Conservative Article Reference List

Below are links with summaries to primarily Conservative, Libertarian-leaning articles and/or blog posts that I have found enlightening with all that is happening in America and worldwide.

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(Some articles may appear outlandish but are also believable, so I leave it to readers to decide for themselves, and many things we considered to be conspiracy theories in the past are now turning out to be true.)

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May 25, 2025

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.”

Updates For This Date Are Above This Note

American Greatness: Joe Biden, the Mainstream Media, and the Republic We Couldn’t Keep – Calls for soul-searching over Biden’s decline ring hollow in a nation where power trumps principle and no one pays for political deceit—because winning is all that matters. – In her weekly column this week, Megan McArdle uses her platform to call for Democrats and even her colleagues in the media to reflect on their treachery and determine how best to fix things in the future…

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

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 Greatness: Trump in Riyadh, A Rejection Of The Globalist’s Gospel – Trump’s Riyadh speech rejected nation-building and globalist dogma, marking him as a bold champion of sovereignty over interventionism. – Trump, “In recent years, far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the notion that it’s our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use U.S. policy to dispense justice for their sins”…

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…

American Greatness: During His Visit to the Arabian Gulf, Trump unveiled his “America First 2.0” doctrine, favoring trade over war, diplomacy over regime change, and peace through prosperity in a new world order. – In his Riyadh speech, President Trump doubled down on his previous America First national security policies with a revolutionary plan to promote stability and peace through economic prosperity in the Middle East and around the world…

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…

American Greatness: Big Government Is Chaos, Thankfully, Trump’s 2026 Budget Is a Step Toward Sanity – It slashes non-defense spending to 2017 levels, axes DEI and climate schemes, and declares war on Big Government’s chaos. – In sum, the president’s proposal is a critical step toward sanity because, contrary to the left’s enchantment, Big Government does not stop chaos; Big Government creates chaos.

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…

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Below are links to articles and blog posts primarily covering COVID-19 and the mRNA vaccines mandated for the general population as a supposed cure. Because of the many problems associated with them, people are questioning the entire mRNA vaccine schedule. (Vaccine, Big-Pharma, Pandemic, and other health-related articles of significance will also be posted here.)

(From time to time, article links will also be provided for other vaccines or pharmaceutical products that the general public should be aware of. Health-related subjects of importance will also be covered, including articles relating to the World Health Organization, Health and Human Services, and the National Institute of Health. – If something seems hard to believe, I don’t include it until I see similar reports from other sources.)

Hopefully, you will take the time to read some of them, which should open your eyes to the reality of the Deep State, Progressive Elite, Big Pharma, Big Tech, and others that have gaslighted the public on this subject area with the help of the Mainstream Media.

Liken the process of becoming better informed to working on a giant 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.

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