Al-Sayed and his terror-related friends

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Counterterrorism expert warns of security concerns around Al-Sayed

Fox News chronicles the findings of The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee during which Committee chair Senator Ted Cruz pointed out the connections between Abdul Al-0Sayed and certain terrotist organizations..

A Senate counterterrorism expert testified that Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s candidacy raises homeland security concerns because of family ties to Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups and connections to a Midwest voter-engagement organization the expert said is tied to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

During a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Muslim Brotherhood threats in the U.S. that was boycotted by all Democrats assigned to the panel, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked Center for Security Policy counterterrorism analyst Kyle Shideler if El-Sayed’s bid raised such concerns.

“Yessir, it does,” Shideler told Cruz, explaining that El-Sayed’s father-in-law allegedly has connections to Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups.

“This includes being the president at one time of CAIR-Michigan,” Shideler said of nephrologist Jukaku Tayeb. “Also his presence on the Islamic Society of North America Founders Committee, which is only for those most exclusively devoted to ISNA and provide significant amounts of funding.”

“There are other known [Muslim B]rotherhood members on that committee. I would also look at El-Sayed’s ties to a group called Emgage, which purports to be a Muslim sort of get out the vote or candidate recruitment organization, but it has close ties to CAIR,” Shideler testified.

The official bio for Emgage founding member and attorney Khurrum Wahid said the group “works to empower emerging majority communities, with a focus on Muslim Americans, to participate more in public and community and public service.”

“[Emgage] was created by a former CAIR member who at one time was on a terror watchlist, and was also a consultant to convicted terrorist Sami al-Arian,” Shideler said.

In 2012, a Times of Israel article criticized Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-Fla., for speaking at a fundraiser hosted by Wahid, whom it described as “currently listed on the federal terror watch list” and a legal defender of terrorism suspects.

In 2006, Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida professor who was born in Kuwait, pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to provide services to federally designated terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

Fox News Digital reached out to Wahid’s law firm and to El-Sayed’s campaign for comment.

(Read more at Fox News)

When it comes to the security of our nation, there is no politicization.

When it comes to protecting our people from attack by outside forces, either you do or you don’t.

However, if you want to talk about things that reveal how Democrats politicized things, let us talk about recent revelations on Oxferd Comma (delibertly misspelled to throw off searches), the more well-known Crossfire Hurricane, and the crosswinds that result.

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Al-Sayed received $100,000 from Hamas-affiliated CAIR

Fox News likewise documents the $100,000 that Abdul Al-Sayed received from the terrorist-affiliated CAIR.

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign has collected more than $115,000 from individuals who work for or have held leadership roles with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and formally designated or labeled as such in Florida and Texas.

A Fox News Digital review found that El-Sayed, who has made getting “money out of politics” a central campaign rallying cry, has accepted donations from at least 41 individuals who either work for CAIR, formerly worked for CAIR, or have served in leadership positions with the organization.

The donor list includes several of CAIR’s highest-ranking officials, including national Board Chair Manal Fakhoury, national Board Treasurer Eyas Abdeen, national Vice Chair Emad Sabbah, and CAIR-Michigan board member Jukaku Tayeb, El-Sayed’s father-in-law.

Tayeb has been one of the largest financial backers of the super PAC supporting El-Sayed’s campaign and is also part of the founding committee of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group linked to Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood funding, Washington Free Beacon first reported.

One donor, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, listed in FEC records under the name Nehad Hammad, drew national condemnation after saying he was “happy” to see Hamas break out of Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, and arguing Israel “does not have the right to self-defense” as an occupying power.

The contributions were not limited to Michigan. Fox News Digital identified donations from CAIR national leaders and officials affiliated with chapters in California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Washington, Illinois, Minnesota and Ohio, among other states, illustrating the breadth of support El-Sayed received from within the organization’s leadership ranks.

Other names on the donor list include CAIR-California Governance Board Treasurer Rubina Alvi, CAIR-California Governance Board Chair Asaad Traina, CAIR-Michigan board member Muzammil Ahmed, who contributed $11,600 to El-Sayed’s campaign, CAIR-California Governance Board member Atef Ibrahim, CAIR-California Governance Board member Dina Ezzeddine, and former CAIR National Board Chair Roula Allouch.

El-Sayed has maintained ties to CAIR beyond campaign fundraising. In 2022, he appeared at a CAIR event and was paid for a speaking engagement, where he criticized Oklahoma’s ban on Sharia law and compared it to the Trail of Tears, Washington Free Beacon reported.

CAIR has long been the subject of controversy over its alleged ties to Hamas. In 2007, federal prosecutors named the organization an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case, the largest terrorism financing prosecution in U.S. history.

Although CAIR was never charged with a crime, federal prosecutors argued the organization was part of a network created to support Hamas in the United States. CAIR has denied the allegations and has challenged its inclusion as an unindicted co-conspirator.

In recent years, Florida and Texas have formally designated or labeled CAIR a terrorist organization, while the United Arab Emirates designated the group a terrorist organization in 2014 which is widely understood to stem from the UAE’s view that CAIR has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

In response to Fox News Digital’s request for comment, CAIR denied allegations that it has ties to terrorism, citing its “Dispelling Rumors About CAIR” webpage, a memorandum stating it has “repeatedly condemned antisemitism throughout our 30 years of existence” and “for decades” condemned terrorist attacks by Hamas and other designated terrorist groups, as well as a 2009 statement saying, “We unequivocally condemn all acts of terrorism, whether carried out by al-Qa’ida, the Real IRA, FARC, Hamas, ETA, or any other group designated by the U.S. Department of State as a ‘Foreign Terrorist Organization.”

CAIR also cited a National Board statement condemning antisemitism and the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, and a 2023 editorial in which National Executive Director Nihad Awad said he agreed with the organization’s condemnation of attacks on civilians.

Fox News Digital reached out to the El-Sayed campaign for comment.

(Read more at Fox News)

Regarding your pledge to get “money out of politics,” why not get terror out of politica nd return the $100,000 to CAIR

We do remember the Holy Land Foundation and CAIR. We currently know of their ties to Hamas (famous for murdering and raping women and children on 7 October.

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Al-Sayed advocated for sharia in America

The Rair Foundation lays out at least one instance where Abdul Al-Sayed pushed for sharia to be established over American law in America.

Muslim supremacist Abdul El-Sayed spoke at an Oklahoma event sponsored by CAIR advocating for Sharia law and comparing it to the Trail of Tears. He equated banning it with white supremacy, invoking racism and Islamophobia over Sharia not being allowed on the streets of America.

Michigan’s newly anointed communist Muslim Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s history is revealing for those who bother to take a gander at it. He has previously advocated for Sharia at an Oklahoma CAIR event where he compared banning it to the Trail of Tears, which entailed the forced relocation of roughly 100,000 Native Americans from the southeastern United States to Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) between 1830 and 1850.

El-Sayed Promotes Sharia

“You can’t understand a Sharia ban without understanding the Trail of Tears,” El-Sayed told the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in October of 2022, according to The Washington Free Beacon. “You cannot understand the challenges we face today without understanding white supremacy.”

His comments concerned a 2010 Oklahoma ballot measure that prohibited judges from considering Islamic and international law in their rulings. El-Sayed called the measure part of the “history of racism” in Oklahoma and across the country, drawing a comparison between Sharia bans and those behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1921 Tulsa massacre.

“I don’t have to tell you that the same exact forces that drove native peoples from their land two centuries ago, destroyed Black Wall Street a century ago, bombed a building decades ago, and tried to ban Sharia not a decade ago, that those forces are alive and well today,” he said, knowing full well it is a false comparison to say the least and is sheer political propaganda.

The Evils of Sharia

Sharia is unconstitutional. It stands outside and apart from our laws here in the West. It is Islamic religious law and provides the basis for the governing codes of Iran and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, among other Muslim-majority countries.

For instance, in Afghanistan, girls are not allowed to attend school past the age of 12. Women are not allowed to drive and are mandated to cover their entire faces and bodies in public at all times. Iran has similar laws, with morality police patrolling the streets to enforce them. They beat women, arrest them, rape them, and many times kill them for the smallest of infractions. 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was beaten to death in 2022 for not fully covering her hair in public. That is Sharia.

(Read at the Rair Foundation of the fight against sharia)

The last thing we need to do is to allow this system of government to flourish in our borders

As many have pointed out, Islam is less of a system of religion and more of a system of government administered from the ruler to the imam to the people. We do not need to be ruled by anyone, much less unelected Muslim leaders (and Islamic heads of state have long pointed out that democracy does not comport with Islam).

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Michigan Dem Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed scrubbed past videos of him saying July Fourth “fireworks suck,” and opposing the Second Amendment

The New York Post chronicles some of the far-left stances of Al-Sayed that he would rather you forget (like his oposition to football, the Second Amendment, and Thanksgiving).

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed scrubbed videos from his YouTube channel in which he claimed that Fourth of July “fireworks suck,” questioned whether American football was “ethical” and floated the elimination of the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

At least 100 of El-Sayed’s videos were made private ahead of his primary win last week, though several had already been archived, CNN’s KFile first reported.

It’s only the latest example of far-left candidates having to distance themselves from their past holiday-hating remarks.

Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong recently walked back criticisms of Thanksgiving as a “colonizer holiday” and Valentine’s Day as “another day capitalism tells you how to show love.”

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Another video showed El-Sayed, a former high school football player, asking whether the gridiron sport was “ethical” or “safe.” The candidate added in other unearthed audio that the game is “very much associated with a particularly masculine and oftentimes toxically masculine culture.”

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The following month, however, El-Sayed had also written on X: “As a father and a public health doctor, I ask this with all of my being: Do we love our children enough to rethink our relationship with guns?”

“The second amendment never meant any gun for anyone anywhere at any time,” he added.

Two years prior, in 2023, El-Sayed asked in a since-removed video: “What if we tweaked the Constitution, amended the amendment, and instead of the right to bear arms, we change it to the right to have health care?”

(Read at the New York Post to get more  than just the paragraphs excerpted here)

Giving up our guns would make an Islamic takeover easier, wouldn’t it?

Jihad against an unarmed populace is quite a bit easier, isn’t it?

Instead of corrupting an original document, how about if we returned to an original standard?

Rather than exchanging our right to bear arms for something that has never worked elsewhere — what if we returned to the standard set by all 13 original American colonies (and subsequent early states) where a candidtate would be required to take some form of religious test oath or declaration of Christian/Protestant belief as a prerequisite to holding public office?

More in the “pj media” are paying attention to the overreach by Democrats like Al-Sayed

Various voices across the conservative spectrum of social media are pointing to how Al-Sayed would be a new Mao.

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Al-Sayed plans for higher taxes, insulting his voters, and beginning a do-nothing Senate

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Al-Sayed has plans for raising taxes on all of us

Red State allows socialist candidate Al-Sayed to commit himself to raising taxes on a larger number of Americans.

Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed hit the Sunday talk shows, including Meet the Press (MTP), to promote his campaign.

He’s facing difficulties because of his far-left positions and his associations with extremists like Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. He’s having difficulties with Democrats who supported Rep. Haley Stevens (MI-11) as well as the working class.

MTP anchor Kristen Welker asked him about his closeness to the socialists and how he differed, for example. This was not a great response.

I think he thinks he said he was defending capitalism, but it came out like he was attacking corporations anyway. What a jumble. Sure, he was just hanging with the socialists for sport, not because he really believed what they said. That’s why they’re supporting him now. Come on, man, he’s trying to sell us the Brooklyn Bridge. 

However, his answers on taxes and healthcare were even worse. 

El-Sayed said he wanted billionaires to pay more – the stock far-left slogan. 

But Welker pressed a bit on that, asking what about the people who made under a million dollars, would they have to pay more? And it sure sounds like he said yes. Check out this full-on gobbledygook.

So for the average person, when you look at your W2, if you’re an employee who gets paid every two weeks or four weeks, after you pay your taxes, the next biggest check that comes off the top of your pay stub is to your health insurance company.

So imagine instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20 million a year, instead you paid a little bit more in taxes for health care that you wouldn’t lose if you lost your job or turned 26 or got married or got divorced.

He continued:

I think all of us would be a lot more interested in that kind of a system if we knew that our health care would be free at the point of care and would be free without having to worry about losing it, in general. So there’s an opportunity here, I think, to trade what we give to a big corporation, who gets to decide who we get to see and who we don’t, for a little bit more paid into FICA.

And I think that’s a trade that’s worth making. I think the broader public understands that that’s a trade worth making, considering how many people are holding medical debt. A third of all Michigan households right now.

(continued)

Translation? Yes, absolutely, they’re going to tax the regular folks too. 

(Read of the attempted assist by Welker and see the rest — including another tweet — at Red State)

So Al-Sayed wants to take health care from for-profit companies and move it to government?

Has Al-Sayed seen the level of care available in Canada, Great Britain, or Austrailia?

Has Al-Sayed been around to see the fraud that has occurred in health care systems in Democrat states already?

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services withheld $1.3 billion from California, alleging that rapid growth in home nursing care claims indicated massive fraudulent operations.

Health and Human Services (HHS) froze $259 million in federal Medicaid funding to Minnesota, citing rampant scam operations where front businesses billed millions for nonexistent services.

And, truthfully, there are plenty of other examples to list.

Furthermore, I would challenge Al-Sayed (a member of the upper 1%) to find a middle class voter who thinks he or she needs to pay more taxes

I don’t think that is a winning platform.

Furthermore, to have the head of the group you belong to start fumbling when it comes to a key question does not look good for the whole group.

Since Democrat Socialist Co-Chair Megan Romer could not explain “taxing the hell out of millionaires,” let me give it a try. It sounds like they want to remove them from existence. It sounds like they see millionaires as exploiters who only gain money by taking it from others.

Does it occur to her that Al-Sayed falls into the group of millionaires? Does it occur to her that union members who have worked the line and put their pensions into a diversity of stocks have (over the period of 50 years of hard work) saved somewhere in the neighborhood of a million?

Will this fat politico line up the workers who have saved for their lives and perform a Mao-like purge of millionaires?

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Abdul El-Sayed’s Mackinac hate bombed, but his backpedal bombs even more

Twitchy takes off from the point of where Al-Sayed proclaimed his hatred for Mackinac Island and then lets him tie himself up with backtracks.

Michigan’s newly minted Democrat Senate (Communist, Islamist) nominee Abdul El-Sayed is discovering the hard way that openly trashing one of the state’s most cherished tourist destinations doesn’t exactly play well with the locals.

After a resurfaced clip of him declaring his disdain for Mackinac Island went viral and drew sharp pushback from Republican Sen. Mike Rogers and even Kid Rock, the socialist candidate pivoted hard — shifting the conversation from his own words to a classic class-warfare jab at the “multimillionaires” defending God’s country Up North.

His response …

In other words, he only hates that island because it’s for the rich or something.

Don’t look at us, we didn’t say it.

Abdul happens to be a millionaire himself.

(Read more and see the final tweet at Twitchy)

When you find yourself in a hole and you have a shovel, stop digging.

It would be a good idea to just shut up once in a while. Other people have observed this phenomena and have created proverbs around it. For example:

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues. (Proverbs 17:28 NIV)

A small application of these bits of inspiration might help you in the long run.

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Al-Sayed plans for a do-nothing Senate

Democrat Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed outlines laying a “runway” by “hauling up people” to hold Trump admin “accountable”

The Daily Caller lays out his plans for tormenting Republicans rather than getting anything passed in a Senate that will be almost evenly divided.

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee to be Michigan’s next U.S. senator, floated plans involving leveraging Trump administration officials if his party wrests control of the Senate in the 2026 midterm elections.

El-Sayed told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday Democrats can hold the Trump administration “accountable” if elected by using the powers reserved for the majoroty party, such as subpoena power, to start “hauling up people like RFK Jr.” The 41-year-old politician and epidemiologist endorsed by Bernie Sanders beat Democratic Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens in a Tuesday primary election.

“Democratic voters are frustrated, as I don’t need to tell you. They don’t think that your party’s doing enough to fight Donald Trump on these issues, especially like affordability,” the “State of the Union” host said. “If you’re elected as a Democratic senator with a Republican president in November, what can you actually do about that?”

“Well, look, let me just tell you the picture from my state. We have been up and down the state now. I have been at this for 15 months, been to 110 cities, over 500 public events,” El-Sayed told Tapper. “Everywhere I go, people say the same thing: ‘It just shouldn’t be this hard.’ It shouldn’t be this hard to afford your groceries or fill up your tank or worry about getting sick without having to worry about losing everything too.”

El-Sayed said that the “first thing we need to do” after being sworn in to the Senate as part of a Democratic majority is to “start holding the Trump administration accountable,” citing subpoena power as his weapon of choice to “investigate all of the ways that this administration has used their power for their gain and enrichment and against ours.”

“And I think that means hauling them up to really understand all the conversations that were had about who got to get refunds after this terrible tariff policy, who got to get excluded from those refunds,” El-Sayed said. “It means hauling up people like RFK Jr. and holding them accountable for the DOGE-ing [a reference to Department of Government Efficiency cuts] of our public health apparatus, for which we now need to be dodging lettuce across the state of Michigan for fear of getting explosive diarrhea, which nobody ever thought would be a consequence of electing Donald Trump, but here we are.”

El-Sayed told Tapper that it’s “those powers and then the ability to set up to build the runway for a president in 2028 who can come in and start doing the things to hold big corporations accountable, to start enforcing antitrust policy, to start rethinking our tax system, so it’s less burdensome on everyday people, and we’re taxing billionaires their wealth, and to stand up for unions, who have been critical to winning fair wages.”

(Read more at the Daily Caller)

You say people are suffering, but your first action is to politically go after your enemies

How does this bring the relief that you claim that the electorate needs?

Is the only relief a need for a gladiatorial event or a circus?

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Still, we have to acknowledge that tanking one’s party is a bi-partisan thing

AOC giggles through her stint of being a stand-in for Hong and ends by saying: “Woke 1 was crazy”

The New York Post reviews the words of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez as she bumbles through a stand-in session for Wisconsin’s DSA gubernatorial candidate Hong.

“Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Rep. Francesca Hong‘s previously statements calling to defund the police — saying “Woke 1 was crazy” as she refrained from an endorsement in the race.

Hong, a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member, has opened up a massive, double-digit polling lead in the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary over her foe, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley.

Republicans are hopeful she will win the Aug. 11 primary due to her past calls to get rid of Thanksgiving, abolish the police, and more.

“My understanding is that Francesca Hong has made clear her present stances to her electorate,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday.

“I have a local city councilman that has this saying, ‘Woke 1 was crazy,” she added, referring to Councilmember Chi Ossé. “I think that what’s important is that we have to assess what a candidate is saying now.”

The congresswoman contended that “Woke 1” was driven in part by the COVID-19 pandemic and that some of the discourse at the time was “quite fruitful.” She claimed that the conversation about criminal justice in the present day has changed because of “Woke 1.”

“I think that when we talk about crime today, it’s fundamentally different than the way that we talked about crime in bringing crime down, right?” she said.

“I think that during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.”

Hong had been hesitant to break from her past inflammatory remarks.

Initially, when asked about whether she still wants to cancel Thanksgiving, something she raised in a 2021 interview, Hong told CNN last week that the holiday “is also a time that’s incredibly painful for many people in our communities.”

After facing backlash from that, she released a statement claiming that she isn’t interested in nixing the holiday.

(Read more at the New York Post)

Sorry, AOC, but this “Woke1.0” was birthed by you and Bernie

There is no distancing yourself from this. It is all yours.

And this business of claiming that the wokeness came from the COVID shutdowns will not work. You were spouting liberal lines before that (which was just 5 years ago).

It hasn’t just been the old tweets. She has recently made comments about disbanding police unions, defunding police, and making other radical moves.

The following tweet and its mention of Hong’s support for defunding the police as a first step towards abolishing the police. To top it off, this tweet cites the establishment of an autonomous zone in Madison, Wisconsin (where police — and anyone else they didn’t approve of — could not enter). Eventually, the fighting got so bad in the autonomous zone that police had to enter. What was Hong’s response? Read:

I am deeply disappointed that the situation ended with police intervention and arrests rather than the voluntary, community-led resolution hat so many of us had worked toward.

Still, when you think about what any of these DSA politicians are spouting, maybe the best way to be rid of them is to let them keep talking. People are smart enough, even if you (AOC) are not. We remember your fumbling in Europe in years past and in this year just as well as we remember your staged event at the Texas border and how that fell apart.

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RINOs are tanking the entire Republican party, not just Trump

The Federalist comments on the damage that the “Republicans in name only” are doing to the conservative side and to the name of Republicanism.

Note: This requires a hat tip to the Balladeer.

The tension between President Trump’s MAGA administration and the obstructionist elements within the Senate GOP ranks continues, with the nomination of Todd Blanche as attorney general serving as the newest flashpoint of conflict. President Donald Trump directly blasted Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, last week after it became clear that they remained intransigent in their opposition to confirming Blanche. 

Tillis and Cornyn ultimately announced their support for Blanche’s confirmation and advanced him out of the committee hearing, but not without doing their best to obstruct Trump and Blanche. And by obstructing the MAGA agenda, Tillis and Cornyn are simultaneously doing their best to hurt Trump’s party in the upcoming midterm elections.

To get the necessary support from Tillis and Cornyn, Blanche was forced to announce that he had instructed the Department of Justice to terminate the so-called “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” This fund of $1.776 billion dollars was announced in May as part of the settlement of the civil lawsuit filed by Trump against the IRS over the 2020 leak of his tax returns.

Demonstrating his shrewd political maneuvering and an honorable, magnanimous desire to vindicate his supporters, President Trump had opted for the anti-weaponization fund to provide relief to his many ordinary American supporters instead of receiving any personal compensation for damages. The fund was intended to provide financial relief to those who could demonstrate they had been unfairly and unlawfully targeted by the Biden administration’s weaponization of the government against conservatives and especially the former president and his supporters.

The Anti-Weaponization Fund quickly faced obstacles, as leftist judges moved to enjoin the creation of the government fund and creative Democrat plaintiffs like James Comey suggested they would sue based on claims of being victims of “weaponized” government under Trump.

Tillis Opposes Trump

Tillis also signaled his displeasure with the anti-weaponization fund, and it appears his support for Blanche’s confirmation as AG (if Tillis will indeed ultimately support Blanche) became contingent upon the scrapping of the anti-weaponization fund. Tillis has become one of the most vociferous anti-Trump Republicans in the Senate, notably attacking the administration’s key policy of enforcing immigration law. Specifically, Tillis has shown nothing but vitriol for the Trump supporters prosecuted by the Biden administration in the wake of Jan. 6, 2021, and he deliberately blocked the confirmation of Ed Martin as U.S. district attorney for Washington, D.C., because of the legal support Martin provided for J6ers. Tillis also criticized the anti-weaponization fund and argued that the actions taken by the Trump administration were of the same kind as those from Biden’s weaponized government. 

Similarly, John Cornyn is clearly a pro-immigration Republican, having run campaign ads in Spanish and expressed support for legal status for “dreamers” (illegal alien children brought to the U.S. by their parents). Cornyn has also expressed his support for Muslim and Indian immigration into Texas, something MAGA voters have resisted and want to reverse. Cornyn had also recently announced he would block Trump nominees until Trump restored a program to fund AIDS relief in Africa.

Repeated Obstruction

Tillis and Cornyn are simply the clearest examples of a repeated pattern of obstruction of President Trump’s agenda by establishment Republican senators who dislike Trump and the way he is remaking the Republican Party. These senators manifest their obstruction by refusing to eliminate the filibuster or utilize the talking filibuster, pass the SAVE America Act and other urgently needed legislative reforms, confirm some of Trump’s best nominees, or eliminate the outdated “blue slips” process for judicial confirmations, which only helps the left.

Reforming the makeup of the Senate GOP cannot come quickly enough. Thankfully, some of the worst anti-Trump senators have been successfully primaried. Cornyn suffered a resounding defeat in May to Ken Paxton, the pro-Trump attorney general of Texas. Paxton will likely carry the general election in November to replace Cornyn in the Senate. Bill Cassidy, a longtime anti-Trump Republican senator from Louisiana, also suffered a primary defeat to Julia Letlow, the Trump-endorsed candidate. And Tillis is retiring at the end of this term, rather than risk being primaried himself. 

It is long past time for the Republican Party to field and elect candidates for Congress who will protect the rights and defend the interests of ordinary American citizens: restricting immigration, restoring law and order, and limiting foreign entanglements. For far too long, the Republican establishment — particularly the Republican senators — have been eager to sell out their voters in preference for cheap foreign labor, arming supposed “allies” in overseas conflicts, and making performative political displays in Washington while refusing to play hardball against the Democrats. 

Trump has called their bluff because his 2024 victory, carrying congressional majorities along with his presidential win, has provided the Republicans with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make critical reforms, break the institutional power of the left, and ensure right-wing political power for the future. Instead, Republican senators like Tillis and Cornyn show that they would rather be part of the resistance to Trump. 

Republican voters deserve better. We must keep reforming the Republican Party so that corrupt establishment candidates like Tillis and Cornyn are either forced to change their behavior or can just be forced out of office and the party. President Trump has led the way on this, and we need to complete what he has begun.

More Troubles Ahead?

Even though Tillis and Cornyn have decided to advance Blanche’s nomination to a full Senate floor vote, we are not in the clear yet. Given that Tillis and Cornyn are on their way out, have nothing further to lose, and have already made clear their hatred for Trump — what would stop them from continuing to obstruct if they really want to? Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has also just announced her opposition to Blanche’s confirmation, and there may be more trouble from other anti-Trump holdouts like Cassidy and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.

Ultimately, this obstruction from anti-Trump GOP senators is severely threatening the Republicans for the upcoming midterms. By stalling the MAGA agenda, they are helping to impede Trump and make it harder for the administration to accumulate wins they can advertise to the public. And passing the SAVE America Act — which, after all, ought to be the Republican senators’ top priority — could easily help secure the midterm elections and all future elections against the ubiquitous threat of election fraud that so frequently favors the left. 

(Read more at The Federalist)

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No, Representative Crenshaw, the $20 burrito debate does matter

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Recently, outgoing never-Trumper Representative Dan Crenshaw suggested that those of us complaining about $20 burritos should just tighten our belts

The Hill reported on a tweet by outgoing Republican Representative Dan Crenshaw where he suggested that millennials stop complaining about $20 burritos and get a job, make a budget, and split expenses with some roommates.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) doubled down on his comments Thursday after drawing criticism for telling Americans concerned about high food prices to “stop whining” and “get a job,” as a viral debate over the cost of a $20 burrito exposed divisions among the GOP over affordability.

“Just hearing about this dumb $20 burrito debate so just thought I’d make the losers on social media angry before going to bed,” Crenshaw posted on the social platform X late Wednesday.

“Stop whining, get a job, eat Ramen like the rest of us did in college, on a budget with 4 roommates,” he wrote. “The market doesn’t care what you think something ‘should’ cost.”

After taking some heat in his comment section, the lawmaker sent out another post to address the backlash before doubling down on his previous remarks.

“Okay, I am SORRY for triggering the comment section,” Crenshaw wrote on X. 

The Texas Republican then sarcastically suggested the existence of a $20 burrito was proof capitalism had failed before making it clear he was joking.

“Remember when the right had principles and made fun of leftists for elevating victimhood as a virtue? Want to tell people the truth? Or just bribe them for their vote in the next election?” he wrote.

Crenshaw, who recently lost his bid for reelection, criticized the Biden administration in 2021 after it told Americans to eat less takeout beef and poultry to mediate inflation.

“America: our food prices are too high what are you doing about inflation? Biden admin: just be vegan and stop complaining you bunch of rubes,” he said in his 2021 post.

The burrito debate began earlier this week, after Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet shared a conversation with a college student who summed up his concerns about affordability by saying, “A burrito shouldn’t cost $20.”

“A lot of this is a hangover from COVID and Biden-era inflation, but the lived experience is the same: It just feels like basic things cost too much,” Kolvet wrote online.

Vice President Vance also weighed in on the discussion, after Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen dismissed Kolvet’s complaint.

“Cry me a river. The burritos in the college cafeteria are included in your meal plan,” Thiessen wrote.

Vance replied to Thiessen with a jab about his weight.

“I’m surprised to hear Mark say this,” Vance wrote on X. “If you’ve ever met him in person, it’s quite obvious the man has never missed a burrito.”

Kolvet later told NewsNation’s “On Balance” that he “had no idea” his comments would spur such a debate, but he said it would be unwise for the GOP to repeat the mistakes of former President Biden by dismissing the concern about food prices.

(Read more at The Hill)

We need to remember who got us into this mess and how they did it.

We need to remember that the birth of $20 burritos can be traced to the 9.1% inflation of Biden which came from the COVID checks (many might call these “money for nothing,” but they were actually worse since Biden mandated the closure of all business and industry).

We need to avoid the same trap

Having seen something we don’t like (getting into an inflationary spiral), we need to avoid future entanglements with the same. Therefore, we need to reduce government restrictions on our freedom to work and reduce instances where government spends money it does not have (as with the printing of the COVID monies).

So, based on that, we should do everything to argue against the platform of the Democrat Socialists.

Rather than just swat the flies of the Democrat Socialists, Republicans shold advertise the honey within the Republican tax cuts

Notice that I callled these the Republican tax cuts. They are not just the Trump Tax cuts (even though he may have inspired them).

Furthermore, if there are things than can be done to inspire savings for the masses (aka normal guys like me), it would be most appreciated. And just remember, as an army travels on its stomach, a voter base does, too.

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Fauci Has Been Held in Contempt – Here’s What Happens Next

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Senator Rand Paul remains true to his word and delivers the party-line contempt vote to the Department of Justice

Townhall outlines the likely next steps now that the majority vote to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress has been handed over to the Department of Justice.

Now that a Senate committee voted to hold former infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt, many have speculated about what might happen next.

The resolution will go to the Senate floor for a full vote, but Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) suggested that even if the upper chamber does not approve the resolution, he might send it to the Justice Department anyway, according to Reuters.

A U.S. Senate committee voted on Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the former top U.S. infectious disease official refused to answer questions about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a referral pushed by its Republican Chair Rand Paul of Kentucky, a longtime Fauci antagonist, on a party-line vote of 8-7. The vote followed a hearing last week where Fauci, who is 85 and retired in 2022, invoked the Fifth Amendment, the right to remain silent, more than 100 times.

The vote is the sharpest escalation yet in a broad Republican and Trump administration campaign to re-litigate the pandemic and hold accountable the officials who ran the U.S. response.

Paul has pursued a years-long investigation to try to prove his and other Republicans’ conviction that Fauci orchestrated a cover-up of the coronavirus’ origins….A contempt referral typically must be approved by a congressional committee and then the full Senate, which would likely need a 60-vote majority, requiring Democratic support, highly unlikely given the party’s defense of Fauci.

But Paul has suggested that vote may be unnecessary, telling Fox News he could send the referral directly to the Justice Department with a legal brief. If the referral proceeds, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, run by Trump ally Jeanine Pirro, would review it and decide whether to seek a grand jury indictment.

After the resolution is referred to the Justice Department, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington would review it and decide whether to seek a grand jury indictment. Contempt of Congress is a federal misdemeanor punishable by up to $100,000 in fines.

Paul noted the full Senate could also vote after the chamber returns from August recess, though he has prioritized the DOJ recommendation. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said, “Holding a witness in contempt is a serious thing, and it should be rare. But the contempt power exists for precisely this circumstance.”

But there is a possibility that it might not produce the desired outcome. It’s not clear whether the DOJ will pursue charges against Fauci. It’s also not clear whether courts would uphold the contempt finding and could disagree with Paul’s conclusion that the Fifth Amendment does not protect Fauci in this case. Some legal experts argued that the threat of prosecution means Fauci is allowed to invoke this right.

(Read the complaints of the Democrats and other offended parties at Townhall)

At least two recent precedents have been set in Bannon and Navarro

However, true to some of the statements by the Democrats, Fauci might not be pursued by the DOJ because the deep state members of the DOJ may show deference to this man (some might call him a “hateful little imp”).

There is one thing that Republicans in Congress cannot stop:  the way elitist media and news apps rushed to Fauci’s defense

The Media Research Center reports on the headlong plunge by main stream media and top news apps to cover for the deficiencies of Anthony Fauci.

This week, the “Big Three” Networks and News Apps shielded fellow elitist liberal, Dr. Tony Fauci, largely ignoring bombshell revelations from his pandemic-era diaries released Saturday by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) before Wednesday’s Senate hearing and, following the proceedings, promulgating Fauci’s preferred framing of a “deep, partisan,” and “fiery” affair foisted upon him by Republicans.

A Media Research Center analysis of coverage on ABC, Apple News, CBS, Google News, MSN, and NBC found little in terms of illuminating diary details, which included Fauci’s recommendations that destroyed the lives of millions, an eager embrace of his celebrity status, collusion with elite reporters, and a private acceptance of the lab-leak theory while publicly dismissing it as fringe.

Put another way, ten stories on the Big Three News Apps and 27 minutes on the broadcast networks showed they largely held onto the Fauci diaries until the day of the hearing, only to cover them in a tertiary manner behind decrying the hearing’s impact on public health, defending Fauci, and a fixation on the tense emotions.

In reaction to these findings, Media Research Center President David Bozell said, “The Fauci diaries should have been one of the biggest stories of the year. Instead of investigating what the diaries revealed, the elitist media and the news apps went into full-blown protection mode.”

Bozell added:

They downplayed the bombshell disclosures before the hearing, then pivoted to portraying Fauci as the victim afterward. Rather than examining his own words about school closures, the lab-leak theory, media coordination, and his celebrity status, viewers were served stories about a ‘fiery’ and ‘partisan’ hearing. It’s another reminder that when one of their own is under scrutiny, the legacy media’s first instinct isn’t to inform the public, it is to protect the establishment.”

ABC’s flagship morning and evening newscasts — Good Morning America (GMA) and World News Tonight — spent five and a half minutes on the Fauci diaries and hearing across only three meager reports, focusing largely on the atmospherics.

Before the hearing, correspondent Jay O’Brien said on Wednesday’s Good Morning America that a retired scientist would, at “85 years old,” have to face “a fiery hearing” because he “has long been a target of” Paul, who obtained his “private diary” (even though it was created as an official agency record, on official time and with government resources).

Like much of the network coverage, O’Brien engaged in a bait-and-switch by insisting Fauci has never discounted the possibility of a lab leak in Wuhan when the facts show otherwise.

Afterwards, on Wednesday’s World News Tonight and Thursday’s GMA, O’Brien boasted of Fauci as “the man millions of Americans turned to for answers during the COVID pandemic” now being “needled” by Republicans even though he “served in government for 54 years and has testified in more than 200 hearings.”

GMA co-host George Stephanopoulos — who surfaced in the diary as having Fauci for ripping a Trump tweet that was critical of him — bemoaned the scene as “a sign of the times” that a hearing could be “as partisan as it gets.”

(Read more at the Media Research Center to see specific accounts of biased reporting by CBS and NBC)

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Proofs that Senator Joe McCarthy and Godfrey of Bouillon were right when it comes to Al-Sayed

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It is not Islamophobia when the Islamists are really out to kill you

Al-Sayed didn’t want to offend those who loved the Ayatollah (aka Mr. “Death to America”)

In a recent round table event on CNN, Scott Jennings observed:

During the campaign, a leaked audio from his campaign came out, Abdul Al-Sayed, in which he was worried about commenting on the death of the Ayatollah because he didn’t want to offend his supporters. Yeah, the world is in chaos and this guy can’t figure out what side of the ball he’s on.

Al-Sayed in his own words on not offending those grieving the Ayatollah

More salient to the discussion are the words of Mr. Al-Sayed:

So again, this is going to destabilize the region. I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today. So Like I just don’t want to comment on Khomeini Khamenei at all. Like I don’t think it’s worth even touching that.

Does Al-Sayed value jobs for illegals or lives of Americans?

Never mind the rash of accidents caused by illegal alien truck drivers that cannot read. Al-Sayed wants to give them drivers licenses.

In a recent interview, Al-Sayed said:

Beyond that, I look forward to pushing for legislation that would preempt localities from participating with ICE and using their local resources to do the same. Beyond that, we’ve also got to make sure that in the state, we are not discriminating by documentation status. Right now, if you’re undocumented, you don’t get access to a driver’s license, so you’re stuck. You don’t get access to a lot of the basic things the state offers everybody else, and I think that’s ridiculous. And so we’ve got to stop discriminating that way.

Al-Sayed on Socialism

Al-Sayed on Medicare for all

After being asked about his focus, should he win the Michigan Democrat primary for the Senate race, Al-Sayed replied:

Welcome to Michigan. I hope you try to spend all your time here and I am happy to show you around so long as you want to get money out of politics, put money in our pocket, and pass Medicare for all.

Al-Sayed on Abolishing ICE

ICE has nothing to do with the Southern border — that’s Customs and Border Protection (sic). I also believe in immigration enforcement. But I also believe in not shooting people in the back of the head and they face while you’re trying to do it. Maybe it’s because I’ve served in government agencies, but once a government agency like that has been told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land (which is the Constitution), we need to abolish it and start from scratch.

In respones to Al-Sayed’s lies regarding ICE

I would counter the arguments of Al-Sayed with these points:

Al-Sayed on Defunding the police

In a 2020 campaign interview with CNN, Al-Sayed called for the defunding of the police:

“We do need to defund the police.”

Al-Sayed on Abolishing prisons

During a 2020 webinar, Al-Sayed suggested the following support:

We have to think about any and all efforts to get people out of jails and prisons.

Al-Sayed on Packing the Supreme Court

In the Detroit Metro Times, Al-Sayed advocates for expanding the Supreme Court to drown out the current conservative majority:

Expanding the Supreme Court would imply increasing the number of justices from the current nine.

Odd how he did not bring this up for the decades that Roe was “the law of the land.”

Al-Sayed on Tax billionaires

Al-Sayed seems to have said much about advocating a tax on wealth beyond $1 billion; however, links to articles and tweets have become dead links. Still, here is one video where he advocates for taxing billionaires:

It matters who your friends are when you are in politics

Hasan Piker unloads on “Islamophobic pieces of s—” Democrats as El-Sayed faces party unity test

Fox News exposes the rough edges of of one Al-Sayed’s socialist associates: Hasan Piker, the guy who labeled Detroit Democrats as “Islamophobic POS” just as Al-Sayed was needing to bring th party together.

Left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker rejected calls for Abdul El-Sayed to repair relationships with skeptical Democrats during the candidate’s Tuesday night election event at the Majestic Theatre in Detroit, even as El-Sayed promised reconciliation ahead of the general election against Republican Mike Rogers.

“Like everyone being like, Abdul has a f— ton of work to do mending bridges. Here’s the f—ing take nuke for you, OK? You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s—, OK?” Piker said.

El-Sayed struck a conciliatory tone before the race was called, telling supporters his campaign would begin reconciling with Democrats who backed Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., in the bitter primary.

In his victory speech on Wednesday, he praised Stevens as a dedicated public servant.

Piker accused El-Sayed’s critics of spending months branding the former Wayne County health director a terrorist, misogynist and fake doctor before demanding that he win them over.

“Like, what are you talking about? Do you want to f—ing win or not? Lock the f— in, OK? Lock the f— in,” Piker said.

Piker also framed questions about whether El-Sayed could unite Democrats as a test of whether pro-Israel organizations, consultants and voters would stop attacking the nominee long enough to defeat Rogers.

“And that question is just can El-Sayed get the pro-Israel vote? Can El-Sayed win over, not even the vote necessarily, but like can El-Sayed get the people and the group,” Piker said.

“Groups and the NGOs and the consultants that have worked extensively for pro-Israel candidates to shut the f— up about El-Sayed being a terrorist for a long enough timeline so that you know we can consolidate the base and defeat the f—ing Republican.”

Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts highlighted Piker’s message to Democrats who supported Stevens or another primary candidate.

“Hasan Piker’s message to Dems who didn’t vote for El-Sayed: ‘You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s—,’” Watts said on X.

Rob Flaherty, ex-White House digital strategy director for former President Joe Biden, urged El-Sayed to disregard Piker as the nominee pivoted toward the general election.

(Read more on Fox News)

If Al-Sayed really is not a socialist, then he should jettison Piker

Unless Al-Sayed needs the socialist vote, then he needs to get to the middle and (thus) get rid of this radical Piker.

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Relevant tweets proving the socialism of Al-Sayed

A possible reason for the tight race between socialists

 

Here we are at the ninth assassination attempt and the press hardly said a thing

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Another assassination attempt at another golf course gets followed by a round of relative silence within the press

Consider that we have gone well beyond the number of assassination attempts made against other American political figures — since we now have made it to 9 attempts (refer to my previous post detailing the first eight). Therefore, let me ask this: why isn’t the press focusing on the effectiveness of gun laws in California?

Why don’t they ask questions of the Democrats who constantly call Trump a Nazi and a threat to democracy? Haven’t they done the same to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin?

Man arrested at Trump golf course ahead of president’s visit allegedly had weapons cache

Fox News details the location and armaments retrieved from the armed criminal (Jeanine John Taele) who was pacing out the grounds and preparing for his attack.

A California man was arrested Sunday at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes after allegedly monitoring security planning activities days before the president’s visit, and was later found with a cache of weapons and body armor, authorities said.

Jeanine John Taele, 38, of Downey, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to four criminal charges stemming from his arrest outside the golf course days before President Donald Trump’s scheduled visit.

Trump arrived in Los Angeles late Tuesday for a Republican National Committee fundraiser.

A Los Angeles County judge set Taele’s bail at $250,000, ordered him not to possess any weapons, barred him from Trump National Golf Club and prohibited him from leaving California while the case is pending. 

His next court appearance is scheduled for Aug. 26, for a preliminary hearing setting and bail review.

According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the investigation began Sunday, when plainclothes federal agents spotted Taele walking the grounds of Trump National Golf Club while taking photographs and videos and appearing to monitor security-planning activities. 

Deputies from the Lomita Sheriff’s Station responded around 3:30 p.m. and contacted Taele. During a pat-down, deputies allegedly recovered a 16-round magazine loaded with hollow-point ammunition from Taele’s pants pocket. 

Authorities then searched his vehicle, which was parked in the golf course parking lot, and recovered a loaded pistol with a round in the chamber, along with another loaded magazine containing hollow-point ammunition.

(Read more at Fox News)

So what is the most salient vactor here?

What had the most effect in causing this attempted crime:

  • Was is Democrat hate?
  • Was it media bias?
  • Was it California’s soft-on-crime policies?
  • Was it not having one more law forbidding scary-looking guns being owned by criminals like this?

However, having watched today’s press (aka the communcation branch of the Democrat party), what do we expect?

There are penty of times that I have watched a “news” broadcast and could be certain that the reporter on the scene of the assassination attempt would be happy to pick up the gun himself or herself.

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Media narrative control was on full display with the treatment of President Trump’s address

Red State goes throught the laundry list of things that the media absolutely controlled when it came to the treatment of President Trump’s second White House Correspondent’s Dinner.

Watching the press complex of our country clinging mightily to its grasp of our collective news narrative speaks oh so much. Back in the day, the limited number of news sources meant the cabal could dictate what it was we would consume — or have hidden — regarding the news cycles. Today, however, the news landscape is broader, and those fences controlling the flow of information have been trampled, like so many guardrails on January 6.

Today the big-name outlets are, for the most part, just that, in name only. Recognizable brands, but hardly our main sources of information. So to sit back and watch as they resort to their same methods is almost like witnessing animals in a zoo enclosure: We see some examples of them acting on base instinct in a desultory manner, but they are a shadow of the alpha predators taking down prey on the savannah.

When President Trump announced he would address the country Thursday evening, the first indicator of issues was reports on which networks would carry his address and those boldly announcing they would not. This was not an automatic controversy, as previous office holders have had, at various points in their terms, speeches and addresses that went unbroadcast.

It was the bold announcement of these decisions by the outlets that made it more of a story. At CNN, Brian Stelter came forward to declare that his cable outlet would refrain from airing the Trump speech, which is a curious decision on business grounds. Its primetime lineup is such that no show can even break 750,000 viewers on a given night. They NEED any infusion that would draw a crowd, yet here was the network whose highest-rated program barely cracks the top-40 of cable news shows.

But Stelter’s reason for CNN avoiding the speech was as ridiculous as you could imagine. It was done in the name of safety.

“Frankly, some network executives felt that it would be dangerous to just air Trump’s speech live, in full, unedited – without knowing what he was going to say ahead of time.”

(Read more and see two more tweets at Red State)

A few related tweets

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Listing the things Democrats still require government ID to obtain

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(For the list of things the Democrats will still use government ID on, go to the last heading and the first tweet.)

The Democrat double standard on the Mamdani grocery store, special deals at the Obama library, the Democrat National Convention, and more

Mamdani requires government ID (a library card) for his grocery store, but not elections

Fox News goes into dangerous territory by trying to expain the logic of Democrat Mayor Mmadani.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s game plan for government-run grocery stores faced criticism Monday after a city official told reporters a “library-card-esque system” may be employed to prevent abuse of the 30% discounted markets.

Mamdani took a question from a reporter who asked about preventing bulk purchases of groceries at the artificial discount from being re-sold at MSRP or higher.

The mayor responded that the government grocery Request-for-Proposal makes clear “this is a program for New Yorkers to be able to put food on the table, not a program for people to be able to make a quick buck through reselling. I’m going to pass it over to our EDC head, Jeanny Pak, to add some additional details.”

It was Pak’s follow-up that raised eyebrows, given Mamdani and many Democrats’ staunch opposition to voter ID and Republicans’ SAVE America Act moving through Congress.

“[W]e are looking to make sure that we target New Yorkers, whether it be a sort of a library card-esque thing, and also we manage who’s buying and that is focused on everyday New Yorkers,” Pak said.

“So, we are mindful of that, and so we’re going to make sure that we have all the things in place to ensure that that does not happen.”

When asked about the apparent divergence between Pak’s response referencing a possible ID card-type system and opposition to voter ID, a Mamdani spokesperson said it was an apples-to-oranges contrast.

“Comparisons to voter ID laws or the SAVE Act simply do not apply. This is not an identification system, nor is it a mechanism to verify who someone is, where they live, or how much they earn,” Mamdani’s spokesperson said.

“It is a practical inventory management tool to ensure affordable groceries remain available for the people who need them instead of being cleared off shelves for resale.”

(Read more at Fox News)

It’s true that you can get into the Obama library without government ID, but …

The Obama Presidential Center/Museum says that one only needs a government-issued photo ID to prove Illinois state residency for free Tuesday admission or ticket discounts, or to verify complimentary tickets. A general photo ID is not required for standard paid admission, entry to the outdoor campus, or to visit the public library branch. Furthermore, the physical Barack Obama Presidential Library is structured as a fully digital archive operated by the National Archives, meaning no physical building or ID is needed for online research (of course, this is a summary and not a direct quote — then I would have used a blockquote).

Doesn’t this seem discrimininitory against the Black and female Illinois citizens?

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The Democrat National Convention security detail requires photo ID to enter the DNC

The Washington Post pontificates on the hypocricy of the Democrat party as they forbid government ID’s to be used to secure our elections, but insist on using them to secure their out-of-control convention.

In many ways, attending the Democratic National Convention as a Republican is like stepping through a portal in time to the Democratic Party of old.

For example, I vividly recall a time when Democrats supported border fencing. In 2013, every Senate Democrat voted for a bill that required the construction of 700 miles of fencing along the southern border — until Donald Trump came along and lengthy border barriers became anathema for Democrats.

Well, guess what? Here in Chicago, Democrats are using miles of fencing to secure the border surrounding the United Center to keep anti-Israel protesters out. They’ve suddenly rediscovered that fences work! In fact, they’ve added additional layers of fencing after protesters succeed in breaching the first layer. If they were as efficient in securing the southern border as they are in securing their convention, border security might not be competing with the economy as the top issue for voters in the 2024 election.

The Democrats of old also used to support law enforcement and public safety. It was Joe Biden who authored the 1994 crime bill that put tens of thousands of additional police officers on the streets. But in 2020, many Democrats embraced the movement to “defund the police” — including Kamala Harris. “This whole movement is about rightly saying, we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities,” Harris said on a June 9, 2020, radio interview, adding that U.S. cities were “militarizing police.”

Well, guess who is securing the perimeter of the Democratic convention? The police! Democrats have brought in thousands of officers — many of them “militarized” — from Chicago and other cities to secure the convention site. People are boarding up shops in Chicago, but here inside the convention we are safe thanks to the thin blue line securing our perimeter. Thanks, Chicago PD!

I also recall a time when Democrats had no problem with voter ID. In the 1990s, they thought the best way to increase the number of voters was to have them register when they applied for driver’s licenses and state IDs, so Bill Clinton signed the 1993 “Motor Voter” law. In 2014, Clinton endorsed the idea of adding photos to Social Security cards to make it easier for minority voters who don’t have other forms of ID to vote.

But in 2022, Biden accused Republicans who oppose Democratic efforts to pass legislation that would eliminate state voter ID laws of standing with George Wallace, Bull Connor and Jefferson Davis. Well, guess what? Delegates can’t get into the Democratic National Convention to vote for their nominee without an ID. In fact, they need a special Secret Service photo ID just to get past the perimeter, and then more credentials to access the arena, and even more to reach the convention floor. So, Democrats think it’s fine to require ID for delegates to choose their nominee, but not for Americans to vote for president of the United States.

(Read more at the Washington Post)

Until the Republicans recently invoked a rule on trading, nothing stopped Nancy from inside trading

In fact, most of the laws that would put the rest of us in jail (like lying to Congress — as did Anthony Fauci — don’t apply to Republicans like Bannon, Navarro, you, or me).

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The Democrat lie on voter ID is so convoluted Democrats cannot keep it straight

PJ Media seems to slip into the netherworld between Democrats and the press, between darkness and light where lies don’t get acknowledged or reported until ratings require it.

Democrats have a voter ID problem, and it’s this: The American people overwhelmingly disagree with them. Polls have consistently shown a bipartisan majority of American support this commonsense election integrity measure, even as Democrats in Washington oppose it like their power depends on it.

Spoiler alert: It does.

So what’s a Democrat senator to do when confronted with that inconvenient fact on national television? If you’re Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), you just make something up and hope nobody notices. Unfortunately for Warner, somebody noticed. And that somebody was the guy interviewing him.

Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday to push back on President Trump’s Thursday night address, in which Trump said American elections have been compromised by foreign influence that the Deep State has kept hidden. Host Jon Karl steered the conversation to the SAVE America Act and its photo ID requirement, and that’s when things went sideways for the senator.

“Now, I understand that you and probably every Democrat oppose this so-called SAVE America Act, and there are a lot of reasons that you put forth. But, let me ask you – very narrowly – on the issue of photo ID. Requiring photo ID to register to vote, is this something Democrats should get behind?” Karl asked. “I mean, 80-something percent of Americans, 71 percent of Democrats, say they favor this.”

Warner obviously couldn’t defend his party’s position on the merits, so he reached for a talking point instead.

“You know what? In Virginia, we have voter ID and photo ID. I gotta show my –” Warner said, before Karl cut him off.

“That’s actually not the case,” Karl said. “I mean, I’m a Virginia voter. You don’t need to show a photo ID in Virginia. There are a wide range of things you can show for ID, and if you don’t show on of those, you can sign an affidavit.”

That’s right. A sitting U.S. senator from Virginia got fact-checked on Virginia’s own election law by his interviewer, live on air. Warner has represented the commonwealth in the Senate since 2009 and served as its governor before that, and Karl still knows the state’s voting rules better than he does.

A normal person caught flat-out lying might pause, maybe even admit the error. A Democrat, though? Not a chance. Warner plowed ahead instead. “You sign an affidavit and those become ballots that if you want to contest later can be contested,” Warner said.

Seriously? That’s the recovery? Karl had just explained that Virginia voters without ID can sign a piece of paper and cast a regular ballot, and Warner responded by suggesting that signing an affidavit is the same as a photo ID requirement.

It isn’t.

(Read the information from the Virginia Department of Elections at PJ Media for the last word)

To cap that off, there is the argument from Steve Scalise where he uses Olive Garden to illustrate the need for voter ID

Fox News quotes Representative Steve Scalise in his support of voter ID as Scalise cites the requirements of Olive Garden to access their $100 never-ending pasta promotion.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., is comparing the lack of a federal voter ID law to an identification requirement at one of America’s most well-known chain restaurants.

“If you want to go buy unlimited pasta at the Olive Garden, they said you have to show your ID,” Scalise told Fox News Digital in an interview earlier this week.

He also pointed out that the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) required attendees to show ID in order to enter the venue.

“Democrats are saying it somehow impedes people’s ability to participate, yet Democrats themselves wouldn’t even let you go to their convention without showing ID,” Scalise said. “I’m not against them having to require ID – but by the way, everybody understands it, and everybody gets it in polling. You know, if you’re Black, if you’re White, if you are Hispanic, if you’re Republican, or Democrat, or Independent, you understand that an ID makes sense because it protects your right to vote.”

He also listed boarding a plane and buying “a six-pack of beer” as situations where a photo ID was required as well.

“How about the franchise of American democracy? Let’s make sure you are who you say you are and illegals can’t vote in American elections,” Scalise said.

(Read more at Fox News)

And these are the tweets on the matter

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18 Senators call for a roll call vote on the SAVE America Act (it requires 11)

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On 27 July 2026, Senator Banks told us “Here are the 14 senators who support canceling recess over SAVE America Act”

Senator Jim Banks let us in on something the press has kept hidden: the list of 14 senators (now grown to 18) that want to have a roll call vote on the SAVE America Act.

Pressure is growing against Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to keep the upper chamber in session until it passes the SAVE America Act.

With just a handful of legislative days left until the Senate’s scheduled August recess, 14 senators have either called for the cancellation of recess or expressed support for staying in Washington until the GOP’s flagship voter ID and proof of citizenship bill is passed.

Led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Sens. Rick Scott (R-FL), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Jim Banks (R-IN), Ashley Moody (R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Roger Marshall (R-KS), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) have called to cancel recess.

Sens. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Todd Young (R-IN), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), and Dave McCormick (R-PA) have expressed support for staying in Washington.

A 15th GOP member, Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), has not directly called for the cancellation of the August recess but said in a statement that he was “committed to doing whatever it takes” to make sure the Senate votes on the legislation.

Lee, the sponsor of the SAVE America Act in the Senate, began a maelstrom over the weekend after he posted on X that he would “object to any effort to put the Senate into recess in August—at least until such time as the Senate has passed the SAVE America Act” and requested a roll call vote.

“Do not assume you have my consent,” Lee warned Thune. “You do not.”

“I stand with @basedmikelee,” Scott wrote on X. “I will vote to stay in session unless we have passed the SAVE America Act. The American people expect us to deliver. They deserve secure elections.”

The Senate typically adjourns through unanimous consent, but if Lee or another senator goes to the floor to object, they could force a roll call vote. However, it is not clear if a roll call vote would be successful, as a motion to delay the August recess would need at least 50 senators to support it.

When asked about calls to stay in session over the August recess, Thune told reporters that while he is “for anything that we can do to get the SAVE America Act passed,” staying in session was not going to change the fact that the legislation does not have enough Democratic support in the upper chamber to pass the filibuster.

“The question I always ask is, ‘What is your picture of victory at the end?’” Thune asked. “’What is the endgame here?’ And if, in fact, staying here for the month of August means that we assume, at some point, there are going to be 10 Democrats to cross over and vote for the SAVE America Act, I think we’d stay here till Christmas. That’s not going to happen.”

President Donald Trump has joined the chorus of Republicans pressing Thune to keep the Senate in session, saying the majority leader should not allow members to leave town until the SAVE America Act is passed.

The president also reupped his call to terminate the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to advance legislation in the upper chamber. Thune has repeatedly said there are not enough votes to do so.

(Read more at the press releases by Senator Jim Banks)

Bumping up the count

When the list grew to 15, the following tweet came out:

The next time I was able to check on it, the count had risen to 18:

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Never forget who said the Democrats would never win another election if the SAVE America Act passes

Elissa Slotkin says SAVE America Act would make it ‘hard for any Democrat’ to win an election

Fox News reports on the warning by Democrat Elissa Slotkin given in her June 6 address to Indiana’s state Democratic Party.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., said the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE) America Act would make it harder for Democrats to win elections, prompting Republicans to argue she had finally said “the quiet part out loud” about Democrats’ opposition to stricter election laws.

Slotkin made the remarks in a video recently unearthed by Breitbart News that was recorded the day after the Senate narrowly rejected the SAVE America Act in June. The bill failed 50-48 after four Republicans joined Democrats in voting against it.

The SAVE America Act has become one of the biggest legislative fights in Congress, and President Donald Trump has made its passage his top priority. Trump refused to sign a housing bill Friday to protest Congress’ failure to pass the SAVE America Act.

During a June 6 address to Indiana’s state Democratic Party, Slotkin celebrated the Senate’s rejection of the SAVE America Act, in which she claimed the bill would allow the Trump administration to “rig our democracy.”

“It would be hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election,” Slotkin said of the SAVE America Act.

Slotkin did not explain how the legislation would hurt Democratic politicians.

(Read more at Fox News)

 

What is the difference between Fauci’s contempt displayed this week and the contempt of Bannon and Navarro? Democrat support and Republican linguini spines.

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Fox News illustrates the Republican linguini spine by just naming the obstacle to indicting Fauci

Rand Paul’s contempt vote crusade could be doomed despite Fauci pleading Fifth 111 times

Fox News outlines a few of the reasons that Fauci will likely not be held in contempt of Congress.

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., will schedule a committee vote next week to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after invoking the Fifth Amendment 111 times today.

The committee could vote to hold Fauci in contempt. But it doesn’t stop there.

Contempt of Congress must go before the entire Senate. It takes a simple majority to hold someone in contempt. But such a resolution must clear one filibuster, requiring 60 yeas.

So, it’s doubtful Fauci is held in contempt.

Even if the Senate broke the filibuster, the Senate must approve a separate resolution to make a criminal referral to Department of Justice.

That would face at least one filibuster, again entailing 60 affirmative votes.

It is more common for the House to hold someone in contempt compared to the Senate. The Senate last successfully held someone in contempt in 1971.

(Read this and see the associated video at Fox News)

So we are to believe that what happened to Bannon and Navarro was impossible

I don’t know whether Fauci has been wisely investing the millions associated with his awards won during the COVID crisis by seeding those funds through the the Senate, but that might not be such a bad idea. I do remember a story of a crooked manager who (on learning he was about to be fired) used the resources of his boss to gain favor with those who could help him. Maybe Fauci stayed awake in church long enough to hear the first half of this one message (that is, the crooked part).

Although there seem to be many at Fox News who believe that Fauci will skate out of this fiasco that cost millions their lives, ruined many businesses, fouled up the education of a generation, and did this and more for essentially a bad case of the flu or a cold (another strain of the COVID virus).

Truthfully, this seems as contrived as the flowers that suddenly showed up after the marathon 111 times he pled the fifth.

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Experts say President autopen’s pardon may not protect Fauci. Nonetheless, Fauci walks away free

Again, Fox News seems to come to the aid of Dr. Faci by pointing out why Fauci will likely walk free.

Dr. Anthony Fauci‘s refusal to answer more than 100 questions during Wednesday’s fiery Senate hearing has sparked a legal showdown over whether a witness granted a sweeping presidential pardon can still invoke the Fifth Amendment.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced after the hearing that he plans to pursue contempt proceedings against Fauci following the repeated invocations of the Fifth Amendment and his refusal to answer lawmakers’ questions.

“We’re going to have a vote next week on contempt,” Paul said. “I think there’s another legal question that the courts may have to decide upon, and that is whether or not a presidential pardon offers you complete immunity.”

Former President Joe Biden issued Fauci, who served as the chief architect for the government’s COVID-19 guidelines, a full and unconditional pardon for all actions taken between Jan. 1, 2014, and Jan. 19, 2025. Biden’s broad pardon protected Fauci from prosecution for the actions being investigated by the committee, leaving only the possibility of charges if he lied under oath.

Abhishek Kambli, a former Justice Department official who now represents former Trump advisor Peter Navarro in his contempt of Congress case, told Fox News Digital that the issue presents a novel legal question about whether Fauci can invoke the Fifth Amendment at all.

“Obviously, if he tells the truth, then he would be protected by that blanket pardon, since the past conduct that he reveals he’s fully immunized from,” Kambli told Fox News Digital.

Kambli questioned whether the Fifth Amendment privilege properly applies if truthful testimony could no longer expose Fauci to prosecution for the underlying conduct.

“His theory is that it’s a witch hunt and that they’re looking for perjury traps to charge him with, so that’s why he needs to invoke the Fifth Amendment,” Kambli said.

But Kambli said the argument becomes more difficult to sustain if lawmakers are asking straightforward factual questions.

“I think it gets a little problematic,” Kambli said of Fauci invoking the Fifth Amendment for common knowledge questions like what day of the week it is.

“If it’s just factual questions that he should know the answer on, it’s hard to see how he would walk into a perjury trap if he’s just telling the truth, because perjury also requires that you knowingly made a false statement,” Kambli said. “If he had an incorrect recollection, that was an innocent mistake that typically wouldn’t lead to a perjury charge.”

Kambli said federal law distinguishes between witnesses who ignore a congressional subpoena and those who appear before Congress but refuse to answer questions. In the latter case, he said, prosecutors generally do not have to prove the witness intentionally violated the law. Instead, the central question is whether the witness had a valid legal basis for refusing to answer, such as a legitimate claim under the Fifth Amendment.

“The issue is [the witness] is already protected if he tells the truth, and it’s only if he knowingly lies about something material that he can be charged,” Kambli said. “So the issue becomes whether the Senate can make a referral to DOJ based on that.”

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said the legal issues surrounding Fauci’s testimony are more complicated than either side suggests.

“The only risk that he faced would come from any false statements that he made in the hearing in dealing with these questions,” Turley told Fox News Digital. “That would likely be viewed as sufficient, particularly since some questions could extend to statements and conduct from after the pardon grant.”

(Read more at Fox News)

We are told to follow the lead of God when seeking human leadership

In Hosea 8:4, we are shown the ill results of picking leaders without considering God. Maybe the same might apply with picking “experts.”

Obviously, there are differences between what Fauci has testified in the past and his written records in his diary

Although there are differences between his testamony before Congress and other written records (like his diary), those conflicts likely would be taken care of by the pardon by President auto-pen.

Therefore, why not just open up? Are there that meny more scandals being hidden by Fauci? Could this end up being worse than the Epstein scandal?

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Anthony Fauci, the “Covid Czar,”” ticked off the wrong moms

The Federalist tells quite a different tale in regard to the lying and subterfuge of Dr. Anthony Fauci.

n the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.” 

Narcissistic “Covid czar” Dr. Anthony Fauci sounded more machine than man during his tense appearance Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. With each “respectfully decline” — Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times — you could sense the blood boiling in committee chairman Rand Paul’s veins. The Kentucky Republican’s committee colleagues on the right appeared to grow more and more incensed.

Understandably so.

Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), spent the Covid years making love to his ego and the omnipresent cameras, his diary informs us. He was the “expert” who demanded Americans “follow the science” and then lied about the science. Again and again. 

Fauci lied. People died. 

Six years. For six long years Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, had waited for this moment. His chance to ask Fauci the question so many of his fellow Americans have wanted to ask. Moreno asked it. Profanely, but he asked it nonetheless. 

“It was about six years ago today that I decided ‘I’m going to give up my businesses, sell them all, run for office, run for the United States Senate,’” the first-term senator told the old NIAID director, at one time the highest-paid employee in the federal government.  

“Here I am sitting in front of you six years later saying, ‘Who the f–k do you think you were for doing that?’”

Tiffany Justice reveled in that moment, in that question. 

“I think the senators were channeling the anger of the American people,” she told me Thursday in an interview on the Dan O’Donnell Show.

Fauci and his bureaucratic friends turned the Florida mother of four into a warrior for parental rights. 

Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, took her frustration over draconian Covid mitigation policies and transformed it into a national movement that had grown to more than 300 chapters with 130,000 members in 48 states by 2024 — just three years after launching. 

“Six years ago Moms for Liberty was started because of the COVID lockdowns and the draconian mandates that were put on our children, and parents said, ‘We’re not having this. We raise our children, the government doesn’t,’” she said.

‘I Tell Him Yes’

In later winter 2020, the 44 “unusual” cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, China that Fauci noted in a Jan. 3 diary entry was exploding into a full-blown pandemic. Unelected public health officers began directing governors and school districts to close schools and roll out “remote learning” plans. 

The lockdown era had begun. 

Some six years later, the consequences of those sweeping decisions are stark — a generation of kids in so many ways left behind. 

While Fauci has repeatedly denied he played a part in shutting down public schools, he sure sounded proud of his influence over decision makers in the pages of his diary. 

March 9, 2020: Gov. Cuomo calls me up and asks my advice on whether to close schools in the orthodox Jewish section of Westchester where they have 90 cases (more than rest of NYC). I tell him yes. He also asks about closing subways. I tell him not yet, but let us stay tuned.

(continued)

“If you are elderly, self-isolate; do not congregate in groups >10 people; stay away from bars, restaurants, theaters, sporting events; if a community has community spread CLOSE the bars, restaurants and places of congregation; close schools where there is community spread; no visitors to nursing homes; if family member is sick, others in family should take extra percautions [sic]; only necessary travel, telework as much as possible.”

‘They Have Thrown Everything at Us’

By April, some Americans — including respected members of the scientific community — were speaking out against the lockdowns, the loss of individual liberties, and the power grabs by government officials. The skeptical quickly became a nuisance to Fauci and friends. Not long after, questioning the “experts” led to a Big Tech/Big Government censorship campaign.

Moms for Liberty was a big target of central planning. Justice said members were harassed, threatened, spied on, and doxxed. 

“They have thrown everything at us,” she said. “I’ve gotten death threats at home. The devil was writing me every week from Denver for a while.” 

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice went after dissenters, treating frustrated and concerned parents like terrorists. 

“In one investigation, an FBI Field Office interviewed a mom for allegedly telling a local school board ‘we are coming for you.’ The complaint, which came into the FBI through the National Threat Operations Center snitch-line, alleged that the mom was a threat because she belonged to a ‘right wing mom’s group’ known as ‘Moms for Liberty’ and because she is a gun owner,’” asserts a 2022 report on the “Politicization of the FBI and Justice Department.” It was prepared by Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee and included whistleblower accounts.

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‘A Chance to Save This Country’

Justice remains hopeful that Fauci will ultimately be held accountable. She’s optimistic by nature, joking that she makes “Covid lemonade” every day. As strange as it may sound, Justice believes, in many ways, Covid was a “blessing.”

The pandemic opened a lot of eyes to what big government was doing to Americans and their rights. It forged an army of parents who got to see the curtain pulled back on their children’s DEI schools of indoctrination. It forced moms and dads to stand up and speak out for their children and for their country. It woke a lot of people up to the abuses of the Covid Czar and his battalion of “experts” who used the pandemic to pursue political ends.

“Covid, I believe, gave us a chance to save this country and we’re not going to waste a minute,” Justice said.

(Read at The Federalist for the line that pulls this all together)

Note how Democrats defended Fauci to the hilt. The points made in this aticle are the reasons to oppose Democrats

The autocratic lockdowns. The police patroling for COVID violators and not criminals. The loss of freedoms — even supposedly protected freedoms.

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On the other side, Democrats had no problem sending Bannon and Navarro to prison for not cooperating with the January 6 Commission

Steve Bannon reports to prison for contempt of Congress sentence

ABC News gleefully details the imprisonment of Steve Bannon due to his refusal to comply with the January 6 Commission.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon surrendered on Monday to law enforcement to begin his four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress.

He entered the Federal Correctional Institute Danbury, in Danbury, Connecticut, shortly before noon to begin serving his sentence.

The Supreme Court had on Friday denied Bannon’s request to remain out of prison during the appeals process after he filed an emergency appeal on Friday with the high court.

Bannon was sentenced to four months in October 2022 after he was found guilty of defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Speaking to supporters before he entered the Danbury facility, Bannon said he was proud to begin his sentence.

“I am proud to go to prison,” Bannon said. “If this is what it takes the stand up to tyranny, if this way it takes the stand up to the Garland corrupt criminal DOJ, if this is what it takes to stand up to Nancy Pelosi, if this is what it takes to stand up to Joe Biden, I’m proud to do it. “

Bannon, who was joined by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican Senate candidate Royce White, former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, and a priest, spoke as supporters and counter protesters shouted over each other.

(Read more liberal bilge at ABC News)

Do you want to talk about fascism?

The bundle of rights taken away by the January 6 Commission was a prime example of fascism.

Heil Pelosi.

Heil Cheney.

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DC Circuit upholds Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s contempt conviction

Courthouse News takes a little more toned down approach to their description of the imprisonment of Peter Navarro for his lack of cooperation with the January 6 Commission.

A D.C. Circuit panel ruled on Tuesday that Peter Navarro, a senior trade adviser to President Donald Trump, cannot vacate his criminal conviction for his refusal to provide documents or testimony before a special House committee investigating his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

The three-judge panel rejected Navarro’s argument that Trump had invoked executive privilege for him and that he did not have to appear before the committee at all, let alone invoke the privilege.

U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett, a Barack Obama appointee, wrote the court’s opinion and was joined by U.S. Circuit Judges Cornelia Pillard and Michelle Childs, an Obama and Joe Biden appointee, respectively.

Millett noted that Navarro had been subjected to subpoenas before where Trump or a designee had explicitly invoked the privilege — which is meant to encourage free and open communication between the president and his advisers — and thus should have known it did not apply in this case.

“The district court correctly concluded that Navarro first asserted executive privilege unilaterally without consulting with or receiving direction from President Trump,” Millett wrote. “Navarro, in fact, asserted executive privilege within three minutes of learning that the Select Committee intended to subpoena him and before he had even seen the subpoena’s content. Navarro also concedes that he did not communicate with President Trump or anyone close to President Trump during those three minutes.”

Navarro spent four months in prison last summer after a jury convicted him on two counts of contempt of Congress in 2023, which he recently published a memoir about titled “I Went to Prison so You Won’t Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land.”

The committee subpoenaed Navarro in early 2022, identifying him as one of the “political forces” behind the attack and accusing him of peddling false claims of widespread voter fraud.

The committee wanted Navarro’s testimony regarding his role in crafting the “Green Bay Sweep,” a scheme to use Trump loyalists in the House and Senate to decertify swing states’ 2020 election results to hand Trump the election. Navarro had described the scheme in a 2021 memoir titled “In Trump Time: My Journal of America’s Plague Year.”

Navarro received an email from the special committee in which former senior investigative counsel Dan George asked whether he could send the subpoena via email and whether Navarro had an attorney.

“Yes. No counsel. Executive privilege,” Navarro responded within three minutes.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Navarro to four months in prison after barring Navarro from using his executive privilege claims as a defense at a bench trial.

(Read more at Courthouse News)

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6,600 noncitizens does not even scratch the surface of what was found

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New Jersey governor says with a straight face: “6,600 noncitizens were registered to vote because of a ‘software error,'”

NBC News does its best impression of balanced reporting as it touches every Democrat talking point regarding the illegal aliens included on New Jersey voter rolls.

Roughly 6,600 noncitizens were unwittingly registered to vote in New Jersey from 2023 to 2024, Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Tuesday.

Roughly 400 of them improperly cast votes, she said.

“They were registered as Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state,” said Sherrill, a Democrat. She added that it is unclear which elections they voted in and said there was “no evidence at this time that any elections were swayed” as a result.

Sherrill said that the names are being removed from the voter rolls and that the noncitizens had been registered through no fault of their own because of “a serious software error in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System” from June 2023 to June 2024.

“These individuals answered ‘no’ when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for drivers’ licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway,” Sherrill said.

While the number of noncitizens who voted in New Jersey is a tiny percentage of the state’s overall electorate, the finding could add fuel to President Donald Trump’s claims that they are voting in large numbers in U.S. elections. He used a primetime speech from the White House last week to push Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, which would impose new photo ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements to vote.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement that the New Jersey incident “underscores the absolute necessity of the SAVE America Act.”

“Democrats and their media allies have repeatedly said it is impossible for noncitizens to register to vote, let alone cast a ballot. Time and again, they have been proven wrong,” Jackson said.

Sherrill said in a statement that “Donald Trump has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity.” While his administration “tries to weaponize elections for political gain,” she said, “I am ensuring we protect our elections.”

Later on Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in a letter posted to X that the Justice Department is investigating the incident. It’s asking for the full names, dates of birth, nationalities, addresses, and registration dates of all 6,600 noncitizens, and for the 400 people who Sherrill says voted in past elections, including when and where they voted.

(Read more liberal bilge at NBC News)

Registering noncitizens to vote in NJ not our error, contractor says

USA Today notes how IDEMA (the company contracted to create the driver license system in New Jersey) counters the accusations by New Jersey governor Sherrill by saying “There was no glitch or software error.”

A firm that handles New Jersey’s driver’s licenses denies responsibility for 6,600 noncitizens ending up in the pipeline to voter registration, a company spokesperson told USA TODAY.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced July 21 that as many as 6,600 non-U.S. citizens registered to vote in New Jersey in 2023 and 2024 because of a software flaw. Fewer than 400 of them cast ballots, she said. Sherrill said she first learned of the problem in July, ordered the noncitizens removed from the rolls and called for an investigation into why the administration of her predecessor Phil Murphy, a fellow Democrat, didn’t tell the public about it.

“It’s unacceptable that the vendor released software with such a glaring error,” Sherrill said of the contractor, IDEMIA, which has worked for New Jersey for four decades.

But IDEMIA spokeswoman Lisa Shoemaker told USA TODAY on July 23 that “the characterization that a glitch occurred is not accurate.”

”There was no glitch or software error,” said Shoemaker, whose company also handles a wide array of federal contracts, including TSA Pre-Check at airports and “biometric and secure identity solutions” at the Pentagon.

The dispute has cropped up amid a national fight over noncitizen voting, with supporters of President Donald Trump saying the state allowing hundreds of noncitizens to vote was proof that Democrats cheat on elections and that Congress needs to pass Trump’s SAVE Act election integrity legislation.

On July 24, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-New Jersey, led 18 of his Republican colleagues in the House in demanding answers from Sherrill.

“Republicans have been sounding the alarm for years about weaknesses in voter-registration systems, inadequate voter-roll maintenance, and the danger that noncitizens may be registered and permitted to vote in national elections, which is illegal under federal law,” Van Drew wrote. “These concerns have too often been dismissed as exaggerated or unfounded. New Jersey’s admission demonstrates that these vulnerabilities are real and that even a system supposedly designed to screen out ineligible applicants can fail on a massive scale.”

Democrats deny these allegations and say Trump supporters have offered no proof that anyone intentionally allowed noncitizens to register or vote.

(Read more at USA Today)

It seems to me that Democrats like Hillary Clinton have been getting into the public forum and claiming the 2016 election was stolen

Since Hillary Clinton has teen gettin on public venues friendly to her (like The View, Good Morning America, and just about any news show that would have her) to proclaim that the 2016 election was stolen from her — these suggestions that Democrats “deny allegations” of inadequate election integrity are limited only to the current moment.

The noncitizen voter mystery: New Trump numbers raise more questions than answers

Vote Beat and President Trump counter New Jersey governor Sherrill by suggesting that the numbers are actually much higher.

The polarizing debate over noncitizen voters escalated last week when New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced that an apparent software glitch had led to the unintended registration of 6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024, 400 of whom voted in recent elections.

In a hastily called press conference, Sherrill placed the blame on her predecessor, fellow Democrat Phil Murphy, and said she was taking immediate steps to fix the problems.

Sherrill’s 20-minute briefing raised as many questions as it provided answers. How did a software glitch at the state’s motor vehicles agency lead to adding people who said they weren’t citizens to the state’s voter rolls? Who discovered the problem back in 2024? Why didn’t state officials alert the public when they first learned about the mistake? And what did state officials do about the people who were improperly registered at the time?

Sherrill, who took office in January and said she learned about the problems the week of July 13, said she’s ordered an independent investigation. That’s not good enough for Republicans in Washington and Trenton.

The U.S. Department of Justice is demanding that New Jersey hand over the names of the 6,600 people by Tuesday. New Jersey Republicans question Sherrill’s software glitch explanation and are calling for a legislative investigation.

The New Jersey issue isn’t coming in a vacuum. President Donald Trump has long argued that ineligible noncitizen voters cost him the 2020 election, though no evidence has emerged to support that. His second administration has been focused on rooting out any noncitizen voting, and his top legislative priority is election legislation that he says will block it.

In a televised primetime speech on July 17, Trump said his administration had found 250,000 noncitizen voters on the voter rolls of four states: New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania, and Nevada.

Officials in all four states pushed back on Trump’s claims, and said they didn’t understand how the administration arrived at those numbers.

Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar called the numbers “wildly speculative.” Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt said that “all evidence has shown that noncitizen voting is extremely rare across the country.” Even in New Jersey, the 6,600 noncitizen voters discovered by the state did not come close to the 35,152 that the Trump administration claimed to have found in the state. “Do I think that the latest round that he has put out is in some way an attempt to undermine our elections in this country? Yes I do,” Sherrill said at her press conference.

(Read more at Vote Beat)

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Scott Presler says two Pennsylvania counties have non-citizen registered voters

PJ Media likewise quotes a Republican source who says that illegal alien voters have been registered in another Democrat stronghold: Pennsylvania.

For years, Americans concerned about election integrity have pointed out that illegal aliens could potentially vote in our elections. Just in the last couple of weeks, there has been an explosion of new information illustrating not only that this concern was well-founded, but also pointing toward a much greater problem than anyone realized.

Election integrity and get-out-the-vote warrior Scott Presler has been fighting with multiple Pennsylvania counties to obtain their registered voter lists so he could check if any of the names on the rolls belong to non-citizens. After obtaining the lists from two of the counties, he made the following announcement Wednesday:

This accusation comes almost immediately after New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill confessed that there were at least 6,600 non-citizens on her state’s voter rolls and that around 400 of them had voted in an election. The Trump administration’s estimate of non-citizens registered in New Jersey is much higher, at around 35,000. Altogether, the Department of Justice has already identified almost 300,000 non-citizens registered to vote across a handful of states. This is a gigantic issue, the extent of which Democrats are desperate to cover up.

Presler’s announcement also comes a few days after President Donald Trump declassified many documents related to foreign and domestic interference in our elections. This included a China-orchestrated fraudulent ballot scheme to help Joe Biden, foreign-paid propaganda against Trump, stolen voter data, and ballot stuffing.

In fact, the non-citizen voters Presler found in Indiana and Dauphin Counties, Pa., are only the beginning. He is already calling for voter data from another county in Pennsylvania. In Pa., state elections keep going to Democrats even though Donald Trump won it in 2024. “Delaware County, PA, is letting us see the non-juror list. They want an in-person inspection, so they will get an in-person inspection. Peacefully,” Presler posted July 22.

(Read more and see another tweet at PJ Media)

This comes with a hat tip to Balladeer.

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Democrats start indicating the extent of the problem

On CNN, Hakeem Jeffries pivots from “it never happens” to “it’s a minor challenge” that illegal aliens vote

The Daily Caller quotes Hakeem Jeffries as he pivots (on camera) from the original talking point that illegal alien voting was not happening to “it’s a minor challenge.”

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries pivoted to attacking President Donald Trump when confronted over a recent report that New Jersey has thousands of registered illegal alien voters on its rolls and that hundreds of them voted in elections.

CNN’s Dana Bash pressed Jeffries on “one of the most significant disclosures of non-citizen registration” during “State of the Union” on Sunday.

Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill disclosed the error last week, claiming the state discovered that a “serious software error” registered “roughly 6,600 [noncitizens]” as voters between June 2023 and June 2024. The governor’s office also claimed “fewer than 400” of the thousands of registered illegal aliens voted. She blamed the error on the administration of her immediate predecessor, Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, and said the illegal voter registrations are being removed.

“Democrats have repeatedly said that non-citizen voting doesn’t happen. It happened. Is this a problem?” Bash asked Jeffries.

“I think that I continue to have confidence in state and local authorities in making sure that there’s going to be a free and fair election in November,” he replied, “and, if modest or minor challenges emerge, such as the one that was disclosed voluntarily by the authorities in New Jersey, that it is immediately corrected. And that’s what I expect will continue to happen.”

Jeffries then quickly turned the exchange toward the president and congressional Republicans.

“Unfortunately, what we have seen from Donald Trump is that, in this particular case, Republicans have adopted voter suppression as an electoral strategy because they have failed to actually deliver on making life more affordable for the American people,” Jeffries said.

WATCH:

(Read how and see how Democrat Kaine tried to patch this up at the Daily Caller)

Anyone but a political hack of a reporter would have gone after Jeffries

When we get an unbiased press, then maybe they will go after lying Democrats with the furious zeal that they go after anyone who violates climate change dogma.

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Even the “experts” start asking questions

As noncitizens continue to populate voter rolls, experts wonder if it’s a “glitch”

The Washington Stand argues how the incidents in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California show less evidence of being “glitches” and more evidence of being “features.”

After reports emerged Tuesday that hundreds of noncitizens illegally voted in elections and thousands more were improperly registered to vote in New Jersey, experts say that Democratic officials in the state are continuing an alarming pattern of nationwide apathy and purposeful negligence in the Democratic Party toward securing voter rolls and maintaining election integrity.

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill (D) acknowledged Tuesday that 6,600 noncitizens were improperly allowed to register to vote at Motor Vehicle Commission locations in the state. The governor further stated that “fewer than 400” of those individuals actually voted in elections.

Sherrill immediately blamed her predecessor, Democratic Governor Phil Murphy, for allowing the registrations to occur and stated that she was “appalled by the reckless failures that allowed this to happen.” She further blamed the state’s software vendor that handles the registrations, saying that she will replace the vendor and has ordered the removal of names that were improperly registered to vote.

But on Wednesday, the French technology firm IDEMIA that handled the registrations pushed back against Sherrill’s claim, stating that the supposed “glitch” that allowed the noncitizens to appear on voter rolls was not due to incorrect information. “The 6,600 records submitted to the [Motor Vehicle Commission] and Division of Elections contained correct information according to the design specifications as set out by the state,” IDEMIA spokesperson Lisa Shoemaker told the New York Post. She went on to note that “at no point was a noncitizen ever marked as a citizen in the database” and that the company “does not control or manage voter enrollment.”

Experts like J. Christian Adams, who serves as president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, say that noncitizens being included on voter rolls is a multi-state problem that has been occurring for some time because of a simple loophole that has yet to be resolved.

“When you register to vote at motor voter sites like DMV … oftentimes, people want to hurry, and they hit the screen — they hit ‘Yes,’ they hit ‘No.’ But there’s a big question. It says, ‘Are you a U.S. citizen?’ What happened in New Jersey was people were marking, ‘No, I’m not a U.S. citizen,’ but New Jersey is still putting them on the voter rolls,” he explained during “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” Wednesday. “… The exact same thing happened in Pennsylvania. We uncovered this a decade ago. Pennsylvania admitted to it.”

The issue has the full attention of the Trump administration. Last week, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin sent a letter to the secretaries of state in four states warning them that tens of thousands of noncitizens are improperly registered on their voter rolls. “Through preliminary reviews of the four states’ records, DHS found that there may be as many as: 190,832 non-citizens registered to vote in California[;] 35,152 non-citizens registered to vote in New Jersey[;] 15,903 non-citizens registered to vote in Nevada[; and] 14,576 non-citizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania,” a press release stated. Mullin called on the secretaries to respond within two weeks to address the issue.

Despite the irrefutable data, many Democratic officials like Sherrill are insisting that illegitimate voter registrations are a minor issue that does not affect the outcome of elections. In an apparent effort to downplay the issue, she stated that the noncitizens in New Jersey were registered as Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated and were “scattered across the state.”

But as Family Research Council President Tony Perkins pointed out, “[T]here [are] at least 10 New Jersey elections that have been decided by 25 votes or fewer since June of 2023.”

“[S]ome New Jersey votes were tied,” Adams added. “The Public Interest Legal Foundation has a tied election database [with] almost 900 elections around the country that ended in a tie. So it really matters. Look, this is a retreat position that the governor is using now, because before this was discovered, it was like, ‘There’s no problem with noncitizens on the voter rolls.’ It’s what always happens here. The Left always has to keep retreating and com[ing] up with a new story. And now the new story is, ‘Oh, well, we don’t think it made a difference.’ Yeah, okay. In another era, everybody would be mad about 6,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls. They wouldn’t be making excuses, they’d be making fixes.”

Adams went on to highlight how Democratic officials in states like Pennsylvania have attempted to cover up the fact that noncitizens have been showing up on their voter rolls. “In Pennsylvania, the Public Interest Legal Foundation had to sue Pennsylvania because they admitted they had tens of thousands of noncitizens because of the same exact sort of glitch. And Pennsylvania played hide the ball. Pennsylvania didn’t want to come clean about what they did to cause the problem, what they did to fix the problem. And really, nobody has ever [been] held accountable in Harrisburg. Now it’s Trenton, now it’s New Jersey.”

Adams further argued that the ineptitude “doesn’t mean it’s a conspiracy, but it’s something we all ought to want to fix. … What’s happening instead is incompetence, glitches, stupidity, government bureaucrats, apathy.”

(Read the counterpoint at the Washington Stand)

When I looked on Twitter (X) for “noncitizens registered,” this is what I got

Yes, there is a little of overlap in thse tweets. However, since the press harps on singular stories for weeks, I am sure it can be overlooked.

To quote the tweet below:

Mexican American makes a very good point.

He says he’s notices a very obvious loophole in the Democrat narrative.

“I don’t get how these Democrats say that Republicans and ICE want all the Mexicans out. When you watch these videos of ICE detaining an illegal immigrant that’s Mexican — Why don’t they grab 50 to 100 people that are Mexicans standing around recording? I’ll tell you why. Because they’re not hunting down all Mexicans. They’re not trying to get rid of all the Mexicans”

He makes the very good point that all of these viral videos of ICE detaining people are always in massive crowds. There are hundreds of Mexicans standing around filming

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Democrats have been bankrupt in many ways … Part 2

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In addition to the DNC having to mortgage their headquarters, don’t forget about ActBlue’s problems

Don’t forget the House had to subpoena records from the ex-ActBlue legal firm that authored memo on alerted us to the alleged foreign donations

The New York Post listed the ways that ActBlue has been accused of funneling foreign monies into Democrat coffers illegally.

House Republican committee chairmen are demanding records from a law firm that formerly worked on behalf of ActBlue but was fired and then allegedly “smeared” by the Democratic fundraising platform for sounding the alarm about potentially foreign donations flowing to campaigns.

In a Thursday letter, House GOP chairmen on of the Administration, Judiciary and Oversight Committees wrote to Covington & Burling partner Dana Remus to request documents and communications “referring or relating to the potential or actual use of ActBlue to make fraudulent or illegal political contributions.”

“We have received the letter, and the firm is reviewing it,” a Covington & Burling spokesperson told The Post.

Remus’ firm issued a memo to ActBlue in early 2025 that warned the fundraising platform’s shifting fraud standards “be alleged that ActBlue accepted and/or facilitated the acceptance of foreign-national contributions into American elections,” in violation of federal law, according to The New York Times.

“After you delivered these warnings, ActBlue reportedly ‘terminated’ its relationship with you and smeared you publicly,” the letter stated.

“Because you have firsthand information about ActBlue’s response to allegations of pervasive fraud on its platform, the Committees write to request your voluntary cooperation with our oversight efforts.”

Federal law prohibits non-citizens from donating to election campaigns.

(Read more at the New York Post)

Without these billions coming in, the politicians who complain about billionaires will be out of money

No wonder that they had to mortgage their headquarters to pay for the campaigns of socialists.

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Remember Hur let Biden off due to his assessment that Biden was an “elderly man with a poor memory?”

“I just found all the classified stuff downstairs,” Biden tells ghostwriter in recording

The BBC shines some light on the decision by a federal judge to disallow Biden from hiding how he knew the documents attained while he was Senator Biden held classified information (which, as senator, he could not declassify).

Audio recordings that Joe Biden fought for years to keep private – in which he acknowledges possessing classified material after leaving office as US vice-president – have been released by Republicans in Congress.

The tapes contain interviews between Biden, now 83, and a ghostwriter working on his 2017 memoir, which was titled Promise Me, Dad.

“I just found all the classified stuff downstairs,” Biden is heard saying at one point in the audio, recorded in February 2017, a month after he left the White House.

A US Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel found in 2024 that Biden had improperly retained records but did not recommend charging him.

House Republicans and a conservative nonprofit, the Oversight Project, sued for the tapes as part of that probe into Biden’s handling of the records.

Responding to the release of the tapes, Biden’s spokesman TJ Ducklo criticised the direction of the justice department under President Donald Trump – saying the move was “just the latest example of this Administration weaponizing the DOJ for political retribution”.

“It’s wrong, and while President Biden disagrees with today’s decision, he also respects the courts and the vital role an independent judiciary plays in a healthy democracy,” Ducklo added.

The audio was recorded during the drafting of the 2017 memoir that Biden penned with co-writer Mark Zwonitzer.</p

At one point in the more than two hours of tapes released on Monday, Biden tells the ghostwriter: “The next thing I have here is, um, this is classified.”

In an October 2016 recording, he tells Zwonitzer: “I have extensive notes over this period of time… They [the White House] didn’t know I have this.”

At the time, Biden was still serving as vice-president to Barack Obama.

During Biden’s tenure as president from 2021-25, the justice department declined to release the audio tapes.

In May, his personal lawyers sued the justice department in an effort to keep the tapes private, but after legal defeats they dropped their lawsuit.

The recordings contain significant redactions, which Republicans on the House Oversight Committee say “are intended to cover [Biden’s] disclosure of classified information”.

The recordings and transcripts were obtained by Special Counsel Robert Hur during his investigation in 2024 into Biden’s handling of classified documents.

(Read more at the BBC)

From this, it becomes evident that Joe knew he was violating the law

From the lips of Biden:

Also evident from these tapes, taken when Biden was still VP Biden, of his mental decline

If you listen to the full tapes, the number of times that he cannot remember the names of his staff (or other minor details of then-recent events) becomes painful. Therefore, it is evident that he was in mental decline in 2017. That says nothing of 2020 when the Democrats and the press insisted that he was as sharp as ever.

This makes three things evident to me:

  • Biden knew that he was holding classified documents that he took as a senator or VP (and, thus, had no declassification rights). He should be prosecuted (especially since he took the step of raiding the home of President Trump for classified documents — and Trump did have the right to classify and declassify documents).
  • Any party who foisted Biden on us (whether it was Kamala or Joe Scarborough) needs to be taken out of the public conversation.
  • If we allow the Democrats to excuse Biden for this crime due to his mental incapacitty, then some sort of balancing of the scales needs to be done for the conservative side. Furthermore, due to the severity of this overall deception, this cannot be a one-time correction.

Maybe we should go back to the obvious bias built into the Hur report

Maybe now would be a good time to review the assumptions of the Hur report.

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Do you remember being locked away from elderly loved ones as they died in COVID wards?

Do you remember how Biden shut down accounts of those who spoke out againsts his jab?

Then there were the Democrats who danced on the graves of the dead

Do you remember the Biden-Harris open borders?

Those who doubted a vaccine that had no testing have now been vindicated

Stanford Medicine study shows why mRNA COVID-19 vaccine can cause myocarditis

Stanford Medicine News Center outlined the deleterious effects of the jab on the heart, telling us how this “vaccine” got our immune system to attack healthy tissue.

COVID-19 — and, less frequently, the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine — can cause inflamed heart tissue in some people. A new study implicates a pair of substances secreted by immune cells and proposes a strategy to mitigate the vaccine effect.

Stanford Medicine investigators have unearthed the biological process by which mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 can cause heart damage in some young men and adolescents — and they’ve shown a possible route to reducing its likelihood.

Using advanced but now common lab technologies, along with published data from vaccinated individuals, the researchers identified a two-step sequence in which these vaccines activate a certain type of immune cell, in turn riling up another type of immune cell. The resulting inflammatory activity directly injures heart muscle cells, while triggering further inflammatory damage.

The mRNA vaccines for COVID-19, which have now been administered several billion times, have been heavily scrutinized for safety and have been shown to be extremely safe, said Joseph Wu, MD, PhD, the director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute.

“The mRNA vaccines have done a tremendous job mitigating the COVID pandemic,” said Wu, the Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor and a professor of medicine and of radiology. “Without these vaccines, more people would have gotten sick, more people would have had severe effects and more people would have died.”

mRNA vaccines are viewed as a breakthrough because they can be produced quickly enough to keep up with sudden microbial strain changes and they can be rapidly adapted to fight widely divergent types of pathogens. But, as with all vaccines, not everyone who gets the shot experiences a purely benign reaction.

One rare but real risk of the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines is myocarditis, or inflammation of heart tissue. Symptoms — chest pain, shortness of breath, fever and palpitations — appear in the absence of any viral infection. And they happen quickly: within one to three days after a shot. Most of those affected have high blood levels of a substance called cardiac troponin, a well-established clinical indicator of heart-muscle injury. (Cardiac troponin is normally found exclusively in the heart muscle. When found circulating in blood, it indicates damage to heart muscle cells.)

Vaccine-associated myocarditis occurs in about one in every 140,000 vaccinees after a first dose and rises to one in 32,000 after a second dose. For reasons that aren’t clear, incidence peaks among male vaccinees age 30 or below, at one in 16,750 vaccinees.

Fortunately, most of these cases end well, Wu said, with full heart function retained or restored.  Recovery is typically swift.

“It’s not a heart attack in the traditional sense,” he said. “There’s no blockage of blood vessels as found in most common heart attacks. When symptoms are mild and the inflammation hasn’t caused structural damage to the heart, we just observe these patients to make sure they recover.”

However, Wu noted, if the inflammation is severe the resulting heart injury can be quite debilitating, leading to hospitalizations; ICU admissions for critically ill patients; and deaths, albeit rarely.

COVID-19 is worse

“But COVID’s worse,” he added. A case of COVID-19 is about 10 times as likely to induce myocarditis as an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination, Wu said. That’s in addition to all the other trouble it causes.

Wu shares senior authorship of a study describing his team’s findings, published Dec. 10 in Science Translational Medicine, with former Stanford Medicine postdoctoral scholar Masataka Nishiga, MD, PhD, now an assistant professor at The Ohio State University. The study’s lead author is current postdoctoral scholar Xu Cao, PhD.

“Medical scientists are quite aware that COVID itself can cause myocarditis,” Wu said. “To a lesser extent, so can the mRNA vaccines. The question is, why?”

Suspects identified

To find out, he and his colleagues first analyzed data from blood draws of individuals vaccinated for COVID-19, some of whom developed myocarditis. Comparing those who did with those who didn’t, they noticed high levels of a couple of proteins in the blood of vaccinees who wound up with myocarditis.

(Read more at Stanford Medicine News Center)

Remeber this the next time you hear “I’m from the government and here to help you”

Those are ten of the most frightening words known to conservative Americans.

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Democrats have been bankrupt in many ways, but now are bankrupt of cash

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Now they are bankrupt of cash

Democrats are officially bankrupt as they mortgage their headquarters to bankroll their candidates

NOTUS takes note of the bankrupt nature of the most recent move by the Democrat National Committee to mortgage their headquarters in an effort to bankroll their current slate of socialists (all while they have not paid off their debts owed due to Kamala).

The Democratic National Committee put its physical headquarters up for collateral last year in order to obtain a $15 million line of credit to help invest in off-year elections, according to D.C. deed records not previously reported.

The building, located in Southeast Washington and partially owned by the DNC, has been used as collateral in the past, including in other election cycles. That the DNC had to do so again ahead of the 2026 elections to obtain its biggest-ever off-year loan raised concerns among some members that it was further evidence of its intensifying financial strain.

The DNC did not explicitly declare the building as its collateral in its monthly or loan-related filings to the Federal Election Commission.

“Ken gaslighting us about the DNC’s finances and not being transparent about the financial situation makes us doubt if he can oversee the DNC during the most important primary of our lifetime,” said a DNC member, granted anonymity to discuss the issue candidly.

The DNC is working toward two main goals: to help the party win back control of Congress in November, as well as gubernatorial and local elections across the country. And it’s also preparing for the 2028 presidential primary, which is expected to be wide open and have no clear front-runner.

Those objectives have been complicated by the DNC’s current lack of money. Federal disclosures from June showed it only had about $16 million in its account and $18 million in debt. That’s a sobering amount of money compared to the Republican National Committee, which declared that it had $128 million in cash with no outstanding debts.

“This is not new,” said a DNC official in a statement about the party using the building as collateral. “The loan documents were publicly released in November, and the DNC’s building was also used as collateral in our prior lines of credit in 2019, 2018, 2014, and many other years.”

Another Democrat close to the DNC said Ken Martin, the beleaguered Democratic Party chair, has struggled to convince donors to maximize their contributions, which has contributed to the small cash-on-hand total.

Martin is under particularly close scrutiny. He was the subject of an internal human resources inquiry after throwing a phone in the direction of a young aide in early July, according to five sources who have direct knowledge of the situation or were briefed on the matter. The New York Times first reported the phone-throwing incident.

(Read more at NOTUS)

Think back to the COVID lockdown and then answer these questions before you consider to vote for any Democrat Socialist

Before you vote for any Democrat Socialist, answer these questions:

  • Did you enjoy getting told that you had to stay home (unless you worked for an “essential services” company)?
  • Did you enjoy the 9.1% inflation that followed the pandemic that came from the Biden-printed money?
  • Did you miss getting to see any relative before they died while we were all locked down?
  • Were there any neighborhood spies calling the police if you “broke curfew?”
  • Do you remember how mask mandates and 6-foot rules went out the window for the George Floyd riots?

If you liked any or all of those things, then you will love Democrat Socialism. And if you adopt Democrat Socialism, just remember that it may not be the BLM groups that may be in charge for the next round.

Take in mind that Biden’s COVID lockdown was just the mildest form of socialism

Handing out unearned money to all during the COVID lockdown, the resulting inflation, forcing everyone to get the jab (if you worked for a company that OSHA could strongarm), making everyone to wear an ineffective mask, and all of the other socialist acts of Biden were just mild socialism.

What programs the Democrat Socialists have been admitting to wanting to implement will likely bring much more of the same.

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Their communication arm (the press) has stopped reporting the whole truth and just reports what benefits Democrats

Court upholds firing of Oregon educator for having Matt Walsh’s anti-gender ideology children’s book in his office

The Post Millennial points out how an Oregon teacher got fired for having two books on his office desk that supported natural genders (and the liberal courts upheld the firing).

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against an Oregon educator who sued the school district after he was fired for displaying books that oppose transgender ideology, such as “He is He” and “She is She.” In a 2-1 decision, the appeals court rejected Roderick Theis II’s First Amendment lawsuit, upholding his termination from Oregon’s Intermountain Education Service District over claims he was anti-trans. Theis is expected to appeal to the United States Supreme Court.

Theis was fired in November 2023 for violating Oregon’s discrimination in public education statute after the district determined that the book displays constituted a “bias incident.” Under the district’s “Every Student Belongs” policy, a bias incident is defined as “hostile expression animus” based on protected classes and characteristics, including gender identity, the Oregonian reported.

On Tuesday, Judge John Owens, appointed by Barack Obama, and Judge Jennifer Sung, appointed by Joe Biden, upheld the lower court ruling, while Judge Lawrence VanDyke, appointed by President Donald Trump, issued a fiery dissent.

According to court documents, the district received a complaint about Theis’ book displays. The education specialist and licensed clinical social worker had the books “He is He” and “She is She” displayed at his La Grande Middle School office. The two books include a message that the gender an individual was born with cannot be changed.

Additionally, Theis had The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh’s children’s book “Johnny the Walrus” featured on his desk at his Elgin office. Critics have described the book as anti-transgender. It’s about a boy named Johnny who pretends to be a walrus and has to decide if he truly is a walrus, or just a little boy with a big imagination.

The school district launched an investigation, during which Theis acknowledged the books but indicated that they were not meant to harm students. Theis said that he might “put the books aside” if a transgender student were to come into his office, per the Oregonian. The district ruled that Theis violated policy and fired him.

Theis sued in federal court, citing First Amendment rights, and was granted a partial injunction, allowing Theis to display the books while students weren’t in his La Grande office. A few days later, several students walked into his office and asked to read the books. Theis initially objected but then allowed the students to view the books under the impression that the injunction did not apply when he wasn’t working in his official capacity.

A teacher happened to walk by and recorded the students viewing the books and filed a complaint. The school district determined that Theis violated policy and the court order. The lower court upheld Theis’ termination, ruling that the order did not protect the book display with students present.

Appeals Court Judges Owens and Sung sided with the lower court decision, ruling that it had acted appropriately “given the robust body of precedent holding that educators speak as government employees when they convey messages to students within the four walls of a school.”

“As a government employee, Theis was assigned to work in school offices, meet with students, and carry out his duties in that setting,” wrote Owens for the majority opinion. “His speech occurred in the court of those responsible and cannot be meaningfully separated from them.”

(Read more at The Post Millennial)

At one time, liberalism was based on free thought. Now, it seems based on a single narrative they will not allow to be challenged

In the above case, having two books (where one says “He is He” and the other says “She is She”) in an office separate from the children being taught should not be that threatening to the fragile Leftists. However, it seems that, in a school where trans books are in the library, they cannot have these Matt Walsh books in a teacher’s office.

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Democrat strategist James Carville tells Democrats to stop opposition to voter ID and go on to the next topic

Carville tells Democrats to ‘just quit fighting’ against voter ID requirements, warns it polls at 75%

Fox News observes the rant by James Carville on how Democrats should stop fighting voter ID and move on.

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville warned Democrats Thursday the American public believes they don’t care about voter fraud, and the best thing they can do is stop fighting against voter ID requirements and move on to other issues.

His comments come as Republicans in Congress have been pushing to pass the SAVE Act, which would create a new federal proof of citizenship mandate in the voter registration process and impose requirements for states to keep their rolls clear of ineligible voters, in addition to requiring photo ID to vote in any federal elections.

Carville argued that while he believes there is a negligible amount of voter fraud, refusing to put up photo ID safeguards against it is a terrible hill for Democrats to die on.

“First of all, in Louisiana, you got to show your driver’s license to vote,” Carville said on “Politics War Room.” “I’ll have to ask Michael Waldman or Fred Wertheimer, does this really have that much effect? 

“And voter fraud in the United States is an infinitesimal problem. To the extent — I guess you could say it exists, anything could exist. It exists on such a minuscule scale, and it’s been proven time and time and time again.”

However, he still said the issue cannot be ignored.

“But I don’t know if we’re not better off saying, ‘OK, we’ll take that alternative idea. Bring your gas bill or your light bill or something,’ because, for whatever reason, this s— polls at 75%,” he said. 

“It barely exists, and it just doesn’t make any sense. Having said that, we are not going to win the war against some kind of ID. It doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t fix anything, but maybe you just go along with it and move to the next thing.”

His co-host, Al Hunt, disagreed, however, claiming, “We have voter ID in most states. Most states have voter ID,” add that, with the Republicans’ SAVE Act, they are requiring proof of citizenship, causing hurdles in that many people don’t have passports, many people have difficulty tracking down their birth certificate. And many women will run into difficulties if they changed their surnames when they got married.”

(Read more at Fox News)

Carville did go on to say that he did not support the SAVE America Act

Still, the only reason Carville likely did not support the SAVE America Act was his raging case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (something he has admitted to on multiple occasions).

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Democrats get caught cooking the books again

In the following video, a Black woman exposes the misclassification of races in crime stats

In previous posts, I have discussed how liberal cities have cooked the books when it comes to crime statistics (for example, in Washington, D.C. and Houston).

However, in this case, this woman speaks of the way Black offenders somehow get listed as White (supposedly in an effort to sway the crime stats).

While this video bills itself as “The most shocking Charlie Kirk video you will see,” it is actually two sides observed by one man

This is the tale of one man coming out of the liberal trance induced by their newspeak.

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It seems the Left has given up at trying to present a consistent argument

Instead, the Left presents the argument convenient for the moment.

Because the Left often argues only from emotion, it usually steps away from facts. Thus, it consistently has no argument.

 

President Trump celebrates some press, skewers other segments of the press, and the press only whines

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Nicki Minaj = roadkill. Trump held nothing back at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Daily Wire was the first outlet I noticed to be giving any coverage (let alone fair coverage) to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner held in replacement after the latest assassination attempt.

A possible third term (calm down, libs, it was just a joke), Nicki Minaj twerking, and the biggest collection of Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers all under one roof.

The White House promised President Trump would deliver a speech that was both “unifying yet vicious” at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He did exactly that.

Three months after the original dinner was scrapped when yet another assassination attempt on Trump’s life unfolded outside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton, the annual black-tie affair finally returned Friday night.

This time, it was a very different scene.

WATCH:

The Secret Service dramatically tightened security, putting guests through airport-style magnetometer screenings before they entered the Waldorf Astoria, formerly the Trump International Hotel.

“It’s great to be back at a place that I know very well because I built it,” Trump joked as he took the stage.

The president immediately gave the room a taste of what was coming.

“But just like my presidency the second time is always better,” Trump said. “It’s always better. And the third time will be better yet. I’m only kidding.”

Trump then turned to the terrifying reason the original dinner was cut short, calling the attempted attack “an assault on our democracy itself” and praising the law enforcement officers who rushed toward the danger.

But he still found a way to get a laugh out of the chaos.

“After hearing the gunshots many people yelled ‘Get down get down,’ which caused Nicki Minaj to start twerking,” Trump jokes. “Do you believe it? Get down. She’s the only one that really understood what that meant.”

From there, nearly everyone was fair game.

Trump declared it “the largest group of Trump Derangement Syndrome people ever put together at one time.”

He then turned his attention to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., trolling him about his roadkill controversies.

“I want you all to know that Bobby Kennedy who’s right here personally ran over the cow in his car,” Trump joked about the beef tenderloin served for dinner. “And he cut it up and he brought it here for you to eat tonight so it’s very fresh.”

He was not done.

“Bobby also suggested an appetizer featuring his favorite cut of male raccoon roadkill,” Trump added. “But we drew the line at that.”

Trump also took swings at Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Adam Schiff, Rosie O’Donnell, Jake Tapper, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and plenty of others.

Springsteen’s recent jabs at Trump earned him one of the harsher roasts of the night.

“What about Bruce Springsteen? What the hell happened to that guy? He looks like hell,” Trump said before joking that his tour had been renamed “Bored in the USA.”

The president even announced another run for the White House, at least for a few seconds.

“I’m pleased to announce my intention to run for a fourth term as President of the United States,” Trump said. “I will be doing that.”

He quickly made clear he was joking, though not before adding, “I won 3 times now, I’m gonna do it again.”

The jokes got the laughs, but Trump also made sure the audience left with the message he actually wanted them to hear.

(Read more at the Daily Wire)

In all the accounts, I never found accolades for Trump having again avoided assassination.

Give me a Democrat who has missed being killed due to his either seeking office or being in office (the very definition of assassination — of which which President Trump has had to endure eight attempts — not the short count of three) and you would have seen many articles telling us how great that Democrat is. Since I am based in reality, I am not going to hold my breath waiting for the press to do the same for any Republican.

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The media’s anti-Trump bias was on full display at re-do of White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The New York Post goes into a little more detail regarding the media bias displayed at the second occurrence of the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

The president came, he saw, he joked, he insulted and talked too long. And yet, Donald Trump’s presence was the major reason why the White House Correspondents’ dinner was such a smashing success.

A make-up event for the dinner in April that was dramatically cut short by a would-be assassin’s attempt to kill Trump and members of his cabinet, Friday’s version turned out to be far better and much more meaningful than the original would have been.

The reason is that the near-tragedy in April inspired the second try as a unifying event and a living testament to American exceptionalism.

Indeed, when this president and the nation’s major media group actually agree on something, as they did Friday, it’s breaking news and time to STOP THE PRESSES!

Most of the credit goes to Trump, who heartily saluted the undaunted courage of the Secret Service agents and DC police who stopped the shooter on that near-tragic night. He also managed to pull off the impossible by getting the 700 journalists and others in the hotel ballroom to stand and applaud security officers and our military.

Given that most journalists are lefty Democrats and members of the hate-Trump rabble of DEI and defund the police, getting them to participate in the salute was no small accomplishment.

The president was also gracious in staying to the very end and personally congratulating journalists who won awards for stories that, in most cases, were highly critical of him and his policies.

He was such a good sport that after shaking hands with Wall Street Journal reporters he had sued over their article about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the president showed a half-smile, threw up his arms in apparent exasperation and shook his head, as if to say, what the hell am I doing here?

Prez in good spirits

Given that he had boycotted the annual event in his first term as well as last year, some second-guessing was inevitable.

But he nonetheless seemed to enjoy himself for the most part, and offered more than a few zingers when it was his turn to talk.

“This place is really the largest group of ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ people ever put together at one time,” he declared. That one drew some knowing laughs, but others, such as personal insults of specific journalists, were met with stony silence.

So too were his well-worn swipes at Dem senators Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren, proving they are better suited for his campaign rallies.

At one point, when a line in his staff-prepared speech got the silent treatment, Trump interjected, “That was the only thing I thought was good in this whole fricking stupid speech they wrote. That was the only good one and that went down with not exactly great laughter.”

Credit for the success of the evening also goes to Weijia Jiang, a Washington reporter for CBS and president of the correspondents’ association.

In the spirit of America’s 250th birthday, she aimed to turn the event into a celebration of the First Amendment and the journalists who defend it.

She added a personal dimension with a moving story about her family’s arrival from China, where she was born and how they were graciously welcomed into West Virginia coal country, where some customers at their restaurant paid with deer meat.

(Read more at the New York Post)

It is good to read of at least one good coorespondent

Truth of the matter is that I have written most of the press corps off as incalcitrant liars. To hear that there is one coorespondent for CBS gives a little hope.

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Trump’s top ten jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

According to AS TV, these are the top ten jokes by Trump during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

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CNN complains after Trump lampoons the media and critics during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The Daily Caller chronicles the complaints of chronic critic CNN who obviously can’t take a little of their own medicine.

President Donald Trump tore into corporate media figures and other critics with a barrage of jokes at Friday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, prompting CNN to issue a statement defending their “integrity and fair mindedness.”

Trump’s speech featured a mix of jabs at journalists, political figures, and cultural controversies, continuing his long-running practice of utilizing humor while attacking critics. While several corporate media outlets and critics dismissed the performance as awkward or ineffective, supporters applauded the president’s willingness to mock members of the press during the annual event, which was rescheduled after an attempted assassination of Trump abruptly ended its programming in April.

Trump notably took aim at CNN’s Kaitlin Collins, joking he initially thought she had landed a Bud Light sponsorship before realizing “it wasn’t her on the can, it was Dylan Mulvaney,” referencing the transgender-identifying influencer. Mulvaney entered into a partnership with the beer brand in 2023 which prompted a significant boycott effort and the placing on leave, at a minimum, of the executive who greenlit it.

(Read more at the Daily Caller)

Commentary and news (which get mixed indiscriminately on that outlet) cannot be viewed as objective on CNN

However, what do we expect from journalists that donate 97% of the time to Democrats all while claiming to be split between about 52% independent, 36% Democrat, and 3.4% Republican? Sounds like they are more likely 97% bald-faced liars.

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Here’s what you missed from Trump’s first WHCA Dinner as president: 5 takeaways from his night with the press

Fox News analyzes the remarks of President Trump and the reactions to those comments at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Here are their first two take-aways:

President Donald Trump attended the annual White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) Dinner Friday night for the first time in either of his two presidential terms.

The event was rescheduled from its original April 25 date after a crazed gunman allegedly tried to assassinate the 47th president, bull rushing security with several weapons and firing a shot before he was taken into custody.

Here are five top highlights from the dinner:

1. Journalists, Trump share heartfelt moments

Trump and the press typically find themselves at odds, and while Friday night had its share of uncomfortable moments, both sides were able to find some common ground — especially after sharing a scary moment at the originally scheduled dinner in April.

Before presenting one of the many awards of the night, ABC’s Jon Karl thanked the president for his attendance.

“Mr. President, I want to say it matters that you came here tonight,” said Karl. “For more than 100 years, presidents have chosen to sit in a room of reporters who asked tough and often uncomfortable questions, and who report without fear or favor. It’s important. Thank you for being here.”

WHCA outgoing President and the dinner’s emcee Weijia Jiang also had kind words for the president, just before she introduced him to speak and after discussing the importance of the First Amendment.

“President Trump, I’ve covered you for a long time, and so have many reporters in this room. When we ask questions, you push back, you give us answers and we push back,” she said. “You have always been a deal guy. Well, that’s the deal. And the First Amendment is a done deal. And that’s what we toast tonight. The freedoms that brought us back together even after they were threatened.”

“So let’s raise a glass to what makes ours a beautiful country.”

Later in the night, Trump concluded his speech with a warm message for the press delivered in his own style.

“I just want to say, this room — I have tremendous respect for the people in this room,” Trump said. 

“Sometimes I don’t feel you treat me fair, maybe you do, I don’t know,” he continued. “I don’t feel that. But sometimes you treat me fairly, and I have a lot of respect for your profession. It’s amazing. And I just want to thank you for having me, and it’s been fun.”

2. Trump razzes the press and members of his cabinet

Trump made a series of jokes throughout his speech, some targeting the press, and others targeting people he appointed to positions of power.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on the receiving end of a quip from the 47th president after Trump told attendees he hoped they enjoyed their beef tenderloin dinner.

“I want you all to know that Bobby Kennedy, who’s right here, personally ran over the cow with his car,” he jabbed. “And he cut it up and he brought it here for you to eat tonight.”

Kennedy is well known for his eccentric history with animals, including once saying he captured a raccoon and cut its genitals off, viral videos of him catching dangerous snakes and once using a chainsaw to remove the head of a dead whale that washed up on Cape Cod.

“Bobby also suggested an appetizer featuring his favorite cut of male raccoon roadkill. But we drew the line at that,” the president went on. “We said, ‘No, we’re not doing that.'”

Kennedy is also known for pushing a more red-meat centric diet and has embraced the push for restaurants to use beef tallow to fry their food instead of seed oils. 

Trump also joked about the shooting at the first WHCA dinner earlier this year, which pro-MAGA rapper Nikki Minaj attended.

“But after hearing the gunshots, many people yelled, ‘get down, get down!’ Which caused Nicki Minaj to start twerking, do you believe? Get down! She’s the only one that really understood what that meant,” Trump joked, earning laughter from the tough crowd.

Throughout his speech, he repeatedly used one of his famous phrases — referring to the press as “fake news,” but took some direct shots at certain outlets and figures.

He unexpectedly flipped the script in a misdirection from what seemed like an update on the Iran war.

“A once feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has finally been toppled,” he said. “Their former leaders have been removed and they’re now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions. But I, for one, wish Bari Weiss all the best at CBS News.”

Trump’s nemesis, Kaitlan Collins of CNN, was also on the receiving end of a brutal blow.

“I thought Kaitlan Collins had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney,” he said, referencing the beer brand’s failed marketing campaign featuring a transgender influencer.

(Read the other three points at Fox News)

Despite the lack of recognition from the press, might the current (yet undeclared) cease fire between Iran and our troops be a hat tip to Trump?

While the American press will not credit President Trump with anything (and, as of this morning, was reporting at a local ABC outlet that gasoline prices were rising while AAA reports them falling), could the current lull in hostilities be a recognition that President Trump means what he says?

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Bad news for Democrat Talarico: despite spending millions, he sees a big problem with Blacks

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Talarico pledges $25 million for Black voter outreach at sometimes tense Houston town hall

Texas Tribune observes how Democrat James Talarico has allocated $25 million toward Black voter outreach, but has reaped the whirlwind at a Houston town hall where his ignoring of the community came to a head.

For over an hour Sunday, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico stood on stage and fielded questions and, at times, frustration from Black Texans at a majority-Black town hall in Houston.

“I’m voting for James Talarico, and I hope you do, too — but I want y’all to come and have the conversation with him today,” U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee, D-Houston, said in introducing Talarico. “Express the things that you’re excited about, the things you’re concerned about, because I happen to be one of those people who believes that, for far too long, the Democratic Party has taken Black folks for granted, and it’s important to me that he understand the issues that are facing us today.”

The stop was meant specifically as a forum for Black voters to press the state lawmaker on their priorities and reflected a recent spate of outreach efforts Talarico has undertaken to engage Black Texans. After an acrimonious primary in which he defeated U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a prominent Black elected official, the Austin Democrat has for months faced accusations online and among some elected leaders that he hasn’t done enough to court Black voters, who overwhelmingly went for Crockett.

On Sunday, Talarico answered by giving the crowd a rundown of his efforts to engage with the Black community and announcing a number: a pledge to spend $25 million on Black voter outreach, which he said was the largest such investment in modern Texas history.

“I’m committing to you here that we will be putting resources where our mouth is, and we’re going to be reaching out to these voters across the state so that we can win this race in November,” Talarico said. “I don’t want any Texan to vote for me just because they don’t like Ken Paxton. I want people to be excited about what we’re trying to do in this movement.”

For much of the event, attendees asked Talarico about his policy positions on voting rights, Black rural farmers, immigration and the Trump administration’s attack on diversity, equity and inclusion. They asked him about the Black representation on his campaign staff and how he planned to support down-ballot Democrats, particularly Black candidates.

While some rallygoers, including a handful of content creators in the audience who have helped drive the conversation around Talarico’s Black outreach, expressed skepticism of his campaign, many others pressed him on how he would earn Black voters’ trust while noting they were personally supportive of him.

“I am a Crockett supporter, but you sold me,” Earnest Babalola Goodrich, a local precinct chair, told Talarico. “But how are you gonna earn the militant Black Democratic vote? … Uncle Earnie does support you, but I want to see more. I want you to earn that hard vote.”

In his opening remarks, Talarico acknowledged Menefee’s sentiment and the reality that, for a Democrat, “there is no way to win Texas without showing up for, investing in and listening to Black communities across this state.”

“The congressman spoke a hard truth that for too long, the Democratic Party has taken Black voters for granted, assumed that Black folks here in Texas and around the country are just going to show up and vote for any Democratic candidate, and we know that’s not true,” Talarico said.

But disappointment with his campaign burst into view toward the end of the town hall, when his staff noted they had time for one more question, roughly 45 minutes into the question and answer portion of his appearance. Talarico said he would stick around to chat with anyone who had outstanding questions through the end of the photo line, and took additional questions on stage for another 20 minutes.

(Read more at the Texas Tribune)

Other outlets (all in audio) note that Talarico has been to Houston multiple times, but not to the Black or Latino communities

This business of Talarico saying he was “happy to engage” really should be translated as “stop shouting.” However, the shouting was said to have started because people drove (or took the bus) long distances and then found out that they were limited to one question. Further, when they pooled their question-making abilities, they still were not getting their answers.

On top of all this, word was circulating that he had been to Houston multiple times — just not to the Black communities.

Recently, about eight more outlandish quotes from James Talarico have come to light

If you have any exposure to this blog, you might know that I have published a A table listing 55 of the unhinged, socialist statements of James Talarico. As of late, I have been in the process of updating that table to include 64 quotes from James Talarico. One of those new quotes is one where he said:

I was so proud to be among the first class of members to the LGBTQ Caucus in the Texas House.
And as a former middle school teacher, I have a special place in my heart for LGBTQ youth.

Since a lion’s share of the leftist quotes have either to do with his promoting the transgender community or the LGBTQ community, I am wondering whether the greater portion of his time is being spent appealing to the trans and LGBTQ communities rather than Black and Hispanic communities.

He might think that, by cornering the trans and LGBTQ vote, he will have the White liberal vote (and thus he thinks that will be enough to carry him through the election).

This would be a fools errand

Even left-leaning Houston Public Media admits that Democrat lose by wider margins in Texas when they lose the Black vote.

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Black Democrats express doubts about Talarico during U.S. Senate primary at Houston town hall

The Texan tells us of the doubts expressed by Black Democrats as they view the typical White liberal known as James Talarico.

A town hall in Houston on Sunday highlighted a factional divide within the Democratic Party as their U.S. Senate nominee, state Rep. James Talarico (D-Austin), was questioned and at times rebuked about his appeal, or lack thereof, to black voters.

Republicans have emphasized “unity” as their goal moving forward into the general election battle of November, but they are not the only ones finding it difficult to switch off from intra-party conflict. The Democrats will need a strong showing from all the members of their base to give Talarico a fighting chance in a state where no Democrat has won statewide office in three decades, especially after the strong showing of the Republican nominee, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in his May primary runoff with incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).

Prior to Talarico’s introduction to the crowd for his opening statement and Q&A session, elected officials expressed disappointment that he had defeated U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX-31) in the Democratic primary, while appealing to the audience to hear Talarico out. 

Talarico defeated her in March with over 53 percent of the vote, while Crockett received nearly 46 percent. In Harris and Dallas counties, Crockett did receive the majority of the vote — 52 percent and 59 percent, respectively.

U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee (D-TX-18) said prior to welcoming Talarico to the stage, “I happen to be one of those people who believes that for far too long the Democratic Party has taken black folks for granted. And it’s important to me that he understand the issues that are facing us today.”

The town hall was held on the afternoon of July 19 in Southwest Houston at the Kingdom Builders Center, where Talarico campaign staff handed out black and white signs with his name printed on one side and “Love Thy Neighbor” on the other. Artists such as Beyoncé and Lizzo played from speakers as guests packed the room 30 minutes before it began. 

Houston Mayor Pro Tem Martha Castex-Tatum kicked off the event, stating that “as I sit in my disappointment as a black woman with the loss of the presidential election, with the loss of the Senate primary, I’m still optimistic, I’m still hopeful.”

State Rep. Lauren Ashley Simmons (D-Houston) also spoke to those gathered to hear from Talarico, stating, “Now I’m not here to hide James from accountability, because the road to victory runs through Harris County.” 

“Sometimes people gonna check you and tell you your slip is showing, and so today, we gonna make sure that James’ slip is not showing.” 

Simmons confirmed that she had voted for Crockett in the March primary election against Talarico, but said that “primary fights are family fights. So we licked our wounds on Tuesday, and then Wednesday we woke up ready for war.” 

Among the issues mentioned as facing the black community that Talarico needs to address are the higher median net worth of white households in Texas compared to black households, the rate of maternal mortality for black women, and legislation such as the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections. 

Upon taking the stage, Talarico referenced Menefee’s prior comments: “The congressman spoke a hard truth that for too long the Democratic Party has taken black voters for granted — assumed that black folks here in Texas and around the country are just going to show up and vote for any Democratic candidate, and we know that’s not true.” 

Talarico took questions from the crowd for about an hour and half. When his staff announced at 4:30 p.m., the end time listed on the event registration page, that the town hall was drawing to a close, a woman standing in the crowd shouted, “You stay here, you answer our questions, or you suffer the consequences,” which was met by applause. 

(Read more at The Texan)

When it comes to the questions asked of Talarico, don’t these questions point to an over-dependence on government?

According to the article above, the people were asking about:

  • The higher median net worth of white households in Texas compared to black households

    In this matter, why not just focus on personal responsibility? Even if your kids don’t take the route of higher education, if they learn enough reading and math to get an electrician’s job, they will do fine.

    Furthermore, why limit yourself by comparing your worth to that of another group?

  • The rate of maternal mortality for black women, which might be improved without outside intervention by:
    1. Participating in maternal health programs already in operation
    2. Taking steps on known issues like obesity and family history of heart disease
    3. Enroll in the state’s available prenatal care and continuous postpartum health coverage
    4. Get out of abusive relationships and thus avoid the greatest threat to Black women: abusive Black men
  • Legislation such as the SAVE America Act

    This mention of the legislation begs the question of whether these Democrats are opposing voter ID or supporting it. If they are opposing voter ID, why were so many of them standing with Hillary when she said the election was stolen from her?

The Righteous Perspective speaks about the distrust within the Black community of the White liberals

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By the way, I will be out of pocket tomorrow (at least) with jury duty

 

Disrupting, defunding, and debanking leftist terrorism proves President Trump did learn something from the Left

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Miller and Rubio inform foreign diplomats of a policy that takes the “far-left terror” threat seriously

While USA Today tries to put a liberal spin (and tries to make it seem as if Miller and Rubio are making a fascist speech to a captive audience), this announcement of the National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) comes as a significant response to the organized violence of Antifa and other associated groups as funded by Soros and others.

White House Homeland Security Adviser Stephen Miller on July 16 warned foreign diplomats that they must help the United States crush left-wing “political terrorists that are operating in our country” because they pose an existential threat that, if unchecked, will ultimately “destroy” society.

“Here in the United States, we have taken the necessary and essential action formally recognizing left-wing violence as a form of political terrorism that is a direct threat to our national security and the survival of our republican form of government,” Miller said.

Miller, who is also President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff, delivered the politically charged remarks at the State Department’s inaugural “Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism” before an audience of invited foreign diplomats.

Trump has ordered “all of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies to work together to disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country,” under what’s known as the National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, or NSPM-7, Miller said.

“It’s very important to understand,” Miller told those assembled, “that left-wing political terrorism seeks as its ultimate end the overthrow of our system and form of government.”

Miller’s description went beyond the published wording of NSPM-7, which directs FBI-led terrorism task forces and federal law-enforcement, Treasury and tax authorities to investigate political violence and its financing but does not expressly involve the U.S. intelligence community.

The daylong gathering was convened by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to rally foreign governments behind the Trump administration’s campaign against what it describes as a growing transnational threat from left-wing extremists operating in the United States with links to foreign terrorist organizations.

Rubio announced that there would be more terrorist designations of left-wing groups “soon,” beyond the four that the administration has designated since last November.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made similar remarks, urging foreign governments to assist the Trump White House in identifying and pursuing anyone funding these groups.

“We will identify illicit funding, however artfully it is concealed,” Bessent said. “We will dismantle the networks that sustain political terrorism, however respectable their fronts may be. We will pursue those who enable political violence, however distant their jurisdictions.”

And the White House itself followed up with an X post saying, “For decades, far-left terrorists have attacked private citizens, government officials, police and law enforcement, businesses, and critical infrastructure in the U.S. and overseas. The @StateDept is working to CRUSH these violent groups all around the world.”

(Read more at USA Today)

In response, the ACLU claimed “NSPM-7 seeks to use ‘domestic terrorism’ to target non-profits and activists.

In true socialist form, the ACLU preemtively issued as statement on NSPM-7 as soon as it was issed (on 15 October 2025 — as soon as it went for legal review).

Nonprofits, their donors, and activists striving for a more equal, just, and fair country and world are core components of American civil society. Yet on September 25, President Donald Trump issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) called “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” essentially adding them to an ever-growing list of what he calls the “enemy within.”

Civil society nonprofits and activists thus join segments of academia, the legal profession, public health professionals and scientists, and so many others President Trump sees as his political opponents and critics. For all of us seeking to uphold the Constitution, fundamental human rights, and civil liberties, it’s almost a badge of courage and honor.

On its face, NSPM-7 is chilling to read: If anyone needed proof that “terrorism” and “political violence” are slippery and fraught categories subject to political, ideological, and racial manipulation and bias—well, this is it.

Like the president’s investigation into the Open Society Foundations and his order purporting to designate “Antifa” as a “domestic terrorist organization,” which is not a thing!), NSPM-7 is a deliberate attempt to sow fear and intimidate and silence opposition to the president’s abuses. But true strength in this country comes not from political leaders engaged in fearmongering and political vendettas; it comes from our vibrant civil society, activists, and communities steadfastly pursuing the goals of equality, fairness, and democracy for all. We must not let ourselves be cowed.

(Read more at the ACLU)

In regard to their statement “Antifa … is not a thing,” I would counter with several responses.

First, how would a non-organization so often be so organized? How would it coordinate the delivery of supplies needed for protests?  How would it have bricks delivered to specific locations on specific dates? How would it have its members show up in what seem to be uniforms? How would it have logos printed on fliers and have those fliers distributed?

Second, if it is not an organization, how does it continue to appear without change over the years?

When Obama debanked gun manufacturers, the press did not sound the alarm.

Not only did the press (especially the New York Times) back the move by the Obama administration to debank the gun manufacturers, they applauded it.

Likewise, when Biden went beyond his powers and colluded with social media giants to shut down opposition to his jab mandates, the press had no complaints.

Therefore, for the New York Times and the ACLU to come unglued about this is disingenuious in the least (but obstructionist and anti-American in greater terms).

This also goes to the Antifa-funders like Soros

Now, if Soros is found to be funding the means of violence (say, the U-haul vans full of bats, fireworks, or other implements that Antifa uses), then Soros can lose his money and property.

That should make the “soak the rich” and conservative crowds happy.

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“Left-Wing Violence” has now officially become “Terrorism”

Mediaite explains in better terms how “left-wing violence” will now be called by its rightful name: “terrorism.”

Top Trump aide Stephen Miller announced Thursday that the Trump administration had officially declared “left-wing violence” as “terrorism” that needed to be stamped out.

Miller spoke at a conference in Washington, D.C., called The Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, hosted at the U.S. State Department.

“Here in the United States, we have taken the necessary and essential action of formally recognizing left-wing violence as a form of political terrorism that is a direct threat to our national security and the survival of our republican form of government,” Miller said at the top of his remarks.

He continued:

President Trump issued a directive — in our parlance, it’s called a national security presidential memorandum or NSPM, NSPM 7 to be exact — that directs for the first time in American history all of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies to work together to disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest, and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country. It’s very important to understand that left-wing political terrorism seeks as its ultimate end the overthrow of our system and form of government. And we’ve seen this has taken place many times in many places throughout the years.

Left-wing terrorism always ends in bloodshed, misery and suffering. It only can travel in one direction. There’s no point at which the left-wing terrorist is satisfied with his gains and ceases progressing. Inevitably, left to run its course, it always becomes a gulag, it always becomes the mass imprisonment of political enemies, the stripping of their rights and freedoms, inflicting immense pain, humiliation, suffering in order to establish complete and total control, control through psychological and physical and actual terror. And we have to understand that that is the scope and the extent of the threat that we face.

(Read more at Mediaite)

Preventing terrorism before we reach the point of no return

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In a matter of three days, Iran pushes everything back into war

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American soldier killed detonating Iranian drone

The Daily Wire reports on the American service member killed while detonating an Iranian drone.

Speaking to reporters Sunday night, Trump said that the United States struck Iran hard again “in honor” of the American troops in Jordan after an Iranian ballistic missile attack. A third soldier was killed in Iraq while disposing an Iranian drone.

“Well, we feel very badly, but you know those great people, those great patriots, were out there fighting that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Iran has been very, very badly damaged. They’ve lost everything, almost, militarily. They’ve got very little left. They’ve got some missiles. They’ve got some drones. They’ve got some manufacturing ability, not much,” Trump said.

“We control the straight; they don’t control anything,” Trump added. “So we’ll see what happens. But we hit them very hard again tonight, and we did that in honor of the probably three. It’s probably three as opposed to two great patriots.”

(Read more details on the Iran war at the Daily Wire)

At least in my opinion, all hell should break loose on Iran for this breaking of the purported cease fire

Even though they are Islamists and must be expected to practice taqiyya just as much as they would impose jizya if you voted them into office, we must hold them to the same standard we would hold the rest of the world.

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Add to this the two soldiers killed by Iran in Jordan and the one missing soldier

As reported by the New York Post, President Trump started the weekend by responding to the Iranian missile attack on Jordan that killed two soldiers.

US forces launched their eighth consecutive night of attacks targeting Iranian military infrastructure late Saturday.

The latest round of strikes struck coastal surveillance and air defense facilities, maritime capabilities, and missile and drone storage sites to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities, US Central Command announced on X.

Fighter jets and missiles were launched off aircraft carriers and destroyers as explosions took out targets in mountainous regions of Iran, according to video shared by the combatant command.

“More than 50,000 US men and women in uniform are operating across the Middle East. They remain highly vigilant, focused, lethal, and ready,” read a statement released by the combatant command.

CENTCOM also said the attacks on Tehran were intended to swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The American attacks are the latest back and forth between the two nations, and come after a wave of Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks killed two US service members at Muwawffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, with a third MIA.

Four other service members were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals but were later discharged.

President Trump called the deaths “a shame” but argued the mission remains critical.

“They did it because they don’t want to see Iran have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said of the troops in an exclusive call with The Post Saturday. “… And it just shows you how bad [the Iranians] are.”

(Get additional details at the New York Post)

This needs to be the end times for the IRGC and any part of the Iranian regime supporting them

Since they seem set on lying as standard practice, we need to not trust them in anything and do whatever we can to end their reign.

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Furious Iran accuses US of striking Iranian nuclear facility in revenge attacks for deaths of two Americans

The New York Post likewise reports on the whining of the Iranians as they claim their Russian-built nuclear power plant has been struck in revenge for their killing American service members.

US air strikes on Iran overnight hit a nuclear-power plant under construction, according to furious Tehran officials.

During an eighth consecutive day of strikes on the country, the US attacked the partly built Darkhovin nuke facility in the southwest of the country, according to Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization — an assault that came the day after two American service members were reported killed, with a third still missing.

“An attack on a peaceful nuclear facility under international safeguards is a clear violation of international law,” the organization raged on social media.

The group did not reveal the extent of the possible damage from the attack, which the US has yet to confirm.

Two US military personnel were killed and a third is still missing from an Iranian attack on Jordan in response to the earlier American assault on Iran.

The latest US airstrikes on Iran began at around 6 p.m. ET on Saturday at President Trump’s direction, according to a statement from US Central Command.

“The strikes are designed to further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan last night,” it said.

These latest attacks successfully targeted Iranian military coastal surveillance and air-defense facilities, Central Command said.

Iranian state media confirmed that the US carried out an attack near Sirik in the south of the country and a second location near Shadegan close.

The strikes follow a heightened spell of tensions in the region in the wake of the breakdown of a proposed peace agreement signed in June and brokered by Pakistan.

In response to the latest US strikes, Iran also carried out a drone attack targeting US military assets and equipment in Kuwait, according to Iranian state TV reports Sunday.

(Read more at the New York Post)

Cry me a river, Iran. I understand you are short on water, anyway.

Considering the number of attacks Iran has funded on embassies and other peaceful outlets, they have no room to complain about the attack on their own properties (whatever they may be).

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Iran Reportedly Enlisting Houthi Terrorists To Cripple Crucial Flow Of Commerce If US Escalates Attacks

The Daily Wire informs us of how Iran seems to be working with its old buddy (the Houthis) to cripple Red Sea commerce (now that their attempts to block the Strait of Hormuz have failed).

Iran has reportedly said it will enlist the help of a terrorist group to further constrain global shipping if the U.S. military attacks Iranian energy infrastructure.

Iran has instructed Yemen’s Houthi rebels to prepare to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait if the United States attacks Iranian power infrastructure, Reuters reported, citing Iranian and regional sources familiar with the communications. The report came as the U.S. military escalated its operations with repeated airstrikes on critical infrastructure, including highways, bridges and energy sites, according to the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters.

The Islamic Republic’s leadership already sent the request to the Yemeni Houthis, Reuters reported, citing two senior Iranian ‌sources and a regional source who spoke anonymously.

President Donald Trump threatened to attack Iranian energy infrastructure, according to an interview with Fox News’s Trey Yingst. It remains unclear if this is the reason the Iranians issued the request to the Houthis.

“I’ll save the energy targets for last, but ultimately we’ll hit energy targets,” Trump said.

The Pentagon referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), who, along with the White House, did not immediately reply to a DCNF request for comment.

“U.S. forces ended the seventh consecutive night of strikes against Iran on July 17 at 9:30 p.m. ET,” the military said in a Friday press release. “U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) hit surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities. U.S. forces employed fighter aircraft, aerial drones, and warships in addition to other assets.”

This is not the first time the Houthis have threatened shipping in the Red Sea during the Iran War. The Houthis threatened to attack any Israeli shipping moving through the Red Sea in a June 8 press release.

(Read more at the Daily Wire)

When I was a kid, I heard a saying “If you are digging and then find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”

This would be one saying that Iran might learn to observe.

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After being elected as New York’s socialist mayor, Mamdani has nothing to say about the four church burnings

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Two NYC churches were firebombed the first week of July and Zohran Mamdani’s hasn’t said a word

Townhall shares some thoughts on Mamdani’s silence on the burning of churches in his city of New York.

Two New York City churches were firebombed on July 8, with a suspect, later identified as 36-year-old Yogesh Sayrange, arrested for throwing incendiary devices at Iglesia Bautista El Mesias on 75th Street in Ozone Park and Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses on 78th Street in Woodhaven.

Here’s more:

A man accused of carrying out a string of Molotov cocktail attacks in New York City had a pending arrest for allegedly threatening to cut a man’s head off.

Yogesh Sayrange, 36, appeared in federal court Thursday in connection with the June 25 firebombing of a smoke shop on Fulton Street in Brooklyn.

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Authorities believe Sayrange is responsible for seven arson incidents since late June, most of them targeting houses of worship, along with several commercial locations.

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Authorities arrested Sayrange shortly afterward and recovered two additional Molotov cocktails from his bag. According to prosecutors, when asked about the unused devices, he replied, “I had two more in my bag. I was going to finish the job.”

Federal prosecutors said Sayrange, a Guyanese national, was living in the United States illegally after protections he received upon arriving in the country as a child expired. Prosecutors said he told investigators he had a pending application to renew his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, status.

So not only did this guy have a lengthy criminal record, including multiple acts of arson last month, but he’s also in the country illegally.

As of right now, Zohran Mamdani has not said a word about these attacks. But he finds the time to speak out about Islamophobia, including lying about the ‘Islamophobia’ his aunt experienced after 9/11, even though his aunt wasn’t in the country at that time and didn’t wear the hijab.

He can also speak out against what appears to be a justified ICE shooting in Houston.

But when non-Islamic houses of worship are targeted? Not a word.

(Read more at the Townhall)

What ever happened to being mayor of all of New York?

I remember the several Mamdani complaints during his campaign about the treatment his aunt got after 9/11 when she wore her hijab. I also remember how those complaints turned out to be nothing but campaign rhetoric (a common term for “lies”).

These church burnings, however, are real and change peoples’ lives.

Mamdani could make this a priority of the police. He could step up investigations. He could step up police presence in the areas around churches.

Instead, Mamdani ordered a historic church to be torn down.

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Mamdani orders historic Christian church to be demolished after arson

The Desert News shines a light on the actions (and maybe the hidden motives) of Islamist and socialist Mamdani in his quest to shut down his opposition.

Muslim NYC official seals Mamdani plan to demolish historic Brooklyn Christian church destroyed in arson attack–despite church’s attempt to save it

The New York City Department of Buildings has determined the church will be demolished, overseen by practicing Muslim Ahmed Tigani, hand-picked by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The church will be billed for the demolition.

Muslim NYC official seals Mamdani plan to DEMOLISH historic Brooklyn Christian church destroyed in arson attack–despite church’s attempt to save it.

A 174-year-old Brooklyn church that was torched in a suspected arson attack is set to be demolished by the Mamdani administration after it rejected efforts by the congregation to preserve the historic building, which had landmark status and was built in 1853. Police are investigating the blaze “as an arson incident” and just before the fire began, a “person of interest” was seen running from the South Bushwick Reformed Church.

The devastating blaze at South Bushwick Reformed Church, located on Bushwick Avenue, required nearly 200 FDNY firefighters to fight the flames for more than two hours. Following the fire, church leaders asked the city to delay demolition while engineers evaluated whether the structure could be restored. They wanted to save at least part of it to retain landmark status.

According to the church, an independent structural engineer concluded the building remained structurally sound and could be repaired. The congregation also requested that demolition be postponed while preservation options were explored. These requests were unsuccessful. In a statement, Pastor John Steward said: “It is with extremely heavy hearts that the South Bushwick Church reports that, despite its best efforts, we have been informed that demolition of the remaining structures at 855 Bushwick will commence tomorrow.”

To add insult to injury, the congregation is expected to foot the bill for its own demolition. Under city policy, South Bushwick Reformed Church will be charged for the cost of tearing down the historic structure, a sum likely to exceed the roughly $15,000 raised through its GoFundMe campaign. Despite efforts from church leaders, engineers, attorneys and preservation advocates to save parts of the landmarked building, the city moved forward with demolition.

Preservationists warned the loss of the remaining structure could erase the church’s landmark protections and clear the way for future redevelopment. As a result, it may have to be sold. A commercial broker told Brownstoner the site could be worth more than $7 million as a development opportunity. The contract is suspected to be handed to Bushwick Realty Holdings LLC, a well-known Brooklyn developer that has experience with snapping up religious sites and owns an entire block across the street from the church.

The New York City Department of Buildings has determined the church will be demolished. The department is headed by Egyptian-American Muslim Ahmed Tigani, who was hand-picked by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The decision to demolish the church comes despite ongoing fundraising efforts by the congregation, which launched a GoFundMe campaign after the fire in hopes of restoring the historic church. The campaign had raised more than $14,000 as of last week.

The decision to demolish the church has drawn a backlash, particularly while investigators continue examining whether the fire was intentionally set. “NYC churches are routinely burning down now and the local pro-Islam, pro-third-world leadership are glad it’s happening,” Right Line news correspondent Eric Daugherty said on X.

(Read more and see four more tweets at The Desert News)

Is this our blueprint for getting rid of mosques?

With the press ignorin the burning of these churche (and Mamdani and his crew closing their eyes), this might give some the impression that both the press and city government might turn a blind eye to similar actions against mosques. However, it would be my bet that such action would likely be dealt with swiftly and harshly.

Others on Twitter observe the church burnings in New York

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Video shows NYC houses of worship targeted in Molotov cocktail attacks

New York’s NBC affiliate WNBC gives us a view of at least one of the acts of arson committed against the churches of New York.

A 36-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly being the person seen on video throwing a Molotov cocktail at a house of worship in Queens, one of two he’s accused of attacking Wednesday night, officials say.

Both attacks happened shortly before midnight, at Iglesia Bautista El Mesias and Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, on 75th and 78th streets, respectively, according to police. In both cases, the man allegedly threw a fireball at the front door. In each case, a fire started when it hit the ground.

The NYPD later linked him to another case, one involving an auto body shop on Rockaway Boulevard. Details on those circumstances weren’t immediately clear Thursday afternoon.

Surveillance footage shows one of the religious institution scenes. The man, later identified as Yogesh Sayrange, is seen standing on the sidewalk outside the church fence. He ignites something, then hurls a fireball at the church entrance.

(Read more at WNBC)

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After electing its socialist mayor, New York gets hit on four sides (and Mamdani blames rapes on redefintions)

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First, New York gets ramped up vagrancy

The New York Post shows us the idiocy of allowing the third world and America’s homeless (aka primarily the drug addicted) to camp out in city parks and on city streets.

A grotesque homeless encampment continues to expand on Manhattan’s West Side and now covers 12 city blocks with theft, drugs and prostitution flourishing in broad daylight, The Post has learned.

Dozens of tents and makeshift shelters now extend from 34th Street to 46th Street along 11th Avenue, a worrisome eyesore for local workers and residents as well as tourists lining up to visit the popular Intrepid Museum — with City Hall turning a blind eye and NYPD cops standing down because of a new policy.

“Definitely getting worse,” she said. “People stopped parking here. People are scared to park here.”

Under new rules in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, the NYPD is no longer authorized to clear the encampments. The city Department of Homeless Services is in charge of conducting the sweeps, but it hasn’t done so.

Industrious vagrants lounge on stolen couches, display pricey electronics and other goods — including Broadway theater lights and high-end telescopes — and even peddle drugs to sex workers who also ply their trade inside the shantytown or filthy public bathrooms, locals said.

At one tent sex workers regularly stopped by throughout the day for customers or drugs — or both.

“This is crazy,” said one supervisor at the nearby Jacob Javits Center. “The cops and the sanitation guys and the outreach guys, they clean up one spot and after that day, the next day they’re over here. Then they’re over there. They’re kind of just spreading around.

(Read more at the New York Post)

Why would a guy in Houston, Texas dig up five articles on the disfunction of a socialistic New York mayor?

Would i be investigating all of these topics as a distraction from the socialists in my backyard (Sean Teare, Rodney Ellis, Lina Hildago, et al) who are trying to use the shooting by an ICE agent to possibly enrich themselves (by pointless investigation) or just distract from their own miserable records?

You would be right on all accounts.

However, the story surrounding the illegal alien that the Left wants to present as a saint has changed. Now several outlets (including CNN) report that Lorenzo Salgado Araujo had several small plastic bags “with a white crystal-like substance” in the white cargo van.

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Second, Mamdani roasted over assertion that higher NYC rapes come from “expanded definition”

Fox News catches New York’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani trying to explain away the 6.6 rise in rapes by claiming there was an “expanded definition of what constitutes rape.”

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced some backlash on Monday after attempting to explain rising rates of rape within his city, as he said it was due in part to an expanded definition of what constitutes rape.

During an interview with PIX11 News, reporter Dan Mannarino asked Mamdani about New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin’s concerns over rape and felony assault numbers within the city.

Mamdani maintained that the NYPD has reported among the lowest numbers of murders and shootings in its recorded history and suggested that the rape statistics need to be contextualized.

“And what I think is important to know is a lot of the increase in rape also comes from an expanded definition of what counts as rape, as well as survivors coming forward for acts that took place years prior,” Mamdani said. “And we are thankful for them coming forward, the courage and the bravery it takes, but just to provide New Yorkers with that context.”

Mamdani’s comments on the “expanded definition of what counts as rape” surprised some of his critics. While Mamdani’s defenders online said he was merely providing context and wasn’t downplaying the seriousness of the crime, others called out what they viewed as his dismissal of the upswing. 

Democratic New York City Council member Susan Zhuang commented on the clip on X.

“Expanding the legal definition of rape was an important step toward recognizing more survivors under the law. But it should never be used to deflect from the responsibility to reduce sexual violence. Survivors deserve leadership, action, accountability, and justice. They don’t deserve deflection,” she wrote.

“HOW did women vote for this guy?” women’s activist Riley Gaines wrote.

Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy remarked, “Rapes are up. Rents are up. Foreign diseases and parasites spreading. Historic Churches burning left and right. Elect the third world, get the third world.”

(Read more and see four more tweets at Fox News)

Sorry, women. This is what you get when you “defund the police”

Taking money away from the police results in higher crime.

Despite the pipe dreams of socialists, building more libraries and expanding community centers does not bring down the crime rates. Furthermore, hiring mental health workers really doesn’t have that much of an effect on rape statistics, either.

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Third, New York gets hit with record high rent rates

Fox News points out the results of socialist controls on what was formerly a free market of a rent market.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing renewed criticism over housing affordability as rents in Manhattan and Brooklyn hit record highs, with conservative commentators arguing that immigration-driven demand is adding pressure to an already tight rental market that the mayor campaigned to ease.

Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s median rents reached $5,295 and $4,350, respectively, in June, according to an analysis conducted by the Corcoran Group, a real estate firm. The most recent available data shows roughly 38% of New Yorker residents were born outside the United States, and about 40% of rentals in the city are occupied by foreign-born individuals, though the data does not distinguish between legal and illegal immigration status.

“You declared yourself a sanctuary city. You ‘welcomed’ hundreds of thousands of illegals. Then you had to find places to put them,” conservative radio host Andrew Wilkow wrote on X, reacting to news of increased rents. “That put pressure on housing supply. Shortages create price increases. It’s pretty simple.”

A 2003 paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia found that immigration “pushes up rents and housing values in destination cities,” with an immigration inflow equal to 1% of a city’s population associated with about a 1% increase in average rents and housing values. More recently, a paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in March found that a 1% increase in illegal immigrants working in a given area corresponded to a 1.4% increase in rental prices because localities did not build enough new housing to match population growth.

Both papers reflect the authors’ findings and do not represent official positions of the Federal Reserve System or its regional banks.

“Young Americans compete for housing with millions of foreign arrivals,” Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, wrote on Monday in response to the rent data out of New York City.

(Read more at Fox News)

Ah, but do you remember how Mamdani’s promised rent controls were approved in New York?

Time applauded the move of the Mamdani administration to control rents (that is, keep landlords from making a profit or maybe even make enough to maintain the properties).

“Freeze the rent” became the definitive rallying cry of Zohran Mamdani’s affordability-focused mayoral campaign for New York City, one of the most expensive cities in the world. Despite skepticism that he could actually pull it off, a board he controls made good on his pledge on Thursday, just six months into his term.

The city’s Rent Guidelines Board, in a 7-1 vote, approved a rent freeze covering both one-year and two-year leases for people living in about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, which make up about 27% of the overall housing stock across New York City’s five boroughs.

The rent freeze takes effect on Oct. 1 and ends Sept. 30, 2027.

The approval was expected, despite protests from some renters and landlords, who argued that frozen rents would hamper the maintenance of aging buildings as costs rise. But the Thursday vote could also face a legal challenge after a landlord representative on the board resigned at the 11th hour, claiming that the freeze was being railroaded into force.

Mamdani, who lived in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens with his wife before moving into the mayoral residence, Gracie Mansion, this year, framed the vote as a “historic victory” for the city’s tenants. “This is the relief that working people across our city deserve,” Mamdani said in a statement. 

The board’s decision comes on the heels of Mamdani’s political victory, after a group of progressive candidates for the U.S. House whom he endorsed swept their Democratic primaries earlier this week.

(Read more at Time)

Fourth, New York’s millionaire exodus has already left New York’s government nearly $12 billion poorer

The National Taxpayers Union Foundation reports that no state is losing millionaires faster than New York (you know, the guys targeted by Mamdani’s “tax the rich” plan), with the state’s millionaire population dropping from 12% to 8.7% between 2013 and 2022.

Key Facts

  1. Even as New York Governor Kathy Hochul begs millionaires to return from Florida, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is busy coming up with new ways to tax the rich.
  2. Data on each state’s share of the millionaire population shows that no state is losing millionaires faster than New York, with the state’s millionaire population dropping from 12% to 8.7% between 2013 and 2022.
  3. Had New York’s millionaire share not dropped and instead remained steady at 2013 levels, New York would be bringing in at least $12 billion more in revenue each year.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani continues to antagonize some of the city’s biggest taxpayers by floating new tax proposals, undermining Governor Kathy Hochul’s increasingly desperate pleas for “patriotic millionaires” to return from Florida and pay New York taxes again.

But, despite Governor Hochul’s belated warnings that New York’s tax base has been hollowed out, progressive groups continue to insist that millionaires will not leave if you tax them. After all, they argue, the number of millionaires continues to increase in states like New York.

In the most literal sense, this is true. New York has more millionaires as of the latest (2022) IRS data than it did a decade prior.[1] But so does the rest of the country, as economic growth and inflation push more and more Americans above the $1 million threshold.

In fact, far from debunking the idea that the wealthy leave states that overtax them, New York is an extremely illustrative case study in how forcing the high-income earners that power a state’s tax base to run for the hills ends up costing a state revenue in the long term.

(Read more at the National Taxpayers Union Foundation)

You can’t say Mamdani hasn’t made “tax the rich” a central point of his campaign

The United Kingdom’s Guardian went so far as to compare Mamdani’s “tax the rich” plan to Starmer’s plan (and to provide us Mamdani’s video bragging about his “tax the rich” plan).

In April, to mark the day on which Americans are expected to file their taxes, the New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, filmed himself on Billionaires’ Row, an enclave of super-tall apartment buildings just south of Central Park. When he took office, he said, he would tax the rich, and now, outside the hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin’s $238m penthouse, he was ready to make good on his pledge. “Today, we’re taxing the rich,” he said with a flamboyant smile, zooming his face into the camera. It was the opening to a short film unashamedly titled Happy Tax Day, New York.

He went into battle armed with stats. According to Mark Levine, NYC’s comptroller (a senior financial executive), the pied-à-terre tax on second homes will raise about $500m annually from about 11,200 properties.

The political theatre with which Mamdani packaged his promise is as eye-catching as the policy itself. The video was clearly shot in the service of an adversarial messaging demonising the rich. It would probably come as a surprise to many people that across the Atlantic, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have been quietly pursuing their own policies targeting the ultra-rich owners of luxury properties, who have driven up the cost of housing in cities and towns across the UK.

As with the pied-à-terre tax, a new tax on second homes and the “mansion tax”, announced in last year’s budget, take particular aim at the most exclusive parts of the city, in so-called super-prime areas. The taxes in New York and England are a step in the right direction, but they alone won’t solve the causes of the housing crisis. This is rooted in a far broader and deeper financialisation of real estate, combined with hugely inflationary monetary policies introduced after the 2008 financial crash that have put the ideal of home ownership out of reach for the majority.

(Read more at the Guardian)

But wait, there’s more!

Mamdani may act as if it is unrelated, but if you increase demand for housing by inviting in all illegal aliens that want to come, will prices for housing (aka rent and mortgages) rise?

Do you know anything about the law of supply and demand? If you invite millions of illegal aliens into your city, will rental (or home) prices rise?

Additionally, if you want to blame inflation, who was it that printed more money than the market could support and produced 9% inflation (hint: it was Joe Biden)?

Mamdani floats the idea of raiding the teacher pension fund

Mamdani reportedly has floated the idea of delaying payments to pension funds (including teacher pension funds).

Thereforfe, not only are you suffering the problems caused by Joe Biden’s out-of-control spending (and thus the 9.1% inflation) and higher gas prices due to the on-and-off Iran War, but you have to wait for your delayed pension.

Mamdani’s committee suggests an 18% raise for city workers (including Mamdani)

The committee appointed by Mamdani paved the way for Mamdani to raise his own wages (since it obviously had been approved by an “independent” commission).

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America does more with less in its fight against the Islamic state

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America uses low cost surface drones to destroy expensive targets in Iran

The Wall Street Journal had this to say about the newest and cheapest weapon now in use by the U.S. military against Iranian assets.

When three American drone boats sneaked into an Iranian port and blew up a submarine and ship maintenance facility on Sunday, it marked a significant public milestone for the U.S.’s growing fleet of unmanned surface vessels.

The drone boat attacks, which were part of a broader wave of strikes, hit the port at Bandar Abbas Naval Base in a kamikaze mission, according to a statement and videos released by U.S. Central Command. It was the first time American forces have employed sea drones in combat operations, the command said.

(See photos of the drone and read more at the Wall Street Journal)

As further proof, CENTCOM posted its videos of the attack

Take note that the video shows a submarine and ship maintenance facility being destroyed by three small sea surface drones.

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U.S. Military’s Shahed-136 kamikaze drone clone is getting a hivemind swarming capability

The War Zone reports in a 21 May 2026 article on how America adopted the cheap design of the Shahed and one-upped it by adding a hivemind swarming capability.

The U.S. military’s Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System, or LUCAS, the recently combat-proven long-range one-way attack drone designed for massed operations, will be equipped with Hivemind autonomy software from Shield AI. The company was selected for the integration effort by the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW R&E) as part of an effort to bring AI-enabled swarming and autonomous teaming to LUCAS. The aim of incorporating swarming capabilities onto LUCAS, which is built by SpektreWorks, is something that officials told us about soon after the program broke cover.

The LUCAS program, developed by the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Prototyping and Experimentation under OUSW R&E, is intended to field ‘affordable mass’ by producing large numbers of relatively low-cost drones that can be deployed in coordinated waves to saturate enemy defenses and expand strike capabilities at scale. Each LUCAS drone costs around $35,000, which is a fraction of the price of available missiles with similar range.

Based on the Iranian Shahed-136, LUCAS was used in combat for the first time when a large number of them were fired against Iranian targets in the opening salvos of Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. part of the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran that began on February 28 of this year.

“LUCAS, indispensable,” U.S. Central Command boss Adm. Brad Cooper told TWZ when asked how effective the drones had been and how much they helped preserve magazine depth, given their comparatively low cost and faster and easier production.

Meanwhile, the original Shahed-136, as well as Russian Geran-series developments of it, have rapidly become a signature weapon of the war in Ukraine, acting as Moscow’s primary standoff strike munition. For years now, Shaheds have led Russia’s campaign of bombardment against Ukrainian infrastructure and cities. While the Shahed has a range in excess of 1,000 miles, LUCAS, in its current configuration, is a bit smaller, with a range of around half that distance. A version of the current airframe used for the LUCAS program also serves in a target surrogate role for training and testing.

Under the new effort, Hivemind will act as an AI “pilot” for LUCAS, allowing groups of drones to coordinate movements, maneuver collaboratively, and adapt to changing battlefield conditions in real time. The effort will culminate in an operational demonstration this fall in which a single operator will direct a swarm of LUCAS drones, but initial flight tests with the software installed will take place before then, Shield AI told TWZ.

Speaking to TWZ at the annual SOF Week conference yesterday, Shield AI’s Brandon Tseng explained that much of the work on inserting the Hivemind AI pilot into LUCAS has already been proven by the company’s experiences working with Ukraine.

“LUCAS is a reflection of about two years’ worth of work with OUSW R&E, and a reflection of a lot of the work that we’re doing in Ukraine with one-way attack drones,” Tseng explained. “For the past several months, we’ve been shipping hundreds of AI pilots for one-way attack drones into Ukraine. Those drones have increased the probability of a kill. They have reduced [the] kill chain timeline, they have reduced the cost per effect, instead of, one out of every 10 of these one-way attack drones hitting their target, now they’re 10 out of 10 in terms of what we’re seeing, and it’s really about taking a lot of that development that we’ve done over in Ukraine and bringing it to a program like LUCAS to again increase probability of kill, reduce cost per effect, and increase probabilities of success.”

(Read more at The War Zone)

Views from other sources of strikes (drones or aerial/naval)

The following tweets show the damage incurred in Iran:

Yes, re-engineering a cheap drone into a more deadly cheap drone is better than losing a multi-million dollar drone

As many of us remember, American forces flew the Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel in Afghanistan before it was ready for full display and (due to a software glitch) allowed it to be hijacked by Iranian hackers who set it down in Iran without damage (offering up stealth and drone technology to Iran, China, and Russia).

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Would the county that spent $8 million on keeping illegal aliens in the country and faces a deficit of up to $257 million spend money on an investigation where it has no jurisdiction?

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Harris County spent $8 million in four years defending illegal aliens

Between 2020 and 2024, Harris County spent approximately $8 million on providing legal services and deportation defense for immigrants through public funds. To break it down further:

Timeline and dollars spent

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Under Democrat control, Harris County faces between a $129 million and $257 million deficit for 2027

Harris County projects a Fiscal Year 2027 budget deficit ranging from $129 million to $257 million, against a preliminary spending forecast of approximately $3.05 billion. The final gap depends on the property tax rate adopted by the Commissioners Court.

Under Democrat leadership, the county faces this shortfall—the fifth consecutive year a deficit has been projected—due to several primary drivers:

  • Law Enforcement Costs ($73 million): Driven by Year 2 of the county’s law enforcement pay parity program and state-mandated funding for vacant positions.
  • One-Time Funds ($69 million): Restoring obligations previously covered by one-time funding sources, such as temporary hiring freezes and special revenue funds.
  • Healthcare ($38 million): Rising county healthcare costs largely tied to the usage of specific designer medications (Ozempic and other GLP-1 medications).
  • Inflation & Other Expenses ($88 million): Departmental spending requests, tax-increment reinvestment zone (TIRZ) increases, countywide compensation, and general inflation.

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Harris County seeks funding for independent investigation into fatal ICE shooting

Houston’s CBS affiliate KHOU lightly describes the attempt of District Attorney Sean Teare and County Judge Rodney Ellis to investigate federal officials where they (the DA and County Judge) have no jurisdiction.

Nearly a week after an ICE agent in Houston fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Harris County leaders say federal authorities are still not cooperating with a local investigation into the shooting, leaving prosecutors without access to key evidence.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General is leading the federal investigation into the shooting, but Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said his office continues to be shut out despite launching its own independent investigation.

“The federal government has not invited us in,” Teare said. “The federal government is not collaborating to this point with us in this investigation.”

Salgado, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was shot and killed during an ICE enforcement operation in Houston’s East End on July 7.

Federal officials have said Salgado attempted to ram ICE vehicles and tried to run over officers before an agent opened fire in self-defense. So far, however, no evidence has been publicly released to support that account.

Witness describes hearing gunshot

Juanita Murphy, who lives on Canal Street near the shooting scene, said she was inside her home that morning when she heard what sounded like a single gunshot.

“I thought it was a firecracker. It was a pop,” Murphy said. “The dogs were all nervous and barking, so I came out here to see what was going on.”

Murphy recorded video that appears to show several ICE agents outside her home shortly after the shooting. She said the incident has stayed with her.

“It’s sad that something like this happened, that somebody takes off in the morning to go to work and they wind up dying on the sidewalk,” she said.

Teare said videos like Murphy’s could become important evidence as investigators work to reconstruct what happened.

Harris County seeks funding for independent investigation

On Monday, Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis announced he will ask the Commissioners Court to provide funding for the district attorney’s investigation, saying prosecutors should have whatever resources they need to pursue the case.

“I will bring an item before Commissioners Court to fund this independent investigation and ensure that our DA’s office has all of the necessary resources to thoroughly pursue every lead and preserve every fact,” Ellis said.

Ellis said county staff is still determining how much funding may be needed, a process that could take several weeks.

“Whatever it costs within reason, it’s important enough for us to do it,” Ellis said.

He added that Salgado’s family and the community deserve answers.

“His life mattered. It had value. His family deserves answers. Harris County residents deserve answers,” Ellis said.

DA says federal authorities have shared little information

Teare said his office investigates every officer-involved shooting in Harris County that results in a death, regardless of which agency is involved.

Nearly a week after the shooting, Teare said investigators still do not know the identities of the federal agents involved and have not received critical evidence.

He said he recently spoke with the local ICE special agent in charge, who told him the local office is not handling the investigation.

“We had a very fine conversation, but it wasn’t substantive in any way,” Teare said.

The district attorney’s office was also not allowed onto the scene until hours after it had been cleared, though investigators immediately began collecting evidence once they were granted access.

(Read more at KHOU)

What we knew on the day of the shooting: the feds said that the illegal alien tried to ram the agents

Additionally, we heard that the man was shot as a result of that his attempt to ram his van into the agents.

If an American citizen rams their vehicle into people, might that American be in danger of justifiably being killed? If so, why is Sean Teare wasting our taxpayer money investigating what is likely a justified homicide?

Could the reason behind this investigation (beside enriching Democrats) be to prove that Democrats love criminals?

On days following the shooting, we found out only a few things

We found out that the agents were not wearing body cameras due to the Democrat defunding of ICE.

We found out that local video cameras only captured the illegal alien driving away from the agents. This happened a block away from where the shooting occurred.

DA Teare cannot call up the federal dash cams and cannot subpeona the federal agents. So who will he investigate?

So will Teare spend taxpayer money interviewing the people hanging around on the corner where the shooting occurred on the morning of the shooting?

Will Teare take the testimony of people who were not on the scene (like Juanita Murphy, quoted in the story above)?

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Anti-Christian bigotry seems to be on the upswing across the world and in America

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Jailed Catholic woman’s hunger strike highlights Iran religious persecution

Fox News describes the plight of Ghazal Marzban, a Catholic jailed in Iran and on a hunger strike for the sake of her fellow Christians.

The State Department condemned Iran’s intensified repression of Christians, including a Catholic woman on hunger strike in a prison known as one of the most brutal in the theocratic state.

The Trump administration statement on widespread human rights violations carried out by the Iranian regime coincides with new military strikes against it in response to Tehran’s attacks on commercial tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Christian woman on hunger strike is 42-year-old Ghazal Marzban, who sits in Iran’s infamous Evin prison in Tehran, according to Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). Iran sentenced Marzban, a Catholic, to nearly 10 years in prison for practicing her Christian faith, Iranian experts told Fox News Digital. Marzban’s physical health, as of late May, had deteriorated. Her current condition is not known.

It is unclear if the administration plans to ramp up pressure on Iran’s leaders for their widepsread persecution of religious minorities and opponents of the regime.

A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital, “We are aware of these reports. It is reprehensible that the Iranian regime continues to persecute religious minorities, including Iranian Christians.”

Article 18, an organization that promotes religious freedom in Iran, noted that following Marzban’s conversion, the Islamic law graduate was banned from taking her bar entry examination. Her husband, who also converted to Christianity, has been denied medicine for his Parkinson’s disease, according to Article 18.

Fox News Digital sent a press query to Iran’s U.N. Mission about Marzban and the plight of practicing Christians in Iran.

The State Department spokesperson said, “In Iran, human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly, association, and religion or belief, are completely ignored. The regime targets members of religious and ethnic minority groups and uses tactics like arbitrary arrest and torture to intimidate opponents and silence dissent.”

After the regime reportedly murdered as many as 45,000 Iranian demonstrators within a 48-hour period in January, including as many as 22 Iranian Christians, the security forces of the regime arrested vast numbers of protesters.

(Read more at Fox News)

Somehow, like the drones lobbed at ships, I think this has more to do with Iranian swagger

These muslims have no consideration for their fellow humans. They only want to display their swagger before they fall.

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A 2024 story of parents who lost their child to gender ideology in Switzerland’s highest court

The Alliance Defending Freedom describes a case lost in 2024 in Switzerland where Christian parents lost their daughter to the state because the parents opposed transitioning of their pre-teen child with puberty blockers.

Switzerland’s highest court has decided parents separated from their daughter for refusing to endorse her gender “transition” must enable their child’s legal “sex change” or face the possibility of criminal charges.

The Geneva-based parents responded to the mental health struggles of their daughter, who expressed “gender confusion,” with care and support, including obtaining effective and compassionate mental health care for her. Concerned that their daughter was being pushed to make hasty and potentially irreversible decisions, they declined “puberty blockers” and explicitly rejected her school’s attempt to “socially transition” her. For seeking to protect the health and well-being of their daughter, they faced a legal stand-off over their fundamental rights as parents to care for their child who is being pressured to physically “transition,” including through cross-sex hormones and invasive surgical procedures.

(Read more at ADF)

With many children who chose transgenderism now regretting their choice, one wonders what the outcome of this might be

Recent reports have the numbers of transitions declining. Additionally, other reports have an increased number of people regretting their transitions; therefore, we can only speculate on the future of this situation.

However, I pray for anyone faced with this situation. I pray that you might forgive and restore as much as possible. Although I would not sanction an unBiblical lifestyle, I would accept any prodigal child.

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Report links anti-Christian extremism and “assassination culture” to alleged plot against Erika Kirk

Fox News describes the report that details the origin and reach of the “assassination culture” that has sprung up on the American Left.

A new report reveals that a dangerous dynamic of anti-Christian extremism and “assassination culture” could have fueled the recent attempt to kill conservative leader Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk, as threats against public officials and figures rise to historic levels.

In late May, Bexar County charged Jacob Wenske, 26, with a third-degree felony count of making a terroristic threat involving public fear of serious bodily injury or public disruption for his alleged plan to bomb a Turning Point USA event where Kirk was the keynote speaker. 

In an email to TPUSA, Wenske said he was targeting Kirk, other event speakers and so-called “Christian nationalists,” according to an arrest warrant.

Wenske, who worked as a valet driver, also posted multiple threats on social media, according to the warrant.

Wenske’s arrest emerged amid a record number of threats against political figures and members of Congress. The U.S. Capitol Police Threat Assessment Section showed a 58% increase in threats against members of Congress from 2024 to 2025, and threats overall have nearly doubled since 2020. 

The Network Contagion Research Institute, a research lab that studies how radical ideologies spread across digital networks and social media, analyzed the threats against Kirk to assess the level of danger and how “permission structure” plays a role in originating the threat.

“What we’re seeing is a massive influx of foreign malign influence that is truly shaping the Western world right now, particularly through social media,” Travis Hawley, cyber threat and open-source intelligence analyst at the Network Contagion Research Institute, told Fox News Digital. “What you could call our digital diet is really shaping how people see ourselves, our values, our country, and even our history.”

“And there are many countries, organizations, and wealthy individuals, whether it’s [Neville Roy] Singham in China, who are really pushing or putting their thumb on the scale, trying to push us and accelerate us into violence, dystopian even, and a civil unrest type of environment,” Hawley added. “This is really concerning and really showing how democracy actually has a weakness if it is not protected.”

The targeting of Kirk comes nine months after the assassination of her husband, who was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University. 

FBI Director Kash Patel said that Tyler Robinson, Kirk’s alleged assassin, confessed the killing in the chatroom platform Discord, a platform which members of Congress have criticized for radicalizing users.

(Read more at Fox News)

This trend not only seems to have Christianity in its sights, but also any form of the American Representative Republic

From quotes taken from New York Democratic Socialists, it seems that they want to eliminate the Senate, have the President appointed by the House, and eliminate the Supreme Court.

Is this what President B.O. meant by “fundimentally change America?”

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Christian father says Sweden “kidnapped” his children, branded family “religious extremists”

Fox News tells us of the Romanian family of Christians who have now lost their two daughters to the Swedish government due to accusations of being “religious extremists.”

A Christian father in Europe says his family’s life has been “destroyed” after Swedish authorities took custody of his two daughters over three years ago after a false abuse allegation.

Daniel and Bianca Samson have been fighting to regain custody of their daughters, Sara and Tiana, who were 11 and 10 years old when they were taken by Sweden’s social services and placed in foster care in December 2022.

Daniel Samson told Fox News Digital the girls were taken after Sara made an abuse allegation at school after an argument over her parents’ refusal to let her wear makeup or have a cellphone.

“They literally kidnapped the girls from school,” he said.

Even after Sara reportedly retracted the statement and police dropped the investigation after finding no evidence of abuse, the government agency refused to return the girls.

Samson alleged authorities then shifted their focus to the family’s Christian faith.

“As soon as you mention God, as soon as you try to leave following Christian values, you have a target on your back. And once they take your children back, they will never let go,” he said.

In court, Samson said, officials labeled the parents “religious extremists” to justify their separation. He said lawyers used their parenting choices against them, such as the girls not being allowed to paint their nails, the lack of a television in the home and the reading of Bible stories, which he said authorities called “violent.”

(Read more at Fox News)

I would ask Sweden if they apply this “religious extremism” standard to the Islamic migrants

From the news that I read of “no-go zones” in Stockholm, I would guess that they don’t apply any “religious extremism” standards against Islamists.

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Iran, Nicaragua, and Nigeria all move against one group

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Just before the Iranian regime started attacking ships in the strait again

Only days before the mullahs began directing their weapons against ships in the Strait of Hormuz, they started this campaign against an established and unhidden church in Irna.

Iran Plans to Seize Protestant Church

The Free Press reports on the actions of the Islamist regime against the small Iranian Christian community.

For years, the Iranian regime held back from seizing Tehran’s St. Peter Evangelical Church, the oldest Protestant church in Iran. The regime was afraid of what America might do in retaliation, according to three Western Christian leaders with ties to Tehran’s Christian community as well as Sargez Benyamin, executive secretary of the Synod of the Evangelical Church of Iran in Diaspora and former pastor of St. Peter. That fear, these sources say, is now gone, with Iranian officials recently threatening the church’s leaders.

“I will tell you the literal words they used,” Sasan Tavassoli, an Iranian Presbyterian pastor in the U.S. with direct contacts at St. Peter, told The Free Press. “We were concerned about America all these years. America came. They slapped us on the face. We slapped them on the face back. And then America withdrew. So we are no longer afraid of America.”

Last week, the regime told the 20 families living at St. Peter that they have just weeks to vacate. Most of the families are low-income and have lived at the compound for years, Benyamin said.

The Iranian regime said it is seizing the property through EIKO—the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order, a state-affiliated organization—and issuing a new deed in its own name through the Islamic Revolutionary Court, according to a letter written by Benyamin that was addressed to the international Christian community.

(Read more at The Free Press)

This is taqiyya in action

This, along with the attacks on the Strait, are Iran’s way of saying that all they said was a lie.

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Nicaraguan Bishop arrested as Ortega’s regime ramps up Christian persecution

The Washington Stand highlights the persecution occurring in our own back yard.

The persecution of Christians appears to be intensifying in the Central American country of Nicaragua under the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as a Catholic bishop, two priests, and a deacon were arrested and detained last week, apparently for asking for prayers for an end to religious persecution in the country.

On Monday, the U.K.-based organization Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reported that Catholic Bishop Juan Abelardo Mata Guevara, the 80-year-old Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Estelí, was arrested and detained at the El Chipote Maximum Security Prison in Managua by the National Police on June 29. He was released after being held for over five hours but was again detained the following morning and held until 4 p.m. Two Catholic priests and a deacon were also reportedly arrested on June 30 and held for 12 hours before being released.

According to CSW, the retired Bishop Mata Guevara, “who has a pacemaker and is a cancer survivor,” has not made public appearances recently but accepted an invitation to celebrate Sunday Mass at La Cruz del Calvario Church on June 28. “During the service he referred to religious persecution in his prayers, mentioning the cases of prominent religious leaders such as Bishop Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, who was forced into exile in January 2024, and Father Frutos Constantino Valle Salmerón, who has been under house arrest since July 2024,” CSW noted.

The organization further observed that spies for Ortega’s government often record homilies, sermons, and prayers inside Christian churches and report them to the government. There were reportedly 12 arbitrary detentions of Christian leaders (six Catholic and six Protestant) in June alone.

The recent persecution continues an ongoing pattern of religious oppression that has been carried out under the dictatorship of Ortega. In April, a report found at least 309 cases of religious repression against Christians (200 against Catholics and 108 against Protestants) committed by the regime, including threats and harassment. But much more serious crimes have also come to light. In September of last year, it was reported that a Catholic lawyer died in police custody, with his body showing visible signs of torture.

A series of disappearances of others have also occurred for political reasons. A monitoring group called the Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners tracked 33 arrests last year. “Five of those cases involved entire families, including a 12-year-old girl detained along with her parents in Jinotepe, shortly after the state confiscated the Catholic-run Colegio San José school on Aug. 12,” The Christian Post noted. The group also found that of the 73 political prisoners currently being held, almost half have disappeared and are unaccounted for.

As for religious persecution, Ortega’s regime appears to be focused on the Catholic Church in particular. Ever since the institution of a 2018 law that restricted foreign funding for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the government has shut down thousands of NGOs, including numerous Catholic groups, banning public processions, and limiting the movement and activities of clergy. In March, the regime instituted a prohibition on four Catholic dioceses from ordaining new priests and deacons.

Evangelical churches have also been heavily affected by the Ortega dictatorship’s activities, with The Christian Post reporting that the majority of the 1,500 nonprofit organizations that have had their legal statuses revoked are evangelical churches and missions. They have also had their assets and properties confiscated “over alleged administrative irregularities.”

“For years, Catholics and evangelicals have felt the weight of the Ortega regime’s targeted oppression,” Arielle Del Turco, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. “Priests, pastors, and those attending religious services have been harassed by police, threatened, arrested, and at times, imprisoned. Religious events have been forcibly canceled, and churches have been stripped of their own property. The Ortega regime has not only been unrelenting in persecuting believers but is unabashedly ramping up its oppression.”

(Read more at the Washington Stand)

If I didn’t know better, this might seem a little like the burning of churches that went uninvestigated during the Biden years

Of course, the Democrats want us now to believe that Joe (the guy whose FBI was infiltrating Latin mass Catholic churches) was just a harmless, demented old guy.

The Democrats in office and in the press don’t want us to remember how churches attacked (spray painted, burned, had their statues broken, …), but were not investigated.

Try doing a Google Gemini investigation of the matter. It will either hallucinate or outright lie and tell you that:

There is no exact official statistic tracking the total number of churches that burned or were targeted specifically during the Biden administration (January 2021 to January 2025). Furthermore, local and federal authorities do not classify any fires as “not investigated,” though some cases may remain unsolved.

Terror Spreads in Nigeria as killing dprees Spike against Christians

The Washington Stand applies a 16 April 2025 article to convey the terror that Nigerian Christians experience while being hunted by Islamists.

It didn’t matter how soundly she slept, Salamatu would wake up at 2 a.m. every night — her body remembering what her mind wished she could forget. It had been that same hour, months earlier, when Boko Haram stormed into her village, rewriting her future forever.

For Salamatu, terror was a way of life. In an earlier wave of violence, the jihadists had swarmed her Nigerian church, shooting the pastor in cold blood. Then, she says quietly, they came for her family. “My husband told me we should pray,” Salamatu remembers of that horrible night. “We said a short prayer and then ‘Amen.’ As soon as we said ‘Amen,’ we heard people pulling at the handles of our gate.” Quickly, her husband ushered her, the children, and grandchildren upstairs. “Don’t cry,” he told them. “Don’t make a noise — not even if you hear gunshots.” He walked outside to face the armed men, and it was the last time she saw him alive.

The militants jumped the fence and opened fire on her husband where he stood — killing him instantly. He was one of six victims that night and one of hundreds slaughtered every month in the bloody farmlands of Nigeria. Just this past weekend, as the world stopped to observe Palm Sunday, 51 people were massacred in an early morning attack on the community of Bassa — many burned to death in their homes by the savage Fulani herdsman.

In the days leading up to the holy day raid, the roaming bands of riders had mowed down Christians whose only crime was working their land. Another 11 were gathered around the freshly dug graves of other victims, only to be brutally murdered during the service themselves. A pregnant mother, a 10-year-old girl, and at least five women were among the dead. According to Open Doors, they are but a handful of the 113 innocents assassinated for their faith — and their land — across the Plateau State since the end of March.

“Our people are living in fear,” Titus Ayuba Alams wanted the West to know. “Children no longer go to school, even worship in churches — you can’t do it, because you are running for your life.” Still, most people understand the threat of openly worshipping Jesus and accept it anyway, determined to live out their faith in a country that’s become a killing field of Christians.

Even the landscape is scarred by the horrors. Across seven predominately Christian regions, houses are reduced to rubble and ash — signs of yet another Boko or Fulani rampage. The attackers destroy everything in their path, looting and setting fire to entire areas in a systematic genocide that the government sees but does nothing about. In this latest wave, more than 1,000 Christians have fled or been displaced, and almost 400 homes were annihilated — with only the sound of motorcycles to warn them danger is near.

“I would say it unapologetically, what happened in the last two weeks in Bokkos is genocide. I say it unreservedly,” Plateau Governor Caleb Mutfwang told Arise News last Monday. This, he argues emotionally, is “a well-coordinated plan to keep the people in those areas in perpetual poverty. … [A]t the moment you are dealing with attackers that are faceless, and so you just leave it to the fact that this is ill-motivated and is aimed at driving the people out of their lands.”

Entire families have been “wiped out in midnight raids,” Pastor Tongsmangs Dasbak shook his head. “The indiscriminate killings often target defenseless civilians, including women, children and the elderly,” he emphasized. “…This loss of human life is not just a statistic but a profound tragedy that has disrupted the social fabric of the region.”

No one is brought to justice, no one is held to account. “Homes, schools, church buildings, and markets have been razed to the ground, as communities that took years to build have been reduced to ashes within hours,” Amnesty International reiterated. The lucky ones have run into the forests, unable — or unwilling — to return.

(Read more at the Washington Stand)

Nigerian Christian persecution: An under-reported story

The Washington Stand uses a 25 March 2026 podcast to point to the most under-reported stories in Western journalism: the slaughter of thousands of Christians in Nigeria.

 

The news around Mitch McConnell proves why we cannot trust the press

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Critical news not reported by the main stream press and allowed to become dated

Mitch McConnell was found “unconscious” in DC home last month, may have suffered heart attack

The New York Post repeats the now late news concerning a Republican who could have made a difference (but obviously chose a different path).

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was found “unconscious” and may have suffered a heart attack at his DC residence before being rushed to a local hospital last month, according to a District Fire and EMS dispatch call made public Wednesday.

The June 14 call referenced medical personnel in an ALS, or Advanced Life Support, ambulance being sent to the home shortly before 9 a.m. and mentioned there was “CPR in progress” for a “cardiac arrest.”

Punchbowl News first reported on the EMS radio traffic.

Reps for the former Senate GOP leader did not comment on the communications.

A McConnell spokesman on the day of the incident shared that the Kentucky senator “was admitted to the hospital this morning” and was “receiving excellent care.”

The next day, spokesman David Popp said McConnell was “working closely with staff on Senate business and Kentucky matters as he continues his recovery.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) also said his predecessor was “dialed in” on their conference’s legislative business, while Thune himself had spoken to McConnell by phone.

(Read more at the New York Post)

Had McConnell chosen to do what would benefit all Americans rather than nurse a grudge, our elections would be more secure

Had McConnell let go of the reigns of power at a time that he could hardly independently walk a line or keep his train of thought, then we might have had a special election that (in the least) might have brought another libertarian to the Senate.

Further, since 95% of Republican voters and 71% of Democrat voters support voter ID, we might have gotten this through in his absence.

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This makes you wonder about the other handlers

McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, saw no need for “immediate return” from China as former GOP leader hospitalized

Fox News reports on the sudden departure of Elaine Chao from her seemingly almost dead husband.

Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao went to China and stayed there, while her husband, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was hospitalized.

Though his condition remains a mystery as rumors swirl, a spokesperson for Chao told Fox News Digital that it was not grave enough for her to cancel the trip.

“The secretary was on a long-planned trip in China to support her family’s philanthropic endeavors,” the spokesperson said. “During the trip, she met with a number of people, including the U.S. ambassador. The Senator’s health did not warrant an immediate return to the U.S.”

Chao has since returned to the U.S. while McConnell has entered his third week of hospitalization. But his current condition and a timetable for his return to the Senate have not been made clear.

His office is keeping mum on what exactly is going on with the 84-year-old, the longest-serving Senate Republican leader in history, who is expected to retire at the end of his term this year. Instead, the void has been filled by an online rumor pumping speculation into what exactly is going on with the lawmaker.

Laura Loomer, a conservative commentator, claimed that a “high level source close to the White House” said McConnell was “brain dead” and that the lawmaker “isn’t ever coming back.”

(Read more at Fox News)

We know that Diane Feinstein had her 20-year driver as a Chinese spy and Eric Swalwell had Fang Fang. Did McConnell have Chao as his Chinese spy?

It seems very untoward for a wife to leave the deathbed of her husband in order to run to what seem to be handlers in an enemy country.

Therefore, someone please explain why Chao did this.

The tweet below quotes former DNI Gabbard as follows:

TULSI GABBARD JUST DROPPED THE HAMMER ON ELAINE CHAO THE CHINESE ASSET — SHE RAN STRAIGHT TO CHINA WHILE HER HUSBAND MITCH MCCONNELL WAS IN THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE “THEY DON’T GET TO CHOOSE WHEN THE CALL COMES… THEY JUST GO!”

🔗 https://t.me/+Nm1AnsY87kZkM2M0

This is the kind of treason we’ve been waiting to see exposed.

Former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard didn’t hold back when she said Elaine Chao’s decision to fly to China while Mitch McConnell was hospitalized tells us everything we need to know.

Gabbard said it plainly: “We long believed that Chao was a Chinese asset. They don’t get to choose when and where they go when the call comes. They just go.”

She added that American intelligence agencies have had open files on Chao for a long time, and this last trip “sealed the deal.”

“She’s out, and she knows it.”

While her husband was lying in a hospital bed, Elaine Chao hopped on a plane to Beijing like the good little asset she is. This is the same woman who spent years in Trump’s cabinet while her family’s shipping empire made millions doing business with the Chinese Communist Party.

Mitch McConnell stood by and let it happen for decades.

Tulsi Gabbard just confirmed what a lot of people have suspected for years. Elaine Chao isn’t just married to a weak RINO — she’s compromised.

The files are open. The trip sealed it. She’s done.

Share this everywhere so every American sees exactly who these people really are!

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If a hardly-relevant host on a dying network asks this question, then it should have occurred to the rest of the main stream outlets

Joe Scarborough questions how “every Republican” talked to Mitch for 20 minutes

Mediaite takes the point observed by Joe Scarborough on the Joe and Mika show (aka Morning Joe on MSNBS) and points out how so many of these seemingly manufactured stories align.

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough appeared baffled by the idea that “every Republican on Capitol Hill” had suddenly landed a “20-minute” call with Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to confirm he was recovering after being hospitalized as concern grows over the elderly lawmaker’s health and claims he was “brain dead.”

Though Scarborough expressed some skepticism, he said he believed the calls had taken place. He did, however, question the closed-rank statements from senior Republican figures and pundits who said that they’d spoken with the senator.

With scant details from McConnell’s spokespeople, apart from a thin statement issued June 22, unconfirmed claims by MAGA activist Laura Loomer that the senator was “officially brain dead” went viral.

Soon after, conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings claimed on Tuesday to have held a call with hospitalized McConnell, during which the pair discussed a range of topics from history to foreign policy.

Later in the day, it was reported that Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso also talked with McConnell, likewise for close to 20 minutes.

Covering the statements on Wednesday’s show, Scarborough said he was “glad to hear” McConnell is doing “much better” before continuing:

I will say I’m very glad to hear from John Thune and John Barrasso, because I know them and trust them, but I will say, you know, when you serve in Congress, you know, you get into the office in the morning and they give you this card and your entire days, at least mine and most members that I know, were split in 15-minute increments. Like 8am, 8.15, 8.30… Mitch McConnell’s yesterday was split in 20 minute increments because it seems every Republican on Capitol Hill or any right-wing person on television seemed to have talked to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes.

Co-host Jonathan Lemire noted that many Republicans had “very similar readouts” of the conversations they had with the senator, noting that this had served “speculation” about his condition.

(Read more at Mediaite)

Did all of these “conversations” last 20 minutes because that was the length of the recording of Mitch’s voice?

If they want me to believe that there were several conversations — all of which lasted a full 20 minutes and then somehow ended — they could do us the favor of providing a recording of one of those conversations.

Otherwise, I am not believing.

There is just too much a chance that this was a figment of their imagination or the product of AI.

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One of the problems with the RINO system is the brain dead votes

Mitch McConnell’s office dodges questions on whether he is “brain dead”

The New Republic allows the office help of Senator McConnell to dodge the question of whether the old codger who has been acting like Joe Biden for some time actually now is brain dead.

Senator Mitch McConnell’s medical condition remains unknown, and his office won’t address questions about the former Senate majority leader being “brain dead.”

HuffPost’s Jennifer Bendery reached out to McConnell’s staff Tuesday about the speculation. A day earlier, far-right influencer Laura Loomer and independent journalist Desirée Townsend, who first flagged the EMS call to McConnell’s home that revealed he was unconscious, declared that the Kentucky senator is “officially brain dead.” Bendery said the senator’s staff did not confirm or deny the report, instead directing her to a week-old statement that doesn’t clarify McConnell’s condition.

“Senator McConnell appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital,” a spokesperson told Bendery. “The Senator continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session.”

Earlier in the day Tuesday, several Republicans publicly insisted that McConnell was still alive and that they had just spoken to him. CNN commentator Scott Jennings said, “He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the [Teddy Roosevelt] Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history.”

Senator Scott Barrasso and Senate Majority Leader John Thune also said they had spoken to McConnell about Senate business. However, other Republicans, such as Senator Mike Lee, said they still don’t know what’s going on with McConnell.

“Many of us aren’t speaking about Mitch McConnell’s condition because we know nothing about his condition,” Lee said on X.

(Read more at the New Republic)

The problem with this is that he has been making brain dead votes for years

Not only has Mitch been voting against the needs of his constituents for years, but he has been doing it with impunity.

The whole reason for this

As far as I can tell, the whole reason for this was to again thwart the attempts of President Trump. Never mind that it was on a topic that 95% of Republicans (an 71% of Democrats) support — that being voter ID — McConnell and the other never-Trumpers had to kill it.

Remember that when voting for a RINO like Thune.

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New Yorkers find the ill effects of electing socialists as Mamdani makes air conditioner demands during a heat wave

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Mamdani calls on his constituents to turn up their air conditioners

News Nation reports on the call by Mamdani during a heat wave to turn air conditioners up to near 80 degrees.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made a plea to the residents of the Big Apple amid a sweltering summer.

In a post on X, Mamdani urged residents Wednesday aftgernoon to do something of a civic duty.

“New York: it’s hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool. Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you’re not using, and unplug what you can,” Mamdani said.

“Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings, dimming/turning off our lights during peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same, and powering down non-essential equipment.

“A stable grid means the AC stays on, and lives are saved. Let’s ease demand — and get through the heat — together.”

The comments led to mocking in political circles and on social media — Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham wrote on X: “The Socialist Democrats are coming for your AC. This is the future that WOKE Democrats want not just for NYC but for South Carolina too!”

Mamdani reiterated his call in another statement Thursday afternoon, citing similar recommendations from the New York Independent System Operator, which issued an energy warning for Thursday “due to a decline in operating reserves.”

New York City is expected to reach a top of 101 degrees Friday, followed by a high of 95 on Saturday.

(Read more at News Nation)

If Commie Mamdani were doing this with the people, it would be one thing — but he is keeping his AC at a 54 degree low

Despite the demand from Mamdani:

The government offices accross New York stay at a chilling 54 degrees:

Mamdani says that the power grid cannot take the strain of everyone running their air conditioners.

But who has been in charge of the power grid (but Democrats) for the past 20 plus years? Nobody!

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Mamdani can’t even get City Hall to stick to his 78-degree AC rule — as temps in building hit as low as 54

The New York Post shines a light on the fact that Commie Mamdani’s own  New York’s City Hall keeps its thermometers at a chilly 54 degrees.

Zo’s so cold.

Temperatures inside City Hall plunged as low as 54 degrees Thursday during the ongoing heat wave — despite Mayor Zohran Mamdani urging New Yorkers to set their air conditioners to a balmy 78, The Post found.

Sweaty Post reporters armed with an infrared thermometer tested 20 spots within City Hall and other municipal offices and buildings they were able to access — and all but five of them were below 78 degrees.

The “heat for thee, but not for me” revelation comes after Mamdani got roasted online Wednesday when he recommended New Yorkers set their AC to 78 degrees or higher to help avert potentially dangerous Con Edison power outages.

“Maybe the mayor shouldn’t tell New Yorkers to sacrifice their comfort if he isn’t willing to do the same,” scoffed David Carr (R-Staten Island), the City Council’s minority leader.

Most of the locations tested by The Post hovered a degree or two off the Mamdani-approved benchmark at around noon — two hours before Central Park hit 100 degrees for the first time in more than a decade.

But by 4:30 p.m., temperatures had plummeted even more in the mayor’s office building, with the air in one room testing at a sweater weather-worthy 54 degrees.

The democratic socialist Hizzoner drew scores of half-baked “warmth of collectivism” jokes Wednesday after issuing the recommendation, though past mayors such as Eric Adams and Bill de Blasio gave the same advice during heat waves during their tenures.

The US Department of Energy likewise suggests people keep their thermostats at 75 degrees to 78 degrees Fahrenheit over the summer.

Mamdani, while issuing his own recommendation, also contended city buildings would lead by example.

“Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings, dimming/turning off our lights during peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same, and powering down non-essential equipment,” he posted on X.

But the fancy thermometer told a different story.

Temperatures in City Hall near the mayor’s second-floor office, the Rotunda, the Governors’ Room and the City Council’s chambers all stood at 77 degrees at 12 p.m. The mayor’s first-floor press office was 78 degrees at the same time.

But shortly afterward, a veritable cold snap hit City Hall. Outside Mamdani’s office, the temperature had dropped to 74 degrees.

In the Governor’s Room steps away from the mayor’s office, where folks were scurrying around prepping a teleprompter, cameras and lights for Mamdani’s Fourth of July address Friday, it also dipped down to 74 degrees.

The Rotunda dropped to 64 degrees.

One of the lowest readings — 62 degrees — came near the first-floor mayor’s press office at 1:30 p.m., as Mamdani’s communication minions and other staffers congregated on their side of the building.

The air drafting from the AC unit in the press radio room — where reporters frequently complain about frigid temps — tested at 54 degrees.

The swag-filled CityStore within the Manhattan Municipal Building likewise tested at 64 degrees, ensuring chilly tchotchkes for tourists and New Yorkers filled with hometown pride.

Staff in several municipal buildings and offices — such as those for sanitation and health — blocked reporters from going inside when they were informed about the project.

(Read more at the New York Post)

I am sure it was just a coincidence that reporters got blocked when rooms were found to be at 54 degrees

It makes you feel like you are part of the Naked Gun cast.

Then again, wasn’t it just two days ago that I posted on how Mamdani’s policies resulted in the closure of 50+ grocery stores in New York?

To paraphrase the closet commie Barack, electing commies has consequences (as evidenced by the closure of over 50 grocery stores and bodegas across New York. Additionally, it may cost New York a number of jobs since the owner of the New York’s largest chain of grocery stores has threatened to pull his stores over to New Jersey.

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Another case for the Supreme Court’s poor record

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Texas Republicans want the state to deny birth certificates for children of non-citizens

Austin Fox affliate KTBC reports on the effort by Texas Republicans to have Texas hospitals deny birth certificates to children of illegal aliens.

The Brief

  • Texas Republicans are calling on the state to deny birth certificates to babies born to non-citizens following the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld birthright citizenship.
  • State Rep. Brian Harrison called for a special session of the state legislature to pass laws intended to block the issuing of birth certificates to children of non-citizens and to make “birth tourism” a felony.
  • Several members of the Texas Congressional delegation have called for the passage of laws to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Some Texas Republicans are calling on the state to deny birth certificates to babies when their parents are not citizens of the United States following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that affirmed automatic citizenship for most people born in the United States.

What they’re saying: Railroad Commission nominee Bo French called the Supreme Court’s decision “traitorous” while using a derogatory term for children on non-citizens.

“The correct response to the traitorous decision today on anchor babies is nullification,” French said. “Texas can just do things and we should. Texas is sovereign. If I have anything to say about it, Texas will not recognize them as citizens.”

State Rep. Brian Harrison also joined the call for denying birth certificates to children of non-citizens, calling for a special session of the legislature to pass laws preventing “birth tourism.”

“I am publicly demanding an immediate special session to combat the harms from mass birth tourism, pressure the federal government to fix birth tourism, and to protect the value of citizenship that countless paid the ultimate price for,” Harrison said on X. “I hope every elected Republican in Texas joins my call for immediate action. Delay is unacceptable for a state like Texas!”

(Read more at KTBC)

From what I have read from conservative outlets, the greater threat comes with Chinese birth tourism passing into Guam

However, with the blind eye that the main stream media provides to overall issues of immigration (unless it favors their open borders view), we cannot open any door to illegal immigration. So, with caution in mind, I am thankful for any efforts by my Texas senators and representatives.

Just on the prinicple of the matter, I support a state law requiring hospitals to only issue birth certificates to the children of American citizens

If Texas uses court nullification and follows the common sense practice of issuing those certificates to only the children of American citizens, this may force common sense on the Supreme Court. Odder things have happened.

Who knows? Maybe KJB will be able to define a woman.

As I mentioned above, I am with Representatives Gill and Harrison on this.

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America starts reacting to the extremity of Democrats

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How the Left’s rejection of reality backfired on a Progressive champion

The Daily Wire chronicles how the Left’s rejection of core reality lead to problems for California State Senator Scott Wiener.

Oh, the irony. California State Senator Scott Wiener, a champion of LGBTQ-friendly legislation, was chased from a Pride march last month over his views on Gaza. To the crowd, Wiener was a supporter of “genocide” who “didn’t belong” among the LGBTQ community. As it happens, on top of being a radical leftist, Wiener is radically anti-Israel. The allegations against him are akin to those against Senator Bernie Sanders; no matter how rabidly these progressives champion the Palestinian cause, they can never be forgiven for the crime of being Jewish. They are far from blameless in expecting to be spared for having bent the knee.

The protestors’ visceral reaction to his presence is indicative of a greater issue: a rigid mindset that requires the world be pigeonholed into a single theory. Wiener’s decades-long activism for their stated cause was rendered meaningless the moment he was grouped into the “oppressor” class. 

This fallacious way of thinking is as old as philosophy itself. It relies upon a “top-down” approach that is simply incompatible with human nature. Top-down philosophies come in many forms. They are characterized by a grand theory that seeks to unify all the social and political forces of the world into one framework. 

A top-down philosophy begins with a theory of reality and then interprets every event through that theory. It starts with the answer and searches for the evidence. Bottom-up approaches begin with observation, accept complexity, and allow conclusions to change when reality shakes expectations. 

The most infamous example of a top-down theory is economic determinism. At the outset of “The Communist Manifesto,” Karl Marx claimed, “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” Marxists regularly find themselves trying to explain with “class warfare” that which is completely unrelated. A Marxist will see all wars as an expression of underlying economic distress. To the empiricist (or the bottom-up philosopher), trying to categorize all wars as an expression of anything is a fool’s errand.

A popular philosophy among the American Left is called intersectionality. It is the belief that the world turns according to privilege and discrimination. It brings together critical race theory, decolonialism, and a host of other postmodern theories to place all of human history in terms of oppression. 

The trouble with top-down philosophies is that they are not subject to self-correction. In many cases, they require either blatant denials of reality or the simultaneous acceptance of direct contradictions, reminiscent of Orwell’s “doublethink.” 

Since all new evidence must be interpreted according to the grand theory, the theory itself becomes impossible to disprove. When confronted with the reality that empirical evidence does not show the prevalence of colonial privilege, rather than rejecting the theory, proponents shift the narrative, which becomes that the institution of evidence is a form of colonial privilege designed to bury oppression.

Earlier this year, SAGE Publications (one of the most prestigious journal publishers in academia) published a paper titled “‘Inviting Methodological Reworlding’: Toward a Pluriversal Future.” The thesis critiques “Western epistemological traditions that privilege objectivity.” In other words, facts are a colonialist tool that we should disregard when they don’t align with how we feel. 

Last month’s display should serve as a wake-up call, not only to theorists but to those who try endlessly to contort themselves to fit the theory. But I wouldn’t hold my breath; the radical Left has favored this approach for hundreds of years.

Edmund Burke, often called the Father of Conservatism, saw the dangers of this mindset and argued for its alternative. Years before the Reign of Terror, Burke predicted that the French Revolution would end in tyranny. Though he agreed with many of the grievances against the monarchy, Burke rejected radical change through vast theorizing as arrogant and dangerous.

Instead, he called for change through cautious, incremental experiments. Burke argued that the world was simply too complex to be understood by any theoretician. Our best way of moving forward was by modifying the tried and true institutions we had built through generations of accumulated wisdom.

There is a reason that English society flourished and the French revolutionaries did not: the same reason that American liberalism flourished and the centrally planned Soviet Union did not. In politics, humility always defeats certitude.

David Hume, another intellectual giant in the conservative movement, commented extensively on the divide. Hume criticized top-down approaches as inviting disaster through human error.

Hume wrote, “It is easy for a profound philosopher to commit a mistake in his subtile reasonings; and one mistake is the necessary parent of another, while he pushes on his consequences and is not deterred from embracing any conclusion.” 

He recognized that no human, no matter how academically gifted, is capable of creating a flawless system. It’s simply impossible. 

The “queers for Palestine” couldn’t adjust their framework to a Jewish ally, so instead they adjusted their allies. Scott Wiener was left behind.

(Read this at the Daily Wire)

If you have ever tried to get a academian to list the successful fully socialist nations, you have probably heard “it just hasn’t been applied correctly.”

It seems that they think that somewhere, somehow there might be a perfect implementation of communism, full socialism, or the like. It never occurs to them that marxism is just a theory made up by a lazy intellectual.

Additionally, if your experiences match my conversations with Left-leaning academics, they will actually argue with you about whether Mao killed more people than Hitler (while obviously never doing something that should be second nature to an academic: researching).

Therefore, the Left can be seen setting up their mythologies, folkways, and mores — and sticking to them, no matter what may be presented against those.

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Zohran Mamdani trashes law enforcement in divisive Independence Day message: “Masked agents terrorizing our streets”

Breitbart allows us to see the contradictions in Mamdani’s speech blaming border agents for allowing children to be hungry in a city ruled by Democrats for multiple decades.

Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani commemorated 250 years of American independence by painting a false picture of oppression, describing it as a “nation of contradictions” where “children go to sleep hungry” and “masked agents” terrorize the streets.

Mamdani offered a grim outlook of the America that paved the way for him to stand as the leader of New York City.

“250 years presents a rare opportunity for more than 340 million people to turn together, both towards one another and towards ourselves, to take measure of who we are as a nation,” Mamdani began.

Apparently failing to see the irony of his own position, he said the “powerful” view America as an “arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal.”

“America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes,” he said. “America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal.”

“At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics and the cheapest. But time and again, including 250 years ago, though those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress,” he said before offering, perhaps, the most divisive portion of his own speech by offering a long list of misinformation aimed to fan the flames of division — yet another great irony.

“As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world — one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more,” Mamdani said.

(Read more at Breitbart)

Nice, Mamdani. Who has been in power for long enough that those children might starve?

If Democrats have been in power in city government since 2001 (when Rudy Giuliani left the mayor’s office), then who might you be blaming?

Might you be referring to the last time a Republican left the governor’s mansion in 2006?

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“Little commie b******” Zohran Mamdani tries backpedaling on his “America sucks” July 4 speech and HOOBOY

Twitchy gives us a ring-side seat to the battle of the brains between patriots and Zohran Mamdani (and it seems the mayor left his at home).

New York City’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, tried to play nice on the Fourth of July with a post that suddenly discovered the word ‘patriotism,’ but not before reminding everyone that real love for America means obsessing over its flaws and turning every holiday into a lecture on ‘righteous dissent.’

Yawn.

So edgy.

This comes just days after his earlier speech, which spent more time crapping all over the country’s history, founders, and current state than celebrating anything. The contrast was lost on no one, especially conservatives who watched the Ugandan-born mayor’s latest attempt at sounding like a normal American fall completely flat.

Here’s his so-called ‘patriotic’ post:

Post continues:

… of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city’s waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.

Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.

Happy Fourth of July, New York City.

Yeah. Sure, Zohran.

Why can’t Democrats just celebrate our country? Is it really that hard? No country is perfect, duh, but it’s ok to talk about how absolutely badass America is without any side comments about flaws.

Just love America.

It’s not hard.

(Read at Twitchy for another choice reply)

These are some of my favorite replies to Mamdani’s speech

As with the observations of those in the tweets below, I was uninspired by Mamdani’s hype. In fact, I would challenge Mamdani to try this speech in his birth country of Uganda.

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Considering all of the reporting by the “news,” why not report on 1,900 known terrorists admitted by Joe?

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Trump administration has arrested 1,900 ‘known terrorists’ who entered under Biden

The Washington Examiner reports on one announcement by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on the arrest of 1,900 known terrorists admitted to America during the Biden term.

The Trump administration has arrested more than 1,900 noncitizens inside the United States who it alleges are terrorists and came into the country during the Biden administration, according to a Cabinet official.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday that federal, state, and local police are on guard for all types of threats at the FIFA World Cup and America 250 celebrations, including terrorists who made it into the U.S. undetected.

“Since President Trump has come into office, we have arrested over 1,900 known terrorists that came in under the Biden administration,” Mullin said during a press conference in New York City on Wednesday afternoon. “These aren’t people that [are] on [the] terrorist watch list. These were 1,900 individuals that were already known terrorists that came in underneath the Biden administration.”

(Read more at the Washington Examiner)

Considering the obsession the press had over Renee Good (while ignoring where her car was aimed), this is ripe.

When I think of the months the press spent deifying Renee Good — all at the time that they completely ignored her actions before the shooting and the aim of her car during the shooting — it sickens me.

Other than this one tweet pointing back to the already-quoted article (also appearing in various directly-quoted forms across several small publications), there is nothing to be found by Leftist/Socialist Google.

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Supreme Court shot down the executive order; however, there is still the Ban Birth Tourism Act.

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Supreme Court shoots down Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order

The Daily Caller notes how the Supreme Court shot down the overreach by President Trump on his birthright citizenship executive order.

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship was unconstitutional.

Trump attended the high court’s oral arguments about the case, Trump v. Barbara, on April 1, marking the first time the president of the United States had ever done so. Prior to the justices’ 6-3 ruling striking down Trump’s birthright citizenship order, some signaled during April’s oral arguments that they were skeptical about whether Trump had the power to end birthright citizenship through an executive order.

“If Congress intended to limit American citizenship to the children of those domiciled in the United States, nothing in the succinct language of the Citizenship Clause conveyed that design,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion joined by four other justices. Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred in the result, but dissented on the reasoning.

Associate Justice Samuel Alito delivered a blistering dissent that highlighted national security risks posed by the ruling.

“Suppose that a person’s only connection to this country is that he was born here to a mother who was present just long enough to give birth and then quickly returned to her native country. Suppose that country is a strategic adversary or enemy of the United States. Suppose the child never visited the United States while growing up and was inculcated with hatred of this country,” Alito wrote. “According to the Court, that person is a citizen of the United States. He can enter and leave the country as he pleases. He can travel the world on a United States passport. Even if he plots to harm this country, he cannot be deprived of his status as a citizen, at least under current precedent.”

“The Court has repurposed the Fourteenth Amendment to protect its own set of preferred rights that the Reconstruction Congress never contemplated and that cannot find support in its text,” Associate Justice Clarence Thomas wrote. “Today, the Court does so again by recognizing a constitutional right to citizenship for the children of all foreign birth tourists and illegal aliens.”

Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson concurred with the decision, claiming it was the “death knell” for the “inequitable” result sought by Thomas and Alito.

“Of course, the ultimate irony is that for all the talk about the detestable Dred Scott decision, the Government and the principal dissent propose a return to its core tenet. Their bottom line is that, for certain people, being born on American soil will not suffice to confer citizenship. It is that odious conclusion that the Citizenship Clause plainly rejects, as the Court explains,” Jackson wrote in the concurring opinion joined by Associate Justice Elena Kagan. “I add only that the Fourteenth Amendment’s universalist aims should forever be the death knell for this kind of claim—one that seeks to make bloodline the marker of birthright.”

(Read more at the Daily Caller)

John Roberts has been spending too much time with Ketanji Brown Jackson

It seems that her inability to define women has rubbed off on John Roberts now that he has forgotten that the primary author of the 14th Amendment (John A. Bingham of Ohio) stated that the amendment was created to cover “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” thereby granting citizenship to the children of formerly enslaved people (but not to grant citizenship to the children of foreign nationals).

If this came into doubt, a simple reading of Bingham’s speech One Country, One Constitution, One People would make it obvious that his focus fell on providing equal rights for the formerly enslaved peoples — not in providing a pipeline for foreign parents to make their children automatic American citizens.

Furthermore, to quote the SCOTUSblog

To quote the SCOTUSblog on its post The 14th Amendment does not codify English principles of subjectship: A brief reply to the Amar brothers as it quotes the author of the 14th (John A. Bingham):

Third, the Amars quote Senator Lyman Trumbull and Representative John Bingham, but these quotes are even less persuasive. In legislative debate over the Civil Rights Act of 1866, Trumbull stated that “the children of … Gypsies” would be citizens under the act. But even if such persons were itinerant within the United States, they would still be resident here, not in some other country like a foreign visitor. That understanding squares this statement with other statements of Trumbull, such that the Civil Rights Act would not make citizens of persons “temporarily resident in” the United States, and, in a letter that has been attributed to be from Trumbull to President Andrew Johnson, that the Civil Rights Act generally declares to be citizens persons “born of parents domiciled in the United States.” The Amars quote Bingham’s statement that “[i]f a man is not a citizen of the country in which he was born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen”? But elsewhere he qualified this principle, for example stating that the citizens of the United States include “all free persons born and domiciled within the United States.”

Those at The Guardian put in their two cents on the decision, the 14th Amendment, Wong Ark Kim, and birth tourism

The Guardian gave its assessment of the intent of the origin of the 14th Amendment and later bolstered that assessment by rightly quoting the words of Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch.

In a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump’s aggressive anti-immigrant agenda, the US supreme court ruled against the president’s highly contentious attempt to end the right to US citizenship for children born in the United States.

The justices ruled that the Trump administration violated a provision of the 14th amendment, which was affirmed by the supreme court 128 years ago.

“Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause,” the ruling reads, in a rebuke to the administration’s argument that children born to undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign visitors were ineligible for citizenship.

Trump issued an executive order on the first day of his second term in office that sought to undo birthright citizenship, which swiftly drew lawsuits, including from the Democratic state attorneys general and the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU argued in front of the court on the case during oral arguments in April for Trump v Barbara, a class-action challenge to the order, brought by parents of children who would be affected by the change.

The Trump administration argued that the landmark decision on birthright citizenship – United States v Wong Kim Ark – relied on parents having permanent “domicile” in the US. However, the term is not included in the 14th amendment.

Here’s what to know:

  1. What is birthright citizenship?

    The legal principle of jus soli, or “right of the soil”, allows nearly everyone born on US soil to become a US citizen.

    Dozens of countries also have a right to citizenship based on place of birth, including Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.

    By contrast, many countries extend citizenship under the principle of jus sanguinis, or “right of blood”, which is determined by the nationality of a child’s parents regardless of the location of birth.

  2. What is the legal basis for birthright citizenship in the US?

    The concept of jus soli comes from English common law, which held centuries ago that people born in England were natural subjects.

    But unrestricted birthright citizenship in the US that includes people of color – not just white Americans – derives from the US constitution. In 1857, the supreme court ruled in its Dred Scott decision that Black descendants of enslaved people were not US citizens, but “a separate class of persons”.

    To right this injustice, just over a decade later during the Reconstruction era following the US civil war, the US ratified the 14th amendment in 1868 to codify the rights of Black Americans. It established that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside”.

    Known as the citizenship clause, this phrase – alongside a number of related statutes and regulations – establishes the modern basis for birthright citizenship.

  3. What have US courts historically said about birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants?

    Even as the 14th amendment was ratified, Americans were starting to turn against immigrants in the US, especially Chinese workers. Soon, Congress had enacted legislation to heavily restrict further Chinese migration and make life difficult for those already stateside.

    Wong Kim Ark, a young man born in San Francisco to immigrant parents, went to China to see his family. When he tried to return home to the US, he was not allowed into the country based on the allegation that he was not a US citizen.

    But the supreme court saw the situation differently. In an 1898 precedential decision that has withstood the test of time, the justices ruled in favor of Wong Kim Ark’s US citizenship claim even though his parents were Chinese immigrants unable to naturalize.

  4. Who is not a US citizen, even if they are born in the US?

    There are exceedingly rare exceptions to the principle of jus soli, where people born in the US are not automatically granted US citizenship.

    Until the enactment of a law in 1924, Indigenous peoples born in the US were excluded.

    In 2021, the supreme court decided that people born in American Samoa’s unincorporated territories are not automatically guaranteed birthright citizenship, unless Congress enacts legislation. And the children of foreign diplomats or of enemy occupiers also lack a right to US citizenship by birth.

  5. What was the Trump administration’s argument for ending birthright citizenship?

    Trump’s executive order sought to redefine the meaning of the 14th amendment based on the claim that children born to non-citizen parents who are either unlawfully in the country or who possess temporary legal status, such as tourists or foreign students, are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the US and therefore ineligible for birthright citizenship.

    The order sought to restrict citizenship to children of current American citizens or other lawful permanent residents that have established “domicile” in the United States.

    Trump claimed birthright citizenship was a “scam” that “ripped off” taxpayers by allowing undocumented migrants to take advantage of the benefits of the US welfare state. However, during the oral arguments in Trump v Barbara, the government’s lawyer conceded that “no one knows for sure” how significant a problem so-called “birth tourism” actually is.

    The Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigration thinktank, said that there are between 20,000 to 26,000 births by women on tourist visas annually. That is less than 1% of all babies born in the US each year.

  6. What did the supreme court majority say in its ruling upholding birthright citizenship?

    Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the opinion. He was joined by liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett. Conservative justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred with the judgment, but dissented in part.

    The majority opinion walks through the plain meanings of citizenship, from English common law in to slavery and then emancipation, and then in to efforts to undermine citizenship, including the Chinese exclusion act.

    Roberts wrote that the “odious” decision in Dred Scott denied citizenship to Black people, arguing then that it was “blood, not soil” that decided citizenship. That was overturned via the 14th amendment, which the court affirmed in its decision to uphold birthright citizenship.

    “Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights – to freely participate in our political community,” the majority opinion reads. “The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”

    In her concurring opinion, Jackson wrote that the 14th amendment’s “universalist aims should forever be the death knell for this kind of claim – one that seeks to make bloodline the marker of birthright”.

    “The America that was reborn from the rubble of the Civil War simply does not countenance that inequitable result,” she wrote. “Thankfully, a majority of the Court remembered this today, and has dutifully preserved the most basic animating principle of our Nation’s founding – that all human beings are created equal – once more.”

  7. What did the dissenting justices say?

    The conservative justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch filed dissenting opinions. The court’s writings in the ruling span 194 pages, nearly 90 of which were written by Thomas in dissent, his longest in his tenure on the court.

    Thomas writes that Black people were entitled to citizenship because they were Americans with “no other homeland” or allegiance to other nations. “The same could not be said for the children of foreign temporary visitors,” he wrote. “Foreign temporary visitors were attached to their home country, lacked similar bonds to this country, and would not be called upon in time of war.”

    Kavanaugh wrote in a partial concurrence that he does not believe Trump’s executive order violates the 14th amendment, but that it does violate a federal statute. Congress could, he wrote, amend the federal statute or create new legislation to establish exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to parents who do not have permanent legal status in the country.

    Alito, in his dissent, called the decision “one of the most important” in the court’s history, but, in his estimation, “the Court has made a serious mistake”.

    He mentioned the idea of “birth tourists” and believes the 14th amendment grants citizenship solely to those children who “owe allegiance solely to this country” and argues that this interpretation of the law would not require uprooting the lives of children born here to parents not in the country legally. He, like Kavanaugh, floated the idea of Congress addressing the issue.

    “Some members of this group have lived here for years, and they have a strong moral claim to be able to remain in the land where they grew up,” Alito writes. “Congress can and should address their situation. The Fourteenth Amendment dictates who must be a citizen, but it does not address who may be a citizen by Act of Congress.”

(Read on at The Guardian about what they think Trump will do)

It seems to me (when viewing the split of SCOTUS decisions favorable to the Left and Right) that we have a cowardly court

Was it the threat on Kavanaugh’s life by the gun-toting transgender that did it?

Was it the Summer of Love that ushered in Dementia Joe?

Not quite in response, but somewhat preceding the decision comes the Ban Birth Tourism Act

Breitbart announced the introduction of the Ban Birth Tourism Act to the Senate by Senator Blackburn (brought to the Senate on 20 May 2026).

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is issuing a bill that would effectively eliminate the multimillion-dollar birth tourism industry, where foreign nationals secure temporary visas to the United States for the sole purpose of delivering their unborn children who then secure birthright American citizenship.

While President Donald Trump seeks to end birthright citizenship for the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, Blackburn is looking to ban birth tourism.

Annually, an estimated 33,000 U.S.-born children are rewarded birthright American citizenship solely because their foreign parents arrived in the U.S. on a temporary visa, often a tourist visa.

Decades later, those U.S.-born children can sponsor their parents for green cards.

The birth tourism industry is widespread among Turkish nationals in New York City, Chinese nationals in California, Russian nationals in Florida, and Middle Easterners in Illinois.

Blackburn, Breitbart News has exclusively learned, is introducing the “Ban Birth Tourism Act” to effectively ban the industry within the U.S.

“Foreign nationals have been exploiting our nation’s immigration laws for far too long, taking advantage of the system to come to the United States for the sole purpose of giving birth to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children,” Blackburn said in a statement.

WATCH — Trump: Birthright Citizenship “Wasn’t Meant for the Entire World to Occupy the United States”:

(Read more at Breitbart)

Trump admin puts alleged “birth tourism” scheme on notice as expert delivers warning to hospitals

Fox News reported in a 15 June 2026 article on the seeming implementation of the Ban Birth Tourism Act as President Trump warns hospitals against participating in birth tourism schemes.

The Trump administration is using visa enforcement to target “birth tourism,” an alleged scheme utilized by foreign nationals to obtain visitor visas for the primary purpose of giving birth in the U.S. and securing American citizenship for their children.

The Trump administration recently announced that it disrupted “a sophisticated birth tourism network” in West Africa involving more than 100 foreign nationals utilizing false documents and, what the State Department described as “fixers,” to get themselves visas to go to the United States to give birth so their children would be born on U.S. soil and treated as American citizens.

But that was just one of the networks the State Department indicated it had uncovered. The agency’s announcement said U.S. officials identified more than 400 suspected birth tourism cases emanating from Europe since 2024, and tied to at least six companies that helped coach applicants on what to say during their visa interview, arranged housing and set-up delivery plans.

“We shut it down, revoked these foreign nationals’ visas, and are coordinating with local authorities to systematically identify and cut off any similar operations,” the State Department said in its announcement. “A U.S. visa is a privilege, not a right. The State Department is taking action around the world to stop this abuse, dismantle birth tourism networks, and hold accountable those who try to scam our system.”

(Read more at Fox News)

 

Additional actions taken by the Trump administration against birth tourism

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Trump administration dismantles global birth tourism networks

In a press release made through the U.S. Embassy in China, the Trump administration announces its dismantling of a set of global birth tourism networks.

Under President Trump, the State Department is defending the integrity of U.S. citizenship by ending illegal birth tourism schemes. No foreigner is permitted to obtain a visitor visa for the primary purpose of acquiring U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the U.S.

A U.S. embassy in West Africa uncovered a sophisticated birth tourism network of more than 100 foreign nationals using fraudulent documents and visa “fixers” to get themselves visas in order to get U.S. citizenship for their children.

We shut it down, revoked these foreign nationals’ visas, and are coordinating with local authorities to systematically identify and cut off any similar operations.

In Europe, a U.S. embassy identified more than 400 suspected birth tourism cases since 2024. Investigators traced them to at least six companies that coached applicants on what to say in their visa interview, arranged U.S. housing, and set up delivery plans.

We shut it down, revoked their visas, and permanently banned several fraudsters from traveling to the United States ever again.

One U.S. embassy in North Africa revoked over 100 visas for “birth tourist” parents who came to the United States primarily to give birth so their children would get U.S. citizenship.

Consular officers – working with law enforcement and using data analytics – identified several networks abusing the system and put a stop to it.

A U.S. visa is a privilege, not a right. The State Department is taking action around the world to stop this abuse, dismantle birth tourism networks, and hold accountable those who try to scam our system.

(Also read this at the U.S. Embassy site)

It is good to see the President taking this message to one of the major players in the birth tourism business.

Now he just needs to make the same statement at the embassy in Ankara.

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Trump administration plans crackdown on “birth tourism” after Supreme Court ruling

As of now, main stream outlets like the Washington Times only report on supposed plans by Trump’s DHS to crack down on birth tourism in the wake of the atrocious decision by the Supreme Court on birthright citizenship.

The Supreme Court may have settled the legal issues on birthright citizenship, but the Trump administration says the ruling leaves room to find ways to prevent pregnant women — particularly “birth tourists” — from reaching U.S. soil to take advantage of the ruling.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the government can block women seeking to travel to the U.S. late in their pregnancies. He called it a matter of the baby’s health and a national security concern.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department will take a more aggressive approach to the “birth tourism” companies that coach pregnant women on how to make the journey, including by teaching strategies to fool consular and border officials.

“Everybody should agree that it’s a violation of our laws if your intent in coming here if you’re pregnant is to have a child that’s a U.S. citizen,” Mr. Blanche told reporters Wednesday.

He said birth tourism is a “booming industry.”

The justices, in a 5-4 ruling, said the 14th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees full citizenship to nearly every child born on American soil, including those born to illegal immigrants or temporary foreign visitors.

The decision overturned an executive order by President Trump that sought to bar recognition of citizenship for those children.

While immigrant rights groups hailed the ruling as a victory, Mr. Mullin called the decision “dead wrong.”

(Read more at the Washington Times)

On further reflection regarding the Supreme Court decision to override the executive order, maybe the President should follow the example of Democrat Presidents

Maybe President Trump should follow the example of Andrew Jackson made in regard to his conflict with the Supreme Court where he challenged “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!”

Maybe he should follow the example of Joe Biden where, when told that his student loan forgiveness plans were unconstitutional, kept making them.

Still, let’s not forget that President Trump has had a focus on this in the past

As evidenced by the following press releases, the issue of birth tourism has been on the minds of officials in even the past Trump administration.

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In 2019

Federal prosecutors unseal indictments naming 19 people linked to Chinese ‘birth tourism’ schemes that helped thousands of aliens give birth in US to secure birthright citizenship for their children

Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a January 2019 press releas on 19 people indicted in regard to Chinese birth tourism.

Following the arrests this morning of three defendants who allegedly operated “birth tourism” outfits that catered to Chinese clients, federal authorities today unsealed indictments that charge a total of 19 people linked to three schemes that operated across Southern California and charged clients tens of thousands of dollars to help them give birth in the United States.

The indictments charge operators and clients of three “maternity house” or “birthing house” schemes that were dismantled in March 2015 when federal agents executed 35 search warrants, which resulted from international undercover operations.

The 17 cases unsealed today contain the first-ever federal criminal charges brought against operators and customers of birth tourism businesses. The birth tourism operations not only committed widespread immigration fraud and engaged in international money laundering, they also defrauded property owners when leasing the apartments and houses used in their birth tourism schemes, according to the indictments.

These cases were investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Los Angeles. Substantial assistance was provided by IRS Criminal Investigation, as well as the Irvine Police Department and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

The indictments describe birth tourism schemes in which foreign nationals, mostly from China, applied for visitor visas to come to the United States and lied about the length of their trips, where they would stay, and the purposes of their trips – which were to come to the U.S. for three months to give birth so their children would receive U.S. birthright citizenship.

“America’s way of life is not for sale,” said Joseph Macias, Special Agent in Charge of HSI Los Angeles. “HSI will aggressively target those who would make a mockery of our laws and our values to benefit and enrich themselves. No one needs to be reminded about the national security and public safety implications of visa fraud and the crimes associated with it. Anyone who would exploit our nation’s generosity and our legal immigration system should be on notice – they may end up being the ones to pay a very steep price.”

According to the indictments that charge the operators of the schemes, they coached their Chinese customers how to pass the U.S. Consulate interview in China by falsely stating that they were going to stay in the U.S. for only two weeks. Their clients were also coached to trick U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at ports of entry by wearing loose clothing that would conceal their pregnancies. The indictments also allege that the customers were directed to fly to Hawaii from China – instead of directly to Los Angeles – because it was easier to get by CBP in Hawaii. The indictments allege that many of the Chinese birth tourism customers failed to pay all of the medical costs associated with their hospital births, and the debts were referred to collection.

“These cases allege a wide array of criminal schemes that sought to defeat our immigration laws – laws that welcome foreign visitors so long as they are truthful about their intentions when entering the country,” said Nick Hanna, U.S. Attorney for the Central District California. “Statements by the operators of these birthing houses show contempt for the United States, while they were luring clients with the power and prestige of U.S. citizenship for their children. Some of the wealthy clients of these businesses also showed blatant contempt for the U.S. by ignoring court orders directing them to stay in the country to assist with the investigation and by skipping out on their unpaid hospital bills.”

Three indictments returned Wednesday by a federal grand jury charge the operators of large birth tourism operations based in Orange, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. Pursuant to this week’s indictments, federal authorities this morning arrested three defendants: Dongyuan Li (李冬媛), 41, of Irvine; Michael Wei Yueh Liu (刘维岳), 53, of Rancho Cucamonga; and Jing Dong (董晶), 42, of Fontana. All three are charged with conspiracy to commit immigration fraud, international money laundering and identity theft. Liu is also charged with filing three false tax returns.

According to the indictments charging the operators, all three businesses touted the benefits of giving birth in the U.S., rather than in China, with claims of the U.S. having “the most attractive nationality”; “better air” and less pollution; “priority for jobs in U.S. government”; superior educational resources, including “free education from junior high school to public high school”; a more stable political situation; and the potential to “receive your senior supplement benefits when you are living overseas.”

The indictment naming Li alleges that she operated an Orange County-based business named You Win USA that advertised its “100-person team” in China and the U.S. had served more than 500 Chinese birth tourism customers. Li allegedly used 20 apartments in Irvine, charged each customer $40,000 to $80,000, and received $3 million in international wire transfers from China in just two years. The indictment details communications in which Li referred to U.S. immigration authorities as “the foreigners” and also discussed whether to refund a down payment because, once the customer found out “the baby is a girl, her husband arranged abortion for her.”

(Read more at Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

Since this covered three businesses catering to many clients, this is significant

Now, however, we have to ask this question: “How many people raised in China and beholden to the CCP regime due to family ties will now be given the right to vote, to seek office, and exercize other American rights due to the current Supreme Court?”

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Chinese national pleads guilty to running “birth tourism” scheme that helped aliens give birth in US to secure birthright citizenship

Immigration and Customs Enforcement tells of a 2019 case where a Chinese national pled guilty of running a “birth tourism” scheme that helped aliens give birth in America to secure birthright citizenship.

A Chinese national pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for running an Orange County-based “birth tourism” business that catered to wealthy pregnant clients and Chinese government officials, charging them tens of thousands of dollars to help them give birth in the United States so their children would get U.S. citizenship.

Dongyuan Li (李冬媛), 41, of Irvine, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit immigration fraud and one count of visa fraud. Li was one of 19 defendants named in a series of indictments unsealed earlier this year which resulted from an massive probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Los Angeles and IRS Criminal Investigation. Substantial assistance was provided by the Irvine Police Department and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

Li is the first of the charged operators of birth tourism businesses to plead guilty. The remaining defendants either are pending trial or are fugitives.

Li admitted in her plea agreement that, from 2013 until March 2015, she operated a birth tourism company in Irvine and in China called You Win USA Vacation Services Corp. You Win would assist pregnant foreign nationals – typically from China – to travel to and remain in the United States to give birth so their children would receive birthright U.S. citizenship, according to the plea agreement.

According to a January 2019 federal grand jury indictment against Li, You Win advertised that it had served more than 500 Chinese birth tourism customers seeking U.S. birthright citizenship for their children. The indictment details that Li used 20 apartments in Irvine, charged each customer between $40,000 and $80,000, and she received $3 million in international wire transfers from China in two years.

Some You Win customers coached by the company made false statements on their visa applications and to U.S. immigration officials, Li’s plea agreement states. Li also admitted that the customers were advised on how to pass the U.S. Consulate interview in China, including by falsely stating that they were going to stay in the United States for only two weeks, when in reality, they planned to stay for up to three months to give birth.

“Homeland Security Investigations remains committed to working in collaboration with our law enforcement partners to identify and dismantle criminal schemes designed to exploit our nation’s legal immigration system,” said Joseph Macias, special agent in charge for HSI Los Angeles. “I commend the HSI and IRS investigators who aggressively pursued a tip that uncovered one of the largest birth tourism schemes to date to be federally prosecuted.”

Li further admitted that her customers bypassed U.S. immigration controls by booking two flights – the first from China to Hawaii and the second from Hawaii to Los Angeles International Airport – because they thought it would be easier to clear U.S. Customs through Hawaii. Li’s customers also were coached how to trick U.S. Customs at ports of entry by concealing their pregnancies, according to the plea agreement.

In October 2013, Li made a $30,965 rent payment for Irvine apartments used in her birth tourism operation, and in November 2013, she made a $30,321 rent payment for those apartments, the plea agreement states.

As part of her plea agreement, Li agreed to forfeit more than $850,000, a Murrieta residence worth more than $500,000, as well as several Mercedes-Benz vehicles.

(Read more at Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

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Democrat again reveals a low opinion of her constituents

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Democrat reveals shocking statistic that explains party’s opposition to the Save Act

Breitbart reveals to us the words of Pennsylvania Representative Mary Gay Scanlon who claims half of her constituents would be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act.

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) claimed that the SAVE Act would disenfranchise half of Pennsylvania voters by requiring them to show ID at the ballot box.

Scanlon issued her claim during a congressional town hall this week.

“Under this SAVE Act, Real ID that shows citizenship is required,” she began. “Only five states have Real ID that shows citizenship. Pennsylvania is not one of them.”

“So remember all the harassment you had to go through to get Real ID – if you did, because only half of us have it still – you’d have to go through more to get that kind of Real ID just to register to vote,” she continued. “So, it is an extra layer that is unnecessary.”

Scanlon concluded by dismissing claims of potential voter fraud.

“Every study that’s ever been done shows that non-citizens are not voting in our elections, and so it’s another way to stir up fear, and it’s another way to keep people from voting,” she concluded. “Here in Pennsylvania, people don’t have Real ID. People don’t have passports. About half our voters would get disenfranchised if this thing were to go through.”

While the issue of voter fraud will always be subject to debate and scrutiny, Scanlon’s claim that voter ID would disenfranchise voters falls short when examining the facts. In Georgia, for instance, where similar laws were put into effect, voter turnout either went up or stayed relatively the same. During the 2022 midterms following several reforms, early voting actually tripled from 2018 and doubled from 2020, with black voters casting over 100,000 more early ballots than they did in 2018.

Just this year, Georgia voters saw a record turnout for a primary election, with reports that even Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has grown “concerned about the Democratic turnout advantage,” per WABE.

(Read more at Breitbart)

In Texas, Real ID is already required.

Believe me, it was not hard for me to produce my birth certificate and to have my face photographed. That was it.

To me, this constitutes another Democrat whopper akin to their claim that Blacks cannot get drivers licenses

Surely you remember the claims by Joe Biden and other leading Democrats about a voter ID law being “Jim Crow 2.0” (and the resulting strong reactions across America from Blacks who not only had drivers licenses, but held complex and demanding jobs).

Let’s overlook the fact that Democrats required photo ID to enter the Democrat National Convention

Let’s also overlook the fact that, to enter the monstrosity devoted to Obama in Chicago, you need to present photo ID.

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Four reasons reasonable independents must abandon Democrats

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1. Mamdani-backed socialist with history of anti-American rhetoric wins vicious Democrat primary race

Fox News reports on one instance of the primary win by newly converted Islamist Darializa Avila Chevalier in a trend of far-Left Democrat candidates of recent.

A controversial socialist who once called the United States “a f—–g disgrace” and was backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, ousted a five-term Democratic incumbent in New York’s 13th Congressional District.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, is a community organizer who studied at Columbia University where she was known for leftist agitation and her membership in a group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest that would later post “Death to America” on its social media. She defeated Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y. on Tuesday.

Avila Chevalier, who positioned herself further to the left than powerful progressives including former Vice President Kamala Harris, has faced scrutiny for her stance on private property, police, borders and calls to nationalize large swaths of the private sector in now-deleted posts from 2018 to 2022.

In a 2021 repost, Avila Chevalier said that abolishing borders, prisons and police is “possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward,” and later echoed posts that said “all deportation is wrong” and, “Yes, literally abolish the border,” according to one report.

“This country is a f—–g disgrace,” she said in a post.

“I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me,” she reportedly said in yet another.

She reportedly called former President Joe Biden a “rapist” and “war criminal,” chastised Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for his “liberal Zionism,” and said “F–k Kamala Harris.”

Despite this, with Mamdani’s backing and an increasingly left-leaning voter bloc in New York, Avila Chevalier secured the Democratic nomination.

In a recent debate with Espaillat, who came to the United States illegally before becoming a naturalized citizen and running for office, Avila Chevalier doubled down on her belief that no illegal aliens should be deported from the U.S., even if they have committed violent crimes and served prison or jail time.

(Read more at Fox News)

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a recent convert to Islam, sees that religion as a way to fight Westernism

Problem is that Islam and communism are the source of just about all of the recent terrorism.

Certainly, the Barbary Pirates war that Jefferson commanded, the more recent Somali pirates, all of the terrorism supported by Iran since the 1970’s, and much more come to mind.

It is not just Darializa Avila Chevalier, but also Brad Lander and Claire Valdez

Furthermore, all three have gone onto the record as supporting Gaza (never mind the large percentage of the population murdered or raped on 7 October 2023), linking hands with Islamists, and calling for the end of Western civilization.

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2. Democrats still openly root for Iran to win the war against Trump

PJ Media documents in a 4 April 2026 article the open actions of Democrats as they act against the interests of America in a time of war with Iran.

The United States is dismantling Iran’s military machine in real time. We’ve nearly destroyed its ability to launch missiles and drones. Its navy is wiped out. Most of its military facilities are damaged or destroyed. The U.S. and Israel own the skies over Iran. Thousands of targets have been hit, and the regime’s defense industrial base is being systematically torn apart to make sure it can’t rearm later.

“The terrorist regime is being decimated militarily, and their dismal situation grows bleaker by the day – their only hope is to make a deal with President Trump’s administration and leave behind their nuclear ambitions for good,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told CNN. “Otherwise, they will be hit harder than they’ve ever been hit before.”

Yes, Iran still has some residual ability to launch missiles and drones — nobody’s claiming otherwise. But there’s no denying that its air and missile defense systems are heavily degraded. Its alleged new supreme leader hasn’t even made a public appearance yet. The regime is battered, leaderless in any visible sense, and running out of options.

So, naturally, Seth Moulton went on MSNOW to tell America that Trump is losing.

On Friday’s edition of “Deadline,” the Massachusetts congressman delivered what can only be described as an Olympic-level gaslighting. ”Iran is gaining leverage over us as this war goes on,” Moulton insisted. “Iran is winning the war.”

Moulton’s talking points to support this claim were, to put it mildly, weak. He cited the Strait of Hormuz closure and that we’ve had two downed aircraft as somehow proof that we’re losing the war?

He kept going. He argued that “They weren’t shooting missiles and drones at all our allies in the Middle East,” before the war. “They hadn’t destroyed hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. military equipment. I mean, well over a billion.”

Yeah, that’s what happens in a war. At least we didn’t just hand them billions of dollars’ worth of our military equipment, as Joe Biden did. Seriously, Moulton’s take is so detached from military reality that it deserves its own category. It sounds more as if he’s openly rooting for Iran to win the war. I suspect most Democrats in Congress are, to be honest.

Iran doesn’t even have a navy anymore. We’ve destroyed over a hundred Iranian warships. Its production capacity is cratered. Its missile defenses are shredded. The regime can’t show its new leader to the world. And Moulton has essentially declared victory for the mullahs.

It’s worth asking how anyone could make this argument with a straight face. Here’s your answer: Moulton is running a primary challenge against Sen. Ed Markey. He’s pandering to Massachusetts Democratic primary voters. And so he’s spewing rhetoric that the far left in one of the bluest states in the country will just eat up.

Politics, not analysis, is driving the narrative here. Moulton isn’t a credible military critic in this moment — he’s a candidate trying to win the approval of the far left, and what better way to do that than to go on MSNOW and make outlandish claims that bear no resemblance to reality, because the network is just as committed to the anti-Trump narrative as the far left. And the far left wants to see Iran win the war because it hates Trump.

(Read more at PJ Media)

Like the Save America Act, most of America may be for it, but the Democrats and Never-Trumpers will never support it.

They just don’t like losing their gravy train. However, if they don’t lose their gravy train, the rest of us will be saddled with a prolonged Biden-type economy (or worse).

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3. Democrats could have changed immigration law when they had the majority and the presidency, but now they whine.

Supreme Court sides with Trump over Haitians and Syrians on temporary protected status

MS NOW whines about the Supreme Court decision recognizing that U.S. law allows the executive branch to make executive decisions that nullify previous executive decisions.

The Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority sided with the Trump administration over Haitians and Syrians on Thursday in a ruling on the administration’s attempt to end humanitarian safeguards under the Temporary Protected Status program.

Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion curbed the power of courts to review government decisions to terminate protections under the TPS program. For this case, the majority said that means Haitians and Syrians aren’t entitled to orders keeping their protections in place while their litigation proceeds, even though lower courts found serious legal problems with the administration’s attempt to end their protections.

In a dissent for the court’s three Democratic appointees, Justice Elena Kagan said that without such postponement, “hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians living in this country will lose their legal status and work authorization” and that most of them “will have no legal option except to leave the country, even at the price of leaving family behind.”

Despite anti-Haitian statements by President Donald Trump and former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Alito said there was a “race-neutral explanation” for terminating their protections, “namely, that the current administration, which has terminated every TPS designation that has come up for renewal, simply opposes the TPS program, at least as it has been implemented in the past.”

Joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Kagan said that both Haiti and Syria “are countries that
the State Department continues to list as too dangerous for
travel; they may be yet more perilous for a former inhabitant.” She said Thursday’s ruling means that “[h]undreds of thousands of lives will be uprooted, most permanently, while this litigation to annul the Secretary’s (likely illegal) termination orders proceeds.”

Lower courts had found the administration illegally sought to end protections for immigrants from Haiti, Syria and other countries. That led the administration to ask the justices for a ruling to give the government the power to immediately end those protections without judges intervening.

Solicitor General John Sauer sought emergency relief in the Haiti and Syria cases, complaining that lower courts had been wrongly second-guessing decisions to terminate protections. The justices declined to halt lower court orders in favor of Haitians and Syrians but agreed to hold a hearing to decide the issue in the case, which also carries implications for immigrants from other countries. According to the Congressional Research Service, there were nearly 1.3 million people with TPS status as of March 2025 from 17 countries, including 330,735 Haitians and 3,860 Syrians.

The termination decisions in question were made by Noem when she was head of the Department of Homeland Security.

(Read more at MS NOW)

What did you say about Elian Gonzalez and his forced deportation?

When Elian Gonzales was stripped from his aunt’s arms and flown to a despotic Cuba by a like-minded Janet Reno, I remember reports like this PBS piece that rejoiced in the return on Elian to Cuba.

The boy’s father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, urged the boy’s Miami relatives to give up their legal fight to keep him in the U.S.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta affirmed a March district court ruling that Elian’s father alone has the right to speak for his child.

The judges, however, denied a motion by Elian’s father to replace the boy’s great-uncle, Lazaro Gonzales, in the asylum case. Had the judges granted the motion, Juan Miguel Gonzalez would have been able to drop the asylum request and take the boy back to Cuba.

President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno each said they welcomed the ruling.

Clinton called it “a case about the importance of family and the bond between a father and son.”

(Read more at PBS)

This process of “metering” began with Obama, not Trump

Politico documents how the Supreme Court used the question of “when has someone arrived at one’s doorstep” to answer the question of “when should we consider an assylum-seeker as having arrived?”

U.S. immigration officials can turn away asylum seekers at the Mexican border, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

In a 6-3 decision, the justices greenlit a “metering” policy devised under the Obama administration and expanded during President Donald Trump’s first term, under which Customs and Border Protection agents posted on bridges between Mexico and the U.S. turned back many asylum seekers.

The high court’s ruling overturned lower-court decisions that found Congress intended to permit any immigrant approaching a border checkpoint to file for asylum.

The challenged policy was officially rescinded by the Biden administration in 2021, but most asylum seekers at the border have been thwarted by Biden and Trump edicts even broader than the “metering” program.

(Read more at Politico for the legal arguments)

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4. Party insicers like Letitia James acknowledge the actions of Mamdani have started the process of “blowing up” the Democrat Party

Breitbart finds almost as much glee in reporting on the words of Letitia James as she found horror in saying them.

New York’s Democratic Attorney General, the corrupt Letitia James, is unhappy with the direction of her party after New York City’s socialist-Islamist Mayor Zohran Mamdani put nine — nine — communists over the top for statewide office.

Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, and Darializa Avila Chevalier all won their Democrat Party primaries Tuesday for the U.S. House. In all three cases, they defeated the candidates backed by the Democrat establishment. In two cases, they defeated sitting House members. Two won by double-digits, while a third defeated no less than the sitting chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Additionally, Mamdani-backed candidates won two races for State Senate and four races for State Assembly.

That’s nine victories in one election cycle, and all nine are communists.

In other words, it was a bloodbath for the Democrat establishment, and in a sign of the glorious blue-on-blue wars to come (tee hee), the state’s corrupt attorney general is not happy.

“Some of the candidates that [Mamdani] has supported are individuals who do not understand the politics of New York City, the cultural differences from district to district, who have not been part of the history and the struggle of some of these districts, and are relatively new to the body politic,” James told far-left CNN.

She added that these candidates, who are almost certain to win their general elections, do not understand issues of “race and class.”

“All of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party. But you don’t blow it up. That’s what MAGA has done,” she added.

(Read more at Breitbart)

Since Darializa Avila Chevalier already deleted X (Twitter) posts calling for abolishing police, borders, and prisons — she is trying to move to the center

Don’t let her. She will Spanberger you with a snap to the far left

Washington, DC ABC affiliate WJLA reports on the reversals set into motion by socialist .Darializa Avila Chevalier.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist congressional candidate whom New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed, deleted a previous Twitter account in which she posted calls for abolishing police, borders, and prisons, in addition to seizing private property, nationalizing major industries, and claiming Israel doesn’t exist.

Chevalier, a 32-year-old investigator at a New York City public defender’s office and a doctoral student, is challenging Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the June 23 primary for New York’s 13th Congressional District, CNN reported Monday.

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine saved more than 3,600 tweets from Avila Chevalier’s account between 2018–2022, but it’s unclear when the account was deleted.

Avila Chevalier reposted a tweet in August 2020, responding to a social media prompt that asked, “Israel suddenly disappears, your third emoji is your reaction.” The reposted tweet’s reply read, “Trick question – Israel doesn’t exist!”

(Read more at WJLA)

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Five, maybe six, things ignored in the reporting on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

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1. Before the vandalism, Trump spent only $14 million to makeover the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The Washington Examiner gives us a perspective not available elsewhere: at a fraction of what previous presidents spent, Trump succeeded in the makeover the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

May 7: Trump motorcade drives across the Reflecting Pool to inspect renovations

Trump inspected the progress on the “American flag blue” protective coating being installed in the Reflecting Pool in a presidential motorcade that drove across its drained surface. 

The president told reporters the pool would now have a “great color” and that the pool and its surroundings were dirty and unattractive.

May 11: Nonprofit sues to stop Trump’s Reflecting Pool renovations

The nonprofit Cultural Landscape Foundation filed a lawsuit that sought to stop the Trump administration’s renovation of the Reflecting Pool, arguing the Interior Department didn’t follow proper procedure in renovations and had altered the pool’s natural character.

The CLF said these renovations disregarded the law and Congress, with the pool’s original grey color was a historical and intentional design choice necessary for its proper functioning.

“This latest desecration of the reflecting pool is part of a pattern — epitomized most notably by the rush to destroy the East Wing of the White [House] — in which this Administration willfully disregards legal limits established by Congress,” the lawsuit said.

May 27: Trump says ‘massive amount’ of garbage removed from the Reflecting Pool

Trump said during a Cabinet meeting that 10 dumpsters worth of garbage were removed from the Lincoln Reflecting Pool, calling the pool “disgusting.”

June 4: Trump says Reflecting Pool is getting final coat of paint, announces Lincoln Memorial ‘promenade’

Trump announced that the Reflecting Pool was receiving its final coat of paint before being refilled and opened to the public.

Trump hailed the Reflecting Pool’s renovations as “complete” as crews worked to refill the pool on June 4.

Later that same afternoon, Trump announced plans to build a “promenade” connecting the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River.

Neither Trump nor the Department of the Interior said when the bridge would be completed, though Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said plans to build a connecting bridge have existed since the end of the Civil War.

“On the backside of the Lincoln, as President Trump described, right now there’s no pedestrian access,” Burgum said. 

“You’re on the Mall, people come from around the world. They don’t know that 100 yards away is the beautiful Potomac River, which was part of the original plan. And now they’d be able to walk around the Lincoln Memorial, walk on a pedestrian bridge over the first highway, walk over the next one, and right down to the water. It would complete the vision. These projects would complete the original vision.”

June 12: Algae reappears in the Reflecting Pool

Algae reappeared in the Reflecting Pool days after Trump said renovations were complete and an “86” was found marked in the grass near the Lincoln Memorial.  

The Interior Department responded to algae sightings in the pool, saying it was “residual” and that devices known as “nanobubblers” would be deployed to maintain an algae-free pool.

A spokesperson for the Trump administration said the “nanobubblers” are a state-of-the-art ozone filtration system and that the residual algae appeared because it was residual in supply lines as part of a normal startup process.

National Park Service members were seen cleaning the pool of blooming algae on Monday.

June 16: The National Park Service dumps gallons of hydrogen peroxide to treat algae in the Reflecting Pool

Gallons of hydrogen peroxide were seen being dumped into the Reflecting Pool by National Park Service crews to combat algae that has grown in the pool after Trump’s renovations and turned the water bright green.

Hydrogen peroxide combats algal growth by generating reactive oxygen species that kill algae. The pool’s stagnant water, shallowness, and direct sunlight make algae-killing efforts difficult. 

June 18: The Interior Department compares Reflecting Pool’s algae treatment to ‘destroyed’ Iranian navy

The Interior Department said algae-combatting efforts have returned the Reflecting Pool to its blue hue, comparing the cleanup to the Iranian navy.  

“The Reflecting Pool water is crystal clear, and our National Park Service team is now vacuuming up the dead algae resting on the bottom of some parts of the Reflecting Pool — just like the destroyed Iranian Navy resting on the bottom of the Persian Gulf,” the X post said.

June 21: Vandals damage the reflecting pool

Trump accused vandals of causing the paint to peel and said many had been arrested on charges of destruction of government property.

Former three-time Olympian canoeist David Hearn, 67, was among those arrested on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property.

Hearn said he was biking through the area when he grabbed an already peeling piece and was subsequently arrested by Park Police.

(Read more at the Washington Examiner)

Although this narrative (based on the gathered evidence) says that the paint was applied, then the algae appeared, and the vandals damaged the pool — I would suggest a different sequence of events

Just because the Left has not sat still for any length of time, I would suggest that the vandalism (both at the National Mall and the Reflecting Pool) probably started quite a bit earlier than first suspected. Especially since the damage to the National Mall seems to have been done by chemicals, I would suspect that the same chemicals may have been used at the Reflecting Pool at the same time.

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2. Why did the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool still leak after Obama’s $34 million renovation?

Factually tries to give the Obama failure at his reflecting pool renovation a good, liberal spin (as would any “fact checker” worth their kickback).

  1. The site’s shaky foundations made a permanent ix unlikely
    The pool sits on marshy, dredged land along the Potomac that has moved and settled since the 1920’s; that underlying instability fractures concrete and causes chronic leaks that simple resurfacing cannot resolve. Reporting explains that the ballpark solution would require addressing ground conditions and slab movement — a fundamentally difficult, expensive engineering problem — which is why repairs have been iterative rather than definitive.
  2. The Obama project fixed systems but not the root geology
    The 2010-2012 rehabilitation under President Obama poured about $34-35 million into pilings, a new circulation and ozone filtration plant, and other upgrades meant to improve water quality and slow loss, but those measures could not seal dozens of expansion joints or reverse decades of shifting ground, so leaks persisted afterward. Multiple outlets not the project improved stagnation and filtration but did not eliminate the water loss or recurring algae blooms.

(Read more at Factually)

Since the Obama library already has been experiencing problems and has seen massive overruns, might I suggest another set of reasons behind the problems of the Obama Reflecting Pool project?

It could be that Obama used the same criteria for picking the engineering behind both his library and pool. It might also be that, while records reflected certain actions, other less expensive actions may have been taken in both instances.

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3. Former Olympian among those charged with vandalizing Reflecting Pool

Fox News reports on the arrest of former Olympian David Hearn and several other people for the desctruction of the lining of the Reflecting Pool.

Multiple people have been arrested this weekend after allegedly vandalizing the newly refurbished Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, prompting a strong response from President Donald Trump and an increase in security at the site.

In a statement on Truth Social Saturday night, Trump announced “many additional people” have been arrested after suspects “took some form of knife or blade, and put a 250-foot-long gash into the beautiful facade of what took so much work, competence, and money to build and complete.”

The president also alleged suspects “poured corrosive and destructive chemicals” into the basin.

“It hasn’t looked or worked like this since 1922, when it was originally built, but even then, it leaked badly, and didn’t work,” Trump wrote in the post. “Ours worked perfectly, including the mirror like finish, perfectly reflecting the two Great Monuments, which it never had before! What these terrible Vandals have done is a true affront to both Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and should be dealt with accordingly.”

Trump said administration officials met with contractors Saturday and will likely need to drain “much of the water” in order to do the necessary repairs. 

It is unclear if the contractors mentioned are the same ones initially employed to carry out the renovations.

“[We] will have them done as quickly as possible,” the president wrote. “What they have damaged does not even include the earlier killing of a large amount of grass which was, by far, the least of it.

“… The Reflecting Pool was never so beautiful as it was just one week ago, even going back to 1922 when it opened. We are very proud of what we have done with this magnificent structure, and we will get it repaired, quickly, to an equal level of Beauty.”

The announcement came as the administration faces scrutiny over peeling paint and algae growth just weeks after a $14.8 million restoration project was completed.

While Trump did not specify who was responsible for the alleged gash in the lining and subsequent peeling, multiple arrests were documented over the weekend by local reporters.

Journalist Emily Miller posted a two-minute video on X Friday showing a man in lime green racing gear questioning a National Guardsman before being handcuffed by U.S. Park Police.

The Washington Post later identified the man in Miller’s video as David Hearn, 67, a three-time Olympian who was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property.

Hearn told the outlet he had just finished a 52-mile bike ride when he noticed a “partially detached piece” of the new pool liner and “reached into the water to see what it felt like.”

The Bethesda, Maryland, native told The Associated Press he owned a company that made composite used to build watercraft.

(Read more at Fox News)

By the fact we get multiple visible attempts at these crimes, it suggests a coordinated effort.

Maybe these people have their hopes pinned on getting released by a lenient DC judge.

In the following tweet, John McAfee shares:

ANTIFA THE SOPHISTICATED DOMESTIC TERRORISTS USED REFLECTIVE CLOTHING AND LASER SCOPES TO FOOL EVERY CAMERA ON THE NATIONAL MALL AND GAIN NEARLY UNFETTERED ACCESS TO THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL REFLECTING POOL — NOW THEY’RE RUSHING TO INSTALL AI-POWERED SURVEILLANCE TOWERS AND FENCING BECAUSE THESE RADICALS HAD HOURS OF FOOTAGE MANIPULATED AND COULD HAVE HAD 20 OPERATIVES INSIDE UNDETECTED!

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This is how serious it got.

Engineers installing new fencing and AI surveillance towers at the Reflecting Pool just admitted that Antifa had completely compromised the old Parks Department camera system.

They used reflective clothing and laser scopes to blind and confuse the cameras, giving them almost total access to the pool at night.

Parks Department Commissioner Jon Raebro said it plainly: “There isn’t an inch of this space not covered… So how were they getting in? There are several hours of footage we know was manipulated. There could have been 20 of them in there, and nobody would know it.”

These aren’t just edgy college kids throwing rocks at protests. These are well-funded, trained domestic terrorists who had a plan to sabotage one of America’s most iconic national monuments from the inside.

The new AI-powered system and fencing are being rushed in because the old one was completely useless against them.

Antifa just got exposed for running a high-level covert operation on federal property.

They’re not playing games. Neither are we anymore.

Share this everywhere and let every American see exactly how advanced and dangerous these Antifa terrorists really are!

As proof the Leftists have truly lost their minds, I present this.

As proof of their departure from reality, I present the “pro-algae” protest at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

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4. ABC News ignores the arrest of a former Olympian and five other vandals.

Still, they call on President Trump to produce proof that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool continues to be vandalized

ABC News (aka Mickey Mouse News) again ignores the facts in order to create their own narrative on the vandalism on the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.

President Donald Trump continued on Monday to blame alleged “vandalism” for the problems plaguing the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, telling reporters that a “350-foot slit” was cut through the pool’s lining with a “box-cutter or a knife of some kind.” 

“I saw it. They cut it. They cut it very violently,” Trump said. “The same thing with the floor. They cut it and then they lifted it. They pulled it. And that’s what it is.”  

The Reflecting Pool has been plagued with algae and peeling paint in the days since the Trump administration completed the renovation, which cost more than $16 million, and was $4 million more than the estimated cost. A Interior Department spokesperson told CNN in a statement that the algae was “residual” and came from reactivated supply lines.

(Read more manufacturing of “facts” at ABC News)

Never mind the five tweets in the response above showing people vandalizing the property

And never mind these tweets:

Since hydrogen peroxide (when it comes in contact with impure water) produces an offgassing of oxygen, the duck shown below likely died from the chemicals applied by the vandals (probably sulphuric acid).

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5. The Washington Post blames climate change.

Doing this while ignoring the constant stream of leftists vandalizing the Reflecting Pool.

The Washington Post tries to deflect from the participation of the Left in the destruction of the the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool by blaming climate change.

In his battle to clean the murky waters of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, President Donald Trump has tried draining, painting, hydrogen peroxide and what the Interior Department describes as “high-tech nanobubble ozone technology.” But he has seemingly overlooked two of the most important factors that experts say are driving unsightly — and sometimes dangerous — profusions of algae: pollution and climate change.

Algae thrive in warm, still waters, causing populations to explode as global temperatures rise, said environmental engineer Steve Chapra, an emeritus professor at Tufts University.

Meanwhile, rampant human development has increased the amount of fertilizer and sewage produced by farms and cities, and severe storms intensified by the warmer atmosphere are causing more of these pollutants to run off into local waterways — providing algae with the nutrients they need to grow.

In a 2017 study, Chapra and his colleagues projected that climate change would cause a more than fivefold increase in the number of days when U.S. water bodies are affected by harmful algal blooms.

Short-term measures like those Trump has pursued may temporarily reduce algae populations in some water bodies, Chapra said. But unless they grapple with warming and nutrient pollution, any efforts to address these blooms in the Reflecting Pool and elsewhere are doomed to fail in the long run.

(Read more at the Washington Post)

I’m not buying this bridge to nowhere from a socialist professor

The Left has used “climate change” as a cause for everything from Hurricane Harvey to ingrown toenails. I am not buying this.

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6. A carving of the numbers ‘8647’ has appeared on the National Mall.

Washington Examiner reports on something else ignored by the press: how Leftists chemically carved “8647” into the lawn surrounding the near the Lincoln Memorial.

A large etching of what appears to be the numbers “8647” has appeared on the National Mall between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, situated in the area across the street from the White House.

The numbers eight, six, and seven are clearly visible in a photo taken by Reuters from the Washington Monument. The live, aerial-viewpoint camera from the top of the monument also shows the numbers etched into the grounds.

“At approximately 11:30 a.m., U.S. Park Police responded to a report of vandalism of the west lawn of the Washington Monument,” a U.S. Park Police spokesman told the Washington Examiner. “The numbers “8647” were marked in the grass. The cause of the discoloration has not yet been determined. Grass samples have been collected for testing. The investigation is ongoing.”

The term “86,” according to Merriam-Webster, means “to throw out,” “to get rid of,” or “to refuse service to,” but had its roots in 1930s restaurant industry slang, meaning something was “nixed” or sold out. President Donald Trump is the 45th and 47th president of the United States.

The phrase “8647” has become a flashpoint under Trump’s second administration after former FBI Director James Comey posted an image of seashells on a beach forming the phrase “86 47” in May 2025. Some pundits have argued that the term called for violence against Trump and was a call “to get rid of” him, though Comey has denied it was a call to violence. The term has since become popular on the Left. The Department of Justice released an indictment of Comey over the incident.

(Read more at the Washington Examiner)

Odd how the press that could not let go of the Charlottesville hoax will not pick up this vandalism.

This photo may have been taken by Reuters, but I would bet that it has not been reported “above the fold” on any main stream outlet.

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A table listing 55 of the unhinged, socialist statements of James Talarico

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Again, I hope to make an easy reference for those who want to learn Talarico’s views

When new quotes are added, I will re-post this table with the added quotes. To make his quotes stand out, I will use a blue, bold font.

His quote regarding everything he has said (he didn’t mean it)

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
1 (Talarico’s view that you should not hold him to his word.) (Implying that all of his leftist remarks meant nothing) “Well, you know, I think I was being intentionally provocative with that statement. But what it means is that God can’t be defined by human categories. The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, says that in Christ there is neither male nor female. I’m always going to stand up for Texans who are being picked on by the most powerful, most corrupt politicians in the country … There are some statements that I’ve made that I certainly regret. There are statements that I’ve made where I’ve missed the mark.” Rumble
2 (Talarico’s admission that his views are radically leftist.) “They’re going to call me a radical leftist.” X (aka Twitter)
3 (Talarico’s admission that he is willing to stab former party leaders in the back. Compare the following statement to “Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front.” — made a few months before.) “I called out Joe Biden for failing to secure our southern border and I got a lot of heat in my own party for doing that. But I remember talking with my colleagues in the legislature who represent border communities and they told me about the utter chaos caused by President Biden’s policies and the Democratic Party.”

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His quote that will probably lose votes in the Black community

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
4 (Talarico’s comment on the records of President Obama.) “President Obama earned the title “Deporter in Chief” from immigration-rights activists and aggressively expanded drone air strikes across the world.” X (aka Twitter)

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His quote on gun control

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
5 (Talarico’s comment on implementing gun control.) “We prayed, and God sent moms from both political parties to advocate in the halls of power for gun safety. We prayed, and God sent lawmakers with common-sense gun safety proposals like universal background checks, redflag laws and closing the gun show loophole.” Instagram

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His quote on abortion

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
6 (Talarico pleaded for Joe Biden to defy both the Supreme Court and Texas law by establishing abortion clinics in every federal courthouse and national park.) “Decades of jurisprudence and majorities of Americans have repeatedly affirmed the constitutional right to an abortion. … On behalf of my constituents, I urge you and your administration to consider taking the following executive actions to protect the right to an abortion:
  • Leasing federal property to abortion clinics on federal lands or in federal offices
  • Prohibiting states from imposing restrictions on abortion medications through the Food and Drug Administration
  • Hiring abortion providers as federal employees to provide immunity from state lawsuits
 X (aka Twitter)

His quote on unborn children being like tapeworms and parasites

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
7 (Talarico claims that unborn children are comparable to a tapeworm or other parasite and should hold no legal rights.) “The disagreement about the legality of abortion is not a disagreement about life. It’s a disagreement about personhood. No one disagrees that an embryo is biologically alive. We each have trillions of living organisms inside of us right now. So the question is, is an embryo a legal person whose rights trump those of a woman. I don’t know many people who would seriously answer yes to that question.” X (aka Twitter)

His quote on those opposing boys in girls sports as promoting a “far-right conspiracy theory”

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
8 (Talarico claims that anyone opposing having boys in girls sports is promoting a “far-right conspiracy theory.”) “And then, in terms of other issues, Governor Abbott has filled this special session agenda with far-right conspiracy theories about trans children causing problems on sports teams, which we know does not occur in the state of Texas, or critical race theory, which we know is not being taught in classrooms in the state of Texas.” Fox News

His quote on climate change

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
9 (Talarico claims climate change is killing thousands of Texans and Americans.) “Texans are seeing that climate change is here… and it is killing Texans and Americans by the thousands”

“for everyone who grew up watching the Jetsons, that’s the future that we can have if we get in the fight against climate change”

 X (aka Twitter)

His quotes his views of natural women

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
10 (Talarico’s comment contrasts a natural woman with a transgender woman.) “This summer, more than half our population became second-class citizens. Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the State. And nothing is more un-Christian.” X (aka Twitter)
11 (Same as above.) “I want every one of our neighbors with a uterus to be able to control their own body.” X (aka Twitter)

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His quote on crime and punishment (eliminate punishment)

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
12 (Talarico’s view that prison is violence.) “We all recognize domestic abuse as violence, but we don’t always recognize the ways in which our systems hurt people every day. Poverty is violence. Pollution is violence. And yes, prison is violence.” X (aka Twitter)

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His quote to give him points with the never-America Democrats

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
13 (Talarico’s view that America seems always to be on the wrong side of the equation.) (Implying that we must avoid patriotism) “I often think (when reclaiming symbols), I think about the American flag. I think the Confederate flag is a symbol of treason and terrorism, but the American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us. And, in many ways, like Jesus, like the cross, it’s been co-opted, and in some ways, its true meaning has been betrayed.” Instagram

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His quote on bipartisanship

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
14 (Talarico’s demonizing of the Republican opposition.) “I have to work with folks who have passed these policies that threaten the existence of people that I love. Now, they don’t threaten my existence for the most part, but they threaten the existence of my friends and loved ones.

When I got elected, I went searching for those monsters, right? When I got elected to the State House and was like, all right — I’m ready. To find these monstrous people who passed this Show Me Your Papers legislation — the Bathroom Bill

”

 X (aka Twitter)

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His quotes on economic issues

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
15 (Talarico’s view those who make as much as he does (but not him) should have a greater tax burden.) (Implying that those who take a risk and start a business should be additionally targeted) “Billionaires want us looking left and right at each other instead of looking up at them… It’s the oldest strategy in the world: divide and conquer. But we will not be conquered.” YouTube

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His quotes on Christianity

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
16 (Talarico’s view that God supports Democrat tax and healtcare plans.) (Implying that the conquered nation of Israel of Jesus’ time did not see unequal taxation or expensive health care) “What would Jesus do about a tax system that benefits the rich over the poor? What would Jesus do about a health care system that forces the sick to start GoFundMe pages to afford life-saving surgeries?” YouTube
17 (Talarico’s view that “God is nonbinary.”) (In response to testimony on a bill that passed prohibiting sex change surgeries on minors:) “The first two lines of the Bible, the first two lines of Genesis, use two different Hebrew words to describe God. One is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity, the second is the feminine Hebrew noun for spirit. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is nonbinary.” Instagram
18 (Talarico’s attempt to equate the illegal alien with Christ.) “So where is Christ today? Christ is the immigrant deported without due process.” YouTube
19 (Talarico says that Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism circle the same truth about the universe. Conversely, Jesus said I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. [John 14:6 NIV]) “I believe that Jesus Christ reveals that reality to us, but I also believe that other traditions reveal that reality in their own ways, with their own simple structures. And I’ve learned more about my tradition by learning more about Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam and Judaism. And so, I see these beautiful faith traditions as circling the same truth about the universe, about the cosmos.” Fox News
20 (Talarico tries to give God’s blessing for abortion. Here, he ignores at least three things. First, it was the angel Gabriel, not God, speaking. Second, Gabriel made declarative statements about the coming Jesus and asked no questions. Third, this is traditionally called the Annunciation [or announcement] not the Inquisition [or the questioning].) “I say all this in the context of abortion, because before God comes over Mary, and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent… so to me, that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create… so that’s how I come down on that side of the issue.” Fox News
21 (Talarico tries to deceive Joe Rogan’s audience on the topic of abortion and makes the same central mistakes [or commits the same central lies] as above [refer to the bold text above for the common points].) “And then the last, I think, story I would go to is the story of Mary.
Mary is probably my favorite figure in the Bible, the mother of Jesus, and she is an oppressed peasant teenage girl living in poverty under an oppressive empire as a Jew, and she has a vision from God that she’s going to give birth to a baby who’s going to bring the powerful down from their thrones, scatter the proud, and send the rich away empty. This revolutionary song that she sings—it’s called the Magnificat—and it’s actually been banned by certain authoritarian regimes because it is so radical.
But I say all this in the context of abortion because before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent, which is remarkable. Go back and read this in Luke. The angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do.
And she says, if it is God’s will, let it be done. Let it be. Let it happen. So to me, that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create.
Creation is one of the most sacred acts we engage in as human beings, but that has to be done with consent and freedom, and to me that is absolutely consistent with the ministry and life and death of Jesus.”		 YouTube
22 (Talarico tries to associate Jesus with the feminist movement within the Democrat party.) “Did they teach you in Sunday school that Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist?” Fox News
23 (Talarico claims that he is more religious than some Founding Fathers.) “It does violence to both Christianity and Judaism. There are way more than Ten Commandments in the Jewish tradition—613 mitzvot—and Christianity has its own rich diversity of interpretations. This bill picks and chooses one version, promotes it in public schools, and ignores the beautiful diversity of both faiths. It has no historical basis in American history as a mandate for public education.
And let’s talk about the Founding Fathers—I am a lot more religious than some of our Founding Fathers.”		 YouTube
24 (Talarico claims the bill requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments discriminates against other faiths and does violence against Christianity and Judaism.) “This bill (on requiring Texas classrooms to display the 10 Commandments) does a disservice to both Judaism and Christianity. As you know, there are way more than 10 Commandments in the Jewish tradition. There are 613 in the Hebrew Bible. And the irony for us Christians is that we follow a Rabbi who tried to simplify those 613 Commandments into two: love God and love neighbor. This bill is not doing anything to love God or love neighbor. It is discriminating against our neighbors. Our Hindu neighbors, our Buddhist neighbors, or Sikh neighbors …
So this bill is doing violence to both faith traditions it claims to represent.”		 X (aka Twitter)
25 (Talarico uses the gnostic “Gospel of Thomas” to say that Jesus supported transgenderism.) “In the Gospel of Thomas, which was later omitted from the Bible by church officials, …
The Gospel of Thomas quotes Jesus as saying ‘When you make the male and female one-in-the-same. When the male is not male and the female is not female — then you will enter the kingdom of God.'”		 X (aka Twitter)
26 (Talarico confuses charity — which is commanded in both the Old and New Testament — with socialistic taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor [aka “economic justice”].) “Economic justice is mentioned 3,000 times in our scriptures, both the New Testament and the Hebrew Scriptures. So this is such a core part of our tradition. And it’s nowhere to be seen in Christian nationalism or on the religious right.” Facebook
27 (Talarico expresses hate for the religion he supposedly acts as a pastor within.) “I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity.” X (aka Twitter)
28 (Talarico calls Jesus a “socialist anarchist from ancient Palestine.”) “It’s very strange that the most popular figure in our country (especially on the conservative right) is this socialist anarchist from ancient Palestine.” X (aka Twitter)

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His quotes that violate Christian ideals

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
29 (Talarico’s supposed willingness to talk with the dead Pope Francis.) “If Pope Francis, you know, were to come back and sit at this table and tell me, you know, ‘James, I’m pro-life and anti-abortion, here’s my theological argument,’ I am here to listen and respect that opinion. I have, I have dear friends who are anti-abortion.” YouTube
30 (Amid Democrat accusations of Trump calling names, Talarico calls Trump the opposite of Jesus — thus equating Trump and his followers with the Devil.) “The antithesis of Trump is not Biden or Warren or Harris or Castro. It’s not even President Obama. The clearest anti-Trump we have is Jesus of Nazareth. His teachings—and those delivered by other prophetic voices throughout history—show us the way to defeat Trumpism in our world and in ourselves” Facebook video
31 (Talarico’s tweet on assigning sin to a class of people.) “Black Americans in a church.
Mexican Americans in a store.
Asian Americans in a spa.
Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country.”		 X (aka Twitter)
32 (Talarico’s statement on hate speech. Compare this to his statement making Trump the opposite of Jesus.) “I’m proud to sign Rep. [Gene Wu]’s resolution condemning anti-Asian hate speech like ‘Kung Flu’ and ‘China Virus.’ Words have consequences. Dehumanization leads to violence.” X (aka Twitter)
33 (Talarico attempts to shift attention from the topic he spends most of his time on: transgenderism. Then he tries to shift attention from Democrat health policies, education policies, and tax policies. Finally, he blames the media.) “The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.
And so, what I would say is that the only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.
Trans people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren’t taking away our healthcare.
Undocumented people are defunding our schools.
Muslims aren’t cutting taxes for themselves and their rich puppet politicians.
And so we need not only the media, but all of us to focus on the real problem at hand.”		 X (aka Twitter)
34 (Talarico claims that he is more religious than some Founding Fathers.) “It does violence to both Christianity and Judaism. There are way more than Ten Commandments in the Jewish tradition—613 mitzvot—and Christianity has its own rich diversity of interpretations. This bill picks and chooses one version, promotes it in public schools, and ignores the beautiful diversity of both faiths. It has no historical basis in American history as a mandate for public education.
And let’s talk about the Founding Fathers—I am a lot more religious than some of our Founding Fathers.”		 YouTube

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His quotes on race

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
35 (Talarico’s belittling of a Black male opponent in order to build up a Black female opponent) “(U.S. Representative and Democrat Colin Allred is) a mediocre Black man (while U.S. Representative and Democrat Jasmine Crockett is) a formidable, intelligent Black woman.” TikTok
36 (Talarico’s tweet on radicalized White men being the greatest threat to America.) “Black Americans in a church.
Mexican Americans in a store.
Asian Americans in a spa.
Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country.”		 X (aka Twitter)
37 (Talarico blames White people for spreading the virus of “Whiteness” that is spread through words, actions, and systems.) “White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go—through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don’t have to be showing symptoms—like a white hood or a Confederate flag—to be contagious.” X (aka Twitter)
38 (Talarico feels that God created a mistake that deserves a reckoning.) “Prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty, my own ego. It’s a never-ending process, and it’s a painful process.” X (aka Twitter)
39 (Talarico suggests that “whiteness” and “masculinity” are things that should be cried over.) “No need to sit and cry over your whiteness or your masculinity.” Facebook
40 (Talarico feels that “whitness” and “masculinity” limits his imagination.) “My imagination is also just limited by my own background and identity, right? My whiteness. My masculinity. All those things limit my imagination about what’s possible, so I have to continually press against that to try to expand the limits of what I’m dreaming for our community and that’s where Dr. Robin, your book helps me do that.” X (aka Twitter)

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His quotes on sexuality

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
41 (Talarico’s view that stopping sex change surgeries hurts children.) (In response to testimony on a bill that passed prohibiting sex change surgeries on minors:) “In committee, I listened to 15 hours of testimony about this bill. The worst part, for me, was the number of Christians who used scripture to justify hurting children. Even on this floor today, a member tried to justify a hateful amendment in the name of God’s law.” Instagram
42 (Talarico’s view that “God is nonbinary.”) (Again in response to testimony on a bill that passed prohibiting sex change surgeries on minors:) “The first two lines of the Bible, the first two lines of Genesis, use two different Hebrew words to describe God. One is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity, the second is the feminine Hebrew noun for spirit. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is nonbinary.” Instagram
43 (Talarico’s support of child transgenderism.) “Trans children are God’s children, made in God’s own image.” Fox News
44 (Talarico tries to associate Jesus with the feminist movement within the Democrat party.) “Did they teach you in Sunday school that Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist?” Fox News
45 (Talarico departs from genetics and proclaims his own science, saying there are six “biological sexes.”) “Modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes; in fact, there are six.” Fox News
46 (Talarico claims that transgender people need abortions.) “Our trans community needs abortion care too. Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state Capitol, and you better believe I’ll be giving sermons on that too, … So when I use the word ‘woman,’ it should not be understood as an exhaustive lens through which we understand, examine and interrogate patriarchy. Similar to how we specify anti-Black racism.” Fox News
47 (Talarico claims to love the transgender children who protested at the state capitol.) “I love, and just say this because it’s on my mind, the trans children who showed up yesterday at the state Capitol to advocate for their humanity. They shouldn’t have to, but it was an inspiration to watch.” X (aka Twitter)
48 (Talarico claims that sex does not depend on XX chromosomes and XY chromosomes.) “The point is that biologically speaking, scientifically speaking, sex is a spectrum, and oftentimes can be very ambiguous.” New York Post

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His quotes on the border

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
49 (Talarico attributes greater degrees of patriotism to his illegal alien students than the native-born students.) “I’ve taught a lot of undocumented students, and those students tended to be my most patriotic students” Instagram
50 (Talarico’s view on border security.) “Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front.” Rumble
51 (Talarico equates illegal aliens with neighbors.) “Those neighbors of ours deserve a lot better than ICE terrorizing them and their children, ICE tearing families apart.” Fox News and KRWG
52 (Talarico calls illegal aliens “my constituents.”) “Undocumented Americans are folks who work in our businesses, learn in our schools and contribute to our communities — but lack citizenship documentation.
As a Texas legislator, they’re also my constituents. Like so many immigrants throughout our history, undocumented Americans came to this country for the same simple reasons: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”		 X (aka Twitter)

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His quotes where he was pandering to a Democrat group (the vegans or pro-Palestinians, …)

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
53 (Talarico makes a bid for the far-left vegan vote. After weeks of being pounded by the cattle industry and poultry industry, Talarico is pictured at the Texas State Fair eating a turkey leg.) “I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign… We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.” Fox News
54 (Talarico attempts to shift attention from the topic he spends most of his time on: transgenderism. Then he tries to shift attention from Democrat health policies, education policies, and tax policies. Finally, he blames the media.) “The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.
And so, what I would say is that the only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.
Trans people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren’t taking away our healthcare.
Undocumented people are defunding our schools.
Muslims aren’t cutting taxes for themselves and their rich puppet politicians.
And so we need not only the media, but all of us to focus on the real problem at hand.”		 X (aka Twitter)

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Talarico’s stand against oil and gas companies and for those fighting for climate change

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
55 (Talarico both welcomes and brags about partnering with a far-Left group [Third Act] to eliminate the oil and gas industry in Texas and called it “the most important work” in the State.) “Hi, this is State Representative James Talarico. I was elected as the youngest member of the Texas Legislature and in my three terms, I’ve been fighting to protect democracy and fight climate change. So I want to welcome Third Act to the great state of Texas. This is the front line in the fight to save democracy and save our planet.” X (aka Twitter)

 

Was this Biden fentanyl flood fueled by a hate for America?

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Records show staggering amounts of fentanyl hit streets as the DEA watched and took no action.

The Associated Press gives their spin on the loose handling of the fentanyl crisis by the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, according to three current and former DEA agents and government records reviewed by The Associated Press.

DEA agents repeatedly monitored shipments of fentanyl pills — but did not seize them — as federal prosecutors sought to bring bigger criminal cases against traffickers of a synthetic opioid that the White House last year designated a “ weapon of mass destruction.”

Agents and experts, however, said the tactic amounted to a gamble with public safety that potentially imperiled communities in and around Albuquerque and may have violated U.S. Justice Department rules intended to safeguard the public.

“We poisoned our community to make cases,” DEA Special Agent David Howell told AP in a series of interviews in New Mexico. “Through our own willful blindness, we get to say, ‘We don’t really know what happened to the drugs.’ But we 100% got people killed.”

The DEA has long contended it would not be plausible to seize every shipment of every drug. But the strategy of allowing staggering amounts of counterfeit painkillers to hit the streets shocked several veteran agents who spoke with AP.

Ridding the streets of illicit fentanyl, manufactured mostly in Mexican labs, became the DEA’s top priority over the past decade as overdose deaths surged. At the same time, its lethality — a few milligrams can kill the average adult — upended time-tested tactics that had been used to combat drugs like cocaine and heroin. Those methods have included allowing drug transactions to be completed so agents might follow the narcotics through the supply chain. Fentanyl, however, is so dangerous that the Justice Department developed guidelines for agents in such circumstances, encouraging them to seize the opioid whenever “practicable.”

Albuquerque, which has a neighborhood so besieged by drugs it’s known as “War Zone,” and other regions in New Mexico >remain at the epicenter of the fentanyl epidemic. While overdose deaths nationwide fell 14% last year, government data show New Mexico tallied a 21% spike.

New Mexico became a testing ground for a high-stakes strategy

Alex Uballez, who served as U.S. attorney in New Mexico from 2022 through last year, said authorities at times allowed drug shipments to go unseized as part of a broader effort to gather intelligence and build cases against major drug traffickers. He said the approach reflected his office’s limited resources and his belief that prosecuting larger organizations can have a bigger impact than interdicting every suspected drug transaction.

Last year, the DEA recorded the largest fentanyl bust in its history in Albuquerque.

“The bigger fish are worth catching,” Uballez said, “and that will save more lives.”

The DEA said in a statement that “the investigative decisions at issue were lawful, reasonable under the circumstances and consistent with Department guidance.”

“Public descriptions suggesting that DEA knowingly permitted fentanyl to reach communities are false and fundamentally mischaracterize the facts,” DEA spokesperson Amanda Wozniak wrote in an email. She said the investigations involved court-authorized wiretaps “in which agents and prosecutors conducted real-time surveillance, intelligence gathering, and operational analysis targeting larger drug trafficking organizations.”

(Read more at the Associated Press)

I remember a number of non-denial denials claiming “we” would never (as in the “Fast and Furious” gun running).

Beside the denials of corporate culpability, do you notice something about the AP story? Do they mention which administration? Do they mention what year this occurred?

Considering the way the press has gone out of its way to accuse President Trump of things he never did (like colluding with Russians or having relations with E. Jean Carroll), does it seem odd that they don’t give a timeline?

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Fast and Furious for fentanyl?

The Patriot Post provides a more speicific timeline and cast of characters for this moral tragedy.

And here we thought the plague of fentanyl deaths across our nation during the Biden administration was due to fecklessness or incompetence. Occam’s razor and all that, right?

As it turns out, though, malevolence might’ve had something to do with it.

Yesterday, as Just the News reports, we learned that a whistleblower within the Drug Enforcement Administration “has evidence that his agency and federal prosecutors let more than 1 million fentanyl pills flow onto the streets of New Mexico during the Biden era and then tried to silence him from testifying after he blew the whistle.”

Just the News didn’t break this story, though. The Associated Press did. “Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit streets as the DEA watched and took no action,” reads yesterday’s AP’s headline. And then this:

Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, according to three current and former DEA agents and government records reviewed by The Associated Press.

DEA agents repeatedly monitored shipments of fentanyl pills — but did not seize them — as federal prosecutors sought to bring bigger criminal cases against traffickers of a synthetic opioid that the White House last year designated a “weapon of mass destruction.”

Agents and experts, however, said the tactic amounted to a gamble with public safety that potentially imperiled communities in and around Albuquerque and may have violated U.S. Justice Department rules intended to safeguard the public.

Notice, though, what’s missing from those first few paragraphs of the AP’s story: the word “Biden.” As in, This deadly and stunningly ill-conceived operation was carried out by the Biden administration.

When I began reading the AP’s piece, I just assumed its reporters were doing what they always do — burying the culpability of their fellow-traveling Democrats in paragraph 18 or so, after most folks have already skimmed the piece, gotten the gist, and moved on without necessarily registering who’s to blame.

But no. The story is nearly 1,800 words long, and not one of those words is “Biden.” This is why I refer to that “news” organization as the Appropriated Press.

“We poisoned our community to make cases,” said the whistleblower himself, DEA Special Agent David Howell. “Through our own willful blindness, we get to say, ‘We don’t really know what happened to the drugs.’ But we 100% got people killed.”

Howell, a Navy veteran with 14 years at DEA, “became so unnerved by his agency’s failure to seize fentanyl that he began flagging overdose deaths that might have been caused by the very pills the DEA permitted to flow to dealers,” the AP says. “One of those cases included a 15-month-old toddler who died after ingesting burned fentanyl residue last year in Española, a New Mexico town ravaged by grinding poverty and addiction.”

He then went to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which found a “substantial likelihood of wrongdoing” and asked the Merrick Garland-led DOJ to investigate.

But get this: In 2024, the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility tried to cover the Biden administration’s tracks by finding that the DEA and the U.S. attorney’s office “had made reasonable decisions” in allowing the streets of New Mexico to be flooded with deadly fentanyl, “and that their inaction posed no ‘specific danger to public health.’”

So, according to the Biden administration, one million fentanyl pills on the streets of New Mexico posed “no specific danger to public health.” Tell that to the families of the nearly 73,000 Americans who died from fentanyl poisoning in 2023.

But the Biden administration wasn’t content with merely burying Howell’s allegations; it also tried to wreck him personally. As the AP reports — again, without assigning blame to the Biden administration — “The DEA relegated him to desk duty for more than a year and docked his performance evaluations. … Internal records also show prosecutors barred him from testifying in federal court, citing his ‘pattern of refusing to heed’ admonitions to allow drugs to go unseized during long-term investigations.”

Here, I can’t help but be reminded of the “Fast and Furious” gun-walking scandal from the Obama days. Remember when we learned about that reckless operation to sell some 2,000 firearms to straw purchasers in the hope that they could then track the guns to the Mexican drug cartels?

What could go wrong, right? Remember when we learned that the ATF agents who were supposed to be tracking those weapons inexplicably lost them on their way to the cartels, and how that operation thus cost the lives of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and perhaps that of ICE agent Jaime Zapata, as well as more than 300 Mexican civilians?

(Read more at the Patriot Post)

So it seems Democrats are the criminals’ best friend again.

Just as with the Walz case of burying the whistleblowers for the sake of the fraudsters, it looks like Biden hid whistleblower Howell and tried to kill his reputation.

No wonder bloggers in the conservative realm have tags like “Democrats release felons” and “Democrat agenda against America.”

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The Biden administration is at the center of a massive fentanyl trafficking scandal

Townhall __ __.

The DEA, under President Joe Biden’s leadership, is at the center of a jaw-dropping “drugwalking” scandal that revealed the agency allowed 1.8 million fentanyl pills to be delivered, a move that a whistleblower says “100 percent got people killed.”

According to a new report from the Associate Press, DEA investigators based out of New Mexico had allowed for illegal drugs to enter the United States unimpeded in order to “gather intelligence.” 

A 2023 investigation into a trailer park revealed a delivery of approximately 74,000 highly dangerous fentanyl pills from drug traffickers. Federal investigators had observed a similar transaction take place just days before and, according to DEA agent whistleblower David Howell, authorities “did nothing but sit back and watch.” Howell also stated that federal agents observed separate deliveries totaling 200,000 pills in early 2024, but did nothing.

“We poisoned our community to make cases,” Howell told the Associated Press. “Through our own willful blindness, we get to say, ‘We don’t really know what happened to the drugs.’ But we 100% got people killed.”

The practice ultimately led to an estimated 1.8 million pills being trafficked without interference. An unnamed federal source has suggested that the number may be far higher, however, stating that “millions” of the pills entered the country. The investigation was wrapped up shortly after President Donald Trump took office, when the DEA seized over 3 million pills.

Despite Biden’s abject failure to prevent such horrific tactics from being used, his liberal media allies applauded Biden’s work on “battling street fentanyl,” with a January 2026 report from NPR claiming that Trump had “falsely” claimed that Biden was ineffectual on border security and fentanyl interdiction.

The scandal may be the worst case of law enforcement negligence since Operation Fast and Furious.

(Read more at Townhall)

The worst thing about this scandal is that I have not seen a mention of it on the main stream news.

For all the times the NYTwits, ABC, CBS, and NBC misquoted President Trump on his Charlottesville comment, it would seem that they could rightly tie Dementia Joe to this fentanyl crisis.

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Three, maybe four, articles that expose the bias of the main stream media

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First transgender state legislator sentenced to 33 years for child porn while claiming retardation

Twitchy does an article on the first for transgenders that I have not seen in main stream press: reporting on how the transgender legislator had child porn and was claiming retardation drove him to it.

The mainstream media is usually crazy about firsts, like the first transgender member of Congress, but we’re not seeing much in the news about New Hampshire State Rep. Stacie Laughton. Not only was Laughton the first openly transgender person to become a state legislator, but he’s also the first transgender state legislator to be sentenced to 33 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of children.

What? REDUXX reports:

Laughton was first charged in 2023 after the police department in Nashua, New Hampshire, received a report that he had sent child sexual abuse images to another individual. Disturbed, that individual brought the images to police, who confirmed that Laughton had sent four images depicting the genitals of extremely young children to this individual via text. NPD then interviewed Laughton, who admitted to receiving child sexual abuse images from his former partner, Lindsay Groves, who was an employee at the Creative Minds Early Learning Center in nearby Tyngsborough, Massachusetts.

Speaking with police, Groves admitted to taking the images, and stated that Laughton had asked her to do so after expressing a sexual interest in children.

According to court records, police obtained a search warrant for both of the suspects’ devices, and found they had exchanged over 10,000 messages that included explicit discussions of the sexual abuse of children.

But what about the retardation defense?

aughton’s defense includes an assessment by Dr. Joseph Plaud, a clinical forensic psychologist, who reportedly confirmed that he was developmentally disabled. References to a 1999 psychological report were also included, in which the assessing doctor had determined that Laughton’s intelligence quotient was trending downwards towards retardation.

REDUXX reports that Laughton was first elected in 2012, but bailed when a 2008 felony conviction for identity and credit card fraud and falsifying physical evidence came to light. After the sentence for that felony conviction, Laughton was allowed to run for office again in 2019. He was elected selectman in 2011, 2019, and 2021. He was also elected state representative in 2020. He’s also an ordained minister.

(Read more and see some 10 hilarious tweets at Twitchy

It is my guess that the press is not focusing on this “pastor/legislator” to help Talarico

The similarities are just too obvious to me.

Think of it: this guy has child porn in his possession and attempts to trade it to another individual. James Talarico, when asked in an interview what (outside of family and friends) he loved the most, he responded with “transgender children.”

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Fox News refuses to run Senator Ron Johnson’s op-ed on deadly government COVID vaccination lies

The Daily Caller points out how Fox News has attempted to become part of the main stream media fold by donning the wolf’s clothing of wokeness now that Fox News refuses to run a senator’s conservative op-ed.

Despite having uncovered attempts by the government to avoid accountability for injuries and deaths associated with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is experiencing stonewalling by legacy media — including Fox News — of his attempts to share his findings.

Johnson published an op-ed on his X account Wednesday detailing how nearly 40,000 people died after having received the COVID-19 vaccine and how federal health officials hid vaccine safety concerns from the public. He also accuses Fox Digital and several legacy media outlets of declining or ignoring requests to publish the article.

Johnson, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, self-published the op-ed on X and later on his Senate website under the headline, “The story the media — and the government — don’t want you to hear.” In the piece, Johnson alleges federal health officials knew about serious COVID-19 vaccine safety concerns in 2021 but failed to apprise the public of them.

“The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and Fox Digital have all declined or ignored requests to publish this op-ed,” Johnson writes.

Johnson also posted a Majority Staff Interim Report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations which details how “Biden health officials purposely turned a blind eye toward COVID-19 vaccine safety signals.” The report also references cases of “‘Death and sudden death’ associated with the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.”

While Fox News covered Johnson’s report on May 3, it did not, at the time of writing, accept his offer to follow up on the coverage with his op-ed.

Johnson noted NBC, ABC, PBS, CNN, and MS NOW likewise all refused to cover his report.

(Read the excuses from Fox and the counterarguments against those excuses at the Daily Caller)

What we don’t need is another woke news agency spouting the government line

But maybe what we already have is another large media company spouting the line it has been afforded by the overseers in the American bureaucracy.

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“Why are you so in love?:” Joy Behar takes some heat on The View for being too nice to JD Vance

The Daily Caller shows how the media bias has not only seeped out to the audience (but has become expected) in a venue where incivility toward sitting conservative politicians has become expected. What would their response be to rudeness to any of the Democrat royalty (aka the Obamas)?

Joy Behar found herself on defense Friday after her own co-hosts accused her of going soft on the vice president.

The tension came after “The View” replayed a clip of Vice President JD Vance ribbing the panel during a Thursday White House briefing, where he pointed to his Tuesday sit-down with the show as evidence he could handle tough talks over Iran. “Look, Joy Behar is way tougher than the Iranians, and she and I are best friends now,” Vance told reporters as seen on the video from “The View.”

Sunny Hostin reacted with disbelief on air. “We were more difficult to deal with than the Iranian government?” Hostin said. Behar brushed it off as a joke before defending her belief in reaching across the aisle.

That prompted Hostin to put the question to her directly. “But I want to know, why were you so in love with JD Vance?” Hostin asked. Behar shot back, “I wasn’t in love. I’m not in love with him, and I’m not in love with this administration.”

Ana Navarro argued Vance had walked in with a plan. She said he came “strategically prepared to disarm us with niceness” and told Behar the tactic landed on her but not on Navarro. Behar rejected that read and tied her approach to the show’s founder. “I respect the office. I’m a civilized human being, and when someone comes on my show, then you treat them like a human being,” Behar said, crediting the late Barbara Walters for the lesson.

(Read more at the Daily Caller)

Just to show you how far the ship has drifted from its moring:

The New York Sun documents an ad campaign asking viewers to tell the FCC that The View is “news.”

ABC is turning to viewers for help in its fight with the Federal Communications Commission, asking them to submit comments to the regulator stating that “The View” is a news program, therefore it qualifies for an exemption from the equal time rule.  

On Monday, ABC began airing graphics during ad breaks that read, “‘The View’ has welcomed your favorite guests for nearly 30 years. Now the FCC wants to control who is allowed to appear on the show.”

“Tell the FCC to let viewers decide,” the graphic says. 

The FCC has been investigating “The View” for an alleged equal time rule violation involving a February interview with a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, James Talarico. The equal time rule requires that broadcast radio and TV stations provide legally qualified candidates an equal opportunity for airtime if one of their opponents uses the station’s facilities. 

Mr. Talarico’s primary opponent, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, had previously made several appearances on “The View,” including an appearance in January. Mr. Talarico’s February appearance came roughly four weeks ahead of the closely-watched primary as Democrats hope to finally flip a Senate seat in Texas blue and as the FCC stepped up scrutiny of late-night and daytime talk shows amid longstanding complaints from conservatives that they were being used to boost the hosts’ preferred candidates. 

For years, the FCC has not subjected late-night or daytime talk shows to equal time requirements. Earlier this year, the FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, said he was considering applying the rule to those programs. ABC’s parent company, Disney, submitted a petition asking that “The View” be labeled a “bona fide” news program.

In May, the FCC published a notice soliciting public comments about whether the show is a news program. The notice asks, “Does The View qualify as a bona fide news interview program? Does the federal equal opportunities statute pass relevant constitutional scrutiny, either as a general matter or as applied here? Are the relevant decisions on The View, including on format and participants, based on newsworthiness or on an attempt to oppose or support particular candidates within the meaning of FCC precedent?”

Mr. Carr has not explicitly said whether or not he believes “The View” would qualify for the “bona fide news” exemption, saying there will be a process to answer the question. 

ABC has pushed back on the FCC’s equal time investigation, claiming it is “unprecedented, beyond the Commission’s authority,” and an attempt to chill speech. 

(Read more at the New York Sun)

If The View is news, then news can be shoveled at the Fort Worth stock yards

If The View is news, we need to attach a dynamo to the casket of Edward R. Morrow so that we can light Houston with the power he must be generating.

Looks like the specifics of the New York Sun article support an ABC endorsement of Talarico

If they want to make this puff piece on Talarico a one-sided thing, then they must support him.

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Developments in what seems like cheating in the Los Angeles mayoral race

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FBI agents descend on Skid Row in massive voter fraud probe after stunning claims of election bribery

The New York Post digs into the case of people being paid to register to vote (and place that vote for certain liberals running for mayor of Los Angeles).

The FBI is now investigating voter fraud in Los Angeles.

Federal agents descended on the streets of Skid Row in downtown LA Thursday following allegations that the homeless had been paid to vote in the June 2 primary.

About 20 agents swooped in on the notoriously blighted area after homeless people staying there claimed they’d been bribed with cash to sign multiple registration forms, forge signatures, and fill out voter information for the mayoral and gubernatorial primaries.

The California Post looked on as plainclothes agents questioned Skid Row residents, asking them if they were paid to vote or were aware of others who were approached with the offer.

The Department of Justice would only confirm that federal agents were investigating a ”criminal matter,” as officers conducted up to 50 interviews.

It marked a major escalation in the feds’ probe of voting in Los Angeles, with FBI Director Kash Patel applauding the action.

“Securing our elections is of the upmost priority for this FBI!” he wrote on X. “If you mess with our elections we will find you!”

The action came a day after the LA City Council voted to move forward with a controversial proposal introduced by a socialist councilmembers to allow immigrant noncitizens vote in city and school board elections.

“It just does not make sense to me that someone who moves to Los Angeles for a temporary job has more of a voice than a parent who has been here for decades raising their children through public schools,”  said Democrat Socialists of America-backed Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez.

The FBI probe followed the emergence of shocking videos the week after Election Day of Skid Row residents claiming they were paid to vote for incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Nithya Raman.

Raman’s surge into second place, after initially trailing well behind change-agent candidate Spencer Pratt, came after an extraordinary tally in mail-in ballots.

In one of the clips, a man on Skid Row claimed he received $4 to vote for Bass.

When asked whether he would also have been paid to vote for Raman, he answered “yes” and said Pratt was not among the candidates he was encouraged to support.

“They gave you an optional choice,” claimed the voter Kevin Shepherd, alleging he was offered $2 but negotiated for a higher payment.

He further claimed that he completed a mail-in ballot for Bass and deposited it in a ballot box.

Federal Homeland Security Investigations agents also participated in Thursday’s probe.

The officers — dressed in jeans, sweatshirts and baseball caps — spoke to locals who appeared to point them in the direction of where to look.

The Post confirmed agents were attempting to identify who was either approached or paid to vote.

(Read more at the New York Post)

I don’t know how this will come out.

From the statement that Mr. Pratt released after the vote counts took the dramatic turn, there may be an incriminating statement (either relating to this or just incriminating on the part of one politician) in the wings. Nonetheless, I look forward to Ms. Raman and the rest getting what they deserve.

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California woman federally charged with paying individuals, including homeless people on L.A.’s Skid Row, to register to vote

The U.S. Department of Justice issued a public statement on the case of the California woman charged with paying people to register to vote.

A California woman who worked as a longtime signature collector for ballot initiatives has been charged with paying individuals – including homeless people living in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles – to register to vote.

“False registrations undermine Americans’ faith in elections – even more so when payoffs are involved,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “This Justice Department is committed to ensuring that all U.S. elections are fair and free from illegal meddling – so that all Americans can accept the results with confidence.”

Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, of Marina del Rey, California, 64, also known as “Anika,” is charged with one felony count of paying another person to register to vote, a federal charge that carries a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.

Armstrong has agreed to plead guilty to the charge and is scheduled to make her initial appearance this morning in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana. She is expected to plead guilty in the coming weeks.

According to her plea agreement, for approximately 20 years, Armstrong periodically worked as a “petition circulator.” In that role, she was paid by individuals and entities – known as “coordinators” – to collect voter signatures on official petitions that qualify initiatives, referendums, and recalls for California state ballots. Armstrong drove around the Los Angeles area to find registered voters to sign the petitions.

After gathering enough signatures, Armstrong returned the petitions to her coordinators, who then paid her a set amount for each registered voter’s signature. The amount she was paid varied depending on the specific ballot initiative. Because her coordinators only paid for signatures attributable to registered voters, Armstrong endeavored to ensure the people who signed her petitions were registered voters.

Armstrong occasionally solicited petitioned signatures in Skid Row, an area of downtown Los Angeles notorious for its homelessness problem. Skid Row was a convenient place for Armstrong to collect signatures because of its high concentration of people in a relatively small area who were willing to sign petitions in exchange for payment. Armstrong regularly paid and offered to pay individuals cash, usually in amounts between $2 and $3, to induce them to sign her petitions.

Many of Skid Row’s homeless population were not registered to vote. To ensure she maximized her pay from her coordinators, starting no later than 2025, Armstrong began offering payment to individuals not only to sign her petitions, but also to complete a voter registration form. Before going to Skid Row, Armstrong gathered a stack of voter registration forms from the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters.

Some homeless people did not have an address to put on the forms. On several occasions, Armstrong provided a homeless individual with her own former address in Los Angeles so they had something to write on the registration form. These registration forms simultaneously registered an individual to vote in California elections and in federal elections.

Because California automatically sends a vote-by-mail ballot to every registered voter, this also meant ballots in some homeless individuals’ names could have the potential to be sent to Armstrong’s former residence where the homeless individual did not live or collect mail.

On Jan. 30, as part of her ongoing scheme, Armstrong knowingly and willfully paid another person to register to vote. She paid the person for the purpose of causing that person to register to vote in federal elections.

(Read more at the U.S. Department of Justice)

Cases like this are just the little fish that lead to the big fish

Hopefully those big fish will be landed.

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Questions are emerging after thousands of Los Angeles ballots were apparently rejected

Townhall comments on the questions being raised in the wake of the primary for the Los Angeles mayor’s race.

Rumors are spreading across social media that thousands of ballots submitted with votes for Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles County were outright rejected for lacking signatures and others failing signature verification requirements. Some accounts have gone further, alleging that the rejected ballots were disproportionately expected to benefit Spencer Pratt, though that claim has not been independently verified.

The original social media account that brought attention to the issue claimed that roughly 18,000 ballots had been rejected. Los Angeles County officials pushed back on the figure, acknowledging rejected ballots but asserting that the actual number was closer to 12,000.

“This is incorrect/deceptive,” the official Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk X account replied. “Countywide (not just in the City of L.A.) the number of ballots challenged based on signature matching is 9,713, and unsigned 2,991. All have been contacted with information on how to respond and ensure their ballot can be counted.”

It is also unclear how anyone could know the rejected ballots were intended to support Pratt, since mail-in ballots that are rejected for signature issues are not opened. Claims that the rejected ballots were specifically destined for one candidate remain purely speculative. 

(Read more at Townhall)

Hopefully, there are bigger fish out there than the one caught selling registrations

I hope that the woman cuaght in Skid Row is not the only one to go to jail.

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Comments posted on X (Twitter) by the victims and close observers

 

Why do we need the Bible?

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The following comes through the notes of Mark Ramsey and the responses of the class.

The authority and inerrancy of scripture

Before class began, an assessment of the Good and Bad in the current world began by observing the following:

When asked why these Christians refused to call themselves Christian or talk more about Christ, many in the class identified the problem as “fear.”

One classmate quoted James 2:19

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. (NIV)

Next came several other verses:

Trust in the Lord with all your heart
  and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
  and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV)

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7 NIV)

Then it was asked “Why do Christians believe in God but not believe God?

One member suggested that it came from the depth of their faith. Next, someone mentioned Isaiah 41:10

So do not fear, for I am with you;
  do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
  I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41:10 NIV)

A third mentioned the illustration of knowing a chair could support one, but it wasn’t until we sat on the chair that we showed the faith that it could support us. Therefore, it was a matter of putting our faith in action. A fourth said that we must have total surrender to Christ and strong faith.

Then one mentioned that the story of Psalm 22:6 was a remez (a hidden message). This literary device is one used by the Jewish teachers of the Bible and, especially, Jesus.

On that, we started the planned lesson.

  1. The authority and inerrancy of God’s Word are fundamental doctrines
    1. How does the inerrancy of God’s Word affect believers in terms of everyday life? — Part 2
      1. The Bible extols the glories of God’s creation

        The heavens declare the glory of God;
          the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
        Day after day they pour forth speech;
          night after night they reveal knowledge.
        They have no speech, they use no words;
          no sound is heard from them.
        Yet their voice[b] goes out into all the earth,
          their words to the ends of the world.
        In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
          It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
          like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
        It rises at one end of the heavens
          and makes its circuit to the other;
          nothing is deprived of its warmth. (Psalm 19:1-6 NIV)

      2. The Bible is all-sufficient

        The law of the Lord is perfect,
          refreshing the soul.
        The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy,
          making wise the simple.
        The precepts of the Lord are right,
          giving joy to the heart.
        The commands of the Lord are radiant,
          giving light to the eyes.
        The fear of the Lord is pure,
          enduring forever.
        The decrees of the Lord are firm,
          and all of them are righteous.

        They are more precious than gold,
          than much pure gold;
        they are sweeter than honey,
          than honey from the honeycomb.
        By them your servant is warned;
          in keeping them there is great reward.
        But who can discern their own errors?
          Forgive my hidden faults.
        Keep your servant also from willful sins;
          may they not rule over me.
        Then I will be blameless,
          innocent of great transgression.

        May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart
          be pleasing in your sight,
          Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:7-14 NIV)

      3. The Bible transforms

        Psalm 19:7 — “The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul.”

      4. The Bible imparts wisdom

        Psalm 19:7b — “The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple.”

      5. The Bible gives joy to the heart

        Psalm 19:8a — “The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart.”

        God’s Word gives us both the path to walk and the light we need to follow it.

        Your word is a lamp for my feet,
          a light on my path. (Psalm 119:105 NIV)

        He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” (Luke 11:28 NIV)

        When your words came, I ate them;
          they were my joy and my heart’s delight,
        for I bear your name,
          Lord God Almighty. (Jeremiah 15:16 NIV)

        Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. (Colossians 3:16 NIV)

        John writes of salvation through the Lord and concludes with this comment in 1 JOHN 1:4-“We write this to make our joy complete.”

        The Bible is a source of great joy-now and for all eternity.

        Do you find this to be true in your life?

        Do you seek the Bible when you lack joy? Explain.

      6. The Bible provides true enlightenment

        Psalm 19:8a — “The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.”

        The Bible enlightens our eyes in a world of darkness.

        Believers who grasp the truth of the Bible are the only people in the world who see things the way they really are.

        1 Corinthians 2:16b — “we have the mind of Christ.”

        We see the world for exactly what it is because we see it biblically.

        We see when there is rebellion against the things of God, we understand sin and the consequences of sin; we can see the purposes of God unfolding throughout history, we understand how the Lord created the family and the role of the family, the role of government and what happens to a society when family and government break down.

        We understand the function of the church, the power of the Gospel and the Kingdom agenda that God has called us to do.

        From the principles and precepts of God’s Word, we understand reality with a clarity and perspective that unrepentant sinners could never comprehend.

        Without the Word of God, we would not experience hope in this world of darkness.

        Do you see the advantage of seeing the world through the lens of Scripture? Explain.

      7. The Bible is the devine manual for worship

        The fear of the Lord is pure,
          enduring forever.
        The decrees of the Lord are firm,
          and all of them are righteous. (Psalm 19:9 NIV)

        The fear of the Lord refers to reverence, respect, awe and worship. Everything about the Christian life begins with true worship.

        Those who know your name trust in you, (Psalm 9:10a NIV)

        Without the Word of God, we wouldn’t know the first thing about how to praise Him. The Lord Jesus instructed us to worship “in spirit and truth.” John 4:24
        David adds that the Word of God is “pure”. It is free from error and corruption. No impurity or imperfection.

        And the words of the Lord are flawless,
          like silver purified in a crucible,
          like gold[a] refined seven times. (Psalm 12:6 NIV)

        Scripture doesn’t go out of date or drift out of relevance. Are you grateful that you have access to this divine manual?

      8. The Bible is our greatest possession and pleasure

        They are more precious than gold,
          than much pure gold;
        they are sweeter than honey,
          than honey from the honeycomb. (Psalm 19:10 NIV)

      9. The Bible is out greatest guard

        By them your servant is warned;
          in keeping them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:11 NIV)

        God’s Word guards against sin and corruption and points us to the way of escape, so we can withstand temptation.

        No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. (1 Corinthians 10:13 NIV)

        I have hidden your word in my heart
          that I might not sin against you. (Psalm 119:11 NIV)

        If we desire a life that pleases God, we must meditate on Scripture and be “doers of the Word and not merely hearers who delude ourselves.” James 1:22

 

It’s not being kind, but a reframing of the Democrat method of lying

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Bill replacing “mother” and “father” with gender-neutral terms passes in New York, heads to Hochul’s desk

Fox News chooses to report on the matter in the fashion of our lying press by framing the change as a matter of making the law more “gender neutral.”

New York Democrats recently passed a bill that would remove the words “mother” and “father” from parts of state law, sending the legislation to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk for final approval.

Under the new bill, targeting state child custody and parental laws, “mother” becomes “gestating parent,” “father” becomes “non-gestating parent,” and “paternity” becomes “parentage.”

It passed in the state Senate this week after progressing through the Assembly in March.

Democrats who drafted the legislation claimed the wording shift would promote “inclusivity,” while critics claim the change is unnecessary, with the legislative session having ended for the year on Thursday, FOX 5 New York reported.

Hochul said during a news conference that she isn’t familiar with the proposal, but promised to review it.

“I have until the end of the year to review them and make a decision, so I won’t be commenting on pending legislation,” Hochul said.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman shared multiple posts responding to the bill on social media Friday.

“In Kathy Hochul’s New York, ‘mom’ is now defined as ‘gestating parent,'” Blakeman wrote. “Not when I’m Governor! I’ll stand up for moms and dads against this insanity.”

(Read more at Fox News)

Change “incude” to “make people feel better about bad choices,” and I will agree with the reasoning behind this bill (but I still oppose it).

No matter how “noble” the cause behind the lie, it is still a lie and, therefore, it is not noble.

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“Mother” or “gestating parent?” Inside NY’s push for inclusive family law

The Record Online does quite a bit more to expose the lie built into the new law redefining the parents within New York.

While some misinformation spread on social media in recent days may have New Yorkers wondering if the words “mother” and “father” have been banned in New York state, it’s just that: misinformation.

A bill sponsored by Assemblymember Amy Paulin, a Westchester Democrat, and Sen. Luis Sepúlveda, D-Bronx, makes language used in certain state family laws concerning child custody and paternity testing more inclusive — and gender-neutral — to better align with the Child-Parent Security Act, which was passed in 2021 and legalizes gestational surrogacy arrangements.

Not all parents are related to their children through genetics or adoption, supporters of the bill say, and the new language particularly protects the rights of LGBTQ parents.

(Read more at the Record Online)

Please enlighten me. Which LGBTQIA+ person has contributed alone to parenthood

I don’t mean to belabor the obvious, but the obvious is being obfuscated here (probably purposely). It takes a heterosexual couple to begin the process of parenthood.

While, after the fact of birth, anyone in today’s society seems to have the court’s approval to adopt, studies show children thrive the best in families involving both the father and mother.

On the LGBTQIA+ side, there are these examples that have occurred in the past 10 years and stand against allowing gay couples adopting children:

  • In June 2026, a court convicted a gay couple of heinous crimes against their 13-month-old adopted son, Preston Davey. Jamie Varley was found guilty of murder, sexual assault, and child cruelty and was sentenced to a whole-life term (never eligible for parole). His partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley, was convicted of child cruelty, sexual assault, and allowing a child’s death and was sentenced to 25 years.
  • In December 2024, William and Zachary Zulock were each sentenced to 100 years in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to charges including aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, and sexual exploitation. They had adopted two young brothers. Walton County investigators discovered seven terabytes of evidence, including videos and messages showing the couple abusing and trafficking the boys.
  • Rachel Stevens and Kayla Jones were arrested and convicted of beating and torturing Stevens’ five-year-old son so badly that he had two strokes from years of beatings. The two have now been sentenced to 20 years in jail.
  • Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber were found guilty of first-degree murder and other charges involving two young brothers, L.L. and J.L., in their care. The two were found to have tortured the brothers before their deaths.

Of course, there are many cases of heterosexual parents abusing and even murdering their own children. However, these are anomalies to a greater extent due to the larger population of heterosexual couples.

With even the argument of abuse and murder by gay adoptive parents swept aside, it still stands that this narative is a lie

Even if we ignore the issue of abuse and murder by gay adoptive parents, the central issue of the lie built into the language of both this “inclusive language” and even the acceptance of transgenderism remains.

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Leftists in MLB get confused about who deserves our praise

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MLB warns Giants pitchers who wore Bible verses on caps during “Pride Night”

Sports Illustrated pretends to play the uninterested arbiter in the conflict between the LGBTQIA+ supporting Major League Baseball and the pitchers who have Biblical standards.

Three Giants pitchers were issued a warning from Major League Baseball after they appeared in Friday’s game against the Cubs with Bible verses written on their Pride Night caps. The league notified the players that similar behavior would not be tolerated in the future.

Right-handed pitcher Landen Roupp started Friday’s game on the mound. Etched on his cap throughout the game was “Gen 9:12-16” in white lettering. The writing was a reference to the Bible verse Genesis 9:12-16.

“The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations,” MLB’s chief communications officer Pat Courtney told The Athletic.

In addition to Roupp, a pair of San Francisco’s relief pitchers, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker, also took the mound in Friday’s game with Bible verses on their hats. Additionally, reliever Sam Hentges opted against wearing the Pride Night cap, entering the game with the team’s standard black and orange cap, as opposed to the one with the rainbow logo.

Roupp was asked about his decision to write a Bible verse on his cap in his postgame media address. He explained his stance on the matter, saying:

“It’s just about God’s covenant and a promise that he makes to us that, you know, his faithfulness and his mercy… That’s just kind of something I believe in, and I stand firm in that, and I’m thankful we live in a country where, you know, we have the freedom to believe what we want … and express what we want.”

The verse in the Bible which Roupp wore on his hat, Gensesis 9:12-16, reads: “And God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.'”

Roupp pitched 4 2/3 innings in the Giants’ loss to the Cubs. He surrendered four runs, four hits and two walks while striking out five.

Reporters asked Giants manager Tony Vitello if he’d discussed the situation with the pitchers prior to the game.

“Not really. I mean, just kind of a general knowledge of the individuals have the freedom to do what they think is best. But I do think it’s been apparent from day one, actually, even some of the exhibition games, it’s pretty impressive how the Giants, as an organization, try and embrace the entire community,” Vitello said, via The Athletic.

The Giants issued a statement about the situation on Saturday, via the San Francisco Standard, saying:

“The San Francisco Giants are proud to support Pride Night and the LGBTQ+ community. Baseball should be a place where everyone feels welcome, respected, and valued. We also respect that individuals may make personal choices about participating in team activations. We understand that the choices by individual players have caused pain and anger to many in the LGBTQ+ community and we are sorry for that.  Those choices do not change our organization’s commitment to inclusion, belonging, and creating a welcoming environment for all. We remain grateful to our fans, partners, employees, players, and coaches who help make Pride Night a meaningful celebration.”

(Read more at Sports Illustrated)

Look at the picture above. Do you see the Bible verse?

Are you offended?

Imagine that it were a verse from the Quran covering a logo from a beer company. Would you focus on his performance or on the fact that he covered a logo from a beer company.

In regard to the last paragraph where the MLB and the LGBTQIA+ community strive to make “Pride month” a “meaningful celebration” — why not just celebrate it yourselves?

Why do you need my participation in your celebration to make your celebration meaningful?

Never mind that (in the minds of many delusional liberals) the Handmaid’s Tale must be reality (since we see the costumes for that play seem to pop up regularly in No Kings marches). Sorry, liberals, you are not under the evil spell of Trump. You can celebrate on your own to the extent of the law.

Let me maintain that it wasn’t just the pitchers who were warned

If you remember a few posts ago where a Washington Nationals team executive was caught on video admitting that they used cameras on the game’s audience to later use in their leftist governmental schemes.

It is revelations from leftist nuts like him that further solidify my support for smaller government.

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MLB official warns Christian athletes against referencing Scripture on pride caps

The Washington Stand provides a more reasonable analysis of the LGBTQIA+ MLB versus Christian pitchers issue that sprung up when three Giants team members covered the LGBTQIA+ colors with Bible references.

Despite discouraging “Pride” ballcaps in a 2023 directive, Major League Baseball is now siding with one team that retained them against a quiet player protest. Soon after several players on the San Francisco Giants restored their team’s “Pride Night” rainbow hats to the rainbow’s original Genesis context, MLB chief communications officer Pat Courtney responded with a warning, “The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations.”

The warning followed activist criticism, with New York Times sports writer Grant Brisbee complaining that the Christian players made “Pride” night “about ‘us versus them’” in a “tone-deaf response.”

Technically speaking, the league may have a point. The MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement for 2022-2026 stipulates that “No alterations, writing or illustrations, other than as authorized herein, are to be made to any part of the uniform.” This line appears to apply the 2026 Official Baseball Rules, which require that “All players on a team shall wear uniforms identical in color, trim and style.”

The rules show zero tolerance for violations of this rule, declaring that “No player whose uniform does not conform to that of his teammates shall be permitted to participate in a game.”

In practice, however, the MLB has often given latitude — as even the past weekend demonstrates. Landen Roupp, J.T. Brubaker, and Nick Ahmed were all permitted to participate in the game, despite writing Bible verses on their caps. Sam Hentges wore the team’s usual cap instead of the rainbow version, and he was allowed to participate, too.

By permitting these players to compete, the league tacitly recognized their right to express themselves by writing on a part of the uniform that the league itself had turned into a public forum.

There are past examples of cap-writing as well. During the 2025 World Series, players from both teams wrote “#51” to support a player with a recent family tragedy. In 2025, Dodgers reliever Blake Treinen drew a tribute to Charlie Kirk on his cap, and Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw wrote the same Bible reference on his “Pride” night hat. All the way back in 2021, two players wrote “SOS CUBA” on their caps for the All-Star Game.

Thus, the public reprimand of Giants players who dared to reference the Bible seems to contradict the MLB’s past practice, raising suspicions that they singled Bible verses out for special punishment, after pro-LGBT complaints.

This special animus reserved for Christians sings the same tune as Sean Hudson, a former communications director for the Washington Nationals, who was fired earlier this month for intentionally discriminating against a player for his Christian beliefs and then admitting as much on camera. (In other words, he not only harbored animus against Christians, but he felt so secure in his animus that he didn’t mind broadcasting it to those around him — what a disturbing picture about the state of the league.)

(Read more at the Washington Stand

If the MLB would stand up for Christians the way it stands up for the LGBTQIA+ community, there might not be a technical issue

Still, the MLB has chosen the side of the LGBTQIA+ community and decided to special privileges. Not only is that not legal within our system, it just does not buy my business.

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Conservative fans warn MLB over admonishing players who donned Bible verses on “Pride Night”

Even the New York Sun comes out to point out the glaring problems created when the Giants discriminate against their own players on the basis of religion.

Major League Baseball is facing criticism from conservative fans for issuing a verbal warning to three San Francisco Giants pitchers who added Bible verses to their hats on “Pride Night” at homefield.

On June 12, pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker wrote “Gen. 9:12-16” on their hats. That refers to the passage in the Bible’s Noah story where God says that the rainbow is a symbol of his covenant with humanity. Mr. Roupp told reporters after the game that the verse is “just about God’s covenant and a promise that he makes to us.” He added, “I’m thankful we live in a country where, you know, we have the freedom to believe what we want.”

The decision to modify their hats on a designated “Pride Night” frustrated viewers. On Monday, MLB said in a statement that it had admonished the trio for distinguishing their uniforms from everyone else’s attire. The entire team’s hats were altered for the evening by emblazoning the team’s logo in rainbow colors rather than its regular orange.

The chief communications officer for MLB, Pat Courtney, told Outsports, “The writing on the cap violates our rules and consistent with normal practice we have warned the players about future violations.” The Giants also put out a statement apologizing for the “choices by individual players [that] have caused pain and anger to many in the LGBTQ+ community.”

The Athletic, which is owned by the New York Times, published a column criticizing the move. “By choosing this verse as a response to the rainbow colors of the pride hat, the message appeared to be: Don’t forget what the rainbow is really about,” said author Grant Brisbee. Mr. Brisbee argued that it was “tone-deaf” and turned what could have been a “moment for community unity” into a “night about ‘us versus them.’”

The San Francisco Chronicle also published a column in which it accused the players of defacing their official uniform and “hijacking the event for their own purposes.”

However, conservatives expressed outrage that Major League Baseball would warn players about donning biblical verses while also requiring them to conform to the Pride-themed hats. Senator Katie Britt wrote on X, “Let me get this straight, @MLB  teams can host ‘pride night’ but players wearing bible verses is an issue?”

“Last I checked, freedom of religion was still one of the founding principles of our nation and enshrined in our constitution,” she said. “This decision should be reversed now.”

(Read more at the New York Sun)

While it may be grandstanding, it is grandstanding that I agree with.

The two tweets (and more, as time goes on) may constitute grandstanding by politicians, but I do support the sentiment.

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It wasn’t just the Southern Poverty Law Center that turned violence against the Right into a cottage industry

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Antifa Inc: How an ideology became an organized criminal network

The Washington Examiner addressed the question surrounding the means by which Antifa became an organized entity in a 14 August 2025 article that dove deep into the topic.

By design, antifa is a decentralized, left-wing movement of loosely knit “resistance” networks operating primarily in Democratic strongholds. But in recent years, antifa’s forces have become highly organized and increasingly sophisticated, with organized crime cells cropping up across the country. This Washington Examiner series, Antifa, Inc., will document antifa’s rise in America, dispel modern misconceptions surrounding it, and examine whether RICO charges or a domestic terrorist organization designation could happen in the future.

Part 1: How the antifa movement has metastasized

“Antifa is an idea, not an organization,” Joe Biden, then the Democratic presidential nominee, declared on the 2020 debate stage.

“Not a militia,” Biden insisted, amid more than 100 consecutive nights of antifa-led attacks on federal property, police precincts, and downtown businesses in Portland, Oregon.

Antifa, short for antifascist, is indeed an extremist ideology, a blend of anarcho-communist beliefs opposed to adversaries and policies perceived as “fascist.” However, its left-wing teachings have incited self-identified members to assemble, form factions, and commit crimes in the name of so-called “antifascist” activism.

As Democrats and liberal media outlets downplay the threat of antifa militancy by portraying antifa as a right-wing bogeyman, this nationwide movement is growing in numbers and evolving into high-level criminal operations.

(Read more at the Washington Examiner)

At least in the video below, notice which side has only catch phrases and which side is ready to debate the issues

For one side to be so completely supported by the main stream press, it would seem that such a side would have a strong case and be able to pull from all the press examples.

Since the reporters at the Washington Examiner tell us that a construct of the Antifa organization is built on the disjointed nature of the individual chapters, maybe the members are intentionally left ignorant of the defense of their ultimate goal. Or maybe they are just easily lead drones.

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If Antifa Isn’t an Organization, How Is Its Violence So Organized?

Washington Stand observes the violent nature and implied organization of a group that continually denies being an organized group.

Portland man Robert Jacob Hoopes was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for his role in leading a violent assault on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility last summer, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. As part of a plea deal, Hoopes pled guilty in February to “aggravated assault on a federal employee with a dangerous weapon” after he threw a large rock that struck an ICE officer in the head.

Hoopes’s crimes occurred on a particularly violent day during a summer of continual harassment. On June 14, 2025, a sizable crowd of agitators surrounded the building housing ICE offices in Portland, Ore.

“While federal law enforcement officers were within the building, numerous individuals attempted to breach the front door of the facility,” a federal affidavit averred. “One of these individuals, Subject 1 (S1) … threw multiple rocks towards the door. Subjects, including S1, also attempted to barricade the front doors from the outside to prevent officers from opening the door.”

“Subject 1” obscured his face with a large gas mask, but federal investigators later identified him as Hoopes.

 “As officers opened the door attempting to clear obstructions from the doorway, S1 approached the door and threw a rock into the opening, striking an ICE ERO officer in the face from close range causing significant injury,” the affidavit continued.

The officer received “an approximately 2-inch gash on his right eyebrow,” which “bled profusely, to the point of obstructing his vision.” He received immediate first-aid, “including glue, adhesive sutures, and bandages to hold the wound closed,” but the “the first attempt to close the wound failed,” and the officer “needed additional medical attention.”

The act of striking a man’s eyebrow with a thrown rock apparently did nothing to prick Hoopes’s conscience. “Shortly after the assault, S1 was observed with two as-yet unidentified people carrying a stop sign toward the front door of the ICE building. S1 led the individuals with the stop-sign, using the metal pole of the sign as a makeshift battering ram, striking the front door to the ICE facility four times,” the affidavit added. “The three individuals worked in concert, but it appeared that S1 was leading the charge.”

“The metal pole striking the door caused significant structural damage to the door, requiring replacement by the United States government,” it informed the court. “An official quote to replace the door was requested from the General Services Administration. The replacement cost totaled $7,747.72.”

On August 5, 2025, Hoopes was indicted on one count of “aggravated assault on a federal employee with a dangerous weapon” and one count of “depredation of federal property.” Although Hoopes only pled guilty to the first count, the $8,000 in restitution he was required to pay roughly covers the cost of repairing the door he damaged in the second count.

Jacob Hoopes’s father, Tom, flew in from the East Coast to advocate for his son. “Jacob is a lifelong Quaker who is deeply committed to pacifism,” Tom Hoopes protested. “He’s an organic gardener and the soul of kindness.” Jacob Hoopes’s girlfriend, Fable Sorenson, described him in similar terms: “Jacob is a pacifist Quaker who is the most compassionate, loving, gentle person I have ever met.”

Unfortunately for Jacob Hoopes, four years at the uber-liberal Reed College had filled him with enough animosity for immigration enforcement to overcome whatever Quaker pacifism he still retained. Gary Granger, the longtime director of Community Safety at Reed College, recognized Hoopes from law enforcement photographs and informed the FBI — an act for which Granger was fired. Federal investigators also matched Hoopes to “Subject 1” using facial recognition software, an elaborate tattoo on his left forearm, and a distinctive gas mask with bright pink filters.

Thus, all of Hoopes’s violent actions were captured on video. “He used violence multiple times, postured and threatened,” a U.S. assistant attorney said. “He struck an officer at point-blank range.”

“Violence is not a protest,” responded U.S. Attorney Scott Bradford. “When you cross the line and assault a federal officer, you will be prosecuted.”

Following his guilty plea, Hoopes was sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release, and also ordered to pay $8,000 in restitution, which covered the cost of a door repair he caused. Prosecutors had asked for 46 months in prison and $250,000 in restitution for “the most aggravated form of conduct that occurred at this ICE facility,” but the judge imposed a lesser sentence.

The incident serves as a reminder that left-wing agitation against immigration enforcement has been more or less sustained for the past 17 months. If Hoopes was guilty of “the most aggravated form of conduct” of the ICE facility in Portland, that is only because lesser agitation is so commonplace and routine that no one even bothers to prosecute it.

Last summer, Portland ICE Office Director Cammila Wamsley complained that the building faced violence for 100 consecutive nights. “Towards the evening and around dark, there are a lot of folks that come up dressed in all black,” she said. “They are here to wreak havoc. They’ll block our cars, throw paint, damage property, and even try to follow our folks home.” The agitators could converge with the sophisticated coordination of a flash mob, with a crowd swelling in size from “a crowd of 50 to a crowd of 1,000 in 30 minutes.”

In another extreme incident, Trenten Edward Barker threw a lit flare into debris piled against the gate of the ICE building, causing thousands of dollars in damage and creating a potentially life-threatening situation for the officers trapped inside. Barker pled guilty in March to arson of a federal building and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

A remarkable feature of these incidents is the level of coordination. Barker did not build a bonfire of debris on his own. Nor did Hoopes dare to assault federal officers without “an impromptu shield wall” behind which to hide, or without co-operators in his “makeshift battering ram” scheme.

This level of coordination is remarkable because some voices still argue that Antifa is merely an idea, not a group.

During a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) asked SPLC interim President Bryan Fair to explain “the reasoning behind targeting groups like Turning Point USA, the Family Research Council. Traditional Catholic groups as hate groups, but not groups like Antifa. Jane’s revenge, Youth Liberation Front.”

Fair responded that the SPLC only lists “groups that demonize or vilify people based on immutable characteristics or that express anti-government conspiracy theories.”

McClintock followed up, “Do you believe that Antifa, and Jane’s Revenge, and Youth Liberation Front have committed violent acts?” This prompted Fair to reply, “It’s my understanding that the FBI has said Antifa is an ideology, not a group. So, if it’s not a group, it wouldn’t be identified on our list.”

This excuse is pedantic. The “anti-fascist” ideology puts a premium on what its adherents like to call “direct action,” which is usually a euphemism for lawbreaking with a political agenda. But disorganized, individual acts of lawbreaking will hardly suffice to achieve radical political change, and they usually carry a high risk of consequences for the perpetrators. So, those who espouse an “anti-fascist” ideology have learned from long practice to cooperate with other individuals who share their same goals. When a collection of individuals associate together over a period of time and agree to coordinate their actions to achieve shared purposes, that collection of individuals can fairly be called a “group.”

The incidents that led to Hoopes’s sentencing in Portland demonstrate that there are groups of agitators who commit acts of anti-government extremism according to their shared “anti-fascist” ideology. These groups are often labelled “Antifa cells” even if they do not bear that exact title. Whatever they are properly called, such groups do exist, and Fair’s response attempted to elide this point.

The point is, the SPLC seems to maintain a double standard for extremism. When it comes to left-wing groups, it turns a blind eye to real and frequent acts of violence, denying that any such groups exist even when they are obviously acting as a group. What would it take for the SPLC to recognize Antifa cells as groups — 501(c)3 status?

Extremism doesn’t work that way, and the SPLC knows that. Indeed, many (perhaps all) of the KKK chapters, neo-Nazi groups, and white nationalist groups it monitors lack official, incorporated status. Such organizations survive by staying off the grid, and they would usually fail to obtain official status even if they requested it. Left-wing extremists use the same sort of tactics because they have the same sort of violent objectives.

The clearest example of “anti-fascist” organization came last year in Texas, when a group of agitators in identical “dark clothing with head and face coverings that concealed their identities” set up an ambush at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center on July 4, 2025. The group “brought eleven firearms, body armor, and eleven military-grade first aid kits with tourniquets and other items for gunshot wounds to the scene of the attack,” according to a DOJ press release.

The group’s strategy was complex. They began with shooting fireworks and vandalizing property to induce a police response. They then opened fire on responding officers with their rifles, shooting one officer in the neck and forcing others to take cover. On March 13, 2026, nine participants in the attack were convicted by a federal jury for “rioting, using weapons and explosives, providing material support to terrorists, obstruction, and attempted murder of an Alvarado police officer and unarmed correctional officers.”

Did the SPLC celebrate how federal law enforcement had eradicated an extremist group that expressed anti-government conspiracy theories? On the contrary, they will not acknowledge that the nine defendants who acted together and were convicted together even constituted a group.

(Read this and more at the Washington Stand)

Playing with words needs to stop when lives are at stake

And, since numerous lives have been lost since the “Summer of Love,” this coddling of Antifa needs to end.

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Students for Life spokeswoman defiant after Antifa “death cult” mobbed her, celebrated Charlie Kirk’s murder

Fox News covered the attacks against a group of pro-life women by a group (Antifa) that claims to be for women and against fascism.

A Students for Life spokeswoman was mobbed by a group of radical Antifa agitators who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination during Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit in Texas over the weekend.

Lydia Taylor Davis saw the deranged group outside the San Antonio convention center where the event was being held and said they were harassing women coming in and out of the venue. She grabbed her microphone to start a conversation with the group — and that’s when things got chaotic.

“I went over with my microphone to start asking questions, to have peaceful dialogue, but it turns out that the left is incapable of peaceful dialogue, and it quickly resulted in screaming where they called me a Nazi [and] a fascist,” Davis told Fox News Digital.

In the video, one agitator can be seen intentionally and repeatedly coughing on Davis, another blared a siren directly in front of her face and a third threw water on her.

The group of instigators hurled graphic insults, some of them sexual in nature, at her.

“Oink, oink, piggy piggy, we don’t want you in our city,” the group chanted during the ordeal.

Davis was most shocked by the outright support for and open mocking of Kirk’s assassination. Kirk lost his life on Sept. 10 when he was shot and killed while speaking at a Turning Point USA event on the campus of Utah Valley University.

“People mocked the death of Charlie Kirk. One Antifa protester dressed himself or herself as Charlie Kirk with a mask and everything and mocked his death by impersonating it,” she said.

(Read more at Fox News)

As previously mentioned, it seems that the Left is always ready to physically attack, but cannot intellectually defend their point.

Therefore, we must both be intellectually ready to defend our point, but also ready to physically defend those around us.

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In partial contuance of the post on the Balkanization of America — a comparison of two immigrants from Africa

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Here are two immigrants from Africa.

Elon Musk Ilhan Omar
Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 28, 1971. He grew up alongside his younger siblings, Kimbal and Tosca, in an engineering-focused and wealthy household. His childhood was marked by a passion for science fiction and early self-taught programming. Ilhan Omar was born to Nur Omar Mohamed, an army colonel who rose to dominance over Somalia. Notably, the family changed their name on exit from Somalia (probably to not be recognized as the reason that most Somalis were fleeing the country).
Elon Musk has founded or co-founded eight major companies over his career. While he is heavily associated with several other enterprises, he officially started these eight:
  • Zip2 (1995): A city guide software company, sold to Compaq in 1999.
  • X.com (1999): An online financial and email payment company that later merged with Confinity to become PayPal.
  • SpaceX (2002): An aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company.
  • Tesla, Inc. (2003): While he did not start it from scratch, he was its principal early backer and officially retroactively designated himself as a co-founder.
  • OpenAI (2015): A prominent artificial intelligence research organization he co-founded (though he departed the board in 2018).
  • Neuralink (2016): A neurotechnology startup developing brain-computer interfaces.
  • The Boring Company (2016): A construction and infrastructure company focused on underground tunnels.
  • xAI (2023): An artificial intelligence startup.
 Ilhan Omar introduced the MEALS Act, which was later incorporated into the federal government’s pandemic response. The legislation authorized emergency waivers for child nutrition programs, allowing schools and sites to continue providing meals to children without standard oversight restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. This MEALS Act has been fundamental in the enabling of fraud within the Somali community.
Elon Musk served on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for approximately 130 days, leaving his position at the end of May 2025 as mandated by federal limits on his “special government employee” status. He was paid $0 by the federal government for this advisory work. As part of this work, he and other committee members determined areas of government inefficiency and recommended cuts that may be made to reduce the debt. Ilhan Omar earns a base annual congressional salary of $174,000, which has been the standard base pay for House members since 2009. During her time in Congress, she has done nothing to reduce the debt.
Elon Musk made over 4,400 employees of SpaceX at least millionaires according to the Rio Grande Guardian. Unless you count the fraudsters like the Somali Quality Learing Center, Ilhan Omar has not made anyone into a millionaire.

Of course, there are reports that her and her husband’s net worth had surged to between $6 million and $30 million due to her husband’s venture capital and winery businesses. However, Ilhan attributed that to an accounting error.
Elon Musk proclaimed himself a “free speech absolutist” well before buying Twitter (and received truck loads of criticism from the Left for his opening up that platform).

Beyond that, I find only instances of praise by Elon Musk for America.

 Ilhan Omar has never seen an American idea that she has not criticized. From her criticism of capitalism (aka wealth inequality — but does she share her $175,000?) to corporate influence (but does she lean on her corporate donors to act?), she criticizes it all.

Additionally, with her theory of intersectionality — your color or your sex can make you more privileged than her despite her 6-figure income and exemptions from law.

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More on the Balkanization of America

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Karmelo Anthony’s parents use first interviews since guilty verdict to cast themselves as the real victims

The Daily Caller gives us the sad tale of the Anthony family as the parents try to cast themselves as the real victims.

Karmelo Anthony’s parents used their first interviews after their son’s murder conviction to claim that he had received an unfair trial and that all the witnesses had lied on the stand.

In interviews with CBS News and The Breakfast Club, Kala Hayes and Andrew Anthony, Karmelo’s parents, told the public that they believed the jury had made up their minds before even stepping foot into the courtroom, essentially convicting their son of Austin Metcalf’s murder before any evidence was heard.

“He was convicted when he walked out of the jail,” Anthony told CBS. “It was no innocent ’til proven guilty. He was already guilty.”

They told the story supposedly from their son’s perspective, who said his girlfriend’s cousin had invited him into the tent where Austin Metcalf was. Then they said the same cousin claimed not to know their son when he took the stand.

“He lied and was saying he didn’t even know [him], and they had pictures, pictures with his grandmother,” Anthony told The Breakfast Club.

For Karmelo Anthony’s father, race seemed to be his biggest concern, so far as for him to falsely claiming the jury was all white. “What stuck out to me, No. 1, was the all-White jury,” Andrew Anthony told CBS. The final jury was composed of white, asian, and Hispanic members.

“I mean, all of the witnesses’ statements and stories were inconsistent, so we’re thinking that the jury is going to notice that, but they already had their mind made up when they sat in that courtroom,” Hayes said in The Breakfast Club interview.

“Everyone actually lied,” she claimed in her interview with CBS.

The parents also seemed to try to justify their large online public fundraising efforts.

“Everybody kept saying, ‘Hey, to beat this … you need a white attorney to go out there to fight,” Anthony claimed when the couple spoke with The Breakfast Club. Karmelo’s parents hired a white attorney, who Anthony claimed: “basically tossed [my son] over.”

Mike Howard, a Dallas, Texas-based attorney, represented Karmelo Anthony during the initial trial. However, according to WFAA, Karmelo Anthony asked the judge on Wednesday to appoint him an attorney for his legal appeal, claiming he has no resources or money to retain counsel of his own.

(Read more at the Daily Caller)

Do not allow this to become a racial thing just because one set of people try to force it.

I similarly had White neighbors that acted just about in the same manner as the Anthony family has. They never disciplined their criminal children (and, in fact, participated in some “revenge” on one of their neighbors by stealing a port-a-potty from a workplace and placing it in the neighbor’s driveway).

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Leftists argue that Anthony was convicted because of race, not murder

American Family News likewise explores some of the accusations made by Representative Crockett and others on the Left.

A jury found then 17-year-old Anthony guilty of stabbing Austin Metcalf in the heart, killing him, at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas, last year. However, Anthony’s legal team is appealing his conviction less than 24 hours after the 19-year-old was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Anthony is black, and Metcalf is white, but during the trial both sides claimed the case was not about race. After the verdict, that’s all it was about outside the courthouse.

“What this process did is show that black lives do not matter in Collin County. This trial showed that it put emotions over the law, after Treyvon Martin and so many countless names, it has shown us that black life is not safe in Collin County,” said Minister Dominique Alexander, a spokesperson for Anthony’s family and a Black Lives Matter activist, in a clip on Newsmax, where he was also interviewed.

Many leftist politicians, celebrities and people in the community say it’s another case of injustice against the African American community in the U.S.

Fox News reports Rep Jasmine Crocket (D-Texas) claimed the jury convicted Anthony because the county was upset that black people were moving there. She also claimed that out of all white jury, none were impartial. However, out of 12 jurors and six alternates, six were minorities, including Asian and Indian.

AFR talk host Jenna Ellis tells the “Today’s Issues” crew there is no systemic racism in the U.S., despite what protesters claim. There is, however, systemic Marxism.

“The Left has politicized it and made it about race, which is just yet another example of the cultural Marxism that is implicit in our nation,” Ellis says.

She applies the Left’s ideology to this case.

“Karmelo Anthony, simply because of the color of his skin, is a victim regardless of his life choices to murder another young man, and Austin Metcalfe, because of his skin color being white, is an oppressor and therefore can’t be a victim,” Ellis states.

Ellis says the defense will argue on appeal that Anthony is a victim of racism, which they will claim is infused into the systems.

“If you are in the oppressed category, you are perpetually the victim, regardless of whether or not you are in fact an aggressor of harm,” Ellis says.

(Read more at American Family News)

Yes, there is a set of racists out there thinking that just because of the history of America, now I (or my son) can commit crime.

I personally have not run into this type of racism. I have observed it in recordings of the protests outside of the Collin County courts. Likewise, I have seen it in the looting that occurred in Minneapolis.

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The flaw in a professor’s race-based defense of Karmelo Anthony

The Daily Wire lays bare the argument of some supposed professor in her claims against the Karmelo Anthony conviction.

George Washington University law professor emerita W. Burlette Carter declared on Thursday that Karmelo Anthony was entitled to a new trial.

Anthony, 19, was convicted of murder in the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, 17, and sentenced to serve 35 years in prison. Carter argued that because “minorities are not interchangeable,” Anthony was not provided with “a jury of his peers” at trial — and she said that alone was grounds for him to receive a new trial.

Carter, a black woman who describes herself on X as a “descendant of slaves,” prefaced her statement by admitting that she had not yet read a full transcript of the trial — but then immediately argued that she didn’t need to because it was already clear to her that Anthony had not been granted a fair trial.

“I have not yet read the full trial transcript. But so far, I do know this. Karmelo Anthony was entitled to a jury of his peers. He did not get that,” she claimed. “On that ground alone, he is entitled to a new trial. Minorities are not interchangeable. The prosecutor’s reported proffered reasons for striking all black jurors  — that they were teachers — appears to be pretext.”

But by law, a jury does not have to reflect the race of the defendant — rather, it must be made up of a reasonable cross section of the community, and both attorneys and judges are to do their best to ensure that the jury is made up of individuals who will decide the case based on the facts presented rather than preexisting biases.

The jury in Anthony’s case was made up of multiple ethnic minorities — in spite of claims made by Anthony’s father and others that the jury was “all white” — including Asian, Indian, and Hispanic. The prosecution did challenge several potential jurors who were black because they were educators and the murder had happened on school grounds. The judge accepted those challenges as valid.

“Anthony needs a new lawyer on appeal and in a new trial,” Carter continued, arguing that Anthony’s court-appointed attorney had not done a good job. She left out the fact that, after raising some $600,000 via GiveSendGo, Anthony’s family had gone with a court-appointed lawyer after claiming that he was unable to afford a private attorney.

“His trial lawyer allowed in opinion evidence that should have been struck. He also seemed unable to appreciate and counter the impact of racial overtones in that case. Those overtones are clear even on Twitter commentary as folks seek to paint Metcalf as having no culpability in what happened and Karmelo as a complete monster,” she insisted. “The facts on how the matter escalated are more complicated than that. He and they had no such authority. They are also apparent in the statements that seek to deputize Metcalf and other kids with authority to remove Anthony. They had none and initiated the conflict. That does not mean they should have been killed but it means they have explaining to do. The lawyer for Anthony apparently did not require that explaining. It is fair to ask how the Anthonys ended up selecting that lawyer.”

(Read more at the Daily Wire)

If this professor’s opinion were correct, then there would be at least three trials of White men that would need to be retried.

I know that because I sat on juries where there were Black, Asian, and Hispanic jurors sitting in judgement of those three White defendents.

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And on Twitter (X), certain Blacks stand with the murderer

Let’s turn this around. What would you do if this were happening to you?

For the Blacks making threats, if it were a Black boy who had been stabbed — would if now be acceptable for Whites to piss on his grave? Would it be acceptable for Whites to make these threats on camera and social media?

For the Liberals, are you sure that you want to make your posterboy someone that, by multiple witnesses, was provoking the situation before the stabbing?

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On a weekend where all the big papers only headlined on the Knicks, there was another big, long story on Iran

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US and Iran offer mixed messages on peace deal timing

The Hill reports as negatively as it can on a deal inked on the same day as the White House UFC fights (also not covered by most US outlets) and the President’s preparation for the G7.

The U.S. and Iran are offering mixed messages on a possible peace deal, with Iranian officials disputing President Trump’s announcement that the deal would be finalized Sunday.

Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency reported early Sunday that Tehran “has neither finalized nor officially declared its position on the proposed understanding presented during the course of the negotiations.” Assessments of any proposals made during the negotiations are ongoing, the outlet reported.

Trump suggested Saturday that the “deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow,” praising what he described as “a much different and better” relationship with Iran.

“We must wait for the exact timing of the agreement’s signing. It will NOT happen tomorrow, but it could take place in the coming days,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting on Saturday, contradicting Trump. “Due to the other side’s inconsistency, we must remain cautious in commenting on the process.”

The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment. Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said on ABC News’s “This Week” that the administration is “confident” a deal will be reached Sunday.

(Read more at The Hill)

Compare that to what normally happened on a Sunday during the imposed term of Sleepy Joe

During Joe’s four years, you would be lucky to get him to come out and wave at the crouds of trans activists gathered on the White House lawn. Getting him to do something between naps or visits to the beach seemed impossible.

Rather than comparing zero to any set speed, consider this

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Trump and Pakistan say Iran deal could be signed Sunday but Tehran signals more time is needed

American Family News was the second among several conservative outlets to provide more information into the developing story of the Iran deal.

Trump said the Strait of Hormuz would open immediately after the signing.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said a deal was expected to be finalized within 24 hours. Each side was expected to sign electronically. Pakistan’s foreign ministry said the signing ceremony was scheduled for Sunday but did not provide details.

Iran foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei in statements carried by state media said the signing “will not happen tomorrow,” but “the likelihood of finalizing the memorandum of understanding in the coming days is high.”

A tenuous ceasefire has been in place since April 7. Trump has asserted multiple times in recent weeks the countries were on the cusp of a deal.

Iran has long expressed wariness in negotiations, pointing out that previous talks with the U.S. last year and early this year ended with attacks by the U.S. and Israel.

Trump to discuss demining the strait at G7 summit

Trump was expected to discuss demining the Strait of Hormuz during the Group of Seven summit that starts Monday.

A senior U.S. official, who briefed journalists on condition of anonymity under rules set by the White House, said Trump planned to meet on the G7 sidelines with the leaders of Egypt, Qatar and United Arab Emirates to discuss efforts to wind down the war.

G7 members Britain and France have expressed interest in assisting with demining once the conflict is paused.

It was not clear how many mines are in the strait that Iran has effectively controlled since shortly after the war began, virtually shutting down oil and natural gas shipments from the Persian Gulf. The U.S. has blockaded Iranian ports in response.

The nuclear issue remains elusive

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said the memorandum of understanding under discussion was focused on ending the war and “at this stage, it has been decided that there will be no discussion of the nuclear issue.”

Iran’s nuclear program and highly enriched uranium have long been at the center of tensions with the U.S. and Israel and an international source of concern.

Trump on social media asserted that “when all is calm,” the U.S. would go in and “downblend and destroy” the enriched uranium in Iran or in the U.S.

The apparent breakthrough in negotiations came after Iran exchanged fire with the U.S. and Israel earlier in the week, threatening to rupture the ceasefire and push the Middle East back into full-scale war.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X on Friday that an agreement “has never been closer.” Trump on Thursday claimed significant progress in negotiations, hours after he threatened to seize Iran’s oil industry.

Iran’s former supreme leader will be buried in July

Iran’s state-run television said funeral ceremonies for former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in the war’s opening attack, will take place in July.

The funeral, burial and farewell events for Khamenei will occur between July 4 and 9 during Muharram, a traditional period of mourning in the Shiite Muslim calendar.

(Read more at AFN)

To my understanding, Islamic burials normally happen on the day of the death

For this funeral to occur over three months after the death of the former supreme leader, this must be a great embarrassment

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Iranian state media claim draft U.S. deal includes a nuclear ban

Breitbart reported on Saturday that Iranian state media broadcast the inclusion of a nuclear deal in the draft version of the Iran deal.

Iranian state media on Friday printed a variety of claims about the draft ceasefire agreement between Iran and the United States, including some reports that Iran would make a verifiable commitment to refrain from developing nuclear weapons.

Iran’s state-run Mehr news agency cited an “unofficial source” who said the draft memorandum “includes Iran’s commitment not to develop nuclear weapons; a permanent halt to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon; a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days; and 60 days of negotiations to reach a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program.”

Senior U.S. officials said Iran’s existing stockpile of enriched uranium would be “destroyed and removed” under the deal, and Tehran would agree to a “meaningful inspection regime” to ensure it does not restart its nuclear program. Some U.S. sources also said the agreement would bar Iran from funding terrorist proxy groups across the Middle East.

Most Iranian media reports were much more flattering to Iran’s positions than the Mehr article, describing massive U.S. concessions such as unfreezing Iran’s assets, lifting sanctions on Iranian oil, removing American forces from the region around Iran, and even the United States setting up a $300 billion fund to rebuild the Iranian economy.

Iranian media reports also generally said the United States would agree to pressure Israel into halting its operations in Lebanon, and would stop pressing Iran to scale back its ballistic missile program.

President Donald Trump wrote a Truth Social post on Friday accusing Iran of spreading misinformation about the deal to the media.

(Read more at Breitbart)

If this is not and instance of taqiyya, is it an instance of our enemies being emboldened by the liberals among us?

Does the constant liberal picking and President Trump and the Republicans embolden the IRGC to continue their seeking a nuclear bomb with which to destroy America?

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Trump says Iran deal to Be inked on Sunday ahead of G7

Breitbart reported on Saturday that the Iran deal may be put to paper on Sunday (concurrent to the birthday celebration for President Trump, the 250th American anniversary celebration on the White House lawn, the preparation for the G7, and more).

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that a deal with Iran will be signed on Sunday, ahead of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) at the White House and his departure for the G7 in Evian-les-Bains, France.

A short time after Pakistani Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar told Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan that the deal will be signed electronically, Trump took to Truth Social to confirm the deal will be formalized.

Trump began his post by trashing former President Barack Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), otherwise known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, stressing that his deal is “the exact opposite.” He also stated that after the deal is signed, the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil travels, will immediately open.

“Barack Hussein Obama’s Deal with Iran, the JCPOA, was an easy, beautiful, smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago, and would have used long before now. My Agreement with Iran is the exact opposite, A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON!” he began.

“In fact, they no longer want a Nuclear Weapon, nor will they have one, either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement. The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL,” he continued.

The president said the deal does not include cash exchanges and the nature of his administration’s relationship with Iran is substantially different than that of his predecessors.

“Our relationship with Iran is a much different and better one than previous Administrations have had. Unlike Obama’s Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in payments to them, including 1.7 Billion Dollars in green, cold cash, no money will exchange hands,” he wrote.

Trump added that, at some point, the United States will retrieve the “Nuclear Dust” — enriched uranium that was buried by B-2 Bomber strikes at Natanz, Fordow, and Esfahan in Operation Midnight Hammer a year ago. Iran allowing the United States to retrieve and destroy this material had been a key redline of the president’s throughout negotiations.

(Read more on the dust at Breitbart)

Again, compare this amount of action by Joe at any point in his useless term to the day of action by President Trump

I don’t think any journalist can find a day where Joe was more active than this.

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U.S. Confirms Third Strike on Indian-Crewed Tankers near Strait of Hormuz

Breitbart reported on the Friday before this flurry of action began that the US prevented a tanker from nearing Iran.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Thursday announced that U.S. forces used Hellfire missiles to disable a tanker called M/T Jalveer as it attempted to violate the blockade on Iran.

It was the third time in a week that American forces have struck an Indian-crewed tanker that tried to penetrate the blockade line.

CENTCOM said the Jalveer was carrying banned Iranian oil when it tried to sail through the Gulf of Oman. When the ship failed to comply with orders from the blockade force, an American aircraft “fired two Hellfire missiles into the ship’s engine room.”

“Earlier this week, U.S. aircraft disabled Palau-flagged vessels M/T Marivex and M/T Settebello on Monday and Tuesday, respectively. Marivex violated the blockade by attempting to sail to an Iranian port and Settebello attempted to transport Iranian oil,” the statement on Thursday noted.

“CENTCOM forces have disabled nine non-compliant vessels, redirected 135 ships that complied, and allowed 42 vessels supporting humanitarian aid to pass since initiating the blockade on April 13,” the statement said.

The Marivex, a Palau-flagged tanker with 24 Indian sailors aboard, made four distinct attempts to violate the blockade and refused orders to turn back on Monday. 

“An F/A-18 Super Hornet from USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) fired a precision munition into the ship’s engineering and steering spaces after the crew failed to comply with directions from U.S. forces,” CENTCOM said in its statement on the incident.

The crew of the Marivex sent a distress call to Indian maritime unions after the strike, saying “we have a fire on board and the vessel is sinking.”

“U.S. Navy attack, the missile on our engine room. We have hole at the bottom. We have fire onboard, please help. Please help, please help,” the distress call said.

(Read more at Breitbart)

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Why do we need the Bible?

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The following comes through the notes of Mark Ramsey and the responses of the class.

The authority and inerrancy of scripture

  1. The authority and inerrancy of God’s Word are fundamental doctrines
    1. How does the inerrancy of God’s Word affect believers in terms of everyday life? — Part 1
      1. The Bible extols the glories of God’s creation</li>
      2. The Bible is rational truth — One member pointed out how John 3:16 can be easily understood by the youngest of his grandchildren.
      3. The Bible is trustworthy — Another member noted the times Bible verses have brought them through crises.

        Mr. Ramsey interrupted the planned outline by referring to the messianic prophecy contained within Psalm 22. He began by quoteing Psalm 22:7 (“All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads.”) and then pointing out that both Matthew and Mark referred to mockers around the cross. When he read Psalm 22:17 (“All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me.”) and then pointed to how John 19:36 had the Roman guards not breaking the bones of Christ (as he was already dead).

        Then he read Psalm 22:6 (“But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people.”) and challenged the class to explain or find a New Testament parallel.

        It was then that he pointed out that the word “worm” was “Tola’ath” in Hebrew. That worm, specific to the Bible lands, was used in the creation of both a red dye and a white, waxy anticeptic. Most specifically, it went through life stages that mirror the crucifixion of Christ:

        1. When the mother worm is ready to reproduce, she attaches itself permanently to a tree or piece of wood, cementing her body securely.
        2. The eggs of the tola’ath are laid under the body of it. When the larvae hatch, they feed on the body of the tola’ath.
        3. Upon dying, the mother worm excretes a vibrant crimson fluid that stains both the wood and her offspring. That fluid was used to dye the robes of the Temple priests and the veil around the Holy of Holies.
        4. Three days after the death of the worm, the scarlet color is lost and it turns to a snow-white wax. That waxy material has antiseptic properties.

        Continuing with the planned lesson, he read the first few verses of Psalm 19.

        The heavens declare the glory of God;
          the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
        Day after day they pour forth speech;
          night after night they reveal knowledge.
        They have no speech, they use no words;
          no sound is heard from them.
        Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
          their words to the ends of the world.
        In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
          It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
          like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
        It rises at one end of the heavens
          and makes its circuit to the other;
          nothing is deprived of its warmth.

        The law of the Lord is perfect,
          refreshing the soul.
        The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy,
          making wise the simple.
        The precepts of the Lord are right,
          giving joy to the heart.
        The commands of the Lord are radiant,
          giving light to the eyes. (Psalm 19:1-8 NIV)

        Creation proclaims the power and majesty of our Creator.

        All of creation points to its Creator.

        The focus in this passage is on the sun because it unmistakably points to the power and creativity of God’s design.

        God’s revelation in His world is called “general” in the sense that it is available to all the inhabitants of the earth.

        God’s general revelation leaves those who rebelliously deny His existence without excuse.

        The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

        For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. (Romans 1:18-23 NIV)

        The fool says in his heart,
          “There is no God.”
        They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
          there is no one who does good. (Psalm 14:1 NIV)

        Only a fool would deny what the sun and the creation tell us about their Creator. Do you agree?

        Every day, as believers we can proclaim and exclaim with the psalmist:

        The Lord has done it this very day;
          let us rejoice today and be glad. (Psalm 118:24 NIV)

        Through our amazement and wonder of God’s creation and the Bible extolling His creation, we rejoice and are filled with gladness.

      4. The Bible is all-sufficient

        Show me the wonders of your great love,
          you who save by your right hand
          those who take refuge in you from their foes.
        Keep me as the apple of your eye;
          hide me in the shadow of your wings
        from the wicked who are out to destroy me,
          from my mortal enemies who surround me.

        They close up their callous hearts,
          and their mouths speak with arrogance.
        They have tracked me down, they now surround me,
          with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.
        They are like a lion hungry for prey,
          like a fierce lion crouching in cover.

        Rise up, Lord, confront them, bring them down;
          with your sword rescue me from the wicked.
        By your hand save me from such people, Lord,
          from those of this world whose reward is in this life.
        May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies;
          may their children gorge themselves on it,
          and may there be leftovers for their little ones. (Psalm 19:7-14 NIV)

        One class member noted that the Bible is sufficient for believers, but may not satisfy non-believers.

        These verses encompass the length, breadth, depth and height of Scripture’s sufficiency.

        David uses 6 different words to describe Scripture-perfect, trustworthy, right, radiant, pure and sure and each acknowledges God as the source – “of the Lord” which should have a corresponding effect on us as believers to trust and rely upon the Word of God.

        Do these descriptive words give you confidence to trust and rely upon the Bible? Explain.

      5. The Bible transforms us

        Psalm 19:7-“The law of the Lord is perfect, ‘restoring, reviving, transforming’ the soul.”

        The Word of God is so comprehensive, it can totally transform the whole inner person

        Can you relate to this? Explain.

        For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. (1 Peter 1:23 NIV)

        The Bible convicts, penetrates, regenerates and transforms.

        For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12 NIV)

        How do you reach the lost? Do you need to be clever or use the latest techniques?

        No, share from the Scriptures that Jesus is God and your Savior, Redeemer. Maybe share your personal story of transformation.

        God works through His Word.

        If anyone asks you how they can be helped spiritually, suggest that they read the gospel of John every day and to get back with you when they know who Jesus is.

        Reading the Word of God with an open and receptive heart transforms the soul!

      6. The Bible imparts wisdom

        PSALM 19:7b-“the statutes (or testimony) of the Lord are trustworthy making wise the simple.”

        In a world of unreliability, the Bible is sure and steadfast.

        In a world of lies and deception, the Bible is trustworthy.

        The trustworthy revelation of God takes simple people and makes them wise.

        The Hebrew word, “hokmah”, speaks to wisdom in terms of skillful living-living in this world in a God-honoring way.

        The Hebrew word for simple refers to an open mind and through God’s Word, the mind becomes discerning.

        Blessed is the one
          who does not walk in step with the wicked
        or stand in the way that sinners take
          or sit in the company of mockers,
        but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
          and who meditates on his law day and night.
        That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
          which yields its fruit in season
        and whose leaf does not wither—
          whatever they do prospers. (Psalm 1:1-3 NIV)

        As Christ-followers, through God’s Word, we have discernment to know what to keep in and what to keep out of our heart and mind. Only a fool would keep his mind open to everything and anything. Do you agree or disagree?

        Satan’s primary tool is deception and the Word of God makes the mind wise to withstand deception. Do you believe your knowledge of the Bible has made you wiser? Explain.

 

Welcome to the Balkanized States of America

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Color coding murder is killing society

The Daily Wire takes us on a stroll down the main street of the way into the Left’s new Balkanized States of America.

It turns out you can walk up to a group of young men, plant yourself in their tent, taunt them when asked to leave, threaten them while reaching into your bag, and plunge a knife into one of their chests, and still be staunchly defended by radical leftists.

If, and only if, you’re black. And the victim is white.

Jasmine Crockett, one of the biggest crocks-of-sh*t in Congress, just proved yet again that the Left only sees color, and their warped Manichean worldview will never change.

After a Collin County jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a Frisco, Texas track meet — deliberating for all of three hours before reaching the obvious conclusion — and sentenced him to 35 years, Crockett rushed to the mics. She declared the knife “wasn’t a deadly weapon.” She implied she’d have done the same thing. Then she played the ultimate victim card: “Black women live in agony every day that I promise the Metcalfs had never lived through.”

The knife went two inches into Austin Metcalf’s chest. It punctured his heart. He died in his twin brother’s arms. But sure, Jasmine. Tell us more about your agony.

It is 2026. A sitting congresswoman is claiming victimhood by melanin levels, while the family whose son was stabbed to death at a high school track meet (for the crime of asking someone to leave his team’s tent) is told their grief doesn’t measure up. The sheer audacity is not just appalling. It’s a window into everything that is rotting this country from the inside out.

The Democratic Party’s race-based suicidal empathy, its fanatical prioritization of “equity” over equal opportunity, and its color-coded dismissal of crime isn’t just a policy failure. It’s a suicide pact for civilization itself. When skin color determines who gets leniency and who gets the book thrown at them, you don’t get justice. You get dead innocents and a society tearing itself apart.

The Left went soft on crime to make certain statistics look better on paper. Never mind that FBI data shows black Americans, who make up 13% of the population, account for over 50% of homicide perpetrators. Never mind that the overwhelming majority of black victims are killed by other black perpetrators; a crisis the Left refuses to address with any of the urgency it reserves for racial theatrics. The problem isn’t data; the problem is that acknowledging it disrupts the narrative.

Suicidal empathy has consequences. Iryna Zarutska was a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who fled war and came to America looking for safety. She was stabbed to death on a Charlotte light rail train in August 2025 by Decarlos Brown, Jr. A man who had been arrested 14 times and released under cashless bail on a misdemeanor charge despite a documented history of violence and mental illness. North Carolina Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies put him back on the street. Their indifference put him on that train. North Carolina eventually passed Iryna’s Law, but Iryna was already dead.

Karmelo Anthony, meanwhile, is publicly defended by a sitting congresswoman who essentially told the world she’d have done the same thing.

But reverse the races. Imagine a white boy who stabbed a black boy. The Left would be burning cities down quicker than Graham Platner cheating on his new bride.

They don’t want equal opportunity. They want equal outcomes. And they’ve been engineering it since the Marxists swapped class warfare for identity warfare. Kamala Harris, Jasmine Crockett, Karl Marx, and Herbert Marcuse all imbibe from the same poisonous well: the world is divided into the oppressors and the oppressed, and the only solution to this is dismantling the oppressors by any means necessary. Marcuse preached that tolerance should be granted to the Left and denied to the Right. Today’s Democrats live that sentiment daily.

DEI quotas that punish merit, affirmative action that lowers standards, and reparations talk that treats success as theft. The formula is simple: if the right protected class isn’t “harmed,” the hounds stay quiet. But let a white man succeed, or God forbid, defend himself against a protected-class attacker? The mob descends.

This rot has seeped into schools, corporations, and courtrooms for decades. Class struggle became racial struggle, and “equity” became the new holy grail. Achieved, naturally, by punishing the productive and excusing the violent.

And how’s that working out? It’s killing us.

Iryna Zarutska is dead because Democrats let her killer out of jail on a promise to show up to court. Austin Metcalf is dead because a young man was raised on a toxic diet of victimhood and anti-white grievance that convinced him that being shoved deserved a retaliatory knife in the chest. In New York City, a homeless veteran is dead because soft-on-crime policies sprung a career criminal from jail too early. Seventeen-year-old Tyson Goodsell was shot dead in Minnesota in May 2026 by Somali gangs.

Across the pond, your crystal ball for America in 20 years, 18-year-old Henry Nowak bled out on a sidewalk after his killer stabbed him with a ceremonial blade, lied to the police, and called Nowak a racist, and watched British officers handcuff the dying boy instead of calling an ambulance. This week, a Sudanese asylum seeker nearly beheaded a man on a Belfast street.

That is what the Left’s tolerance is doing to us. Blood in the bleachers. Blood on the subway. Blood on the sidewalks. Blood on the streets of Belfast.

And Jasmine Crockett, instead of fighting any of it or addressing why black children are born out of wedlock at nearly 70% — a rate that study after study links directly to youth violence and crime — instead of cracking down on the criminals devastating her own community, she defends them. Because the theory says to. The theory that law and order are oppression. That family structure is a tool of the patriarchy. That borders are violence. That Western civilization and whites are the villains. That it all needs to be burned down.

(Read more at the Daily Wire)

Maybe Jasmine Crockett wants to become the anti Jesse Jackson

Now that Jesse Jackson has passed and the Rainbow Coalition no longer has its original leader, maybe Jasmine Crockett has surveyed the political landscape and determined to break that organization down before she remakes it in her own image. Or maybe she wants to go the route of Barack Obama (since race relations have been on the downswing since his presidency). Or maybe she just wants to go the route of the Southern Poverty Law Center by funding the sources of racism (thus ensuring a means of employment for years to come).

Take in mind that this woman once depended on a plurality of Hispanic, Anglo, and Black votes to get her into office. Also take in mind that this woman has a law license.

Therefore, if she gets assigned to you as a public defender, I would suggest that you demand another attorney.

Several things made certain by Ms. Crockett’s posts:

  1. Social media allows one to make corrosive statements without the filter of having to look at the person being hurt.
  2. Additionally, for those in in position of notoriety, social media makes certain your stupid statements never go away (hear that, Mr. Platner).
  3. Social media can make it painfully evident that you never did any investigation into the matter that you posted upon (for example, the lethal effect of a pocket knife).

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Austin Metcalf’s family hit with death threats

Fox News details how supporters of Karmelo Anthony have soiled the grave of Austin Metcalf, issued death threats against his family, and threatened to stab Austin’s twin brother.

Supporters of Karmelo Anthony are now allegedly turning to violence following his murder conviction, while family members of Austin Metcalf, the teen who Anthony stabbed and killed, have been receiving death threats following the verdict.

They were both 17 when Anthony fatally stabbed Metcalf at a high school track meet in April of last year.

Anthony was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years behind bars on Tuesday. He has since filed a notice of appeal to challenge the conviction.

Reports have circulated of Anthony supporters threatening violence. In one recent video posted on X, apparently by a user from Jacksonville, Florida, someone riding a bike appeared to assault a man. The video was taken from the rider’s vantage point.

The alleged attacker questioned the victim, asking if he was on the Anthony trial jury selection.

In that video, a woman’s voice can be heard stating the man who was allegedly punched is a veteran.

In a statement sent to Fox News Digital regarding the alleged incident, the Jacksonville Police Department said, “We are aware of this video circulating on social media and are actively looking into the video’s origin and parties involved.”

While threats continue, it appears yet another fundraiser for Anthony was circulating online.

(continued)

As for the Metcalf family, the threats keep coming.

According to TMZ, a family member received a text that said, “He [Austin] f—ed around and found out,” insinuating the victim possibly provoked Anthony to fatally stab him.

Another one of the messages sent read, “Should’ve stabbed hunter too.” Hunter is Austin’s twin brother.

People are allegedly “threatening to show up to Metcalf family homes, taunting them by saying they’re soiling Austin’s grave,” TMZ reported.

It was not immediately clear who sent the texts and to which family member specifically they were sent.

Jeff Metcalf told CBS after the trial that he is still receiving death threats and previously had his personal information released.

(Read more at Fox News)

Austin Metcalf’s father extends forgiveness

CBS News reports on the victim impact statement that ended up being a message of forgiveness.

There is no prison sentence that would satisfy the father of Austin Metcalf. For the first time since the verdict in the death of his son, Jeff Metcalf spoke with CBS News Texas about the sentence, the trial and forgiveness.

“A lie is temporary, but the truth lasts forever,” Jeff Metcalf said.

Jeff Metcalf finally had a chance to read the words he’s been writing in a notebook to address his son’s convicted killer, 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony. 

On Tuesday, Anthony was found guilty by a Texas jury in the 2025 stabbing death of Austin Metcalf at a track meet. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison. 

Jeff Metcalf reflects on grief, peace and his victim impact statement

His victim impact statement included that people think that grief is sadness, but it’s not. It’s rage, “pure, unfiltered rage. You failed yourself. You failed your parents. You failed society. You don’t belong in this community.” 

Metcalf’s victim impact statement came at the end of Anthony’s murder trial. 

For months, Jeff Metcalf has been silenced by a gag order imposed by the judge. Now, he is free to speak publicly and says he’s free of something else as well. 

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Why Jeff Metcalf says the Karmelo Anthony case was never about race

“Look at the effect, not just the effect here between the Metcalf family and the Anthony family. Look what it did,” he said. “One, to those kids they have to live with. Two, it took on this huge wider ‘Let’s have a race war throughout the nation.'” 

Jeff Metcalf insists that his son had no racist motives when he approached Anthony about leaving a track team tent. 

“This casep> was never about race,” he said. “There’s going to be those people now, just, you know, try to throw shade on the whole trial with the jury makeup and the speed of it and that sort of thing. I mean, those are the same people that said he was jumped by four people. He had, his phone was broken. You’re going to spin whatever story to try to keep yourself afloat.”

(continued)

How Jeff Metcalf is moving forward

There are no walls in Jeff Metcalf’s home without photos or paintings of his twin sons. These images and a scholarship in his son’s name are what remain for this father who says he is ready finally to forgive but not forget. 

“But the other people need to understand about forgiveness,” said Jeff Metcalf. “Forgiveness was not for him. Forgiveness was for me. So I don’t carry the rage, the hate, and that around; it will eat me up like cancer.”

(Read more at )

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Karmelo Anthony’s father blames the loss of the case on having been pressured into hiring a White defense attorney

On the Mimi Brown TV podcast, the father of Karmelo Antony blamed his son’s conviction on having hired a white attorney.

In contrast, the Collin County District Attorney said the conviction was based mainly on the clear video

Not only was there the video, but also a defense witness admitted that Karmelo Anthony was the aggressor.

Additionally, the fact that the police have a body cam recording of Karmelo saying “I’m not alleged, I did it.” does not help his “not guilty” case.

Never mind the facts, the mob outside the court called for the blood of the Metcalf family

 

Eight tweets that all spell out a bad day for Democrats in front of Congress in the ActBlue and SPLC hearings

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Starting with the lawless lot at ActBlue

ActBlue Cheif Executive OfficerRegina Wallace-Jones pleads the fifth when asked her name

When Representative Barry Loudermilk of Georgia asked her “is it Ms. Jones or Ms. Wallace-Jones?” — to that, she responded with a smirk: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.”

Although it may not seem like it, this was planned. In a 10 June 2026 op-ed in the Washington Post, she said:

Invoking the Fifth Amendment is not an admission, or even an insinuation, of guilt. It is not a retreat. It is the only reasonable response to a proceeding that from the beginning has been about harassing a political opponent’s fundraising platform, not genuine oversight. Now it has become something far more dangerous.

However, in the court of public opinion, I will have to wholeheartedly disagree. This makes this woman and all of her compatriots look as guilty as sin.

We have the Constitution for a reason: to protect the citizen from the government.

I respect the use of our Constituion; however, this says one thing: guilty.

After years of accusing Trump with Russian collusion, ActBlue pleads the fifth when asked about illegal Russian donations

Speaker Testamony
Rep. Jordan We’re here because Act Blue’s legal council said Miss Wallace Jones lied to Congress, willfully and knowingly misled the Congress of the United States. That’s why we’re here. Oh, by the way, who was her who was the legal counsel? (inaudible). Who was her counsel? Dana Reis, not some Republican. She was former White House counsel for Joe Biden. That’s who said that. That’s why we’re here. So, I just have a couple questions for you, Miss Wallace Joe. Just a couple. Your board chairman said, “ActBlue accepted up to 38 million contributions in 2024 that had the signs of foreign origin. How much fraud is too much fraud?”
ActBlue CEO On the advice of council, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my fifth amendment rights under the constitution.
Rep. Jordan How many foreign contributions did ActBlue accept?
ActBlue CEO On the advice of council, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my fifth amendment rights under the constitution.
Rep. Jordan How much money did ActBlue accept from Russia?
ActBlue CEO On the advice of council, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my fifth amendment rights under the constitution.
Rep. Jordan Did your legal team quit because of reduced fraud standards?
ActBlue CEO On the advice of council, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my fifth amendment rights under the constitution.

Hypocrit Democrats

There is nothing more to point out than their hypocritical stance on illegal Russian doanations.

ActBlue employees follow the example of their CEO and plead the fifth

To quote the tweet by Michael Rothman:

Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) before the House Administration Committee on Democrat-run ActBlue:

“𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 22 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴. 𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘴. 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘦𝘴. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥, 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 146 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴.”

To be precise about what that means: ActBlue — the primary online fundraising platform for the entire Democratic Party, processing billions in political donations — had its own employees refuse to testify under oath about how fraud campaigns operated. 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐲-𝐬𝐢𝐱 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.

Nine of the 22 fraud campaigns carried a foreign nexus — meaning foreign money may have moved through the primary fundraising infrastructure of the American Democratic Party. The same Democrats who ran four years of hearings about foreign interference in American elections have a donation platform whose employees won’t explain, under oath, how foreign-linked fraud campaigns functioned inside it.

The committee’s next witness: ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones, to whom Steil directed his closing statement: “𝘔𝘴. 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦-𝘑𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘥.”

𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝟐𝟐 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬. 𝐈𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐡 𝟏𝟒𝟔 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭. If this were a Republican fundraising platform, the network news wouldn’t talk about anything else.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭.

This organization is rotten from top to bottom

We can be thankful that the Covington & Burling lawyers saw the jeopardy they were putting themselves into and blew the whistle.

It wasn’t just these few topics that ActBlue plead the fifth on

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Now for the SPLC

Chip Roy points out how the SPLC targets Christian groups on supposed anti-LGBTQ bias, but not Islamic groups

Go ahead and show me an Islamic group out that openly supports LGBTQ activity

Show me an Islamic group that marches in a Gay Pride parade.

Jim Jordan points out how the Biden Department of Justice dropped investigations into the SPLC

And, of course, there was the memo cited by the field office of the FBI for investigating Latin Mass Catholics (the SPLC identified them as a hate group).

Dr. Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King Jr., speaks of being targeted by the SPLC

It seems that, if you support tradtional values, you can be targeted by the SPLC.

Ill-informed Representative Crockett defends SPLC and criticizes Dr. Alveda King

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It seems Iran again needs proof that it is not in control and can be destroyed

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U.S. hits Iran again after Trump said Tehran has been “tapping us along” in talks

Breitbart quotes President Trump and the U.S. Central Command in their reporting of the attacks against Iran in response to recent acts by that regime.

The U.S. military launched a fresh wave of strikes against multiple targets in Iran on Wednesday evening after President Donald Trump warned Tehran would “pay the price” for dragging out negotiations aimed at ending the conflict.

“U.S. Central Command forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction,” CENTCOM announced in a statement. “The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression.”

The operation followed a day of increasingly sharp warnings from Trump, who accused Tehran of stalling negotiations and warned the regime would face consequences for delaying a response to Washington’s latest proposal.

In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump declared that Iran had been “completely defeated,” describing the regime as “all talk and no action.”

“The Bully of the Middle East is DEAD!!!” Trump wrote. “They’ve taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them. Now they will have to pay the price!”

Hours later, Trump returned to the issue during remarks in the Oval Office, where he said the United States was preparing another round of military action while voicing frustration over the pace of negotiations.

“We’re going to hit them again hard today, in case you miss it because you don’t turn on your television set,” Trump said.

“We were really close to a deal, but they keep tapping us along,” he added. “They keep playing us for suckers because, you know what? They dealt with some very stupid Presidents.”

(Read at Breitbart and see tweets on the Secretary of War’s comments and on-the-ground observations of damage)

First off, these are overdue

These are overdue on behalf of all on the American side who have suffered at the hands of the Iranians. However, I am having a hard time differentiating our need to strike (which we obviously allowed) from Israel’s need to strike (which President Trump put the kabosh on).

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Trump says Iranian officials contacted him seeking end to U.S. strikes

Breitbart additionally seems to be the primary outlet to share developments like the pleas of the Iranian officials for peace.

President Donald Trump told Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst on Wednesday that Iranian officials directly contacted Trump and asked the United States to halt its ongoing bombing campaign against Iran.

Yingst said the president discussed the bombing campaign, negotiations with Tehran, and the possibility of additional military action if Iran rejects a proposed agreement. Yingst added that Trump said Iran sought an end to the strikes while U.S. forces continued targeting military infrastructure.

According to Yingst, the United States fired 49 Tomahawk missiles at targets inside Iran, including locations approximately 40 miles outside Tehran. Trump also said U.S. fighter jets were operating over Iranian airspace, targeting radar installations and air defense systems in southwestern Iran near the Persian Gulf.

“The president tells Fox News that 49 Tomahawk missiles were used to hit targets inside of Iran, some of them as close as 40 miles from the Iranian capital of Tehran,” Yingst said. “The president said that U.S. fighter jets are also operating over the skies of Iran, taking out radar systems and air defense systems in the southwestern part of the country, close to the Persian Gulf. This is all taking place as the Iranians are trying to get the United States to stop the bombing campaign.”

Yingst added that Iranian officials directly contacted Trump and requested an end to the U.S. bombing campaign. Trump said the strikes would stop shortly, but warned that the United States will launch additional attacks if Tehran refuses to sign a proposed agreement aimed at preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Yingst said Trump reiterated that preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon remains the central objective of Operation Epic Fury.

(Read more at Breitbart)

Great. They contacted him.

This is kind of like the kid who becomes repentant as soon as the whipping strap comes out.

It is a little late for that.

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“Leave our region if you want to be safe:” Iran warns US amid tensions

While I could have quoted another Breitbart article, I was able to find a Business Standard article that quoted the empty threats out of Tehran on the day after their claim to have damaged an American ship was disproven.

Amid escalating tensions, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday (local time) warned the United States, saying it should “leave” the Persian Gulf region for its safety.

He said Iran’s armed forces would respond to any attack or threat and added that “intruding outsiders” in the Persian Gulf have faced dire consequences in history.

In a post on X, Araghchi wrote, “Despite its defeats on the battlefield, the U.S. opted to test our determination. Our Powerful Armed Forces will leave no attack or threat unanswered. Leave our region if you want to be safe. History of the Persian Gulf has many chapters on dire fates of intruding outsiders.”

 

This comes after US Central Command (CENTCOM) said American forces have begun launching self-defence strikes against Iran in response to what it described as “unjustified Iranian aggression” following the downing of a US Army Apache helicopter.

CENTCOM said the strikes were carried out at the direction of the Commander in Chief as a “proportional response” to the incident.

In a post on X on Tuesday (local time), the official account of US Central Command shared, “U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began launching self-defence strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.”

Earlier, US President Donald Trump said that an Iranian strike claimed to have downed a US Apache helicopter patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz.

He added that both pilots were safe and uninjured, and warned that Washington would “respond” to the attack.

In a post on Truth Social, the US president wrote, “I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

(Read more at the Business Standard)

This almost sounds like Iran wants us to believe that they still control the Strait

Their command to close the Strait sounds like they have control:

However, if 27 freighters can be escorted out under the cover of darkness in one night (since Iran’s radar facitities have been knocked out), then maybe they don’t have control:

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CENTCOM confirms U.S. resumes strikes on Iran after helicopter shot down

Townhall provides a third source of confirmation on the American strikes against Iranian targets due to the attack against an American helicopter.

The U.S. has resumed striking Iran at 5:15 p.m. ET in retaliation for shooting down a helicopter.

The soldiers were rescued, but President Trump said that the U.S. must retaliate.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. Central Command “will be busy tonight.”

“President Trump said that we will be hitting Iran hard and we will be. Because Iran has a chance to make a good deal, a great deal, to codify what they’ve said they are willing to do, but they haven’t been willing to do it.”

Hegseth said that the U.S. will target key facilities in Iran.

Reports on social media said that explosions were heard in the southern Iranian cities of Bushehr and Asaluyeh, which house energy facilities.

(See nine more tweets at Townhall)

While indications are that America tires of the war, there are other things that matter to me

While much of America has tired of the war due to just pulling themselves out of the Biden cesspool, there are other aspects of the Iran war that concern me.

Primarily, I don’t see the leaders of Iran as having learned their lesson from this war. For that matter, I think the matter of the unacceptability of their world-dominating philosophy needs to be made clear.

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A table listing 50 of the unhinged statements of James Talarico

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Again, I hope to make an easy reference for those who want to learn Talarico’s views

When new quotes are added, I will re-post this table with the added quotes. To make his quotes stand out, I will use a blue, bold font.

His quote regarding everything he has said (he didn’t mean it)

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
1 (Talarico’s view that you should not hold him to his word.) (Implying that all of his leftist remarks meant nothing) “Well, you know, I think I was being intentionally provocative with that statement. But what it means is that God can’t be defined by human categories. The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, says that in Christ there is neither male nor female. I’m always going to stand up for Texans who are being picked on by the most powerful, most corrupt politicians in the country … There are some statements that I’ve made that I certainly regret. There are statements that I’ve made where I’ve missed the mark.” Rumble
2 (Talarico’s admission that his views are radically leftist.) “They’re going to call me a radical leftist.” X (aka Twitter)
3 (Talarico’s admission that he is willing to stab former party leaders in the back. Compare the following statement to “Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front.” — made a few months before.) “I called out Joe Biden for failing to secure our southern border and I got a lot of heat in my own party for doing that. But I remember talking with my colleagues in the legislature who represent border communities and they told me about the utter chaos caused by President Biden’s policies and the Democratic Party.”

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His quote that will probably lose votes in the Black community

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
4 (Talarico’s comment on the records of President Obama.) “President Obama earned the title “Deporter in Chief” from immigration-rights activists and aggressively expanded drone air strikes across the world.” X (aka Twitter)

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His quote on gun control

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
5 (Talarico’s comment on implementing gun control.) “We prayed, and God sent moms from both political parties to advocate in the halls of power for gun safety. We prayed, and God sent lawmakers with common-sense gun safety proposals like universal background checks, redflag laws and closing the gun show loophole.” Instagram

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His quote on abortion

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
6 (Talarico pleaded for Joe Biden to defy both the Supreme Court and Texas law by establishing abortion clinics in every federal courthouse and national park.) “Decades of jurisprudence and majorities of Americans have repeatedly affirmed the constitutional right to an abortion. … On behalf of my constituents, I urge you and your administration to consider taking the following executive actions to protect the right to an abortion:
  • Leasing federal property to abortion clinics on federal lands or in federal offices
  • Prohibiting states from imposing restrictions on abortion medications through the Food and Drug Administration
  • Hiring abortion providers as federal employees to provide immunity from state lawsuits
 X (aka Twitter)

His quote on unborn children being like tapeworms and parasites

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
7 (Talarico claims that unborn children are comparable to a tapeworm or other parasite and should hold no legal rights.) “The disagreement about the legality of abortion is not a disagreement about life. It’s a disagreement about personhood. No one disagrees that an embryo is biologically alive. We each have trillions of living organisms inside of us right now. So the question is, is an embryo a legal person whose rights trump those of a woman. I don’t know many people who would seriously answer yes to that question.” X (aka Twitter)

His quote on those opposing boys in girls sports as promoting a “far-right conspiracy theory”

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
8 (Talarico claims that anyone opposing having boys in girls sports is promoting a “far-right conspiracy theory.”) “And then, in terms of other issues, Governor Abbott has filled this special session agenda with far-right conspiracy theories about trans children causing problems on sports teams, which we know does not occur in the state of Texas, or critical race theory, which we know is not being taught in classrooms in the state of Texas.” Fox News

His quote on climate change

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
9 (Talarico claims climate change is killing thousands of Texans and Americans.) “Texans are seeing that climate change is here… and it is killing Texans and Americans by the thousands”

“for everyone who grew up watching the Jetsons, that’s the future that we can have if we get in the fight against climate change”

 X (aka Twitter

His quote his views of natural women

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
10 (Talarico’s comment contrasts a natural woman with a transgender woman.) “This summer, more than half our population became second-class citizens. Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the State. And nothing is more un-Christian.” X (aka Twitter)<
11 (Same as above.) “I want every one of our neighbors with a uterus to be able to control their own body.” X (aka Twitter)<

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His quote on crime and punishment (eliminate punishment)

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
12 (Talarico’s view that prison is violence.) “We all recognize domestic abuse as violence, but we don’t always recognize the ways in which our systems hurt people every day. Poverty is violence. Pollution is violence. And yes, prison is violence.” X (aka Twitter)

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His quote to cover him with the never-America Democrats

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
13 (Talarico’s view that America seems always to be on the wrong side of the equation.) (Implying that we must avoid patriotism) “I often think (when reclaiming symbols), I think about the American flag. I think the Confederate flag is a symbol of treason and terrorism, but the American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us. And, in many ways, like Jesus, like the cross, it’s been co-opted, and in some ways, its true meaning has been betrayed.” Instagram

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His quotes on economic issues

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
14 (Talarico’s view those who make as much as he does (but not him) should have a greater tax burden.) (Implying that those who take a risk and start a business should be additionally targeted) “Billionaires want us looking left and right at each other instead of looking up at them… It’s the oldest strategy in the world: divide and conquer. But we will not be conquered.” YouTube

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His quotes on Christianity

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
15 (Talarico’s view that God supports Democrat tax and healtcare plans.) (Implying that the conquered nation of Israel of Jesus’ time did not see unequal taxation or expensive health care) “What would Jesus do about a tax system that benefits the rich over the poor? What would Jesus do about a health care system that forces the sick to start GoFundMe pages to afford life-saving surgeries?” YouTube
16 (Talarico’s view that “God is nonbinary.”) (In response to testimony on a bill that passed prohibiting sex change surgeries on minors:) “The first two lines of the Bible, the first two lines of Genesis, use two different Hebrew words to describe God. One is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity, the second is the feminine Hebrew noun for spirit. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is nonbinary.” Instagram
17 (Talarico’s attempt to equate the illegal alien with Christ.) “So where is Christ today? Christ is the immigrant deported without due process.” YouTube
18 (Talarico says that Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism circle the same truth about the universe. Conversely, Jesus said I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. [John 14:6 NIV]) “I believe that Jesus Christ reveals that reality to us, but I also believe that other traditions reveal that reality in their own ways, with their own simple structures. And I’ve learned more about my tradition by learning more about Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam and Judaism. And so, I see these beautiful faith traditions as circling the same truth about the universe, about the cosmos.” Fox News
19 (Talarico tries to give God’s blessing for abortion. Here, he ignores at least three things. First, it was the angel Gabriel, not God, speaking. Second, Gabriel made declarative statements about the coming Jesus and asked no questions. Third, this is traditionally called the Annunciation [or announcement] not the Inquisition [or the questioning].) “I say all this in the context of abortion, because before God comes over Mary, and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent… so to me, that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create… so that’s how I come down on that side of the issue.” Fox News
20 (Talarico tries to deceive Joe Rogan’s audience on the topic of abortion and makes the same central mistakes [or commits the same central lies] as above [refer to the bold text above for the common points].) “And then the last, I think, story I would go to is the story of Mary.
Mary is probably my favorite figure in the Bible, the mother of Jesus, and she is an oppressed peasant teenage girl living in poverty under an oppressive empire as a Jew, and she has a vision from God that she’s going to give birth to a baby who’s going to bring the powerful down from their thrones, scatter the proud, and send the rich away empty. This revolutionary song that she sings—it’s called the Magnificat—and it’s actually been banned by certain authoritarian regimes because it is so radical.
But I say all this in the context of abortion because before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent, which is remarkable. Go back and read this in Luke. The angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do.
And she says, if it is God’s will, let it be done. Let it be. Let it happen. So to me, that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create.
Creation is one of the most sacred acts we engage in as human beings, but that has to be done with consent and freedom, and to me that is absolutely consistent with the ministry and life and death of Jesus.”		 YouTube
21 (Talarico tries to associate Jesus with the feminist movement within the Democrat party.) “Did they teach you in Sunday school that Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist?” Fox News
22 (Talarico claims that he is more religious than some Founding Fathers.) “It does violence to both Christianity and Judaism. There are way more than Ten Commandments in the Jewish tradition—613 mitzvot—and Christianity has its own rich diversity of interpretations. This bill picks and chooses one version, promotes it in public schools, and ignores the beautiful diversity of both faiths. It has no historical basis in American history as a mandate for public education.
And let’s talk about the Founding Fathers—I am a lot more religious than some of our Founding Fathers.”		 YouTube
23 (Talarico claims the bill requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments discriminates against other faiths and does violence against Christianity and Judaism.) “This bill (on requiring Texas classrooms to display the 10 Commandments) does a disservice to both Judaism and Christianity. As you know, there are way more than 10 Commandments in the Jewish tradition. There are 613 in the Hebrew Bible. And the irony for us Christians is that we follow a Rabbi who tried to simplify those 613 Commandments into two: love God and love neighbor. This bill is not doing anything to love God or love neighbor. It is discriminating against our neighbors. Our Hindu neighbors, our Buddhist neighbors, or Sikh neighbors …
So this bill is doing violence to both faith traditions it claims to represent.”		 X (aka Twitter)
24 (Talarico uses the gnostic “Gospel of Thomas” to say that Jesus supported transgenderism.) “In the Gospel of Thomas, which was later omitted from the Bible by church officials, …
The Gospel of Thomas quotes Jesus as saying ‘When you make the male and female one-in-the-same. When the male is not male and the female is not female — then you will enter the kingdom of God.'”		 X (aka Twitter)
25 (Talarico confuses charity — which is commanded in both the Old and New Testament — with socialistic taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor [aka “economic justice”].) “Economic justice is mentioned 3,000 times in our scriptures, both the New Testament and the Hebrew Scriptures. So this is such a core part of our tradition. And it’s nowhere to be seen in Christian nationalism or on the religious right.” Facebook

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His quotes that violate Christian ideals

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
26 (Talarico’s supposed willingness to talk with the dead Pope Francis.) “If Pope Francis, you know, were to come back and sit at this table and tell me, you know, ‘James, I’m pro-life and anti-abortion, here’s my theological argument,’ I am here to listen and respect that opinion. I have, I have dear friends who are anti-abortion.” YouTube
27 (Amid Democrat accusations of Trump calling names, Talarico calls Trump the opposite of Jesus — thus equating Trump and his followers with the Devil.) “The antithesis of Trump is not Biden or Warren or Harris or Castro. It’s not even President Obama. The clearest anti-Trump we have is Jesus of Nazareth. His teachings—and those delivered by other prophetic voices throughout history—show us the way to defeat Trumpism in our world and in ourselves” Facebook video
28 (Talarico’s tweet on assigning sin to a class of people.) “Black Americans in a church.
Mexican Americans in a store.
Asian Americans in a spa.
Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country.”		 X (aka Twitter)
29 (Talarico’s statement on hate speech. Compare this to his statement making Trump the opposite of Jesus.) “I’m proud to sign Rep. [Gene Wu]’s resolution condemning anti-Asian hate speech like ‘Kung Flu’ and ‘China Virus.’ Words have consequences. Dehumanization leads to violence.” X (aka Twitter)
30 (Talarico attempts to shift attention from the topic he spends most of his time on: transgenderism. Then he tries to shift attention from Democrat health policies, education policies, and tax policies. Finally, he blames the media.) “The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.
And so, what I would say is that the only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.
Trans people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren’t taking away our healthcare.
Undocumented people are defunding our schools.
Muslims aren’t cutting taxes for themselves and their rich puppet politicians.
And so we need not only the media, but all of us to focus on the real problem at hand.”		 X (aka Twitter)
31 (Talarico claims that he is more religious than some Founding Fathers.) “It does violence to both Christianity and Judaism. There are way more than Ten Commandments in the Jewish tradition—613 mitzvot—and Christianity has its own rich diversity of interpretations. This bill picks and chooses one version, promotes it in public schools, and ignores the beautiful diversity of both faiths. It has no historical basis in American history as a mandate for public education.
And let’s talk about the Founding Fathers—I am a lot more religious than some of our Founding Fathers.”		 YouTube

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His quotes on race

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
32 (Talarico’s belittling of a Black male opponent in order to build up a Black female opponent) “(U.S. Representative and Democrat Colin Allred is) a mediocre Black man (while U.S. Representative and Democrat Jasmine Crockett is) a formidable, intelligent Black woman.” TikTok
33 (Talarico’s tweet on radicalized White men being the greatest threat to America.) “Black Americans in a church.
Mexican Americans in a store.
Asian Americans in a spa.
Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country.”		 X (aka Twitter)
34 (Talarico blames White people for spreading the virus of “Whiteness” that is spread through words, actions, and systems.) “White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go—through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don’t have to be showing symptoms—like a white hood or a Confederate flag—to be contagious.” X (aka Twitter)
35 (Talarico feels that God created a mistake that deserves a reckoning.) “Prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty, my own ego. It’s a never-ending process, and it’s a painful process.” X (aka Twitter)
36 (Talarico suggests that “whiteness” and “masculinity” are things that should be cried over.) “No need to sit and cry over your whiteness or your masculinity.” Facebook

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His quotes on sexuality

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
37 (Talarico’s view that stopping sex change surgeries hurts children.) (In response to testimony on a bill that passed prohibiting sex change surgeries on minors:) “In committee, I listened to 15 hours of testimony about this bill. The worst part, for me, was the number of Christians who used scripture to justify hurting children. Even on this floor today, a member tried to justify a hateful amendment in the name of God’s law.” Instagram
38 (Talarico’s view that “God is nonbinary.”) (Again in response to testimony on a bill that passed prohibiting sex change surgeries on minors:) “The first two lines of the Bible, the first two lines of Genesis, use two different Hebrew words to describe God. One is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity, the second is the feminine Hebrew noun for spirit. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is nonbinary.” Instagram
39 (Talarico’s support of child transgenderism.) “Trans children are God’s children, made in God’s own image.” Fox News
19a (Talarico tries to give God’s blessing for abortion. Here, he ignores at least three things. First, it was the angel Gabriel, not God, speaking. Second, Gabriel made declarative statements about the coming Jesus and asked no questions. Third, this is traditionally called the Annunciation [or announcement] not the Inquisition [or the questioning].) “I say all this in the context of abortion, because before God comes over Mary, and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent… so to me, that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create… so that’s how I come down on that side of the issue.” Fox News
20a (Talarico tries to deceive Joe Rogan’s audience on the topic of abortion and makes the same central mistakes [or commits the same central lies] as above [refer to the bold text above for the common points].) “And then the last, I think, story I would go to is the story of Mary.
Mary is probably my favorite figure in the Bible, the mother of Jesus, and she is an oppressed peasant teenage girl living in poverty under an oppressive empire as a Jew, and she has a vision from God that she’s going to give birth to a baby who’s going to bring the powerful down from their thrones, scatter the proud, and send the rich away empty. This revolutionary song that she sings—it’s called the Magnificat—and it’s actually been banned by certain authoritarian regimes because it is so radical.
But I say all this in the context of abortion because before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent, which is remarkable. Go back and read this in Luke. The angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do.
And she says, if it is God’s will, let it be done. Let it be. Let it happen. So to me, that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create.
Creation is one of the most sacred acts we engage in as human beings, but that has to be done with consent and freedom, and to me that is absolutely consistent with the ministry and life and death of Jesus.”		 YouTube
40 (Talarico tries to associate Jesus with the feminist movement within the Democrat party.) “Did they teach you in Sunday school that Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist?” Fox News
41 (Talarico departs from genetics and proclaims his own science, saying there are six “biological sexes.”) “Modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes; in fact, there are six.” Fox News
42 (Talarico claims that transgender people need abortions.) “Our trans community needs abortion care too. Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state Capitol, and you better believe I’ll be giving sermons on that too, … So when I use the word ‘woman,’ it should not be understood as an exhaustive lens through which we understand, examine and interrogate patriarchy. Similar to how we specify anti-Black racism.” Fox News
43 (Talarico claims to love the transgender children who protested at the state capitol.) “I love, and just say this because it’s on my mind, the trans children who showed up yesterday at the state Capitol to advocate for their humanity. They shouldn’t have to, but it was an inspiration to watch.” X (aka Twitter)
24a (Talarico uses the gnostic “Gospel of Thomas” to say that Jesus supported transgenderism.) “In the Gospel of Thomas, which was later omitted from the Bible by church officials, …
The Gospel of Thomas quotes Jesus as saying ‘When you make the male and female one-in-the-same. When the male is not male and the female is not female — then you will enter the kingdom of God.'”		 X (aka Twitter)
44 (Talarico claims that sex does not depend on XX chromosomes and XY chromosomes.) “The point is that biologically speaking, scientifically speaking, sex is a spectrum, and oftentimes can be very ambiguous.” New York Post

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His quotes on the border

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
45 (Talarico attributes greater degrees of patriotism to his illegal alien students than the native-born students.) “I’ve taught a lot of undocumented students, and those students tended to be my most patriotic students” Instagram
46 (Talarico’s view on border security.) “Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front.” Rumble
47 (Talarico equates illegal aliens with neighbors.) “Those neighbors of ours deserve a lot better than ICE terrorizing them and their children, ICE tearing families apart.” Fox News and KRWG
48 (Talarico calls illegal aliens “my constituents.”) “Undocumented Americans are folks who work in our businesses, learn in our schools and contribute to our communities — but lack citizenship documentation.
As a Texas legislator, they’re also my constituents. Like so many immigrants throughout our history, undocumented Americans came to this country for the same simple reasons: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”		 X (aka Twitter)

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His quotes where he was pandering to a Democrat group (the vegans or pro-Palestinians, …)

# Central topic Talarico quote News Source
49 (Talarico makes a bid for the far-left vegan vote. After weeks of being pounded by the cattle industry and poultry industry, Talarico is pictured at the Texas State Fair eating a turkey leg.) “I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign… We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.” Fox News
50 (Talarico attempts to shift attention from the topic he spends most of his time on: transgenderism. Then he tries to shift attention from Democrat health policies, education policies, and tax policies. Finally, he blames the media.) “The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.
And so, what I would say is that the only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.
Trans people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren’t taking away our healthcare.
Undocumented people are defunding our schools.
Muslims aren’t cutting taxes for themselves and their rich puppet politicians.
And so we need not only the media, but all of us to focus on the real problem at hand.”		 X (aka Twitter)

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Talarico shows his desperation by parading Democrats and calling them “Life-long Republicans”


Joe Gruters says purported crossover supporters are longtime Democratic activists, not genuine GOP voters

Fox News points out how at least one of the “long time Republicans” who have started supporting Texas Representative James Talarico has been found to have made repeated ActBlue contributions benefiting Democratic candidates.

“I just don’t believe it,” Gruters said. “This is Kamala Harris‘ ‘White Dudes for Kamala.’ It just doesn’t exist. It’s a wannabe or an attempt at them to try to build some crossover support.”

Talarico has emphasized building a broad coalition in his campaign, which says it intends to “go everywhere and talk to everyone” ahead of the November election.

But Republicans have seized on the political histories of some of Talarico’s backers as evidence the outreach is less bipartisan than advertised.

One of the women presented as a Republican mother supporting Talarico was identified in subsequent reporting as Mindy McClure. She has Federal Election Commission filings associated with her showing repeated ActBlue contributions benefiting Democratic candidates and political groups dating back to 2018, including Kamala Harris and The Lincoln Project — an anti-Trump political activist group.

“When you have policies like mutilating children, saying that God has six different genders and is non-binary and all this other stuff, you can’t expect that Republicans are going to hop on and think that they’re going to be on board to this liberal clown show that he’s operating down there in Texas,” Gruters said.

The primary-voting history of another woman featured in the campaign’s outreach was exposed by a record showing more participation in Democratic than Republican primaries.

When reached for comment Sunday, the Talarico campaign said the women have no official ties to the campaign, but the spokesperson pointed to the MS Now interview, noting they had previously voted for Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott — one of whom vowed to never do again.

“Republicans in Texas are endorsing James Talarico and rejecting Ken Paxton because they know James will bring people together to lower costs while Paxton continues to enrich himself at the expense of working people,” Talarico campaign spokesman JT Ennis told Fox News Digital.

Talarico has showcased the support of former Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley, a longtime Republican who endorsed the Democrat at a recent campaign event.

Whitley ran as a Republican judge, but his recent endorsements are on the left. The former county judge endorsed Democrat Mike Collier against Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in 2022 before backing Harris for president and Democrat Colin Allred for U.S. Senate in 2024. All those Democrats lost to Republicans, as did Beto O’Rourke to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, by less than three points in 2018.

(Read more at Fox News)

One thing evident in the race between Talarico and Paxton: despite all of Talarico’s railing about “tax the billionaires,” those billionaires are funding him

It seems that Soros and other Democrat deep pockets (like the foreign-funded ActBlue, the socialist Sixteen Thirty Fund, a progressive group including the co-founder of Netflix, and Reid Hoffman) are coming to the aid of Talarico.

While Thune was quite supportive (to the tune of $100,000) in his support of John Cornyn, news of support from the “establishment Republicans” seem to be at a bare minimum (as if they don’t realize that losing this seat will be a generational loss).

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And Twitter (X) says:

Talarico call this “culture war fights,” but it was him and his party who made trans issue central

Nobody forced Talarico to say “I love trans children.”

However, now he complains that people are pointing toward his history:

However, when it comes to his ads, he seems to like to leave behind his urban and trans life

In his oldest ad, you might think that James Talarico did not vote against every balanced budget in Texas.

In his newest ad, you might think he drives a big Dodge Ram truck (nope) out to his ranch (nope). You might also think that Texas Democrats have not voted against the oil and gas industry in Texas (nope). On top of that, you might think that Democrats have done anything to bring down food or medical costs (nope).

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Who is Jesus?


The following comes through the notes of Mark Ramsey.

Remez — Are you the one who was to come?

  1. A masterclass in remez on both sides — John’s question and Jesus’ answer

    In Luke 7, Jesus uses the Jewish technique, which we know is called Remez – Hebrew for hint or clue of a deeper meaning – a treasure found in Scripture.

    We find John the Baptist in prison and his disciples telling him about all the things which Jesus is doing – healing the centurion’s servant, raising the widow’s dead son from the coffin, healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, healing the crippled so that they can walk, healing the deaf so they can hear, curing those troubled by evil spirits, with power coming from Him preaching the Good News.

    1. John’s question

      Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?” Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”

      Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.” (Luke 17:18-21 NIV)

      Are you the One who is to come echoes messianic expectations from the prophets.

      The signs from Isaiah that Jesus mentions function like hyperlinks.

      Notice that John didn’t ask, “Are you the Messiah?” He asks “Are You the One who is Coming?”

    2. Jesus’ answer

      Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. People will tell you, ‘There he is!’ or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go running off after them. (Luke 17:22-23 NIV)

      Now, Jesus uses the Remez. This is a massive Remez – a brilliant summary of multiple passages from Isaiah which reveal His identity.</p

      Rather than directly stating His identity, Jesus quotes small portions of Isaiah, intentionally alluding to broader prophetic texts to prove He is the Messiah.

      By deliberately combining these specific hints, Jesus tells John – “Look at the exact miracles the prophet said the Messiah would perform; I am fulfilling them right now.”

      The prophecies which Jesus cites that He is fulfilling –

      Isaiah 35:5-6a – Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped, then the lame will leap like a deer

      Isaiah 61:1a – The Spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me because the Lord has annointed me to preach the good news to the poor

      Isaiah 29:18 – In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll and out of the gloom and darkness, the eyes of the blind will see

      Isaiah 42:7a – To open the eyes that are blind

      Jesus is saying “Yes, I Am the One.”

    3. A remez within a remez

      John had already seen the Spirit descend like a dove and light upon Jesus and heard the voice from heaven.

      He had announced Jesus as the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world.

      His question was not so much about doubting the identity of Jesus but more about his future – would he be freed from prison?

      Jesus’ answer left out Isaiah’s promises about captives being freed and released.

      This silence itself is a Remez – an unspoken answer to John.

      “Yes, I AM the One, but you will not be leaving your cell.”

 

Who is Jesus?


The following comes through the notes of Mark Ramsey.

Introduction

  1. What do other religions say about Jesus?

    Before we examine what the Old Testament prophets said about the Messiah and what Jesus said about Himself, I thought it might be interesting to briefly explore what other religions say about Jesus.

    Of course, we know that the answer to the question of who Jesus is has eternal consequences.

    Briefly, we will examine the different religions and their view of Jesus.

    I find it interesting that all the major religions acknowledge Jesus although their understanding of Him differs.

    1. The Mormons

      You need to be discerning when speaking or listening to the Mormons because they use certain catch phrases that might make you think they are Christ-followers.

      They may say that they believe that Jesus is Redeemer, God and Savior. However, they do not believe that Jesus is our wrath bearing Substitute, the complete atonement for our sins and the propitiation for our sins or that His sacrifice was sufficient for salvation.

      When you dig just a little bit you find out that they are a work based false religion.

      They believe that Jesus was the first-born spirit child of God the Father. Jesus had many wives and so they too can have many wives. He was the spirit brother of Lucifer.

      They do not consider the Bible as inerrant or complete. They do not believe in human depravity.

      Salvation is only by faith, repentance, baptism and obeying the commands of God and Mormon rituals to the end of life.

    2. The Jews

      The Jews believe Jesus was a rabbi and popular teacher but deny He is the Messiah.

    3. Jehovah’s Witnesses

      They believe Jesus is the first creation of Jehovah. They compare Him to the archangel Michael. They do not believe He is God or part of the Trinity.

    4. Buddhists

      They believe Jesus was an enlightened man and wise teacher. He was a holy man but not divine.

    5. Hindus

      Some believe Jesus was a wise teacher although many tend to actually believe that He is only a symbol of what human beings can attain rather than a true historical figure.

    6. Muslims

      7. Islam is the second largest religion in the world, behind Christianity (approximately 2.5 billion), with an estimated 2 billion followers globally and recognized as the fastest growing religion in the world.

      We are going to watch a short video of John MacArthur explaining the quran and the Muslims’ understanding of Jesus. Absolute false and demonic teaching. The quran was written about 250 years after the compilation of the Bible and you will see how they have twisted the Bible and Jesus into their false theology.

  2. Who is Jesus?

    My prayer is that as we go through this series that you will gain a new insight, love and appreciation of who Jesus is, who was and who is to come.