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An Ex-Muslim’s Warning to America Selwyn Duke It was in 2015 that Muslim refugee Dr. Mudar Zahran warned of the “soft Islamic conquest of the West.” Zahran was referring to the wave migration affecting Europe, which ultimately saw millions more Muslims enter the Continent. Now, a decade later, an ex-Muslim sounds the same alarm here in America. In fact, she says, operational in the U.S. is a decades-old, clearly stated plan for civilizational jihad. Only, like sheep to the slaughter, most Americans are unaware of it.  Ten Reasons to Cheer the Arrest of Maduro Richard Porter The weekend arrest of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro marks a rare moment when American power was used decisively, strategically, and unapologetically in defense of U.S. interests and human freedom – and there are at least 10 reasons to cheer it... You might not like Trump or his style – or even agree with his policies – but he is fighting the drug war; taking on China, rebuilding our military’s prowess; addressing root causes of a migration crisis; reducing crime; striving for peace while audaciously deploying our military; controlling our border – and admit it – Making America Great Again. |
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| Trump's Tariffs Are Working: Trade Deficit Narrows to Smallest Since 2009 The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services declined by nearly forty percent from September to October, as the Trump administration’s tariff policies continued to rebalance trade, data from the Commerce Department showed on Thursday. Imports fell by 3.2 percent to $331.4 billion, while exports rose by 2.6 percent to $302.0 billion. Because imports declined and exports increased, the U.S. trade deficit shrank by a sharp 39.0 percent, indicating that the Trump administration’s trade policies are working to bring U.S. trade into better balance. |
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| Seattle Police Union Blasts City's New Socialist Mayor for Allegedly Redirecting Drug Cases: 'Insane Direction' The Seattle police union is slamming the city’s new socialist mayor for apparently issuing a directive halting all open drug use arrests – in favor of promoting a diversion program they say suffers from “suicidal empathy.” Wilson, 43, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, ran on a platform of seemingly impossible guarantees – including a promise to “Trump-proof Seattle,” according to her campaign website. The Seattle Police Officers Guild said it was blindsided by a directive from Wilson’s team to pause open drug use arrests, in a statement issued Sunday. |
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| Hours After Trump Arrests Maduro, a Major Surge Hits America Noah Stanton When the critics finished clutching their pearls over President Trump’s decisive action in Venezuela, something interesting happened: The people who actually put money where their mouths are – investors, fund managers, the ones who move billions based on cold calculations rather than cable news hysteria – rendered their own judgment. And it wasn’t even close. While progressive pundits spent the weekend wringing their hands about the capture of Nicolás Maduro (despite the fact they ALL would’ve applauded had Biden done the same thing), the business world was doing math. |
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| Socialist Group Tied to Mamdani Closely Allied with Maduro, Now Leads Protests of U.S. Actions The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which counts New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a key member, has been closely allied with Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro for years, and is now leading protests in the U.S. against the communist dictator’s arrest by the United States as Maduro sits in a NYC jail cell. The DSA International Committee’s website touts its “Venezuelan Solidarity” and its “Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution!” – led by former Venezuelan socialist strongman Hugo Chavez and continued by socialist leader Maduro. | |
| Noem Announces Major Takedown of Dominican Gang Behind Shooting of CBP Officer in NYC Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers nabbed 54 members and associates of the Trinitarios Dominican gang who were operating across New York, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced during a press conference Thursday. “During our investigation, we learned that these scumbags were affiliated with the transnational criminal organization, the notorious Trinitarios gang in New York. We began to target every single last person that is affiliated with them and recognized that they needed to be brought to justice,” Noem said. | |
| Dem Narrative Challenged After DHS Exposes Identity of 'married couple' in CBP-Related Shooting Peter Pinedo, Alec Schemmel, Michael Sinkewicz As new protests erupt and Democrats express outrage over another shooting involving an immigration agent in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is setting the record straight on the two victims’ suspected gang affiliation. In a Friday X post, DHS said that the two shooting victims, Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, are Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens and suspected members of the foreign terrorist organization Tren de Aragua (TdA). | Victims were pimp and ho |
| RFK Jr. Announces Major Overhaul of Dietary Guidelines, Reversing Decades of Low-Fat Recommendations For decades, the federal government handed Americans a nutritional roadmap and promised it would lead to better health. Millions followed it faithfully. They swapped butter for margarine, traded whole milk for skim, loaded up on grains at the base of that sacred food pyramid, and dutifully avoided the eggs and red meat they were told would kill them. And what did we get for our obedience? An obesity epidemic that now affects over 40 percent of American adults. A diabetes crisis draining family savings and Medicare coffers alike. A life expectancy that trails other developed nations by five years. The map, it turns out, was drawn by people more interested in protecting agricultural subsidies and food industry profits than protecting American health. But hey, at least the corn lobby was happy. |
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| Fed Chair Powell Says He’s Under Criminal Investigation Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank was served with grand jury subpoenas by the Department of Justice on Jan. 9. In a statement late Jan. 11, Powell confirmed that officials threatened a criminal indictment over his Senate Banking Committee testimony in June 2025. That testimony, Powell noted, “concerned in part a multi-year project to renovate historic Federal Reserve office buildings.” The central bank chief dismissed the idea that this criminal probe was driven by his testimony or the renovation. |
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| FAFO: Hegseth Announces Disciplinary Action Against Sen. Mark Kelly Matt Margolis  In
November, six Democratic lawmakers participated in a viral video urging
military members to refuse what they called "illegal orders." The
dispute over Trump’s use of the National Guard was over policy, not
legality. On Monday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the
Department of War has initiated formal disciplinary action against Sen.
Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.). Hegseth cited the video, which he characterized
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| Minnesota Democrats Blocked Auditors from Tackling ‘Avalanche’ of Somali Fraud, Blacklisted Whistleblowers The Somali-dominated Democratic political machine in Minnesota successfully silenced hundreds of government experts who tracked the huge flow of taxpayer funds through Somali-run businesses, a top Minnesota Republican told a House hearing on Wednesday. Up to 1,000 government auditors, accountants, and program managers were silenced by Democratic threats, Minnesota House Rep. Marion Rarick told a House hearing. ... Citizens’ complaints were also suppressed by the political power of the clannish Somali groups in the local Democratic Party. |
480 Minnesota Staff Report Fraud in 2023 |
| Minnesota Democrats Threatened to Fire 1,000 Whistleblowers Who Tried to Report $9 Billion in Fraud In any scandal worth its salt, the crime itself is only half the story. The other half – the one that tells you everything about the people in charge – is what happens when someone tries to stop it. Minnesota’s fraud epidemic has made national headlines, with estimates suggesting up to $9 billion was siphoned from Medicaid and social services under Governor Tim Walz’s watch. The theft is staggering. But it isn’t what should haunt Minnesotans most. What should keep them up at night is what happened to the people who tried to sound the alarm. | |
| GOP Whip Unloads on Tim Walz Over Rampant Fraud: ‘I’m Not Going to Be Minnesota Nice’ Tom Emmer made his comments on the latest episode of the Republican Study Committee’s “Right to the Point” podcast, where he was joined by his fellow Minnesota Republican Reps. Brad Finstad and Michelle Fischbach about the still-unfolding situation in their home state. The trio called out the leadership in their state, saying that whether they were complicit in the rampant fraud or had simply failed to deal with it, the full price of their actions had fallen on the people of Minnesota. | |
| SBA Suspends Nearly 7,000 Minnesota Borrowers Over Suspected $400M Loan Fraud The Small Business Administration (SBA) announced Thursday that it suspended 6,900 Minnesota borrowers after uncovering what it says is widespread suspected fraud. SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said the agency reviewed thousands of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) loans approved in Minnesota, and identified nearly $400 million in potentially fraudulent loans tied to borrowers in Minnesota. Loeffler said the agency will refer appropriate cases to federal law enforcement for prosecution and repayment. | |
| Walz: 'I Have Never Used Inflammatory Terms' The man who calls ICE the "Gestapo" and said Minnesota was at "war" with the federal government is now saying he has never used inflammatory language about the shooting that happened yesterday. Then he called Secretary Noem an executioner. ... As Democrats around the country are calling an ICE agent at whom a car sped and then hit a "murderer," Walz announced that he was calling out the National Guard to protect Minnesotans against "rogue" federal agents. | |
| Mastermind of $250M Minnesota Welfare Fraud Ordered to Forfeit Luxury Goods The founder of a Minnesota-based nonprofit who was convicted of masterminding a $250 million welfare fraud scheme was ordered by a judge last week to forfeit luxury goods obtained with the spoils of her corruption. Aimee Bock, who was the brains behind the Feeding Our Future scandal, was found guilty in March on federal charges of wire fraud, bribery, and conspiracy in connection to the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the United States, the New York Post reported. The 44-year-old, along with dozens of mostly Somali co-conspirators, siphoned pandemic relief funds from a federal programs intended to feed children in need. | |
| Criminals Exploiting Aid Agencies in Every State, Fraud Experts Warn The massive fraud in Minnesota’s Medicaid program has been replicated across the country, with criminals taking advantage of the lax policing of aid payments for years, according to fraud experts. The rip-off of aid programs is happening “in every single state,” said Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a fraud-prevention firm that advises more than 9,000 federal, state and local agencies. | |
| Report: Newsom’s Lack of Oversight Cost California $33B in Fraudulent Unemployment Payments As the multi-billion-dollar Medicaid fraud scandal in Minnesota continues to develop, another much larger fraud scandal is potentially brewing in California. A recent report from the state’s independent auditor has revealed that upwards of $33 billion in federal and state taxpayer funds have been pilfered from the Golden State’s unemployment insurance system over the last six years due to lax oversight and inaction by Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D) administration. | |
| Guyana: The Little Caribbean Country with a Big Role to Play in Trump’s Regional Shift With the U.S. capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro in a bold Jan. 3 military raid and a large naval force still prowling the southern Caribbean to ensure that Maduro’s successors cooperate with the Trump administration, other subtle, but key, developments in the region can be overlooked. Among under-the-wire events is a December 2025 agreement between the United States and Venezuela’s neighbor, Guyana. That agreement could have profound implications, not only in the immediate context of unfolding events in Venezuela, but also for the long-term execution of the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, unveiled in November 2025 by U.S. President Donald Trump. |
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| Dick Blumenthal’s BCCA Bill is a Back Door Ploy to Enable Infinite Firearm Purchase Waiting Periods Larry Keane Introduced by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), S.3458, titled the Background Check Completion Act of 2025, is being sold with a simple, catchy bumper-sticker promise: “No check, no gun.” In reality, it’s simply political theater and has the potential to create unnecessary hurdles for law-abiding Americans while doing nothing to improve public safety... This would be a dramatic change that would repeal the long-standing three-business-day Brady Bill safeguard Congress included to prevent government delay from becoming government denial. That’s not a “fix” to background checks. It’s a policy choice to convert bureaucratic backlog, incomplete records and agency non-responsiveness into a de facto infinite waiting period with no meaningful end point. |
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| Thanks to Germany's Insane Green Energy Laws, the Berlin Blackout Just Got More Dangerous Amy Curtis We told you how a Leftist, Antifa-linked eco-activist group in Germany sent Berlin into a blackout during the freezing winter. The Vulkan Group published a letter taking responsibility for the terrorist attack on Berlin's energy infrastructure, writing, "In the greed for energy, the earth is being depleted, sucked dry, burned, ravaged, burned down, raped, destroyed. The aim of the action is to cause significant damage to the gas industry and the greed for energy." It also said it was "cutting off power to those in power." How harming innocent Berlin residents and businesses is harming those "in power" is beyond us, but the Left doesn't care who they hurt in pursuit of their agenda. |
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| Washington State’s Climate Change Program Benefits Inflated by a Factor of 1,000!!! Committee to Unleash Prosperity Does anyone in the climate change industrial complex ever tell the truth about ANYTHING? Here’s the latest whopper lie from Washington state’s Commerce Department, which has spent $1.5 BILLION in recent years on reducing carbon dioxide emissions: “Due to a data entry error, Commerce reported that 7.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced as a result of eight rebate projects funded by the Climate Commitment Act supporting home electrification and appliance rebates for low-income and vulnerable communities. The corrected data now estimates that 78,000 tons of emissions will be reduced over the lifetime of those projects.” |
The state project wasted $1 billion to achieve 1% of its target |
| Scotland’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Wasting Three Quarters of Energy The Seagreen wind farm off Scotland’s east coast is squandering vast amounts of its power because there is not enough grid capacity to transport it to areas of the country where it is needed most. This is likely to have sparked hundreds of millions of pounds in so-called constraint payments for the wind farm, which is run by Scottish energy giant SSE and France’s TotalEnergies. These payments are made under a Government scheme to encourage renewables, aimed at guaranteeing cash for green power even if it cannot be used. |
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| Chris Wright – We’re in the Greatest Malinvestment in Human History Chris Wright, the United States Secretary of Energy, marvels that people can spend so much to achieve so little: “Germany invested half a trillion dollars, more than doubled the capacity of its electricity grid – and today produces 20% less electricity than before that investment, selling it at three times the price.” |
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| Trump Keeps Several U.S. Coal Plants Running, Defying ‘End of Coal’ Predictions The Trump administration last week blocked plans to shut down a generator unit at a coal-fired power plant in Colorado. The order, which will keep the unit running through March 2026, cites analyses finding that the grid would be unable to supply enough electricity during periods of high demand, such as a major storm. “Keeping this coal plant online will ensure Americans maintain an affordable, reliable, and secure supply of electricity. |
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| “Battle of the Sexes” Another Blow Against Feminism and “Transgender” Lunacy Selwyn Duke In case you didn’t hear about it, and you might not have given that the outcome wasn’t media-narrative friendly, there was another tennis “Battle of the Sexes” yesterday. And, boy, it was not a good night for feminism and the “transgender” agenda. Aryna Sabalenka, a Belarusian and currently the world’s number one female player, took on notorious Australian tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios in the United Arab Emirates. Kyrgios, currently 671 in the men’s rankings ... I won’t bore you with the build-up to the match, as some of what was said by both players was designed to generate interest (e.g., Sabalenka predicting “I’m going to kick his ***”). But the interest ended with the “unwoke” result: Despite looking a bit tired and out of condition, Kyrgios won 6-3, 6-3, though the handicap did make it competitive (which is the whole idea). |
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| Harvard President Admits Allowing Campus Activism Was the ‘Wrong’ Way to Go Sarah Holliday Only after years of prominent and disruptive campus activism, Harvard University President Alan Garber has confessed: universities, including his own, “went wrong” by permitting professors to inject their personal political views and ideological agendas into the classroom. He argued that this practice has led to free speech being chilled, open debate being discouraged, and the creation of intimidating environments where many students hesitate to challenge authority figures or speak openly about their own views. |
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| Texas A&M Declines to Reinstate Lecturer Fired Over Gender Ideology in Classroom A university in College Station, Texas decided it would not bring back a lecturer who was fired during the fall semester for controversial statements about gender identity. Texas A&M University made its decision in December, sending a memo to the instructor, Melissa McCoul, according to The New York Times. A Texas A&M official reportedly determined the dismissal was for “good cause.” |
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| DOT Exposes Illegal Truck Licenses, Threatens $50M NC Cut The Trump administration is moving to withhold nearly $50 million in federal transportation funding from North Carolina after a federal audit found the state illegally issued a majority of its non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses, putting public safety and federal compliance on a collision course. According to a Department of Transportation briefing released Thursday, federal inspectors determined that 54 percent of North Carolina’s reviewed non-domiciled CDLs were issued in violation of federal law, triggering a formal ultimatum from Washington. |
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| Now for Trump’s Next
Feat, the Left Is About to Openly Support the Cartels Tim O'Brien Until the past 24 hours, Nicolás Maduro Moros and other Venezuelan high-ranking individuals in the Maduro regime ran the Cartel of the Suns (Cartel de los Soles). Now that the U.S. has penetrated Venezuela’s defenses to capture and arrest Maduro, things have changed. Maduro and his regime had corrupted the institutions of that country, including its military, its intelligence apparatus, its legislature, and its judiciary, all to aid his cartel’s massive criminal operations... Looking back to the start of Trump’s second term, Trump has been steadily working to dismantle the power structure of the cartels, and Maduro was key. |
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| What a Way to Start 2026 Clarice Feldman Christmas week was rather a slow week, with the big news being the further unraveling of the corruption in Minnesota, Washington state, California, and other Democrat redoubts. But like George Washington crossing the Delaware to beat the Hessians as they rested on Christmas, the U.S. pulled off an incredible military operation capturing Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro in his pajamas and bringing him back here to answer to criminal charges... We are so fortunate to have Trump. Maduro has been removed and is facing trial here; drug overdose deaths are plummeting; homicides are plummeting; the mullahs are collapsing (without war), the border is closed; widespread fraud is being exposed, and the least Congress can do to right our ship of state is to demand election integrity. |
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the Maduro Indictment. Here's What It Says. The United States carried out strikes in Venezuela today and arrested Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The U.S. launched a "large scale" strike against the South American nation, including on military facilities. The move came after months of build up in the region. In recent weeks, the U.S. had seized two oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela and conducted kinetic strikes on narco-terrorist vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific. Both Maduro and his wife were indicted in the Southern District of New York. Attorney General Pam Bondi shared news of the indictment on X, and here's what that indictment entails: |
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| Why Capture of Maduro Didn't
Require Approval from Congress Jonathan Turley In an extraordinary military operation, the United States launched a large-scale military operation in Caracas, Venezuela, early Saturday, with Special Forces seizing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. There is a pending 2020 indictment of Maduro in the Southern District of New York, where he is expected to be taken to face prosecution. The operation comes not long after the 37th anniversary of the capture of Manuel Antonio Noriega on Dec. 20, 1989. Noriega was convicted of drug and money laundering offenses and sentenced to 40 years in prison. He was tried in Miami. |
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| Trump Pours Cold Water on Machado
Becoming Venezuela's New Leader After Maduro's Capture President Trump placed doubt on the chances of María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, leading the nation after Nicolas Maduro's capture. Opposition politician Edmundo González has been recognized as Venezuela’s legitimate leader following the widely disputed 2024 elections. He succeeded Machado on the ticket because she was barred from running by the Maduro-aligned judiciary. Maduro declared victory in 2024 and remained in power, despite opposition leaders claiming Gonzalez earned more votes, citing exit polls. |
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| Iran and Maduro Ties Suffer Major
Blow Following U.S. Operation and Capture of Venezuelan Dictator The Trump administration’s military operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a devastating setback to the South American nation’s long-term ally, the Islamic Republic of Iran, experts contend. As Iran experiences yet another day of anti-regime protests across the country, Jason Brodsky, the policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), who has written about Maduro’s nefarious activities, told Fox News Digital that, "Maduro’s capture will be a blow to Iran’s interests in the Western Hemisphere as he was a longtime ally of Tehran under the banner of anti-imperialism and Americanism in the region." |
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| Iran's Regime Is Teetering on the
Edge – the West Should Help Push It Over Post Editorial Board Three years shy of its 50th anniversary, Iran’s tyrannical, terror-sponsoring regime may finally be nearing its breaking point. Cross your fingers. The key question now is: What will the world – particularly America – do to ensure, and hasten, its demise, and steer it back toward a respectable position in the civilized world? For nearly half a century, Iran’s brutal theocratic leaders have survived numerous threats: fierce internal dissent, an eight-year war with Iraq, economic sanctions and a Cold War with Israel and the United States that recently turned hot. |
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| The Capture of Maduro: A Massive
Blow to the Mullahs Robert Spencer Venezuelans are celebrating the capture of Marxist dictator Nicolás Maduro, but in far-off Iran, the embattled leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran had good reason to view the event with considerable disquiet. The Iranian Foreign Ministry called the capture “a gross violation of the country’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity.” It never, of course, used any similar language to describe its own financing and arming of Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthis, and the Assad regime, all for the purpose of committing gross violations of Israel’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity. |
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| Venezuelans Celebrate the Demise of
Collectivism While New Yorkers Embrace Its ‘Warmth’ I & I Editorial Board We will leave it to the pundits, the lawyers, politicians, and various other “experts” to debate the merits of Trump’s action. But what we can’t let happen is for the left and the mainstream media to ignore or downplay just how tragic Venezuela’s embrace of collectivism has been. So, we thought we’d do our readers a service and republish an editorial we wrote more than six years ago, in which we detailed the cold, hard truths about socialism. The situation in Venezuela had only deteriorated further in the years after this editorial ran. |
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| Mamdani Removes His Thin Mask with First-Day Order Rescinding Definition of Antisemitism Michael Goodwin There are good and bad ways to start an administration, then there’s the way Zohran Mamdani did it. Dreadful, awful and horrible don’t fully capture his First Day fiasco. No political guru in the history of New York elections would advise a new mayor to launch his administration by picking a fight with Israel and adding fresh evidence to the suspicion that the city’s first Muslim mayor is an antisemite. Yet that’s exactly what Mamdani did by announcing that he had rescinded all the executive orders of his predecessor, Eric Adams, going back 15 months. |
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| Database Searches Show Somali Fraudsters Funding Democrat Politicians Warner Todd Huston Somali operators of daycare centers and other social services receiving tax dollars, many fraudulently, are also donating shares of their looted funds to the Democratic Party, say citizen journalists, and others. The New York Post, for instance, found that Minnesota Democrats were the happy recipients of $50,000 in campaign donations from many of the now convicted felons who ran the Somalian Feeding Our Future organization that stole some $250 million in Minnesota welfare funding. There's more... |
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| Democrats Order Police to Cover Up
Somali Fraud Daniel Greenfield After the latest wave of exposes made Somali fraud, Democrat state officials from Minnesota to Washington to Maine scrambled to conduct cover-ups and threaten anyone exposing the fraud. The head of Seattle’s Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, Hamdi Mohamed, “the first Somali woman elected in the state”, convened a meeting with Gov. Bob Ferguson, representatives of Attorney General Nick Brown, Seattle City Attorney Erika Evans, as well as other elected officials, who promised to protect Somalis from investigations and enforcement. |
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| Trump Ending Automatic Green Cards
for Migrants Marrying U.S. Citizens Immigration lawyers are warning that federal agencies are increasingly skeptical when migrants claim to have legitimate marriages with Americans. The policy shift comes after President Donald Trump’s deputies began cracking down on rising rates of marriage-related visa fraud by migrants who pay Americans for temporary marriages. While marrying a U.S. citizen has never been a locked-in guarantee that a migrant would be issued a green card, marriages have previously offered a huge boost to a migrant’s request for legal status. |
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| DOGE at One Year: Efficiency
Department Sparks Lasting Changes in Federal Spending Habits Susan Ferrechio The Department of Government Efficiency hasn’t come close to achieving the $1 trillion in cuts pledged at its launch last January, but it has identified billions of dollars in wasteful spending, reduced the bloated federal workforce, and spurred a nationwide effort to streamline and economize government agencies. In Washington, DOGE continues its work. As of October, it claims to have slashed an estimated $214 billion in federal spending, which DOGE officials say has saved each taxpayer $1,329. |
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| YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP: Portland
Rolls Out PAID “Immigration Leave” – City Workers Get 40 Hours Off for Deportation Hearings While Taxpayers Foot the Bill, No Questions Asked Jim Hoft City officials have now committed public funds to cover paid leave for immigration court proceedings – including deportation hearings while blocking basic oversight, all while the city is facing a $66 million shortfall. As of January 1, 2026, city workers in Portland, Oregon, can now clock out for up to 40 hours a year – without losing pay or benefits – to deal with immigration-related legal matters for themselves or for family members. |
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| Jack Smith Just Blew Up His Entire
January 6 Case Matt Margolis Jack Smith just torched what was left of his own January 6 investigation. The former special counsel sat down for an over eight-hour deposition with the House Judiciary Committee on December 17, 2025, and when the transcript was released to the public on Wednesday, it contained a stunning admission. It turns out that the former special counsel admitted under oath that Cassidy Hutchinson, the committee's star witness, relied on secondhand hearsay instead of firsthand evidence when she testified about Trump's conduct after the 2020 election. It gets better. |
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| The J6 Pipebomber Explains His
Motive, and The Left Won’t Be Happy Matt Margolis Cole told investigators he followed the 2020 election controversy on YouTube and Reddit after things "started happening" and felt "bewildered" by what he saw. But it wasn't just one side that captured his attention. He believed that both major parties were ignoring legitimate concerns from voters who felt something was wrong. The real trigger? How both parties were dismissing and labeling those concerns. "I really don't like either party at this point," Cole told agents when they asked him why he targeted both the RNC and DNC. He wasn't some Trump cultist. He was angry at everyone in charge. |
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| 40 Examples of Fake News in 2025 James D. Agresti  For
the purpose of media accountability, Just Facts has summarized 40
misleading claims spread by journalists, commentators, and so-called
fact checkers during 2025. Each example quotes a specific media outlet,
but the vast bulk of these falsehoods and half-truths were spread by
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| Growing Concerns About ‘Activist
Judges’ Intensify Calls for Structural Reforms Long-simmering conservative concerns about so-called “activist judges” have intensified in recent months, as a number of federal district court judges have repeatedly blocked major executive branch initiatives and reshaped national policy through judicial orders. Critics argue such rulings exceed the proper role of the judiciary and concentrate outsized power in the hands of individual trial-level judges. The debate has renewed calls for intervention by the Supreme Court’s leadership and for legislative reforms that would curb judicial authority. |
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| The Unreported Story of Grid Scale
Battery Fires Francis Menton The geniuses who are planning New York’s energy future think that they can make intermittent wind and solar generators work to power the electrical grid by the simple device of providing some battery storage. The idea is that when there is abundant wind and sun, they can store up the power for use during those calm and dark periods in the winter. How much battery storage will that take? It’s a simple arithmetic calculation, but none of our supposed experts have taken the trouble to crunch the numbers. |
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| There’s a Reason Electricity Prices
Have Been Rising. And It’s Not Data Centers. Shannon Osaka Over the past few months, Americans have looked aghast at their rising electricity bills – in New Jersey, for example, prices have risen 19 percent just in the last year – and found one clear scapegoat: data centers. As these energy-sucking operations proliferate, the thinking goes, they require more and more electricity, pushing prices up for everyone from big companies to small households. The argument has become a political flash point. In Virginia, the Democratic candidate for governor, Abigail Spanberger, has said she will push data centers “to pay their own way and their fair share.” Last week, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) wrote on X: “These data centers are massive electricity hogs. … Somebody has to pay for it all – and don’t believe any politician who says it won’t ultimately be you.” |
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| Hochul Must Reveal the “ruinous
cost” of the Climate Act David Wojick New York Governor Hochul has been saying for months that the regulations required by law to meet the Climate Act will be ruinously costly to New Yorkers. The draft regs were reportedly finished a year ago. The Governor must be citing their official cost assessment. So where are the numbers? Why has Hochul not released the cost numbers so New Yorkers can see who gets hammered and how much? Keeping these ruinous cost numbers secret is outrageous. It should be an election issue. |
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| Trump Energy Department Scuttles Planned Closures of 2 Indiana Coal Plants The Trump administration on Wednesday issued emergency orders to keep two set-to-be-shuttered coal plants in Indiana running through the end of the year, providing a lifeline to a favored industry while arguing it would ensure people with secure and affordable electricity. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced the orders directing the Northern Indiana Public Service Company and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator to take steps to ensure the F.B. Culley and R.M. Schahfer generating stations in Indiana are available to operate. |
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| Dem-Run States Are Gouging Their
Residents with Sky-High Electricity Rates Betsy McCaughey Your electricity bill reveals a stark political divide: Red-state residents pay less, while blue states gouge their citizens and businesses with exorbitant electric rates. But even worse are the bald-faced lies of blue-state politicians who defend the gouging. Instead of admitting that expensive electricity is a choice they’re deliberately making – your budget be damned – they constantly claim wind and solar power are “affordable” and “reliable.” |
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| High Electricity Prices Are a
Choice Blue States Make Every Day Isaac Orr & Tom Pyle Americans are anxious about their utility bills – and with good reason. Three quarters of U.S. residents are concerned about their electricity and gas bills rising this year, and 80% feel powerless over how much they are charged for utilities. For nearly two-thirds of U.S. billpayers, simply keeping the lights on has become a growing source of financial stress. Those concerns are grounded in reality. U.S. electricity prices rose 27% during the Biden administration and another 11% between January and September 2025. Yet despite a national narrative eager to blame President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the real drivers of high electricity prices are far closer to home. |
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| $5B in ‘Questionable’ Rental
Assistance Under Biden Revealed – Including to Thousands of ‘Deceased
Tenants’ and Non-Citizens HUD officials said a “large concentration” of the suspicious payments went to New York, California and Washington, DC, with dead recipients getting at least some funds in all 50 states – in what federal officials are calling widespread abuse of taxpayers’ dollars under the Biden administration. “A massive abuse of taxpayer dollars not only occurred under President [Joe] Biden’s watch, but was effectively incentivized by his administration’s failure to implement strong financial controls resulting in billions worth of potential improper payments,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a statement. |
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| ‘Ten-year stain:’ Bondi Asks
Prosecutors to Probe Obama-Biden Lawfare as Criminal Conspiracy John Solomon Attorney General Pam Bondi told Just the News that she has asked prosecutors to investigate the Obama-Biden era of lawfare as an ongoing election-meddling conspiracy that protected Democrats from criminal investigation and infringed the civil rights of Republicans like President Donald Trump and his supporters. Recovering from eye surgery, Bondi made the revelation in written answers Sunday to questions submitted by Just the News, signaling she agrees with FBI Director Kash Patel, who earlier this year penned a memo predicating an investigation looking at the weaponization of intelligence of law-enforcement powers dating to the Russia collusion case as an ongoing conspiracy. |
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| California’s Open-Carry Gun Ban Blown Up in Major Second Amendment Ruling A federal appeals court dealt a major blow to California’s gun laws Friday, ruling the state’s open-carry ban in most populated areas violates the Second Amendment because it cannot be justified under the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. In a 2–1 decision, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said California’s restriction on openly carrying firearms fails the Supreme Court’s modern Second Amendment test, which requires gun regulations to align with how firearms were regulated at the time of the nation’s founding. |
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| Federal Appellate Court Okays
Planned Parenthood Funding Halt A three-judge panel on Tuesday overturned an injunction that stopped the Trump administration from halting Medicaid funding for abortion provider Planned Parenthood. Officials for Planned Parenthood said the measure targeted it and forced the closure of 20 Planned Parenthood centers since the act took effect in July. Without legal intervention, Planned Parenthood officials said they might close up to 200 centers that are located in states controlled by Democrats and that allow abortion services to be provided. |
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| Harvard Professor Calls Out
University’s ‘Exclusion of White Males’ in Scathing Public Resignation A history professor who has taught at Harvard for 40 years is publicly calling out the Ivy League school over race-based hiring and admissions policies, a “shocking indifference” to antisemitism, and for its eroding commitment to teaching students about Western history. James Hankins wrote in a Compact Magazine essay titled “Why I’m Leaving Harvard” that his decision was largely influenced by the school’s abandonment of merit in favor of diversity quotas, which he said entirely changed “the way we conducted our affairs,” leaving extraordinary candidates behind if they did not have Harvard’s desired skin color or gender. |
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| HUD Audit Reveals $5.8 Billion in
Potentially Improper Rental Assistance Payments Under Biden There was a “significant misuse” of taxpayer funds under the Biden administration concerning rental assistance, which resulted in potential payment errors of nearly $5.8 billion, the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said in a statement on Dec. 30. The findings were made after HUD’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer examined all Project-Based Rental Assistance and Tenant-Based Rental Assistance payments made by the agency in 2024 using advanced data analytics for the first time. |
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| ACLU Transgender Chief Admits Legal
Defeat Due to Trump Admin, Now Calls for 'Stealth Strategy' Noah Stanton For years, Americans watched as radical gender ideology marched through institutions with seemingly unstoppable momentum – courtrooms, classrooms, corporate boardrooms, even military barracks. Parents who questioned why their children were being taught to reject biological reality were labeled bigots. Women who objected to men in their locker rooms were silenced... But something has shifted ... the machinery that once steamrolled opposition is grinding to a halt, and the architects of this social experiment are finally admitting what millions of Americans already knew: they’ve lost. |
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| Detransitioner Chloe Cole Shares
Complications After Gender Procedures: 'I am grieving' Medical victim Chloe Cole was at the center of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Thursday announcement of proposed regulatory actions to end "sex-rejecting procedures" on minors. The proposed regulatory actions by the HHS are part of President Donald Trump's January executive order calling on the department to protect children from "chemical and surgical mutilation." The department is rolling out a series of policy updates and regulatory actions that would effectively defund hospitals that provide gender transition procedures, according to an HHS official. |
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Week ending 28 December 2025 |
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| Why Do Pessimistic
Pundits Keep Getting Trump's Economy So Wrong? Stephen Moore Even more surprising than the blockbuster 4.3% economic growth rate recorded in the third quarter of 2025 was the fact that some 90% of the nation’s professional economists got it all wrong. These economic whiz-kids’ faulty forecast comes on the heels of their predictions last week that inflation was going to be above 3%. Instead, the actual number was 2.7%. Welcome to the gang that can’t shoot straight. |
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| Trump Administration
Halts $5.5 Million in Federal Funds to Minnesota Amid Scandal Noah Stanton Let’s be honest about the deal we make with the government. We, the American people, agree to hand over a portion of our hard-earned money. In exchange, we expect our leaders to guard that treasure with the seriousness it deserves. It’s a simple, foundational contract: don’t waste our money and don’t let criminals steal it. But in the sprawling administrative states run by liberal politicians, they treat that pact like trash. They build bloated, unaccountable bureaucracies where oversight is a dirty word. |
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| Yes, Democrats, Trump Does Own This
Economy I & I Editorial Board Timing is everything in humor, and in politics. So, it was particularly amusing to read a piece in MS NOW on Monday quoting Democrats who were all singing from the same hymnal – namely that President Donald Trump “owns the economy.” Obviously, these Democrats meant it in a bad way. But then, on Tuesday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its estimate for GDP growth in the third quarter: a blistering 4.3%. That was well ahead of economists’ expectations, and comes on top of a 3.8% growth in the second quarter. |
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| U.S. Economy Sets 2-Year High for
Growth, Exceeding Analysts' Expectations by More Than 40% The U.S. economy grew at a surprisingly strong 4.3% annual rate in the third quarter, the most rapid expansion in two years, driven by consumers who continue to spend in the face of ongoing inflation. U.S. gross domestic product from July through September – the economy’s total output of goods and services – rose from its 3.8% growth rate in the April-June quarter, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in a report delayed by the government shutdown. Economists surveyed by the data firm FactSet forecast growth of just 3% in the period. |
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| Americans Will Get 'gigantic' Tax
Refund Next Year, Treasury Secretary Says Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicted that Americans will see "gigantic" refund checks in the upcoming filing season, thanks to tax cuts in President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Bessent, who also serves as the acting commissioner of the IRS, made the remark during an appearance on the "All-In Podcast." The treasury secretary told the hosts that the tax provisions in the act, which Trump signed in July, applied retroactively to the beginning of the year, and because most workers did not change their withholdings, many can expect sizable refunds in 2026. |
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| Walz Under Fire As Minnesota Mayors
Sound Alarm on 'Financial Disaster' Ahead A group of 98 Minnesota mayors raised concerns with state leaders in a letter about their state's fiscal policies, saying they have impacted their cities and residents, noting a disappearing $18 billion surplus and a projected $2.9 billion to $3 billion deficit for the 2028-29 biennium. "Fraud, unchecked spending, and inconsistent fiscal management in St. Paul have trickled down to our cities – reducing our capacity to plan responsibly, maintain infrastructure, hire and retain employees, and sustain core services without overburdening local taxpayers," the letter states. |
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| Media ‘complicity’ Blamed As Feds
Say Minnesota Fraud Crisis Could Reach $9B: 'Shown their true colors' Andrew Miller Minnesota’s sprawling fraud crisis has garnered national headlines in recent weeks, but several critics say the problem festered for years, aided by local media that appeared uninterested in holding people in power accountable. "In newsrooms, they’re told, ‘We can’t run that because we’re going to be accused of being racist,’" Townhall columnist Dustin Grage recently told Fox News Digital about news outlets in Minnesota essentially enabling the fraud by not calling out shocking taxpayer waste occurring primarily within the local Somali community. |
"The Minnesota Star Tribune masquerades as a newspaper" –columnist Miranda Devine |
| Tim Walz Gets More Bad News from
Feds After Massive Fraud Scandal Exposed  Democrat
Gov. Tim Walz just had millions of federal dollars cut off from the
Small Business Administration (SBA) to his state, due to the
multi-billion-dollar fraud scandal that occurred under the governor’s
nose. SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler sent a letter to Walz on
Tuesday, telling the governor that her agency will “halt” more than
$5.5 million in annual support in the state “until further notice,” Fox
News reported. “This action is the result of a fundamental breakdown in
the public trust,” she said. “Under your leadership, Minnesota failed
to safeguard taxpayer dollars, and SBA will not continue to place
federal resources at risk in a state where oversight measures are
ignored and accountability is abandoned.” |
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| Walz Slammed in Wake of Viral Video
That Raises Daycare Funding Questions: 'Needs to Be Held Accountable' Politicians took to social media Saturday to criticize Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after a viral video raised questions about a Minneapolis daycare center that allegedly received millions of dollars in state funding despite appearing largely inactive. Responding to an X post highlighting allegations of Somali Medicaid fraud and voter fraud in the state, Vice President JD Vance described the situation as "a microcosm of the immigration fraud in our system. Politicians like it because they get power. Welfare cheats like it because they get rich," Vance wrote. "But it's a zero sum game, and they're stealing both money and political power from Minnesotans." |
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| HHS Report Finds Medicaid Paid Over
$200 Million in Incorrect Payments for Deceased Recipients A Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General report released Tuesday found that Medicaid improperly paid over $200 million to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for patients who had already died. The internal watchdog said its audit found that Medicaid programs paid $207 million to managed care organizations on behalf of deceased enrollees between July 2021 to July 2022. The proper death dates of the enrollees were recorded in the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File. |
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| UK Flag Clash As Foreign Banners
Fly, Citizens Push Back Against Woke Policies Reshaping Britain  A
battle over British identity and the nation's flag is just the latest
issue to widen the political divide in the United Kingdom in 2025. As
the Labour government continues to face growing criticism over a number
of issues, from cracking down on free speech to its migration policies,
many Britons are concerned about their country's future. The issue
simmered over the summer amid concerns of a growing rift between the
ruling elites and members of the public centered on the nation’s flag.
The debate, while ongoing for several years, gained new life since
anti-Israel protests erupted after Hamas’ mass terror attack against
Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, when Britain saw a proliferation of Palestinian
flags across the country. |
Brits should have been less woke years ago, IMHO. |
| DOGE Says 55 Contracts Worth $863
Million Canceled in Past 5 Days The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) stated that federal agencies have terminated or scaled back 55 contracts over the past five days, eliminating an estimated $261 million in spending tied to what the task force described as wasteful or duplicative services. The canceled and descoped contracts had a combined ceiling value of $863 million, DOGE stated in a Dec. 22 social media post announcing its latest update... DOGE has estimated a total savings of more than $214 Billion since its creation, an amount it says equates to roughly $1,329 per taxpayer. |
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| Avast, Me Hearties! Lawmakers Want
Congress to Issue 'Letters of Marque' to Go After Cartel Drug Boats Rick Moran  Sen.
Mike Lee (R-Utah) wants to revive an ancient and honorable custom:
grant Congress the authority to issue Letters of Marque that would
allow U.S. citizens and others to legally interdict drug boats and
other cartel-owned ships and property, to be sold off. At least some of
the proceeds would go to the "privateers." The idea of giving Letters
of Marque to employ private citizens to police the oceans isn't new. As
recently as Sept. 11, 2001, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) introduced a bill
to grant Letters of Marque that would have legally allowed American
citizens to go after Osama Bin Laden and his assets. |
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| Migrant Truckers Sue California DMV
Over Canceled Commercial Drivers' Licenses The California DMV is facing a lawsuit brought on behalf of nearly 20,000 immigrant truckers over the state's plans to revoke their commercial drivers' licenses (CDLs). The Asian Law Caucus and the Sikh Coalition, along with the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in an effort to stop the California DMV from canceling the CDLs, which the complaint says would "result in mass work stoppages" starting Jan 5, 2026. |
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| America’s Energy Economy: Why Natural Gas and Nuclear Still Matter Timothy G. Nash, Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn, Bob Thomas, Thomas Rastin Energy debates in America are often framed as a choice between the future and the past. But when it comes to the U.S. economy, that framing misses a crucial reality: reliable energy is not just an environmental or geopolitical issue, it is an economic one. And today, natural gas and nuclear energy remain a key foundation to American prosperity. When all impacts are included (both direct and indirect), the oil and natural gas industry contributes between $2.0 trillion and $2.4 trillion to U.S. Gross Domestic Product, representing roughly 7 to 8% of the total economy. Natural gas alone accounts for more than half of that share. These are not speculative numbers; they are derived from multiple methodologies from trusted resources. |
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| Republican Officials Warn Climate
Group to Stop Its ‘Assault’ on the American Economy Over a dozen Republican attorneys general warned a leftist climate group that it may be illegally attempting to eliminate fossil fuels from the American economy, according to a letter obtained by The Daily Wire. “As You Sow, a little-known but influential member of the climate cartel, is attempting to eliminate the fossil-fuel industry, which will have a devastating impact on Montanans, especially in the winter when we need fossil fuels to heat our homes,” Knudsen told The Daily Wire. “Their efforts to push their green, woke agenda and box out the fossil-fuel industry appear to be a violation of antitrust and Montana consumer protection laws.” |
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| Destroying Countrysides to Save
Earth from a Climate Non-Crisis Paul Driessen Energy analyst Robert Bryce maintains a database showing that, as of November 2025, local communities have rejected or restricted 595 wind, 475 solar and (more recently) 72 large-scale battery projects. Many don’t want the installations blanketing wildlife habitats, scenic vistas, croplands or their backyard viewsheds; especially when the unreliable electricity is exported to faraway, power-hungry, virtue-signaling cities; and particularly when they are expected to help pay for installations and transmission lines that serve another state... Voters and ratepayers need to wake up to these realities – and vote ideologues out of power before they destroy the planet in misguided attempts to save it. |
300-megawatt battery inferno at Moss Landing, California. |
| Trump Admin Pauses 5 Wind Turbine
Projects Over ‘National Security Risks’ As Interfering with Military Radar Specifically, the federal government cited “clutter” from the motion of the “massive turbine blades” and the “highly reflective towers,” according to a press release from the Interior Department. “Today’s action addresses emerging national security risks, including the rapid evolution of the relevant adversary technologies, and the vulnerabilities created by large-scale offshore wind projects with proximity near our east coast population centers. Interior Sec. Burgum said that “ONE natural gas pipeline supplies as much energy as these 5 projects COMBINED.” The Trump administration will always prioritize the security of the American people,” he continued. |
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| Democrats’ Push for Epstein Files
Boomeranged with Clinton Featured Prominently Throughout Democrats' push for the release of documents surrounding convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein through a House vote appears to have backfired, as the disclosures intended to scrutinize Team Trump have instead spotlighted their own party's connections, including former President Bill Clinton's prominent mentions and salacious photos with the disgraced financier and/or young women. Clinton had long been married to Hillary Clinton at the time the photos were taken. |
DOJ
Cautions Newly Released Files Contain 'unfounded and false' Claims |
| U.S. Black Ops Plane Annihilates Drug Boat in Wild Combat Footage The United States military appeared to use a highly-advanced black operations plane to ventilate a drug boat. President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are currently overseeing a massive operation against narco-terrorists. The U.S. military has conducted more than 20 lethal boat strikes, and regularly releases the footage to the public. There's also an unprecedented military build-up near Venezuela as we await possible strikes against dictator Nicolás Maduro.  |
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| Tiny Pacific Nation to Take Up to
75 Deportees As Trump Administration Accelerates Mass Removals Palau has struck a deal with the U.S. to accept up to 75 deportees from the U.S. in exchange for $7.5 million in foreign aid. The agreement will allow "third-country nationals" who have never been charged with a crime to live and work in the Pacific nation, which has a population of about 18,000 people, according to announcements Wednesday from President Surangel Whipps Jr.’s office and the U.S. Embassy in Koror. |
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| Bondi Beach Shows That You Can’t
Buy a Gun Culture Paul G. Markel Once more, the entire world has witnessed the failure of citizen disarmament policy, at least regarding the promise of safety from violence. Yes, I am speaking of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack that claimed fifteen dead and wounded forty. It has been ten years since a spate of terror attacks in Germany, the aftermath of which had the German people scrambling for tools to defend themselves. We recall headlines such as “Germans Call for Gun Rights” or “German Right-Wing Backs Right to Arms.” Of course, at the time, we shook our heads knowing full well what was actually going to happen. The socialists running Germany used the terrorist attacks as an excuse to exercise even more control over the citizens. Now, just as the definition of insanity has foretold, the Australian government has vowed to enact even stricter regulations on civilian firearms ownership. |
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| Ice Arrests 100+ Illegal Alien
Truckers in Major Sweep After Deadly Crashes Across Multiple States U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 100 illegal alien truck drivers on California highways in Operation Highway Sentinel, launched after a string of deadly crashes linked to commercial driving licenses (CDLs) issued under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s policies. Federal authorities said the sweep was launched after multiple fatal crashes across several states involving illegal alien truck drivers licensed in California, underscoring growing concerns that the state’s commercial licensing policies are putting motorists nationwide at risk. |
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| DHS Arrests Over 17,500 Criminal
Illegal Immigrants Under Laken Riley Act The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has arrested and detained more than 17,500 criminal illegal immigrants under the Laken Riley Act, the department said in a Dec. 24 statement. The Laken Riley Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Jan. 29, in honor of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Hope Riley from Georgia, who was murdered by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant in February 2024. |
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| Dogs on Meth, 'binge drinking
ferrets' Featured in Rand Paul's Festivus Report on Wasteful Spending The federal government spent tens of millions of dollars on gruesome and pointless experiments on animals from dogs to dolphins, according to 2025's "Festivus" report by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., which uses the Seinfeld-invented Dec. 23 holiday to catalog more than $1.6 trillion in what he perceives as wasteful government spending. Paul especially highlights animal experiments in the report, which credits investigations by the anti-animal testing White Coat Waste Project for bringing several to his attention. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth also credited WCW and Paul with exposing the Navy's sodomization of cats in last year's Festivus report. |
Biden reinstated program cut by first Trump admin allowing funds to be used again for this "research" |
| California Attorney General Joins
Coalition to Protect Trans Youth in Sports California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined 12 Democratic attorneys general on Tuesday, submitting an amicus brief opposing a legal challenge to Minnesota’s policies that allow transgender athletes to participate in female sports. The brief was submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in Female Athletes United v. Ellison. The case challenges Minnesota’s statewide policy permitting transgender athletes to compete in female sports. The brief argues that Title IX’s prohibition on sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity. It said excluding transgender athletes would violate the statute. |
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| Education Department to Start
Garnishing Wages Next Year for Those Who Defaulted on Student Loans The Trump administration ended the pause on student loan repayments in May that began during the COVID-19 pandemic, and began collecting on the debts by withholding tax refunds and other federal payments to those in default. The department said that it will begin sending notices to approximately 1,000 defaulted borrowers in the first week of January. The number of notices will then increase each month. There are currently 5 million borrowers in default. |
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| Justice Served: Oklahoma TA Fired After Punishing Student for Citing the Bible In the progressive hierarchy of protected classes, there’s one group that never quite makes the list. You can mock them, fail them, call their beliefs “offensive” – and until recently, face zero consequences. Christians, it turns out, have always been fair game on the modern college campus. Funny how that works, isn’t it? At the University of Oklahoma, a junior named Samantha Fulnecky learned this lesson the hard way. In her psychology class, students were assigned to write a response to a scholarly article about gender norms among adolescents. The assignment asked for a “thoughtful discussion” – and notably, the rubric did not require empirical evidence. Fulnecky, a woman of faith, responded thoughtfully. |
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Week ending 21 December 2025 |
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| Mogadishu
on the Mississippi Michael Smith One morning’s musings circled back to Minnesota... What’s unfolding there is not simply a local embarrassment but a revealing glimpse into how the modern Democrat political machine now operates. The state’s leadership, from Attorney General Keith Ellison to Representative Ilhan Omar to Governor Tim Walz ... treats the widening scandal over massive misappropriation of federal funds as little more than a minor cultural misunderstanding. Estimated losses run into the billions. Federal dollars evaporated into an ecosystem of shell organizations, sham nonprofits, and opportunistic intermediaries while state officials looked the other way. The Minnesota Mogadishu dynamic, as it’s beginning to look, is less an aberration than a microcosm of the Democrat Party’s national strategy. |
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| Incentivized
Entitlement Fraud Thomas Gallatin As the national debt topped $38 trillion thanks to decades of profligate deficit spending, the federal budget in the past fiscal year hit $7 trillion. A large portion of federal spending is on government programs of income redistribution -- taking money from some Americans and giving it to other Americans (or, all too often now, non-Americans). This is not constitutional, and the wisdom of this “charity” is, at best, debatable. America is a generous nation, but the demand for generosity as if it were a “deserved” right is no longer generosity; it has become an entitlement. Over time, the notion has emerged that people who do not work are entitled to compensation simply because they “need” it to survive. |
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| Trump Economist Predicts ‘Biggest Refund Cycle Ever,’ Massive Checks Ahead A leading contender to become President Trump’s next Federal Reserve chair said the administration expects larger tax refunds and higher take-home pay next year, as many Americans continue to express concerns about affordability. "We are going to see the biggest refund cycle ever in the history of America, and people are going to get massive refund checks," Kevin Hassett said in an interview on FOX Business' "Varney & Co." on Thursday. "We're expecting just that part of it alone to be worth a couple-thousand-dollar refund … the numbers are striking." |
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| House Republicans Pass Reforms to Lower Health Care Premiums and Restore Accountability U.S. House Committee on the Budget House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) released the following statement after Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act – a targeted package of reforms designed to lower premium costs for all Americans, expand access to affordable coverage, and increase transparency to drive down prices across the health care system. "The law Democrats promised would make health care affordable did the opposite. Thanks to the (un)Affordable Care Act, premiums and deductibles have doubled, choices have decreased, all while 20 percent of claims are denied. Americans are paying more for less. The COVID-era expansion of Obamacare subsidies only made matters worse, driving up costs and padding the pockets of insurers and middlemen. |
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| HHS Demands Accounting from
Minnesota to Prove Feds' Money Didn't 'Fuel Illegal and Mass Migration' Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and the allegedly fraudulent nonprofit Feeding Our Future received demand letters from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a probe of whether federal money was used to "fuel illegal and mass migration" in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, an HHS official told the New York Post. The letters from Administration for Children and Families Assistant Secretary Alex Adams seek a "comprehensive list" of state entities funded by $8.6 billion in federal dollars and more than 1,000 grants from fiscal year 2019 to 2025, due Dec. 26. Minnesota got more than $690 million for safety net programs in President Biden's final fiscal year, the Post said. |
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| Media ‘complicity’ Blamed As Feds
Say Minnesota Fraud Crisis Could Reach $9B: 'Shown Their True Colors' Minnesota’s sprawling fraud crisis has garnered national headlines in recent weeks, but several critics say the problem festered for years, aided by local media that appeared uninterested in holding people in power accountable. "In newsrooms, they’re told, ‘We can’t run that because we’re going to be accused of being racist,’" Townhall columnist Dustin Grage recently told Fox News Digital about news outlets in Minnesota essentially enabling the fraud by not calling out shocking taxpayer waste occurring primarily within the local Somali community. On Thursday, federal prosecutors held a press conference where they revealed that the true scope of the fraud scandal could end up costing taxpayers around $9 billion. |
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| The
Sordid Tale of Ilhan Omar Continues Michael Swartz The pride of Somalia, Representative Ilhan Omar, has been on our radar screen for a while, dogged by a tangled web of accusations of tax evasion and immigration fraud that have clung to her ever since she became Little Mogadishu’s congressional representative nearly seven years ago. (Seems like 70.) You might remember that I got the ball rolling by noting, “The filing of improper tax returns only scratches the surface. Rumors have swirled around Omar’s marriage to [her brother Ahmed Nur Said] Elmi: that it was a sham in order to allow Elmi … to fraudulently enter the country... Then, just a couple of months later, we found out she had cheated on her husband and broken up another marriage, meanwhile enriching the new husband with $230,000 in campaign funds. These comments inspired Senator Ted Cruz to claim, “If this [allegation of marrying her brother to skirt immigration laws] is true, then Omar faces criminal liability under three different statutes,” citing immigration law, tax evasion law, and state law against incest. |
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| Stop the Fraud, Save the System: Minnesota Shows Why Enforcement Matters Samantha Koch From housing assistance to nutritional aid, program after program appears to have been exploited, siphoning millions – if not billions – from taxpayers. What’s most alarming is the growing evidence that this wasn’t merely negligence but a breakdown in accountability so severe that it was allowed to flourish under the watch of state leadership, including the governor himself. This scandal now sits at the center of a broader national debate with several questions that need to be answered: How did this happen? What does it mean for America’s immigration policies moving forward? Is it possible to reestablish a firm expectation for those coming into our country? |
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| Biden Border Crisis Fallout: Terror
Gang Tren de Aragua Charged in Massive ATM Malware Scheme Federal prosecutors say the Biden-era border crisis produced one of the most brazen cybercrime cases in years. The Department of Justice charged 54 alleged members of the Venezuelan terror gang Tren de Aragua with using sophisticated malware to loot millions from U.S. ATMs and funnel the cash back to their criminal network. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nebraska unsealed two sweeping indictments charging 54 individuals for their alleged roles in a nationwide ATM “jackpotting” conspiracy tied to the violent Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua (TdA). Prosecutors say the group deployed sophisticated malware to force ATMs across the United States to dispense cash, stealing millions of dollars and funneling the proceeds back to TdA leadership. |
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| FBI Memos Detail a Half Dozen
Pay-To-Play Allegations Involving Hillary Clinton and Her Foundation Internal investigative files show FBI agents and federal prosecutors attempted to investigate a wide range of activities involving the State Department under then-Secretary of State Clinton a decade ago, including whether foreign donations made to the Clinton Foundation were used as improper influence on U.S. foreign policy. The FBI and DOJ inquiries were repeatedly shut down by FBI and DOJ leadership. The documents turned over by FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi show that career agents and line prosecutors at the FBI and DOJ believed the Clinton Foundation saga may have been a criminal one, but orders from leaders such as then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe slow-walked and stonewalled the inquiry to the point where it was hobbled. |
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| FBI Repeatedly Warned DOJ Didn't
Have Probable Cause to Raid Trump Home: 'Not been corroborated' The FBI in summer 2022 raised repeated objections to raiding Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, warning agents did not believe the Biden Justice Department had enough evidence to establish "probable cause" that the then-former president had broken the law in handling classified documents, according to bombshell memos turned over Tuesday to Congress. "WFO [FBI's Washington Field Office] has conducted approximately [Redacted] interviews related to this matter. Very little has been developed related to who might be culpable for mishandling the documents," a June 1, 2022 FBI memo declared. "From the interviews, WFO has gathered information suggesting that there may be additional boxes (presumably of the same type as were sent back to NARA [National Archives] in January) at Mar-a-Lago." |
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| 'We Don't Dispute' It: Georgia 315k
Vote Bombshell Blows a Big Hole in 2020's 'Most Secure Election' Lie A Georgia State Election Board investigation substantiated that Fulton County violated election rules in 2020 by failing to have poll workers sign required tabulation tapes for early votes in 36 out of 37 advanced voting precincts, affecting approximately 315,000 ballots. These unsigned tapes broke the chain-of-custody and certification requirements under Georgia law, which mandates signed tapes as the sole legal proof of authentic vote totals. |
"These are not clerical errors" |
| There’s No Evidence Australia’s Strict Gun Control Laws Are Effective John R. Lott Jr. Democrats in the United States repeatedly praise Australia’s 1996 gun confiscation law as a successful model to emulate, while many Australians -- especially after the Bondi Beach terror attack earlier this week -- argue that the confiscation helped but failed to go far enough. Yet the supposed benefits of this policy rest on deeply flawed statistical analysis... Economists also note that people can substitute other methods for suicide or homicide, which makes total deaths more informative than firearm-specific counts. By that measure, the results look even worse. Immediately after the [Australian] confiscation, total suicides jumped by roughly 20 percent and remained at or above pre-confiscation levels. A decade later, firearm homicides had declined slightly, but total homicides had increased. |
Only policy to reduce number and severity of mass shootings was armed citizens permitted to carry concealed handguns. |
| Australians Arrest More Bondi
‘Violent Plotters,’ Looks Like Another Islamist Cell Catherine Salgado A few days after two ISIS-linked terrorists massacre more than a dozen Jews at a Hanukkah party on an Australian beach, police there have arrested another set of men whom they simply describe as suspected of a violent plot. But they might be hiding one key factor. The same Aussie police who were claiming they hadn’t identified a motive for the two Muslims, who drove up in a car festooned with Islamic State flags specifically to murder families at a Jewish holiday celebration, are also being very carefully vague about this latest arrest. But if video shared online is accurate, it appears this might have been another Islamic terrorist plot. |
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| National Science Foundation to
Break Up Major U.S. Climate Research Center in Colorado White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said Wednesday that the National Science Foundation will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. The White House said it plans to identify and eliminate "green new scam research activities" during an upcoming review of the center in Boulder, according to USA Today, but critical functions will be moved to another location. "This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country," Vought said on X. |
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| Ford EVs – Found On Road Dead Brian Mark Weber During Joe Biden’s presidency, electric vehicles seemed all the rage. Back in 2021, he rode around the South Lawn of the White House and later jumped aboard a Ford F-150 Lightning for a photo op, excited over the smooth ride and quick acceleration. They also said it was good for the environment, quietly forgetting that part about relying on other countries to dig up the earth for rare minerals we don’t have, the energy it takes to make a battery, and the toxic chemicals that leak after disposal. In reality, though, Americans weren’t clamoring for more EVs.  |
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| The Electric Vehicle Collapse: Wow,
That Was Quick! Francis Menton It was less than three years ago -- early 2023 -- that I was writing about the then-universal government and industry line that electric vehicles (EVs) would soon be taking over the American car market. In April 2022 the Biden Administration had adopted aggressive vehicle mileage standards intended to be achievable only through rapid transition to EVs. Our “climate leader” states, California and New York, had then adopted regulations in August and September 2022, respectively, mandating a phase-out of sales of combustion vehicles, to culminate in 2035, after which only EVs would be allowed... The past few weeks have brought a lot of news on the EV front. The short version is that even I would not have predicted how quickly and completely the EV fantasy has collapsed. |
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| California 2025: Massive Blackout
Hits San Francisco Leaving Waymos Stuck at Intersections Bob Hoge California is famous for its weather – with good reason. Right now, as we get closer to Christmas, it’s 70 degrees and sunny, and I’ve got my office door wide open to the glorious day. Of course, we have plenty to endure here, too: earthquakes, ridiculous taxes, a corrupt and inefficient one-party state government led by a man (Gov. Gavin Newsom) more interested in pushing a woke agenda than he is about improving the lives of residents, rampant homelessness… You get the idea. And now, just in time for the holidays, San Franciscans were gifted a massive blackout that left over a hundred thousand people without power and caused Waymo self-driving taxis to literally stop in their tracks in the middle of the street. No bueno. |
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| New Patriot Interceptors to Allow
for “Over-The-Shoulder” Shots at Passing Targets A combination of new interceptors and launchers is set to give the Patriot surface-to-air missile system an “over-the-shoulder” engagement capability, the U.S. Army has disclosed. What this means is that future Patriot systems will have critical additional flexibility to engage threats, even ones that may have already passed overhead. This is something the system cannot currently do without physically reorienting its launchers, creating challenges in various intercept scenarios.  |
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| This Will Be the Navy’s New FF(X)
Frigate The U.S. Navy has confirmed its decision to acquire a new FF(X) frigate with a design based on the U.S. Coast Guard’s Legend class National Security Cutter, though there are immediate questions about its expected configuration. The new warships, the first of which is set to be launched in 2028, are intended to fill the gap left by the cancellation of the abortive Constellation class frigate program.  |
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| RFK
Throws Down the Gauntlet on Gender Mutilation Nate Jackson Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one of Donald Trump’s disrupters, and his job at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been to undo the leftist orthodoxy among Washington’s health experts. That cultish dogma led to the tyrannical and scientifically dubious COVID response, among other things. It also accepts the gender mutilation of children, but RFK is putting the kibosh on that child abuse. |
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| House Passes Legislation That Makes
Performing Transgender Surgeries on Minors a Felony The House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday night that makes it a felony for doctors to perform transgender surgeries and procedures on minors, despite heavy opposition from over 200 House Democrats. The legislation, titled the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, passed in a 216-211 vote, which saw 207 House Democrats and four moderate House Republicans object to it. Three House Democrats joined with their Republican counterparts to pass it. |
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| University of Illinois Lesson
Materials Push Leftist Race, Class Struggles on Future Teachers: Leaked Lectures Peter D'Abrosca More leaked PowerPoint lectures from a first-year University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign class show left-wing ideology woven into the fabric of the course. Fox News Digital obtained course material from weeks six and nine of EDUC 201, "Identity and Difference in Education," from a concerned student. The course is taken by future teachers, and is part of the university's education department. |
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| Clinical
Director Who Released Deranged Macy's Stabber Has Own History of Mental
Illness, Relied on Advice from Temp Psychiatrist Tina Moore, Rich Calder, David Spector The penny-pinching Manhattan Psychiatric Center administrator who greenlit the release of the deranged Macy’s stabber has a long history of mental illness herself – and made her decision on the recommendation of a “temporary” shrink, The Post has learned. Caitlin Stork, clinical director of the center on Wards Island, tried to kill herself twice as a teen and battled bipolar disorder, which was treated with lithium and the antipsychotic Seroquel, she told the Charlotte Observer in 2003. |
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| What Somalis Have Done
for Minnesota $1.5B in fraud, $67 million in taxes. Daniel Greenfield “Somali Immigrants Are Revitalizing Main Street America,” NBC News claimed. A barrage of similar stories hailed Somalis and other Muslim migrants for ‘transforming’ Middle America. After President Trump’s criticism of Somali abuse, triggered by reporting of massive $1B plus frauds conducted by the David Horowitz Freedom Center and other conservative media outlets, the media has rushed out more of these same stories about Somali accomplishments. But let’s look at some of the facts. |
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| Somali Power Surge
Raises the Question Minnesota Avoids – Where's Assimilation? David Marcus, Nikolas Lanum On the main drag, you can see the skeletal remains of shuttered non-Somali businesses, such as the aptly named Midwest Mountaineering, an outerwear supplier that had stood in the location since 1970. Every newly opened business is Somali. Block by block, under the steady gaze of the 1970s brutalist Riverside towers, now populated mostly by Somalis, the neighborhood is losing its old identity and transforming into something that looks more like Africa than Minnesota, aside from the snow, of course. |
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| Trump Celebrates New All-Time High
for Stock Market, Calls Polling on Economy ‘Fake’ President Donald Trump celebrated the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting an all-time high on Thursday morning, arguing that polls showing a poor approval rating on his handling of the economy are “fake.” The Dow reached 48,661.94 shortly after the opening bell on Thursday, while the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 dropped slightly. The Dow has climbed steadily since late April after a dramatic plunge following the rollout of Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. Trump argued the new record high for the Dow is proof that his economic policies are working. “STOCK MARKET JUST HIT AN ALL-TIME HIGH!!! When will the Fake Polls show that I am doing a great job on the Economy, and much more??? Thank you!” Trump said. |
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| Rep. Tom Emmer: Ilhan Omar ‘One of the Most Duplicitous Con Artists I’ve Ever Seen’ Defending President Donald Trump’s remarks about the reality of crime and fraud in the Somali community, Emmer said, “You may not like his language, you may not agree with his approach, but you cannot argue with him actually identifying criminal conduct that is not being dealt with by Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and frankly, is being defended by one of the most duplicitous con artists I’ve ever seen in my life, Ilhan Omar.” When asked to elaborate, Emmer identified Omar as a hateful racist who encourages violence. “Oh, this gal is an anti-Semite. She’s hateful. She’s a racist. She goes to the University of Minnesota campus and essentially encourages violence against Jewish students. Then she goes on national TV, and was, ‘Oh, gosh, golly, gee whiz. You know, that Stephen Miller, he talks like Nazis used to talk.’ I mean, ignoring for a second that Stephen happens to be Jewish, right?” Emmer pointed out. |
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| Report: 81% of Minnesota’s Somali
Refugee Households Depend on Welfare, As Federal Agents Probe $250 Million Fraud Noah Stanton America has always been a generous host, but even the most patient host eventually notices when guests begin dismantling the furniture. In Minnesota, a state long celebrated for its welcoming spirit, that dismantling has reached proportions that demand honest conversation. What began as humanitarian outreach to Somali refugees fleeing civil war has evolved into something far more complex – and costly. The stark reality? While only 21 percent of native-born Minnesota households receive any form of welfare, that number soars to 81 percent for Somali refugee households. For those with children, it reaches an astounding 89 percent. These aren’t temporary assistance numbers – many of these families have been in America for over a decade. |
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| Elon Musk Accuses Ilhan Omar of
Treason Over Somalia Comments in Viral Social Media Post Elon Musk accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of committing treason over past comments in which she vowed to safeguard Somali interests in the U.S. while assuring her constituents the administration would "do what we ask it to do." The video circulated widely online and was highlighted further by the Tesla and SpaceX CEO's retweet Wednesday. Omar originally made the remarks in January 2024, when she told supporters in the Twin Cities she would fight to prevent the breakaway Republic of Somaliland from allowing Ethiopia to create a naval base on its coastline. |
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| Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson Calls National Guard Killing 'Unfortunate Accident' A senior House Democrat on Thursday called the shooting that took the life of a National Guard soldier an “unfortunate accident” and an “unfortunate situation.” Rep. Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi, the senior Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, was challenging Secretary Kristi Noem during a hearing over the process that led to the shooting suspect, an Afghan migrant, being in the U.S. During his questioning, he called the shooting, which slew one guardsman and critically wounded another, an “unfortunate accident.” |
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| Biden Allowed 18,000 Known or
Suspected Terrorists Into the U.S., Top Trump Official Reveals The Biden administration allowed roughly 18,000 known or suspected terrorists into the country, Director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent testified to the House Homeland Security Committee Thursday. Kent revealed that 2,000 of the 18,000 known or suspected terrorists were let into the country as part of the Biden administration’s program to bring Afghans to the United States following the botched troop withdrawal from the war-torn country. He also said that the 18,000 number doesn’t include the “unknown” number of terrorists the Biden administration allowed in after they crossed the border. |
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| NY Times
Columnist Claims Trump Lies About Democrats Wanting Healthcare for
Illegals – Then Admits it’s Happening Mike LaChance California Governor Gavin Newsom recently appeared on the podcast of New York Times columnist Ezra Klein. During the episode, in addition to saying that he ‘wants to see trans kids’ Newsom talked about providing healthcare for illegal aliens in his state. Ezra Klein followed up their discussion by tweeting about it, but in his tweet he says two things that completely contradict each other. He begins by saying that Trump lies about Democrats wanting healthcare for illegals. Then he says triumphantly that Gavin Newsom is actually doing it! |
Trump often lies about
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| U.S. Sanctions Nicolás Maduro's
'Narco-Nephews,' Convicted in U.S. Court but Freed by Biden The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday imposed sanctions on Efrain Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s convicted drug-trafficking nephews. Flores and Flores de Freitas were arrested and convicted of drug trafficking crimes in the United States, but released and sent back to Venezuela by former U.S. President Joe Biden in 2022. OFAC also reinstated U.S. sanctions on Carlos Erik Malpica Flores, another of Maduro’s nephews. Malpica was originally sanctioned by President Donald Trump in his first term but had his sanctions lifted by the Biden administration. |
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| Black Lives Matter Official Charged
with Money Laundering and Wire Fraud A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed Thursday in Oklahoma City charging Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson with wire fraud and money laundering, U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester announced on Thursday. The press release announcing the indictment, from the office of the U.S. Attorney in the Western District of Oklahoma, says that “beginning in at least 2016, Dickerson served as the Executive Director of Black Lives Matter OKC (BLMOKC). As Executive Director, Dickerson had access to BLMOKC’s bank, PayPal, and Cash App accounts. |
It’s Liars and Grifters all the way down. |
| Trump Admin Pulls 9,500 Truck
Drivers Off the Road for Failing English Tests Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said more than 9,500 commercial truckers have been taken out of service for failing English-language proficiency checks, a cumulative enforcement tally he said highlights an ongoing effort to keep unqualified operators from posing dangers on the nation’s roads. “We’ve now knocked 9,500 truck drivers out of service for failing to speak our national language – ENGLISH!” Duffy wrote in a Dec. 10 post on X. “This administration will always put you and your family’s safety first.” Trump’s April order scrapped an Obama-era rule under which inspectors could cite truckers for failing English requirements but were not allowed to remove them from service, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said in a May memo. |
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| Trump Administration Further
Modernizes Citizenship Verification Fred Lucas An immigration think tank is calling for Congress to consider mandating the use of a citizenship verification for voter registration after the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to make the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements more user-friendly for state and local election offices. Last week, the DHS settled a case with four states – Florida, Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio – to overhaul the citizenship verification system. The report, which the Center for Immigration Studies published Monday, characterizes the 1993 National Voter Registration Act as “fatally flawed,” claiming that it “not only facilitates vote fraud but also results in legal aliens mistakenly voting and putting themselves at risk.” |
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| Buried Treasure: Miners Discover
Massive Supply of Rare Earth Minerals in Utah A Utah-based mineral production company has stumbled upon a potentially game-changing discovery of 16 different types of rare earth elements and critical minerals in the state’s Silicon Ridge area. The discovery could potentially help America lower its reliance on China for metals vital to high-tech manufacturing. The Wall Street Journal reports that Ionic Mineral Technologies, a company focused on producing nanosilicon for lithium-ion batteries, has uncovered what could be the most significant critical mineral reserve ever discovered in the United States. The discovery, made while mining clay in Utah’s Silicon Ridge, includes high grades of 16 different rare earth minerals, ranging from lithium and alumina to germanium, rubidium, cesium, vanadium, and niobium. |
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| Democrats Are Behind Your Crippling
Electricity Bills, Report Confirms  State
policies are a monumental factor in electricity costs, and Democrat-led
states have driven prices upward through pushing aggressive mandates
and choking reliable power supply, according to a new report by the
Institute for Energy Research (IER). The new report, first provided to
the Daily Caller News Foundation, found that blue states generally have
higher electricity costs than red states. Titled “Blue States, High
Rates. Electricity Prices: Elections Have Consequences,” IER’s report
notes that all but one of the top 10 most expensive states for energy –
measured by cost per kilowatt hour – are governed by Democrats. |
High electricity prices are not an inevitability; they are a choice. |
| New Report Exposes Microsoft’s
Disturbing Ties to China Paul Bradford One of America’s major national security threats is the cozy relationship between many American corporations and the Chinese government. Microsoft is one of the worst offenders in this regard, as proven by a new report released last week. It adds to the growing evidence that the tech giant is far too close with America’s chief geopolitical foe to be trusted with handling critical infrastructure. The report, compiled by Nathan Picarsic of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Horizon Advisory, reveals a disturbing picture about the tech giant. “Over three decades, the company has built a vast commercial, research, and engineering presence in China, one that now intersects directly with the PRC’s intelligence, surveillance, and military-industrial ecosystem,” the study notes. |
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| Gabbard: 2,000 Afghan Refugees in
U.S. Have Ties to Terrorism An estimated 2,000 Afghan nationals admitted to the United States following the deadly 2021 pullout of American forces from Afghanistan have ties to terrorism, according to the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard made the astonishing revelation during an interview on Fox News Friday morning, following a tense House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem highlighted national security risks to the homeland. |
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| In Echoes of Minneapolis,
Whistleblower Says Maine Company Bilked Medicaid Dollars Just days after the Minnesota fraud ring surfaced in the national conversation, a whistleblower who worked for a health services contractor in Maine came forward in a public interview and alleged the company, Gateway Community Services, defrauded the state’s Medicaid program for years. The company was founded by Abdullahi Ali, a Somali-American who also ran for office, a position equivalent to governor, in a Somali state. At the time, he was serving as Gateway’s executive director. |
Democrat Governors refuse to turn over key data |
| Four Times As Many Illegals in NY
Prisons Than Their Share of Population New data shows that in the state of New York, a self-designated sanctuary state, illegal immigrants make up only 3.38% to 4.15% of the state’s population. Yet, when compared to the number of illegals who are incarcerated, they are overrepresented in prison and jail populations by a factor of roughly 3 to 4 times. Furthermore, the Empire State has, according to the Department of Homeland Security, released 6,947 illegal immigrants since January 20 of this year, while still holding roughly 7,100 such individuals in its prisons and jails. These incarcerated illegal aliens account for approximately 14% of the total prison population of approximately 50,803, despite comprising only 3.20% to 3.38% of the state's overall population of about 19.99 million. |
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| Illinois Legalizes
Physician-Assisted Suicide; Critics Warn of Moral, Safety Risks Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1950, prompting strong backlash from medical, disability, religious and legal groups who say it was rushed and violates key ethical and legal protections. State Rep. Bill Hauter, R-Morton, a practicing physician, said Pritzker showed signs of hesitation but ultimately “his leftist ideology took over and he signed it.” “The process… it stinks,” Hauter said. “We passed this in the dead of night, 2 a.m., with no warning to disability groups, medical ethics groups or religious groups who were strongly opposed,” said Hauter. |
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| House Chairman Says Tim Walz's
Political Career Over, Threatens Subpoena in Minnesota Fraud Probe House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., says he is willing to subpoena Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor and failed vice-presidential candidate, over a fraud scheme in his state that reportedly saw hundreds of millions of dollars routed through nonprofits to Somali immigrants and others. "If anyone that has received correspondence from us thus far requesting information, if they don't turn over that information, then they will get a subpoena. And we're serious about this. We're not going to back down," Comer warned in an interview with Just the News. |
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| ICE Nabs Dozen Criminal Illegal
Aliens in Minneapolis, Defying Woke Policy Minnesota families just learned a stomach-turning truth: their elected officials prioritize protecting criminal immigrants over keeping communities safe. While citizens worry about violent gang members and sex offenders in their neighborhoods, Democratic leaders like Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey maintain sanctuary policies that shield these dangerous individuals from federal law enforcement. The consequences of this political protection racket (yes, that’s exactly what this is) have finally come to light through a federal intervention that local leaders tried desperately to prevent. |
Sanctuary policies enabled these predators to terrorize communities |
| DOJ Sues Virginia School Board Over
Gender Ideology Policy The complaint, filed in federal court, contends that the board’s Policy 8040 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment by discriminating against students based on their religious views. The policy ensures all individuals in the school system adhere to the district’s definition of gender identity, including in restrooms and locker rooms. According to the filing, a female student at Stone Bridge High School exploited the policy to access the boys’ locker room and recorded audio and video recordings of male students. Two Christian boys objected, pointing toward their faith-based desire to use pronouns aligned with biological sex and maintaining sex-separated facilities. |
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| Trump Administration Thwarts $1
Billion in Student Aid Fraud by Uncovering Fake, Dead Applicants The Trump administration prevented $1 billion in student-loan fraud this year by increasing its identification requirements, which thwarted international rings seeking to defraud the program by submitting applications from phony students and dead people. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Thursday that the department implemented mandatory identification verification on certain first-time applicants after uncovering nearly $90 million in federal student-aid fraud. That figure included $30 million in loans disbursed to deceased individuals and $40 million to companies “using bots disguised as fake students.” |
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| Biden Has Only Raised a 'small
fraction' of What He Needs to Build Presidential Library: NYT Report The report, based on public filings and interviews with Biden's donors, said the former president's library foundation did not receive any new donations in 2024 and was instead seeded with $4 million left over from his 2021 inauguration. John Morgan, a longtime donor to the Democratic Party and one of Biden's top supporters, told The Times that he would not give "a penny" towards the library, citing poor treatment from Biden's staff. |
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| Egypt and Iran Complain About Planned FIFA World Cup ‘Pride' Match in Seattle Egypt and Iran, two Middle East nations that target gays and lesbians, have complained to FIFA over a World Cup soccer match in Seattle that is planned to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride. Leaders in the nation's soccer federations publicly rebuked the idea of playing the match June 26 at Seattle Stadium, which local organizers say will include a “once-in-a-lifetime moment to showcase and celebrate LGBTQIA+ communities in Washington.” In Egypt, the soccer federation issued a statement late Tuesday saying it sent a letter to FIFA “categorically rejecting any activities related to supporting homosexuality during the match.” |
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| And They Call This
'Journalism' David Strom The New York Times is, as Andrew Klavan often jokes, a "former newspaper." I think he is actually being generous. The Times, as Ashley Rindsberg outlined in his excellent book The Gray Lady Winked, has been manipulating its readers for a century. Still, Klavan's point is that the Times purports to be a "news" organization, but when it comes to stories that are politically charged, it serves more as an advocacy organization that promotes propaganda. When I saw this story's headline about Trump's reforms of the CAFE standards, I almost guffawed at the idea that the Times was presenting it as "news" rather than a thinly veiled Op/Ed. It presents the Trump administration's reasoning for the reforms as if they were ridiculous, assumes that Biden's claims about the economic viability of electric vehicles were self-evidently true, and ignores the devastation that Biden-era policies have caused to the auto industry. |
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| The Somali Fraud Story
Busts Liberal Myths Christopher F. Rufo On the surface, the Times story was an acknowledgment that this was a real scandal that the liberal press had missed. But the paper did not address the underlying narrative about why the fraud happened. Yes, the story is about a criminal enterprise, but it runs deeper than that. The story has touched a nerve because it busts liberal myths about immigration, anti-racism, and the welfare state. Minnesota has long prided itself on its generous welfare programs and reputation for good governance. But after the mass arrival of the new Somali population – many of whom brought with them different attitudes toward government and civil society – these programs became a weak point. George Floyd’s 2020 death in Minneapolis demonstrated that scrutiny could be deflected by making baseless accusations of “racism” against anyone who raised questions about the missing funds. |
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 Official Dept of War site. A huge resource of information about Dec.7th and more. |
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| Remembering Pearl Harbor: Minute by
Minute National Park Service Timeline 0610 Hours: After nearly a year of planning, months of training, and a week of sailing through the rough seas of the Northern Pacific, the Kido Butai had arrived, undetected, just 200 miles away from Oahu. For hours, sailors, mechanics, and aviators had been busy loading ordnance, spotting planes on the flight deck, and warming their engines. And now, at 0610, twenty minutes before dawn, the first A6M “Zero” fighter lifted off from the carrier Akagi – followed swiftly by over 180 aircraft from all six carriers. |
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| White House Roasts Jill Biden’s
Clown Show Christmas After Melania Classes Up the Decorations The White House Rapid Response team took an oh-so-subtle jab at Jill Biden as First Lady Melania Trump unveiled her exponentially more elegant Christmas decorations in the people's house. Melania is all class, as per usual. By contrast, there was the perpetual circus provided by the good "doctor," whose fashion sense consisted of a closet full of tablecloths she called dresses. Shockingly, someone with no sense of style was unable to translate the Christmas decorations into something respectable. |
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| By Gutting CAFE, Trump Can Make
Autos Beautiful Again I & I Editorial Board President Donald Trump took another welcome step this week to free the auto industry from the grip of federal regulators who are largely to blame for the boring, homogenized fleet of cars that fill up the roads these days. On Wednesday, Trump released a plan to roll back federal corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard to levels that won’t force Americans into electric cars. In what he’s calling a reset, the plan is to chuck the Biden administration’s fuel mandate -- a mandate specifically designed to force car buyers into EVs. |
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| NATO Must Considser 'Pre-Emptive
Strike' as 'Defensive Action' Oliver JJ Lane Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, who replaced Admiral Rob Bauer as the chair of of the NATO military committee earlier this year has spoken of the effectiveness demonstrated by enhanced, active deterrence against Russia by the alliance this year and implicitly called for consideration to be given to going further... Ultimately, Admiral Dragone said, “we are studying everything”. The NATO alliance could go even further, he is reported to have said, moving “further away from our normal way of thinking and behaviour” to consider attack as a potential form of defence. The Admiral told the paper: “How deterrence is achieved – through retaliation, through pre-emptive strike – this is something we have to analyse deeply because there could be in the future even more pressure on this”. |
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| That Narrative About Hegseth and
the Strike on the Drug Boats Just Imploded Even More Nick Arama We've suddenly been hearing a rising narrative regarding a "second strike" on one of the boats the Trump administration hit in a narcoterrorist strike. The Washington Post claimed, according to "sources," that a second strike was ordered to kill two survivors clinging to the boat's wreckage in the water pursuant to instructions from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Hegseth called it "fabricated." Admiral Bradley ordered the initial missile strike and then several follow-up strikes that killed the initial survivors and sank the disabled boat. As that operation unfolded, they said, Mr. Hegseth did not give any further orders to him. |
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| Third
World Immigration and Somalia Emmy Griffin The horrific shooting of two National Guard members right before Thanksgiving was the final straw for Donald Trump and the American people. The attack was carried out by an Afghan immigrant who escaped from the resurgent Taliban under Joe Biden’s failed withdrawal. Given that this act of terror came on the heels of a massive Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota, President Trump concluded that a crackdown was in order for those who have come to the U.S. but are unwilling to assimilate. On Thanksgiving, Trump published a very long post on X in which he not only calls out Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Somalia) but also explains how he intends to fix the immigration problem. |
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| Rep. Nancy Mace’s FAIR Act Would
Require Photo IDs on EBT Cards to Curb SNAP Fraud After $102 Million in Losses Noah Stanton When you cash a check at the bank, they ask for ID. When you board a plane, they check your face against your license. But when someone uses taxpayer-funded food stamps? Anyone can swipe that card, no questions asked. This absurd honor system has created a feeding frenzy that would make any honest American’s blood boil. For years, conservatives have suspected something was rotten in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. We’ve heard the stories – people buying lobster with EBT cards, benefits being traded for cash, cards being used in multiple states. But the scale of the problem? Most of us had no idea how deep this swamp really ran. |
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| Treasury Secretary Launches Probe
Into Minnesota Tax Dollars Allegedly Funding Al-Shabaab Terrorists U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday launched a federal probe into claims that Minnesota tax dollars were siphoned to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab under the Biden administration and Governor Tim Walz – an allegation he said demands urgent scrutiny. "At my direction, @USTreasury is investigating allegations that under the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz, hardworking Minnesotans’ tax dollars may have been diverted to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab," Bessent posted on X. "Thanks to the leadership of @POTUS @realDonaldTrump, we are acting fast to ensure Americans’ taxes are not funding acts of global terror. |
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| Garbage
In, Garbage Out Nate Jackson  “Ilhan
Omar is garbage,” said President Donald Trump of the Democrat
representative from Minneapolis Somalia. “She’s garbage. Her friends
are garbage.” Hoo boy, Trump does know how to stir the pot! No one
should even pretend to be shocked by what Trump says anymore. Ruffling
feathers is his MO. But by all means, let’s talk about presidents and
presidential candidates saying insulting things. |
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| Minnesota State Government
Employees Say They Wrote to Kamala Harris, DNC, 'warning' About Walz As VP Pick A group of Minnesota state government employees said they wrote to former Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) multiple times "warning them" about Gov. Tim Walz and what they described as his "incompetence, fraud scandals and retaliation." "We tried our best to keep the public informed as our tweets are public. Maybe Kamala Harris turned a blind eye to fraud like her running mate?," the Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees account – which says it represents more than 480 current staff members at the Minnesota Department of Human Services – posted on X. |
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| House Overwhelmingly Passes Bill to
Block October 7 Terrorists from Entering U.S. Cole Harrison For months, conservatives have warned that our porous immigration system poses a clear and present danger to American families. While the administration obsesses over diversity quotas and sanctuary cities, the very terrorists who orchestrated massacres abroad are finding their way onto American soil. Now, after a jaw-dropping arrest that proved every conservative warning correct, the House of Representatives has taken decisive action to protect Americans from these monsters. Finally – FINALLY – someone in Washington gets it. |
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| Trump’s National Security Plan:
‘Era of Mass Migration Is Over’ Says the Report Titled “National Security Strategy of the United States of America” “American prosperity and security depend on the development and promotion of competence,” the plan says, adding, “we cannot allow meritocracy to be used as a justification to open America’s labor market to the world in the name of finding ‘global talent’ that undercuts American workers.” Notably, the policy uses the phrase “America and Americans” to emphasize that America consists of Americans, not just an economy of workers. “In our every principle and action, America and Americans must always come first,” the statement says. |
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| SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Birthright
Citizenship Case The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the case over President Donald Trump's executive order directing federal agencies to interpret the 14th Amendment as excluding birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens and tourists, CBS News reported. Trump imposed the order as a means of combating the practice of birth tourism and the creation of "anchor babies", intended to present an obstacle to deportations. |
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| Supreme Court Approves Texas GOP
Redistricting Map That Could Flip Five House Seats in 2026 Noah Stanton For decades, the political battlefield resembled a boxing match where only one fighter was allowed to throw punches. Republicans watched as Democrats masterfully carved up congressional districts like skilled surgeons, creating safe seats and tilting the electoral playing field in their favor. The GOP, bound by some quaint notion of fair play, kept their gloves tied behind their backs. But in politics, as in war, there comes a moment when you must adapt or perish. The stakes couldn’t be higher as we barrel toward the 2026 midterm elections. |
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| Muslim Dad, Sons Allegedly Drowned
Teen Over 'Western' Lifestyle, Refusing to Wear Headscarf Dutch prosecutors demanded Friday that a Muslim father and his two sons face up to 25 years in prison for allegedly drowning an 18-year-old family member because they believed her "Western" behavior was bringing shame to the family. The body of Syrian woman Ryan Al Najjar was found submerged in a lake with hands and feet bound tightly on May 28, 2024, near Joure in northern Netherlands, six days after disappearing, according to authorities. Officials arrested her father and two brothers, then aged 22 and 24, and charged them in connection with her killing, which prosecutors said likely happened on May 22. |
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| Principled Cowardice and the
Seditious Six Michael S. Kochin A coordinated bid to tell troops to distrust their Commander-in-Chief reveals how far some lawmakers will go to erode military discipline and destabilize the constitutional order... The remedy for sedition within the legislature is self-discipline. These members should be forced to retract their remarks or justify them under oath. If they believe the President is issuing illegal orders, let them present the evidence. And if they fail to justify their attempt to fracture the chain of command, their expulsion from the Senate should follow swiftly and surely. |
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| CCP-Linked Firms Quietly Hold
Stakes in U.S. Solar Companies Fueling Dems' Green Push While the feds have created barriers to Chinese firms flooding the solar market, many have found ways to localize operations in the U.S. or North America in a manner that allows for public investment and even deferential press coverage at times. After then-President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, Senate Democrats praised the law for its substantive investments in "green" energy, including solar. One company that received top billing was an Ontario-based firm that was founded by a Chinese entrepreneur and keeps much of its assets in China. |
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| How USS Gettysburg
Ended Up Shooting Down a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet Howard Altman | The War Zone On the approach to land on the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, the F/A-18F Super Hornet’s pilot looked out the canopy and saw a Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) launched from the Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg speeding through the sky. At first, the pilot thought the missile was aimed at a Houthi drone or cruise missile, one of several fired at the carrier strike group on Dec. 22, 2024, during an attack from the Yemeni rebel group. But as the SM-2 drew closer and changed its course toward the Super Hornet, configured as an aerial refueler, the crew knew it was heading straight for them.  |
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| Hot Takes: Internet Has a Ball
Mocking Newsom’s Eyebrow-Raising Sitting Pose Katie Jerkovich  The
internet went nuts mocking California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom's
eyebrow-raising way of sitting, with many pointing out that his extreme
cross-legged position was "testicle-crushing" and more. It all started
on Wednesday on X, after images surfaced of Newsom at the New
York Times
Dealbook Summit, when he took the traditional position one might see a
female take of crossing one's legs to a whole new level. He didn't just
cross them, but instead literally made an X with his legs. Apparently,
the CA governor took a break from destroying the beautiful Golden State
to wreck himself. |
"I have never seen a man crush his testicles harder than this dude." |
| Antisemitism Spirals Out of Control
in Once ‘Great’ Britain Andrea Widburg Britain has long had an up-and-down relationship with Jews. Jews began immigrating to England from France after the Norman Conquest in 1066. They were welcomed then because they were the only ones who could lend money in a time when usury was forbidden to Christians. The medieval era, however, also gave rise to the “blood libel” slanders. These were horrible false accusations against Jews, such as accusing them of using the blood of Christian children to make their matzo (an unleavened cracker which has as its only ingredients flour and water). If a disease came to town (and this was long before the Black Death), Jews were accused of poisoning the wells, even as the diseases took them, too.... One hundred years later, King Edward I banished all of England’s Jews to get parliament to approve a tax for him.... Jews finally returned to England in 1655, when Oliver Cromwell invited them back in. |
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| UK Man Arrested for Posing with Gun in Photo Taken While in the U.S. Tyler Durden Last year during sweeping British protests triggered by the stabbing murders of three young girls at a dance recital by the radicalized 17-year-old child of Rwandan migrants, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley threatened to have American citizens "arrested and extradited" to the UK for "stoking racial violence" (i.e. pointing out that third world migrants and often the children of third world migrants are a societal net negative and should be deported). The event sparked a series of thousands of arrests of UK citizens for crimes as meager as posting memes online and hoisting British flags in the presence of immigrants. In the past year at least 12,000 such arrests have been made in the name of "quelling hate speech", an ill defined violation based on arbitrary guidelines and left up the whims of leftist bureaucrats... Though the incident has ended with Booth avoiding jail time, there is a cottage industry of Europeans traveling to the U.S. to experience life away from progressive authoritarianism. This includes shooting firearms for recreation. |
Thousands come to U.S. for “freedom” vacations |
| Expert Reveals 'likely' Reason
Behind Chernobyl’s Mysterious Blue Dogs After Viral Photos Photos taken earlier this year showed several dogs with bright blue fur wandering the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine, fueling widespread speculation online, including theories of radiation exposure and mutations. "The blue dye likely came from a tipped over port-a-potty where the dogs were rolling around in the poop, as dogs are prone to do," Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina was quoted saying on the Dogs of Chernobyl Facebook account. |
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| The Democrats’ Reckless
Call for Military Disobedience Washington Examiner Editorial Elected Democrats have every right – indeed, they have a duty – to conduct oversight over the president’s use of the military to defend the nation. But what they may not do is encourage service members to disobey orders they don’t like, and that is what Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Reps. Jason Crow (D-CO), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Chris Deluzio (D-PA), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) did on Nov. 18. It was a disgraceful and foolish thing to do. They did this without identifying any illegal orders that had been given. Pressed on This Week to identify which illegal orders she was referring to, Slotkin admitted, “I am not aware of things that are illegal.” |
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| The New Definition of
Blackness: When Race Stops Meaning Race Jamie K. Wilson On the May 22, 2020 episode of Charlamagne Tha God’s popular podcast, Joe Biden said words that have become infamous: “If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black.” He did not hesitate. He did not show discomfort. And there was very little pushback from Charlamagne. Neither seemed to understand how incredibly grotesque it was for a white politician to declare that a black man’s voting choice determined whether he was eligible to be black. To Biden, the line wasn’t a gaffe. It was a summary. A neat little distillation of the worldview dominant in academia, DEI institutions and the activist class for the past decade: Race isn’t ancestry anymore. Race is ideology. Race is obedience. |
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| THANKSGIVING The Plymouth Experiment Kim Weissman This week the nation once again celebrated Thanksgiving, over 400 years after the Pilgrims established their colony at Plymouth Plantation in 1620. This year, as in many years past, schoolchildren across the nation have spent the few days before the holiday talking about turkeys and Pilgrims, making lists of what they are thankful for, and a fair share have been brainwashed by politically correct – and false – revisionist history of the first Thanksgiving in 1621.  The First Thanksgivings: A Lesson in Socialism and Private Property Rights Adam Summers My friend and colleague Ben Powell, who works with the Independent Institute and the Beacon Hill Institute and teaches economics at Suffolk University, has written an illuminating column on the Pilgrim’s early years and the tragic lesson they learned from their communal economic system. We should keep this lesson in mind as more and more politicians and bureaucrats–and even so-called “conservative” economists–are clamoring for ever more central planning of our economic system. When I Was a Turkey When I was a young turkey, new to the coop, My big brother Mike took me out on the stoop, Then he sat me down, and he spoke real slow, And he told me there was something that I had to know; Come about August, now listen to me, Each day you'll get six meals instead of just three, And soon you'll be thick, where once you were thin, And you'll grow a big rubbery thing under your chin;.… |
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| Will Vlad and Volod Kiss and Make
Up? Don Surber Great wars always seem to hinge on obscure places. The end of the Putin War on Ukraine – or at least a cease fire – may rest upon Zaporizhzhia a metropolis of 700,000 people. Just because you may not have heard of it before does not make it unimportant. The city remains in Ukrainian hands while Russia holds the nuclear plant, but it is run by Ukrainians. Russian is the primary language of two thirds of the people in Zaporizhzhia. It’s as clear as floodwaters, ain’t it? |
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| Political Stunt Endangers America Francis P. Sempa | Real Clear Defense Six Democratic members of Congress ... in a reckless and dangerous political stunt made a social media video that urges members of our armed forces and intelligence community to question and disobey the orders of their commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump, the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Ratcliffe. The six members of Congress claim that President Trump is issuing “illegal orders.” “The threats to our country,” they say, “are not just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.” They are right about that – their political stunt is indeed a threat to our country. |
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| Abbey Gate Gold Star Father
Blisters Biden After Afghan National Allegedly Ambushes 2 National Guardsmen in DC The father of Staff Sgt. Darin "Taylor" Hoover – one of the 13 U.S. service members killed in the Abbey Gate bombing during the chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan – is blasting the former Biden administration after an Afghan national allegedly shot two National Guardsmen just blocks from the White House. "This is on the feckless Biden administration," Hoover said of the shooting. "We had no idea who was getting into this country because the Biden administration, especially the State Department run by Antony Blinken, didn’t do the work that was needed to vet all these people. There were so many people put on the planes that got out initially, that we have no idea who they were." |
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| X's New Location Feature Exposes
Apparent Fraudster Accounts Posing As Americans, Gaza Journalists A new feature on Elon Musk's X is exposing the truth behind social media accounts across the political spectrum, with account owners apparently misleading followers about where they are posting from. The new feature allows all X users to inspect where a given account is based, usually listing a country or region. Many popular accounts posing as American "patriots" or "constitutionalists" have been exposed as being run from foreign countries since the update rolled out on Friday.  Elon Musk Exposes Real Foreign Racists with Account Based New X Feature Robby Soave Location, location, location. That’s what matters now on X, because Elon Musk has just rolled out a hugely important new feature, and it’s confirming what some of us have suspected was the case for some time now. It turns out that many of the openly racist and anti-Semitic accounts on X that claim to be America First but are actually giving MAGA a bad name – well, they’re not true America First at all. In fact, they’re largely coming from Muslim countries. And now we have the proof. |
Fake Accounts Pushing Anti-Israel Propaganda |
| Top Biden Officials Reportedly
Raised Concerns Over Autopen, Pardons Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen appeared on Fox News' "Saturday in America" with host Kayleigh McEnany this weekend, where the two discussed a September report from Axios alleging that top Biden administration officials questioned and criticized the way the former president’s team handled pardons and made use of an autopen in the waning days of his White House term. The Sept. 6 report has resurfaced after President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he will be terminating all documents allegedly signed by former President Joe Biden via autopen. |
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| Remember All the Illegals Sleeping
in Airports? The Biden Administration Was Behind It All Amy Curtis During the Biden years, social media users were not surprised to see videos of illegal immigrants flooding airports, often living in terminals for extended periods of time. It turns out that wasn't an accident. A new report, from the Senate Commerce Committee, says the Biden administration forced airports to house illegal immigrants, posing a serious safety risk to airports and American travelers. That report alleges the Biden administration directed several government departments ... to house migrants in airports. |
Clearly shows the lack of concern for U.S. citizens using airports |
| Massive Fraud by Somali Immigrants
in Minnesota Hands GOP Political Hammer Against Liberal Programs John Solomon Federal prosecutors have uncovered multiple fraud schemes involving Somali immigrants in Minnesota that have siphoned billions in taxpayer money from food, welfare and autism safety net programs and even routed some to overseas terrorists. The scandal uncovered by Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson in Minneapolis has handed Republicans a political cudgel heading into the 2026 election to bash liberals like Gov. Tim Walz for creating a welfare state with little or no safeguards and now countless victims of fraud. |
Medical Prof. Falsely Diagnosed Autism in Children to Siphon Off $14M |
| The Skies Empty Over Caracas As the
Dictator Dances Sarah Anderson Nicolás Maduro's days are numbered, and no one knows it better than the man himself. If you can call him that. As I wrote earlier this week, he wears $1,000 shoes, while the people of Venezuela can't even feed their children. That's not a man. Anyway, as I'm writing this, it's Sunday evening, which means that when the clock strikes midnight tonight, Maduro's Cartel de los Soles will officially become a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). As usual, there's a lot of speculation going on in the MSM this weekend, ranging from military action that may or may not go down this week to suggestions that the current negotiations taking place in Geneva regarding the Russian-Ukrainian War are related to what is (or isn't) happening in Venezuela. I don't believe anything until it happens or I have concrete evidence or a statement from a named official. |
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| Middle East on Edge: Donald Trump Moves to Ban Muslim Brotherhood In a critical move for the Middle East, the White House recently issued an executive order that appears to be part of a widely expected move against the Muslim Brotherhood, which designates certain MB chapters as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists. Sebastian Gorka, the deputy assistant to the president and senior director of the Counter Terrorism National Security Council, posted on X/Twitter that “history has been made. Just moments ago, in the presence of my [National Security Council] colleague who helped author the executive order, President Donald Trump designated multiple chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the Egyptian branch, which is the progenitor of all modern jihadists, al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Hamas, included.” |
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| Shock Report: Locking Up Criminals
Reduces Crime Stephen Green Forgive the snark – I'm not at all making fun of City Journal's Tal Fortgang or James Q. Wilson's Thinking About Crime, which remains instructive after five decades – and forms the backbone of Fortgang's new article. I'm making fun of the fact that our friends on the Left must be constantly reminded of this basic truth. "Violent crime is overwhelmingly the work of a small group of repeat offenders," Fortgang reported, "that is, it is highly concentrated." But even I was shocked by just how concentrated it really is. |
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| Democrats Consider Using Ranked
Choice Voting in 2028 Presidential Primaries If you’re a milquetoast personality, you probably shouldn’t run for president. Charisma and persuasion are requirements for the job. And as I’ve pointed out many times, it’s not enough for presidential primary voters to think you’re a good candidate; because they only get one vote, voters need to believe you’re the best candidate in the field. But maybe that’s about to change, according to Axios. Apparently some Democrats want to use the ranked choice method for the 2028 presidential primaries, where a candidate could theoretically win by being a consensus second-favorite candidate. |
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| $500 Million in Food Stamps Spent
at Fast-Food Restaurants Food stamps are supposed to be spent on nutritious meals – but nine states currently allow them to be spent at fast-food restaurants, such as McDonald’s. Sen. Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican, says that should change. She stated that more than half a billion dollars in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds were spent at fast food establishments from June 2023 through May 2025. |
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| She Was Labeled the Original
‘Anti-Vaxxer,’ Now She Feels Vindicated Jeff Louderback Twenty years have passed since Jenny McCarthy became a household name as the original “anti-vaxxer” – a label she has always rejected. Her journey from an actress to a figurehead of autism advocacy began when her 2½-year-old son was diagnosed with the condition after receiving the MMR vaccine. At the time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) stated position was unequivocal: The vaccine did not cause autism. Fast forward to November 2025 and discussion about autism is mainstream; propelled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pledge to determine the cause of the condition, which now impacts 1 in 31 children in the United States, according to the CDC. |
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| Dr Mengele, I Presume? UK Okays State Experiment with Puberty Blockers and Children Beege Welborn Sometimes there are things that happen that are just so sick, so cruel, so seemingly random that you cannot comprehend how they occur. Dousing someone, an innocent, unassuming, unsuspecting stranger, with a flammable liquid on a public conveyance. Striking that match or clicking the lighter. Shoving an elderly man off a subway platform after hearing a train whistle or an old lady down a concrete flight of stairs. Individuals. But what is it called when it is the state that does something that causes irreparable harm, documented, irreversible damage, both physical and mental, and not to a singular person, but to a group of hundreds of individuals? To hundreds of children? |
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| Topless ‘nun’ Performs Sexualized
Burlesque at Dartmouth Drag Show A burlesque performance featuring a dancer dressed as a nun was one act among many Saturday at an event at Dartmouth College hosted by a student drag club. The roughly three-minute dance began with the performer – who goes by “they” with a stage name of “Grim Noir” – kneeling. Then the dancer gyrated on a chair and stripped off their black robe, revealing tights with crosses on them and pasties covering their nipples. Performed to the song “Sinners,” the dance concluded with the performer touching their breasts and swinging a rosary around in the air before ending in genuflection. |
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| Pitzer College Undergrads Lobby for
Topless Pool Hours A student trio presented a resolution to the Pitzer College Student Senate earlier this month which calls for topless hours at the campus pool. According to The Student Life, undergrads Emily Mitchell, Theo Cleary, and Aidan Evans sent out a survey regarding the topic via a school listserv, and as of mid-month 132 students are in favor while just 16 disagree. The three said a “vague swimwear policy” and “instructions imposed from Campus Security and Gold Student Center staff” lead to “people with breasts” being unable to take their tops off. |
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| House Education and Workforce
Committee Launches Nationwide Investigation Into Anti-Semitism in K-12 Schools Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) is launching an investigation into three school districts after receiving disturbing reports of Jewish students being harassed and subjected to open antisemitism in their classrooms and hallways. In the letter to Berkeley Unified School District Walberg wrote: "Some teachers and administrators across BUSD allegedly facilitate and encourage this hostility, while others fail to act in response to it... Antisemitism has also infected the classroom, with a teacher at Berkeley High School displaying an image of a fist destroying the Star of David and allegedly describing it as 'standing up for social justice.'" |
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| While the Majority of
Democrats Say They Favor Socialism, Few Can Define the Term Harbinger's Daily The off-year elections held earlier this month have raised concerns that socialism may be ascendant within the Democratic Party’s mainstream, following the election of self-described socialists Zohran Mamdani as New York City’s mayor and Katie Wilson as Seattle’s. Mamdani, in particular, was the recipient of numerous endorsements, not just from the Democratic Party’s more vocal progressive wing, but from mainstream Democrats like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Governor Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) – although some, like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), refused to add their names to the socialist’s endorsement list. Now, a new survey is revealing that a majority of Democrats actually hold a favorable view of socialism. The only question is, “What is socialism?” |
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| Blame Biden for the
Affordability Crisis James Piereson Democrats won recent elections in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia by calling attention to the “affordability crisis” – the claim that prices are too high and stretching the budgets of most households. They blame President Trump for the problem while ignoring their own responsibility for causing it in the first place. The Biden administration, enabled by Democratic majorities in Congress, created the crisis through reckless spending, costly regulations, and an open southern border. The facts speak for themselves with respect to prices and inflation, interest rates, mortgage rates, and the costs of housing, food, and electricity. |
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| First-Ever Antifa Terrorism
Convictions Secured in Texas for ICE Facility Ambush Cole Harrison For years, it has felt like our country was coming apart at the seams. A creeping lawlessness wasn’t just knocking at the door; it kicked it down in broad daylight. Americans have watched, with growing alarm, as our cities were scarred by politically motivated violence, often excused or completely ignored by a complicit media... The question lingered in the minds of every law-abiding citizen: when would there be accountability? When would the organized, violent factions that wrap their anarchy in the flag of social justice finally face the consequences for their destructive campaigns? It seemed, for a time, that the forces of chaos were winning. But a turning point has been reached, a line has been drawn, and it was announced not with a media soundbite, but with the full force of federal law.  |
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| Why Young Americans Support
Democratic Socialism Chris Talgo Make no mistake, way too many young Americans are suffering from an acute case of democratic socialist shiny object syndrome. From Seattle to New York City, young Americans are voting for democratic socialists at a resounding rate. While much ink has been spilt trying to garner why so many young people are infatuated with democratic socialism, the answer may be more obvious than most think. Based on a new poll from Rasmussen Reports and The Heartland Institute, you can blame the parents for the fact that more than half of young likely voters want to see a democratic socialist win the White House in 2028. |
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| Musk Calls Out Soros' Radical Son: "Can You Stop Trying To Destroy Civilization?" Tyler Durden 2025 is shaping up to be the year when more Americans than ever recognize that riots (remember anti-ICE L.A. riots in the summer) and or protests, echoing the BLM chaos, aren't organic at all, but bankrolled by far-left billionaires using a sprawling constellation of nonprofit entities running a sinister color-revolution-style operations targeting President Trump, with the mission to derail the America First movement. The Trump administration recently received a report from the Capital Research Center that explained George Soros' Open Society Foundations empire quietly funneled "$80 million to pro-terror groups." |
The masks have already come off this year. |
| SCOTUS Must Stop Mail-In Voting
Madness David Catron One of the suppurating sores that still bedevil our body politic in the aftermath of COVID-19 is the ongoing abuse of mail-in voting. Absentee ballots have long been available to a small number of voters, of course. But, during the pandemic, many states used public safety as a pretext to dramatically expand eligibility for mail-in voting and to extend the deadlines for receiving these ballots. Now, at least 30 states continue to count such votes long after Election Day has come and gone. This inevitably creates concerns about election integrity. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before the U.S. Supreme Court would be required to decide if post-election vote counting violates federal law. –'This practice clearly violates the will of Congress as expressed 150 years ago and federal statutes certainly preempt state law.'– |
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| Mamdani-Endorsed Terrorist
Supporter is a Fellow Protege of Linda Sarsour and a Siraj Wahhaj Fan Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani lent his endorsement to a Democratic Socialists of America-backed New York state assembly candidate who has expressed support for convicted terrorists and who, like Mamdani, is a protégé of controversial activist Linda Sarsour and a fan of radical imam Siraj Wahhaj. Aber Kawas – a Palestinian-American and longtime Muslim activist who has made controversial statements about terrorism and 9/11 – recently sought the endorsement of the NYC DSA for her run in the 34th Assembly District in Queens... Mamdani, a member of the DSA, leaned heavily on the backing of the socialist group and of Muslim activist groups to win both the Democratic primary in June and the general election earlier in November. |
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| Blue-State Companies Follow Davy
Crockett’s Example Merrill Matthews President Andrew Jackson took offense at something U.S. Rep. David Crockett of Tennessee had said and worked to defeat him in the 1835 congressional campaign. In response, Crockett told a Tennessee crowd, “You can go to hell. I’m going to Texas.” A whole lot of CEOs based in one-party Democratic states and cities have decided to follow Crockett’s example. California has been the biggest loser of businesses to Texas. But given New York City’s recent mayoral election, the Big Apple may push the Empire State into first place. |
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| Karoline Leavitt Says Reporters
Caught Spying on White House Staff White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that her office restricted free-roaming media access after catching reporters secretly recording staff conversations. The White House now bars reporters from entering the press secretary’s Upper Press office without an appointment, citing security concerns after decades of unrestricted access. In an interview with “Pod Force One,” Leavitt told Miranda Devine the change came after multiple incidents involving reporters loitering around sensitive information inside Upper Press. |
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| Bondi DOJ Transfers Death Row
Inmates Commuted by Biden to 'Supermax' Prison Two federal inmates previously on death row – one a crooked New Orleans cop, the other behind a multi-state killing spree – have been transferred to a notorious "supermax" prison in Colorado, the Justice Department told Fox News Digital. News of their transfers comes as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi looks to crack down on the previous administration's sweeping clemency actions, especially those against violent crime. |
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| They Knew Epstein Was Guilty of
Trafficking Underage Girls. They Stuck with Him Anyway. Except Trump Byron York In 2014, the journalist-turned-adviser Michael Wolff wrote an unpublished profile of Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein gave Wolff, who had once hoped to go into business with the financier, access to his “absurdly vast house” in Manhattan and his life in it. We have the profile Wolff wrote because he emailed it to Epstein – not the sort of thing most journalists would do – and it was made public in the 20,000-plus documents House Republicans released last week. The theme of the profile is that many prominent and accomplished people decided to maintain their friendships with Epstein even after an investigation showed he lured a number of underage girls to his house for sex. |
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| Democrat AG Declared 2020 Alternate
Electors Weren’t Illegal, Then Prosecuted Case Anyway Following Jack Smith's Lead The Wisconsin Justice Department initially concluded the Trump 2020 reelection campaign’s plan for alternate electors after losing the presidential race was not illegal. But after U.S. Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith brought federal charges against Donald Trump, Wisconsin’s Democratic attorney general followed suit with charges against campaign members just ahead of Trump's successful 2024 reelection bid. Lindsey Graham to Introduce Legislation Letting Americans Impacted by Jack Smith Dragnet to Sue Sen. Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, tells Just the News he is planning to introduce legislation to allow any Americans, not just senators, whose privacy was violated by ex-Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s sweeping investigation into conservatives to sue the government for damages. During an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast, the South Carolina Republican explained why senators slipped into last week’s spending bill that reopened the federal government a provision allowing eight senators whose phone records were subpoenaed by Smith to sue for damages. |
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| Jan. 6 Panel Cost Twice Previous
Estimates, Hiring TV Producers to Dramatize Attack The U.S. House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol cost almost twice as much as previously reported, including spending taxpayer funds for TV news producers and documentary filmmakers to create videos dramatizing its case against President Donald Trump, an investigation by The Center Square found. The Washington Post reported that the panel had a projected budget of $9.3 million in September 2022. According to a review of U.S. House disbursements, the select committee spent $17.4 million. U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls, a Texas Republican who is on a new committee appointed by House Speaker Mike Johnson to investigate security failures on Jan. 6, said the original committee didn't spend taxpayer money properly after The Center Square told him about the final costs of the panel's investigation. |
"They wasted it, wasted it." "That was a sham committee. It was a joke." |
| Jim Jordan Says Biden Admin Collected His Phone Records for a Two-Year Period House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Thursday revealed that the Biden administration subpoenaed his phone records for a two-year period as part of the Arctic Frost investigation, making his records more expansive than other lawmakers. The announcement comes after recent revelations claimed the Biden FBI snooped on the phone records of Republican members of Congress, including eight senators, during its January 6 investigation. |
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| Trump Admin Pours $1B Into Massive
Effort to Restart Nuclear Reactor at Historic Meltdown Site Three Mile Island is getting a jolt back to life, courtesy of a $1 billion Trump administration loan to restart its nuclear reactor. The Department of Energy announced Tuesday a cash infusion in the form of a $1 billion loan to Baltimore-based Constellation Energy to restart a nuclear reactor at the site that has the potential to better secure the Mid-Atlantic grid and power as many as 800,000 homes on renewable power. While Reactor Unit Two has remained offline since its malfunction that March morning, Reactor Unit One kept running until the 2010s, when its owners shut it down, citing primarily economic reasons. Unit One will be the reactor utilized in the future. |
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| New Alaska Discovery Could Deal
Massive Blow to Chinese Dominance of Rare Earth Minerals As of 2024, the U.S. was at least 93% import-dependent on both rare earth elements (REEs) and graphite itself, according to the International Energy Agency, and the Graphite Creek deposit has already been dubbed the largest such tranche in the U.S. But, this week’s announcement that REEs were discovered in addition to the graphite lode portends a step-up that the U.S. can take against the CCP through Trump’s "American energy dominance" agenda, according to a source familiar with the situation. |
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| 'ShamWow' Guy Launches Bid to Shake Up Texas Primary As Republican Candidate  Famous
infomercial pitchman Offer Vince Shlomi – better known as the "ShamWow
guy" who advertised the super-absorbent towel on late-night TV – has
filed to run for Congress in Texas as a Republican, according to state
election records. Shlomi told Fox News Digital in an interview Sunday
that his decision to run for office was ultimately motivated by a
desire to "destroy wokeism" and as a tribute to the late Charlie Kirk,
whom he called the original "woke buster." He added that the "political
infighting in the country" eventually inspired him to seek office and
"make America happy." |
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| Foreign 'patriots' Caught
Red-Handed As Musk's X Unveils Hidden Account Locations The new feature allows all X users to inspect where a given account is based, usually listing a country or region. Many popular accounts posing as American "patriots" or "constitutionalists" have been exposed as being run from foreign countries since the update rolled out on Friday. One account with the handle "@1776General_" boasts over 140,000 followers and has a user biography describing the owner as a "constitutionalist, patriot and ethnically American." The biography claims the account is based in the U.S., but X's new feature reveals it is actually based in Turkey. |
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| Heavily Redacted Voting Records for
School Superintendent Nabbed by ICE Spark Outrage Justin Riemer was reacting to Prince George's County's Board of Elections' recent release of voter registration documents belonging to illegal alien Ian Andre Roberts, which included blacking out Roberts' sex, whether he checked the citizenship box, his date of birth and other information. The election attorney is representing RITE and conservative research group the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) in their efforts to receive the voter registration documents with fewer redactions.  "I'm an election law expert, not an immigration expert, but it doesn't take one to see just how… broken the system has been," Riemer told Fox Digital. "He has multiple criminal charges. He has worked in multiple school districts where, if they were doing the proper citizenship and work authorization checks, this should have been caught. It's really just unbelievable how this guy has managed to jump around the country, working in school districts where he's around children." |
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| Impact of Selling F-35s to Saudi
Arabia on the Region Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway | The War Zone The Trump administration’s agreement to sell F-35 stealth fighters to Saudi Arabia marks a major policy shift, with Washington previously being unwilling to export these high-end jets to Arab states in the Middle East. Such a sale would have significant ramifications for the airpower balance in the region, especially as regards Israel, currently the only F-35 operator in the Middle East, but its ripples could also be felt well beyond Tel Aviv.  |
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| Girls’ Steep Decline in Desire for
Marriage Is the Destabilizing Consequence of Feminization Jordan Boyd | The Federalist Young girls used to dream of the day they would don a white dress, clutch a bouquet, and walk down the aisle to wed the love of their life. New data, however, suggests those dreams are scarcer than they were 30 years ago. A new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data from the University of Michigan found that high schoolers are more reluctant to desire marriage now than they were 30 years ago. Twelfth-grade girls, specifically, are significantly less likely than their male peers to say they want to get married sometime in the future – 61 percent compared to the boys’ 74 percent. |
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| How to Reverse the Dumbing Down of
American Higher Ed Jonathan Turley This week, a faculty report at the University of California San Diego found that one in eight of its students requires remedial math classes due to plummeting admissions standards at the school. This follows a similar disclosure at Harvard, where students are also being given remedial math training. It is only the latest example of the dumbing down of education in America. The implications of this trend are dire for the nation as we march toward an economy with unprecedented challenges for the coming generation. If we are to save higher education in the U.S., we will need a radical reboot. We need a national education compact to change admissions and grading in our schools. |
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| Leaked NEA Training for 3 Million
Educators Calls Conservatives 'Villains' and Guides Staff Gender Transitions Noah Stanton While parents assume their children are learning mathematics and literature in school, something far different occupies the attention of those entrusted with young minds. The transformation didn’t happen overnight – though honestly, we all saw the warning signs – but the evidence of how deep it runs should disturb anyone who believes schools exist to educate rather than indoctrinate. And now, what investigators recently uncovered in NEA training documents confirms parents’ worst fears. Through a Freedom of Information request, Defending Education obtained materials for upcoming union training sessions that read less like professional development and more like political warfare strategy. |
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| Michigan Education Official Unable
to Define Gender During Sex Education Standards Hearing The Michigan State Board of Education recently approved new sex education standards in a 6-2 vote, introducing curricula that teaches children about gender identity and sexual orientation. These aren’t optional discussions happening in high school philosophy classes – they’re structured guidelines meant to shape how Michigan’s children understand themselves and the world around them. The standards specify that by eighth grade, students should be able to “define gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation” as “distinct components of every individual’s identity.” |
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| Vaccines and Welfare Fraud? Autism Spike Culprits Widen with CDC About-Face, Minnesota Prosecutions in Autism Fraud and Somali Gangs For the first 10 months of the Trump administration, these "key points" based on government research opened the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's autism page in its vaccine safety portal, a holdover from prior administrations. That changed Wednesday, when the CDC quietly updated the page with a loud message: The evidence isn't anywhere near settled. "The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism," the key points now begin … |
Medicaid Autism claims shot up from $3M in 2018 to $399M in 2023 |
| Scientists Okay Trump-Ordered
Report That Found Almost Nothing to Support ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Kids A President Trump-ordered report on the scientific basis for providing “gender-affirming care” to kids – which found almost no medical evidence to support hormone therapy and other treatments for minors who identify as transgender – was published in its final version Wednesday after passing scientific peer review. The report was reviewed by 10 different experts and research groups – and none identified major faults in the findings that U.S. doctors should pause giving common gender dysphoria treatments until more is known about the long-term effects on patients, the lead author told The Post. |
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| Whole Milk Makes a Comeback in New MAHA Children's Health Strategy The Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission indicated that, after more than a decade of restrictions on whole milk in schools, the federal government is planning to drop them. "The Trump administration is mobilizing every part of government to confront the childhood chronic disease epidemic," Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday. "This strategy represents the most sweeping reform agenda in modern history – realigning our food and health systems, driving education, and unleashing science to protect America’s children and families. We are ending the corporate capture of public health, restoring transparency, and putting gold-standard science – not special interests – at the center of every decision." |
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