggested that the company would face a significant upheaval. – Some even suggested that the company would face a significant upheaval. – “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife; we’re just not going to do it…

Daily Wire: Cracker Barrel will revive its old logo after facing days of intense criticism and a plummeting stock price following its botched rebranding effort. – The company’s board, led by CEO Julie Felss Masino, ignored warning signs and criticism for months ahead of the announcement last week that the restaurant chain would ditch its old logo and give its stores a modern look…

Bloomberg: China will showcase its latest anti-ship missiles, combat drones, and nuclear-capable ballistic missiles in a parade aimed at demonstrating its military prowess, and perhaps attracting potential buyers. – The pictures taken August 9th from an Airbus satellite show armored vehicles, air defense systems, artillery pieces — including rocket launchers and cruise missiles…

Daily Wire: EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE – The truck drivers tasked with transporting aid throughout Gaza say they have been villainized while they put their lives at risk, often attacked by mobs and armed looters. – “People make us aid drivers feel like we caused the war that we caused hunger in Gaza, that we’re thieves, that we run people over,” one driver said. “We have videos to prove that people cause the problems.”…

Western Journal: The Trump Administration Yanks $7.4 Billion Deal from an Entity ‘Illegally Created’ by the Biden Administration – The private entity established to conduct semiconductor research, staffed with numerous members of the Biden administration, is being terminated. – Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, “From the very beginning, Natcast served as a semiconductor slush fund that did nothing but line the pockets of Biden loyalists with American tax dollars.”

LifeZette: Population shifts from Democratic-led states to Republican-led states are on track to reshape congressional representation and the Electoral College map heading into the next decade, according to current projections referenced by the New York Times. – The analysis indicates these trends would benefit fast-growing states such as Florida, Texas, Utah, and Idaho, while reducing seats in states including California and New York…

Breitbart: ‘Operation Pick-Off’ Leads to Arrest of 78 Criminal Aliens in South Texas over the Weekend – Federal agents collaborated with state and local law enforcement to conduct the roundup. – Of the 78 arrests, 65 of the illegal aliens had previously been deported from the United States. If convicted for illegal re-entry after removal, the alien could face up to 20 years in federal prison before being deported again.

Slay News: The Trump administration has initiated deportation procedures against 86,500 illegal aliens. – Under the Biden administration, the agency had no policy on NTAs, and thus, when a case was denied and the person was just in limbo and had no other legal pathway here, nothing happened. – This hiatus in policy enforcement affected large numbers of cases, contributing to the buildup of unresolved immigration statuses.

Newsmax: ICE Remains Focused on Apprehending The ‘Worst of the Worst’ – In recent days, ICE officers arrested aliens who included “pedophiles, drug traffickers, abusers, and other violent thugs.” – Last week, ICE arrested Alejandro Lima-Ramirez, 46, a Mexican national and member of the violent Florencia 13 street gang…

Western Journal: Many Boston police officers are defying Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu’s stance against ICE by secretly assisting federal authorities with critical intelligence. – Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons, “We have so many men and women of the Boston Police Department and other jurisdictions that want to work with us, and that are actually helping us behind the scenes.”…

Townhall: Here’s the Perfect Thread That Reminds Us Who Abrego Garcia Really Is – The so-called Maryland man is a reported human trafficker and MS-13 member and has been under a deportation order since 2019. – He’s not a citizen, nor a constituent of Maryland’s congressional delegation, which debased itself trying to free this man, at home and abroad. – Here’s what Will Chamberlain had to say…

Slay News: A new poll shows that most Americans support President Trump’s federal crime crackdown in D.C. – A majority of citizens say they view large American cities as “unsafe” due to soft-on-crime policies. – The Harvard CAPS/Harris survey found that 54% of registered voters said Trump’s actions in the nation’s capital are “justified and necessary.”…

Daily Wire: President Trump warned Monday that countries imposing digital taxes on American tech companies will face significant tariffs if they don’t remove them. – Without naming a specific country, Trump said that some nations had given a “complete pass” to China’s tech companies while penalizing American competitors. – Canada and India have already backed away from digital taxes after pressure from the Trump administration.

Slay News: House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer announced that the panel is escalating its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, issuing a subpoena to the late financier’s estate and demanding extensive records. – Epstein’s estate must hand over multiple documents, including sex trafficker’s call logs and the elusive “client list,” by September 8th…

American Thinker: The rise of the Counter State – The Deep State is really a Counter State. – As a Counter State, they are a false or parallel government operating in opposition to the legally elected government. – They subvert the legitimate government’s capabilities to institute policies that the people have voted for. – Obama, Biden, and previous leftist politicians skillfully placed counter-state operatives into full-time positions...

Daily Fetched: President Trump’s Executive Order Calls For A Year in Jail for Burning the American Flag – Trump signed an executive order on Monday, which seeks to investigate and prosecute people who burn the American flag if it “is likely to incite imminent lawless action,” such as a riot.

American Thinker: Selective outrage, As States’ rights can only be violated by Republicans- Trump is seeking to rein in mail-in voting because it is clearly ripe for fraud. – The media and other Democrats feign outrage. They say it is a state issue and claim that mail-in voting is completely safe. Way back in 2005, one of the Democrats’ great heroes, Jimmy Carter, said that mail-in voting is ripe for fraud….

Epoch Times: President Trump Fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook – In a published letter to Cook, Trump accused her of ‘deceitful and potentially criminal conduct in a financial matter.’ – Trump said that there was cause to remove Cook because of a criminal referral related to alleged false statements on mortgage documents…

American Thinker: Why Democrats can’t raise money anymore – The Progressive woke cranked out freaks of immorality who came *this* close to destroying America, but looks like their rise to power is over. – The sources of this struggle can be found lying supine, near death, at the doors of academia and the fractured family. – Schools teach humanism, where you “find your own truth” and where the Self is to be catered to above all else…

Jonathan Turley: The DNC Is Being Criticized Over A “Private Agreement” to Pay Kamala Harris’s Debts After the Election – Over $15 million has already been paid out by the DNC, which is reportedly struggling to raise money in the aftermath of a failed campaign. – Harris is starting a book tour for her book “107 Days,” which likely does not include a chapter on burning through a record $1.5 billion, which was insufficient even with supportive media, to secure the White House.

The Federalist: Mail-In Voting Is A Sure-Fire Recipe For Election Disasters – It is the least secure method of casting a ballot in the US. – Unlike in-person voting, where safeguards such as voter ID verification are standard and supported by a majority of the people, mail-in ballots are susceptible to fraud, misdelivery, and errors. – Ballots can be intercepted, fraudulently cast, lost in transit, or even altered without the voter’s knowledge…

California Globe: California’s Latest ‘Worst in the Nation’ Title Is The Government-Created Rodent Plague – When politics replaces science, the result is higher costs, public health risks, and a statewide infestation. – Recent studies and rankings find California stands at or near the bottom in: Raising a Family, Child Poverty, Education, Quality of Life, Moving In, Renting, Doing Business, Homelessness, Gas Prices & Taxes…

Zero Hedge: It must be extraordinarily difficult for leftist media outlets and woke government weather forecasters to admit “record-breaking cold temperatures” or “unseasonably cool air” across parts of the Lower 48 in August. – August is the prime period when far-left climate NGOs and their political allies, amplified by their MSM propaganda machine, usually try to convince everyone there is a climate crisis….

Breitbart: Borderless Britain Resulted In A Foreign National Sex Convictions Surge of More Than 60% over the Past Four Years – The seven groups most likely to illegally cross the English Channel, Afghans, Eritreans, Iranians, Iraqis, Sudanese, Syrians, and Vietnamese, saw a collective 110% rise in sex crime convictions since 2021.

America First Report: No matter Google’s public relations and marketing people shout about the need for “green” energy, what that company actually does is worth noting. – Kairos Power and the Tennessee Valley Authority have agreed to supply 50 megawatts of nuclear power to Google data centers in Tennessee and Alabama. – Google is going in for another next-generation fission technology, as well: Small modular reactors…

Slay News: A bombshell exposé has revealed that Canada is already secretly euthanizing citizens for mental illness, and the left-wing government is pushing to expand the practice even further. – The revelations come in a new piece published in The Atlantic. – Journalist Elaina Plott Calabro details how the nation’s “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAiD) program has spiraled far beyond what politicians first promised.

August 25, 2025

One America News: President Trump designates August 26 as a day to remember 13 service members killed during Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal – Trump welcomed Gold Star Families to the White House, calling the airport attack one of the most devastating and humiliating episodes in U.S. history. – “That was a terrible day,” Trump said. “And I think it was the worst day, and in many ways the most embarrassing day, in the history of our country.”

America First Report: The Trump administration has issued a classified directive instructing the DoD to prepare for possible lethal operations inside Mexico targeting drug cartels, with plans expected by mid-September. – Unlike previous covert operations run by the CIA or JSOC, NORTHCOM and SOCNORTH are now tasked with leading efforts, including preparing “target packages” against cartel leaders and infrastructure.

Slay News: President Trump put Chicago’s Democrat leaders on notice, warning that it could be the next city to face a federal law enforcement takeover. – Residents continue to demand action against Chicago’s out-of-control violent crime. – “Chicago is a mess,” Trump told reporters Friday. – “You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we’ll straighten that one out probably next, that will be our next one after this, and it won’t even be tough…

Center Square: President Trump signed executive orders to end cashless bail in the nation’s capital, while taking steps to eliminate it throughout the country. – The moves threaten to withhold federal funding from states and jurisdictions that don’t comply with his executive action, which could have a major impact on states like California and Illinois.

California Republicans announced at a press conference on Monday that they have filed an emergency Writ of Mandate with the California Supreme Court to halt the special election currently scheduled for November 4th, arguing that the California Legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom violated the California Constitution by placing this ballot initiative on the ballot. – Last Thursday, the legislature passed the 3-measure package on Congressional redistricting: Senate Bill 280, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8, and Assembly Bill 604.

NBC News: The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration’s push to expand capacity to hold migrants. – FEMA is starting a “detention support grant program” to cover the cost of states building temporary facilities, according to an agency announcement. States have until August 8 to apply for the funds, according to the post.

American Spectator: At the Bottom of the Left’s Barrel – There is no appeasement for the Left, as their demands never cease. – Seeking to appease America’s Left is the equivalent of a dog chasing its tail: It can’t be caught, and what would you do with it if you did? – America’s Left does not want to be placated. – Fists in the air and slogans on the lips. – Instead of unity, they want division…

American Thinker: States’ rights and separation of powers are only an issue with Democrats when a Republican is in office. – Obama and Biden went to cities around the U.S. using consent decrees to limit and control police departments. Somehow, there were no protests against federal interference in city management. – Obama and Biden weren’t called fascists and dictators, no matter what they did…

American Thinker: Is PragerU Distorting Facts and History, or Are the Colleges? – Our educational institutions are not supposed to instruct students on what to think. – They are supposed to teach them how to think. – Colleges and universities were, until recently, explicitly instituted to challenge modes of thinking and expose students to diverse viewpoints, not tell them that “alternative perspectives” are invalid and not allowed.

Zero Hedge: Venezuela Masses 15,000 Troops At Sensitive Border Areas Amid U.S. Naval Build-Up At Sea – Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said an unspecified number of aircraft, boats, and drones will support those forces. His press conference was broadcast on state media, ensuring maximum visibility on both domestic and international airwaves.

Townhall: ‘This Will Stun You’ – Stephen Miller Warns That D.C. Crime Manipulation Is Worse Than Previously Known – “When we share the results, it will stun you,” Miller said. “There are even accusations that murders and homicides were reported as accidents instead of murders.” – ” It will all be uncovered and it will all be brought to light.”…

Epoch Times: Obama-Appointed San Francisco U.S. District Judge William Orrick Bars Government From Blocking Funding to 34 Cities, Counties Over Sanctuary Policies – The order affects Boston, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, Baltimore, San Jose, California, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and many more. – Orrick said the administration’s decisions to withhold federal funding in those jurisdictions are a “coercive threat”…

Western Journal: Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has temporarily halted the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. – Judge Xinis said she will block officials from removing Abrego Garcia while she considers a lawsuit filed by his legal team. – Abrego Garcia is now being held at a detention facility in Virginia…

Breitbart: President Trump is expected to sign Executive Orders today banning cashless bail and calling for prosecution of those who desecrate the American flag. – Trump has long criticized cashless bail, calling it a “complete disaster,” citing it most recently as a major factor in rampant crime in D.C. that led to his federalization of police in the nation’s capital…

Townhall: Are Democrats Really Sure They Want to Escalate the Redistricting Wars? – A visibly irritated Gavin Newsom begins to stammer and sway from side to side when he can’t answer a simple question about Speaker Robert Rivas and Majority Leader Mike McGuire drawing themselves congressional seats amongst Newsom‘s redistricting scheme…

Newsmax: President Trump Targets California’s Redistricting Plan And Senate Blue Slips. – Blue slips make it impossible for a Republican President to appoint a judge or a U.S. attorney because they have a gentleman’s agreement where if you have a president, like a Republican, and if you have a Democrat senator, that senator can stop you from appointing a judge or a U.S. attorney in particular…

California Globe: The Gavin Newsom Effect Continues As More People Move from California, U-Haul Reports – California lost 361,623 residents and $20,915,598,000 in income to Texas. – California also made it to the top of Allied Van Lines’ US Migration Report; unfortunately, it was for outbound migration.

Victor Davis Hanson: What Made the Democrat Party Go Crazy? – It abandoned the middle class for elites and identity politics, trading a broad appeal for globalism, DEI dogma, and political self-destruction. – Consequently, in 2024, 55 percent of Hispanic men and somewhere around 25 percent of black males voted for Trump, along with a +2 point advantage for Trump among young men in general (18-29)…

Powerline: The Maryland Man Is Back In Custody – As expected, Kilmar Abrego Garcia appeared this morning to check in with ICE and was taken into custody. – The El Salvadoran national could soon be headed to the African nation of Uganda. – This move appears consistent with a 2019 Immigration Court order that Abrego can be deported, just not to his home country.

New York Post: Florida turns truck weigh stations into ICE checkpoints after an illegal migrant caused a deadly big-rig crash – State Attorney General James Uthmeier, referring to “the serious tragedy that happened down in southeast Florida,” announced the new partnership between federal agencies and the state agricultural inspection stations at a press conference in Live Oak.

American Thinker: A DC police whistleblower is vindicated – Trump’s federalization of the MPD has already revealed crime in blue cities isn’t inevitable; it’s a Democrat choice. – During the Biden-Harris Handler’s years, Washington, DC, crime rates were furiously spun. DC’s local Democrat politicians assured us DC was virtually crime-free, even as occasional news reports of burglaries, carjacking, assaults, and even murders leaked out…

American Thinker: Is Claudia Sheinbaum a Narco? – More and more Mexicans feel overwhelmed by crime, and they don’t believe that the federal government is doing enough. – Senator Lilly Tellez is calling out President Claudia Sheinbaum. – Who saw something like this coming? A senator calls out the president over the narcos, and she plays the nationalism card. – The senator is not calling for intervention but rather help in fighting cartels who are making life in Mexico rather difficult, such as businesses dealing with extortion…

Washington Free Beacon: Celebrities Raised Millions for LA Fire Aid, But Much of the Money Went to Programs for Illegal Aliens and Nonprofits That Only Assist ‘Black and Brown Communities.’ – FireAid announced that it would distribute the money it raised ‘equitably,’ a promise it appears to have kept. – Here’s where the money went…

American Thinker: Progressivism’s Fatal Flaw, Rejecting American Values – The American way, grounded in timeless truths, is this country’s only path to lasting prosperity and happiness. – Progressivism is not only contrary to American heritage but fundamentally incompatible with the nation’s present and past. – Economic data reinforce this divide. Metropolitan areas dominated by Democratic leadership are suffering from stark polarization…

American Thinker: The Decline and Fall of the Woken Empire – Is there any peaceful way out of our current Woken Empire? – The Old Democrat Guard of Schumer’s and Pelosi’s seems to be frozen in place while young educated-class radicals tear the place up, catering to the woke-educated twenty-somethings frustrated that they haven’t yet virtue-signaled themselves into the NGO grift…

August 24, 2025

One America News: Vice President Vance says Putin has made several ‘Significant concessions’ in negotiations with President Trump. – “They’ve recognized that they’re not going to be able to install a puppet regime in Kyiv. That was, of course, a major demand at the beginning. – And importantly, they’ve acknowledged that there is going to be some security guarantee to the territorial integrity of Ukraine,” he continued.

One America News: Russia’s foreign minister blames Western Europe for blocking the Ukraine peace deal and praises Trump’s efforts – “We want peace in Ukraine. He wants, President Trump wants, peace in Ukraine,” Lavrov stated. “The reaction to the Anchorage meeting, the gathering in Washington of these European representatives, and what they were doing after Washington indicated that they don’t want peace.”…

American Conservative: On Sunday, Israel struck Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, days after Yemeni Houthis launched a new type of missile toward Israel. – The Yemeni health ministry said two people were confirmed killed and at least 35 others were wounded. – Last week, the Houthis fired a cluster bomb toward Israel, according to the rebel group and the Israeli air force. – More than 10 Israeli fighter jets were used in Sunday’s retaliatory strikes.

Epoch Times: China’s Social Insurance Crackdown Could Devastate Businesses: – Beijing’s enforcement of social security contributions raises labor costs, potentially forcing small companies to cut staff or even shut down. – The urgency in implementing the new rules, they say, stems from the regime’s need for new streams of cash after a real estate slump that crushed land-sale revenues and deepened fiscal stress on already indebted local governments.

One America News: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blames sanctuary laws after a violent mob attacks ICE agents in San Francisco, and an assailant threatened to stab an officer. – The attack occurred outside of a San Francisco courthouse on Wednesday, as the ICE agents engaged in a removal operation. – Adrian Guerrero allegedly slashed the tire of a government vehicle and “threatened to stab a law enforcement officer.”

Gateway Pundit: Leftists Are Freaking Out After Hearing President Trump Plans to Send The Military to Chicago, Including Possibly ACTIVE DUTY Forces – Trump on Friday signaled that he is not stopping his crackdown on crime in Washington, DC, and told reporters that he plans to clean up Chicago, San Francisco, and potentially more Democrat run cities across the country. – He signaled Chicago would be first on his list.

Epoch Times: President Trump Warns He May Send Troops to Baltimore to Fight Crime – President Donald Trump suggested that he’s contemplating sending National Guard troops to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, to fight what he described as a “crime disaster” in the town. – Trump replied to comments that Moore made on CNN on Friday, saying the president needed to “walk the streets” of Maryland before making judgments about the situation.

American Spectator: Facing up to Black Crime in America – We owe it to every victim, in every community, to stop pretending reality doesn’t exist. – The truth isn’t racist, and statistics aren’t bigoted. – The script is always identical: “I don’t want this to become about race.” “They were probably just having a bad day.” “This could have happened to anyone.” – What look like organic responses from trauma victims are often coached performances designed to protect a narrative that’s destroying lives.

Zero Hedge: Systemic Corruption Doesn’t Give Ukraine a Chance for Peace – Another huge scandal linked to the embezzlement of budget funds in government procurement has broken out in Ukraine. – The group that organizes purchases of overpriced FPV drones and electronic warfare systems for the National Guard of Ukraine ended up with 30% in their pockets…

American Thinker: Hamas Islamists Are NOT Like Us! – They fiercely reject the values of Western civilization. – It’s part of their belief system, the eternal oppressor/oppressed narrative that must, of necessity, deny objective reality. – America and Israel are evil oppressors. Israel is an occupier of land that the Palestinians, a made-up people, have never possessed, and the UN is a supposed trustworthy, honest broker for peace…

Breitbart: The IDF continued attacking Hamas positions in northern Gaza this weekend, despite a growing international outcry claiming that Israel is committing “genocide” by seeking military victory. – The IDF released video footage of operations by troops near the area of Jabaliya, near Gaza City, a key Hamas stronghold. The maneuvers intend to close in on the last area of Gaza largely untouched by the war thus far…

Woke Spy: The Supreme Court Warns Defiant Rogue Judges, You’re Not Above the Law – Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing in an opinion joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, said the Court’s decision allowing the administration to move forward with cutting millions in National Institutes of Health grants was the “third time in a matter of weeks” that the justices had to overturn a lower court on an issue it had already addressed…

Washington Examiner: Trump and Hegseth continue to remake senior military positions – In less than a year, the duo has forced out several senior military officers, some of whom Trump had promoted during his first term, who don’t meet the criteria they are seeking from the service chiefs. – Most recently, Lt. General Jeffrey Kruse, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was fired from his post…

Populist Times: Tom Homan Says Deportations Will Continue Despite Judge’s Order to Shut Down Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz Immigration Facility – Homan, “They’re not going to stop us from doing what we’re doing. We’ll follow the judge’s order and litigate, and we’ll appeal it. – But the bottom line is, we’re going to continue to arrest public safety threats and national security threats every day across this country.”

American Thinker: The Incompetence of the USA’s Most ‘Prestigious’ Papers – How the WaPo and the NYT mis-handled the Russiagate Hoax scandal and then received Pulitzer Prizes for it. – A very disturbing event occurred on July 10, 2016, twelve days before WikiLeaks would release the DNC emails as promised. – A young DNC employee, Seth Rich, was shot in the back. – His watch, wallet, phone, and gold chain were not disturbed, thus ruling out robbery as a motive…

American Thinker: This quote came to mind as I watched Democrat politicians and white liberal pundits bemoan President Trump’s federalizing the D.C. police force. – Malcom X, “The white liberal is the worst enemy to America, and the worst enemy to the black man. – If the Negro wasn’t taken in and tricked…” – The president solved the border problem in a day and has solved the D.C. crime problem in a week. – So Liberals might want to rethink their allegiance…

American Thinker: The Godfather Presidency – There are many similarities between Donald Trump and Winston Churchill. – Despised by the establishments of their respective times, they changed the course of history through sheer force of will. – President Trump’s entire governing philosophy has a lot in common with some of the better wisdom gleaned from the Godfather movies. – (1) “Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”…

Newmax: Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Sept. 3, bringing evidence of his crusade for free speech against what he calls governmental authoritarianism. – Farage will highlight the case of a former nanny sentenced to 31 months in prison for an X post criticizing illegal immigration and complicit politicians — a case that reportedly shocked House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan…

Breitbart: California Governor Gavin Newsom hopes to turn a special election in November on his gerrymandered congressional map into a referendum on President Trump, rather than on his own partisan ambition. – The new map would give Democrats at least four additional seats, bringing their total to at least 47 out of California’s 52 seats. – That is the clear picture emerging from his fundraising sources, and from the media, which are falling into line lock-step…

Zero Hedge: California’s beleaguered high-speed rail project is under investigation by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. – The probe, launched Aug. 19, will focus on whether project officials knowingly misrepresented the ridership projections and financial viability of the long-delayed and expensive rail line to secure federal and state funds…

New York Post: Zohran Mamdani wants to end all misdemeanor charges – His comrades at the Democratic Socialists of America have openly called for an end to what they call “the criminalization of working-class survival,” and want to wipe out all misdemeanor offenses. – Mamdani, “Police have a critical role to play but right now we’re relying on them to deal with the failures of our social safety net, which is preventing them from doing their actual jobs,” he said in a recent campaign video…

August 23, 2025

Zero Hedge: President Trump said Friday he will give Russia and Ukraine two weeks to hold talks aimed at ending the war between the two countries, and if no progress is made, he will decide on the next steps. – Calling it “a very important decision,” the president said he will determine “whether or not it’s massive sanctions or massive tariffs or both…or do we do nothing and say, ‘It’s your fight.’”

Wall Street Journal: The Pentagon Has Quietly Blocked Ukraine’s Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia – The Defense Department has withheld approval for attacks as the White House has sought to entice Moscow to open peace talks. – A high-level DOD approval procedure has prevented Ukraine from firing any U.S.-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, against targets in Russia since late spring…

Washington Post: National Guard Deployment In Chicago Is Imminent – The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as President Donald Trump says he wants to crack down on crime, homelessness, and undocumented immigration, in a model that could later be used in other major cities, officials familiar with the matter said…

Daily Wire: The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to U.S. power companies as a potential fuel for reactors, according to a source familiar with the matter and a draft memo outlining the plan. – Plutonium has previously only been converted to fuel for commercial U.S. reactors in short-lived tests…

American Thinker: The swamp shudders, wondering ‘who will be next’ in the wake of the Bolton raid – They plotted against President Trump, and now they’re finding that things didn’t work out quite the way they thought they were going to work out, even with the assistance of mainstream media, the judiciary, and the uniparty. – Their shenanigans are under threat as never before. – It’s called draining the swamp. – And it’s a lot better for America that it is happening…

American Thinker: Trump shuts down ‘Five Eyes’ alliance and good riddance – When things don’t work, Trump says they’ve got to go. – The comity is over. – The U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are now electing leftists, and not moving in tandem with the U.S. on the policy front. – Thomas Lifson has been keeping track and has written this terrific analysis of the picture, drawing on the credible sources he knows…

One America News: The U.S. will review 55M visa holders for potential violations – Visas will be canceled if there is evidence of “overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activity, or providing support to a terrorist organization.” – Incoming students and travelers to the U.S. will face social media checks, with authorities looking for “any indications of hostility toward…

Western Journal: ‘I’m Going… After Your Family’: Violent Mob Ambushes ICE Agents, One Rioter Charged for Deadly Threats – Among the group, an individual identified as Adrian Guerrero was charged with assault and destruction of federal property after allegedly slashing the tire of a government vehicle and threatening to stab a law enforcement officer…

On America News: Up to 1,700 National Guardsmen are set to be mobilized across 19 states by the Trump administration as part of the president’s clampdown on illegal immigration. – Here are the states that will be impacted by a military presence in the coming weeks: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming. Texas is expected to see the largest impact.

America First Report: President Trump Taps Airbnb’s Co-Founder to Transform Federal Websites into an ‘Apple Store Experience’ – Trump’s ‘Improving Our Nation Through Better Design ‘Executive Order established the ‘America by Design’ initiative to overhaul how Americans interact with government services online. – The executive order creates three key components: Chief Design Officer, The America by Design Initiative, and the National Design Studio…

American Conservative: In the Short Term, There Will Be No Peace, As Neither Russia nor Ukraine Wants To Compromise. – There need to be three things for a peace process to succeed. – 1, both sides must feel that they are incapable of reversing the gains of the other side. – 2, both sides must make a compromise, and the best compromise would leave both sides furious and disappointed. -3, the external agents and parties must appeal to their best instincts and try to stop the ongoing carnage…

New York Post: The first draft of Ukraine’s security guarantees for deterring Russia from re-invading the country after a peace agreement is reached could come as soon as “early next week,” a senior Kyiv official told NBC News on Friday. – Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergiy Kyslytsya said US and European leaders have been hammering out security guarantee details since Monday’s meeting with President Trump at the White House…

Epoch Times: The Texas Senate Passes Its Redistricting Bill Early Saturday Morning – It will increase Republicans’ hold on the state’s U.S. House delegation by as many as five seats. – After passing the Republican-dominated upper chamber in an 18 to 11 party-line vote, the bill now heads to the desk of Governor Greg Abbott.

Western Journal: Adding Insult to Injury, The Texas Democrats Who Fled State in A Failed Attempt to Thwart Redistricting Are Ordered to Pay Up – The lawmakers owe $9,354.25, which is the total of $7,000 for missing 14 legislative days and $2,354.25 for their pro-rata share of the $124,943 cost to the House in securing their attendance for the second session.

Slay News: A top government watchdog group has revealed that correspondence between then-President Joe Biden’s staff and veteran DOJ officials raised concerns about his use of the autopen to sign presidential pardons. – The Oversight Project found that staffers felt the autopen pardons were “highly problematic.” – The Trump administration is scrutinizing thousands of pardons signed in the final days of Biden’s presidency as some wonder if they’re now null and void.

Daily Wire: An Obama-appointed judge ruled on Friday that President Trump can’t cut federal funding from dozens of cities and counties that officials have deemed “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrants. – U.S. District Judge William Orrick extended a preliminary injunction to block the Trump administration from pulling federal funds or attaching immigration conditions to federal funds for local jurisdictions…

American Thinker: The judge has a little explaining to do – An appeals court throws out Trump’s $500 million fine, and Arthur Engoron needs to answer for his role in Letitia James’s lawfare persecution. – AG James brought this case because she was plain and simple out to get Trump. However, Judge Engoron should have stopped her and asked, “Where is the fraud or crime?” Instead, Engoron added to the lie by inventing his own definition of fraud…

Zero Hedge: Shocking NEW Documents Expose A Multi-Front Effort To Protect The Clintons While Framing Trump – Newly unearthed documents show deep state government actors once again circling the wagons to protect Bill and Hillary Clinton, and suppressing evidence that implicated them. Last week, we learned that FBI field office investigations were proceeding until higher-ups ordered them to stop. – This week, it is the IRS…

Slay News: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that President Donald Trump can terminate millions of dollars in bogus health “research.” – The woke “research” was geared toward far-left “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) initiatives. – The 5-4 ruling is a victory in Trump’s effort to restore integrity to health science, which in recent years has come under attack from woke ideology.

Washington Examiner: What Trump Fed candidates have said about interest rate cuts – Decisions about interest rates are up to the Federal Open Market Committee 12-person board, but Trump picks will be the head of the committee, so that they will have sway over monetary policy in that capacity. – The Fed’s current interest rate target is 4.25% to 4.50%. – Christopher Waller said he thinks the Fed’s policy rate should come down to 3%…

Breitbart: Nigel Farage has unveiled Reform UK’s plans for “mass deportations” and a dismantling of the so-called human rights codes that facilitate the “crisis” of illegal immigration. – The current favorite to become the next prime minister of the UK, Nigel Farage, said his government would enact a policy of “detain and deport” rather than allowing mostly military age illegal migrant males to claim asylum and be housed at taxpayer expense.

Breitbart: British ‘Political Prisoner’ Lucy Connolly to Meet With A Trump Official and Says She Will Sue the UK Police Over the Circumstances of Her Incarceration – She was handed a 31-month prison sentence for publishing a message on the X/Twitter platform in the wake of the Southport child slayings. – She has been released from jail and has described what she calls deliberate mistreatment…

American Thinker: Democrats don’t want a good moral character in immigrants – Why should we want to admit less than the best the world has to offer?. – Virtually nowhere else in the world is the success and prosperity earned by so many immigrants possible. American citizenship is one of the world’s prizes, a pearl of great price. – Yet Democrats’ heads are exploding over a recent Trump order to ensure all legal immigrants have “good moral character.”…

American Thinker: Conservatives Are Hitting Back At The Media – New-age conservatives have no interest in playing the role of polite punching bag while the Leftist media lobs biased, derogatory questions at them. – Marco Rubio wasn’t having it when confronting Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation” last weekend. – The first outrageously biased question tossed out by Brennan came on the heels of Rubio returning from the marathon peace talks in Alaska…

American Thinker: The Democrats’ troubling psychological profile – The Democrat Party lies on the therapist’s couch, blaming everyone but themselves for not seeing things their way. – In Governor Gavin Newsom’s narcissistic mind, Democrats have the GOP right where they want it.- Earlier this year, New York AG Letitia James said, “I will not be silenced, I will not be bullied… No one is above the law, including the president of the United States.”…

Townhall: Their Voter Registration Collapse Exposes Cracks in the Left’s Coalition – For the first time since 2018, Republicans have overtaken Democrats in new voter registrations, a seismic shift fueled by the enduring appeal of President Donald Trump and his unapologetically pro-America agenda. – In the 30 states that track party registration, Democrats lost more than 2.1 million registered voters between 2020 and 2024…

American Thinker: Demography is destiny and determines control of the House. – Even worse for Democrats is that even illegals are fleeing their states for red states, joining an ever-increasing number of red state Americans. – In order to turn the tide, blue state governors will have to repudiate virtually every belief and policy they’ve always held dear. – They’ll have to dramatically reduce taxes, regulations, burdensome, unconstitutional laws…

American Thinker: Leading Alliances Increases U.S. Strength – America remains actively engaged in European defense strategy as the leader of the Free World. The American alliance system combines the most advanced and wealthiest nations on the planet into a common front against common enemies who cannot match their strength when exercised by resolute leadership.

American Thinker: At the End of Their Road – In Britain, handed-down ethnic conflict, contemporary issues such as rape gangs, and institutional submission to Islam have created a polarized society on the brink of civil war. – David Betz, Professor of War at King’s College, London, argues that Western societies — particularly Britain — are drifting towards a new kind of civil war that is a decentralized, low-intensity conflict rooted in tribal identity, grievance, and collapsing trust.

FAR: When It Comes To Politics, A Wikipedia/AI Alliance Is Dangerous – The pro-freedom side of the political spectrum is currently on a winning streak with President Trump at the helm. – However, we need to be clear-eyed about emerging threats on the horizon, so we need to consider the serious issue of the dangerous combination of the incredibly biased Wikipedia and AI.

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Cracker Barrel Goes Woke Edition – There was important news this week: apparent progress toward peace in Ukraine, a crackdown on crime in D.C., and much else. – But those serious topics were pretty much ignored by the nation’s memesters.

August 22, 2025

Washington Examiner: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, who served as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. – No reason was given for Kruse’s dismissal, but Deputy Director Christine Bordine has assumed the role of acting director. – Under Kruse’s watch, the DIA came up with a preliminary assessment of the U.S. military’s strikes targeting three of Iran’s nuclear facilities in June that indicated they were less effective than Hegseth or President Donald Trump said…

America First Report: The Trump Administration Seals Landmark Deal – The U.S. Government Now Holds 10% Stake in Intel – The agreement stems from negotiations tied to the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, which aimed to revitalize domestic chip production. Under the terms, the U.S. gains a nonvoting equity position in Intel in return for federal funding support…

One America News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Authorizes The National Guard To Bear Arms In D.C. – The new directive is expected to be fulfilled in the coming days, according to the official, as the president urges troops to remain tough on crime in the Capitol following his declaration last week that he would take over policing to solve the “out of control” crime in D.C…

American Spectator: Democrats Can’t, and Won’t, Replicate MAGA – Rebellion can’t be focus-grouped. – When Democrats try to connect with everyday Americans, it inevitably slips into parody. – This is why Gavin Newsom matters as a symbol. He is the logical endpoint of Democratic mimicry: a politician who wants to wear the populist mantle without getting his hands dirty. – MAGA keeps winning precisely because it isn’t branding; it’s belief.

California Glove: The Redistricting Bills Jammed Through the Senate on Thursday Violate the California Constitution – Democrats Violated Their Own Attorneys’ Legal Advice. – An internal Senate memo provided to the Globe shows a request for a “Rule Waiver Request” on AB 604, ACA 8, and SB 280, the 3-measure package on Congressional redistricting…

Slay News: The U.S. Department of Justice just released the entire transcript from interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell regarding Jeffrey Epstein. – The interviews, held late last month, were led by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and are provided below…

Western Journal: ‘Maryland Man’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia Released from Custody After A Judge’s Order – Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled that the U.S. government “shall restore Abrego Garcia to his ICE Order of Supervision out of the Baltimore Field Office in order to “provide the kind of effective relief to which a wrongfully removed alien is entitled upon return.”

Washington Examiner: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said there weren’t any plans for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. – Lavrov did not rule one out but said an agenda had to be set first. – Lavrov then argued that Russia was acting in line with the conditions agreed upon in Alaska, but that Zelensky threw a wrench in efforts during his own visit to DC alongside his European allies.

Gateway Pundit: President Trump’s Big Win on European Union Trade Is Sealed with a Joint Statement – The EU has committed to $750 billion in U.S. energy purchases through 2028, $600 billion in new investments in the United States, and expanded procurement of American defense equipment. – Also, the EU will eliminate tariffs on all U.S. industrial goods and expand market access for American agriculture, seafood, and processed products, including…

Epoch Times: A Recent CBO Report Says Trump’s Tariffs Will Reduce Deficits by $4 Trillion Over the Next Decade – The CBO also said it “projects further increases in tariff revenues in the coming months” and that “if there are no further changes in tariff rates, we project that customs duties from new and existing tariffs will total about $200 billion this fiscal year.”

Daily Mail: Wall Street goes crazy as Jerome Powell finally breaks the silence on his plans for an interest rate cut – The chair of the Federal Reserve told central bankers and economic power-players that he was concerned that GDP had slowed and the unemployment rate was rising. – Wall Street is hoping that Powell and the rest of the Fed’s Open Market Committee will vote for a quarter-point cut at the next meeting in September…

American Thinker: To Deploy or Not to Deploy – President Trump said no U.S. troops on the ground, but we will provide logistics and aerial support. – The Europeans need to provide troops to protect Ukraine, a country in their neighborhood. – The UK is ready to lead. – Germany and France will do something, but it’s not clear what. – Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and the Baltic states have also signaled willingness to participate…

Slay News: The DOJ will begin turning over documents related to Jeffrey Epstein to the House Oversight Committee on Friday. – Chairman James Comer confirmed he expected to receive files by the end of the week, but he offered no specific timeline for public release. – “We’ll work as quickly as we can… this is sensitive information,” Comer said.

Zero Hedge: Obama-appointed Judge Matthew Brann rules that Alina Habba has been unlawfully serving as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey since July. – Trump appointed Habba in March as interim U.S. attorney, a role limited to 120 days unless extended by a vote of the district’s judges. – The Trump administration took this unusual maneuver as Democrats continue to block the president’s U.S. attorney nominees from getting a full Senate vote…

National Pulse: The Trump Administration Moves to Stop Medicaid from Going to Illegal Migrants. – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Health and Human Services are working together on this. – The oversight program was launched in recent months, with new rules implemented under the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act signed into law on July 4th.

Geller Report: California Democrat Lawmakers Approve The Newsom-Backed Redistricting Map That Wipes Out Republican Districts, Creating The MOST Gerrymandered State In U.S. History. – This is controversial because in 2010, California voters passed the Congressional Voters FIRST Act, placing the drawing of the Congressional lines in the hands of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission…

Glenn: New proposed bill AB495 Should TERRIFY anyone with kids in California – The bill literally states, they don’t have to be a relation. – Anyone who possesses this affidavit, which is downloadable and printable. – So theoretically, somebody could know your kid goes to a certain school or day care. – They can go there with that printable affidavit and extract your child. – Because it’s an affidavit, the school cannot refuse the requester of that child…

Washington Free Beacon: The Trump administration has determined that a federal program that doles out $350 million a year to “Hispanic-Serving Institutions” is unconstitutional, so it will not defend it in court. – This move will sunset one of the largest race-based grant programs in the US and could be the death knell for scores of similar programs throughout the government.

Washington Free Beacon: It’s Back to Gas – School Districts Revert to Diesel Because Biden’s Electric Buses Can’t Be Repaired – Lion Electric, which received $159 million in federal funds to manufacture electric buses, has fallen into bankruptcy and failed to deliver $95 million worth of buses. – Established by the Democrats’ 2021 infrastructure bill, the Clean School Bus Program emerged as one of the Biden administration’s signature climate initiatives.

Zero Hedge: A US National Security Probe Targets Wind Industry – Near-term winners include U.S. tower fabricators and any blade/drivetrain maker who can credibly and quickly localize. Losers are developers stuck with fixed-price PPAs and engineering firms with thin contingencies. Grid bottlenecks and permitting remain the primary choke points. – The probe suggests that “buy more domestic, pay more near-term” is policy, not rhetoric.

American Thinker: The Masculine Stampede Away From The Democrats – American men are fleeing the Democrat Party like it’s a sexually transmitted disease. – Leftist madness is by no means restricted to the United States. – All over the West, leftists are demanding open borders, loads of free stuff, and a ban on all forms of reliable energy. – They want their already-bankrupt governments to pay them an income for merely existing…

LifeZette: FBI agents raided the Bethesda, Maryland, home of former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton early Friday morning as part of an ongoing national security probe. – The investigation relates to the handling of classified documents, dating back several years. – The probe was originally launched during Trump’s first administration but was shut down by the Biden administration “for political reasons.”…

American Thinker: Cleaning Up D.C.’s Mean Streets – D.C. denizens are breathing a sigh of relief — at least those not suffering TDS. – Trump’s actions are proving that law and order work. – That’s a “Duh” moment for most people, but not Democrats, who think coddling thugs and gangstas is the remedy for supposed “systemic racism.” – D.C. Democrats fudged crime stats to make it appear that crimes are lower. But their Police Union chair isn’t playing along…

Breitbart: A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll revealed that 71% of Americans are deeply concerned about the potential consequences of AI on employment stability. – Computer science graduates are having a tough time finding work as companies are using AI to automate entry-level positions. – Opinions were divided on whether AI would improve education, with 36 percent believing it would help, 40 percent disagreeing, and the rest remaining uncertain…

American Thinker: Why Traditional Families Still Matter – The traditional nuclear family has been a cornerstone of stable societies worldwide throughout recorded history. – Research consistently shows that children raised in two-parent households with a mother and father tend to have better outcomes in academics, emotional health, and socialization…

Breitbart: President Trump Says He Will Fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook If She Does Not Step Down After Allegation of Mortgage Fraud – Documents Lisa Cook submitted to the U.S. Government while serving as Federal Reserve Governor show she represented to the U.S. Government that the Atlanta Property is her PERSONAL RESIDENCE. – However, as a then-sitting Fed Governor, six months earlier, she appears to have listed the same property for RENT.

American Thinker: Cracker Barrel Falls Due To DEI – If one may dare believe one’s lying eyes, Cracker Barrel is being mismanaged by crackpots.- Perhaps worse than the horrid new logo that defaces the charming old stores and restaurants is what appears on their website. – Corporate governance: do your job. You’ve already lost over $200 million in value after the new logo release…

American Thinker: Getting Illegal Truckers Off The Road – We don’t have to sacrifice Americans because illegals get driver’s licenses from sanctuary states to operate 18-wheelers. – How did Singh get a Commercial Driver’s License? In keeping with the Golden State’s sanctuary policies, the legal status of driver license applicants is not requested. – The power for the federal government to stop this is there, so use it…

Red State: Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered a freeze on all work visas for commercial truck drivers. – This follows the August 12 pile-up on a Florida highway, killing three, caused by an 18-wheeler driven by an illegal immigrant attempting an illegal U-turn across a median strip. – Approximately 16% of CDL holders are foreign nationals. The percentage comprised of illegals is unclear, but there is no reason for any non-citizen without a green card to be issued a CDL…

August 21, 2025

The New York Post: The Trump administration will begin reviewing all 55 million U.S. visa holders to determin e if any have committed deportable offenses. – Any immigrants holding US visas found with “indicators of overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activity, or providing support to a terrorist organization” will have their permits to live in the US revoked and be deported…

Epoch Times: The Supreme Court Allows The Trump Administration to Revoke DEI-Related NIH Grants – The Trump administration argued that National Institutes of Health grants conflict with the president’s policy goals. – The new ruling clears the way for the funding reductions while litigation over the grants continues in the lower courts…

Daily Signal: President Trump is pulling funding from public schools in California that don’t comply with his executive orders on transgenderism. – Last summer, the California Legislature passed a law requiring school staff to hide a student’s gender identity from his or her parents…

Daily Fetched: The Department of Homeland Security announced a whopping $12 billion in savings due to a contract review process and other cuts over the past two hundred days. – As spending cuts were happening across the federal government earlier in the Trump administration under the Department of Government Efficiency, many Democrats were critical of the efforts…

Hot Air: DC Goes 7 Days Without a Homicide After Trump Takeover – Carjackings Plummeted by 83%! – Robberies Sliced by 46%! – Car Thefts Down 21%! – Overall Violent Crime Down by 22%! – With this demonstration, Trump has snapped us out of our sob-story reverie and reminded us that criminals flourish where law enforcement treads tentatively and prosecutors act cowardly…

Daily Wire: ICE Is Set To ‘Flood’ Boston After Their Leftist Mayor Rejected AG Pam Bondi’s Sanctuary Policy Demands – Bondi, “If they don’t comply with us, we’re going to work with other agencies to cut off their federal funding.” – “We are going to send in law enforcement just like we did during the LA riots, just like we’re doing here in Washington.”…

Wall Street Journal: Obama Appointed U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams Orders Much of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Dismantled Within 60 Days – A Florida state official filed notice of appeal soon after Williams’s order came down Thursday evening. – A pair of nonprofits filed suit in late June, alleging the government failed to conduct a required environmental-impact review and ignored other legal requirements…

Western Journal: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Announced He and Trump Are Taking Down The Trucking Company That Hired The Illegal Immigrant Accused of Killing 3 in Deadly U-Turn – “We’ve been working with the federal government. – And they are pulling that company’s license to do business because you cannot employ somebody who cannot read the road signs,” DeSantis underscored…

Epoch Times: The United States and the European Union published long-awaited details of a sweeping trade framework on Thursday. – It caps most U.S. tariffs on European exports at 15% and commits the EU to massive new purchases. – The EU committed to purchase $750 billion worth of American energy products, including LNG, crude oil, and nuclear fuel, through 2028, and to buy at least $40 billion in U.S.-made AI chips for European data centers.

Western Journal: An Appeals Court Hands Trump a Massive Victory, Tossing the ‘Excessive’ Penalty from Letitia James’ Civil Lawsuit Accusing Him of Exaggerating His Wealth to Get a Loan – The total, combined with penalties levied on some other Trump Organization executives, now exceeds $527 million, with interest. – The civil fraud case was just one of several legal obstacles for Trump as he campaigned, won, and segued to a second term as POTUS.

Breitbart: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that he had approved plans to take over the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza City, while also pursuing negotiations for the release of all Israeli hostages. – Rumors of a possible deal have swirled for days, after Hamas appeared to accept the terms of a deal it had rejected in May, when U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff proposed a two-stage hostage release deal…

Epoch Times: President Trump Says He’ll Patrol Washington With The Police and National Guard Thursday Evening – Trump said the police and troops are doing a ‘fantastic job’ more than a week after he federalized control of the city’s police department. – Trump went on to say that the military stationed in Washington is doing a “fantastic job” at law enforcement in the nation’s capital.

Western Journal: A Man ICE Tackled and Who Reporters Defended Instantly Was Previously Arrested for Child Sex Crimes – David Perez-Teofani was charged with child sex crimes last year and had illegally entered the United States three times before defying “a final order of removal” after twice returning voluntarily to his native Mexico, according to the Department of Homeland Security…

American Thinker: Bullets in Sinaloa – Bullets are flying in Sinaloa because the cartels are fighting each other for territory, as well as being angry over their leader’s capture. – A friend who lives down there told me that it’s scary everywhere. As often happens down in Mexico, the bullets frequently hit innocent people enjoying a coffee, a Saturday night dinner, or even a trip to a shopping center. – The shooting is intense…

American Thinker: Russiagate, Dismantling the Democrats’ Hoax – It is now clear that Russiagate was a hoax and a conspired plot against Trump, but it is fair to say that the conspiracy partially reached its objectives. – It is not just about Trump’s first term being severely obstructed. Many of his top-tier supporters were “canceled,” some of them were sent to jail under false “evidence.”- Trump suffered massive reputational damage that almost ended his political career…

American Thinker: The Wages of Corruption in DC – As the daughter of an internationally syndicated journalist, my childhood was spent in the swamp of D.C., and it was an eye-opening experience. – Now, a more thoroughly corrupt alliance between politicians and the corporate elite is awash in D.C., with special interests galore that have been doing fine in the Swamp, starting in the 1960s…

American Thinker: Newsflash, Crazy people are drawn to leftism – Society needs to know that some people on the cusp become crazy first, then they become leftists. – We categorize many crazy policies under the aegis of leftism, and conveniently label their progenitors as leftists. – In other words, they are formulated by unhappy people who have an axe to grind. – Their lunacy is then reinforced by leftist indoctrination and conformity…

American Thinker: Your Money and Your Life and How They May Come for Your Social Security – The specter of Obama still lurks in Washington. – In March & July 2010, two of the most sweeping pieces of legislation since FDR and LBJ were signed by Obama, creating the Independent Payment Advisory Board via ObamaCare, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau via the Dodd-Frank Wall Street “reform” bill…

American Thinker: Washington’s Smartest Move Yet on Lebanon As Megan Ortagus Returns – Tom Barrack brings pragmatic optimism, but the quiet Ortagus will ensure that Lebanon’s elite don’t play games. – Two months ago, Lebanon’s entrenched political elite welcomed her departure with open relief. – President Trump ordered her back, a powerful signal that Washington has not abandoned the line of pressure and accountability she embodied…

American Thinker: Donald Trump is a Humble Man – For those with keen discernment, Trump is a man who, upon careful observation, reveals a humble side that forms the foundation of who he truly is. – Another thing that Donald J. Trump lacks is pretense; what you see is what you get. – What’s often seen as self-promotion is, in fact, a reaffirmation of Trump’s view of the truth…

American Thinker: On seeing two hijabs at the supermarket – How can Americans square Islam with the First Amendment?. – Eleven legal things we can do to blunt Islam’s encroachment in America: Designate and investigate jihadist front organizations like CAIR as terrorist-supporting entities. – Heavily fine and prosecute institutions that promote antisemitism. – Prosecute the “honor” killings as first-degree murder…

FAR: College Students Present More Liberal Views to Satisfy Professors – A new study offers additional data on this problem, showing that almost 90% of students misrepresent their views in class and on assignments to satisfy faculty by adopting more liberal views. – The authors explain that “these students were not cynical, but adaptive.”…

August 20, 2025

Gateway Pundit: The Justice Department Is Investigating Falsified DC Crime Data – Deputy AG Todd Blanche: “We’re Investigating It, and Hopefully We’ll Get to the Bottom of It” – Leftists and Democratic city leaders have repeatedly pointed to fraudulent data to falsely claim that DC is safe and livable and that President Trump’s actions are unjustified…

American Thinker: Trump’s chip deal with Nvidia and AMD addresses a long-standing China problem – Opponents called it unorthodox, unconstitutional, and even a shake-down of private business. What they didn’t do is connect Trump’s move to the much larger story that has been unreported for decades: China’s systematic theft of American technology. – The manufacturers will come out all right; it’s China that will pay the price…

Daily Wire: Leftists Panic As Even The NYT Says Democrats Face A ‘Voter Registration Crisis’ – Between 2020 and 2024, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in all 30 states that track party affiliation. – Democrats shed 2.1 million voters between 2020 and 2024. Republicans, meanwhile, gained 2.4 million voters. – The shift toward the GOP is “a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out of…

Western Journal: Texas House Republicans Successfully Pass The State’s Redistricting Map. – The redistricting may result in up to five additional GOP seats in the 2026 midterm elections. – The approval of the Texas maps was on an 88-52 party-line vote…

Western Journal: Mayor Bass Has Bizarre Break with Reality – She Declares There’s Zero Crime in LA, Nothing ‘Even Close to a Crime, Period. – The Democrat made the absurd declaration at a news conference on Tuesday while responding to accusations that she and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom are committing “crimes against humanity” by enabling unfettered illegal

immigration…

Epoch Times: Bed Bath & Beyond Says It Won’t Operate Stores in ‘Overregulated’ California – The company chairman claims the state is too expensive and risky for the home goods retailer to open or reopen stores. – Marcus Lemonis, “This decision isn’t about politics—it’s about reality.” -“California has created one of the most over-regulated, expensive, and risky environments for businesses in America.”

Western Journal: Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker Is Accused of Betraying His State’s Citizens by Signing Bill to Give Illegals a Big Handout. – Illinois House Republicans blasted J.B. Pritzker, the state’s Democrat governor and a potential 2028 presidential candidate, for signing a bill that makes taxpayer-funded student financial aid available to illegal immigrants…

Daily Wire: A pre-dawn U.S. military raid in northwestern Syria early on Wednesday targeted and killed a senior member of the Islamic State group, a U.S. official told Reuters. – It was the second known raid in northern Syria by U.S. troops since former President Bashar al-Assad was ousted in December. – No U.S. service members were harmed in the raid…

American Thinker: In Ukraine, the ‘Buts’ Win in the End – President Trump has been clear that he wants the Russia-Ukraine War to end, but he says Zelensky must make the choice to do so. – When the war began, 73% of Ukrainians wanted to fight Russia until Ukraine secured victory, but now 69% want the war to end as soon as possible through negotiations!…

Slay News: Karoline Leavitt ‘SHREDS the Fake News Press’ for Pushing False Narratives on Trump’s Russia-Ukraine Negotiations – “From the beginning of this entire process, much of the left-wing media has been actively rooting against the President of the United States and the pursuit of peace.” – “One thing that has absolutely not changed is the media’s negative and downright false coverage of President Trump and his foreign policy accomplishments.”

Breitbart: The far-left Washington Post apparently wants Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dead. – Nothing else explains why the Post published a story that 1) reveals the Secretary’s security protocols, and 2) complains he has too much security. – The Post’s obvious goal here is to pressure the Defense Department to decrease security around Hegseth, so it’s easier to assassinate him…

Daily Wire: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will announce Wednesday afternoon that she is refocusing her agency to aggressively execute its national security mission, and shrinking the Office of the Director of National Intelligence – ODNI will be reduced by almost 50% by the end of the fiscal year 2025, ultimately saving taxpayers over $700 million per year, according to senior DNI officials. This will be done by combining agency centers and reducing personnel.

Slay News: President Trump Orders An Investigation into The ‘Woke’ Ideology Being Pushed in America’s Museums – Trump has directed his legal team to begin reviewing museums across the country, warning that institutions like the Smithsonian have become vehicles for left-wing ideology. – “Everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. – Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future.”...

American Thinker: The Peace Talks Took Place In Washington, D.C., The New Center of Power – Uninvited NATO and EU representatives arrived at the Ukraine negotiations, and Donald Trump sent them back home with plenty of baggage. – Revealed again, European politics has slipped into the second league of power within the global balance between the U.S., China, and Russia. – And Trump knew how to stage that fact in front of the world’s cameras…

Breitbart: Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter, “Israel has intelligence that whenever French President Emmanuel Macron makes a statement in favor of a Palestinian state, Hamas hardens its heart regarding our hostages.” – Furthermore, leaders in the West recognizing a Palestinian state where there isn’t one and isn’t going to be one, “encourages Hamas to harden their position in negotiations.”…

Zero Hedge: Syria and Israel Hold Unprecedented US-Mediated Talks In Paris – Earlier reports said Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani would meet with Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer in Paris. – “Shaibani met today in the French capital, Paris, with an Israeli delegation to discuss several issues related to ‘enhancing stability’ in the region and southern Syria.

Blaze Media: Damning internal emails released this week from the DOJ reveal a high-level understanding in the Biden administration that the autopen commutations issued on Jan. 17 in Biden’s name were legally flawed. – In addition to showcasing former Associate Deputy AG Bradley Weinsheimer’s legal concerns, the emails reveal that the Biden administration apparently misled the nation about the violent criminal nature of the individuals who received commutations.

National Pulse: The Trump administration is set to open its fourth new illegal immigrant detention and deportation facility modeled on Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz.” – The “Cornhusker Clink” was revealed on August 19, in McCook, Nebraska. – The “Cornhusker Clink,” the facility will be able to house 280 criminal illegal immigrants awaiting deportation and will be overseen by the Department of Homeland Security.

Epoch Times: The Texas House is scheduled to vote on August 20th on a newly drawn congressional map that would give Republicans five extra seats. – The Texas Senate passed the map on August 13th. – If the state House passes the map, it will go to Governor Greg Abbott for his signature.

Woke Spy: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin confirmed he canceled more than $29 billion in federal grants. – “$27 billion of it was the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, part of the Inflation Reduction Act, when President Biden had one party control of Congress.” – Zeldin said the grants were distributed through a system he described as a “complex web of intermediaries,” raising questions about oversight and accountability.

New York Post: Trump’s unique talents make him a true leader – No. 47 is the greatest impresario ever to hold the office, and he is bringing the presidency, its majesty, and his quirks into homes in America and around the world in ways that are as refreshing as they are unprecedented. – Just as he remade the Republican Party into a diverse workers and middle-class party, Trump is creating new models and expectations for how presidents should conduct the public’s business and carry out their duties.

LifeZette: Elon Musk has stepped back from his efforts to launch a new political party and is instead signaling that he will direct his financial support toward Vice President JD Vance’s expected 2028 presidential campaign. – Musk, who previously announced plans for the “America Party,” has reportedly decided to turn his attention back to his companies and avoid further clashes with Republicans…

Washington Free Beacon: ‘A Danger to Public Safety’ – DC Police Misclassified Deaths as ‘Accidental’ To Drive Down Murder Numbers, A Homicide Cop Alleges in His Lawsuit – MPD sergeant Carlos Bundy said in his suit against the department that the misclassifications ‘allowed murderers to remain on the street.’ – Bundy, who has served in the department for 28 years and was in the MPD’s homicide unit from 2010 to 2018…

Revolver: Americans flood the system and crash the entire H1-B foreign-worker pipeline – For years, corporate elites and their political Swamp buddies have locked Americans out of good jobs by rigging the hiring system so cheap foreign labor can help line their pockets. – Americans have had enough, and are now flooding these rigged job postings and exposing the bald-faced lie that there are “no qualified US workers.”…

American Thinker: Newsom, but it’s different when Democrats do it – California has 52 Representatives, but only nine are Republicans. – Newsom announced a November special election to temporarily suspend the state’s independent redistricting commission to allow the Democrat-controlled legislature to gerrymander at will and further deplete Republican Representation…

Daily Wire: Gavin Newsom Launched A 2028 Presidential Fundraising Campaign, But Set His Sights Everywhere Except In California – The governor’s redistricting fight appears to be an effort to build national name recognition. – According to Google’s ad transparency center, Newsom’s team is targeting a series of ads only at people outside of California, potentially allowing Newsom to build a national donor list and grow his profile across the country.

American Thinker: America’s Melting Pot Is Under Siege – Traditionally, immigrants, whether Irish, Italian, or German, came with nothing but grit and a willingness to adapt.- They learned English, celebrated American holidays, and raised their kids to honor the flag and the Constitution. – That vision is now under attack because the left’s version of the melting pot isn’t about unity, it’s about pure division via DEI and…

Breitbart: California Senator Adam Schiff, who abused his positions on the House Intelligence Committee and the January 6 Committee to pursue political foes, has formed a legal defense fund to deal with his mounting legal woes. – Paperwork for the “Senator Schiff Legal Defense Fund” filed with the Internal Revenue Service is dated Aug. 14, records show.

American Thinker: America Must Reject the State Capitalist Temptation – The American economic system has traditionally been defined by the imprecise term “capitalism,” but that economic narrative is now changing. – State intervention and populist movements now view government as a political tool to leverage economic policy in favor of their agendas…

American Thinker: How CO2 regulation endangers developing economies – Green energy vehicles — like the Paris Agreement and net zero targets — have been promoted in the name of climate virtue but have sabotaged growth, stalled industrial progress, and punished the poor. – Among projects that have suffered at the hands of anti-hydrocarbon crusaders are a 1,445-kilometer pipeline to transport crude oil from Uganda to Tanzania…

FAR: Dancing With The Stars’ Trump And Melania Tribute – A routine on Israel’s “Dancing with the Stars” made headlines this week for its humorous tribute to President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. – Clips of the light-hearted routine were widely shared on social media platforms, with 2.3 million views on “X” as of this writing…

August 19, 2025

One America News: Hamas has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire proposal brokered by Egypt and Qatar that includes the release of 10 living hostages and return of 18 bodies. – In exchange, Israel is supposed to release approximately 1,700 Palestinian prisoners and return the bodies of 10 Palestinian terrorists. – Senior Hamas official Basem Naim noted that it closely mirrors a proposal put forward by Washington, D.C., earlier this year. – Israel is set to respond by Friday…

Fox News: Bank executives blow the whistle on how the Obama and Biden administrations pressured them to debank conservatives – “Those pressures were very, very real. When your regulator gives you a suggestion, it’s not a suggestion, it’s an order. – The political stuff is very real, those pressures are real,” according to a senior banking executive…

Fox News: DNI Gabbard removes clearances from 37 officials at Trump’s direction over politicizing intelligence. – Those impacted included former Obama DNI James Clapper, who Gabbard claimed told officials to “compromise” normal procedures to rush a 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment related to Russia’s influence in the 2016 election…

Western Journal: The DoT Releases Astounding Prelim Findings into The California Immigrant U-Turn Truck Driver – Singh failed the FMCSA guidance assessment, providing correct responses to just 2 of 12 verbal questions and only accurately identifying 1 of 4 highway traffic signs.” – DOT Secretary Sean Duffy said regarding the accident, “If states had followed the rules, this driver would never have been behind the wheel…”

Epoch Times: More Than 460 Arrests Have Been Made Since The Federal Takeover of DC Policing – 52 arrests and 9 firearms seizures were made just on Aug. 18 and Aug. 19, and included MS-13 gang members. – The same day, four homeless encampments were removed, for a total of 48 cleared so far. – At least six states have pledged to assist with the crime crackdown by sending National Guard troops or military police…

Chronicles Magazine: The Shocking Hypocrisy and Callousness of the Left’s Homeless Outrage – There are approximately 5,000 homeless in Washington, D.C. – The city spends over $1 billion (just in local funding) supposedly “fighting” their homelessness. – So, given all this money, why hasn’t homelessness in D.C. been eradicated? – Organizations that fight homelessness are paid to fail because their budgets go up when they fail…

One America News: ICE busts Nebraska-based human trafficking ring – The operation, authorities say, was based out of motels and eyebrow salons across the Omaha metro area. – ICE agents rescued 27 victims, including 10 children under the age of 12, from what officials described as harrowing conditions. – Victims were packed into cockroach-infested rooms, deprived of basic sanitation, and subjected to sexual exploitation…

Gateway Pundit: Newly Released Emails Reveal Joe Biden’s Own DOJ Red-Flagged Thousands of His Supposed Last-Minute Autopen Pardons – For instance, who is behind this autopen on 12/30/2022 that pardoned six criminals (with the same autopen signature) while Joe Biden was vacationing and golfing in the U.S. Virgin Islands?

Wall Street Journal: The Trump Administration to Screen Immigrants for ‘Anti-American’ Views – The new guidance builds on the agency’s policy of vetting social media for evidence of antisemitism. – When it comes to what registers as anti-American ideology, the updated guidance points to a provision of immigration law dating back to the Cold War that prohibits immigrants from becoming U.S. citizens if they are members of communist or anarchist organizations…

Cal Matters: Republicans Sue to Block Newsom’s Gerrymandering – Democrats used a common legislative tactic called “gut and amend” to rush legislation for a special election on new election maps. – Republicans say that violates the state constitution. – The legal action could slow down the process by which elections officials, already tight on time, get the maps onto Californians’ ballots for the Nov. 4 special election Newsom wants…

Townhall: Boston Mayor Says She Won’t Cooperate With ICE, And DHS Responds – Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin, “Everything is on the table, including those lawsuits and withholding federal funding.” – “Politicians have to take action and stop playing these political games.”

Townhall: California Democrats Fail Miserably In Answering A Simple Question About Their New Congressional Maps. – Here is a truly fascinating video in which the California State Senator overseeing the effort to do state redistricting refuses for nearly four minutes to say who actually drew the congressional maps while claiming that it’s a “transparent process.”…

Daily Wire: Trump Calls for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to Resign for Alleged Fraud – Cook, who Republicans would argue is a Biden DEI hire, joins the likes of Senator Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James, both longtime Trump antagonists, in being investigated for similar allegations of mortgage fraud…

Washington Examiner: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed on Tuesday that the “entire” border wall will be painted black at the behest of President Donald Trump to make it hotter to deter illegal immigrants from climbing the barrier along the southern border. – Noem said “technology, cameras, sensors” will be added to the border wall in addition to the new paint job.

City Journal: The ESG Bubble Is Bursting – Politicized Investing Has Hurt America’s Domestic Energy Production, Economy, and National Security. – ESG funds do more than just invest in companies that meet environmental, social, and governance goals. They often strong-arm publicly traded corporations to subvert shareholder value in pursuit of nebulous concepts like sustainability, diversity, and “stakeholder” capitalism.

Fox News: DHS Sets Newsom’s Office Straight on A Key Detail About The Illegal Immigrant Truck Driver That Caused The Fatal Crash – Harjinder Singh is in the United States illegally, and his work authorization was rejected under the Trump Administration on September 14, 2020.” – “It was later approved under the Biden Administration on June 9, 2021. The state of California issues Commercial Driver’s Licenses. – There is no national CDL…

Gateway Pundit: On Tuesday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revealed the illegal alien truck driver who killed three people on the Florida highway last week failed English and couldn’t read road signs. – The Punjabi driver who obtained his truck driving license in the Democrat-run sanctuary state of California and Washington state made an insane U-turn on the Florida Turnpike and caused a deadly crash.

Fox News: President Trump said the White House talks were a ‘very good, early step’ toward Russia-Ukraine peace. – He then said he phoned Putin after the White House talks to arrange a direct meeting with Zelenskyy. – “Everyone is very happy about the possibility of PEACE for Russia/Ukraine,” Trump said, adding that JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and special envoy Steve Witkoff are now leading follow-up talks with Moscow and Kyiv.

New York Post: President Trump rules out putting ‘American boots on the ground’ in Ukraine – Trump asserted that the US would support the Europeans in providing Ukraine with security, hinting that much of that support would be from air power. – “We’re willing to help them with things, especially, probably, if you could talk about it by air, because there’s nobody has the kind of stuff we have,” he said.

American Thinker: Russia’s Substantial Concessions – How many peace deals must Trump broker in six months for his naysayers to concede he knows what he’s doing? – Many Trump agnostics, on both the Left and Right, have convinced themselves that a Ukraine peace deal is doomed. Never underestimate Trump. Envoy Steve Witkoff revealed the reality during his appearance on Sunday with Jake Tapper…

Geller Report: President Trump’s Approval Surges Past 54% After His Meeting with Putin – Trump stated that his meeting with Putin resulted in “great progress,” and the Russian leader claimed that his war with Ukraine would have never begun if Trump were president in 2022 instead of Joe Biden.

Issues & Insights: The Backlash Presidency – Donald Trump is the voters’ response to three (yes, three) terms of Barack Obama. – Voting for Donald Trump was the counterrevolution to Barack Obama’s effort to remake America, built on the appalling ideology of radicals Bill Ayers, Saul Alinsky, and Jeremiah Wright – not to mention Obama’s Marxist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, who turned Obama into an America-hating, Soviet-adoring teen.

Center For Immigration Studies: Illegal-Alien ID Thieves Are Harming Americans – The White House needs to shine a light on this scourge – Administration spokesmen need to go on the offensive and remind everyone over and over again, as Mr. de Leon does, that almost all illegal aliens are eligible for deportation because they routinely commit felony document fraud/forgery and identity theft…

American Thinker: Governor Ron DeSantis Cracks Down on City and County Waste and Inefficiency With His New Florida Agency for Fiscal Oversight – Is DeSantis alone among governors in his efforts to reduce waste, and more? – At least 26 states have incorporated the term “DOGE” into their respective legislation. – Some states have shown significant potential savings, such as Arkansas and Louisiana…

New York Post: The Justice Department has agreed to hand over a cache of Jeffrey Epstein files to Congress within the next few days, a key congressional lawmaker has revealed. – The first tranche of Epstein-related materials is to be given to the House Oversight Committee starting Friday…

Resist The Mainstream: Former Attorney General William “Bill” Barr testified that he never saw any evidence that President Donald Trump intervened in Jeffrey Epstein’s case or committed any crime related to the disgraced financier. – Barr appeared Monday for a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee.

Geller Report: A Muslim Migrant From Somalia, Mohamed Mohamed, Raped A Woman To Death on the Steps of a Nashville Church – The mainstream media is referring to the rapist as a “Tennessee man.” – Mohamed was arrested on Thursday after members of the Nashville Fire Department witnessed him commit the sexual assault while driving to an unrelated call for service. MNPD explained that the firefighters first restrained Mohamed before police arrived at the scene…

Daily Fetched: US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro has announced the arrest of a woman who traveled from New York to Washington, D.C., to assassinate President Donald. Trump. – According to court documents, from August 2 to August 9, members of the U.S. Secret Service observed that the Instagram user account “nath.jones” had posted threatening comments about the President of the United States.

Cal Matters: Gavin Newsom wants a special election in a hurry on his gerrymander edict, but here’s what has to happen in very short order. – County election officials are hustling as if the election is happening so they can make sure they lock down everything from vendors to print their ballots, locations for voting centers, and election workers to staff those polling places come Nov. 4th…

The Federalist: The Defense Department May Adopt a Pro-America Test for K-12 Schools and Military Academies – This would encourage more traditional, less politicized instruction in military-run public schools and boost recruitment from the most pro-American demographics. – The “Classic Learning Test” arose 10 years ago as a market response to the increased politicization of the College Board…

Christian Post: 5 troubling facts you might not know about King Charles – For over 500 years, every British monarch has inherited the title “Defender of the Faith,” meaning defender of Christianity. But in 1994, Charles III, the Prince of Wales, declared that he wished to be called “Defender of Faith,” meaning defender of all religions. – 1. He studied Arabic to understand the Quran. – 2. His passion for Islam has affected his judgment…

August 18, 2025

Daily Wire: Putin and Zelensky Will Meet Face-To-Face Within Two Weeks, According to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. – President Donald Trump will join in a meeting with the two warring leaders after the initial meet-up, Trump said. – This was a very good, early step for a War that has been going on for almost four years,” he added.

One America News: The White House announces ‘Record-Breaking’ U.S. earnings, with the stock market experiencing ‘significant gains’ – Aggregate S&P 500 earnings per share have risen 11% over last year, nearly three times higher than Wall Street forecasts. 84% of companies beat analysts’ estimates, marking the highest proportion in almost four years. – 60% of companies exceeded earnings forecasts by more than a standard deviation…

Daily Wire: The U.S. Deploys Warships Near Venezuela To Combat Drug Threats – Three U.S. Aegis guided-missile destroyers will arrive off the coast of Venezuela in the next 36 hours as part of an effort to address threats from Latin American drug cartels. – President Trump has wanted to use the military to go after Latin American drug gangs that have been designated as global terrorist organizations…

Western Journal: The Largest Immigration Detention in US History Opens, Quickly Receives Catchy Moniker – The “Lone Star Lockup” at the U.S. Army’s Fort Bliss in El Paso will be housing 1,000 illegal immigrants now, but will have a capacity of 5,000 people when it is finished in 2027. – Border czar Tom Homan said other states may be joining Florida and Texas in housing massive facilities…

Washington Times: D.C.’s new sheriff, Mayor Trump, is cleaning up the town – Criminals are now on the run in the nation’s capital. Decades of one-party Democratic rule rigged the system to benefit criminals, but now laws are being efficiently enforced, and it’s about time. – Actual inner-city residents are enjoying evenings undisturbed by random gunfire, and it’s possible to walk past Union Station without being accosted by vagrants.

American Spectator: Gavin Newsom’s California Is a Crashing Caliphate of Chaos – And California’s dysfunction is spreading to the rest of the country. – DHS & ICE confirmed that the illegal alien truck driver who killed 3 in a crash in Florida is an Indian national who initially crossed the California border illegally in September 2018 and was arrested by Border Patrol…

American Thinker: Trump to ban mail-in ballots, and we thank you, Mr. President. – In a week of stellar presidential achievements, this move by President Trump shouldn’t go unnoticed. – His team is preparing an executive order to ban mail-in balloting and voting machines in the name of preserving the integrity of elections, which voters increasingly doubt. – If we wouldn’t mail cash through the Postal Service, why should we mail our precious ballots?…

Daily Wire Live Blog Updates: Trump And Others Waiting To Meet Zelensky At The White House To Discuss The Ukraine/Russia War – Thune Says Senate ‘Ready’ To Give Trump Economic Leverage Over Russia – Press In Place For Zelensky Meeting With Trump – Hungary Accuses Ukraine Of Attacking Russian Pipeline Before Peace Talks – French President Emmanuel Macron Arrives At The White House – All European Leaders Have Arrived Except For Zelensky…

Epoch Times: President Trump to Host High-Stakes Meeting with Zelenskyy and European Leaders Later Today – The meeting follows the Alaska summit between Trump and Putin, which ended without a breakthrough in the Russia-Ukraine war. – The leaders are expected to discuss thorny issues, including Putin’s refusal to agree to a cease-fire, his territorial demands, and potential security guarantees for Kyiv after the war…

New York Post: President Trump says Zelensky can end war with Russia ‘almost immediately’ by doing these two things, ahead of the White House meeting – “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight. – Remember how it started. – No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE…

Zero Hedge: An Offer He Can’t Refuse – The goal is a peace settlement and an end to the war. – Ukraine is exhausted and has lost. – For the moment, Zelenskyy is the one who must be brought to an agreement. – His position as leader of Ukraine is squishy, at best. His term as elected president of Ukraine ended in May 2024, and he continues to occupy his position solely under a self-declared state of martial law…

The Federalist: The Ukraine War Was Always Going To End This Way – From the very beginning, it was clear that Ukraine’s borders, a relic of Soviet propaganda, would have to change. – The corporate press pretends to be shocked and scandalized by the mention of an adjustment of Ukraine’s borders, but the outrage is feigned. – Ukrainian territorial concessions in exchange for security and political independence were always how the Ukraine war was going to end…

Breitbart: Trump Says The Ball Is Now In Zelensky’s Court, as European Leaders Arrive in Washington for White House Talks. – “Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky can immediately end the Russian invasion if he wants to by accepting the terms being offered to him.” – Russia adds its roadblocks to peace into the mix, offering a deal with one hand while insisting on red lines and demands that are abhorrent to the other parties with the other…

Townhall: One Week After Trump’s D.C. Takeover, The Arrests Are Stacking Up – Every night since then, the FBI has arrested hundreds of criminals in the city and has no plans of slowing down. – DC crime since the announcement of federal control versus the 7 days prior: Robbery ⬇️46% – ADW ⬇️6% – Carjacking ⬇️83% – Car Theft ⬇️21% – Violent Crime ⬇️22% – Property Crime ⬇️6% – All Crimes⬇️8%…

Geller Report: President Trump is expected to sign an executive order to help eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines before the 2026 midterm elections. – He called them inaccurate, expensive, and fraudulent, and he will be replacing them with watermarked paper ballots to be counted on Election Night. – Having to fight repeatedly in the court system just to date a mail-in ballot illustrates how subverted and corrupted the voting system is.

Slay News: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her family have been forced to temporarily move into secure military housing for their safety. – The move comes after Noem was doxxed and received death threats from leftists. – It follows Noem’s order to direct the Department of Homeland Security to ramp up criminal enforcement in Democrat-run cities, most notably Washington, D.C.

Slay News: President Trump Has Now Erased Most of Biden’s ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ – Much of what the Trump administration has rolled back revolves around the various green and clean energy spending in the Inflation Reduction Act. – Biden had touted it as the “most significant legislation in history to tackle the climate crisis.”

Epoch Times: Texas Democrats End Their 2-Week Walkout, Setting Up Vote on Congressional Map Favoring Republicans – The vote is expected to take place as soon as August 18th. – The redistricting fight between Texas Democrats and Republicans started when the DOJ sent Governor Greg Abbott a letter on July 7 raising concerns that four congressional districts in the Houston and Dallas areas were unconstitutional because of “racial gerrymandering.”

American Thinker: D.C.’s Homeless Cleanup – Homelessness is not solved by simply allowing the streets to become bedrooms. – That means recognizing difficult realities: 1. The path out of homelessness is arduous and complicated by mental illness, addiction, and sometimes criminality. – 2. Personal responsibility plays a role, and it cannot and should not be erased a priori. – 3. Public officials have a fiduciary duty to ensure safety and order for all citizens…

Washington Free Beacon: The UN Peacekeeping Force in Lebanon Spends US Taxpayer Money on ‘Gender Diversity’ Training and Therapeutic Yoga Instruction, Which Has Drawn Scrutiny From Trump’s Admin – The agency’s DEI-tinged programming is one of several reasons why the US may not renew its mandate. – Trump officials are closely assessing UNIFIL’s expenditures and activities before providing it further financial support…

California Globe: California’s False Promise of a ‘Just Transition’ – California’s oil industry offers a pathway to the middle class to those with only a high school diploma, with the ability to earn an average of $123,000 a year. – California’s 55,000 oil workers aren’t asking for handouts. They’re asking for the chance to keep earning an honest living, providing for their families, and retiring with dignity. – Quite lying about what is yet to come…

Western Journal: Bill Maher Names Names, And Reveals The Highest-Profile Democrats Are Too Afraid to Come on His Show, Unlike Republicans. – “People ask me all the time, ‘Why haven’t you ever had Hillary or Bill Clinton on? Why didn’t you have Kamala on during the last campaign?’ ”

Maher began on his talk show. “You think we don’t ask? We ask these people every week. They say no.”…

American Thinker: The struggle of memory against forgetting – When ecological poisoning became a national obsession, we bid adieu to common sense. – The idea of widespread ecological poisoning retains its allure with a large segment of our population who fear the clear, odorless gas, carbon dioxide, which happens to be the basis of life…

American Thinker: Arlington Bans Wokeness – Thanks to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Reconciliation (a.k.a. Confederate) Monument, which was callously removed from the Arlington National Cemetery in 2024, will be returned to its pedestal by 2027. – Although stored at a secure DOD facility in Virginia, its return won’t be immediate because it needs about a $10 million refurbishment due to rough handling during its removal…

Fox News: Rubio’s State Department yanks more than 6,000 student visas due to assault, burglary, and support for terrorism. – Senior State Dept. official, “Every single student visa revoked was because the individual either broke the law or expressed support for terrorism while in the US.” – “About 4,000 visas alone have been revoked because these visitors broke the law while visiting our country, including records of assault and DUIs.”

Zero Hedge: The Treasury Department on Friday unveiled guidance that tightens the criteria for wind and solar energy projects to receive federal tax credits. – The new rules narrow down the definition of projects considered to have begun construction, replacing the previous rule that allowed developers to qualify after incurring 5 percent of the project costs…

Breitbart: ‘Make Our Streets Safe Again!’ — Thousands Protest Migrant Hotels Across England as The Movement Grows – Protests against migrant hotels continue across England as native Britons rage over the government putting local women and children at risk by placing unvetted young male asylum seekers in their midst. – Nigel Farage’s Reform UK was quick to note that it was Jenrick’s party that first began to use hotels en masse to house illegal migrants…

Slay News: A chilling new analysis has revealed that sudden deaths among younger airline pilots continue to surge years after Covid “vaccine” mandates were imposed across the aviation industry. – The findings are raising alarm about a growing pilot health crisis with direct implications for passenger safety. – Dr. Kevin Stillwagon, a retired airline captain with 33 years of experience and an immunology educator, is warning that the data cannot be ignored…

Daily Wire: MSNBC Is Mocked As NBC Universal Spinoff Is Saddled With A New Name, MS NOW, And A Logo With No Peacock – Longtime MSNBC host Rachel Maddow also touted the move, telling Variety, “If there was ever a time for us to change our name, this is it — because we’re not just separating from NBC News in corporate terms, we’re competing with them now…

America First Report: A Biden-appointed judge has shut down the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into Media Matters, claiming the Trump administration is illegally retaliating against the left-wing smear org. – US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan issued an injunction on Friday, stating the case “presents a straightforward First Amendment violation.”

Daily Fetched: Is Kamala Harris Drunk? – Her Slurred, Bizarre Rant on Texas Redistricting Goes Viral – Whilst meeting with young Latino leaders to discuss the redistricting efforts by Republican legislators in Texas, it appeared people were more interested in how apparently intoxicated Harris seemed. – The video of the meeting was posted to Kamala Harris’ social media this weekend…

August 17, 2025

NBC News: Full Meet The Press Interview: – Secretary of State Marco Rubio tells Meet the Press that “life in America will not be fundamentally altered” if the war in Ukraine continues…

Breitbart: Ukrainian President Zelensky said on Sunday that it would be “impossible” for Kyiv to cede territory to Russia and reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire. – This contrasts with President Trump’s position after his bilateral talks with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, after which Trump said that the best way to end the conflict would be to enter into direct peace talks rather than seeking a preliminary ceasefire…

American Spectator: The UN Wants a New State Bent on the West’s Destruction – The impending recognition of Palestine by the leaders of Canada, France, and Britain is a dangerous farce. – What makes “Occupied Palestinian Territory” utter nonsense is seemingly too obvious for people to notice. There never was Palestinian territory for Israel, nor anyone to occupy…

American Thinker: Is change coming to China? – Rod D. Martin has put together a lot of pieces of information and thinks that Xi is on his way out, while a new, less aggressive government is moving in. – Although China kept producing goods in the first half of 2025, the number of people buying those goods decreased. In addition, companies are laying off employees…

American Spectator: Will Newsom Rig His Redistricting Referendum? – California voters don’t support Newsom’s gerrymandering scheme. – A poll of registered California voters released late last week found that his constituents want the California Citizens Redistricting Commission left unmolested. – By nearly a two-to-one margin, voters prefer keeping an independent line-drawing panel to determine the state’s House seats. – Only 36% of respondents back returning congressional redistricting authority to state lawmakers.”

Gatestone Institute: Here We Go Again With The West’s Palestinian State Fantasy – Only leaders completely sold out to extremist ideologies would persist in pushing a proposal so far detached from reality and so harmful to many people that it is almost beyond comprehension. – In case you didn’t notice, the talks with Hamas fell apart on the day Macron made the unilateral decision that he’s going to recognize a Palestinian state…

American Thinker: East to Alaska – Reality wins in the end, and Trump’s view, unlike Zelensky’s or Britain’s or Germany’s or France’s, magnifies it. – Ukrainians’ support for continuing to fight until victory has hit a new low, with 69% favoring a negotiated end to the war ASAP. – Also, there is ample evidence that Ukraine under Zelensky is completely corrupt, a money-laundering machine through which billions of dollars were washed and ended up in the pockets of the Left and cronies…

American Thinker: Why Trump Is The Man Who Can End The Ukraine War – I’m not promising that he will end the war. I’m just saying that his particular personality and skill sets give him deal-making weapons unlike anyone else today. – He has a youthfully flexible mind and will try new approaches to fit into his fundamental moral and intellectual ethos, so he frequently surprises his detractors. – Here’s what we do know about President Trump…

Breitbart: Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly made ownership of the contested Donbas region of eastern Ukraine the price for a peace agreement to end the war. – According to multiple media reports, during his Alaska meeting with President Donald Trump, Putin is said to have relayed that Moscow would be willing to end the war if Kyiv relinquishes the Eastern territory comprised of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts…

Breitbart: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said European and NATO leaders will join Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for his crucial meeting with President Donald Trump to show support for Zelenskyy. – The move is an apparent effort to prevent a repeat of the heated encounter Zelenskyy faced when he met Trump in the Oval Office last February…

Resist The Mainstream: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Temporarily Relocated Following Surge in Threats – “Following the media’s publishing of the location of Secretary Noem’s Washington D.C. apartment, she has faced vicious doxxing on the dark web and a surge in death threats, including from the terrorist organizations, cartels, and criminal gangs that DHS targets.”

Townhall: Political Commentator Victor Davis Hanson Highlights Trump’s Greatest Political Achievement – The historian said point-blank that this president will be forever known for shattering the Democrat Party. – “He exposed it for what it was, a bi-coastal elite party with a bunch of billionaires who spend lavishly and a bunch of subsidized poor and a professional class that feels frustrated.” – The latter slice is the Zohran Mamdani sect…

America First Report: Manhattan’s Streets Echoed With Calls for A ‘Global Intifada’ – Thousands gathered, waving signs demanding an end to all U.S. aid to Israel while chanting phrases like “free Palestine” and “Palestine will live forever.” – The most alarming element was the repeated call to “globalize the intifada,” a slogan that has drawn sharp bipartisan condemnation for its associations with violence against Jews and Israelis.

Resist The Mainstream: California regulators have rejected the U.S. Space Force’s plan to increase SpaceX launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base, citing insufficient data on environmental and community impacts. – On Thursday, the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously against raising the number of annual launches from 50 to 100, saying officials had failed to answer critical questions.

August 16, 2025

Daily Wire: First Lady Melania Trump sent what is being called a “peace letter” to Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of his meeting in Alaska with President Trump, where they discussed the steps needed to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. – Trump hand-delivered the missive, and the Russian leader read it prior to the much-touted summit on Friday…

Zero Hedge: What’s Standing In The Way Of A Grand Compromise On Ukraine? – Russia’s official goals in the conflict are to: Demilitarize Ukraine; denazify it; Restore the country’s constitutional neutrality; and obtain recognition of the on-the-ground reality. – Putin might limit the scope of the special operation as a “goodwill gesture”; however, peace is possible if Zelensky finally agrees to compromise.

Breitbart: The White House Shared A Video Showing Nighttime Operations to Make D.C. Safe Again – These actions follow Trump’s Monday announcement officially invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, and activating the National Guard to get a grip on crime…

American Wire: An Illegal alien TikTok influencer known for doxxing ICE agents was arrested. – Tatiana Martinez, an influencer with the Colombian flag in her Instagram bio known for encouraging disruption of immigration enforcement, was seen being hauled out of a Tesla and taken into custody. – Alarmingly, LA parking enforcement follows ICE agents, and the moment they step out of their cars, the tow truck swoops in…

Washington Examiner: It’s only getting worse, The Top 5 media fails of Trump 2.0 – Crime in Washington, D.C., ain’t so bad – Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility is alive and well! – Trump’s tariffs will destroy the economy – The ‘Epstein Files’ will Destroy MAGA/Trump – The tale of the ‘Maryland man,’ El Salvadorian Kilmar Abrego Garcia…

Just the News: The White House is touting a new economic analysis that estimates taxpayers will see an average tax cut of $3,752 in 2026, due to provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. – According to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation report, taxpayers in every state will see reduced federal taxes next year, though there is “considerable geographic variation” in tax benefits.

Real Clear Science: Finally, an Unbiased and Objective Climate Science Report – The recent report released by Energy Secretary Chris Wright on the climate impacts of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. has caused quite a stir in the climate science arena. – “Outrage,” “pushback,” and “criticized” are the words used in many of the headlines about it. A beneficial aspect of the DOE report is that it informs the public about the facts regarding climate science…

Epoch Times: Key Takeaways From Trump/Putin Summit – President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Aug. 15 met for nearly three hours at a military base in Alaska as part of a U.S.-led effort to bring Russia and Ukraine into peace talks. – Both leaders described the meeting as productive, but they did not reach a concrete deal. – Trump is due to talk with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO in the hopes of convening a further meeting to end the war…

American Thinker: Trump’s Alaska Summit Was a Masterstroke of Leadership, And The Left Can’t Handle It – The left cannot understand that Trump negotiates from strength, not weakness, which makes all the difference. – They say Trump “left no deal struck,” “made no progress,” or worse, that he “failed.” – But Trump showed what real leadership looks like and took important steps toward peace in a world desperate for it, putting the ball firmly in Russia’s court…

Newsmax: The United States is ready to be part of security guarantees for Ukraine, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Saturday. – Merz was speaking to German public broadcaster ZDF after being briefed together with other European leaders by Trump after his talks with Putin.

LifeZette: Putin Says Joe Biden Let the Ukraine War Happen, and ‘Won’ the Election via Mail-In Voting – The joint press conference that followed highlighted areas of potential cooperation between the two countries and signaled a possible shift in relations. – President Trump emphasized that the meeting was a “starting point” for future engagement…

Breitbart: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will meet President Trump in Washington on Monday. – In a reversal, only a few hours after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump said an overall peace agreement, and not a ceasefire, was the best way to end the war. That statement echoed Putin´s view that Russia is not interested in a temporary truce, but instead seeks a long-term settlement…

Newsmax: On Friday, President Donald Trump stated that Chinese President Xi Jinping assured him China would not invade Taiwan during his tenure. – Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News, ahead of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Gatestone Institute: Iran Wants Negotiations for One Reason, So It Can Survive In Order To Strike Later – The Iranian regime has another game in mind, and that game ends with Iran as a stronger, more dangerous enemy. – The worst mistake the West could make right now is to relieve the pressure at the very moment it has started to work. – Just as in 2015, a deal will not defang this regime; it will recharge it…

American Thinker: Declassified FBI files expose 19 hidden Clinton Foundation bank accounts – And the big question is, where did all the money go? – The Foundation relied on Excel for record keeping. – Using spreadsheets instead of accounting software raises significant concerns. – Unlike software that secures transactions in a reliable ledger and generates clear audit trails, spreadsheets can be quickly and easily manipulated…

American Thinker: There Probably Won’t Be a Biden Presidential Library – Don’t be disappointed if you’re anxious to attend the Biden Presidential Library’s opening. – It almost certainly will never exist. – Because D.C. swampsters are trying to bury the record, hoping the public forgets how bad things were. – Biden staffers retaining criminal defense counsel have no interest in a library containing evidence for prosecutors to mine…

American Thinker: The Trump Doctrine on Digital Money, With South Korea The First to Sign On – Trump’s doctrine rests on three pillars. Monetary innovation should emerge from competitive private markets. – Legal clarity and regulatory standards—not state ownership—are the levers to ensure stability, convertibility, and trust. – The architecture of the dollar’s future should reinforce its openness and global reach, not limit it to a government-controlled platform…

Epoch Times: The Trump Admin Retracts The Appointment of an ‘Emergency Police Commissioner’ in DC After A Court Order – The district sued after the attorney general ordered the police to submit control to an emergency commissioner. – The MPD is still obligated to fulfill policing requests made by the Trump administration while the city remains under a public security emergency declared by President Trump on Aug. 11…

American Thinker: Is DC’s Police Chief a DEI hire? – When a reporter asked about the current chain of command, police chief Pamela Smith responded, “What does that mean?” – Prior to taking command of the DC Police, Smith was the department’s Chief Equity Officer. When she became Chief, despite serious manpower shortages, she fully funded and maintained the Department’s LGBT Liaison Unit. Even though Smith is apparently not “out,” her support for LGBT causes surely checked an additional DEI box.

American Thinker: Trump’s ‘Good Enough’ Strategy – The White House’s policy maelstrom may have made things less predictable for American businesses, but there’s one big lesson the executive suite and middle management should learn from the president’s strategy, and that is “don’t sweat the small stuff.” – When something truly controversial arises, their instinct is to hide it under a fog of corporate jargon…

Geller Report: Three Guesses As To Who’s Behind The Zohran Mamdani Campaign – Fox News reported Friday that “A former top executive for liberal billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2017 and 2020 is back in the spotlight amid reports highlighting his involvement with Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral campaign and connecting Obama world to the campaign.”…

New York Post: Hasta la vista, baby! – Arnold Schwarzenegger taunts Governor Newsom with a message targeting the Democrats’ redistricting push. – The National Republican Congressional Committee said, “Newsom’s made it clear: he’ll shred California’s Constitution and trample over democracy — running a cynical, self-serving playbook where Californians are an afterthought, and power is the only priority.”

Cal Matters: Find out if your vote could be affected by Newsom’s redistricting plans – Gavin Newsom will ask California voters this November to approve new congressional lines that favor Democrats, part of a national redistricting battle launched by President Donald Trump. – Enter your address and see how this would affect you…

Center Square: Louisiana is rapidly becoming a hub for processing critical minerals, rare earths, and electrolyte salts used in the production of lithium-ion batteries, with one plant already operational and seven more currently under construction throughout the state. – The Trump administration and U.S. producers are racing to wean the country from dependence on imports from China.

Slay News: Canada’s Euthanasia Industry Surges as The Nation’s ‘Assisted Suicide’ Figures Double – Kelsi Sheren, a fierce critic of the MAiD policies, calls out the organization’s deceptive marketing tactics, labeling it a “modern-day eugenics facility” that preys on vulnerable individuals in their weakest moments. – In a powerful video posted to social media, Sheren detailed how MAiDHouse is expanding its operations…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Democrats Are All-In For Crime Edition – Texas Democrats, emulating their brethren in Wisconsin and Minnesota, fled to greener pastures in hyper-gerrymandered Illinois. – The battle over illegal immigration continued and…

August 15, 2025

Epoch Times: The Trump administration scored a major legal victory on Friday as a federal appeals court lifted an order that had prevented the government from reducing staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, clearing the way for sweeping changes at the financial watchdog. – In a 2–1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Aug. 15 vacated the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson.

One America News: RFK Jr. not running for president in 2028 – “My loyalty is to President Trump and the mission we’ve started. Their attacks on my staff, especially Stefanie Spear — a fierce and loyal warrior for MAHA who proudly serves in the Trump Administration and works every day to advance President Trump’s vision for a healthier, stronger America — are proof that we’re over the target…

Breitbart: Russian President Vladimir Putin invited President Donald Trump to Moscow for a discussion on the future of the relationship between the two nations and the war in Ukraine. – Putin’s invitation came during a Friday press conference, following the much-anticipated bilateral summit in Alaska between the two leaders.

Resist The Mainstream: The FBI’s latest report on crime in U.S. public schools paints a shocking picture of danger where children should feel safe. – Between 2020 and 2024, law enforcement agencies reported nearly 1.3 million criminal incidents occurring on school property. That staggering total includes approximately 540,000 assaults and 45,000 sex offenses, crimes directly targeting students…

Zero Hedge: DOGE’s AI Tool ‘SweetREX’ Is Set To Take A Buzzsaw To Overhaul Federal Regulations – SweetREX DAIP is designed to “promote prudent financial management and alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens. – SweetREX was developed by associates of DOGE operating out of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. – The plan is to roll it out to other US agencies…

Gateway Pundit: Here is California Democrats’ New Congressional Map That Eliminates 5 GOP House Seats – The 2024 election saw California secure 43 Democratic House seats and 9 Republican seats, despite concerns over ballot harvesting, drop boxes, mail-in ballots without a chain of custody, and questionable ballot curing. – Now the Democrats are trying to eliminate 5 more GOP House seats with a special election…

One America News: On Thursday, the DOJ filed a lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board over their “Clean Truck Partnership,” which has pushed truck manufacturers to phase out internal-combustion engines as a part of their effort to have “zero emission” engines by 2036. – According to reports, two separate challenges were filed: one regarding heavy-duty truck restrictions and another concerning light-duty vehicle guidelines.

Western Journal: Jasmine Crockett Was Heckled for ‘Fake Ghetto Hoodrat’ Persona at A Texas Event — She Was Raised in a Conservative Missouri Suburb – “Jasmine! The people of Dallas deserve better than a fake ghetto hoodrat!” Sara Gonzales of The Blaze shouted. “Do they know you’re a rich kid from Missouri? Do they know you’re a spoiled rich kid from Missouri?”

American Greatness: The Trump-Putin Alaska Summit Is About More Than the Ukraine War – Trump aims to press Putin for a Ukraine cease-fire, vowing “severe consequences” if Russia resists ending the war. – If Putin plans to use the summit to manipulate Trump, I believe Trump will abruptly end the meeting and implement the energy sanctions.- Trump will also discuss other global issues with Putin on which the U.S. and Russia might cooperate…

American Thinker: Trump’s Alaska Summit, Paving the Way for Ukrainian Peace and Democratic Revival – As tensions in Eastern Europe continue to simmer, all eyes are on the high-stakes summit scheduled today between President Trump and President Putin. – The possible ceasefire deal that could involve territorial concessions, though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has firmly stated his country will not cede land…

Slay News: A Democrat-aligned federal judge has just thrown a wrench into President Trump’s mass deportation plan, blocking his administration from using Medicaid enrollee data to help immigration authorities locate and remove illegal aliens. – The stunning ruling, handed down Tuesday by Barack Obama-appointed District Judge Vince Chhabria, issues a preliminary injunction against the Department of Health and Human Services…

Slay News: AG Pam Bondi Strips D.C Police Chief of Powers, Rescinds ‘Sanctuary City’ Protections – Bondi issued a two-page directive titled “Restoring Safety and Security to the District of Columbia,” nullifying Metro Police policies that limited cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. – The order explicitly rescinds three separate MPD directives from the past two years that had shielded illegal immigrants from arrest…

Slay News: The Democrat mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser, has bad news for the liberals upset about President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown. – Bowser said she won’t oppose the operation because her “hands are tied.” – The effort has seen 800 National Guard troops deployed to the streets of the capital. – More than 100 people have been arrested since Trump started his crime-fighting operation.

Western Journal: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent voiced concern over the “eye-popping” stock gains some members of Congress are making, expressing support for some form of ban on individual trades. – The American people are right to be concerned. – “I am going to start pushing for a single stock trading ban, because it is the credibility of the House and the Senate that you look at some of these eye-popping returns.”…

Zero Hedge: The British People Have Had Enough – Titled “Call an immediate general election,” the petition argues that the public seeks urgent change from the current Labour government, which won power just over a year ago in July 2024. – Under UK rules, any petition surpassing 100,000 signatures triggers consideration for a parliamentary debate, a threshold this one has far exceeded, and it prompted a government response, with a debate now pending…

Townhall: The D.C. Mayor and AG Signal They Will Not Comply With Bondi’s Latest Order Appointing Terry Cole, Head Of The Drug Enforcement Agency, As D.C.’s “Emergency Police Commissioner” – UPDATE, The D.C. AG Sues, saying “This is an affront to the dignity and autonomy of the 700,000 Americans who call DC home, so our office will go to court to defend Home Rule, block the unlawful orders, and maintain MPD under District control.”

The Federalist: Bombshell DNI Emails Expose The Fraud That Sabotaged The 2018 Trump-Putin Summit – The new release by Gabbard is a vindication for Trump, who stood alone in 2018, and strengthens his position ahead of the upcoming summit. – In late 2016, then-DNI James Clapper pushed the fraudulent narrative that Russia had hacked the DNC, overriding pointed objections from then-National Security Agency chief Admiral Mike Rogers…

Gatestone Institute: Hamas Has Left Netanyahu with No Option but to Occupy Gaza – Its leadership demonstrated unequivocally that it has no interest in agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza. – A main sticking point in the Qatar talks was Hamas’s insistence that it remains in control of Gaza, despite a number of Arab states’ declaration for the terrorist organization to disband and hand over its weapons to the Palestinian Authority.

American Thinker: Pahlavi’s Iran ‘transition plan’ is an invitation for authoritarianism –Rather than dismantling the regime’s repressive infrastructure, the plan seeks to preserve and rebrand it. – The Ministry of Intelligence would remain intact. – IRGC personnel would be repurposed into “vetted” units, and anti-riot forces, the very tools of today’s brutal crackdowns, would be retained for “crowd control.”…

American Thinker: James Clapper’s Six-Line Marching Orders That Shaped Russiagate – The latest declassification from Tulsi Gabbard reveals that lockstep unity was mandatory in the Obama Intelligence Directorate. – “That’s OUR story, and we’re stickin’ to it” may sound like a line out of a TV crime drama, but it came from James Clapper, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence…

American Thinker: What Makes Racial Discrimination Wrong? – If we truly want to get race out of American life, we must stop using race as a basis for making decisions, whether it be in admissions, hiring, contracting, or districting. – We are facing a situation where the Left deems the way to end racial discrimination is not to ignore race, but to focus on it relentlessly…

American Thinker: Murder in D.C.: There’s a New Sheriff in Town – D.C. has been federalized, and with a murder every two-and-a-half days, it’s about darn time. – As President Trump stated, “The murder rate in Washington today is higher than in Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on Earth, much higher.”…

American Thinker: Voter Rolls and Election Fraud – Almost all people who have been convicted of any kind of voter fraud have also committed some form of registration fraud as well. – President Trump’s recent executive order points out that two federal laws, the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act, require accurate and current voter rolls, a “fundamental requirement” to prevent fraudulent voting.

Geller Report: Newsom’s latest corrupt scheme will DESTROY California’s independent redistricting process and give politicians the power to rig election maps for decades. – The California US House Democrat gerrymandered map has been LEAKED. – It is +5 Democrat seats, -5 Republican remap. – Gavin Newsom is calling for a special election this year to make it happen and counteract Texas.

Based Underground: You Won’t Believe How Much Gavin Newsom’s Gerrymandering Gambit Will Cost Taxpayers – Newsom’s push to hold a special election for his state’s gerrymandering campaign in November is expected to cost taxpayers over $200 million, according to a memo from California’s Assembly Republicans…

Zero Hedge: Wind company Orsted A/S was once the poster child of the green energy movement, after debuting on European stock exchanges nine years ago. – Now, with the green energy industry in shambles as common-sense energy policies return under the Trump administration, Orsted has suffered its worst weekly decline ever, trading far below its IPO price.

August 14, 2025

American Thinker: Rubio dials it to 11 on Colombia’s leftist president after slaying of conservative presidential candidate – Leftists have long held no qualms about assassination against their rivals, and in Colombia, where narcoterrorism is also a problem and left-narco alliances are common, it has started up again. – But at least we have a secretary of state who is wise to what’s going on…

Gateway Pundit: A Judge Permanently Blocks Trump’s Actions Aimed at Eliminating DEI at Universities – In her ruling, Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher in Maryland stated that the Education Department violated the law when it threatened to cut federal funding from educational institutions that continued with DEI initiatives…

Daily Wire: The World Got The Message, ’Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Says 1.6 Million Illegals Have Self-Deported In The Last 200 Days. – Noem went on to say that even before he was elected, Trump had telegraphed his plan to make sure that there would be consequences if people continued to cross the border illegally.

Western Journal: AG Pam Bondi to Strip California of Federal Funds if Newsom Keeps Sanctuary Policies – Bondi made the warning clear. – She said Congress has codified that states and local governments have to work with federal immigration enforcement efforts. – “For too long, so-called sanctuary jurisdiction policies have undermined this necessary cooperation and obstructed federal immigration enforcement.”…

Epoch Times: President Trump signed a brief executive order on Aug. 13 revoking an order from Joe Biden that directed agencies to crack down on anti-competitive practices in industries such as pharmaceuticals and labor. – The DOJ’s Antitrust Division celebrated Trump’s order in a statement. – “The Division commends the Administration for promoting competition via tailored executive orders that call for lowering drug prices and opening regulatory barriers to competition.”…

California Globe: How is Gavin Newsom’s $50M Legal Slush Fund to ‘Trump-Proof’ the State Faring? – California Attorney General Bonta has “filed 37 lawsuits, leading or co-leading 23 of them, and separately filed more than 40 amicus briefs in support of other litigation against the Trump Administration. – ”Californians still need protection, but from Gavin Newsom, not Donald Trump…

New York Post: Russian President Vladimir Putin lauded the Trump administration’s “energetic” and “sincere” efforts to end the war in Ukraine and suggested the US and Russia could reach a deal on nuclear arms control at their summit in Alaska on Friday. – Putin appeared optimistic that forthcoming meetings could “create long-term conditions for peace between our countries, as well as in Europe, and the world as a whole.”…

Gatestone Institute: Another Al-Jazeera Reporter Has Been Found To Be a Hamas Terrorist – Al-Jazeera Should Be Designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization – A press badge or vest is not — and should not be — a shield for terrorism. – Even the BBC, widely known for its bias against Israel, has acknowledged that al-Sharif worked for Hamas…

Breitbart: There were hugs, handshakes, and backslapping on Thursday when Ukrainian President Zelensky arrived for a meeting with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. – The very public show of mutual admiration came just 24 hours ahead of a critical meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at an Alaska air base. – Starmer took time to capture the Downing Street meet-up on social media…

Slay News: A federal appeals court has given President Trump’s administration the green light to implement the controversial Alien Registration Requirement to continue, a key component of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement strategy. – The ruling against halting the ARR was delivered on Tuesday by a per curiam decision from a three-judge panel…

Slay News: The DOJ sent a memo to all employees on Tuesday, requiring that “preferred pronouns” be removed from email signatures. – This is to comply with the president’s executive order “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”

Daily Wire: U.S. air and naval forces are set to deploy to the Southern Caribbean Sea following President Trump’s directive for the Pentagon to use the military for operations against Latin American drug cartels. – It remains unknown which specific cartels the president is targeting in his directive, but Venezuela, whose northern coastline sits on the South Caribbean Sea, has been a recent subject of the Trump administration’s scrutiny…

The Federalist: DHS Debunks The Media Lies About ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ – DHS’s Tricia McLaughlin, “These types of smears are directly contributing to our officers facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them.” – “Nearly every single day, my office responds to media questions on FALSE allegations about Alligator Alcatraz. The media is clearly desperate for these allegations of inhumane conditions at this facility to be true.”…

Geller Report: – President Trump’s Executive Order To “Make Space Great Again” – His executive order is aimed at streamlining regulations in order to facilitate competition and advancement of our nation’s space program. – To accomplish this, the Federal Government will streamline commercial license and permit approvals for United States-based operators.”…

Washington Examiner: As Social Security turns 90, Congress faces deadline to prevent benefit cuts – Estimates show Social Security’s insolvency could cause benefit reductions as soon as 2032. At that point, the program, which primarily aids retired workers, will be forced to slash payouts by up to 25%, or nearly $14,000 annually for middle-income individuals…

American Wire: First Lady Melania Trump warned Hunter Biden that he will pay dearly if he doesn’t retract and apologize for comments linking her to fiendish sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. – During Hunter’s infamous interview, which featured a number of f-bomb-laden rants, Hunter claimed that “Epstein introduced Melania to Donald Trump...

Newsmax: Hunter Biden Refuses to Apologize to Melania Trump – During an appearance on “Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan,” the host stated that he had a legal letter demanding a retraction. – Biden was then asked whether he would apologize to the first lady. – “F**k that. That’s not going to happen,” Hunter Biden said before chuckling.

American Thinker: President Reagan Was Right, It’s Scary When The Government Helps – Almost without exception, government “help” is expensive, inefficient, divisive, often and sometimes deliberately, worsens the problem it’s supposed to fix. – Look no further than our fake institutionalized kindness, which has morphed into a right not to fail, as if that were even possible…

Daily Wire: The Cincinnati Beating Suspect Faces Years In Prison After New Charge From DOJ. – A man charged over a July 26 mob attack in Cincinnati now faces up to 15 years in prison after being hit by the feds with a gun charge. – The Justice Department announced Wednesday that 34-year-old Montanez Merriweather had been indicted for illegally possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon…

American Thinker: The Democrats and Their ‘Affordability Crisis’ Scam – The good news for consumers and the bad news for Democrats is that in just shy of seven months, President Trump is reducing costs. – Groceries and gas at the pump are cheaper, a big deal when you live paycheck-to-paycheck. – And the One, Big Beautiful Act will drive even better economic news in the months ahead…

American Thinker: Beto O’Rourke dropped the Democrat mask and revealed ‘who they are.’ – In short, Beto told the 200+ people packing the Ridglea Theater that Democrats will do whatever it takes to regain power. – But we have always known Democrats will do anything, anything at all, to further their power. – Democrats have now sworn off working for American citizens in favor of, well, anybody and everybody else…

American Thinker: What’s Really Behind Opposition to Trump’s Crime Move in DC? – Democrats scream about lofty values being violated, but the truth is much more typical. – Congressional Democrats have been trying to hike Washington’s political clout for decades. – Because it stands in a unique relationship with congressional and executive power, it is also appropriate that the national capital be a showcase of law and order…

Washington Free Beacon: A DC Police Sergeant Exposed Her Superiors for Misclassifying Crimes To Make Stats Look Low, and the City Just Quietly Settled Her Lawsuit. – Records revealed in the suit from police sergeant Charlotte Djossou showed that department leadership directed subordinates to file theft and violent crimes as lower-level offenses…

Breitbart: On Wednesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” NPR National Correspondent Frank Langfitt stated that in the Congress Heights area of D.C. some of the people he spoke to told him “crime is worse than the statistics show.” – That is because some “have given up reporting crimes to the police because they feel a lot of them go unpunished.”…

American Wire: Representative Randy Fine unveils the ‘Thump Thump’ bill to empower drivers against leftist road blockers – His bill will make leftist protesters think twice before blocking roads in demonstrations. – Fine is hoping to nationalize a law that will allow drivers to essentially drive through barricades and protesters who employ the “terrorist practice of blocking roads as a form of political speech.”…

American Thinker: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics at The Bureau of Labor Statistics – The BLS has been producing objectively bad reports for decades. They have routinely exaggerated the good news during Democrat administrations and exaggerated the bad news during Republican administrations. – President Trump has appointed E.J. Antoni, an economist from the Heritage Foundation, to straighten things out…

Zero Hedge: Goldman Sees Millions Of Prime Members Flocking To Amazon’s Same-Day Grocery Delivery – Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says his new plan is to expand the company’s same-day grocery delivery service from 1,000 to over 2,300 cities by year-end. – With 129 million Prime members, the expansion could be an instant hit, putting fresh pressure on Instacart, DoorDash, and traditional grocers competing in the last-mile delivery race.

August 13, 2025

Zero Hedge: The Ukrainian Military Is Starting To Crack – First and foremost, the front has ruptured around Pokrovsk, creating one of the most severe operational crises of the war for the AFU. – The second dimension is more structural and is the cause of the first: Ukraine’s mounting manpower crisis and its severe shortages of infantry have reached the point where they can no longer properly defend a continuous frontline.

Just The News: A Bombshell FBI timeline exposes political interference in the Clinton corruption probe – A newly-declassified timeline shows how the FBI and the DOJ hamstrung the investigation of the Clinton Foundation while baseless Russia collusion marched forward in both agencies against Donald Trump…

Resist The Mainstream: A newly obtained document reportedly reveals that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who served under former President Barack Obama, instructed FBI agents to halt an ongoing criminal investigation into the Clinton Foundation during the 2016 election cycle. – Investigative journalist John Solomon first reported the email, claiming FBI Director Kash Patel acquired it…

One America News: President Trump will continue building the Border wall using reclaimed materials sold by the Biden administration, as Bondi initiates legal action. – The lawsuit reportedly centers on allegations of improper handling and commercial distribution of government-purchased resources. – These materials were intended for border wall construction but were not used since construction was halted under Biden’s executive orders…

Breitbart: At least seven nations across the Middle East, Asia, and Africa have called for President Trump to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. – The endorsements come from Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Government of Pakistan, and Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe…

One America News: Newly unearthed records show that the Biden administration scrapped a planned 2023 visit to a Philadelphia shipyard after officials became aware it would require President Biden to navigate a substantial number of steps to board a vessel. – Apparently, administration officials were acutely aware of Joe’s physical limitations…

One America News: President Trump gives an ultimatum to the D.C. homeless population: Accept treatment or face jail – White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, “Homeless individuals will be given the option to leave their encampment, to be taken to a homeless shelter, to be offered addiction or mental health services, and if they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or to jail time.”

Gateway Pundit: An Illinois judge denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request to enforce arrest warrants against derelict state House Democrats, ruling Paxton failed to “present a legal basis for the court to obtain subject matter jurisdiction over this cause of action…”. – The Democrats fled to Illinois last week to block the Republicans from voting on a new congressional redistricting map.

American Thinker: Chuck Schumer spent decades tailoring his legislation to a faux family he completely made up – And John Oliver, the singularly unfunny political commentator, did this laugh-out-loud video about Schumer’s fantasy. – The problem with the Baileys is that they’re figments of Schumer’s imagination. – That’s strange enough, but Oliver’s writers actually made it funnier, offering genuine comedic material…

Newsmax: Israel Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, “Israel will not allow its land to be used for the creation of a Palestinian state. – Sa’ar urged countries promoting a two-state solution to create a Palestinian homeland “within their territory.” – Sa’ar argued that creating a Palestinian state within Israel would endanger Israel’s major population centers and leave the country with “indefensible” boundaries…

Breitbart: U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says that Hamas, not Israel, is to blame for whatever food deprivation is being suffered by the Palestinian people in Gaza, because it hoards food aid. – Huckabee also faulted the United Nations for worsening the problem, and effectively helping Hamas…

Daily Wire: Hamas Terrorists Posing As Israel took Out Aid Workers – The IDF announces that in a targeted airstrike last week, five armed terrorists were eliminated while near a vehicle marked with the emblem of the international humanitarian aid organization “World Central Kitchen,” despite having no affiliation with the organization, and while posing a threat to our troops…

Slay News: Mexico is extraditing 26 top cartel leaders to the United States as part of a deal with President Trump’s administration. – The men were scheduled to arrive on U.S. soil on Tuesday to face prosecution. – AG Pam Bondi said, “Today is the latest example of the Trump administration’s historic efforts to dismantle cartels and foreign terrorist organizations…

Townhall: The DC Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Trump administration another major victory on Wednesday after it lifted a district court’s preliminary injunction prohibiting the government from cutting foreign aid for fiscal year 2024. – Several entities, including the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, Journalism Development Network, Inc., and others, filed a lawsuit challenging the White House’s cutting of foreign aid….

Geller Report: Wages are rising, and inflation is low. – All the panic mongers ululating was further Trump derangement or tariff derangement syndrome. – In January, when this President showed up at the White House, the 6-month annualized core inflation rate was 3.7%. – Today, it’s 2.4%, so we are trending in the right direction… Small business optimism has reached a 5-month high…

Daily Wire: Former acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, “John Bolton Really, Really Hates President Trump.” – Mulvaney discussed Bolton’s recent comments during an interview with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, and he held nothing back when it came to Bolton’s opinion of President Donald Trump. – “I don’t know if it makes him a traitor, a miscreant, or just an idiot.”

The Daily Wire: The Trump Administration announced opposition to a UN proposal to institute a carbon emissions tax on the shipping industry, including a threat to countries that support the proposal. – The proposed amendment aims to set a new standard for carbon emissions from ships and initiate a “global pricing mechanism” for all emissions. – It will officially be voted on in October and, if passed, will go into effect in 2027.

American Thinker: Trump breaks Democrats again on crime – Whether we question or don’t question the statistics, the reality is that the nation’s capital is unsafe. – A state of unease? Darn right. Just walk around and tell me if you feel safe. There is more to crime than statistics, especially when many crimes go unreported or are perhaps manipulated, as Professor Turley pointed out…

Washington Free Beacon: DC Police Leaders Stand Accused of Manipulating Data To Make Violent Crime Appear Lower. – Mainstream media outlets have used the city’s stats to report that crime is down without noting that a DC commander is on leave for manipulating them. – During a 2020 city council hearing, two D.C. police officers blew the whistle on their superiors, accusing them of misreporting violent crimes as misdemeanors to make the nation’s capital appear safer on paper…

Slay News: National Guard Troops Arrive in D.C to Launch Trump’s Massive Crackdown on Crime. – The deployment follows Trump’s decision Monday to invoke the District of Columbia’s Home Rule Act. – The move allows the president to place the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control for up to 30 days…

Fox News: President Donald Trump said he may declare a national emergency to maintain control of Washington, D.C.’s police force if Congress doesn’t work with him to extend the current federalization plan. – Trump made the statement during a press conference at the Kennedy Center in Washington, arguing he can maintain control over the Metropolitan Police Department indefinitely if he declares a national emergency.

American Wire: During a Tuesday press conference following Mayor Muriel Bowser’s meeting with Attorney General Pam Bondi, the District’s top cop was asked a basic question by a reporter that seemed to leave her flummoxed, inadvertently making the case for the federalization of her department. – “Can you tell us what the chain of command is now?” Smith was asked by the reporter, to which the baffled police chief responded, “What does that mean?”…

Fox News: Trump’s DC crime crackdown yields more than 100 arrests since August 7th, with 43 people arrested on Tuesday. – Tuesday’s sweep of the city included 1,450 law enforcement participants, according to the White House, including roughly 30 National Guard troops and 750 uniformed D.C. police officers. – The White House reported there were roughly 30 National Guard troops on the ground Tuesday evening, which is expected to dramatically increase on Wednesday evening…

Gateway Pundit: A crowd rental company has seen a massive uptick in inquiries regarding its services in Washington, D.C., amid President Donald Trump’s move to federalize the police force in the nation’s capital. – “Right now, D.C. inquiries are up roughly 400% compared to the same period in 2024,” Crowds on Demand CEO Adam Swart told Fox News Digital, adding that the period he is referencing is May to July 2024.

The Federalist: Drunk, Belligerent Vagrants Blockade The Federalist’s Office As Leftist Journalists Insist DC Is America’s Purest City – The squalor that those living and working in the city are forced to endure is unbecoming of the nation’s capital. – The Federalist is not located in an unsavory part of the city. It is in the middle of D.C., within walking distance of every major government building, monument, and museum.

Washington Examiner: Designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization – By design, Antifa is a decentralized, far-left movement of loosely knit “resistance” networks operating primarily in Democratic strongholds. But in recent years, Antifa’s forces have become highly organized and increasingly sophisticated, with organized crime cells cropping up across the country…

Center For Immigration Studies: Big Banks and the U.S. Treasury Have Been Enabling Illegal Immigration for Two Decades – The Bush-era rule allowing illegal aliens to use Mexico’s ‘matricula’ card to open accounts must be repealed. – The goal was to achieve a de facto amnesty by making it easier for illegal aliens to remain in the US by having banking services. – This also safeguarded the continued flow of remittances back to Mexico.

Gateway Pundit: Former FBI Chief Chris Wray Knew About Adam Schiff Leaking Classified Documents to Press but Did Nothing – Chris Wray has a long record of allowing the bureau to engage in criminal acts under his direction. – Here are ten of Chris Wray’s notable lawless acts as FBI Chief. – Three Men Were Acquitted The Whitmer Kidnapping Case That Was Hatched, Planned, Paid For, and Executed by Chris Wray’s FBI…

Slay News: California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom is threatening to scrap his state’s voter-approved independent redistricting process in a bid to retaliate against a Republican-led push to redraw congressional maps in Texas. – The move comes after Texas Democrats fled the state to block a vote on new maps.

American Thinker: The Old American Ruling Class Has Lost the Revolution – The political parties destroyed themselves, leaving the field open for the Trump MAGA Revolution, which co-opted the Republicans and left the Democrats in the dust. – The Marxists’ gradual infiltration into the upper reaches of the Democrat party was tolerated as part of the Ruling Class’s orchestrated charade of caring for the welfare of all Americans…

American Thinker: An Existential Threat to and from the Intelligence Community – The Clinton-Obama Russia Collusion Hoax proves that unaccountable spy agencies endanger the Republic. – Perhaps the only aspect of this story that could rival in size such treason against the United States is the corporate news media’s continued refusal to report these events accurately without fear or favor…

Issues & Insights: Governor Newsom Protests Too Much, The $20/Hour Minimum Wage Did Destroy Jobs – A July 2025 paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research concluded that the recent increase in the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 an hour created “a loss of 18,000 jobs in California’s fast food sector relative to the counterfactual.” – Unsurprisingly, Governor Newsom was none too pleased.

American Thinker: Protecting the innocent among the bookshelves – LGBT activists have been “flooding the zone” with inappropriate books for minors that contain sexual content or promote dangerous gender ideology. – At the elementary level, the inappropriate content includes boys wearing girls’ clothes, drag queens, transitioning into a different gender, and creating new personal pronouns. – Clearly, the line between books for kids and books for adults is being erased…

Breitbart: The EPA on Wednesday announced the relaunch of the agency’s Guidance Portal, a website to allow Americans a one-stop shop for regulatory guidance documents as part of the Trump administration’s mission to increase transparency. – Guidance documents are agency statements of general applicability and are intended to help Americans “understand what’s required of them. They’re not supposed to be new requirements.”

August 12, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: A UN-Backed Famine Watchdog Quietly Changed Its Standards, Easing The Way To Declare Famine in Gaza – The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification used a different metric for Gaza than it has used for other conflict zones, changing its rules to make it possible to declare a famine in the Strip…

The Center for Immigration Studies: An analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ household survey, officially called the Current Population Survey, shows an unprecedented decline of 2.2 million in the total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) between January and July of this year. – Preliminarily estimates are that the number of illegal immigrants has fallen by 1.6 million in just the last six months…

Western Journal: If you’re a fan of the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility in the Florida Everglades, there’s good news. – Another facility could be fully operational next week. – A new holding center at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, is expected to become the largest detention facility in the country. – Camp East Montana will be able to hold up to 1,000 illegal immigrants by this fall, all of them single adult men and women…

Epoch Times: Gender Related Treatments for Kids in Wake of Trump’s Policies – More than 20 clinics have changed course in response to a political shift, and gender-related treatments for minors face increasing legal challenges. – From California to Virginia, youth gender clinics are pausing or halting medicalized treatments, and the nation’s largest one has closed, in the wake of Trump administration policies…

Gateway Pundit: The fake news media is telling us crime is down in Washington, DC. – Justice Department official Harmeet Dhillon revealed that a homeless man in DC almost robbed her as she was walking to the DOJ on Tuesday afternoon. – “A malodorous homeless person attempted to swipe my phone today while I was walking in DC back to the DOJ from an appointment — but he was not in his right mind and I artfully dodged the attempt.”…

Western Journal: ABC News Anchor Tells the Brutal Truth About D.C. Crime – Kyra Phillips, “I can tell you firsthand here in downtown D.C., where we work, right here around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know, there were two people shot, one person died, literally two blocks down here from the bureau.”

New York Post: Several lefty, dark money organizations, including George Soros’, contributed more than $20 million to groups funding protests against President Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington, DC. – Free DC, a “fiscally sponsored special project” of progressive nonprofits Community Change and Community Change Action, brought 150 demonstrators near the White House on Monday…

American Spectator: Trump Brokers 11th Peace Deal. – The value of the Armenian-Azerbaijan agreement to U.S. interests cannot be overstated. The deal will bring access to American trade deals in the South Caucus. – Expansion of the Abraham Accords could be a reality. – Also, Somaliland has offered the Trump administration an American base in Berbera in exchange for formal recognition of Somaliland as an independent country…

One America News: Senator ChuckSchumer’s favorability among New Yorkers at ‘lowest point since 2005’ – His overall approval is reportedly at 35-50%, down from what it was in June, at 41-47%. – Additionally, his favorability among members of his party is at 39-49%, which has dropped from 35-55% in June, according to the Research Institute at Siena University poll.

American Thinker: The Eurabian Push for a Hamas State – Europe has been hostile to Israel since its inception, but it’s now openly acting upon that decades-long emotional and financial allegiance with the Muslims. – Michael Snyder warns that this is the “biggest international push for the establishment of a Palestinian state.”…

New York Post: Russian troops make advances in Ukraine just days before Trump is set to meet with Putin – The troops made one of their most dramatic advancements of the year Tuesday when they pushed deeper into the Donetsk region of Ukraine — just three days before President Trump is set to meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin…

American Thinker: Zelenskyy’s War Without an Endgame – Trump, Putin, and a closing window to prevent Ukraine’s total collapse. – Zelenskyy speaks like a man convinced he is winning and acting as if Moscow were the one suing for peace. – It is pure fantasy. Ukraine is nowhere close to winning. – His demand for every inch of territory he has no hope of retaking on the battlefield is proof enough…

American Thinker: Volodymyr Zelensky Should Take The Deal and Then Stay Away From Windows – Zelensky would be wise to cut his losses and accept whatever peace proposal is advanced by President Trump in this Friday’s upcoming negotiation in Alaska. – I believe the Ukrainian leader realizes that when this conflict is over, his days of leading Ukraine are similarly finished. His tough talk only serves to allow him more time in command of Ukraine…

Zero Hedge: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has strongly rejected the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, but at a recent press conference, he employed a reference that stunned press pool reporters. –
“If we had wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon,” he had said…

Epoch Times: An Appeals Court Removes Block on DOGE Data Access – In a 2-1 decision, the Fourth Circuit panel said the plaintiffs were unlikely to succeed in multiple ways. – The decision marked a win for the administration, which has encountered a wave of lawsuits related to DOGE’s activities within the federal government…

Slay News: DHS Reveals That Over 100,000 American Patriots Have Applied to Join Trump’s ICE Hiring Blitz – Launched at the end of July, the recruitment drive aims to hire 10,000 additional ICE agents. – This dramatic expansion was made possible by funding from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. – The initiative offers signing bonuses of up to $50,000, student loan repayment or forgiveness, and other incentives…

One America News: President Donald Trump threatened to file a “major lawsuit” against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, alleging “grossly incompetent” management of the Federal Reserve’s building construction projects. – President Trump’s latest round of criticism of Powell alleged that the renovations of the Federal Reserve buildings “should have been a $50 million fix-up,” and instead have ballooned to a $3 billion renovation…

Issues & Insights: How China’s Engineers Gained Backdoor Access To Pentagon Secrets Courtesy Of Microsoft – The core of the scandal revolves around Microsoft’s “digital escorts” program, a workaround designed to comply with DOD mandates barring foreign nationals from handling classified data. – This isn’t theoretical. In July 2023, China-backed actors exploited Microsoft vulnerabilities in a massive breach…

Zero Hedge: Europe’s Defense Bubble Runs Out of Bullets – RHMG is following the classical “bubble” path. – We see a universal 3.5% core defence spending target as rather unlikely to be achieved by all European NATO countries absent a material further escalation in security risks facing Europe”. Note that Italy and Spain didn’t reach 3.5% defense spending even during the Cold War…

Western Journal: Nancy Pelosi is still trying to peddle her lies about the January 6th Capitol incursion, but she just got slammed by one of the event’s main players. – Former Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund put Pelosi’s hypocrisy on full display. – “Ma’am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people,” he began. – On January 3, I requested National Guard assistance that Trump offered, but your Sergeant at Arms denied it. – Also…

Gatestone Institute: Trump Was Right the First Time, Intel’s CEO Should Be Fired – The sales were illegal under U.S. law, as the university was added to the Commerce Department’s Entity List in 2015. – Here is a suggestion: Instruct the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into Tan. It is time to establish accountability in corporate America when it comes to the People’s Republic of China.

Newsmax: A Recent Rasmussen Poll Shows JD Vance Leads The ’28 GOP Presidential Field – Vance easily was the first choice, with 35%. – He was followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, each with 10%; Sen. Rand Paul (5%); Sen. Ted Cruz (4%); Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (3%); and DNI Tulsi Gabbard and Sen. Tim Scott, each with 2%.

Geller Report: – Crushing the Climate Conspiracy – The Trump EPA is proposing the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history, repealing the 2009 Obama EPA Endangerment Finding, all subsequent GHG regulations on vehicles, and the much-despised start/stop engine feature.- This Trump Proposal Will Reverse the EPA’s Climate Overreach – It will lift costly regulatory burdens and restore the Clean Air Act to Congress’s original intent…

Breitbart: Texas AG Ken Paxton has asked a state court to clear the way for law enforcement officials to arrest “Beto” O’Rourke for allegedly violating a court order barring him from fundraising for the statehouse Democrats who fled Texas to delay the redistricting process for U.S. congressional seats in the state…

Western Journal: The Adam Schiff Pardon Is Useless for New Claims Found in FBI Docs -Schiff Knew He Was Breaking the Law, But Thought Being a Lawmaker Would Let Him Get Away with It – The Biden administration gave Schiff immunity for his activities, but only as it related to the Democrats’ Jan. 6 kangaroo court committee…

American Thinker: Comey’s Last Moves, Spying on a President, Setting the Trap, and Lying About It – From January to May 2017, James Comey moved from covert scheming to open warfare against the incoming president, misleading Congress, trapping Michael Flynn, renewing surveillance on Trump, and leaking to spark the Mueller probe. – Robert Mueller, the special counsel that he, himself, had engineered. The hubris of the man cannot be calculated…

Breitbart: USCIS Director Joseph Edlow says the Biden administration prioritized illegal aliens to the point that the nation’s legal immigration system was left “a complete and utter mess.” – “There are far too many cases pending, there are far too many people who have legitimate claims and legitimate applicants that have been waiting forever, and these are people that we want,” Edlow continued…

Daily Wire: An illegal alien in South Dakota was arrested while allegedly transporting roughly $12 million in methamphetamine, which is the largest single seizure of the illicit drug in the state’s history…

Blaze Media: The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which has traditionally backed Democrat politicians, is increasingly directing its support toward Republicans ahead of next year’s midterm elections. – For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Teamsters, representing 1.3 million members, did not endorse the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate last year.

The Federalist: The Denver Post Used CORA Requests to Expose Citizens for Sharing Pictures and Public Records About Crime – In Colorado, open records requests are often referred to as CORA requests, after the state’s open records law. – The Denver Post published the names, locations, and employers of three private citizens for sharing public records on social media…

Washington Examiner: The Texas Supreme Court requested more information from Governor Greg Abbott and state AG Ken Paxton’s bid to expel several House Democrats from the state legislature. – In a filing Tuesday, the Texas Supreme Court said it anticipates final responses to be filed on Sept. 4, about two weeks after the special session is set to end. This pushes the case’s timeline back by weeks, as the court has set three weeks of briefings for both sides.

American Spectator: The Madman Cometh, And There’s Apparently No Stopping Him – The cognitive dissonance in NYC is so strong that they favor socialist antisemite Zohran Mamdani. – Jerry Nadler is Jewish, and here he is appearing with the guy who runs around talking about “globalizing the intifada.”…

American Thinker: Crime and Illiteracy – Factors such as poverty and inadequate education significantly influence crime rates. – Children from single-parent households are more likely to experience psychosocial issues, truancy, school violence, substance abuse, and involvement in the juvenile justice system. – And children of incarcerated parents are more likely to run afoul of law enforcement, thus perpetuating cycles of crime…

California Globe: The Gavin Newsom-Enabled Crime Spree – In the City of Santa Barbara, at their recent annual Old Spanish Days Fiesta celebration, one person was murdered while two others were wounded. – Those who were suspected and arrested for criminal activities and allowed to walk before their trial never even bothered to show up for their trial…

Issues & Insights: Just How Bad Has The Bureau of Labor Statistics Been At Its Job? – Our Findings Will Shock You – Its initial jobs reports have been absolutely and completely unreliable for years. – It has often been wildly optimistic or wildly pessimistic, regardless of who was president…

City Journal: A Delaware Court Wrongly Stripped Billions from Elon Musk – The state’s Court of Chancery relied on an incoherent legal doctrine to overturn the billionaire’s compensation package. – Almost no one, other than Musk, thought the goals were realistically attainable. But holders of 76 percent of the Tesla shares approved the package. To almost everyone’s surprise, other than Musk’s, he delivered…

Slay News: Kamala Harris Fails to Top Poll in Home State for 2028 Presidential Nomination – Governor Gavin Newsom leads the Democratic primary with 23%, followed by former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg at 17%, Vice President Kamala Harris at 11%, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at 9%,” the poll found…

Cal Matters: California lawmakers are preparing for a historic surge in federal funding for affordable housing construction, which advocates say could nearly double the number of low-rent units produced by the state over the next decade. – It comes from an unlikely source. – Buried deep in the One Big Beautiful Bill is an increase in support for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit that affordable housing advocates have sought for years.

August 11, 2025

Epoch Times: Trump Granted A 90-Day Extension on The China Tariff Deadline – With only hours until the temporary agreement’s Aug. 12 deadline, Trump signed an executive order to allow the United States and China to continue trade negotiations. – Both sides will continue broader trade negotiations.

Washington Free Beacon: Is DC Crime Really At A 30-Year Low? – Mainstream Media Outlets Cite Police Data To Say Yes, Without Noting a Commander Is on Leave for Allegedly Falsifying That Data. – DC Fraternal Order of Police chairman Gregg Pemberton said in July that Metropolitan Police Department leaders pressure officers to falsify data and artificially deflate crime statistics…

CNBC: President Trump said he will nominate economist E. J. Antoni as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. – Antoni would replace Erika McEntarfer, who Trump fired as BLS commissioner on Aug. 1 after accusing her of manipulating jobs report data.

Epoch Times: A Federal Appeals Court Orders OMB to Restore Spending Tracker Website – The judges said that removal of the congressionally mandated database violated federal law. – With its decision, the appeals court dissolved its own earlier administrative stay that temporarily put the lower court order on hold while the judges considered the case.

Gateway Pundit: A Democrat Whistleblower Warned The FBI That Adam Schiff Authorized Leaking Classified Information to Destroy Trump During The Russia Hoax – The whistleblower said Democrat Representative Eric Swalwell was likely the source of the classified leaks…

American Spectator: Make the Census Great Again And Stop Counting Illegal Aliens – Trump 47 has an opportunity to finish what Trump 45 attempted. – The Trump administration’s recalculated Census will exclude illegal aliens from the total populations of each state and, thus, the entire country. Those who have entered America without permission or papers should not be counted as part of this nation.

Tablet Magazine: Zohran Mamdani’s Fantasy Island – The mayoral candidate’s support comes from a young, mostly white, often childless, likely temporary population insulated from the consequences of the urban decline they’re about to cause. – While NGO activist types often sneer at departures from the city as cases of “white flight” or of people too dainty or bigoted to endure life in New York, the numbers say otherwise.

One America News: DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar participated in the commissioning ceremony of the polar icebreaker USCGC Storis in Juneau, Alaska, on Sunday. – The “One Big Beautiful Bill” provided substantial funding, over $8.6 billion, for expanding the Coast Guard’s polar icebreaker fleet, including future Polar Security Cutters…

Epoch Times: President Trump Activates National Guard, Federalizes Police in Washington, DC – The National Guard troops won’t have the authority to arrest people, but can detain people until regular law enforcement arrives. – Trump invoked Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973, which puts control of the Metropolitan Police Department under the president for 48 hours. – Last week, a former staffer with the Department of Government Efficiency was assaulted while trying to stop a carjacking.

Townhall: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Is Not Getting a Seat at the Trump-Putin Summit – Zelenskyy thanked European leaders for backing his push to join the upcoming summit. The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, told Reuters on Sunday, “The U.S. has the power to force Russia to negotiate seriously. Any deal between the U.S. and Russia must have Ukraine and the EU included, for it is a matter of Ukraine’s and the whole of Europe’s security.”…

Gateway Pundit: As America and Russia prepare themselves for this Friday’s momentous summit, the uninvited European Globalist leaders are in a panic, seeking to talk to Trump before he joins Putin to try to end the war in Ukraine. – While many haven’t spoken to Trump yet, the weekend was full of diplomatic activity, with a meeting of US, Ukrainian, and European officials on Saturday in the UK, hosted by Vice President JD Vance and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy…

Gateway Pundit: Jim Hoft interviewed Vice President J.D. Vance last week in Washington, DC. – During the interview, VP Vance dropped this bomb. – There are currently active investigations going on that we won’t know about until the investigation is complete! – He then said, If you violated the law, if you broke the law on this crazy Russia investigation, you’ve got to get prosecuted for it. – Consequences, I think that’s the only real language that the far left understands in this country.

Gatestone Institute: Hamas’s Plan to Undermine America’s Arab Allies – Hamas is now trying to incite Arabs to revolt against their governments under the pretext that the Arab leaders have failed to help the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. – Apparently, the Arab leaders understand the dangers of allowing Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization, to drag their countries into war with Israel, which is why…

Townhall: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday the plan to take control of Gaza is broader than it was first announced. – Israel earlier said it would seize only Gaza City. Now, Netanyahu says the “central camps” and Muwasi will also be taken, areas that together hold more than 500,000 Gazans. – “Our goal is not to occupy Gaza, our goal is to free Gaza,” Netanyahu said Monday…

Washington Free Beacon: The Democratic Socialists of America sent a clear message to Democrats during its biennial convention – We’re in charge now. – Zohran Mamdani’s surprise win wasn’t an anomaly, but rather the start of the DSA’s rise to power over the Democrat Party. – Roughly 1,200 DSA members gathered over the weekend at McCormick Place, Chicago’s convention center, to solidify the party’s platform…

Epoch Times: Australia Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanes said recognition would be predicated on commitments that Canberra has received from the Palestinian Authority, the Fatah-controlled governing body of the West Bank – In the past two months, France, the UK, and Canada have signaled that they would recognize a Palestinian state at the next U.N. General Assembly in September…

The New York Times: President Trump to Deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C. – The president is expected to announce at a White House news conference on Monday morning that up to several hundred District of Columbia National Guard personnel will be deployed to support law enforcement officers in the city…

New York Post: Trump admin plans to flood Washington with 120 FBI agents in push to make capital ‘great again’ – Trump is expected to announce the additional surge in federal law enforcement at his Monday press conference. – The agents will assist local law enforcement, which is a rarity as the FBI does not typically patrol with the DC Metropolitan Police Department…

Zero Hedge: Obama-appointed US District Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York on Monday rejected the DOJ’s request to unseal grand jury testimony in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, who assisted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in victimizing young girls. – President Donald Trump announced in July that he was instructing Attorney General Pam Bondi to request that the transcript from the grand jury be released.

American Thinker: Barack Obama and his Predictable Coup Attempt – Some people won’t believe that Obama could do the things he’s accused of. But for those who really know him, it’s undeniable. – Despite his rhetoric about “We the people” and creating a “more perfect union,” Obama’s divisive policies have fostered the us-versus-them mentality that America now struggles with every day…

American Thinker: How Comey and Company Ignored the Red Flags – As revelations unfolded through the summer and fall of 2016, top Obama officials, intelligence agencies, and political operatives accelerated a coordinated narrative tying Donald Trump to Russia. – This despite early warnings and lack of evidence that culminated in secretive meetings, public misinformation, and a December 9 Situation Room session that belies claims of ignorance by key players like Ben Rhodes…

American Thinker: Visa Bonds, America First Immigration Reform – Addressing what it calls “a clear national security threat,” the Trump administration will require some foreign visitors to pay bonds of up to $15,000 to help ensure they do not overstay their visas. – Malawi and Zambia are the first affected countries. – DHS 2023 data shows that 565,000 people admitted to the US through air or sea ports likely stayed beyond their authorized period…

Epoch Times: Here Are the States That Are Considering Redistricting – The GOP has the advantage when it comes to the redistricting battles, say experts. The states include Texas, California, New York, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland, Florida, Wisconsin, and Missouri…

Slay News: Canada’s Euthanasia Machine Overloaded as Demand for Death Skyrockets – What began in 2016 as a “compassionate” measure for the terminally ill has morphed into one of the most permissive assisted-death regimes on Earth. – MAiD now accounts for one in every 20 deaths in Canada, surpassing fatalities from Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined…

American Thinker: The climate cult is a death cult – The defenders of net zero will soon have to abandon their first line of defense, that is, the lie that renewables are cheaper than gas. – Here is a simple question: if renewables are so cheap, why subsidy them? – A rare debate between a proponent of net zero, Paul Dorfman, and a skeptic, Ben Pile, shows how threadbare the defense of net zero has become…

American Thinker: While Congress is on vacation, Trump dominates the media spotlight. – Contrary to Biden’s Autopen underground presidency, Trump dominated the news. – He controls events; events don’t control him. Here are 13 examples: Trump Orders Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief – Trump Administration Blocks Funding for CDC Health Programs – Trump Positions Nuclear Submarines Following Threats From Former Russian Leader…

Daily Fetched: Prosecutors have brought forward one of the most significant vote-harvesting cases against Democrats in rural South Texas. – A Frio County grand jury indicted six people, including public officials, on felony election-fraud charges earlier this year…

Daily Fetched: “Beto” O’Rourke (D-TX) has called on Democrats to “f the rules”* and redraw congressional districts that would ensure Democrats will “win whatever it takes.” – O’Rourke has been trying to use his nonprofit group “Powered by People” to funnel money to Texas state Democrats who recently fled the state…

American Thinker: Gavin Newsom’s Power Grab – Talk about power grabs: currently, California has 53 congressional seats, 44 of which are occupied by Democrats and 9 held by Republicans, a whopping 85% to 15% advantage. – As of October 21, 2024, 45.83% of the state’s voters were registered Democrats, 25% Republicans, 22% were No Party Preference, and 7% were registered to miscellaneous political parties…

American Thinker: ‘Saving democracy’ One Republican at a time – In case anyone had any doubt, Texas Representative Marc Veasey says Democrats in blue states need to focus on redistricting Republicans out. – “I don’t want to hear about this bullshit about what y’all’s constitution… get to redrawing their(Republicans’) asses out.”…

August 10, 2025

American Conservative: Ahead of the meeting this Friday between Trump and Putin, J.D. Vance said Sunday that America was “done with the funding of the Ukraine war,” and addressed the likely contours of a peace deal. – Vance said a likely settlement would take as a starting point the “current line of contact between Russia and Ukraine,” suggesting they could halt the fighting and retain most of the territory that they now control militarily…

One America News: President Donald spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the phone on Sunday after the Israeli security cabinet green-lit Netanyahu’s plan to engage in a full-scale military occupation of Gaza.- The two discussed Israel’s plans for taking control of the remaining Hamas strongholds in Gaza in order to bring about the end of the war, the release of the hostages, and the defeat of Hamas.”…

One America News: Vice President JD Vance stated on Sunday that he expects a lot of people to get indicted in the Russiagate investigation hoax allegedly perpetrated by the Obama administration. – Vance’s optimism for the arrests of high-level Obama administration officials follows a criminal referral from DNI Tulsi Gabbard, who accused Obama officials of engaging in “the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history…

Wall Street Journal: Nvidia and AMD Will Give the U.S. 15% Cut on Their AI Chip Sales to China – This unusual arrangement follows Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s meeting with Trump. – That could amount to billions of dollars given demand for the H20 chips and is the latest example of the White House employing novel tactics to raise revenue…

American Spectator: The Stock-Trade Ban That Has Democrats Squirming – Congress takes action against insider trading. – The new bill has more teeth than the current ‘honor code’ legislation. – When asked about the fortunate investment moves listed below, Nancy Pelosi repeatedly claims her husband makes all the investments and that she doesn’t own any stock…

America First Report: The Trump Administration Claws Back Border Wall Material the Biden Regime Tried to Give Away for Pennies – Auction house GovPlanet, which handled the sales, announced it reached an agreement with the Office of the Border Czar to transfer the materials back to the federal government at cost. This move ensures that millions invested by hardworking Americans won’t go down the drain…

America First Report: The Immigration Chief Reveals How Amnesty Program for Kids Has Been Exploited by Criminal Adults for Years – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services revealed shocking findings about the Special Immigrant Juvenile program, a little-known classification that can provide a pathway to permanent residency and citizenship to young illegal migrants who’ve been abandoned or abused by their parents…

American Spectator: The MAHA Movement Continues to Gain Steam – The healthy food revolution is finally a winning policy priority. – Most recently, Secretary Kennedy and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins championed SNAP food waivers for six more states that elected to improve the diets of program recipients. Such policy initiatives fuel a powerful zeitgeist that promises to propel Republicans into greater dominance in 2026 and beyond…

American Thinker: President Trump exposed Nancy Pelosi’s stock market dealings to the public as only he can. Whether you like Trump’s way of communicating or not, it’s incredibly effective. – Nancy Pelosi is the living embodiment of the fact that, while Republicans get rich and then go into politics, Democrats go into politics and then get rich…

Epoch Times: Marco Rubio Says The Terrorist Designation of Cartels Gives The US New Power to Target Maduro-Linked Groups – ‘We must start treating them as armed terrorist organizations, not simply as drug trafficking organizations.’ Rubio said. – “They have weaponry that looks like what terrorists, [and] in some cases armies use.”…

American Thinker: The Gerrymandering War – For ages, if there were a way to subvert the law for electoral advantage, the Democrats would do it, but under new leadership, Republicans are finally fighting back. – If you pad the rolls with illegal aliens, your districts will get greater representation in Congress and more federal money to spend. – The last national census in 2020 was full of errors in at least 14 states…

American Thinker: The money for AWOL Texas Democrats is running out – It turns out that Beto O’Rourke’s planned subsidies aren’t going to make up for their missing payments. – Tarrant County District Judge Megan Fahey granted AG Paxton’s request for a temporary injunction, barring O’Rourke and Powered by People from fundraising for the Democrats or spending money to cover their expenses…

Townhall: ICE Nabs Illegal Alien Accused of Child Sex Crimes After Local Rhode Island Authorities Release Him Despite His Detainer – According to ICE, Perez-Gomez illegally entered the U.S. as a “gotaway” at an unknown time and place, without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by immigration authorities…

American Thinker: How Comey Became Obama’s Gatekeeper in the Russian Collusion Hoax – In the summer of 2016, James Comey positioned himself at the center of a coordinated effort by the Obama administration to control the Russia narrative. – He did this by bypassing normal intelligence protocols to help shape a political operation against Donald Trump…

Gatestone Institute: The European Union ‘Elites’, Part I – The EU organization itself is at the center of a new corruption scandal. – “The European Union is one of the least corrupt regions in the world,” boasts the European Commission on its website. – Oh, really? Let us examine the EU organization itself, which, once again, is at the center of a new corruption scandal…

August 9, 2025

The Washington Examiner: The White House is currently weighing whether to invite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the Alaska summit, where President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet face-to-face. – Trump announced a summit with Putin that will take place in Alaska next Friday, in a bid to strike an elusive ceasefire deal in the over three-year war in Ukraine…

Just The News: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says his investigation into Joe Biden’s mental decline as president could be used as evidence to overturn some of his pardons or executive orders because his senior staff have failed to prove he knew what he was signing amid accusations of mental decline. – What’s not questionable is whether Biden had any idea what was being signed with the autopen in his name…

Breitbart: IRS Commissioner Billy Long was fired after refusing to provide addresses from a list of roughly 40,000 people that “DHS officials thought were” in the U.S. illegally. – The IRS said that “it was able to verify fewer than 3 percent of the names immigration enforcement officials submitted.”…

Epoch Times: The 16 Midterm Races That Could Determine Who Controls the Next Congress – Among these races are 13 House seats Democrats won in districts President Donald Trump captured, and three Republicans won in districts then-Vice President Kamala Harris secured in November 2024. – Although candidate-filing deadlines in many states are months away, hundreds of House hopefuls have already launched 2026 campaigns.

One America News: President Trump has nominated State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce to be the next U.S. deputy representative to the UN. – Trump said she did a “fantastic job” as State Department spokesperson and praised Bruce as a “Great Patriot, Television Personality, and Bestselling Author.”…

Slay News: Trump’s Department of the Interior has nixed the Lava Ridge Wind Project that was pushed through late in the dying days of the Biden administration. – The project would have installed a vast wind farm consisting of 231 wind turbines along 57,447 acres of rural Idaho landscape, Town Hall reported. – The need for energy solutions remains a priority, but wind farms have long been found to be ineffective and expensive…

Slay News: An Obama Judge Blocks Construction of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’- The temporary restraining order from Democrat-aligned U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams bars additional construction for two weeks while she considers whether to issue a preliminary injunction, which has a larger scope.

Center Square: Following through on his pledge to use all means necessary to find, arrest, and return absconding House Democrats to Texas, the Texas House, led by House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, sued Democrats hiding out in California. – The Texas House on Saturday sued Democratic state Reps. Rhetta Andrews Bowers, Gina Hinojosa, Ann Johnson, Ray Lopez, Mary Ann Perez, and Vincent Perez.

Western Journal: Democrats might be in trouble in the nation’s most populous and consistently blue states. – A new poll released Friday found that former Democratic U.S. Rep. Katie Porter and Republican former Fox News personality Steve Hilton are first and second in polling for the state’s so-called “jungle primary,” respectively, the only two candidates in double digits, and a move that would set up a contest between arguably the most left-wing politician in the race and the strongest Republican.

Slay News: A New Report Exposes A Plot to ‘Vaccinate All Americans, Despite RFK Jr.’ – The group, which includes insiders who profit directly from the “vaccine” industry, aims to establish a “nongovernmental vaccine system,” effectively sidestepping the recommendations of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. – This move comes after Kennedy dismissed all ACIP committee members, citing conflicts of interest, and the appointment of new members…

Resist The Mainstream: The FBI has issued a critical warning to organizations and employees – Do not reset your passwords in response to a recent wave of cyberattacks. – This urgent alert comes as ransomware threat actors continue to evolve their tactics, specifically targeting help desks and IT support teams…

Breitbart: President Volodymyr Zelensky warned early on Saturday that Ukraine won’t give up land to Russia, hours after Washington and Moscow agreed to hold a summit in a bid to end the war. – Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will meet in the far-north US state of Alaska, near Russia, on August 15, to try to resolve the three-year conflict, despite multiple warnings from Ukraine and Europe that Kyiv must be part of the negotiations.

American Thinker: The Great Gerrymandering War Of 2025 – The Democrats have long had a lock on gerrymandering, but Texas is aiming to change that, and Democrats are panicking, California most of all. – Thanks to Trump morphing the party into America First Patriots, MAGA Republicans are pushing back at the insanity tossed at us by Democrats—for example, gerrymandering, which communist Democrats have made into an art form…

American Thinker: The U.S. Intervenes Against European Union Digital Surveillance – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched a lobbying campaign against the EU’s Digital Services Act. – With this step, Americans have become the last line of defense for the free speech rights of EU citizens.

American Thinker: Crime dropped in America, thanks to your local good guy with a gun. – This is great for several reasons. For starters, it repudiates one of the left’s most cherished little contentions about guns, because the data clearly show that more guns equal less crime and more safety — something the ghouls will never admit. – The trends show that they are wrong and that the left’s gun confiscation agenda doesn’t work…

American Thinker: The German economy is in free fall – Daily reports of factory shutdowns, mass layoffs, and capital relocations confirm that Germany’s private economy is in free fall. – They tried to cook the books, but the truth has come out. – You can suppress reality for a while. But eventually, it hits with full force. That’s exactly where Germany finds itself now.

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Green Dildo Edition – Some important things happened this week. President Trump brought peace to a continent or two. – The long-simmering Russia Collusion Hoax unraveled further. – And then there’s that women’s basketball thing…

August 8, 2025

Epoch Times: President Trump to Meet Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15 – Trump will meet with Putin as part of an effort to bring the war in Ukraine to a close. – This confirmation comes hours after Trump announced that he would be meeting Putin “very shortly” and that a location for the face-to-face would be announced “a little bit later.”…

Euro News: After almost four decades of a bloody conflict, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a peace agreement in the presence of US President Donald Trump. Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to establish a major transit corridor, which will be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.

Epoch Times: President Trump is replacing Billy Long as commissioner of the IRS less than two months after his confirmation. – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will serve as acting commissioner. – Long confirmed he is taking the position of ambassador to Iceland…

Washington Examiner: Friday afternoon, Texas AG Ken Paxton sued O’Rourke and his political group, Powered by People, alleging they engaged in false, misleading, or deceptive fundraising practices to illegally raise money for the lawmakers holed up in New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts. – Hours later, Tarrant County District Judge Megan Fahey issued a temporary injunction against O’Rourke and his group, barring them from financially aiding the lawmakers.

Western Journal: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Moves to Strip The Seats from The Absentee Texas Democrats in A Historic Lawsuit – Paxton said his lawsuit seeks to have a judge declare that “13 Texas House seats have been vacated due to continued unlawful absences by Democrat legislators who failed to meet the return deadline set by Speaker Dustin Burrows.”…

Zero Hedge: Three Years Later, The American People Deserve The Truth About Mar-a-Lago Raid – No photo other than his mugshot is more representative of the unprecedented lawfare against Donald Trump than the photo of alleged classified documents discovered during the nine-hour armed raid of Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022. – Nowhere did the cover sheets indicate that the attached files were evidence.

Zero Hedge: The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday asked a federal court to unseal grand jury exhibits from the investigations into sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. – The latest request relates to the 2019 criminal case that was brought against Epstein, which was later dropped after he was found dead in a New York City jail cell, as well as the criminal case against Maxwell…

Zero Hedge: Social Security Insolvency Is Projected 6 Months Sooner According To The Chief Actuary – Letters sent on Aug. 5 to Sen. Ron Wyden (D‑Ore.) and Rep. Steven Horsford (D‑Nev.) say the combined Old‑Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) and Disability Insurance (DI) funds are now expected to be depleted in the first quarter of 2034, rather than the third quarter of that year as in the most recent trustees’ report.

PJ Media: The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) under Joe Biden overestimated the number of jobs added by 1.5 million, according to a pro-Trump economist, Steve Moore. – It is also worth keeping in mind that, as of the start of 2024, the touted “job gains” were going to migrants, including illegal aliens. – Whereas real wages consistently went down under Biden, the opposite trend is emerging under Trump, based on the Moore data.

Geller Report: The FBI has just ARRESTED Boston’s Sheriff, who has refused to work with ICE on deportations in the city. – Suffolk County, MA Sheriff Steven Tompkins was booked on federal extortion charges after extorting $50K from a cannabis dealer trying to do business in the city…

Fox News: A Trump-Putin summit could happen as soon as next week. Hungary, Switzerland, Rome, and the UAE are seen as potential locations for the summit, as Zelenskyy maintains no territory concessions. – A meeting between Putin and Trump would be their first since Trump returned to office this year. – It would be a significant milestone in the 3-year-old war…

Zero Hedge: Bloomberg is reporting that Washington and Moscow are aiming to reach a deal to halt the war in Ukraine that would lock in Russia’s occupation of territory seized during its military invasion. – The US is working to get buy-in from Ukraine and its European allies on the deal, which is far from certain…

American Thinker: Securing rare earth independence from China – Rare earth elements are the new commodities that will dominate global trade. Nations that possess these elements can control vital aspects of the worldwide economy. – The bad news is that China now holds this dominant role. – The good news is that America, especially Alaska, has significant deposits of rare earths that could challenge this Chinese dominance…

Slay News: Two Chinese immigrants living in California have been arrested and charged with smuggling AI technology to China, the DOJ has announced. – Chuan Geng, 28, of Pasadena, and Shiwei Yang, 28, of El Monte, are accused of violating export controls by sending millions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia chips to their native country.

American Conservative: Why Zelensky Should Fear His Own Former General – Valery Zaluzhny looks to be maneuvering to replace Ukraine’s wartime president, and perhaps with America’s support. – This reentry of Zaluzhny could not have been timed more harmfully for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who, for the first time since the war began, is facing resistance, embarrassment, and protest at home and fierce criticism in Europe…

Geller Report: Egypt and Israel Ink A Historic Trade Deal – Israel’s Arab neighbors are more interested in good relations with the Jewish state than with the Palestinians. – The Arab League has called for Hamas to surrender and disarm, Lebanon is disarming Hezbollah, and Egypt just inked a $35 billion deal for Israeli natural gas.

Newsmax: President Trump claims the US would fall into a second Great Depression if the courts rule he cannot impose many of the tariffs he levied on foreign goods. – The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last week heard arguments concerning a ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade last May that Trump exceeded his authority with many of the tariffs he imposed on international trading partners…

Slay News: President Trump Issues A $50 Million Bounty for the Arrest of Venezuelan Dictator Nicolás Maduro – The United States has long accused Maduro of being deeply involved in global drug trafficking, including aiding cartels and street gangs, while running a repressive and corrupt regime that poses a direct threat to U.S. national security…

Red State: The Trump administration just scored another huge court win. – On Friday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order in the J.G.G. v. Trump case vacating Judge James Boasberg’s order finding probable cause to hold the administration in contempt. – If you ever needed an example of an arrogant and overbearing liberal judge, Judge James Boasberg is your man…

Daily Wire: Vice President JD Vance reiterated on Friday that the United States has no plan to recognize a Palestinian state. – “The United Kingdom is going to make its decision,” he said. – “We have no plans to recognize a Palestinian state. – I don’t know what it would mean to recognize a Palestinian state given the lack of a functional government there.”

Real Clear Investigations: A Whistleblower Ties Clinton Campaign to Fake Russia Hack – A former senior U.S. intelligence analyst who investigated alleged Russian attempts to breach state voting systems during the 2016 election suspected the breaches may have been “related to activities” of the computer contractors involved in the Alfa Bank hoax, who were accused of manipulating Internet traffic data…

America First Report: President Donald Trump has authorized an increased presence of federal law enforcement officers in touristy areas of Washington, D.C., as Republicans slam the city for failing to prosecute minors. – The move comes after Trump threatened to end D.C. home rule on Tuesday if the city did not step up when it comes to prosecuting minors who commit serious crimes.

Breitbart: The deadline for jet-setting Texas House Democrats to return to the Capitol and resume their duties looms at 1 p.m. CDT on Friday. – Texas officials warn that if the legislators do not return to work, their seats will be vacated, and Governor Greg Abbott can appoint replacements.

American Thinker: Seth Rich, Dead Men Tell No Tales – White collar conspiracy cases are mind-numbing. – Murder mysteries with dead bodies and blood are riveting. – And the mysterious Rich case has all of the above. – There is more than enough circumstantial evidence in Rich’s death to warrant a complete and thorough criminal investigation, to determine or disprove if Seth’s murder was committed to protect the exposure of the Russian Collusion as false from before the 2016 election.

Breitbart: President Trump Signed an Order to Use Military Force Against Certain Drug Cartels. – The President and the U.S. Department of State as Foreign Terrorist Organizations previously designated these cartels. – The U.S. government has already had various drones overflying cartel operations and has expanded its intelligence operations in Mexico; however, the order could open the door for drone strikes or special operations groups…

Breitbart: The Justice Department Has Opened A Criminal Investigation Into New York Attorney General Letitia James Over Her Lawfare – Two sources briefed on the matter told Breitbart News that subpoenas have been sent to James, focusing on what they say are allegations she engaged in what is called a “deprivation of rights” when she targeted Trump and another instance.

American Wire: Acting United States Attorney Bill Essayli announced on Thursday that a federal grand jury has indicted a Paramount man for allegedly throwing pieces of cinderblock at Border Patrol officers last June. – Jacob Daniel Terrazas, 30, was charged with one count of assault on a federal employee by using a deadly and dangerous weapon resulting in bodily injury after striking an officer during a protest against immigration enforcement that turned into a riot.

Breitbart: Elon Musk Disbands Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer Team – The disbanding of the Dojo team signals a strategic shift for Tesla, which had positioned the in-house supercomputer as a crucial component in developing the machine-learning models powering its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems, as well as the Optimus humanoid robot…

Epoch Times: President Trump Directs That Crypto And Private Equity Investments Be Allowed in 401(k)s – Retirement plans could soon have different investment options beyond stocks and bonds. – Alternative assets, such as cryptocurrencies, private equity, and real estate, could potentially reshape how workers’ nest eggs are managed…

FAR: Zohran Mamdani and the Family Business – The fact that Zohran Mamdani has a very good chance of being elected mayor of New York City, the honorific capital of the world, ought to give rise to deep consternation and vigorous efforts to defeat him in November’s mayoral election…

Western Journal: Melania Claims Another Scalp – In a nutshell, James Carville falsely implied Mrs. Trump was once an escort at a modeling agency that Epstein used to recruit sex workers, whom he then connected with his wealthy, powerful celebrity clients. – After the first lady’s attorney contacted Carville, the 80-year-old Democratic strategist retracted his baseless comments…

Epoch Times: The EPA Terminates $7 Billion Grant Program for Solar Projects – The Solar for All program is being eliminated under the One Big Beautiful Act, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said. – The Biden Administration program awarded grants in April 2024 to 60 recipients—including states, territories, tribes, and nonprofits—to expand solar energy access to low-income and disadvantaged communities…

American Thinker: Roger Alejandro Piñate Martínez, the president of Smartmatic, is again at the center of an expanding international bribery and corruption investigation — This time due to an alleged bribery scheme in 2019 involving Tibisay Lucena Ramírez, the now-deceased but longtime president of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council. – The case underscores the broader problem of election tech firms operating in legal gray zones.

Issues & Insights: What did California officials think was going to happen when they decided it was a dazzlingly brilliant idea to hound the oil industry out of the state? – The California Coastal Commission is actively shopping Valero Energy’s Benicia refinery near San Francisco. – By this time next year, there might not be even a dozen refineries left in the state to produce the 38 million gallons of California’s boutique blend that’s consumed every day…

Zero Hedge: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy criticized the potential use of artificial intelligence to personalize airline ticket prices, saying on Aug. 5 that his department would investigate if any business were found doing so. – Last week, Delta Air Lines told lawmakers that it does not and will not use AI to set prices for individual travelers…

August 7, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: Federal Investigators Have Compiled Evidence of Systematic Hamas Aid Theft, Undercutting A Leaked USAID ‘Report’ – The investigations center on occasions in which Hamas “commandeered U.N. aid trucks,” embedded terrorist operatives in “U.N. agencies or at U.N. facilities,” and ensured humanitarian goods were “directly delivered to Hamas officials.”…

Breitbart: Donald Trump’s Six Biggest Wins at 200 Days in Office Are Explained Below – 1. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act – 2. The European Union Trade Deal – 3. No illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States since April 4. Peace-Maker-in-Chief – 5. Trillions in Investment Pouring into the United States – 6. Protecting Women and Children from the Effects of Trans Ideology…

USA Today: President Trump honored 100 Purple Heart recipients at a special White House ceremony. Recipients who attended the ceremony included three veterans who sent their Purple Heart medals to Trump last year following the July 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Slay News: The Trump administration has ordered all federal agencies to begin scrubbing their “vaccination” records from the personnel files of all workers. – After a lengthy legal battle, federal employees’ COVID-19 “vaccine” records will soon be erased from their personnel files. – This marks a major victory for those opposed to former President Biden’s COVID-19 “vaccine” mandate.

PJ Media: Something Is REALLY Wrong With Nancy Pelosi – Joe Biden’s presidency—and the constitutional crisis unleashed by a party willing to prop up a leader clearly suffering cognitive decline—will haunt this country for years to come. But we must never lose sight of another problem: longtime members of Congress who cling to power well past their prime, refusing to step aside.

Fox News: A Soros-Funded Group Joins Effort to Pick Up Tab for Dem Reps Fleeing Texas – The radical Texas Majority PAC, which has received millions in funding from Soros, has reportedly joined forces with a group led by failed gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke to pick up the costs incurred by the approximately 50 Democrat state representatives fleeing to avoid a vote in the state’s legislature on congressional redistricting…

Just The News: Guantánamo Bay’s island detention center in Cuba has seen hundreds of detainees pass through its gate since 9/11. – New data suggests roughly one-third of those held may be returning to terrorism after they were freed. – The Guantánamo Docket states an estimated 15 detainees, including the alleged mastermind of 9/11, remain at Gitmo out of the roughly 780 suspected terrorists who passed through the island detention center since 2002.

One America News: The Trump Administration has canceled $584 million in grants for UCLA, claiming they did not take a strong enough stance against on-campus anti-Semitism. – UCLA recently reached a $6 million settlement with three Jewish students and a Jewish professor who sued the school in a civil rights dispute, claiming pro-Palestinian protesters were permitted to block them from accessing certain areas on campus in 2024.

Breitbart: Moscow says it expects U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin to meet for in-person talks on the Ukraine war in the coming days, but a spokesman for Putin is already pouring cold water on the notion of including Volodymyr Zelensky, which is a clear U.S. demand. – White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said, “Great progress was made during Special Envoy Witkoff’s meeting with President Putin…

Fox News: The FBI ousted at least three officials, including the former acting director and an officer involved in the January 6 investigations. – Former FBI acting director, Brian Driscoll, is among those being forced out of the bureau, along with Walter Giardina, a special agent at the bureau who played a role in the investigation of Trump trade advisor, Peter Navarro, and Steven Jensen, the acting director in charge of the Washington Field Office.

Daily Caller: President Trump is expected to sign a Presidential Memorandum on Thursday ordering higher education institutions to hand over their admissions data in order to prove they are not engaging in affirmative action. – The Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that the use of race-based affirmative action admissions policies by institutions of higher education was unconstitutional.

Breitbart: President Trump Wants to Exclude Illegal Migrants From Being Counted In The Next Census – Trump, “I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern-day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024. People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS…

Daily Mail: A frantic terrorist MANHUNT ‘begins across America’ as a terrifying Iranian passport plot to flood the nation with jihadis is uncovered – The Daily Mail has exclusively obtained a list revealing an alleged international scheme to provide Venezuelan passports to potential terrorists. – As far back as 2006, a US State Department report warned that, ‘Venezuelan travel and identification documents are extremely easy to obtain…

Zero Hedge: Goldman Lists The Probable Winners From Trump’s 100% Microchip Tariff – Goldman believes a sub-segment of its coverage may be at reduced risk. – Companies viewed as beneficiaries include: Texas Instruments,
Applied Materials, TSMC, Nvidia, Broadcom, Intel, Global Foundries, Micron, IBM, Samsung Electronics, Amkor, GlobalWafers, Corning, and Coherent.

Zero Hedge: While some on The Fed believe that tariffs will unleash the worst parts of stagflation hell on the average American (and therefore they should not cut rates), it appears the ‘Americans’ themselves are far less concerned.m – According to the latest data from The New York Fed’s Sentiment Survey, Americans (on average) agree with Waller with households’ inflation expectations barely moving in July, and still below the levels pre-Liberation Day…

Zero Hedge: Fed governor Christopher Waller “is emerging as a top candidate to serve as the central bank’s chair among President Donald Trump’s advisers as they look for a replacement for Jerome Powell.” – According to the report, Trump advisers “are impressed with Waller’s willingness to move on policy based on forecasting, rather than current data, and his deep knowledge of the Fed system as a whole.”…

Center Square: The FBI to assist with locating and arresting the Texas Democrats who fled the state – 50 Democrats fled the state, many to Chicago, to prevent a House vote on redistricting, and all other ballots during a special session of the legislature, by preventing a quorum from being reached. – They also fled Texas to avoid being arrested by state law enforcement.

Daily Caller: A Beto O’Rourke-led group is Under Investigation Over Potential Bribes To Help Runaway Texas Democrats – “Any Democrat coward breaking the law by taking a Beto Bribe will be held accountable,” – Paxton said that O’Rourke’s group, Powered by People, might have violated laws on bribery, campaign finance, and abuse of office. Powered by People is funding a group of 50 state Democrats who are each facing a $500 daily fine after fleeing to Illinois..

The Federalist: A Defiant Arizona Lawmaker Could Face Charges After Tipping Off Illegals To ICE Presence – State Sen. Analise Ortiz, a Phoenix Democrat, admits she ‘shared information about ICE,’ an act that a DHS official says ‘looks like obstruction.’

Daily Wire: ‘We Can Use You’: ‘Superman’ Actor Joins ICE, Immediately Starts Recruiting – Dean Caine, “I felt it was important to join with our first responders to help secure the safety of all Americans, not just talk about it.” – Cain informed his audience of the pay and benefits afforded new agents — including a $50,000 signing bonus recently announced by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem…

Slay News: Tom Homan Puts ‘Sanctuary’ Cities ‘On Notice’ amid Trump’s Illegal Alien Crackdown – Border czar Tom Homan appeared on Fox News’s “The Faulkner Focus” on Wednesday, making it clear that these cities are officially “on notice” for obstructing federal immigration enforcement. – Attorney General Pam Bondi is backing up the administration’s tough stance…

Slay News: A Clinton-appointed Judge Blocks Trump’s Plan to reallocate $4 billion from canceled FEMA Program – U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns of Boston issued his ruling on Tuesday that blocked the plan. – The case was brought in July by Massachusetts and 19 other Democrat-led states.

Epoch Times: President Trump’s August 7th Tariffs Take Effect, And Here’s What There Is To Know – Based on the president’s latest comments, more tariffs will be coming. – Tariffs on semiconductors and computer microchips will be “approximately 100 percent.” – “But if you’re building in the US, there’s no charge, even though you’re building and you’re not producing yet,” Trump told reporters. Also…

America First Report: The Dark Side of Big Solar Is Exposed as the Fight to Save Farmland Grows – People have been spoon-fed doomsday climate propaganda for decades, and warned of an impending climate apocalypse that never arrives. – Yet every year, climate taxes increase and energy costs soar, as well as power grid reliability crumbles. – Why? Because climate alarmist progressives have hijacked energy policy, pushing reckless green agendas that are now backfiring…

America First Report: American Auto Giants Thrilled to Sell Gas Guzzlers Again After Collapse of Biden’s EV Mandate – Trump signed three new bills into law in June, which terminated Biden-era rules that allowed states like California to impose a national EV mandate. – These rollbacks have caused companies like Ford and General Motors to scale back their EV plans and search to leverage demand for their big SUVs and commercial vehicles

American Thinker: The Wall Street Journal Convenes a Clinic in Media Bias – This story is about what is potentially the biggest political scandal in American history, yet this is how the WSJ chooses to characterize it in their daily email blast. – Oh, where to begin? – Given the WSJ News Exclusive tag, this is billed as a hard news item and should not be ladled with enough opinion to choke a rhinoceros…

American Thinker: Birthright Citizen, And The Little Conjunction That Explains Everything – When it comes to statutory interpretation, every word, including the little three-letter ones, has a profound meaning. – The Civil Rights Act of 1866 states that “all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power…are hereby declared citizens of the United States…” with there are two conditions that have to be met…

American Thinker: The Federal Job Cuts Disaster That Never Was – The media and Democrat lawmakers assured us that there would be chaos and a body count as a result of federal job cuts, but what was the real impact? – NOTHING! – The reduction of the federal workforce is, thus far, between 121,000 and 250,000 personnel. – Non-government American workers have been dealing with this type of situation for decades…

American Thinker: Governor Abbott’s Resolve Has the Backing of History – The parallels are undeniable. – In 1787, the fledgling United States teetered on the brink of collapse under the feeble Articles of Confederation. The Philadelphia Convention was tasked with crafting a new Constitution, but a handful of Pennsylvania delegates, leery of a strong federal government, tried to sabotage the process by bolting to avoid a quorum…

Daily Fetched: Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski has suffered a catastrophic collapse in overall favorability as more voters turn against so-called RINOs. – Murkowski now finds herself underwater with self-identified conservative respondents by 64 percentage points, according to a new poll conducted by Alaska Survey Research…

American Thinker: Gerrymandering Is As American As Apple Pie – Over the past few days, the mainstream media has gone bonkers as Texas seeks to redraw its congressional map. – Obviously, this is way beyond the pale. – For those ignorant about the history of gerrymandering, here is a brief account. – The term goes all the way back to 1812, when Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed a bill that redrew the state’s election districts…

America First Report: Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon Launches A Legal Blitz to Clean up Voter Rolls and Dismantle Democrats ‘Illegal Race-Based Gerrymandering – Dhillon’s Civil Rights Division has already launched lawsuits against states like North Carolina for failing to properly verify voter eligibility. – She is also putting Texas on notice for drawing congressional districts allegedly based on racial motivations.

American Thinker: Get Woke And Go Broke, or Howard Stern’s $500M fall from relevance – Stern squandered not just his audience, but his legacy. – In 2006, facing increasing fines from the FCC, Stern made a bold move to SiriusXM, escaping censorship. – By the 2010s, something began to shift. – Gone were the raucous bits, the rants against media gatekeepers, the mocking of phonies in Hollywood. – The breaking point, though, came in 2020…

America First Report: In a win for free speech, a federal judge on Tuesday struck down California’s law on AI-generated election parody videos. – In his ruling, Judge Mendez cited federal rules shielding online platforms from liability for third-party content, rather than addressing the free speech arguments central to the plaintiffs’ case…

American Thinker: The West is in a fight for survival and does not even know it is on a battlefield. – The influence that even a minority Muslim population can have in a democratic state can cause unthinkable damage, but Western leaders have their heads in the sand. – In the latter 20th century, demographics shifted. – Immigration of Muslim refugees, higher Muslim birthrates, and increased Christian emigration all contributed to creating Muslim majorities…

New York Post: The Fort Stewart shooting suspect sent a cryptic text to his aunt before the horrific attack – The US Army sergeant Quornelius Radford, 28, warned that he’d be in a “better place” soon. – Other troops quickly tackled Sergeant Radford, officials said.

Slay News: Police Arrest Cincinnati Mob Attack Suspect Filmed Stomping on Victim. Aisha Devaughn, 25, was taken into custody by the Fugitive Apprehension Unit early Wednesday morning. – Devaughn was arrested on charges of felonious assault and aggravated riot. – Devaughn’s arrest follows a viral video showing her participating in the violent assault of a woman, later identified as Holly…

American Wire: The Democrat-run city of Denver has no money for police but wants to host the 2030 Gay Games. Despite significant budget cuts in services for its citizens and rolling out the red carpet for illegal migrants, Denver is pitching itself as the city of choice to host the Gay Games XIII event in 2030. – The Federation of Gay Games is deciding which city will host the event, narrowing the field down to Denver, Auckland, and Perth.

Daily Fetched: RFK Jr. Launches A Bold Plan to Block Food Stamps From Being Used To Buy Junk Food Like Soda & Candy – Kennedy said that taxpayer-funded SNAP is funding more than $40 million per day on sugary drinks alone. – U.S. taxpayers should not be paying to feed kids foods, the poorest kids in our country, because the foods are going to give them diabetes. – And then my agency ends up, through Medicaid or Medicare, paying for those injuries.

Epoch Times: United Airlines Resumed Flights After Resolving A Technical Issue – The problem was related to its Unimatic system, which houses information about each flight and feeds it to other systems. – United said the outage began at 5:12 p.m. CT and was resolved within a few hours, with residual delays continuing into Wednesday.

August 6, 2025

Western Journal: Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly said nothing during interviews last month with the DOJ that would be harmful to President Trump. – Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche questioned her for nine hours over two days last month regarding Trump and other Epstein associates…

One America News: ICE updates age limit requirements to attract 10K more recruits – DHS has announced that ICE is eliminating the age requirement for new hires and existing officers. – Until now, applicants were required to be at least 21 years of age. However, as part of the recruitment campaign, the upper age limitations will be lifted, and individuals can begin applying at the age of 18…

American Spectator: DC Has Had Its Chance to Self-Govern, And It Has Failed Miserably.- The current murder rate in Washington, D.C., is 41 per 100,000. That’s almost the highest in the world; it’s rivaled only by places like Caracas, Guatemala City, and Pretoria among international capitals. – And Property crime in Washington, D.C., is every bit as horrific. – Then there is this recent beating of “Big Balls,” who was trying to protect a woman…

Western Journal: Justice for ‘Big Balls’ Is On Its Way As DC Cops Make Arrests After His Beating – Two 15-year-olds from Maryland have been arrested. Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local ‘youths’ and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16 years old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released.

WSAV News 3: ‘Active Shooter,’ Casualties Are Reported at Georgia’s Fort Stewart – The base went on lockdown after 11 a.m. local time. – Five soldiers have been shot and were treated on-site before being moved to Winn Army Community Hospital for further treatment. – The shooter has been apprehended…

Newsmax: President Trump indicated on Tuesday that Washington views the question of how Israel proceeds militarily in Gaza are up to Jerusalem. – Asked by a reporter at the White House, “Would you support Israel … reoccupying all of Gaza as [has] been suggested by some Israeli officials?” Trump claimed he was not familiar with such suggestions, adding, “I can’t really say. It will be up to Israel.”

Epoch Times: President Trump Raises India Tariffs to 50% Due to Its Russian Oil Imports – Trump says India’s purchases of Russian energy are ‘fueling the war machine.’ – Last week, Trump announced a 25% tariff against India, one of the largest U.S. trading partners. – Additionally, India would soon face another penalty over its purchases of Russian energy and military equipment…

Gateway Pundit: Two days before the threatened new US sanctions are expected to hit Russia, Donald J. Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow for a 3-hour meeting with President Vladimir Putin. – While the lack of progress in the peace process in the Ukraine war has led to a freezing in the normalization talks between the US and Russia, the lines of communication are still open…

Newsmax: President Trump Is ‘Proud’ to Donate His Presidential Salary- “My first ‘Paycheck’ went to the White House Historical Association, as we make much-needed renovations to the beautiful ‘People’s House.’ – Great improvements and beautification are taking place at the White House, at levels not seen since its original creation. – MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Daily Fetched: Representative Anna Paulina Luna confirmed that “burn bags,” discovered in a secret FBI facility by Director Kash Patel, not only contained pages related to the Trump-Russia hoax, but also evidence tied to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. – Luna said that the discovery of the burn bags has sparked a full-fledged investigation into the destruction of Epstein-related evidence…

Daily Fetched: Disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was a covert FBI informant, effectively working for “intelligence” years before his notorious 2007 plea deal. – Epstein was not just protected by federal authorities, but had also been an informant for the FBI under former Director Robert Mueller. – This revelation has reignited long-standing suspicions that Epstein’s immunity was due to his value as an intelligence asset.

Gateway Pundit: Robert Mueller, the former FBI Director who was tapped as special counsel to investigate President Trump’s 2016 ‘collusion’ with Russia, is reportedly in a memory-care facility. – Mueller looked like a confused, stuttering, agreeable, lost, and nervous doddering old man during his testimony to Congress in 2019. – He frequently paged through his notes because he was lost…

America First Report: President Trump has narrowed his list of candidates for Federal Reserve chair to four individuals. – Trump named Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, and Kevin Warsh, a former Federal Reserve Board governor, as two of his top picks, but declined to name the other two candidates. – While expressing his dissatisfaction with Jerome Powell, Trump noted he plans to make a decision “soon.”

Western Journal: Adam Schiff Is Officially Under Criminal Investigation – The Criminal Referral from HHS Was a Slam Dunk. – The letter, sent by FHFA director William Pulte, said that Schiff “has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, impacting payments from 2003-2019 for a Potomac, Maryland-based property.”

Breitbart: Governor Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit Tuesday night with the Texas Supreme Court seeking to begin the process for the removal of House Democrat Caucus Chairman Gene Wu and others. – The Chairman, along with most of his Democrat House colleagues, fled the state to block a quorum in protest of the GOP’s efforts to carry out congressional seat redistricting…

Washington Examiner: Experts say Texas’s new redistricting map is poised for long-term legal showdown – The looming legal battle over Texas Republicans’ proposed mid-decade congressional map could stretch well past the 2026 midterm elections, casting doubt on whether the state’s altered district lines will be in effect before voters head to the polls in November 2026…

Geller Report: Special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump discussed plans for the U.S. to significantly increase its role in providing humanitarian aid to Gaza in a meeting Monday evening at the White House. – Trump is “not thrilled” about the idea of the U.S. taking charge, “but it kind of has to happen,” an official said.

Newsmax: Apple Inc. will announce a domestic manufacturing pledge of $100 billion on Wednesday that will focus on bringing more manufacturing to the United States, according to a White House official. – The pledge would be a new financial commitment on top of $500 billion Apple has already pledged, the official said…

Newsmax: Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at DHS, said a new ICE detention facility in Indiana, dubbed the “Speedway Slammer,” will help turbocharge the agency’s illegal immigrant arrest numbers. – DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced the facility would be “coming soon” as the newest ICE detention center…

American Thinker: The Russia Hoax Secrets Found in FBI Burn Bags – They didn’t bury the truth, but instead sealed it in burn bags and locked it away inside FBI headquarters, marked for destruction. – Analysis of the burn bag documents begins with a record certain officials likely prayed would stay buried: the so-called “Durham annex,” which exposed the intelligence abuses that triggered the investigation itself.

The Federalist: Raining Justice On The Russia Hoaxers Tricky, But So Important – Absent justice, the lesson to the conspirators is that they should go even bigger next time. – It has become ever clearer that, at the direction of President Obama, the leaders of his national security and intelligence apparatus used and abused their awesome powers to baselessly frame Donald Trump as a traitor…

American Thinker: Susan Rice and the crime nobody’s talked about – Rice tried to get then Leader Mitch McConnell and the majority Republicans of the Senate to sign on to a bipartisan letter condemning Moscow over the “hacking” that “Russia” did. – Susan Rice knew what she was doing. She knew when she asked the Senate Republicans to sign onto the statement, it was fraudulent…

American Thinker: America is Hot, Hot, Hot – From Sydney Sweeney to dominating on the global stage, it’s a good time to be a Republican. – Investment in America is hot. – The stock market is hot – Even in the realm of sports, we are hot. – But Dems are not hot; actually, they are as cold as ice, willing to sacrifice our founding principles. – They are cold and calculated in invoking outmoded ‘isms to undermine the pervasive “ism.”

Daily Wire: The Biden Administration Used The Treasury Dept. To Get Out The Vote – Under President Biden’s leadership, every single aspect of the federal government was turned into a massive voter mobilization, voter registration campaign, even for those departments and agencies that are not historically or by statute even involved in the election process,” the official shared…

Breitbart: Senator Marsha Blackburn is running for Tennessee governor in 2026, setting up a potential clash with U.S. Representative John Rose. – Her message on social media was straight to the point: I’m running for Governor to ensure Tennessee is America’s conservative leader for this generation and the next, and I would be honored to have your support…

American Thinker: Can Western Nations Be Saved? – Nations that denounce their own cultures, traditions, histories, and religions are not nations for long. – This nearly century-long project to destroy the West by flooding the West with foreigners who despise the West is finally coming to a head. – The outrageous lengths to which its leaders have gone to arrange its suicide are almost comical…

American Thinker: They’re crazy and here’s why – The mental health gap between liberals and conservatives stems from a complex interplay of ideology and external influences. – Conservatives’ emphasis on personal responsibility and strong social ties may foster resilience, while liberals’ focus on perceived societal injustices and exposure to polarizing, left-wing media may heighten distress….

Real Clear Politics: Disillusioned by the left’s empty promises, Gen Z women are abandoning social and political institutions and pursuing aesthetically conservative lifestyles. – Gen Z women are often branded as hyper-liberal and cut off from tradition. – But the data tells a more complicated story. – Young women aren’t just skeptical of institutions; they are also increasingly dissatisfied with the lifestyles promoted by the progressive party.

Slay News: President Trump Fires 5 Obama-Picked Members of Puerto Rico’s Oversight Board – “The Financial Oversight and Management Board of Puerto Rico has been run inefficiently and ineffectively by its governing members for far too long, and it’s time to restore common sense leadership,” an official said. – Obama also appointed Robert F. Mujica Jr. as the board’s executive director at a reported annual salary of $625,000…

Breitbart: Nearly half of British voters would support a complete shutdown of migration and for the government to embark upon a campaign of mass deportations, a survey from YouGov found. – The sentiment was most commonly held among supporters of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, which has advocated for a complete freeze on all legal immigration and has vowed to deport all illegal migrants living in the country…

Breitbart: Radio shock jock Howard Stern’s show with SiriusXM will reportedly end its revolutionary run after 20 years. – Sirius is planning to make him an offer; they don’t intend for him to take it.” – Sirius and Stern are never going to meet on the money he is going to want. It’s no longer worth the investment,” the source added. “But as far as him coming back to doing the show, there’s no way they can keep paying his salary.”

New York Post: Our sons died taking an ‘all-natural’ supplement you can buy at gas stations, but people don’t realize it’s so addictive and dangerous. – On the day of his death, McKibben went to his longtime job at an organic food distributor. When he got home, he mixed a tablespoon of a powdered kratom supplement into his lemonade. – Sold in powders, gummies, and energy drinks, kratom can act like a stimulant at lower doses and a sedative at higher ones.

August 5, 2025

One America News: On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order creating a task force for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. – Trump will serve as chair of the task force, with Vice President JD Vance as vice chair. Other members include a number of Cabinet secretaries and administration officials. – The 2028 Games will be the first Olympics to be hosted by the U.S. since the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Epoch Times: President Trump Says JD Vance Is ‘Probably Favored at This Point’ for 2028 Nomination – The president also suggests that Secretary of State Marco Rubio could be a potential running mate or ally to Vance. – Trump made the remarks at the White House during the signing ceremony for an executive order creating a task force for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles…

Washington Free Beacon: Senator Tom Cotton is petitioning the IRS to formally investigate CAIR for violations of its tax-exempt status, citing “ties to terrorist organizations, including Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood,” according to a formal letter sent Tuesday. – CAIR, one of the nation’s foremost anti-Israel advocacy organizations, has long been dogged by accusations that its funding streams are entangled with Hamas…

New York Post: Democrats howling at Texas redistrict push should take a look in the mirror – Let’s take a tour of the very narrow 13th Congressional District in Illinois. – It starts in East St. Louis and then moves steadily north. – By the time it gets to Springfield, home of Abraham Lincoln, about 90 miles away, it takes a sharp turn to the east, reaching Decatur and finally Champaign, itself about 80 miles away from Springfield…

Breitbart: The federal government arrested roughly 50 Irish migrants for deportation, even though the left has complained that it is only deporting non-white migrants. – “Approximately 35 men and 21 women were taken into custody by ICE in Irish American strongholds of Boston, New York, and New Jersey.” – Other Irish migrants are leaving quietly, partly to preserve a chance of later return…

One America News: The State Department is launching a nearly 12‑month pilot program requiring some B‑1/B‑2 tourist and business visa applicants from select countries to post refundable bonds of $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000. – The program will affect foreign nationals from countries with “high visa overstay rates, weak screening or vetting systems,” or those “offering citizenship by investment without residency requirements.”

One America News: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled in favor of a Texas law that invalidates mail-in ballots without a voter’s state-identification number or partial Social Security number. – The court ruled on Monday that the provision in the 2021 election integrity bill, known as S.B., did not violate a federal law in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prevents states from denying a person’s voting rights over paperwork errors…

Gateway Pundit: When Texas Democrats fled to Illinois a few days ago in an effort to stop the state legislature from moving forward with redistricting efforts, they traveled there by private plane, and Beto O’Rourke’s PAC apparently paid for it. – This news is certainly not going to help their cause with Texas voters.

Washington Examiner: – House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has issued subpoenas to Bill and Hillary Clinton, along with a slew of others that could have connections to Epstein. – Along with the Clintons, the committee also subpoenaed eight others, including former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller, former Attorneys General Merrick Garland, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, Alberto Gonzales, Loretta Lynch, and Eric Holder.

The Federalist: A Majority Of Voters Believe Obama’s Deep State ‘Committed Crimes’ In Russiagate – More than two-thirds of likely voters surveyed in the Rasmussen Report survey said there must be consequences for crimes committed in the scandal.

Daily Wire: The United Nations Says 89% Of Their Gaza Aid Trucks Have Been Looted Since May – As looting surges and aid piles up at the border, critics say the UN is failing to deliver supplies effectively. – Only 300 trucks out of 2,604, just 11.5%, successfully reached their intended destinations. – A new video obtained by The Daily Wire shows a chaotic scene in southern Gaza last Thursday…

American Thinker: A Palestinian State Is a Threat to All of Us – Hamas has openly declared that it is not just interested in destroying Israel and wiping out all Jewry. – It wants to destroy Christians, too, and the “decadent” West. – The United States’ best interest must focus on immediate threats, but we should support our allies when they are destroying theirs, too…

Slay News: The Supreme Court has signaled that it may be about to deal a massive blow to the Democrats by ending the practice of race-based redistricting. – The tactic has helped Democrats pad their margins in the House of Representatives for decades. – In an order on Friday, the court expanded the scope of a case on the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana.

Zero Hedge: A New White House Executive Order Will Punish Banks That Discriminate Against Conservatives Or Crypto Companies – The banking industry calls the practice “derisking,” and financial institutions have broad discretion to close accounts, whether the account holder poses a legal, economic, or reputational risk to the firm…

The Defender: RFK Jr. Ends Financial Incentives for Hospitals That Report Staff Vaccination Rates – The move repeals a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services inpatient payment policy created during the Biden administration that tied hospital reimbursement to COVID-19 vaccination reporting. Children’s Health Defense CEO Mary Holland said she hopes HHS looks into financial incentives for pediatricians tied to childhood vaccination rates.

American Thinker: Has the Democrats’ breaking point been reached? – When we look at the Democrat Party of today, can anyone honestly say that they have not been corrupted? – In years past, they stood for something; the members of the Party could be believed when they said they loved their country. – Sadly, that is no longer the case…

Townhall: The Trump Administration’s New Guidance Spells Bad News for ‘Transgender’ Athletes – The Department of Homeland Security will update visa policies to prevent transgender athletes from traveling to the United States to participate in women’s sporting events, according to guidance issued Monday from the agency.

American Thinker: California Is Getting A Real Newspaper in 2026, From The New York Post – The California Post will boast the richest and most targeted news environment in the entire nation. – So, they’re starting a newspaper, a well-capitalized one, to be called the California Post. – And you can bet the ruling establishment, which runs this state like the Mexican PRI circa 1980, is going to be a little queasy…

Slay News: Gavin Newsom’s EV Mandate Is Doomed As Demand Softens – His plan would see gasoline-powered cars banned in the state by 2035. – Expanded use of EVs has exposed weaknesses, such as the impact of extreme temperatures on battery life and charging time, plus certain perks EV users enjoy are going away. – Also, if consumers know that in 10 years they won’t be able to get gasoline-powered cars, wouldn’t that drive demand for them up?

American Thinker: Censorship and two-tier justice in the West – The Founders were deeply concerned about the possibility of judicial tyranny – Jefferson warned about judges like these. – … judges should be withdrawn from the bench whose erroneous biases are leading to dissolution. It may, indeed, injure them in fame or fortune, but it saves the Republic…

American Thinker: Back to a big, beautiful, free-market fuel economy future – The recently passed reconciliation bill returns the nation to the regulatory environment that existed before December 22, 1975, when Congress first passed CAFE legislation governing fuel economy. – Fuel efficiency is not the same as fuel economy. Too much of anything is bad if you must give up something you’d rather get for the money…

Gateway Pundit: As of June 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has initiated more than 80 miles of new permanent border barrier projects across the San Diego, Yuma, Tucson, El Paso, and Rio Grande Valley Sectors, with these projects currently in various stages of planning and construction. – Additionally, CBP has deployed approximately 145 miles of temporary barriers in collaboration with the Department of Defense and Texas…

Daily Wire: More MAHA Wins As 12 States Cut Soda, and Candy From Food Stamps – Here are the 12 states making these cuts: Arkansas: Soda, fruit and vegetable drinks with less than 50% natural juice, other unhealthy drinks, and candy will be barred from food stamps purchases by July 2026. – Colorado: By March 2026, SNAP will restrict soft drink purchases…

Daily Mail: The appearance of a mysterious interstellar object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, has reignited debate over whether extraterrestrial technology could be hiding in our solar system. – The mysterious interstellar object aiming at Earth is ‘not natural’ as scientists rule out the comet theory. While more than 200 researchers have concluded it is likely a comet, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has raised doubts in a newly released pre-print paper, pointing to one glaring omission: 3I/ATLAS has no visible tail.

August 4, 2025

Fox News: The DOJ is launching a grand jury investigation into the Russiagate conspiracy allegations – AG Pam Bondi directed her staff Monday to act on the criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard related to the alleged conspiracy to tie President Donald Trump to Russia, and the DOJ is now opening a grand jury investigation into the matter…

One America News: Tulsi Gabbard, says Russia ‘felt it was inevitable’ Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 election, so intentionally withheld info to be used later to damage her reputation – Contrary to prevailing mainstream media narratives suggesting that Russia had favored Donald Trump, Gabbard maintained that Moscow’s true aim was to destabilize the U.S. political landscape while simultaneously preparing for an anticipated Clinton administration.

Fox News: Governor Abbott orders the arrest of AWOL Texas House Democrats after the House Speaker issued a warrant – Most Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives, whom Abbott has accused of potentially committing felonies, left the state on Sunday so that the House would not have enough votes for a quorum to vote on redistricting.

Sharyl Attkisson: By more than 3-to-1, likely US voters continue to support requiring photo identification to vote. – The new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 73% of likely voters say they believe requiring photo ID to vote is a reasonable way to ensure secure elections. – This is down slightly from 77% in January, while 21% say they oppose the requirement.

Gateway Pundit: Nearly 78,000 New Applicants Flood ICE Recruitment – This seismic surge in interest aligns with ICE’s newly launched “Defend the Homeland” recruitment blitz, unveiled by the DHS on July 29, 2025. – ICE is budgeting for 10,000 new agents, dangling $50,000 signing bonuses, student‑loan forgiveness, enhanced overtime pay, and upgraded retirement plans to attract recruits.

Washington Free Beacon: Nine Absurdly ‘Palinesque’ 100% Fact-Checked Stories About Kamala Harris the Biden Team Is Poised To Leak if She Attacks Him in New Book – 1, Harris once held a “mock soiree” to practice mingling authentically before a fancy dinner party – 2, On more than one occasion, Secret Service agents found Harris passed out at the Resolute Desk after breaking into the Oval Office with a case of chardonnay she pilfered from the White House commissary…

American Spectator: The Flexibility of Freelancing Is Good, And Congress Can Make It Great. – The Modern Worker Empowerment Act and the Unlocking Benefits for Independent Workers Act are two bills that will help. – In 2023, an estimated 70 million people freelanced, and about half of them were women. These freelancers, gig workers, and self-employed professionals choose to be independent contractors. They control when, where, how, and for whom they work…

Daily Wire: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office confirmed that a plan has been developed for Israel to fully occupy the Gaza Strip. – The plan includes the Israel Defense Forces operating in areas where hostages are believed to be held, despite Hamas’s threats to murder hostages if forces get too close. – Netanyahu also encouraged IDF Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir is expected to resign from his position if he disagrees with a full occupation…

Breitbart: The Only People Confirmed Starving in Gaza Are Israeli The Hostages – Photographs circulated in the mainstream media, purporting to show starving Palestinian children, have turned out to be photographs of children who are, in fact, suffering from other maladies. – While food security is a concern, over 23,000 tons of aid entered Gaza over the past week on 1,200 trucks.

Zero Hedge: The US Deploys F-16 “Super Squadron” Closer To North Korea Border After Kim’s Ultimatum – The Department of Defense confirmed the US recently transferred 31 F-16 fighter jets from Kunsan Air Base to Osan Air Base, with the purpose of “consolidating air power and enhancing combat readiness” in the region.

Epoch Times: The EU will suspend its two packages of countermeasures to U.S. tariffs for six months, a European Commission spokesman said on Monday. – Olof Gill, the commission spokesman for trade, said in a statement emailed to The Epoch Times that the bloc “continues to work with the U.S. to finalise a Joint Statement, as agreed on 27 July.”

Epoch Times: What to Know About Senate Failing to Reach Deal on Trump Nominees Due to Democrat Stalling – Under the rules of the Senate, two hours of discussion and consideration are allowed between the cloture vote on a nomination and the final confirmation vote. – Republicans could change the Senate rules after the recess to overcome the blockade.

Gateway Pundit: CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Patel Set to Release More Damning Documents Proving FBI Covered Up Clinton’s Collusion Hoax While Amplifying Steele Dossier. – According to Ratcliffe, foreign intelligence services had already flagged a plot by Hillary Clinton to smear Trump as a Russian agent, a scheme known internally as the “Clinton Plan.” – Yet this intelligence was never shared with Congress.

Newsmax: Building America’s Future, a political nonprofit funded in part by billionaire Elon Musk, is launching an ad campaign worth more than $1 million to promote the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that President Trump signed into law last month. The 30-second ad, titled “Independence,” will debut Monday nationally on Fox News, according to the report…

Epoch Times: The US, Ecuador Sign Police Exchange Agreement to Combat Organized Crime – The exchange program that will integrate an Ecuadorian security liaison into Customs and Border Protection’s National Targeting Center, with the mission of intercepting dangerous travelers, including terrorists, and illicit cargo, according to DHS…

Slay News: 3 ‘Depraved Criminal Illegal Aliens’ Have Been Arrested for Murder in Texas – Venezuelan nationals Yosguar Aponte Jimenez, Jose Trivino-Cruz, and Jesus Bellorin-Guzman were charged over their role in the June 20 shooting death of 48-year-old Santiago Lopez Morales at a Motel 6 in Garland, Texas.

Resist The Mainstream: A ‘Surprising’ JD Vance Rival Emerges as GOP Prepares for 2028 Presidential Race – Secretary of State Marco Rubio has gained notable traction among Republican party activists and voters in early primary states, according to political analysts tracking the nascent campaign landscape.

Washington Examiner: Who is ICE arresting? – Data shows 66% of illegal immigrants are criminals. – Since January, ICE has taken nearly 150,000 people into federal custody, 100,000 of whom 100,000 had either pending criminal charges filed against them or had been previously convicted of a crime.

The Federalist: Brennan and Clapper Don’t Have A Statute of Limitations Defense Because They’re Continuing the Conspiracy – ‘John Brennan and James Clapper are known liars and are digging themselves into an even deeper hole,’ White House spokesman Davis Ingle told The Federalist. – Brennan and Clapper’s recent op-ed may not be under oath, but it advances lies they told under oath earlier…

Daily Wire: Governor Abbott To AWOL Texas Democrats, Respect Voters Or Be Removed – Abbot issued a 3 pm Monday deadline to return or face removal proceedings. – More than 50 Democrats left the state to deny a quorum, effectively halting the legislative process. – The special session, which began on July 21, was set to address a variety of issues, including redistricting, flood relief, abortion, and taxes…

Slay News: Radical Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett is in full panic mode after a proposed congressional redistricting map in Texas threatens to boot her out of her district. – Crockett claims the move is all part of a Republican “power grab,” accusing the GOP of trying to “silence voters” and “suppress votes” through the new redistricting plans.

American Thinker: A half-century of junk science comes to an end at the EPA with reform by the Trump administration – Thanks to Lee Zeldin, Barack Obama’s massive EPA power grab is in a death spiral. – In 2009, with a push from the Obama administration, the EPA embarked on a quest to extend its reach into every aspect of energy production and consumption with the adoption of the CO2 Endangerment Finding…

Washington Free Beacon: The House Ethics Committee Slams AOC’s Manipulation of the Rules to Shield Her ‘Spouse’s’ Financial Affairs From the Public – AOC’s partner, Riley Roberts, is a ‘spouse’ to secure gifts, but apparently not when it comes to financial transparency rules. – Indeed, the financial affairs of the man Ocasio-Cortez sometimes calls her “spouse” are a mystery…

Newsmax: Representative Nancy Mace, R‑S.C., officially launched her campaign Monday for governor of South Carolina, aiming to succeed the term‑limited Governor Henry McMaster. – She announced in a statement on a new campaign website ahead of a formal launch event slated for later Monday at The Citadel, the military college from which she graduated in 1999 as the first woman from its Corps of Cadets.

American Thinker: The Elephant, the Mouse, and the Machine – We are living through an era of professional gaslighting so refined it could qualify for a Ph.D. in psychological warfare. – The Left keeps screaming about Epstein to distract us from the biggest federal scandal since the Kennedy assassination, Russia-Gate. – It is no longer a “conspiracy” to say the Deep State exists, it is measurable…

Slay News: President Donald Trump has revealed that he’s hoping to release all government files on Jeffrey Epstein to the public. – Trump said his administration is working to ensure that no unnecessary or harmful information is released, such as the identities of victims…

American Thinker: What Has the Intelligence Community Done for the U.S. Lately? – The Durham Annex is out, and we know that the Democrats and the Intelligence Community were fumbling a pathetic play to stay in the game for one more quarter. – So, what kind of a spy operation does the United States really need? – Given the un-seriousness of the Intelligence Community down the decades, why worry?…

American Thinker: What Does It Mean to Be a Free Nation? – The war for free speech will decide whether there continues to be a ‘West.’ – As European governments more overtly embrace censorship and criminalize speech, the incremental push toward a regulated online system requiring authenticated digital identities promises a future when only government-engineered narratives will be approved for public expression…

Zero Hedge: Joe Biden’s inner circle is reportedly preparing to spill all the beans on just how awful Kamala Harris was as Vice President, should her upcoming book put him in a bad light. – It’s now common knowledge that Biden’s camp, particularly his wife, despises Harris for going along with the Democratic Party coup against Joe.

Zero Hedge: Tesla Board Approves 96 Million Share Stock Award To “Retain” Elon Musk – Elon has not received meaningful compensation for eight years since the 2012 CEO Performance Award was last earned in 2017. – Tesla is at a critical inflection point with slumping sales and Musk pivoting the company to focus on robotaxis, cheaper EV platforms, humanoid robots, and AI…

City Journal: Is Universal Basic Income Effective? Not Really – A new study joins a growing body of literature pointing to lackluster outcomes. – Once again, the upshot is that, while free money can be helpful for those receiving it, even relatively large payments don’t seem as transformative as UBI boosters have hoped. – Unsurprisingly, when parents got more money, they spent more, including on some undeniably important things…

American Thinker: When Kamala Met Stephen – Even for those of us with low expectations, this undynamic duo of Harris and Colbert failed to meet them. – The two spoke about a lot of things but said little. – In the end, neither one understands where the country is, no matter how often their crowd applauds them…

Epoch Times: Taiwanese Doctor Expresses Concern Over China’s Organ Industry – A doctor said an order allegedly given from a hospital to a Chinese medical student is troubling. – Medical student, Luo Shuaiyu, fell to his death from a building in May 2024, just weeks before his graduation. – Before that, Luo had been asked to locate 12 child donors aged 3 to 9, ostensibly for medical purposes.

Slay News: The FDA Approves Jeff Bezos’ Lab-Grown Fake ‘Fish’ for U.S Food Supply Without Safety Data – The fake “fish” is made from real salmon cells that are grown in a lab. – Worryingly, Wildtype has used the GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) loophole to get its product approved. – The approval has sparked an outcry from critics who believe this move is part of a larger globalist agenda to control the world’s food supply.

August 3, 2025

One America News: – Witkoff met with dozens of families in Tel Aviv to explain that President Donald Trump is seeking a “shift” in policy from attempting to secure a partial ceasefire deal, towards a comprehensive deal that would effectively end the war and secure the release of the hostages. – “We have a very, very good plan that we’re working on collectively with the Israeli government, with Prime Minister Netanyahu…

Wall Street Journal: China Is Choking The Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies – Beijing’s tightened controls are a sign of the leverage it has over the U.S. military supply chain. – For example, one drone-parts manufacturer that supplies the U.S. military was forced to delay orders by up to two months while it searched for a non-Chinese source of magnets, which are assembled from rare earths…

Red State: US May Be Seeing First Negative Net Migration in 50 Years – The southern border is effectively closed. – ICE is rounding up the worst of the worst, rotating them through the Alligator Alcatraz and other out-processing stations, and sending them back to where they belong.

Epoch Times: Beijing Pays Influencers in Africa to Spread Anti-US Messaging – Beijing and Moscow are financing social media campaigns against the United States, according to media experts and insiders. – Their research reveals that many influencers who use the TikTok platform are earning hundreds to thousands of dollars per month by disseminating misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda that benefits Beijing and Moscow….

Center Square: A redistricting showdown is in full swing in Texas and California, with House Republicans and Democrats scrambling to secure their party’s majority during the second half of Trump 2.0. – Changes to the congressional map are usually reserved for end-of-decade Census years, but lawmakers in battleground states are using redistricting as a political tool to win a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives next year, when all House seats are up.

American Spectator: Why Are We Still In the UN? – Both the General Assembly and the Security Council are broken because the alliances upon which they were founded no longer exist. – When the UN was established, the UN Security Council was empowered so that its resolutions were supposedly given the force and effect of international law, but things have changed…

Real Clear Science: Why Nuclear Tops Renewables in Almost Every Way – Governments are rushing headlong into buildouts of renewables and mostly ignoring nuclear power. – “So many people are so worried about carbon emissions that we tend to forget about all of the other things, like mineral extraction, land use, and impact on local ecosystems. – When you look at renewables on those metrics, they’re not quite as green as the renewable lobby would have you believe…

One America News: Senator John Fetterman recently admitted that his party was wrong about President Donald Trump’s trade policy while acknowledging that the tariffs are “going well.” – Fetterman was questioned about Bill Maher’s recent remarks, in which Maher acknowledged that Trump’s tariff strategy did not “tank” the economy and instead coincided with record stock market highs.

American Thinker: It’s time to kill the left’s big lie about Trump ‘gutting Medicaid’ – It’s not gutted at all and will continue on its pre-Biden unaffordable trajectory. – Here are a few of the Big Lie claims that Democrats have made about the Medicaid portions of the OBBB: – The University of Pennsylvania claimed that 51,000 people a year could die because of OBBB changes to Medicaid…

American Spectator: Trump Should Have Fired McEntarfer Long Ago – The Bureau of Labor Statistics was a dumpster fire during her tenure as commissioner. – Her leadership of the BLS involved implausibly robust job growth estimates during former President Biden’s final year in office and recurring technical issues…

Slay News: Canada Advances A Plan to ‘Vaccinate’ The Public with Bill Gates Funded Covid mRNA Aerosols – The new AeroVax seeks to overcome “vaccine hesitancy” by using aerosols to “vaccinate” the general public. – Unlike traditional “vaccines” that are deployed using injections, the new AeroVax is an atomized spray that is inhaled…

Epoch Times: Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies uncovered a large-scale bribery scheme involving the procurement of military drones and electronic warfare equipment just days after the agencies’ independence was restored. – The NABU and the SAPO said the alleged plot involved a sitting lawmaker, current and former regional officials, National Guard personnel, and a company executive…

American Thinker: RIP Disparate Outcomes, Credentialism, and the Russian Collusion Hoax – It’s clear the Administration is taking its time to reveal the Russiagate investigation’s conclusions for maximum impact, an impact that will result in arrests of a number of people who pulled off this fraud. – Jonathan Turley was the best at summarizing the week’s Russiagate revelations, as shown below…

American Thinker: Trump’s Next Winning Issue, Judicial Malfeasance – With the border under control, the president has new dragons to slay. – In the past six months, Obama and Biden judges have told Congress which private entities it is required to fund, limited when and where the president can deploy troops, stipulated Executive Branch staffing levels, and welcomed foreign criminal invaders into our country…

American Thinker: The Ninth Circuit Swings and Misses on Birthright Citizenship – The people who passed the 14th Amendment would agree with Trump, not these Leftist judges. – A faction of Americans citizens and some courts assert that the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment, in effect, grants automatic U.S. citizenship to any child thereafter born in the United States…

Center Square: Agencies across the federal government are developing data centers across the US and implementing AI technology in health research after the announcement of President Trump’s AI Action Plan last week. – The AI action plan includes more than 90 federal policy actions aimed at rolling back environmental regulations, increasing domestic data center outputs, and integrating AI into operations.

Just The News: Critical Condition: America faces a supply chain crisis for basic drugs, and President Trump wants to fix it. – Reliance on China for basic drugs like antibiotics, PPE, and surgical sterilization tools leaves the US vulnerable to shortages. – Senator Marshall, “The efforts of drugmakers to drive down costs through globalization moved the production of ingredients and finished drugs overseas to China…

American Thinker: A Wave of Bankruptcies Sweeps Across Germany – The death spiral of German businesses has reached dramatic proportions. – Now in the third year of a prolonged recession, the economic situation is more alarming than during the 2009 financial crisis. – In June alone, the IWH economists counted 1,420 corporate bankruptcies — down 4% from May…

Breitbart: Protests against the British government’s housing mostly young male illegal migrants in hotels across England continued on Saturday as the movement appears to be spreading. – This was sparked by a local uprising in the Essex town of Epping last month against a migrant hotel after a 38-year-0ld Ethiopian migrant allegedly sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl…

August 2, 2025

Breitbart: The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas filmed Israeli hostage Evyatar David being forced to dig his own grave in a tunnel underneath Gaza, in a propaganda video meant to pressure the Israeli government to end the war. – Hamas is advertising its brutality is partly to instill fear in its Israeli audience, but also to create pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to capitulate to the terrorists’ demands…

Washington Examiner: Schumer mocks Trump after senators head home with no deal on nominees – Schumer, “Let me clear what happened: Donald Trump attempted to steamroll the Senate to put in place his historically unqualified nominees, but Senate Democrats wouldn’t let him.”

Washington Examiner: President Trump accuses Schumer of ‘political extortion’ amid his nominations blockade – Trump, “Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is demanding over One Billion Dollars in order to approve a small number of our highly qualified nominees, who should right now be helping to run our Country. This demand is egregious and unprecedented…

Independent Sentinel: RINO Senator John Thune Blocks Trump from Making Recess Appointments – The President could have appointed some of his nominees during recess, but Thune is going to hold pro forma sessions, so he can’t. – Meanwhile, 135 important positions are left unfilled..

LifeZette: Former FBI Director Christopher Wray has been referred to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation by the Oversight Project, a government watchdog group based in D.C. – The referral alleges that Wray made false statements to Congress and obstructed proceedings in two separate investigations involving FBI activity…

Zero Hedge: Some Big-Name Politicians Are Running For Governor In 2026 – The United States will have many elections held on Nov. 3, 2026, for all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, one-third of seats in the U.S. Senate, and elections to dozens of state legislatures and local offices. Some of the biggest races will be for various states’ governor’s offices…

Washington Examiner: A Texas House committee has advanced a new congressional map that is designed to increase the GOP majority ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. – The newly drawn map, which would create 30 Republican congressional seats compared to eight Democratic districts, passed the Texas House’s Redistricting Committee by a party-line vote of 12-6 on Saturday, setting it up for a vote from the full state House next week.

American Conservative: Trump Fires The Bureau of Labor Statistics Head After Bad Jobs Report – The president claimed that Erika McEntarfer was falsifying employment reports to help his political opponents. – The poor jobs report published Friday found a lower-than-expected 73,000 non-farm jobs added to the economy in July. – Earlier job reports were also revised downward.

American Spectator: The Media Must Admit Their Complicity in Russiagate – The American people cannot allow this fraud to go unanswered. – It was an orchestrated assault against America and its democratic institutions. – In October of last year, a Gallup poll found that a meager 31 percent of Americans trust the mass media “to report the news ‘fully, accurately and fairly’” — an all-time low…

Breitbart: The Senate voted 50-45 to confirm former Judge Jeanine Pirro to serve as the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. – Pirro, who is also a former Fox News host, was previously sworn in as the interim U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. in May.

Daily Signal: If White South African Murders Are Robberies Gone Wrong, Then Why Are Many ‘Tortured Or Killed Without Anything Being Stolen’? – It’s not just the Trump administration. A review of State Department records conducted by the Washington Examiner found that the government has been tracking “racially targeted” attacks against white South African farmers since at least 1999…

Washington Examiner: President Trump’s pressure to ease the nominee backlog forced the Senate into a rare weekend session. – Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) vowed to keep the Senate in session indefinitely until either an unspecified number of nominees are confirmed or Democrats allow a tranche to be swiftly approved via voice votes…

Slay News: Cambodia will nominate President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize due to his successful intervention in bringing about a ceasefire agreement to end the country’s longstanding border conflict with Thailand. – Speaking to reporters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chanthol expressed his country’s gratitude for Trump’s decisive role in achieving peace in the region, acknowledging that the president played a central part in resolving a border conflict that had escalated in recent weeks.

Daily Wire: For The First Time In 40 Years, The Federal Government Can Judge Applicants By Merit – A decades-old court order that blocked the federal government from using tests to measure job applicants’ skills was terminated by a D.C. judge on Friday, setting the stage for an overhaul of the federal workforce that could be one of President Donald Trump’s most lasting achievements…

Slay News: Sen Tom Cotton Introduces Bill to Limit H-1B Visas for Foreign Workers at American Universities to 65,000 Such Visas Annually – This is the same limit as other types of businesses. – Every year, hundreds of thousands of white collar workers are brought to the U.S. under the program. – They sometimes replace Americans, who then must train their foreign counterparts, and Cotton thinks it’s time to curb that practice…

Daily Fetched: New Emails Implicate Hillary Clinton in Orchestrating The Trump-Russia Hoax – A joint investigation by the CIA and FBI into “burn bags” found to hold information from the government’s investigation into the 2016 election appears to put Hillary Clinton in the frame, suggesting she signed off on efforts to baselessly tie President Donald Trump to claims of Russian interference…

Gatestone Institute: The Race Against China for Fusion Power – Whoever Controls It, Controls the Century – China has been investing at least $1.5 billion each year in developing fusion energy for commercial use; its current funding of fusion energy is, along with much else there, apparently a state secret. – The problem in the US, so far, is that members of the current administration seem to prefer only fission energy…

American Thinker: The ongoing fiction of cheap wind and solar – The more renewables added to the grid, the worse problems become. – Designed to deceive, the metric used to perpetuate the wind and solar fantasy is the Levelized Cost of Electricity, a deeply flawed tool that masks the real costs of these energy sources, whose ability to perform is subject to the weather and time of day….

Zero Hedge: Democrats Spark A “Manufactured Electric Power Crisis” In Maryland As Left Begins To Panic – Under far-left Democratic leadership, the state has been so epically mismanaged that it now faces multiple cascading crises, whether fiscal, energy-related, or tied to illegal aliens or violent crime…

American Thinker: Do We Finally Have Proof The Death of Seth Rich Was A Hit by the Deep State? – The more information comes out, the more disturbing things become. – With the bombshell release of these documents by DNI director Tulsi Gabbard and more releases every day, Rich’s death at the hands of the Deep State is no longer a conspiracy theory. – I agree with Director Gabbard’s conclusion: Accountability and the rule of law must be restored.

Fox News: US-born job gains outpace losses among immigrant workers. – Foreign-born down by 543K and Native up by 2 million – Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, ‘The promises made to the president were that he was going to pay attention to the American worker.’

Western Journal: Trump Gives Stunning Reply When Asked About Names of Donors for $200M White House Ballroom Addition – A reporter asked the president, “How many donors do you think it is going to take to get the $200 million?” – “Maybe one: Me,” Trump answered.

American Thinker: The End of Stephen Colbert’s Late-Night Hate Disguised as Comedy – Besides the $40M annual loss, contemporary viewers can consume content online at their convenience, rather than watching it on television at a scheduled time. – Also, the very format of the late-night show, with the staged monologue, rehearsed bits, and contrived anecdotes from stars, to sow division and hatred has become stale…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures: Sweeney Bod Edition – New revelations in the Russia collusion hoax that may bring criminal prosecutions nearer. – President Trump concluded an epic trade deal with the EU. – Trump gave Russia a deadline to end the Ukraine war. – And then, of course, there’s the JEANS thing…

August 1, 2025

One America News: A Trump team visited the disputed Gaza aid distribution site to investigate – Steve Witkoff, “Today, we spent over five hours inside Gaza – level setting the facts on the ground, assessing conditions, and meeting with @GHFUpdates and other agencies.” – Ambassador Mike Huckabee, “We received briefings from @IDF and spoke to folks on the ground. GHF delivers more than one million meals a day, an incredible feat!”

Western Journal: General Flynn Identified One of the Most Important Details of The Newly Found FBI Burn Bags, And It Could Hit Comey Himself. – “ALL OF THESE BURN BAG DOCUMENTS WILL HAVE FINGERPRINTS ON THESE DOCUMENTS.” Flynn posted on social media on Thursday. – There is no better agency to take this on, since the FBI manages the largest known fingerprint database.

Just The News: President Trump says he wants to ‘release everything’ related to Jeffrey Epstein – The Trump administration has faced heavy backlash over its handling of the Epstein investigation, including its promise to release Epstein’s alleged “client list,” which it has since said does not exist.

America First Report: Ghislaine Maxwell Has Been Quietly Moved to A Minimum-Security Prison in Texas – Just last week, Maxwell met for two days with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche—President Trump’s former personal defense lawyer—at a courthouse near her previous Florida prison. – The relocation comes amid ongoing legal efforts by Maxwell’s team to challenge her conviction…

Gateway Pundit: The Office of Special Counsel has launched an investigation into Jack Smith for possible Hatch Act violations. – Smith was appointed as Special Counsel in 2022 by Biden’s AG Merrick Garland to investigate Trump just one day after Trump announced his 2024 bid for the White House. – Smith indicted Trump on 37 federal counts in Miami in June 2023 for lawfully storing presidential records at his Mar-a-Lago estate, which Secret Service agents protected.

Epoch Times: The U.S. Senate on Aug. 1 passed a so-called “minibus” spending package to fund the government in the upcoming fiscal year, approving a slate of non-controversial spending items. – The slate of funding bills includes around $187 billion in appropriations for the VA, the Department of Agriculture, the FDA, legislative branch operations, military construction, and rural development.

One America News: SpaceX launches crew of 4 on mission to International Space Station – The crew onboard for the mission, Crew-11, includes two NASA astronauts, Zena Cardman and Michael Fincke, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui. – It should arrive at the International Space Station (ISS) at around 3 a.m. ET on Saturday after a 16-hour excursion…

Daily Signal: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS, is Shutting Down. – This follows the Congress’s voting to cut the funding for the CPB. – National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System have been widely criticized for liberal bias for years. – The majority of staff positions will end with the close of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, with a small transition team remaining until January 2026.

Daily Wire: President Trump Dispatches Nuclear Submarines After ‘Highly Provocative Statements’ From Russia. – “Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences. – I hope this will not be one of those instances.” – Dmitry Medvedev, who is currently serving as Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said earlier this week that Trump’s ultimatums to Russia were “a step towards war.”…

Newsmax: Despite blasting President Donald Trump’s tax cut and spending megabill in late June, Elon Musk contributed $15 million overall to the president’s super PAC and two groups backing Republican congressional candidates. – The donations made Musk the largest individual donor to both groups in the first half of 2025, according to campaign finance reports.

American Wire: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth smacked down LA Mayor Karen Bass’ phony baloney rhetoric after she tried to take credit for the Pentagon withdrawing troops from LA. – “You’re welcome, Mayor.” – “These brave troops are redeploying because their mission was so successful.” – “You should be thanking them for saving your city from mobs & chaos.”

Resist The Mainstream: A trans-identifying illegal alien from Colombia faces serious child rape and stalking charges in NY after being released twice by authorities. – First, under the Biden administration’s immigration policies, and again due to local sanctuary city laws. – Officials point to the case as a direct example of how sanctuary city policies and lenient federal border enforcement jeopardize public safety nationwide…

Breitbart: Late-night host Stephen Colbert threw former Vice President Kamala Harris a series of softball questions in her first interview since the 2024 election. – But Kamala couldn’t name a Democrat Party leader during her 30-minute softball interview. – While Kamala Harris did not rule out a presidential run in 2028, she expressed a desire to stay away from elective politics due to what she described as a broken system…

Breitbart: Too Little, Too Late – The U.S. economy added 73,000 jobs in July, the Department of Labor said Friday, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2 percent. – This was far short of expectations, as economists had forecast employers would add 104,000 workers to payrolls and the unemployment rate would rise to 4.2 percent, with estimates ranging from zero to 140,000…

American Thinker: What did Nancy Pelosi know and when did she know it? – I’ve wondered for years how she could be so certain? – This wasn’t just the usual campaign hyperbole. Her phrasing was a simple noun-verb construction, nakedly declarative, with not a single doubt. – She left herself absolutely no wiggle-room for later, just in case. – The long-classified Durham annex shows that the clock on when the malfeasance/coup against Donald Trump began may have to be ratcheted back months…

The Federalist: The DOJ Official Who Approved The $2 Million Payout To The Disgraced Russia Hoaxers Has Been Identified As Left-Wing Activist Brian Netter. – Netter is now legal director at Democracy Forward, a Democrat Party-affiliated group launched in 2017 to fight President Trump with lawfare, chaired by Marc Elias. – The group brags that it took Trump to court more than 100 times in his first term in office…

Washington Examiner: A number of key documents related to the “manufactured” Russiagate scandal are still heavily redacted or not yet declassified, despite efforts by DNI Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, among others. – As the Trump administration continues to release individual documents, here is some of the information that is still outstanding: – Hillary Clinton’s thumb drives…

American Thinker: Obama’s Russian collusion conspiracy to undermine Trump and permanently damage his presidency in 2016-17 is the most egregious political scandal in American history. – Obama and his cabal would not have brazenly employed the tactics of many despots in the past century without believing a feckless Republican party would abandon Trump and the legacy media would be eagerly complicit in their skullduggery…

American Thinker: Who Judges The Judges? – President Trump is still being harassed by a judiciary that is destabilizing the constitutional basis of our government, and making a mockery of the law. – What can our form of government tell us about rogue, effectively outlaw courts that have decided to use their position as a partisan policy mechanism, beyond appropriate judicial behavior bounded by a judicial oath in a court system with circumscribed authority?…

American Thinker: In This Morally Backward World, Western Nations Pressure Israel To Feed Her Genocidal Enemy – The war these same Western nations decry would end instantly and humanely if they would just give Israel their support. – Imagine a scenario where President Roosevelt put a gun to Winston Churchill’s head and said to him, “Winston, old chap, you need to give those nasty, Nazi Germans humanitarian aid. – As once said, “War Is Hell!…

American Thinker: Are Democrats tacitly encouraging assassination hits on ICE agents? – The Democrats who demanded mask mandates now demand mask-free mandates. – Eric Swalwell accused ICE officers of behaving like “bank robbers.” – After a successful ICE raid in San Diego, local city councilman Sean Elo-Rivera stated that ICE agents are “terrorists.”…

Breitbart: Mexican authorities are working to protect top political operators within the country’s ruling party to keep them from being named or prosecuted in connection with a cartel-connected fuel theft ring. – The raid took place recently in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. – FGR agents seized 1.8 million liters of fuel products, nine trucks, 39 trailer tanks, 12 pumps, and various other pieces of industrial equipment.

Slay News: President Trump has received over $1 billion from big names like Columbia, ABC News, and Paramount, and it may not be long before Harvard gives in. – Trump’s war on liberal elites has led to millions of dollars in settlements, as powerful institutions in media, higher education, and the legal profession surrender to his demands…

California Globe: Revoke the Teacher Union’s Charter – The latest NAEP evaluation reveals that only about a quarter of students can read at grade level; even fewer can reach that level in math, geography, or U.S. history. – Only about 9 percent of the NEA’s income went to “elevate the teaching profession.” – The rest goes to politics, with not quite 99 percent going to Democrats causes…

The Media Censors Brutal Cincinnati Racist Beating While Democrats Cheer The Savage Attackers – The woman viciously pummeled in a viral Cincinnati brawl has returned home to Russia, as relatives of one of the attackers claim the brutal beatdown is only drawing national outrage because the victim is white. – The reaction to the incident on the part of leftists is clearly motivated by their view of what race relations should look like...

July 31, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: The Trump Admin Tells Congress Hamas-Linked UNRWA Must Be Dismantled Because It Is ‘Irredeemably Compromised’ – The assessment indicates that the US has fully lost faith in the organization after months of revelations that at least a dozen UNRWA employees participated in Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attacks against Israel…

Epoch Times: President Trump Hikes Tariffs on Canada to 35% – Canada’s ‘failure’ to curb fentanyl trafficking and its continued use of counter-tariffs were given as reasons for the increase. – Trump had earlier warned Prime Minister Mark Carney of his intention to raise tariffs, citing Canada’s supply management for eggs and dairy, fentanyl trafficking, as well as Ottawa’s counter-tariffs on the US as concerns.

Epoch Times: President Trump Announces New Tariff Rates for Dozens of Countries Before Aug. 1 Deadline – Many countries will see a tariff rate between 10 and 15 percent on their goods, depending on whether the United States has a trade deficit or surplus with that nation. – Some of the hardest hit countries are Syria, with a 41 percent reciprocal tariff rate, Laos, with a 40 percent rate, and Switzerland, with a 39 percent rate.

One America News: Trump sends 17 pharmaceutical companies letters calling for them to commit to lowering U.S. prescription drug prices. – The list of companies that received the message includes: AbbVie, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, EMD Serono, Genentech, Gilead, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Regeneron, and Sanofi…

One America News: President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) on Thursday reestablishing the Presidential Fitness Test, which former Democrat President Barack Obama phased out in 2012. – The program was created to promote an active, healthy lifestyle among children in the U.S., which is in line with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) initiative.

One America News: 72 arrested and 29 human trafficking victims were rescued in a 2-week Mississippi operation – According to Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R-Miss.), the effort, called Operation Guardian Force, was led by the Attorney General’s Office’s Human Trafficking Task Force, the Fentanyl Strike Force, and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force…

One America News: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced construction for a new ballroom inside the White House will begin in September. – She stated that the ballroom is set to be built beside the East Wing and the East Wing will be “modernized,” with offices in that area relocated during construction. – She also noted that the approximately $200 million structure will be financially covered by President Donald Trump and other donors, NOT U.S. taxpayers.

American Thinker: Marjorie Taylor Greene ran against the swamp, then she got rich in it. – Greene entered Congress in 2021 with an estimated net worth of $700,000, but by April 2025, her net worth had ballooned to $22 million. – She’s just another politician who made it big in Washington — while the people back home yearn for a government that represents them…

Just The News: The Whistleblower on the Russia collusion hoax was threatened over the reporting of wrongdoing – The whistleblower’s firsthand account includes statements from their direct supervisor pressuring them to endorse the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment in order to receive a promotion…

Breitbart: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi repeated his demand that the United States pay some form of “compensation” for bombing the nation’s illicit nuclear sites in an interview published Thursday, stating Tehran has zero appetite for resuming talks with the West. – PressTV noted that Araghchi did not specify exactly how much money Iran wants the US to pay, presumably for Iran to rebuild its illicit nuclear sites.

Washington Free Beacon: How the Supposedly ‘Neutral’ UN Is Helping Hamas Oppress Gazans and Fool the World – Once the UN aid trucks have reached the population centers, armed Hamas militants have hijacked the trucks, the Gazans said, and what aid has arrived at the warehouses has disappeared into a patronage system controlled by Hamas…

American Thinker: Perpetual Russian Wars – Russia’s real reason for fighting in Ukraine has nothing to do with any potential benefits it might achieve if it should win that war. – Russia has no coherent long-term plan for Ukraine, so why? – Russia can exist only in a state of permanent war. – Therefore, the goal of the Russia-Ukraine war is war itself. Nothing more…

Issues & Insights: Just One Chart Kills The Medicaid Lies For Good – There have been countless lies published in the wake of President Trump signing the One Big Beautiful Bill. – What’s wrong with them all? They are all based on one big, fat lie. – This trend-line shows there are no cuts to Medicaid.

Zero Hedge: Two Trump Policies The Market Hasn’t Priced In Yet – Deportation flights are already happening, and are about to accelerate. – Secondary sanctions on Russian oil have been proposed but are not yet implemented.

American Thinker: The Two-State Solution Died on October 7th – The atrocities convinced Israelis that any territory given over to the Palestinians would become a future launchpad for terror. – A successful two-state solution requires goodwill and responsible, credible leadership on both sides. – October 7 destroyed any remaining credibility not only of Hamas but also of the Palestinian Authority.

Breitbart: President Trump Threatens Canada over Its Palestinian State Plan – Trump, “Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. – That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh, Canada!!!”

Just The News: Commerce Secretary Lutnick Says Cambodia and Thailand have made trade deals with the US after their ceasefire. – “Donald Trump and his trade team have proven: The EU pays, Japan pays, Korea pays, Vietnam pays, the Philippines pay, all of Indonesia pays,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick added…

Daily Wire: President Trump’s Art Of The Trade Deal: Here Are The Countries That Have Reached Agreements With America – The United Kingdom – The European Union – Japan – Pakistan – Indonesia – South Korea – Vietnam – The Philippines – Thailand – Cambodia – Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs are set to go into effect for many countries on Friday with no deals for China, Canada, and Mexico among them.

Resist The Mainstream: President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the US will impose a 15% tariff on imports from South Korea as part of a sweeping trade agreement. – The deal prevents the implementation of steeper tariffs that had previously been considered, and outlines major investment commitments by the Asian trading partner.

The Federalist: Senator Mike Lee Will Introduce Bill To Halt Federal Judges’ Control Over U.S. Attorney Selections – The two-page bill is designed to, as the legislation’s preamble explains, “restore executive power to appoint US attorneys.” – The move comes following two high-profile fights between the DOJ and federal courts that refused to acquiesce in the president’s pick for U.S. attorney’s…

Slay News: Democrats Join Forces with Soros-Linked Firm to Sue Trump Over Illegal Alien Detention – Anti-Trump Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin leads the group. – The lawsuit claims that the administration is blocking members of Congress from accessing facilities housing illegal aliens and preventing them from obtaining critical information about detainees…

Not The Bee: Pew Research, “Young men have shifted MASSIVELY toward the political right since 2023.” – This is maybe the wildest political shift I’ve ever seen. – These graphs from Pew Research show that the old trope of “you grow conservative as you grow old” is over. – Younger people are moving to the Right and moving very quickly…

Epoch Times: President Trump Has Given Mexico A 90-Day Extension to Reach A Trade Deal – Trump agreed to delay imposing higher tariffs on Mexico after a call with Sheinbaum, allowing 25 percent tariffs to remain for 90 days. – “More and more, we are getting to know and understand each other.” – “The complexities of a deal with Mexico are somewhat different than other nations because of both the problems and assets of the border.”

Washington Examiner: President Trump‘s tariffs will be at the heart of a legal drama on Thursday when a federal appeals court weighs his authority to levy them via executive action. – The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will hear arguments in the Trump administration’s appeal of a May ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade, which found that the president enacted his tariff plans unconstitutionally.

Washington Examiner: Trump unloads on Powell after Fed decision to keep interest rates steady: ‘Too angry, too stupid’ – The Fed’s decision marks the fifth time Powell has bucked the president on the matter this year, after the central bank declined to lower rates during its January, March, May, and June meetings.

American Wire: Former ABC News reporter Terry Moran acknowledged that the network has no “viewpoint diversity” and showed it was “biased” against President Donald Trump. – Moran was dropped in June after nearly three decades with ABC News after a rant on social media attacking Trump and White House aide Stephen Miller. He wrote about his exit in a Substack piece titled “RIP, CBS,” in which he addressed the future of CBS News.

Daily Fetched: Trump: “Nancy Pelosi Should Be Investigated for Insider Trading” Pelosi, along with her husband, faces allegations of insider trading as their investments outperformed almost every major hedge fund in 2024. – “You know, she made a fortune with her husband, and I think that’s disgraceful,” Trump said during a press conference at the White House.

City Journal: Trump’s Push to Lower Drug Prices Misses the Mark – Americans’ high pharmaceutical costs are homegrown, not the result of “global freeloading.” – The Trump administration can’t reduce America’s high drug costs without addressing their domestic underlying causes: laws and regulations that force insurers and government programs to cover a wide array of drugs and new therapies without regard to value for money…

Geller Report: Diabolical George Soros Ties to Russia Collusion Hoax Exposed in a Explosive Declassified Annex of Durham Report – Sources suggesting that the FBI and the Obama administration would be involved in promoting the false Trump-Russia narrative, before the FBI even opened its investigation, were reportedly connected to George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, according to a bombshell document declassified Thursday morning.

Center For Immigration Studies: Deterrence, the Key to Border Security, Is Back – Decoding the DOJ’s border prosecution stats – Congress gave DHS four main tools to deter would-be migrants from entering illegally – Once the Biden administration broke with all its predecessors and ditched deterrence, nothing could control the migrant wave except renewed deterrence…

Breitbart: Newsom, Eyeing A Presidential Run, Repeals A Law He Brought Forth – Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law Wednesday that repealed a law he signed in 2022 that decriminalized loitering and had enabled sex trafficking. – The move came despite criticism from some Democrats.

Zero Hedge: Destroying Brennan And Clapper’s Desperate Op-Ed – In the face of recent revelations concerning intelligence abuses that took place at the end of the Obama Administration, former CIA Director James Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper took to The New York Times to defend themselves and their legacies…

American Thinker: Keep Jasmine around – Crockett is the best thing that has happened to the GOP in quite some time. – As the first draft of the map shows, there are probably going to be five new congressional districts in Texas. – The best part is that Rep. Jasmine Crockett will likely compete with Rep. Marc Veasey and Rep. Julie Johnson in one district primary. – Is that great or what?

Washington Free Beacon: Mahmood Mamdani, Credited With Shaping His Son Zohran’s Thinking, Wrote of ‘Moral Equivalence’ Between 9/11 and US War on Terror – Zohran Mamdani has said he edits his father’s speeches and writings, and has described his father as an intellectual influence…

Center Square: California’s interest in fraudulent COVID benefits will soon reach $1 billion per year to pay back $20 billion California borrowed to help cover what the state says was $55 billion in “ineligible” or fraudulent COVID-era unemployment insurance benefits claims.- California is the only state that has not repaid its loans to the federal government for COVID-era unemployment insurance benefits…

Wall Street Journal: The Condo Market Is Floundering – The prospects for condo sellers are far bleaker than for those selling single-family homes, where supply is tighter. – More condos are on the market, and units are taking longer to sell. Condo prices tend to outperform when the market heats up and underperform when the market cools…

Daily Mail: The top baby names in England and Wales were revealed today, with Muhammad taking the #1 spot for the second year in a row. – More than 5,721 boys were given the specific spelling of Muhammad in 2024, a rise of 23 per cent on last year, according to the Office for National Statistics…

July 30, 2025

The War Zone: Cartel Members Fought In Ukraine To Learn and Refine Their FPV Drone Skills – Obtaining hands-on experience in how to employ FPV drones as weapons in Ukraine could radically speed up the learning curve for Mexican cartels. – FPV drones are now being used in a war between the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) and Sinaloa cartels in coastal west central Mexico, the head of an intelligence firm tracking cartels told us back in April.

One America News: The NTSB finds the Army chopper was ‘above altitude limit’ in the deadly D.C. airport collision in January – However, according to the NTSB, the barometric altimeters had underreported altitude by 80 to 130 feet, meaning the crew likely believed they were flying lower than they really were…

American Spectator: Trump’s Supporters Aren’t Going Anywhere – Over 10 years, Trump has forged an incredible and undeniable record. – Understandably, Democrats seizing on the Epstein files and the establishment media are eagerly fanning the flames. – They are because they need a distraction, something, anything, to stop Trump’s momentum…

American Spectator: Trump’s India Tariffs Crack Down on Real Russian Collusion – India has been among the world’s largest purchasers of Russian oil, gas, and military equipment, while many other nations have cut their ties to the expansionist Putin regime. – The United States will no longer let India act with impunity to stonewall our businesses and bankroll Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…

Daily Signal: Migration to Red States Is Accelerating — “The single most important thing that is going on in this country, economically and demographically, is the massive shift in migration that’s happened over the last 10 to 20 years, and it is accelerating,” economist Steve Moore told attendees at the launch of Unleash Prosperity’s interactive migration website called votewithyourfeet.net…

Epoch Times: The Fed Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged – For the first time in three decades, two central bank officials dissented, preferring to cut interest rates. – Financial markets had overwhelmingly expected the Fed to hold steady, despite persistent pushback from President Donald Trump and senior administration officials…

American Thinker: The New York Times’s non-apology apology for its blood libel against Israel – Somehow, the always despicable paper manages to sink even lower by doing the right thing in the wrong way. – By using those unauthentic images, their point, obviously, was to create maximum dramatic effect, by implying Israel is guilty of genocide by subjecting children to the slow horrors of starvation…

One America News: At least eighteen individuals have been convicted as a result of a coordinated operation between the DOJ and the FBI, which uncovered their involvement on four “dark web” sites dedicated to child sexual abuse material. – On Wednesday, the DOJ announced the details behind Operation Grayskull, “a highly successful joint effort between the DOJ and the FBI…

Red State: Kamala Harris Will Not Run for California Governor, Is Mum on Possible 2028 Presidential Run — In a self-serving, self-important statement, Harris indicated that there were other ways to implement change that didn’t involve holding elected office, and that for now, she’d work in other ways to help Democrats get elected…

One America News: The Senate confirmed Emil Bove to serve as a judge on the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which oversees cases in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, on Tuesday by a 50-49 vote. – Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) voted against Bove’s nomination, alongside their Democrat counterparts.

Resist The Mainstream: An 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia Tuesday evening, generating tsunami waves that reached Hawaii and prompted widespread evacuations across the Pacific region. — The first tsunami waves struck at 8:20 p.m. local time, with water levels exceeding four feet in Haleiwa on Oahu’s north shore, reaching five feet within minutes and causing flooding in coastal areas.

Liberty Daily: The U.S. May Be in Secret Talks With Ukrainian Officials to “Replace Zelensky” — The meeting allegedly included top Ukrainian officials such as Andrey Yermak, head of the presidential office; Kirill Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence; and Valery Zaluzhny, the former commander-in-chief now serving as Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK. — Given the high stature of these individuals, this is a massive claim, and it could be that Russian intelligence is releasing such a report…

American Conservative: President Trump, “The United States will impose a 25% tariff on Indian goods, along with an unspecified ‘penalty’ due to India’s purchasing Russian energy and military equipment.” – “India’s tariffs are among the highest in the World, and they have the most strenuous and obnoxious non-monetary Trade Barriers of any Country.” – “The tariffs will kick in on August 1.”

American Thinker: Is Iran’s regime preparing for Plan B? – While chaos reigns supreme in Tehran, insiders prepare for the Day After. – The real interesting story is the fracture inside the regime. – Supreme Leader Khamenei spends most of his time locked in his bunker/office. – He rarely comes out since he fears for his life, not only from the Israelis but also from inside…

Western Journal: Trump Finally Reveals What Got Epstein Banned from Mar-a-Lago – Trump: I Threw Jeffrey Epstein Out! – “For years I wouldn’t talk to Jeffrey Epstein because he did something inappropriate… He stole people who worked for me. – He did it again, and I threw him out of the place.” – “By the way, I never went to the island, and Bill Clinton went there, supposedly 28 times,” he added…

American Thinker: Donald Trump Versus The Epstein Smear, A Cultural Icon Stands Tall – Long before there was a Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump towered over the American landscape. – He never needed Epstein, and it always showed. – Unlike the political class Epstein surrounded himself with, Trump was never on the leash of any so-called kingmaker…

American Wire: Ghislaine Maxwell’s list of demands to testify to Congress – Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney says she will invoke her Fifth Amendment rights during a forthcoming congressional deposition unless she is granted immunity. – Her attorney, David Oscar Markus, adds that if Maxwell receives clemency from the president, she would be willing to testify openly in public…

Daily Fetched: President Trump announced that the WSJ has offered to settle his lawsuit against them over a report alleging he sent notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein a bawdy letter for his birthday in 2003. — The report claimed that Trump sent Epstein a birthday note alongside a scribbled photo of a naked woman and alleged the photo included a signature reading “Donald” on the drawing’s waist to resemble pubic hair.

Townhall: FBI Director Kash Patel Found A Mountain of Russian Collusion Documents in ‘Burn Bags’ – Thousands of documents were discovered, including the annex to the Durham report, which was an investigation initiated by former Attorney General William Barr regarding the origins of the Russian collusion hoax. – And there’s a reason why whoever set this burn bag protocol in motion would want these files destroyed…

The Federalist: House Intel Chair Representative Rick Crawford Says Declassified Documents Show Obama Directed The Psyop – Crawford says the report his committee put together in 2020 exposes the people behind the Russia collusion hoax. – “Forgive me for being coarse, but these [intelligence] analysts, for lack of a better term, crapped all over Intelligence Community Directive 203. – They did not follow it in the slightest.”…

Resist The Mainstream: Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg overruled dozens of safety warnings about windmill projects built dangerously close to highways and train tracks, according to a bombshell report from the New York Post. — At least 33 recommendations were ignored between 2023 and 2024, a current department official said, clearing the way for turbines that could disrupt emergency and transportation communications.

Daily Wire: President Trump Will Sign A Bill Today That Helps Veterans Buy And Keep Their Homes – Republican Wisconsin Rep. Derrick Van Orden originally introduced the legislation. – Van Orden, “We are making sure that the VA Home Loan Guarantee will remain a viable program into the future so our vets can achieve the American Dream of homeownership.”

PJ Media: Stunning Stats About The Border Crisis — Apprehensions at the border have reached historic lows — The immigration court backlog is down by more than 300,000, and apprehension numbers for border officers are plummeting. — Fewer than 450,000 cases [the 2015 number] in the immigration court backlog is an almost unthinkable dream, because by FY 2020, the backlog had risen to 1.52 million pending cases…

Breitbart: Hating Elon Musk Causes Leftists to Turn Away from All EVs, Not Just Tesla’s – The research, conducted by psychologist Alexandra Flores from Williams College, found that while leftists had mostly positive intentions around buying electric vehicles as recently as August 2023, their support eroded significantly in the wake of Musk’s alliance with President Donald Trump…

American Thinker: The legacy media finally calls out judicial overreach, and it took an act of Congress to make them do it. – Even the Washington Post is disgusted by the pathetic, substandard legal reasoning in a judicial ruling on Planned Parenthood funding. – Amazingly, they call out Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani for “the kind of lower court activism that gives the Trump administration fodder for its attacks on judges.”…

Breitbart: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reacted to the substantial economic growth America has already experienced under President Trump at a Breitbart News policy event, saying, “ya ain’t seen nothing yet.” – GDP grew by 3% during the second quarter of 2025, exceeding expectations. – Bessent, “I was trying to explain on April 2nd, we’re doing peace deals, trade deals, tax deals, they are all coming together…

Epoch Times: 5 Revelations From the Newly Declassified Russia-Gate Records – The U.S. intelligence community relied on a single ‘scant, unclear, unverifiable’ report to allege that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump. – The Steele Dossier – ‘Scant, Unclear, Unverifiable’ – A ‘Compressed Timeline’ – A Jan. 6 Deadline – ‘Low Confidence’ on Culprit of DNC Leak…

American Thinker: The climate industrial complex is on the verge of collapse. – Climate alarmist fearmongering has finally jumped the shark. – It is now a subject of ridicule because no one really believes the world is going to end in a few years if we don’t immediately abandon fossil fuels. – Thankfully, a fundamental element of the climate industrial complex, the Endangerment Finding, seems to be on the brink of elimination…

American Thinker: Public Records Lead To Allegations About ActBlue Mortgage Chicanery – A former law enforcement officer in Tennessee has been attempting for nearly two years to present a meticulously researched and thoroughly documented 15-year investigation into what he alleges is an extensive international criminal network behind the Democrat fundraising juggernaut ActBlue…

American Thinker: Judicial Activism and the Separation of Powers – The present habit of some Federal District Court judges to enjoin executive action severely degrades what James Madison referred to as “the constitutional equilibrium of the government.” – The express purpose of separating the functions of government into three distinct departments is to impair the natural tendencies of governments to degenerate into authoritarianism…

American Spectator: Child Abuse With a Prescription Label – How Big Pharma is quietly reprogramming our children. – Children raised on GLP-1s risk never developing the internal cues that regulate hunger and satiety. – They don’t learn how to handle emotional eating or self-restraint, not because they’re lazy or weak, but because their neurochemistry has been outsourced to Pfizer…

American Thinker: The Great EV Grift, or $7.5 Billion for 384 Charging Ports That Nobody Uses – Biden and Company took a massive check, hired a crew of consultants, contracted with some favored green sector syndicates, issued no clear goals, delivered virtually nothing, and called it progress. – The per-port cost, roughly $19 million. – This mess is 100% Biden-led carbon-neutral craftsmanship…

July 29, 2025

Slay News: The FBI Has Been Caught Burying Smoking-Gun Thumb Drives Containing “Unreviewed Info” on The Hillary Clinton Email Scandal for Six Years — Senator Grassley Demands Kash Patel Review The Materials ASAP…

American Thinker: San Diego cops are seeing a curiously crime-free summer since the ICE raids began – As a result, cops have fewer calls, less overtime and and islands of calm where there once was criminality and disorder, organized thieves, rapists, burglars and cartel criminals fighting one another the likes of which this border city has never seen before. – Los Angeles is seeing less crime and traffic, too. – Very Interesting…

Daily Mail: America’s homelessness crisis is fueled by the unprecedented wave of asylum seekers flooding shelters under ex-president Joe Biden’s watch, a bombshell new study reveals. – Researchers from the University of Chicago and Dartmouth College have linked a staggering 60% of the record 43% rise in people living in US homeless shelters between 2022 and 2024 to newly arrived immigrants seeking asylum.

Epoch Times: The Senate Confirms Susan Monarez as CDC Director – Trump chose Monarez after withdrawing his first nominee. – She holds a doctorate in microbiology and immunology, but is the first non-MD since 1953. – Fifty-one Republicans voted to confirm Monarez, while 47 Democrats or nominal independents who caucus with the Democrats voted in opposition. Two GOP senators missed the vote.

Washington Examiner: Republican senators, frustrated by what they see as Democratic delays, are exploring aggressive options to accelerate the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees, including potential rule changes and even recess appointments. – Senate Majority Leader John Thune isn’t ruling out scrapping part or all of the August recess as Democrats continue to slow-walk confirmations…

Washington Examiner: Ted Cruz rolls out bill to prevent midair collisions six months after deadly DC plane crash – The legislation aims to mandate the installation of anti-collision technology on all military flights and require the Army to keep ADS-B Out and ADS-B In signals on at all times. Operating independently of air traffic control, the system broadcasts the aircraft’s position, altitude, speed, and other data…

Daily Signal: Justice Kagan Hits the Nail on the Head in Her Complaint About How the Supreme Court Restrains the Judicial Insurrection – The court has often done so via the “shadow docket” by acting on emergency petitions the administration has appealed to the top. – This means the Left’s opposition to the Supreme Court’s decision is on record, while the reasoning behind the court’s true action remains opaque…

Western Journal: A Disturbing Note Was Found in Manhattan Shooter’s Pocket That Hints at His Motive – The suicide note linking his mental health issues to head injuries sustained while playing football, and he blamed the NFL. – “It appears as though he was going after the employees of the NFL, and mistakenly went up the wrong elevator banks,” at the Manhattan building, Mayor Eric Adams said…

Daily Wire: ‘Purposeful Race-Baiting’: CNN’s Erin Burnett Is Slammed For Saying The NYC Mass Shooter Was ‘Possibly White’ – “If you don’t know for sure, you don’t say it. Unless, of course, your job is to mislead, stir up confusion, obfuscation, and to bury facts.” – Surveillance images quickly surfaced showing the dark-complexioned, mustachioed gunman walking into the building at 345 Park Avenue with a rifle…

One America News: Trump sends condolences to Manhattan mass shooting victims, ‘My heart is with the families’ – Shane Devon Tamura, 27, from Las Vegas, identified as the suspect in the Midtown Manhattan shooting at 345 Park Avenue. – He killed five, including an NYPD officer, and injured six in the 44-story building housing Blackstone and NFL headquarters.

Epoch Times: Russian Officials Respond to Trump’s Ukraine Deadline Change, Shortening A 50-Day Negotiating Window to 10 Days. – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow has “taken into account President Trump’s statement.” – Russia will continue to engage in fighting in Ukraine, but Moscow remains “committed to the peace process to resolve the conflict around Ukraine and to ensure our interests in the course of this settlement.”…

American Thinker: Trump Tames Europe – From a U.S. perspective, this is a great deal. – The framework agreement imposes a 15% tariff on most EU exports to the United States instead of the original 30% – Hundreds of billions in capital will flow from Europe to America. – Some of it will help Europe paper over its self-inflicted wounds, its energy crisis being one, after cutting ties with Russian gas and shutting down German nuclear power…

Epoch Times: The United States and China have agreed to extend a tariff truce past next month’s deadline – ‘The overall meeting was very constructive,’ Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at a post-meeting press conference. – In the meantime, the U.S. tariff rate on Chinese goods will remain at 30 percent, and China will continue applying a 10 percent levy on U.S. products.

Breitbart: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney described his country’s trade negotiations with the U.S. as “intense” and “complex” on Monday, failing to express confidence that the parties would meet the August 1 deadline for an agreement to prevent Washington from imposing a 35% tariff on Canadian goods. – The gloomy disposition from the prime minister follows President Trump, suggesting that it was possible Canada and the US won’t broker a deal at all…

American Thinker: Beijing’s AI ‘Cooperation’ Gambit Is a Smokescreen for Their Strategic Catch-Up – This is not a plan for shared global stewardship; it’s a play to slow the US down, buy China more time, and extend Beijing’s influence across the global south. – The timing of China’s announcement speaks volumes. Days after Washington signaled it was done apologizing for leading the world in AI innovation, Beijing responded with a smile and an open hand…

One America News: The U.S. to lift visa restrictions for Argentinians – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced that Argentinians will be able to stay in America for 90 days without visas. – “Argentina now has the lowest visa overstay rate in all of Latin America and 25 percent more Argentines traveled to the US in the first four months of this year compared to last year—the biggest jump of any of the top 20 international arrivals,’’ she said.

California Globe: J.D. Vance Leads Gavin Newsom By Three Points in Latest Hypothetical 2028 Poll – Newsom would need to get nearly all the undecided votes to have a chance in 2028 – “A key takeaway from the ballot tests is that about 13% of the electorate remains persuadable, while the other 87% have already settled on a party preference,” explained Emerson College Polling executive director Spencer Kimball…

Lifezette: Former FBI agent Peter Strzok deleted the entire contents of his X account on Monday, days after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a memo and supporting documents referring to what she described as a “years-long coup” against President Donald Trump following his 2016 election victory over Hillary Clinton.

Daily Caller: Harvard University is reportedly considering spending up to $500 million to settle its ongoing dispute with the Trump administration. – Harvard is reluctant to pay the federal government directly, and negotiations are continuing. – “The Trump Administration’s proposition is simple and commonsense: Don’t allow antisemitism and DEI to run your campus, don’t break the law, and protect the civil liberties of all students”

Daily Fetched: Americans Are Fleeing Blue States, Causing a $500 Billion Shift in Wealth. – This is causing red states to enjoy a surge in new economic activity, according to a new database. – The database, Vote With Your Feet, tracked the domestic migration of Americans from the decade of 2012 to 2022. – IRS data shows the movement of people within the US and breaks the migration down in terms of aggregated gross income… – Vote With Your Feet Database Link

Newsmax: The Interior Department, through the Bureau of Land Management, has withdrawn three policy documents that were intended to block energy production at Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve. – The move eliminates restrictions set up by the government’s use of “special area management” policies, which the Trump administration said lacked a legal basis…

American Wire: The DOJ has filed a formal complaint against Judge Boasberg, accusing him of misconduct for making improper remarks about President Trump during a judicial conference in March. – Boasberg has been assigned to several high-profile challenges to Trump’s policies, one of them the deportation of Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gang members to El Salvador…

American Thinker: He Is Not Cutting or Unwinding, Trump Is Refocusing Medicaid – Medicaid needs to refocus on the medically vulnerable. – Medicaid was intended for Americans who would be harmed or even die without a government medical safety net. – It was never intended for healthy adults…

Washington Free Beacon: The EPA Moves To Rescind The Obama-Era Legal Basis for Gas Car Regulations – Regulations targeting gas cars, coal power plants, and oil rigs hang in the balance. – The proposal would formally remove the agency’s determination issued by the Obama administration in 2009 that greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide and methane, endanger public health and must be regulated…

Center Square: Dozens of Americans arrested for attempting to kill or threatening ICE agents – Assaults on ICE agents up 830% in first six months of Trump administration. – Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, “It’s horrifying that dangerous rhetoric, often spread by elected officials, has brought us to this point, but let this be an example to other people planning on terrorizing federal law enforcement officers: If you attack the brave men and women protecting this nation from dangerous criminal aliens, we will arrest you and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.”

Townhall: Here’s How Many Sex Offenders ICE Has Arrested…In Just One City – In Houston alone, more than 200 child sex offenders have been arrested since January. – In June, DHS announced the arrest of an illegal alien who was not only a sex offender, but also attempted to murder an ICE agent with his car…

Geller Report: The Mainstream Media Deliberately, Deceptively Uses Images of Palestinian Children with Genetic Diseases to Push Gaza Famine – Here are numerous examples…

Gatestone Institute: The Muslim Brotherhood Is A Terrorist Organization And The US Must Designate It As One – “Since the 1970s, the Muslim Brotherhood has been aggressively whitewashing its image by pretending that most of its work is based on charity and humanitarian aid. – The Muslim Brotherhood has served as an inspiration for Islamist terror groups ISIS and Al-Qaeda…

American Conservative: Zelensky’s Lack of Democratic Credibility Stymies Ukraine’s EU Hopes – Since Russia invaded Ukraine, it may have been Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, more than Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, who has waged a battle against Ukraine’s democracy. – Russia was concerned with the government’s choice to pursue NATO membership and to become a heavily weaponized anti-Russian bridgehead on its border…

Gateway Pundit: European Union Suspends ALL Aid to Ukraine as Kiev Continues to Pressure the Anti-corruption Agencies – The suspension primarily affects the ERA program (Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration for Ukraine) program, which was to provide 17.2 billion euros in emergency loans funded by frozen Russian assets until the end of the year…

John Daniel Davidson: The Russia Collusion Hoax Is Worse Than You Think – New revelations suggest a conspiracy at the heart of the Obama White House to target Trump as a Russian agent. – It’s the latest twist in a string of shocking new revelations about how the U.S. intelligence community, at the behest of then-President Barack Obama, manufactured and disseminated a false narrative that Moscow was working to get Trump elected in 2016…

Breitbart: According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, the rise of AI is reshaping the job market for recent college graduates. – As companies are increasingly relying on AI to perform tasks once assigned to entry-level employees, it could lead to a potential long-term impact on workforce entry. – The impact is especially pronounced in sectors like information, finance, insurance, and technical services…

Zero Hedge: An Overlooked Vulnerability That Could Cripple America’s Power Grid – U.S. transformer wait times have ballooned from 50 to 127 weeks, crippling grid resilience in the face of wildfires, storms, or attacks. – Experts warn that the grid remains dangerously unshielded from electromagnetic pulses—natural or man-made—which could lead to catastrophic blackouts…

Zero Hedge: The Department of Government Efficiency says nearly $200 billion has been saved since it was established under the Trump administration earlier this year. – DOGE said 12,426 federal contracts have been terminated, worth about $53 billion, while 15,488 grants totaling $44 billion have been canceled so far. – About $140 million was saved through 384 federal lease terminations…

Real Clear Markets: The Ongoing Fiction Of Cheap Wind and Solar Energy – Those claiming that wind and solar energy are cheaper than fossil fuels should be writing scripts for science fiction dramas. – The metric used to perpetuate the wind and solar fantasy is LCOE, a deeply flawed tool that masks the real costs of these energy sources, whose ability to perform is subject to the weather and time of day.

Zero Hedge: New York, California, and a host of other Democrat-run states are suing the Trump administration over its efforts to weed noncitizens out of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. – SNAP is a federally-funded, state-administered program that provides billions of dollars in food benefits to tens of millions of low-income individuals and families in the United States…

American Thinker: Watch out! The media is warning that the price of new cars could soon soar past $50,000 due to Trump’s tariffs. – What they won’t acknowledge is that Biden drove the price up to $49,740 right before he left office. – And what was it in June 2025 after six months of Trump and the “awful” tariffs? $48,907. – Prices haven’t soared because car companies no longer have to absorb billions of dollars in losses each year producing electric cars that people can’t afford and don’t want…

Breitbart: Trump’s Border Numbers Continue Plummet to New Record Low With Only 4,000 Border Arrests In 27 Days – Just days ago, Breitbart Texas reported that President Donald Trump delivered the most secure border in U.S. history with the arrest of 6,072 migrants in June…

American Thinker: Lindsey Graham, The Deep State RINO Saboteur Of The America First Agenda – He fights for constant U.S. intervention and armed conflict, all while social media buzzes with accusations that foreign intelligence might hold compromising dirt on him. – So whose interests does Graham really serve? – Graham’s defenders paint him as a pragmatic conservative, but the facts scream otherwise…

American Thinker: There Is No Letup In The Canadian Government’s Outrages Against Its Truckers – It is surpassingly odd that government lawyers accused the truckers of “occupying” a city in their own country when that same government has no problem with illegal immigrants’ occupation of any part of Canada, or all of it. And it totally ignores any “mischief” in which they are involved…

California Globe: Newsom and Fellow Democrats Are Flailing for Relevance With Stunts – ‘They got nothin and it’s almost sad.’ – Nearly 9 months later, Democrats are breaking records, but not the good kind. Their approval ratings are in the tank. CNN’s Harry Enten warned over the weekend of Democrats’ plummeting approval ratings. – After Eric Swalwell’s embarrassing weight-lifting routine, the cringe was felt around the world…

Resist The Mainstream: Queens residents, business owners, and community members sound the alarm over escalating crime, prostitution, and unlicensed vending in the Roosevelt Avenue corridor, criticizing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for what they describe as an ongoing absence from the community. – The area has become a flashpoint for public disorder, gang activity, and trafficking.

American Thinker: Youth Indoctrination Begins At Home – Permissive parenting is the pre-school primer characterized by parental warmth and attentiveness, with little in the imposition of demands or expectations. – A less PC definition of permissive parenting is that it is the practice of allowing the id part of the human psyche to do whatever it is that makes it feel good…

July 28, 2025

Washington Examiner: Six takeaways from Trump’s meeting with Keir Starmer – 1. Trump gives Putin ’10 to 15′ days to make peace with Ukraine – 2. Trump breaks with Netanyahu over Gaza hunger crisis – 3. Trump says he never had the ‘privilege’ of going to Epstein’s island – 4. Trump confirms worldwide tariff before Aug. 1 trade deal deadline – 5. Trump leans on Federal Reserve Chairman Jermone Powell to lower interest rates – 6. Trump sidesteps questions regarding King Charles’s support of windmills…

Victor Davis Hanson: New Details Emerge Regarding Obama’s Role in The Russiagate Scandal – Let’s sum up these three blind mice. – There’s new evidence that Barack Obama asked intelligence, investigatory heads John Brennan, James Clapper, and James Comey, to “find me proof that you haven’t found yet so that we can continue the Russian collusion hoax after it was ineffective in the election campaign…

Breitbart: Monday, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, a President Obama appointee, completely blocked a provision of the Big, Beautiful Bill defunding abortion giant Planned Parenthood of taxpayer dollars through Medicaid. – Talwani said the court is “not enjoining the federal government from regulating abortion and is not directing the federal government to fund elective abortions or any healthcare service not otherwise eligible for Medicaid coverage.”

Epoch Times: The White House Considers Using ‘Pocket Rescissions’ to Sidestep Congress – Using a pocket rescission could allow Trump to halt congressionally appropriated spending with no input from Congress. – The strategy occurs when a president submits a rescission proposal under the Impoundment Control Act—requesting Congress to cancel previously appropriated funds—within 45 days of the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30…

American Spectator: Forget the Autopen, The Real Question Is Whether There Was Forgery – Did persons in the White House use the autopen to forge President Biden’s signature? – Signing a piece of paper is not an exercise of the power granted to the president; the signature is merely the manifestation and evidence that the president has exercised his power to take an action…

American Thinker: The Biden/Harris administration funded anti-Israel groups – The Judiciary Committee just released the proof. – It supported the Kaplanists whose demonstrations, some of which became violent, took place during the tumultuous days of 2023, prior to Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. – Under the pretext of proposed judicial reforms, these leftist demonstrators sought to create mayhem in Israel.

Washington Examiner: The end of the homeless industrial complex – SCOTUS took the first step in restoring sanity to streets and parks last year when it overturned a 9th Circuit decision holding that homeless people had an Eighth Amendment right to vagrancy. – President Trump recently issued an executive order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” – Throwing taxpayer dollars at homelessness without accountability is coming to an end…

American Thinker: Imagine if you sold a product with a 44% ‘regret’ rate from its customers – Welcome to Planned Parenthood, which is fighting tooth and nail to keep its federal funding. – Instead of questioning the business model, Democrats are shrieking “women will die!” – But nobody’s dying (other than 1,000 babies killed in abortions each day, some of whom would eventually become women), so their claim is ridiculous…

Epoch Times: Tesla to Get Chips From Samsung’s Texas Facility in a $16.5 Billion Deal – “Samsung’s giant new Texas fab will be dedicated to making Tesla’s next-generation AI6 chip,“ Musk said. ”The strategic importance of this is hard to overstate. – “Samsung agreed to allow Tesla to assist in maximizing manufacturing efficiency,” Musk added…

Gateway Pundit: White Woman Viciously Assaulted By Mob in Cincinnati Breaks Her Silence to Vivek Ramaswamy and Reveals an Infuriating Detail Following the Attack – This white woman got slugged by one of the cowards. Her head slammed down onto the concrete, and she lost consciousness. Blood was seen coming out of her mouth. – Nobody seemed to care until Vivek Reached Out.

Breitbart: Representative Jasmine Crockett Says She Deserved Oversight Committee Top Spot Due to Large Social Media Following – Earlier this year, Crockett began pitching herself for the top Democrat spot on the House Oversight Committee to fellow party members, sending text messages, emails, and hosting conversations on the House floor…

Western Journal: Jasmine Crockett Tries ‘Shutting Down’ An Atlantic Article After The Reporter Goes in a Direction She Doesn’t Like, But It Didn’t Work. – The title of Elaine Godfrey’s Atlantic piece published on Sunday seemed benign enough, perhaps even complimentary — “A Democrat for the Trump Era.” But it’s what she relates in the next 3,500 words that paints the picture of a self-absorbed, political hack…

Epoch Times: President Trump Is Reducing Russia’s 50-Day Deadline for Peace Deal With Ukraine – ‘I am going to make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today.’ – “We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever”…

Newsmax: Canada/US Trade Talks Hit An Intense Phase – Talks between Canada and the U.S. on a trade deal are in an intense phase, Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on Monday, reiterating that an agreement without any tariffs at all was unlikely.

America First Report: Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick confirmed on “Fox News Sunday” that there will be no more “grace periods” come the Aug. 1 tariffs deadline. – President Donald Trump‘s tariffs are set to take kick on Friday, when “customs will start collecting the money,” Lutnick said. – “Obviously, after August 1st, people can still talk to President Trump. I mean, he is always willing to listen…

Slay News: National Crime Numbers Fall amid Trump’s Illegal Alien Crackdown – A newly released report from the Council on Criminal Justice shows that crime is now down across much of America. – However, what the report fails to openly acknowledge is the critical role Trump’s tough immigration enforcement policies have played in driving these improvements...

Daily Fetched: President Trump Blasts Wind Turbines During His EU Meeting – Trump promised that not a single wind turbine will be built in the United States under his administration, slamming the green energy source for its inefficiency and environmental risks. – The president also pointed out that the wind turbine market is dominated by one of America’s chief geopolitical adversaries, China, calling it a “con job.”…

Center Square: The Fed decision looms as private hiring weakens – The labor market has become a major source of concern heading into recent months. – Despite a total gain of 147,000 jobs in June, the private sector added just 74,000 jobs – a massive downshift from the 137,000 added in May. – This deceleration in private hiring signals that businesses are becoming increasingly cautious about future sales and revenue growth.

Zero Hedge: The Dallas Fed Manufacturing Survey Soars As Respondents Demand “Lower Interest Rates Now” – The production index, a key measure of state manufacturing conditions, jumped 20 points to 21.3, its highest reading in more than three years and its biggest MoM jump since March 2021…

In 2020, the Virginia Assembly passed the Virginia Clean Economy Act, a law that required the state’s largest utility, Dominion Energy, to generate all its electricity from renewable resources by 2045. However, Dominion has found a useful loophole to get around the law’s requirements — data centers.

The Federalist: Details Buried In Recently Declassified Documents Further Implicate Obama In The Russia Hoax – The HPSCI report proves indispensable for understanding what supposed intel Obama withheld from the intelligence community under the guise of executive privilege. – The CIA’s review of the ICA established that Obama not only knew of and “condoned the politicalization of the intelligence community, but that the former president directed the politicalization.”

American Thinker: Silence is Not Always Golden – It’s been said that you can judge the worth of a story by the effect it has on the opposition. – There seem to be two extremes: they’ll react hysterically or downplay the story. – Of Late, broadcast networks like ABC and NBC have largely skipped covering Tulsi Gabbard’s Russia-Gate claims on their nightly newscasts…

American Thinker: Today’s Democrats Are Progressive, Prosperous, and Deeply Unhappy – In June, politically independent statistician Nate Silver published an analysis of the 2022 Cooperative Election Study that laid the situation bare: 51% of conservatives reported excellent mental health, compared to just 20% of liberals. That’s not a small gap. It’s a chasm. And it’s consistent. – Mental health, happiness, and life satisfaction skew heavily toward the right…

Newsmax: On Monday, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani blocked enforcement of a provision in President Donald Trump’s recently enacted bill that would deprive Planned Parenthood and its members of Medicaid funding. – Talwani issued a preliminary injunction after finding the law likely violated the Constitution by targeting Planned Parenthood’s health centers specifically for punishment for providing abortions.

Western Journal: A group of researchers developing a controversial sun-dimming technology worked closely with federal scientists while keeping their plans quiet from the public. – The project, known as the Marine Cloud Brightening Program, was led by the University of Washington and supported by private climate advocacy groups and wealthy donors. – You can read the University of Washington’s report on the Marine Cloud Brightening Program in its entirety here.

American Thinker: Major Shipping Line Matson Will No Longer Transport Electrical Vehicles – There have been three especially severe EV fires on cargo ships in just the past three years: the Felicity Ace in 2022, the Fremantle Highway in 2023, and most recently, the Morning Midas in 2025, each fire destroying thousands of vehicles each along with much or all of the vessels…

July 27, 2025

Breitbart: President Trump Has Reached A Historic Trade Deal with The European Union – A 15% tariff on European imports that includes automobiles, while keeping existing 50 percent duties on steel and aluminum in place. – As part of the deal, the EU committed to purchasing $750 billion in U.S. energy products. – It will also invest $600 billion into America on top of existing investments, plus setting tariffs on U.S. goods at zero percent and…

Breitbart: European leaders appear to be divided over the historic trade deal negotiated by President Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. – Some are praising the pragmatism of avoiding a broader trade war, while others are lambasting the deal as an effective surrender on behalf of Brussels. – French opposition politicians on both the left and right roundly criticized the deal…

Daily Wire: CIA Director John Ratcliffe said on Sunday that forthcoming revelations from former Special Counsel John Durham’s report will expose the Russiagate controversy, showing just what Hillary Clinton and the FBI did to leverage a Russia collusion narrative against President Donald Trump. – I have spent the last few months making recommendations about final declassification and sent that to the Department of Justice.”…

Western Journal: President Trump Issued an Executive Order to Bring Back Insane Asylums – This Could Crush the Homelessness Epidemic – The new directive will allow federal agencies to increase drug enforcement and help states restart their institutionalization processes. – Trump was far from the first official to notice that the shift in how we treat homelessness and vagrancy has been a disaster…

American Spectator: The New York Times Commits The Sin of Honesty – A journalist is catching hell for reporting the reality of a Ukrainian assault on the Kursk region of Russia. – The reactions to Heitmann’s article by high-ranking Ukrainian officials and media outlets (in and out of Ukraine) have been nothing short of hostile…

American Spectator: Chinese Communists Are Buying up American Housing – Chinese nationals have just shattered their records for American property purchases by dropping a staggering $13.7 billion on U.S. homes in the past year alone — This is an 83% increase that should send alarm bells ringing through every statehouse and suburban neighborhood in America…

Geller Report: 90% of Democrat States Sue to Fund Welfare For Illegal Aliens – New York leads the lawsuit, and the press release from Attorney General Letitia James claims that the new guidelines “barring many safety net programs from serving all residents, regardless of immigration status” would cause the collapse of free health and education. – New York and other states claim that defunding illegal aliens would wreck their Head Start programs.

Epoch Times: A Quick Tutorial on Cloud Seeding – Cloud seeding makes existing cumulus clouds rain over a particular area that would not have done so otherwise. – A plane or a drone is flown into naturally forming clouds and releases small amounts of silver iodide and table salt inside them. – Those added particles pull the water vapor out of the clouds. – This results in the forced precipitation of either rain or snow…

Gateway Pundit: Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, posted on Sunday that she and her department will be monitoring the investigation into a vicious attack on a white man and white woman by a mob of Black people in Cincinnati Friday night after video of the beatings went viral…

Resist the Mainstream: On Friday, U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin upheld a nationwide injunction he had issued earlier this year, which prevents the Trump administration from enforcing its Birthright Citizenship policy. – The injunction had been granted in favor of more than a dozen states opposing the order.

Slay News: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has dismissed multiple lawsuits aiming to stop President Donald Trump’s move to tear down the United States Agency for International Development. – USAID has been a source of corruption for decades, wasting American taxpayer dollars on leftist pet projects and funneling money to organizations that are closely connected to powerful politicians.

Slay News: Ghislaine Maxwell Was Granted ‘Limited Immunity’ to Blow Whistle on ‘100 Different People’ Tied to Jeffrey Epstein – Maxwell’s attorney revealed the deal after his client spent days providing information to the DOJ. – Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, told reporters that his client was “asked about every possible thing you could imagine…everything.”

Gateway Pundit: DOGE Unleashes A New “AI Deregulation Decision Tool” Targeting 200,000 Federal Regulations In Efforts to Slash 50% Of Them By January 2026 – The DOGE Tool is supposed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations to determine which can be eliminated because they are no longer required by law.

America First Report: Jonathan Turley Reveals Who’s Vulnerable to Russiagate Prosecution – Brennan may be most vulnerable to charges. – “He’s like a 30-point buck out in the open.”

Townhall: There’s Another Brutal Development on the Steele Dossier, and It Involves a Former Top Trump Official – Former CIA John Brennan might be charged over this fiasco, but now a former top Trump official’s name has entered the chat—and that would be John Bolton. – Why? Well, he got a memo from Brennan and never briefed Trump on it because he believed Brennan’s intelligence work.

American Thinker: Deflect, Distract, but Game’s Up! – Democrats asked for transparency, and now they’re getting it good and hard.- Deflect, Distract, but Game’s Up! – The material Gabbard released recently shows how confident the plotters were that they could keep this all secret. – The report is full of emails, leaving an irrefutable and very damaging paper trail…

American Thinker: They’re talking now, but will their lawyers tell them to shut up? – The Russia-gate players are crawling out of the woodwork, but for how long? – [Interviews with more than half a dozen people who worked in Obama’s White House or on his campaigns reveal] they’re grappling with how to contain the unprecedented accusations National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has leveled, even as they dismiss them as asinine…

Washington Examiner: In an interview with President Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, Rubio was asked if he was eyeing a run for the presidency after Trump listed him as a potential successor along with Vice President JD Vance. – Rubio, mum on ambitions of his own, responded with lavish praise for Vance, whom he called his “close friend.”

Washington Examiner: President Trump called for former VP Kamala Harris to be prosecuted over large sums her campaign doled out to celebrities on the campaign trail in 2024 for endorsements. – Trump alleges that the money given to celebrities, including Beyonce and Oprah Winfrey, as well as Reverend Al Sharpton, was “incorrectly stated in the books and records,” suggesting that the Harris campaign paid for their endorsements.

Slay News: DOE Secretary Linda McMahon Announces Unfreezing of $6.8 Billion in Federal Education Funding in Major Boost for Schools – The previously frozen funds were set aside for K-12 programs. – The announcement comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration by 20 Democrat attorneys general.

Breitbart: It’s 1984 Again As The UK Ramps Up Social Media Surveillance – What’s Next, Arrests for Anti-Migration Posts? – The British government has reportedly tasked a specialist police unit to surveil social media for anti-mass migration opinions as it braces for another potential summer of unrest. – Protests started with the Bell Hotel in Epping, where locals protested after an illegal immigrant from Ethiopia was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl from the area…

July 26, 2025

One America News: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he is shocked to his core amid the FBI corruption discoveries, and vows to reveal ‘truth.’ – “We cannot run a Republic like this.” – “I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned.” – “We are going to conduct these righteous and proper investigations by the book and in accordance with the law,” he stressed…

One America News: After calls from President Trump, Thailand and Cambodia agree to hold immediate ceasefire talks – Trump also stated that both countries are “looking to get back to the ‘Trading Table’ with the United States.” – However, he reiterated that it would be inappropriate to do so before the “fighting STOPS.”

One America News: On Friday, Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio ahead of President Donald Trump’s August 1st deadline for the “Liberation Day.” – Dar stated “I think we are very close to finalizing a deal with the U.S.,” Dar said during an appearance at the Atlantic Council think tank. “Our teams have been here in Washington, discussing, having virtual meetings to fine tune things…

Epoch Times: The Trump administration plans to tighten both the citizenship test and the visa system for skilled foreign workers, while also moving to close loopholes in a separate program that critics say has allowed dangerous criminals to gain legal status. – Joseph Edlow, the new director of USCIS, said the current naturalization test is too easy and does not reflect the intent of the law.

American Thinker: Elon Musk stomps Media Matters like a bug – Elon Musk’s social media company X filed a lawsuit against liberal advocacy group Media Matters for America on Monday, saying it manufactured a report to show advertisers’ posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist posts in order to “drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp.” – Elon seems to have had the goods on them, given that they’ve spent $15 million to fight his cases off…

Geller Report: “I read all 16,100 tweets that Zohran Mamdani has ever posted” – Why? Because the Democrat front-runner for New York City mayor sounds polished now, but he didn’t start that way. – In tweet after tweet, he calls for the end of the free market, for defunding the police, and for dismantling the prison system, which he describes as the “carceral state.” – He champions communism…

Center Square: Republicans target China as a security threat to U.S. real estate, schools, and farmland. – Long considered a foreign adversary, China has been making inroads in nearly all sectors of American society, including real estate, universities, agriculture, and even the legal system. – Reports released just over the past month show the spread of China’s influence…

Western Journal: A Historic Poll Devastates Democrats With The Worst Voter Approval Rating in 35 Years – In a poll of 1,500 registered voters taken between July 16-20, 63% of respondents said they held an unfavorable view of the Democrat Party, compared to just 33% who had a favorable view. – That 30% gap is the highest ever recorded by the publication, and it’s down nine points since April…

Resist The Mainstream: Tulsi Gabbard revealed that Russian intelligence gathered damaging information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s health during her 2016 presidential campaign, including evidence that she had “psycho-emotional problems” treated with strong sedatives. – However, Russian President Vladimir Putin chose not to release this information before the election because he believed Clinton would win…

Powerline: In her Wall Street Journal newsletter this week, Kim Strassel summarizes the week’s Russia hoax revelations before coming to “The FBI and the Clinton probe.” Here is her summary: If all this [Russia hoax material] isn’t snaky enough, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley on Monday released declassified documents related to the FBI’s embarrassing 2016 investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s private email server…

Washington Examiner: A Russiagate definitive timeline showing how new the intelligence documents fit in – DNI Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, has made clear she intends to see her office’s revelations compel the DOJ to weigh criminal charges against former President Barack Obama, as well as senior officials from his administration…

New York Post: Before a single ballot was cast in 2024, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they already predicted Donald Trump as the winner by tracking how optimistically each candidate explained bad news. – While Trump’s tone grew increasingly upbeat in the final weeks of the campaign, Kamala Harris’s stayed flat. – That shift correctly forecast not just that Trump would win, but by how much…

Washington Examiner: Shaky Trump-Powell truce could break next week with a Fed rate decision – On Friday, Trump reiterated his belief that Powell will urge the Fed’s monetary policy committee to lower interest rates. – – Powell “said to me very strongly, ‘The country is doing well.’ He said, ‘Congratulations…

American Thinker: It’s Time for the Administration To Start Creatively Downsizing the Federal Workforce Again – By now, everyone in the federal workforce should have an inkling of what is yet to come. – If they don’t, it’s clearly laid out in the May 2, 2025, 46-page letter from OPM Director Russell Vought to Representative Susan Collins, the Chair of the Senate’s Appropriations Committee.

Western Journal: Democrats Quickly Delete A Widely-Mocked Groceries Post After Realizing It’s a Massive Self-Own – “Prices are higher today than they were on July 2024 all in major categories listed below,” the subtitle added. – But social media users were very quick to notice that most of the inflation occurred between 2021 and 2025, during which Biden, and not Trump, was in office.

American Thinker: An 18th-century Scottish Historian Foretold America’s Trajectory – “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.” – What the Founding Fathers never envisioned, however, was a permanent government, whether elected officials or a bureaucracy. Sadly, today we have both…

Center Square: Congress has created several programs to allow illegal border crossers claiming to be minors to remain in the U.S. Despite years of documented abuse of the programs, Congress continues to fund them to the tune of billions of dollars. – One is the failed unaccompanied minor program, with decades of documented reports of abuse and neglect of children…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Na Na Na Na, Goodbye! Edition – The biggest news of the week was the release of multiple memos and emails related to the Russia collusion hoax, as well as the DNI’s referral of such materials to the AG for possible criminal prosecution…

July 25, 2025

Revolver: 20 CIA and FBI agents CONFIRM Obama was behind the Russia Hoax and reveal his hiding place – Now we move into the real bombshell – According to new reporting from Fox News, twenty CIA and FBI agents have now confirmed that Obama didn’t just know about the Russia Hoax, he ran it. – And to keep it buried, he locked the evidence away in a CIA vault, where it sat hidden for nearly a decade…

Daily Caller: Team Obama Quietly Trying To Stop Americans From Hearing About ‘Russiagate’ Revelations – President Barack Obama’s former aides reportedly hope to conceal rapidly unfolding revelations about the apparent conspiracy between Obama and his top intelligence chiefs. – “The battle now is to play this even to make sure that thoughts don’t start to creep into more mainstream” audiences, a former Obama administration official told the outlet.

Wall Street Journal: Hopes Rise for A U.S.-Europe Trade Deal as Trump Visits Scotland – Trump and Ursula von der Leyen, a top EU official, are set to meet Sunday during the president’s golf trip – Von der Leyen said Friday that she had a good call with Trump and the two had agreed to meet in Scotland to discuss trans-Atlantic trade relations “and how we can keep them strong.”…

National Pulse: ICE has netted illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes, including child rape, arson, and human smuggling, during a nationwide operation. – Arrests occurred Thursday in cities across the United States. – Notable arrests include Jacobo Argueta-Fuentes, a 33-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador, convicted of multiple sex crimes against children in New York; Rafael Manriquez-Mancia, a 45-year-old from…

Gateway Pundit: Far Left Hate Website Media Matters Is Facing Bankruptcy, And They’re Pretending Like They Are the Real Victims – It is drowning in debt caused by government investigations, legal expenses from Elon Musk, and a loss of donors. – Here is Media Matters President Angelo Carusone whining about the injustice of Trump kneecapping the liberal fake news media outlets…

Western Journal: Gavin Newsom Whines After A Federal Appeals Court Rules His Unprecedented Ammunition Law Goes Too Far – On Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the Golden State’s unprecedented law requiring background checks for ammunition purchases violates the Second Amendment.

Zero Hedge: US Raid Takes Out A Senior ISIS Leader – CENTCOM on Friday says a raid in the Aleppo region of Northern Syria took out senior ISIS Leader Dhiya’ Zawba Muslih al-Hardani and his two adult ISIS-affiliated sons, Abdallah Dhiya al-Hardani and Abd al-Rahman Dhiya Zawba al-Hardani…

Townhall: Other Biden Aides Have Invoked the Fifth, but One Spoke Candidly to Lawmakers – This Week Ron Klain, former President Biden’s chief of staff, told the House Oversight Committee that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan expressed concerns in 2023 and 2024 that the 46th president was “not politically viable.”…

Breitbart: Public Sentiment Swings Massively in Trump’s Favor on The Economy Since April – A bipartisan poll shows a dramatic shift in public opinion on the state of the U.S. economy, with a net 23-point swing toward optimism since April, an uptick that parallels renewed economic momentum under President Trump’s policies, according to officials and market data.

Daily Wire: President ‘Trump Is 100% Correct’ and Vindicated In His Fed Renovation Clash With Powell – On Friday morning, Mark Paoletta, General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, fired off a post on X explaining that Trump was indeed correct about his assessment, writing: President Trump is 100% accurate in the numbers he used on his tour of Federal Reserve (FRB) site yesterday.

Zero Hedge: The Top 10 Highlights From Earnings Season – 1. Biggest sales beats in 4 years – 2. Rational behavior – 3. Profit margins are broadening – 4. The highest EPS revision ratio in 3 years – 5. The US leads – 6. The USD offsets tariffs – 7. Sector and style trends – 8. Rate-sensitive sectors and styles are lagging as they await Fed cuts…

Zero Hedge: The Fed’s FAFO Moment Has Arrived – Yes, the Fed used to operate in the shadows. – Now it’s a clown show on center stage. – Regular people get it now. – They understand the Fed’s tools are blunt, its logic circular, and its credibility paper-thin. – They’ve watched as inflation ravaged their savings while Jerome Powell told them it was “transitory.”…

Victor Davis Hanson: Revenge or Justice? – So, what’s new about Gabbard’s latest release related to the Russia Hoax? – One, after the 2016 election of Trump but before his inauguration, Obama convened a strange meeting with his outgoing intelligence and investigatory heads—CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, national security adviser Susan Rice, and a few others…

Townhall: The Core of the Russian Collusion Hoax Was Just Obliterated – It has been revealed that some senior intelligence officials were not pleased with being spoon-fed what to include in the Obama-ordered Intelligence Community Assessment, the report that triggered the Russian collusion hoax. – ‘This Should NOT Be Included,’ Read Intel Officials’ Objections To The ‘Extremely Sketchy’ Steele Dossier…

The Federalist: John Brennan’s 5 Lies That Set Russiagate In Motion – Brennan’s purported intelligence was so flimsy and comically absurd that it only further exposes the fraudulent nature of the assessment. – The ICA’s Purpose Was Always Political – The Single-Source ‘Fragment‘ – The Anonymous Ukrainian Tip – The ‘Putin Inner Circle’ Fantasy – The Infamous Steele Dossier…

Independent Sentinel: On Thursday, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that Republicans will pursue passage of a resolution to establish a new subcommittee to investigate the events surrounding the January 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol. – Among other things, Nancy Pelosi lied continuously about Trump. – For example, she claimed he didn’t offer or request National Guard. – He did offer, and she needed to request the Guard…

Daily Signal: Quashing Rumors, Vance Says Straight Out That Any Amnesty Deal Is Off the Table – “We’re actually not going to tell people who’ve come into the country illegally that they’re allowed to break our laws and be rewarded for it,” the vice president explained while at a policy summit in Washington.

Washington Examiner: DHS has started deportation flights of illegal immigrants from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, “I’m pleased to report that those flights out of Alligator Alcatraz by [the Department of Homeland Security] have begun and the cadence is increasing. – We’ve already had a number of flights in the last few days with hundreds of illegals removed from here.”

America First Report: The Trump administration has reportedly located over 13,000 children who entered the United States unaccompanied and illegally before being lost to government tracking systems. – ICE has arrested more than 400 sponsors of unaccompanied minors for crimes related to mistreatment of the children in their care or for other reasons…

Zero Hedge: Mexican Beer Sales Flat – As the Biden administration allowed tens of millions of undocumented immigrants into the country, Mexican beer, specifically Modelo Especial, became the best-selling beer in the US. Now, as ICE conducts arrests amid a mass deportation push, sales of Mexican beer, including Modelo, Pacifico, and Corona, are plummeting as US brands are back on the rise.

Washington Examiner: John Brennan Must Be Held Accountable – DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s recent document dumps exposed the determined and persistent campaign of former CIA Director Brennan to use and abuse his to defeat Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, then tried to undermine Trump after he won by weakening or derailing Trump’s presidency before it even began in 2017.

LifeZette: The Trump Administration Approves Funding for the Largest Deportation Center in the USA – The $1.26 billion facility with a planned capacity of 5,000 beds will be constructed at Fort Bliss, Texas. – This U.S. Army post near El Paso spans over 1.12 million acres along the U.S.-Mexico border and includes an airfield, which may assist in deportation logistics. – And will likely become a central hub for ICE and DHS…

Breitbart: Blue States Intensify Their Attacks On ICE – Michigan has joined four other states that have introduced legislation to ban ICE agents from wearing masks, with the Wolverine state calling for jail time for violators. – Democrats in California, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania also have introduced similar bills to limit the agency’s expanded powers under President Trump…

American Thinker: New York State Spending Is Increasing At Four Times The Rate of Inflation – It is no wonder people and businesses are leaving New York for more welcoming states. – Illegals are not supposed to receive Medicaid and other government subsidies, yet an astounding 480 thousand illegal immigrants get them. – We don’t know how many illegals receive Medicaid nationwide because states won’t give the Trump administration that information.

Western Journal: President Trump Says He May Send Rebate Checks to ‘People of a Certain Income Level.’ – Last month that the federal government collected more than $106 billion in tariff revenue since Trump took office. – $81.5 billion of that revenue stems from new tariffs placed on imported goods during Trump’s second term.

The Wall Street Journal: The White House Will Seek Payments From Other Universities, Including Harvard, After the Columbia Deal Sets a Precedent – The Trump administration is currently in talks with several schools, including Cornell, Duke, Northwestern, and Brown, about future funding following allegations of antisemitism.

New York Post: Trump says Harvard ‘wants to settle’ after Columbia’s $200M fine over civil rights probe – “Harvard wants to settle, but I think Columbia handled it better,” Trump said before departing for a trip to Scotland. – Trump stripped Harvard of $2.6 billion in federal funding earlier this year because he said it discriminated against Jewish faculty and students and promoted DEI..

Hot Air: Pew’s latest poll, which shows a gobsmacking difference between how Gen Z women and Gen Z men identify politically. – Men 18-29 Are The Most Republican Demographic in the Country – Only 34% of men age 18-29 identify as Democrats. – For those keeping score, there’s a 24-point gap between young men and women.

American Thinker: The Democrats’ Insinuations About The Epstein issue – They want us to conclude that where there’s smoke, there’s fire. – However, if this were so, the Biden Administration would have happily taken that information and used it to continue the lawfare that was well underway against Trump, using anything tangible they had at least to insinuate nefarious conduct on the part of Donald Trump. The fact that they didn’t says it all…

Slay News: President Donald Trump has asserted that he’s “allowed” to offer Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon or sentence commutation if she’s able to provide incriminating evidence on Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplices. – However, Trump said he hasn’t discussed the matter with his administration. – Trump’s comments come as Todd Blanche, the second-highest-ranking DOJ official, has been meeting with Maxwell.

American Thinker: Trump’s Ukraine Ultimatum – It’s time to bring Vladimir Putin to heel, and international law provides President Trump with lots of tools to do so. – Article 1(1) of the UN’s Charter establishes as its primary purpose: “To maintain international peace and security – The parallels between Vladimir Putin’s blatant international aggression against Ukraine and Adolf Hitler’s justification for the start of World War II are striking…

Breitbart: The Trump Administration Approves Chevron Resuming Oil Imports to U.S. from Venezuela – While details of the licensing approval are not yet clear, this marks a limited but significant change in import policy for the Trump administration toward the socialist dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro. – The newly issued license “reflects ongoing policy revisions to more closely conform to President Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda.”

Western Journal: Ghislaine Maxwell Returned to Prison with a Mysterious Item After A ‘Very Productive’ Meeting with DOJ – Maxwell and Blanche spoke for about five hours, according to David Oscar Markus, an attorney who represents Maxwell, but did not reveal the substance of any questions or answers. – After Maxwell was uncuffed and allowed to re-enter the prison, she carried what was described as a “mysterious box” with her.

Breitbart: Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, TikTok Will Soon ‘Go Dark’ Unless China Makes Deal to Sell Platform. – The future of TikTok in the United States remains uncertain as the Trump administration threatens to shut down the Chinese app if a deal involving the sale of TikTok to U.S. buyers fails to materialize.

Howard Galganov: There Are Truths In Our World That Cannot Be Ignored – The Following Are Some Untruths That Get Under My Skin – Illegal Immigrants Are Not Undocumented, They Are Illegal – America Is A Republic and Democracy Is Just One Voting Facet – A Woman Can’t Be A Bit Pregnant Any More Than A Man Can Be A Woman – Israel Is Either From The River To The Sea, Or History Tells Lies – Archeology Does Not Lie – There Has Never Been A Country Called Palestine…

Washington Free Beacon: The UN’s Two-State Solution Summit is on Track for an ‘Embarrassing’ Flop Following Intense US Opposition – Less than a third of the countries that already recognize a Palestinian state are expected to attend, insiders say. – A poor showing would come as a political blow to Macron, whose approval rating has sunk to 19 percent in recent polling…

July 24, 2025

One America News: French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France is officially set to recognize “The State of Palestine.” – 146 of the 193 United Nations (UN) member states have officially recognized Palestine as a sovereign state, although France’s recognition is seen as significant, as it is the first G7 nation and member of the UN Security Council to do so.

American Conservative: The U.S. Delegation Withdraws From Gaza Ceasefire Talks – Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff announced that U.S. officials have abandoned mediations and blamed Hamas for not seriously engaging in peace talks. – “It is a shame that Hamas has acted in this selfish way,” Witkoff added in Thursday’s announcement. – “We are resolute in seeking an end to this conflict and a permanent peace in Gaza.”

Washington Free Beacon: President Trump said Hamas appears to have a death wish after the terrorist organization’s refusal to cut a hostage release deal prompted Israel to consider “alternative options.” – “They pulled out of Gaza, they pulled out in terms of negotiating,” Trump said during a Friday press gaggle before a flight to Scotland. – “It was too bad. – Hamas didn’t really want to make a deal…

Townhall: Trump DOJ to NJ Judges: Sorry, but This US Attorney Is Going to Stay – Ms. Habba’s tenure as interim U.S. attorney was set to expire on Friday. But she announced that she would be New Jersey’s acting U.S. attorney. – The decision by President Trump allows Ms. Habba to lead the New Jersey office for at least the next 210 days.

Red State: President Trump Steps Up to End the Crime and Homeless Takeover Due To Blue-State Leadership Failure – During a signing at the White House, Trump signed the “ENDING CRIME AND DISORDER ON AMERICA’S STREETS” Executive Order, which aims to restore “public order” to cities and remove homeless individuals from the streets by enforcing no urban camping, urban squatting, and loitering, among others.

Breitbart: Joe Biden’s DHS used so-called “prosecutorial discretion” to protect an illegal alien from deportation who is now accused of kidnapping a woman who says she was sex trafficked and held against her will. – 22-year-old illegal alien Jose Perdomo of Honduras was arrested on July 14 in Harris County, Texas, after a home security camera caught him dragging a woman back to his trailer as she tried to flee.

Just The News: The Justice Department Is Suing New York City Over Its Sanctuary Laws – “New York City has released thousands of criminals on the streets to commit violent crimes against law-abiding citizens due to sanctuary city policies,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said. “If New York City won’t stand up for the safety of its citizens, we will.”

Breitbart: An Illegal Alien Has Been Arrested For Murdering A 15-Year-Old Boy Trying To Protect His Mother – 36-year-old Gildardo Amandor-Martinez, from Mexico, has been arrested by the Morehead, Kentucky Police and charged with murdering 15-year-old Luis Lopez, assaulting the boy’s 3-year-old sister, and attempting to rape the boy’s mother, Aleida Lopez.

Epoch Times: Social Security Payments Face A Possible 24% Cut by 2032 – Now this would be equal to an $18,100 annual benefit cut for a dual-earning couple retiring at the start of 2033.” – Some retirees may see reduced access to health care because of a projected 11% cut to Medicare. – The actual size of the Social Security benefit cut would vary based on a couple’s age, work history, and marital status…

California Globe: Governor Newsom’s Crash Course With Reality’ – Hiring in California has slowed since Summer 2022 – Newsom brags that California owns the 4th largest economy in the world. – He leaves out important details, like poverty, homelessness, crime, taxes, gas prices, housing costs, illegal aliens, welfare recipients, and a $1.3 trillion total budget deficit. – And, California is the 1st most regulated state in the U.S.

California Globe: What it Costs to Buy a House in America – California’s Median Price is $790,000! – This is how the most popular states Californians flee to compare. – Idaho: $471,000 – Nevada: $469,000 – Arizona: $435,000 – Texas: $352,000 – Tennessee: $384,000 – Florida: $420,000 – North Carolina: $388,000 – South Carolina: $330,000 – Purchasing A 2-Bedroom Home Now Much More Expensive Than Renting One In California…

Washington Examiner: The FCC approved Paramount Global’s merger with Skydance and its subsidiaries on Thursday, after the entertainment company committed to dissolving its DEI programs. – Paramount Global’s DEI initiatives, particularly at subsidiary CBS News, have drawn scrutiny from the Trump administration over concerns that they favor specific groups and pit them against civil rights laws…

Epoch Times: The Supreme Court on July 24 paused a lower court ruling that prevents voters in seven states from suing over alleged discrimination under the federal Voting Rights Act. – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit previously issued an order barring voters in the seven states it covers from filing the lawsuits.

Epoch Times: The USDA Announced A Reorganization Plan to Slash Its Washington Staff From About 4,600 To Fewer Than 2,000 Employees – Thousands of jobs will move to five regional hubs as part of a broader federal downsizing push. – Much of the workforce reduction will come through voluntary retirements and the Deferred Retirement Program, which offers incentives for employees to resign at a future date.

Western Journal: Trump Issues Perfect Response After The UN Pushes Policy Where The US Can Be Sued Over Climate – After the International Court of Justice ruled this week that countries are required to cut emissions in the name of climate change, the White House gave a simple reply: “America first.”

Daily Wire: Wrestling Legend Hulk Hogan Is Dead At Age 71 – The pro-wrestling icon had recently appeared at the 2024 Republican National Convention. – Emergency vehicles were dispatched to Bollea’s home in Clearwater, Florida, for what was believed to be a cardiac arrest. – The vehicles reportedly remained outside his home for some time…

Washington Free Beacon: Iran and Russia conducted three days of joint war drills in the Caspian Sea this week “in order to send a message to the United States” in the wake of its strikes on Tehran’s top nuclear sites, Iranian state-run media reported. – The Islamic Republic is worried about the prospect of a second round of U.S. or Israeli strikes after the successful operation to take out Tehran’s nuclear program…

Townhall: Did You See This Major Update on Trump’s Strikes Against Iran’s Nuclear Facilities? – Now we have even more clarity, via New York Times reporting in recent days: “The bombings deeply damaged Fordo, considered by the Iranians to be their best-protected and most advanced nuclear enrichment site, probably crippling Iran’s ability to make nuclear fuel for years to come.”…

Newsmax: Iran Offers Conditions for Resumption of US Nuclear Talks – An Iranian diplomat stated that talks could resume as long as Tehran’s rights under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are recognized and Washington builds trust with Tehran, guaranteeing that negotiations will not lead to renewed military action against Iran.

Daily Wire: While most media have been condemning Israel rather than Hamas for the food shortage in Gaza, the food in roughly 950 trucks inspected and approved by Israel was reportedly rotting on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing because the United Nations will not distribute it. – The report of the aid trucks sitting inside Gaza and waiting for the UN to distribute them was corroborated by Fox News’ chief Trey Yingst…

Daily Wire: Let’s stop pretending Jerome Powell is some impartial steward of the economy just trying to do his job. – Powell knows what lowering rates would do: it would boost the economy. – It would bring relief to working families. – And yes, it would help President Donald Trump. – And that, apparently, is something Jerome Powell just can’t stomach.

One America News: On Wednesday, President Trump signed three AI-focused Executive Orders, proclaiming the U.S. will do ‘whatever it takes’ to win the AI race – The president noted that his administration is cutting red tape and regulations on AI, in contrast to the Biden administration, which previously stifled AI development through overregulation.

Slay News: The Australian government has made a significant concession in its longstanding beef import restrictions, finally agreeing to lift complex biosecurity measures and allow U.S. beef from Canada and Mexico. – This shift comes after months of internal debate and pressure from the U.S. side, particularly from the Trump administration’s aggressive trade tactics.

Issues & Insights: Put Obama In The Dock – We’re advocating neither a fishing expedition nor a witch hunt because we find Obama to be an odious fellow. – What we want is the truth, and it’s looking as if the facts show that both Hillary Clinton and Obama were part of the cabal that tried to set up Trump. – If true, it is, as some have suggested, the most appalling political scandal in our nation’s history.

Newsmax: President Trump says, “I Want Elon Musk to Thrive” – Trump is pushing back at people who claim he wants to destroy Elon Musk’s businesses – “This is not so! I want Elon, and all businesses within our Country, to THRIVE, in fact, THRIVE like never before! The better they do, the better the USA does, and that’s good for all of us. We are setting records every day, and I want to keep it that way!”

Washington Examiner: Former Biden chief of staff Ron Klain is testifying in the House Oversight autopen investigation – Committee Chairman James Comer, “Americans want to know, was Joe Biden aware of what the autopen was being used to sign his name on, or were some family members or high-level officials in the Biden administration just acting unilaterally as President of the United States and using the autopen?”

American Thinker: Obama’s Self-Incriminating Defense – As his “chickens come home to roost,” it will be interesting to see how this slick politician twists the revelations. – The recently declassified documents reveal that after finding out that Russia was unsuccessful in its attempt to support Trump, as a political ploy, Obama chose to have the intelligence modified…

American Thinker: The Law Strikes Back – Whether or not indictments, trials, and convictions of high-profile figures like Hussein Obama, James Clapper, John Brennan, James Comey, and Hillary Clinton occur, the consequences will likely be profound. – If, however, these individuals are not held to account to some degree, the public’s distrust of the justice and intelligence agencies will deepen…

Washington Examiner: On Wednesday, the DOJ formed a “strike force” to assess the declassified evidence that DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard released regarding the Obama administration‘s role in Russian election interference claims during the 2016 presidential election. – The strike force will determine the next legal steps that might stem from the disclosed information.

Newsmax: Ex-DNI Chief James Clapper ‘Lawyered Up’ Amid The DOJ Probe – Clapper was among the officials said to have been at a Dec. 9, 2016, meeting at the White House where top National Security Council principals were tasked to create a new intelligence assessment “per the President’s request” to detail “the tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.”

American Wire News: Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth is once again under attack in a renewed effort to force his ouster – The Washington Post once again cites the usual anonymous sources, “people familiar with the matter,” to portray Hegseth as a reckless security risk for allegedly sharing the “SECRET/NOFORN” information, a designation that indicates highly sensitive material meant only for U.S. individuals and agencies…

Fox News: President Trump to visit the Federal Reserve, ramping up pressure on Powell – Trump has continued to publicly slam Fed chair Jerome Powell, while others question statements related to the costly renovations of headquarters – Representative Anna Paulina Luna referred Powell to the DOJ for criminal charges on Monday, accusing him of two specific instances of perjury relating to the renovations…

Newsmax: Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley will vie for the seat held by Senator Thom Tillis, who announced he would not run for reelection. – The high-profile North Carolina race for the Senate is expected to be one of the top battlegrounds, and therefore one of the most expensive in the 2026 elections. – Whatley’s relationship with donors will be an asset in the race, according to GOP members…

Newsmax: Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump, said Thursday she will not run for a U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina after “heartfelt discussions with my family, friends, and supporters.” – Lara Trump posted a social media comment following reports that Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley will vie for the seat held by Senator Thom Tillis…

Breitbart: The Trump administration delivered on its promise to secure the U.S.-Mexico border – The June Southwest Land Border Encounters Report from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows yet another decrease in migrant encounters, including the lowest number of encounters in a single day, 128 on June 28.

New York Post: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will meet with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell today in Florida, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to The Post. – Blanche, the second-in-command at the Justice Department, plans to huddle with Maxwell, found guilty of child sex trafficking and other crimes, and her lawyer at the US Attorney’s Office in Tallahassee…

Washington Free Beacon: A progressive grant-making organization with a history of supporting CCP-affiliated green energy initiatives, including those sponsored by California’s Governor, sponsored Newsom’s 2023 climate-focused trip to China. – At Newsom’s request, the Hewlett Foundation paid $300,000 to cover the California delegation’s travel expenses…

Zero Hedge: 10 Economic Facts That Nobody Can Deny – If you ask 1,000 different Americans about the state of the U.S. economy, you will get 1,000 different opinions, but what is really happening? – #1 The Conference Board’s index of leading economic indicators fell more than expected last month – #2 We just learned that sales of previously-owned homes have fallen to their lowest level in nine months…

Resist The Mainstream: Idaho State Police revealed Wednesday that convicted murderer Bryan Kohberger maintained no connection whatsoever to the four University of Idaho students he brutally killed in November 2022. – The stunning revelation came during a news conference following Kohberger’s sentencing hearing, where he received four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

July 23, 2025

Western Journal: Did Obama Himself Order Doctored Russia Report? – A key piece of evidence, appearing on page 72 of Gabbard’s Friday documents dump, indicates that then-DNI James Clapper would take the lead on an inter-agency effort to fashion a narrative regarding Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election that contravened the intelligence community’s previous assessments.

American Thinker: The last piece in the Democrat corruption puzzle – With all the corruption being uncovered by the Trump administration, we should re-examine one case that has been mysteriously placed as “out of bounds.” – The Seth Rich Murder/WikiLeaks/DNC hack story is perhaps the linchpin to this “Russian meddling in our 2016 election” collusion lie.

Epoch Times: Columbia University Agrees to Pay $200 Million to Restore Federal Funding – “While Columbia does not admit to wrongdoing with this resolution agreement, the institution’s leaders have recognized, repeatedly, that Jewish students and faculty have experienced painful, unacceptable incidents, and that reform was and is needed”…

Washington Free Beacon: Skydance Says Its Post-Merger Moves at CBS Will Include a ‘Comprehensive’ Editorial Bias Review, an Ombudsman To Ensure ‘Accountability,’ and Elimination of All DEI – Skydance laid out the moves in two letters it sent to FCC chairman Brendan Carr on Tuesday. – These commitments come nearly one week after Skydance chief executive David Ellison met with Carr in Washington…

One America News: A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, overturning a $5 million arbitration award to a software developer who had claimed victory in a contest challenging Lindell’s assertions of foreign interference in the 2020 election. – It was determined that the arbitration panel had overstepped its authority by modifying unambiguous terms of the contest agreement in order to grant the award.

Epoch Times: The Judge Has Sentenced Bryan Kohberger to Life in Prison in the Idaho Quadruple-Murder Case – The judge gave him four life sentences to be served consecutively for the deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, and Madison Mogen.

Zero Hedge: The NNSA has been hit by a sophisticated cyberattack that exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint, widely described as one of the most serious breaches of US defense infrastructure this year. – Hackers believed to be linked to the CCP used a zero-day exploit targeting on-premises versions of SharePoint to infiltrate over 50 organizations, including the agency responsible for the Navy’s nuclear submarine reactors.

Washington Examiner: Volodymyr Zelensky faces a groundswell of protests after cutting an anti-corruption body. – Earlier this month, Zelensky accused the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of being infiltrated by Russian agents. – Last Monday, Ukrainian agents raided over 70 locations linked to the NABU and arrested several senior figures, including top detective Ruslan Magamedrasulov.

Daily Caller: Trump Reportedly Moving To Blow Up Cornerstone Of Democrats’ Green Agenda – The Trump administration has reportedly drafted a plan to essentially roll back the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions by rescinding the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which stipulates that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases can be “regulated” for the sake of human health and the environment…

America First Report: Putting Tulsi on the Terror Watch List Might’ve Been Democrats’ Dumbest Move Yet – Remember when the Biden regime and their intel lapdogs decided Tulsi Gabbard was such a threat to their agenda that they smeared her as a “Russian asset” and quietly slapped her on a terror watch list? – Yeah, about that…

Zero Hedge: And Here It Is – DNI Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday released more damning evidence against the Obama administration, which she says exposes how they “manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win the 2016 election.”

Red State: Obama’s Russia-Gate response wasn’t much. – “These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.” – Tulsi Gabbard, “There was a ‘180-degree’ shift from the original assessment, after Trump won, that contradicted the prior finding.” – “We will be releasing further documents tomorrow that will refute that statement,” she said about Obama’s remarks.”

American Thinker: The Analyst Who Knew Too Much – What one whistleblower’s dissent reveals about the Russia hoax. – This whistleblower, who had played a leading role in the September analysis, was suddenly cut off from ICA communications. – His assessment was cast aside. – Though he had been essential to the original effort, his professional judgment now conflicted with the new narrative, and he was treated as expendable…

The Federalist: Newly Released Document by DNI Tulsi Gabbard Reveals The Washington Post’s Central Role In Russiagate Hoax – Candid assessments were immediately overturned. – The narrative was flipped, claiming that Russia had interfered to help Trump win. – While the report cites two separate leaks to the Post, suggesting two different articles, they were in fact the same story, which was heavily rewritten after publication…

Western Journal: Gabbard Declassifies Eerie Email Exchange Over Steele Dossier FOIA – The Dec. 8, 2016, Presidential Daily Briefing was pulled and never presented. Instead, less than a month later, a new document, which showed far more confidence that Russia had interfered on behalf of the Trump campaign, was presented. Gabbard released evidence that Obama’s DNI, James Clapper, began working on it the day after the Dec. 8 PDB was pulled.

Breitbart: Senator Lindsey Graham is open to the possibility of a special counsel to investigate the Obama administration’s involvement in promoting a 2017 narrative that the 2016 Trump presidential campaign colluded with the Russian government. – When asked, “Do you believe there should be a Special Counsel appointed to look into Obamagate?” Graham replied, “I believe we’re getting close, and let me tell you why…

The Federalist: Skeletons are exploding from the closet of Team Obama in the wake of the declassified and damning documents from the Russia collusion hoax. – In the wake of the latest release of newly declassified documents, we are reminded again that the Democrat Party, the Deep State, and their allies in the Pravda Press are the real threats to democracy. Or, more accurately, this Democratic Republic.

Townhall: You Knew the Liberal Media Was Going to Do This – They are melting down. – The media is racing to suffocate the Russian collusion documents that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released because a lot of their friends and sources could be indicted for what appears to be a political operation that borders on treason…

Townhall: Senate Republicans Reopen the Clinton Email Probe – Several thumb drives were never analyzed, according to a detailed report, which reveals that the FBI provided laughable reasons for not continuing, deviating from department policy. – With such glaring incompetence, it was reported last night that this probe will be re-examined.

Daily Wire: U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg, an Obama appointee, said in a 12-page opinion on Wednesday that she does not have the legal authority to release grand jury transcripts from the investigation into convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein – Rosenberg’s decision does not mark the end of the Trump administration’s attempts to unseal Epstein’s or Maxwell’s grand jury transcripts.

Western Journal: With Epstein Fires Flaring, The House Schedule Abruptly Changes With Their 5-Week Vacation to Begin Early – With the twin pressures of summer temperatures and the Jeffrey Epstein controversy keeping things hot in the nation’s Capitol, House Speaker Mike Johnson is apparently hoping things cool down by September.

Breitbart: The Trump administration is broadening its search for partners to build the Golden Dome missile defense system. – It’s looking beyond SpaceX to companies like Amazon’s Project Kuiper and traditional defense contractors. – SpaceX’s Starlink and Starshield satellite networks have been central to U.S. military communications thus far; however, officials are now wary of over-relying on a single partner…

American Thinker: The truth About Alligator Alcatraz – Sure, it’s not the Four Seasons, but it’s infinitely more than these lawbreakers deserve. – Perhaps the Democrats prefer Obama’s roach-infested cages from years gone by. – Who benefits from characterizing the site as a cesspool? Obviously, the Democrats want to do everything they can to discredit anything Republicans do to detain illegal aliens…

Newsmax: President Trump’s deportation force has wider support than liberal media will admit, while amnesty policies have conversely wide opposition, according to the latest poll by McLaughlin & Associates. – Not only do 77% of likely general election voters oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, but 56% back deportation of every illegal…

Resist The Mainstream: Karoline Leavitt Ridiculed The Common ‘Bull-Shit’ Excuse Used by Presidents for Decades as Trump’s Border Crackdown Quickly Yielded Record Results – Leavitt, “Yeah, we were told you needed a bill to secure the border, which was bullshit.” – President Trump began issuing executive actions related to immigration on his first day in office…

A sweeping new bill to create a Cabinet-level Secretary of the Coast Guard has cleared committee and is ready to head for a vote on the House floor. – Congress and the Department of Homeland Security want to elevate the Coast Guard to better match the stature of other military branches, especially as it takes on growing roles in stopping illegal migration and drug trafficking under the Trump administration.

Washington Free Beacon: The Largest Teachers’ Union in the United States Erases Jews From the Holocaust – The National Education Association described the Holocaust as having ’12 million victims’ from ‘different faiths’ without mentioning the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. – This news comes amid a surge in both anti-Semitism and anti-Israel extremism at public schools and within teachers’ unions themselves…

American Thinker: Polls, Propaganda, and the Truth About Trump’s Deportation Agenda – Although the public overwhelmingly thinks that people who committed violent crimes should be deported, they also support deporting those who committed nonviolent crimes. – Some polls are structured to mislead people; whether that is done intentionally or not is irrelevant. What matters is that the polls will likely provide biased information…

American Thinker: The Great ‘Zero-Carbon Renewables’ Deception – Simple narratives are employed to seduce a populace, and none is more seductive today than the promise of “carbon-free” energy. – California’s energy goal, may not emit carbon dioxide while generating electricity. However, their production, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal are energy-intensive and emit copious amounts of carbon dioxide…

Zero Hedge: Remember when Gavin Newsom vowed to streamline California’s paralytic regulations so people could quickly rebuild their homes? – Dan Dunmoyer, CEO of the California Building Industry Association, says, “Their new energy efficiency mandates add costs of $60,000 to $80,000 per home. – For some, a few, this would be great. – For all others, it will be a land grab and a climate mandate they cannot afford.”…

American Thinker: Minnesota Is Not So Nice Anymore – A state once renowned for its standard of living and sheer friendliness is becoming increasingly hostile to normal people. – It now appears possible, if not likely, that a radical Muslim Marxist will soon be mayor of Minneapolis, the state’s biggest city. – The once-vibrant town, called “The City of Lakes,” is now “The City of Leftists.”…

Breitbart: Trump Exits The ‘Divisive’ UNESCO After Body Campaigns for Global Online Censorship – The State Department listed among its reasons for withdrawing from UNESCO on Tuesday its proclivity for helping “advance divisive social and cultural causes” as well as its strident anti-Israel stances, similar to those of many fellow U.N. bodies.

Geller Report: Over $100 Million Was Donated to California Fire Victims, Yet These Victims Received NOTHING – Two FireAid concerts with live streams were held at the Intuit Dome and the Kia Forum on January 30th. – These funds were then distributed to various non-profits. – But it appears that little, if any, of these funds ever helped the victims of devastating fires…

Slay News: A resurfaced video has ignited a storm of outrage among conservatives after Democrat Representative Yvette Clarke (D-NY) argued that her district could benefit from more illegal aliens purely for “redistricting purposes.” – The statement has raised serious concerns about the integrity of U.S. elections.

July 22, 2025

Western Journal: The Unfathomable Failure of Biden’s $7.5 Billion EV Charger Plan Is Revealed in This Government Accountability Office Report – The 2021 infrastructure bill to provide public chargers for electric vehicle use managed, by April of this year, to install fewer than 400 of the stations on the highways and byways of America. – That’s just under $20 million per charging station, in a nation of 330 million people.

Commentary: Don’t Use Seven Words When Four Will Do. Said Brad Pitt’s character said in Ocean’s Eleven when tutoring a fellow con man. – That was good advice in general, though yesterday’s Washington Post report on Hamas uses 2,141 words when three would do. – All it had to say was: “Israel was right.” – Earlier in the war, Hamas relied on taxes imposed on commercial shipments and the seizure of humanitarian goods, then later…

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Faked Trump-Russia Narrative and Almost Got Away With It. – During the campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2015 and 2016, there were allegations that Trump enlisted Russian President Vladimir Putin to disparage or hurt Hillary Clinton for his benefit. – Robert Mueller spent 22 months and $40 million and found no such evidence…

Townhall: On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that he has secured a “massive” new trade deal with Japan, which includes a 15% tariff structure. – Trump revealed he made the “largest Deal ever” with Japan, which involves “reciprocal” tariffs, resulting in Japan investing $550 billion into the United States, adding that the U.S. will “receive 90 percent of the Profits.”

America First Report: Japanese Auto Stocks Soar On News Of The Trump Trade Deal – The new trade deal is a major positive for Japan’s auto industry and will likely alleviate the impact of tariffs.

Zero Hedge: Stocks And The Euro Surge, While Gold Tumbles On A Report The US and EU Are Closing In On A 15% Tariff Deal Similar To That With Japan. – Both sides are agreeing to waive tariffs on some products, including aircraft, spirits, and medical devices. – Meanwhile, the EU will continue to prepare a possible €93B package of retaliatory tariffs, set at up to 30%, in case they cannot agree on a deal by August 1…

Gateway Pundit: Trump Announces Trade Deals with Indonesia and the Philippines – Both Countries Agree to Open Market with ZERO Tariffs on the U.S. but will Pay 19% Tariffs on Exports to the U.S. – In addition, Indonesia will supply the United States with their precious Critical Minerals, as well as spend Billions of Dollars, to purchase Boeing Aircraft…

Just the News: Economic doom and gloom a year ago have turned to optimism over a possible Trump boom. – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was the latest to call attention to a significant uptick in industrial production of business equipment in Federal Reserve data, suggesting Tuesday it was a sign that businesses were unleashing capital spending after months of wariness.

Just The News: Kari Lake’s Bombshell. – Voice of America managers met multiple times with Chinese officials seeking to influence more favorable U.S. coverage of their country. – This was part of a larger dynamic that proved to be to the “detriment of America” and its taxpayer-funded media operation for the world…

Daily Signal: Here’s How Much Taxpayer Cash the Groups Suing Trump Received From The Biden Administration – The nonprofits that sued to block President Trump’s reforms during his first month in office had been awarded $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds. – Most of the lawsuits involved Trump’s immigration policies and his freezing of federal grants to root out fraud, waste, and abuse from federal grants, and enforce immigration law…

Gateway Pundit: AG Bondi Immediately Fired Alina Habba’s Replacement After Rogue Judges Voted to Oust Habba as Interim US Attorney of New Jersey – Hakeem Jeffries called on federal district court judges appointed by Obama and Biden to remove Alina Habba over her decision to indict Rep. LaMonica McIver. – “This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges — especially when they threaten the President’s core Article II powers.”

One America News: CBS Agrees To Pay $36M To Settle The ’60 Minutes’ Lawsuit Over Extensive Editing Of Their Kamala Harris Interview. – Trump stated, “We have just achieved a BIG AND IMPORTANT WIN in our Historic Lawsuit against 60 Minutes, CBS, and Paramount. – CBS and its Corporate Owners knew that they defrauded the American People, and were desperate to settle.”

Sharyl Attkisson: This Year’s State Dept. Mass Layoffs Are Not the ‘First of Its Kind’ – The 2025 layoffs, with 1,353 firings, are larger in absolute numbers, but smaller in terms of workforce percentage. – Since the 1987 layoffs, the State Department roster had expanded by an additional 12,000+ employees. – The Differences Between 1987 and 2025 Layoffs…

Western Journal: The US Olympic Committee Made a Massive Decision That Will Make Trump Beam – The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee has changed its eligibility rules. – Men who claim to be women are barred from representing America in Olympic women’s sports. – The ban on self-described transgender individuals competing in Olympic women’s sports was posted under the “USOPC Athlete Safety Policy” on Monday.

Epoch Times: President Trump Considers Eliminating The Capital Gains Tax on Houses – ‘If the Fed would lower the [interest] rates, we wouldn’t even have to do that,’ Trump said. – The president added that the Federal Reserve would “unleash” the real estate market by lowering interest rates.

American Spectator: The Butler PA Probabilities – Were the Secret Service’s series of errors intentional? – If Trump won, the Autopen Mafia that was secretly running the Biden regime would be exposed and quite likely face criminal prosecution for their outrageous and illegal usurpation of executive power. – The stakes could not have been higher for these malefactors. – Trump had to be stopped at all costs. – Consider the following points taken from their reports…

American Spectator: California’s Bullet Train Baggage – What Governor Gavin Newsom and the high-speed rail bosses aren’t telling the people. – Thousands of pages of public records were removed from the California High Speed Rail Authority website.” – Materials stripped from the site included business plans, financial reports from 2008-2014, board meeting minutes, and change orders…

Real Clear Politics: AI Chatbots Rely on Sources With Clear Biases – AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Grok can be a big help in writing essays, conducting research, and exploring complex issues. – However, these tools also pose risks, particularly when they filter facts through a political lens. – Consequently, the Trump administration is now stepping into the debate.

Newsmax: President Trump did not hold back in his latest remarks, pointing to former President Obama as the perpetrator of 2016 election fraud and putting the cloud over his White House successor by coordinating a “coup” attempt. – “He’s guilty,” Trump told reporters in off-the-cuff remarks from the Oval Office during a Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. visit.

One America News: President Trump has announced a new trade deal with the Philippines following a meeting with President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos Jr. – On Tuesday, Trump announced that the Philippines will pay a 19% tariff rate following the conclusion of a trade deal with the United States.

The Daily Signal: The White House plans to introduce another rescissions package soon, which will include cuts to education funding. – Reforming the education system has been a bedrock of the second Trump administration. – It is unclear what the rescissions package will cut from previously approved education spending. The bill will also include cuts besides education…

Newsmax: President Trump Warns of New Strikes After Iran Vows Not to Give Up On Uranium Enrichment – “It is stopped because, yes, damages are serious and severe. However, we cannot give up enrichment because it is a significant achievement of our scientists. And now, more than that, it is a question of national pride,” Araghchi told Fox News host Bret Baier on Monday.

American Thinker: Iran’s Growing Capital Flight and Accelerating Brain Drain Weakens the Mullah Regime – Poverty in Iran has become so widespread that even those close to the mullah regime are nervous. And since 2021, with inflation exceeding 40%, the middle class has been steadily and completely absorbed into the impoverished population. – To better understand the degree, compare its inflation rate with that of neighboring countries…

Slay News: President Trump Secured A Deal For Hamas to Release Another 10 Hostages from Gaza – Trump told lawmakers the truce would include a 60-day ceasefire, the hostage release, along with 18 bodies, in exchange for some Hamas detainees. – “We’re going to have another 10 coming very shortly, and we hope to have that finished quickly.”

Daily Caller: ‘Another Win For The American People’ As An Appeals Court Hands Trump Admin Deportation Victory – The court ruled the Trump administration can move forward with ending temporary deportation protections for thousands of Afghan and Cameroonian nationals.

Townhall: AG Pam Bondi announced a major change in sanctuary status for Louisville Tuesday morning as the administration continues its pressure campaign against Democrat mayors and governors for harboring violent criminal illegal aliens. – The city of Louisville is dropping its sanctuary city policies. – The news comes just one day after Border Czar Tom Homan comments about “flooding the zone” to find criminals in sanctuary jurisdictions…

Daily Wire: A dual citizen of China and the United States pled guilty on Monday to stealing American missile defense technology for the Chinese government. – The information included plans to detect nuclear missile launches and hypersonic missiles. – 59-year-old Chenguang Gong, who faces up to 10 years in prison upon sentencing, is currently free on $1.75 million bond.

Zero Hedge: Is the Almighty Dollar About to Fall From Grace? – The $USD is in serious trouble. – It declined 12% in the first six months of 2025. – This is the worst six-month start for the dollar since 1973. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look as though things are about to improve anytime soon…

Zero Hedge: Watchdog, Monitoring Analytics, Warns That The Largest US Grid Is Maxed Out Amid The Data Center Buildout – New AI data centers are popping up across the PJM Interconnection—the largest U.S. power grid, serving 65 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C. Part of PJM’s territory includes Loudoun County, Virginia—known as ‘Data Center Alley.’…

New York Post: Democrats ripped Hunter Biden over a pair of podcast interviews released Monday in which he ranted against party leaders and high-profile donors for forcing his dad out of the 2024 presidential race while misrepresenting the “shady” facts of his criminal trials. – “Hunter Biden continues to personify loss in a way that mainly helps Republicans,” a well-positioned Democratic source told The Post Tuesday…

Resist The Mainstream: The DOJ has dismissed a forensic accountant after discovering her husband developed an app that warns illegal immigrants of immigration enforcement activity, prompting concerns about the safety of federal agents. – Carolyn Feinstein confirmed she was terminated last Friday…

American Thinker: Are We Witnessing the Death of Legacy Media? – These media companies are losing money by the bushelful, and it’s unsustainable as Stephen Colbert just learned. – Nobody’s watching the networks anymore. ABC World News Tonight had just over 7 million viewers recently — and they’re the big dog among the broadcast network news. – What will happen to them if Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. pulls Big Pharma from their advertising budget?

American Thinker: Asia’s Pivot Toward Nuclear Energy – A quiet but decisive pro-nuclear pivot is underway among some of the world’s most populous and energy-hungry nations in Asia. – Unlike large reactors that require enormous capital, land, and time, Small Modular Reactors are quicker to deploy and suitable for remote regions and industrial clusters, which can be expanded incrementally with the addition of small units…

American Thinker: They Buried the Truth to Destroy Trump – How the Obama White House flipped the intelligence narrative overnight. – Just hours before the briefing was scheduled for delivery, the FBI abruptly withdrew its support for the draft. Agents demanded that the Bureau’s seal be removed and sought to affix an official dissent. – Then came a directive from on high…

American Thinker: Russiagate Was Treason; So Will Trump Prove That No One Is Above the Law? – Essentially, they undermined the credibility of the incoming administration and saddled the country with two years of intrigue, corruption, and uncertainty in the form of an investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. – Most Americans agree with that and believe criminals should pay for their deeds. The question is, does Donald Trump?

Townhall: Trump Goes Scorched Earth on Hoax Ringleader Obama – “Barack Hussein Obama is the ringleader.” – “Hillary Clinton was right there with him, and so was Sleepy Joe Biden, and so were the rest of them, including Comey, Clapper, the whole group.” – “They tried to rig the election, and they got caught. There should be very severe consequences for that.”

America First Report: On Friday, Pam Bondi revealed that the DOJ has made public a collection of documents related to the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. – The disclosure follows repeated appeals from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who has consistently called for more openness in the investigation, with little result…

Washington Examiner: The “Statute of Limitations” likely restricts the DOJ’s ability to prosecute Obama officials over the 2016 Russia scandal. – Federal law limits the statute of limitations for most crimes to five years from the date the alleged crime was committed. Thus, alleged crimes committed in 2016 and 2017 would likely fall outside of prosecutors’ reach…

Post Millennial: AG Pam Bondi announced on Tuesday morning that the DOJ intends to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein. – “President Trump has told us to release all credible evidence. – If Ghislaine Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say.

Newsmax: The Judge Will Need More Information Before Moving On The Requested Epstein Files Release – Some of the additional information the judge requires relates to redacted or blocked information in the case files. Further, the judge wrote that he has not received the grand jury transcripts that the government wants to have unsealed…

Gateway Pundit: “There’s Going to Be Another Drop That Is Just Going to Be Mind-Blowing!” – Gen. Flynn TORCHES Mike Pence, Says He Must Be Questioned in Criminal Probe Over Russia Hoax Setup – Flynn outlined a disturbing meeting that took place just days before he was forced to resign after being set up in February 2017…

American Thinker: It’s Time To Declare War on the Democrat Party By Eliminating The Filibuster – We know that Democrats will eliminate the filibuster as soon as they get the chance (after all, they’ve said so), so we must act first. – The Democrats’ two-pronged strategy can only be permanently defeated by a president and Congress that pass legislation addressing these two main issues…

American Thinker: The European Elite Strike Back At Musk – The French investigation into X was just the opening volley. – The French investigation was just the opening volley. This week, Musk responded by refusing the investigators’ requests for specific information on X algorithms. It won’t be long before the European elites roll out the big guns and impede Musk’s ability to do business in Europe…

Western Journal: Stephen Colbert Shows Why He’s Losing His Job with A Vulgar 3-Word Message to Trump – Trump had written, “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired, saying his talent was even less than his ratings. – Colbert’s reply, “How dare you, sir. – Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism: Go fuck yourself.”

Breitbart: Mark Halperin claims House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries “strongly believes” that if socialist Zohran Mamdani becomes the next mayor of NYC, Democrats cannot win back the House majority. – Reports have detailed that Democrat Party leaders still refuse to endorse Mamdani’s bid to become the next leader of the Big Apple, even though he won the Democrat primary…

Daily Wire: EPIC City: Replacing Old Glory With The Crescent Moon? – Picture this: a Muslim-only city governed by Sharia law, beyond the reach of democratically elected officials. – We’d expect this in the Middle East or North Africa. – But it’s happening in Texas, and its founders call it EPIC City. – The Lone Star State can not, and will not, let Sharia law flourish within its borders.

Epoch Times: Elaine Culotti built her career as a real estate developer in Pacific Palisades, renowned for its breathtaking coastline and multi-million-dollar mansions. – More than six months after the Palisades Fire, Culotti is still struggling to come to terms with the aftermath. – Destruction now overshadows the community that is home to 23,837 people, with only a few signs of rebuilding visible…

Breitbart: California’s 20-per-hour minimum wage for fast food workers resulted in a significant decline in employment in that sector, leading to 18,000 fewer jobs than would have been the case otherwise. – The National Bureau of Economic Research found that California’s fast food sector declined by 2.7% relative to employment in the fast food sector elsewhere in the US from September 2023 through September 2024.

Daily Signal: LA’s Olympic-Sized Proposed Minimum Wage Hike Will Cost Jobs. – Just Look at What California’s $20 Minimum Wage Has Done. – In a classic case of central planning, lawmakers in Los Angeles passed a bill in May to bring the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 by 2028, while also imposing a new $8.25 per hour mandatory health care contribution…

California Globe: Jennifer Newsom’s ‘Gender Justice’ Nonprofit Job Post Included Questions Illegal to Ask in California – Newsom’s movies include sexually explicit images and political indoctrination are sold to public schools. – But it gets even stranger – this is a job description from 2023 as a “Gender Equity Training Program Facilitator” at the Representation Project provided by a source:…

July 21, 2025

American Thinker: The Truth About These 2016 Events May Finally Set America Free. – The first Democrat lie occurred on July 5, 2016, when James Comey gave us a long recitation about the illegal, unsecured server Hillary Clinton had in her bathroom, but said Hillary shouldn’t be prosecuted. – The second, even bigger lie, of course, was the Russia Hoax itself…

America Wire News: The WSJ gets the boot from WH press pool for Trump’s overseas trip – The White House made it clear that while 13 outlets will cover the president’s trip, the Wall Street Journal will not be one of them due to its bogus report about President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein… – “As the appeals court confirmed, the WSJ or any other news outlet are not guaranteed special access to cover President Trump in the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One, and in his private workspaces.”…

American Spectator: Will There Be ‘Accountability’ for RussiaGate? Don’t Bet on It – To say that Trump’s supporters are eager to see criminal prosecutions in the RussiaGate scandal is like saying that ravenous wolves would love to dine on fresh mutton. – As much as we might wish to see Obama and his RussiaGate accomplices locked up in Leavenworth, there’s no real possibility of that happening…

Western Journal: Alan Dershowitz, “There was never a client list per se, but there are other ways to gather names.” – “There are sealed records by two or three federal judges in the New York courts, and I’ve seen some of these materials.” – “Former Senator George Mitchell, former ambassador Bill Richardson, and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak were accused.” – “Whether they actually did anything wrong, we don’t know.”

Daily Wire: Trump’s Economy Continues To Defy The ‘Experts’ And Shock The ‘Panickers’ – For the “experts,” the rapid pace of the administration’s economic agenda has been shocking. – For President Trump, this was all a part of the plan. – The numbers don’t lie: inflation under Trump has defied economists’ predictions in nearly every month the president has been in office…

American Wire: Newsweek concludes the first six months of Trump’s second term as President were the most productive since the Roosevelt administration. – It should be noted that the model “defines success in terms of legislative accomplishments” rather than the more fickle metric of public perception.

Issues & Insights: The Sudden Epstein Fixation Is About One Thing Only, and That’s Getting Donald Trump. – Two impeachments didn’t do it. – The phony Russian hoax didn’t do it. – A dubious election loss didn’t do it. – Relentlessly negative coverage didn’t do it. – Civil and criminal judgments and massive fines didn’t do it. – Two assassination attempts didn’t do it. – Now they’re hoping Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost will finally bring Trump down.

Newsmax: President Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal has been assigned to an Obama-appointed judge. – Obama nominated U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in the Southern District of Florida in February 2014, and became the first openly gay Black federal judge. – Gayles was also assigned a Trump $500 million lawsuit against embattled former attorney Michael Cohen in 2023…

Resist The Mainstream: Pete Buttigieg neglected critical air traffic control system modernization during his tenure as Transportation Secretary, instead directing $80 billion toward DEI initiatives. – When presented with modernization proposals, the former secretary allegedly told aviation leaders that improved systems would merely enable more flights, asking, “Why would that be in his interest?”…

Hot Air: Democrats’ Magic Tricks: Illegals Who Were Supposedly ‘NEVER on Medicaid’ Have Suddenly ‘Lost Access’ – Thanks to the Chicago Tribune stepping on the message this past weekend, we now have proof that not only did California have an obvious workaround enabling illegals to have healthcare provided by federal Medicaid dollars, but two other states did as well…

Resist the Mainstream: Trump’s Desire to Terminate Musk’s Contracts Backfires as Review Reveals America’s Critical Dependence on SpaceX. – Following the escalation, a high-ranking General Services Administration official directed the Defense Department to compile comprehensive documentation of all existing SpaceX contracts and transaction agreements.

Howard Galganov: It’s Time To Bring Obama To The Woodshed – John Brennan (CIA), James Clapper (DNI), James Comey (FBI), Andrew McCabe (FBI), Susan Rice (NSA), and a Number of Other High Profile Close Associates of Barack Obama Appear to be Neck-Deep in the Very Probable Accusation from Tulsi Gabbard (DNI Director), that they are Guilty of Participating to Overthrow the Results of the 2016 Election…

American Thinker: Is A Reckoning Coming? – If there is no reckoning, when the left eventually regains power, they will double down. – After all, they were given a pass on their illegal and treasonous activities. – The reckoning or punishment must send a clear message. – It must be sufficiently harsh so that no one ever attempts these schemes again. – Otherwise, they will, and Trump’s legacy will be that the swamp wins…

Slay News: The DOJ has just confirmed it has received a criminal referral from DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard against former President Barack Obama and several of his top administration officials. – Gabbard revealed late last week that her team’s investigations have uncovered bombshell evidence proving that Obama and several former officials “manufactured and politicized intelligence” to fabricate the Russia Hoax…

Slay News: U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb granted a Trump administration request to dismiss a lawsuit brought for the purpose of blocking the release of names of FBI agents who performed work on Jan. 6-related cases. – Plaintiffs filed their complaint in February, soon after a handful of career FBI officials were dismissed by the new administration.

American Thinker: An Acute Threat To America – Only the Divine knows whether or not the attack is unstoppable, but you’ve been handed a bona fide intelligence brief about an extensive terrorist plan to attack America, and the only thing remaining is to suppress your internal normalcy bias and instead find the fortitude to read and prepare for what may be coming…

Breitbart: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday called for a comprehensive review of the Federal Reserve, questioning whether the central bank is failing in its core missions of conducting monetary policy, supervising the largest banks, and ensuring financial stability. – His comments appeared to call for a much more thorough review of the Fed’s activities than has been undertaken in decades…

American Conservative: The Real Meaning of the State Department RIF – State is a bloated, corpulent, insular, risk-averse, academically inbred, stifling, overly bureaucratic, back-stabbing, stodgy, mid-20th century institution that lost its mojo after the Cold War ended; everyone who worked there would admit it if they weren’t afraid of the “corridor reputation” that drives promotions, assignments, and retirement gigs at think tanks and universities.

American Thinker: To Be a ‘Broken System,’ Someone Had to Break It – Clearly, Democrats have been lying about the problem of illegal aliens; they said they couldn’t possibly keep them out, and President Trump proved they could’ve, all along. – There can no longer be any question about it; if the Democrats didn’t enforce the border before, it’s because they just didn’t want to…

American Thinker: Inside the Media Matrix – That the left-wing media machine pounced like a frustrated guard dog on Trump’s bruise should evoke a laugh from an audience that endured years of ignoring Biden’s obvious mental decline. – Now, the media matrix is waiting for the opportunity to launch a new campaign against their disliked president with a synchronization of reporting…

American Thinker: Is Pencil Neck Schiff Just the Tip of the Iceberg? – Lurking within this dynamic is the sad fact that public office often attracts unscrupulous, self-aggrandizing charlatans such as Nancy and Paul Pelosi. – Government, at all levels, has been screwing its constituents for so long — and various sources of information have been cataloging the details, that it’s hard to ignore the profound antipathy…

Washington Examiner: ICE is targeting U.S. companies hiring unauthorized migrant workers – “Not only are we focused on those individuals that are, you know, working here illegally, we’re focused on these American companies that are actually exploiting these laborers,” Lyons said during an interview on CBS News’s Face the Nation.

Breitbart: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Sunday that she wanted to “heap praise” on the Trump administration for its response to the Palisades and Eaton wildfires earlier this year, contradicting Governor Gavin Newsom. – Earlier this month, Newsom lashed out at the Trump administration and envoy for special missions Ric Grenell, who has been the White House point man on the ground in the early recovery stages.

Washington Free Beacon: California Governor Gavin Newsom personally secured $500,000 in 2023 from the nonprofit James Irvine Foundation that supports defunding police and recently launched a bond fund for illegal immigrants in ICE custody. – Newsom then “behested” the $500,000 to ImmDef to support its efforts to “expand critical services offered to migrants crossing the US border.”

California Globe: Governor Newsom and Fellow Democrats Send Another CA Business Packing – Lynsi Snyder, President of In-N-Out, is relocating her family to Tennessee and plans to open In-N-Out restaurants in the state by 2026.- Snyder said that in addition to moving her family to Franklin, Tennessee, a significant portion of the company will move as well. Some corporate employees will move to Tennessee, and others will remain in Southern California.

California Globe: The Great ‘Zero-Carbon Renewables’ Deception – When a Chinese solar panel is installed in a California desert, it arrives with a massive carbon debt. – There is nothing renewable about Earth’s finite stores of metals, minerals, and fuels necessary for making “green” energy’s equipment and infrastructure. – No honest engineer, or careful speaker, would call wind and solar “carbon-free.”…

Clash Daily: The Latest Arctic Ice Measurements Are In And Al Gore Won’t Be Happy – Canadian Ice Service data show that the sea ice areas in the period from June 25 to July 16, 2025, continue to be above average and even larger than at the beginning of the measurements in 1981. – This year, for the period June 25 – July 16, the levels are the third highest in over 20 years…

Breitbart: Pro-Trump comedian Tony Hinchcliffe has dethroned Joe Rogan as the king of podcasts, according to this week’s YouTube Weekly chart. – The latest rankings show that the Kill Tony podcast outpaced The Joe Rogan Experience to earn the top spot on the top 100 podcast list per Mediaite…

Slay News: Trump Demands an End to Cashless Bail Amid Surging Crime and Attacks on Police – Trump, “Crime in American Cities started to significantly rise when they went to CASHLESS BAIL.” – “The WORST criminals are flooding our streets and endangering even our great law enforcement officers. – “It is a complete disaster, and must be ended, IMMEDIATELY!”

July 20, 2025

Gateway Pundit: Texts and Emails Indicate Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Directly Coordinated with The Obama White House to Launch The Trump-Russia Hoax – Hillary used a bogus dossier and conspired with foreigners and the FBI to spy on Trump’s 2016 campaign and presidency.

Epoch Times: Spygate: The Inside Story Behind the Alleged Plot to Take Down Trump – This is a comprehensive analysis conducted by The Epoch Times of the Crossfire Hurricane “Spygate” operation, based on available information as of early 2019. It was then updated in May of 2022. – I doubt you will find anything in one place that provides a better explanation of all that occurred before the recent discovery of additional facts.

Gateway Pundit: No One Is Above The Law – President Trump Sets The Internet on Fire with Video of Obama Getting Arrested by FBI Agents and Tossed Into Jail – President Trump also posted mugshots of the Deep State coup plotters involved in the Russia collusion hoax…

American Thinker: Remember How Hillary Clinton Called Tulsi Gabbard ‘A Russian Asset’? – Now Tulsi Gabbard is exposing the depths of the Democrat deep state’s disinformation operation against President Trump as a Russian agent as he entered office in 2021. – It just shows how low Hillary was willing to go. – One can only wonder what she’s thinking now as Gabbard exposes layer after layer of their deceptions…

American Spectator: Corporate Media Ignores The Russia Hoax Revelations – Most major news outlets are turning a deaf ear to DNI Tulsi Gabbard as she reveals Obama’s role in the hoax. – Gabbard declassified and released more than 100 pages of documentary evidence showing that Obama directed his top intelligence officials to create a fraudulent intelligence report…

Western Journal: ICE Unleashes a Blistering Fact Check About the Actual Condition of Detention Centers in Response to NBC Misinformation – The agency called out NBC News specifically after it reported that detainees across the country were being underfed and that the facilities are too crowded, among other complaints. – The report quoted several detainees…

One America News: During an attempted robbery, an off-duty Border Patrol agent was shot in the face by an illegal alien at a NYC park. – The suspect, injured from the agent’s return gunfire, is reportedly a 21-year-old Dominican national who has illegally lived in the United States since 2023. – Meanwhile, the second suspect accompanying the Dominican national remains at large…

Breitbart: The second suspect involved in the July 19 ambush in NYC of an off-duty border patrol agent is also an illegal immigrant who has benefited from sanctuary policies. – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed in a press conference on Monday that both suspects are now in police custody.

Powerline: Medicaid Fraud Is Worse Than You Can Imagine – Until the Big Beautiful Bill passed, the federal government was not able to review Medicaid data to determine whether beneficiaries were claiming benefits in more than one state. – Amazing, but apparently true. – Estimates of Medicare fraud run as high as $120 billion per year, and Medicaid fraud is, in all likelihood, even worse…

Zero Hedge: Alarming Examples of Canadian Justice – A man serving life for killing a 15-year-old, paroled and released, then kills again. – A 14-year-old on bail stabbed a senior to death in a parking lot and is still at large. – Here are two separate sex crimes cases where the defendants walked in order to preserve their immigration status. – A 5-time repeat offender again faces impaired driving charges after a serious 4-vehicle crash…

American Thinker: The Three Biggest Stories This Week – Judicial hijinks – The willingness of the Wall Street Journal to publish defamatory anti-Trump nonsense in violation of all journalism ethics – Tulsi Gabbard’s public declassification of material showing how President Obama worked from the moment of Trump’s 2016 election victory on to tar and hamstring him with made-up Russian influence lies…

Townhall: President Trump’s Approval Ratings Have Gone *UP* Since the Epstein Files Circus – “They have hit 90%, 92%, 93%, and 95% in various polls, and are all Republican Party records.” – With the media trying to pull another ‘flood the zone’ operation a la Russian collusion hoax, House Republicans voted in the Rules Committee to release all credible evidence on the Epstein case.

Slay News: Attorney Alan Dershowitz has confirmed that there is no incriminating information against President Donald Trump in the case files related to the late child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. – Dershowitz, Epstein’s former attorney of the late sex trafficker said that the dead pedophile’s case files are very light on bombshell information.

Just The News: President Trump calls on the Senate to cancel August recess and long weekends to get his nominees confirmed – Trump held a dinner for GOP senators at the White House on Friday and congratulated them for the passage of his signature “One Big Beautiful Bill” and other legislation in the first six months of his presidency.

Slay News: Activist Judges Continue to Hamstring Trump’s Effort to End Birthright Citizenship – U.S. District Judge Joseph LaPlante paused his own decision to allow for the Trump administration to appeal, but with no appeal filed in the last week, his order went into effect. – The Trump administration could still appeal the judge’s decision, or it could ask the court to narrow the judge’s order.

American Thinker: Democrats On Immigration And Attacking ICE! – One can’t import Third World criminals into America and not expect violence and savagery. – Democrats let them in, unvetted, and they’re trying to keep them all in America. – Filling Blue States with immigrants who don’t speak English, won’t assimilate, and need the massive public assistance only makes their budget woes even worse, but Democrats act on what ought to be rather than reality…

Resist the Mainstream: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said that the agency has dismantled a Chinese espionage ring operating inside the U.S. – The operation involved attempts to recruit American service members to share sensitive defense information. – The investigation led to the execution of eight search warrants across multiple cities, including San Francisco, Houston, Portland, and San Diego.

American Thinker: The California Train to Nowhere Runs Out of Taxpayer Money – Newsom Has Painted Himself into a Corner. – He obviously feels he has no choice but to continue wasting money on this disaster. – Fellow Democrats and Republicans are surely delighted. – The campaign commercials will write themselves: “Gavin Newsom: he’ll do to America what he did to California!”…

America First Report: ICE Nabs An Illegal Alien Accused of A Horrific Decapitation After A Leftist Judge Lets Him Walk Free – This nightmare started in April when police in Waukegan, Illinois, discovered the body of 37-year-old Megan Bos, who had been reported missing on March 9. – Her remains were found in a container in Mendoza-Gonzalez’s yard. – Family members say she vanished back in February.

Zero Hedge: A central bank digital currency (CBDC) will not be allowed in the United States, President Donald Trump said at a White House event on July 18, promising to take legislative action to prevent such a situation. – Trump’s comments came amid the signing of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act into law.

Resist the Mainstream: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy issued a warning to Mexico on Saturday, stating the U.S. may begin denying flight requests from the country. – This comes after Mexico removed American cargo carriers from Mexico City and revoked flight slots previously held by U.S. airlines. – Duffy claimed Mexico violated a 2022 bilateral aviation agreement…

Resist the Mainstream: Zohran Mamdani, the leading candidate for New York City mayor, has publicly supported abolishing private property in the city, according to a recently resurfaced video. – The pro-communist politician emphasized the importance of guaranteeing housing for all residents of New York.

July 19, 2025

Townhall: The WSJ Reporters Behind the Epstein Smear Have Deep Ties to the Clinton-Backed Russia Hoax Machine – The article was co-authored by reporters with ties to Main Justice, a publication founded by Mary Jacoby, the wife of Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS. – That’s the same shady opposition-research firm Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid to fabricate the infamous Steele Dossier.

Blaze Media: President Trump makes shocking statement as he commends Gabbard for bombshell evidence release – “We had, in President Obama and his leadership team, people who did not want to accept the will of the American people in electing Donald Trump in 2016 — and therefore cooked up this treasonous conspiracy to…effectively launch a years-long coup against the sitting President of the United States.”

Epoch Times: The FBI and NSA Had Low Confidence That Russia Was Behind the DNC Hack – The assessment was scrapped after the agencies dissented, but the Obama administration proceeded to accuse Moscow. – A memo prepared for President Barack Obama, dated two days after the assessment, blames Russia for the hack and leak and does not mention the dissent by the FBI and NSA, according to the newly released documents…

Breitbart: Federal documents obtained by America First Legal show Biden’s DOJ sought a “federal hook” so they could investigate and criminally charge parents protesting school policies related to COVID, transgenderism, critical race theory, and other issues. – A memo from former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “mobilized the full force of the federal government’s firepower against the concerned parents…

Breitbart: Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine overnight into Saturday with hundreds of drones, killing at least one person. – This stepped-up bombing campaign has dashed hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the more than 3-year-old war.

Resist The Mainstream: The Supreme Court Grants DOGE Access to Social Security Records in A Win for Trump – This includes Social Security numbers, medical histories, mental health evaluations, and family court records. – The case is now being returned to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond for further deliberation on the legal merits…

Resist The Mainstream: The EPA announced on Friday a sweeping plan to eliminate its Office of Research and Development and cut thousands of jobs, aiming to save taxpayers nearly $749 million. – This move comes after the Supreme Court recently cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s workforce downsizing initiative…

Western Journal: The radical views of New York City’s far-left mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani continue to resurface. – The latest being his desire to abolish property rights in favor of universal housing. – Democrat Representative Mark Takano of California met with Mamdani this week and tried to frame the self-described democratic socialist as a moderate.

American Thinker: Democrat Power Depends upon Open Borders – The historical party of slavery is at it again! – By subsidizing foreign laborers, Democrat-run governments and taxpayer-funded “non-profits” disincentivize businesses from hiring poor Americans. Meanwhile, poor Americans are forced to share parks, hospitals, schools, and other public spaces with people who have illegally entered the United States…

Liberty Daily: Border Patrol Morale Skyrockets Under Trump’s Strong Leadership – In the past, budget cuts held agents back and made it hard for them to finish their work. – Now, under President Trump, they feel a fresh wave of hope and trust in making the border safer for everyone.

American Thinker: Obama’s Russian Ruse – How many other traitorous offenses has Barack Obama committed? – Trump was elected because he promised to reverse Obama’s socialist Marxist legacy, and thin-skinned, conceited Obama couldn’t allow that. – Thus, Obama was determined to delegitimize Trump. One way to accomplish that goal was to exploit his testosterone-fueled Russian nemesis…

American Thinker: The Dollar Gets a Clone As Congress Puts Crypto in a Collar – Friedrich Hayek’s visionary proposal is now public policy. – The Nobel Prize laureate proposed that the monopoly of money issuance by the state was neither necessary nor desirable. He envisioned a system of competing private currencies, each backed by reliable reserves and evaluated by the public on the basis of stability, transparency, and trust…

American Thinker: Gavin’s Leadership Dilemma – Guess who actually runs California? – Officially, it’s the governor and the political class, i.e., the legislature. – But it’s actually the public sector unions. – They’re in charge, and Gavin knows it. – I suppose that’s what happens when they organize the vote drive and get people out to vote. – Here is the story…

Washington Examiner: ON THE SOURCING OF THAT WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE – Its sourcing is frustratingly and intentionally vague. – Saying that the Journal “reviewed” the letter seems to clearly indicate that the reporters saw it. If they didn’t, what they wrote would be misleading. The obvious question of why the Journal did not include an image of the letter in its story is simply not addressed in the article…

Sharyl Attkisson: President Trump announced plans to sue the Wall Street Journal over an article claiming he sent a birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein. – The article alleges Trump contributed to a 2003 birthday project arranged by Ghislaine Maxwell, which included notes from close friends. – The note attributed to Trump was described as bawdy and ended with, “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Elmo Goes Reich – It was a big week for weird news. – Elmo joined the Third Reich at the very moment when Congress finally stopped subsidizing him, a Coldplay concert took an unfortunate turn, and we had the autopen controversy. – Then, Jeffrey Epstein was back in the news.

July 18, 2025

Zero Hedge: President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky are negotiating a potential “mega deal” that allows for Ukraine to exchange its growing small drone arsenal and technology for more advanced American weapons. – Under the scheme, the US would purchase Ukrainian-made drones, while Ukraine would, in turn, buy American weapons, according to a recent Zelensky interview…

One America News: Another former aide to former President Joe Biden, Annie Tomasini, invoked the Fifth Amendment during the GOP-led investigation into Biden’s cognitive health, becoming the third former staffer to decline testimony on the matter. – Tomasini invoked her right against self-incrimination and declined to say whether the White House “instructed her to lie” about the president’s health.

PJ Media: This Is How the Obama Administration ‘Manufactured’ The Bogus Russia Hoax Intelligence – There is now “overwhelming evidence” that Barack Obama and his national security inner circle went to work immediately after Donald Trump’s stunning 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton. Their goal? Lay the foundation for the Trump-Russia hoax…

The Federalist: The ‘Leather-Bound’ Epstein Book Reeks Of Being A Fake Plant To Implicate Trump – President Trump’s claim that some of the Epstein files are ‘made up’ by Democrats and the FBI makes a lot more sense now. – The typed text was reportedly written in the third person and as a cryptic dialogue between the president and Epstein: Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything. – Donald: Yes, there is…

Townhall: Thanks to the Trump administration, ten Americans have officially boarded a flight and are heading for the United States after being released from custody in Venezuela in a prisoner swap. – A former Navy SEAL, Wilbert Joseph Castaneda, was among the Americans released…

Western Journal: Mamdani Plummets in New Poll as Republican Long Shot Surges – Mamdani’s support appears to have dropped 14 percentage points from less than a week ago. – In a four-way race, Mamdani now garners 26 percent support, while Cuomo is at 23 percent, Sliwa is at 22 percent, and Adams is at 13 percent, with 15 percent of voters undecided.

One America News: Jeanine Pirro advances as top Federal Prosecutor in Washington, D.C. – Pirro has already held the post in an acting capacity since mid-May, following President Trump’s withdrawal of Martin’s nomination amid opposition from Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who objected to Martin’s outspoken support for those charged in connection with the January 6, 2021 Capitol protest.

Epoch Times: Trump Issues Regulatory Relief for Coal, Chemical Manufacturing, And The Steel Industry – Trump’s latest proclamation states that the Biden era rule places substantial burdens on chemical manufacturers, as many of the technologies needed to comply with the regulations are “not practically available” and cannot be implemented under real-world conditions.

Western Journal: As Leftists Fume Over CBS Axing Stephen Colbert, CNN’s Brian Stelter Quietly Admits the Real Reason – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is now technically unprofitable. – So that does give the company a financial reason to end the show starting in May 2026.

Center Square: The House of Representatives, in a late-night vote, passed the Republicans’ $9 billion rescissions package, delivering another win for President Donald Trump and his promise to cut federal spending. – The measure, which cuts already appropriated federal spending on some foreign aid projects and public broadcasting programs, passed 216-213 in the House; the final voted was needed to send it to Trump’s desk for his signature.

Slay News: Representative Addison McDowell has introduced a bill to end the controversial use of autopen devices for signing important presidential documents. – The “Ban on Inkless Directives and Executive Notarizations Act of 2025” or the BIDEN Act would ensure that only the sitting president himself could sign engrossed bills, executive orders, pardons, and commutations…

Townhall: California sued the Trump administration on Thursday over the cancellation of high-speed rail funds, a move Governor Gavin Newsom said “reeks of politics.” – The lawsuit calls the administration’s actions “arbitrary and capricious, an abuse of discretion, and contrary to law, and threatens to wreak significant economic damage on the Central Valley, the State, and the Nation.”

The Federalist: House Republicans Are Pushing New Amnesty Bill, Have Stabbed Conservatives In The Back. – On Tuesday, Representative Maria Elvira Salazar reintroduced her “DIGNITY Act” bill alongside a cadre of fellow Republicans as well as Democrats. – Salazar says it will allow “certain long-term undocumented immigrants to earn legal status, without providing amnesty or a path to citizenship.”…

Slay News: In a major setback for President Trump, a Democrat-aligned federal judge ruled that the termination of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter was illegal. – The decision by U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan, a Joe Biden appointee, cited the 1935 Humphreys Executor ruling, which upheld the legal limitations Congress placed on removing members of the FTC…

The California Globe: The DOJ issued requests to sheriffs in major California counties for lists of inmates in their jails who are non-U.S. citizens, their crimes for which they were arrested or convicted, and their scheduled release dates. – The DOJ also clarified that both Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna and San Francisco County Sheriff Paul Miyamoto were among those Sheriffs receiving letters…

American Thinker: Nine things the media chooses not to tell the public because it just doesn’t fit their agenda – 1. An investigation into the Obama administration, especially the lies of John Brennan and James Comey, revealed how far they went to destroy Trump, yet the media acts like the Justice Department and intelligence agencies were independent and infallible under Obama and Biden…

Resist The Mainstream: CBS will end “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in May 2026. – Colbert announced the decision during a taping of the show on Thursday evening. – The announcement came just two days after Colbert publicly rebuked CBS for settling a lawsuit with Donald Trump regarding allegations that CBS had deceptively edited an interview with Presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

Townhall: The Left Will Be the Ones Melting Down Over the WSJ’s Trump-Epstein Story – We’re not buying it, and the usual suspects are the only ones peddling it as fact. – This WSJ story just might be the best thing to happen to Trump since the Epstein story exploded. – For the first time, those who most vocally criticized him/his admins for not releasing enough info are now rallying to his support…

July 17, 2025

One America News: President Trump will be suing The WSJ, News Corp., and Rupert Murdoch, its Chairman and CEO. – On Thursday, Trump revealed that he and WH Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, were warned by Murdoch about an upcoming WSJ story claiming Trump drew a picture of a woman’s breasts and signed it with a birthday message to the late disgraced mogul Jeffrey Epstein. – Prior to its publishing, they told the WSJ editor the letter “was a FAKE.”…

Western Journal: President Trump Orders The Release of ‘All’ Pertinent Epstein Grand Jury Testimony – “Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval.” – “This SCAM, perpetuated by the Democrats, should end, right now!”

Western Journal: The White House Announced Trump Has Been Diagnosed with Chronic Venous Insufficiency – “The president underwent a comprehensive examination, including diagnostic vascular studies.” – “Importantly, there was no evidence of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease,” Leavitt clarified. – She added that all laboratory tests, including blood count, metabolic panel, and cardiac biomarkers, were “within normal limits.”…

Daily Signal: Video Aims to Set Record Straight on Conditions at ICE Illegal-Alien Detention Facilities – “Democrats and the mainstream media love to spread lies about ICE detention facilities, but this video shows the truth. – “ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens,” Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary, said in a statement…

Just The News: President Trump says that if the violent ICE riots happening across the country are discovered to have central organizers or professional backing, he would designate them foreign or domestic terror organizations, similar to what he did with Mexican cartels in February. – “I would do that, and in a minute,” Trump said…

Gateway Pundit: Jerome Powell Has Been Criminally Referred For Alleged Perjury About $2.5 Billion Building Renovation – Powell is under fire for the cost of renovating the Fed’s DC headquarters. – The cost ballooned from $1.9 billion to $2.5 billion. – President Trump earlier this week said Jerome Powell’s renovation scandal may be enough to fire him as the Fed Chair…

Just The News: Records show DEI standards were used to pressure law schools to adopt racist practices – The American Bar Association’s monopoly on legal education looks even more tenuous after dozens of schools shared their “accreditation visit reports.” – Reports “demonstrate the prevalence of hiring and admissions preferences” on the basis of race and sex in violation of Title VI and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act.

American Spectator: President Trump Signed A New Law Targeting One of America’s Deadliest Crises, Fentanyl – The bipartisan legislation will bring harsher penalties for distributors or possessors of fentanyl and associated drugs. – Dubbed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act (HALT), the legislation will reclassify both illicit fentanyl and similar drugs as Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act…

American Thinker: In fire-ravaged Los Angeles, an idea so bad even its sponsor has now disowned it – A plan to allow the state to buy up burned lots of people they refuse to issue rebuilding permits to, for low-income housing, has been ‘paused.’ – Everyone saw through it, and Newsom himself probably told Allen to “pause” it. – It stinks. It stinks so bad, even its sponsor was perhaps forced to disavow it…

Center Square: A bill introduced by Republican lawmakers would revoke the federal charter for the National Education Association over concerns about its priorities. – They say the NEA has been exposed for calling President Donald Trump a fascist, adopting partisan-driven resolutions, and morphing into a mouthpiece for left-wing extremism…

Just The News: The Senate voted 51-48 early Today to approve $9 billion in federal spending clawback success, substantially cutting foreign aid and subsidies to National Public Radio and PBS in a win for President Donald Trump’s effort to shrink the size of government. – Two Republicans, Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, joined Democrats in opposing the rescissions package.

American Thinker: Trump’s tariffs fuel a $27 billion surplus that even the ‘MAGA’ media ignores – While social media churns with conspiracies about Jeffrey Epstein, something far more serious, yet underreported, is unfolding, because America ran a budget surplus in June. – It’s the first for that month in eight years. And it wasn’t a fluke. – It was largely driven by one policy move: tariffs…

Breitbart: New polls show President Donald Trump’s approval among Republicans has risen, not fallen, despite nonstop social media backlash over the Epstein case. – CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said Republican approval of Trump rose from 86% in the previous poll to 88% this week, and Quinnipiac’s poll showed a similar jump, from 87% to 90%…

Newsmax: President Donald Trump “would not recommend a special prosecutor” in the Jeffrey Epstein case, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday. – She also chided the press for covering the controversy “like it’s the biggest story that the American people care about.”…

Daily Wire: The White House Explains Trump’s Epstein ‘Hoax’ Claim – Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that President Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein “hoax” comment was in reference to Democrats seizing the Epstein hysteria after showing little to no interest in the case for years. – “He doesn’t like to see Democrats and the mainstream media covering this like it’s the biggest story that the American people care about.”

Breitbart: Import Prices Rise Less Than Expected, With No Signs of Inflationary Pressure. – The import price index increased 0.1 percent last month, following a downwardly revised 0.4 percent decline in May. Over the past year, import prices have declined by 0.2 percent, marking the second consecutive month of year-over-year contraction and reinforcing a trend of broad price stability in traded goods…

Washington Examiner: The White House moves to bolster Trump’s case for firing Jerome Powell – Trump has raged against Powell in recent months for not lowering interest rates. – Trump’s beef with Powell centers almost exclusively on interest rates, but he has also started criticizing the chairman for his management of the $2.5 billion renovation of two Fed buildings in Washington…

Issues & Insights: Can President Trump Fire Fed Chairman Powell? Yes, He Can And Should – Powell’s defenders argue that Powell can’t be fired. In fact, they can be fired “for cause,” which is vague enough to cover a whole host of sins, major and minor. – At issue currently is whether a politicized Fed has now become hostile to the admittedly mercurial Trump, who feels the Fed’s tight interest-rate policy is holding the economy back…

Zero Hedge: A New Institute for Legislative Analysis Study Finds Congress Out of Sync With America – Republicans voted less conservatively than their deep-red districts, while Democrats struggled to meet progressive expectations of blue districts. – Many Republicans are voting more progressively than their districts, suggesting that if proper alignment existed, Congress would likely see more conservative policies enacted.

Center Square: Nationwide, 25,228 illegal border crossers were apprehended, the lowest monthly total in history. – Most were at land, sea, and air ports of entry, totaling 10,089, followed by 9,306 at the southwest border and 5,833 at the northern border. – By comparison, under the Biden administration, there were 204,932 illegal border crossers reported in June 2024, 211,457 in June 2023, and 247,523 in June 2022…

Sharyl Attkisson: A recent Rasmussen Reports Poll found that 72% of likely voters believe preventing illegal immigrants from receiving government benefits is important, including 48% who say it’s very important. – Only 25% say it isn’t important. – Across political lines, 88% of Republicans, 59% of Democrats, and 68% of unaffiliated voters say it’s at least somewhat important to keep illegal immigrants off government benefits…

Townhall: During an interview with Fox News Wednesday night, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller revealed that 1 million illegal aliens living in the US have self-deported since President Trump took office on January 20, 2025. – Miller went on to explain the benefits Americans will see as more illegal aliens either self-deport or are forcefully removed from the country…

Breitbart: ICE Agents Arrest The ‘Worst of the Worst’ – Illegal Aliens Convicted of Murder, Rape, and Child Sex Crimes – Edgar Ismael Gomez-Lara of Mexico in Houston – Joel Reyes of El Salvador in Los Angeles – Cristian Ortiz-Quintero of Colombia in Washington – Josue Santiago Perez Gomez of Guatemala in Rhode Island – sex offender Victor Vasquez Cordova of El Salvador in Massachusetts – sex offender Jose Alberto Rojop Cajas of Guatemala in Boston…

Breitbart: A federal judge in San Antonio sentenced Honduran illegal alien Enil Edil Mejia-Zuniga, age 34, to ten years in prison after his guilty plea for his role in leading a human smuggling organization that brought nearly 3,000 migrants into the United States without authorization. – The judge also fined the Honduran national $4,500.- The organization charged up to $12,000 per person to bring them illegally into the US…

Western Journal: President Trump still has a major problem with “Deep State” people looking to undermine him. – Investigative journalist Laura Loomer claims that a forensic accountant working with the DOJ, Carolyn Feinstein, is married to the man who created ICEBlock, an app used to disclose the identity of ICE officers, harassing and endangering them, and impeding deportation raids…

Slay News: A Federal Appeals Court Blocks Trump from Removing the Protected Status of Unvetted Afghan Migrants – DHS said this was supposed to be a temporary measure set to expire on July 12. – However, the appeals court has put the brakes on any abolishment for now after the pro-immigration organization CASA, Inc. filed a lawsuit…

American Thinker: The Moving Autopen Writes, and Having Written, Moves On – Without the President’s direct involvement in this final act, conservative scholars Edwin Meese and Josh Blackman argue that strict personal involvement is required. – The Appointments Clause establishes that the President must make a clear statement that a given person is appointed to a judgeship (or granted a pardon, etc.). – It does not allow a secretary, aide, or Chief of Staff to exercise that authority.

American Thinker: The Autopen Scandal, Who Got Rich Selling Pardons? Joe Biden’s senility was obvious when he ran for president in 2020, but was covered up by the manufactured COVID pandemic. – He was even then an easily manipulated fool/tool of the far left from the moment he took control of the presidency. – Now we know that he was never an acting president. – He was the radical left’s frontman…

American Thinker: There are several reasons why Jerome Powell should be fired or forced to resign – The Federal Reserve is losing money because it is paying banks, especially big banks, more on overnight cash than it is earning. That is clearly inflationary and rewards the rich, while hurting the poor and middle classes by keeping rates higher than the market suggests they should be.

American Thinker: Pennsylvania Hosts The ‘Inaugural Energy and Innovation Summit’ – In the years ahead, the United States could become the world’s undisputed energy superpower, which would provide the backbone for American AI supremacy. – We are in the early days of what could completely transform the human experience, but we must understand that the quantum computing data centers will necessitate a steady stream of electricity.

American Thinker: Prosecuting Hamas, The Dinah Project – The victims of Hamas must and will have a voice. – Hamas’ sexual violence and genocide on October 7, 2023, must be exposed and prosecuted. – Despite numerous reports documenting Hamas’s use of sexual violence on October 7th, many journalists deny the overwhelming evidence. – The Dinah Project recommends concrete changes to the way Hamas’ sexual violence is being prosecuted…

Daily Fetched: President Trump Pulled The Plug on Gavin Newsom’s “Train to Nowhere” – Trump, The Railroad we were promised still does not exist, and never will. This project was Severely Overpriced, Over-Regulated, and NEVER DELIVERED. – Thanks to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, not a SINGLE penny in Federal Dollars will go towards this Newscum SCAM ever again.

Western Journal: Gavin Newsom Is Furious After Trump ‘Pulled the Plug’ on His Pet 2008 “High-Speed-Rail” Project – Trump, “This boondoggle, led by the incompetent Governor of California, Gavin Newscum, has cost Taxpayers Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we have received NOTHING in return except Cost Overruns.” – “The price tag has gone from $33B to $135B with no completion date in sight.”…

Epoch Times: The Trump Administration Strengthens Work-From-Home Options of Federal Employees for Religious Reasons – “Agencies are encouraged to adopt a generous approach to approving religious accommodations, prioritizing employee needs while maintaining operational efficiency.” – Agencies can offer employees under religious accommodation, include telework or remote work, religious compensatory time off, and flexible schedules.

July 16, 2025

Just The News: The DOE released its annual “Resource Adequacy Report” earlier this month. – It opens with a declaration that the U.S. possesses “abundant energy sources and capabilities such as oil and gas, coal, and nuclear.” – It then warns that the speed at which utilities are retiring fossil fuel-powered generators and replacing them with unreliable and intermittent wind and solar power threatens to increase the risk of power outages by 100X in 2030…

Gateway Pundit: The DOJ Fired Maurene Comey, The Federal Prosecutor Who Filed Key Court Documents to Keep The Epstein Files Under Seal – There was no specific reason given for her firing from the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York, according to one of the people who spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters…

Red State: Adam Schiff Melts Down After Criminal Referral, Ducking Questions From Reporters – The director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in May, citing alleged misconduct by Schiff, who owns homes in California and Maryland in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms.

Western Journal: A Florida Official Who Gave Democrats a Tour of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Exposes Their Attempts to ‘Create Controversy’ Out of Thin Air – “I think, probably, one of my favorites was an individual [who] had a thermometer, an infrared thermometer that they actually pointed at a light bulb. And it was 110 degrees,” he said. “I said, ‘Let’s actually pull that down to where the ambient air is at, and not point it at the light bulb.’”

Washington Free Beacon: CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang was elected president of the WH Correspondents’ Association, succeeding MSNBC anchor Eugene Daniels, the Kamala Harris super fan. – Jiang’s ascension suggests the controversial media organization has not wavered in its commitment to promoting liberal hacks who view journalism as a form of political activism…

Just The News: Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to officially announce plans to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison on Thursday. – Nancy Pelosi calls it President Trump’s “stupidest initiative yet.” – A bill is expected to be introduced in the House of Representatives to pave the way for Alcatraz to reopen by ending environmental protections for the site and rescinding the National Park Service’s control of it…

Daily Fetched: The CEO of a California-based firm specializing in hiring actors has revealed that he rejected a $20 million offer to provide actors for Democrat-backed “Good Trouble Lives On” protests scheduled for July 17. – CEO Adam Stewart made the shocking revelation while speaking with NewsNation this week…

Post Millennial: The Justice Department filed a legal complaint Tuesday against three former board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting who have refused to leave their positions after being removed by President Trump. – The DC complaint targets Laura Ross, Diane Kaplan, and Tom Rothman. – The DOJ argues that Trump lawfully terminated the three and is now seeking a court order to formally remove them.

Just The News: President Donald Trump on Wednesday embraced the FBI’s decision to open a conspiracy probe into a decade of alleged intelligence abuses and weaponized law enforcement. – He suggested it could be led by a special prosecutor and even delve into “credible evidence” in the Jeffrey Epstein case in order to give Americans a greater dose of transparency and accountability…

Western Journal: General Flynn Publishes an Open Letter to Trump Regarding Epstein That Started With, ‘I Hesitated to Write This.’ – “The EPSTEIN AFFAIR is NOT about who killed him or if he committed suicide … But neither is this a hoax.” – Epstein was a high-flying — literally — social figure who was accused for years of sexually exploiting young women. – His criminal record included a 2008 conviction, following his guilty plea in Palm Beach County, Florida, to two felony counts of solicitation of prostitution and…

Newsmax: Vice President Vance Casts The Tie-breaking Vote to Advance $9 Billion In DOGE Cuts – Senators Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, joined with Democrats in voting against the Senate taking up the measure. – President Trump is also looking to claw back money for foreign aid programs targeted by DOGE and for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

PJ Media: Two weeks after passing President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill, Senate Republicans say that they have the votes to pass a huge slate of spending cuts. – The package now stands at $9 billion in cuts as opposed to $9.4 billion before the revisions. – This would be another massive victory for the Trump administration, one that could cement his legacy.

Daily Wire: Bahrain’s crown prince announced plans to invest more than $17 billion in the United States during a meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday. – Bahrain is expected to sign a deal between Gulf Air and Boeing/GE valued at around $7 billion for 12 aircraft with an option for six more. – The deal also includes the sale of 40 GE engines, a White House official said.

Newmax: The White House Counsel’s office has launched an investigation into the former President Joe Biden’s alleged misuse of the presidential autopen to sign pardons, executive orders, and other actions, potentially without the former president’s knowledge. – White House and press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that the administration “is committed to finding the answers.”

Slay News: In a startling confession, former President Joe Biden admitted he was unaware of many of the pardons signed using his autopen. – He told the New York Times that he did not formally approve various controversial pardons that were nominally signed at the end of his term. – He also conceded that he delegated the details of the pardon process to his staff because there were too many to sign…

Newmax: A Jill Biden Aide Invoked The Fifth to Decline Testimony in The House Oversight Probe – Anthony Bernal, who previously served as chief of staff to former first lady Jill Biden, was subpoenaed for his testimony by the House Oversight Committee. – He declined to answer questions, invoking the protections that prevent people from being forced to testify against themselves in government proceedings.

Slay News: Pam Bondi Fired Ethics Advisor Joseph Tirrell – His firing appears to be part of the DOJ purge of personnel who participated in former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s “investigation” into and case against President Donald Trump. – Around 35 DOJ employees have been fired so far. – 15 more are also likely on the chopping block.

FAR: What If Obama’s Plan to ‘Fundamentally Transform’ America is Already Underway? – Let’s look at these 13 steps and see. – Step I: Introduce and promote multiculturalism to erode patriotism and nationalism in all forms of education, institutions, and government agencies. – Step II: A demographical shift in population via third-world migration of millions of unvetted, illegal, uneducated, poor peasants into urban American cities throughout the land, dependent on government. – Step III…

Breitbart: Senator Jim Banks, “Taxpayers Should Not Be Giving NPR Another Dime.” – The Senate is working with President Trump to pass a rescissions package that cuts billions in unnecessary spending and makes the DOGE cuts permanent. – This package defunds $1.1 billion for the left-wing Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which uses Americans’ tax dollars to fund radical outlets like NPR…

Townhall: Inside the Bloated Bureaucracy at the State Department – Initially, officials couldn’t even get a total headcount of State Department employees. – Secretary Rubio’s advisors analyzed over 700 domestic offices, finding that many positions were duplicative and many others were inefficient. – The ongoing reorganization of the department will result in a reduction of about 3,000 employees…

The Federalist: This Memo Reveals D.C. Judges Are Predisposed Against Trump Administration – During the week of March 11, 2025, members of the Judicial Conference met in Washington, D.C., for the first of its two regular meetings. – Judge Boasberg’s comments reveal he and his colleagues hold an anti-Trump bias, for the Trump Administration had complied with every court order to date (and since, for that matter)…

American Thinker: It’s Hard To De-Hoax Some Democrats – A new Rasmussen poll to be published Monday morning shows an astonishingly 60% of Democratic voters still think “the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election.” – And a whopping 69% of liberal voters still cling to the Russia collusion hoax, compared to 27% of conservatives…

Breitbart: During an appearance on Newsmax TV, former Jeffrey Epstein defense attorney Alan Dershowitz denied the existence of a so-called Epstein client list. – Host Marc Lotter said. “So if there were a list, you would know about it. – The FBI and DOJ say one doesn’t exist, so is there an Epstein client list?” – “Absolutely not,” Dershowitz replied…

American Thinker: Americans Can Never Forget That Liberty Depends on Justice – For decades, the political and corporate elite in America have not been held accountable for their abuse of power and corruption. – Defined in 18 U.S. Code § 2384, seditious conspiracy involves an agreement between two or more people to overthrow, put down, or destroy the government of the United States by force, or to oppose its authority…

American Thinker: The Ideological Hustle Masquerading as Journalism – Media bias is distorting the truth about immigration enforcement by turning lawbreakers into victims. – When entire sectors of an economy depend on illegal labor, federally prohibited drugs, and resistance to immigration enforcement, the problem isn’t federal enforcement. – The problem lies in the sector itself, and those who built it, and profited on a foundation of deliberate lawlessness…

Blaze Media: HHS Terminates Thousands of Bureaucrats – Included were Senior NIH Officials Christine Grady, the wife of Anthony Fauci, Clifford Lane, Deputy Director for Clinical Research and Special Projects at NIAID, and Emily Erbelding, Director of the NIAID Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

American Conservative: Israel Strikes Syrian Capital – Israeli military strikes targeted the Syrian Defense Ministry’s headquarters and the presidential palace following a wave of sectarian clashes in the Southern Syrian city of Suwayda that involved Bedouin tribes and Druze civilians. – The clashes left more than 30 dead over the weekend.

American Thinker: A Revolutionary Palestinian Proposal for Peace – Although we might all hope that this new proposal for peace is specifically designed for Gaza, it is actually intended for the West Bank. – This proposal could be transformational for the region. – The sheikhs in Hebron would fully recognize Israel’s right to exist, promise peaceful coexistence, and become signatories to the Abraham Accords.

City Journal: On July 4th, Radicals Planned How to Topple America – The speakers’ roster included faculty from top public universities, current and former leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union, Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers, and UAW President Shawn Fain. – Attendees praised mass rioting, called for dismantling higher education, advocated abolishing the family, and openly called for ending America as we know it…

America First Report: Benjamin Hanil Song, an Antifa-linked suspect accused of carrying out an ambush shooting attack outside the ICE Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, has been captured by authorities. – Song, 32, of Dallas was on the run after allegedly shooting up an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, with others in an Antifa cell. – The FBI has now captured him.

Zero Hedge: PJM Interconnection, the operator of the largest U.S. power grid serving 65 million people across 13 states and D.C., issued a “Maximum Generation Alert and Load Management Alert” for Wednesday. – PJM ordered all available power generation to run at full capacity to ensure power demand is met during peak hours amid tightening conditions.

July 15, 2025

Townhall: Iranian Nationals Were Caught at The U.S./Canada Border Amid Rising Sleeper Cell Fears – With tensions between the U.S. and Iran at their highest level in years, American officials are increasingly concerned that Iran may use covert assets, including operatives who entered through porous borders, to retaliate on U.S. soil…

Daily Wire: The White House Is Reportedly Reviewing Potentially Up To A Million Documents Approved By Joe Biden’s Autopen – Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, “It has been widely reported that Joe Biden handed the power of the presidency to an autopen controlled by unelected leftist staffers, who were allowed to make terrible decisions that destroyed our country.”…

Just The News: The ballooning price tag for the $2.5 billion renovation of the Federal Reserve’s Washington, D.C., headquarters has become the pressure point for efforts by President Trump and his administration to force the central bank’s chairman, Jerome Powell, to either lower interest rates or step aside.

Epoch Times: President Trump Announces Trade Deal With Indonesia – Data from the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office indicates that the U.S. goods trade deficit with Indonesia was $17.9 billion in 2024, a 5.4 percent increase from the previous year. – Indonesia’s main exports to the United States are consumer electronics, apparel, and footwear.

American Thinker: Psst! Elon! Trump has slashed inflation and cut the deficit by about a third. – The press isn’t reporting: Trump is already cutting the deficit, and on his watch, inflation is going down, too. – Wall Street economist Brian Wesbury shows us the big picture. – Let’s look at 3-month annualized changes. The 3-month annualized increase was just 2.4%, down from 3.6% in February. Tariffs don’t cause inflation. Follow M2.

Daily Caller: Representative Mark Harris of North Carolina and Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee will introduce the National Education Association Charter Repeal Act in their respective chambers on Wednesday. – Harris said that the NEA has abandoned its mission “to support America’s teachers and strengthen our schools” on behalf of a “radical agenda” in a statement.

One America News: The DHS reported that assaults against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have surged by 830%, between January 21st and July 14th, compared to the same timeframe last year. – In recent weeks, the left-wing mainstream media and Democrat politicians have intensified their rhetoric against ICE…

Washington Examiner: President Trump withdraws roughly 2,000 National Guard members from Los Angeles – Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, “Thanks to our troops who stepped up to answer the call, the lawlessness in Los Angeles is subsiding,” he said. – “As such, the Secretary has ordered the release of 2,000 California National Guardsmen (79th IBCT) from the federal protection mission.”

Daily Wire: California Governor Gavin Newsom, who appears to be ramping up his 2028 presidential campaign efforts, joined podcast host Shawn Ryan this week and was asked point-blank about his personal views on so-called “gender-affirming care.” – Newsom was unable to definitively provide an answer when he was asked if a child who is eight years old is too young to undergo irreversible transgender procedures…

American Spectator: Exposing California’s Latest Environmental Scam, The Environmental Quality Act – The CEQA requires volumes of paperwork and reviews for virtually every proposed construction project. – And it “allows basically any ‘stakeholder’ to file or threaten a lawsuit over CEQA compliance. – California Senate Bill 337 designates a full 30 percent of the state’s land area off-limits to development…

Slay News: Gavin Newsom Admits California’s Economy Depends Heavily On Cheap Illegal Alien Labor – “It’s half of our agricultural work and forty-one percent of our construction workers. – When pressed on whether illegal immigration hurts American workers, Newsom offered a dismissive and racially charged answer. – “Not in Tulare County, not in Ventura County,” he said. – “I don’t know many people who want a job out there in those packing facilities.

One America News: Apple announces a $500M investment in the only rare earth mine currently operating in the U.S. – The White House has hailed the forthcoming deal as a “huge win” for the Trump administration, underscoring its commitment to strengthening U.S. supply chain independence in critical minerals…

Daily Signal: Victor Davis Hanson Explains Why the Left Is Going Crazy – One: They have no institutional power. – Two: This time, President Trump is not just looking at symptoms or manifestations of the progressive project and concluded the sources of Democrat power are our universities, where people are indoctrinated…

Daily Caller: Trump Reportedly Wants Zelenskyy To Go For Russia’s Throat – Trump held a phone conversation with Zelenskyy on July 4, in which Trump reportedly asked if the Ukrainian president could strike targets such as Moscow and Saint Petersburg if the U.S. gave them long-range weapons. – The U.S. recently green-lit sending offensive weapons to Ukraine through NATO on Monday…

New York Post: The Secret Service’s most egregious failures are revealed in damning reports on Trump’s attempted assassination. – The Secret Service denied multiple requests by Trump’s security team for additional security resources, the senators claim. – The agency’s “War Room, tasked with allocating security resources for Trump and other officials until Secret Service protection, denied a request for anti-drone systems at the Butler rally because the “resources had already been allocated for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.” – Additionally…

Issues & Insights: Is There No Cure For Democrats’ Derangement? – The Russia Gate fabrication was set loose by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and various Democratic Party minions. – Special counsel John Durham’s report, compiled over three years, “concluded that the FBI should never have launched its investigation into supposed connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.”

The Federalist: The Oversight Committee Calls For More Subpoenas As Biden Aides Lawyer Up – Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who serves as chairman of the Oversight Committee, said the Times’ story “confirms Biden White House staff took executive action without the President’s approval.”

American Wire: Rand Paul reissued his criminal referral for Dr. Fauci to the DOJ after the NYT dropped its bombshell article. – The Kentucky Republican shared a key portion of the Times report about the interview, revealing that it was former Chief of Staff Jeff Zients who authorized the last-minute pardon for the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)…

John Daniel Davidson: Joe Biden Was Never Fit To Be President To Begin With – Who approved the Biden administration’s 11th-hour clemency decisions and authorized use of the autopen? – Because it certainly wasn’t Biden. – Anyone who reads the entire NYT article carefully will immediately see that its real purpose is damage control. – Despite the article’s framing, no evidence is presented showing Biden personally authorized any of the last-minute pardons…

Daily Wire: – President Trump blasted Senator Adam Schiff on Tuesday, calling him a “crook” who “needs to be brought to justice” after a federal agency sent the DOJ a criminal referral over the California Democrat’s Maryland home. – A senior Trump administration official told the New York Post that the referral, sent to the DOJ by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, “is extremely serious and [Schiff] is not taking it seriously.”

Daily Wire: President Donald Trump praised Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday for her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and said that former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden “made up” the Epstein files. – Trump added that Bondi gave him a “very quick briefing…in terms of the credibility of the different things they have seen.” – The president said that Bondi should release “whatever she thinks is credible.”

National Pulse: Lara Trump Says More Epstein Documents WILL Be Released. – Lara Trump said that President Trump is aware of the frustrations voiced by many of his supporters and Americans generally, acknowledging, “There needs to be more transparency.” – “I think that will happen.” – “I know this is important to the President.” – “He is frustrated.”

Gatestone Institute: Why Palestinians Terrorists Want a Ceasefire in Gaza – The terrorists want an end to the war while staying in power and pursuing their jihad (holy war) to murder Jews and eliminate Israel. – A ceasefire, even if temporary, will allow the terrorists to rearm, regroup, and launch more terror attacks against Israel. – “Gaza will not surrender no matter how long the war continues,” said Izzat al-Risheq…

Washington Free Beacon: Israel has begun negotiations with several countries it hopes will take in Gazans as part of a mass emigration plan first proposed by President Donald Trump, according to two Israeli officials with knowledge of the talks. – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer briefed the rest of the cabinet on the talks in a closed-door meeting on Saturday evening…

Washington Free Beacon: Ted Cruz Unveils A Bill To Designate The Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization, And Anticipates Bipartisan Support – Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates already consider the Hamas-affiliated organization to be a terrorist group. – The new bill employs a “bottom-up” approach that systematically sanctions the Muslim Brotherhood’s violent branches around the world…

American Thinker: Trump’s tariffs only require a period of adjustment. – Basically, there are two types of countries: China and not China. – Countries in the “not China” category have been charging the United States enormous tariffs. – Because of Trump’s tariff strategy, these countries have decided to negotiate. – Expect tariffs on both sides to go down. – This means that we will pay lower prices for foreign goods…

Epoch Times: China Finalizes New Export Controls on Crucial Mine Processing Technologies – The latest update adds a new entry: battery cathode material preparation technology, which specifically covers those for producing lithium iron phosphate (LFP), lithium manganese iron phosphate (LMFP), and phosphate-based cathode precursors that are essential materials for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles…

American Thinker: The Conditions at Alligator Alcatraz are Breakin’ My Heart! – Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, (I can’t help but remember how Rush Limbaugh used to call her “Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz”), has been railing about the “inhumane” conditions at “Alligator Alcatraz” – Leftist hyperbole aside, the conditions are exactly what they should be and no worse than what Americans experience, whether in jail or boot camp…

Zero Hedge: A Cal State Professor Has Been Arrested For Assaulting ICE Agents During A Cannabis Farm Raid – Jonathan Anthony Caravello, a math and philosophy lecturer, is among four U.S. citizens “being criminally processed for assaulting or resisting officers” during coordinated ICE raids at Glass House Farms cannabis grow sites in Camarillo and Carpinteria, California.

Slay News: The DOJ Cracks Down on Foreign Languages, Enforces English for Official Government Service – The DOJ declared it would lead “a coordinated effort across federal agencies to minimize non-essential multilingual services.” Instead, those resources will be redirected toward “English-language education and assimilation.”

American Thinker: How do we explain the left’s hatred of America and their undying affection for criminal illegals? – There can no longer be any doubt that the Democrat party not only hates America as founded, but they mean to reimagine our nation. – Our youth has been so thoroughly indoctrinated for the last two generations that they do not know what socialism is, what fascism is, nor do they have an inkling of what communism is about…

American Thinker: Poor Black Children Face a Dismal Future – Leftists try to hide this because they’ve created the problem. – Stats related to educational outcomes for students of all races are more than disappointing. – But for blacks, they are horrific. It looks like the longer blacks stay in school, the less educated they get! According to the NAEP 2022 reading assessment, 19% (Grade 4), 15% (Grade 8), and 6% (Grade 12)…

American Thinker: L.A. Stories – Mayor Karen Bass Plans to Provide Cash Cards to Undocumented Immigrants. – I guess this is her Fort Sumter moment. – Nearly four months after the tragic Palisades and Eaton wildfires burned down 16,000 homes and other buildings, Los Angeles County has issued a total of seven rebuilding permits. – Yet Newsom allocated $101 million in new spending on low-income housing in those areas…

Washington Free Beacon: The AI Revolution Is Straining American Energy – Trump to attend energy summit in Pennsylvania as data centers expected to send electricity bills soaring. – Across the country, tech firms are building data centers faster than power companies can build new electricity generation plants, creating the potential for supply crunches and shortages. – Data centers are projected to account for up to 12% of total electricity consumption nationwide by 2028…

Epoch Times: Inflation Ticks Up Again in June as Annual Rate Reaches 2.7% – Energy and shelter were the biggest drivers of last month’s inflation. – After soaring at the beginning of the year, egg prices have stabilized, tumbling for the fourth straight month. In June, they plunged more than 7%. – New inflation data were still mixed as to the extent of the impact that tariffs are having on consumer prices.

Zero Hedge: June Core Consumer Price Inflation Is Cooler Than Expected – Expectations were for a modest acceleration in prices in June, and headline Consumer Prices did just that, rising 0.3% MoM (as expected) and +2.7% YoY (up from +2.4% prior and hotter than the +2.6% YoY expected)…

American Conservative: The Yellow BRICS Road – Leading officials from China, Russia, and other non-Western countries met last week for the 17th annual BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. – As American hegemony continues to strain and the U.S.-led unipolar world shows signs of stress and fractures, BRICS, the leading alternative to international governance, along with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, continues to organize and grow…

Gateway Pundit: House Republicans Block A Democrat-Led Effort to Force Release of The Epstein Files to the Public — These Are The Five Republicans Who Voted Against Transparency Are Virginia Foxx (NC) – Nick Langworthy (NY) – Austin Scott (GA) – Morgan Griffith (VA) – Brian Jack (GA) – Michelle Fischbach (MN) – Erin Houchin (IN)

One America News: The DOD announced a $200M contract with Musk’s AI bot Grok – This new investment in AI is meant to “accelerate DoD adoption of advanced AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges.” – Along with xAI, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI have also been awarded with contracts up to $200 million, ultimately enabling the DOD to “leverage the technology and talent of U.S. frontier AI companies…

July 14, 2025

Gateway Pundit: The Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration To Dismantle The Department of Education In A 6-3 Vote As Sotomayor FUMES and Trump Celebrates! – Last May, US District Judge Myong Joun, a Biden appointee, issued an injunction blocking the Trump Administration from laying off Department of Education workers.

Breitbart: ICE Agents Face A 700% Spike in Assaults as Antifa Groups Target Their Homes – Assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have skyrocketed since January amid left-wing attacks from anarchist groups and elected Democrats. – Last week, 1o individuals in Texas were charged with ambushing ICE agents at a detention center. The Justice Department has charged them with attempted murder…

American Thinker: When read carefully, the New York Times may have admitted the Biden pardons are illegitimate – When people who can write properly don’t, they’re often hiding something. – The Biden interview lays the predicate, which is that there were way too many signatures for him to handle manually. – However, as you work your way down, you realize that the statement is untrue. – Some decisions did affect “a whole lot of people.”

American Spectator: Gavin Newsom Is Now the Simon Legree of Modern American Politics – Newsom criticized the Trump administration for sending ICE to raid a weed farm on which child laborers, unaccompanied minor illegal aliens, comprising most of those found to be among the labor force. – And that weed farm just happened to be owned by one of Newsom’s donors and a major backer of California’s Democrat Party.

Hot Air: Trump Ends Catch-And-Release Bonds for Illegal Immigrants – Catch-And-Release refers to the practice of allowing illegal immigrants to post bond while their cases work through the administrative courts. – At least for now, the opportunity for bonding out is closed. – ICE will now detain all illegal border-crossers for the duration of their case, without exception…

California Globe: California’s Cap and Trade program experienced yet another setback on Monday when a new Clean and Prosperous California report found that the state lost $3 billion in revenue over the past year, or roughly about 1/4th of California’s current budget deficit. – California’s cap-and-trade program places a ‘cap’ on aggregate greenhouse gas emissions from businesses and utilities deemed “polluters” by CARB…

Daily Signal: The Trump Administration Set A Deportation Record – Between being sworn in on Jan. 20 and June 30, more than 239,000 illegal aliens have been deported under President Donald Trump. – On average, about 47,000 illegal aliens have been deported each month since Trump took office, breaking Obama’s record. – The recently passed “One Big, Beautiful Bill” will turbocharge the president’s deportation efforts by funding…

Washington Post: China fully controls the internet within its borders. – On Tuesday, Beijing will take another step toward centralizing its power over the web by introducing a government-run digital ID system that will allow it to censor and surveil the country’s 1 billion internet users even more closely. – China justified the change on data privacy grounds, claiming the ID will better protect individuals’ sensitive information…

Western Journal: Joe Biden didn’t sign his final pardons, nor did he approve the final list. – We now know it was a man no American voted for: Biden’s former COVID czar and chief of staff, Jeff Zients. – At 10:03 p.m. that evening, a summary of Biden’s supposed “decisions” was circulated among staff and landed in the inbox of Zients. – At 10:31 p.m., Zients hit “reply all” and wrote, “I approve the use of the autopen for the execution of all of the following pardons.”…

Daily Wire: Rand Paul Says The Wielding of Biden’s Autopen Puts Anthony Fauci Back In His Crosshairs – “Perjury is a crime. And Fauci must be held accountable.” – In response to the news that Fauci’s pardon had been among those that were issued by autopen on Zients’ orders, he declared his intention to push ahead with a criminal referral for Fauci…

Newsmax: President Trump said Monday the US will send top-of-the-line weapons to NATO to support Ukraine. Trump also said NATO members, not American taxpayers, would cover their costs. – Trump also said the U.S. will impose “very severe tariffs” on Russia in 50 days if there is no deal to stop the war in Ukraine. – Meanwhile, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Monday…

Epoch News: President Trump Threatens 100% Secondary Tariffs on Russia If No Ukraine Deal Is Reached In 50 Days – The president announced the tariff threat against Russia as he hosted NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House on July 14. – Secondary tariffs target the countries that trade with a sanctioned country. In this case, a secondary tariff would target countries that continue to trade with Russia.

Townhall: We Now Know Who Controlled the Biden Autopen And This Scandal Just Got Worse – DOJ Official Ed Martin, “Some names were offered as being the ringleaders, namely Anita Dunn, Bob Bauer, Neera Tanden, Elizabeth Warren, Jeffrey Zients, Stefanie Feldman, Ed Siskel, and Ron Klain.” – Zients, Feldman, and White House Counsel Ed Siskel appear to be part of an insane command structure for issuing pardons under Biden’s name…

American Thinker: ‘Blurb’ and ‘Batch’ Pardons – In case there’s any doubt whatsoever that ol’ Joe had absolutely no idea who was among the 4,000 acts of clemency, there’s this simple declarative sentence from Joe himself: The only things that really we read off names for [emphasis added] were, for example, you know, was I, what was I going to do about, for example, Mark Milley? – Germane to the validity of a presidential pardon or act of clemency is presidential consent.

Red State: I can’t be the only one who wishes Barack Obama would just fade peacefully away into retirement. – Not long ago, former presidents did that? – President Reagan retired peacefully to his California ranch, and George H.W. Bush quietly withdrew from public life when his term was up. – Obama still feels like he needs to publicly advise his fellow Democrats, and now he’s advising them to just “toughen up.”…

John Solomon: The FBI has quietly launched an investigation into a decade of Democratic party and deep-state antics from Russia collusion to Jack Smith. – This opens the door for appointing a special prosecutor to examine whether the well-documented episodes amount to a criminal conspiracy to meddle in three U.S. elections to the benefit of Democrats and the detriment of President Donald Trump…

Daily Caller: House Speaker Mike Johnson blasted socialist Democrat New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani as a “radical” and a “big-government Marxist” on Monday. – Mamdani’s agenda is ‘extreme’ and ‘bad news for New York City. – Johnson added that Mamdani’s political rise spells ‘great news for House Republicans’ in the upcoming midterm elections.

Daily Wire: How The One Big, Beautiful Bill Sustains And Saves Medicaid – Democrats claim the bill guts the program. – But in reality, Republicans voted to protect and strengthen Medicaid for those who need it most. – Medicaid’s long-term stability is at risk. – During the Obama administration, Democrats expanded Medicaid eligibility, adding 20 million able-bodied people to the program rolls between 2013 and 2021…

Zero Hedge: Marxist Democrat Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez could face a libel lawsuit and be liable for millions of dollars after directly branding President Trump a “rapist” in a X post. – AOC wrote the following: “Wow, who would have thought that electing a rapist would have complicated the release of the Epstein Files?” – The last time someone branded Trump a “rapist,” he sued them and settled for $15 million plus a million more in legal costs…

Breitbart: President Trump will make an unprecedented second state visit to the U.K. in September, when King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Windsor Castle will host him. – Buckingham Palace confirmed the diplomatic exchange on Sunday, noting Trump will be accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, for the trip, which is set to take place from September 17th to the 19th…

American Thinker: The Rise of the Islamo-Nazi Left in America – There can be no denying that the Democrats have been morphing into Nazi-style fascists. – “Once upon a time, chanting ‘Death to America’ and burning American flags happened on Iranian soil. … Today, when these alarming trends are happening on our soil, we … side with those who wish for our demise. How did this happen?”…

Breitbart: Protesters and Gavin Newsom Heckled JD Vance When He Took His Family to Disneyland Last Weekend. – In a post on X, Newsom shared a video of Vance enjoying the park with his family and wrote, “Hope you enjoy your family time, @JDVance, because the families you’re tearing apart certainly won’t.” – On Saturday, a small crowd also gathered at the Grand Californian Hotel, adjacent to the park, where Vance is believed to be staying, with some of them waving Mexican flags.

Washington Free Beacon: Corporate Donors Gave $1 Million to a Newsom Family Charity, Then the California Governor Took Their Side on State Issues. – While the data doesn’t show an explicit quid pro quo between Newsom and Graton Rancheria, several ethics experts said Newsom’s charitable solicitations from the tribe to his wife’s charity just before he used the powers of his office to try to block its rival from opening a competing casino raise major red flags.

American Thinker: Their Silence Is The Story. – CNN and MSNBC ignored the violent July 4 attack on ICE agents in Los Angeles, but I don’t think their silence was just a matter of the C-team and interns running the newsroom. – It feels more deliberate than that. – Neither CNN nor MSNBC covered the attack on air, according to a detailed review by Fox News, and as first noted in an opinion column by Isaac Schorr at Mediaite…

PJ Media: The Biden-Harris administration lost track of over 300,000 trafficked children due to open borders, but ICE is tracking down as many of those kids as possible. – Border czar Tom Homan, “We are looking for over 300,000 missing children and have already found around 10,000.” – “But have you heard that anywhere? No, because the media’s simply not covering it.” – “And look, this should be a non-partisan issue.”

Cal Matters: The Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics report released on Thursday reveals that a staggering 36,565 fast food jobs have been lost since September 2023, when California’s $20-per-hour minimum wage law, AB 1228, was signed into law. – The National Bureau of Economic Research study suggests that AB 1228 may have made it more challenging for full-service restaurants to attract workers, as every food service employee now seeks $20 per hour…

Cal Matters: California’s drive to run its electric grid entirely on wind, solar, and other clean sources of energy just got harder after President Donald Trump signed a sweeping new budget law. – Clean-energy projects have new deadlines for federal tax credits and limits on foreign parts, aiming for California’s climate agenda. – Eleven major solar projects and one onshore wind project now face potential delays or cancellation…

Daily Wire: At least 361 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested, and 14 children were taken into custody, during an immigration raid in Ventura County, California, last week, where leftist protesters attacked federal agents. – Many of those arrested at the marijuana farm in Camarillo had “heinous rap sheets, including kidnapping, child molestation, rape, serial burglary, and hit and runs.”…

Breitbart: A memo from ICE outlined plans to deport illegal migrants to third countries if their country of origin refuses to accept them. – A memo from acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said the policy would go into effect “immediately,” with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem describing the plan as being “incredibly important to make sure we get these worst of the worst out of our country.”…

Newsmax: A coalition of mostly Democrat-led states filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration’s move to withhold $6.8 billion in congressionally approved federal funding for K-12 schools. – An OMB spokesperson cited an “ongoing programmatic review” of education funding and said initial findings showed what he termed as a misuse of grant funds to “subsidize a radical leftwing agenda.”

Slay News: Renowned Doctor, Charles Cornish-Dale, Says Current Trends Indicate ‘Reproduction May Become Impossible’ In The Not Too Distant Future – For decades, men’s testosterone levels and sperm counts have been plummeting at an alarming rate, sparking urgent questions about the future of human fertility and the very survival of the human race as we know it…

American Thinker: It’s not ‘climate change’ when it’s hot and there’s flooding during the summer rainy season – Just a little historical perspective of the hype of past weather events easily destroys this almost subliminal manipulation, because the fear of global cooling, global warming, or climate change is built upon ignorance of the past…

July 13, 2025

Epoch Times: Senate Report, There was not a single error,” the report states. – “It was a cascade of preventable failures that nearly cost President Trump his life.” – The report culminated from a yearlong bipartisan investigation that conducted 17 transcribed interviews with Secret Service personnel and reviewed more than 75,000 pages of documents from federal, state, and local law enforcement entities…

Epoch Times: 10 Non-Tax Policies in Trump’s Megabill That Will Affect Americans – Air Traffic Control Reforms – Border and Immigration Enforcement – Education Policy – Medicaid and Rural Hospitals Adjustments – SNAP Cuts – ‘Trump Savings Accounts’ for Newborns – Radio Frequency Spectrum – Defunding Planned Parenthood – Obamacare Changes – Expansion of Military Housing and Support Programs…

Epoch Times: A federal judge in Texas has struck down a Biden-era rule that would have barred medical debt from appearing on credit reports. – In a July 11 order, District Judge Sean Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) overstepped its authority when it finalized the rule in January, two weeks before President Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term…

American Conservative: Gaza Ceasefire Talks Are on Verge of Collapse – The BBC reported Friday that Hamas negotiators regarded the Israeli proposal for long-term occupation of significant portions of the Gaza Strip, including the entire city of Rafah and large portions of other population centers, as a nonstarter…

One America News: Tucker Carlson suggests Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent, declaring ‘Every single person in Washington D.C. thinks that.’ – “I think the real answer is, Jeffrey Epstein was working on behalf of intelligence services, probably not American. And we have every right to ask, on whose behalf was he working?…

New York Post: Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has vigorously refuted conspiracy theories that notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein had ties to the Mossad intelligence service. – Bennett blasted the “vicious wave of slander and lies against” the Jewish state in a series of posts on X Monday and stressed that he is “100%” certain that the powerful spy service didn’t work with Epstein…

National Pulse: Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking charges, has reportedly expressed her willingness to testify before Congress regarding “The Epstein Files.” – Sources close to Maxwell revealed that she has never been approached by government officials to share what she knows, despite her central role in the Epstein case.

New York Post: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem clashed with NBC host Kristen Welker in a testy exchange Sunday over alleged “inhumane” conditions at the Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades. – “I wouldn’t call them jail cells, I would call them a facility where they are held and that are secure facilities, but are held to the highest levels of what the federal government requires for detention facilities,” Noem said before once again being cut off by Welker.

Liberty Daily: Today marks the first anniversary of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, a moment that shook the nation and changed the course of American politics. – As we look back, people across the country are reflecting on what happened, the lessons learned, and how it has affected Trump and the United States. – The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was on the roof of a building about 130 yards away.

American Thinker: A year after Butler, a shocking bit of news dropped – Top Secret Service officials knew about a “classified threat” against Trump in the lead-up to the Butler rally, but never notified on-the-ground operatives because of “silo-ism” within the organization. – If that sounds familiar to you, it’s because this is the same failure that helped lead to 9/11!

New York Post: President Trump has revealed what he wants history books to remember him for after he leaves office. – “A good person, but a person that saved our country,” the president told his daughter-in-law during an interview on “Fox News’ “My View With Lara Trump.” – “I really believed our country was going down for the fall.”

Gatestone Institute: France and Europe Are Increasingly Submitting to Islam – The rise of Islam is ravaging France. – The UK, with a smaller percentage of Muslims than France or Belgium, seems also to be undergoing a slow submission to Islam. – Political parties in power for decades in all Western European countries, except Italy, seem deliberately blind to the danger facing them.

American Thinker: Why So Many Young Americans Fall for Socialism – Our education system feeds them a fantasy version of socialism that must stop if America is to survive. – They’ve grown up in a culture that promotes victimhood instead of resilience and believe that discomfort equals injustice and that government is the answer to every problem…

Geller Report: Nazi-Collaborator George Soros Funneled $37 Million to New York Mayoral Candidate Jihad Communist Zohran Mamdani – As galling as this is, to add injury to insult, Soros’ organizations are considered tax-free charitable organizations. That’s like giving a charity designation to the mafia and drug cartels…

America First Report: Democrats Are Outraged Even Though A Violent Child Predator Was Among 319 Nabbed in The Cannabis Farm ICE Raid – DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said that “law enforcement rescued 14 children from potential forced labor, exploitation, and trafficking during the raid.” – The children rescued at the farm are from Mexico and Honduras…

Resist The Mainstream: FBI Director Kash Patel publicly denied rumors that he plans to resign amid growing tensions within the Trump administration over the handling of Jeffrey Epstein investigation files. – Patel affirmed his commitment to remain in his role despite conflicts with Attorney General Pam Bondi. – Both Trump and Bondi announced earlier this week that the files contained no “incriminating client list.”…

July 12, 2025

Zero Hedge: What Just Happened at the BRICS Summit in Rio Should Terrify the West – Among the most consequential developments at the Rio summit was the firm commitment to advancing financial sovereignty among member states. – Particular emphasis was placed on transitioning to transactions in national currencies, a long-standing initiative championed by Russia and several other BRICS countries…

American Thinker: As if Los Angeles, a city with a $1 billion budget deficit, didn’t have enough money to spend, now Mayor Karen Bass has directed cash payments to illegal immigrants affected by the ICE raids going on in the city. – How many illegals reside in Los Angeles for Bass to consider them to be a special interest group? – By some reports, it’s close to one million.

Western Journal: Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass doubled down on sanctuary policies just hours after a major immigration raid rescued child laborers at a nearby marijuana farm. – Bass signed an executive directive on Friday that bolsters LA sanctuary laws prohibiting cooperation between local officials and ICE…

Western Journal: The Trump Administration Responds to Farmer Backlash on Deportation – The newly created Office of Immigration Policy within the Department of Labor is designed to simplify and expedite the process for legally allowing non-citizens into the US to fill certain types of jobs. – “This is not amnesty or amnesty lite,” a senior administration official said. – “No one is being given a pathway to citizenship or residency.”…

Epoch Times: Fuel to Air India Plane Was Cut Off Before Fatal Crash, According To A Preliminary Report. – In the plane’s cockpit voice recording, one pilot was heard asking the other why the fuel switches were turned off. – Flight AI171, a Boeing 787 bound for London, was carrying 242 people. – The sole survivor escaped through a broken emergency exit and sustained minor injuries…

Newsmax: Tucker Carlson on Epstein, We Need To Ask What ‘No One Has Ever Tried to Ask’ – “So the real question is not ‘Was Jeffrey Epstein a weirdo who was abusing girls?’ Yes, we can answer that. The real question is ‘Why was he doing this, on whose behalf, and where did all the money come from?'”

Breitbart: Rep. House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer said that there was “no evidence” from his committee’s investigation that Joe Biden was involved in the use of the autopen for signing presidential documents. – “Well, we interviewed another person who worked very closely with Joe Biden, and I will say this, Joe Biden apparently wasn’t the only person who had a poor memory in the Biden administration…

Real Clear Politics: Can Fed Chairman Jay Powell Make It Through the Weekend? – Powell’s blatant financial mismanagement over the Fed’s new building and the renovations of the old building, mismanagement that Mr. Powell denied under oath, could well represent sufficient “cause” to force his resignation, or even be fired by Mr. Trump…

Newsmax: On Saturday, President Trump announced that he’s levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and Mexico, two of the United States’ largest trade partners. – Trump is in the midst of an announcement blitz of new tariffs with allies and foes alike, a bedrock of his 2024 campaign that he said would set the foundation for reviving a U.S. economy…

America First Report: Federal District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong Orders The Trump Admin to Halt ICE Operations in California – In a 52-page ruling, the judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stop detaining people based on their race, spoken language or accent, occupation, or presence in specific locations such as bus stops…

Townhall: How That Judge Who Shut Down ICE Raids in Southern California Got Confirmed – Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong was only confirmed because 25 Republican Senators didn’t show up to work on the day of the confirmation vote. – Had they shown up and voted against her, she would not have been confirmed…

Western Journal: Predictions about the 2028 presidential election are still in the early stages, but the field is beginning to take shape with two key players already standing out as the GOP prepares to govern in the post-Trump era. – The two current, and perhaps most obvious, frontrunners are Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio…

American Thinker: A Tale of Two States, Or How Florida Wins Where New York Bleeds – New York passed a $237 billion state budget, while Florida passed a budget less than half the size at $116.5 billion. – Florida now has millions more residents than New York (U.S. Census, 2024). – So this is not about population. – It is about two distinct philosophies…

American Thinker: TWA Flight 800 And The Government’s Decades-Long Cover-Up – For those wondering why so many people distrust the government regarding Jeffrey Epstein, the TWA Flight 800 episode is instructive. – Many eyewitnesses reported a missile flying from the ocean surface toward TWA 800, after which they saw an explosion and an object shatter and fall into the ocean….

Slay News: Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda isn’t buying the green utopia fantasy pushed by climate activists and globalist government bureaucrats. – “From a lifecycle perspective, EVs are still significantly dirtier than gasoline-electric hybrids,” Toyoda explained. – He asserted that one EV generates as much pollution as three hybrids when you include battery production and power generation.

Powerline: The Week In Pictures: Summer Vacation Edition – It was a slow news week, and we are into the midsummer doldrums. – Lots of people are on vacation, perhaps including some of those who normally feed me memes.

July 11, 2025

Western Journal: The federal government ran at a surplus in June, and it was largely money coming in from President Donald Trump’s tariffs that made the difference, according to news reports. – Tariffs collected on goods imported into the country for sale totaled $27 billion for the month, up from $23 billion in May…

One America News: 200 arrested and 10 minors were found during the California marijuana farms raid, while ‘law enforcement dodged literal bullets from rioters.’ – “Federal law enforcement officers executed criminal warrant operations at marijuana grow sites in Carpinteria and Camarillo. During the operation, at least 10 migrant children were rescued from potential exploitation, forced labor, and human trafficking…

Geller Report: President Trump grants ICE the ability to arrest ‘SLIMEBALL’ protesters who attack agents after what happened at the chaotic California pot farm raid. – “Tremendous damage was done to these brand new vehicles,” the president continued. “I know for a fact that these Officers are having a hard time with allowing this to happen, in that it shows such total disrespect for LAW AND ORDER.”…

Zero Hedge: According to video forensics experts, metadata embedded in the Epstein video files indicates that the footage was not directly exported from the prison’s surveillance system. – While experts emphasize that the metadata alone does not prove deceptive intent, they caution that the DOJ’s failure to explain the editing process adds to the cloud of suspicion that has long surrounded Epstein’s 2019 death in federal custody.

Breitbart: Former White House special counsel Ty Cobb said Pam Bondi’s job was safe because letting her go so quickly would be a “huge embarrassment” to President Trump. – “So Bongino either has to come back from the weekend and say, ‘Gee, sorry I had a bad day.’ I look forward to working with his esteemed colleagues, or he’s gone because Bondi’s not going.”

Daily Wire: President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump Tour The Texas Flood Zone As The Death Toll Reaches 121 – More than 170 people are still missing in Central Texas as search teams comb the devastated area. – They flew into San Antonio and then boarded Marine One, which took them 60 miles northwest to Kerrville, Texas, the small town that took the brunt of the flooding last week…

Geller Report: An Iranian Group Has Placed A $40 Million Bounty on Trump’s Head, Urging ‘Every Cell of the Resistance in the West’ To Act. – Regime leaders said the president’s ‘punishment is death’ and ‘his blood is permitted’…

Geller Report: UNIMAGINABLE Hamas Gang-Rape Horror Has Been Revealed in A Shocking New Report – Terrorists stripped October 7 sex attack victims, tied them to trees and mutilated them during ‘systematic’ sexual torture onslaught.- This is hard to read, but vital…

Epoch Times: President Donald Trump said on July 10 that he has struck a new deal with NATO under which the United States will supply weapons to Ukraine amid its ongoing war with Russia, adding that the alliance will pay for them. – The president said he plans to make a major statement about Russia on Monday.

Western Journal: Bill O’Reilly Says President Trump Told Him Face To Face Exactly Why He Won’t Release The Epstein Files – “He said, and I agree, there are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein’s conduct.” – “They may have had lunch with him or may have had some correspondence for one thing or another. – If their names get out, those people are destroyed, because there’s not going to be any context.”

MEDIAite: FBI Director Kash Patel may reportedly join Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, who has threatened to resign if Attorney General Pam Bondi keeps her job. – Bongino and Bondi reportedly clashed over her handling of the case of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. – “Also, there are apparently more issues with other documents Bondi hasn’t released.”…

Breitbart: – President Trump ‘Personally Paid’ for Two Giant U.S. Flags at The White House as Gifts to His Fellow Americans – White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, “This is just one of many projects President Trump selflessly paid for to make the White House even more patriotic and beautiful.”

Daily Wire: A Kansas PBS affiliate appears to be running political ads targeting Senate Republicans, and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr wants answers. – It ran an ad urging viewers to “call your senators today” and “tell them to vote no” on the Trump administration’s rescissions bill, which targets funding for PBS and NPR.

Townhall: President Trump Issues Brutal Threat to Senate Republicans Who Oppose DOGE Spending Cuts – The Senate is set to vote on the rescissions package next it. If passed, it could cut spending by $9.4 billion. – “It is very important that all Republicans support my Recissions Bill and, in particular, DEFUND PBS and NPR, which are worse than CNN & ‘MSDNC.’…

Daily Wire: The DOJ has sued the State of California for a regulation it says raises the price of eggs, poultry, and pork. – The suit, which also names California Governor Gavin Newsom and state AG Rob Bonta, is largely focused on Proposition 12, a 2018 law that raised the minimum legal requirements of raising chickens, pigs, and calves among vendors who wish to sell their goods in California…

Breitbart: – California Governor Gavin Newsom protested against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on a marijuana farm in his state this week that was allegedly found to have been using child labor. – Newsom reposted a video of the raid, calling President Donald Trump the “real scum” for enforcing the law.

Breitbart: – Native-born Americans account for 100 percent of the nation’s job gains since January, when President Donald Trump took office, the Labor Department revealed. – When you compare those figures to job gains under former President Joe Biden, native-born Americans accounted for just 52 percent of new employment in 2024.

American Thinker: Gaza and the Israeli Conundrum – It is abundantly clear that Hamas refuses to disarm, and even clearer that Hamas intends to keep some of the hostages as a survival guarantee. – This makes an intensive all-out attack on Hamas, and forcibly removing its presence from the Gaza Strip, nearly impossible. – These Hamas demands are unacceptable, even to the American side; withdraw all troops, Hamas keeps weapons…

American Thinker: Farm Security Is National Security – THE USDA unveils the biggest crackdown in decades – ‘The CCP should not be allowed to own one square inch of American soil.’ – A sweeping National Farm Security Action Plan bans future purchases of farmland by Chinese entities and provides for a review of existing land acquisitions by foreign nationals, particularly those near U.S. military bases…

Washington Free Beacon: Columbia University Is Near As Deal With the Trump Administration. – The University Will Pay Discrimination Victims, Reveal More Admissions and Hiring Data, But Will Dodge Harsher Measures Such AS A Consent Decree And Reforms To Columbia’s Like Governance Structure.

The Federalist: It Should Be Obvious By Now That Not Everyone Can Become An American – We have to reject the toxic multicultural ideology, popular for many decades, that degrades citizenship to mere process neutralism. – As noted by VP Vance, “The reason we have an immigration system at all, at least in theory, is to ensure that we know who comes into this country and that they come in on our terms and for our benefit.”…

WGAL 8: The State Department is firing over 1,300 career diplomats and civil servants in line with a dramatic reorganization plan initiated by the Trump administration earlier this year. – A senior State Department official said Friday the department is sending layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments in the United States.

American Thinker: The Irony Behind The Endowed Columbia Chair That Zohran Mamdani’s Father Holds – Zohran’s policies clearly exhibit a fondness for communism and an animus toward Israel and Jews. One has to wonder whence came such beliefs and attitudes, and whether “the apple does not fall far from the tree.” Mahmood Mamdani is fully on board with condemning Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide.”

American Thinker: The War on Weather Modification Gains Momentum – Well-founded questions about cloud seeding causing heavy rainfall that led to the floods are dismissed by the experts featured in mainstream media. – A company performed cloud seeding nearby on July 2, but mainstream media expects people to accept at face value its CEO’s statement that it did not “contribute to the floods that occurred over the region.”…

American Thinker: Marco Rubio Dropped the Hammer – Francesca Albanese, the UN boss trying to turn the ICC into an anti-American, anti-Israeli star chamber, is hit with heavy sanctions. – Albanese, an Italian academic turned ideological inquisitor, was appointed in 2022 by the UN’s Human Rights Council, whose members include China, Cuba, Sudan, and South Africa. A rogue’s gallery of surveillance states, strongmen, and serial rights abusers…

Daily Fetch: The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously overturned the conviction of Douglass Mackey, the online commentator known by the pseudonym “Ricky Vaughn,” who was convicted in 2023 on charges of election interference stemming from social media posts related to his 2016 presidential election Meme. – The case focused on images shared under the “Ricky Vaughn” persona, including one that read: “Vote ‘Hillary’ via text to 59925,”…

July 10, 2025

Townhall: Trump Announced 35% Tariffs on Canada To Commence August 1st – Trump said the move is a response to “Canada’s retaliation,” accusing Canada of not cooperating on critical matters, especially the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. and engaging in unfair trade practices.

Epoch Times: A centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s new trade agreement with Vietnam features a steep 40% tariff on transshipped goods. – Transshipment is a trade strategy employed by countries such as China to sidestep tariffs and trade barriers. -Products are shipped to another country where they are minimally processed, repackaged, or relabeled to make them appear as if they were manufactured in the receiving country.

Western Journal: Representative Anna Paulina Luna – “Neville Singham, the billionaire communist with ties to the CCP, who funded the LA riots, is hiding from our letter requesting testimony. This poses an issue for delivering a subpoena.” – “Therefore, if he decides to hide in CHINA, we will be asking the State Dept. and Treasury to freeze his assets and visa.

Daily Signal: John Kerry Says Trump ‘Was Right’ on Immigration – Democrats “missed on the issue of immigration,” John Kerry says he told President Joe Biden. – His party “allowed the border to continue to be sieged,” Kerry, who served as secretary of state under President Barack Obama, said Thursday during an interview with BBC…

American Thinker: The Democrat party mainstreams socialism and radical Islam – With the DNC’s embrace of both Mamdani and the globalized intifada, the Democrat party has just taken a huge step. – For the first time, it has openly embraced not merely hard-left socialism, but the bloody and evil antisemitism of its radical Islamist allies.

American Thinker: When Zohran Mamdani got on the ballot, other Democrats had two options. –The first was to disavow a man who is an open communist and a manifest antisemite who refuses to renounce the phrase “Globalize the intifada.”- The second option was for Democrats to bow down before Mamdani and the Islamo-Marxist radicalism he represents. And so that’s what they did. – Now, 60% of Democrat voters support the Gazans and West Bankians…

American Thinker: Trump Sends Brazil Something More Persuasive Than a Stern Warning Over Its Lawfare – The imposition of tariffs to force Brazil to clean up its act is something George W. Bush could only have dreamed of. – President Trump on Wednesday launched a multi-front trade assault on Brazil, threatening it with massive new tariffs and demanding the end of criminal charges against his ally, former President Jair Bolsonaro…

American Thinker: Are You Ready For The Donald J. Trump Nuclear Power Plant? – The people behind the proposed new facility in Texas seem to have all their ducks in a row, and are ready for approval. – Project Matador will supply power for “hyper-scaler” and AI data centers to be co-located on the site. – Only limited power transfers are planned for grid balancing and backup, so the average Texan will not be getting any of the power output…

American Thinker: The Dallas Federal Reserve says mass deportations will be an ‘economic drain.’ Bankers, of all people, should understand the concept of ‘net negative,’ but apparently, it’s an elusive concept for them. – The real “economic drain” is illegal immigrants in the U.S. The foreigners who crossed the border in just the four years of Joe Biden cost taxpayers an additional hundred billion dollars. Below is a small sample of costs…

Daily Wire: The Trump Administration Moves to End Taxpayer-Funded Benefits for Illegal Aliens – This follows President Trump’s executive order in February directing federal agencies to identify government-funded programs that “permit illegal aliens to obtain any cash or non-cash public benefit” and to align those programs with the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act…

American Thinker: Progressive ‘Exit Taxes’ Have Become The New Berlin Wall – European nations are beginning to penalize citizens for fleeing the consequences of heavy taxation schemes and mass immigration. – Crime rates have more than skyrocketed as immigrants are given preference over regular citizens. – European nations like Germany, Norway, and Belgium are “spearheading new regulations designed to tax capital gains before individuals emigrate.”

American Thinker: The Prevalence of Real and Fake Women In Antifa Terrorism – Today’s Antifa terrorists are like a throwback to the old Baader-Meinhof gang, with a “transgender” twist. – What happened in Alvarado, Texas, is either a one-off or the beginning of a trend of increasingly frustrated anarchists, especially emotionally charged real and fake women, realizing that their glory days of running wild with little to no pushback are at an end…

Center Square: The death toll from the catastrophic Texas Hill Country flood has reached 119, with at least 173 confirmed missing in Kerr and Travis counties. – As of Wednesday, 94 deceased had been recovered in Kerr County, including 59 adults and 36 children, the sheriff’s office said. Identification is pending for 14 adults and 13 children. Five Camp Mystic campers and one counselor remain unaccounted for.

Daily Wire: Two days after President Trump expressed disappointment with Vladimir Putin, Russia launched another major missile and drone attack at Ukraine’s capital, killing at least two people and wounding 16 more, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. – Ukrainian police said on Thursday morning that Russian missiles struck eight different districts in Kyiv, targeting residential areas…

Western Journal: This Is ‘Unprecedented’ – It Only Took 2 Questions to Collapse Joe Biden’s Doctor’s Defense, Which Left Him Clinging to His 5th Amendment Rights – Were you ever told to lie about the president’s health? – Was President Biden unfit to execute his duties?…

Fox News: The Secret Service has sidelined six agents for failing to properly guard Trump during the July 13th, 2024, assassination attempt. – Disciplinary measures ranged from 10 to 42 days of leave without pay or benefits. – The agency faced heavy criticism after the security lapse, which allowed gunman Thomas Crooks to open fire near the rally’s stage in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Just The News: President Trump declared that the nation was “BACK” amid major stock market indices hitting record highs. – “Tech Stocks, Industrial Stocks, & NASDAQ, HIT ALL-TIME, RECORD HIGHS! – CRYPTO, ‘Through the Roof.’ – “NVIDIA IS UP 47% SINCE TRUMP TARIFFS. – The USA is taking in Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Tariffs, Trump posted on Truth Social.

American Thinker: The European Union Is No Friend of the United States Regarding Democracy or Free Speech – Despite its hostility to America and American values, Democrat presidents have consistently and enthusiastically encouraged its growth. – The EU is a supranational political entity with ambitions that run counter to American interests and the principles of self-governance…

Just The News: The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday banned illegal immigrants from accessing the agency’s taxpayer-funded benefits. – Illegal immigrants will no longer have access to a long list of services, including Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics, Community Mental Health Services Block Grant, Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), Head Start, Health Center Program…

Issues & Insights: Marxism is taking over the Democrat Party. – While Mamdani might not be a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, several of his known positions are inarguably in line with Marxism. – California gubernatorial candidate Kamala Harris has deep Marxist roots. – Another Democrat with a firm familial Marxist connection is former South Bend mayor and failed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg…

Daily Wire: Trump’s DOE Shuts The Door On Free Tuition For Illegals – The Trump administration has been cracking down on states that provide benefits to illegals in education. – On June 30, it announced the revocation of nearly $7 billion in federal grants. The administration argued that the money was being used to push a “radical left-wing agenda.”

Breitbart: The Trump Administration Takes A $400 Million Equity Stake in Rare Earths Firm MP Materials Corp. In a Move To End China’s Control of Rare Earth Supplies. – The deal also includes a 10-year commitment by the U.S. government to support pricing and demand for domestically produced rare earth magnets used in missile guidance systems, fighter jets, and electric motors.

American Thinker: Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park Is in the News These Days. – It makes Portland look clean. – Mayor Karen Bass is fighting ICE because she knows what’s behind the curtain. Her administration, along with Governor Gavin Newsom, has allowed parks to become crime-ridden areas. – The two of them know what’s going on, and that’s why they are fighting so hard to keep the curtains tightly closed…

American Thinker: The Dishonest Crusade For Replacement Solar and Wind Power Generation – Supplying 80% of the world’s primary energy, coal, oil, and natural gas make up the lifeblood of modern civilization. – There continue to be calls for the abandonment of these fuels, even though solar and wind are incapable of replacing the use of hydrocarbons. – Moreover, solar and wind depend on weather, geography, and diurnal cycles…

American Thinker: When tyrants run out of other people’s money – In Oregon, we now have the facade of a supermajority of Democrats failing at the state level, down to the local levels, as evidenced below. – Voting for a different Democrat doesn’t solve the problem. Every Democrat has the same philosophy and motive. If Oregonians want change, then they need to vote for change…

American Thinker: California’s Useless Republicans – When you’re a conservative, and your party leaders are indistinguishable from the Democrats, why stick around? – Democrat policies in California provide the hammers that are building a third-world state, and unfortunately, some Republican “leaders” are providing the nails…

American Thinker: A Liberal Professor’s View Of Conservatives On Campus – This New York Times op-ed reveals how unaware the left really is. – Why is it that when progressives talk about people who aren’t like them, it’s always with a sense of pitying superiority? – She admitted quite a bit in her op-ed, and none of it was good. – Either way, she gets what she wants: discouragement of diversity of thought, which was her point.

July 9, 2025

Newsmax: The Trump administration has resumed sending some weapons to Ukraine, a week after the Pentagon had directed that some deliveries be paused. – The weapons now moving into Ukraine include 155 mm munitions and precision-guided rockets known as GMLRS. – It’s unclear exactly when the weapons started moving.

Daily Wire: President Trump announced on Wednesday that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is taking over NASA as interim administrator. – Trump also noted, “I also thought it inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who was in the Space Business, run NASA, when NASA is such a big part of Elon’s corporate life.”…

Daily Signal: Secretary of State Marco Rubio Hit UN Human Rights Council Rapporteur Francesca Albanese With Sanctions – Rubio cited “her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt [International Criminal Court] action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives.” – The sanctions are likely to prevent Albanese from traveling to the U.S. and would block any assets she has in the country…

Geller Report: Mamdani Surges To 10-Point Lead In The NYC Mayoral Race, With Adams Cratering To Fourth Place – The Slingshot Strategies poll, conducted between July 2-6, showed socialist Mamdani capturing 35% of registered voters, with former Governor Andrew Cuomo at 25%, Republican Curtis Sliwa at 14%, and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams trailing with just 11%…

Zero Hedge: The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to ban the Federal Bureau of Investigation from a planned move to the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski crossed party lines to join Democrats in supporting halting the administration’s proposed move. – Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen said the Trump administration did not perform adequate research and analysis before choosing to repurpose the Ronald Reagan building for the FBI headquarters.

Scott McKay: The Epstein Mess Was Always Going to End This Way – It’s an insulting and embarrassing spectacle. – First of all, if they actually had the goods on Trump, they would have used that to discredit him rather than the idiotic Steele dossier they settled on. – It’s obvious that Trump and his people now recognize that the amount of collateral damage you get from outing Mossad in the Epstein case quickly becomes more than anybody can bear…

American Spectator: Several House Democrats are warning that the Democrat base has become increasingly radicalized in its resistance to the Trump administration. – Democrat politicians are frightened by their far left constituents, whose growing anger has “morphed into a disregard for American institutions, political traditions, and even the rule of law.”…

Victor Davis Hanson: Leftists Embrace Sedition and Insurrection as Democrats Lose Power – You think they would be worried, but Democrat Congress members said, “Well, what are we supposed to do? – We meet with our constituents, and they’re urging us to use violence and be willing to be shot by others to promote a radical agenda.” – Very dangerous times, so we’ve got to be very careful about what everybody says and not escalate the situation…

Daily Wire: The DOJ Subpoenas Transgender Clinics And Doctors For Transitioning Children – Nearly 20 subpoenas were issued against clinics engaged in transgender transition attempts. – DOJ’s investigations include healthcare fraud, false statements, and more. – Doctors, medical ethicists, whistleblowers, detransitioners, and parents of survivors are focusing on the deceptive practices often found within the transgender medicine industry.

Daily Signal: Why Does a Civil Rights Nonprofit Have Millions in Offshore Accounts? – Despite its parsimonious name, the Southern Poverty Law Center has an endowment of more than $700 million, compensates leadership handsomely, and possesses more than $30 million in offshore accounts—likely in the Cayman Islands, its most recent IRS filing reveals…

New York Post: NATO jets scrambled as Putin launches the largest drone attack yet on Ukraine, just hours after Trump ripped Putin for his ‘bullshit’. – Moscow fired 728 Shahed and decoy drones along with 13 cruise and ballistic missiles. – That was more than 200 above the previous record fired on Friday, July 4th itself, just a week after the previous largest air assault…

Newmax: House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune will proceed with new sanctions on Russia. – “Vladimir Putin has shown an unwillingness to be reasonable and to talk seriously about brokering a peace, so we have to send him a message.” – Thune said he is expected to have the bill ready before the August recess…

Gateway Pundit: The Houthis Stage A Second Deadly Attack on Cargo Ship in 2 Days, with A Rebel Yemeni Group Releasing A Complete Video of the Attack and Sinking of ‘Magic Seas’ – One day before the attack on the Eternity C, the Magic Seas, another ‘Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned’ vessel was attacked and sunk…

Zero Hedge: Under the leadership of failed progressives, parts of Washington, D.C., have transformed into crime-infested hellholes, hardly the image the United States wants to project to the world from its capital. – Consequently, the Trump administration sees an urgent need to restore law and order and is now weighing direct federal intervention…

Daily Signal: Virginia’s AG Reveals The Shocking Consequences of Democrats’ Soft-on-Crime Policies – As he campaigns for reelection, Miyares is armed with alarming statistics: Over 9,600 inmates were released early in fiscal year 2023 alone, with roughly 50% being rearrested, resulting in more than 4,500 new victims of crime…

Gateway Pundit: Torrential monsoon rains triggered a historic flash flood in the mountain resort town of Ruidoso, New Mexico, on Tuesday afternoon. – Floodwaters surged nearly 20–20.2 feet, devastating neighborhoods, sweeping away entire houses, and leaving families scrambling for their lives. – Areas stripped bare by last year’s South Fork and Salt wildfires were unable to absorb rainfall…

America First Report: A Big, Beautiful Bill 2.0 Is Coming, Says Senator Tuberville – To tackle the crippling $37 trillion debt, Tuberville said Congress plans to start work on a second and perhaps even a third “Big, Beautiful Bill” that would make serious cuts to the out-of-control spending and borrowing…

Just The News: Pressure is building for Musk to ditch his third party in favor of backing the Convention of States – The Convention of States is a movement that calls for a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution to limit the power of the federal government and give term limits to members of Congress.

Daily Wire: Scott Bessent Will Skip South Africa G20 Meeting Again And Travel To Japan Instead – News of Bessent’s trip comes a day after Trump sent a letter to Japan raising tariffs on Japanese imports to 25%, starting August 1. – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he would continue negotiations with the U.S. to seek a mutually beneficial deal…

Washington Examiner: President Trump sent a new round of letters announcing tariffs on seven nations. – Wednesday’s letters included 20% import duties on the Philippines, 25% on Moldova, 30% on Iraq, 30% on Algeria, 30% on Libya, 25% on Brunei, and 30% on Sri Lanka. – The new implementation date will be Aug. 1, giving the Trump administration time to continue trade negotiations with countries around the world…

American Conservative: It’s Time for Kennedy to Eliminate The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force – This obscure HHS group is pushing faulty race and gender ideology on doctors. – Since the beginning of the Biden administration, it has been quietly engaged in reconfiguring itself into an instrument of social justice and advocacy of left-wing ideological priors in both the private practice of medicine and in public health…

Newsmax: On Wednesday, President Trump announced that his administration will impose a 50% tariff on Brazilian products imported to the U.S. starting August 1, while also expressing support for former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. – Trump also has been critical of the 11-nation BRICS alliance, which initially included Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, but has added Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Iran…

Washington Free Beacon: I’m a Young Meteorologist Who Questions the Idea of Man-Made Climate Change, So, Consequently, The Climate Zealots Wanted Me Punished, Silenced, and Expelled. – I’m a favorite target of climate zealots because I’m young, I have a fresh new voice, and I am, as the New York Post called me, “the anti-Greta-Thunberg.”

New York Post: Joe Biden’s doctor, Kevin O’Connor, invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked if he lied about the former President’s health. – Doctor O’Connor refused to answer a single question Wednesday about Biden’s health and cognitive decline, stunningly invoking his right against self-incrimination before slinking out of a congressional deposition…

National Pulse: President Donald J. Trump is applying significant pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring an end to the ongoing war in Gaza, according to sources close to the ceasefire negotiations. – The Monday night dinner between Trump and Netanyahu reportedly focused on the Gaza ceasefire deal and the broader implications for the region…

Breitbart: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced Tuesday that the city will be joining a private class action civil lawsuit against the Trump administration over ICE raids. – Bass has sided with protests against the ICE raids, even defending violent riots that have targeted federal, state, and local law enforcement, saying that the violence will stop when the ICE raids also stop…

Breitbart: The vast majority of the illegal aliens arrested by ICE have criminal convictions or pending charges, the White House said this week as deportation efforts continue across the country. – “70% of those arrested under President Trump’s ICE had criminal convictions or pending charges. – We’re talking murderers, rapists, and child predators,” the White House said.

American Thinker: By Halting The Federal Judiciary’s Left Turn, Trump Has Saved America – The most lasting and impactful accomplishment will be Trump’s ongoing victories in permanently reining in a rogue and increasingly radicalized federal judiciary, rescuing the United States from an irreversible decline and fall…

Epoch Times: On July 8, President Trump announced plans to impose a 50% tariff on copper imports into the United States. – With the U.S. market accounting for over half of Canada’s copper exports, the tariffs could have a significant impact on the Canadian copper industry. – Pierre Gratton, CEO of the Mining Association of Canada, “Trump’s announcement is very concerning for Quebec’s copper industry.”…

American Thinker: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Is The Historic Win Middle Class America’s Been Waiting For – This bill is focused on helping the middle and working class, not the wealthy donor class, as the left claims. – For starters, OBBB permanently extends the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions, shielding families from looming tax hikes. – Then there’s the groundbreaking move for service industry workers…

American Spectator: The ‘BBB’ Supports Conservatism But With Caveats – There are real, even generational, conservative victories in the massive bill Congress just passed, but we are still spending beyond our means. – The dramatic discrepancy between the estimates from CBO and the CEA stems largely from differing assumptions about what counts as expected future policy, known as the “baseline.”…

America First Report: A new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers found that prices for imported goods have dropped in the first five months of the year, even though overall goods prices have risen in the same period – The report analyzed inflation trends using both the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index, which the Federal Reserve closely tracks; and the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the measure more familiar to most Americans.

American Thinker: Media personalities and other Democrats used rigged polls to portrait the OBBB as unpopular. – Yes, Democrats, please go out and continue to tell the voters how higher taxes and more illegal aliens are a good thing. – Clearly, the media haven’t cared about facts for a long time. All they care about is electing Democrats and destroying Trump and Republicans. – The current CBO predictions are ridiculous…

Western Journal: First It Was Barrett, and Now Even Sotomayor Embarrasses Ketanji Brown Jackson with Her Opinion in A SCOTUS Ruling – Here is translation of what Sotomayor said into layman’s terms: That’s not even what we’re talking about, you moron…

American Thinker: The Beguiling Bolshevik Who Played the Race Card with College Admissions – Perhaps no better case study exists than Zohran Mamdani, the self-styled “democratic socialist” (as if the world needed another—Kim Jong Un is more than enough), and current New York City mayoral candidate, whose life of progressive posturing is matched only by the identity hustle that helped launch his academic ascent…

American Thinker: Why the Left Sees Fascists Everywhere – Fascism lost World War II and Communism lost the Cold War, and now, Marxism is winning their imagination in the twenty-first century. – Under this new Marxist view, fascism is the final expression of exhausted capitalism, or what is also called “late capitalism.” Ignoring this is perilous. – Confronting this story is the imperative of liberty.

American Thinker: An Axis of Irrelevance? – We are now being told the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had no client list. – Unlike Garland and former FBI director Chris Wray, Bondi, Patel, and Bongino have real crimes and real criminals to pursue on the other side of the political aisle. – I’m not sorry for noticing, but if the trio fail to execute their duties, they risk becoming an axis of irrelevance…

Zero Hedge: Investigative Journalist Nick Bryant Explains Why Epstein Case Will Never Progress – Bryant notes in this viral clip that the federal government is covering up the Jeffrey Epstein case and will never progress because it would destroy their entire operational system. – “The government wants to make sure that that does not come out. – A huge part of our political system is predicated on blackmail.”…

Daily Wire: X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced she was resigning just over two years after Elon Musk selected her to run the company. – The resignation comes one day after Grok, X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, made posts praising Adolf Hitler. Sources familiar with Yaccarino’s decision to step down said that the move had been in the works for over a week and was not related to the Grok issues.

Resist The Mainstream: Grok Was Taken Offline After Making Hitler References, Sexually Explicit Statements, and Certain Epstein Claims – The AI’s behavior escalated amid outrage over a separate incendiary post from an account named “Cindy Steinberg,” that celebrated the deaths of more than two dozen children and counselors who drowned during flooding at a Texas Christian summer camp…

American Thinker: Don’t see the new Superman movie – The left just can’t stop themselves. – Their need for moral preening for their imaginary virtues is apparently irresistible. – Director James Gunn confirmed the latest Superman iteration will be “about politics,” saying the iconic superhero is “an immigrant that came from other places.” – And to top it off, we now have “Truth, Justice, and good things.”

FAR: Joe Rogan Interviews Dr. Robert Malone – This marks the third anniversary of Joe Rogan’s interview with Dr. Robert Malone. – With all that has happened since then, it is outrageous that he was ignored by so many, with all that has happened since the supposed COVID-19 Pandemic and the mRNA vaccines.’…

July 8, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: Russia is prepared to help Iran replenish its uranium stockpiles, offering Tehran a path to a rebuilt nuclear program in the wake of the U.S. and Israeli campaign to prevent the Islamic Republic from building a bomb. – “Moscow is ready to assist Tehran in refilling its depleted uranium stocks,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reportedly said during a meeting with BRICS member nations in Brazil…

Fox 28: The Supreme Court Lets Trump Proceed With Federal Workforce Cuts – “Today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling is another definitive victory for the President and his administration. – It clearly rebukes the continued assaults on the President’s constitutionally authorized executive powers by leftist judges…

Geller Report: The Trump Administration Is Banning Communist China From Owning America’s Farm Land And Halting Its Dangerous Research – The CCP owns 349,442 acres of farmland in the USA, up 82% over three years, and most of it is near our military installations. – Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins joined these top officials, and trade adviser Peter Navarro, on Tuesday to announce the National Farm Security Action Plan…

Fox News: Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey are under criminal investigation for potential wrongdoing related to the Trump–Russia probe, including allegedly making false statements to Congress, according to DOJ sources. – The full scope of the criminal investigations into Brennan and Comey is unclear, but it could open up a wide range of potential prosecutorial options.

Western Journal: Tucker Carlson Says ‘There Are Only 2 Explanations That I Can Think Of’ for the Epstein List Debacle – This Epstein debacle either falls at the feet of Trump, an unlikely scenario, according to Carlson, or more likely it involves a much deeper conspiracy involving the intelligence community. – While neither scenario can, or ever likely will be, confirmed, it’s clear that there’s an appetite for the truth when it comes to Epstein.

Daily Signal: U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of the District of Massachusetts imposed a temporary restraining order Monday directing the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed to Planned Parenthood, which sued to restore its funding. – Judge Talwani has a career steeped in progressive politics and controversial rulings…

Daily Wire: The Trump Administration Is Phasing Out The Most Hated Airport Screening Policy – The Trump administration is moving to end the requirement that passengers remove their shoes when going through airport security. – This has always been a moronic rule that didn’t seem likely to make any of us safer in the first place.

Townhall: Responding To Rumors About Possible Amnesty, AG Secretary Brooke Rollins Says ‘There Will Be No Amnesty’ in The US. – The Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts will continue. – Rollins also announced a plan to ban the CCP from purchasing any farmland in the United States, as well as other foreign adversaries, via the USDA’s National Farm Security Action Plan…

Geller Report: 11 Far-Left Terrorists Have Been Arrested in The Planned ‘Coordinated and Targeted Terror Attack’ on Texas ICE Facility That Included Opening Fire on Agents – Ten individuals were charged with three counts of attempted murder and three counts of discharging a firearm during a violent act, according to court records. – An 11th person was charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy, according to federal officials.

Newsmax: Senators Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., have proposed legislation that bans federal immigration agents from wearing face coverings and requires them to display information identifying themselves as federal enforcement officials. – Padilla says the legislation, titled the VISIBLE Act, will “restore transparency and ensure impersonators can’t exploit the panic” during ICE raids.

American Thinker: The Government’s Epstein Problem – They don’t get to claim that there’s no client list after issuing statements going back over a decade saying there were “client lists.” – Were they lying then when they described Epstein as a “large trafficking ring”? – Or are they lying now when claiming that the “ring” consisted of exactly two people and Prince Andrew?…

American Thinker: Musk’s America Party Is A Bad Idea – Third parties rarely win. – What they do is siphon. – Ralph Nader in 2000, Ross Perot in 1992, and Jill Stein in 2016 all became footnotes to larger losses. – The real risk here is not that Musk will unseat Trump, but that he’ll peel off enough disillusioned independents and libertarians to kneecap Trump-aligned candidates in swing districts…

American Thinker: Iran Targets The Kurds – The ayatollahs are smarting over the Twelve-Day War and lashing out. – The Iranian regime’s pride and confidence were shaken by the events of June 2025, and its sense of “honor” was injured. – As a result, the regime has sought to avenge its humiliation by turning against its minorities, especially the Kurds, whom its leaders accuse of collaborating with the Israelis…

American Thinker: A new graphic reveals the most common birthplaces of foreign migrants in each state – It’s a “subcontinental flood” of foreigners, but not from Europe, which wouldn’t be so bad because it would at least be comprised of people who largely share our value system, heritage, and culture. – This flood is pouring in from the third world, bringing along all its poverty, dysfunction, incivility, and depravity with it…

Breitbart: Joe Biden’s physician wants to delay testifying before the House oversight committee, citing the need for an agreement that will respect doctor-patient confidentiality norms as part of the investigation into Biden’s physical and cognitive deterioration while in office. – The House Oversight Committee first requested O’Connor testify before the committee last July, but the Biden White House blocked his testimony…

Daily Wire: California on Monday rejected the resolution agreement from the Trump administration to follow federal law and keep men out of women’s sports. – CIF aligned itself with the California DOE and refused to sign the resolution agreement. The resolution was proposed on June 25, when the U.S. DOE’s Office for Civil Rights announced the conclusion of its Title IX investigations into the state for allegations of discrimination against women and girls on the basis of sex.

Just The News: According to Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, Camp Mystic and other establishments in the devastating Texas flash floods did all they could to prepare. – The Guadalupe River surged 26 feet in 45 minutes, sweeping away homes, vehicles, and campsites, with up to 15 inches of rain falling in hours. – President Donald Trump signed a major disaster declaration for Kerr County…

July 7, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: Hamas has placed active bounties on American aid workers in Gaza and has demanded that the United States cease all humanitarian operations as a ceasefire condition, according to a State Department cable, marked “sensitive but unclassified.” – The American security contractors working at GHF aid sites “are part of a group called SRS and made up of decorated veterans,” according to the cable.

Washington Free Beacon: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Jewish state and the United Nations are working together to find Middle Eastern countries in which Palestinians can relocate from Gaza and resettle. – Israel is nearing the finalization of a suitable relocation plan. – “I think President Trump had a brilliant vision,” Netanyahu said during a White House press conference.

One America News: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu surprised President Trump by officially nominating him for a Nobel Peace Prize during their much-anticipated White House dinner. – While speaking to reporters about the relationship between the US and Israel, Netanyahu handed Trump a letter that he also reportedly sent to the Nobel Prize committee, officially nominating Trump.

The Federalist: A CIA Review Reveals Obama Pushed Intel Community To Launch Trump-Russia Witch Hunt – While Brennan, Clapper, and Comey all rightly deserve condemnation, Obama launched the plot, and as president, he holds greater responsibility for politicizing the intelligence community against his successor. – Not only did Obama order the review, but he also directed it to be completed essentially within a month and before Trump’s inauguration.

Center Square: The total number of deaths in Kerr County, Texas, alone has topped 106 as more bodies continue to be found following the catastrophic July 4th flash flood. – As of Monday, 84 deceased have been recovered in Kerr County, including 56 adults and 28 children, the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office said Monday afternoon. – Identification is pending for 22 adults and 10 children.

One America News: Obama appointed U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, who is presiding over illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s “wrongful deportation” case in Maryland, denied the Trump administration’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit. – Judge Xinis challenged DOJ attorneys on their May court filings, questioning their assertion that Abrego Garcia could not be returned to the US following his indictment in Tennessee on human smuggling charges.

Daily Wire: Shortly after Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration over a provision in the “big, beautiful bill” that would have cut federal funding for the abortion giant, a leftist federal judge in Massachusetts blocked the provision outright. – U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, approved Planned Parenthood’s request to halt the provision, which freezes Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood for one year.

Patriot TV: 12 Important Questions That All Americans Should Be Asking About the Shameful Attempt to Cover up the Truth About Jeffrey Epstein – #1 Why were Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell arrested and charged with operating an enormous sex trafficking ring that supposedly involved thousands of clients if no such clients ever existed? – #2 Why did U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi tell Fox News in February that Epstein’s client list was “sitting on my desk right now to review” if no such client list ever existed?…

Western Journal: Joe Biden Claims World Leaders Are Still Calling Him for Advice – A 9-minute video of an exchange between the Society for Human Resource Management’s president, Johnny Taylor, and a subdued, confused, often mumbling Biden was published by Democratic political strategist Chris Jackson.

Breitbart: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan said that the Republicans were “eager” to go after the censorship regime because Breitbart News and other outlets were being targeted for telling the truth. – Jordan, “I can’t prosecute anyone. – All I can do is oversee the gathering of facts and then provide that information to the public, and in some cases, make criminal referrals, which we’ve done.

Zero Hedge: Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha confirmed that at least 90 people are dead and dozens are still missing after a 30-foot wall of water surged down the Guadalupe River late last week. – Of the fatalities so far, 75 have occurred in Kerr County, Leitha said, adding that the dead include 48 adults and 27 children, with 15 of the adults and nine of the children unidentified…

Slay News: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Democrats and their corporate media allies for attempting to blame President Trump for the devastating flash floods in Texas. – “Blaming President Trump for these floods is a depraved lie, and it serves no purpose during this time of national mourning.” – Leavitt then provided a detailed timeline showing that the National Weather Service (NWS) had issued ample flood warnings ahead of the storm…

Fox News: An active shooter armed with tactical gear and a rifle opened fire upon Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday. – Agents and local police returned fire and killed the gunman. – No federal agents were hit, but one McAllen police officer was struck. – Law enforcement sources report that the officer is in stable condition…

Breitbart: President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill ends Joe Biden’s war on American energy production. – Now that Congress passed the BBB and Trump signed the bill into law, his administration will seek to boost American energy production while ending Biden’s onerous policies that sought to stifle domestic energy production…

Zero Hedge: Is the Fed TRYING to Trigger a Debt Crisis? – Let’s cut to the chase: it is clear to anyone paying attention that Fed Head Jerome Powell hates President Trump. – Regardless of your political leanings, this should be cause for concern because a politically influenced Fed is a very dangerous entity for investors’ portfolios. – Case in point, back in 2018 during President Trump’s first term, the Fed embarked on one of its most aggressive tightening cycles…

The Hill: By stubbornly refusing to lower interest rates despite ample data urging him to do so, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is committing his third major policy blunder in six years. – If he continues this tight-money path through the July 29 Fed meeting, “Too Late” Powell will go down as the worst Fed chair in history. – Even though he leads the world’s largest economy, Powell is a lawyer, not an economist, an anomaly among Fed chairs…

Washington Examiner: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter to the Department of Commerce acting Inspector General Roderick Anderson, asking him to investigate whether cuts at the National Weather Service adversely affected the response to the tragic Texas floods. – DHS outlined the various warnings sent out from the NWS, dating back to the morning of July 3…

Gateway Pundit: For the first time since the US/Houthis deal was announced in May, a merchant vessel has been attacked in the Red Sea near the Yemeni port of Al-Hudaydah. – Yesterday, the Magic Seas, a Greek-operated bulk carrier, was first hit by small arms gunfire, then attacked with drones and missiles in the Red Sea and took on water…

Zero Hedge: On Sunday, Israel’s military launched airstrikes on three ports and a power facility against Houthi-controlled Yemen, resulting in the group launching a barrage of missiles in retaliation. – Israel is calling the major new initiative ‘Operation Black Flag.’…

Daily Wire: An influential Arab leader in Hebron, the West Bank’s largest city, is facing violent threats after proposing to break from the Palestinian Authority and join the Abraham Accords as an independent emirate seeking peace with Israel. – A source close to Sheikh Wadee’ al-Jaabari said the leader has received several violent threats since declaring his intentions in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Saturday…

Real Clear Politics: ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan told reporters on the White House lawn this morning that the “Big, Beautiful Bill” is giving ICE more resources, but there are over 600,000 illegal aliens in this nation with criminal histories walking the streets, so we need to find them quickly. – And for those who say 3,000 a day is too much, we’d have to arrest 7,000 every single day for the remainder of this administration just to catch the ones Biden released…

Daily Wire: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joined protesters Monday as they attempted to disrupt an ICE raid on a known MS-13 hangout. – Dozens of ICE agents and military personnel surrounded MacArthur Park early Monday morning, accompanied by agents on horseback and a DHS helicopter flying overhead. – The raid was aimed at detaining MS-13 members…

Daily Wire: Democrat lawmakers are being told by their supporters that they are not doing enough to combat Trump and that they should support violent forms of political agitation. – One House Democrat said some supporters even suggested that what they “really need to do is be willing to get shot” during visits to ICE detention centers…

Center For Immigration Studies: Subsidizing Remittances Through Welfare – The reconciliation bill signed by the president last week contains, among many other things, a “remittance tax”, which assesses a 1 percent fee on certain transfers of money abroad. – The new remittance tax could help recover benefits immigrants receive and then transfer abroad…

Fox News: The Department of Homeland Security has terminated temporary protected status for around 76K Honduran and Nicaraguan migrants currently living in the US. – The decision to end TPS for the two nations comes weeks after DHS terminated the same status for Haiti and months after terminating TPS for Venezuelans. – A federal judge has since blocked that termination amid an ongoing legal battle.

Breitbart: Trump Dismisses Musk’s New Political Party – “I think it’s ridiculous to start a third party. – We have a tremendous success with the Republican Party. – The Democrats have lost their way, but it’s always been a two-party system, and I think starting a third party just adds to the confusion…Third parties have never worked so that he can have fun with it, but I think it’s ridiculous.”…

Zero Hedge: Tesla shares tumbled in premarket trading in New York as investors weighed Elon Musk’s move to launch the new “America Party,” just one day after President Trump signed the BBB into law, which Musk had publicly denounced. – Although Musk has denied founding the party, calling the reports “fake news,” the market appears unconvinced…

New York Post: Biden advisers pushed for an early Trump debate, claiming it would reach ‘the widest audience possible,’ a leaked memo reveals. – “In addition, the earlier YOU are able to debate, the better, so that the American people can see YOU standing next to Trump and showing the strength of YOUR leadership, compared to Trump’s weakness and chaos.”…

Washington Examiner: President Donald Trump’s self-imposed July 9 deadline to make trade deals with several countries is set to expire this week. – To date, the administration has signed agreements with the UK and Vietnam, and is nearing a third with India. – U.S. officials have been juggling negotiations ahead of the deadline with representatives from Japan, the EU, India, South Korea, and other nations that traveled to Washington…

Daily Wire: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promised on Monday that the Trump administration would make “several announcements in the next 48 hours” regarding President Donald Trump’s trade agenda. – “What President Trump is concerned about is the quality of the deals, not the quantity,” Bessent added…

Zero Hedge: By late afternoon, the White House social media team had posted a total of seven trade warning letters, with the latest addressed to Malaysia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Laos, and Myanmar. Earlier in the day. – The letters to Japan and South Korea were also made public…

Daily Wire: President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that any countries considering alignment with the BRICS intergovernmental organization would face an additional 10% tariff, with no exceptions. – The BRICS group was initially founded in 2009 by Brazil, Russia, India, and China as a forum for discussing coordinated policies, much like the G7 countries…

Epoch Times: Trump Announced a 25 Percent Tariff on Japan and South Korea – Trump added that the tariffs might be lowered if the nations open their markets and reduce non-tariff barriers.

Zero Hedge: Canada’s Manufacturing Sector Faces Sharp Decline Amid US Tariffs And Trade Uncertainty – Canada’s manufacturing sector shrank for the fifth month in a row, with the S&P Global Canada Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index falling to 45.6 in June, down from 46.1 in May. — This is well below the neutral 50 mark that separates growth from contraction…

Geller Report: Holding UNRWA Accountable – The UN agency has been inciting and facilitating violence through Hamas-linked affiliates in Gaza. – The agency has perpetuated the crisis by redefining refugee status exclusively for Palestinians—keeping alive the notion of a “right of return” that many interpret as a path to Israel’s destruction—and by distributing educational materials that glorify terrorism against Jews…

Geller Report: A Muslim Immigrant In Chicago Has Been Convicted of Recruiting For Islamic Terror – Hijrah, or jihad by emigration in the cause of Allah, is considered in Islam to be a highly meritorious act. – Ashraf Al Safoo, 41, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to transmit threats in interstate commerce, one count of conspiracy to intentionally access a protected computer without authorization, four counts of…

Breitbart: California Governor (and podcaster) Gavin Newsom is focused on anything but rebuilding the communities devastated by the Palisades and Eaton fires six months ago. – Instead, he is obsessed with his presidential ambitions. – On Monday, Newsom plans a press conference to mark the six-month anniversary of the fires. However, the next day, he is leaving for a two-day swing through eight rural counties in South Carolina, a key primary state.

Daily Wire: The DOJ Dropped An 11-Hour Video Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Prison Cell On The Night He Died – The DOJ review of the Epstein case found no evidence of a “client list,” nor foul play in Epstein’s 2019 suicide…

Townhall: The DOJ and FBI have concluded there’s no evidence Jeffrey Epstein kept a “client list,” blackmailed powerful individuals, or was murdered. – This update has infuriated those on the Right seeking new information about the Epstein case, particularly after a disappointing document drop in February from the DOJ that contained files already available to the public…

Breitbart: Muslim leaders from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and the United Kingdom met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem to promote a message of peace on Monday. – President Herzog emphasized the importance of the delegation and Israel’s commitment to and strong desire for advancing to a new era of inclusion and peace in the Middle East…

American Conservative: A Big, Beautiful Financial Weapon Against Illegal Immigration – The U.S. is finally poised to take advantage of remittances to Mexico. – Buried in the Big, Beautiful Bill is a weapon Trump can use against illegal immigration, disincentivizing working illegally in the United States while at the same time cutting into money laundering by Mexican and other drug cartels…

American Thinker: The Rise of Our Democrat Theater Kids – Theater kids, especially those in politics, are often described as overly dramatic, prone to theatrical gestures, insincere, and unnecessarily showy demonstrated by their Performance, Cringe factor, and Negative connotation. – That is why, according to Pew Research, “just 26% of U.S. adults have a favorable view of Congress, while 72% have an unfavorable view.”…

American Thinker: Those Big, Beautiful Democrat Lies Are Coming In Fast and Furious – I guess Democrats (and the MSM) will always pander to stupid and uninformed people, as did Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) when he used at least eight hours of his “magic minute” to further his attempt to buy votes. There’s no filibuster in the House, but Jeffries essentially conducted one anyway. Here are just a few of them…

American Thinker: Obama Wants the Power to Define ‘Facts’ – The Light-Bringer has always been a tyrant wearing a smiling celebrity’s mask. – Actually, if we really followed Obama’s proposed regulatory rule in constraining online speech, most of the nonsense that Democrats and their leftist cohorts around the world believe would be banned as fake science and Fake News!…

American Thinker: Three Things In Just A Week That Tell Us Democrats Are Insane – Leftists have become an abortion-worshipping, porn-supporting, race-obsessed cult—and that’s their freely stated version of politics. – First up, Cynthia Nixon’s hat. – Next up, MSNBC’s Elie Mystal on bringing young men back to the Democrat party. – Finally, we have the Democrats’ constant, effervescent, centuries-old racism accusations…

One America News: In a landmark 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas’s age verification law for pornographic websites, marking a historic win for parents and child safety advocates. –SCOTUS ruled that requiring users to show ID before accessing explicit content does not violate the First Amendment—a major blow to the porn industry and a green light for other states considering similar protections.

City Journal: California Shouldn’t Set America’s Environmental Policy – For decades, federal waivers let the Golden State set de facto national emissions standards for cars, but now Congress and President Trump are pushing back. – The rest of the country would appreciate more cooperation and less separatism from California, along with some overdue political humility…

American Thinker: The Left’s Endless Quest For Reparations – That reparations are neither fair nor affordable hasn’t yet stopped their quest and probably never will. – One of the earliest references to reparations found in the Congressional Record is H.R. 3745, introduced by Representative John Conyers, Jr. during the 101st Congress (1989–1990). Although it did not pass, Rep. Conyers continued to reintroduce it during his lengthy tenure…

Breitbart: The German government has begun the process of lifting the protection status for some Syrian refugees with the aim of returning them to their homeland now that the civil war has ended. – This will start with Syrians convicted of crimes, with the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees being ordered to “start revocation activities” for criminals from Syria…

Fox News: Why are major museums pushing climate change instead of celebrating the spirit of America? – We recently visited the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, specifically to see the dinosaur bones and dioramas. – Surprisingly, we quickly got more than we bargained for. – A large section of the exhibit is devoted not to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, but rather to climate change. – The Smithsonian is undergoing review after Trump’s executive order to remove ‘divisive or anti-American ideology’…

July 6, 2025

Newsweek: NORAD intercepted 11 civilian aircraft that violated Temporary Flight Restriction airspace over Bedminster, New Jersey, during President Donald Trump’s July 4 weekend visit. – The violations occurred across multiple days, with five unauthorized incursions on Saturday alone, and additional breaches continued through Sunday morning…

Epoch Times: How Weather Conditions Caused The Deadly Flash Floods in Texas – “There is not a lot of soil up there. – “Soil saturates, and it’s all rock underneath, so it’s all runoff.” – That developing storm also hovered over those areas of rocky soil, dropping 10 inches of rain on the basin in three to four hours. – Some areas even received up to 15 or 16 inches of rain…

Just The News: Ten tax policies that made it into final version of ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Trump signed into law – Reducing Taxes on Tips – A Car Loan Interest Deduction Through 2028 – Tax cuts on Overtime Pay through 2028 – Increases to the Standard Deduction – Deduction for Seniors through 2028 – Increases the Child Tax Credit – A Higher State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction limit – A New Scholarship Tax Benefit Was Created…

Daily Signal: House Speaker Johnson Reveals The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is First of Three Reconciliation Bills – “We have been planning a second reconciliation bill for the fall that would be attached to the next fiscal year, and then, potentially one in the spring.” – “That’s my plan, three reconciliation bills before this Congress is over.”

American Thinker: Tired Of Winning Yet? – Trump and his fantastic, excellent, very good, outstanding week – The border is secure, something many thought impossible a relative blink of an eye ago. Tariffs have generated substantial revenue. – Inflation is down, and real wages are up. – Our NATO partners seem to have finally pledged to contribute 5% of their GDP to their defense. – And just days ago, Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” was signed by President Trump…

American Spectator: Is Elon Musk Ross Perot Reincarnated? – The last unbalanced billionaire who meddled in national politics gave us the Clinton regime. – Like Perot, Musk imagines himself as the savior who will free us from a profligate Washington establishment. – If Musk follows through on this America Party nonsense, it will be destructive to the GOP just as Ross Perot’s two presidential campaigns demonstrated…

Western Journal: A Texas ICE Facility Was Attacked With An Officer Shot – The Trump Administration Vows A ‘Zero Tolerance’ Response – Deputy Attorney General Todd Blance, “We are closely monitoring the attacks on DHS detention facilities in Prairieland, TX, and Portland, OR, and are coordinating with the USAOs and our law enforcement partners.”…

American Spectator: Their Progressive Delusions Are Fading Fast – The Cultural Turnaround Has Begun, and I’m happy to be part of it, unlike my former friends. — 1. Trump Will Cause Global Chaos – 2. Only Comprehensive Immigration Reform Can Deter Border Crossings – 3. Federal Court Judges Will Delay Trump’s Mad MAGA Agenda – 4. Trump’s Tariffs Will Create Economic Disaster – 5. Transwomen Are Women…

Daily Mail: – The exact amount you need to earn for a ‘Minimum Quality of Life’ in America is revealed, along with the percentage of those who do. – A family of four needs to earn over $100,000 a year just to maintain a ‘minimal’ quality of life, yet less than half of US households can afford to reach that threshold. Over the past two decades alone, the study found that the cost of living in the U.S. has nearly doubled, increasing by a staggering 99.5%.

Fox News: Central Texas floods leave dozens dead or missing as crews search for survivors – The devastating floods have killed at least 51 people, including five young girls who were staying at Camp Mystic, an all-girls private Christian retreat in Hunt, Texas, after a storm pounded the region. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation declaring Sunday a day of prayer across the state in response to the flooding.

American Thinker: Dirty Deeds, Judicial Ping Pong, and the BBB – What a week! The 2016 and 2020 plots against Trump are now confirmed; the Supreme Court is finally acting to restore judicial integrity; and the ballooning welfare state is finally punctured. As for the BBB, Jeff Childers provides a well-constructed analysis that I can only summarize; it is worth reading in its entirety.

American Thinker: It’s Time to Say Out Loud That Trump’s Tax Cuts Worked. – The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 wasn’t just a win for corporations and the wealthy; it was a massive boost for working Americans, middle-class families, and small businesses. – But you wouldn’t know that from reading most mainstream coverage that parroted the same tired talking points…

Daily Wire: Elon Musk Officially Announces New Political Party After His Fallout With President Trump – Musk signals that he has a strategy for the “America Party” to effect politics immediately. – Musk suggested the new party will focus on reducing debt and regulation. It will promote “responsible spending only,” free speech, and the modernization of the U.S. Military, among other political issues…

American Thinker: Who will Democrats run in 2028? – Most likely, the 2028 Republican nominee will be JD Vance. – He’s done everything right and seems able and willing to learn from Donald Trump. – And has the ability and willingness to absolutely—figuratively–slaughter media dimwits who are used to less informed, capable, and stalwart conservatives. – In the Democrats’ ranks, predictions become more interesting and probably farcical, as reflected in a recent poll…

Slay News: Warnings are emerging that Elon Musk’s new political party will likely help elect Democrats by fracturing conservative votes. – Musk officially launched the “America Party” on July 5th. – Republicans are warning it could splinter the conservative base and ultimately benefit Democrats at the ballot box.

American Thinker: When It Comes To Islam, Are Those Of Us In The West Too Stupid To Survive It? – Westerners constantly lie to themselves about Islamic ideology and its societal regulations, but we have no idea what we’re actually facing. – Exposing Islam’s evil is complex because it has splintered into many branches and schools, each of which accepts its version of the Quran, school of sharia, and specific hadith…

July 5, 2025

American Spectator: The True Nature of the Chinese Communist Party Shows It Is A Global Threat – The CCP is less a bureaucratic club and more a mafia. – July 1, 2025, marked the 104th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which now claims over 100 million members. – It includes one in ten Chinese adults and roughly one in sixty-three people aged 18 and above worldwide.

Breitbart: Hamas terrorists threw a grenade packed with ball bearings and injured two American aid workers with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on Saturday morning. – Both the UN and Hamas have tried to stop GHF from operating. Hamas has attacked Palestinian civilians who approach GHF aid sites, and Saturday’s terror attack marked the second such attack, as well as the first to harm Americans directly…

American Spectator: The outcome of the 2025 New York City Democrat mayoral primary is a defining moment for Jewish Americans and the country. – The Democrat Party has officially elevated a candidate, Zohran Mamdani, who has built his political career on an explicit record of anti-Israel statements, refusal to condemn terrorism, and support for policies that endanger the Jewish community…

Breitbart: Federal officials arrested more than 200 criminals as part of a joint operation in New Jersey called “Operation Apex Hammer,” an initiative to “identify and apprehend” MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gang members. – Among the criminals arrested were “17 homicide suspects, 95 gang members,” and others who were “wanted for serious violent and sexual offenses.”…

CNBC: Tennessee Republican Representative Mark Green announced his official resignation from Congress after voting for President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. – He said he was starting a new business to help America compete against the CCP, but did not disclose specifics. – His resignation could further shrink Republicans’ majority in the U.S. House, at least temporarily.

Breitbart: In addition to the border infrastructure funded by Trump’s Big Beautify Bill, the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to quickly install 17 miles of floating border barrier in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. – DHS Secretary Kristi Noem signed a waiver on Thursday to ensure the construction of the barrier is not impeded by environmental regulations.

Epoch Times: Words of Wisdom From America’s Presidents – These quotes from all American presidents reflect the courage, perseverance, and character that have guided the nation through trials and triumphs. – Trump 45, “Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself- anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.” – Trump 47, “If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.”

Daily Wire: TRAGEDY – 20 Girls Remain Missing From Christian Summer Camp Amid Texas Flooding – The camp, known as Camp Mystic, is situated near the Guadalupe River. – In less than two hours, the water levels reportedly rose more than 20 feet. – At least 24 people have been confirmed dead from the floods. – At another girls’ camp, called Heart O’ the Hills, it’s been confirmed that camp director and co-owner Jane Ragsdale died in the flooding…

Resist The Mainstream: The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a major ruling on Thursday that allows the Trump Administration to move forward with mass deportations, including to third countries. – This clarification rendered a lower court ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy unenforceable…

Newsmax: President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran has not agreed to inspections of its nuclear program or to give up enriching uranium. – Trump said he would discuss the Iran situation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits the White House on Monday and noted he would not allow Tehran to resume its nuclear program, adding that Iran did want to meet with him…

Newsmax: President Donald Trump said Ukraine would need Patriot missiles for its defenses, after speaking with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday. – Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he had a good call with Zelenskyy, repeating that he was “very unhappy” about his call with Putin a day earlier, given what he called the Russian leader’s refusal to work on a ceasefire…

American Thinker: A Big, Beautiful Bill, If You Can Keep It – If Trump and the Republicans can make this bill work as intended, then the midterms will be a cake walk. – Trump’s OBBB faced considerably more resistance than did the signing of our Constitution. – Not one Democrat voted for the legislation in either chamber of Congress. – Two Republicans also nixed the legislation.

Gateway Pundit: Among the Big Beautiful Bill’s centerpiece provisions is a revolutionary initiative providing that American babies born between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028, will receive a $1,000–seeded tax‑deferred “Trump Account.” – Parents can add up to $5,000 annually, invested in low‑cost U.S. index funds, to support future college, homeownership, or entrepreneurship.

Epoch Times: How Trump’s Megabill Will Change Medicaid – Here are the major provisions, why they matter, and when they go into effect. – Semi-Annual Eligibility Verification Required – Community Engagement Requirements For Some – Cost-Sharing For Some – Reduction of Medicaid Provider Taxes – Creation Of A Rural Hospital Fund…

American Thinker: Trump’s Tough Vietnam Tariff Deal – Vietnam has long served as a key transshipment hub, enabling Chinese exporters to circumvent U.S. tariffs; however, that loophole is now closing. – The EU’s planned countermeasures include punitive tariffs on a wide range of U.S. products, but one thing is clear: Trump currently holds the stronger hand, especially with Germany’s auto industry, a pillar of the European economy…

American Thinker: Rubio Refocuses the State Department – When new ambassadors passed security reviews and were confirmed by the Senate, Reagan’s Secretary of State, George Schultz, invited them to his office, where there was an enormous globe. – He’d ask them to put their hand on “their country,” and they would put their hand on the country to which they’d been assigned. – Schultz would then turn the globe to the United States and say, “This is your country.”

Just The News: Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin, “With this big, beautiful bill…we’ll get about 3000 new border patrol agents.” – “We’ll get cutting-edge technology, and hundreds more miles of wall, which we need, because we know a physical barrier matters.”…

Slay News: Tensions boiled over in downtown Los Angeles on Friday as leftist rioters clashed with federal agents, U.S. Marines, and National Guard troops. – The violent mobs were part of anti-ICE protests. – According to the Los Angeles Police Department, “multiple arrests” were made as rioters took to the streets…

Sharyl Attkisson: Illegal Workers and Higher Wages for Americans Don’t Mix – The presence of a large, vulnerable labor pool suppresses wages across the board, making it harder for Americans and other legal workers to earn a living wage. – Employers, especially in industries like hospitality, agriculture, construction, and domestic work, have little incentive to pay more when they can hire illegal workers for less…

American Thinker: Nationwide Injunctions And The Abuses Of The Legislature – The Supreme Court curbed overreach in the Judiciary, but also in the Legislative Branch. – If the Executive Branch is committing an unconstitutional act, then it is up to the Legislative Branch to clarify the law and the Judicial Branch to render injunctions and opinions that stop such abuse. The expansion of powers through lawfare is wrong…

Epoch Times: California Schools Will Lose $1 Billion in Federal Funding Due to Its Gender Policies – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights determined that California’s policies discriminate against female athletes, violating Title IX. – The estimated loss was included in a California Department of Education statement on July 1 in which state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond alleged “egregious federal overreach”…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Independence Day Edition – When was the last time an Independence Day was accompanied by so much winning? – Probably in 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation…

July 4, 2025

Breitbart: Ahead of President Trump’s signing ceremony for the One Big Beautiful Bill, a flyover featuring a B-2 bomber and two F-35s took place in honor of U.S. military personnel, including those involved in Operation Midnight Hammer. – The spectacle marked a turning point in national morale and military prestige, Trump said moments later in an address that highlighted American pride, enlistment increases, foreign policy developments, and recent military success…

News Nation: President Donald Trump signed his “big, beautiful bill” into law Friday during a White House picnic, marking the most significant victory of his two presidencies. – The signing ceremony featured stealth bombers and fighter jets that participated in recent airstrikes in Iran flying overhead. – Trump praised the military and acknowledged Air Force members and their families before praising the current state of America.

Epoch Times: The SSA Expects Trump’s Megabill to Remove Taxes for Nearly 90% of Social Security Beneficiaries – “The bill ensures that nearly 90 percent of Social Security beneficiaries will no longer pay federal income taxes on their benefits, providing meaningful and immediate relief to seniors who have spent a lifetime contributing to our nation’s economy,” the agency said in a July 3 statement…

The Blaze: The Many Reasons Why These Are The Top 3 LEAST Patriotic And Anti-American Members Of Congress – Democrat Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar – Democrat Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan – Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas…

Slay News: California is barreling toward a full-blown gas crisis due to the Democrats’ green energy policies and new regulations, which are tanking the state’s refineries and driving prices to staggering heights. – This week, the state rolled out major adjustments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program. – As a result, Californians saw another spike in gas prices, which are already the highest in the nation, and are stoking fears of a looming energy disaster.

FAR: The Declaration of Independence – Independence Day is celebrated on July 4th in the United States to commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. – At the bottom of this post, below the “Declaration of Independence,” you will find links to the signers. – They are very interesting, as they were learned men and true patriots.

Wall Street Journal: The U.N. Pulled Its Nuclear Inspectors Out of Iran for Safety Reasons – This move intensifies the standoff over the agency’s oversight of Iran’s nuclear work. – The inspectors were driven by road out of Iran on Friday, despite international departures from Iran’s main airports resuming normal operations in the wake of a 12-day conflict with Israel…

Zero Hedge: The United States and Iran are poised to resume negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program in Oslo next week. – President Trump acknowledged the mutual desire to resume talks, and said he’d be willing to personally participate “if necessary.” – In another important development, Araghchi decried as “fake news” reports that Iran was suspending its cooperation with the IAEA…

Slay News: President Trump announced Thursday night that the American military flight team responsible for executing precision strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities will be honored at the White House on Independence Day. – Trump is hailing the mission as one of the most successful military operations in U.S. history…

Resist The Mainstream: The Supreme Court issued a firm rebuke to a federal district judge Thursday, rejecting what it described as an attempt to defy a recent high court order allowing the Trump administration to resume deportations of illegal immigrants to third countries. – In a 7-2 decision, the Court found that District Judge Brian Murphy, appointed by former President Joe Biden, overstepped his judicial authority.

Breitbart: 18 Big Beautiful Trump Victories As America Celebrates Independence Day – 1. The Big Beautiful Bill. – 2. An economic boom is reflected in the job numbers. – 3. Illegal immigration mega wins. – 4. Fourth of July gas prices are at a four-year low. – 5. There are trade deals galore. – 6. The peace deal with Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. – 7. The Iran strikes, leading to a ceasefire to end the 12-day war…

Daily Wire: The Trump Administration Plans To Adjust National Park Fees To Prioritize American Families Over Foreign Tourists – “The National Parks will be about America first.” – On Thursday, National Parks will begin charging foreign tourists more to enter America’s national parks than U.S. residents. –

Victor Davis Hanson: The Decline and Fall of Our So-Called Degreed Experts – Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, university economists told us, along with most of the PhDs employed in investment and finance, that the U.S. was headed toward a downward, if not recessionary, spiral. – Instead, recent data show increases in tariff revenue. – Personal real income and savings increased, and job creation exceeded projections.

Washington Examiner: Donald Trump knows one thing – The United States under President Trump is liked less by the rest of the world than it was during the presidencies of Obama and Biden, but it is secretly much more admired.
– It is also more respected in the way that matters most, which is that other nations know they cannot ignore or flout us with impunity. – America is more powerful now…

Western Journal: Former DNC Fundraiser Lindy Li Spills The Beans – The then-first lady was the one in control of and running the White House, not Joe Biden. – “They deny the cover-up, but I had a front-row seat watching it happen,” Li told Fox. – “People like Anthony Bernal. – I saw him running the White House like he was in charge, like he was a king.”…

Center Square: The New law banning foreign ownership of Texas land goes into effect Sept. 1 – The new law will prohibit foreign governmental entities, companies, and individuals from purchasing private property in Texas if they are from or connected to countries listed in the latest Annual Threat Assessment report published by the Director of National Intelligence. To date, countries on the list are China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.

Center Square: Only Christmas (58%) tops the Fourth of July (52%) as the country’s top holiday, according to new polling from Napolitan News Service. – Rounding out the top five American holidays are Veterans Day (47%), Memorial Day (44%), and Thanksgiving (31%), according to the poll of 1,000 registered voters conducted June 25-26 by pollster Scott Rasmussen.

New York Post: A shocking poll reveals an astounding 91% of Republicans consider themselves patriots, but Democrats don’t even come close. – The survey conducted by New Jersey-based GOP firm National Research Inc. found that 91% of self-identified Republicans call themselves patriots, compared to just 50% of Democrats. – The poll showed a near-identical schism among 2024 voters…

Breitbart: Waves of drone and missile attacks targeted Kyiv overnight into Friday in the largest aerial assault since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began more than three years ago, officials said, amid a renewed Russian push to capture more of its neighbor’s land. – The barrage injured at least 23 people and inflicted severe damage across multiple districts of the capital in a seven-hour onslaught…

American Thinker: Democrats Gone Wild – Democrats suffering from severe cases of TTDS are now staging ill-conceived confrontations to get street cred with their Antifa progressive base. – Here are some recent headlines: North Carolina state Rep. Julie von Haefen attended a “No Kings” protest and was photographed holding what appeared to be an effigy of the decapitated heads of Trump and his senior policy advisor, Stephen Miller…

Daily Fetched: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has accused leftist Washington Post national security reporter Ellen Nakashima of bypassing proper protocols – “Instead of reaching out to my press office, she is calling high-level Intelligence Officers from a burner phone, refusing to identify herself, lying about the fact that she works for the Washington Post, and then demanding they share sensitive information.”

American Thinker: New trends in virtue signaling – Democrats have demonstrated over the last five years that they do not stand for Americans, and they do not care about American families. – Virtue signaling and gaslighting about a nonissue are useless, but an apology from Hakeem Jeffries might have helped us all to heal. Too bad he didn’t filibuster on that…

American Thinker: Authenticating the Knowledge of These So-Called Experts – To say that net-zero experts understand electricity does not mean we can send them out with a grant and expect them to return with a workable design and prototype of a functioning power grid. – We are seeing this play out in New York with Governor Kathy Hochul and her hand-picked team of energy “experts.”…

Zero Hedge: If it wasn’t clear that the city and county of Los Angeles are in dire need of spending resets, taxpayers can look no further than the county lifeguards paid to watch over its pools, lakes, and ocean. – Lifeguards enjoy big overtime payouts and generous benefits. Its top-paid lifeguard was compensated more than $500,000 in 2024, and over the past five years, a single lifeguard earned $702,000 in overtime alone…

Western Journal: The DOJ is weighing an investigation into Hollywood’s recent requirements, which force movie makers to embrace DEI in their productions, if they want to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. – The mandates were slowly introduced over the last several years, but for 2024, the Academy declared that “a film must meet TWO out of FOUR of the following standards to be deemed eligible.”…

July 3, 2025

Epoch Times: On July 3rd, President Donald Trump said his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin produced no breakthrough as he continues to mediate a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine. – “I didn’t make any progress with him at all,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on the way to Iowa. – He said he discussed Iran and Ukraine with Putin, adding, “I’m not happy about that.”

Daily Wire: President Trump Will Sign One Big, Beautiful Bill at The Fourth of July Celebration – The White House celebration will also include a flyover by B-2 Spirit bombers, the jets that conducted the strikes on Iran earlier this month in Operation Inherent Resolve…

Western Journal: A Line from Hakeem Jeffries’ Marathon Speech Shows Just How Totally Clueless He Is About What Americans Want – “A deportation machine will be unleashed on steroids by this one, big, ugly bill.” – That line alone showed the Democratic disconnect from average Americans.

Washington Free Beacon: A US and Israeli-backed Gaza Aid Group Is Suing The Associated Press Over A ‘Categorically False’ Story – The Associated Press reported that Gaza Humanitarian Foundation contractors shot and killed Palestinians waiting for aid, citing sources who could not point to even a single verified instance of such a shooting…

Zero Hedge: There are plenty of good details to report in today’s jobs report: the unexpected surge in monthly jobs, the drop in unemployment, the moderation in hourly earnings, the continued loss of federal workers, the jump in full-time employment, and the drop in part-time jobs. – Also, the number of native-born workers has taken a decisive step higher, rising to a new all-time high, while foreign-born workers have been plunging ever since the election.

Zero Hedge: President Trump announced that they will begin sending letters regarding tariffs to 10 to 12 countries on Friday, with tariffs ranging from 10% to 20% and 60% to 70%. – The new tariffs are set to take effect on August 1st. – US Treasury Secretary Bessent said to expect a flurry of trade deals before July 9th and expect to see about 100 countries get a minimum 10% reciprocal tariff, while he added they are going to be announcing several deals.

American Thinker: The BBB passed, so now illegals will have to pay for their phony asylum filings. – Illegals will think twice about clogging the courts with junk claims. – Previously, illegals were exempt from paying, so they were able to burden our court system with their years-long claims to asylum, plus multiple appeals stretching over years in meritless asylum cases that aren’t over until the migrant won.

Townhall: The U.S. job growth continued at a steady pace last month, surprising economists who had predicted a slowdown in hiring amid uncertainty over trade and fiscal policy. – The U.S. added 147,000 jobs in June, the Labor Department reported Thursday, above the gain of 110,000 jobs economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected.

American Wire: Democrats are cooking up another national movement. – Leftists are reportedly planning a “revolutionary” three-day national sick day or strike from work and shopping to express their opposition to the Trump administration and its actions, called “The People’s Sick Day.” – The event is tentatively scheduled for sometime soon (TBA) and targets “the working class.”

Gateway Pundit: Two radicalized Florida men have been arrested and charged in connection with a chilling plot to commit mass murder, foment political violence, and “bomb the White House,” according to court documents. – Isaiah Oglesby, 23, and James Thomas Goolsby, 25, were taken into custody after the FBI was tipped off by a courageous girlfriend who recognized something deeply wrong in her boyfriend’s disturbing social media rants.

Zero Hedge: After ‘8 Hours Of Hogwash’ From Representative Jeffries, House Republicans Passed Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’ – House Speaker Mike Johnson noted, “With one big beautiful bill, we are going to make this country stronger, safer, and more prosperous than ever before.” – And then came the vote. – Republican House members passed the bill 218-214, with all Democrats voting ‘nay’.

Just The News: The House Advances The ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Toward A Final Vote – Holdout fiscal conservatives appeared to fall in line as the chamber voted 219-213 in the wee hours of the morning to begin debate on the legislation that delivers trillions in tax cuts for Americans. – The lone Republican holdout to join with Democrats in voting against advancing the bill was moderate Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa.

Zero Hedge: Four Reasons Why This 4th Of July Is Better Than Our Last One – 1. Gas prices are over 31 cents cheaper. – 2. For those who don’t live in California or Washington. – 3. The war against our appliances is over. – 4. The Big Beautiful Bill beat back the Green New Scam…

Breitbart: JD Vance, “An Undecided GOP Representative Just Backed The Big Beautiful Bill After Watching Hakeem Jeffries Ramble On” – Jeffries had been speaking on the House floor for over five hours as of 10:20 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, using a parliamentary procedure known as the “magic minute” that allows House leadership to speak virtually indefinitely…

Issues & Insights: Recent headlines blared that pride in America has plunged under President Trump. – Republican pride has remained steady, and well above either Democrats’ or independents’ over the entire span of this Gallup poll. – However, Democrats’ growing disdain for their country aligns perfectly with their increasing radicalization, a trend we have been noting here at I&I for years, for example…

Zero Hedge: Major General Mikhail Gudkov, deputy commander of the Russian Navy, was killed along with 10 other soldiers in a Ukrainian strike targeting a command post in Korenevo, which lies near the Ukrainian border. – Gudkov is among the highest-ranking Russian military figures killed by Ukrainian forces since the conflict began. – A slew of international headlines are reporting his death on Thursday…

Resist The Mainstream: Kash Patel Fired A Senior FBI Agent Caught Using Prostitutes While on Gov. Assignment – The agent used government-issued equipment to pay for sexual encounters, creating potential security vulnerabilities and exposing himself to blackmail risks, the inspector general determined.- The misconduct represents a significant breach of FBI and DOJ policies, highlighting ongoing cultural issues that President Trump has criticized since his first term.

Zero Hedge: A newly declassified CIA memo revealed that top officials within the Obama administration deliberately manipulated intelligence to exaggerate Russia’s purported 2016 election interference. – This set the stage for the years‑long Trump‑Russia collusion probe. – The review, commissioned by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in May 2025, reassessed the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference…

The Federalist: Justice Alito Was Right About Loopholes In The SCOTUS Injunction Ruling – U.S. District Judge Randolph Daniel Moss sided with the left-wing ACLU and several other activists organizations when he ruled that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he issued an executive order on Jan. 20 prohibiting illegal aliens who “engaged in the invasion across the southern border” from seeking asylum or a withholding of removal…

American First Report: Leftist “Experts” Say Americans Bear the Cost of Trump’s Tariffs, but Japan’s Struggling Auto Industry Shows Otherwise. – Japan’s passenger car export prices to North America had plunged since Liberation Day, making it abundantly clear that it was indeed the Toyotas and Nissans of the world that were footing the bill of those extra $20 billion or so in month tariff revenues generated by the Trump administration…

Washington Free Beacon: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has placed 144 rogue officials on leave after they signed a public letter criticizing the agency’s energy dominance agenda and launched an investigation into staffers seeking to undermine President Trump’s energy dominance policies. – “We have a ZERO tolerance policy for agency bureaucrats unlawfully undermining, sabotaging, and undercutting the agenda of this administration”…

Center Square: President Trump touts America’s falling gas prices for the holiday weekend – Gas prices are the lowest they’ve been in four years, sitting at a national average of $3.14 per gallon of unleaded, according to gas prices tracker GasBuddy. – They’re down more than 8 cents from one week ago and over 37 cents from one year ago, in line with trends from earlier this year…

American Thinker: It’s my party and I’ll destroy it if I want to – While trying to destroy Trump, Democrats destroyed themselves. -From Jasmine to the fake Bronx girl to O’Rourke planning another run in Texas – Maybe they’ll figure it out or maybe not, but in the meantime, the Orange Man is laughing his way to more wins…

American Thinker: Israel Created A New Middle East, So Gazans Should be Resettled – The Gazans should no longer be Israel’s impossible problem to solve. – In recognition of Israel’s new status as the sole regional superpower and a tremendous force for good that can benefit the entire Middle East, Gazans should be relocated to the six states comprising the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman have vast land and wealth with which to provide Gazans a significantly better life.

American Thinker: Actual Genocide Versus Accusations Of Genocide – There are actual genocides in many countries, including Darfur, Miramar, and Nagorno-Karabakh. – Yet the only country that is ever accused of perpetrating genocide these days is Israel in Gaza. – The war in Gaza is urban warfare, which always involves the death of civilians. – Others don’t go to the trouble of asking civilians to move out of harm’s way, but it is something the Israelis do…

American Thinker: Now we have antisemitic attacks against elementary school Jewish children. – Watching the anti-Semitic attacks and protests on American universities is disturbing enough. – However, these actions are now trickling down to elementary schools, and the latest example is particularly alarming. – Case in point: the Nysmith School for the Gifted in Herndon, Virginia…

American Thinker: The real reason Americans hate the media. – They’re the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, yet some of them weakly continue to deny that. – The media suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome; they hate America and Americans, and they’re among the self-imagined elite who think themselves better than everyone else. – They’re mostly white but think white people are racist…

Breitbart: The Media Describe Deported Illegal Alien with Two Dozen Arrests as ‘Colorado Grandfather’ – Before we get to the truth of what 67-year-old Baldomero Noa-Castaneda “contributed” to our society, we’re first served up 16 paragraphs of bullshit propaganda. – He received an order of removal from an immigration judge in 1990 and was finally deported back to Mexico today.”

Washington Examiner: The Supreme Court announced Thursday it will hear a pair of cases over the constitutionality of state laws banning biological males from competing in women’s sports. – The high court will hear arguments in Little v. Hecox and B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education in the upcoming term, with the justices wading into whether limiting girls’ and women’s sports to biological women violates the equal protection clause.

American Thinker: With Zohran Mamdani On The Cusp of Becoming Mayor, NYC Embraces Its Demise – The fact that he is a communist in the heart of capitalism is bad enough, but his Islamic faith in a leadership role means doom for a free society. – Winston Churchill understood the threat. – He admitted, “Individual Muslims can show splendid qualities,” but he knew the score. – “No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. – Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.”…

Liberty Daily: A Democrat Civil War Intensifies as Obamaworld Opposes Mamdani – Two prominent Obama-era officials, former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and former Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, have publicly opposed Mamdani’s candidacy, warning that his progressive economic policies could harm New York City.

American Wire: A recent University of California poll shows Kamala blowing away the field, coming in as the top choice for CA governor. – The failed Democrat presidential nominee scored 41% support as a potential gubernatorial candidate and also showed a general Republican candidate for the race, garnering only 29% support.

Western Journal: A 21-year-old University of Massachusetts student working as an intern for GOP Representative Ron Estes of Kansas was fatally shot Monday night in downtown D.C. – The bullets that killed him were “intended for someone else – According to the DOJ, the streets of D.C. are well known for their danger, as they are in many Democratic-run cities. – It should be noted that criminals generally don’t target on the basis of partisanship.

American First Report: A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Alexi Saenz, the leader of a notorious MS-13 clique, to 68 years in prison for orchestrating a wave of violence that left eight people dead in Long Island. – Saenz, known by the aliases “Blasty” and “Plaky,” led the Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside, a chapter of the transnational MS-13 gang operating in Long Island’s Brentwood and Central Islip…

FAR: Inside the Secret Mission That Took Down Iran’s Nuclear Facilities – President Trump’s decision to order an around-the-world stealth bomber strike on Iran was a turning point in a multi-decade standoff over Iran’s nuclear program. – “Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism”…

Daily Fetched: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims Dr. Anthony Fauci was granted preemptive immunity because of his alleged role in the creation and release of COVID-19. – RFK’s accusation came during a recent interview, where he questioned why the former top health official would need legal protection unless there was something to hide. – “Why did he need immunity and why a preemptive pardon?” Kennedy asked.

July 2, 2025

Fox News: In the latest escalation of the feud between President Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Trump appeared to call for Powell’s resignation after the head of the FHFA alleged that Powell had given “deceptive” testimony to Congress. – Trump has expressed frustration with Powell for months for refusing to lower the Fed’s interest rates, which he has said were costing the U.S. a “fortune.”

The Daily Signal: The DOJ has finally begun enforcing the federal law that prohibits states from offering in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants unless they also offer in-state tuition to all other students, including citizens from out of state. – The law it’s enforcing has existed since 1996, when Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.

One America News: Elon Musk offered unexpectedly supportive remarks toward President Trump, despite their prior falling out over a significant disagreement regarding Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” – Musk issued a social media post on Tuesday, writing: “Credit where credit is due. @RealDonaldTrump has successfully resolved several serious conflicts around the world,” accompanied by a Trump Truth Social post on a ceasefire in Gaza.

Western Journal: The White House Responds To An NBC News Report Alleging That Mark Zuckerberg Was ‘Asked to Leave’ An Oval Office Meeting – “He was not asked to leave.” – “He popped in to say hello at the president’s request, and then left to wait for his meeting with POTUS to begin, which was scheduled to occur after the meeting with the pilots.”

Newsmax: President Trump travels to Iowa on Thursday to kick off celebrations marking America’s 250th anniversary next year and to tout recent trade and legislative actions to heartland voters who helped propel his return to the White House. – Trump will deliver a campaign-style speech at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, a familiar stop for presidential candidates in the early primary state.

One America News: Judge Arun Subramanian has denied Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs bail, citing the defense’s closing statements in his reasoning as to why he was denying the disgraced singer bail. – “If he were charged with domestic violence, we wouldn’t all be here having a trial because he would have pled guilty — because he did that,” Marc Agnifilo, Sean Combs’ lead lawyer, had said…

Breitbart: Final Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill Will Be A Career-Defining Achievement for Trump – Trump’s official schedule Wednesday includes no public events, an indicator he is prepared to devote all his lobbying efforts to getting the bill across the finish line in the House, where the first procedural vote is scheduled for 9 am EST. – That timing might slip, as severe storms impacted many members’ travel back to Washington.

Zero Hedge: Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, A Frequent Critic Of The Bill, Announces He Has Enough Votes To Block ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ In The House. Major divisions within the House threaten to derail the Big Beautiful Bill, with Speaker Mike Johnson struggling to overcome resistance by fiscal conservatives. – Meanwhile, House Democrats are eager to tie the legislation to the perceived Republican vulnerabilities in the upcoming midterm elections.

National Pulse: Under Pressure From Trump, Canada Is Passing a ‘Strong Borders Act.’ – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney introduced a sweeping immigration bill after U.S. pressure on border security and fentanyl trafficking. – Bill C-2, a.k.a. the Strong Borders Act, could revoke refugee hearings for thousands, empower mass document cancellations, and realign Canada’s immigration with U.S. demands.

Center Square: The United States and Vietnam reached a trade deal, and President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that they are dropping their 90% tariff. – In exchange, a 20% tariff will be imposed on Vietnamese goods sold in America, while American goods sold in Vietnam will be exempt from tariffs.

Just The News: President Trump Believes A Trade Deal Can Be Reached With India, But He Is Unsure About One with Japan – Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said Monday, “We are in the middle – hopefully more than the middle – of a very intricate trade negotiation. Obviously, I would hope that we bring it to a successful conclusion. – Trump noted Japan was refusing to accept U.S.-grown rice, which he said is a demand that is “an easy one,” while the country sells millions of cars in the U.S…

American Wire: A Federal judge blocked Trump’s immigration policy for Haitians in another outrageous power move. – Last Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced a rollback of the expiration date to Sept. 2 of this year, citing improved conditions in the island nation. – Four days later, U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan struck down Noem’s decision and restored the original Feb. 3, 2026, expiration date, ruling her termination of the program was unlawful…

Townhall: Biden’s FBI Shut Down a Probe Into Chinese Election Interference, and This Is Why – Senator Chuck Grassley claims the officials recalled the memo to protect former FBI Director Christopher Wray, who had told Congress that the Bureau had not discovered any widespread foreign scheme to influence the election outcome.

LifeZette: Paramount Global and CBS have agreed to settle a high-profile lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump over alleged election interference by paying a sum that could exceed $30 million. – The agreement follows months of legal wrangling related to CBS News’s extensive editing of a 2024 interview involving then-Vice President Kamala Harris on the program “60 Minutes.”

Epoch Times: Rapper and businessman Sean “Diddy” Combs has been found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. – But he was found not guilty of running a criminal enterprise and two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion. – Combs faces a maximum 10-year prison sentence on the two prostitution-related charges. – Judge Arun Subramania will determine the sentence at a later, undisclosed date.

New York Post: Diddy is likely to be sentenced to months, not years, over his prostitution conviction, according to former federal prosecutor Mitchell Epner. – Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor and legal commentator, agreed that Combs isn’t likely to do much time. – Judge Arun Subramanian may also grant Combs’ request to be released on bail, Epner said.

Western Journal: Pentagon officials have frozen some missile and munitions shipments to Ukraine over fears of diminishing U.S. stockpiles, a move that White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly described as designed to “put America’s interests first.” – The halted shipments included “a mix of air defenses and precision weapons that have been flowing to Ukraine for much of the past two-plus years.”

American Thinker: President Trump has put common-sense brakes on immigration enforcement for farm and hospitality workers. The Trump administration is working on a way to allow farmers and the hospitality industry to obtain a “temporary pass” to mitigate the negative impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. – Crops need to be harvested immediately, or there are no crops. Like food shortages? No farmers, no food…

John Daniel Davidson: Not Everyone With U.S. Citizenship Is A True American – As we approach Independence Day, we should be honest about the forces that are dissolving America as a nation. – To recover and reassert our American identity means the mass deportation of illegal immigrants. It also means denaturalizing and expelling every foreigner who professes views hostile to our American civilization, or who refuses to assimilate into it…

American Thinker: No Victory Laps Yet – Next year, the challenge for Trump and the GOP will be to turn out base voters and enough of the casual and new voters who gave Trump the edge in swing states in 2024. – While Republicans are likely to retain the Senate, the House is very much up for grabs. The GOP majority is razor-thin. – It would only take losing a handful of House seats to stymie Trump’s final two years in office…

Breitbart: Demographic Displacement as Over 40% of England Births Had at Least One Foreign Parent. – The UK’s official statistician found that Indian mothers represented the largest portion, accounting for 26,146 births last year, or 4.4%. – Mothers from Pakistan followed them at 21,524 births, and mothers from Nigeria at 14,671 births…

Washington Free Beacon: ‘Earmarks of a Shakedown’ – The Congressional Black Caucus Is Threatening to Boycott Target After the Retail Giant Stopped Funding Its Nonprofit Arm. – Since 2020, Target has donated at least $1.4 million to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.

American Thinker: The Life Cycle of a Mail-In Ballot – Mail-in ballots are dangerously vulnerable. – We must return to requiring a legitimate reason to vote absentee. – Locked rooms, verifications, and date stamps may sound good? – But isn’t proof of excellent safeguards? – The large number of steps involved in the mail-in voting process is an inherent part of the problem…

American Wire: A Big Apple driving school rigged licenses for illegal aliens, even if they couldn’t drive – Investigators expect they’ve only uncovered the “tip of the iceberg” after Operation Road Test exposed a New York City scheme to grant illegal aliens driver’s licenses. – The school was reportedly paying off DMV employees using money provided by Chinese nationals, which ranged between $1,600 and $2,000 per license.

OutKick: 99% Of The Guests On Late Night Shows During The First Half Of 2025 Were Liberal Or Democrat – “MRC NewBusters analysts divided the guests into two categories: partisan officials, and journalists/celebrities.” – In the category of partisan officials, Democrats outnumbered Republicans 30 to 0. – Liberals then outnumbered conservatives 76 to one in the category of journalists and celebrities.

California Globe: A Federal Judge Rules California’s Non-Resident Carry Ban Is Unconstitutional – ‘This important judgment means that people must maintain their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms when they cross California’s border.’ – The opinion in Hoffman v. Bonta can be viewed at firearmspolicy.org/hoffman…

Slay News: California Governor Newsom was forced to sign a pair of bills, gutting portions of the state’s green agenda law that restricts new home construction. – With housing prices at record highs, homelessness exploding, and middle-class families fleeing the state, Newsom’s shift on CEQA could be seen as a tacit admission that California’s own “green” regulations are now part of the problem.

FAR: What I’ve Learned While Rescuing My Daughter From Her Transgender Fantasy – This article was published in late 2021 by Charlie Jacobs in The Daily Signal. – It is detailed, hard-hitting, and something that needs to be seen by everyone who is a parent or relative of an adolescent child; therefore, I am republishing it today.

Zero Hedge: Is Rand Paul About To Finally Nail Fauci? – GOP Senator Rand Paul announced Monday that he intends to subpoena Anthony Fauci to testify regarding his role in the development of COVID-19. – Because Fauci accepted a ‘pardon’ from Joe Biden’s autopen, it means he cannot invoke the Fifth Amendment. This opens up the possibility of perjury charges if Fauci withholds the truth while under oath…

Geller Report: Hamas Refuses The 60-day Ceasefire Deal – Despite calls from President Trump to reach a two-month ceasefire in Gaza, claiming Israel has agreed to the deal, Hamas reportedly doubles down on its demand that any agreement include a permanent end to all hostilities. – Hamas is still holding 50 hostages in the Gaza Strip, with less than half of them believed to still be alive…

July 1, 2025

Epoch Times: President Donald Trump announced that today in Gaza, Israel agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize a 60-day CEASEFIRE. – “The Qataris and Egyptians, who have worked very hard to help bring Peace, will deliver this final proposal.” – “I hope, for the good of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, because it will not get better.” — “IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE.”

Daily Signal: Secretary of State Marco Rubio Rings the Death Knell of USAID – Rubio’s article announcing the end of USAID, titled “Making Foreign Aid Great Again,” represents the culmination of the Trump administration’s effort to bring USAID, and its constellation of nongovernmental organizations and client states, to heel…

Western Journal: Chuck Schumer’s Incredibly Petty Move – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has taken the title “Big Beautiful Bill” off the “Big Beautiful Bill.” – This means the name is stripped from page one of the bill.- How will Trump ever recover?

Epoch Times: What’s in the Big Beautiful Bill The Senate Just Passed – President Donald Trump’s signature policy bill would implement tax cuts, reform Medicaid and food programs, and boost spending for the border and defense. – 2017 Tax Cuts Extended – Child Tax Credit Boosted – Taxes on Overtime, Car Loans, Tips Reduced – A$6,000 Social Security Deduction for Seniors – Funding for Immigration and Border Security – $157 Billion Toward Defense…

Newsmax: U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell reiterated the U.S. central bank plans to “wait and learn more” about the impact of tariffs on inflation before lowering interest rates, again setting aside President Donald Trump’s demands for immediate and deep rate cuts. – “We’re simply taking some time,” Powell said at a central bank gathering in Portugal…

Daily Signal: Maryland Federal Judges All Get Hit With DOJ Lawsuit for Violating the Law – First, the issuance of an automatic injunction violates the four-factor test set forth by the Supreme Court that must be considered before a judge can issue a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction in a specific case. – Second, federal immigration law “deprives district courts of jurisdiction to issue orders that stay the execution of removal orders…

Daily Caller: President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba for Senate confirmation, according to the White House. – The Trump administration previously tapped Habba, who had represented Trump in several civil cases in past years, as New Jersey’s top prosecutor in March on an interim basis.

Epoch Times: JOLTS data show that the number of job vacancies climbed by 374,000 to 7.769 million in May, from an upwardly revised 7.395 million in April. – Most of the May increase was concentrated in accommodation and food services (314,000) and finance and insurance (91,000). – Conversely, the number of job openings in the federal government tumbled by 39,000.

American Thinker: Don’t Call It The Fourth – ‘Independence Day’ is so much more appropriate. – It is essential to remember what we’re celebrating. – “Independence Day” captures this pivotal moment and reminds us that our nation was founded on the principles of liberty, self-governance, and the pursuit of happiness. Referring to this holiday as merely “the Fourth of July” reduces this pivotal date to a mere date on the calendar…

New York Post: Trans UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas will be stripped of all titles after the university bends their knee to the Trump administration – The university will also issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender competitor following an investigation by the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights. – The probe found UPenn violated Title IX by “allowing a male to compete in female athletic programs…

Epoch Times: The U.S. Senate has passed its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act after a “vote-a-rama” that began the previous day and continued through the night. – The bill passed by a margin of 50–50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaker. – Senators Rand Paul, Thom Tillis, and Susan Collins voted in opposition. – Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, Josh Hawley, and Lisa Murkowski ultimately supported the legislation despite misgivings.

Daily Caller: Marist/NPR/PBS News Poll: Just 27% of registered voters said they approve of how congressional Democrats are performing in office, down from 39% in February 2024. – Meanwhile, the poll found that 58% of voters disapproved of congressional Democrats’ leadership, and 15% were unsure. – Interestingly, 44% of Democrats say they approve of and 43% say they disapprove of how their leaders are performing in Congress…

Western Journal: USAID Is Done For, And the People Who Enabled This Are Whining Bigly – On Tuesday, the agency responsible for spending your taxpayer dollars on Peruvian transgender comic books and DEI musicals in Ireland will be absorbed into the Department of State, where presumably its employees will have to justify their existence within the federal bureaucracy by, like, actual results…

Newsmax: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he is expected to travel to the United States next week for meetings with President Donald Trump. Last month, Trump announced a ceasefire that ended 12 days of hostilities between Israel and Iran.

Daily Wire: Why It Might Be Impossible For Illegals To Escape Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ – If they were to make it out of the detention facility’s walls, they’d be forced to navigate forests, marshes, challenging terrain, and a variety of fearsome predators including, but not limited to alligators and pythons as they make a dangerous trek towards civilization. – President Trump is set to visit the new detention center later today…

American Thinker: Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Thunderclap Heard Around the Republic – Barrett’s rebuke of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in Trump v. CASA, Inc. was sweeping and ferocious—and for good reason. – Jackson’s dissent did not merely differ in tone or jurisprudence. – It was a judicial manifesto, a radical blueprint to recast the federal judiciary as the final, universal enforcer of national policy…

American Thinker: TDS Finally Finished Off The Democrats – Everyone agrees that the Democrat party as we knew it is dead. – They spent ten years obsessed with Trump, and now he is in the White House, and they’re out in the wilderness. – They can blame themselves and little else. – Democrats were warned that they needed something more than hating Trump, but they didn’t listen, and now a communist is their mayor candidate in New York…

American Thinker: Zohran Mamdani Represents the Democrat Party’s Inevitable Far-Left Drift – Those who have watched the Marxist-Hegelian hybrid ideology overtake the party since the 1960s could have predicted this outcome. – His commitment to socialist ideals is informed by his Islamic faith, which includes his refusal to retract or apologize for trafficking in incendiary antisemitic language such as “globalize the intifada”…

Brownstone Institute: The Plot to Get RFK – It seems that the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, whose membership includes Pfizer, Merck, Novavax, Vaxcyte, and hundreds of biotech firms that profit from regulatory insulation, has a mole. – This article critiques the documented lobbying behavior of the trade group BIO, not the internal operations or clinical data of its member corporations…

Slay News: A New Politico Report Reveals Kamala Harris Is Suffering An ‘Enthusiasm Problem’ Among Voters & Donors For A California Governor Run – The report includes biting interviews with Democrat donors who are unsure whether they want to give “Word Salad Woman” any more of their cash after her string of failures. – One six-figure donor told Politico: “Kamala just reminds you we are in this complete sh*t storm…

One America News: The State Department has revoked the visas for the British rap group Bob Vylan for leading ‘Death to the IDF’ chants at a concert over the weekend. – The duo performed chants of “Death, death to the IDF” and “Free, free Palestine” for tens of thousands of attendees at the Glastonbury festival in Somerset, England, on Saturday. – Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, “Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country.”

Liberty Daily: President Trump Delivers His Hardest Hit Yet on Elon Musk – Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate. – It is ridiculous and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one. – Elon may have received more subsidies than any human being in history, by far…

June 30, 2025

Daily Wire: Elon Musk Warns Republicans That Campaigned On Reducing Government Spending, Vote For The ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ And Lose Your Next Primary – “Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!” Musk said…

Western Journal: Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough Enabled Democrats To Keep Medicaid for Illegal Aliens – Her ruling on Medicaid prompted Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas to offer an amendment to the One Big Beautiful Bill on Monday to waive the Budget Act regarding Medicaid benefits to illegal aliens. – It failed to meet the 60-vote threshold for a waiver, with the final vote being 56 to 44.

Washington Examiner: Big, Beautiful Vote-a-Rama Amendments – Fifteen things were proposed. – What passed or failed? – 1. Does the decision of the chair stand as judgment of the Senate (that amendment #2360 doesn’t violate sect 313(b)(1)(E) of the Congressional Budget Act)? – 2. Budget procedural vote: proposed changes to House-passed OBBB. – 3. Motion to commit Cal. #107, H.R.1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, to the Finance Committee with instructions…

One America News: The Trump administration filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles, aiming to dismantle its sanctuary city policy, which federal officials argue obstructs the enforcement of immigration laws. – DOJ, “Those laws and policies are designed to and in fact do interfere with and discriminate against the Federal Government’s enforcement of federal immigration law in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.”

Just the News: President Trump has signed an executive order that lifts decades-long U.S. sanctions on Syria, easing some of the economic hardship on its new regime. – Trump’s order fulfills a promise he made last month during a trip to the Middle East, where he blasted “interventionists” and “neocons” as wrecking “far more nations than they built.”

American Spectator: A New Emerson College 2028 Poll Predicts JD Vance Will Be The Clear MAGA Successor – While Vance is the predictable frontrunner to be Trump’s successor, the heir to the Democratic Party is anyone’s guess. – This reflects that Trump maintains a solid hold on the Republican Party, which he forcefully took over almost 10 years ago…

One America News: The DOJ has charged 324 individuals, including 100 medical professionals, due to their alleged involvement in a $16.4 billion healthcare fraud scheme spanning 50 states. – 77 of the individuals involved were prosecuted by state attorneys general, while 247 individuals are facing federal charges…

Newsmax: On Monday, Trump Said, “I Am Not Offering Iran Anything, An I Am Not Speaking to Tehran.” – Trump on Friday dismissed media reports that said his administration had discussed possibly helping Iran access as much as $30 billion to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear program.

Slay News: Iran’s Top Shiite Cleric, Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, Issued A ‘Fatwa’ Against ‘Warlord’ Donald Trump – Critics are warning that the act amounts to state-sanctioned incitement to terrorism. – In Iran, that designation carries the gravest punishments imaginable: execution, crucifixion, amputation, or exile.

Zero Hedge: In a “Face the Nation” interview on Sunday, Iran’s Ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, vowed that Tehran will “never stop” enriching uranium, as this is an inalienable right and a matter of national sovereignty under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. – Iran has constantly claimed that Israel has a secret nuclear arsenal and is not a member of the NPT, while Tehran has long been a party to the treaty…

Western Journal: New Satellite Imagery Reveals Iran Is Up to Something Again at Fordow – High-resolution satellite images captured by Maxar Technologies on Sunday showed a newly constructed access road adjacent to the facility, along with a range of equipment, including cranes, an excavator, and several vehicles. – The BBC reported that the images seemed to “show signs of some work underway at the Fordow facility…

Newsmax: America’s customs revenue has exceeded $100 billion since President Trump returned to the White House. – Of that figure, the vast majority is from tariffs as the president’s trade strategy begins to pay off in a big way for the federal government. – More than two-thirds of that, or $85.1 billion, is from tariffs that Trump has imposed on foreign countries looking to do business in America…

Daily Wire: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials say CNN has endangered the lives of federal agents after the news network promoted an iPhone app used to “track ICE activity in real time” in an article published on Monday. – Called ICEBlock, CNN noted that the app encourages users to report ICE sightings and pinpoint the locations of federal agents to help illegal aliens avoid arrest…

Resist The Mainstream: Lara Trump appears poised to make her first major political move following Senator Thom Tillis’s surprise retirement announcement on Sunday. – According to sources familiar with her thinking, she is “strongly considering jumping in the race.” – The source characterized her potential candidacy as practically a “done deal,” suggesting her entry would fundamentally reshape the Republican primary landscape across North Carolina…

Resist The Mainstream: Federal law enforcement has arrested more than 2,700 individuals connected to transnational criminal and terrorist-linked gangs, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi. – The sweeping operation unfolded across 94 federal judicial districts and was carried out by agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the FBI.

Zero Hedge: Mamdani Laid Bare His Agenda – Speaking in 2021 at the Young Democratic Socialists of America Organizing Conference, Mamdani said his goal is to “continue to elect more socialists” and to be “unapologetic about our socialism,” – citing two key objectives: boycotting Israel and “seizing the means of production.” – Maya Angelou, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Washington Examiner: The GOP braces for A Democrat’s ‘vote-a-rama’ blitz as the Senate nears a final vote on the ‘big, beautiful bill.’ – Following hours of floor debate that began Sunday, the chamber is embarking on a so-called vote-a-rama shortly after 9:30 a.m. Monday, another long process featuring dozens of mostly ill-fated changes proposed by the minority that is loathed by aides, lawmakers, and reporters…

Zero Hedge: The Senate Version Of Trump Tax Bill Adds $3.3 Trillion To Deficit, $500BN More Than The House, with the Debt Ceiling Raised By $5 Trillion – Republican lawmakers used an accounting maneuver to permanently extend President Donald Trump’s 2017 income-tax cuts, and score them as costing nothing. – While this approach is expected to pass, every subsequent administration will use the same tactic from now on…

Just The News: DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth gathered leaders of America’s largest military contractors for a closed-door meeting at the Pentagon last week. – The closed-door meeting with defense firms such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and BAE Systems aimed to hold munitions manufacturers accountable, ensuring that U.S. warfighters are equipped to face 21st-century military threats…

Breitbart: A Panicked United Nations Called For An Aid Crisis Meeting After The U.S. Funding Withdrawal – At least 50 world leaders are in Seville, Spain, for a hastily convened four-day gathering aimed at raising at least $4 trillion to help the U.N. meet its aid targets. – The United States is snubbing the talks after President Trump gutted the U.S. development agency USAID…

Margot Cleveland: We Still Have An Imperial Judiciary – What these judges have yet to appreciate is that their recognized lawlessness is destroying the reputation of the courts. – Elections have consequences, and the Supreme Court’s refusal to clamp down on the district court’s lawless orders has emboldened the judicial activist judges hand-picked by plaintiffs’ attorneys seeking to thwart the president’s America First agenda.

Zero Hedge: Sneakflation: The Silent Squeeze on Consumers’ Wallets – Unlike traditional inflation, which is marked by clear price increases, “Sneakflation” involves tactics such as Shrinkflation, Skimpflation, and hidden fees or Dynamic Pricing. – The term has gained traction in financial media to highlight how businesses obscure cost increases to avoid consumer backlash, especially during periods of high inflation…

Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration informed Harvard University that its investigation found that it violated federal civil-rights law over its treatment of Jewish and Israeli students, putting it further at risk. – The investigation is the latest in the battle between the White House and Harvard to make the wealthiest U.S. university exhibit A in its fight against liberal institutions, which it says didn’t take antisemitism and DEI concerns seriously.

American Thinker: Birthright Citizenship, or Anchor Babies vs. Anchor Parents – The 14th Amendment’s “birth” rule was written to eliminate any possibility that freed black slaves born in this country could be denied citizenship. – If I had to compare “birthright” to jus sanguinis citizenship transmission, I’d summarize them as follows: Being “born” here makes the baby the anchor, whereas jus sanguinis makes the parent the anchor…

American Thinker: Data Center Operators Prefer Natural Gas – In West Texas, where wind and solar power are more abundant than most anywhere on the planet, why are data centers opting for natural gas to power their energy needs? – Nothing is stopping them, yet they choose to build gas power generation instead. – What do they know that has escaped the mainstream media’s attention? – Could it be that solar and wind are not nearly as economical and reliable as their boosters report?…

American Thinker: A Republic, If You Can Reform It, or Dismantling Party Gatekeeping – The US was not founded on a system of entrenched political parties. – The Founders explicitly warned against them. – Early American elections focused on individual merit. Ballots lacked party labels, and voters chose candidates based on service and character. Nonpartisan elections were common for local and judicial offices, and the Progressive Era sought to expand this approach….

American Thinker: Can RFK Jr. Break the Prior Authorization Bottleneck? Preauthorization/prior authorization is a process in which healthcare insurance companies must approve medical services, such as medications, procedures, surgeries, or other treatments, before paying for them. – The main issue is that when someone else covers the cost, the consumer becomes insensitive to price and value. Meanwhile, the provider must serve the payer rather than the patient, which leads to inefficiency, overuse, and lower quality.

June 29, 2025

One America News: President Trump expresses optimism for a ceasefire in Gaza ‘within the next week’ – “I think it’s close. I just spoke with some of the people involved,” Trump stated on Friday. “We think within the next week, we’re going to get a ceasefire.” – Trump went on to discuss the humanitarian aid the United States is providing to the Palestinians in Gaza.

Wall Street Journal: Late on Sunday, Canada announced that it is rescinding a digital services tax in a bid to salvage trade discussions with the U.S. after President Trump paused talks on Friday. – Canada’s finance department was set to collect billions of dollars from U.S. tech companies on Monday, when payments were due under a digital services tax that Canada’s Liberal government implemented last year, under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

One America News: GOP Senator Thom Tillis announced his retirement from the Senate at the end of his term, following President Donald Trump’s pledge to back his primary challengers. – President Trump slammed Tillis (R-N.C.) on social media after Tillis announced his intent to vote against the “Big, Beautiful Bill.”

One America News: Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani explicitly explained his intentions of hiking taxes for “richer and Whiter neighborhoods,” while arguing that billionaires shouldn’t exist. – Mamdani, a Ugandan immigrant, has explicitly called for taxes to shift from “homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and Whiter neighborhoods.” – Mamdani doubled down on his proposed tax policy, arguing that the decision is “not driven by race.”

American Thinker: We’ve talked about Zohran Mamdani’s leftism; so let’s talk about his Islamism now – If anything, it’s worse than leftism is. – First, there’s the fact that he’s a Shia Muslim, which is affiliated with the Twelver Branch that drives the Iranian mullahs. – The Twelvers don’t fear Armageddon; they embrace it. – It turns out that the mosque he visited to turn out votes is a Muslim Brotherhood mosque…

Just The News: Blue states with net-zero emissions goals are now considering nuclear power as their delusians of 100% wind and solar fade – It appears that the New York, California and Michigan are coming to grips with the reality that intermittent wind and solar backed up by short-duration, expensive grid-scale batteries aren’t enough to supply their power needs. Dependence on AI is placing even more demands on their grids.

Daily Wire: Iran Has Reportedly Banned The UN Nuclear Watchdog From Entering the Country – “It must be officially announced that upon entering Iran, he will be tried and executed on charges of spying” – “Iran will no longer allow Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), or the installation of surveillance cameras at its nuclear facilities, a top Iranian lawmaker announced.”

America First Report: President Trump and PM Netanyahu Reportedly Agree to End Gaza War Within Two Weeks and the Expand Abraham Accords – The deal would involve exiling Hamas leadership, releasing hostages, and installing a joint Arab administration—comprised of Egypt, the UAE, and two other unnamed countries—to govern the Gaza Strip in place of Hamas. – Under the deal, Saudi Arabia and Syria would normalize relations with Israel, with additional Arab and Muslim countries expected to follow…

Resist The Mainstream: A federal judge has ruled that DOGE will retain access to sensitive data held by certain federal agencies, despite efforts by labor unions to block that access through legal action. – Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for DC declined a request for a preliminary injunction that would have restricted DOGE’s involvement with private records maintained by the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Roger Kimball: Minuting the Minutiae – The Supreme Court’s 6–3 ruling in Trump v. Casa clipped the wings of activist judges, by curbing their power to block presidential actions with sweeping injunctions. – President Trump cut to the chase in his remarks following the Court’s decision Friday. – “Some of the cases we’re talking about would be ending birthright citizenship,” Trump noted. – “That was meant for the babies of slaves. It wasn’t meant for people trying to scam the system.”

Epoch Times: Six Policies That Could Be Affected by The Supreme Court’s Decision on Nationwide Injunctions – Judicial injunctions, which can sometimes take the form of prohibitions on a specific policy or federal goal, have threatened Trump’s ability to execute a series of policies pursued by his administration. – Funding for Sanctuary Cities – Voter ID – The $3 Trillion Funding Freeze for States Under Review – Public School DEI Programs – Taxpayer Funding for Transgender Individuals – USAID Funding…

American Thinker: It Has Been ‘A Very Consequential Two Weeks’ – Success in Iran and the Supreme Court have cleared the road for the rest of Donald Trump’s agenda. – Trump has demonstrated that his impact on American history has centered on his persuasive powers and their effective use in executing leadership. Any week in which good sense and rational, effective government prevails is a rare, much to be wished for one. And we just had two of them: Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Facilities and The Supreme Court…

American Thinker: New York City Upped The Ante on Madness – The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, now has a mirror image in Zohran Mamdani, who is looking like the presumptive Democrat nominee for New York City mayor. – That Mamdani should have ever reached this level of influence is a troubling and dangerous development. – Mamdani “embodies an alliance between reactionary Islamism and progressivism.” Deep animus against Jews and Israel is emblematic of his vitriol…

American Thinker: Current Threats to Freedom Prove the Genius of the Founding Fathers – This is the contrast seen between the “blue” socialist and “red” free states, the former dominated by Democrats double down on every kind of restraint, restriction, and confiscation it can think of to strip away commonsense human rights from the innocent. – At the same time, leftists turn a blind eye to the violence and predation of criminals…

Just the News: A Chinese military-tied company appears to be selecting new hires at a Ford battery plant in Michigan. – The Chinese military-affiliated battery manufacturer CATL seems to be in charge of hiring for roles at the Ford plant, which executives said would be wholly owned and operated by the American company. – Ford defends its decision to license lithium-iron-phosphate battery technology from CATL, arguing that it is an important first step in re-shoring manufacturing in the US.

American Thinker: What Happens to America When Foreigners Fund Our Lawsuits? – There’s a seriously dangerous game going on under our noses, and it’s time for someone to get to the bottom of it. – Foreign adversaries and Wall Street investors are weaponizing American courts against our own companies. – Major hedge funds, private equity firms, and even sovereign wealth funds now treat our courtrooms like casinos. – The energy sector has become ground zero for this problem…

New York Post: Scenes from “Night of the Living Dead” are playing out a stone’s throw from the famed Angelika Film Center and A-lister apartments in NoHo, where zombified junkies and drug dealers have overtaken entire blocks. – At the heart of the problem is a $30 million taxpayer-funded nonprofit called Greenwich House, neighbors said, which employs a so-called “harm reduction” philosophy. – Critics counter that it enables addicts rather than getting them to quit. – These photos tell the story..

June 28, 2025

Breitbart: The Senate voted to proceed on President Donald Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill in a rare, drama-packed Saturday night vote. – Vice President JD arrived at the Capitol with the expectation that his vote would be needed. – Vance led negotiations with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and a handful of conservative holdouts with a vote of 51 to 49.

Liberty Daily: President Trump Targets RINO Thom Tillis After The North Carolina Senator Flipped on The Big, Beautiful Bill. – Tillis demonstrated he’s among the most left-leaning Republicans on Capitol Hill once again Saturday. – Tillis faces one of the toughest re-election fights of any GOP senator in 2026. His vote against Trump’s signature legislation could be a central topic in a primary challenge.

One America News: A top Hamas military commander tied to the October 7 attack was killed in an airstrike. – Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa was killed in a precision airstrike that struck the Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City. Described as a vital strategist for the group, Al-Issa had held numerous senior roles, including overseeing the training of Hamas operatives prior to the war.

Center Square: Regarding the tariff deadline, Trump says, ‘We can do whatever we want.’ – Trump is nearing the end of a self-imposed 90-day deadline to strike deals with nearly every U.S. trading partner as he works to reorder global trade by giving America a competitive advantage through tariffs on foreign goods. – Trump now says that the deadline could be extended past July 9 or even accelerated…

California Globe: Who is Behind the LLC That Purchased Governor Gavin Newsom’s $9.1 Million Home in Marin? – Reports reveal that Newsom acquired the home through MHBD Farms, LLC, an entity formed just two days prior to the transaction. – This is one way to make investments (campaign contributions) to a future presidential candidate. – Stunning that this was done under the nose of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), who regularly investigate and fines politicians for ethics and campaign violations…

One America News: Lake County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli announced that 27 individuals were taken into custody following a two-day human trafficking sting operation conducted earlier this week. – “While some may perceive prostitution as a consensual transaction between adults, experience and investigative work have consistently shown that many individuals being sold for sex are not participating willingly,” Covelli said.

American Thinker: Yes, the LGBTQ+ Activists Are After Your Children – But you knew all about that once the drag queens invaded the libraries. – The gay rights movement, especially in the marriage years, had long asked for simple liberal equality and mutual respect, live and let live. -You can raise your children however you like, and we won’t bother you. – But in the wake of victory, L.G.B.T.Q.+ groups reneged on that pledge. They demanded that the entire society change fundamentally so that the sex binary no longer counted…

American Thinker: Yes, the U.S. ‘Obliterated’ Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities – Think about this for a second. – To create the effective GBU-57, for over fifteen years, the US tracked this one particular site in Iran, because it was crystal clear to most analysts that it was dedicated to making a nuclear weapon. – Then the NYT, CNN, MSNBC, and others selectively cited a “low confidence” labeled preliminary report, which stated that the strikes may have only inflicted moderate damage on Fordo…

American Thinker: Unfortunately, ‘The Game is Not Over’ – Because we are dealing with a rabid ayatollah? – IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi stated on June 24, 2025, that his agency “does not know the whereabouts” of up to 880 pounds of Iran’s enriched near-weapons-grade uranium moved from Fordo, possibly to Isfahan, before the bombing. – J.D. Vance stated during an ABC interview that the administration “would work in the coming weeks to do something about the fuel and would have conversations with the Iranians.”…

Newsmax: The Senate is expected to grind through a rare weekend session as Republicans race to pass President Donald Trump’s package of tax breaks and spending cuts by his July Fourth deadline. – Republicans are using their majorities in Congress to push aside Democratic opposition, but they have encountered a series of political and policy setbacks. – Not all GOP lawmakers are on board with proposals to reduce spending on Medicaid, food stamps, and other programs…

Daily Wire: GE Appliances announced this week that it’s moving even more of its production from China to GOP-led state Kentucky, and investing nearly half a billion dollars. – The company is relocating most of its washing machine production to Kentucky, investing $490 million in the process, and creating at least 800 full-time jobs. – The move is expected to be completed by 2027.

New York Post: Where’s Tulsi Gabbard? The Intelligence Director is missing from key moments as insiders call her ‘wrong on the big stuff.’ – She now faces the perception that she’s being shunted to the side by the commander-in-chief, with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who previously held her job, taking on a larger profile. – “Her fear-mongering video played directly into the hands of those who did not support the president’s then-upcoming bold decision to obliterate Tehran’s nuclear program,” the source said.

American Thinker: Trump’s bid to end inclusion of illegals in the Census could win in the Supreme Court this time – But if it doesn’t, Trump will be forced to increase deportations. – The issue is congressional apportionment, and with as many as 30 million illegals in the country, courtesy of Joe Biden, illegals are responsible for a lot of congressional seats in Congress, even though they can’t legally vote. – And naturally, they are Democrat seats…

American Wire: AG Pam Bondi has reportedly fired tgree prosecutors who worked on the trumped-up J6 cases – President Trump moved quickly to right the wrongs of his predecessor when he pardoned or commuted the sentences of the protesters who had their lives destroyed by former Attorney General Merrick Garland and his goons, ending one of the darkest chapters of political persecution in the nation’s history.

American Thinker: As the Democrats approach terminal collapse, NYC mayoral primary voters unsurprisingly selected 33-year-old Ugandan native and Africana studies major “socialist” Democrat Zohran Kwame Mamdani. – He checks all the boxes that today’s Democrats demand. – Supports Hamas and sharia law; check. – Panders to teachers’ unions; check. – Antisemitism; check. $30 minimum wage; check. – Promises to arrest Netanyahu if he enters the city; check. – Mamdani’s ascension is unsurprising as Democrats shed supporters…

Resist The Mainstream: Four individuals have pleaded guilty in a major bribery scheme tied to USAID, a federal agency recently downsized amid political controversy, involving a $550 million corruption scam. – Roderick Watson, a USAID contracting officer, admitted to accepting bribes in exchange for influence over government contracts. – The DOJ said Watson began selling his influence as early as 2013…

Breitbart: The new IOC President announced on Thursday that there is “overwhelming support” among its members to protect the female category, marking a notable shift from the organization’s previous, unapologetic endorsement of gender ideology. – Kirsty Coventry addressed the topic of transgender-identifying athletes in women’s sports at her first official news conference since becoming president of the International Olympic Committee…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Bombs Away Edition – The big news story of the week was America’s stunningly executed devastation of Iran’s nuclear program–a program to which Barack Obama donated billions of dollars, and which other presidents had been willing to tolerate…

June 27, 2025

Western Journal: Clarence Thomas Declares ‘Today Puts an End to … Universal Injunctions’ in Monumental Win for Trump – Having spent my entire academic career researching and teaching the history of the early United States, in particular the era of the American Founding, I can declare without hyperbole that this ruling achieved nothing less than the salvation of the Constitution. It carries that much importance. – The Court also makes clear that the complete-relief principle provides a ceiling on federal courts’ authority…

Townhall: Trump’s Press Conference Turned Into an Epic Media Event – I’m fairly certain the press conference this morning wasn’t supposed to be this long. President Trump decided to extend his press conference, which ultimately covered numerous issues, not just the significant Supreme Court win he clinched regarding district courts and their use, or abuse, of nationwide injunctions. – Attorney General Pam Bondi joined the president for this conference, where vintage Trump engaged with the media…

Washington Free Beacon: Trump Drops Sanction Relief Efforts for Iran Following ‘Angry, Hostile, Khamenei Address Claiming Victory Over Israel – Trump, “Iran has to get back into the World Order flow, or things will only get worse for them.” – “They are always so angry, hostile, and unhappy, and look at what it has gotten them, a burned-out, blown-up Country, with no future, a decimated Military, a horrible Economy, and DEATH all around them. – They have no hope, and it will only get worse!”

Western Journal: Former FBI Director Christopher Wray was referred for criminal prosecution by the Oversight Project, alleging he lied to Congress about voter fraud and gave false testimony regarding the agency’s targeting of Catholics. – Current Bureau Director Kash Patel previously announced he’d found “an intelligence report from August 2020 detailing ‘alarming allegations’ regarding an apparent Chinese communist plot to interfere in the presidential election for the benefit of Joe Biden…

Gateway Pundit: The US Senate rejected a resolution to limit President Trump’s Iran war powers on Friday evening. – The resolution failed in a 47-53 vote. – GOP Senator Rand Paul voted with the Democrats to limit Trump’s Iran war powers, and Democrat Senator John Fetterman voted with the Republicans.

Zero Hedge: Three Big Projects Offer Hope That Our Energy Nightmare Is Ending – Just a few short months ago, much of the world seemed doomed to a bleak energy future, with unreliable, taxpayer-subsidized “renewables” being foisted upon homes and businesses by governments kneeling at the altar of the climate cult. – 1. The Alaska LNG project was once considered a lost opportunity. – 2. The $28 billion Louisiana LNG export project recently broke ground. – 3. Texas data center gas power plants are springing up to meet demand…

Fox News: Nearly 200 House Democrats voted against a resolution condemning the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles earlier this month. – The resolution was led by Representative Young Kim and the rest of California’s Republican congressional delegation. – “Peaceful protests are a constitutional right, but vandalism, looting, violence, and other crimes are not.

Breitbart: On Friday, President Trump said that the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda are embarking on “a new chapter of hope and opportunity” after the nations signed a historic peace deal brokered by the president and his deputies. – Trump, “The conflict in the Great Lakes region of Africa “displaced countless people and claimed the lives of thousands and thousands.” -“But today, the violence and destruction end and the entire region begins a new chapter of hope and opportunity, harmony, prosperity, and peace.”

Gateway Pundit: Former NY DEI Director and Hochul Aide Linda Sun CHARGED in Multimillion-Dollar PPE Fraud and Kickback Scheme – While New Yorkers were gasping for N95 masks and latex gloves in the dark spring of 2020, the woman once tasked with “DEI” inside the Hochul-Cuomo political machine was allegedly busy funneling state contracts to her own relatives—and pocketing the profits…

One America News: California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom has officially filed a $787 million lawsuit against Fox News, accusing the media giant of defamation. – Newsom argues that the network’s primetime host, Jesse Watters, “falsely” claimed Newsom lied about speaking with President Donald Trump on the phone while on air. – When asked about the lawsuit, Fox News called it “frivolous.” – “Gov. Newsom’s transparent publicity stunt is frivolous and designed to chill free speech critical of him.

Slay News: The Oversight Committee Considers a Subpoena After Anthony Bernal Cancels House Testimony – The former First Lady Jill Biden’s chief of staff and suspected autopen wielder has withdrawn his testimony, initially planned for the House Oversight Committee. – Bernal’s cancellation comes after the White House waived executive privilege, encouraging the committee to think about issuing a subpoena…

One America News: The U.S. is ceasing trade negotiations with Canada over its Digital Services Tax, which is imposed on large tech companies, such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook, based on the revenue they generate from online services, including ads. – President Trump, “Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the USA within the next seven-day period.”

Gateway Pundit: A HUGE WIN As The Supreme Court Rules Nationwide Injunctions by District Courts EXCEED Congressional Authority – In a 6–3 decision, the Court sided with the Trump administration, ruling that federal district courts lack the constitutional or statutory authority to issue so-called ‘universal injunctions’ — sweeping orders that block government policies nationwide, often at the request of left-wing advocacy groups…

Slay News: Trump Sues All 15 Federal Judges in Maryland Over Their Efforts to Block His Immigration Policies. – This latest controversy stems from a bizarre rule fashioned by Chief Judge George L. Russell III of Maryland, an Obama appointee. – The rule permits any alien to obtain an automatic injunction against their removal as long as they file a habeas petition…

Newsmax: According to Attorney General Pam Bondi, federal authorities have arrested more than 2,711 members of the Venezuela-based gang Tren de Aragua as of Friday. – “You should all feel safer now,” Bondi told members of the press during an earlier White House press conference.

Daily Wire: Justice Amy Coney Barrett Lays The Legal Smackdown On Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson – “We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries worth of precedent…” “The principal dissent focuses on conventional legal terrain, like the Judiciary Act of 1789 and our cases on equity”…In her telling, the fundamental role of the courts is to ‘order everyone (including the Executive) to follow the law, full stop.’”

Western Journal: Breaking! The Supreme Court Issues Big Decision on Birthright Citizenship Case – In a 6-3 ruling on Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court voted to narrow nationwide injunctions that had previously blocked Trump on several issues, including the birthright citizenship issue. – Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion, explaining “that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions.”

Daily Signal: – President Donald Trump appeared in high spirits Friday after the Supreme Court ruled that district courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions, a significant victory for the president’s agenda in the face of mounting legal challenges. – After the ruling was handed down Friday morning, Trump held an impromptu press conference in the White House press briefing room alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. (The briefing starts at the 19.37 minute mark. )

Daily Signal: – The Supreme Court upheld the religious freedom of Maryland parents who challenged a school district policy that prevented them from opting their children out of lessons involving LGBTQ+ books. – The court ruled, 6-3, that the Maryland parents were entitled to a preliminary injunction…

One America News: The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a Texas law mandating pornography websites must have age verification is constitutional. – The 2023 law H. B. 1181 requires certain websites with sexually explicit material that is extreme for minors to verify that the individual utilizing the site is over the age of 18.

Western Journal: Trump and Netanyahu’s Peace Plan For Gaza Is Out, And Every US President Since Jimmy Carter Would Have Killed for This Deal – The question now is, can he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pull it off? – There were five points laid out by the two parties: 1. Gaza hostilities will conclude within two weeks… – 2. Multiple nations globally will accept numerous Gaza inhabitants seeking emigration… – 3. Abraham Accords expansion will bring Syria, Saudi Arabia, and additional Arab and Muslim countries to recognize Israel…

Geller Report: President Trump Announces A TRADE DEAL With China – Trump did not provide further details about the deal, but he said it was going to “open up China.” – The U.S. and China have confirmed details of a trade framework that seeks to allow rare earth exports and easing of tech restrictions, according to a statement released by China’s Ministry of Commerce Friday afternoon. – The president also teased a new big deal with India…

Daily Wire: Trump Says He Will ‘Absolutely’ Start Bombing Iran Again If They Enrich Uranium To High Levels – Trump says future attacks are certain if Tehran escalates enrichment efforts. – Prior to Israel and the United States delivering significant blows to the Iranian regime’s nuclear ambitions, the International Atomic Energy Agency found in February that Iran’s uranium stockpile was enriched to 60% purity, closing in on the 90% level considered weapons-grade…

American Thinker: The Real Threat Is Inside, That’s Why Trump Is Right to Purge America’s Politicized Intel Agencies – Intelligence should serve the nation, not ideology. – This week’s leak of an incomplete Pentagon assessment regarding President Trump’s strategic strikes on Iran is yet another reminder that the intelligence community, long hailed as the apolitical guardian of national security, is in urgent need of housecleaning…

Slay News: Trump’s Energy Chief Warns of ‘Train Wreck’ Because The Electric Grid Is Stretched Thin – “We had to issue an emergency order a few days ago just to let utilities in the Southeast run their plants at full capacity so they could keep the lights on,” Wright claimed. – “Under the Biden laws, that’s illegal.” – “Biden emissions rules would have prevented them from producing all the electricity they could, and they would have had rolling brownouts,” Wright said.

American Thinker: The American Left Is In Big Trouble – Since the last election, the Left has been rudderless, disoriented, and uninspired. It has gone from being the party of clamor to that of whining. It has now reached the point where there is no thunder on the Left, only increasingly incoherent rants. – This lack of direction is a sign that something major has gone awry. – For the Left to come up with a new identity and grand narrative will “take decades…

American Thinker: In Its Way, Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Nomination Is A Miracle In The Making For Republicans – Mamdani makes the most abysmal of NYC’s previous mayors actually look good! – He’s a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. – Mamdani is on record as stating that he does not believe that Israel has a right to exist and proudly declared that, should PM Netanyahu appear in NYC, he will have him arrested. – Adding insult to injury, he even claimed that “intifada” merely means “uprising”…

American Thinker: Have Jewish Democrats finally gotten the “Wake UP” memo? – There are many angles to what happened last Tuesday night in New York City. – I sense that Jewish voters need to start listening to these candidates rather than hoping that the party will cancel them out. Just ask Governor Josh Shapiro, who was passed over by Kamala, how that worked out. He wasn’t chosen in 2024 because he is a Jew, and apparently, no one in the party had the guts to point that out.

Daily Wire: Elise Stefanik Is Reportedly Set To Challenge Kathy Hochul For New York Governor – “It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.” – Stefanik was the number four Republican in the House, serving as Chair of the House Republican Conference after replacing former Rep. Liz Cheney, before being briefly nominated as U.N. ambassador.

American Thinker: NJ smirks and cites ‘eminent domain’ to seize a 175-year-old farm so it can build welfare housing – In April, Andy and Christopher Henry were informed that Cranbury would be seizing half of their farm. – So now the Henry family gets to be neighbors with third-world foreigners who will no doubt be taking up residence in the “affordable housing” units built on former Henry land! – Isn’t eminent domain intended for infrastructure projects like roads, dams, and railways?

Fox News: The Trump administration is ending temporary protected status for Haitian migrants currently in the US. – Haiti will join Venezuela in having TPS status removed, opening the door for increased deportations. – The TPS designations for the country will expire on August 3, 2025, and the termination will take effect on Tuesday, September 2, 2025. – “The environmental situation in Haiti has improved enough that it is safe for Haitian citizens to return home.”

American Thinker: How to Fight Illegal Immigration With Your Wallet – The federal government’s voluntary E-Verify program enables users to search for employers that utilize the E-Verify Employee Search System to vet employees. – Interestingly, under the category of “educational services,” only six of New Mexico’s 89 school districts are listed. – I think it would be entertaining to confront public officials in various parts of the country and listen to them explain why their organizations don’t E-Verify…

FAR: A Long List Of COVID Vaccine Atrocities – At the outset of the “supposed” COVID-19 pandemic, too many things didn’t seem to add up. When certain brave individuals in the medical and scientific communities began to question what they were being told, they were quickly labeled conspiracy theorists. – Then suddenly, all of those supposed Conspiracy Theories were proven to be absolutely true! – Here is a partial list of headlines from just this month…

June 26, 2025

Gateway Pundit: This May Blow This Whole Thing Open – On Thursday evening, GOP Senator Eric Schmitt demanded access to sealed Biden autopen records after Neera Tanden admitted she controlled the autopen for more than a year and a half. Additionally, Neera Tanden admitted that she would utilize the autopen without verifying with Joe Biden himself that it was an authorized action. – House Oversight Chairman James Comer recently identified five Biden aides who were involved in the cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental decline and autopen scandal…

Gateway Pundit: GOP Lawmakers Erupt After Unelected Senate Parliamentarian Appointed by Democrat Swamp King Harry Reid Gutted Key Provisions from Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” but Senate Majority Leader Thune Refused to Overrule Her Decision. – MacDonough’s controversial rulings stripped out major reforms Republicans had promised voters, ranging from bans on abortion funding, illegal immigrant benefits, and taxpayer-subsidized sex-change operations for minors…

Washington Free Beacon: The Classified Report That Suggested Iranian Nuclear Program Was Still Intact Likely Relied on Faulty Information From Iranian Sources, According To A Former Intelligence Officer – ‘I know it’s messaging, the Iranians know it’s messaging, and for some reason, the NSA believes it’s actual f—ing intelligence.’…

Liberty Sentinel: The Trump administration just dealt another blow to the anti-energy, anti-prosperity agenda pursued by the Biden administration, underpinned by their man-made “climate change” hypothesis. – Under the proposed repeal of previous “climate” regulations on energy production announced this month, many of the power plants targeted for destruction could remain open, and CO2 would no longer be considered dangerous “pollution.” Now the “climate” movement is screaming bloody murder.

Real Clear Investigations: Who Counts? – Trump Is Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From The Census – Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge the longstanding but legally fraught practice of counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census. – President Trump tried to end the practice during his first term, but President Biden overturned his predecessor’s policy before it was implemented.

One America News: NYC Mayor Adams launches his reelection campaign amid Mamdani’s Democrat primary victory – “It’s a choice between a candidate with a blue collar and one with a silver spoon,” he continued, referencing Mamdani. “I’m not interested in slogans, I’m interested in solutions. I don’t work with special interests, I work for the people.”…

Western Journal: Jasmine Crockett Targets Melania Trump with a Nasty Attack During House Hearing – Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett continues to live up to the title of one of the nastiest, most brash, and downright buffoonish members of Congress. – To be considered an immigrant of extraordinary ability, one must “be able to demonstrate extraordinary ability… “Last time I checked, the first lady had none of those accolades under her belt. It doesn’t take an Einstein to see that the math ain’t mathin’ here”…

Daily Wire: WATCH: General ‘Razin’ Caine Unveiled Video Footage Showing The Fordo Collapse After the Devastating B-2 Bunker Buster Iran Strike – Caine revealed that the United States military had developed the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, better known as bunker buster bombs, more than 15 years ago. – He then showed several military graphics and videos showcasing exactly how the bombers inflicted extensive damage at Iran’s Fordo nuclear site…

Daily Wire: Hegseth Smokes Reporter Asking Why He Didn’t Mention The Female Pilots – “I don’t care if it’s a male or a female in the cockpit, and the American people don’t care,” he concluded. – “But it’s the obsession with race and gender in this department that’s changed priorities, and we don’t do that anymore. – We don’t play your little games.”

Zero Hedge: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei emerged from his bunker to issue his first comments since the Trump-backed ceasefire with Israel took effect, congratulating “the great nation of Iran” for its “victory over the fake Zionist regime.” – “Despite all that noise, and with all those claims, the Zionist regime almost collapsed and was crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic,” he said, according to the national IRNA news agency. He also claimed to have “delivered a slap to America’s face.”…

Daily Wire: Iran Cracks Down At Home After The Israel War – Iranian authorities are intensifying an internal security crackdown across the country with mass arrests, executions, and military deployments, particularly in the restive Kurdish region. – One senior Iranian security official and two other senior officials briefed on internal security issues said the authorities were focused on the threat of possible internal unrest…

Zero Hedge: The US Worked On A Plan To Destroy Iran’s Fordow For 15 Years, But Now European Intel Says Their Uranium Stockpile Was Moved – Again, the White House, as well as Thursday’s Pentagon presser, is sticking by the Trump claim of total and utter obliteration. – Perhaps the world will learn the truth in the coming days and weeks, or possibly not at all, pending ‘proof’ and data from the ground, which the Iranians will likely not be willing to give.

Zero Hedge: El Al, Israel’s national airliner, has introduced heavily subsidized return flights on 25 June aimed at repatriating Israelis who fled during the recent war against Iran. – The state-backed offer includes capped fares through the end of June, $99 from European cities and $649–699 from the US, roughly half the standard price. – Once repatriation flights are full, remaining seats will become available to the general public.

America First Report: Trump Says Zelensky Wants War With Russia to End After NATO Summit Meeting – “He couldn’t have been nicer. I think he’d like to see an end to this, I do. What I took from the meeting — couldn’t have been nicer, actually — but I took from the meeting he’d like to see it end,” Trump said. – “I think it’s a great time to end it. I’m going to speak to Vladimir Putin to see if we can get it ended,” he added.

Victor Davis Hanson: In the End, Everyone Hated the Iranian Theocracy – President Trump and Israel dismantled Iran’s terror mystique in days, with no nukes, no saviors, just a regime stewing in its impotence as the world quietly moved on. – The new reality is that either Israel or the U.S., if they keep their earned confidence within proper limits, can now ensure a non-nuclear Iran by easily blowing up its costly nuclear program as often Iran attempts to rebuild it.

Newsmax: An NBC News Poll Shows 8 in 10 Republicans Back Trump’s Iran Strikes – MAGA movement supported the strikes even more strongly, with 84% saying they supported the action and 70% saying they strongly supported the strikes. – A majority (60%) also said they supported a continuation of military action if Iran’s nuclear program were to remain intact, according to the survey…

American Thinker: Liberal Hawks, Lawless Launches, and the Selective Outrage Over War Powers – Presidents Obama and Biden expanded executive war powers well beyond anything President Trump has done with his recent B-2 and Tomahawk strikes in Iran, yet faced little scrutiny from media or legal elites. – Obama dropped 26,172 bombs in 2016 alone, an average of 72 per day—across seven countries: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan…

Newsmax: On Tuesday, Neera Tanden, the former domestic policy chief under President Joe Biden, acknowledged using an autopen to obtain the president’s signature but denied any cover-up regarding Biden’s mental acuity. – Tanden said the major problem is that Biden likely “didn’t know what was being signed” by the autopen. – “If the president didn’t know what was being signed, then it actually invalidates not only many of his orders, but frankly, a lot of bills that went through. And that’s the key issue.

Daily Signal: The Supreme Court Rules Whether States Can Block Planned Parenthood From Receiving Medicaid Funding – The Supreme Court ruled against Planned Parenthood Thursday, handing a significant win to the pro-life movement. – In the case of Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, the justices ruled, 6-3, that South Carolina can legally block Planned Parenthood facilities from receiving Medicaid funding.

Liberty Daily: An Old AOC Yearbook Photo Debunks Her “Bronx Girl” Street Credentials – Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez positions herself as having been raised a “tough Bronx girl,” but her yearbook photo indicates she was a suburb kid. – State Assemblyman Matt Slater, a Republican, called out the progressive firebrand, who represents portions of the Bronx and Queens, shared an image of her during her freshman year in suburban Yorktown High School, almost an hour north of the Bronx…

Daily Fetched: The Trump Administration Is Planning A MASS Deportation Sweep, With As Many As 250,000 Removed – Federal officials are considering a plan to dismiss asylum claims for illegal immigrants, which would make them “immediately deportable.” – According to the report, illegal immigrants whose asylum claims are terminated would be subject to expedited removal. – The report stated that approximately 1.45 million people currently have pending asylum applications…

Real Clear Energy: Three Big Projects Offering Hope That Our Energy Nightmare Is Ending – 1. The Alaska LNG project was once considered a lost opportunity, but now there is renewed interest in a project on Alaska’s North Slope. – 2. The $28 billion Louisiana LNG project recently broke ground in Louisiana. – 3. The Texas data center gas power plants are ground zero for many of the crucial new AI data centers springing up to meet demand.

Geller Report: Luxury Real-Estate Brokers say Wealthy New Yorkers are Preparing to Flee after Zohran Mamdani’s Primary Win – New York City as we know it will not survive if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor. It will go the way of Detroit after the 1967 riots. – A mayor Mamdani would drive the wealthy out, drive the financial sector out, drive the real estate sector out, drive the cops out, drive the Jews out, and destroy small businesses…

Resist The Mainstream: The FBI Is Investigating California Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez After Her Public Video Urging Gangs to Confront ICE Agents – Gonzalez came under scrutiny following a social media video, since deleted, in which she gave the challenge to members of the notorious 18th Street and Florencia 13 gangs.

Zero Hedge: Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, who is aligned with far-left politics, is using environmental concerns to challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX, echoing tactics used by the Democrat Party in an attempt to derail its rocket launches. – Sheinbaum claims SpaceX’s rocket launches from Starbase, Texas, pollute Mexican territory with rocket debris..

Slay News: The DOJ Hits Minnesota with A Federal Lawsuit for Giving Illegal Aliens ‘Free’ College Tuition – The state’s laws provoked outrage as the taxpayer-funded benefits are not equally available to all U.S. citizens. – The DOJ’s complaint argues that Minnesota’s law violates federal immigration statutes by offering public education benefits to individuals unlawfully in the country while discriminating against out-of-state American citizens.

Newsmax: SCOTUS Has 6 Cases to Decide – Trump’s birthright citizenship order has been blocked by lower courts – Maryland parents’ religious rights case over LGBTQ storybooks in public schools – Congressional districts in Louisiana – A Texas law that blocks kids from seeing online pornography…

Zero Hedge: The Looming MAHA Pharma Ad Ban ‘Could Cripple Some Broadcasters’ – The two policies the administration has focused in on would be to require greater disclosures of side effects of a drug within each ad, likely making broadcast ads much longer and prohibitively expensive, or removing the industry’s ability to deduct direct-to-consumer advertising as a business expense for tax purposes…

June 25, 2025

One America News: President Trump said the Israelis entered the Fordow site post-strike and witnessed ‘total obliteration,’ setting their nuclear program back for years. – Trump emphasized during his talk with reporters that he would strike Iran once more, if need be, in the event that the nation’s leadership attempts to restart its nuclear enrichment program. – Nonetheless, he also digressed by expressing that he’s sure this hypothetical scenario won’t play out anytime soon.

American Conservative: President Trump told reporters Wednesday afternoon that his administration would be meeting with the Iranians sometime next week to seek some formal recognition of the end of Iran’s nuclear program. – Speaking in the Hague, where he is attending a NATO summit, the president minimized the importance of reaching a rigorous agreement…

Washington Free Beacon: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz told lawmakers on Tuesday evening that Israel and the United States are prepared to resume strikes on Iran if the regime attempts to rebuild its nuclear or ballistic missile programs, according to two officials familiar with the briefing. – Katz delivered the classified update to members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

Epoch Times: Why The US Strikes on Iran Sent a Strong Message to Beijing – An expert says dictators can’t predict Trump’s moves, making them ‘genuinely afraid of him.’ – Trump’s willingness to aid Israel raises the possibility that his administration might not stand idle if the Chinese regime attempts to take Taiwan by force. – If Beijing were to “start a war in the Taiwan Strait, the US could provide Taiwan with decapitation-strike weapons that ”CCP officials fear the most.”

Daily Wire: JD Vance Obliterated The Media Over Their Iran Strike Coverage, Then Talked About The One Story They ‘Won’t Investigate’ – Why have the same reporters who have gotten so much wrong learned so little? What is the purpose of these leaks — who is behind them, and what are they trying to achieve? The media won’t investigate that story, though it would be in the public interest to do so.”

American Spectator: CNN’s Credibility Is Totally Obliterated! – The last-place cable news network hits rock bottom, but still keeps digging. – Scarcely had the B-2 bombers returned from their bombing mission when CNN went to work to prove that their mission was a failure. – It must be tough working for a once respected news organization that now has lower ratings than a children’s cartoon comedy, but now CNN’s credibility has been “completely and totally obliterated,” so to speak, and they have only themselves to blame.

American Thinker: CNN host Erin Burnett says Iranian ‘death to America’ chants were mostly friendly – While reporting from Iran for “Inside Politics,” the alleged journalist remarked that Iranians chanting “Death to America” were often “happy” to talk to her and other Americans. – Much like the “mostly peaceful” riots CNN described back in 2020, with Minneapolis burning in the background, CNN would have you believe that there was a latent “friendliness” to those shouting “Death to America!”…

Breitbart: The Department of Justice sued all 15 federal district court judges in Maryland this week over “an order that pauses any deportations under legal challenge in the state for 48 hours.” – The complaint alleges that Chief Judge George L. Russell III of the U.S. District Court in Maryland issued an ‘unlawful, antidemocratic’ order in May. – “This is just the latest action by Pam Bondi’s DOJ to rein in unlawful judicial overreach,” a spokesman for the Attorney General said…

Washington Free Beacon: President Trump Announced A Gulf of America Oil Lease Sale Spanning an Area Larger Than the Entire United Kingdom – The behemoth lease sale, which will be the first offshore lease sale since President Donald Trump took office, is scheduled for December 2025 and will offer 15,000 blocks of federal waters across the entire gulf. – Drilling in the Gulf of America could help disentangle the U.S. economy from foreign oil…

Powerline: It’s Not Over Yet, But Soon – The Democrat mayoral primary in NYC is not the final say in the matter. – It appears that four candidates are moving to the general election in November. – Mamdani, a member of the Democrat Socialists of America, New York City chapter, will be up against the incumbent mayor, Eric Adams, who is running for re-election as one of two independents. – Curtis Sliwa, the Guardian Angel famous from the 1970s, is the Republican candidate.

California Globe: California Has Been Found in Violation of Title IX Over Its Transgender Athlete Policy – The Trump Education Department declared today that California illegally discriminated against women and girls by allowing males identifying as females on female sports teams and into female locker rooms. – Trump Education officials gave California 10 days to agree to bar transgender athletes from girls’ sports and rescind their awards or face possible “enforcement action” by the DOJ and loss of federal funding.

California Globe: The Two Primary Causes of California’s July 1st Gas Tax Increase – California gasoline already costs approximately $1.50 above the national average, and we are getting another gas tax hike next week. – The gas tax increase coming July 1st is a gasoline excise tax, as opposed to the coming low-carbon fuel standard tax changes. – An excise tax is a specific type of tax levied on certain goods or services at the time of their purchase...

Zero Hedge: 32 NATO Leaders Agree To Hike Their Defense Spending to 5% Over The Next Decade As Rutte Warned, There Will Be ‘No Opt-Outs Or Side Deals’ – The Trump-backed decision is being finalized in Netherlands this week, with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte having hailed the proposal as a “quantum leap.’ – Trump declared Tuesday we’re with NATO “all the way” and on Wednesday he’s expected to give a big address, as all eyes are focused on the Iran bombing and what’s next…

Daily Wire: President Trump Says Spain Will ‘Pay Twice As Much’ On Trade After Its NATO Defiance – “They want a little bit of a free ride, but they’ll have to pay it back to us on trade, because I’m not going to let that happen. – It’s unfair.” – At a Wednesday press conference, Trump said his outlook on NATO had changed. – Previously critical of “freeloading” nations not paying their fair share in defense, he now believes the alliance is no longer a “rip-off” given the new 5% commitment.

Slay News: Noted Law Professor and Scholar Jonathan Turley Says The Supreme Court Could Soon Crack Down on The Activist Judges And Hand Trump An ‘Enormous’ Victory – Conservatives argue that injunctions have been strategically sought in left-wing jurisdictions as part of a strategy to undermine the Trump administration’s agenda on immigration enforcement and deportations. – “It’s going to be an enormous decision potentially,” Turley explained, and could come as early as Thursday…

Western Journal: CNN Trashed ‘Operation Midnight Hammer,’ But Its Story Just Fell Apart – First, it turns out that while that little DIA was top secret, it was also categorized as “low confidence,” meaning the intel’s reliability is LOW. – The second detail is perhaps more damning. – The CNN piece’s byline listed a trio of crack reporters, with Natasha Bertrand topping the list. – Natasha Bertrand isn’t just any lying journalist; she’s the lying journalist who single-handedly launched the widespread suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story…

Epoch Times: President Trump announced that Israeli officials believe the U.S. airstrike targeting an Iranian nuclear site over the weekend has made it “totally inoperable” and set the regime back for years. – “The devastating U.S. strike on Fordow destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility totally inoperable,” Trump told a NATO conference in the Netherlands, reading the statement from the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission…

Daily Wire: Trump Shuts The Door On Iran Talks, Saying ‘They’ve Had It’ – “I could get a statement that they’re not going to go nuclear, so we’re probably going to ask for that.” – U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, “We’re hopeful that we can have a long-term peace agreement that resurrects Iran, that brings it into the League of Nations, that creates long-term prosperity for Iran and, most importantly, allows for the GCC to grow economically.”

American Thinker: The Left’s War Powers Narrative Is False, And the Constitution Proves It – Trump acted lawfully, decisively, and with precedent on his side, despite partisan claims that defy both the Constitution and common sense. – Article II of the Constitution is clear: the president is the commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the United States. – Article II, Section 2 vests operational command of the military in the president, not as ceremonial ornamentation, but as clear and foundational authority…

American Thinker: Iran Effectively Surrenders to the United States – After years of loud posturing and covert war against the United States, Tehran bowed behind a cloud of rhetoric and an intercepted missile. – The Doha strike was a final spasm of posturing. Qatar, the intermediary between Washington and Tehran, was advised of the coming attack, so American defenses had ample time to respond, with most projectiles never reaching their targets.

Discern Report: Do the Iranians View This Ceasefire as a Temporary “Tactical Pause” Known as a “Hudna” in Islam? – There are many people out there who seem to think that the Iranians have essentially surrendered by agreeing to this ceasefire, but that is not the case at all. – The Iranians still hate the United States, they still hate Israel, and they still plan to move forward with their nuclear program. – Ultimately, their long-term goals have not changed one bit…

American Thinker: President Trump’s Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Sites Did Not And Will Not Start A War – First of all, you can’t “start” something that already exists. – Of course, many on the left are too young to remember President Peanut, who simply missed the warning signs of the Islamist assault on our Embassy in Tehran that occurred in late 1979. – When that attack materialized, Carter refused to allow our Marines to defend American sovereign property…

Townhall: A Criminal Leak Investigation Launched Over Iran Nuclear Damage Assessment – The investigation comes after information CNN claimed U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend set the program back mere weeks. – “This is what a leaker is telling you what the intelligence says, that’s the game these people play. – I refer you to the statement of the IAEA, Mr. Grossi, who said, ‘There was Iran the way it looked the day before the attack and the way it looks right now.’

FAR: The Left Has an Authoritarian Problem – It’s “scientifically indisputable” that the left is getting even nastier and more controlling. – Social psychologist Luke Conway’s articles have been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and this one draws from three decades of authoritarianism research.”

America First Report: Former top Biden aide Neera Tanden testified behind closed doors in Congress on Tuesday for four hours, during which she said that she was authorized to use the autopen on behalf of Joe Biden. – Tanden, who served as the Biden administration’s director of the White House Domestic Policy Council as well as staff secretary, said during her opening remarks that she “was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president.”

Daily Fetched: RFK Jr. Exposed A Democrat’s $2 Million Big Pharma Ties During A Live Hearing – Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directly accused Rep. Frank Pallone of being bought and paid for by the pharmaceutical industry during a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. – “Fifteen years ago, you and I met; you were at that time a champion for people who had suffered injuries from vaccines. You were very adamant about it. But that was before…

Zero Hedge: How Tariffs Might Impact US Car Prices, By Brand – Tariffs on imported goods can have a wide ripple effect on prices, especially in the auto industry, where supply chains are global, complex, and highly sensitive to cost changes. – In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu reveals how tariffs will impact U.S. car prices, assuming a flat 25% tariff is applied to vehicles imported from outside North America…

Zero Hedge: The Real Estate Recession You Haven’t Heard About (Yet) – Real estate and construction are considered bellwethers of the overall economy. – Recently, they’re not looking good, and this isn’t an isolated issue. – It’s a warning sign of a crisis that could ripple through the entire economy. – As housing prices continue to climb, a startling 70% of U.S. households now find themselves unable to afford a home at the median price point of approximately $400,000, according to the NAR...

California Globe: Another One Bites the Dust As Paul Mitchell Relocates Its Headquarters From California to Texas – And what a disgrace California is. – “These exits negatively impact the state and particularly the local communities that lose these headquarters,” Joseph Vranich and Lee E. Ohanian reported in a study published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford in 2022. – “Employees also leave, reducing demand within their former communities and reducing economic vibrancy. – No one is singing “California Here I Come” anymore.

June 24, 2025

Epoch Times: This Timeline Shows How US Strikes Changed the Course of the 12-Day War – The stealth US military operation that led to a cease-fire between Israel and Iran and changed the dynamics of the Middle East. – June 13, In the early hours of June 13, Israeli warplanes conducted a surprise attack across Iran… – June 14, Iranian representatives back out of June 14 talks with U.S. representatives in Oman… – June 15, Trump said there will soon be peace between Israel and Iran… – June 17…

Washington Free Beacon: UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief Rafael Grossi, There is a ‘Night and Day’ Difference Between Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities Before and After The US Strikes – “I believe that these sites and materials are entombed for now—accessing them will require immense Iranian excavation efforts that Israel and the U.S. could stop via targeted strikes, such as the one Israel took against an Iranian recovery team heading to Fordow.”…

Just The News: The Trump administration is secretly probing hundreds of foreign scientists from ‘countries of concern’ such as China. – The initiative took on additional urgency after three Chinese scientists were arrested in the last month trying to smuggle into America dangerous pathogens like fungi and roundworms capable of destroying crops. – As many as 1,000 scientists from countries of concern, a large number specifically from China, have been identified inside NIH alone…

Breitbart: U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright is slamming the Biden administration for what he calls an “absolutely infuriating” last-minute spending spree. – He revealed that more than $90 billion in green energy loans were pushed through by the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office in the weeks between Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection and his January inauguration.

Zero Hedge: This Shocking Chart Shows Why There Has Been No Tariff Inflation – With tariffs in the pipeline for 5 months now, we have been able to see what foreign companies are doing in response, and some of the observations are stunning. – Export prices, which are closely watched in relation to tariffs, fell -0.7% mom in yen terms in May, continuing the decline since February, partly reflecting yen appreciation. – Export prices also fell -0.9% mom in contract currency terms in May (April: -0.3%)…

Independent Sentinel: Communist Muslim Zohran Mamdani Won the NYC Mayoral Democrat Primary, And Cuomo Has Conceded – Mamdani, “My friends, we have done it. I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.” – “We won because New Yorkers have stood up for a city they can afford, a city where they can do more than just struggle.” – Cuomo, who only received 36% of the vote, also spoke…

Gateway Pundit: Zohran Mamdani Is A Muslim Communist Who Wants to ‘Defund The Police’ and ‘Globalize The Intifada’ – He has waged a longstanding campaign aimed at defunding the New York Police Department, which he claims is designed to “control black, brown and poor New Yorkers.” – He also believes that defunding the police is essential for the cause of “queer liberation” and the law enforcement are complicit in aiding a “violent, right-wing government” in persecuting minorities…

One America News: The Trump administration approved the construction of a new Florida detention center for illegal immigrants awaiting deportation near the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” – The Trump administration greenlit the facility by utilizing the federal funding the previous Biden administration used to house asylum-seekers.

One America News: A U.S. Marshals operation in Florida led to the ‘recovery or safe location of 60 critically missing children’ – According to a statement from the USMS, the U.S. Marshals Service Middle District of Florida launched Operation DRAGON EYE, a two-week initiative geared to “recover or safely locate the most critically missing youth” that the U.S. Marshals are calling it “the most successful missing child operation in USMS history.”

One America News: Carmelo Anthony, the now 18-year-old who admitted to fatally stabbing student Austin Metcalf at a Texas track meet, has been indicted by a grand jury on first-degree murder charges. – Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis said in a press release Tuesday that his team worked for weeks on the evidence presented to the grand jury.

Newsmax: Oil prices dropped further, and stocks rallied worldwide Tuesday on hopes that Israel’s war with Iran will not damage the global flow of crude. – The S&P 500 was 0.7% higher in early trading, following up on even bigger gains for stocks across Europe and Asia, after President Trump said late Monday that Israel and Iran had agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire.”

Center Square: The state-funded Legislative Analyst’s Office found California had “no job creation” in the fourth quarter of 2024, citing federal data that shows the state lost approximately 80,300 jobs between January and December of 2024. – The LAO’s report also noted that job estimates have overestimated job growth by 25,000 jobs per month.

California Globe: The City Of Los Angeles, Declaring A Fiscal Emergency, Is Laying Off 614 Employees – Unsurprisingly, over 400 of them are LAPD employees, but Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia said they will be citizens, not sworn officers. – The total number of proposed cuts can be seen in the chart below:

Epoch Times: As The Cease-Fire Holds, Trump Says He Doesn’t Want Regime Change in Iran – ‘I don’t want it. I’d just like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible,’ the president said aboard Air Force One as he traveled to a NATO summit in Europe. – Trump’s comment on Tuesday was made after he criticized both Iran and Israel for launching strikes after he announced a cease-fire on social media on Monday evening…

Zero Hedge: Iran Reopens Airspace To Commercial Flights As The Ceasefire With Israel Finally Holds – This is the clearest indicator yet that skies have cleared of Israeli warplanes and return fire over Tehran. – Now, each side is declaring ‘victory’ to some extent, but whether the ceasefire will actually stick is anyone’s guess…

Daily Wire: President Donald Trump is officially in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize after a Republican congressman formally nominated him on Tuesday. – Representative Buddy Carter wrote to the Norwegian Nobel Committee recommending Trump for the prize “in recognition of his historic role in brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Iran and preventing the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism from obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet.”…

America First Report: Israel Ordered A Response After Accusing Iran of Violating the Ceasefire – A Timeline of the Ceasefire Violation – Both sides agreed to halt hostilities by midnight, local time, under a deal pushed by the US. – Missiles were reported launched from Iran into northern Israel right after the deadline. – The IDF retaliated with high-intensity strikes against regime targets in Tehran. – Iranian state TV denied that their military was responsible…

Fox News: Israel accuses Iran of breaking the ceasefire hours after accepting Trump-brokered proposal – Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz said he ordered the military to “respond forcefully” to Iran’s violation of the ceasefire agreement with “high-intensity strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran.” – Trump tells Israel to ‘bring your pilots home,’ criticizes both sides for violating ceasefire…

Daily Wire: Iran’s Nuclear Chief Says It’s Taking Stock Of The Bomb Damage, And Will Restart Their Facilities Based on Earlier Plans – “An adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, said his country still had stocks of enriched uranium and that ‘the game is not over,’ claiming that Tehran had been prepared for damage to its nuclear sites,” Alarabiya reported. – So is this just bluster, who knows?…

Western Journal: Netanyahu Significantly Alters Plans After Angry Trump Calls and Lays Down the Law – Trump, heading for a NATO summit, erupted at the prospect of peace blown to bits by a devastating revenge raid. – “When I say 12 hours [of ceasefire], you don’t go out in the first hour and drop everything you have on them,” Trump said. – “We have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they are doing,” he said…

Fox Business: President Donald Trump cleared China to purchase Iranian oil on Tuesday, eliminating longstanding sanctions limiting the trade relationship. – Trump announced the move while flying to Europe on Air Force One, adding that he hopes China will also purchase “plenty” of oil from the U.S. – “China can now continue to purchase Oil from Iran. Hopefully, they will be purchasing plenty from the U.S., also. It was my Great Honor to make this happen!”

Newsmax: Oil prices are dropping further, and stocks are rallying worldwide Tuesday on hopes that Israel’s war with Iran will not damage the global flow of crude, even if a tentative truce seemed to fray under fire in the morning. – The S&P 500 was 0.7% higher in early trading, following up on even bigger gains for stocks across Europe and Asia, after President Donald Trump said late Monday that Israel and Iran had agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire.”

Breitbart: Left-wing radio host Charlamagne said Democrat lawmakers “sound like hypocrites” for demanding President Donald Trump seek congressional approval for bombing Iranian nuclear facilities. – He noted that past presidents have taken similar action, and it never appeared to be “a thing” that politicians had a total meltdown over. – “Barack Obama did it against Libya.” – “Joe Biden ordered strikes in Iraq and Syria without congressional approval, and Bill Clinton did it with Kosovo.”…

American Conservative: This War Isn’t Over – Israel and Iran agreed to a cease-fire, but it won’t last. – The ceasefire, after a rough start, does seem to be taking hold as of 7 am New York time. – Washington and Tehran assured one another that their recent tit-for-tat exchange wouldn’t proceed to a second round. – For now, Israel seems content to take a breather, if only to restock air-defense interceptors that can shoot down Iran’s ballistic missiles. But Israel’s deep hostility to Iran remains…

American Thinker: Empowering and Destroying Iran’s Nuke Program, A Tale of Two US Presidents – What a difference a real red line makes. – World leaders either become known for quickly learning life’s lessons–or not. – But membership is at times encouraged by the former’s failure to appropriately discourage aggressive behavior early on. – A weak President Carter had little understanding of the extreme brand of Islam the mullahs promoted, resulting in hundreds of thousands of victims in their path…

American Thinker: A Bombing That Would Make Bob Gibson Proud – What we did on Saturday night was a lot more than drop bombs; it was a Gibson fastball to your head to remind everyone who’s pitching. – It was a message to Russia and China and North Korea, and Venezuela. Trump will do what he says. Don’t test him, or you will see some B-2s over your night skies. Sit down and negotiate with him because he can be a real jerk when you make him real mad…

American Thinker: The Diabolical Reactions to Donald Trump’s Courage – Trump’s decision to bomb the Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend was greeted by the usual outrage of the mob plagued by TDS. – First, we must understand the train of events that have led to this war between Israel and Iran over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. – Obama agreed to a nuclear treaty with Iran, proclaiming it would halt the Iranian nuclear program, then freed up billions of dollars for Iran…

Daily Wire: Ex-White House Staff Secretary and Director of the Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden was told that executive privilege is “not justified” in her testimony on Tuesday for a congressional investigation into former President Joe Biden’s mental state and whether he authorized the use of autopen signatures for major executive actions. – Tanden is one of several top former staffers in Biden’s White House who are scheduled to speak with the House Oversight Committee over the next several weeks.

Washington Examiner: DHS announced Tuesday morning that ICE had arrested 11 Iranian nationals, including one person with ties to the Hezbollah terrorist organization, a known or suspected terrorist, and an alleged former sniper from the Iranian army. – Ribvar Karimi is believed to have been an Iranian army sniper from 2018 to 2021, based on the discovery of an Islamic Republic of Iran Army identification card found at the time of his arrest. Karimi initially entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa in October 2024…

Breitbart: Representative Al Green has filed an article of impeachment against President Trump for failing to seek authorization from Congress before he bombed nuclear sites in Iran. – Green’s resolution alleges “abuse of presidential powers by disregarding the separation of powers, devolving American democracy into authoritarianism by unconstitutionally usurping Congress’s power to declare war.”

Red State: Trump Dares AOC and the Democrats to Impeach Him in Fiery Rant, Saying, ‘Make My Day’ – “Stupid AOC,” he began. – The initial object of Trump’s ire is Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who insisted the administration’s greenlighting of precision airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities was an impeachable offense. – Trump wasn’t done and aimed at Representative Jasmine Crockett, whom he feels is even less qualified to be in Congress than AOC, and “a seriously Low IQ individual.”…

Newsmax: The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to defer acting on a resolution introduced by Representative Al Green that called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. – 128 Democrats joined the majority 344-79 vote to set aside Green’s demand that Trump deserved impeachment as a “threat to American democracy” for ordering military strikes against Iran.

Breitbart: NATO’s Sec Gen Predicts President Trump Is ‘Flying Into Another Big Success’ Ahead of A Key Summit – President Trump is due to attend a Royal dinner and stay tonight as the personal guest of the King of the Netherlands at his palace. Evidently, the President is anticipating a successful summit too, with plans for almost all NATO members to agree to work towards increasing their defence spending from a minimum of 2% to 5% in the coming years…

Western Journal: A Biden Appointed Judge Defies SCOTUS Ruling, Going Rogue in Order to Stop Trump – Monday afternoon, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Trump Administration could deport illegal immigrants via “third countries.” – Judge Murphy apparently doesn’t think SCOTUS opinions apply to him. – Funny how judicial deference only works one way, huh? – Yes, according to Murphy, the issue wasn’t decided “properly” before the court, which means he can tie it up some more…

Gateway Pundit: ‘Expect Fireworks Today’ As Stephen Miller Vows The Trump Admin Will Hold The Rogue Biden Judge Accountable for Defying Supreme Court on The Deportation Ruling – U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, appointed by Joe Biden in 2021, declared Monday evening that his May 21 ruling—which blocks the deportation of violent illegal aliens to third-party countries—remains in full effect citing Justice Sotomayor’s dissent to claim his ruling still stands…

American Thinker: Unpacking Trump Derangement Syndrome – TDS reflects deeper issues in U.S. political discourse: confirmation bias, tribalism, and the challenge of distinguishing critique from hyperbole. – For leftists, whatever a Republican says or does is to be condemned while any failure of a Democrat is ignored or deflected, often with a sentence that starts with, “But Trump…” – Even saying the word “Trump” causes my colleagues to visibly react, sometimes alarmingly so…

Zero Hedge: The Democrat Senate Parliamentarian Rejects Certain ‘Drill Baby Drill’ Provisions In The GOP Megabill – GOP leaders insist they’re on track to start voting Thursday, but senators emerging from a tense closed-door briefing Monday night admitted that major parts of the megabill, including key tax language and Medicaid provisions, remain in flux, and the final text still hasn’t been released…

American Thinker: U.S. Energy Dominance Is A Global Good – One of the most underreported and overlooked achievements of President Trump’s first term is that the US became a net oil exporter for the first time in 75 years in 2018. – By 2020, the United States was the world’s leading producer of oil and natural gas; for the first time in 68 years, the United States became a net energy exporter; and crude oil production increased by nearly 40 percent since 2016, setting new records in 2019 and 2020…

Breitbart: Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Tuesday walked through what the U.S. has done to become “energy dominant” under the leadership of President Donald Trump, explaining that the price of oil is a “great testament” to this agenda. – “The uncertainty that we’re seeing in the Middle East, you know, there’s no better time, I think, than to talk about American energy dominance.” – Not only is the United States by far the largest producer of oil in the world today, by a factor of two…

American Thinker: Global Turmoil Proves the Urgent Need For Energy Independence – The world is on fire, and not in the way climate alarmists would have you believe. – Trillions of dollars that should have been spent on exploration, on building new pipelines, on upgrading refineries, and on developing the next generation of extraction technology have instead been funneled into subsidized wind and solar projects that cannot stand on their own….

American Thinker: How To Stop Assassination Porn – Federal law classifies threatening the president or vice president as a class D felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. – The solution is simple: start enforcing the law, beginning with James Comey. – He, of all people, should know better, and a publicity stunt for his latest book is no excuse. – And then go after anyone else foolish enough to advocate harming the President or Vice President. – Then it will stop…

California Globe: Girls’ Sports, Misogyny Masquerading as Empathy – What about 53 Years of Title IX? – Certain truths in life are constant. – They are facts and absolutes. – The Earth orbits the Sun. – A boy is a boy. – A girl is a girl. – A boy cannot be a girl. – A boy who says he is a girl is still a boy. – 2 + 2 will never equal 5. – Yet here we are, face to face with the lunacy that we all must deny biological reality and not only accept the Transgender lie, but we must participate in it…

Resist The Mainstream: ChatGPT Secretly Advises Children on Gender Transitions Without Parental Consent – The comprehensive investigation examined how ChatGPT responded to scenarios involving children experiencing gender dysphoria whose parents do not support their identification as the opposite gender. – For example, when presented with a situation involving a 12-year-old girl struggling with gender dysphoria, ChatGPT’s GPT-40 version provided detailed instructions on pursuing gender transition without parental consent…

American Thinker: Governor Newsom, the Napa Nero That Sipped Cabernet While Los Angeles Burned – If the juxtaposition feels jarring, it’s because it is. – While Los Angeles burned—as rocks and bottles rained down on federal officers and National Guard troops deployed by presidential order—California Governor Gavin Newsom was sipping wine in Napa Valley, at an estate where the flagship Cabernet sells for $360 a bottle…

Auto Blog: Pain at the Pump Is Driving More Americans Into Hybrids and EVs – How pump pain, charging routines, and hybrids draw fuel in a new era of car culture. – “Hybrid sales climbed from 384,400 units in 2015 to about 1.7 million in 2025, while EVs rose from 116,548 to roughly 1.22 million, with many buyers pointing to painful pump prices as the trigger.” – Hybrid’s share jumped from about 3% in 2020, despite the pandemic slump, to over 10% by 2025.

June 23, 2025

One America News: Trump announces a ceasefire between Israel and Iran – “Officially, Iran will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 12th Hour, Israel will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 24th Hour, an Official END to THE 12 DAY WAR will be saluted by the World. During each CEASEFIRE, the other side will remain PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL.” – “On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries…

Washington Free Beacon: What MAGA Split? – A GrayHouse Poll found 84% of respondents called the strikes ‘limited military actions, not war.’ – 82% called the attack “a smarter, more limited operation that can achieve U.S. objectives without leading to a wider war.” – This stands in stark contrast to mainstream media coverage warning of a “civil war” and “split” within the MAGA base over Trump’s support for Israel and decision to strike Iran’s nuclear program…

Epoch Times: What to Know About Iran’s Attack on US Facilities in Qatar and Al Udeid Base – Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base is a critical military installation for the U.S., but Iran’s attack appears primarily symbolic. – Al Udeid is technically a Qatari base and was built in secret by Qatar throughout the 1990s. It first welcomed U.S. troops in the early 2000s following U.S. operations in the region related to the global war on terror…

American Spectator: Jimmy Carter’s Iran – On January 20, 1977, when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated, he was handed a gift, cultivated by the hard work of previous presidents and their administrations. – That gift was two pillars of stability for U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East: Israel and Iran were our two top allies in the region, period. – Then he ousted the Shah of Iran and gave us the Ayatollah. – Now we’re still trying to clean up his mess…

American Thinker: The Dangerous Assumptions Of Open-Source Secrecy – Too often, we give information away to our geopolitical enemies because we casually assume that they’re already read in on it. – This same mentality seems to be creeping into mainstream media and commentary. – We must ask ourselves: Are we upholding security through silence, or undermining it through arrogance? – The belief that “everyone already knows” is not only lazy—it’s dangerous…

Breitbart: Senate Majority Leader John Thune, The U.S. Senate is on track to pass the budget reconciliation plan, better known as the “big, beautiful bill,” out of the Senate by President Donald Trump’s preferred July 4 deadline.” – “The one thing I’ve discovered in my time in Washington is if you don’t put deadlines out there, nothing gets done, and this stuff can drag on and on endlessly,” Thune explained.

Townhall: BREAKING, Iran’s Retaliation Has Begun – Iran has launched seven ballistic missiles at American military bases in Qatar and Iraq as part of Operation Basharat al-Fath. – Sirens are also sounding in Kuwait and Bahrain. Witnesses have reported explosions in the air and on the ground. – President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with his national security team in the Oval Office at 1 pm. Over the weekend, he warned the regime not to issue a response against U.S. targets…

Fox News: The six Iranian missiles fired at the Al-Udeid US base were intercepted over Qatar. – Iran launched the missiles on Monday, retaliating for President Donald Trump’s attack on Tehran’s nuclear program this weekend. – Qatar condemned the attack and said its air defenses successfully neutralized the attack, and said there were no casualties. – The IDF on Tuesday warned Iranians living in a portion of Tehran of an upcoming military operation and urged them to leave the area or put their lives at risk…

One America News: Ex-Clinton and Biden national staffer Jamie Metzi says Harris would not have had the courage to order a ‘bold’ Iran strike. – “Although I believe electing Kamala Harris would have been better for our democracy [and] society,” he went on. “I also believe VP Harris would not have had the courage or fortitude to take such an essential step as the president took last night.” – “Iran has been at war with the US for 46 years and its regime has murdered thousands of American citizens,” Metzl continued.

Breitbart: Iran Threatened the Head of the U.N. Nuclear Agency for Revealing the Extent of Iran’s Illicit Enrichment – Ali Larijani, an advisor to Iranian “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed to “settle accounts” with Rafael Grossi following the end of the current conflict. – Grossi, an Argentine career diplomat, has led the IAEA since December 2019 and oversaw inspections on Iran’s nuclear site in the past…

Zero Hedge: Stocks surged and oil dumped after Iran retaliated with strikes on US bases in Iraq and Qatar. – Energy stocks were clubbed like a baby seal as oil prices plunged. – Interestingly, Goldman Sachs’ Geopolitical Risk basket (composed of defense, oil producers, and oil tankers) dropped notably today. It appears the market is calling Iran’s bluff here and basically saying this is all theater…

Slay News: Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Calls on His People to End Islamic Republic – Pahlavi, “Today, it is clearer than ever that the Islamic Republic is collapsing.” – “Credible reports indicate that Ali Khamenei’s family and the families of senior regime officials are making preparations to flee Iran. – “The regime is on its last legs, in towns and cities across the country. – “The military is fractured and the people are united.” – “This is our Berlin Wall moment.”…

Daily Wire: In the wake of President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, Iranian General Ebrahim Jabbari, who serves as the senior advisor to the military’s commander-in-chief, boasted on Iran’s Channel 3 that the Iranians will chop off Trump’s hands, slit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s throat, and annihilate all U.S. military assets in the Middle East in the “blink of an eye.”

Slay News: The White House Slams CNN for Peddling ‘Fake News’ on The Iran Strikes – White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, “This is Fake News. – The White House made bipartisan courtesy calls to Congressional Leadership and spoke to ⁦Senator Chuck Schumer before the strike.” – ⁦” Representative Jeffries could not be reached until after, but he was briefed.”

Slay News: Rasmussen Poll: A Plurality Of Americans Support Trump Striking Iranian Nuclear Facilities Without Deploying Troops – If Iran had been allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, there was a high chance that the regime would allow its terrorist proxies to use such weapons, most likely against Israel. – The need to destroy Iran’s nuclear research has existed for years, but it wasn’t until Israel decapitated Iran’s air capabilities that striking Iran’s facilities became a safe bet…

American Wire: President Trump seems to have moved beyond destroying Iran’s nuclear weapons capability to toppling the mad mullahs themselves, teasing a “regime change” that would end the Islamic Republic’s decades-long reign of terror. – Trump, “It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change,’ but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change???”

Geller Report: China Issues A Warning to Iran After Their Threats to Close the Strait of Hormuz – A large majority of oil to China goes through the Straits of Hormuz, with the US just a tiny portion. – So Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz means it is attacking its most powerful ally. – VP Vance: “Our biggest red line is the Iranian nuclear weapons program, but if they disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, I think that would be suicidal for the Iranians themselves, as their entire economy runs through the Strait…

New York Post: President Trump felt The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave him “the middle finger” when Iran shrugged off his push for diplomacy, solidifying his decision to bomb Tehran’s nuclear facilities, according to a new report. – In the final moments before Saturday’s airstrike, Trump’s frustration with Tehran reached its limit, with the president sure the attack against the Fordow fuel enrichment plant would go off without a hitch, despite the flood of reports that he was still undecided…

Newsmax: Trump Warns Russia Against Giving Nukes to Iran – “Did I hear Former President Medvedev, from Russia, casually throwing around the ‘N word’ (Nuclear!), and saying that he and other countries would supply Nuclear Warheads to Iran?” – “Did he really say that, or is it just a figment of my imagination? If he did say that, and if confirmed, please let me know, IMMEDIATELY.” – “The ‘N word’ should not be treated so casually,” I guess that’s why Putin’s ‘THE BOSS.'”

Washington Free Beacon: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was “very, very close” to completing its war goals in Iran but would not end the military campaign until Iran’s nuclear as well as their missile programs are fully dismantled. – The U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear program did “very serious damage” to Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment facility, and he full extent of the damage was still being assessed…

Breitbart: Israel Attacked Sites Associated With The Tyranny of The Ayatollahs, Evin Prison, Basij, IRGC, and ‘Israel Doomsday Clock.’ – Israel’s Army Radio reported that in its attacks on the IRGC, the IDF departed from its usual practice of sending warnings ahead of airstrikes to minimize casualties. – Basij is the paramilitary force responsible for policing political dissent. – Israel also hit access roads to the Fordow nuclear site that the U.S. bombed over the weekend…

Victor Davis Hanson: Ten Thoughts on What Trump’s Strike Means for Iran, the Middle East, and American Power. – 1. What are we to make of Saturday night’s destruction of the three Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan? – 2. What happens now? Won’t Iran release its terrorist cells in the U.S., or attack U.S. bases nearby – 3. What will be the reaction of the Iranian street or the military? – 4. What was Trump doing by announcing a 1-14 day window to decide the use of force?…

American Thinker: Midnight Hammer vs. Midnight Yammers – You’d hope that just once, our legacy media and the Democrats would take a moment, just a moment, to be American instead of partisan. – In this case, surprise resulted in zero casualties on our side. – Yet, 12 hours later, the Sunday shows were already demanding “guarantees.” – “Can you say with 100% confidence?” – “Can you guarantee the targets were obliterated?” – “Can you say with certainty this won’t escalate?”…

Liberty Daily: President Trump Says He Will Campaign to Primary Representative Thomas Massie – Trump, “Massie is weak, ineffective, and votes ‘NO’ on virtually everything put before him no matter how good something may be.” – Massie has also introduced a bipartisan War Powers Resolution with colleague California Representative Ro Khanna that would direct “the President to terminate the use of US Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran…

American Thinker: End game for the Mullahs? – Iran is not only a threat to Israel, but to our entire civilization. – Iran is not only a threat to Israel, but a threat to our entire civilization, by virtue of supporting terrorist cells that are very much alive and well throughout the West. – Hence, a denuclearized and weakened Iran, which is less capable of supporting its terrorist proxies, is a positive step forward…

Jonathan Turley: “Where’s Jackie?” – Why The Public Needs Answers On Biden’s Alleged Incapacity. – Joe Biden asked in September 2022 if Representative Jackie Walorski, who had died weeks earlier in a car accident, was in a meeting. – Joe not only issued a formal statement of condolence, but he also attended her memorial service. – That moment should have been a wake-up call. – In Washington parlance, it left no room for “plausible deniability” about whether Biden was still fit to be POTUS…

Resist The Mainstream: AG Pam Bondi has announced a firm federal crackdown on sanctuary cities, declaring the practice will be effectively over by the end of 2025. – In a recent Fox News interview, Bondi emphasized the administration’s determination to eliminate sanctuary policies swiftly and without delay. – Bondi warned that harboring illegal immigrants and tipping them off ahead of ICE raids will no longer be tolerated…

Washington Examiner: Amazon, Meta, and Reddit all make money running advertisements for corporations that the DOD determined are either controlled by or work closely with the Chinese military. – The trio of tech giants sold ads to DJI, Huawei, Hikvision, and Dahua, all of which appear on the Pentagon’s 1260h entity list and have faced reports linking them to the Chinese Communist Party’s repression of ethnic minorities in its far western provinces…

American Thinker: How Biden’s Border Policies Burned America – From catch and release, to ending DNA testing to prevent child trafficking, the Biden administration’s immigration failures were epic. – Critics argue that this reflected a deliberate policy shift away from deterrent-focused measures. – The Biden administration suggested that the surge resulted from global migration trends, regional instability, and inherited challenges, not deliberate policy choices. The facts listed below tend to support the former…

Center For Immigration Studies: A Compendium of Recent Academic Work Shows The Negative Impacts of Immigration (Updated) – The purpose of this compendium is to dispel self-serving myths that immigration has no downsides for the United States. The truth is that the costs and benefits of immigration are routinely measured, weighed, and debated in academic journals. – The following summaries of 72 recent academic works show the negative impacts of immigration in areas ranging from labor markets to health…

Fox News: The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Trump administration’s request to stay a lower court injunction blocking them from deporting individuals to third countries without prior notice, a near-term win for the Trump administration as it looks to quickly enforce its immigration crackdown. – Justices on the high court ruled 6-3 to stay the lower court injunction, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting.

Breitbart: More than 100 Americans were victimized by what ICE officials are calling a “massive identity theft” scheme by illegal aliens working at the Glenn Valley Foods meatpacking plant in Omaha, Nebraska. – On June 10, ICE agents discovered more than 70 illegal aliens were working at the meatpacking plant, some for several decades. – ICE agents reveal that illegal aliens operated a sophisticated identity theft scheme that allowed them to pass through E-Verify using stolen Social Security Numbers…

California Globe: California’s Latest Gas Tax Hike Will Arrive Just in Time for the July 4th Holiday – Governor Newsom, the California Legislature, and CARB worked hand in glove to restrict the availability of oil and gas and to increase the cost of gas at the pump. – California Democrats killed bills that would have suspended the Low Carbon Fuel Standard gas tax increase of nearly 65 cents a gallon from going into effect on July 1st. – Now everyone in California will then be paying more than $5.00 for a gallon of regular gas.

American Thinker: Send Us Students, Not Troublemakers – Some foreign students are more interested in bringing their problems and grievances rather than using the opportunity to get an education. – Why should U.S. universities turn into battlegrounds for every international conflict known to man? – Stay home and march with your country’s flag. – The Trump Administration has had enough, and who can blame them? This is from Tippingsights…

Breitbart: The Senate Parliamentarian Rejects Eight More Parts of The Big Beautiful Bill Without 60 Votes – 1. State and local assistance to conduct border security and immigration enforcement – 2. Increasing the FERS contribution rate for new civil servants if they don’t agree to become “at-will” employees – 3. Imposing a $350 fee for federal employees to file a case with the MSPB – 4. Granting agencies the authority to rescind funds via an incentive program for federal employees to identify unnecessary funds and return them to the Treasury…

Daily Fetched: The FBI Arrests 700 Surrounding The Anti-ICE Riots With Bongino Warning, and “We’re Not Done Yet” – Bongino shared updates on several major FBI-led operations, including Operation Restoring Justice, which resulted in the arrest of 205 child sex predators and 764 individuals identified as distributors of child exploitation material. – The operation also led to the rescue of 115 children. – In a separate initiative, Operation Soteria Shield…

Daily Fetched: Barron Trump’s $40 Million Crypto Win Shocks Wall Street, With Forbes Confirming His Massive Profit – This whopping amount is said to far exceed what some of his older siblings made when they were his age. – Nathan Pearce, “He’s this super-bright kid,” “He’s well beyond his years in terms of experience, knowledge, history.” – He is very hospitable and very fascinating to talk to.” – Time will tell if he follows in his father’s footsteps…

Daily Wire: Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman, recently tapped by President Trump as the central bank’s top bank overseer, said Monday the time to cut interest rates may be fast approaching as she is growing more worried about risks to the job market and is less concerned tariffs will cause an inflation problem. – Last week, the Federal Reserve left its overnight target-rate range fixed between 4.25% and 4.5% in a wait-and-see mode…

New York Post: A Shocking poll shows Zohran Mamdani overtaking Andrew Cuomo in NYC based on the use of ranked-choice in their primary. – Over five months, Mamdani’s support has surged from 1% to 32%, while Cuomo finishes near where he began.

Townhall: The APC alleges that the YMCA is using taxpayer funds to impose policies allowing biological males to enter female locker rooms, restrooms, cabins, and other private spaces, all without requiring parental notification. – The group filed a formal Title IX complaint with the HHS and HUD.

June 22, 2025

Epoch Times: Here Is How Operation Midnight Hammer on Iran Unfolded During the U.S. Military Strikes Against Iran’s Nuclear Facilities – The Timeline – The US Dropped 14 Heavy Bunker Busters – Submarines Launch More Than 2 Dozen Tomahawks – Lots of Decoys and Deception – More Than 125 US Aircraft Were Used – No Shots Fired by Iran – The Damage Assessments Is Ongoing…

One America News: Newly released satellite imagery showcases the aftermath of the “bunker-buster” bombs on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility. – The attack struck three Iranian nuclear facilities, including Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan. – Before and after images reveal that the entire topography of the mountain protecting Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment site changed following the detonation of 14 separate 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs…

One America News: Vice President JD Vance stated on Sunday that the United States is not at war with Iran, but rather “we’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.” – Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” with Kristen Welker, Vance declared the U.S. strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities was an operational success. – “What we did is we destroyed the Iranian nuclear program. I think we set that program back substantially, without endangering the lives of the American pilots.”…

American Thinker: More than Iran: Was the U.S. strike a global power signal? – You can be sure that our geopolitical enemies and rivals were watching closely how Trump handled the Iranian threat. – While the strike achieved its stated aim—halting Iran’s march toward nuclear weapons capability—it also broadcast a not-so-subtle message across the globe: don’t misread American restraint as inability to swiftly and decisevely when appropriate…

American Thinker: The Iranian Navy Isn’t A Match For The U.S. Navy, Nor An Enraged World – Also, when you cut off a significant percentage of the world’s oil supply, it’s not just the U.S. and Israel that are your enemies. – If you put all the factors enumerated below together, Iran probably doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Satan’s domain of enforcing a blockade. – And if it somehow manages to do so, it will have turned the entire world, including its allies, against it…

Washington Examiner: Border czar Tom Homan revealed Sunday that 1,272 Iranian nationals were released during the Biden administration, who were among the “over 10 million people” who crossed into the United States illegally. – Homan’s warning comes after President Donald Trump announced on Saturday night that the U.S. struck Iran, in which “a full payload” of bombs was dropped on three nuclear sites in the country…

Daily Signal: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “Iran Must Communicate Directly With US.” – “They Want to Pass Messages and Notes Like We’re in Third Grade.” – “If Iran retaliates for Saturday night’s air strikes, it will be the worst mistake it’s ever made.” – “If they attack us, then I think we have capabilities they haven’t even seen yet.” – “It would be a terrible mistake on their part.”…

Gateway Pundit: Why Iran’s Threats Ring Hollow – An Analysis of Tehran’s Limited Retaliation Capabilities After Operation Midnight Hammer By Antonio Graceffo. – While Iran possesses short-range missiles that can reach some regional U.S. bases, defense analysts agree that its ability to sustain military action is limited. – There are practical constraints on Iran’s threat to close the Strait. – Much of the waterway lies in Omani territorial waters, and the strait is too wide for Iran to close entirely…

American Spectator: MOPping Up Iran – Iran’s ayatollahs have been at war with us since 1979. – The endgame must be the end of the ayatollahs’ regime; otherwise, they may limp into the future and won’t stop being dangerous. – There are scattered reports about Iranian bigwigs fleeing the country. – Too many have also forgotten that Barack Obama bribed Iran into his 2015 nuclear weapons agreement with $1.7 billion in payments, some in cash, that went to pay for more terrorism…

One America News: Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev claims multiple nations are ‘ready to directly supply Iran’ with nuclear weapons following U.S. attack. – “Iran’s “enrichment of nuclear material, and now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons will continue.” – Medvedev also claimed that a “number of countries” are “ready to directly supply Iran with nuclear warheads,” without directly naming any of the supposed nations…

New York Post: Inside Operation Midnight Hammer – The US dropped 14 bunker-buster bombs on Iran’s Fordow nuke site in the biggest B-2 raid ever – The highly coordinated strike took Tehran by utter surprise Saturday night, with the terrorist state not launching any attacks at incoming American military personnel. – The 25-minute operation inside Iran began at 6:40 p.m. ET, with a lead American B-2 bomber dropped two GBU-57 “bunker buster” munitions on the “first of several aim points at Fordow”…

Fox News: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine say the US strikes on Iran were carried out with ‘incredible and overwhelming success.’ – General Caine addressed the media and explained the strikes, dubbed “Operation Midnight Hammer,” included the use of submarines, dozens of Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles, and the “longest B-2 spirit bomber mission since 2001.” – This was a highly classified mission with very few people in Washington knowing the timing or nature of this plan…

Wall Street Journal: The U.S. Strike on Iran Began With a Ruse – A feint to the west drew attention, while stealth bombers and submarines maneuvered for the real attack. – The net effect of the maneuvers and communications was the impression that Iran had more time before the bombs came. – “Decoy indeed,” said one of the defense officials of the westward feint that masked the bombers that carried out the attack. “‘Hiding’ them and preserving the element of surprise was critical.”

Epoch Times: After The US Strikes, Trump Threatens ‘Far Greater’ Attacks If Iran Doesn’t Make Peace – “Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism. – “Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace or future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier,” the president said. – “There are many targets left in Iran, but the ones that U.S. forces struck on Saturday were the most difficult.”…

New York Post: Dramatic photos show Trump and his team in the Situation Room for Iran strike, but a key person isn’t seen – Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who the president had publicly split with this week over assessments on Iran’s nuclear program, was notably absent from the dramatic photos. – Gabbard had claimed to lawmakers in March that “Iran is not building a nuclear weapon,” but was directly contradicted by Trump in recent days, who said he didn’t “care what she said.”

Powerline: In his brief address last night, President Trump thanked God and added, no doubt off-script, “We love you, God.” – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed similar sentiments when he filmed this brief video last night, thanking President Trump and America for joining the fight against the mullahs…

Roger Kimball: What Trump’s Critics Still Don’t Understand About Iran – Trump’s Iran policy confounds critics because it’s not about war or appeasement—it’s about weakening Iran without revealing the playbook. = For the last 46 years, Iran has been murdering its people and exporting terrorism either directly or through proxies in Lebanon, Syria, among Palestinians, and elsewhere. – In my view, Iran’s nuclear program is merely one piece of the puzzle that Israel and Trump are trying to solve…

American Thinker: Trump’s precise, carefully calibrated strike sends a strong message – While pundits scream “war,” President Trump is doing what the last three administrations refused to do: act with precision, clarity, and backbone. – The strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure wasn’t a declaration of war. – It was a declaration that America will no longer bow to threats while her enemies build weapons in the shadows.

Info Wars: – Iran has reacted with defiance to US strikes on its nuclear facilities, vowing to continue enriching uranium. – The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) issued a statement in which it condemned the strikes as “barbaric” and said the national program for enriching uranium, “which is the result of the blood of nuclear martyrs,” will not be stopped.

American Thinker: Donald Trump will not embroil America in a long war – His actions during his first term prove that Trump takes action to powerfully and resolutely stop problems before they escalate. – In the past, Trump has used military power effectively without deploying ground forces. He knows how to leverage the military to achieve victories without boots on the ground. – Time and again, Trump has resolved conflicts using military power without committing troops or declaring war…

Townhall: Democrats Panic After Trump Obliterates Iran’s Nuclear Threat And Push A War Powers Stunt While The World Applauds America – In a move that reeks of political theater, Democrats are scrambling to undercut President Donald Trump’s decisive leadership. – Rather than standing united against the world’s leading sponsor of terror, Democrats are more interested in handcuffing the Commander-in-Chief and scoring points with their anti-Trump base…

Newsmax: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demands immediate enforcement of the War Powers Act to rein in what he calls “erratic” actions by President Donald Trump against Iran. – The War Powers Resolution, or act, as it is commonly referenced, is designed to allow Congress to force a president to get congressional approval before initiating significant military actions. There are also specific requirements that a president must follow when deploying troops into conflict…

New York Post: Iran orders closure of the Strait of Hormuz, putting one-fifth of the world’s oil supply at risk – The move, which could block $1 billion in oil shipments per day, is likely to send oil prices soaring. – It will come into effect pending a final decision by Iran’s Supreme Council. – The strait connecting the Gulf of Oman with the Persian Gulf is one of the world’s most critical chokepoints, just 20 miles wide at its narrowest point…

Western Journal: The Chinese auto industry could be headed for calamity after at least six cities across the country suspended trade-in subsidies for car purchasers, partly due to government funding running out. – China’s economy relies heavily on subsidies for various major items. These include cars, electronics, and everyday appliances. This news comes at a time when the Chinese are struggling with wages, employment figures, and property values dipping…

American Thinker: Americans Shouldn’t Have to Subsidize Our Mistreatment – Taxpayer dollars are funding the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles and elsewhere. – Domestic agitators set up “non-profits” and other kinds of “non-governmental organizations” with deceptively innocuous names to receive monetary grants. – At the very least, Democrat politicians who give aid and comfort to criminals should be held legally liable for the costs of those criminals’ destructive actions…

Resist The Mainstream: The FBI has renewed warnings for all smartphone users to delete suspicious text messages, as cybercriminals ramp up a major smishing campaign targeting Americans. – The agency’s advisory follows a wave of scams involving fake messages that attempt to trick users into clicking malicious links or making payments…

June 21, 2025

New York Post: Progressive Squad Member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a chorus of other Democrats called on President Trump to be impeached after he decided to bomb the top nuclear facilities of Iran, blasting the move as “unconstitutional.” – Earlier in the day on Saturday, Trump announced that he had ordered strikes to target Iran’s Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan nuclear sites. Trump noted that all American planes successfully departed Iranian airspace and were “safely on their way home.”

Breitbart: FAFO, The USA Bombed Iran And Their Nuclear Sites Were ‘Totally Obliterated’ – Three Targets Were Hit, Including Fordow – POTUS Warns Tehran It Has A Choice Between ‘Peace and Tragedy,’ Indicating He Wants This to End – But Says There Are More, Easier Targets If It Becomes Necessary – Speaker Mike Johnson, “The military operations in Iran should serve as a clear reminder to our adversaries and allies that President Trump means what he says. – The President gave Iran’s leader every opportunity to make a deal…

Western Journal: Israel Killed 9 of Iran’s Top 10 Nuke Scientists in Their Sleep Using A Special, Unidentified Weapon – Israel conducted the operation simultaneously at night so there would be no time to tip off the others. – Included were: Fereydoun Abbasi, Mohammad Mahdi Tehranchi, Akbar Matlali Zadeh, Saeed Beraji, Amir Hassan Faqahi, Abd al-Hamid Minushahr, Mansour Asgari, Ahmad Reza Davalparki Daryani, and Ali Bakhayi Kathehremi.

Slay News: A new Inspector General report found the Biden administration allowed rampant abuse of remote work by federal employees. – The new report, released by the Office of Personnel Management on Friday, details a culture lacking any oversight or effective management of remote workers in the wake of the pandemic. – The policies led to massive numbers of workers staying home in both the public and private sectors…

Zero Hedge: The Left Coast’s $600M Fish-Killing Grift – The removal of four dams along the Klamath River, the largest such project in U.S. history, resulting in an “ungodly amount” of sediment being unleashed that decimated fish habitats, and a rural agricultural economy while undermining the stated goal of restoring the river’s ecosystem. – Keely Covello, of AmericaUnWon, warns that similar dam removal projects are being planned all across the West…

Slay News: A Federal Appeals Court Cancels California’s ‘Gun Rationing’ Law – The law allowed law-abiding citizens in California to purchase only one firearm every 30 days. – It became one of the strictest and irrational gun laws in the entire United States. – Thousands of law-abiding gun owners in California will no longer have to wait 30 days to purchase a new firearm…

Gateway Pundit: Six B-2 Stealth Bombers Are Moving Towards Guam as President Trump is scheduled to return to the White House and Participate in a National Security Meeting Tonight – Each B-2 can carry two 30,000 lb bunker buster bombs. – Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility is believed to be 300 feet deep inside a mountain. – Experts say that one bunker buster can penetrate the earth 200 feet, and a second bunker buster dropped on the same target could cause more damage further underground.

Washington Examiner: The conflict continued to rage over Friday night and Saturday morning as the Israelis claimed they eliminated three top commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, while two Iranian drones penetrated Israel’s air defenses and inflicted damage. – Since it began last week, the Israel-Iran conflict has claimed hundreds of lives. – Israeli strikes have reportedly killed over 400 people in Iran, while the less-effective Iranian assaults have killed at least 24.

Gateway Pundit: Did Putin Just Wash His Hands of Iran? – In January, just before President Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, Iran and Russia signed a “comprehensive strategic partnership treaty.” – When asked if Russia was ready to provide Iran with modern weapons to defend itself against Israeli strikes, Putin said a strategic partnership treaty signed with Tehran in January did not envisage military cooperation…

American Thinker: If You Oppose Donald Trump on Iran, You’re Backing Nukes – Trump, unlike his critics, understands what a terrible threat Iran poses to America and the world if it gains nuclear weapons. – Trump is not taking reckless risks. – He’s not acting on impulse. – He is weighing options carefully, using top-secret intelligence that no outsider has access to. – He waits to make decisions at the last possible moment—because war is unpredictable, and he is a master strategist…

American Thinker: The Most Important Decision of Trump’s Presidency – The United States, Israel, and the world stand at a turning point in history. – The genocidal Iranian regime is reeling from Israel’s Rising Lion military campaign. – Decisive action now can ensure that the regime never again rises, averting a future nuclear attack on the U.S., Israel, and other allies. – Defeating Iran’s regime will prevent history’s darkest chapter from returning. – The time to act is now. – If not now, when?…

American Thinker: 46 Years of Economic War: Iran’s Assault on America – Since 1979, Iran’s regime hasn’t just waged ideological or military campaigns, it has conducted a relentless, calculated war on America’s economic well-being. – The time for soft-handed diplomacy is over. – Decades of economic sabotage, proxy terror, and sanctions evasion have proved one thing: Iran’s regime doesn’t respond to appeasement. – It ruthlessly exploits any opening in view…

Epoch Times: The UN’s Nuclear Director’s Opinion on Iran’s Nuclear Program Status – IAEA director general Rafael Grossi said that the agency “confirmed that Iran does have, even now, enough material for several warheads,” but suggested there is no proof the material would be used for nuclear weapons. – Grossi said that Iran’s nuclear capabilities have likely not been set back significantly due to the Israeli airstrikes…

Gateway Pundit: Minnesota Shooting Suspect Vance Boelter Claims in a Letter To The FBI that the Military Secretly Trained Him — He Alleges Governor Tim Walz Ordered Senator Amy Klobuchar’s Assassination – On Friday, Fox News host Jesse Watters broke the explosive allegation during his primetime show…

New York Post: Nancy Pelosi raked in millions last year, and her portfolio outperformed every large hedge fund with stunning returns. – Pelosi raked in between $7.8 and $42.5 million in 2024, meaning her estimated net worth with venture capitalist hubby Paul Pelosi could now top out at $413 million. – A large chunk of the couple’s fortune has come from a sizable stock portfolio and timely trades, all done in Paul Pelosi’s name…

America First Report: The Trump administration is mulling policies to make it more difficult and costly for pharmaceutical companies to promote prescription drugs directly to consumers. – Concerns about the industry’s excessive influence on news reports, enabled by their mighty purse strings, further motivate efforts to curb the incessant bombardment of ads for pills aimed at Americans. – Higher US drug prices yield massive corporate profits, which can be reinvested in higher sales through advertising…

Townhall: In a blatant power grab, New York City’s Democratic leadership is pushing to include illegal immigrants in the 2030 Census. – By inflating population counts with non-citizens, Democrats aim to secure more congressional seats, more federal funding, and more influence, all while sidelining the voices of lawful residents.

Washington Free Beacon: A Michael Bloomberg-backed fellowship program known for placing attorneys in state attorney general offices to spearhead climate litigation has quietly broadened its scope, sending staffers to work in state agencies that regulate the energy sector. – Louisiana’s attorney general says the arrangement may violate ethics laws…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Down With Monarchy Edition – This week, Democrats turned out across the country to protest against monarchy. That is apparently when the president tries to execute the laws as required by Article II. Anti-law enforcement riots continued, although by the weekend, they were petering out.

June 20, 2025

American Thinker: Saving Persia from Iran – Short of the Ayatollahs saying “uncle,” any joint IAF/USAF air operation, if successful, will be both definitive and historic. – There is a trifecta of good reasons for finishing Iran whilst it is on the ropes: tactical, operational, and strategic. – If regime change in Tehran becomes an “unintended” consequence of the Iran/Israel war, few would mourn the passing of the Ayatollah era. – To ignore the Iranian nuclear threat would be to repeat the Clinton-era Pakistan folly…

Zero Hedge: The U.S. Ramps Up Surveillance Amid Fears Of Iran-Backed Sleeper Cells – Intelligence and law enforcement officials remain focused on Hezbollah-linked sleeper cells and IRGC proxy networks, which could be directed to carry out retaliatory actions if the U.S. initiates kinetic attacks against Iran to support Israel. – The threat from Iranian operatives has worried administration officials since Iranian General Qasem Soleimani was assassinated on Trump’s orders in January 2020…

Center Square: Here’s how American taxpayers will be impacted if the ‘big, beautiful bill’ fails – The average taxpayer will face a 22% tax hike, and 91% of American taxpayers will see their guaranteed income deduction slashed by nearly half. – About 40 million families would also see their Child Tax Credit – currently capped at $2,000 under the TCJA – halved, while the paid family leave tax credit initiated in 2017 would expire. – American businesses would also take a major hit. Additionally,…

Epoch Times: The Supreme Court Ruled That Energy Producers Are Allowed To Sue California Over Emissions Rules – A federal appeals court previously ruled that the companies challenging the regulations lacked standing to sue. – On June 12, President Donald Trump said that he had signed into law a congressional measure that blocks “California’s attempt to impose a nationwide electric vehicle mandate and to regulate national fuel economy by regulating carbon emissions.”

Epoch Times: The U.S. Military Scrambles for Ways to Protect Bases From Drone Warfare – The U.S. military is rushing to protect its domestic bases from the type of drone attack that hobbled the Russian nuclear fleet, but it lacks the infrastructure. – A key factor is the Byzantine patchwork of local, state, and federal laws governing drone flights and the military’s own rules of engagement. – Because of weaknesses, the Army is exploring the use of directed energy weapons in its counter-drone operations.

American Thinker: Fossil Fuel Use Is Growing – The digital battleground remains an arena for the ongoing tug-of-war between the realities of economics and physics and fanciful rhetoric about a Utopian energy transition. – For example, the energy sector in China cares little about such fantasies. – Beijing began building 94.5 gigawatts of new coal-powered capacity in 2024, in addition to resuming 3.3 GW of suspended projects. – This is their highest level of construction in the past 10 years!…

Breitbart: JD Vance Warned Democrat Governors of The Consequences of Letting ‘Rioters Burn’ Their Cities – “The President has a very simple proposal, to everybody and every city, every community, every town — whether big or small, if you enforce your laws, and if you protect federal law enforcement, we’re not going to send in the National Guard because it’s unnecessary.” – But, if you let violent rioters burn great American cities to the ground, then of course we’re going to send infederal law enforcement.”

Daily Signal: What ‘No Kings’ Protests Prove About Democrats – Legacy media portrays the nationwide protests as the will of the common people, but numbers don’t lie, and the so-called voices Democrats are celebrating are not those of regular Americans, but of billionaires and moguls who are strongly opposed to reducing illegal migration and enforcing immigration laws…

American Thinker: Government finally recognizes the Second Amendment – How can the DOJ’s act of defending a fundamental constitutional right be surprising, or even astonishing? – Colonial Americans would have been delighted to have had AR-15s or their select-fire military cousins. For them, and us in our representative republic, the issue is not the gun but the principle that free men have the unalienable right to keep and bear arms. – Technology changes; the principles of liberty do not.

Breitbart: Pakistan has nominated President Donald Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for his “decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership” in brokering a ceasefire between India and Pakistan. – Last May, Trump revealed that his administration had mediated a “full and immediate ceasefire” between Pakistan and India after the two countries had been exchanging attacks and counterattacks…

Western Journal: The Black Lives Matter Organization Uses Juneteenth To Demand White People ‘Pay Reparations’ – “White folks …” the statement read, “It’s time to pay reparations. Commit yourselves to real reparations policies that hold accountable the government, white-supremacist capitalism, and white people, who continue to benefit from our generations of stolen labor.”

American Thinker: Black racism is bigger than basketball – At what point can we call a spade a spade? – Some black players are upset because Caitlin Clark is such an outstanding performer on the court: how dare a white, straight woman be competition to traditionally superior black players? – It’s time to face these ongoing actions and behaviors and call them out for what they are: black racism…

Western Journal: Senior Advisor for the U.S. Agency for Global Media Kari Lake Announces ‘Mass Terminations’ in a Bid to ‘Shrink the Out-of-Control Federal Bureaucracy’ – “Reduction in Force Termination Notices were sent to 639 employees at USAGM and Voice of America, part of a long-overdue effort to dismantle a bloated, unaccountable bureaucracy.”

New York Post: Iran said Friday it would refuse to hold nuclear talks with the US while it was still under attack from Israel. – This comes after President Trump essentially gave a two-week deadline to allow for renewed negotiations. – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi vowed there was no room for negotiations with the United States “until Israeli aggression stops.” – He accused the US, too, of being a “partner to Israeli crime against Iran.”…

Daily Fetched: Iranian military commander Mohsen Rezaei says his country moved its nuclear materials to secure locations following the Israeli strikes on key facilities. – The announcement came as President Donald Trump gave Tehran a two-week window to negotiate a deal…

Zero Hedge: The USS Nimitz carrier strike group is en route to Middle East waters and is expected to arrive this weekend, according to a US official, after the carrier departed the South China Sea on Monday. – This is the latest confirmation that the US Navy will now have two aircraft carriers in the Middle East at the same time. While reports previewed this movement earlier this week, making it no surprise, this is the first revelation of a more precise timeline…

Zero Hedge: Officials, briefed on the limitations of the GBU-57, a 30,000-pound conventional bunker-buster bomb, are worried that even if President Trump gives the order, it may not be powerful enough to reach and destroy the deeply buried site. – The report described that conventional bombs might have to be used to soften the terrain, followed by the dropping of a tactical nuclear weapon from a B-2 stealth bomber.

Townhall: This Is Why President Trump Gave Iran Two Weeks to Give Up Its Nuclear Ambitions – Trump does not want to repeat the same mistakes of the Obama administration, which took out former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in a comprehensive NATO bombing operation. – Gaddafi’s subsequent death left a vacuum that various regional powers fought to fill, making the situation even worse. – “So there is a concern that we could get somebody worse than Khamenei.”

Daily Wire: Why Iran’s Cluster Bomb Attacks On Israel Are A Major Escalation – Cluster bombs are widely condemned due to the fact that they’re impossible to target. “Cluster munitions have warheads that burst and scatter numerous bomblets, and are known for causing indiscriminate harm to civilians. – The evidence that Iran used cluster bombs is overwhelming. – Iran likely targeted Beersheba with a cluster bomb in its latest attack on Israel, footage shows…

New York Post: – Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran has colonized Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and many other countries in their region. – Every reasonable voice agrees that Iran cannot ever acquire nuclear weapons. They have brought terrorism as far abroad as Buenos Aires and London and killed hundreds of American troops in Lebanon and Iraq. – A whopping 65% of MAGA Republicans support US strikes to finish off Iran’s nuclear project. – Now all eyes are on President Trump…

Epoch Times: SCOTUS Allows Victims of Terrorist Attacks Overseas to Sue in US Courts – The decision reverses a federal appeals court that found U.S. courts lacked authority to hear cases on terrorist attacks taking place outside the country. – The Anti-Terrorism Act was inspired by a lawsuit brought against the PLO for the 1985 killing of wheelchair-bound American cruise ship passenger Leon Klinghoffer, who was shot in the face and thrown into the sea by PLO hijackers.

Just The News: President Donald Trump on Friday called for a special prosecutor to investigate election fraud in the 2020 presidential election. – Trump’s call for a special prosecutor comes in the wake of reports from the FBI that China had conspired to mass-produce fake driver’s licenses to carry out a massive fake ballot scheme in the 2020 election…

Zero Hedge: Donald Trump has long been warning about China’s mercenary and mercantilist trade practices. – Europe and Latin America, until recently, were screaming to anyone who bothered to listen just how great friends they are with Beijing, but are finally getting a taste of reality. – Europe Now Admits “Trump Is Right” and China Is The Problem As Beijing Unleashes A Global EV Dump…

American Thinker: Powell And The Fed Are Wrong – The Federal Reserve is going to hold rates yet again. – Two months ago, we heard ad nauseam that the sky was falling and Trump’s tariff policy would lead to inflation and recession, but it didn’t happen. – I, too, strongly believe that the Fed is making a mistake, minimally, and quite possibly intentionally attempting to kneecap President Trump’s agenda in the hopes that its prognostications prove true, due to its inflexibility…

Breitbart: In Portland, Rioters Stormed an ICE Field Office and Target Officers with Fireworks and Explosives, Their Message to Noem, ‘You Will Not Stop Us or Slow Us Down.’ – DHS, “Ultimately, five individuals were arrested on various charges, including assault on federal law enforcement. – We won’t sit idly by and watch these cowards. – Our officers are facing a 413% increase in assaults against them as they put their lives on the line to arrest murderers, rapists, and gang members…

American Thinker: To Defeat Drug Cartels, The Corrupt Bankers Must Be Jailed – Rather than prosecute the bankers, the Justice Department has invoked a system of Deferred Prosecution Agreements that let corrupt bank officials slide by, having the bank pay a cash penalty. – It’s not enough to arrest the smugglers and fine the banks; the corrupt bankers handling the money need to pay a just price, too…

Zero Hedge: Texas Instruments Unveils Largest Foundational Chip Manufacturing Investment In U.S. History – It is making a historic $60 billion investment to expand semiconductor manufacturing across seven fabs in the U.S. – Their reshoring initiative spans three mega-sites in Texas (Sherman and Richardson) and Utah (Lehi), and is expected to support over 60,000 U.S. jobs.

Western Journal: While Los Angeles Was Burning, Governor Newsom Attended A ‘Luxury Wine-Tasting’ Event – The wine-tasting was held on the afternoon of June 7, 2025, at the Odette Estate Winery, which Newsom co-founded in 2011. Dubbed “Vineyard Vibes,” the event was a fundraiser for the PlumpJack Foundation, founded by Newsom’s sister, and featured “contemporary yet sophisticated” wines, live jazz music, and locally made pizza and smash burgers…

FAR: Wimpy Democrat Politicians vs Trump – I believe you will agree there is a pretty big difference in the backbone of these four individuals.

June 19, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: The Alleged Iranian Plot To Assassinate Trump Heads Through Federal Court – Farhad Shakeri, an ‘Iranian asset,’ told federal agents that the IRGC tasked him with assassinating President Donald Trump. – The proceedings, postponed to this point because of a lengthy discovery process, will take place on Tuesday. While the discovery materials will not be made public, the government is expected to set trial dates during the conference, the Washington Free Beacon has learned…

Epoch Times: Israel Threatens Iranian Leader Khamenei After Their Missile Hit An Israeli Hospital – Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, “Israeli Defense Forces have been instructed and know “that in order to achieve all of its goals, this man absolutely should not continue to exist.”

Washington Free Beacon: Israelis overwhelmingly back their country’s military campaign against Iran, even as they duck daily missile barrages. – The poll, conducted by researchers at Agam Labs and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, found that 83 percent of Israeli Jews and 70 percent of the overall public support the campaign to take out Iran’s nuclear and missile capabilities…

Western Journal: President Trump scored a major win against Newsom in the battle over deploying the National Guard. – In a unanimous ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday, Trump was allowed to keep control of National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles.

One America News: A Big Win For The Trump Administration – A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Columbia University over government cuts to Columbia University’s funding.

Epoch Times: Roughly 1 million illegal immigrants have left the United States since President Trump returned to office, according to a new study by the Center for Immigration Studies. – The findings come as the Trump administration intensifies its efforts to ramp up deportations, targeting large cities with so-called “sanctuary” policies and resuming operations at farms, hotels, and other businesses…

DHS just released new data revealing that ICE law enforcement is now facing a 500% increase in assaults while carrying out enforcement operations. – Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin pointed to the recent arrest of Roberto Carlos Munoz, an illegal alien and convicted child sex offender, who dragged an ICE agent 50 yards with his car as he attempted to evade arrest in Bloomington, Minnesota.

American Thinker: The Democratic National Committee Is Broke And Broken – Nobody indeed loves a loser, especially a delusional one, but you also must wonder how much cutting off USAID made this happen – As DOGE dug through how USAID’s money was being distributed, it became very apparent that a lot of the money that kept the Democrat party afloat was taxpayer money that was pumped into NGOs that, in turn, funneled it back to the Democrat party…

Gateway Pundit: Happy Holiday! – Here Are All The Things They Won’t Tell You About Democrats and Juneteenth – When the Civil War ended, and after Republican President Abraham Lincoln liberated the slaves, Democrats initiated Jim Crow laws to punish blacks. – Democrats discriminated against blacks. In fact, the KKK was founded as the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party. – The Ku Klux Klan assassinated many Republicans, including Republican…

Fox News: Iran struck a major Israeli hospital after claiming Israel hit its Arak heavy water reactor. – Soroka Medical Center, the largest hospital in southern Israel, took a direct hit from an Iranian ballistic missile on Thursday morning. – Several other sites were also hit across Israel…

Daily Fetched: Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, accused Khamenei of personally ordering an Iranian attack on a hospital in southern Israel this morning in a salvo targeting several Israeli cities. – Katz stated: “He considers the destruction of the state of Israel to be a goal. Such a man can no longer be allowed to exist.”

Gateway Pundit: Iran Launches 2,000 km-Range Sejil Missiles at Israel for the First Time in History – This marks a serious escalation in the ongoing tit-for-tat conflict between the two nations. – The solid-fuel, two-stage Sejil—first tested in 2008—is highly maneuverable and difficult to intercept, strengthening Iran’s strategic posture. – Iran warned Israeli residents to remain in shelters, saying “the thunderous missiles of the IRGC’s Air Force will not let you spend a moment outside underground shelters.”

Powerline: The strike on Soroka Hospital – When Hamas falsely alleged Israel had hit a hospital in Gaza, the Wall Street Journal and other Western press turned into something like the biggest story since V-E Day. – Today brings the news that Iran has hit Israel’s Soroka Hospital in Beersheba with a ballistic missile this morning. Turning to the Journal’s home page this morning, I find that the story barely registers in two brief paragraphs of its updates on the conflict…

Slay News: In a bold move that’s lighting up social media and shaking up Capitol Hill, Representative Anna Paulina Luna calls for Congress to subpoena leftist radical billionaire George Soros. – “Why am I the first one to bring this up? – “This should have been done a long time ago.” – For decades, Soros has poured billions of dollars into far-left organizations, radical criminal justice reform efforts, and activist groups that deliberately undermine traditional American values…

Zero Hedge: Fewer Ships Are Entering The Strait Of Hormuz Even As Satellite Images Show Iran Racing To Get Its Tankers Out Of Gulf – One reason why there has been no notable decline in outbound oil tanker traffic is because Iran is racing to get its oil out into the world before any possible escalation makes this impossible. – As Bloomberg notes, oil is gushing out of the nation’s ports and onto ocean tankers, ensuring revenues would continue, at least for a while, if shipments are disrupted…

American Thinker: Now is Not the Time for Unconstrained Isolationism – Putting America First means destroying the risk that Iran poses, not pretending that it can’t happen here. – The mullahs’ primary means of achieving hegemony throughout the Middle East and Europe is by acquiring nuclear weapons, along with the unmistakable willingness to use them stemming from their religious fanaticism…

Breitbart: The Emirati newspaper, The National, reported on Thursday, citing anonymous sources within the terrorist organization, that Hezbollah is not planning to aid Iran in its ongoing conflict with Israel despite its deep ties and financial reliance on Tehran. – Hezbollah is a Lebanon-based terrorist organization that functions as a highly influential political party in that country.

American Thinker: Operation Rising Lion and the Judgment of the Elites – The press refuses to give PM Netanyahu credit for his incredible feats. – Two years ago, several of the most evil organizations in the world were fully operational, impoverishing their people, terrifying so many others. – Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, all funded by Iran’s mullahs, have all been essentially eradicated…

New York Post: President Trump said Thursday he would make his final decision on whether to strike Iran in the “next two weeks,” because he’s still hoping for negotiations. – Trump. “Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.” – Trump said Wednesday that the Iranians were looking to go to the White House to talk to him directly…

Gatestone Institute: Trump’s Churchillian Decision – Eliminating Iran’s Nuclear Sites Now Means No One Can Use Them Later – Iran’s regime has for decades been building up its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs as a way of securing its permanent rule. They appear to believe that if Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, or the leadership had possessed nuclear weapons, they would still be ruling their countries…

American Thinker: Congress moves to abolish sanctuary cities and states, it’s about time – Republicans have tolerated their insistence on harboring illegal aliens and criminals, and the time has finally arrived to stop this violation of the law and provide safety and security for our citizens. – Both the Executive Branch and Congress are stepping up to honor the rule of law.

Breitbart: Border Patrol agents in San Diego found a sophisticated cross-border smuggling tunnel that connects California to Tijuana, Mexico. – The tunnel contained a rail track to quickly move cargo from Mexico into the United States, CBP photos revealed. – Officials carefully mapped the tunnel, which they say extended more than 2,900 feet. – The tunnel measured 42 inches in height and 28 inches in width and was about 50 feet underground at its deepest point.

Resist The Mainstream: Chicago city officials have suspended their online identification card program following a federal subpoena from ICE seeking applicant data. – The CityKey ID program allowed residents to obtain government-issued identification cards regardless of immigration status, gender identity, or criminal background and served as a cornerstone of Chicago’s sanctuary city policies…

American Thinker: Who is behind the No Kings protests? –It is long past time for real answers. – Who owns the No Kings domain? Who receives the emails? – Who paid for the infrastructure? – Who designed the logo and coordinated the livestream? – These are not unsolvable mysteries. – This is Investigatory Work 101 in the digital age. – If the FBI and DOJ can’t get us these answers, then what exactly are they doing?. – Every day they stay silent, more Americans lose faith…

Epoch Times: 5 Takeaways From The Supreme Court Decision on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Minors – The court’s 6–3 ruling means other states that have passed or considered laws similar to Tennessee’s will likely survive legal challenges. – 1. Laws Like Tennessee’s Are Constitutional – 2. Liberal Justices Strongly Dissent – 3. Bostock Reasoning Doesn’t Apply – 4. Questions Remain About Gender and the Law – 5. Barrett Says ‘Transgender Status’ Not Entitled to Special Consideration…

Newsmax: Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he plans to bring President Donald Trump’s signature legislation to the floor of the upper chamber mid-next week. – Doing so would keep alive the hope of House Speaker Mike Johnson sending the bill to the president’s desk by July 4th.

Geller Report: The DNC is Broke After USAID Got Defunded – The Democrat National Committee is running out of money. – Some of the sources for their contributions have disappeared. It is estimated that annually, $15 billion per year was laundered from USAID to non-profits and NGOs controlled by the Democrats. – This funded the lifestyles of thousands of left-wing activists with salaries of $200,000 to $500,000.

Victor Davis Hanson: Can the Left Ever Stop Its Craziness? – The more the left rages, the more Trump rises, while Democrats trade policy for tantrums and canonize chaos in place of compromise. – Obscure California Senator Alex Padilla recently crashed a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and deliberately wore no identification. – Then there’s Senator Booker (D-who attempted a pseudo-filibuster, speaking nonstop for 25 hours, not to delay legislation, but rather to fixate on Trump. – Then there was Representative Julie von Haefen…

Daily Caller: A majority of Democrats believe that their party needs new leaders, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday. – 62% of Democrats polled said they agreed with a statement that “the leadership of the Democrat Party should be replaced with new people.” – Meanwhile, just 24% disagreed with the statement, while the rest said they were unsure or did not respond…

Western Journal: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Nails It – Noem Released New ICE Visitation Rules Maxine Waters and Jerry Nadler Will Hate – On Wednesday, new restrictions were announced that bar lawmakers from turning ICE facility visits into spectacles. – They require lawmakers to give ICE field offices 72 hours’ notice and their staff to give 24 hours’ notice before any visits, with limits on the number of detainees they can meet with individually.

American Thinker: Manual labor fosters resilience and camaraderie, with seasoned workers finding satisfaction in mentoring newcomers. – Skilled trades like electrician or plumber require vocational training or apprenticeships costing $5,000-$25,000, far less than a four-year college degree that may exceed $100,000. After training, workers earn $60,000-$80,000 annually, with top earners hitting six figures. – This rapid return on investment contrasts with the debt many college graduates face.

American Thinker: Selling Communism At The Fast Food Outlet – Communism made inroads in America because powerful forces are pushing falsehoods and emotionalism on gullible people. – The Communist Cell I observed at my local McDonald’s is a metaphor for all those American haters who work ceaselessly to seek an end to the American experiment. They will do so with or without your consent. – Our government is shot through with mixed messages that allow it to co-opt our young and persuadable…

Washington Examiner: The Russian economic minister acknowledges nation is ‘on the brink’ of ‘recession’ – Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov made his observation during his appearance at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, a preeminent gathering of government and business leaders intended to showcase Russian investment opportunities.

Washington Free Beacon: Harvard Law Review Axes 85% of Submissions Using Race-Conscious, Documents Show – The law review has said that it vets articles based solely on “their quality and contribution to legal scholarship.” But in at least 87 cases identified by the Free Beacon—including 75 from the volume published last year alone—the journal considered protected traits or encouraged its members to do so…

June 18, 2025

Epoch Times: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Has Rejected Trump’s Call for ‘Unconditional Surrender’ – His response comes after Trump said the United States knows where the Iranian leader is staying. – “The US President threatens us. With his absurd rhetoric, he demands that the Iranian people surrender to him. He should make threats against those who are afraid of being threatened.”…

Western Journal: The President’s “Doomsday Plane” has landed in the Washington, D.C., area. – It is one of four specialized aircraft designed to survive should a nuclear war arrive in the nation’s capital. – This is happening as President Trump is demanding an Iranian surrender in its war with Israel.

Gateway Pundit: Hackers Breached Several Iranian TV Channels, Calling on Citizens to Take to the Streets – Civilization is quickly breaking down in Iran since Israel started its military attacks on Friday night. – Food vendors are closed in many places, ATMs are without cash, the internet is down (except for Starlink!), and now the TV channels are hacked!

American Spectator: California State Workers Resist Their Back-to-Work Orders – Newsom’s effort to end pandemic-era work-at-home rules is emblematic of California’s inability to tame its bureaucracy. – In a market system, you show up to work if your employer requires it, but California’s state workers are upset that the vast majority have been ordered to begin returning to their offices next month…

American Thinker: Mayor Karen Bass says Los Angeles will shrivel without its illegals – So Democrats now want President Trump to stop enforcing illegal immigration laws, because it would destroy California’s economy. – There might have been something to this big, huge economy they speak of, had they not chased everyday Americans out, replacing them with illegals in order to keep the federal subsidies pouring in and the congressional seats filled. – But they chose poorly.

Breitbart: President Trump told reporters that “nobody knows what I’m going to do” regarding a potential U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and that he remains open to negotiations with Iran. – When a reporter asked if the United States is moving toward a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, Trump responded, “You don’t seriously think I’m going to answer that question?…

New York Post: Iran bluntly threatened the US on Wednesday that any involvement in its conflict with Israel would trigger an “all-out war” as Tehran reportedly started prepping missiles for retaliatory strikes on American bases. – The foreign ministry spokesman stopped short of elaborating, but thousands of American troops are based in nearby countries within range of Iran’s weapons…

Slay News: Republican Senator Ted Cruz called on President Donald Trump to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities in the interest of America’s national security. – “The one location that Israel has a technological challenge with is Fordow, which is deliberately built into the base of a mountain, to be able to withstand an air assault,” the senator explained. – “And America has bunker-buster bombs that could destroy Fordow.”

Zero Hedge: There Are Reports Of Warplanes Seeking To Strike The Ayatollah As Israel Has Hit 1,100 Iranian Targets Since Friday – The Israeli Air Force affirmed Wednesday that it is currently striking “military targets belonging to the Iranian regime in Tehran.” – Iranians say Israel’s latest attacks involved more than 50 aircraft on Iranian centrifuge and missile production sites overnight, yet there are no announcements that Iranian and US negotiators plan to meet…

Zero Hedge: A Strait Of Hormuz Disruption Is Feared After A Former Iranian Minister Threatens Transit Restrictions – Ehsan Khandouzi, “Starting tomorrow, for 100 days, no oil tankers or LNG cargoes will be able to pass through the strait without Iran’s approval.” – A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz—the world’s busiest oil-shipping channel—would shut down the region’s oil trade, supercharging oil prices…

Daily Wire: Trump Explains What Unconditional Surrender Looks Like For Iranian Regime – “Unconditional surrender, that means I’ve had it. I’ve had it, I give up. No more. – Then we go blow up all of the nuclear stuff that’s all over the place there,” Trump said. – On Tuesday, Trump demanded an “unconditional surrender” from the regime, saying the United States knows “exactly” where Khamenei is hiding…

Fox News: Israel hammers Iran’ centrifuge production site, saying the Iranian regime ‘crossed every red line’ – The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem is closed until Friday as Iran and Israel trade strikes. – Iran’s Ambassador to the UN Ali Bahreini warned that his country would respond firmly if the U.S. directly entered the conflict…

Breitbart: Khamenei says Iran will ‘never surrender’, and warns off the US. – The UN nuclear watchdog said Israeli strikes on Wednesday destroyed two buildings making centrifuge components for Iran’s nuclear programme near Tehran, while Iran said it fired hypersonic missiles as the arch foes traded fire for a sixth day. – Hours after President Trump demanded Iran’s surrender, Khamenei vowed his country would show “no mercy” towards Israel’s leadership…

Slay News: US Ambassador Mike Huckabee Issued an ‘Urgent Notice’ for Americans in Israel – The embassy in Jerusalem is working on ways to get Americans out of Israel. – This is one day after the embassy reported it had no announcement about ways to get people out, as the threat of a U.S. strike on Iran grows. – “The embassy is working on evacuation flights and cruise ship departures from Israel.” – “The embassy urged Americans to enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program for real-time updates and evacuation coordination.“

American Thinker: Will We Finally See a Persian Renaissance? – Back in 2007, I received a call at the New York Sun from an Iranian man who told me there was a Persian renaissance in force, actively seeking to overthrow the mullahs. – Now that Trump is POTUS and totally supports Israel wiping out Iran’s nuclear threat, will the Iranian citizens finally receive the help they need to free them from the yoke of their radical Islamic leaders?

Zero Hedge: Trump Administration Considers Expanding Travel Restrictions to Additional Countries. – The 36 countries being considered, many of which are located in Africa, have been given until June 18 to respond before facing travel sanctions. Sanctions could include total bans, such as those already instituted on a dozen other countries, or they could include lesser restrictions…

Epoch Times: Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee’s Ban on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Minors – In a 6–3 decision released on June 18, the court disagreed with the Biden administration’s argument that the law should face higher legal scrutiny than had been applied by an appeals court. – The Biden administration claimed the law constituted a form of sex-based discrimination…

Daily Wire: Senate Democrats spurned a hearing on Wednesday on the “cover-up” of President Joe Biden’s mental state when he was in the White House, a boycott which Republicans took to be a confession of guilt. – Senator Eric Schmitt, “They have chosen to ignore this issue like they ignored President Biden’s decline. Their absence speaks volumes, — an implicit admission that the truth is too inconvenient to face.

Daily Wire: The Trump administration announced sanctions on leaders of a ruthless Mexican drug cartel in a move that the federal agency says will hinder the organization’s drug trafficking operations. – The sanctions targeted these five key figures of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, a vicious criminal enterprise that produces illicit drugs and traffics them into the United States…

Daily Fetched: Released Documents Show The Biden Administration Targeted Law Abiding Citizens as Domestic Terrorists – The Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, released the documents after pressure from the Trump-linked rights group American First Legal, which demanded to know how far the government overreached its authority in stifling Americans’ rights to self-expression.

Zero Hedge: “Stupid” Powell Does Not Cut Rates (As Expected) Despite ‘Diminished Uncertainty’ and Fear of Stagflation – “We have a stupid person, frankly, at the Fed, he probably won’t cut today,” Trump said, hours before the Fed decision urging Powell to cut rates by 2.5 percentage points. – “I call him ‘Too Late Powell’ because he’s always too late.”…

Townhall: Chuck Schumer’s Latest Deflection About the Biden Health Cover Up Is Beyond Absurd – Schumer declared there are more critical issues, like starving children in America. – Stop Chuck, there were starving kids, homeless veterans, and mothers unable to buy baby formula under Joe Biden, and you people did nothing. – All Democrats did was lecture and dismiss voters’ concerns…

FAR: 50 Major Big Beautiful Bill Wins The Media Is Ignoring – Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk put this list together, and it is very informative. – There is a lot more covered by the “Big Beautiful Bill” than most people realize. – Here is his list:

America First Report: The first Senate adaptation of Trump’s “big beautiful” Fiscal Year 2026 budget bill retains the wholesale slashes and clawbacks in “green energy” allocations adopted by the House when it passed its version by a single vote on May 22. – The first showdown for the energy components in the Senate Finance Committee’s tentative budget comes on June 18, when Energy Secretary Chris Wright presents the DOE’s $46.3 billion FY 2026 budget request to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee…

Zero Hedge: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Says Nearly 70,000 People Have Signed Up For The $5 Million ‘Trump Card’ Investor Visa. – The initiative is being pitched as a dual-purpose policy: a strategy to attract high-net-worth business leaders who would live in the United States, create jobs, and pay taxes, and a revenue-generating tool to help reduce the nation’s nearly $37 trillion debt…

Western Journal: Christopher Wray’s FBI Ordered Other Intel Agencies to Destroy Report on Plot to Steal 2020 Election – FBI Director Kash Patel revealed that the recall notice included the following: “Recipients should destroy all copies of the original report and remove the original report from all computer holdings.”

American Thinker: No Kings, No Pins, and No Clue Describes Alex Padilla’s Political Theater – The California senator’s crash act proves performative provocation is the new Democrat party platform. – Padilla was not on the schedule. – He was not wearing his Senate pin. – And, notably, he was not invited. – Also, it was strictly a press event, so it is worth emphasizing that Padilla is not a member of the press…

Breitbart: In May 2024, the Biden administration admitted more than 62,000 migrants into the U.S. who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry. – Under the Trump administration, one year later, that number fell to zero. – At the same time, illegal border crossings fell by nearly 93 percent compared to the same period last year.

Slay News: An activist federal judge in Boston ruled that the Trump administration can not make cuts to NIH far-left research grants. – U.S. District Judge William Young said that eliminating research grants for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) is “void and illegal.” – Young said that the administration had no authority to cancel the Biden Administration’s $1 billion in federal research grants.

Breitbart: Corporate Media Ignored Randi Weingarten’s DNC Conflict of Interest for 23 Years – While a member of the Democrat National Committee, Weingarten, whose real first name is Rhonda, has led the American Federation of Teachers since 2008, which is the second largest union in America after the equally fascist and vile National Education Association…

Newsmax: Social Security and Medicare programs for seniors will both run short of funds to pay full benefits in 2033, three years sooner than last year’s estimated, the annual trustees reports showed on Wednesday. – Treasury Department reports showed that the worsening of Medicare’s finances was due to higher-than-forecast near-term expenditures for hospitalizations of Americans over 65 years old…

Slay News: Representative Ilhan Omar is drawing criticism after a fiery interview in which she likened the US under President Trump to a dictatorship, blasting Trump and America for deploying military troops to Los Angeles to quell the violent rioting without the approval of California state officials. – Omar blasted the president’s actions as unconstitutional and inflammatory, accusing him of creating a “police state.”…

American Thinker: Trump, Macron, and Starmer at the G7 – French President Emmanuel Macron continues to marginalize himself, even as Trump makes beneficial deals. – Macron is a publicity-seeking wanker, that’s British slang, but whatever the event, whether paying homage to the deceased pope or a G7 meeting, he’s always trying to insert himself front and center…
June 17, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: What a US Strike on Iran’s Fordow Enrichment Facility Would Mean for Tehran’s Nuclear Program – The Fordow nuclear enrichment facility is a sprawling military complex dug deep within a mountain base, shielding it from nearly every country’s military but one: the United States. – President Trump has now signaled that he is open to a U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear sites…

Gateway Pundit: According to a new YouGov poll, a majority of Americans think the United States should not get involved in Israel’s war with Iran. – 50% say they believe Iran is an enemy of the U.S., while only 1% consider Iran an ally. – Still, of the 1,512 survey respondents, only 16% support U.S. involvement in the war, with 60% opposed and 24% are not sure…

American Spectator: There Is No Better Time Than Now To End the Ayatollah’s Nuclear Threat – This is not an opportunity to effectuate regime change, but to simply end Iran’s nuclear program once and for all. – It’s been very clear for a long time that the vast majority of Iranians yearn for something better than the Khamenei regime, but when the time comes, they will need to work things out for themselves…

Newsweek: Kristi Noem Taken to Hospital by Ambulance: What We Know – DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said, “Secretary Noem had an allergic reaction today. – She was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. – She is alert and recovering.”

Fox News: Ex-White House officials will testify on who ‘really ran the country’ during the Biden era starting Wednesday. – Included on the list of witnesses are Theodore Wold, a former acting assistant AG, Sean Spicer, former WH press secretary, and John Harrison, a legal scholar from the University of Virginia School of Law…

Resist The Mainstream: Elon Musk has released the results of a drug test in an effort to dispel explosive allegations raised in a New York Times report that claimed he abused illicit substances during his time in government service.

Daily Signal: The Trump administration is seeking to increase accountability for federal employees by implementing new performance standards and training. –The Office of Personnel Management issued a memorandum published online Tuesday to fulfill President Trump’s mandate for a federal workforce that prizes excellence, deals with underperformance, and fulfills its mission…

Daily Mail +: America’s best-run cities are revealed, and there isn’t a Democrat run city in sight – Provo, Utah, has been declared the most efficient city in the United States by WalletHub, thanks to its safe streets and the quality of its government services. – Nampa, Idaho, came away with the No. 2 spot in the study and is also run by a Republican…

Slay News: The NAACP Hits Trump with a Snub Not Seen in 116 Years. – The NAACP has traditionally invited the sitting president of the US to address the NAACP National Convention – CEO Derrick Johnson, “Our annual convention is meant to be a safe space for all people, regardless of political ideology, who believe in multiracial democracy and the ideal of building a more perfect union.
“To that end, the NAACP has decided to break with tradition and not invite Donald Trump or J.D. Vance this year.

Zero Hedge: Overnight, Russia unleashed one of its largest and sustained attacks on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in recent months, with 15 people killed and over one hundred wounded. – The assault involved a coordinated barrage of drones, ballistic, and cruise missiles that severely impacted residential areas, including a direct hit on a nine-story apartment building in the city’s Solomyanskyi district…

Geller Report: Trump: “I Have No Desire to Negotiate with Iran. I Expect Nothing Less than Their Complete Surrender.” – “Today we are about to strike very significant targets, strategic, governmental, and infrastructure, inside Tehran,” Defense Minister Israel’s Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, said. – “The IDF spokesman will issue an evacuation call in Persian.”…

Zero Hedge: As tensions soar, the Trump administration has been in contact with the Iranian government, discussing a possible meeting this week between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US envoy Steve Witkoff, according to “four sources briefed on the issue.” – Trump officials have reassured Middle East allies that the administration doesn’t plan to join the war unless Americans are targeted…

Daily Wire: Trump Voters Overwhelmingly Support U.S. Helping Israel Against Iran – A recent Gray House poll finds nearly 80% of Trump voters backed the U.S. providing offensive weapons to Israel. – On a different issue, 85% of voters supported Israel’s military actions in Gaza following the brutal October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre of more than 1200 Israelis…

CNBC: President Trump said his early departure from the G7 summit was owed to “much bigger” things than planning a ceasefire between Tel Aviv and Tehran. – G7 leaders affirmed unified support for Israel and condemned Iran for being the “principal source of regional instability and terror.” – Trump left the summit a day early to return to Washington due to “what’s going on in the Middle East,” the White House said…

Western Journal: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Announces Several Game-Changing Orders in The Middle East – “Protecting U.S. forces is our top priority and these deployments are intended to enhance our defensive posture in the region.” – Rerouting the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group from the South China Sea to the Middle East to join the USS Carl Vinson. – Moving more than two dozen refueling aircraft from the U.S. to Europe…

Breitbart: Israel will not stop fighting Iran until it has destroyed the Iranian regime’s ballistic missiles and its nuclear facilities, IDF Operations Directorate chief Major General Oded Basiuk declared on Tuesday. – Basiuk spoke as speculation mounted about a possible ceasefire between Israel and Iran, as President Donald Trump left the G7 meeting in Canada early…

New York Post: Trump demands ‘complete give-up’ by Iran as Israel takes out Tehran’s most senior military commander, Ali Shadmani, whom the IDF identified as Iran’s wartime chief of staff. – Trump, “I’m not asking for a cease-fire, we’re looking at better than a cease-fire, but a complete give-up.” – “If they want to talk, they know how to reach me. They should have taken the deal that was on the table – Would have saved a lot of lives!!!”

Breitbart: Wikipedia Editors Propose Deleting A Page on Iran Advocating for Israel’s Destruction – Many advocating for deleting the page have a history of anti-Israeli edits on Wikipedia. – On X, the proposal to delete the article was prominently noted by the “WikiBias” account, which highlights Wikipedia content unfavorable to Israel, stating it is “Unveiling the Blind Spots…

American Thinker: Ending the Deep State’s Inversion Matrix – Most Americans have not been able to understand how confusion, chaos, misinformation, polarization, inverted merit, and power hierarchies have crept into the institutions that touch their daily lives. – The inversion matrix, like Marxism and its derivatives such as Leninism, Maoism, and critical race theory, has its origin in spiritual darkness…

American Thinker: The Summer of Cloward-Piven – The “Summer of Love” of 2020 refers to the period of social unrest, protests, riots, and billions of dollars in property damage – The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy that aims to utilize “militant anti-poverty groups” to facilitate a “political crisis” by overloading the welfare system… – Note the words “militant,” “crisis,” and “overloading.”…

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration is currently discussing policies that would make it harder and more expensive for pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to patients. – This follows legislation by Bernie Sanders and Angus King that would ban pharmaceutical companies from promoting prescription drugs directly to consumers, including through television, radio, print, digital platforms, and social media…

City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education, But Not Anymore – Republican-led state governments have implemented evidence-based reading curricula, banned ineffective teaching methods, and improved school safety. – In contrast, Democrat-led states have undermined school discipline, reduced academic standards, and embraced policies that deemphasize achievement in favor of ideological goals…

American Thinker: Political Player Jerome Powell – A political player for years, his less-than-stellar record as Fed chair is evidence of his gamesmanship. – Showing Powell’s political bias toward the Democratic party and against Donald Trump in the lead-up to the November 2024 election, the FFR was decreased by a full 0.5% in September 2024 in an attempt to energize the economy and help Kamala Harris.

America First Report: A Clinton-appointed Federal judge in San Francisco, Susan Illston, has discovered, in order to rule that the organization formerly named the Global Engagement Center and assigned to censor Americans must stay alive. – The ex-GEC organization was assembled by Barack Obama in 2016 and funded with $50 million a year.

Zero Hedge: Solar and renewable energy stocks crashed in premarket trading after Senate Republicans unveiled a draft of a bill that would end wind and solar tax credits by 2028, while providing incentives for other energy sources like nuclear, hydropower, and geothermal. – The draft tax bill proposes an accelerated phaseout of clean energy subsidies established under the Biden-Harris regime…

American Thinker: Alex Padilla, Democrat cannon fodder – Kicked upstairs to fill Kamala Harris’s senate seat when she became VP, Padilla kept a particularly low profile. – That was until last Thursday, when he barged into a press conference being held by HHS Secretary Kristi Noem. – It seems likely that Padilla was chosen for this stunt not just because he’s a natural-born thug, and he’s totally expendable…

Townhall: These Are Some of the ‘Worst of the Worst’ Criminal Aliens ICE Recently Nabbed – They include those that have been convicted of first-degree murder, assault on a law enforcement officer, sexual assault of a minor, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and more…

Daily Wire: The Paragon Health Institute, determined to root out corruption in the federal healthcare plan, says millions of people are fraudulently obtaining health insurance subsidized by the federal government. – Their report estimates that the income of more than a quarter of the 24 million marketplace enrollees this year was misrepresented, often by brokers, so that the plan would be fully subsidized…

New York Times: The Streaming Future Is Now The Streaming Present. – Americans watched more television via streaming services than they did through cable and broadcast networks in May, Nielsen said in a report on Tuesday. – It is the first time that has happened over a full month. – Unsurprisingly, younger viewers were first to stream, but another group leaped as well, viewers over the age of 65…

June 16, 2025

One America News: President Donald Trump urged Iranian citizens to evacuate Tehran “immediately.” – This comes after Israel issued evacuation warnings the day before to Iranian civilians in areas expected to be targeted. – Although the US is now actively involved in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran, its role is primarily supportive and defensive, rather than offensive, according to media reports…

Epoch Times: Iran Called on President Trump to Force Israel Into A Cease-Fire Amid Their Aerial War – A top Iranian official on Monday called on the U.S. president to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Iran. – U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said Monday morning that a U.S. State Department building in Tel Aviv was damaged during an Iranian strike…

Dov Fischer: America First – Keep Our Boys Out of It, but Shoot Down Iranian Ballistics and Drop a MOAB or Two – America develops and deploys excellent weapons, but fails when boots hit the ground, because We fight under the post-World War II Geneva Accords that, basically, make it impossible to win wars. – Islamists kill each other, wage war for centuries over doctrinal disputes, and even blow up each other’s mosques…

CNBC: President Trump signed an agreement on Monday formally lowering some tariffs on imports from Britain as the countries continue working toward a formal trade deal. – The deal reaffirmed quotas and tariff rates on British automobiles and eliminated tariffs on the U.K. aerospace sector, but the issue of steel and aluminum remains unresolved…

Western Journal: The Left’s Immigration Narrative Was Crushed by What Happened at a Nebraska Meat-Packing Plant Immediately After an ICE Raid. – Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications. – In other words, Americans stood ready to fill jobs hitherto occupied by illegal immigrants…

Nieman Lab: For the first time, social media has overtaken TV as Americans’ top news source. – Also, the pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ’s 2025 Digital News Report.

FAR The Netanyahu Interview – Prime Minister Netanyahu sat for an interview with Bret Baier on Fox News yesterday. – I have posted the video below. – As of this moment, it has nearly 4,000,000 views on YouTube and is certainly worth your time.

Geller Report: PM Netanyahu said Sunday that Iran would pay a “very heavy price” for targeting Israeli civilians as he visited the site of an early-morning Iranian missile that struck civilians at the Bat Yam apartment building. – “Iran will pay a very heavy price for the murder of civilians, women, children that it carried out deliberately. – We will achieve our objectives, and we will strike them with overwhelming force.”…

Express News UK: The Shocking moment Israel bombed Iranian state TV while it was on the air – Chilling footage captured the moment a missile struck the building, with the impact sending dust and rubble flying across the set. – The sprawling complex where state TV operates resembles a small village, housing thousands of workers…

Brownstone Institute: An Iranian missile hit the US embassy in Tel Aviv, although with no injuries. – This occurred during Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel on June 16th, following Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear sites. – The US and allies condemn it as a violation of sovereignty that risks escalation. – Another genius move from the murdering Mullahs…

Wall Street Journal: A Battered Iran Signals It Wants to Negotiate As Long As The U.S. Doesn’t Join The Attacks – But with Israeli warplanes able to fly freely over the capital and Iranian counterattacks inflicting minimal damage, Israeli leaders have little incentive to halt their assault before doing more to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites and further weaken the theocratic government’s hold on power.

New York Post: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that assassinating Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would “end the conflict” between the two nations, after President Trump reportedly urged him not to. – “It’s not going to escalate the conflict, it’s going to end the conflict,” Netanyahu told ABC News, arguing that Khamenei is “like a modern Hitler.” – Netanyahu said Israel is “doing what we need to do” while noting that Iran’s government allegedly plotted to assassinate Trump and himself…

Washington Free Beacon: Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman called on Israel to show “no mercy” and take out Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. – Fetterman said Israel should use its successful campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, which culminated with the assassination of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, as a model for how to deal with Iran…

General Mike Flynn: Will Israel be allowed to decisively defeat the long-standing threat posed by the tyrannical Iranian regime both to her people and ours and, thereby, usher in an era of potential strategic stability aligned with Western civilization that the Middle East and the free world have rarely known? – Or will the United States interfere, as it has done consistently in the past, to prevent such a clear-cut victory and, thereby, ensure that Israel’s enemies, and ours, live to ﬁght another day?

Washington Examiner: Israel needs the US to hit Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility – Israel struck many of Iran’s nuclear sites, but needs U.S. assistance to destroy Iran’s most hardened facility. – The Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant is located within the Kūh-e Dāgh Ghū’ī mountain northeast of the city of Qom, and is one of two underground enrichment facilities in Iran…

Western Journal: The Stakes Are Rising as Radioactive Contamination Has Been Detected at an Israeli Strike Site – International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi, “Israel destroyed the above-ground part of the Natanz nuclear facility, but there are no indications of damage to the underground enrichment facilities at the site. – There is radioactive and chemical contamination at the site.”…

Victor Davis Hanson: What Exactly Was Iran Thinking, Or Not? – Iran lost its proxies, deterrence, and leverage, leaving a regime rich in threats but bankrupt in power. – Last year, in a disastrous air war with Israel, Iran lost its air defenses and is now more or less impotent and defenseless against Israeli air incursions. – Its oil income has been slashed by 70-80% by the renewed Trump sanctions and…

Epoch Times: A cargo flight operated by Cargolux, a Luxembourg-based airline partially owned by a Chinese company, appeared to divert from its scheduled route from China to Luxembourg and instead head toward Iran, prompting speculation about a possible air bridge between Beijing and Tehran amid heightened tensions in the Middle East. – Cargolux has denied that the aircraft entered Iranian airspace…

Breitbart: The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute warns that China has the fastest-growing nuclear arsenal in the world, and its inventory of ICBMs could reach parity with the US and Russia by 2030. – However, Beijing would still lag in deliverable nuclear warheads. – North Korea is also a problem, as SIPRI estimates it has around 50 warheads today, with enough fissile material to build 40 more in fairly short order…

Washington Examiner: President Donald Trump opened the 2025 Group of Seven leaders’ summit by complaining it was a “mistake” for the multilateral organization to remove Russia from its ranks. – “The G7 used to be the G8. Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in, and I would say that was a mistake because I think you wouldn’t have a war right now if you had Russia in,” Trump told reporters on Monday.

American Thinker: Is Europe Facing a New Energy Crisis? – Israel’s military strike on Iran’s nuclear capabilities and the main artery of its energy sector has reshuffled the regional deck. – It is too early to fully assess Israel’s strategic attacks on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and energy production. – Yet one thing is already clear: the precision strike on the South Pars gas field is very important…

Gatestone Institute: Israel Just Ended China’s Great Power Status in the Middle East – “The Chinese state is only as strong as its main energy provider, and that main energy provider, which so far has not been able to counter Israeli strikes, is unlikely to survive this war in its current form.” – “With the loss of Syria and Hezbollah, Iran no longer has a command and control center in Damascus.”…

American Thinker: The Media’s Failure to Effectively Confront Recent JFK Assassination Testimony – The testimony at the hearing revealed substantial information the public generally doesn’t know, and that the media wants to obscure. – Ten facts the news media failed to report, include: a. Eight sets of photographs taken during the JFK autopsy not in the official collection today and never have been…

American Thinker: Immigration Riots and America’s Fascist Party – Democrats insist that Republicans and MAGA supporters are Nazis, but the cold, hard facts show us that Democrat values and tactics echo that evil movement. – Their militant cadres foment street riots, property damage, extortion, and gratuitous violence supposedly on behalf of those they define as “oppressed” while blaming others as the instigators…

Daily Fetched: President Trump has directed ICE to expand deportation efforts into Democrat-run cities following violent riots across Los Angeles, singling out cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York for increased enforcement. – White House aide Stephen Miller said the administration is now aiming for a minimum of 3,000 ICE arrests per day…

Slay News: Backed by nearly 200 progressive groups with billions in combined funding, the much-hyped “No Kings” protests on June 14 were supposed to spark a grassroots uprising against President Trump, but instead exposed the Left’s deep dysfunction. – Despite months of planning and near-unlimited financial support, the protests failed to mobilize more than 1.5% of the U.S. population by the organizers’ generous estimates.

Western Journal: The Murder Suspect in the Utah ‘No Kings’ Shooting Was A Trump-Hating, Antifa-Loving Leftist – In halls of power, I wear a mask, preaching virtue while chaos I task. – “What am I, with lies so bold, promising warmth, yet striking cold?” – The answer: the hypocritical and violent American left, largely comprised of card-carrying Democrats…

American Thinker: Economic Suicide By Design – Tektronix, an iconic Oregon-based company, has had enough of Oregon’s high taxes, poor schools, and constant degradation of the quality of life for its employees, so it is moving its headquarters to North Carolina. – Elections have consequences, and so does how people vote.

American Thinker: Protect my remittances – Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, is not ok with the ongoing immigration raids, claiming that they are targeting “honest” and “hardworking” individuals. – Her real concern is of losing remittances, adding up to 3% to 5% of GDP. – The reconciliation proposal in the US Senate calls for a 3.5% tax on these transfers. Deportations cut into this windfall.

American Thinker: The Democrats on Immigration, Then and Now – The great Milton Friedman made many noteworthy comments and observations, but an especially prescient one was made in 1997 when he said, “You can’t have both open borders and a welfare state.” – I’m old enough to remember when then-Senator Barack Obama advocated for a secure border and a controlled immigration process…

Daily Wire: Department of Transportation, Secretary Sean Duffy announced that States that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement will lose funding.- “And to cities that stand by while rioters destroy transportation infrastructure, don’t expect a red cent either. Follow the law, or forfeit the funding.”

John Daniel Davidson: Brian Wilson’s California Died Decades Ago – Mass immigration from Mexico, both legal and illegal, transformed California and created a fractured, riotous, and unstable polity. – At the heart of these protests/riots, we’ve seen the assertion of a Mexican national identity over and against an American national identity, immortalized in the striking images of masked rioters waving Mexican flags amid burning vehicles, rubble, and beleaguered police…

Daily Wire: The Trump Administration Has Made A Major Shift in Immigration Enforcement – Senior ICE official Tatum King has instructs regional ICE leaders to “hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels.” – Trump says he is still focused on conducting the “largest Mass Deportation Operation” in U.S. history.

Breitbart: The vast majority of the illegal aliens arrested by ICE in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s presidency were “illegal aliens” with criminal convictions or pending charges, DHS clarified on Monday. – DHS messaging throughout the deportation operations is that their priority is going after the worst of the worst criminals…

Breitbart: As riots aimed at federal immigration enforcement swept through downtown Los Angeles last week, several major retailers, including Apple, T-Mobile, and Adidas, fell victim to a wave of looting. – However, for those who made off with iPhones, the thrill of the heist was short-lived as they quickly discovered the high-tech security features that render the devices useless once taken off the premises…

Zero Hedge: Andrew Arthur, a law and policy fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and a former immigration judge, estimates 1 million illegal aliens have self-deported since President Trump’s second term began. – The CBP One app under Biden was rebranded as “CBP Home.” It allows illegals to voluntarily exit the country and receive a $1,000 stipend, saving taxpayers the $17,000 cost of forced removal…

Daily Wire: A Media Research Center study published on Friday revealed just how many times reporters and anchors on cable news outlets CNN and MSNBC referred to the violent protests and riots in Los Angeles as “peaceful.” – From June 7 to June 11, 5:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. ET, as rioters burned cars in the streets and threw cinder blocks at law enforcement, the protests were called “peaceful” some 211 times…

American Thinker: Reconstituting the Democrat Party – At a 27% approval rating, the Democrat Party is desperate to repair the damage it suffered during the Biden Administration. – Here, offered free of charge to Democrat leaders, are six simple steps to help guide them through rehabilitation. – Listen to the people. – Abide by our Constitution. – Put the good of the country before political ambition – Quit the outrageous lying…

Newsmax: Republicans who control the Senate Finance Committee unveiled changes to President Trump’s tax-cut and spending bill on Monday that would make business-related tax breaks permanent while modifying Medicaid reforms and a new federal deduction for state and local taxes. – The modified “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” will be debated with an aggressive timeline to pass the legislation before the July Fourth holiday.

Liberty Daily: President Donald Trump fired Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Christopher Hanson on Friday, abruptly ousting the Biden appointee as part of his effort to bend energy watchdogs to his pro-nuclear agenda. – This leaves the five-member NRC evenly split along party lines, after Trump signed an EO directing a wholesale overhaul of the agency’s licensing rules to accelerate reactor construction…

Headline USA: Federal charges have been filed against Vance Boelter in a 20-page charging document described as the “stuff of nightmares.” – Charges include firearms offenses, stalking using interstate commerce and murder for the stalking and killing of Minnesota House Speaker Emeritus Melissa Hortman and her husband along with the shooting of state Sen. John Hoffman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, and his wife…

Wall Street Journal: The U.S. labor market is holding steady despite extraordinary economic upheaval. – But it is a bad time to be a job seeker, especially if you are young. – The overall national unemployment rate remains around 4%, but for new college graduates looking for work, it is much higher: 6.6% over the past 12 months ending in May, with the gap growing wider between older workers and the young…

Daily Wire: The US partnered with Europol to shut down one of the world’s largest darknet drug trafficking websites, which is also one of the few online marketplaces for fentanyl. – Authorities say the Archetyp Market had trafficked at least $290 million worth of drugs to more than 600,000 users over five years.

June 15, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: ‘Strategic Decapitation’ As Israel Expanded Operations To Target Iranian Political Institutions With Netanyahu Taunting The ‘Weak Regime in Tehran.’ – Israel bombed multiple Iranian energy sites overnight, setting ablaze fuel depots the regime uses to fuel its military and lucrative commercial oil industry. Their Air Force hit Iran’s foreign ministry compound along with the Islamic Republic’s defense ministry and other operational outposts central to planning their retaliatory strikes…

Gateway Pundit: Israel’s Secret Drone Army Inside Iran Humiliated The Mullahs And Crippled Their Nuclear Program – Phase 1: Pre-Positioned Assets Activation – Phase 2: Vehicle-Based Strike Systems – Phase 3: The Conventional Air Campaign with 200 Israeli fighter jets that conducted precision strikes on more than 100 nuclear and military sites. – With Iran’s command systems disrupted and defenses degraded, Israeli aircraft operated with near impunity…

One America News: President Trump vetoed an Israeli plan to assassinate Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to two anonymous U.S. officials. – The White House made it clear that President Trump was against Israel moving on Khamenei. – “Have the Iranians killed an American yet? No. Until they do, we’re not even talking about going after the political leadership.”…

Washington Examiner: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Sunday that Iran was behind the two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump in 2024. – Netanyahu listed the alleged Iranian connection to the assassination attempts on Trump during an apparent defense of Israel‘s “Rising Lion” military campaign in Iran, which is designed to eliminate the regime’s nuclear program and ballistic missile capabilities.

American Conservative: Continued Israeli strikes have continued to hit Iran throughout the weekend, with the death toll in Iran rising to 406 killed and 654 wounded, according to human rights activists. – Iranian missiles have also continued to strike Israel over the weekend, including in Tel Aviv and Haifa. – At least 13 people have been killed in these missile attacks, and an additional 370 have been injured, with Israel asking for bombing assistance from America…

American Spectator: Cameras and Cash Fueled The ‘No Kings’ Protests Against Trump – Today’s Democrats are puppets to the purse strings, and while their passion is real, their causes are contrived and backed by billionaires. – The three kingpin groups orchestrating this mass protest represent not grassroots dissent, but a well-funded political machine…

Breitbart: Israel has begun issuing warnings, in Farsi, to Iranian civilians living near weapons factories and other targets of Israeli Air Force (IAF) attacks. – Meanwhile, Iran provides no such warnings to Israeli civilians, whether Jewish or Arab, and simply launches missiles at their homes. – The overnight toll of Iranian ballistic missile barrages Sunday was ten Israelis dead, including members of an Arab family, and 200 wounded.

Daily Wire: ‘The Beams Are On’ -Iran Turned Off The Internet, So Musk Turned On Starlink To Allow Iranian Dissidents Access – “Iran cut off all internet so that the people cannot organize a coup and communicate.” – Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi urged Iranians “to overthrow the Islamic Republic noting “Ali Khamenei, the foolish leader of the anti-Iranian regime of the Islamic Republic, has once again embroiled Iran in a war

Breitbart: Russian President Vladimir Putin told his US counterpart to Donald Trump, on Saturday that Moscow was ready to hold a fresh round of peace talks with Kyiv after June 22, once the sides complete exchanging prisoners and soldiers’ bodies. – Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, only said that “the exchanges will be completed and the parties will discuss the next step.”

Zero Hedge: Shots Were Fired At A Utah ‘No Kings’ Protest – In an incident captured in dramatic bystander videos, gun fire erupted at Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest march on Saturday evening, sending participants running for cover and sending a victim to the hospital in critical condition, as well as a suspect who himself has a serious gunshot wound.

Gateway Pundit: Two Unforgettable Moments from the 250th Anniversary of the US Army Grand Military Parade – When President Trump swore in a group of new and reenlisting US Army troops during the Grand Military Parade. – What a beautiful moment! – Another powerful moment was the music and fireworks show at the end of the parade. – It was fantastic!

Fox News: President Trump on Sunday said the U.S. had “nothing to do with” Israel’s attack against Iran. – He then warned, “If we are attacked in any way, shape or form by Iran, the full strength and might of the U.S. Armed Forces will come down on you at levels never seen before.” – “However, we can easily get a deal done between Iran and Israel, and end this bloody conflict!!!”…

American Thinker: The King who doesn’t lock up district judges – No matter how hard leftists try to paint Trump as evil, their actions, including big protests, belie the claims, and the American people know this. – The whole idea of a march against a King is precisely why Democrats can’t get going with public opinion, because most serious Americans listen to that and tune out. – For instance…

American Thinker: Trump’s New Climate Plan – For years, Americans have been inundated with messaging designed to make them feel guilty about their carbon footprint to promote an ever-expanding set of regulations, taxes, and lifestyle restrictions. – Instead of shaming Americans for consuming energy, President Trump aims to reestablish the US as the global leader in nuclear energy…

American Thinker: A clever thing about controlling a country’s media, history, and schools is that you can keep the people ignorant forever. – Here’s proof! – How many Americans know that we have been in a 100-year war with the Communist International (AKA the Comintern)? – Probably not even 1 in 100, so here is a quick summary. – In March of 1917, Alexander Kerensky led a Socialist revolution to victory…

Townhall: Big Surprise, The Portland Riots Got Violent – Violent rioters in Portland, Oregon, attacked a federal ICE facility, injuring officers and breaching the building with explosives and rocks on Saturday. – What many on the left will call a “peaceful” protest, it’s not, it’s domestic terrorism enabled by weak local leadership…

June 14, 2025

One America News: Happy Birthday, Donald Trump – His long trek toward making America great. – Today, we gather to honor and commemorate the 79th birthday of a president who has etched his name in the chronicles of American history with a lengthy list of life events and his notable accomplishments. – Donald John Trump was born on June 14th, 1946, to Fred Trump, an American real-estate developer and businessman, and Mary Anne MacLeod, a Scottish immigrant and domestic worker…

American Spectator: Israeli Air Strikes and Iranian Missile Barrages Are Far From Over – Warnings are circulating of another expected Iranian missile barrage, while Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has vowed to make Tehran burn. – The opening salvos of Rising Lion involved over 200 IAF jets easily traversing Syrian and Iraqi airspace to drop more than 330 munitions on key Iranian targets...

Zero Hedge: President Trump Rejects Netanyahu’s Request To Assist With The War, As Israel Needs Large US Bunker Buster Bombs – “Israel lacks the bunker buster bombs and large bomber aircraft needed to destroy Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment site, which is built into a mountain and deep underground. The U.S. has both within flying distance of Iran.”

Info Wars: The group that organized the left-wing protest against President Trump in D.C. on Saturday is closely affiliated with Communism and operates as a front group for a George Soros and Planned Parenthood-funded nonprofit organization, – Refuse Fascism has reportedly received donations from left-wing power players including Tides Foundation, heavily funded by Soros, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Western Journal: The suspect connected to the assassination and wounding of two separate Minnesota Democrat lawmakers and their spouses was a former appointee of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. – Vance Luther Boelter, 57, is believed to have posed as a police officer when he approached them…

New York Post: The Democrats convince no one as they flag every imaginable slight as the ‘end of democracy.’ – The latest example of ‘political theater’ came when California Senator Alex Padilla burst into Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem’s LA presser Thursday and got tackled by Secret Service agents who didn’t know who the crazy shouting man was, and so pulled him out of the room in handcuffs…

Zero Hedge: California’s soft-on-crime approach, along with pandemic-era actions, may have contributed to a rise in retail theft from 2014 to 2023. – In a report, “Retail Theft in California: Looking Back at a Decade of Change,” the LAO found that retail theft in the state rose after a slight decline during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in an overall increase of 11 percent during the nine-year timeframe.

People Magazine: Former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin Marries Alex Soros – The pair began dating in fall 2023 and announced their engagement in July 2024 – They had a small wedding ceremony for close family and friends to sign the Nikah in honor of Abedin’s Muslim faith and the Ketubah in honor of Alex’s Jewish heritage, per the magazine…

Liberty Daily: About 6,600 U.S. Army soldiers are set to march through the streets of Washington this afternoon, in a parade commemorating 250 years of service. – These soldiers will wear uniforms and present equipment reflecting the distinct conflicts and periods of the Army’s history, starting with the Revolutionary War and including World War II, Vietnam, and continuing up to the present day…

Zero Hedge: A Dark-Money Network Funneled Millions Into The ‘No Kings’ Nationwide Color Revolution Operation – A new Schweizer team investigation reveals how ‘No Kings’ and its partners bagged $114.8 million from the Arabella dark money network and how these professional protest organizations use tax dollars as a force multiplier…

Slay News: Former Capitol Police Chief Contradicts Pelosi on Trump & Jan 6 – “In a bipartisan way, on Jan. 6, with violence against the Constitution, against the Congress and the US Capitol, we begged the president to send in the National Guard,” Pelosi told reporters, “He would not do it.” – Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said he made multiple requests for National Guard support before Jan. 6. and those requests were ignored.

New York Post: Israel’s military headquarters were struck after Iran’s Islamic Republic unleashed a barrage of missiles on central Tel Aviv late Friday night. – Alarming footage shows a strike slamming into an area that houses several military sites, including the IDF’s main command center. – Dramatic clips captured interceptor missiles firing into the sky moments before a blinding flash and explosion…

Geller Report: Iranians in Tehran Cheered and Shouted “Death to Khamenei” While Israel Bombed the Regime. – I expect we will see a lot more of this as the regime falls. People in Iran have done this before, taken to the streets in the cause of freedom, and were brutalized and killed by the tens of thousands. – “The Israelis just gave the Iranian people a reason to believe”. – Not my words, theirs...

Geller Report: There Are Reports That Iranian Leaders Are Fleeing To Russian And Elsewhere – Multiple passenger jets seen taking off despite Mehrabad being officially shut down. – So who’s flying out? – At least three aircraft were spotted going in different directions. – This isn’t normal air traffic at such times; this is regime escape protocol. – Just like Syria right before Bashar’s circle bailed...

American Thinker: A Trip Down Memory Lane with Our Supposed ‘Friend’ China – Hearkening back to 1989 and ambling toward today, we see a “friendship” that has become a nightmare. – Various events starting in 1989 bring us to what we are facing today. – Chinese-made solar panels used on American farms have communication channels in their power inverters, allowing access to the American power infrastructure…

American Thinker: The people who should be informing us are dedicated to fooling us. – Today, the information ecosystem has become a manipulative thought machine. – Liberal leaning MSNBC or CNN, major party information outlets, NGOs, and politicians deliberately put out false and misleading information to support their agendas and to confuse and disarm their detractors. – So, how did we get here?…

American Thinker: What is it with Democrats and trains? – The California “High Speed Rail” project was approved by voters in 2008. – It was supposed to have run from San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2030 at a cost of a mere $33 billion. – Then it was downscaled to a very short route in the Central Valley, and the costs are over $100 billion and still rising. – All that and not a single foot of rail has been laid…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures: Armageddon Edition – Shadowy dark money groups organized riots in Los Angeles, which were mostly an attack on law, order, and the Trump administration. Then, Israel ran out of time and patience, and demolished Iran’s nuclear capability, perhaps in the nick of time…

Zero Hedge: 7 Possible Issues On The G7 Agenda – These Are Big Topics Albanese And Trump Could Discuss: ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs on Aussie Beef – Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum – Increasing Defense Spending – The AUKUS Deal Under Review – Australia’s Tough Approach on Israel – ‘Unfair’ Treatment of US Big Tech Firms – Hollywood Down Under…

Zero Hedge: Bilderberg’s 71st meeting kicked off in Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday amid tensions across Europe and the Middle East, and President Trump’s assault on globalism. – Among the topics scheduled for discussion are Trans-Atlantic relations, the Russia–Ukraine war, the U.S. economy, artificial intelligence, depopulation and migration, the “Authoritarian Axis,” and the geopolitics of energy and critical minerals…

Brownstone Institute: The Apex Predator of Captured Science, Dr. Robert Malone – Dr. Malone is particularly equipped to dismantle this collection of corrupt systems and subsystems from the inside, thus the wisely alarmed position of the opposition on large horse statue gifts from the Trojans. – They don’t attack nobodies. – They don’t coordinate against empty suits. – They target people who threaten the machinery.

June 13, 2025

Gateway Pundit: The US Is Actively Assisting in Defending Israel from Iran’s Missile Barrage – According to reports, the U.S. is helping to intercept incoming ballistic missiles, according to an Israeli official and a senior U.S. official.”

Western Journal: President Trump Helped Netanyahu Pull Off a Great Deception Before The Iran Attack – Trump and his aides pretended to oppose an Israeli attack, while privately Israel had a clear U.S. green light. – The goal, they say, was to convince Iran that no attack was imminent and make sure Iranians on Israel’s target list wouldn’t move to new locations…

American Spectator: Obama Supposedly Trusted Iran, But Israel Didn’t – Israel’s attack targeted every aspect of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, including Iran’s nuclear enrichment factories, key military leaders, military bases, nuclear weapons scientists, and Iran’s ballistic missile facilities. – Action, as the saying goes, speaks louder than words.

One America News: The Israel Defense Forces has announced that “all of Israel is under fire.” – Additionally, Iran now claims it “shot down two Israeli planes, but Israeli sources have not yet confirmed this. – Other reports say seven people have been “lightly and moderately” injured in Israel, with Iranian sources claiming a direct hit on the IDF’s headquarters in Tel Aviv…

Gateway Pundit: A USAID Official and Three Corporate Executives Plead Guilty to Decade-Long Bribery Scheme Involving Over $550 Million in Contracts – USAID official Roderick Wilson agreed with corporate executive Darryl Britt to receive bribes in exchange for Watson’s influence to award contracts to a small business named Apprio and its subcontractor Vistant…

One America News: Walmart heiress Christy Walton’s anti‑Trump ‘No Kings’ ad sparks a MAGA-led boycott campaign – The anti-Trump ad, run by the “No Kings” movement, calls for Americans to “mobilize” on Saturday, which is Flag Day and the president’s birthday, in order to “reject authoritarianism.” – Christy Walton paid for this political advertisement against Trump in major newspapers nationwide…

Epoch Times: The Department of Homeland Security Is Sending Termination Notices to 500,000 Illegal Immigrants to ‘Leave Immediately.’ – DHS said in a statement that illegal immigrants will be told in the notice that their parole has been terminated and their employment authorization revoked.

American Spectator: Why Should We Invite the World to Our Worst City for the Olympics? – After the chaos of anti-ICE riots and the disaster that followed the state’s wildfire outbreak in 2024, one must ask: Why should we invite the world to what’s arguably America’s worst city? – It’s about competence and accountability. Are we to believe these floundering politicians can suddenly pull off a world-class event?

Zero Hedge: A new survey by the UN Population Fund shows that the most common reasons people name for not having more children are financial. – As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, among 14 countries surveyed, respondents named financial limitations or job instability as the most common reasons to have fewer children than they desired in all…

Zero Hedge: Fresh reporting as well as new Friday statements by President Trump reveal that the US and Israel practiced deceptive diplomacy, as Israeli and American officials worked together to convince Iran that nuclear negotiations were progressing. – Tel Aviv was given “a clear US green light” to start bombing, and previously widely reported ‘split’ and spat between Trump and Netanyahu was a public ruse…

New York Post: Intelligence agents with Mossad, Israel’s top spy agency, started infiltrating the heart of Iran several months back in order to pull off the surprise attack aimed at obliterating Iranian nuclear and military facilities, as well as a swath of top military commanders. – Israeli spies smuggled missiles and secretly hid explosive drones deep inside Iran before tricking military leaders into gathering for a meeting so they could be wiped out…

New York Post: Israel strikes Iran live updates: Additional strikes on Iran are underway hours after Israel’s unprecedented attack decimated the Iranian military and its leaders. – Follow The Post’s live updates on Israel’s attack on Iran for the latest news, photos, reactions, and more, here…

Gateway Pundit: Israel Struck Iran Again And Says Their Operation Could Last Two Weeks – On Friday morning, Israeli military forces attacked several locations in Iran, including residential areas in the capital, Tehran. Several explosions were heard across the country. – Images of several locations in Tehran being targeted were posted on social media…

Jerusalem Post: Israel killed IRGC chief Hossein Salami and senior IRGC air force commanders during Operation Rising Lion. – Dozens of Israeli aircraft participated in an initial wave of strikes on dozens of military targets and Iranian nuclear sites early on Friday morning. – The IDF said that these officials had directed the massive Iranian attacks on Israel in both April 2024 and October 2024, as well as the Iranian attacks on Saudi Arabia in 2019…

Washington Examiner: Iran warned of a ‘bitter, painful fate’ before launching retaliatory strike against Israel – Iran launched over 100 drones toward Israel on Friday morning. – The drone deployment came as retaliation for Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, which targeted Iran’s nuclear program in a military airstrike on Thursday…

News Nation: Senator Ted Cruz warned Iran against trying to retaliate against American service members in the Middle East in the wake of Israel’s military strike against Tehran. – “I want to speak directly to the ayatollah, who chants ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel,’” Cruz said Thursday night. “Understand, if you attack American military bases, if you kill even one American serviceman or woman, President Trump will respond with overwhelming force. So, do not do so.”

Breitbart: Israel, its allies, and regional Arab countries together intercepted Iranian drones fired in retaliation for the massive Israeli airstrike launched early Friday, stopping them before they reached Israeli airspace. – The countries that participated in intercepting Iranian missiles and drone attacks against Israel this morning were 🇮🇱 Israel, 🇺🇸 USA, 🇬🇧 UK, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan, 🇶🇦 Qatar, 🇯🇴 Jordan, 🇹🇷 Turkey, and 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates…

Breitbart: Trump: I Gave Iran Leaders a Chance to Make a Deal, Now They Are All Dead – Trump urged Iran’s remaining leadership to come to the negotiating table and make a deal because Israel has “the most lethal” American military equipment and more is on the way…

Washington Free Beacon: After The Israeli Strikes on Iran, Trump Said, ‘I Feel Very Good’ – ‘I told Iran they should settle and they almost got there but not quite,’ the president says in brief phone interview. – Trump was tight-lipped on whether the US offered any kind of coordination to the Israelis, but said it was still not too late for the Iranians to come to the table…

Breitbart: Trump: During an interview with NewsNation on Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz stated that Israel’s strikes on Iran were largely unavoidable because the 60-day deadline given to Iran by President Donald Trump ran out right before the strikes and Iran breached the red line Trump laid down on their centrifuges…

American Thinker: Regarding Iran, it sounds crazy, but it’s true – Barack Obama’s foreign policy is nearing a full circle. – All honest observers at the time knew Obama’s precious 2015 Iran Deal was a ten-year glide path to nukes, not a proscription from them, and here we are, ten years later, and America’s chess pieces were, this week, being shifted around in the region in anticipation of who knows what…

Liberty Daily: Iran Vows to Continue Nuclear Activities – Iranian leaders have made clear their intent to continue enriching uranium, and even to potentially expand their nuclear activities. – Israeli attacks “will not affect our determination” to continue nuclear activities in Iran, state TV reported…

American Thinker: The situation in the Israel-Iran war is kinetic, but we can discern a few things – By cutting the head off the world’s foremost terror sponsor, it benefits the world, not just Israel. – It is purely a defensive move because Iran is on the verge of having deliverable nuclear weapons, and Iran is already in a hot war against Israel and has threatened to annihilate it..

Center Square: Protests are expected across the country Saturday in response to the celebratory events to be held in Washington, D.C., marking the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday and Flag Day, which coincide with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. – A parade recognizing the Army’s birthday will include hundreds of tanks, about 7,000 soldiers, flyovers, and more. – It’s unclear how expected rainstorms in the D.C. area Saturday will impact the celebration, but Trump said it would not.

Geller Report: Federal Judge Denise J. Casper, appointed by Obama, has blocked enforcement of President Trump’s executive order requiring proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration. – When is Congress going to pass legislation to ensure free and fair elections? – They did it with the EV mandate. – What could be more important than our elections?

American Wire: Disgust looms when ‘DataRepublican’ follows the money to show who is funding the ‘No Kings’ movement’s demonstrations. – The dashboard lists dozens of organizations, including several chapters of the ACLU, several teachers’ unions, the American National Red Cross, the Tennessee Democracy Network, and the Tides Center…

Breitbart: Consumer sentiment soared in early June, rising for the first time in six months and posting its strongest monthly gain since January 2024. – The University of Michigan’s closely watched index of consumer sentiment jumped to 60.5 in the first half of June, up from 52.2 the prior month, a 16 percent gain that beat every estimate in a Wall Street Journal survey of economists.

Washington Examiner: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted President Donald Trump a victory late Thursday night regarding National Guard troop deployment in California. – The Appeals Court blocked a federal judge’s order from earlier in the day that required the president to cede control of the National Guard in Los Angeles, California, to Governor Gavin Newsom…

The Federalist: How The L.A. Riots Demonstrate Democrat-Media Complex’s Loss Of Narrative Control – All of the legacy media narratives shoved down America’s throat in 2020 to justify rioting are falling flat this time around, but they’re still trying to deceive you. – Since the riots began, there have been the usual attempts to selectively present the violence and protests in such a way as to downplay what’s happening…

Zero Hedge: There appears to be a new coordinated and funded effort to get online influencers to rally anti-ICE sentiment and encourage leftists to oppose the efforts to enforce immigration law. – Dozens of TikTok and Instagram influencers have posted videos practically saying the same thing, with scripts that appear to be written by the same entity behind the message…

Daily Wire: Anti-ICE protesters got in the way of a drug bust targeting a former cartel member in Tucson, Arizona, on Wednesday night, according to Pinal County Sheriff Ross Teeple. – “These idiots came out and protested us getting 5 million fentanyl pills, 32 pounds of cocaine, and 22 pounds of methamphetamines off the streets.”…

Populist Times: The Feds Launch A Major Crackdown on Violent L.A. Protesters And It Is “Just the Beginning” – U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, announced that federal charges had been filed against individuals who allegedly hurled Molotov cocktails at law enforcement officers. – “Federal charges filed against Emiliano Garduno Galvez and Wrackkie Quiogue. – Each faces up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted.

Issues & Insights: Suddenly, Journalists Don’t Want To ‘Follow The Money’ – That used to be the watchword for investigative journalists. If you want to uncover corruption, find out where the money is coming from and where it is going. At least it used to be. – Today? Not so much. – At least not when doing so could implicate Democrats or upset the left’s agenda…

Slay News: Major cities across the US are bracing for violent riots this weekend as leftist groups funded by radical billionaire George Soros prepare to create anti-Trump chaos. – The “No Kings” demonstrations appear to follow a now-familiar script: a seemingly “peaceful,” grassroots rally that evolves into organized chaos fueled by masked Antifa and anarchist mobs. – Expect Democrat-aligned corporate media outlets to downplay the coming violence as “mostly peaceful.”

Just The News: The LA mayor once joined a pro-Cuba communist group that is now it’s part of a CCP-linked network behind the protests – Karen Bass’s radical Communist-linked past is coming back to haunt her as the pro-Cuban revolutionary group she was a member of in her youth has joined a Marxist financial network linked to the Los Angeles protests.

Just The News: The House has passed legislation requiring Washington, D.C., to comply with federal immigration laws and end its status as a so-called sanctuary city. – If passed the Senate and signed into law, it would block D.C. policies that restrict it from sharing immigration status information with DHS and prevent it from complying with ICE requests to detain people they can take them into custody.

Epoch Times: Trump Says Musk ‘A Friend of Mine’ While Signing A Bill Targeting California’s Emissions Mandate. – Trump then praised Musk for endorsing him in 2024 even after he pledged during his campaign that he would abolish federal mandates on electric vehicles. – The remarks from the president were made the day after Musk wrote in a post on X that he regrets some of the critical comments that he made a week ago…

American Thinker: Ashli Babbitt Didn’t Have to Die, For Multiple Reasons – The man who shot and killed Ashli, Lieutenant Michael Byrd, had a checkered history in handling firearms and dubious justification for the shooting. – Byrd shot an American citizen without knowing whether she was armed or not. – Basically, he admitted that he shot her just in case…

June 12, 2025

Fox News: Israel hit the ‘heart’ of Iran’s nuclear program in its Natanz facility strike – Israeli PM confirmed the Natanz facility was targeted in Thursday’s military operation against Tehran’s nuclear weapons development program. – “Iran has produced enough highly enriched uranium for nine atom bombs, nine,” Netanyahu said…

Epoch Times: A Former Chinese Military Doctor Says CCP May Use Taiwanese Troops’ Blood And Organs in The Event of War – He said that from the Chinese regime’s view, “the most difficult part of the logistics to supply the front is the storage, refrigeration, and transportation of blood, as many soldiers will be bleeding or burned in combat,” and “blood supply will become the biggest pressure.”…

Epoch Times: The House Has Approved A Bill to Codify $9.4 Billion in DOGE Cuts to Foreign Aid and Public Media – Introduced by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, it passed 214–212. – It now goes to the Senate, where it will likely pass along party lines.

Western Journal: Kristi Noem Clarifies What Really Happened After Democrat Senator Alex Padilla Was ‘Lunging Toward’ Her For Political Theater – “This man burst into the room, started lunging toward the podium, interrupting me, and elevating his voice. – “[Padilla] did not identify himself and was removed from the room…

Gateway Pundit: A Florida Sheriff’s Bone-Chilling Message to Those Planning to Riot in His County After What Happened in Los Angeles – Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey announced that any agitator who tries to start up trouble in his community would live to regret their actions. – “If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains.”

Victor Davis Hanson: The Rogue’s New Gallery of Left-Wing Scoundrels – The left’s martyr-making machine is in overdrive, recasting criminals, rioters, and radicals as victims, even though the public demands law, order, and sanity. – During the LA riots, the entire Democrat Party and California state officials sided with violent protesters and illegal aliens. – The open border rioters soon got the message that left-wing California officials were on their side, and escalation began…

American Spectator: Thanks to the Supreme Court, Government Should Finally Be Able To ‘Get Things Done’ – The Eagle County decision gets the courts out of the way for government projects. – NEPA is a purely procedural statute that only requires agencies to prepare an environmental impact statement or assessment before approving a project or commencing with a project. But over the years, federal courts intervened…

One America News: A Boeing 787 Air India Flight Bound For London Crashed Minutes After Take-Off From Gujarat With 242 Aboard – The aircraft was fully fuelled for a long-haul journey, which contributed to a large fire at the site of the crash. – Miraculously, one British passenger survived the deadly Air India plane crash…

Zero Hedge: Chilling Footage Shows Air India 787-8 Dreamliner Take Off And Then Crashing Into A Student Hostel – AI171 took off from Mid Runway at AHM today – Length of Runway available used was 5700 ft – B787 Required Takeoff distance ~ 9000 ft. – The Aircraft took off as soon as it reached its VR Speed but the engine couldn’t generate enough thrust. – This is a screenshot from the AI171 crash video. I’m convinced they have flaps set to 0. Flaps should be set to 5 or 15 degrees – Many questions…

Geller Report: The White House Advises Americans to Leave the Region Due to the Threat of Iran Escalating Conflict – Trump said, Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. – Iran threatened American bases as nuclear talks came to a head and vowed` to ramp up enrichment after the UN watchdog found it breached nuke safeguards.

Daily Caller: Israel is reportedly gearing up to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities as the U.S. ordered evacuations across the Middle East, according to U.S. and European officials. – U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is set to meet with Iranian officials on Sunday, which could be the last chance for Tehran to reach an agreement on its nuclear program before the bombs drop…

Geller Report: China is using climate initiatives to undermine U.S. energy independence and increase reliance on the Chinese supply chain. – The CCP uses the globalist left, which first financed the Chinese solar, battery, EV, and wind turbine manufacturing, and then imposed NetZero to kill the energy engine of Western industries while transferring Western wealth and technology to China…

Daily Caller: The CIA has released 54 declassified files pertaining to Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination. – CIA director John Ratcliffe released an additional 1,450 pages of material in compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order issued on January 23. – The newly disclosed materials raise the total number of CIA documents declassified on the subject to over 200, comprising nearly 5,000 pages in total.

Slay News: President Donald Trump signed three landmark bills on Thursday to obliterate the Democrats’ green agenda policies that mandated EV sales. – The move officially terminates the EPA green light issued under Joe Biden that allowed California to enforce its so-called “Advanced Clean Cars II” plan that was made possible thanks to a regulatory loophole and Biden’s rubber stamp.

Daily Wire: House Passes DOGE Cuts Targeting Foreign Aid, NPR, and PBS – The rescissions bill that seeks to take back $9.4 billion in discretionary spending allocated toward foreign aid projects and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funds to NPR and PBS. – It passed in a vote of 214-212, mostly along party lines…

The Federalist: Here’s A Rundown Of The Court Fights The Trump Administration Has Won So Far – AG Pam Bondi and Solicitor General John Sauer have been putting up a fierce fight. – The more than 200 lawsuits filed against the administration guarantee that lawyers at the Department of Justice are working overtime to defend the constitutional authority and prerogatives of the president as the head of the executive branch…

Slay News: A Majority of Democrats Disapprove of Party Lawmakers in Congress – According to the latest Quinnipiac University survey, 53% of Democrats disapprove of how their party’s members in Congress are doing their jobs, with only 41% still backing them. – The number ties a historic low since Quinnipiac began asking this question in 2009, with a staggering 70% of Americans disapproving of Democrat lawmakers…

Zero Hedge: Senators Bernie Sanders and Angus King, both independents, are introducing legislation to ban pharmaceutical companies from promoting prescription drugs directly to consumers, including through television, radio, print, digital platforms, and social media. – Prescription drug brands accounted for roughly 13% of all ad spending on television in 2025, approximately $2.18 billion so far this year…

Western Journal: Trump’s DOD Sets the Record Straight After A Supposed ‘Military Member’ Protested ICE While in Uniform – DOD Response, “The woman in this video was discharged from the Texas National Guard on June 5th, 2020, and she does not speak for nor reflect the U.S. Army…

Victor Davis Hanson: The Rogue’s New Gallery of Left-Wing Scoundrels – The left’s martyr-making machine is in overdrive—recasting criminals, rioters, and radicals as victims, even as the public demands law, order, and sanity. – The left has gone completely crazy as the entire Democrat Party and California state officials side with violent protesters and illegal aliens…

Zero Hedge: United States Attorney Bill Essayli, a top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, announced that Alejandro Theodoro Orellana was arrested by FBI agents “on an allegation of Conspiracy to Commit Civil Disorders (18 USC 371) for distributing face shields to suspected rioters on Tuesday.” – “We are moving quickly to identify and arrest those involved in organizing and/or supporting civil disorder in Los Angeles,” Essayli said.

Townhall: Watch the Expressions of These Libs As Batya Ungar-Sargon Explains Trump’s Mandate on Immigration – We’re fighting against the cheap labor costs associated with illegal immigration. – It’s a competition the American workers have been losing because slave labor from illegals is good for a business’s bottom line. – Trump won the 2024 election on immigration and has the mandate to do it.

American Thinker: Our Fiery but Mostly Peaceful Foreign Invasion – Apparently, unless we do what Democrats say, they’ll burn our country to the ground. – For months, every American with two brain cells and a pulse has understood that Democrats were preparing for a 2020 “summer of love” reunion tour now that President Trump is back in the White House…

American Thinker: The LA Riots and the Media’s “Stalinization” – The media’s response to the chaos in LA evokes Walter Duranty’s running cover for Joseph Stalin. – The legacy media chose not to use words more accurately describing what was actually happening in LA—words such as “riot” or “rioters,” despite ongoing attacks against police, masked activists smashing windows, and rioters even attempting to burn police horses…

Breitbart: The Media Defend The Mexican Flag Being Flown at The L.A. Riots – Politico explained in a sub-headline that flying the Mexican flag is a “long tradition during times of anti-immigrant sentiment.” – The New York Times cited protesters who said they wanted to stand up for “diversity” against President Trump and Mexican flags, many were flown by young Americans whose grandparents or great-grandparents came from Mexico…

Issues & Insights: 3 Million Americans Fled ‘Sanctuary States’ Like California In The Past Four Years – Today, the governors of three “sanctuary states” will try to explain to lawmakers why it is official state policy to protect those who are in the U.S. illegally, including violent felons, from deportation. – The cost of this can be measured in lives lost, women raped, property damaged, and taxpayers fleeced by these wildly misplaced priorities…

Western Journal: Every Last One Quit – The Entire Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Admits It Can’t Handle Trump’s Heat, So They All Voted to Resign. – Just this week, authorities detained a Chinese student who was trying to smuggle biological material into the country.

Zero Hedge: Sen. Rand Paul continues to be a prominent holdout against President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.”…However, the Kentucky Republican has indicated he could ultimately support the legislation if a key condition is met: removing the debt ceiling increase from the bill…

Center for Immigration Studies: We Have A Record-Breaking 1,582,808 Foreign Students in 2024, Up 5.3 % from 2023, along with a huge jump in STEM work authorizations. – India continued to be the leading source of foreign students, followed closely by China…

A Sharyl Attkisson: A new Gallup survey finds that most Americans continue to support policies that prioritize biological sex over gender identity, particularly when it comes to official identification and participation in sports. – According to the May 2025 Values and Beliefs poll, 69% of US adults say transgender athletes should only be allowed to play on teams that match their birth sex, and 66% say birth sex should be used on government-issued IDs like passports and driver’s licenses.

June 11, 2025

The Free Press: Why Gavin Newsom Will Never Be President – In a speech that doubled as a soft launch of what might become Newsom’s presidential campaign, Newsom declared the moment to be “Democracy at a Crossroads,” and employed by turns obfuscation, gaslighting, and outright untruths to try to drive the public narrative. – But, as LA burns, American voters see through the Democrat governor’s false narratives…

American Thinker: A day late, a dollar short, Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass finally admit they’ve got a problem – A light bulb went off and suddenly, Trump was right all along again. – PJMedia’s Matt Margolis has a splendid account of Newsom’s comedy of errors in trying to get that message across and position himself as the opposition to President Trump. – Mayor Bass was just as bad, denying any problems at all, until the sheriff said it wasn’t…

City Journal: Nothing About the L.A. “Protest” Is Organic – Images and videos from the riots give the game away. Why are there keffiyehs everywhere? What does Palestinianism have to do with preventing the federal government from enforcing immigration law, and how did the rioters know to show up covering their faces with the same symbolic gear?…

Epoch Times: FBI Director Kash Patel Says The FBI Is Investigating The Money Trail Behind The Los Angeles Riots – Questions are being raised about whether Chinese influence has helped fuel the chaos. – One group backing the unrest is the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a communist political party linked to networks funded by pro-Beijing tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham…

Washington Free Beacon: Trump’s EPA Rescinds Biden-Era Rules That Would Have Forced Power Plants To Shutter – Top grid operators warned Biden-era rules would threaten the reliability of the nation’s power grid. – The EPA projected its actions will save more than $1.2 billion a year in regulatory compliance costs over the next two decades and will ensure that existing gas and coal power plants, dozens of which were scheduled to be retired this year alone, will remain in operation.

AXIOS: David Hogg is out at the DNC and won’t run again. – The vote was based on a technical complaint, but it comes as Democrats have expressed fury with Hogg for simultaneously serving as a top party official while supporting congressional primary candidates. – The Wednesday afternoon vote was decisive, with 75% of the 393 participating DNC members voting to vacate the election and 25% voting against doing so…

One America News: The North Texas Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the FBI’s Dallas Division arrested 244 people and rescued 109 children during an operation aiming to combat online child exploitation. – Operation Soteria Shield was a month-long operation that began in April.

AP News: President Trump announced Wednesday that the United States will get magnets and rare earth minerals from China under a new trade deal and that tariffs on Chinese goods will go to 55%. – In return, Trump said the U.S. will provide China “what was agreed to,” including allowing Chinese students to attend American colleges and universities.

Zero Hedge: China is putting a six-month limit on rare-earth export licenses for U.S. automakers and manufacturers, giving Beijing leverage if trade tensions flare up again while adding to uncertainty for American industry…

Gateway Pundit: China’s New AI War Academy Trains Cyber Soldiers to Target American Infrastructure – The PLA Information Support Force Engineering University in Wuhan will offer majors specifically designed to create AI-powered cyber terrorists, including programs on how to weaponize AI against American military systems, power grids, and critical infrastructure…

Washington Free Beacon: The CCP Uses Harvard as a ‘Fertile Human Capital Recruiting Ground’ to Further Their Military Goals, a Report Shows. – Collaborations between Harvard faculty and Chinese scientists “deal with advanced technologies that PRC laws require PRC collaborators to share with the People’s Liberation Army and the country’s security agencies.”…

Breitbart: PresidentTrump told the New York Post in an interview published Wednesday that he is “much less confident” that the U.S. will be able to reach a nuclear agreement with the Iranian regime. – “They seem to be delaying, and I think that’s a shame, but I’m less confident now than I would have been a couple of months ago. Something happened to them, but I am much less confident of a deal being made.”…

Sharyl Attkisson: Palestinian Terrorist Hamas Is Pursuing Longstanding and Explicit Genocide of Jews – I recently watched news coverage in Europe with more than a little alarm as they almost universally described by anchors, reporters, and analysts as an unprovoked “genocide” being waged by Israel against innocent Palestinian people. – Sadly, the reporting is not a lot better here in the U.S., so here is a bit of context, for balance…

Epoch Times: A federal judge has denied California Governor Gavin Newsom’s request for an emergency restraining order aimed at stopping President Trump and the Department of Defense from federalizing the California National Guard and deploying U.S. Marines to Los Angeles, following violent clashes between immigration officers and protesters…

Zero Hedge: Pam Bondi Dropped The Hammer, Declaring The L.A. Rioters Face Federal Robbery Charges Under The Hobbs Act – Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom’s characterization of the riots as “mostly peaceful” is increasingly being contradicted by viral X footage of looting, vehicle fires, and street-level chaos…

California Globe: Had Gavin Newsom Funded Prop 36, LA Riots Would Likely Be Over – Los Angeles rioters are handed a ticket and told to appear – Gavin Newsom opposed Prop. 36, and worked against it. – Even after its passage, Newsom did nothing to uphold voters’ clear wishes and fund it in the state budget.- Now, all of America is watching the California Governor’s meltdown. – The Los Angeles Mayor isn’t any better.

New York Post: ICE is preparing raids in 5 Democrat states as emotional Newsom declared California may be first, but it clearly won’t end here. – ICE tactical units are gearing up to conduct raids in five Democrat-led areas, New York City, Philadelphia, northern Virginia, Chicago, and Seattle, sources indicated, without giving an exact timeline…

Epoch Times: Two accused rioters were arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails at officers during unrest in Los Angeles over the past weekend. – Emiliano Galvez and Wrackkie Quiogue face federal charges of possession of an unregistered destructive device, which carries a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison, said the DOJ in a statement.

Daily Fetched: A CNN Analyst Notes That Trump’s Popularity Has Skyrockets Amid LA Violent Riots – Harry Enten, “Yes, you know, if we just take a look at the baseline numbers here, this is Trump’s net approval rating on immigration,” Enten said. – “It’s gone up like a rocket, up 22 points, compared now versus eight years ago during Trump’s first term.”

Western Journal: A Protester In A Purple Shirt Learns a Painful FAFO Lesson After Trying to Stop A Moving ICE Vehicle By Trying To Stop It From Moving Forward. – “And here comes the crowd,” the reporter said, while noting that most people were smart enough to stay away from the crowd control cops as the vehicles departed with individuals that had been arrested…

American Thinker: Is This Civil War 2.0? – If Democratic leaders are rallying their base to view the protests as a defense of democratic values, it may potentially escalate into more widespread conflicts. – Democrats have a long history of inciting violence. – Starting the Civil War, forming the KKK, violently resisting school integration, the George Floyd riots, and now the current anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles…

American Thinker: Why is the left trying to inflame a civil war? – Why are they rhetorically pouring gasoline on a smoldering brushfire and fanning the flames? – The answer is disturbingly obvious. The whole point is to provide as many “flashpoints” as possible to blame the resulting conflagration on President Trump and the pro-freedom side of the political spectrum…

Daily Wire: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a stark warning to any potential protesters who had a mind to engage in the same sort of violence and vandalism that has been seen in Los Angeles over the last several days: “You will not succeed.” – Leavitt’s warning comes after five days of violent protests and riots in Los Angeles, sparked by protesters attempting to hinder ICE from doing their jobs…

Daily Wire: Congressional Republicans are advancing a bill that would make it a federal crime to block interstate highways after mass demonstrations in Los Angeles caused major backups on key roadways. – Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia reintroduced the bill, the Safe Passage on Interstates Act, in February after it stalled in the Senate last year…

Daily Wire: Greg Abbott To Deploy The National Guard Amid Texas Anti-ICE Protests – The move is a precautionary measure “to ensure peace & order,” according to the governor. – “Peaceful protest is legal. Harming a person or property is illegal & will lead to arrest,” the governor added. “@TexasGuard will use every tool & strategy to help law enforcement maintain order.”…

Fox News: An ABC News insider says there was ‘no alternative’ but for the network to fire Terry Moran over his anti-Trump post, saying, “We f—ing took it seriously and dealt with it pretty g–d— quickly.” – The network insider acknowledged that, with the industry-wide issue of distrust of the legacy media, not addressing Moran’s post promptly and having the drama dragged out could have cost ABC viewership…

Breitbart: U.S consumer prices barely rose at all in May, the fourth straight month of mild inflation and a sign that the Trump administration’s tariffs have not raised prices on American households. – Compared with a year ago, consumer prices are up 2.4%. – Energy prices fell 2.4% in May, led by a 2.6% decline in gasoline. Compared with a year ago, gasoline prices are down 12.0%.

Issues & Insights: Let’s Be Honest, The ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ Does NOT Cut Spending At All – Under the House bill, federal spending will climb an average of 4.4% a year over the next decade. Or about twice the rate of inflation. – The Trump administration says that “more cuts are on the way,” but if you want to see just how little appetite there is in Washington for spending cuts, look at the chart below…

Daily Wire: A D.C. Judge Sided With Trump In A Lawsuit Over Control Of A Corrupt Foreign Aid Agency – The suit was brought by Ward Brehm, a former member of the African Development Foundation’s board of directors. – Senior Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that Brehm “never lawfully held the position, and the Court is not at liberty to unilaterally install him as president…

Western Journal: LA Looters Ditch Stolen iPhones When Foreboding Message Flashes on Screen – Alarms blared on multiple iPhones that were taken from the Apple store in downtown Los Angeles – Displays on the devices read “Please return to Apple Tower Theatre. – This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted.”

June 10, 2025

Daily Wire: The emir of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula directed American Muslims to assassinate President Trump, calling assassinations “the greatest form of jihad today.” – Sa’ad bin Atef al-Awlaki, also listed Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Elon Musk, and the U.S. Senate as targets…

Washington Times: Thanks to President Trump’s creation of DOGE, we not only know the Democrats couldn’t care less about waste, they revel in it. – They turned the federal budget into their war chest, festooned with who knows how many slush funds feeding dollars out the door to left-wing activists promoting the Democrat Party. – EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin struck one of the most telling blows…

American Spectator: Biden EPA’s %27 billion Largess Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg – Many of the ultimate grant recipients were whole new entities that came into being for the purpose of receiving this bounty. – They are called, tellingly enough, “purpose-built” entities. – Some came into existence a month before the money was dispensed, some several months before. – What they all had in common was political connections.

Gateway Pundit: President Trump Dropped a Damning Receipt After Gavin Newsom Accused Trump of Lying About Contacting Him During the LA Riots – Fox News’s John Roberts shared the call log, proving Trump and Newsom had made contact. – Remember, Newsom said he never spoke to Trump at all, so this proves that the California governor is the real liar.

AXIOS: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass imposed a curfew in downtown LA on Tuesday during a fifth straight day of fiery protests against ICE raids. – The curfew will be in effect from 8 pm Tuesday to 6 am Wednesday, local time comes as Bass moves to address looting and vandalism that have occurred during the protests...

Epoch Times: Leftist Group, “No Kings Day of Defiance,” Has Planned a National Protest for June 14 as Washington Set for A Military Parade on Flag Day – The group said it didn’t want Trump’s “birthday parade” to be the center of attention.- In a June 8 statement, No Kings said its June 14 gatherings were planned prior to the Los Angeles disturbances “as a peaceful stand against authoritarian overreach.”…

Wall Street Journal: A federal appellate court on Tuesday granted the Trump administration’s request to keep the president’s far-reaching tariffs in effect for now but agreed to fast-track its consideration of the case this summer. – The appeals court said it intends to hear arguments on July 31, which means the tariffs likely will remain in effect for at least the next two months…

Breitbart: A federal grand jury has issued a three-count federal indictment against Representative LaMonica McIver after she was caught on camera storming an ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, last month. – McIver is charged with forcibly impeding and interfering with ICE agents while they were trying to arrest an illegal alien outside of Delaney Hall detention center on May 9th.

Tom Klingenstein: Inside the Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Arguments – While attending oral argument last week in the case touching on birthright citizenship pending before the Supreme Court, I observed a combination of confusion, omissions, and outright lies from some of the justices. – Let’s begin with the lies. Early in the argument, Justice Sotomayor unequivocally stated that the Court had held 127 years ago that anyone born on U.S. soil is a citizen…

American Thinker: The New York Times claims Trump’s deregulation agenda is ‘increasing costs on Americans’ – The NYT never cared about the massive inflation caused by government regulations, and now they falsely claim that deregulations don’t reduce costs. – The most ridiculous claim they make is that health insurance deregulation doesn’t save costs…

Epoch Times: Tech billionaire Elon Musk has expressed regret over recent posts about President Trump amid a public feud between the two, but did not say which posts he regretted. – The rupture with Trump came after Musk lambasted the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a sprawling legislative package backed by the White House…

American Spectator: Is Taylor Swift a Self-Made Billionaire? – The fantasy we were provided says Swift played the same game as others, but she didn’t. – The same goes for Lucy Guo, another supposed “self-made” billionaire, hailed for coding her way from Carnegie Mellon dropout to AI queen. – The real problem isn’t Swift or Guo, it’s the exclusive nature of their access to connected opportunity…

Daily Signal: Senator John Fetterman on Monday condemned the Los Angeles. – “I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration—but this is not that,” he wrote in a post on X. – “This is anarchy and true chaos he continued, including a photo below his statement that showed raging fires and a man standing on top of a car waving a Mexican flag in LA.

Washington Free Beacon: Telegram Messages Show Hamas Is Planning Attacks on US Aid Sites In Gaza – A senior Trump administration official told the Washington Free Beacon that the U.S. government has monitored the situation and will protect Americans on the ground in Gaza…

Geller Report: The ‘Palestinian’ Authority Top Dog Abbas Praises The October 7 massacre Ahead of Pro-‘Palestinian’ Summit – Also, Abbas led PA pays Islamic terrorists millions of dollars to murder Jews. – And detestable Leftist governments will gather at the UN later this month. – All to discuss rewarding this terrorism with a Palestinian terror State…

Geller Report: President Trump held a phone call with Netanyahu regarding Iran as he tries to ‘avoid death and destruction’ – The call comes as Trump has been trying to accelerate aid into Gaza and has been trying to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear program…

One America News: AT&T announced that they are experiencing an enormous personal data breach, putting over 80 million people who use the company at risk of data exposed. – The leaked information includes full names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, and 44 million Social Security Numbers in plain text.

Issues & Insights: Andy Ngo, who has documented violent mob behavior for years, sees what many fear, yet some (let’s call them Leftists) want. – “If the political violence continues in Los Angeles, it will be used to galvanize and inspire far-left extremists and Antifa cells across the country to incite anti-government insurrections in different cities. – What we are witnessing now is almost exactly what happened five years ago. – The same networks and militants are involved. – It is their same playbook.”

Daily Wire: Trump Hammered Home His Determination On The L.A. Riots, “I Am Not Playing Around.” – “If I didn’t ‘SEND IN THE TROOPS’ to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now, much like 25,000 houses burned to the ground in L.A. due to an incompetent Governor and Mayor.”…

Populist Times: Democrat Senator Chris Murphy has called for copycat LA protests across the country. –This is hardly the first time Democrats have called for civil disobedience in response to Trump removing violent illegal aliens who should not have been in the country in the first place. – – Back in April, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called for mass action, saying he had never encouraged civil disobedience until then…

Western Journal: A Anchor Goes Dead Silent on Air After Realizing The Supposedly ‘Organic’ Protest Is Totally Staged – Fox News’ Bill Melugin pointed out, these “protesters” were being “given earplugs, gas masks, and water bottles” — with the water being “not to drink, a lot of those water bottles are being thrown” at law enforcement, he said.

Townhall: This Is What Stunned a News Reporter Covering the LA Riots Last Night – As reports of this being a coordinated campaign, which wouldn’t be shocking given the amount of progressive dark money networks, Fox News’ Bill Melugin noted something related to those allegations: hundreds of people have shown up out of nowhere, and it happened multiple times last night…

Gateway Pundit: Lighting cars on fire across the city, attacking law enforcement, destroying police cars, and hurling explosives at an ICE facility isn’t enough for the liberal domestic terrorists and criminal illegal aliens overtaking the streets. – The Los Angeles Police are now receiving reports from local business owners that their stores were broken into and looted...

America First Report: 8 of the Nuttiest Things Leftists Are Saying About the Violent Protests in Los Angeles – 1. ABC7 Eyewitness News co-anchor Marc Brown actually described the rioters as “just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn” – 2. As smoke was rising behind him, ABC7 Eyewitness News reporter Tim Caputo described the rioters as “people taking videos, people waving flags, people walking around, people wanting to be part of the cause”…

Epoch Times: 700 Marines and 2,000 More Guardsmen Were Mobilized in Response to the LA Riots – California has now sued the Trump administration, alleging the National Guard deployment was unlawful. – The FBI identified the masked protester accused of assaulting a federal officer during heated demonstrations against federal immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles…

American Thinker: Of Course It’s Legal, The National Guard Is Doing Its Job Because Gavin Newsom Wouldn’t – If the violence continues, President Trump has the legal authority to go even further. – The president’s authority to nationalize the Guard is not new, novel, or remotely in question. – Here’s why Newsom is wrong on the law…

American Thinker: California Governor Gavin Newsom is suing President Trump and Secretary Hegseth over the National Guard deployment—and in doing so, he’s inviting a legal defeat of historic proportions. – Yet, a courtroom loss could trigger something far more consequential: a landmark Supreme Court ruling that cements the president’s authority to restore order when states refuse…

New York Post: LA anti-ICE rioters were seen being zip-tied and herded away in buses as police attempt to squash the mayhem. – Around 2,000 protesters were estimated to be participating in the riots on Sunday, which continued on Monday night, with at least 56 people arrested over the weekend…

American Thinker: The LA Riots Prove that Democrats Need Illegals – Illegals are declaring that American turf is theirs, and Democrats tacitly support their claim. – Hoisting Mexican flags on U.S. soil stakes a claim. – This real estate is ours, declare the troublemakers, among whom are surely homegrown leftist agitators. LA, in part, smells like a George Floyd riots redo…

Slay News: A former military PR officer warns of a deep-rooted leftist resistance movement within the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). – Dr. Chase Spears says that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has many enemies in the DOD. – According to Spears, those operatives were promoted due to their leftist ideology and plan to wait out the Trump administration…

Hot Air: The Biden Administration Surveilled Musk’s Contacts After He Bought Twitter – The investigation included the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department. – It focused on people visiting the tech billionaire, from countries in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, whom they proposed might have been trying to influence him.

American Wire: Hegseth STOMPS all over a Democrat Representative Betty McCollum’s self-righteous question – “You are right. We are both originally from Minnesota, which is why I recall 2020 quite well, when Governor Walz abandoned a police precinct and allowed it to be burned to the ground. – He also allowed five days of chaos to occur inside the streets of Minneapolis!” he said, as McCollum attempted to interrupt him.

Resist The Mainstream: DHS publicly reprimanded Rep. Maxine Waters for misleading statements about the recent unrest in Los Angeles and her attempts to breach a federal detention center to visit a detained union leader. – The confrontation between Waters and National Guard personnel guarding the facility has drawn sharp criticism from DHS, highlighting concerns over safety and the ongoing violence in the city.

June 9, 2025

CNBC: China and the U.S. are set to continue trade talks as Trump touts ‘good reports’ from Monday’s London meeting. – Both sides temporarily slashed tariffs on each other’s imports to allow trade talks to continue, but disagreements remain. – “The purpose of the meeting today is to make sure that they’re serious, but to literally get handshakes … and get this thing behind us,” Hassett said…

Liberty Daily: Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, ” The communists behind the supposedly ‘organic’ riots in Los Angeles and across the country are being funded by Neville Singham, according to Data.” – Here’s a breakdown of the groups, the money, and the people pulling the strings. – A number of NGOs have been implicated in this. – Foremost is the Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights…

Daily Signal: When anti-ICE agitators took to the streets in Los Angeles, they drew attention to three left-leaning activist groups that may have helped instigate the riots. – The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the Service Employees International Union. The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights has received millions in government funding…

Blaze Media: Fiery footage shows radicals in LA savagely attack law enforcement on second night of violent riots – While California radicals set fires and attacked police, Gov. Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass spent their time blaming Trump for the chaos. – Contrary to Newsom’s suggestion, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell admitted in the wake of the first night of rioting that police “are overwhelmed...

Breitbart: Anti-ICE Protests Spread to Texas and San Francisco as the L.A. Riots Continue – KXAN News reported that as of 10:08 p.m. (CDT), protesters in Austin had torn down construction barriers, scooters, and other equipment and were throwing them in the middle of the street as they walked. – The Anti-ICE protests have also spread to San Francisco, with roughly 154 people being arrested on Sunday night…

Just The News: FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau is investigating the money trail behind those organizing and promoting the demonstrations spreading across the country. – “The FBI is investigating all monetary connections responsible for these riots,” Patel said in a statement late Monday…

Snopes: ICE didn’t raid a Los Angeles elementary school graduation ahead of immigration protests – A TikTok user claimed parents ran out of a ceremony at Gratts Learning Academy when federal immigration agents showed up. – The claims circulated ahead of a weekend of protests in the city following ICE raids on June 6. The claim likely stemmed from a TikTok video (archived) uploaded by @justsayuhatebasketball on TikTok…

Daily Wire: President Trump Admin Sanctions Sons Of ‘El Chapo,’ Leaders Of Sinaloa Cartel’s Fentanyl Factories – “Los Chapitos is a powerful, hyperviolent faction of the Sinaloa Cartel at the forefront of fentanyl trafficking into the US.” Los Chapitos has been identified as a top manufacturer of fentanyl pills through its many factories…

Western Journal: Autopen Bombshell: Biden’s Signatures Don’t Match With Multiple Different Signatures Found – Between Biden’s debilitated status and the fact that his autopen appeared to have been used ferociously in his final 100 days, it didn’t take much for many of the former president’s harshest critics to point out the obvious concerns that someone other than Biden appeared to be running the White House via the autopen.

Epoch Times: A federal court on June 8 declined a request from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to block the Trump administration from removing three members of its board of directors. – CPB is a nonprofit established by Congress that distributes funds to more than 1,600 public television and radio stations such as PBS and NPR…

Epoch Times: DOGE Says It Terminated More Federal Credit Cards – The head of Social Security indicated that he will continue to work with DOGE after Elon Musk departed from the White House. – A program that was introduced earlier this year has resulted in the cancellation of more than 610,000 unused or unneeded federal credit cards…

Western Journal: The GOP Will Be Down a Precious House Seat as Tennessee Representative Mark Green Announces His Abrupt Resignation. – Green, who also serves as House Homeland Security Committee Chairman, confirmed on social media that he is going to be leaving his post early to pursue a job in the private sector as soon as the House votes once again on the reconciliation package…

Daily Wire: President Trump Vows To ‘Liberate Los Angeles,’ and Shut Down The ‘Migrant Riots’ Orchestrated By ‘Insurrectionist Mobs’ – “…these lawless riots only strengthen our resolve.” – Trump has directed his administration to take all necessary steps to end the “Migrant riots” and continue the deportations of illegal immigrants…

California Globe: California is Imploding Under Radical Governor Newsom and His Marxist Democrats – Riotous mobs even invaded a federal detention facility in downtown Los Angeles. – The Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol are now air-dropping tactical gear by helicopter to support their agents on the ground in Los Angeles. President Trump is Not Playing Around. – The Leftist rioters Will Not Win…

Fox News: Anti-ICE protest declared ‘unlawful assembly.’ – Newsom dares Homan to arrest him – The National Guard was deployed to LA County as anti-ICE protests escalated over the weekend. – The unrest is centered in the city of Paramount, where rioters clashed with federal authorities, including Immigration and ICE officers who were allegedly trying to conduct a raid at a local business…

Zero Hedge: Newsom To Sue Trump Over National Guard Deployment While The Media Calls The LA Riots ‘Peaceful’ – Well, that didn’t take long. – Governor Newsom said he will be suing the Trump administration over the deployment of the National Guard to bring a halt to the violent (but supposedly’peaceful’) riots spreading across the Los Angeles area…

Victor Davis Hanson: Gavin Newsom and His Cruel Notion of ‘Cruel’ – Gavin Newsom calls law enforcement “cruel,” while presiding over chaos, crime, and policies that punish Californians just trying to survive his idea of compassion. – Each time Mayor Bass and Newsom side with violent protests and intimidation of ICE officers, the greater the chance that an officer will be seriously injured or killed, and the violence will spike.

Red State: Taxpayers Funded Riots – Here’s What We Found When We Followed the Money in Los Angeles – As Data Republican found, CHIRLA and the Party for Socialism and Liberation are two of the NGOs implicated in this ongoing riot. – CHIRLA and their friends at the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) are well-funded, well-connected, and have been astroturfing protests against Donald Trump and his belief in upholding our country’s immigration laws for a decade now.

Slay News: Federal immigration officers arrested dozens of dangerous criminal aliens in Los Angeles on Friday, including murderers, rapists, and violent felons. – The arrests were made during a targeted enforcement operation across several business locations that met with violent riots and chaos.

Daily Wire: Waymo Suspends Service In Downtown L.A. After Rioters Burn 5 Of Its Self-Driving Vehicles – According to a 2024 report by the Wall Street Journal, analysts estimated Waymo’s driverless cars cost between $150,000 and $200,000 apiece. – Burning lithium-ion batteries release toxic gases, including hydrogen fluoride, posing risks to responders and those nearby.”…

Slay News: The SBA announced over the weekend that its regional office in Los Angeles will be relocated out of the city due to local authorities’ unwillingness to cooperate with ICE and Trump’s immigration agenda. – The SBA’s decision was precipitated by a statement issued by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in response to a surge in federal immigration enforcement efforts in Los Angeles…

Slay News: Justice Clarence Thomas Leads Supreme Court in Killing DEI – In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court dealt a massive blow to far-left DEI initiatives, marking an enormous victory for Justice Clarence Thomas. – In Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, the high court pointed out that DEI’s group discrimination is both “anything but academic” and fundamentally unconstitutional.

American Thinker: Bidengate Is Far Worse than Watergate – An examination of each proves the point. – Watergate was not directly or materially harmful to the nation. – Bidengate, on the other hand, saw a dramatic border invasion; the surrender of $80 billion in advanced military equipment in Afghanistan, along with the Bagram Air Base; rampant inflation; an invitation to Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine; the strengthening of Iran…

Powerline: The International Criminal Court has become a force for evil, and, happily, the United States is not a member and has conceded no jurisdiction to that body. – The ICC’s most notorious outrage is its issuance of absurd “arrest warrants” for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, Israel’s former Minister of Defense…

Newsmax: A multitude of issues reportedly remain before Republican senators agree on their version of the “one big, beautiful bill” of tax cuts and spending. – There are disagreements over the extent of cuts to such things as clean-energy tax credits, changes to Medicaid, and concerns about the federal deficit, with everyone pulling things in different directions…

Zero Hedge: President Trump has championed the idea that a key part of making America great again is bringing back industries that left the country in recent decades. – Based on April 2025 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this map, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, highlights the U.S. states leading and lagging in manufacturing employment.

Cal Matters: California lawmakers from both parties say the state is too expensive. – So why did the California Senate vote to raise costs for car buyers by as much as $415? – California car dealers say they need to be able to raise fees to cover the rising costs that come with processing the paperwork required to buy a vehicle, including loan documents, Department of Motor Vehicles registration, and fraud protection forms.

Breitbart: ABC News’s senior national correspondent, Terry Moran, is taking heat for a social media post smearing White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. – ABC News announced Sunday that Moran has been suspended…

June 8, 2025

Gateway Pundit: The Trump-Putin Talks Promoted A Shift in Russian Public Opinion, With the Vast Majority Now Supporting Normalization of Relations With the US – Russians naming the US as ‘hostile’ dropped from 75% to 40%. Support for normalizing ties with the West jumped from 52% to 80%. Dialogue works, he wrote on his social media.”…

American: The link between the LA riots and recent antisemitic attacks – Why does the “PSL” turn up in three violent incidents? – PSL printed the signs for protests, and it is not a nonprofit, but a literal Communist party. – The PSL likely has more involvement due to their involvement with a state-funded NGO known as CHIRLA…

Patriot TV: 16 Things That Everyone Needs to Know about the Extremely Violent Far-Left Uprising That Just Erupted in Los Angeles – #1 The protests have been extraordinarily violent. – #2 The mainstream media has generally been downplaying this fact – #3 Setting fires in SoCal is very foolish because they can easily get wildly out of control. – #4 In the old days, everyone knew not to mess with the U.S. Marshals Service…

American Spectator: While mainstream media, cable networks, and social media obsess over Elon Musk’s latest antics, they have neglected a far more important story. – The Trump administration is accumulating a significant catalogue of appeals court and SCOTUS victories. – Last Friday alone, three more wins were added to the list…

Zero Hedge: US Electric Vehicle Adoption Plummets – EV interest among U.S. drivers has dropped to 16%, the lowest since 2019. – Key deterrents include high upfront costs, limited charging infrastructure, and concerns over long-distance suitability. – Hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles are gaining favor as more practical alternatives.

Western Journal: Trump Gave the Ax to An Entire Committee Full of Anti-American Historians – The Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation advises the State Department on the publication of the Foreign Relations of the United States series, which is an official documentary record of America’s foreign policy, according to the U.S. Office of the Historian.

American: ABC’s Terry Moran finally stripped off the fake objectivity mask – Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, is one of my favorite people in the administration. – Moran’s vicious verbal attack on Miller, one of the most articulate defenders of traditional American values and national security, was totally uncalled for…

Fox News: President Trump deployed the National Guard to LA County as anti-ICE protests continued to escalate Saturday afternoon and into the evening. – The unrest is centered in the city of Paramount, California, where protesters clashed with federal authorities, including ICE officers who were allegedly trying to conduct a raid at a local business…

President Donald Trump credited the National Guard on Sunday for settling the protests against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in California. – Trump issued a presidential memorandum Saturday night to send 2,000 National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area amid the demonstrations. Law enforcement has arrested protesters for unlawful assembly and assault on peace officers in some cases.

Townhall: The Democrats Absolutely Lose It Over Trump’s Swift Action to Restore Order in Los Angeles Amid The Anti-ICE Chaos – Moments after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned that active-duty Marines are on “high alert” and could be deployed to Los Angeles if violent anti-ICE protests continue, Gov. Gavin Newsom rushed to condemn the move, blasting the Trump administration’s response as “deranged.”…

Fox News: Immigration authorities highlight the criminal history of multiple migrants arrested in Los Angeles – Nearly 45 people were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday alone, as officers swept through several locations. – Federal sources highlighted some of last week’s arrests in the Los Angeles area, which included violent and drug offenders..

Gatestone Institute: Why Iran Will Never Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons – Iran’s ruling elite, bluntly, believes that both its survival and its mission depend on acquiring nuclear weapons. They saw what happened to Libya and Ukraine when their leaders gave up their nuclear weapons, and understood that this was not the way to go. – The regime’s goal is the bomb…

American Thinker: Anatomy of Another Blood Libel – Mainstream media is acting hand in glove with Hamas to broadcast fake Gaza atrocity stories and enflame antisemitism. – Neither is there a famine in Gaza. – It is established beyond debate that Israeli food shipments into Gaza have been commandeered by Hamas, which sells the food at high prices to fund its terrorist operations…

American Thinker: The recent arrest of Mohamed Sabry Soliman in Boulder, Colorado, for a horrific Molotov cocktail attack on pro-Israel demonstrators is a glaring indictment of the state’s misguided sanctuary policies. – Colorado has become a petri dish for one outrageous migrant crime after another. – The tragic death of Kaitlyn Weaver in July 2024 further illustrates the human cost of these policies…

Slay News: Colombia’s Conservative Presidential Candidate Was Shot During Rally – Senator Miguel Uribe collapsed mid-sentence, blood pouring from what appeared to be a head and neck wound. – The attack comes as Colombia nears a pivotal 2026 presidential election and amid rising fears that left-wing radicalism and lawlessness are emboldening political violence against conservatives…

American Thinker: Efficiency is not new, except when applied to government – That’s why DOGE is so important. – When Jack Welch became CEO of General Electric in 1981, efficiency was the battle cry. Over the next four years, GE’s profits rose by 50%, whereas sales increased by only 12%. = A drastically reduced payroll was a major contributor to this performance.

America First Report: It’s Time for America to Stop Saving California From Itself – Governor Gavin Newsom, LA Mayor Karen Bass, and the pretty much everyone who has preceded them in modern history have taken what was once the crown jewel among American states and turned it into a cesspool of crime, corruption, lawlessness, and evil…

June 7, 2025

New York Post: Elon Musk body-checked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ‘like a rugby player’ during fiery clash at White House – The heated scuffle broke out in mid-April after both men pitched rival plans for the Internal Revenue Service to Trump in the Oval Office, with the president ultimately backing Bessent’s choice.

One America News: Musk deleted his post claiming Trump was ‘in the Epstein files’ and took back his threat to withdraw the Dragon spacecraft…

Epoch Times: Here’s What to Know About Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Stirring Debate on The Deficit Impact — White House clashes with forecasters over how the legislation will change the deficit over the next 10 years. – White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller disputed the CBO’s projection that the bill increases the deficit, noting, “This lie is based on a CBO accounting gimmick.”

American Thinker: How the FBI Hid Key Records from Congress – Yet another sneaky tactic surfaces as congressmen seek accountability from the Bureau. – At the heart of the controversy is a little-known internal designation called “Prohibited Access.” Unlike standard classification levels, this status renders documents effectively invisible, potentially even to those with top-level security clearances…

One America News: President Trump has endorsed Former New Jersey Representative Jack Ciattarelli in his run for state governor. – On Saturday, Trump posted his endorsement for Ciattarelli in the upcoming New Jersey gubernatorial race, telling everyone in the state to vote.

American Wire: Trump’s iconic McDonald’s stop during the 2024 campaign is appreciated in a behind-the-scenes video. – Trump shared some fun moments with those who were hoping to get their hands on a Happy Meal made by the man himself. – “It’s going to be the best you’ve ever had. It had better be. I made it myself,” he said, handing over the order he had just made…

American Thinker: Is It Time for the Supreme Court to weigh in on a vaccine case? – A Maine family’s then-five-year-old son was vaccinated in November 2021 with the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a public school without his parents’ consent. – The family insists that the public school their child attended had no right to inject him without his parents’ consent…

Zero Hedge: These Are The U.S. States With The Most Drug Use – The Top 10: New Mexico, West Virginia, Nevada, Alaska, District of Columbia, Oklahoma, Missouri, Colorado, Louisiana, and Alaska

American Conservative: Tucker Carlson Is Right About What Mark Levin Says About Iran – Iran is cranking up its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium even as negotiations with the US continue. – Levin cites a dubious Australian intelligence report that contradicts what Washington’s spooks have been saying: that Tehran doesn’t have an existing nuclear weapons program…

American Thinker: Leftists Have Clearly Read the CCP Playbook – Have Soros dollars now seeped into the judiciary? -“The Art of Warfare” and “Unrestricted Warfare” both describe how to exploit the weakness of an enemy, including “legal tools” to leverage one’s opponent and circumvent the need for direct military action, resulting in the same, if not even greater, destructive force…

American Thinker: The Left’s Love of Violence As a Strategy – There is no longer any doubt that the “Left” loves and uses violence as a tactic in its war against America. – They hate Trump and his supporters precisely because they love their country and the traditional values on which this nation was founded. – Don’t people realize the protests against ICE deportations are organized, and the participants recruited and paid?

Epoch Times: The Supreme Court handed DOGE two big wins late on June 6 in its effort to reduce the size of the federal government. – The first order lifts a lower court order preventing DOGE staffers from accessing confidential data at the Social Security Administration (SSA). – The second order formally blocks lower court orders requiring DOGE to respond to freedom of information requests in a pending lawsuit.

American Thinker: When Access Breeds Arrogance, You Get Elon Musk’s Betrayal of Donald Trump – Access to the highest levels of government or industry isn’t given lightly. – It reflects not just personal favor but a deep responsibility—the trust to represent and uphold certain values and relationships. – However, when that access is abused or taken for granted, it can quickly lead to fractured bonds and damaging fallout…

American Thinker: Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Is a Boon to Working Americans, Not a Handout to the Wealthy – This bill isn’t perfect, far from it, especially when it comes to its impact on the deficit. – But let’s begin where the debate should: with what the bill actually does for the very people who propelled Donald Trump back to the White House in 2024.

American Thinker: Abolish The CBO – The CBO seems to cherry-pick results either to create headlines or to justify its existence with elaborate reports that make them appear credible, but they aren’t. – My opinion is that the CBO got caught with its pants down after reporting the bad news on the “Big Beautiful Bill,” but then realized that the tariffs are already generating $billions in additional revenue, so it had to do some damage control…

The Week In Pictures, Divorce Republican Style Edition – It was quite a week. Elon Musk lit a dynamite stick and hurled it at the Trump administration, for reasons that remain obscure, while Greta Thunberg set sail for Gaza, and Pride Month kicked off inauspiciously…

Epoch Times: President Trump said that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will meet with their Chinese counterparts in London for trade talks on June 9. – “The meeting should go very well,” Trump said.

FAR: An Average American’s Message For Trump & Elon – While reading an article, I came across a comment that completely nailed the situation between Trump and Musk. – His observations need to be seen far and wide. – Mikemattmic: The first thing that must be said about the Trump/Musk disagreements is this. Both men are correct, and both men are totally wrong…

June 6, 2025

One America News: Russia launched a large-scale assault using drones and ballistic missiles deep into Ukrainian territory, killing at least four people, in what appears to be retaliation for Kyiv’s unexpected drone strike last week that reportedly destroyed key Russian bombers. – The aerial strikes were reportedly felt throughout Ukraine, including the capital city of Kyiv, injuring around 50 Ukrainian civilians…

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration is rethinking how it deals with Chinese-linked tech firms after a short-lived self-driving truck company was found to have stolen a vast trove of U.S. intellectual property. – TuSimple was once hailed as a leader in autonomous trucking and had partnerships with major firms like UPS and Navistar. – But TuSimple’s dual presence in the U.S. and China created vulnerabilities…

Washington Times: The Senate Judiciary Committee has declassified FBI files outlining a plot to undermine Trump – Material released by the Iowa Republican senator confirms the existence of a secretive electronic file drawer within Sentinel, the FBI’s case management system, allowing the bureau to reply, “We have no responsive documents” when a congressional committee subpoenas information locked within…

Breitbart: Tense standoffs erupted between ICE agents and protesters in Downtown Los Angeles on Friday, as people attempted to thwart illegal immigration sweeps. – Viral videos showed ICE agents escorting handcuffed people into vans as protesters shouted them down, with one individual throwing eggs at the moving vehicles.

Center Square: There has been a 413% increase in assaults on ICE agents – ICE agents and their families are being threatened, and doxed, including by House Democrats. – Acting Director of ICE Todd Lyons has a message for them: “Stop putting my people in danger.”…

One America News: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national who was previously deported from the U.S. earlier this year, is now back in the US and facing both human smuggling and conspiracy charges, according to the DOJ – Abrego Garcia “significantly” contributed to a human smuggling ring for over a decade, where he trafficking women, children, and other gang members across the United States…

American Thinker: Democrats are making fools of themselves in the wake of the Elon-Trump rift – They’re not going to win with insipid reactions like these. – From nutty talk, to Trump derangement syndrome, to crazed conspiracy theories, and a heaping helping of hypocrisy, they are amazing at seizing defeat from the jaws of victory and running with it…

Newsmax: California Governor Gavin Newsom threatened to block federal tax payments from his state on Friday, escalating tensions with President Trump amid reports that the White House may cut federal funding to California. – Newsom, “Californians pay the bills for the federal government.” – “We pay over $80 BILLION more in taxes than we get back.” – “Maybe it’s time to cut that off”…

American Spectator: As Trump’s Federal Layoffs Continue, Critics Miss This Crucial Point. – For decades, public service jobs have provided federal bureaucrats with guaranteed stable income without the need for stellar performance. – Federal employees have been protected by law and custom, sheltering them from full accountability and the job insecurity experienced by American workers.

One America News: President Trump signed an Executive Order on Friday aimed at advancing the development and implementation of supersonic aviation technology in the US – The Order directs the Administrator of the FAA to repeal the prohibition on overland supersonic flight, establish an interim noise-based certification standard, and repeal other regulations that hinder supersonic flight.

The Free Press: The Trump administration plans to overhaul a $42 billion broadband program that was born during the Biden administration, but has failed to connect anyone to the internet. – The National Telecommunications and Information Administration will tell Congress in a letter on Friday that it intends to remove “burdensome regulations” tied to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program…

American Spectator: Gen Z Is Giving Up on Sex, Love, and Each Other – The new normal is solitude, anxiety, and performative healing. – What’s coming now is a kind of soft nihilism: no sex, no dating, no risk, no closeness. Just the infinite scroll, the curated feed, and the lonely ritual of simulated connection behind tempered glass.

Slay News: Joe Biden’s longtime personal physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, has been called to testify before Congress regarding the cover-up of the former president’s mental and physical decline during his presidency. – O’Connor has been subpoenaed by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) as part of an investigation into the cover-up. – Comer announced the subpoena Thursday…

Conservative Brief: Jeffrey Epstein’s Former Attorney Says Trump Is Not On ‘The List’- “I was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein’s defense as his criminal lawyer 9 days before he died. – He sought my advice for months before that. – I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he had no information to hurt President Trump. – I know because I specifically asked him!”

CNBC: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift a court order to reinstate U.S. Department of Education employees whom the administration had terminated. – Trump administration officials argue that U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston didn’t have the authority to require the DOE to rehire the more than 1,300 employees who were affected by the mass layoffs in March…

Western Journal: The White House Celebrates The New Jobs Report That Beats Economists’ Expectations – The economy added jobs for the third month in a row. – The Department of Labor said employers added 139,000 jobs, topping estimates of 130,000 jobs.

Silverloch: Trump Flips The Biden-Era Trend of Most Job Growth Going to Non-Citizens – Joe Biden loved to tout the job growth under his presidency without mentioning that *all* the net job growth on his watch went to non-citizens. – Under Trump, the growth is now actually going to U.S. citizens. – The jobs report came out earlier today, and the economy added 139,000, above forecast estimates of 125,000.

Charlie Kirk: Here are 50 MAJOR wins from Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill that the media is ignoring – 1. No taxes on tips — servers, bartenders, and bellhops just got a raise – 2. Made the Trump tax cuts permanent, while Biden wanted them to expire. – 3. Child tax credit raised to $2,500 – 4. Overtime pay tax-free, work hard, and actually keep more. – 5.$1.6 trillion in spending cuts…

Washington Examiner: What the post-Biden presidency investigations could actually reveal – Mike Howell, executive director at the Oversight Project, “You have to look at the autopen.” – “It’s the instrumentality by which they were able to continue operating the White House without a president.” – His group does not believe the autopen can be used for core presidential powers.

Real Clear Politics: The US Secret Service Ordered Destruction of White House Cocaine The Day After Closing Case – Early last week, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced that he was re-opening the investigation into the cocaine found in the WH, as well as the leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and the discovery of a pipe bomb at the Democrat National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021.

American Thinker: How ‘Equity’ Debases Education – In the current backlash against DEI, most criticism is focused on the “D,” which replaces the principle of meritocracy with racial criteria in hiring, admissions, and promotions. – The “E,” for equity, is more complex. – Equity has replaced the concept of equality, which progressive ideology in the U.S. deems discriminatory…

American Thinker: And just like that, Democrats crawl out of the woodwork to whisper Karine Jean-Pierre was ‘incompetent’ – From ‘historic’ to incompetent, the long knives are out. – This, as she and her Democrat colleagues were lionizing her as “a historic figure” in high praise of her being black, a woman, and a lesbian, in a DEI threefer…

Townhall: It’s One of the Most Brutal Swipes Directed at Karine Jean-Pierre, but it’s Also Totally True. – “From WH policy staff perspective, the real problem with Karine Jean-Pierre was that she was kinda dumb. – No interest in understanding harder topics. – Just gave random incoherent answers on policy,” wrote Wu, now a Columbia Law School professor…

Townhall: – Here’s Why Elon’s NASA Pick Had to Be Jettisoned – So, what’s the beef with Mr. Isaacman? – He’s a major Democrat donor. – Sure, he’s tossed a few bucks here and there to Republican candidates, but Mr. Isaacman is a Democrat’s man.

American Wire: Californians sound off as stifling new gas tax increase is set to hit in July – Tensions reportedly escalated last week when CARB chair Liane Randolph admitted that the board hadn’t considered the economic impact of the new regulation. – CARB is making billion-dollar decisions that hit every family at the pump, and they’re doing it without even asking what it will cost…

California Globe: Newsom Sells-Out California for Iowa 2028 – CARB’s new fuel standard will increase ethanol in gasoline from E10 (10%) to E15 (15%) and E85 (85%), but CARB refused to analyze the impact. – Independent estimates project that the price of gasoline could increase at least 65¢ to 85¢ per gallon. – Iowa and New Hampshire are traditionally the first caucuses and primary for POTUS, with the potential to decide the nominee.

Washington Examiner: The DOT says Biden’s fuel economy rule exceeded the law by including electric vehicles – Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, “These fuel economy standards are set at such aggressive levels that automakers cannot, as a practical matter, satisfy the standards without rapidly shifting production away from internal-combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to alternative electric technologies.”…

Zero Hedge: New data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York highlights which college degrees have the highest unemployment rates in the U.S. workforce. – At the top of the list is anthropology, followed by physics, computer engineering, commercial art & graphic design, fine arts, sociology…

June 5, 2025

Breitbart: Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok pushed back on Musk’s claims that files relating to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s client list have not been released because President Donald Trump is in them, noting that there is “no indication of wrongdoing.”

Daily Wire: Speaker Johnson Reveals How He’s Trying To Win Back His ‘Friend’ Elon After The Bill Blowup – House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is not giving up on Elon Musk, saying he texted the tech billionaire who was feuding with President Donald Trump on Thursday “a lot of information” about the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that led to the dispute, and he hopes Musk reads it.

Post Millennial: Elon Musk signals some openness to making peace with Trump – Responding to a post from investor Bill Ackman, who called on both men to make peace “for the benefit of our great country,” Musk replied simply, “You’re not wrong.”

Epoch Times: The Congressional Budget Office Projects That Trump’s Tariffs Will Slash Deficits by $2.8 Trillion Over 10 Years – The tariffs imposed by Trump between January and May of this year on a range of goods would lower federal borrowing, reducing interest costs by $500 billion and bringing total deficit reduction to $3 trillion through 2035 before accounting for economic impacts…

Western Journal: Elon Completely Burns the Bridge, Now Says That Trump Should Be Impeached – Part of his rage included Musk digging up old, fiscally conservative X posts from Trump, using the president’s own words against him.

Gateway Pundit: Elon Musk has threatened to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, previously used in March to rescue astronauts that were left stranded by Biden, “immediately” in response to President Trump’s threat to terminate Elon’s government contracts and subsidies. – Trump told reporters on Thursday that Musk is seemingly “upset because we took the EV mandate” and suggested he was also unhappy that Trump pulled the nomination of Musk’s friend, Jared Isaacman, for NASA administrator.

American Spectator: China’s Demographic Crisis Is Worse Than Reported – China’s population declined for a third consecutive year. Its fertility rate is just 1.0, meaning the present generation of Chinese newborns will be only half the size of its parents’ generation. – Young Chinese increasingly describe themselves as “the last generation.”…

California Globe: New Federal Data Reveals California Has Lost Over 36,000 Fast Food Jobs Since The $20 Minimum Wage Law Became Law – AB 1228, authored by then-Assemblyman Chris Holden (D-Los Angeles), was one of the most contentious bills in 2023. – The Holden bill originally tried for a $22 wage for fast food workers, but was negotiated down, with the $20 amount narrowly passing both houses in the California legislature and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.

SCOTUS Rules 9–0 That Wisconsin Violated First Amendment by Denying A Tax Exemption to A Catholic Charity – The court held that the activities of Catholic Charities do not qualify as “typical” religious activities because the organization does not “attempt to imbue program participants with the Catholic faith” and because secular organizations could carry out the help it provides to those with mental and developmental disabilities.

Real Clear Investigations: A nonprofit founded by Georgia politician Stacey Abrams paid more than $20 million to a lawyer who is a close friend and helped set up two of her private businesses. – Abrams’ Fair Fight Action redirected the tax-exempt donations and government grants to Allegra Lawrence Hardy, her former campaign chair between 2019 and 2023.

Breitbart: The Ukraine War Approaches 1.4 Million Casualties as Peace Talks Stall – Between 950,000 Russian and 400,000 Ukrainian casualties, the butcher’s bill for Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine is steadily tracking to 1.4 million. – As things stand, both sides remain relatively well wedded to their initial negotiation positions, both sides wanting something close to total victory out of the talks…

Epoch Times: President Trump Says The Rare Earth Export Issue Resolved Following Call With Xi – Trump described the conversation as “very good,” noting that the two leaders discussed “some of the intricacies” of the trade deal recently reached in Geneva last month. – Trump also announced that Xi has extended an invitation for him and the first lady to visit China…

Daily Wire: President Donald Trump’s tariffs have driven a massive drop in the trade deficit, going from nearly $140 billion in March to $61.6 billion in April. – The sharp drop in the trade deficit also fueled a significant bump in the Gross Domestic Product; the Atlanta Fed now has GDP at 4.64%.

Zero Hedge: In Defense Of The “Big Beautiful Bill” – Here’s why Musk shouldn’t be livid about the BBB, why he (and you) should support it, and some speculation about why he’s acting this way. – We’ll close with another trading update, as it’s been a busy week on that front. – 1. DOGE Cuts Can NOT Be Added To A Reconciliation Bill. – 2. The BBB Funds The Biggest Illegal Migration Crackdown Ever…

Western Journal: Biden’s Supposed Written Response to Trump’s Autopen Allegation Has a Glaring Problem – How could Biden, or more importantly, his team, not catch this? – A written statement does nothing to counter Trump or Republicans‘ accusations that he was not in charge. – Anybody could have written it…

Daily Signal: The Supreme Court unanimously struck down Mexico’s challenge to U.S. gun manufacturers, holding that they cannot be blamed for crime and cartel violence south of the border. – Justice Elena Kagan delivered the unanimous opinion of the court. Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson filed concurring opinions.

Slay News: Democrat-aligned activist U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has ruled that illegal aliens deported by President Trump can file legal challenges against their removals. – “In short, the Government must facilitate the Class’s ability to seek habeas relief to contest their removal under the Act.” He continued by conceding that what this will look like in practice remains undecided.

American Thinker: The Book Grift Loophole – As we saw after Watergate, the parties involved with almost every aspect of the cover-up cut some sort of book deal. – Now, with Biden’s mental collapse, we see the grifters emerge once more. – Jake Tapper’s book came out with a clear agenda, attempting to deflect his role as a member of the media in the cover-up…

Western Journal: DHS Finds Massive Corruption Within The Biden Administration – “Recently discovered documents, correspondence, and timelines clearly highlight the Biden’s inconsistent application of Silent Partners Quiet Skies and watchlisting programs, circumventing security policies to benefit politically aligned friends and family at the expense of the American people.”

Victor Davis Hanson: Biden’s Border Nihilism Will Live Long After He Is Gone – Biden’s border legacy isn’t just policy, it’s a demographic earthquake that will rattle America’s foundation long after he’s gone. – Somewhere between 10-12 million foreign nationals are believed to have entered the U.S. illegally under his watch, to add to the existing 12-20 million illegal aliens…

The Federalist: Susanna Dvortsin, the attorney trying to prevent the family of Mohamed Soliman, the illegal alien charged with setting Jewish demonstrators on fire in Boulder, CO, from being deported, has an integrity problem. – In 2019, Dvortsin was suspended from practicing law for “misconduct concerning an immigration matter.” – And, it was not her first misstep…

Daily Signal: President Trump Questions The Future of His Relationship With Elon Musk – “I’m very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better than you people,” Trump told the press. “Elon and I had a great relationship,” Trump said. “I don’t know if we will anymore.”…

Western Journal: It should never have happened in the first place, but at least Christian McGhee and his family can smile a bit after his school was forced to pay $20,000 in a settlement agreed to late last week. – McGhee, 16, was suspended for three days last year by his North Carolina high school for using the words “illegal alien” to describe illegal aliens.

The Federalist: Nearly One-Quarter Of U.S. Public School Enrollment Could Be Anchor Babies – In April, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that 17 percent of school-age children, or nine million kids, in the United States are children of at least one illegal alien. – Returning noncitizen children and noncitizen parents to their countries could save taxpayers hundreds of billions, especially in state budgets.

FAR: JD Vance, “Complete Morons Actually governed us” – JD Vance’s spot-on observation is short but to the point regarding an important supply chain question.

Fox News: The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that discrimination claims from majority-group plaintiffs do not need to meet a higher legal bar. – A heterosexual woman who worked for the Ohio Department of Youth Services argued she was discriminated against on the basis of her sexual orientation after she was passed over for a promotion in favor of a lesbian woman, and was then later replaced in her role by a gay man.

Resist The Mainstream: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals Startling Truth About Presidential Power in A Tucker Carlson Interview – CIA people are there for 25, 30, 35 years.” – “They don’t go anywhere. So if they don’t like a president or if a president orders them to do something that they don’t want to do, they just wait because they know they can wait him out.”…

Sharyl Attkisson: President Trump earned a 51% monthly job approval rating in May, according to Rasmussen Reports, up two points from April. – 33% say they strongly approved of Trump’s performance, while 18% say they somewhat approved…

American Thinker: The Nuremberg Code And The Vaccine Mandate For Service Members – What happened to U.S. troops with the COVID vaccine, whether they accepted or rejected it, violates all legal and moral precepts about experimental vaccines. – Over 8,000 active-duty Service Members were involuntarily separated after failing to receive a religious exemption or other accommodation from the vaccine mandate and then refused to get vaccinated after being ordered to do so…

American Thinker: Trump cancels ‘Pride’ month, but there’s still more to be done – Despite President Trump announcing that June will now be Title IX month, Americans are still forced to endure an entire month in June dedicated to observing something called gay pride. – Here Are Key Dates in Pride Month 2025…

California Globe: California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Medi-Cal program for low-income Californians is insolvent. – He gifted free Medi-Cal coverage to every illegal immigrant in the state, costing taxpayers $10 billion to $12 billion. – His latest scheme is that he’s going to cut off Medi-Cal to any poor or disabled elderly Californian who has $2,000 in “assets.”

Zero Hedge: California’s Project Homekey now looks like a billion-dollar boondoggle. – Shuttered motels meant to house the unhoused stand lifeless, fenced-off, vacant, and increasingly resembling abandoned movie sets rather than havens for the vulnerable. – A stone’s throw away, other properties funded by Homekey have become de facto homeless encampments, complete with tents and makeshift fire pits…

June 4, 2025

Washington Examiner: President Donald Trump has ordered an unprecedented investigation into former President Joe Biden‘s administration amid concerns his predecessor and his aides covered up his cognitive decline. – Trump presidential memorandum signed on Wednesday, “In recent months, it has become increasingly apparent that former President Biden’s aides abused the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline and assert Article II authority.”

Western Journal: Federal Judge Smacks Down DNC’s Election Lawsuit Against Trump Administration – U.S. District Judge Amir Ali dismissed a lawsuit from the Democratic National Committee targeting a number of Trump’s many executive orders Tuesday. – One of the key orders in question involved a Feb. 18 executive order entitled “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies.”…

Epoch Times: President Trump Bans New Visas for Foreign Nationals From 12 Countries – The proclamation will not limit ’the ability of an individual to seek asylum, refugee status, withholding of removal, or protection.’ – They include Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen…

Wall Street Journal: President Trump suspended Harvard from participating in the student visa program, effectively prohibiting foreign nationals from attending the nation’s most prominent university. – The proclamation issued by the White House late Wednesday ramps up Trump’s attacks on the university, which has fought back against the administration in federal court.

One America News: The Trump administration has indicated it intends to pull the remaining 4 billion in federal funding from California’s high-speed rail project, citing missed deadlines, budget overruns, and unreliable ridership projections. – On Wednesday, the Department of Transportation released a 315-page compliance review, detailing the plethora of missed deadlines while highlighting the billions in taxpayer dollars spent on the project, without any results to show for it.

Tablet Magazine: How The Media Manufactured a ‘Genocide’ – A data-driven investigation into the way coverage of Israel’s war in Gaza surpasses actual genocides in Darfur, Rwanda, and beyond. – To confirm that these recent spikes were driven primarily by the Israel-Gaza conflict, and to place them in historical context, I analyzed how frequently each of the six outlets paired “genocide” with countries or groups historically associated with genocide allegations or acts.

Bloomberg: GlobalFoundries Inc., the biggest US-based provider of made-to-order chips, announced a plan to spend $16 billion to bolster domestic production. – $13 billion is budgeted to expand existing plants in New York and Vermont, along with a further $3 billion commitment to research into advanced packaging and other technologies in the US...

American Spectator: Australian Machete Ban Ignores the Real Causes of Crime – It shows that gun control never stops at “assault weapons.” – Australia and the U.K.’s measures to restrict gun possession have not been successful in preventing crime, revealing what will ultimately happen in the U.S. if calls by American politicians to restrict firearms achieve success…

Washington Free Beacon: Meet the ‘Radical’ Abortion Activist and ‘Defund the Police’ Advocate Behind the Democratic Party’s $20 Million Campaign to ‘Understand Men’ – Ilyse Hogue, former president of NARAL, has made a career of alienating male voters with woke nonsense. – Now she’s leading a campaign to win them back with ‘supercharged social listening.’…

Wall Street Journal: After an hour-long telephone call, President Trump said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him he would have to respond to Ukraine’s recent attack, saying there isn’t likely to be immediate peace between Moscow and Kyiv. – “President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on their airfields.”…

New York Post: Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday blasted the US as “arrogant” as he effectively rejected a revised nuclear deal that would allow Tehran to continue low-level uranium enrichment. – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei argued that abandoning uranium enrichment was “100%” against the country’s interests and “can do spirit” as he ripped a central US demand amid talks to resolve a decades-long dispute over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

Zero Hedge: Oil Prices Tumble On A Report That Saudis Want To ‘Super-Size’ OPEC Production Hikes. – The kingdom, which holds an increasingly dominant position within OPEC+, wants the group to add at least 411,000 barrels a day in August and potentially September, according to reliable sources.

Western Journal: The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case regarding a Maryland law banning AR-15 rifle ownership, meaning a lower court’s ruling upholding the prohibition stands. – Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch all would have granted the petition to hear the Snope v. Brown case, but Chief Justice Roberts, along with Justices Amy Barrett and Kavanaugh, joined with the liberals to deny certiorari.

Epoch Times: Trump’s 50 Percent Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum Take Effect, Aimed at Boosting US Production – The measure, enacted through an executive order signed on Monday, doubles the previous 25 percent rate and is intended to boost domestic production.

Western Journal: Canada Scrambles to Negotiate with US After Trump Doubled Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Imports, Effective Wednesday – Canadian data says more than 90 percent of the steel and aluminum made in Canada is exported to the U.S. – The Aluminum Association of Canada said the additional tariffs make Canadian exports to the U.S. “economically unviable.”

Geller Report: President Trump Pushes The Recission Bill That Looks to Cut $9.4 Billion From Federal Budget – Government spending is the DOGE-inspired cuts are a stand-alone bill, separate from the reconciliation bill now in front of John Thune and the Senate. – The WSJ noted, Republicans have promoted rescissions as a method to codify cuts identified by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Breitbart: A widely followed indicator of the U.S. labor market showed far more weakness in May than analysts had predicted, prompting a call for lower interest rates from President Trump. – The private sector added just 37,000 workers to payrolls in May, according to ADP, which is the lowest pace of hiring since March of 2023.

Breitbart: ICE and ERO officers deported 142 criminal illegal aliens to Mexico within the last two weeks. – The group of criminal aliens arrested in the Houston metro racked up 473 separate criminal convictions. – And together, members of the group had entered the United States illegally 480 times.

Gateway Pundit: A Well-Known Hair Stylist Was Stabbed to Death In Her Parking Garage After A ‘Random Attack’ – After His Apprehension, The Suspect Gave A Chilling Statement To Police – According to NBC 6 South Florida, 21-year-old Jackson Julian Sagesse callously told police, “I just killed someone and walked away.”…

Resist The Mainstream: The FBI Launched A Tip Campaign To Support The Federal ‘Gender Affirming’ Surgeries Ban. – The FBI issued a public appeal this week, encouraging Americans to report healthcare facilities or professionals suspected of performing such procedures as part of a broader strategy to crack down on what the administration now deems illegal medical practices.

Daily Wire: Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is not backing down after pharmacy giant CVS has threatened to leave the state over a new state law targeting drug middlemen called pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs. – “CVS would rather own the PBM than keep their pharmacy open and provide care to the patients they claim to care about. – I think it tells us everything that we need to know.”…

Daily Wire: Representative Brandon Gill introduced new legislation on Wednesday that would target companies employing illegal aliens and enhance the government’s ability to track them down. – The Illegal Dedication Elimination Act, called the “New IDEA Act,” seeks to remove the financial incentives that encourage illegal aliens to come to the United States and allow them to stay…

American Thinker: Democrat ambivalence about authority – Democrats have lost sight of the importance of a healthy presence of authority to maintain the fabric of our society. – Any parent trying to raise a child effectively knows that clear respect for their authority is crucial for effective family routines of daily living and clear teaching and learning processes in the classroom…

Epoch Times: Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Vetoed A Bill Banning China From Purchasing Land in the State – Senate Bill 1109, sponsored by Arizona Senate Majority Leader Janae Shamp, sought to prevent China from buying or holding a substantial interest, a 30 percent stake or more, in property within Arizona.

Zero Hedge: Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen predicts that humanoid robotics will become the most lucrative market in history, even surpassing the internet’s economic impact. – “This humanoid general-purpose robotics trend will take off in the next decade, and it will happen at an enormous scale.” – It is expected to grow from a valuation of USD 33.83 billion in 2024 to $135.83 billion by 2034…

California Globe: A bill that would commission a $700K study on potential commercial and residential economic development opportunities along the California High Speed Rail corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco was passed by the Senate on Monday despite significant opposition against it. – How many expensive, state-funded studies of California’s long-troubled high-speed rail project does one train need?…

American Thinker: The ghost of the future is walking around Brussels. – Brussels, the self-proclaimed capital of the European Union, is no longer the beacon of a united Europe, but an advanced symptom of its disintegration. – The normalization of radical Islamic and anti-Semitic discourse we are witnessing in Brussels is the result of 15 years of leaders abrogating their responsibility…

June 3, 2025

Townhall: The White House on Monday addressed a Democrat “hoax” that “people will ‘literally die’ because of the One Big Beautiful Bill.” – Linking back to a clip of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries bashing the bill on CNN, the White House called it one of Democrats’ “most disgusting lies.”

Daily Signal: President Donald Trump put more than 100 staffers from the NSC on administrative leave. – That included both career employees and political hires by the Trump administration. – Following the reorganization of the National Security Council staff, former NSC staffers say the president appears to place more confidence in the State Department to execute his foreign policy agenda…

Fox News: Conservative energy leaders praise the Trump administration’s plan to unleash 13 million acres of American oil production in Alaska – The Department of the Interior announced a proposal Monday to rescind President Joe Biden’s restrictions on oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska…

Zero Hedge: The Three Scariest Numbers On Wall Street, And Who Is Most Exposed To Trump’s “Revenge Tax” – As describe below, “Section 899” of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act “effectively introduces the most wide-ranging adverse changes to the tax treatment on foreign capital in the US since the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 and the Foreign Investors Tax Act of 1966.”

New York Times: President Trump’s mass deportation plans appear to have accelerated in May, with ICE flying more removal flights than in any other month since he took office. – The number of daily deportees averaged about 850 per day in the first two weeks of May, following a gradual climb since early March, suggesting deportation numbers could continue to trend upward in June...

California Globe: California Senate Democrats Passed A Bill Granting Early Parole for ‘Youthful’ Violent Killers – Senate Bill 672 proposes to expand eligibility for parole consideration to individuals sentenced to life without the possibility of parole who committed their crimes while under the age of 26. – If you want to know what regular people think about this, here are some of their comments…

Daily Wire: U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth on Tuesday issued a sweeping block of President Donald Trump’s order to stop taxpayer-funded transgender procedures for prisoners. – The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of over 1,000 federal prison inmates who are taking advantage of taxpayer-funded prison systems to finance clothing, hormones, and other expenses…

American Spectator: The Lamest Opposition in American History – Another DNC messaging fail. – Trump becomes even more unhinged when he hears “TACO” (Trump Always Chickens Out). – Share the hell out of this clip.

American Spectator: Kamala Harris is Withering on the Political Vine – As former vice president and 2024 Democratic nominee Kamala Harris considers whether to run for California governor in 2026 or seek the presidency again in 2028, her party is moving on without her…

Epoch Times: President Trump vowed to place “large-scale fines” on California after a transgender athlete competed in a girls’ high school track and field event and won gold. – Trump, “A Biological Male competed in California Girls State Finals, WINNING BIG, despite the fact that I warned them not to do so.”

Washington Examiner: Two Chinese nationals have been charged with smuggling a “potential agroterrorism” fungus into the United States called Fusarium graminearum. – The fungus causes “head blight,” which is a disease associated with wheat, barley, maize, and rice, with the capability of causing billions of dollars in damage.

New York Post: A Ukrainian strike decimated the only bridge connecting Russia and Crimea, cutting a crucial supply line. – Dramatic video shows the piers of the Crimean Bridge, also known as the Kerch Bridge, exploding on Tuesday morning after Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) agents mined it following a months-long operation.

Geller Report: President Trump, “The US Nuclear Agreement with Iran WON’T Allow Any Uranium Enrichment.” – Anything else you heard is fake news and deliberate disinformation designed to undermine Trump. – Iran’s entire nuclear program must be dismantled. How much longer will Iran’s leaders be allowed to lie, deceive, stall, and reject U.S offers? – Let Israel destroy Iran’s nuclear program…

Western Journal: Tom Homan Gave A Chilling Answer When Asked if ‘a 9/11 or Worse’ Attack Is Imminent – ‘It’s Coming!’ – Homan noted that officials have no idea who entered or where those people have gone. – Even those escorted into the interior of the U.S. under former President Joe Biden were “unvetted,” he said, adding that the administration was “handing out work visas like they’re candy.”…

Washington Examiner: If you thought that the media would have a come-to-Jesus moment in light of the debacle that was their coverage of the Biden presidency, think again. – A recent study by the Media Research Center shows that President Trump has received 8% positive coverage during his first four months in office, while 92% has been negative, for those looking at the evening newscasts on ABC, NBC, and CBS…

Red State: The DOJ Is Launching A Bombshell Investigation Into Biden’s Pardons And Whether He Was ‘Competent’ Enough to Have Issued Them? – DOJ attorney Ed Martin will delve into the question of whether or not Biden “was competent and whether others were taking advantage of him through use of AutoPen or other means.” – A special focus will be on the sweeping pardons granted to members of the Biden family…

LiveZette: CNN anchor Jake Tapper acknowledged during recent interviews that the national press has, for years, functioned in the service of the Democratic Party and failed to properly report on Joe Biden’s cognitive decline while in office. – Tapper’s remarks came during a conversation on “The Remnant” podcast with Jonah Goldberg on Thursday…

Daily Signal: The Wife and 5 Children of the Boulder Attack Suspect Are in Federal Custody – Soliman’s wife and five children were in the U.S. on visas that the State Department had revoked. – They are now being investigated for what they knew about the attack and are being processed for expedited removal.

Liberty Daily: Corporate Media’s New Way To Gaslight Readers About Illegal Immigration – Several corporate media outlets have used the term “unauthorized immigrants” to describe those who illegally entered the U.S. and were deported by President Trump. – They appear to be using the term to downplay that they blatantly violated U.S. immigration law, and that many have committed heinous acts against American citizens…

John Daniel Davidson: European Populism Is Rising Against An Oppressive Political Elite – Europe’s political class has turned its back on the people it was supposed to protect, and the people have taken notice. – Vice President J.D. Vance alluded to this back in February in his speech at the Munich Security Conference, calling out European governments for criminalizing free speech…

Epoch Times: President Trump Vows ‘Large Scale Fines’ After A Transgender Athlete Wins in California Sports Competition. – The president’s Feb. 5 order bars federally funded educational institutions from allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s and girls’ sports. – A recent AP-NORC poll found that about seven in 10 U.S. adults think transgender athletes should not be allowed to participate in girls’ and women’s sports at high school, college, or professional levels.

Western Journal: Representative Maxine Waters Nailed On A Whopping Campaign Finance Violation – No example of Democrat hypocrisy crystallizes the situation better than the mess that this blowhard California Democratic finds herself in. -She violated several campaign finance rules that totaled over half a million dollars…

Zero Hedge: All Hell Breaks Loose After Musk Slams GOP Bill As “Disgusting Abomination” – It took almost no time at all for Democrats to pounce after Elon Musk slammed the GOP tax bill as a ‘massive, outrageous, pork-filled … disgusting abomination’ that doesn’t even attempt to codify any federal savings found by DOGE, and continues America’s addition to spending…

Zero Hedge: Airline Crews Say DEI Persists, Despite Safety Concerns And Trump Orders. – A flight instructor described unusual steps managers took to salvage the career of a young female trainee pilot. – The trainee repeatedly failed rudimentary pilot-training tests and crashed a computer simulation flight, yet management balked when the instructor failed her and she was assigned flight duties.”…

American Thinker: The Real Problem With Trump’s 1,100-Page Big Beautiful Bill – The arguments for and against are deafening and miss an important point. – Despite all the spending cuts, the Beautiful Bill still increases the federal deficit by $3.8 trillion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.”

American Thinker: The Media’s Catch-22, Exposing Joe Biden Would Have Assured Trump’s Re-election – Once the media lied to get Biden into the White House, they had no option other than to keep lying. – How could they avoid looking like partisan prostitutes if they started asking the obvious questions about Biden’s cognitive ability to be president while continuing to downplay Joe Biden’s corruption and failures?…

American Thinker: The Grand Deception That Islam Is a Religion of Peace – A 2017 book lays out in detail the Koran’s reality, something that’s important for everyone to know as Muslims expand their presence throughout the West. – Their apologists would have us believe that extremist Islam is a perversion. – Unlike Buddhism or Christianity, whose founders advocated love and peace, Islam has often been linked to bloodshed and subjugation.

June 2, 2025

Epoch Times: The Suspect in the Boulder Attack Charged With 16 Counts of Attempted Murder, Federal Hate Crime – Mohammed Sabry Soliman entered the country legally in 2022 but overstayed his visa, making him an illegal

Gateway Pundit: USAID Paperwork Was Found in the Vehicle of the Illegal Alien Responsible for the Boulder Terror Attack – They also found paperwork with the words “Israel” and “Palestine” inside the terrorist’s vehicle. – Soliman was also found with 14 more Molotov cocktails on his person, along with a makeshift flamethrower, and he said that he would “do it again.” immigrant.

Epoch Times: The Supreme Court had earlier allowed the government to end a policy that enabled 350,000 Venezuelans to live and work in the United States. – The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California subsequently ruled, “The relief here would not extend to all Venezuelan TPS holders but rather a discrete subset—somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 individuals in the government’s estimation,” the court wrote.

Western Journal: Tulsi Gabbard Declassified Biden-Era Documents That Labeled Americans Who Opposed The COVID Mandates As Terrorists – Newly declassified documents show that in December 2021, the FBI and DHS labeled opponents of COVID mandates were classified as ‘Domestic Violent Extremists.’”

America First Report: The ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Includes Billions for Government AI Programs – These investments aim to “improve the cybersecurity posture of Federal information technology systems through modernized architecture, automated threat detection, and integrated artificial intelligence solutions,” according to the bill…

Fox News: The Trump admin unleashes A DOGE-aligned process to fire federal workers for misconduct – “The rule changes are to improve the efficiency, rigor and timeliness by which OPM and agencies vet individuals for risk to the integrity and efficiency of the service, and to make clear that individuals who engage in serious misconduct while employed in Federal service are subject to the same suitability procedures and actions as applicants for employment.”

Fox News: The Trump administration asks SCOTUS to allow it to move forward with plans to slash the federal workforce – In its emergency appeal to the high court, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that the lower court ruling is “flawed,” and hinges on an “indefensible premise,” which is that the executive brach needs Congressional authorization to make personnel decisions, such as the Reductions in Force, or RIFs…

Newsmax: The Trump Administration Set a Wednesday Deadline For Countries To Submit Their Best Trade Offers – The U.S. is asking countries to list their best proposals in a number of key areas, including tariff and quota offers for the purchase of U.S. industrial and agricultural products and plans to remedy any non-tariff barriers…

Daily Fetched: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says the FBI is making progress on identifying who planted pipe bombs before Jan. 6, 2021, near the Republican and Democratic National Committee’s headquarters. – “The second we got in, I put a team on it and I said, ‘I want answers on this.’” – “And I’m pretty confident that we’re closing in on some suspects,” he revealed.

American Thinker: President Biden’s Autopen, and the Crime of Forgery – President Trump uses the autopen “only for very unimportant papers.” – President Obama used the autopen on one occasion, “when he signed an extension of the Patriot Act when he was in France on official business and, with time running out before the law expired, he authorized the use of the autopen to sign it into law.”

American Thinker: Jake Tapper Explains it All to You – The authors’ real goal was to cover their posteriors for what was clearly the most open secret in Washington, that Biden was completely unfit for the presidency as far back as 2017. – “Biden’s team quietly had the DNC obtain a copy of the Hunter hard drive.” – “Biden’s campaign needed to be politically prepared, and Joe needed to be personally prepared.”…

American Thinker: The Fracturing of Today’s Marxist Democrat Party – These Marxist Democrats are discovering they can no longer hold together the various coalitions that enabled their rise to power. – Their largest group has been and still consists of credulous, patronizing, and narcissistic self-declared liberals who, in their naiveté, willfully allied themselves with far-left radicals to maintain their power status…

American Thinker: The Left’s unquenchable thirst for absolute power – The only thing the left wants is control. – The Democrat party of today would horrify JFK. It is now officially the party of socialists and fascists. The CCP has surely infiltrated the party and its institutions, and our judiciary has most likely been infiltrated by communists…

Daily Fetched: Democrat nonprofit “House Majority Forward” launched a new ad campaign targeting 26 House Republicans over their support for President Trump’s tariffs, saying Trump’s tariffs are responsible for causing consumer prices to “soar.” – However, recent economic data shows that inflation is easing and wages are outpacing price increases...

The Federalist: The Latest FBI Revelations Show The Mueller Special Counsel Was A Cover-Up, And Much More – Why the DOJ didn’t charge Nellie Ohr with lying to Congress is the least significant of the questions raised by last week’s release of the Washington Field Office’s EC. – The FBI’s electronic case management system, Sentinel, was used to keep potentially relevant documents hidden from other FBI agents investigating whether a Fusion GPS contractor lied to Congress…

Victor Davis Hanson: Who Are Really The Lawless and the Dictatorial Ones? – The left cries “dictatorship” while wielding the courts, agencies, and media to undermine laws, crush dissent, and then call it democracy. – Has Trump followed any of the precedents established during the prior four years of the Biden administration? – Did he coordinate local, state, and federal prosecutors to warp the law and try to imprison his 2020 and 2024 main political opponent?

Geller Report: Hamas Says They Collaborate With US Campus Protesters And Says They Have Their People Everywhere’ – Muslim Brotherhood groups on campus, like Students for Justice in Palestine, should be designated terror groups and banned from colleges and universities. – How long before we suffer an October 7th-style jihad attack here in America?

Daily Wire: Trump’s Bold Move To Lower Drug Prices Puts Americans First, Not Big Pharma – In essence, Americans have been subsidizing socialism abroad. – His efforts mean bypassing the costly middlemen and securing medicines at “most-favored-nation” prices that reflect the best deal given to any other country in the world…

June 1, 2025

Gateway Pundit: China’s New National Security White Paper Signals A Future Confrontation with the U.S. – Its content suggests Beijing is likely to perceive U.S. tariffs and the cancellation of student visas as ideological attacks on its political system, not just policy decisions, and may retaliate with countermeasures such as cyberattacks, sanctions, or crackdowns on U.S.-linked entities in China…

Breitbart: The United States presented its first formal proposal to Tehran for elements of a nuclear deal on Saturday, just hours after U.N. inspectors reported a major surge over the past three months in the size of Tehran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium. – The document was described by officials familiar with the diplomatic exchanges as a series of bullet points, but not a full draft of an agreement.

One America News: Ukraine smuggled FPV drones deep within Russia, destroying ‘41 Russian heavy bombers, Kyiv claims – The Ukrainian attack, dubbed “Operation Spider’s Web,” took around 18 months to plan, and successfully hit 41 Russian heavy bombers at four separate airfields, according to a Ukrainian official. – The operation was carried out by Ukraine’s Security Service utilizing first-person-view (FPV) drones.

One America News: Multiple people injured during a ‘targeted terror attack’ in a Colorado mall – Several people were injured and taken to local hospitals, with some sustaining life-threatening injuries. – According to witnesses, the suspect used Molotov cocktails to target people who were taking part in a walk for the Israeli hostages who are still in Gaza…

Breitbart: The Suspect in Antisemitic Terror Attack in Boulder, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, is “an Egyptian National in the U.S. Illegally.” – He overstayed his visa after entering the United States under the Biden administration. – The FBI is investigating this as an act of terrorism.”

Western Journal: The DOJ Nails Two Men Involved in an International A Human Trafficking Operation Scheme That Left Children Dead – The operation brought Indian nationals to Canada on fraudulent student visas and then smuggled them into the US across the northern border – “The going rate to be smuggled from India through Canada into the United States was $100,000.”

One America News: Trump fires director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery – Trump, “ I am hereby terminating the employment of Kim Sajet as Director of the National Portrait Gallery.” -“She is a highly partisan person and a strong supporter of DEI, which is totally inappropriate for her position. – “Her replacement will be named shortly.”

Geller Report: Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff Rejects Hamas Demands to US Ceasefire Proposal As ‘Totally Unacceptable’ – With Israel being demonized by much of the European Union, South America, the UK, Canada, and others, Hamas is emboldened to reject ceasefire proposals from the U.S. Instead, Hamas responds with insane demands, including a ceasefire for 7 years…

Geller Report: Iran Has Enriched Uranium for 10 Nuclear Bombs And Continues Production – President Trump told Israel PM Netanyahu that now is not a good time for a military strike on Iran’s nuke sites. Well, Iran is this close to getting the bomb. – When would be a good time, Mr. President? – Israel is going to need to take military action against Iran’s nuke sites before it is too late. – The clock is ticking…

American Conservative: Pete Hegseth Warns of Chinese Threats in Asia – The Secretary of Defense urged American allies to increase their defense spending. – China is actively training to retake Taiwan, he said, noting that an invasion would “result in devastating consequences for the Indo-Pacific and the world.” – To ensure peace in the Indo-Pacific, Hegseth said that the U.S. would strengthen its forces in the region…

Gatestone Institute: The World Health Organization Is About to Give Itself Unlimited Power – The WHO Pandemic Treaty at the 78th session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland will have to be ratified by at least 60 states, however, before it can come into effect, which means that it is up to citizens to prevent that from happening.

American Thinker: AI’s Rise Will Mark a New Era of Net Job Loss – Historical patterns do not hold for AI because its developments are not merely technical; they are profoundly cerebral, cognitive, and intellectual. – Also, AI’s self-improving and self-monitoring nature. – The net job loss predicted by AI is not a sign of technological stagnation, but rather of its unprecedented advancement.

Roger Kimball: What is American Conservatism? – Conservatism in America has some distinctive features, traceable mostly to two things: the Founders’ vision of limited government supporting individual liberty and the historical accidents of newness, on the one hand, and geographical amplitude and separateness on the other…

Daily Wire: President Trump Abruptly Withdraws Musk Ally’s Nomination For NASA Chief – President Trump says the Jared Isaacman decision comes after a “thorough review of prior associations.” – Trump had told people he was going to withdraw the nomination after learning that Isaacman, an entrepreneur who has flown into space twice with Musk’s SpaceX company, made donations to Democrats…

American Thinker: Celebrating the 95th birthday of a Hollywood icon with a remarkable account – This living legend also has life experiences beyond the silver screen, replete with thrills, chills, and unexpected turns, not unlike his on-screen adventures. – The following is an account of the superstar’s stint during the Korean War, with the nickname of Samson, and it is pretty scary…

May 31, 2025

Gateway Pundit: Polls Show Kamala Harris Fading as 2028 Contender With 16.6% support. — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has emerged as the unlikely frontrunner, garnering 31.5% support. – The 43-year-old, who was spectacularly unsuccessful during his stint as Transportation Secretary, previously ran for the Democrat nomination in 2020.

Zero Hedge: YOU DON’T HATE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ENOUGH – Conventional media ran interference for Joe Biden, because telling the truth might have helped the man they hated most, Donald Trump. – This didn’t happen by accident. – It happened as a consequence of decades of consolidation into the hands of a few billionaires and corporations who are keenly interested, both politically and financially, in who occupies the White House…

Just The News: Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino outlines ‘important cultural changes’ taking place at the FBI – “The accountability process is ongoing as we move disciplined, focused leaders into critical positions in the field.” – “We are removing employees who have violated their oaths and those who invited partisanship into the workplace.” – “The process is ongoing, and will not stop.”

American Thinker: The latest fake-news narrative is that Elon Musk killed 300,000 people. – Their attacks on Tesla got old, so now the left wants to paint Musk as a killer. – Professor Brooke Nichols created an AIDS-patient database of USAID recipients in places like Africa who supposedly died without the aid. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that 88% of USAID went to people other than the intended recipients, who then funneled cash back to Democrats….

America First Report: ICE to Increase Deportations to 3,000 Illegals per Day After A Leadership Shake-up – Trump is seeking to make deportation a tangible threat, and this requires far more arrests. With deportation becoming a common occurrence, the effort may inspire most illegals to simply leave the country on their own…

Epoch Times: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says the Trump administration has ‘not identified a federal statute’ granting the authority to conduct mass firings of federal employees. – The court’s decision follows U.S. District Judge Susan Illston’s temporary restraining order on May 9 that blocked the implementation of Trump’s order for two weeks…

Epoch Times: Top 9 Supreme Court Decisions to Watch for in June – 1. ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Minors – 2. Nationwide Injunction And Birthright Citizenship – 3. Sex and Gender in School Libraries – 4. Obamacare Preventive Care Panel – 5. Age Verification for Pornography Websites – 6. Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood – 7. Mexico’s Lawsuit Against Gun Companies – 8. Palestinian Terrorists – 9. Nuclear Waste Storage…

Washington Free Beacon: President Trump Is Clearly Perplexed by Putin – American presidents have been trying for a quarter-century to get a workable relationship with Putin, and each has failed. – Trump clearly abhors this war’s human toll and wants it to end. – He also wants to pull Russia out of China’s orbit. – But thanks to Putin’s intransigence, the war rages on, and the Russo-Chinese partnership is growing stronger…

Red State: A US Secret Service Agent Reveals Biden Would Get Lost in Most Absurd Place Imaginable – The whistleblower assigned to Biden told Josh Hawley, “Biden used to get lost in his closet in the mornings in the White House.” – This stunning level of disorientation is an example of why the Democrat cover-up of Biden’s mental decline is one of the biggest scandals in presidential history…

Townhall: Federal Authorities Are Investigating an Effort to Impersonate White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles – Government figures have received messages purportedly from the top Trump aide via text message and phone. – The messages to prominent Republican lawmakers and business executives included her voice in some instances, leading officials to believe whoever was behind the impersonation used artificial intelligence…

Breitbart: The European Union’s diplomatic chief Kaja Kallas said Saturday the continent was beefing up defense spending after “tough love” from the Trump administration, calling for stronger ties to counter China’s “economic might”. – Speaking at the Shangri-La defence forum in Singapore, Kallas was responding to comments by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who called President Trump’s insistence on more military spending “tough love”.

American Thinker: There Will Be More Violence, Because Socialism Calls for It – To understand the thoughts, methodologies, and goals of modern leftists, you have to go back to the beginning and look at Lenin, the founder of the first socialist state. – The quest for power is what motivates today’s socialists just as it did Lenin. Their agenda today is to attack their capitalist/bourgeois enemies to gain power no matter what the human cost…

American Thinker: The FBI Now Confirms That Nellie Ohr Lied to Congress – Trump declassified the documents, and the story is now out in the open. – The FBI and DOJ’s failure to hold Ohr accountable for appearing to commit multiple felonies and their obstructive conduct against agents who sought additional information reveal the agencies’ deeply disturbing political bias…

American Thinker: Trump Is Changing the World (Whether You Like Him or Not) – The Deep State is a form of neo-feudalism that allows for elites (who are often related to one another) to join shadowy groups like the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg group, the World Economic Forum, and other ones we don’t know the names of in an effort to restore that old-fashioned economy, driven on political power alone…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Agony of Defeat Edition – It was a rather blah week, with news stories mostly carryovers from the past. – Budget cutting was in the news, a slap was heard around the world, and the Trump administration did battle on many fronts, against Harvard among others.

May 30, 2025

One America News: President Trump announces A 50% tariff on steel imports at a Pittsburgh rally while celebrating the Nippon Steel deal that ‘creates and saves over 100,000 American jobs’ – Trump also assured that the iconic American company, U.S. Steel, will remain an American owned company following an 18-month long effort by Nippon Steel, a Japanese steelmaker, to buy-out the company.

One America News: President Trump presented Elon Musk with a gold key in a farewell press conference to honor Musk’s work in leading the Department of Government Efficiency to cut down on wasteful government spending. – Trump began the conference from the Oval Office alongside Musk, stating, “Today it’s about a man named Elon, and he’s one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced.”…

Epoch Times: The U.S. goods trade deficit declined sharply in April from a record in March as the effects of front-running President Donald Trump’s tariffs faded. – According to an advance estimate from the Census Bureau, the goods trade gap plummeted 46 percent, to $87.6 billion, from the all-time high of $162.25 billion registered in March. – This represented the smallest trade deficit for goods since December 2023.

Zero Hedge: Mapping Every Understaffed Air Traffic Control Tower In The US – Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao maps out every single tower that is below the 2024 guideline staffing threshold per the latest available data, current to September 2023, published by the FAA. – 128 of the 290 FAA-operated air traffic control towers across the country are short-staffed…

City Journal: A Presidency Defined by Obfuscation and Denial – Though it has rightly generated criticism for one of its coauthors, Original Sin is a vital account of the White House cover-up of Joe Biden’s decline. – To succeed in the Biden subculture, you had to show your allegiance “not to the presidency, not to the American people, not to the country, but to the Biden theology.”…

New York Post: Jewish students stormed out of their graduation ceremony after a MIT commencement speaker accused the university of supporting the erasure of “Palestine from the face of the Earth.” – Megha M. Vemuri, 2025 Class presiden, sparked boos and cheers as she started her controversial speech praising her classmates for protesting Israel immediately after Hamas launched a deadly terrorist attack on the Jewish state on Oct. 7, 2023…

Newsmax: The Trump administration announced Friday that it is canceling 24 awards previously issued by the Biden administration and the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations that had exceeded $3.7 billion in federal tax money. – The majority of the awards entailed funding for carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS, and decarbonization initiatives.

Zero Hedge: The Most Affordable US Cities To Buy A Home In 2025 – WalletHub analyzed 300 U.S. cities of varying sizes across ten metrics, including real estate tax rate, cost per square foot, median home price, and median household income. Each metric was scored on a 100-point scale, with 100 indicating the most favorable conditions for home affordability. For this map, only cities with a population over 100,000 were considered.

Epoch Times: China Has ‘Totally Violated’ The Interim Tariff Agreement – USTR Greer, “China was supposed to roll back critical mineral export bans after the Geneva agreement, but hasn’t done so fully.” – “The United States did exactly what it was supposed to do, and the Chinese are slow rolling their compliance, which is completely unacceptable.”…

Washington Free Beacon: A high-level meeting between Chinese, Iranian, and Russian officials confirms fears of an attempt by the three countries to weaken the U.S.’s negotiation position with Tehran. – Leaders of the three countries met to “coordinate their positions ahead” of an upcoming International Atomic Energy Agency hearing on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program…

Townhall: The Trump Administration’s Economy Just Hit a Key Factor for Success – The economy continues to provide good news for the American people. – Inflation is down, income is up, and the trade deficit just fell by the largest amount on record. – The good news comes as the White House pushes the U.S. Senate to pass Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” as soon as possible in order to avoid the largest tax increase in American history…

Townhall: ‘Drill Baby Drill’ Just Set a New U.S. Record – When President Trump took office on January 20, he made U.S. energy production a top priority for his new administration. – Secretaries Doug Burgum and Chris Wright wasted no time, and today, U.S. domestic oil production just hit a new record of 13.488 million barrels produced per day in March 2025…

Slay News: 255 People Have Been Arrested in a Major Florida Human Trafficking Sting Operation – The arrests included a former NFL linebacker, Adarius Taylor, and 26 illegal immigrants who had evaded all federal tracking. – The operation was named “Fool Around and Find Out.” – It is now the largest operation of its kind in the history of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

Washington Examiner: Senators Eric Schmitt and John Cornyn announced Thursday that the Senate Judiciary Committee would convene a hearing on June 18 to examine who was “running the country” during Biden’s final years and the alleged “cover-up” orchestrated by his aides, family members, and the legacy media. – Cornyn called the alleged effort a “conspiracy between the mainstream media, Joe Biden’s family, and his inner circle.”…

Western Journal: Damning New Evidence In The Autopen Scandal Shows There Was More Activity in Last 100 Days of The Biden Admin Than in His First Three and a Half Years – House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, “There was a massive uptick in pardons and executive orders during Biden’s last 100 days in office.” – Four staffers were asked for an interview, but they “lawyered up” instead.

Slay News: There Is ‘No Evidence’ Joe Biden Was Aware of at Least 8 Documents That Were Signed by Autopen – Daniel Turner, “These are not obscure bureaucratic memos; these were foundational shifts in American energy policy, yet not once did Joe Biden speak about them publicly.” – A review from the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project found a similar troubling result…

One America News: President Trump rejects a $15M Paramount settlement offer stemming from the ‘60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris lawsuit – Trump is reportedly seeking at least $25 million and an apology from the network for manipulating the interview in an attempt to interfere with the election, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Zero Hedge: The Austin Police Department announced that 17-year-old Rodney Charles Hill, Eloy Adrian Camarillo, and two unidentified 15-year-olds face murder charges after allegedly killing InfoWars Reporter Jamie White outside his Austin, Texas, home. – Court documents indicate they were attempting to break into White’s Kia on March 9 when he confronted them and was fatally shot…

Epoch Times: In A 7 to 2 Decision, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to remove the Humanitarian Parole Status of Immigrants From Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. – The court’s May 30th decision blocks the lower court order as the issue plays out in the court system. – Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the court’s decision.

National Pulse: A federal appeals court has, for now, reinstated President Trump’s 10 percent global tariff and reciprocal tariffs after temporarily staying a lower court decision striking down the trade duties. – President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs will remain in effect until at least June 9 pending a hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit…

American Thinker: A federal appeals court stops an overreaching trial court ruling, UPDATED – Let’s hope this is a harbinger of the upper-level courts in the federal judiciary remembering that, as Obama said, “elections have consequences.” – While I recognize that the judiciary can and should function as a brake on an executive violating the constitution, it’s apparent that many judges are substituting their judgment for the executive’s…

American Thinker: America Is Under the Control of Left-Wing Immigration Policy And It Is Killing The West – The Democrats’ attitudes about illegal immigration have “evolved” considerably since Clinton, Obama, and Schumer talked tough about it 20–30 years ago. – If Trump were to read any one of their speeches out loud on the air tonight, he’d be called a racist.

Washington Free Beacon: Meet the Left-Wing Groups and Operatives Rallying Behind Jewish Museum Shooter Elias Rodriguez – Soros-funded operatives, a Democratic Socialists of America caucus, and an anti-Israel student group are among the 21 signatories of a letter endorsing the murders…

Townhall: AG Pam Bondi Praised for Making ‘One of the Best Decisions Ever’ – Bondi notified the American Bar Association that the Trump administration will no longer grant the organization access to non-public information about judicial nominees. – She then called out the ABA for its liberal leanings, noting, the ABA no longer functions as a fair arbiter of nominees’ qualifications, and its ratings favor nominees put forth by Democrats…

American Thinker: San Francisco’s public schools’ new “Grading for Equity” plan for the 10,000 high school students will award a grade of ‘C’ for scores as low as 41 on a 100-point test. – Even more absurd and incredible, students with a score as low as 21 out of 100 will be allowed to pass exams with a ‘D’ grade. – The plan is scheduled to go into effect this fall…

American Thinker: Electric Vehicles and the China Connection – With the Trump administration back in the White House, America has an opportunity to restore commonsense energy and manufacturing policies. – A glaring example of this overreach is the EV push championed by progressive elites that, under the guise of sustainability, threatens to undermine national security, weaken domestic industry, and entangle our economy further with the Chinese Communist Party…

American Thinker: Foreign Students and Universities’ Scams – What’s the real reason for all this ‘diversity’ on college campuses? – If a school can get a foreign student who will pay full freight for tuition, room, and board, how does that disincentivize it from prioritizing Americans who can’t or from controlling its sticker prices? – Some of our top-rated schools are competing with classes made up of one-fifth or more foreigners…

American Thinker: The Biden health cover-up holds lessons for both Democrats and Republicans – The Biden health scandal highlights the need to spell out what needs to be done to prevent this scandal from happening again and hold accountable those who took part in it this time. – First of all, the House needs to investigate the extent to which Biden’s aides hid his decline from the American people and other members of his administration…

American Thinker: Why don’t Democrats offer something good for Americans instead of just bashing Trump? – I challenge Democrats to stop bashing Trump and to instead create a substantive rebuilding of their image as a party of the people instead of a party for deviants, weaklings, racists, and foul-mouthed entertainers. – Have Democrats come up with any new ideas, or are they persisting with DEI, CRT, LGBT, and ESG?…

Zero Hedge: DHS released a list of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that could be made ineligible for federal funding under an executive order by President Donald Trump. – In some cases, entire states have been marked sanctuaries. They include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, as well as DC…

Resist The Mainstream: The FBI announced it will not permit any Pride Month celebrations this June. – No official bureau resources or time should be allocated to pride-related activities, marking a significant policy shift under new leadership. – FBI Assistant Director for Public Affairs Ben Williamson delivered the directive to agents and directors Thursday morning via email.

American Thinker: NPR and PBS have argued for years that federal money is a small part of their budget. – Well, I guess not because they are looking for another district judge to issue an opinion against the Trump administration. – NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tuesday morning over the president’s executive order that purportedly bars the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for NPR and PBS.

Breitbart: A government employee was arrested on Thursday for trying to share classified information with agents of a foreign government because he did not “agree or align with the values” of the Trump administration. – Nathan Vilas Laatsch, a 28-year-old IT specialist working for the Defense Intelligence Agency since 2019, was arrested this week in Virginia. – He holds a Top Secret security clearance.

Zero Hedge: California leads the nation in more ways than one, taxes, regulations, and, once again, gas prices. As of mid-May 2025, the average gasoline price in California is $4.85 per gallon, far above the national average of $3.26. – The culprit is decades of state-level tax hikes, regulatory overreach, and misguided climate mandates that have warped the gasoline market in California.

Slay News: California Democrats Scramble to Walk Back Green Energy Regulations as a Gas Price Crisis Looms – A looming shutdown of two major oil refineries could cause gas prices to skyrocket by up to 75%, following years of Democrat-led attacks on fossil fuel producers in the state. – California already has the highest average gas prices in the nation, according to AAA, and it’s no mystery why…

The Telegraph: The Imperial Beach shoreline used to be filled with families, but now it’s deluged with Mexican sewage – Up to 80 million gallons of its waste is flooding into the Pacific Ocean and the cross-border Tijuana River every day. – The river used to disappear during the dry months, but these days it is kept flowing by a cocktail of raw sewage and industrial chemicals, bearing viruses, bacteria, and parasites into the US.

May 29, 2025

One America News: Kash Patel, “The FBI has been overwhelmed investigating James Comey’s ‘copycats.” – “Do you know how many copycats we’ve had to investigate as a result of that beachside venture from the former director?” Patel questioned. – “The increase in potential threats against Trump since Comey’s May 15th post has been so large that the FBI has had to devote significant resources in other high-priority areas to investigate them.

Red State: May Ratings Are In! MSNBC and CNN Are About As Popular As the Black Plague – In primetime programming for May 2025, Fox News was up 23% with an average of 2.46 million viewers. – Meanwhile, MSNBC had an average of 877,000 viewers, which was down 24%, and CNN raked in an average of 426,000, down 18%.

Populist Times: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced groundbreaking changes at the Pentagon after working with DOGE to identify wasteful programs. – Although the exact amount under the chopping block remains unclear, it is well above ten billion. – DOGE said it had identified $5 billion of wasteful spending at the DOD, in addition to another $5 billion previously identified.

Tablet Magazine: President Trump says he is going to fight to end antisemitism and the left-wing delegitimization and hatred of Israel that has plagued college campuses since the October 7th massacre. – Standing in his way are the radical left, Democrats, federal courts, and university presidents who are determined to protect pro-Palestinian terrorists from his deportation campaign…

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Recognized South Africa Is Not Our Friend – “This is not the South Africa we used to know. – It was running on the fumes of Mandelaism. – At the United Nations, it isn’t very friendly to the United States. – It takes advantage of the free trade agreement to run up a $9 billion surplus.” – “It gets $500 million in aid, and it shows no gratitude. It attacks us.”…

One America News: Trump celebrates victory as Florida court allows his case against Pulitzer Board to proceed – “The NYT and WaPo won a Pulitzer Prize for totally incorrect reporting about the Russia Hoax.” – “Now they admit it was a SCAM, never happened, and their reporting was totally wrong…

Wall Street Journal: The Court of International Trade’s Tariff Authority Ruling Is a Setback for Trump but Doesn’t End The Trade War – The administration has already said it will appeal the ruling, and trade experts and lawyers say it has a variety of other legal avenues to prosecute the trade war that are unaffected by Wednesday’s decision. – The administration’s plan to appeal could ultimately land the case in the Supreme Court…

Zero Hedge: White House On Tariffs, “Nothing Has Really Changed” – The White House on Thursday downplayed the implications of a court ruling that blocked some of President Trump’s tariff measures, and suggested they will win on appeal. – Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, “If anybody thinks this caught the administration by surprise, think again.”

New York Post: President Trump has several tools at his disposal that he can use to impose tariffs despite a court ruling that ordered the reversal of his hefty “Liberation Day” taxes, two major Wall Street banks said on Thursday. – “The tariff levels that we had yesterday are probably going to be the tariff levels that we have tomorrow, because there are so many different authorities the administration can reach into to put it back together.”…

Breitbart: A new poll by Rasmussen Reports released Thursday found that 57% of likely U.S. voters favor military action to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, with only 30% opposing military action. – The survey of 1,107 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on May 19-21, 2025.

Washington Examiner: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino revealed on Thursday that evidence from former FBI Director James Comey’s time at the agency was found, which he said was in a room “not mentioned” to him or FBI Director Kash Patel when taking over the agency. – Bongino rebuked Comey while describing what the agency found, saying, “Wait till you read this stuff.”

A federal judge on Thursday extended an order blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to bar Harvard University from enrolling foreign students. – U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs granted Harvard’s request for a preliminary injunction, blocking the government’s action until the case is decided…

Breitbart: Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday that it has used laser weapons to destroy enemy airborne projectiles during the ongoing conflict, a revelation that boosts Israel’s strategic technological advantage. – Israeli Brigadier General Yehuda Elmakayes, “During the war, we deployed several high-power laser system prototypes, resulting in significant achievements, culminating in the world’s first successful high-power laser interceptions on the battlefield…

Daily Signal: Secretary of State Marco Rubio notified Congress of some of his plans for the elimination or consolidation of more than 300 department offices, which amounts to nearly 45% of the State Department’s stateside offices. – Before Rubio’s time in Foggy Bottom, the State Department had almost 750 offices. – These offices often had duplicative or overlapping authorities and responsibilities…

New York Post: The FBI will soon release video that proves Jeffrey Epstein was not murdered – FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, “There’s video clear as day,” Bongino told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” early Thursday. – “He’s the only person in there and the only person coming out. – You can see it.”

Epoch Times: On May 28, President Trump signed a flurry of pardons and commutations, including for some well-known former politicians. – In total, the White House confirmed Trump pardoned nine individuals convicted of federal crimes, while commuting the sentences for two others. – Those nine include former Connecticut Governor John Rowland and former New York Representative Michael Grimm, both Republicans.

Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses – Democrats are trapped by the toxic DEI ideology they created—too afraid to reform, too broken to survive without it. – Only when caught did the complicit media fess up that the Biden inner circle serially misled the American people about Biden’s inability to fulfill the duties of the presidency. – Second, left-wing politicos used Biden as a waxen effigy posing as a “moderate”…

American Thinker: President Trump’s Not-So-Secret Weapon – Trump holds the winning hand in the coming budget battles. – One thing in the bill that will be the deciding factor is the debt-ceiling extension provision. – The current one will expire sometime between August and September. And it will have to pass, but now they only need 50 votes in the Senate this time because of reconciliation…

American Thinker: Energy Heresy, Or Why America Must Exit The Green Delusion – America cannot run on radical energy orthodoxy that produces less power and more power failures. – The Biden years proved a simple truth: intermittent energy cannot sustain a modern nation in the 21st century. – Wind and solar cannot provide base load power, fluctuate with the weather, and collapse when demand peaks. – Battery storage at scale remains a science fiction concept…

American Thinker: The Big Beautiful Bill And The ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ – Trump is trying to curb the beast that is the federal government, but Republicans in Congress refuse to help him. – Republicans in Congress talk a good game, but when it comes to actually doing what they say they’re going to do, it turns out they’re really snake oil salesmen. – This One Big Beautiful Bill Act demonstrates exactly why the federal government is as screwed up as it is…

American Thinker: San Francisco is now known as an urban disaster area, with malls moving out, hotels shutting doors, and conventions moving to other cities. – Thieves loot retailers with impunity, and entire districts are full of homeless drug addicts. – But what about Fisherman’s Wharf, the city’s most famous and legendary tourist destination? – It’s now a ghost town…

May 28, 2025

Western Journal: Hamas Makes Cease-Fire Announcement After Israel Deals a Crushing Blow – Hamas said it reached an agreement on the general framework for a cease-fire with Israel. – “The agreement will secure a ‘permanent cease-fire,’ the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, the flow of humanitarian aid, and a committee of independent Palestinian technocrats assuming governing control over the Strip instead of Hamas.”…

Western Journal: Hidden Cameras Catch David Hogg and an Ex-Biden Staffer Discussing The ‘Shadowy’ Figure Who Pulled Strings in the White House – Jill Biden’s chief of staff, Anthony Bernal, a shadowy, ‘Wizard of Oz’-type figure. – He wielded an enormous amount of power, and I can’t stress to you how much power he had at the White House.

One America News: Elon Musk officially steps down from DOGE, announcing his time as a special government employee has come to an end – “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President Trump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending.” – “The DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”…

Daily Fetched: A group funded by Alexander and George Soros’s far-left non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has been pulling the strings behind a major lawsuit blocking President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport criminal illegal immigrants to South Sudan. – The groups behind the suit include Human Rights First, run by Alex Soros—George Soros’s second-youngest son…

Epoch Times: Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States would begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party. – This will include those studying in critical fields.”

Breitbart: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called for trilateral leaders’ talks between himself, the U.S., and Russia, while Moscow said that the next round of “direct talks” will be announced soon. – With no progress towards peace or even a ceasefire beyond an agreement for a prisoner exchange, fresh talks appear to be again on the horizon…

New York Post: Vladimir Putin issues his conditions for ending the war in Ukraine – They include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards. – Russia also wants Ukraine to be neutral, some Western sanctions lifted, a resolution of the issue of frozen Russian sovereign assets in the West, and protection for Russian speakers in Ukraine…

Newsmax: Following the Oval Office swearing in of interim U.S. Attorney for DC, Jeanine Pirro, President Donald Trump said, “We’ll know within two weeks” whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has an interest in ending the war in Ukraine. – Trump then mentioned special envoy Steve Witkoff, who has been negotiating with Putin, and also his disappointment at Russian drones continuing to kill Ukrainian civilians.

American Conservative: Trump Will Walk Away From Ukraine, And That Is A Good Thing – Trump has essentially acknowledged that he has no real leverage over Russia to get them to end the war. – So, rather than needlessly drag out this hopeless conflict (for the NATO side of the proxy war with Russia), Trump is readying to cut his, and America’s, losses…

Zero Hedge: Netanyahu Confirms Death Of Hamas Gaza Chief As Hostages Reach 600 Days In Captivity – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced to lawmakers on Wednesday that Hamas Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar, the younger brother of the deceased group’s leader Yahya Sinwar, has been confirmed killed.

Breitbart: The Israel Defense Forces responded to days of missile attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen on Wednesday, targeting the Sanaa airport and destroying the Houthis’ last serviceable airplane. – The Houthis are Islamic extremists whom the Biden administration removed from the terrorist list, and whose slogan is “Allahu akbar, death to the United States, death to Israel, curse the Jews, and victory for Islam.”

Resist the Mainstream: Trump Administration AI Czar Alleges Elizabeth Warren Controlled Biden’s Autopen Use – David Sacks, the artificial intelligence czar appointed by President Donald Trump, recently told Fox News that Warren was the senator “controlling the autopen during that administration,” suggesting her influence extended to many of Biden’s signed documents.

I&I/TIPP Poll: Media Covered Up Biden’s Health Issues, And Angry Voters Want Them To Answer For It – When asked: “To what extent do you agree or disagree that the media covered up Joe Biden’s mental decline?” – 56% agreed either “strongly” (33%) or “somewhat” (23%), while just half that — 28% — disagreed…

Daily Signal: The Justice Department Has Opened An Investigation Into California for Allowing Males in Women’s Sports – “Title IX exists to protect women and girls in education. It is perverse to allow males to compete against girls, invade their private spaces, and take their trophies,” Harmeet K. Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, said in a statement on the move.

Daily Fetched: U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas has approved access for the Treasury Department’s entire DOGE team to access the federal government’s sensitive data systems. – Vargas ruled on Tuesday that the last legal restriction preventing four Treasury-assigned DOGE employees from accessing the agency’s payments infrastructure could be lifted…

Epoch Times: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to block a lower court order restricting DHS’s ability to deport illegal immigrants to nations other than their home countries. – Officials note that aliens lack the prior ties in these countries that would expose them to likely persecution or torture by country officials.

Western Journal: Melania Forced to Speak Out After Barron Connected to Trump’s War with Harvard – First Lady Melania Trump moved quickly Tuesday to squelch social media scuttlebutt that President Trump’s focus on Harvard University was payback for the school rejecting Barron Trump’s application. – “Barron didn’t even apply to attend Harvard.”…

American Thinker: Setting the record straight on Israel and Gaza – The Gazans have not been living a life of oppression. – Their standard of living rivals most Arab nations, if not better. – If there is any oppression going on, it is perpetrated by Hamas, the terrorist regime that rules with an iron fist and murders adversaries. – If you support Hamas, you are supporting a cult, a deadly cult…

American Thinker: Does America Have A Muslim Problem? – We need to wake up to the fact that some parts of the melting pot might not ever melt. – The U.S. needs to act now to ensure America does not make the mistakes that Europe has made when it comes to mass Muslim immigration. – Western cultural norms are not global norms. We need policymakers to wake up and recognize this and do it with extreme haste…

American Thinker: When City Hall Chooses The Mob – A recent episode in Seattle is a case study of the slow erosion of neutral governance under pressure from progressive ideological extremism. – The attackers were masked militants whose tactics have become a hallmark of Antifa: organized, aggressive, and aimed not at persuasion but suppression. – The state is no longer the referee, but is picking sides…

Breitbart: A rapid 14-day environmental review has seen a new uranium mine approved in Utah. – The endorsement is part of a refreshed Trump administration process to fast-track permissions for energy and mining projects. – This dynamic new approach was expected after President Trump declared a national energy emergency back in January and reversed previous mining restrictions embraced by the Biden administration…

American Thinker: The Democrats’ Performative Politics – An entire industry exists that ensures the dominant narrative of the Democrat party is strictly followed, including how to sell the narrative and each person’s specific role in the circus. Think of this as an industrial process that breaks down in this manner: DNC and Party Leadership — Policy Briefings and Internal Memos – Media Coordination and Communications Teams…

Breitbart: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is again calling for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which enforces the nation’s immigration laws. – Ocasio-Cortez won her congressional race in 2018 partly on a platform that promised to dismantle and ultimately abolish ICE, even suggesting that illegal aliens deserve a “right of passage” into the United States…

American Thinker: Medicaid Cuts Will Save, Not Kill Americans – Let’s deal in facts. – Repeating their lies doesn’t make it true. – Medicaid is failing. – Cutting its excesses and restoring its core purpose isn’t cruelty—it’s compassion. – Structural reform is the only path forward if we want to protect the truly vulnerable, low-income children, pregnant women, people with disabilities, and the elderly…

Republicans Are Secretly Plotting Trump’s Political Demise – Everyone knows closeted anti-Trump Republicans moved mountains to derail the president’s first four years in office. They cared more about protecting the status quo than adhering to voters’ will. – What’s less understood is that it’s happening in this term, too. – Few people grasp this more deeply than Ed Martin. – Martin was on his way to cleaning up Washington…

American Thinker: Free Trade Failed to Reform China – Hopes that insurgent free markets would liberate it have largely failed. – China’s economic advantages are predicated upon a range of labor mistreatment that utilizes everything from slavery to severe worker abuse. – Their current propaganda efforts focus on convincing the US that no one is willing to endure the same level of suffering as a Chinese laborer…

Center Square: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is cracking down on states’ use of taxpayer dollars to pay for unauthorized treatments for noncitizens. – States are generally allowed to use Medicaid to cover emergency and lifesaving treatment for illegal immigrants, but CMS said it is cracking down on the practice of states using federal dollars to cover treatments not authorized under Medicaid for noncitizens…

Western Journal: Look Where Trump Got the First $37 Million For His Presidential Library – ABC News settled a defamation suit by Trump for a $15 million payment toward Trump’s presidential library. – Meta agreed earlier this year to pay $22 million to support the construction of Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit he brought about being banned from the platform following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protest…

May 27, 2025

Gateway Pundit: Democrats are apparently tired of having their party controlled by people who were part of the Obama government, and it’s easy to see why. – Obama and people in his orbit have basically been running the Democrat party for almost twenty years. – Since 2016, they have lost to Donald Trump repeatedly…

One America News: The Trump administration reported a 96% reduction in illegal border crossings within the San Diego Sector. – Additionally, they announced the closure of a migrant processing facility.- The Biden administration had originally established the facility to manage the large influx of illegal aliens entering the country, a surge widely attributed to the administration’s extremely loose border policies.

Western Journal: Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama will not be defending his U.S. Senate seat in 2026. – Instead, this President Trump supporter will be running for governor of Alabama – “I’m doing this to help this country and the great state of Alabama,” Tuberville said. “I’m a football coach, I’m a leader, I’m a builder, I’m a recruiter, and we’re going to grow Alabama.”

Epoch Times: The U.S. State Department issued a “Level 2” travel warning for Italy and Belgium, citing terrorism concerns – Level 2 recommends “exercise increased caution.” – Other countries in Europe that have Level 2 warnings include France, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Kosovo, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Moldova…

American Spectator: The Wages of COVID, Part One – Why did the government and mainstream media collude to discredit alternative, successful COVID treatments? – The COVID pandemic was and remains one of the largest involuntary wealth transfers in history. Which is why, in trying to get to the bottom of what was done in the name of saving us from the ravages of the virus, it is best to “follow the money.”…

Breitbart: The NY Times Admits That Anchor Babies Benefit Hugely from Taxpayer-Funded Welfare – Research by the Center for Immigration Studies underscored how the illegal alien parents of anchor babies collect millions in welfare solely because their child or children were given birthright citizenship. – Close to 20 million illegal aliens reside in the US, while about 250,000 anchor babies are delivered in American hospitals every year.

California Globe: A New Study Shows California Leads the Country in The Most Moved-Out-of Cities – ‘People are still leaving California in droves.’ – 20 Cities With the Highest Number of Move-Outs Ranked; 1. Los Angeles – 2. The San Francisco area – 5. San Diego – 11. Santa Barbara – 13. Stockton/Modesto – 17. Fresno – 19. Bakersfield…

American Spectator: Fauci Allies Are Sent Packing As Strategic Reformers Move In – Biden’s pardon of Fauci drew extensive media coverage. – His wife, Christine Grady, was recently cut loose from her post as chief of the Department of Bioethics at the NIH Clinical Center. As with her husband, it was a job she never should have had in the first place…

American Thinker: China’s Covert Pursuit of Global Dominance – It’s never about Taiwan, or Pakistan, or Iran, or any other country; it is always about Tianxia. – In the Art of War, Sun Tzu crystallized this idea into the ideal of a benevolent Chinese emperor conquering the entire world, Tianxia, or All-Under-Heaven, without violence or destruction. – Trust the communists to twist the very antithesis of Marxism, a God-based, imperialistic idea, to serve its ambitions.

Breitbart: The Wall Street Journal reported that San Diego-based self-driving truck company TuSimple has found itself at the center of a controversy involving the transfer of sensitive technology to its Chinese partners. – The case has exposed weaknesses in U.S. laws designed to facilitate foreign investment while safeguarding American know-how, prompting a reevaluation of how the government polices companies with Chinese ties.

Breitbart: European Union members on Tuesday agreed on the urgent establishment of a new 170-billion-dollar loan program to help rearmament and respond to President Trump’s demand that they begin to rely more on their resources and less on U.S. taxpayers for funding. – Brussels proposed the SAFE borrowing scheme in March, while the bloc rushes to boost its defenses as Russia shows no sign of retreating from its aggressive push into the east through Ukraine.

American Thinker: Tariff Shock in Brussels – Trump’s tariff campaign is a strategic gambit designed to force Europe to shed its bloated protectionist apparatus. – Despite the EU’s talk of a single internal market, it is in truth a patchwork of protectionist engines. – Estimates suggest Brussels and its member states together direct over €500 billion annually in subsidies to prop up domestic industries.

Breitbart: For the first time in its 29-year polling history, Rasmussen shows that 50 percent of the country believes America is on the right track, compared to 45 percent who say we are on the wrong track. – Rasmussen, “As you can see, this is not a one-night aberration, but rather, it’s a tracking poll that averages the last five days.”

Slay News: President Donald Trump made good on his promise to lift sanctions on Syria’s economy as he attempts to help stabilize the region. – The Treasury Department officially lifted sanctions Friday that barred U.S. citizens and companies from making most financial transactions with Syria. – The sanctions were imposed to pressure former dictator Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown in December after more than a decade of civil war that uprooted millions of refugees.

American Thinker: They lied, Time and time again, but want you to believe them. – This list of Democrats’ lies is not nearly exhaustive. – Trump was a Russian agent – The Steele dossier was verified intelligence — Brett Kavanaugh was a teenage gang rapist — Masking toddlers would save lives — COVID-19 came from a wet market – The vaccines were “safe and effective” while banning anyone who said otherwise — Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation” – And the list goes on…

Western Journal: It has been the better part of a year since Thomas Crooks tried to assassinate now-President Donald Trump, and now we are just learning that he attempted to acquire explosives that could, depending on how they were used, take down an entire building. – The revelation came as part of a CBS News report last week with the title “Trump shooter Thomas Crooks’ emails reveal a student dreaming of a bright future.

Newsmax: President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal funding if authorities in California do not bar a transgender athlete from state finals and said he would speak with Governor Gavin Newsom on the matter on Tuesday.

Daily Wire: Every Red State CVS Pharmacy Might Close After The Crackdown On Drug PBM Middlemen – Locally owned independent pharmacies say they are subject to the dictates of PBMs, which give an unfair advantage to large pharmacy corporations such as CVS. – Governor Sanders, “For far too long, drug middlemen called PBMs have taken advantage of lax regulations to abuse customers, inflate drug prices, and cut off access to critical medications.”…

May 26, 2025

Western Journal: This Is Who Was Running The Country While Biden Napped – This inner-inner circle was apparently made up of a number of longtime swamp creatures, like former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, and also included family members, like former first lady Jill Biden and embattled ex-first son Hunter Biden.

Epoch Times: Dr. Mehmet Oz, Announced That DOGE, Has Found $14 billion in Medicaid Fraud, Waste, and Abuse related to folks who are wrongly enrolled in multiple states for Medicaid.’ – As an example, Oz said: “You live in New Jersey, but you move to Pennsylvania, and which state gets your Medicaid? – It turns out both states collect money from the federal government.”…

American Thinker: Memorial Day 2025, A Tribute To Those Who Paid The Ultimate Price – More than 124,000 American servicemen are buried overseas in cemeteries in countries such as France, Belgium, the Netherlands, England, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Philippines. – The American Battle Monuments Commission has memorialized another 94,000 as missing in action overseas, died at sea, or were buried at sea, during wartime…

American Thinker: The Party of Ba’al and Jezebel – When I look at that Democrat party’s history, I see a consistent and frightening pattern. – How likely is it that a party would consistently choose actions that are harmful to those they claim to serve? “Once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action.” — Ian Fleming – Democrats enact policies that are sold as progress but instead erode the vulnerable…

Daily Fetched: Former Obama aide Jon Lovett admitted on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” podcast that despite his concern over Joe Biden‘s obvious mental decline, he kept silent because he *“wanted him to fking win.”*** – Lovett said that he held his tongue over Biden’s decline, even though it was blatantly obvious. – Lovett went on to explain that speaking up would have benefited Biden’s political opponents, like Donald Trump…

Breitbart: Democrats reportedly plan to spend $20 million as part of an elaborate plan to win back all the young men President Donald Trump captured politically. – Democrats reportedly coded the plan SAM – Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan. – The plan reportedly goes so far as to recommend that Democrats start buying advertisements in video games, among other things, and follows the DNC’s moving to oust David Hogg as vice chair of the party…

The Federalist: 12 Times We Called Out Biden’s Decline While The Legacy Media Wouldn’t – Many Americans, including those of us at The Federalist, recognized early on that Sleepy Joe was incapable of serving as commander-in-chief – Kamala Harris’ Role in the Cover-Up – NPR Ran Defense for Biden’s Frailty – The Air Force Academy Stumble – The Easter Bunny Bouncer – The Lackadaisical Maui Fire Response – The Hur Report – Who’s Lloyd Austin? – Biden’s Air Force One Tumbles…

Newsmax: The FBI is investigating “potential public corruption” in three well-known cases that include the D.C. pipe-bombing probe, cocaine found at Biden’s White House, and a leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. – Deputy Director Bongino says he and FBI Director Kash Patel decided to “re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention” toward the three cases.

Zero Hedge: Trump’s Foreign Policy Shifts Reshape European Defense Strategy – Successive US administrations have long lobbied European allies to shoulder their fair burden for joint defense, but US President Donald Trump has taken a more bottom-line driven approach to NATO, publicly questioning why the United States should pay for the defense of rich European nations…

Resist The Mainstream: The DOJ and FBI Announce the Largest Dark Web Drug Trafficking Crackdown in US History – Operation RapTor led to 270 arrests in the U.S. and ten other countries, including Germany, Brazil, and the UK. – It resulted in the seizure of more than $200 million in cash and digital assets. – Attorney General Pam Bondi said the seizure would “save lives” and emphasized that dark web criminals “cannot hide behind computer screens.”

Resist The Mainstream: A 28-year-old American citizen has been arrested for allegedly plotting to firebomb the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel. – Joseph Neumayer, a dual citizen of the United States and Germany, was taken into custody by the FBI at John F. Kennedy International Airport. – Neumayer was first arrested by Israeli authorities and deported to the U.S., where he was ordered detained by Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo.

Zero Hedge: The 50 Best Places To Work In America – What makes a company a great place to work? – In a competitive labor market, top employers stand out by offering strong compensation, a culture of purpose, and the opportunity for growth. 1. University of Notre Dame – 2. Trader Joe’s – 3. Houston Methodist – 4. NVIDIA – 5. Navy Federal Credit Union – 6. Google – 7. Microsoft – 8. In-N-Out Burger – 9. Delta Air Lines 10. Raymond James Financial…

May 25, 2025

Liberty Daily: President Trump Rebukes Vladimir Putin for Escalating War Instead of Pushing for Peace – “I’m not happy with what Putin is doing.” – “He’s killing a lot of people. – “I’ve known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all.” – Later Sunday, Trump elaborated on Truth Social, writing that Putin “has gone absolutely CRAZY!” while also criticizing Zelenskyy…

Epoch Times: Senator Ron Johnson, “Enough Republicans Oppose The Budget Bill to Stop the Process In The Senate.” – Johnson expressed concerns about the bill’s impact on the federal deficit, suggesting there was enough opposition to force changes. – He said if the process were carried carefully, “people wouldn’t even notice” the bulk of the spending cuts…

Epoch Times: President Trump Delays The 50 Percent Tariff on EU Goods to July 9 – The decision came after a phone call with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen who said, “The EU and US share the world’s most consequential and close trade relationship. Europe is ready to advance talks swiftly and decisively. To reach a good deal, we would need the time until July 9”…

Washington Free Beacon: Sympathetic, Well-Meaning Journalists With Poor Integrity – “Original Sin” is an illuminating and often infuriating exposé. – It’s packed with damning accounts from (mostly anonymous) Democratic sources who all waited until after the election to stop lying. – Numerous villains are identified: Biden himself, his family, his inner circle, and the Democrat establishment. – But the vast majority of Americans used common sense to arrive at the correct conclusion long ago…

American Spectator: Democrat Resistance 2.0 Flops – Democrats and the corporate media continue to attack Trump and Republicans, but no one is listening. – Democrats continue to ignore problems working-class voters of all races care about: high inflation, illegal immigration, violent crime, and the poor quality of public education. Instead, they have focused on nebulous progressive issues like “systemic” racism, various types of inequity, and supposed environmental injustice…

American Thinker: American Medicine’s Antisemitism Problem – We should be aware that when we import doctors from foreign countries, in some cases, we also import their loathsome pathologies – America is truly at a crossroads. – We have very little time to reverse the Marxist toxins flowing through America’s institutions and into her population, whether those toxins come from overseas or are homegrown…

Breitbart: Senator Ron Johnson said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that there were “enough” Republican senators who would not vote for the so-called “big, beautiful” spending bill without significant changes. – “I think we have enough to stop the process until the president gets serious about spending reduction and reducing the deficit.”

Newsmax: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is urging Senate Republicans to swiftly pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping economic legislation, warning that delays or major revisions could jeopardize the administration’s agenda and stall vital reforms. – “You have to chip away at these things. Get the best you can, plan to come back again next year or come back this fall on the appropriations bills, but keep moving.”…

Slay News: Chief Justice John Roberts Backs Trump, And Pauses Discovery in the Anti-DOGE Lawsuit – The Trump admin had requested a temporary administrative stay, “which temporarily lifts a judge’s order allowing limited discovery into whether DOGE is an ‘agency.’” – The key issue is that if DOGE is found to be an official agency, then it, like every other agency, would be subject to complying with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

America First Report: Cuba Is Now a Strategic Battleground for China Against the US – Ryan Berg, director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in his congressional testimony on May 6 that Cuba is a “strategic battleground” with China. – Twenty sensitive U.S. government facilities in Florida are in range of the expanding Chinese Cyber and Signals Intelligence Collection network in Cuba.

Daily Wire: A Bombshell Report Says the British Government Knowingly Funds Hamas With Millions – “At the same time that Britain is knowingly sending millions of pounds to Hamas, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is busy condemning Israel for the war in Gaza.” – Since taking control of Gaza in 2007, Hamas has employed a number of methods to divert international aid…

American Thinker: The Real Takeaway from Trump’s Middle East Trip – Trump didn’t travel all that way for photo ops. But here’s the greatness that most analysts have missed. – He used his speeches on this trip to lay out his vision that the nations of the Middle East could join with the U.S. to bring both peace and prosperity to the region. – Trump made clear that he is on a path to peace that is very different from those of his predecessors, of both parties…

American Thinker: To the media’s horror, Trump delivered a pro-American, pro-military, pro-norms speech at West Point. – His speech marked a significant departure from Joe Biden’s 2024 address, which emphasized how the military exists to serve other nations. – Trump, “The job of the US Armed Forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, or to spread democracy at the point of a gun.” – “The military’s job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America ANYWHERE, ANY TIME, and ANY PLACE.”

American Thinker: The Western Media’s Role in Genocide, Assassinations, and the Near Destruction of the U.S. – The mainstream press here and abroad is guided by anti-truth, antisemitic, anti-white, and anti-Western civilization animus. – Here are some prime examples: Like Sergeant Schultz, The Press Saw Nothing and Knew Nothing – The Press’ Lies Create a “Permission Structure” to Target Jews Everywhere…

Geller Report: A British Man Was Arrested for Saying to Jihadis in London: “God Bless Israel, and God bless the Jewish People!” – Islam has taken over the UK. – The UK is finished. – There is little left of merry old England. It is becoming a de facto Islamic state living under Sharia law.

May 24, 2025

America First Report: U.S. Companies Rush to Reshore Manufacturing as Trump Tariffs Reshape Global Trade – A record 90 percent of U.S. firms plan to relocate manufacturing domestically or switch to American suppliers due to Trump’s aggressive tariffs – The tariffs are achieving their goal of reviving U.S. manufacturing, with firms in critical sectors (e.g., electronics, pharmaceuticals) expanding domestic operations. However, labor shortages and supply chain bottlenecks remain hurdles…

One America News: The DOJ has sued Newark and three other New Jersey cities, accusing them of violating federal law by refusing to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). – The suit filed on Friday targeted policies that block federal agents from getting information on someone’s immigration status. – Officials say these policies undermine national security and protect criminals from deportation.

Epoch Times: Here Are the Countries That Have Reached, or Are Considering, Deportation Deals With the US – Several nations have started accepting third-country deportees from the United States, while some others are mulling an agreement. – Mexico – Guatemala – El Salvador – Honduras – Venezuela – Panama – Costa Rica – India – Rwanda…

Washington Examiner: Nancy Pelosi thinks Rahm Emanuel will run for president in 2028 – In an interview with the Free Press on Friday that largely focused on Emanuel and his political future, Pelosi was asked whether she thought he would run in 2028 as the Democratic Party looks to bounce back from a disastrous 2024. – “I think so,” Pelosi said. – Emanuel, while easing the speculation of a presidential run in the interview, also signaled that he’s not leaving politics anytime soon…

Daily Wire: The Teen Charged With Killing Austin Metcalf To Be Tried As An Adult – Karmelo Anthony will likely face life in prison with a chance at parole in 40 years. – Last month, Metcalf was stabbed to death at a high school track meet after reportedly telling Karmelo Anthony, 17, that he was sitting in the wrong seat. – Anthony has been charged with first-degree murder and, according to an arrest warrant, told police of the fatal stabbing, “I did it.”

Washington Free Beacon: Here’s the Full List of Everyone Arrested for Storming the Columbia University Library – They might not be nepo babies or phallus-obsessed poets, but they still joined a violent mob that injured two security officers and distributed pro-Hamas pamphlets. – Below are the names of the individuals arrested on May 7. All but one was charged with criminal trespassing for storming the Columbia library, while the outlier, Hamza Mankor, was accused of misconduct and threatening behavior…

Just The News: House version of Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ creates a federal tax on EV and hybrid vehicles – The annual national registration fee would be $250 for electric cars and $150 for hybrids. – The fee will increase over time in line with inflation. – Currently, by avoiding a gas tax, sales of those cars reduce the amount of money that funds interstate highways, bridges, and other infrastructure.

Powerline: The Week In Pictures: Forget It, Jake, It’s The Washington Edition – Life imitated art this week, as Jake Tapper dug deep into the abject history of the Biden administration to find that the villain who deceived the American public about Joe Biden was…Jake Tapper.

Zero Hedge: If you go to the Vancouver International Auto Show, you can see all the new models, except for Tesla’s. – The organizers are just the latest group to join the mob retaliating against Elon Musk for working with the Trump Administration to remove waste and fraud in government through his DOGE program. – What was most striking was the pathetic rationalization of the organization for engaging in political retaliation, security issues…

May 23, 2025

Zero Hedge: Closer To Peace? Watch Russian Ballistic Missile Destroy US Patriot System In Ukraine – Russia’s defense ministry has published battlefield footage which purports to show a Russian Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system destroying a US-supplied Patriot air defense system operated by the Ukrainian military. – The video shows the strike on a position in the Dnepropetrovsk region, which it says destroyed a multifunctional AN/MPQ-65 radar, a control unit, as well as two Patriot launchers.

One America News: ICE’s new strategy is to arrest illegal aliens as they leave mandatory immigration court hearings – ICE officers are first targeting individuals who have been living in the United States illegally for less than two years. – Prior to Trump taking office, the expedited removal process for illegal aliens was only utilized for individuals within 100 miles of the international border, and for those who had been residing in the United States illegally for less than two weeks…

Zero Hedge: Visa Overstays Make Up Almost 40% Of Recent Illegal US Entries – While an estimated 860,000 new undocumented arrivals were created due to illegal border crossings that year, more than 510,000 people overstayed their visas. – The prevalence of the different modes of illegal immigration has been changing in the last two decades…

Daily Wire: Trump Says U.S. Steel Will Remain In Pittsburgh Via A Partnership With Nippon Steel – “For many years, the name ‘United States Steel’ was synonymous with Greatness, and now, it will be again.” – The partnership comes after Trump ordered a review of the possible sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel in April. – Now, the two companies will form a “planned partnership” that will result in 70,000 jobs, according to the president…

One America News: On Thursday, the Supreme Court granted a request from the Trump administration that permits the president to dismiss any members of independent federal agencies that he chooses. – However, its ruling does not extend to the Federal Reserve. – This decision reinforces a temporary order enabling President Donald Trump to remove Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board and Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board, both appointed by former President Joe Biden.

One America News: President Donald Trump’s recently passed “One Big Beautiful Bill” bans Medicaid from covering “gender-affirming care” for both minors and adults who struggle with gender dysphoria. – Gender dysphoria is a psychological disorder where a person experiences significant distress or discomfort since their gender “identity” (what they feel “inside,” in relation to being male or female) doesn’t align with their biological sex.

Epoch Times: The Supreme Court on May 23 temporarily blocked lower court orders requiring the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to respond to freedom of information requests in a pending lawsuit. – Chief Justice John Roberts issued what’s called an administrative stay that puts lower court orders on hold while the justices consider how to handle the case. Roberts did not provide reasons for his decision.

Breitbart: Trump’s 50% Tariff Threat Might Be the Kick Europe Needs – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that Europe has a “collective action” problem standing in the way of effective trade negotiations with the United States. – The European Union is a confederation of 27 sovereign nations, each with economic interests and domestic politics of its own. – Negotiating trade deals on behalf of all of them is like steering a canoe with 27 paddles, each pulling in a different direction…

Newsmax: In an effort to crack down on media leaks, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a new series of restrictions on Friday that ban reporters from large areas of the Pentagon without an escort. – Journalists are now permitted to be unaccompanied only in the Pentagon’s main entrances and food court. – Reporters are banned from using the Pentagon’s gym and must sign a form to that they will protect sensitive information…

The Federalist: U.S. Universities Have Blood On Their Hands In Latest Violence Against Jews – The training grounds of hatred and radicalism are U.S. college campuses, as we have seen time and time again in recent years. – One need only look to the death cult of the far left, spreading antisemitism messages across U.S. college campuses. – “These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW!”…

American Spectator: Gavin Newsom Cannot Escape His Embarrassing Legacy on Homelessness, Blaming Everyone But Himself – Newsom would very much like to be president, but Newsom’s presidential ambitions are burdened by the sorry state in which his leadership has left California. – The cost of living is sky high, crime is out of control, the middle class is disappearing, and his constituents are voting with their feet…

American Thinker: Can Harvard Overcome Its Dark History of Antisemitism? – The events of October 18, 2023, when Harvard students shocked the country by celebrating the Hamas massacre of 1,400 Jews the week before, were only the latest in a string of anti-Jewish acts. – Antisemitism first became sewn into the fabric of Harvard through its communist-leaning faculty…

American Spectator: 5 Years On, What the Media Need to Admit About George Floyd – Be prepared for the twisting of the facts by the legacy media. – Saturday, May 25, marks the fifth anniversary of Floyd’s death. The legacy media will likely take the lead in reviving this story and shaping its narrative. – Some food for thought. – Floyd Was Not “Murdered.” – The Initial Autopsy Report Cleared the Officers. – Floyd Did Not Die of a Drug Overdose – Three Key State Witnesses Likely Committed Perjury at Trial…

Slay News: Disney CEO Bob Iger Demands ABC ‘Tone Down’ The Hyper-Political Rhetoric on ‘The View’ – All six of the co-hosts are outspoken critics of President Donald Trump and unashamedly stump for Democrats. – Their observations are so slanted that the show can only be described as propaganda. – Ultimately, the women found the requests ‘silly’ and ‘they were just going to keep doing their thing…

Breitbart: An exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine from their 3-year-old war was underway Friday, but was not yet finished, according to an official. – Ukraine and Russia agreed to the exchange of 1,000 prisoners from each side a week ago in Turkey in their first direct peace talks since the early weeks of Moscow´s 2022 invasion of its neighbor. That meeting lasted only two hours and brought no breakthrough in international diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting.

Epoch Times: President Trump Says 50 Percent Tariff Will Be Imposed on European Union on June 1st – Trump, “The European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of taking advantage of the United States on TRADE, has been very difficult to deal with and our discussions with them are going nowhere.”

Western Journal: Canada Caved and Begged Trump for Peace, And Somehow the Entire World Missed It – The economic advisory firm Oxford Economics calculated last week that the new Canadian government under Prime Minister Mark Carney has quietly adopted a conciliatory approach in the wake of Trump’s aggressive tariff policies, resulting in a minuscule tariff increase of “nearly zero” on most U.S. products entering Canada…

Zero Hedge: President Trump signed a series of EOs designed to fast-track the development and deployment of advanced nuclear reactors on Friday. – These orders aim to strip away what the administration describes as decades of regulatory overreach that have stifled innovation and stagnated the industry. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said, “America’s greatness has always come from innovation.” – “We led post-World War Two in all things nuclear, but since then we’ve been stagnating…

Slay News: The U.S. House and Senate have launched a joint investigation after evidence emerged that federal workers have blown a staggering $40 billion in taxpayer funds using government-issued credit cards. – The shocking discovery was made after a DoD audit revealed billions in unmonitored credit card transactions, some of which were made at casinos, nightclubs, cruise lines, and other high-risk vendors.

Just The News: The tit-for-tat battle the news media has waged against President Donald Trump over his administration’s South African refugee policy is masking a harsh reality: that the country’s farmers do, in fact, face a crisis of violence. – Even Biden-era government reports and genocide watch groups have raised flags, mostly being ignored until now. – The only question is whether race or greed is the motivating factor behind the crimes.

Zero Hedge: US New Home Sales Surged In April Despite Slump In Homebuilder Confidence – The 10.9% MoM surge in sales in April (versus a 4.0% MoM expected decline) was bolstered by a big downward revision in March from +7.4% MoM to just +2.6%. – This month, 34% of builders reported cutting prices, the largest share since December 2023, according to recent data from the National Association of Home Builders. – The surge in new home sales comes as mortgage rates tumbled…

Time Magazine: Obama Appointed U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs Blocks Trump Administration From Barring International Student Enrollment at Harvard – The lawsuit came less than 24 hours after the Department of Homeland Security announced that the Administration had revoked the university’s certification to enroll international students. – Burroughs’ Ruling doesn’t resolve the matter, but allows the university to continue enrolling foreign students for now…

Washington Examiner: Senate Republicans are vowing a major rewrite of President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” despite House leadership’s pleas not to undo the carefully crafted bill. – House and Senate leaders are broadly aligned on the tax bill and have been meeting regularly to avoid points of conflict. But Senate Republicans made clear the compromise, a product of frenzied last-minute negotiations, must be negotiated again after it passed the House by a single vote on Thursday.

America First Report: Doug Burgum Warns Whoever Wins The AI Race ‘Controls the World’ – Burgum, “Trust me, you do not want to be getting your data from a Chinese data center, whoever controls the manufacture of intelligence is going to control the world. The next five years are going to determine the next 50.” – This is the goal of the White House, including Vice President JD Vance, who once warned that falling behind on this front could mean that the U.S. meets China “on the battlefield of the future.”…

John Solomon: The Trump Team Boasts $600M War Chest For Midterms – The largesse is expected to be directed toward key U.S. House and Senate races where control of the majority hinges on just a handful of seats. – Sources say he has calendared an aggressive number of fundraising events as he works toward an eventual goal of $1 billion before Election Day.

Brownstone Institute: Our First Reactions to the MAHA Report – The first report from the Make America Healthy Again Commission is out, with a particular focus on children’s health. – The report is a shock, a painful read, a five-alarm fire, and the charts alone are astonishing. It is embedded below for your enlightenment. – While the focus is on children, the data pertain to the entire population…

Western Journal: Biden Running With Cancer And Obvious Dementia – Daily Wire Host Matt Walsh has a dark theory about the Democrats’ strategy during the 2024 election cycle – Matt Walsh, “It Was All Tied to Kamala Harris the Whole Time.” – “Their plan to engineer the first female president was to push through a cancer-riddled dementia patient, get him re-elected by whatever means necessary, let him die, and then have her take over.”

Wall Street Journal: Harvard Fights Back Against Trump Administration’s Blocking of International Students – The Ivy League school is seeking a temporary restraining order to stop the government’s latest move. – The Ivy League school has been locked in a battle with the Trump administration since March, when the government said it was reviewing nearly $9 billion in federal funding over antisemitism concerns…

American Thinker: Leftists blatantly lied about Biden’s decline, so why should we trust them ever again? – The bottom line, it was more important for them that they keep a death grip on power. – The nation’s socialist media spent only a few minutes on a scandal that is right in their bailiwick, because if they hadn’t carried the water for the left in covering up the obvious Biden decline, the entire edifice would have fallen apart, as it should have…

American Thinker: Regarding Biden’s Prostate Cancer, Things Just Don’t Add Up – What did they know, when did they know it, and who was running America? – The timing of the announcement is intriguing, but the outlook for Biden is bleak. – The bigger question is: who ran the country, made crucial decisions, signed bills into law, issued executive orders, and granted presidential pardons? Who operated the infamous “autopen”?…

American Thinker: From Blackouts to Breakouts, Trump’s Energy Revolution Begins – The American energy sector, which had once been the envy of the world, was left throttled by bureaucracy, sabotaged by ideology, and entangled in a geopolitical trap of our own making. – After four years of energy chaos, President Trump is rebuilding America’s strength by unleashing domestic production and reversing Biden’s global strategic blunders.

Breitbart: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and other federal and state law enforcement agencies arrested 275 illegal aliens during a recently ended seven-day operation. – At least 178 of the illegal aliens had criminal records, officials stated.

John Solomon: ActBlue Officials Decline To Testify. – Congress threatens subpoenas in foreign donations probe – The witnesses initially agreed to voluntary interviews but pulled back after President Trump signed an OFFICIAL order instructing the DOJ to probe ActBlue. – The Committees are examining allegations that ActBlue, a leading political fundraising organization, allowed bad actors, including foreign actors, to exploit the company’s online platform to make fraudulent political donations.”…

May 22, 2025

Gateway Pundit: The Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire Labor Board Members in 6-3 Decision – “Because the Constitution vests the executive power in the President, see Art. II, §1, cl. 1, he may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf, subject to narrow exceptions recognized by our precedents, see Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U. S.197, 215−218 (2020),” the Supreme Court’s decision said…

Epoch Times: What’s in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’? – The tax cuts included in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will be permanently extended. – The SALT deduction was raised to $40,000 for people making less than $500,000 per year, starting in 2025. – Increased taxes on the large, mostly tax-free endowments held by many major educational institutions across the US. – Significant—and controversial—changes to Medicaid policies and funding. – It increases the share that states pay of the SALT program…

Gateway Pundit: Harmeet Dhillon Told Tucker Carlson That DOJ Employees Held ‘Crying Sessions’ When She Took Over The Civil Rights Division – When she made it clear that they were going to adjust the division to align with the Trump presidency, hundreds of lawyers quit. – What Dhillon describes here speaks volumes about the kind of people who have been embedded in our government for years…

Gateway Pundit: New Video Shows Milwaukee County Judge Hanna Dugan Angrily Confronting ICE Agents in Courthouse – Earlier this month, a federal grand jury indicted Milwaukee County judge Hannah Dugan for helping an illegal alien evade ICE agents. – Dugan is facing up to six years in prison and $350,000 in fines. – WISN obtained the footage through an open records request.

Daily Caller: The Department of Veterans Affairs is making record-breaking progress in processing a backlog of veteran disability claims that mounted under former President Joe Biden. – The VA brought unresolved claims down from 264,717 to 198,378, or by approximately 25%, since President Donald Trump returned to office.

U.S. Northern Command: Approximately 1,115 additional service members were approved to deploy to the Southern Border to provide enhanced sustainment, engineering, medical, and operational capabilities as part of the Department of Defense’s continued whole-of-government approach to gain full operational control of the southern border.

Gateway Pundit: Karoline Leavitt Uses a Surprising News Source to Bury an NBC ‘Reporter’ After The Media Hack Accuses Trump of Lying About the Genocide of White Farmers in South Africa – During the meeting, Trump played a compilation of Africans calling for the genocide of White Afrikaners after Ramaphosa told reporters that President Trump is wrong about the genocide and needs to “listen” to South Africans. – Here is the video…

Wall Street Journal: Columbia University violated federal civil-rights law by ignoring the harassment of Jewish students by classmates, a government investigation found. – The school acted with “deliberate indifference towards student-on-student harassment of Jewish students” since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Department of Health and Human Services’ civil-rights office said Thursday.

Fox News: President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” passed the House of Representatives early on Thursday. – It is a significant victory for Speaker Mike Johnson, who navigated deep inter-party friction within the House GOP Conference. – The bill passed 215 to 214 with Republicans Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson voting against it.

Zero Hedge: 90% of U.S. companies say they expect to bring some or all of their production or sourcing back home in response to new tariffs imposed under President Donald Trump’s trade policy, according to the latest Allianz Trade Global Survey. – More than 75% of companies pointed to supply chain structure as a key threat to offshore production, suggesting that firms see clear benefits to simpler, domestic supply chains in the face of Trump’s trade policies.

Newsmax: Representative James Comer’s Biden ‘Cover-Up’ Probe Seeks Interviews of 5, Including His Doctor – “The cover-up of President Biden’s obvious mental decline is a historic scandal…” – “Five people were running the country, and Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board,” according to one person familiar with the inner workings of the Biden White House, quoted in the book “Original Sin,” and includes…

Gatestone Institute: Do Not Be Fooled by Iran: Ultimately, It Wants To Destroy America, Israel Is Just in the Way – It is time for the Trump administration and other Westerners to see that the Palestinians and the Iranian regime do not want Israel or America in the Middle East, period, and are prepared to do anything to achieve this goal, including with nuclear weapons. – In many respects, Hamas has always been more forthright and honest about its goals regarding Israel than its rivals in the Palestinian Authority…

Powerline: Ambassador Ron Prosor, Yaron, and Sarah, working together at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., were murdered in a terrorist attack outside the Jewish Museum. – [These innocents] were a young couple with a bright future, planning their life together. – Will Sussman precisely conveys my thoughts on this tragedy: This didn’t happen in a vacuum. It’s the inevitable result of more than a year of anti-Israel and antisemitic hatred that has been tolerated and even encouraged in our institutions…

Gateway Pundit: A Suspect Has Been Apprehended In The Murder Of The Two Israeli Embassy Staff Gunned Down Outside Jewish Museum in DC – 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago shouted “Free, free Palestine!” as he was taken into custody, according to law enforcement. – He allegedly paced outside the Capital Jewish Museum and waited for the targets to exit. – The two were a couple who were set to be engaged the following week, according to the embassy.

New York Post: What we know about Elias Rodriguez – He has ties to a radical left-wing group that spearheaded Black Lives Matter protests and fiercely advocates on behalf of Palestinians. – Rodriguez was once linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a far-left group that regularly posts anti-Israel rhetoric on social media. – “End the genocide, Israel out of Gaza now,” the group posted hours before the DC shooting.

CNBC: Biden appointed U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate more than 1,300 U.S. Department of Education employees. – In the injunction on Thursday, the judge said the staff cuts led to the closure of seven out of 12 offices tasked with the enforcement of civil rights, including protecting students from discrimination on the basis of race and disability…

Epoch Times: The Department of Homeland Security has revoked certification of Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Thursday. – The decision prohibits Harvard from enrolling international students. – Noem, “This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.”

Epoch Times: Airline CEOs Warn Congress Our Air Traffic Control System Is ’Failing’ Americans. – The CEOs of 10 airlines wrote an open letter to members of Congress on Wednesday, asking them to take “bold action” and rebuild an aging air traffic control system that is “failing Americans” and causing airlines to reduce flights. – The current setup uses technology and equipment from the 80s, including floppy disks and corroded copper wiring, the executives said...

Townhall: Scott Jennings’s Truth Bomb About Trump Sending ‘Heinous’ Criminals to South Sudan – “Sex offenders, homicide, kidnapping, murder in the first degree, battery, larceny, cocaine possession, murder, robbery, DUI, child sex abuse, and sex assault on someone with a mental illness,” Jennings said, reading from the list of offenses for which these individuals were convicted. – “The Sudan is too good for these people. – I’m not sure any other country would take them.”

American Thinker: Unmasking the Real Threat to America’s Democracy – Democracy cannot function without informed citizens. – And citizens cannot be informed when they are being systematically lied to. – For example: The Concealment of President Biden’s Cognitive Decline – COVID-19, From “Conspiracy” to Consensus – Border Security, Denial Amid Crisis – The Russia Investigation and Intelligence Abuses – Media Collusion and Information Control – Government Institutions as Political Weapons…

Breitbart: 60 Illegal Aliens Have Been Convicted for Illegally Entering Trump’s National Defense Area in Texas – The designated area stretches along the U.S.-Mexico border from New Mexico through El Paso County to Fort Hancock, Texas. President Trump directed the designation of the border zone, saying the move was necessary to “maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States.”…

American Thinker: RIP Jake – It’s hard to feel anything but contempt for Jake Tapper. – How do you go from being a cheerleader for Trump Derangement Syndrome to suddenly saying that the White House was lying to him about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline? – To paraphrase Megan Kelly in her interview, one of us missed the story of the century, and another didn’t. – It’s hard to see how Jake Tapper’s credibility recovers from this interview and in general…

Western Journal: Representative McIver’s Got Bigger Problems Than Criminals Charges, A Resolution for Her Expulsion from the House Just Hit – Expulsion requires a two-thirds vote, something that might be tricky given the fact that Democrats might be inclined to back up their own and the Republicans only have a slim majority in the House.

Victor Davis Hanson: Are Some Racist Slurs Okay? – Racism doesn’t become justice when roles reverse—bigotry dressed as victimhood still poisons the well of a multiracial democracy. – One reason why the public turned on DEI was its insistence that roughly 70 percent of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin color. – In contrast, the other “diverse” 30 percent were de facto considered the victimized. – This brings us to the recent situation with WNBA stars Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark…

American Thinker: A Look at the New Surgeon General – Trained as a head and neck surgeon, Casey Means abandoned her career in surgery to become a prominent “wellness” influencer. – Like RFK Jr., Means promotes preventive and alternative medicine that might result in fewer surgeries and other invasive treatments. – No wonder her nomination has been attacked by professional groups associated with surgeons and other members of the medical establishment…

Zero Hedge: Solar Stocks Plunge After House GOP Budget Passes, Revealing It Is “Worse Than Feared” For Clean Energy – The bill terminates the 48E investment and 45Y production tax credits for non-nuclear clean energy projects placed in service after 2028, with no phaseout period. – Projects must begin construction within 60 days of the bill’s enactment, likely later this year, to be eligible for the credits…

Cal Matters: The U.S. Senate voted today to block California’s landmark mandate phasing out gas-powered cars, dealing a substantial blow to the state’s aggressive transition to electric vehicles. – Republicans in the Senate and some Democrats in the House who voted in favor of blocking California’s electric car mandate, along with two rules cleaning up diesel trucks, said they’re costly and impractical, and prevent consumers and businesses from making their own choices.

Slay News: RFK Jr’s New MAHA Report Raises Serious Concerns for Children’s Health – The highly anticipated Make America Healthy Again report blames the spike in childhood health issues on a host of variables. – In particular, the report targets foods with added chemicals and an increase in the prescribing of pharmaceuticals to young kids. – RFK Jr. added that the “prescription” for the ongoing issues will be released in 100 days at the end of August in the form of policy recommendations for the federal government…

Daily Wire: Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn introduced legislation that would prevent certain migrants from entering the United States in a bid to crack down on what she calls a “multi-million dollar industry” built on birth tourism. – Blackburn’s bill, called “the Ban Birth Tourism Act, would modify existing immigration law to make those intending to come to the United States for the purpose of having a child in America ineligible for entry.

Daily Wire: Why Modern Physics Points To God – That the universe is fine-tuned implies a Fine-Tuner was the creator. – The deeper scientists dig into the universe’s fundamental laws, the more they encounter a startling truth: the universe appears to be fine-tuned, not vaguely-tuned, but astonishingly, exquisitely, fine-tuned. – Scientists now realize that if some of these constants were even slightly different, the universe would be completely chaotic, lacking all complexity and structure…

Wall Street Journal: The Treasury Department Sounds The Death Knell for Penny Production – One-cent coins are expected to stop entering circulation early next year. Businesses will need to round prices up or down. – President Trump has been critical of the penny, as was President Barack Obama. Trump, in a social-media post in February, asked the Treasury to halt penny production. Since then, bills to stop its production have been introduced in both chambers of Congress…

California Globe: California Government Is Driving Gas Prices Through the Roof – California’s gas prices, the highest in the nation at $4.82 per gallon as of May 2025, are a direct result of the state’s policies, not corporate greed. – The state’s own Attorney General found no evidence of widespread price gouging, confirming that California’s policies, not corporate profits, are the culprit.

California Globe: State Farm Insurance announced this week that they will be pursuing an additional 11% insurance rate increase, only a week following an emergency 17% rate increase for the company being approved by the California Department of Insurance. – The 11% increase requested this week by State Farm goes around the emergency hike and, if approved, would lead to a total increase by January 2026 to 28% – close to the original 30% increase sought in 2024…

California Globe: California Has Egg on Its Face – California’s supply of egg-laying hens has shrunk by 65%, an amount equal to 13 million birds. – Egg prices in California have gone through the roof, reaching over $10 per dozen earlier this year. – And while bird flu is a major factor, a lesser-known factor is years of California regulations, driven by animal rights activists, that have increased costs for consumers and harmed egg farmers locally and nationally…

May 21, 2025

One America News: The Senate approves bill allowing $25K tax break for tipped workers in a unanimous vote – The tax break would be restricted to employees who earn $160,000 or less per year and is also limited to cash tips received by occupations that are customarily tipped – The next step is approval by the House of Representatives before it is signed into law.

California Globe: A New Full-Page Ad Slams Los Angeles $30 Wage, Saying The City Is ‘Ruining a Golden Opportunity’ – In a 12-3 vote last week, the Los Angeles City Council approved a minimum wage hike for airport and hotel workers, with the goal of reaching $30 an hour by 2028 – in time for the Los Angeles hosted Olympics. – $30 min wage will result in higher hotel rates, reduced hours for hotel workers, and job losses in restaurants, retail, attractions, and struggling commercial corridors…

Gatestone Institute: Iran Isn’t Building a Civilian Nuclear Program – Obama fans and some figures in the current administration insist on pretending that a deal can be made to keep Iran’s nuclear program peaceful. – The Trump administration can… maintain sanctions, it can take out the program, or it can do absolutely nothing. But it should be clear-eyed about what Iran’s nuclear program is and what it’s for. Deals with terrorists and terror states are worthless.

Washington Free Beacon: The Highly Enriched Uranium Stand-Off Could Scuttle The New Iran Deal – Iranian negotiator Ali Shamkhani announced a proposal in which Tehran would export its highly enriched uranium. – Nonproliferation experts and former Trump administration officials say this proposal is a farce. – White House envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday, after weeks of mixed messages, that no future accord can allow Iran the right to enrich uranium. – “We cannot allow even 1 percent of an enrichment capability.”

Washington Examiner: Let Israel Finish The Job – The Israeli military discovered the recorded minutes of a high-level Hamas meeting. – According to the document, Hamas leaders ordered the attacks in southern Israel and killed over 1,200 civilians to torpedo peace negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. – The discovery was inconvenient for the throngs of anti-Israel actors worldwide last spring who argued the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks were acts of legitimate resistance against an oppressive force.

Zero Hedge: For those who were anticipating a Vance-Zelensky shit show redux at today’s meeting between President Trump and South African President Ramaphosa, they were NOT disappointed. – As the topic of white genocide came up, Ramaphosa was quick to dispel the ‘conspiracy’; but Trump very quickly told his aides to ‘roll the Kill The Boers tape’, showing videos of black leaders in South Africa calling for the murder of whites…

Zero Hedge: A Russian Strike On A Ukrainian Training Ground Results In Mass Casualties – Despite ongoing US-backed efforts to get Russians and Ukrainians to the negotiating table again, days after last week’s Istanbul talks, both warring sides have on Wednesday ramped up tit-for-tat assaults on each other’s territory. – Ukrainian drones have once again threatened the Moscow region, leading to the capital’s four airports temporarily suspending nearly all flights for a period on Wednesday…

Zero Hedge: Bernie Sanders Said The ‘Quiet Part Out Loud’ In A Brutal Backstab Of Democratic Party – He said the Democratic establishment sold out decades ago, trading working-class voters for wealthy donors and out-of-touch consultants. – “The 70s, 60s, Democrats caught on that you could raise a lot of money from wealthy people.” – He recalled how Kamala’s “bloody consultants” told her to campaign on: “Hey, everything’s good, we’re going to keep doing the same thing.”…

Wall Street Journal: The Pentagon Says It Has Taken Possession of the 747 From Qatar – The decision to accept the donated commercial aircraft, which President Trump said will eventually serve as Air Force One, resulted in security and ethics questions from Democrats. – The Air Force said it was preparing to modify the aircraft but wouldn’t provide further details about the plane, citing that information related to the aircraft was classified…

Zero Hedge: President Trump said Monday that he was relentlessly determined to regain the Presidency after the “rigged” 2020 election. – Trump made the remarks during a Kennedy Center Board dinner in the White House’s State Dining Room on Monday. – “They rigged the election,” the president said, adding, “And then I said, you know what I’ll do? I’ll run again, and I’ll shove it up their ass.”…

Epoch Times: President Trump Unveils $175 Billion Plan for ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense System – In his first week in office, Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Defense to devise a plan to implement his missile defense proposal. – The president said the new ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense network should be operational before the end of his term.

Epoch Times: Biden Appointed U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy Orders The Trump Admin to Maintain Custody of Illegal Immigrants Being Deported to South Sudan – Attorneys for deportees argue that the government failed to provide the illegal immigrants a ‘meaningful opportunity’ to raise any fears they may have about removal to a country of which they are not citizens. – Murphy also ordered DHS to identify those already deported to South Sudan and to address when and how the removal notice was given to them

Washington Examiner: House Speaker Johnson to call Trump about the final language before the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ heads to the floor vote – A House Rules Committee hearing on the legislation has been ongoing since 1 a.m. Wednesday and lasted through the night. – The Rules Committee must advance the legislation through a vote following the hearing, and the final text, known as the “manager’s amendment,” must be released for it to move to the House floor for a full vote, possibly by Wednesday afternoon.

American Thinker: Dereliction Of Duty At The Highest Level – Biden’s cabinet surely witnessed what we all saw through what they insisted were our lying eyes – Biden was chief executive in name only. – Unelected others ran the country for four years, signing executive orders, legislation, and pardons with an autopen, flooding the country with illegal alien criminals, and prosecuting a proxy war in Ukraine against, and even inside, nuclear-armed Russia…

Washington Free Beacon: Vulnerable House Democrats Held Intimate Meetings With Biden in the White House. – Most Had Nothing To Say About Biden’s Fitness To Serve, Even After His Disastrous Debate. – White House visitor logs show that 10 House Democrats in competitive districts attended meetings with Biden alongside fewer than 50 other attendees…

The Federalist: Five of the most consequential decisions of the Biden presidency that have many Americans asking whether Biden was truly the one behind them – Appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson – The Extensive Pardons And Commutations – The Deadly Afghanistan Withdrawal -The Open Borders – The COVID Mandates…

Washington Examiner: What Republicans have found in their investigation of Biden’s autopen so far – At the center of the controversy are Republican claims that Biden lacked the cognitive ability to carry out key decisions and that unelected aides may have orchestrated policy behind the scenes. – Interviewing former Biden staffers will be the first move. – Researchers believe at least 32 clemency warrants were signed using an autopen. – Ed Martin’s support from the DOJ gives the GOP a boost…

American Thinker: The Left’s Racism on Full Display – South Africa is just further down the line to where leftist policies inevitably lead, and not all that much further down that line. – Apparently, these poor families were supposed to stay in South Africa so they could be brutally murdered or have their land taken for no other reason than their skin color. – Welcome to the Left’s sole idea of justice…

Daily Wire: A new memo from the U.S. Army asserts that transgender soldiers’ birth records will now only show their sex at birth. – “Commanders will take immediate measures to update personnel records and administrative systems to reflect biological sex for all individuals,” the memo declares, adding that pronoun use “must reflect their biological sex.”

American Thinker: Democrats and Their Young White Guy Dilemma – Adolescents are pulling the levers and pushing the buttons of the nation’s oldest political party. – White males with cojones, as in testosterone-charged alphas, like Trump, are branded as dangerous because they’re 1) males, 2) white, and 3) not pansies. – For some unfathomable reason, self-proclaimed liberated, strong females are intimidated by strong men; hence, the need to redefine manhood as pansy-hood…

American Thinker: Free Speech On Campus Or Not? – Leftist media throw a fit to defend free speech when it suits their interests, but the rest of the time, forget it. – Donald Trump is now valiantly trying to clean out these academic Augean stables. – I wonder how the governments of India, Syria, and South Korea, or any other, for that matter, would deal with an American student who enrolled in one of their universities and promoted protests against the policies of the government of the host country…

Daily Wire: The Federal Trade Commission Sets Its Sights On Transgender Procedures On Kids – “Under the Federal Trade Commission Act, the FTC is provided broad authority to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive trade acts and practices,” the memo reads. – “There is now considerable reason to believe that the doctors and medical providers pushing [gender-affirming care] on minors are knowingly deceiving parents by exaggerating [gender-affirming care’s] ‘benefits’ and downplaying its harmful side effects.”…

Daily Wire: The Biden administration was aware of the potentially deadly side effects associated with the COVID vaccines and chose not to alert the public about them – According to the report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, officials knew as early as February 2021 that the vaccines were associated with myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the thin sac surrounding the heart)…

I&I/TIPP Poll: A Majority Say Federal Judges Should Have Power To Block Presidential Actions – But the numbers shifted when they were asked, “Do you agree or disagree that federal judges should serve for a limited term rather than a lifetime appointment?” – Overall, 71% said they either agree “strongly” (41%) or “somewhat” (30%) their terms should be limited…

American Thinker: Illegals Are Driving Southern California’s Restaurants Out of Business – So much for the lefty narrative that illegals are afraid to go to work. – It’s the doing of public officials who refuse to enforce zoning and permit laws on street vendors, who are often undocumented immigrants, based on a belief that if they do, they will get deported. – As a result, the illegals, who can outcompete brick-and-mortar restaurants on price, are driving the latter out of business…

May 20, 2025

Breitbart: An InsiderAdvantage poll shows President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has surged to 55 percent approval while only 44 percent disapprove and a mere one percent remain undecided. – In a previous InsiderAdvantage survey (conducted with Trafalgar in April), Trump’s approval rating was just 46 percent, with his disapproval rating sitting at the same 44 percent…

Washington Free Beacon: Former White House Doctor Rep. Ronny Jackson Says Biden’s Cancer Prognosis Is Grim – ‘It Could Be 12 to 18 Months’ – “Every year I did an exam for President Obama, and every year that I did an exam for President Trump [during his first term,[I checked the [prostate-specific antigen],” he said. “We screened for prostate cancer. I think there’s a probability here that they knew [Biden] had prostate cancer some time ago and just didn’t tell the American people.”

Breitbart: Promises Made, Promises Kept As Memorial Day Is Set For The Lowest Gas Prices in Over 20 Years – This is not expected to be short-lived. Prices of gasoline are expected to average around $3.02 per gallon between Memorial Day and Labor Day, with prices falling below three dollars on some days…

Blaze: The Senate unanimously passed President Trump’s popular policy eliminating federal income taxes on tipped wages, fulfilling yet another campaign promise. – The No Tax on Tips Act passed with 100 votes in the Senate on Tuesday, with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada spearheading the legislation.

American Spectator: Trump’s Middle East Trip Flexes A New Grand Strategy – Finally, a 21st-century foreign policy grand strategy, one focused on regional security, stability, and prosperity. – Just think, in some 130 days, President Trump has not just engaged in nearly every theater, but busted through “conventional” thought, called bluffs, reframed realities, compelled friends to act more friendly, and reminded enemies that consequences are real…

American Spectator: The Southern Poverty Law Center Is the Real Hate Machine – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) once fought the good fight. They took on the Ku Klux Klan and sued them into oblivion. – What remains is not a civil rights watchdog but a well-financed paranoia machine — bloated, sanctimonious, and politically drunk on its self-righteousness. – Here’s the truth: the SPLC has quietly morphed into a branding agency. One that trades in enemies…

American Spectator: Governor Newsom Can’t Memory-Hole What He Did to California – He gave all illegal immigrants free health care, and it did not go well. – Newsom tried to deflect responsibility by repeatedly claiming that President Trump’s tariffs were to blame for California’s (structural and long-term) deficits. – Newsom isn’t just trying to deflect responsibility for the fiscal disaster he has inflicted on California through sheer irresponsibility; he is also trying to distort the kind of governor he has been.

Epoch Times: FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino confirmed Epstein ‘killed himself’ in a Manhattan jail in 2019. – Patel said that he was confident that Epstein killed himself, while also acknowledging that others may believe something suspicious actually happened to him at the New York detention facility in 2019. – “They have their right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender and been in that prison system…you know a suicide when you see one…

Daily Wire: Musk Says Say He Has Done Enough And Will Spend ‘A Lot Less’ On Future Political Campaigns – “If I see a reason to do political spending in the future, I will do it.” – Along with his major donations to the Republican effort last election cycle, Musk was also a major fixture on the campaign trail, appearing multiple times alongside Trump. – After Trump took office in January, Musk led the effort, alongside the DOGE project, to find waste and fraud within the federal government…

Newsmax: President Trump implored House Republicans at the Capitol to drop their fights over his big tax cuts bill and get it done, using encouraging words but also the hardened language of politics over the multi-trillion-dollar package before planned votes this week. – During the more than hour-long session on Tuesday, Trump warned Republicans not to touch Medicaid with cuts, and he told New York lawmakers to end their fight for a bigger local deduction…

Townhall: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries demands that everyone stop talking about one of the biggest political scandals of the century: President Joe Biden’s mental decline. – He says it’s insensitive given Biden’s latest cancer diagnosis, a fresh scandal that was also covered up. – Jeffries clearly doesn’t know what’s up. – Doubling down on the cover-up isn’t going to work, and in fact, it’s making things much worse…

Epoch Times: The leaders of Canada, Britain, and France warned Israel that they will take “concrete actions” if it does not pause a military offensive in Gaza and lift restrictions on humanitarian aid into the territory. – In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “The leaders in London, Ottawa, and Paris are offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7 while inviting more such atrocities.”…

Resist The Mainstream: The Federal Government Is Shelling Out $5M to the Family of Unarmed Trump Supporter Ashli Babbitt Who Was Killed on Jan. 6th – The settlement comes after years of intense controversy surrounding the circumstances of Babbitt’s death at the hands of Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd. – Babbitt posed absolutely no threat at the time, with her “hands up in the air, empty, and in plain view of Lt. Byrd and other officers in the lobby,” according to court documents filed in the lawsuit.

Deputy Director of the FBI Dan Bongino: Former FBI Director James Comey brought shame to the FBI badge, yet again, this past week. – The Director and I spend an inordinate amount of time cleaning up messes left behind by former Director Comey. – And his latest actions are no exception. – As I’ve stated in the past, I cannot post openly about all the things the Director and I are doing to reform the enterprise, but I assure you, they are happening…

Washington Free Beacon: How Jake Tapper’ Covered (Up) the Biden Cover-Up—Before Writing a Best-Selling Book About It – The famously thin-skilled CNN star hired a top PR guru to help him fend off allegations that he’s profiting from hypocrisy. – Unfortunately for Mr. Tapper, here are the receipts. – Defending Biden’s fitness in the 2020 election – Defending Biden’s fitness in the 2024 election – The June 2024 (pre-debate disaster) – July 2024 (post-debate disaster) – What’s missing from Original Sin…

Breitbart: An expert witness will tell Congress Tuesday that nearly a million and a half illegal aliens, who have been ordered deported, are “roaming free” in the US due to a lack of detention space. – Over 60% of ICE’s detained population is held under mandatory detention laws, individuals with criminal records, flight risks, or national security concerns. – These cases are not about politics; they are about public safety and the rule of law.

Zero Hedge: U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on May 19 blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from restructuring the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), replacing its leadership, and assuming control of its office building. – The matter began with a Feb. 19 Trump executive order declaring USIP “unnecessary,” and calling for the organization’s activities to “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”…

American Thinker: Universal Income Is Already Here – The primary purpose of the federal government is not defense, nor environmental protection, nor national parks, but the redistribution of income. – Let’s put aside Social Security and Medicare, which are, for the moment, largely funded by payroll taxes. – Medicaid, food stamps, federal housing subsidies, and almost 100 other means-tested programs added up to $1.6 trillion in 2023. – That’s twice as much as defense spending…

American Thinker: Race Fatigue in the US – Since Obama re-stoked racial resentment in America, black race hustlers have been working hard to stoke the rage. – Rep. Summer Lee recently claimed, “White supremacy is rampant in this country. – Rep. Ayanna Pressley, “The US owes us a debt; we need reparations now.” – And according to Rep. Jasmine Crockett, we right now have a white supremacist sitting in the White House. – This nation cannot survive if 41 million Americans who identify as black are coerced into pitting themselves against 250 million Americans who identify as white…

American Thinker: What if the shoe were on the other foot? – If the cancer diagnosis were Trump’s, the Left would be having a gloat-fest! – The likes of Stephen Colbert and Robert De Niro would be over the moon! Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and the other fishwives of The View would be in throes of ecstasy, like Meg Ryan’s performance at Katz’s Delicatessen in When Harry Met Sally, except that it would all be real, and without even a smidgen of embarrassment over expressing their extreme euphoria!…

Geller Report: The UN Refuses to Participate in Distributing Gaza Aid Because New System Prevents Hamas From Stealing It – Israel has agreed to allow food into Gaza before a newly-approved mechanism for aid deliveries is up and running later this month. – Jake Wood, the foundation’s executive director, said he did not yet know when or how many aid trucks Israel would allow into Gaza, but he called conditions there “clearly urgent” and said he expects “positive updates on that in the coming days.”…

Daily Fetched: A former Air Force aide to President Bill Clinton dropped major accusations against then-first lady Hillary Clinton, claiming she was so feared among staff that she earned the nickname “Nazi Schoolmarm” during the administration. – Patterson claimed that the overall mood in the presidential mansion was entirely dependent on Hillary’s presence or absence. – “When Hillary was gone, it was a frat party.” – “When she was home, it was Schindler’s List.” – “The Clintons are corrupt beyond words.”…

Western Journal: Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey will face criminal charges after being caught on video assaulting ICE officers while trying to storm an ICE detention facility earlier this month. – On Monday, Alina Habba, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, said she “charged Congresswoman McIver with violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1) for assaulting, impeding, and interfering with law enforcement.”

Daily Fetched: AOC Walked Out of A Town Hall After Bronx Woman Asked About Crime, and “She Never Came Back” – Guadelupe Alvarez, a resident in Ocasio-Cortez’s district, told Fox News that she was dismissed mid-question and never received a response. I said, “How are you aware of the crime and prostitution? Have you seen the neighborhood lately? She dismissed me.” – “She said she’d be right back and never came back and just handed the floor to her assistant, which was really infuriating.”

Daily Wire: ‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Says He Only Has Months To Live After Revealing He Has Metastasized Prostate Cancer – Diagnosis – “I realize that for some of you, this is hitting you kind of hard because you’re hearing it for the first time. – Weirdly, since it’s old news to me, I’ve just sort of processed it, so it just sort of is what it is.” – Adams did not spare his listeners of the effect that the cancer was having on him, describing it as “really painful – like really, really painful.”…

Slay News: Canada Moves to Begin Euthanizing Children Who Have Mental Health Issues Without Parental Consent – Expansion of the eugenics programs to “mature minors” was revealed in flyers distributed by the Canadian government. – The flyers explain that the government of PM Carney has recommended that citizens deemed “mature minors” must be allowed to qualify for euthanasia. – “A mature minor is a child or teen who is deemed capable of deciding to choose MAiD,” the paper states…

May 19, 2025

Breitbart: The ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ Holdouts Previously Lauded Bill’s Spending Cuts – Perhaps the major sticking point for holdouts is when some proposed spending cuts and reforms kick in. – Among the group’s concerns were “that many of the reforms in the legislation were postponed for years and would likely be eliminated in future legislation before taking effect. – Trump himself will visit the Capitol on Tuesday morning to meet with the House Republican Conference…

Daily Wire: On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Unveiled A Bill To Stop Trump From Turning Qatari’s Gifted Jet Into Air Force One – Named the “Presidential Airlift Security Act of 2025,” the bill would block the Department of Defense (DoD) from using funds allocated for fiscal years 2025 and 2026 to procure, modify, restore, or maintain aircraft previously owned by foreign governments or their representatives for presidential airlift purposes.

American Spectator: The Cancerous Lies of the Corporate Joe Biden – The actual Joe Biden has not existed, in any real public sense, for several years. – Instead, we have been presented, mostly a media and cultural fiction put on display to the public. – The actual Joe Biden would be a pitiable figure, especially given current events, one of them being that the actual Joe Biden is a dirty son of a bitch. – This is a career politician who enriched himself at the expense of the American people in countless ways…

American Thinker: The media all knew about Biden’s lack of mental acuity since at least 2020 – After years of intentionally covering up Joe Biden’s diminished mental capacity, the media and other Democrats are working hard to absolve themselves of responsibility for this massive fraud by pretending that the Biden administration somehow tricked them into not knowing. – Yet when Democrats are asked if they lied, they use a new talking point: they say we choose to look forward, not backward…

American Spectator: Gov. Newsom’s Saudi Shuffle – His smear campaign replaces facts and arguments. – California can ill afford the loss of one refinery, let alone two. – Multiple models indicate that the shutdown of the two California-based refineries could place the Golden State in a precarious economic situation. – The estimated average consumer price of regular gasoline could potentially increase by as much as 75% from the April 23, 2025, price of $4.816 to $7.348 to $8.435 a gallon by calendar year end 2026…

Daily Wire: The families of three Florida law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty last year were presented the first-ever “Medals of Sacrifice” by President Trump in the Oval Office on Monday. – Trump handed out the medals to the loved ones of Cpl. Luis Paez, Jr., Deputy Sheriff Ralph Butch Waller, Jr., and Deputy Sheriff Ignacio Dan Diaz, all former officers with the Palm Beach County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office…

Zero Hedge: Trump Sees An Imminent “End To The War” After His Two-Hour Call With Putin – “I believe it went very well. – “Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War.” – “The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of.” – “The tone and spirit of the conversation were excellent.” – “If it weren’t, I would say so now, rather than later.”

Daily Wire: Gazans Flood The Streets To Protest Hamas As Israeli IDF Operations Intensify – Gazans rally against Hamas as Israeli offensive expands and humanitarian aid returns under Trump’s plan. – Khalil Sayegh, a Gazan Christian activist, said that Gazans are “reclaiming their voices against media and corrupt ‘pro-Palestine’ NGOs, which have fostered a class of cowards too afraid to speak out against Hamas.”

Daily Wire: Iran Foreign Minister Taunts U.S., Saying, Deal Or No Deal, We Will Enrich Uranium – Uranium enrichment involves increasing the concentration of the Uranium-235 (U-235) isotope in uranium, from its normal 0.7% to 3.5% for use in nuclear reactors or going further, over 20%, at which point it can be used for nuclear weapons. – Because Iran has reduced its cooperation with the IAEA, it is no longer possible to precisely verify Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium…

The Free Press: The Joe Biden Cover-Up – For 2023 and most of 2024, an elaborate play was staged for the American people. – The production was brought to you by the Biden White House and some of the most powerful men and women in the country. – Anyone who still doubts that should listen to the audio from Biden’s October 2023 interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. – Cabinet members, governors, senators, and the legacy press dutifully played their parts. Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg put icing on the cake…

Daily Fetched: House Oversight Chairman James Comer, The Staffers Behind Biden’s Autopen Pardons Are Identified and Subpoenas Are Coming – What we found is not just with the pardons he issued, but many of the executive orders that the courts are now using to “Trump-proof” the government—orders that President Trump is trying to reverse to make government more efficient. Many of these executive orders, as well as the pardons, including those involving Biden’s entire family, were signed with the autopen as a result of our investigation.

Daily Signal: Doctors Throw Cold Water on Biden Statement That Doctors Only Found Metastatic Prostate Cancer Last Week – Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist who served in President Obama’s administration and joined the Biden administration as a COVID-19 advisor, “Oh yeah, he did not develop it in the last 100, 200 days.” – “He had it while he was president”. – “He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021.”

Western Journal: President Trump Makes First Public Comments on Biden’s Cancer, Proving He Is a Spectacular Class Act – “Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis.” – “We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.”

Wall Street Journal: The Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip Legal Status From Venezuelan Migrants – The decision sets aside a lower-court ruling that blocked the move, in a win for the president’s deportation efforts.

Western Journal: The GOP’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Passes Committee Vote After Mike Johnson Agrees to Changes Pushed by Conservatives – The bill will “will move Medicaid work requirements forward and reduces the availability of future subsidies under the green new scam.” – Chip Roy, “It gives us the opportunity to work together this week to get the job done in light of the fact our bond rating was dropped yet again due to historic fiscal mismanagement by both parties…

Breitbart: Constitutional Lawyer Mark Levin Says Amy Coney Barrett ‘Has It All Wrong’ – The Supreme Court never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are citizens of the US. – Show me a statute where Congress has passed that says that. – The Supreme Court has never said it. – The Constitution doesn’t say it. – Congress has never said it, and here we are. – Why? Because the bureaucracy decided to just treat it that way…

The Federalist: The SCOTUS Oral Argument In Nationwide Injunction Case Illustrates Courts’ Coup Against Trump – The lower courts are ignoring what should be the initial questions of standing, jurisdiction, and in some cases even the merits. – The two liberal justices have it entirely backwards: The legal question for the justices was not how do courts accomplish their goal of stopping Trump without nationwide injunctions, but rather, do courts have the authority to issue nationwide injunctions?

Daily Wire: President Trump Signed A Bill To Protect Young People From Sextortion And Revenge Porn – The “Take It Down Act” makes publishing non-consensual intimate imagery, real or AI-generated, a federal crime. It requires social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, X, and Facebook to remove content that features explicit images or videos of minors, known as “child sexual abuse material,” or CSAM, or “revenge porn,” within 48 hours of the content being flagged…

Zero Hedge: GM, one of the biggest sellers of EVs in the U.S., is encouraging employees to use scripted talking points to lobby Senators. – The goal is to nullify a 2022 California measure that would ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars and trucks by 2035, a mandate that 11 other states have since adopted. – “These emissions standards are not aligned with market realities and pose a serious threat to our business by undermining consumer choice and vehicle affordability.”

Daily Wire: CBS News President Wendy McMahon Quits Amid ’60 Minutes’ Legal Battle With Trump – “It’s become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward.” – McMahon will be replaced by Tom Cibrowski, who recently joined CBS News after working for ABC News for 30 years in multiple roles, and Jennifer Mitchell, who currently “oversees 27 CBS-owned stations and manages stations operations in 17 markets.”

Daily Wire: President Trump Calls For A ‘Major Investigation’ Into Kamala Over Her ‘Unlawful’ Paid-For Celebrity Endorsements – “This was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds.” – “Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment.”…

Victor Davis Hanson: The FBI Washington Headquarters Won’t Be Missed – The long-overdue shuttering of the FBI’s scandal-scarred Washington headquarters signals not just a change of address, but a necessary exile of the agency’s most politically corrupted core. – No prior FBI director had ever explained why nearly a third of the FBI workforce was centered in offices in Washington, DC, far from where most of the serious crime in America occurs. – And then there is all of this…

American Conservative: Rubio, the Trump Doctrine, and the State Department Reorganization – Secretary of State Rubio is taking serious steps to make the department work for the American people, not some new world order. – This explains Rubio’s gutting of a whole vertical stack of State Department offices on his revised organizational chart, whose names begin with the word “global.”

American Thinker: Will SCOTUS Succumb To Democrat Party Pressure? – Democrats wanting to throw a monkey wrench into Trump’s agenda have been able to “forum shop” by seeking out sympathetic district court judges most likely to block the president’s actions. – These rogue judges’ nationwide injunctions have effectively shut down the executive branch of the federal government. – It comes down to a question of a vague concept, due process, on the one hand, and the security of the nation on the other.

American Thinker: Make Prescription Drugs Affordable Again – President Trump’s solution has its risks, but could be very beneficial and has bipartisan support. – This isn’t a new idea. – Trump’s 2020 MFN rule for Medicare Part B drugs was blocked by courts for skipping proper steps and was canceled by Biden in 2021. The 2025 version is larger, covering Medicare, Medicaid, and possibly even private markets. – But why now, because polls indicate that 74% of Americans cannot afford their medications…

Slay News: The Coast Guard Debunks Chuck Schumer’s Claim That DOGE Caused Fatal Brooklyn Bridge Crash – The Coast Guard responded, saying the VTS was “fully functional during the incident and operating in accordance with established procedures to manage commercial traffic and facilitate safe navigation.” – New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the Mexican navy tall ship Cuauhtémoc “lost power and crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge.”…

Daily Wire: Florida’s Miami-Dade County Flips Red In Voter Registration For First Time In History – Massive growth in the percentage of GOP voters came during Biden’s presidency, marked by massive wins for Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump. – Florida’s Voice reported 464,370 Republicans and 440,790 Democrats are now registered to vote in Miami-Dade County…

Zero Hedge: The Department of Defense has directed commanders to identify service members with a history of gender dysphoria who have not come forward under a new policy that bans transgender troops. – President Trump has said that people who express a “false ‘gender identity’” cannot meet the standards for military service, and defense officials later promulgated a new policy that bars troops who have or are experiencing gender dysphoria from serving…

May 18, 2025

Wall Street Journal: Joe Biden Diagnosed With Metastatic Prostate Cancer With Metastasis To The Bone – “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive, which allows for effective management. – The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians…

Gateway Pundit: Kash Patel and Dan Bongino Reveal They’ve Uncovered a Tranche of Hidden Russiagate Documents that are to be Released Soon. – Patel, “I was the lead Russiagate investigator for the House Intelligence Committee.” – “I’m telling you and the American public that we have found material and information and people who wanted to hide it from the world since we got in these seats.”…

American Spectator: The Democrats Have Normalized Political Violence – Death threats, bomb threats, and swatting continue against President Trump and members of his Cabinet. – If the Democrats were at all sincere when they insist that violence has no place in America, they wouldn’t use so much graphic imagery. – The connection between such imagery and the assassination attempts was not lost on the voters, per an NBC poll: 54% agreed that “extreme political rhetoric used in the media and by political leaders was an important contributor to…

American Spectator: South Africa’s Refugees Expose the Left – These refugees are genuine victims fleeing racial violence and systemic persecution. – Yet their plight profoundly unsettles progressives, who instinctively dismiss the legitimacy of white victimhood. – The situation in South Africa is undeniably severe. In 2023 alone, AfriForum documented 296 farm attacks and 49 murders, including the brutal killing of farm manager Brendin Horner…

Western Journal: The FAA faces yet another setback in its ongoing staffing crisis. – The air traffic controllers’ union has undermined a critical hiring initiative. – Duffy’s plan grants waivers to experienced controllers, allowing them to transfer to understaffed facilities without losing seniority or benefits. – The union’s resistance adds a significant hurdle to Duffy’s plans. – Without the flexibility to reassign controllers, high-traffic airports may continue to suffer from understaffing.

American Spectator: Trump’s Energy Policies Are Transforming the Economy – Trump has instituted a regime of stable prices, surging output, rising manufacturing, and renewed energy independence. – While Democrats argue that his tariffs have contributed to higher consumer prices, their focus overlooks a more consequential economic driver: the Trump administration’s unrelenting campaign to expand domestic energy production and infrastructure…

American Spectator: The Left’s Collapsing House of Cards – The Left’s hold on power has been loosened and now depends almost solely on replacements from abroad, but Trump is on to them. – Leftists built a house of cards, one marked card at a time, and each a pretty lie, with Conservatives letting them get away with it. – The house of cards kept rising. – Then the liberals made one mistake, they added a blatantly twisted card, “Transgenderism.”…

California Globe: California’s Department of Insurance – The bloated and broken department has devastated the insurance market and driven the state to the edge of collapse. – This out-of-control bureaucracy has devastated the insurance market and driven the state to the edge of collapse. – What was once a department designed to foster fairness and oversight has morphed into a political weapon: slow-moving, expensive, and utterly disconnected from reality.

Resist The Mainstream: An indictment unsealed on May 13, 2025, marks the first in the U.S. to charge leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel with narco-terrorism and material support of terrorism. – The charges are related to the trafficking of large quantities of fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin into the U.S. – Pedro Inzunza Noriega and his son, Pedro Inzunza Coronel, are named in the indictment as key leaders of the Beltran Leyva Organization (BLO), a violent faction of the Sinaloa Cartel…

Newmax: The White House CEA warns that failing to pass Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will leave 8.2 to 9.2 million Americans without health insurance and lead to a “major recession.” – Fox News reported the memo made the estimations “based on the assumption that states which expanded Medicaid with relatively generous eligibility will pull back to meet balanced budget requirements and try to provide more unemployment support during a severe recession.”

Gateway Pundit: The DOJ Confirms It Plans to Make It Easier to Prosecute Corrupt Members of Congress – Under plans currently being drawn up, the DOJ would be able to indict members of Congress without approval from lawyers from its Public Integrity Section, known as PIN. – If adopted, the changes would remove a layer of review intended to ensure that cases against public officials are legally sound and not politically motivated…

American Thinker: A New Standard in Diplomacy – How the U.S. Embassy in Qatar engaged with President Trump’s visit – Ambassador Davis and his team’s efforts reflect a new standard for modern diplomacy—one that blends creativity, storytelling, and a genuine embrace of the visit’s significance. – By embracing President Trump’s arrival with enthusiasm and innovative content, the embassy didn’t just communicate news, it connected with audiences on a deeper level…

Washington Examiner: Trump’s Smart Syria Gamble – Trump is lifting all sanctions on Syria, many of which have been in place for decades. – Trump’s move to normalize relations between the United States and the war-torn country could secure long-term strategic interests and reshape a region long beset by chaos. – Crucially, the move signals Trump’s determination to prevent Iran from reasserting its influence following Israel’s punishing military campaigns against Iranian proxies…

Zero Hedge: Newly uncovered internal Hamas documents confirm a longtime theory explaining the motives behind the Oct.7, 2023, terror attack, which kicked off the bloody and grinding Gaza war. – Documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, demonstrate that Hamas leaders had a specific aim of preventing a potential peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia based on the US-backed Abraham Accords.

Breitbart: Netanyahu Is Working On A Possible Deal to End War and Bring Back All Hostages – The PMO says that the team is working toward the possibility of either US special envoy Steve Witkoff’s proposal for a short-term ceasefire and limited hostage exchange, or an agreement to end the war through a comprehensive release of all hostages in Gaza and the complete surrender and exile of Hamas.

Just The News: ICE has captured more illegal immigrants with criminal histories in sanctuary cities. – “Radical sanctuary politicians need to put the safety of the American people first, not criminal illegal aliens. – Assistant Homeland Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, “No American wants criminal illegal aliens loose on America’s streets, and neither should our leaders who represent them.”

American Thinker: If You Want to Understand the Modern Democrat Party, Look No Further Than Its Apocalyptic Cults – Many question whether the modern Democrat party will be able to make necessary course corrections to remain a viable, nationwide political party. – These cults preach that the only way to “escape impending doom is by joining the group, adhering to its leader’s teachings, and following its prescribed rituals.” – The most recent apocalyptic tale is, of course, the horrors of supposed climate change…

Breitbart: California Governor Gavin Newsom refuses to bail out Los Angeles, which is facing a $1 billion deficit, in his latest budget proposal, as the state itself faces a massive $12 billion deficit. – “The state’s not in a position to write a check,” Newsom said. “When you’re requesting things that have nothing to do with disaster recovery, that’s a nonstarter…

American Thinker: Artificial Intelligence and Marxist Control – In practice, Marxism, be it communism or socialism, is a system of promising reward but creating poverty so that citizens must depend on the government to provide basics. – That dependence makes it easy for the government to control them. – A.I. has the same potential to control an individual’s mind as Marxism controls an individual’s life…

Geller Report: Israel and Hamas Resume Ceasefire Talks after ‘Extensive Strikes’ on Gaza – Major military force is all that the brutal sub-humans of Hamas understand. – With President Trump back in the Oval Office, Israel will not be restricted in its efforts to destroy Hamas and get its hostages back.

American Thinker: Israel’s Greatest Weakness Is That It Won’t Challenge Arab-Style Historiography – Whether stealing the Jewish Bible or Jewish history after the Bible, Arabs offer nothing original to justify their claims to the land, but officially, Israel remains silent. – “No Temple ever existed in Jerusalem”? This trashes Christian scripture as well as the Torah (the Bible’s first five books). – The New Testament contains dozens of references to it…

May 17, 2025

One America News: President Trump, “I Will Be Speaking, By Telephone, To President Vladimir Putin Of Russia On Monday At 10:00 A.M. – The subjects of the call will be, stopping the bloodbath that is killing, on average, more than 5,000 Russians and Ukrainian solders a week, and trade.” – Trump continued stating that he will also be speaking to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to push for a ceasefire.

Zero Hedge: The Irony Of Moody’s Downgrade Of U.S. Credit – It’s bad enough that the U.S. now carries $37 trillion in debt, but what’s worse is that, despite this massive burden, deficits have continued to grow. – The real kicker isn’t just the reckless spending, it’s our full embrace of Modern Monetary Theory, which doesn’t just ignore this irresponsibility but actively encourages it…

Western Journal: Ed Martin Announces Monumental Shift in Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber Case With A Different Approach Being Taken – “Bongino said to the FBI, ‘Change all the agents. Everybody look at it again,” Martin continued, telling Carlson there were potential suspects overlooked, wondering if the mishandling of so many cases like the pipe bomber situation is due to incompetence or something more nefarious.

Center Square. The modern cartels in Mexico supply the illicit drug market in America, but they’ve also shifted to new criminal schemes, diversifying into kidnapping, extortion, illegal mining, petroleum theft, and illegal fishing. – President Trump moved to classify the six Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations early in his term. Experts often call them transnational criminal organizations because their reach has expanded into other illegal markets…

Zero Hedge: “Black Fatigue” Sets In As Everyone, Including Blacks, Is Tired Of Ghetto Behavior. – The progressive ideal is largely to blame for the monstrous creation that is ghetto culture. The idea that racial narcissism among blacks should not only be tolerated but celebrated has led to a surge in open animosity for societal rules and standards within the US. – For example, black Americans make up only 13% of the population but commit around 52% of all homicides according to FBI statistics…

Powerline: Anti-Semitism Is Carefully Taught – The National Education Union is the largest teachers’ union in the United Kingdom and Europe. The NEU has now set out to teach British children to side with the Palestinians in their efforts to extinguish Israel. – This is how NEU will bring pro-Palestine views into British schools…

Breitbart: President Trump had more exchanges with reporters in his first 100 days than his 6 predecessors. – Trump’s 129 interactions through news conferences or interviews averaged nearly two each workday, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project. – Trump exceeded the pace of his first term in 2017, when he had 89 such meetings. – The study was released Thursday…

American Thinker: President Trump in One Word – Brilliant! – President Trump’s first international trip was not to a NATO ally, but to the Middle East, because that is where the money is. – Jesse Watters reported that “executives from Coca-Cola, Citigroup, IBM, Delta, United, BlackRock, Google, and Amazon, were all in the desert with Trump – Trump came on a mission to spread money and peace. – The world watched while this great free-world leader led with unity, strong love, and common-sense peace. – How refreshing.

American Thinker: The Supreme Court Is Already Packed – On the matter of illegal immigrants, the absence of judicial knowledge is striking. – Since illegals have no U.S. citizenship or U.S. constitutional personhood, they do not quality for U.S. interstate rendition or due process. The only relevant legal action is international extradition to the one state that controls their status: the foreign country of origin from which they are fugitives…

Daily Fetched: The Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino announced the bureau is poised to release information on several cases that many believe would never see the light of day. – One such case is the attempted assassination of Representative Steve Scalise, nearly killed by a gunman during practice for a congressional baseball game. – Other cases involved are the Nashville Christian school shooting, the infamous “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, and the origins of the coronavirus.

American Thinker: The ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ will bring big benefits for blue-collar workers – Despite all these provisions that will boost workers’ take-home pay and create new manufacturing jobs, almost every Democrat continues to portray Trump’s bill as nothing more than a tax cut for the rich. – At its core, the MAGA agenda is all about reviving the American dream, which has become nearly unattainable for a large portion of hard-working Americans in the 21st century…

Townhall: Four Trump administration officials penned a recent NYT op-ed calling on Congress to enact commonsense reforms that would require able-bodied adults to work in order to receive benefits. – “The increased share of welfare spending dedicated to able-bodied working-age adults distracts from what should be the focus of these programs: the truly needy,” wrote eHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

American Thinker: James Comey, the arrogant, self-appointed elitist and unrepentant promoter of assassination – We all learned in 2016 that then-FBI director James Comey believed himself to be above the law. – Trump fired Comey during his first term for good reasons; the man was and is a scoundrel who blithely set up Mike Flynn and then bragged about it. – Comey’s partners-in-crime, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, etc. (it’s a long list), were all on board with Comey’s blatant plan to oust Trump from the presidency.

Powerline: The Week In Pictures: Seashells by the Seashore Edition – Democrats love to talk about murdering Donald Trump, but when they explicitly call for his assassination, the Secret Service and the FBI are likely to take notice.

May 16, 2025

Zero Hedge: Trump Fumes After Supreme Court Rules Venezuelan Illegals Can’t Be Deported (For Now) – Justices agreed that the president could rely on the centuries-old wartime law to remove immigrants from the country – provided they first have an opportunity to challenge those claims in court – and then temporarily blocked the government from deporting another group of Venezuelans in Texas while their lawyers scrambled to challenge the allegations against them…

Daily Signal: Leaders from Russia and Ukraine met Friday in Istanbul for the first direct talks since March 2022. – The talks lasted less than two hours, and while no clear results toward peace were reached, the two nations did agree to a large prisoner swap. – In an equal exchange, 1,000 prisoners of war will be exchanged on each side, according to Vladimir Medinsky, a top Kremlin aide.

Gateway Pundit: As Rumors of a New Big Offensive Swirl, Putin Appoints Mordvichev as New Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces, A General that Ukraine Announced it Had Killed! – It seems that the longer the conflict lasts, the more painful the territorial losses of the Kiev regime will be…

Gateway Pundit: The “One Big Beautiful Bill” fell short in a House Budget Committee vote Friday, with conservatives on the panel arguing it does not cut federal spending enough. – The final tally was 16-21, as GOP Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Ralph Norman and Andrew Clyde of Georgia, and Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma joined all of the committee’s Democratic members in voting against the measure.

Breitbart: Biden Struggled with Severe Memory Lapses in His Interview with Robert Hur – Couldn’t Answer Basic Questions from Coddling Special Counsel – Didn’t Doesn’t Know When Son Passed Away – In February 2024, Hur revealed that he would not charge Biden for his handling of classified documents. However, Hur’s report stated that they had “considered that, at trial,” a jury would see Biden as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”…

Zero Hedge: This National Police Week, we pause to honor the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to protect our communities. – We remember the brave officers who made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty, and we express our deepest gratitude to those who continue to serve with unwavering dedication. – In these challenging times, it’s crucial that we stand up for those who serve us…

Wall Street Journal: The U.S. Loses Its Triple-A Credit Rating – Moody’s cut the U.S. debt ratings from Triple-A to Aa1 – Moody’s Ratings downgraded the U.S. government on Friday, citing large fiscal deficits and rising interest costs. –
Runaway budget deficits mean U.S. government borrowing will balloon at an accelerating rate, pushing interest rates up over the long term, Moody’s said...

One America News: Pope Leo XIV asserted on Friday that the family is rooted in the “stable union between a man and a woman,” while also emphasizing that both the unborn and the elderly possess inherent dignity as creations of God, following accusations that the new Pope is “just as liberal” as the previous one. – In doing so, he articulated unequivocal Catholic doctrine on marriage and the sanctity of life, in regard to abortion, at the outset of his pontificate.

Washington Free Beacon: Trump’s Energy Chief Invokes Emergency Powers To Boost Fossil Fuel Use in Blackout-Plagued Puerto Rico – ‘Access to energy is essential for all modern life,’ Energy Secretary Chris Wright says – Wright’s actions Friday represent an abrupt recalibration of how the federal government will address Puerto Rico’s ongoing power generation crisis, shifting from a focus on boosting green energy like solar power to expanding existing fossil fuel infrastructure…

Western Journal: Democrat Lawmakers Move to Tank Trump’s $200 Billion Deal with the UAE The Same Day He Announced It – “Democrats Chris Murphy, Chris Van Hollen, Brian Schatz and Tim Kaine, and Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, introduced resolutions of disapproval in the Senate that would block three arms sales to the UAE,” Reuters reported Thursday, the same day the deal was made.

Zero Hedge: Democrats Are Digging Their Political Graves And Trump Is Selling Them The Shovel – While Democrats are busy defending criminal gang members and terrorists from Tren De Aragua and MS-13, President Trump is putting on a command performance in the Middle East. – And of course, Democrats are gnashing their teeth at Mr. Trump’s flurry of new successes.

American Conservative: America Should Walk Away From Ukraine–Russia – The Trump administration believes that neither side is seeking it. – Each side remains convinced that it can secure more than is currently on offer. – Yet Russia is slowly, but consistently, taking more land in Ukraine, inch by inch. – Short of a miracle for the Ukrainian armed forces, there is no feasible way that most of the occupied territories, particularly the Donbas and Crimea, will ever leave Russia’s control…

One America News: The U.S. Will Be Notifying Hundreds Of Countries Of New Tariff Rates Until Their Negotiations Can Be Accomplished. – Trump said the move is necessary because negotiations are taking too long to discuss one-on-one agreements with some 150 countries that want to make a deal. – “We’ll be very fair, but we’ll be telling people what they’ll be paying to do business with us in the interim.”

One America News: Kash Patel Says The FBI Is Leaving Their Hoover Building Headquarters in D.C. And Transferring Over 1K Agents Elsewhere – “Look, the FBI is 38,000 when we are fully manned, which we are not. – In the national capital region, within a 50-mile radius of Washington, DC, there were 11,000 FBI employees, a third of the workforce. – A third of the crime doesn’t happen here, so we are taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out.” “Every state is getting a plus-up.”

Newsmax: The Interior Department Moves to End Biden-Era Focus on Wind and Solar Power, Allowing Easier Access to Public Land for Oil and Gas Production. – A department release indicated that the change would “eliminate rate reductions that biased renewable energy development over other energy sources.” – Burgum said the Biden focus on wind and solar made no sense, calling them “unaffordable” and “unreliable.”…

Slay News: A Recent Poll Shows Growing Bipartisan ‘Hate’ for Corporate Media – The new polling data show that nearly half of likely voters say the problem has intensified in recent years. – Many say these media biases have increasingly favored Democrats. – In a key question from the survey, likely voters were asked if they agreed with the statement: “No matter how much you hate the media, it’s not enough.”…

American Thinker: Did James Comey really issue a veiled death threat to President Trump? – According to commentator Steve Guest, former FBI Director James Comey posted on Instagram a picture that says: “86 47.” – According to Fox News, the Secret Service is investigating it after White House officials swiftly condemned it as an attempt to put out a “hit” against the 47th president. – We are supposed to believe that it was all a coincidence. And that he just ‘found’ the seashells arranged as they were on a random walk…

American Thinker: Tax reform isn’t inevitable, it’s earned – Will all Republicans stand up on Capitol Hill, or fall victim to inaction yet again? – The reality is that if Congress fails to act, Americans won’t just miss out on new tax cuts; they’ll be on the receiving end of the largest middle-class tax hike in history. – Speaker Mike Johnson made that exact point in this recent posting on X. – Recent polling by the Independent Women’s Forum shows that 79% of Americans agree that the tax cuts should be extended.

American Thinker: Trump, Big Pharma, and the Price of Courage – President Trump’s bold move to rein in prescription drug prices is already drawing the expected cries of “price controls” from the usual suspects. – The American pharmaceutical sector is propped up by taxpayer-funded research, dominated by foreign-controlled conglomerates, guarded by regulatory capture, and protected by patent monopolies that delay competition and inflate prices.

American Thinker: Air Force One, President Trump, and The Art of the Deal – The Qatari king isn’t giving this $400 million flying palace to Donald Trump, but rather to the American people. – Trump is merely accepting the plane on his country’s behalf. – Such gifts are far from rare. For example, France gave the Statue of Liberty to the American people in 1876, not to then-President Ulysses S. Grant, and it was not in violation of the Constitution….

Breitbart: Democrat Messaging Falters as They Ask Constituents to Foot Medicaid Costs for 1.4 Million Illegal Aliens – House Republicans are moving to block an estimated 1.4 million illegal aliens from receiving American taxpayer-funded Medicaid as Democrats struggle to message their support for the unpopular position.

American Thinker: Congress needs to stop California’s hidden food tax – Prop 12 sets a dangerous precedent. – The law was financed by animal rights activists who are morally opposed to people eating any meat, eggs, or dairy, even if farmers housed chickens in condos and pigs in palaces. – California mandates can cost out-of-state farmers millions of dollars to comply with. – These costs are then passed on, not just to Californians, but across the country.

Daily Wire: Legacy Media Outlets Say The Biden Book Is Full Of ‘Bombshells’. – Here’s What You Need To Know, Part 1 – Biden’s staff considered the possibility that he might need a wheelchair. – Biden failed to recognize his friend and host, George Clooney, at his 2024 Hollywood fundraiser. – Biden was hidden from his own staffers and cabinet members since at least 2023…

California Globe: California Democrats’ Take A Political Pivot on The Sex Trafficking Of 16-17 Year Olds – What caused the pivot was publicly exposing Democrats’ depraved support for sex with minors. – They flipped not out of shame; instead, it was a calculated political pivot. Purely political considerations drove the decision to pass the bill. – While bad politics also provides media, this was really bad politics. Democrats did not want to be labeled as supporting the sex trade of minors.

Zero Hedge: New College Grads Are Not Working Out, Say Most Hiring Managers – Inappropriate attire, excessive use of cell phones, poor quality of work, and foul language are just a few of the reasons 65% of U.S. hiring managers gave for firing college graduates who had recently started their first job. – A lack of a work ethic scored 54%, followed by poor communication skills at 48%, and lack of technical skills at 27%…

Western Journal: The Judge Charged with Helping Illegal Alien Evade ICE Is Now Begging the Public for Money to Pay for Her Lawyers – Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan has hired a group of high-powered lawyers led by former U.S. Attorney Steve Biskupic. She’s looking to tap into anger on the left over the case to help pay them. – Dozens of people demonstrated outside Dugan’s arraignment Thursday at the federal courthouse in Milwaukee, demanding she be set free.

Daily Mail: Engineers have discovered ‘kill switches’ embedded in Chinese-manufactured parts on American solar farms, raising fears Beijing could manipulate supplies or ‘physically destroy’ grids across the US, UK, and Europe. – Energy officials are assessing the risks posed by small communication devices in power inverters, an integral component of renewable energy systems that connects them to the power grid…

So You Want A World Without Fossil Fuels – Environmentalists advocate for a world without fossil fuels. – But what would the real-life consequences be? – Would it even be a world you would want to live in? – They are not used just for oil and gas; a multitude of products are derived from fossil fuels…

May 15, 2025

Reuters: Trump says the US is close to a nuclear deal with Iran – Trump says he wants to avoid violence, and ‘very serious’ negotiations are underway – Oil prices are falling on expectations of a deal…

Epoch Times: Republicans Are Dealing With Key Holdups In Passing The Megabill – Representative Rich McCormick, “There’s still some minutia that needs to be worked out, but I think we will have the SALT and the Medicaid parts that are the most debatable.” – “But I think we’re getting close, and I think it’s really encouraging.” – The SALT deduction allows taxpayers who itemize on their federal tax return to deduct from their federal taxes state and local taxes they paid.

Zero Hedge: The American Consumer is Maxed Out As Loan Delinquencies Surge 700% – Household debt now sits at a record $18.2 trillion, and credit card balances surpass $1 trillion. – Auto loan delinquencies have hit their highest levels in decades, and 1 in 4 student loan borrowers is already struggling to make payments just months after the pause ended. – If Americans can’t keep up with their payments, are we witnessing the slow-motion collapse of the American middle class?…

Fox News: Ex-FBI chief James Comey’s ‘86 47’ social media post is condemned by the White House as an attempt to put a ‘hit’ on President Trump. – ‘This is deeply concerning to all of us and is being taken seriously,’ a White House spokesperson says. – Comey later deleted the post after online backlash from government officials, lawmakers, and President Donald Trump’s son…

Epoch Times: Trump Weighs In on Supreme Court Case Involving Birthright Citizenship – “The United States “is the only Country in the World that does this, for what reason, nobody knows, but the drug cartels love it!” – “The 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which was ratified in 1868 and three years after the end of the Civil War, was designed to provide citizenship to children born to enslaved people.

Newsmax: Congressional Democrats have once again introduced legislation to force the government to pay for damages suffered by enslaved Black families. – The latest attempt is sponsored by Representative Summer Lee, who said in a release, “We are owed restitution and justice to repair the government-sanctioned harm that has plagued our communities for generations.” – The Reparations Now resolution was introduced initially in 2023 by then Representative Cori Bush...

One America News: Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates, unveiled a new initiative on Thursday to invest $1.4 trillion in the US over the next ten years. – He is also the ruler of Abu Dhabi, the largest emirate within the UAE. – He emphasized the move as a testament to the “strong partnership” with President Donald Trump and Washington, D.C., which he noted has begun to thrive under the leadership of the 47th GOP president.

American Spectator: Hillary Clinton Accepted Foreign Gifts – Now she is criticizing Trump for accepting a plane from the government of Qatar that will go to the U.S. Department of Defense. – To refresh the memories of Trump critics, let’s take a stroll down memory lane with the Clintons and gifts…

Committee to Unleash Prosperity: There are at least six million job openings in the U.S., yet we have a record number of working-age men not in the workforce. – The 2024 Current Population Survey indicates that 31% of men ages 25-40 who are not working full-time collected some form of cash or cash-equivalent benefit in the form of food stamps, Social Security for disability, Supplemental Security Income, or unemployment insurance in the prior year…

Daily Wire: In The Wake Of The Biden Book ‘Bombshells,’ One Pressing Question Still Remains – “Who was running the country?” – Revelations from the book thus far have included, among other things, claims from Biden’s cabinet members that they were actively kept from meeting with him, claims that appear substantiated by the fact that he only held three full cabinet meetings in 2023 and one in 2024…

Breitbart: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky decried a Potemkin delegation sent by Russia to the peace talks in Istanbul on Thursday after being told President Vladimir Putin wouldn’t be attending after all. – Zelensky said in English: “I’m here. I think this is a very clear message”. – Russia reacted with venom to the claims their delegation had not been sent in good faith, calling Zelensky a uneducated, pathetic man”, a “clown”, and a “loser.”…

One America News: Trump Is Not Surprised By Putin’s Absence From The Ukraine Peace Talks, And Cites The Reason Why – “Look, nothing’s going to happen until Putin and I get together. Okay?” Trump said aboard Air Force One when asked about the peace talks. – “And obviously, he wasn’t going to go. – He was going to go, but he thought I was going. He wasn’t going if I wasn’t there,” he continued.

Geller Report: The DOJ and FBI foiled a would-be ISIS mass shooting at a U.S. military base in Warren, Michigan. – A former member of the Michigan Army National Guard, Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, has been arrested.- Abdulmajid-Mohamed planned the attack, including flying a drone over the military base for reconnaissance, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Daily Wire: U.S. Wholesale Prices See Biggest Drop In 5 Years, Flying In The Face Of Some Economists’ Predictions – Services prices dropped 0.7% in April, which was the biggest drop since the index began in December 2009. – The Producer Price Index measures the average change over time in selling prices received by domestic producers…

Slay News: Trump Reveals Plans to Give America’s Troops ‘Substantial Pay Rises’ – Trump revealed the plan in an address to U.S. service members in Qatar on Thursday during his extended trip to the Middle East. – “My 2026 budget includes across-the-board pay raises for every one of you, Substantial pay raises,” Trump said. – “You are without a doubt the greatest fighting force in the history of the world. – “That’s the way it is.”…

Zero Hedge: Trump Is Very Displeased With Tim Cook’s ‘Made-In-India’ iPhone Blitz And Wants More Production In The US – Trump criticized Cook’s plan: “I said to him,’ My friend, I treated you very well. You’re coming here with $500 billion, but now I hear you’re building all over India.’ I don’t want you building in India.” – As a result of their meeting, Trump said Apple will be “upping their production in the United States.”

Resist The Mainstream: Trump Considers Plan B as DOGE Cuts Meet Resistance in Congress – Recognizing these legislative challenges, the administration has adjusted its expectations and is now considering a two-year window to codify the DOGE cuts through congressional action. – “The focus right now is the reconciliation bill,” an anonymous White House official stated…

Victor Davis Hanson: The Real First 100 Days – Trump’s first 100 days mark a chaotic counterrevolution, tackling crises long ignored. – Trump is not just confronting unaddressed existential crises but also the root causes of why, when, and how they become inevitable and nearly unsolvable. – His answer is a messy, knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution to reboot the country back to the middle where it once was and where the Founders believed it should remain.

American Thinker: What’s the Real Story on Trump’s ‘Deal’ with China? – The term ‘deal’ is a misnomer, as it is more like a negotiated ceasefire in a long war. – Four years ago, during what they named “the supply chain crisis people began to realize that it wasn’t just American retailers that were overly dependent on China; American manufacturers were also affected. – However, the Biden-Harris administration suppressed such talk and blamed unorganized transportation...

American Thinker: The Achilles Heel of Wind and Solar – That heel got hit in Spain and Portugal recently, leading to massive blackouts. – The operators of electric power generation systems utilizing wind turbines and solar photovoltaic cells in Spain and Portugal neglected to consider the “Law of Inertia” in the design of their power grids. – The “load” on an electric power grid is a general term that refers to the power draw of all of the electric devices connected to the grid…

Breitbart: Senator Joni Ernst on Thursday introduced legislation that would derail efforts by Democrat states to institute zero-emission standards for trains. – Ernst introduced the Lifting Overburdensome Commerce Obstructions and Motives (LOCOMOTIVES) Act to bar Democrat states such as California from using waivers from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requiring all new trains to be zero-emission by 2030 for industrial use and 2035 for normal hauling…

Breitbart: President Trump’s return to the White House has been so comprehensive in word and deed that barely one-third of Democrat membership remains optimistic about the party’s future. – An Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found only 35% of Democrats surveyed are “very or somewhat” optimistic about the future of their party. – The bad news for the Democrat faithful doesn’t stop there…

Breitbart: Federal prosecutors filed narco-terrorism charges against leading members of the Sinaloa Cartel. – The move is the first of its kind following the February designation by the U.S. State Department of six Mexican cartels, including the Sinaloa Cartel, as foreign terrorist organizations. – Federal prosecutors allege that, under the Inzunzas’ leadership, the BLO and the Sinaloa Cartel have been responsible for moving large quantities of fentanyl into the United States…

Washington Free Beacon: Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan pleaded not guilty to obstruction charges after she was accused of helping an illegal immigrant evade arrest last month. – Dugan entered the plea at a hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Thursday morning, less than two days after a federal grand jury indicted her. The trial in the case was tentatively set for July 21 during the brief hearing.

Headline USA: Embattled CNN anchor Jake Tapper enlisted a PR crisis guru, Risa Heller, amid scathing criticism of his new book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” which claims to expose former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, despite spending years attacking conservatives for making the same argument. – In a now-infamous exchange with Lara Trump, Tapper scolded her for questioning Biden’s mental acuity…

Breitbart: California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed Wednesday to spend $1 billion per year on the state’s failing high-speed rail project through cap-and-trade programs, even as his budget drowned in massive deficits. – The governor’s revised budget plan sought cuts to a variety of programs to make up a $12 billion deficit. – He even proposed cutting off new enrollees for “free” health care to illegal aliens.

Daily Wire: The Biden Administration Banished This Historic Jesus Painting. – Sean Duffy is moving ‘Christ on the Water’ back to a place of prominence at the Merchant Marine Academy. – “Christ on the Water” was completed in 1944 by artist Hunter Wood, who joined the Coast Guard just 10 days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor…

Zero Hedge: The White House Has Presented Iran With Written Nuke Deal Proposal In A Huge First – In a huge first, the Trump White House has sent Iran a written proposal toward forging a new nuclear deal. – White House envoy Steve Witkoff has led several rounds of talks, and Axios has revealed that the communication was issued to Tehran last Sunday. – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi took the proposal back to Tehran for consultations with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei…

Resist The Mainstream: A 33-year-old Texas mother has been taken into custody after allegedly providing her son with ammunition and tactical equipment while he was planning violence at his school, according to authorities. – Ashley Pardo was arrested Monday following the discovery that her middle school-aged son appeared to be preparing for what officials described as “mass targeted violence” at Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio…

May 14, 2025

Washington Examiner: Iran is ready to make deal with the US on uranium enrichment if economic sanctions are lifted – Ali Shamkhani, a leading adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told NBC News on Wednesday that Iran would agree to never make nuclear weapons, to discard its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, and permit the supervision of international inspectors.

Fox News: Trump asks Syria to join the Abraham Accords and normalize ties with Israel in return for sanctions relief. – The president also asked Syria to tell all terrorists to leave and to take charge of the ISIS prison. – Some 10,000 ISIS fighters are imprisoned in the region, where the U.S.-backed Kurdish militia, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, is charged with keeping them locked up. – The U.S. has about 1,400 troops stationed in Syria to fight ISIS.

One America News: Foreign Policy Expert Dr. Walid Phares Discusses Trump’s Middle East Trip – President Donald Trump is in the Middle East meeting with leaders. – One America’s Stella Escobedo spoke with foreign policy expert and the co-host of the War and Freedom Podcast, Dr. Walid Phares, who shares what he thinks are Trump’s major accomplishments during his Middle East trip.

Gateway Pundit: South African EFF Leader Julius Malema Admitted Trump Is Right, “We’re Coming After White Farmers” – This was originally posted in August 2018. – It is as relevant today as it was then. – Don’t expect the far left media to report on this. – There is an actual “land or death” movement taking off in South Africa. – The supporters say they are ready to kill or die for the white-owned land.

Daily Wire: The African Development Foundation Aid Agency Locked Its Doors To Keep DOGE Out And Now We Know Why. – Money intended for Africans was secretly rerouted to D.C. bureaucrats and their friends by racist, abusive bosses, employees say. – “The contracts don’t make sense, and they know [DOGE] will find lots of wrongdoing and illegal activity,” she said. “I’m not a fan of DOGE, but some of the things they’re doing need to be done…

California Globe: Gavin Newsom’s Reputation Facelift – Gavin Newsom is going through an attempted reputation facelift, which will likely end up as a facelift gone wrong. – After all of these things, it’s easy to conclude that no amount of cosmetic restorative surgery will repair California Governor Gavin Newsom’s crumbling political career and well-deserved reputation…

American Thinker: Why The GOP Won’t Get Dirty, Even When The Left Plays It Filthy – Because most of them aren’t like Donald Trump – Democrats long ago threw away the “play it fair” rulebook. – Trump charges into this inferno unafraid. – He’s from New York City, and he fights and can’t be bought. – But GOP lawmakers? They’re career politicians from leafy suburbs or rural communities with families, pollsters, and PAC donors whispering in their ears…

Daily Wire: Democrat Elites Are Playing A Giant Game Of ‘Cover Your Ass’ And It’s Hilarious – Put it all together, and it’s clear that the Democrat Party has not matured or improved in any way since their crushing defeat in the last election. – Why actor George Clooney decided to go nuclear on the Biden campaign. – At a private reception before Clooney’s fundraiser for Biden, Joe Biden arrived, with an aide guiding his hand to help him walk, and didn’t know who Clooney was...

Resist The Mainstream: A Biden WH Advisor Admits ‘Deep State’ Could ‘Crush’ RFK Jr.’s Agenda And Outlines How it Could Play Out in A Shock Undercover Video – He detailed sophisticated mechanisms bureaucrats can employ to impede political directives, stating, “It’s not just a matter of ordering people to do things. They have ways to slow things down or block you without you realizing it.”…

The Defender: Will Pfizer Finally Be Held Accountable? – A Federal Judge Sends A Kansas Lawsuit Against the COVID-19 Vaccine Maker Back to State Court – Pfizer tried to keep the case in federal court, arguing that the PREP Act, which shields COVID-19 vaccine makers from liability for injuries caused by the vaccines, “completely preempts” the consumer protection claims made by the state of Kansas. – However, a federal judge ruled today that the case must proceed in state court.

InfoWars: Police Arrest One of Four Suspects Behind Murder of Top Infowars Writer Jamie White – Eloy Adrian Camarillo Was Arrested And Charged With Capital Murder For The Shooting Death Of Infowars Reporter Jamie White In Austin, Texas. – According to investigators, White was attempting to stop four suspects from burglarizing his vehicle at the apartment complex, a green Kia Soul. One of those four suspects was identified as Camarillo…

American Thinker: Democracy Is Dying In Europe – The German intelligence agency’s attempt to label the AfD as extremists is yet another example of the EU moving steadily toward tyranny. – All this is happening against the backdrop of growing censorship in the information field and is a part of the attempts of European hawks to establish their control over the territory of the EU…

Breitbart: Trump Imposes More Sanctions on Iran After The 4th Round of Nuclear Talks – The primary target is a firm called Sepehr Energy, which the Treasury accused of using various “front companies” to move oil and money around in a way intended to make it difficult to track Iranian oil sales and avoid the effects of American and international sanctions.

American Thinker: Before We Make a Deal with Iran – Certain conditions must be met. – Any nuclear deal even resembling the JCPOA must be a non-starter for President Trump and the U.S. The world’s most dangerous regime, which regularly chants “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” must have no path to a nuclear weapon. – Vice President J.D. Vance, at the Munich Security Conference in Washington, D.C., on May 7, laid out some of the fatal flaws of the JCPOA…

Breitbart: Trump Asks SCOTUS to Permit ‘Alien Enemies Act’ Deportations After Gang Members Threaten to Take Hostages Inside Detention Center – After Trump began deporting illegal alien gang members using the Alien Enemies Act, a group of Soros-linked groups sued to block the deportations. SCOTUS paused the Trump administration’s ability to continue such deportations last month.

The Federalist: U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer will appear before SCOTUS Thursday to argue against the nationwide injunctions entered by the lower courts in three birthright citizenship cases. – The Trump Administration appears poised to score a win from the Supreme Court, given that five justices, in various concurrences and/or dissents, have criticized nationwide injunctions.

Lifezette: Outgoing interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin confirmed Monday that his office is investigating several last-minute pardons issued by Joe Biden in the final hours of his administration. – Martin stated that the investigation is focusing on possible corruption and abuse of the pardon power, specifically surrounding the unusually broad nature of the pardons and the individuals they covered.

Newsmax: Trump Signs $1.2 Trillion Economic Deal With Qatar – The agreements include a $96 billion deal with Qatar Airways to buy up to 210 Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 777X airplanes with GE Aerospace engines. – “This is Boeing’s largest-ever wide-body order and largest-ever 787 order,” the White House wrote.

Washington Examiner: House Republicans pass $4 trillion tax cut out of committee as members debate the SALT cap – The fate of the bill on the House floor, though, was unclear, as members were still debating deductions for state and local taxes, as well as the amount of spending cuts to be included in the larger legislative package.

Breitbart: The anti-science freak-out predicting President Donald Trump’s tariffs would explode consumer prices has now been debunked as yet another legacy media hoax. – The far-left Politico grudgingly admits: “Trump tariffs have little impact on prices so far, defying grim forecasts,” reads the headline. “Inflation climbed at the slowest pace since early 2021 in April, surprising economists who anticipated tariff-related increases,” reads the sub-headline.

Townhall: Another Major Company Just Announced Its Biggest Investment in US Factories in a Decade – Kraft-Heinz announced it’s spending $3 billion to upgrade its U.S. factories to make the plants run more efficiently. The improvements will also enable the food maker to develop and sell new products more quickly. – The company’s president of North America, Pedro Navio, told Reuters that tariffs factored into their investment decision.

Daily Fetched: Anheuser-Busch has announced a $300 million investment into its U.S. manufacturing facilities, with a focus on creating jobs for veterans and strengthening local economies. – The initiative, titled Brewing Futures, aims to expand manufacturing capabilities, up-skill the workforce, and deepen partnerships with veteran-focused programs. Additionally, Anheuser-Busch is expanding access to its Technical Excellence Centers in St. Louis, MO, and Columbus, OH, beyond its workforce.

New York Times: Trump Leadership, If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must – By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mehmet Oz, Brooke Rollins, and Scott Turner – America’s welfare programs were created with a noble purpose: to help those who needed them most — our seniors, individuals with disabilities, pregnant women and low-income families with children. – In recent years, though, these welfare programs have deviated from their original mission both by drift and by design…

American Thinker: So You Want Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) – I prefer the acronym DIE because DEI policies could potentially place the wrong people in the wrong jobs, based on demographics and external factors rather than on merit and competence. – Potential areas where DEI could cause people to DIE include medicine and transportation, where poor outcomes follow poor decisions...

Western Journal: Outrage Erupts After Special Agreement Between Karmelo Anthony and His School That He Will Be Allowed To Graduate High School Is Announced – Anthony, a student at Frisco Centennial High School, was arrested and charged with 1st degree murder on April 2nd for allegedly stabbing 17-year-old Metcalf in the chest during a track meet at Kuykendall Stadium. – Many in the community argue that allowing Anthony to graduate, despite his pending murder charge, sends the wrong message.

Daily Wire: Trump’s Justice Department Is Cutting Transgender Grants And Will Use Money To Fund Law Enforcement – After news broke that the DOJ was slashing $811 million in grants, legacy media outlets fear-mongered that the department was targeting victims of “hate crimes, child abuse, school violence, and more.” – Money spent housing men in female prisons will now go to ‘combatting violent crime’ and ‘protecting American children.’

Western Journal: Judge Hannah Dugan of Milwaukee County Circuit Court was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday for allegedly helping illegal immigrant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz evade arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. – Dugan, who was temporarily removed from her position by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, has indicated a willingness to fight the charges of concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of proceedings.

American Thinker: Decimation, Due Process, and Deportations – Democrats are forcing America’s long-standing commitment to due process to become a suicide pact, an idea that cannot survive the illegal alien onslaught. – Thirty-five million illegal aliens are 10% of the American population. – Judges across the country are telling the administration that it must exercise due process with each of them before any of them can be deported…

Center Square: Since President Donald Trump took office, U.S. Border Patrol has seen an unprecedented surge in applications from men and women who want to serve at the U.S. borders. – From January to April 2025, USBP received 34,650 applications, representing a 44% increase over the same four-month period in 2024, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says.

American Thinker: In The Aftermath Of The Spanish Blackout – Capacity factors, a measure of asset utilization, plummet when renewables enter the picture. – The REE grid is about to become significantly more expensive. – To save face, the Spanish government will pour billions more into the grid scheme to bolster its resilience. – The money will go into building more synthetic inertia to keep it going when times get tough.

Slay News: Monica Crowley Confirmed For Top Ambassador Role As Assistant Secretary Of State And Chief Of Protocol – Crowley’s new role paves the way for her to represent the United States in significant upcoming global events, shaping America’s international presence. – Academically, she is well-grounded with a doctorate in international relations from Columbia University, a qualification that enhances her credentials in diplomacy and global affairs…

American Thinker: Climate Dogma And The Ignorance of Experts – Climate science is not a monolith of precision. – Despite the confident pronouncements of international panels, the mechanisms that govern temperature shifts are riddled with unknowns. – Gatekeeping agencies, such as NOAA, have significantly adjusted temperature records. – Moreover, these records often originate with thermometers in urbanized locations that are prone to artificial warming…

California Globe: California Insurance Commissioner Lara Has Approved A 17% State Farm Rate Hike – State Farm will need to secure a $400 million surplus note from its parent company to help back it’s financial situation in the state which, in turn, the company will get permission to install an emergency 17% rate increase. – In addition, State Farm cannot remove any policyholders through non-renewal programs through the end of 2025.

May 13, 2025

Daily Wire: Speaking from Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued a firm warning to foreign leaders: his priority is defending the United States of America, and he will do so using “overwhelming strength” and “devastating force” if necessary. – Trump emphasized that the United States believes in peace through strength, arguing that “bad things could happen” if the United States were not powerful and in a position to defend itself.

Daily Wire: Chuck Schumer Moves To Inflict Pain On Trump Over The $400 Million ‘Flying Palace’ From Qatar – Senate minority leader to place hold on DOJ political nominees for the DOJ until more clarity is given. – A hold requires Senate majority leadership to schedule a floor vote for a nominee, bypassing the faster unanimous consent process that would allow the upper chamber to confirm the president’s picks in batches…

Daily Wire: Chuck Schumer Won’t Say When He Knew Biden Was Unfit To Serve – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer refused to answer a question from CNN anchor Kasie Hunt about former President Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline, saying instead that he was “looking forward” and then changing the subject to attack President Donald Trump…

Washington Free Beacon: Biden Didn’t Recognize George Clooney At His Infamous Hollywood Fundraiser, ‘It Was Like Watching Someone Who Was Not Alive’ – “It seemed clear that the President had not recognized Clooney,” who had known Biden since 2001, was “shaken to his core,” as were the other Democratic donors who had gathered to take photos before the event. – Meanwhile, White House aides and other Democrats denounced video evidence of decline as ‘cheap fakes’…

The Federalist: 9 Times Jake Tapper Dismissed Biden’s Decline, By Claiming He’s ‘Sharp Mentally’ – After covering up Biden’s decline, Jake Tapper is trying to gaslight Americans into believing he had nothing to do with the scandal. -Lara Trump Interview – ‘Embracing’ the Stutter – ‘Sharp’ as a Tack – Interrogating Biden’s 2024 Democrat Primary Opponent – Dismissing Reports of Biden’s Decline – One Russia Collusion Hoaxer to Another…

Just The News: The Wisconsin judge has been indicted for allegedly helping an illegal migrant evade arrest. – The Wisconsin Supreme Court has temporarily removed Dugan from the bench while the court case plays out. She is expected to fight the charges. – Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested last month for allegedly obstructing an immigration arrest. The migrant, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, was also arrested last month.

Western Journal: She Found Them, Gabbard Reportedly Fires Officials, Putting The ‘Deep State’ On Notice – Gabbard reportedly “fired the top officials leading the National Intelligence Council,” who’d been described as being “radically opposed to Trump” by whistleblowers. She relieved Mike Collins, the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council, and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, of their duties on Tuesday…

Epoch Times: President Trump to Drop Sanctions Against Syria – Trump, “I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness.” – The US applied sanctions against Syria after the country fell into a state of civil war in 2011. – The sanctions were aimed at raising pressure on Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who finally relinquished power and fled the country in December, in the face of a surprise rebel offensive…

Washington Times: Zuckerberg’s Free Speech Charade – This leopard hasn’t changed his spots – His recent aggressive actions to silence a whistleblower expose the deep hypocrisy of his recent and convenient conversion to a supposed free expression champion. – Sarah Wynn-Williams’ bombshell book, “Careless People,” reveals shocking details about Zuck’s years-long crusade to enter the Chinese market by creating sophisticated censorship tools for the Chinese Communist Party to use on Facebook…

Reuters: President Trump secured a $600 billion Saudi investment pledge while on Gulf tour – Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed an agreement with the president in Riyadh on energy, defense, mining, and other areas. – “Today we hope for investment opportunities worth $600 billion, including deals worth $300 billion that were signed during this forum.” – “We will work in the coming months on the second phase to complete deals and raise it to $1 trillion,” he said.

Slay News: Air Force One Was Escorted by Saudi Fighter Jets as Trump Traveled to Meet The Crown Prince – Saudi Arabia pulled out all the stops to welcome President Donald Trump as he arrived to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. – Two jets flew on the left side of AF1 and three flew on the right. – Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright accompanied Trump on the important Middle East trip.

Townhall: Speaking to a room full of political leaders, business executives, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, Tuesday, President Trump urged the Kingdom to join the Abraham Accords. – If Saudi Arabia were to join, it would be a historic, unprecedented, and official recognition of the State of Israel and a new path to sustained peace in the Middle East.

Slay News: President Trump delivered a stern ultimatum to the Islamic Republic of Iran during his official visit to the Middle East. – “If Iran’s leadership rejects the olive branch and continues to attack their neighbors, then we will have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure. – “The choice is theirs to make,” he added.

Breitbart: Carrier announced it plans to invest $1 billion in U.S. manufacturing over the next five years, which is expected to create about 4,000 jobs. – Carrier, described as a “global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions,” announced the additional investment in a press release, which includes an expansion of “manufacturing, innovation, and workforce expansion.”

Western Journal: Trump Forces Pro-Illegal Immigrant Groups to Humiliate Themselves Before A Judge Steps In – DHS announced on Saturday that a lawsuit brought by pro-illegal immigrant groups on behalf of a 2-year-old American citizen transported to Honduras with her mother was being dropped. – The ACLU-backed lawsuit was based on the false claims, as the mother, who was in the country illegally, chose to bring her 2-year-old with her to Honduras when she was removed.

Zero Hedge: – The Border Patrol has released the latest stats on encounters with illegal aliens at the border, and they once again prove that there was an intentional controlled effort to flood America with immigrants under the Biden administration. – The numbers from CBP show that apprehensions are down 93% in April, and only five illegal immigrants were released into the country in April, compared to 68,000 last April. – All this with no new laws...

Breitbart: A Trump-appointed federal judge is authorizing the IRS to help ICE locate illegal aliens throughout the US by providing agents with tax information. – Last month, the IRS and ICE finalized a deal that would that allows ICE agents to request tax information on illegal aliens the agency is looking to locate and deport.

Resist The Mainstream: Federal authorities are warning that a new Venezuelan gang infiltrating the U.S. could become even more violent than the infamous Tren de Aragua (TdA), and it’s now eyeing rural America. – The group, dubbed “Anti-Tren,” consists almost entirely of former TdA members and is accused of using extreme violence to seize power, engage in sex trafficking, and target communities with limited law enforcement resources.

Breitbart: The Supreme Court Will Hear A Case Regarding Trump’s Order Ending Birthright Citizenship – On May 15, Trump’s DOJ will argue to SCOTUS that lower courts have gone far beyond their jurisdiction by blocking the order, while CASA Inc. and the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project will take the position that the president does not have the authority to end birthright citizenship.

Breitbart: The Pentagon Is ‘Immediately’ Halting Gender Transition Procedures And Hormone Treatments For Transgender – “Trump signed an executive order in January, after returning to the presidency, that reversed a policy implemented under his predecessor, Joe Biden, that had allowed transgender troops to serve openly. – The United States Supreme Court recently allowed Trump to exclude openly transgender people from the military…

Zero Hedge: ‘TheBiggest Untold Story in Tech’ – An Explosive Book Reveals How Apple Sold Out America To China – Financial Times journalist Patrick McGee has released a gripping new book that meticulously exposes Apple’s deeply troubling ties with China, revealing how these connections fueled the communist regime’s rise to a global manufacturing powerhouse.

American Thinker: Is China fully collapsing? – We are now discovering that the image of a prosperous China is an illusion, and as they try to appear to be a top global competitor, there are indicators of collapse. – A major problem for China is that it is stuck in a “middle-income trap.” China inflates its gross domestic product, and it is struggling to manage its debt. – That situation hinders the country’s economic growth.

Zero Hedge: – China Sent Secret Delegation To Washington To Negotiate A Trade Deal While Vowing It Would “Never Talk To Trump” – Following yet another decline in CPI, the S&P joined the Nasdaq 100 in the green year-to-date, erasing all of the panic-puke, ‘end of the world’ prognostication from the mainstream media and establishment. – See the charts…

Geller Report: According To The Labor Department, Hundreds of Thousands of Claimed Biden Jobs Were Fake – New numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show 800,000 jobs from last year never existed. – The Biden administration routinely overestimated jobs and quietly revised them down, time and time again. – The Biden administration and media lied to our faces…

Daily Fetched: A book, authored by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, alleges that public information about Biden’s physical condition often conflicted with evaluations from his physician. – “Biden’s physical deterioration — most apparent in his halting walk — had become so severe that there were internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair, but they couldn’t do so until after the election,” Tapper and Thompson wrote.

Western Journal: New Inflation Numbers Crush Democrats’ Narrative About Trump’s Tariff Strategy – The latest Consumer Price Index data showed inflation cooling, not spiking, despite all the hand-wringing from the left. – What a glorious day for truth! – The CPI is showing a year-over-year rate of just 2.3 percent compared to a year ago, down slightly. – The data showed tariffs haven’t driven up prices as they forced foreign producers to absorb costs…

American Thinker: It Is Time to End Judicial Immunity – Lawfare judges will never be brought to heel until we curtail this absurd perk of the job. – Thanks to the shield of steel that judges gave themselves long ago, they can pretty much do whatever they want and get away with it. – Without consequences, the sacred checks and balances that the framers of the Constitution so carefully built into our system of government go out the window, at least when it comes to judges…

Powerline: Your Standard of Living Is About to Improve – The Democrats’ “green” agenda hurt our standard of living in many ways. – It has made energy more expensive and has degraded our appliances. – The DOE has announced the elimination or reduction of 47 different regulations. – It shouldn’t be long before, if you buy a new appliance, you will see higher quality and lower cost. The following are some of the regulations being deleted…

Epoch Times: The Federal Government Plans To Cut an Additional $450 Million In Harvard Grants – The decision comes as Harvard’s president recently said the university will not alter its principles to comply with demands from the Trump administration. – The Department of Education, “Harvard University has repeatedly failed to confront the pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus.”…

Gateway Pundit: Federal agents have arrested Utah oil magnate James Lael Jensen, his wife Kelly Anne Jensen, and two of their sons in connection with a sprawling $300 MILLION oil smuggling and money laundering conspiracy tied to Mexican criminal organizations. – The Jensens fraudulently imported and disguised crude oil shipments, falsely declaring them as waste oils or petroleum distillates to evade customs regulations under the U.S. Tariff Act.

Daily Wire: A Chinese Company Is Accused Of Smuggling Equipment To the U.S. Used To Make Fake Pills To Mislead Americans – “It is evident that bad actors are determined to harm Americans with fentanyl.” – The DOJ indictment, unsealed on Monday, targeted CapsulCN International Co. Ltd. (CapsulCN) and Xiochuan “Ricky” Pan, 40, Tingyan “Monica” Yang, 37, and Xi “Inna” Chen, 30, all of whom were charged with smuggling, Controlled Substances Act, and money laundering offenses.

Howard Galganov: Trust Only What You Know, And Then Verify – It Appears the Entire Force of Communication is Aligned to Dissuade Canadians from Spending Winters South of the Canadian Border in any of the Many Warm US States. – We Went Directly To US Customs & Immigration – Nothing Has Changed – If you Want to Visit America & Stay Over the Winter Within The 6-Month Allowable Period, and you were Never Turned-Away at the Border, or Have Reason to be Turned-Away…We Welcome You With Open Arms.

Daily Wire: Texas Says It’s Halted Construction Of Muslim-Centered ‘EPIC City’ Outside Dallas – “A master-planned ‘community of thousands of Muslims’ could violate the constitutional rights of Jewish and Christian Texans.” – Texas Governor Greg Abbott says the state has put an end to all construction of EPIC City, that was intended to be exclusively for Muslims and where sharia law was expected to be imposed on residents when it came to fruition.

May 12, 2025

Western Journal: Scott Bessent, “Chinese Officials Told Us How They Took Advantage of Biden as Soon as He Entered White House.” – “In January 2020, President Trump produced a template,” Bessent said. “We had an excellent trade agreement with China, and the Biden administration chose not to enforce it.” – He added, for emphasis: “The Chinese delegation basically told us that once President Biden came into office, they just ignored their obligations.”

Western Journal: There were 62 American service members injured during the Biden administration’s Gaza aid pier project, marking a higher level of injuries than previously revealed. – The pier, which was meant to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of Gaza amid Hamas’ war with Israel, cost an estimated $230 million and was only operational for some 20 days…

American Spectator: Trump’s Drug-Price EO Should Have Happened Decades Ago – What’s ‘free market’ about Americans paying the tab for the rest of the world’s prescription drugs? – “The principle is simple — whatever the lowest price paid for a drug in other developed countries, that is the price that Americans will pay,” Trump said at the White House. “Some prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices will be reduced almost immediately by 50 to 80 to 90 percent.”…

American Thinker: After bringing millions of unvetted migrants into the U.S., the left screams about a few dozen white South African refugees. – The New York Times was particularly appalling in its coverage: The first plane carrying white South Africans who received refugee status from the Trump administration landed in DC Monday morning…The marks a drastic reversal in US refugee policies, which have long focused on helping people fleeing war, famine, and genocide…

American Spectator: The Media Is Focused on South While The Cartels Move to the Northern Border – The southern border breakdown was clearly permitted. – Will we allow the same forces to break through from the north? – A Sinaloa Cartel smuggler recently revealed how traffickers are systematically exploiting the northern frontier, using vast forests, understaffed checkpoints, and sleepy trucking routes to push people and narcotics into the United States….

Daily Signal: Betsy DeVos Says Union ‘Payoffs Will Continue’ Until the Department of Education Is Closed – The DOE under President Biden loosened requirements for a student loan program specifically for public servants and nonprofit employees a few months after unions that stood to benefit from the change sent a letter to then-Education Secretary Miguel Cardona…

Western Journal: Qatar Nukes American Media’s Twisted Reporting on A New Air Force One, Revealing The Real Deal That’s Great for America. – The bottom line is that this supposed Qatari gift is merely a temporary arrangement, wherein Qatar may lend a jet to the president. – At the same time, he waits for Boeing to finally provide the Air Force One planes they had promised to deliver by 2021.

Washington Examiner: On Monday, David Hogg said the DNC is fast-tracking his removal as vice chairman. – Hogg found his position on shaky ground last month after he pledged his group would primary Democrat members of Congress he perceived as ineffective, especially older ones. – This was viewed as violating the DNC’s commitment to “neutrality” and, in his eyes, triggered an effort to remove him from within the organization.

Epoch Times: British Prime Minister Brings In Tougher Policies to Reduce UK Immigration – Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the policies will ’take back control of our borders and close the book on a squalid chapter for our politics, our economy, and our country.’ – Starmer’s speech comes only 10 days after Labour suffered a major setback at local elections on May 1 and lost one of its safest seats, in Runcorn, to Reform UK…

American Thinker: Cosmic rays, not carbon dioxide, cause climate change – The facts are clear, but changing the erroneous consensus, with its ludicrous ideas about how our climate works, is proving difficult. – Over a decade ago, Swedish Professor Claes Johnson, a brilliant scientist, authored a 115-page document explaining why radiation from cooler atmospheric molecules cannot transfer heat to a warmer surface, thus debunking the notion that such radiation warms the Earth…

Center Square: Congress advances $3.5 billion cut for CA over illegal immigrant health care – The budget proposal would cut the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage to states that “use their Medicaid infrastructure to provide health care coverage for illegal immigrants under Medicaid or another state-based program.” The cuts would not impact emergency care reimbursements…

Epoch Times: The US and China Agree to Slash Tariffs for 90 Days – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the tariff pause would ’substantially move down the tariff levels.’ – “We both have an interest in balanced trade, the U.S. will continue moving towards that.” – “The Chinese and the United States agreed to work constructively together on fentanyl,” he added.

CNBC: Markets soar on the U.S.-China deal as Wall Street sees more upside. Under the deal, so-called reciprocal tariffs will drop from over 100% to 10% on both sides for 90 days. – The Trump administration will maintain 20% tariffs on fentanyl-related imports from China. – Market watchers labeled the new U.S.-China deal “better than expected,” “more workable,” and even a “dream scenario.”…

American Thinker: In Defense of Tariffs – Democrats’ outrage is out of proportion to the policy shift, as the Left continues to refuse to engage with the concept of tariffs. – They claimed many catastrophes were imminent, such as the collapse of the dollar, astronomical consumer price increases, and alienation of our allies, etc. – In contrast, here is a partial list of companies that recently announced plans to invest in U.S. manufacturing:…

Daily Wire: Trump Signs Order To Reduce Drug Prices, Tells Rest Of World To Pay Up – “The United States will no longer subsidize the drug prices of other countries.” – By implementing a policy called “Most Favored Nation,” Trump said the U.S. is “gonna pay the lowest price there is in the world. – The order follows another directive signed by Trump on May 5, which seeks to reduce the regulatory burden on the domestic production of critical medicines…

Daily Fetched: Elon Musk’s DOGE Drops A Fraud Bombshell, 100,000 Federal Employees Illegally Claimed Unemployment Benefits – The bombshell revelation underscores the government’s glaring lack of internal fraud controls and oversight, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. – “They’re active employees who nonetheless applied for and have received unemployment insurance.”…

Daily Wire: The Trump administration ended Temporary Protected Status for all Afghan refugees on Monday, paving the way for the deportation of tens of thousands of Afghans living in the United States. – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that improving conditions in Afghanistan have made it possible for the refugees to return home.

Victor Davis Hanson: The Decivilizing of America – From secure borders to functioning cities, America is shedding the hard-won pillars of civilization-by choice, not chance—in a sweeping, top-down descent into disorder. – What we suffered from 2021 to 2025 was an unprecedented effort to de-civilize the nation by destroying its borders. – Stranger still, illegal aliens were at times given precedence over citizens, as immigration law was simply discarded.

American Thinker: What Do Democrats Do Next? – Because everything Democrats do infuriates the middle class. – Democrats haven’t changed their game. – Ever since Marx, the Left has operated what experts call “Allyship.” – The Left is always the Ally of the Oppressed Peoples in their fight against the supposed Oppressors. Our liberal friends have been playing the game of fighting for the oppressed for over a century…

American Thinker: Trump’s plan for homeless vets continues to put Americans ahead of illegal aliens – Trump knows whom he represents, and it’s not impoverished people from abroad; it’s impoverished people at home who served this country. – This is a president who puts the American people first, and, despite the endless anti-Trump drumbeat from the American media (92% of news reports about him are negative), people are noticing…

American Thinker: The Qatar airplane story, as portrayed by mainstream media, is fake news – The story was a set-up to anger conservatives, frighten Jews, and give leftists the opportunity to gloat about Trump’s corruption. – The whole short-lived debacle is a reminder that the anti-Trump media do not want Trump to succeed in bringing a pro-Israel peace to the Middle East…

Washington Free Beacon: 44 Law Firms Have Been Hit With A Discrimination Complaint Over Race-Based Internship – The complaint, filed with the EEOC, targets Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, a nonprofit that places minority students at elite firms the summer before their first year of law school that often leads to a return offer the following summers. – Firms include those that pledged to eliminate DEI programs as part of an agreement with the Trump administration…

Washington Free Beacon: The EEOC is investigating whether Harvard University unlawfully hires faculty based on race and sex, arguing that the school’s data provides evidence of discrimination. – The probe is the latest federal action against the beleaguered university, which last month sued the Trump administration over its decision to freeze more than $2 billion in aid to the Ivy League school.

PJ Media: It Turns Out That Even More of Joe Biden’s Jobs Creation Numbers Were Fake – According to new figures released this week, the 399,000 jobs the Biden team claimed were created between July and September of last year have completely vanished. Not only did the economy not add those jobs, but it also lost 1,000 private-sector jobs during that period.

Daily Fetched: Two left-wing NGOs tied to George Soros are trying everything to thwart President Trump’s new anti-child-trafficking reforms. – The National Center for Youth Law and Democracy Forward, both of which have received money from George Soros via his Open Society Foundations, have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in an attempt to block reform of the Unaccompanied Alien Children program.

Zero Hedge: Republicans Push A $1.3 Billion Bill To Refill The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Plus $218 Million for Maintenance & Repairs. – The proposed bill would claw back money headed for green boondoggles through “environmental and climate justice block grants” and other spending mechanisms through the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department. – The SPR plays a critical role in stabilizing the U.S. market during global supply disruptions.

Slay News: Trump Fires Liberal U.S Copyright Office Chief ‘Effective Immediately’ – The Library of Congress oversees the U.S. Copyright Office. – Shira Perlmutter, a former Bill Clinton administration official, was appointed to the role by Carla Hayden in 2020. – Hayden was fired by Trump last Thursday. – The termination was part of the administration’s ongoing purge of government officials who are perceived to be opposed to Trump and his agenda.

Zero Hedge: U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff Allows CIA To Fire A Doctor Who Helped Enforce The Military COVID Mandate – Adirim alleged in court filings that she became the target of a politically motivated campaign led by activist Ivan Raiklin. – Nachmanoff found that Adirim had failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on the merits of her claim that the CIA violated her constitutional rights.

May 11, 2025

Epoch Times: Zelenskyy Accepts Putin’s Invitation To Meet In Turkey On May 15th – Zelenskyy reiterated the need for a full, temporary cease-fire between the two warring neighbors before talks commence and said, ‘It is a positive sign that the Russians have finally begun to consider ending the war.’…

One America News: On Sunday, Hamas disclosed plans to release Edan Alexander, the last American hostage in Gaza. – It is willing to release 21-year-old Alexander, an American-Israel citizen from New Jersey, due to “intensified efforts to achieve a ceasefire, open border crossings, and allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.” – Alexander was serving in the Israeli Defense Forces when he was taken hostage on October 7, 2023

Just The News: President Trump will visit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates to fortify ties and broaden economic cooperation and investments in the region. – Building on relationships forged during his first term through the historic Abraham Accords, the trip will focus mostly on economic deals between the U.S. and its Middle East partners, with diplomatic relations as a secondary goal.

Daily Fetched: A USAID Official Is Charged With COVID Bailout Fraud Using By Creating A Fake Company – “From at least in or around March 2021, and continuing through at least in or around August 2021, Yusuf Akoll [made] materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements…that resulted in Akoll receiving two [Paycheck Protection Program] loans totaling approximately $16,666 that he was not entitled to receive.”

Just The News: Whistleblowers say human trafficking hotline operator failed to report tips to law enforcement – Senator Chuck Grassley, “The whistleblowers’ disclosures appear to confirm the allegations that Polaris is not reporting instances of potential human trafficking to law enforcement.” – “Polaris has received millions in taxpayer dollars to run this hotline, and if the grant is renewed, will receive an additional $9 million in funding.”

American Spectator: The Democrat-Media Codependency – Their deeply dysfunctional relationship is destroying the credibility of both. – When “mainstream” journalists decided it was more important to save democracy from the depredations of Donald Trump than to provide factual reporting to voters, they weren’t doing the Democrats any favors. The most obvious example involves their futile attempt to hide former President Biden’s accelerating cognitive decline.

Wall Street Journal: The Trump Administration in Talks to Accept New Air Force One as Gift From Qatar – The pending arrangement follows years of frustration from Trump over the delays on Boeing’s work to deliver a new Air Force One. – Administration lawyers reviewed the arrangement with the Qatari government and concluded it was legal, the administration official said. – Democrats and good-government groups criticized the pending deal.

American Thinker: Thank You, Mothers – There Is No More Important Responsibility Than Motherhood. – Mothers are our first and most important teachers. – For all the mothers who might be reading this, know that your work and sacrifice mean everything. – No matter how broken the world becomes, you are the glue that binds the pieces back together.

Epoch Times: President Donald Trump said that his team of negotiators had a “very good meeting today” with China in their first round of trade talks on May 10. – “Many things discussed, much agreed to.” – “A total reset negotiated in a friendly, but constructive, manner.” – The first round of talks went on for more than 10 hours…

Geller Report: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday Endorsed ‘Death to America’ Chants Ahead of Nuclear Talks – The nuclear talks between the U.S and Iran’s deceptive negotiators are asinine and a waste of time. Iran is not negotiating in good faith and never has. It only seeks to stall and deceive the Trump Administration. But Trump will be able to say he tried diplomacy first. – These futile talks need to stop before Iran goes nuclear.

Resist The Mainstream: AG Pam Bondi, along with DEA agents and officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Mexico, announced on Tuesday that a weeklong investigation into drug trafficking had led to one of the largest fentanyl busts in U.S. history. – Bondi confirmed the seizure of 11.5 kilos of fentanyl, the “largest seizure in our nation’s history.”

American Thinker: Trump’s Necessary Foreign and Domestic Revolution – It’s a fool’s game to try to predict President Trump’s audacious moves and what will be next. – This is the kind of revolution which is timely and necessary, and which only this president and his capable cabinet are willing and able to achieve…

Newsmax: As the Republicans seek to agree on the federal budget, much discussion has been raised about the need to raise taxes in the wake of Trump’s tariffs. – Former presidential adviser Dick Morris told Newsmax on Saturday that he spoke with President Trump earlier in the day and “he’s not going to raise taxes at all.”

May 10, 2025

Fox News: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino shared a detailed update Saturday about the bureau’s operations. – Bongino outlined several priorities and aimed at what he called misleading media coverage of the FBI’s work. – “If you came here illegally to prey on our citizens, your days here are numbered.” – These operations are only getting started and will ramp up in the coming weeks.

American Thinker: Gavin Newsom’s Gaseous Problem – With the U.S. economy showing increasingly clear signs of recovery, and gas prices falling, one state has decided to go the other way … Gavin Newsom’s California. – California may be on the verge of a gas price crisis, with experts warning that soaring costs could occur if the state’s largest refineries shutter operations...

Center Square: President Donald Trump announced a temporary ceasefire Saturday morning between India and Pakistan after days of military fighting in the neighboring nations. – Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance helped broker the ceasefire deal with leaders from Pakistan and India. Both men spent the past two days working with Indian and Pakistani officials, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

Breitbart: Ukraine and its allies are ready for a “full, unconditional ceasefire” with Russia for at least 30 days starting on Monday, Ukrainian FM Andrii Sybiha said Saturday. – His remarks came as the leaders of four major European countries visited Kyiv, amid a push for Moscow to agree to a truce and launch peace talks on ending the nearly three-year war.

Townhall: On Friday, Susan Illston of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California called for a two-week pause in the Trump administration’s plans for mass layoffs and program closures, barring two dozen agencies from moving forward with the largest phase of the president’s downsizing efforts, which the judge said was illegal without congressional authorization. – Of all the lawsuits challenging President Trump’s actions, this one is poised to have the broadest effect.

American Thinker: It’s Time To Judge The Judges – Obama deported 400,000 illegal immigrants per year when he was in office, and no one said a word. – Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution clearly puts the power of protecting the United States against “invasion” firmly in the hands of the Legislative and Executive Branches of the government and NOT the Judicial branch. – Justices encroaching on the power of the Executive Branch are violating the Separation of Powers…

Resist The Mainstream: President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to establish a national center for homeless veterans using funds previously allocated for housing and services for illegal immigrants. – The executive order mandates the creation of the National Center for Warrior Independence. The facility will be located on the Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles.

American Thinker: The Net Zero Fantasy Is Fading – An unaccountable machine is pushing impractical policies that most people never voted for and are finally beginning to reject. – Energy policy must serve people, not ideology. – If Net Zero were a serious endeavor, its architects would confront the undeniable. China and India were responsible for more than 40% of global CO2 emissions over the last two decades and are accelerating their use of fossil fuels, rather than phasing them out.

American Thinker: Defeating Online Fraud – The hacking of national databases of personal data, as well as the impact of organized crime and sophisticated data harvesting, makes the average person much more vulnerable to cyberattacks and fraud. – This type of criminal behavior requires a federal solution with a centralized enforcement mechanism to thwart the activities of these cyber thieves.

Breitbart: President Donald Trump signed four bills on Friday to roll back Biden-era regulations on appliances like water heaters, refrigerators, walk-in coolers, and household appliances. – Trump also signed an executive order Friday to roll back rules that limit water use on household appliances like shower heads and faucets.

Powerline: The Week In Pictures: Escape From Alcatraz Edition – Remember the old days when there was such a thing as a slow news week? Good times, good times. The past week has been chock-full of news, for better or worse.

New York Post: Embattled NY AG Letitia James claims she’s being followed on Trump’s orders – “They got individuals coming to my house, standing outside my house. Last Sunday – church Sunday, while I was in church, these individuals were in front of my house, taking pictures and then streaming it, putting it on social media,” she said during a May 3 rally at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network headquarters in Harlem…

May 9, 2025

Fox News: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested as Democrat Congress members stormed New Jersey’s ICE prison to conduct a supposed ‘oversight visit’ – Bob Hugin, chairman of the New Jersey Republican Party, called Baraka’s actions a “stunt,” noting that he had ignored repeated warnings from authorities. – ICE’s Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, is currently holding alleged killers, MS-13 gang members, child rapists and more…

Zero Hedge: The Federal Aviation Administration has approved 25 Starbase launches for SpaceX in 2025, clearing the way for the world’s largest rocket to enter hyperdrive development. – Previously capped at just five launches per year under the Biden administration, Starship could now lift off as frequently as every few weeks.

Zero Hedge: Just over a week after Bloomberg exposed the rise of “zombie” or “phantom” oil tankers—cargo ships that hijack the identities of scrapped ships to evade U.S. sanctions—another clandestine maritime supply chain has emerged – This time it reveals how Iranian crude continues flowing into China despite mounting pressure from the Trump administration.

American Spectator Sanctuary Cities, The Dangerous Illusion of Virtue: – Sanctuary cities are a triumph of superficial compassion over practical morality. Cloaked in righteous language, these jurisdictions promise safety and sanctuary to migrants while recklessly disregarding their primary obligation: the protection of their citizens.

Slay News: A key witness in disgraced rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Trafficking trial has been reported “missing,” prosecutors have revealed. – The female victim, who is central to the case, does not live in New York, where the Combs’ trial is being held. – On Wednesday, lead prosecutor Maurene Comey told U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian that they are unable to locate “Victim 3” and her attorney…

Brownstone Institute: Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Is Under Fire – Pediatric gender dysphoria has rapidly emerged as one of the most divisive and urgent issues in medicine today. – In the past decade, the number of children and adolescents identifying as transgender or nonbinary has soared. – In the US alone, diagnoses among youth aged 6 to 17 nearly tripled—from around 15,000 in 2017 to over 42,000 by 2021…

Zero Hedge: According to the latest data released by the Census Bureau, most U.S. states have returned to population growth in 2024. – Notably, Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports that three economically successful states – California, Illinois, and New York – returned to growth, as did Hawaii, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana…

Zero Hedge: Where The Money Went, USG Funding To Counter-Mis/Disinformation Initiatives – When it comes to MDM funding, the vast majority of the awards went to US-based initiatives. The graph below shows a contract totaling nearly $1 billion to military contractor Peraton. However, even without this contract, US recipients received around $318 million, which dwarfs the next country, Kazakhstan, at $20 million.

Zero Hedge: The organization set to administer Israel’s controversial plan to take control of humanitarian aid distribution in Gaza will use private contractors to secure hubs where Palestinians will receive 1,750 kcal meals that will cost donors a little more than a dollar each. – Details about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s strategy for Gaza are laid out in a 14-page document circulating amongst aid organizations working on Gaza and seen by Middle East Eye.

Zero Hedge: President Trump urged Russia and Ukraine to enter into a 30-day unconditional cease-fire while U.S.-led peace negotiations are ongoing. – Trump stated that the temporary cease-fire must “ultimately build toward a peace agreement” between the two nations and warned that the United States would impose sanctions if the cease-fire weren’t respected…

Breitbart: President Trump indicated that he would approve an 80% tariff on China but said the path of the negotiations would be up to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. – The administration said last month that it would raise the tariff on goods imported from China to 145 percent. – Earlier, Trump had indicated that lower tariff levels raised the tariff when China announced it would retaliate against the U.S. with tariffs of its own.

Gateway Pundit: DNI Tulsi Gabbard Reveals 11 Active Investigations Into Intelligence Leaks and Deep State Sabotage of the Trump Administration – Gabbard pulled no punches, directly calling out entrenched bureaucrats for undermining the duly elected President of the United States with calculated leaks to far-left corporate media outlets. – We will hold them accountable because this has got to end…

Zero Hedge: International Airlines Group (IAG), owner of British Airways and Aer Lingus, will place an order for 53 new Airbus and Boeing long-haul aircraft. – It will purchase 32 Boeing Co. 787-10 aircraft for British Airways and 21 Airbus SE A330neo planes, which may be assigned to IAG’s airline brands, including Aer Lingus, Iberia, and Level. – They are set to be delivered between 2028 to 2033 and are in addition to the 18 planes it ordered in March.

The Federalist: Whistleblower Documents Implicate The National Archives and Records Administration The In Second Get-Trump Criminal Case – This recent revelation means NARA stood at ground-zero for both of the special counsel’s criminal cases, with NARA also behind the classified document investigation. – On Monday, Johnson and Grassley issued a press release announcing the opening of an inquiry into NARA and its inspector general, to probe the propriety of their involvement…

Zero Hedge: U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy has blocked the Trump administration from deporting illegal immigrants to Libya or any other country of which they are not citizens without first giving them notice and an opportunity to claim protection under U.S. law. – This was done after reports surfaced of an imminent military flight carrying detainees to the North African nation.

American Conservative: Another Round of Congressional GOP Infighting Begins – The Memorial Day budget reconciliation deadline is bringing internal disputes into the open. – Until this week, GOP infighting has been largely contained to what President Donald Trump might call “concepts of a plan.” – Moderates have been talking about increasing SALT deductions, cutting Medicaid, and protecting Biden’s green energy subsidies. – But things change when put on paper…

American Thinker: U.S. Interest Over Greenland Is Not New – President Donald Trump has once again done the unthinkable by declaring a strategic truth the establishment refuses to hear. – But in no way is he the first to do so. – Greenland is not just a snow-covered wasteland but a pivotal chess square in the new great game for the Arctic. – It sits astride the GIUK gap—Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom—a strategic maritime bottleneck vital to NATO.

American Thinker: In high heels and backwards – Trump named Jeanine Pirro the interim U.S. attorney for D.C., and it’s an alpha male move over the RINO establishment. – If anything, she’ll dance in high heels and backwards right into the ugly truth of it, and oh my, what Republican vermin will scatter away from that sunlight, huh? Because, as we all know by now, our problem isn’t Democrat versus Republican; it’s Us versus Them, the Uniparty.

American Thinker: Qatar, Our Enemy Hiding in Plain Sight – Qatar has been a threat to our national security since at least 1986, and though their inroads into the U.S. have been subtle, it doesn’t make them any less dangerous. – Through “Education City,” Qatar extensively influences universities, and Qatar’s motives are not benevolent. – They aim to transform our goals and values into the radical Muslim ideology that includes anti-Semitism…

Breitbart: The Pentagon Begins Removing Trans-Identifying Personnel – Some 1,000 military personnel who openly self-identify as transgender are being taken out of immediate service. – Those who have yet to step forward as transgender have been granted 30 days to depart of their own volition. – The DOD is also searching medical records to reveal others who haven’t declared due to the establishment media narrative that some 15,000 transgender military personnel now serve.

Breitbart: Southern Border Migrant Apprehensions Continue Their Record-Shattering Decline – April apprehensions fell by nearly 13% from the previous month and more than 95% compared to last year. – During the first week of May, agents along the entire southwest border apprehended approximately 270 per day…

Breitbart: Under Governor Gavin Newsom, California Faces A Budget Shortfall of $10-$20 Billion – Earlier this year, the state was forced to borrow $6.2 billion to fund Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, which Newsom and his party expanded to cover illegal aliens. – Newsom’s performance is coming under the spotlight as he prepares for a likely presidential run in 2028.

Daily Fetched: President Trump Dismisses Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden – Hayden, who was appointed in 2016 by President Barack Obama, had been accused of pushing sexual identity ideology on children. – The dismissal came as the White House continues its ongoing purge of federal officials perceived to oppose the president’s America First agenda.

Center for Immigration Studies: The U.S. approves more than a million permanent residency or green cards annually. More than half result from chain migration, where immigrants are sponsored by a family member who has already arrived. – In contrast, only about 15% are based on skills or sponsorship by an employer, with the remainder based on a green card lottery or humanitarian programs. – Replacing chain migration with a modern system balancing family admissions with more skilled immigrants is needed…

FAR: The Howard Zinn Book That Poisoned a Generation – One book and one author changed how American history is taught. – Because of this book, many Americans no longer believe we are the good guys but rather the cause of the world’s problems. – Why has it become so popular? – See what Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute, has to share on the subject.

May 8, 2025

Zero Hedge: The minerals deal is now official and legally binding for Ukraine – On Thursday, Ukraine’s parliament voted in favor of ratifying the controversial resources agreement with the US, a final key step in its adoption. – The Zelensky government is hoping this will more firmly secure future military assistance from Washington. The vote was unanimous: 338 Ukrainian lawmakers approved ratification, and none opposed it.

Washington Times: The fight over whether unelected federal district court judges should be able to unilaterally halt an elected president of the United States’ agenda has reached a critical point. – During the past three months, efforts to change the Washington establishment have been thwarted by radical district judges wildly exceeding their authority, having issued 37 nationwide injunctions. – The Supreme Court must end the absurdity…

Newmax: The FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Albany, New York, have opened a criminal investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James over allegations of mortgage fraud. – The probe comes in the wake of a criminal referral by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte earlier this month.

Daily Signal: On Wednesday afternoon, pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the Columbia campus and took over Butler Library during the school’s finals week. – These pro-Hamas radicals couldn’t have handed the Trump administration an easier opening in its war on college campus radicalism. – The New York Police Department was eventually called in and trapped the mob in the library and arrested 80 people…

American Thinker: Another Round Of Violent Pro-Hamas Protestors At Columbia, So Marco Rubio Gets Busy – Unlike university officials, he’s getting ready to throw this bunch out, just like he did with the last bunch. – US State Department, “Foreign university students in America have been put on notice: if you break the law or support terrorism in our country, we will revoke your visa. This administration will not tolerate noncitizens…

Washington Free Beacon: Joe Biden Blames Harris’ Loss on ‘Sexist’ GOP During His Barely Comprehensible Appearance on The View – Biden’s wife, Dr. Jill Biden—widely believed to be the driving force behind his decision to seek reelection—joined the interview about half-way through and defended her husband against what The View co-hosts described as “allegations” of cognitive decline…

One America News: Trump Highlights Air Traffic Control Upgrades, Criticizes Buttigieg’s Oversight – Overall, the new plan entails four infrastructure components: communications, surveillance, automation, and facilities. – By 2028, officials are planning to replace current telecommunications systems with new wired, satellite, and fiber technologies at over 4,600 sites, 25,000 new radios, and 475 new voice switches. – By 2027, 618 radars will also be replaced…

Western Journal: Trump Picks Judge Jeanine Pirro to Fill The DC Prosecutor Post After First Choice Blocked by GOP Senator – Trump’s announcement of Pirro as interim U.S. attorney came after he expressed disappointment earlier in the day of having to pull Ed Martin from consideration for permanent appointment to the position. Martin is currently the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, but his appointment is set to expire on May 20…

American Spectator: The Tesla Terror Attacks Show Americans Aren’t Buying the Left’s Fake ‘Grassroots’ Game Anymore – These attacks are professionally manufactured, lavishly funded, and tightly controlled by the same network of left-wing billionaires and political operatives we have known about for years. – The mask is slipping, and the country is waking up. – Under President Trump, political violence and domestic terrorism should be met with zero tolerance.

Wall Street Journal: AI’s Threat to Google Just Got Real – A drop in search traffic is a reminder that technological advancement can displace long-established tech giants – Senior Apple executive Eddie Cue said Wednesday that Google searches over the Safari web browser fell over the last two months, “That has not happened in over 20 years.”

One America News: President Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. has reached a major trade deal with the U.K., making it the first since Trump announced his sweeping tariffs in April. – Trump spoke with reporters in the Oval Office, telling them that the U.K. will be “opening up the country” for American goods, including agricultural products. – “They’ll also be fast-tracking American goods through their customs process, so our exports go to a very, very quick form of approval, and there won’t be any red tape,” he added…

Epoch Times: Robert Francis Prevost Has Been Elected And Is The First American Pope – He selected the name Pope Leo XIV. – Pope Leo XIV, 69, is a native of Chicago but spent a significant amount of his ministry in Latin America, coming to the conclave as the Archbishop-Bishop emeritus of Chiclayo, Peru.

Western Journal: The Newly-Elected American Pope Has Taken Multiple Shots at the Trump Administration in Recent Months – His X account shows he has less-than-great sentiments with regards to President Trump, VP J.D. Vance, and their respective administration due to comments regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia and George Floyd. – However, Charlie Kirk’s team at Turning Point USA says his voting history suggests that “he’s a strong Republican, and he’s pro-life.”

Geller Report: President Trump joined Hugh Hewitt to discuss Iran – “I’d much rather make a deal. Total verification. We can do that. We have some brilliant people up at MIT. We can do that very, very solidly. I would much prefer a very strong, verified deal, where we actually blow them up or just de-nuke them. There are only two alternatives there: Blow them up nicely or blow them up viciously”…

Slay News: An Activist Joe Biden appointed Judge Orders Trump to Resettle 12,000 ‘Refugees’ – The ruling mandates that the government must process, admit, and provide resettlement support to these refugees, adhering to the judicial injunction. – The executive order in question was signed by Trump shortly after taking office. – The order aimed to suspend the refugee resettlement program. The action is the result of organizations that rely on refugee resettlement for funding…

Zero Hedge: Just two days before U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is set to meet his Chinese counterpart for the first round of trade talks in Switzerland, Boeing revealed a new order for wide-body jets from a Chinese state-owned airline, presumably a calculated gesture of goodwill ahead of negotiations. – Boeing announced that “China Airlines has become the newest 777X customer with an order for ten 777 passenger and four 777 Freighter airplanes.”

Daily Fetched: Illegal aliens currently residing in the United States can no longer fly without a REAL ID unless they are boarding a plane to self-deport, according to Secretary Noem of the Department of Homeland Security. – The REAL ID Act came into force on May 7 as a result of legislation passed nearly 20 years ago in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks…

Daily Fetched: Elon Musk’s DOGE Issues A Massive Update on A Government Scam, Saving $105 Billion – This was done through a “combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings,” and other cost-cutting efforts including workforce reductions. – In response, Democrats have launched a wave of legal challenges against DOGE…

Newsmax: Trump administration officials are deciding whether to release the audio from special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with former President Joe Biden during the investigation of the mishandling of classified documents. – Hur said he did not criminally charge Biden with mishandling documents due to the president’s age and mental acuity following the October 2023 interview.

Newsmax: A DOGE Software Update Streamlines Federal Layoffs – Under direction from Musk’s DOGE, software developers at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management created a more user-friendly web-based program over the past few months that provides targets for layoffs much more quickly than the current labor-intensive manual process…

American Thinker: America must have an ‘Anti-Fragile’ electric grid – Due to a short-sighted emphasis on renewables, the long-term reliability of the U.S. grid is being put in peril. – Several days ago, Spain, Portugal, and parts of France and Belgium lost power for an extended period, demonstrating just how devastating a total grid collapse can be to our modern way of life. – The problem is that renewable energy sources are inherently intermittent, so they can’t be counted on during peak demand periods…

Zero Hedge: Interior Secretary Doug Burgum warns that the United States is at risk of suffering from blackouts that recently brought most of Spain to a halt due to over-subsidizing intermittent renewable energy sources. – “Spain celebrated their first day of 100% renewables on their system, then a week later, they were a global news story because they had a rolling blackout and grid failure.”…

American Thinker: Leaked documents show that officials knew about the Nashville shooter’s ‘suicidal’ and ‘homicidal’ ideations years before she gunned down teachers and children. – So they arrested the man who exposed it. – Former Metro Police Lt. Garet Davidson was arrested by the TBI and the Robertson County Sheriff’s office for leaking Covenant School shooter documents…

American Thinker: Judge Dugan’s Courthouse Escape Plan – According to the FBI affidavit, someone from the state Public Defender’s Office photographed the ICE arrest team and alerted Dugan’s clerk that immigration officers were present. – Dugan then became “visibly angry.” – Later, she led them out through the jury door, a restricted access point that defendants not in custody are not permitted to use. – She returned to her courtroom and continued her docket…

California Globe: Governor Newsom’s Climate Grift Spent $33 Billion in Cap-and-Trade to ‘Make Communities Cleaner and Healthier’ – But wildfire smoke has added enough pollution to the air to wipe out nearly half of the supposed total air quality gains made from 2000 onward, – Since year 2000, there have been 194,844 wildfires in California according to CalFire statistics…

Slay News: President Trump is planning to dismantle the Energy Star program that certifies household appliances as energy efficient. – The program sought to ban appliances that allegedly contributed to “climate change,” such as gas stoves. – The move is part of a broader shift at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). – Trump’s EPA is now moving away from climate-related work under Administrator Lee Zeldin.

Center for Immigration Studies: The Indian press is in a panic right now over the U.S. government requesting more information on H-1Bs. – Specifically, the government is asking for biometric and address information. The Indian press notes that the need for such information is unusual.

California Globe: According to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll released on Wednesday, well over a majority of voters said that Governor Gavin Newsom is doing more things that will benefit him as a presidential candidate rather than governing the state and helping solve problems here. – Specifically, 54% of all registered voters in California believe that Newsom is “Doing things that will benefit him as a possible candidate for president”…

May 7, 2025

Epoch Times: Trump Nominates MAHA-Aligned Dr. Casey Means as Surgeon General – Means, who is aligned with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., replaces Trump’s original nominee for the role. – “Her academic achievements, together with her life’s work, are absolutely outstanding,” Trump said. “Dr. Casey Means has the potential to be one of the finest Surgeon Generals in United States History.”

The Free Press: Joe Biden Has No Regrets, But Many Senior Moments – On a muted TV, the former president appeared normal. – However, with the sound on, he was hard to listen to. – Joe Biden is back, or at least out of the house, with a new interview that was the first from the 82-year-old former president since he left the White House. – Strangely, given that Biden was an American president, it was on the BBC.

Zero Hedge: Satellite Images Uncover China’s Buildup In Cuba – The worrying findings expose a suspected circularly disposed antenna array at Cuba’s Bejucal signals intelligence site, just a stone’s throw from Havana. – The antenna could zero in on radio signals from 3,000 to 8,000 miles away, putting U.S. military bases and even Washington, D.C. within range…

American Thinker: A Purposely Limited Hangout – We are rarely presented with a perfectly binary option to issues in the political realm. – But the question of Joe Biden’s diminished mental capacity is an exception to that notion. – Our institutional journalists make me think about the end of The Wizard of Oz when he’s unveiled as a complete fraud. – They can’t understand why a majority of people have lost faith in them; “puzzling” because the reason is so obvious. For instance…

Zero Hedge: AG Pam Bondi said on Wednesday that the FBI is reviewing “tens of thousands of videos of [Jeffrey] Epstein with children or child porn,” and that there are “hundreds of victims,” when she addressed a question about the delay in releasing the full case files. – During the same press event, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that over 200 alleged child sex predators were arrested as part of Operation Restore Justice.

USA Today: Leftists Such as Jasmine Crockett and AOC Claim President Trump Fears Smart Women, But Progressives Are The Ones Who Are Really Afraid Of Them. – It’s called ‘defensive” projection. – Contrary to the accusation that Trump fears strong women, his administration has promoted accomplished, talented women to key positions in the White House, in the courts, and in the president’s Cabinet.

American Thinker: Amid leftist lawfare, President Trump needs more help – We need to stop unelected judges from taking democracy out of the hands of the people. – There have been more than 200 legal challenges made against the Trump administration’s policies, most notably border security. – Over 100 legal rulings have at least temporarily paused President Trump’s actions, from immigration to DOGE-led government efficiency…

Daily Wire: Border Czar Homan: ‘We’re Gonna Triple The Workforce’ In Sanctuary Cities – “Game’s over. We’re gonna look for these public safety threats and we’re gonna take ‘em off the streets.” – “If you got a final order, and you want to hinder your removal, you want to put roadblocks up and not cooperate, you want to hide and not open the door, then the agency is gonna start prosecuting you criminally.”…

Fetched: A Clinton-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump from Deporting Gang Members Using ‘Alien Enemies Act’ – Judge Alvin Hellerstein, a 91-year-old Clinton appointee, issued a preliminary injunction halting enforcement of the law in the Southern District of New York. – He argued that illegal aliens, including suspected gang members, are entitled to the same due process rights as American citizens…

Daily Fetched: The suspected terrorist behind the bombing plot at a Lady Gaga concert in Brazil is an illegal migrant whom the Trump Administration deported. – Brazilian authorities arrested 44-year-old Luis da Silva after he allegedly planned to kill Lady Gaga fans at her massive concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. – The concert drew a record-breaking 2.5 million attendees.

American Thinker: DOGE Is Doing the Clean-Up Leftists Can’t Stand – And the Left’s tantrum-throwing is epic. – DOGE has been unearthing the deep corruption involving both Republicans and (mostly) Democrats and proving the maxim that to unearth criminal behavior, always, always, always follow the money! – May this grand effort to Make America Great — and financially solvent — Again continue unimpeded!

Zero Hedge: A Crackdown On Student Loan Defaulters To Begin In June With Benefit Seizure, Then Wage Garnishment – The renewed enforcement effort begins with the Treasury Offset Program, which allows the federal government to intercept tax refunds, Social Security checks, and other federal payments to recover unpaid student debt.

Breitbart: Thirty-five Democrats in the House of Representatives joined Republicans last week to repeal California Governor Gavin Newsom’s attempt to ban sales of gas-powered cars in his state in favor of EVs by 2035. – Newsom called the repeal effort “illegal,” but as the New York Times noted Wednesday, “unity on climate change “is starting to fray among Democrats as voters face the real-world costs of environmental utopia…

Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll: Many Americans want working noncitizens to be able to stay in the U.S. – Half of voters said both seasonal workers and high-skilled workers should be allowed to stay. An additional 10% said high-skilled workers should be allowed to remain, but seasonal workers should not…

Breitbart: Universities in western Mexico were forced to close their doors due to the raging cartel violence in Sinaloa, which led to hundreds of murders, hundreds of forced disappearances, arson attacks, and other acts of violence. – The schools are forced to offer remote classes despite the many claims made by Mexican government officials that security is improving in the region.

Daily Signal: Trump’s Surgeon General Nomination Is Pulled – Dr. Janette Nesheiwat described herself as a double board-certified physician with a degree from the University of Arkansas School of Medicine. – Nesheiwat actually earned her medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, in St. Maarten. – She has also been criticized for touting the idea that children can identity as a gender that differs from their biological sex.

Daily Wire: Major Food Companies Are Accelerating MAHA Changes To Their Recipes – Ramon Laguarta, the head of PepsiCo, said brands like Lay’s and Tostitos will be rid of artificial colors by the end of 2025 – Just 13 days after [HHS] and the [FDA] announced plans to phase out petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation’s food supply, Tyson Foods today reported it will eliminate these dyes by the end of May…

May 6, 2025

Washington Examiner: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will meet with top Chinese officials in Switzerland on Saturday and Sunday to discuss economic and trade policies between the two countries. – The meeting represents an opportunity for the two nations to resolve their trade conflict, which President Donald Trump escalated with his 145% tariff on the country.

Just The News: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday testified to Congress that the US is in the process of negotiating with 17 of its largest trading partners. – Bessent did not give a specific timeline for when trade deals would be reached, but said he expects most deals will be reached by the end of the year…

Epoch Times: China Ramped Up Fentanyl Precursor Production to Target The US – China’s ruling regime began a secret project during President Donald Trump’s first term to weaken the United States through scaling up production of fentanyl precursors and shipping them to Mexico and Canada for manufacturing and distribution across the border, according to an insider who has sources in Beijing’s top political circle.

The White House: Here is a non-comprehensive running list of new U.S.-based investments in President Trump’s second term: Project Stargate, $500 billion – Apple, $500 billion – NVIDIA, $500 billion – IBM, $150 billion – Taiwan Semiconductor, $100 billion – Johnson & Johnson, $55 – Roche, $50 billion – Bristol Myers Squibb, $40 billion – Eli Lilly, $27 billion – United Arab Emirates, $25 billion – Novartis, $23 billion – Hyundai, a $21 billion – And the long list goes on…

Fox News: The Supreme Court stays lower court ruling, allowing the Trump administration’s transgender ban to proceed – Trump’s legal team argued that the transgender military policy “furthers the government’s important interests in military readiness, unit cohesion, good order and discipline, and avoiding disproportionate costs.”

Wall Street Journal: The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence-gathering efforts regarding Greenland, according to two people familiar with the effort. – A classified message asked agencies, whose tools include surveillance satellites, communications intercepts, and spies on the ground, to identify people in Greenland and Denmark who support U.S. objectives for the island…

Western Journal: Trump Interrupts Canadian Prime Minister to Issue a Crushing Reality Check: ‘There’s No Reason for Us to Be Subsidizing Canada’ – “We don’t need their Cars, we don’t need their Energy, we don’t need their Lumber, we don’t need ANYTHING they have, other than their friendship, which hopefully we will always maintain…

One America News: India launched a major military operation against Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir, a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entity that constitutes the western portion of the Kashmir region. – This comes as tensions have begun to increase since the attack on Hindu tourists in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region in April. – Men with firearms massacred 26 tourists in Pahalgam, in Indian-controlled Kashmir, last month.

California Globe: California Is Facing $8.43/gallon Gas, a 75% Increase, as Two More Refineries Close – We know who is responsible – Governor Gavin Newsom, his appointed administrative deep state, and complicit elected Democrats.

Powerline: The Train To Nowhere – Trump Says California’s High-Speed Train to Lose Federal Funding. – In 2008, California’s High-Speed Rail Authority said it would cost $33 billion and begin service by 2020. – So far, only about 119 miles, from Merced to Fresno, of the planned 776-mile railroad have commenced construction, and the estimated costs have soared to as much as $128 billion…

Zero Hedge: Major Israeli Attack Destroys Yemen’s Sanaa International Airport – Israel’s air force has continued a second day of large-scale attacks on Yemen, targeting the leadership and infrastructure of the Ansarallah movement, or Houthis, after the Sunday Houthi ballistic missile strike on Israel’s Ben Gurion international airport in Tel Aviv. – A couple of hours before the Tuesday Israeli strikes on Sana’a commenced, the IDF military issued an evacuation warning for Yemen’s Sana’a International Airport…

New York Post: Protests erupt across China after furious workers demand back pay as Trump’s tariffs on imports jolt their economy. – Chinese industry leaders, meanwhile, are “extremely anxious” about the steep duties, with many telling factories and suppliers to halt or delay supplies, Wang Xin, head of an industry group representing more than 2,000 Chinese merchants told the Financial Times…

Zero Hedge: Upside Surprise: A Trade Deal is Coming – Late last week, the People’s Republic made two MASSIVE gestures to the U.S.: Exempting a quarter of U.S. imports from tariffs for the first time in years. – Asking the Trump administration what it wants China to do regarding its involvement in the U.S.’s fentanyl crisis.

Breitbart: All four international airports around Moscow temporarily suspended flights Tuesday as Russian forces intercepted more than 100 Ukrainian drones fired at almost a dozen Russian regions. – Nine other regional Russian airports also temporarily stopped operating as drones struck areas along the border with Ukraine and deeper inside Russia…

American Conservative: Trump’s Russia/Ukraine Reset – The U.S. has withdrawn from peace talks, so here’s what comes next. – One reason Trump’s attempt at mediation has floundered is that most Russians, including the relative moderates, doubt that America can be an impartial mediator in this war. – The President is starting to see Vladimir Putin, not Volodymyr Zelensky, as the bigger obstacle to peace…

Daily Caller: Trump’s Department of Transportation purged 3,200 grants, left behind by Joe Biden, of various social justice and DEI initiatives, while clearing a backlog of funding to kickstart infrastructure projects. – The DOT has already awarded 180 of the 3,200 infrastructure grants that were previously backlogged under the Biden administration

Gateway Pundit: America First Legal filed a bombshell lawsuit against Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., in his capacity as Presiding Officer of the Judicial Conference of the US, and Robert J. Conrad, Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. – The lawsuit accuses the powerful duo of running an “unconstitutional shadow agency” and violating federal transparency laws to wage lawfare against conservative Supreme Court justices…

Townhall: The Media Is Missing This Crucial Detail About Trump’s Military Parade Because They’re Idiots – The parade is for the 250th birthday of the United States Army. – It’s a totally irrelevant coincidence that Trump shares the same birthday.

Townhall: Rwanda has confirmed it’s in the “early stage” of talks with the United States about taking in illegal immigrants deported by the Trump administration. – The comment from Olivier Nduhungirehe, the nation’s Foreign Affairs minister, comes after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last month the U.S. is “actively searching” for countries to take “some of the most despicable human beings.”

City Journal: Trump’s College Accreditation Executive Order Is a Positive Step for Higher Education – A few of the policies in the order warrant special comment. – Ending Illegal Race Preferences. – Worst Offenders. The executive order singles out law school and medical school accreditors for special attention, as evidence shows that they have been the worst offenders. – Legislation Is Needed.

American Thinker: Two Factions Vie for Supremacy in Today’s Democrat Party. – Ironically, both sides are Marxists. – On the one side, we have Karl Marx devotees, “Workers of the world unite!” – And on the other side, Groucho Marx. “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them, well, I have others.” – But the Groucho Marx Democrats cannot win without the Karl Marx Democrats…

American Thinker: What Leftists Really Care About – It’s not immigration, or race, or ‘equality.’ – It’s something deeper and more sinister. – It’s an attempt to accumulate enough power to decide what is a crime and who is a criminal, not by law, but by fiat. – If they can cement the absurd into the fabric of American life, then the application of absurdity becomes a norm, not an exception, a norm that can be turned against their true enemy: the rule of law, a revolution…

American Thinker: From “Little Marco,” to Big Hombre – Is Trump setting up a Vance-Rubio ticket for 2028? – An article notes that Rubio gets things done and is a smash on the Sunday TV shows. – I agree with that, and it’s nice to have a son of Cuban immigrants defend deportations. – So, where does this leave VP Vance? – I don’t know, but a Vance-Rubio ticket in 2028 may be what the Boss has in mind.

Breitbart: California Governor Gavin Newsom reacted Monday evening to President Donald Trump’s proposed 100% tariff on movies made outside the U.S. by asking for a $7.5 billion tax credit for the industry instead. – The president’s proposal drew applause from unions that represent “below the line” workers in the film industry. – There is, as of this writing, no indication that the Trump administration has any interest in Newsom’s proposal.

Washington Examiner: House Speaker Mike Johnson vows the lower chamber will vote on a bill “soon” to address a roughly $1 billion funding gap in the District of Columbia’s local budget. – The issue has been stalled in the House for nearly two months since the Senate passed legislation on March 14 to prevent the funding shortfall, which was created due to a recently passed federal spending deal that reverted the Washington government’s 2025 budget to 2024 spending levels…

May 5, 2025

Wall Street Journal: America’s Air Traffic Fiasco – Thousands of flights in and out of Newark airport in recent days have been delayed, diverted, or canceled owing to a long list of air traffic control failures. President Trump wants to reorder the global trading system, but how about fixing America’s air traffic mess? – Start with outdated technology. – Congress in 2003 directed the FAA to modernize its systems, yet the NextGen overhaul isn’t set to be complete until 2030.

Daily Caller: American Manufacturers Are Overwhelmed With Orders After Trump’s Tariff Crackdown On China – Jergens Inc., a midwestern toolmaker with less than 500 employees, says it’s “going like gangbusters” trying to keep up with demand, The Wall Street Journal reported. They are seeing an influx of orders from customers trying to avoid import tariffs, along with steady demand from the defense sector.

Western Journal: Three Illegals Arrested in A Horrific Home Invasion/Murder Case North of Los Angeles. – All three suspects are Georgian illegal aliens. – Two were caught & released at the border, one overstayed a tourist visa & had two ICE detainers on him, ignored in the past due to sanctuary policies,” – Americans continue to pay the price for the lax border policies seen under the Biden administration…

American Thinker: Trump’s Plan For Alcatraz Is Absolute Genius – It kills so many birds with one wonderful stone. – Imagine an updated, high-level prison, one presumably rich in criminal illegal alien inmates right in the beautiful San Francisco Bay, so Liberals can be visually assaulted by something they made possible when they closed the door to El Salvador’s prisons, and the site of its famous leftists-inspired “occupation of Alcatraz…

Gateway Pundit: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered a sweeping purge of senior Pentagon leadership, demanding a 20% reduction in four-star generals and admirals across all branches. – Hegseth’s memo frames the cuts as “critical” for “removing redundant force structure to optimize and streamline leadership.”

AMUSE on X: Pete Hegseth Is Right, We Need More GIs, Not More Generals – In 1945, at the apogee of American military might, the military maintained a ratio of one general or admiral for every 6,000 troops. – We now have one flag officer for every 1,400 troops. – This is not progress, but bureaucratic bloat masquerading as modernization. –

One America News: The Trump Administration Removes Biden-Appointed NTSB Vice Chair – Alvin Brown was appointed vice chair by Joe Biden in December 2024, one month before Donald Trump’s inauguration. – As of Tuesday morning, the official NTSB website now lists four members in the panel, all of whom were appointed by Trump. – The members include Chair Jennifer L. Homendy, Michael Graham, Thomas B. Chapman, and J. Todd Inman.

Focal Points: President Trump and RFK Jr. Just Shut Down Federal Support for Gain-of-Function Experiments – Trump signed an executive order today titled, IMPROVING THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH – The executive order halts federal funding for dangerous virus experiments overseas and temporarily suspends high-risk U.S. research involving infectious pathogens and toxins until a new, enforceable oversight policy is developed.

Post Millennial: President Trump orders the DOJ to take ‘all necessary action’ to secure the release of Tina Peters – Trump, “Radical Left Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser ignores Illegals committing Violent Crimes like Rape and Murder in his State and, instead, jailed Tina Peters, a 69-year-old Gold Star mother who worked to expose and document Democrat Election Fraud”…

American Spectator: Carbon Capture, This Scam Is The 21st Century’s Snake Oil. Carbon dioxide has gone from being a necessary ingredient for human life to, apparently, a dangerous pollutant responsible for the heating of Planet Earth to the point where it may no longer be able to sustain civilization. – They’ve been saying this for well more than a dozen years, you know, but just trust them, that doomsday clock is going to start any time now.

Daily Wire: ‘Hours Away From Staging A Massacre,’ Numerous Iranians Were Arrested In Great Britain – “Speculation mounted on Sunday evening that the suspected terror group was looking to hit a synagogue or another target linked to the Jewish community.” – Seven Iranians in Great Britain were arrested Saturday in two suspected terror cells for planning attacks or threatening national security…

AXIOS: President Trump said the goal of the negotiations with Iran is to achieve “full dismantlement” of Tehran’s nuclear program. – Trump’s remarks in an “Meet the Press” interview aired Sunday are the first time he’s publicly announced the ambitious goal since nuclear talks began with Iran a month ago. – GOP senators, evangelical leaders, and other Trump supporters have called on the president in recent days to make his position clear regarding Iran’s nuclear program.

Slay News: Israel to Seize All of Gaza and Control It Indefinitely – The newly approved offensive plan would move Gaza’s civilian population southward and keep humanitarian aid from falling into the hands of the terrorist group Hamas. – The announcement came just hours after it was announced that tens of thousands of reserve soldiers are being called up. It is expected to be implemented only after President Trump visits the region next week.

Daily Wire: ‘You People Are So Bad’ – Trump Shreds The Media’s Portrayal Of Mike Waltz’ Switcheroo – “You’re trying to make a big deal out of something that’s not.” – On Air Force One, Trump told reporters that he aims to pick a new national security adviser in the next six months. – When asked if he is considering WH Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Trump said Miller is “at the top of the totem pole” and “indirectly, already has that job.”

Dr. Meryl Nass: US funding of UN to be reduced by 87% – Trump’s so-called skinny budget proposes a nearly 48% cut to foreign aid spending. In addition, the budget plan indicates that the White House intends to rescind approximately $20 billion that Congress has already allocated. Taken together, the cuts and rescissions would add up to a roughly 84% reduction in U.S. foreign aid…

Slay News: AG Pam Bondi Shuts Down A Biden Era Regulation That Enabled Government Officials to Anonymously Leak Information – Bondi’s order will give federal investigators the authority to use subpoenas, court orders, and search warrants to hunt for government officials who make “unauthorized disclosures” to journalists. – This comes after numerous leaks have damaged the work of President Donald Trump’s administration…

American Thinker: Tariffs, Truth, and Strategic Survival – According to the mainstream media, the US just declared war on its consumers. – Over the past 25 years, China has consolidated control over the global supply chains for critical materials and products: rare earths, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, batteries, solar panels, and more. – The problem isn’t that we trade with China, it’s that we depend on them for things we should never outsource…

American Thinker: On Trump’s Tariffs, Look Who’s Blinking Now – A precariously positioned China is discreetly saying “uncle” to Uncle Sam. – China ‘assessing’ potential trade talks with US” – “Beijing Weighs Fentanyl Offer to U.S. to Start Trade Talks” – “China signals openness to trade talks” – “China says it’s evaluating the possibility of trade talks with the U.S.” – “China is ‘caving’ to Trump’s trade war strategy, expert signals” – “Inside Factories in China, a Struggle to Survive Trump’s Tariffs”

Breitbart: The Trump Administration Will Pay For Migrant Flights of Illegals Who Self-Deport – This will save American taxpayers 70%, as it currently costs DHS, on average, over $17,000 to arrest, detain, and deport someone from the U.S., while paying for self-removal flights & the stipend is projected to cost just $4,500, and will be safer for ICE and preserve their resources.

New York Post: Tren de Aragua-linked gangbangers turned on a pair of NYPD cops in Times Square in a shocking caught-on-video assault, the second migrant attack on New York’s Finest in the tourist hot spot in less than two years. – The cowardly attack came after the Friday night boxing match between Ryan Garcia and Rolly Romero in the Crossroads of the World, with the two cops being jumped while trying to stop the asylum-seeking thugs from robbing a pair of youngsters...

Just Facts Daily: Misinformation About the Arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan – Senator Cory Booker declared “Donald Trump is waging an all-out assault” on the “rule of law.” – The FBI’s charging document attests that multiple people witnessed Judge Dugan help an illegal immigrant avoid arrest, a potential crime under three federal laws. – Two of these statutes appear on the first page of the criminal complaint, and Heritage Foundation legal scholar Hans von Spakovsky identified the third.

American Thinker: The Party of Disbelief – Where you stand as an individual or an organization says a great deal about your morals and values. – In looking at the current Democrat Party, it is easy to see why they are hemorrhaging followers. – Here’s a sampling: They believe that lying is perfectly acceptable if it is about your opponents. – Cutting government waste is a threat to democracy. – If you illegally come into the US, you did not break the law…

Daily Wire: Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman has clearly established himself as a staunch supporter of the state of Israel. – Now, Democrats who once championed him and dismissed the effects of a stroke he sustained are questioning his mental health. – This week, New York Magazine wrote, “John Fetterman insists he is in good health, but staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew…

American Thinker: Fake News Gets Nominated For An Emmy – Ironically, the “60 Minutes” interview of Kamala Harris that CBS extensively edited, so that Harris’ answers didn’t sound so much like her, has been nominated for an Emmy award. – That’s not Emmy-winning journalism, folks, that’s election interference. – It is also pathetically biased reporting, unethical in the extreme, and “fake news.” – That’s why Donald Trump sued CBS…

Victor Davis Hanson: From One Fake Left-Ring Hysteria To The Next – For much of April, amid stock downturns, in the classical paranoid style, we were assured by the Wall Street Journal news reporters and the liberal press that Trump had either a) guaranteed an inevitable recession, b) engineered a losing trade war he likely regretted, c) crashed the stock market, d) lost his once majority favorability ratings, e) mostly had a failed first 100 days, or f) all of the above…

Townhall: Big Changes Are Coming to the White House, And Trump Says He’ll Pay for It Himself – One change will be to add a hard surface to the Rose Garden. – “The problem with the Rose Garden is the grass is always soaking wet and you can’t use it for news conferences.” – But the “big thing,” as Trump described it, is building a ballroom at the White House, an addition that’s been wanted for a long time…

Geller Report: President Trump Will Donate His Entire $400,000 Annual Presidential Salary AGAIN – That will total $3.2 million over two terms. – Don’t be surprised if the Democrats find a way to lose their minds over this, too.

Slay News: NIH Shuts Down The Fauci Labs Accused of Horrific Experiments on Dogs – Director Jay Bhattacharya announced that the agency has now closed its last in-house beagle lab on the NIH campus. – The announcement comes just days after Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk called for action on the issue.

FAR: The Sad Future of Law Enforcement – I have gone on many a “ride-along” over the years and rubbed elbows with quite a few police officers. All in all, they are great people……….. as long as you are not a criminal. – The letter below was written by a former police officer who finally had enough. – Take heart at what he has to say because these “Officers of the Law” are the only thing standing between the criminal element and law-abiding citizens…

May 4, 2025

Drew Berquist: President Trump Scores Major Win as an Appeals Court Smacks Down Rogue Judges – The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay in several consolidated lawsuits challenging the administration’s restructuring of a federal media agency. – The order directed the United States Agency for Global Media to reduce its operations. – USAGM oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks.

New York Post: President Trump orders reopening of Alcatraz prison. – Trump directed the Bureau of Prisons and other federal agencies to get the massive island facility off the San Francisco bay, back up and running again to lock away homegrown, repeat criminals. – “When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm.”

Red State: President Trump Was On Sunday’s “Meet The Press,” and Their Approach Was Utterly Predictable – As usual, it appears as if the nation’s leftist media gathered together in a smoky back room and all decided on what headlines they would run. – Here’s a sample of them showing a slavish devotion to the one narrative they’ve decided to focus on: USA TODAY, NBC News, and WaPo: Trump says ‘I don’t know’ when asked if he must uphold the Constitution…

American Spectator: It’s the ‘Art of the Deal’ in Action. Trump Addresses the Northern Border. – With a 25% tariff on Canadian goods, Trump pushed Canada to curb the flow of fentanyl and illegal migration at the northern border. – It wasn’t just the Southern border that was a problem. – Illegal drugs and weapons, and illegal border crossings, were becoming more prominent along the Northern border between the United States and Canada…

Wall Street Journal: President Trump Calls for A 100% Tariff on Movies Made Overseas – President Trump has found the next industry he wants to bring back to the U.S. with tariffs: Hollywood. – The president called the use of incentives by foreign countries to draw filmmakers and studios away from the U.S. a national-security threat…

Interest Of Justice: Will Dr. Fauci Be Getting A Fresh Jail Cell? – Dr. Anthony Fauci is under investigation by a special team led by U.S. National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard has created the Directors’ Initiative Group, which is specifically tasked with investigating Dr. Fauci for his alleged role in funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and for potential perjury regarding his sworn testimony about this funding…

Townhall: A ballistic missile fired by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels slammed into the ground just 75 meters from Terminal 3 outside Israel’s David Ben Gurion [international and civilian] airport Sunday. – Israeli and American defense systems failed to intercept it from Yemen. – It’s one of dozens fired by the Houthis over the past 30 days; the others were successfully intercepted.

Epoch Times: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Said She Rejected Trump’s Offer to deploy US Troops to Mexico – ‘We will never accept the presence of the United States Army on our territory. – “The territory is inviolable.” – “Sovereignty is inviolable.” – Sheinbaum said she remains willing to work with the United States on some measures to counter cartel activity, but draws the line at U.S. boots on the ground in her country.

New York Post: President Trump gives his final answer on a possible third term – Trump has teased the idea in the past but indicated that he was not serious about actually pursuing it. – Trump named two possible successors, Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio, but was coy about which one he would prefer.

American Thinker: Senator Fetterman Keeps Frustrating His Leftist Buddies – Democrats have a huge problem, and it starts with a reluctance to understand their electoral situation – But maybe the senator from Pennsylvania does. – Who knew that the left would attack their man by claiming bizarre behavior? You mean like agreeing that Israel must be supported, or that boys shouldn’t compete with girls?

Washington Examiner: Gretchen Whitmer’s hide-and-hug approach to Trump signals trouble ahead for Democrats – Presidential candidates too far left on the political spectrum abandon independent voters to win their party’s nomination, often are doomed to fail because they find themselves too far from the center. – And candidates who moderate rarely win a party nomination because independents usually skip voting in the primaries…

Slay News: President Donald Trump’s administration has removed the privileges that allowed people to travel to the United States from Romania without obtaining a visa. – The move comes after the nation’s presidential election was annulled last year and the lead candidate, populist independent Călin Georgescu, was arrested and barred from running again.

American Thinker: The Misguided Outrage over Defunding PBS and NPR – PBS and NPR are crying censorship over their defunding, but the facts reveal something totally different. – What we’re really talking about here is cutting off a relatively small but symbolically rich slice of their funding. – One that, for the loudest voices, represents not just dollars, but a perceived entitlement to taxpayer underwriting…

May 3, 2025

Just The News: Trump close to securing first tariff-forced trade deals. – After weeks of speculation and breathless coverage of will-they-won’t-they, the White House appears poised to announce trade deals as early as next week. – Speculation swirls around India being the first to forge a partnership after Vice President J.D. Vance’s meeting last week with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi to discuss a Bilateral Trade Agreement.

Daily Wire: President Trump may tap White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to serve as his next National Security Adviser, after Mike Waltz was selected as his Ambassador to the UN. – Trump trusts Miller and his ability to work well with Secretary of State Marco Rubio could be a key factor as well. – Given how well he’s worked with Marco, many see him as the perfect person to restore the role of the NSA to a staff-level policy role that reports to the chief of staff…

Zero Hedge: The Oversight Project has released disturbing new findings showing an apparent correlation between the increased use of autopen signatures and Joe Biden’s worsening mental decline. – The organization released further analysis finding that Biden’s pardons for family members, Anthony Fauci, General Milley, J6 Committee members, and Gerald Lundergan were all done via autopen.

Conservative Brief: Musk Unveils 5 Most Outrageous Findings Of DOGE Team – Funding a member of the Taliban – School district parties in Las Vegas – ‘Sesame Street’ in Iraq – Billions in ‘improper payments’ – DEI funding

Conservative Brief: The Trump Administration Approves More Critical Mineral Mining Projects – A second group of critical mineral production projects to be designated as FAST 41 transparency initiatives has been approved. – Advancement of the new U.S.-based mining projects comes on the heels of a deal between Washington and Kyiv, signed last week, for sharing Ukraine’s rare earth minerals.

Conservative Brief: Trump Makes A Move To Stop ‘Climate Lawfare’ – President Trump signed an executive order granting Attorney General Pam Bondi expanded authority to review and respond to state and local lawsuits targeting energy companies. – The administration argues that such litigation poses a threat to national energy policy and economic growth.

American Spectator: Drones, We Aren’t Ready for the Next War – The future of warfare is unfolding before our eyes. From Ukraine’s battlefields to the Red Sea, cheap, attritable drones are reshaping the character of modern conflict. – Yet despite these clear warning signs, the US still lacks the stockpiles or production infrastructure needed to dominate this new type of war weapon…

Breitbart, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday dared border czar Tom Homan to arrest her for what she claimed was legal advice she gave to migrants on how to avoid being deported. – Homan responded to the congresswoman’s taunt by saying he was already exploring her arrest with the U.S. Justice Department.

American Thinker: The Time for Talking With Iran Has Passed – It’s naïve to believe that negotiations will work to put the Iranian nuclear and terror juggernaut back in a box. – Offering to negotiate with Islamic terrorists is a statement of weakness. – They fully understand our weaknesses, but we utterly fail to appreciate their fanaticism…

Breitbart: ‘Tyranny in Disguise’ — Marco Rubio and JD Vance Blast Berlin over Move to Classify AfD As A ‘Right-Wing Extremist’ Party – This classification will allow for increased state surveillance of the anti-mass migration party, including observing its meetings with informants and wiretapping of party communications. – Surging support for the party came in the wake of growing public anger over the mass migration policies and a string of high-profile terror attacks…

Breitbart: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has warned woke employees of English councils working on “climate change initiatives, or diversity” to seek alternate employment after his party won historic victories in Thursday’s England elections. – After the final results for over 1,600 elections across England came in, it confirmed his Reform UK party had undeniably won ten local authorities, two mayoralties, a byelection to Parliament, and 677 councillor seats…

Daily Wire: What Trump’s Team Wants To Accomplish In the Next 100 Days – The first step will be getting the agenda funded. – A huge part of that would be the president’s discretionary budget request, which the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released on Friday. – The budget reduces non-defense discretionary spending by $163 billion, or 23%, from the 2025 enacted level, but increases defense spending by 13% and appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security by almost 65%…

Issues & Insights: Despite What You’ve Heard, Trump’s Budget Doesn’t ‘Slash’ Spending, It Barely Trims It – In 2019, the government spent $661 billion on domestic programs. That shot up to $1.1 trillion the next year, and stayed above $900 billion in the years since. – Trump proposes spending $679 billion. True, after inflation, that’s still a real cut in spending, but hardly constitutes slashing and burning the federal government…

Slay News: President Trump Touts A Flood of Capital Investment in the U.S from Major Companies – Trump revealed a staggering $8 trillion in new investments from companies in the pharmaceutical, energy, and technology sectors. – The White House launched a website that lists 49 different commitments from companies like Apple, NVIDIA, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Hyundai, and more…

Western Journal: The Army has confirmed there will be a military parade on President Trump’s birthday in June, as part of the celebrations around the service’s 250th birthday. – Plans for the parade call for about 6,600 soldiers, 150 vehicles, and 50 helicopters to follow a route from Arlington, Virginia, to the National Mall. – Trump has long wanted a military parade, and discussions with the Pentagon about having one began less than two months ago…

Western Journal: JD Vance Was Asked Who Now Leads The Democrats, And His Answer Didn’t Disappoint – “I think to the extent the Democrats have a leader, Donald J. Trump is the leader of the Democratic Party.” – “Because they’re just against everything that he does. – “Anytime Donald Trump does anything, they have this emotional response, they have to be against…

Epoch Times: President Trump’s 25% Auto Parts Tariff Goes Into Effect – The new duties target key components used in passenger vehicles and light trucks, including engines, transmissions, and electrical systems, but include exemptions for USMCA-compliant parts to preserve North American supply chains.

American Thinker: Getting Ahead of History – The media wants to fake the historical record regarding its handling of Joe Biden’s mental decline. – Joe Biden’s mental challenges weren’t just fodder for social media. – They now seem to have dictated how his 2020 campaign routinely “put a lid” on his schedule early in the day, and how tightly they controlled all of his interactions with the press…

American Thinker: The Trump administration is starting to address the climate and net-zero fraud by canceling government contracts and rolling back government regulations. – However, it has not yet addressed the root cause of the climate scam. This is the use of fraudulent climate models to create the illusion of CO2-induced global warming, now rebranded as climate change/extreme weather.

American Thinker: Senator Ed Markey’s creepy video indictment of Trump only makes me appreciate Trump more. Thankfully, Markey compiled a well-organized list detailing those same allegedly wrongful acts. – Frankly, I’m impressed because these are all things that conservatives and fairly apolitical Americans strongly support, and they’re also examples of the fact that Trump, once having attained office, actually kept his campaign promises.

New York Post: President Trump ordered a new private plane after Boeing fell too far behind schedule on delivering the $3.9 billion project, which it now projects a completion date of 2035 for a revamped Air Force One. – The commander in chief is getting an L3Harris jet decked out with suites, plush carpeting, leather couches, and more, which once listed for about $400 million…

American Thinker: Our friend, Kilmar Armando Abrego-Garcia, also known as the Maryland Dad, was caught on bodycam video transporting individuals in Tennessee. – So what does this video tell me? – This man does not fear the law. – Someone somewhere should be held accountable for such an irresponsible oversight. – He probably told his passengers not to worry because these stupid “Americanos” don’t enforce immigration laws…

Zero Hedge: Elvis Chan, the FBI’s Assistant Special Agent in Charge in San Francisco, has reportedly been placed on “terminal leave” and has not accessed agency systems for over a month. – Chan has faced scrutiny for his alleged role in coordinating with social media platforms, including X (formerly Twitter), to censor conservatives during the 2020 presidential election…

American Thinker: A Public School Gaslights The Community after Disciplining A Student for A Conservative T-Shirt – The school’s attorney insists she wasn’t disciplined, but the school’s emails show otherwise. – The Peoples Academy Middle Level school principal pulled M.P. out of class for wearing the verboten T-shirt, condemned the shirt as “hate speech,” and refused to allow her to return to class unless she removed the shirt or hid its message…

Western Journal: The FAA Opens Investigation After Two More Terrifying Incidents at Reagan National Airport – A Thursday incident in which an Army helicopter flying in Washington, D.C., delayed the landing of two commercial jets heading for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is now under investigation. – The Federal Aviation Administration, which is probing the incident, sent out a notice about it on Friday…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, MS-13 Wing of the Democratic Party Edition – There was a lot of continuity in this week’s news as Congressional Democrats doubled down on their alliance with Central American gang members, murderers, rapists and human traffickers, while judicial Democrats continued their attempted coup against the Executive Branch.

May 2, 2025

One America News: With the new mineral rights deal between Washington, D.C., and Kyiv, President Trump fulfilled his pledge to hold Ukraine financially accountable for the billions of dollars that have already been provided in military assistance. – This now opens a new avenue for the U.S. to provide weaponry to the country without using any taxpayer funds. – Following months of discussions, the deal was signed on Wednesday.

Miami Herald: The Viv Ansanm coalition and the Gran Grief gang have been labeled as both Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. – Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “The age of impunity for those supporting violence in Haiti is over.”

Red State: Virginia Officials Report The ‘Premeditated Stabbing’ of Corrections Officers by MS-13 Gang Inmates – The heinous melee broke out at Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap around 9:45 a.m. when six inmates, five of whom are members of the notorious El Salvadoran gang, launched the premeditated attack, according to the Virginia Department of Corrections…

American Spectator: The Future Is Dim for US/Canada Relations – It’s uncertain whether Trump and Carney will find common ground. – Progressive technocrat Mark Carney flew to Beijing to obtain $300M from the Bank of China four months prior to being appointed prime minister by Canada’s Liberal Party, which called a snap election, which he won without a majority, and the media only praises him.

Geller Report: China EXEMPTS A Quarter of US Imports From Tariffs – China quietly exempts US goods from tariffs, covering around $40 billion worth of imports, in an effort to soften the blow of the trade war on its economy. – The exemptions are focused on goods where China lacks alternatives, such as semiconductors, chipmaking equipment, medical products, and aviation parts.

Daily Wire: Trump Is Pressuring Mexico To Allow U.S. Military To Lead The Fight Against Their Drug Cartels – Trump has made fighting the cartels a top priority of his goal to secure the southern border and stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States. – The Trump administration has reportedly considered using drone strikes against cartels in Mexico…

Gateway Pundit: Under Threat of Contempt, Florida’s Attorney General Rebuffed An Obama Judge’s Order to Stand Down Against Arresting Illegals – AG Uthmeier, “That law does nothing more than exercise Florida’s inherent sovereign authority to protect its citizens by aiding the enforcement of federal immigration law.”

Epoch Times: The Trump Administration Asks The Supreme Court to Allow DOGE Access to Social Security Data – In late March, U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander in Maryland issued a 137-page order that blocked DOGE from accessing Social Security Administration records, saying that DOGE “is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition…

Wall Street Journal: A federal judge on Friday permanently blocked an executive order from President Trump targeting the law firm Perkins Coie, declaring it unconstitutional. – The ruling from U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell is a decisive win for the law firm and is likely to serve as a model for judges weighing cases brought by other firms targeted in similar orders.

Epoch Times: The DOJ and Family of January 6 Shooting Victim Ashli Babbitt Agree to Settle Their Lawsuit – Judicial Watch, an advocacy group, filed the $30 million wrongful-death suit in 2024 on behalf of Babbitt’s estate and her husband, Aaron Babbitt. – Terms of the pending agreement were not immediately disclosed in the wrongful-death case that sought $30 million.

Daily Fetched: Owen McIntire, the 19-year-old suspect accused of setting fire to a Tesla dealership in Kansas City, has been released after the judge cited a lack of access to “gender-affirming care” in jail and the individual’s ADHD diagnosis. – McIntire was arrested earlier this month in Boston following an incident in which a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a Kansas City Tesla dealership.

Breitbart: The Forever War, As Europe Won’t Accept Possible Trump Peace Plan Moves – Kaja Kallas, the former Estonian Prime Minister turned Eurocrat, says the EU has plans afoot to prevent the US from either abandoning Ukraine on one hand, or forcing peace on the other. American leaders, including President Donald Trump, have repeatedly emphasized that there can be no negotiations without offering enough to bring the parties to the table to talk.

New York Post: The US is stepping back from its involvement in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine to end the war. – On Thursday, State Department Spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters that the US “will not be the mediators” in the future, reflecting President Trump’s frustration with the lack of progress between Kyiv and Moscow in ending the bloodshed. – Bruce, “It is now between the two parties…

Dr. Meryl Nass: This week at the UN General Assembly, the US Counselor denounced the UN’s so-called 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals as a globalist wish-list of mandatory climate and DEI nonsense. – Without US support, the 2030 SDGs are dead in the water…

Wall Street Journal: Beijing Weighs A Fentanyl Offer To The U.S. To Start Trade Talks – Addressing the Trump team’s gripes over China’s role in the fentanyl crisis could let both sides soften their trade stance – Xi Jinping’s security czar, Wang Xiaohong, in recent days has been inquiring about what the Trump team wants China to do when it comes to the chemical ingredients used to make fentanyl…

Epoch Times: The US Has Ended The Minimum Trade Exemption That Enabled a Flood of Cheap Chinese Goods – U.S. Customs says it processes about 4 million de minimis shipments per day, up from 2.8 million last year. – The de minimis exemption allows goods valued at $800 or less to enter the United States without being subject to duties and taxes. – Since 2016, shippers from China and elsewhere have imported billions of small packages to the United States under the exemption.

Slay News: TikTok Was Hit with A Massive Fine by the European Union After It Was Caught Sending User Data to Communist China. The discovery raises significant concerns about data privacy and security. – The court specifically highlighted China’s anti-terrorism and counterespionage laws as potential risks…

Daily Wire: General Motors To Cut Back On Manufacturing At A Canada Plant Over Trump’s Tariffs – Around 750 employees will get laid off because of the decision, according to the union representing workers at the plant. – GM said that an “evolving trade environment” and lower demand led to the decision to end the shift at the plant, which produces Chevrolet Silverados.

Daily Wire: The New White House Budget Features ‘Historic’ Increases In Defense Spending, While Slashing Woke Funding – Key priorities include reducing violent crime; defunding the woke, Marxist agenda,” securing the border; realigning foreign aid so it is consistent with American foreign policy; rebuilding the nation’s military; achieving American energy dominance; making America healthy again, supporting veterans; preserving social security; streamlining K-12 education…

Daily Wire: The Trump Admin Asks The Supreme Court To Revoke Current Legal Protections For 350K Venezuelans – Solicitor General John Sauer filed a 38-page emergency appeal to SCOTUS asking it to block a federal judge’s ruling that said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem could not end Temporary Protected Status for 348,202 Venezuelans. Sauer argued that Noem’s decision to end one of the TPS designations for Venezuela was up to her discretion…

Issues & Insights: Mining Our Own Business – Rare earth elements are crucial to our modern existence, as well as our advanced defense systems. – The US should have been mining large volumes of its rare earths. – But environmental zealots have blocked mining efforts, including the planned Pebble Mine in Alaska, “home to at least 70 known occurrences of rare earth elements.” – It was shut down in 2014, even before the partnership applied for federal approval.

Zero Hedge: Netanyahu Stirs Fresh Controversy After Revealing That Victory In Gaza Is Their Top Priority, Not The Remaining Hostages – Israel is preparing tens of thousands of orders calling more reserve soldiers to active duty, amid an expected expansion of ground operations in the Gaza Strip. – The Haaretz report suggests that a surge of additional soldiers will free up more forces to focus efforts on defeating Hamas in Gaza…

Zero Hedge: Newly unearthed emails confirm what the Biden administration repeatedly denied: it was heavily involved in the 2022 prosecution of Trump trade counselor Peter Navarro. – Emails released Thursday by Senator Chuck Grassley show the DOJ approved then U.S. Attorney Matt Graves’s decision to indict Navarro on two contempt of Congress charges, despite the left and legacy media’s claims of independence…

Resist The Mainstream: An FBI Official Has Been Removed For His Role In The Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal – The controversy surrounding Elvis Chan stems from his involvement in discussions with social media companies like Twitter, now X, and Facebook during the critical period leading up to the 2020 presidential election to suppress the New York Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s business dealings, particularly regarding China and Ukraine.

Zero Hedge: Recently unsealed court documents have revealed that Ryan Routh, the guy who tried to assassinate President Trump at his golf course, tried to smuggle Afghans into the US over the southern border. – Routh’s defense attorneys are fighting to keep these communications out of his trial after he pleaded not guilty, arguing that the texts are unrelated and may unfairly prejudice the jury. – Routh is facing life in prison or the death penalty.

Western Journal: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt couldn’t help but smile when watching the epic media smackdown served up by her colleague, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. – It began after a reporter asked whether President Trump’s administration was “inquiring” about bringing suspected MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. after being sent to an El Salvador prison.

Zero Hedge: Native-Born Workers Surge By Over 1 Million, Back To All-Time High, As Government Employees Tumble – For much of the past 4 years, month after month, the US labor market under the Biden administration “grew” almost entirely on the back of “foreign-born that were primarily illegal aliens. – Now the number of native born workers is back to its all-time high of 132.228 million. – See the charts…

Gateway Pundit: A DOGE Staffer Reveals The U.S. Institute of “Peace” Paid $130K to Ex-Taliban Fighter, Blew Millions on Private Jets and Lavish Parties, Then Deleted 1 Terabyte of Records as The Trump Team Arrived – Many may recall that in March, tensions boiled over when Musk’s efficiency squad, backed by FBI agents and D.C. Metro Police, stormed the institute’s headquarters, evicting its staff after days of resistance…

Zero Hedge: The DOGE Team Sat Down For A Wide-Ranging Interview, Detailing Shocking Examples Of Government Waste, Fraud And Abuse – For example, a $4 billion COVID fund allocated to the DOE had virtually no oversight. – Receipts were not required, so people could easily withdraw money for whatever they wanted. – Once DOGE implemented a simple fix requiring receipts for withdrawals, suddenly nobody drew down any money…

Breitbart: Historic Results As Nigel Farage’s Reform Sweeps England Election Early Results – Nigel Farage celebrated a “huge night for Reform” where his party showed all signs of having “cut deep” into the votes of both the governing Labour Party and official opposition the Conservatives, who he said Reform was now supplanting.

Victor Davis Hanson: The Democrats Are Terrified Trump’s Policies Are Going to Work – Don’t listen to the libertarian right or the “Never Trump” right or the hard left. – What’s happening is we’re watching the most dramatic counterrevolution in our history. This is more fundamentally changing than the Reagan revolution, which rebooted the American economy and helped win the Cold War. And it’s even more transformative than Roosevelt’s first 100 days…

Breitbart: The U.S. Added 177,000 Jobs in April, Better Than Expected, As The Economy Defies Doomsayers – Economists had been expecting 130,000 jobs and an unemployment rate unchanged at 4.2 percent. – The prior month’s jobs figure was revised down to 185,000 from 228,000. – The strength in hiring came from the private sector, which added 167,000 jobs.

American Thinker: Hitler Had Goebbels, But China Has The US Legacy Media – Watching the attitude and hearing the questions ABC’s Senior National Correspondent, Terry Moran asked President Trump made one think of Hitler’s chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda for Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. – It made one ask, “For whom is ABC News really working?”

Daily Fetched: Trump’s DOJ Sues Blue States Over Their Ridiculous Climate Laws that ‘Violate the Constitution’ – Trump vowed to reclaim energy independence in the U.S., and has emphasized the importance of national security and the economy. – In the wake of reports of mass blackouts across Europe as a result of relying solely on green and renewable energy sources, Trump’s stance on energy independence speaks for itself.

Center Square: Antisemitic attacks in the U.S. last year are the highest on record since 1979. – Last year, there were 9,354 antisemitic incidents reported nationwide, including harassment, vandalism, and assault against Jewish and Israeli-Americans or Jewish institutions and houses of worship. – The majority, 64%, occurred in 10 states, eight of which are led by Democrats.

American Thinker: How The Media Exploits Climate Catastrophism – The mainstream media refuses to adopt a neutral stance on climate change. – Far from being impartial arbiters, media outlets are enthusiastic propagandists recycling doomsday predictions that consistently fail to materialize while ignoring a wealth of scientific research that challenges the narrative of disastrous warming…

AMUSE on X: Civil Rights, Not Ivory Towers – Revoking Harvard’s Tax Exemption Is Justified – Harvard University, with its $50 billion endowment and unaccountable corporate board, functions less like an institution of higher learning and more like a hedge fund with a school as its public-relations arm. – In 1983, SCOTUS upheld the IRS’s revocation of tax-exempt status from Bob Jones University for its racially discriminatory policies…

Dr. Mark Trozzi: A Dangerous Campaign Disguised as Public Health Policy – Military contracts, policy manipulation, and censorship expose the true nature of the COVID-19 response. – Sasha Latypova showed how the PREP Act—designed strictly for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats—was weaponized to justify global “vaccine” deployment. Contracts for Pfizer, Moderna, and even censorship operations were issued directly through the Department of Defense (DOD)…

May 1, 2025

Western Journal: Fed-up Trump Finally Makes His Move on Iran, and They’ll Feel the Pain Instantly – President Trump announced Thursday that any country purchasing oil from Iran will be barred from doing business in the United States. – Trump has revived the successful maximum pressure campaign against the rogue regime that worked so well during his first term.

Western Journal: Three Democrats Back Down from The Trump Impeachment, Brought By Shri Thanedar of Michigan – The resolution was initially co-sponsored by Democrat Representatives Kweisi Mfume of Maryland, Robin Kelly of Illinois, and Jerry Nadler of New York; however, on Tuesday, they had their names removed as co-sponsors.

New York Post: Trump terminated NPR and PBS federal funding with a sweeping executive order – “Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence,” Trump wrote in the order.

Liberty Sentinel: The U.S. “Rejects and Denounces” The UN 2030 Agenda – The US delegation to the United Nations has announced it “will no longer reaffirm” Agenda 2030 and the SDGs “as a matter of course. – The significance of this cannot be overstated. – “Although framed in neutral language, Agenda 2030 and the SDGs advance a program of soft global governance that is inconsistent with U.S. sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans.”

American Thinker: More Illegal Alien Sob Stories Fall Apart – Migrant sob stories are good for whipping up political support, but they don’t work if one story after another keeps falling apart. – Remember the Maryland Man? The soccer player? The fake baby deportation? – Has anybody noticed how quiet Democrats have gotten these days? – Maybe that’s because Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has told them to just stop it already…

Gateway Pundit: Laura Loomer Uncovers a Massive Conflict of Interest Involving U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston, Who Ordered Border Agents to NOT Detain Illegal Aliens Without a Warrant – Thurston’s husband, Marc, is a multi-family real estate broker in California who has illegal alien clients. – So the Thurston family is being enriched off of illegal labor. – One would expect she’d get an earful from her husband if she jeopardized his gravy train…

Powerline: Stephen Miller Scorches the Democrats – Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller appeared with Karoline Leavitt in the White House briefing room to talk about illegal immigration. His riff is nuclear and 100% true. – We now know that “Maryland man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia was not just an MS-13 gang member and wife-beater, but also a human trafficker…

American Spectator: The Trump Administration Sets Its Sights on the Parallel Deep State Government – DOGE has begun to have a real effect on the federal budget as the DOJ and Congress mull legal actions against scammers. – The more the administration uncovers, the worse it looks for the institutions of the Swamp, and the better the approval polls look for Trump.

Epoch News: President Trump Has Named White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. – This comes after reports indicating that Waltz would be leaving his advisory position, ending speculation about Waltz’s future in the White House. – Trump, “Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first.” – “I know he will do the same in his new role.”

Gateway Pundit: Elon Musk Nukes Wall Street Journal for Publishing “Deliberately False” Hit Piece Claiming Tesla Board Is Secretly Hunting for His Replacement as CEO – “The article failed to include an unequivocal denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors!” – Musk’s past confrontations with the WSJ resurfaced following their 2022 story that falsely claimed he had an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

Townhall: The Trump Administration Celebrates The Release of More Detained Americans Held Abroad – Marco Rubio, “No president has done so much, so quickly, to keep Americans safe abroad,” Rubio added. “In just 100 days, we’ve also secured the release of 47 unjustly detained Americans around the world, including in Afghanistan, Russia, and Venezuela, through high-level diplomatic efforts.”

Epoch Times: US Sanctions Could Lead to Tens of Millions of Lost Jobs in China – Domestic migrant workers are returning home while job seekers struggle to secure employment, according to Chinese residents. – U.S.-based economist Davy Wong said the impact may be larger because of the indirect effects on various businesses, including suppliers for export manufacturers, packaging companies, and logistics companies…

Slay News: The U.S. Senate failed to pass a Democrat-led resolution that sought to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs, even after Republican senators Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and Rand Paul bucked the party and joined them. – The resolution was shot down after Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote…

American Thinker: Honda’s homecoming: Tariffs, toughness, and the triumph of American grit – Enter tariffs, not as a punishment, but as a long-overdue correction. – They level the playing field, incentivize domestic production, and, as Honda’s decision illustrates, bring jobs back home. – The company plans to boost its U.S. production by up to 30% over the next two to three years…

Townhall: There’s a Reason Why the Liberal Media Says Trump’s First 100 Days Are Disastrous – Because Trump is doing the opposite of what the Biden administration would have done. – It’s almost comical, DEI initiatives are toast across federal agencies, the southern border is secure, illegal aliens are being deported, and businesses are investing here. – American manufacturing is being rebuilt…

Wall Street Journal: U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. in the Southern District of Texas Ruled That Trump’s Use of the wartime Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans Was Unlawful. – Judge Rodriquez says that Tren de Aragua members’ presence in the U.S. didn’t constitute an “invasion” or “predatory incursion” under the law.

Resist The Mainstream: Marco Rubio Uncovered A Secret Biden Operation That Tracked Americans And Trump Officials in ‘Disinformation’ Files – According to Rubio, the now-dismantled office had been tasked with tracking and labeling certain Americans as “vectors of disinformation” based on their social media activity.

Resist The Mainstream: A Milt-Generational Ranch Family Has Been Freed From A Legal Nightmare as Trump Administration Drops ‘Witch Hunt’ Charges Against Them – Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rolins announced Monday that criminal charges have been dropped against Charles and Heather Maude, who were facing up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine related to their use of 25 acres of federal land and a fence erected more than 70 years ago.

American Thinker: The Media Goes Full Brenda Lee – The Biden cover-up went something like this. – First, he needs to campaign from the basement because of COVID. – Second, he’s not on TV so often because he wants to avoid “saturation.” – Third, you are lying and a right-wing conspiracist if you promote the idea that Biden’s elevator does not go to the top floor. – Fourth, the media missed the story. Fifth, Full Brenda Lee and “I’m Sorry.”

Townhall: The White House launched a Drudge Report-style website on designed to be a “hub to trusted news sites and resources.” – Links on the site, whitehouse.gov/wire/, direct readers to updates from the White House’s Rapid Response X account and news stories from sources such as Fox News, Breitbart, the New York Post, and more.

Victor Davis Hanson: The Trump Counterrevolution and the Moral Ledger – Trump’s counterrevolution presses on—quietly, methodically, and morally, while a flailing opposition offers only chaos, debt, and deflection in response. – The economy remains strong, but its ultimate health depends on reaching a trade deal with a handful of nations that account for our $1.2 trillion trade deficit in goods: China, the EU, Canada, Mexico, the Southeast Asian trade bloc, and Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea…

Washington Free Beacon: The State Department To Dismantle An Anti-Israel Grant making Office in Effort To Rein In ‘Rogue People’ at Agency – The Trump administration is transferring grant making authority from career bureaucrats in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor to appointees who align with the president’s foreign policy mission…

Resist The Mainstream: Two men have been arrested for allegedly leading a violent online child exploitation ring embedded in a global extremist network, following a sweeping international investigation led by Trump’s DOJ. – The accused targeted vulnerable minors through manipulation, coercion, and sadistic abuse, using disturbing content to build status and control within the dark web-based group.

Washington Free Beacon: The Trump Admin Targets A $500-Million Iranian Smuggling Network in A Fresh Batch of Sanctions – The administration aims to drive “Iran’s illicit oil and petrochemical exports, including exports to China to zero,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

American Thinker: Politics and Huge White Houses – The private home, especially the single-family detached house, is inextricably connected to marital monogamy and parental control of the raising and education of children. So it is often criticized by people who style themselves progressives, who aren’t sympathetic to private property to begin with. – Residential real estate is highly affected by government policies. – Just in 2025, we’ve seen…

April 30, 2025

Fox News: Ukraine signs a deal to give the US access to rare minerals, with the Trump administration committed to a peace process. – The agreement will establish the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund to help accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery.

Epoch Times: The Russia/Ukraine Conflict Still Too Complicated for Quick Peace Deal According To The Kremlin – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, – “We understand that Washington is willing to achieve a quick success in this process, but at the same time, we hope for understanding that the settlement in [the] Ukrainian crisis is too complicated to be done overnight as we need to resolve a whole series of nuances.”…

Daily Wire: Nearly 600 individuals with ties to terror organizations entered the United States and were granted asylum by the Biden administration, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said during a cabinet meeting Wednesday. – The finding came after Gabbard directed the National Counterterrorism Center to identify cartel members present in the US, as well as those who’ve attempted to enter the country through legal or illegal means.

Breitbart: US District Court Judge Jennifer Thurston, appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California by former President Joe Biden, is blocking Border Patrol Agents across most of California from arresting suspected illegal aliens unless they have a warrant for their arrest. – In addition, Thurston is requiring Border Patrol agents to document “in narrative form” all arrests of illegal aliens made without a warrant with “particularized facts that supported the agent’s reasonable suspicion, which was formed in advance of the stop.”

Real Clear Investigations: California Penal Reform and the Violent Criminals It Let Loose – Miley Martin, a career criminal released as a “nonviolent offender” under California’s Proposition 57. – Two months after his release, Martin and several accomplices were arrested for the worst mass shooting in Sacramento’s history, which left six dead and 12 others injured…

American Spectator: Mark Carney Is Incredibly Dangerous – Cash is dead, speech is scored, and freedom is conditional. – The 60-year-old didn’t rise through politics. – He was not elected, but rather installed by the very institutions that profit most from technocratic control and public obedience, Goldman Sachs, The Bank of Canada, The Bank of England, and others. – At the center of that blueprint is the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)…

Vigilant Fox: Joe Rogan just exposed “gender-affirming care” for the crime it truly is. And he didn’t hold back: calling those profiting from it exactly what they are—evil. – He added that transitioning doesn’t reduce the risk of suicide—it actually makes things worse, and then predicted that “gender-affirming care” will soon go the way of lobotomies.

Celia Farber: RFK Jr. Delivered A Shock Statement In The Recent Whitehouse Cabinet Meeting – “During the Biden Administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for sex and slavery. And we have ended that, and we are very aggressively going out and trying to find these children. – The Biden Administration lost 300,000 children.” – It’s worse than anyone can imagine.

Western Journal: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Trashes Trump Hours After He Called Her Onstage and Thanked Her – In a video interview Tuesday Whitmer bashed Trump’s first 100 days in office as “scary” and “dangerous,” despite the fact that the president, at an event earlier in the day, had graciously thanked the governor for her work on one issue where the two have found common purpose.

Ukraine’s first deputy prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, has flown to Washington to sign the deal with US treasury secretary Scott Bessent, said three Ukrainian officials. – But problems arose as Svyrydenko’s plane headed to Washington, and Bessent’s team told her she should “be ready to sign all agreements, or go back home”

American Conservative: Trump’s First 100 Days of Tariffs, The First Steps Toward the Golden Age of America – On April 7, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat down with Tucker Carlson to discuss President Donald Trump’s tariff plan. – Bessent began the interview by distinguishing the three purposes of tariffs: (1) revenue, (2) protection, and (3) negotiating policy concessions from foreign governments…

Daily Wire: Here’s How Activist Judges Fought Trump’s Agenda In The First 100 Days – Here are twelve examples out of many orders federal judges issued to disrupt Trump’s agenda: Judge Royce Lamberth blocked the dismantling of the US Agency for Global Media. – Judge Indira Talwani said Trump could not end President Biden’s parole program that let 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela into the country…

Daily Wire: Karoline Leavitt Was Trump’s Secret Weapon In The Amazon Win – President Trump’s call to Jeff Bezos came just after a public lashing from Leavitt. – In a splashy Tuesday morning scoop, Punchbowl News revealed that Amazon would start displaying how much an item’s cost had derived from tariffs next to the product’s total listed price. – By noon, Jeff Bezos had backed down.

New York Post: Trump mortifies ABC News reporter with scathing remark on why he was picked for highly sought interview – During a tense exchange in which Moran challenged Trump about suspected MS-13 tattoos on deported illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia Trump responded, “Hey, they’re giving you the big break of a lifetime, you know you’re doing the interview, I picked you because frankly, I never heard of you.”

Townhall: The Dem Who’s Leading the Impeachment Charge Against Trump Is a Train wreck – It’s telling that no one is rallying around this no-name Democrat. – From an animal cruelty circus to allegations of business fraud, Mr. Shri is sort of a shady character. – It shows that the party remains a rudderless vessel with no leader or message. – There is no alternative agenda; it’s all TDS raging against Trump.

Zero Hedge: After Large Crude/Gasoline Inventory Draws; Pump Prices Are Set To Tumble – Oil prices extended their recent plunge this morning as traders expect Saudi Arabia to steer OPEC+ to agree on another supply surge next week. – History shows that when OPEC+ leadership decides to encourage compliance by supply pressure, it does not stop until it achieves its goal…

Zero Hedge: The Stagflation Scenario Is Slammed Because The Fed’s Favorite Inflation Indicator Tumbled To Four-Year Lows – Core PCE – printed cooler than expected in March, unchanged MoM (vs +0.1% exp), bringing prices up 2.6% YoY – the lowest since March 2021. – SuperCore PCE also saw the YoY pace slow significantly…

Geller Report: Harvard University, in the midst of its funding fight with the Trump administration, released its long-awaited anti-Semitism report on Tuesday. – It provides a scathing account of life at Harvard in the wake of Oct. 7, finding that “politicized instruction” in four Harvard schools “mainstreamed and normalized what many Jewish and Israeli students experience as antisemitism.”…

Geller Report: The White House released a list of the “most egregious hoaxes” perpetuated by the media in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term. – The administration went on to list these 57 purported “hoaxes” spread by the president’s critics, the media, and Democrats.

John Daniel Davidson: Mass Immigration Without Assimilation Is A Recipe For National Suicide – Total assimilation and Americanization of our immigrants is necessary, or we’ll cease to be America and become something else. – A good example of what mass immigration without assimilation produces is Scotland. Immigrants from Pakistan now constitute an ethno-religious voting bloc with their very own politicians advocating for nakedly sectarian interests…

City Journal: The Case for School Discipline – The Trump administration is moving to restore order in America’s public schools. – School administrators and superintendents at the district level push teachers to take the path of least resistance when kids act out. – Their goal is to have very low numbers of students facing major disciplinary action, but that doesn’t reflect what’s actually happening at the school every day…

Slay News: The Trump Administration Revoked Visas of 4,000 Foreign Students Who Committed Crimes – Some 90% were charged with a crime in the United States, including at least 500 who were accused of assault. – The administration has been going full steam ahead to address immigration problems in Trump’s first 100 days…

American Thinker: It’s Time to End the Tyranny of the California Coastal Commission – This body of unelected bureaucrats, who put politics and junk science above property rights and citizens’ welfare, and even extract bribes, should be disbanded. – Autonomous, quasi-judicial agencies like the CCC are meant to remain apolitical and humane rather than punitive in their duties…

Breitbart: Lee Zeldin Details 100 Actions The EPA Took to ‘Power the American Comeback’ Under Trump – 1. Issued immediate action items for Mexico to permanently end the Tijuana River sewage crisis. – 2. Responded quickly to a citizen complaint about discharges into New York’s Hutchinson River and ordered corrective action. – 3. Developed a Clean Water Act permit for hotels, condominiums, and apartment complexes to protect water quality in the U.S. Virgin Islands…

April 29, 2025

The Telegraph: Carney’s dire record at the Bank of England should be a warning to Canada – Some Canadians reassure themselves by believing that Carney’s vast experience as Governor of the Bank of England means he offers a safe pair of hands to follow Trudeau. – But there is an important catch: Carney was a terrible Governor, and will prove to be a terrible prime minister as well.

Western Journal: The Wisconsin Supreme Court Suspended The Judge Accused of Aiding Illegal Alien to Evade ICE – Wisconsin Supreme Court, “Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah C. Dugan is temporarily prohibited from exercising the powers of a circuit court judge in the state of Wisconsin, effective the date of this order and until further order of the court.”

New York Post: Only nine illegal immigrants released into the US during Trump’s first 100 days, a 99.99% drop from the same period under Biden, when 184,000 were admitted. – The White House called it proof that Trump has “ushered in the most secure border in modern American history.”

Epoch Times: President Trump Grants Tariff Relief for Automakers Producing in the US – The measure, titled “Addressing Certain Tariffs on Imported Articles” and signed on April 29, aims to prevent overlapping duties from applying to the same vehicle or auto part. It blocks the cumulative effect—or “stacking”—of separate tariff regimes such as those targeting steel, aluminum, and drug-related imports, when a 25 percent auto tariff is already in place.

President Donald Trump touted the first 100 days of his second term as the “most successful” of any administration in history during a Michigan rally with supporters Tuesday evening. – The president’s remarks came during Trump’s first major political rally since taking office, organized to celebrate Trump’s achievements throughout his second term thus far.

AMUSE on X: Trump’s First 100 Days: The Greatest Political Rebirth Since 1776 – President Trump’s first 100 days have been marked by a boldness unseen since the founding era. – Unlike Wilson, who shackled free speech, or FDR, who sought to pack the Supreme Court, Trump’s radicalism has been aimed not at enlarging government power but at restoring the people’s sovereignty…

Western Journal: The Trump Administration Secures a ‘Major Win’ for Farmers by Striking Key Deal with Mexico – Mexico has promised it will increase the share of water from six of Mexico’s Rio Grande tributaries. – The plan will take effect this growing season.

Epoch Times: The University of Pennsylvania Violated Title IX Because Of Their Transgender Swimmer – The Ivy League school could lose federal funding if a male athlete who won the NCAA swimming title as a female competitor doesn’t relinquish records. – Title IX is a federal law enacted in 1972 that prohibits educational institutions receiving federal funding from engaging in sex discrimination and assures fairness for NCAA women’s sports programs.

American Spectator: Trump’s Government Cuts Overturn Democrats’ Entitlement Mentality, and They Have Become Unhinged. – At the core of Democrat and Left philosophy lies the belief that designated groups are entitled to certain things and the government must provide them. – Democrats are assuredly mad at Trump revoking their programs, but are even more threatened by his refutation of their entitlement ideology.

Lawyer Lisa: “Russia has officially declared its six conditions for ending the war, according to MFA Lavrov in an interview with a Brazilian newspaper. – 1. Demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine – 2. Ukraine must not join NATO – 3. International recognition of the annexation of Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia – 4. Lifting of sanctions against Russia and the return of frozen assets – 5. Rejection by Russia of the U.S. proposal to transfer control over the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to Washington and Ukraine – 6. Cancellation of language laws in Ukraine, especially those that “restrict” the use of the “Russian language, culture, and church”.

Fox News: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party to lead fourth consecutive government – The Liberals were projected to win more seats than the Conservatives when polls closed, although it was not immediately clear if they would secure an outright majority, which would allow them to advance legislation without needing votes from the minority.

American Thinker: The Great Decoupling – India offers significant advantages: a pliable workforce that is both young and tech-literate, and a government eager to accommodate U.S. corporate interests. – Also, over the past few years, Apple has faced mounting competition in the Chinese market, where local rivals have eroded its once-dominant position.

Wall Street Journal: Merck To Spend $1 Billion On A New Factory To Make U.S. Supplies Of A Blockbuster Drug – The new Delaware facility will ensure domestic supply of biologic drugs, including cancer drug Keytruda. – Merck’s biggest exposure to tariffs is Keytruda, which is the world’s top-selling pharmaceutical, and is approved for treating lung cancer, melanoma, and other tumors…

Breitbart: Hundreds of lawyers are leaving the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, which had become notorious for partisan litigation, focusing on Democrat Party priorities instead of civil rights. – New DOJ Civil Rights chief Harmeet Dhillon said that the departing attorneys are welcome to leave, since many had placed politics ahead of the actual function of the department.

Daily Wire: Stephen Miller Blasts JB Pritzker For ‘Inciting Violence’ – ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It’ – “Once you allow for attacks on property, you’re just a step away from throwing Molotov cocktails into people’s homes.”

Julie Kelly: The Knives Are Out for Ed Martin – As the Trump appointee pursues investigations into the most corrupt practices in the Department of Justice’s recent history, Democrats and other interests are collaborating to sink his confirmation. – His no-holds-barred approach is one reason why Martin’s nomination faces heavy headwinds in the U.S. Senate, which must confirm each U.S. attorney…

Daily Wire: President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to crack down on sanctuary jurisdictions that impede federal immigration enforcement. – The directive requires the Justice Department to compile a list of all sanctuary city jurisdictions and then take action to cut off or suspend federal funding to those places.

Fox News: The revenge porn bill backed by Melania Trump heads to president’s desk after overwhelming House vote – The legislation cracks down on the posting of explicit images, including “deep fake” nudes generated of people by AI, without consent andalso requires platforms to establish a process where victims of revenge porn can notify them of the existence of images and request removal. – The bill says platforms then have 48 hours to remove those images.

The Federalist: Stop Getting Psyop-ed By Garbage Polls About Trump – Which is more plausible: the lying media has suddenly discovered accurate polling data, or Trump supporters are not being polled? – In anticipation of Trump’s first 100 days in office, the propaganda press used shaky polling as the foundation of their reporting. – Each used different parameters. – But when a poll is purchased or administered by a bias news outlet, the results are skewed.

Breitbart: California Democrats in the State Assembly are once again blocking a bill that would make the sex trafficking of minors a felony. – This time, for victims age 16 and 17, preferring instead to give prosecutors discretion. – The blocking effort is the latest chapter in a saga that began in 2023.

Zero Hedge: Power Is Restored In Spain and Portugal, But The Situation Reveals A Very Serious Underlying Problem – Relying Solely On Renewable Energy Means More Blackouts – Unless Spain rapidly invests in synthetic inertia, maintains and expands its nuclear fleet, or adds some other new form of heavy rotating generation, the risk of future blackouts will only grow worse.

American Thinker: Déjà Vu (Again) – Spain’s grid operator, Red Eléctrica Nacional, claims a rare atmospheric phenomenon occurred in Spain yesterday, leading to a massive power outage across Spain, Portugal, and parts of southern France. – This was after REN had gleefully reported that solar energy has been providing the grid with most of its electricity. – Then, on a clear spring day, the system suddenly crashes. – Green energy can’t accommodate sudden changes in demand…

Issues & Insights: Not long ago, California Governor Newsom made it clear that oil refineries were not welcome. – Then he asked regulators to loosen the chains on refineries to ensure that they would be profitable and remain in the state. – Newson has turned his attention from playing to his hard-left, blue-state constituency to shifting toward the middle for a 2028 White House run.

Slay News: California Democrats Push to Decriminalize Welfare Fraud Under $25,000 – Senate Bill 560 would allow fraudsters to escape criminal penalties by writing off welfare overpayments up to $25K as “administrative errors,” and would also delete a provision for criminal penalties for any attempt at welfare fraud below $950. – Democrat State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas introduced the legislation.

April 28, 2025

AXIOS: Michigan House Democrat Shri Thanedar introduced seven long-shot articles of impeachment against President Trump on Monday. – His articles of impeachment accuse Trump of obstruction of justice, abuse of power, usurpation of power, bribery, and corruption, mostly related to the president’s consolidation of power and personal finances…

Western Journal: The New York Times, along with multiple other outlets, chastised President Trump for allegedly breaking the Vatican’s dress code for Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday. – The featured image of their story was cropped in such a way as to suggest that Trump was the only leader in a blue suit at the event. – But this expanded view shows many other men were wearing blue suits…

Center Square: One hundred days into the Trump administration, the National Counterterrorism Center has identified nearly 1,200 alleged terrorists illegally in the U.S. – Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who leads the NCTC said Monday that after the Trump administration designated Mexican cartels and transnational gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, she directed her staff to pursue terrorists illegally in the U.S.

Epoch Times: US Tariff Revenues Reach A Record In April – According to the April 24 Daily Treasury Statement, revenues from “customs and certain excise taxes” reached an all-time high of $15.9 billion in April, up 105% from a year ago. – Most of the increase occurred on April 22, when $11.69 billion was collected.

Wall Street Journal: Trump to Soften Blow of Automotive Tariffs – After negotiations, companies paying Trump’s car tariffs won’t also be charged for other duties, such as those on steel and aluminum, according to people familiar with the policy. – The move would be retroactive, the people said, meaning that automakers could be reimbursed for such tariffs already paid…

American Spectator: The Bell Is Tolling for Puffed-Up, Arrogant Propagandists at CBS – It isn’t particularly wise to pay much attention to CBS News’ flagship 60 Minutes program anymore. – Most people now recognize that what is portrayed on that program isn’t really objective journalism but rather several segments of elite corporate propaganda strung together and packaged as “news.”

Geller Report: THE TRUMP EFFECT: Russian President Vladimir Putin Announces A Coming Ceasefire – Putin has declared a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine to time with its “Victory Day” commemorations marking 80 years since the defeat of the Nazis and the end of the Second World War. – The Kremlin said the truce will last from the passing of midnight on May 7 into May 8, until the passing of midnight on May 10 into May 11…

Zero Hedge: ‘They Lied To Us About Iraq’s WMDs, But They’ve Taken It To A Higher Level With Ukraine – I have seldom seen such a cloud of lies as we face now. Hardly anyone in this country knows the truth about Ukraine. – The war, they say, was not provoked. Seldom in history has a war been more provoked. – Demand proper debate and the truth. – Don’t be dragged into more stupidity, or we will end up with bomb craters as well as potholes.

Daily Wire: Mary Margaret Olohan asked Whitehouse Press Secretary Leavitt for a response to Axios reporter Alex Thompson, who criticized how journalists dealt with the last administration. – Leavitt said it’s “about time” that the legacy media admitted to being part of “one of the greatest cover-ups” due to their reluctance to report on President Joe Biden’s lack of mental acuity…

Jonathan Turley: Federal District Courts Continue Piling On Injunctions To Stop Trump – Such injunctions did not exist at the founding, and only relatively recently became the rage among district court judges. – Under President George W. Bush, there were only six such injunctions, which increased to 12 under Obama. – The Supreme Court can reduce these cases by ruling with clarity rather than ambiguity, kicking cases down the road for final resolution…

Resist The Mainstream: Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested Friday after federal authorities charged her with aiding an illegal immigrant in evading capture. – AG Pam Bondi provided further information about the events that led to Dugan’s criminal charges while describing the judge’s actions as “truly horrific.” – Dugan now faces two federal felony counts for obstruction and concealing an individual…

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump, Tariffs, Trade, and a Taboo? – Trump’s strategy is to slash the U.S. deficit by forcing fairer deals with key partners to regain economic balance. – The administration accurately talks about “70 nations wanting to deal.” But the fact is, if Trump can settle with just China, Mexico, Canada, the EU, and the ten-nation Southeast Asian trading bloc (ASEAN), then the so-called trade wars would be over.

Zero Hedge: – President Donald Trump doubled down Sunday on his plan to use tariff revenue to slash, and possibly eliminate, income taxes for millions of Americans. – Trump, “The focus will be on people making less than $200,000 a year.” – The bold pledge comes as public anxiety grows over the economic fallout from Trump’s aggressive trade policies, which have rattled global markets and fueled fears of higher prices at home.

American Thinker: How China Steals – China claims that President Trump started the trade but conveniently omits that it has been waging a full-scale trade war against America for decades. – China systematically violates just about every term of every trade agreement, and has been stealing trillions worth of American industrial technology and intellectual property over the years…

Townhall: Speaking To Reporters Outside The Whitehouse, Tom Homan Gave An Update On Astonishing Border Numbers – “Under the Biden Administration, we averaged some days with 15,000 illegal entries into the United States. You know what the number was over the last 24 hours? 178,” Homan said.

Townhall: The White House Just Deployed a New Tactic Against the Media – As reporters walked into the White House early Monday morning for a press briefing with Border Czar Tom Homan, they were bombarded with massive posters featuring the photos of illegal aliens and their heinous crimes against American citizens, including murder, assault, rape, child rape, burglary, fentanyl dealing, vehicle theft, identity theft and much more.

Wall Street Journal: President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Monday that directs the attorney general and the secretary of Homeland Security to identify within a month cities and states that aren’t complying with federal immigration laws, designating them as “sanctuary jurisdictions.” – Trump is escalating his battle against Democrat-led states and cities that don’t fully cooperate with federal immigration authorities…

Slay News: Josh Hawley Reintroduces ‘PELOSI Act’ in Renewed Push to Ban Lawmakers from Insider Trading – Insider trading is illegal for the rest of the population, but members of Congress get a free pass due to this “loophole” that has led to several lawmakers vastly increasing their wealth while serving in the House and Senate. – Last week, President Donald Trump himself said that he would “absolutely” sign such a ban if it came to his desk…

AMUSE on X: Susan Rice and the Hidden Resistance – Rice, a veteran of Obama-era foreign policy failures, is perhaps best remembered for her calculatedly deceptive Sunday show performances following the Benghazi disaster. – The remaining individuals like her are not mere advisors offering technical expertise from some neutral Olympus. They are political actors, shaped by decades of partisan struggle, invested in the success of the Democratic Party…

American Thinker: A Newly Discovered Algorithm in Wisconsin Voter File is Indisputable Evidence of Criminal Election Fraud – Andrew Paquette, Ph.D., first observed that the WEC voter role had an unusually high number of voter records that ended in zero, but records ending in 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 should appear with equal distribution. – It’s time for Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to step in.

American Thinker: Understanding The Age of Assassination – Pollsters found that nearly one-third of Americans surveyed, and around half of those identifying as left-of-center, believe that the murder of certain public figures is at least somewhat justified. – Our liberal friends teach the kiddies activism at universities, so if peaceful protest doesn’t work, then maybe assassination is the best option…

Breitbart: President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday that ensures truckers are adept at speaking English. – President Trump believes that English is a non-negotiable safety requirement for professional drivers. – For years, an existing federal standard that commercial drivers read and speak English “has not been enforced,” per the document.

Washington Free Beacon: US Universities Don’t Like Unmasking Their Foreign Donors, But A New Trump Order Aims To Make Them. – For decades, federal law has required U.S. universities to disclose the sources of large foreign donations to the federal government. – But the Biden administration sparsely enforced the law, allowing foreign nationals from adversarial countries to funnel cash to top American schools and stay anonymous.

FAR: It Must Be Climate Change! – What do hurricanes, wildfires, floods, extreme cold, extreme heat, and even airplane turbulence have in common? – According to environmental activists, they’re all caused by—you guessed it—climate change…

April 27, 2025

American Thinker: So it’s true, DEI seems to have gotten 67 people killed over the Potomac – The New York Times had a long piece on its front page, detailing how a female pilot, a Captain with (unmentioned) political connections, kept ignoring warnings from her male warrant officer instructor, because the DEI situation seemed to affect how the helicopter crew interacted with one another…

Breitbart: The Feds Busted 114 Illegal Aliens During Raid at Colorado Underground Nightclub – The operation was led by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rocky Mountain Division. – Authorities said members of the violent gangs Tren de Aragua (TdA) and MS-13 frequented the venue. – Video footage the DEA shared of the raid shows officers swarming the building…

Wall Street Journal: Elite Universities Form A Private Collective to Resist the Trump Administration – Some of the nation’s most prestigious universities have assembled a private collective to counter the Trump administration’s attacks on research funding and academic independence across higher education. – The informal group currently includes about 10 schools, including Ivies and leading private research universities, mostly in blue states.

Washington Examiner: President Trump reveals Zelensky asked for more weapons in Vatican meeting – “He told me that he needs more weapons, but he’s been saying that for three years. – He needs more weapons, and we’re going to see what happens. I want to see what happens with respect to Russia,” Trump told reporters on Sunday night…

Western Journal: A Former Army Intel Analyst Learns Fate for Feeding China National Defense Information – Korbein Schultz, 25, of Wills Point, Texas, was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison for siphoning information off to China. – Schultz originally pleaded guilty to the charges in August 2024.

One America News: The Suspect Accused Of Stealing Kristi Noem’s Bag Identified As Chilean Illegal Migrant – Bustamante-Leiva, who is illegally in the United States, is considered to be a member of a vast East Coast robbery network. – Bustamante-Leiva was previously arrested in 2015 for a five-month theft spree in London, during which he stole about $28,000 in phones, wallets, and computers, according to a Daily Mail report at the time.

Wall Street Journal: California Keeps Declining, and Newsom Tries to Blame Trump – 54% of Californians say things in the state are generally going in the wrong direction, up 14 points from when Mr. Newsom became governor in 2019. – Democrats in Sacramento set the pace for job-killing regulations. For example, California has lost 33,400 jobs in “limited service” restaurants since Mr. Newsom signed a $20/hour law in September 2023…

Gatestone Institute: China Just ‘Folded’ – On April 24, several Chinese officials, including a “high-ranking Chinese Ministry of Finance official,” entered the U.S. Treasury’s main building in DC as Chinese security officials attempted to prevent photographers from recording their entry. – Beijing needs access to the American market far more than Americans need the Chinese market, but also that the United States makes vital products that simply aren’t made in China and can’t be for years at best…

Breitbart: Russia Just Bombarded Ukraine With Nearly 150 Drones – The attacks came hours after Russia claimed to have regained control over the remaining parts of the Kursk region, which Ukrainian forces seized last August. – Ukrainian officials said the fighting in Kursk was still ongoing. – Trump said Saturday that he doubts Putin wants to end the more than three-year war in Ukraine, expressing new skepticism that a peace deal can be reached soon…

American Thinker: Recruiting Has Mysteriously And Dramatically Increased – During Biden’s Administration, our armed forces experienced debilitating declines in recruiting. – And if that wasn’t bad enough, our Idi Amin-resembling Secretary of Defense ejected some 8000 from the military for refusing to take the Covid vaccine that wasn’t a vaccine at all. – All it took was a new president who understood the real reason we have a military…

American Thinker: It Was A Good Day For The Navy – While the media and military have been silent, what the Navy did against a Houthi attack is pretty magnificent. – On March 15, heavy strikes against Houthi targets were made by B-1 bombers, F-35 Lightning II fighters launched from the Harry Truman, and BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from accompanying warships that hurt the Houthis badly…

Townhall: This Surprised Frank Luntz When Speaking With Trump Voters – They’re not abandoning the president. – They’re willing to pay more if it means not buying from China, and they lost more money under Joe Biden’s half-brain-dead tenure. – Unlike some in the media, they also knew that the market needed a course correction…

Breitbart: The Lying Media Used The White House Correspondents Dinner to Continue Lying About Their Role In The Biden Coverup – For nearly five years, despite numerous pratfalls, speeches about black kids and blonde leg hair, meandering comments, short stairs on Air Force One, and countless public incidents of mumbling, bumbling, crumbling, tumbling, stumbling, and fumbling, over and over again, anyone who dared question Biden’s mental capacity got this…

Western Journal: Trump’s Education Boss Exposes How Biden’s Debt Forgiveness Was ‘Massively’ Profitable – Linda McMahon exposed the ways in which everyone but the students benefited from the student loan forgiveness policies of Joe Biden’s administration. – McMahon’s piece in the Wall Street Journal pulls no punches. – She argues that Biden’s approach enriched colleges while leaving students in debt.

American Thinker: What Vote By Mail Gets You – If you take just one thing away from this article, it should be this: You must have an election that allows ballots to be given only to those who show identification and are proven citizens of the United States and the state you are in. – Democrats will tell you your convenience is more important than a valid election, while they are out gathering bogus ballots to cancel your vote…

April 26, 2025

Daily Wire: Trump Says Putin Might Have To Be ‘Dealt With Differently’ – “There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along.” – Putin might have to be dealt with differently, through ‘Banking’ or ‘Secondary Sanctions, too many people are dying!!!”

American Thinker: Biden pops up at the pope’s funeral, looking lost – It was obviously an attempt to upstage President Trump, who was legitimately there. – When he was president, he actually skipped the funeral of the last pope, Benedict XVI, not even sending a cabinet official in his place. – Biden’s trip probably didn’t work out as well as he thought it would work out — Benny Johnson argues that nobody wanted to stand next to him…

Western Journal: Trump Deported An Iraqi Man to Africa And Reportedly Plans to Send More Migrants There – The U.S. deported Omar Abdulsattar Ameen earlier this month, after he lived in the U.S. since at least 2014, when he was granted refugee status – Ameen was the first to be deported in this new agreement, but at least 10 more immigrants are expected to go in the same way.

Western Journal: An illegal alien who entered the country twice during the Joe Biden open border era is giving Americans another reminder of how dangerous the legacy of those years is going to be. – Mexican national Samuel Cobos Carmona, 20, was arrested this week in Southwest Florida, on charges of raping a 13-year-old boy during a game of hide-and-seek according to Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Prummel.

New York Post: The masked illegal immigrant who allegedly stole Kristi Noem’s Gucci bag containing $3K in cash, her passport, and other personal items has been arrested. – The suspect, whose identity was not immediately available, was busted by the DC Metro Police and the Secret Service, but a second migrant suspect is still on the loose. – DC US Attorney Ed Martin noted it is unlikely Noem was targeted based on her high-profile position…

New York Post: President Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid their respects to Pope Francis at the pontiff’s funeral on Saturday morning, surrounded by a who’s who of world leaders and dignitaries. – The Trumps had a front-row seat to the services despite prior speculation that Vatican protocol would have them behind powerful archbishops, bishops, cardinals, and reigning monarchs.

Human Events: Trump and Zelenskyy meet privately at St. Peter’s Basilica while in Rome for Pope Francis’ funeral – Zelensky, “Good meeting, we discussed a lot one-on-one. – “Hoping for results on everything we covered, protecting the lives of our people, full and unconditional ceasefire, and a reliable and lasting peace that will prevent another war from breaking out, a very symbolic meeting.”…

American Thinker: The Real Goal of Trump’s Tariff War – Yes, the focus is on China, but not in the way most people think. – His tariffs will do more to free the rest of the world than all of our NGOs and government organizations ever did. – But his main goal is to stop a future all-out war with China.

American Thinker: Trump’s First 100 Days, A Scorecard of Wins, Waits, and Wobbles – Can Trump deliver everything he promised, or will bureaucratic pushback and logistical snags slow him down? – As President Trump barrels past the 100-day mark in four days, conservatives across America are taking stock of a presidency that’s hit the ground running with bold moves, yet left some promises on the sidelines and sparked a few head-scratching moments.

AMUSE on X: Count Only Citizens For The Census To Restore Fair Representation in America – If sovereignty belongs to the people, then surely it belongs to the citizenry alone. – Yet today, states bloated by millions of non-citizens, including those in violation of our immigration laws, leverage their sheer physical presence to seize more seats in Congress, more electoral votes, and more control over the machinery of government…

Daily Wire: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer warned states on Friday that if they allow illegal immigrants to collect unemployment benefits, they could lose federal funding. – Chavez-DeRemer sent a letter to all governors, telling them to comply with President Donald Trump’s directives to make sure illegals are not getting American tax dollars and illegal immigration is not incentivized.

American Thinker: No Tesla or Victim Love in Minneapolis – Among the worst burdens of any police officer’s job is dealing with prosecutors who don’t prosecute criminals. – That Democrats have long enjoyed a two-tiered system of injustice is well established. – Prosecutor Mary Moriarty, very much a Soros prosecutor, has a horrible record of ignoring victims and coddling criminals, such as a state government employee who allegedly keyed six separate Teslas…

Newsmax: AG Pam Bondi rescinded Biden-era Justice Department policies that largely shielded journalists’ records from federal investigators on Friday, signaling a more aggressive approach toward leak prosecutions. – The Trump administration is dismantling policies adopted during Joe Biden’s presidency, which made it difficult for federal investigators to subpoena journalists and access their phone and email records.

Slay News: President Trump signed an Executive Order Wednesday barring schools from applying DEI when administering discipline. – The White House said this will make schools safer as outcomes will be based on student behavior. – “The Order requires new guidance to local and state educational agencies regarding school discipline, emphasizing compliance with Title VI protections against racial discrimination and preferencing.” This reverses previous Biden policies.”

Forbidden News: US & UK Governments Were At War With Americans Via “Media Company” Cut-Outs – NewsGuard was hired to implement Artificial Intelligence to identify supposed online “misinformation”, mostly related to the 2020 election and to the mandated COVID-19 injection. – This information was then used to pressure companies not to advertise on those websites…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, FD&C Red No. 40 Edition – Like a juggler keeping multiple plates spinning on top of wooden rods, the Trump administration’s old stories stay in the news–Central American gangs, trimming government, attacking DEI, battling the universities–while each week gives rise to a new one.

April 25, 2025

One America News: President Trump Says He Would ‘Absolutely’ Sign Ban On Congressional Stock Trading – “I watched [former House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi get rich through insider information, and I would be OK with [banning] it. If they send that to me, I would do it,” he said, asserting that he would sign the hypothetical piece of legislation.

Gateway Pundit: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Cleaned House – He Fired All Pentagon Advisory Committees Members, Including The Seat Held by Obama Crony Susan Rice. – Hegseth’s decisive action came after a 45-day internal review, which concluded that these advisory bodies had become bloated, ineffective, and, in many cases, politically misaligned with the department’s new mission under President Trump’s renewed leadership…

Breitbart: ‘Financial and Ethical Misconduct’ Allegations Against Davos Founder Klaus Schwab Made Public – Manipulating research, using company funds to pay for private, in-room massages, asking junior staff to withdraw thousands of dollars for personal use. – And these are just some of the lurid allegations that pushed the WEF to launch an investigation into its now departed founder…

Slay News: Tech giant Apple is planning to move the assembly of all iPhones sold in America from China to India by the end of next year. – The Financial Times reports that the ongoing trade war between the US and China is driving the major pivot. – The move comes after Apple spent nearly two decades building up a world-class manufacturing operation in China.

Epoch Times: The FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for allegedly assisting an illegal immigrant in evading arrest. – Kash Patel, “We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject—an illegal alien—to evade arrest.”

Western Journal: AG Pam Bondi Reveals ‘Truly Horrific’ Actions of Wisconsin Judge Arrested by FBI – The attorney general recounted that the 30-year-old man she protected was being prosecuted for beating a man and a woman to the point that they needed to go to the hospital. – Florez-Ruiz is charged with three counts of misdemeanor battery, including modifiers for domestic violence that could subject him to enhanced punishment if convicted.

Epoch Times: The Department of Homeland Security says thousands of illegal immigrants have registered on the CBP Home app to self-deport, and that those who have not yet done so will face consequences. – “In less than 100 days, thousands of illegal aliens have used the CBP Home app to self-deport,” DHS Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Epoch Times via email on April 22.

Gatestone Institute: China Is Helping The Houthis Attack U.S. Navy Vessels – China is providing satellite data that is being used to identify U.S. and other ships in the Red Sea for missile strikes appears to be part of a deal between Beijing and the Houthis that would end attacks on Chinese shipping…

Zero Hedge: Who Blinks First? China May Exempt Tariffs On US Ethane & Other Goods – The U.S. is a major supplier of ethane, a petrochemical feedstock and component of natural gas. – Ethane is a critical input for China’s plastics industry, with few alternative suppliers outside the U.S. Needless to say, any disruption to ethane shipments would severely impact China’s plastics sector.

American Conservative: Yes, Zelensky Should Take the Deal – Close analysis of the proposal suggests Trump is genuinely trying to cobble together a viable deal, and exposes as misleading the melodramatic insinuations of the mainstream media. – Ukraine would get more than many people realize. – The one-page document laying out the proposal is reported to describe the deal as Trump’s “final offer.”

Daily Wire: Team Trump Arrives In Russia After Ukraine Was Hit By More Strikes And A Top Russian General Assassinated – Witkoff arrived in Moscow on Friday morning, where he met with Putin and other Russian officials. – His trip comes one day after the Trump administration urged both sides to accept the terms the United States had proposed to end the war.

Zero Hedge: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has hilariously declared that every single dollar of U.S. taxpayer money sent to Ukraine since Russia’s 2022 invasion has been meticulously tracked and accounted for, dismissing concerns about corruption or misuse. – The claim, one of his most audacious yet, came during an interview with Daily Wire co-founder and conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro.

Newsmax: President Trump warned that he could “very willingly” order the U.S. military to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities if negotiations between the two countries fail to produce an agreement. – Trump has repeatedly said Iran cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. – Negotiations between Iran and the U.S. over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program will return Saturday to the secluded sultanate of Oman…

Newsmax: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview released Wednesday that Iran must give up all nuclear enrichment if it wants to make a deal during talks with the Trump administration and head off the threat of armed conflict. – Iran continues to insist its nuclear program is for civilian energy use and says it does not seek to make weapons-grade uranium to build atomic bombs…

Geller Report: In a major reversal of the Biden regime’s pro-terror position, the Trump DOJ now says UNRWA has no immunity from U.S. lawsuits—opening the door to massive claims by Hamas victims. – The U.S. Department of Justice has declared that UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, does not possess diplomatic immunity in the United States.

Western Journal: Trump Notices Picture of Biden on Veteran’s Prosthetic Leg, Knows Exactly Where He Needs to Sign It – Trump asked one of the veterans about a comical photo of a clueless-looking Biden on his prosthetic leg. – The veteran replied, “That is Joe Biden, and it says, ‘Let’s go Brandon!’” – This incident is one of many lighthearted moments of levity that have become a hallmark of the Trump presidency.

Daily Fetched: Bondi Slashes Millions in DOJ ‘Woke’ Grants – Millions of dollars in grant funding were for leftist organizations studying things like “systematic racism” and “toxic masculinity.” – The first wave of cuts included 360 programs and grants that were determined to be inconsistent with President Donald Trump’s law-and-order agenda. – Programs such as housing for domestic violence victims and providing opioid treatment will not be cut…

The Federalist’s Guide to This Year’s Biggest Supreme Court Cases – This comprehensive guide will help you identify and understand the major cases to be decided on by the nation’s highest court this term. – Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services – Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission – Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton – Louisiana v. Callais…

Daily Fetched: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is suffering abysmally in the polls, and his approval ratings have prompted CNN to raise red flags. – Data analyst Harry Enten recently examined Schumer’s numbers, saying, ‘Sirens should be going off.’ – AOC’s approval ratings are higher than Schumer’s, which is fueling speculation that she will challenge him.

Breitbart: Medi-Cal, the State of California’s version of Medicaid, has been spending on extraneous programs such as housing while running up a deficit so extreme that the state has had to borrow over $6 billion to save it. – The federal government is cracking down on Medi-Cal and other Medicaid providers that have been using money to support “rent assistance” and “medically tailored meals.”…

CNBC: President Trump signed an order to boost deep-sea mining, seeking to break China’s critical minerals dominance. – The order fast-tracks the pursuit of strategically important minerals such as nickel, copper, and rare earth elements from the seabed in U.S. and international waters. – Heavy machinery is used to remove minerals and metals from the seabed, where they build up into potato-sized nodules.

California Globe: California’s First Steel Mill In 50 Years Breaks Ground In Kern County – The Mojave Micro Mill is to be a green plant powered by an array of solar panels surrounding the mill buildings, putting overall emissions at a minimum. Pacific Steel Group said that it will involve remanufacturing scrap steel into “green” steel rebar for construction and other projects and is expected to create nearly 700 jobs.

Resist The Mainstream: An explosive undercover investigation by Sage Ops has revealed several New York nonprofits providing gender transition services to minors without parental knowledge or consent, while receiving substantial federal funding for these operations. – The investigation targeted organizations including the Ali Forney Center, Care for the Homeless, and the Office of Children and Family Services…

April 24, 2025

American Thinker: Leftist Judges (Again) Went On A Rampage Today – In his first term, and with increasing fury in this term, they have effectively nullified the President’s constitutional power to manage the government. – We are now seeing lawfare on steroids, so much so that we can reasonably say that we’re living in a “kritarchy” (i.e., rule by judges). – This is not what our Constitution intended.

Western Journal: Florida has partnered with the Department of Homeland Security to launch “Operation Tidal Wave,” a first-of-its-kind immigration enforcement effort targeting undocumented immigrants. – Operation Tidal Wave is focused on detaining approximately 800 undocumented immigrants with final deportation orders across Florida.

Epoch Times: A Former US Army Officer Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Selling Sensitive Military Information – Korbein Schultz, 25, was “fully aware of the grave national security implications” when he used his position and access to restricted databases to download and transmit at least 92 sensitive U.S. military documents, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee said.

Daily Signal: A New Poll Shines Important Light on the Deep State In the Second Trump Administration – A whopping 75% of Democrat bureaucrats say they would disobey a lawful Trump order if they consider it bad policy, while Republicans mostly support him. – This means the Trump 47 deep state phenomenon falls along partisan lines, as opposed to the Trump 45 deep state, in which many Republicans joined Democrats.

Daily Signal: Rubio’s State Department Reforms Deliver Massive Blow to Deep State – Before Rubio arrived, the State Department had 734 different offices, many with redundant tasks and responsibilities. – Now, Rubio aims to decrease that number to 604 with the closure of 132 offices, according to a report from The Free Press. – The nearly 20% reduction will come with the elimination of 700 civil service and foreign service employees.

One America News: Trump Praises Musk Amid His Upcoming DOGE Exit, Calling Him A ‘Patriot, Brilliant Guy, And Friend Of Mine’ – However, ever since Musk stepped into his role in the second Trump administration, the move instantly prompted criticism — despite Trump announcing in August 2024 that Musk would be a part of his team if he won the 2024 election.

Just The News: Newly-declassified memos written by disgraced FBI official Andrew McCabe shine new light on how he kept the Trump-Russia collusion hoax investigation alive during a critical period in the first half of 2017 before he got it handed off to a special counsel. – The eight memos penned by McCabe, most of which had never been released until earlier this month, span his discussions and meetings, including with President Donald Trump…

Revolver: – The FBI has uncovered a plot that includes Venezuelan officials helping gang members sneak into the US, and not just to commit random crimes, but to carry out Maduro’s sinister agenda. – According to the report, these gangbangers are being used like pawns in a proxy war and were sent here to intimidate and possibly kill critics of the regime right here on US soil.

Zero Hedge: The WHO Announces ‘Significant’ Layoffs Three Months After Trump Halts US Funding – The WHO has received over $3.5 billion from US taxpayers since 2010. – In Trump’s Jan. 20 order halting US funding from the United Nations body, the president cited WHO’s “mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China,” as well as other global health concerns.

California Globe: Jack in the Box Closing 150 – 200 Restaurants – There is little doubt that the cost of doing business in California with the $20 per hour minimum wage, high utility costs, high taxes, high utilities, high gas prices, cap-and trade climate change regulations, CalOSHA regulations, air quality management district regulations, mandatory overtime, workers compensation insurance, and myriad DEI regulations led to this decision…

Daily Wire: Trump Admonishes Putin Over Airstrikes On Kyiv, Saying, ‘Vladimir, STOP!’ – The attack comes as the Trump administration struggles to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

Zero Hedge: Amid stalled US-led peace talks, Russia launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine, including raining down ballistic missiles on the center of Kyiv, unleashing large-scale death and destruction. – At least nine people have been reported killed and over 70 injured in the capital city, in what was one of the largest and deadliest missile strikes on Ukraine in months. – Some other cities, including Kharkiv, were also hit.

Focal Points: Crimea’s Bloody History – Zelensky’s assertion that the peninsula is sacred Ukrainian territory has no historical basis. – Demanding that Russia give up Crimea—home of its Sevastopol Naval Base since 1783, resembles the demand that the U.S. return the Hawaiian Islands (including its Pearl Harbor Naval Station) to an independent Hawaiian state. – The following is a brief timeline of Crimean history…

AMUSE on X: Russia’s Real Strategy in Ukraine Is A Slow Collapse – Moscow understands the arithmetic of attrition. – Ukraine has roughly 36 million people, and Russia, over 140 million. – In a war that bleeds slowly and demands bodies more than brilliance, demographics become destiny. – This is not merely conjecture; it is historical recurrence as evidenced by…

Daily Signal: The Trump Administration Will Investigate Democrat Fundraising Platform ActBlue For Alleged Money Laundering – Attorney General Pam Bondi has been directed to investigate and take appropriate action concerning allegations regarding the use of online fundraising platforms to make “straw” or “dummy” contributions and to make foreign contributions to U.S. political candidates and committees.

Newsmax: On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly blocked the Trump administration from immediately enacting certain changes to how federal elections are run, including adding a proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form. – President Trump had called for that and other sweeping changes to U.S. elections in an executive order signed in March…

Victor Davis Hanson: What Is Democrat Legality? – Those who weaponized the court system and destroyed the border now rail that Trump is acting unlawfully by not returning an illegal alien, an M-13 member, and a domestic abuser with a propensity to ignore our laws. – Democrats do not own El Salvador, although they act like it when dictating to its government that El Salvador cannot detain one of its citizens on its soil for justified reasons.

American Thinker: The Supposed ‘Maryland Man’ Is Not a Maryland Man – On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to designate cartels and other criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). – While some claim the Salvadoran is a baby-kissing Maryland man—and not a member of MS-13—Trump says, “Garcia has been found by two separate Courts to be a member of the violent, killer gang MS-13, was in our Country illegally, and is under a Deportation Order.”

Western Journal: The Democrats’ Newest Folk Hero Is Linked to A Human Smuggler, Will They Still Defend Him? – In 2022, Tennessee police stopped Abrego Garcia in a black SUV owned by Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes. – Homeland Security had flagged the SUV as belonging to a man suspected of smuggling or human trafficking.

Breitbart: California U.S. Judge William Orrick on Thursday barred the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use of federal funds to “sanctuary” jurisdictions. – Orrick issued the injunction sought by San Francisco and more than a dozen other municipalities that sued over a pair of executive orders the Republican president issued targeting local municipalities that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts.

Breitbart: Illegal alien Yoni Barrios from Guatemala, previously protected by California’s statewide sanctuary policy, has been sentenced to life in prison after murdering 30-year-old Maris Mareen DiGiovanni and 47-year-old Brent Allan Hallett on the Las Vegas, Nevada, strip in 2022. – Barrios was given two life sentences for going on a stabbing spree across the Las Vegas strip, where he also injured six people near the Wynn hotel.

Western Journal: Pam Bondi Drops the Hammer As She Begins Bringing RICO Charges – On Monday, the Department of Justice dropped two major indictments involving 27 members of Tren de Aragua on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations charges. – The alleged crimes range from sex and drug trafficking to racketeering to firearms crimes. – “Of the 27 defendants, 21 are already in federal custody…

American Thinker: Donald Trump, Right Man At The Right Moment – What happened to our nation during COVID set the table for accepting all that happened next. – The attempted hostile takeover of our minds was underway. – With Trump’s election victory, DEI D.I.E.D. – Call it a mercy-killing or assisted suicide, either way, this fever-dream was morally terminal and intellectually dead from the onset.

American Thinker: Trump Means to Reduce China – China is more than a competitor, it’s a known adversary that wants to replace the U.S. as the globe’s dominant power. – To whittle down China, Trump’s principal weapons are trade policy and tariffs. – If the president wins, the U.S. emerges as a shaper for the rest of the 21st Century. – Corporate media won’t tell you, but China is in big trouble…

American Thinker: Secretary of Defense Hegseth Threatens the Deep State – And the corrupt press continues its sabotage campaign. – The silly attempts to create a public “narrative” that Secretary Hegseth threatens national security are part of the same Intelligence Community operation that targeted him last winter. It’s quite revealing how desperate the Deep State is to keep “outsiders” away from the levers of power, isn’t it?…

American Thinker: The Democrat party is flying apart – The old guard of the Democrat Party is openly clashing with the party’s youngest members. – Remember that we see only the external eruptions of the strains within the party. – Their dirty laundry is probably much worse behind the scenes. – Let’s look at what is taking place, why it likely happened, and what we should do to shape the battlefield for the future conservation of freedom…

Zero Hedge: 12 Signs That U.S. Consumers Are Experiencing Financial Stress – #1 According to the University of Michigan, consumer sentiment in the United States has fallen to the second-lowest reading ever recorded. – #2 According to a new CNBC/SurveyMonkey poll, a whopping 73 percent of U.S. consumers admit that they are “financially stressed” – #3 Approximately two-thirds of U.S. adults feel like they are “behind on their savings goals.”…

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to halt a federal judge’s order preventing it from implementing a policy disqualifying individuals who have gender dysphoria or have undergone medical interventions for that condition. – The DOD says it “rationally determined that service by individuals with gender dysphoria would undermine military effectiveness and lethality—consistent with similar, longstanding determinations for a wide range of other medical conditions.”

American Thinker: Decentralized Capitalism Is The Future Of Free Markets – It solves what capitalism failed to protect against: monopolies. – It solves what socialism cannot deliver: incentive-based prosperity. – It avoids the tyranny of communism by ensuring that an exit is always possible and is powered by blockchain technology, smart contracts, and DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations). – In this new system, tokens become the new shares…

Geller Report: India Terminates Visas for All Pakistani Citizens After A Deadly Islamic Terror Attack – The terrorists checked the IDs of tourists to see if they were Muslim or not, then opened fire on the non-Muslim crowd, killing 26. – India’s Prime Minister Modi announced that Pakistani citizens have to leave India immediately. – “India will identify, track, and punish every terrorist, their handlers, and their backers.

American Thinker: Islam Is Incompatible with Democracy – Perhaps we ought to wake up and reflect on the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson when considering how much Islam to allow into American society. – While in London in 1786, Jefferson got a quick education from Tripoli’s Muslim ambassador when he queried him as to why his Barbary Coast pirates were attacking U.S. merchant ships for no reason. The ambassador boldly declared that, as Muslims, it was their right and duty to make war on non-Muslims and to enslave them as prisoners…

Daily Wire: Med Schools Replace Medical Merit With Obesity Denial And DEI Doctrine – Medical schools nationwide are forcing students to promote left-wing ideologies on race, gender, and obesity at the expense of proper patient care, according to a new watchdog report released on Thursday by Free Speech First. – 99% push racial justice ideology, 89% require a commitment to gender doctrine, and 30% teach “weight inclusivity.”

April 23, 2025

Daily Wire: Trump Orders Troops To Middle East To Counter Houthi Attacks – “I will no longer allow this band of pirates to threaten and attack US forces and commercial vessels.” – “Forces under US Central Command have commenced large-scale strikes in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen to eliminate the capabilities the Houthis use for attacks on United States forces and commercial ships in the Red Sea and surrounding waters.”…

Western Journal: China’s Plastics Industry Faces A Reckoning Because It Depends on a Critical Import from the US – On Monday, Bloomberg noted that China’s purchases of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, dropped to zero in March, and the imports were frozen before the tariffs kicked in. – Almost all of the ethane, which is a component of natural gas that is used in the plastics production process, that Chinese manufacturers used came from the US.

American Spectator: Is Beijing Overplaying Its Hand? – With surgical precision, the Trump administration is slicing into the Communist Party’s export machine, a risky but overdue move. – Beijing shouldn’t assume Europe will passively absorb its surplus, flooding the market with cheap products. Over 150 million of China’s 750 million workers depend directly or indirectly on the export sector, which accounts for 19 percent of its GDP.

Daily Wire: During a press conference at the White House, President Trump acknowledged that the 145% tax on Chinese imports “is very high,” adding, “It won’t be anywhere near that high.” – He did not say when the tariff rate could drop or if he is waiting for China to agree to any deal in return for a lower tariff, but noted, “It will come down substantially, but it won’t be zero.”…

Breitbart: – Unclassified portions” of an FBI assessment found that officials within Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro’s regime were using TdA gang members “as proxies for the Maduro regime in an effort to destabilize” countries such as the U.S., Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia – The report comes as President Donald Trump and his administration have faced legal challenges from several judges in response to the deportations of Venezuelan migrants who are suspected of being TdA members under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

Gateway Pundit: ODNI Tulsi Gabbard criminally referred two intel officials to the DOJ for leaking to The New York Times and the Washington Post, and a third criminal referral is on its way. – Gabbard, “Politicization of our intelligence and leaking classified information puts our nation’s security at risk and must end.” – The Trump Administration is not putting up with leakers this time around.

Gateway Pundit: The O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released undercover video of a Defense Department Branch Chief attacking President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. – Nicolas Turza, a Department of Defense Branch Chief, called President Trump “illegitimate” and vowed to “resist him, everything he does.”

Breitbart: Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected the peace deal framework reportedly proposed by the Trump administration of freezing the lines of the conflict and recognizing Crimea as Russian territory. – The agreement would also mean that Russia would have to cede territories it considers its own to Ukraine, and also include a commitment that Ukraine would not become a member of NATO. – U.S. Vice President JD Vance said that the “Ukrainians and the Russians are both going to have to give up some of the territory they currently own” for a deal to work.

New York Post: Trump Gives Zelensky A Dire Warning On The Russia-Ukraine War – Accept peace or risk “fight for another three years before losing the whole Country.” – A decade ago, Trump criticized Obama for not intervening when Russia annexed Crimea. – Kyiv has been working since 2014 to get its territory back and expel Russians from eastern Ukraine.

Gatestone Institute: Is Trump The Problem, Or Actually The Answer To A Seriously Bigger Problem? – If we continue to allow ourselves to be drained by a Chinese regime that never plays by the rules, the United States will end up where Europe already finds itself: with massive deindustrialization, strategic dependency, and weakness in times of crisis. Trump appears, at least for now, committed to turning that future around.

Tablet Magazine: China Can’t Go It Alone – Assertions that America is at a disadvantage in a trade war with China take official bluster at face value while overlooking the profound structural weaknesses of the Chinese economy. The only trade partner capable of helping China out of the fix in which it now finds itself is the United States, which means a win for Donald Trump is likely.

Wall Street Journal: The White House Considers Slashing China Tariffs to De-Escalate Trade War – Levies could be cut by more than half in some cases. – President Trump hasn’t made a final determination, the people said, adding that the discussions remain fluid and several options are on the table…

Washington Examiner: Rare earths are headline news due to the trade war between the US and China.- Major news outlets don’t publicize the fact that rare earth minerals are not particularly rare. – The U.S. has vast, undeveloped deposits of them. – An executive order would enable the permitting process for developing rare earths to be streamlined, and the U.S. could arguably be self-sufficient in rare earth minerals in a matter of months.

Epoch Times: The US Can Produce Rare Earths If China Stops Exports, But There’s a Catch – China’s export restrictions on seven key manufacturing materials exposed a glaring absence of existing commercial processing capacity, with few fast fixes on tap. – Trump’s April 2 order gives Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick 180 days to suggest how the federal government can help develop a “circular” domestic rare earth supply chain…

American Thinker: Is Tim Walz Helping China Colonize Minnesota? – A short drive from the Governor’s Mansion sits a brick building housing a secret Chinese front operation that serves several functions for the CCP, none of them good for the US. – Out of this building, CCP operatives curry favor with politicians like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and provide various services for Chinese Americans in Minnesota who are still loyal to Beijing…

American Thinker: Four Years And Five Prominent Fiascos, The Toll of Government Overreach – Many Americans believe the Biden administration brought four of the worst years we have encountered in the past half-century, if not longer, for the nation and the American spirit. 1. The COVID Mandates. – 2. Mass Unvetted Migration. – 3. Multiple Trillion-Dollar Government Spending Programs. – 4. The New Treatment of Crime and Justice. – 5. The DEI Executive Order.

Wall Street Journal: President Trump to Sign an Executive Order Targeting University Accreditors – This move is the latest in an effort to remake higher education after the president and other Republicans have long criticized the accreditation process. – The order aims to use the accrediting system to combat what Trump views as discriminatory practices and “ideological overreach” on college campuses, according to administration officials…

Dallas Ludlum: A New Harvard Poll Shows Young Americans Surge Right As The Democrats’ Woke Agenda Crumbles – The Harvard Youth Poll shows 18- to 29-year-olds’ approval for Democrats has tanked to 23%, from 42% back in 2017. – Just 15% of young voters think the country is on the right track, with 51% saying we’re off course, a devastating judgment about Democratic stewardship after years of broken promises.

American Thinker: The Legacy of the Roberts Court – Chief Justice John Roberts seems very concerned about his legacy, but he should already know what it is. – He and his court will go down in history as increasingly unconstitutional as they emplace double standards on due process and free speech, lawfare, interference with Article II, and political campaign financing, just to name a few…

AXIOS: Dick Durbin Is Retiring After Nearly 3 Decades In The Senate – Durbin’s retirement will kick off one of the first open leadership contests in a decade, continuing a generational change in the Senate Democratic caucus. –
Durbin, 80, was facing reelection next year. – Durbin joins a growing list of Senate Democrats who are calling it quits ahead of the 2026 election.

President Donald Trump has revealed plans to erect two striking 100-foot flagpoles on the White House grounds, each proudly displaying a pristine American flag. – He described the new additions, which he is personally paying for, as “beautiful,” emphasizing their symbolic significance and visual impact. Trump, “The two flagpoles will be top of the line.”

Washington Free Beacon: 30 Times Democrats Worried (Privately) About Biden’s Decline Before the Debate Fiasco – Some feared Biden was ‘losing his grip’ as early as 2021 – 1) Biden “rambled far off topic, telling unrelated stories about his days in the Senate…” – 2) In the summer of 2022, Jill Biden met with potential donors in Boston, where Bain Capital’s chairman, Joshua Bekenstein, suggested the president “could leave public life proud of a one-term legacy,”…

American Thinker: AOC versus visionary leadership – Hopefully, the 2028 election will be a contest between AOC and a conservative visionary. – The rising popularity of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is quite amusing. – Her rise comes as the Democratic Party base is increasingly agitated by the party’s inability to push back against the Trump administration’s sweeping agenda, and is searching for a champion to fight back.

Nations First: The Great Unmasking – The globalist house of cards is shaking as Klaus Schwab, the man who smiled as he promised you’d “own nothing and be happy,” has fallen. – Dragged out by a tidal wave of whistleblower allegations so shocking and brazen, they make a mockery of the moral superiority he’s cloaked himself in for decades. – His replacement, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, signals a deeper entrenchment of the WEF’s agenda, not a shift in direction or values.

Gateway Pundit: Elon Musk to Reduce Time Spent on DOGE Starting May So He Can Refocus on Tesla – “Starting probably in [the] next month, May, my time allocation to DOGE will drop significantly,” Musk said. – “I’ll have to continue doing it for, I think, the remainder of the president’s term just to make sure that the waste and fraud doesn’t come roaring back, which we’ll do, if it has the chance.”

Resist The Mainstream: Future of DOGE Remains Strong Despite Musk’s Reduced Role in Government Overhaul – While his reduced involvement marks a shift in priorities, DOGE’s mission to reform and streamline the government is expected to continue, with new leadership poised to take on the agency’s objectives. – Musk, “The large slug of work to get the DOGE team in place and working in the government is mostly done.”

Epoch Times: Hakeem Jeffries to Lead Bipartisan Delegation to Denmark to Discuss Greenland – The visit comes as President Donald Trump has expressed an interest in the United States obtaining Greenland. – Jeffries, The delegation will travel to Denmark to discuss “the continued importance of the NATO alliance and the geopolitical status of Greenland.”…

Western Journal: Mainstream Reporters Are Forced to Watch in Silence As Podcaster Tim Pool Exposes Them as Frauds During His First Ever Whitehouse Presser Question – For those of you wondering why there needed to be a new media seat in the White House press briefing room, this is a prime example of why the seat was so necessary. – “Many of the news organizations that are represented in this room have marched in lock step on false narratives, such as…

Daily Fetched: MSNBC star Jen Psaki admitted that her left-leaning network’s viewers expect negative coverage of President Donald Trump, and that’s exactly what the network delivers. – Psaki acknowledged to Puck’s media reporter Dylan Byers on The Grill Room podcast that the network’s audience turns to them specifically for negative coverage of Trump.

Center Square: California grants early release to illegal immigrant who killed two Americans – Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano was convicted of killing two Southern California teens while he was drunk, high, and speeding over 100 miles per hour. – He is set to be released three years into his 10-year sentence. – Ortega-Anguinano had a lengthy rap sheet, including multiple felony convictions, time in state prison, and “multiple convictions for driving without a license.”

Resist The Mainstream: Outrage has erupted after California’s decision to release an illegal immigrant convicted of manslaughter just 3.5 years into his 10-year sentence. – The Trump administration, citing concerns over the lenient treatment of the convicted individual, has filed federal charges in an effort to seek justice for the victims.

Slay News: Authorities have arrested two illegal aliens who have been charged with the murder of a woman who was found dead in a forest in Maryland. – 24-year-old Keycy Robinson Alexi Barrera-Rosa was charged with murdering 23-year-old Lesbia Mileth Ramirez Guerra, and his uncle, 37-year-old Rolvin Eduardo Barrera-Barrera, was charged as an accessory. – Deputies said Guerra’s body was found on April 17 after she had gone missing on March 31.

Epoch Times: Everything We Know About El Salvador Deportee Abrego Garcia – The Trump administration continues to defend its decision to deport the man at the center of the nation’s most-debated immigration case so far this year. – For more than five years, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was an adjudged illegal immigrant living on borrowed time in the United States. – During that period, a deportation order applied to him, but it had been put on hold…

The Federalist: South Carolina’s Play To Nullify Tariffs In 1832 Failed Spectacularly, And Newsom’s Will Too – Newsom, it seems, fancies himself a latter-day John C. Calhoun, strutting onto the national stage with a States’ Powers swagger. – The problem for him is that he’s reading from a script debunked by history, law, and common sense.

City Journal: Trump Was Right to Shutter This Homelessness Agency – The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness pushed the disastrous Housing First policy on states and ignored mounting evidence of its total failure. – The USICH was one of the principal government mouthpieces for Housing First policy, which deprioritized transitional housing programs that require clients to engage in treatment, remain sober, work, or participate in social services.

FAR: The January 6 Stories the Media Doesn’t Want You to Hear – Do we know what really happened on January 6? – Hear firsthand accounts from John Strand and Brandon Straka. – These two men were arrested, jailed, and nearly financially ruined just for their presence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

April 22, 2025

Western Journal: What Trump Said Instantly After Being Shot – A reporter Feet Away from POTUS Reveals What She Heard – Salena Zito revealed earlier this month that she heard Trump yell “USA” twice before picking himself off the ground and delivering his iconic “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

Daily Wire: ‘They Can Come After Me’, A Defiant Pete Hegseth Says He’s Not Backing Down – “They’ve come after me since day one, but I’ve gotten a fraction of what President Trump got in that first term. – What he’s endured is superhuman, ” as Hegseth spoke with Brian Kilmeade about the recent story, in which The New York Times alleges that Hegseth could have disclosed sensitive information in a second Signal chat group call…

Western Journal: Jaw-Dropper, Why Is Susan Rice Still At the Pentagon, Even as Trump Is President and Hegseth Is Secretary of Defense? – Susan Rice, former UN ambassador during the Obama administration, is a member of the Defense Policy Board. – Rice’s biggest “credential” is selling a whopping lie to the American people after the attack on an American diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya…

Gateway Pundit: The Top 60 Minutes Producer Abruptly Resigns As Trump’s Massive Lawsuit Against CBS Continues – President Trump is suing CBS for a whopping $10 billion in damages for deceptively editing a damning interview with Kamala Harris on “60 Minutes” last year. – Trump, “This was the definition of election interference. Fake news, 60 Minutes was caught editing Kamala’s answers to make her sound coherent and normal.”

Wall Street Journal: Trump Says He Has ‘No Intention’ of Firing Fed Chair Powell – The president has increasingly criticized Powell in recent days saying “We think that it’s a perfect time to lower the rate, and we’d like to see our chairman be early or on time, as opposed to late.”

Fox News: President Trump blasts courts for getting in the way of deportation agenda – “I hope we get cooperation from the courts, because, you know, we have thousands of people that are ready to go out, and you can’t have a trial for all of these people,” he said. – “It wasn’t meant, the system wasn’t meant, and we don’t think there’s anything that says that.”

Western Journal: The Democrats’ Ridiculous Demand – Representatives Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell Frost of Florida, Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, and Maxine Dexter of Oregon traveled to El Salvador Monday to demand Abrego Garcia’s release.- The Salvadoran government denied their request to meet Abrego Garcia, leaving them empty-handed.- In a laughable twist, they are now demanding “daily proof of life” for Abrego Garcia.

Breitbart: Pam Bondi Issues Memo to Prevent Mutilation of Children, Hold Medical Professionals Accountable – “The DOJ will not sit idly by while doctors, motivated by ideology, profits, or both, exploit and mutilate our children. Under my watch, the Department will act decisively to protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of care.”…

City Journal: Bernie Sanders, The Socialist Who Scammed America – He talks like he’s broke, but lives like he’s Bezos. – As Michael Bloomberg once remarked: “The best-known socialist in the country is a millionaire with three houses.” – In Bernie’s weird world, lakefront property doesn’t count if you don’t call it a mansion. – What’s so infuriating is not just the hypocrisy; it’s the sanctimony. Sanders is a full-blown brand…

The Federalist: Meet The Wealthy Private Firms Controlling The Democrat Party – Financial Investment Corporation and Apax Partners, along with subsidiary Bonterra, gained control over significant portions of the American left’s get-out-the-vote and funding infrastructure. – “They’ve seen the houses that the grifters can buy, and they realize how much money there is in lefty political organizing.”…

Drew Berquist: Democratic strategists are working to redefine their messaging and political approach. – A growing number of Democrat staffers and strategists are embracing the “dark woke” label as a way to shed the party’s reputation for cautious political correctness. – According to Bhavik Lathia, the former digital director for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, the new approach is an attempt to escape what he called a “respectability prison.”

Western Journal: Karoline Leavitt Gives Bad News to Those Who Thought They Could Avoid Paying Their Student Loans Forever – Leavitt announced Tuesday that repayment of student loans to the federal government will recommence in May. – Congress mandated that student and parent borrowers begin to repay their student loans in October 2023, but the Biden-Harris Administration refused to lift the collections pause and kept borrowers in a confusing limbo.”

Breitbart: The Vatican has decided the funeral for Pope Francis will take place on Saturday, April 26, at 10:00 local time in Rome. – A meeting of cardinals in the Vatican decided the time and date, while confirming that public viewing can begin on Wednesday. – The BBC reports papal funerals have traditionally been elaborate affairs, but Pope Francis acted last year to simplify his arrangements.

New York Post: The Vatican releases images of Pope Francis in an open coffin for the Confirmation of the Death of the Pontiff ceremony. – In images shared by the Vatican on Tuesday, the pontiff can be seen lying in his vestments with a rosary in his hands. – As for the funeral, Pope Francis will be buried on Saturday, under norms he approved last year…

Resist The Mainstream: Donald Trump Jr. Torches The Trump Administration’s ‘Traitor’ John Ullyot for Public Attack on Hegseth – “This guy is not America First. I’ve been hearing for years that he works his ass off to subvert my father’s agenda. That ends today. He’s officially exiled from our movement.”

Issues & Insights: A Tale Of Two Presidents’ Deportation Records – The Left rages on about President Trump deporting illegal aliens, but the Democratic-media rage machine never even got started, not with Obama in the White House nor with Bill Clinton, who of the last three presidents to serve two consecutive terms is the real deportation chief, with more than 12 million overall deportations, in the land’s highest office, no that’s reserved for Republicans.

The Free Press: The Trump Administration Launches the Biggest Shake-Up ‘In Decades’ at the State Department – Internal documents show how the State Department will eliminate or restructure hundreds of offices in Washington, D.C., a revelation that comes after reports in recent weeks of a rumored overhaul at the agency. The State Department is bringing the number of its offices down from 734 to 602, a 17% reduction.

Daily Fetched: DOGE leader Elon Musk is warning about the dramatic fall in birth rates across the world, admitting that it has become his primary concern for the future of humanity. – “America had the lowest birth rate ever. That was last year. Humanity is dying.” – While the left focuses on climate change, Musk pointed to an existential threat that he believes most are ignoring: a global demographic collapse.

American Thinker: Thankfully, the GEC is finally more than mostly dead. – During his campaign, Donald Trump promised to end government censorship. – Founded in 2011 as The Center for Strategic Counter Terrorism Communications, it was supposed to keep track of terrorist narratives and formulate counter-narratives. – Under Barack Obama, it was renamed the GEC, and its focus turned inward to the political enemies of Democrats…

American Thinker: The Death of the Center-Left in America – The center-left in the United States is no longer a viable political force. – Once among the largest segments in the political spectrum, it meekly surrendered to and has been essentially absorbed by the American Marxists, almost entirely due to the breathtaking level of gullibility and ignorance of ostensibly well-educated self-described liberals…

American Thinker: The Danger of Nothing – Why has it taken this long to understand the emptiness of Democrat dogma? – Here we are in the Trump administration, and the reveal is staggering: the Democrat/Leftist agenda just isn’t there. – The evidence can be laid out in seven different points: 1. Every effort to implement leftist policies fails spectacularly. – 2. Most prominent Democrats are psychologically pathetic and morally dislodged from reality…

American Thinker: We Are Not The Same – Abrego Garcia is their immigration poster child, and they can’t understand why Normal Americans don’t agree with them or why their approval rating is so low. – Since Donald Trump won the 2024 election, Democrats have demonstrated a comical lack of self-reflection. – They’re entirely wrong, but never one bit in doubt. – Democrats call him “Maryland Man,” a loving father, and are desperate to return him to his supposed “home.”…

Zero Hedge: Ker-Powell To The Liberal World Order – President Trump just landed another comic-book punch on Fed Chair Powell. – To be honest, Trump is saying many of the same things that many of those covering the Fed in markets are, just far less politely, and very inappropriately in the eyes of those same commentators because they are allowed to criticize an independent central bank and take market positions to bend it to their will, but politicians are obviously not.

Bloomberg: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. agreed to pay Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies more than $3 billion over the next decade to help manufacture its medicines in the US, as the threat of tariffs looms over the nation’s drug supply. – Fujifilm will produce drugs for Regeneron, maker of the $14 billion a year inflammation treatment Dupixent, at its facility in Holly Springs, North Carolina…

Bloomberg: The US said it’s made “significant progress” toward a bilateral trade deal following talks between Vice President JD Vance and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. – They laid down a roadmap for further discussions that New Delhi hopes may shield it from additional tariff hikes. – The progress shows that India is better placed than its regional rivals,” on trade talks with the US, said Amitendu Palit, an economist specializing in international trade…

Zero Hedge: These Parents Removed Their Kids From School And The Supreme Court Is About To Hear Why – An interfaith group of parents says forcing elementary school children to participate in instruction that contradicts their religious beliefs on sex and gender violates their First Amendment rights. – The Montgomery County Board of Education sparked a firestorm in March 2023 when it notified parents they would not be able to opt out their elementary-level students from instruction involving books on gender and sexuality.

New York Post: Progressive Hennepin County District Attorney Mary Moriarty declined to charge a Tim Walz state employee allegedly caught causing $20,000 damage by vandalizing half a dozen Teslas, a decision ripped by the “frustrated” local police chief. – 33-year-old Minnesota government employee Dylan Bryan Adams was allegedly spotted keying the vehicles and stripping their paint off while out walking his dog around the city.

Daily Wire: Harvard Sues To Restore Taxpayer Funding Frozen By The Trump Admin – The lawsuit is the latest escalation in a growing feud between the Trump administration and the university. The government has put increasing pressure on the school over pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas protests that rocked the campus after the October 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel.

Townhall: The White House Responds After Harvard Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Over Funding Freeze – “The gravy train of federal assistance to institutions like Harvard, which enriches their grossly overpaid bureaucrats with tax dollars from struggling American families, is coming to an end,” the statement said. “Taxpayer funds are a privilege, and Harvard fails to meet the basic conditions required to access that privilege.”

Conservative Brief: The Democrat Delegation Of Four House Democrats Was Denied Access To Deported MS-13 Suspect in El Salvador – After being denied access to Ábrego García during their visit, the lawmakers escalated their demands, calling on the Trump administration to provide “daily proof of life,” ensure access to legal counsel, and facilitate his immediate release…

Daily Wire: Despite Trump Orders, Juvenile Prisons Still Have To House ‘Trans’ Men With Young Girls – Advocates are calling on the White House to undo a little-known Obama rule they say puts female inmates at risk. – The regulations for juvenile facilities were first issued by then Attorney General Eric Holder in May 2012 and became law that August.

FAR: Amy Coney Barrett vs Elon Musk – Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Tried to Intimidate Elon Musk, Then Discovered Musk is a Legal Genius! – Barrett faced off against Elon Musk in a high-stakes legal battle that took an unexpected turn.

Pacific Research Institute: The Soaring Costs of California’s Green Energy Transition – California households will bear significant costs, estimated to be between $17,398 and $20,182 per household, to fund the state’s transition between 2025 and 2050. – These costs include not only the construction and installation of new infrastructure, but also the decommissioning and dismantling of existing natural gas and nuclear plants.

April 21, 2025

Daily Wire: The Vatican Reveals The Cause Of Death For Pope Francis – The pope died of a “stroke,” leading to a “coma,” and eventually “irreversible cardio-circulatory collapse.” – Professor Andrea Arcangeli, Director of the Directorate of Health and Hygiene of the Vatican City State, issued the official certification per the Holy See Press Office late Monday.

Western Journal: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a stinging dissent to the high court’s decision over the weekend to block, at least temporarily, the deportation of alleged Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. – He pointed out that under the SCOTUS’s rules, the justices are not to consider an emergency stay until the lower court has decided on the matter “except in the most extraordinary circumstances.”…

Epoch Times: China Issues Retaliatory Sanctions on U.S. Congress Members Over “Egregious Behavior” Regarding Hong Kong – The sanctions are in response to Washington’s sanctioning of six Chinese and Hong Kong officials in March for their alleged involvement in transnational repression and acts threatening to further erode Hong Kong’s autonomy.

One America News: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law ratifying a 20-year strategic partnership pact with Iran that aims to strengthen diplomatic and military ties between the two nations. – The agreement reportedly notes that the two countries will not provide military assistance to any third party with which the other partner is in any kind of conflict...

Financial Times: Roche to spend $50 billion on US manufacturing and R&D – This Swiss group becomes the latest pharmaceutical company to promise investment in the face of potential tariffs. – The Swiss drug and diagnostics company will make the investment over the next five years, forecasting that it will create 1,000 jobs at Roche and 12,000 in total, including construction…

Washington Times: Under Trump, border catch-and-release has dropped 99.99% from Biden’s worst month – These two numbers best tell that startling story: from 189,604 down to 20. – Former immigration judge Andrew Arthur, “Trump has created a virtuous cycle in which success breeds more success. – “When it’s properly implemented, the more people that you detain, the fewer people are going to come, which means the fewer people you have to detain.”

Sasha Stone: There’s No Such Thing as a “Sane” Democrat – The rage and hysteria are escalating. – If you talk to one of them, they will tell you they believe things that aren’t true. They’re openly calling for Trump’s assassination. – Even the most “normal” among them has no choice but to fall in line…

Zero Hedge: On the Necessity of Epstein Justice – The objective of Epstein Justice is the formation Congressional Commission that will independently investigate the Epstein case, ensuring that the pimps and perpetrators in the Epstein child trafficking network will be prosecuted. – A majority in the House and Senate voting for the Commission will achieve the formation of a Congressional Commission…

Real Clear Education: Parental rights do not end the moment a child walks onto the school bus or through the classroom doors. – Many school boards across the country, however, wrongly operate as if that’s true. – Montgomery County, Maryland, is home to one such school board. – As activist school administrators and board members ignore or actively try to erode parental rights and authority. Thankfully, we are seeing an uprising of parents fighting back.

AP: Pope Francis dies at 88 – “At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father,” said Cardinal Kevin Farrell in an announcement of the death. – The cause of death has not been shared. – The Vatican says the general public will likely be able to pay their final respects starting Wednesday.

New York Post: Here are the top cardinals who could replace Pope Francis after the conclave – Now, “whoever is elected will be of a centrally conservative disposition; after 12 years of Pope Francis ‘stirring things up,’” said Serenhedd James, editor of Britain’s Catholic Herald magazine. – “I think the cardinals will want someone who will take a different, calmer approach.”

Breitbart: The Papal Conclave Will Select a New Pope, Here’s How It Works – Only cardinals under the age of 80 are allowed to cast a vote. – Candidates need only be male, baptized Catholics, and they will be nominated from around the world. – Traditionally, a 15-day mourning period is observed before the conclave begins. – Cardinals whittle down candidates through successive rounds of voting, with no communication with the outside world…

Gateway Pundit: Another Hit Job – The Pentagon Denies A New York Times Report with Anonymous Sources Accusing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of Leaking Yemen Strike Details in Second Private Signal Chat with Wife, Brother, and Lawyer – This latest attack comes on the heels of the firing of three former Pentagon officials—Dan Caldwell, Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll—accused of leaking unauthorized information.

American Thinker: The Starliner Situation, Worse Than We Thought – The problems with the Starliner were far worse than NASA admitted. – Astronaut Butch Wilmore confirmed Elon Musk’s assertion that he and Suni Williams really were stranded on the ISS. – The situation was so severe that Wilmore didn’t know if the thrusters would allow him to dock with the ISS or function well enough to de-orbit the capsule without burning up in the atmosphere…

Breitbart: The Department of Homeland Security sent a simple message on Monday to members of the hyper-violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang, saying, “TdA’s time is up.” – The message follows the arrest of hundreds of known or suspected members of the Venezuelan gang. – DHS officials posted a video on social media showing ICE operations around the country targeting members of TdA.

Zero Hedge: China’s Oil Supertankers Are Slammed With A $5.2 Million Fee Per U.S. Port Call – The U.S. Trade Representative states the move aims to address Chinese dominance and bolster the U.S. shipbuilding industry. – The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) plans to impose fees on operators of Chinese-built ships based on net tonnage or containers, increasing incrementally over the following years…

Zero Hedge: Klaus Schwab Steps Down From World Economic Forum Board Amid A Globalist Movement Retreat – Schwab’s resignation also comes three months after President Trump told globalist CEOs at the WEF’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, “America is back.” – It also follows Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative, which nuked USAID programs that funneled billions of taxpayer dollars into corrupt NGOs.

Daily Fetched: The Feds Bust Mexican Nationals in Colorado with Enough Ammo for a Small Army – The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado said Caesar Ramon Martinez Solis, 41, and Humberto Ivan Amador Gavira, 24, were pulled over on March 26th in Cañon City, when they discovered 50 boxes of .308 ammunition and 30 boxes of 7.62 ammunition, with each box labeled as holding 1,000 rounds…

Daily Fetched: Democrat Magistrate Judge Joel Cano in New Mexico has resigned after ICE agents arrested an alleged Tren de Aragua gang member at his home. – Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, 23, entered the U.S. by way of Eagle Pass, Texas, before being released under Joe Biden’s “catch and release” policy, under which migrants and asylum seekers were given court dates before being transported to the U.S. interior…

American Thinker: Democrats Are Dying On The Most Desolate Hills – The Democrats have staked their political fortunes on the issues that Americans dislike the most. – According to a Pew Research Center poll, “Of the roughly 51% of adults who support at least some deportation of illegal immigrants, nearly all support deporting those who commit violent crimes, according to the poll.”…

American Thinker: It’s Not Really About Abrego Garcia – Why have Democrats decided to die on another barren hill? – I think that the answer lies in the civil war occurring within the Democrat party. It’s a generational war, a fight between the 20-year-olds and the 80-year-olds. – Calls for generational change among Democrats are growing louder as the party seeks to chart a path forward going into the 2026 midterms…

American Thinker: Post-election lawfare; legislating from the bench – Since taking office, Trump initially faced 120 lawsuits. – Democrats are trying to legislate from the bench, with Democrat activist judges ignoring Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c): The court may issue a preliminary injunction or a temporary restraining order only if the movant [that is, petitioner] gives security in an amount that the court considers proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by any party found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained…

New York Post: Trump to yank another billion dollars in Harvard funding in the latest blow over the school’s antisemitism and admissions defiance – The latest punishment comes after Harvard released a lengthy list of demands from the Trump administration that White House officials had thought would remain private…

Daily Wire: Kristi Noem’s Purse, With Her DHS Badge, Passport, and $3,000 Cash Inside, Was Stolen – Restaurant surveillance shows a man wearing a face covering taking Noem’s bag. – Noem confirmed the incident on Monday while attending the White House Easter Egg Roll, but indicated that the matter remains unresolved.

Victor Davis Hanson: Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government? – Elite universities push for federal funding while ignoring legal and ethical obligations, fueling public distrust as they prioritize ideology over academic rigor and free speech. – There are lots of campus practices that higher education would prefer were not widely known to the public, but they will soon be, and thus will become sources of public anger.

American Thinker: Is the Jihadist Trojan Horse Winning? – The Islamic takeover of America has been steadily proceeding. – It is now accelerating in Texas. – EPIC City in Plano, Texas, is, in essence, America’s “No-Go Zone.” – Muslim leaders themselves now identify Texas as one of the most desirable destinations for Hijrah—the religious migration commanded by Islamic tradition to spread Islam and establish its influence.

April 20, 2025

American Spectator: Trump Versus the Courts (Again) – Courts only have jurisdiction over the parties before it, whether it is a civil or criminal matter. Courts have, again and again, gone against that basic tenet of American jurisprudence and have issued national injunctions against Trump’s various policies. – The Supreme Court’s decisions have simply continued the ban on decisions in jurisdictions where the illegal immigrants are not held.

American Spectator: Without Census Reform, There Is No Election Integrity – It isn’t possible to hold honest elections if the Census Bureau can’t produce an accurate population count. – When the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability examined the Census Bureau’s Post-Enumeration Survey, it revealed significant miscounts in 14 states…

Vigilant Fox: Bill Maher Tells Charlie Kirk What’s Really Destroying His Own Party – Two political opposites, united in one BRUTAL exposé of the modern left. – Maher, “Liberalism is, let’s live in a colorblind society. That’s the goal. Woke’s goal is, ‘We see race everywhere.’ Liberal is, ‘There’s a two-state solution.’ Woke is ‘river to the sea.’”

American Thinker: So-Called ‘Trans Women’ Activists Are Getting Increasingly Dangerous – Men who claim to be women have the aggression of men and the emotionalism of women, and this is a very dangerous combination. – The news this weekend is rife with stories about so-called “trans women” rampaging, both in the U.S. and in the UK…

Center Square: Governors in four states are asking the federal government for waivers allowing them to prevent SNAP recipients from using their benefits to purchase what one governor calls “taxpayer-funded junk food,” such as candy and soda. – SNAP overall costs the federal government about $115 billion per year. – Critics of the new push under SNAP say it unfairly targets lower-income families, limits consumer choice, and won’t result in better health outcomes.

Breitbart: A Mega Poll Shows Nigel Farage’s Reform Party on Pace to Win Next Election – A survey of over 16,000 people suggests a “dramatic transformation of the political landscape” has occurred since the general election last July that saw the left-wing Labour Party sweep to power after the collapse in support for the so-called Conservative Party over failures on the economy and migration…

Breitbart: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Sunday of creating a false appearance of honoring an Easter ceasefire, saying Moscow continued to launch attacks overnight after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral temporary truce in Ukraine. – Zelenskyy said Saturday night that some areas were quieter since the ceasefire was announced, which he claimed showed Putin to be the “true cause” of the war.

Geller Report: A Partial List of Crimes by Gangbanger Terrorists The Democrats Are Fighting To Keep From Deportation – Raped and strangled a 20-year-old autistic woman to death in Maryland. – Hacked four people to death with machetes in a park on Long Island. – Kidnapped, sexually tortured, and shot a teenage girl in Texas after she insulted their demon god. – Killed and mutilated a 17-year-old in Virginia, stabbing him sixteen times and cutting off his hands…

Zero Hedge: A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration’s executive order banning the use of an “X” on passports marked by people self-identifying as neither male nor female. – U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick of the District Court of Massachusetts – who in 2017 was part of a legal team that sued the Trump administration over an ACA provision and has been a judge for less than 18 months…

Zero Hedge: Americans Are Searching “USA Products” Like Never Before – Faced with rising prices for foreign goods, some consumers have turned to the internet to determine which products are still made in the United States. – Google Trends data shows “What products are made in the USA?” reached record highs by mid-April, with data going all the way back to 2004.

Liberty Daily: Nuclear scientist Digby Macdonald says CO2 is not the primary driver of global temperature changes. – He said the Milankovitch cycle changes every 100,000 years, and an ice age occurs when it’s the most elliptical because the Earth is receiving a lot less solar radiation and heat. – This cycle, combined with the Earth’s wobble and sunspot activity, is the driver of climate, he explained.

April 19, 2025

One America News: Russian President Vladimir Putin declared an “Easter truce” in the ongoing war against Ukraine, stating that Moscow would pause “all military operations” until Monday. – On Saturday, Putin announced that the ceasefire was set to begin at 6:00 p.m. and continue until midnight on Monday, marking the first declared suspension of Russian aggression since the invasion began over three years ago.

Epoch Times: China’s Workers And Companies Fear Economic Crisis as Beijing Vows to ‘Fight to the End’ on US Tariffs – Chinese companies, workers, and industry insiders have reported being caught in a bind by the escalating U.S. tariffs, as usual orders are not coming in, and some companies are being compelled to take extreme measures, even shutting down. – Some Chinese exporters even opted to surrender their cargo to the shipping companies mid-voyage…

Western Journal: Biden Commuted A Child Killer’s Sentence And Four Months Later He’s Facing the Death Penalty Again – On Monday, a grand jury in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, indicted Sanders for first-degree murder.

Turfseer: In the wake of Austin Metcalf’s tragic killing at a Texas high school track meet, we are witnessing a disturbing phenomenon: the strategic flipping of the moral script. – A young man is dead, stabbed through the chest in front of witnesses, and yet those claiming to champion justice are working overtime to cast the accused as the true victim, while the actual grieving family is vilified and cast out of the public square.

Sharyl Attkisson: I Was Swatted – There is a disturbing surge of swatting attacks that has struck media personalities, conservative influencers, and me, too. The FBI is investigating. – The attack on me and my family, like many swatting attacks, included not only the hoax report but also a flurry of other harassment tactics and threats as described here.

Western Journal: A College Student Home On Spring Break Spotted a Tesla And Ruined His Life With His Next Move – Friday, federal officials arrested Own McIntire for allegedly launching a Molotov cocktail at a Tesla dealership. -He has been charged with unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device and malicious damage by fire…

Gateway Pundit: A new poll has found that Gen Z voters under 21 lean Republican by 11.7 points. – The poll’s findings are particularly shocking given that young voters have traditionally leaned to the left. – Though the young voters plan to vote Republican, they do not necessarily agree with the GOP on all issues.

Slay News: A new UK government report has revealed plans to ban meat and dairy consumption among the general public in order to comply with the globalist “Net Zero” targets for “fighting climate change.” – Achieving “Net Zero” by the year 2050 requires “complete transformation” of the food supply, according to the report produced by the government’s taxpayer-funded UK FIRES agency.

Townhall: Nate Silver Predicts Who The 2028 Democrat Presidential Nominee Will Be And It’s Worse Than Kamala Harris – He has stirred controversy by predicting that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is the most likely Democratic nominee for the 2028 presidential election. – Silver and political podcaster Galen Druke discuss the looming shakeup within the Democratic Party and what it means for its 2028 presidential run.

Daily Wire: MSNBC anchor Symone Sanders says Black American Citizens are next In Line If Deportations Are Allowed To Continue. – “If they can do it to them, if they can snatch students off the street without any pushback or recourse, they will do it to any of us.”

Epoch Times: The Supreme Court Blocks Deportation of Alleged Venezuelan Gang Members for Now – The American Civil Liberties Union argued that the administration is defying the Supreme Court’s recent ruling requiring due process for would-be deportees. – “The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court,” the order states.

Newsmax: Iran and the United States will hold talks Saturday in Rome, their second round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. – The talks follow a first round held in Muscat, Oman, where the two sides spoke face to face. – U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Iran has yet to begin a weapons program, but has “undertaken activities that better position it to produce a nuclear device, if it chooses to do so.”

Daily Fetched: 19-year-old male college student Owen McIntire has been arrested for allegedly setting two Tesla Cybertrucks on fire with homemade Molotov cocktails, according to the DOJ. – He is charged with one count of unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device and one count of malicious damage by fire to property used in interstate commerce. – The FBI identified McIntire using surveillance footage and cell phone data.

American Thinker: The Rioter Cell Of The Democrat Party Has Been Activated – Democrat-led ‘protests’ are proof that the Trump administration is on the right course. – When DOGE began exposing government excesses, the Democrats thought they found their cause, then focused on other things that didn’t work either. – The latest Democrat ploy is to have their insurgents invade town halls led by GOP lawmakers…

Slay News: Secretary of State Marco Rubio has finally shut down a State Department office that had been tasked with censoring free speech, previously known as the Global Engagement Center. – It was later renamed to the Counter-Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.

American Thinker: For Letitia James, Karma Is A Bitch And It Couldn’t Happen To A Worse Woman. – James appears to have committed multiple counts of mortgage fraud in New York. – She appears to have done the same in Virginia, while simultaneously pursuing Donald Trump for essentially the same thing…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, The Real Housewives of Space Edition – Wow, what a week, as the Democrats continued their policy of taking the most unpopular positions possible.

April 18, 2025

Gateway Pundit: President Donald J. Trump released a damning photograph on Friday, showcasing the MS-13 gang tattoos etched across the knuckles of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. – The image, shared directly from the White House Oval Office, serves as a crushing rebuttal to the radical left’s dangerous lies about illegal immigration and criminal deportations.

Western Journal: FCC Chairman Calls Out The Lies About ‘Maryland Man’ Abrego Garcia – Carr’s pointed criticism doubly highlights a massive growing American concern: Out-of-control media distortion, particularly when it serves a politically charged narrative.

Epoch Times: Tulsi Gabbard Declassifies Biden’s ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Strategy – The 15-page-long document details the Biden administration’s action plan to counter an increase in supposed home-grown domestic terrorism. – Their plan was based on four pillars: “Understand and Share Domestic Terrorism-Related Information,” “Prevent Domestic Terrorism Recruitment and Mobilization to Violence,” “Disrupt and Deter Domestic Terrorism Activity,” and “Confront Long-Term Contributors to Domestic Terrorism.”

Breitbart: Trump Will Walk Away From Ukraine Talks in Days if Moscow and Kyiv Aren’t Serious About Peace – Neither Ukraine nor Russia is engaging in the peace process properly, Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested on Friday. – The United States is not willing to attend endless unproductive meetings, and meetings for the sake of having meetings, Rubio told the press on the tarmac in barely-veiled criticism of both Moscow and Kyiv.

Breitbart: U.S. airstrikes hit the Ras Isa oil port held by Yemen’s Houthi terrorists early Friday morning, reportedly killing 38 people and wounding 102 others, in one of the deadliest attacks of Washington’s renewed campaign against the Iran-backed group. – The attack against the terrorists is intended to continue harming their ability to fire missiles at shipping traffic using the Red Sea.

Daily Wire: A China-Linked Satellite Company Is Helping The Houthis Launch ‘Attacks On U.S. Interests’ – “Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. is directly supporting Iran-backed Houthi terrorist attacks,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on Thursday. “Their actions and Beijing’s support of the company, even after our private engagements with them, is yet another example of China’s empty claims to support peace.”

Washington Examiner: Trump deploys Vance to Italy and India in latest ‘one-two’ punch abroad – Trump’s assignment comes at a perilous moment in U.S. diplomacy. – Both countries are facing heavy new tariff penalties should they fail to negotiate trade deals with the Trump administration by the summer. – The trip also reflects the ways in which Vance, considered a possible successor to Trump in 2028, is rounding out his foreign policy portfolio.

AXIOS: Trump revamps “Schedule F” to make it easier to cut federal workers – The Office of Personnel Management’s new rule, dubbed “Schedule Policy/Career,” will allow many career civil servants to be classified as “at will” employees, making them easier to remove. – Trump aides argue they need greater flexibility to fire civil servants who are underperforming, engaging in misconduct, or undermining Trump’s policy plans.

Wall Street Journal: Trump To Replace The Acting IRS Commissioner – Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender will now run the Internal Revenue Service, becoming the fifth person to hold that job so far this year. – He replaces Gary Shapley, the former IRS criminal investigator who had criticized the government’s investigation of Hunter Biden. – The Trump administration has been shrinking the IRS, reversing its Biden-era expansion…

American Thinker: Weaponizing Immigration, Lawfare by Class Action Threatens Our Republic – You can’t claim a collective benefit by fiat, then have attorneys you’ve never met invoke individualized review to shield it from repeal. – That’s precisely the strategy now being deployed when U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction in a class action lawsuit, blocking the administration from terminating legal status and work permits for more than 530,000 foreign nationals…

New York Post: IRS workers only had to show up to work once a week in person, before Trump took over and cancelled federal telework policies. – An arbitrator has rejected the IRS’s push for a six-day telework cap per pay period. – That deal between the IRS and its union was negotiated using taxpayer funding, a pet peeve of Senator Joni Ernst, whose office unearthed the cushy telework arrangement.

Daily Wire: President Trump has extended the freeze on hiring new government workers for another 90 days. – The administration has said that the freeze is part of an effort to make the government more efficient and promote fiscal responsibility. – The freeze, now in effect until July 15, includes exceptions for the military and other national security-related positions.

American Thinker: The Left Cannot and Will Not Stop Itself – Anyone paying attention realizes that the left is doubling down on stupid. – They are throwing all the power they think they have behind an MS-13 gangbanger whom they have decided is some kind of a touchstone, their next George Floyd, their ticket to victory in the midterms, after which they plan to again impeach Trump…

Daily Wire: ‘Friends Of Bernie Sanders’ Spent 200K On Jets For His ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour – Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez chartered a private jet worth up to a staggering $15,000 an hour for several West Coast stops. – Bloomberg noted, “What a wonderful country we have. The best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What did I miss here?”

City Journal: President Trump to Bureaucrats, Follow the Law – His April 9th memorandum, directing federal agencies to repeal regulations that conflict with ten recent Supreme Court decisions, is more than a deregulatory maneuver; it is a reassertion of constitutional structure. – For decades, federal agencies have operated under the assumption that judicial rebukes were mere speed bumps.

Daily Wire: Tulsi Gabbard Takes The Daily Wire Inside The RFK Assassination File Drop – Trump’s Director of National Intelligence has now made thousands of long-classified documents on RFK’s assassination available to the public. – The batch of newly available files is now available on the National Archives website via this link…

American Thinker: President Trump Fights Back – To thoroughly understand Trump’s tariffs, we have to consider the ongoing relationship between the U.S. and China. – Since the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, China has aimed to topple America by means above and beyond the traditional military path. – How can China alleviate, relieve, mitigate, or even end this economic warfare before its entire economy and manufacturing foundation go into convulsions?

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration announced plans to impose new port fees on Chinese commercial vessels as part of a broader effort to revive America’s dwindling shipbuilding industry, which officials now view as a national security risk. – U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, “Ships and shipping are vital to American economic security and the free flow of commerce”…

Daily Wire: Luigi Mangione Has Been Indicted On Federal Charges Of Murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December And Is Eligible For The Death Penalty. – AG Pam Bondi said earlier this month that the DOG would seek the death penalty for Mangione, saying “Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson, an innocent man and father of two young children was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”…

Zero Hedge: How American Life Expectancy Compares To Its Peers – American life expectancy is now lagging significantly behind comparable nations, with the gap growing wider than ever before. – From chronic diseases to healthcare disparities, multiple factors are contributing to Americans dying younger. In this infographic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu takes a look at how the U.S. stacks up—and how quickly it’s falling behind.

April 17, 2025

Western Journal: President Trump’s Emergency Request Works, With The Supreme Court Scheduling a Rare Hearing – The Supreme Court announced Thursday that, in a rare move, it will hear oral arguments in May regarding President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, following an emergency request from the administration.

Vigilant Fox: Globalists Panic as Italy’s Prime Minister Makes Stunning Alliance With President Trump – “I am sure we can make a deal,” she said. – I cannot deal in the name of the European Union.” – “My goal would be to invite President Trump to pay a visit to Italy and understand if there’s a possibility when he comes to organize also such a meeting with Europe.”…

Daily Signal: The Trump Administration Boasts Manufacturing Loan Surge, Challenging Anti-Tariff Narrative – “Loan applications and approvals for small manufacturers are surging—a clear sign that American manufacturing is roaring back, fueled by pro-growth policies that put American workers and businesses first,” said SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler…

City Journal: Blame Regulators For Holding Back U.S. Manufacturing, Not Tariffs – America’s manufacturing decline is the result of a bloated regulatory state that punishes producers and stifles growth. – The biggest single drag on U.S. manufacturing has been the decades-long encroachment of the regulatory state, with an army today of 300,000 regulators and an annual budget of $60 billion.

American Spectator: Bernie Sanders and AOC Are Not the Answer to the Democrats’ Weaknesses – The two most extreme socialists in Congress cannot lead them out of the wilderness. – Not a single bill sponsored by AOC or Sanders became law in the 118th Congress, following a pattern from previous legislative sessions. – Instead, they rely on stump speeches touting the same progressive policies they’ve failed to deliver on, policies that a majority of the American public find extreme…

Gateway Pundit: Senator Van Hollen Was Able To Meet With Accused MS-13 Gang Member and Wife Beater Kilmar Abrego Garcia. – Van Hollen posted his own photo of the meeting on X, saying, “I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. – El Salvador President Bukele declared, “Now that he’s been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody.”

Hot Air: China Is In Much Deeper Trouble Than Most Realize – The tariffs on China are DEVASTATING, not will be devastating. – As joblessness and food shortages deepen, desperation and complaints are setting in. China’s heavy reliance on the U.S. market gives America the upper hand; we can outlast them until they yield or face internal upheaval, potentially threatening President Xi’s leadership.

National Pulse: U.S. Jobless Claims Dip, Signaling Trump Labor Market Remains Strong. – The decline in jobless claims highlights economic stability, reinforcing confidence in Trump’s tariff strategy to boost domestic industry, though rising continuing claims suggest a need to monitor rehiring trends.

Zero Hedge: Tokyo led Asian stocks overnight after President Trump shared optimism on social media about promising Japan-US trade talks. – The president’s “big progress” trade talks with Japanese representatives did not immediately halt tariffs. Still, Japan’s lead negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, said preparations are underway for a second round of negotiations in the not-too-distant future.

Wall Street Journal: Anxious Trading Partners Promise to Buy American to Stave Off Trump’s Tariffs – Countries offer to buy more U.S. energy, defense, and agricultural products, but not everyone is splurging. – The pledges come as Washington starts an initial round of talks, with the U.K., Australia, South Korea, India and Japan among Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s top targets…

American Thinker: Iran and the Failure of Collective Security – The sheer fecklessness of this agreement from the Obama administration (coupled with Joe Biden’s easing of Trump-era sanctions and unfreezing of Iranian assets) provided Tehran with critical time and money for uranium enrichment as well as funding for its terrorist proxies against Israel. – To see the extent of the UN’s historical failure, look no further than the rogue nation of Iran.

Just The News: Trump is nearly undefeated at the Supreme Court – While the top bench has yet to formally address the legal viability of nationwide injunctions in detail, it has handed the administration a number of wins on immigration cases, DOGE access to documents, and the firing of federal employees. – Much of the mainstream media reporting on the Abrego Garcia case has been inaccurate or incomplete…

Townhall: The Trump Administration Strikes Back at Judge Boasberg Threats of Contempt Proceedings – The Trump administration quickly filed an appeal with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday night, hours after Boasberg issued his ruling..

Epoch Times: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem threatened to revoke Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign students and announced that DHS was pulling $2.7 million in grants from the school. – “With anti-American, pro-Hamas ideology poisoning its campus and classrooms, Harvard’s position as a top institution of higher learning is a distant memory.”

The Federalist: AG Pam Bondi Releases Police Records Detailing Abrego Garcia’s Criminal History – He is an illegal immigrant and member of MS-13 who is now back in his native country of El Salvador, where he belongs. – Garcia was arrested with multiple confirmed MS-13 gang members, was wearing clothing associated with the gang, and was identified by a confidential police informant as a confirmed MS-13 gang member with a rank and a moniker.

Resist The Mainstream: Houston Mayor John Whitmire announced that approximately 900 accused killers are currently walking free on Houston streets after being granted bond, all reportedly connected to Judge Hilary Unger’s court in Harris County. – Judge Unger, who initially campaigned on “alternatives to incarceration,” has been linked to numerous cases where released suspects allegedly committed additional murders while out on bond.

Breitbart: A new poll suggests that California voters want to see the state work with President Trump, even as Governor Newsom and fellow Democrats attempt to confront the new administration on almost every front. – 43% of registered voters said leaders were “too confrontational,” a sentiment largely driven by Republicans and independents…

April 16, 2025

Western Journal: The Trump Administration Is Preparing to Unleash a New Economic Weapon That Could Devastate China – “The idea is to extract commitments from U.S. trading partners to isolate China’s economy in exchange for reductions in trade and tariff barriers imposed by the White House.”…

Wall Street Journal: Hamas Is So Low on Cash That It Can’t Pay Its Fighters – Israel’s targeted killings, aid cuts have disrupted the militant group’s sources of cash and ability to distribute it in Gaza. – The Israeli military killed a money changer who was key to what it called terrorist financing for Hamas, as well as a number of top political officials in rapid succession. – The result for Hamas has been a debilitating squeeze.

Epoch Times: Top Pentagon Officials Placed on Leave In Probe Of Unauthorized Disclosures – Three Department of Defense officials have been placed on leave, officials said. – One is Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg. – They were removed from the Pentagon on April 15 and placed on administrative leave as part of an investigation into unauthorized disclosures…

Center Square: The Mother of a Maryland woman murdered by an MS-13 gang member detailed the gruesome attack at a White House press briefing on Wednesday. – White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt disclosed for the first time that Garcia’s wife had petitioned the courts for a protection order against her husband in May 2021…

American Spectator: Here Are Several Examples Showing That Masochistic Democrats Hate You, And Beg You to Hate Them Back – Their actions are utterly contemptuous of the American people. – So far this week, I’ve learned that if you murder white teenagers or are an illegal immigrant gang banger and wife-beater, Democrats will throw all of their money and political power behind you, and that’s just recently…

Gateway Pundit: Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen Suffers A Humiliating Rejection After Flying to El Salvador to Meet with Alleged MS-13 Gang Member Abrego Garcia – No Release, No Meeting, Not even a phone call. – Trump said he doesn’t need to ask El Salvador to do anything, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele made it clear on Monday that he was not going to smuggle a terrorist into the US…

Just The News: Repeal of the EPA endangerment finding vital to Trump’s unleashing American energy agenda – A panel of experts from the Heartland Institute, the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, the American Energy Institute, and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow say there are a dozen reasons to repeal the EPA’s endangerment finding. And there are multiple ways to make it happen, none of which will be easy…

Washington Examiner: Trump’s plans to militarize the border by turning it into a miles-long Army base – The Trump administration instructed the Interior Department to start transferring to the Pentagon, a 60-foot-wide tract of land that runs through California, Arizona, and New Mexico, with a test site established to the east of Fort Huachuca. – Currently, active duty troops are limited in job scope given the Posse Comitatus Act, which prevents the military from conducting civilian law enforcement.

Fox News: The Trump administration examines slashing the State Department budget by $27 billion, nearly in half, and shuttering smaller embassies and consulates. – The proposal calls for the elimination of funding for more than 20 international organizations, including the UN, NATO, and the Organization of American States. – The U.S. contributed around $13 billion to the United Nations in 2023 and around $3.5 billion to NATO. – $2 billion for “America First” priorities is being considered.

Resist The Mainstream: President Trump has announced a new initiative to address illegal immigration that would offer financial incentives and airfare to migrants who voluntarily leave the United States, with the possibility of legal return for select individuals. – For those deemed “good,” the administration would “work with them to get them back in as quickly as we can,” Trump stated…

Epoch Times: Judge Boasberg Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Administration in Contempt in The Deportations Case – Boasberg’s order came after the Supreme Court vacated his orders and said the case was brought in the wrong court. – “The fact that the Supreme Court determined that this Court’s TROs suffered from a venue defect does not affect—let alone moot—the compliance inquiry presently teed up here,” he said…

New York Post: New York Attorney General Letitia James was hit with a federal criminal referral for instances of alleged mortgage fraud on Tuesday. – Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte sent the missive to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy AG Todd Blanche, alleging that James had “falsified records” to get home loans for a property in Virginia that she claimed was her “principal residence” in 2023, while still serving as a New York state prosecutor.

Amuse on X: 𝕏 Marks the Truth, Or How X Out-Scoops the Drive-by Media – The understanding of why or how the leak occurred, the unraveling of the who and what behind SignalGate, a scandal involving a private Signal chat among top national security officials that accidentally included a journalist, came not from the seasoned halls of Reuters or the hushed sanctums of the Times, but from the raw, unfiltered hive-mind of 𝕏…

Bloomberg: Honda To Shift Production Of Their Civics From Japan To The US Due To Trump’s Tariffs On Imported Cars – Production of the five-door hybrid model, which began in February in Saitama prefecture in central Japan, will be relocated around June or July to Honda’s plant in Indiana, a spokesperson for the automaker said Wednesday…

Zero Hedge: PM Carney Capitulates With Canada Waiving Retaliatory Tariffs On US-Made Cars And Trucks – Carney said Canada would allow automakers to import US-manufactured cars and trucks without tariffs as long as the companies continue to build cars in Canada and continue with previously announced expansions. – Last week, Carney put retaliatory tariffs of as much as 25% on vehicles made in the US…

Reuters: President Trump has ordered a probe into potential new tariffs on all U.S. critical minerals imports, a major escalation in his dispute with global trade partners and an attempt to pressure industry leader China. – The order lays bare what manufacturers, industry consultants, academics, and others have long warned Washington about: that the U.S. is overly reliant on Beijing and others for processed versions of the minerals that power its entire economy.

Epoch Times: The CCP Deploys Playbook to Prolong Trade War, Experts Say – Beijing has already employed various familiar tactics from its playbook to retaliate against the United States, including spreading anti-American propaganda. – According to Robert Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a science and technology think tank. – “They’ve never been willing to even acknowledge that these are problems.”…

New York Post: President Trump said Japan is set to kick off tariff negotiations with the US in Washington on Wednesday, becoming one of the first countries to test his willingness to relent on the sweeping tariffs. – Trump, “I will attend the meeting, along with Treasury & Commerce Secretaries. – Hopefully, something can be worked out, which is good (GREAT!) for Japan and the USA!”

FAR: Victor Davis Hanson Explains Trump’s Tariffs – Following the short video are 10 questions Mr. Hanson says nobody seems to ever ask about tariffs.

Breitbart: California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that the state is suing President Trump over his recent tariffs, claiming that they are hurting the state and that he lacks the authority to enact them. – Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta are asking a federal court to pause the tariffs being levied against Mexico, China, and Canada, as well as the across-the-board 10 percent tariff enacted by Trump.

Zero Hedge: Thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians living in the US will have their temporary protected status revoked in the coming months, according to the Department of Homeland Security. – DHS Secretary Kristi Noem determined that the countries’ current conditions no longer warrant protections. – The decision will affect about 14,600 Afghans, who are set to lose their legal status in May, and approximately 7,900 Cameroonians, whose protected status will expire by June...

American Thinker: Trump’s National Security Emergency Investigation Into Election Fraud Is Ongoing – With Tulsi Gabbard’s announcement last Friday that an ongoing intelligence agency investigation has evidence that election computers are vulnerable to cyberattack hackers, President Trump’s actions suggest he is moving quickly to declare an election fraud national security emergency…

RSBN News: Trump signs an Executive Order lowering prescription drug prices for many Americans – The order directs HHS to significantly reduce drug prices for those on Medicare and seniors. – According to a White House Fact Sheet, the order seeks to improve “the Medicare Drug Pricing Negotiation Program in order to eclipse the 22% in savings achieved in the program’s first year.”

Daily Wire: AG Pam Bondi announced a civil lawsuit against Maine officials on Wednesday for refusal to protect girls and women’s spaces and sports per Title IX rules, noting that the Trump administration tried its best to get Maine to comply before it filed suit. – “We have no other choice, we are taking them to court,” Bondi said.

Western Journal: The White House Activates A Nuclear Option After A Judge Ruled To Give The AP Access – The Trump administration will remove a position set aside for wire services such as AP, Bloomberg, or Reuters in the media pool. – The pool will now have one fewer spot for wire services, so AP, Reuters, and Bloomberg no longer have guaranteed spots. – The spot taken away from the wire services will now be set aside for revolving print journalists…

American Thinker: A ‘Hands Off’ Revealed Lots Of Anger But Not Much Coherent Thought – When Spokane held its “Hands Off” protest last week, I ventured bravely into the belly of the beast wearing my red MAGA hat and carrying an American flag on a staff. – My mission: To find out what was driving the protesters. – What I learned is that they’re definitely angry and that this anger is driven by Marxism, media propaganda, and deep hatred for Donald Trump.

Resist The Mainstream: The Josh Shapiro Arson Suspect Has An Incredible Detail Omitted From Mainstream Media Reports On His Background – The NY Times stated that Cody Balmer appeared to show little loyalty to any political party, choosing not to report his support for Black Lives Matter or his self-identification as a socialist.

Zero Hedge: The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has unanimously ruled that the terms “women” and “sex” refer to a biological woman and biological sex. – The court concluded that someone with a Gender Reassignment Card in the female gender does not fall within the definition of a woman under the Equality Act of 2010, which legally protects people in British society from discrimination.

April 15, 2025

Western Journal: President Trump signed a memorandum on Tuesday ending Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants. – White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters ahead of the signing that the directive will be “aimed at stopping illegal aliens and other ineligible people from obtaining Social Security Act benefits.”

Breitbart: A pair of organizations, partially funded by George and Alexander Soros’s nonprofits and NGOs, are behind a lawsuit that has thus far successfully blocked President Trump from deporting migrants released into the US through former President Biden’s parole pipeline. – In March, Trump revoked parole for about 532,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela released into the U.S. despite having no legal status.

Epoch Times: The Social Security Administration Has Launched New ID Technology to Prevent Fraud – The new technology identifies suspicious activity in telephone claims by analyzing patterns and anomalies within a person’s account. – The SSA Office of the Inspector General estimates that $33.5 million in benefits for 20,878 beneficiaries was misdirected from January 2013 to May 2018.

Gateway Pundit: Approximately 22,000 IRS employees, accounting for about 20% of the agency’s staff, have accepted the administration’s second deferred resignation offer, marking one of the largest workforce reductions in the agency’s history. – In addition to the layoffs, the agency will also eliminate its Office of Civil Rights and Compliance.

Breitbart: EPA Chief Lee Zeldin Leading ‘Largest Deregulatory Action’ with Trillions of Dollars in Cuts – The new EPA administrator, a former congressman, has moved to cancel over $22 billion in contracts. – Zeldin announced in mid-March that he would move to clear hundreds of backlogged cases to clean air, saying that the Biden administration focused on partisan, “ideological pursuits” rather than the agency’s “core mission.”

Western Journal: A Top Hegseth Advisor Was Escorted Out of Pentagon for ‘Unauthorized Disclosure’ – Dan Caldwell was identified during an investigation into leaks at the DOD. – The investigation remains ongoing,” an official said without providing details about whether the alleged disclosure was to a journalist or someone else.

Washington Free Beacon: A Federal Judge Already Facing Recusal Request in Immigration Lawsuit Against The Trump Administration Has Strong Ties to Lawyer Involved in the Case – Araceli Martinez-Olguin faces recusal calls in a case where her former employer is the lead plaintiff, and her friend is their attorney.

American Spectator: The Uniform Is Not Invincible, Firing Generals Is Critical to Restoring Military Lethality – Purging DEI from the military and reinstating better combat standards is a good start, but the rot goes much deeper. – The current crop of general and flag officers has been formed in a defense policy era defined by liberalism and the mandate that the military accommodates the politics and ideologies of civil society based on identity politics…

Breitbart: Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani stopped the Trump administration on Monday from ending deportation protections for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans. – Talwani said that while her role in reviewing the agency’s revocation order is “limited,” the judge said she has the authority to stay the secretary’s “termination” of parole…

Resist The Mainstream: 24-year-old Aliakbar Mohammad Amin, from Lilburn, Georgia, faces federal charges after allegedly threatening Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her family with bodily harm. – Federal investigators quickly identified Amin as the suspect and arrested him on April 11. They also executed a search warrant at his home, where they recovered a firearm, linking Amin to the threats he had made.

Newsmax: Honda To Make 90% of US Cars Locally, Relocating Production From Mexico And Canada Plants – Japan’s second-biggest automaker by sales plans to increase U.S. vehicle production by as much as 30% over two to three years in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to put a 25% levy on imported vehicles…

The Federalist: Unsealed Crossfire Hurricane Docs Further Prove Russiagate Was A Hoax All Along – America’s intel agencies launched one of the greatest witch hunts in U.S. history to cripple Trump and undermine the will of the American people. – 700 pages of recently released government records offer an introspective look into the FBI’s efforts to undermine Trump using its crooked Crossfire Hurricane operation.

American Thinker: Now that Israel Is Winning, The Left Demands That It Surrender – In a particularly despicable guest essay at the New York Times, two former State Department employees demand that Trump force Israel to bow down. – In their guest essay, the two men carefully explain that Israel, by successfully creating a buffer zone between itself and those who wish to kill it, is now too big and dangerous for the Middle East…

FAR: What You’re Not Hearing About The China Situation – The Chinese cannot replace the U.S. market. Without it, the Chinese economy collapses. – Here’s why. – China’s entire economic miracle was built on ONE thing: being America’s cheap manufacturing hub. – But they forgot these CRUCIAL things…

Zero Hedge: US Import Prices Tumble Despite China Tariffs And Media Doomsday Speculation – First, Sony decided not to hike prices on US consumers. – Second, and more systemic, we saw US import prices DROP 0.1% MoM in March – the first decline in import prices since September 2024.- In Trump’s ideal world, it’s a wash, with the US pocketing the upside and Chinese exporters getting hit on margins…

Resist The Mainstream: President Trump Floats A Stunning Plan To Replace Income Taxes With Massive Tariff Revenue – Trump, “There is a chance that the money from tariffs could be so great that it would replace [the income tax].” –
The president explained that this method of revenue collection is not unprecedented…

Zero Hedge: AMD Prepares For Their First Made-In-America Chip – Advanced Micro Devices’ most advanced processor chips would soon enter series production at their factory in Arizona. – Shifting AMD’s server-grade processor line to TSMC’s Arizona facility marks the first time the U.S. company will produce these chips domestically, eliminating the supply chain risks associated with manufacturing at TSMC’s Taiwan-based fabs…

American Thinker: Leftist judges are planning to run out the deportation clock – This pernicious trend puts the judiciary in charge of our immigration system in place of the constitutionally designated executive branch. – Three-quarters of the judges to whom Trump’s legal challenges are assigned are Democrat appointees. – This is forum shopping with a vengeance…

American Thinker: Canada’s Free Ride Is Finally Over – These tariffs aren’t a response to one slight, but rather the compound interest on years of strategic freeloading by Canadian leaders, made worse by Washington’s past reluctance to demand accountability. – Canada has dodged NATO spending commitments, neglected Arctic defense, appeased Beijing, and let its military atrophy into a paper force…

Geller Report: Trump Notifies Congress of Intent to Eliminate All Public Broadcasting Funding – The government isn’t allowed to fund Christian programming on the grounds that it is religious, so why should it be any different for the secular religion of woke leftism? Defund the beast.

Slay News: More than a dozen current and former Social Security Administration officials tried to stop the Trump administration from canceling Social Security benefits for illegal aliens. – Amid their pushback, SSA technology expert Greg Pearre was removed from his position.

Western Journal: The GOP Headquarters and Tesla Arson Suspect’s ID IS Revealed, And His Sick Background Explains So Much – It wasn’t a transgender individual this time, but a nonbinary bisexual individual, instead. – Worse: He’s either a formal or informal member of Antifa and a Black Lives Matter supporter who wishes death upon Trump supporters and is a Trekkie who speaks a bit of Klingon.

Breitbart: California Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a law that will spend $181 million on fire prevention in the state and $2.8 billion on Medi-Cal, the state Medicaid provider, whose costs have ballooned thanks to his decision to cover illegal aliens. – As earlier reported, California had to borrow more than $6 billion to cover shortfalls in Medi-Cal last month…

April 14, 2025

Vigilant Fox: El Salvador’s President Issues the Ultimate Challenge to Trump – Nayib Bukele dropped a line so good that President Trump asked if he could steal it. – “We turned the murder capital of the world—that’s what the journalists called it—into the safest country in the western hemisphere,” he said.

Fox News: A Maryland jury on Monday found illegal immigrant Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez guilty of murdering Bel Air woman Rachel Morin in August 2023. – Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, was jogging along the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel-Air, a quaint community northeast of Baltimore, when Martinez-Hernandez ambushed, strangled, and beat her to death, authorities said.

Just The News: Trump supporter Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will arrive at the White House in a new role, European Union tariff dealmaker. – Meloni was the first European leader to meet with him after Election Day, traveling to Mar-a-Lago in January, and was also the only European Union leader to attend Trump’s inauguration.

Epoch Times: The federal government announced on April 14 that it is freezing $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard after saying it would not comply with demands to dismantle diversity programs and limit student protests. – Harvard President Alan Garber said on April 14 that “the University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

Epoch Times: Harvard Professors Sue Trump Admin Over Threat to Withhold Nearly $9 Billion – The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors filed a lawsuit alleging that the administration’s action represents an “unlawful and unprecedented misuse of federal funding and civil rights enforcement authority to undermine academic freedom and free speech” on a university’s campus.

Zero Hedge: El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele will not return an El Salvadorian citizen mistakenly deported from the United States, suggesting that to return the man would be to smuggle a terrorist into the United States. – White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller chimed in, saying: “So it’s very arrogant, even for American media to suggest that we would even tell El Salvador how to handle their own citizens…

Daily Wire: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said accusations against the Trump administration around the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia have been seriously flawed. – Despite reports that Abrego Garcia should not have been deported to his home nation of El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was, in fact, correctly sent there. – “He was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador. He is an illegal alien from El Salvador.”

Townhall: Democrats Are Very Mad About President Trump’s Physical Exam – He is in overall “excellent health” with strong cardiac, pulmonary, and neurological function. – The president scored a perfect 30 out of 30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, and screening for depression and anxiety “revealed no abnormalities, with scores within the normal range for both.” – The report notes that past and ongoing health conditions have been well managed…

Victor Davis Hanson: China Would Lose a ‘Trade War’ With the US,’ Gradually at First, then Suddenly’ – China’s trade war bluff may backfire as the U.S. pushes allies to choose between a rogue economic actor and a flawed but fairer partner with unmatched global power. – China is appealing to its Asian rivals, Australia and the EU, to join in fighting the supposed American bully. – But so far, there are understandably few takers.

Washington Examiner: China halts exporting critical minerals to the US that power EVs, missiles, and robots – Whether companies will continue production is dependent on their stockpiles of these materials, which also go into parts such as spark plugs, car headlights, and jet engines. – Michael Silver, the CEO of a Los Angeles-based chemicals supplier, told the New York Times that his company was informed it would be 45 days before export licenses are issued…

National Pulse: Anti-Trump Democrat Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Received Over $300K From A Suspected CCP Influence Operative. – The United Front Work Department is an intelligence and recruitment agency operated by the Chinese Communist Party. China expert Gordon Chang, “There is no ethnic Chinese official in America who is not targeted. It’s time for law enforcement to investigate the CCP’s ties to Gary Yu and Yu’s ties to Mayor Michelle Wu.”…

Slay News: Video Debunks False Narrative That Trump ‘Snubbed’ RFK Jr’s Wife Cheryl Hines – As the Democrats and their corporate media continue to try and create divisions within President Donald Trump’s administration, the latest false narrative has just been debunked. – Trump simply didn’t see Hines’s first attempt at a handshake. – He later even walked up to Hines and shook her hand while conversing with her.

Townhall: Trump Torches ‘Fake News’ Over Electronics Tariffs – These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl Tariffs, and they are just moving to a different Tariff “bucket.” The Fake News knows this but refuses to report it. We are taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN in the upcoming National Security Tariff Investigations. What has been exposed is that we need to make products in the United States…

Zero Hedge: Nvidia is localizing AI chip and supercomputer manufacturing in the U.S. for the first time, partnering with TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Amkor, and SPIL. – Over 1 million square feet of manufacturing space has been commissioned for Blackwell chips and AI supercomputers in Arizona and Texas. – Mass production of these chips is expected within 12–15 months.

Zero Hedge: Trump’s 90-day pause on his “reciprocal” tariffs for countries that did not retaliate, excluding China, has allowed Tim Cook’s Apple to ramp up production of smartphones, tablets, and laptops in India and Vietnam. – Top suppliers in India were instructed to ramp up iPhone production, yet the people noted that factory utilization rates were already at maximum levels, making it challenging to bring on significant amounts of new production.

Zero Hedge: U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told ABC’s This Week host Jonathan Karl that smartphones, computers, chips, and other consumer electronics may soon be subject to separate tariffs in a month or so, suggesting that the exemptions announced Friday evening are only temporary. – “All those products are going to come under semiconductors, and they’re going to have a special focus type of tariff to make sure that those products get re-shored.”

Breitbart: Volodymyr Zelensky has issued a plea to President Donald Trump to personally visit Ukraine and see the impact of the war himself, claiming that others simply can’t understand what’s happening without witnessing it first-hand. – Zelensky said in a now-published interview recorded on Friday: “With pleasure. Please. I always wanted very much, that’s what I wanted to do, I did it… I always said that we want you to come, to come and to see.”

Daily Fetched: A senior FBI analyst and key figure in the Russia collusion hoax against President Donald Trump has been placed on administrative leave following growing scrutiny of his conduct in multiple cases. – Brian Auten, who was suspended under the leadership of FBI Director Kash Patel, played a central role in the FBI’s counterintelligence Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.

The Federalist: SCOTUS’ Timidity Triggers Constitutional Crisis – The Supreme Court has interceded six times in less than three months to rein in federal judges who improperly exceeded their Article III authority and infringed on the Article II authority of President Donald Trump. – Yet the high court continues to issue mealy-mouthed opinions which serve only to exacerbate the ongoing battle between the Executive and Judicial branches of government…

American Thinker: The FBI Knew All Along – You do not have to wade far into the recently declassified Crossfire Hurricane documents to be shocked. – I had only read three pages of the FBI’s December 19, 2016, interview with the DoJ’s Bruce Ohr before learning just how early in the game the FBI brass knew that the Steele dossier was worthless. – If the goal was to cripple Trump regardless of the evidence, Strzok was the man for the job…

American Thinker: The Trump Administration Is Cleaning Up Our Military Academies – For years, our military has been on a path to wokeness and weakness. Expecting our soldiers to be warriors was anathema to the diversity, equity, and inclusion goal. – It’s going to be hard work because the rot is deep, and the Democrats are fighting the changes, but it needs to be done if we’re to have strong military leadership…

American Thinker: Junk Science At NOAA Is About To Come To An End – It was a comical farce that they created, weaving tales about storms of biblical proportion due to a trace element in the atmosphere that happens to be the basis of all life. – The Trump administration recently leaked news that it intends to eliminate the research arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that has been fomenting lies and distortions about climate from the git-go…

Slay News: A Towson High School Student Asked Why American Flags Were Removed from Classrooms And Woke Officials Call the Police. – Jensen’s suspension stemmed from his attempt to speak with school officials about their compliance with the Maryland Education Code and Baltimore County Public Schools policy that mandates the United States flag be displayed in every classroom…

Breitbart: Celebrities Lambaste Bill Maher for Praising Trump Following His White House Meeting With Trump – Maher described the president as gracious and completely different from the man he had seen on television. – “He’s much more self-aware than he lets on in public. – “I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him. – I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump…

Breitbart: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro revealed on Sunday that an arsonist had “set fire” to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg, adding that his family had been evacuated from the residence. – Shapiro explained that around 2 a.m. the Pennsylvania State Police came to his door to alert the family of the fire, adding that “no one was injured and the fire was extinguished.”

New York Post: Shapiro arson, terror suspect Cody Balmer told cops he hated the governor and would’ve beaten him with a hammer if he found him. – Cody Balmer, 38, has been charged with criminal homicide, aggravated arson, burglary, terrorism, and aggravated assault, among other charges, the Harrisburg police department wrote in a criminal complaint. – Balmer removed gasoline from a lawn mower and poured it into two Heineken bottles, which he later used as homemade Molotov cocktails…

Daily Fetched: Five counties across Arizona have begun a large-scale cleanup of noncitizens from their voter rolls, including 50,000 voters who registered without proof of U.S. citizenship. – In a new lawsuit filed by America First Legal (AFL) on behalf of EZAZ.org and Yvonne Cahill, the plaintiffs argued that election officials were failing to follow the law requiring proof of citizenship to vote in state and local elections.

Epoch Times: The helicopter tour company involved in the fatal crash over New York City’s Hudson River on April 10 will cease operations immediately, the FAA said on Sunday. – The FAA is launching an immediate review of New York Helicopter Tours’ license and safety record in the aftermath of the crash that killed the pilot and a family of five visiting from Spain. – The NTSB’s investigation into the fatal crash continues.

April 13, 2025

Breitbart: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Has Secured ‘First and Free’ Passage For U.S. Ships In The Panama Canal – Secretary of Defense Hegseth met with President José Raúl Mulino, Minister of Public Security Frank Abrego, and Panamanian legislators, visited the Vasco Nuñez de Balboa Naval Base that was formerly a U.S. naval base, and inaugurated a pier refurbished by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers…

Daily Wire: House Speaker Mike Johnson stated on Sunday that protecting Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid is a “top priority” for the White House and congressional Republicans. – “At the same time, we have to root out fraud, waste, and abuse. We have to eliminate people on — for example, on Medicaid, who are not actually eligible to be there, able-bodied workers, for example, young men who are — who should never be on the program at all.”

Just The News: Biden’s intervention in the 2014 Russia-Ukraine gas deal alongside Burisma lobbying efforts – A timeline of events surrounding the gas deal shows that Hunter Biden and Burisma Holdings worked to secure U.S. government support for the company and fret over a potential spike in gas prices if a Russia-Ukraine deal fell through.

Daily Wire: The White House has released the results of President Donald Trump’s physical examination, showing that the president is in good health. – Trump’s Physical Examination Shows ‘No Significant Abnormalities’ Other Than Bullet Scarring (“… scarring on the right ear from a gunshot wound …) Hearing was normal.”

Daily Wire: Iran Says Nuclear Talks With Trump Team Were ‘Constructive,’ And Agrees To Meet Again – “Special Envoy Witkoff’s direct communication today was a step forward in achieving a mutually beneficial outcome.” – The talks follow President Donald Trump’s repeated calls for a new nuclear deal and for Iran and its proxies, including the Houthis, to cease causing mayhem in the region…

American Spectator: Mounting Pressure on China – Will nations side with the US with freedom and self-responsibility, or drift toward China’s control and censorship? – At the core of the conflict hovers the artificially created export surplus of China, about $400 billion, or one percent of global economic output, brought about through currency manipulation, export subsidies, and ethically questionable labor conditions…

Liberty Daily: Just How Reliant Are Foreign Automakers on US Buyers? – The importance of American car buyers has never been clearer. For many automakers, the U.S. is a key market responsible for over one-quarter of revenue. – In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu visualizes how reliant foreign automakers are on U.S. buyers, based on analysis from the Wall Street Journal.

Breitbart: Trump’s Entrance to Star-Studded UFC 314 Brought Down The House – The president walked into a star-packed Kaseya Center sporting a gold tie while flanked by his entourage, which included some of his grandchildren, UFC CEO Dana White, and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who Trump has endorsed for governor of Florida. – The president greeted Cabinet members and celebrities as he took his seat in the arena…

American Thinker: The Democrats’ laughable foofaraw over Obama’s relocated portrait – White House staff had removed a portrait of Barack Obama and replaced it with an awesome photograph showing Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, bloodied but unbowed, shaking his fist in the air, and shouting, “Fight, fight, fight!” – But Obama’s portrait wasn’t then languishing in the back of a closet but was just a few feet away, still hanging on a White House wall.

Just The News: Newly declassified Crossfire Hurricane docs shine a light on Steele, Clinton, and more. – Trump’s first attempt at declassifying Crossfire Hurricane documents in January 2021 was thwarted. – But now, the FBI records have been released, revealing in part new details on the FBI’s problematic Trump-Russia probe…

American Thinker: Judicial Imperialism, The House of Boasberg and the Left’s War on Sovereignty – Judge Boasberg’s reach wasn’t legal, it was imperial, crossing state lines and national borders, arrogating to a D.C. courtroom powers the Constitution never envisioned. – Yes, the court seriously entertained claims that confirmed members of a violent, terror-affiliated syndicate faced undue risk if returned to El Salvador or Venezuela, the failed narco-states that birthed them.

Slay News: An Obama Judge Blocks Trump Removing Temporary Protected Status From 500K Migrants – The ruling is the latest in efforts to wage “lawfare” against Trump and his administration on the deportation front and his broader immigration policies.

Washington Examiner: President Trump cashes in on Supreme Court rulings tackling ‘unlawful’ regulations – President Trump issued a sweeping directive ordering federal agencies to repeal regulations that conflict with recent Supreme Court rulings. – The directive, in part, allows agencies to leapfrog the traditional public notice and comment process and accelerates what Trump called a necessary “course correction” in the administrative state.

American Thinker: Public schools define ‘excellence’ differently than the rest of us do. – Winston Churchill once said about Russia, “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” – The same can be said of American Public Education. – It is an undemocratic Empire funded by taxpayers. This empire, claiming to be “all about the kids,” is all about maintaining power and promoting leftist ideology.

Breitbart: Public executions are a part of Islam, a leader of the Afghanistan terrorist organization vowed Saturday, days after four men were killed by gunfire as cheering crowds watched on. – The executions took place in packed sports stadiums and represent the highest number known to have been carried out in one day since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.

Daily Wire: Money And Migration, How Radical Islam Gained A Foothold On Western Campuses – “Qatar recently became the top foreign funder of American universities, donating at least $4.7 billion between 2001 and 2021.” – Over the past few decades, mass migration has overwhelmed many many European countries. – In 2014, England’s Daily Mail published a chilling headline; “The changing face of Britain: A child in Birmingham is now more likely to be a Muslim than Christian”…

Zero Hedge: White applicants from a British or Eastern European background are at a disadvantage when applying for entry-level police constable roles at one of the U.K.’s largest police forces – West Yorkshire Police permits Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic candidates to submit job applications all year round, but White people must wait for specific recruitment drives, sparking accusations of positive discrimination.

FAR: The Communist Plan To Overthrow America From Within – As you read the list of communist goals to take over America, ask yourself which political party most closely aligns itself with these profoundly un-American objectives…

April 12, 2025

One America News: President Trump Is Exempting Electronics From The Reciprocal Tariffs – The exemption applies to products entering the United States or removed from warehouses as early as April 5th. – This comes as the president had imposed a minimum of 145% tariffs on Chinese imports…

Western Journal: The FBI Analyst Who Vetted Steele Dossier, Dismissed Evidence Against Hunter Biden as Russian Disinformation Gets Brutal News from Bureau – FBI Director Patel placed supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten on administrative leave. – Auten has been involved in several controversies during his time at the FBI, including trying to discredit Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation.”

Epoch Times: Illegal Immigrants on The Terror Watchlist Received Medicaid and Unemployment Insurance – Many of them also received student loans, tax refunds, and food stamps, according to the Department of Government Efficiency.

AMUSE on X: Real ID Hysteria: Democrats are Suddenly Upset About This 20-Year-Old Security Law – Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s announcement about the deadline ought to have landed with an unremarkable thud, but Democrats always need something to complain about. The Real ID Act was passed in 2005. It is not the spawn of the Trump administration, nor is it an invention of Kristi Noem.

Zero Hedge: Israeli military sources speaking to the press revealed the lack of progress Tel Aviv has made toward one of its core goals in Gaza: eliminating Hamas. – The armed wing of the Palestinian group reportedly retains 75% of its tunnel network, 40,000 fighters, and the ability to produce its own weapons.

Dr. Owen Anderson: The Real Story Behind DEI – On February 17, the U.S. Department of Education made a quiet but significant announcement: it terminated over $600 million in grants to universities and nonprofits that were using taxpayer funds to promote racial discrimination. – You might ask: how does a secular professor or administrator justify racial discrimination in the first place? – They do it by rebranding discrimination as helping the marginalized or lifting up the disadvantaged.

Gateway Pundit: Banning Free Speech if Elected Canadian Prime Minister – Mark Carney: “There are many serious issues that we’re dealing with. One of them is the sea of misogyny, antisemitism, hatred, and conspiracy theories — this sort of pollution online that washes over our virtual borders from the United States…

American Thinker: The Left’s Marxist Resistance – Whether they admit it or not, most Democrat leaders are Marxists, and they justify their resistance to Trump’s reforms on the basis of Marxist ideas. They oppose renewing and expanding the Trump tax cuts because those cuts, they believe, benefit the rich over the poor. – Elizabeth Warren and her comrades on the left support a wealth tax, the seizure of a percentage of the total assets of affluent Americans…

American Conservative: Congress Hates Trade Wars, But Doesn’t Mind Real Wars – Two days before Trump announced a 90-day pause on the “reciprocal” tariffs, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill to reclaim for the legislative branch the right to impose tariffs. – Structured similarity to the 1973 War Powers Resolution, the bill would require the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of any new or increased tariffs and lift them within 60 days unless they are enacted into law…

Daily Wire: A CNN Pollster Shares The Key Metric That Blew His Mind – “It’s truly something I would not have expected to see, especially after this tariff war had begun.” – The GOP seems to be in their best position ever for the party who cares more for the needs of people like yourself. – A tie on a metric that Democrats have historically led by double digits. – It’s the huge GOP gains among the working class.

The Daily Fetched: Kash Patel Delivers Final Blow to Russia Collusion Narrative with 700-Page Crossfire Hurricane Release to Congress. – The documents, which will be available to the public starting at 7 p.m. EST, provide much clearer insight into the FBI’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 Trump campaign. – Despite being debunked by Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report, Trump’s political opponents still used the theory to discredit him.

American Thinker: Iran can’t be allowed to build a nuclear weapon…or buy one – It is crucial to realize that Iran doesn’t need to make a nuclear weapon in order to get one. – The black market for weapons is extensive, and given the lack of control over U.S. weapons and money that freely flowed into corrupt Ukraine under the Biden administration, an enormous security risk has been made even bigger…

American Thinker: Cleaning Traitors Out Of The Military – An officer refusing to post photos of the POTUS and SecDef in NATO HQ and telling her subordinates to subvert and disregard the orders of the CIC must be removed. – It’s no secret that Barack Obama purged hundreds of officers from the military. These were not screw-ups but warriors, patriots, men, and women dedicated to their oaths and to protecting America…

Resist The Mainstream: The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced the indictment of 14 individuals involved in a significant migrant smuggling operation. – The indictment, returned by a grand jury in Las Cruces, New Mexico, charges the defendants with conspiring to bring and transport illegal aliens into the U.S.

Zero Hedge: Sweden: The Number Of Mosques Has Surged Nearly 4,200% In Just 25 Years – Sweden has seen massive demographic changes over the last 25 years, and this is not only reflected in the demographic composition but also the religious composition of the country. – While churches continue to close their doors, the country went from approximately seven mosques in 2000 to now 300 in 2025.

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Direwolf of Wall Street Edition – The debate over tariffs dominated the news again this week. – This time, the battleground was the stock market: down, up, down, up.

April 11, 2025

The Federalist: Another Day, Another Alleged Would-Be Trump Assassin Is Charged – Shawn Monper, 32, of Butler, the same Pennsylvania community where Trump came within a fraction of an inch of being assassinated last July, faces federal charges of making threats to assault and murder Trump, DOGE advisor and Tesla founder Elon Musk, ICE agents, and others, according to the DOJ.

Epoch Times: U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich Declines to Block Immigration Raids at Churches – Religious groups who sued over the raids have not met the threshold for an injunction, the judge said. – The ruling came in a case brought by religious groups, including the Mennonite Church USA.

One America News: Immigration Judge Jamee Comans ruled on Friday that Columbia University’s anti-Israel protest leader, Mahmoud Khalil, who negotiated on behalf of pro-Palestine encampments, can be deported over his ties to the school’s previous “antisemitic protests and disruptive activities.” – Khalil describes himself as a Palestinian activist and a Columbia University graduate student…

Fox News: Democrat-controlled states are to blame for most of the nearly $400 million in unemployment fraud over the last 4 years, DOGE says. – California, New York, and Massachusetts doling out more than $300M in improper unemployment payments over the last four years.

One America News: On Friday, President Trump revamped his push to make “Daylight Saving Time” permanent amid efforts in Congress to give Americans an extra hour of sunlight from November to March. – “The House and Senate should push hard for more Daylight at the end of the day. Very popular and, most importantly, no more changing of the clocks, a big inconvenience and, for our government, A VERY COSTLY EVENT!!!”

Zero Hedge: Amid Trump’s anti-Iran ‘maximum pressure’ to negotiate a new nuclear deal or else bombs could fly, fresh statements from US Energy Secretary Chris Wright just added fuel to the fire. – Wright, while on a trip to Abu Dhabi, said the US can step up pressure on Iran and stop its oil exports altogether with force if need be to get Tehran to the table on its nuclear program.

Daily Wire: The Senate Has Confirmed Lt. General Dan “Razin” Caine as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. – Caine reportedly told President Donald Trump during his first term, “You’re the first one to ask us our opinion.” – Caine led counterterrorism strategy for the Homeland Security Council. – He also developed the plan to counter Iraq’s Scud ballistic missiles during the 2003 invasion; Saddam Hussein’s forces did not manage to fire a single Scud during the war…

Resist The Mainstream: Federal Judge Trevor Neil McFadden sided with the Trump administration on Friday, giving a green light to the creation of a registry aimed at tracking illegal immigrants across the U.S. – The decision allows authorities to mandate that all non-citizens living illegally in the country to self-report their status to the government, including providing residential addresses.

American Thinker: A 50% Tariff Doesn’t Mean A 50% Price Hike – A tariff applies to the initial transaction value, not the final retail price. That cost is just the first step in a long supply chain. – By the time a product reaches the consumer, it’s been marked up to cover domestic shipping, warehousing, employee wages, utilities, sales tax, and profit margins for every hand it passes through. – If you’re still not convinced, look at this real-world data…

The Federalist: Corporate Media Take Screw America Approach To Trump Tariffs – What’s lost in all their doom casting is that Americans, particularly Democrats, support Trump’s goal to achieve truly free trade deals. – Curtis Houck, managing editor of media tracker NewsBusters, says the coverage has been telling. It’s reminiscent, he said, of when the leftist press was panting over the late, great Rush Limbaugh’s comments that he hoped then-President Barack Obama would fail…

Breitbart: An increasingly desperate China on Friday pleaded with European Union members to join with Beijing in resisting “unilateral bullying” posed by punitive tariffs introduced by U.S. President Donald Trump. – Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez 24 hours after Australia rejected the same plea from Beijing…

Townhall: Democrats Desperately Hope Their New Line of Attack Against Trump Will Work This Time – They are promoting the narrative that President Trump engaged in insider trading related to the tariff war. – High-profile leftists have called for an investigation into the matter after the president wrote a post on social media suggesting it was a “great time to buy” stocks shortly before he announced a 90-day pause on tariffs…

New York Post: Freed ballerina Ksenia Karelina arrives in the US after release from Siberian penal colony in a prisoner swap. – Prisons in this region of Russia are known worldwide as “Gulag camps.” – The dual-citizen spa worker was accused of treason against the Russian government when she donated $51 to a charity that allegedly supported Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the day Russia invaded Ukraine.

American Thinker: So much winning, And I’m Not Getting Tired Of It – Despite frustrations with the federal judiciary, the Trump presidency has brought a tide of victories to America. – To make you feel good, here are the top nine: 1. Trump got over 70 nations that impose unfair tariffs on us, including Canada and the EU collective, to come to the negotiating table. – 2. Inflation is down. – 3. Employment rates among native-born Americans have surged. 4. Crude oil prices are dropping…

Bloomberg: US Producer Prices Unexpectedly Fall, Dragged Down by Lower Energy Costs – The producer price index fell 0.4% from a month earlier following a revised 0.1% gain in February, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report released Friday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for a 0.2% gain…

Gateway Pundit: Alina Habba Launches A Criminal Probe Of New Jersey Governor Murphy For Obstructing Ice – We know that the governor has on his website currently do’s and don’ts for his local state of law enforcement. – New Jersey is one of many Democrat-controlled states actively resisting the Trump administration’s efforts to deport illegal aliens currently residing across the United States…

Western Journal: Space Force Colonel Susannah Meyers, former head of the Pituffik Space Base In Greenland, was removed from command on Thursday, citing a “loss of confidence in her ability to lead.” – Meyers was pulled hours after a report revealed she sent an email distancing the U.S. military installation from Vance and the policies of the Trump administration. – “Commanders are expected to adhere to the highest standards of conduct…

Daily Wire: Trump Is Reclassifying Illegals Who Were Given Social Security Numbers As Dead – More than a million illegal aliens are receiving Medicaid benefits, and thousands of them are on voter rolls. – The Trump administration is putting the Social Security numbers of more than 6,000 illegal aliens into the same database that dead people’s numbers go into. – This novel maneuver effectively strips the individuals of their numbers and makes them ineligible for benefits.

Slay News: Trump Threatens Mexico with Tariffs & Sanctions for Stealing Water from Texas Farmers – Mexico has been stealing Rio Grande water promised to Texas farmers under a decades-old treaty, and Trump declared Thursday that Mexico owes Texas 1.3 million acre-feet of water. – Trump vowed that he would make sure Mexico does not violate treaties with the U.S. and hurt farmers in Texas.

American Thinker: The Left Has Achieved Peak Political Insanity – In their mind, it is all too easy to “solve” problems by organizing protests and shouting obscenities. – Left-wing political activists focus on political issues that are short-lived versus more fundamental issues. – Their lack of seriousness surfaces when demonstration participants are asked to justify their outrage and respond with vacuous clichés…

FAR: Hugh Hewitt Unpacks Trump’s Nearly 100-Day Sprint – Constitutional scholar, lawyer, and former Reagan administration official Hugh Hewitt joins PragerU CEO Marissa Streit for an in-depth discussion on Trump’s return. – Together, they explore Trump’s plan for tariffs, whether DOGE will bring lasting change to the government, and how activist judges work to cripple the President’s agenda.

April 10, 2025

Western Journal: Trump Just Pulled Off An Incredible Cabinet Meeting Move That Never Would Have Happened Under Biden – President Trump invited the press into his cabinet meeting, as each Secretary provided an update on the work they are doing at their respective agencies. The meeting was over an hour long; then Trump fielded questions from the media for about 20 minutes after the cabinet secretary updates.

Breitbart: Pharmaceutical company Novartis announced plans to build seven facilities in the United States and expand others in a $23 billion investment over five years on the heels of President Donald Trump’s announcement of forthcoming tariffs on imported drugs. – Novartis is expanding its current manufacturing, research, and technology presence across the country with 10 facilities, including 7 brand new facilities, creating approximately 4,000 additional US jobs…

Epoch Times: The US Signed A Deal With Panama To Secure The Panama Canal And Deter China’s ‘Malign Influence’ – U.S. and Panamanian officials signed a memorandum of understanding on bilateral security matters in the region that will help expand joint training exercises between the two countries and improve overall interoperability between their military forces, Hegseth said.

Daily Caller: The Trump Administration Strips Parole Benefits From Thousands Of Aliens On The Terror Watchlist – Customs and Border Protection identified 6,300 individuals who were paroled into the US since 2023, during the Biden administration, that are on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center or have a criminal record. – Their parole, which gives them benefits such as work authorization, has been stripped…

Daily Wire: SCOTUS Rules Partially Against Trump In Deported Migrant Case – Legal experts note that the justices’ distinction between “facilitate” and “effectuate” could prove significant. – The government was ordered to “facilitate” the release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from custody in El Salvador if they decide to return him and ensure that his case “is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. – Trump was not ordered to initiate his return.”…

American Conservative: Trump Surprises the Hawks on Iran – Sitting next to a flustered Benjamin Netanyahu, the U.S. president said “direct talks” with Tehran would take place Saturday. – The announcement shouldn’t have come as a big surprise to Netanyahu or anyone else. – The president has been signaling for months a strong desire to engage diplomatically with Iran about its nuclear program…

Epoch Times: The House Passes Budget Plan to Advance Trump’s Sweeping Legislation Agenda In A 216–214 Vote – The revised blueprint unlocks a bill for Trump’s tax cuts, border, and energy measures. – With the passage of the resolution by the lower chamber, both the House and Senate will now begin work on drafting the language, including policies, appropriations, and spending cuts—that will appear in the final package.

Daily Wire: ‘There Are So Many Countries To Talk To’ – Trump’s Trade Team Updates His Cabinet On Tariff Negotiations – “We’ve had countries come in over the past couple of weeks that represent more than half of global domestic GDP, more than half.” – Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, “These countries want to talk now and have come with offers that they never, ever, ever would’ve come with but for the moves that the president has made.”…

Breitbart: U.S. consumer prices fell in March, pushed down by a decline in the price of goods and defying predictions that President Trump’s tariff plans would push up prices. – This was the first drop in consumer prices in nearly three years and only the second decline since inflation accelerated under Joe Biden to the worst rates in decades.

Slay News: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just announced that her investigators uncovered evidence confirming that electronic voting machines have been hacked to “manipulate the results of the votes” in America’s elections. – “We know how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation…

The Federalist: After sitting back for four years while Biden allowed millions of illegal aliens to invade the country, 208 Democrats voted against legislation today that would keep foreign nationals out of American elections. – Still, the Republican-led House passed the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act 220-208. The legislation requires documentary proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.

Breitbart: The European Union suspended its announced retaliatory tariffs against the US in favor of negotiating a deal, noting Trump’s tariff pause on every country except China. – “We want to give negotiations a chance,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday as she mirrored President Donald Trump’s move to suspend tariffs worldwide except for trade war-minded China.

Breitbart: Australia rejected China’s plea to “join hands” against President Trump’s tariffs, declaring it is happy to keep negotiating with its long-term ally rather than join Beijing’s chorus of aggrieved opposition to Washington. – The White House recently imposed an import tax of 10 percent on Australian goods, but for China, Australia’s biggest trading partner, it raised tariffs to 125 percent.

Western Journal: Chinese Factories Were Hit With A Nasty Shock Right After Trump’s Tariff Hike as Their Phones Start Ringing – It’s estimated that shipments from China bound for the United States will be reduced by half if the current tariffs last for years. – It’s not just American small businesses looking for relief with their Chinese suppliers. – Bloomberg reported that online retail juggernaut Amazon is canceling orders for Chinese-made merchandise.

One America News: House Democrats Sent A Letter To President Trump Demanding He Confirms Musk Will Step Down From His Special Government Employee Role By May 30!’ – Politico already reported that Trump informed his close circle that Musk would be leaving his position with the government in the upcoming weeks, but this group of House Democrats continued to urge the president to formally confirm Musk’s resignation.

Western Journal: The Richest Banker in America Just Gave Trump’s Tariff Strategy a Major Boost – “Our huge and perpetual balance of trade deficit and our continual multi-trillion-dollar fiscal deficit is simply not sustainable, and the sooner we deal with them, the better and the less long-term pain.” – “A dollar of government borrowing and spending is not the same as a dollar earned by inventing or building a widget.”

Victor Davis Hanson: Ten Tariff Questions That Are Never Asked – The real trade war wasn’t Trump’s; it was decades of lopsided deals, deficits, and double standards America tolerated while others profited. – 1. Trump’s So-Called “Trade War.” – 2. Do Nations Prefer Surpluses or Deficits? – 3. Would Our Trade Partners Prefer to Trade Places With Us? – 4. What if Wages Went Up at the Rate of the Stock Market? – 5. Is Wall Street’s Panic Based on What Might Happen—Or What Is Happening?…

American Thinker: There’s Nothing Free about ‘Free Trade’ – How “free” can it be if it depends upon a labyrinthine system of rules that requires thousand-page treaties and guidance from the UN, the WTO, etc? – President Trump’s tariff policy is only the beginning. He is setting the stage for the end of the income tax, the IRS, and the Federal Reserve. Getting there requires unshackling the American economy and unleashing Americans’ entrepreneurial spirit.

New York Post: DOGE’s discovery that millions in taxpayer dollars were wasted on unemployment claims for ‘fake people’ made their jaws drop. – DOGE claimed it reviewed an initial survey of unemployment claims since 2020 that found that 9,700 people whose birth dates aren’t for another 15 years have claimed $69 million in benefits. – 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits, and 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits…

The Federalist: Trump signed an EO To revitalize America’s Depleted Maritime Fleet. – It directs the secretary of defense to work alongside the secretaries of commerce, homeland security, and transportation to create a “Maritime Action Plan” within the next 210 days that examines policies and actions designed to boost America’s maritime industrial capacity.

Washington Free Beacon: A top House panel is investigating five green groups that brokered a settlement with federal officials in the waning days of the Biden administration, forcing family-owned ranches to vacate their leases on federal property over supposed environmental concerns. – The settlement is the culmination of a lawsuit the green groups in question filed against the National Park Service in 2022…

City Journal: How “Tesla Takedown” Activists Fool the Public – The campaign against Elon Musk’s company is hardly a grassroots movement. – A closer look suggests that Tesla is the latest target of an activist and organizing ecosystem that the Left has built over decades. – That infrastructure manufactures, amplifies, and strategically uses protests and “direct actions” to force concessions or policy change.

The Daily Fetched: A Facebook Whistleblower Says Meta Gave The CCP U.S. Tech Secrets – The former META director claimed that her company briefed the Chinese Communist Party on advanced U.S. technologies—including AI, just to get a seat at Beijing’s lucrative tech table while putting America at risk…

California Globe: President Trump has issued an executive order that targets California’s climate change laws and policies – Trump’s order singles out California’s cap and trade program, run by the equally sketchy California Air Resources Board. – His administration is working to block efforts by California to set its own vehicle emissions standards that would have forced automakers across the country to comply with the state’s extreme environmental rules.

Western Journal: Kash Patel Has Been Replaced By Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll As Acting ATF Director. – “Director Patel was briefly designated ATF Director while awaiting Senate confirmations, a standard, short-term move. – Dozens of similar re-designations have occurred across the federal government,” White House representative Harrison Fields said.

Slay News: Republican & Democrat Lawmakers It Is Time To End Daylight Saving Time – However, while many agreed that it’s time to end the changes, there still appears to be some disagreement on whether Daylight Savings or Standard Time would become permanent. – The problem seems to be that what appears to be good for some states may not be good for other states…

April 9, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: Trump Unleashes Fresh Sanctions on Iranian Nuclear Program – ‘The Iranian regime’s reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons remains a grave threat to the United States,’ says Treasury Sec Bessent – The fresh sanctions are the most biting to date and strike at the heart of Tehran’s nuclear industry, effectively choking off its ability to source the materials required for uranium enrichment and the construction of research facilities.

Epoch Times: An Appeals Court Clears Trump Admin to Resume Mass Terminations of Newer Workers – The court said state attorneys general who sued over the firings don’t have standing. – The ruling means District Judge James Bredar’s order, entered in March and later narrowed to the plaintiff states and Washington, is no longer in effect.

Fox News: The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday to limit federal district judges’ ability to impact Trump administration policies on a national scale. – The No Rogue Rulings Act, led by California Representative Darrell Issa, passed the House and limits district courts’ power to issue U.S.-wide injunctions and must focus their scope on the parties directly affected in most cases. – There have been more than 15 nationwide injunctions since President Trump took office.

One America News: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee Appointed As U.S. Ambassador To Israel – In a 53-46 vote, the Senate confirmed Huckabee, with Senator John Fetterman being the only Democrat that voted in favor of the nomination. – No Republicans opposed Huckabee’s nomination.

AMUSE on X: Congress Has Repeatedly Empowered the President to Impose Tariffs, and It Was Right to Do So – Since 1934, Congress has chosen time after time to delegate substantial tariff authority to the President. – That delegation was not accidental. – The Trade Review Act of 2025, a bipartisan effort to claw back those powers, threatens to undermine not only the flexibility of the Executive Branch but the coherence and credibility of American trade policy itself.

One America News: The Coast Guard Seized Over $500M In ‘Cartel Cocaine’ – Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed that the seizure took place on Wednesday after two Coast Guard cutters intercepted approximately $509 million worth of cocaine weighing over 45,000 pounds from smuggling boats near Ecuador, Peru, and the Galápagos Islands.

Daily Signal: The Pentagon Eliminates Woke Violations of Trump’s Executive Orders – A senior Pentagon official ordered employees to cease all communications that promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as well as Climate Change. – On Day One of his presidency, Trump signed an executive order to terminate DEI discrimination in the federal workforce and all federal contracting and spending.”

Daily Signal: Who Benefited Most From Trump’s First Term Tax Cuts? – You Might be Surprised. – Research Fellow Jack McPherrin, “The evidence overwhelmingly indicates that lower- and middle-income households have received the largest tax cuts as a percentage of income, while higher earners actually took on a greater share of the overall tax burden.”…

Daily Signal: A New Treasury Report Exposes How Fentanyl Traffickers Exploit Financial Systems – Chinese suppliers of chemicals needed to produce fentanyl, for example, use e-commerce to accept payment for their goods. – Mexican drug cartels use “front companies, money mules, and U.S. intermediaries” to procure these chemicals. – Much of the fentanyl trade occurs between dealer and seller. – Fentanyl deals occur “primarily in cash and peer-to-peer transfers.”…

Slay News: BREAKING, Trump Announces A 90-Day Pause on Most Tariffs But Raised China’s to 125% ‘Effective – “Based on the fact that more than 75 Countries have called to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to Trade, Trade Barriers, Tariffs, Currency Manipulation, and Non Monetary Tariffs… I have authorized a 90-day PAUSE Immediately.”

JD Rucker: President Trump Directs Our Economic Might Against China, All According to Plan – Whether this was always the plan or if it was developed over the weekend, it seems to be crazy, brilliant, or both. – President Trump wrote one of the most extraordinary Truth posts of his Presidency. – The world is ready to work with President Trump to fix global trade, and China has chosen the opposite direction. – Scott Bessent says Trump didn’t just raise tariffs; he set a trap, and China walked right into it…

Newsmax: US Intelligence Warns That China Is Trying to Recruit Government Employees – Foreign intelligence entities, particularly those in China, are targeting current and former U.S. government employees for recruitment by posing as consulting firms, corporate headhunters, think tanks, and other entities on social and professional networking sites…

CNBC: China has pushed back again on President Trump’s tariff policies by hiking its levies on U.S. imports to more than 80%. – Tariffs on U.S. goods entering China will rise to 84% from 34% starting April 10. – The hike comes in response to the latest U.S. tariff increase on Chinese goods to more than 100% that began at midnight.

Western Journal: The Trump Administration Is Considering Drone Strikes in Mexico To Fight Criminal Gangs – Options include acting without Mexico’s official consent. – Although the U.S. and Mexico have conducted joint operations, the scale envisioned by the Trump administration would dwarf past projects. – It was also reported that the administration is investigating how far the CIA can go to use lethal force against the cartels.

Daily Wire: Prison First, And Deportation Later – Trump Has Revived Criminal Penalties For Border Jumpers. – First-time offenders face short jail terms of up to six months. – Federal immigration officers and U.S. attorneys will now use shelved federal laws that progressively penalize repeat illegal entries. – Depending on how many times an alien reenters illegally, it can bring long, hefty prison terms of 2-, 10- and even 20 years in prison.

Breitbart: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he believes Europe can reach a “win-win” trade deal with President Trump that is “mutually beneficial” for the United States and the European Union. – The muted response from Europe is a sharp contrast with China, which escalated quickly against Trump’s tariffs prompting the U.S. to respond in kind with further actions targeting Beijing…

Daily Wire: The European Union Approves Retaliatory Tariffs On American Goods – The tariffs will be applied to products like soybeans, meat, iron, steel, textiles, tobacco, and ice cream, with levies up to 25%. – The body said that the retaliatory actions will be implemented on April 15…

Zero Hedge: Amazon Cancels Orders And Walmart Pulls Its Forecast As Tariffs Take Hold – It is unclear how broadly Amazon has cut merchandise orders from Chinese suppliers. What is clear, however, is that many of Amazon’s suppliers are based in China—and with an effective tariff rate north of 100%, the barrier to entry into the U.S. market has sharply risen. This development is one of the first signs of tariffs rattling global trade.

American Thinker: Too Little, Too Late – Europe’s zero-for-zero proposal proves Trump was right all along. – The media chorus, echoed by what passes for Democratic leadership these days, warned that Trump’s tariffs would ignite trade wars and isolate America. But now Brussels is courting the supposed isolationist with an offer to zero out tariffs on industrial goods…

American Thinker: Europe Capitulates To Reality – For decades, Europeans have been high on their condescending soft leftism, which was funded largely by the U.S. – Their pet issues, though, are all collapsing now. – With a trade imbalance of over $200 billion, Europe has little choice but to negotiate from a position of weakness. Europe is dependent on a lot of U.S. tech, banking, and military hardware…

Gateway Pundit: Trump Drops the Hammer on Big Pharma – “We’re going to do something that we have to do: we’re going to tariff our pharmaceuticals. – And once we do that, they’re going to come rushing back into our country. -The advantage we have over everybody is that we’re the big market.

Western Journal: Biden’s Border App Backfires – The Department of Homeland Security sent a message via the app, known as CBP Home, — telling individuals that their parole status was being terminated over the next week and encouraged them to self-deport.

Breitbart: Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the creation of a Second Amendment Task Force on Tuesday, using a memo to tell DOJ employees the task force was created to prevent 2A rights from being treated like second-class rights. – Earlier this week, FBI director and acting ATF director Kash Patel ended the ATF’s zero-tolerance policy, a policy which had been used under President Biden to shut down licensed firearms dealers over paperwork errors…

New York Post: The acting head of the IRS is resigning in the wake of a deal struck on behalf of the agency that will see it share tax data on undocumented immigrants. – Melanie Krause will pack up her desk as part of the deferred resignation program offered by the Trump administration. – Krause decided to resign in an apparent protest of the Trump administration’s actions…

Washington Free Beacon: The Biden Administration Quietly Waived ‘Buy America’ Rules on $7B Solar Program, Allowing Taxpayer Funds To Benefit Chinese Manufacturers – Biden’s EPA issued the waiver in his final days without a press release. – Thankfully, Administrator Zeldin is rolling back this kind of regulatory insanity, including ending the flawed endangerment finding and restoring the EPA to its core mission of protecting American prosperity, not sabotaging it…

Daily Wire: The federal government reportedly shelled out $4.6 billion for new furniture since 2020 – This was when only about half of all federal employees were even showing up to work in person. – Also, the State Department had forked more than “$1.4 million on art and drawings to fill the walls of its embassies worldwide — including $200,000 for just two paintings by the modern abstract painter Alfred Jensen…

American Thinker: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Election Screams for A DOJ Criminal Investigation – There’s reason to believe that the new leftist state Supreme Court judge won by virtue of votes from imaginary “voters” generated within their computer system. – A recent report found that the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s August 2024 official voter roll database is tainted with a suspiciously large volume of modified duplicate voters registered…

American Thinker: The Democrat Party’s Transgender Albatross Problem – They’ve tied this one firmly around their neck, and despite it being a complete loser, they will not cut it loose. – The only notable exception so far has been Governor Gavin Newsom, who wants to be POTUS in a big way. – Newsom said on his podcast that it is unfair for females to compete with biological men who claim they are women…

Center For Immigration Studies: Which Sanctuary Jurisdictions Have Released the Most Criminals? – California leads the pack with more than half of the declined detainers (52%) who were refused by jails and prisons in California, amounting to 13,025 being declined. – Illinois, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut also had especially large numbers of declined detainers…

Resist The Mainstream: The Biden Administration Is Accused of Withholding An Explosive Military COVID Report from 2019 – The Biden administration concealed a report showing U.S. troops had COVID symptoms in Wuhan months before the pandemic was officially acknowledged.

Focal Points: BREAKING, Criminal Referral Requests Have Been Filed Against Anthony Fauci And Other Top COVID Officials In Seven States – Arizona and Pennsylvania joined the growing list as victims accuse federal health authorities of murder, assault, abuse, and medical terrorism over Their COVID-era policies.

Fox News: The Trump White House press office refuses to respond to emailed questions from reporters who display their pronouns in their email signatures, saying they deny “biological reality” and can’t be trusted to write honest stories. – NYT reporter Michael Grynbaum said the press office had rejected emails on “three recent occasions” from reporters who display the gender-identifying label…

April 8, 2025

Epoch Times: Why US Has Upper Hand Over Beijing in Tariff Standoff – China expert Alexander Liao said he thinks that the current situation will eventually become a contest between Trump and Xi. Trump depends on the might of the U.S. economy, while Xi relies on support from the communist regime’s tight control system. – “Xi is disadvantaged because he has little policy room to maneuver. While Washington has many cards, Beijing has few.”

Western Journal: The Supreme Court Handed Trump a Big Win Over Government Unions In His Fight Over Axing Thousands of Federal Employees – SCOTUS ruled the Trump administration can move forward with the termination of 16,000 probationary federal workers across six agencies and departments, rescinding a lower court order that they be reinstated.

One America News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “removed U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield from her position as U.S. representative to NATO’s military committee, due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead.” – The American Accountability Foundation listed 20 officers and admirals that it claimed were overly preoccupied with DEI and other left-wing initiatives. – Chatfield was one of eight women who made the list…

The Free Press: The Trump administration is freezing $2.7 billion in Biden-era “digital equity” grants as part of a new investigation into possible race-based discrimination by the federal government. – The investigation is focused on roughly 100 projects created under former president Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act…

Western Journal: A Stunning New Study Shows The Left’s ‘Assassination Culture’ Has Hit Disturbing Levels – “Over half of those who self-identified as left of center (55.2 percent) reported that if someone murdered Donald Trump, they would be at least somewhat justified.”…

Center Square: President Trump signed four executive orders Tuesday promoting the deregulation and expansion of the coal industry in the U.S. – WH Staff Secretary Will Scharf said, “The first order might be one of the most significant executive orders the president has issued so far.” – “It directs all federal departments and agencies to end all discriminatory policies against the coal industry and ends the leasing moratorium that prevents new coal projects on federal land…

Just The News: The Biden White House secured Trump’s phone for The FBI For Use In The Jan. 6 probe – The new whistleblower emails also show that a future member of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team and an anti-Trump FBI agent were closely involved in the origins of the FBI probe…

Interest Of Justice: The ACLU Moved To Block President Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Proclamation and the Implementation of Mass Deportations – The ACLU filed a writ of habeas corpus in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday challenging the President’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation and its implementation. – A habeas corpus hearing is to be held this Wednesday morning.

One America News: Border Czar Tom Homan, “ICE Agents Are The ‘Principal Arbiter’ In Determining Deportations.” – A principal arbiter, or chief arbiter, is the highest-ranking official responsible for enforcing rules and regulations, maintaining records, and ensuring the smooth operation of a tournament or event.

Jordan Schachtel: President Trump Admin fires Biden holdover responsible for infamous Pentagon vax mandate – Dr. Terry Adirim’s firing was related to her role in forcing service members to choose between taking a vaccine that was under Emergency Use Authorization or being kicked out…

Western Journal: JD Vance Skewered Mitch McConnell for ‘One of the Great Acts of Political Pettiness I’ve Ever Seen’ – McConnell was the sole Republican senator to vote against Elbridge Colby, the president’s pick to serve as Undersecretary of Policy at the Defense Department.

Breitbart: China Creates An AI Video Mocking American Workers Doing Menial Jobs Due To Trump’s Tariffs – The video features chubby Americans toiling away in factories went viral on social media, in a way to mock the Trump administration’s aim of returning manufacturing jobs to American soil.

Daily Wire: Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Tried To Buy A Rocket-Propelled Grenade From Ukraine – Ryan Routh allegedly wrote, “Send me an RPG or stinger, and I will see what we can do.” – The suspect also reportedly sent his Ukrainian contact a photo of Trump’s plane, writing, “Trump’s plane, he gets on and off daily.”

Western Journal: On Monday evening, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s administration could continue to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members of the Venezuelan-based transnational gang Tren de Aragua via El Salvador. – It may be the biggest court win for President Donald Trump’s second administration thus far, and he managed it without one of his Supreme Court appointments.

Daily Wire: DHS will fine migrants $998 every day they stay in the US past the date of their deportation order by enforcing a 1996 law and will implement the penalties retroactively to cover up to five years. – The government could even seize the assets of migrants who refuse to leave the US on their own accord despite having an order of removal.

Daily Signal: The Supreme Court stayed a lower court judge’s order forcing the Trump administration to reinstate more than 16,000 probationary federal employees. – The SCOTUS move will keep the employees off the payroll while lower courts resolve the underlying question of the firings’ legality.

Breitbart: An Orange County judge in California rejected an effort by the Democrat-run state to block the City of Huntington Beach from enforcing a voter ID law that local voters passed by referendum last year, at least for municipal elections. – Governor Newsom signed a statewide ban on voter ID into law last year in response to Measure A, passed by local voters last spring, but the city argued its independent powers under state law give it control of its elections.

Zero Hedge: Stocks Erase Early Gains As White House Pulls Trigger On 104% China Tariffs – Stocks could not maintain joy on Tuesday after the White House confirmed that 104% additional tariffs would go into effect at noon ET because China refused to remove its retaliatory measures. – The new tariff will be collected beginning tomorrow, April 9th, then the markets showed they were predictably displeased.

Just The News: Trump spoke with South Korean President Han Duck-Soo about a possible trade deal – South Korea is sending a team to the White House to discuss a potential deal. – “We are likewise dealing with many other countries, all of whom want to make a deal with the United States.” – “Like with South Korea, we are bringing up other subjects that Trade and Tariffs do not cover and getting them negotiated also.”

Daily Wire: Now Almost 70 Countries Have Asked To Negotiate With Trump On Tariffs – “It’s going to be a busy April, May, maybe into June,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. – Trump’s administration officials say they are focused on wrangling trade deficits the United States has endured for decades, including “non-tariff cheating.”

Daily Wire: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Trump met with his trade team this morning and directed them to craft specific deals tailored to each country’s markets, exports, and imports. – According to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, around 70 countries are willing to seek a new trade agreement with the Trump administration as nations hope to avoid steep tariffs and a potential trade war.

American Thinker: The Russia Tariff Canard – The latest political hit job on Trump’s tariff policy, accusing him of “sparing” Russia while targeting Ukraine—stands out for its sheer dishonesty.- Let’s be clear: Russia has not been “spared.” It’s already under a battery of sanctions and trade restrictions that make any discussion of tariffs functionally moot. – U.S. policy has effectively walled off Russian goods, sanctioning everything from energy and banking to luxury items.

American Thinker: Time To Tariff Up And Stop Funding America’s Collapse – For the past fifty years, Americans have been sold a fantasy, and now Trump is waking us up. – If you ask the smug elite who benefit from our current arrangements, they’ll tell you tariffs are “regressive,” “backward,” or “isolationist.” – Nonsense, tariffs are a rational response to our economic sabotage and a firewall against exploitation…

The Federalist: Tariffs Aren’t Bad For The Economy, Just For Financial Pencil-Pushers – The American economy is worth saving. – President Trump is delivering on a promise: a long-overdue correction to an economic system that has gleefully sold out the American working class. – For decades, jobs were outsourced, factories were shuttered, and the keys to our industrial future were handed to our geopolitical rivals…

Real Clear Politics: Snatching Confusion From the Jaws Of Clarity Regarding The Trade Wars – Their breadth and sophistication of protectionist measures are troubling and costly to the American economy. – Here are just a few examples of trade barriers imposed by our friends: Canada imposes tariffs of up to 300% on certain U.S. agricultural products… – GCC countries impose excise taxes of up to 50% on imported products…- The EU effectively bars certain U.S.-produced chemicals and medical devices…

Daily Fetched: A 2005 Video Surfaces Showing Chuck Schumer Pushing For China Tariffs, Saying, “We Are Fed Up” – But, unlike Trump, the Democrats never did anything about it. – Schumer said at the time that a large tariff on Chinese goods “says to the Chinese that their unfair trade policies have got to end. – The Chinese have enjoyed a huge trade surplus with the U.S., and every year it gets larger and larger.”

One America News: U.S. Stocks Rise As Global Trade Partners Seek Tariff Talks With Trump – The Dow Jones skyrocketed 1,238 points, 3.2%, after losing over 3,500 points since Wednesday as investors raised alarms over Trump’s “Liberation Day” taxes. – The S&P 500 rose 3.3%, and Nasdaq 100 futures jumped 3.6% following reports of negotiations across multiple countries and possible concessions from major trade partners.

Daily Wire: Treasury’s Bessent Warns China On Escalating Tariffs, ‘They’re Playing With A Pair Of Twos’ – On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned China that their imposition of a 34% tariff on the United States was a “big mistake.” – “We export one-fifth to them of what they export to us, so that is a losing hand for them.”

Thomas Klingenstein: How European Union Censorship Suppresses Free Speech in America – European governments, through both direct funding and overt pressure, have influenced American media platforms and collaborated with fact-checking organizations and NGOs, many of which are European themselves, to push narratives that align with their ideological aims. – JD Vance’s recent Munich speech highlighted this troubling dynamic…

Zero Hedge: The Party Is Over, Is Europe Really Back In The Black? – The European spring in equity markets and the economy might have come to an abrupt end, and Europe might very well be going back to what it does best: disappoint and underperform. – Today, Goldman slashes earnings forecast and sees a significant fall in EPS for 2025. – Let’s examine things to see if Europe can go back to black for real.

American Thinker: DOGE spirit moves downstream with a new U.S. Attorney who vows to probe the billions lost to L.A.’s homeless industrial complex. – In Los Angeles, the homelessness czar resigned from her position suddenly against a backdrop of $2 billion unaccounted for. – The homeless are as numerous and miserable as ever, which suggests the designated cash probably didn’t land where it was supposed to…

American Thinker: ‘Democracy,’ Establishment Style – Political elites in Europe and the US regard rising populism as an existential threat. – The prosecutions of Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump, the banning of Calin Georgescu in Romania, and apparent plans to ban the Alternative für Deutschland Party in Germany from electoral competition are all desperate efforts by prevailing elites to protect their interests and power from the people they claim to represent…

Red State: There Are ‘Miles of Files’- ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ Type Footage Exposes The Mine Where 700+ Federal Retirements Are Processed 230 Feet Underground – The retirement process for government employees takes multiple months. – Over the years, more than 400 million individual records, spread across 26,000 file cabinets, in some places stacked 10 high, have been accumulated.

FAR: Pat Condell, OK Groomer – In this video, Condell takes on the once widely accepted LBTQ+ community, explaining how their move on children totally turned the tables on them. – They should have left well enough alone.

April 7, 2025

The Center Square: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump said Monday that Israel would be eliminating trade barriers and the trade deficit with the United States.” – Netanyahu told reporters Monday afternoon. Netanyahu, I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same.” – Also, Trump said that the U.S. is planning for a “major” meeting with Iran on Saturday with “top-level” personnel in hopes of avoiding further escalation of conflict.

Breitbart: DOGE official Antonio Gracias says millions of migrants, who were welcomed to the US under former President Joe Biden, are now on the nation’s Medicaid and voter rolls, with some having voted in last year’s election. – Recently, Elon Musk said that potentially millions of illegal aliens who arrived in the U.S. under Biden have secured Social Security numbers.

Jordan Schachtel: President Trump wants ‘fair and reciprocal’ trade, not a radical transformation – President Trump is a dealmaker and a pragmatist, not an ideologue. – On Monday, we received lots of much-needed clarity about the president’s plan of action. – Trump held a press gaggle with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during which he detailed his intentions for rebalancing global trade…

Epoch Times: The Supreme Court Has Blocked A Judge’s Order to Return A Man Deported to El Salvador – Trump administration officials petitioned the Supreme Court to stop a court-ordered return of a deported Salvadoran man labeled an MS-13 gang member.

Western Journal: President Trump Scores A Major Win at SCOTUS As DEI Is Dealt A Devastating Blow – The Supreme Court put on hold a Massachusetts federal judge’s decision requiring the Department of Education to pay out $65 million in grants that included diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives…

LifeZette: Nancy Pelosi Goes Full Hypocrite as Old Video Emerges from 1996 of Her Arguing for Tariffs Against China – While Pelosi now criticizes President Donald Trump’s tough tariff policies, in 1996, she was sounding the alarm about the very same trade imbalance he’s trying to fix today.

Just The News: Oil prices hit a four-year low, and experts debate what will happen next – Oil prices fall to their lowest level since April 2021, and OPEC announces it will increase production. – Lowering energy costs benefits the overall economy, but some experts say the oil and gas industry can’t be profitable when prices are this low or lower. – We are now at oil down 4.0%, breaking below $60/bbl and down 10% in the past month.

The Free Press: Meet Usha Vance, MAGA’s Enigmatic Second Lady – The most impressive person in the job since Abigail Adams is J.D.’s best asset if he ever runs for president. – Normally, the spouse of the most visible, least important person in a White House administration is supposed to poll well and be invisible. – But J.D. Vance is not the least important person in the new Trump administration, not by a very long shot…

Sharyl Attkisson: Trump’s Tariff Critics, Wrong Before, But Their Mistakes Are Conveniently Disregarded – It turns out that many of the voices now decrying Trump’s economic policies or their institutions have a history of flawed predictions. In fact, some of them have backed the very policies that arguably helped dig the hole America is in today—ballooning debt, deficits, and trade imbalances…

Zero Hedge: Indicators to Watch for a Bottom – Corrections typically end on bad news, not good news. – Markets are close to a technical bottom right now. The odds of a rate cut before the May meeting are skyrocketing. – Trump’s policies aim to disrupt the stock market, pushing the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates sharply, easing debt refinancing, and triggering deflation to lower costs…

Market Watch: The Market Opened Down at 1,200 but wildly fluctuated at around the 900 mark, then went even much lower, and finally closed down at 349.26.

Zero Hedge: “Don’t Be Weak, Don’t Be A PANICAN” – “The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! – Trump Urges Americans To Hold Tight As “Countries From All Over The World” Are Already Negotiating Because Of The Tariffs…

Gateway Pundit: Trump’s Approval Skyrockets to Near Record Highs Despite Media Meltdown Over Tariffs – A survey of over 1,000 registered voters, conducted from March 31 to April 3, one day after ‘Liberation Day,’ shows our America First champion remains a dominant force in the hearts of U.S. citizens. His approval rating has risen to an impressive 53%, a 4-point increase from last week’s 49%.

Daily Wire: The European Union Is ‘Ready To Negotiate’ With Trump – It Is Offering ‘Zero-For-Zero Tariffs On Industrial Goods,’ and is also “prepared to respond with countermeasures.”

Epoch Times: President Trump Threatens An Additional 50% Tariff In An Ultimatum to China – He also threatened to end all talks with China. – Last week, China announced 34 percent retaliatory tariffs and other trade measures in response to the administration’s April 2 reciprocal tariffs. Trump warned China not to retaliate against the United States because it “will be immediately met with new and substantially higher tariffs, over and above those initially set.”

Zero Hedge: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington on Sunday for a visit to the White House. – He will be the first foreign leader to meet President Trump in person to negotiate a deal to remove Trump’s tariffs, which for Israel is a 17% rate, the result of a significant US bilateral trade deficit. – This 2nd visit was by all accounts rather hastily put together, and also high on the agenda will be the Gaza crisis…

Resist The Mainstream: President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs have triggered an urgent response from the European Union, with top officials signaling they are open to negotiations amid growing concerns about the economic fallout. – In a clear shift in tone, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Monday that the EU is “ready to negotiate with the United States,” adding that Europe “is always ready for a good deal.”…

Zero Hedge: There was a clear message emanating from Western policymakers over the weekend – The world is now facing the end of the globalization era. – The ECB’s Isabel Schnabel made the point in a speech to business leaders in Italy on Saturday when she said that “Liberation Day was not liberating, but it seems to have marked the end of global free trade.” – Similarly, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to give a speech later today where he will say that globalization has “failed” as an economic model…

Tom Klingenstein: A Prophecy Confirmed But Unfinished – VP Vance Said Last Week, “Countries don’t control borders, restrict free speech. If Germany takes in millions more incompatible migrants, it’ll destroy itself. America can’t save it.” – Back in 2009, Caldwell highlighted the bizarre reality that has existed for decades and yet still bedevils the continent: “Europe is getting more immigrants than its voters want,” which is a good sign that Europe’s “democracy is malfunctioning.”

Resist The Mainstream: As the national focus has long remained fixed on the U.S.-Mexico border, a dangerous new threat is taking shape further north. – A dramatic spike in illegal crossings along the U.S.-Canada border is fueling growing concern among national security experts who say it’s time for urgent there action before it’s too late.

Slay News: Germany Orders Schools to Prepare Children for War Amid Growing WW3 Threat – According to their interior ministry, the increased focus is due to the alarming recent geopolitical developments and expert testimonies that Russia could be ready to strike NATO territory within a few years. – Defense spokesperson Roderich Kiesewetter said it was “necessary” for schoolchildren to train for emergencies.

Victor Davis Hanson: The Poverty of The Left’s Criticism of Trump’s Agenda – Democrats rage against Trump but offer no real alternatives on debt, trade, or immigration—just noise, while Trump’s positive results quietly pile up. – Sometimes, the impotent Democrat Congress issues kickboxing/ninja videos of its feistier female representatives. – At other moments, senators race to the bottom of the barrel, echoing each other’s potty mouth expressions of “shit.”

Geller Report: Trump Stands By Tariffs, They Are A ‘Beautiful Thing to Behold’ – “Oil prices are down, interest rates are down, food prices are down, there is NO INFLATION, and the long-time abused USA is bringing in Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries on Tariffs that are already in place. – This is despite the fact that the biggest abuser of them all, China, whose markets are crashing, just raised its Tariffs by 34%…

Daily Fetched: RINO Representative Don Bacon announced he would introduce legislation to block President Trump’s tariffs, similar to that of Senator Chuck Grassley and far-left Senator Maria Cantwell, requiring Trump to notify Congress within 48 hours of imposing new tariffs along with a detailed rationale and analysis of the potential consequences for businesses and consumers. – Bacon acknowledged that getting the bill through the House would face challenges, as House Speaker Mike Johnson is supporting Trump on tariffs.

The Federalist: 55% Of Self-Identified Leftists Say Killing Trump Is Justifiable – The more troubling trend is the rising violent rhetoric isn’t just coming from the ‘fringe’ left; it’s being ‘normalized’ by the left. – The report, produced by the Network of Contagion Research Institute in partnership with Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab, finds a broader “assassination culture” appears to be “emerging within segments of the U.S. public on the extreme left…

American Thinker: The Truth About Trump’s Tariff Revisions – Market turmoil shouldn’t have people panicking if they read Trump’s ‘The Art of the Deal.’ – Since Trump’s commitment to raising tariffs is set to begin on April 9, 2025 – just a few days from now, it’s clear that Trump’s threat already accomplished exactly what he wanted it to do, get our trading partners to start negotiating in good faith with the goal of eschewing two-way tariffs with the U.S.

Breitbart: A Major Bangladesh garment producer says US buyers are halting orders – Muhammad Yunus asked Trump for “three months to allow the interim government to smoothly implement its initiative to substantially increase US exports to Bangladesh. – Those products include “cotton, wheat, corn, and soybean which will offer benefits to US farmers, he said…

Washington Examiner: States embrace election reforms ahead of midterm elections – Governors across the country have signed a slew of bills overhauling election systems and revising voting policies ahead of next year’s elections, posing challenges for both Republicans and Democrats. – Governors have also vetoed some bills, drawing ire from state legislators.

American Thinker: It’s Time To Clean Up The 25th Amendment – It’s obvious to most that President Biden’s elevator did not go to the top floor. – Democrats and much of the legacy news media ignored that reality and even attacked those of us who were willing to speak the truth. – They claimed we were fabricating tales and spreading baseless conspiracy theories. – Congress needs to hold hearings and bring in some of the people around Biden and demand explanations…

American Thinker: Protests For Dummies – Rallies today are confusing, and participants evidently don’t know exactly what they are protesting against. – It seems feasible that those protests are, in fact, for dummies-dummies who hate Trump and always will. – Leftists should just carry universal signs: WE HATE TRUMP, AND WE HATE MUSK MORE THAN WE LOVE AMERICA. Now, those signs would make more sense…

Breitbart: The leaders of some of the most powerful Iran-backed terror groups in Iraq, including the notorious Kata’ib Hezbollah, are considering disarming in response to threats of airstrikes from President Trump. – Iran is reportedly involved in the process of evolving these militias into a new, presumably more legitimate form.

Townhall: So, That’s How The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to That Signal Chat – The White House said the number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone, which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number to an existing contact that it detects may be related.

FAR: Laughing At The Lady Men – I have been listening to Pat Condell as he pontificated on political matters for over twenty years, and he has always been spot-on with his observations and predictions. – In this video, he addresses the transgender issue and is spot-on with every point he makes.

April 6, 2025

Gateway Pundit: Representative Andy Biggs filed a resolution to remove U.S. District Court Judge Boasberg for failing to uphold the Constitution’s “good behavior” clause, which does not require the traditional two-thirds Senate vote. – The resolution alleges Judge Boasberg, currently Chief Judge of the US District Court for DC knowingly abused his position to interfere with the constitutional authority of President Donald Trump.

Gateway Pundit: Julie Kelly Catches Radical Pro-Illegal Alien Obama Judge in a Big Setup Against Trump After Uncovering a Bombshell Revelation in Court Transcript – “Lots of good stuff, especially as I develop a fuller timeline of what went down behind the scenes on March 15.” – “This really caught my eye,” she noted. “Remember the whole “THESE CASES ARE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED” bit by Boasberg and others?” – “No one really believes this…right?”…

American Spectator: Why ‘Liberation Day’ Frightened Democrats – Trump’s tariff policy has the potential to solidify Republican dominance for decades. – And It goes without saying that the corporate media is dutifully parroting the Democrat’s negative Party line, ignoring the fact that Democrats kept Trump’s previous Tariffs when Biden took office.

Western Journal: Great Britain Has Devolved Into A Dystopian Nightmare. – When the British police make arrests for memes and jokes online, the country has gone down a dark path. – Even worse, when parents are arrested for expressing concerns about their children’s education and what they say in private, that path’s destination becomes totalitarianism.

Daily Mail: Big tech whistleblower Suchir Balaji ‘was shot twice’ in the head in what was initially called a ‘suicide’ until his parents called for an additional autopsy. – Balaji had a broken cheekbone along with the previously claimed injury to the side of his head, both of which weren’t listed on the medical examiner’s report. – ‘How could someone who was sedated shoot themselves in a weird downward angle, and why was his cheekbone broken?…

Daily Wire: Amid A GOP Revolt, House Speaker Johnson Backs The Senate Budget Plan As Key To Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ – A lack of enforceable spending cuts has irked some deficit hawks. – If enough members of the GOP caucus rebel, the budget reconciliation process could grind to a halt. House GOP leadership can afford to lose a few Republicans if all Democrats oppose the resolution. – Currently, there are 220 Republicans and 213 Democrats…

Zero Hedge: “Democrats Geofenced Every Event” – They Have Been Caught Staging Another ‘Inorganic’ Color Revolution Operation Against Trump. – Loading buses with PRE-MADE signs to hand out. – Transporting the protestors, then releasing their protestor foot soldiers into DC with their pre-made signs and scripts. – Frontlines caught all the DC “Hands Off” protestors all LEAVING AT THE SAME TIME…

Auto Blog: In a new announcement on April 4, South Korean automaker Hyundai and its luxury arm Genesis declared that their respective vehicles will not see any price increases for the next two months in an effort to calm buyers’ concerns that President Trump’s new 25% tariff on all foreign auto imports would affect their local showrooms.

Gateway Pundit: A Brave Teen Defies An Anti-Trump School Walkout, Exposing Marxist Indoctrination And Leftist Hostility In A Powerful FOX News Interview – 17-year-old Lucky Basseri exposed what many on the right have long warned about: America’s youth are being systematically indoctrinated by leftist educators and woke city officials.

Red State: A ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Rock Smashes Into A Tesla, Seriously Injuring A Pregnant Passenger. – This Has Gone Too Far. – Although this latest episode didn’t occur in America—it happened just over the Canadian border in Vancouver—it’s extremely disturbing, and we can only be glad that it didn’t lead to a more tragic situation…

Townhall: The Trump Administration Revokes The South Sudanese Government’s Visas For Refusing to Cooperate With Deportations – This bold action sends a clear message that America will not tolerate the lack of cooperation from foreign governments when it comes to the Trump administration’s deportations.

American Thinker: We Didn’t Start the Trade War, We’ve Just Finally Joined It – The shrillest critics of Trump’s tariffs are not defenders of the American worker or champions of industrial renewal, but the high priests of a globalist order. – The prevailing orthodoxy treats tariffs as anathema to prosperity—an outdated relic of 19th-century mercantilism. But this overlooks a simple truth: for trade to be free, it must also be fair…

Breitbart: 50 Countries Are Already Coming to the Table on Tariffs – Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins “So I think we’ll see, in short order, a really positive outcome from this. We already have 50 countries that have come to the table over the last few days, over the last weeks that are willing and desperate to talk to us. We are the economic engine of the world, and it’s finally time that someone, President Trump, stood up for America.”

American Thinker: As the House is about to grill Biden’s doctor, Biden’s chief of staff admits that they always knew – While we don’t know what Doctor O’Connor will say once under oath, we do know that Ron Klain, Biden’s one-time chief of staff, has freely admitted the truth, which is that he knew that Biden was a mental vegetable going into the 2024 election…

Front Page: The IRS Does Not Need a ‘Civil Rights Office’ – So it’s a good thing that 75% of the IRS Office of Civil Rights and Compliance is being cut. – Every federal agency has its own ‘civil rights’ or ‘equity’ office these days, usually more than one, that exists to employ radical activists and poison the organization with DEI while being wielded against any kind of dissent inside and outside the organization…

Breitbart: Trump Raises The Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber And Prevent Fires – In a move that could substantially reshape California’s natural landscape, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued an emergency order Friday to accelerate timber harvesting across nearly 113 million acres of national forests…

FAR: So God Made Trump – This short video is over a year old now, but with all that has happened since Donald Trump was re-elected President Of The United States, it is as relevant now as it was back then. – He has accomplished so much in a short time back in office and is now fighting to balance world trade and right the wrongs that have been done to America for many years.

April 5, 2025

Western Journal: Another Female Athlete Bows Out in Front of Trans Opponent. – After 31-year-old women’s fencing athlete Stephanie Turner made headlines Wednesday for taking a knee rather than compete against a man, another female athlete chose a similar route. – During the Nashville Disc Golf Pro Tour’s Music City Open on the same day, Abigail Wilson decided to walk off the tour rather than compete against a man pretending to be a woman in her division…

Deported News: Border Czar Tom Homan, “Illegal migrant releases in U.S. since Trump inauguration is down 99.9995%!” – According to Homan, nine illegal aliens have been released into the U.S. from Jan. 20 through April 1. – And eight of those were material witnesses in a criminal case or medical emergency. – During that same stretch during the Biden administration last year, there were 184,241 releases.

Fox News: The Senate GOP pushes Trump budget framework through after a marathon vote series – Susan Collins and Rand Paul were the only Republicans to oppose the measure. – The amended framework would raise the debt ceiling by up to $5 trillion within the reconciliation process, taking future leverage away from Senate Democrats. It would also make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by using what’s called a current policy baseline…

Resist The Mainstream: FBI Director Kash Patel has made it clear that countering China’s influence within the U.S. is a top priority for both himself and President Trump. – A major focus has been on the growing concern over Chinese-owned farmland, especially land near sensitive military or strategic locations…

Western Journal: Karoline Leavitt Points Out An Obvious Problem After U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis Orders The Return of Immigrant Locked Up in El Salvador Prison – Leavitt suggested that Xinis should contact El Salvador President Nayib Bukele “because we are unaware of the judge having jurisdiction or authority over the country of El Salvador.” – Leavitt also noted earlier that Garcia was part of the “brutal and vicious” MS-13 gang.

Daily Fetched: A Top DOGE Official Uncovers Alarming Voter Fraud – Millions of illegal migrants were issued Social Security numbers, allowing them to access taxpayer-funded welfare programs and even illegally vote in U.S. elections. – “We found people on all the benefit programs. – “People on Medicaid and unemployment, they’re not contributing—they’re taking out. They’re mooching, right? They’re criminals.”

Sharyl Attkisson: Senator Chuck Grassley is turning up the heat on the Social Security Administration and demanding answers and action over verification failures that led to an estimated $718 million in improper Supplemental Security Income payments. – That, according to official reports, is just a fraction of $1.4 billion in overpayments in 2021 alone that might have been fended off with proper action…

Daily Fetched: The Democrat National Committee has announced a new “shadow government” dubbed the People’s Cabinet in an effort to derail President Trump’s MAGA agenda. – The announcement came shortly after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called for a “shadow government” to oppose Trump. – In other words, they will spin more lies and disrupt Trump’s common-sense moves to fix the mess left by the Biden administration…

American Thinker: The Price of Reciprocity, Or Why President Trump’s Tariffs Make Strategic Sense – The tariff package functions not as a single policy but as a signal that the United States will no longer tolerate systemic disadvantage in trade relations. – Time and time again, successive American administrations signed multilateral trade deals that promised efficiency but delivered industrial erosion.

Daily Wire: This Shrimper Praises Trump Tariffs, Saying 94% Of Our Shrimp Is Imported – South Carolina shrimper Craig Reaves said the seafood industry has been getting crushed for decades by increased imports, and highlighted that these other nations are hurting ecosystems, giving Americans a bad product, and using other unsavory practices. – Trump’s tariffs will give fishermen “immediate relief” and the space to rebuild and save the industry…

American Conservative: ‘Liberation Day’ For Mexico – Mexico still faces a 25% tariff on steel and automotive exports to the US, but because of the USMCA free trade agreement, it avoided the imposition of any additional tariffs related to Trump’s announcement Wednesday…

American Thinker: Smart nations are lining up for tariff deals with President Trump, a sign of good things ahead for these countries. – Argentina got their deal done immediately. – Then came Cambodia, which has a manufacturing base heavily dependent on U.S. buyers. – Israel is getting ready to deal and bringing something to the table. – As Bill Ackman noted, the best deals are going to be the first ones, and they know this…

AMUSE on X: Tariffs, Treason, and Trade: California’s Dangerous Rebellion – While presented in the language of advocacy and framed as a defense of local interests, Newsom’s maneuver amounts to an unconstitutional arrogation of federal power and a deeply un-American assertion of state economic sovereignty. – This is not mere hyperbole. The legal and philosophical architecture of the United States places international trade under exclusive federal authority…

Washington Examiner: The five most significant ICE arrests of criminal illegal immigrants this week – In Phoenix, ICE arrested and deported Mexican citizen Uriel Calvillo Espinoza. Espinoza was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts against a child victim. – In Denver, officers took into custody Roberto Armando Lopez-Cabezas. The 36-year-old man is a suspected MS-13 gang member who is wanted for murder in his home country of El Salvador…

American Thinker: The Least Dangerous Branch No More – Today, the most dangerous weapon in America’s federal district courts isn’t a statute. – It’s the injunction and the refusal of judges to require the party seeking that relief to post an injunction bond. – Injunctions without bond are tearing the Constitution asunder.

AMUSE on X: Regulate, Bankrupt, And Expel, The EU’s Plan to Purge Political Dissent – The European Union, a political entity never elected in any meaningful sense by the people it governs, is preparing to fine Elon Musk’s social media platform X over a billion euros. – The bogus charge is failure to sufficiently censor content the EU deems “disinformation.”

FAR: Vince Interviews Economist Oren Cass About Trump’s Tariffs – Economist Oren Cass provides a clear picture of what they are and what we can expect in the short and long run…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Tax the Penguins Edition – It’s been a pretty depressing week. President Trump unveiled a tariff policy that Wall Street investors hated, attacks on Tesla continued, and more federal judges put their thumbs on the scale on behalf of the Democrat Party.

April 4, 2025

Fox News: President Trump touts airstrike on Houthis by showing video: They will ‘never sink our ships again’ – The Trump administration has been conducting daily airstrikes on the Iranian-backed rebels for the last 20 days.

Zero Hedge: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “We’re Giving Putin Weeks, Not Months To Decide On The Ceasefire.” – But Kyiv’s fiercest backers worry even this amount of time could see the Russian military’s momentum grow even more and have accused Moscow of strategically stalling the start of serious negotiations.

Slay News: A new poll of New York voters shows that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is far ahead of Senator Chuck Schumer in a hypothetical 2028 primary matchup for the minority leader’s Senate seat. – 55% of likely Democrat voters support or lean toward supporting Ocasio-Cortez. – Just 36% backed or leaned toward voting for Schumer, who is in real trouble, and that trouble’s not going away.

Western Journal: Just-Released Letters Show Exactly How Hunter Biden Used His White House Connections For Burisma – A 2016 letter from Hunter Biden shows a direct request to the U.S. ambassador to Italy, John R. Phillips, to help a branch of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company where Hunter Biden had a well-paid seat on the board of directors, while Joe Biden was serving as vice president under President Barack Obama…

Liberty Daily: Democrats Activated Their NGO Machine For A Weekend Color Revolution Operation Against Trump – The operation originally targeted just Elon Musk and DOGE; now, the leftist NGO machine is redirecting total mobilization efforts at President Trump on Saturday in nationwide protests called “Hands Off! – Hands Off 2025’s website shows that 186 NGOs, unions, and other leftist groups support the mass mobilization effort of crazed leftists.

One America News: Trump Brushes Off China’s 34% Tariff Retaliation, Asserting His Policies Won’t Change – “CHINA PLAYED IT WRONG, THEY PANICKED – THE ONE THING THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO DO!” – Trump reiterated on Thursday that he would be willing to negotiate with countries to bring the tariff rates down, but only if they “are giving us something good.”

Western Journal: President Donald Trump’s “Art of the Deal” appears to be playing out right before our eyes, as multiple countries now want to charge the U.S. zero tariffs in exchange for the same in America’s market. – And the president has indicated he’s open to that. – So far, Vietnam, Argentina, and Israel have lined up…

Breitbart: The Supreme Court Allows The Trump Administration to Freeze $65 Million In Education Grants Over DEI Concerns – The administration filed a brief telling the justices that a federal judge in Massachusetts had exceeded his authority by interfering in “a contract dispute.” – Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberal justices dissented from the high court’s ruling.

American Spectator: Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to DEI – DEI, social justice, and antiracism coalesced around a few basic principles: 1. All cultures are equal in their ability to provide their members with the tools they need to thrive; 2. Therefore, all disparities between racial and other identity groups are the result of discrimination; 3. Therefore, equal social and economic outcomes between groups — “equity” — are the only reliable proof of “social justice.”

Daily Wire: The Media Desperately Wants You To Ignore This Horrifying Story – A white 17-year-old high school junior named Austin Metcalf was stabbed to death by a black athlete at a championship track meet because he sat in the wrong seat. – Unfortunately, there are numerous stories like this that the mainstream media, such as have hidden…

City Journal: Trump Goes After Federal Unions, And It’s About Time – The president is on firm ground in his effort to end collective bargaining for many federal jobs. – Federal employees don’t need union protection. – The average annual pay in the federal workforce is $100,000, and it rises to $140,000 if one includes generous benefits, which is more than 50 percent higher than average private-sector compensation.

Newsmax: The Energy Department Determined That 44% Of Its Staff Is Nonessential – These 7,000 employees could face layoffs as the Trump administration and DOGE continue downsizing the federal government. – This does not factor in the 1,300 employees who are on leave either because they took buyouts or because their roles related to DEI. – No final decisions have been made, and multiple plans are still being considered…

Zero Hedge – If Europe’s goal was to ruin Donald Trump’s chances of brokering a practical diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict, they may have succeeded. France and Britain are both openly suggesting that they will deploy troops to the region to “help secure a peace deal” in the near term. – As a result, Vladimir Putin has initiated the largest troop call-up since 2011, mobilizing over 160,000 men with no signs of slowing Russia’s recruitment efforts…

Dallas Ludlum: Everyone’s Mad at Trump’s Tariffs, But the U.S. Has Been Taxed Unfairly for Years – China, India, and the European Union, for instance, have been slamming American exports with tariffs as high as 778% while the U.S. charges 2.5% on most imports. – These tariffs target specific American industries with precision. U.S. International Trade Administration data shows that China’s 25% duty on U.S. soybeans has reduced America’s share of the market by 20% since 2018…

News 18: President Trump said Vietnam’s top leader told him in a “very productive” call Friday that he wanted to make a deal on tariffs after huge 46% levies hit the southeast Asian nation. – “The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam wants to cut their Tariffs down to ZERO if they are able to agree with the US.”

Epoch Times: China Retaliates With 34% Tariffs on US Goods, Effective April 10th – The Chinese Communist Party also unveiled controls on exports of medium and heavy rare earths, including samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium and yttrium to the United States, effective from Friday.

Epoch Times: The Dow Jones Slides More Than 1,400 Points Amid The Tariff Announcements – During Friday morning trading, the three major U.S. stock indexes saw another day of declines. – Aside from the Dow drop, the Nasdaq Composite shed more than 3 percent on Friday, following a 6 percent drop a day earlier. The S&P 500 also saw a 4 percent decline in the morning period, following a 4.84 percent drop on Thursday…

Washington Free Beacon: Congressional Republicans are mounting an effort to codify President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign on Tehran via a 10-bill legislative package that would sanction Tehran’s leadership, cut off its access to cash, and strangle the regime’s regional terror proxies. – The campaign includes “the toughest Iran sanctions package ever proposed by Congress,” according to the Republican Study Committee that is leading the effort…

Breitbart: US employers added 228,000 workers to their payrolls in March, the Department of Labor said Friday, and the unemployment rate inched up to 4.2 percent. – Economists had been expecting just 140,000 jobs would be added in March. The climb in the unemployment rate was expected.

Rapid Response 47: Council of Economic Advisors Chairman Steve Miran, “In the Biden administration’s last two years, almost three-quarters of the jobs that were created were in government. – In the March jobs report, that number came down. – This is part of reconfiguring the economy from a government-driven growth engine to a sustainable, durable, private sector growth engine.”

Daily Wire: The E.U. Is Reportedly Considering A Massive $1 Billion Fine For Elon Musk’s X Over Supposed ‘Disinformation’ – X said the move would be “an unprecedented act of political censorship and an attack on free speech.” – If the E.U. moves forward, it would be the first fine imposed by the body using its Digital Services Act which “regulates online intermediaries and platforms to prevent what they claim are illegal and harmful activities online and spread supposed disinformation…

Breitbart: Globalist World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab has begun to “start the process” of stepping down as chair of its board of trustees, the Geneva-based institution confirmed Thursday. – Schwab said the forum, which convenes its annual gathering of world elites at the Swiss resort of Davos, must recover its “sense of mission” after a period of turmoil.

Fox News: 3 alleged MS-13 gang members in Florida were hit with federal murder charges for stabbing and shooting an affiliate of a rival gang member. – Attorney General Pam Bondi said, “These gangs are organized. They are terrorists. And look at these guys; they thought they got away with it for almost a decade, but they did not. “They are living among us because they think they can get away with this, and they cannot.”

Just Facts: Elizabeth Warren claims that “Donald Trump and Elon Musk” are planning to use “the money you paid into Social Security to fund tax cuts for billionaires.” – Warren’s allegation is false on 6 levels: 1) Trump has repeatedly promised not to cut SS benefits, and he never attempted to do so during his first term. – 2) Trump and Musk are ensuring that more SS funds get to legitimate beneficiaries by reducing the $8.7 billion that SS loses each year to administrative costs and fraud/improper payments, enough to pay 398,000 retired workers their old-age benefits…

American Thinker: The Mauling Of NPR – NPR’s bias is so evident that anyone listening to it has to wonder if it is an arm of the Democrat Party. – NPR’s inherent bias was underscored in a 2019 Pew survey that determined its audience was overwhelmingly (to the tune of 87%) Democrat. – Yet despite this, the network is funded by taxpayers who should expect unbiased and accurate news reporting.

Washington Free Beacon: Private Jets, Ferraris, and False Claims, Inside An Obscure Federal Program Rife With Fraud – Meet the Universal Service Fund, which doles out billions on behalf of the FCC. – Created in 1996 as part of the Telecommunications Act, the program is funded through a surcharge on consumers’ telephone bills. But the size of that charge isn’t set by the FCC itself…

Daily Wire: Facebook To Shut Down Its Fact-Checking Program On Monday, It’s ‘Officially Over’ – “That means no new fact checks and no fact-checkers.” – Instead of fact-checks, Meta will adopt an X-style community notes system where users can add context to posts which other users then rate. Anyone will be able to sign up to be a contributor to community notes if they are over 18 and have had a verified account for over six months.

April 3, 2025

The Telegraph: Iran has ordered military personnel to leave Yemen, abandoning its Houthi allies as the US escalates an air strike campaign against the rebel group. – A senior Iranian official said the move aimed to avoid confrontation with the US if an Iranian soldier was killed. – Iran is also scaling back its strategy of supporting a network of regional proxies to focus on the direct threats from the US instead.

Lifezette: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that Mexico will not impose retaliatory tariffs if U.S. President Donald Trump proceeds with his planned tariffs. – Instead, Sheinbaum indicated that Mexico would seek alternative ways to address the situation and would announce a comprehensive program to navigate the upcoming tariff changes.

New York Post: The White House clarified its decision to keep Russia off President Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs list after it raised some eyebrows, explaining that Moscow already faced tough sanctions, and the threat of even more loomed large. – Russia’s absence from the exhaustive list was down to previously imposed sanctions already preventing “any meaningful trade” with Moscow. – Cuba, Belarus, and North Korea were also lumped in the same basket.

Western Journal: Trump Fires Multiple Senior National Security Officials Outed By Laura Loomer – Fired officials included “Brian Walsh, the senior director for intelligence; Maggie Dougherty, the senior director for international organizations; and Thomas Boodry, the senior director for legislative affairs, and three others.” – It is unclear whether these were related to the recent Signal messaging app incident that caught national attention last week.

Slay News: Ex-Biden Campaign Staffer Ashley Allison Says She Was ‘Lied to’ About Former President’s Fitness for Office – Specifically, she slammed former Biden White House chief of staff Ron Klain for revealing that the former president was exhausted and “out of it” during preparation for the disastrous June debate. – If the people around him knew that he was not capable, it is unacceptable to me that they allowed him to go onto that stage…

Modernity News: Democrats Want ‘Misgendering’ And ‘Deadnaming’ To Be Considered Child Abuse And Recognized in Child Custody Cases. – Colorado’s Kelly Loving Act defines ‘deadnaming’ as “to purposefully, and with the intent to disregard the individual’s gender identity or gender expression, refer to an individual by their birth name rather than their chosen name.” – The legislation has passed the House committee on its way to a vote.

Victor Davis Hanson: What We Know About The Ukrainian Situation – As a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire looms, with Trump pushing deals, Zelenskyy negotiating leverage, and Putin weighing risks, while the West quietly concedes it never had a real plan to win in the first place or to stop the war. – Loudly, the U.S., and again Europe quietly concedes that Ukraine will not be in NATO, a confirmation that Russia will use to justify to its people its disastrous invasion, and even many Ukrainians will accept…

National Pulse: Official DOGE Data Shows Almost 50% of The Jobs Cuts Nationwide Are DC Government Workers. – Over the past two months, approximately 280,253 planned federal worker and contractor layoffs have impacted 27 agencies as the Trump administration seeks to eliminate waste and inefficiency and bring federal spending under control…

American Thinker: Trump’s Tariffs Are Necessary And Completely Pro-American – Trump is engaged in economic warfare against the world but only fighting those who are already battling against us. – If they tariff us, we’ll tariff them. And the important thing is, the moment they stop tariffing us (as Israel did), we’ll stop tariffing them. – In other words, this is the ultimate push for true free trade, and Trump is gambling that in a truly free market, America wins…

American Thinker: Trump’s tariffs are all about putting America first after decades of exploitation – For far too long, America has been the world’s punching bag regarding trade. – Foreign nations, some allies, and some adversaries have exploited our generosity, reaping profits while draining our industries, jobs, and national pride. – With his bold tariff policies, Trump is fulfilling his promise to put America first…

Washington Examiner: What to know about Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, How they work and who they hit – The president has framed these tariffs as “reciprocal” to match trade barriers that other countries impose on products from the U.S., dollar for dollar, but in reality, they are based on trade deficits instead. – The average tariff is 20% and is 41% when weighted by trade volume. – The European Union was hit with a 20% tariff, India with 26%, and Japan with 24%, among many others…

Center Square: Small packages shipped here from China now face new taxes under the Trump tariff plan – The White House says the U.S. processes 4 million de minimis shipments every day and that they will now “be subject to all applicable duties, which shall be paid in accordance with applicable entry and payment procedures.”

CNBC: The Complete List Of Trump Tariffs – More than 180 countries and territories facing reciprocal tariffs – The president and the White House posted charts on social media showing each country’s purported level of tariffs and other trade barriers on the U.S. – These rates are not necessarily the only new tariffs these countries will face and are, in most cases, roughly half of what the Trump administration claims each country has “charged” the U.S.

Canadian Independent: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announces a matching 25% tariff on U.S.-made vehicles – There will be no tariff on auto parts, however.

Daily Wire: General Motors is planning to ramp up its production of light-duty trucks in the US after President Trump imposed a 25% tariff on auto imports. – GM said it will increase the truck production at its assembly plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and “will be making operational adjustments, including hiring temporary employees, to support current manufacturing and business needs.”

Resist The Mainstream: The FBI Sees Record-High Agent Applications Under Kash Patel’s Leadership – In March, the FBI received a record-breaking 5,577 new agent applications, the highest number in the agency’s history, according to Fox News, per The Washington Examiner. This figure far exceeded the 3,383 applications per month the agency saw in 2024 and the 2,797 average applications in 2023.

Western Journal: The Department of Agriculture has stopped sending certain federal funds to Maine schools because the state allows transgender athletes to play in women’s sports. – In a 180-degree change from the Biden administration, the Trump administration has ruled that Title IX requires that only biological females can play in women’s sports.

Western Journal: Four Republican senators joined their Democratic colleagues to pass a resolution, introduced by Democrat Senator Tim Kaine designed to undermine President Trump’s policy of imposing tariffs on Canada. – The operative word here, “designed,” makes all the difference, for the resolution has no chance of actually happening. – “Speaker Johnson already declared Senator Kaine’s resolution dead on arrival…

Breitbart: VP Vance says the Trump administration was prepared for liberal judges at the federal level to interfere with deportation efforts. – Vance said the Trump administration was willing to litigate all the way to the Supreme Court. – “Even when certain courts make a ruling, we can still deport that person for another reason. – “We think that we’re going to win at the Supreme Court level, and when we do win, that will end this question permanently…

Zero Hedge: Senator John Kennedy Destroys The Lawfulness Of Nationwide Injunctions – Kennedy laid out the fundamental issue: “You have a plaintiff and a defendant, and the plaintiff files a lawsuit in federal court. The judge has jurisdiction over those parties only. So how can a federal judge issue an order that affects everyone else outside of that courtroom?” – “Uh, it shouldn’t be possible, Senator, but district courts do it all the time,” Shumate admitted…

Breitbart: Tesla and Elon Musk Have Been Targeted in 50+ Attacks Across America – For his support of Donald Trump, have done everything from vandalize Tesla EVs owned by innocent bystanders to commit acts of domestic terrorism, including firebombing dealerships. – Attorney General Pamela Bondi has stated that her department is treating these incidents as acts of domestic terrorism…

American Thinker: What’s the Real Target of the Assault on Tesla? – The war on Musk and Tesla is driven by far more than politics. – If the American people have learned anything in the last ten to fifteen years…it is that destructive riots are not organically spontaneous. – Militant activist rioters, many being members of BLM and Antifa, can be mobilized and bussed to target areas, paid as much as $300 a day from various NGOs, to engage in protest, obstructionism, and property destruction…

One America News: Elon Musk will be an ongoing “friend and adviser” to the Trump administration once his time at DOGE is up, Vice President JD Vance announced on Thursday. – Musk is expected to take a step back at the end of May, given that his position with the Trump Administration was only ever meant to be temporary.

Daily Wire: Speaking at a NATO event in Brussels, Secretary of State Marco Rubio reassured NATO nations that the US would not leave the alliance but warned that European governments would have to increase their defense spending as a deterrent to outside forces. – “We want NATO to be stronger; we want NATO to be more visible, and the only way NATO can get stronger, more visible is if our NATO partners have more capability,” he said.

Sharyl Attkisson: Senator Chuck Grassley turned up the heat on the Social Security Administration, demanding answers and action over verification failures that led to an estimated $718 million in improper SSI payments. – According to official reports, it is just a fraction of $1.4 billion in overpayments in 2021 alone that might have been fended off with proper action.

The Blaze: President Trump has been urging Republicans to defund NPR and PBS, and conservatives aren’t taking his suggestion lightly. – After a hearing by the House DOGE Subcommittee, Rep. Ronny Jackson is introducing a bill to pull all government funding from the “chronically biased” outlets, which he claims have been “pushing Democrat talking points under the fake banner of ‘public media.’”

Daily Wire: The DOE sent letters to state education commissioners, warning them to end unlawful diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at K-12 schools or face loss of federal funding. – The letters, sent to all state commissioners overseeing state education agencies, told the officials that they must certify within 10 days their compliance with federal anti-discrimination laws and the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action.

News Busters: ‘Signalgate’ Racks up Seven Times More Mainstream Media Coverage than The Yemen Airstrikes – Last week, ABC, CBS, and NBC spent nearly 100 minutes covering leaked messages from a private Signal chat for Trump administration officials in just the first 96 hours after the messages were published. But those same networks spent only 13 minutes covering the actual military operation that was discussed in those leaked messages.

Epoch Times: The Entire CDC FOIA Office Fired as Health Agency Moves to Centralize Structure – A health official said all the Freedom of Information Act offices were previously operating in an isolated fashion. – HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the process is difficult and “our hearts go out to those who have lost their jobs,” but that Americans have been getting sicker each year despite trillions spent by the HHS.

April 2, 2025

Breitbart: Ontario Premier Ford: Canada Will Drop All Tariffs if Trump Does – Ford said, “We are not the problem. China is the problem. And he’s turning a blind eye to China as they continue to build their critical mass. We have all the critical minerals that our great neighbors need. We have the energy that our great neighbors need.”

American Spectator: The Short-Term Consequences of Long-Term Policies – Few politicians are willing to tank their popularity to create a better world, but Donald Trump is one of them. – A big problem is actions is that while they’re beneficial in the long term, they come with painful short-term consequences. Politics has become addicted to immediacy. – Voters demand their new president radically change things in a week, expecting to see results in their bank accounts by then…

Breitbart: Expert, Dr. Salem Al-Ketbi, Warns That Iran And Terror Organizations Are Infiltrating U.S. Universities to Indoctrinate Students & Recruit Members – His commentary follows the arrest last month of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian-born Columbia University graduate who now faces deportation over his role in violent pro-Hamas campus activities. – Khalil has been accused of being a “Hamas sympathizer who espouses violent, anti-American views…

Breitbart: A Two Million User International Paedophile Child Porn Ring Busted by Europol – The massive international pedophile network spanning over 30 countries was shut down, and dozens of arrests were made relating to child pornography – According to the investigators, the site had over 91,000 child porn videos before it was shut down, with an average of 3+ videos being uploaded to the site every hour…

Zero Hedge: Trump’s Three Tariff Options, Goldman’s Take on What’s Working & What’s Not. – Bloomberg reported the administration is considering three options: 1) a blanket 20% tariff on all imports, 2) a tiered system with three different rate levels, and 3) a country-by-country rate model. – Tariffs will start at their highest level, and countries can then take steps to bring them down. – The new duties are effective immediately…

Epoch Times: How President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Are Set to Reshape Global Trade – Trump will reveal the long-awaited details of his tariff plan at a White House Rose Garden event, set to take place after stock markets close. – The US has recorded trade deficits every year since 1976. – The top ten industries impacted are Motor Vehicles, Pharma & Medicines, Oil & Gas, Motor Vehicle Parts, Computer Equipment…

Zero Hedge: Is Trump’s Plan Working Already? – ADP Shows Biggest Jump In US Manufacturing Jobs Since Oct 2022 – Today, we got a glimpse of what’s possible. – ADP’s Employment shows the US economy added 155k jobs in March (more than the 120k expected and almost double the 77k added in February)…

AMUSE on X: Nine Republicans Bring House Activities To a Standstill – The nine Republicans who voted against the rules package—Anna Paulina Luna, Tim Burchett, Mike Lawler, Kevin Kiley, Nick LaLota, Jeff Van Drew, Max Miller, Greg Steube, and Ryan Mackenzie—have frozen the House’s ability to function. Without a rules package, the chamber lacks procedural scaffolding. – The failed rules package would have cleared the path for three consequential bills…

Daily Wire: Trump Celebrates Voter ID Victory In Wisconsin – President Trump said Republicans should have the upper hand in Wisconsin “for years to come” after the state voted on Tuesday to enshrine voter ID requirements in its constitution. – More than 60% of voters approved the constitutional amendment, which will make it more difficult to roll back voter ID requirements.

American Thinker: Trump’s Six-Point Plan for Making America Great Again – What Trump is all about on the foreign trade and diplomacy front. – Trump is both a globalist and a nationalist. He believes that the only way to ensure America’s independence is to strengthen its manufacturing sector by producing more products at home, made by American workers in American factories using American raw materials and technology using American-made cheap energy…

American Thinker: Trump’s Tariffs Pave The Way To Bring Back Lost Jobs – During the first decade of the 21st century and following Clinton’s unwise decision to admit China to the World Trade Organization, the downsizing of manufacturing jobs was regularly depicted as our shift to a service economy, as manufacturing was clearly being moved overseas to take advantage of cheaper labor…

American Thinker: Give Trump A Chance – Tariffs will force other countries to negotiate with the Trump administration. – Let’s check this out from Peter Navarro in a post written by Jeff Croure: – Inflation is not a concern because “foreigners” will “cut their prices” to “absorb” most of the additional cost because “we’re the biggest market in the world, and they have to be here.” – One of Trump’s goals is to encourage American consumers to buy vehicles made in this country…

Slay News: Barack Obama-appointed activist U.S. District Judge Edward Chen has blocked President Trump’s plan to deport over 350,000 migrants from Venezuela. – His temporary injunction blocks the Trump administration from ending their Temporary Protected Status. – The TPS status was granted under former President Joe Biden’s administration.

American Thinker: Make IRS Sauce The Same For Both Citizen Goose and Politician Gander – Elon Musk is right that some of our increasingly wealthy “public servants” need to have their puzzling finances scrutinized. – Many of our CongressCritters came to D.C. without much money and somehow are now worth millions. There will likely be some surprises, so maybe we will learn how some Republicans become RINOs once inside the Beltway…

Townhall: Megyn Kelly Just Delivered a Masterclass on How the Liberal Media Destroyed Its Credibility – The media The mainstream manufactures fake impartiality that everyone sees right through, and they claim they’re not partisan. – The fact that most, if not all, are Democrats also contributes to the brand problem: Democrats and their media allies come off as snobby, elitist, and engorged in self-righteousness.

Daily Wire: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Will Again Only Recognize Two Genders – The decision will impact green cards and employment authorization documents. – USCIS historically required that requesters choose between male or female on its forms, but in April 2024, under President Joe Biden’s administration, it added another option, a gender identity marker of “X.”

Breitbart: California will lose millions of dollars in federal matching funds for the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, after Governor Newsom’s administration failed to fill out the necessary paperwork by a March 31 deadline. – The unclaimed money is tied to Proposition 35, which committed money from a special tax on health insurance plans to increase payments to doctors and healthcare facilities that treat low-income patients.

Breitbart: One in Five EU Lawmakers Broke The Same Rule As Le Pen IS Accused of, And Almost All Avoided Punishment – Under EU rules, all Members of the European Parliament are afforded hundreds of thousands to pay for staff and their operations in Strasbourg and Brussels. Le Pen, like many other MEPs before her, was accused of using such funds to pay for other party expenses outside of the transnational parliament…

Western Journal: An FBI Agent Didn’t Know He Was Supposed to Lie, So He Confirmed Biden Laptop Was Real – Federal investigators confirmed that, yes, they told Twitter the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop, that it was real, before Twitter throttled a story from the New York Post about its unseemly contents.

April 1, 2025

Resist The Mainstream: Newly revealed internal FBI messages reveal the startling effort by the agency to quash the explosive Hunter Biden laptop story in the lead-up to the 2020 election. – These documents, released by the House Judiciary Committee, show a coordinated effort by senior FBI officials to suppress any discussion of the laptop, which could have severely impacted the Biden campaign…

Breitbart: Liberation Day And The End Of The World’s Trade War Against America – The Global Trading System Is Rigged Against the U.S. – Liberation Day IS a piece of branding with more substance than cynicism. For weeks, he’s signaled that a sweeping new tariff regime is coming. – A reciprocal system that mirrors foreign rates? – Something hybrid and more complex? The ambiguity is not a bug; It’s leverage.

American Thinker: Big Balls To The Rescue – DOGE saved a terabyte of data the United States Institute for Peace tried to destroy. – What were they trying to hide? – When DOGE showed up, they literally BARRICADED themselves in their offices, cut the phone lines and power to elevators, sabotaged office equipment, and the Head of USIP had to be arrested & removed. – They even called the cops on DOGE, only to get arrested and hauled off themselves…

Daily Signal: Republican Randy Fine emerged triumphant Tuesday in a special election in Florida’s 6th Congressional District. – The race received national attention and millions from Democrat donors who sought to send a message about their party’s continued relevance with a victory in the ruby-red district between Jacksonville and Orlando.

One America News: Republican Jimmy Patronis Wins Matt Gaetz’s Vacated House Seat In Florida 1st District Special Election – Patronis entered the contest last November after President Trump openly pushed him to run for the seat. Following Trump’s endorsement, a number of stated candidates for the seat stepped out of the contest to support Patronis…

California Globe: Two bills to disallow trans athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports, AB 89 and AB 844, were heard Tuesday in California’s Assembly Committee and killed by Democrats, but only after blaming President Trump and DOGE, while calling those supporting the bills, “Nazis.” – Not very long ago, competing in athletics according to your biological sex was the standard and was made federal law in 1972 with Title IX.

Center Square: California gas prices are nearly $2 per gallon above the national average. – New USC Study: “Based on 30 to 50 years of data, the study found that California’s high gasoline prices and supply dilemmas are, by design, engineering or largely self-inflicted, and the result of directed policies and a litany of regulations, taxes, fees, and costs.” – This contradicts Democrats’ insistence that “price-gouging” by local fuel producers and distributors is the cause…

Daily Signal: Wisconsin residents voted on Tuesday to elect Susan Crawford as the next member of their state supreme court. – The vote will put the liberals in charge of the state’s highest court during a time when the court’s decisions on congressional redistricting in the state could very well lead to more House seats for Democrats.

Sharyl Attkisson: The 1-2-3s of Trump’s Tariffs – President Donald Trump is rolling out a series of promised tariffs and import taxes aimed at reshaping global trade. – Tariffs have deep roots in the U.S., dating back to the Tariff Act of 1789, one of the first laws passed by the new Congress. – For much of the 19th century, tariffs were a primary source of federal income…

Epoch Times: A Tesla Firebombing Suspect Is Hit With Federal Charges – The arrest of the 24-year-old male comes amid a wave of violent attacks targeting Tesla properties. – Loveland Police initially arrested Frederick on March 13 on multiple state charges that included possession of explosives, second-degree arson, criminal mischief, and criminal attempt to commit a felony.

Epoch Times: China’s Role In The US Fentanyl Crisis Is Directed By Regime Leadership – Insiders say fentanyl is at the core of the Chinese Communist Party’s bid to take revenge on the West, and America makes a perfect enemy. – In early March, the Chinese Embassy in Washington shared a social media post from its Foreign Ministry, repeating its message: “If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end.”…

Dallas Express: In a surprise move, the Chinese military launched a massive military training exercise around Taiwan this week. – Drills took place in both the airspace and waters surrounding the island nation, with the Chinese navy, air, ground, and rocket forces involved in the exercise. Shi Yi, a spokesperson for the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command, said the drills were intended to deliver a “severe warning and forceful containment against Taiwan independence.”…

Daily Wire: Trump’s War On Fentanyl Is Off To A Strong Start – A key indicator of broader total smuggling at and between the southern border’s ports of entry, U.S. law enforcement seizures of fentanyl, has dropped 50% since the November election, indicating a greater decline in total fentanyl smuggling.

2nd Smartest Guy: Former Zelensky adviser Oleksiy Arestovych says Ukraine has a secret nuclear doomsday plan and would rather destroy the entire country and the Russians with it than accept defeat. – In an interview with a Ukrainian journalist that he gave last month, he claimed that Ukraine’s current head of military intelligence, Kirill Budanov, has floated a plan to blow up all of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants and possibly some of Russia’s as well if other defensive measures fail.

Slay News: Kamala Harris’ Team Planned For Biden’s Possible Death Since 2023, And Established A ‘Death-Pool Roster’ To Quickly Swear Her In – The White House reportedly expected Biden to soon die, and officials were planning scenarios around his death for at least a year before the election. – This news is alarming, considering Biden was running for reelection at the time, while his team believed he could soon die.

Issues & Insights: Trump Starts Undoing JFK’s Worst Mistake – On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order that ends collective bargaining rights for what Government Executive magazine says affects “67% of the federal workforce, and 75% of federal workers. – Even the sainted FDR attacked the idea as “unthinkable and intolerable,” saying that “the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.”

Slay News: Top Democrats have filed a lawsuit to block President Trump’s executive order mandating that voters must provide proof of citizenship to cast ballots in federal elections. – The lawsuit alleges that Trump’s order will “impose radical changes on how Americans register to vote.” – Trump signed the executive order last week seeking to overhaul the nation’s elections.

News X World: Elon Musk Claims Major Social Security Data Breach, Links It To Illegal Immigration And Voter Fraud – Elon Musk has alleged that 400,000 Social Security numbers were stolen and sold, calling it a threat to US security and linking it to illegal immigration and voter fraud. – “I think someone will be arrested tomorrow,” said Musk, quoting information from the DOGE…

American Thinker: Under President Trump, the US is taking decisive action to reclaim sovereignty over its critical minerals supply chain. – As part of a broader initiative to reduce dependence on China, Trump, invoking emergency powers under the Defense Production Act (DPA), has directed federal agencies to prioritize domestic mining and authorized the development of metals refining facilities on U.S. military installations…

American Thinker: The Trump Administration’s Support for the Israel-Azerbaijan Strategic Partnership Can Benefit America – Israel and Azerbaijan have long been allies and together make up an important counterweight to the allegiance of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. – For the past thirty years, Israel and Azerbaijan have been strengthening their ties, spurred on not just by shared animosity towards Iran but also a shared cooperative vision.

American Thinker: Putting Tariffs Into Perspective – The collusion between the media outlets and the Democrats has hit a fever pitch over Trump’s economic policies. – So if Trump puts $210 billion worth of tariffs on cars and other things, and if companies pass on 100% of those, which they won’t, that would cause an increase in costs of only 1%. – Wouldn’t it be worth it to bring trillions in manufacturing to the U.S.? – And then there is this…

Breitbart: With a sweeping new round of tariffs expected this week, the Trump administration this week released a comprehensive report on the rules, taxes, and red tape it says are stacked against American exporters. – The report describes not just high foreign tariffs but also a complex web of non-tariff measures (NTMs) that can quietly block U.S. goods from reaching overseas markets that include…

Washington Examiner: Trump previews the DOGE wind-down as Musk looks to exit, suggesting federal agency heads will pick up where the DOGE leaves off – Trump, “I think some of them may try and keep the DOGE people with them, but, you know, at some point, I think it will end, but they have also gotten a big education.”…

Geller Report: Trump says Britain won’t get a trade deal until Starmer restores free speech to British citizens. – This is what the United States should have been doing with our foreign policy from the very first. – Instead of funding dictators, terrorist regimes, etc., we should have been exporting and rewarding political freedom.

Breitbart: Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel in December 2024. – Mangione, 26, faces separate federal and state murder charges for the killing. The federal charges include a charge of murder through the use of a firearm, which carries the possibility of the death penalty…

March 31, 2025

American Thinker: So General Milley was running the whole Ukraine war with Russia without telling the public – And the U.S. just kept getting deeper and deeper into a war that could have led to a direct conflict with Russia. – While the American public under the Biden administration was told, via Congress, that the U.S. was supplying arms to Ukraine, actually, the U.S. was pretty much running the whole show. – This long and interesting report begins with this…

Forbes: Trump Is Right About Ending The Debt Ceiling – The debt ceiling does nothing to enforce fiscal discipline and threatens real economic harm. – Congress should drop this outdated and dangerous charade. – Productive policies would include cutting tax rates, cutting unnecessary spending, rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse, pursuing deep deregulation, and generating more revenue from expanding energy production. – Does all this sound familiar?

Resist The Mainstream: Speaking at a town hall event in Wisconsin on Sunday night, Musk announced that DOGE will investigate the financial dealings of lawmakers who have become “strangely wealthy.” – Elon Musk, “There is a massive amount of corruption. – Effectively, there’s a giant fraud loophole where the government can send money to an NGO that is then no longer the government by the laws of the U.S…

Boston Herald: The bill’s due for lawmakers making bank on stocks – Rank-and-file members of Congress make $174,000 annually, and yet scores of lawmakers who have spent decades on Capitol Hill are multi-millionaires. – “How do they get $20 million if they’re earning $200,000 a year?” Musk asked and said, “We’re going to try to figure it out and certainly stop it from happening.”

American Thinker: The Recently Returned Astronauts Carefully Tell The Truth – Elon Musk famously noted he offered to rescue them, but Biden’s Handlers refused. – While still stranded on the ISS, Burch Wilmore confirmed Musk’s account, and shortly thereafter, he and Williams were successfully returned to Earth while Boeing still apparently has no idea why its “Starliner” capsule malfunctioned or whether it will ever fly in space again…

Washington Free Beacon: The Department of Transportation is ramping up its investigation into internal practices put in place years ago that allegedly prioritized DEI over merit when hiring air traffic controllers. – Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday that he retained the California-based white-shoe law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to further review the situation…

American Spectator: Europe Is No Longer Worth Defending – Since we no longer share the same ideals of freedom and democracy, we should no long shoulder their burdens. – Europe is obsolete, arrogant, and parasitic. – That Europe refuses to recognize its sins along these lines does not expiate them. – Europe’s combined economic weight declines precipitously each year, something hardly lost on Trump and his team, a result of the idiotic policies of the continent’s ruling elite…

Western Journal: Leavitt Sets the Media Straight About a Trump Third Term, You Guys Keep Asking the Question, Then Melt Down When He Answers. – Trump, “A lot of people want me to do it, but we have a long way to go; it’s very early in the administration.” – “There are methods by which you could do it.”

Epoch Times: The Defense Department on Monday revealed that it would be imposing “sex-neutral” standards for military combat roles. – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the changes to its physical fitness requirements in an effort to “fix” the standards that he said were “lowered” under President Barack Obama’s administration.

One America News: Secretary Of State Rubio Says 17 More MS-13 And Tren de Aragua Gang Members Have Been Deported To El Salvador, ‘Including Murderers And Child Rapists’ – “In order to keep the American people safe, @POTUS designated the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. These criminals will no longer terrorize our communities and citizens,” he continued.

Western Journal: The White House Is Preparing A New Press Seating Plan For Press Briefings That (Literally) Puts Left-Leaning Mainstream Media Outlets in Their Place – Prominent seats in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room are coveted because it’s easier to catch the press secretary’s eye. – White House officials say it is a “fundamental restructuring of the briefing room, based on metrics more reflective of how media is consumed today…

American Spectator: Shooting Blanks From the Bench – For far too long, federal judges have feigned godhood or kingship, but they have neither the ability nor funding to enforce their rulings. – Ordinarily, when a federal district court prohibits the enforcement of a government policy, the ruling protects only the plaintiff(s) in that particular case. – But recently, an increasing number of activist federal judges have expanded the application and reach of their rulings by issuing so-called “nationwide injunctions.”…

Tablet Magazine: Prime Minister Netanyahu Takes On Israel’s Deep State – The firing of domestic security chief Ronen Bar is the latest battle in the war at home. – Bar’s removal is long overdue. – For starters, he is probably the person most directly responsible for the disaster of Oct. 7. Gaza is the Shin Bet’s intelligence turf, and so Bar’s advice to refrain from raising the level of alert on the night before the IDF naturally accepted the massacre…

Western Journal: A ‘Very Angry’ Trump Sends Threats to Both Putin and Zelenskyy, ‘We Made a Deal’ – Trump said if Russia sabotages any hope for peace, it will pay the price. – “If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault — which it might not be — but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia.”…

Daily Fetched: ICE Agents Were Targeted in Viral TikTok Video Urging Viewers To Shoot Ice Agents On Sight – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took to social media to denounce the threat, vowing to take action against the individual responsible for posting the video. – “If you threaten or attempt to harm a law enforcement officer, we will find you and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.”

Victor Davis Hanson: Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in America – Trump is racing to dismantle decades of leftist policies, but success hinges on speed, discipline, and the Supreme Court, while at the same time facing fierce resistance from entrenched institutions. – Trump is currently waging a 360-degree, 24/7 effort to undo at least the last 20 years of the most recent manifestation of the leftist cultural revolution inaugurated by Barack Obama…

The New York Post: Elon Musk reveals DOGE’s new target are members of Congress who got ‘strangely wealthy’ while in office – His current theory is, “They’ll [the government] send the money overseas to one NGO [non-governmental organization], then they’ll go through a bunch of them, and then I’m highly confident that a bunch of that money then comes back to the United States and lands in their pockets.”…

Zero Hedge: In Latest Blow To European Democracy, A Judge Rules Marine Le Pen Is Ineligible To Run For President In 2027 – Le Pen said before the trial that the matter is entirely political and that her opponents wished for her “political death.” – Even the leader of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) Jean-Luc Melenchon appeared ill at ease. – Other commentators have expressed surprise at not only the verdict but also the decision to exclude her from elections.

Amuse on X: From Trump to Le Pen, Lawfare and the New World Order – For years, French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen has been the bête noire of Brussels. – Her real crime? – Proposing that the French—not the European Commission—should determine France’s future. – After leading in the polls for the 2027 presidency, she was slapped with a conveniently timed conviction for misallocating parliamentary staff funds—a technicality so esoteric it wouldn’t pass muster in a Texas HOA dispute…

Powerline: Inside Social Security – Antonio Gracias shares what he has discovered inside the Social Security Administration. – There are a lot of people in Government who took huge risks to get us this information and show us what’s going on. These are very good people. – GRACIAS: “In 2021, 270,000 non-citizens got social security numbers. In 2024, 2.1M non-citizens got social security numbers.

American Thinker: Slaying the University Dragons – Most Americans don’t realize just how evil our universities have become. – As a general rule, the lower the acceptance rate at the school, the more radical the faculty, making the Ivy League schools some of the worst. But even unheard-of Universities in random small towns suffer from the same disease. – Nearly 100 percent of professors aren’t just run-of-the-mill Democrats but are full-throated radicals…

American Thinker: Canada Embraces European Suicide – Installed Canadian PM Mark Carney will likely retain his office following their snap election on April 28. – His Liberal Party is riding a wave of anti-Trump, anti-American mania ignited by the U.S. president’s imposition of tariffs and emasculation of Justin Trudeau. – A big reason is that they have been fed lies about their nation’s relative strength and sovereignty all their lives…

American Thinker: Why Do Democrats Hate Women and Girls? – Trump and Republicans are striving to bring back common sense and decency to women’s sports, while Democrats are exerting every effort to thwart such measures. – The social issue du jour is transgenderism. Democrats are the party of transgenderism, which represents only a tiny fraction of the population. – Male athletes are 10-25% faster and stronger than female athletes when comparing…

Zero Hedge: Vaccine stocks tumbled in the early U.S. cash session after Dr. Peter Marks, a top FDA regulator and pro-vaxxer, abruptly resigned on Friday. – Wall Street analysts view Marks’ departure as a bearish signal for vaccine stocks, such as Moderna, Novavax, BioNTech, and others, which already face mounting headwinds, including a wave of layoffs expected at the Department of Health and Human Services.

California Globe: Gavin Newsom Talks and People Everywhere Cringe – Newsom’s rebranding podcast isn’t going so well – Newsom is trying to distance himself from himself and attempting to rebrand himself as a likable moderate gent. – The problem is, he’s not likable, his lengthy record of leftist politics is undeniable, and he is not a man of honor. – A recently released Capitol Weekly poll found that 13% of voters now have an improved perception of the Governor, with a huge 26% saying that it harmed their perception of Newsom…

March 30, 2025

Epoch Times: President Trump Threatens Secondary Tariffs on Russian Oil If Ukraine Cease-Fire Fails – Trump said he‘d impose sanctions ’if Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault.’

Epoch Times: President Trump Threatens Iran With Bombing And Secondary Tariffs If It Fails to Make Nuclear Deal – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian earlier said the Islamic regime is declining direct negotiations with the United States over its fast-track nuclear program.

Breitbart: Hamas operatives kidnapped, tortured, and executed 22-year-old Palestinian Oday Nasser Al Rabay, who participated in last week’s protests wave of protests against the terror group, according to his family. – His body was left in front of his family’s home over the weekend.

Wall Street Journal: A Bill to Stop Nationwide District Court Judge Injunctions – Senator Chuck Grassley, “My legislation would curb judicial policymaking and politicization of courts. – The obvious solution is to limit district courts to resolving the cases only between the parties before them. If the Supreme Court won’t act to rein in the lower courts, Congress must.”

American Thinker: I’ve recognized manipulation in the past, and I see it now on the Supreme Court – The decision to place John Roberts, and not a more experienced justice, in the Supreme Court’s top seat is beginning to make sense, and not in a good way. – We have a supposedly conservative Chief Justice who belongs to the same secretive “club” as patently evil Judge Boasberg, chief judge of the DC district court…

Front Page: Trump Secured The Border for Only 0.2% of the Cost of the Border Crisis – Mainstream media hypes the cost of securing the border but refuses to discuss the cost of open borders. – The House Budget Committee estimated the cost of the crisis at $150 billion, while others put it at $200 billion or even higher. – $330 million would be around 0.2% of $150 billion.

American Spectator: The Teachers Unions Utilize ‘NewsGuard’ to Censor Education – In the name of ‘media literacy,’ K-12 students have been systematically steered toward leftist ‘news’ outlets. – This effort began with the advent of the internet and the increasing tendency of students to go online in search of information for homework projects. – Newsguard ratings strongly suggest a bias toward corporate media outlets with a lot of Democrat-friendly content…

Slay News: Putin’s Limousine Explodes Just Days After Zelensky Boasted He ‘Will Die Soon’ – The vehicle exploded near Moscow’s Federal Security Service (FSB) headquarters. – The official limousines erupted in flames following a large explosion. – Video footage from the incident shows significant damage to the rear of the car, where the fire was most intense…

Daily Wire: President Trump Is ‘Absolutely’ Considering Annexing Greenland, ‘I Don’t Take Anything Off The Table’ – Trump on Saturday expressed “100%” certainty that the United States would eventually “get Greenland.” – Trump made the comments in a 10-minute phone interview with NBC News.

Jerusalem Post: Iran urges confidentiality in letters exchanged between Trump and Khamenei – The report comes amid contact between the Islamic Republic and the US over reported efforts to reach a nuclear deal. – The letter included a two-month deadline by which a new nuclear deal could be reached, two sources confirmed…

Geller Report: STOP THE STEAL – Milwaukee Officials Are Handling Ballots In Secret Back Rooms With No Observer Access In This Critical Wisconsin Supreme Court Race. – “This Supreme Court election is ground zero. – Every conservative voice should be sounding the alarm. – If Brad Schimel doesn’t win on April 1st, the GOP will lose two House seats in 2026—and with them, the majority.”

National Pulse: Attorney General Pam Bondi Promises ‘NO PLEA DEALS’ in The Tesla Vandalism Cases. – Expressing the urgency of enforcing stringent measures against these acts, Bondi warned those involved to cease their terroristic activities. “They are setting off bombs and huge, massive fires in residential neighborhoods and charging stations…

Zero Hedge: An Ex-WSJ Journalist, Asra Nomani, Revealed 24 Organizations Funding Tesla Takedown Madness – Democrats unleashed their coordinated, NGO-driven color revolution—dubbed the ‘Tesla Takedown’—nationwide on Saturday. – 100% of the groups are aligned with the Democratic Party, yet most enjoy tax-deductible status as 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations, claiming they are “nonpartisan.” – Here is the chart…

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Judge Boasberg Is Currently America’s Most Powerful Man – Democrats don’t have a counter-agenda, so they use the judiciary, and they use four or five of these ultra-liberal judges, and they become for weeks on time the most powerful people in the United States. – It’s sort of delay, delay, delay, and eat up a year of the Trump administration because they have nothing positive to contribute to America.”

FAR: Karoline Leavitt Tells Us What It’s Like To Work for President Trump – In a special episode of “The Signal Sit Down” filmed at the White House, Leavitt opens up about her relationship with President Donald Trump, her political upbringing, and how the president is garnering record support with young voters.

March 29, 2025

The Daily Fetched: Elon Musk and DOGE have uncovered more outrageous instances of government waste, this time highlighting how private contractors exploited the government during the Biden administration. – Musk pointed to one case involving a simple 10-question survey about Americans’ use of national parks. – A contractor was paid nearly $1 billion, almost a third of the department’s budget, for the simple survey, the results of which were never used for anything.

Center Square: The Department of State will assume many of the responsibilities and oversight of programs previously performed by the U.S. Agency of International Development, effectively shuttering the controversial USAID department. – Elon Musk’s DOGE had been targeting USAID’s questionable spending for cuts, which led to legal challenges.

Epoch Times: Federal Judge J. Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York Halts The Shutdown of Voice of America – VOA employees secured a court order that prevents the Trump administration from shuttering the outlet for now.

PJ Media: You Won’t Believe What Insanity HHS Was Funding – Do you want your taxpayer dollars funding studies on preventing pregnancy in “transgender boys” or HIV stigma in Thailand? Fortunately, Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary also considers that waste, so he’s cutting numerous idiotic woke studies.

Breitbart: A growing number of illegal migrants are smuggling themselves out of the United States to avoid the legal penalties of government deportations, according to multiple witnesses. – “I’ve been a journalist for more than 25 years, but I never thought I would see this,” said Alfredo Corchado, an American journalist in Texas and Mexico and an executive editor at the Puente News Collaborative.

Sharyl Attkisson: 15 Surprising Facts About Greenland and the U.S. – Trump is the 3d U.S. president to try to acquire Greenland – The U.S. Currently Defends Greenland’s Security – Thule Air Base Monitors Russia – Shipping Lane Importance – Rare Earth Riches – Greenland’s Massive Size Surprises Many – Norway Used to Own Greenland

CNBC: Elon Musk has combined two of his companies, xAI and X, into a single entity. – xAI is the acquirer, valued at $80 billion in the deal, while X is valued at $30 billion. – Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion in 2022 and later changed the name to X.

Slay News: The House has voted to end former President Biden’s regulations that placed restrictions on refrigerators and freezers. – The vote is part of a wider effort by Republicans and President Donald Trump to roll back Biden-era regulations that targeted common household appliances. – The rules would have imposed more strict energy efficiency standards for commercial refrigerators and freezers.

Epoch Times: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Allows DOGE to Continue to Downsize USAID – The new ruling suspended a Maryland federal judge’s order to block the Trump administration’s efforts to pare down USAID operations.

Breitbart: Britain’s government is hoping to reach a last-minute post-Brexit trade agreement with Washington to avoid — or at least mitigate — more tariffs set to be announced on Wednesday by US President Donald Trump.

American Thinker: On The Anti-Trump Lawfare – Yes, it’s a conspiracy – Congress is working on bills that would clip the wings of out-of-control, partisan Democrat politicians in robes…

FAR: Bret Baier’s Interview With Elon Musk And His DOGE Team – During this informative interview, Elon Musk and key members of his cost-cutting team discuss their efforts to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse from the government. – Some of their jaw-dropping discoveries will blow you away…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures: Signals Crossed Edition – In Week 10 of the Trump administration, battles of one kind or another are raging across the country.

March 28, 2025

Breitbart: There Was Panic On The Streets Of Bangkok As 7.7 Magnitude Quake Collapsed A Skyscraper Under Construction – Dash cam footage captured the shocking moment the skyscraper quickly collapsed – The construction site of a new 30-story government building promptly turned into a disaster scene, with people jumping into cars to escape or shrieking as they fled on foot.

New York Post: Vladimir Putin threatens to ‘finish off’ Ukrainian troops after a bold violation of the US-backed partial cease-fire. – Russian forces this week attacked a Ukrainian energy facility in Kherson, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned, accusing Putin of breaching the precarious deal halting military action in the Black Sea and pausing long-range attacks on energy infrastructure…

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to step in and allow the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador while a legal battle plays out in lower courts. – The move comes two days after an appeals court upheld a temporary block on the Trump administration’s ability to deport illegal migrants under the Alien Enemies Act. – In their request, the DOJ argued that federal courts should not be allowed to interfere with diplomatic matters…

Conservative Brief: Trump, Musk Go All In On The Wisconsin Supreme Court Race – Both parties are paying attention to the fight on Tuesday between conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel and liberal Dane County Judge Susan Crawford. – The winner will take over the seventh seat on the state’s Supreme Court, which was left open when a judge retired.

Slay News: President Donald Trump has secured a huge economic boost as durable goods orders in the US experienced a surprising increase in February instead of the projected decrease. – In February, orders for durable goods, items expected to last three years or more — rose by 0.9% to a total of $289.3 billion. – This outcome exceeded economists’ predictions, which anticipated a 1.0% decline.

Slay News: DOGE has just saved American taxpayers $billion more after cutting several huge contracts funding “climate change activities” in foreign countries. – DOGE eliminated more than 100 taxpayer-funded contracts that sent American tax dollars to foreign nations to pay for “woke” pet projects. – DOGE axed 113 contracts totaling $4.7 billion in potential spending.

Zero Hedge: The EU Plans Concessions For Trump After Reciprocal Tariffs Hit – In what may be the first clear confirmation Trump’s plan to realign the global trader system is working, the European Union is identifying concessions it’s willing to make to Donald Trump’s administration to secure the partial removal of the US tariffs that have already started hitting the bloc’s exports and that are set to increase after April 2.

Zero Hedge: PM Mark Carney’s Useless Tough Talk Tough – Carney proclaimed the end of Canada’s close ties with America, but he may be whistling past the graveyard. – There is little logic or energy behind Canada remaining an independent country today, as our friend Peter Nimitz details in the post he has generously allowed us to excerpt. – Looking back before the year 2025, Canada appears to be a fluke of history…

Daily Wire: Trump Had ‘Extremely Productive Call’ With Canada’s New Liberal PM And Says ‘We Agree On Many Things. – Trump and Carney spoke over the phone as the two neighboring countries discussed a possible agreement on fair trade. – Prime Minister Mark Carney had previously said Canada’s “old relationship” with the United States “is over.”

Epoch Times: U.S. District Judge James Boasberg Orders US Officials to Preserve Their Signal Messages – The order was handed down after a hearing involving government lawyers and the watchdog group American Oversight, which sued the officials this week over their recently disclosed chat on Signal. – Judge Boasberg recently blocked the government from deporting suspected and confirmed members of the Tren de Aragua gang under a wartime law that President Donald Trump invoked…

American Thinker: Trump Is Not Destroying the Constitution, But Rather Restoring It –The skirmishes between the judiciary and the executive branch have escalated into a full-scale war with unelected partisan judges refusing to let President Trump govern. – It may look like a war between the President and the Courts, but it’s really about the Left vs. the Right, with the Constitution caught in the middle.

Washington Examiner: Republican Senators Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and Bernie Moreno introduced a bill on Thursday to “terminate the Department of Education.” – The department’s final day would be Dec. 31, 2026, according to the proposed legislation. – This is the third time Senator Paul introduced a bill to end the Education Department after proposing similar legislation in 2020 and 2021.

Daily Wire: President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that will end collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal employees whose work is related to national security. – The EO applies to public sector unions representing workers in federal agencies “with national security missions,” including the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Science Foundation, and the Coast Guard…

FAR: The Darien Gap Revisited – In the first full month of President Trump’s second term, border patrol encounters with illegal crossers dropped 96% from the year before. – But preventing people from ever reaching America’s southern border in the first place can save suffering and even lives. – Now, there’s a renewed push to close the notorious Darien Gap, and border czar Tom Holman says things are about to change.

American Thinker: The Paris Climate Agreement Was Doomed From The Start – It was flawed and doomed to fail from its inception, so it is long past time for all parties to it and the media to acknowledge this fact. – Physics, economic, and social realities on the ground, and the structure of the treaty itself ensured that the Paris Agreement would be ineffective in preventing greenhouse gas emissions from rising…

Geller Report: Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the revocation of at least 300 student visas. –His action targets foreign students engaged in activities Rubio describes as causing chaos on American campuses, including violent demonstrations and vandalism. – Rubio emphasized a policy of zero tolerance for disruptive behavior by foreign visitors, indicating that such measures will continue…

Breitbart: The Trump administration is investigating California over a law signed by Governor Newsom last year that bars school districts from adopting policies requiring schools to notify parents if their children want to change genders. – Polls show the vast majority of Californians agree parents have the right to know if children want to change gender…

March 27, 2025

One America News: North Korea sent more than 3,000 soldiers to Russia in January and February. – This announcement comes as Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenk stated a visit by North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un to Russia is currently being prepared. – An estimated 11,000 troops from North Korea have been sent to Russia so far…

National Pulse: Zelensky Launches A Scathing New Attack on The Trump Team – “Europe, unlike the US, has discipline and no chaos.” – “Members of the Trump administration are falling for Russian propaganda surrounding the conflict.” – “Special Envoy Steve Witkoff doesn’t look like a military man, he doesn’t look like a general, and he doesn’t have such experience.”…

Western Journal: Guess Which Judge Protected Hillary by Delaying Release of 15k of Her Emails Until After the 2016 Election – U.S. District Judge James Boasberg – Boasberg, as you might know, is the Obama-appointed judge who’s attempted to block President Donald Trump’s fast-track deportation of members of the Venezuelan transnational gang Tren de Aragua and is now in charge of another case…

AMUSE on X: Don’t Blame The Trump Administration, Signal Chat Was Biden’s Idea – This encrypted messaging app, lionized by privacy advocates and lamented by transparency watchdogs, was not some novelty recently smuggled into the West Wing under cover of chaos. – It was, rather, a tool normalized under President Joe Biden, whose administration quietly blessed its use among White House officials…

One America News: A Federal Judge Rejects The Trump Admin’s Ban On Transgenders Serving In The Military – D.C.-based U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, a Joe Biden appointee, claimed that the Department of Defense’s justification for the ban was based on “pretext and anti-trans policy.”

Just The News: A Homeland Security watchdog confirms the Feds lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied border kids. – From fiscal years 2019 to 2023, more than 448,000 unaccompanied minors were transferred to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services custody, with the majority then released to sponsors. – However, more than 31,000 of the children’s release addresses were blank, missing apartment numbers, or otherwise incomplete.

News Busters: These Four Minutes of PBS Coverage Make A Strong Case for Defunding PBS – The facts be known, the commentary on shows like NewsHour is as far in crazy left-wing territory as most prime-time MSNBC shows, and it’s been this way since at least the 1990s.

Center Square: Thursday, President Trump called for defunding National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service, two partially federally funded groups under scrutiny. – Trump’s comments come after heads of both NPR and PBS defended their work at a Wednesday Congressional hearing. – Trump, “NPR and PBS, two horrible and completely biased platforms (Networks!), should be DEFUNDED by Congress, IMMEDIATELY.”

American Thinker: Big Tech’s Invisible Hand, How Google and Meta Manipulate our Elections – Together, they create a duopoly that influences what billions of people see, read, and think every day. – Their dominance is not just a business achievement; it functions as a political weapon. – These companies have the tools, the data, and the motive to sway voters, and they haven’t been hesitant to use them…

Center Square: California lost 173,000 fully private sector jobs since January 2023. – This was offset by a gain of 181,100 largely part-time government and government-supported jobs in the state. – Thirty-eight percent of these new jobs are from elderly or disabled individuals using state funds to pay household members and others minimum wage for part-time care and assistance…

Brownstone Institute: Dr. Robert Malone Endorses Susan Monarez for Director of the CDC – He describes her as an administrative dynamo who, as acting CDC director, has been working closely with DOGE and is doing an excellent job as acting director. “If the MAHA agenda is to succeed, it will need people like Monarez to lead in key administrative positions.” – “The energetic Monarez may be just what the doctor ordered for treating a very sick CDC.”…

Breitbart: Zelensky Declares Ukraine Will ‘Never Cede’ Occupied Territories to Russia And Suggests President Trump Is Being Naive About Putin. – Ahead of peace talks in Riyadh earlier this week, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said that Ukraine’s, and indeed the rest of the world’s, willingness to acknowledge that it had lost the territories to Russia would be key to whether a peace settlement could be reached between Moscow and Kyiv.

Newsmax: The Trump administration directed two intelligence agencies to train their satellites on the U.S.-Mexico border region as part of a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration and drug cartels. – The NGA and NRO are part of the Department of Defense. They oversee spy satellites and analyze imagery for the Pentagon and other intelligence organizations.

Epoch Times: Trump Withdraws Stefanik’s Nomination to Be Ambassador to UN – Trump asked Elise, as one of his biggest Allies, to remain in Congress to help deliver on his promises. – “With a very tight Majority, he doesn’t want to take a chance on anyone else running for Elise’s seat.”

Geller Report: A THIRD of All DC District Judges Were Not Born in the United States – These Obama and Biden-appointed judges are foreign-born and had no experience as Judges when appointed. – And now they are ruling the country?

Daily Fetched: President Trump has signed a new executive order mandating that voters provide proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote. – The order aims to strengthen election security and ensure that only American citizens can cast ballots in U.S. elections. – Thirty-five states required voters to present identification before casting a ballot during the November election.

Newsmax: The Recent McLaughlin Brothers Poll Reflects Trump’s Successes – “Donald Trump’s job approval right now is 52% approve, 43% disapprove,” he said. “In our last poll, the Republicans are leading the generic ballot for Congress, 47%-43%. But Donald Trump can seal the midterm elections by stopping the tax increase.”

Geller Report: Jasmine Crockett, Chuck Schumer, and Fellow Democrats Admit They Only Care About Hurting Trump, Not Passing Legislation – Crockett’s” blatant disregard for productive governance highlights the growing trend among some Democrats, prioritizing partisan attacks over meaningful policy work that could actually benefit the American people.

Western Journal: Gabbard Quickly Smashes The Democrats ‘War Plans’ Lie – “Were there any sources described in the Signal chat?” Steube asked Gabbard. – “No, congressman,” she responded. – “Were there any methods described in the Signal chat?” he asked. – “No,” she responded. – “Were there any locations?” he asked. – “No,” she responded again. – “Therefore, due to the fact that there were no sources, no methods, no locations described in the Signal chat, it does not make the discussion classified, is that correct?” he asked. – “That is up to the secretary of Defense’s determination,” Gabbard said…

Gatestone Institute: The Alien Enemies Act, ‘Public Safety,’ the Separation of Powers, and That Important Little Word ‘Or’ – Former AG William Barr, “The president is absolutely right to be frustrated and concerned about the way the courts are handling this. – The Constitution gives the president the power to make the judgments about how we deal with foreign nationals when national security concerns animate us.”…

America Greatness: Is Tren de Aragua a Military Incursion? You Bet! – This article is based on an intelligence briefing and refutes Boasberg’s central argument—that it is inappropriate for President Trump to apply the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua. – Predicates for invoking the Act include “any invasion or predatory incursion attempted … by any foreign nation or government” and that “the President shall make a public declaration of the event.” – So, are those conditions met?…

New York Post: A Top MS-13 leader from El Salvador, described as ‘worst of the worst,’ was arrested in Virginia during a major Trump-backed operation – The joint operation involved the FBI, ICE, ATF, the Virginia State Police, and Prince William County Police Department. – FBI Director Kash Patel, “This is what happens when you let good cops be cops.”

One America News: President Trump Announces 25% Tariffs On Automotive Imports And Vows ‘Business Will Flourish’ – Trump, “This will continue to spur growth like you haven’t seen before,” Trump stated on Wednesday. – “We’ll effectively be charging a 25% tariff. But if you build your car in the United States, there is no tariff.”

Victor Davis Hanson: From Profanity Chic to Terrorist Porn – Democrats, reeling from electoral losses, embrace profanity-laced rhetoric, street-theater activism, and veiled support for political violence, alienating voters and further hastening their decline. – “Asshole” is now the standard Democrat epithet for Musk, as voiced by Sen. Mark Kelly. “D*ck” is the preferred Musk slur from Sen. Tina Smith. – Xenophobia is also now Democratic chic.

FAR: The Biden Administration’s 57 Censorship Initiatives – President Joe Biden and his administration spent four years continuously attacking the First Amendment and the free speech rights enshrined by the nation’s Founders. – The degree and extent of their coordination is dizzying, spanning no fewer than 90 different government agencies…

Wall Street Journal: RFK Jr. Plans 10,000 Job Cuts in A Major Restructuring of The Health Department – The worker cuts are in addition to roughly 10,000 employees who opted to leave the department since President Trump took office through voluntary separation offers, according to the documents. – Changes would reshape the nation’s health agencies and close regional offices.

Townhall: FBI Director Kash Patel delivered to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence the long-awaited documents relating to the 2017 congressional baseball shooting. – “These are documents sought by Capitol Hill officials for almost 8 years,” Patel said on Wednesday. – “Providing these documents was one of our top priorities in delivering a new FBI era of transparency.

The Federalist: On top of its blackout of the Hunter Biden laptop story, here are 10 other times NPR proved it doesn’t deserve another taxpayer dime. – 1. SCOTUS Maskgate – 2. ‘Babies Are Not Babies Until They Are Born’ – 3. Live Broadcasting an Abortion – 4. The Tear Gas Hoax – 5. ‘In Defense of Looting’ Promotion…

March 26, 2025

Epoch Times: Zelenskyy Says US Has Offered ‘Full-Scale’ Critical Minerals Deal – Kyiv says Washington’s proposal is a ‘full-scale agreement’ that could pave the way for a joint revenue-sharing agreement on rare earths. – Negotiators from the United States, Russia, and Ukraine have been engaged in talks in Saudi Arabia this week as Washington seeks to broker a peace deal between the two nations.

Sharyl Attkisson: How Many Have Actually Died In The Russia-Ukraine War? – Pinning down the precise number, now grinding into its third year, is fairly impossible, but we know that soldiers and civilians alike have paid a steep price on both sides. Our best estimate is ~43,000 Ukrainian Soldiers, 12,605 Ukrainian Citizens, 146,000 to 211,000 Russian Soldiers, and ~80 Russian citizens. – This does not include all those wounded…

Breitbart: Inside the CCP’s United Front Work in Minnesota – Just a ten-minute drive from the Governor’s Mansion sits a brutalist brick building that houses a secret Chinese Communist Party front operation that serves several functions for the CCP, with none of them good for the US. – Xi Jinping describes their work as a “magic weapon” that helps “undermine the sovereignty and integrity of the political system of targeted states…

Just The News: House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan lays out a sweeping agenda for needed judicial reform – He plans to address reforms to the judicial system in three ways: passing legislation to limit nationwide injunctions by individual federal judges, wielding Congress’s appropriations power to curtail judicial activism, and conducting hearings on judicial conduct.

Western Journal: The Biggest Lie Nobody Caught – JD Vance Obliterated Signal Story Writer Jeffrey Goldberg With A Single Revelation – It’s very clear Goldberg oversold what he had, but one thing in particular really stands out. – Remember when he was attacking Ratcliffe for blowing the cover for a CIA agent? It turns out Ratcliffe was simply naming his chief of staff…

Center Square: The city of Los Angeles has issued just four rebuilding permits in the Pacific Palisades 75 days after a fire devastated most of the coastal community, highlighting the city’s struggle with providing basic government services. – Amid a $1 billion deficit, the mayor is seeking a $1.9 billion bailout from the state on top of the $2.5 billion in fire aid already approved. – Newsom, in turn, is seeking a $40 billion bailout from Congress and the Trump administration.

American Thinker: Payback, J.D. Vance calmly gives Denmark a real reason to be paranoid since they asked for it. – They had their chance to be hospitable to Mrs. Vance and talk dog sled race, but instead, they were rude and overreacted. – So, as a result, they got a visit from J.D. to a Greenlandic U.S. military base and can only wonder what kind of discussions went on behind closed doors.

Daily Signal: NPR’s CEO Inadvertently Makes the Case On Why We Need to Defund NPR – If you watch nothing else from the hearing, this clip demonstrates everything you need to know about NPR’s leadership. – In just two minutes, Representative Brandon Gill exposed NPR’s CEO as a phony, dishonest ideologue who has no business running a taxpayer-funded media network…

Western Journal: The White House Immediately Goes on the Offensive as The Atlantic Releases The Full Signal Chat, It’s Just ‘Another Hoax’ – White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt set the facts straight that no actual “war plans” had been divulged, while Trump explained that he thought it was much ado about nothing and that they’ve already pinpointed the issue.

Daily Wire: Judge Boasberg, Who Blocked The Deportation Flights, Has Been Assigned To A Signal Chat Lawsuit – The lawsuit was filed by an organization that claims the Signal Chat violated the Federal Records Act. – The communications were released Monday by The Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, after he had been inadvertently added to the chat.

Real Clear Politics: President Trump Is Fighting Dozens of Lefty Judges as The Cowardly Supreme Court Dithers – In Monday’s emergency application, Trump’s Solicitor General Sarah Harris challenged a San Francisco district court judge’s injunction preventing federal offices in all 50 states, including Agriculture, Defense, Treasury, and Commerce, from downsizing

Epoch Times: President Trump issued an executive order on March 25 directing federal officials to take steps to make sure illegal immigrants and other noncitizens do not vote in federal elections. – The order also says the U.S. attorney general shall take action against states that count ballots received after Election Day, setting up legal showdowns.

Slay News: A Joe Biden-appointed federal judge has blocked DOGE from accessing data from three federal agencies. – U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman argues that the data-sharing effort is a potential legal breach – In just two months, over 120 lawsuits have been presented in reaction to more than 90 executive orders, proclamations, and memos issued under Trump’s administration…

Breitbart: A trio of federal judges in California declared on Tuesday that President Trump must welcome roughly 40,000 refugees approved by Joe Biden’s deputies. – In Seattle, another federal judge ordered the Trump administration to keep paying the quasi-government agencies that settle the refugees in Americans’ crowded housing, schools, and workplaces, such as in Springfield, Ohio. – The judges’ policy preferences are likely to be appealed by Trump’s deputies…

Slay News: President Trump’s administration warned Egypt it faces losing billions of dollars in U.S. aid if the government refuses to take in refugees from Gaza. – Egypt’s struggling economy could benefit from the generous aid package. – However, if the Egyptian government waits much longer to accept the deal, the U.S. will offer it elsewhere, a source close to the discussion said.

Associated Press: U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason Rules The Biden Administration Unlawfully Canceled Oil And Gas Leases in Alaska Refuge – AIDEA filed the lawsuit against the Biden administration in 2023 after the Department of Interior canceled oil and gas leases it won in January 2021.

The Federalist: Senate Democrats Claim The Censorship Industrial Complex Never Existed, But If It Did, It Was A Good Thing – At a Senate Judiciary hearing, Democrats can’t help but admit they support government censorship of free speech. – This was a hard case for Senate Democrats to make on Tuesday, in part because the evidence of a robust censorship industrial complex targeting First Amendment-protected speech is, at this point, overwhelming.

American Conservative: The Real Meaning of Signalgate – Republican foreign policy is wide open in a way it has not been in generations. – Trump’s success in keeping his campaign promises on foreign policy rides on conversations like the one his deputies had before the Yemen strikes. – Those promises include delivering an America that is militarily strong but judicious in its use of force…

City Journal: Ten Questions for NPR CEO Katherine Maher When She Testifies Before Congress. – In 2020, you wrote that “America is addicted to white supremacy” and expressed support for race-based “reparations.” Do you still believe that America is addicted to white supremacy? – In 2016, you chastised Hillary Clinton for using the words “boy and girl,” arguing that her words were “erasing language for non-binary people.” Can you tell us what a “non-binary person” is?…

American Thinker: PM Mark Carney’s snap election is a globalist power grab disguised as leadership by continuing Trudeau’s agenda but with a more polished image. – But President Trump saw this coming, and he may be the only one ready to stop it. – Carney’s sudden rise to power isn’t a win for democracy; it’s another step toward globalism in a Canadian suit.

American Thinker: Representative Jasmine Crockett mocked Texas’s wheelchair-bound Governor Abbott as ‘Governor Hot Wheels,’ then kept on digging – It is time for Democrats to get rid of this rancid cupcake, billed by the NYT as one of the party’s “most effective communicators.” – Some have called her “the unquestioned leader of her party,” and since then, Crockett has shown us who she really is, spewing stuff like this…

Wall Street Journal: Trump Says Russia Might Be ‘Dragging Its Feet’ on The Cease-Fire Deal – The president observed he had used similar tactics in real-estate negotiations. – Trump’s comments came hours after the White House announced a Black Sea cease-fire deal and Russia promptly demanded additional steps from the West on sanctions relief before complying with such a truce.

March 25, 2025

Western Journal: The White House said Tuesday that Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire in the Black Sea and a ban on striking each other’s energy facilities. – “If implemented, the agreements could mark a major step toward a wider deal to end the three-year-long war.”- Both nations rely on Black Sea ports to conduct world trade…

Daily Wire: The U.S. Military Staging Serious Firepower Near The Middle East After President Trump Warned Iran that it Must Enter a Nuclear Deal in the Next Several Weeks or Else its Nuclear Program Will be Eliminated. – The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is the only aircraft in the world capable of carrying the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). – At least three B-2 bombers, three C-17 cargo planes, and 10 aerial refueling tankers were deployed…

One America News: President Trump Requests ‘Immediate’ Declassification Of Materials Related To FBI’s Russia ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ Investigation. – A crucial document that prompted the start of the investigation was the “Steele dossier,” which contained scathing and unsubstantiated claims about Trump’s alleged coordination with the Russian government…

Resist The Mainstream: – Trump clarified that Goldberg’s inclusion in the military plans chat was a mistake, explaining that it was “one of National Security Advisor Michael Waltz’s people” who had mistakenly added the journalist’s number. – Despite the controversy, Trump emphasized that Goldberg’s presence in the group chat had “no impact at all” on the mission being discussed.

Resist The Mainstream: FBI Director Kash Patel is pushing back against claims made by CNN and others regarding potential personnel changes within ATF. – Patel, who also serves as acting ATF director, addressed these allegations in a memo to ATF staff, calling the report “entirely false” and accusing the media of spreading misleading information.

Daily Wire: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi is reportedly weighing cutting tariffs on the tens of billions of dollars worth of U.S. goods that come into his country every year in an effort to stave off President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs that are set to go into place next month. – India believes that Trump’s tariffs would hit 87% of the goods they export to the U.S. every year.

One America News: Trump’s Nominee For Secretary Of the U.S. Navy, John Phelan, Has Been Confirmed By the Senate – Phelan pledged to review the Navy’s existing contracts while simultaneously focusing on a clean audit. – During his hearing on February 27th, Phelan expressed that the Navy desperately needed more innovation and reform…

Western Journal: On Monday, ICE announced that an “enhanced targeted enforcement operation” conducted last Tuesday through Sunday in Massachusetts, including the sanctuary city of Boston, netted 370 arrests of illegal aliens. – Those arrests occurred in the wake of a defiant statement from woke Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston.

Lumen News: The U.S. Senate voted 53-47 to confirm Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to serve as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest provider of funds for biomedical research. – They also voted 56-44 to confirm Dr. Marty Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Gateway Pundit: Peace Negotiations Between The US, Russia, and Ukraine Enter The Most Critical Phase – The main sticking issue is well known: Moscow demands control over the entire territory of four regions that voted in a referendum to be part of Russia – Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, even the parts yet to be conquered. – Both Russia and The US Have Released These Full Official Statements Following Monday’s Talks…

Zero Hedge: Washington and Moscow are seeking to revive the Black Sea Grain deal that allows Ukraine to ship its grain and agricultural products to global markets. – The White House on Tuesday published two readouts that feature a ceasefire at sea “to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea.”

Zero Hedge: Russia Says Ukraine Continues To Strike Energy Sites In Violation Of Trump Agreement – Russian sources have identified that among the locations hit was the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station in Russia’s Krasnodar Region. It was struck in the early hours of Monday…

Townhall: A Line-by-Line List Showing How About How Totally Screwed The Democrat Party Is Right Now – The party has its lowest favorability ever. – There is no popular national leader to help improve it. – They have insufficient numbers to stop most legislation in Congress. – Their dwindling influence over the media ecosystem, with right-leaning podcasters and social media accounts rising. – Young voters are growing dramatically more conservative. – The bad 2026 map for Senate races. And the list goes on…

One America News: DOGE has made significant progress in its commitment to rectifying inaccuracies within the Social Security database, now having officially designated seven million individuals previously recorded as being over 120 years old as deceased. – This follows after DOGE had previously alerted the public on March 18th that out of over 12 million individuals aged 120 and up in their records, approximately 3.2 million had been classified as deceased.

Western Journal: Maxine Waters Broke Down in Public And Began Spouting Bizarrely Wild Lies About Melania As The Ignorant Crowd Ate It Up – Haha, she sure showed them! – That is until the crowd Googled her claims and found out exactly where Melania Trump and her parents came from and how they obtained their U.S. citizenship.

Issues & Insights: Shed No Tears For Over Paid And Over Protected Fired Federal Workers – Job cuts of this magnitude aren’t unprecedented; just the overheated coverage is. – The Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded a net loss of only 6,700 federal jobs in February. – In Bill Clinton’s first term in office, he shed more than 330,000 federal workers, with no protests and virtually no media coverage.

American Thinker: Go Ahead, Canada, Breaking Up Is Not That Hard to Do – Canada, once the proud, passive-aggressive roommate of America, is now trying to shack up with the European Union – With Donald Trump back in the White House, looking to balance the trade deficit, tariffs, and defense spending, Canada is realizing that the gravy train may be reaching its final stop…

American Thinker: Trump Didn’t Kill the Old World Order, Rather, He Pronounced It Dead – In the first 60 days of his second administration, President Trump has made it clear that he intends to end the old world order that has shaped our planet since World War II, causing former allies in Europe, Canada, and Mexico to be confused and exhausted. – There is a simple explanation for Trump’s foreign policy actions: he is a businessman trying to fix America’s balance sheet, and this is how he is doing it…

The Federalist: Trump Isn’t Defying The Courts, He’s Defending The Constitution – The courts have an important constitutional role to fulfill, but it is NOT to play president. – These rulings are not mere disagreements, as Chief Justice John Roberts claimed last week; they are direct assaults on the president’s constitutional power. – Trump must confront these courts!

Zero Hedge: Lunatics At An AOC Rally Brazenly Call For Trump To Be Tortured & Murdered – Is this what the Democrat Party now represents? – Hordes of lunatics at an AOC/Bernie Sanders rally were recorded threatening violence to Trump. – Is it any wonder these mentally disturbed people start acting like this when the Democrats they have been conditioned to worship openly call for violence?…

Newsmax: The White House on Tuesday refuted a report that war plans were discussed on a virtual group chat that Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally allowed to join. – “Jeffrey Goldberg is well-known for his sensationalist spin. – Here are the facts about his latest story: No ‘war plans’ were discussed. – No classified material was sent to the thread…

American Thinker: Trump Is Making Coal Great Again – President Trump and his energy advisors understand that coal must play a key role in the nation’s energy portfolio. – Most Americans probably think coal is an antiquated form of energy, but it remains one of the most affordable, abundant, and reliable energy sources on the planet, with an energy density that is far ahead of any so-called green energy source.

News Busters: The “legacy media” network newscasts continue their shameful reporting on the campaign of violence currently unfolding against Tesla in protest of founder Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration. – Today’s stories included the rehashing of a familiar trope. – “Mostly peaceful” has made its return to our political discourse by the mainstream media…

March 24, 2025

New York Post: President Trump yanked Secret Service protection for ex-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. – Mayorkas, who was the face of the previous White House’s lenient stance on illegal immigration, initially had his taxpayer-provided security detail extended for six months by President Joe Biden before it was cut short by Trump this week.

Resist The Mainstream: The FBI announced Monday that it has launched a high-stakes investigation into a series of violent attacks targeting Tesla vehicles and charging stations across the country, labeling the incidents “domestic terrorism.” – The FBI’s task force consists of 10 agents, including members from ATF and the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division…

Breitbart: Elon Musk revealed that DOGE discovered the Small Business Administration gave more than $300 million in loans to children under 11 years old. – Musk revealed. “I think the youngest, Kelly, was a nine-month year old who got a $100,000 loan. That’s a very precocious baby we’re talking about here.”

Breitbart: During a recent cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump estimated that his administration has already “identified maybe $4 trillion worth of companies moving back or going to move back” to the United States thanks to his tariff policies. – They’re coming back. Some of them left us from many years ago, decades ago, and they’re all – it seems they’re all coming back,” he said.

One America News: Trump’s Cabinet And Musk Gathered For A Third Meeting On Monday Where Agency Leaders Discussed Potential Cuts To Programs Deemed Wasteful. – At one point, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stated that he was working with Musk and DOGE on upgrading the nation’s outdated air traffic control systems…

The Defender: President Donald Trump plans to nominate Susan Monarez, Ph.D., as director of the CDC, where she has served as acting director since January 23.- The decision comes after the White House withdrew its nomination of Dr. Dave Weldon to lead the agency. Multiple senators had concerns about Weldon’s general lack of preparation for the role.

Slay News: A groundbreaking study using AI confirmed that globalist narratives about “climate change” and “global warming” are a hoax. – xAI’s Grok 3 beta was used to produce the first-ever AI-led peer-reviewed climate science paper. – AI was used to analyze temperature, sea ice, and atmospheric CO2 data to investigate whether humans are changing the climate through excess emissions…

Breitbart: During portions of an NPR interview, Democrat Representative Tom Suozzi said, “It’s clear Republicans want to shrink government and cut taxes, but what Democrats want to do on anything other than abortion and LGBT rights is unclear.” – “We can’t just resist. It can’t just be why we’re against Trump and what’s wrong with Trump.” And that is why “the Democrat brand has been damaged.”

Epoch Times: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Has Stepped Down Amid The Push For Postal Service Reforms – This comes 10 days after he agreed to work with DOGE and the GSA on ways to make the USPS more efficient and six days before the first phase of service enhancements is expected to be implemented. – Deputy Postmaster General Doug Tulino will temporarily assume the position.

Western Journal: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said during a Cabinet meeting Monday that she plans to eliminate FEMA but did not provide further details. – Both Noem and President Trump have suggested in the past that states could exercise more control over disaster relief rather than having a federal entity manage their responses.

Revolver: District Judge Jeb Boasberg The Personification Of Antifa On The Bench – While other radical judges dabble in partisanship, Boasberg has set the gold standard. – He’s shameless, biased, and proudly unaccountable. – He checks all the boxes: Never Trump leadership – Judge shopping games – Absurd cruelty toward J6 defendants – A fellow at a NeverTrump organization, the Rodel Institute.

American Spectator: RFK Jr. and the Approaching Death of Major Media – Banning drug ads may or may not make America healthy again, but it will make mainstream media accountable again. – It’s been rumored for quite some time, and on Monday, there was widespread speculation that HHS Secretary Kennedy plans will soon announce that pharmaceutical TV advertising will be stopped.

American Thinker: America’s New Generation of Young Women Who Don’t Want Marriage or Babies – The Wall Street Journal has a long article addressing the problem, and I’ll throw in my two cents for some additional reasons behind it. – The Wall Street Journal essay pointed out that women have shifted dramatically leftward politically while men have gone in the opposite direction…

Epoch Times: The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to intervene and block a lower court order that reinstated thousands of fired probationary employees in the federal government. – Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris filed an emergency request on March 24, asking the Supreme Court to enter an administrative stay…

LifeZette: New Epstein Files Are Incoming – The ‘FBI Working Around the Clock’ After The Patel, Bongino Push – They are now preparing for another major release—files related to the case of Jeffrey Epstein. – “It’s is literally all hands on deck.” – Dozens and dozens of agents” have been pulled from regular assignments to assist in reviewing and redacting sensitive information…

Zero Hedge: The Fed’s OWN Data Shows It Is Lying About Inflation and Tariffs, So Is It Playing Politics? – The Fed SHOULD Have Cut Rates Last Week. – Instead, rates are on “hold,” reasoning that potential tariffs the Trump administration will introduce might trigger inflation. – They did this during Trump’s first term in 2018. – Europe, Japan, China, and countless other nations have introduced tariffs, duties, and other trade restrictions in the past with ZERO uptick in inflation…

Zero Hedge: The Winning Continues With Hyundai The Latest Company In A Long Line To Announce Billion Dollar Investments In The U.S. – Hyundai Motor Co. plans to invest $20 billion, a portion of which will fund a new steel mill in Louisiana that is expected to employ 1,500 workers and supply Hyundai and Kia’s American EV production. – Hyundai’s decision mirrors a broader trend of foreign companies increasing U.S. production to avoid Trump’s escalating tariff threats…

Just The News: Months before he blocked President Donald Trump’s deportations of illegal alien gang members, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg attended a privately funded legal conference in Idaho that featured sponsors and speakers who have expressed clear anti-Trump sentiments, particularly on immigration. – You can view that disclosure here, which is also linked to the official website of the D.C. District Court…

Gateway Pundit: Judge Boasberg Responds to Trump DOJ’s Invocation of State Secrets Privilege – Judge Boasberg gave lawyers for Venezuelan deportees until March 31 to respond to the Trump administration’s invocation of the state secrets privilege. – He has previously expressed doubts about whether the privilege applies in this scenario.

Townhall: President Donald Trump announced Monday morning additional U.S. sanctions will be placed on Venezuela as further punishment for an influx of violent gang members into American communities by imposing what is known as a Secondary Tariff on the Country of Venezuela. – Any Country that purchases Oil and/or Gas from Venezuela will be forced to pay a Tariff of 25% to the United States on any Trade they do with our Country.”

Newsmax: President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan announced Monday that ICE arrested 370 immigrants in Boston last week, a majority “being significant criminals.” – “Massachusetts Governor Healy and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu should be ashamed of supporting sanctuary policies by releasing public safety threats back into the public, rather than working with ICE…

American Thinker: Live by the Autopen, Die by the Autopen – The heavy use of the “Autopen” has been in the news these past few weeks and displays the governing of America behind the scenes without any transparency or accountability, that is, until now. – Who operated Biden’s autopen, and under whose guidance? AG Pam Bondi must investigate this insurrection during Biden’s presidency.

Breitbart: House Speaker Mike Johnson recently noted the high ratio of federal judge-issued injunctions against the Trump administration compared to other presidential administrations over the past 100 years. – A whopping 62% of the federal injunctions issued over the last century were against Trump, with 92% of those issued by Democrat-appointed judges.

Townhall: Last Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education and remarked that he was hopeful that members of Congress would vote to do so, even Democrats. – Senator Rand Paul is heeding the call by introducing such a bill…

Zero Hedge: Mapping The Staggering Growth Of The US Government – A recent review of the Federal Register found at least 75 of the 441 entities listed were defunct, defunded, disbanded, renamed, merged with another entity, or completed their mission, etc. – This provides even more evidence that federal record keeping is also a big mess. – The scope and complexity of the task before DOGE becomes even clearer as you drill deeper…

American Thinker: Are Turkish President Erdoğan’s days numbered? – The man who took Turkey from a secular nation to an Islamist one may finally have driven his people to take extreme measures against him. – Last week, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s Islamist president, arrested a political rival. That sparked several days of protest, and today, it’s seemingly culminated with protestors invading the presidential palace…

Western Journal: Democrats Are Using Fake Attendee Numbers To Support Rally Attendance According to GPS Data. – There were only 20,189 devices at a recent rally, so the crowd size was smaller than what Sanders and AOC claimed. – Also, “84% of the devices present had attended 9 or more Kamala Harris rallies, Antifa/BLM, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests,” while “31% had attended over 20.” So, they were primarily the same crowd. – How many of them were paid?

Lawyer Lisa: “Without CO2, there is no life on Earth, Even if John Kerry, John Podesta, and other Greenies Say Otherwise – Plants like three times what is in the Atmosphere. – CO2 has greened the planet by 17% in the past 30 years and reduced the Sahara Desert by 7%…

Lawyer Lisa: TRUMP’s New EXECUTIVE ORDER DECLARES C02 IS NOT A POLLUTANT AND IS ESSENTIAL FOR PLANTS – The order highlights CO₂’s critical role in photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into energy and produce the oxygen we breathe. – This executive order represents a major shift from prior climate policies that treated CO₂ as a dangerous greenhouse gas.

Dr. Meryl Nass: So how did Mark Carney, who never won an election, become Canada’s Prime Minister? – Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss said all his policies while head of the Bank of England were awful, and his daughter is a trans activist. – Will he be the one to give Canada its final coup de gras?

The Expose: Canada’s new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, will impose the Globalists’ climate change scam on Canadians – Carney has a background as a rich “elite” banker and globalist with a history of questionable deeds and allegiances. He has been actively involved in global climate initiatives, playing a key role in promoting climate-related financial disclosures such as…

Victor Davis Hanson: California and Its Collapsing Blue-State Democrat Model – California’s high taxes, crime, and regulations are driving an exodus and shifting political power to red states as the once-prosperous blue-state model collapses under economic and social strain. – California is not waking up, but will other blue states see the light and pivot?…

American Thinker: Is Australia Set to Become a Security Threat for the United States? – Australia’s ‘Asianization’ direction is problematic, given China’s demands of fealty from its overseas communities. – Its Great Replacement is conducted through mass immigration as well as the deluge of overseas students, the highest per capita in the West…

Washington Free Beacon: Inside the Country’s Largest COVID Fraud – A cast of almost entirely Somali immigrants is charged with siphoning some $250 million from the federal child nutrition program administered by the Minnesota Department of Education into their own pockets between March 2020 and January 2022…

Townhall: A “transgender”-identifying activist has been charged with vandalizing a newly constructed Tesla service center near Chicago following the fire bombings of two other Tesla sites allegedly by “trans” suspects. – Evan “Erin” L. White, 27, the third known “trans” extremist arrested over attacks on Tesla, allegedly spray-painted obscene messages against Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the Chicago-area property’s walls and windows.

California Globe: Is Governor Gavin Newsom Setting The State For Our Next Republican Governor? – California started the year with $76 Billion in debt. – Net job growth in January was exactly 0. – California has the second highest unemployment rate of all 50 states. – California is one of only five states that haven’t recovered to pre-COVID levels. – The proportion of Californians receiving unemployment payments is nearly double the national average…

Cal Matters: CalFire released its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps. – Different colors come with different rules. – The new fire maps put nearly 4 million Californians in hazardous zones, so what does that mean for the people who live there?

Center Square: An ominous John Hopkins University report identified 20 bridges nationwide at serious risk of ship collisions, potentially resulting in a collapse like the one that brought down the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. – Most of the bridges identified through the study are located in major metropolitan areas, including New Orleans, Houston, New York City, and San Francisco, including one of the world’s most iconic bridges, the Golden Gate Bridge.

March 23, 2025

Washington Times: Unelected judges trying to diminish Trump’s executive weight to thwart the policies of our democratically elected president. – President Trump says that this is nonsense, that these judges have gone well beyond their authority, yet Chief Justice Roberts says the proper way to address these claims is in the appellate courts. – But that could take years unless the Supreme Court issues a sweeping opinion stifling the madness…

Resist The Mainstream: President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to take legal action against attorneys and law firms that file what he calls “frivolous” unreasonable litigation against his administration. – Trump cited legal rules prohibiting lawyers from submitting cases that aim to “harass” or “cause unnecessary delay” and asked Bondi to explore further steps to counter these tactics…

Epoch Times: The Cartels’ Advanced Technology Is A Growing Threat To The US – Their top-level spyware, deadly drones, and encrypted networks give Mexican cartels a high degree of sophistication. – Nowadays, it’s more one small army against another small army as the cartels fight one another, and there’s a lot of collateral damage…

Daily Signal: Is This the Real Reason the Left Is Freaking Out About the Department of Education? – It represents a serious threat to the big national teachers unions. – America’s two largest teachers unions—the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association—are notorious for bankrolling Democrats and leftist causes.

Gateway Pundit: Barack Obama Was Using USAID to Pretend to Send ‘Aid’ Overseas But Was Laundering It to Train For ‘Rent-a-Riots’ Instead – This is a huge development but maybe not so surprising considering how Democrats believe they can do anything they please with other people’s money…

Breitbart: British engineering giant Rolls-Royce is reportedly preparing to increase manufacturing production in the United States to avoid tariffs imposed by President Trump. – The aerospace and defense company is apparently considering shifting production from countries impacted by Trump’s tariffs, such as China, Canada, and Mexico, where it currently has around 6,000 workers.

American Spectator: The Ever Growing Global Censorship Cancer – While the US attempts to stop it from spreading, the EU enters stage 4 metastasis. – The tragic irony here is that the U.S. taxpayers, as well as the hapless subjects of the EU, have been paying GDI to promulgate this nonsense and to censor news and commentary outlets that engage in supposed wrongthink…

Breitbart: A report from CNN indicates FBI director Kash Patel, who is also ATF acting director, plans to cut “as many as 1,000 ATF agents” and move them to the FBI. – The ATF has about 2,600 agents and more than 5,000 employees, a number that has remained largely unchanged for years.

Gatestone Institute: China Has Set Up Iran’s Next War in the Middle East – Iran, in short, has a nuclear weapons program because of China. – Diplomats from Russia, Iran, and China met in Beijing this month to support Iran’s nuclear weapons program. – Most of Iran’s liquid-fueled ballistic missiles are North Korean missiles with new paint…

American Thinker: The Iranian Regime’s Nuclear Crisis and Diplomatic Tensions – The world is finally catching up to the fact that Iran is on the verge of going nuclear, but Iran’s internal agenda makes negotiations almost impossible. – Mounting international pressure on Tehran and possible sanctions, including snapback mechanisms, are possible courses…

Daily Wire: What It’s Like To Be Swatted – Conservative influencers are increasingly the targets of swatting. – Swatting is a pernicious practice wherein someone calls the police to falsely report a serious crime at an innocent individual’s home, bringing fully armed police and SWAT teams to the home. – This account is particularly alarming…

American Thinker: If you think USAID was bad, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. – The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is a 230-employee agency that supposedly mediates disputes between unions and businesses, but that mediation is “voluntary.” – FMCS clearly seems to exist for the benefit of those on its payroll, but not much else…

American Thinker: How much did Former President Joe Biden know? – He suddenly abandoned his traditional moderate approach and turned into the most left-wing president on record. – This leads us to the ‘autopen’ controversy and a huge question. – I’d love to know who was calling the shots or managing the “autopen.” – I fear that someone was the puppet master, and I’d like to know who it was.

American Thinker: The FBI Flees The FBI – Kash Patel and Dan Bongino have a monumental task ahead of them. – This includes catching and prosecuting FBI employees who are not only destroying evidence but trying to flee the country. – Fortunately, it appears there were at least a few honest, competent agents at the FBI who noticed and reported this…

Washington Examiner: The Border Patrol’s mission is shifting in the Trump age, ‘There are consequences now’ – In the 60 days since President Donald Trump took office, agents have found themselves back in the jobs they signed up to do. – What you see now is the probability of detection, apprehension, and then consequences being delivered…

Zero Hedge: The Golden Age Of Nuclear Energy Is Here – The Biden Administration spent hundreds of billions of dollars to push renewables, and the result was a 30% increase in national utility prices. – America stands on the brink of a nuclear energy revolution. – Advanced nuclear technology and small modular reactors (SMRs) are proving to be game changers.

American Thinker: A 1979 Perspective on The Department of Education – For those trying to tell you that the DoE was universally popular when it was established, this reporter says otherwise. – Student reporter Patricia Hagen’s article “Education Department, Boon or Blunder? – In the ensuing 46 years, taxpayers have spent billions for basically nothing.

FAR: An Enlightening Donald Trump Jr. Interview – Subjects of interest included: What President Trump learned during his first term. – JD Vance’s rise from obscurity to Vice President. – Trump’s 2024 campaign and the people he surrounded himself with. – The future of the now MAGA Republican party...

March 22, 2025

Zero Hedge: US Top Envoy Steve Witkoff To Tucker Carlson, The ‘Elephant In The Room’ Which Will Decide Peace In Ukraine – The fate of the annexed territories in Ukraine’s east “no one wants to talk about.” – Witkoff admitted that militarily and politically, Moscow now exercises full control over the bulk of these territories, as Ukraine forces continue to be steadily retreating from their remaining holdouts in Donetsk.

Gateway Pundit: The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, reached out directly to President Trump with a historic proposal. – Help defeat a brutal rebel force terrorizing his nation, and in return, America will gain direct access to one of the world’s richest untapped troves of critical minerals worth an estimated $24 trillion.

American Spectator: The Meaning of US Airstrikes on Houthis – Airstrikes raise the question of Washington’s long-term commitment to the region since terror groups have doubled down on their resistance. – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised an “unrelenting” airstrike campaign until Houthis threats stop, saying, “This campaign is about freedom of navigation and restoring deterrence.”

Western Journal: Trump’s ‘Bad Idea’ Just Brought $5 Billion to the US in One Day – Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Trump’s new effort to attract the world’s wealthy to pay for U.S. residency status is already paying off big time. – Trump’s program is a replacement for the EB-5 program, offering green cards to foreigners who commit to investing at least $1 million in job creation in the U.S.

Epoch Times: The DOJ Probes Classified Intel Leak to New York Times Challenging Deportation of Venezuelan Gang Members – ‘We will not tolerate politically motivated efforts by the Deep State to undercut President Trump’s agenda by leaking false information,’ a DOJ official said.

Western Journal: A Former Clinton Pollster Is Stunned, ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’ – Mark Penn, “I’ve never seen anything like this in over 40 years of polling. – Democrat Party ratings have collapsed from a 47% favorable down to 29% and 27% in some polls – That’s an incredible loss of moderate, working-class voters.”…

Gateway Pundit: Speaker Johnson Reveals House Plans to Limit Abuses of Activist Judges and ‘Expose the Worst Offenders’ – Our Judiciary GOP will expose the worst offenders in a high-profile hearing & we are preparing urgent legislative action, like Representative Darrell Issa’s bill to stop unfounded nationwide injunctions.”

Gateway Pundit: The DOJ Files Motion to Disqualify Obama Judge Beryl Howell From Perkins Coie Case – The DOJ argued that Judge Howell must recuse herself because of her personal bias against Trump. – In its motion to disqualify the judge, the Trump DOJ included a recent video of Beryl Howell going on a crazy tirade against Trump…

Western Journal: Leakers Get Worst News Imaginable, The Pentagon Has Launched Investigation And Will Use Polygraph Tests – The hunt is on for Pentagon leakers who shipped the media doses of Fake News. – Citing sources it did not name, The NYT reported Thursday that Elon Musk was scheduled to receive a Friday briefing on America’s plans for a conflict with China…

Geller Report: The White House RESCINDS Security Clearances Antony Blinken, Jacob Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissmann, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Cheney, Kamala Harris, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family…

Epoch Times: DHS Revokes The Temporary Legal Status Of ~530,000 Immigrants Who Entered The US Under Biden’s Humanitarian Parole Program. – DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stated that the department will end the two-year parole program launched in 2022, allowing entry of people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. – Parolees without a lawful basis to remain in the US following termination of the CHNV parole programs must depart the US before their parole termination date…

Washington Free Beacon: Israel Resumes War in Gaza With Plan To Conquer Strip – When Israel’s defense minister threatened to take the Gaza Strip from Hamas piece by piece, he was not just saber-rattling. – Amid airstrikes across Gaza starting early Tuesday, Israeli ground forces on Wednesday retook much of the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza…

American Thinker: Adventures in Politics, When I Was an ‘Autopen’ – The more politicians need to sign things, the more likely they are to use one. – However, only the president can sign a presidential pardon. – Not even a machine programmed to sign the president’s name on his behalf can issue a pardon. – Not the VP, the chief of staff, or even Dr. Jill…

Powerline: Uncovering Israel – The coverage of Israel’s efforts to defend itself against Hamas and its other genocidal enemies leaves something to be desired. – The mainstream press continues to cite the work of the “Gaza Health Ministry” or “Gaza’s Palestinian health authorities” in reporting on Palestinian casualties…

Zero Hedge: The Darkest Secret Behind Democrats’ Economic Policy – Everybody understands if we run up too much debt, the country could, in essence, go bankrupt. – What’s really alarming now is the pace at which we are running up this debt. – This article points out the fatal hypocritical flaw that exists in Democrats’ reasoning as it relates to America’s financials.

Just The News: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis returned almost $900 million in federal funding to the federal government after meeting with Elon Musk. – DeSantis, “For years, Florida has been trying to return federal funds to the federal government due to the ideological strings attached by the Biden Administration, but they couldn’t even figure out how to accept it.”

Resist The Mainstream: In a recent interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, Sam Corcos, a special adviser to the U.S. Treasury Department and a deputy in DOGE, explained that contractors and special interest groups consume a staggering 80% of the IRS’s $3.5 billion annual budget, a problem that DOGE seeks to address.

FAR: Scott Adams is a former Democrat and the genius creator of Dilbert comics. – He also hosts a popular show on YouTube called Scott Adam Says. – Recently, he highlighted various Democrat actions that display how far adrift the zany left has gone…

American Thinker: The Center of Infection – It is interesting to learn the various federal judges trying to legislate from the bench all live within walking (or at least biking) distance of each other. – Could their real conflict of interest, especially on any decisions related to DOGE and trimming federal spending or the federal workforce, be their homes, more specifically, their possible declining home equity…

Epoch Times: Columbia University Makes Numerous Policy Changes in Response to Trump Admin’s Demands to Combat Anti-Semitism – A student mask ban—unless for health or religious reasons, a revised admissions and recruitment process, an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Judges Gone Wild Edition – Democrat judges staged a coup, attempting to seize control over the executive branch, and Democrat activists turned violent…

March 21, 2025

Epoch Times: Trump Says He Is Not Sharing China War Plans With Musk Due To Possible Business Conflicts – President Donald Trump dismissed media reports on March 21 regarding a planned briefing for Tesla CEO Elon Musk about a potential military conflict with China…

Daily Wire: President Trump vowed on Friday that his administration would prosecute those who are involved in carrying out attacks on Teslas to the fullest extent of the law. – Trump made the remarks when asked about the attacks from far-Left extremists while he spoke to the media in the Oval Office after unveiling the world’s first sixth-generation fighter jet.

One America News: The United Arab Emirates has decided to invest $1.4 trillion in the US economy over the next decade – The announcement came after an anticipated meeting between President Trump and an Emirati official took place this week…

American Spectator: A new report based on Israeli intelligence chronicles the long-term collusion between Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and others that resulted in the October 7 terror attack on Israel. – The report asserts that this objective was fast-tracked operationally following May 2021, and perhaps most prominent in these plans was the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attacks, Yahya al-Sinwar.

Vigilant Fox: Award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson is blowing the whistle on how pharmaceutical companies slowly took control of the media—beginning around 2006. – According to Attkisson, this shift didn’t happen overnight, but looking back, she says the warning signs were there.

Center Square: Updated federal data shows California gained 76% fewer jobs in 2024 than initially estimated, gaining only 60,000 jobs instead of the earlier announced 250,000 jobs. – A 2024 state-funded report found that California private sector employment went into a downturn in 2022, with job growth only coming from the public sector and related employment…

Victor Davis Hanson: The Lengths Democrats Are Willing to Go to Stop Trump – Ten things that are thematic of the Democrat’s agenda: Donald Trump must be considered a Mussolini-like figure, and by extension, the same is true of Elon Musk. – You have to stop ICE from deporting anybody, even if they’re a criminal. – To achieve our goals, chaos must be created…

AMUSE on X: Why Trump’s Education Overhaul Is Long Overdue – The federal government has spent over $3 trillion on education since 1979, yet American students remain shockingly unprepared for the modern world. – More than 60% of fourth graders and 74% of eighth graders are not proficient in math, while 70% of fourth and eighth graders fall below proficiency in reading…

One America News: Johnson & Johnson will spend $55 billion in the U.S. over the next four years on manufacturing, research, and technology investments. – Johnson & Johnson said it represents a “25% increase in investment compared to the previous four years” and builds on their “already elevated U.S. investment levels resulting from the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act” under President Donald Trump’s leadership.

Center Square: A close look at the Department of Education’s grant funding shows that millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent at universities to train social workers to push Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at K-12 schools. – Now that President Donald Trump has banned that kind of funding, schools will have to find workarounds or drop the programs altogether.

Breitbart: Sabotage Questioned After A ‘Catastrophic’ Transformer Fire Closed Heathrow Airport, Causing A Global Travel Disruption – Counter-terror police are leading the investigation, but there is no indication of the cause yet – Heathrow Airport will remain closed until 11.59 pm on March 21st while power is being restored

Conservative Brief: An FBI agent who said that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani “may have been compromised” by Russian agents and accused the first Trump administration of political bias was detained at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport before he could leave the nation. – Jonathan Buma, a counterintelligence expert and 15-year FBI veteran who had criticized the first Trump administration’s handling of classified material, allegedly printed out almost 130 files from FBI networks…

American Thinker: President Trump’s Siberian Shuffle, Or Playing The Long Game With Russia – Far from a concession, it’s a calculated realignment—leveraging economic incentives for geopolitical control. – His plan calls for a comprehensive agreement: the recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea and Donbas, Ukraine’s accession to the European Single Market, and the stationing of European—rather than American—peacekeeping forces at Ukraine’s borders with Russia…

American Thinker: NATO And The German Straitjacket – The reassertion of Russian military strength and Trump’s determination to make NATO allies pay their fair share has changed everything for Germany. – It is faced for the first time in several generations of needing to decide between guns and butter. – Lavish social benefits may need to be curtailed if Germany intends to resurrect its military prowess…

American Thinker: Trump Wants Peace, While Europe Wants War – The U.S., starting with Clinton and continuing through Biden, provoked the Ukrainian tragedy via NATO’s eastern expansion that could easily escalate into nuclear WWIII.. – Trump’s attempt to exit from this vicious circle during his first term resulted in Russiagate and two impeachment efforts inspired by the U.S. Uni-Party of War…

Daily Wire: President Donald Trump, joined by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office on Friday, announced that the U.S. Air Force is moving forward with the production of a new U.S. Military jet called the F-47 that will replace the F-22 Raptor. – Hegseth praised Trump for pushing the F-47 program forward, saying the Biden administration “paused this program and were prepared to potentially scrap it.”

Slay News: Trump Official Who Gutted USAID Resigned And Put Two Former DOGE Employees In Charge of The Agency – This comes after USAID was exposed by Trump and DOGE senior advisor Elon Musk as a slush fund for dubious left-wing projects. – But the reforms aren’t over. – The administration wants to move USAID’s remaining 1,000 programs to the State Department. – USAID would be renamed the U.S. Agency for International Humanitarian Assistance, which requires approval from Congress…

Zero Hedge: America First Legal released explosive new documents that expose a vast, government-backed censorship operation to silence Americans under the guise of “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation.” – They reveal a disturbing alliance between the GEC, USAID, the British Foreign, Commonwealth, Development Office (FCDO), and media censorship organizations, all working in lock-step to manipulate public discourse, control media narratives, and suppress free speech.

AMUSE on X: The Price of Patriotism, Elon Musk’s Costly Crusade Against Government Waste – If Musk truly sought to manipulate government for personal gain, he would follow their playbook. – He would operate from the shadows, funding activist networks to do his bidding. – Instead, he has put his fortune and safety on the line…

Geller Report: An Obama federal judge has issued a two-week temporary restraining order preventing Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing personally identifiable information from the Social Security administration. – Today’s ruling follows a string of judicial DOGE-blocking – as their access to records across the federal government has prompted disputes with senior officials at various agencies.

Washington Examiner: DOJ prosecutions of migrants and smugglers surge under Trump – The Trump DOJ and Border Patrol are working together to impose consequences on people who illegally enter the United States, are caught transporting illegal immigrants, are moving drugs into or from the border, and for other related crimes, all in an effort to deter future illegal immigration and narcotics trafficking…

Racket News: A Timeline Of The Road to Taking Down the Department of Education – There have been consistent efforts to close the agency for 45 years. Here are key events and people who are part of that history. – Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan said in 1980 that he would abolish the Department of Education if given the chance. – President Reagan called for “dismantling” the agency during his 1982 State of the Union address…

March 20, 2025

One America News: President Donald Trump has officially signed an executive order to reduce the size and scope of the Department of Education. – On Thursday afternoon, Trump signed the long awaited executive order, which instructs Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to shrink the size and scale of the $100 billion department…

Gateway Pundit: Chief Justice John Roberts Exposed For Attending A Secretive, Invite-Only “America Inns of Court” Club of Elite Judges and Lawyers That Includes James Boasberg, Beryl Howell, Amit Mehta, and Ketanji Brown Jackson – John Roberts has been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court since September 2005. What in the world is he doing fraternizing in a secret group with far-left colleagues? – This is a shocking development.

Epoch Times: U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said on March 20 that the Trump administration’s response to his request for more information on the timing of the Venezuelan deportation flights was “woefully insufficient” and accused officials of shirking their responsibilities under his order that called for the flights to cease. – The White House said on Wednesday that its mass deportations will continue as the Justice Department contests Boasberg’s order.

Daily Caller: Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reportedly granted the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) new authority over USAID by appointing a senior DOGE official to serve as the Chief Operating Officer. – Tammy Bruce, the spokeswoman for the State Department, said the shift in USAID’s management plays “an indispensable role in aligning all U.S. government foreign assistance with the president’s priorities.”

Western Journal: Pam Bondi Drops the Hammer on Three Suspects Arrested For Tesla Attacks – “The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended,” Bondi said in the statement. “Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the DOJ will put you behind bars.” – For these actions, these suspects face charges that can carry five to 20 years in prison.

Resist The Mainstream: FBI Director Kash Patel says the Bureau has apprehended three fugitives from its 10 Most Wanted list since President Trump’s inauguration on January 20th. – Patel, “That’s not an accident.” – “When you let good cops be good cops, this is what happens.” – “This administration is giving the new FBI and AG Bondi the resources to get the job done, and we won’t stop.”

Dov Fischer: The Dictatorship of Obama Judges – It is the role of the courts to interpret laws and to stop a president from being a dictator and running roughshod over the Constitution, but who stops a dictator judges? – I originally thought that the most powerful American judges were the Supreme Court justices. In time, however, I learned that the District judges really are the most powerful. – Their corrupt game is played as follows…

American Spectator: Chief Justice John Roberts Is Responsible for the High Court’s Self-Delegitimization – Roberts’s tenure has been a series of decisions that have eroded the integrity of the judiciary. – Roberts first showed his hand in the landmark 2012 Obamacare case. – In the years since, there have been several examples of Roberts ruling in high-profile cases, clumsy attempts to make “both sides” of the court and both sides of the broader American public happy…

Western Journal: An activist group backed by progressive financier George Soros called on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down from leading the party in the upper chamber. – Ezra Levin, the co-executive director of Indivisible, said in a March 15 statement that Schumer leading “the charge to wave the white flag of surrender” means he should stop serving as Democratic leader.

Daily Wire: President Trump revealed on Friday that the SBA and Health HHS will take over some education programs after Trump signed an order Thursday seeking to dismantle the Education Department. – “We have a [student loan] portfolio that’s very large. – Lots of loans, tens of thousands of loans,” Trump said. “It’s a pretty complicated deal. And that’s coming out of the Department of Education.”

PJ Media: Americans Are Still Fleeing Blue States and Taking Their Electoral Votes Along With Them – It’s too soon to look at 2028 because we don’t even know who the players are, but ’32 is ripe because we’re halfway to the next congressional apportionment and are getting a good idea of how the biggest player in the game, the Electoral College map, is changing. – According to the latest from The American Redistricting Project, the winners are (almost) all in the red states.

One America News: Canadian furniture maker Prepac is closing down its manufacturing plant in Delta, British Columbia, and moving all production to its other manufacturing plant in North Carolina, which first opened in 2021. – Due to the closure, over 170 Canadians will lose their jobs at the British Columbia plant, as Unifor representatives suggested that those positions would be moved to the North Carolina plant…

Vigilant Fox: Vivek Ramaswamy’s Game-Changing Idea to Shake Up Public Education – Implement merit-based pay for all public school teachers, principals, and administrators. – Vivek, “Pay for performance. That’s what businesses do. There’s no reason we shouldn’t be running our public schools in the same way.”

Geller Report: Ukraine has accepted a partial ceasefire with Russia on Wednesday after a “very good phone call” between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky. – The call came one day after a similar conversation between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin and centered on many of the issues previously discussed in that call.

Daily Wire: The US Navy is reportedly planning to send a second destroyer to patrol the waters around the southern border as part of President Donald Trump’s historic crackdown on illegal immigration and drugs. – U.S. Northern Command deployed the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely to the Gulf of America on March 15, 2025, to work with the U.S. Coast Guard in drug interdiction missions.

Zero Hedge: Did Powell Just Align With Trump? – Two likely conversations that occurred sometime after Trump’s inauguration. – Trump to Powell: Lower rates and inflation won’t be a problem; I’ll get oil prices lower. – Trump to OPEC+: Lower oil prices, and I’ll weaken the dollar, helping your EM economies. – We believe that is what is going on behind the scenes right now. The Bottom Line is that tariffs and tax cuts are the sizzle here. – Cheaper energy and a weaker dollar are the rewards.

Zero Hedge: A Rogue Soros-Funded NGO Is Plotting A Multi-City Assault On Tesla As Leftist Domestic Terrorism Escalates – Anti-DEI crusader Robby Starbuck explained more about this rogue non-profit. – Over the next few days, you’re going to see an organized progressional protest effort at Tesla stores put together by a group called Indivisible. – George Soros’ foundation has given Indivisible nearly $8 million for their “activism.”…

USA Today: Trump to sign an Executive Order Thursday aimed at eliminating The Department of Education – Trump will direct his education secretary, Linda McMahon, to take ‘all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the DOE. – Trump is expected to sign the order, which has been in the works for weeks, at a White House ceremony attended by several Republican governors and state education commissioners.

2nd Smartest Guy: The Democrats Paid For Hit Pieces Used To Impeach Trump With USAID Money – The Trump administration has been hard at work trying to shutter one of the most criminal government agencies in USAID, which is nothing more than a CIA black ops money laundering node. – “The map of 55,000 NGOs, which was essentially just a democratic propaganda machine that was exposed. That was all just money being funneled circularly.”

Daily Wire: The Trump Administration Has Secured The Release Of A U.S. Citizen Held Captive By The Taliban Since 2022 – George Glezmann’s health has deteriorated significantly while in captivity. – Delta Airlines mechanic George Glezmann was visiting Kabul as a tourist when he was detained by the Taliban on December 5, 2022, and held without cause or being charged. – He was in Afghanistan to fulfill his dream of visiting every country, having already been to “well over 100.”

Western Journal: Spine-of-Steel Attorney General Bondi Tells U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of DC to Pound Sand, Saying The Administration Will Follow the Law Instead of A Crony Judge – Bondi said Boasberg Has no Authority to Block Trump’s Deportation of Terrorists. – “Our lawyers are working on this, and we will answer appropriately.”…

The Federalist: The Ever-Growing Judicial Insurrection Is Worse Than You Think. – It is an attempt by the judiciary to prevent the duly elected president from reclaiming control of the Executive Branch from the federal bureaucracy. – The deep state has long functioned as an unelected and unaccountable fourth branch of the government. – This unconstitutional fourth branch has always been controlled by Democrats and leftist ideologues who have effectively supplanted the political branches…

New York Sun: New York City’s law allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections is unconstitutional, according to the state’s highest court. – On Thursday, six of the seven justices on New York’s Court of Appeals struck down New York City’s law, which would have given more than 800,000 non-citizens with permanent residency or are eligible to work the right to vote in local elections.

AMUSE on X: During his presidency, Joe Biden orchestrated an illegal scheme to manipulate the electoral system, using Executive Order 14019 to funnel federal resources into Democrat-controlled voter registration efforts. – Led by House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, Republican lawmakers are demanding full transparency and accountability from the federal agencies that participated in this unlawful order…

Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Knew They Were Lying to Us All Along – They pushed falsehoods on COVID, Biden’s fitness, Hunter’s laptop, and the border, dividing the nation. – These perpetrators have neither apologized for their lies nor tried to either deny or substantiate them. – No one involved has ever been held legally accountable. – The Biden administration will be remembered as the most duplicitous and dishonest presidency in modern history.

American Thinker: Suddenly Jerome Powell is concerned about inflation – Nothing seemed to faze him during Biden’s years. – When inflation shot up to over 9%, he just said they were transitory. – The Federal Reserve has lost hundreds of billions since 2020, so it printed more money to cover those losses. – The federal debt went up $2.3 trillion, from $32.2 trillion to $35.5 trillion, during FY 2024. – Where did the extra $500 billion go? – Down the drain!

American Thinker: Islam is Destroying Western Culture Here And Abroad – If you wish to experience Europe with all its unique nations, hurry, but be careful where you go because the entire continent is rapidly changing due to (legal and illegal) unchecked Islamic immigration, demographic shifts, and political pandering. – Most European leaders are blind to what is happening or just don’t care. – If you voice concerns, you’re quickly called Islamophobic…

Washington Free Beacon: These Democrats in Congress Drive Luxury Cars on The Taxpayer Dime – Representative Jasmine Crockett billed taxpayers $11,996 in 2024 for her lease on a fresh set of wheels. – Crockett obtained her taxpayer-funded vehicle through a little-known fringe benefit that allows representatives to bill the public for a fresh set of EPA-approved wheels to traverse their congressional districts.

March 19, 2025

Vigilant Fox: The Conspiracy Buried in the JFK Files – According to this file, one day after JFK’s assassination, Underhill “left Washington in a hurry and showed up at the home of friends in New Jersey. – He was very agitated.” – It goes on to say, “A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the [JFK] assassination, he [Gary Underhill] confided, and he was afraid for his life and would probably have to leave the country.” – Less than six months later, Underhill was found shot to death…

Daily Signal: Legal Analysis Finds The Biden Autopen Actions Are ‘Non-Delegable’ and Therefore ‘Invalid.’ – “If President Biden’s non-delegable official actions were not his own, then they are invalid,” the analysis says. – “Start with the Constitution. – Multiple Constitutional provisions, like the pardon power, vest those powers solely in the president. – In those cases, the president affixing his signature is his execution of the acts as president.”

Western Journal: Trump DOJ Hits Back After Judge Boasberg Blocked Deportation Flights and Now Demands Answers to 5 Questions – “Continuing to beat a dead horse solely for the sake of prying from the Government legally immaterial facts and wholly within a sphere of core functions of the Executive Branch is both purposeless and frustrating to the consideration of the actual legal issues at stake in this case.” – Boasberg has extended the deadline for his answers to noon Thursday…

New York Post: The Democrats’ silence is damning as leftist violence explodes – Tesla dealerships are being firebombed and shot at, while Tesla vehicles are vandalized and their owners assaulted. – Trump-supporting influencers are getting “swatted,” set up for dangerous police encounters by opponents who phone in hoax distress calls. – But no calls for an end to the violence are coming from the Democrats nor their media allies.

Daily Mail: What 286 days in space does to a human body – Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams’ unplanned extended stay on the International Space Station could have serious health impacts. – From ‘chicken legs’ and ‘baby feet’ to an increased risk of cancer, experts warn that the stranded astronauts could face years of health complications. – As they emerged from their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule yesterday, medical teams rushed to help them onto stretchers…

California Globe: A Senate bill that would have repealed the Low Carbon Fuel Standard gas tax increase of 65 cents a gallon that was adopted last year was killed in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee. – SB 2 was two votes shy of passing the committee. Senators Suzette Martinez Valladares, Megan Dahle, and Melissa Hurtado all voted in favor of SB 2. – Senators Lena Gonzalez and Steve Padilla voted against the bill.

Daily Wire: Trump Warns Iran To ‘Immediately’ Cut Off Support To Houthis – The U.S. military has repeatedly hit the Houthis over the last several days, killing numerous terrorists and destroying troves of weapons. – Trump, “Iran must stop the sending of these Supplies IMMEDIATELY.” – “Let the Houthis fight it out themselves. – “Either way, they lose, but this way, they lose quickly.”

The Right Scoop: The IDF has launched ground operations in both central and southern Gaza again after pulling out for a ceasefire. – Over the past 24 hours, IDF forces have begun a focused ground operation in the center of the Gaza Strip and the south to expand the security zone and create a partial buffer between the north and south of the Strip and re-extended their control to the center of the Netzarim axis.

Western Journal: The Judge Overruling Trump On Deporting Gang Members Is Set to Get Disgraceful Status Less Than 1% of Federal Judges Have Ever Had – Representative Brandon Gill introduced articles of impeachment against US District Judge James Boasberg. – The resolution said that the commander-in-chief has “broad authority over the executive branch, including authority to protect the nation,” which includes the Alien Enemies Act under which he deported the Venezuelan gang members.

City Journal: The Supreme Court Should Step In And Curb Activist Judges – The recent order to turn back deportation flights carrying alleged Tren de Aragua members midair shows why SCOTUS should act now to prevent a constitutional crisis. – During the George H. W. Bush administration, then-Attorney General William Barr faced a similar challenge from an activist judge and won his case when Ken Starr’s principal deputy at the time was a young lawyer named John G. Roberts…

American Spectator: This Mess Is of Your Own Making, Chief Justice Roberts – Nobody voted for judicial supremacy, and it certainly wasn’t the Founding Fathers’ intent. – It’s been less than two weeks since Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the Democrats, and things have gotten even worse. – The number of absurdly partisan judicial orders purporting to thwart the Trump administration’s executive actions has only grown…. – Click Here For The Video

American Thinker: The Supreme Court Has Long Held That The Alien Enemies Act Gives The President Plenary Power – The AEA is one of our nation’s oldest statutes, enacted in 1798, 11 years after America’s founding. – Many of the same men who drafted the Constitution later drafted and approved the Act. In 1814, the Supreme Court enunciated an important principle that has never been challenged: While an individual alien enemy’s property is not automatically up for grabs, the AEA sets a very different standard for the executive’s control of an alien enemy’s person…

Breitbart: A radical Biden-appointed judge cited the Broadway musical “Hamilton” in her legal opinion that ordered the Trump administration to reinstate transgender soldiers in the U.S. military. – Judge Ana Reyes, the first lesbian to serve on the U.S. District Court for DC, blocked President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth from banning transgender enlistment in the U.S. military, granting a preliminary injunction in Nicolas Talbott et al. v. United States, et al.

The Federalist: The Biden Judge Blocking The Military’s ‘Trans’ Policy Donated Thousands To Democrat Candidates And Causes – Reyes’ left-wing track record calls into question her ability to remain impartial on political matters brought before her…

Western Journal: Governor Ron DeSantis’ Solution to Stop the ‘Sabotaging of President Trump’s Agenda’ by Federal Judges – DeSantis, “Congress has the authority to strip jurisdiction of the federal courts to decide these cases in the first place.” – “The sabotaging of President Trump’s agenda by “resistance” judges was predictable, so why were no jurisdiction-stripping bills teed up at the onset of this Congress?”

Conservative Brief: Attorney General Pam Bondi ended federal lawsuits that the Biden administration had filed against local police and fire departments over ignoring DEI and using merit-based hiring policies. – Under the Biden administration, the DOJ’s Office of Civil Rights had sued local first responders for prioritizing merit in hiring rather than making decisions based on race.

Townhall: A radical Soros-funded group is reimbursing far-left activists for costs incurred from protesting DOGE czar Elon Musk at Tesla dealerships across the country. – Indivisible Project, bankrolled primarily by Open Society Foundations, the nucleus of the Soros grant-giving nexus, is one of the main activist organizations behind the anti-Musk movement targeting Tesla showrooms all over America.

Zero Hedge: AG Bondi Declares The “Swarm Of Violent Attacks” On Tesla As Domestic Terrorism – The DOJ has already charged several perpetrators, that in some cases involve five-year mandatory minimum sentences,” Bondi stated. – “We will continue investigations, including those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and fund these crimes.”

Resist The Mainstream: Hackers Release Personal Information of Tesla Owners, Fueling Nationwide Anger – A shocking cyberattack has rocked the Tesla community as hackers released an interactive map exposing the personal details of Tesla owners across the U.S. – The website https://dogeque.st/ that included names, addresses, phone numbers and emails of Tesla drivers and locations of Tesla showrooms and charging stations, even the homes of key government officials is no longer accessible…

City Journal: Who Are the Shadowy Figures Defending Mahmoud Khalil, The Columbia agitator picked up by immigration enforcement last week? – The accused Hamas sympathizer is shrouded in mystery, and so are his supporters. – His case gives us a glimpse into a well-established network linking American universities, international progressive NGOs, and government agencies that places ideologues like Khalil in positions of power and influence and promoting radical policies…

WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: Check this graph out! – The Biden Administration killed nearly 8 MILLION chickens ahead of President Trump’s Inauguration, leading to supply shortages and higher prices. – The Egg Crisis is Biden’s Crisis, but President Trump and Secretary Rollins are fixing it!

Breitbart: Doug Burgum Explains The ‘Four Babies,’ Drill Baby Drill, Map Baby Map, Mine Baby Mine, and Build Baby Build – “On the map baby map, U.S. Geological Survey maps the enormous resources we have onshore, offshore and specifically subsurface.” – Regarding Build Baby Build, “We’ve got to build more baseload power. – We’re dangerously out of whack between intermittent, unreliable, and expensive versus affordable, low-cost base load, which endangers our whole grid…

Breitbart: Virtually all of the new jobs created during the Biden administration went to newly arrived illegal migrants who poured across the US/Mexico border. – Peter Navarro, “Immigration is fine if it benefits a country, but not if it destroys a country.” – “I mean, interesting statistics here; I was surprised that the Biden regime even published it…

New York Sun: The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network announced a new Geographic Targeting Order to crack down on questionable cash transactions made across seven counties in TX & CA by lowering the threshold for banks to file Currency Transaction Reports from the usual $10,000 to as little as $200. – The new order was created “to further combat the illicit activities and money laundering of Mexico-based cartels and other criminal actors along the southwest border.

Slay News: The DOD is planning to slash up to 60,000 civilian jobs as the Pentagon seeks to reduce the department’s civilian workforce by 5-8%. – A senior U.S. defense official said on Tuesday that approximately one-third of the employees the DOD will dismiss are already leaving voluntarily, with almost 21,000 leaving through the deferred resignation program.

American Thinker: Syria: We need to talk about Turkey – Erdogan’s efforts to support al-Shara and undermine Israel forewarn us we may well have a foe we will eventually need to confront. – More than 1,300 Syrians are reported to have been murdered in a mere 72-hour time span; women, children, and entire families were erased in a matter of hours. – There is a crisis going on in Syria for Christians and the Alawite minority, and we cannot be silent!

Real Clear Investigations: Los Angeles Is Getting Scorched Due To Its Homeless Problem – A new investigation by KCAL News using LAFD data found that since 2019, the number of fires connected to a homeless person has increased by the thousands. In 2024 alone, there were nearly 17,000 such fires. – A separate investigation by NBC4’s I-Team tallied nearly 14,000 homeless fires a year earlier. – A Fox 11 reporter says fire officials were advised to evade questions about homeless fires…

Washington Free Beacon: Democrats Turn to A Legally Dubious Ruling Coauthored By A DEI Activist To Protect California’s EV Mandate Banning New Gas-Powered Cars Over The Next Decade – The quick turnaround on the document raises questions about the level of involvement from the Democrat lawmakers who requested the opinion As the office usually takes months to complete analyses, not a couple of weeks.

March 18, 2025

Epoch Times: Putin Agreed to A Limited Cease-Fire on Energy Targets Following His Phone Call With Trump – Zelenskyy responded, saying Ukraine would support a cease-fire on energy infrastructure. – The Trump and Putin discussion lasted nearly 90 minutes. – Trump, “My phone conversation today with President Putin of Russia was a very good and productive one.”

AXIOS: Just eight months after President Trump picked JD Vance to be his vice president, Vance is already positioned to be MAGA’s heir apparent for 2028. – Many of Trump’s longest-serving aides and most fervent supporters now see Vance as the vehicle to lock in Trump’s worldview for at least the next decade. – In their view, Trump broke the old Republican Party, and Vance is the right person to finish building the new one.

Vigilant Fox: Elon Musk Exposes the System Keeping Government Fraud Alive – He told Senator Ted Cruz there are at least 14 “magic money computers” that can “send money out of nothing,” meaning these government systems are issuing trillions in payments with little oversight or much-needed real-time accountability. – Hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars are misallocated or disappearing while the actual financial activity remains hidden deep inside these systems…

Gateway Pundit: Some of the Biggest Bombshells Uncovered by Internet Sleuths in the Newly Released JFK Files – A CIA Memo from September 24, 1963, Confirms Lee Harvey Oswald Was Under Surveillance by CIA, 59 Days Before JFK Assassination – Gary Underhill claimed the CIA was responsible for JFK’s assassination—then he was later found dead in what was ruled a “suicide.” – Sergy Czornonoh said that Oswald would be killed after assassinating Kennedy and that Martin Luther King Jr. would also be assassinated…

Epoch Times: A Federal Judge Blocks DOGE Dismantling USAID – U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang said in his opinion that the actions at issue “relate largely to the structure of and resources made available to a federal agency, not to the direct conduct of foreign policy or engagement with foreign governments.” – He ordered Musk and DOGE to reinstate access for USAID workers and contractors to USAID systems and not to take any further actions…

Epoch Times: The Starliner Astronauts Return to Earth After Nearly 10 Months in Space – At 5:54 p.m., Cheers erupted as drogue parachutes deployed, followed shortly by the main parachutes, slowing the spacecraft from more than 370 mph down to 16 mph. – “What a ride,” Commander Hague said. “The capsule’s full of grins, ear to ear.”

Vigilant Fox: Elon Musk Dropped a Bombshell on Biden’s Role in The Astronaut Crisis – Musk shared that SpaceX could have rescued the astronauts stranded in space for nine months “after a few months at most.” – He offered to bring them home, but the Biden administration, who was in office at the time, “rejected” his offer for “political reasons.”

Western Journal: Two IRS agents who blew the whistle on the agency’s kid-gloves treatment of the former first son are being rewarded with top positions at the Treasury Department. – Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler are IRS agents who spent years investigating Hunter Biden’s tax evasion case. – And one of their primary functions, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, will be to “investigate the wrongdoing at the IRS.”

New York Post: President Trump released 80,000 JFK assassination files as his administration touts a ‘new era of maximum transparency.’ – Several Trump administration officials told The Post in advance of the release that they did not expect new bombshells to emerge from the documents, most of which appeared to relate to the initial investigation of the assassination by the Warren Commission helmed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren in 1964.

Daily Signal: How Many Tax Dollars Bankrolled Union Efforts to Block Trump? – The Trump administration is demanding that each government agency provide an accounting of just how much money it spent negotiating collective bargaining agreements with unions. – The question is, how much time did government employees use working on behalf of unions?

Zero Hedge: The Putin-Trump Phone Call Lasted About 90 Minutes, Focusing On ‘Normalization’ & Peace. – It was widely reported earlier Tuesday that the US could be ready to extend to Moscow the recognition of sovereignty over the Crimean peninsula, which should be the easiest to grant. – The White House has also been floating possible territorial concessions, something which Zelensky and hawkish supporters in the EU have rejected.

New York Times: President Trump Promises To Release ‘All’ Kennedy Assassination Files On Tuesday – More than 80,000 pages would be disclosed, with no redactions in contrast to previous releases. – The National Archives and other agencies have provided no details or a timeline for the release of the files, however, and it was unclear if they would be disclosed all at once or in batches over the coming days or weeks…

Newsmax: Trump’s Court Deadline to Explain The Deportation of Venezuelan Gang Members – The controversy began with Trump’s proclamation published on Saturday invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 – Judge Boasberg is asking government lawyers to clarify exactly when Trump’s declaration was published, when it took effect, how many people subject to it were taken into custody, and when the flights took off…

Washington Examiner: Restraining Judicial Tyranny – A grave threat to democracy emerged during the first weeks of President Trump’s second term, as judges, acting in coordination with left-wing activist groups, are abusing the judicial power to thwart the will of the people and undermine temperate and deliberate jurisprudence. – The Trump administration petitioned the Supreme Court last week to take action, narrowing the power of district court judges to issue nationwide injunctions.

Fox News: The January 19th ceasefire is over as Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas refused to release the hostages. – Defense Minister Israel Kat, “Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began striking Hamas terrorist targets across Gaza in order to achieve the war objectives set by the political leadership, including the release of all our hostages—both the living and the fallen.” – At least 404 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in the airstrikes…

Breitbart: Israel consulted with the Trump administration before renewing its attack on Hamas in Gaza, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. – Israel returned to war after Hamas rejected efforts to reach a second ceasefire deal that would have seen all of the roughly 60 hostages — 24 of whom are thought to be alive released. – Hamas offered only the release of five Americans (one alive).

Breitbart: Homeward Bound, The Stranded NASA Astronauts Depart The International Space Station For Their Return To Earth – NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are on their way home after being stranded on the ISS orbital laboratory for 286 days. – Their return is thanks in no small part to the combined drive and ambition of President Trump and Elon Musk to “go get them.”

John Daniel Davidson: Trump Is Right To Push Back Against Judicial Supremacy – For too long, we have accepted the fallacious notion that the federal judiciary has the exclusive power of constitutional interpretation and that the states and the other branches of the federal government are bound to accept whatever these courts decide. – This myth of “judicial supremacy” has thrown the constitutional system devised by our Founders out of balance, and it needs to be rejected…

Breitbart: The Trump administration awarded a contract for the construction of new border wall segments along the Texas-Mexico border, the first such award of Trump’s second term. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection awarded Granite Construction Company the border wall contract using funding appropriated in the agency’s 2021 fiscal year budget…

Daily Wire: The FBI Has Extradited A Top MS-13 Leader From Mexico To Face ‘American Justice’ – Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales is accused of providing material support to terrorists, earning him a spot on the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted’ list. – Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, was designated a foreign terror organization last month by the Trump administration.

Slay News: The Biden Administration Enriched ‘Nonprofit’ Executives With Border Crisis Dollars As Immigrant Children Suffered Abuse – The nonprofit Southwest Key Programs, the largest operator of shelters for unaccompanied alien children in the U.S., struck gold when awarded $3 billion from the Biden administration and allowed top executives to double their large salaries, even as kids suffered abuse.

American Thinker: The FBI Must Investigate Itself And, Once Cleaned, Several Other Political Crimes – The Epstein and Seth Rich cases are the beginning of cleaning out the Deep State, including the rot in the FBI and DOJ, but there’s much more to do. – The FBI’s rat-holing of the Epstein documents and Seth Rich’s computer are just the tell-tale sign and tip of the iceberg of a massive ongoing RICO criminal conspiracy extending back to Benghazi…

American Thinker: Tariffs As A Weapon Of Economic Warfare – With tariffs, there are always two types of economic effects: short-term and long-term. – Tariffs are not designed to provide instant gratification but are a strategic tool to correct longstanding imbalances. – The pain felt in the short term is part of a broader effort to rebuild America’s manufacturing base and reduce its dependence on foreign goods…

Zero Hedge: President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was authorizing his administration to use coal-fired power plants for energy production to counter China’s economic advantage. – Trump stated that the nation’s coal industry had been “held captive by environmental extremists,” which he said had allowed countries such as China to gain an economic advantage over the United States by opening hundreds of coal-fired power plants…

March 17, 2025

Center Square: Trump says Iran will ‘be held responsible’ for future Houthis attacks – “Let nobody be fooled!” Trump said in a statement. “The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters, and thugs based in Yemen, who the Yemeni people hate, all emanate from and are created by IRAN.

Daily Mail: President Trump ENDS Secret Service protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden – Trump Hunter for going to South Africa and taking his details, citing the high cost to the U.S. taxpayer. – Typically, former presidents and first ladies are protected by the Secret Service for life, but their children are not guaranteed protection after they turn 16 unless the president gives it to them.

Breitbart: The Pentagon is deploying a U.S. Navy destroyer to the Gulf of America as part of its mission to secure the southern border, Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell said Monday. – The USS Gravely departed Naval Weapons Station Yorktown for a scheduled deployment to the Gulf of America, Parnell said during a first Pentagon briefing.

Breitbart: The DOJ responded to U.S. District Judge James Boasberg blocking President Trump’s usage of the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected members of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), saying the “court lacks the jurisdiction” to interfere. – Attorney General Pam Bondi, “This order disregards well-established authority regarding President Trump’s power, and it puts the public and law enforcement at risk.”…

Red State: Stephen Miller Obliterated A CNN Anchor’s Line of Questioning on The Tren de Aragua Deportations – Tren de Aragua members were taken to El Salvador and are being housed at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). Just over 100 of the passengers were removed from the United States under Title VIII removal proceedings, and 137 were removed pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act…

Western Journal: Trump Orders United States Agency for Global Media, the parent entity of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe That Has ‘Pushed Divisive Propaganda for Years’ to Be ‘Eliminated to the Maximum Extent Allowable’ – Other agencies include the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars…

American Thinker: Hills to Die On, Democrats Sure Know How to Pick Them – In their quest to Get Trump on immigration, probably their strongest point with the Left, they’ve picked three migrant cause célèbres they’re waving at the public, promoting them as sob stories and “threats to democracy,” and boy, do they stink. – First off, Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born “Palestinian” and citizen of Algeria. – And don’t forget the criminal gang members that were just sent packing…

American Spectator: The Democrats’ Civil War Over Transgenderism Is Running Out Of Gas – One by one, Democrats are deciding that the jig is up, and it’s time to join the side of the American people on transgenderism. – Rahm Emanuel is just the latest Democrat to defect over the issue not long after California Governor Gavin Newsom…

New York Post: Trump says Biden’s autopen pardons are now ‘void, vacant and of no further force or effect,’ and vows a probe of the Jan. 6 House select committee. – “Joe Biden did not sign them, but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!” he said of the oldest-ever president and concerns about his age-related mental abilities at 82.

American Thinker: House Speaker Mike Johnson reveals why the Autopen scandal is such a big deal – Biden didn’t even know that he blocked LNG exports to Europe, and that is because he’s not the one who did it. – Evidence has been emerging for a week that nearly every document Joe Biden allegedly signed after assuming office, every executive order, every pardon, every Congressional bill signed into law, every international treaty, every lifetime judicial nomination (including the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson) was signed with not one, but two Autopens. – This is who was running things…

Western Journal: President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the National Guard was deployed to Arkansas after tornadoes ripped across the Midwest and South. – At least 42 people were killed, according to NBC. Three people were reported killed in Alabama, three in Arkansas, 12 in Missouri, four in Oklahoma, eight in Kansas, six in Mississippi, two in North Carolina, and four in Texas.

Epoch Times: President Trump Says He Will Discuss A Cease-Fire With Putin on Tuesday – Trump said he foresees a ‘very good chance’ of reaching a cease-fire deal with The Russian Leader. – “We will be talking about land. We will be talking about power plants,” he said. “I think we have a lot of it already discussed by both sides, Ukraine and Russia. We’re already talking about that, dividing up certain assets.”…

Lifezette: Three months into his second term, President Trump has reached the highest approval rating of his presidency, according to a newly released NBC News poll. – More Americans believe the country is on the right track than at any point since 2004, signaling a shift in public sentiment. – The poll, released Sunday, showed that 47% of registered voters approve of Trump’s performance, while 51% disapprove.

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration says it disregarded a judge’s order to turn around two planeloads of Venezuelan criminals because the flights were over international waters and, therefore, the ruling did not apply – Senior officials made clear that it’s “Very important that people understand we are not actively defying court orders.”

Paul A. Szypula: Watch as the 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, and 23 MS-13 gang members arrived in El Salvador on Sunday from the US. – See them leaving the plane and being taken by the military to their future home in a high-security prison…

Victor Davis Hanson: What Are the Left’s Solutions for the Problems They Created? – The U.S. faces mounting trade deficits, immigration crises, and endless foreign wars, while critics of Trump’s policies offer no viable alternatives to the many Biden-era failures. – Does the WSJ truly believe that the current $1.7 trillion budget deficit stacked on top of $36 trillion in national debt and an annual $1 trillion trade deficit is sustainable in any fashion?

Gateway Pundit: Demented Obama Judge Judge James Boasberg, Who Wanted to Liberate The Venezuelan Gang Members, Sent 70 Trump Supporters to Prison on Made-Up 1512c Charges that SCOTUS later overturned. – Judge Boasberg was assigned as the top judge in the FISA Court in early 2020. One of his first actions was to appoint David Kris, an Obama-era national security leader, to review the reforms the FBI will be making to its FISA application process…

City Journal: Trump’s College Crackdown Is Their Fault – Universities spent decades prioritizing activism over education. – When university presidents were asked about the causes of declining public confidence in higher education, only 11% identified “ideological bias” as the biggest cause of public mistrust (though twice as many acknowledged it as a “valid concern”).

March 16, 2025

American Thinker: The Biden White House mixed it up with not just one but two autopens – Autopens are cool devices for those who need to repeat their signature over and over – It’s different, though, when you occupy an important position and your decisions must clearly emanate from you, and not from an automated process or someone supposedly acting on your behalf…

One America News: The Democrat Party’s Favorability Rating Falls To A Historic Low – The Democrat Party’s favorability rating stands at 29% – a record low in CNN’s polling dating back to 1992 and a drop of 20 points since January 2021. – The historic low favorability ratings are in contrast to the GOP’s favorability ratings, which hovers at around 79% favorability rating among Republicans, according to CNN…

New York Sun: Obama Appointed U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg Ordered Planeloads of Deported Venezuelan Gang Members To Return to America – His ruling came hours after President Trump said the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was invading the US and invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 – The president of El Salvador, the planes’ intended destination, and Secretary Rubio both stated that the deportation operations had already concluded.

Geller Report: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew Has Rescued The Stranded Astronauts – The hatch of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft opened March 16 at 1:35 a.m. ET and the members of Crew-10 entered. – Astronaut Anne McClain from Crew-10, “I cannot tell you the immense joy of our crew when we looked out the window and saw the Space Station for the first time. – You can hardly even put it into words…”

American Thinker: Trump begins restoring law and order – Take a look at three of the president’s appointees and the good work they’ve done already. – Trump, “Justice isn’t about politics, it’s about protecting the people,” and Pam Bondi came armed with evidence. – In just three weeks, Kash Patel’s revitalized FBI team executed 2,741 arrests. – At the border, Tom Homan is sending cartel operatives packing…

American Thinker: Do We Have 677 Unelected Presidents? – A TRO requires the applicant to show a substantial likelihood of success and immediate harm, while a preliminary injunction involves a more rigorous evaluation. – The curtain must fall on the notion that hundreds of unelected district court judges, often with outlying political beliefs and of various levels of judicial temperament and legal ability, should be permitted to act as America’s Chief Executive.

Geller Report: These are the 26 Republicans that just voted against codifying DOGE foreign aid spending cuts into law – Senators Lindsey Graham, Barrasso, Boozman, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cramer, Crapo, Fischer, Grassley, Hoeven, Hyde-Smith, Lankford, McConnell, McCormick, Moran, Mullin, Murkowski, Ricketts, Rounds, Scott, Sullivan, Thune, Tillis, Wicker, and Young. – It’s time to start calling and writing to them.

American Thinker: Why Aren’t Johnny And Susie Reading To Grade Level? – So how did the 18% manage to learn what the 82% didn’t? – By the time kids get to high school with badly deficient reading skills, there is virtually nothing that can be done for them. – So how did the 18% manage to learn what the 82% didn’t? – Their unique genetic endowment and personal qualities allowed them to better pay attention and assimilate whatever instruction they got…

March 15, 2025

Gateway Pundit: Zelensky Keeps Pushing for WWIII, Bragging That His New 621-Mile Long-Range Missiles Can Hit Moscow – Trump was right when he said you can’t make peace deals with Ukraine as long as Zelensky is calling the shots. – Why is Zelensky pushing the world toward World War III? And who thinks that is a good idea?…

Western Journal: Trump Announces Military Action Against US Enemy: ‘We Will Use Overwhelming Lethal Force Until We Have Achieved Our Objective’ – President Trump has unleashed America’s military might in the Middle East, attacking the Houthi rebels in Yemen and killing off an Islamic State leader in Iraq. – “They have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American, and other, ships, aircraft, and drones,” Trump said.

Western Journal: Staffer Suspected of Abusing Biden’s Auto-Pen – An unnamed Biden aide used an autopen to sign official documents without other aides knowing whether Biden actually approved the actions. – The staff member in question would say he was doing what “the boss” wanted, but no one dared ask if this was true. – “I feared no one as much as I feared that [staffer]. – To me, [the staffer] basically was the president.”…

Breitbart: Attorney General Pam Bondi criticized a federal judge who blocked the deportations of suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua after President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. – Bondi issued a formal statement saying U.S. District Judge James Boasberg had “supported” TdA “terrorists over the safety of Americans.”

Zero Hedge: A New Beltway Intrigue, Follow The Biden EPA Money – When the Biden administration announced $27 billion in environmental grants last April, it set the clock ticking on a predicament. – Just how would they get such enormous sums for Biden’s envisioned NetZero future out the door before the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30? – $20 billion went to just eight nonprofits that, like the EPA itself, had never handled such gargantuan grants…

One America News: Mark Carney Was Sworn In As Canada’s Prime Minister And Says He ‘Respects’ Trump – Trudeau did not have the best relationship with Trump, but Carney says his approach will be different. – “In many respects, part of my experience overlaps with that of the President – we’re both looking out for our countries. But he knows, and I know from long experience, that we can find mutual solutions that win for both,” he said.

Fox News: President Trump signed the continuing resolution, officially averting a government shutdown – The CR extends the government’s budget through the end of September and was approved by a majority of Senate Republicans. – Only Sen. Rand Paul, R-K.Y., voted against the bill. – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faced backlash on Friday from fellow Democrats after announcing his intention to vote for the bill.

Epoch Times: President Trump Revoked 19 More Biden-Era Executive Actions – Biden’s 2021 executive order that raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour. – Biden’s use of the Defense Production Act in his energy transition agenda. – Biden’s executive order “funneling federal resources into radical biotech and bio-manufacturing initiatives under the guise of environmental policy.”…

Epoch Times: President Trump signed an executive order late Friday seeking to dismantle eight federal agencies – The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, US Agency for Global Media, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Institute of Museum and Library Services, US Interagency Council on Homelessness, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, The Arctic Research Commission and the Minority Business Development Agency.

Zero Hedge: President Trump Cancelled Security Clearances Of Lawyers Involved In The Russiagate And J6 Prosecutions – Trump’s revocation order applies to employees of New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison “pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with the national interest. – The law firm has been a close ally to Democrats coming after Trump, including the Russiagate collusion investigation that found no collusion…

Gatestone Institute: Iran’s Mullahs Can Never Change, Never Be ‘Friends’ – This is because The Islamic Republic of Iran is not a normal state or even a conventional dictatorship. – It is an ideological entity that derives its very identity from opposition to the United States, Israel, and the West. – It was born out of the 1979 revolution, and its core identity was forged in opposition to the United States and Israel…

Townhall: The Trump administration is considering targeting the citizens of as many as 43 countries as part of a new ban on travel to the United States. – A draft list of recommendations developed by diplomatic and security officials suggests a “red” list of 11 countries whose citizens would be flatly barred from entering the United States. They are Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. – There are also orange and yellow lists…

Daily Wire: Trump Scores Legal Win After Biden Judge Blocked DEI Slashing. – The judges found that the “sweeping block went too far.” – An appeals court on Friday said President Donald Trump could continue to slash diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs from the federal government as a lawsuit plays out.

Slay News: FBI Director Kash Patel Moves to Investigate Judge Merchan’s Family Over Anti-Trump Courtroom Corruption – Merchan, a Joe Biden donor, oversaw the Democrats’ so-called “hush money” case against Donald Trump that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg led. – During the trial, it emerged that he had deep ties to the Democrat Party. – Also, his daughter, Loren Merchan, worked on the election campaigns of several high-profile Democrats, including Adam Schiff and Kamala Harris…

American Thinker: The Slush Fund Nobody Voted For – Biden’s EPA delivered billions in taxpayer dollars to a select group of left-wing nonprofits, bypassing Congress, financial oversight, and public scrutiny. – Now, the Trump administration is fighting to unwind it. – EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has launched an aggressive investigation into how these billions were distributed, why they were shielded from standard financial accountability, and whether federal laws were broken.

American Thinker: Hacktivism And the Possibility Of WW III – The recent cyberattack on X that originated from a Ukrainian IP address has set off alarm bells. – Is this the work of rogue Ukrainian actors furious about peace negotiations? – Or a classic Russian false-flag operation? – Or maybe, just maybe, it’s an entirely unrelated third party stirring the pot for reasons unknown?

American Thinker: Democrat Violence and Manhood – The Democrat/socialist/communist Party is playing with fire but is too deranged to realize it burns everyone. – Vance had Secret Service protection, so he and his daughter weren’t in danger, and Vance treated the “protestors” with the civility they denied him. – But he’s absolutely right: they were shit people. – They should know one doesn’t terrorize little children…

American Thinker: What DOGE Is Accomplishing – What began as a fiscal experiment has transformed into something more revealing: a relentless spotlight on the Democrat party’s entrenched priorities, operational dependencies, and, increasingly, strategic struggles in the face of Musk’s unorthodox crusade. – Musk’s actions are revealing layers of what some Republicans describe as Democratic hypocrisy.

Breitbart: Vice President Vance announced Friday that businesses and corporations that invest in the United States “will be rewarded” with things such as having their taxes cut and would also benefit from decreasing regulations and energy costs. – At Vantage Plastics, a plastic manufacturing plant in Bay City, Michigan, Vance spoke about how the Trump administration’s “goal is to make it easier and more affordable to make things again” in the U.S.

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, St. Patrick’s Pi Day Edition – Yesterday was Pi Day, the day on which Albert Einstein was born and Karl Marx died. – Math nerds and freedom lovers everywhere celebrated…

March 14, 2025

Red State: Marco Rubio Tells South Africa’s Terror-Simping Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool To Leave – Rasool offered that President Trump was a White supremacist leading a White supremacist movement – Secretary Rubio, “South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country.” – “Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates Trump.” – “We have nothing to discuss with him, so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA.”

Fox News: SpaceX’s Crew-10 launched into space Friday to bring home two NASA astronauts who have been stuck at the International Space Station since June 6. – The crew of four geared up in the “suit-up room” amid photos of the Apollo crew before driving to the launchpad in multiple Teslas adorned with “LIF10FF” license plates — an ode to the mission number.

One America News: The Senate narrowly passed the Continuing Resolution, successfully averting a government shutdown. – The Friday vote was 62-38, with ten Democrats voting with all Republicans. The sole Republican to vote with the opposition was Senator Rand Paul.

Slay News: The Ridiculous Political Puppet Show – 50 House Democrats Made Identical Social Media Posts – The same message that was posted by dozens of Democrat lawmakers on Thursday read: “House Democrats stand united for a four-week funding extension that stops harmful cuts, keeps the government open, and allows Congress to reach a bipartisan funding agreement.”
“I am ready to vote today, tomorrow, or Friday to pass a four-week extension.”

Newsmax: The Supreme Court said it will consider the Trump administration’s request to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to take effect in part while legal fights play out. – The court signaled it would consider the appeal by ordering responses from states and organizations that have challenged the constitutionality of Trump’s order to be submitted by April 4th…

Daily Wire: The FBI Going After Those Responsible For Recent ‘Swatting’ Incidents – Patel, “The FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable.” – Senator Lee suggested that the incidents should be prosecuted as attempted murder…

Newsmax: The Senate passed a bipartisan bill that permanently classifies fentanyl-related substances as Schedule 1 narcotics before their temporary status expired on March 31. – The Halt Lethal Trafficking Fentanyl Act passed by an 84-16 margin, with all 16 no votes coming from Democrats.

Daily Fetched: These Are The 16 Senate Democrats That Voted Against The Fentanyl Crackdown Bill – Angela Alsobrooks of MD) Lisa Blunt Rochester of DE, Cory Booker of NJ, Tammy Duckworth of IL, Mazie Hirono of HI, Ed Markey of MA, Jeff Merkley of OR, Chris Murphy of CT, Alex Padilla of CA, Bernie Sanders of VT, Adam Schiff of CA, Chris Van Hollen of MD, Raphael Warnock of GA, Elizabeth Warren of MA, Peter Welch of VT, and Ron Wyden of OR.

Gateway Pundit: “The Case Against Me Was Bullshit!” – Applause Broke Out After President Trump Slammed Jack Smith During His Fiery DOJ Press Conference. – “We must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls. Unfortunately, in recent years, a corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated that trust and goodwill built up over generations,” Trump said…

Liberty Daily: FCC Chair Brendan Carr has unveiled a sweeping regulatory rollback initiative to end the regulatory onslaught from Washington. – Carr, “For too long, administrative agencies have added new regulatory requirements in excess of their authority or kept lawful regulations in place long after their shelf life had expired. – This only creates headwinds and slows down our country’s innovators, entrepreneurs, and small businesses.” – Everything is under new scrutiny…

Center Square: ICE and law enforcement partners “apprehended 214 illegal aliens” in Virginia as part of a targeted operation, which included the apprehension of “dangerous” gang members and convicted murderers. – The operation focused on “transnational organized crime, gangs, and egregious illegal alien offenders” in Northern Virginia between March 1 and 13. The arrests included individuals allegedly connected to “notorious MS-13 and 18th Street gangs.”

Geller Report: Muslim Terror Supporters Screamed “Allahu Akbar” As They Attacked Police in NYC’s Time Square – Why are these people in our country?

New York Post: US Envoy Witkoff left Moscow without a cease-fire agreement after Putin rejected Trump’s terms, saying, ‘A lot still needs to be done’ – Trump’s proposal was straightforward: Russia and Ukraine would halt all conflict for 30 days, and conduct a prisoner exchange as signs of both parties’ commitment to finding a peaceful resolution. The US would also restart sharing intelligence with and delivering aid to Kyiv.

Zero Hedge: Putin Calls For All Ukrainians In Kursk To Surrender After President Trump’s Request To Spare Lives – Putin acknowledged Trump’s request. – “If they lay down their arms and surrender, we will guarantee their lives and dignified treatment in accordance with international law and Russian legal norms.” – Putin also emphasized the “numerous crimes against civilians” in the region, also has hundreds of thousands of citizens have fled over the last six months…

Slay News: Islamic terrorist group Hamas has agreed to finally 21-year-old Israeli-American Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage being held in captivity in Gaza, has been held for 525 days. – It’s unclear when the transfer will happen, but the news comes as talks are ongoing in Qatar to establish the next phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

Western Journal: Trump Orders The Military To Devise A Plan For Retaking The Panama Canal – Potential plans range from “partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops’ seizing the canal by force.” – Sources said that military coercion is highly unlikely, but it could become an option if Panama doesn’t cooperate with the United States.

Western Journal: Schumer Flinches, Tells Democrats to Back Down and Support GOP Plan – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer must have read the tea leaves, or he reread his old social media posts and speeches and remembered what he said about government shutdowns during the Biden administration when the Democrats had control of the Senate.

Washington Free Beacon: Get the Chuck Outta Here: Democrats Are Finally United (Against Themselves) – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vowed to mobilize her social media fans in an effort to force a government shutdown – Schumer’s colleagues in the Senate were similarly aggrieved. – A number of them released statements Thursday denouncing the Republican plan to keep the government open…

Just The News: FBI Director Patel says the agency is working with law enforcement to investigate recent swatting incidents – “The FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable.” – “This isn’t about politics; weaponizing law enforcement against ANY American is not only morally reprehensible but also endangers lives, including those of our officers.”…

Townhall: Oregon Has Strict Gun Control, And Here Is Solid Proof It’s Not Helping – Gunshots were fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon on Thursday for the second time in a week in ongoing vandalism and protests around the country since CEO Elon Musk became a key figure in the Trump administration. – A similar incident happened on March 6 at the same location. Police said they continue to work with federal partners at the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives to thoroughly investigate…

Daily Wire: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Friday that she was “aggressively pursuing” individuals within the intelligence community who have leaked information to legacy media outlets, such as NBC News and The Washington Post. – Gabbard said that leakers violated the law by providing reporters with classified information about American foreign policy on Iran, Israel, and Russia.

Charlie Kirk: Clinton appointee Judge William Alsup says the Trump Admin has to rehire 30,000 laid-off probationary hires… This isn’t judicial review; it’s a dictatorship by a big ego with a gavel. – SCOTUS must intervene, and soon!

The U.S. Sun: Chilling photos show China’s giant D-Day style INVASION BARGES that are moored off the coast of Taiwan as fears grow they are preparing for an. – The giant troop-carrying barges are capable of delivering fleets of tanks and thousands of troops directly onto Taiwanese roads. – China is building at least five of the giant troop-carrying barges, according to satellite imagery and military sources. – This is how the mega barges work.

AMUSE on X: The Coordinated Attack on Conservatives Is A RICO Case in the Making – A well-funded, highly organized effort is underway to destabilize the United States and crush conservative voices – Who benefits from this orchestrated chaos? – The answer is clear: Soros-backed organizations seeking to destabilize Trump’s administration, Democratic elites desperate to reclaim power, and corporate media eager to craft a narrative that portrays conservatives as extremists…

Townhall: This Is The Latest Government Agency Planning To Cut Thousands of Jobs – Outgoing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told lawmakers he signed an agreement with the Department of Government Efficiency to cut costs at the beleaguered agency. – DeJoy outlined issues with mismanagement of its self-funded retirement assets and workers’ compensation program, unfunded mandates imposed on USPS by legislation, and burdensome regulatory requirements…

Breitbart: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on ‘Reprivatization’ of Economy – The Biden administration relied on blowout spending. – President Trump’s administration is “laser-focused” on cutting the deficit and getting spending “under control,” part of his larger vision of “reprivatization” of the U.S. economy so economic growth is no longer dependent on government spending but instead on private sector growth.

American Thinker: Donald Trump’s Return Shows A Foreign Policy Reset After Biden’s Weakness – Trump’s second term marks the return of his unapologetic approach to foreign policy. – But it isn’t just about economics or military power, but about demanding more from allies, too. – His showdown with Zelensky was a perfect example. – On March 3, 2025, military aid to Ukraine was suspended. – Zelensky’s sudden change of heart was proof that Trump’s tactics were working…

American Thinker: NATO, Ukraine, And The War Hawks’ Pixie Dust Playbook – The Never-Ending War crowd wants you to believe three things at once: – NATO expansion deters aggression and won’t provoke retaliation. – Giving Ukraine de facto NATO security guarantees will protect it but won’t require American blood and treasure if war breaks out. – Russia will accept NATO troops or bases in Ukraine but won’t view that as an existential threat. – And yet…

American Thinker: The Defenders of Destruction – Only mentally disheveled subversives and press charlatans would rank purposeful violence as legitimate protest. – Upon hearing that President Trump rightly condemned the vandalism and arson of Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism, MSNBC host Alicia Menendez grabbed up her fake news bullhorn: “So, just to be clear, you protest a private company, you are labeled by this administration a domestic terrorist.”…

Megan Redshaw: Dr. David Weldon’s CDC Nomination Was Killed at the Eleventh Hour – Officially, he didn’t have the votes from two Republican holdouts. Unofficially? The move reeked of political pressure—specifically, from the most powerful force in Washington: Big Pharma – Big Pharma didn’t want Weldon to lead the CDC, and his letter makes it very clear why they made sure he didn’t get the job…

American Thinker: Go Away, Randi – It took a while, but parents finally figured out that the teachers’ unions are more about electing Democrats than teachers their kids. – Maybe this is why more parents have opted for home-schooling or doing whatever it takes to put them in a private school. They want their kids educated, not indoctrinated. – Yes, the DOE has to go and take down Randi Weingarten as well…

Zero Hedge: Mass Cases Of EDS Have Been Reported Worldwide – Symptoms of the disease previously seen in the U.S., including hysterical frothing, weird public tantrums, and calling everyone who you disagree with a Nazi, have now also been reported in London. – Billboards and ads are popping up everywhere across the city in a coordinated effort to smear Musk for merely being associated with President Trump.

Zero Hedge: Which US States Import The Most From Canada And Mexico? – Following President Trump’s imposition of 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as retaliatory tariffs from Canada, trade across North America’s borders has suddenly become much more expensive. – Visual Capitalist’s chart shows Montana, Maine, North Dakota, Vermont, and Michigan in the lead, with Hawaii, New Jersey, and New York importing the least…

Breitbart: The demolition of Biden-era migrant processing centers along the Southern border began this week in Texas. – The Biden administration used the soft-sided facilities to expedite the entry of migrants into the U.S. after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. – They are no longer needed. Due to the unprecedented drop in apprehensions of illegal aliens as a result of President Trump’s leadership…

Issues & Insights: ICYMI, Our Border Is Now Definitely Closed To Illegal Immigration – Seven recent developments and news reports illustrate just how much the administration’s efforts have borne fruit. – A Wall Street Journal found Trump’s border policies had a major impact on Southern border traffic. – A Panama Migrant Authority report shows that illegal Darien Gap crossings, a popular route for U.S.-bound migrants, have dropped 99% since Trump took office…

March 13, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: EXCLUSIVE, The Most Explosive Revelations From Jake Tapper’s New Book About Biden’s Decline (Part 1) – Although it wasn’t easy, we were able to get our hands on an advance copy and quickly realized the situation was even worse than originally thought. – “Time to get changed,” Joe said, mounting the conference room table and rolling onto his back. – “Then Jill pulled a fresh pack of incontinence guards from the nearest filing cabinet…

Breitbart: Promises Made, Promises Kept As Producer Inflation Stopped Cold In Trump’s First Month When Core Prices Fell – Economists had forecast a 0.3 percent increase in the broad producer price index (PPI) and an even larger 0.5 percent increase in core producer prices. – Instead of the expected price surge, we got price stability—and even declines in core producer prices.

Breitbart: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Launched An Inquiry Into A DEI Activist That Offered Exam Answers to Minority Air Traffic Controller Candidates Before Testing – Sean Duffy, “I am launching a full investigation into the DEI hiring allegations at the FAA immediately.” – “If true, swift accountability will come for those responsible.” – “We need the best and brightest, not buzzword, DEI hires”…

Washington Free Beacon: The Trump Administration Slaps Fresh Sanctions on Iran’s Oil Minister and ‘Shadow Fleet’ Ferrying Illicit Iranian Crude – Additional sanctions were placed on entities from several countries, including India and China, for their role in shipping Iranian crude across the globe. This includes “a vast shadow fleet of vessels” that disguise the Iranian oil and export it primarily to Beijing at significantly reduced prices.

AMUSE on X: Trump’s Industrial Miracle, Making America a Factory Giant Again – His philosophy is simple: reward those who invest in America and penalize those who seek to profit while producing elsewhere. – Trump’s arsenal includes tariffs to neutralize foreign competition, tax incentives to make domestic production more attractive, and targeted infrastructure investments to create an ecosystem conducive to industrial expansion…

Washington Post: Inside A Mexican Cartel ‘Extermination’ Camp – Mexico has grappled for years with a crisis of disappearances, with more than 110,000 people reported missing. – Hundreds and hundreds of singed bone remnants were found, but the image that really stunned Mexicans was all the shoes – Several other extermination camps have been found in Mexico, and mass graves turn up nearly every week, but the site in Jalisco elicited a particular horror…

Gateway Pundit: Russian President Putin Accepts The US-Ukraine Ceasefire Plan, But With Specific Conditions – Russia only seeks a long-term peace settlement that takes into account Moscow’s interests and concerns. – Americans understand that Ukraine’s membership in NATO is out of the question in the context of a peaceful settlement.” – Putin will likely find a way to keep the process going strong. – There are skilled negotiators on both sides, so it’s unlikely that the US team went on a limb on a losing proposition.”

Daily Wire: The Chinese Navy carried out an unannounced military exercise over the last month in which it encircled Australia, causing alarm amongst military experts. – The military exercise was the furthest south the communist nation’s navy has ever gone, the report said. – The incident has Australian officials racing to equip its army with new anti-ship missiles fired from mobile launchers and advanced targeting radars.

PJ Media: On Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer was practically gloating when he announced that it looks like the House Continuing Resolution (CR) doesn’t have the votes to get past a filibuster. – The Democrats’ tough talk about the CR funding bill is already showing cracks. After days of chest-thumping and virtue signaling, it’s looking like all that bravado was just a front. – Despite Schumer’s claims, Democrats really don’t want a shutdown and don’t have the needed votes.

Gateway Pundit: A mob of radical pro-Hamas protesters have taken over the restaurant inside the iconic Trump Tower in New York City. – The radical protesters who stormed Trump Tower are now reportedly being arrested…

Modernity News: MSNBC Describes The Violent Attacks On Tesla Dealerships As ‘Protests’ – Attackers have put staff in danger and even set fire to Tesla dealerships and charging stations, but the MSNBC hosts were visibly annoyed that President Trump agreed their actions could constitute domestic terrorism. – In one case, explosives were even discovered at a dealership in Colorado…

Resist The Mainstream: Under the new leadership of FBI Director Kash Patel, the agency has begun releasing hundreds of documents related to its involvement in the January 6 Capitol riots and its investigation into pipe bombs discovered outside the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters. – The disclosure follows a subpoena from House Republicans who have accused the Bureau of withholding key information.

Resist The Mainstream: InfoWars host Chase Geiser was the target of a swatting incident on Tuesday, just one day after the tragic death of his colleague Jamie White in Austin, Texas, who Alex Jones says was “brutally murdered.” – When asked about a potential connection, Geiser responded, “We were both on the same Ukraine enemies of the state list…

AMUSE on X: Under the Biden administration, political discourse was systematically manipulated through a vast censorship apparatus designed to suppress dissent. – A confluence of government agencies, Big Tech firms, and nominally independent NGOs constructed an intricate censorship regime extending across national borders, presenting a grave challenge to the foundational principle of free speech…

American Thinker: Is ActBlue a Criminal Enterprise? – ActBlue was founded in 2004 as a Democrat Party PAC ostensibly to organize and raise campaign funds from “small donors.” – Never in the 236-year political history of the United States has there been a more expansive, criminal, and blatant scheme to manipulate the electoral process than the actions of ActBlue in league with the Democrat Party…

Gateway Pundit: Radical US District Judge William Alsup, a Clinton Appointee, Orders The Government to Rehire Thousands of Fired Probationary Employees in Six Federal Agencies – The six government agencies include The VA, DOD, Energy, Interior, Treasury, and Agriculture. – It is unclear how many probationary employees Trump has already fired, but there are potentially 200,000+ federal employees across government agencies.

Slay News: A Barack Obama-appointed federal judge has ordered DOGE and its senior advisor, Elon Musk, to reveal plans for downsizing the government. – Judge Chutkan’s directive comes as 14 Democrat state attorneys general are suing Trump, Musk, and DOGE, arguing that Musk is unconstitutionally wielding power. – Chutkan allowed three weeks to produce the information, noting the information ultimately will help the judge decide whether to block DOGE’s operations altogether.

Epoch Times: U.S. District Judge William Alsup Orders The Trump Admin to Reinstate Thousands of Fired Employees – He ruled the administration must bring the workers back because the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) does not have the power to order firings and that there is evidence the office improperly directed the termination of newer employees at the agencies. – The full number of impacted workers is not clear, but numbers at least 9,100, based on previous public statements…

Gateway Pundit: Trump Signs An Executive Order Cracks Down on Radical Activist Judges and Far-Left Groups That Are Abusing The Courts. – The order tells federal agencies to make sure that whenever someone sues the government for an injunction, the agency should request that the plaintiff (the person or organization suing) provides enough money upfront to cover possible costs and damages the government might suffer if the injunction turns out to be unjustified.

Daily Wire: President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to stop judges across the country from governing the “whole nation from their courtrooms. – Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris submitted an application to SCOTUS for a partial stay of an injunction issued by a Maryland court while simultaneously filing similar injunctions for cases in Washington State and Massachusetts…

Daily Wire: The DOJ has launched a criminal investigation into hotels in New York City that were accused of operating as shelters for illegal aliens on taxpayers’ dime. – The investigation centers around the funding and management of the program. – The subpoenas said investigators sought evidence and testimony from the hotels over “an alleged violation” of federal immigration law…

Townhall: Trump Is About to Invoke The Alien Enemies Act Law to Make a Massive Move Against Illegal Immigration – It is unclear how the administration will carry out this strategy, but there are indications that it will be used to target criminal gangs. – The Act was originally intended to be used when the United States found itself at war with another country or if a foreign government has invaded, or threatened to invade, the U.S.

American Thinker: Trump must designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization – This group has produced more terrorists than any other Islamist group in history. – It is the mastermind behind modern Islamic terrorism. – The M.B. is the ideological and “administrative” force behind ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Boko Haram, who are responsible for the most brutal of terrorist attacks. – And yet these groups are blacklisted as terrorist organizations, but not the M.B.

The Defender: The Makary And Bhattacharya Nominations Move to Full Senate Vote, But Trump Pulls Weldon’s Nomination to Lead CDC Due To Inadequate Support – The Senate Health Committee today voted 14-9 to endorse Dr. Marty Makary to lead the FDA and 12-11 to endorse Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the NIH.

Vigilant News: An IRS Tax Examiner Goes on Record and Blows The Whistle on The Agency – “We can’t do anywhere close to what the American people think we can.” – David Nelsen said the outdated software has led to a bloated workforce and delays in tax processing. – “We could probably reduce the size of the IRS substantially with changes, programs, a centralized inventory system, replacing IDRS,” he said.

American Thinker: Terrifying Tariffs Or Tax Policy as Back-Door Foreign Aid – It depends on what America wants out of its tariffs, added revenues, or “back door” foreign aid. – Prior to the 16th Amendment, government revenue came almost exclusively from tariffs and excise taxes. – How did we allow that tariff imbalance to happen? – Actually, it’s a long-established policy intended to supplement the Marshall Plan of 1948. – Here’s how it evolved…

Washington Examiner: President Trump has threatened the European Union with 200% tariffs on alcohol after the EU announced a slate of tariffs on American products beginning next month. – The European Union’s tariffs include 50% tariffs on whiskey, a measure Trump decried as “nasty” when announcing the renewed tariff threat.

American Thinker: The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to vacate the lower court’s order in the USAID case has sharply divided legal observers – Justice Alito’s fiery dissent—joined by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, must not be rationalized away. – At its core, the USAID case is about jurisdiction. – Federal district courts have no authority over government contract disputes—period…

American Conservative: The Afghan Refugee Program Is an Unfixable Mess And Could Bring Another Terrorist Attack – The State Department has resettled 200,000 Afghans in the U.S., but whistleblowers point to corruption and lax security vetting. – The good news is that the new Trump administration has paused resettling Afghans. – The bad news is that Congress wants to continue the program…

Victor Davis Hanson: Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education? – First-Amendment-protected free speech all but vanished on elite campuses. – Any guest speaker who dared to critique abortion on demand, Middle East orthodoxy, biological males dominating women’s sports, or diversity/equity/inclusion dogmas was likely to be shouted down or, on occasion, roughed up…

American Thinker: Democrats Are So Passionate – But what they are passionate about is not a pretty picture. – They are extremely passionate about anything LGBTQ+, especially transgenderism, and even more passionate about trans men being welcomed to play among female athletes. – Then there is their campaign to promote all manner of sexual indoctrination to all of America’s children, K through 12. – There is generously paid for by Soros-affiliated organizations, NGOs, and the like.

Breitbart: Gavin Newsom The must borrow $3.44 billion to cover a shortfall in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, a year after expanding it to offer free health care to illegal aliens. – Beginning January 1, 2024, illegal aliens residing in California become eligible for taxpayer-funded health insurance. – Newsom boasted California would become the first state to achieve universal access to health care coverage.

March 12, 2025

Breitbart: The latest federal government data shows that President Biden’s deputies exploded the foreign-born share of the United States by at least 8.3 million, up to a record 15.8%, or one in six people in just four years. – In 2023, the Census Bureau said the foreign-born share of the U.S. population would not hit 15.8 percent until 2042.

Victor Davis Hanson: Why Won’t Europe Step Up and Help Ukraine? – We have 500 million people in Europe who are very upset that 330 million people across the ocean in America will not help 40 million people fighting 140 million people in Russia. – So, of all the players in this drama, it’s Europe who should be in the driver’s seat. – They’re also running a $200-plus billion trade surplus with the United States…

Breitbart: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Orders Force-Wide Review of Existing Fitness and Grooming Standards – Hegseth, “Our troops will be fit, not fat.” – “Our troops will look sharp, not sloppy.” – “We seek only quality, not quotas.” – “Our adversaries are not growing weaker, and our tasks are not growing less challenging.”…

Epoch Times: The EPA Plans To Roll Back Numerous Climate Regulations, Including The EV Rule – Administrator Lee Zeldin said the EPA would take steps to roll back 31 regulations to fulfill President Donald Trump’s “promise to unleash American energy, revitalize our auto industry, restore the rule of law, and give power back to the states.”

Just The Facts: An Overlooked Treasury Report Supports Musk’s Warning About Federal Deficits Sinking the U.S. – The quietly released January Treasury report shows if the federal government reported its finances like large corporations are required to report by law, it wouldn’t show a National Debt of $36 trillion, but $143 trillion in debts, liabilities, and unfunded obligations. – This equals 85% of all the wealth Americans have accumulated since the nation’s founding.3

Epoch Times: U.S. immigration detention facilities have reached capacity at about 47,600 beds, a top-level ICE official said on March 12 in a call with reporters. – The federal government is now seeking more bed space for detained illegal immigrants, added the official, who requested anonymity as a condition of the call.

Western Journal: Warning, The FBI Warns Americans to Delete These ‘Smishing’ Text Messages Immediately And Don’t Click On The Links. – This new wave of “smishing” has already “exploited more than 10,000 newly registered domains, using fake payment demands to steal personal and financial information.” – These “smishing” messages typically follow the same “script,” with the most recent wave being characterized by saying you have an unpaid toll due…

Zero Hedge: The WSJ’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Declares It’s Over For Ukraine In Kursk As Ukrainian Troops Are In Full Withdrawal Amid Rapid Russian Gains. – There are no more cards to play, as Trump put it last month while hosting Zelensky at the White House, and now this assessment proves truer than ever. – Russians are now studying the new US-Ukraine proposal for a 30-day truce in order to jump-start direct negotiations to end the war.

Zero Hedge: The Unimaginable Details Of The Great Gas Pipeline Caper Of 2025 That Led To Russia’s Kursk Victory – Briefly put, 800 Russian special ops marched 12 km. (7.2 miles!) through an abandoned gas pipeline (in some portions crawling, came out the other side, and in conjunction with other Russian troops, closed the trap door on Zelensky’s Kursk misadventure…

Slay News: President Trump has nominated Retired Air Force Lt. General Dan “Razin’” Caine as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to replace General Charles Q. Brown. – Brown was ousted because he supported Marxism DEI implementation. – One of Trump’s improvements to the military is to dispense with DEI policies that have arguably harmed wartime readiness.

Issues & Insights: As DOGE Makes Cuts, A Majority Want Gov’t Workers Treated Same As Those In Private Sector – When asked, “Should federal employees be treated differently than private-sector workers in terms of pay, benefits, and job protections?” An I&I/TIPP Poll, taken from Feb. 24-26, found of those queried, 65% said, “No, they should be treated the same.” Just 22% answered, “Yes, they should receive more.” Another 13% responded “not sure.”

Epoch Times: President Trump Says People Vandalizing Tesla Dealerships Could Be Labeled As Domestic Terrorists – There have been multiple attacks on Tesla dealerships and charging stations in recent weeks. – Trump told reporters his administration is already aware of who some of the people are behind the attacks, adding that law enforcement will soon apprehend them.

Western Journal: Trump’s Lawyer Goes Public After Biden’s Fake White House Teleprompter Equipped Video Set Is Found – Were this for a Republican president, White House correspondents would be parked day and night outside the fake Oval Office, reporting breathlessly on a crisis of confidence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. In this case, they simply forgot about it. — Now, Alina Habba reminded us of our propped-up president who pretended to run the country between January 2021 and January 2025.

Daily Mail: President Trump might have moved closer to achieving his goal of acquiring Greenland after two political parties that favor independence from Denmark won in the country’s parliamentary elections this week. – The country’s center-right Democrat Party, which favors gradual independence from Greenland, won 29.9% of the vote, meaning it will have to form a coalition with other parties to form a government.

Breitbart: Americans got relief from inflation in February as prices rose at the slowest pace since last summer. – Overall consumer prices climbed just 0.21 percent, the smallest increase since August 2024. In January, prices jumped 0.5 percent compared with December. – Core prices also rose 0.2 percent, half of January’s 0.4 percent surge.

New York Sun: New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen Announces Retirement, Making Her the Third Democrat To Forgo Reelection – Other Democrats are reportedly eyeing the exit as the Senate map points to a Republican majority for years to come. – In their best-case scenario, Democrats would have to defend their open seats in Michigan, Minnesota, and New Hampshire while also reelecting Geprgoa Senator Ossoff.

Washington Free Beacon: The Trump Admin Terminates $20B in Biden Climate Funding Over Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Concerns – A $2 billion grant for a group linked to Stacey Abrams is among those canceled – The grants were awarded under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program, which was created by former president Joe Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act…

American Thinker: President Trump’s ‘America First’ Policies Are The Only Path to True Economic Strength – It’s time to stop getting distracted and start seeing the real results that are lifting all communities across this country. – I’ve seen firsthand how weak U.S. leadership allowed unfair trade deals, weak foreign policies, and leaders more interested in their careers than in serving the people has weakened America…

American Thinker: A Theory On Why The Left Lost – There are two approaches to achieving political change in reasonably functional modern societies. – The first depends on persuasion. – The second approach relies on destabilization. – Democrats are well on board that particular train wreck…

American Thinker: Returning to an Earlier American Identity – Trump represents a return to pre-Wilsonian ideals of individualism and bourgeois initiative. – The thrust toward collectivism and expansion of federal power began during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson. – Wilson supported the creation of a Federal Reserve Bank to manipulate our monetary policy and a federal income tax to expand the administrative authority of the federal government…

American Thinker: President Trump’s Digital Fort Knox, Bitcoin, the Dollar, and America’s Financial Future – Trump isn’t just stockpiling Bitcoin, he’s weaponizing it. – President Trump’s Bitcoin strategy is not merely an exercise in asset accumulation. A key goal is stabilizing cryptocurrency markets to reduce systemic financial risks. – A more stable Bitcoin market has cascading macroeconomic effects…

Geller Report: What Democrats did is unconscionable. – They raped the American taxpayer to get super rich and impose their perverse, insane pathologies on the public. – The NIH has canceled grants, including $620K for “an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys.” – $699K for studying “cannabis use” among “sexual minority gender diverse individuals.” – $740K for examining “social networks” among “black and Latino sexual minority men in New Jersey.”…

March 11, 2025

Western Journal: Ukraine accepts cease-fire deal, says Rubio: ‘We’ll take this to the Russians’ – Rubio, standing alongside national security advisor Mike Waltz, did not detail exactly what was in this agreement, but according to a readout provided by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, Kyiv has agreed to a 30-day ceasefire contingent on Moscow’s acceptance of the terms…

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Many Reasons to Be Upset With Mexico – Mexico knows it has been doing four things, with impunity, especially under Joe Biden, that are not sustainable. – The first there was a NAFTA $10-$20 billion trade surplus. Then it went to $40 billion, then it went to $50 billion. – During Trump’s first term, it was renegotiated and kind of stayed static. – Now, it’s over $175 billion due to how China manipulates it. – Then there’s the border...

Western Journal: Trump’s Done Messing Around With Canada – “Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on ‘Electricity’ coming into the US, we will increase the 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA. “This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th.”

Epoch Times: Ontario to Suspend Electricity Export Tariff After The Premier And US Commerce Secretary Speak – Ford and Lutnick will meet in Washington on March 13 “to discuss a renewed USMCA ahead of the April 2 reciprocal tariff deadline.” – Ontario Premier Doug Ford had said on March 11 he would not back down from his decision to put a 25 percent tax on electricity supplied to three U.S. states…

Epoch Times: Trump Drops Plan to Double Tariffs on Canadian Steel and Aluminum After Ontario Suspends Energy Export Tax – Ontario suspended its 25 percent electricity export tariff after the premier and U.S. commerce secretary spoke on March 11.

Daily Signal: The House voted 217-213 Tuesday to pass the Republicans’ continuing resolution to avert a partial government shutdown that was set to begin Friday. – The CR passed along party lines with the exception of Rep. Thomas Massie, who remained the only Republican in opposition. All Democrats voted against it except Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine. – The bill will now go to the Senate, where its prospects remain uncertain.

Epoch Times: The White House Says Trump Won’t Cut Into Social Security and Medicare Following Musk Statement – Must was referring to government findings about fraud and waste, such as a U.S. Government Accountability Office report estimating that the US stands to lose $521 billion annually to fraud, namely within the Medicaid and Medicare programs, and of course, the mainstream media twisted the facts…

Washington Examiner: A Court steps in after USAID employees were ordered to shred or burn classified documents – White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said the ‘shedding’ email was sent to “roughly three dozen employees” and downplayed the coverage of the burn orders as “more fake news hysteria.” – U.S. Customs and Border Protection is planning to move into the USAID facility.

Gateway Pundit: In yet another stunning example of government waste, the Biden administration’s $3 billion scheme to convert the USPS fleet to electric vehicles has delivered nothing but empty promises, skyrocketing costs, and a mere 93 delivery vehicles out of the planned 50,000.

Daily Wire: Trump Halts Funding To Maine Schools As State Refuses To Bar Trans-Identifying Athletes From Women’s Sports – The pause in funding impacts eight public colleges in the University of Maine System. – President Trump warned during a White House event in late February that he would cut funding to Maine schools if the state continued to allow trans-identifying males to compete on girls’ and women’s sports teams.

Conservative Compass: Trump’s Plan to Fix the Economy: Why It Might Hurt Before It Gets Better – Trump’s plan is about long-term health, not short-term comfort. – It’s going to feel rough for a while, but it’s necessary to fix the damage caused by reckless spending and overregulation…

Daily Wire: The Stock Market Plunges, So What Happens Next? – When you mess with the market mechanisms, people don’t like it. – Emerson’s new poll shows President Trump’s handling of the economy underwater by 11 points, but his job approval rating remains at 47-45, which is largely due to the widespread and correct perception that he totally changed the game on immigration.

Epoch Times: The Department of Education To Cut Half Of Its Workforce – Cost-saving measures also include closing all offices, including those in New York, Boston, Dallas, Chicago, and San Francisco. – The laid-off staffers will be awarded severance payments based on their years of service, with the most senior members receiving up to 20 weeks of salary…

California Globe: A California Voter ID Ballot Initiative Is Announced For The 2026 Ballot – A coalition of elected officials and campaign committees have also announced support and released polling showing overwhelming bipartisan support for a Voter ID Initiative in California – with a super-majority of Republicans and Independents and a majority of even Democratic voters supporting the initiative.

Just The News: JD Vance meets with House Republicans on Tuesday morning to rally support for a spending measure to avert a looming government shutdown ahead of a final, full-chamber vote scheduled for later in the day. – This resolution would fund the government through September. – Trump endorsed the continuing resolution over the weekend and encouraged all Republicans to vote for it.

Politico: The Democrat Party’s brand is in rough shape in the congressional battleground districts. – Nearly two months into the Trump administration, a majority of voters believe Democrats in Congress are “more focused on helping other people than people like me,” according to an internal poll conducted by the Democratic group Navigator Research. Among independents, just 27% believe Democrats are focused on helping them…

Conservative Brief: The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate voted 67 to 32 to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as President Donald Trump’s Labor secretary. – Trump picked Chavez-DeRemer for the job because her father was a Teamsters member, a sign that Trump is angling to break up the Democrats’ long-standing alliance with organized labor.

American Thinker: A ‘Putin’s Puppet’ President? Obama’s Truly Shocking Record – As usual with the left, whatever they accuse Republicans of doing is what they’ve done themselves, and nowhere is that more obvious than with Obama and Putin. – When one reviews Obama’s table-setting rhetorical blunders and truly shocking betrayals of allies, stripped of the whipped cream of the legacy media, it makes it painfully easy to see who was, in reality, “aligned with Putin” and was, in fact, his “puppet.”

American Thinker: China’s 4-Stage Strategy to Surpass the USA – Their fourth stage is the most critical. – China’s goal is to become self-sufficient in high-tech industries and become a nation of indigenous innovators. – Policies include their “Made in China 2025 initiative, and, most recently, Xi Jinping’s emphasis is on developing China’s technological power, which has led the country to spend massively on R&D, becoming the second largest R&D spender in the world after the United States.

Townhall: President Trump, “I Want Thomas Massie Gone.” – Trump is trying to get a clean continuing resolution passed to keep the government’s doors open. – The real fight is not this CR; it’s the coming budget reconciliation package. – Yet, as things stand, it appears Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky is the lone Republican planning to vote no, so Trump wants him Primaried…

Townhall: Now Elon Musk is the new whipping boy because he’s a Trump supporter, helms DOGE, and is wealthy. A New Video Confirms What We’ve Long Suspected About These Anti-Elon Protests – And to the shock of no one, these left-wing activists are being paid to cause mayhem. – “I get paid to be out here,” said the man holding an anti-Musk sign. – “Definitely. 100 percent,” he added...

Issues & Insights: One Fact Is Missing From Every DOGE Story – The next time you hear someone complaining that DOGE is “slashing” federal spending or “dismantling” the government, pay close attention. There will almost certainly be an important fact left out: The gargantuan federal deficit. – When President Donald Trump took office, the federal government was $840 billion in the red, a 58% increase from the prior fiscal year.

Red State: There Goes That Democrat Narrative, The Latest News on Egg Prices Show They Are Going Down – It’s now dropped more than 11 percent, as you can see at this link on Trading Economics, from its high. – The average is now lower than it was when Trump came into office. – It’s now at 6.0831 per dozen. – It was 6.80 when Trump took office.

March 10, 2025

One America News: Joe Biden’s Autopen Signature Is On Most Official Documents According To An Oversight Project – Their latest investigation shows that every document bearing President Biden’s signature throughout his presidency was signed using an autopen, except for one. One America’s Stella Escobedo spoke with Mike Howell, the executive director of the Oversight Project, about this. The Autopen is not supposed to be used for important documents…

One America News: U.S. National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard Announces Revocation Of Security Clearances For Numerous Biden Administration Officials – I have revoked security clearances and barred access to classified information for Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, and Andrew Weissman, along with the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden ‘disinformation’ letter…

Slay News: Elon Musk Confirms X Hit with ‘Massive Cyberattack’ Causing Global Outages – On Monday, tens of thousands of reports were submitted to DownDetector. – Users reported they could not access the X app or website or that they could not access posts. – Musk, “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources.”

Daily Wire: The Senate Confirmed The Last Of Trump’s Cabinet Secretaries – 17 Democrats joined with most Republicans in voting for Lori Chavez-DeRemer to become Labor Secretary. – The Senate has now approved all 21 positions in Trump’s “formal” Cabinet in the seven weeks since Inauguration Day.

Daily Signal: A recent RMG Research poll found that 98% of respondents believe there is at least some corruption in the federal government. – More than two-thirds of respondents (69%) said there is “a lot” of corruption in the federal government, while about a quarter (23%) agreed there is at least “a little.”

Canadian Independent: President Trump responds To Canada announcing a 25% surcharge on electricity supplied to the US – Despite the fact that Canada is charging the USA Tariffs of 250% to 390% on many of our farm products, we’ll just get it back on April 2nd. – Canada is a Tariff abuser and always has been, but the US is not going to be subsidizing Canada any longer…

Julie Kelly: The D.C. Appellate Court Sides With Trump in Dellinger Case – Trump’s DOJ argued that the president has the authority to fire a political appointee with executive branch authority – The 3-judge panel determined the president would win on the merits of the case and had choice words for Hampton Dellinger and Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who kept him in the post for almost a month.

Washington Examiner: A New York federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to deport a Columbia University student who led controversial pro-Palestinian protests on campus. – Judge Jesse Furman ruled Khalil cannot be deported until a court rules on a petition challenging the move.

John Leake: Has Trump Seen Proof that Funds For Ukraine Were Stolen? – I get the impression that President Trump has been presented with documentary proof of what has, for me, been a mere hunch. – The gigantic flow of weapons from the U.S. to Ukraine raises the suspicion that the country has become a supply depot for international arms dealers…

Daily Signal: A majority of registered voters approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance, according to a poll released Friday by the Napolitan Institute that found the president’s job approval rating at 51%, with 32% strongly approving. – That effort has also received positive feedback from Americans, with another recent poll finding that 51% of Americans support the president’s efforts to pare down staff at government agencies…

Clash Daily: World Economic Forum Puppet Trudeau Is Gone, So Let’s Meet Mark Carney, The WEF String-Puller Who Replaced Him – Canada just went out of the frying pan and into the fire. – This guy is all in on the globalist vision. – Here is a Jordan Peterson video that provides an absolutely SAVAGE contrast between Trudeau and Carney…

Daily Wire: The Biden-era CBP One app used as a gateway for migrants to enter the US will now be used to enable illegal aliens to self-deport back to their home countries. – The now-named CBP Home app will now allow migrants to “submit intent to depart” and “verify departure” from the United States.

Daily Wire: After the terrorist group Hamas ignored a Saturday deadline from Israel to release more of the 59 hostages they hold, Israel cut off supplying electricity to Gaza. – Doron Arbely, “Today there is no electricity line leading from Israel into Gaza. – Twenty-four of the hostages Hamas is holding from their murderous October 7, 2023 massacre of more than 1200 Israelis are believed to be still alive…

Center For Immigration Studies: President Trump Is Preparing to Use The Alien Enemies Act To Combat Mexico And The Drug Cartels – Trump has seemingly been building that Mexico is a mafia state and acts of the Mexican drug cartels in the US should be considered acts of the Mexican government itself. – Trump’s EO seemed to lay out a case, stating that “international cartels constitute a national-security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime…

Chronicles Magazine: What Kash Patel Will Find in the Kavanaugh FBI File – If Patel and Bongino ever do see the full Kavanaugh FBI files, I believe they will be shocked. – I also believe the file contains information showing that the Kavanaugh hit was a deep-state operation that involved criminal activity like extortion and witness tampering and that those behind it still have not, to this day, been named…

Issues & Insights: Net Zero Is A Big Fat Zero For Economic Growth – Cutting greenhouse gas emissions was going to save the planet at no cost. – It turns out it’s an economy wrecker. – In truth, the IRA was nothing more nor less than a backdoor effort to impose the Green New Deal scam that Biden and company had tried and failed to pass through Congress previously.”

Breitbart: Eighty-three percent of the programs directly funded and administered by USAID were canceled Monday by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. – The decision came after a six-week review of the programs. – Rubio said their funding was antithetical to the core interests of the United States: The 5200 contracts that are now canceled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve (and in some cases even harmed) the core national interests of the United States.

Dallas Ludlum: The Feds Take Down Massive A Smuggling Ring That Trafficked ~20,000 Migrants From Guatemala To The US – Eduardo Domingo Renoj-Matul and his enforcer, Cristobal Mejia-Chaj weren’t just moving people—they were running a full-scale trafficking machine, charging migrants up to $15,000 for the dangerous trek through Mexico and across the U.S. border…

Daily Fetched: The US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California charged 128 illegal immigrants with illegally entering the country within the first two months of President Donald Trump’s term. – McNally stated that under Joe Biden, there was zero interest in enforcing immigration laws, with just 128 arrests between 2021 and 2024.

California Globe: California Representative Kevin Kiley Calls on FBI to Investigate California’s High-Speed Rail: No Power, No Money, No ‘High Speed’ – High-speed rail has been bilking the taxpayers since 2008. – California’s High-Speed Rail project is now 17 years old, with no track, no trains, and $13 Billion gone…

American Thinker: Everything You Know About the USAID Case May be Wrong – Perhaps Justice Barrett didn’t sell out conservatives and is just waiting for the right opportunity to rule on the merits rather than on a leftist judge’s procedural mess. – First, the plaintiffs were in the wrong court. – The District Court has no authority to order that the government pay a debt. – Barrett went along with an institutional distaste for reaching the merits of a case until the lower courts fully developed it.

Washington Examiner: White House seethes over a ‘stab in the back’ by OpenAI chief Sam Altman – In his first move on his first full day back to the White House, Trump secured $500 billion in private investment for “Stargate AI, he hosted the IT chiefs anchoring the project, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. – Now Altman is hosting a big fundraiser for Trump critic Sen. Mark Warner in 10 days at $1,000 to $22,000 a pop…

Townhall: Trump Could Recoup Court Costs From Fani Willis Case – Recently passed Georgia Senate Bill 244 paves the way for defendants in Georgia to recover attorney-related expenses and other court costs in proceedings where the DA is kicked off a criminal case due to prosecutorial misconduct. – Records show Trump paid his top attorneys about $2.7 million, and the Georgia GOP spent at least $2 million on the legal defense of other Trump allies…

The Federalist: Your Complete Guide To The Lawsuits Challenging A President’s Power To Fire Executive Officials – Since President Donald Trump reclaimed the executive branch in January, more than 50 lawsuits have been filed to halt his America-first efforts. – Trump’s firing of non-executive branch officials spurred litigation, including Dellinger v. Bessent, Harris v. Bessent, Wilcox v. Trump, Grundmann v. Trump, and Storch v. Hegseth…

The Federalist: The Trump Admin And All Republican States Should Ditch The American Bar Association – The ABA deeply affects the U.S. lawyer pipeline and licensing system, accrediting law schools, rating judges, and weaponizing lawyer discipline.- Its rabid leftism means the ABA systematically ratchets the entire U.S. legal system against the U.S. Constitution.

The Federalist: After A Four-Year Nap, New York Times To Start ‘Fact-Checking’ The White House Again – Apparently, Trump-era reporting is such a departure from usual reporting that it requires an explanation. – The implication is that the infamously truth-stretching Biden didn’t need fact-checking, but Trump does. – Unfortunately, the Times has a long history of not carefully fact-checking when the target is an opponent of Democrats.

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Democrat ‘Allies’ – The current Democrat Party is completely unaware that to stop Trump, they must become far more unpopular than Trump. – We are witnessing the most radical counter-revolution in the last 100 years as the Trump administration attempts to slash government spending and federal bureaucracies. – Rather than agree on anything with Trump, Democrats automatically oppose everything he does, even if that means pushing issues that 70% of the populace want…

Daily Fetched: Popular sports and media personality Stephen A. Smith gave The View hosts a sobering reality check this week when he vehemently rejected their claims that President Donald Trump doesn’t have a political mandate. – Smith emphasized how Trump has built a political operation that extends far beyond politics and predicted that Trump’s successor would likely come from within his political circle, naming VP J.D. Vance and Senator Marco Rubio as strong contenders…

American Thinker: Crisis fatigue catches up with the Democrats – The Democrats are finding out that cultivating a state of fear in the populace to attain and maintain power has its limitations. – Fearmongering from Democrats on COVID, Climate, and Russia has finally exhausted the voting public. – Over time, people get tired of hearing the same old drumbeat, yet it is amazing people fall for these narratives in the first place…

Fox News: A new study reveals the ‘staggering’ scope of DEI infusion into government under Biden, showing over $1 trillion was spent promoting it. – The new study, conducted by the Functional Government Initiative and the Center for Renewing America, identified 460 programs across 24 government agencies in the Biden administration that diverted resources to DEI initiatives.

2nd Smartest Guy: Just like the Intelligence Industrial Complex, their various Federal agencies, “nonprofits,” and corporate partners-in-crime created the PSYOP COVID-19 scamdemic, so too has a H5N1 PSYOP-BIRD-FLU been cooked up via gain-of-function by yet another criminal government entity in the USDA. – Thankfully, Kennedy is opposing this bio-terror democide of humans and animals alike; to wit:…

March 9, 2025

Wall Street Journal Opinion: A Government Shutdown Test for Republicans – The Speaker’s bill is a continuing resolution to maintain current funding levels and priorities, with a few modifications. – The bill adds some $6 billion for defense above current levels and some more for border security. – This and some other increases will be offset by about $13 billion in reductions for domestic accounts. – Failing to unite behind Speaker Mike Johnson’s funding bill will empower Democrats…

Epoch Times: Mark Carney Will Be Canada’s Next Prime Minister After Winning The Liberal Leadership Race – Carney, a former central banker, won the leadership race on March 9 on the first ballot with 85.9% of the nearly 152,000 votes. – Trudeau said last week that the exact date he would leave the top role will be decided between him and the new leader.

Gateway Pundit: Elon Musk Reveals His “Key” to Ending the War In Ukraine for Good and Delivered Two Inconvenient Truths – “Place sanctions on the top 10 Ukrainian oligarchs, especially the ones with mansions in Monaco, and this (the war) will stop immediately.” – He once challenged Putin to a physical fight and said Ukraine’s army would completely collapse if he cut off Starlink in the country…

Washington Free Beacon: A Syrian Columbia Student Activist in ICE Custody After Trump Admin Revokes Visa – Mahmoud Khalil, an encampment negotiator, pledged to push the school to divest from Israel by ‘any available means necessary.’ – A public ICE database first listed Khalil as being held in an Elizabeth, N.J., detention center. By Monday morning, it said he had been moved to a facility in Louisiana.

American Spectator: ActBlue Probes May Shut Down DNC Money Laundry – The fundraising platform is suspected of identity theft, credit card fraud, and various other financial crimes. – This may well be what precipitated the sudden departure of seven senior officials from ActBlue in February…

Zero Hedge: Groundbreaking DOGE Report has Extensive Implications – The report was entered this past week by Brian Harriss of Georgia, who requested DOGE to investigate US Tax Court Judge Michael B Thornton, who he believes is has been laundering bribe money through his real estate holdings – Declaring only $211k in income, he regularly took out $400-600k loans on his properties, and they were often repaid within 6 months to a year…

Sharyl Attkisson: From Leaks to Lies, 50 Reasons Trust in FBI Leadership Has Faded – As Kash Patel takes the helm as new FBI Director, he has stated he plans to dig deep into systemic corruption and incompetence to reinvent the agency. – He has a big job. – What follows is a relative shortlist of FBI missteps and abuses that have shaken public confidence over the past 25 years…

American Spectator: End the Department of Education to End DEI – This framework of racial preferences and social engineering didn’t emerge in a vacuum. It was cultivated by a bureaucracy designed to exert ideological control over education – Without the DOE’s coercive funding and regulatory mandates, schools would be free to focus on academic excellence rather than political orthodoxy…

Breitbart: Two illegal aliens with lengthy criminal records in sanctuary cities were arrested after allegedly shooting and killing a man who tried to stop them from stealing a catalytic converter. – Wilber Alberto Rabanales, a Guatemalan national, and Jose Christian Saravia Sanchez, a Salvadoran national, were arrested by law enforcement officials with the Inglewood Police Department in Inglewood, California, on Friday.

Slay News: Missouri AG Bailey Demands The DOJ Investigate Biden’s Mental Decline During His Presidency For most of his presidency, and especially toward the end, it was clear to many, including Democrats, that Biden was suffering from significant cognitive decline. – Consequently, various top officials now want to know how far gone Biden was at the end, especially since he signed a flurry of pardons in his final days and hours in office.

Just The News: A Secret Service shot a man near the White House – Local police had reported that a “suicidal individual” was potentially traveling to the D.C. area from Indiana. – Secret Service agents eventually located the individual’s vehicle and saw an individual on foot matching the description nearby. – As officers approached, the individual brandished a firearm, and shots were fired. – The man’s condition has not been disclosed…

American Thinker: President Trump brings sanity to Russia and Ukraine – With a firm ultimatum, President Trump has made it clear that the war must end. – Trump delivered a direct challenge to Vladimir Putin: engage in peace negotiations now, or face crippling economic consequences.- Unlike the weak, aimless leadership of the previous administration, President Trump’s strategy is crystal-clear: apply maximum pressure to end the war, not prolong it…

PJ Media: President Trump Slashes ALL South Africa Aid, Citing Anti-White Government Policy – Trump, “South Africa is being terrible, plus, to long-time Farmers in the country.” – “They are confiscating their LAND and FARMS, and MUCH WORSE THAN THAT. – Any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship.”…

American Thinker: Musk meetings with cabinet could be key to DOGE success – Trump told his Cabinet members that they held the authorization to hire and fire, but they’d best act quickly because he is not changing his agenda to cut the bloat in government. – Those who sit around and don’t prioritize the staff they want to keep will be at the mercy of Musk. – They are now on notice.

Resist The Mainstream: DHS has recently begun administering polygraph tests to its employees as part of an effort to identify potential leakers of sensitive information related to immigration operations. – According to sources familiar with the practice, these tests are being conducted to determine who might be disclosing details about planned operations to the media.

American Spectator: Bhattacharya Did Not Follow the COVID Herd – Trump’s pick for the NIH was right about COVID, and when the healthcare establishment went after him, he didn’t buckle. – As Democrats and some Republicans tried to get Bhattacharya to renounce Trump’s budget and personnel cuts, Bhattacharya stayed focused on his goal of not suppressing research that questions orthodoxies…

American Thinker: Three Preposterous Stories – A $600,000 grant to study menstruation in “transgender men. – A child rapist stays in the U.K. because deporting him would harm his mental health. – An Albanian criminal has been allowed to stay in Britain in part because his 10-year-old son does not like the chicken nuggets served in foreign countries. – And the insanity continues…

March 8, 2025

Geller Report: SYRIA GENOCIDE – The Biden regime backed the new Syrian government by al-Qaeda Terrorist al-Jolani (Jawlani) telling the American people that Jawlani’s new government was going to serve all Syrians. – He even sent them ‘ humanitarian aid.’ – Now Christians and non-Muslims are being rounded up en masse by the Biden-backed Islamic regime in Syria…

Center Square: House Republicans on Saturday released a 99-page bill to avoid the looming government shutdown. – The bill would keep most government spending on cruise control through the end of the current fiscal year on Sept. 30. – March 14 is the deadline for the House and Senate to pass the continuing resolution and send it to President Trump’s desk.

Zero Hedge: President Trump Asks “All Republicans” To “Give Us A Few Months” And Approve The GOP Continuing Resolution – The bill largely maintains current spending levels, adding $8 billion for defense programs and $6 billion for veterans’ healthcare. – Non-defense spending would drop by approximately $13 billion…

Breitbart: Canadian Premier Danielle Smith Says Trudeau Blew Tariff Negotiations in First Mar-a-Lago Meeting – We certainly have more dependence on U.S. trade than in any other market, but it’s mutually beneficial, so I think that we started on the wrong foot…

Red State: JD Vance Speaks Up for Normal People After Ukraine Activists Once Again Pester His Young Family – This weekend, pro-Ukraine activists once again pestered the Vance family, this time, inexcusably, while the dad was on a walk with his 3-year-old child. – VP Vance shared this story on his X account on Saturday...

California Globe: A Shocking 16,000 Jobs Have Been Lost Due to California’s $20 Fast Food Wage Hike – The data comes from the new Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages – Before Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the $20 minimum wage for fast food workers, he had been warned by many that it would be devastating for the industry, but he did it anyway…

Gateway Pundit: Elon Musk Reveals The Big-Name Democrat Donors Funding Attacks on Tesla Stores, With Many Resorting To Violence – The Five ActBlue-funded groups include Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America. – ActBlue funders include George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman, and Leah Hunt-Hendrix.ActBlue is currently under investigation…

Zero Hedge: Senator Rick Scott is touting a bipartisan effort known as the “Sunshine Protection Act” to make Daylight Saving Time the national year-round standard. – Of more than one million users polled, 58.1 percent said they’d prefer clocks to stay one hour ahead, versus 41.9 percent who said one hour behind. – While most of the nation participates in Daylight Saving Time, Hawaii and parts of Arizona do not adhere to it.

Dr. Owen Anderson: More Winning, Arizona State University Has Retreated on DEI Ideology – It turns out Columbia losing $400 million in federal funding is a language universities suddenly understand. – ASU has begun fundamentally changing its web pages, quietly removing DEI rhetoric…

American Thinker: EU and Ukraine, Stop Blaming Trump And Look in the Mirror – European leaders criticize President Trump for allegedly undermining Zelensky as he seeks to create space for negotiations, yet they failed to prevent Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the first place. – Trump remains the only leader advocating for a pragmatic resolution to the mess in Eastern Europe. – Quick population facts per AI query: Europe = ~750 million, Russia = ~144 million, Ukrainene = ~35-38 million, and USA = ~345 million…

American Thinker: Zelensky’s Arrogance – President Zelensky often uses half-truths and power moves to get his way in his dealings with foreign leaders. – Because Ukrainian diplomacy retains its Soviet political culture, He often starts his conversations with a litany of requirements and claims, making unreasonable demands in a categorical tone. – There is no room for gratitude for gifts provided in this paradigm…

Zero Hedge: The case for getting out of NATO encompasses four fundamental propositions – 1. The Federal budget has become a self-fueling fiscal doomsday machine. 2. Fiscal salvation requires slashing the Warfare State by at least $500 billion per year. – 3. Return to the “no entangling alliance” wisdom of the Founders… – 4. Debunk NATO’s false claim that it brought peace and security to post-war America when it actually transformed DC into the War Capital of the World…

Real Clear Politics: DOGE Has The Consultant Cabal on the Run – The DOGE team is looking into the most inflated portion of the unofficial “shadow” bureaucracy: government consultants with the biggest names in the business like Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, and IBM. – One of them, Booz Allen Hamilton, reportedly depends on federal contracts for 98% of its $11 billion revenue…

One America News: The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that it was putting a plan back in place to recover 100% of overpayments to beneficiaries. – This comes after the agency abandoned the policy last year after calls over cases where Americans received bills amounting to thousands of dollars due to overpayments.

New York Post: The frontrunner to take over the reins from Justin Trudeau on Sunday when Canada’s Liberal Party chooses its new leader is a tough-talking former Goldman Sachs executive who compared President Trump to the Harry Potter villain Voldemort. – Mark Carney, credited with helping Canada dodge the worst of the 2008 financial crisis when he was governor of the Bank of Canada, is viewed by his countryman as the politician most trusted to handle Trump, polls show.

American Thinker: Can You Trust Air Travel? – A recent report on the FAA’s systems and infrastructure is, frankly, terrifying. – The agency’s aging systems, some of which date back several decades, are no longer able to meet the growing demands of the aviation industry. -Urgent action is needed to modernize critical systems to ensure safety, efficiency, and capacity in the face of ever-expanding air traffic…

American Thinker: Blue on Blue Leads To Heartache on Heartache – The Blue team has a real problem. – Doubling down on Trump’s Derangement Syndrome is not working. In fact, it only doubles their problems because the public can smell an irrationally crazy person a mile away. – Centrists know that those infected with TDS will vote for any Democrat. – So they have a BIG problem when rational people see too many performances like they had the other night…

American Thinker: Unleashing American Competitiveness Via Trump’s Pause Of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – Unshackling private American companies from the FCPA is one step in leveling the playing field with China. – China understands economic warfare well. – The Belt and Road Initiative announced by Xi Jinping outlines a grand plan to reorient global commerce around the Eurasian landmass with China at its center…

American Thinker: Closing the DoE – President Trump has called the DoE a “big con job,” and he’s absolutely right. – It’s time to put education back in the hands of parents and states where it belongs. – The DoE wastes taxpayer money every single day. It’s been a drain on our country since its creation in 1979. – It was never about reform — it was a political payoff to the NEA, bought in exchange for their ongoing endorsement and political support…

Resist The Mainstream: President Trump shot down suggestions of a dispute between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk during a cabinet meeting on Friday, labeling NBC News reporter Gabe Gutierrez a “troublemaker” for raising the issue. – The incident unfolded after Trump signed an executive order to establish the White House Task Force for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the Oval Office.

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Ad-Vance Guard Edition – Somehow, this is the week that the Memosphere decided that JD Vance needed to be the newest object of memorialization…

March 7, 2025

Breitbart: DHS Security Secretary Kristi Noem, “We have identified two leakers of information here at the Department of Homeland Security, who have been telling individuals about our operations and putting law enforcement lives in jeopardy.” – “We plan to prosecute these two individuals and hold them fully accountable for what they’ve done.”

Townhall: Kash Patel’s FBI Shocks The Nation With Three Treason Arrests Just Two Weeks Into His Role – The arrests were announced on Friday. – Authorities have yet to disclose the full details of the case, but sources confirm that the suspects allegedly betrayed the nation and attempted to sell government secrets to China.

Slay News: U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Refuses to Block DOGE from Accessing Treasury Systems – Judge Kollar-Kotelly noted that the plaintiffs haven’t shared anything to indicate any immediate risk of lasting damage from information being revealed. – The employees are already obligated to keep such information secret.

Daily Signal: The Trump administration celebrated its first monthly jobs report Friday, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics announcing the addition of more than 151,00 new jobs in February. – The manufacturing industry is already rebounding, as there were 9,000 new auto jobs created—the most auto jobs added in 15 months!…

Tablet Magazine: Why Tariffs Are Good – The verdict of history is clear: No country ever industrialized by pursuing free trade. – The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny, especially when it comes to U.S. trade with China – When it comes to tariffs as a tool of economic statecraft in general, the gap between establishment rhetoric and actual government practice is big enough to drive a Chinese EV through…

Zero Hedge: The Trump Administration Yanks SBA Benefits From Illegals – The SBA will now require all SBA loan applicants to include citizenship verification so that only legal citizens are accessing its programs. – The SBA is also relocating offices in six sanctuary cities, including locations in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York City, and Seattle.

Zero Hedge: Why Stocks Suffer Their Worst Week In Six Months – An avalanche of geopolitical and macro-economic headlines crossed paths with an ugly technical situation. – Growth Concerns, Tariff Fatigue, Global Complexity, Weak Technicals, Liquidity, Consume Woes, Systematic Supply…

Washington Free Beacon: The EPA cannot track or conduct oversight of more than $650 million in taxpayer funds that a Biden-backed green group wired to dozens of credit union accounts in February. – Inclusiv, which received $1.9 billion last year as part of the EPA’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program, transferred the funds to 108 credit unions across 27 states and Puerto Rico…

Daily Caller: Don Jr., ‘Are You F*cking Retarded?’ in response to a question about whether he is running for president in 2028. – Don Jr., “I accurately predicted that my buddy JD would be an instant power player in national GOP politics, so your theory is that I worked my ass off to help get him the VP nomination because I want to run for president in 2028? – Are you fucking retarded?” he asked.

Powerline: Other People’s Money – The VA canceled a $56,000 contract to water ~8 plants for 5 years. – This equates to ~$1400/plant/year. – The contract has been canceled, and DOGE will water the plants free of charge. – I wish President Trump well in his effort to clean up Washington, D.C., but he has his work cut out for him as the incompetence and the corruption run deep.

Daily Wire: Gavin Newsom Starts His 2028 Campaign With Painfully Obvious Lies – As it stands, Newsom is the most effective candidate that Democrats can run in four years. – Newsom suggests that it’s profoundly unfair for a man to compete in women’s sports, as any sane person must. – But then he still tries to find some kind of middle ground with the bit about how we have to have “grace” for self-identified trans people because “they’re more likely to commit suicide.”…

Daily Wire: President Trump stated that he is considering imposing sanctions on Russia until a peace deal is reached between Russia and Ukraine. – Trump, “Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late.” – Thank you!!!

JD Rucker: Peacemaker Trump Has Both Putin and Zelensky Ready to Agree to a Truce – A lot can still happen, but as of now, things are looking very good for a near-future peace agreement. – In separate stories, it is being reported today that both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are taking the final steps before coming to the table to discuss a truce or temporary ceasefire…

Geller Report: Too Many Autopen Signatures – Missouri AG Andrew Bailey asked the DOJ to investigate whether Biden’s cognitive mental decline allowed unelected officials to make decisions without his knowledge or approval. – If so, Biden’s executive orders, pardons, and other actions may be unconstitutional and void.- There are legitimate concerns in Washington that the United States effectively lacked a president retaking the Oval Office…

Slay News: Tulsi Gabbard Reveals Biden Freed ISIS-Linked Illegal Aliens Into America – Only eight out of more than 100 migrants with suspected ISIS ties were locked up or deported after illegally crossing into the U.S. – The rest were allowed to freely enter the interior of the United States, unchallenged. – Trump officials are working to track down the terror-linked migrants…

Geller Report: ActBlue, a major Democratic fundraising group, saw an exodus of at least seven senior officials and has “plunged into turmoil” as it faces an investigation from Republicans in Congress. – ActBlue was the creation of David Brock – best known for the propaganda outlet Media Matters for America. For too long, they have gotten away with political warfare and lawfare, not to mention fraud & theft & money laundering.

Washington Free Beacon: Less than a month after the Palestinian Authority supposedly ended its longstanding payments for terrorism, the funds appeared to go out this week as usual. – While Palestine Post and the authority’s other official channels did not specify that the monthly payments were for terrorism, social media users were more forthright…

Townhall: Officials at USAID and grantees could potentially face criminal charges for fraud after the agency’s deputy administrator-designate found abuse of taxpayer funds was far worse than first reported. – Acting USAID Chief Pete Marocco reportedly told Congress he is considering criminal referrals regarding fraudulent spending activities within the agency…

Zero Hedge: DHS Ends TSA Collective Bargaining After Bombshell Finding Of ‘More Of Them Being Full-Time Union Workers’ Than Actual Airport Screeners. – The TSA has more people doing “full-time union work” vs. performing actual screening functions at 86% of US airports. – Even more alarming, a recent TSA employee survey found that over 60% of “poor performers” are allowed to stay employed and “not surprisingly, continue to not perform.”

Brownstone Institute: Deborah Birx, former WH Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator, came from a department everyone now knows to be a front for CIA propaganda and regime change operations. – This announcement contains hints that public health agencies or officials did not choose Birx. Rather, she appears to be coming from the national security apparatus and “will be supported by the National Security Council staff.”…

Liz Wheeler: The content of the new House report on the January 6th pipe bomber is shocking. – The FBI tracked phone data & narrowed the suspects down to 186 phone numbers, and then down to 1 phone number. And then the FBI suddenly stopped the case. – They just ended it without explanation…

Breitbart: Billions of dollars spent on services for homeless people in Los Angeles are unaccounted for after a court-ordered audit conducted by Alvarez & Marsal Public Sector Services of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority – A&M’s audit painted a picture of a fractured and inefficient system that failed to properly manage taxpayer funds or track the effectiveness of homelessness programs.

The Federalist: If The Biden Family Business Was Built On Anything But Access, It Would Be Thriving – Based on his latest court filings, it’s clear that Hunter’s ability to rake in the big bucks without the ‘big guy’ has vanished. – A recent court filing by the younger Biden’s attorneys revealed that their client is in a deep financial hole…

Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration is canceling roughly $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University. – The Ivy League school has come under scrutiny by the Trump administration for its alleged failure to protect Jewish students. – Universities must comply with all federal antidiscrimination laws if they are going to receive federal funding,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement…

New York Post: The State Department has yanked the first visa of a foreign student linked to “Hamas-supporting disruptions” after President Trump vowed to crack down on those involved in anti-Israel protests on college campuses. – Neither the student’s name nor nationality was released due to “legal constraints.”

FAR: It’s Harder Than We Thought – Did you see Elon Musk’s latest interview with Joe Rogan? – It covered some details concerning what DOGE has discovered in the course of their work over the last month and ten days. – For instance, at the U.S. Treasury, the outgoing payment systems had not been monitored, audited, or even looked at by an elected official or outside appointee since 1945 or possibly earlier…

Focal Points: BREAKING, RFK Jr. and Federal Health Agencies Wisely Oppose Mass H5N1 Animal Vaccination Over Mutation Concerns – “All three of my health agencies—NIH, CDC, and FDA—the acting heads of those agencies—have all recommended against the use of the bird flu vaccine.”

Brownstone Institute: Covid Response at Five Years, Jury Trials and Vaccine Mandates – During the COVID response, Big Pharma enjoyed its most profitable years while the rest of the world suffered under lockdowns and school closures. – Pfizer’s annual revenue jumped from $3.8 billion in 1984 to a record $100 billion in 2022. – From 2020 to 2022, Moderna’s revenue increased by over 2,000 percent…

Center Square: A court-ordered assessment determined why LA’s homelessness spending fails to produce any results. – `The City of Los Angeles recently spent $2.3 billion on homelessness spending, but officials often paid bills without verifying services were provided. – It could not actually assess much of the spending because ”insufficient financial accountability led to an inability to trace substantial funds allocated to the City Programs.”

March 6, 2025

Epoch Times: A Federal Board Has Blocked Thousands of Trump Admin Terminations – Cathy Harris, chairwoman of the Merit Systems Protection Board, said in the order that evidence presented by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) indicated the department illegally fired some 5,950 workers on probationary status or newer employees…

The Center Square: President Trump walks back tariffs on Mexico and Canada for another month – Trump granted temporary tariff relief to both Canada and Mexico on Thursday by exempting goods under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement from tariffs until April 2.

Resist The Mainstream: President Trump is poised to take a historic step as early as next Thursday to reshape American education by issuing an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education. – The move would direct Education Secretary Linda McMahon to initiate the process of dismantling the federal agency, according to The Wall Street Journal.

California Globe: The Presidential Ambitions behind Gavin Newsom’s Metamorphosis To The Right – It’s been only 6 weeks since President Trump’s inauguration, and we have Gavin Newsom’s metamorphosis to appear more moderate for his 2028 Presidential run. – Is Newsom a shapeshifter, or has he seen the light? We all know the answer: Newsom is a politician. – Is Newsom reading the tea leaves?…

MSN: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups, according to senior State Department officials. – The effort — which includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders’ social media accounts — marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government’s policing of foreign nationals’ conduct and speech.

Gateway Pundit: President Trump Has Stripped Security Clearances of Employees at Perkins Coie, the DNC Law Firm Linked to Hillary Clinton and Bogus Russia Dossier. – Perkins Coie and Hillary Clinton were behind the hoax, and Hillary got a light slap on the wrist for her crimes.

Western Journal: House Democrats Who Caused a Spectacle During Al Green Censure Process Now Face Punishment – Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee formally moved to have the members who participated in the protest “removed from their committee assignments in light of conduct they exhibited on the floor of the House.” – The House sergeant at arms is to provide a list of the affected representatives within a week…

Western Journal: A Lifelong Democrat Flips Parties After Hitting Her ‘Breaking Point’ During Trump’s Address to Congress – I watched with my husband as fellow Democrats (ironically wearing pink for women) sat there either stone-faced or seething with disgust while the family of Laken Riley was honored and a young boy with cancer became an honorary secret service agent”…

Epoch Times: The Social Security Administration Is Rectifying Beneficiary Records of People Aged 100 or Older – President Trump recently revealed that millions of people aged above 100 years were listed as eligible for Social Security, with databases listing 3.47 million Social Security members aged 120 to 129 years old, 3.5 million people aged 140 to 149, and more than 130,000 people over 160 years old…

Just The News: The HHS Department Inspector General identified a significant fraud scheme to divert funds from Medicare and Medicaid programs. – Individuals impersonating hospital providers targeted contractors and state agencies administering federal programs by submitting false “electronic funds transfer authorization requests,” resulting in the diversion of nearly $27 million from the programs. – The “full extent of EFT fraud could be more extensive.”…

Washington Free Beacon: The Top 10 Catastrophic Climate Change Predictions That Failed – 1) In 1970, S. Dillon Ripley, as secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, warned that 75%t to 80% of species would be extinct by 1995. – 2) In 1970, Kenneth Watt, an ecologist and professor at the University of California, Davis, warned that “there won’t be any more crude oil,” that “none of our land will be usable” for agriculture, and the world would be 11 degrees colder by the year 2000…

Zero Hedge: Trump Increases The Pressure On Zelensky – European officials have been told that President Donald Trump wants to link the proposed US-Ukraine minerals deal to demands for Kyiv to commit to a quick ceasefire. – This could cause peace talks to come together quickly as Ukraine possesses little or no leverage with either Moscow or Washington and is now heavily relying on Europe, which can’t do the heavy lifting…

Zero Hedge: The Trump Team Is Holding Secret Talks With Ukrainian Opposition As US Sours On Zelensky – You know Zelensky is in trouble when even Democrats are calling for Ukraine elections. – A Politico article notes, “Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job.”

Western Journal: This Is How Badly Zelenskyy Messed During His Meeting with Trump. – American military aid to Ukraine was stopped so abruptly that planes carrying weapons to Ukraine were ordered to turn around in the sky. – The Pentagon confirmed on Tuesday that Trump ordered a pause on all aid to the Eastern European nation, with all assistance officially coming to a stop as of Monday evening…

Red State: Sebastian Gorka Reveals What Trump Told Him to Do With an ISIS Terrorist Camp – Gorka said that on day eight of Trump’s presidency, Gorka and his team placed a map on the Resolute Desk showing the location of an ISIS compound in Northern Somalia. – It had been surveilled for a year and a half during Biden’s presidency, but nothing was done. – Trump looked at Gorka and asked, “Why are we surveilling them?” Trump took out his trademark marker, checked the “go” box on the operational orders, and said: “Kill them, kill them now.”

Epoch Times: U.S. authorities charged a dozen Chinese contract hackers and law enforcement officials for their involvement in a years-long hacking campaign to steal data from the U.S. government and undermine dissident groups. – Eight of the defendants work for i-Soon, a Chinese tech firm that has hacked victims around the globe, including U.S. government agencies and dissident groups that the CCP considers a threat…

Newsmax: China Is Worried About Trump’s Tariff Plan – A Foreign Ministry spokesman late Tuesday in Beijing warned China is ready for any “type of war” with the U.S. – However, Chinese President Xi Jinping is concerned Beijing could find itself cut off by trade restrictions and sanctions because such a scenario would mean fewer outlets for its goods and limited access to vital technologies, and the U.S. buys substantially more from China than the other way around…

Epoch Times: President Trump paused his 25% tariff for Mexican goods and services that are covered under the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement until April 2. – Trump, “My with President Sheinbaum of Mexico relationship has been a very good one, and we are working hard, together, on the Border, both in terms of stopping Illegal Aliens from entering the United States and, likewise, stopping Fentanyl.”…

Breitbart: A border wall upgrade construction project canceled by President Joe Biden is back underway in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. – U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks announced that the Trump administration ordered the restart of a Biden-era-canceled border wall upgrade project along the Texas border with Mexico. – USBP began installing 18-foot-tall border wall panels in the Rio Grande Valley Sector’s Hidalgo County today…

Vigilant News: Sanctuary City Mayors Got a Reality Check During Yesterday’s Heated House Hearing – The arguments from these mayors weren’t just weak; they were detached from reality. – Republican lawmakers didn’t hold back, hammering them with hard numbers and real-world consequences of their so-called “sanctuary” policies. – Their main defense was that sanctuary policies help build trust between immigrant communities and law enforcement…

Slay News: HHS Employees Have Been Given Until Next Friday to Apply for Early Retirement Amid Federal Downsizing – The notification emails also requested that they provide details on their successes over the preceding week. – Eligible personnel must be 50 years old with 20 years of federal service or any age with 25 years, among other qualifications. – The NTEU informed its members that they are required to cooperate with the agency’s decision…

Bari Weiss: The DOJ is investigating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion program that was part of Biden’s $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act and managed by the EPA – The fund was supposed to address the climate crisis while revitalizing communities that it considered “historically left behind.”- But it appears nothing was revitalized except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials…

John Daniel Davidson: If The Supreme Court Is Going To Ignore The Constitution, Trump Should Ignore The Supreme Court – Its shocking decision to allow a D.C. district court judge to order the Trump administration to disburse $2 billion in federal grant money is a major blow to the separation of powers undergirding our constitutional system of government. – In a blistering dissent, Associate Justice Samuel Alito slammed the majority for giving a green light to the lower court’s judicial overreach…

Julie Kelly: Hampton Dellinger Is Unemployed–For Now – A three-judge panel of the DC appellate court just put a hold on Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s order reinstating Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel, but the fight isn’t over yet. – The court set an expedited briefing schedule for both parties; oral arguments could take place in late April.

Zero Hedge: The House Has Censured Democrat Representative Al Green For His Outburst During Trump’s Address To Congress – On Thursday morning, the resolution to censure Green was approved in a vote of 224-198, with ten Democrats voting to censure.

Daily Wire: Trump’s Office Of Civil Rights Is Targeting Maine For Defying Trump’s Order On Women’s Sports – The Trump administration’s Office for Civil Rights, part of the Health and Human Services Department, revealed they issued a formal notice of violation against the Maine Department of Education for violating federal Title IX regulations. – The letter delineated two cases where Maine permitted boys to compete in girls’ sports…

Townhall: Elon Musk’s ‘America PAC’ Just Released Its First-Ever TV Ad – Its 60-second ad titled “Thank You, President Trump,” highlights a list of accomplishments since he took office just six weeks ago. – The $1 million ad buy is running in the Washington, D.C., media market and across the nation…

Vigilant Fox: Bill O’Reilly Reveals the Dark Future Trump Created for the Democrat Party – Their obsessive hatred of Trump has clouded their judgment so much that they’ve lost all sense of reality and purpose. – When you hate someone to that level, you lose all perspective, you lose all feeling, you’re consumed.” – If O’Reilly is right, Democrats could be locked out of the White House for far longer than anyone expected…

Breitbart: JD Vance at the Border, Trump ‘Is Doing a Huge Favor’ for Mexico By Battling The Drug Cartels – “Fentanyl is the single largest cause of death among young Americans, and we know that a substantial portion is made in China. – They come to Mexico. – They’re manufactured in Mexico and brought across the border by the Mexican drug cartels.”

Gatestone Institute: Rebuilding Gaza is Pointless Unless Hamas is Eradicated – The establishment of a new government in the Gaza Strip while Hamas maintains its military capabilities there unfortunately will not work. – The terrorist group could have built schools, universities, and hospitals. Instead, it chose to invest $Millions in building a vast network of tunnels to attack Israel, smuggle and hide weapons…

American Conservative: Yes, Zelensky Is a Dictator – Zelensky’s fans ignore his numerous anti-democratic actions beyond remaining in office after his term expired. – Under his rule, the Ukrainian government has outlawed nearly a dozen opposition parties, stifled the press, launched a campaign against uncooperative churches, and conducted a program of arbitrary imprisonment, torture, and assassination. – Much it even before the February 2022 Russian invasion…

Victor Davis Hanson: Five Ukrainian Fables – Fable One: Donald Trump Is Appeasing Russia – Who wiped out the Wagner group in Syria, Who sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first, and Who warned Germany not to become dependent on the Russian Nord Stream II deal? – Fable Two: A Trade War – Donald Trump is not wildly slapping tariffs on Europeans. – Fable Three: America Is Bullying Europe – The U.S. does not actively interfere in European elections and politics…

Breitbart: French President Emmanuel Macron said in an address to the nation on Wednesday evening that Europe should be prepared to defend itself and Ukraine without the help of the United States, a demand long made by President Donald Trump. – The French leader said he “wants to believe that the US will stay by our side” but added, “we have to be ready if that is not the case.”…

FAR: Things Democrats Refused To Applaud When President Trump Addressed Congress – Here is a quick list of 35 things that Democrats refused to applaud when President Trump addressed Congress Tuesday evening…

American Thinker: Schrödinger’s Women’s Sports Is Simultaneously Existential and Irrelevant, According to Democrats – The transgender issue, particularly its impact on women’s sports, was a defining wedge in the presidential election. – 70% of voters said Trump’s stance against transgender participation in women’s sports was critical to their vote, with 6% saying it was their top issue. – The election results confirmed the obvious: voters had had enough. Yet the battle continues…

Brownstone Institute: Is This What Winning Looks Like? – The confirmation hearings for Jay Bhattacharya as secretary of NIH just ended. – Nothing played out as I had expected. – But now that I think about it, it played out exactly as I should have expected. – His vast knowledge of medicine, science, and economics is unmistakable. – The Biden administration called him a “fringe epidemiologist” and sought to censor his opinions on COVID, yet the topic was not discussed…

March 5, 2025

One America News: Trump Warns Hamas To Release All Hostages Now Or Face The Consequences – “I have just met with your former Hostages whose lives you have destroyed. – This is your last warning! – Now is the time to leave Gaza while you still have a chance. – Also, to the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. – If you do, you are DEAD! – Make a SMART decision. – RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW, OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!”

One America News: Russia Agrees To Work With Trump On Iranian Nuclear Talks – This report was confirmed by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who stated that “Russia believes that the United States and Iran should resolve all problems through negotiations.” – Peskov added that Moscow “is ready to do everything in its power to achieve this.”

Revolver: – The Democrat’s 80/20 Problem – They’re pandering to the unhinged 20% while the other 80% look on, wondering where their common sense and sanity went as they double down. This is the infamous 80/20 problem, and it’s exactly why President Trump won in a landslide in 2024. – Take any major issue in the US, like transgender men hijacking women’s sports, and the Democrats’ 80/20 problem is on full display. – Trump planted his flag with the 80% on every major issue…

The Daily Fetched: Adam Schiff’s Ukraine Connection Under Fire as Eric Ciaramella Resurfaces – President Trump has long accused Schiff of lying and manipulating intelligence in order to push narratives that weaponized the government against him. – FBI Director Kash Patel, who played a crucial role in exposing the Trump “Russia Russia Russia” collusion hoax, is now digging deep into Schiff’s involvement and whether he committed treason…

Epoch Times: The US Air Force Has Announced Its First Drone Aircraft With Fighter Designations – Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said the two drone fighter prototypes are scheduled to begin flight tests this summer. – The Air Force said both prototypes are being considered for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, which seeks to pair drones with current and future generations of manned military aircraft…

Newsmax: The Trump Admin Continues to Cut The Federal Workforce – The Department of Veterans Affairs has outlined a plan to fire as many as 83,000 by the end of 2025, and the IRS plans to reduce its workforce by 50%. – Democrats have challenged President Donald Trump’s actions to streamline the bureaucracy.

Zero Hedge: The White House has denied a Wall Street Journal report that states that President Trump “is expected to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday aimed at abolishing the Education Department,” calling the report “More Fake News!” – The WH added that “President Trump is NOT signing an Executive Order on the Department of Education today.”

Washington Free Beacon: Biden Awarded $28 Million to Mysterious ‘Vaccine Company’ – The generically named firm has no website, shows its mailing address As A PO Box, and is being run by former Biden staffers. – Why are no alarm bells going off? – Vaccine Company, Inc. was awarded a lucrative government contract but has left virtually no public footprint showing what it has done with the taxpayer funds.”…

Sharyl Attkisson: There are some Federal employees at NIH making $100k to do absolutely nothing – Because it is so difficult to fire federal employees when they get on the wrong side of a vindictive supervisor, the supervisor may simply isolate the person and give him nothing meaningful to do. – Read on for details and to view the two videos where the employees told their own outrageous stories.

FAR: President Trump Just Talked With PM Trudeau – And this is what he had to say after reflecting on their conversation.

Toronto Star: Karoline Leavitt, “The President sent me out here with a statement directly from him, “We spoke with the big three auto dealers and give a one-month exemption on any autos coming through USMCA.” – “Reciprocal tariffs will still go into effect on April 2, but at the request of the companies associated with USMCA, the president is giving them an exemption for one month so they are not at an economic disadvantage.”

Zero Hedge: Trump’s Policy Will Embolden The Developing World To Reject The Climate Agenda – When the United States pivots sharply, other nations reassess their positions. – His withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, expanding American oil and gas exports, terminating the Green New Deal, and eliminating the prospect of carbon tariffs offer a lifeline to developing nations grappling with chronic energy poverty.

Townhall: The Democrat’s Absurd Rebuttal to Trump’s Speech – Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) capped off a humiliating night for the Democratic Party by claiming President Trump doesn’t believe America is an “exceptional nation.” – In delivering the Democrat’s rebuttal to Trump’s speech, the former CIA analyst went on to argue the president “doesn’t think we should lead the world.”…

Epoch Times: 12 Takeaways From Trump’s First Major Policy Speech to Congress – Tax Cuts Promised for All Americans – Border Closed And Deportations Underway – A ‘Common Sense Revolution’ – Tariffs Explained, ‘A Little Disturbance’ – DOGE Findings Highlighted – A Balanced Budget Promise – Victims Spotlighted – A Direct Appeal to Greenlanders – A Letter From Zelenskyy – A New Shipbuilding Office…

Fox News: Reactions To President Trump’s Addresses Congress – Polls show massive positive reception – Trump, “The American dream is surging bigger and better than ever before.” – Representative Andy Ogles, “This was an absolute disgrace for the Democrat Party.” – “This is an example of their lack of leadership, their lack of vision, and, quite frankly, a lot of the victims that were in the crowd were because of their failed policies.”…

Issues & Insights: Trump’s Triumphant Speech Left Democrats With Egg On Their Faces – Trump declared “America Is Back, then boasted, toasted, roasted, blasted, and vision-caste, as he recited his many accomplishments since taking office a short time ago: Freezes on hiring, regulation, and foreign aid, Termination of the “Green New Scam” and the “insane electric vehicle mandate,” Ending “weaponized government,” censorship, DEI and critical race theory…

American Thinker: Trump’s address to Congress showed Democrats are even more repulsive than we thought – Refused to stand for Laken Riley’s family – Refused to stand for D.J. Daniel – Refused to stand for the family of the firefighter killed at a Trump rally – Some Democrats did, however, wear pink in support of women’s rights, which is odd since they all just voted against keeping men out of women’s sports…

Townhall: These Democrat Women Were Ridiculous at Trump’s Address to Joint Session of Congress – Representatives Nydia Velázquez, Pramila Jayapal, Maxine Dexter, Sarah McBride, and Teresa Leger Fernández were among the leftist liberals who wore pink to protest the president’s supposed “war on women.” – Ironically, not a single one voted to keep men out of women’s sports…

American Spectator: Trump Now Stands Astride American Politics Like a Colossus – But Trump Derangement Syndrome is so strong with Democrats, they couldn’t even bring themselves to applaud universal victories. – Among the things they would not applaud were American farmers, US Manufacturing, Small Businesses, Tax Cuts, Catching terrorists, Protecting Women, Energy Independence, Stopping Drug Cartels, and the list goes on…

New York Post: Democratic lawmakers were trolled after showing up to the joint session of Congress Tuesday night brandishing the black signs with phrases like “false” and “Musk Steals,” which they repeatedly flashed as Trump was delivering his speech. – The stunt was widely ripped for falling flat, even among notoriously left-leaning MSNBC hosts and late-night comedians.

AMUSE on X: President Trump’s decision to temporarily reduce federal credit card limits to $1 embodies core conservative fiscal values of accountability, transparency, and prudent financial management. – Critics may dismiss the policy as disruptive, but it is precisely this disruption that effectively addresses decades of unchecked bureaucratic excess, misuse, and financial irresponsibility…

American Thinker: Trump Is On The Verge Of Ending The EPA’s Tyranny – Few people realize just how destructive the modern EPA is, so we’d better hope that Trump’s efforts are successful. – The move to declare CO2 a pollutant and man its evil cause agent began in the 1970s with the creation of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. – Armed with a SCOTUS ruling, Obama’s EPA acted unilaterally, declaring CO2 a pollutant it could regulate…

Breitbart: The United States suspended providing military intelligence to Ukraine as part of the freeze on assistance until Ukraine chooses President Trump’s path to peace and comes to the negotiating table. – The US is the senior partner in the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network that includes the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, which share their spy network information without redaction or control…

Zero Hedge: The Israeli government is preparing a “hell plan” for the Gaza Strip that would involve cutting all electricity and water to the territory on top of the blocking of food, fuel, and all other goods. – Israel’s “hell plan” also involves forcing Palestinians in northern Gaza to move to the south to prepare for a resumption of the bombing campaign…

Wall Street Journal: the North Korean Defector Who’s Been Called a ‘Hero of Ukraine’ – Lee Seongmin, a 37-year-old human-rights worker who is an Ivy League graduate and fluent in English, has helped Ukrainian forces understand the motives driving Kim Jong Un’s young fighters, translating key documents and shaping anti-regime leaflets meant to persuade North Korean soldiers to surrender…

Truth Barrier: Did Zelensky Go To The White House With A Sham Contract, Already Having An Agreement With The UK? – Could this be true? – The truth should be known soon…

Newsmax: A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to let President Donald Trump’s administration withhold payment to foreign aid organizations for work they already performed for the government. – Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh dissented from the decision…

March 4, 2025

Breitbart: A CBS news poll shows an astounding 76 percent of Americans viewing the speech approved of Trump’s remarks, with only 23 percent disapproving. – Sixty-eight percent of viewers described Trump’s speech as “hopeful,” with a majority also describing it as “presidential,” “inspiring,” “unifying,” and “entertaining.”…

One America News: Democrat Representative Al Green Removed From The House of Representatives After Repeatedly Heckling President Trump During His Speech – Speaker of the House Mike Johnson warned Green several times to stop interrupting the president. – Johnson then removed the Democrat from the chamber by ordering the Sergeant At Arms to restore order…

Daily Signal: The 13 Winners and Losers From Trump’s Address to Congress – The Winners: President Trump, Sergeant-at-Arms William McFarland, DOGE, The American Farmer, Democracy, and 13-Year-Old D.J. Daniel, Greenland. – The Losers: Representative Al Green, Former President Joe Biden, Criminal Illegal Immigrants, Gender Ideology, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Endless Wars…

Daily Signal: 10 Takeaways From President Trump’s Congressional Address – ‘Restore Common Sense’ – ‘Nothing I Can Do To Please The Democrats’ – ‘Restore True Democracy’ – ‘They Tariff Us, We Tariff Them’ – ‘A Gigantic Natural Gas Pipeline’ – Trump Honored Laken Riley – ‘End the Savage Conflict’ – ‘A Terrible Lie’: Trump Stood Against Child Sex Changes – ‘Combating Inflation’ by Ending ‘Waste, Fraud, and Abuse’ – Democrats Sit As A Young Cancer Patient Honored…

Victor Davis Hanson: The Pentagon’s Partisan Letter Against Trump And Hegseth Is Debunked – This is not the politicization of the Pentagon, but rather the depoliticalization. – And it’s not new. – Prior presidents have fired generals. – The next thing is the Pentagon has real problems with its emphasis on DEI, they have flunked—they have neglected things. – We are short 155 mm shells. We are short certain types of cruise missiles…

Western Journal: Linda McMahon Announced The Department of Education’s ‘Final Mission’ After She Was Sworn in as Its Chief – McMahon will take the lead to launch an “effective transfer of educational oversight to the states” that will “mean more autonomy for local communities and end the overreach from Washington.” – Trump is expected to sign an executive order seeking to cut the DOE to its bare bones and to push Congress for legislation to eliminate it…

California Globe: An Official Recall Effort Begins Against LA Mayor Karen Bass – The Recall Karen Bass Committee says the primary reason the recall was started was because Bass mismanaged the wildfires, along with her slashing the LAFD budget before the fires. – ‘You give that petition to any Palisades resident, and they are going to sign it without question because she doesn’t deserve to be called an Angelino.’…

Daily Wire: The US and Ukraine are reportedly planning to sign the economic deal that was supposed to be signed last week today. – Reuters reported that President Trump wants it signed before his address to Congress Tuesday night so he can announce it at the event, but cautioned that plans could change…

Townhall: Key Panama Canal Ports Will Now Be Brought Under American Control – A consortium of U.S. investors—led by American asset manager BlackRock—has reportedly struck a $22.8 billion deal buying majority stakes in ports on both sides of the Panama Canal from Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchinson. – Trump has repeatedly raised the alarm about China’s influence over the canal…

Epoch Times: Zelenskyy expressed regret over last week’s clash with President Trump and VP Vance. – “Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be.” – “We would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive, adding that he wants to sign a rare earth minerals deal with the US and be part of peace talks with Russia.

Breitbart: U.S. Vice President JD Vance, “European leaders puff up their chests and say they back war for as long as it takes in public, but once there’s no journalist in earshot, they become realistic about needing to end the Ukraine war.” – Their comments come amid a flurry of activity in Europe as leaders scrabble to discover whether they can indeed fund the war to continue indefinitely alone in the absence of American support…

The Federalist: How Biden’s Blank Check For Ukraine Disastrously Bounced – The public humiliation of Zelensky was perhaps avoidable, but the net result was not. – It was a necessary corrective to the mountain of lies on which U.S. aid to Ukraine has been predicated since Russia’s invasion. – Americans spent perhaps $300 billion to help Ukraine win, but this was never remotely plausible…

Daily Wire: Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Ansarallah, commonly referred to as the Houthis, has been re-designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. – “Today’s action taken by the State Department demonstrates the Trump Administration’s commitment to protecting our national security interests, the safety of the American people, and the security of the United States,” Rubio said in a statement.

Slay News: The Obama Administration Ordered DEI Prioritized When Hiring Air Traffic Controllers – The qualifying questionnaire for ATC applicants was skewed to favor DEI initiatives. – Underqualified candidates were often given key positions to meet DEI hiring quotas.- Even worse, emphasis and priority were placed on candidates who played multiple sports in high school, with less priority on those who had ATC positions in the military…

One America News: President Trump announced he would stop all federal funding for schools that allow “illegal protests.” – He also stated that agitators could be imprisoned or sent back to the country they originated from. – Trump’s warning came as multiple chaotic anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protests have continued to once again ravage college campuses across the US.

Slay News: A Haitian migrant who was imported into the US under one of Joe Biden’s mass immigration programs was just arrested for triple murder. – 26-year-old Mackendy Darbouze’s involvement includes the brutal murder of two children…

Daily Wire: A Top FBI Official Who Wanted To ‘Dig In’ Against The Trump Administration Has Been Ousted From The Bureau – James Dennehy’s ouster comes weeks after he sent an email to his staff encouraging them to “dig in” as the Trump administration probed the FBI investigation into the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. – Dennehy was reportedly told to resign or be fired on Friday…

Zero Hedge: The FBI Is Still Refusing To Produce Evidence On Seth Rich Laptop – The FBI will only provide an index that gives a brief description of the evidence and an explanation of why it is being withheld.

Geller Report” Democrat Shills Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker ‘Spontaneously’ Parrot The Same Democrat Lies and Propaganda, Word for Word Before Trump Addresses Congress – They did this knowing their co-conspirators in the Democrat legacy media will print it word for word to ‘frame the news.’ – This perfectly encapsulates how the left coordinates their narratives. – There is zero independent thought or messaging…

Daily Wire: Democrats Are Scheming To Disrupt Trump Speech To Congress – “Some members have told colleagues they may walk out of the chamber.” – Using props has reportedly been discussed, including noisemakers, signs with anti-Trump or anti-DOGE messages, hand clappers, and red cards. – Some are even considering coordinating their clothes by using pink, black, or blue and yellow colors to protest…

Slay News: A recent government inspector general’s report revealed that $1.8 million in taxpayer money was funneled to the Taliban through a series of foreign aid programs. – These funds were distributed through various foreign aid initiatives for expenses such as local employee taxes and registration fees for vehicles. – The discovery has raised major questions about financial oversight and has sparked a political backlash.

Daily Wire: GOP-led Senate confirmed Linda McMahon to become secretary of the Education Department, a federal agency that President Donald Trump has indicated he wants to dismantle in favor of giving states more power in running schools. – The upper chamber voted 51-45 to approve Linda McMahon as Education Secretary…

Breitbart: Egypt’s Alternative to Trump’s Plan, $53 Billion To Rebuild Gaza in 5 Years – Arab leaders meet in Cairo on Tuesday with Egypt to present a plan for Gaza that would sideline Hamas and create interim bodies run by Arab, Muslim, and Western states in contrast to U.S. President Donald Trump’s idea of a “Middle East Riviera”…

Washington Examiner: Canada and Mexico slap retaliatory tariffs on the US – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced 25% retaliatory tariffs on the US as the drama around President Trump’s tariffs has boosted Trudeau’s drowning Liberal Party. – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum also announced Mexico would be imposing retaliatory tariffs but did not provide details about how severe the tariffs would be or what products they would affect…

Western Journal: Mexico ‘Seeks to Extinguish’ US Second Amendment in Bizarre Supreme Court Battle – SCOTUS will hear a lawsuit on Tuesday in which Mexico plans to blame American firearm manufacturers for its consistent difficulties with running a functional country – Mexico is demanding $10 billion in damages, claiming that such firms are complicit in arming the cartels…

American Thinker: Now, Republicans Are The Peaceniks – It’s Democrats who seem to have developed an inordinate fear of Putinism and are determined to make war on him, warmongers all. – So the Democrats encouraged Zelensky to sabotage the deal with Trump, resulting in the late great Pissing Match in the Oval Office last week…

American Thinker: No More Globalist Delusions, Ukraine’s War Strategy Has Failed – Trump says, No more blank checks. – No more globalist wars. – No more illusions because America Comes First. – The math just doesn’t work. Reclaiming lost territory whether in Donetsk, Luhansk, or Crimea—would require hundreds of thousands of troops, and Ukraine doesn’t have them, and America won’t send occupation troops…

American Thinker: What DOGE is really learning – Elon Musk spoke with Joe Rogan over the weekend and had some powerful thoughts on illegals and entitlement fraud. – Musk has gone through thousands of records and seen where the leakage is, where the waste and fraud are, and where the sensitive spots are for those who benefit from it. He calls this entitlements fraud “the heart of it.”

Vigilant News: “Everything is Going to Come Out” – AG Pam Bondi Says She Received A “Truckload” of Hidden Epstein Documents Hidden Away In The Southern District of New York. – “I have the FBI going through them … Now that we have Kash here, it’s a game changer, of course, and Director Patel is going to get us a detailed report as to why the FBI withheld all of those documents.”…

Townhall: Guess Who Has Has Interesting Ties to USAID – Between 2013 and 2021, Ex-Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s sister, Stephanie, was a high-ranking officer at the Population Council, a pro-abortion NGO formed from a conference of population control activists and several well-known eugenicists. – USAID gave the group more than $144 million in grant money…

The Free Press: The $20 Billion Slush Fund For Progressive Nonprofits – These billions didn’t revitalize anything—except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials. – These eight groups were allocated sums ranging from $400 million to $6.9 billion. – Several of them were formed in August of 2023, just one month after the grant applications went live in July of 2023…

American Thinker: LeftSpeak – Leftist newspeak and wordsmithing have evolved to the point that a new English-to-LeftSpeak dictionary needs to be established should any communication between the left and traditional English speakers be salvaged. – For starters: – Democracy: Government by a permanent, unelected, leftist bureaucracy. – Constitutional crisis: Anything said or done by the Trump Administration. – Tolerance: My way or the highway…

March 3, 2025

Fox News: The Trump administration is pausing all aid to Ukraine, including weapons in transit or Poland, until Ukrainian leaders show more appreciation for U.S. support and a commitment to peace. – “This is not permanent termination of aid; it’s a pause,” the official emphasized, adding that it is in response to Zelenskyy’s conduct over the last week...

Revolver: Tucker Carlson reveals why Lindsey Graham turned on Zelensky so fast – Congress propped up Ukraine for years, ignoring widespread corruption. – Now that the truth is unraveling, they’re getting ahead of the fallout by blaming Zelensky. – Over the past three years, Ukraine sold huge quantities of American weapons at twenty cents on the dollar. – These weapons are now in the hands of Hamas, the Mexican drug cartels, and the forces now controlling Syria…

Daily Signal: Senate Democrats voted Monday to block a bill that would have prevented biological males from participating in women’s sports from reaching the floor. – The vote failed along party lines, with 51 Republicans in favor of ending the debate and bringing it to the floor and 43 Democrats and two nominal independents voting against it.

Daily Signal: Iowa has become the first state to pass a bill that removes gender identity from the state’s civil rights law. – On Friday, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed SF418, which eliminates “gender identity” as a protected class under the Iowa Civil Rights Act. – It also defines sex as “the state of being either male or female as observed or clinically verified at birth.”

Western Journal: Federal agents disrupted a massive human smuggling operation on Friday when they arrested two Guatemalan men accused of trafficking 20,000 illegal immigrants into the United States since 2019. – Eduardo Domingo Renoj-Matul and Cristobal Mejia-Chaj now face the possibility of the death penalty if convicted. – The smuggling operation featured elements akin to kidnapping and extortion...

Washington Free Beacon: Solar Company That Received $3 Billion Biden Loan Warns It Might Go Bankrupt – Sunnova Energy received the largest federal loan to a solar company in history. – Sunnova’s ties to Biden administration officials and the history of consumer complaints against the company drew scrutiny and led to investigations by Republican lawmakers…

Washington Free Beacon: Trump’s EPA Has Referred Biden Green Grants to The Inspector General, Citing A ‘Pattern of Political Favoritism.’ – The first is the Biden EPA award for $2 billion to a brand new nonprofit linked to perennial Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams. – The second is in regard to an EPA official who led green grant disbursals and oversaw a $5 billion grant to his former employer….

Gateway Pundit: Europe is slamming President Trump for refusing to keep funding the Ukraine war. – While European leaders scramble to figure out how to bankroll it and keep it going, China is busy hacking Poland’s space agency and Belgium’s intelligence services. – The CCP loves it when the U.S. and the world are focused on Russia because Beijing is clearly the much larger security threat…

Zero Hedge: Trump, “That Is The Worst Statement That Zelensky Could Have Made.” – Zelensky said that he sees the end of the war with Russia as being “very, very far away” and believes that Ukraine has a strong enough partnership with the US to keep aid flowing. – This comes amid various unconfirmed reports that Trump will discuss halting military aid to Ukraine in a meeting with key advisors on Monday…

Zero Hedge: The US Reportedly Halts Offensive Cyber Ops Against Russia – The length of the pause is uncertain, but the purpose seems clear: To demonstrate goodwill as the Trump administration earnestly seeks a negotiated end to the three-year-old war in Ukraine, which has been costly not only to the two warring countries, but to the United States and Western European countries that first precipitated that conflict, and then perpetuated it…

Breitbart: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video Sunday thanking President Donald Trump profusely for his help in what seemed a pointed and deliberate contrast to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s behavior. – Trump had just expedited the delivery of $4 billion in arms (in contrast to President Joe Biden) and had offered a proposal for extending the Gaza ceasefire…

PJ Media: It’s Official, USAID Is All But Dead – The White House intends to “eliminate roughly $60 billion in foreign aid spending and terminate 92% of grants issued by USAID.” – “The figures were included in a State Department memo detailing the results of a 90-day review of US foreign aid ordered by President Trump,” which identified “nearly 15,000 grants and targeted almost 10,000 for elimination, the majority of which were issued by USAID.”

The Federalist: A Leftist Judge Has Created A Full-Blown Constitutional Crisis, — Soon To Be Overturned By SCOTUS – Obama appointee, Judge Amy Berman Jackson, ruled late Saturday evening mandated that five executive branch officials “recognize plaintiff’s title and position as Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel,” and “not obstruct or interfere with his performance of his duties.”…

Zero Hedge: The Pentagon Deploys Mechanized Infantry And Air Support To Secure Mexico Border, Including A Team Of 4,400 Soldiers – The units are equipped with wheeled vehicle and air capabilities and are set to reinforce border operations in the coming weeks. – Complementing this, the GSAB, with roughly 650 troops, brings aviation muscle, UH-60 Black Hawks for command and medical evacuation, and CH-47 Chinooks for heavy lifting to enhance operational reach and support.

American Thinker: DOGE Is Only The Beginning – Our entire political establishment is on trial here. – We are now realizing that the defect in our various governments is not entirely contained among the woke, leftist Democrats but is rather a problem involving our entire political establishment. – How else could such immense mishandling of public money be so easily uncovered so quickly?…

Geller Report: Seven Politically Connected NGOs Are Hoarding 90% Of The $300 Billion In Taxpayer Money Meant for Nonprofits. – They serve as the Uniparty’s enforcement arm, pushing propaganda under the guise of “protecting democracy.”- These NGOs act as a loophole to funnel billions into shadowy, unaccountable organizations—doing things that would be illegal if carried out directly by the government itself…

Breitbart: Honda Is Moving Civic Production from Mexico to Indiana in Response to Trump’s Tariffs – The change underscores how manufacturers are scrambling to adapt to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada. – While several automakers have expressed concerns about the levies, Honda’s move is the first concrete measure by a major Japanese car company…

Newsmax: 5 Big Reasons Dan Bongino Be A Great Deputy FBI Director – 1. He served as a police officer and a Secret Service agent. – 2. Bongino is known as one of the best communicators in the business. – 3. He has consistently advocated for accountability in government institutions. – 4. He has Secret Service experience dealing with national security. – 5. Bongino and Patel will bring a different perspective to the FBI’s leadership.

Center For Immigration Studies: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in U.S. History Is Over – A fitting tombstone might read “RIP, January 2021 to January 2024 Mass Migration Crisis.” – President Trump invoked a few simple steps required in existing immigration law, detention, border expulsion, and interior deportations on his first day in the Oval Office.

Victor Davis Hanson: Who Really Politicized the Pentagon? – The Pentagon has long been political. — Trump’s firings aren’t new, but their results will reveal if the military is truly depoliticized or just under new management. – Firing generals is hardly new. – Many presidents have relieved commanding officers, even wartime combat theater commanders, without much, if any, explanation. – Let’s first consider just one recent pre-Trump presidency, the tenure of Barack Obama…

Breitbart: Apparently bolstered by fawning displays of support from European leaders in London on Sunday, Zelensky expressed intent to continue the war until he is satisfied with the security guarantees on offer from Western powers. –
Zelensky, “If you don’t have an end to the war and you don’t have security guarantees, no one is able to control a ceasefire.”…

FAR: Cutting Zelensky Down To Size – Putting Zelensky in a more objective light was a necessary first step. – The next step is to bring some objectivity to the subjects of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the origins of the Russia-Ukraine War. – Ideally, Vice President Vance could give Americans a more accurate explanation of how we got here. – Glenn Greenwald did that recently in this X thread…

American Spectator: The Mendacious Media Coverage of Zelensky’s Stunt – They have used deceptively edited videos to support dishonest reports about what actually happened. – Anyone watching the entire event, instead of the deceptively edited clips featured on most “news” sites, will see that neither the President nor the Vice President “ambushed” Zelensky. – The argument erupted after a reporter suggested that Trump was “too closely aligned” with Vladimir Putin…

Daily Wire: Trump Wants To ‘Spend Less Time Worrying About Putin’ and Focus More On Illegal Immigration, “So that we don’t end up like Europe!” – President Trump wants to further intertwine the American and Ukrainian people to show Russia’s leadership that there was no daylight, but Zelensky came into the Oval Office and tried to re-litigate in front of the world...

American Thinker: Zelenskyy And The Future Of NATO—Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s childish histrionics and ultimatums in the Oval Office reflect the European delusional mindset of self-serving expectations. – The major purpose of NATO was to deter an aggressive and despotic Soviet Union from attacking Western Europe and, by extension, the US. – However, it has evolved into the US effectively assuming the role of military protector of nearly half of the European continent…

Breitbart: Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday he is willing to return to the White House to discuss “serious issues” if invited. – Zelensky spent much of the weekend in the United Kingdom. – Zelensky, “We are worthy of an equal dialogue.” “If Trump offered such a “constructive dialog, to solve real problems, for serious issues and real, decisive actions and answers, I will arrive.”

Chadwick Moore: Shell-Shocked – From bird flu to egg inflation to mass chicken slaughter, the damning impact of the cage-free agri-industry. – Virtue signaling may be in part to blame for the sky-high price of eggs across the US. – California’s 2022 cage-free law is typical of liberalism’s low-information, feel-good priorities that often come with devastating consequences…

Issues & Insights: The Resistance To Climate Alarmism Grows – A study published by the Stanford University School of Sustainability, no less, found that “resistance to climate action has become a global movement that strengthens after governments implement climate-related policies.” – Let’s add something, The resistance is also based on a growing skepticism after being bombarded by global warming scare stories for more than three decades…

American Thinker: One Health, The New Godless Quasi-Religion that Puts Humans Below Nature – World elites at home and abroad are pushing hard for this, and currently, Trump and RFK, Jr. are the only bulwark against it. – The WHO has been promoting One Health, the mutualism of humans, animals, plants, and other aspects of the natural environment, and aims to implement it through a proposed pandemic treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations…

Vigilant News: Trans Surgeries Increase The Risk of Suicide – Data from over 107,000 patients diagnosed with gender dysphoria suggests those who pursue such procedures face a markedly higher risk of mental health challenges. – The study, which focused on adults over the age of 18, compared two matched cohorts: individuals who had undergone sex-change surgery and those who had not. – The findings were stark…

March 2, 2025

Focal Points: It Is Interesting To Learn That Zelensky Met With The Democrats Before He Met President Trump – Senator Chris Murphy encouraged Zelensky to reject the deal with Trump, confirming my suspicion Democrats have been acting as agents for the Ukrainian oligarchic state. – As I wrote in my piece on Friday, ”Zelensky’s Conduct Indicates He is Accustomed to Ukraine Calling the Shots”…

Epoch Times: The UK Has Pledged Support for Ukraine’s Air Defense As Leaders Discuss Plans to End War – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on March 2 that Europe must continue to provide funding for Ukraine to sustain its position during peace negotiations. – Starmer added that ‘Intense discussions’ to obtain a security guarantee from the United States are one of the three components of lasting peace…

The Free Press: What Average Americans Think of Trump’s Showdown with Zelensky – Most voters weren’t horrified by the president’s treatment of an ally but rather agreed with it. – The Wick Insights poll is consistent with others that suggest cratering support among the American people for the war in Ukraine as well as its president, Zelensky…

American Thinker: Are the Europeans asking for another European war? – European politics are driven by a fusion of leftism, arrogance, and a desperate desire to avoid a repeat of WWI and WWII. – However, the national character may be destiny because if British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has a say, they’re lining up for a repeat. – With the Trump-brokered plan currently off the table, Europeans are talking about putting boots on the ground…

Epoch Times: Trump Seeks to Boost US Lumber and Timber Industries — According to the White House, increased timber production will be directly tied to improved land management. – Peter Navarro, senior counselor on trade and manufacturing, “Our disastrous timber and lumber policies, a legacy of the previous administration, trigger wildfires and degrade our fish and wildlife habitat.”…

Epoch Times: HUD Terminated An Obama-Era Housing Rule – The Obama-era housing rule was terminated by the first Trump administration and revived by the Biden administration, has again been canceled. – Decisions related to home building and zoning will now come under the purview of local leaders.

American Thinker: Where Trump Is Coming From On Zelensky – Trump knows that Barack Obama and Victoria Nuland staged the “color revolution” coup that overthrew Ukraine’s duly elected president and installed Zelensky to be their puppet from the get-go, hence Biden’s commitment to “however much and however long” it takes to defeat Putin. – I expect Trump’s long game is to move Russia closer to us and further from China in the event of a likely inevitable superpower conflagration…

Breitbart: UK Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer said ahead of a Lancaster House summit on Sunday that Britain and France will work to craft a Ukraine ceasefire deal that would be presented to the United States. – Despite the tough talk from Starmer and Macron, it is unlikely that they alone could actually provide the security guarantees needed to prevent Ukraine from being invaded in the future…

Zero Hedge: Europe’s ‘Sound And Fury’ After Jaw-Dropping Pivots In US Policy – Pretty plain speaking, the U.S. clearly is cutting away from Ukraine and intends to normalize relations with Russia. – Defense Secretary Hegseth, at the Munich Security Conference, gave four ‘noes’: No to Ukraine in NATO, No to a return to pre-2014 borders, No to ‘Article 5’ peacekeeper backstops, and ‘No’ to U.S. troops in Ukraine. Plus, U.S. troops in Europe are not ‘forever.’…

Townhall: Pro-Ukrainian Protesters Disrupt The JD Vance Family Ski Trip, Prompting The VP to Move Locations – Hundreds of protestors gathered in Vermont on Saturday to protest Vance’s visit to Sugarbush Resort, holding signs that read “Nazi scum,” “traitor,” and telling him to “go ski in Russia.” – Others held signs that read “Trump serves Putin” and “Stand with Ukraine.”…

Breitbart: Speaker Johnson, Elon Musk Is In the ‘Belly of the Beast of the Bureaucracy’ – What you’re going to see is very, very careful attention paid to ensuring that the essential programs of the federal government, the things that make sense to American taxpayers and it follows common sense, will be sustained and supported and funded, but that the fraud, waste, and abuse will not…

Info Wars: The Internal Revenue Service has refused to provide data on 700,000 individuals suspected of being in the country illegally. – Department of Homeland Security officials asked the IRS on Thursday to connect the names of potential illegals with data on their last known addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. – A similar request was made two weeks earlier…

Breitbart: The DOJ announced Friday that it is sending the Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism to ten university campuses to conduct investigations, headed by civil rights lawyer Leo Terrell. – The move is the latest step by the Trump administration to fight campus antisemitism, which exploded after the Hamas terror attack against Israel on October 7, 2023…

American Thinker: DOJ, Who Really Runs The Executive Branch? – Pam Bondi is an appointee and employee of Donald Trump. – He appointed her because he believed she believed in and would implement his agenda, the agenda that caused the American people to vote for him. – On her first day in office, AG Bondi announced the creation of a ‘Weaponization Working Group,’ purportedly intended to root out ‘abuses of the criminal justice process’…

American Thinker: DEI Universities Across America Are Defying Trump—Despite Trump’s Executive Order, many universities continue to reinforce their ideological grip on academia, prioritizing DEI over federal law. – A sampling of prominent universities openly defying the executive order includes Harvard, the University of California System, the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Colorado Boulder, Western Michigan University, and others…

Center Square: February southwest border illegal entries plummet to lowest in documented history, along with a significant drop in unaccompanied minors. – Only 8,326 apprehensions and encounters were reported at the southwest border, “the lowest documented by U.S. Border Patrol.” – That’s down from 189,913 in February 2024, 156,630 in February 2023, and 166,010 in February 2022, excluding those who illegally entered and evaded capture…

Dr. Panda: The Lab-Grown Dairy You Didn’t Ask For Is Here — Boston startup Brown Foods has produced UnReal Milk, the world’s first lab-grown whole cow’s milk made without a single cow. – The company believes cows are the cause of global warming. – It claims its production method slashes carbon emissions by 82%, water use by 90%, and land use by 95%, all without relying on livestock…

Laura Dodsworth: When Do Vaccine Incentives Become Coercive? – On March 9, 2025, the government wants us to reflect, but only on approved narratives. – A panoply of persuasions has been deployed to encourage the hesitant, the slow, and the complacent. – Missing from their script are the long-term consequences of lockdowns, mandates, economic devastation, and social division…

March 1, 2025

Breitbart: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that Israel will be halting all movement of goods into Gaza, following Hamas’s apparent rejection of a ceasefire proposal suggested by President Donald Trump’s envoy. – Trump has said that Israel has a free hand to respond to Hamas, has expressed shock at the treatment of Israeli hostages by Hamas, and has invited some of the freed hostages to visit him at the White House…

Breitbart: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed an order on Saturday that will expedite the shipment of $4 billion in military aid to Israel — Since taking office, the Trump Administration has approved nearly $12 billion in major foreign military sales to Israel. – This important decision coincides with President Trump’s repeal of a Biden-era memorandum that had imposed baseless and politicized conditions on military assistance to Israel…

Western Journal: Trump Gets The Last Laugh on The Mar-a-Lago Documents – He Loaded Them Onto Air Force 1 and Has Special Plan for Them All – “They are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library.“ – “Justice finally won out.“ – “I did absolutely nothing wrong.“ – “This was merely an attack on a political opponent that, obviously, did not work well.“

One America News: NATO Chief Rutte Told Zelensky To ‘Restore’ His Relationship With Trump – “You have to find a way, dear Volodymyr, to restore your relationship with Donald Trump and the American administration. – On the phone call, Rutte went on to remind Zelensky that “we really have to respect what President Trump has done so far for Ukraine.”

Western Journal: Zelenskyy Issued a Statement After Being Kicked Out of the White House — Zelenskyy offered nothing but gratitude, with not one word about a dispute the whole world saw. – “Thank you, America. Thank you for your support, thank you for this visit. Thank you, @POTUS, Congress, and the American people. – Ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are working exactly for that.

Epoch Times: Federal Workers Get 2nd Round of ‘Pulse Check’ Emails Requesting Their List of Accomplishments – Roughly 1 million of the 2.3 million federal workers responded to the first email. – “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets describing what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. – Going forward, please complete the above task each week by Mondays at 11:59 pm ET,” reads the email sent during the evening of Feb. 28…

Red State: Stephen Miller Crushed It by Describing The ‘Remarkable and Disturbing’ Things Zelensky Said That Led to Epic White House Blowup – He repeatedly rejected President Trump’s statement that we should pursue a ceasefire. – He kept saying Europe’s doing so much more than us. – He looked entitled, ungrateful, and narcissistic, but he also looked somewhat shocked that he was taken to task. – Remember, he’s used to dealing with Joe Biden and the Euro-weenies…

One America News: Former Governor Andrew Cuomo Announced His NYC mayoral bid in a 17-minute Video Posted To X. – In the video, he highlighted his accomplishments during his time in office: he legalized same-sex marriage, led the state through the COVID-19 crisis, and rebuilt the LaGuardia Airport.

Cillian: BREAKING, Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Dubinsky just called for an Emergency Session of Ukraine’s Parliament to initiate IMPEACHMENT Proceedings against President Zelensky after the Oval Office shouting match. – This is HUGE. – Zelensky’s Regime is collapsing in real-time.

American Conservative: Trump Took On The Blob In The Oval Office – The president did not just confront Zelensky but the entire American foreign-policy establishment. – The blob hates Russia. – Zelensky was elected to hopefully negotiate and calm the civil war between Russian-identifying Ukrainians and their foes. – But the Biden administration quickly schooled him to be anti-Russia was the key to winning American support and aid.

Breitbart: Zelensky Refuses to Apologize After His Oval Office Outburst, ‘I’m Not Sure We Did Something Bad’ – Zelensky’s answer came after Brett Baier stated that Trump said Zelensky had “disrespected him,” Vice President JD Vance, and the American people, and Baier questioned whether or not he felt he was disrespectful…

New York Post: Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky says he still wants the US minerals deal. – “We are ready to sign the minerals agreement, and it will be the first step toward security guarantees,” Zelensky said Saturday morning. – “But it’s not enough, and we need more than just that. A ceasefire without security guarantees is dangerous for Ukraine. – We’ve been fighting for three years, and Ukrainian people need to know that America is on our side.”…

American Thinker: Why Arab Countries Do Not Want Gazans – For decades, Arab nations have positioned themselves as staunch supporters of the Palestinian cause, yet their actions suggest otherwise. – Arab regimes do not want the Palestinian issue resolved because doing so would strip them of one of their most potent political weapons. – The Palestinians and their cause have become the scapegoat for Arab regimes…

American Thinker: Trump’s First Cabinet Meeting—Trump’s refreshing, creative, and transparent approach to his cabinet meetings is a breath of fresh air. – The unique feature of his first cabinet meeting was the ingenious way Trump invited reporters to leap in with questions. – Trump’s message: The press should be heard and respected if possible, but it should not be allowed to split or attempt to undermine Trump and his teammates.

Zero Hedge: A Secretive Movement Known As ‘#AltGov’ Is Openly Rebelling Against Trump And Musk From Inside Our Federal Agencies – The federal workforce has always been more liberal than the population as a whole, but in recent years things have gotten really bad. – Most people don’t realize this, but the “#AltGov” movement was very active during the first Trump administration…

Geller Report: Soros’ Giant Graft Machine Uses NGOs, ‘A Hack to The System’ – Elon Musk explains the Soros racket. Soros doesn’t spend his own money. He gets his hands on yours through NGOs. – He then makes you pay, through the government, to fund your destruction.

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, High-Five Edition – I’m torn this week between listing the five things I accomplished this week or keep going in my high-five mode over every day’s delicious news of the latest Trump accomplishments…

February 28, 2025

Epoch Times: 5 Takeaways From the Explosive Trump–Zelenskyy Meeting – Zelenskyy Pushed for Arms and Security Guarantees – Zelenskyy Refuses Cease-fire on Trump’s Terms – An Argument Breaks Out as Zelenskyy Doubts US Diplomacy – Trump and Vance Say Zelenskyy Lacks Leverage – Trump Threatens to Pull US Support If Zelenskyy Doesn’t Make a Deal – After a heated exchange, Zelenskyy was asked to leave early…

Geller Report: Zelensky called VP Vance a “Bitch” During The White House Meeting – The microphone captured Zelenskyy calling JD Vance “Suka,” Russian for “Bitch,” during their argument…

Western Journal: This Photo Captures the Reaction of ‘The Only Ukrainian in the Room Who Understands How Much Damage Zelenskyy Just Did.’ – Ukraine Ambassador Oksana Markarova appeared to know, better than the Ukrainian president himself, just how badly things had gone as she covered her face.

Vigilant Fox: Elon Musk Exposed the “Biggest Scam Ever” During His Joe Rogan Interview – The government handed the Navy $12 billion to build new submarines, and not a single submarine was built. – When lawmakers asked where the money went, Navy officials shrugged and said they had no idea, a revelation Musk heard firsthand from Senator Susan Collins.

The Federalist: It Isn’t A ‘Crisis’ For Trump To Fire Flag Officers, It’s A Crisis To Think He Can’t – The claim that it’s outrageous, unprecedented, and a crisis to fire flag officers is laughable. – “How and why did we lose the longstanding practice of relieving generals for failure? Why has accountability declined? And is it connected to the decline in the operational competence of American generals?”

Dr. Peter and Ginger Breggin: Armies have slipped across our borders and are waiting for the signal to attack – In 2023, we began hearing about young Chinese men crossing the border in large numbers, dressed and acting as a group, and we suspected it had to be a secret army. But we did not fully face the implications, even when expert Gordon Chang warned in July 2023, “There is now a Chinese invasion of the U.S. homeland.”…

Daily Wire: The White House Released Up-Close Footage Of Our Military Bombing An Islamic Terrorist – Dan Scavino, “In President Trump’s first week back in office, he told the world that we were going to find the Jihadi terrorists that mean to do Americans harm, and bring them ultimate Justice.”

Hot Air: Highlights From Joe Rogan’s 3-Hour Interview With Elon Musk – People always saw Trump as a disrupter of the status quo, but now it feels like every person he’s got in his cabinet is a disrupter as well, which makes for interesting times. – $12 billion for non-existent submarines. – George Soros set up NGOs to attract government funds. – The legacy media puppet show…

Newsmax: The Department of Education Offers $25K Buyout to Many Employees – The “voluntary separation incentive payment” offer came in an email Friday from Chief Human Capital Officer Jacqueline Clay. – The email noted that employees were receiving the offer before the department underwent “a very significant reduction in force.”…

The Daily Fetched: Disturbing Data Emerges Suggesting Would-Be Trump Assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks Had ‘Help’ From An Accomplice—The elephant in the room remains the FBI’s lack of transparency in handling the investigation. – A source recently spoke with The New York Post, claiming that the FBI has been obstructing local law enforcement’s efforts to investigate the case, leaving authorities in the dark as they attempt to determine Crooks’ motives…

Western Journal: Trump’s Statement After Meeting with Zelenskyy: ‘He Disrespected the United States.’ – “Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure.” – “It’s amazing what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations.” – “I don’t want an advantage, I want PEACE.”…

Fox News: Conversations about a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia came to a screeching halt Friday after a tense meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy led to a canceled press conference, a minerals deal off the table, and Trump asking Zelenskyy to leave. – Trump accused Zelenskyy of “disrespecting” the U.S. during their Friday meeting and said the Ukrainian leader was not ready to secure peace for his country…

Focal Points: Zelensky’s Conduct Indicates He is Accustomed to Ukraine Calling the Shots – The Fiery exchange in The Oval Office raises suspicion that Ukrainian operatives have been in charge of U.S. policy for the last four years. – I cannot think of a single instance in U.S. history in which a foreign head of state, never mind one who is petitioning the U.S. for assistance, has acted in such an impudent and imperious way…

New York Post: Pro-Ukraine Senator Lindsey Graham slammed Volodymyr Zelensky for arguing with President Trump and VP Vance during the Oval Office meeting Friday, saying Zelensky should consider his political future. – Graham, “What I saw in the Oval Office was disrespectful, and I don’t know if we could ever do business with Zelensky again,” after Trump canceled a scheduled joint press conference with Zelensky and ordered him out of the executive mansion.

Townhall: The Ukrainian Ambassador’s Reaction to Zelensky’s Meltdown Meeting with Trump Says It All—During a tense moment in the Oval Office, the Ukrainian ambassador was seen covering her face as President Volodymyr Zelensky repeatedly attempted to speak over President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance.

Wall Street Journal: A Secret U.S. Drone Program Helped Capture Mexican Cartel Bosses – Intelligence provided by the unarmed drones was essential to the arrests of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, one of his sons, and other top drug smugglers. – Strains have emerged in the U.S.-Mexican security partnership since President Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico unless it stops fentanyl trafficking and migrant smuggling…

Townhall: Mexico Hands Over Drug Cartel Leader Omar Cuenca-Marino To Face Federal Charges – Between approximately 2013 and 2016, Cuenca-Marino’s cartel was responsible for importing large quantities of heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine from Mexico into the United States, specifically in the state of Georgia.

Zero Hedge: Americans’ Savings Rate Soars As First Official Signs Of DOGE Success Emerge – The Fed’s favorite inflation indicator dipped as expected, but all eyes were on the sudden surge in incomes and plunge in ‘spending’ in January – So, to clarify, no, mainstream media, the drop in spending is NOT reflective of a nervous consumer terrified by Trump’s policies, it’s how the machine is supposed to work (as all that money-laundering abroad evaporates).

Gateway Pundit: FBI Director Kash Patel Responds To Pam Bondi’s Requesting For All Jeffrey Epstein Documents – “The FBI is entering a new era—one that will be defined by integrity, accountability, and the unwavering pursuit of justice.” “There will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, and no stone left unturned.” – “If there are gaps, we will find them.”- “If records have been hidden, we will uncover them and will bring everything we find to the DOJ.”…

AMUSE on X: Justice or Cover-Up? – The FBI, Southern District of New York, and the Epstein Files – At the outset, the peculiar handling of this case by the SDNY and the FBI raised disturbing concerns about whether justice was truly objective or whether the prosecution was carefully engineered to shield powerful men who benefitted from Epstein’s crimes. – After Epstein died, many assumed the government would dismantle his network, but instead, the prosecution focussed on a single individual, Ghislaine Maxwell…

American Conservative: The CIA Is Hiding Something Big Regarding The JFK Assassination – It has been nearly 62 years since the assassination of JFK, and yet thousands of National Archive records and an untold number that have not yet been turned over by the FBI, CIA, and other federal agencies remain classified, so are beyond the sunlight of public scrutiny. – Nevertheless, the gradual declassification that began in the late 1990s has brought a disturbing picture into focus…

American Thinker: DOGE Is In The Constitution – At least the most important part of it is covered. – The Constitution obligates the Feds to tell us where the money went. – Those expenditures have been concealed from us for decades. – DOGE is the reporting agency envisioned by Article I, § 9, Clause 7…

American Thinker: Trump closes the border, and suddenly, Mexico’s cartel problems are nowhere to be found in Tijuana – Trump has apparently brought peace to cartel-wracked northern Mexico, according to a resident. – No car burnings. – No blocked roads. – No machine-gun shootouts. – No bodies splattered across the pavements and in residential doorways. – No shakedowns. – No innocent Mexican citizens chased across the border into the US…

Epoch Times: California Senior District Judge William Alsup Finds Mass Firings of Federal Probationary Employees Likely Unlawful – He ordered the immediate reinstatement of some employees and ordered OPM’s request be rescinded because of the possibility of more workers being let go. – All union-representative employees who were terminated, he ruled, had to go through administrative processes like the Merit Systems Protection Board and the National Labor Relations Authority.

Epoch Times: The individuals who leaked information about immigration enforcement operations have been identified and face termination, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. – “I have found some leakers,” Noem said. “We are continuing to get more. They will be fired, and there will be consequences.”

Epoch Times: The Social Security Administration is planning to lay off many employees, and workers will be offered incentives of up to $25,000 for voluntary separation. – Offices that perform functions not mandated by statute could be prioritized for workforce reductions, including staffing cuts, reassignments, and abolishing positions and complete departments.

Red State: Tulsi Gabbard, “Joe Biden Admin Knew About the Perverted Chats at Our Intel Agencies for Years, But Didn’t Give a Damn.” – “I’ve had whistleblowers come forward just in the last few days who work in the [National Security Agency] and who said, ‘Hey, we saw this, and we reported it through official channels under the Biden administration.’”…

Epoch Times: Attorney General Bondi Released The First Phase of Declassified Epstein Files – The release contains documents that have largely been circulating in the public domain for years and did not include significant revelations about Epstein and his operations…

Forbidden News: Jeffrey Epstein’s client list is a distraction from the potentially larger scandal of Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell.” – More than just sex videos, there is also a copy of a secret $4.5 billion agreement signed by Hunter Biden, General Secretary Xi Jinping, and Vice President Wang Qishan, with a $1 million tip plus a $10 million signing bonus paid out to Hunter immediately after he signed it…

Wall Street Journal: According to White House officials, President Trump is planning to sign an executive order making English the official language of the US. – In its nearly 250-year history, the U.S. has never had a national language at the federal level.

February 27, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: Israeli plans to resume the Gaza war in four to six weeks to conquer the entire strip in a single coordinated offensive against Hamas. – Under the plan, Israel will deploy more than 50,000 troops to Gaza before relocating the civilian population to humanitarian zones and waging a ruthless ground campaign against Palestinian terrorists across the rest of the strip…

Breitbart: Trump Inherited a Biden Economy Riddled with Hidden Weaknesses – The latest GDP report confirms what many economists had been quietly warning: beneath the surface, the economy is weaker than it seemed. – The fourth quarter 2024 data shows real GDP growth slowing to 2.3 percent, down from 3.1 percent in the third quarter, showing a clear loss of momentum…

Breitbart: The Latest Rasmussen Poll Shows Americans’ Trust in Mainstream Media Is The ‘Lowest Point’ in Over 50 Years – Trust ticked back up to 45% in 2018, but it has continually descended since then, reaching 40% in 2020, 36% in 2021, 34% in 2022, 32% in 2023, and 31% in 2024, President Biden’s last year in office.- See the chart…

One America News: The Pentagon has ordered all transgender military service members to be removed from the military unless they are granted a waiver showing they’re fit for “war-fighting capabilities.” – According to a new memo filed on Wednesday evening, it was revealed that all service members who have “a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria” are no longer eligible for military service.

Just The News: The FAA to Raise the Salary of Candidates for Air Traffic Controller Positions Amid Staff Shortage—This staffing shortage has been known for over a decade. – Candidates who attended the FAA academy will receive a 30% salary increase when they start work. There are also calls for increasing the rate at which candidates are hired and reducing the current eight-step hiring process to a five-step process.

AMUSE on X: The FAA’s Air Traffic Control Network Is Failing, And Elon Musk is Stepping Fix The Issues – The Biden administration signed the deal in 2023 for Verizon to modernize air traffic control communications, but almost immediately, the FAA realized Verizon’s communications network was failing and jeopardizing flight safety. – Musk’s decision to provide Starlink terminals for free exposes the absurdity of the government’s negative response.

Cal Matters: Here’s how a California sheriff is planning to break the state’s sanctuary law. – Amador County Sheriff Gary Redman says he’ll contact immigration authorities after he arrests someone who is in the country illegally. Redman is planning to test the sanctuary law as President Donald Trump promises the largest deportation program in U.S. history.

One America News: Attorney General Bondi Demands To See All Epstein-Related Intelligence, Accusing The FBI Of Withholding Documents – Bondi first became suspicious after looking over the released documents, noting that there was “nothing of substance” included in the papers. – She then demanded, “By 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, February 28, the FBI will deliver the complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents, audio, and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained.”…

US Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs: Attorney General Pamela Bondi Released the First Phase of Declassified Epstein Files, which are available here.

Daily Signal: The Federal judges ruling against President Trump’s recent executive actions have been almost entirely appointees of his two Democrat predecessors. – Some were previously activists, others were steeped in Democrat politics, and one is a former clerk for then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor. -These judges have issued rulings to block Trump’s policies on immigration, federal spending, the DOGE, and other matters.

The Free Press: The U.S. Mint has hidden its five DEI personnel from President Trump’s axe and has even deleted the chief DEI officer’s background from its website. – Mint employee Brian Martin is personally aware of these moves. – DEI officers Luz Sullivan and Vicky Best-Morri are now doing the PR duties that include writing and distributing educational content for children, conducting outreach to schools, and supervising public affairs contractors…

Breitbart: Chief Justice John Roberts paused a lower-court order Wednesday requiring the Trump administration to pay $2 billion in frozen foreign aid before a midnight deadline. – The ruling comes after the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to block the release of USAID funding, which the federal judge had required by midnight. – Officials said they would not be able to comply with the judge’s order….

Daily Caller: Federal immigration authorities have arrested more than 20,000 illegal migrants in President Trump’s first month back into office. – DHS confirmed Wednesday The number marks a 627% increase in monthly arrests in comparison to the roughly 33,000 at-large arrests made during President Joe Biden’s last year in the White House.

Just The News: President Trump now says he plans to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting Tuesday after previously saying he would delay them until April 2nd. – Trump also said he was doubling the 10% universal tariff charged on imports from China.

Daily Wire: Congress Moves To Undo Bogus Biden-Era Methane And Water Heater Rules. – The House voted 220-206 on Wednesday to pass a joint resolution that provides for congressional disapproval of the EPA’s methane emissions fee on oil and gas facilities. – The House voted 221-198 to pass a similar measure aimed at the DOE rule on energy conservation standards for gas-fired instantaneous water heaters…

Daily Wire: The Trump administration has rolled out an “End DEI” portal for parents to submit reports of alleged racial or sex discrimination to the DOE for potential investigation. – The portal allows parents to submit the name of their child’s school or school district and list “concerning practices” they would like the DOE to investigate.

James O’Keefe: U.S. Border Patrol Agent Monica Cruz Blows The Whistle on Juvenile Smuggling Network – She Reveals That Teenage Cartel Recruits Aged 14-17 Are Apprehended 20 Times by CBP, Then Released Back to Cartel Without Consequences. – “No One Has Been Prosecuted, And No One Is Being Held Accountable.”

Zero Hedge: Trump’s Bold Plan, Boost Egg Imports To Reverse Biden’s Bird Flu Blunder That Tanked Nation’s Hen Population – The US Department of Agriculture will import between 70 million and 100 million eggs over the next two months in an effort to cap egg prices. – This initiative is part of a five-part plan, backed by $1 billion in funding, aimed at addressing the bird flu crisis and fixing the Biden administration’s mass culling policies…

Daily Wire: AG Pam Bondi Dismisses DEI Lawsuits Filed Against Police And Fire Department During The Biden Administration – “This is an early step toward eradicating illegal DEI preferences across the government and in the private sector.” – The DOJ said the lawsuits went after police and fire departments for using standard aptitude tests in the hiring process. The DOJ said there was “no evidence of intentional discrimination…

Daily Wire: President Trump Signed An Executive Order Wednesday Giving DOGE More Power. – The order requires agency heads to advise DOGE on how to reduce federal government spending and/or “reallocate spending to improve efficiency.” – Musk, “The overall goal is to address the enormous deficit.” – “We simply cannot sustain as a country with two-trillion-dollar deficits.” – “Just the interest on the debt now exceeds the Defense Department spending.”…

One America News: After constant journalist questions regarding how the Trump administration’s Cabinet members feel about Elon Musk’s frequent presence at the White House and his involvement with the president’s initiatives, President Trump expressed that the entire Cabinet is “extremely happy” with him. – “Musk works in tandem with DOGE to root out government waste, fraud, and overspending.”…

The Daily Fetched: DOGE found that a top Joe Biden aide received $millions for a facility intended to house recent migrants, yet the facility remained empty throughout the country’s crisis. – Family Endeavors saw its “cash and portfolio of investments grow from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023,” with the federal government as its sole source of funds…

Daily Wire: On Wednesday, Senate Republicans defeated an attempt by their Democrat colleagues to undo President Trump’s day-one national emergency declaration. – Members voted 52-47 along party lines. – Senator Jim Risch, “President Trump’s energy emergency declaration takes the necessary steps to reverse Democrats’ Green New Deal and prioritize our domestic energy and natural resources.”…

Epoch Times: – Trump Says A 25% Import Tariff on EU Will Be Announced Soon – Currently, the EU has a 10 percent tariff on passenger cars, four times the rate of the U.S. passenger car tariff of 2.5 percent. – U.S. officials have also criticized European value-added taxes of at least 17.5 percent.

Epoch Times: Elon Musk And The White House Respond To Media Reports of 21 DOGE Employees Resigning – Trump created DOGE by renaming Obama’s 2014 United States Digital Service. – “These were Democrat political holdovers who refused to return to the office.” – “They would have been fired had they not resigned.”…

Western Journal: The DOGE Staffers Who Resigned Left a Mistake in Their Letter That Proves How Bad They Really Were – In their letter, they basically agreed that, when they swore their oath to the Constitution, they were lying. – “We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the staffers wrote in the collective resignation email. – “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”

Victor Davis Hanson: Who Caused The Counter-Revolution? – Trump’s first month is a shock treatment to decades of spending, open borders, and bureaucratic bloat while critics decry the cure and ignore the disease. – It is easy to run up massive debts but hard to pay them back. Politicians profit by handing out grants and hiring thousands using someone else’s money or creating new programs. – Yet, say it is “mean” to spend only what you have and to create a lean, competent workforce.

American Thinker: House Resolution 166, introduced by 150 bipartisan lawmakers, reaffirms their support for the Iranian people’s struggle for regime change. – It backs the NCRI 10-Point Plan, which envisions a secular, democratic, and non-nuclear republic in Iran. – Additionally, it condemns Tehran’s oppressive policies and calls on global leaders to intensify sanctions against the regime…

American Thinker: Kash Patel Will Reshape the FBI — Patel’s appointment is a victory for anyone who believes in the need for accountability and reform in government institutions. – While firm, Patel’s action before even entering the Hoover building is consistent with his message to the FBI workforce: that he will “always have their backs” but will also take necessary steps to restore integrity to the Bureau…

Zero Hedge: Pursuing President Trump’s vision of a fighting force focused on readiness to wage war, the Pentagon is about to initiate a fast-paced program to ferret out transgender military members and discharge them from the military. –
“Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria will be processed for separation from military service,” according to a recent memo…

Daily Wire: All The Blue State Attorneys General Are Meeting Daily To Find Ways To Undermine Trump. – U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has already predicted that their efforts will fail. – Trump currently enjoys higher favorability and approval ratings than he did in 2017, and a majority of Americans support many of the agenda items his administration has already begun to implement.

Townhall: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Explains How Much Money Trump Proposed ‘Gold Card’ Replace For The Inexpensive EB-5 Green Card Program Would Bring to The US – Lutnick, “250,000 people are waiting in line now, which equates to $1.25 trillion.”

New York Sun: The White House Correspondents’ Association Chief Gets A Big Job at MSNBC, Lending Weight To The Liberal Bias Accusations Against The Embattled Reporters’ Group – Eugene Daniels has a history of calling Republicans racist and his move to MSNBC comes as the ratings-challenged liberal network is in the midst of a historic staff shakeup.

February 26, 2025

One America News: President Trump has answered an astounding 1,009 questions from reporters in the first month of this administration. – Former President Biden’s first-month total of 141 press questions answered is blown away by the tabulation, which was gathered by George Condon of the National Journal that was released on Tuesday. – During the first 31 days of his first term in 2009, former President Obama took only 161 questions…

Wall Street Journal: President Trump Reverses Biden’s Action on Venezuela By Revoking Chevron’s Oil License To Drill There – This move ends Chevron’s work in the oil-rich country and was triggered by what Trump said was a failure to accept illegal immigrant deportees back to Venezuela. – Trump’s announcement came nearly a month after senior White House envoy Richard Grenell met with Maduro in Caracas to strike a deal that would restart deportation flights to the country…

Epoch Times: The White House Orders Agencies to Accelerate Large-Scale Firings of Federal Workers—Federal agencies must prepare and submit “Phase 1 Agency RIF [reductions in force] and Reorganization Plans” by March 13th. – Trump’s workforce optimization initiative includes both large-scale reductions in force plans and agency-wide reorganization efforts…

Reuters: US Attorney General Pam Bondi hopes to release Epstein-related flight logs and names on Thursday – She said her department was working on protecting the personal information of over 250 victims connected to Epstein. – Bondi said she hoped to release a “lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information” on Epstein…

American Spectator: 31 Days That Shook The World – Trump’s first month of countless wins made the Left see red and dizzied the Right with delight. – Year-on-year illegal border crossings are down 94%. – DOGE already identified at least $65 billion in often mind-blowing federal extravagance, incompetence, and graft. DEI is banished from the federal government and is now comatose in the private sector. – And the list goes on…

Epoch Times: A Massive Sting In Arizona Nets 25 Arrests and 1.7 Million Fentanyl Pills – Officials say the latest enforcement effort marks the next level of cooperation among state and federal agencies. – The joint investigation discovered a transnational criminal organization operating in both the United States and Mexico, trafficking millions of dollars worth of illegal drugs…

American Thinker: The Education Exodus – Homeschool co-ops are emerging as America’s last bastion of liberty. – Public schools, once cradles of civic virtue, have morphed into laboratories of progressive conformity. – Curricula steeped in Critical Race Theory cast the Founding Fathers as villains, not visionaries, along with gender ideology that supplants biology with fluidity, causing childhood confusion.

Uncanceled News: These Are the 15 Largest Defense Budgets in the World – In 2024, the U.S. spent nearly $1 trillion on its defense budget, equal to 3.4% of GDP. – In contrast, NATO members in Europe and Canada spent an average of 2% of GDP on defense. – While NATO’s defense budgets have declined since the Cold War, Russia’s military spending has surged by 227% since 2000, and China’s has skyrocketed by 566%…

Breitbart: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will fly to Washington D.C. to sign a rare earth mineral deal with President Trump on Friday – This will formalize a future economic relationship between the US and Ukraine to ensure a return on investment for America’s large spending on the Ukraine war.- President Trump described the deal as a way of recouping the billions of dollars the United States has spent on supporting Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion…

Focal Points: NATO Admits Casus Belli was NATO Enlargement—This September 2023 video Shows NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg telling the EU Parliament that Russia invaded Ukraine to prevent it from joining NATO. In the autumn of 2021, Russia actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign to promise no more NATO enlargement. – That was what they sent us, and that was a precondition for not invading Ukraine. – Of course, we didn’t sign that.

Center Square: House Republicans’ $4.5 Trillion Budget Resolution Passes Providing MASSIVE Tax Relief for Ordinary Americans. – The bill passed strictly along partisan lines, with 217 Republicans voting in favor and 215 Democrats opposed. – Now, the House budget bill will head to the Senate, where Republican lawmakers will need to adopt it to begin the budget reconciliation process.

Fox News: President Trump asked Elon Musk to speak at the top of the first full Cabinet meeting on Wednesday to discuss the progress made by DOGE. – Musk, “I think that email was perhaps interpreted as a performance review, but actually, it was a pulse check review.” – “Do you have a pulse?” – “And if you have a pulse and two neurons, you could reply to an email.” – “The task was “not a high bar” and should be something “anyone could accomplish.”…

Western Journal: Karoline Leavitt Says ‘A Lot of People in This City’ Should Be ‘Very, Very Nervous’ About Dan Bongino’s Appointment as Deputy Director Of The FBI. – He is both a former special agent at the Secret Service and an outsider to the nation’s federal government, and both realities make him formidable. – “This is a man who loves his country and who has honorably served our country in ways that many people have not.”…

Populist Times: Trump Has Revoked the Security Clearances for Covington & Burling LLP, the Law Firm That Assisted Jack Smith. – The revocation follows a similar action targeting 51 intel chiefs who signed a letter downplaying Hunter Biden’s laptop story as possibly a Russian disinformation campaign.

Newsmax: The Trump Administration Directs Large-Scale Federal Layoffs – Agencies were directed to submit by March 13 their plans for what is known as a reduction in force, which would not only lay off employees but eliminate unnecessary positions. – The result could be extensive changes in how government functions.

Liberty Daily: Recently Fired USAID Staff Are Given 15 Minutes to Collect Their Belongings, And Told They Will Be “Escorted To Their Workspace” And Will Undergo “X-Ray Screening Upon Entry” – USAID’s instructions come after a federal judge allowed the Trump administration to move forward with its staffing purges Friday, rejecting a union-led effort to temporarily halt the president’s plan to dismiss virtually all of the agency’s worldwide staff.

Townhall: The White House announced that Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). – This came after the White House said in a court filing that Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is not an official employee of DOGE and “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself.”

Washington Examiner: As President Trump convenes his first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the intrigue will be on Elon Musk, who will also attend. – One camp believes the president is effectively using Musk as a “shield” or a “lightning rod” to draw the media’s attention amid the administration’s quest to shrink the federal bureaucracy and slash alleged wasteful or fraudulent spending…

Washington Examiner: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired the federal intelligence employees over their sexually explicit work chats while on the job. – Gabbard announced Tuesday she would fire over 100 workers in the federal intelligence community and revoke their security clearances after an investigation reported they used a National Security Agency chat system to send “obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit” messages…

Geller Report: US Intel Chief Tulsi Gabbard Declares Islamic Terrorism Most Urgent National Security Threat – Gabbard dismissed the declaration made in 2021 by then-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that white supremacists pose the greatest national security threat to the United States. – Instead, Gabbard asserted that Americans face a greater safety threat from “radical Islamist terrorism.”

American Thinker: Donald Trump And the Art of Political Warfare – Trump and his MAGA army are in the process of soundly routing the Ruling Class on the battlefield of political warfare and permanently replacing the current Republican Party Establishment. – 2,500 years ago, Chinese philosopher, general, and military strategist Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War, noting, “It is the unemotional, reserved, calm warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune…

Gatestone Institute: It’s Time to Bring Down the Curtain on Iran’s Terror Axis – Many people may have forgotten Iran was found guilty of supporting the 9/11 attacks. – Recently, Iranian state agents have been trying to murder senior US officials in the Trump administration, various dissidents, and Donald Trump himself. – If the Trump administration allows the mullahs to stay in power, there will be no peace for the foreseeable future in the US, Europe, or the Middle East…

American Thinker: Citizens stop armed attackers, while the FBI lies – If blue cities and states don’t report crime to the FBI, and the FBI doesn’t accurately compile and publish crime data, that allows those on the Left to claim they’re tough on crime, setting the terms of political debate and keeping campaign and federal funds flowing. – The FBI’s lack of accuracy on this issue is no surprise…

American Thinker: A Cultural Cycle Is Upon Us Again. The old guard seeks to defend what the majority sees as indefensible. Still, we are finally exerting political will to address the dysfunctional institutions at the root of the problem. A new populist majority has finally had enough, and its leaders are unafraid to make radical changes by swinging a wrecking ball into our dysfunctional institutions.

Resist The Mainstream: The Trump administration is poised to launch an online registry for illegal immigrants as early as this week, requiring them to submit personal information or risk substantial fines and possible imprisonment. – The mandatory system will require illegal immigrants over the age of 14 to provide fingerprints and home addresses…

The Federalist: USAID Blew Hundreds Of Thousands In Taxpayer Slush Funds On A Ukrainian ‘Pickle Maker’ And Pet Accessories – Senator Joni Ernst’s staff uncovered the secret slush funds when, after months of enduring the agency’s excuses to justify its resistance to oversight, they were finally permitted access to “very limited data.”

Daily Wire: On Thursday, the GOP House Committee on the Judiciary revealed that the IRS confirmed that under the Biden administration, the agency leaked taxpayer information of more than 405,000 Americans, including Donald Trump. – Former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn, who leaked the information, is currently serving time in a Florida prison.

Zero Hedge: Washington Post Reporters Melt Down And The Opinion Editor Quits After Jeff Bezos Makes A Hard Pivot Towards Future “Personal Liberties & Free Markets” Editorials. – Jeff Bezos, “I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning: I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.” – “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” – “We’ll cover other topics too, of course.”…

February 25, 2025

American Spectator: China’s War Is Here, But Most Americans Are Blind to It—While policymakers focus on military buildups, aircraft carriers, and troop deployments, China is waging a war that doesn’t require a single soldier, tank, or missile. – It’s called Unrestricted Warfare, and its premise is devastatingly simple: War in the modern age can be waged through economic coercion, cyber infiltration, information control, and technological dominance.

American Spectator: Mr. President, Sir, Our Heads Are Spinning From So Much Winning. – Donald Trump entered the Oval Office for the second time on January 20th, but this time, America had seen the full implications and dire consequences of the Obama-Biden-Pelosi-Harris-Ocasio woke agenda. – Americans don’t want DEI but are being shamed into silence by Virtue Signalers and Cancel Police. – They know there are only two genders and are terrified of what their children are being taught in school. – This is a must-read.

Fox News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has agreed to a draft of a minerals deal with the White House. – President Trump told reporters that the Ukrainian leader plans to travel to D.C. on Friday to meet with him after the officials agreed to the terms of the deal. – The U.S. president added that the two leaders are “just in the process of negotiating.”

Liberty Sentinel: Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Congressman Chip Roy of Texas reintroduced legislation that would completely remove the US from funding and involvement in the UN. – President Trump has already taken steps to withdraw from the globalist organization, so this is a historic opportunity to do so.

Breitbart: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr will brief the Republican Study Committee on Wednesday on how the Democrat-controlled FCC approved a licensing deal to deliver leftist billionaire Soros over 200 Audacy radio stations. – Soros reportedly took foreign investment to make his bid, which covered 40 media markets, and asked the commission to make an exception to the normal review process, which includes a national security review.

Washington Free Beacon: The Red-District DOGE Protests Cited As Proof of a Broad Musk ‘Backlash’ Were Organized By Left-Wing Groups—In one case, a former Democrat county board candidate and self-described ‘political activist’ helped organize a viral demonstration in Georgia. – The George Soros-funded groups Indivisible and MoveOn were at the center of the demonstrations.

Breitbart: ICE special agents and other state and local law enforcement officials arrested 118 illegal aliens during a Monday immigration raid inside the Colony Ridge Subdivision near Houston, Texas. – According to ICE, the multi-agency immigration raid netted migrants charged with a myriad of criminal charges and criminal convictions…

Breitbart: The FBI is investigating a secret “honeypot” operation that former FBI Director James Comey launched in 2015 that targeted President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. – This comes after a report in October 2024 that the House Judiciary Committee was looking into a whistleblower’s claims that the agency “targeted” Trump “soon after he announced his presidential campaign in June 2015” in what was “described as a fishing expedition to find something.”…

Daily Signal: An improvised explosive device killed a Texas rancher last month, according to Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. – “This shocking act of violence highlights the growing threat posed by cartel activity along our southern border.” – A Tamaulipas state police spokesperson said that cartels use IEDs to protect their territory from opposing criminal organizations.

AMUSE on X: Contempt and Consequence, The Case For The Court-Martial of Insubordinate Flag Officers – The Uniform Code of Military Justice is the bedrock of military discipline and the safeguard of democratic governance. – It now stands as the last barrier between order and chaos as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth faces a defining test. – The issue at hand is not a minor breach of protocol but blatant insubordination that strikes at the heart of civilian control over the military…

Epoch Times: The Social Security Administration announced it is eliminating its Office of Transformation – A webpage-based manual said the Office of Transformation was responsible for providing “strategic guidance and oversight of enterprise-wide initiatives, addressing policies, business processes, and systems.” – President Trump previously said the Office of Transformation was a prime example of wasteful and inefficient offices.

Epoch Times: Trump Says He Wants the Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Built Now—President Barack Obama first rejected it in 2015. The project was ultimately blocked by the Biden administration just hours after Joe Biden took office as president in January 2021, leading to thousands of lost jobs…

One America News: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that he will be taking his first trip to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday. – While there, he will receive a rundown of briefings on all mission operations at the base. – The Guantanamo Bay Naval Station serves as a forward operating base vital for regional stability and maritime security and also facilitates the temporary detention of illegal aliens who are pending return to their country of origin or other appropriate destination.

Zero Hedge: Bloomberg reported that Elon Musk’s SpaceX subsidiary, Starlink, is preparing to deploy terminals nationwide to upgrade the Federal Aviation Administration’s national airspace system. – Musk responded to the report on X by indicating that the current ground-based internet, managed by Verizon, “is not working and is consequently putting air travelers at serious risk.”

Real Clear Politics: The Trump Admin Takes Control From The White House Correspondents Association – “Moving forward, the White House press team will determine the White House press pool.” – KAROLINE LEAVITT: As you all know, for decades, a group of DC-based journalists, the White House Correspondents’ Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the President of the United States…

Slay News: President Donald Trump and DOGE chief Elon Musk have both issued endorsements for Vivek Ramaswamy’s run for Ohio governor. – 39-year-old Ramaswamy, who ran against Trump in the Republican 2024 presidential primary before joining forces with the president, announced his gubernatorial bid on Monday.

American Thinker: Along with Illegal Immigrants, Infectious Diseases are Crossing America’s Border – While not every illegal immigrant crossing our border is a criminal, everyone crossing the border could be an unintentional carrier of infectious diseases no longer prevalent in America. – A recent highlights New York City, The leading destination for illegal aliens, the incidence of TB is 2.5 times higher than the national average. Additionally, 89% of TB patients in NYC are foreign-born…

Twitchy: Michael Shellenberger Dropped ANOTHER Bombshell—The FBI Employees Are Destroying Evidence—A source inside the FBI said FBI employees were destroying evidence on servers, and he informed Kash Patel. – Shellenberger has exposed so much corruption over the past several years that we’ve learned that when he drops a bomb on Twitter, it’s usually worth paying attention to, and it is usually huge.

American Thinker: President Trump Is Sick of the Government’s Ever-Growing Patronage—The vast majority of government workers have patronage jobs to pay constituents for supporting Democrats. – According to Open Secrets, between 93 and 97% of all political donations made by government employees go to Democrats, with 3 to 7% going to Republicans. The government doles out cushy, high-paying jobs, and workers and unions kick back donations to party supporters…

Newsmax: The U.S. Senate has confirmed Daniel Driscoll, an Iraq War veteran and adviser to Vice President Vance, as Secretary of the Army by a vote of 66 to 28. – Driscoll served in the Army for 3 1/2 years, including a deployment in Iraq from October 2009 to July 2010. – After leaving the military, he attended Yale Law School, where he met Vance and worked in finance.

Newsmax: According to a court filing by FPB Acting Director Russ Vought, the Trump administration intends to maintain some version of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but in a capacity more aligned with new efficiency mandates. – The CFPB was conceived by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., after the financial crisis of 2008. It was established in 2010 as part of the Federal Reserve System.

American Thinker: Yosemite is in the news because of Donald Trump’s federal government personnel cuts. – For example, Vince’s job as the park’s sole key-holder required him to keep track of the hundreds of keys and locks. – Yosemite staffers hoping to draw attention to sweeping workforce cuts hung an upside-down American Flag on El Capitan to draw attention to that monster Trump. But wait a minute, only eleven out of 1,151 have been let go, or ~1%.

American Thinker: Susan Rice misleads Americans again – Susan Rice was the UN Ambassador and behind-the-scenes Democrat/socialist/communist whisperer who blatantly lied about the Benghazi attack. – Honest, patriotic Americans know to disregard everything Rice says. – With the recent and long overdue dismissal of USAF General Charles Brown, Rice demonstrates she, like virtually all of her ilk, is incapable of learning from her mistakes.

Brownstone Institute: Donald Trump Was Right about Autism – Conservative estimates are that there has been a 1,000-fold increase in diagnoses of autism in children since the turn of the millennium, in the UK and the US at least. – It has risen from one in 100,000 children with autism to 1 in 100 children with autism in 25 years.- The range of idiosyncrasies in the hall of the autism social club is like nothing else on earth…

AMUSE on X: How DEI and Mismanagement Turned Obama’s Legacy Project into a Billion-Dollar Boondoggle – What was once a $500 million project is creeping toward the $1 billion mark. – Years behind schedule, plagued by worksite racial incidents, lawsuits, and shocking quality concerns, Obama’s library embodies the tragic reality of DEI in action…

February 24, 2025

Western Journal: Americans Give Trump a Big Thumbs Up and Democrats A Big Thumbs Down – A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released Monday found Trump maintains a 52% approval rating after his first month in office, including high marks for nearly all of his policies. – However, Democrats have plummeted to an all-time low approval rating of only 36%. – Also, 58% of respondents credited Trump with a better job performance than former President Joe Biden.

Julie Kelly: The Left’s Meltdown Over Our New FBI Dream Team – Barely recovered from the swearing-in last week of FBI Director Kash Patel, the media and Democrats were dealt another blow with the announcement of Dan Bongino as the bureau’s number two. This former NYPD cop and Secret Service agent who authored three books on government corruption is perfectly suited to help his new boss, FBI Director Kash Patel, root out the bad actors at the 37,000-employee bureau and hold them accountable…

American Spectator: Trump Has Already Achieved Major Wins In His Full-Throttle First 30 Days — Even if he later loses some battles in court. – Just through Feb. 14, the Federal Register lists 68 Executive orders. – One of these, of course, was the creation of DOGE, which has cut hundreds of federal contracts, so far claiming $55 billion in savings…

Just The News: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says the state will establish a DOGE task force, similar to that of the Trump administration, to eliminate wasteful government spending at the local level. – “Florida has set the standard for fiscally conservative governance, and our new Florida DOGE task force will do even more to serve the people of Florida,” DeSantis said in a statement on Monday.

AMUSE on X: The DEI General, Or How CQ Brown Made Identity Politics the Top Military Priority – Brown’s tenure embodied the triumph of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) over military readiness, transforming the Armed Forces into an institution where identity trumped merit. In doing so, he made himself a liability to the very institution he swore to serve, forcing Trump’s hand in removing him to restore the military’s foundational principles.

AMUSE on X: Woke Spies Gone Wild – American taxpayers should be furious. – While they work hard to feed their families, government intelligence officers in the NSA, CIA, and DIA sit in taxpayer-funded offices swapping graphic tales of genital mutilation, fetishistic role-play, and polyamorous sexual escapades, all under the guise of “DEI.”…

Zero Hedge: An LGBT Activist Has Been Arrested As The Ringleader Of International Pedophile Network – The criminal syndicate had been operating between the northern French province of Loire-Atlantique across the country’s border with Belgium. – Its horrific crimes are reminiscent of the Dutroux affair, one of the most infamous episodes of child sex abuse to ever come to light in modern European history…

Daily Signal: Governor Mike Dunleavy, “Trump Has Rescued Alaska” – “Everything has changed for Alaska’s energy and natural resources production under the Trump administration.” – On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order unlocking the “bounty of natural wealth” in Alaska, from oil and gas to minerals and even timber. – “Whatever Alaska has is now open for business.”…

Breitbart: Joe Biden’s airport security agency opened up fast-track lines for illegal migrants in 2021. – The heretofore unreleased 2021 policy allowed illegal migrants to use a variety of “DHS-provided documents” to walk quickly through security checkpoints that held up many Americans. – The TSA document says the policy was adopted to reduce the delays caused by migrants seeking to get through airport security without normal identification documents…

Breitbart: The apprehension of migrants along the southwest border with Mexico fell to a historically low level on Friday, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. – Their agents encountered 199 migrants on Friday, compared to 4,393 one year earlier…

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Ukrainian Tightrope – Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 because he saw weakness in the West. – But now, both he and the world want an end to the war, and Trump may be the only one willing to cut an imperfect but necessary deal. – To find an impossible peace between Ukraine and Russia, we must understand the recent history of the war and the European and American roles in it…

American Thinker: Unmasking Comedian Zelensky’s Deception and His True Role in the War on the Global Stage – Beneath his image as a brave wartime leader lies a far more complex and troubling reality. – Zelensky’s rise to power and subsequent actions indicate that he is not merely the victim of an unjust invasion but a figurehead influenced by external forces. – Trump pointed out the reality that Zelensky’s actions portray him more as a puppet of the West than a true statesman…

New York Sun: Zelensky Is Furious About The Minerals-for-Security Deal as Ukraine Prepares To Sign Over Resources to America – Ukraine’s president was exuberant in his opposition to a proposed deal between America and Ukraine, but financial and security commitments could accompany an end to the three-year war with Russia. – Zelensky originally came up with the idea of an American security guarantee in exchange for oil, gas, and other natural resources last September when he visited Mr. Trump in New York…

Townhall: Are CIA Officers Plotting Treason in Response to DOGE Looking Into Their “Ultra-Sensitive Payments?” – On the CIA’s 7th floor, home to top leadership, some officers are also quietly discussing how mass firings and the buyouts already offered to staff risk creating a group of disgruntled former employees who might be motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service.

News Busters: The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks are freaking out over the Trump administration’s cuts of their beloved big government programs with sob stories of federal workers losing jobs and fearmongering. – But they’ve hidden how Elon Musk and the DOGE have already saved the hard-working American taxpayer billions of dollars. – From February 8 to February 24th, ABC, CBS, and NBC (on their evening and morning shows) spent a total of 1 minute, 53 seconds telling this side of the issue…

American Thinker: Meet the Cartels—Marco Rubio just designated a slew of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and here is what we know about each of them. – The cartels named in Rubio’s declaration are Tren de Aragua, Mara Salvatrucha/MS-13, Cartel de Sinaloa, Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, Carteles Unidos, Cartel del Noreste, Cartel del Golfo, and La Nueva Familia Michoacana. These are some of the most brutal organizations operating in the United States, Mexico, and Central and South America…

Zero Hedge: Musk Tells Fed Workers To Return To Office Or Be Placed On Leave – Musk, “Those who ignored President Trump’s executive order to return to work have now received over a month’s warning.” – “Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave.”. – Musk referred to the “Return To In-Person Work” executive order Trump signed on day one of his second term…

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration announced on Sunday that it is cutting 2,000 positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development and putting nearly every other USAID employee on paid administrative leave. – There’s no indication of how long those leaves will last or what the ultimate fate of people in that category will be. – The leaves took effect at 11:59 EST on Sunday night.

The Federalist: Institutional Resistance To Trump Proves The Left’s Disdain For Democracy – Those condemning President Trump’s firings of resistance officials are not attacking him; they are attacking our democracy. – Donald Trump is not acting like a dictator. And he’s not acting like a king. He’s governing as the chief executive, the position to which a majority of voters elected him…

Breitbart: A Recent Rasmussen Survey Reveals Trump’s Mass Deportation Policy Has 62% Approval – 62% said they strongly (41%) or somewhat (21%) approve, while only 36% said they somewhat (14%) or strongly (22% disapprove. – Hispanic voters support the mass deportations by a margin of 63 to 37%. – Black voters support Trump’s deportations by 59 to 37%…

Gateway Pundit: U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman of Maryland, a Biden appointee, forbids the Education Department and Office of Personnel Management from sharing sensitive information with Elon Musk’s DOGE, claiming it violates federal privacy laws. – As many know, Boardman is one of the judges who issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against Trump’s birthright citizenship order earlier this month…

American Thinker: If Trump Wants Canada, Here’s How He Gets It—Under the cumbersome Canadian constitution, it is virtually impossible for Canada to join the U.S. in with a single action. – But Trump can acquire Canada piecemeal, faster than anyone imagined, by making these deals with two provinces to start with. – First, Trump should simultaneously invite the rich, conservative province of Alberta and the poor, liberal province of Newfoundland and Labrador to join the US…

American Thinker: Dan Bongino’s Life, Fortune, and Sacred Honor — We’ll discuss his sacred honor in a bit, but first, we need to appreciate what this man has done now that he has accepted the appointment of Deputy Director of the FBI. – His podcast has a larger audience than most of the networks, and one can easily presume the money is pretty good, but he has walked away to serve an institution that will test his sacred honor…

Daily Wire: Dan Bongino Chokes Up On Air Announcing Plan To Exit Radio, ‘It’s A Lot To Walk Away From’ – “I got a call from the president, and he couldn’t have been nicer,” Bongino said. “Obviously, I’ll keep the contents between us, but I think you get the gist of what it was about…this is now real.”…

American Conservative: The Inside Story of DOGE’s State Department Reforms – Trump’s February 12th Executive Order states: The Secretary [of State] shall, consistent with applicable law, implement reforms in recruiting, performance, evaluation, and retention standards, and the programs of the Foreign Service Institute, to ensure a workforce that is committed to faithful implementation of the President’s foreign policy…

Western Journal: Dan Bongino To Join Kash Patel at FBI as Deputy Director—A top podcaster, former Fox News host, New York City Police Department officer, and 12-year veteran of the Secret Service, Bongino is a close friend of FBI Director Kash Patel and will now serve as his right-hand man at the FBI.

American Thinker: The Democrats’ Failed Anti-DOGE Narratives – Nothing the Democrats have said about what Trump and DOGE are doing passes muster under standards of constitutionalism, law, logic, or morality. – Democrats say Trump can’t let them have access to executive branch data! Yes, he can. – Article II of the Constitution vests all executive authority in the President. – He can use some of that authority to his appointees to do the work of the Executive branch…

One America News: Apple Announces A Historic $500B Investment In U.S. Manufacturing & Innovation—The massive investment includes building an advanced AI server manufacturing factory near Houston, Texas, and increasing the company’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund from $5 billion to $10 billion. – Additionally, Apple will establish an Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit and hire 20,000 new employees to work on R&D silicon engineering, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Washington Free Beacon: A Biden Environmental Justice Adviser Received Millions in Taxpayer Funds After Personally Applying For EPA Grant
– LaTricea Adams’s group received a $20 million ‘environmental justice’ grant while she served on Biden’s Environmental Justice Advisory Council…

The Daily Fetched: The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) is warning Americans about traveling to the United Kingdom amid reports that the country’s leftist government can now prosecute them for social media posts—even if they were written while in the U.S. – The legal organization has posted an online analysis of the UK’s ideological leftism and the threat it poses to those who enjoy First Amendment protections…

New York Post: The drama at MSNBC intensifies as the network axes shows hosted by three more left-wing anchors in the wake of Joy Reid’s ouster. – MSNBC’s new president continued to shake up the embattled network on Monday, canceling shows hosted by left-wing anchors Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang, and Jonathan Capehart.

Slay News: Federal government immunologist Dr. Paul Offit admitted that Joe Biden’s administration suppressed evidence showing the benefits of natural immunity against COVID-19 to push mRNA vaccines onto the public. – Offit, a member of the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, is one of America’s most prominent mass vaccination advocates.

February 23, 2025

Epoch Times: Zelenskyy Says He’s Willing to Resign in Exchange for Ukraine Joining NATO—The Trump administration is negotiating a deal with Ukraine to access the nation’s rare earth minerals in exchange for continued U.S. military aid.

Epoch Times: Understanding The Impending Reciprocal Tariffs In Trade – President Trump is using tariffs, essentially taxes paid by foreign companies to access the U.S. market, as a primary tool to achieve his America First agenda. And it has delivered results for him so far. – These charts provide the context behind the president’s demand for fairness and order to restore steel tariffs by removing exclusions…

AMUSE on X: A Government Shutdown Isn’t the End, It’s a Reckoning – The predictable wails have begun. The chattering class warns of imminent doom as another government shutdown looms, a consequence not of Republicans’ refusal to negotiate but of Democrats actively using a shutdown as a tool to obstruct President Trump’s agenda. – Government shutdowns happen with some frequency, and the Republic has yet to crumble…

AMUSE on X: Restoring Merit, Why the Civil Service Exam Must Return – The shift away from exams was not a minor administrative tweak; it was a fundamental transformation of federal hiring. With the elimination of standardized testing, agencies turned to subjective hiring criteria, such as resumes, interviews, and essays—tools that, while valuable, lack the objectivity of standardized exams. – To maintain a competent, professional, and accountable federal workforce, America must return to a system of meritocratic hiring…

American Thinker: It’s A bad day for the hate-filled left now that MSNBC canceled Joy Reid’s wretched show – Good riddance to the most offensive leftist on television – MSNBC canceled her show due to poor ratings. – On her lame show, ‘The ReidOut,’ she constantly attacked Americans and white people while defending illegals and other criminals….

New York Sun: Trump and Intelligence Community Are on a Collision Course as Deadline to Release The JFK Files Looms – In 2023, a Gallup poll found that 65 percent of Americans believed that the murder of Kennedy “involved a conspiracy.” – The keepers of America’s secrets are scrambling with two weeks to go before the deadline.

Newsmax: Jordan Belfort, entrepreneur and subject of the 2013 movie “The Wolf of Wall Street,” said losing track of trillions of federal dollars doesn’t happen “by accident,” and he credits Elon Musk for saving the country from “going broke.” – He added that waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government had reached “biblical proportions.”…

Washington Examiner: Having confirmed 18 of Trump’s 22 Cabinet-level positions, the Senate will soon shift its focus to legislation and judicial nominees. – The Senate adopted a budget framework early Friday morning that will unlock some $340 billion in border and defense spending. – The Senate adopted a budget framework early Friday morning that will unlock some $340 billion in border and defense spending.

Washington Examiner: Fourteen state AGs filed a lawsuit this month alleging that President Trump gave Elon Musk unchecked authority without the approval of Congress in hopes of stopping DOGE. – But after seeing the sensible cuts coming from DOGE, people are calling for accountability at the state level, and the pushback from Democrats is fierce. – Democratic AGs seem to want to shut down any further review of waste, fraud, and abuse….

American Thinker: Trump Must Speak Out- As long as he remains silent about DOGE’s startling results, the American people will not understand the scope of corruption and incompetence, nor will they see the possibilities now open to America. – In the span of a few weeks, Donald Trump has carried out one of the most sweeping political revolutions in modern history. Using DOGE as his battering ram, he has crippled the Democrats and exposed machinery of corruption that would have beggared the imaginations of Boss Tweed…

American Thinker: It’s Time to deactivate the activist judges – The Democrats are down to this one card: activist judges. – In other words, shop for a judge who will write an opinion, put the Trump plan on hold, and hope 2026 gives you back the House. – It’s the only plan that will work, or so they think. – So it’s up to the Supreme Court to stop this nonsense…

Breitbart: Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced an audit focusing on the more than $4 billion in federal funding spent on the project to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles via a three-hour so-called “bullet train.” – The project is a decade late and projected to be $100 billion over budget by the time it is completed.

Breitbart: California Governor Gavin Newsom asked Congress for $40 billion in funding for fire relief, just two weeks after approving $50 million in spending to fight the Trump administration on immigration and other policies. – Newsom has made no offer to the federal government in return. — No changes in forest management, no changes in water management, no changes in emergency services, and no commitment to drop the $50 million in negative spending…

Amy Gallagher: Why Women Love Woke – Woke makes women go mad and sad. – There is now a growing ideological gap between men, who are more likely to be conservative, and women, who are more likely to be woke progressives. – This gap is not widening because men are becoming more right-wing; it is widening because young women are increasingly adopting radically far-left political positions…

February 22, 2025

New York Post: How USAID squandered billions in Haiti and around the globe – It is no surprise that the “government industrial complex” will resist every effort to bring transparency and accountability to how those funds are spent when the system is ripe with problems. – I’ve had first-hand experience with USAID and other international aid organizations, such as the World Bank, UNESCO, and even the Red Cross, during my 40-plus trips to Haiti…

Zero Hedge: How Many Federal Government Workers Has Trump Fired So Far? – The federal government employs 3 million civilian workers today, a massive number. – Trump’s federal cuts, if he follows through as he has promised, could mean the smallest federal government apparatus in almost a century. – Here is a list of agencies and their number of pink slips so far. – USAID, It is expected that Trump will ultimately keep less than 300. – Deferred Resignations, about 75,000. – Probationary Employee Layoffs, up to 220,000. And the list goes on…

One America News: According to the annual CPAC straw poll, Vice President JD Vance is the most wanted Republican from the Party’s list of potential presidential nominees in the 2028 election cycle. – On Saturday, Vance was the choice of 61% of CPAC attendees in the annual straw poll conducted to determine who should be the next GOP presidential nominee.

AMUSE on X: Why Dan Caine is the Perfect Chairman of the Joint Chiefs – President Trump made the right decision in firing Gen. CQ Brown Jr., who had allowed divisive and destructive DEI policies to undermine the effectiveness and unity of the armed forces. By choosing Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as his replacement, Trump signaled a return to meritocracy, operational readiness, and a military focused on warfighting rather than political activism…

Just The News: Democrats reject decades of policy as they fight against Hegseth’s Pentagon changes – Attempting to combat media narratives and obstructionism, Hegseth has insisted that he is merely moving money around in the Pentagon’s budget to other internal priorities, and that does not constitute a cut at all. – Hegseth: “It’s not a cut, it’s refocusing and reinvesting.” – But to critics, it doesn’t matter.

Western Journal: Pam Bondi’s DOJ Strips Administrative Judges of Their Legal Shield – The DOJ issued a letter saying that many removal restrictions for administrative law judges are unconstitutional, so the administration “will no longer defend” the removal restrictions in court or litigation. – A 2010 decision from the Supreme Court said that granting “multilayer protection from removal” to executive officers “is contrary to Article II’s vesting of the executive power in the President.”

Washington Examiner: FBI Director Kash Patel will also be serving as the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to multiple reports. – This follows U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s firing of the agency’s chief legal counsel, Pamela Hicks, on Thursday. – Hicks served in that role under the Biden administration…

One America News: U.S. District Judge Adam B. Abelson, a former President Biden appointee, granted a preliminary injunction that blocks elements of Trump’s orders that attempt to terminate government funding for DEI-related activities, as well as the Trump administration’s cancellation of contracts that they believe promote DEI. – Abelson ruled that parts of the executive orders likely violate the Constitution and free speech…

Epoch Times: The DOJ Has Filed A Misconduct Complaint Against the Judge Overseeing A Challenge to the Transgender Military Ban. – The complaint cites two instances in which Reyes questioned the attorney about his religious beliefs and used him “unwillingly as a physical prop” in a rhetorical exercise during the hearing.

Western Journal: A federal investigation of Maine’s refusal to comply with Title IX is underway hours after Maine’s governor told President Donald Trump the state would continue rejecting his executive order on keeping men out of women’s sports. – “State laws do not override federal anti-discrimination laws, and the MDOE and its schools remain subject to Title IX and its implementing regulations.” – Trump said he would not back down.

American Thinker: Trump needs to end the carrot that lures illegal immigrants – It’s not enough to punish and deport the worst of the worst; it’s time to ensure that there are no jobs for the rest of them. – If you really want to see the economy explode in growth, enable blue-collar Americans to earn a decent living by removing this glut of workers and the wage-reducing effect they have on employment…

Zero Hedge: With DOGE, It All Comes Down to Accounting — Every institution has two portals of money: money coming in and money going out. Keeping track of both is the key to operations. – The final number can reveal profits or losses, surpluses or deficits. – Regardless of what detractors say, the accounting books are the beating heart of every institution.

Dr. Owen Anderson: The Argument Against DEI – If you oppose DEI, you’re a racist, and if you’re against inclusion, then you’re a fascist. – DEI Uses Positive Language to Mask Discrimination – The Reality Behind “Equity” – The Double Standard in DEI – The Truth About “Inclusion” – Inclusion Means Unequal Treatment – Why DEI is Called Social Justice – The Liberal Christian Justification for DEI – The Injustice of Social Justice – Why DEI Must Be Removed…

Epoch Times: President Trump said Friday that a deal with Ukraine to grant the US access to the country’s rare earth minerals in exchange for continued U.S. military aid is nearly finalized. – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also expressed optimism, confirming that negotiators from both countries were working to finalize terms that would be fair to Kyiv.

Washington Free Beacon: Trump vs. Xi, The Brewing Battle Over the Indian Ocean – Houthi attacks on ships traveling through the Red Sea deeply disturbed a region that depends on maritime trade, and the Biden administration essentially ignored it. – China’s special envoy to the Middle East, Zhai Jun, made clear in his remarks that his country’s interests are not just related to economics. “The Indian Ocean is an indispensable part,” he said…

Zero Hedge: The U.S. Air Force sent two B-52 bombers on a high-profile “force projection” overflight across the Middle East on Feb. 17 in a bid to send a clear warning to adversaries and reinforce deterrence against escalating threats.

Zero Hedge: On Thursday evening, the Secretary of Air Force Public Affairs published the first-ever in-orbit image captured by Boeing’s X-37 spaceplane. – The top-secret spaceplane, built by Boeing and operated by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and the Space Force, has spent years in space quietly conducting classified missions. Its real purpose has yet to be revealed.

Townhall: Hamas Releases Five More Hostages in Exchange for 600 Palestinian Prisoners – Hamas paraded the hostages in front of cheering crowds, further highlighting their ruthless tactics. – Critics argue that such exchanges embolden Hamas, as they use human lives as bargaining chips to strengthen their position…

Liberty Daily: Woke Air Force General Charles “CQ” Brown Jr. Is Out As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. – He is being replaced by ISIS-busting Air Force Lt. General Dan “Razin” Caine. – Trump, “During my first term, Razin was instrumental in the complete annihilation of the ISIS caliphate. It was done in record-setting time, a matter of weeks. Many so-called military “geniuses” said it would take years to defeat ISIS. General Caine, on the other hand, said it could be done quickly, and he delivered.”

American Thinker: Make Jordan Palestinian Again – President Trump’s proposal for resettling Gazans in other countries brought to the forefront a long-forgotten truth: Jordan is Palestinian. – Defined by its geography, demographics, history, culture, and identity, it reflects the shared heritage of its people as Arabs on both sides of the Jordan River were called “Palestinians Arabs” until 1948…

American Thinker: Kash Patel, The FBI’s Needed Reformer-in-Chief – The confirmation of Kash Patel marks not just a changing of the guard but a seismic restoration of accountability to an agency that has long been adrift as its level of public trust languishes at a historic low of 41%. – His authorship of the 2018 Nunes Memo exposed the FBI’s misuse of FISA surveillance against Trump campaign aide Carter Page, peeling back layers of institutional rot that had festered under the guise of national security…

Breitbart: A Recent Economist/YouGov Poll Shows More Americans View DOGE Favorably than Unfavorably – Overall, 39% view DOGE favorably — more than the 36% who do not view it favorably. – Republicans view DOGE the most favorably at 70% approval, with just 12% viewing it unfavorably. – A majority of Democrats are against DOGE at 63%, compared to 16% who view it favorably.

American Thinker: Trillions in Graft – DOGE is the corrective counterbalance to an abusive and rogue Treasury Department. – When trillions of dollars routinely go missing under the government’s stewardship, the money doesn’t just disappear into a nebula or black hole. The unaccounted-for money goes into people’s bank accounts. That’s why anodyne terms like “waste, fraud, and abuse” are wholly inadequate descriptors…

American Thinker: DOGE Is Nothing New—Structurally, DOGE is simply a renaming of President Obama’s 2014 United States Digital Service, a group reporting to the Executive tasked with providing updated I.T. services to the federal government. – Only Republicans have articulated their concerns about the effects of the federal government’s unchecked growth on the Constitutional Republic and its citizens.

American Thinker: The Education Department, Death by a Thousand Cuts? – Here are a few examples of how the Trump administration is putting pressure on: The first spending waste found by DOGE was $900 million for the Institute of Education Sciences. – IES claims to be “research-based, neutral, fair, and non-partisan,” but encourages educators to use the Gloria Ladsen-Billings Marxism-infused Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, creating student leftist activists…

FAR: Responses To False Allegations Against DOGE – Many conservatives have had this same series of discussions with their leftist friends in the last few weeks. The rhetoric is incredible, as is their faux sense of panic. – As such, here is a guide to assist you in responding to their outlandish concerns.

New York Post: Kathie Lee Gifford explains how Donald Trump saved her and her newborn daughter from a ‘psychopathic murderer’ in the ‘90s – Gifford, along with her baby daughter and a nanny, was about to leave in a van to drive three hours to Atlantic City when the FBI warned her husband Frank that the murderer was on the loose. – Since she always stayed at the Trump Plaza and Casino when she was in Atlantic City, her husband Frank called Donald Trump…

New York Sun: Kathy Hochul Is Emerging as New York’s Kamala Harris, And She Deserves a Similar Fate – A February poll by Siena reckons that 57% of New Yorkers want ‘someone else’ as governor. – Kathy Hochul and Kamala Harris’ inadequacies are almost as identical as their initials. – Both have demonstrated political weakness, a lack of preparedness, unpopularity, poor communication skills, and an alarming deference to the radical left…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, 1 Down, 47 to Go – Trump has finished his first month in office. The good news for liberals is there are only 47 more months to go! – But will liberals make it? – Right now, it seems unlikely…

February 21, 2025

Zero Hedge: Nearly 2 Dozen Trinitarios Gang Members Were Arrested In Massachusetts – The Trinitarios gang members face various federal charges, including racketeering conspiracy, in connection with several murders, attempted murders, shootings, kidnappings, and robberies. – Authorities confirmed that factions of the Trinitarios gang have been identified in the cities of Lawrence, Lynn, Boston, and Haverhill…

Red State: Kash Patel Orders 1,500 FBI Agents and Staff Out of the Building on Day One. – They will be transferred from the FBI’s Washington, DC, headquarters to various locations across the nation. – Some 1,000 agents and staff will be reassigned to cities the Trump administration has designated as having higher crime rates, where they can fight crime rather than engage in political shenanigans.

Townhall: Attorney General Pam Bondi is carrying out President Donald Trump’s directive to clean house at law enforcement agencies across the federal government. – ATF Chief Counsel Pamela Hicks was served official notice that she was being removed from her position as the Chief Counsel of ATF, and her employment with the DOJ terminated.

Washington Times: EPA officials are preparing to ditch the fiction justifying the Green New Deal – The EPA is about to bury the unscientific idea that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. – Dropping this “endangerment finding” represents the beginning of the end of the great global warming hoax. – The Socialist measures flopped 57-0 in 2019 before being crushed 99-0 in the Senate two years later. – Undeterred, President Joe Biden implemented the deal’s main provisions administratively.

Zero Hedge: Mapping The Growth Of Government – As DOGE continues searching for and flagging waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government, American taxpayers are hearing about a lot of outrageous spending – and obscure agencies and projects, for the first time. – Here are some telling graphs regarding government employee counts and monies spent…

Daily Wire: Schools In Maine Are Sticking With Their Trans Sports Policy, So The Trump Administration Is Taking Action – The U.S. Department of Education has launched Title IX investigations into Maine’s policies. -On Thursday, Trump said that he’d be withholding federal funds from Maine following the news of a transgender-identifying boy taking first place in girls’ pole vaulting at Maine’s Class B state championship…

Epoch Times: President Trump has suggested that the United States Postal Service (USPS) could soon be merged with the Department of Commerce. – The agency reported a $9.5 billion loss in 2024. – His comments came immediately after Howard Lutnick was sworn in as the new Secretary of Commerce.

Breitbart: Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK after the government demanded backdoor access to user data worldwide. – Earlier this month, the UK government invoked the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) to compel Apple to provide access to user data. – The demand was called an “unprecedented attack” on privacy by security experts.

The Daily Fetched: Three officials from the Democrat Party in Pennsylvania have been indicted for conspiring to unlawfully manipulate elections by illegally adding individuals to voter rolls. – Vice President of the Borough of Millbourne Council, Md Nurul Hasan, Council Member Md Mansur Ali, and former Council Member Md Rafikul Islam were each charged with 16 counts of election fraud for falsifying voter registrations.

Townhall: The Hostage Bibas Children Were Murdered – The young brothers were not killed in an Israeli airstrike, as Hamas claimed. – ‘The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys; they killed them with their bare hands. – Afterward, they committed horrific acts to cover up these atrocities…

National Pulse: Trump Cancelled The 18-Month Biden-Era Extension for Haitians, Clearing the Way for Deportations. – Consequently, the estimated 500,000 Haitians covered by TPS will see their protections expire in August instead of next February. – While the Trump administration has revoked the TPS extension, Sec. Noem has yet to decide whether the protections for Haitians will be renewed once the August deadline is reached.

American Thinker: The Trump Strategy for Ukraine – Trump never reveals his strategy, either before or during negotiations, and it is usually unconventional. – I believe he intends to make a ceasefire and give Russia almost everything it has already managed to seize. – This will allow Putin to look like a winner and “save face.” – This will be painful for Ukraine, but it’s better to amputate than slowly bleed to death…

Gateway Pundit: Secretary Of State Marco Rubio Reveals the Big Lie Ukrainian President Zelenskyy Told Him and VP JD Vance in a Recent Meeting – Zelensky said, ‘Sure, we want to do this deal. It makes all the sense in the world. The only thing is I need to run it through my legislative process,’ Rubio added. “I read two days later that Zelenskyy is saying, ‘I rejected the deal,’ but that’s not what happened.”

Breitbart: Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Is Pushing For Changes In Their Constitution That Will Protect The Cartels from The U.S. Government. – The changes would essentially block any investigation or action by foreign law enforcement agencies without their previous permission. – The provisions could enable Mexico to criminally pursue anyone involved in such investigations.

Resist The Mainstream: Kash Patel Vows to ‘Hunt Down’ Those Seeking to Harm Americans in First Statement as FBI Director – “The FBI has a storied legacy—from the ‘G-Men’ to safeguarding our nation in the wake of 9/11.” – “The American people deserve an FBI that is transparent, accountable, and committed to justice. – The politicization of our justice system has eroded public trust—but that ends today.”…

Slay News: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has suggested that she’s about to release Jeffery Epstein’s infamous “client list” to the public. – During an interview on Fox News, AG Bondi revealed that the list of sex trafficker Epstein’s powerful clients “is sitting on my desk right now to review.” – Bondi noted that releasing the client list to the American people is “a directive by President Trump.”

Slay News: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Launches Aggressive New Strategy to Speed Up Arrests & Deportations of Illegal Aliens—Noem has just signed a memo deputizing up to 600 State Department officials as immigration officers. – The agents will help with the arrest and deportation of illegal migrants.

Daily Mail: Caleb Vitello, the acting director of ICE, was reassigned on Friday. – He will be replaced by Madison Sheahan, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, a senior Trump official said. – Sheahan worked with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem while she was governor of South Dakota.

Newsmax: The Defense Department reportedly will delay firing civilian probationary employees so that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon’s Office of General Counsel can learn if and how U.S. military readiness could be affected. – Hegseth, “We’re starting [cuts] with the poor performers among our probationary employees because it’s common sense that you want the best and brightest.”…

Deseret News: Senator Mike Lee pushes to remove the U.S. from the United Nations – The Utah senator, along with other Republican lawmakers, introduced legislation calling for a ‘complete withdrawal’ from the international organization. – The DEFUND Act would specifically repeal statutes that tie the U.S. to the group, including the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and the United Nations Headquarters Agreement Act. – It would also cease “all forms of U.S. financial support” to the United Nations.

American Thinker: Musk To The American people, “Look what the feds are doing with your money!” – The U.S. population is 335 million, and SS payments are being made to 398 million. – The DOGE report shows there are 3.5 million people between the ages of 140 and 149 years that receive SSA benefits. – If that’s not enough to make you wonder, there are 1.3 million people receiving benefits who are between the ages of 150 and 159. – The report also revealed that there are over 1,000 citizens over the age of 220 and one lucky soul over 360 years old receiving benefits…

Western Journal: Trump Breaks Down DOGE Dividend—President Trump is considering returning some of the money the DOGE is saving to American taxpayers. – On Wednesday, He spoke at the Future Investment Initiative Institute Miami 2025 summit, where he estimated that 20 percent of those savings could be given back to Americans.

Washington Examiner: The nearly 200 migrants detained at Guantanamo Bay have been cleared out of the military base, with all but one person flown back to Venezuela following successful negotiations with the South American nation’s leader. – The detainees are illegal immigrants, most of whom had serious criminal histories, gang affiliations, or had been ordered to be removed from the U.S. by a federal immigration judge.

American Thinker: Can Bounty Hunters Help Solve Our Immigration Crisis? – Two high-level state officials, Missouri Senator David Gregory, and Mississippi Attorney General Matthew Barton, have come up with this idea. It is not about rounding up the innocent but targeting the guilty: illegal aliens who have defied rap sheets, warrants, or deportation orders. – The bounty amount should be determined based on their crime.

Epoch Times: A Federal Judge Vacated The Trial For New York City’s Mayor But Didn’t Dismiss The Charges. – The judge is appointing an outside lawyer to address the motion to dismiss charges against Eric Adams. – The DOJ charged Adams in 2024 with accepting illegal campaign contributions and perks such as luxury travel from foreigners.

Breitbart: The FTC Is Launching An Investigation Into ‘Un-American’ Censorship By Big – “Big Tech censorship is not just un-American, it is potentially illegal. – The FTC wants your help to investigate these potential violations of the law,” Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said on Thursday, saying, “We are asking for public submissions from anyone who has been a victim of tech censorship…

Epoch Times: The Senate Passed a Budget Resolution as ‘Plan B’ in Case of House Failure to Pass a Bill—Trump has rejected the budget resolution, but a senator describes it as ‘Plan B’ in case the House cannot pass its plan. Republicans have turned to the budget reconciliation process to authorize funding for Trump’s plans because the method bypasses the Senate filibuster rule that requires 60 senators to advance legislation.

American Conservative: Out of Europe to Save Europe – Durable peace on the continent can only arise out of European security cooperation. – Despite deeply disingenuous protests to the contrary, NATO expansion to include Ukraine was the primary cause of the war now ravaging eastern Ukraine. So the time has come for the Trump administration to begin to think about what had for 80 long years been unthinkable: America’s withdrawal from NATO. – Far from being radical, such a withdrawal would be in keeping with the wishes of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958…

Center For Immigration Studies: On February 19, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders.” – Among other things, it will place so-called “means-tested public benefits,” including but not limited to Medicaid and food stamps, under an oversight microscope “to ensure that taxpayer-funded benefits exclude any ineligible alien who entered the US illegally or is otherwise unlawfully present in the US.”

Washington Examiner: Trump is putting the screws to increasingly Western-hostile South Africa – In early February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he would boycott a G20 conference meeting this week with South Africa, citing the host country’s support of “anti-Americanism.” – Daniel Silke, director of the Cape Town-based Political Futures Consulting, “I don’t think the African National Congress has ever embraced the United States…

Center Square: The Department of Education is empowering states by cutting red tape for charter school authorizations. – The Biden administration required a federal review of “how states approve authorization of charter schools in states where they are already lawful authorizers.” – The department announced that it had removed that requirement Thursday in an effort to promote state autonomy in educational decisions and make more schools readily accessible to students and families.

February 20, 2025

One America News: Following a forensic investigation, the IDF has confirmed that the body said to be that of Shiri Bibas, a Hamas hostage, is not hers, nor is it the body of any other hostage taken by Hamas. – Meanwhile, the remains of her two sons, the youngest victims kidnapped by the Islamist terrorist group, have, in fact, been positively identified.

Western Journal: Hakeem Jeffries Is Cooking Up a Scheme to Undermine Trump’s Address to Congress—According to a news report, House minority leader Jeffries is plotting with fellow Democrats to fill the audience with those affected by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Fox News: Stephen Miller gave the White House press corps a “civics lesson” on presidential powers at Thursday’s press briefing, to the delight of conservatives. – The White House deputy chief of staff for policy responded to a question comparing media concerns about Elon Musk serving as an “unelected bureaucrat” while ignoring former President Joe Biden’s declining mental state.

Epoch Times: President Trump Says Social Security And Medicaid ‘Won’t Be Touched’ – ‘Social Security won’t be touched, other than if there’s fraud or something. It’s going to be strengthened,’ the president said in a recent Fox News interview. – The president also vowed not to cut Medicare or Medicaid, two federal health insurance programs for elderly people and low-income people respectively.

Sharyl Attkisson: Media Mistakes in the Trump Era, The Definitive List (Updated) – 170. February 2025 – Numerous media outlets claimed Elon Musk “doesn’t have a security clearance” and shouldn’t be accessing certain government records. – However, Musk has long had a security clearance, and multiple sources say it’s currently at the “Top-Secret” level.

Daily Wire: United States District Judge Carl Nichols Clears The Way For USAID Restructuring – The judge said that initial reports of the harm caused by the restructuring were “overstated.” – Attorneys representing unions for USAID employees argued that key programs have been halted and numerous employees placed on administrative leave, contending that such moves undermine the agency’s day-to-day foreign development functions…

American Thinker: The DOGE FAQs – Tips for responding to people suffering from TDS regarding DOGE – “DOGE has no legal authority to do what it’s doing.” – “Actually, it does because Obama established the U.S. Digital Service. – President Trump merely renamed it and gave it a more sweeping mandate.” – “Trump and Musk have ordered government workers to show up at the office, which puts an undue burden on them and is unfair.” – “Federal workers were allowed to work at home because of the COVID crisis. – “No one elected Elon Musk!” – “True, however, all the cabinet members weren’t elected either.” – And the list goes on…

Breitbart: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has identified about $20 million a year in savings for taxpayers by ordering her department’s staff to cut all DEI programs. – Additionally, she ordered ODNI staff to stop attending any conferences not central to the ODNI mission or that do not have “defined deliverables,” per her administration.

Vigilant News: A Secret Dept. of Education Operation Is Exposed In An Undercover Video – They’re hiding the use of the encrypted “Signal” app from DOGE and Congress. – Travis Combs told the undercover Project Veritas reporter that federal employees in the DOE are evading Congress and oversight. – “The one nice thing about the program that I work in is that we don’t ask [citizenship] status, and we’ve been able to keep that out of our federal statute. So, we don’t ask them when they enroll what their status is.”…

Epoch Times: A Federal Judge Allows The Trump Administration to Continue The Layoffs of Federal Workers—Unions representing hundreds of thousands of federal workers filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the heads of several government agencies, saying they were overstepping the executive branch’s authority.

AMUSE on X: How Citibank Helped Hide a Massive NGO Slush Fund – The EPA transferred the massive sum into escrow accounts controlled by eight nonprofit organizations, effectively putting the money beyond reach before President Trump took the oath of office. – The implications of Biden’s last-minute maneuver extend beyond the immediate $20 billion at stake. – Setting up these financial instruments ensures a continuous flow of climate investment outside of direct government control…

Western Journal: Panicked Adam Schiff Went to The FBI Building for One Last Attempt to Derail Kash Patel’s Confirmation, But It Didn’t Work – Adam Schiff totally lacks integrity, and Republicans in Washington clearly know it. – Schiff was among a half-dozen Democrats to gather outside the FBI, as Schiff managed to further disgrace himself in the annals of American politics.

JD Rucker: Kash Patel Is the New FBI Director—He won with no votes from Democrats and two RINO dissenters. Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted against Patel’s confirmation, making the final vote a nail-biting 51-49. Former Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was a question mark but voted in favor of Patel.

Daily Wire: Pete Hegseth Is Considering Removal Of Top Generals Involved In ‘DEI Woke Shit’ – Rumors of pending dismissals have circulated for several weeks, but a list containing the names of officers who could be let go was recently sent to Republican lawmakers. – Several high-profile generals, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, could be on the chopping block.

Western Journal: Trump Announces Someone Will Ft. Knox ‘To Make Sure the Gold Is There’ – That does not necessarily mean Trump. – It could mean a visit from Musk, Pete Hegseth, or some other trusted member of the administration. – It should also be noted that, according to the U.S. Mint, the last time a gold vault was inspected by anyone other than authorized personnel was when President Franklin D. Roosevelt inspected the Bullion Depository in 1943, 82 years ago.

Washington Examiner: Senator Mitch McConnell has announced he will not seek reelection in 2026. – He was expected to retire in early 2024 after resigning under pressure as Senate Republican Leader. – The longest-serving party leader in Senate history has held on through numerous falls and health issues, including moments when he froze for almost half a minute.

Gatestone Institute: The U.S. Sent Over $3 Billion to Hezbollah’s ‘Army’ – The State Department spent nearly two decades selling the myth that empowering the LAF [Lebanese Armed Forces] will weaken Hezbollah. – But after $3 billion in spending, Hezbollah is more powerful than ever, with American taxpayers stuck with financing its auxiliary force in the hopes of defeating it. – Hezbollah won’t disarm, nor will the LAF disarm it or prevent it from attacking Israel…

Tucker Carlson Interview: Donald Trump recently called Zelensky a dictator. – Human rights lawyer Bob Amsterdam has worked in Ukraine for the past couple of years and confirms that, if anything, what Trump said is an understatement. – Topics covered include USAID’s Fake Church Operation, Mike Pompeo’s Involvement, Why the US is bending the Knee to Ukraine, is Zelensky Totally Cocked out, The Push for Sanctions, China’s Role in Undermining the US, and The War’s Impact on the Middle East, and more…

AMUSE on X: The Dictatorship of War, Or Why Zelensky’s Rule Cannot Be Called Democratic – Since the Russian invasion, Zelensky has declared martial law, suspended elections indefinitely, banned opposition parties, consolidated control over the press, and refused to negotiate a peace deal. – A dictator need not wear a military uniform or govern with undisguised brutality; sometimes, the most effective dictators are those who claim necessity, invoking crisis as justification for indefinite rule…

John Daniel Davidson: If The Drug Cartels Are Terrorist Groups, Then Mexico Is Their State Sponsor – The naming of the Sinaloa Cartel as a terrorist organization might mean the collapse of the Mexican government. – The naming of Sinaloa, in particular, is important because it implicates the Mexican state at the highest levels. – Former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his ruling MORENA coalition are closely connected to the Sinaloa Cartel, as is his protégé and successor, President Claudia Sheinbaum…

American Thinker: Kash Patel is poised for a Senate confirmation vote to become the FBI’s director, marking a dramatic shift in the agency’s leadership and mission. – For years, the FBI has faced mounting scrutiny over its politicization, weaponization, and failure to remain impartial. – The American people have watched as the bureau targeted political dissidents, interfered in elections, and prioritized ideology over justice. – If confirmed, Kash Patel would signal a long-overdue course correction and a return to true justice.

American Thinker: Democrats Are Defending The Indefensible – In America, we currently have a major political party that finds itself in the political wilderness. – Ordinarily, eliminating blatant examples of waste, fraud, and abuse would be welcomed by both sides of the political aisle. – However, it is the exact strategy that the Democrat Party has officially adopted as it bemoans practically every action Trump has taken thus far, including the long-overdue cost-cutting measures that are so obviously warranted…

Breitbart: Polling shows that Congressional Democrats have hit a record-low job approval rating with voters, while Congressional Republicans currently enjoy a record high. – Twenty-one percent of voters approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their jobs, while forty percent approve of the way the Republicans in Congress are handling their jobs, which is a record high.

American Thinker: DOGE takes on the Social Security monster – Waste and fraud at Social Security uncovered by DOGE highlight that the system should have been privatized years ago. – WHISTLEBLOWER: They were incentivized to qualify illegals for “LONG-TERM DISABILITY” to qualify illegals for Social Security FOR LIFE, “So they were set for life.” – “That doesn’t sound like a refugee to me. Just being honest, that sounds like someone who’s planning on staying here forever.”…

Western Journal: The Trump Administration Made An ‘Extremely Concerning’ Discovery About Biden’s EPA—Billions Were Set Aside for A Stacey Abrams-Linked Group—DOGE found that Biden‘s EPA set aside $2 billion for a grant to Power Forward Communities. – The grant was awarded in April 2024 through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program.

Gateway Pundit: President Trump wastes no time proving his second term will be a game-changer for America. – Trump revealed he’s seriously considering a proposal to give 20% to every American taxpayer, funded entirely by the massive savings the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has accumulated.

Rapid Response 47: A Non-Comprehensive Extensive List of Wins So Far In President Trump’s Second Term – President Donald J. Trump hasn’t even been in office for a full month but has already had one of the most significant and positive impacts of any president in modern American history. – This list includes declaring a national emergency at the southern border. – Illegal border crossings have hit lows not seen in decades. – Illegal aliens have started turning around in droves…

AMUSE on X: Members of Congress Make Millions Funding Foreign Wars – The moment a congressman’s career ends, his service to the public should, in theory, be complete. – Their time as a steward of the people’s trust should conclude with a record of upholding national interest over personal gain. But in Washington, careers don’t end; they simply transition from the public sector to the private, often in the most lucrative way possible…

Victor Davis Hanson: Saturday Night Live and EU elites mock Trump supporters, yet their cluelessness further fuels the populist rise they so fear. – Democrats should ask: Who is truly slow-witted? Is it the stumbling Tom Hanks caricature or the real Joe Biden and his ilk? – Of course, the stunned European ministers in Munich sat aghast at Vance’s tutorial. – None refuted what he was saying, namely that European elites’ efforts to delay or cancel elections that might bring national conservative populists to power are contrary to the European enlightenment…

The Daily Fetched: House Oversight Committee Chairman Eli Crane (R-AZ) revealed that former NIAID chief Dr. Anthony Fauci authorized a staggering $241 million in taxpayer funds for transgender studies and treatments on laboratory animals. – The funding was revealed during recent congressional oversight hearings, with experts suggesting it is merely a baseline figure for these unconventional studies.

Zero Hedge: A Boston University Employee Who Called For Death Of DOGE Team Now Under Investigation – Jared May, who works as an assistant media technician at Boston University, shared a post online identifying six young members of DOGE with the caption, “Wanted for Treason, Dead or Alive.” – Under federal law, threatening government officials is a felony…

Resist the Mainstream: The IRS is preparing to terminate approximately 6,000 employees beginning Thursday, marking a significant reduction in the agency’s workforce during the peak tax filing season. – The layoffs are expected to primarily affect recent hires and probationary workers who lack the job security protections of their more senior colleagues…

Resist the Mainstream: HHS Declares ‘There Are Only Two Sexes’—After years of nationwide debate, the Department of Health and Human Services set the record straight on Wednesday. It reaffirmed a binary definition of sex, aligning with an executive order signed by President Trump on his first day in office.

Epoch Times: Delta Offers $30,000 to Each Passenger Aboard The Plane That Crashed And Flipped in Toronto – A Delta spokesperson said the payments are a good-faith gesture with no strings attached. – Communications between the tower and pilot were normal on approach, and the cause of the crash is still under investigation. The airport’s fire chief has said that the runway “was dry, and there were no crosswind conditions.”…

February 19, 2025

Epoch Times: Six Takeaways From Donald The Trump-Elon Musk Interview – 1. Musk Would Have Endorsed Trump Even Without Assassination Attempt. – 2. Trump And Musk Are Not at Odds. – 3. Musk on DOGE-Related Conflicts of Interest: ‘I’ll Recuse Myself.’ – 4. Musk and Trump Talk About The DOGE Workers. – 5. Musk and Trump Discuss Bringing The Astronauts Home. – 6. On DOGE, $1 Trillion Will Be Found…

Vigilant News: During his conversation with President Trump and Sean Hannity, Elon Musk delivered an emotional message to the rich people who have lost their love for America. – “What do you think’s gonna happen to your business… if the ship of America sinks?”- “If America is the central pillar holding up Western civilization, that pillar must be strong. – If that pillar falls, the whole roof comes crashing down, and there’s no place to run.”

Sharyl Attkisson: A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that 56% of likely US voters say that “partisan judges abusing their positions is a threat to democracy.” This includes 35% who say they strongly agree. – Meanwhile, 36% say they disagree, including 27% who say they strongly disagree.

Dallas Ludlum: The Associated Press Just Got Caught Lying AGAIN – AP’s Version: “Trump said at a press briefing in Florida we have millions and millions of people over 100 years old receiving Social Security benefits.” “They’re obviously fraudulent or incompetent.” – Trump never claimed millions of centenarians are actively collecting Social Security checks. He pointed out that millions of people in the system are listed as over 100 years old and that the government needs to investigate…

Emerald Robinson: The Biden Era Center for Internet Security Gets Cut – Trump’s team at DHS has partially defunded this censorship wing. – It was also at the very center of the illegal Biden regime’s censorship efforts against American citizens. – In fact, CIS received $70 million in grants from the Department of Homeland Security’s sub-department CISA, which is actually much more infamous…

American Spectator: California Eyes Takeover of Oil Refineries – In its latest move to echo Venezuela, California’s energy commission touts government control of the state’s once-booming petroleum industry. – If you think gas prices are high under the state’s absurdly regulated market-based system, just imagine this. California’s leaders don’t want us driving, so they could arbitrarily raise prices rather than indirectly through taxes and regulations to force us into short-range EVs…

Breitbart: President Donald Trump believes the Ukrainian people should get a say in whether and how the war against the Russian invasion ends. – “Well, we have a situation where we haven’t had elections in Ukraine. – “Where we have martial law, martial law essentially, in Ukraine, where the leader, I hate to say it, but he’s down to four percent approval rating.” – That’s not a Russia thing. – “That’s something coming from me and coming from many other countries also.”

New York Sun: Zelensky Accuses Trump of Living in a ‘Disinformation Space’ as Tensions Rise Between Washington, Kyiv – ‘If someone wants to replace me right now, it’s not going to happen,’ Zelensky said. – The Ukrainian President also said he is yet to receive an answer from Washington on his request to increase the number of Patriot missile systems “despite raising the issue repeatedly.”

Epoch Times: 30 Takeaways From Trump’s First 30 Days in Office – 1. Trump’s sweeping policy actions are reshaping DC, foreign relations, and the authority and scope of the executive branch. – 2. The president has issued more than 100 executive actions affecting the economy, national security, federal government, immigration, foreign policy, energy, health, and education. – 3. There are more than 70 lawsuits challenging Trump’s actions as of Feb. 17…

Center For Immigration Studies: The Declining Education Level Of Newly Arrived Immigrants – This trend was driven by the huge increase in illegal immigration from Latin America under the Biden administration.

Slay News: DHS Will Conduct Lie Detector Tests to Expose Source of ICE Raid Location Leaks – The DHS chief was responding after it became clear that agency officials are leaking details about the location of upcoming illegal immigration raids. – Leaks derailed attempts at removing illegal aliens in Aurora, Colorado, and Los Angeles. – President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, previously said the leak could only have come from someone on the inside.

Washington Free Beacon: GOP Senators Put Red Cross on Notice After The Supposedly ‘Neutral’ Aid Organization Participated In A Hamas Propaganda Ceremony. – When Hamas gunmen paraded emaciated Israeli hostages across a stage in Gaza earlier this month, they were flanked by two representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross. – ‘Where was the Red Cross’s increasing concern for the safety and well-being of the Israeli hostages the last 493 days?’ Ted Budd asked…

Zero Hedge: “President Trump signed an executive order Friday to defund schools and other education agencies that require COVID-19 vaccines for students and staff. – By cutting off their federal funding for non-compliance, Trump effectively outlawed COVID-19 mandates at the remaining fifteen colleges and universities that still cling to the policy as a prerequisite for students and staff to participate in higher education.

Zero Hedge: DOGE Is Expected To Hit the Defense Department With Mass Layoffs—On Tuesday, DOGE staffers were reportedly at the Pentagon and given lists of probationary employees in compliance with an end-of-business-day deadline. – Though it’s not clear how many DOD employees are probationary, the Pentagon has about 950,000 civilian employees. – Along with the lists of probationary employees, officials were also asked to identify any employees they wanted to spare and provide a justification.

JD Rucker: Leftist Rag Axios Rolls Out RINO Lawmakers Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Bill Cassidy, and Don Bacon to Manufacture a Supposed GOP DOGE Revolt – It isn’t often that I cite a publication without linking to or even quoting from it, but Axios wins that distinction today. Their recent article, “Trump faces growing DOGE revolt from GOP lawmakers,” is such a blatant attempt to manufacture an agenda by faking a narrative that I cannot recommend even reading it for laughs.

Western Journal: Trump’s FBI Nominee Clears Huge Hurdle, Secures Major GOP Endorsement – Kash Patel, a former federal prosecutor, was seen as one of the nominees the Democrats thought was the most vulnerable to an attack. – The Senate voted along party lines to advance his nomination to replace Christopher Wray. – The vote came after Louisiana GOP Senator Bill Cassidy, formerly on the fence, confirmed he would be advancing the nomination.

The Federalist: Kash Patel Is Perfect for FBI Director Because He Already Fought The Deep State And Won. -Kash Patel was targeted not due to a lack of qualifications but because he has the necessary qualifications to challenge the Deep State. President Trump was elected in no small part as a rebuke to a national security apparatus and intelligence agencies that have been weaponized and politicized against dissenters from ruling-class orthodoxy.

The Federalist: Whistleblowers Say FBI Weaponization Is Real, And Here’s Proof – FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes. – These include allegations that at least two of the fired officials manipulated the security clearance review process to punish conservatives, COVID-19 vaccine skeptics, and January 6 whistleblowers…

The Daily Fetched: The Biden Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services spent $20 billion on grants to help migrants purchase cars and homes and on loans for start-up businesses, among other services. The giveaway ultimately became a “giant magnet” for those crossing the border and claiming asylum.

American Thinker: Trump Is On Point About The 14th – The purpose of the 14th Amendment was to recognize blacks born in U.S. territory who had no legal status, not hand out citizenship to every illegal border crosser or ‘birth tourism’ traveler. – So here comes President Trump putting the issue on the front pages with an executive order and potentially heading to the Supreme Court. I want to hear what the court has to say about this. – I think that the Court will agree with President Trump.

Slay News: Democrats Panic After Elon Musk’s DOGE Exposes ‘Biggest Fraud in History’ in Social Security System – A DOGE audit found millions of people in the Social Security system who would be over 100 years old. – As of the 2020 census, only about 80,000 centenarians exist in America. – Their published table showed 20 million people listed with ages over 100, including more than 1.3 million people aged 150-159. – “The logic flow diagram for the Social Security system looks INSANE,” Musk said…

New York Post: Karoline Leavitt blasted ‘irresponsible’ Chuck Schumer for blaming the Delta plane crash on Trump – “This unfortunate crash took place in Canadian airspace with Canadian air-traffic controllers overseeing it.” – She went on to blast the Biden administration for sitting “on their hands when it came to aviation safety for four years.”

American Thinker: How Not To Protest For ‘Immigration Reform’ – Arrests of illegal aliens are way up, and leftists are literally losing their minds. – The troglodytes of the left cannot stop their self-destructive meltdowns, as evidenced in so many videos online documenting the utter stupidity of the protesters against ICE or government accountability. – Even the legacy media talking heads are spinning, with some getting downright bitchy…

American Conservative: Twilight of the Fourth Estate – Legacy media gatekeepers are losing their grip on the public conversation, and they don’t like it, even though they mostly deserve it. – That’s one of the reasons Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference was so well received. – It is telling that there is less consensus around government anti-disinformation efforts at home and the much more sweeping restrictions on freedom of speech in Europe…

American Thinker: Guardians of Liberty, Trump, and the Constitution—Like the Founders, Trump has faced relentless attacks on his character, family, and legacy. – His upbringing in Queens, New York, and later his work in Manhattan real estate gave him an uncommon understanding of middle-class struggles and the inner workings of elite power structures. – His father, Fred Trump, instilled in him a tireless work ethic and a belief in the American dream, emphasizing the value of persistence and entrepreneurial spirit…

American Thinker: Democrats Wonder In the Wilderness – Obama has been the power behind the curtain running the DNC since he was President. As a result, progressive fascists occupy all important positions. – The party cannot turn back, which means Democrats openly espousing their party’s positions will be less and less popular in the polls. – Message refinement, lying, dissembling, distortion, misrepresentation, and projection are the recourses open to Democrats…

Daily Wire: Hakeem Jeffries Debuts A New Trump Nickname, “Captain Chaos,” Proving He Learned Nothing From ‘Cocaine Mitch.’ – Jeffries then suggested that because prices had not yet gone down after Trump’s first month in office, he had already failed to deliver on his campaign promises. – He also claimed that Republicans were “implementing the most extreme parts of the Project 2025 agenda.”…

NBC News: The Trump administration has terminated the approval of New York City’s congestion pricing plan. The plan charged motorists $9 if they entered central Manhattan between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekends. – In a letter to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the federal government has jurisdiction over these highways leading to Manhattan and that these additional tolls posed an unfair burden to motorists outside the city.

February 18, 2025

Vigilant Fox: Elon Musk Eviscerates RFK Jr. Critics With One Powerful Statement – “I think he’s unfairly maligned as someone who is anti-science, but I think he isn’t,” – “He just wants to question the science, which is the essence of the science.” – “The scientific method, fundamentally, is about always questioning the science,” Musk declared and also disclosed when he decided to endorse Trump for President…

CNBC: The Senate has confirmed Howard Lutnick as Secretary of Commerce. – He will oversee ~50,000 employees who do everything from collecting economic statistics to running the census. – Lutnick is likely to help Jamieson Greer, Trump’s nominee to be the top U.S. trade negotiator, with the president’s aggressive plans to impose import taxes on U.S. trading partners, including allies and adversaries alike…

Daily Signal: Kash Patel, Elise Stefanik, and Linda McMahon Are Among These Picks Awaiting Senate Approval – Kash Patel for FBI Director has been as difficult as any. – Elise Stefanik for Ambassador to the UN has been delayed not due to obstruction by Democrats, but rather by Republicans. – Linda McMahon for Secretary of Education, with President Trump saying, “I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job.”…

Fox News: Trump orders all Biden-era US attorneys to be fired – Terminating U.S. attorneys from previous administrations is generally standard procedure. – Typically, a new administration will request the resignation of a U.S. attorney being replaced rather than issuing a termination letter.

Slay News: Biden’s $500 Million Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Has Been Shut Down by An Appeals Court – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey originally sued the Biden admin over its half-a-billion-dollar effort to wipe student debts. – The scheme was known officially as the SAVE plan. – The court’s Tuesday ruling found that Biden’s administration didn’t have the authority to wipe the depts.

Slay News: EPA Chief Lee Zeldin Tells Remote Workers to ‘Return to the Office Full-Time’ – Zeldin noted that the average occupancy at headquarters on Mondays and Fridays since January 2024 has only been “in the single digits.” – “In fact, the highest single day of attendance since January of last year was only just over a third,” Zeldin said.

Focal Points: The USDA spent $1.25 billion on Mass Culling for H5N1 Bird Flu, With Disastrous Consequences. – The strikingly large sum of indemnity payments not only incentivizes farmers to comply with the state-run mass killing of their animals but also represents a serious misuse of taxpayer money, as mass culling triggers a cascade of severe downstream consequences, such as skyrocketing egg prices.

Zero Hedge: An Airline Pilot In The Area Captured This Dramatic Video Of The Delta Regional Jet’s Crash Landing At Toronto Airport. – All 80 souls aboard the CRJ900 aircraft survived after the regional jet crashed on the runway upon landing. – While 18 people sustained injuries, miraculously, there were no fatalities.

Daily Wire: Bad Weather Or Human Error? – A Retired Airline Captain Breaks Down The Delta Crash – ‘I do not believe that weather was a factor,’ the pilot told The Daily Wire. ‘Any pilot should be able to handle that. It’s no big deal.’ – The pilot landing the CRJ900 in Toronto on Monday “hit the right main landing gear with such force that it snapped the gear off.” – “I hate to say it,” the captain said. “This is pilot error.”…

AXIOS: America’s Drone-Swarm Crisis – Ask U.S. intelligence experts their biggest fears, and you’ll inevitably hear dire warnings of drone swarms, domestic or foreign, targeting American soil. – Probe deeper, and you’ll learn that China makes the vast majority of these drones and, therefore, they are conceivably controllable by America’s greatest adversary. – TikTok is accused of being a security threat, but it can’t spy or drop bombs on us…

Breitbart: Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have met to discuss the future of the Ukraine war. – However, even before sitting down, Russia made clear it was approaching things with a hard bargaining mindset. – Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that from a Russian perspective, the primary purpose of today’s talks is “restoring the whole complex of Russian-American relations” and organizing a future leader meeting.

Tucker Carlson’s Jeffrey Sachs Interview: Can President Trump actually end the Ukraine war? – Jeffrey David Sachs, an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, thinks he can. The interview discussion includes, at (0:00), Jeffrey Sachs’ Story on How He Met Viktor Orban. – (2:55) Bill Clinton’s Shadowy Deep State Project. – (11:13) The Three Most Important Things Donald Trump Has Done So Far…

Breitbart: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that Hamas has agreed to release the six remaining live hostages on Saturday from the first phase of the ceasefire agreement and four dead hostages on Thursday. – As of Monday, there were 14 hostages still left to be released under the first phase out of 70 overall hostages.

Slay News: President Donald Trump’s showdown with the administrative state has already reached the Supreme Court. – The president’s lawyers have called on the high court to uphold his power to fire executive branch officials. – The case is a test of Trump’s power and the willingness of the Supreme Court to let him exercise the full scope of executive authority granted by the U.S. Constitution.

Gatestone Institute: How USAID Shipped Bags of Hundred Dollar Bills to the Taliban – Planeloads of cash with zero accountability. – $40 million on the tarmac was part of a much larger scheme under which USAID and the State Department provided over $1.7 billion in funding to the UN, which then shipped $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan.

2nd Smartest Guy: DOGE Just Discovered That $4.7 TRILLION In Taxpayer Money Has Totally DISAPPEARED And Cannot Be Traced – This is because the federal government did not record where the money was going. – The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (a standard financial process). – As of Saturday, this is now a required field…

Slay News: Acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Michelle King, resigned on Sunday after a standoff with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency over access to sensitive government records. – This is the same day Musk described what could be the ‘biggest fraud in US history‘ in which millions of ‘people’ over the age of 100 are currently collecting monthly payments. – See the chart…

Daily Signal: President Trump Placed An Anti-Fraud Expert in Charge of Social Security After Acting Chief Quits in DOGE Clash – Leland Dudek, who manages SSA’s anti-fraud office, will serve as acting commissioner while the Senate vets Frank Bisignano, Trump’s nominee for permanent commissioner.

Zero Hedge: With the Trump administration cutting off billions of US taxpayer funding for the USAID international slush fund, formerly flush NGOs are now begging woke EU nations for money to continue operations, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. – “The USAID files exposed the dark practices of the globalist network.” – “We will not take the bait again!”

Epoch Times: A Federal Judge Has Declined To Block DOGE’s Access to Student Financial Aid Data – The case revolves around data submitted when college students applied for financial aid. – U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled that the plaintiffs had not shown sufficient irreparable harm to warrant emergency injunctive relief.

Resist the Mainstream: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Dismembered the Leftists’ Outrage Over DOGE By Throwing Democrat Words Back in Their Faces. – Leavitt has thrust past statements by Democratic leaders Barack Obama and Joe Biden into the spotlight, highlighting an apparent contradiction between their previous cost-cutting rhetoric and their party’s current opposition to government spending reductions.

Woke Spy: Has The Democrat Party Been Sabotaged? – Its “Stunningly Stupid” Decisions Have Convinced Leftist Political Strategist James Carville. They Are Doomed If They Don’t Change Direction. – While Democrats are fixated on woke politics, Carville notes that Trump’s America First agenda is smoothly sailing through, leaving them overwhelmed. He attributes Trump’s success to Steve Bannon’s strategy of “flooding the media with sh*t.” – As Bannon observed, Democrats are nothing without the Leftist media, and curbing its power leaves them helpless.

Daily Wire: Hegseth Says Biden Admin Hit Him With Politically Motivated IRS Audit – Hegseth, who was confirmed last month in a 51-50 Senate vote, posted a photo on X showing a letter informing him that he was being audited and owed the IRS a balance of $33,558.16. – Trump has tapped former Missouri GOP Rep. Billy Long to be the next commissioner of the IRS. Long has worked as a tax advisor since he left Congress in 2023…

Washington Examiner: Out Desperation, Democrats Return To Their Old Favorite, Class Warfare – Somewhere along the road from their November 5th election defeat to the January 20th inauguration of President Donald Trump, they decided to tamp down discussion of race and gender and revive good old-fashioned leftist class warfare against the rich, by going after Elong Musk. – Never mind their old buddy, Alex Soros, and the many $millions he spends supporting Democrat efforts…

Newsmax: Federal agencies have been told to stop considering a company’s DEI practices when deciding whether to procure its goods or services, according to a GSA announcement on Tuesday. – This policy reverses the Biden administration initiative that considered a company’s internal DEI practices when deciding whether to buy that company’s products or services.

Daily Wire: The Department of Education Has Slashed $600 Million in Grants to Promote ‘Divisive’ Ideologies. – The Grants had been used to train teachers in Critical Race Theory and gender ideology. – According to the department, the sessions included titles such as “Building Cultural Competence,” “Dismantling Racial Bias,” and “Centering Equity in the Classroom. “

Washington Examiner: Where was 60 Minutes when Rust Belt jobs were cut? – Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly furloughed 5,000 workers in a single day. – Within months, 16 U.S. Steel plants shut down. – National newspapers buried the story, and if the New York Times wrote about it, it could not be found in its archives. The people there, it seems, were expendable to the elite. They had no college education, did not live in the right zip codes, and, besides, someone overseas could do what they do.

The Federalist: Elbridge Colby Is The Right Man To Carry Out Trump’s America First Mandate – Colby will actually do what Americans have given Trump a clear mandate to do, and for that reason, the D.C. blob is desperate to stop him. – Unlike military-industrial complex devotees, he embraces a foreign policy of genuine peace through strength, one that avoids wars while protecting our authentic interests, gets our allies to do their part, and focuses on the top threats to Americans rather than irrelevant distractions…

American Conservative: Trump’s Transgender Orders Are Well Within Executive Authority—The lawsuits challenging them confuse several aspects of congressional and executive powers…

American Thinker: Why Would Anyone Want To Be A Democrat Nowadays? – Even after they suffered a devastating loss, they continued to fight against all the issues that Trump ran on and that voters overwhelmingly supported. – Democrats need to find a leader who is bold enough to take on the pernicious gang of extreme leftist reprobates that have turned their party into something that would horrify Dems of a few decades ago.

Bari Weiss: Against the Vandals—What happened on the left over the past decade is a cautionary tale for a right that wants to ignore the danger ahead. – If we have learned anything over this past tumultuous decade, it is that determined human beings are the only thing standing in the way of unraveling. – -People are the only ones guarding the border between civilization and its enemies, both from without and from within.

Western Journal: Ultra Elite Americans Face Painful Hit as Trump Is Set To Initiate A Change To An Insane Tax Break For Billionaire Sports Team Owners That Never Should Have Existed – This is because current tax laws treat them much like any other form of corporation, even though the way they operate are completely different. – “Treating pro sports as if it were a normal business — where machinery and computers wear out and depreciate — is ludicrous.” – “It needs to stop.”…

Powerline: The enthusiastic 60 Minutes segment supporting censorship in Germany reminded me of Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes segment on President Trump in advance of the 2020 presidential election. – In Leslie Stahl’s interview with Trump in 2020, they cut out all the facts about Joe Biden and his underhanded dealings in Ukraine. The result was that Trump sounded incoherent in the edited version, and the public remained unaware of the extent of the Biden scandal.

American Thinker: Trump and Hegseth Are Literally Killing It—Their message is clear: only warriors are wanted. – Puppet president Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spent four years transforming the U.S. military into a woke joke, causing morale and recruitment to plummet. – President Trump and Hegseth have rededicated the military to its essential mission: maintaining a fearless fighting force capable of safeguarding the American people.

American Thinker: This Is Not Your Grandfather’s USAID – How Internews and the Listening Post Collective are hijacking American journalism. – It’s critical to understand Internews because this NGO operates less like an independent media organization and more like a taxpayer-funded propaganda machine embedded in media ecosystems.

Townhall: Here Is What RFK Jr. Said On His First Day At HHS. – “My mission at HSS, and I hope you all will join me, is to reverse the chronic disease epidemic in America.” – “We’re going to work together to launch a new era of radical transparency.” “Only with radical transparency can we provide Americans with true informed consent.” – “Our health shouldn’t be a political issue, but rather an issue of science and basic human compassion.”

WH Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Expands Access to In Vitro Fertilization By Executive Order – The Order recognizes the importance of family formation and that our Nation’s public policy must make it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children. – The Order directs policy recommendations to protect IVF access and aggressively reduce out-of-pocket and health plan costs for such treatments…

Headline USA: The CIA Is Flying Drones over Mexico to Hunt for Fentanyl Labs – ‘The purpose of providing the intelligence to Mexican authorities is not to kill cartel members, but instead to disable the lab.’ – The drones have proved adept at identifying labs because Fentanyl labs emit chemicals that make them easy to find from the air…

Zero Hedge: Gen Z Job Seekers Face A Difficult Labor Market Due To AI And Their Bad Habits. – When Gen Z (born during or after 1997) prospects are required to engage an employer during in-person interviews, many struggle with social interaction. – Around 20% have even reverted to bringing their parents to interviews as a security blanket…

February 17, 2025

Washington Times: The Senate Needs To Confirm Kash Patel as FBI Chief – The FBI must return to the mission of fighting actual crime. – In recent years, the FBI elevated a liberal agenda over their traditional mission of locking up crooks. – As a former DOJ prosecutor, Mr. Patel is controversial because while serving as an investigator on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, he revealed the FBI’s complicity in a “Russia Hoax” plot to undermine then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Slay News: DHS Chief Kristi Noem Blasted The ‘Corrupt’ FBI for Leaking Data On A ‘Large Scale’ ICE Raid To The Press. – Noem vowed that FBI agents would be prosecuted “to the fullest extent” for doing so. – Critical corporate media sources have nicknamed Noem “ICE Barbie” for her frequent appearances and the way she dresses.

Western Journal: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin revealed on Wednesday that former Biden administration staffers established a $20 billion slush fund to advance their interests once President Trump took office. – Biden’s EPA parked these tax dollars at an outside financial institution. – This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rushed job with reduced oversight.

Breitbart: DOGE stopped millions of U.S. tax dollars from going to outlandish overseas programs, including $10 million to “voluntary medical male circumcisions” in Mozambique. – Other examples include $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop “a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise-driven skills,” – $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” including $22M for “inclusive and participatory political process” in Moldova and $21M for voter turnout in India…

Slay News: DOGE Eliminates Another $370 Million in Taxpayer-Funded DEI Grants – In just 48 hours, DOGE slashed the use of taxpayer dollars being blown on far-left DEI initiatives at the Department of Education. – The DOE has been cracking down on DEI practices in education since President Trump returned to the White House. – Last week, the DOE ordered all 50 state education departments to remove DEI policies within 14 days…

American Spectator: Margaret Brennan and the Good Germans at CBS News – It appears that CBS thinks it’s cool for the government to censor speech it doesn’t like. – It’s relatively clear that JD Vance struck a chord with the common people in Europe as he has with Americans in speaking truth to the power elite of their countries. – But he definitely didn’t strike a chord with Brennan, who said this… That CBS News is treating Brennan as its star reporter is awfully instructive…

American Thinker: An internal memo suggests the City of San Diego’s government could be employing illegals. – San Diego City Hall just issued a guide to its employees on how to stall, deny & stonewall ICE. – Oddly, City Hall seems to be most worried about ICE asking about city staffers. – Are there employees working for the city illegally? – What is Mayor Todd Gloria trying to hide from Border Czar Tom Homan?

American Spectator: Big Pharma’s Reign Is Over – RFK Jr. is game to take on Big Pharma. – Those on the left have long pretended to crusade against Big Pharma, promising to finally rein in drug companies like Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, but at the confirmation hearings for RFK, this was exposed as the farce it is.

One America News: ‘Sleepy Joe’ Biden Spent More Time On Vacation Than Any Other President In Modern U.S. History – ‘Biden reportedly spent 577 of his 1,463 (39%) days in office on vacation, which is more vacation days than any other president in modern U.S. history. – Former President Biden’s vacation time beat out George H.W. Bush, who previously held the record after spending 37% of his time as president on vacation.

Breitbart: Top Russian and U.S. officials are readying to meet Tuesday to address a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine and preparing a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump. – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov would fly to the Saudi Arabian capital later in the day to take part in the talks.

Daily Wire: National security adviser Mike Waltz, “Trump Is ‘Deadly Serious’ About Stopping Iran From Obtaining Nuclear Weapons.” – “How we get there, I’m not going to get into the details here, but the president has also expressed a willingness to take whatever action is necessary.” – Waltz’s comments come after reports from last week revealed Israel is planning an imminent strike on Iran.

Daily Wire: A shipment of 2,000-pound bombs arrived in Israel from the U.S. over the weekend, the first such shipment since former President Joe Biden put a hold on the heavy munitions. – President Trump lifted the hold on the MK-84 bombs when he entered office, restarting the flow of the heavy bombs to Israel.

Conservative Brief: The Secret Service has “deep flaws” that allowed the attack at the Trump campaign rally, according to an independent panel that reviewed the July assassination attempt against then-candidate Donald Trump in Butler, PA. – The panel noted in a letter signed by all four members that it had discovered “numerous mistakes” during its investigation that resulted in the attempted assassination of Trump, but also “deeper systemic issues that must be addressed with urgency.”…

Daily Wire: Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is welcoming a team from SpaceX to the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia on Monday. – The FAA is looking to Elon Musk’s company for advice on making “a new, better, modern and safer air traffic control system. – SpaceX, the leading rocket and spacecraft company in the world, is visiting shortly after multiple deadly plane crashes sent shockwaves through the United States in recent weeks…

Geller Report: Somehow, The Social Security Administration Is Paying Benefits to a Mind-Blowing 8,952,476 People Aged 110 to 369 Years Old – Even if each of these “super seniors” is raking in a minimum **$1,800 a month**, that amount to a staggering **$193,373,481,600** annually.

Epoch Times: Trump Administration Fires Thousands of Government Workers—The EPA has terminated 388 probationary employees, and 1,165 employees at the National Institutes of Health were let go. – Several hundred workers on probationary status have been fired at the FAA. The Department of Agriculture announced on Feb. 14 that it is “eliminating positions that are no longer necessary” as part of “an aggressive plan” to optimize its workforce, and it continues.

Red State: ’60 Minutes’ Aired an All-Timer, and the Depths They Sank to Will Blow Your Mind – Star anchor Margaret Brennan kicked the day off by claiming that “weaponized free speech” was the cause of the Holocaust, leading to a segment on why Free Speech is bad. – During the same episode, they ran a sob story segment about USAID workers being fired, with someone named Kristina Drye being interviewed, who it turns out is a contracted consultant…

Daily Wire: Border czar Tom Homan revealed a statistic on Presidents’ Day that indicates the US is successfully cracking down on illegal crossings in a way not seen in decades. – “In the last 24 hours, the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. – That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under former President Joe Biden’s watch,” Homan said.

The Daily Fetched: Speaker Mike Johnson says Elon Musk Cracked the Code for Defeating the Deep State. – “Musk is helping Congress perform its constitutional duty to keep the Executive Branch in check by providing a much-needed level of transparency.” – “The oversight job has been hindered because the deep state and the bureaucracy have not turned over the data that was requested.”

Zero Hedge: Rand Paul Supports a Fort Knox Physical Audit—One of the biggest questions over the past 50 years has been whether the gold at Fort Knox, Kentucky, is really all there or has been plundered. – What we do know is that the last ‘audit’ of America’s gold stash was conducted on Sept. 23, 1974…

Townhall: The Latest Polls Show The Trump Agenda Is Pleasing The American – On mass deportations, acknowledging that there are only two genders, expanding oil and gas production, and declaring the southern border crisis an emergency, all are supported by a majority of the American people…

Victor Davis Hanson: Is There a Democrat Blueprint to Regain Power? – Democrats seem stuck in a cycle of rage and resistance, recycling failed anti-Trump tactics while losing ground with voters and donors alike. – During the recent cabinet confirmations, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Tim Kaine lost their minds in impotent rage at the nominees and played the fools—furious at a few timid Democrat suggestions to tone it down…

Western Journal: Democrat Lawmakers Are in Chaos Three Weeks Into Trump’s Presidency, Pulling Chuck Schumer in Opposite Directions. – Many have observed that the Democrats lack a clear national figurehead or platform from which they can oppose his agenda, as there is a significant internal divide on how to navigate the next few years…

Washington Examiner: Senator Ted Cruz says the Democrat lawsuits to stop Trump and DOGE ‘aren’t going to work’ – We are going to see hundreds of lawsuits from Democrat attorneys general, from left-wing activist groups. The lawsuits aren’t going to work. The president is going to follow through on the mandate that came from the voters this November.”…

American Thinker: Are Democrats Preparing For The Big House? – Politicians and bureaucrats may be searching for ways to cover their tracks before they leave their positions or if they believe they may soon be investigated for past deeds. – I came across a story wherein the author reported spikes in internet searches on terms like “RICO laws,” “criminal defense attorneys,” “statute of limitations,” and “offshore bank accounts.” – Guess where these spikes occurred? Right, in Washington, D.C.

Washington Examiner: Border Czar Tom Homan is focusing on eradicating illegal drug cartels in the US – “They have a strong foothold here, and that’s why we’re concentrating on drug cartels, concentrating on TDA, Tren de Aragua, I’m not going to be happy till every single one of Tren de Aragua is out of this country.”

Washington Free Beacon: A Taxpayer-Funded Immigration Group Is Working To ‘Disrupt Trump’s Deportation Machine’—The Amica Center filed suit to block President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Protecting the American People Against Invasion. ” – The order paused funding for several Justice Department programs that provide legal services for illegal aliens.

American Thinker: Government Downsizing and the Left’s Instinctive Outcry – One of the more interesting reactions is the shedding of tears over government workers losing their jobs. – Where was the outcry over the myriad of workers fired or out of work due to Biden administration policies?...

American Thinker: The Myth of Income Inequality – Bernie Sanders loves to pound the table about this, but the fact is that America’s problems are far removed from ‘income inequality.’ – So much wealth has accumulated in our country that the government can provide $41,000 a year to millions of families because they choose not to work. – However, millions of jobs are available for the taking...

American Thinker: The Democrat party is now the biggest threat to world peace and freedom – Democrats were once the party of slavery, the KKK, and even segregation. – They are now the party of fraud, disunity, lawfare, political intolerance, open borders, and numerous other calamities…

American Thinker: Canada On Ice – The Canadian people need to understand that it is not Canada or the Canadian people that we oppose, but extreme leftism. – Justin Trudeau has literally destroyed Canada. – Economically, the Bank of Canada even expressed concerns going back to last summer. – Trudeau, like Joe Biden, imposed draconian vaccine mandates and summarily shut down his entire economy…

February 16, 2025

One America News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he refused to accept the United States proposal to provide the U.S. with Ukraine’s rare earth minerals in exchange for military aid. Vice President JD Vance pitched the proposal on Friday at the Munich Security Conference. It would give the United States access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals “as compensation” for support previously provided by the Biden administration and for future military aid.

Just The News: Newly disclosed emails from former President Joe Biden’s Treasury Department show coordination between the administration and left-wing organizations on tax policy and messaging. These emails raise concerns about the influence of special interest groups over the previous White House. PPT Director Michael Chamberlain says that these nonprofits had too much influence over the Treasury Department.

Vigilant News: Judge Jack McConnell, Who Halted Trump’s Temporary Spending Freeze, Received $128 Million in Gov’t Funding for His NGO – Maybe that’s why he wanted the money to keep flowing. – He’s expecting several more million this year! – This is the same judge who called Trump a ‘tyrant’ and decried racism as a ‘white people problem.’

Epoch Times: Republicans Want To Unleash The President’s Power to Not Spend – Doing so will require lawmakers to repeal a Watergate-era law that reins in the president’s ability to decline to spend funds appropriated by Congress. – Known as impoundment, the practice of declining to spend funds provided by Congress dates back to President Thomas Jefferson…

American Spectator: Trump Is Displacing the Old Ruling Class – Trump’s instincts are Machiavellian in the best sense of the word, and his massive changes have produced great resistance from the old order. – He is striking quickly in many areas, leaving opponents angry and confused…

California Globe: Gavin Newsom’s Ban on Gas-Powered Cars is Dead – EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin just sent California’s vehicle emissions waiver request to Congress for review. – This is big and kills California Governor Gavin Newsom’s ban on gas-powered vehicles.

American Thinker: MAHA, HHS’s RFK, Jr. Has Gotten Off To An Impressive Start—Vaccine injury registries, ending government-paid junk food, and finding ways to help farmers are just the beginning. – He’s also on board with DOGE, targeting the junk science enthusiasts inside the bureaucracy…

One America News: The Ramaswamy Campaign Filed Paperwork For The Ohio Governor Race—Vivek Ramaswamy has not formally announced his run for governor but has hinted at it several times.

Powerline: Why No One Respects the Legacy Media – CBS’s chief foreign affairs correspondent. – Margaret Brennan tried to tell Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the problem with Nazi Germany was that they had too much free speech. – It tells you something when the media outlets formerly known as “mainstream” are opposed to free speech, hence the Holocaust. – Marco commendably keeps his composure in responding…

AMUSE on X: Political Incitement, Democrats Are Reviving Nazi-Era Tactics – U.S. law recognizes that speech can cross into incitement when it meets the three-prong test established in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969): There is intent to incite violence, the violent act is imminent, and the act is likely to occur.

Epoch Times: Europe Will Not Participate In The Ukraine Peace Talks. – European leaders are set to hold an emergency summit on Ukraine as the United States and Russia meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss the Russia–Ukraine war. – France President Emmanuel Macron “will convene the main European countries to discuss European security,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told France Inter radio. Barrot described the meeting as a working session and emphasized it should not be “overdramatized.”…

New York Post: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine has a ‘low chance’ of survival without US support and insists he trusts Trump. – To woo Trump and appeal to his more transactional instincts, Zelensky has pitched a deal for the US to tap into Ukraine’s vast mineral resources as a means of paying for American support.

Epoch Times: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Pledge to Curb Iran. – After they met, Netanyahu said he and Rubio had a “very productive discussion” on several issues, “none more important than Iran.” – Rubio, “Iran is behind every terrorist group, every act of violence, …and everything that threatens peace and stability for the millions of people that call this region home.”

Wall Street Journal: President Trump Steamrolls His Critics With A Flood-the-Zone Strategy – His style may some allies but draws a strong contrast with Biden’s noted absence during his Presidency. – His strategy is to show supporters he is eager to keep campaign promises, strike a contrast of stamina with former President Joe Biden, and disrupt Washington to a degree he fell short of in his first term…

Wall Street Journal: This 27-Year-Old Press Secretary ‘Speaks Trump Fluently’ – Karoline Leavitt’s rapid rise to the White House showcases both her precocious skill and expected confrontations with the traditional media. – Leavitt is fast on her feet, brisk and forceful, fielding questions on a variety of topics without consulting notes or a briefing book. Her tone with the so-called legacy media, a hate object among many Trump supporters, veers from no-nonsense to outright contempt…

American Thinker: Week Four Shows No Rest For The Grifters — The creation of the Department of Government Efficiency has exposed the often archaic bookkeeping and computer systems and the enormous waste and grifting in the federal government’s operations. – At this point, a rough estimate is that about 10%, or 275,000 federal employees, are no longer on the payroll. – About 200,000 probationary employees were laid off, and 75,000 took the payout option…

Slay News: The Texas Supreme Court has dismissed a politically motivated ethics complaint against the state’s Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. – The complaint sought to target Paxton as an ally of President Donald Trump. – The ruling finally closes a chapter on a significant legal dispute.

Slay News: A U.S. Army Black Hawk crew may not have heard critical air traffic control messages instructing it to fly behind the regional jet it ultimately collided with midair at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Jan. 29, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. – Additionally, the helicopter crew may have received inaccurate altitude data inside the cockpit…

February 15, 2025

Breitbart: 3,600 probationary Health and Human Services workers are reportedly out of a job as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) shines a light on government waste. – The move is estimated to save approximately 600 million dollars every year, the outlet said, adding that over half of HHS’s probationary workers remained with the agency.

Declassified With Julie Kelly: The Hammer Drops At The DOJ. – New leadership and new rules are too much for sanctimonious DOJ employees, who resign rather than follow orders to depoliticize the department. – Americans voted for Donald Trump in a partial repudiation of overzealous government lawyers, the sort perfectly embodied by temporary U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon, and a company that used their unchecked power to imprison those they consider to be on the wrong side of the political aisle.

Slay News: Joe Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas has extended the block on DOGE investigating Treasury payment systems. The extension comes after 19 Blue State attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over DOGE’s access to the payment system.

One America News: 3 Hostages Have Been Returned To Israel As The Ceasefire Deal With Hamas Continues – Sagui Dekel-Chen, Iair Horn, and Sasha Troufanov have been released to the International Committee of Red Cross. – They were then transferred to the Israeli military and brought back to Israel, where they have since been reunited with their families.

Julie Kelly: The Hammer Drops at the Department of Justice—New leadership and new rules are too much for sanctimonious DOJ employees, who resign rather than follow orders to depoliticize the department. – The exodus represents another in a series of forced and otherwise purges at the DOJ since Trump took office.

Breitbart: Fire-Ravaged California Is Spending Nearly $10 Billion on Health Care for Illegal Aliens – Newsom recently traveled to Washington to seek federal aid for addressing the impact of the recent fires. – He also signed $50 million in new spending to fight President Donald Trump’s policies.

Townhall: Every Show Has Been Cancelled at the Kennedy Center in Protest of Trump – Once celebrated for its commitment to artistic expression, this arts institution has allowed partisan politics to shape its programming decisions…

New York Post: Brazen Canadian ‘coyotes’ that are smuggling migrants across the northern border, even advertising on TikTok – For close to a year, the Canadian “coyotes,” who largely target Indian nationals, promise a hassle-free trip to the States for as much as $5,000, with new border-crossing accounts popping up every time others are removed from the platform…

Daily Wire: What President Trump Did In Week Four – Trump signed a proclamation declaring Sunday Gulf of America Day. – Trump imposed 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, then ordered a review of each country individually to determine reciprocal tariffs. – Trump spoke to and met with several foreign leaders. – Trump and Musk appeared together in the Oval Office to discuss their progress on slashing government bloat, waste, and fraud…

Newsmax: President Trump said Friday that he wasn’t involved in the resignation of DOJ prosecutors involved in the federal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams. – It is typical for most U.S. attorneys from the previous administration after a new president takes office. – “So, when you say resigned, they were gonna be gone anyway,” Trump said

Townhall: Trump and Musk Shut Down the Media’s Efforts to Drive Them Apart – Recently, Time Magazine showcased Musk behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office on the cover of its latest print issue. – They both recently told Hannity that the mainstream media’s attempts to create a rift between them would fail. – Musk and Trump firmly asserted that their bond remained strong.

American Thinker: Trump is just following Bill Clinton’s bureaucracy-cutting example – Let’s not forget that Bill Clinton oversaw a large reduction in the federal workforce. – It is easy to see that federal spending and debt are out of control. – Here are a few things Bill Clinton did in the 1990s because of what he considered a bloated and inefficient federal bureaucracy…

Washington Free Beacon: The Inspector General Scandal That Wasn’t – President Trump’s firing of 17 inspector generals puts him on the path to fulfill a campaign promise: making inspector generals independent from the people they investigate. – The president only appoints about half of the federal government’s 74 IGs. – Agency heads appoint the other half, that is, by the very people who should be in the crosshairs of the IGs…

American Thinker: A Warrior’s Secretary of Defense – Former, frequently AWOL, SecDef Lloyd Austin assured us DEI, drag queens, trans, pronouns, and the like were our strength and had no role in suppressing recruitment and retention lied to us. – Now that respect has been restored, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the US Army just achieved its “best recruiting numbers” last month, its highest since 2010…

American Thinker: The Department of Education hasn’t just been failing kids; it’s been destroying them – Whether your children are in kindergarten or a junior at college, they’re being taught that America is evil, heterosexuals, whites, and men are toxic oppressors, everyone who is not an oppressor is oppressed, parents are the enemy, and sex work is a noble calling…

Resist The Mainstream: The U.S. Army announced a major policy shift on Friday, stating it will no longer allow “transgender-identifying” individuals to join the military. – This decision also halts all medical procedures related to gender transition for current service members.

Resist the Mainstream: DOGE Finds $1.9 Billion In Taxpayer Funds ‘Misplaced’ by the Biden Administration. – These funds, earmarked for the administration of financial services within HUD, were found to be unutilized due to a ‘broken process.’ – HUD has now initiated measures to improve financial oversight and ensure that allocated funds are properly utilized.

Forbidden News: With USAID Funds Gone, Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley Solicits Donors to Help “Censor” Americans In Order To Advance “Progress” – JD Vance, “What no democracy will survive is telling millions of voters that their thought and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered.”…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Xmas Morning Month – It seems like every day is Christmas morning. – You wake up to find yet another Trump Administration triumph, usually involving firing someone, cutting spending, or beating down on our weak “allies” around the world…

February 14, 2025

American Thinker: Trump Establishes The “National Energy Dominance Council” To Be Led by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. – The Council will advise President Trump on strategies to achieve energy dominance by improving the processes for permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, and transportation across all forms of American energy…

Powerline: The Great DEI Cheat – The Wall Street Journal has reported on “How Colleges and Universities Get Around State DEI Bans,” and it isn’t exactly missile science. – Administrators hide behind vague standards of “accreditors” and/or simply change the names of programs and job titles like this…

The Defender: President Trump signed an executive order to defund schools, universities, and other education agencies that require COVID-19 vaccines for students and staff. – The order directs HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Secretary of Education to create a plan to end these mandates.

Washington Examiner: A federal judge denied the immediate reinstatement of eight inspectors general who were fired by President Donald Trump last month, opting for a slower time frame to consider the case. – Judge Ana Reyes reportedly raised her voice, cut off one of the lawyers representing the fired inspectors general, and found the plaintiffs’ arguments insufficient for quick action.

New York Sun: Trump Turns Up the Pressure on “60 Minutes”—His Legal Team Is Demanding Reams of Private Documents from CBS News in their $20 Billion Lawsuit Over the Harris Interview—Trump’s team has submitted a detailed list of document requests from the 60 Minutes leadership and any communications between CBS, the Biden Administration, and the Harris Campaign.

Zero Hedge: Ukraine President Zelensky accused Russia of launching a drone equipped with a high-explosive warhead at the now defunct power plant, site of the April 1986 nuclear disaster and meltdown. – The Kremlin strongly rejected that it was behind the incident. – “There is no talk about strikes on nuclear infrastructure, nuclear energy facilities; any such claim isn’t true; our military doesn’t do that.”

Hot Air: World leaders, tech moguls, and others gathered in Paris this week for the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit. – After a charming opening quip about being there ‘for the good company and free wine,’ Vance delivered a brilliant speech with an America-first twist that had to set some European teeth on edge. – Compare it to former VP Harris’ explanation of AI, and your jaw will drop…

Zero Hedge: Wall Street Thoughts On “The Method In Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs”—The initial scope of the reciprocal plan is broad, with Trump’s memo taking into account not only tariffs but also taxes and non-tariff barriers to trade, a critical distinction. – The good news for the market, which promptly rallied on the news, is that the reciprocal tariffs could take several months to develop. – Therefore, the long lead time and expansive scope may be aimed at negotiation rather than implementation.

Issues & Insights: Isn’t 46 Years Of Failure Enough? – It’s Time To Kill The Department of Education. – In her testimony before Congress to be the head of the Department of Education, Linda McMahon openly and proudly outlined a plan to not just get rid of her job but take the federal government out of the education business. – For instance, McMahon noted that aid for disabled students would likely be better handled by HHS rather than the DOE...

American Thinker: We’re Living Through The Biggest Scandals of All Time – The cover-up of Joe Biden’s decline, Lawfare against Trump, The cover-up of Hunter Biden’s influence-peddling, and now $billions wasted, by not just USAID, but also many other agencies being uncovered by DOGE. – But the worst example is the issue of vanishing migrant children…

The Daily Fetched: Maxine Waters Says Quiet Part Out Loud on the DOGE Audits – Waters, “Well, you know what happened at Treasury, and you know what happened over at the CFPB.” – “The people of this country are being violated because Elon Musk and Trump are taking up all of our privacy, and we don’t know what all they have on us, our bank accounts, everything in our lives.”…

Just The News: The New York Times says Musk has no ‘proof’ of fraud, but simple Google searches show otherwise. The Times concluded that because Musk did not provide reporters with screenshots, receipts, and specific documentation at a single press conference which means, such fraud and waste never happened. – Several inspectors general and the GAO have already proved the Times wrong, and there’s more to come…

Zero Hedge: The US Treasury’s Department of Inspector General is launching an investigation into “alleged fraudulent payments” found by Elon Musk’s DOGE team. The IG will also review the system’s security controls after Democratic senators freaked out over Trump’s access to Musk and DOGE.

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration has intensified its efforts to streamline the bloated government. – It has directed federal agencies to terminate 200,000 probationary workers, those who have been in their roles for less than a year or, in some cases, up to two years. – The move comes shortly after 75,000 federal workers accepted buyout offers.

Daily Wire: Health and Human Services Spent More Than $22B On Illegal Immigrants, Including Home Loans And Cars – News of this comes a year after it was discovered the agency had lost track of nearly 300,000 illegal immigrant children – HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) was found to have also assisted in building up credit to start businesses…

Charlie Kirk: What Is Democracy? – America is not a democracy and never has been; we are a constitutional republic that holds democratic elections. – So, who is undermining democracy, DOGE or the people trying to shut it down? – Can you name a single thing Trump is doing right now that doesn’t match what he promised to do before being democratically elected?

American Thinker: Policy Entrepreneurs Raid the U.S. Treasury—Exorbitant federal grants and contracts are noncompliant with IRS charity laws. – The military-industrial complex functions through a revolving door system, enabling retired military officials to transition seamlessly into high-paying positions with defense contractors. – This pattern is also prevalent in NGOs and nonprofits.

American Thinker: High Crimes or Bad Behavior? – There’s more than one way to remove judicial tyrants – Trump reacted philosophically to Engelmayer’s ruling, noting, “The affair provides proof his people are over the target.” – TDS triggers Leftist and RINO self-immolation. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were early offerings on the funeral pyre. During Trump’s second term, they are lining up…

Breitbart: Border Patrol agents have arrested multiple criminal aliens who illegally crossed the border into the United States. – Many of them have previous convictions for sex crimes and crimes against children. – Other arrests during the week included criminal gang members, drug traffickers, and human smugglers...

American Thinker: High Electric Bills Are the Tip of the Iceberg – A look at who owns our electric companies and what they fund globally will make you recoil. – While these companies are publicly owned, they are just a tiny fraction of the American electric companies working to appease their top shareholders: BlackRock and Vanguard. – Solar power has a dirty record, as roughly 80% of solar components are manufactured in China using slave labor…

FAR: The Never Ending Constitutional Crisis – There has been a barrage of scare tactics from Left Wing media sources claiming we are experiencing a “Constitution Crisis” because Donald Trump is carrying out the agenda he promised while he was running for his second term as President. – If these claims sound familiar, they are, as you can see below…

The Federalist: Why An ‘Education Background’ Makes An Education Secretary Worse—Homeschool parents are generally more effective than the average person with a teaching degree. – Our elementary school teachers typically come from the bottom third in academic ability. – Competing foreign nations ensure they draw teachers from the top quarter in academic performance. – College “Education Departments” are perhaps the most communist of all college departments, and they have been so for decades…

February 13, 2025

New York Post: EPA head Lee Zeldin revealed there was no real oversight of the shocking $20B that the Biden administration funneled through Citibank. – “So this was an all-in, top-priority effort that has instantly been yielding very important results for the taxpayers, and we’re just getting started…

One America News: Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI Director, Kash Patel, was approved by a Senate panel in a party-line vote Thursday, which moves him to a final confirmation vote possibly next week. – All 12 GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of Patel, with all 10 Democrats voting against him.

Breitbart: The Trump Administration Has Sent 53 Venezuelans to Guantánamo Bay – The 53 criminal illegals were not identified by name but are now being housed in the military-operated detention center where some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists have been kept since the attacks on our homeland in 2001. – The number of Islamist terrorists now being held in the facility has dwindled to 15…

Focal Points: Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission – With RFK Jr. being confirmed as HHS Secretary, President Trump just signed the following executive order to establish the MAHA commission. – By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered…

Vigilant Fox: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. announced plans to launch a vaccine injury reporting system that will overhaul or completely replace VAERS. – Kennedy cited a study that was never officially completed due to CDC noncompliance. – In it, Harvard collected over three years of data on 715,000 patients and concluded that fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse effects were reported.

American Spectator: The Judicial ‘Resistance’ Is Setting Itself Up for an Epic Smackdown – These lower court judges are acting unconstitutionally. – This is a familiar phenomenon. – Black-robed Trump nemeses emerged as a menacing force during the first Trump administration. – As then-VP Mike Pence noted in a May 2019 speech, the first Trump administration “faced more nationwide injunctions than the first 40 American presidents combined.”…

Epoch Times: USAID Employees Sue DOGE and Elon Musk, Arguing He Needs Senate Confirmation. – The White House position is that Musk is a special government employee, meaning he is not beholden to the same rules as other federal workers. – So far, neither Musk, DOGE, nor the Department of Justice has filed court papers in response to the latest lawsuit.

Victor Davis Hanson: Mythologies About Musk Musk’s role in DOGE is misunderstood. – He’s an appointed auditor with legal authority to find waste, not cut programs. – Musk can propose program cuts, but Trump has the authority to approve or reject them. – Musk is as legally legitimate as the national security advisor and his National Security Council, none requiring Senate confirmation.

AMUSE on X: DOGE Explained, or How Trump Outsmarted the Deep State – Contrary to popular belief, Trump did not invent DOGE from scratch; rather, he repurposed the USDS framework initiated by President Obama. – Unlike previous administrations that used the agency primarily for technical support, Trump kept the existing funding and operational framework intact while dramatically expanding its mission…

Epoch Times: Trump Says The IRS Is To Be Audited by DOGE – He continued, saying just about DOGE will examine every federal agency. – “They’re doing a hell of a job. It’s an amazing job they’re doing,” Trump said. – Trump said he did not expect the IRS to be shuttered…

Western Journal: A Secret Pact Between 22 Democrat AGs Has Been Discovered – This agreement, just 3 days after President Trump’s landslide election win, shows that these resistance actors began, as a matter of absolute urgent top priority, plotting their resistance to President Trump’s anticipated actions to end birthright citizenship.

Washington Free Beacon: Trump Shut Down Biden’s Climate Corps Work Program – The program was a direct outgrowth of the Green New Deal. – Far-left lawmakers, climate activist organizations, and Green New Deal sponsors like Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had spent years calling for a $30 billion federal climate work program…

Breitbart: The Obama-Era Ivanpah Solar Plant, The ‘World’s Largest Barbecue,’ to Close 14 Years Early After Billions in Loan Guarantees – The Ivanpah facility works by using mirrors that concentrate sunlight on a central boiling tower, which then heats water to power turbines. – Ivanpah joins Solyndra in the roster of failed Obama-era “green” energy projects.

American Thinker: It has long been obvious that remote work hurts productivity. – A recent Fortune article explains why private businesses require employees to work at the office. – It is hard to coordinate work when the workers aren’t at the same location. – Many employees aren’t working a full day. – Productivity is lower when no one is watching…

American Thinker: All you need to know about atmospheric physics. – Greenhouse gases affect heat transfer but much less than clouds. – A decrease in low cloud cover of only a few percent could largely compensate for the impact of a doubling of CO2. – This is the same impact the world has been fretting about for the last fifty years. – What does your BS radar tell you? – Mine says since Al Gore first opened his mouth on the subject in a 1976 Congressional hearing, he was full of it…

Vigilant Fox: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed as the next US Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Senator Mitch McConnell is furious. – Kennedy was confirmed by a vote of 52-48, with the sole “no” Republican vote coming from Mitch McConnell, who issued this bitter statement…

Epoch Times: President Trump Announces Reciprocal Tariffs to Counter Global Trade Barriers – Trump, “Whatever countries charge the United States of America, we will charge no more and no less.“ – According to a senior White House official, the president’s reciprocal plan will customize tariffs on a country-specific basis and be implemented in the coming weeks to months.

Epoch Times: ~75,000 Federal Workers Accepted The Buyout Offer Before Tuesday’s Deadline—The offer was originally to expire on February 6, but a federal court challenge led by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), representing about 800,000 civil servants, extended the deadline through February 11.

Redstate: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Found ~$20 Billion the Biden Administration Tried to Jettison Before Trump’s Inauguration Day. – Roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. – This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposely designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.

The Federalist: Federal Judge Didn’t Even Read Final Complaint Before Enjoining Trump – Engelmayer is the first judge ever to grant a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the president of the United States that also forbids a cabinet secretary from accessing his records without allowing these parties to respond. – He offered zero analysis of his constitutional authority to make such a radical ruling…

Conservative Brief: The Trump Administration Is Set To Declassify Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Client List’ Among Other Secrets – Representative Anna Paulina Luna, appointed by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer to lead the task force, announced that the declassified files would include information related to the September 11 attacks, the origins of COVID-19, President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, UFOs, and a contact list tied to the disgraced financier.

Slay News: Democrat Insider Lindy Li Confirms Biden’s Presidency Was ‘Obama’s Third Term’ – She also pointed to members of Biden’s inner circle, specifically mentioning Anita Dunn, senior advisor and longtime Democratic strategist, Ron Klain, Biden’s former Chief of Staff along with others within Biden’s White House team who maintained deep ties to the Obama administration.

Issues & Insights: 5 Trillion Reasons Why DOGE Should Have Access To Treasury’s Payment System – Musk pointed out that the Treasury doesn’t employ “basic controls that should be in place. – Checks often don’t have a payment categorization code describing what the check is for, which is needed to pass financial audits. – The comment field, where there’s supposed to be a rationale for the payment, is typically blank…

The Federalist: Trump And Vance Aren’t Defying The Constitution, They’re Following It. – VP Vance received an onslaught of criticism for suggesting that federal district judges “aren’t allowed to control the chief executive’s legitimate power. – Democrats and pundits have exaggerated his remarks into a ‘constitutional crisis.’ – But these usual suspects would be wrong. – For the right answer, we go to John Marshall, the greatest chief justice in Supreme Court history.

America First Legal: An FOIA Reveals The Documents Case Against Trump Began With A Special Access Request From The Biden Administration…

Powerline: Matt. Taibbi Appearance Before the House Judiciary Committee – $476 million from USAID is just a tiny piece of a censorship machine Michael, and I saw across a long list of agencies. – Collectively, they’ve bought up every part of the news production line: sources, think tanks, research, “fact-checking,” “anti-disinformation,” commercial media scoring, and when all else fails, censorship...

Focal Points: The House Foreign Affairs Committee Exposes Outrageous USAID and State Department Grants – $15 million for condoms to the Taliban through USAID. – $3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean” through USAID. – $3.2 million to help Tunisian migrants readjust to life in Tunisia after deportation through the State Department…

Liberty Daily: DARPA Paid Reuters’ Parent Company for “Large Scale Social Deception” About COVID in 2018 – Why did they have a program set up to fight COVID disinformation before COVID was known to exist? Why were they tasked with social engineering and “large-scale social deception” by DARPA? – What will DOGE and the Trump administration do about this?

February 12, 2025

Epoch Times: Federal Judge Allows The Trump Administration Buyout Program to Continue—Massachusetts Judge George O’Toole ruled on Feb. 12 that the plaintiffs lacked standing and the court did not have subject-matter jurisdiction over their claims.

The Center Square: Luxury hotels in New York City, recipients of $59 million from FEMA to house immigrants, were a base of operations for the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and served as a residence for the convicted killer of Laken Riley. – DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shared the startling revelation Wednesday afternoon, just 48 hours after the DOGE team led by Elon Musk revealed the payments.

Slay News: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Ends Biden-Era Climate Spending – “The Pentagon Should Be Focused on ‘Deterring and Winning Wars.” – He declared that the Pentagon is not in the business of “solving the global thermostat.” – Hegseth added that Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, will begin reviewing the Pentagon’s spending “very soon.”

Breitbart: President Donald Trump expressed that he wants the Department of Education to be “closed immediately,” describing it as a “big con job.” Trump criticized how the United States education system was ranked 40th compared to other countries but ranked number one in terms of “costs per pupil.”

Western Journal: Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the DOJ is suing New York for its efforts to shield illegal immigrants. – “New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops. It stops today,” Bondi said. – Bondi announced that the lawsuit targets Governor Kathy Hochul, AG Letitia James, and Mark Schroeder, the state DMV.

Breitbart: On Wednesday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said she has “clawed back” the full payment made by FEMA for hotels to house migrants in New York City. This comes mere days after the DOGE announced the discovery of a $59 million payment made last week.

American Thinker: How much power does Elon Musk have? – The answer reveals the true genius of the Trump team’s strategy. – Despite Democrat claims to the contrary, Elon Musk and his whiz kids have no policymaking authority. – They are part of the White House executive staff and exist to advise the president. – All they do is ask questions and share their findings with the President.

AMUSE on X: The Retirement Mine Elon Musk Found Is A Monument to Bureaucratic Failure – $Billions were wasted on botched modernization efforts. – Yet, overworked clerks continued to process retirements by hand. – Elon Musk’s DOGE team is doing what they never could: modernizing federal retirement processing.

Just The News: Critics decry Musk’s influence with Trump but ignore the impact of billionaires in the previous White House. – The Biden administration worked closely with billionaires like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. – Still, Democrats and the media warn Elon Musk’s cooperation with Trump is unprecedented, even though Trump announced Musk’s involvement long before the election.

City Journal: How USAID Funded Hamas – People shouldn’t just be enraged by USAID’s wasteful spending. – They should also focus on what that spending supported. – A new multiyear study of USAID by the Middle East Forum identified $164 million in grants to radical organizations, including $122 million to those “aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters.”…

Zero Hedge: Elon Musk joined Dubai’s annual World Governments Summit via video link. – “We Need To Delete Entire Agencies.” – “We need to remove the roots of the weed.” – That’s not to say there won’t be an increase in future bureaucracy from another administration, but it will be from a lower baseline.

Washington Free Beacon: The Trump Administration Formally Ends Biden’s War on Gas Stoves—The Consumer Product Safety Commission is formally ending a review initiated during the Biden administration to assess the potential health risks of gas-powered stovetops.

Slay News: Trump & Putin Agree to ‘Start Negotiations Immediately’ to End War in Ukraine – Trump said he and Putin discussed ways to end the war in Ukraine and improve relations between Russia and the United States moving forward. – Trump, “I believe this effort will lead to a successful conclusion, hopefully soon!” – Following his conversation with Putin, Trump said he would contact Ukrainian President Zelensky to inform him of the progress.

Townhall: Pete Hegseth Lays Out the Trump Administration’s Plan to End War in Ukraine – Hegseth, “As the war approaches its third anniversary, our message is clear: The bloodshed must stop, and this war must end.” – “Trump intends to end this war by diplomacy and bringing both Russia and Ukraine to the table, with the help of the Defense Department.“ – “Each party “must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective.”…

The Right Scoop: BREAKING, Tulsi Gabbard Has Been CONFIRMED as President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence – The final vote was 52-48, with turncoat McConnell joining Democrats to make their vote 48.

Washington Examiner: Trump is right on birthright citizenship – At the heart of the legal debate over President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship is the interpretation of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause. – The issue is related to this, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”-There are various ways illegal immigrants are not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the same way citizens are…

Jeffrey Tucker: Here is the federal government org chart. – Note what the president controls vs. what the judiciary controls. – These are executive agencies, the actions of which only the president is held responsible. – POTUS needs to print this out and show it to the media. The president is held responsible for what these agencies do, so he needs control of them. – Otherwise, this chart and this system make zero sense…

Business Insider: The federal retirement paperwork mine in DOGE’s crosshairs is real and bizarre – Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the government stores key retirement paperwork in a converted mine. – The US government started storing records in underground facilities in the 1960s. – Musk, “We were told the number of people that could retire possibly in a month is limited to 10,000 because all the retirement paperwork is written down on a piece of paper, then it goes down in a mine.”…

Mises Institute: Why They Hate Elon Musk So Much – The establishment’s problem with Elon Musk is not that he’s willing to upend norms and test or break rules, which they enthusiastically do themselves. -Their problem with Elon Musk is that he threatens their power, and to them, that is unacceptable.

Western Journal: Legal Expert Jonathan Turley Says Courts Are ‘Intruding’ on Trump’s Authority in a Way That ‘Can’t Stand’ – First, Turley correctly explained that those buyout offers fall under the president’s Article II authority. – “They went way too far in shutting down Treasury officials from looking at certain things, ultimately that can’t stand.”…

New York Sun: Google Searches for Criminal Defense Lawyers Surge at Washington, D.C. With Trump in the White House – People in Washington, D.C., appear to be very nervous about their potential legal exposure with President Trump back in the White House. – Search results for defense attorneys are roughly five times higher in America’s capital than anywhere else in the US.

Western Journal: Trump Comes Up With A Perfect Punishment for An AP Reporter After The AP Rejects Renaming of The ‘Gulf of America’ In Their News Coverage. – This afternoon, an AP reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing.

Vigilant Fox: Mike Benz Exposes How USAID Funds State-Sponsored Hit Pieces to Crush Political Opponents – For a mere investment of $20 million, USAID’s state-sponsored hit pieces were able to Generate at least $4.5 billion in fines against targets of these hit pieces, and influence over 548 policy changes across foreign governments and private sectors.

Dailey Fetched: President Trump’s DOE demands NCAA strip transgender athletes, such as Lia Thomas, of women’s titles and records they won while competing in women’s sports. – The ED Office of General Counsel also sent a letter to the NFHS, demanding that the move be implemented at the high school level as well, where biological men have won women’s titles.

Washington Examiner: The General Services Administration is the latest part of the federal government targeted by Elon Musk’s DOGE. – The GSA manages government contracts and the federal government’s real estate and is widely viewed as a prime place for DOGE to make cuts. – Over 12,000 people work for the GSA, with a total budget of over $61 billion, up $2.2 billion from 2023….

American Thinker: No, Trump Does Not Have to Abide by a Mythical ‘Judicial Supremacy.’ – Here are several examples. – The simplest one is that the US Government is divided into three branches: the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. – The answer is the Founders’: No branch can intrude into the others’ spheres.

The Federalist: Yes, We’re In A Constitutional Crisis, And It’s Democrats’ Fault – The American people need more than just our elected President to be engaged in this fight. Congress needs to wake up and step up. – Democrats claim we’re in a constitutional crisis because President Trump acts on the belief that the chief executive should control the executive branch. – It is a crisis Democrats have forced on Americans for the last 125 years.

Breitbart: ‘It’s Not Just Bragg’: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Indicates More Military Base Names Will Be Restored.- It’s about that legacy. It’s about the connection to the community and to those who served, and we’re not, as the president has said and I’ve said, we’re not done.

Breitbart: President Trump could claw back $4.3 billion in unspent federal funds for California’s high-speed rail project, just as he froze $1 billion for the perpetually delayed and derailed project during his first presidential term. – President Biden restored the funding in 2021 and added more federal funding. – On taking office, however, President Trump vowed to investigate the project…

February 11, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: Israel Fires A Warning Shot at Hamas, Release Our Nine Remaining Hostages By Saturday or Face ‘Intense Combat’ – Hours earlier, Trump said ‘All hell is going to break out’ if Hamas does not release hostages this week. – Netanyahu, “In light of Hamas’ announcement of its decision to violate the agreement and not release our hostages, last night I ordered the IDF to gather forces inside and around the Gaza Strip.”…

Epoch Times: At Least 70,000 Federal Workers Have Accepted Buyout Offer To Date. – Among his many efforts to downsize the federal government, President Trump released his “Fork in the Road” plan to give federal workers deferred resignation with eight months of full pay and benefits if they are willing to leave their jobs.

Vigilant News: Elon Musk said on Tuesday that DOGE would investigate federal employees whose net worth has exploded despite their comparatively low pay. The announcement came after President Trump signed an executive order calling on federal agencies to work with DOGE and a bombshell report that Samantha Power, former head of USAID, saw her net worth explode to $30 million despite an annual salary of under $250,000.

Vigilant News: Seven NGOs, partially funded by American taxpayers, appear to be key players within the so-called Deep State Uniparty. – These organizations have shaped public discourse over the past decade through radical propaganda. – The report is titled “THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They are all dedicated to advocating Democracy and have redefined ‘Democracy’ to mean themselves.”…

Western Journal: ‘They Forced Us To Do This’—Tom Homan Is Warning Sanctuary Cities They Are About to ‘Get Exactly What They Don’t Want’—Specifically, Homan says sanctuary cities will now have “more agents in the neighborhoods and more non-criminals being arrested.”

Western Journal: Mainstream Media Blackout? – FEMA Under Trump Handled 80% of The Cases in Western NC in Just 5 Days – Biden Had 116 Days With Little Success – $54 million was secured for needy families, and 2,600 families that needed assistance were registered…

Populist Times: USAID Funneled Millions to Fund “Designated Terrorists” – The Middle East Forum’s multi-year study of USAID and State Department spending has uncovered $164 million of approved grants to radical organizations, with at least $122 million going to groups aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters.

Epoch Times: A new list from the White House assesses DOGE’s financial impact so far at more than $3.4 billion, with substantial savings realized through DOE cuts. – The list also includes a variety of DEI contracts and grants, many in DOE, as well as moves against DEI-related directives and policies deemed out of step with the new administration’s priorities.

Breitbart: Democrats threaten to shut down the federal government during next month’s spending fight because they are enraged over DOGE’s financial audit of government spending, particularly USAID. – This puts the Democrats in the precarious position of supporting waste, fraud, and abuse, three items DOGE is tasked with cutting.

Washington Free Beacon: During the Biden Administration, American Universities Received Nearly $1 Billion From Mystery Offshore Donors, Including Some Linked to China. – Trump has pledged to crack down on foreign influence on college campuses.

California Globe: California’s New Fuel Standards Hurt the Poor, With Little Environment Benefit – Although CARB claims that its LCFS decisions contribute to “clean air improvements that bring public health and climate benefits to California’s communities,” it offers no hard or even semi-hard, data on these benefits. Moreover, it provides no data on the current or future costs of achieving any specific health or climate target.

Washington Examiner: BREAKING, Elon Musk joined President Trump in the Oval Office regarding a new order to clarify DOGE power – Trump has signed an executive order directing federal employees to comply with DOGE as it seeks to cut the size of the government’s workforce. – “I campaigned on this,” Trump said Tuesday. “I campaigned on the fact that I said the government is corrupt. And it is very corrupt. It’s also foolish.”…

New York Sun: President Trump Issued an Ultimatum to Hamas After It Delayed The Further Release Of Hostages – Trump, “All hell will break loose” if the remaining hostages in Gaza aren’t released by Saturday at noon. – “Releasing the hostages ‘in dribs and drabs’ is not viable going forward due to their physical and mental conditions.”…

Daily Wire: King Abdullah of Jordan Agrees to Accept Some Gaza Refugees During His Trump White House Meeting — Abdullah offered to take 2,000 sick children from the Gaza Strip almost immediately. Trump called the gesture beautiful and said, “We appreciate it,” which was “music to his ears.”…

One America News: President Donald Trump and his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff announced that Mr. Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American whom Russia detained. – The State Department said in October 2024 that Fogel was determined to be “wrongfully detained.”

Townhall: Former Major Democrat Donor Drops More Damning Allegations About the Biden Presidency – After Joe Biden’s disastrous CNN debate, Hunter Biden commandeered the White House and sat in on sensitive meetings without a security clearance. – Also, Joe Biden was doped up for campaign events…

Slay News: Ukraine Is Reselling Up To ‘Half’ of U.S-Supplied Weapons to America’s Enemies – During a Tucker Carlson interview with Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis, a retired United States Army officer, it was revealed that “half” of the weapons are now in the hands of Mexican drug cartels and other criminal organizations…

Daily Signal: 4 FEMA Employees Are Fired as Trump Calls for Termination of The Agency – The four employees being fired for making payments for housing illegal aliens in luxury hotels in New York City include FEMA’s chief financial officer, two program analysts, and a grant specialist.

Daily Wire: President Trump Is Dead Serious About Our Southern Border – Our U.S. Military Is Using High-Tech Spy Planes To Watch the Cartels – Border Czar Homan: “I think the cartels would be foolish to take on the military.” – At least 18 missions have been flown over the southwestern U.S. and around the Baja California Peninsula in the past two weeks…

Gateway Pundit: The FBI has just miraculously “stumbled upon” a whopping 2,400 previously undisclosed records tied to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. – This revelation comes mere days after President Trump signed an executive order mandating the release of all classified documents concerning the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

FOX Business: Peter Navarro, “It’s a new golden age for American steel and aluminum.” – To strengthen and reinvigorate our pillar steel and aluminum industries, President Trump has reinstated his across-the-board 25% tariff on steel imports and raised the aluminum tariff from 10% to 25% while eliminating all country-specific exemptions and alternative agreements…

Daily Mail: Bizarre twist in the Chinese spy balloon saga – Investigators found the balloon that hovered over the US before it was eventually shot down over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina on February 4, 2023. – Military analysts who dismantled the balloon found it was loaded with American-made satellite communication modules and sophisticated sensors from at least five US companies…

Gateway Pundit: JD Vance Proclaims The U.S. Will Lead Global The AI Race During The Paris Summit – Vance said that it’s troubling that foreign governments are reportedly considering ‘tightening screws on US tech companies with international footprints.’ – He stated that the Trump administration would not accept that. – In what appeared to be a warning shot at China, Mr. Vance also said the US would ‘safeguard AI and chip technology from theft and misuse…

Issues & Insights: The Big Lie About Trump’s NIH Cuts – The Left is in an uproar because Donald Trump is choking off a slush fund that colleges and universities have used for decades to finance left-wing causes. – Colleges accept research grants from the government and the private sector. – All include money to pay for “indirect costs.” In other words, overhead and the amounts are substantial…

Vigilant News: Elon Musk Just Made A Strategic Move to Take Over OpenAI – Never one to sit idly by while AI takes a turn he doesn’t like, has just dropped a staggering $97.4 billion bid to purchase OpenAI. – Yes, the same OpenAI he co-founded in 2015 before leaving after great frustration over its direction in 2019. – Backed by powerhouse investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Baron Capital, Atreides Management, and his own AI venture, xAI, this could upend the AI landscape in ways we’ve never seen before…

Gateway Pundit: Tom Homan Confirmed The ICE Operation Leak Points to The FBI — ” A Criminal Investigation Is Underway.” – “Not Only Will This Person Lose Their Job and Their Pension, but They Are also Going to Jail.” – Tom Homan revealed someone leaked to Tren de Aragua gang members that ICE was raiding Colorado apartments. When ICE agents showed up, the apartments were empty.

New York Post: Four FEMA employees will be fired Tuesday for sending $59 million to New York City to house and care for illegal migrants. – They are being fired today for circumventing leadership and unilaterally making the egregious payment for hotels for migrants in New York City,” according to Department of Homeland Security officials.

Daily Wire: The First 2026 Senate Forecast Spells More Bad News For Democrats – Republicans are heavily favored to keep control of the Senate and have a good chance to build on their majority. – For Democrats to regain control of the Senate, they will have to pull off upsets in the three races where Republicans hold an advantage and pull off a major upset in one of the 19 seats considered safely Republican.

Washington Examiner: Trump adopts Biden’s legal playbook to challenge sanctuary cities – The Trump administration filed a lawsuit against Illinois, Chicago, and Cook County, challenging local sanctuary laws that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities by obstructing federal enforcement efforts and preventing agencies such as ICE from carrying out their duties effectively.

Epoch Times: DOGE Cuts Are Now Into The Billions – Amid Democrats’ pushback, lawsuits, and threats to DOGE employees, the cuts keep coming, including almost $1 billion announced yesterday. – Some of the biggest savings reckoned by the White House stem from the cancellation of more than 100 contracts relating to DEI. – DOGE also ended a $748 million contract for a new embassy in South Sudan…

AMUSE on X: Judicial Tyranny As Democrat Judges Assault Trump’s Article II Powers – The Constitution was designed to prevent this crisis. – We have a judiciary that no longer merely interprets the law but has positioned itself as the supposed master of the executive branch. – A coordinated, ideologically driven assault is unfolding. – Democrat-appointed judges in New York, Rhode Island, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C., are working feverishly to nullify the legitimate, constitutional authority of President Trump systematically…

JD Rucker: The Activist Judges Blocking President Trump’s Agenda Will NOT Prevail. – Their attacks on executive actions, particularly those associated with DOGE, will fail spectacularly because the Supreme Court will not subvert the Constitution for the sake of corrupt government agencies.

John Daniel Davidson: After Being Ousted From Power By American Voters, Democrats Turn To Activist Judges To Defend Trump. – Lower federal court judges have no constitutional authority to govern by injunction and undermine the executive branch. – By doing this, Democrats and their allies in the judiciary turn the Constitution on its head and effectively govern negatively through injunctions…

FAR: DOGE, Inside The Revolution Rewiring American Power – If you want to understand what they are up to, this is the best article I’ve read about the takedown of our trillion-dollar bureaucracy. – To say it is mind-blowing is an understatement.

Victor Davis Hanson: Sorry, Liberals. DOGE Is 100% Legal, And Here’s Why. – USAID was created by John F. Kennedy in 1961 by executive order. – Trump created DOGE with an executive order. – There is a statutory authority for DOGE to go through agencies to find waste and fraud…

Washington Examiner: The Left has descended into madness opposing Trump 2.0 – In a collective frenzy, a large group of House Democrats and several Senate leaders converged outside of the Treasury Department building. – With Maxine Waters grinning at her side Representative Ayanna Pressley even referred to Musk as a “Nazi nepo baby.”

The Center Square: Lawmakers push legislation to abolish USAID entirely – U.S. Representatives Gregory Steube and Majorie Taylor Greene have introduced bills that would immediately halt all federal funding to USAID and transfer its essential responsibilities to the U.S. Department of State.

American Thinker: A United America Is The Democrats’ Undoing – Of all the things I loathe about the Democrat party, its celebration of victimhood takes the cake. – As is true of all political parties infected with virulent Marxism, it does not seek to help those truly in need. – It does the opposite by seeking out people who might never have seen themselves as victims and convincing them otherwise...

February 10, 2025

Wall Street Journal: Trump Outsmarts China on Green Energy – He is ramping up economic pressure on Beijing by dismantling the net-zero agenda. – The net-zero agenda, a set of targets and strategies by Western governments and climate diplomats to arrest global warming by limiting emissions, is the most audacious international effort in diplomatic history. – Climate warriors will regroup, but for now, Mr. Trump’s attacks on net zero are working.

Daily Mail: DOGE uncovered a farcical $2.3 million program that trains soldiers to ‘speak and act in a DEI friendly’ way – The Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command had a virtual reality created to enable soldiers to interact with an avatar that would help them speak and act in a DEI-friendly way. – It allowed the participants to have realistic and difficult conversations,’ an Air Force soldier wrote alongside a video testimonial.

California Globe: DOGE Accountability 101 – The Left is Freaking Out With US Taxpayer Gravy Train Being Cut Off – San Francisco’s nonprofit sector is the largest per capita of any California county with $9 billion outstanding in federal grants and loans – It gets worse, as Daniel Greenfield reported today, “USAID Sent $9.3B to Islamic Terror States That Killed 3,000 American Soldiers, And over $18 billion to Islamic terrorist states.”…

American Thinker: Democrats decry Trump’s cancellation of ‘green’ subsidies. – You can’t call a product or service “low-cost” if it is, in fact, expensive, and you use large amounts of taxpayer dollars to subsidize it. – Let’s look at some numbers for reference…

Washington Examiner: According to FOIA documents, the Obama administration may have skirted the law when it approved the unionization of TSA screeners in 2011. – Title 5 of the United States Code authorizes most federal employees to bargain (unionize) collectively.” – “Some parts of TSA are included in Title 5, but TSA screeners are not.

Townhall: The Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hamas announced Monday it would not comply with the next stage of a previously negotiated hostage deal, falsely claiming “Israeli violations” as the reason for the decision. – The deal Hamas agreed to requires the release of three more hostages this week, which now isn’t happening, while 73 hostages remain in Gaza.

Resist the Mainstream: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed openness to striking a deal with former U.S. President Donald Trump, potentially exchanging Ukraine’s vast rare earth mineral deposits for continued American financial and military support. – The Russia-Ukraine conflict has raged for over two years, and the Biden-Harris administration allocated approximately $175 billion in economic and military aid to Kyiv.

Powerline: Trump On The Hostages – The Israeli press indicated the appalling emaciation of the hostages is easily explained; they were deliberately starved – Trump, “I watched the hostages come back today, and they looked like Holocaust survivors. They were in horrible condition. They were emaciated. It looked like many years ago, the Holocaust survivors. I don’t know how much longer we can take that…We’re going to lose our patience.”

Breitbart: Israeli hostages are being tortured and deliberately starved by Hamas in Gaza, with some being denied treatment for wounds they sustained during the terror attack of October 7, 2023. – The new information followed the release Saturday of hostages Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi, and Or Levy, who returned to Israel dangerously emaciated. – They were said to have gone for days without food and then only given a single rotten pita bread to share…

American Thinker: President Trump addressed his largest TV audience during a FOX News’s Bret Baier interview before the Super Bowl yesterday. – A modified interview transcript is provided below for brevity and clarity. – After the question regarding DOGE, the president’s plans for tariffs and relations with Canada and Mexico came up next…

Western Journal: Everything You Need to Know About Post-Woke America – Forget the players on the field: The two most famous people at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday were President Donald Trump and pop icon Taylor Swift. – One got booed, the other roundly cheered. – If you can’t guess properly who got which response, you haven’t been paying attention to the way the cultural wind has been blowing lately.

New York Post: Elon Musk discovered that FEMA sent $59M last week to luxury NYC hotels to house illegal migrants. – Musk, “Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order.” – “That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals.”

American Thinker: Lawfare 2.0, Obama Appointed Federal District Court Judge Paul Engelmayer’s Coup—The DOGE team and the US Treasury agreed that all outgoing government payments must have a payment categorization code to pass financial audits. – This code is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible. – I learned there are over $100 billion a year of entitlement payments to individuals without Social Security or even temporary ID numbers, which makes one wonder what they are hiding…

Washington Examiner: Trump challenges the order barring DOGE from accessing Treasury expenditures – “Basic democratic accountability requires that every executive agency’s work be supervised by politically accountable leadership, who ultimately answer to the president,” DOJ attorneys told Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, calling a judge’s weekend order barring DOGE personnel from accessing the payment system “impermissible” and “anti-constitutional.”…

Slay News: A USAID Whistleblower Says Employees Are ‘Psychologically Frightened’ About What Elon Musk’s DOGE Will Expose – Speaking to CBS’s “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan, the anonymous employee said they and their co-workers have been “psychologically frightened” and would only speak on the condition of anonymity out of fear of putting their family “at any more risk.”

Washington Free Beacon: At USAID, Funding for Terror-Tied Groups and Internal Hostility Toward Israel Goes Back Years – A former State Department official described ‘the lack of embarrassment among some USAID staffers about being associated with terrorist organizations.’ – “For those who believe in a strong U.S.-Israel relationship, elements of USAID have been problematic for years”…

The Daily Fetched: Just 294 Out Of The 14,000 USAID Employees Have Been Identified as ‘Essential’ – The internal review appears to have been initiated by President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, currently serving as the agency’s acting director. – The news came as Secretary Rubio began transferring the few core programs within USAID intended to serve U.S. national interests into the State Department.

The Daily Fetched: – Stephen Miller, Deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, “Yes, the USAID was a slush fund, first of all, for left-wing projects around the globe, like gender surgeries around the world, diversity, equity and inclusion policies, crazy Green New Deal, climate scams and every other lunatic left-wing project that is bankrupting this country.”

American Thinker: Homeland Security Secretary Noem accuses FBI of leaking news of impending ICE raids to the press. – If what Noem says is right, this is an amazing breach of professionalism at the FBI, leaking news of raids to the media to undermine another federal agency.

Washington Examiner: Trump’s Military Recruitment Surge – It was no surprise that the U.S. Army announced last week that recruitment had reached its highest levels in 15 years during January. – This showing was built on a strong December, which saw its highest numbers in 12 years. – Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, “America’s youth want to serve under the bold & strong ‘America First’ leadership of @realDonaldTrump.”

New York Post: President Trump mass-fired the military academies’ ‘Boards of Visitors’ in a purge of ‘woke leftist ideologues.’ – “Woke Leftist Ideologues have infiltrated Our Service Academies over the last four years. I have therefore ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard.”

American Thinker: Trump Has The Taxpayers’ Back And Democrats Are Freaking Out – As DOGE continues to dig, it now appears three early actions were warranted. At Treasury, there were reports “that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed to always approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.”…

American Thinker: Trump’s Chess Game Is Improving – Democrats are howling because DOGE findings caught them flat-footed – Does Chuck Schumer believe that $20 million for Sesame Street in Iraq will somehow benefit the U.S.? – Or $7 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica and Uganda helps America? – He must have forgotten that Uganda enforces the death penalty for gay people…

American Thinker: Our Media Titans Are Being Rattled by Lawsuits—Repackaging the news to push their agenda is becoming increasingly problematic and expensive for the media. Here are some examples…

Victor Davis Hanson: How To Commit Democrat Party Suicide – The Democrats’ radical overreach, election losses, and Musk-fueled government exposés have left them flailing, doubling down on failure instead of recalibrating for a political comeback. – If they were mentally stable, then they might renounce political suicide and perhaps return to something akin to the Clinton efforts of 1992 and 1996…

Center Square: Economic growth will slow further, and inflation fears may be overblown. – When consumers believe prices will rise rapidly, they don’t wait; they spend now. – Big-ticket purchases, long-delayed vacations, and front-loaded demand can put additional upward pressure on prices. – But perhaps these inflation fears are overblown, and here’s why…

American Conservative: Hawaii’s Demented Democrat Resistance – Instead of addressing the Aloha State’s many dysfunctions, the government has prioritized fighting President Trump. – Hawaii is one of the bluest states in the union. Some 34% of registered voters are Democrats, versus only 18% Republican. – While 43% are officially unaffiliated, they usually vote Democrat…

American Thinker: Tribalism Is The Key to Understanding Islam – Decoding Islam’s notorious resistance to assimilation in the West is as simple as understanding the doctrine’s relational values. – The entire appeal of Muhammad’s call to the Arabs of his time lay in its perfect compatibility with their tribal mores, three in particular: loyalty to one’s tribe, enmity for other tribes, and raids on the latter to enrich and empower the former…

February 9, 2025

Daily Mail: Trump sent the Super Bowl crowd wild as he took to the field with Ivanka and Eric and made history as the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl game. – He posed for photos with family members of victims in the New Year’s Eve ISIS attack on Bourbon Street and emergency responders and waved to the cheering crowd…

Washington Examiner: Four takeaways From President Trump’s Pre-Super Bowl Interview – His push for Canada as the 51st state appears to be ‘real’ – The Difference between the 45th and 47th administration – The Judge’s decision to restrict DOGE ‘crazy’ – He Picks the Chiefs to win…

Fox News: Fox News: President Trump predicts Elon Musk will find ‘hundreds of billions’ in waste in the next DOGE directives – “He’s not gaining anything personally. I wonder how he can devote the time to it,” Trump said. – “I will tell him to check the Department of Education very soon. He’s going to find the same thing. – Then, I’m going to go into the military.

American Spectator: Nobody Wants the Palestinians – A ‘Palestinian Two State Solution’ is no longer feasible, yet Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Iran want nothing to do with the displaced Gazans. – Two things can be deduced from all this. The first is that the Arab nations don’t want to spend a dime on rebuilding Gaza. – Second is the fact that those nations believe — quite correctly — that the Gazans are a lot more trouble than they’re worth…

American Spectator: Most Americans Support DOGE and ‘Never Tiring’ President Trump – Democrat antics and media mendacity aside, a clear majority favor paring down the government. – In addition to the antics of the Democrats, corporate media is contributing to the hysteria. – NBC News, for example, ran an article on Saturday with the following title: “Inside DOGE’s takeover of the Education Department.”…

Washington Examiner: Trump Ordered The Treasury To Stop The ‘Wasteful’ Production Of Pennies – Trump pointed out that the minting of a penny costs more than the actual value of the coin, adding that this is part of his goal of rooting out wasteful spending in the federal government.

Focal Points: Rand Paul Questioned Samantha Power About USAID Contribution to China for SARS-CoV Research—USAID gave Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance $207 million between 2009 and October 2019, right when SARS-Cov-2 began to spread.

Breitbart: The 115-Year-Old Boy Scouts of America Ditched Its Name to Be More ‘Gender-Neutral’—The organization officially changed its name to Scouting America.

Breitbart: On Saturday, a federal judge blocked Elon Musk and DOGE from accessing Treasury Department data and records. – U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer received an application for a temporary restraining order filed by attorney generals in 19 states.

Townhall: A federal court has ordered the DOJ to furnish all available files on any communications between former Special Counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis related to President Donald Trump’s prosecution. – Judicial Watch sued in October 2023 after the DOJ failed to comply with an August 2023 FOIA request for records.

Tucker Carlson’s Mike Benz Interview: The USAID Rabbit Hole Runs Deep. – Is USAID Truly a Humanitarian Operation? – Joe Biden and USAID’s Role in Social Media Censorship—The interview covers these and other important topics.

AMUSE on X: Trump’s Second Chance, Dismantling USAGM and Ending Its Propaganda Machine – The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) is not a journalistic entity but rather a state-run propaganda machine that manipulates public perception while pretending to be an independent voice. – This agency, which once defended American values, now actively undermines them…

Wall Street Journal: Behind the Oil Industry’s Biggest Divorce, Chevron Versus California – Chevron sank the state’s first successful oil well that kicked off a boom that powered California’s economy for over a century – Now, that goodwill has gone dry. – Chevron CEO Mike Wirth, “Putting bureaucrats in charge of centrally planning key segments of the economy hasn’t worked in other social states.” – “I doubt it will be any different in California.”…

February 8, 2025

Washington Examiner: President Trump said on Saturday night that he has already spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone about ending the three-year war in Ukraine. – Zelensky is expected to meet with Trump and VP Vance next week before the Feb. 14-16 Munich Security Conference.

Epoch Times: Hamas Released Three Israeli Hostages, Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami, and Or Levy, in Emaciated Condition – The hostages’ emaciation and scenes of them being forced to speak in a staged ceremony have caused outrage in Israel, further threatening the already fragile cease-fire brought into effect last month…

Epoch Times: Freed Jan. 6 Prisoners Speak Out as They Begin to Rebuild Their Lives – A half-dozen former Jan. 6 prisoners share what they say has been suppressed and distorted for the past four years about how they were treated.

Zero Hedge: The Ayatollah Shuts The Door On Negotiations With The US After Trump Restores ‘Maximum Pressure’ Via Sanctions – The JCPOA called for Iran to limit its nuclear energy program and agree to routine inspections. – The US is now worried that given last year’s tit-for-tat exchange of major strikes with Israel, Tehran leaders are more incentivized than ever to develop a nuke secretly.

Zero Hedge: Afrikaners Respond To Trump’s Historic South Africa Executive Order – Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 enables the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation. – The US shall not provide aid or assistance to South Africa and shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation…

Just The News: Current and former air traffic controllers say FAA hiring practices and the “immunity program” led to problems, like those related to the recent midair collision near Reagan Washington National Airport. – Former Air Traffic Controllers say that the FAA’s focus on DEI hiring practices has resulted in less qualified air traffic controllers and a staffing shortage.

Slay News: A leading scientist from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology has spoken out to blow the whistle by claiming that the U.S. taxpayer-funded Chinese lab “engineered” COVID-19 as a “bioweapon” to reduce the population of humans around the world. – This comes as damning evidence has emerged revealing that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) used taxpayer money to fund the development of COVID-19 as a bioweapon in the same Wuhan laboratory.

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny: What is USAID and What Are They Funding? – During the Fiscal year 2023, USAID distributed $72 billion. The largest amount, $16 billion, went to Ukraine. – The second largest, $1.7 billion, went to Ethiopia while the Houthis continued to shell civilians. – USAID has funded 6,200 journalists across over 700 media outlets (and 279 media NGOs)…

AMUSE on X: How USAID and Internews Orchestrate Global Media Control – Internews is one of the most insidious forces in global information warfare, boasting the training of 100,000 journalists in over 100 countries. – Internews operates as an international media cartel, shaping narratives that align exclusively with far-left ideologies while undermining conservative movements worldwide…

Washington Examiner: DOGE probes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as Musk paints a grim picture for the agency. – The CFPB’s charter is to protect consumers by analyzing the practices of large financial institutions like banks, lenders, credit unions, and debt collectors to ensure they are not improperly targeting consumers. – Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Keith Self previously introduced legislation to eliminate the CFBP...

Zero Hedge: Flight tracking data from Flightradar24 shows a US Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft conducted its second signals intelligence (SIGINT) operation near cartel-controlled territories within Mexico this past week. – The SIGINT mission coincides with remarks from US Border Czar Tom Homan, who warned on Thursday that he “expects” a hot confrontation between the US military and drug cartels.

Geller Report: Democrats were nonplussed when the Communist Chinese successfully breached US Treasury Department workstations in what was a “major incident. – There was generally no media or outrage, nothing. – But now they are in complete meltdown at the idea of an audit, of transparency. – What are they hiding?

Slay News: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Skewers Democrats for Violent Rhetoric Over Trump Shutting Down USAID – During the White House press briefing, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy pressed Leavitt on comments made by some elected Democrats. – Three minutes of profound excellence. Just think back about the Gobaldeguck Karine Jean-Pierre used to come back with…

Daily Wire: DOGE Scored A Legal Win After The Labor Unions Sued To Stop Access To View Potential Waste – The unions failed to provide any evidence of legal injury, the judge said. – The AFL-CIO, a union representing around 800,000 government workers, called the ruling “a setback, but not a defeat.”

Independent Sentinel: Is USAID Humanitarian or a Rogue CIA Operation – Mike Benz’s Interview With Tucker Carlson – “Right now, the people who are trying to defend US aid are stuck between a rock and a hard place.” – “They want to defend it on humanitarian grounds, and then they get deluged with all the ways that it has gone wrong and all the horrible things that it’s funding, so in response, they turn to layer two.”…

AMUSE on X: How USAID and Internews Orchestrate Global Media Control – The dissemination of information has long been a battleground for ideological and political power because if you control the narrative, you control the minds that shape the future. – Internews’s funding sources betray its true objectives. It is no accident that USAID, the CIA’s tool for ideological influence operations, provides up to 90% of Internews’s budget…

American Thinker: The CDC’s Big Mistake—President Trump’s first week in office included an order suspending all CDC, HHS, and NIH communications, including regulations, announcements, reports, advisories, updates, and online posts. – The Alleged COVID Pandemic wasn’t the first time government actions, laws, or regulations imposed dire consequences on ordinary, law-abiding Americans.

American Thinker: When Words Ignite – It’s been said that we don’t change until the pain of change becomes less than the pain of not changing. – Some folks may be approaching that point through their rhetoric and actions. – Five examples of things that are not free speech so are unlawful and fall outside 1st Amendment protections: Speech inciting imminent lawless action – Fighting words that provoke immediate violence – True threats aimed at instilling fear of bodily harm or death…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Mar-a-Gaza Edition – Everyone knows the “two-state solution” is never going to happen as long as Hamas and Hezbollah are in existence, so why not blow up this whole hypocrisy?

February 7, 2025

Daily Wire: ICE Arrests 11,000 Illegal Aliens In First 18 Days Of Trump Administration – This included the capture of Fernando Vasquez-Mendoza in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, with ICE explaining that the man, a previously deported Mexican national, is a hired killer working on behalf of the Gulf Cartel…

Zero Hedge: Fentanyl Is Swiftly Moved to Schedule 1 Drug—On February 6, 2025, the House quickly passed the HALT Fentanyl Act with significant Democrat support. – If the legislation is supported in the Senate, it will permanently move fentanyl from a Schedule 2 drug to Schedule 1 under the Controlled Substances Act.

Zero Hedge: An Official Says More Government Workers Are Accepting Trump Admin Buyout Offer – The number of workers who have decided to accept the buyout offer from the Trump administration has risen by about 25,000, according to a White House official, with some 65,000 government employees now having signed up for the generous offer.

Center Square: Trump eyes ‘reciprocal’ trade deals instead of flat-fee tariffs. On Friday, the president announced he would announce reciprocal trade agreements with multiple countries next week during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

Daily Wire: Trump Brokered A Compromise For Japanese Investment In U.S Steel instead of Acquisition – President Donald Trump announced that Japan’s Nippon Steel would invest heavily in U.S. Steel rather than purchase the company, reversing a $14.9 billion takeover proposal blocked by the Biden administration.

JD Rucker: You thought the news about USAID funding Politico and the BBC was big news. – Now we learn that USAID has paid nearly half a billion dollars to Internews Network, a secretive government-funded NGO that spreads propaganda and controls the media narrative worldwide.

Western Journal: USAID Is Utterly Obliterated—Marco Rubio Announced A 97% Staff Cut—A report from Reuters, based on inside sources, said that when the cuts are complete, 294 people will work for an agency that previously had about 10,000 employees.

Gateway Pundit: Elon Musk announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) wasted a staggering “$100 billion of taxpayer money.” – Musk’s DOGE team and two senior veterans from the agency have been meticulously reviewing the CMS’s payment and contracting systems, which are crucial for managing health insurance for approximately one in four Americans.

Daily Wire: Elon Musk And JD Vance Stepped in To Get DOGE Staffer Back After A Journolist Tried To ‘Destroy’ Him – “I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life.” – Musk ran a poll on Thursday, asking X users to weigh in on Elez’s ouster, to which 78% of respondents said the staffer should be brought back to the DOGE team…

Gateway Pundit: The DOJ is launching an inquiry into individuals and networks stealing government property and threatening government employees. – Earlier this week, US Attorney Ed Martin announced his office would charge and arrest individuals who threatened Elon Musk’s DOGE team. – When he announced the coming arrests and charges, Mr. Martin did not name any names. It is unclear which laws were violated.

American Spectator: The Foreign Aid Racket Funds RINO Grifters, Not Just Democrats – Here are a few profiles of senior USAID presidential appointees in past Republican administrations who have lived on Easy Street for long careers, and most of them never worked a day in a for-profit private enterprise. – Andrew Natsios – Kate Almquist – James Kunder – Patrick Cronin – Mark Green…

Epoch Times: President Trump signed a memorandum on February 6th ordering a review of all funds going to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from federal agencies – Trump, “It is the policy of my Administration to stop funding NGOs that undermine the national interest.”

One America News: HUD Secretary Scott Turner declared that the agency will no longer condition funding for homeless shelters and other federally-run facilities based on whether or not they accommodate a person’s “gender identity,” as opposed to their biological sex. – Turner noted that the move is part of President Donald Trump’s plan to “restore biological truth to the federal government.”

Epoch Times: A Coalition of 22 States Sues New York Over AG Letitia James’s Climate Superfund Law. – Their suit contends that the new law forcing a small group of major energy producers to pay retroactively for the costs of alleged climate change damage is unconstitutional.

Fox News: President Trump revoked Biden’s security clearances and intel briefings – “He set this precedent in 2021 when he instructed the Intelligence Community (IC) to stop the 45th President of the United States (ME!) from accessing details on National Security, a courtesy provided to former Presidents.”

The Hill: Trump Is Naming Himself as The New Kennedy Center Board Chair And Terminated Several Board Members – “Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP.

American Spectator: Examples Of How These Companies Are Responding To DEI Backlash With Even More DEI – Salesforce – The NFL – Ancestry – Coca Cola – The Big Banks…

Western Journal: The Best Clip You’ll See Today – Tucker Carlson Asks A Lib Reporter ‘How Do They Get People This Stupid in the Media.’ – She continues to misquote him, and he throws it right back in her face to the pleasure of the audience…

American Thinker: Trump 2.0, The First Month—Clearly, Trump knows how to keep the opposition guessing by making move after move in rapid succession. – Trump was elected because a majority of Americans wanted a sea change in their economy, immigration policy, culture, and the way politics was run in the country. – The Trump team knows that most of the change Trump wants must come before the U.S. midterm 2026 election. – The iron is hot. – When and where will it strike next?

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Liberty Daily: RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard Have Been Advanced To Floor Votes – Next week, we will know if President Donald Trump gets his most controversial picks, including Kash Patel for FBI Director. – It’s looking good across the board, but with RINOs lurking, we need to keep the pressure up.

Zero Hedge: Pharma Tool Elizabeth Warren’s Corruption Is EXPOSED Big-Time By X Community Notes – “Warren has received donations from Pharmaceutical companies and PAC organizations amounting to millions of dollars.” – Warren takes more pharma cash than almost any Congress creature, playing second fiddle to only to supposed anti-corruption crusader Bernie Sanders.

Daily Wire: Will Mexico Face A Hot Shooting War With The Cartels By Positioning 10,000 Troops Between Cartels And Their Drug Trafficking Operations? – This time, Trump demanded that Mexico “dismantle transnational criminal organizations, halt illegal migration, and stem the flow of fentanyl and precursor chemicals from China.”

Geller Report: The DOJ is going after Hamas’ financial backers with a newly launched task force that will investigate and prosecute U.S.-based individuals, entities, and NGOs that fund Hamas’ terrorism. – Hamas is a Muslim Brotherhood group, so every Muslim Brotherhood group in America should be investigated, such as Students for Palestine, ICNA, ISNA, American Muslims for Palestine, and all the domestic terrorist groups.

The Federalist: DOGE Is Deadly To The Swamp, But A Ray Of Light For American Taxpayers – Badly defeated and desperately trying to crawl out of the political wilderness, Democrats are choosing to die on the government-waste-is-good political hill after holding a four-year orgy of waste. – “What we are witnessing here is the biggest heist in American history,” deranged Sen. Chris Van Hollen said at a protest Wednesday near the U.S. Capitol…

Vigilant News: Musk’s DOGE Team Has Uncovered $100 BILLION in Medicare and Medicaid Waste After Gaining Access To Financial Data. – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) processes over one billion Medicare claims annually, oversees healthcare quality through hospital and nursing home inspections, and disburses billions in matching funds to states for Medicaid programs. The narrative has quickly escalated from lack of efficiency to rampant waste and potential fraud accusations.

Just The News: President Trump has directed all executive branch departments and agencies to review all funding for non-government organizations (NGOs). NGOs often receive government funding and are regarded by many as vehicles for left-wing social causes.

Newsmax: Senator Ted Cruz has accused the Biden administration of financially supporting the Hamas militants. – Cruz recently shared a Daily Caller article about more than $1.3 billion in taxpayer funds provided during Joe Biden’s administration that aided groups that sponsored or committed terrorism. – “USAID secretly poured uncountable hundreds of millions of dollars toward Hamas, including tens of millions of cash they could never account for…

Breitbart’s Exclusive Interview With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu On His Summit Meeting With President Trump – “It Was The Best Meeting’ Ever Between Israeli And American Leaders.” – Netanyahu has visited DC many times and met with many different American presidents over the years. – Netanyahu said this particular meeting with Trump was special for various reasons. – “The winning team that brought us the Abraham Accords will bring us an expansion of the Abraham Accords.”…

Zero Hedge: Pam Bondi Begins Crackdown on Sanctuary Laws—A Department of Justice lawsuit asserts that sanctuary laws in Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois have obstructed federal efforts to enforce immigration policy. Courts are expected to side with Trump.

American Thinker: USAID’s $53 Million Problem As Trump’s People Follow The Money – Recent investigations reveal as much as $53 million and counting in U.S. taxpayer dollars were funneled to Wuhan through USAID, the NIH, and the EcoHealth Alliance. – The American people have a right to know how their money was spent, who authorized it, and what consequences those responsible will face, if any.

John Daniel Davidson: We Still Need Answers To The Many Unanswered Questions About January 6th – The Select Committee’s report, issued in December 2022, omitted important information about January 6 and failed to address many lingering questions about the government’s role and response. – Its partisan (specifically anti-Trump) purpose can be deduced from its recommendations…

Lawyer Lisa: USDA Inspector Phyllis Fong is one of the key players behind the artificial inflation of poultry and egg prices in the U.S. – She ordered the culling of MILLIONS of healthy birds, using the FAKE excuse of “mutating bird flu” and allegedly threatened farmers with jail. – But the truth of the matter is there was NO pandemic.

American Thinker: Maybe CBS Stands For Clearly Bull Shit – Does anyone doubt now that CBS was in the tank for VP Kamala Harris? – During the 2024 campaign, many were happy that VP Harris would finally sit down for an interview. – Unfortunately, we only got the edited version. – After watching the unedited video, it is hard to disagree with then-candidate Trump, who said that CBS was out to make the VP look good.

Western Journal: Federal Elections Chief Ellen Weintraub Refuses to Leave After Trump Fires Her, And Vows to Dig In and Cause Trouble – FEC commissioners are supposed to serve six-year terms. – She was appointed by George W. Bush, which means her term should have ended long ago. – If her case goes to court, it could have ramifications for other dismissals the new administration wishes to pursue.

Washington Examiner: Trump escalates the war on the Green New Deal by cutting the $5 billion government EV chargers program. – In Trump’s executive order on the Green New Deal, federal agencies were directed to “immediately pause the disbursement of funds appropriated” through the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, “including but not limited to funds for EV charging stations…

Washington Examiner: Sixteen House Democrats voted to help pass a bill that would ban the prohibition of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking. – House lawmakers on Friday voted 226 to 188 to pass the Protecting American Energy Production Act. – This aligns with the Trump administration’s promise to boost domestic oil production.

Fox News: California plans to continue allowing trans athletes to compete in girls’ sports despite Trump’s executive order – The state has faced multiple controversies over trans athletes competing against girls in the last year. – The NCAA amended its policy on gender eligibility after Trump’s EO, but unfortunately, at the youth and high school level, girls may still be at the mercy of state law.

American Thinker: Fake Insurance Courtesy Of Gavin Newsom’s California – California’s “FAIR PLAN” state fire insurance lives up to Gavin Newsom’s reputation for sheer incompetence. – Since 2018, FAIR plan policyholders have grown from 150,000 to more than 450,000 as commercial insurers have left California due to premium adequacy issues. – What is most tragic is that most people insured by the plan have no idea how weak it is.

February 6, 2025

American Spectator: Trump’s Gaza Gambit and the Art of the Ultimate Deal – It is unclear whether we should take Trump seriously but not literally or literally but not seriously. – He negotiated an impossible Middle East peace deal in his first term, which was said to be impossible. – As Trump told the WSJ back then: “As a deal maker, I’d like to do…the deal that can’t be made, and do it for humanity’s sake.”…

City Journal: We’re In for a Rude Awakening on Cybersecurity – The Chinese Communist Party is now the world’s preeminent practitioner of cyber warfare. – The CCP’s hackers have become stealthy and sophisticated. – They’re intercepting the calls and texts of our leaders and infiltrating servers at our ports, power plants, and water treatment facilities. – Unfortunately, nobody seems to be doing anything about it…

One America News: Senate Democrats delayed a key vote to advance the nomination of Kash Patel to lead the FBI, holding back President Donald Trump’s anticipated pick for FBI director until next week. – A similar move was made on Attorney General Pam Bondi’s nomination in January. – However, the new potential leader of the FBI is still in a strong position to get the go-ahead from Republican senators when it’s all said and done.

AMUSE on X: The Myth Of Nuclear Disarmament Exposed, Ukraine Never Had Nukes to Give Up In The First Place – The widespread belief that Ukraine voluntarily surrendered a vast nuclear arsenal in exchange for ironclad security guarantees is a mischaracterization that has gained undue traction in public discourse. – The warheads and delivery systems stationed on Ukrainian soil at the time of independence were always under Moscow’s control...

Epoch Times: Border Chief Tom Homan Says The Raid on Tren de Aragua Gang Was Leaked, And He Vows Accountability. – Homan said his team has already identified the source of the leak and suggested that future media access to ICE plans could be limited if the leaks continue because they put law enforcement in danger.

Gatestone Institute: How Hamas Plans To Foil Trump’s Gaza Plan – Hamas does not want any US intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, fearing that it will disrupt their Jihad (holy war) against Israel. – Hamas is saying that if the Trump administration dares to implement the relocation and reconstruction plan, they will unleash a wave of terrorism against Americans and Palestinians…

Fox News: A Federal judge has delayed the Trump administration’s buyout deadline for federal workers to at least Monday. – Several labor unions have sued over Trump’s plans. – Trump is trying to downsize and reshape the federal workforce.

Reuters: The White House is preparing an order to cut thousands of federal health workers. – Officials have been told to prepare lists of probationary workers who have essential roles and must be retained and those who don’t. – The White House denied on Thursday that it is drafting an executive order to cut workers across federal health agencies.

Daily Wire: Karoline Leavitt Revealed The Trump Administration’s Massive Tax Cut ‘Priorities’ – Priorities include no tax on tips, no tax on seniors’ Social Security, no tax on overtime pay, a renewal of Trump’s 2017 middle-class tax cuts, an adjustment of the SALT cap, elimination of tax breaks for billionaire sports team owners, closure of the carried interest loophole, and tax cuts for products made in America.

Issues & Insights: Trump’s ‘Revolution Of Common Sense’ Is Bringing Out The Worst In Democrats—Trump meant it when he said in his inaugural address that “we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.” – The first weeks of the Trump administration have been a whirlwind of common-sense orders: Sending troops to secure the southern border, Requiring federal workers to return to their offices full time, and several more as shown here…

Daily Wire: Americans Support The DOGE Mission And Want Congress To Pass A Border Bill – The “DOGE’s agenda is wildly popular across the political spectrum, and so is the rest of President Trump’s agenda.” – McLaughlin and Associates conducted the poll on January 28th, which has a margin of error of 3.1%.

Fox News: The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago for allegedly interfering with federal immigration enforcement. — This is the latest escalation in the battle between the Trump administration and Democrat-led cities and states over the administration’s mass deportation operation.

Daily Caller: Check Out The Corporate Media Outlets Raking In Taxpayer Cash – Politico, $35,018,269. – Dow Jones & Co Inc., $4+ million. – The AP and its associated Press Association, $50+ million. – The NYT, $3,107,520…

Epoch Times: President Trump Announced A DOJ Task Force to ‘Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias’ – The mission of the task force is to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, the IRS, the FBI, and other agencies.” – He also announced the formation of a new White House Faith Office, led by Pastor Paula White, and a Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty.

Western Journal: Pam Bondi’s First Day Is Over, Showing Liberals Are in for a Total Nightmare – The list of mandates Bondi ordered should send chills down the spines of the Democrats who engaged in the shameless political persecution: Special Counsel Jack Smith – Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg – Prosecutors of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protesters – FBI personnel who targeted Catholics as “potential terrorists” – New York Attorney General Letitia James…

Newsmax: More than 40,000 Government Workers Are Taking The Buyout Offer As Thursday’s Deadline Approaches. The buyout encompasses not only employees at the Department of Labor, which has traditionally drawn the ire of Trump’s Republicans, but also intelligence agencies like the CIA.

Epoch Times: The Federal Government Is Restricting DOGE’s Access to Treasury Department Systems – Lawmakers from the Democrat Party called for the access to be revoked. Following this, a coalition of unions sued to block the access on Wednesday. – Elon Musk previously described it as “a wood chipper for bureaucracy.”…

The Free Press: Betsy DeVos, “Shut down the Department of Education.” – “As the 11th U.S. secretary of education, I know it’s beyond repair.” – Since its creation in 1979, the Department of Education has sent more than $1 trillion to schools to close the gaps between the highest and lowest performers. Today, those gaps are as wide as ever and, by many measures, even wider.

Newsmax: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that the DOGE personnel would assist in upgrading the FAA’s Air Traffic Control Systems. – Changes could include upgrading from radar maps to 3-D maps and some level of automation. It is not immediately known what changes will ultimately be implemented.

American Thinker: USAID Helped Fund The ‘Soros Prosecutors’ – The people who have allowed crime to destroy America’s cities and who went after Trump got a boost from tax dollars funneled through USAID. – The story begins with the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, a grant-giving organization. – By donating to Tides, the donors aren’t seen as having a direct connection with radical groups…

FAR: USAID Is Used To Fund Left-Wing Efforts – Trump’s team is exposing the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the left-wing propaganda and regime change operation that it has become and to shut it down. – @DataRepublican created a searchable database of federal government grants that’s helped uncover even more outrageous projects funded by USAID. – Check it out as I did, and you’ll be astonished…

Slay News: Liz Cheney Lashes Out at Elon Musk Amid Backlash as Her Ties to USAID Emerge—Cheney spent time at USAID working in embassies related to efforts in Poland, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine.

Washington Examiner: USAID feeds its alumni to left-wing activist organizations – From interns to chief administrators, former USAID employees currently serve in various positions at nonprofit organizations with strong links to the Democratic Party and the broader liberal movement…

American Thinker: Tulsi Gabbard, the Smear Machine, and the Battle for America’s Intelligence Integrity – Tulsi Gabbard dared to question the abuse of the intelligence community, and that’s precisely why the establishment so fears her. – This tried-and-true tactic of the political class and their media acolytes is as dirty as it is effective. – The accusation doesn’t need to be true—it just needs to be repeated and spread by friendly media…

American Thinker: Restoring the FBI’s Mission—The FBI was once the envy of law enforcement agencies worldwide, but now, it’s a cautionary tale. – Instead of focusing on terrorism, violent crime, and border security, leadership diverted resources toward politically charged investigations. – If America is to believe in federal law enforcement again, reform isn’t enough; it will take a reckoning, and Kash Patel is the man to do it.

Victor Davis Hanson: What Are Trump’s Tariffs Actually About? – Trump’s tariffs aim to curb unfair trade, illegal immigration, and fentanyl smuggling while forcing allies and rivals to stop exploiting U.S. generosity. – China is a special case because its entire 20th-century ascendance was based on stealing U.S. technology, dumping its products on the U.S. market below the cost of production to capture market share, and forcing American corporations to relocate, offshore, and outsource…

The Federalist: Now that the full ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris is available to the public, it’s even clearer that the media were “all-in” on assisting her failed campaign. – One highly suspect omission from the final cut was an extended portion in which Harris wasn’t asked some convoluted question but simply asked why she wanted to be president.

Cal Matters: California’s surge in EV sales has stalled, so what happens to its landmark mandate? – About 25.3% of all new cars registered in California in 2024 had zero emissions, just slightly more than 25% in 2023. – Under California’s mandate, approved in 2022, 35% of new 2026 car models sold by automakers must have zero emissions. This leaves considerable ground to make up, considering some 2026 models begin rolling out later this year…

February 5, 2025

Revolver Feel-Good Story: A 10-year-old shielded his little sister from flying PA crash debris. – After waking from brain surgery, he asked, ‘Did I save her?’ – What an incredible kid. – And in true Philly spirit, he’s also pretty pumped that the Eagles are heading to the Super Bowl.

Redstate: The U.S. Wins A Major Concession Regarding The Panama Canal, With Trump Picking Up Another Foreign Policy Win—Secretary of State Marco Rubio successfully negotiated a new deal with the nation of Panama that would grant U.S. vessels the right to pass through the waterway without being charged fees. – The move, the State said, will save the U.S. government millions of dollars annually.

Washington Free Beacon: ICE Raided The Infamous Colorado Apartments Overrun by Venezuelan Gang Accused of Torturing Residents – “100+ members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua were targeted for arrest and detention in Aurora, Colo., today by ICE and its partners, listing several federal agencies that assisted with the raids…

The Daily Signal: After an escalation in political violence over the past several years, including protesters at the homes of Supreme Court justices, several United States senators introduced legislation on Wednesday to increase the penalties for those that threaten federal judges, including Supreme Court justices. – The bill would increase the maximum penalty for violating 18 U.S.C. § 1507 from one year to five years. – The bill would increase the maximum penalty for violating 18 U.S.C. § 1507 from one year to five years.

Breitbart: The Trump Effect Leads To A Manufacturing Bounce Back. – According to S&P Global, the purchasing managers index for U.S. manufacturers recorded a surge in confidence about the future and a return to growth for new orders and output. – This reflected improved customer confidence in the economy, fueling rising demand.

Vigilant Fox: USAID and The CIA Secretly Worked to Impeach Trump from Office – Journalist Michael Shellenberger blew the lid off the scandal on Jesse Watters Primetime, exposing how the deep state worked behind the scenes to take down Trump. – Back in 2019, Democrats rushed to impeach Trump over a whistleblower complaint claiming he pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden…

Celia Farber: Did You Ever Wonder Who Was Behind The Hollywood/Zelensky PR Ops? – USAID Paid At Least $4 Million To Ben Stiller and $ 5 Million To Sean Penn Just To MEET Zelensky – This Is Important Because The Truman Show/War/Hollywood Propaganda Machine Is Being Exposed Like Never Before

Western Journal: The Latest NTSB Update Confirms The Black Hawk Helicopter Made A Crucial Error Before The Plane Crash — The agency found that the Black Hawk was positioned at 300 feet on the air traffic control display, 100 feet higher than the ceiling of 200 feet for helicopters in the National Capital Region.

Geller Report: The “Dastardly” Democrat Party of Treason Has Filed Articles of Impeachment Against President Trump – It took longer than expected, 16 days. – Let the clown show begin. – We are now watching the death throes of the Democrat party. – Democrat Rep. Al Green just announced he is filing to IMPEACH Trump for “dastardly deeds” (whatever the hell that means)…

Fox News: Pam Bondi’s DOJ Day 1 Directives: Fight weaponization of justice, eliminate cartels, and lift the death penalty ban. – Bondi is establishing a “Weaponization Working Group” to review the activities of all law enforcement agencies over the past four years to identify instances of “politicized justice.” – Joint Task Force Vulcan, created to fight human trafficking, will be “further elevated.” – The DOJ is pausing all federal funding for sanctuary cities, among other actions.

Just The News: Mexico has deployed 10,000 troops to its northern border with the U.S., making good on President Claudia Sheinbaum’s vow to President Trump to bolster border security in exchange for Trump pausing a 25% tariff on Mexican goods.

Zero Hedge: First There Was The Spy Plane, Now A US Navy Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier Has Been Spotted Off Mexico’s Coast. – The USS Nimitz was spotted off Mexico’s northern coast on Wednesday afternoon. – It is transiting international waters off the coast near the northern section of Baja California and underway at 8.8 knots.

The Center Square: Trump Has Signed An Order Barring Men From Women’s Sports. – His Executive Order will stop “dangerous and unfair” situations, allowing males to compete against females in school and amateur athletics. – Schools that fail to comply will face U.S. Department of Education investigations and could lose federal funding.

Slay News: The Federal Government Has Been Funneling Millions in Tax Dollars to Leftist News Outlets Politico and The New York Times. The funding was exposed after Politico staffers complained their paychecks hadn’t been received. The “payroll issue” emerged shortly after DOGE froze USAID funding, leading many to question whether tax dollars were propping Politico up from USAID. – Things went from there.

The Federalist: Norm Eisen, the founder of multiple anti-Trump groups that participated in at least four lawfare attempts to throw Trump off the ballot or in jail during his 2024 presidential candidacy, is now running an op against Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel. – Eisen, who was counsel for Democrats’ first attempt to impeach Trump, is the co-founder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington…

Breitbart: Senate Majority Leader John Thune – “Trump Has ‘Decisive Mandate,’ And The Senate Is ‘Moving as Quickly as We Can’ to Confirm Entire Cabinet.” – “At the moment, at least, despite the Democrat delays and stalling, the Senate is currently confirming nominees at a double pace between 2017 and 2021.”…

Tablet Magazine: The End of ‘Palestine’ – Trump just reminded the world that ideas have sell-by dates – Yesterday, President Donald Trump single-handedly collapsed the most destructive idea of the last hundred years, Palestine. – Palestine was a misshapen idea from the very beginning, engendered by an act of pure negation. – What if they won’t go, or if the Egyptians and Jordanians won’t take them? – They’ll take them, said Trump…

American Thinker: Donald Trump’s Gaza Proposals Is The Equivalent Of A Negotiating Nuclear Bomb – A lot of people, ranging from sensible American patriots to hard-left Hamas supporters, are in a tizzy because Trump said the U.S. would take over Gaza and remove the entire Gazan population. – I’m not worried because I think this was the brilliant opening for negotiations with the Arab nations surrounding Israel and with the Gazans themselves.

American Spectator: Trump’s Gaza Proposal Is A Profile in Courage – Palestinian children surely deserve better than being raised in Hamas’ incubator of hatred. – It is evident that he means once the Palestinians are gone, they’re never coming back. – His proposal is meant to resolve the nearly eight-decade-long conflict that has repeatedly roiled the Middle East, and it is time to end it once and for all…

Fox News: President Trump urged Iran to begin negotiating with the U.S. for a “nuclear peace agreement,” downplaying the possibility of a devastating military strike on the Islamic nation. “I want Iran to be a great and successful Country, but one that cannot have a Nuclear Weapon. Reports that the United States, working in conjunction with Israel, is going to blow Iran into smithereens ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED”…

American Thinker: A former Newsguard operative opened the door to the leftists’ doxxing of Elon Musk’s young DOGE software engineers – What is it about NewsGuard’s name popping up every time the Deep State needs a dirty favor? – If you recall, NewsGuard is the censorship outfit that seeks to deplatform news and commentary outlets to advertisers by creating blacklists for clients as to which sites are supposedly reliable and which sites are not, according to their Leftist values…

Wall Street Journal: DOGE Aides Are Searching The Medicare and Medicaid Agency Payment Systems for Fraud — DOGE representatives are also examining the agency’s organizational design and staffing…

American Thinker: The FBI Still Refuses To Provide Information On The Murder Of Seth Rich, The Alleged Source of DNC Emails Released By WikiLeaks. – The FBI wants a court to allow another 66 years before being forced to reveal what they know about the mysterious murder. – This is just another example of a massive DNC-weaponized agency protecting itself and the Democrat party...

AMUSE on X: Trump Fired Chopra, And Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Has Frozen The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Overreach Machine. – From the moment he took the helm, Chopra ruled the agency as an unaccountable overlord, brandishing the regulatory hammer to bludgeon financial institutions into compliance with a progressive economic agenda…

Reuters: Argentina has decided to withdraw from the World Health Organization. – Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said Milei ordered Argentina’s withdrawal because of “deep differences” regarding the WHO’s management of health issues, notably the COVID-19 pandemic. Adorni cited Argentina’s months-long lockdown under the previous leftist government. Trump withdrew the US from the WHO on his first day in office, January 20th.

Axios: The USPS said it would resume accepting inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong Posts just hours after suspending service from those regions. The agency didn’t give a reason for the suspension.

American Thinker: Our Healthcare System Is Severely Broken. – Talk to anyone who grew up in the 1940s through the 1970s and see how different things were back then. – The same group of politicians that have done nothing about the exploding obesity rate, our declining health, and chronic childhood diseases is defending Big Pharma while screaming at the guy who’s trying to reverse those trends.

Hot Air: The FCC Has Opened A Probe Into A Soros-Funded Radio Station That Exposed Undercover ICE Operations – The FCC has begun an investigation into the license of KCBS in San Francisco after one of its hosts began broadcasting the locations and descriptions of undercover ICE agents looking for violent illegal aliens…

California Globe: President Trump announced on Tuesday that he would launch an investigation into the high cost of California High-Speed Rail. – Originally estimated to cost $33 billion in 2008, the cost ballooned to $128 billion and $135 billion more, with an estimated partial completion sometime in the late 2030s. – Trump addressed the absurdity of the plan’s high cost, saying it was mind-boggling and has been nothing more than a boondoggle.

Powerline: From Mainline to Sideline—Following Bishop Budde’s egregious hectoring of President Trump at the National Cathedral right after the inauguration, it has emerged that she headed an organization that received over $50 million in federal funds in 2023 to help “resettle” migrants.

February 4, 2025

Fox News: Trump says the US will ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip, then rebuild it to stabilize the Middle East – He envisions a ‘long-term ownership position’ of Gaza Strip – “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, yet to be discovered bombs and other weapons on the site.”…

Western Journal: Rubio’s Bombshell, El Salvador Willing to Jail Our Worst Criminals in Their 40,000 Super Prison – Our new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced that, after a meeting with El Salvador President Bukele, a noted law-and-order stickler, he agreed to “house violent U.S. criminals and receive deportees of any nationality.”…

Sharyl Attkisson: According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 77% of voters say photo voter ID should be required for election integrity. – Most voters also reject claims that voter ID laws are discriminatory, with only 30% saying such laws discriminate against some voters, while 60% do not.

Fox News: The Senate confirmed Pam Bondi, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, voting 54-46 to install the longtime prosecutor and former Florida attorney general to head the U.S. Department of Justice. – Senator John Fetterman bucked his party to make the vote bipartisan. – He was the only Democrat to join Republicans in support of the nominee.

Washington Examiner: State attorneys general look to prosecute Fauci despite Biden’s Federal pardon – “As state attorneys general, we possess the authority to address violations of state law or breaches of public trust.” – “We are fully committed to investigating any malfeasance that may have occurred to the fullest extent of our authority…

Axios: Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard has wind in her sails ahead of Tuesday’s Senate Intel Committee vote. – Senators Susan Collins and Todd Young announced their support for Gabbard ahead of the vote. – They were considered the crucial swing votes at the committee level.

One America News: The Senate has confirmed Doug Collins to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. – He was confirmed following a 77-to-23 vote, one of the widest bipartisan votes of any Trump Cabinet nominee. – Collins formerly served in Congress from 2013 to 2021.

Just The News: On Tuesday, the CIA sent a buyout option to its entire workforce, mimicking the one President Trump’s administration sent to federal employees last week. – Both offers give employees eight months of pay and benefits in exchange for their resignations.

Breitbart: Senator Joni Ernst Exposed USAID’s ‘Anti-American Agenda’ In Detailed Letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio – She concluded in her letter to Rubio, “As I’ve said before, sunshine is the very best disinfectant, now is the time to get to the bottom of USAID’s shady practices once and for all.

The Center Square: Of the billions in questioned USAID spending, millions went to fund terrorism. – A multi-year investigation brought by the DOJ and U.S. Attorney’s Office for DC reveals the scope of how funds were used in one recent terrorism-related case. – “The case represents one of the most significant diversions of USAID-funded humanitarian aid that USAID-OIG has investigated,” USAID’s Office of Inspector General said.

John Daniel Davidson: Defunding USAID Isn’t About Reducing The Deficit; It’s About Shutting Down Left-Wing Propaganda – USAID isn’t just a ridiculous scam on U.S. taxpayers; it funds leftist causes that erode Western civilization and destroy traditional values. – The common theme in many of these grants is that they push LGBTQ, green, and woke ideologies under the pretext of fighting poverty and promoting democracy abroad…

American Thinker: Trump’s Decision To End USAID Is Constitutional And Legally Solid. – Congress never made USAID an official agency, so irate Democrats must now live with the consequences. – The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 merely granted the President broad discretion to structure foreign aid programs as he saw fit.

AMUSE on X: From Critics to Cheerleaders, Media’s Sudden Love Affair with The US Agency for International Development (USAID) – President Trump’s return threatens the administrative state. – Nowhere is their panic more evident than in the mainstream media’s frantic efforts to rehabilitate USAID. – This bloated and unaccountable agency has long been the CIA’s wallet and Washington’s tool for political meddling abroad.

Western Journal: President Trump Rocks Bill Gates As The USAID Shakeup Squeezes Out The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Clearly, Bill Gates needs access to avenues to distribute money and global reach to export his grand schemes, two things, just coincidentally, that USAID, the government agency currently in the process of being shuttered by the Trump administration, provides his charity.

Vigilant News: Even Trump-Hater Bill Kristol’s Group Was Receiving Millions From Inside the USAID Matrix. – As suspected, Bill Kristol has been paid handsomely for sh*tting on President Trump for over eight years now. – Kristol’s group, the Defending Democracy Together Institute, received big money indirectly from USAID through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors…

Epoch Times: Democrats lay out a roadmap to take down Elon Musk – Senate and House Minority Leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries of New York unveiled legislation they are calling “Stop the Steal” that aims to prevent supposed “unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department’s payment systems.”…

Dayton Daily News: China countered President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports and announced an antitrust investigation into Google and other trade measures. – Beijing University of International Business and Economics professor John Gong, “The Chinese response was “measured, I don’t think they want the trade war escalating. “

Center Square: Trump’s China crackdown may end tax loophole for retailers like Shein and Temu. – There are ongoing questions about these Chinese companies’ business practices, including whether they use slave labor and the exemption to avoid U.S. regulations. – During the Biden administration, their tax loophole drew bipartisan criticism. Trump’s executive orders have explicitly stated that its new tariffs apply even to them.

Zero Hedge: Ukraine Is Open To Trump’s Demand To Exchange Rare Earth Elements For Arms—Trump’s ‘Victory Plan’ for Ukraine involves the war-ravaged country agreeing to grant the US unprecedented access to its rare earth elements in a more ‘equitable’ quid pro quo. – The only problem for Kyiv and Washington is that the bulk of Ukraine’s main rare earth deposits are currently under Russian occupation in the territories annexed by Moscow.

Slay News: President Trump has temporarily cut off U.S. funding to South Africa while his administration investigates the nation’s new land expropriation law. – The law seeks to boot white farmers from their land in South Africa. – Land expropriation has led to murder, rape, and theft.

Breitbart: During a Monday appearance on FNC’s “Special Report,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the Trump administration’s move to wind down the US Agency for International Development (USAID) functions. – According to Rubio, Trump administration officials who attempted to reform the agency quickly discovered evidence of “rank insubordination.”

Western Journal: Karoline Leavitt Pulls Out ‘Insane’ List of USAID Expenditures as Reporter Frets About ‘Humanitarian Aid’ – Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Leavitt responded to a snarky question about Musk’s level of expertise in “humanitarian aid” first by defending Musk as a common-sense businessman and then by citing a list of totally “insane” overseas projects funded by USAID.

Breitbart: Secretary of State Marco Rubio received a warm welcome from President Nayib Bukele and his family at the presidential palace in San Salvador, El Salvador. – Bukele received Rubio in the company of the First Lady of El Salvador and their two daughters. The exchange occurred entirely in Spanish, an unprecedented moment for American diplomacy as Rubio is the nation’s first Hispanic-American secretary of state.

Daily Wire: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced she was revoking a Biden administration policy that gave 348,202 Venezuelans living in the U.S. who were given work authorization and shielded from deportation in October 2023. – She said conditions had improved in Venezuela and that it was not in America’s interest to maintain the program.

Geller Report: Trump’s Probe Into USAID Spending Reveals Obscene And Outrageous Wrongdoing – USAID funneled $53 million to EcoHealth Alliance, which then used U.S. taxpayer funds to support gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab research that likely led to the creation of COVID-19. – And that’s not all…

Dan Bongino: George Soros’ Fingerprints Are All Over USAID – At long last, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a political organization masquerading as a development program, may be deleted. – The Soros Foundations Management Training Program (“SFMTP) received and signed Cooperative Agreement HEUR 0045 A 00 4007 00 from “USAID” on November 19, 1993…

Resist The Mainstream: Platform Services Manager Brandon Wright faces imminent termination after being caught on undercover video vowing to obstruct incoming Secretary Kristi Noem’s border policies and launching personal attacks against her. – Wright spoke candidly to an O’Keefe Media Group undercover journalist in footage that has sparked internal investigations…

American Thinker: The Top Five Failed Democrat Initiatives That Cost Americans a Fortune – 1. The CHIPS Act was designed to provide the domestic semiconductor industry with $79 billion in subsidies and loans. – 2. The Broadband Connectivity Act, with its Affordable Connectivity Program, is a $42 billion initiative aimed at improving broadband internet access for households across the country. – 3. The $1.2 Trillion Inflation Reduction Act…

New York Post: At least 20K federal workers are taking Trump’s buyout offer, with more expected to accept. – They accepted the Trump administration’s offer of taking eight months’ pay and benefits in exchange for walking away from the government workforce. – Employees have until Thursday to decide whether to accept the buyout offer that is believed to apply to at least 2.3 million federal employees.

Tampa Free Press: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has Cleared The Committee Vote, Putting Him on Track to Become Health Secretary – The panel voted 14-13 along party lines, with Senator Cassidy of Louisiana voting Yes despite expressing concerns last week about Kennedy’s history of anti-vaccine advocacy. – Next, the full Senate will vote on whether to confirm Kennedy

VOZ: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Confirmed The Migrant Flights to Guantanamo Have Begun. – In addition, Leavitt recalled that the federal government is in negotiations with the countries of origin of most of the immigrants with the objective that they accept the return of their nationals. – Some countries, such as El Salvador, have offered to lend their infrastructure to meet the administration’s objectives…

American Thinker: Trump Takes On The Octopus — Most people don’t understand the depth and breadth of the grift, graft, and corruption in the federal government that was bequeathed to Trump. – It is not just low-information voters who are uninformed. – The staggering level of corruption to be exposed by the Trump administration and its DOGE will be both mind-blowing and sickening.

American Thinker: DOGE Walks Among Us – The federal leviathan is undergoing a full MRI scan thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. – DOGE will play a key role in dismantling the Deep State. – Once DOGE’s results are publicized, the verdict will come into focus. – Entire agencies will no longer exist, and those surviving will be substantially curtailed.

Gateway Pundit: Under Musk’s leadership, young prodigies are leading a transformative project to slash federal spending. – Just two weeks into its formation, the DOGE operating team has already made significant inroads into reforming how the government operates under Musk’s leadership. – Here is updated data on DEI-related contract cancellations, in full detail, totaling over 1 billion.

Townhall: A Reporter Highlights the One Paragraph That Shreds the Entire NYT Hit Piece on Elon Musk – Forty-three paragraphs into the NYT’s latest hit piece on Elon Musk, the by-lined reporters reveal that the federal government lost $236 billion to apparent fraud (“improper payments”) in 2023 alone…

Revolver: It Turns Out The ‘Deep State’ Used USAID To OUST Bolsonaro From Brazil – Plenty of politicians love USAID, especially crooked ones like Ilhan Omar, whose third-world hellhole of a homeland raked in $2.3 billion of our tax dollars. – USAID is operating with basically zero accountability and a mind-blowing $50 billion budget, which is insane, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently pointed out…

American Thinker: On Trump’s Tariffs, The Pain Is Already Subsiding – Preliminary evidence is that tariff pain is dulled and, at least so far, worth the price. – The “Art of the Deal” is beautifully basic and magnificently congruent with human nature; perhaps the methodology works well. – President Trump is resolute but also quite reasonable and flexible…

Gateway Pundit: The US Launched Reconnaissance Aerial Monitoring Aircraft Over The Mexican Border in Run-up to A Potential Cartel Strike – On his second day in office, President Trump officially designated drug cartels on the southern border as terrorist organizations. – This was followed last week with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announcing “all options are on the table” regarding the Mexican cartels.

American Thinker: Trump’s attack on the Deep State is spectacular and almost certainly legal – Sit back and enjoy the screams and lamentations of the leftists as their taxpayer-funded boondoggle finally comes to an end. – In just a few days, “DOGE” has effectively put an end to USAID, gelded the GSA tech division, the Office OPM, and the Treasury, along with firing corrupt people in the FBI, and this is just a short list…

Townhall: Here’s How Many FBI Employees Were Involved In Taking Down Trump—The FBI has submitted over 5,000 agents and staffers who worked on his cases. – The FBI has 38,000 total employees, including some 13,000 agents.

The Daily Fetched: FBI agents involved in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case were escorted from their posts over the weekend after refusing to release the names of agents connected to the January 6 investigations and the probe into President Donald Trump. – Entire squads of FBI agents were removed from the New York, Miami, and Washington, D.C., field offices after Trump appointed Driscoll to lead the agency.

Vigilant News: The Jaw-Dropping Disparities in The Biden and Trump Pardons – The cases against the Jan. 6 defendants overwhelmingly involved legal system abuses. A politicized DOJ brought charges before juries in the District of Columbia that were heavily biased against Republicans and a circuit court that Democrats heavily control. – The jury pool was from a district where Biden had received over 92% of the vote in 2020.

Daily Wire: Trump Will Be the First Sitting President to Attend the Super Bowl. – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem assured the public that “there are no credible threats” that DHS has on the “radar” for the big game. – While president-elect, Trump attended multiple college football games, an NFL game, and the Army-Navy game.

Daily Wire: The NFL has reportedly sent the word to remove the message “End Racism” from the end zones for Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday. – It will be the first time since February 2021 that the message “End Racism” has not appeared in a Super Bowl end zone…

Daily Wire: The Army Is Set To Expand Basic Training Amid Flood Of New Recruits – Recruitment has surged since President Trump’s election in November. – Former Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said, “What’s remarkable is the first quarter contracts that we have signed are the highest rate in the last 10 years.” – “We are going like gangbusters, which is terrific.”

Western Journal: New York Democrat AG Letitia James sent a letter to hospitals in the state on Monday, threatening them with legal action if they comply with President Trump’s executive order against transgender procedures on children. – Earlier, Trump directed all federal agencies in his order to make sure that hospitals receiving federal grant funds “end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”

Newsmax: The Trump Administration Has Opened An Antisemitism Probe Into Four Medical Schools—The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the investigations target the medical schools at Columbia, Brown, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard.

American Thinker: Hillary Clinton’s Hypersonic Hypocrisy – The next time Hillary Clinton or her media allies wag a finger about “Russian interference,” remember this: Hillary Clinton’s State Department helped arm Russia with hypersonic missile technology. – Yes, the same Hillary Clinton who branded Tulsi Gabbard a “Russian asset.”…

American Thinker: The Threat of Carbon Capture — Climate change isn’t ending the world, but policies intended to combat it rob people of choice, often their property, and increase their living costs. – CCS is one such policy.

American Thinker: The Kids Are Not Alright – Our educational system is failing students big time, and the students are failing themselves. – As just one example, according to The Nation’s Report Card website, just 30% of American public-school 4th graders are proficient in reading according to government standards as of 2024, which is two points lower than in 2022…

February 3, 2025

Fox News: Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Canada for a month – Canada will implement a $1.3 billion border plan and appoint a fentanyl czar. – Canada will also reinforce its border with new helicopters, technology, and personnel and enhance coordination with American authorities…

Wall Street Journal: Trump Advisers Are Weighing A Plan To Dismantle the Department of Education By Shutting Down Key Functions—The order would be a step toward fulfilling a Trump campaign promise to eliminate the department, limit federal involvement in education, and give more authority to the states.

Washington Examiner: Authorities are investigating threats against Musk and DOGE employees – An initial review of the evidence indicates that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law. Authorities have contacted the FBI and other law enforcement partners, and prosecutors are preparing to proceed.

American Spectator: Three Cheers for Kash Patel. – It is time to retire the FBI’s left-wing politics. – For all of the back-and-forth in the last seven years, the iconic Federal Bureau of Investigation members have not been playing by the rules but rather pursuing straight-up law violations.

American Thinker: Big-Tech God Marc Andreessen Boards The MAGA Train – Take a look at these tidbits: Half of the Blacks admitted into a place like Harvard were not American-born Blacks; they were foreign-born Blacks, specifically Northern African, and generally Nigerian or West Indian…

One America News: Chris Wright Has Been Confirmed as The New Secretary of Energy – Wright will run a department that oversees energy research, loans, and the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal.

American Spectator: The Democrats Are Hogging the Wilderness. – The Democrat Party’s selection of Ken Martin and David Hogg as their new leaders proves that they haven’t learned anything and still need to spend time in wilderness timeout before trying to be relevant again. – Antigun David Hogg’s sole source of political relevance is that he was not killed in the Parkland, Florida shooting…

American Spectator: Trump Was Right About California’s Wildfires – Throughout his first term, Trump repeatedly begged California’s Governor Gavin Newsom and other boneheaded Democrats to reduce vegetation and increase water storage and infrastructure to prevent and, if necessary, defeat the flames.

The Center Square: California’s largest property insurer, State Farm, demands a 22% rate hike due to the wildfires. – Proposition 103 in 1988 empowered state regulators to approve rate hikes, which has led to rates not keeping up with rising claims and risks. – State Farm says it has lost $5 billion over the last nine years in California and had no option but to stop underwriting new policies in 2023.

Reuters: Trump orders the creation of a US sovereign wealth fund, saying it could be used to buy TikTok. – If created, the sovereign wealth fund could place the U.S. alongside numerous other countries, particularly in the Middle East and Asia, that have launched similar funds to make direct investments with government dollars.

Conservative Brief: Russian President Vladimir Putin Says Trump Will ‘Restore Order’ Throughout The European Continent Amid Talk of Ending The Ukraine War – “Trump, with his character and stubbornness, will restore order quickly. – And all of them, you will see, it will happen swiftly. – Soon, they will all sit at the feet of their master and gently wag their tails.”…

American Wire: Now He Tells Us—Zelenskyy says Ukraine never received the over $100B supposedly sent by the Biden regime. – During a weekend interview, the leader of the notoriously corrupt Eastern European country revealed that the money never made it to the battlefield. So where did the money go?

Daily Wire: Trump Will View Footage Of The October 7 Attack Ahead Of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Visit – The footage includes videos of beheadings, houses, people set on fire, and unarmed people shot at point-blank range.

Daily Wire: Trump To Withdraw The United States From UN Human Rights Council – The factsheet announcing the withdrawal accused the UNHRC of not fulfilling its purpose and being a “protective body for countries committing horrific human rights violations as well as demonstrating consistent bias against Israel. – The president also withdrew from the council during his first term in 2018.

Daily Wire: Hospitals Across U.S. Stop Transitioning Children After Trump Signs Order Protecting Kids – “It’s already having its intended effect, preventing children from being maimed and sterilized by adults perpetuating a radical, false claim that they can somehow change a child’s sex,” the White House said in a Monday release. – ‘President Trump will always protect American children…

Western Journal: Shocking Testimony At The Kash Patel Hearing – Senator Ashley Moody Confirmed That The FBI and DOJ Obstructed The Investigation Into The Second Trump Assassination Attempt – She detailed the absurd levels of resistance to her investigation mounted by federal law enforcement as she questioned Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, during his confirmation hearing.

Conservative Brief: The Trump administration fired a group of prosecutors involved in the January 6 criminal cases on Friday and demanded the names of FBI agents who worked on those investigations, potentially paving the way for their likely future removal. – These actions reflect the White House’s efforts to assert control over federal law enforcement and purge agencies of career employees identified as not executing their duties appropriately…

Reuters: Rubio tells Panama to end China’s influence over the canal or face US action. – Rubio says Trump sees the status quo at the Panama Canal as unacceptable, and sovereignty over the canal is not up for discussion. – The U.S. believes China’s influence violates the neutrality treaty…

JD Rucker: That Was Fast – China Is Reportedly Preparing Trade Talks With Trump After The Weekend Tariff Shock – China aims to restore a trade agreement with the US and reaffirm its pledge not to devalue the yuan for a competitive advantage in global trade. – The so-called Phase One deal required China to increase American goods and services purchases by $200 billion over two years…

The Federalist: Trump Pauses Tariffs on Mexico After It Agrees To Send Thousands Of Troops To The Border — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that she is moving 10,000 members of the country’s National Guard to the U.S./Mexico border to stop drug trafficking. – Sheinbaum’s announcement came after speaking earlier in the day with President Donald Trump following his decision to hit the country with 25% tariffs for not doing more to stop the flow of fentanyl into the U.S…

Daily Wire: The EPA Put 1,100+ Employees On Notice And Warned They Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’ – An email was sent just days into Lee Zeldin’s tenure as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. – “As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to terminate you immediately,” the email says…

Zero Hedge: Trump Grand Strategy, What All This Has In Common – There’s a common thread between President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China (and perhaps soon on the EU), his deportations of illegal aliens, his threat to take back the Panama Canal, and his aggressive overtures to buy Greenland. – It’s not normal for the world to have one unipolar power. – We’re returning to a multipolar world with multiple great powers in different parts of the planet…

I&I/TIPP Poll: Trump’s Executive Orders Have Solid Voter Backing – Deploying the U.S. military to secure the southern border received 57% “support. – Banning federal funding for gender identity programs and recognizing only biological sex received 53% support. – Requiring federal workers to return to the office full-time received 56% support. – Looking at responses by party affiliation shows how far apart the major parties are at the onset of the new Trump administration…

James O’Keefe: An AGS-14 DHS Official Admitted That Department Employees Will Defy Trump Appointed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s “Marching Orders.” – He Revealed Their Tactics Of ‘Interpreting Priorities We Don’t Agree With.’ – “By the time the actual marching orders get to me and below, we can filter it in a way that steadies the ship.”…

Center For Immigration Studies: Kristi Noem Stops Taxpayer Funding Of Illegal Immigration – Security Secretary Kristi Noem, “We have stopped all grant funding that’s being abused by NGOs to facilitate illegal immigration into this country.” – “I’ve taken action to stop those funds, to re-evaluate them, and to make sure that we’re using taxpayer dollars to strengthen this country and to keep people safe.”

Real Clear Politics: A 13-year veteran of the Secret Service agent is, for the first time, publicly speaking out against the agency’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, which he says contributed to the first assassination attempt against President Trump last summer. – Rashid Ellis, a graduate of The Citadel, a prestigious military college in South Carolina, believes agendas have taken priority at the Secret Service for a long time, which got Trump shot…

Resist The Mainstream: The administration has been cracking down on DEI initiatives, which have faced widespread criticism for promoting divisive identity politics over merit and efficiency in government operations. – According to reports, Federal employees at the Department of Education have been placed on administrative leave after previously participating in a diversity training program.

The Federalist: Trump’s Executive Orders Are Only the First Step In Destroying DEI. – Too many public universities are choosing indoctrination over education. – As a former professor, I have seen firsthand that academia remains the nerve center for the poisonous ideology behind DEI.- Classroom-based DEI indoctrination in universities will not end without additional outside pressure.

Slay News: Trump Orders All Federal Agencies To Reject Biden’s Last Minute Collective Bargaining Agreements – Many of the CBAs struck with the Biden administration included terms for remote working, something Trump has sought to end. – Biden’s Social SS Commissioner, in December 2024, agreed with the American Federation of Government Employees, guaranteeing that the agency’s 42,000 employees would not have to work in the office during the Trump administration…

Zero Hedge: The USAID Website Goes Dark As Trump Reportedly Plans To Shift Agency Under State Department—Trump has made it very clear to Democrats and their Deep State counterparts that flooding taxpayer dollars into shady NGOs would end under his ‘America First’ agenda. – A post from Elon Musk’s DOGE account on X clarified that USAID went on a woke spending spree in third-world countries.

Daily Wire: Elon Musk said early Monday morning that he had received President Trump’s approval to eliminate the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). – Musk commented during a discussion with Senator Joni Ernst about the work Trump has called on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to accomplish.

Discern Report: The Purge Begins With Mass Carnage as Trump and Musk Ruthlessly Gut Corrupt Government Agencies. – The largest and most bloated bureaucracy in the history of the world has been thrown into a state of complete and utter chaos. – That being said, let’s look at some of the highlights at the U.S. Treasury, Office of Personnel Management, USAID, the EPA, and the FBI…

Washington Free Beacon: The Biden Administration Quietly Funneled $3 Million to Palestinian Government ‘Security Forces’ for Weapons Training After Its Members Carried Out Attacks on Israelis – The Trump administration ‘must conduct rigorous oversight of this type of funding, which the Biden administration quietly noticed at the 11th hour,’ according to Representative McCaul.

The Daily Fetched: A Soros-Owned Radio Station Put ICE Agents in Danger by Exposing Their Identities And Locations – KCBS 740 AM radio host Bret Burkhart provided descriptions of the unmarked vehicles used by ICE agents and even shared specific locations where they were operating…

Victor Davis Hanson: Ten Problems with DEI That Frighten the Public—Recent disasters have scrutinized DEI policies, raising concerns about their impact on competence, meritocracy, and public safety. – The first issue is whether hiring, retention, and promotion in the airline industry or the military are fully meritocratic.

The Federalist: 5 Shocking Reasons Trump Should Exit The U.N. Now – The UN is the Largest Global Purveyor of Gender Ideology – UN Agencies Promote ‘Sexual Rights’ for Children – The UN has a History of Horrific Child Sex Abuse – UN Officials are Immune to Prosecution – The Current Secretary-General of the UN is the Former President of the Socialist International

American Thinker: Trump’s Tariff War – First off, Mexico’s President says Americans can solve the fentanyl problem by combating “the sale of narcotics on the streets of our main cities. – However, Democrat mayors and district attorneys run them, and they don’t care much about crime unless it can be pinned onto someone in the MAGA world. – Then there is the situation with Canada…

Breitbart: A recent Gallup poll shows that Americans are more bullish on the U.S. economy and the stock market while being more hopeful about crushing inflation and borrowing costs than in 10 years or more. – Some 53% of Americans predicted the U.S. economy would grow over the next six months. – Some 61% also see stocks rising, the most since Gallup began asking the question in 2001.

FAR: What We Know and What We Don’t About January 6 – Many ordinary Americans want the truth about the happenings on that eventful day. – With those Americans in mind, it is helpful to sift through what we have learned about January 6 over the past four years and note the things we still don’t know.

American Thinker: This Paper exposes the pseudoscience behind the methane war on farmers – Farmers are not the villains of the climate story; they are essential stewards of the land who provide food for billions. – First published in 2020 by the CO2 Coalition, Fairfax, Virginia, the updated paper meticulously dismantles the prevailing narrative that methane emissions from agriculture threaten the planet…

Zero Hedge: It’s A Big Club, And You Ain’t In It – Not that long ago, George Carlin and Paddy Chayefsky encapsulated the dystopian nature of our society by accurately portraying who truly runs the show. – You don’t have to be cynical to acknowledge ruling class elite members of “The Big Club” are pulling all the levers, reaping all the wealth, and wielding all the power in our corporate fascist world, run by authoritarians. – There are reasons and strategies behind everything…

Fox News: The Senate Republican campaign committee’s January haul was record-breaking as it aimed to expand its majority. – Republicans flipped four Democrat-held Senate seats in the 2024 elections and now hold a 53-47 majority in the chamber. – The NRSC announced on Monday that it raked in a record $8.5 million in January, its best-ever off-year January haul.

Geller Report: Illegals Shut Down the 101 Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles In A Massive Anti-American Protest Response to ICE Raids—The protest began on Olvera Street and grew to a few thousand people who marched to City Hall before walking onto the 101 Freeway.

California Globe: It’s Time Former ‘Acting’ Labor Secretary Julie Su Faces Heat For California’s Pandemic Fraud – Now would be a good time for President Trump’s new DOJ to investigate California’s $55 Billion unemployment payments that were lost during the COVID pandemic…

February 2, 2025

Breggin Alerts: Was President Donald Trump right to blame the FAA’s woke DEI hiring practices for the January 29th mid-air collision? – The agency is entrusted with protecting our lives in the skies and airports. – Let’s examine various facts showing the federal agency’s utter disregard for human life.

Daily Wire: Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino said on Sunday that his country would withdraw from communist China’s predatory Belt and Road Initiative after meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The victory on Sunday comes after Trump scored a major victory last week over Colombia’s president after he tried to stop deportation flights.

President Donald J. Trump: The “Tariff Lobby,” headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades-long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both concerning TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to flow into AMERICA so freely…

One American News: The White House Slams House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries For Calling On Americans To ‘Fight’ Trump’s Agenda ‘In The Streets’ – Jeffries’ “call for violence” came during a recent press conference in Brooklyn on Friday, where he called on Americans to fight back against Trump’s “extreme” agenda “in the streets,” seemingly implying a notion of violence.

Townhall: Elon’s DOGE Just Took Out Another Career DC Bureaucrat – A career ⁦USAID ⁩official tried to reverse a DOGE decision to place 60 senior agency officials on administrative leave earlier this week. DOGE immediately took punitive action for the attempt, and now that official is on admin leave, too.

American Spectator: Trump Fumigates the DOJ—The stench of corruption emanates from every crevice of this thoroughly politicized agency. – Representative Raskin hilariously referred to the terminated and reassigned individuals as “non-partisan professionals.” – He conveniently forgot that these “career prosecutors and federal agents” did their level best to sabotage President Trump’s first term by launching numerous illegal investigations of the President and several members of his administration.

Gateway Pundit: Female Helicopter Pilot Rebecca Lobach’s Entire Social Media Scrubbed Before The Army Released Her Name – So What Are They Hiding? – The US Army and Rebecca’s family scrubbed her social media accounts for three days. – They don’t want the public to know anything about this female pilot. – It is not just that Rebecca Lobach is gone from social media; her sisters and parents were scrubbed as well…

Zero Hedge: Trade Wars Begin – Trump Tariffs On Canada, Mexico, And China Triggered Immediate Retaliation – Just hours after Trump unveiled double-digit tariffs on the three largest US trading partners, Canada and Mexico announced plans for retaliatory tariffs on the US. – Canada will place a 25% counter-tariff on C$155 billion ($107 billion) worth of American-made products. – Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said she also instructed the economy minister to kick off a response plan that includes retaliatory tariffs…

Geller Report: A Big Mistake – Trudeau Announces 25% Retaliatory Tariffs on American Goods – The United States is Canada’s largest foreign direct investment source. – Canada is largely dependent on our market. – This is not going to end well.

Just The News: ICE ramped up arrests and deportations of criminal aliens in Trump’s first two weeks – As of January 31, ICE-led operations have resulted in the arrest of more than 8,000 illegal immigrants, based on a collection of data the agency’s social media posts have disclosed since January 2023…

Slay News: Trump Established A Watchdog to Tackle Corporate Media Propaganda—President Trump’s administration is taking a bold step to tackle “fake news” and propaganda from the corporate media. – The Trump administration has launched a new social media account, Rapid Response 47. The watchdog aims to challenge what it perceives as “fake news” disseminated by the media.

American Thinker: Trump’s Second Week Is A Turning Point in American Governance – For the Democrats, Trump’s second week has been worse than they ever imagined. – For the rest of us, it has been better than we ever hoped. – In the second week of his second term in office, President Trump has asserted the right of the Chief Executive to manage the Executive Branch…

Geller Report: Trump Signed an Executive Order to Slash Federal Regulations—The new order requires federal agencies to repeal “at least 10 existing rules, regulations or guidance documents” for every new rule or regulation created.

American Thinker: The Uncivil Service Objects To Trump’s Work Ethic – Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution says: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. – Trump is demanding that federal employees, many of whom have been out of the office since the COVID lockdowns, return to their offices and work 40 hours a week…

American Thinker: What is Trump Doing With All the DIE Stuff? – There’s the truth, and then there’s what the leftist media reports. – The Trump administration has made it a top priority to eliminate any programs that promote Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the federal government, but that’s not how it is being reported…

American Thinker: Why Trump’s firing of the HUD Inspector General was Justified. – The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is tasked with investigating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). – However, the HUD inspector general has been failing the public in terms of its oversight of the department.

American Thinker: We Need A “Great Reset” In Our Dealings With China. – Thankfully, Trump knows that and undoubtedly has a whole series of plans to realign how China’s power is growing at America’s expense. – Trump has a different vision. Instead of giving away our national sovereignty, subsuming the interests of our citizens in favor of equity, and effectively abolishing our Constitution, Trump intends to lead the world into a new era of prosperity and peace…

American Thinker: The Decades of Lies from the Left – The ideological leftist infection grows at many of our institutions of so-called higher education, brought on by a blind spot created by a simple lack of gratitude for the opportunities afforded us as American citizens. – How do you convince the most fortunate people on Earth that they should hate the country they’ve benefited from their whole lives?

Brownstone Institute: Science’s Turn Towards Darkness—In light of RFK, Jr.’s confirmation hearings to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, it is important to remember that much of what is presented as science stems from vested interests and an outdated mechanistic worldview.

February 1, 2025

Daily Wire: President Trump said on Saturday that he ordered a strike on Islamic terrorists in Africa that resulted in the deaths of “many” terrorists. – “The strikes destroyed the caves they live in and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians,” Trump continued. – “Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did!”

Zero Hedge: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Announced Friday that all options, including military strikes against cartels on Mexican soil, are “on the table.” – Hegseth asserted that nothing is out of the question “if we’re dealing with what are designated to be foreign terrorist organizations who are specifically targeting Americans on our border.”

One America News: The terrorist group Hamas has released three more hostages as part of its current cease-fire deal with Israel. – The hostages that returned home during this release included a U.S./Israeli dual citizen from North Carolina, a father whose children were captured and released in a 2023 ceasefire-hostage deal, and the father of the youngest hostage…

American Thinker: Pete Hegseth Punishes Mark Milley For Arrogantly Defying The President. – If President Trump had known in 2016 how arrogant Mark Milley was, he might never have appointed him to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. – Milley’s treasonous behavior, spectacular incompetence, and rebelliousness against the president justify the punishment now being administered…

Western Journal: Trump Is Right, Obama’s FAA Policy Penalized ‘High Aptitude’ Applicants – Even The Chicago Tribune Was Worried Back in 2021 – This is what the FAA’s webpage said back in 2013. – “Diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond,” the page read.

Western Journal: Another Obama-Biden Chinese Spy – Harold Rogers, a former senior advisor to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the International Finance Division, was arrested for allegedly leaking sensitive information to the Chinese government while receiving large payments and going on fully funded trips to the country.

American Spectator: President Trump’s Extraordinary Firing of the Inspector Generals – In the challenge Trump has posed to the Senate over the power to dismiss officers, we are seeing a remarkable resurrection of constitutionalism. – What stands now is something extraordinary: the Supreme Court acknowledges an Executive power based on a decision made by Congress to affirm the power of the Executive Branch against its own…

Breitbart: The DNC Goes Hogg Wild – Gun Control Activist David Hog Elected Party Vice Chair – “Who’s ready to take the fight to the Republicans and win this thing? Are you guys ready to fight?” Hogg asked during his victory speech.

The Daily Fetched: President Trump confirmed that he will impose tariffs on the European Union. – Trump has long criticized the EU for its unfair trade policies, arguing that they disadvantage American businesses while allowing the EU relatively open access to U.S. markets. – The announcement comes as the Trump administration prepares to implement tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada.

Just The News: Venezuela has released six American male detainees after President Nicolás Maduro met Richard Grenell, the Trump administration’s special envoy. – Earlier in the day, the White House urged Venezuela to release the hostages and agree to accept Venezuelans deported from the U.S.

The National Pulse: Trump’s FBI Cleans House, At Least 20 Senior Officials Dismissed. – Several top officials with the FBI either left or were forced out of their positions late last night. – At least 20 director or assistant director-level employees were dismissed or resigned across the country, impacting several major field offices, including Miami, Las Vegas, and the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Slay News: Two Illegal Aliens Have Been Arrested Over The Brutal Murder Of A 63-Year-Old Man in Chicago – The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy that determined Levin died of multiple injuries after being savagely assaulted by the killers.

Red State: The Friday Night Smackdown at the DOJ—Dozens of J6 Prosecutors Sent Packing – While we wait for Attorney General Nominee Pam Bondi to hopefully be confirmed, Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. isn’t sitting around sipping tea, and on late Friday afternoon, he axed about 30 federal prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases over the last four years.

Zero Hedge: Musk Reveals Treasury Has Been Auto-Paying Everyone, ‘Even Known Terrorist Groups’ – “The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed to always approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.” – “They never denied payment in their entire career and triggered their longest-serving, highest-ranked career official to quit in a huff.

Zero Hedge: The man who led the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section has resigned. – Corey Amundson, who had been in charge of the section for years before the Trump administration recently reassigned him to work on immigration issues, has stepped down.

American Conservative: The Real Meaning of the Fight Over Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence—Gabbard threatens the self-protective national security clique. – The “threat” Gabbard poses to their ongoing series of worldwide covert regime change operations that benefit only the Pentagon and IC budgets is indeed a serious one, and sensible Americans should welcome it.

American Thinker: Why DEI Policies Threaten Our Safety – The push for DEI, while noble in intent, has, in practice, led to what can only be described as a quota system in disguise. – Where once merit was the sole arbiter, now there’s a shadow of doubt cast over every hire, every promotion. – This doubt isn’t about the individuals themselves, many of whom are undoubtedly capable, but about the system that prioritizes diversity over aptitude…

American Thinker: Farmers Unite For Robert Kennedy, Jr. – The assault on Robert F Kennedy. Jr.’s confirmation for Secretary of Health and Human Services reveals more about his accusers than the man himself. – A recent letter of support signed by over 130 farms across the nation displays exuberant agreement that this cause should be a greater priority for the Senate Committee on Finance than Bobby’s abortion views or his justifiable skepticism about vaccine safety…

American Thinker: The weaponization of government hasn’t died as an issue. – Those of us who believe that the Biden/Harris regime’s weaponization of the American government was one of the most important issues of the 2024 election have been heartened to see that the issue has sustained its energy. – Even if Biden pardons immunize some of the perpetrators, a thorough investigation of their pattern of abuse still needs to be conducted to expose the truth about past transgressions.

The Center Square: Nearly 80 percent of Americans don’t want men playing in women’s sports—The New York Times and polling company Ipsos Surveyed nearly an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, and the results show that the majority of Americans do not want transgender-identifying men in women’s sports.

The Daily Fetched: The Trump White House has reiterated that it does not endorse transgenderism or gender ideology by ordering the State Department to remove the letter ‘T’ from LGBT on its official website. – “LGB” stands for lesbian, gay, and bisexual, while the “T” represents transgender individuals.

American Thinker: Eighteen Blue-State Attorneys General Betray America – While the actions of these AGs likely don’t precisely fit the text of the federal treason statute, it’s not a stretch to consider them treasonous and surely anti-American. – This disdain for the law has given Mexico an opening to sue, claiming American gun makers are liable because they know at least some of their lawful products are used by cartels to commit crimes in Mexico…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, “I Don’t Care Margaret” — In week two, it has become apparent that the Trump Administration has decided to treat the media and its political opponents like the dogs they are…

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.

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 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 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 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.