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.

Scan the list and read what catches your eye; for some, just reading the headlines and summaries should provide enough insight into the article’s content.

(Some articles may appear outlandish to some, but are also believable, so I leave it to readers to decide for themselves, as many things we considered to be conspiracy theories in the past have proven to be true. – Also, I was born in California a long time ago, when it was the Golden State, so expect relevant articles on its decline.)

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Friday, August 28, 2026 – As Of 12:05 PM PDT

Just The News: Was The CIA Chief’s Moscow Trip About Iran and Not a NATO Warning? – Former Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves in a freshly published interview with EuroNews said he had “severe doubts” that concerns over aggression against the Baltic states were the reason for Ratcliffe’s visit. – He says the real problem is Iran and the fact that the Russians are giving targeting information to the Iranians…

Discern Report: Barron Trump’s “Reclusive” Life Stems From Attacks on His Father and The Assassination of Charlie Kirk – Barron Trump did not start a war. – He did not run for office. He likes soccer, keeps his head down, and has already learned a truth older than this republic. – Wicked men hunt the innocent to get at the strong. – A mother who hides her son from that is not smothering him, she is doing the first job God gave parents, protect your children…

Daily Wire: Trump’s Mail Ballot Fight Just Got More Complicated – Obama appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani just blocked the USPS’s fresh rules just days after they were announced, issuing a 14-day temporary restraining order that halts mandatory compliance for the upcoming November 3 elections. – The DOJ is expected to appeal the ruling immediately, for yet another potential showdown before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Washington Examiner: Trump, “Very non competitive meat processors such as JBS S.A., Tyson Foods, Cargill, and Smithfield Foods are making “life miserable for our wonderful Farmers and Ranchers.” – “So, in order to break this powerful monopoly, with much of its ownership based outside of the U.S., I am enabling Farmers and Ranchers to PROCESS THEIR OWN FOOD for distribution. – This should move quickly.”

Modernity News: Another TWO Historic Churches Explode Into Flames – A 133-year-old Grand Rapids sanctuary was gutted and a 175-year-old Alabama church was destroyed. – Burned to the ground like hundreds more before them. – The official language surrounding the causes is already familiar. – It is under investigation, origin unknown. – This is happening everywhere, including the United Kingdom…

American Spectator: We Need To Stop Laughing And Treat DSA Activists As Deadly Serious – Its platform makes ‘Woke 1’ look less like ancient history than a warm-up act. – Their promise to “abolish the Senate” is merely an appetizer. – The main course is the DSA wants to end presidential elections: “Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.”

American Spectator: The DSA Is After The Democrat Old Guard – Young socialists who occupy national leadership roles “scarcely hide their disdain for the Democrat Party they view as a hostile takeover target.” – “We’re gonna take it over,” said the 24-year-old daughter of immigrant parents from Iraq and Indonesia. – “We want to “build a new society from the ground up”

Geller Report: Canada’s CBC Orders Reporters To NOT Call 9/11 a Terrorist Attack – Warren Kinsella at the Toronto Sun: This week, I received a memo addressed to CBC News staff. – It is authored by one Basem Boshra, who is the “Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust at CBC News.” In Boshra’s memo, reporters are editors are told this: “Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.”

American Thinker: The Mohammunist Manifesto—Punishment of Apostasy and Defection – One ideology is premised on faith in Allah, and the other on faith in government, but what they share is that once you check in, only death gets you out. – Cases from Afghanistan, Sudan, Mauritania, Iran, the USSR, China, and North Korea show departure itself, not resistance, triggers execution…

American Thinker: Putting the ‘affordability crisis’ in perspective – Democrats and media lie about affordability, blaming Trump’s tariffs while ignoring Biden-era price surges, with new cars up 20%, homes up 27%, rents up 36%, and mortgage rates tripling. – Trump’s tariffs cost Americans just eight cents daily, while stocks soared up to 53%, proving capitalism, not socialism, delivers real affordability…

American Thinker: Trump, The Icon – President Trump wields unprecedented power to make or break Republican senators through endorsements, toppling entrenched incumbents like Cassidy and Cornyn while elevating newcomers. Unlike FDR’s failed 1938 purge or Reagan’s general-election coattails, Trump’s primary dominance stems from genuine reciprocal love with his 70 million followers…

Western Journal: U.S. military forces used a laser system to knock three Mexican drug cartel drones out of the sky at the southern border during overnight hours Tuesday and into Wednesday, according to U.S. Northern Command. – The task force behind the operation said troops used the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser, or AMP-HEL, against the three drones.

American Thinker: Too much about Trump, yet not very much about Canada – Canada’s PM Carney wages an unwinnable tariff war against an economy thirteen times larger, firing blanks to look tough while appeasing Trump Derangement Syndrome. – Rather than cutting deals like the EU and Japan did, Canada’s irrational hatred of Trump accelerates its decades-long economic decline and fiscal dysfunction.

American Thinker: Congress’s Unconstitutional Spending Spree Must End to Stop Fraud – Federal fraud and debt stem from unconstitutional spending programs, the General Welfare Clause was intended to serve national purposes, not authorize unlimited welfare, eliminating programs beyond Congress’s enumerated powers would reduce fraud and restore fiscal stability.

American Thinker: Trump is bringing back privateers to stop smuggled Iranian oil – Capturing rogue ships on the high seas is an idea with roots over 400 years deep in British and American history, and it has a solid constitutional and legal foundation. – However, courts may question whether current hostilities legally qualify as war.

Peter Clack: The West had sufficient and affordable energy security, until the UN finally destroyed it in the name of the Net Zero. – Many governments agreed to financial commitments to de-carbonize their economies, lasting decades beyond their own elected tenure. – Hundreds of $millions were handed out in the form of subsidies, to help build and install large arrays of wind turbines and solar panels…

American Thinker: Free The Canals and Locks of Lake America! – Canada must immediately cease and desist from charging tolls on the use of any canals and locks it operates that are connected to Lake America. – We don’t charge to use our locks, but Canada charges to use theirs. Surely this American beneficence must change to comport with the new reality of Lake America.

American Thinker: Socialism and New York City’s Housing Crisis – New York’s housing crisis stems from socialist rent control policies that strangle supply, not landlord greed. – When operating costs rise 40% but rents go up only 16%, thousands of apartments sit vacant rather than undergo financially ruinous renovations. – Clearly, scarcity, not profit, is the real enemy of housing affordability.

Townhall: When the Left loses its mind about President Trump dismantling the Department of Education, sane Americans ask one simple question: What has the DOE done to improve the state of American public education? – Sadly, the answer is not much as educational standards have clearly declined over the years. – To make matters worse, no one in the K-12 community really has a plan to address this…

New York Post: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blasted Elizabeth Warren claim about Treasury’s use of the Exchange Stabilization Fund – “No new congressional appropriation was involved, and no credit was extended to Japan. – Japan owes Treasury nothing,” added Bessent, who previously earned his fortune as a currency trader. – “There is therefore no risk that Japan will fail to repay a debt that does not exist.”

The Federalist: Opposition To Data Centers Isn’t What The Tech Right Thinks It Is – It’s not the data centers themselves that people fear, it’s the AI revolution they will enable that’s no one wants to talk about. – A deeper fear, perhaps harder to articulate, is that of rapid and uncontrollable technological change that AI will likely bring about.

American Thinker: Britain’s Armed Forces Are A Mirror of National Collapse – Britain’s military has collapsed from Cold War strength to near incapacity, with deployable tanks falling from 1,200 to roughly 40, escorts from 40 to 13, and combat aircraft from 700 to 150. – This reflects a deliberate moral and institutional unraveling as they cannot back up their empty rhetoric with equivalent force…

American Thinker: The British Nanny State Says No Guns Allowed – Britain’s post Dunblane handgun ban disarmed law-abiding citizens while illegal migration floods the country with military-aged males, creating a defenseless native population. – The state rejects self-defense as illegitimate, treating armed citizenship as a threat rather than a liberty. – This leaves Britons conquered rather than protected.

American Thinker: What is the official language of the United States – America’s language is historically English. – The Constitution is written in it, and all official business is conducted in it. – Spanish is merely an immigrant language with no claim to official status. – Expecting the English language in America is no different than expecting French in France or German in Germany.

Breitbart: Mayor Karen Bass just made it official: Los Angeles, California is a sanctuary city when it comes to enforcing food safety laws – There is widespread lack of enforcement of city and county food safety laws. – Street food stands run by illegal migrants getting a free pass while citizen restaurateurs and licensed food stands are subject to fines, high costs, burdensome regulations and even closure.

California Globe: The CA Legislature Passes Senator Wiener’s Unlawful Bill to Ban Masks on ICE Agents – The Legislature can pass a mask rule and claim it satisfies their discrimination issue, but it cannot compel ICE to obey it. – Ironically, these are the same people who mandated masks on everyone’s faces in California, including babies and children, during the coronavirus flu outbreak…

Slay News: Federal officials have blocked or clawed back more than $1.6 billion in potentially improper Medicare laboratory payments since Trump returned to office, as the administration intensifies its sweeping crackdown on fraud. – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has already removed 157 laboratory providers from Medicare over suspected fraud involving roughly $732 million.

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Daily Caller: Trump Releases His Ranking Of U.S. Presidents, And Of Course He Is The Greatest – Founding fathers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were ranked below Trump as “Great,” along with Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Andrew Jackson. – Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, John Adams and James K. Polk were all labeled “Near Great.” – Obama and Biden were last as failures along with…

Epoch Times: The US Issues Travel Advisory for Israel and Gaza – American citizens are advised not to visit certain areas in Israel. – The Department of State has updated the travel advisory for Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, warning about health risks in Gaza. – Gaza has been designated as “Level 4: Do Not Travel,” the most severe of the four State Department travel advisory levels.

Just The News: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has officially rejoined the Democratic Socialists of America. – Recent polling shows Ocasio-Cortez a favorite among potential Democratic presidential candidates, and her decision to rejoin the DSA could score points among Democratic voters who appear to be moving further to the left in the midterm cycle. – Is AOC sending a message to voters?

Daily Signal: Marco Rubio Puts Merit Over Seniority in A Foreign Service Shake-Up – The State Department is “trying to fundamentally shift how the Foreign Service works by replacing an expectation of promotion with a merit-based system.” – To expand the pool of individuals eligible for merit-based promotions in the Foreign Service, it has downgraded approximately 200 Senior Foreign Service positions overseas.

Gateway Pundit: Two Air Traffic Controllers Left Work Early on The Night of The Deadly Collision at New York’s LaGuardia Airport – A plane collided with a firetruck that had no transponder at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in March, killing two pilots. – The Federal Aviation Administration is moving to fire the two air traffic controllers for clocking out early resulting in a staff shortage…

Updates For This Date Are Above This Note

Breitbart: Rescuers in Nepal and occupied Tibet estimated on Thursday that over 1,000 people remain missing, including nationals from dozens of countries, after heavy rains caused massive landslides and rapidly rising floods to consume entire towns of people. – Authorities warned that rain is expected to persist this week, creating the potential for more devastation in areas already severely affected…

Slay News: The DOJ announced that a sprawling hacking operation used by Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors targeted critical U.S. infrastructure and temporarily breached several major government institutions. – The operation involved intrusions into NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate, the DOJ, the DOE, and HHS, along with four unnamed companies in the US and South Korea.

Just The News: CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s personal visit to Moscow this week was to warn Russia against any strikes on NATO nations. – Ratcliffe visited Russia this week and met with intelligence officials, but not President Vladimir Putin. – The meeting came amid reported concerns from Washington that Russia could attack one of the Baltic States…

Zero Hedge: Moscow Could Target British Military Facilities Could Become Fair Game For Direct Attacks – From the very start of the Ukraine war, the UK has consistently been among Kiev’s most open and ardent military supporters. – Now, Britain announced it plans to provide Ukraine with classified technology to allow for the country’s own manufacturing of the British/French-designed SCALP air-launched cruise missile

Issues & Insights: Is Anything We’ve Been Told About Gaza True? For nearly three years, claims of Israeli atrocities, including a Gaza famine, were amplified by media, only to be debunked as UNICEF now reports low malnutrition rates. – This is just another example exposing a chronic double standard in its war coverage…

Center For Immigration Studies: The State Department Will Revoke Nonimmigrant Visas for Asylum Applicants – The State Department is revoking up to 200,000 B-1 and B-2 visas from aliens who entered as temporary visitors then filed asylum claims, signaling they lied about nonimmigrant intent, an overdue enforcement of long ignored immigration law.

Western Journal: President Trump Signed An Executive Order Changing Lake Ontario’s Name To Lake America, Effective Immediately – The order directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to update the Geographic Names Information System and certify the change within 30 days. – The order cited American investments of almost $4 billion to protect the “Great Lakes freshwater ecosystem in the last decade, while Canada has invested far less…

Zero Hedge: Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith has rejected the idea of slapping export taxes on crude oil exports to the United States in retaliation for the Trump administration’s tariff salvo against Ottawa, saying they would be damaging to Canada. – “I understand the need to respond strongly to their tariffs, but I cannot think of a more disastrous policy decision than cutting off or taxing Alberta’s oil to the US.”

Zero Hedge: Qatar and Kuwait have managed to boost their crude oil exports from the Strait of Hormuz to 70% of pre-war levels as they followed the UAE in shuttling oil through the chokepoint and using ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman. – Before the Middle East conflict, Qatar and Kuwait collectively exported about 2 million barrels per day of crude oil via the Strait of Hormuz.

Breitbart: Karoline Leavitt on Her Last Day as Press Secretary – ‘It’s Very Bittersweet’ I think people don’t realize about this job, the briefings and what I just did on TV is 10 percent. – Ninety percent of it is taking all of your calls at five in the morning and eleven p.m. at night, and I won’t really miss that, but I will miss working with you guys every day,” she added…

American Thinker: Iran’s Most Dangerous Enemy – Iran’s greatest vulnerability is declining administrative coherence, reflected in factional accusations, currency collapse, inflation, and shrinking oil revenue. – Sanctions strain government capacity but may strengthen IRGC networks. – This makes bureaucratic failure more consequential than destroyed military hardware.

Gatestone Institute: Hamas Elections by Another Name is Still Hamas – It appears Hamas has reached an understanding with the US permitting figures affiliated with the terrorist organization to participate [in the upcoming November 29 PA elections] through a “new political framework.” – If this account is accurate, the scheme amounts to a dangerous exercise in deception…

American Thinker: Wave goodbye to Russia’s space program – Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo missiles, built by gamers and contractors, crippled Russia’s Soyuz production at Samara, potentially ending Russia’s space capability. – Russia may lose satellite launches, manned spaceflight, and technical power status, regressing to a pre-space-age state while the U.S. continues to advance.

City Journal: Democrats Are Courting Disaster, Yet Again – Democrats attack the Supreme Court’s legitimacy only when rulings go against them, pushing court packing, term limits, and impeachment, a transparent power grab that would destroy judicial independence and trigger endless retaliation.

Representative Russ Fulcher says Democrats will consume Congress with investigations and impeachment proceedings if they win control of the House in November, leaving lawmakers unable to address the nation’s other priorities. – He said the party’s left wing is pushing its leaders toward socialism while threatening investigations of President Trump and impeachment proceedings against administration officials.

Daily Wire: Another slate of Democratic candidates running in the midterm elections has rejected former Vice President Kamala Harris’ endorsement, underscoring the toxic brand her failed presidential campaign has left behind in key battleground states. – Iowa Democrat Senate candidate Josh Turek on Wednesday flatly rejected the idea of Harris campaigning for him.

Gateway Pundit: Left-wing voting organizations are racing back to Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in a renewed attempt to shut down Trump’s mail-ballot integrity rules before the November midterms. – On Wednesday, they filed a 29-page memorandum asking Talwani to immediately issue a temporary restraining order and then a preliminary injunction blocking the USPS’s final Ballot Mail for Federal Elections rule…

Breitbart: A just-released study from Rutgers University, the Network Contagion Research Institute, and the Manhattan Institute has found something not at all surprising. – Study findings suggest that gender ideology is associated with left-wing authoritarianism and the willingness to justify political violence.

American Thinker: Trump vs. California, A Battle For Common Sense – The Supreme Court allowed key parts of Trump’s election order to proceed during appeal, and later rules in his favor. – Federal citizenship checks, cleaner voter rolls, identification requirements, and stronger mail ballot controls are reasonable safeguards. – Democrats’ legal challenges are to protect vulnerable election practices.

American Thinker: Trump Doesn’t Need An Emergency Declaration – Trump shouldn’t declare an election emergency because the Supreme Court has already provided a stronger legal path. – Existing executive authority permits several election safeguards, while an emergency declaration would face serious constitutional challenges and politically damaging accusations of presidential overreach.

American Thinker: Trump Trumped The Judge In A Big Way – Trump’s January visa freeze from 75 countries was struck down by a Biden judge, so he froze visas globally five days later. – Presidents hold plenary power over first-time visa applicants, and a 1996 Clinton-era law already bars public charges, making Trump’s action lawful under Supreme Court precedent. – Well played, Mr. President…

American Thinker: So You Think ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ – Young Americans turn to socialism despite a strong economy because liberals wrecked public schools, pushed worthless college majors, and brainwashed youth while sabotaging the economy. – Poverty is easily avoided by finishing school and avoiding crime and drugs. – Democrats successfully built a dumbed-down, loyal underclass to vote themselves into power.

JD Rucker: New York Is Driving the Amish Out Over a Needle – New York’s Amish face $2,000 fines for refusing vaccines, losing religious exemptions under Cuomo’s law. – The Second Circuit ruled against them despite a Supreme Court remand. If the high court fails to protect them, 25,000 Amish will relocate to Pennsylvania where some 95,000 Amish already reside.

American Thinker: Why Are Liberal White Women So Angry? – Modern feminism cannot declare victory because perpetual grievances provide liberal women meaning and purpose. – Activists continually redefine civil rights around gender, abortion, immigration, speech, crime, and Palestine, while blaming white men and an eroding American civilization.

American Thinker: Four Murderers and a Scapegoat – American society is unwell, with declining church attendance, marriage, and community, plus public celebrations of murder. – Leftists excused the assassinations of Brian Thompson and Charlie Kirk, defended a student’s stabbing and a mother’s child strangling, while scapegoating officer Derek Chauvin. – Leftism is clearly a deadly disease.

American Thinker: Cloward, Piven, And Zinn Told Us They Wanted To Bankrupt America – Our soaring national debt and unfunded liabilities are due to Democratic spending, the Cloward Piven strategy, and Howard Zinn’s influence, fostered dependency, undermined capitalism, distorted American history, and placed the nation on a catastrophic fiscal path.

American Thinker: Let’s Make Children’s Programming Great Again – AI and streaming now enable independent creators to challenge major Leftist studios with affordable, high quality children’s programming. Ivan’s Infinite Imagination exemplifies family friendly entertainment that protects childhood, encourages learning and adventure, and gives parents power to support content reflecting their values.

Western Journal: 15 New York sheriffs are suing Governor Kathy Hochul over a state law that took effect this week banning formal agreements between local governments and federal agencies. – The Federation for American Immigration Reform filed the lawsuit on behalf of the sheriffs of St. Lawrence, Wayne, Broome, Madison, Cattaraugus, Orange, Jefferson, Saratoga, Lewis, Franklin, Delaware, Fulton, Oswego, Cayuga and Rensselaer counties…

Newmax: The Trump administration is preparing to dramatically increase deportation flights to Haiti, potentially accelerating the removal of thousands of Haitians who lost legal protections this summer. – The administration plans to increase flights from roughly once a month to once a week, potentially deporting hundreds more people each month…

Geller Report: President Trump dropped this bombshell – A report from USAID confirms that over 100 United Nations ‘ UNRWA employees have been referred for participating in October 7th Hamas atrocities. – The UN is an arm of the global jihad. – The referrals include three people they suggested be debarred by the department, including a former United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees school teacher and Hamas operative…

Geller Report: President Trump: “I Would Absolutely Prohibit Sharia Law!” – “It is happening in this country a little bit, and where we see it, we take it out.” – “We have one system!” — And make no mistake. Sharia is not like Canon or Jewish law. Canon law applies only to Catholics. There is no compulsion is Canon law. Jewish law applies only to Jews.

Center Square: A slew of candidates running as democratic socialists appears to be raising alarms with a majority of American voters, according the Center Square’s Voters Voice Poll – 63% of Americans are concerned with the growth of socialism or communism in American politics, while 29% are not concerned. – Of the 63% concerned, 36% say they are very concerned, while 27% say they are somewhat concerned.

Washington Examiner: Canada on Wednesday reversed some retaliatory tariffs it placed on the United States after facing backlash from the seafood sector. – Canadian Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson removed seafood and fish sector products from a list of proposed tariffs.

New York Post: One of California’s largest manufacturers is shifting dozens of jobs to a new facility in neighboring Nevada. – Haas Automation, which makes large-scale machines and tools, will relocate 73 jobs to Nevada, the company said in a notification letter to California. – Haas will soon have a 2.4 million-square-foot facility in Henderson, Nevada.

California Globe: CG Oncology, a $7 billion company, has moved its corporate headquarters from Irvine, California, to Dallas. – CG Oncology is a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing a potential backbone bladder-sparing therapeutic for patients afflicted with bladder cancer.

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Real Clear Politics: CNN data analyst Harry Enten recently highlighted the extraordinary popularity President Donald Trump continues to enjoy among Republican voters. – He noted that 53% say Trump is the Republican president they most admire, ahead of Ronald Reagan at 18% and Abraham Lincoln at 8%.

American Spectator: Team Trump Is Touting Its Wins, As It Should. – 1. Trump scores major win as Supreme Court clears way for mail-in voting order ahead of 2026 midterms – 2. The US set for largest mass visa revocation in history targeting up to 200,000 foreigners – 3. ICE arrests jumped to nearly 50,000 in July, the highest monthly total of Trump’s second term – 4.US Business Activity Expands at the Fastest Pace Since 2022 – And more…

Townhall: CIA Director John Ratcliffe flew to Moscow this week as the US hopes to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine and Russia, President Trump explained on Wednesday. – Trump downplayed rumors the trip was about Putin possibly considering more serious escalations in Europe, or about the situation in Iran after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced tough sanctions against countries that maintain close economic ties with the Iran.

Zero Hedge: Terrifying Videos Capture The ‘Day After Tomorrow’-Like Flood Swallowing The Entire China-Nepal Border Checkpoint – At least 31 people were confirmed dead, and hundreds of tourists and travelers remained missing after a catastrophic flash flood tore through Nepal’s border region with Tibet.

Slay News: An explosive newly uncovered video surfaced showing two of the 9/11 hijackers attending a gathering with a Saudi government official more than a year before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. – Emmy-winning investigative journalist Catherine Herridge released the footage this week as part of a major new report examining previously hidden links between the hijackers, Saudi Arabia, and U.S. intelligence.

Townhall: Three Secret Service members were walked out of their offices on Monday and made “do not admits” as part of a criminal investigation into leaked classified information to the media. – It’s unclear if the media leaks pertained to President Trump’s secret evacuation from Turkey because of intelligence about a surface-to-air missile threat to Air Force One from Iran.

Geller Report: Iran’s Leaders ‘Panicking’ – There can be no let up. – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent yesterday, “Let me be clear, any entity that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the U.S. Dollar system. – The clock just started ticking. – Iran’s leadership is admitting what the world can now see, and that is that the pressure is working.

Breitbart: President Trump has broken Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. Navy cleared mines from the strategic waterway and opened additional shipping routes in what American officials are calling a “watershed moment.” – This sharply diminished Tehran’s leverage over global energy markets while Washington simultaneously chokes off the regime’s own oil revenue.

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration has paused visa appointments for applicants worldwide while the State Department launches a global training initiative at all U.S. embassies and consulates. – Appointments for visa services will be rescheduled to accommodate the training. – The State Department offered no specific details on the training or its timeline.

Epoch Times: Senator Darline Graham defeated Representative Ralph Norman on Tuesday in the South Caroline Republican Senate runoff for the seat held by the late Senator Lindsay Graham. – The Trump-backed candidate won with around 52.4% of the vote to Norman’s 47.6%, with 91% of the votes counted, when The Associated Press called the race at 9:01 p.m.

Breitbart: The U.S. economy expanded at a 1.5% pace in the second quarter of this year, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Wednesday. – Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of economic activity, grew at an annualized 3.4% pace, faster than the 3.2% estimated earlier.

Epoch Times: Meta Platforms has agreed to pay out as much as $16.68 billion to settle 29 state claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, deceived consumers about the platforms’ safety, and collected personal data from children who used the platforms. – The settlement comes after a federal trial that began Aug. 18th.

Daily Wire: The Disturbing Rise Of Muslim Political Power Across America – CAIR states that the record-breaking numbers prove the Islamic community is expanding its political muscle like never before. – Two hundred fifty-five Muslims now hold public office across the United States, representing a historic high that spans every tier of government, according to a tally released by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

American Thinker: The Trade Compliance Word of the Day Is ‘Trans-Shipment’ – Transferring goods through an intermediate location, is central to the U.S.-Canada trade impasse. – Canada allegedly ignores the relabeling Chinese goods as Canadian for lower tariffs. – The Trump administration insists on true origin rules to protect North American workers against Beijing’s corruption.

American Thinker: Catch-22, Third-worldism or ‘mental illness’ – A black migrant repeatedly stabbed a Melbourne mother with scissors, but progressive media and police blamed “mental health” while hiding his foreign origin. – If such attacks are always mental episodes, then third-worldism is itself a mental illness, leaving progressives in a catch-22 over incompatible cultures.

JD Rucker: 16 Facts About the Shocking Decline of Public Education in the U.S. That Every American Should Know – #1 Nearly one-fifth of all high school graduates cannot even read at a functional level. – #2 Only 35% of high school seniors are proficient at reading, and only 22% of high school seniors are proficient at math. – #3 High school seniors math scores have fallen to the lowest level since 2005 and reading scores have fallen to the lowest level since 1992…

American Thinker: The ‘Stop Nick Shirley’ Act – California’s AB-2624, the “Stop Nick Shirley” act, targets Shirley for exposing nearly $230 billion in fraud, by banning publication of “immigrant service providers'” addresses. – This bill of attainder shields fraudsters while criminalizing the whistleblower, prompting widespread calls for Shirley to keep exposing California’s corruption.

Townhall: California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the unconstitutional assembly bill dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” into law a few days ago. – The clock now begins to run until a court blocks this legislation for violating the First Amendment. – But until then any journalist who tries to properly do his or her job in California faces serious legal trouble…

Slay News: California Senate Democrats rejected a Republican amendment that would have barred convicted child predators from holding public office, including positions on local school boards. – State Senator Suzette Valladares pushed the amendment to AB 2691, legislation that would expand the felony convictions that disqualify Californians from elected office to include certain sexual assault and human trafficking offenses…

Issues & Insights: California Coming Black Market For Tires – California already has the highest prices for tires, but in about three years, people will be paying more for tires than they are today. – It will happen because California’s hyperactive government launched yet another new rule last week. – But low rolling resistance tires don’t grip the road as well as conventional tires…

American Thinker: The Beef Argument That Forgot the Consumer – In his article, Sean Davis correctly notes the cattle cycle but ignores consumers paying $6.89 per pound for ground beef. – A 90-day, 300,000-ton import window offers temporary relief without destroying herd-rebuilding incentives, since its small size can’t reverse multi-year heifer retention decisions. America should both rebuild herds and help consumers.

City Journal: Private Schools Are Not A Threat to Democracy – A New York State teachers’ union president invoked old arguments against religious education to derail a scholarship program that would cost the state nothing. – Private education is not the enemy of democracy; it will continue to be a vital part of our pluralistic nation. Governor Hochul should stand firm with her support…

Epoch Times: U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani Lifted Her Block on Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Restrictions – Judge Talwani said she was bound by a Supreme Court ruling from earlier this week.

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Townhall: Obama appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani has ruled that the USPS violated a nationwide injunction prohibiting the implementation of President Trump’s executive order on mail-in ballots. – This comes one day after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to move forward with implementing the order.

Gatestone Institute: The Islamization of Europe – Europe should wake up or it will be destroyed from within, and it is well on its way. – In 2024, Belgium received half of all Palestinian asylum applications submitted in the entire EU. – “This is not a Jewish problem, but a European problem.” – In fact, a neighborhood in northern Antwerp is called “Little Gaza.”…

American Spectator: Turkey’s Syrian Gambit Puts Israel on a Collision Course – Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s Abu Duhur base exposed Turkey’s growing regional ambitions, strained U.S. mediation, and deepened Israeli-Turkish hostility. – While Washington condemned the escalation, Turkey’s new Mecca Agreement alliances and NATO role complicate any stable security equilibrium.

American Thinker: Political polls increasingly manufacture rather than measure reality. – They use fabricated surveys, manipulated weighting, and selective release to create false trends. – Outright fakes like Median Strategies, respondent reassignment in Florida, and misinterpretation of normal variation all turn polling into a numerical deepfake. – This demands voter skepticism about who paid and what numbers actually show.

American Thinker: Freedom Removed From WNBA Games – Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from a WNBA game for wearing a shirt reading “WOMAN: noun, adult human female,” after Natasha Cloud took offense and had to be restrained. – At WNBA games free speech is dead, replaced by groupthink that protects feelings over truth.

Epoch Times: Country music legend Dolly Parton has passed away. – Her nephew Bryan Seaver (her longtime head of security for over two decades) delivered the announcement in a video posted to her official X account. – He stated, on behalf of the family: “Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus.” Parton (born January 19, 1946) had been open in recent months and weeks about ongoing health challenges. These followed the March 2025 death of her husband of nearl 60 years, Carl Dean…

Zero Hedge: President Trump, “I have just been informed by the US Navy that all mines have been removed and/or detonated from within the International Waters of the Strait of Hormuz.” – “Iran has been notified that any ship or boat placing new mines will be immediately and systematically destroyed. – There is a Zero Tolerance policy on mine placement in full force and effect.”

Western Journal: Trump Triumphs With This Breaking SCOTUS Decision – Democrats Counting on Mail-in Voting Should Prepare to Panic – 23 states, along with D.C sued to block Trump Executive Order on Mailed Ballots. – The Supreme Court has allowed President Trump’s executive order to go forward. – Its Monday 6-3 ruling reversed the injunction noting they did not have standing because they could not prove any “concrete” harms had been suffered by their citizens, concluding their arguments are “conjecture.”

Ynet Global: Mojtaba’s Eyes And Ears: Iran’s feared protest-crusher Hossein Taeb returns to power as the regime tightens its grip – Taeb was ousted in 2022 after security failures blamed on Israel. – But now he has returned to command the Basij militia, with a mandate to expand surveillance, suppress dissent and strengthen Mojtaba Khamenei’s control over Iran’s population…

Epoch Times: Canada Announces Its Retaliatory Tariffs Against US Effective September 8th. – Canada published this extensive 18- page list of items that will be affected by counter-tariffs that includes, Fish of various types, Crustaceans of various types, Mollusks of various types, Milk and Cream products, Whey, Cheese and curd, Honey, Molasses, Malt extracts, Beauty products…

Patriot TV: CIA Director Ratcliffe Landed in Moscow After A Secret Military Flight – Multiple sources confirmed that he made the quiet trip for meetings with Russian officials. – It is not his first contact. – In March he spoke by phone with Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service. – This was the first such conversation between the two agencies’ leaders in more than two years.

American Wire News: Zelensky says there will be no elections until war ends, even if peace remains years away – Zelenskyy’s view marked a direct contrast with a likely rival, former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who was ousted in July. During an address to the people last week, the former official called out his own government while calling for an election to be held.

Zero Hedge: Washington Backs Brazil’s Serra Verde Mine Rare-Earth Push – The War Department has announced a $750 million investment aimed at securing long-term supplies of critical rare-earth elements from Serra Verde’s Pela Ema mine in central Brazil, as Washington accelerates efforts to reduce its dependence on China for strategically important minerals…

Slay News: Former FLOTUS and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the Democrat Party’s growing embrace of far-left socialist candidates a “healthy” experiment as the party struggles to reconnect with younger voters. – Clinton made the remarks Monday during a conversation with the Hamptons Institute, where she was asked about the widening divide between center-left Democrats and the party’s increasingly influential socialist wing.

Washington Free Beacon: ‘Open Your Door, We Are Death’ – West Bank schools held school-wide celebrations of the atrocities of Oct 7, ramping up Palestinian schools’ longtime practice of demonizing Jews and Israel. – This is fueling fresh concerns at the State Department about the fledgling PA’s fitness to govern in the Gaza Strip as it jockeys for a central role in President Donald Trump’ reconstruction plan.

Breitbart: The Trump-Era EPA Is Working to Bring Down Energy Prices – It has removed unnecessary rules, resulting in tens of thousands of barrels more of domestic oil production – The EPA also determined pipelines are the cheaper option. – But the use of many were halted under Democrat leadership, and some states have blocked efforts as well. – Also…

American Thinker: Young People, Listen to Your Gen-X Elders: Communism Sucks! – A 1980s ad mocked Soviet shortages of cheap, flimsy toilet paper, symbolizing communism’s misery. – Today’s youth, ignorant of that history, flirt with socialism, while socialists like NYC’s Mayor Mamdani implement failed policies, proving communism remains a monstrous, deadly failure. – Kids, don’t play around with communism.

American Thinker: The Mohammunist Manifesto—Surveillance, Informants, And Social Enforcement Networks – Communism and Islam both created permanent surveillance states, using proactive inspectors and citizen informants to police belief and private conduct. – If you live in an Islamic or communist society and you feel like somebody’s always watching you, you’re right because both systems demand it.

Western Journal: Senate Candidate El-Sayed Said Sex Changes for Minors Are Just Like Circumcision During His Train wreck Interview – “You’re a doctor, right?” Watters asked El-Sayed at the start of the parley over gender transition surgery for minors. – El-Sayed responded in the affirmative, even though this isn’t technically true. – This after El-Sayed’s campaign was finally forced to officially distance itself from Twitch streamer Hasan Piker.

Washington Free Beacon: Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has attacked businesses that purchase doctors’ offices and implement changes aimed at “jacking up the revenue,” including by over billing Medicare. – Over the past year, however, he’s made close to six figures working as a consultant for a nonprofit health care company that former employees called a “scam”…

JD Rucker: The Cult of the Sympathetic Killer – Hundreds in pink clad women rallied for Lindsay Clancy, accused of strangling her three children, while Luigi Mangione’s supporters wear green. – Society is now venerating perpetrators as grievance-martyrs, while forgetting about their victims entirely. – This is reversed empathy orphaned from truth, calling evil good and good evil.

Just The News: U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s request to toss her conviction. – In ruling that an appellate review isn’t warranted in her case, Engelmayer said, as head of Epstein’s household, Maxwell enforced silence among the staff at the late financier’s multiple homes, and used methods typical of child predators.

American Thinker: Data Centers Are Not That Scary – As usual, concern about data centers is based largely on misinformation. – Golf courses in arid regions use comparable or more water annually, and steel mills consume similar or greater power. – Opposition stems from technophobia, anti-American sabotage, and Chinese attempts to slow U.S. advancement, not genuine resource concerns.

American Thinker: AI Data Centers are America First in Action – AI empowers small businesses, with nearly three-quarters already using it to cut costs and compete. – Trump’s plan removes barriers and builds data centers, while China-linked Marxists and Democrat-aligned groups obstruct progress, making November’s election a choice between American AI leadership or Beijing’s victory.

American Thinker: Leftist Misogyny – The dreadful word “misogyny” is often misapplied. – Leftist feminists cry misogyny to deflect from their own inadequacies, hysteria, and mental instability. – True misogyny comes from ugly, disgruntled leftists attacking conservative women like Natalie Harp, who embrace real femininity over the myth of equality and are demonstrably happier.

Newsmax: The Trump administration raised the possibility that the Kennedy Center could be demolished and replaced with an outdoor amphitheater if efforts to restore the aging Washington landmark are blocked. – It raised the prospect in a new court filing but stopped short of saying there is an active plan to tear down the performing arts center.

American Thinker: Cursing cursive’s curse – Cursive writing was dropped from schools by teachers who became indoctrinators, not educators, leaving young adults now unable to read or write signatures. – This erasure of basic skills reflects a broader failure to properly educate our youth. – Patriots must fight back against the ignorance destroying America’s youth in every way possible.

Slay News: ICE arrested more than 1,300 illegal aliens during a massive two-week enforcement operation across Maryland and Virginia, including suspected murderers, child predators, kidnappers, gang members, and other criminal offenders. – DHS announced Monday that ICE made the arrests as part of “Operation Safe Community,” in early August, making it one of the most successful targeted operations in the agency’s history…

Zero Hedge: Elon Musk Confirmed A Massive New Starship Rocket Base In Louisiana – “Starbase, Louisiana, will be built to support thousands of Starship flights a year, with missions launching to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.” – “Reports about the new $100 billion spaceport near Pecan Island, Louisiana, were “all accurate.”

Zero Hedge: The Department of the Treasury and the IRS have issued proposed regulations clarifying which investments may be made by Trump Accounts. – Funds can only be invested in “eligible investments” during the growth period. – Mutual funds or an ETF that tracks the returns of a qualified index…

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration plans to charge employers a fee of $103,265 for H-1B skilled foreign workers, according to a proposed regulation posted on Monday. – Revenue from the fee would be used to offset the costs of running the federal immigration system, including courts and ICE.

Washington Examiner: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has cut tattoos, tanning beds, vaping products, tobacco and pornography from the welfare benefits list. – DeSantis is working with the Trump administration to amend the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families State Plan, spurring changes to what welfare recipients can spend their Temporary Cash Assistance benefits on…

Daily Wire: Enes Kanter Freedom Responds After WNBA Says He’s Not A Woman – Article XIII, Section 1(a) of the WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement states: “Only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.” – That’s it. – It does not go on to define the word “woman,” and the WNBA does not have a publicly available policy governing the eligibility of transgender or intersex athletes…

Breitbart: On Monday, August 24th, CNN Stopped On-Air Lying for Nearly 30 Minutes – Then Warner Bros. Discovery fixed its technical glitch, and CNN came back on the air to air such stories as: The Pete Hegseth Bought Millions In Lobster for Himself Hoax – The Zohran Mamdani Was Target of Terror Attack Hoax – TheTrump ‘Quietly’ Withdraws National Guard Hoax. – The Only 14% of Deportees are Criminals Hoax…

Slay News: California’s failure to build enough water infrastructure for its growing population is putting increasing pressure on the Colorado River and threatening agriculture far beyond the Golden State, Representative Harriet Hageman warned. – “California Governor Newsom and state policymakers allow environmental regulations and bureaucracy to stand in the way of dams, reservoirs, desalination, and other needed infrastructure…

California Globe: Mello-Roos, The Special Tax That Follows the House – The question is whether this California’s post-Prop 13 workaround has produced transparent, accountable financing or is in fact an opaque surcharge. – Mello-Roos bonds are issued by Community Facilities Districts under the 1982 Community Facilities Act to finance streets, sewers, parks, schools, fire stations, and related infrastructure in new developments.

Western Journal: ICE officers working in Los Angeles are being followed home, harassed on social media and confronted in person while carrying out immigration enforcement. – Those officers receive little assistance from local police. – LAPD policy, rooted in Special Order 40 and the city’s sanctuary ordinance, bars officers from initiating action solely to determine immigration status or assisting in civil immigration enforcement…

Monday, August 24, 2026

One America News: Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent unveils ‘Operation Economic Outcast,’ rolling out new sanctions to ‘cripple’ Iran. – The new sanctions target five key “lifelines” for Iran: “digital assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping.” – Bessent issued a warning to any entity engaging in money laundering on behalf of Iran, saying such activity would mean being cut off from the U.S. dollar system.TWZ10: Where Are America’s Aircraft Carriers? – The USS Abraham Lincoln is finally heading home and will make its first full liberty port call in Thailand soon, after being at sea for nine months. – USS George Washington has assumed Lincoln’s watch, joining the USS George H.W. Bush to “support maritime security and stability in the Middle East” as the conflict with Iran approaches the half-year mark…

TWZ10: Where Are America’s Aircraft Carriers? – The USS Abraham Lincoln is finally heading home and will make its first full liberty port call in Thailand soon, after being at sea for nine months. – USS George Washington has assumed Lincoln’s watch, joining the USS George H.W. Bush to “support maritime security and stability in the Middle East” as the conflict with Iran approaches the half-year mark…

Red State: The Air Force Major Who Went After Trump While in Uniform on The Capitol Steps Just Hit the FAFO Phase – Major Jason Watson has now been formally charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice with multiple offenses stemming from his July 1 stunt. – Accompanied by Representative Al Green he carried a sign that read “Impeach Convict Remove,” calling for the removal of both President Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

Daily Caller: The Trump Administration Will Rescind 200,000 Tourism and Business Visas In Largest Mass Revocation Ever – State Department, “We are coordinating with DHS to identify and revoke the nonimmigrant visas of foreigners who have come to the United States claiming to be short-term visitors, but then file for asylum to stay here permanently.”…

Western Journal: Chrysler just announced a recall of some 1.27 million pickup trucks in the United States due to a potential seatbelt safety issue. – The impacted Ram 1500 vehicles were sold between 2019 and 2026. – However, only roughly 0.1 percent of the vehicles are expected to have the defect.

American Spectator: Mark Carney’s Smuggler’s Blues – Canada’s tariff tantrum has a China problem. – Trump’s tariffs respond to real trade asymmetries like Canada’s 200% dairy tariffs. Canada walked out of talks from a weak position, while serving as China’s transshipment hub to dodge U.S. tariffs. Better heated negotiations now than continued Chinese smuggling through Canada.

Red State: The WNBA Finally Issues A Ruling on Whether Men Can Play in the League – After weeks of meetings, statements, outrage, and apparent difficulty answering one of the oldest questions in human biology, the WNBA has reportedly decided that former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White are not eligible to play in the women’s league.

American Thinker: American has ‘lost’ Dearborn to Sharia – Pastor Lorenzo Sewell accused Dearborn’s Muslim-majority government of selective enforcement and deference to Sharia, declaring the city “lost” to American law. – Officials refused to renounce Sharia, amid arrests and past hostility toward Christian critics, proving unequal civil law prevails in parts of Michigan…

American Thinker: Texas Democrat James Talarico opposes voter ID and poll watchers – He wants voter fraud downgraded to misdemeanors, despite 80% of Texans supporting voter ID. – His California-style rigged election agenda, plus wanting jail for memes, makes him unfit for any office.

Daily Wire: Iran Aired a Sick AI Video Threatening Barron Trump With $10M Bounty To Any Killer – The narrator referenced a $10 million bounty, boasting that “many would be willing” to collect it. – The alarming three-minute clip targets President Donald Trump’s youngest son, deploying highly stylized graphics to map out ways to reach the NYU student on U.S. soil.

Breitbart: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday that the U.S. is launching an “economic onslaught” to isolate Iran from the global economy. – He warned that countries and businesses that do any business with Tehran will risk U.S. sanctions. – 60 individuals, vessels, and entities worldwide that the U.S. believes have been enabling the regime to sell its oil around the world have been already been identified…

Townhall: To Stop Trump’s Ballroom, the Deep State Spilled Classified Secrets to The Washington Post – This is borderline treason: to stop Trump’s ballroom, someone decided to spill that there’s a secret bunker in the White House. – Thank you, Deep State, for being treasonous snakes and the Washington Post for compromising presidential security.

I&I/TIPP Poll: Americans Fear Higher Costs and Strains On the Electricity Grid Due To Data Centers – When asked, “How concerned are you that your household’s electricity bills will increase over the next 12 months? a hefty 75% majority responded they would be either “very” concerned (41%) or “somewhat” concerned (34%). – Just 20% said they would either be “not very” concerned (14%) or “not concerned at all” (7%).

Zero Hedge: Ed Dowd Warns AI Is The Biggest Bubble Of All Time, So What Will Burst It? – Wall Street financial analyst Ed Dowd made a name for himself by forecasting the dot com bubble. – Dowd now sees the same bubble signs in AI as he did just before the Dot-com crash. – 1st, there is not even enough power to power these data centers. – 2nd, credit markets and private credit for AI are under stress…

One America News: About 90,000 people are under evacuation orders or warnings in Reno, Nevada, and the adjacent North Valley due to the Hawk Fire that ignited on Saturday. – Over 15,000 acres have burned so far, and the fire remains at 0% containment as of Monday, according to the National Interagency Fire Center…

Real Clear Energy: Wo Who’s Paying for The Friendly Climate Agenda Reporting in the Mainstream Media? – Americans distrust media due to its partisan bias, which is shown by shrinking subscriptions. – The Associated Press’s reliance on millions in activist foundation grants for climate reporting, blurs journalism and advocacy while raising serious editorial influence concerns.

Daily Wire: Immigrants Sue Mamdani Over His ‘Disastrous’ Government-Owned Grocery Store Plan – The immigrant grocers allege that the city “failed to study the discriminatory effects” of the planned stores on family-owned bodegas. – The Multicultural Business Coalition (MBC), comprised of immigrant-run businesses, filed two lawsuits Monday, including one representing “hundreds” of grocers…

Geller Report: Democrat Senate Jihad Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Campaign Was Partly Funded by The Muslim Brotherhood Terror Group – Real Clear Investigations, “El-Sayed won his primary with at least $315,000 in Muslim Brotherhood-tied funds, a RealClearInvestigations examination of Federal Election Commission filings reveals.”

Washington Free Beacon: The Department of Education on Wednesday proposed a new rule that would require accreditors to assess academic freedom at universities, a move that would effectively make free speech protections a condition for federal student aid. – This marks the first time that the federal government has attempted to mandate academic freedom through the accreditation process.

Western Journal: The Florida Chamber of Commerce launched a Times Square billboard campaign to thank Mamdani for his “Economic Developer of the Year.” – Chamber of Commerce CEO Mark Wilson, “We wanted to thank him for the jobs, the companies, and the people that they’re pushing out of New York, with a lot of them coming to Florida.”…

Epoch Times: President Trump says that starting January 1st, all Canadian cars, trucks, and auto parts will be subject to a 50% tariff. – Current tariffs on Canadian autos are 25%. – Trump also included steel in the new announcement. – Canadian steel, along with aluminum and copper, is already tariffed at 50%. – Canada said its retaliatory tariffs will come into effect on September 8th…

American Thinker: California slays the free press and the First Amendment – The Former Golden State’s “Stop Nick Shirley Act” criminalizes investigative journalism into NGO fraud to shield Democrat kickbacks and illegal-alien funding schemes. – This proves the party that claims to defend democracy actually despises transparency, a free press, and accountability…

American Thinker: What the Karmelo Anthony story reveals about our society – Karmelo Anthony’s trial reveals suppressed evidence of his bloodlust, that was enabled by school discipline policies to avoid racial disparities, as six decades of civil-rights messaging bred black resentment and white passivity. -This culminated in Austin Metcalf’s father sacrificing his son’s memory to achieve racial harmony…

American Thinker: ‘Medicare for All’ is more false labeling – Democrats’ “Medicare for All” is actually Medicaid for All. – It eliminates private insurance and trust funds and will trap everyone in a government-run healthcare system. It will cost thousands more in taxes while mirroring Cuba and Venezuela. – Why are they doing this, even Obamacare’s architects admit their own failure…

American Thinker: Colorado to its constituents, “There will be no guns for you.” – Colorado’s leftward transformation, fueled by liberal transplants, culminates in SB25-003, a deliberately chaotic semiautomatic permit scheme requiring 12 hours of training, 90% exam scores, and public databases, designed to strangle gun rights through bureaucratic confusion rather than outright ban…

American Thinker: Community college enrollment is exploding – Trump’s Workforce Pell provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill has turbocharged a community college renaissance, funding “Blue Collar” certificates as short as eight weeks amid surging enrollment. – While woke four-year grads face stigma skilled tradesmen are command six-figure salaries in a job pool with endless openings.

American Thinker: Canada Chooses Climate Change, Censorship, and China As The U.S.-Canada Trade War takes off. – Mark Carney’s trade war announcement exposes Canada as a parasitic middleman for China, snow-washing goods through shell corporations while lecturing America on climate, all while dependent on U.S. military protection and market access it never reciprocates…

American Thinker: Who Benefits From America’s Political Bundles? – Ideological packaging forces people to accept bundled opinions on gender, race, economics, and Israel, eroding independent thought. – And foreign adversaries exploit these divisions. – A free society requires disaggregating issues to think clearly...

American Thinker: Californians Are Prepared To Run Their State Into The Ground
– Communists and special interests are running the state into the ground, and normal people are either oblivious or too weak and disheartened to fight back…

American Thinker: The Riverside Case Is California’s Smoking Gun On Election Fraud – Xavier Becerra’s wingman, Rob Bonta, seems determined to ensure that nothing gets in the way of Becerra’s gubernatorial victory in November. – The Riverside County election audit found 45,896 uncounted ballots, sparking a criminal probe frozen by AG Bonta’s lawfare…

Sunday, August 23, 2026

New York Post: Iran’s supreme leader is under mounting pressure as the regime’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz weakens, and cash finally starts to get tight. – Top political leaders publicly urge the Islamists in charge to find a way out of the conflict. – More and more ships are quietly slipping through Hormuz, with nearly 200 vessels sailing through the strait last week, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations Center…

One America News: American IndyCar driver Kyle Kirkwood crossed the finish line in first place, claiming victory at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, D.C. – Kirkwood, one of only a handful of American drivers in the race, quickly took the lead from Spanish driver Álex Palou and maintained the position until he crossed the finish line on Sunday.

Just The News: While Trump has sharply cut foreign aid, past abuses from the Obama-Biden era keep piling up. – House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says Democrats have a pecuniary interest in keeping foreign aid going because nonprofit recipients of federal largesse are big Democrat donors…

Red State: AOC Is Downplaying Her Wokeness Now, but Her History Tells a Different Story – She’s a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which is a contradiction in terms, as there is nothing democratic about socialism. – That name is just a smoke screen.

Geller Report: IRAN’S LAST WEAPON IS SHATTERED – Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has surged nearly 400% as U.S.-protected oil tankers defy Tehran’s threats and move through the critical waterway. – The US has been quietly shepherding oil tankers across Hormuz since May, using shadow fleet tactics like turning off their radars to sneak by undetected and navigating close to the coast of Oman…

Breitbart: Iran reportedly hacked into a British power plant and shut it down for multiple days in a deeply concerning first of its kind attack that should theoretically be impossible. – British officials refused to identify which plant was affected, but it is believed to have been small enough not to have dramatically impacted the UK’s energy supply during the four days it remained offline.

American Thinker: Iran Is Betting America Will Cut And Run – Iran has survived not by military victory, but by waiting for America’s political will to fracture. – The regime bets on midterm pressure, internal dissent suppression, and overland resupply routes. – Overwhelming force must make continued resistance irrational. – We’re already at war, so we need to finish it decisively and bring them to their knees…

Patriot TV: It Is Absurd to Think China Will Ever Abandon Coal Power Generation – Canadian energy analyst Dr. Joseph Fournier points out the fact that Chinese policymakers framed coal as “the sea-calming divine needle or ballast stone of national energy security” in the country’s 14th Five-Year Energy plan published in 2020. – It reaffirm coal’s role as the country’s “foundational” energy source.

Epoch Times: For Decades, the United States Ignored Latin America, But All That Changed Under Trump. – The leadership of Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Honduras all flipped from left to right since Trump was re-elected. – The conservative realignment under Trump comes as his administration has refocused on America’s southern neighbors in what has been dubbed the “Donroe Doctrine”…

Epoch Times: The IRS Announced A 7% Interest Rate for Overpayments and Underpayments – Overpayment interest is calculated after considering multiple factors, including the tax filing due date and payment dates. – For corporations, the overpayment interest rate is set at 6 percent. However, for overpayments exceeding $10,000, the rate will be lower at 4.5% for the portion exceeding $10,000…

American Thinker: The Tyranny of Voter Apathy – Once the primaries are over, we can’t let our search for purity render us so apathetic that only the lunatics and fanatics decide elections. – The DSA exploits low turnout to capture the Democrat party, with primaries seeing as little as 13.9% participation. A hostile takeover of one major party threatens constitutional collapse. – Enthusiastic America First voting can preserve the republic.

American Thinker: The Big Build – Names matters! – Leftists label carefully, the right doesn’t. – The “Trump Ballroom” is actually a fortified East Wing atop a massive underground national security complex. – The Supreme Court halted lower courts from stopping construction. – Trump’s Iran blockade, mirroring Lincoln’s Anaconda Plan, strangles the regime without an occupation.

American Thinker: The Mohammunist Manifesto To Control of Education and Formation of the Young – Communists and Islamists both weaponize education by seizing control of children’s formation to indoctrinate loyalty before critical thought emerges. – From medieval madrasas to Soviet schools, Hezbollah scouts, and China’s Patriotic Education Law, the state outranks the family, ensuring doctrine becomes identity.

American Thinker: The Bastardization of Social Justice – Social justice has been twisted from fairness into vengeance. – From O.J. Simpson’s racial retaliation verdict to Duke lacrosse, Derek Chauvin, and Lindsay Clancy, intersectional grievance groups don’t seek blind justice, they seek punishment of the “white male cis patriarchy,” by weaponizing victimhood to gain political power.

Gatestone Institute: Europe in Free Fall – 1. For nearly five decades, the European Union’s economic growth and productivity rates have lagged behind those of the United States. – 2. EU countries have established welfare states that have steadily expanded since 1980 and stifle economic growth. – 3. The EU has also proliferated stifling regulations that place a heavy encumbrance on businesses – 4….

Zero Hedge: Death Of Europe’s Industrial Base – VW’s CEO Is Set To Announce A 50,000 Job Cut – Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume warned, “The global car industry is in the midst of a massive crisis, and the Volkswagen Group is right in the thick of it. – The question is whether the issue is the death of an industrial base, the Third World invasion of Europe, or disastrous green and energy policies that have sent energy prices through the roof…

American Thinker: Is The Climate Change Scam On Its Deathbed – Climate doom predictions keep failing. – From the 1970s ice age fears to global warming to “climate change,” this scam blames everything on weather. – Renewables are expensive, unreliable backups requiring fossil fuels for their creation. – Only 3% of voters care, China builds coal plants daily…

American Thinker: Higher Education’s Biggest Problem – Universities are bloated bureaucratic cost machines. – Tuition hits half a million dollars while overhead waste mirrors government inefficiency. – So they exploit social class rhetoric to mask internal dysfunction, chase grants, donors, and political favors. – Taxpayers and families are paying the price for a system that is totally out of control…

American Thinker: The Crisis Of Womanhood, And Its Revitalization – Modern feminism bred distrust of men, leaving young women lonely and unfulfilled despite career success. Rejecting marriage and motherhood for corporate ambition erodes purpose. Civilization depends on family, not just productivity. Revitalizing womanhood means restoring the dignity of partnership, nurturing, and motherhood.

New York Post: Governor Gavin Newsom signed California’s controversial “Stop Nick Shirley Act” into law on Saturday. – The law takes effect October 1, 2027. – Assembly Bill 2624 expands California’s Safe at Home program to employees of nonprofits that serve people navigating the immigration system. – Critics have blasted the measure as a way to intimidate people “trying to shine light on bad behavior.”

Saturday, August 22, 2026

One America News: ICE carried out its first deportation flight to Haiti since the Trump administration ended temporary protected status for Haitian nationals. – Per media reports, the flight arrived in Cap-Haïtien on Thursday carrying 161 passengers. – It marked the first such flight since the Supreme Court allowed the administration to end TPS for Haitian and Syrian nationals in the U.S.

Newsmax: The USPS announced new mail-in ballot eligibility rules Friday that closely follow President Trump’s March executive order restricting voting by mail. – Under the policy, states would generally provide USPS with information on mail-ballot recipients at least 30 days before the November 3rd midterm elections. – This despite a federal judge blocking enforcement of the directive nationwide.

Fox San Antonio: A legal defense fund was launched to help Dr. Anthony Fauci pay for lawyers and related administrative costs as he faces ongoing accusations and legal proceedings connected to his work during the COVID-19 pandemic. – During the July hearing on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, he invoked the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 100+ times, prompting the August 6 contempt vote.

Gateway Pundit: Karmelo Anthony’s appeal for a new trial has failed according to multiple sources. Retired Kaufman County Judge Michael Chitty denied an appeal for a new trial on Saturday, Aug. 22. – This comes after Anthony’s defense team was completely humiliated by Collin County prosecutor Bill Wirskye in recent days, who dropped several pieces of explosive, never-before-seen evidence in the courtroom.

Epoch Times: U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas struck down the Trump administration policy suspending issuance of immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries, including parts of Latin America and the Middle East. – She called the policy, issued by the State Department in January, “patently unlawful” and said it did not comply with federal immigration law. – The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. filed the lawsuit in February…

Slay News: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is publicly calling for an end to his country’s war with the United States as mounting military and economic pressure exposes growing divisions inside Tehran’s ruling regime. – During a speech Friday, Pezeshkian argued that Iran should move to end the conflict while Tehran can still negotiate from what he described as a position of strength.

Zero Hedge: China Firmly Rejected The US Demand To Back Its ‘Most Crushing Economic Operation’ Against Iran – Russia is pushing back against Trump administration pressure to be part of the “toughest sanctions in history” which has marked a new phase of conflict focused on extended economic warfare. – This as a military solution is seen as increasingly unrealistic and unlikely.

Epoch Times: The US Imposes 50 Percent Tariffs on Some Canadian Goods After Last-Minute Trade Talks Collapse – The new tariffs affect 5 percent of Canada’s exports to the United States, targeting certain goods in a number of sectors including dairy, alcohol, and other consumer products. – Canada responded that it will match the new tariffs ‘dollar for dollar.’

American Thinker: Turmoil in Tehran – Trump launched “Economic D-Day” on Iran, with a naval blockade and Treasury actions that are crushing the regime’s economy. – Tehran is panicking as inflation soars, the IRGC blusters, and secret talks emerge. – Trump doesn’t need to wield the big stick with China. He’s already stuck them with a thousand toothpicks…

American Thinker: Clearing The Strait of Hormuz – The Navy successfully cleared a southern Strait of Hormuz route using autonomous submarine drones like Knifefish and Archerfish. – It completed the mine-sweeping operation in three and a half months, far ahead of the initial six-month estimate.

American Thinker: Illegitimate Elections Will Destroy the United States – California admits it doesn’t track non-citizen voters, doesn’t require voter ID, and enables mass fraud with out of control mail-in ballots. – Democrats strongly oppose election security, shield illegal alien voting, and seek to abolish the Electoral College. – These actions enable nationwide illegitimate elections and the Union’s ultimate dissolution.

Red State: Trump’s Sendoff for Karoline Leavitt Turned Into a Surprisingly Touching Moment – “I also want to express our thanks to a wonderful woman here tonight who has done an unbelievable job. – You know, you meet people and you love people, but her name is Karoline, and she’s our press secretary, and she just had a baby. – “And I just learned she loves the baby more than she loves Donald Trump, and I’m very angry with her…

Townhall: WSJ Columnist Kimberley Strassel Breaks Down Alaska’s Shambolic Way of Electing People – We knew it was trash from the start. Ranked choice voting, a top-four primary, and benchmarks to get on the ballot that are so low, you’d think it’s a prank. – That’s Alaska, and it could cause issues for incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, who has a man with the same name running, and both men have advanced to the next round of this circus.

The Federalist: If Trump Wants To Reduce Beef Prices, He Should Help Struggling Farmers Grow Their Herds – Instead of looking for short-term Band-Aids to mask the beef price problem heading into the mid-terms, the Trump administration should instead focus on ways to incentivize heifer retention in order to increase long-term cattle supply. – Drought has driven up the costs of hay and corn, so both raising and finishing cattle is more expensive.

American Thinker: The Pentagon fights the left’s subtle takeover of Stars and Stripes – Stars and Stripes underwent a subtle leftist takeover, staffed by civilian journalists pushing progressive bias on transgenderism, DEI, Iran, and Israel. – The Pentagon rightly fired its woke leadership and reclaimed the paper from Leftist Democrat-aligned advocacy.

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Dog Days of Summer Edition – Karoline Leavitt stepped down as White House Press Secretary, creating a vacancy. – Marco Rubio revealed that he loves Pop Tarts. – The WNBA continued to embarrass itself. Not much going on but meme-creators are always busy.

Friday, August 21, 2026

Zero Hedge: The Kremlin has newly said it is ready for dialogue with Washington and open to ideas for ending the conflict in Ukraine, but still says it will not compromise on Russia’s core aims. – Any future talks must align with President Vladimir Putin’s position. – Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Russia is open to proposals that are in line with “realities on the ground.”

Fox San Antonio: Republicans are entering the 2026 midterm campaign season with a major financial edge, building a cash advantage that is already shaping the political advertising battlefield ahead of November. – The Republican National Committee reported $128.5 million cash on hand at the end of June, compared with $16.3 million for the Democratic National Committee. The DNC also reported $18.5 million in debt.

Epoch Times: Freedom 250 Grand Prix In D.C., What to Know – The event is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of spectators and potentially more than 1 million viewers on-site while being broadcast on Fox Sports. – Origins: In January that IndyCar sought congressional approval to hold the race on Capitol grounds. – Race Route: There is a 1.7-mile street circuit crisscrossing around some of America’s most recognizable landmarks.

One America News: Vice President Vance returned to Ohio as Cleveland-Cliffs announces its $1B steel mill modernization – Speaking at the Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works steel plant alongside U.S. Secretary of Energy Christopher Wright and local officials on Friday, Vance highlighted a landmark public-private endeavor aimed at revitalizing core American manufacturing…

New York Post: Vice President JD Vance put Abdul El-Sayed at the center of his attack on the modern Democratic Party, pointing to the Michigan Senate nominee’s past remarks linking criticism of Sharia law to White supremacy as evidence that the party has abandoned its working-class roots. – Vance delivered the remarks Friday at the Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works steel plant in his Ohio hometown…

Newsmax: California Governor Newsom, one of Donald Trump’s most persistent critics, on Friday urged California families to claim the federal $1,000 seed deposits available through Trump Accounts. – He called the newborn investment program one of the “really outstanding things this administration has done” at a San Francisco news conference…

Red State: President Trump traveled to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Friday to stump for Senator Darline Graham Nordine, sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, with just days to go before the Republican runoff that will decide who carries the GOP banner into November. – Graham Nordine, who is serving out the last few months of her brother’s term, faces Representative Ralph Norman in Tuesday’s contest.

Resist The Mainstream: President Trump announced Friday that longtime ally Ed Martin is leaving the administration to focus on election-related legal battles outside the federal government ahead of the 2026 midterm elections and the 2028 presidential race. – Trump praised Martin’s work in several Justice Department positions while confirming his departure…

American Thinker: Migrants are watching the midterms closely, forming caravans to enter U.S. illegally in hopes the Democrats retake power. – Migrants are forming a 2,500-person caravan, timing it with U.S. midterms and betting on Democrat wins that would lead to reopening the borders. – They view America as a cash vehicle, not a country, and Mexico enables the invasion. – Strong Republican voter turnout is essential.

Gateway Pundit: SHOCKINGLY, the Democrat Arizona AG declined to Charge Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs in her $400K Bribery Case. – The numbers behind the investigation were eye-popping. – Sunshine donated $200,000 to the Arizona Democratic Party ahead of Hobbs’ disputed victory over Republican Kari Lake back in 2022. – It then contributed $100,000 to Hobbs’ inaugural fund and another $100,000 to the state Democratic Party in August 2023, then…

Just The News: The Supreme Court is allowing Trump to continue building the ballroom while his appeal case proceeds – The National Trust for Historic Preservation brought the suit, which has seen the administration battle stays on the ballroom construction at every court level until today’s decision.

American Thinker: Trump Quietly Reopened Hormuz – Trump’s June oil deal collapsed when Iran reneged, but the U.S. Navy’s stealth convoy are now moving 9-15 million barrels daily, restoring pre-war Gulf flows. – By targeting Iran’s anti-ship capacity, America shifted momentum, potentially forcing Iran to capitulate like 1988 or escalate into full war.

Slay News: Iran-backed Houthi terrorists claimed Thursday that they carried out drone attacks against an airport and a Saudi Aramco facility in Saudi Arabia, marking another sharp escalation against one of America’s closest partners in the Middle East. – Saudi Arabia had not publicly confirmed the strikes or reported any damage as of Thursday afternoon.

Zero Hedge: Preliminary August data from S&P Global’s PMI survey was expected to signal a slowdown in growth for the US economy (but still growth). – But, the respondents had other things on their mind as while Manufacturing slipped, the Services sector of the economy soared…

Slay News: Elon Musk is reportedly preparing to spend as much as $200 million to help Republicans in the November midterm elections, by relaunching America PAC to boost GOP turnout in key battleground races. – Musk plans to revive the same political action committee that spent hundreds of millions supporting President Donald Trump’s successful 2024 campaign.

Issues & Insights: Fret Our $40 Trillion In Debt And You’ll Regret It – America’s debt quadrupled in 20 years and now costs over $1 trillion annually in interest alone. – This drives hidden inflation through rising taxes, which have outpaced the CPI by 20-25%. – Each deficit dollar crowds out 33 cents of private investment, destroying jobs, incomes, and future living standards. – Congress must stop its outlandish NOW…

Slay News: Fentanyl-related deaths dropped by 22% in 2025, according to new federal data. – The Trump administration credited its border security measures, cartel crackdown, and aggressive enforcement against convicted fentanyl traffickers for driving the decline. – CDC figures cited by the White House show deaths involving synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, fell from 48,913 in 2024 to 38,084 in 2025.

American Thinker: Six examples of the media’s ‘get Trump’ ethos when reporting the news – The media hide stories that help Trump and push ones that harm him. – They blame him for measles while ignoring Mexico’s and Canada’s far worse outbreaks. – They downplay falling border deaths, low hurricane and fire activity, record-low crime and terrorism, all to protect the climate, gun, and border narratives.

The Federalist: The New York Times Is Nakedly Lying About Jennifer Hegseth, And It’s Pathetic – The NYT claims Jennifer Hegseth’s active Pentagon role is unprecedented, but other Secretary of Defense wives like Stephanie Carter and Janet Langhart-Cohen held similarly prominent roles. – In 1999, the Times itself celebrated Langhart-Cohen as “First Lady of the Pentagon,” exposing the paper’s bias, hypocrisy and institutional amnesia.

Breitbart: ICE Begins Repatriating Biden’s Haitian Migrants – After many months of courtroom delays, 161 Haitians were flown back to their home country on Thursday. – The departure of 161 Haitians leaves at least 329,000 Haitians, and alarmingly, another roughly 15 million other illegals still remaining in the United States.

Issues & Insights: The ‘Democratic Party’ and ‘DSA’ Are Now Officially Synonymous. – Even “moderate” Democrats embrace Medicare for All, wealth taxes, and radical immigration positions. – House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries claims distance but his website calls healthcare a “right,” meaning government provision and compulsory financing, while billionaire taxes attract near-majority support. – So now, Democrats have become the DSA in all but name.

Zero Hedge: Only In Britain: A British men who protested outside an Essex asylum hotel has been locked up for far longer than the migrant whose sexual assaults on a 14-year-old girl and a woman triggered the demonstrations. – This is the latest chapter in a pattern that has already seen multiple local men handed heavier sentences than the man whose crimes set off the backlash…

Daily Wire: President Trump reached a deal to increase beef imports into the United States with the goal of driving down prices. – Trump said up to 300,000 metric tons of beef would be allowed to be imported into the country over a 90-day period without facing tariffs. – Beef prices have increased by almost 12% in the last year, according to the most recent data from the Department of Agriculture.

The Federalist: Unpacking the Eric Swalwell Intelligence Probe – In December 2020, a report by Axios revealed an extensive Chinese intelligence gathering operation operating in the US between 2011 and 2015. – At the center of the story was a Chinese national named Christine Fang. – Among the prominent politicians targeted was Eric Swalwell, who was first elected to represent California’s East Bay region in 2012.

Gatestone Institute: Democratic Socialists of America: The Secret Stooges – The issue is not between capitalism and socialism. – It is between free enterprise and economic liberty on the one hand and a state-run, often totalitarian, markets on the other. – DSA candidates don”t describe themselves as communists, but many of the DSA’s official policies are the essence of communism?

American Thinker: Those Democratic Socialists Promises – The DSA can’t be both democratic and socialist, since democracy means rule by the people while socialism means rule by government. – Their promises, abolishing the Electoral College, ICE, and the Constitution, are illegal under existing law, and eliminating the Bill of Rights would make government your master.

American Thinker: August 1968 and The History of Communism – Growing up Cuban, parents warned of communism as the big lie. – They told of August 1968 when 200,000 troops and 5,000 tanks crushed Czechoslovakia’s Prague Spring reforms, a dark reminder of communism’s victims.

American Thinker: The DSA wants to destroy the country, so when they tell you who they are, believe them. – The pro-freedom side conserves individual liberty, limited government, and property rights, while the left, now openly admitting hatred of the Constitution, seeks collective control and revolution. – The DSA’s socialist agenda and third-worldism are driving centrists away, making the GOP the only reasonable choice.

American Thinker: Their Erroneous Carbon Accounting – Net zero advocates ignore that building, installing, and maintaining renewables is energy-intensive and fossil-fuel-heavy, so they count only fuel reductions, not full lifecycle carbon. – Since price reflects embedded energy, and mixed wind, solar, and thermal systems always cost more, renewables fail both fiscal and carbon accounting.

American Thinker: Cuba’s Revolution Ultimately Needed Its Enemies – Cuba’s revolution promised liberation from American capitalism but now depends on it, importing U.S. fuel and enacting private enterprise reforms as the socialist state fails. – Castro’s centenary was celebrated by candlelight, exposing a system that survived only to need the capitalism it condemned.

American Thinker: When Lenin Lost An Election, He Abolished Democracy – The Bolsheviks, after losing the 1918 Constituent Assembly election, dissolved Russia’s first democratic parliament in a single day, placing revolutionary legitimacy above electoral legitimacy. – This established the precedent that any independent authority opposing the Revolution, voters, parties, or churches, must be eliminated.

Zero Hedge: Medieval Diseases Have Returned To Los Angeles – In what can only be described as a stunning failure of state and local policy and leadership, Los Angeles County recorded its highest tally of flea-borne typhus cases in 2025, confirming 220 diagnoses, up from 187 the year before, according to the county’s Department of Public Health.

Western Journal: Watch The Latest Physical Attack on Caitlin Clark – It Was So Outrageous The Commentator Used A Football Term to Describe It – In the fourth quarter drive, Clark was straight out tackled as Odyssey’s Sims of the Dallas Wings grabbed Clark and slung her to the floor as she attempted to grab a pass.

Thursday, August 20, 2026

Epoch Times: The US Updates Travel Advisories for Chile, Paraguay, and Ecuador – Americans have been asked not to visit certain regions in these countries due to violent crimes and other criminal activities. – “Petty crime is common in Chile. – Common crimes include mugging, pickpocketing, and theft. Violent crimes also occur, including assaults, homicide, carjackings, and residential break-ins,” the State department said…

California Globe: Governor Gavin Newsom does not set California’s electricity rates from high on a podium. – He does something fare more devious. – He personally staffs the California Energy Commission. – Newsom installs loyalists, then treats the controversial results as if they fell from the sky. – The five-member CEC board is his wrecking crew. – This is not some magical independent watchdog agency, it is Newsom’s board.

Washington Examiner: California Democrats haven’t even successfully passed their wealth tax ballot proposition, and they realize it won’t work. – Founders of successful technology startups may be billionaires on paper, but that doesn’t mean they have anything approaching the tens of millions they would need to pay the wealth tax. – Taxing that wealth would force them to sell stock, borrow against it, or somehow extract cash from a growing company.

One America News: A New York woman who converted to Islam has been arrested in an ISIS-inspired terror plot to bomb the state Capitol in Albany. – She was charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization. – 35-year-old Jessica Bowie was taken into custody on Wednesday.

Just The News: Poll results released Thursday show Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson’s favorability is quickly declining. – The poll released by the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce shows that Wilson’s popularity has fallen sharply since April, dropping from 57% to 37% by early August. – Pollster Andrew Thibault said the 20% drop in her favorability rating is due to public safety issues.

One America News: Karmelo Anthony said he was ‘on the verge’ of stabbing someone hours before the murder – Despite the critical details surrounding the case, the jury was not shown evidence like this during the trial. – This was due to an off-the-record ‘gentleman’s agreement’ proposed by Collin County First Assistant DA Bill Wirskye, aimed at keeping the highly publicized trial from becoming more volatile and racially charged.

Epoch Times: 20 Common Scams and How to Spot Them – The rise of artificial intelligence is supercharging new and more sophisticated scams such as these: – CAPTCHA Scams – Romance Scams – ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams – Ransomware Attacks – Spoofing Scams – Sextortion Scams – Disaster Relief Charity Scams – Phishing Scams – ‘Hi Mom’ Text Scams – Voice Cloning Scams – In-Person Scams – Mortgage Closing Fraud – Fake Overpayments…

Zero Hedge: Ukraine started the week with near record-setting drone attacks on Moscow, with over 600 UAVs sent against the Russian capital Monday night into Tuesday. – Russian retaliation came overnight, with a huge missile and drone barrage on the Ukrainian capital. – Many dozens were sent, killing over 16 people and injuring more than 40, local authorities report.

Zero Hedge: Bessent, We Aim To ‘Collapse’ The Iran Regime Through Economic Warfare – A new US carrier is now operating in the Middle East – Iran rejects the US threats as a Trump “diversion.” – The Axios claim of ‘stealth corridor’ where oil is moving steadily through Hormuz has resulted in skepticism & some pushback.

Zero Hedge: European natural gas prices surged to levels last seen during the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, when severe supply disruptions sent global markets into turmoil. – The catalyst was Trump declaring an “ECONOMIC D-DAY” against Iran, raising the probability of prolonged disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime transit corridor for Gulf energy exports.

Newsmax: The United States will on Thursday issue fresh ‌sanctions targeting Lebanon’s Hezbollah, including re-designating it under a terrorism authority in a move aimed at emphasizing its links to the Iranian government. – Hezbollah ‌is not being designated under any new authority, but is being re-designating as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist “for servitude to ⁠the Iranian regime.

Liberty Daily: Taiwan is proposing a record defense budget for 2027, pouring more money into its military amid mounting pressure from China and calls from the US for Taipei to shoulder more of its own defense burden. – Taiwan’s government proposed spending 1.12 trillion Taiwan dollars, roughly $35 billion, on defense next year, pushing military spending above 3% of GDP…

Sharyl Attkisson: President Trump Has Delivered the Largest Drop in Violent Crime in American History – The FBI’s newly released Uniform Crime Report for 2025 shows America is safer than it has been in generations. – Violent crime plunged 9.3% in 2025 – Murder dropped 18.1% – Robbery fell 18.5% – Rape declined 7.6% – Aggravated assault fell 7.2% – Property crime dropped 12.4% – This is a decisive reversal of the crime crisis Democrats left behind.

Slay News: ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis invoked the Fifth Amendment during a closed-door congressional deposition Thursday as House Republicans continue investigating whether the Democrat fundraising giant’s fraud safeguards allowed illegal foreign donations to enter U.S. campaigns. – The deposition was conducted as part of a joint investigation by the House Oversight Committee, and House Judiciary Committee.

Western Journal: FBI Agents Confronted Eric Swalwell at The San Francisco Airport and Seized His Electronic Devices – The disgraced former congressman was met by officers at the airport on Saturday with a search warrant for numerous devices. – The devices reportedly included his cellphone, which was wanted as part of a federal criminal investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.

Newsmax: Secretary of State Marco Rubio Outperforms Vice President JD Vance in 2028 Matchups – The Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey tested the two Republicans against five potential Democrat contenders – The clearest difference came against former Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris led Vance 49%-45%, while Rubio reversed the result and led Harris by 5 points.

Epoch Times: A Missouri Judge Cleared The Trump-Backed House Map for The November Midterms – Republicans currently hold six of Missouri’s eight House seats. – The revised map hopes to flip one more seat toward the GOP and away from Democrats.

Issues & Insights: Today’s Supreme Court Reveals The Depravity Of The Left – Conservatives spent decades winning Supreme Court seats through elections and principle, and even when disappointed, never attacked the court itself. – The left, having lost its majority, constantly threatens justices, leaks drafts, pushes scandal stories, and schemes court-packing or abolition, using emotionally charged, rage-driven language that shows why it keeps losing.

Western Journal: Alina Habba says she is not seeking the White House press secretary job, despite prediction markets putting her at the top of the list. – Habba addressed the speculation Wednesday evening, directly pushing back on reports that she could replace Karoline Leavitt. – “Flattered by the Kalshi odds, but I’m not in the running for any job”

Townhall: Democrats Insisted Illegal Aliens Weren’t Getting Government Benefits, So Why Did They Make This Request? – Every time Republicans try to pass legislation barring illegal aliens from getting such benefits, Democrats lose their minds – So if it’s not happening, why would Democrats request that Medicaid stop sharing information with ICE? – Because that’s what they just did.

Geller Report: California PASSED the Stop NICK SHIRLEY Act, sending it to Governor Newsom for signature. – The bill will CRIMINALIZE Shirley confronting fraudsters while recording them, then posting it online, especially at “immigrant” locations. – It was pushed by California AG Rob Bonta’s wife. – Lawmakers blocked Representative Carl DeMaio from speaking out against its 1st Amendment violations. – WHAT ARE THEY HIDING???

Townhall: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to open five government-run grocery stores that will sell staples at prices private businesses simply cannot match. – Mamdani says he has no intention of putting local grocers out of business. – His solution is simple, use taxpayer money to subsidize the city-run stores, and also use more taxpayer money to pay small businesses not to sell groceries.

American Thinker: Trump And Republicans Are Cutting Healthcare Costs, Dropping Medicaid Prices By 3.5% – Health insurance remains too expensive, but real change is at hand, and no matter how disappointed some might be with the speed of progress, that is light-years from any reason to hand America over to the Democrats who would destroy her.

Breitbart: The EPA is moving to increase the domestic gasoline supply by enacting a temporary emergency fuel waiver to go into effect on September 1st – By enacting this waiver, the EPA will have effectively ended the warm-weather RPV requirements early, with officials calculating that domestic gas supply will be increased by hundreds of thousands of barrels per day.

Powerline: Britain’s Home Office recently published a short document aimed at “migrants” and titled “Understanding behaviors and expectations in the UK: a guide for asylum seekers.” – It informs asylum seekers of basic British norms, and urges such persons to comply with them. The norms are pretty fundamental: women have rights under British law, for example. – If you have sex with someone without their consent, this is called rape…

New York Post: Voters in California are now more inclined to vote for a Democratic socialist than for a mainstream Democrat, according to a shocking poll released Wednesday. – According to the poll, conducted by the University of California, Berkeley, the “socialist” label, a formerly toxic identifier, now has 38% of Californians deeming it a positive, including 58% of Democrats.

Townhall: Why Many Young People Are Drawn to Communism – They gravitate toward communism’s ideals of, equality, fairness, and belonging, due ti their debt and feelings of inequality. – Lack of historical knowledge and some capitalism flaws obscure communism’s well documented suffering. – They need honest education, mentorship, and encourage critical thinking, not ridicule, to help them understand the truth…

American Thinker: The Democrat ‘Big Tent Party’ is Doomed – Their “big tent party” phrase is sophistry masking a communist takeover of the Democratic Party. – Unlike Reagan and Trump, who united around American principles, Democrats lack a platform, so they are letting the Communist Manifesto fill the vacuum, ignoring that their commie allies will inevitably betray them.

American Thinker: The Islamic Republic of NYC – Organized Radical Islam has learned that it is not necessary to mount a frontal assault on our buildings or hijack our planes. – Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty symbolizes New York’s slide from 9/11’s lessons into apologism as Islamist-aligned politicians, preach anti-Americanism and defend enemies like Iran and Palestine…

American Thinker: Shaming the Shameless Is A Fool’s Errand – DSA members are bolder in their nihilism than their forebears and are largely immune to shame. They support police-defunding and abolishing bail. Their goal isn’t anarchy but communism, achieved by attacking traditions and institutions. – Hopefully, America’s cultural love of freedom and free market capitalism will effectively counter their movement.

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Epoch Times: President Trump Says The US Will Wage Unprecedented ‘Economic Warfare’ Against Iran – ‘No one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a Deal than me,’ he said. – “This will be Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale.” – For example, the US will penalize, “oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, [and] front companies.”

Epoch Times: President Trump gave reporters an update on August 19 on several ongoing infrastructure projects at the White House. – Here are the highlights from his impromptu tour with reporters. – The New Helipad – The White House Driveway – The South Lawn Grass – The White House Facade – The Ballroom

New York Post: The US quietly guided millions of barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz in a stealth operation near the Omani coast. – The missions began in May with around 70 ships crossing in the first three weeks. – Many opted to use shadow fleet tactics such as turning off their radars to sneak by undetected.

New York Post: When Americans buy groceries, fill up their cars or purchase goods shipped through California’s ports, they are paying for a climate mandate they never voted for, imposed by an unelected agency in California. – That agency is the California Air Resources Board, which instituted the “Vessels At-Berth” regulation that is raising prices across the country…

Washington Free Beacon: A new study by academic economists concludes that higher minimum wages hurt low-income workers by reducing their hours, increasing the chance that they remain employed, and negatively impacts their overall income. – “Do Minimum Wages Help Workers in Poor and Low Income Families?” was released this month via the National Bureau of Economic Research by David Neumark, a distinguished professor of economics at the University of California…

California Globe: California’s Xavier Becerra’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost As He Is Accused of Hiding Fauci’s COVID-era Diary and Cellphone – Becerra also gave the FBI a false computer in Congressional Democrats’ Awan Brothers cover up. – Becerra, now running for governor of California, has until Sept. 2 to answer whether he knew about the diary, why it wasn’t produced, and whether any Biden officials pressured him to withhold it.

American Spectator: Hasan Piker and the Democrats Who Embrace His Violent Rhetoric – From attacks on the Constitution to praise for Hamas and Mao, Piker’s rhetoric has not stopped prominent Democrats from appearing with him. – Piker’s filthy and vicious outbursts are not news, by themselves. – What is newsworthy is that prominent Democrats embrace Piker, broadcast with him, and invite him to their campaign events.

Epoch Times: Bots Now Make Up More Than Half of All Internet Traffic – This Makes It More Difficult For Businesses To Reach Customers. – Imagine that you’re spending $2,000 a month for online ads, with one third of your clicks coming from bots. – You’re wasting $600 to $700 a month with nothing to show for it. – On August 18th, 63% of all HTTP requests came from bots, according to Cloudflare’s global tracker…

American Spectator: Euthanasia and Organ Donation, or When Death Becomes a Medical Resource – The case of an Australian woman who died by assisted suicide and donated her organs exposes the troubling moral consequences of treating death as a matter of individual choice. – Combining organ harvesting with assisted suicide is a relatively new phenomenon…

Newsmax: Iranian forces have assessed possible strikes on American assets in southeastern Europe, including Bulgaria, if President Trump escalates the war, two regime insiders told the Financial Times. – Cyprus also has been considered as a potential target for retaliation in the event of another U.S. offensive.

Just The News: President Trump said Wednesday that he plans to meet with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un sometime this year. – “The fact that I get along with him, that’s a good thing.” – “He has 57 very powerful nuclear weapons.” – “I know Kim Jong Un very well, and he’s gonna be fine.”

Slay News: The Trump administration has sanctioned two senior International Criminal Court officials, escalating its campaign against a tribunal that Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned as “corrupt and fatally politicized.” – The sanctions target ICC President Tomoko Akane of Japan and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal.

National Pulse: The U.S. Census Bureau report has revealed that more than 24,000 noncitizens cast ballots in the 2020 general election, with more potentially still to be identified. – This raises concerns about election integrity. – The data pertains to the 2020 general election, with California found to have by far the most noncitizen voters, followed by Texas…

Slay News: A Top Expert Warns America Is Dangerously Close to Catastrophic 18-Month Nationwide Blackout – Jon Wellinghoff, who previously led FERC, says a coordinated attack on just nine critical electrical substations could plunge the entire country into darkness. – This comes as concerns mount over aging infrastructure, foreign threats, and America’s growing dependence on an increasingly fragile power grid.

Western Journal: Scott Jennings Is Reportedly Being Courted to Replace Karoline Leavitt – White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is supposedly pushing for and met with him even before Leavitt’s plans were made public – Yet President Trump is partial to having a female press secretary. – Over the weekend, Trump met with Alina Habba, Bill Pulte, and aide Natalie Harp. – Others are apparently still in the mix…

The Federalist: The Round River Documents Obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley Suggest the FBI Misclassified Information to Hide Biden Family Crimes – It now appears the FBI had multiple ways of disappearing evidence. – Evidence that inculpated the Bidens and at the same time exculpated Trump.

American Thinker: Despite a few stumbles with Trump-backed candidates, MAGA is doing just fine – Primary losses for some Trump-endorsed candidates don’t signal rejection of Trump. – His 2026 endorsement success rate remains about 96%, and winning candidates still back Trump’s agenda. Voters occasionally reject specific candidates, but the Republican electorate stays loyal to Trump’s policies.

Liberty Daily: Primary Voters Are Giving House Representatives the Boot at Rate Not Seen Since the Vietnam Era – Congress is on track to pass the fewest bills in any two-year session as the midterm elections loom. – Seven Democrats and four Republicans have lost their reelection bids thus far, including Democratic Michigan Representative Shri Thanedar and Republican Texas Representative Dan Crenshaw.

The Federalist: The Never Trumpers Are Back, and This Time Their Target Is J.D. Vance – The same people who attacked Trump in 2016 are now attacking the vice president. – They want the GOP back after Trump is gone. – Vance’s crime, according to his critics, was acknowledging the affordability issue is real and proposing that government should do something about it.

American Thinker: The world’s verdict on the American system, and why the DSA’s vision ignores it – The DSA’s platform would dismantle the Constitution, replacing it with socialism. – Yet global behavior shows elite students choosing American universities, investors pouring money into the U.S., and migrants fleeing socialist nations. – This proves the world endorses America’s constitutional model, while the DSA’s failed ideas offer only poverty and instability.

Zero Hedge: Prosecutors on Aug. 18 urged a Utah judge to uphold all charges, including one carrying a potential death sentence, in the case against Charlie Kirk’s accused killer, Tyler James Robinson. – Robinson’s defense team had argued that evidence presented during a preliminary hearing last month failed to support the death penalty and did not establish “probable cause.”…

Epoch Times: Democrats Split on The Party’s Future as Democratic Socialists Make Key Primary Wins – Here’s what to know about the divide splitting Democrats across the US since 2016. – Democratic Socialism – Establishment Versus Democratic Socialists – Mamdani Continues To Drive Enthusiasm – Primary Success – ‘We Need Something Different’ – But Maybe Not Too Different

American Thinker: The Marxist/Islamist playbook is revealed in these five quick videos – The DSA allies with Muslim immigrants to conquer the West through ballots and demographics. – Mamdani, El-Sayed, Tlaib, and Omar are exploiting white progressives as useful idiots. Islam is framed as a supremacist political ideology seeking Islamic revolution over America. – We need to understand this and win the game.

American Thinker: Politically, We All Live In Piker’s World Now – People fall into pragmatists, opportunists, idealists, or True Believers, whose ideology overrides reality. – New digital influencers like Hasan Piker build communities forming political identity outside parties. – This forces Democrats to accommodate movements they no longer control, and is reshaping the party itself.

American Thinker: Totalitarian Ideologies 101 – Communism has returned as “woke” ideology, emphasizing race and gender, with totalitarian control as its goal. – To protect the republic, it should be mandatory that students take a course on totalitarian ideologies that teaches how such beliefs promise utopia, demand persecution, and inevitably produce tyranny.

Breitbart: Florida’s DSA Senate candidate Angie Nixon has a long history of making outlandish statements. – They include praising a Marxist cop killer while campaigning in a church, calling for DEI policies to be put back in place, and admitting to taking her children to drag shows that she referred to as “wholesome” entertainment. – She will face Republican Ashley Moody in November…

American Thinker: Fake News ‘Journalists’ Love the Deep State – Corporate journalists like Kristen Welker and Chuck Todd wrongly demand the DOJ remain “independent” of the president, ignoring that the Attorney General serves in the executive branch. – These same propagandists tolerated Democrat weaponization of the FBI and DOJ, worship unelected bureaucrats, and undermine constitutional authority.

Newmax: Several U.S. government agencies warned that unidentified hackers are trying to breach devices made by Siemens that are used to monitor and operate water facilities and ‌other critical infrastructure systems. – This comes amid recent widespread cyber incidents targeting local ⁠water systems in multiple states. – Cybersecurity experts suspect they are linked to ⁠Iran.

Discern Report: Democrat officials were disproportionately arrested for fraud. – Lawrence Mayor DePeña misused COVID relief funds, New Mexico’s Stapleton was convicted of 31 felonies, and Representative Cherfilus-McCormick allegedly stole $5 million in FEMA disaster relief. – It looks like Democrats treated pandemic relief as a campaign funding bonanza.

American Thinker: Another reason many college students can’t do math – A Berkeley math professor finds students five-to-eight years behind, so she ends up teaching fractions instead of calculus. – College students today are less capable due to union-dominated K-12 schooling, DEI indoctrination, COVID closures, and the admission of too many Woke women who thrive on easy leftist curricula rather than rigorous math…

American Thinker: Unmaking The Commonweal – Britain’s high-trust society has eroded through rapid demographic change, enclave formation, and institutional distrust, fueling mental-health crises and cynicism. – Starkey, Goodwin, and Betz warn this moral and cultural fragmentation could progress from unrest toward civil conflict as shared identity dies.

Breitbart: The number of people receiving direct welfare benefit payments in Britain has soared to an all-time high of 8.4 million, the government disclosed. – This is an increase of around 700,000 from the previous year and 100,000 more than in February. – Meanwhile, the proportion of welfare claimants with “no work requirements” rose from 46% last year to 51% in May, or 4.3 million…

Issues & Insights: In Newsom’s California, It’s Only the Homeless Population That Is Growing – California under Newsom saw homelessness rise 20 percent despite $37 billion spent. – Meanwhile, 1.6 million residents fled the state, taking billions of dollars in tax revenue with them. On top of that, spending soared, and a wealth tax looms.

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Epoch Times: Iran Is Offering A $30,000 Bounty to Kill US Soldiers – Iranian Army Commander-in-Chief Major General Amir Hatami said the regime would pay double if a woman is killed or for a captured U.S. soldier. – In a separate 8/16 announcement, Iran’s armed forces insisted that the regime would “continue resistance” against the United States and Israel until it accomplished their “complete defeat.”

New York Post: Trump announced a three-day delay to the 50% tariffs on Canadian imports, indicating the US and northern neighbor could ‘have a DEAL!’ – “The great Keystone XL Pipeline, long ago killed by Sleepy Joe Biden, may be awoken from the grave!” said the president, who subsequently posted an AI-generated image of him yanking a pipeline labeled “Keystone” out of the ground…

Red State: Republicans Have Picked Their Guy in the Race to Replace Governor Ron DeSantis – Representative Byron Donalds will be the GOP nominee for governor. – Donalds beat out 10 other candidates to seal the nomination, with preliminary results showing him sitting around 49%, compared with 25% for Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, 10% for James Fishback, and 8% for Paul Renner.

New York Post: DSA member Angie Nixon upset Trump impeachment witness Alex Vindman in Florida Democrat Senate race – With most of the expected vote in, Nixon led Vindman, 56% to 44%, giving the far left a major success on an otherwise disappointing night in the Sunshine State.

American Thinker: So is a vote for El-Sayed a vote for bin Laden? – Abdul El-Sayed’s mother worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency that was designated by Treasury in 2004 for funding al-Qaeda, Hamas, and the Taliban even after 9/11. – His father was tied to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. – The fact that El-Sayed never condemns them should disqualify him as a viable candidate for the Senate.

New York Post: The Los Angeles City Council voted 10-3 to allow homeless people to set up camps and live in parks after DSA council member Hugo Soto-Martinez’s proposal. – This lifts restrictions at more than a dozen parks and public spaces across Hollywood, Silver Lake and surrounding neighborhoods. – The anti-camping rules had been in place for five years to prevent encampments from returning after being cleared by law enforcement.

Just The News: Dr. David Morens, a former top adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy in a scheme to avoid Freedom of Information Act requests. – This marks a victory in one of the first cases of a cover-up related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Newmax: Dr. Heidi Overton, a top White House aide, has been nominated to lead the FDA, President Trump announced Wednesday. – As a medical doctor and deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council who has worked on several of Trump’s second-term health initiatives, Overton became a trusted figure in his administration and a loyal administration policy adviser.

Brownstone Institute: What Did Anthony Fauci Mean by “Game On?” – Fauci’s Plan B was to prepare the population for the shot for which he would get the credit. – It would take 10 months, during which time endemicity needed to be delayed. – There were the slogans “15 days to slow the spread,” “Flatten the curve,” and so on, alongside a variety of schemes to keep seroprevalence levels as low as possible by banning meetings and pushing social distancing…

Epoch Times: Trump, “There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and we are continuing to enforce the naval blockade against the regime.” – “The Hormuz Strait is open and operating.” – “All water mines have been removed or detonated.”

American Thinker: It’s Time For Iran’s Total Defeat – Our on-again, off-again war with Iran mirrors appeasement of Nazi Germany, which only emboldened Hitler. – Iran exploited negotiation pauses to rearm and stall until the midterms. – Evil regimes cannot be appeased, only totally defeated as quickly as possible. Trump should lead a U.S., Israeli, and Sunni coalition to fully defeat Iran NOW.

American Thinker: Could today’s Royal Navy fight for the Falklands? – This is not your grandfather’s Royal Navy. – The Royal Navy has drastically declined since 1982, projected to field only thirteen frigates by the 2030s. – Winning another Falklands-type war or securing the Strait of Hormuz is doubtful. – Britain needs another 1889 Naval Defense Act-scale commitment to seapower, or 2026 marks the end of its power projection.

American Thinker: Americans deserve accurate voter rolls, but Democrats don’t want that. – New Jersey admitted 6,600 non-citizens were registered to vote, but DHS estimates up to 35,000, with Governor Sherrill refusing to share voter rolls. Thirty states also refuse, citing privacy. – Tim Kaine offered vague “weaponization” concerns without specifics. – Federal-state cooperation is essential to ensure citizens’ votes aren’t diluted by unlawful ballots.

Breitbart: MS NOW Is Being Criticized For Falsely Reporting Karoline Leavitt Was on The Return Plane from Turkey Without Trump – Firstly, Karoline Leavitt wasn’t even on this trip. – It’s actually important because of the huge rumor that she was on the plane and that’s why she’s leaving. – MS NOW faced criticism after the network failed to put out a statement correcting the false reporting.

Zero Hedge: A Federal Judge Blocked The Move Of FBI Headquarters To Ronald Reagan Building In DC Rather Than Nearby Greenbelt, Maryland. – U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of the state of Maryland and Prince George’s County, finding the federal government illegally scrapped the previously approved plan to build the facility in Greenbelt…

American Thinker: “Danger, Will Robinson!” – Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed’s 2009 remarks pledging to follow Sharia in everything raise alarms. – Islam fuses religion and state, unlike Christianity. – Islam permits lying and punishes apostasy by death. – Saudi Arabia rejected the UDHR over Sharia Law. Election of El-Sayed is a step forward in threatening the U.S.’s separation of church and state.

Gatestone Institute: China Taking Over the Top of the World – Beijing’s real intention is to create a rationale for the presence of the People’s Liberation Army Navy in the Arctic. The goal for China’s Communist Party is to create its own Arctic Bastion so that Chinese navy ballistic missile submarines can threaten the U.S. from the northern hemisphere.”

Center Square: National teacher unions contribute at least 10% of their annual budget to lobbying and political activism. – This includes calling for the impeachment of Republican President Donald Trump as called for in the 2026 American Federation of Teachers handbook.

Just The News: Justice Department will send a record number 1,000 observers to watch voting during the midterms – Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhilion said the plan is consistent with the department’s policies in previous elections, but this year’s deployment will have a record number of monitors.

American Thinker: The Corrosion of Confidence – America’s dollar infrastructure is aging, as CHIPS, SWIFT, and ACH date back to the 1970s. – This while rivals like India’s UPI and Brazil’s PIX offer faster modern systems. – About a hundred countries are developing CBDCs. – Washington’s stablecoin patchwork approach risks losing the dollar’s default advantage, and time is running short.

American Thinker: Charter schools solidify the case for school choice – Success Academy charters scored 96% math and 91% English proficiency, far surpassing city public schools, while serving mostly minority, low-income students. – Charter students gain extra learning days. – Charters succeed through autonomy, competition, and accountability. – So why are politicians still against them?

Western Journal: It Turns Out That The Poll Showing L.A. Mayor Karen Bass In a Massive Lead in The General Election Was A Deliberate Fraud – She’s now locked in a tight race with Nithya Raman, a socialist City Council member. But not too tight, Bass’ people wanted you to know. Last week, she was touting a survey showing her up 50% to 39%, with a margin of error of 4.1%.

American Thinker: Space Junk And The Coming Crisis In Low Earth Orbit – Space debris has doubled, totaling 1.2 million dangerous objects threatening satellites. – ClearSpace and Astroscale compete for cleanup contracts, but efforts remain meager without enforceable international law. – Collisions risk Kessler syndrome, and LEO and GEO face severe congestion. – This requires urgent, binding global action.

The Federalist: A New Filing Details The Human Smuggling Evidence Against Who The Left Refers To As ‘Maryland Father’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia – “At the heart of the criminal case against Garcia was a traffic stop on a Tennessee highway in 2022 during which he was pulled over and discovered to be driving several Hispanic men, some of whom were in the country illegally. – The F.B.I. was told about it, but didn’t do anything…

Breitbart: Senator Ted Cruz has lamented the loss of liberty in the United Kingdom after a former police officer was recently convicted of a crime for merely reposting a meme mocking Islam. – The Newton Aycliffe magistrates’ court found Stephen Gray guilty of violating Section 127(1)(a) of the Communications Act 2003 over a supposedly “grossly offensive” image he shared on his FB account.

Monday, August 17, 2026

New York Post: President Trump says the US won’t extend the Iran MOU as the 60-day deadline for peace talks expires. – “Well, they want to make a deal, but they’re not going to make the kind of a deal that I feel is necessary,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. – Trump has demanded a ceasefire that will end Iran’s nuclear program but Tehran now says it wants to pursue a “nuclear energy” program.

Fox News: U.S. Special Envoy Jared Kushner gave Hamas a stark ultimatum, Disarm or Israel will get US backing to ‘finish the job’ – Kushner met with Hamas leaders in Cairo and Netanyahu in Tel Aviv to advance the Gaza peace roadmap. – Kushner says the group reaffirmed its commitment to Trump’s 20-point peace plan and to the “15-point roadmap…

Western Journal: Our Straw Poll Shows Rubio Widening His Lead in This Week’s Survey, But Can He Hold It – Secretary of State Marco Rubio received the support of 46.1 percent of respondents – Vice President J.D. Vance finished second with 24.3 percent, posting a gain of 2.4 percentage points from the Aug. 3-9 poll…

Wall Street Apes: CNN’s Jake Tapper admits THEY ALL KNEW Joe Biden wasn’t really President and wasn’t calling the shots. – An elite inner circle of advisors made the decisions and “steered the country,” and he named them. – The mainstream media ALL KNEW this, remained silent and in fact covered for the operation.

American Spectator? Republicans Can’t Win By Just Telling Half Of the Story – Republicans must not merely list their accomplishments but contrast them with what Democrats would have done had they won in 2024. They should frame their wins, such as preventing Democrat tax hikes, inflation, open borders, and DEI policies. – These major achievements came from undoing and stopping Democratic agendas.

Powerline: Kamala 2028? – Given the current standing of the Trump administration in the public eye, I would normally expect our next president to be a Democrat. – But there is one problem, Democrats don’t have a viable candidate. That is reflected in this Rasmussen survey: If the 2028 primary were held today, 37% of Likely Democratic Primary Voters would vote for Harris. – That’s up from 34% in May.

City Journal: The American Association of University Professors Embraces the Far Left – Its endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate race caps the AAUP’s gradual transformation from a professional organization into a partisan one. – The AAUP apparently overlooked his controversial associations on the theory that “El-Sayed will be an invaluable ally for academic freedom and higher education as a public good”

American Spectator? Communism, McCarthyism, and the New Red Scare – Left-wing commentators dismiss conservative warnings about socialism as “McCarthyism,” just a communist tactical diversion. – The 1950s Red Scare stemmed from real documented infiltration while Lenin and Churchill linked socialism to state control and serfdom. – Communist tactics turned criticism of communism into an accusation of political extremism.

The Eric Swalwell FBI Investigation Found ‘Fang Fang’ Donated to His Campaign, Provided Him with Sex and Ran His Intern Operation – Documents related to Swalwell were declassified by President Donald Trump and released Monday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force.

The Federalist: California Admits It Doesn’t Track Noncitizens On Voter Rolls As Federal Law Requires – California admitted it doesn’t know how many noncitizens have been removed from its voter rolls and that it has no formal policy for investigating illegal voting when it’s reported.

KCRA TV: California regulators approved new rules limiting what replacement tires you can buy for your car – At the center of this is a tire’s rolling resistance, or how much energy a tire uses as it rolls down the road. – Lower resistance means a vehicle uses less gas or electricity. – It’s expected to eliminate 70% of tires currently sold in CA in 2033. – Tire makers and regulators are at odds over the impact on costs…

California Globe: A Radical California Energy Commissioner Moved to Restrict Car Tires Because They Can’t Ban Cars – Nancy Skinner is the same lawmaker who tried to ban bullets when she couldn’t ban guns. – The bill to regulate car tires based on energy efficiency was passed by the California Legislature 20 years ago but it was never implemented.

California Globe: When Seconds Matter, California Shouldn’t Tie the Hands of Law Enforcement – Instead of strengthening the partnerships that help solve our toughest cases, it risks creating new barriers between local and federal law enforcement at a time when cooperation has never been more important. – California should be giving law enforcement tools to protect our families, not making their jobs harder.

California Globe: Universities Face A Deadline to Sever Ties With Foreign Adversaries or Lose Federal Funding – The War Department directed 30 U.S. academic institutions to conduct immediate and comprehensive audits of their academic, financial, and research collaborations with foreign entities of concern. – California institutions on the list are UC Berkeley, UCSD, UCLA, and USC.

Zero Hedge: Iran’s New ‘Fully Offensive’ Posture – Tehran threatens escalation if diplomacy fails, after last week’s military command reshuffle. – As the MoU expires, Iran says the US-Iran agreement is effectively dead & “irrelevant”. – Trump threatens Oman over Iran agreement with Trump warning “we’ll bomb the shit out of them.” – A Backchannel denied, with Tehran rejecting Trump’s claim of IRGC communications...

Just The News: Hamas Say It Will Demilitarize Gaza – Hamas leaders told Jared Kushner in Egypt they still intend to demilitarize Gaza, even though Israel distrusts its promise. – Kushner pressed for specifics on the disarmament plan, part of the U.S. 20-point peace plan, and will meet Netanyahu to discuss Israel’s reciprocal steps.

Gatestone Institute: Jared Kushner’s Gaza Strategy Has The Capacity To Reshape the Middle East – However, Iran remains the central strategic challenge because it still retains financial resources, instruments of coercion and the capacity to rebuild. – Time cannot be offered to Tehran because would be a strategic gift. – The answer, therefore, is not to resolve Gaza first and then return to Iran later.

Breitbart: 19-year-old Camron Harris Has Been Arrested in Connection with The Virginia State University Shooting Shooting On Saturday. – Police say the hours-long manhunt ended after they found Harris, who is not a VSU student, hiding inside a dorm closet on campus. – Five people were injured in the shooting, one of whom is in critical condition. – He is now facing eight felony charges…

Zero Hedge: Americans Are Falling Into The Socialist Trap By Blaming Capitalism For Damages Caused By Statism. – America’s affordability problems are actually caused by statism, big government, debt, and money printing. – Socialism appeals to elites by wrapping coercion in moral vanity, enriching insiders while making citizens poorer, dependent, and less free, until the state grows too powerful to reverse…

Jonathan Turley: For the American Left From New York To California, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure – Hakeem Jeffries reaffirmed this week that the DSA is part of Democratic Party, and radical figures are demonstrating how extreme their agenda is. – Many, including Democratic Socialists, call for open borders or disbanding ICE. – Obama Care is a colossal failure. – Public education is a total failure. – Then there is rent control…

The Federalist: It’s True, Democrats Did Pass A Resolution Seeking To Abolish ICE – The DNC Resolutions Committee advanced the motion (25-12) late last week that urges “Democrat members of Congress to craft legislation abolishing ICE and enact immigration reform that provides pathways to citizenship, protects workers, and ensures dignity for all impacted people.”…

Just The News: The FBI had evidence that former Representative Eric Swalwell got illegal donations from suspected Chinese spy bombshell. – The newly declassified investigation files also show that the FBI had initially tried to recruit the infamous Fang Fang as a source that could share information on Chinese influence operations targeting public officials in the United States.

Center Square: Top teachers union leaders make more than $500,000 a year in pay and benefits, leaving critics saying taxpayer-funded membership dues allow for such high compensation. – This as K-12 students nationally show they are at around 30% proficiency. – Unions to squeeze more money out of the taxpayers, to increase education budgets, to have more money for their members, and to fund their political priorities…

American Thinker: How One Flock Company And Its ALPRs Enable Warrantless Surveillance – Automated License Plate Readers, now over 128,900 across 49 states, enable warrantless mass surveillance, with police abusing data for stalking and corporations like Flock Safety tracking citizens. – High error rates and privacy violations have sparked lawsuits, protests, and legislation demanding warrants and bans.

American Thinker: Something for nothing never loses its charm in New York City – New York’s eighty-year rent control history shows failure, with artificial price caps causing hoarding, low turnover, landlord abandonment, and housing decline. – Rent deregulation in the 1990s revived the market, but politicians like Zohran Mamdani now push rent control again, ignoring its proven destructive consequences.

Powerline: Barton Swaim’s Wall Street Journal column dissects political party pathology. – He argues Democrats lack a limiting principle and are drifting leftward as once-radical views become mainstream. – He cites Democrat sage David Axelrod questioning AIPAC’s election spending and praises William Voegeli’s book, No Limit on America’s boundless welfare state.

American Thinker: Hasan Now Walks In Fear – Hasan Piker is realizing the socialist coup is failing, so now he is begging the Democrat establishment to defend him from Republican attacks. – This, despite previously despising the party. – Just like streamer Jack Doherty crying for his bodyguard, Piker has become a liability, with his online schtick collapsing as karma catches up.

American Thinker: The Navy and the Midterms – On the 81st anniversary of Japan’s surrender, Trump honored the Greatest Generation and backed tribute with action, rebuilding shipbuilding capacity and imposing tariffs on foreign drones. – Democrats will obstruct America-first defense to weaken national security, so voters who value national security should strongly turn out in November…

Slay News: Radical Democrats Refuse to Give Up ActBlue Donations as Fundraising Giant Faces Congressional Investigation – Progressive stars like Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and Omar still receive millions from ActBlue despite a congressional probe into fraud and foreign donations. A Milan, Michigan, donor disputed records attributing $150,000 to her, while ActBlue denies wrongdoing and calls the investigation politically motivated.

Slay News: The ‘Godfather of AI’ Is Sounding The Alarm – Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-winning “Godfather of AI,” warns Big Tech’s trillion-dollar AI spending aims to replace human workers, not advance science. – He claims mass unemployment is “very likely,” as companies bet on cheaper AI labor, devastating millions of families before society adapts.

Real Clear Politics: The Long History of Fake News, Part I – Fake news has a long history that predates modern technology. – In 1896, journalist William Mannix fabricated his celebrated Cuban revolution reports while sitting in a Havana hotel. – From ancient rumor to 17th-century “buttered news,” intentional deception persists because people want to mislead and prefer satisfying falsehoods over facts.

American Thinker: COVID Crimes Against Humanity – COVID lockdowns and mandates scarred hundreds of millions, while elites claiming settled science silenced dissent. – Fauci concealed an 82% miscarriage rate, and FDA’s Woodcock admitted adverse events were ignored and unstudied. – Whistleblowers suggest lockdowns were used to force vaccine uptake, an act of Big Pharma compliance…

Slay News: Dr. Anthony Fauci has refused to voluntarily appear before a second Senate panel investigating his handling of the pandemic, weeks after invoking the Fifth Amendment 111 times during testimony before another committee. – The refusal deepens Fauci’s confrontation with Republican lawmakers who are examining his role in the federal pandemic response, COVID-19 origins, vaccine policy, and government-funded research.

California Globe: Nevada AG Aaron Ford’s decision to join a 12-state coalition suing to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery looked, at first glance, like a routine antitrust action. – Closer examination of the players, funding, and beneficiaries suggests Ford may be advancing the interests of Netflix, a major Paramount competitor, and the network of Democratic donors and allies connected to it.

Cal Matters: Some Elderly Californians are facing eviction because an insurer is cancelling its assisted living benefit – Health Net, one of the largest Medi-Cal insurers in the country, is canceling assisted living benefits for members at the end of the year, according to documents obtained by CalMatters and interviews with providers.

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Resist The Mainstream: Corporate Media Didn’t Want You To See This – President Trump Left The Stage Mid-Speech to Comfort Parents of 12-Year-Old Killed by Stray Bullet. – The setting was the Nassau County Police Academy, where Trump had gathered with officers and officials to discuss crime policy. – Two faces in the audience caught his eye. Weeks earlier, their 12-year-old son was killed by a stray bullet on a Bronx street.

Epoch Times: President Trump ordered the Pentagon to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea on August 16th. – Trump highlighted the expense of the exercises and suggested that it sent the wrong signal to Kim Jong Un, of North Korea. – Trump also noted his frustration that South Korean President Lee Jae Myung declined to assist the United States during the war in Iran…

Townhall: Democrats Are Coming for the Supreme Court – House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries signals that Democrats will pursue major Supreme Court changes, including expanding the Court, imposing 18-year term limits, and altering Senate rules to facilitate such measures, if they regain control of Congress and the White House.

Western Journal: The Last-Ditch Effort to Kill Trump’s Fossil Fuel Executive Orders Has Gone Down in Flames – The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday refused to rehear the lawsuit brought by twenty-two young climate activists, which initially challenged President Trump’s fossil fuel agenda, leaving intact a panel decision that found the plaintiffs lacked standing.

Breitbart: Democrats in blue states across the country have swamped their legislatures with an avalanche of nearly 250 pro-migrant bills to thwart President Trump’s immigration and deportation policies. – A review by the left-wing State Futures organization discovered 242 pieces of legislation in 32 states, of which about a fifth have already passed…

Just the News: Several New York county leaders have publicly vowed that they will continue to cooperate with ICE. – New York Governor Kathy Hochul is giving county sheriffs a final ultimatum to end immigration agreements with the Trump administration or face possible legal action for violating a new state law.

Newsmax: A new CBS News/YouGov surveyDemocrats Favor Socialism Over Capitalism, 58%-32% – The broader public splits the other way. – Among all adults, 46% view capitalism positively and 33% negatively, while 35% view socialism positively and 42% negatively. – Two-thirds of Americans, 66%, rate the free market as good for the economy.

American Spectator: The Left Has a Working-Class Problem – Trump’s 2024 victory exposed the limits of the diploma divide and the growing political gap between self-styled elites and regular working Americans. – College-educated voters, especially women, increasingly support the Democrat Party, while non-college voters lean heavily toward the Republican.

Daily Wire: In California, Parents Sued The Palo Alto Unified School District and Brent Kline, principal of Palo Alto High School Over A Mosque Field Trip, Claiming Religious Indoctrination – According to the complaint, students were allegedly coerced into participating in Islamic religious practices: donning hijabs, accepting Qurans.

Daily Signal: – Three federal agencies gathered in San Diego on Wednesday to announce a new “treatment first” approach aimed at addressing California’s long-running homelessness crisis. – HUD Secretary Scott Turner said the program pairs treatment with housing to build self-sufficiency among people experiencing homelessness. – “It’s not just treatment. What they’re used to is just housing. This is a totally different mindset”

American Thinker: The UK has a new benefit for its illegal migrants, free brothels – Former Conservative minister Edwina Currie suggested building a brothel for 1,200 male asylum seekers in Oxfordshire, rather than stopping mass migration. Critics argue such appeasement incentivizes illegal immigration and ignores migrant crimes like the Rotherham rapes, demanding migrants simply be removed instead.

Daily Signal: The Little-Known DSA Plan to Reshape the American Left Through Labor Unions – Young socialists are encouraged to select jobs where they can either unionize or join existing unions and move them further to the Left. – DSA-backed officeholders Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani say this union strategy can actually yield important dividends to the organization’s long-term goals.

PJ Media: 30 Dead, 17 Fatal Crashes, and a Judge Tells DHS to Wait – Senior U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga put DHS’s access to roughly 17 million commercial driver records on hold Friday involving what the left’s dictionary calls “non-domiciled commercial drivers.” – When crashes expose drivers who apparently couldn’t meet that basic standard, the question becomes unavoidable: Who licensed them and are they qualified?

Breitbart: A Top Iranian Lawmaker Threatens Trump – Ebrahim Azizi, Chairman of the National Security Committee of the Iranian Parliament, “The U.S. President ought to worry about his own security rather than his endless bluffing regarding the Strait of Hormuz; before he ends up hiding in a food truck.”

American Thinker: Possible peace in Gaza is becoming darker – Trump’s 15-point peace plan stalled because Hamas keeps changing terms, demanding Israeli withdrawal before disarmament. – The Board of Peace clarified that withdrawal only follows decommissioning. Hamas wants to store weapons instead. This will lead to an eventual rearmed Hamas threatening Israel again. – Netanyahu’s refusal is a matter of survival.

Liberty Daily: US Troops Can Make Arrests in Militarized Border Zones – The new opinion from the Justice Department concludes that U.S. troops would not violate the Posse Comitatus Act by arresting individuals suspected of committing offenses in a designated National Defense Area.

Zero Hedge: A Second Ceuta Border Invasion Attempt By Sub-Saharan Africans Illegals Is Forming – A Public Health Disaster Is Unfolding In Ceuta After The First Invasion, Weeks Ago – Hybrid Warfare Fears Mount As Migrant Flows Are Weaponized – Italy’s Schengen suspension with Spain will remain until the security risks disappear…

Zero Hedge: Why Are They Getting Free Stuff? – British telecoms giant, Vodafone, is supplying thousands of free SIM cards loaded with six months of data to a charity that hands them out to illegal migrants arriving in the UK via boats, it has been revealed. – The charity also ran 80 drop-in sessions and 17 large-scale distributions at British military bases housing asylum seekers…

Daily Wire: The DNC formally adopted a resolution Saturday urging congressional Democrats to abolish ICE, alongside a competing measure calling only for reforms to the agency, at the party’s summer meeting in Austin, Texas. – Louisiana DNC member Michele Johnson proposed the call to dissolve the agency.

JD Rucker: Seattle elected a democratic socialist, and now the city is living with the results, but some residents have had enough. – Just eight months after Katie Wilson took office, a North Seattle couple has filed recall charges accusing her of abandoning her core duty to keep the city safe. – Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud say the mayor is “derelict in her duties for public safety.”

Slay News: The Top AI Chatbots Are Far More Likely to Push Falsehoods from the Left, A Study Finds – Just Facts evaluated the paid versions of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok using 100 questions covering immigration, crime, elections, abortion, gun control, COVID-19, climate change, and other politically contentious issues. – ChatGPT, Gemini, And Claude Performed Worse on Left-Leaning Falsehoods

American Thinker: Entrepreneurs Build Prosperity, And Freedom Makes It Possible. – America’s prosperity rests on entrepreneurship, freedom, private property, and limited government, not government solutions. – Leftist “community” programs mask creeping Communism, with totalitarianism stifling all initiative. – In a free country, every person has the opportunity to build a better mousetrap, and thankfully, many do.

American Thinker: The Exit From Reality Known As La-La Land – Liberal intellectuals obscure reality with their abstraction and symbolism, like Alice in Wonderland nonsense, causing people to stop thinking clearly. – John Dewey’s progressive education groomed kids for collectivism, producing “woke” zombies who avoid independent thought. – America is losing its most precious freedom, the freedom to think critically with an analytical mind.

American Thinker: AOC says, ” Forget every woke thing I ever said – Ocasio-Cortez now mocks ‘Woke 1.0’ as crazy, saying we need to judge candidates on their current rhetoric. – She’s trying to rewrite history to disguise their unchanged Communist goals. – Democrats are ignoring woke because Americans recognize it as evil. AOC’s posturing is just a play to be among the elite class if the Communist movement succeeds.

American Thinker: The First SPLC Domino Falls. – Its former CFO Heidi Beirich was arrested for fraud after paying KKK and neo-Nazis while manufacturing racism to profit from fake hate. – The SPLC, central to the Democrats’ woke/DEI narrative, faces wire fraud and money laundering charges. – Its collapse will hopefully expose its anti-American rot as normal Americans now reject race cards.

American Thinker: The California Blues – Democrat-run cities and California show civic decay, fiscal strain, crime, and homelessness. – Victor Davis Hanson calls it a mismanaged third-world entity. – High taxes burden the middle class while elites flourish, driving productive residents to leave. – Newsom’s detachment, the Palisades fire failures, and failed homelessness spending reveal structural decline, not a transient mood.

Saturday, August 15, 2026

One America News: The UAE condemns Iran for attacking 3rd state-owned oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz in 1 week – “The United Arab Emirates has strongly condemned and denounced the hostile Iranian attack that targeted a vessel affiliated with ADNOC as it transited through the Strait of Hormuz, with no injuries reported,” the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Saturday…

American Thinker: Communists run pretty people to garner the female vote – Communists use handsome, well-spoken men like Mamdani, El-Sayed, and Larkin as Trojan horse bait to appeal to shallow, ill-informed voters and emotional women. – These pretty candidates are mere ciphers controlled by hidden powers who want to dismantle America and steal its wealth. – Remember, a pretty face can hide an evil mind, so beware…

American Thinker: Illegals are plundering American $billions in broad daylight – Around 30 million illegals drain hundreds of billions annually, with much remitted to Mexico, China, or Somalia, even to fund terrorists and cartels. “Miguel” earned $53 hourly via DREAMER status and union favoritism until ICE deported him. – Maria” lived on Section 8, food stamps, and ESL while affording designer gifts and cars, etc, etc…

Just The News: Tax refunds jumped 17% after president’s signature law – The increase this year represented $43 billion more in refunds than the IRS had issued during the 2025 filing season for tax year 2024 – The GAO attributed the larger refunds, in part, to millions of taxpayers claiming new deductions created by recent tax law changes in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Resist The Mainstream: An Autopsy Reveals Chilling New Details in Mysterious Death of US Nuclear Lab Worker. – Melissa Casias, 53, an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, disappeared June 26, 2025, before her skeletal remains were discovered nearly 11 months later in Carson National Forest. – A newly released autopsy determined that Casias had been shot through the base of her skull.

Resist The Mainstream: Lawrence, Massachusetts mayor Brian DePeña was arrested Friday on federal charges. – He is accused of fraudulently obtaining more than $1.5 million in COVID-era relief funds and diverting some of the money toward his political campaign and other expenses.

Gateway Pundit: A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked DHS from obtaining 17 million CDL records. – Judge Trenga also ordered the DHS to immediately return any subpoenaed documents and not inspect the records while he considers a motion to quash the subpoenas. – This is after Blue State attorneys general sued the Department of Transportation, the DHS, and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Gatestone Institute: The Iranian Regime’s Dangerous Strategy – Play its familiar game of opening and closing the waterway, dangling intermittent negotiations, employing intermediaries, walking up to the table and then walking away. – Then before anyone notices, two years will have passed. – Its only priority is surviving Trump until his term ends. – The necessary objective is unconditional surrender, not some bogus deal.

Epoch Times: President Trump announced his intention to declare the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory Friday, introducing a new position regarding the strategically vital waterway. – “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” Trump said.

Zero Hedge: It’s Beauty Was Destroyed In Just Days – The once-pristine beaches in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta have been reduced to open-air dumps and disease-ridden camps occupied by thousands of illegal migrants who refused to leave after the mass invasion from Morocco. – Locals describe feces, urine, garbage, and makeshift shacks covering the sand. – Contagious illnesses are spreading and mass brawls with bladed weapons have broken out.

Zero Hedge: Russia Admits Petroleum Shortages After Recently Claiming The Situation Was Stabilized – Russia shut down one major refinery at Orsk, around 800 miles from the front line, for six months after it came under drone attack this week. – It has also suffered more terminal outages due to continued attacks on a vital Black Sea energy port…

Zero Hedge: Socialism Simplified – It Is A System Where Government Uses Your Money To Solve Everyone Else’s Problems – They are coming for your money, and they have a ton of momentum right now. – Democratic Socialists are winning election after election by promising free stuff, but of course free stuff is never actually free. – Somewhere along the way, someone has to pay for it, and guess who will get stuck with the tab…

JD Rucker: America’s 30 Greatest Threats – People may prioritize them differently, but most will agree that they’re all real threats. – #1. Principalities Behind the Institutions – #2. The De-churching of America – #3. Collapse of the Family – #4. AI Displacement and the Coming Labor Reckoning – #5. Election Integrity and Institutional Distrust – #6. The National Debt and Fiat Endgame – #7. Death of the Middle Class…

America First Report: DFW Airport Scraped Its $300,000 Islamic Foot-washing Plan After Abbott Calls It Illegal. – Government-owned airports cannot favor one religion over all others. – DFW plans to install Islamic wudu washing facilities, which are illegal. – I’ve directed a review of all state grants to both airports for possible revocation, and referred DFW & IAH to USDOT for investigation.

Center Square: A Retired U.S. Air Marshall and FAA security (Red Team) leader warns another 9/11 could happen again. – He warns that aviation security remains vulnerable, citing FAA Red Teams’ 95% success smuggling weapons, ignored warnings before 9/11, and the ongoing terror threat amid the Iran conflict. – He claims the current system was poorly designed and requires serious fixes before another attack happens.

American Thinker: From Cairo to Mamdani, Barack Obama’s Long Game – America is undergoing a political shift, and Obama’s years of defending Islam and advancing progressive policies may finally be materializing. – Obama’s presidency consistently favored Islamic and socialist causes, from terrorism policy changes to associations with progressive Islamist politicians. – This makes him an architect of today’s Democrat Party transformation.

American Thinker: Europe’s Cancer Spreads To The USA – We now face Europe’s crisis of parallel communities, erosion of speech, and violence from mass Muslim immigration aided by open borders and leftist “diversity” ideology. – Identity politics, incompatible Islamic doctrine, and Democrat alliances reinforce this deliberate strategy. – It constitutes a betrayal requiring border control and unconditional constitutional loyalty to survive.

American Thinker: These Democratic Communists Were Inevitable – Much of America is freaking out over the Marxist takeover of the Democratic Party. – For anyone who paid the slightest attention, this wasn’t hard to foresee, because it has been in the works for generations, driven by vanished Mainline Protestantism, academia’s decline, and more recently, extremist Muslim influence…

American Thinker: Dissecting Communism – Marxism’s core claim, that it improves lives, fails across all 28 communist countries, which uniformly suffered collapse, famines, secret police, censorship, and tyranny. – Every regime bred a privileged ruling class while abolishing freedoms, producing identical catastrophe each time. – So ultimately, Marxism’s essence is simply to steal everything and kill the opposition.

American Thinker: Are we trading a republic for a catalogue of entitlements? – The Federalist Papers taught ordinary voters that America is a constitutional republic, not a pure democracy – James Madison warned that unconstrained majorities are merely winning factions. – DSA’s platform to abolish the Senate and subordinate courts to Congress embodies this threat. – Yet civics education now promotes entitlements, not structural responsibility.

American Thinker: Dealing With Democrat Refugees – The Democrat Party is disintegrating as socialists and Islamists drive out thousands of members. – Some are joining the GOP, but should these refugees be welcomed? – History warns they may import leftist policies like the 1970s neocons, whose welfare-state and Keynesian thinking later produced the Bush administration and resulted in the #NeverTrump disasters.

American Thinker: A Mom’s Important Choice – Karoline Leavitt prioritized motherhood over the press secretary role, resulting in a leftist backlash portraying motherhood as oppression. – Such bombastic claims, like “barefoot in the kitchen,” insult real mothers, who freely choose family over career. – Her decision to put kids first deserves celebration, not mockery of women who put family over career.

American Thinker: The decline of higher education continues. – Higher education’s decline stemmed from abandoning merit, federalizing student loans, and DEI hysteria. – This caused administrator bloat, grade inflation, remedial classes, and massive debt without degrees. – Obama’s loan takeover removed accountability, and now Trump’s administration is working to restore its credibility.

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Sophie’s Choice Edition – Other than the WNBA “What is a woman controversy, the most important issue of the week seems to be who will replace the splendiferous Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary. – It’s a tough call, but we have some suggestions.

Friday, August 14, 2026

Gateway Pundit: The Crazy Obama Judge Finally Lifts Her Block on Termination of TPS for Somalis – This came after Representative Andy Ogles introduced articles of impeachment against radical leftist Judge Allison Burroughs, who ignored a Supreme Court ruling and decided to block the Trump Administration from ending the temporary protected status for Somalis in the US.

Western Journal: The Kennedy Center Board Restoring Trump’s Name to the Building Is Sure to Frustrate Judge Who Ordered It Removed – On Thursday, the board voted to put Trump’s name on the building’s facade so it would read “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump.”

Gateway Pundit: The Woke Ex-Cambridge University Professor Once Hailed as “Diversity’s Poster Boy” Before Massive Plagiarism Scandal Ruined His Career is Found Dead – “At this time, his death is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious. – The case is being investigated by officers from the Met’s Central South Command Unit. – A file will be prepared for the coroner.”

Epoch Times: The US has threatened to keep its naval blockade of Iranian ports in place indefinitely while increasing economic pressure on the regime, as the standoff around the Strait of Hormuz continues. – SoW Pete Hegseth said the U.S. military could maintain its naval blockade of Iranian ports for as long as needed by rotating ships through the region.

Washington Examiner: The Navy has dispatched a new aircraft carrier to the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln – The USS George Washington, the Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, was traveling west from the Pacific and was spotted moving through the Strait of Malacca, according to ship tracking data posted to social media and multiple reports…

The Federalist: President Trump Signed An Order Aimed At Expanding America’s Shipbuilding Capacity – The new order specifically opens the door to increased collaboration with allied nations on shipbuilding, the establishment of a new public shipyard, and technological changes to the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier.

Slay News: The FDA Has Issues An Urgent Alert Over The Life-Threatening Salmonella Contamination Recall of 38 Million Eggs – The FDA has now upgraded the recall to Class I, its most serious designation, meaning Severe Health Consequences or even Death. – The affected Grade A shell eggs were produced in Texas by Midwest Poultry Services and distributed in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

The Center Square: President Trump has asked the Supreme Court to allow the White House ballroom construction – Construction of the ballroom, which has taken over the East Wing of the White House, has gone on for the past several months. – A panel of district court judges in the District of Columbia halted the project’s construction in an order just last week.

Resist The Mainstream: Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a sweeping crackdown on organized “birth tourism,” revealing that the State Department has revoked more than 600 visas as the Trump administration targets networks accused of exploiting US immigration laws. – The enforcement effort is being carried out through the newly created Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force…

Washington Examiner: President Trump confirmed Friday that Kevin Rideout, an American missionary captured by a terrorist group in Niger last year, was safely returned to the United States. – “I am proud to announce that Kevin Rideout, a wonderful Christian Missionary, is back in US Custody.” – “Kevin was kidnapped by Jihadi terrorists in West Africa, the epicenter of Islamist terrorism…

Washington Free Beacon: Abdul El-Sayed To Headline Islamic Event Alongside Pakistani Cleric Who Forced His 13-Year-Old Niece Into Marriage and Was Denounced for His ‘Pedophilic Rhetoric’ – Tariq Masood urged his congregants to marry off their own female children and invoked Sharia law on the question of women’s education…

Daily Wire: BIG Surprise, NOT! – A Key Voting Bloc Supports Far-Left Candidate El-Sayed – While every other major white demographic subgroup swings heavily toward Rogers, diploma-holding white women are fleeing to the far Left. – College-educated white women are backing the radical progressive El-Sayed by a massive 60% to 37% margin. – This Great Lakes divide is the culmination of a massive, decade-long political realignment.

Gatestone Institute: America, NOT China, Is The World’s Energy Superpower – China ranked 6th last year, with 4.3 million barrels per day. – America reversed a slump and began increasing oil output in 2008, but it was Trump who saw the significance and pushed for high production levels. – It is no coincidence that in the middle of his first term, America became the world’s No. 1 energy producer.

Daily Signal: President Trump Described The WWII Memorial Vandalism as an ‘Insult’ to America’s Heroes’ – “THERE CAN BE NO GREATER INSULT TO THOSE AMERICAN HEROES WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR II. – First the Reflecting Pool, now this.” – “We are on their trail! Where do these animals come from???” the president stated.

Fox News: US Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro announced Friday morning that Kentucky woman Melissa L. Farris has been charged with two federal offenses for injuring/depredating U.S. property and the destruction of a veterans’ memorial, for defacing the WWII Memorial. – Farris will face two felony charges prosecutors say carry penalties of up to ten years in prison…

American Thinker: The Fog is Lifting – Italy’s Giorgia Meloni used the Ceuta crisis, where 72,000 migrants overwhelmed Spain, to suspend Schengen and lead 22 European Union states demanding tougher borders. – She exposed the split between national conservatives and socialists, who treat mass migration as a left-wing weapon against European culture.

America Wire News: An investigation by journalist James O’Keefe and the O’Keefe Media Group uncovered the “lunacy” of Minnesota’s voter vouching system. – Under Minnesota law, a registered voter can vouch for up to eight other people who want to register to vote but but without proof of residence provided. – How insane is this system? – Watch this short video to find out…

Western Journal: Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday to the 2024 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. – “I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died,” Mangione said in court. – “I understood that my actions would place him in fear of death or bodily injury. I knew what I was doing was illegal,” he further stated. – US District Court Judge Margaret Garnett accepted his guilty plea…

The Federalist: We Can’t Save The American Dream By Pretending Everything Is Just Fine – Old-guard libertarians shout free-market slogans while populists like JD Vance argue only improving lives defeats socialism. – Podcaster Ben Shapiro’s outdated 2003 talking points ignore that immigration, DEI, inflation, offshoring, unaffordable housing, college, and healthcare have locked white men out of the American Dream.

Western Journal: Former TV sports reporter Michele Tafoya won Minnesota’s Republican primary for an open U.S. Senate seat. – Tafoya finished with 52.1% of the vote, ahead of second-place finisher Adam Schwarze at 24% and third-place contender Royce White at 11.2%. – In November, Tafoya will face Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who won the Democrat’s Senate primary.

American Thinker: Climate change still doesn’t matter – Polls show climate change ranks at 3% as a voter concern, unchanged in a decade, so will definitely not be a factor in this election, just as it hasn’t been in any recent election. – The economy and illegal immigration are of paramount concern, so whichever party wins this fall, climate won’t factor into it…

American Thinker: The WNBA Needs To Hire Sherlock Holmes – It is becoming increasingly apparent that without his extraordinary investigative skills and Dr. Watson’s medical knowledge, the WNBA will never figure out what a woman is.- The WNBA’s recent meeting on transgender eligibility produced only a vague statement denouncing “hate,” with the league still refusing to define what a woman is..

Powerline: Ten Years On This Curious Case – Ten years ago today I posted our first item on Ilhan Omar’s marriage to her brother under the heading “Ilhan Omar: Her back pages” (with screenshots of her marriage license to her brother captured by John). The previous Tuesday Omar had knocked off 22-term incumbent state representative Phyllis Kahn, a feminist heroine. – Over the past 10 years the curious case has grown curiouser and curiouser…

American Thinker: The Mohammunist Manifesto, or Trojan-Horsing Society’s Institutions – When they are weak, communists and Muslims uses parallel institutions, cells, and tactical alliances to accumulate power while weak that they then ruthlessly destroy once they achieve power. – This was seen in Medina and Bolshevik Russia, a pattern continuing today in Brotherhood and Marxist groups.

American Thinker: If Todays Democrats Walk Like Socialists And Talk Like Socialists, Then Maybe They ARE Socialists – The media and other Democrats keep trying to tell us there’s daylight between the Democrat and the Democrat Socialists, but that’s increasingly hard to believe. – The Democratic Socialists platform demands abolishing the Senate, presidency, and capitalism itself, which the media downplays as merely progressive.

American Thinker: Cancel Culture and the Mark of Cain – Cancel culture weaponizes social media for sadistic, disproportionate punishment, and is worsened through government collusion with platforms to suppress speech. – De-platforming on campuses persists, prompting calls for spiritual, prayerful resistance rather than violence. – When beastly behavior brings no consequences, it will continue and accelerate.

American Thinker: Boy George is being punished for refusing to join the Anti-Semitic chorus – He broke from celebrity Israel-haters, releasing “We Will Dance Again” about the October 7th Nova massacre. – He now faces economic and professional backlash, and was fired from a West End show. – LGBTQ activists vilify him with suicidal empathy for Hamas even though in Gaza, homosexuals would face the very real prospect of being thrown from a rooftop…

Gateway Pundit: Britain’s Nigel Farage WON An ‘Overwhelming’ Special Election Victory Against A Man Dressed as a Bin – Farage has declared an “overwhelming” victory after resigning his seat and asking his constituents to renew his parliamentary mandate. – Rather than allow Westminster to determine his political fate through a standards investigation, Farage put the question directly to the voters…

American Thinker: Flock Cameras Are Watching Every Corner – Flock Safety’s ALPR cameras now blanket over 5,000 communities, letting police track any car without a warrant. – It is a mass surveillance program that chills dissent, dries up sources, and will expand into facial recognition. – If passed, The “Surveillance Accountability Act” would curb this by requiring legal warrants.

California Globe: Governor Newsom’s High Speed Rail Disaster – The federal government pulled its money because the project violated terms and conditions of federal funding. – California’s high-speed rail project has no operational trains and no high-speed track laid on the actual alignment. – Newsom has blown $18 billion and the project is about to run out of money. – California’s High-Speed Rail boondoggle is now estimated to have cost taxpayers $231 billion…

American Thinker: You’re easier to find than you think – In the computer era, you are constantly being tracked, destroying your privacy. – American Thinker is launching a partnership with Incogni, the personal data removal service, to bring readers ongoing coverage of the privacy and security threats now baked into everyday American life.

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Gateway: Pundit: A retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who once carried the nuclear “football” for President Bill Clinton praised President Trump’s extraordinary Air Force One decoy operation in Ankara as “brilliant.” – “There’s only a few people who actually know exactly what’s going down, and that’s by design.” – “So if somebody leaked it, it was somebody involved in the process, and that scares the hell out of me.”

Western Journal: NBC Broadcasts Dead Air Twice, As A Literally Speechless Election Analyst Learned The Results Are Missing from 5 of 9 USB Drives in Blue City – Milwaukee Election Commissioner Paulina Gutierrez was bringing in 15,000 ballots, no small number in an election that Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley won by 3,783 votes over Democratic Socialists of America candidate Francesca Hong…

The Center Square: Energy prices are consistently higher in Blue states due to their policies – States prioritizing renewables over peak time reliability and affordability see higher costs – “For example, California’s rates are the second-highest nationwide at 27.63 cents per kWh in 2025, more than double the national average of 13.63 cents, and have risen 11.05 cents per kWh since 2018, a 29.9% real increase after inflation,”according to energy policy analyst Sarah Maltalbano…

Just The News: Two federal agencies gave away roughly $2 billion in taxpayer-funded health and humanitarian contracts to charities that watchdogs and a Senate committee have flagged for terror ties. – This means the government’s own vetting either missed those records or possible deep state employees decided their terrorist-linked status didn’t disqualify the groups.

Epoch Times: The DOJ Found Decades of Sexual Misconduct at California Women’s Prisons – The investigation focused on the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla and the California Institution for Women in Chino. – An unbroken pattern of often violent, sexual misconduct by staff against prisoners from 2000 through 2024, continuing to the present was found.

One America News: Prescription drug prices drop to a record 60-year low thanks to TrumpRx – According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Wednesday, prescription drug prices dropped by at least 3.1%, marking their steepest annual decline since March 1963. – Even as overall medical service costs continued to climb, prices for medicinal drugs fell 2.7% over the 12 months ending in July.

Zero Hedge: Houthi drone strikes on a Saudi refinery sent oil prices higher. – The US says it can sustain the Iranian port blockade indefinitely. – Tehran appears prepared for a prolonged war of attrition. – Iran reshuffled senior security leadership toward a more aggressive posture. – Diplomacy is at a dead-end, with Iran saying the U.S. has miscalculated, while talks remain deadlocked.

Newsmax: Defense Secretary Hegseth said Thursday, “The U.S. military has enough assets to ‌maintain a naval blockade of Iran indefinitely.” – He added that ships can be rotated in and out of the region as needed. – This suggests he is advising President Trump that the U.S. military can keep ‌applying economic pressure on Iran for as long as needed to help currently failed negotiations to end the conflict that began in February.

President Trump: “A BIG WIN today at the U.S. Court of International Trade on one of the most DESPICABLE loopholes in American Trade Policy, The so-called “de minimis” exemption.” – For years, Foreign Shippers could send packages worth up to $800 into our Country, DUTY FREE, WITH NO TARIFF, and far less scrutiny. – THEY SUED and LOST. – The Court ruled that the President had the Legal Authority to rescind this so-called “privilege.”

Zero Hedge: Wall Street Warns Of A “Perfect Storm” Diesel Crunch – Goldman’s Daan Struyven Shows Global Diesel Exports Crashing – Citi’s Anthony Yuen Warns that Global Diesel Inventories Are “Below A 5 Year Minimum” – BofA’s Francisco Blanch Warns That “Diesel’s Perfect Summer Storm” Is Unfolding – Jefferies’ Sam Burwell Warns The Hormuz Shock Is “Manifesting Itself In Cracks, Not Crude”

Breitbart: The Iranian Islamist regime sent its top agriculture official, Agriculture Minister Gholamreza Nouri Ghezeljeh, to the capital of Afghanistan on Wednesday to discuss expanding economic ties with the ruling Taliban regime there. – While having fought its own extensive war against America, the Taliban has kept a distance from the Iran conflict, seeking to neither outrage Iran nor its adversaries.

Gatestone Institute: Hamas’s Secret Weapon to Continue Ruling Gaza – Is Hamas preparing to contest the Palestinian parliamentary election scheduled for late November? – After October 7, Hamas has no right to exist as a military organization. – Consequently, it should have no right to exist as a political organization either. – Allowing terrorists to participate in elections does not turn them into nice guys.

Western Journal: Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Is Putting Islamic Foot Wash Stations in Its Bathrooms – Our tolerance for Islam, be it from electing Muslim public officials and importing Muslim immigrants, is akin to letting a fox in the hen’s house. – Our free exercise of religion is now functioning as a vehicle for foreign people with a totally opposite belief system to SLOWLY, but DELIBERATELY, build a theocracy here…

Daily Signal: The McKinney, TX Mosque Approval Vote Sparks A Recall Effort Targeting Mayor Bill Cox and Council Members Justin Beller, Geré Feltus, and Ernest Lynch. – The petition states that the grounds for removal are based on “a loss of public confidence in the ability of the officers named herein to faithfully represent the citizens of the City of McKinney.” – Petitioners have until Sept. 26 to collect 5,805 signatures…

Slay News: A New House Report Exposes Harvard’s Deep Ties with The Chinese Communist Party – The report, released by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, claims Harvard researchers co-authored more than 140 academic papers with researchers affiliated with a group of Chinese universities known as the “Seven Sons of National Defense.” – “This raise serious national security concerns and demonstrate shortcomings in Harvard’s research security practices.”

Zero Hedge: The Federal Aviation Administration reached historic hiring levels for air traffic controllers as a result of its campaign to target computer gamers. – Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Aug. 9th that the campaign “supercharged the entire hiring process to get the BEST & BRIGHTEST in faster.” – As a result, the TSA hit 94% of its hiring goal this year, the fastest it has reached that goal.

Resist The Mainstream: The White House Unveiled A New Fraud Tracker Program That Allows Americans to Examine Fraud Across the US – The new online map is part of the Trump administration’s broader Fraud Ledger. – The tracker currently displays a total figure of $229.9 billion and allows users to examine activity involving eight federal departments and agencies…

America First Report: The Battle for 51 – The Eleven Senate Races That Will Make or Break the Firewall – Alaska and the Curious Case of Two Dan Sullivans – Maine’s Bait and Switch – North Carolina, Where the Narrative Is Hardening – Ohio Is a Test of Whether Elections Mean Anything – Texas, the Seismic Scenario – Iowa Is Not Safe, and Pretending Otherwise Is Malpractice – Nebraska and the Independent Costume – Kansas – Michigan – Georgia – New Hampshire…

Center Square: This California antitrust law could cost the economy $670B, and the state treasury $9B – The core of the opposition to AB 1776, the COMPETE Act, centers on its potential to unleash swarms of new lawsuits against companies of all kinds and sizes, potentially devastating the state’s reputation as an incubator for startup tech companies and others, by changing the definition of antitrust conduct to include so-called single firm conduct.

Daily Signal: Newsom Tests New ‘Established Insurgent’ Political Identity – Newsom, nearing the end of his governorship amid 2028 speculation, calls himself an “established insurgent” to tap anti-establishment energy, despite his long mainstream political resume. – Observers note his record, including $24 billion spent on homelessness with rising numbers, complicates his latest pitch.

Townhall: The Welfare State Just Took a Major Hit – Under Trump, 5.3 Million Fewer Americans Are Currently on SNAP. – The reduction was driven in large part by new work requirements signed into law by President Trump through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. – The Top 5 Decreases in SNAP Were: Arizona, ⬇️ 54.8% – Georgia, ⬇️ 27.9% ⬇️ – Florida, ⬇️ 22.1% – Louisiana, ⬇️ 22% – Oklahoma – ⬇️ 18.3% – This was meant to be temporary assistance, not for a lifestyle.

Zero Hedge: Private Credit’s Problems Just Got Real – For most of this year, the private credit story I’ve warned about has been about investors trying to get their money out. – Now the loans themselves appear to be cracking. – It isn’t just defaults. – Private credit funds managed by Ares, Golub and KKR have also reported increases this year in borrowers showing deteriorating performance.

Townhall: Trump Demands Senate Pass Sunshine Act Now – Trump referred to studies showing that making Daylight Saving Time permanent would reduce crime, car accidents, and provide health benefits. – “This is an issue that Republicans, Dumocrats, and Independents can unite behind.” – “I am asking Republican Senators to PASS THE SUNSHINE PROTECTION ACT, ASAP.”

Western Journal: Details of Karoline Leavitt’s (Not So) Abrupt Departure and Just How Much Trump Adores Her – It was a very stressful job to do, especially for someone with young children. – She never got any sleep, and she didn’t want her performance to slip either, so she decided to stay as long as she could and do the job well. – Faced with a choice between the demanding jobs of motherhood, Leavitt finally made the tough decision.

Western Journal: The Frontrunners Trump Is Reportedly Considering to Replace Karoline Leavitt – Alina Habba, the former acting U.S. attorney for NJ and a one-time personal attorney to Trump. – Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle. – Other contenders are believed to be WH deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel Taylor Budowich, as well as WH communications director Steven Cheung.

Washington Examiner: Trump has his Karoline Leavitt replacement candidates lined up as he retools White House press operation. – Alina Habba is leading the early betting in prediction markets. – Jason Miller could act as a temporary stand-in while a successor to Leavitt is found. – Shermichael Singleton is a possible dark horse. – Monica Crowley, a trusted member of the administration. – Scott Jennings. One of Trump’s top TV surrogates…

Washington Examiner: California is an example of a Democratic Socialism’s Future, placing dead last – Voters should pivot back to embracing free markets, meritocracy, property rights, the rule of law, the entrepreneurial spirit, and the good ol’ American work ethic that built our great country. Such principles have proven much more effective than a dogmatic bureaucracy at solving problems…

American Thinker: Pete Hegseth is cutting the fat out of a bloated, politicized Pentagon – The Wall Street Journal mourns Gen. Donahue’s retirement, but Pete Hegseth is rightly executing the president’s mandate to shrink flag officer ranks and restore lethality. Donahue oversaw the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal and pushed DEI. Trimming top-heavy generals is accountability, not cruelty.

Daily Caller: Senior CCP intelligence official Philip Qiu now owns a historic building overlooking the White House Complex. – The building’s new owner, Philip Qiu, has held numerous positions within Chinese intelligence and state security arms, according to university records and DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements. – Qiu did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

American Thinker: James Talarico Is A Classic Roman Polanski Villain? – Watching Polanski’s “The Ninth Gate” brought James Talarico to mind, the polished Obama-like Democrat running against Ken Paxton. – With his disarming charm and warm smile, Talarico redefines Christianity to fit leftist talking points, like the Devil’s polite followers, built on distortions of Christianity, which is pure wickedness.

Washington Examiner: The most dangerous socialists aren’t in DC, they’re running for governor. – Hong didn’t win Wisconsin’s Democrat primary for governor, but her near-win should still worry Americans. – Mayors and governors face fewer institutional barriers than members of Congress and can move quickly to enact policies with immediate, tangible effects. It’s why so-called “democratic socialists” win in city halls…

Geller Report: Democratic Socialists of America ARE ON THE MARCH – Here is a current State by State Tally Of Democrat Communist Wins So Far This Year – The Islamic/communist axis is assembling its forces inside the very halls of American power. – Ignore it at your peril. – Dismiss the threat, and suffer the consequences. – Be prepared for your jaw to drop when you view it…

American Thinker: What do grades have to do with student mental health? – The University of Michigan is switching freshman grades to pass-fail, to improve student mental health. – This coddling creates dependency rather than resilience. – It subtly indoctrinates students into progressive conformity while erasing competition and genuine achievement. – Our institution of learning should build character, not fear.

American Thinker: The ‘Wrenching Transformation’ Of Our Suburbs – In California, the goal of high-density public and semi-public housing to “defeat” climate change is destroying communities. – What’s happening in Menlo Park should concern everyone. – It plans to convert three busy downtown parking plazas serving one-of-a-kind small businesses into high-density seven- and eight-story subsidized housing projects.

American Thinker: Dissecting the WNBA’s man problems, or why shouldn’t a guy play in the WNBA? – Former NBA player Royce White declared for the 2027 WNBA Draft as a “transgender woman” to challenge the league’s gender ideology. – Male physiological advantages clearly undermine women’s sports, as the Williams sisters’ 1998 losses showed. – The WNBA must now decide between ideology and protecting women in competitions.

American Thinker: Education shuffling is worse than doing nothing – The American people elected Trump and Republican majorities to restore sanity and local control of education. – The House Education Committee passed ten bills burying DOE programs intact within five other agencies. – H.R. 2691, which would abolish the department and fund states directly, has been ignored. – Congress must demand it.

American Thinker: ‘Uncle Bernie’ and the young woman who would be president – Democrats are masters of language manipulation. – Just as “Uncle Joe” sanitized Stalin’s horrors, nicknames like “Bernie” and “AOC” soften dangerous socialists, masking the communist movement behind them. Call them Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez to expose the chains they’re forging.

Breitbart: Two Major Hollywood Unions Call on California Democrat AG Rob Bonta to Drop His Paramount Lawsuit – The Director’s Guild of America and IATSE urged Bonta to drop his suit in an open letter addressed to both Bonta and Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison on Wednesday.

Zero Hedge: Paramount Skydance could be the next major company to leave California as the media giant faces intensifying antitrust scrutiny over its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery. – Paramount’s top legal officer, said it is “committed” to staying in California, but also noted that the company has “a fiduciary duty to shareholders.” – “You have to take a look at the business environment and look to see what’s best for not only the community and the business.” – “And ultimately, you know, go to the place where you’re wanted.”

New York Post: Xavier Becerra loses ground to Steve Hilton in California governor’s race – Becerra now has the support of 55% of likely voters, down from 61% in last month, according to a Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies/Los Angeles Times poll. – Hilton, meanwhile, has edged up one point, from 36% to 37%, shrinking Becerra’s once-commanding 25-point lead to 18 points.

Issues & Insights: The Democrats’ New Campaign Motto Is Fake It ‘Til You Make It’ – What is it with Democrats and their fake supporters, fake accents, fake backgrounds, and fake accomplishments? – Do they think voters are that shallow and stupid? – Or is it because they don’t want anyone to know how incredibly out of touch they are with regular voters across America? – This week, to cite just the most recent example…

California Globe: NV Democrats’ Abortion Initiative Puts New Massachusetts Late-Term Law to Shame – Nevada’s Question 6, the “Right to Abortion Initiative” returning to voters this November, goes far beyond constitutionalizing the state’s existing 24-week statute. – It actually allows abortion through all nine months – This even applies to healthy moms with healthy babies.

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Gatestone Institute: Operation ‘Round River’ Is Exposed – The FBI and U.S. spy agencies received derogatory evidence about Joe Biden from 14 different informants but embarked on a secret operation to tamp down a Ukrainian corruption scandal engulfing his family during the 2020 election. – A revealing spreadsheet that was recovered from U.S. intelligence agency files was made public Wednesday…

Epoch Times: Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that plans by European countries to seize Russian merchant vessels constitute “piracy,” and vowed to respond in kind. – Putin comments come as the EU attempts to increase pressure on Russia’s so-called shadow fleet by expanding sanctions against hundreds of vessels and detaining some ships and their crews for checks.

New York Post: The Ex-Southern Poverty Law Center CFO is charged in brazen scheme to secretly pay $1.2M to white supremacist groups – A 26-page superseding indictment naming Heidi Beirich, who was first unmasked by The Post in June, was later filed in the Middle District of Alabama.

Breitbart: Abdulrahman El-Sayed’s campaign confirmed the Michigan Democrat Senate nominee still complies with Sharia law in his personal life. – This comes after resurfaced 2009 comments in which he described following it as a lifelong “obligation.” – He now faces Republican Mike Rogers in November for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Gary Peters, and would become the first Muslim U.S. senator if he wins.

Townhall: Eleven individuals in New York were indicted in a massive sham marriage network scheme largely benefiting Chinese nationals. – The scheme went on for roughly a decade for over 1,000 phony marriages that had the exclusive purpose of getting legal status in the United States, with some people paying upwards of $100,000 for the illegal service.

California Globe: HUD Secretary Scott Turner Put California’s Homeless Industrial Complex on Notice – “They will not receive another cent of American taxpayer money until they can account for every single dollar,” Turner stated. “The numbers don’t add up. – The very organization tasked with ending homelessness and equipped with billions of dollars shamelessly wasted them on corruption and mismanagement.”

Cal Matters: Newsom made a last-minute push to help California utilities that face bills for wildfires – Newsom is asking lawmakers to help reduce how much profit-making utility companies must pay out after wildfires. – Insurance companies launched an ad campaign against the potential “utility bailout,” that would leave them unable to recover from the power companies the costs of paying homeowners’ insurance claims.

Daily Signal: The Trump Administration Is Restoring Support for Faith-Based Homelessness Programs – The administration wants to see actual results—people getting off the streets and actual receiving treatment. – RFK Jr. highlighted that under the Biden administration, former HHS Secretary and current Democrat California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra refused to fund faith-based organizations that are getting actual results…

Fox News: President Trump dismissed a reporters question Tuesday night about the possibility of him running for a third term in 2028. – “Everybody asks me that question, and you know that the law is very strong on that,” Trump said while speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. – “I’d love to run, but the law is very strong.”

Zero Hedge: Trump claims “total control” of Hormuz and signals a strategy of continued economic pressure. – Iran declares “victory” & says it can sustain the conflict & outlast. – Iran shifts to its “survival economy” to withstand sanctions, Washington’s economic warfare, and the naval blockade. – Peace talks are basically not happening, with Pakistan reporting “absolutely no progress.” – Tehran claims Hormuz closed until Washington accepts all conditions.

Ynet News: Tehran rejects a report claiming America and Iran agreed to prolong a 60-day ceasefire. – They claim the US violated the interim agreement shortly after it was reached and must first return to the deal before talks can resume. – This after Turkey’s Anadolu news agency, citing Pakistani government sources, reported that Iran and the US had agreed to extend a 60-day ceasefire under an interim agreement signed in June.

Zero Hedge: Spanish sources in Andalucía say around 75 migrants out of the estimated 72,000 who entered Ceuta illegally in a mass rush to the border at the end of July have reached the mainland. – The report directly conflicts with assurances from the government of socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

Zero Hedge: First Morgan Stanley and Now BofA To “Mobilize And Deploy” Billions Into America’s Infrastructure Super cycle – Bank of America has unveiled a massive 18-month initiative to mobilize and deploy $250 billion across critical US infrastructure. It is targeting computing, energy, and industrial systems needed to support artificial intelligence and accelerate the transition toward physical AI.

Zero Hedge: The Odds Of A Rate-Hike Tumble As The US Consumer Price Inflation Prints Slowest Since Pre-War – July’s ongoing decline in oil prices (before the late July/early August rebound) should support lower prices in today’s CPI print (with portfolio management impacts expected to be a bigger upside deal for PCE as stocks soared) but expectations were for an uneventful 0.1% MoM rise in the headline print…

Discern Report: Mamdani Threw His Staff Under the Bus After The NYPD Refused to Escort His Wife Into Syria and Lebanon – “The NYPD does not send officers to countries with level four travel advisories for discretionary reasons.” – Mamdani then appeared on PIX11 to walk it back. – “There was a miscommunication. She has not yet taken that trip and when she takes that trip it will be without any NYPD detail.”

Western Journal: The Inflation Rate Dropped, Defying Economist Projections – The 3.4 percent rate for July was below projections of 3.5 percent from experts polled by The Wall Street Journal. – The inflation rate was 3.5 percent in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said. – Inflation was at 4.2 percent in May…

Epoch Times: Darline Graham and Ralph Norman Both Advance to The GOP Senate Runoff in South Carolina – The senator and representative are vying to replace the late Lindsey Graham as the Republican Senate nominee.

City Journal: How to Destroy Virginia, in Five Easy Steps – Governor Abigail Spanberger has become one of the least popular governors in modern state history after a little more than half a year in office. – Step one: raise taxes, expand regulations, and drive away businesses. - Step two: impose an energy tax under the guise of environmental policy. - Step three: prioritize offenders over victims and abandon cooperation with federal law enforcement…

Epoch Times: The Top 27 Revelations From the Fauci Diaries – 1. Very early in the diary when COVID was barely hitting the news, he was ginning up frenzy over a probable flu pandemic that he hoped would serve as a cover story. – 2. Work on the mRNA Covid vaccine had started already on Jan. 14. – 3. The same week, Jan. 26, 2020, Fauci contacted Nancy Messonnier of the CDC – 4. He likely hoped that SARS-CoV-2 would vanish into the firmament of a bad flu season but China made that impossible.

American Thinker: How To Topple the Iranian Regime – President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu need to topple Iran’s current regime, not just strike its nuclear sites. – By arming pro-Western Kurdish and Balochi forces with U.S. air support, mirroring the successful defeat of ISIS, they can permanently eliminate the Iran nuclear threat before the midterm elections take place.

American Thinker: The Mohammunist Manifesto, or The Promise of ‘Transitional Phase’ Slaughter – The Reds and Greens share common goals of violence, wealth redistribution, elite monopoly rule, and total societal control. – Both Marxism and political Islam promise temporary slaughter to secure order, yet neither ever ends it. – They just endlessly change their targets…

American Thinker: The DSA’s platform Democrats don’t want you to read. – DSA socialists and Democrats share communist ideology. – They push for open borders, police abolition, government-controlled industry, wealth taxes, and eliminating the Electoral College and the DSA wants to eliminate the Senate. – This despite communism’s 100 million dead and consistent catastrophic failure.

Washington Free Beacon: Abdul El-Sayed quietly embraced the antisemitic Nation of Islam during his Senate campaign, meeting with two lieutenants of the group’s leader, Louis Farrakhan, who themselves have railed against “the Jews.” – Benton Harbor mayor Marcus Muhammad, a “student minister” in the Nation of Islam, posted a photo arm-in-arm with a much shorter El-Sayed backstage at the DNC’s election night watch party…

American Thinker: Learn To Listen and Listen To Learn – Leftists aren’t interested in respectful exchanges of viewpoints because Socialism advances communist oppression by abolishing dissent. – Today’s leftists abandon free speech, shout down opponents, and deploy tactics from Castro’s playbook. – They declare their moral superiority justifies silencing contrary voices, so they avoid honest debate.

American Thinker: Socialism: Are Americans looking for love in all the wrong places? – America’s leftists are so gullible. – Socialism’s new con artist salesmen like Mamdani, AOC, and El Sayed are selling victimhood and wealth redistribution to the desperate. – They are hoping Americans will buy their promise of free stuff at the cost of individual sovereignty and the oblivious are drinking their Kool Aid…

American Thinker: Academia’s shameful infatuation with their diversity poster boy. – DEI ideology corrupted Cambridge. – It elevated Jason Arday as a diversity symbol despite plagiarism, fake credentials, and exaggerated feats. – His supporters framed any attempted scrutiny as racist and police were weaponized against journalists. – This plainly exposes meritocracy’s surrender to identity over competence.

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Western Journal: A Federal judge blocked the Trump administration from enforcing Section 3 of Executive Order 14399 regarding approved lists for mail-in ballots ahead of midterms – Obama appointed judge Talwani held a hearing Friday on the plaintiffs’ renewed request for a preliminary injunction. – The Trump administration is expected to appeal Tuesday’s ruling to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.

New York Post: Holiday-hating Francesca Hong lost to David Crowley in Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary. – Crowley, 40, was the late choice of Wisconsin’s Democratic establishment after Lt. Gov Sara Rodriguez and her predecessor Mandela Barnes dropped out of the race in recent weeks.

Breitbart: Lisa Demuth defeated MyPillow founder Mike Lindell to clinch the Republican nomination for Minnesota governor on Tuesday night. – Demuth, the Minnesota state House Speaker, beat Mike Lindell with relative ease on Monday night, earning 43.6 percent of the vote versus Lindell’s 32.3 percent.

Gateway Pundit: The Fifth Circuit SHUT DOWN The Illegal Biden-Era Energy Efficiency Standards for Gas Stoves and Cooktops, Slamming The DOE for Trying to Bypass the Law! – Unable to pass their radical climate tyranny through normal transparent channels, DOE bureaucrats tried an illegal end-run around the American public.

Zero Hedge: Iran’s Military Command Reshuffles and Digs In For A ‘Hardline’ Confrontation – Iran rejects peace push narrative. – Tehran says Hormuz stays closed until the US accepts all its conditions. – Hardliners take control with a reshuffle of top military leadership for a tougher stance. – Pakistan pushes talks. – US enforces the blockade after reportedly firing on a ship trying to breach the blockade…

Epoch Times: President Trump Outlines His Strategies Against Iran, Saying The US Controls Iran’s Money – Trump, “Iran’s economic situation is not sustainable and that the US has total control of the regime’s money. – During the Real America’s Voice interview, Trump detailed the various strategies the US could use against Iran. – He said the first strategy would be to “just keep it alone, and they’re going to fail.”

American Thinker: Why We Are Fighting Iran – Just think of what the IRGC would do if it actually had operational nuclear warheads. – Trump seeks the sweet spot of military pressure on Iran without massive destruction. – Meanwhile, Iran mined the Strait of Hormuz, rejects nuclear disarmament, and pursues atomic weapons, making the conflict unavoidable despite repeated diplomatic attempts.

Real Clear Defense: Greenland, The Missing Layer in America’s Defense – Greenland already defends America via Pituffik Space Base, but lacks sovereign integration. – This leaves ports, airspace, and infrastructure vulnerable to hybrid attacks Denmark can’t repel. – Only annexation, with Greenlandic consent via a referendum, would align military dependence with DHS civilian authority will close the gap between strategic value and legal responsibility.

American Thinker: These DSA Radicals Must Be Soundly Defeated – Centrist Democrats delude themselves that the socialist storm will pass, but radicals like Hasan Piker openly call for Marxist-Leninist purges of moderates. – These people won’t moderate or reason, they must be defeated at the ballot box, or the party is lost.

Slay News: Even MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Blasts Democrats for Failing to Distance Themselves from Far-Left Extremist Hasan Piker – Scarborough delivered a blistering rebuke of Democrats on Monday, accusing party leaders of refusing to distance themselves from far-left extremist Hasan Piker, warning they risk repeating the political mistakes that cost them in 2024. – “It’s really, it’s crazy that we’re even having this conversation.”

JD Rucker: The Normalization of Political Jihad in America – President Trump named Democrat nominees as jihadists, not the bomb-vest kind but political jihadists that are using ballots to destroy Western civilization from within, just as the Muslim Brotherhood’s 1991 memorandum described. – The red-green alliance of socialists and Islamists that are now winning primaries by normalizing constitutional subversion.

Daily Signal: Trump Slams Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax While Judge Halts Implementation of Property Listings – Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi ruled that the city must remove the tax listing of 960,000 properties it posted online in July. – Trump, “The tax “is costing NYC and State a fortune compared to the TAXES PAID by the tens of thousands of people who are fleeing the City, never to return.

Townhall: Why Did Abdul El-Sayed Delete Hundreds of YouTube Videos? – This radical far-left socialist is trying to hide his policy views and moderate his image to get elected. – Those videos included El-Sayed wanting to replace the Second Amendment, end Independence Day Fireworks, and attacking Republicans for securing our borders. – Of course, El-Sayed’s campaign says those videos “don’t reflect his beliefs today.”

Washington Free Beacon: El-Sayed Proclaimed His ‘Obligation’ To Follow Sharia Law Until the Day He Dies – ‘When I die and I stand before God, I don’t want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way,’ El-Sayed told the New York Times in 2009. – Sharia, or Islamic religious law, sets strict rules for living that include harsh restrictions on women and gruesome, medieval-era forms of criminal justice.

Townhall: Trump Accounts Just Got Another Significant Upgrade – American employers can create contribution programs for Trump Accounts, the Treasury Department announced on Tuesday. – Employers can give up to $2,500 a year into the account as a workplace benefit, and they can also allow workers to put their money into a dependent’s account pre-tax.

Gateway Pundit: Michigan’s far-left Democrat AG, Dana Nessel, publicly announced she refuses to attend the upcoming Michigan Democrat Party nominating convention later this month. – She literally fears for her safety from her own party’s radical base. – The Jewish AG ripped her own party for failing to address the radical anti-Semitic left while rolling out the welcome mat for indicted members charged with anti-Semitic vandalism, harassment, and threats...

Brownstone: Deep Capture: With total command over media and law enforcement, it is possible to rewrite the collective memory of an entire population if you have one generation in which to accomplish it. – With fully infiltrated and captured institutions it is possible to take control over an entire country without firing a shot if you have two. – Alarmingly, we are now in the final mile, and the ghost in the machine has a government ID.

American Thinker: Two fantasies that collide with reality – Biology confirms sex is determined by XX or XY chromosomes, and no drugs or surgery can change that. – This while women’s lower muscle mass and testosterone make competing against men impossible. – History proves Marxism killed over 130 million and all 11 attempted socialist states failed, delivering only elite enrichment and mass suffering. – Wake Up America…

American Thinker: Divided Democrats, It’s Not Just Israel, NATO and China Are In The Mix Too – Democrats support NATO, Ukraine aid, and confronting China’s rise, while the DSA opposes NATO expansion, military aid to Ukraine, and the Chips Act, aligning with Putin’s grievances and Beijing’s multipolar narrative. This strategic chasm between Democrats and their insurgent socialist wing remains largely overlooked.

American Spectator: Senator McCormick Nailed The Democrat’s Nightmare – McCormick called Democrats anti-law enforcement, anti-military, anti-business, antisemitic, and anti-American after Michigan nominated hard-left El-Sayed. – This radicalization traces back to the 1968 Democratic Convention riots, and a cultural split unresolved for 58 years. – It resulted in the hard Left turn and “radicalization” re-shaping the Democrat Party.

American Thinker: The Smiling Butchery Of These Stone Cold Sociopaths – Fauci privately knew the COVID shot increased miscarriage risk yet publicly urged pregnant women to take it. – This while Governor Healey signed a bill for late-term abortion up to birth surrounded by smiling, clapping women. – Both acts reveal a conscience-free, sociopathic evil that has caused unimaginable suffering.

American Thinker: Mathematical research confirms pure democracy is impossible. – Every electoral system requires compromises among regional representation, proportionality, and parliament size. – The Founding Fathers wisely created a representative republic with checks and balances, not a democracy. – This is why proportional and ranked-choice voting systems inevitably fail.

American Thinker: Our Digital Ball and Chain – Everyone carries an invisible digital chain, as apps predict routines, loyalty cards track pantries, and Flock license plate readers log every vehicle’s movement into permanent AI databases. – The real privacy violation lies not in data collection but in how fallible governments and people wield that collected data.

Western Journal: Nancy Pelosi Is Attempting to Sabotage the Front-Runner Scott Wiener to Replace Her in Congress, Instead Pushing For San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan. – In California’s jungle primary system, the top two vote-getters advance no matter what party they belong to. – Given that Pelosi’s San Francisco-based 11th Congressional District is heavily Democratic, Wiener will face Chan in November…

Issues & Insights: California Is The Blackout State – Federal data show that no state had as many power outages across more than two decades as California. – The nearly 500 grid breakdowns correlate with state increases in renewable energy. – Maybe there’s been no causation, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be in the future, because the intermittency of renewables is a mismatch with power grid peak demand needs…

Daily Wire: Gavin Newsom Has A New Buzzword For Believing In Nothing, “People’s desire for change.” – Governor Gavin Newsom is scrambling to rewrite history, and reinvent himself, as his Democrat party lurches leftward and embracing candidate after candidate who’s younger and more extreme than the last. – He proclaims he could be all of those things while bringing experience that comes from his more than two decades in elected office.

Slay News: Scientists Warn Of A Coming ‘Biblical Mega Flood’ Risk Threatening Millions in California – The Great Flood of 1861-62 was the last, with geological evidence of at least six larger mega floods during the past 1,800 years. – California’s Central Valley would bear the brunt of the catastrophe. – Floodwaters would surge through the Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems before spreading across one of America’s most productive agricultural regions.

America First Report: Texas conservative activist Bonnie Wallace is suing the Houston Independent School District after the school board removed her from a meeting for reading sexually explicit passages from a book available in the district’s school libraries. – Wallace previously attended multiple school board meetings to show trustees that books containing sexually explicit material are available in their school libraries and should be removed.

Monday, August 10, 2026

New York Post: President Trump was secretly whisked off Air Force One in an airport catering truck last month and departed Turkey on a separate military Air Force C-32A flight in response to a threat from Iran. – Even White House staff believed that they were on the same plane as the president when they departed the annual NATO Summit in Ankara on July 8th…

New York Post: Iran’s 78.3% ‘misery’ index is at a record high, and is about to get worse due to Trump’s latest move. – The current situation has gotten so bad that some Iranians have been reportedly forced to start stealing groceries and foregoing medical treatment just to survive. – The US has also hampered Iran’s shadow banking networks and crypto exploits, with two new sanctions slapped against the industries last week…

Washington Times: The Ceuta invasion is just another step toward a Muslim Europe – Spain’s socialist PM granted citizenship to illegals for votes, mirroring Democrats importing millions under Biden to reshape the electorate. – From Ceuta’s 60,000 invaders to New Jersey’s tainted voter rolls, the left weaponizes immigration, with total indifference to the cost borne by the local populations.

Fox News: – The dominance of the Democrat Party is being challenged by the DSA, a modern version of perhaps, the American Communist Party that started in 1919. – Some establishment Democrats are finally raising their voices in alarm, garnering such headlines as these: “A Small Band of Socialists Is Sowing Panic in the Democratic Party.” – “Slumping Democratic establishment takes another blow with Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan win.”

Newsmax: Border Czar Tom Homan says immigration authorities have posted back-to-back record months for arrests of illegal aliens, and he expects the numbers to climb even higher as the administration adds agents and expands enforcement operations. – ICE data showed 43,138 arrests in June, surpassing the previous monthly high of Trump’s second term.

Daily Caller: Trump to Unveil An FBI Report Showing The Largest Violent Crime Drop On Record Come Friday – Trump is traveling to the Nassau County Police Academy alongside newly sworn-in Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel. – During the event, the president will hold a press conference to release the report…

Issues & Insights: For the August online national I&I/TIPP Poll, was taken from July 28 to August 1, with 1,463 adults responding. – A total of 42% said they supported military action either “strongly” (22%) or “somewhat,” while a 44% plurality said they opposed it “strongly” (28%) or “somewhat” (16%). Another 14% said they were not sure.

Red State: Trump’s DC Law-And-Order Surge Delivers Eye-Popping One-Year Results – The Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force will mark its first anniversary Tuesday. – More than 16,000 arrests, thousands of illegal drugs and firearms taken off the streets, and dangerous violent offenders brought to justice mean safer neighborhoods and lives protected,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Western Journal: At least 22 Democrat attorneys general signed an ominous “common interest agreement” document before President Trump’s 2024 election, vowing to pursue lawfare against Trump’s future administration. – The document outlined a lawfare campaign that would become known as the “Project for Federal Accountability.”…

Zero Hedge: The latest Bloomberg data show that shipping transits through the Strait of Hormuz remained largely disrupted Monday morning, even as Iran and Oman reportedly moved closer to a deal. – Brent crude futures traded near $85 a barrel as markets priced in the possibility that a deal to reopen the maritime chokepoint could be imminent. – Yet global supply-chain stress remains near its highest level since the pandemic…

Western Journal: Western Colombia Rocked by A Powerful 7.4 Magnitude Earthquake – Images and videos immediately shared on social media purported to show panic and damage. – According to the Associated Press, the epicenter was in San Jose del Palmar, a city of about 4,800 people in Colombia’s Choco region.

Center For Immigration Studies: Temporary Visas Should Be Temporary – DHS recently took an important step toward restoring the distinction between temporary (nonimmigrant) and permanent (immigrant) visa categories. Under a final rule published July 17, foreign students, exchange visitors, and representatives of foreign media, nonimmigrant visa categories, will no longer be admitted for an indefinite period, called “duration of status.”

Slay News: Trump’s State Department Has Revoked More Than 175,000 Visas in Sweeping Crackdown – The State Department targeted foreign nationals accused of crimes, immigration abuse, fraud, threats against Americans, and national security violations. – Most of the revocations resulted from encounters with law enforcement involving criminal conduct.

Slay News: JD Vance, “Fraud Investigations Show A ‘Clear Pattern’ of Somali Migrant Fraud, Stealing from Taxpayers – JD Vance said the Trump administration has uncovered patterns of fraud spreading through certain migrant communities as federal investigators target schemes that have drained billions of dollars from taxpayer-funded programs. – “Getting money back is very hard.” – “Once it’s gone out the door, it’s very hard to get it back.”

New York Post: The Timber Fire in Monterey County expanded to 800 acres Monday, doubling its size from Sunday evening while remaining just 5% contained. – Burning southeast of Loma Vista within the rugged terrain of the Los Padres National Forest, the blaze was first reported Saturday night at around 9:38 p.m. – Containment efforts have been severely hampered by difficult site access, heavy fuel loads, and spotting.

Townhall: President Trump is demanding compensation for past deeds from the Islamic Republic of Iran in the ongoing talks with the Middle Eastern nation. – Trump said the funds should not only go toward the families of American soldiers, but also to “families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent protestors that Iran has killed over the last 50 years.”…

Breitbart: This weekend Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey signed a joint defense pact apparently intended to protect each other from Iran. – The Iranian Islamist regime did not immediately issue a public statement in response to the defense, but various Iranian officials tried to frame it as a loss for America despite its apparent objective of protecting participating parties from Iranian terrorism.

Breitbart: Between five and ten thousand people from across the political spectrum took to the streets of Ceuta, Spain on Sunday to proclaim that their city is Spanish and to demand that the socialist government in Madrid enforce border control after tens of thousands of Moroccan illegals stormed the territory. – This represents an existential threat to the way of life for this exclave of just 87,000 people…

American Thinker: Trump is Crushing Birth Tourism, Despite His Supreme Court Setback – After the Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Barbara, Trump signed executive orders ending birth tourism and denying citizenship to children of illegal or temporary residents, exploiting the SCOTUS’s recognized exceptions. – His move defends sovereignty, curbs abuse, and pressures voters ahead of a pivotal midterm.

American Thinker: Abdul El-Sayed, The Enemy Inside the Gates – Michigan Democrats nominated Abdul El-Sayed, who campaigned with Hasan Piker, a streamer who excused the 9/11 attacks, Hamas rapes, and Hezbollah. – This reveals a party captured by anti-Western extremists who hate both Israel and America. – Is this the type of person who should be elected to Congress?

American Thinker: El-Sayed promises to raise taxes on the middle class if elected to the Senate – Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed admitted his socialist healthcare plan would raise taxes on the middle class, trading private insurance for government control, ignoring that Obamacare already spiked costs 70% and nationalized systems breed shortages and stagnation.

American Thinker: It’s not about Affordability, It’s about Freedom! – Republicans must ignore the left’s “affordability” trap. – The Democrats caused inflation, housing, and healthcare crises through spending and regulation, and are now offering socialist “solutions” based on government control. – The election is about prosperity versus scarcity and freedom versus communism. – Republicans need to pound that home…

American Thinker: The Democrats Gave Us Today’s Inflation – Inflation hits at the grocery counter. – Still, its origins lie in policy decisions like the two-trillion-dollar spending bill that flooded an already strained supply chain during the Biden administration. – The real political battle is between causes and consequences, and memory versus convenient amnesia from the Left and mainstream media outlets…

Center Square: In the past decade, government grants to nonprofits and the number of nonprofits that receive tax money has doubled, raising questions about whether public money is being wasted. – In 2020, that number went up to nearly $310 billion with more than 110,000 nonprofits receiving taxpayer funding. Two years later, the numbers peaked at $319 billion though about 10,000 fewer nonprofits received government cash…

Daily Caller: President Trump Is Set To Sign An Executive Order Calling For More Vaccine Flexibility And Research Via Three Policies – First, better educate states to harmonize their policies with HHS study finding that America’s 18-disease childhood vaccination schedule is more crowded than those in other high income nations in Europe and Asia. – Second, the HHS Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines will generate a report in 90-days…

Washington Post: California’s plan to block the Paramount merger is going to flop – The deal would bring jobs and investment to the state, but blue-state attorneys general want to block the merger. – This case is more about politics than law. – Paramount CEO David Ellison believes opposition to the deal is so fueled by concerns about the political direction in which he would take CNN they would kneecap efforts to revitalize Hollywood…

America First Report: Apparently, one of the best ways to make $400,000 a year in the New York area is to work for the Port Authority. – Twenty Port Authority employees, including 17 cops, cleared $400,000 in total compensation last year as the agency’s payroll sailed past $1.2 billion. – And much of the magic came from everyone’s favorite government money fountain, you guessed it, overtime.

Patriot TV? Gavin Newsom’s Secret Calendar Shows He Barely Clocked In – Eighteen weekdays were marked “no official business.” – There were fifty-three blocks of mysterious “work time.” – A typical day often starts after 9 a.m. and wraps before 5 p.m.. – This is how California’s highest-paid public servant spent the first four months of the year. – Some of those empty days lined up with Newsom’s nationwide book tour…

California Globe: Governor Newsom’s Taxpayer-Paid Staff is Promoting His Campaign Activities for President in Michigan – This, even though California law restricts the use of public resources, including staff time, for purely campaign or partisan purposes. – Newsom was in the Detroit metro area over the weekend for a multi-day swing supporting local Democrats, including canvassing and events with candidates for the state House…

Post Millennial: Starbucks closed another Seattle store as downtown office vacancies mount – The downtown Seattle office market was already struggling with historically high vacancies. Seattle’s office vacancy rate has climbed to roughly 37%, the highest in the US, while downtown has lost approximately 30,000 jobs since 2020, according to a recent Downtown Seattle Association analysis.

American Thinker: The Stopwatch Doesn’t Lie, Biology, Not Gender Identity, Defines Women’s Sports – On July 16, 1988, Florence Griffith-Joyner sprinted 100 meters in 10.49 seconds at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. – Nearly four decades later, no woman has run faster, and she remains the fastest woman who has ever lived. – Yet her 100-meter record has repeatedly been surpassed by American high school boys.

American Thinker: The WNBA should remember Magic vs. Bird – Larry Bird and Magic Johnson’s rivalry elevated the NBA through mutual respect despite their racial differences. – Unfortunately, WNBA players like Angel Reese and DiJonai Carrington viciously attack their white opponents like Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham with race based violence, yet there are no repercussions. – This will ultimately jeopardize their league’s survival.

Sunday, August 9, 2026

Resist The Mainstream: A Flagrant Foul on WNBA’s Cunningham Draws Attention of Florida AG – Saturday’s nationally televised game between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky took a chaotic turn in the first quarter when guard Sophie Cunningham went crashing to the floor mid-layup. – Chicago’s DiJonai Carrington had wrapped her arm around Cunningham’s neck during the play, a maneuver officials classified as a flagrant 2 foul and grounds for immediate ejection…

Epoch Times: President Trump says the US is “low-keying” its approach to negotiations with Iran, suggesting that economic pressure on Tehran is starting to take hold. – The U.S. launched strikes against Iran every day for about two weeks straight before Trump announced a stop in the attacks, saying that they would lead to more negotiations. – A U.S. naval blockade is still in effect against the country’s ports.

Newsmax: PM Netanyahu Says Israel Rejects Trump’s 15-point Plan for Gaza – Israel has said that Israeli troops in Gaza would not move before Hamas disarms. – Hamas has insisted that Israel halt attacks before it begins implementing the part of the agreement dealing with its arms. – “We are talking about genuine disarmament, not fictitious disarmament.”

Gateway Pundit: ABC’s Jonathan Karl Confronted AOC with DSA’s Radical Platform — AOC Says Americans Are Not Interested in These “Academic Debates” – Defund the Defense Dept. and close American military bases overseas – Abolish the police and prison system – Grant for all immigrant in the US – Replace the president and SCOTUS with bodies subordinate to Congress – Abolish the Senate – Place major corporations and essential industries under public ownership…

Western Journal: Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey Signed A New Law Blocking ICE Access to Several Locations – The law names schools, daycares, hospitals, health centers, nursing homes, and courthouses as places ICE cannot access. – An official claimed that children in Chelsea, where she signed the legislation, have not been attending school for fear of ICE encounters…

American Spectator: The Marxist-Islamist Alliance Feeds on DSA’s Naïveté – The far left’s celebration of shared victimhood and anti-colonial rhetoric provides Islamists with camouflage that they will quickly shed if their war on the West succeeds. – The DSA poseurs don’t understand that their movement is viewed by Islamists as a product of Western culture and politics.

Breitbart: DOT Secretary Sean Duffy announced changes to U.S. regulations that would require commercial truckers to be able to speak and read English. – “English proficiency will now become a permanent requirement.” – “Today, I am proposing to lock English proficiency rules into federal regulations FOR GOOD so no future administration can ever undo them.”…

Western Journal: WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert Announces the League Is Reviewing Trans Inclusion After Former NBA Players Declare for the WNBA Draft – “It is time to figure out this thorny question that many believe is decided by biological reality.” – “Our player eligibility rules, unlike the eligibility rules of some other leagues and governing bodies, are collectively bargained.”

Zero Hedge: Iran’s state Mehr has purported to release video of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei for the ‘first time’ since the start of the war, and since he was wounded in a US-Israeli airstrike in the opening days of the attacks – However, analysts, as well as social media users in Iran, were quick to identify the footage as old material from his past lectures in Qom.

Times of Israel: PM Netanyahu rejects Trump Board of Peace’s 15-point Gaza plan, insists he can stand up to President Trump – Netanyahu says Hamas must fully disarm before IDF will begin to pull back

Zero Hedge: The United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk has expressed alarm over a sharp increase in executions and death sentences in Iran – He warned that authorities are using capital punishment to intimidate the population and suppress dissent. – At least 56 people have been executed on national security-related charges, including 27 in cases connected to protests earlier this year, with more than 100 others…

Zero Hedge: Europe’ Economy Was Once Bigger Than The US Economy, So What Happened? – Over the past two decades their economic trajectories have diverged significantly. – This line chart below, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, tracks GDP of the EU and U.S. economies from 2006 to 2026 – Things changed dramatically after 2014…

JD Rucker: Musk Bets $16.8 Billion That America Can Build Its Own Chips Again – SpaceX and Tesla announced Thursday that Terafab, their jointly developed semiconductor plant, will be built in Grimes County, Texas, about an hour northwest of Houston. – When finished, the facility is planned to exceed 100 million square feet of manufacturing space, which would make it the largest building on Earth by an almost absurd margin.

Epoch Times: The IRS to Propose Retirement Regulations Impacting Millions of Taxpayers Related to Saver’s Match, a new program introduced to make saving easier and more rewarding for the taxpayer. – Under the program, the government will match eligible taxpayers with up to 50% of the first $2,000 in retirement savings contributions made to an employer-sponsored retirement plan or IRA.

American Thinker: The Mohammunist Manifesto, Public Or Private, Nothing Is Beyond Its Control – Islamic and Marxist Leninist systems share a structural claim: no private sphere is permanently protected, only provisionally tolerated. – Both grant ruling authorities unlimited discretion to reclassify any act based on shifting judgments of consequence, ensuring total societal control remains always possible.

American Thinker: Bernie And The Far Left – He’s never held a real job in his life, but is now leading the most energized Far-Left parade in America. – Sanders put socialism atop the Democrat agenda. – His leftist candidates are winning primaries due to educated elites, but the actual working class rejects democratic socialism, soft on crime policies, open borders, and wokeness. – Hopefully, the working votes in droves, come November…

American Thinker: What ‘America First’ Really Means – We let politicians and Wall Street convince us free trade required outsourcing jobs, subsidizing rivals, and hollowing out American industry. – America’s unmatched workers, innovation, and infrastructure were betrayed by elites who replaced real production with financial manipulation, destroying communities while enriching multinational monopolies. – Wake Up America…

Fox Business: Gen Z’s Ghosting Habit Moves To The Workplace – Some hiring managers say candidates are accepting job offers, but then fail to complete paperwork or simply never showing up for their first day of work. – WSJ associate editor Mary Julia Koch also argues that growing up online has made face-to-face interactions more intimidating for some young people…

Sharyl Attkisson: Americans are more likely now than they were six years ago to say marriage is very important for couples who have a child together. – According to Gallup, 39% say it is very important for a couple with a child together to legally marry, up 10 points from 29% in 2020. That returns the figure to its 2013 level, although it remains below the 49% recorded in 2006.

Saturday, August 8, 2026

Fox 13: Iran’s Current Demands – The US must never threaten Iran again, and must permanently end the war with Iran and its armed allies in the region. The U.S. must lift the naval blockade of Iranian ports and withdraw its military from the area. – It also must “completely compensate” Iran for war damage, lift sanctions and “unconditionally” release frozen assets. – Meanwhile, Shipping through the Strait is limited…

Daily Caller: The Senate skipped town Saturday for its August recess without passing the SAVE Act. – Republican Senators Ron Johnson, Mike Lee, and Rick Scott stood down from a planned budget resolution for Reconciliation 3.0 after they determined it did not have the votes to pass late Friday…

Liberty Daily: Non-U.S. Citizens From Iran Were Allowed to Vote in Michigan Primary Without ID – One Iranian subject told OMG he had voted in the previous three elections and intended to vote again on Michigan Primary Day. – On July 6, 2026, AG General Harmeet Dhillon notified Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson they knowingly retaining non-U.S. citizens on Michigan’s statewide voter registration list…

New York Post: Children are failing due to an education system that doesn’t care, and teacher unions are to blame. – When teacher unions get their way standards are lowered, with no consequences for bad schools or bad instructors. – Most states now screen every child in reading, starting in kindergarten. – New York still does not require it, even after the state’s own task force recommended it in 2024.

Gateway Pundit: WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert PANICS, Sends Memo Calling Biological Males in Women’s Sports “Complex and Nuanced” – The league is launching task-force meetings and “listening sessions” as two former NBA players demand to know whether its women-only eligibility rule is based on sex or self-identification.

Daily Caller: The Senate Confirmed Todd Blanche As AG After A Handful Of GOP Holdouts Threatened His Nomination – The upper chamber confirmed Blanche 50-49, with every Democrat and two Republicans, Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, voting against him.

One America News: The Senate confirms 74 Trump nominees just before the August recess – The bulk confirmations occurred on Friday in a 51-to-47 vote, clearing a major slate of executive officials ahead of the five-week August congressional recess. – This brings the total number of confirmed Trump administration nominees, including federal judges and U.S. attorneys, to 136.

Economic Collapse Report: The Senate Kicked the Can Down the Road Again With Funding Bill Handcuffing Trump on the Border – The Senate voted to keep the federal government funded through December 11, then bolted for August recess. – There were no real cuts and no permanent fixes. – Just another short-term patch so lawmakers can campaign without a shutdown hanging over their heads.

American Thinker: Stop Negotiating and Get the Job Done in Iran – Post-WWII normalcy bias drives U.S. war strategy toward compromise, not victory. – MacArthur knew war demands total defeat. – This lesson has been lost in the Iran conflict, where ceasefire cycles let the martyrdom-driven IRGC rearm. – Defeating Iran requires cutting supply routes, destroying ports, and arming the opposition.

American Thinker: Democrats’ embrace of Islamo-socialism is party suicide – Democrats’ “big tent” excuse is collapsing as Islamo-socialists drive out working-class and minority voters. – The party embraces nihilistic, anti-American extremism aligned with Hamas, while postmodern welfare-state liberalism fails. – This isn’t just moral decay; it’s political suicide they will regret, come November.

American Thinker: Democratic socialists seek to cripple American AI – The DSA and AOC push an AI data center moratorium under pretenses of existential harm and job destruction, ignoring that innovation creates jobs. – Closed-loop cooling solves water concerns, and 92% of new centers generate their own power. – Stifling American AI will only hand victory to China. – And they probably want that…

American Thinker: There’s actually very good news behind those ‘job loss’ numbers our Leftist media is twisting – July’s headline job loss of 23,000 masks the real story. – Government shed 53,000 positions while the private sector added 30,000. – That’s not economic weakness; it’s right-sizing a bloated state that leaches from wealth creators. – An honest headline would celebrate it.

American Thinker: Wealth Taxes Don’t Work – Envy is a deadly sin. – It fuels socialist politics, as evidenced by Zohran Mamdani inciting resentment against billionaires like Ken Griffin. – Wealth taxes don’t work because they drive away capital, reduce jobs, and shrink revenue. – True help for the poor comes from job creation, not punitive, envy-driven taxation…

Geller Report: Dearborn, Michigan Imams Unveiled – “Oh Allah, kill every Jew, Christian, and American.” – They’re not hiding their intentions any longer. – Dearborn, home to the largest Arab-American community in the US, was one of the strongest bases of support for Abdul El-Sayed, the newly elected Democrat nominee for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat…

American Thinker: How Little Has Changed Between ‘Political Correctness’ and ‘Woke’ – PC and woke are twin forms of performative self-righteousness. – They demand silence from opponents to signal virtue. – Both terms finally collapsed into mockery because Americans reject being told to shut up. – Our Founders got it right by grounding rights in divine authority, not human vanity.

JD Rucker: The WNBA Is the Next Version of the Marxist BLM PsyOp – BLM was a Marxist psyop funded by Soros and the Ford Foundation to dismantle the Black nuclear family and push queer theory onto the most churchgoing demographic in America. – When that failed, the WNBA became the new front, using opposition to trans athletes as a wedge to indoctrinate resistant Black voters.

American Thinker: With Social Security, Who Represents the Beneficiary? – Social Security’s fatal flaw is that trustees lack investment discretion. – It is bound to Treasury securities with no fiduciary duty to beneficiaries. – This socialist design, worsened by quantitative easing, guarantees perpetual shortfalls. – Reform requires granting trustees prudent investment authority…

Geller Report: Democrat Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Faces A Pay-to-Play Corruption Probe – Hobbs is being investigated by an attorney general from her own party who has unresolved questions about outside money. – Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has promised to deliver a verdict just before voters decide whether to re-elect Hobbs.

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Winner and Still Champion Edition –
Anthony Fauci was our prime meme target again this week. – Apart from Fauci, the WNBA was on the receiving end of a lot of ridicule, and something happened concerning burritos…

Friday, August 7, 2026

One America News: The Senate approved the Russian sanctions package ‘in honor of the late Senator Lindsey Graham’ – The bill authorizes tariffs of up to 100% on foreign nations purchasing Russian oil and natural gas. – Major global importers, including China and India, face potential trade penalties unless they reduce their reliance on Russian fossil fuels…

Slay News: A Federal Judge Ruled That the Trump Administration Can End Deportation Protections for South Sudanese Migrants – U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris ruled that the plaintiffs could not revive their challenge after the Supreme Court rejected materially similar arguments earlier this year.

Townhall: Justice Alito Just Made a Huge Announcement About His Potential Retirement – Justice Samuel Alito declared he’s sticking around, which is causing much heartache throughout liberal America. – NPR took down its story and posted a retraction, but the story behind NPR’s epic story was as unreal and sloppy as its supposed unbiased journalism.

Breitbart: Colombia’s conservative President Abelardo de la Espriella took office as the nation’s new head of state on Friday. – Espriella, a 48-year-old lawyer nicknamed “The Tiger” and highly supportive of President Trump and the United States, became the next Colombian head of state after defeating far-left Senator Iván Cepeda in the June 21 presidential runoff election.

American Spectator: Sophie Cunningham Says Biological Men Should Not Play in the WNBA – As WNBA leadership bows to ideology, Sophie Cunningham has been standing up for common sense and female athletes in all sports. – Although Cunningham has largely stood alone in her beliefs within the WNBA, a recent constitutional decision lends legal support to her position…

Western Journal: A Former NBA Star Declares His Entry Into The WNBA Draft – It appears the WNBA is getting closer to its put-up-or-shut-up time. – The WNBA says males in female sports is a good thing, so Enes Kanter Freedom, a player who is no stranger to controversy, announced on Friday that he is declaring himself eligible for next year’s WNBA draft.

City Journal: Where Did Gender Identity Come From? – Gender identity is a recent social construct, not a timeless truth. – It was first coined in 1963 for rare clinical cases. – It was then leveraged to become a patient-empowered identity imperative and was institutionalized through quiet policy changes. – It has generated intense social strife as a tool for pushing various Leftist causes…

American Thinker: Phony Mamdani employs an army of bots to cheer him on as he addresses the public in various accents. – Mamdani’s popularity is boosted by bot accounts traced to NYC Hall IPs. – This mirrors Kamala Harris’s and Xavier Becerra’s fake grassroots tactics. – He also uses at least four accents that voters despise. – Will Democrats ever learn that phoniness is a losing proposition?

Slay News: Chris Rabb, the socialist Democrat positioned to represent most of Philadelphia in Congress, refuses to accept the premise that illegal aliens are illegal and is openly calling for abolishing ICE and ending all deportations. – Rabb also argues that “99%” of police work does not involve pursuing criminals, defending the dismantling of traditional law enforcement.

Western Journal: Anthony Fauci Subpoenaed in 3 States – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that his office, in conjunction with West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, issued an investigative subpoena demanding that Fauci produce a range of documents dating from Jan. 3, 2020, through the present.

New York Post: Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s access to classified material was revoked after he was accused of leaking sensitive information to reporters. – Several NYT journalists were subpoenaed for their report that the Boeing 747 jet gifted to President Trump by Qatar was swapped out ahead of the commander-in-chief’s return from the NATO summit in Turkey over a “security precaution.”

American Greatness: Trump Gives Iran One Last Chance. – Tehran Is the One Running Out of Time – Economic strangulation threatens something much harder to survive: the regime’s ability to pay the soldiers and police who keep it in power.

Zero Hedge: The Exit Narrative Grows – Bessent, “Hormuz could reopen under a 30-60 day ceasefire as soon as today or tomorrow.” – Iran asserts that US & Israeli vessels remain barred until sanctions are lifted and compensation is paid. – Iran remains defiant, saying out it still has the leverage & can threaten Hormuz…

Economic Collapse Report: Jobless Claims Stayed Under 200,000 for The Third Straight Week For The First Time in 57 Years – New filings for unemployment benefits came in at 199,000 last week. – That is up a mere 1,000 from the prior week’s revised 198,000, and better than the 201,000 that so-called experts expected.

Epoch Times: Senator Bill Cassidy Says He’ll Support Blanche for AG. – This Clears The Path for Confirmation – Republicans Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins will vote no. – With the two Republican no votes, Blanche cannot afford to lose any other Republicans given likely unified Democratic opposition and Sen. Mitch McConnell’s absence due to health issues.

Breitbart: The DC court of appeals ordered Trump to stop White House ballroom construction in a 2-1 decision. – Patricia Millett was appointed by Barack Obama. – Bradley Garcia was appointed by Joe Biden. – The DC circuit is widely considered to be the second most powerful court in the country, behind the Supreme Court.

Foreign Affairs: China’s New Legal Weapon – In May, China’s Ministry of Commerce ordered Chinese firms to disregard U.S. sanctions against five domestic refiners processing Iranian crude oil. – Weeks later, China’s Ministry of Justice declaring that the EU’s anti-subsidy probe into a Chinese security firm was an improper assertion of foreign jurisdiction…

American Thinker: Election Integrity Is Not Voter Suppression – The left hysterically labels every election safeguard, from voter ID to citizenship verification, as voter suppression. – The SAVE Act requires proof of citizenship and photo ID, while evidence shows such laws don’t suppress minority voting turnout. – Reasonable verification protects every citizen’s vote from dilution.

American Thinker: The Mohammunist Manifest, or Monopoly Rule By Elites – Islamic and Marxist-Leninist systems concentrate interpretive authority in a closed selected elite. – This creates a monopoly that converts doctrine into political control. – Ordinary members cannot challenge core claims without the challenge itself becoming an offense, making their monopoly essential to ruling power.

Geller Report: The Islamic Threat to the West – The West faces demographic and cultural decline. – Islamist totalitarianism advancing due to elite cowardice and mass immigration. – Free thinkers like the late Oriana Fallaci, Mark Steyn, and Douglas Murray warned us of civilizational surrender, so hopefully anti-immigration efforts can provide course correction before it’s too late…

Daily Wire: Belgian lawmaker Darya Safai, who escaped the clutches of Tehran’s ruthless ayatollahs warns Americans of the same threat on U.S. soil. – She issued a chilling warning to the United States after shocking images surfaced from Dearborn, Michigan, a city she cautions is becoming a dangerous flashpoint just 25 years after 9/11.

American Thinker: How Democrats Went Left – Sixties radicalism, from Abbie Hoffman to the Weather Underground, was shaped by Marxist academics and leftist fervor. – Obama’s ties to former radicals and the Democrats’ 2020 pact with Sanders cemented the party’s leftward shift, a strategy that failed in 2024. – Obama was not a DSA, but his leftist views were widely accepted…

American Thinker: Groceries Illustrate That Communists Can’t Do Math – Grocery economics are unforgiving, with thin margins measured in pennies. – Government stores promising 30% discounts cannot escape costs, they just relocate them. – So when the invoice arrives, someone always pays. – We have affordable prices because capitalism and free markets have always worked…

American Thinker: Those Affluent Progressives for Socialism! – Affluent progressives aren’t guilt-ridden capitalists, they build careers in media, academia, NGOs, and government to dismantle the system they despise. For them, socialism offers control, revenge, and more wealth, not relief from oppression.

American Thinker: In Pursuit of The American Dream – The American Dream isn’t dead, it’s a personal pursuit of happiness through effort, not government-distributed material goods. – The Left redefines it as something owed, fostering socialist dependency, but the dream was always about opportunity, hard work, and individual striving, not guaranteed equal outcomes.

American Thinker: Globalism Must Be Vanquished – “Globalism” emerged as a pejorative for allegiance to international institutions over nation states. – Post-WWII, nationalism was demonized while patriotism survived, but globalism’s true goal is eradicating culture, history, and the nation state itself, rebranding imperialism as internationalism.

American Thinker: The Sentencing Illusion – The “sentencing illusion” means a twenty-year sentence often yields only eight years served, thanks to plea bargains, early release, and crowded dockets. – Prosecutors and judges respond to efficiency incentives, not public safety, while recidivism rates near 83% prove the revolving door persists at the expense of the general public.

Wayne Allyn Root: “If You Take the mRNA New Flu Vaccine, You are Reckless, Gullible, Delusional, and Mentally-Ill, And Must Have a Death Wish.” – We now know Dr. Fauci funded the research that created the Covid pandemic, and then tried desperately to cover it up. – The newest flu vaccine is made using the same mRNA technology as the deadly Covid vaccine?

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Epoch Times: The Senate Just Passes A Bill to Impose New Sanctions on Russia and Iran – It imposes scorching sanctions on the Russian war machine and the shadow fleet that sustains it. – A powerful deterrent against complicity in Putin’s illegal war. – The bill must next go to a vote in the House of Representatives before the president can sign it into action.

Epoch Times: Trump Signs Two Orders to Curb Birthright Citizenship and Target Birth Tourism – One of the measures bans birth tourism, the practice of traveling to the United States on a tourist visa with the intention of having a child who is given automatic U.S. citizenship. – The other will expand the definition of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship.

Breitbart: Boosted by Tariffs, U.S. Manufacturing Has Enters a Renaissance – So much for the idea that tariffs would damage manufacturing. – Manufacturing output rose at a 4.6% annual rate in the second quarter. Hours worked increased 2.6%. – Productivity, which measures output per hour, rose 1.9%. – This is an odd sort of predicted industrial decline…

The Free Press: Fauci’s Legal Defense Flaw – As a federal appellate court stated 40 years ago, “A witness may not claim Fifth Amendment privilege fearing that he will be prosecuted for perjury for what he is about to say. – Or as the Supreme Court put it when dealing with a related issue in 1980, “anticipatory perjury” does not permit “invocation of the Fifth Amendment.

American Spectator: Meet America’s New Un-Americans, the DSA – A history of ideology, allegiance, and subversion. – A central figure who candidly spoke to this strategy years ago was Justice Democrats founder Cenk Uygur, who said, “What we need to do is take over the Democrat Party. – We’re going to primary all of the establishment Democrats, all vulnerable Democrats.” – This is a must read…

Washington Free Beacon: James Talarico, the out of step Presbyterian seminarian running for U.S. Senate from Texas, headlined an LGBTQ festival that featured an 11-year-old boy “drag queen” who goes by the stage name Kween Kee Kee. – Taylor PRIDE, a group in the town of Taylor, Texas, held the June 26, 2021, event to raise money to help “rural LGBTQ communities.”

Daily Signal: The Trump Expands Head Start Program That Shrunk Under Biden And Will Save $2 Billion – The “Reducing Federal Burden for Head Start Programs,” slashes the 130-page regulations governing the Head Start program to just 10 pages. – The program serves low-income families by providing early education and health programs for pregnant women, infants, toddlers, and preschool children.

Powerline: The Real Handmaid’s Tale – The dystopian novel describes a bizarre world in which women are oppressed. – Feminists say that world is really our world, but only when we happen to have a Republican president. – Of course, that is sheer fantasy–nothing like that happens in the United States. – That is unless you visit Dearborn, Michigan and view this jaw dropping parade…

Washington Free Beacon: The Palisades Fire Was Sparked By A “Hates The Rich” Anti-Capitalist- An upcoming criminal trial may reshape public opinion about the main cause of the 2025 Palisades Fire in Southern California, redefining it as a consequence not of climate change but of class warfare. – The fire killed 12 people, burned 23,707 acres, and destroyed 6,833 structures…

New York Post: Mitch McConnell, 84, has been discharged from the hospital after nearly 2 months, but he is not yet returning to the Senate. – “On the advice of my doctors, I’ll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home during the state work period, and I’ll continue to engage with my staff and colleagues on important Senate business,” McConnell also said.

NBC News: The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to eliminate a cap on the share of U.S. television households a single company can reach – In a 2-1 vote, the FCC repealed a 22-year-old rule holding that a company cannot own stations that reach more than a combined 39% of the U.S. television audience. – The ownership limit will be replaced by a case-by-case approach.

New York Post: Jason Arday’s Cambridge Grift Finally Ends – He supposedly overcame non-verbal autism and a brain tumor before soaring to the dizzying heights at Cambridge – The former “rock-star academic” famous for his long hair and tall resigned following media exposés of his plagiarized Ph.D. dissertation and his fabulist claims of racial oppression.

Zero Hedge: Hormuz Deal Shock – Iran parliament reviewed a draft Hormuz plan banning US and and Israel-linked vessels in Strait. – Oil rises as proposed restrictions raise supply concerns. – Houthis intensify attacks on Saudi oil shipping in the Red Sea. – Iran-Oman talks continue as US backs a diplomatic solution, searching for an offramp.

Zero Hedge: Samantha Dart, co-head of global commodities research at Goldman Sachs, “The energy situation in Russia is really one thing that worries us a lot.” – “I’d say on the oil side, diesel, I think is the oil product that is most vulnerable right now.” – Last month, Goldman analyst Daan Struyven warned that “Diesel is at the epicenter of the supply squeeze.

One America News: Trump denies WaPo U.S. munitions shortage claim and vows ‘leakers’ will be ‘hunted down’ and prosecuted. – “The U.S. has massive amounts of ‘munitions,’ especially of certain types. – Karoline Leavitt, “I was at Camp David with President Trump and Secretary Hegseth. This literally never happened, and we told the Washington Post that repeatedly.

Times of Israel: As Iran chokes off Hormuz, Gulf turns its back on strait to look at new energy routes – New pipelines are being created and old ones are being restored to transport oil and gas to the Red Sea and Mediterranean. – This could also help transform oil-poor Israel into an important player in one of the world’s most important markets. But Tehran won’t let that happen without a fight…

Breitbart: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian Was Allowed A Quick Meeting with Mojtaba Khamenei and has not seen him since. – The meeting was under such bizarre circumstances that it allegedly left Pezeshkian unsure if he had met with Khamenei at all. – “Pezeshkian could not see Khamenei in the dark and later asked whether the voice he had heard really belonged to the supreme leader.”

Epoch Times: A Senate Panel Has Voted to Hold Fauci in Contempt of Congress – Contempt of Congress is when a person who was subpoenaed by Congress “willfully makes default, or who refuses to answer any pertinent question under inquiry.” – Each count carries up to 12 months in prison. – Federal prosecutors will now decide whether to bring charges against the doctor.

American Thinker: Do GOP voters care the FBI turbocharged the Trump-Russia hoax – Newly declassified FBI memos reveal the bureau launched a criminal investigation into Trump days after he fired Comey, positioning him as a Russian asset. The probe, based on Clinton-funded fabrications and known falsehoods, paralyzed his presidency for years, proving Democrats will manufacture crises to sabotage Republicans.

Epoch Times: Maricopa County, Arizona, voter files were obtained illegally before the 2020 presidential election. – Authorities discovered that 633,000 voter data files had been exfiltrated from the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office just before the election, according to logs from the U.S. intelligence community and other documents.

American Thinker: The Art Of The Deal Will Fail In Iran – Trump’s deal-making delusion ignores that Islamist Iran shares no goals with America. – These jihadis welcome death, and taqiyyah permits endless lies, plus the mullahs want our complete destruction. – The only solution is eradicating the zealots, including imams in mosques, not futile ceasefires…

American Wire: DSA agents tout a radical new ‘requirement’ for any candidate they endorse – DSA says “It’s a requirement now” for their candidates to support dismantling the US Government – The DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer confirms their platform includes: – Abolishing the Senate, presidency, & Supreme Court – Abolishing ICE, borders, & prisons – Defunding the Pentagon – Mass amnesty for illegals…

Retirement Media: Walgreens Keeps Closing Stores as Crime Drives Pharmacies Out of Failed Cities – The reality is ugly. – In city after city run by progressive politicians, retail theft, violence, and the refusal to enforce basic laws have turned once-viable pharmacies into money pits. – Walgreens is reacting to conditions that local leaders created and then refuse to own.

American Thinker: Catastrophe Is Left-Wing – Left-wing policies always produce predictable catastrophes. – They worsen financial crises, pandemic deaths, mass immigration strain, and energy instability. – Its ideology replaces competence, costing lives and prosperity. – Spain and Europe offer America a stark warning: catastrophe is a political choice, not fate.

American Thinker: The Mohammunist Manifesto See The World as a Binary – In both Islam and communism, there is an “In” crowd and an “Out” crowd. – Islamic and Marxist-Leninist systems divide the world into legitimate and illegitimate groups, to transform or subordinate outsiders. – Truces are tactical, not permanent, and pluralism is rejected, making conflict inevitable.

Washington Examiner: Democrats from opposite sides of the party all rally behind their ‘big tent’ – The Michigan Senate Democrat primary was shows the schism within the Democrat Party. – But when pressed about the growing influence of the DSA within the party, Schumer replied, “Look, we are a big tent party, and being a big tent party is a strength, not a weakness.”

Washington Examiner: Jewish Democrats grapple with the el Sayed victory while Republicans seize an opening in the Michigan Senate race – Some Jewish Democrats already heard from Republicans hoping to capitalize on the unease surrounding el Sayed’s nomination. – The quick outreach underscored how the primary is set to shape the general election.

American Thinker: The Jews Vanishing Horizon In Europe – Antisemitism surges across Europe as radical Islam and demographic shifts erode Western foundations, making Jewish life untenable. – Jews are fleeing to Israel and America, while Christians face similar subjugation. – Their complacency ensures a bloody civilizational collapse sooner than later.

American Thinker: Don’t Confuse Urban Drug Addiction With Homelessness – Street homelessness is an addiction and mental health crisis, not the Leftist narrative of a housing shortage. Vagrants choose the streets to fund drug habits through theft and scrapping, and are further enabled by lax prosecution. – That they refuse housing that requires rules and sobriety is very telling.

The Federalist: Gavin Newsom’s Bungled High-Speed Rail Union Giveaway Project Includes Zero Trains – Trains have to be ordered well ahead of the need for them because they take time to build, and have to be available for testing well ahead of opening for passenger service. – The absence of a train contract indicates many more years of nothing, because trains are need for rail service…

New York Post: Gavin Newsom travelled for a schmoozing mission in Michigan after Abdul El-Sayed’s victory – The visit comes as the California governor continues expanding his national political footprint while publicly weighing a 2028 White House bid. – It also confirms his move to the left after he pledged support for the national billionaire’s tax last June.

American Thinker: The NBA bankrolls the women’s teams, so their silence speaks volumes – Clay Travis recently offered the WNBA’s Aces $10 million to play a boys’ high school team, to expose the biological athletic divide. – That back in 2017 the USWNT loss to U15 boys proves the point, yet institutions remain silent while girls face unfair competition and adult cowardice to address the issue.

Western Journal: Southwest Airlines Repeatedly Attempts to Block ICE from Arresting Illegal Aliens – In a July 25 incident, ICE agent tried to board a Southwest Airlines jet in Dallas, but was prevented from carrying out his duties by the airline. – Dallas-based Southwest staff also refused to share passenger information with ICE.

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Gateway Pundit: Majority Leader John Thune and Senator Tom Cotton are blocking DOJ investigator Joe DiGenova from obtaining the transcripts of John Brennan’s interviews with the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. – This is holding up the investigation into Brennan and his role in the deep state coup to take down President Trump in 2016.

Townhall: Know We Know Why Anthony Fauci Hired *THAT* Kind of Lawyer – The Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has a copy of Fauci’s iPhone that could reveal more about the man the media and the Democrats have turned into a religious idol. – His diaries, found on the HHS servers, revealed an egomaniac. – What will this device unveil?

Gateway Pundit: Michigan Voters Are JUMPING SHIP – Democrat Voters Vow to BACK Mike Rogers Over Socialist El-Sayed – Even loyal MS NOW viewers and self-described liberals are openly declaring they will not vote for the socialist-backed candidate and will instead support Republican Mike Rogers in November. – MS NOW host Chris Jansing herself reported the stunning defection

Daily Signal: Mamdani Purged Business Leaders to Cement Socialist Control of NYC – Mamdani eliminated businessmen and various other civic leaders from the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City board of advisers. – The Mayor’s Fund is a nonprofit organization that aids public-private initiatives in the city.

Epoch Times: Senate Has Confirmed Trump’s Pick for CDC Director – Dr. Erica Schwartz will become the top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. – Senators confirmed Susan Monarez in 2025 to head the CDC, but Trump fired her after one month in office after she clashed with HHS Secretary RFK Jr. over how to handle guidance from the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel.

Zero Hedge: Houthis apparently attacked two vessels off Yemen’s coast on Tuesday, with one vessel sunk. – This is clearly an assault on international shipping by the Iran-aligned group. – The incident took place 95 nautical miles south-east of Aden, Yemen, according to UKMTO, adding that all crew are “accounted for and safe”.

Zero Hedge: An Iran-Oman Hormuz Route Is ‘Agreed To’ As Iran Warns Against US ‘Interference’ – Tehran says it has finalized a shipping route with Oman, blaming U.S. actions for delaying a final agreement. – Iranian officials say the deal would lock in Iran’s wartime gains and strategic leverage over Hormuz. – Trump says a deal could come within days, while Iran insists the talks are only with Oman.

Fox News: President Trump renewed his warning to Iran on Tuesday, saying the U.S. could strike the country “really hard” if negotiations with Tehran collapse again. – “If they back out again, they’re going to get hit really hard.” – “They know that. They understand that. I have no choice. – They can’t have a nuclear weapon. It’s very simple.”

American Thinker: The real reason Trump agreed to the MOU – Trump’s Iran MOU wasn’t capitulation or a devious trap. – It was a stall tactic forced by critically depleted long-range missile stockpiles. – This bought him time to replenish munitions under the Defense Production Act while clearing oil shipping backlogs and resetting the War Powers clock.

The Federalist: The FBI Used Comey’s Firing To Open A New Bogus Russia Hoax Investigation Using Debunked Information – As part of its hoax lawfare attacks on Trump, the FBI opened a “subcomponent investigation” known as “Oxferd Comma,” predicated on the supposition that Trump, “the newly elected president, was acting as a Russian asset when he fired James Comey on May 9, 2017.”…

Daily Caller: Abdul El-Sayed Eked Out Senate Victory In Closer Than Expected Michigan Primary – El-Sayed beat Stevens in a 48.5% to 47.5% vote after receiving endorsements from independent Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren and other far-left Democrats…

Just The News: Chuck Schumer backs El-Sayed after the far left DSA progressive won the Democrat nomination in the Michigan Senate primary – “Democrats are united by a common purpose: putting a check on Donald Trump by defeating his Republican enablers and taking back the Senate,” he and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said in a joint statement…

One America News: Mike Lindell Steps Down From MyPillow – “Today, I’ve made one of the biggest decisions of my life. – I’m stepping down as CEO of MyPillow so I can devote 100% of my time and energy to my campaign for Governor of Minnesota.” – “Minnesota deserves my full attention, and that’s exactly what I’m giving it. – I’m all in, and I can’t wait to earn your vote.”

Breitbart: Massachusetts Democrats Are Pushing For A ‘Commission’ to Prioritize Hiring Muslims for State Jobs – And that is not all. – Backers hope the commission can cajole the state government to consider Muslim issues in a wide range of areas from lawmaking, to education, to health care, business outreach, and cultural recognition, with input on so-called hate crimes.

Gatestone Institute: What the Gaza Roadmap Actually Says – Everything turns on a question the announcement left unanswered. – Has Hamas agreed to surrender the power and weaponry that have defined it for decades, or only to change the label on them? – Hamas has spent nearly four decades converting truces into growing arsenals.

Center Square: Vice President Vance called on Congress to codify some $230 billion in fraud, and fund further investigations and prosecutions. – He asked leaders to develop legislation that would require data sharing between state and federal governments, increase penalties for bad actors and appropriate more funds for fraud prosecution.

American Thinker: The Socialist Revival In Academia – Elite campuses are cultivating historical amnesia about socialism’s 80 to 150 million victims. – This while students romanticize collectivism and ally with Islamists. – This dangerous convergence has chilled free speech and primed a generation willing to repeat these catastrophic authoritarian experiments.

American Thinker: Mamdani should talk to Cubans about bodegas – Bodegas are capitalism at its finest. – Price controls on New York bodegas will fail just like Venezuela’s Mercal and Cuba’s ration cards, creating shortages, black markets, and corruption, because no mayor can escape the laws of supply and demand that bodegueros already understand.

American Thinker: Anxiety, Fear, And Unanswered Treachery – Unpunished government corruption spans over a decade. – From Fast and Furious to COVID abuses, Fauci’s crimes, and weaponized lawfare against Trump, it created a palpable pre-revolutionary anxiety. – The coming midterms will determine whether liberty survives or tyranny triumphs.

American Thinker: Democrats Perpetuate The Problems They Claim To Fix – Democrats perpetuate crises through failed policies to justify more government control. – They demand endless spending while their own cities suffer. – Then they confuse voters with hollow slogans instead of asking why decades of their governance haven’t solved the problems they campaign on.

American Thinker: Government Propaganda Is a Trojan Horse – Today’s information warfare uses seductive, hollow slogans to bypass reflection and divide societies from within. Thinking is the antidote, reasoned debate builds mental fortresses, and those who silence dissent reveal themselves as tyrannical enemies of free conscience and spiritual growth.

American Thinker: The return of fiscal QE – Fiscal QE, financing deficits with short-term Treasury bills instead of long-term bonds, boosts stocks and liquidity but masks borrowing costs – This shifts interest rate risk forward, enriches asset holders over workers, and dangerously erodes fiscal discipline by making debt seem painless…

Slay News: A Resurfaced Video Shows Smithsonian’s Leftist Director Declaring History a ‘Prime Tool of Social Justice.’ – Anthea Hartig insisting the institution operates according to principles of scholarship, independence, accuracy, and nonpartisanship during congressional hearings last month. – But a February 2025 presentation to UCLA students paints a markedly different picture.

Slay News: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces renewed scrutiny over his past association with, Uncivilized Media, a Qatar-based Islamic media outlet accused of promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories. – The ADL says it repeatedly promoted antisemitic tropes, including claims that Jews and Israelis seek global domination, control the media, and aim to “colonize the world.”

Daily Caller: Police Charge Transgender Reality Star Sidney Favors With Child Sex Crimes – Sidney Favors, who goes by Sidney Starr on social media, was taken into custody Sunday following an incident at an Embassy Suites in Hapeville, Georgia. Favors has been charged with sexual battery against a child under the age of 16, aggravated child molestation, and sodomy.

Slay News: A Group of International Scientists Are Pushing A Plan to Slash The Global Population In Half To 4 Billion – They propose culling the global population to roughly 4 billion by 2200 for “sustainability,” citing environmental harm from too many humans. – Critics counter that collapsing fertility rates and demographic decline pose the real threat.

City Journal: Working At A Homeless Shelter Awakened Me About The Far Left – I started working at the shelter believing that my fellow leftists had a monopoly on compassion. – I left understanding that compassion without order and accountability is useless. – We all know the old saying about hell and good intentions. Working the night shift was very enlightening…

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Daily Caller: FBI Agents Arrested A Heavily Armed Man at Trump’s California Golf Course Ahead of The President’s Visit – Jeanine John Taele, 38, from Downey, California, was found with an illegally modified AR platform rifle, two radio signal devices, a 1911 .45 caliber pistol, an AR platform upper receiver, body armor, high-capacity magazines, and bulk pistol and rifle ammunition.

Epoch Times: Rand Paul Released Fauci’s Contempt of Congress Resolution Ahead of The Senate Vote – Fauci’s invocation of the Fifth Amendment was unsupported because questions were aimed at a period of time covered by a pardon, the resolution says. – The panel, which had been slated to consider the matter on Wednesday, will now take it up on Thursday morning.

Washington Examiner: Sanctuary policies undermine laws and destroy trust in government – Sanctuary policies block local police from cooperating with ICE, releasing criminal illegal immigrants back into communities. – Over 22,000 were freed from 2021 to 2025, with some reoffending violently. – Congress must impose penalties to restore federal immigration supremacy.

American Thinker: What we really lost during COVID. – Fauci exploited the Bill of Rights he helped trample, as COVID lockdowns crushed the First Amendment and individual liberty. – This show us that crises are always weaponized by tyrants that seek central control over citizens who must resist or risk lose everything.

JD Rucker: Americans Are Fighting a 9-Front Spiritual War – The Red Front – The Green Front – Where Red Meets Green – The Border Front – The Moral Front – The Financial Front – The Globalist Front – The Technological Front – The Big Pharma Front – The Church Front – They may cause despair until you remember the enemy has to defend these nine fronts too, so we must take action…

Western Journal: Kathy Hochul and Letitia James Seethe After A Federal Judge Blocked Their Attempt to Crack Down on ICE – Obama appointed U.S. District Judge Mae D’Agostino of the Northern District of New York threw out a state law seeking to ban ICE agents from wearing face coverings and making them wear ID that would ensure the public knew who they were…

Epoch Times: The DOJ Has Filed Denaturalization Cases Against 25 US Citizens – A total of 123 civil denaturalization cases have been filed under the current administration. – This is the most in recorded history, according to the DOJ. – They were filed against people for various serious offenses, including assault, attempted murder, battery, and sexual assault…

American Thinker: ‘Global Warming’ Again in Spokane County – Washington state’s catastrophic 700-home fire wasn’t due climate change, it resulted from arson by a convicted patricide with a Bic lighter. – Another example proving that lenient criminal justice and malicious actors, not global warming, can cause these urban interface disasters.

Zero Hedge: The Latest On Iran – Oil Tumbles On Iran Deal Buzz – Rubio: The “ultimate deal” is the denuclearization of Iran, while Omani talks focus on reopening Hormuz. – Iran refuses nuclear negotiations until the conflict ends, leaving both sides far apart. – Deal optimism sees oil slide – Brent fell below $80 on reports of progress in Oman-mediated Hormuz talks…

Just TheNews: Senate committee advances Blanche’s bid to become permanent attorney general, setting up final vote – In the final floor vote, GOP Senators Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, and Susan Collins, of Maine, have reportedly said they are not 100% committed to voting in favor of Blanche becoming attorney general.

Issues & Insights: Will Illegal Immigration Be The Death Of Europe? – Given the unchecked flood of illegal immigration now taking place across the European continent and Britain, this is a valid question. – Will Europe in the future exist only as a territory, but not as a civilization and a culture? – Spain is the latest flashpoint in Europe’s battle to maintain control over its borders.

Revolver: Nobody owns the media like Trump – Trump rarely answers the question inside the carefully constructed little box the reporter presents to him. – He blows up the box, turns the confrontation around, and makes the media defend itself. – Nobody had ever handled them quite like that before, and it’s why they hate him and feel so powerless.

Victor Davis Hanson: Is the Word ‘Communist’ No Longer a Slur? – The farther today’s Democratic Socialists advance, the less they resemble reformers—and the more they embrace policies long associated with communism. – With every new policy they propose, these socialists have been dropping their pretense that they are not Marxists. – How about them declaring capitalism is a failure?

RVM News: A Teen Says Becerra’s Migrant Machine Led to Her Sexual Abuse and Slave Labor – The testimony comes from Juana Rebecca Pérez Santay, who says she was only 17 when she crossed the southern border in May 2021 and entered the federal system for unaccompanied minors. – She was placed with a supposedly vetted sponsor through the Office of Refugee Resettlement…

Slay News: Mamdani’s universal childcare plan could cost taxpayers roughly $9 billion every year, about 50% more than the socialist mayor advertised during his campaign. – The Center for New York City Affairs estimated that a fully universal system would require between $8.7 billion and $9.3 billion annually, with an average cost of approximately $27,000 per child…

JD Rucker: 6 Reasons the Democrats’ Money Machine Is Seizing Up – 1. The Kamala Harris Hangover – 2. Nobody Trusts the DNC – 3. The Billionaire Donors Went on Strike – 4. The Socialist Movement Scared Off the Checkbooks – 5. The Dark Money Aqueduct Cracked – 6. ActBlue Foreign Contributions Are Under the Microscope

Liberty Daily: The Supreme Court Dealt Another Blow to the Palestinian Authorities in $656 Million Case to Stop a Settlement to Pay American victims of attacks. – The plaintiffs’ attorney, Kent Yalowitz, said, “Our client families are very relieved that the court has reinstated the judgment without requiring a new trial. They have been waiting for a very long time for justice to be done.”

The Federalist: Fauci’s Refusal to Answer Congress Puts His Pardon in Jeopardy – By pleading the Fifth, Fauci may have abandoned his pardon and opened himself to criminal prosecution for any crimes during the pardon period. – Because of Fauci’s pardon for his activities, he had a legal obligation to answer questions covering his activities at NIAID. – By refusing, it could constitute criminal contempt.

Breitbart: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian published an edited, pre-recorded video on Tuesday teasing a new interview in which he insists he is not resigning from office. – The state-run Islamic Republic News Agency announced that his “candid conversation with the public will be released in four parts, beginning tonight” will include effusive denials that he is stepping down.

American Thinker: Is Trump’s Nuclear Strategy a New Variable to Peace with Iran? – The Sunni-Shia divide, rooted in 7th-century leadership disputes, shapes Middle Eastern rivalries today. – Iran’s revolutionary ambitions and nuclear pursuit threaten regional stability, but Trump’s strategy linking Saudi nuclear cooperation to Iranian behavior changes the strategic calculus significantly.

Western Journal: An Oxford Debate on Islam Goes Off Rails When Man Threatens to Show A Picture of Mohammed – Terror and Dead Silence Descended, Then the Fight Started – Laurence Fox, a comedian and conservative activist, promised to unveil a depiction of Muhammad, which is forbidden under the tenets of Islam, and worth killing for in certain circumstances…

American Thinker: Smiling faces and socialist promises, A lesson from Cuban exiles – The Florida Straits became a graveyard for Cubans fleeing communism, children of doctors and lawyers who rebuilt lives under America’s constitutional checks on power. – The DSA’s 2026 platform, abolishing the Senate and subordinating courts to Congress, mirrors the concentrated power these families risked everything to escape.

American Thinker: COVID-Era Inflation – COVID-era mask theatrics served as compliance litmus tests, but the real lasting damage was an unprecedented 2020 money supply expansion exceeding 20%, the largest M2 stimulus in Fed history, which delayed but ultimately unleashed the inflation now punishing every American’s wallet.

Daily Wire: A new bill seeks to keep gender-confused boys out of girls’ sports. – The bill introduced Tuesday by Blackburn and 10 other GOP senators would tie federal funding to whether schools protect girls from discrimination based on biological reality. – It codifies language making it clear that discrimination protections under Title IX are based on sex and not sexual orientation or so-called gender identity…

American Thinker: The False Promise Of Political Angels – One question exposes the central flaw in the DSA worldview. – Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed?” – The DSA’s socialist platform echoes centuries-old rhetoric, assuming virtuous political planners will solve inequality. Political greed, concentrated and unchecked, is more dangerous than individual self-interest constrained by competition and choice.

American Thinker: The media and Democrat racists spread fake stories and smeared white victims for their agenda. – Race hustlers, along with compliant media, exploit deaths only when they fit an anti-white narrative, while ignoring black-on-black murders in Chicago. – From the Duke lacrosse lie to Jussie Smollett’s hoax, they destroy lives without consequence when evidence collapses.

American Thinker: Will Congress finally address China’s forced organ harvesting? – China harvests organs from persecuted groups like Falun Gong practitioners, killing prisoners for transplants while reporting far fewer procedures than estimated. – Despite bipartisan House passage, Senate inaction allows this state-sponsored killing to continue unchecked…

American Thinker: The Mohammunist Manifesto’s Inequality Before the Law – One is religious, and one is aggressively secular. – Classical Islamic jurisprudence and Marxist-Leninist communism reject equal personhood, instead granting rights based on membership in a privileged category, whether religious or class-based, creating durable insider-outsider hierarchies that produce unequal treatment…

Western Journal: A Gov’t Agency in DC Is Behind the Violent ‘Teen Takeovers’ Where Legions of Mostly Minority Kids Create Violent Anarchy – DC’s Department of Parks and Recreation promoted the events as for teens to “come out and have fun.” – Organizers reached out to them via the social media platform Instagram.

California Globe: Proposition 38 Benefits its Billionaire Backers – Half of the measure’s $8 billion is effectively reserved for a single institution, the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy (CIII), a UCLA-affiliated nonprofit.

Zero Hedge: Waymo Robo-taxi Crash Rate 68% Lower Than Human Drivers – Waymo robo-taxis have achieved a crash rate that’s far lower than what’s observed when humans are driving, according to a recent study published by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

American Thinker: Permanent Daylight Saving Time deja vu – Despite bipartisan House passage, making DST permanent ignores history’s warnings: two failed experiments ended early after public outcry, especially in northern states where winter sunrises came past 9 AM. Trump correctly noted DST increases energy costs, and permanent standard time offers the simpler, proven alternative.

Monday, August 3, 2026

Epoch Times: Cuba’s Espionage Against US ‘Continues to This Day,’ According To A State Department Official – The regime’s present threat involves a ‘rapid response plan’ calling on left-wing groups in the U.S. to mobilize if military action is taken against Cuba. – The State Department’s lengthy report details its 70-year “campaign of subversion” against the US…

California Globe: A new analysis from the Paragon Health Institute found that nearly half of Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion enrollees in 2024, approximately 9.2 million people, were likely ineligible under federal rules, imposing a net federal cost of $32.9 billion that year. – California accounted for a disproportionate share: an estimated 3.1 million improper enrollees, or 62%, at a federal cost of $10.4 billion.

Breitbart: The U.S. manufacturing sector is expanding at the strongest pace in four years as output surges, firms add workers, and demand continues to grow, according to a key measure of factory health released Monday. – The Institute for Supply Management’s July barometer of U.S. manufacturing rose to 55.6, the highest since May 2022.

Washington Free Beacon: Democrats Make History, But Not in a Good Way – Graham Platner (Maine) – Abdul El-Sayed (Michigan) – James Talarico (Texas) – Francesca Hong (Wisconsin) – Darializa Avila Chevalier (New York) – Melat Kiros (Colorado) – Adam Hamawy (New Jersey) who testified as a character witness for the Islamic terrorist who inspired the 1993 World Trade Center bombing…

Epoch Times: Trump Says The New Negotiations Are Iran’s ‘Last Chance’ to Make Deal With The US – ‘I want to give them every last chance before decapitation.’ – Trump told reporters at the White House that Iranian officials called him and asked him not to attack. He described the planned strikes as being significant. – “‘Please, don’t attack. We’ll make a deal,’” the president said…

Epoch Times: President Trump Says Iran Talks to Begin on Monday – Trump said some parties believe a deal is imminent involving the Strait of Hormuz, to be followed by what he called ‘the denuclearization of Iran.’ – “The planned strike “would have been by far the biggest attack since WW II.” – “The US remains ready to execute the military option if diplomacy fails again.”

Daily Wire: Trump accused Iran of publicly denying negotiations with the US while privately seeking talks, calling the regime “unbelievably duplicitous.” – “They ask for a meeting, some would say ‘beg.'” – “Talks begin, with more scheduled, then they say, openly and proudly, that they’re not having any discussions.” – Trump also dismissed Iran’s claims that it controls the Strait of Hormuz…

American Thinker: Trump speaks loudly and carries a huge stick – He wields massive military might, not a twig, controlling Iranian skies and striking at will. – Regional allies including Israel counsel patience while Iran grows isolated. – Trump plays 3-D chess, expanding U.S. influence through the Gulf Cooperation Council, Turkey, and Pakistan. – He is not blustering weakly as critics claim…

American Thinker: What It’s Really Like to Deal with Iran – Since 1979, Iran has frustrated U.S. foreign policy. Successive administrations offered humanitarian aid and diplomacy, hoping to normalize relations, but Iran consistently rejected these overtures. – Despite goodwill, disaster diplomacy never improved anything, leaving both nations at odds over nuclear ambitions and now war.