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long time they remain foreign to civic thought. One cannot make a
social philosophy one’s own as easily as a new costume. . . More
menacing than barbarians storming the walls from without are the
seeming citizens within – those who are citizens in gesture,
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Don’t Trust the Midterm Polls Victor Davis Hanson Let’s have a periodic check on the status of the midterms that we’re now less than 80 days away from. The Democrats are riding high. They feel that historical trends, i.e., 39 out of the last 41 midterms, the in party in the White House loses seats, and there’s not very many seats Republicans can afford to lose, and they may lose the House and Senate. They’re already, I guess you’d call it, measuring their drapes, but in the sense that they’re already explaining how they’re going to go after the Trump family, the Trump family associates, cryptocurrency concerns, any hangers-on, people going to the Middle East and investing. They’re gonna open it wide open. These are the people, of course, who never investigated the Biden family or Hunter Biden.  142 State Lawmakers Urge Trump To Appoint Census Director To Ensure ‘Accurate’ 2030 Citizen Count Shawn Fleetwood “The Census determines political power in America for the next decade. After admitted inaccuracies and distortions created by statistical sampling and other schemes like differential privacy that were used in the 2020 Census, we need a bold new Census director who will take the reins post haste to make the necessary changes to the process,” Louisiana Freedom Caucus Chair and Rep. Beryl Amedée told The Federalist. “We must ensure an honest and accurate citizen count in 2030. The clock is ticking.” The Census Bureau released a report in 2022 admitting that it undercounted mostly Republican-led states (five of six) and overcounted mostly Democrat-led states (six of eight) in its 2020 census. Put another way, mostly Democrat states were given congressional seats they didn’t deserve, while mostly Republican states were wrongly deprived of seats. |
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 Escalating the White House Ballroom Kerfuffle Nate Jackson Leftists reflexively hate everything President Donald Trump says or does, so when he proposed a new White House ballroom, they went (even more) nuts. It all began last July, when he announced his intention to demolish the East Wing in favor of a ballroom, "privately funded by many generous Patriots," that could seat nearly 1,000. "The site of the new ballroom will be where the small, heavily changed, and reconstructed East Wing currently sits," Trump announced. "The East Wing was constructed in 1902 and has been renovated and changed many times, with a second story added in 1942." The president and his administration laid out legitimate reasons for a ballroom, including the complete lack of a large room for hosting state functions. |
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| Philadelphia DA Vows to Keep Ballroom Rubble As Paperweight 'After We All Blow It Up' Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Tuesday he was going to keep a piece of President Donald Trump's White House ballroom as a paperweight "after we all blow it up." "In about 10 to 15 years, we are all going to be sitting here with smiles on our faces," Krasner said, according to video footage obtained by WCAU. "And I'm going to have a paperweight sitting on my desk. And do you know what that paper weight's going to be? It's going to be a piece of the ballroom after we blow it up." | What a moronic statement |
| Democrats Increase Levels of Insanity As Midterms Approach Drew Hernandez  In
a recent online panel featuring members of the Democratic Socialists of
America (DSA), activist and streamer Michael Beyer said efforts to
reshape the Democrat Party and the country would be “a violent
process,” according to video circulated by Canary Mission. Beyer argued
that “the Democratic Party establishment that we have has to be ripped
out” and that “we can actually start to grab hold of the ship of state
and steer it in our direction, but it’s going to be a, you know,
violent process.” The remarks, captured during what appears to be a
DSA-linked video meeting or panel, were compiled into a viral clip
shared on X that shows multiple DSA figures discussing revolutionary
change and the overthrow of existing U.S. institutions. |
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| A Shocking Number of Democrats Now Want Failed Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson to Resign Mike LaChance As the Gateway Pundit recently reported, there is already a recall effort underway to oust Seattle’s socialist Mayor Katie Wilson, despite the fact that she has been in office for barely six months. She is losing support from members of the city council and even Starbucks is preparing to ship a huge number of jobs to a red state. "Just a little over 6 months in office, 53% of Seattle Democrat voters who elected this moron, are trying to do a recall. Proving yet again that Democrat voters are the absolute dumbest people on the planet!" –Mike Engleman |  |
| NASA Engineer Says White Men Did the Grunt Work While DEI Hires Got the Careers… Lawsuit Incoming?  According
to Joshua Foxworth, an aerospace engineer who worked on Orion, white
male engineers were pushed into temporary or subcontractor “grunt”
roles where they handled the technical work but had lousy job security
and no way to move up. He had better jobs with career paths for the DEI
employees working directly for the big contractors. Foxworth says race
and sex were absolutely part of the equation. And that is illegal
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| Is Anything We’ve Been Told About Gaza True? I & I Editorial Board In the nearly three years since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and tortured, raped, murdered, and imprisoned innocent Israeli citizens, we’ve been treated to countless claims of Israeli depredations in its reprisals that have turned out to be bogus. But none is as bewildering as the claim that Gazans were being starved to death. In 2023 the New York Times noted that Iran, Russia, China, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, to say nothing of Hamas itself, “have used state media and the world’s major social networking platforms to support Hamas and undercut Israel.” The Free Press this week notes that a report from UNICEF finds Gaza has one of the lowest rates of acute malnutrition in the region. “The UNICEF-led team’s presentation also revealed that Gaza now faces a new challenge: obesity and excess weight,” the Free Press said.  USAID Report Finds More Than 100 UNRWA Employees Participated in Hamas Atrocities on Oct. 7 The United States' Agency for International Development's Inspector General's office announced Wednesday that it has referred more than 100 current or former employees of a United Nations relief agency to the State Department over their participation in the October 7 terror attacks in Israel. The referrals include three people they suggested be debarred by the department, including a former United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees school teacher and Hamas operative who allegedly received and held civilian hostages beginning on October 7, 2023. |
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 From 'All In' to Tap the Brakes: Josh Shapiro Redefines Pennsylvania's Tech Boom Salena Zito In June 2025, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) stood in Berwick and described a new economic horizon for Pennsylvania: Amazon's plan to invest at least $20 billion in cloud-computing and artificial intelligence campuses across the commonwealth. Shapiro also pointed to Pennsylvania's position as a major energy-producing state and a leading net electricity exporter. These assets, he argued, could support the power-intensive computing facilities behind AI and cloud services. This week, however, the governor reversed course and redefined the terms for data-center development. Chinese Fake Accounts Push Anti-Data Center Drive Ira Stoll A network of Chinese fake social media accounts is spreading anti-data center material, the X platform warned, heightening concerns by members of Congress that the data center issue is being used by Beijing to divide Americans. X, the Elon Musk-operated social media platform and AI company, said in a Thursday night posting that "The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations." "We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy," the post said. |
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| House to Probe Sharia Law During Hearing The House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government will hold a hearing on Feb. 10 to uncover how Sharia law is “contrary to America’s founding principles” and “may violate federal law and the Constitution,” The Daily Signal has learned. At the hearing, titled “Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam & Sharia Law are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution,” witnesses and members will discuss “where, why, and how Islamic extremists are attempting to establish Sharia-based institutions in the U.S.,” a statement provided to The Daily Signal claimed. Additionally, the hearing will discuss current proposed legislative reforms that would protect Americans from efforts to establish alternative, Sharia-based institutions. |
De Facto Shariah Law in America |
| Report Warns Muslim Brotherhood-Aligned Networks Have Gained Influence Across Canadian Institutions The 195-page report from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, or ISGAP, examines what it calls “Islamist entryism,” a strategy of gaining influence within established institutions. “Canada’s challenge is not simply the presence of individual extremist voices or isolated institutional weakness,” ISGAP Executive Director Charles Asher Small told Fox News Digital. He said interconnected ideological networks can obtain “institutional access, public funding, political influence, and protection from scrutiny.”... Foreign funding of Canadian universities, including money connected to Qatar, also receives scrutiny in the report. | |
| ‘I Think We’re in a War’ Texas Pastors Unite Against Rising Islamification Concerns Emily Medeiros A group with special operations and intelligence skills and filmmaker Chris Burgard teamed up on Saturday to teach pastors in East Texas how to respond to the rise of Islam in the Lone Star State. The Allied Special Intelligence Group is an organization that uses its knowledge of special operations military skills, counterintelligence, and human intelligence to educate and train citizens on how to “legally and lawfully, delay, disrupt, dismantle, and remove Communists/Marxists and Terrorists networks from our communities in order to restore and protect our Constitutional Republic.” Two of the group’s operatives... took up the task of educating the Texas pastors about the threat of Islamification. | |
| Who Caused a Deadly Crash in Mississippi? You Guessed It: An Illegal Alien. Catherine Salgado It is an uncanny fact that if you hear about a deadly crash that a truck driver has caused in America, you can immediately guess that the individual who caused it was an Indian illegal alien named Singh, and you will be right almost every time. The latest foreign criminal named Singh caused a fatal crash in Mississippi, but he currently resides in California. A terrible tragedy of sanctuary states that issue commercial drivers’ licenses (CDLs) to illegal aliens is that the problem doesn’t stay within those states; it spreads across the country. California alone issued over 17,000 CDLs to illegal aliens, and those aliens travel the country, often driving recklessly. | |
| Trump Admin Set to Target George Soros Nonprofit, Southern Poverty Law Center and CAIR in Major Tax Crackdown  Treasury
Secretary Scott Bessent and the IRS could revoke the tax-free status of
left-wing nonprofits such as George Soros’ Open Society Foundations,
the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Council on American-Islamic
Relations, three sources familiar with the matter have told The Post.
It is part of a Trump-backed crackdown on “bogus” charities, and
Treasury officials are drawing up a sweeping audit of outfits deemed to
be using and abusing Uncle Sam’s tax code, the three people briefed on
the Treasury Department’s internal policy deliberations said. | |
| U.S. Military Uses Laser to Shoot Down 3 Cartel Drones at Southern Border, Pentagon Says The U.S. military this week used a laser to shoot down three drones along the U.S.-Mexico border that were allegedly operated by drug cartels, the Pentagon said Thursday. The three unmanned aircraft systems were shot down late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning using an "Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser system," according to U.S. Northern Command, which is responsible for overseeing certain military defense operations in North America.  | Heck, Flash Gordon had all this stuff years ago! |
| Pentagon Says It Found Classified Afghanistan Withdrawal Files Allegedly Hidden in Safes Sean Parnell, the Pentagon spokesperson who chairs the Afghanistan Withdrawal Special Review Panel, posted a video message on social media Wednesday announcing that the panel's ongoing investigation had turned up material someone apparently wanted buried. Parnell offered no specifics about the documents' contents, their authors, or who allegedly stashed them away. What he did offer was a sharp accusation. The panel, Parnell said, had recovered "highly relevant classified documents, material that should have been disclosed, stashed, and hidden away in safes where they would not be found." He added: "And after the team reviewed these documents, it became clear why someone tried to hide them." | |
| Trump Breaks Big Four Meat Processor Grip, Restores Ranchers’ Freedom to Process After cattle country stresses over President Donald Trump's plan to flood the market with cheaper foreign ground-beef trimmings, the 47th president posted that four giant processors have made life “miserable” for American ranchers and that he is authorizing farmers to process their own food if desired or necessary. "Trump wants to remove some of the red tape and costs associated with setting up USDA inspected facilities for small producers or areas of the country that don’t have USDA processors to be able to sell their protein to consumers in a legal way," grazier Derek Lange told Just The News last week. |
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| Wisconsin Lawmakers Looking for Errors, ‘Bad Actors’ with Food Stamp Audit Wisconsin lawmakers plan to take their first hard look at the state’s food stamp program in more than a decade. "The biggest thing I'd look at is that the federal requirements have changed, and the state is in a position where there's close to a $300 million risk if we don't look at and have in place the things we need to do to comply with the [Big Beautiful Bill]," Audit Committee co-chair Rep. Bob Wittke, R-Caledonia, said at Tuesday's hearing. President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill sets new requirements that punish states if error rates are too high. Any state with an over-payment or under-payment rate more than 6% will be fined by the federal government. |
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| NY Prosecutor Claims Letitia James’ Office Pushed Him to Target Trump-Linked Entities A prosecutor in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office accused agency leaders of directing him to pursue President Donald Trump and other Trump-linked individuals and organizations without a legitimate basis. Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld made the allegations in an agency-wide email Friday, claiming his supervisor instructed him to “find and pursue crimes” involving Trump, Truth Social and other entities despite what he described as a lack of credible justification. |
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| The Riverside Case: California’s Smoking Gun on Election Fraud Ron Wright After a citizen audit uncovered a discrepancy of roughly 45,896 ballots in the November 2025 special election on Proposition 50 (affecting redistricting), Sheriff Chad Bianco’s investigators obtained search warrants, seized more than 650,000 ballots, and began a criminal investigation. Within weeks, California Attorney General Rob Bonta intervened, raced the matter to the state Supreme Court, and obtained a pause that has effectively frozen the investigation. Oral arguments are set for August 24, 2026, with a ruling due within 90 days – potentially after the midterms. This is not a complicated conspiracy theory. It is a straightforward case of alleged election irregularities followed by aggressive lawfare, including interference, obstruction, and abuse of power, to prevent those irregularities from being examined. |
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| GOP Fights Against Controversial "Never Resident" Voting Law Republicans are seeking to squash a voting law metastasizing through the nation that allows citizens to vote in states they have never inhabited. The Nebraska Supreme Court could decide the constitutionality of a state law that allows U.S. citizens living abroad who 
have not lived in the state – or even lived in the United States – to
vote in Nebraska elections. Nebraska is one of three dozen states that
allow some form of this law. The Republican National Committee has
litigated what it calls “Never Resident” voting laws in seven states,
joining local plaintiffs. A state high court ruling could put the
matter on a pathway to the U.S. Supreme Court and establish a national
precedent. | |
| Two Massachusetts Democrats Face Federal Charges for Allegedly Looting COVID Relief Funds  A
Massachusetts state lawmaker and a city mayor, both Democrats, now face
federal indictments for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of
dollars in pandemic relief money meant for struggling workers and small
businesses. Federal authorities arrested State Rep. Francisco Paulino
early Wednesday morning on 11 counts of pandemic unemployment insurance
fraud, pandemic loan fraud, and money laundering. The charges cap a
month that already saw the FBI arrest Lawrence Mayor Brian DePeña on a
separate but strikingly similar 11-count indictment, Fox News reported.
Paulino allegedly devised a scheme to grab more than $700,000 in
federal pandemic funds. DePeña allegedly obtained more than $1.5
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| Racism Isn’t Fueling Power Outages in Gary, Indiana. Incompetent Black Leaders Are Kira Davis Gary, Indiana, just wrapped up week two with no power, and the left-wing narrative on the extended blackout is (unsurprisingly), “It’s racism!” As someone who lived in Gary for a decade, I can tell you it is anything but that. I was a default Democrat at the time, like most black Americans. There I saw how all the laws and policies I had supported my entire adult life worked up close. I quickly discovered they don’t. I was treated to an endless stream of haughty, entitled bureaucrats who openly despised anyone trying to improve the city on their own. In a city that is almost all black and run exclusively by black people, you’d think I would have found many allies and people excited for progress. It was the exact opposite. Gary was a mess then, and it’s still a mess. | |
| Mainstream Media Pushes 'Catastrophic Climate' Narrative, Contradicting Leading UN Climate Panel Climatologist Judith Curry announced earlier this year she would no longer maintain her influential “Climate Etc.” blog. “Climate stupidity” had lost, and it was time to move on, Curry, who has a doctorate in geophysical sciences, wrote in a final entry. While the issue of whether climate change is indeed real, or to what extent it is, remains open to debate. Meanwhile, the news media has retreated from its previous focus on climate stories. |
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| Climatologist Says a Century of Weather Data Contradicts Claims of Record Heat Digging deeper into data sometimes reveals a different picture from what you saw at first glance. Combing through reports from more than 1,200 weather stations across the United States, former University of Alabama climatologist John Christy’s analysis challenges a commonly held belief that extreme high temperatures have become more prevalent. According to his report, published this spring in the academic journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology, the data don’t show an increase in extreme temperatures; rather, they indicate that temperatures have become more moderate over the past century. |
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| IT’S OFFICIAL: California Governor Gavin Newsom Signs “Stop Nick Shirley Act” into Law – Journalists Can Now Be FINED and JAILED for Uncovering Democrat Fraud Cullen Linebarger The “Stop Nick Shirley Act” was introduced by Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, who is married to California’s far-left Attorney General, Rob Bonta. AB 2624 claims to expand California’s “Safe at Home” confidentiality program to safeguard “immigration support service providers” from harassment. But in reality, this is a disgusting Democrat power grab designed to silence brave conservative citizen journalists like Shirley who expose the rampant fraud bleeding American taxpayers dry in government-funded immigrant service centers. |
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 Girl Scouts of America Offers 'Muslim Badges' – Wait Til You Hear How to Earn Them Kyle Becker Now, when you think of the Girl Scouts, you might remember your childhood in the 80s, when badges were given to young girls for outdoor adventuring, wildlife watching, and even baking cookies. Nowadays, however, the Girl Scouts are apparently trying to get young recruits hooked on… Islam. White House correspondent Natalie Winters recently highlighted a number of Girl Scout programs around the country that incorporate Muslim prayer, Ramadan observance, mosque visits, hijab instruction, and other explicitly Islamic activities. “This is not one troop.” There is a four-award Islamic recognition system. The medals themselves read "GIRL SCOUT OF THE ISLAMIC FAITH: Bismillah; In the Name of Allah; Qurat ul A’in; and Muslimeen." Muslim Badges and the Woke Girl Scouts Emmy Griffin This writer was briefly a Brownie Scout, and after dusting off a few mental cobwebs, even I remember the Girl Scout Pledge: "On my honor, I will try to do my duty to God and my country, to help people at all times; and obey the Girl Scout Laws." Unfortunately, this pledge has changed with the times and now has a more globalist flavor. For example, "help people at all times" was changed to "making the world a better place." So instead of being responsible for our inward communities, the GSUSA has shifted responsibility outward toward a more impossible goal. This opening to a more globalist perspective has invited those of other religions to Islamify GSUSA and its Americana roots. |
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 Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors Mark Alexander We lost a Tennessee icon yesterday, a person who rose from the most impoverished circumstances to become the nation's most recognized performing artist, and much more than that. Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean was a person of deep and abiding faith, a very smart businesswoman, and a philanthropist. She was born on January 19, 1946, the fourth of 12 children living in a one-room cabin on Locust Ridge above the banks of the Little Pigeon River near Pittman Center, Tennessee. That is just east of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, home of Dollywood. |
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| Photo of Caitlin Clark's Scratched Body After Another WNBA Beating Raises Eyebrows OutKick host Dan Dakich criticizes the WNBA and media for mishandling star Caitlin Clark, arguing the league, after 30 years, fails to capitalize on her popularity. He cites 'petty jealousies, racism, and sexism' as reasons for negative narratives and limited support for the 24-year-old athlete. Dakich suggests this impacts both Clark and the sport's potential growth. Lost in all the other nonsense in Indiana's win over Chicago earlier this week was Caitlin Clark, once again, showing the WNBA she is easily – easily – the best player in the league. |
If you can't beat 'em on the court, just beat 'em up! |
| IndyCar Driver Corrects Adam Schiff After Senator Falsely Claims Freedom 250 Wasted Taxpayer Money Sen. Adam Schiff accused President Trump of blowing taxpayer dollars on a Washington IndyCar race that was, in fact, privately funded by Penske Corporation, and the correction came fast. Schiff, the California Democrat, posted his broadside on X on Sunday, sharing video of Trump waving the green flag at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix and framing the event as a wasteful distraction from rising costs. Within hours, IndyCar veteran Graham Rahal fired back with a fact the senator apparently never checked: the race was bankrolled not by the federal government but by one of America's largest privately held companies. The exchange laid bare a pattern that has become familiar in Democratic messaging, attack first, verify later. |
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| Hating Israel Fatigue Victor Davis Hanson Israel dominates the daily news in this 2026 midterm election year -- almost always in a boring, fatiguing, negative light. Tens of thousands of innocents may be slaughtered, ethnically cleansed, butchered, and tortured by the world’s dictators, yet an overwhelming and obsessive abhorrence is reserved for tiny, democratic Israel. Such perverse asymmetry is strange, since, at least privately, most Americans would concede that of the 18 Middle Eastern nations, only Israel is a genuine consensual democracy. As far as tolerance goes, in the entire region, only in Israel is it legal to criticize political or religious figures. |
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| The Ruination of America I & I Editorial Board A shocking poll has found that voters are more likely to support a Democratic Socialist of America candidate over one who is supported by President Donald Trump or identifies with the Make America Great Again movement. Anyone who doesn’t tremble for their country after learning this is part of the problem. The CNBC poll taken a little more than a month ago shows that 32% of U.S. voters are more likely to support a self-described DSA candidate while only 29% are more likely to back a candidate endorsed by Trump. The figure falls to 27% for the self-described supporters of the MAGA movement. |
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| Americans Stop Paying the World’s
Pharmacy Tab As Prices Fall Hardest Since 1963 President Donald Trump’s Most Favored Nation policies and TrumpRx platform have produced the largest annual drop in U.S. prescription drug prices in over 60 years, the steepest since 1963, according to the administration. The update follows years of price increases across much of the sector which had Americans footing the bill for other nations' usage. TrumpRx has already generated $700 million in patient savings. GLP-1 drugs that previously exceeded $1,000 monthly now start at $149; many other high-cost medications (insulin, inhalers, fertility drugs, cholesterol treatments) have fallen 50–90%. Prescription prices are down 3.9% since Trump took office and have declined every month of 2026. |
Trump’s Most Favored Nation policy directly confronts the long-standing cost imbalance |
| Democrats Launch MASSIVE
Legislative Assault to Shield Illegal Aliens from Deportation Wyatt Porter Democrats in blue states across the country are mounting a massive legislative campaign to block President Trump’s deportation efforts. State legislatures are being flooded with pro-illegal immigration bills designed to tie the hands of federal law enforcement. The coordinated push includes over 250 separate pieces of legislation aimed at creating sanctuary policies, limiting cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and shielding illegal aliens from consequences. It’s a full-scale assault on the rule of law. This isn’t about compassion or human rights like Democrats claim. It’s pure political obstruction designed to undermine a president they refuse to accept. They’d rather protect illegal border crossers than the American citizens who elected Trump specifically to solve this crisis. |
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| Fourth Circuit Strikes Down South
Carolina’s Restrictions on Absentee Ballots Under the 26th Amendment Jonathan Turley This week, the Fourth Circuit issued a major ruling striking down South Carolina’s limits on absentee ballots. The relatively novel basis of this opinion (by Judges Roger Gregory, Judge Pamela Harris, and Judge Julius Richardson) was that it violated the 26th Amendment as discrimination on the basis of age for voters. The opinion conflicts with rulings in other circuits and, in my view, is challengeable. The case of Grant v. Belangia came to the Fourth Circuit after District Judge Bruce H. Hendricks issued a ruling in favor of the state, dismissing the challenge to the South Carolina law. |
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| Havana’s Long Shadow – Its
Influence Extends Far Beyond Cuba Melissa Ford Maldonado Britain fought wars over territories that today seem insignificant – Malta, Gibraltar, the Falklands – not because of the land itself, but because of the geographic position those islands occupy. Cuba is no different. It is the equivalent of an unsinkable aircraft carrier at the crossroads of the Caribbean. If you are Russia, China, Iran, or any other hostile power seeking to collect intelligence on the United States, project influence into the Western Hemisphere, or maintain a foothold only 90 miles from Florida, few places on Earth are more attractive. |
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| DSA Praises Fidel Castro in 100th
Birthday Tribute, Denounces Marco Rubio as ‘Genocidal’ The Democratic Socialists of America website called deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro a “stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle and self-determination,” while denouncing Secretary of State Marco Rubio as genocidal. In a tribute to Castro on what would have been his 100th birthday Thursday, the DSA website commemorated the “historic significance of both this day and the man.” The DSA statement said that it used the Castro commemoration to “recommit ourselves to acting in solidarity with the Cuban people,” and to “opposing Marco Rubio’s genocidal war against the Cuban people and U.S. imperialism writ large.” |
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| Trump’s Smart Move to Cut Nonprofit
Funding Naomi Schaefer Riley, James Piereson The Trump administration is changing the nonprofit landscape. A recent report from Granted AI found that federal grants to “everyday” charities that are not hospitals or universities dropped more than 40 percent when comparing the months from February to September 2025 with the same period a year earlier. The Chronicle of Philanthropy has sounded the alarm, noting, “Nonprofits have long relied on federal funding to help them provide vital services to their communities.” And since this funding was “often viewed as more reliable than funding from grant makers, which can shift priorities,” the loss of federal money has “upended finances for charities across the country.” But maybe such an earthquake is long overdue. |
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| Far-Left Hate Group Official Indicted in Shocking Neo-Nazi Scandal Wyatt Porter Federal prosecutors in Montgomery, Alabama just unsealed a bombshell superseding indictment that’s sending shockwaves through the far-left establishment. The target? Heidi Beirich, a former long-time executive at the Southern Poverty Law Center – the radical group that’s made millions by labeling mainstream conservatives as ‘extremists.’ According to federal prosecutors, Beirich allegedly routed donor funds – money given by well-meaning liberals who thought they were fighting ‘hate’ – directly to a Neo-Nazi informant. And it gets worse: that informant was reportedly her romantic partner. |
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| Who’s Afraid of Data Centers? Emmy Griffin We’ve had data centers since the beginning of the Internet age. The only thing that’s changed is that AI requires more of them. Perhaps people weren’t aware that they already existed? It raises the question: How much of this backlash against AI in general and data centers in particular is due to media influence? And how much of that influence is due to psyops from bad actors? Communist China in particular has a strong motive to push misinformation about data centers to stymie the U.S.‘s progress in the AI race. |
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| FBI Asked 'Sammy the Bull' if
ex-Gambino Mob Prosecutor Comey Knew Meaning of '86' The FBI interviewed Salvatore Gravano, the former underboss of the Gambino crime family known as "Sammy the Bull," to ask if ex-FBI Director James Comey likely knew what the term "86" means, according to court documents. Gravano, who had familiarity with Comey due to Comey's role as the lead prosecutor in United States v. John Gambino et al. in the 1990s, told an FBI case agent during a May 2026 phone call that Comey "had to know" what 86 meant, according to a sworn affidavit from his lawyer Patrick Fitzgerald supporting Comey’s motions to dismiss the case. |
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| DOJ: 'No Serious Dispute' Comey's
Seashell Post Could Read as Trump Threat The Justice Department is defending its prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, saying “there is no serious dispute" that a social media post of seashells he made last year could be understood as a threat against President Donald Trump. Prosecutors also called into question Comey's account that he had found the seashells in the numerical arrangement of “86 47” while walking on a beach in North Carolina and suggested that his May 2025 post on Instagram was a thinly veiled attempt to sell copies of a forthcoming novel about a social media personality whose words have inspired his fans to attack his foes. |
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| Scott Jennings Schools CNN Panel on
Biden's Inflation Disaster Matt Margolis  Scott Jennings didn't just
win an argument on CNN Wednesday night. He
got Abby Phillip to admit he was right, live, on air, in front of a
panel that had spent the whole segment pretending Joe Biden's inflation
disaster never happened... This is what happens every single
time
Democrats get cornered on the economy. They only discover inflation is
a problem the moment a Republican sits in the Oval Office, and they'll
cheerfully blame Trump for price hikes that started on Biden's watch.
For years, the left insisted the Biden economy was strong, that
complaints about grocery bills were overblown, that anyone struggling
to make ends meet just didn't understand the data. The left loves to
pretend the Biden years never happened, and this panel demonstrated it
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| Fifth Circuit Completely Roasts
Biden DOE’s Stove and Oven Efficiency Rules Leslie Eastman The court voids the rules after determining that Biden’s Energy Department improperly tried to fast-track the measure as a “direct final rule”, which is usually reserved for noncontroversial matters. During the tiresome Biden era, my Legal Insurrection colleague Mary Chastain and I were frontline reporters covering the administration’s “War on Appliances”. [T]he climate cultists were most keen to crackdown on gas stoves. Now the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously set aside DOE’s 2024 rules establishing amended energy-conservation standards for ovens and stoves. |
This is a reminder that regulators do not get to evade public scrutiny |
| Pelosi, Democrats Kept Swalwell on
Intel Committee Despite FBI Warnings When allegations of Rep. Eric Swalwell’s relationship with a woman suspected of ties to Chinese intelligence first surfaced in 2020, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on the FBI’s findings. The public now knows the bureau had evidence at the time that the woman, Fang Fang, had potentially compromised Swalwell with sex, foreign interns and illicit donations, but Pelosi and Democrats still refused to remove the lawmaker from the powerful House Intelligence Committee. |
GOP leader called for Swalwell to be booted from the sensitive committee |
| Trump Cabinet Official Reveals Staggering Chemical Truth About American Food Supply Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just exposed one of the biggest scandals in American food production – and every parent in this country needs to hear what he said. “We have 10,000 ingredients in our food, whereas Europeans only have 400,” Kennedy stated. Let that sink in. Ten thousand chemical ingredients pumped into the food American families eat every single day. Meanwhile, European countries – places we’re told are so progressive and advanced – have banned almost all of them. This isn’t about being anti-business or anti-capitalism. This is about holding massive corporations accountable when they poison our children for profit. |
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 Randi Weingarten Pushes Target Boycott Over ICE and Sparks Fresh Fury American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten promoted a nationwide back-to-school boycott of retail giant Target over the weekend because the company had not condemned ICE operations in Minnesota – the location of its headquarters – prompting criticism from education advocates and a call for federal scrutiny. |
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| I'm Sorry, The Feds Wasted HOW MANY
TRILLIONS in Improper Payments? Stephen Green Instead of drawing out the big mystery over how much of your money Washington wastes on improper payments, I'll just tell you right up front: In the 20 years between 2003 and 2023, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates the total money blown on payments made in error, or in the wrong amount, or with no documentation (!!!) is $2.7 TRILLION. It is almost exactly the same amount Washington collected last year in personal income taxes. And if that doesn't make your blood boil, you must be reading this inside a walk-in freezer, chewing on a mouthful of Lopressor. |
How much is a million, a billion, a trillion? |
| Former Fauci Adviser Admits
Violating Federal Records Laws Dr. David Morens, a former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to a conspiracy charge stemming from a scheme to evade Freedom of Information Act requests and the Federal Records Act in connection with communications about COVID-19 research grants. Morens used his private email account to intentionally circumvent public records laws while employed at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He concealed or destroyed records of discussions related to COVID-19 research grants, including an effort to revive a controversial coronavirus grant, the Justice Department said. |
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| A Liberal Journalist Just Exposed Fauci’s Toxic Relationship with the Media Human history is shaped by epic rivalries, and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s adversarial relationship with the truth has proven one such antagonism. Fauci’s pandemic-era fibs about the efficacy of masks and lockdowns, the National Institutes of Health’s funding of gain-of-function research, his role in shutting down schools and the origins of COVID-19 itself are well-documented. But a liberal journalist may have just blown the top off yet another massive scandal. |
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| ABC Admits FCC Pressure Changed How "The View" Books Political Guests Tim Harrison Disney's ABC acknowledged in its own federal lawsuit that regulatory pressure from the FCC forced producers of "The View" to stop booking political candidates and pull video clips from the air, a rare admission that undercuts the network's claims of editorial independence. ABC filed the suit Tuesday in Washington, D.C., federal court, seeking a temporary restraining order against the FCC's early review of eight Disney-owned broadcast station licenses. But buried in the legal filing was something more revealing than any injunction request: the network's own confession that government scrutiny had already reshaped what viewers see on the daytime talk show. |
"The View" welcomed 102 left-leaning guests during the first seven months of 2025, and zero conservatives |
| Another Mandate: California
Drivers, Business Owners 'in hell' Over New Tire Regulations On Monday, the California Energy Commission unanimously green lit the new rules to phase out the sale of replacement tires that don’t meet the state’s energy-efficiency standards. The change could potentially wipe out 70% of the tires currently available to California drivers, opponents say – and inflate the cost of an average set by hundreds of dollars. Californians are Tire-Ing of Rising Costs and Regulations Calif Post Editorial Board Whatever happened to “affordability”? Gavin Newsom latched onto that word almost as soon as it gained traction nationwide. But now, he’s defending the opposite. The California Energy Commission – all five of whose members were either appointed or reappointed by Newsom – decided this week to ban certain tires from the road in 2029. The commission decided to lower the maximum “rolling resistance” of replacement tires, ostensibly because that would reduce fuel usage. |
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| That UChicago Professor Arrested
for Alleged Battery on a Cop? It’s Abdul El-Sayed’s Sister It turns out that a controversial University of Chicago professor arrested last year for alleged felony aggravated battery on a police officer is the sister of Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan. Eman Abdelhadi, an assistant professor focused on religion, gender, identity, and demography, is El-Sayed’s maternal half-sister, the Washington Free Beacon reported. “A self-described ‘Queer Muslim’ and ‘community organizer’ who uses the pronouns ‘she/they,’ she has been at the center of far-left protests on campus,” the Beacon reported.  |
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 Hamas
Uses the West’s Humanity As a Shield,and Its Own Children As Human Shields A Palestinian woman in Gaza admits everyone in Gaza is Hamas: “In Gaza, every house has Hamas. Are you going to kill us all?!” “If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel'” —Benjamin Netanyahu |
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| She’s Been Killed – Democrats Did
This; Illegal Immigrant from El Salvador Arrested in Stabbing Death of Virginia Mother Fairfax County police have arrested a 19-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador in the stabbing death of a 42-year-old Virginia mother, and DHS says the Biden administration released him into the country after catching him at the border. Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos left a restaurant where he and Carmen Lizet Puch both worked carrying a fixed-blade knife, latex gloves, and a water bottle, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon. The pattern is by now grimly familiar to Americans who follow immigration enforcement failures. A preventable death is the hardest kind to grieve, because someone, somewhere, had the authority to stop it and chose not to. |
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| Stunning Ratio Destroys Gun Control
Myth Wyatt Porter The numbers don’t lie, and they’re devastating for the gun control crowd. Chicago, sitting in one of the most anti-Second Amendment states in the nation, has a murder rate seven times higher than cities in states that actually respect the Constitution. While Democrats keep pushing the same failed gun control agenda, the evidence is crystal clear. States with constitutional carry laws – where law-abiding citizens can protect themselves and their families – have far lower murder rates than cities like Chicago where only criminals have guns. |
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| Pro-Tip:
If You Rob a Gun Store, Don’t Display Your Stolen Guns On Instagram Three teenagers have been arrested in connection with a July break-in at a Pflugerville gun store where 34 firearms were stolen. For those unfamiliar with central Texas, Pflugerville is just north of Austin and just south of Round Rock. What is it with today’s criminal youth that they can’t understand that documenting felonies on social media is a bad idea? Do they believe some sort of magical forcefield prevents police from viewing Instagram? “Sure, I’m spending several years in prison, but look how dope I looked holding those stolen guns!” |
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| 23-Year-Old Aviator Pulls Off Miraculous Florida Water Landing After Engine Quit A young Florida pilot was able to swim away from a dramatic water landing in the Atlantic Ocean off Boca Raton on Saturday in a video captured by a beachgoer. Faith Tenkley, 23, who has been a pilot for four years, maneuvered her family's twin-engine Piper around buildings as she approached the coast and avoided paddleboarders before finding an open stretch of water next to the beach, she told Gulf Coast News. The plane made a smooth water landing at about 9:40 a.m. local time.  |
Story originally misreported as a male pilot and a female surfer! |
| 'Invisible' No More, Detransitioners Finally Get Their Own Diagnosis Codes The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new diagnosis codes taking effect Oct. 1 to document d etransitioners who seek to reverse and mitigate regretted hormonal and surgical procedures to resemble the opposite sex, making them visible in medicine and easing the path for them to get restorative treatment and insurance coverage. The additions to the International Classification of Disease, Tenth Revision, closely follow a Department of Health and Human Services report that found rampant alleged billing fraud in so-called gender-affirming care for minors, especially misclassification as unspecified endocrine disorders and precocious puberty to secure insurance reimbursement. |
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| Harvard University’s Staggering Military Research Ties with Communist China Harvard University failed to protect American research from exploitation by Chinese Communist Party military institutions, according to a bombshell House Select Committee investigation reviewed exclusively ahead of its public release. The Ivy League giant allowed its researchers to co-author more than 140 academic papers with scientists from Chinese universities directly tied to Beijing’s military and defense programs. These aren’t regular colleges – they’re part of what Pentagon officials call the “Seven Sons of National Defense,” institutions central to China’s military modernization and weapons development. |
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| Penn Professor Writes Book Arguing
'Sex Isn't Real,' but Previously Taught Course on ‘studying sex’ The book, titled Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary, was written by assistant professor Beans Velocci of the University of Pennsylvania. Velocci, who is described on a Penn Arts and Sciences website as using ”they/them” pronouns, is an assistant professor of history and sociology of science and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Velocci’s work is further described on the site as utilizing “queer, trans, and feminist methods” as a means to “interrogate classification systems” and explain how topics and areas became “biological truths” in a “colonial and white supremacist context.” |
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 Young Bear Plunges from Denver Tree As Officers Scramble to Break Its Fall A young black bear took a rough tumble from a tree in Denver on Sunday after wildlife officers tranquilized the animal before relocating it to a more suitable habitat. Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) said in a thread on X Sunday that officers responded to the bear near Louisiana Avenue and Pennsylvania Street in Denver. "This morning we responded to a bear in a tree ... in Denver," the post read. "Not a typo. In Denver." |
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| We Can’t Save the
American Dream By Pretending Everything Is Just Fine Sean Davis Our country lives or dies based on how we address the very real problems that have put the American Dream far out of reach for most people in this country. What won’t solve those problems is lying about them and pretending everything is just fine, using ridiculous talking points that bear zero resemblance to what’s actually happening on the ground in this country right now. |
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| Packing the Supreme
Court? Fuhgeddaboudit! Armando Simón After the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump could deport certain illegal aliens (i.e., Democrat voters), the Democrats are once again clamoring to pack the Supreme Court with ideological fanatics who would vote in favor of censorship and religious persecution and eliminating restrictions on illegal immigration. This is something that they plan on doing if and when they control the government, as they did with the Biden regime. Since Democrats keep stating their goal to pack the Supreme Court, something needs to be stated and restated and restated again: that would be congressional overreach. |
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| Losing the Bubble Jack DeVine  Among submariners, the metaphor — the broader meaning of the term “losing the bubble” in any life situation — is that very uncomfortable feeling of not being in complete control, of being unsure about the path ahead and the obstacles that might be in the way. Sound familiar? On the subject of Democratic Socialism, the Democrat Party has clearly lost the bubble. To apply my analogy, if big tent Chuck Schumer were a submarine commanding officer (although hard to imagine, even in jest), he’d be saying, “Well, we sure are going down fast, and I don’t know exactly what’s in the way or how deep the water is around here — but, what the hell, it’s a big ocean! Full speed ahead!” |
On the subject of Democratic Socialism, the Democrat Party has clearly lost the bubble. |
| Fake It ‘Til You Make It – The Dems’ New Campaign Motto I & I Editorial Board What is it with Democrats and their fake supporters, fake accents, fake backgrounds, fake accomplishments? Is it because they think voters are that shallow and stupid? Or because they don’t want anyone to know how incredibly out of touch they are with regular Americans? This week, to cite just the most recent example, a group of “Republicans for Talarico” disbanded after it turned out that they were actually just a bunch of lifelong Democrats in disguise, but not before MS NOW gave them some free airtime. |
But, shucks, whadda we
know? |
| Trump Floats a Dramatic Move
Involving the Midterms – and Critics Are Already Sounding Alarms A question about a possible workaround on election integrity renewed outcry from the left as President Donald Trump suggested: “stranger things have happened.” During a phone interview with Wayne Allyn Root said, “let me put an idea in your head, okay? Because it’s so hard to get the Senate to do anything – now they’re on recess – they don’t get anything done,” expressed Root. “If they never get the SAVE America Act done, you have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections.” The host went on to reference a Supreme Court case that ruled a one-house legislative veto of the executive branch violated the separation of powers. “And the Supreme Court ruled in 1983, under [President Ronald] Reagan, that INS v. Chadha, that if you declare a national security emergency as the president of the United States, they can’t challenge it. It can only be overturned by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress.” |
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| Abdul El-Sayed Oversaw Animal
'slaughterhouse' As Over 4,000 Puppies and Kittens Killed Under His Watch Samantha Loren Progressive Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed has wooed voters with his credentials as a doctor with a mission of healthcare for all. But his record overseeing Detroit's troubled animal-control system, which saw high rates of animal euthanasia, has received far less attention as he's campaigned... [A]ccording to records obtained by the Daily Mail, nearly 4,680 dogs and cats were euthanized by Detroit Animal Care and Control during the period when El-Sayed was in his post at the Detroit Health Department. |
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| The Electoral Integrity Issue Isn't
Israel – It's Islam Josh Hammer More than any political cycle in memory, the 2026 primary campaign season has been marked by frequent, and often hysterical, condemnations of the influence of the so-called “Israel lobby.” On the Democratic side, the bogeyman du jour has been the America Israel Public Affairs Committee. Some successful Democratic candidates, such as Abdul El-Sayed in Arab-heavy Michigan, rode anti-AIPAC fervor to victory. And some losing candidates, such as the comically corrupt Cori Bush in St. Louis, blamed AIPAC for their rejection. In her concession speech, Bush vowed to dismantle AIPAC’s “kingdom.” Sore loser hysterics notwithstanding, there is truth to the allegation of meddlesome foreign interference in American politics. But that interference isn’t coming from Israel. It’s coming from terror-tied Islamic groups and Islamic governments. |
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| Descendant of Slaves Shames
Smithsonian’s Woke ‘indoctrination’ Against the ‘greatest nation on earth’ Peter Pinedo Black bishop and author Earl Walker Jackson, a descendant of enslaved ancestors, is criticizing the Smithsonian National Museum of American History for what he said amounts to anti-American "indoctrination" against the "greatest nation on earth." Although his great-grandparents were enslaved, Jackson believes that "if you were born an American, you hit the proverbial lottery because you have more opportunity and hope than any people living anywhere else on the planet." |
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| State Department Cancels DEI
Diplomacy; 'White Fragility,' BLM Lessons Expunged from Training Diversity training had infected the State Department to the point that a full day of training for foreign service officers was dedicated to DEI, employees were told to mitigate their “unconscious bias,” and diplomats were urged to discuss DEI and “allyship” as part of their talks with foreign governments, the Trump administration revealed Thursday. Those training foreign service officers were encouraged to read up on “White Fragility” and “White women tears,” and were subjected to training on “Black Lives Matter” terminology and roleplaying on racism in the U.S. and foreign countries. |
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| Defund the U.N. Green Climate Fund I & I Editorial Board  The United Nations Green Climate Fund is running out of other people’s cash. Shortly after taking office last year, President Donald Trump rescinded $4 billion Washington had pledged. A few months later, the United Kingdom cut its $2.2 billion pledge by half. As is always the case, what’s bad for the climate zealots is good for everyone else... The United Nations GCF is nothing but a racket. “It is neither green nor about climate,” it is “a wasteful fraud,” says David Wojick of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. The fund has received and spent more than “$20 billion to date, with more billions coming.” As if in defiance of the extravagance, Earth’s temperature has refused to respond. Despite its name, the GCF is simply another vendor of foreign aid. |
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| Another New Study Links Modern and
Past Global Warming to Natural Changes in Cloud Cover, Not CO2 Kenneth Richard With more cloud cover, more solar radiation is reflected and the surface cools. With declining cloud albedo, which has been observed since 1980, less solar radiation is reflected and the surface warms. Cloud cover changes are driven by natural atmospheric circulation modes and internal variability. This is supported by reconstruction data showing cloud cover decline has for centuries occurred independently from “greenhouse-gas forcing.” |
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| Ukrainian Prosecutor Joe Biden
FIRED for Investigating Hunter’s Burisma Just Exposed $350 BILLION in U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Meant for Ukraine Going Straight to Globalist Networks Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, the official Joe Biden publicly threatened and forced out of office in 2016, claims in his book Biden’s Corruption and War: The True Story of the 1 Billion Dollar Prosecutor that hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars connected to Ukraine were recycled through political interests and “globalist networks.” He alleges $350 billion in American taxpayer money was diverted into these opaque channels amid the chaos of war. Arms deals were tainted by corruption. |
Biden called himself the “Vice King” in Ukraine circles for a reason. |
| White House Accuses More Than 40
Countries of Helping China Avoid U.S. Tariffs The White House accused China of routing billions of dollars of goods through other countries to avoid President Trump’s 2018 tariffs, costing the U.S. billions of dollars in lost revenue, according to a new report released Thursday. The report, titled “The Great Transshipment Scam,” found more than 40 countries, ranging from Mexico to Israel, were involved in what the report described as a “global Shadow Transshipment Network through which China’s tariff evasion now moves.” |
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| Judge Blocks DHS from Obtaining 17 Million Commercial Driver’s License Records A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Department of Homeland Security from obtaining 17 million Commercial Driver’s License records. Judge Trenga also ordered the DHS to immediately return any subpoenaed documents and not inspect the records. The judge said he needs more time to consider the motion to quash the subpoenas. On Friday, 21 Democrat state attorneys general and DC filed lawsuits challenging the records request. |
Dems fight more to protect illegals than to protect U.S. citizens – sad. |
| Transportation Dept. Imposes
English Requirement on Railway Engineers, Conductors Fresh off its effort to remove people who struggle with English from jobs in commercial driving, the Trump administration is now moving to boot them off the rails, too. The Transportation Department last month proposed a new rule that would require conductors and engineers on locomotives to demonstrate they know enough English to be safe. The rule also would bar Mexican crews from running routes beyond a 10-mile border zone. |
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| Swing-state's Fraud Reckoning
Raises Minnesota-Style Alarm As Wild Schemes Exposed The DOJ’s expanded anti-fraud task force made its first sweeping bust of Medicaid scofflaws in Pennsylvania this month, drawing comparisons to the massive fraud scandals that rocked Minnesota – but with one major difference. Republicans and Democrats in the state united in outrage after nearly two dozen people were charged in Philadelphia and elsewhere. The DOJ noted Pennsylvania spends $8 billion on Medicaid home-care services, more than almost any other state, and those services were the target of the busts. |
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| Manhattan Rents Reach All-Time High
of $6,655/Month Amid Mamdani’s Rent Freeze and Pied-À-Terre Tax Threat Manhattan renters, brace yourselves. The average price tag for a place to live just hit a jaw-dropping $6,655 a month, an all-time high, according to fresh data from Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group. That’s a brutal 10% jump from a year ago, and real estate pros are pointing straight at Mayor Mamdani’s incoming rent freeze on stabilized units as one of the culprits, along with a looming pied-à-terre tax that brokers say is only going to squeeze the market harder. |
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| Tribe's 'No Trespassing' Signs
Crushed by a Theodore Roosevelt Proclamation from 1907 A federal judge in Arizona cleared the path for border wall construction in the state after a Native American tribe attempted to block its construction. The Tohono O'odham Nation had argued that constructing the border wall along its southern border with Mexico would constitute illegal trespassing on tribal lands as well as effectively shrink the reservation. Judge Richard Leon noted in his ruling a federal proclamation in 1907 that the first 60 feet of the reservation could be taken for federal use. |
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| Trump’s Use of Centuries-Old
Wartime Law Survives Fresh Legal Challenge The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday dismissed as moot a challenge to President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Tren de Aragua members, leaving the legality of his invocation of the 18th-century law unresolved. While the Alien Enemies Act dates back hundreds of years, prior to Trump, it was most recently invoked by President Harry Truman in 1946. The law allows the president, under specified wartime or invasion circumstances involving a foreign nation or government, to detain and remove certain non-naturalized individuals of that hostile power. |
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| Ohio Mom, Her Two Trans Lovers
Accused of Torturing and Killing Disabled 7-Year-Old Son A depraved mother and her two trans lovers allegedly tortured and killed her developmentally disabled 7-year-old son, who was found dead and duct-taped inside a closet in her Ohio home. The body of little William Evans, 7, was discovered by police on Thursday at the family’s Cincinnati house, and the horrific scene shocked even hardened law enforcement officers and medical professionals. Hamilton County Coroner Lakshmi Sammarco told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday that she “opened the closet door” at the Evans residence and “just froze for a while.” |
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| WNBA Player Who Fouled Sophie
Cunningham and Cried ‘White Privilege,’ Is Herself the Child of Privilege Warner Todd Huston  DiJonai
Carrington, the WNBA player who bashed Sophie Cunningham in the face
and then accused the league of “white privilege” when she was handed a
flagrant foul, was born to a privileged family and grew up attending
extremely expensive private schools. The Chicago Sky player was handed
her punishment after delivering a clothesline flagrant foul against
Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham on August 8. After being handed
her foul judgment, Carrington posted “WHITE PRIVILEGE” in an August 9
social media post. Clearly, Carrington was claiming that her punishment
was a result of Cunningham’s “white privilege,” and not a just
punishment for her own actions. |
She's one of the 'dirtiest players in WNBA' —Dave Portnoy |
| Woke Will Eat Itself, Chapter
MCLXII: WNBA Meets to Discover Definition of 'Woman', And ... Ed Morrissey What does it say when an organization has to call an all-hands meeting to define the word "woman"? Especially when the organization literally has that word in its title? And what does it say about the organization when it fails to do so? The Women's National Basketball Association held a league-wide meeting yesterday to address the issue of eligibility restrictions. Its charter makes clear that only "women" can compete in the league, a term which, up until a hot second ago, everyone understood perfectly. |
This is what happens when Peak Woke arrives |
 Looks Like the WNBA's AbsurdityIs About to Sink the Entire Transgender Movement Tim O'Brien We now have former NBA stars declaring their intent to enter the WNBA draft as women. Both Royce White and Enes Freedom are simply following the rules the left has created, and in the process, they can legitimately claim to have a shot at getting a roster spot in the WNBA. But it’s not just that. It’s the reaction they’re getting from the left, which in unison is saying, “No fair, you can’t do that!” The left forgets that yes, in the past, you couldn’t do that. But now, thanks to the left, you can. And the WNBA hasn’t taken a hard line on any of this yet, which is not only hurting the league, but is also hurting the transgender movement. |
One can only hope! |
 The WNBA LaughingstockDouglas Andrews On Friday afternoon, former Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter Freedom made an announcement the likes of which many of us have been anticipating for years: He declared himself eligible for the WNBA draft. As Kanter himself put it in an X post: "After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I’m officially declaring myself a WNBA prospect. If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA." |
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| White House Torches Psaki After MS
NOW Host Launches Furious Leavitt Attack "The relationship between the press and the White House is supposed to be adversarial by design," Psaki said on MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, where she was hired after her performance on then-President Biden's behalf from 2021 to 2022. "I mean, the press in the room are supposed to push for more access, for more information. And there are times when it's absolutely appropriate for the press secretary to push back. But Karoline Leavitt didn't want to engage in good faith with those reporters and their tough questions. |
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| Ex-Cambridge Professor Who Resigned
Last Week Over Plagiarism Scandal Found Dead Jason Arday, the ex-Cambridge professor who sparked an international controversy over plagiarism allegations, was found dead Friday, according to multiple reports. BBC News reported that a man at a south London address was found "unresponsive" and that, according to the Metropolitan Police, "a 41-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene and his next of kin have been informed." "At this time, his death is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious," Met Police said in a statement to BBC News. |
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| Lawfare Exposed:
Democrat AGs Planned to Sue Trump Nearly 7 Months Before He Was Reelected Center Square Staff Nearly two dozen state attorneys general banded together as early as April 2024 to plot litigation against President Donald Trump long before he was reelected, according to a confidential document obtained by The Center Square. The document was signed approximately three months before President Joe Biden exited from the race and Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president. It was signed nearly seven months before Trump was reelected by 2.3 million more votes than Harris, almost nine months before he was inaugurated. State attorneys general have sued the Trump Administration nearly 100 times since January 2025. The coordinated effort appears to have a nickname: the “Project for Federal Accountability.” |
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| Israel Says Iranian
Jihad Chief Confirms Nuclear Weapon Plans Even After Devastating Bombing Catherine Salgado In news that will shock absolutely no one who knows the realities of Iran’s terrorist regime, a top Iranian Jihad official just confirmed that the regime absolutely plans to continue its nuclear development program. And given that China, Russia, Qatar, and other dictatorial nations are ready to send military weapons, energy, or other materials, this is not merely a misty future goal. It was inevitable, however, that the Iranian regime was going to continue seeking nuclear weapons, given that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei recently confirmed that he still sees America as the “Great Satan,” so the “death to America” ideology will continue as ever. The regime also currently has a €50 million, or about $57 million, price out on Donald Trump's head and assets already embedded in the United States. |
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| Iran Sets Conditions for Strait of
Hormuz Reopening, Calls for U.S. to Correct Its Behavior Iran is attempting to make the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz conditional on the United States meeting a series of demands, raising fresh doubts about efforts to restore commercial shipping through one of the world's most important energy corridors. Iran's Supreme National Security Council said the waterway would remain closed until Washington "corrects its behavior." Some of the conditions reportedly included an end to U.S. sanctions, compensation for damage caused during the conflict and the withdrawal of American military forces from the region. |
Iran is just playing tap, tap, tap. Stinging us along. They want time, not an end to the conflict! |
| What Iranians Really Think About
the War – And Their Regime Ilan Berman Since this spring, American diplomacy has focused overwhelmingly on pressuring the Iranian regime back to the negotiating table – at the outset, to barter over its nuclear program, and more recently to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. In the process, the idea of assisting the Iranian people seems to have fallen by the wayside. So, what do Iranians think about the conflict, and the current state of their country after nearly half a year of war? A new internet-based survey conducted by GAMAAN, a Netherlands-based polling group focused on assessing attitudes within Iran, offers some surprising – and significant – revelations. |
The potential for meaningful political change within Iran persists |
| Why Some Are Drawn to Islam in the
First Place! To understand the real horror of Islam and Shariah law read, read, read what the people who have lived under its oppression have to say about the 'religion of peace'. Islamists understand they need only 3 to 5% of the population in any community to control the culture of that community. Beware of creeping Islamization. This newsletter has been heavily linked to supporting material and required much cross-referencing and editing. Please take advantage of it. From the TYSK Insider Newsletter dated: 8 August 2026 |
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| As Iran War Strains High-End
Munition Stocks, Trump Administration Works to Jump Start Production Concerns that the U.S. military is running short on critical, high-end munitions are not new, and in fact, long predate the war in Iran. But, the second Trump administration has made it a top priority to jump-start the American industrial base to quickly plug the gaps. The foundations for boosting munitions production were laid last summer, shortly after the surprise U.S. bombing of suspected Iranian nuclear sites, when War Secretary Pete Hegseth convened America’s largest military contractors urging them to ramp up production of critical munitions... “Claims of U.S. munition shortages are false,” Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement to Just the News. “When the Fake News media irresponsibly amplifies these lies, the real-world consequence is clear: our enemies are emboldened to provoke – or attack – American troops. |
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| Moderate Democrats Launch $15
Million Campaign to Stop Democratic Socialists Before 2028 Third Way, a leading centrist Democratic group, has unveiled a $15 million effort to discredit democratic socialism ahead of 2028, a move that lays bare a party split its own leaders now describe as an existential fight. Jonathan Cowan, president of Third Way, told the New York Times that his organization is bracing for a confrontation with the party's socialist wing over the direction of the Democratic presidential nomination. The effort, which will run between now and 2028, amounts to the most expensive organized pushback centrist Democrats have mounted against their own left flank. The trigger was Tuesday's Michigan primary, where Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, a public health official who failed in a 2018 bid for governor, defeated establishment Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens. |
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| JD Vance Warns 'Limousine
Socialists' Will Destroy Michigan Auto Jobs, Depress American Wages  Speaking
on "The Ingraham Angle," Vance argued that the victory of Democratic
candidates backed by the far left exposes a party pushing wealth
redistribution rather than domestic industrial growth. "They're not
promising you industry. They're not promising you good jobs. They're
not promising self-sufficiency in a good industrial economy. What
they're promising is redistribution," Vance told host Laura Ingraham. |
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| The Dumb, Arrogant Liars Who Are
Also Journalists J.B. Shurk There is a frustrating contradiction when it comes to the way public information is assessed for factual truth. For decades, prominent news organizations have steadily lost credibility. Fewer Americans than ever believe what the New York Times, CNN, NPR, or even the AP publishes as the “objective” record of current events. At the same time, however, alternative, competing descriptions of current events are almost entirely ignored. No matter how compelling or factually sourced a story might be, it is largely disregarded until mainstream corporate news institutions are willing to recognize its validity. |
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| Communist, Socialist Network Helped
Fuel Madison Protests After Corey Ruiz Shooting, Investigation Finds A coalition of communist, socialist and left-wing activist organizations helped drive nearly two weeks of protests and a sprawling encampment in Madison, Wis., following the fatal police shooting of homeless man Corey Ruiz, with the demonstrations later escalating into clashes with police, street fires and blocked intersections, a Fox News Digital investigation has found. Among the most prominent groups backing the protests are the Madison chapter of the openly communist Party for Socialism and Liberation, Freedom Inc., a Madison-based "social justice" nonprofit, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a Marxist-Leninist political organization, all of which have publicly backed the protests. |
Legacy media mum on who pays for these paid mercenary 'protestors' |
| Mike Rowe Triggered a Ton of People
With His Lengthy Post About Socialism Matt Vespa  Mike
Rowe isn’t a progressive, though I wouldn’t call him a hard-core MAGA
supporter either. He’s a media figure who’s attentive to the working
class, hosting numerous series about labor in America, including the
Discovery Channel’s "Dirty Jobs". He’s also a narrator for numerous
programs on that network, like "Deadliest Catch". Rowe isn’t a fan of
socialism either. That doesn’t make him conservative, as you know, but
the people upset about his lengthy post criticizing the democratic
socialist agenda seem oblivious to that. Democratic socialism causes
the same kind of misery for its people, except they vote for it. See,
it’s different; they give you options from which to choose. It’s
communism with extra steps. His post is epic, which our friends at
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| Heavy Energy Consumption Is the
Greatest Feature of Data Centers John Tamny In speeches, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells rapt audiences that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is “work.” Yes, precisely. Jensen’s pithy explanation of what AI truly is speaks to the towering potential of data centers. As the headline to this piece indicates, and contrary to what you’re told, energy consumption by data centers is their most appealing feature. While they don’t require a lot of employees once they’re in operation, data centers produce staggering amounts of work. A much more prosperous future relative to the already abundant present can be found in the previous truth. |
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| Dinesh D'Souza Points to
'startling' Discoveries That Could Leave Bible Skeptics Stunned A trip to Israel by bestselling author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza sparked what would become a three-year deep dive into biblical archaeology – a field he says offers striking support for the historical authenticity of the Bible. In an interview with Fox News Digital, D'Souza said he became fascinated with biblical archaeology because it "stunningly supports the historicity of the Bible." "The Stones Cry Out," his newest book, is the culmination of a multi-year effort that began in 2022 and is scheduled to hit shelves on Oct. 13.  |
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| The Real First Responders Are the
People Who Are Already There When It Happens Before the police get there armed people save lives more and more often. “Everything takes time. Depending on the location and the number of civilians there, a killer can shoot about 15 people if we wait for the police to arrive and stop an attack. We’ve seen that data play out over the last decade. We have hundreds of examples. That’s the ugly calculus of time.” When seconds count, the police are only minutes away. [Thanks Instapundit] |
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| Talarico’s Voter Registration
Raises Questions About Fraud Democratic Texas State Rep. and Senate hopeful James Talarico is facing accusations of hypocrisy after reports surfaced that he voted using his parents’ address despite accusing his Republican opponent of voter fraud for allegedly voting from an address that was not his own. On Wednesday, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reported that Talarico voted in the last five elections using his parents’ address despite purchasing a home of his own in 2022. “It is fitting that James Talarico broke the law in the most loser and beta way possible by pretending to live at his mommy’s house,” Republican National Committee spokesman Zach Kraft told the Daily Caller. “Texans deserve answers about why Talarico lied and what else he is lying about.” |
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| Fetterman 'dares' El-Sayed to Stick
with Piker, Claims Michigan Nominee Has 'little man syndrome energy' Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., warned Friday that Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed could cost his party a must-hold Michigan Senate seat, escalating a personal feud over El-Sayed’s campaign style, opposition to military aid for Israel and alliance with far-left streamer Hasan Piker. "He has put, you know, that seat in play," Fetterman said during an interview with The Washington Post. |
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| Mamdani's Universal Childcare Plan
Will Cost Taxpayers Billions More Than Planned As Costs Balloon Patrick Reilly  Mayor
Zohran Mamdani’s universal childcare plan will cost 50% more than he
advertised, according to a new study. The proposed program is estimated
to cost a whopping $9 billion annually, approximately with an average
cost per child roughly $27,000, according to the report from the Center
for New York City Affairs, a nonpartisan research organization
affiliated with the New School. “An estimated $8.7 to $9.3 billion
would be needed annually to fund universal child care in New York
City,” the report, which was released on Monday, states. |
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| Canadian Hoser Slaps American Teen
– The Canuck in Question Is Now in ICE Custody  Tracey
was out on the Point Pleasant boardwalk when she spotted a group of
teenage girls wearing patriotic gear. It was the Fourth of July, so of
course they had on patriotic attire. One of the girls, reportedly 16
years of age, was wearing a pair of sweatpants displaying pro-Trump
memorabilia or possibly pro-ICE support (reports conflict on that
detail). Tracey’s little Canadian head exploded over the political
expression, so she confronted the teenager. According to the New
York Post,
Tracey filmed the verbal confrontation, then stopped the camera in
order to slap the child twice with an open hand – once in the face and
once on the body. Police have corroborating evidence for this assault
from witnesses and video surveillance. Tracey was arrested shortly
after the incident, but this is where the plot thickens: She
is an illegal immigrant. |
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| Cuba Plunges Into Darkness As
Electric Grid Collapses Cuba’s electricity grid collapsed late Sunday, the state-owned grid operator said, plunging the island of about 10 million people into darkness as blackouts become more frequent. The outage follows three nationwide blackouts in July and comes as a U.S.-imposed oil blockade further strains the island’s aging energy infrastructure. |
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| Smithsonian Director's Words Come
Back to Haunt Her in Resurfaced 2025 Video – Sees History as a "Tool" After an explosive series of congressional hearings on alleged woke "ideological capture" at the Smithsonian, a resurfaced video of a presentation by National Museum of American History Director Anthea Hartig shows her calling "history as a practice" a "prime tool of social justice. Later in her presentation, Hartig asserted that the "United States’ long and violent racial history continues to be present in our reckoning, if you will." She said that "redress in the form of reparation, of course, goes beyond acknowledgement of wrongdoing; it should leverage responsibility, it should think about the act of correction, as we pursue restorative justice and, for us [on the call], restorative justice through history." |
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| Say, Didja Happen to Notice the
Total Implosion of the Academic World and DEI Industry? Robert Spencer Jason Arday is no longer a professor at Britain’s prestigious Cambridge University, but that august institution is going to need some time to recover from the damage he has done. Indeed, the entire academic world, and the DEI industry as well, are reeling from Arday’s sudden and shocking unmasking and downfall. Up until his resignation under fire on Thursday, Jason Arday was a professor of Sociology of Education at Cambridge, becoming the youngest black professor in the university's history. He resigned after evidence of his massive plagiarism and otherwise embarrassingly skimpy academic record circulated so widely as to be impossible to ignore, but this is much, much more than just a plagiarism scandal. |
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| Cambridge's Youngest Black
Professor Resigns Amid Plagiarism Probe and Fabricated Credentials Jason Arday, celebrated as the youngest Black professor in Cambridge University's history, quit hours after the institution finally launched an investigation into allegations of doctoral plagiarism, invented academic titles, and unverifiable hate-crime claims that had dogged him for years. Arday tendered his immediate resignation overnight after Cambridge and Jesus College announced the formal inquiry, publishing a lengthy farewell letter on the Good Law Project's website that promoted his own achievements but offered no admission of wrongdoing and no apology. The university said it had begun an investigation following "new information about Professor Arday's qualifications and honorary appointments." |
Prominent DEI hire had a trail allegations that lead to an inquiry |
| Kentucky Anti-DEI Law Seemingly
Ends NIH-Funded Professor's 'white ally' Therapy Training A University of Louisville professor who received nearly $500,000 in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to study race-related stress helped develop an American Psychological Association-approved training program that educated therapists on “allyship” Asked about the status of the program, a University of Louisville spokesman told Campus Reform it is the university’s understanding that the Dialectical Engagement in Anti-Racism (DEAR) Project “held its last training session in December 2024, prior to the enactment of HB 4.” Kentucky lawmakers approved House Bill 4, prohibiting public universities from expending institutional resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. |
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| Media Rushes to Cover for WNBA
Player Who Blamed Race Following Her Own Ejection  WNBA
media wasted no time jumping to DiJonai Carrington's defense after her
dangerous hit on Sophie Cunningham earned her a Flagrant 2 and an early
shower Saturday. Carrington got the boot after catching Cunningham
above the neck as the Fever guard went airborne for a transition layup.
But instead of taking her lumps, Carrington retreated to the locker
room and immediately pulled out her phone, posting "WHITE PRIVILEGE
@indianafever" on Threads. |
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| Father Arrested After Allegedly
Killing Kittens to Punish Daughter When She 'acted up' A Florida father was arrested this week for allegedly killing the family's kittens in front of his teenage daughter as a form of punishment, authorities said. Bodycam video released by the Lee County Sheriff's Office shows deputies responding to a home in Pine Manor after receiving a report that a man was attempting to drown and strike a two-month-old kitten named Luna. David Charette Jr., 48, was arrested and charged with aggravated animal cruelty after authorities accused him of killing two kittens and injuring a third. |
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| ‘Say Goodbye to Your Kids’: New
Details Emerge in Deaths of Two Mandan, N.D. Children A newly obtained affidavit reveals disturbing new details in the deaths of two young children in Mandan Thursday night, including video showing the suspect carrying one of the children while armed with a pistol and telling the children’s father, “Say goodbye to your kids.” Kailey Erhart, 22, faces two counts of murder, attempted murder, two counts of terrorizing with a dangerous weapon, three counts of aggravated assault, and a misdemeanor count of domestic violence in connection with the August 6 incident at a residence on South Frontier Trail in Mandan. Two children died and a third was seriously injured. |
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| The Socialist Monster
Awakens Victor Davis Hanson Fear about “affordability” supposedly fueled the new, strident socialism. The socialists were not just quiet during Biden’s four years; they were themselves responsible for the rampant Biden inflation. They had implemented an inflationary de facto third Obama term, ramming through the most radical and costly agenda in decades under the veneer of that cognitively challenged waxen effigy, good ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton. So the current Jacobin takeover of the Democratic Party was not sparked by concerns about “affordability” – or at least not if by “affordability” we mean the middle-class struggle to buy a house, a car, or groceries. |
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| Do Democrats Even Know
What the DSA Stands For? I & I Editorial Board A Fox News poll finds that a majority of Democrats say they have a favorable view of the Democratic Socialists of America. But our I&I/TIPP Poll found that Democrats reject – sometimes overwhelmingly – key DSA policy proposals. What explains the gap? You’d think socialism’s 100-plus-year record of failure would be enough to dissuade people from embracing tenets that led to the horrors of Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, etc. But hope springs eternal, apparently. |
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| Anthony Fauci Was the ‘big head’ of
COVID Response Miranda Devine The vanity of Anthony Fauci will be his undoing. Until now, the deceitful health bureaucrat’s reputation has remained intact despite damning revelations about his attempted cover-up of the origins of COVID-19, suspected involvement in outsourcing dangerous research on bat viruses to China and mishandling of the pandemic. But, days before Fauci has to again face his nemesis, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, on Capitol Hill, his excruciatingly embarrassing diary entries have turned him into a laughingstock. |
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| Fauci Should Be in Jail, Not
Georgetown Yuri Bezmenov Leftist regime loyalists receive patronage in the form of sinecures. For decades, DNC operatives have been rewarded with lucrative jobs at NGOs, universities, and corporate boards. They run a parallel government regardless of whether their party has official power. Biden’s autopen administration was no different. Instead of receiving punishment for covering up his senility, they are now collecting hefty paychecks as “experts” at “elite” institutions. The revolving door continues as they groom red guards into future commissars. Only in America can you destroy millions of lives and fail upwards. Even the Communists would have purged them for gross incompetence. |
 Where did Biden’s Politburo land? Incredible but true. A List. |
| Fauci Invokes the Fifth More Than
100 Times – and GOP Senators Say Biden's Pardon Won't Save Him Owen Bates Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the committee and issued the subpoena, responded by scheduling a committee vote for August 5 on a resolution to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress. Paul made clear he views Fauci's silence not as a constitutional right but as obstruction, and warned that the pardon President Biden signed on his way out of office changes nothing about what comes next... Sen. Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican, laid out the precedent in blunt terms during the hearing. He cited the Supreme Court's 1896 decision in Brown v. Walker, quoting directly from the ruling: "Let's just get one thing straight. You don't have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because you've been pardoned, as you very well know, as the Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more. Brown vs. Walker, 1896, 'When he has been pardoned, he may not stand upon his privilege.'" |
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| DSA's Solemn Vow: We Win an
Election, You Lose a Country. Stephen Green The Democratic Socialists of America mean to end the United States -- and if you don't believe me, take a look at what DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer had to say about it this weekend. Romer appeared on Fox News Sunday opposite Shannon Bream, where she seemed happy to explain her party platform to end the Founders' 250-year-old experiment in liberty, federalism, and self-governance. "We're going to put up on the screen a few of the things that are part of your platform," Bream said, "and I want to ask you to just give me sort of a true/false on these." Romer grinned and nodded. |
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| Iran
Claims It Controls Strait of Hormuz, Has No Interest in Negotiations John Hayward Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday that Iran remains firmly in control of the Strait of Hormuz and has no interest in negotiating with the United States, which he compared to “a mafia gang that adheres to no rules or laws.” “Mediators may convey messages from the American side to us regarding current developments in the region. But at present, we are not engaged in any negotiations with the United States,” Baghaei said at a press briefing. “Claims that Iran has requested negotiations are fabrications that the other side circulates from time to time,” he insisted. |
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| Have Jihadists Killed More Than 314,700 Innocent People Since 9/11? Catherine Salgado The website The Religion of Peace compiled statistics on confirmed jihadist killings from September 2001 through the end of 2025, concluding that at least 314,769 people have been killed by Islamic terrorism during that period. Given that the Iranian regime reportedly killed between 42,000 and 52,000 of its own people in a mass slaughter this year, along with the Israelis and Americans killed in the Iran conflict, the mass killings in Syria and Nigeria, and the ongoing attacks by Hezbollah and Hamas (just to name a few global examples), the true number is almost certainly higher. |
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| Is Zohran Mamdani Mentally Ill? Robert Spencer Surprisingly, New York City’s Marxist Muslim Mayor Zohran Mamdani admitted that the man who stabbed two people on the Upper West Side on Thursday “yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ during both attacks.” This was not, however, an indication that the mayor was ready to acknowledge the reality of Islamic jihad terrorism. Almost immediately after noting that the perpetrator screamed the jihadi war cry, Mamdani added: “The NYPD’s initial investigation suggests that mental health may have been a factor.” Ah, of course. Claiming that obvious Islamic jihadis are mentally ill is the common practice of authorities in Europe, and we have seen it in the U.S. as well. |
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| How Antisemitism Sneaks Up on
Progressive Jews Ramsey Coutta The next serious threat to Jewish acceptance in American society may not announce itself with swastikas or praise for Hitler. It may speak the language of liberation, equality, decolonization, and social justice. It may present itself not as hatred of Jews, but as opposition to “Zionists,” “settlers,” “colonizers” or members of an allegedly privileged class. That form of antisemitism is harder for some progressive Jews to recognize because it comes from people they regard as political allies. |
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| Europe’s Lost Jewish Communities
Underscore Why Israel Must Defend Itself Paul Driessen Israel was born out of Europe’s crematoria ashes in 1948. As Arab states tried but failed to destroy it, some 700,000 Arabs were displaced, while 800,000 Jews were driven out of Muslim countries. Israel was again victorious in 1967 and 1973 wars – but endured repeated suicide bombings, rocket and missile attacks, and murderous “intifadas” throughout the next half-century. On October 7, 2023, thousands of Hamas terrorists, accompanied by thousands of Gaza civilians, committed bestial rape, mutilation, murder, decapitation, looting and kidnapping in Israeli communities largely populated by the most pro-Palestinian, pro-coexistence people in Israel. Within hours, even before the Israel Defense Force responded militarily, rabid crowds of professors, students, politicians, journalists and other antisemites were excusing, even applauding the atrocities. Their “From the River to the Sea Palestine Will be Free” chants echo Hamas, Hezbollah and Iranian mullah demands that Israel and its Jews be eradicated – followed by Christians, Bahais and other non-Muslims. “Globalize the Intifada” slogans encourage the murder of Jews everywhere. It has become a war to the finish. Israel has no choice. It has every right and obligation to root out and destroy Hamas and Hezbollah. |
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| Texas Gov. Abbott Orders
Enforcement Actions Against Hospitals Advertising Birth Tourism Schemes The executive order directs agencies to investigate and eliminate unlawful birth tourism schemes in Texas and punish any licensed healthcare provider that facilitates or encourages such schemes. “Individuals are traveling to the U.S. illegally to give birth and secure citizenship for their child. That's fraud,” Gov. Abbott wrote in a social media post announcing the order. On July 7, Gov. Abbott directed the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to launch an investigation into a hospital center advertising “birth packages in South Texas” to foreign nationals in Mexico. Subsequently, HHSC referred the cases of two hospitals to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. |
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| Former Democratic Staffers, DEI
Leaders Shape Smithsonian Leadership Amid Political Firestorm Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas., joins 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss Republican lawmakers' claims that the Smithsonian Museum is using its exhibits for left-wing activism instead of history. As Republicans intensify scrutiny of the Smithsonian Institution, numerous former Democratic staffers and employees of progressive nonprofits are holding senior positions throughout the nonprofit, while officials responsible for hiring emphasized diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. A Fox News Digital review of public biographies and social media profiles identified roughly two dozen individuals employed by the Smithsonian in leadership positions or as curators who worked for Democratic offices or progressive nonprofits before being hired. |
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| Trump Taps Veterans to Fix Illegal Alien Trucking Problem Plaguing U.S. Roadways President Donald Trump will launch the White House's new Freedom Haulers initiative Thursday, Fox News Digital has exclusively learned, opening new pathways for military veterans to become commercial truck drivers while intensifying the administration's crackdown on illegal immigrant and non-English-speaking truckers. "President Trump’s administration has made our roads safer by taking illegal alien, non-English-speaking truck drivers off America’s highways. Now, through the Freedom Haulers initiative, the president is expanding opportunities for our veterans by making it easier to obtain commercial driver’s licenses once they conclude their service," White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital. |
Freedom Haulers New mission, Same dedication |
| Xavier Becerra's Campaign Rocked by
Horrifying Claims About Missing Migrant Kids Under His Watch Xavier Becerra faces a renewed scandal over his tenure as Joe Biden’s health secretary after a whistleblower came forward to expose the horrific levels of abuse and exploitation of hundreds of thousands of migrant children faced while in detention in California. A caseworker at the Pomona Fairplex alleges children faced abuse and chaotic releases, were separated from young siblings, and sent to unverified addresses or secretly moved in the dead of the night – some never to be seen again – while the complex also accepted fake documents from sponsors. |
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| 'Shame on you': Sherrill Knew
Voter-Roll Bombshell Was Coming When She Called Trump a Liar, DOJ Official Says The Justice Department's top Civil Rights official accused New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill of criticizing President Donald Trump's election integrity claims even though she already knew her administration was about to disclose a major voter registration problem. "When the president came out with his Primetime speech last Thursday, I believe in the sequencing of events that has been laid out, she already knew that this revelation was forthcoming," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said. |
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Chicago’s Hilarious Solution to
Crime There
is nothing like the downward slide a deep blue city experiences in the
hands of a mayor committed to the worst principles of a progressive
socialist agenda. A choice made early in the tenure of Chicago mayor
Brandon Johnson took a little doing, as he was going against the
express wishes of the very people he was claiming he was trying to
protect from the racism this crime-fighting tool represented –
Shotspotter. The crime-ridden neighborhoods where
these gunshot noise detection devices were located wanted them to remain.
The mayor insisted they were racist and
eventually won his battle to cancel the contract and have them all
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| The New 'They Who Must Not Be Named' J.K. Rowling isn't an obscure novelist looking for her first break. She's the bestselling author of the bestselling book series in modern publishing history. Her stories have sold hundreds of millions of copies, been translated around the globe, inspired blockbuster films, and introduced an entire generation to the joy of reading. Somewhere along the way, Rowling stopped being judged primarily as one of the world's most successful authors and became a political litmus test. For some people, her views on sex and gender now outweigh everything else she has ever written, accomplished, donated, or inspired. |
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| Affluent SoCal School District
Accused of Allowing Males in Female Bathrooms, Locker Rooms An affluent school district in a North San Diego County city is facing an administrative complaint for allegedly allowing middle school boys who identify as female to use the girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. The complaint was filed against Carlsbad Unified School District earlier this month by Defending Education. It alleges the district allows “male students to access female students’ intimate spaces.” The 14-page complaint asks the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights to launch an investigation into the matter. |
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| 'Heard his son continually
screaming Daddy!': 15-Year-Old Who Orchestrated Armed Kidnapping, Ransoming of 7-Year-Old in Front of Boy's Father Is Heading to Prison A Wisconsin teenager who prosecutors say orchestrated the gunpoint kidnapping of a 7-year-old boy in front of his father and held him for a $100,000 ransom admitted his role in the crime Wednesday, months after authorities succeeded in having him charged as an adult. Barry Alan Coleman, now 15, pleaded guilty to one count of robbery with use of force and one count of possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent, court records show. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dismissed charges of kidnapping while using a dangerous weapon as a party to a crime and possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18, though those offenses will be read in at sentencing. |
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| Convicted Killer Who Drove Bus in
Crash That Killed 6 Children Back Behind Bars After New Arrest  A
repeat offender is back in jail in Tennessee after online court records
indicate he is facing a slew of new charges related to an alleged
domestic violence incident. On Wednesday, records from the Davidson
County Sheriff’s Office list convicted killer Johnthony Walker, 34, in
a Nashville jail facing seven new charges relating to this incident.
This is not Walker's first run-in with the law; he was convicted of
negligent homicide in a school bus crash that killed six children, and
injured dozens more in an incident that happened 10 years ago. |
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| West Virginia AG J.B. McCuskey,
Other AGs Ask FCC to Strengthen Rules on Robocalls CHARLESTON – West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey has joined a bipartisan coalition of 49 other attorneys general pushing the Federal Communications Commission to strengthen its “Know Your Customer” rules to help prevent scammers from using the U.S. communications network to make illegal robocalls. KYC rules require phone companies to know who is making calls through their networks and what kinds of business these firms are conducting. With that information, phone companies can suspend or terminate callers who use their networks to make unlawful calls or decline to do business with agencies that aren’t legitimate companies or can’t prove that they conduct lawful business. |
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| Border Agents Uncover $20M Cocaine
Stash Hidden Beneath Truck Floorboards in Massive Bust Authorities say a recently uncovered tunnel connecting Tijuana and San Diego was likely used to traffic drugs, weapons and people across the U.S.-Mexico border. Investigators recovered an estimated $45 million in drugs during the operation. Federal authorities uncovered more than 1,000 pounds of cocaine hidden beneath the floorboards of a commercial truck entering the U.S. from Mexico, marking one of the largest drug busts in Southern California this year. |
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JetZero Lines Up Potential $3B in
U.S. Financing for Z4 Factory JetZero has identified a potential source for nearly two-thirds of the money it needs to build a planned $4.7 billion aircraft manufacturing campus in Greensboro, North Carolina. The U.S. Export-Import Bank has signed a letter of interest to explore providing as much as $3 billion in financing support for the factory, where JetZero plans to produce its Z4 blended-wing aircraft. The preliminary agreement could support construction of manufacturing facilities, production systems, equipment and other eligible project costs through the bank’s Make More in America Initiative. |
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| ‘Hammer of the Gods’ New Secret
Weapon Upgrades U.S. Army Power to Blast Enemy Missile Attacks The U.S. Army has debuted the “Hammer of the Gods” – a cutting-edge new weapon-disrupting system designed to trick precision-guided enemy projectiles into missing their targets. The portable electronic system, which can be deployed covertly from U.S. military vessels, blinds the guidance systems of long-range artillery, guided missiles and cruise missiles, rendering them far less effective. |
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| No Cure, No Vaccine: Experts Warn of Rare Bourbon Virus After First NY Case A rarely diagnosed tick-borne virus with no vaccine or specific treatment has been confirmed in New York for the first time, prompting researchers to warn that additional infections may be going undiagnosed. The Bourbon virus, "transmitted through the common lone star tick, could soon begin to complicate diagnoses if it becomes more prevalent this summer and in coming years," Stony Brook Medicine warned in a news release reporting on a study of the virus. Only six human cases have been reported since Bourbon virus was first identified in Bourbon County, Kansas, where the first known patient was diagnosed in 2014. That patient later died. |
This looks ready-made for Fauci to exploit |
| California AG Rewords Voter ID
Ballot Measure Information Using Pejorative Language California’s Democrat Attorney General Rob Bonta has changed the originally-straightforward language used to describe to voters a ballot measure to require voter ID, reframing the proposal in negative terms in an apparent effort to prevent the its passage. California is just one of the Democrat-controlled states fiercely fighting Republican efforts to ensure that only eligible voters are able to cast ballots by establishing voter verification requirements. |
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| UBuffalo Dental School Forces
Freshmen Through DEI Training on ‘structural marginalization’ First-year students at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine are required to complete a virtual orientation riddled with diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology. The orientation asks them to share their pronouns, investigate “structural marginalization” as a public health issue, discuss a “collective responsibility” to build inclusive communities, and consider policies that strengthen the school’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion, according to the school’s website. The curriculum has drawn criticism from medical organizations following a report by Do No Harm, a nonprofit that opposes the use of identity-based ideology in healthcare and medical education. |
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| Anger As Stranger Who Killed Boy,
6, As He Slept in His Bed Freed From Jail for 2nd Time The family of a young boy who was murdered is agonizing over his killer being released from prison for a second time. The family of Logan Tipton was left stunned when Ronald Exantus, 42, was released from a Kentucky prison on Wednesday after serving over half of his sentence. Exantus served nearly 11 years in prison in connection with the attack that killed the 6-year-old... He was initially released from prison in October 2025 due to Kentucky’s mandatory reentry supervision laws, even though Tipton’s family and the parole board protested. |
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| WNBA's Hypocrites Kick Girls – and Sophie Cunningham – to the Curb Caroline Downey The Women’s National Basketball Association may claim to put women first, but the league sure has a funny way of showing it. When its leaders aren’t giving prodigy Caitlin Clark the cold shoulder or turning a blind eye to her on-court mistreatment, they’re telling young female fans to go dribble a football if they insist that women’s sports should be free of male intrusion. That’s what happened Wednesday when Celeste Keaton, co-owner of the Seattle Storm, publicly exploded at two teen girls for wearing T-shirts reading XX-XY – an implicit message that sports should be separated by sex. |
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| Trump Puts CA and MN on
Fraud Notice Douglas Andrews Barack Obama once self-importantly hailed his nomination as “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.” While Donald Trump is prone to exaggeration, he’s never said anything nearly so preposterous. Still, honest historians – work with me here – might one day point to his second term as the moment when our nation finally began to tighten down on its wide-open fraud spigots. On Tuesday, the Trump administration fired a couple of shots across the bows of the bad ships California and Minnesota, announcing the freezing of around $1 billion in federal Medicaid funds due to suspected fraud. As Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put it in a press release: "Medicaid exists to serve vulnerable Americans – not to bankroll unsupported claims." |
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| Beyond Fraud: Citizen Journalists Unmask Crazy Government Waste I & I Editorial Board Nick Shirley, the young man who has been putting “professional” journalists to shame with his on-site reporting on rampant Medicaid fraud, released another video exposing schemes in New York, these involving senior centers for elderly Koreans and Chinese. One that he visited, an adult day care in Flushing, claims to have nearly 8,000 members, for which it bills Medicaid $1,600 each. But even an employee admits that the number is wildly inflated. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz joined Shirley. But not all government fraud is illegal. In fact, we’d say that legal fraud is an even bigger scam than what Shirley is uncovering. This fraud involves lawmakers opening the spending floodgates for projects that line the pockets of unions and politically connected businesses, while doing nothing to improve the lives of the taxpayers who foot the bill. |
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| Why Aren’t American Companies
Passing on Tariff Refunds? Matthew Lynn Even for an economy as large as the United States, $70 billion still counts as a significant sum of money. After the first round of President Trump’s tariffs were ruled illegal by the Supreme Court, customs officials have already issued that amount in refund checks. Here’s the problem, however: none of it appears to have been passed on to consumers in the form of lower prices. In reality corporate America is pocketing the money – but it is also playing with fire by inviting retaliation from President Trump. Not only has everyone been left bewildered by the changes of policy, much of the money collected the first time around now has to be sent back to the companies that paid it. In June alone $49 billion was refunded and so far $70 billion has been sent out, with more on the way. In other words, serious money. |
How much is a Million? A Billion? A Trillion? |
 The Misplaced Hype Over Data Centers Michael Swartz The average American would likely object to the newfangled data centers, concerned over rising electricity costs and sucking up millions of gallons of water. There are other concerns, too, from noise to cattle health. Unfortunately, most of what they believe comes from hype and misinformation, for data centers have been operating for the last 20 years or so. As the amount of data on the information superhighway increases thanks to artificial intelligence, the need for facilities that can handle that much data has rapidly increased. Already, the commonwealth of Virginia has a significant share of the 4,500 data centers currently in operation – an industry that now supplies nearly half the tax revenue for Loudoun County, Virginia, a community just outside the Beltway from our nation’s capital. And the county started lining up its leadership role back when George W. Bush was still in office, so it’s nothing new to them. |
People think that data centers are coming. The reality is that they’re already here. Euphemistically called the 'cloud'. |
| The Surveillance Camera on Your
Street Corner: Lawful Spying or Constitutionally Problematic? Kerri Kupec Urbahn  The
cameras that scan your car on your commute to work have quietly become
one of the most widespread surveillance tools in America. They record
vehicle sightings, feed searchable databases and, when agencies choose
to share data, can connect searches across jurisdictional lines. Recent
courts have upheld the particular ALPR networks before them, but they
have left open whether a denser, more revealing system could cross the
constitutional line. What are ALPRs? |
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| SHOCKING Confession: Secret Service Warns Danger Level ‘Never This Bad’ Wyatt Porter The United States Secret Service is sounding alarm bells about a national security crisis that the mainstream media doesn’t want you to hear about. Director Sean Curran has now confirmed what many Americans already suspected – the threat environment facing our nation’s officials has reached the highest, most dangerous level in the agency’s entire history... The left has spent years stoking division, demonizing political opponents, and encouraging confrontation... This massive increase in threats doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s the direct result of years of inflammatory language from Democrats and their media allies who have labeled half the country as “enemies of democracy” and “threats to the republic.” When you spend years telling your supporters that their political opponents are fascists who must be stopped at all costs, violence becomes inevitable. |
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| Rep. Gill, Sen. Banks Introduce Act
to Correct Birthright Citizenship Scam Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) and Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) have introduced legislation to reform the unconstitutional and incredibly harmful current understanding of birthright citizenship. Gill announced the Citizenship Act on July 22 to restore the original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment and reject the proposal that every single child born on American soil, even to foreign criminals or individuals who just walked across the border, is an American citizen. It seems that there is both a Senate and a House version of the Act. |
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| How China Made and Shipped Fake Driver’s Licenses to Tamper with the 2020 Election Tim O'Brien When President Donald Trump talked about some of the things China has done to literally steal our democracy by seeing to it that, in 2020, its Manchurian candidate was elected in the form of a semi-comatose Joe Biden, many of the things he mentioned had already been in the news, but they may not have been covered by the legacy media. Case in point: Trump mentioned in his July 16 address to the nation that China stole TikTok data to create fake U.S. driver’s licenses... The fraudulent drivers licenses would allow tens of thousands of Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for U.S. Presidential Candidate USPER Joe [Biden], despite not being eligible to vote in the United States... China had collected private U.S. user data from millions of TikTok accounts, to include name, ID and address, which would allow the Chinese government to use real U.S. persons’ information to create the fraudulent driver’s license, the document states. |
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| New Jersey Dem Gov's Blame Game
Backfires After Tech Company Pins Noncitizen Voter Registration on State New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill faces a Justice Department investigation after admitting a software error improperly registered 6,600 non-citizens, with 400 casting votes in prior elections. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon condemns the 'unlawful dilution of American votes,' triggering a Civil Rights Division probe. This incident highlights concerns about voter integrity in the state. The vendor that Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill blamed for a "software error" leading to illegal voting in the Garden State denies wrongdoing and is instead pointing its finger back at the state. |
Driver license data used
to register person to vote regardless of citizenship status. See Above! |
| Software Vendor Disputes NJ
Governor's ‘glitch’ Claim, Says State Approves Foreigners on Voter Roll Just hours after New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherril blamed a software glitch for thousands of non-citizens being registered to vote, the software company involved issued a statement disputing the claim. “IDEMIA works with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, and has for more than 40 years, to support the process through which eligible individuals may indicate their interest in registering to vote when applying for or renewing a driver’s license or state-issued identification card. IDEMIA’s role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system,” IDEMIA said in a statement. |
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| CNN Host Admits He Was Wrong to Say
Illegal Immigrant Voting 'Never Happens' After New Jersey Error CNN and SiriusXM host Michael Smerconish acknowledged Wednesday on "The Michael Smerconish Program" that he could no longer claim noncitizen voting never occurred after New Jersey disclosed that a software error improperly registered roughly 6,600 noncitizens and fewer than 400 cast ballots. "I can’t say that any longer," Smerconish said. "I don’t know how often it does happen, but I can’t say any longer, ‘This never happens.’" Smerconish said the New Jersey disclosure would give President Donald Trump and his allies a lasting response when opponents disputed that noncitizen voting occurred. |
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| Top Democrat Doesn’t Know His Own
State’s Voter ID Policy Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) incorrectly described Virginia’s own voter identification law during a Sunday interview, prompting a correction from the host of a Democrat-friendly network. The awkward exchange came on ABC’s “This Week“ with host Jonathan Karl, as Warner criticized President Donald Trump’s election security agenda and defended Democratic opposition to the SAVE America Act, legislation that would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. |
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| Michigan Woman Baffled to Learn She Donated Over $150,000 to ActBlue and Democrats Susan Ferrechio According to Federal Election Commission records, 88-year-old Elizabeth Waffle has been giving nearly nonstop to the Democratic fundraising juggernaut ActBlue since 2020 for a total of more than $150,000 in donations. But Ms. Waffle, who lives in a trailer down a dirt road in Milan, Michigan, said she doesn’t believe she made all of those donations. “One hundred and fifty thousand? Hell no, I don’t have that kind of money,” Ms. Waffle told Michigan Enjoyer reporter Charlie LeDuff, who video-recorded his interview. Most of the money went to ActBlue, but she is also recorded as having made 15 donations to Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, 104 donations to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, New York Democrat, and 339 donations to the Democratic political action committee 314 Action Fund. More than 13,000 donations in Ms. Waffle’s name went to ActBlue, which is under scrutiny due to alleged illegal foreign donations. |
More about ActBlue |
| The Leftmedia Circles the Wagons
for the Woke Smithsonian Thomas Gallatin As President Lyndon B. Johnson once put it, the national museums exist so “young children see with their own eyes … the ripe fruit of America’s historical harvest … so that others could see a little better our legacy, however so small the glimpse, it would fulfill a noble purpose.” Despite LBJ’s vision, the current leaders of the Smithsonian Institution are using its museums not as a means for educating new generations about America’s rich history, its unique founding, and its place in the world, but as a tool for political and social change. They see their mission as bringing about a revolutionary transformation that fundamentally rejects America’s founding legacy. In short, today’s Smithsonian is a far cry from its original purpose. |
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| How Important Are Gun Rights? Ask an Average Iranian Citizen These Days Larry Keane The U.S. Constitution recognizes that individual rights don’t come from government. Government exists to protect rights endowed by our Creator. Among them is the right to keep and bear arms for self defense, and other lawful purposes. That distinction isn’t merely academic. Across the world, citizens live under control of governments that deny them the means to defend themselves, their families and their freedom. Iran offers a chilling reminder of what happens when tyrannical governments disarm citizens and wield firepower on their own people. |
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| Third Circuit’s Message to Other
Gun Ban States: Your Time is Coming Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Friday’s ruling by the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals striking down New Jersey’s ban on modern semiautomatic rifles and original-capacity magazines should send a signal to other states with similar bans that a reckoning is looming, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says. “The majority opinion, authored by Joe Biden-appointed Circuit Judge Arianna Julia Freeman, amounts to a warning shot across the bow of anti-gun-rights lawmakers that their years of eroding the Second Amendment, one restriction at a time, may be about to hit the proverbial brick wall,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “It also signals that what they’ve been doing has been unconstitutional all along, and we’re encouraged by today’s ruling that the Supreme Court will spell that out in plain language when it takes up the issue this fall.” |
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| Slate Panics
After Biden-Appointed Judge Strikes Down New Jersey's AR-15 Ban, Warns Supreme Court Will Follow Tim Harrison A Biden-appointed federal judge wrote the sweeping opinion that dismantled New Jersey's decades-old ban on semiautomatic rifles, and now liberal commentators at Slate warn the ruling hands the Supreme Court a roadmap to protect AR-15 ownership nationwide. One week after the ruling, Slate columnists Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern published a column that read less like legal analysis and more like a concession speech. As Breitbart News reported, Lithwick and Stern did not dispute the legal reasoning so much as lament the political consequences. Their core complaint: Freeman's opinion was too good, too thorough, and too bipartisan for progressives to dismiss. |
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| Even Microsoft Is Distancing Itself
from the SPLC Tyler O'Neil The Left’s enforcer of diversity, equity, and inclusion is bleeding support in corporate America. Even Microsoft, the Big Tech company with the fourth-largest market capitalization in the world and the engine behind Bill Gates’ fabulous wealth, has stopped using the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” to screen nonprofits for its employee matching gift program. How do you get on the map? Often by opposing the SPLC’s DEI agenda. Let’s take Do No Harm, for example. The group, led by doctors, opposes transgender medical experiments often euphemistically called “gender-affirming care.” The SPLC calls Do No Harm a “hate group.” Moms for Liberty, a parental rights organization that opposes divisive racial lessons in school is an “antigovernment extremist group.” Even Focus on the Family now appears on the map. |
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| Police Say a Parking Feud Turned
Deadly – and the Suspect Is an Illegal Migrant An Ethiopian migrant reportedly killed three U.S. citizens in Minnesota on Monday because of a dispute over his apartment parking garage contract. Charging documents reviewed by Saint Paul station KSTP show that 30-year-old Ethiopian migrant Tsegaab Binessu’s roommate called the police after the shooting to tell them that his roomie had gone to the Davern Park Apartments leasing office, gotten into an argument, and opened fire. |
After being apprehended, he was full of third-worldist complaints |
| Radical Muslim Militia Slaughters 9
Family Members, Issues Death Threat to Christian Leader A Nigerian Pastor highlighted by President Trump on social media, says that nine members of his family have been killed. The minister is an outspoken critic of the killing of Christians by radicalized Muslim members of the Fulani militia. Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo now says that the same militia has issued a death threat against him. Dachomo, is the regional leader of the Church of Christ in Nations, in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. The State Department and a leading U.S. non-profit Christian organization have demanded the Nigerian government take more action to stop what the State Department described to Fox News Digital as "a shocking level of violence against Christians." |
Religion of Peace in practice |
| Biden Fought to Keep These
Recordings Under Wraps. An Appeals Court Just Made That a Lot Harder.  Former
President Joe Biden was just handed a crushing defeat at the hands of
an appeals court in Washington, D.C. Biden has been trying to prevent
the release of audio recordings shared with a writer that were used for
his 2017 memoir “Promise Me, Dad.” Since the publication of special
counsel Robert Hur’s report that categorized the former president as a
“sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” who had
“diminished faculties in advancing age,” Republicans have pushed for
the release of those tapes. The rationale is that American voters
deserve to know the kind of person who was leading their country for
four years, under serious cover from both the Democratic Party and the
mainstream media. |
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| Bombshell Memo Shows Biden Planned
to Leave Trump with Even More Massive Immigration Crisis A newly-uncovered Biden White House memo from the administration's final days revealed plans that could have expanded Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to more than 3 million noncitizens while acknowledging that previous court challenges had blocked many of President Donald Trump's efforts to end the protections. "My investigation uncovered that the Lame Duck Biden White House tried to keep millions of illegal aliens in our country by abusing the 'Temporary' Protected Status program," Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., who acquired the memo, told Fox News Digital on Friday. |
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| L.A. Mayor Blames Trump for
Homelessness Surge as City’s $300M Program Shows 40% of Participants Back on Streets Content Wizard It’s a familiar script in Democrat-run America. Cities crumbling under decades of progressive governance, suffocating taxes, spiraling crime, streets lined with tents, and the leaders responsible never seem to own a mirror. Los Angeles homelessness is surging again...So who does the mayor blame? You already know the answer... [H]er signature Inside Safe program burned through more than $300 million and produced results that would get any private-sector CEO fired on the spot. Scathing audits found gaping holes in oversight of where the money actually went. And the city was paying a Chinese billionaire-owned company for hotel rooms regardless of whether anyone slept in them – a deal so rotten the owner was convicted in a bribery scheme and fled to China. |
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Iconic Pep Boys Sold to Mavis
Discount Tire for 700 Mil! Icahn
Enterprises on Tuesday announced that the company reached a deal to
sell Pep Boys to Mavis, one of the largest independent tire and service
providers in the country, in a $700 million deal. Pep Boys has nearly
800 locations around the country and offers auto services including
tires, repairs, oil changes and maintenance. The deal will expand
Mavis' presence in new and existing markets, particularly in the
western U.S., where Pep Boys has a significant presence, and will
increase Mavis's network to over 4,400 service centers around the U.S.
and Canada. |
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| Democratic Socialist Mayors' Plans
for Free Bus Rides Spark Fear of 'rolling homeless encampments' as in NYC Subways During COVID The rise of far-left and democratic socialist mayors in the United States and their campaign promises of free goods and services, particularly fare-free bus rides, is sparking concern about potential "rolling homeless encampments." Bonner Cohen, a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy, told Just the News on Thursday that implementing no-fare bus ride programs in such major cities would cause “predictable consequences” in terms of public safety and would lead to an even greater exodus from blue cities than is already happening. Buses would become “rolling homeless encampments,” he said, “because once the word gets out that the buses are free, rather than spending a cold night out on the streets, why not spend a cold night in a bus, which presumably has a heating system?” |
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| Mark Kelly Is Taking on Hegseth’s
Testosterone Plan – and Conservatives Are Pushing Back Low-T Sen. Mark Kelly has come out against War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to test the testosterone levels of male U.S. military members. Hegseth, a high-T man who can bench press 315 pounds, recently approved annual testosterone screenings for male service members aged 30 and older. In issuing the order, he said that members who test low for testosterone will have the option to partake in testosterone replacement therapy, or TRT. |
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| ‘McCarthy Trials’: Hasan Piker,
Far-Left Figures Erupt Over Subpoenas in $39M Singham Probe Michael Dorgan, Asra Nomani Prominent far-left figures, including livestream influencer Hasan Piker, are rallying around a pro-China media outlet within the sprawling network bankrolled by communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham casting recent congressional subpoenas as leading a "McCarthy-style" witch hunt against the left. As Fox News Digital first reported Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee sent subpoenas to three nonprofits, including media outlet BreakThrough News, as part of a wider investigation into alleged malign foreign influence by China in U.S. politics. The three groups have received about $39 million from Singham, who left the U.S. several years ago to live in China. |
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| Five Democrats Bolt from Jeffries
to Back Transgender Athletic Ban in Key Vote Five House Democrats broke away from their party leaders on Tuesday night to vote with Republicans on a measure cracking down on transgender participation in school sports. The House voted on a slew of amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday, an annual bill setting military and national security policy each fiscal year. Among those that prevailed was an amendment led by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., to block students born male from participating on girls' athletic teams at schools run by the Department of War (DoW). |
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| Growing Trend of Hating Men
Backfires As Anti-Marriage Culture Leaves Single Women Losing Out Over the weekend, two very different stories about womanhood and motherhood went viral: Emily Ratajkowski’s raw reflections on birth, divorce, sexuality, and single motherhood, and the continued cultural debate around Hannah Neeleman of Ballerina Farm, a mother of nine, entrepreneur, and homemaker. A growing anti-marriage movement is being fueled by viral TikTok trends and high-profile celebrities painting men as the enemy, but according to a new column, women may ultimately be the ones losing out. |
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| 14-yr Old Celeste Rivas' Family
Leaves Courtroom Before Gruesome Autopsy Revealed in D4vd Murder Hearing Rivas’ parents, Jesus Rivas and Mercedes Martinez, were both in attendance in the Los Anegeles courtroom for the majority of Thursday’s preliminary hearing -- where singer D4vd, real name David Burke is accused of murdering Celeste. However, just before Grant Ho, the Deputy Medical Examiner, took the stand, both parents left the courtroom. The family attorney, Patrick Steinfeld, stayed in the courtroom. Ho detailed Rivas’ body as only weighing 71 pounds during the autopsy. “The body was markedly decomposed,” he said, adding there was “trauma to body, particularly the extremities.” Ho also said Rivas’ braces were discovered during the exam. |
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| Caitlin Clark Deserves an Apology
After False USA Today Report About Getting Her Hair Done Bobby Burack Days after USA Today "reporter" Nancy Armour compared Caitlin Clark allegedly flopping on the basketball court to the people who lynched Black people – no, this isn't satire – the outlet published a false report about why Clark skipped the WNBA Orange Carpet on Thursday. According to another USA Today "reporter," Heather Burns, Clark skipped the event to "get her hair done in her hometown of Des Moines." As expected, the report riled up the anti-Clark and anti-White brigades across the WNBA community. How dare she skip the event for a hair appointment? |
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| The Fraud Industry Is
Thriving, And Guess Who’s Happy About It I & I Editorial Board The mobsters in “The Godfather” set their sights way too low. If they really wanted to make it big time, they should have targeted federal entitlement programs instead of gamblers and drug addicts. Not only does it pay better, but you can count on one political party to look the other way. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) figures that fraudsters make off with more than $500 billion of federal taxpayer money a year, plus another $184 billion in “improper payments.” That isn’t just bigger than U.S. Steel. That’s five times as big as the entire steel industry. |
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| Democrats Are Panicking
and Scrambling to Hide Something Big Matt Margolis Things just keep getting worse for the Democratic Party, and at this rate, they may need a new metaphor because "keeps getting worse" barely covers it anymore. We already told you the polls are tightening heading into the midterms in November, which was bad enough on its own. Now it turns out the party's situation is so much worse than we already know, and the people running the show apparently don’t want you to know just how bad it really is. In a bizarre move, the Democratic National Committee required its senior leadership to sign non-disclosure agreements before a private meeting on the party's finances, according to two people familiar with the conversations who spoke to Axios. That alone is a break from past practice. |
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| President Trump Officially Restarts
the 60-Day War Powers Clock Against Iran as Democrats Cry Foul Anthony Dierna President Trump has restarted the war clock on Iran, and in doing so he has handed Congress a constitutional riddle it has spent 53 years refusing to solve. In a two-page letter dated July 10 and addressed to Senate President Pro Tempore Chuck Grassley, the president formally notified lawmakers that military action against the Islamic Republic recommenced on July 7 -- and with that notification, the administration claims a fresh 60-day window to prosecute the fight without congressional authorization. Democrats say he cannot do that. The White House says he just did. |
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| Israel Is Being Vindicated as Gaza
Propaganda Exposed David Strom One of the most depressing facts I have had to come to terms with is that even obvious propaganda campaigns work as long as you can keep the chanting going. All you need to do is hijack trusted institutions, keep repeating whatever falsehood you like, and vast numbers of people will over time believe that the most insane things are common sense. It worked during COVID, and there are still vast numbers of people who have yet to be deprogrammed. And it has worked during the Israel/Gaza war. |
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| Ukraine’s New Naval Strategy Is
Brilliantly Simple Stephen Green Operation Crimea Switch Off is Ukraine's attempt to make the jewel of Vladimir Putin's eye -- the strategic Crimea peninsula -- nearly uninhabitable, and its escalation against Russian shipping in recent days has proven remarkably effective. Late last week, Moscow ordered the Kerch Strait separating Crimea from Russia and Russian-occupied southern Ukraine shut and has yet to reopen it. That's kind of a big deal, but it's also what happens after events like Sunday's, when "Ukrainian attack drones hit another 15 vessels in the Sea of Azov overnight, including 7 oil tankers," according to OSINTtechnical. That's a total of "105 vessels in the area over 8 days, collapsing Azov/Don/Kerch Russian shipping traffic." |
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| Trump Says U.S. is Investigating Whether Iran Stores Drones in Cuba U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that his government is investigating whether Iran is storing drones in Cuba and warned that Washington would act if their presence on the island is confirmed, though he framed the matter as a hypothesis that has not been verified. “If they do have that, and they might very well have that, we'll take care of it in short order. We're not going to allow that to happen,” he told reporters in the Oval Office, when asked by a conservative outlet. The president immediately qualified the scope of his remarks: “It could be that they're storing some, we're looking into it now. It could be so, and it could be it isn't.” |
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| U.S. Joins Philippines, 12 Others
Demanding Beijing Respect Ruling Rejecting its South China Sea Claims The administration of President Donald Trump was among 14 countries publishing a joint statement on Sunday to mark the tenth anniversary of a ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague that found China’s claims to nearly the entire South China Sea invalid. In the statement, the countries reminded the Chinese Communist Party that the international tribunal ruling was “final, legally binding, and definitive” and that it found “there is no legal basis for China’s expansive maritime claims.” |
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| CNN Democrat Sounds Alarm on
Radical Wing Hijacking Party Wyatt Porter A longtime CNN political commentator and Democrat just broke ranks with his party’s far-left wing in a stunning public rebuke. Van Jones warned Saturday that socialist activists are pushing dangerous positions that threaten to derail the Democratic Party entirely. Jones didn’t mince words about the Democratic Socialists of America and their recent electoral victories. “Yes, we want our Democratic Party to be a big tent. But we don’t need ‘party poopers. So STOP pooping in the punch bowl – and telling us the turds are ice cubes.” |
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| Veteran Dem Breaks Party Line As Jack Smith Spying Scandal Grips Capitol Hill Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told Fox News Digital his Republican colleagues are right to be troubled that the Justice Department spied on lawmakers to aid former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigations... "I think Jack Smith is a political hack. I think that's why the Justice Department, under President Biden, picked him," Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told Fox News Digital. |
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| Plane Passenger Invoked Sharia Law
to Avoid Sitting Next to a Woman – Then Attacked Female Flight Attendant A plane passenger allegedly invoked Islam’s strict Sharia law to avoid sitting next to a woman – then assaulted a female flight attendant who tried to smooth it out, according to reports. The passenger – only identified as a 29-year-old Turkish migrant living in Germany – was arrested when his June 1 flight landed in Dusseldorf, Bild reported Thursday. When a female flight attendant tried to speak to him about it, the irate passenger punched or slapped her in the face, the report said. Once arrested, the unidentified passenger confessed to the assault, according to cops. But he only did so after first spitting insults at the federal cops interviewing them – not realizing one of them also spoke Turkish, according to officials. |
This IS the “religion of peace” |
| DSA Calls for Abolishing the Constitution Daniel Greenfield  PolitiFact tried to ‘fact check’
President Trump’s claim that the DSA was Communist and pretended to
disprove it only to be forced to admit by the end of the
article that Marxists and Communists actually run the DSA.
The fallback position for the media and others arguing that the DSA
actually isn’t that extreme is to point to the DSA’s platform as being
mostly about expanding the welfare state. But the DSA doesn’t have a
real ‘platform’, it’s a coalition of Communists, Marxists and useful
idiots, and what it mostly puts up is a list of short-term objectives
that are easy to transform into a graphical list likely to appeal to
Dems, mostly focusing on socialized medicine and other welfare
gimmicks. But there is one agenda item that makes it pretty clear where
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| What’s Really in the Rebooted
Democratic Socialist Platform Anna L. Stark Although they appear on election ballots as Democrats, they are not Democrats. Far from it! The Democratic Socialists are an organized collective of trained, well-funded radicals who are challenging established, long-serving Democrats for political power, and they are winning. The publication of their recently published platform is extreme, alarming, and dangerously anti-American. Rallying behind their motto, “Workers Deserve More,” they believe their goals can be accomplished by public financing of political campaigns, abolishing the Electoral College, and transferring ownership and control of corporations and essential industries to public ownership. The Democratic Socialist of America website reveals a detailed list of their long-term objectives: |
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| Secrets of Abdul El-Sayed Scott Johnson Michigan Democratic Senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed seems to me most notably a member of what Louisiana Senator John Kennedy has denominated “the Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, which is in control.” He also mirrors fake working class Dems like Maine’s “ill-starred oysterman” and former Senate candidate Graham Platner as well as the extremely wealthy Rep. Ro Khanna. Running in a competitive primary for the Democrat nomination, El-Sayed has withheld public disclosure of his most recent tax return. Primary opponent Haley Stevens has hammered him for it. Stevens herself is a lightweight who appears to have pulled ahead of El-Sayed. |
The Hamas wing of the Democratic Party |
| DOJ Activates Dormant Clinton-Era
Terrorist Removal Court for the First Time in 30 Years Owen Bates Federal prosecutors have filed the first case in the 30-year history of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, invoking a national security mechanism created during the Clinton administration that has sat unused since Congress established it in 1996. The Department of Justice petition, filed before ATRC Chief Judge Joan Ericksen, seeks to remove an unidentified individual accused of being a terrorist, and it signals a willingness by the Trump administration to reach for every available legal tool to expel dangerous foreign nationals from U.S. soil. |
A weapon congress built but never fired |
| Amy Coney Barrett Details Chilling
Threats Her Family Has Faced by Crazed Leftists Following Roe v. Wade Leak Cristina Laila Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan on Tuesday testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. Justice Amy Coney Barrett detailed the chilling threats her family has faced following the Roe v. Wade draft opinion leak. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito wrote. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” |
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| One Justice Found to Be the ‘most
partisan’ on U.S. Supreme Court Bob Unruh  There’s
one justice on the U.S. Supreme Court who has been determined to be the
most partisan of all, pushing a political agenda – against President
Donald Trump – in 98 out of 100 cases. The conclusion comes from a
report in the Federalist about an analysis released
to some readers by the Wall Street Journal. That
found Ketanji Jackson voted against President Trump’s plans and agendas
in 98 out of 100 major cases. |
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| Josh Hawley Unloads on McConnell
Team Over Senate Crisis Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell has been missing from the Senate floor for over a month after a fall at his home left the 84-year-old hospitalized. Now Missouri Senator Josh Hawley is breaking ranks with the usual Washington playbook and demanding answers. The timing couldn’t be worse for conservatives. McConnell’s absence, combined with the sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham, means Senate Republicans are down two critical votes just when President Donald Trump needs them most to push through his America First agenda. Speaking with reporters, Hawley didn’t mince words about the situation. “At a certain point you do have an obligation to your constituents and the country to tell them what’s going on.” |
Doctors have told McConnell he “won’t be able to return to the Senate floor to vote” for some time. |
| Mamdani Bum-Rushes NYC Voters Into
Their 'FO' Phase Stephen Kruiser  A
commie infused with and fueled by ignorant youthful zeal is the worst
kind of commie. Zohran Mamdani is the worst kind of commie. He's not
keeping it a secret, either. There are days that I swear he's
determined to prove that conservatives were right about him as quickly
as he can. We are a little more than halfway through Comrade Mamdani's
first year in office, and the buyer's remorse is hitting a fever pitch.
It began with the exodus of the wealthy people whom Mamdani and his
commie hordes are always railing against. It turns out that if you
repeatedly tell people you're coming after their money, they will take
their money somewhere you can't find it |
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| NY Sees Dramatic Exodus of
Millionaires – Causing Nearly $11B Loss in Tax Revenue Lacks the rich. New York’s share of US millionaires dramatically declined in recent years, causing a nearly $11 billion loss in much-needed tax revenue in just one year, according to a bombshell new analysis. The study released Monday by the Citizen Budget Commisison comes amid fears that socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to “tax the rich” will drive even more wealthy taxpayers and their businesses out of New York City. |
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| Gavin Newsom's Hollywood Tax Credit
Blunder Just the Latest Mistake California Post Editorial Board Gavin Newsom has a long record of blunders, from the French Laundry to the Train to Nowhere. The latest is the Hollywood tax credit, which he canceled by mistake. The story began last year, when the governor signed AB 1138, the California Film & Television Jobs Act. It more than doubled the state’s tax credits for Hollywood productions, from $330 million per year to $750 million per year. The state is under pressure to compete with other states and countries that have lower costs and generous benefits for film and TV productions. |
Told you he’s a moron |
| 'Slap on the wrist': Illegal
Immigrant Trucker's Sentence Ignites Outrage After Crash Killed 3 Trump administration officials and conservatives torched a California judge's sentence for an illegal immigrant trucker who killed three people in a fiery California semi-truck collision, after he was given less than five years behind bars. Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old Indian national who federal authorities said was in the United States illegally, was sentenced Tuesday to four years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to three felony counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence stemming from an October 2025 crash on Interstate 10 in San Bernardino County, California. Singh’s semitruck plowed into slow-moving traffic, killing three people and injuring several others, while dashcam video showed him never applying the brakes before impact. |
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| Memos Reveal FBI Faced Roadblocks to Prosecute Possible 2020 Michigan Voter Registration Fraud Contained in the trove of election-related documents President Donald Trump released to the public on Thursday are the FBI’s investigative files and communications about a possible voter registration fraud scheme in Muskegon, Mich., that ended without prosecution... “The documents state that some canvassers admitted to FBI agents that they signed voter registration forms in other people's names, submitted fraudulent registration for people who did not exist, and received gift cards tied to their number of applications that they produced,” President Trump said on Thursday. “In other words, it was pay, play, and cheat.” |
Trump asks the FBI to reopen the probe and accused the Biden Justice Department of slow walking the case. |
| DHS Drops Bombshell Noncitizen
Voter Count in 4 States – This Giant Number Silences Every Democrat Content Wizard Democrats have spent the better part of a decade insisting that noncitizen voting is a myth, a right-wing fever dream designed to suppress legitimate voters. The SAVE America Act, which would simply require proof of citizenship to register, has been filibustered into oblivion by Senate Democrats who apparently think verifying eligibility is just too much to ask. Meanwhile, states like California have made it easier than ever to land on the voter rolls with little more than a signature and a promise. Well, the Department of Homeland Security just put hard numbers to what millions of Americans already suspected. And I have to say – even I wasn’t ready for the scale. A preliminary DHS review of just four states – California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania – found more than 256,000 noncitizens potentially registered to vote in federal elections. That is a quarter of a million! |
The left says this isn't a problem |
| Texas Can Bar Illegal Immigrants
from Receiving In-State Tuition The ruling last Thursday by a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds an agreement between Trump administration and Texas, which ended the Lone Star State’s program. Federal law prohibits illegal immigrants from receiving better tuition rates than out-of-state American citizens. According to the appeals court ruling, “two advocacy groups, a community college, and a student sought to intervene and undo the consent judgment. The district court denied intervention, reasoning that any attempt to intervene would be futile because the statute was preempted.” |
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| Personnel is Policy: Talarico Hires
Univ Texas ‘C*cks Not Glocks’ Organizer to Craft His Anti-Gun Platform Texas Gun Rights has been warning that James Talarico is no moderate on the Second Amendment. But a new report from the New York Post pulls back the curtain even further. According to the report, Talarico hired Ana Lopez – a former leader of the University of Texas “C*cks Not Glocks” protest movement – as a legislative aide in 2019 to help craft gun control legislation. Talarico didn’t merely draft anti-gun legislation and cast anti-gun votes in Austin. He brought an anti-campus-carry activist into his taxpayer-funded office to help build his gun confiscation agenda. The “C*cks Not Glocks” movement became infamous at the University of Texas at Austin for handing out thousands of sex toys on campus to protest Texas’s campus carry law, which allows licensed gun owners to carry concealed firearms at public colleges and universities. |
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| Education Department Portal Reveals $72B In Foreign Funding to U.S. Colleges American colleges and universities have reported more than $72.1 billion in foreign gifts and contracts under federal disclosure requirements, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s newly updated Section 117 Foreign Gift and Contract Transparency Portal, which allows the public to search decades of foreign funding records by institution, donor, country, and amount... U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in February that the Trump administration’s new accountability portal gives Americans “unprecedented visibility into the foreign dollars flowing into our colleges and universities – including funding from countries and entities that are involved in activities that threaten America’s national security.” |
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| ‘Detached from reality:’ School
Choice Advocate Blasts NEA President's Annual Assembly Speech For Becky Pringle, outgoing president of the nation’s largest teachers union, education appears to be synonymous with political organizing, at least to one critic, Corey DeAngelis, the founder of the Educational Freedom Institute, and a fellow at the Americans for Fair Treatment and the Heritage Foundation. At the National Education Association’s 2026 Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly in Denver, Pringle’s nearly 40-minute speech was largely dedicated to highlighting the union’s political and social accomplishments – priorities that critics say diverge from the unions’ original purpose of ensuring fair pay and working conditions and instead diving into the deep-end of the radical left. |
Teaching has become an "activist breeding ground," DeAngelis says. |
| Olympians Speak Out Against WNBA
for Handling of Caitlin Clark Caitlin Clark was infamously left off the last U.S. Olympic women's basketball team in Paris in 2024. Two years later, the controversy surrounding the WNBA's handling of Clark has reached many corners of the sports world, and caught the attention of Olympians from multiple countries. After weeks of controversy, ignited by a punch to Clark's throat by another player and has since featured Clark screaming in the face of referees on Wednesday night, eight Olympians across three countries have come forward to Fox News Digital to speak out against the WNBA in defense of Clark. |
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| U.S. Strategy Has Left
Iran’s Infrastructure Vulnerable, Says Military Historian Victor David Hanson Christina Park Rejecting claims that the U.S. is trapped in a "quagmire" with Iran, historian Victor Davis Hanson predicted Thursday that President Donald Trump will systematically cripple Tehran’s infrastructure before shifting the burden of securing the Strait of Hormuz to oil-dependent European and Asian allies. “He’s going to respond disproportionately,” Hanson, a senior fellow in military history at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno, said on the John Solomon Reports podcast. |
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| Voting, California Style Roger D. McGrath Whether intentional or not, the process of voting in California from registration to the final delivery of the ballot is highly vulnerable to fraud. At several different steps in the process, a dishonest sort can easily take advantage of it. If a security firm reviewed California’s system, it would conclude it’s beyond repair and should be scrapped. To legally register to vote in California, one must be a U.S. citizen and a California resident. Looks good thus far. However, you may register – and vote – in a language other than English and demand all materials in Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Tagalog, Thai, or Vietnamese. This seems strange considering that, with a few exceptions, to become a naturalized citizen, one must pass an English proficiency test. It gets worse. |
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 Tributes Pour in for Sen. Lindsey Graham
from President Donald Trump, DC, and the World Jennifer Oliver O'Connell Graham served in the U.S. House of Representatives for eight years before being elected to the United States Senate, where he served for 23 years. Graham even ran for president during that period. So, reaction has been pouring in from a multitude of corners, from the President of the United States to world leaders, to media figures whom he interacted with on a regular basis up until the time of his death. |
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| The Venezuelan Earthquakes Exposed
Something – and It Wasn't Just Shoddy Infrastructure Sarah Anderson When we first captured Nicolás Maduro, Marco Rubio made two things clear. The first was that "interim president" Delcy Rodríguez is not the endgame. We all knew she was just as corrupt as Maduro and was merely the Trump administration's pragmatic little puppet, who will do everything they tell her to so she can save her own head. The second was that there was a very specific three-point plan for the country. First, stabilize. Make sure the country doesn't break out into some kind of civil war. Second, recover. Get the country's oil flowing again so it can have an economy. Third, hold elections and transition to a real democracy... The Wall Street Journal actually has a great article suggesting that the reason why they're turning help away, particularly in the hardest hit area of La Guaira, is that it's "ground zero" for drug trafficking, money laundering, and other regime-linked smuggling. Remember, Maduro's "government" was basically a cartel. |
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| An Illustrated History of the
Muslim Brotherhood Democrats, CAIR and Hamas – Oh My! Doug Ross In an interview on August 12, 2025, with Sid Rosenberg on "Sid and Friends in the Morning," Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that the administration is "in the works" on designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. What’s the background of this statement? The Muslim Brotherhood frequently made headlines during the Obama administration, whether because of its brief takeover of the Egyptian government, its invitation to the White House, or its shadowy ties to longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama refused to use the word "terror", let alone "Islamic terrorism", when it comes to describing the unceasing series of attacks launched at the behest of a fanatical ideology. |
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| Mamdani's Immigrant Neighborhood
Map Snubs Little Italy, Sparks Italian-American Fury; Also Jewish (of course) and Irish New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office released an official guide titled "New York City Immigrant Enclaves" that spotlights 30 neighborhoods across the five boroughs, and somehow left Little Italy off the list. The omission has drawn sharp public criticism from Italian-American leaders who say the city erased one of Manhattan's most recognizable immigrant communities while making room for dozens of others. The map, produced by the NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, includes Koreatown in Manhattan, Little Pakistan in Brooklyn, Little Yemen in the Bronx, and Little Odessa, among others. It also features Little Palestine, Little Bhod-Tibet, Little Guyana, Little Mexico, and Little Dominican Republic. |
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| Mamdani Fiscal Crisis Claim Doesn’t
Deter Proposed 18.2% Pay Raise for Himself, City Council The Big Apple’s budget woes may have proved free buses a bust, but they weren’t enough to deter the mayor’s personally appointed commission from proposing a massive boon for Hizzoner. Legislative malfeasance has continued to prime apathy amongst the makers, ushering in a 2026 primary season rife with socialist victories for the all too giddy takers. Before the new crop of commies seek wins in the fall, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) was previewing how empty promises will likely play out as a recommended 18.2% raise was introduced for his personal enrichment. |
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| Ro Khanna Says The Quiet Part Out
Loud About His ‘Billionaire’ Tax I & I Editorial Board  It
took less time than we would have imagined, but proponents of the
“billionaire wealth tax” have already given the game away. Anyone who
knows any history about taxes knows that the left always uses “tax the
rich” as a cover to raise taxes on the middle class. Because, as Willy
Sutton observed in another context, that’s where the money is. But we
were surprised to see Rep. Ro Khanna admit as much, even before he and
his socialist pals get their coveted wealth tax on the boards. |
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| DOJ Warns State Officials They Can
Be Prosecuted If They Let Noncitizens – Vote Wants State Plan Within 5 Days The Justice Department's top election enforcement official has sent a pointed warning to all 50 states that election administrators can be criminally prosecuted if they knowingly allow noncitizens to vote in the upcoming 2026 election. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon sent the letters Tuesday after the U.S. government conducted reviews that found tens of thousands of noncitizens have made it onto state voter rolls, and DOJ prosecuted a handful of foreigners who voted in federal elections illegally, including an Australian citizen earlier this week. Dhillon's letters give states five days to explain how they will comply with federal voter eligibility laws and identify what steps they will take to maintain “clean voter lists" that remove noncitizens before Election Day. Key GOP Lawmaker Seeks Vote to Restrict Birthright Citizenship As Trump Weighs Second SCOTUS Appeal Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., is co-sponsoring the Birthright Citizenship Act which, by amending the Immigration and Nationality Act, restricts birthright citizenship to children born to parents who are “(1) a U.S. citizen or national, (2) a lawful permanent resident residing in the United States, or (3) a non-U.S. national (alien under federal law) with a lawful immigration status who is performing active service in the Armed Forces.” Grothman stated he hopes Speaker Mike Johnson will bring the bill to the House floor for a vote “as early as July.” |
“AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE! In fact, that is a crime, and therefore, the Supreme Court’s ruling is wrong,” DJT on Truth Social. |
| Federal Appeals Court Upholds Ban
on States Providing In-State Tuition Benefits to Illegal Aliens The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling Thursday that states are prohibited under federal law from offering in-state tuition to illegal migrants at public universities, a major win for states like Texas trying to fight the scourge of illegal migration. The ruling comes after the Justice Department sued multiple states over the issue, including California, Kansas, New Jersey and Texas. Portions of the Texas Education Code previously allowed illegal migrants to receive the discounted tuition price as long as they reside in the state. |
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| Uzbek Truck Driver Admitted Under
Biden-Era Diversity Lottery Accused of Killing College Soccer
Goalkeeper On Ohio Highway A 42-year-old Uzbek truck driver who entered the United States through the Biden administration's diversity visa lottery program in 2024 is accused of rear-ending a vehicle on Interstate 71 in Ohio, killing 21-year-old Tobias "Toby" Forsythe, a college goalkeeper and economics major at UMass Lowell. The driver, Bekhzod Asrarov, held a state-issued Commercial Driver's License despite reportedly speaking no English, and he allegedly tried to destroy evidence at the scene before Ohio state troopers could secure it. |
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| Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed
Pressed on 'Physician' Claim Without a Valid Medical License Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic frontrunner in Michigan's 2026 Senate primary, found himself in an uncomfortable exchange this week when an interviewer from his own side of the aisle challenged him on whether he misrepresented himself by calling himself a physician, despite holding no current medical license in either Michigan or New York. The confrontation came during a Wednesday interview with Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan, who pressed El-Sayed directly on the credential question and on his push to delay releasing his tax returns until after the August 4 Democratic primary. El-Sayed's responses did little to settle either issue. |
Perhaps Dr. Jill Biden has some insight! |
| Can Britain’s Next Prime Minister
Escape the Net Zero Trap? Diana Furchtgott-Roth Britain is suffering from disruptions in both weather and politics as a heat wave grips a country where only four percent of homes have air conditioning... But today’s disruptions could be useful if Sir Keir’s resignation opened a window for Britain to reset its energy policy. Mr. Burnham, dubbed the King of the North, has already signaled that he wants affordable power and British jobs, especially in Britain’s north... Britain pays 42 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity. Germany, Europe’s other great champion of the green transition, pays 43 cents. The United States, which has no national Net Zero law, pays 20 cents, less than half ... The Brits are paying a Net Zero surcharge on every unit of electricity they consume. |
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| U.S. Oil Dominance Keeps Growing
Despite Lower Prices Julianne Geiger While much of the world spent 2025 debating peak oil, the United States was busy setting another production record. New data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed that U.S. crude oil production, including lease condensate, averaged a record 13.6 million barrels per day last year, extending America’s run as the world’s largest crude producer. That streak began in 2018, when the United States overtook Russia. Since then, shale has done what shale does best: annoy OPEC, defy forecasts, and keep pumping. |
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| Apple to Invest $30 Billion in U.S.
Chip Manufacturing The investment, in partnership with Broadcom, is set to produce 15 billion chips, creating hundreds of U.S. jobs. Broadcom's facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, is expanding its capabilities to produce the chips. "This is another major win for America and another sign that the Trump administration’s economic agenda is delivering results," a Trump administration official told Fox News Digital. "Apple has made investing in the United States a clear priority, and we hope other companies will follow its lead. |
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| The Guns of the American Revolution Contrary to popular perception, the American Revolution wasn’t all muskets, bayonets and Mel Gibson running around with a tomahawk. Evan Brune I have a love-hate relationship with Mel Gibson’s film, “The Patriot.” On the one hand, it’s a highly entertaining movie about a topic virtually untouched by Hollywood. On the other, the movie is so replete with historical inaccuracies that one viewing is enough to send even the moderately educated history enthusiast into violent, mouth-frothing convulsions. |
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| Wisconsin Election Commission Tells
DOJ It’s Not Responsible for Keeping Noncitizens Off Voter Rolls Wisconsin’s election managers are reminding everyone that non-citizens are not allowed to vote in the state. But the state’s Election Commission is stopping short of promising to work with the Trump Administration to make sure they don’t. The Justice Department this week sent a letter to all 50 states that promises to prosecute any election manager who “who knowingly retains noncitizens on the state’s [voter list] or facilitates noncitizens in receiving and casting ballots could be subject to criminal liability." |
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| DOJ
Civil Rights Division Presses Election Integrity Campaign with
Monitors, Lawsuits, and Criminal Warnings Ahead of 2026 Midterms The Justice Department notified twelve jurisdictions across six states this week that federal election monitors will be stationed at their polling locations for upcoming primaries, the latest move in a sweeping enforcement campaign that has already produced lawsuits against thirty states and formal warnings of criminal prosecution for election officials who allow noncitizens to vote. The twelve jurisdictions set to receive monitors span Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Virginia. They include some of the most closely watched election battlegrounds in the country: |
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| Tyrant
Gavin Newsom Panics: Threatens to Prosecute Anyone Helping President
Trump Secure Fair Elections – Pushes New Felony Law to Criminalize
Ballot Scrutiny Before Certification Jim Hoft In yet another desperate power grab, radical Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom is warning that anyone who dares help President Trump protect election integrity in California will be prosecuted. He’s now moving forward with legislation to make it a FELONY to seize ballots before they’ve been certified by his hand-picked state and county officials. This is the same Gavin Newsom who has spent years resisting basic election security while California’s system remains wide open to abuse. |
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| FTC Chairman Announces Settlement
with John Deere to Let Farmers Fix Their Own Equipment Again President Trump, restoring sanity little bits at a time. This time for American farmers. Yes, that's right. Like many companies these days, John Deere has created a complex and expensive system where owners must rely on them for repairs to the machines they purchase. But the "Right to Repair" movement is gaining steam. For the next decade, Deere will be required to give farmers and independent repair shops "the same equipment repair resources, including applicable software capabilities" as its stealerships -- err, dealerships. |
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| Most Russian Recruits Have Life
Expectancy of Just 20 Minutes on Ukraine Front Lines, Chilling Report Claims Anthony Blair Once a soldier is signed up to fight, he can expect to live for just 10 days to three weeks – from arrival at the training ground to death in combat, according to historian Peter Frankopan in an op-ed for Foreign Policy, citing Russian military bloggers. As the bloody conflict in Ukraine approaches the four and a half year mark, Russian military brass are desperately seeking new soldiers for Putin's meat grinder. |
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| Cuba's Surveillance State Keeps
Communist Party Afloat Jim Thomas Cuba's Communist Party is holding on through the worst crisis in a generation because a sprawling internal surveillance apparatus, not its collapsing power grid or shrinking food supply, is doing the work of keeping the country in line, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The paper described a security network that reaches into Cubans' homes, workplaces, and neighborhood sports centers, listens in on phone calls, and blankets everyday life from sports clubs to concert halls as U.S. sanctions squeeze the island. |
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| U.S. Teens Underestimate Risks of
Fentanyl Use U.S. teens are seriously underestimating how lethal the synthetic opioid fentanyl can be, a new study says. More than half of American eighth-graders don't think it's dangerous to experiment with fentanyl, researchers reported July 7 in JAMA Network Open. In reality, fentanyl is involved in at least 3 out of 4 teen overdose deaths, researchers said. “The majority of eighth-grade students (52%) did not see great risk in trying fentanyl once or twice,” wrote the team led by Richard Meich, a research professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. |
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| Trump Launches Crackdown on
Teachers Accused of Sexual Abuse, California Could Lose $50M; Ivy
Leaguer Caught Using DEI The Trump administration is launching a nationwide crackdown on schools accused of shielding sexually abusive teachers – and California could lose $50 million in federal funding for failing to protect students, The California Post has learned. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is expected to send letters to school districts nationwide Friday reminding them of their obligations under federal law to promptly investigate allegations of sexual abuse and harassment and prevent educators accused of abusing students from quietly moving to other schools, which is colloquially known as “passing the trash.”... Earlier this week, McMahon warned Harvard administrators that she was considering dropping the “hammer” on the Ivy League university over diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that may run afoul of federal law. |
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| Teachers Union Calls for Trump’s
Removal, Reparations, and ICE ‘Red Cards’ Hank Berrien The nation’s largest teachers union – which is also the largest labor union in the United States – has unveiled a wish list of new business items so far Left that even some of its own members might raise an eyebrow, including a formal push to oust President Donald Trump before the midterms, taxpayer-funded “reparations” initiatives, and a plan to hand out cards instructing members how to stonewall ICE agents. |
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| Activists Push Schools to Teach
'Black English' A Black activist group is urging the California public school system to accommodate “Black English” in schools, arguing that Black children’s use of the dialect must be honored. “I don’t want my son to walk into any room and feel like his voice is not valued or his perspective can’t be heard because he’s not saying it in one way or the other,” Ms. Williams said in a recent interview with PBS. She has a 2-year-old son... Ms. Williams’ proposals drew criticism from conservatives.“Dumbing down curricula to hurt minorities is a typical play of malicious and stupid liberals,” Fox News host Laura Ingraham said on social media. |
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