India seems to play both sides in the US-Iran war

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On one hand, India befriends Iran

Two Iranian warships take sanctuary in India and Sri Lanka

Defense News reports on the two Iranian ships that found safe harbor with India and Sri Lanka.

ImageTwo Iranian warships have docked in India and Sri Lanka after a U.S. submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean just off Sri Lanka’s coast last week.

The sinking of the Iris Dena on March 4th was the first military strike outside the Middle East since the war began, and analysts say it raised concerns that the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran could widen beyond the Persian Gulf if it drags on.

It also became a diplomatic embarrassment for New Delhi, which had hosted the sunken vessel for peacetime multilateral naval drills.

All three Iranian ships — the two vessels that are now in India and Sri Lanka as well as the torpedoed ship — were sailing in the Indian Ocean after participating in the exercises along India’s east coast.

The South Asian countries have called their decision to permit the ships to enter their ports a “humanitarian” gesture.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told parliament Monday the Iranian ship Iris Lavan sailed into the southern port of Kochi last week after it reported a technical problem. Its crew, mostly young cadets, have been housed at Indian naval facilities.

He said that the government believed “it was the right thing to do.”

Sri Lanka, an Indian Ocean island country lying southeast of India, took control of Iran’s Irins Bushehr and offloaded some 288 crew members at Trincomalee port after the ship had sought assistance saying one of its engines malfunctioned.

A day earlier, its navy rescued 32 sailors and recovered 87 bodies from the sunken Dena.

(Read more at Defense News)

It seems that India might be just staying out of the way of hotheads

While some accused India of supplying the coordinates of the Iris Dena, that seems preposterous considering the sophisticated targeting equipment available to the American ships.

Instead, it seems that India is just trying to thread a needle with the stumbling giants around it.

On the other hand, nobody can ignore the state sponsorship of terrorism borne by Iran

While India may have chosen to deal with Iran in order to keep their enemies close, they surely had to recognize the ill effects of giving money to the world’s largest supporter of terrorism.

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India has a military sharing agreement with the U.S.

India-US sign 10-year defence pact amid tariff turmoil

The BBC documented the 10-year defence pact in a 31 October 2025 article written during the initial hoopla surrounding the tariffs.

ImageIndia and the US have signed a framework agreement to expand defence cooperation over the next 10-years.

The pact was announced after a meeting between US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh in Kuala Lumpur.

The agreement will enhance “coordination, information sharing and tech cooperation” and advance “regional stability and deterrence”, Hegseth said on X.

It comes as the two countries are trying to close a trade deal and tide over tense ties after US President Donald Trump slapped 50% tariffs on India, including a 25% penalty for buying Russian oil and arms.

The agreement is expected to provide policy direction to the entire spectrum of the India-US defence relationship.

“It is a signal of our growing strategic convergence and will herald a new decade of partnership. Defence will remain as a major pillar of our bilateral relations. Our partnership is critical for ensuring a free, open and rules-based Indo-Pacific region,” Singh said, in a post on X.

According to Pramit Pal Chaudhuri of the Eurasia Group think tank, the agreement was supposed to have been concluded in July-August this year, but India’s irritation at Trump’s statements about his role in ending the conflict with Pakistan led to it getting delayed.

The pact is the latest in a series of agreements between the two countries that have made it “easier for the two militaries to achieve interoperability, India to access technology and the two defence sectors to work together”, Mr Chaudhuri said.

“This provides for further potential in all three areas,” he added.

(Read more at the BBC)

As previously mentioned, some have cited this agreement as a source of the American ability to target the sunk Iranian ship

That suggestion that India needed to provide the coordinates of the Iranian ship are insane.

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India buys oil from Russia

India’s Reliance buys 6 million barrels of Russian oil for March

Reuters informs us in a 9 March 2026 article of India’s continued purchases of oil from Russia.

ImageIndia’s Reliance Industries Ltd. (RELI.NS) has bought at least 6 million barrels of Russian oil for March delivery after supplies from the Middle East were hit due to the Iran war, two industy sources with knowledge of the matter said.

India refiners have purchased millions of barrels of prompt Russian oil stuck at sea since Washington last week granted New Delhi a 30-day waiver from sanctions for cargoes loaded on vessels as of March 5.

(Read more at Reuters)

It seems that India has no qualms about buying from Russia (and would have been doing so had it not been for the Trump tariffs)

For all who complain about the Trump tariffs, do you really approve of otherwise allowing the support of rouge states?

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India is the one of a few countries to get its tankers through the Straits of Hormuz

Strait of Hormuz: Which countries’ ships has Iran allowed safe passage to?

Al Jazeera provides a short list of the countries allowed to pass through the Straits of Hormuz by Iran.

During the United States-Israeli war on Iran, Tehran has said the Strait of Hormuz is open to all except the US and its allies. One-fifth of the world’s oil shipments transit through the strait.

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Here is what we know about which countries’ ships are being allowed to pass through the strait and which nations are reported to be negotiating for safe passage.

Pakistan

A Pakistani-flagged Aframax tanker called Karachi sailed out of the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, Bloomberg News reported.

India

On Saturday, Iran’s ambassador to India, Mohammad ⁠Fathali, said Tehran had allowed some Indian vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz in a rare exception to the blockade that has disrupted global ‌energy supplies.

Fathali did not confirm the number of vessels. However, on the same day, New Delhi said two Indian-flagged tankers carrying liquefied petroleum gas bound for ports in western India had passed through the strait.

“They crossed the Strait of Hormuz early morning safely and are en route to India,” Rajesh Kumar Sinha, special secretary of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, said at a news briefing in New Delhi.

Turkiye

A Turkish-owned ship that had been waiting near Iran was allowed to pass through the strait after authorities received permission from Tehran, Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said in comments to Turkish media on Friday.

“Fifteen ships [with Turkish owners] were there. We obtained permission from the Iranian authorities for one of them that had used an Iranian port, and it passed,” Uraloglu said.

China

China is in talks with Iran to allow crude oil and Qatari liquified natural gas carriers safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the Reuters news agency reported on March 5, quoting three unnamed diplomatic sources.

China, which has friendly relations with Iran and relies heavily on Middle Eastern petroleum supplies, is unhappy about Iran’s decision to paralyse shipping through the strait and is pressing Tehran ⁠to allow safe passage for its vessels, according to the sources.

China receives 45 percent of its oil via the Strait of Hormuz.

France and Italy

The two European nations are understood to have requested talks with Iran about allowing their ships to pass through the strait, the UK’s Financial Times has reported, citing unnamed officials.

What is the naval coalition Trump proposed for the strait?

US President Donald Trump called for a naval coalition to join the US Navy in deploying warships to secure the strait.

(Read more at Al Jazeera)

So it seems that India was not the only one getting ships through. But they did get the most ships through.

France, Italy, and China may have talked about getting a ship through. Pakistan and Turkey may have gotten a ship through. However, it was India that got multiple ships through the otherwise closed straits.

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Fraud exposed in Democrat strongholds

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Most recently, Nick Shirley digs into fraud in California

Somali fraud in California childcare

Austin, Texas CBS affiliate KEYE reports on the findings of independent reporter Nick Shirley as he works to uncover fraud in the childcare industry of California.

YouTuber Nick Shirley on Monday evening posted a 40-minute video on X on exposing alleged fraud in the state of California.

“Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger… We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences,” Shirley wrote in a post on X.

Last year, Shirley went viral after he went to Minnesota and filmed multiple daycare centers that appeared vacant.

(Read more at KEYE and see two more videos and one more tweet)

Although the arguments presented by Nick Shirley would not win in court or Congress, they do present indications of wrongdoing

ImageWhile there are logical gaps in the arguments presented by Nick Shirley, the appeals to emotion are strong.

And, since the political Left seems to do nothing but make appeals to emotion, maybe we should also.

For example, since January the Left has called ICE agents murderers for killing Renee Good despite the fact she had her car aimed at him and he shot through the windshield to kill her. Maybe we need to be as persistent in our messaging on this fraud. Beat them at their own game.

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Hundreds of billions in healthcare fraud within California comes to the fore during Congressional testamony

The New York Times used a 9 January 2026 article to chronicle the billions in healthcare fraud within California as detailed by the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — Dr Mehmet Oz.

ImageBillions of dollars in alleged fraudulent healthcare spending is being investigated in California, specifically probing foreign nationals operating illegal hospice facilities — officials announced Friday in a bombshell press conference.

“We have witnessed a sevenfold increase in hospice in LA County, sevenfold. That doesn’t happen naturally,” Dr Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services told The Post during at the press conference.

“There is not seven times more deaths in LA County than there were five years ago. These are fraudsters, and these do tend to be foreign influences, either Russian and Armenian gangs, mafia, that are leading a lot of these efforts.”

Fraudsters who run these facilities are working with about “100 bad doctors,” who convince a patient they’re dying to enroll them in hospice care, Dr Oz said, adding about 100,000 people have handed over their Medicare numbers.

“We are major focused on this issue, and I think our suspicion, our belief, is that the fraud in California will magnify whatever’s happening in Minnesota,” United States Attorney Bill Essayli said. “What’s happening in Minnesota pales in comparison to the level of fraud that we believe is occurring in California.”

Dr Oz said the Trump administration is also cracking down on taxpayer money being used to treat illegal immigrants for elective procedures.

“We’ve already identified about $1.3 billion of federal dollars spent to take care of illegal immigrants,” Dr Oz said. “The state is giving that money back.”

Hundreds of billions of dollars flow through California’s healthcare system, according to Essayli, who said $10 billion is for “illegal immigrant health care.”

“No federal dollars is supposed to be used for that,” said Essayli, who back in April launched a task force investigating corruption in the state, specifically focused on homelessness.

(Read more at the New York Times)

Since January, things have turned

As much as Governor Newsom would like to ignore it, these things have popped up:

And yet the press continues to give the Democrats a pass.

Even when it comes to the TSA shutdown, only 8% of the media blames Democrats while outlets like CNN and MSNBC blame Republicans for the TSA shutdown.

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CBS News reports on everything they will admit about Minnesota’s massive fraud schemes

CBS News reports as little as it can in its summary of the Minnesota fraud schemes.

As national attention focuses on the growing fraud scandal in Minnesota, which federal prosecutors estimate could top $9 billion, the state’s Democratic Governor Tim Walz has announced he is dropping his reelection campaign.

Right before New Year’s, a viral social media video by YouTuber Nick Shirley, which was amplified by Elon Musk, Vice President J.D. Vance and Attorney General Pam Bondi, pushed the fraud story into the center of the national conversation, stoking a scandal that has been brewing in state politics for years. 

In the wake of the video, the Trump administration announced it is pausing federal funding to child care in Minnesota, with President Trump calling Minnesota a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity.” The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services also announced sweeping changes to how all states must submit claims for Medicaid-supported daycares, including requiring “a justification and a receipt or photo evidence before we send money to a state.”

(blah, blah, blah …)

Here’s what you need to know (according to CBS):

Feeding Our Future: The case that started it all

  • This COVID-era $250 million scheme — which now includes upwards of 75 defendants — revolved around a nonprofit group called Feeding Our Future. The group claimed to work with restaurants and caterers to distribute meals to schools and extracurricular programs but instead submitted fake meal count sheets and invoices, raking in millions in administrative fees and getting kickbacks from people who ran their meal distribution sites, prosecutors said. 
  • Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock was convicted earlier this year, and several others involved in the scheme have pleaded guilty or been convicted.
  • Early on, Minnesota officials questioned some of the group’s filings and slowed approvals of reimbursements, prompting Feeding Our Future to file a lawsuit accusing the state of racial discrimination. The state auditor’s office found that “the threat of legal consequences and negative media attention” affected the state’s decision-making process about regulatory action against Feeding Our Future.
  • What federal prosecutors called “the largest pandemic era fraud in the United States” is “just the tip of a very large iceberg,” according to FBI Director Kash Patel.

Fraud in a housing program with “low barriers to entry”

  • This summer, state officials shut down a fairly new program designed to help seniors and people with disabilities find housing after discovering “large-scale fraud.” 
  • A month later, federal prosecutors charged eight people with defrauding the program, which was run through the state’s Medicaid service, by enrolling as providers and submitting millions in “fake and inflated bills.”
  • Another five people were charged with bilking the housing program in mid-December — including two Pennsylvanians with no clear connections to Minnesota who allegedly traveled there in what prosecutors described as “fraud tourism.”
  • Prosecutors said the housing stabilization program was susceptible to fraud because it intentionally had “low barriers to entry” and few record-keeping requirements. They also noted that spending on the program had ballooned to more than $100 million last year, despite initial estimates that it would cost around $2.6 million a year.

Autism program fraud

  • In recent months, two people were charged with defrauding a third state program — in this case, one that provides services to children with autism. Both defendants were accused of hiring unqualified “behavioral technicians” and submitting false claims to the state that indicated the staff had worked with children enrolled in the program. They also allegedly paid kickbacks to parents who agreed to enroll their children in the program, in some cases sending them as much as $1,500, prosecutors said.
  • One of the autism services defendants, Asha Farhan Hassan, was also charged with running a fraudulent food distribution site as part of the Feeding Our Future scheme. She pleaded guilty to wire fraud in December.
  • First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Joseph H. Thompson said the autism services case “is not an isolated scheme.” In total, 14 Medicaid services are under audit and deemed “high risk” for fraud.

Fraud claims against day care centers

  • YouTuber Nick Shirley drew tens of millions of views in late December when he posted a video that showed him visiting federally supported child care centers around Minneapolis and finding no children present. He alleged nearly a dozen day care centers were not actually providing any service and suggested owners were pocketing the taxpayer funds. 
  • CBS News conducted its own analysis and visited several of the day care centers mentioned by Shirley: all but two have active licenses, according to state records, and all active locations were visited by state regulators within the last six months. One was subjected to an unannounced inspection as recently as Dec. 4. Our review found dozens of citations related to safety, cleanliness, equipment and staff training, but there was no recorded evidence of fraud. Another day care shared security footage of people dropping off young children the same day that Shirley arrived and claimed the day care was empty.
  • Minnesota’s Office of Inspector General carried out on-site compliance checks at nine of the centers and confirmed they were “operating as expected,” officials said Jan. 2. Eight of the centers had children present, and one had not opened yet when it was inspected, the state said.

Fallout and response

  • Shirley’s viral video prompted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to freeze federal child care funding for the state of Minnesota, which receives roughly $185 million in federal support for child care.
  • President Trump has largely blamed the Somali community, calling Somali immigrants “garbage” who “contribute nothing,” which has incensed Minnesota lawmakers, who have accused him of demonizing the community at large. Mr. Trump ended temporary deportation protections for Somali immigrants who live in Minnesota, claiming without evidence that “Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State.”
  • Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has drawn widespread scrutiny for his handling of fraud in the state. But Walz has defended his administration’s response, saying “we’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters” and accusing Mr. Trump of “politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans.” On Jan. 5, Walz announced he is dropping his bid for a third term.
  • Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, opened an investigation into fraud in Minnesota’s public assistance programs and announced plans for hearings with testimony from Walz and other officials.
  • As the scandal took on new life in December, Walz unveiled a new statewide fraud prevention program, naming Tim O’Malley as the new director of program integrity. 

Greed or national security risk?

  • The Treasury Department is investigating whether tax dollars from Minnesota’s public assistance programs made their way to al Qaeda affiliate al Shabaab, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization based in Somalia.
  • Multiple federal investigators told CBS News Minnesota there is no evidence taxpayer dollars were directly funneled to al Shabaab. “The vast majority of the money that these folks made went to spending on luxury items for themselves,” said Andy Luger, the former U.S. Attorney who led the office which prosecuted the Feeding Our Future case from 2022 until January. “There was never any evidence that this money went to fund terrorism nor was there any evidence that was the intent of the 70 people we indicted.”
  • A CBS News review of the files shows that defendants spent taxpayer cash on cars, property and luxury travel. They also wired millions in stolen funds overseas, including to banks and companies in China, where finding the recipients of that cash can become an investigative black hole. The defendants also transferred nearly $3 million to accounts in Kenya.

(Read the whole sordid list of obfuscation at CBS News)

Amazing are the things left out from this reporting

When you look at the CBS “reporting” (if you can call it that, even with scare quotes), it really amazes many of us on the things they excluded:

CBS must be covering for Democrats who are running, but not totally condemned by the ongoing scandal caused by not paying low-wage TSA agents.

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Three recently-exposed cases of election fraud in America and at least one question about election integrity

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First, Biden’s CIA worked to hide Chinese hacking of election data as recent as 2020

As a vote comes up on election security laws, legislators have been kept in the dark on how China hacked voter registration data

Just The News dug into the stealing of election security data by Chinese hackers that could enable the faking of American elections. (For those wanting to get to the meat of the article, read the last paragraph.)

The United States expressed outrage when Great Britain revealed two years ago that its voter registration databases were hacked by China in what became a global scandal. But it turns out the U.S. intelligence harbored its own secret at the time, knowing since 2020 that Beijing also gained access to American voter registration data, according to documents reviewed by Just the News and interviews with officials with direct knowledge.

“[Redacted] Chinese intelligence officials analyzed multiple U.S. states’ [Redacted] election voter registration data, [Redacted] to conduct public opinion analysis on the 2020 US general election,” stated a once highly classified April 2020 National Intelligence Council memo entitled “Cyber Operations Enabling Expansive Authoritarianism.” 

You can read that document here.


NICM-Declassified-Cyber-Operations-Enabling-Expansive-Digital-Authoritarianism-20200407–2022.pdf

ImageThat memo, heavily redacted and quietly declassified by the Biden administration two years after it was written, has escaped most public notice.

That means six years later that the U.S. intelligence community has yet to fully inform the American people or the Congress on the breadth of evidence it possesses of China’s actions, how Beijing got the data, and what operations it has taken or contemplated. 

The gap in public knowledge is particularly politically sensitive as the Senate this week debates a new election security bill that is a top priority for President Donald Trump. Officials told Just the News that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe are working to declassify a potentially explosive tranche of documents showing what China did, and who in U.S. government knew and when.

The secrecy surrounding China’s access to voter registration has been so persistent that even Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters, President Donald Trump’s point man for the 2026 mid-term elections, said he was unaware of the intelligence. “What’s crazy is the fact that China has access to these voter rolls, but we don’t,” Gruters told John Solomon Reports podcast in an episode set to air Tuesday.

Current and former U.S. officials told Just the News that U.S. intelligence agencies possess several raw reports dating to spring 2020 showing China gained access to American voter registration data spanning several states as well as a few finished intelligence products referring to such breaches, including at least one presidential daily briefing. 

But the single passage in the DNI document declassified by the Biden administration is the sole piece of evidence in the public sphere.

Voter registration data is not the same as ballots, where Americans choose their candidates. But it contains sensitive personally identifying information, including driver’s license data and partial Social Security numbers. The data is considered so sensitive that several Democrat states are currently trying to keep the Trump Justice Department from obtaining it and liberal groups claim it is a holy grail of election integrity.

In the hands of a foreign power, such data could be used to mimic social personas designed to influence elections or to make absentee ballot requests to cast fake votes, something the FBI feared China might be doing during the 2020 election, according to recently declassified documents.

(Read more tripe at Just The News)

Ok. If China now has the data to fill in their own American ballots, why would Biden’s intelligence agencies hide this information?

What would Democrats gain by hiding the fact that China can now fake its way through a mail-in ballot election?

I have to tell you that there are so many other questions to ask of the Democrats, but those questions encroach on the following articles and their associated questions. Therefore, I will hold off (but still invite your questions of both Democrats and Republicans).

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Second, California election officials investigate after a video shows homeless being paid to sign petitions under false names

California launches probe after video shows petition gatherers offering money for signatures

Sacramento ABC affiliate WRIC reports on the ways that some in California have been caught violating the weak election laws of that Democrat state.

ImageCalifornia election officials said Friday that they are investigating whether signature collectors in San Francisco illegally offered to pay people to sign ballot petitions using false names.

A video posted Monday on X shows a sign that says “Sign petition for $5” and a line of people waiting along the sidewalk. A woman sitting at a folding table appears to be instructing the name and address to use to fill out the petition. When the person recording asked what the petitions were for, the woman said, “Just sign it.”

The California secretary of state’s office said in a statement that it was “aware of, and investigating, the matter.”

In California, people can place measures on the ballot for voter approval by gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures. Campaigns can pay people per signature they gather, providing an incentive for workers to get as many as possible.

At least one of the petitions seen in the video was for a tech-backed ballot measure to fight a proposed tax on billionaires. It’s funded by Building a Better California, a committee started by wealthy business leaders including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who gave $20 million.

The signature collectors were not directly working for the campaign, said Molly Weedn, a spokesperson for the effort. The campaign was cooperating with authorities to reject the petitions collected with falsified information, she said.

“Under no circumstance do we tolerate this type of activity,” Weedn said in a statement. “Our campaign took immediate action and campaign attorneys reported to authorities.”

She said the campaign notified elections officials as soon as the video surfaced.

Another ballot petition funded by Building a Better California for a measure to prohibit new tax on retirement savings also appeared in the video. Spokesperson Nathan Click said the campaign “does not tolerate fraudulent activity in any signature-gathering process.”

“As soon as we became aware of the activities in question, we demanded that our signature-gathering firm identify the petition circulator, reject any and all petitions submitted by this circulator,” Click said in a statement.

(Read more tripe at WRIC)

If California allows anyone to vote without identification (and voting is the ultimate poll), what does a paid petition matter? 

At the time of this writing, an illegal alien who shows up in California can expect:

  • Healthcare: As of January 1, 2024, all low-income Californians, regardless of legal status, are eligible for full-scope Medi-Cal. Emergency services and pregnancy-related care are also available.
  • Food Assistance: Illegal alien seniors (age 55+) can qualify for the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP), which provides state-funded nutrition benefits. WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) is also available.
  • Education: Illegal alien students can pay in-state tuition at California public colleges/universities and apply for state-based financial aid (California Dream Act).
  • Worker Benefits: Illegal alien workers are protected by California labor laws, including minimum wage, safe working conditions, and the right to apply for Disability Insurance (DI) or Paid Family Leave (PFL).
  • Cash Assistance: The Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) provides monthly cash for aged, blind, or disabled individuals who meet income requirements, regardless of status.
  • Driver’s Licenses: California provides driver’s licenses to residents regardless of immigration status under AB 60.

Additionally, since California law states that a voter is not required to show identification to a polling place worker before casting a ballot, illegal aliens can vote without being caught. Such voting may be a violation of federal law, but California enables (and some would say “encourages”) this lawlessness.

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Third, Arizona receives scrutiny after a video shows ballots in a room set up for easy fraud

Video shows Arizona center processing ballots in a room with blank ballots and no observers

Just The News documents a video recording of ballots being counted in a room with blank ballots and no official observers available.

Video footage captured by congressional observers shows a third-party election vendor in Arizona’s largest county processing live ballots and performing signature verification in 2024 far away from the official Maricopa County election center where bipartisan monitors witness such activities, a discovery that prompted the observers to file a formal report alleging “alarming” concerns.

The video obtained by Just the News depicts a visit by one Republican and one Democratic congressional staffer to a third-party printing company responsible for conducting signature verification on ballots during the 2024 election. 

After that visit, the Republican staffer reported back to Congress in a memo, raising concerns about how the county and its third-party contractor were handling ballots, Just the News exclusively reported last week.

Storage and sorting ballots a serious issue, both parties say

The staffer said that completed mail-in ballots were stored in the same room as blanks and were sorted by a third-party printing company that had no government officials or partisan observers on site.

In the memo, that staffer, a Republican, described in detail his visit to the third-party contractor, Runbeck Election Services, which was hired by Maricopa County to sort mail-in ballots for signature verification in preparation for counting at the county’s main election site. 

The Republican staffer was joined by his Democratic counterpart during the visit, who the staffer says shared similar concerns about what they observed at the facility, according to the memo delivered to the House Administration Committee. That’s the legislative panel responsible for overseeing federal elections.

The video was recorded during a tour of the facility conducted by an individual that the staffer described as Runbeck’s CEO in the memo, which was separately reviewed by Just the News. 

(Read more tripe at Just The News)

Something tells me that, were the shoe on the Republican foot, howls would be heard

However, with Arizona’s Democrat governor and Maricopa County being a Democrat stronghold, nothing will be said.

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If 95% of Republicans and 73% of Democrats want voter ID, why stop the SAVE Act from passing?

The National Center for Public Policy Research asks the question already posed by many conservative pundits over the past month: “If Americans want voter ID, why stall the SAVE Act?”

A majority of Americans from both political parties and across racial groups support “voter ID,” the requirement to show government-issued photo identification in order to vote.  So why is the U.S. Senate dragging its feet on the SAVE Act?

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act (H.R. 7296/S. 3752, also referred to as the Save America Act) aims to require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Already passed by the U.S. House, it would effectively eliminate most online/mail-in registration and implement strict photo ID requirements.

In other words, the SAVE Act would help ensure that the voices of all American citizens are protected and counted in our elections.

(Read more at the National Center for Public Policy Research, mostly focusing on the Black vote)

Being a political junkie, the excuse I have heard centers on lobbyists

ImageFor the mass of lobbyists to oppose voter ID, these lobbyists must be either based or paid out of foreign sources.

While there are surely those groups that call for cheap, imported labor — that does not impinge on the need for Americans to control American elections.

For answers on this, I guess we will have to ask the party of the KKK, the original Jim Crow laws, the airport shutdowns, and Jim Crow 2.0 Chuck.

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Four stories that spell bad news for socialists

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First, in Texas, socialists have not gathered enough of a foothold to start threatening

Eight Antifa members convicted on terrorism charges in Texas

The Associated Press goes against its liberal tendencies to tell us about the eight Antifa activists convicted in North Texas of terrorism.

ImageA federal jury on Friday convicted eight people on terrorism charges over a shooting at a Texas immigration facility that federal prosecutors tied to antifa, the decentralized far-left movement that has become a target of the Trump administration.

One person was also found guilty of attempted murder after prosecutors say he opened fire last summer outside the Prairieland Detention Center outside of Fort Worth, wounding a police officer. The Justice Department called the violence an attack plotted by antifa operatives but attorneys for the accused denied that characterization, saying there were no antifa associations and that it was merely a demonstration with fireworks before gunshots broke out.

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of President Donald Trump, presided over the nearly three-week trial in Fort Worth. It was closely followed by legal experts and critics who called the proceedings a test of the lengths the government can go to punish protesters.

FBI Director Kash Patel had said the case was the first time charges of providing material support to terrorists had targeted people accused of being antifa members.

“Today’s verdict on terrorism charges will not be the last as the Trump administration systematically dismantles Antifa and finally halts their violence on America’s streets,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

Short for “anti-fascists,” antifa is not a single organization but rather an umbrella term for far-left militant groups that confront or resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations.

Protesters denied having antifa ties

Defense attorneys told jurors that there was no plan for violence on July 4 outside the facility in Alvarado.

There were nine defendants on trial in all, eight of whom faced the charge of providing material support to terrorists, among other charges. The ninth defendant, Daniel Sanchez Estrada, was charged with corruptly concealing a document and conspiracy to conceal documents. He was found guilty of both.

Sanchez Estrada’s attorney, Christopher Weinbel, said he can’t believe jurors “came to this conclusion.” Weinbel said he has deployed as a member of the Army several times in the defense of the U.S. and he’d hoped what he sacrificed “meant something.”

“But I feel like it turned its back on justice with this. … The U.S. lost today with this verdict,” Weinbel said.

Prosecutor Shawn Smith told jurors during closing arguments that the group’s actions — including bringing firearms, first aid kids and wearing body armor — were all signals of the group having a nefarious intent. He said they practiced “antifa tactics,” and were “obsessed with operational security.”

Attorneys for the defendants have said there was no planned ambush and that protesters who brought firearms only did so for their own protection.

(Read more tripe at the Associated Press)

If I were on that jury and saw evidence that the group did many things that Antifa often does, I would call them Antifa

If I were on that jury and saw evidence that the accused brought:

  • Body armor,
  • Black, identical clothes so as not to distinguish one from the other,
  • Firearms,
  • Fireworks,
  • First aid kits

Then I might also convict theses of using Antifa tactics to complete a terroristic attack on members of our law enforcement.

Some time ago, I posted on the miscarriage of justice at the hands of Antifa

In October 2025, I blogged on the miscarriage of justice surrounding the bullying of a member of the press by several members of Portland’s Antifa (and supported by the legal wing of Antifa, the Civil Liberties Defense Center). Through the information pulled together there, it was evident that Antifa had built such a network as to become either a law unto itself or an entity outside of the law.

By the indications given in the Associated Press article above, that will not happen in Texas

Although Texas has recently had the bad fortune to generate radicals like Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico, at least our overall political system has not tilted to the liberal left to the extent where Antifa can pull antics like it has in Portland.

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Second, in Cuba, protests have ramped up to the degree that a local headquarters was burned

Protest in central Cuba at local communist headquartersends in five arrests

The Associated Press informs us of the fall of the Cuban governemnt that has been hastened by the removal of Venezuelan oil.

ImageA group of residents of a city in central Cuba took to the streets early Saturday and partially destroyed the local headquarters of the ruling communist party. Authorities said that five people were arrested in a demonstration that was linked to the island’s energy supply issues and access to food.

The Cuban government said through official media that “vandalism acts” in Moron were directed at the building, while a smaller group also threw stones and set the reception furniture on fire. Videos published on social media showed that a drugstore and a store were also affected.

Cuba’s government said that its interior ministry has opened an investigation into the case. The country has suffered more blackouts and lack of fuel since other countries of the region stopped sending oil.

On Friday, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that he was holding talks with the U.S. government, marking the first time the Caribbean country has confirmed widespread speculation about discussions with the Trump administration as it grapples with a severe energy crisis.

Díaz-Canel said that no petroleum shipments have arrived in Cuba in the past three months, and blamed a U.S. energy blockade for that. He said that the island is running on a mixture of natural gas, solar power and thermoelectric plants.

(Read more at the Associated Press)

This video documents “Viva Trump” graffiti appearing on Cuban walls

Toward the middle of this video, Cubans go to the streets in daylight and shout “Viva Trump”

Third, Cuba’s government has become so buried by debt that it quietly negotiates with America

Havana is expected to allow Cubans in Miami, elsewhere to own businesses on the island

The Miami Herald reports on the opening of the Cuban economy to investment by Cubans who fled the country for the possiblity of freedom.

The Cuban government is expected to announce as early as next week economic reforms to allow Cuban Americans living in South Florida and elsewhere in the U.S. and around the world to invest and own private businesses on the island, the Miami Herald has learned.

The economic opening comes amid unprecedented pressure by the Trump administration, which has cut off oil supplies to the Cuban government, and ongoing talks between the two countries acknowledged by Cuban leaders for the first time on Friday.

“The return of the Cuban diaspora is imminent,” said one source who is knowledgeable about the expected measures and who asked not to be identified to speak of the sensitive matter. According to the source, the Cuban government is likely to allow Cubans living abroad to own private enterprises the Cuban government has labeled mipymes — pronounced mee-PEE-mes —the Spanish acronym for micro, small and medium enterprises. The source said Cubans abroad are also expected to be allowed to invest in the private sector on the island, an idea Cuban Americans have been pushing for many years.”

(Read — but not red — more at the Miami Herald)

Christians, let’s pray for the people of Cuba as they need to be lifted up

Not only might we pray, but (as directed by God) become vessels of blessing for our Christian brothers in Cuba.

Elissa Slotkin throws up a smokescreen by calling to fund DHS just hours after voting it down

Democrat senators call to fund DHS after voting to block it 4 times amid shutdown fight

Fox News points out how Senator Slotkin called for the end of the lack of funding for DHS (but does not point out how she both voted on the DHS funding and knew of the attack on the synagogue well before that).

Senate Democrats say they want to end the government shutdown but have repeatedly blocked GOP attempts to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as they push for immigration enforcement reforms.

ImageOn Friday, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., said at a news conference following an antisemitic attack on the Temple Israel synagogue in her state that “certainly” Congress must fund DHS. 

However, Slotkin and most Senate Democrats have voted four times to block DHS funding, including several attempts to temporarily reopen the agency while negotiations continue.

Slotkin is just one of several Senate Democrats calling for an end to the shutdown. Republicans argue the votes are part of a broader Democratic strategy to blame them for blocking efforts to reopen DHS.

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., accused Democrats of trying to shift blame for the shutdown. 

“Well, that’s what they do, right? And they’re good at it. They’re really good at it,” he told Fox News Digital. “And the big difference is they have 90% of the legacy media backing them up.”

“So it’s hard, but again, four times this afternoon, the Democrats voted against funding DHS,” he continued.  

(Read more at Fox News)

None of this centers on ICE (funded until the end of fiscal year 2029). This only has to do with giving illegals the vote.

While these Democrats want to be remembered as opposing something they voted in support of, the one thing that they are screaming about (ICE) is funded through 2029.

Therefore, if you are standing in a 4-hour TSA line, blame Democrats. If you are standing in the ruins of an attack on our land, blame Democrats.

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Two observations regarding Islam in America

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First, when America goes to war against a Islamic coalition including a faction in Lebanon, attacks from a Lebanese Islamist might be expected

Israel confirms Michigan synagogue attacker’s brother was Hezbollah terrorist commander

The New York Post does reporting that liberal reporters won’t do as it reports on the brother of the Michigan synagogue attacker.

The brother of a terrorist who rammed a vehicle into a Michigan Jewish preschool was a Hezbollah commander, Israel Defense Forces have said.

Ayman Muhammad Ghazali, 41, was shot dead after driving the vehicle into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., on Thursday.

His brother, Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali, was responsible for managing weapons operations within a specialized branch of Hezbollah’s Badr Unit, the IDF said in a statement Sunday morning.

This unit of the Lebanese terror group is responsible for launching hundreds of rockets toward Israeli civilians throughout the recent war with Iran, the IDF said.

Ghazali’s two brothers, a niece, and a nephew were killed in an Israeli airstrike on March 5 in the town of Mashgharah, Lebanon, just days before the attack, a local official told AP Friday.

The family had sat down for their fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan when they were struck.

(Read more at the New York Post and see a pictures tying the article together)

On our nation’s founding, many states had church-specific requirements for office

When our nation went from being British colonies to a fledgling nation, states had requirements that held potential office seekers make oaths. For example:

Therefore, to say that America had anything but a Christian beginning ignores history.

Further, to suggest that we are built on immigration inclusive of Islam ignores these laws established for our lawmakers and ignores the affects of the Barbary Wars.

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Second, there are multiple things in common here

There’s one thing all the latest terrorist attacks in America have in common

The Daily Caller points to a noted commonality between those who attacked others in America since the beginning of the war against Iran: the issue of being either naturalized citizens or children of naturalized citizens.

There’s a common denominator among the men accused of committing various terrorist attacks in recent weeks: All were naturalized U.S. citizens or the children of naturalized U.S. citizens.

Ndiaga Diagne, 53, was a naturalized U.S. citizen from Senegal.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claims Diagne perpetrated the March 1 terror attack in Austin, Texas, in which a gunman killed three people and wounded 15 others.

(continued)

Two men are accused of tossing bombs into a crowd of protesters outside the New York City mayor’s home March 7. Those men are Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19. Both are U.S. citizens from Pennsylvania.

Balat and Kayumi are suspected of targeting Jake Lang, a right-wing protester demonstrating outside Gracie Mansion that day, according to The New York Times. The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges that the men “were acting in support of ISIS.” 

“This isn’t a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet … We take action! We take action!”; and “if I didn’t do it someone else will come and do it,” Balat told New York Police Department (NYPD) officers, according to the DOJ.

Balat asked for a piece of paper at the NYPD precinct. After being provided with paper and pen, he wrote: “All praise is due to Allah lord of all worlds! I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State. Die in your rage yu [sic] kuffar! Emir B.” 

“Kuffar,” the DOJ notes, is an “Arabic term that refers to ‘non-believers’ or ‘infidels.’”

“Die in your rage” is an ISIS slogan. 

(continued)

(continued)

Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, is accused of gunning down one man and injuring two others at Old Dominion University in Norfolk on Thursday. Jalloh was a U.S. citizen originally from Sierra Leone, according to USA Today.

Jalloh shouted “allahu akbar” during the attack, NBC News reported, citing FBI special agent Dominique Evans. Jalloh was subdued and killed by students, officials announced Thursday.

(continued)

DHS identified Ayman Mohamad Ghazali as the suspect accused of driving an explosives-laden truck into the entrance of a Synagogue in Michigan.

(Read the entire article and see associated links at the Daily Caller)

Maybe this was the subliminal message of the article, but I will go ahead and state it: beside being naturalized citizens they all belonged to the death cult known as Islam

While none in the main stream press will emphasize the matter, all of the attacks have come from people shouting “allahu akbar” and either aiming guns or throwing bombs.

Therefore, do we need to return to barring certain peoples and nationalities from immigration? Do we need to look for sympathizers to certain causes?

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A continued table of the unhinged statements of James Talarico

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In yesterday’s post, we had a table listing and citing some 14 statements by James Talarico

Yesterday’s list of 14 ranged from “God is non-binary” to “(the Texas Law requiring the 10 Commandments be posted in public school classrooms) does “violence to both faith traditions it claims to represent.”

Today’s list may start short and will begin with the conversation quoted by TikTok personality Morgan Thompson

Again, I hope to make an easy reference for those who want to learn Talarico’s views

Talarico quote News Source
“(U.S. Representative and Democrat Colin Allred is) a mediocre Black man (while U.S. Representative and Democrat Jasmine Crockett is) a formidable, intelligent Black woman.” TikTok
(In response to testamony on a bill that passed prohibiting sex change surgeries on minors:) “In committee, I listened to 15 hours of testimony about this bill. The worst part, for me, was the number of Christians who used scripture to justify hurting children. Even on this floor today, a member tried to justify a hateful amendment in the name of God’s law.” Instagram
(Again in response to testamony on a bill that passed prohibiting sex change surgeries on minors:) “The first two lines of the Bible, the first two lines of Genesis, use two different Hebrew words to describe God. One is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity, the second is the feminine Hebrew noun for spirit. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is nonbinary.” Instagram
“If Pope Francis, you know, were to come back and sit at this table and tell me, you know, ‘James, I’m pro-life and anti-abortion, here’s my theological argument,’ I am here to listen and respect that opinion. I have, I have dear friends who are anti-abortion.” YouTube
“The antithesis of Trump is not Biden or Warren or Harris or Castro. It’s not even President Obama. The clearest anti-Trump we have is Jesus of Nazareth. His teachings—and those delivered by other prophetic voices throughout history—show us the way to defeat Trumpism in our world and in ourselves” Facebook video
“Black Americans in a church.

Mexican Americans in a store.

Asian Americans in a spa.

Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country.”

 X (aka Twitter)
“I’m proud to sign Rep. [Gene Wu]’s resolution condemning anti-Asian hate speech like ‘Kung Flu’ and ‘China Virus.’ Words have consequences. Dehumanization leads to violence.” X (aka Twitter)
“Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front.” Rumble

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A collection of the unhinged statements of James Talarico

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While this is not my first installment on the wokeness of James Talarico, also do not expect it to be the last

Previously, I focused on:

  • Talarico’s argument that God supports abortion (and the countering arguments by Million Voices and Answers in Genesis)
  • Tweets on:
    • Talarico’s view that God is non-binary
    • Talarico’s concept that Hinduism and Buddhism teach the same thing as Christ
    • Talarico: “I have met so many more Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, … that are much more Christ-like than the Christians I serve with”
    • Links showing Talarico follows porn stars on Instagram
    • Talarico quotes the Gospel of Thomas to prove Jesus approved transgenderism.
  • In another post, I responded, point by point, to his complaint of not being asked the questions he wanted from the press (where he was primarily fielding questions about the transgender athletes he often comments about).

Therefore, in this post, I hope to make an easy reference for those who want to learn Talarico’s views

Talarico quote News Source
“God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary, … Trans children are God’s children, made in God’s own image.” Fox News
“I believe that Jesus Christ reveals that reality to us, but I also believe that other traditions reveal that reality in their own ways, with their own simple structures. And I’ve learned more about my tradition by learning more about Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam and Judaism. And so, I see these beautiful faith traditions as circling the same truth about the universe, about the cosmos,” Fox News
“I say all this in the context of abortion, because before God comes over Mary, and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent… so to me, that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create… so that’s how I come down on that side of the issue.” Fox News
“Did they teach you in Sunday school that Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist?” Fox News
“Modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes; in fact, there are six.” Fox News
“Our trans community needs abortion care too. Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state Capitol, and you better believe I’ll be giving sermons on that too, … So when I use the word ‘woman,’ it should not be understood as an exhaustive lens through which we understand, examine and interrogate patriarchy. Similar to how we specify anti-Black racism.” Fox News
“White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go —through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don’t have to be showing symptoms—like a white hood or a Confederate flag—to be contagious. The only cure is diagnosing the virus within ourselves and taking dramatic actions to contain the spread. The first small step is proclaiming loudly and unequivocally that #BlackLivesMatter.” X (aka Twitter)
“The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.

And so, what I would say is that the only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.

Trans people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.

Trans people aren’t taking away our healthcare.

Undocumented people are defunding our schools.

Muslims aren’t cutting taxes for themselves and their rich puppet politicians.

And so we need not only the media, but all of us to focus on the real problem at hand.”

 X (aka Twitter)
“Those neighbors of ours deserve a lot better than ICE terrorizing them and their children, ICE tearing families apart.” Fox News and their local affiliate KRWG
“Undocumented Americans are folks who work in our businesses, learn in our schools and contribute to our communities — but lack citizenship documentation.

As a Texas legislator, they’re also my constituents. Like so many immigrants throughout our history, undocumented Americans came to this country for the same simple reasons: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

 X (aka Twitter)
“This is a manufactured problem. The only reason we’re doing this is because certain Republican legislators – not in this committee, I’ll add, but some of our Republican colleagues – want to brag to their far right voters that they hurt trans kids. It’s the same voters who think the election was stolen, the same voters pushing us to waste time on these culture war issues. There’s no other purpose of this bill other than to hurt kids, and I didn’t come here to hurt kids, and I don’t think any of you came here to hurt kids. If we vote for this bill, I fear it’s a stain we can’t remove.” Autsin CBS affiliate KEYE
“I love, and just say this because it’s on my mind, the trans children who showed up yesterday at the state Capitol to advocate for their humanity. They shouldn’t have to, but it was an inspiration to watch.” X (aka Twitter)
“Before we go any further, I want to acknowledge our trans community needs abortion care, too.” X (aka Twitter)
It does violence to both Christianity and Judaism. There are way more than Ten Commandments in the Jewish tradition—613 mitzvot—and Christianity has its own rich diversity of interpretations. This bill picks and chooses one version, promotes it in public schools, and ignores the beautiful diversity of both faiths. It has no historical basis in American history as a mandate for public education.

And let’s talk about the Founding Fathers—I am a lot more religious than some of our Founding Fathers.

 YouTube
This bill (on requiring Texas classrooms to display the 10 Commandments) does a disservice to both Judaism and Christianity. As you know, there are way more than 10 Commandments in the Jewish tradition. There are 613 in the Hebrew Bible. And the irony for us Christians is that we follow a Rabbi who tried to simplify those 613 Commandments into two: love God and love neighbor. This bill is not doing anything to love God or love neighbor. It is discriminating against our neighbors. Our Hindu neighbors, our Buddhist neighbors, or Sikh neighbors …

So this bill is doing violence to both faith traditions it claims to represent.

 X (aka Twitter)

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Our main stream media twice gets exposed as the lying press (and, not to be outdone, a Democrat does his best)

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This time, they take two lying approaches to the same event

The New York Times initial headline on the bombs: Homemade bomb thrown at protest Near N.Y.C. mayor’s house, police say.

The New York Times does its dead level best to ignore the real target of the bomb and let the uninformed audience assume that this was an attack on the mayor’s house (which it was not — but was an attack on the free speech of those opposing the establishment of Islamic prayers into New York streets).

At least one counterprotester threw a homemade bomb on Saturday during a violent clash with far-right protesters outside Gracie Mansion in Manhattan, the police commissioner, Jessica S. Tisch, said on Sunday.

Preliminary analysis of the device by the Police Department’s bomb squad found that it was “not a hoax device or a smoke bomb,” but “an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death,” Ms. Tisch wrote on social media.

Emir Balat, 18, the counterprotester accused of throwing that device and another smoking projectile, and Ibrahim Nikk, 19, who is accused of supplying one of them, were arrested on Saturday, the police said. No explosions or injuries from the devices were reported.

(Read as much innuendo and suggestion as you wish at the New York Times)

The reader is left to speculate and assume

The one error that the Times makes is that they name the two who threw the bombs, giving a slight hint of the ethnicity of the two. While people can change from their roots, when extreme events occur (as did here), simple questions often lead to either correct answers or great starting points.

The Western Journal has this take on the New York Times article: “The most dishonest headline we’ve ever seen”

The Western Journal at least gets their assessment of the New York Times headline square on: this had to be one of the most deceiving headlines for the week.

I’m convinced that there’s a parlor game going on inside major American newsrooms.

Almost seven years ago, The Washington Post set a new standard for horribleness in headlining by describing the recently deceased head of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as an “austere religious scholar.” This was woke euphemism on a level so thoroughly bonkers that most media watchers thought it could never possibly be topped.

The parlor game is an attempt to topple it, of course. And while the death of the thankfully late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave the media some practice when applying the principle to Islamist scoundrels, The New York Times’ attempt to whitewash (in more ways than one) the events outside Gracie Mansion this weekend really does deserve some plaudits in this race to the bottom of the honesty barrel.

So, just in case you’re catching up to this one, six people were arrested after homemade explosive devices were tossed by leftist pro-Islamist counter-protesters outside of Gracie Mansion, the home of the New York City mayor, on Saturday.

The improvised explosives were hurled sometime after noon at forces allied with Jake Lang, a controversial right-wing influencer who was leading a march to “stop the Islamification of NYC,” according to the New York Post. Late Sunday, the Post reported, “FBI agents raided the Pennsylvania homes of the two ISIS-inspired extremists accused of hurling” the bombs.

The FBI’s Evidence Response Team searched the Langhorne homes of Ibraham Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18, on Sunday after the radicals were busted for allegedly throwing homemade IEDs during a violent clash between right-wing agitators backing Jake Lang and pro-Muslim counter-protesters Saturday afternoon.

Photos showed agents hauling evidence, including what looked like computer parts, from Balat’s home. …

The makeshift bombs — a sports drink bottle stuffed with TATP and wrapped in construction tape — were lobbed at Lang’s crew as the rival demonstrators squared off near Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Big Apple residence during a planned anti-Muslim rally organized by the “white supremacist.”

The deadly devices — packed with the terrorist-favored volatile explosive known as “Mother of Satan” — fortunately failed to detonate, after police swiftly secured the bombs, removed the lethal mix and ended the threat.

So obviously, unpleasant stuff, and we’re lucky that nobody got killed at the event. It’s also worth noting that the men gave no question as to what their motives were, yelling “Allahu Akbar” before the explosives were thrown. Best not to keep us guessing, I suppose.

The New York Times, nominally being Gotham’s newspaper of record, was therefore forced to report on it. As of Monday morning, its headline read thusly: “Homemade Bomb Thrown at Protest Near N.Y.C. Mayor’s House, Police Say.”

(Read much more and see the four additional tweets at the Western Journal)

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NBC doesn’t do much better than the NYTwits with the headline: Multiple arrests made after “suspicious devices” found outside Gracie Mansion

New York’s NBC affiliate WNBC follows the lead of the Times as it obscures the object of the attacks while not giving much information on those who perpetrated the attack.

Two people were taken into custody after a pair “suspicious devices” were ignited Saturday during protests outside of Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor of New York City.

The incident occurred as an anti-Islam demonstration led by conservative influencer Jake Lang and a counterprotest were underway, police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters. An NYPD spokesperson said there were no injuries.

Tisch said earlier that she did not believe Mayor Zohran Mamdani or first lady Rama Duwaji were inside the mansion at the time, but the police department clarified Saturday night that Mamdani was in the residence. Mamdani spokesperson Joe Calvello said the mayor and his wife were safe.

(Read more at WNBC)

Since the name primarily mentioned in this article is Jake Lang, a “conservative influencer,” might people believe that a conservative threw the bombs?

Since the Times, NBC, and (below) Mamdani did not mention the cries of “allahu akbar,” it seems the audience might believe that this was an attack on Islam. Instead, it seems to be the opposite.

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It was not just the press misleading the public

In a tweet and a speech, Zohran Mamdani blamed “white supremicists” for the clash. First the words of the tweet:

First, the text of Mamdami’s tweet

Yesterday, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion rooted in bigotry and racism. Such hate has no place in New York City. It is an affront to our city’s values and the unity that defines who we are.

What followed was even more disturbing. Violence at a protest is never acceptable. The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are.

I want to thank the brave men and women of the NYPD who acted quickly to keep New Yorkers safe. Our officers ran toward danger without hesitation, demonstrating once again the courage and dedication it takes to protect this city every single day.

My administration is closely monitoring the situation and I remain in close contact with our Police Commissioner.

Next, the words of Mamdami as shown in video form

In the following video by Vince Dao, Zohran Mamdani is shown saying

I’m the first Muslim mayor of our city. Anti-Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me, nor is it anything new for the 1 million or so Muslim New Yorkers who know this city as our home.

Almost instant rebuttal to Mamdani’s lies by Jessica Tisch, the New York City Police Commissioner

Luckily, this video also includes recording of Jessica Tisch, the New York City Police Commissioner, who says:

This is being investigated as an act of ISIS-inspired terrorism. Preliminary test results determined that these were not hoax devices nor smoke bombs. They were improvised explosive devices that could have caused serious injury or death.

Now for some logic in the form of humor

So you disarmed the people, opened the border, and defunded the police — and now you're worried about Iranian sleeper cells?

Again, the Democrat agenda didn’t go according to original plans.

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Two instances where our main stream media was exposed as the lying press

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The first instance: the lie about the re-assignment of Kristi Noem

On the promotion of Kristi Noem to her postion as Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas

On 5 March 2026, President Donald Trump issued the following post regarding then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

Screen capture of Trump post on the Kristi Noem promotion to Special EnvoyI am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected United States Senator from the Great State of Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, will become the United States Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), effective March 31, 2026. The current Secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!), will be moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida. I thank Kristi for her service at “Homeland.”

Serving 10 years in the United States House of Representatives, and 3 in the Senate, Markwayne has done a tremendous job representing the wonderful People of Oklahoma, where I won all 77 out of 77 Counties — in 2016, 2020, and 2024! A MAGA Warrior, and former undefeated professional MMA fighter, Markwayne truly gets along well with people, and knows the Wisdom and Courage required to Advance our America First Agenda. As the only Native American in the Senate, Markwayne is a fantastic advocate for our incredible Tribal Communities. Markwayne will work tirelessly to Keep our Border Secure, Stop Migrant Crime, Murderers, and other Criminals from illegally entering our Country, End the Scourge of Illegal Drugs and, MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. Markwayne will make a spectacular Secretary of Homeland Security. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Admittedly, this “promotion” happened just after a Congressional hearing where advertisements featuring Noem were said by Noem to have been approved by Trump (but were not)

While it is true that the ad campaigns featuring Kristi Noem were later said to not to have been signed off by President Trump, we don’t have a direct line between Noem’s change of position and the misstep by Noem.

However, when it comes to dealing with the demands of Democrats to depose Kristi Noem for her effectiveness in deporting illegal alien criminals, maybe this promotion is just the fitting remedy. That is, when it comes to a Democrat committing federal crimes (like former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, we either have to go through a full criminal trial or they get off with a censure (otherwise known as a slap on the wrist and severe scolding).

The story from the lying press

The New York Times headline: Trump fires his Homeland Security Secretary

New York Times in true liberal form took the above post and reported that President Trump had “fired” Kristi Noem.

President Trump fired Kristi Noem, his homeland security secretary, making her the first cabinet member to be ousted in Trump’s second term. She had been a key figure in the president’s mass deportation effort.

Noem’s tenure was filled with controversy, and Trump’s allies had speculated for weeks about her potential removal. The catalyst for Noem’s ouster appeared to be her testimony this week that Trump had approved a $220 million ad campaign she was featured in. “I never knew anything about it,” the president said today.

Republicans had also questioned Noem’s response to the killing of U.S. citizens by immigration agents in Minneapolis and criticized her handling of disaster aid.

(Read more at the New York Times if you have both a penchant for punishment and a liking of lies)

If you called Representative Schweikert’s censure for campaign finance violations a “punishment”

If Schweikert’s censure was a punishment, then maybe this might be some sort of “firing” and re-hiring.

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The second lie: the lie about public support for voter identification

Buried in the first line on their coverage on President Trump’s promise to withhold his signature on bills until the SAVE America Act reaches his desk

CNBC starts its Democrat propaganda in the first paragraph and sentence of its article on President Trump’s effort to advance the bill requiring proof of citizenship and verification of ID to vote.

ImagePresident Donald Trump threatened to withhold his signature from any bill that reaches his desk until Congress passes a controversial election measure known as the SAVE America Act, which would make it much harder for many Americans to vote.

“It must be done immediately. It supersedes everything else. MUST GO TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE,” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Sunday. “I, as President, will not sign other Bills until this is passed.”

The SAVE America Act would require proof of citizenship and photo ID to vote. The measure has been the subject of an immense pressure campaign from right-wing commentators and congressional Republicans.

(Read what amounts to organic fertilizer at CNBC)

When 80% of America agrees on a topic, claims that the topic remains “controversial” is a lie

Furthermore, if polls like Ipsos, Neilsen, YouGov, and Kantar say that 80% of Americans approve voter id, the numbers probably top 90% (since these polls tend to over-count liberal voices in academia).

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Peace in the midst of chaos

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The following comes through the notes of Mark Ramsey and the comments of the class.

Peace in the midst of chaos in a world of natural disasters

  1. Wars and rumors of wars

    You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. (Matthew 24:6-7a NIV)

    The first recorded war/battle in world history was between Egypt and the Canaanites (1457 BC). Where do you think it occurred?

    One student of history offered that the first war between the king of Egypt and his enemy occurred at the valley of Meggido. Hence, the first war recorded in our history and the last (recorded in Revelation) would be in the same valley.

    Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. (Revelation 16:16 NIV)

    In Revelation 16:16, where do you think the Antichrist will set up his operating base in the final war of history?

    Armageddon comes from the Hebrew term, Har Meggido or the “mountain of Megiddo”. Guess what? Megiddo was not originally a mountain. It is an archaeological “tel” or manmade hill, that gained its height from the repeated destruction and rebuilding of the city.

    Jesus is telling us in this passage that dissension will increase and that global warfare will envelope humanity in increasing measure as we approach the end days.

  2. The curse of war

    War is a terrible thing but sometimes, it is a necessary thing. When do you believe wars become necessary?

    One member offered the idea that it was needed to prevent evil (as with Hitler). Another referred to Augustine and Just War theory (that while Christians should generally avoid violence, war is a necessary, albeit tragic, duty to protect peace and punish injustice).

    Without just wars, evil cannot be hindered.

  3. The cause of war

    What do think is the cause of war?

    One member suggested that war came out of an evil heart (referring to Proverbs 4:23). Another pointed to the evil desires of men.

    The cause the human heart.

    What does the Bible say about the heart?

    Above all else, guard your heart,
      for everything you do flows from it. (Proverbs 4:23 NIV)

    For out of the heart come evil thoughts — murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. (Matthew 15:19 NIV)

    A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. (Matthew 12:35 NIV)

    The heart is deceitful above all things
      and beyond cure.
      Who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9 NIV)

    I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26 NIV)

    Create in me a pure heart, O God,
      and renew a steadfast spirit within me. (Psalm 51:10 NIV)

    The heart is the core of our being and the Bible sets high importance on keeping our hearts pure.

    Conflict between good and evil originated in the garden of Eden and since then, war has become a major theme in human history

  4. Rumors of war

    Rumors is a translation of the original Greek term, “akoe” (ἀκοὰς). It can mean “report” or “sound.” If Jesus intended the former, He was telling His disciples they would hear of actual wars and reports of others.

    But many experts believe the better translation is “sound” or “noise” in other words, you will hear of wars far away and you will actually hear the sounds of wars close try. Those wars will come directly to you, your community and city

    Biblical scholars also believe the description, “wars and tumors of wary”, is a description of world war-the expression is a Hebrew idiom for a world wan

    Whatever the case, there will be wars everywhere which will increase in intensity, scope and fearfulness as the end days near

    Do you know how many countries possess nuclear weapons?

    One class member offered a number of nine nations.

    Does all this information cause you anxiety? Explain

    One member noted that they relieved anxiety by trusting in the plan of the Lord. Another mentioned the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Another pointed to their reading the Word as their source of peace. Another noted the “God has not given us a spirit of fear.” A fifth noted that he used the lack of anxiety as a witness tool.

    What should your attitude be when you hear these rumors of war? Explain

    How can you explain your attitude/reasoning to an unbeliever?

  5. Peace in the midst of war

    Look at Matthew 24:6 again. “See to it that you are not alarmed or troubled”. How is that possible?

    1. Peace from God’s promise

      In our first lesson of this series, we discussed the concept of peace and the different kinds of peace.

      In the midst of war and rumors of war, how would you define the word, “peace”?

      One member defined peace with the hope of salvaton. A second partially quoted Romans 8:28 by saying “all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” A third defined peace as a response to the enablement of God. A fourth noted God is sovereign. A fifth noted that God gives a peace that passes understanding. A sixth pointed to how we fight from victory. A seventh reminded us how Christ will never leave us. Am eighth mentioned the many promises he has seen fulfilled.

      How can you exude peace in your life if you are truly experiencing

      How do you give thanks to the Lord when you experience His peace?

      He makes wars cease
        to the ends of the earth.
      He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
        he burns the shields with fire. (Psalm 46:9 NIV)

      He will judge between the nations
        and will settle disputes for many peoples.
      They will beat their swords into plowshares
        and their spears into pruning hooks.
      Nation will not take up sword against nation,
        nor will they train for war anymore. (Isaiah 2:4 NIV)

    2. Peace from God’s presence

      The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” (Deuteronomy 31:8 NIV)

      No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. (Joshua 1:5 NIV)

      Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:9 NIV)

      When you pass through the waters,
        I will be with you;
      and when you pass through the rivers,
        they will not sweep over you.
      When you walk through the fire,
        you will not be burned;
        the flames will not set you ablaze. (Isaiah 43:2 NIV)

      Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,

      “Never will I leave you;
        never will I forsake you.”

      So we say with confidence,

      “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
        What can mere mortals do to me?” (Hebrews 13:5-6 NIV)

      Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. (John 14:27 NIV)

      “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33 NIV)

    3. Peace from God’s plan

      In Matthew 24-6, we also read, “Such things must pass or all these things must pass.”

      “Must” Indicates the indisputable and mandatory decree of the Lord. As we know these things must be fulfilled, we can rest and abide in His peace.

      The only way we cannot be troubled in these times is to trust in Christ and His Word

      You will keep in perfect peace
        those whose minds are steadfast,
        because they trust in you. (Isaiah 26:3 NIV)

      Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV)

      Praise be to the Lord my Rock,
        who trains my hands for war,
        my fingers for battle.
      He is my loving God and my fortress,
        my stronghold and my deliverer,
      my shield, in whom I take refuge,
        who subdues peoples[a] under me. (Psalm 144:1-2 NIV)

      Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7 NIV)

 

Peace in the midst of chaos

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The following comes through the notes of Mark Ramsey and the comments of the class.

Peace in the midst of chaos in a world of natural disasters

  1. There will be famines and earthquakes

    There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. (Matthew 24:7b NIV)

    So, what do you think will increase in frequency and intensity

    As this happens, what in your reaction or response?

    One member responded with “God is sovereign.”

    What great biblical event has already occurred from an earthquake?

    One member remembered how Korah and his followers were swallowed up by the earth due to their opposition to God’s chosen leader, Moses, (Numbers 17). Another remembered how Paul and Silas were in prison when an earthquake opened the doors (Act 16). Finally, one member pointed to the earthquake that happened at the death of Jesus (where the veil was torn, the graves were opened, and many Old Testament saints walked — Matthew 27).

    At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split (Matthew 27:51 NIV)

    The closer that we draw to the end times, the more we will experience the inescapable dangers which Jesus predicted in Matthew 24. This is the birth pains principle we have previously addressed

  2. Famines

    Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.” (Jeremiah 14:12 NIV)

    Jesus: “There will be famines.”

    Pestilence is a direct result of famines. War results in food shortages and people become nutritionally deprived, causing disease

  3. Earthquakes

    There are at least twelve super volcanoes around the globe.

    Famines, pestilence and earthquakes will continue to increase in intensity and frequency as we move closer to the return of Christ.

    One day, an ultimate global earthquake will destroy the cities of the world.

    In Scripture, earthquakes are associated with God’s power and judgment.

    You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. (Zechariah 14:5 NIV)

    The earth trembled and quaked,
      and the foundations of the mountains shook;
      they trembled because he was angry. (Psalm 18:7 NIV)

    He shakes the earth from its place
      and makes its pillars tremble. (Job 9:6 NIV)

    JOB 9:6

    Does this frighten you? Explain.

  4. Peace in the midst of natural disasters

    These events will be very disconcerting. We can be encouraged by God’s Word: ACTS 2:25, HEBREWS 6:19a

    David said about him:

    “‘I saw the Lord always before me.
      Because he is at my right hand,
      I will not be shaken. (Acts 2:25 NIV)

    We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, (Hebrews 6:19 NIV)

    In the midst of the turmoil from natural disasters, our lives can be defined by a peace which surpasses human understanding. It is a peace through God and from God and in God. As we focus on Him and seek His face, there are four elements of God’s nature and character that will fill us with peace.

    1. Peace in God’s protection

      Throughout the Bible, the Lord is referred to as our Shield, Refuge, Rock, Stronghold, Shelter, Fortress, Hiding Place and Keeper.

      Do you refer to the Lord on certain occasions with these types of descriptive words? If so, when?

      Lord, you have been our dwelling place
        throughout all generations.
      Before the mountains were born
        or you brought forth the whole world,
        from everlasting to everlasting you are God. (Psalm 90:1-2 NIV)

      and the Lord Almighty will shield them.
      They will destroy
        and overcome with slingstones. (Zechariah 9:15a NIV)

      The Lord is my light and my salvation—
        whom shall I fear?
      The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
        of whom shall I be afraid? (Psalm 27:1 NIV)

      After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:

      “Do not be afraid, Abram.
        I am your shield,
        your very great reward. (Genesis 15:1 NIV)

      Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, (Hebrews 12:28 NIV)

      God is our refuge and strength,
        an ever-present help in trouble.
      Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
        and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
      though its waters roar and foam
        and the mountains quake with their surging. (Psalm 46:1-3 NIV)

      Do you believe you can have peace by and through God’s protection during times of turmoil? Explain.

    2. Peace through new opportunities

      Remember the story of the Philippian jailor? it was an earthquake that brought him to Christ.

      He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

      They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.” (Acts 16:30-31 NIV)

      Natural disasters bring out supernatural opportunities and the Lord provides God’s people to serve those who are hurting as we share the gospel. We should never underestimate how the Lord can use us when tragedy strikes

      Have you been able to participate in such an opportunity? Explain.

    3. Peace in God’s perspective

      For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. (Matthew 24:27 NIV)

      Peter tells us to look forward to this day in 2 Peter 3:14.

      So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. (2 Peter 3:14 NIV)

      And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” (Revelation 21:3-4 NIV)

      We have been entrusted with the good news and called to share it. One of the best ways we can communicate hope during times of disaster is to remind others that these times are temporary. God’s promise of eternal life is grounded on His return and His eternal home for His people.

      Natural disasters reflect the fallen nature of our world as evidence of the corruption of sin. Disasters also show the temporary nature of this world, The Lord does not intend to leave us in this broken place.

      He is preparing a perfect home for all who follow Him.

      My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. (John 14:2-3 NIV)

      Explain if you look forward to that day and, if so, how is that hope reflected in your everyday life?

    4. Peace through God’s provision

      How do you describe the Lord’s provision?

      In the midst of natural disasters, do you still experience His provision? Explain.

      And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19 NIV)

      Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life. (1 Timothy 6:17-19 NIV)

      And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. (2 Corinthians 9:8 NIV)

      However, as it is written:

      “What no eye has seen,
        what no ear has heard,
      and what no human mind has conceived”—
        he things God has prepared for those who love him— (1 Corinthians 2:9 NIV)

 

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Paxton switches over to 3-D chess by issuing a challenge almost impossible for Cornyn

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The requested actions are not impossible for a true Republican, but would break the back of a RINO

Therefore, I suggest that this is a three-dimensional chess move where Paxton asks Cornyn to do two things almost antithetical to the never-Trump core of Cornyn.

Paxton puts the challenge out there to the current Senate Whip: Pass the SAVE America Act and I will drop out

Austin’s Fox affiliate KTBC reports that Paxton has agreed to drop out of the race if the SAVE America Act gets passed.

ImageTexas AG Ken Paxton says he would consider dropping out of the U.S. Senate runoff election if Congress passes the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote.

The social media announcement comes the same day the Republican candidate said he would stay in the race even if President Donald Trump endorses Sen. John Cornyn, Paxton’s runoff opponent and bitter GOP rival in the past several months of ruthless campaigning.

(Read more at KTBC — all sause, no steak)

The rest of the reporting can be summarized in two competing tweets from Paxton and Cornyn

First, the tweet from Paxton:

In this tweet, he says:

The Save America Act is the most important bill the U.S. Senate could ever pass, and I’m committed to helping President Trump get it done.

I would consider dropping out of this race if Senate Leadership agrees to lift the filibuster and passes the SAVE America Act.

John Cornyn is a coward who has refused to support abolishing the filibuster to pass this bill. Now, Fake News reporters and the establishment are trying to destroy me with misinformation.

The truth is clear: No one has been more loyal to Donald Trump than me—fighting the stolen 2020 election, being in Mar-a-Lago when he announced his 2024 campaign, and standing with him in NY in the face of lawfare.

For the good of our country and for the good of passing President Trump’s agenda, I am determined to help him get this done.

Next, Cornyn sort-of replies (at least for the uninformed):

Since Cornyn (as mentioned in the text below) is both a sitting senator and the Majority Whip in the Senate, he should be more verbose than just saying “I repeat what I have consistently said: I support the bill and have encouraged Senate Republicans to get it done.”

He should list every blasted senator who has refused to come down and break the filibuster and vote for the blasted bill.

I don’t know about you, but I want names!

What Paxton doesn’t say are the things that the press and Democrats would have you ignore

Since Paxton is speaking primarily to the Washington insiders, he does not mention these important details:

  1. John Cornyn is the Majority Whip in the Senate and has almost as large an influence on what gets debated as Majority Leader Thune
  2. Despite the advertisements of John Cornyn that portray Senator Cornyn as having voted 99% of the time with President Trump, Cornyn
  3. Words like “I repeat what I have consistently said” are cheap. However, if do-nothing Cornyn was going to do something for the never-Trump extablshiment guys in the Senate, he would do his job as the Republican Senate Whip. Problem is, there are opponents like:
    • Rand Paul
    • Susan Collins
    • Thom Tillis
    • Mitch McConnell (therefore, likely others like)
    • John Thune
    • John Cornyn
  4. Additionally, one issue not mentioned by most press outlets appears in the second paragraph of the tweet: “lift the filibuster.” That does not involve abolishing the filibuster (as stated by some dishonest news outlets). It does, however, involve doing something that John Thune of any of the Senate leadership could have done over the past few weeks.

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Several sources tell us how Talarico twisted the Bible to support his Democrat stances

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Talarico insists that Gabriel’s announcement of the birth of Jesus proves God approves abortion

Houston’s NBC affiliate KPRC takes on the task of explaining how Democrat and supposed pastor James Talarico set forward the theory that the announcement by Gabriel proves God’s approval of abortion.

In the Book of Luke, the Austin Democrat noted, Mary has a vision from God that she’s going to give birth to a baby who will bring down the powerful from their thrones. But, critically, before she becomes pregnant, Talarico said, an angel “asks Mary if this is something she wants to do, and she says, ‘if it is God’s will, let it be done.’”

“To me, that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create,” Talarico, an aspiring Presbyterian minister and U.S. senator, told Rogan, arguing “the idea that there is a set Christian orthodoxy on the issue of abortion is just not rooted in Scripture.”

He went on to accuse the religious right of prioritizing abortion bans and “control” of pregnant mothers, rather than reducing miscarriages and protecting children through expanded health care access.

“I think that’s what we see across this Christian nationalist movement,” Talarico said. “This is religion at its worst: trying to control people and what they do.”

ImageIt was archetypal Talarico fare, blending religion and a progressive, populist politics on a digital platform made to reach millions. The appearance on Rogan’s show was only the latest in a string of viral hits this year for the devoutly Christian Democrat, who has garnered an enormous following online from videos that show him sermonizing about how religion informs his liberal worldview and debating his Republican colleagues in the Texas House over their efforts to infuse religion into public life.

By the end of the podcast episode — in which Talarico also wielded Scripture to defend gay rights, argue against religion in public schools and explain his work in the Legislature to lower the cost of prescription drugs — Rogan, who endorsed Donald Trump for the White House in 2024, told Talarico he “needs to run for president,” catapulting the four-term state lawmaker across the internet and making national headlines.

(Having read the last paragraph, read as much as you want at KPRC)

If you would rather hear Talarico defend how he thinks God approves abortion, here it is in video form.

Million Voices refutes Talarico’s claim that God approves abortion

Million Voices does the best job of rebutting this one of “pastor” Talarico’s heretical teachings in their article below.

James Talarico, Democratic state representative from Austin and now a candidate for the U.S. Senate, made waves last month when he argued in a podcast that the Bible supports abortion, or at least permits it, in certain circumstances. On Joe Rogan’s show, Talarico pointed to Luke’s account of Mary agreeing to become pregnant only “if it is God’s will,” suggesting that this is a scriptural case of consent for creation, and therefore a basis for allowing abortion. He claimed there is no single Christian orthodoxy on abortion, and accused the religious right of focusing on controlling pregnant women rather than reducing miscarriages or expanding health care. His voice has only been elevated in recent days as his Senate campaign against John Cornyn has begun drawing more attention to his controversial remarks.

Talarico’s voice has been elevated in recent days after he announced his bid for U.S. Senate, running against John Cornyn.

Talarico’s argument rests on interpretation: he maintains that Mary’s consent demonstrates that creation must be voluntary, that one cannot force someone to bring life into the world against their will. He also argues that many Christians prioritize legal bans over practical measures like better care for mothers and children, framing the abortion debate as one misaligned with compassion.

His supporters say that Talarico’s progressive theology is refreshing and necessary, offering a Christian voice that engages deeply with modern ethical concerns and emphasizes social justice. They argue that Christianity demands we care for women, and that policies should reflect mercy, not moral shaming.

Christian Orthodoxy vs. Talarico’s Interpretation

For many Christian conservatives, Talarico’s appeal to Mary’s “if it is God’s will” moment does not establish consent for termination of life. The traditional Christian view holds that life begins at conception, often citing Psalm 139:13–16, Jeremiah 1:5, and Luke 1:36 among other scriptures. In that view, the unborn are fully human, bearing God’s image, from the moment of conception. The notion that Mary’s response implies permission to end unborn life is seen by critics as a categorical misreading of Scripture. Mary’s acceptance of being the mother does not imply she had a choice to rescind life once it was conceived. Her “yes” is better understood as obedience in faith, not a condition for life-ending measures. Christian teaching has long held that God’s creation, including the unborn, is a gift, not something to which “consent” applies in human terms.

Practical Implications of Talarico’s View

If legislation were shaped by Talarico’s theology, it could lead to laws permitting abortion in broader contexts than many pro-life Christians believe Scripture allows. Not only would that shift affect legal protection of unborn life, it would also shift cultural norms around the moral status of the unborn.

Talarico’s emphasis on health care and reducing miscarriage is commendable; few Christians disagree with the importance of caring for mothers or improving medical support. But critics argue that such causes cannot replace the fundamental responsibility to protect life preborn. Loving one’s neighbor includes protecting those who cannot speak for themselves.

Christian Conservative Reflections

Christians who reject Talarico’s position often do so out of conviction that God’s Word, read in its entirety, does not provide room for abortion. Jesus’ teaching, the writings of Paul, and multiple Old Testament passages assert sanctity of human life. The unborn are not an after-thought in biblical theology, they are central to our understanding of God’s sovereignty, creative power, and puzzling grace.

Moreover, framing Mary’s response as if she had the choice to abort the baby or carry Him is a troubling distortion of Scripture. God was not asking Mary whether she wanted to end a child’s life; He was asking if she would be the one to carry Jesus. Had she declined, God could have chosen another woman to fulfill His plan.

While compassion is critical, towards women facing unplanned pregnancies, toward improving health care, toward supporting families, Scripture does not allow the end of an innocent life to be the solution to social or economic hardship.

Conclusion

James Talarico’s interpretation invites an important conversation about how Christian faith interacts with modern moral dilemmas. However, from a Christian conservative perspective, his view does not align with historic Christian orthodoxy on life, the nature of creation, and the value of consent as he defines it.

Laws and public policy should reflect both mercy and truth. Christians are called not only to care for those in difficult circumstances but also to defend life as God defines it. Faith that yields compromise on basic principles invites confusion. America needs leaders who uphold both compassion and the sanctity of life, not those who redefine life’s starting line by misreading key moments in Scripture.

(Read at Million Voices for more on this and for links to voter guides)

“Christian” Democrat Talarico on Joe Rogan argues the Bible Is pro-abortion – How do his claims stack up to examination?

Answers in Genesis starts with other abortion claims of Representative Talarico and refutes them and other non-biblical arguments of his.

Do not add to [God’s] words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar. (Proverbs 30:6)

This verse comes to mind after watching a truly atrocious clip from an interview on the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Texas State Representative James Talarico, who is also a professing progressive Christian. In this four-minute clip, Talarico argues that there is “no historical, theological, biblical basis” for saying Christians must oppose abortion and that “this idea that there is a set Christian orthodoxy on the issue of abortion, it’s just not rooted in Scripture.”

And then Talarico goes even further to argue that the Bible is actually pro-abortion.

Now, we’ve laid out the biblical arguments for the pro-life position before (for example, in this, this, and this article), so I’m just going to deal with his supposed “biblical” pro-abortion arguments in this post—and (spoiler!) they all involve a truly atrocious twisting of Scripture.

Only Jesus’ Words Matter?

But before we look at his three statements, I want to highlight something he said at the very beginning of this particular discussion: “I get suspicious when anybody . . . tells me that something is central to my faith, when Jesus never talks about it. To me that should, I think, ring alarm bells.  . . .”

Now, for any Christian, that statement should immediately ring alarm bells! What Talarico is saying is that only the “red letters”—the statements of Jesus in the gospels—are what we really need to be concerned about (a very common progressive talking point). In other words, he doesn’t see Scripture as the very Word of God (the Word of Christ) or that all Scripture is authoritative. That automatically tells me this person is either a progressive or leans progressive. Basically, he doesn’t take God’s Word seriously. Jesus is the Word, and Jesus is God, and every word of Scripture is the word of Jesus.

For Talarico’s main arguments (he also had another side point where he claims some believe the Torah gives instructions on how to have an abortion—we refuted that claim in this article by AiG’s Troy Lacey and Dr. Tim Chaffey), he claimed there’s biblical evidence to support the pro-abortion position. When Rogan asked for the evidence, Talarico gave three examples—including one from Genesis!

  1. Talarico summarizes Genesis 2:7 (“Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature”). He then extrapolates this to say, “Life starts when you take your first breath.”

    AiG’s Avery Foley has written an entire article refuting this ridiculous argument, but suffice it to say here that (1) This is obviously a unique circumstance! Genesis 2:7 is not about normal human development; it is describing the unique creation of the very first man; (2) Eve was not given the breath of life—so is he saying women are therefore not people? (3) To be consistent, he must say that life begins when dirt is fashioned into a person and the breath of life is given to them, but he conveniently ignores the first half of Adam’s creation; (4) His very premise is flawed, as babies breathe in the womb! They take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide via the umbilical cord.

  2. He notes that Jesus broke cultural norms regarding women, specifically by talking to them, an “affirmation of women as full and equal people.”

    Talarico doesn’t specify what this has to do with abortion, but presumably he’s saying that if a woman cannot kill her unborn child she is not a full or equal person with men. The assumption here is that men do not carry children and to be equal with them, women must also be able to remove the consequences of sexual activity to likewise not have to carry a child.

    But Jesus talking with women—and treating them as equally made in God’s image, equally valuable, and equally able to be saved by his death and resurrection—has nothing to do with the ethics of a woman killing her child in the womb! There are so many unspoken assumptions he’s bringing into his argument.

    Really, what he’s saying is that for a woman to be equal with a man, she must be allowed to get rid of what God designed her uniquely as a woman to be able to do—nurture and bear new life. His version of “equality” is not how the Bible treats men and women, who are equal in standing before God but unique in their roles (and their biology and biological abilities!).

  3. He claims God asked for Mary’s consent before the Holy Spirit overshadowed her in the incarnation, with the angel asking her “if this is something she wants to do.” Talarico says this shows us that “creation has to be done with consent.”

    To refute this argument, simply go and read the passage!

    In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”

    And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”

    And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For nothing will be impossible with God.” And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her. (Luke 1:26–38)

    Where exactly does the angel ask Mary’s permission for her to be the chosen mother of the Messiah? Nowhere. The angel comes and tells Mary what will happen, she asks how, he explains, and she submits in obedience to God’s spoken Word.

    Now, would Talarico argue that if Mary changed her mind at, say, the third month, it would have been okay for her to take an herbal concoction to induce an abortion to kill God’s Son since God no longer had her “consent”? That’s where his argument leads!

(Read more at Answers in Genesis on additional verses in Psalms, Acts, and Genesis that support the refutal of Talarico)

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Now for his separately-recorded heresies

Talarico tries to convince us that God is non-binary

While I may have never attained a degree in theology, I have read the Bible multiple times

In my reading of the Bible, I know that all versions of the prayer that Jesus taught to his disciples (commonly known as the Lord’s Prayer) begins with “Our Father.”

Although I am aware that God is not a man (something backed up by Numbers 23:19), I also know that the Father holds a certain relationship with the Son (and thereby with Christians) that is illustrated in this word.

Talarico tells us that Hinduism and Buddism teach the same things as Christianity

That does not square with the words of Christ

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6 NIV)

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (Matthew 7:13-14 NIV)

From the following quote, it seems that Talarico thinks we earn our salvation

Talarico: “I have met so many more Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddists, … that are much more Christ-like than the Christians I serve with”

While Christians may backslide, our salvation is not earned

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV)

Talarico follows porn stars on Instagram

Talarico quotes the Gospel of Thomas

Of course, the problems with his quoting the Gospel of Thomas include these issues:

  • Our church fathers were not led by the Spirit to include that book in the canon; therefore, (unlike the Bereans), we cannot check his quote.
  • The Spirit did not lead the church fathers to include that book for reasons that I do not know. However, those reasons may include heretical doctrine (aka the doctrines of demons).

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As theologically liberal as Talarico is, there are indications that he is just as politically liberal

Give up your illusions that James Talarico is the “white savior” of the Democrat party rising up out of the fight with liberal Jasmine Crockett. If anything, he is just as liberal as she is.

Talarico shown calling for prisons to be replaced with something love-based

Twitchy provides a video showing James Talarico calling for us to replace our prisons with something “love-based” (that is, something without walls).

Texas Democrat James Talarico beat Jasmine Crockett for their party’s U.S. Senate nomination and is now shifting into election mode. The young Democrat has a trove of social media posts and videos for Republicans to sort through. What they are finding only exposes what a crazy, far-leftist Talarico genuinely is.

Here’s a video from four years ago where he calls for prisons to be abolished and replaced with something love-based. (WATCH)

Any major Democrat city provides great examples of what happens when criminals are not incarcerated.

Talarico is already on defense, saying Republicans will label him a ‘radical leftist.’ (WATCH)

(Read more and see two more tweets at Twitchy)

In addition to his willingness to mess with our penal system, Talarico shows a willingness to toy with racism

The National Review provides a tweet of Talarico’s and breaks it down to show how the politician twists the “white privilege” into a supposed chain around himself (all while enjoying the votes this type of racism inspires.

Six years ago, James Talarico, the Democrats’ latest great white hope in the perpetually recalcitrant state of Texas, wrote and published the following words:

White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go—through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don’t have to be showing symptoms—like a white hood or a Confederate flag—to be contagious.

Since he won the primary on Tuesday, these words have been highlighted as prima facie evidence of Talarico’s unsuitability for public office. In response, his already insufferable fans have cried foul. In their view, homing in on old utterances such as these is uncharitable, unbecoming, and unjust, and it ought not to be done by anyone who considers himself to be a respectable chronicler of contemporary political affairs.

Those fans are wrong. Indeed, far from serving as a distraction, these words are pretty much all anyone needs to know about the man. In the coming election, they are relevant, indefensible, and disqualifying.

Why “disqualifying”? Because they are indicative, that’s why. Because they point to a considered, premeditated, fully conscious extremism that ought to be unacceptable in any American public figure. Only a handful of people in these United States would ever think a thing such as this — let alone say it aloud. The words in question were not rash, or hasty, or uttered under duress. They were volunteered. They represent a window into the soul. They ought to be fatal.

(Read the rest at the National Review)

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Encouraging news concerning the conflict in Iran

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Eighty-eight Iranian leaders die at a meeting held to vote in a new Supreme Leader

Axios reported briefly on the bombing of the meeting the Iranian leadership held to replace their Supreme Leader.

The Israeli air force on Tuesday struck the building housing Iran’s Council of Experts in the holy city of Qom in an attempt to disrupt the process of appointing a new supreme leader, an Israeli defense official said.

ImageWhy it matters: The Council of Experts is the body within the Iranian regime with the authority to appoint a new supreme leader. The clerics on the council vote on a short list of candidates being drafted by a smaller secret committee.

  • Former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was assassinated Saturday, along with dozens of senior Iranian leaders, in the first wave of Israeli airstrikes.

Driving the news: The Israeli defense official said the strike took place while votes were being counted. It isn’t clear how many of the council’s 88 members were in the building at the time, or the extent of the damage.

  • “We wanted to prevent them from picking a new supreme leader,” the official said.

(Read more drivel at Axios)

By reading the reporting at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Axios, you would think that we were bombing their immediate family

If you read the New York Times glowing obituary for the Ayatollah or the Washington Post with its similar drivel (down to even using the same “avuncular” description of the old mass murderer), I hope you were not eating. In the least, when they described the Ayatollah “(w)ith his bushy white beard and easy smile,” it was enough to make me choke.

Therefore, as socialists in arms, maybe these “journalists” do consider themselves brothers to the dictators of Iran (who have linked arms with the socialists of China and Russia).

To that point, I have read that China was close to providing supersonic anti‑ship missiles that could have shut down the Straits of Hormuz.

Allowing Iran to shut down the Straits of Hormuz would have crippled the world oil markets since 20% of the oil flows through that choke point.

In contrast to what China and Iran meant to do, America has cut off oil to China by crippling Venezuela and Iran

Politico provides five charts showing the ways that China has been cut off from its oil supplies due to the American actions in Venezuela and Iran.

President Donald Trump’s latest attack on Iran takes a big economic bite out of one of America’s chief rivals: China.

Over the span of two months, the Trump administration has removed the leaders of two countries that both shared China as their most important crude oil customer. Although China buys oil from nations all across the Middle East, Iran was second only to Saudi Arabia as its supplier last year, according to a POLITICO analysis of data provided by market research firm Kpler.

Almost all of Iran’s exported oil, and more than half of Venezuela’s, went last year to China, which remained one of the only purchasers of goods from the two heavily sanctioned nations. The two countries combined represented some 17 percent of China’s overall oil purchases — a meaningful share for the world’s largest importer of crude oil.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Saturday said it was “highly concerned” by the attacks on Iran and called for an end to the war. The squeeze on China’s energy supply also comes just weeks before Trump is slated to hold a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

(Read more and see the five graphs at Politico)

The U.S. Navy eliminates all 11 of Iran’s ships

The Daily Mail shares the glad tidings of the destruction of all 11 of Iran’s fleet by American forces.

The US military said it struck Iran’s largest naval warship following the launch of Trump’s ‘Operation Epic Fury.’

US Central Command also rebuked Iranian leadership for falsely claiming it had sunk an American aircraft carrier in the Gulf.

‘The Iranian regime’s false messaging machine continues to falsely claim that it has sunk a US aircraft carrier. The only carrier that has been hit is the Shahid Bagheri, an Iranian drone carrier,’ the US Central Command said.

‘US forces struck the ship within hours of launching Operation Epic Fury.’

Tehran reportedly used the IRIS Shahid Bagheri as a launching pad for drone attacks against US military base and Gulf allies following the death of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. 

US military forces previously sunk 11 naval ships operated by Tehran in the Gulf of Oman since the start of the war. The extent of damage inflicted on the Iranian ship remains unclear.  

But the strike on Iran’s warship further underscores the blow dealt to the country’s naval power by U.S. and Israeli forces.

Iran has falsely claimed that hundreds of US troops were killed in retaliatory strikes. US Central Command, however, says four service members have died and 18 others were injured from strikes by Iran. 

(Read more and see six illustrations at the Daily Mail)

 

Democrats attack the offensive by the US and Israel from every conceivable angle

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From the angle where they don’t condemn it, but try to tie it to wars they specifically approved

Senator Schumer does his best to have his cake from this war and pass Trump the bill for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars

In a post to his feed on X, Senator Schumer tries to surf on the approval of freeing Iran while tying this war with the “unending war” image earned by the Afghanistan War and Iraq War (two wars he approved entry into).

When I talked to Secretary Rubio, I implored him to be straight with Congress and the American people about the objectives of these strikes and what comes next. Iran must never be allowed to attain a nuclear weapon but the American people do not want another endless and costly war in the Middle East when there are so many problems at home.

The administration has not provided Congress and the American people with critical details about the scope and immediacy of the threat. Confronting Iran’s malign regional activities, nuclear ambitions, and harsh oppression of the Iranian people demands American strength, resolve, regional coordination, and strategic clarity. Unfortunately, President Trump’s fitful cycles of lashing out and risking wider conflict are not a viable strategy.

The administration must brief Congress, including an immediate all senators classified briefing and in public testimony, to answer these vital questions. The Senate should quickly return to session and reassert its constitutional duty by passing our resolution to enforce the War Powers Act.

My prayers are with our brave American servicemembers.

Let’s remind Senator Schumer of these points:

While most of us do not have the distinction of holding office, we might remind Chuck:

  • Either pick one side or the other of this issue. Either be for it or against it. Being both will not win a single vote.
  • You were among those who approved the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. It does not do you good to preach about endless wars (it mirrors your preaching on affordability when you approved the inflation-causing spending).
  • While there have been missiles lobbed against our military installations across the Middle East, that can hardly be called a widening of the war. Even the acts taken by Hezbollah, the constant thorn in the side of Israel, can hardly be seen as a widening of the war (only a continuation of hostilities). 
  • If President Trump were to have taken plans before the Congress,wouldn’t that have put the lives of our forces in jeopardy (considering the number of times leaks have issued out of Congress)?

While Democrats like Chris Murphy never questioned the Obama and Biden drone strikes on enemy and domestic targets, they oppose Trump’s use of the Air Force

Chris Murphy invokes Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Libya (although he never castigated Obama, Clinton, or Biden for their similar strikes)

Conneticut Democrat Chris Murphy envoked the ghosts of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Libya while criticizing the now-three-day-old strikes against Iran. Oddly, there are no records on file with Congress on his castigation of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or Joe Biden for their parts in the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Libya.

Trump’s attacks on Iran are dangerously illegal and a mistake of staggering scale. Has he learned nothing from decades of U.S. military disaster in the Middle East? Has he spent not one single minute studying the lives lost and trillions wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and Libya?

The American public does not want our President dragging us into another totally unnecessary conflict in a far-off land. They want him to focus on American lives — lives that are being ruined by an economy beset by flat wages, disappearing jobs, rising prices, and widespread corruption.

A military action to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program was totally unnecessary. We had a diplomatic deal to do that. It was working until Trump — against the advice of all his advisors — tore it to shreds. Trump willfully precipitated this crisis.

As for Trump’s stated goal of regime change, he should be very careful what he wishes for. If he fails in his goal, it hardens Iranian resolve to make trouble for the U.S. and our allies. If it succeeds, the chances are better that an even more repressive, more anti-Israel and anti-U.S. hardline government emerges out of the rubble than that a tolerant, inclusive Iranian democracy will.

The American people now see Trump for who he is — a would-be dictator who does not care what Americans think or want, cares nothing about our sacred Constitution or our laws, and sees himself as a kind of eighteenth-century king, with unlimited power to drag all of us into disastrous wars overseas without the consent of the people.

No, in America, we have no kings. One doddering, self-obsessed old man does not get to decide if we go to war. The people — through a vote of Congress — decide. That’s what our Constitution says. It’s clear as day. And Congress should be called back into session this afternoon to immediately begin debate on legislation that would approve or deny the President’s illegal war against Iran.

I am praying for the safety of U.S. forces today. They are being led into war by a leader who is out of control. Congress must do our constitutional duty and reign him in, before it’s too late.

These few points to Mr. Murphy

I would suggest these few points to Mr. Murphy:

  • When was it that you called out Barack Obama or his accolyte (Hillary Clinton of “We came, we saw, he died” fame) for their use of military strikes?
  • Since you mention that the President should “focus on American lives,” I don’t suppose you have noticed that annualized inflation was at 9% during Biden’s reign, but now is at 2.3%, have you?
  • Since you say a “military action to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program was totally unnecessary,” do you really think that the country that provided Hamas with hang gliders and rocket launchers to attack Israel on 7 October 2023 will hold back its use of nuclear technology?
  • You claim that “we” had a “diplomatic deal to do that.” Was that the pallet-fulls of cash that Obama sent over? Was that the billions that Biden allowed when he lifted the sanctions?
  • You claim that Trump is a dictator and “we have no kings,” but how many options were given by Dementia Joe when it came to his mandate for companies employing more than 100 to require the COVID jab? Was their a conscientious objector clause?

Likewise, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wants President Trump to explain himself when no such demands went to Obama, Clinton, or Biden

House Minority Leader makes similar demands to Schumer and others regarding what he calls the “Trump administration strikes on Iran.”

Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries released the following statement:

Overnight, Donald Trump announced the start of massive and ongoing military operations against Iran. The framers of the United States Constitution gave Congress the sole power to declare war as the branch of government closest to the American people.

Iran is a bad actor and must be aggressively confronted for its human rights violations, nuclear ambitions, support of terrorism and the threat it poses to our allies like Israel and Jordan in the region. However, absent exigent circumstances, the Trump administration must seek authorization for the preemptive use of military force that constitutes an act of war.

Donald Trump failed to seek Congressional authorization prior to striking Iran. Instead, the President’s decision to abandon diplomacy and launch a massive military attack has left American troops vulnerable to Iran’s retaliatory actions. We pray for the safety of the men and women of the U.S. military as they have been put into harm’s way in a dangerous theater of war.

If Iran’s nuclear program was “completely and totally obliterated” by the military strikes in June 2025, as Donald Trump boldly proclaimed, there should be no need to strike them now. Equally troublesome, the advancement of security and stability in the Middle East requires more than military might, as we painfully discovered in several failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Trump administration must explain itself to the American people and Congress immediately, provide an ironclad justification for this act of war, clearly define the national security objective and articulate a plan to avoid another costly, prolonged military quagmire in the Middle East.

The War Powers Resolution introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie demands that President Trump remove U.S. forces from hostilities in Iran absent Congressional authorization. House Democrats remain committed to compelling a vote on this resolution upon our return.

Mr. Jeffries, refresh my memory

Did you issue condemnations that I could not find on any of these subjects:

Democrats looking out for our best interests join with the President

Sen. John Fetterman, Rep. Greg Landsman, Rep. Don Davis, Rep. Souzzi, Rep. Cuellar, and Rep. Gottheimer join a growing list

Although Fox News added Senator Rosen to a list of Democrats who purportedly bucked party leaders to defend Trump’s “decisive action” on Iran, her statement on the war and her tweets all parallel that of Schumer and Jeffries.

I have to mention that the impetus for this post was the Balladeer’s post from yesterday that mentioned the Democrats known to be backing the war against Iran.

 

News on the offensive by the US and Israel by many news sources

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News on 28 February 2026: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead

PJ Media relays the message of hope for many of those driven out of Iran: the leader of Iran and 48 members of the ruling elite were killed early in the campaign.

Despite some initial debate, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed during the airstrikes Saturday morning, Israeli officials report.

“Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated in an Israeli strike on Tehran, with his body found under the rubble caused by an Israeli airstrike, senior Israeli officials were informed on Saturday evening,” the Jerusalem Post reports. “Documentation of Khamenei’s body was reportedly shown to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”

Khamenei has ruled the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1989, previously serving as president under Ruhollah Khomeini’s regime from 1981 until his ascension to supreme leader.

He was 86 years old.

Earlier on Saturday, Iranian officials promised to release a recording from Khamenei soon after Israeli strikes targeted his Tehran compound.

The preliminary assessment among Israeli officials was that Khamenei was hurt in the strike.

No official confirmation has been received by Israeli, American, or Iranian sources.

In the immediate aftermath of the U.S.–Israeli strikes, there was a several‑hour window where no one could say for sure whether Khamenei was dead, wounded, or merely in hiding.  

Israeli TV, citing unnamed intelligence sources, quickly assessed that Khamenei had “likely” been killed when his compound in Tehran was flattened, but officials in Israel, the U.S., and Iran all stopped short of formal confirmation, stressing that his fate was still uncertain.

(Read more and see three more tweets at PJ Media)

News as it existed on 28 February 2026: “major combat operations” were underway to “obliterate” Iranian missile factories

Breitbart clued us in to the aim of the military operations moving against Iran: to eliminate their missile factories.

The United States has launched a major military operation alongside Israeli forces against the Islamist regime in Iran on Saturday, in what is being described as one of the largest regional concentrations of “American military firepower in a generation”. U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei “is dead” and has called on the people of Iran to rise up and topple the government in Tehran.

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**Live updates below. All updates in Eastern time**

7:45 AM:  U.S. Central Command has announced the death of a fourth American military service member amid Operation Epic Fury in Iran. CENTCOM said that the service member was “seriously wounded during Iran’s initial attacks, eventually succumbed to their injuries.”

“Major combat operations continue and our response effort is ongoing. The identities of the fallen are being withheld until 24 hours after next of kin notification.”

(Read much more and see — at the time of this post — 30 more mostly video tweets at Breitbart)

As of 1 March, three US service members killed and 5 seriously wounded in Operation Epic Fury

The New York Post informs us of the deaths of three members of our military as Operation Epic Fury continues.

Three American service members have been killed and five were “seriously wounded” in Operation Epic Fury — the operations against Iran, the US military said.

Several others who suffered minor shrapnel injuries and concussions have been treated and are preparing to return to duty.

“Major combat operations continue and our response effort is ongoing,” CENTCOM said in an update Sunday morning.

It’s not clear where the service members were killed.

(Read more at the New York Post)

As of 1 March, at least nine Pakistani protestors were killed as they attempted to storm the US Consulate after the Ayatollah’s death

The Daily Caller reports on the deaths of at least nine Pakistani supporters of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (who was killed in the initial stikes by the US and Israel).

At least nine protesters died and more than 50 others suffered injuries Sunday after hundreds of demonstrators tried to storm the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.

President Donald Trump confirmed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed Saturday during U.S. and Israeli military strikes, known as Operation Epic Fury, with his body later recovered. Following the reported killing of Iran’s supreme leader, violent clashes erupted between security forces and protesters in the southern port city in Pakistan, according to local authorities, The Associated Press reported.

Police and hospital officials said at least 25 of the wounded remained hospitalized, with several in critical condition. Six bodies initially arrived at the city’s primary government hospital alongside dozens of injured, The Associated Press reported, citing police surgeon Summaiya Syed Tariq. The toll climbed to nine after three patients in critical condition later died.

(Read more at the Daily Caller)

On 1 March, Iran formed a new leadership council after Khamenei’s death and vows revenge

Red State notes how Iran has regrouped to form a new leadership council following the death of 49 of those who formerly stood at the helm of that rouge state.

Only a day after the removal of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and a fair number of subordinate goblins, the second tier appears to have arisen. In the wake of the near-complete decapitation of the regime, on Sunday morning, the Islamic Republic’s remnants have formed a new leadership council, and they are vowing revenge.

Yeah, let us know how that works out for you.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that a new leadership council “has begun its work” after death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Pezeshkian made the comment in a prerecorded message aired on Iranian state television.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the Al Jazeera network that a new supreme leader will be chosen in “one or two days.”

A massive explosion struck Iran’s capital Sunday as the Israeli military said it was striking targets in central Tehran. Earlier, Iran fired missiles at an ever-widening list of targets in Israel and Gulf Arab states in retaliation.

Right now, Israel and the United States absolutely own the skies over Iran. It’s a near-certainty that the USA has satellites tasked with reconnaissance, as well as specialized aircraft. And Iran’s response to date seems to be deliberately calculated to turn every nation in the Middle East against them. Launching missiles against Gulf Arab states? That’s stupidity on steroids, but then, through history, Persians (Iran) and Arabs have never gotten along all that well.

This new leadership council, which we can presume won’t be gathering together in one room for breakfast meetings, has announced that a new Supreme Leader will be announced in the next few days. Likely candidates include the Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, who leads Iran’s seminary system and is deputy chairman of something called the “Assembly of Experts,” which we can presume will be spending the next few days trying to avoid being disassembled by American and Israeli explosives. Another likely candidate is a goblin named Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, the head of Iran’s judiciary.

The new council also wasted no time in claiming that the regime would be looking for payback.

(Read more at Red State)

Just in case you wondered which side the “news” industry supports

News anchor erupts after Khamenei’s death and torches Fonda’s “Concern” for U.S. troops

The Daily Wire draws the curtain back from the “news” industry to reveal the insanely liberal and America-hating machine that works against us from within the main stream media.

Following the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Sky News Australia anchor Rita Panahi—who fled the Islamic Revolution as a child—delivered a blistering and justified condemnation of the tyrant, declaring: “You son of a b*tch, shame on you, burn in hell!”

https://twitter.com/ImRijuta/status/2028115259161214993

(Read more and see two more tweets at the Daily Wire)

In contrast, at least one diplomat seems to have come to his senses

At least one diplomat states the obvious when our UN ambassador insists US strikes on Iran are “lawful” (and the other UN diplomats cry foul)

The Washington Examiner points out the supportive message from UN ambassador Mike Waltz and the predictable message from the mostly socialist or Islamist diplomats at the United Nations.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz defended the U.S.’s strikes on Iran‘s ballistic missile and nuclear programs at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Saturday.

“Iran’s continued pursuit of advanced missile capabilities, coupled with its refusal to abandon nuclear ambitions despite diplomatic opportunities, presents a grave and mounting danger,” Waltz told the council. “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That principle is not a matter of politics; it is a matter of global security. And to that end, the United States is taking lawful actions.”

(Read more at the Washington Examiner)

 

Illustrating Democrats in their own words

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On the illegal alien crisis

Schumer wants to give a pathway to citizenship to the 11 million illegal aliens (and probably more)

As recorded at the Senate Democrat Newsroom page covering the Schumer interview by Joe and Mika at MS NOW, Schumer wants to give citizenship to Dementia Joe’s 11 million illegal aliens.

ImageWell, we had a good model in 2013—as you may remember, bipartisan. John McCain and I headed the Gang of Eight. We had four Democrats, four Republicans, including Marco Rubio, who’s now gone to the other side on this. But we could come up with a bill like that. It toughens up the border. It gives a path to citizenship, a long, tough path to citizenship for 11 million people who are here.

(Read more at the Senate Democrat Newsroom)

For those who would rather listen to his words, here is a video of him saying the above words.

If you don’t believe that he wants to give these 11 million illegal aliens the vote, here he is saying it in another setting.

On their hatred of America

Representatives Tlaib and Omar chant “KKK” to cover “USA” during Trump’s State of the Union address

The New York Post points out how Rashida Traib and Ilhan Omar  both demonstrated how they hate America and would rather criticize our victories rather than celebrate them.

Progressive “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib sparked outrage for repeatedly chanting “KKK” as Republicans cheered “USA” during President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night.

The Michigan Democrat was caught in a new clip mockingly jeering the far-right hate group’s moniker to controversial ally Rep. Ilhan Omar as her Republican colleagues erupted in thunderous applause and support for Trump inside the House chamber.

“Everything you need to know about today’s Democrats,” the National Republican Congressional Committee said in a fiery post on X, along with a video of the explosive outburst.

“They cannot stand this country, they cannot stand its comeback, & they cannot hide their contempt anymore.”

Outraged critics blasted Tlaib — already under fire for sporting a “F–k ICE” pin on her lapel and frequently heckling Trump throughout his primetime speech — and Omar, while urging they be expelled from Congress for their “offensive” and “treasonous” behavior.

“As a Black American, watching Tlaib, a non-Black person chant ‘KKK’ is beyond offensive,” one X user raged, adding, “That word carries generations of terror and pain; it’s not a prop for political theater. This is conduct unbecoming of a Member of Congress. Censure her.”

Another chimed in: “They absolutely embarrassed themselves last night.”

“Tlaib and Omar need to be removed from Congress,” one online naysayer fumed.

(Read more at the New York Post)

What are the many things Tlaib and Omar did wrong with this?

Let me count the ways they were wrong:

  • The KKK, like their Antifa, were creations of the Democrat party — not Republicans or Trump.
  • Like Antifa, the KKK was the violent arm of the Democrat party — created to beat down opposition. 
  • They were drowning out expressions of pride for the victory of the USA Olympic Hockey Team — something that should span parties.
  • Why should both of these foreign-born representatives accentuate their division with native-born Americans by focusing on their own ignorance?
  • While the silence of the other Democrats spoke volumes on those Democrats’ values (or lack thereof), the vocal and unthinking opposition of Tlaib and Omar likewise speaks volumes on the non-American things they support:
    • Hamas terrorists
    • Palenstine
    • Somalia
    • Anything affiliated with Islam or the previously-mentioned three items

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On Democrats’ low opinion of Americans

Kamala Harris says SAVE Act must be stopped because “40% Of Americans” don’t have birth certificates or passports

The Daily Caller quotes the person once separated by only half a brain cell from the presidency of the United States as she claimsthat “40% of Americans” don’t have birth certificates or passports.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris suggested that the SAVE America Act is bad because it would require people to present basic documents to register to vote — which she claimed 40% of Americans do not have.

The failed 2024 Democratic presidential nominee told left-wing podcaster Aaron Parnas in an interview published Wednesday that the GOP-backed election integrity bill — which the Senate is currently considering amid fierce Democratic opposition — would target the four in 10 Americans she claimed lack a birth certificate or passport. She added that it would disproportionally affect married women who change their surnames.

“You know what the SAVE Act would do? Require that people show a birth certificate or a passport to register to vote,” Harris said on the Wednesday episode of “The Parnas Perspective.” “I don’t have the exact numbers in front of me, but it’s something like 40% of Americans don’t have those documents.”

“Married women, if you changed your name and got married, it’s going to be difficult [as far as] what’s on your birth certificate, right? And what that’s going to do is complicate the ability of women to register to vote,” added Harris, who did not take her husband’s surname. “And so this is happening in real time to suppress and obstruct the ability of people to vote.”

Watch:

(Read more at the Daily Caller)

Run, Kamala, run!

Please run for your second try at the oval office, Kamala.

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Even though the next drawing is not a quote of or complete depiction of any one Democrat, it does illustrate something about the Democrats

Proof positive that the mascot for Democrats is not a donkey, but a jack (or sometimes a jenny)

Democrat who wears a Ukraine flag, but will not stand for the mother of murdered Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska.

Photo tying the cartoon to reality

 

You cannot hate it (the act) enough

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The Bible teaches us to hate the sin, but have mercy on the sinner

The 23rd verse of Jude tells us:

save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh. (New International Version)

In other words, hate the sin, but have mercy on the sinner.

In this day where people want to identify by their actions (and, hence, often by their sins), this can be a challenge for the Christian.

As a means of testing our ability to conform to this command, the following bits of news have come to light:

Transgender politician argues that children’s access to pornography constitutes “education”

The New York Post informs us of the insane “logic” of one transgender Minnesota Democrat who thinks kids need pornography.

A transgender Minnesota lawmaker ignited an online firestorm after bizarrely arguing against age limits on porn sites — claiming “queer” kids need access to the X-rated content for “educational” purposes.

State Rep. Leigh Finke, a two-term Democrat who identifies as a woman, pushed back against a proposal that would require age checks on porn websites to shield children from accessing the raunchy adult material — wildly insisting the bill would be weaponized against the LGBTQ+ community.

The pol claimed attorneys general in states with age-verification laws are “almost jubilant” at the chance to block queer kids from explicit content that could “educate” them about their sexuality and community.

“They’re almost jubilant about being able to use these laws to ban young people from accessing content that could be educational if they are queer,” Finke, who transitioned in 2017, contended during a committee meeting Thursday.

“You’re a principal, you have LGBT students in your school, and we also know that they’re not receiving sex education for queer kids, we know that prurient interest could be for many people the very existence of transgender kids. More and more people are saying, there are simply no transgender kids.”

The lefty lawmaker’s odd rant sparked outrage after Moms of Liberty, a conservative parents group, shared a clip of the remarks on X.

“What a strange (but not shocking in the least) position to take,” one user blasted.

Another said: “It is concerning @LeighFinke prefers minors have access to adult content.”

(Read more at the New York Post)

Until you are in your mid-thirties, your brain normally still remains in development. As a child, certain defenses have not developed.

Preditors like this likely are the source of much of the mental issues (especially those — like gender dysphoria [that the “psychology community” has deemed not to be a mental disorder] orginate with).

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Investigator finds that California is paying non-governmental organizations that mostly protest ICE

This time, the New York Post quotes the House Judiciary Republicans as they open an investigation into how California paid millions to the Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights for the job of essentially protesting ICE.

The House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether an activist organization with ties to the Democratic Party that received nearly $1 million in grants under the Biden administration used the funds to foment the anti-ICE riots that ripped through Los Angeles earlier this month.

In a letter obtained exclusively by The Post addressed to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), the committee details the taxpayer-funded grants doled out to the group by the federal government between 2021 and 2023.

“This raises concerns that CHIRLA may be using federal funds to support violent criminal activity that impedes the enforcement of federal immigration law,” the letter states in reference to the funds, which ostensibly were paid out to support things like “citizenship instruction and naturalization services” and “innovations in citizenship education.”

The letter is signed by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), as well as Reps. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) and Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), the chairmen of two subcommittees.

The committee is requesting CHIRLA turn over “all documents and communications” related to any federal funds the group received, as well as a detailed breakdown of how the funds were spent, including any supporting documentation.

It’s also asking for an accounting of any financial contributions the group received or gave to any other non-governmental organizations between Jan. 20, 2021, and the present day, as well as any and all documents and communications “referring or relating to protests against ICE, DHS, Customs and Border Protection, enforcement of immigration laws, or the Trump Administration’s immigration policies,” from Jan. 20, 2025, to now.

CHIRLA staged a rally as anti-ICE protests broke out in LA as federal authorities swept into the sanctuary city to conduct President Trump’s deportation raids.

The protests turned violent earlier this month after immigration agents hit a Home Depot in the LA suburb of Paramount — descending into looting and assault on cops and federal agents.

Rioters defaced public buildings and torched cars in the streets.

Trump called in around 4,000 National Guard members and some 700 active-duty Marines to help quell the unrest.

A CHIRLA spokesman previously said the group “organized a press event on [June 5]” to protest the roundups and had “been sending legal observers to immigration courts and detention centers on [June 6, 7 and 8] as part of the LA Rapid Response Network,” but denied being part of the protests beyond that.

(Read more at the New York Post)

Teacher suspended for volunteering to advise a Turning Point USA (the organization founded by Charlie Kirk)

This time around, the New York Post tells us of the suspension of a New York teacher for the sin of having agreed to advise a Turning Point, USA chapter that wanted to organize on the campus.

An upstate New York high school teacher was allegedly sidelined after she agreed to advise a Turning Point USA chapter on campus.

Jennifer Fasulo, a Spanish teacher at Charles W. Baker High School in Baldwinsville, a Syracuse suburb, was placed on a paid leave of absence on Jan. 30, just weeks after she offered to help students establish a Club America, the high school division of the Charlie Kirk co-founded conservative group, her supporters say.

“The district can confirm that a staff member has been placed on paid administrative leave while a matter is under review. We are following established administrative and legal procedures, and we are unable to comment further or share additional details at this time,” the Baldwinsville Central School informed parents in a Feb. 10 letter.

Students rallied behind Fasulo, who they described in a petition demanding her return as a victim of spiritual and political discrimination.

“We believe no educator should be punished for their personal beliefs,” according to the appeal, which has more than 2,100 signatures as of Thursday.

“This teacher is being targeted not because of her performance, but for her political beliefs,” Club America President Jerry Dygert said at a Feb. 9 board meeting.

“Our club exists to promote political understanding through civil discourse, removing the one teacher who best embodies those values puts that mission in serious jeopardy,”

“My classmates and I are confused as to why she is not in class,” another student rushing to Fasulo’s defense said. “She extends her title as teacher and is considered a mentor. The wisdom and compassion that she gives to her students is unmatched.”

But some of the students’ woke parents who think otherwise want to see Fasulo out for good.

One described Turning Point as “terrifying,” because, according to their Facebook post, “the extremist mindset tends to affect boys and young men the most.”

In her post, she called for discussion about the “potential termination” of Club America’s faculty advisor.

(Read about the real Nazis exposed by the New York Post)

When “Gay-Straight Alliance” clubs were being organized, opposition was shot down as bigotted. Now, any support for an opposing view other than the LGBTQIA view is quashed.

Oddly, the Left calls anyone but itself dictatorial and “Nazi.”

After Mamdani announced a 5.9% increase in property taxes, he (and his paramour AOC) advertises to illegals in Spanish that they can get free childcare

The New York Post now illuminates the ad campaign thrown together by Mamdani and AOC inviting illegal aliens to sign up for “free childcare” (only days after Zohran hiked taxes on the middle class to keep from cutting programs).

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and lefty Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sparked online backlash after urging illegal immigrants to sign up for free Big Apple childcare in a cringey Spanish-language ad. 

The democratic socialists awkwardly stumbled through their lines in Spanish in a promo shared on social media Tuesday, alerting migrant parents — including those in the country illegally — of the looming deadline to enroll in free 3-K and Pre-K childcare.

“Any New York City parent, regardless of your occupation, income or immigration status is eligible to sign their child up,” Ocasio-Cortez said, noting that applications are available in more than 200 languages. 

“We’ve made the application process easy, no matter who you are. Because no family should be shut out from our programs just because of the language they speak.”

The congresswoman, who reps the Bronx and Queens, was brought into the video by the mayor for help with his Spanish.

“My Spanish is… no bueno. But the fight for universal childcare? Muy bueno,” Mamdani captioned the nearly three-minute clip on X.

“So I brought a friend to help me tell you why signing up for 3-K and Pre-K this week matters. Let’s get them enrolled.”

In the video, Hizzoner reminds parents to register their kids by Friday before grinning as Ocasio-Cortez jumps into frame, continuing in Spanish and occasionally correcting his pronunciation while breaking down the city’s program. 

(Read more of the breakdown of New York at the New York Post)

Remember that it was last week that Mamdani raised taxes rather than cut programs

 

What effect are Democrats trying to reach?

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Inconvenient slip-up for Democrat Newsom prior to the State of the Union speech

Newsom’s “I’m like you” viral moment erupts into a racism firestorm

The Daily Wire points out the hypocrisy of Gavin Newsom who now claims low IQ in order to identify with Blacks (as he obviously sees them as low IQ).

ImageCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing backlash after attempting to “relate” to a black elected official by pointing to his low SAT score — a moment critics say exposes the casual, patronizing racism Democrats routinely accuse others of harboring.

During a Sunday night appearance promoting his forthcoming memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry,” Newsom told Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens that he wasn’t trying to appear superior.

“I’m like you. I’m not better than you,” Newsom said. “I’m a 960 SAT guy.”

The remark immediately drew scrutiny for what critics described as an implicit assumption: that academic underperformance is a shared point of identity with black Americans. According to 2024 College Board data, the average SAT score for black test takers is 907, compared with 1083 for white students.

Newsom, seemingly aware of the sensitivity of his comments, added, “I’m not trying to offend anyone,” before continuing to emphasize his academic shortcomings. “You’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech,” he said.

The episode has fueled accusations of what Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) labeled the “soft bigotry of low expectations,” a phrase long used to describe leftist rhetoric that cloaks condescension in empathy. This comes after Cruz and Newsom got into an earlier spat over Newsom’s illiteracy.

The irony is difficult to miss. Newsom has built his political brand on elite credentials and progressive moral posturing, yet his own biography is steeped in institutional advantage. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1989, having received a letter of recommendation from then-Gov. Jerry Brown, who had appointed Newsom’s father to a California appellate judgeship.

(Read more at the Daily Wire)

If this wasn’t a Freudian slip, please explain how someone in charge of an entire state can be so uneducated.

Please explain how this isn’t a display of how Gavin really feels that Blacks are stupid. I want to see the cogent defense of Gavin’s statement.

Just to throw sand in Gavin’s claim here, wasn’t it a month ago that he was speed-reading books?

Oddly, it wasn’t that long ago that Gavin claimed to have read a 260-page book in 90 minutes (something that you will have to depend on a Facebook video for evidence, because the main stream media will not touch it).

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Also prior to the State of the Union, Mamdani did a face-plant on his promised affordability.

And in New York, Mamdani promised affordability (among many other things) and delivered unaffordability

Fortune roasts the socialist mayor of New York over his sudden hiking of taxes and raiding of pension funds to fund his outlandish programs.

ImageIn an effort to curb the city’s projected $5.4 billion budget shortfall, newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is offering an ultimatum to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul: either tax the ultra-wealthy, or the middle class is going to pay the bill.

The mayor announced the plan in a preliminary budget proposal on Tuesday, threatening city homeowners with a 9.5% property tax hike should the governor opt not raise income taxes on the ultra wealthy. 

“The onus for resolving this crisis should not be placed on the backs of working and middle class New Yorkers,” said Mamdani, arguing the property tax hike would be the city’s “last resort” to address the budget shortfall. The tax increase is estimated to affect more than 3 million households across the five boroughs, and over 100,000 commercial properties, generating an estimated $3.7 billion in annual revenue. 

This is a big ask, as property owners in New York City shoulder a greater tax burden than much of the country. In 2022, property taxes represented more than 27% of homeownership costs citywide, compared with the national average of 22.6%, according to the state comptroller’s office. Property taxes are already the city’s largest single source of tax revenue, generating $31.8 billion in 2023 and accounting for 44% of total tax collections.

Statewide, the gap is even more pronounced. New York’s effective property tax rate of 1.45% is nearly double the national average (0.89%), according to Smart Asset. New York has one of the highest average property tax rates in the country. Only four states levy a higher property tax rate, according to WalletHub. On average, New Yorkers pay $6,582 annually in property taxes, based on the state’s median home value of $423,800. In New York City, where the median home price reached a record $800,000 in the third quarter of 2025, the tax burden rises to $12,441. 

Income taxes are similarly concentrated. In 2023, New York millionaires paid 41% of all personal income tax, according to the state’s Department of Finance. The bottom 50% of earners paid 0.2%, as compared to the top 200,000 taxpayers, who paid roughly half of all personal income tax. High earners in New York City also face the nation’s highest marginal tax rate of 14.8%, with California trailing closing behind at 13%. 

(Read more at Fortune)

Two months into his term as mayor, Mamdani is “forced” to raise taxes on the middle class (since the rich moved out) and raid rainy day funds and pensions. What, again, is this socialist’s message?

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And now for the Democrat optics during the State of the Union

Do you remember when Joe Wilson shouted “You lie” an hour into Obama’s speech on health care? Representative Green makes it less than five minutes before getting kicked out while waving his cane

Twitchy gives us an account of the soon-to-be-retired Al Green as he tries to get enough notice to weather the primaries.

You might remember that Rep. Al Green was kicked out of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address last year for waving his cane at the president and trying to shout him down.

We’re not sure why Green bothers to get dressed up for these speeches, knowing he won’t be there long. Well, we know why he came: to flash his little sign reading, “Black people aren’t apes.”

(Read more and see eight more tweets at Twitchy)

Trump explodes at “crazy” Democrats for “destroying our country” and “refusing” to protect Americans… as the Squad goes berserk and dozens storm out

The United Kingdom’s Daily Mail gives us a blow-by-blow account of the hissy-fit of the Democrats as they react to the issues brought up by President Trump in the State of the Union.

President Donald Trump unleashed blistering attacks on Democrats and vowed the U.S. economy would keep roaring for years to come during the longest State of the Union address in history on Tuesday night.

In the nearly two-hour speech, Trump was repeatedly heckled and faced walkouts by Democrats in the House of Representatives as he laid out his domestic agenda and reeled off a list of second-term achievements.

He celebrated the U.S. Olympic gold medal-winning hockey team, honored American heroes, announced tax cuts and doubled down on the tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court on Friday.

But he also used the address to deliver ferocious rebukes to Democrats who refused to stand when he asked whether American citizens should be prioritized over ‘illegal aliens.’

Trump blasts Democrats over immigration

Donald Trump called on Democrats to stand up in support of protecting American citizens.

‘Stand up if you agree with this statement: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens – not illegal aliens,’ he said.

Several Democrats, including Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, refused to stand.

Trump then told the Democrats they should be ashamed of themselves.

‘You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up,’ he said.

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Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar responds to Trump’s State of the Union comments

Rep. Ilhan Omar claimed President Trump ‘killed two of my constituents’ on X on Tuesday night shortly after his State of the Union address to the nation.

‘He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself,’ she wrote.

Earlier in the evening, Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib yelled abuse at Trump’s immigration enforcement, which was scaled back earlier this month after two protesters were killed by federal agents.

‘You have killed Americans,’ the Democratic pair screeched as the House descended into anarchy.

The President turned his fury on the women, branding them a ‘disgrace’ and telling the pair: ‘You should be ashamed.’

Ilhan Omar looks ready to CRY as her heckling is drowned out by chants of U-S-A

Far-left ‘Squad’ members were close to tears as their heckles were drowned out by chants of U-S-A at Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday.

Democratic representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were almost overcome with emotion as the President hammered ‘Somali pirates who ransack Minnesota.’

The pair began screaming, calling Trump a ‘liar’ and claiming that he had American blood on his hands following the deadly immigration crackdown in the state.

But they were quickly drowned out by the President’s Republican majority who took to their feet and started chanting: ‘U-S-A, U-S-A.’

(Read more at the Daily Mail)

I bet you did not miss them, but 72 Democrats boycotted the State of the Union speech

What is the response by the Communication Department of the Democrat party to Trump’s call for justice for Iryna Zarutska (the Ukrainian refugee murdered on a Georgia commuter train)?

Politico headline: Trump showcases gruesome stories throughout the night

In response to numerous calls for justice (for either those killed by criminals allowed out by lenient Democrat judges or killed by illegal aliens admitted by Joe Biden), Politico can only whine about the gory tales told during the State of the Union.

Trump repeatedly used his speech to recount violent crimes in vivid detail, using those stories to bolster his push for stricter criminal penalties and tougher immigration enforcement.

He described the killing of Iryna Zarutska, saying she was attacked on a train by a “deranged monster” who ”viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body.” The 23-year-old was fatally stabbed in September on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a man with a history of mental illness and previous arrests. He said he was honored by the presence of Zarutska’s mother, who sat in the chamber.

“No one will ever forget the expression of terror on Iryna’s face as she looked up at her attacker in the last seconds of her life,” Trump said, arguing that the case illustrates the need for tougher laws targeting repeat offenders.

“I’m asking this Congress to pass tough legislation to ensure that violent and dangerous repeat offenders are put behind bars and importantly, that they stay there,” he said.

It was one of several gruesome stories Trump told throughout the night.

Trump also highlighted the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom near the White House in November as she was on patrol as a National Guard member in Washington. He described her as having been “ambushed and shot in the head by a terrorist monster from Afghanistan,” while on patrol, using the incident to underscore his strict law-and-order messaging.

(Read a little more at Politico, but it is total bull)

I guess you have to try to attempt the murder of an ICE agent and then get killed before you get the sympathy of Politico

It does seem that they have tears for those who die while attacking ICE agents.

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My early voting ballot and the reasoning behind it

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Race or Proposition Candidate who garnered my vote (or title of the prop) Reason behind my vote (or text of the Texas state proposition)
United States Senator Ken Paxton As AG, Ken Paxton has supported conservative causes consistently and has delivered against the onslaught of the Left.

Concerning incumbent Cornyn, I am tired of the bending to liberals. Mind you (if it comes down to Cornyn or a Democrat), I am voting Cornyn.
United States Representative, District 2 Steve Toth While a representative in the Texas House, he has made a few votes that I did not agree with. However, in the end, he usually provided a good reason for those votes.

Concerning incumbent Crenshaw, his voting against my Second Amendment rights and aligning with the Squad was too much. Then again, even if my guy gets beat out before the finals, I will support whichever Republican wins this primary.
Governor Greg Abbott None of the competitors to Abbott come up to the level of his experience.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick Without Dan Patrick, we would not have the conservative legislation that went through; therefore, he has my support.
Attorney General Mayes Middleton Back when Chip Roy defended Liz Cheney against her removal from House Leadership, it seemed like a poor choice of battles for him to engage. Further, when he told MAGA to “kiss my @**” — it seemed like another poor choice of battles.

Hence, my choice of Mayes Middleton is more a choice of the lesser evil.
Comptroller of Public Accounts Don Huffines In state government, Don Huffines has made a practice of involving himself in supporting the right side of the equation. Further, as a real estate businessman, he has done well for himself and the Dallas-Fort Worth communities.
Commissioner of Agriculture Nate Sheets If you can’t admire a guy who built a honey business starting from a backyard hive, who will you admire?
Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright Despite the fact that he came to the Texas Railroad Commission in 2020, he has demonstrated that he knows the importance of overseeing the energy industry of Texas.
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3 Brent Coffee Rather than repeat the long list of accomplishments that align him with numerous conservatives and conservative causes, I encourage you to look for yourself.
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 9 John Messinger To quote his campaign page:

People in government need more humility. Our courts are for everyone regardless of creed, but I believe God’s only Son had to die to pay for my sins. He doesn’t love me any more than He does the worst criminal. I’m not better than anyone whose case would come before me.
Member, State Board of Education, District 8 George Brian Vachris Through a review of his campaign site, he evidently finds motivation in both education and moderate to conservative politics.
County Judge Orlando Sanchez If nothing else, Orlando will not quit.
Harris County Republican Party Chairman Michelle Bouchard From what I have heard from her, she wants to fill all uncontested races.
Prop 1 Phasing out property taxes Texas property taxes should be assessed at the purchase price and phased out entirely over the next six years through spending reductions. (Vote “For.”)
Prop 2 Requiring November approval of property tax hikes Texas should require any local government budget that raises property taxes to be approved by voters at a November general election. (Vote “For.”)
Prop 3 Prohibiting denial of medical service based only on jab status Texas should prohibit denial of healthcare or any medical service based solely on the patient’s vaccination status. (Vote “For.”)
Prop 4 Teaching that life starts at conception Texas should require its public schools to teach that life begins at fertilization. (Vote “For.”)
Prop 5 Banning gender, sexuality, and reproductive clinics in schools Texas should ban gender, sexuality, and reproductive clinics and services in K-12 schools. (Vote “For.”)
Prop 6 Term limits Texas should enact term limits on all elected officials. (Vote “For.”)
Prop 7 Stopping the large-scale export of our water Texas should ban the large-scale export or sale of our groundwater and surface water to any single private or public entity. (Vote “For.”)
Prop 8 Getting illegal aliens off the public dole The Texas Legislature should reduce the burden of illegal immigration on taxpayers by ending public services for illegal aliens. (Vote “For.”)
Prop 9 Republican legislature should be Republican The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature should stop awarding leadership positions, including committee and subcommittee chairmanships and vice chairmanships, to Democrats. (Vote “For.”)
Prop 10 No Sharia law Texas should prohibit Sharia Law. (Vote “For.”)

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Ten quick questions now that the Supreme Court has ruled Trump’s tariffs illegal

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The Supreme Court rules Trump’s tariffs illegal — and US may be forced to pay back billions

The New York Post reports on a case where the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s tariffs and, thereby, may have ruled constitutionally (but unwisely).

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Trump cannot use emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs on foreign imports — leaving the White House facing the prospect of paying back tens of billions of dollars to traders.

In a 6-3 vote, the justices found that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which Trump used to apply broad, across-the-board levies — including a 10% baseline rate and additional tariffs on America’s three biggest trading partners over the shipping of fentanyl to the US — does not authorize the imposition of duties. 

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by conservative Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, as well as liberal Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.

In his opinion, Roberts noted that the “lengthy list of powers” articulated by the IEEPA does not include “any mention of tariffs or duties.”

(Read more at the New York Post)

In light of balancing our deficit, the other nations’ tariffs, and our clueless Congress on the head of a pin — these questions spin out.

These are the questions which come to mind at the moment of this ruling:

  • How did the branch of government that was originally designed to be the weakest branch of the three (first was the legislative, second was the executive, and third was the judicial) become ruler of us all?
  • How is it that these nine jurists have limited a nation’s ability to level the playing field between nations (who have been charging us much higher tariffs than those levied against them)?
  • Will these over-important jurists demand the 286 billion in tariffs collected between the beginning of the Trump administration and January 2026 be returned? Are they that far in the hip pocket of the Chinese?
  • Should President Trump be able to set tariffs? If so, then why not allow him to set taxes without Congress?
  • Why won’t Congress get off its blessed assurance and at least temporarily set tariffs to match those from competing countries? Alternatively, why not cede power to a State Department committee that must report to Congress and let them negotiate tariffs?
  • If, like Rep. Jeffries or Sen. Schumer, you contend that Trump’s tariffs are bad — what do we do to stop:
    • The flooding of our country with low-education, low-income “migrants” (something that has been going on well before the 1970’s and was put on steroids by Dementia Joe)?
    • How otherwise do we stop the flow of our factories to places like China, Indonesia, Thailand, and other third-world nations?

In light of the deficit that was being brought down by an almost-trillion level of tariffs, what will these jurists do?

Now that the never-Trumpers on the court have banded with the others:

  • Have they considered that this hobbles the negotiating abilities of not just President Trump, but also all American negotiators?
  • Have they noticed that this nation had been recently dependent on foreign sources for neccessities like medicine, manufactured goods, and many foods? Due to this ruling, those days will return quickly. Is this the nation of serfs that the black-robed lot envisions?

To this date, President Trump has followed the rulings of the courts. Is now the time to follow the examples of Democrats like President Joe Biden and President Andrew Jackson?

Is now the time for President Trump to start ignoring the Supreme Court just as Biden not only ignored the Supreme Court in regard to their rulings on his loan forgiveness — he boasted about having ignored them.

Likewise, so many years earlier, President Jackson refused to enact the conditions of a Supreme Court ruling.

Maybe President Trump should follow suit.

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Islam at the center of two humanitarian crises

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First in numbers, in an article published 13 February 2026, a British journalist describes the carnage in Nigeria

Churches burned, fields destroyed and families slaughtered … the Nigerian Christians brutalised by jihadists

The Daily Mail follows the trials and tribulations of Christians in Nigeria’s South where the government seems unwilling to battle the jihadists.

Driving through the vast, scorched landscape, I hear the words that have followed me all day. ‘They roasted the pastor and his wife alive in the church. We heard their screams.’

ImagePlateau State stretches to the horizon. Rich black soil that once grew cassava and sugar cane is now ash. Trees are encrusted with soot. Fields of maize that shone gold in the sun are grey and lifeless, stalk after stalk standing in formation like an army frozen in defeat.

Bricks lie scattered in the scrub. Concrete blocks jut from the earth like jagged teeth. Roofs have collapsed inward.

And then come the churches.

Burned-out shell after burned-out shell. Crosses broken. Windows blown through. One has been gutted by fire, another reduced to rubble.

It’s as though someone has tried to erase every visible sign of Christianity from this land.

For more than two decades, this stretch of Nigeria’s Middle Belt – the faultline where the largely Muslim north meets the predominantly Christian south – has convulsed in recurring waves of bloodshed.

(Read more at the Daily Mail)

In contrast, Americans get told they are “Islamophobic” if they merely point out the parallels between the local interlopers and these violent jihadists

For example, when Somali fraudsters were found to have sent money to the Al-Shabaab murderers carrying out the carniage of the article above, many politicians (Governor Walz, Mayor Frey, Minority Leader Jeffries, Minority Leader Schumer, and many others) suggested it was racist to notice Somali fraud.

Similarly, when New Yorkers remembered the events of 9/11, Zohran Mamdani decries “racist, baseless attacks” originating with an imagined attack on his aunt.

Therefore, it seems that our leftist, education-lacking government wants us to just ignore the facts (be they historic or current). We, as dutiful sheep, are just to lay down and be shorn.

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Next, but still high in numbers, Iranians describe the pain inflicted by the Islamist regime between December 2025 and January 2026

36,500 deaths in context: How Iran’s toll compares with wars and crackdowns

Iran International provided a 27 January 2026 account of the carnage carried out against the citizens of Iran by the government they allowed to come over them.

The killing of 36,500 people in just two days represents a scale of violence without precedent in the history of repression under the Islamic Republic – and one that stands out even when compared with some of the deadliest episodes of state violence and full-scale wars worldwide.

The figure is not final and could still rise.

The killing of 36,500 people in just two days represents a scale of violence without precedent in the history of repression under the Islamic Republic—and one that stands out even when compared with some of the deadliest episodes of state violence and full-scale wars worldwide. The figure is not final and could still rise.

Information obtained and published by Iran International this week indicates that Iranian authorities killed more than 36,500 people over a 48-hour period during the national uprising.

Even conflicts that later came to be described as “genocidal” involved far lower casualty rates over comparable periods.

Put differently, the figure implies 18,250 deaths per day, 760 per hour, 13 per minute, or one person killed every five seconds.

At the height of the war in Gaza, the deadliest single day recorded roughly 400 fatalities. During the most intense phase of urban bombardment in the Iran-Iraq war, Iraqi missile and air strikes killed an average of 188 Iranian civilians per day. The scale of the recent killings far exceeds both.

It also surpasses the deadliest crackdowns carried out by authoritarian governments such as Syria under Hafez al-Assad or Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

(Read more at Iran International)

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One week, so much news not reported by main stream media.

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While main stream outlets like The Hill make up their own “news,” so much goes unreported.

While The Hill tried to build AOC into a Democrat frontrunner, there were these real stories:

 

Who, exactly, are the leaders in the Democrat presidential field?

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Even though The Hill tried to hide it, what should have been a coming out for AOC turned into her wake

The Hill put its best spin on AOC’s visit to the panel on populism by pointing out how she called for leaders to champion the working class and knocked the Trump administration’s foreign policy moves.

ImageRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday called for leaders around the world to champion the working class and knocked the Trump administration’s foreign policy moves, bringing her progressive vision to the global stage at the annual Munich Security Conference as chatter builds about her political future. 

The New York congresswoman took part in a panel on populism as the multiday event kicked off, calling for leaders to champion the working class — and knocking the Trump administration’s foreign policy moves.

(Read more Democrat-inflating bloviation at The Hill)

It truthfully seems almost impossible to imagine how The Hill might have inflated that airhead any further

This surely proves that The Hill doesn’t so much report the news as they cull out the news that would hurt Democrat hopefuls like social media star AOC.

What The Hill did not mention was the word salad

Breitbart does us the courtesy of straight-out quoting the first of several of the word salads provided by AOC at this leftist conference.

“Uhm, you know, I think that this is … such a .. you know, I think that … this is a uhm…. this is of course a uh, a very longstanding policy of the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And, I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure we never get to that point.”

“And, we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation, and for that question to even arise,” Ocasio-Cortez added.

(Read more at Breitbart)

In addition to reading the above, you can hear it in the video below:

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Gretchen Whitmer also supplies her serving of word salad

National Today gives us a serving of Gretchen Whitmer’s word salad that resulted from a question posed to her about peace in Ukraine.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a potential 2024 Democratic presidential contender, faced criticism after a stumbling performance on Ukraine policy at the Munich Security Conference. Whitmer deferred to other panelists, suggesting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had more foreign policy expertise, a claim that could damage her national ambitions. The episode highlights the broader pattern of Democrats avoiding rigorous scrutiny, with a friendly media ecosystem shielding them from tough questioning.

Why it matters

Whitmer’s performance raises questions about the Democratic Party’s intellectual depth on foreign policy and national security issues, which could become a major vulnerability in the 2024 presidential race, especially as voters compare it to the more decisive posture projected by former President Donald Trump.

The details

At the Munich conference, Whitmer was pressed on the definition of ‘victory’ in the Ukraine war. She immediately deferred, saying the other panelists were ‘more steeped in foreign policy’ than a governor. When pressed further, Whitmer suggested Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity should be the goal, a response critics described as lacking strategic depth. Whitmer’s deference to Ocasio-Cortez’s foreign policy expertise also drew criticism, as the New York congresswoman had earlier given a rambling response on the same topic.

(Read more commentary at National Today

The following video provides a view of how Whitmer stumbled.

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Kamala Harris supposedly leads in Democrat polls

Decision Desk HQ conveys the findings of certain polls putting Kamala Harris in the lead for Democrat voters.

While 2028 seems far away, the presidential race has already begun. With that in mind, Decision Desk HQ is tracking attitudes toward potential candidates. This week, we have a new average for former Vice President Kamala Harris. As of this morning, 43% said they had a favorable opinion of her, while 47% viewed her unfavorably.

(See their graph and read more at Decision Desk HQ)

Just to remind you how fluently Kamala speaks word salad, here is one from February 4 (with a little bit of introductory commentary):

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Another transgender with a history of mental illness kills his family and others

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Transgender-identifying man opens fire at Rhode Island hockey game, killing his wife and another

The Daily Wire touches a number of the sides of this issue of another mentally-ill transgender shooting.

ImageTwo people were killed and at least three others critically injured after a man who identifies as a woman opened fire at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island.

Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves confirmed in a Monday evening press conference that Robert Dorgan, who goes by the name Roberta Esposito, killed himself after what she said was likely a targeted shooting stemming from a family dispute. A clip circulating on social media appears to show Dorgan’s daughter leaving a police station and telling reporters that her father “shot my family” and “he’s dead now.” The woman added that Dorgan “has mental health issues,” and “was very sick.”

Court records from 2020 confirm that Dorgan had undergone gender reassignment surgery. Dorgan claimed to North Providence Police at the time that his father-in-law attempted to throw him out of the house following his surgery. Around that time, Dorgan’s wife filed for divorce, initially citing “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits” as the reason before crossing them out and writing “irreconcilable differences.”

Authorities have not publicly identified the victims, nor have they confirmed the precise relationships involved in the apparent family dispute. Police have also not released information about the weapon used.

This is the latest shooting perpetrated by a transgender-identifying attacker. Earlier this month, a man who identified as a woman and wore a dress killed 10 people at a Canadian school. Transgender-identifying shooters perpetrated deadly attacks on schools in Nashville in 2023 and in Minneapolis in 2025. The latter attack was the subject of the last question Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was asked when he was assassinated in September.

Kirk’s killer, Tyler Robinson, was, at the time of the attack, living with his “transgender partner,” a man named Lance Twiggs, who identifies as a woman. As The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan reported this week, though the Trump administration was reportedly considering a ban on gun ownership for transgender-identifying people in the wake of the Minneapolis shooting, that ban has seemingly stalled. A source familiar with the Trump administration’s thinking said that the topic is not something that they have heard discussed since The Daily Wire’s original reporting in September.

Monday’s shooting occurred at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena during a game involving multiple high school teams. Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said the suspected gunman is also dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Federal authorities, including the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, responded to assist state and local law enforcement at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena on Monday. Police said shots were fired inside the arena while spectators and players were present for what had been scheduled as a senior night celebration for the Blackstone Valley Schools cooperative hockey team.

“You don’t know what’s going on at first,” Melissa Dunn, the mother of one player, told reporters. “You just hear the loud noises … then you realize something is very wrong.”

A player who was on the ice at the time said multiple shots were fired and that players ran to the locker room for safety.

“We pressed against the door and just tried to stay safe,” he said. “It was very scary.”

Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien called the shooting “a terrible tragedy” and said the city is working closely with law enforcement and the Rhode Island attorney general’s office.

“What should have been a joyful occasion … was instead marked by violence and fear,” Grebien said. “Tonight, Pawtucket is a city in mourning.”

(Read more at the Daily Wire)

Let’s take this issues in the order they were presented

Althought the Daily Wire lightly touches on these topics, let’s delve into them:

  • “Robert Dorgan, who goes by the name Roberta Esposito, killed himself after what she said was likely a targeted shooting stemming from a family dispute”
    • Considering the dual departure this guy was taking from his real identity and the conflict that was occurring within his family, wouldn’t some sort of mental observation been in line?
  • “Dorgan’s daughter … added that Dorgan ‘has mental health issues,’ and ‘was very sick.’ ”
    • Might now be the time to consider that, if someone has mental health issues, giving them enough hormones to change their bodies from looking male to looking female (or going the opposite way) might not be appropriate?
  • “This is the latest shooting perpetrated by a transgender-identifying attacker.”
    • While it will take me longer than the time allowed by my employment, it seems that there are lists going back to prior to the Nashville shooting at The Covenant School where transgender individuals were the perpetrators.

 

One Democrat “news” outlet points an accusing finger at a Democrat politician who favored his voters

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The press points out the Democrat who knew and voted with his people, but does not speak out against the Democrat who didn’t know her own state’s law

The one Democrat who voted for the House Republicans’ voter identification bill

As if to notify the radical socialists in the Democrat party of the Democrat who broke rank, Time points its bony finger at Democrat Henry Cuellar for having voted with his constituents.

House Republicans have passed an election reform bill backed by President Donald Trump that would introduce stricter voter identification requirements, joined by a single Democrat who broke party lines to support the legislation.

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE America, Act, which passed by an otherwise party-line vote of 218-213 on Wednesday, would require voters to provide proof of citizenship and photo identification to cast ballots in all 50 states, among other changes. It now heads to the Senate, where it faces slim odds of garnering the 60 votes it would need to overcome a potential filibuster.

ImageAn earlier version of the legislation passed the House last year with the backing of four Democrats. But on Wednesday, Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas was the only member of the party to vote for the revised bill, which includes additional requirements pushed by Trump.

“I support the SAVE America Act because I believe in the fundamental principle: American citizens should decide American elections,” Cuellar said in a statement posted on X. He cited similarly strict identification standards for voters in his home state, which he said “has some of the strongest election security laws in the country.”

Cuellar also stated that already-registered voters’ registration status would not change under the bill, and that the legislation would require states to “accommodate name changes and accept multiple, commonly held forms of identification.”

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From the Los Angeles Times (a loyal Democrat paper in a state with no voter id): “Voter ID shouldn’t be this controversial”

Even the Los Angeles Times admits that Trump may have a point since 95% of voters (including 71% of Democrats) agree on the issue of requiring voter identification to vote. (I inserted the bolding below for emphasis.)

President Trump says that “Republicans” should “nationalize the election” or at least take over voting in up to 15 places where he says voting is corrupt. His evidence of fraudulent voting is that he lost in such places in 2020, and since it is axiomatic that he won everywhere, the reported results are proof of the fraud.

This is all delusional, narcissistic nonsense. But at this point, if you still claim it’s an open question whether Trump actually lost the 2020 election (he did), you’re immune to the facts or just lying — either about not having made up your mind or about what actually happened. So, I don’t see much point in relitigating an issue that was literally litigated in more than 60 courtrooms.

But Republicans’ inability simply to tell the truth about Trump’s lies makes talking about elections and election integrity infuriatingly difficult. One tactic is to assert that Trump didn’t say what he plainly said. “What I assume he meant by it is that we ought to pass — Congress ought to pass the SAVE Act, which I’m co-sponsor of,” is how Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) responded to questions about Trump’s remarks.

Before later correcting himself, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) insisted the president never said he wanted to “nationalize” the elections. “Those are your words, not his,” he told reporters.

But Democrats are wrong to suggest that all of the difficulty is generated by Trump’s lies and the Republicans’ inability to reject them.

On Sunday, ABC’s Jonathan Karl asked Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), given “that the Republicans have undermined confidence in elections and the integrity of elections,” why not have a photo ID requirement for voting?

Schiff responded by scoffing at the idea that Democrats should cave to “the distrust [Republicans] created in order to enact a voter suppression law, which is the SAVE Act.”

Now there are reasonable objections to proof-of-citizenship requirements in the SAVE Act, but the framing of both the question and the answer is flawed.

Americans — including large majorities of Democrats — have favored voter ID for decades. Since long before anyone dreamed Donald Trump would run for president, never mind get elected, the idea has been wildly popular. In 2006, 80% of Americans favored showing proof of ID when voting. The lowest support over the last two decades, according to Pew, was in 2012 when a mere 77% of Americans, including 61% of Democrats favored voter ID. Last August, Pew found that 95% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats favored having to provide government-issued ID when voting.

(Read more at the Los Angeles Times

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Gretchen Whitmer attacked the SAVE America Act

Lansing, Michigan ABC affiliate WZZM record the response of Michigan Governor Whitmer in regard to the proposed SAVE America Act (never mind that Michigan’s voter id is already stronger than the Republican act).

ImageMichigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is blasting a suggestion by President Donald Trump to federalize elections.

Trump has twice suggested this week that the federal government “take over” and “nationalize” elections ahead of the 2026 midterms. Trump initially made the comments in an interview on Feb. 2, then doubled down on the suggestion the following day at a bill signing in the Oval Office.

“If a state can’t run an election, I think the people behind me should do something about it,” Trump said. “Because, you know, if you think about it, the state is an agent for the federal government in elections. I don’t know why the federal government doesn’t do ’em anyway.”

His statements come as the FBI seized documents in Fulton County, Ga., related to the 2020 election. There have long been concerns by some members of the GOP over the legitimacy of the county’s presidential election results from 2020, where votes from that county helped Joe Biden win the state. 

Now, Whitmer is calling foul on the idea of federalizing elections in a video posted to social media, labeling it as unconstitutional and an “attempt to take away your constitutional right to vote.” In the video, Whitmer claimed that the federalization of elections is “not going to happen on my watch.”

(Read more at WZZM)

Michigan has voter id more strict than Texas or the proposed SAVE America Act

If you refer to the resources at Vote Riders, you can see the state-by-state voter identification requirements.

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The Balkanizing press lies to us again about another transgender shooter

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First, somehow the truth gets out

EXCLUSIVE: Family confirms identity of trans Tumbler Ridge school shooter

Juno News reports on the transgender identity of the Canadian shooter who killed nine other people before killing himself.

The individual alleged to be the shooter in the deadly attack at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia has been identified by a close family member as Jesse Strang, according to information obtained by Juno News.

Juno News spoke directly with Russell G. Strang, Jesse Strang’s uncle, who confirmed Jesse was transgender and responsible for the shooting that left 10 people dead, including the suspect. A public YouTube account believed to be owned by Jesse features the transgender flag and uses “she/her” pronouns.

When contacted for comment, Strang confirmed he was Jesse’s uncle and Jennifer Strang’s brother. Jennifer is believed to be one of the two deceased victims found by the RCMP at a residence suspected of being connected to the incident.

The RCMP has not yet publicly released the shooter’s identity.

Police have only confirmed the “original suspect,” described in an active shooter alert as a “female in a dress with brown hair,” was found dead and that the investigation remains ongoing.

According to the RCMP, six victims were found dead inside the school, one died en route to the hospital, and two others were discovered dead at a residence believed to be connected to the suspect. The shooter died from what police described as a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No details about the identities of the victims have been officially confirmed.

Juno News reviewed social media and online accounts connected to Jesse Strang following confirmation from his uncle.

In a Facebook post dated July 6, 2021, Jennifer Strang promoted her son’s YouTube channel, writing:

“Check out my oldest son Jesse Strang YouTube channel. He posts about hunting, self reliance, guns and stuff he likes to do. Subscribe and you’ll get notifications when he posts new videos. he doesn’t go on much other social media so this is his way of sharing his life,” the post reads.

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(Read the full story at the Juno News)

Additionally, the truth gets out some three other ways

Further, the unpaid fourth estate comments on this event

But then there are the reports from the reliably liberal press

After ignoring the obvious, the police search for a motive

The New York Times tells us all about the “female in a dress with brown hair” who shot up the Canadian school. (I inserted the bolding and the redness to the text for emphasis.)

Here’s the latest.

Canadian police were searching for a motive Wednesday for one of the country’s deadliest mass shootings, while crucial questions remained unanswered about what unfolded a day earlier in the small, close-knit community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Tuesday afternoon that 10 bodies had been recovered: those of six victims and the shooter at the local secondary school, a person who died while being transported from the school to a hospital, and two others at a private residence.

Prime Minister Mark Carney made a tearful statement to journalists arriving at Parliament in Ottawa on Wednesday.

“This morning, parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers in Tumbler Ridge will wake up without someone they love. The nation mourns with you. Canada stands by you,” he said, stopping to hold back tears and steady his voice. He said flags at Parliament and at government buildings around the country would fly at half-staff for the next seven days.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the suspect died of a self-inflicted wound but did not release a name. An early alert issued by the police had described the person believed to be behind the attack as a “female in a dress with brown hair,” but they have not since provided any more information on the person’s identity.

(Read more fluff at the New York Times)

It would be nice to get real news without the lies when it comes to these main stream outlets

While it would be nice to see some unadulterated truth out of the main stream press, expecting them to break out of old habits might be expecting the impossible.

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However, we also get the lie from what often is a conservative outlet

10 dead in British Columbia school shooting; suspect described as woman in dress

The New York Post does nothing but parrot the liberal line regarding the “woman in a dress” who shot a Canadian school.

At least 10 people, including the suspected gunman, were killed in a shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia, authorities said. Six victims were found inside the school, with additional deaths reported at a nearby residence believed to be connected to the attack. Police said the suspect died from a self-inflicted injury, while about 25 others were assessed for injuries. Officials lifted a shelter-in-place order Tuesday evening as investigators continued to piece together what led to one of the deadliest school shootings in Canada’s history.

(Watch the video and read the text at the New York Post)

Admittedly, I am a technical writer who does nothing to investigate the news. However, I did not take that paid position.

If the “journalists” at the New York Post are going to report on things, they should do what they are paid to do. They should investigate and then report.

 

Balkanized America

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Liberals admit their goal is the “replacement theory” and to “Balkanize” the rest

The Texas Tribune provides its reliably leftist apology for Gene Wu’s comments that have been brought to the fore by Gene during this political season.

In late May, House lawmakers were hours into a debate over a proposal to teach Texas school children about the dangers of communism.

Rep. Gene Wu, a Houston Democrat, stepped up to the podium of the House floor. He shared a story about when his family had its land confiscated by the communist Chinese government. During the Cultural Revolution, his father, 13 years old at the time, was dispatched alone to fields and “and basically told to either farm or die,” Wu said.

His father survived. Many others did not.

“When I hear people call me a communist spy, or when members of this body say those things, I get a little offended,” Wu said, clasping his hands atop of a podium and looking across the room at his fellow lawmakers. “Because our family has been the victims of communism for a very long time, and we fled to this country as fast as we possibly could.” Wu was opposing the bill which he said could lead to the stigmatizing and stereotyping of people who fled communist countries.

For years, Wu — the leader of the Texas House Democrats — has been the recipient of such remarks from Republicans inside the Capitol and out. His GOP critics, which include party officials, have accused him on social media of being an operative of the Chinese Communist Party doing China’s bidding in the Legislature while baselessly questioning his loyalty to Texas and the U.S.

The spotlight on Wu’s race and country of origin has grown hotter amid the Texas Democrat’s departure from the state to block the passage of new congressional maps that could give Republicans five more seats in the U.S. House. This week Gov. Greg Abbott filed a petition seeking to remove Wu from office for abandoning his job duties. The national attention has yielded an increase of racist insults — and virtual silence from top GOP state leaders, some of whom in recent years have condemned other racist attacks hurled by fellow party members.

“Is Gene Wu back in China?” state Sen. Mayes Middleton, a Galveston Republican, posted on X on Monday — the first day the House did not reach a quorum due to the absent Democrats.

Democrats swiftly responded calling Middleton, who is running for attorney general, racist and a disgrace.

But Middleton doubled down on Wednesday, accusing Wu of “fighting to put China first and Texas second.”

(Read more fluff at the Texas Tribune)

Democrats: if someone really lies about you, then present the quote and show how it is a lie. Otherwise, shut up.

If all you do when defending against accusations of lies is to throw counter accusations of “racism” and “disgrace,” you are not helping your cause. (That is, unless you know that those you talk to are too stupid and lazy to investigate for the truth.)

In case you missed it, here is the video clip of Gene Wu, born in China, representing Texas, and confirming the replacement theory.

In the below video, Wu says:

I always tell people the gay, the Latino, African-American, Asian, and other communities realize that they are … that they share the same oppressor, is the day we start winning, because we are the majority in this country now. We are … We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.

But the problem is our communities are divided. They’re completely divided. Um, and I talk about this all the time is that … like for Asian-Americans and for African-Americans, uh, we probably have one of the worst relationships between any community. Non-whites share the same oppressor and we are the majority now. We can take over this country.

In answering the comments in Wu’s video, my response is to agree (but not on the source of the oppression)

Yes, all of these groups have been divided. However, the division and oppression comes from the Democrat party and the willing accomplices in the press.

The degree of Balkanization is shown when a commentator on a major news outlet to suggest killing a majority of the population.

When a commentator on CNN suggests that MAGA needs to be “fumigated,” that illustrates how divided CNN and its audience is from the rest of the country.

Further, it is no more acceptable to suggest that the majority who voted for Trump be killed than it is to suggest that those who voted for Dementia Joe be herded off to gas chambers.

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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 halftime show made history — in all the wrong ways

The New York Post gives us a small view of the much-ballyhooed half-time show (at least from liberals).

It might be the first time that Bad Bunny has been suspected of cribbing from Irving Berlin. 

Near the end of his Super Bowl halftime show, the Puerto Rican rapper said “God bless America.”

For many Americans, they were the only words that they could understand, and ones that they presumably appreciated. 

We’ve come a long way, though, from Berlin’s World War I-era song that asks for God’s blessings on America and invokes the geographic majesty of our vast nation, “from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam.”

Bad Bunny didn’t mean America the country, but America the continents.

With apologies to Lee Greenwood, Bad Bunny is proud to be an American — just not an “American” like most people in the United States think of it. 

The NFL made history with the show in two ways.

For the first time, it had a performer who sang in a language about 85% of the US population doesn’t speak, a victory for gratuitous inscrutability.

Were none of the stars who sing in English available?

Also, for the first time ever, the NFL gave its stage to a performer who sought to put the country in its place and undermine its claim to be called “America.”

To think that, once upon a time, the likes of Prince and Katy Perry simply aimed to put on a good show. 

In an echo of singer Billie Eilish inveighing against America stealing land at the Grammy Awards, Bad Bunny said of his language proficiency in a pre-Super Bowl press conference, “English is not my first language. But it’s OK, it’s not America’s first language either.”

This sounds clever until you give it a moment’s thought.

Bad Bunny’s first language, Spanish, was a colonial imposition in the Western Hemisphere beginning in 1492.

If the rapper wanted to associate himself with languages prior to this wave of European settlement, he’d have to sing in, say, Nahuatl or Algonquian. 

It’s true that the Spanish language got a head start over English in what’s now the United States, when Ponce de Leon showed up on the Florida peninsula in 1513.

But so what? English-speakers forged a permanent presence at Jamestown in 1607.

They then populated the Eastern seaboard, won their independence, stood up enduring institutions of representative government, and made English the most important and widely spoken language in the world.

That the country they founded goes by “America” is an affront to elements in Latin America and on the left.

They consider it insulting to everyone else living in North America or South America: Aren’t they Americans, too?

Certainly not everyone feels this way — the Canadians have as little interest in being called “Americans” as they do in becoming the 51st state.

It is people hypersensitive to any Yanqui imperialism, including “linguistic imperialism,” who complain about us hogging the name “America.”

Sad to say, they are late to the game.

Americans began calling themselves Americans in the 1700s to set them themselves apart from the British.

An anonymous writer in The Virginia Gazette in March 1776 referred to “the united states of America,” and Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence said it was a statement of “the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” (subsequently changed to “the thirteen united States of America”).

Once we were the USA, the question became how to refer to our people.

As “United States men and women”?

Various solutions were tried out before we settled on “American,” which now denotes not just our country, but a set of clearly defined cultural traits.

(Read more of the Bunny’s foibles at the New York Post)

Having read the lyrics, I can say this song was going in the wrong direction.

I would not support home-grown degeneracy. I don’t support imported degeneracy.

We need to return to God and stop grabbing at what feels good at the time.

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Hint to Democrats: if you want to unite the races, stop focusing on racial divisions

Illinois city hands out $25K cash payments to 44 Black residents through reparations program

Fox News lets us in on the latest scheme by Democrats to keep us divided: making the sins of the fathers payable by the sons.

Evanston, Illinois. will issue $25,000 to 44 residents in reparations payments, the City’s Reparations Committee has announced.

Established in 2019 and approved by the City Council in 2021, the program issues $25,000 direct cash payments to Black residents and descendants of Black residents who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969.

Evanston was the first city in the nation to pass a reparations plan, pledging $10 million over a decade to Black residents.

The payments are intended to cover housing expenses, Evanston official Cynthia Vargas told the Chicago Tribune.

Tasheik Kerr, assistant to the city manager, said during a meeting last week the residents will be contacted to inform them their payments are on the way over the next few weeks.

According to a city memo, the fund had received $276,588 from Evanston’s real estate transfer tax. The committee discussed taxing Delta-8 THC products to sustain funding in the future.

Ald. Krissie Harris recognized that the tax would not significantly increase revenue, though it would “help keep moving that number forward” in the reparations process. 

(Read more at Fox News)

A bedrock of Christian thought (and, therefore, Western civilization) has been to only hold people accountable for their own actions

Ezekiel 18:20 tells us in the New International Version:

The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.

Therefore, since the start of our republic, America has held people accountable for their own crimes and not for the crimes of others.

However, with liberals importing so many from Islam, it seems that has started to change

In the blueberry of Dallas in 2015, the first Islamic tribunal sat

In contradiction to the ruling laws of Texas, liberals in Dallas allowed an Islamic tribunal to set up court in 2015.

Democrat areas made laws holding parents accountable for the actions of their children

In 2024, Michigan made parents criminally accountable for the actions of their children.

Now, it seems we have payments being made to supposed decendents of slaves by supposed decendents of owners

Even though the people of Illinois most likely (if they are decended from Americans who lived in the Civil War era) fought to end slavery, this Illinois town is taking from the non-Blacks and giving to the Blacks.

Never mind that, with people like Barak, they may have no slave ancestors.

All this does is point toward a minor issue that people allow to divide themselves over (the degree of melanin in their skin).

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Detransitioner’s victory and the seeming death of the “gender-affirming care” industry

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Detransitioner’s victory could deal a death blow to the trans medical industry

The Daily Caller reports on the death blow one former “transmale” has dealt on the trans medical industry as she attempts to return to her normal state.

ImageRemoving adolescents’ healthy body parts under the guise of treating gender dysphoria could soon become a “thing of the past” as doctors reckon with the reality of financial penalties.

A detransitioner’s landmark $2 million victory in her malpractice case and the first major medical association’s new opposition to “gender-affirming” surgeries for minors will force medical professionals to seriously weigh the consequences of offering these procedures, advocates told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“The bottom line is simple: should doctors ignore the medical evidence on gender dysphoria, they will be placing themselves squarely on the losing end of future malpractice lawsuits,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told the DCNF in a statement.

A New York jury awarded Fox Varian $2 million on Jan. 30 in her medical malpractice lawsuit against the doctors who allowed her double mastectomy at age 16, making her the first detransitioner to win at trial. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) released a position statement on Tuesday recommending delaying gender-related surgeries until a patient is at least 19 years of age.

These developments “delivered a one two blow to this harmful industry and should hasten the unraveling of the manufactured consensus activists have promoted,” Miceli said.

Josh Payne, who co-founded a law firm that is litigating a dozen ongoing cases against medical professionals, therapists and clinics involved in transgender procedures, expects other medical associations to follow ASPS’s lead, making surgeries for minors “a thing of the past.”

“I think the New York jury award sends a bigger message: vulnerable individuals at any age – not just minors – deserve protection when they are struggling with mental health issues,” Payne said. “The standard of care is heightened in that situation. They need more safeguards, not fewer.”

“A lot of our clients were led into irreversible procedures when they were adults, and they did not realize they were harmed until many years later because their mental state was so fragile,” he continued.

(Read much more regarding ASPS and pediatric gender clinics at the Daily Caller)

One commenter on X (Yes, formerly Twitter) suggested (without corroborating evidence) that most transsexuals do not regret their decision.

If the person who posted that message was correct, then:

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The American Medical Association endorses restrictions on gender-related surgery for minors

New York Times comments on the resulting AMA step to remove themselves from culpability in transgender-related surgeries (a move that is too little and too late).

For the first time, two major medical groups have backed limitations on gender-related surgical treatments for minors in the United States.

The American Medical Association, the nation’s largest organization representing doctors, on Wednesday said these procedures generally should be deferred until patients reach adulthood.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons took a similar position on Tuesday, saying that gender-related surgeries should be delayed until age 19.

(Read more with a paid subscription at the New York Times)

Amazing that it took them this many years to realize that minors should not be allowed to make life-altering decisions

For their next trick, maybe the New York Times and the AMA will take a stand against under-age smoking and drinking.

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The American Society of Plastic Surgeons calls for delaying gender-affirming surgery until age 19

NBC News jumps on the bandwagon by allowing the ASPS to take a stand against something that should never have happened in the first place.

The country’s largest professional organization for plastic surgeons recommended that gender-affirming surgery be delayed until patients turn 19, changing its stance on the politically charged issue.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) said Tuesday that it found “insufficient evidence” that the benefits of chest, genital and facial surgery on minors experiencing gender dysphoria outweigh the risks. It leaned on two recent and heavily debated publications on the topic, the Cass Review by a senior doctor in England and a 2025 report issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.

“This position statement doesn’t seek to deny or minimize the reality of any patient’s distress, and it does not question the authenticity of any patient’s experience,” the position statement reads. “Instead, ASPS affirms that truly humane, ethical, and just care, particularly for children and adolescents, must balance compassion with scientific rigor, developmental considerations and concern for long-term welfare.”

The statement is not a clinical guideline, the document notes. The society also did not conduct an independent evidence assessment or take other steps that would be involved in setting new care guidelines.

Other medical groups stand by their guidance

President Donald Trump’s administration has pressured health care providers to limit or stop gender-affirming care for transgender people, particularly children.

“Today marks another victory for biological truth in the Trump administration,” Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Jim O’Neill said in a statement. “The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has set the scientific and medical standard for all provider groups to follow.”

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also commended the move. “By taking this stand, they are helping protect future generations of American children from irreversible harm,” he said in a statement.

Late Wednesday, the American Medical Association said it agreed with the surgeons’ society in part but stopped short of saying surgery should be deferred to adulthood in all cases.

(Read more misleading, liberal fluff at NBC News)

How many other medical associations still have to decide between giving sound medical advice and bending the knee to Democrat doctrine?

From the second headline within the NBC story, there must be one or two Democrat medical societies left.

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The paid protests against ICE see their weaknesses and try to correct them in the “student walkouts”

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From past history, we know there are likely extra credits being given for participation in “student walkouts” against ICE

ICE student walkouts bring backlash, support for teachers

News Nation Now reports on both the support and backlash against teachers during the Texas student walkouts.

As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatens funding for some schools over anti-ICE protests, some parents are questioning whether teachers are encouraging political activism. They’re also finding parental support.

“It’s very important that the home and the school stay separate, and whatever parents want to introduce to their children when they feel appropriate, the parents know best, and these things should be coming from a parent,” said Danielle Bellomo, a New Jersey mother of three. “Whichever way you choose to raise your child, that’s up to the parent. But it should never be the choice of a teacher or the school.”

In Texas, Abbott recently threatened to cut funding to Texas schools that refuse to comply with guidelines that preclude educators from encouraging student walkouts.

Image“If kids are skipping class, going out protesting, those schools are not going to be paid for that day for those students who are skipping class,” Abbott said at a recent news conference. “It’s the responsibility of the superintendent, the principals and the educators to make sure those children are in school getting the education they’re supposed to be getting, and making sure that parents are reassured their children are not wandering around some street somewhere…”

(Read more at News Nation Now)

Preaching from pink-haired liberals at the head of the classroom encouraged many parents to back school choice

Now it seems that the teachers need to be schooled again in the lesson that brought the school choice initiative from the ballot box to the Texas family.

It seems that some liberals never learn.

It may take more than pulling funding from schools to get their attention.

It may take some drastic measures to get the attention of school districts, including:

  • Having the family of a student who is injured or killed during a “student protest” sue the school district for damages.
  • Having parents who have lost faith in that school district pull their children out of that district.
  • Parents or other concerned parties running for school boards where some standards can be set regarding the release of children during school hours.

Take note that the teacher quoted in the Austin teacher article below refers to the “free speech” rights of the children. If these children were speaking out against a problem directly affecting them (say, spoiled food in the cafeteria, abusive staff, or another immediate problem), I can see them taking to the streets to protest that because not speaking out then and there would subject them to more of the same.

However, as far as I can tell, this is a case of a teacher imposing her views on children and putting them at risk for her views.

Still, it does seem that some who have been paying for the anti-ICE riots have learned some lessons

It seems that the Democrats paying for the events in Minnesota may have learned:

  • The rioting (especially the attacks on private property such as hotels where Antifa thinks ICE is staying) has proven to not work.
  • The printed signs, identical vests, and very similar supplies spread out among “spontanious rioters” betrays the cause.
  • The obvious criminality in the actions taken does not stand up.

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Austin teacher defends educators and students as controversy over protests continues

Austin, Texas CBS affiliate KEYE does a poor immitation of reporting by unquestioningly parroting the views of a sixth-grade teacher who approves letting children out on the streets unprotected.

Austin ISD is under fire from top state officials this week after hundreds of students have walked out of class to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as some state leaders allege schools helped students to do so.

After some pushback to the walkouts, a middle school teacher and Education Austin union member is speaking out.

Taylor Carriker-Cavin is a 6th-grade science teacher at Dobie Middle School in Austin. She’s been teaching for a decade now.

“Every year that I’ve taught, I have seen families destabilized by deportation,” she said.

In a Facebook post on Saturday, Carriker-Cavin defended students who chose to participate in the walkouts.

“As educators, we feel deep pride watching students exercise their rights, organize with purpose, and speak to the conditions shaping their lives. They are learning that civic participation is lived, practiced, and empowering. When young people step forward with conviction, it shows awareness, courage, and a commitment to one another that deserves recognition,” she wrote.

In a post on X on Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott slammed Austin ISD after videos and photos surfaced of students marching downtown with anti-ICE signs.

(Read more at KEYE)

Although the press can overlook some things, will it overlook the killing of children released to protest on the teacher’s behalf?

The people of Uvalde, Texas have been in and out of the limelight provided by the press due to the shooting that occurred at the hands of a teen madman. Due to that tragic event, one police officer has been put through a trial to assess whether he was negligent in his duty to protect those children.

Why should this be any different? Why should the releasing of sixth-graders up to twetfth-graders be any different? They are not adults and should be under the protection of those to whom we entrust them.

Mother upset with Fremont High School after student hit by SUV during protest

Omaha, Nebraska NBC affiliate WOWT informs us of the raw emotions expressed by one mother whose daughter was injured while out of class on an anti-ICE protest.

The mother of a Fremont High School student who was struck by an SUV during a student protest said she is angry with school officials and believes they should have prevented the demonstration.

The student was hit by a red SUV while participating in an anti-ICE protest outside the school. She is now recovering at home with bumps and bruises.

“I think it mostly got me in my legs because my knees is what’s really bugging me right now,” the student said. “All I remember is that it was red.”

The girl’s mother said the incident should never have happened and that students were not informed enough to organize such a protest.

“First of all, I don’t feel she’s informed enough to have made a decision like the one that she made by doing a protest,” the mother said. “I don’t feel that any of the young people that were involved know enough about what’s going on to do or set up a protest because I feel they don’t know what they’re protesting.”

The mother believes Fremont High School bears responsibility for the incident, pointing to the fact that her daughter was allowed to make protest materials during class time.

“My daughter was allowed to make her poster in class, in school, to career class,” she said. “Where are the teachers and why weren’t they paying more attention to what these kids were doing?”

“I feel the school is quite a bit at fault for this,” the mother said.

(Read more at WOWT)

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Democrats wrote my blog today

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Democrats and their poor decision making wrote this post today

When Mamdani had to choose between supporting police and the knife-weilding psycho who attacked police, guess who he chose.

Newsweek chronicles the second poor decision by the Muslim mayor of Neuvo Basurero over the past week.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being criticized for visiting a man in the hospital after he charged at a police officer with a knife.

ImageMamdani, who took office in January, visited Jabez Chakraborty on Tuesday, telling reporters at an unrelated news conference that he had “lived with schizophrenia for many years” prior to the shooting in his Queens home on January 26.

Chakraborty, 22, was shot by Officer Tyree White as he wielded a knife, according to body-worn camera footage released Tuesday by the New York Police Department. White and a second officer had responded to the man’s residence after police got an emergency call about a person experiencing a mental health episode.

The officer-involved shooting had been condemned by Chakraborty’s relatives and critics who contend that officers cannot handle such situations, often proving too eager to open fire, the New York Times reported.

Chakraborty was hospitalized following the shooting, which is now being investigated by the NYPD’s Force Investigation Division, the outlet reported.

Mamdani also suggested during Tuesday’s news conference that Chakraborty not face criminal charges.

(Read more about the visit at Newsweek)

Just so you know that the X-verse noticed what Mamdani did here

What did you really expect from a mayor caught off guard by snow in New York (aka Neuvo Basurero)

Since few people in the diverse, equitable, and inclusive Mamdani regime knew that it snowed in New York, it is reasonable to see that now the New York Post must now cover a crisis of mounting urgency where Mamdani seems to have avoided taking out New York’s trash due to the aforementioned snow.

They’re taking out the trash at a glacial pace.

ImageAn 8-foot-high mountain of trash near Gracie Mansion finally got cleared Monday after The Post revealed neighbors’ anger that Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home apparently got the white-glove treatment — but other unsightly snowy garbage piles still linger across the city.

The growing summits of hardened snow, plastic trash bags and other detritus remained more than a week after Winter Storm Fern blanketed the Big Apple with a foot of flakes that quickly turned to ice amid a potentially record-breaking deep freeze, Mamdani said.

“Sanitation is currently running about 24 hours behind on trash collection,” he said during an unrelated press conference at the city’s municipal building.

“I know that they are working with everything that they have to come up to speed and that will be a focus for us.”

The frustrating garbage collection delays had many New Yorkers trash-talking the city’s slow response, with Upper East Side residents particularly miffed as they looked at spotless sidewalks at Mamdani’s new home of Gracie Mansion.

The largest trash pile in the tony neighborhood — an 8-foot mound of black trash bags along 79th Street near pristine Carl Schurz Park, where the stately mayoral manse sits — was cleaned up by Monday.

(Read more of the rat-infested trash at the New York Post)

And do you think New Yorkers had anything to say about this trash?

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Democrats and their advocating for criminals wrote this today

Anti-ICE agitators set up checkpoints in Minneapolis streets to stop vehicles

Fox News reports on the complete abandonment of law enforcement within portions of Minneapolis and other portions of Minnesota.

ImageAnti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators in Minneapolis have set up a makeshift street checkpoint to track federal agents, stopping vehicles and questioning drivers to determine whether they are ICE officers, video shows.

Agitators could be seen standing in the roadway near makeshift barricades and traffic cones while they stopped or flagged down passing vehicles.

In one clip, an agitator dressed in a black coat and black mask was seen approaching a stopped vehicle and directly asking the driver if they were “ICE,” before allowing the car to proceed.

“It looks like in our system that your plates come up as an ICE plate,” the agitator said to the driver.

“That doesn’t seem like it’s the case,” he added. “I just want to come through and ask what’s up and see how you’re doing.”

The agitator also asked the driver for his name. 

“He’s clearly Somalian,” someone is also heard saying.

Journalist Jorge Ventura captured the video from the scene. Ventura asked the agitator what system they were using, pressing him on how the group was identifying vehicles and noting that the driver was not a federal agent.

(Read more at Fox News)

See additional recordings on the anti-ICE checkpoints

Even more in contradiction to their own supposed message, Democrats build their own barriers while attacking other barriers

Maybe this is less of a departure from the past than some think

Before history books were edited to exclude insults to certain socialist groups and minorities, I read of how the Chicago Mafia spread brothels, speakeasies, and other criminal enterprises across Minnesota. Supposedly, many of the more favored dumping grounds for victims of the Mafia were located across Minnesota.

Therefore, this clannish and anti-law-enforcement mentality might go back generations.

Long-standing lawlessness and criminals protected

Early in the video below, one correspondent describes how (when he covered the scene years ago) he had to negotiate his way in and, later, negotiate his way out. There is lawlessness and massive fraud being protected there.

Later, they describe how (as in Iraq) insurgents use Signal, burner phones, and word-of-mouth to track ICE.

Correct me if I am wrong, but haven’t Democrats claimed that conservatives act like Nazis?

But what shouts “Nazi” louder than creating a roadblock and demanding to see “your papers, please.”

How is it that the people advocating against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol have set up their own border checks in the streets?

If they are setting up points where you shall not pass without their approval, they are setting up the one thing they claim to oppose: zones where people choose who to admit and who to keep out.

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Democrats spread conspiracy theories that once were their time-tested facts

Hakeem Jeffries originally started this post today

While any typos and other problems in this post rest squarely on me, Hakeem Jeffries did me the favor or mostly providing the input that began this post today.

Hypocritical Democrats on parade: Hakeem Jeffries accuses Trump of the exact same thing he pushed when Biden sat his rear in the White House

The Daily Caller points out how Hakeem just accused Trump of doing the very thing that Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Biden pushed prior to 2024.

ImageHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — who shepherded legislation to effectively federalize U.S. elections during the presidency of Joe Biden — claimed that President Donald Trump wants to “nationalize” the midterms.

Trump said during a Monday appearance on “The Dan Bongino Show” that federal Republicans need to take control over elections in blue states to stop illegal immigrants from voting. Jeffries, in a Wednesday post to X, claimed Trump wanted to “steal” the midterm elections and that “We will never let that happen.”

In 2021, Jeffries co-sponsored the For the People Act, a reintroduced House bill that significantly increased federal government involvement in state election procedure, of to the official Congress website. Both critics and supporters of the bill claimed that if passed, it would ultimately lead to the nationalization of U.S. elections.

The bill sought to expand voting registration measures, such as same-day and automatic voting registration, and voting access, such as vote-by-mail and early voting, according to the web accessible version posted to Congress’ official website. It would have also required states to create independent redistricting commissions.

Former Democratic Rep. John Sarbanes of Maryland introduced the For The People Act, in 2019. The bill passed the then-Democratic-controlled House but was blocked by the Republican Senate majority. Sarbanes reintroduced the legislation in 2021 and where the Senate again blocked it.

Jeffries had praised the House’s passage of the bill in March 2021, calling it “once-in-a-generation democracy reform.”

“Today’s vote represents a monumental step toward defending our democracy and making sure that every single American regardless of race, regardless of gender, regardless of ZIP code, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity and regardless of religion has an equal opportunity to participate in our democracy,” the New York Democrat wrote at the time, via a press release.

(Read more at the Daily Caller)

What else is new?

When it came to any one group killing the filibuster, the Democrats were for it before they were against it.

So why would we be surprised that they would reverse path on:

  • Opposing/supporting the police
  • Defunding/hiring the police they want
  • Opposing/practicing gerrymandering
  • Creating/destroying systems to nationalize the vote 

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Are we seeing desperate times for two despirate regimes?

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First, Iran

US shoots down Iranian drone as Middle East tensions escalate

The Financial Times gives us the lay of the land as it comes for the conflict involving Iran and the US Navy.

The US military said it shot down an Iranian drone that “aggressively approached” an American aircraft carrier 500 miles from Iran’s southern coast on Tuesday, an incident that risks escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran.

In a separate incident hours later, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces threatened to board and seize a US-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.

The approaches from Iranian drones and IRGC gunboats risk antagonising US President Donald Trump, who has been weighing taking military action against Iran. Officials from the two countries are planning to meet for talks on Friday about Iran’s nuclear programme and other issues.

An F-35 fighter jet from the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier shot down a Shahed-130 drone that “unnecessarily manoeuvred towards the ship” with “unclear intent”, said the US Central Command, which oversees US military operations in the region.

The Iranian drone flew “towards the ship despite de-escalatory measures taken by US forces operating in international waters”, Centcom added. US forces shot it down in “self-defence”.

IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency quoted an unnamed official as saying the drone was carrying out its “routine and lawful mission”.

The official said the drone “successfully transmitted its surveillance and reconnaissance imagery to the command centre but subsequently lost communication”. The reason for the lost communication was being examined, they added.

The US has amassed what Trump has called a “large armada” in the Middle East to take potential military action against Iran.

Trump on Tuesday confirmed “we are negotiating” with Iran “right now”, and said there would be “more than one meeting”.

(Read more at the Financial Times)

The problem may be that the hardliners are not on board

The Wall Street Journal likewise reveals some details in regard to the conflict between Iran and the US Navy.

For a few hours Tuesday, two Iranian provocations against the U.S. raised questions as to whether nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington could be derailed. But negotiations are still expected this week, U.S. officials say, keeping diplomacy on the table even as President Trump amasses a military force in the Middle East and issues threats against Iran.

The U.S. shot down an Iranian drone aimed at the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, and a U.S.-flagged ship outran an attempt by armed Iranian gunboats to force it to stop, spiking tensions in the Persian Gulf.

(continued)

It wasn’t clear why Iran decided to adopt a more aggressive posture when the U.S. is piling up air power, warships and missile defenses in the Middle East. Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House in London, said the incidents could mean that hard-line factions in Iran’s leadership aren’t on board with the talks. “When they are under attack, all political sides in the regime work together,” Vakil said. “When there is a mediation, they sabotage each other”

(Read more at the Wall Street Journal)

Still, the real problem in Iran is not how they shoot drones at our ships, but how they treat their citizens

Below, the original French says:

Yesterday, in Tehran, Iranians succeeded in setting fire to the headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards’ bank, which finances the salaries and armaments of the mullahs’ Islamic militias…
Glory to the courage of the Iranian people!!

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Next, there’s Cuba

Cuba on the brink as Trump turns up the pressure: “There is going to be a real blockade”

The Guardian provides some detail when it comes to the state of things for the former junior partner in the now-defunct Carribean Cartel.

It’s just gone midday on Linea, one of the main roads through Havana’s Vedado neighbourhood, and Javier Peña and Ysil Ribas have been waiting since 6am outside a petrol station. They’re passing the time fixing a leak on Ribas’s 1955 gold and white Mercury.

A tanker has pulled up on the forecourt in front of them, and so the queue behind is growing fast. Although this station only takes US dollars, at a cost far out of reach of most Cubans, Peña says it’s their only choice. “There is no gas in the national pesos,” he says, shrugging.

Soon, even buying petrol in dollars may be impossible. The United States has said it will ensure there will be no more fuel shipments to the beleaguered island.

On Thursday, Donald Trump signed an executive order allowing extra tariffs to be slapped on any country that sells oil to the island. The White House said the move was to “protect American citizens and interests” from a regime that provides “a safe haven for transnational terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah and Hamas”.

While no proof of this allegation was offered, the Trump administration has now made plain it is seeking to fell the 67-year-old communist regime. “Cuba will be failing pretty soon,” Trump said earlier in the week.

On Friday, Mexico’s president warned that Trump’s tariff’s “could trigger a far-reaching humanitarian crisis, directly affecting hospitals, food supplies and other basic services for the Cuban people”.

For Cubans, the situation is precipitous. Only one oil shipment has arrived this year – 84,900 barrels from Mexico – according to the data consultancy Kpler. Given current reserves, if no more tankers arrive, Kpler estimates Cuba will run out of fuel in the next three weeks, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

In a social media post on Friday, Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, accused Trump of trying to stifle the island, writing: “Under a false and baseless pretext … President Trump intends to suffocate the Cuban economy by imposing tariffs on countries that sovereignly trade oil with Cuba.”

Jorge Piñón, an energy expert at the University of Texas, said diesel is key: “[If Cuba runs out,] the impact would be catastrophic as diesel fuels transportation – both passenger and commercial, the railroad, agriculture, industry, water distribution and sugarcane.” It also powers an electricity system that is faring so badly that many parts of the island suffer from 12-hour-plus blackouts every day.

(Read more at The Guardian)

Can you imagine? First dumped by the USSR, then by Venezuela. Now depending on cousin Claudia in Mexico

These must be harrowing times for the Cubans.

To show how bad things are for the populace of Cuba, here are some photos and videos

Below, the original Spanish says:

– Did a bomb fall on Cuba?
– No, something worse fell on it: 65 years of socialism.

From the original Spanish (below):

URGENT: Children are protesting in Cuba alongside their parents and families in Las Tunas, demanding water amid the island’s electrical collapse.
Not even the UN has come out to support these Cuban children, left alone against the communist tyranny. GIVE IT A LIKE AND RT because the dictatorship wants to HIDE THIS.

From the Spanish (below):

“USA wants to starve Cuba to death”

Is the USA preventing Cubans from planting crops, fishing, or raising livestock?

No. Their own government is the one preventing them from doing that.

To explain why Cuba has this ongoing issue of socialism as it continues to fail the country, the entire text of the following tweet says:

These miserable communists couldn’t lift #Cuba out of poverty even with the help of the former USSR, nor with the free oil from #Venezuela and #Mexico because the system is designed to create poor people and not rich ones and that’s how even after 67 years they still want to hold on to power.

No more dictatorship, we want freedom!

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It could not happen to a better person (Ms. Eilish)

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Native American tribe responds to Billie Eilish’s “stolen land” Grammy comments

Fox News allows the Tongva tribe to respond to Billie Eilish’s “stolen land” Grammy comments plans (obviously with the singer ignoring her $14 million mansion).

The Tongva tribe in Southern California responded to singer Billie Eilish‘s comments declaring “no one is illegal on stolen land” at the Grammy Awards Sunday night.

ImageWhile accepting the Grammy for Song of the Year, the 24-year-old singer drew backlash for using her acceptance speech to attack border enforcement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

“No one is illegal on stolen land,” Eilish said while wearing an “ICE OUT” pin. “I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting. Our voices really do matter, and the people matter.”

“And f— ICE, that’s all I’m gonna say, sorry,” she added.

Several commentators pointed out that Eilish herself owned a multimillion-dollar Los Angeles property on what is considered “stolen land” that was historically inhabited by the Tongva people, a Native American nation whose territory includes the greater Los Angeles Basin.

The tribe released a statement to Fox News Digital on Tuesday confirming her home’s presence on “ancestral land,” adding that Eilish has not contacted the tribe regarding her ownership.

“We appreciate the opportunity to provide clarity regarding the recent comments made by Billie Eilish,” the statement read. “As the First People of the greater Los Angeles basin, we do understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land. Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property, we do value the instance when Public Figures provide visibility to the true history of this country.”

The statement continued, “We have reached out to her team to express our appreciation for her comments. It is our hope that in future discussions, the tribe can explicitly be referenced to ensure the public understands that the greater Los Angeles basin remains Gabrieleno Tongva territory.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Eilish’s representatives for comment.

(Read more at Fox News)

The great thing is that it is not only the Tongva tribe that is commenting on Billie Eilish

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I’m not sure which went over better: Eilish’s “stolen land” Grammy comment or Schumer’s “Jim Crow 2.0” assessment of voter id

Even when 71% of Democrats, Schumer went to the podium and called the measure to require voter identification at federal elections “Jim Crow 2.0”. Conversely, the voting public has other views, as evidenced by Pew Research.

More than nine-in-ten Republicans (95%) and about seven-in-ten Democrats (71%) favor requiring all voters to show government-issued photo identification to vote.

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Demonstrations of unanimity amoung the Democrat press

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Democrat blind spot #1: Walz had articles of impeachment filed almost a half-month ago

On 16 January 2026, four articles of impeachment were announced against Governor Tim Walz

Rochester, Minnesota NBC affiliate KTTC reported on 15 January 2026 on the pending four articles of impeachment to be filed against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

ImageAmid fraud allegations and a continuing ICE presence in the North Star State, articles of impeachment have been announced against two-term DFL Governor Tim Walz.

The articles, introduced by Rep. Mike Wiener (R-Long Prairie), outline four separate charges against Walz:

  1. Article one alleges Walz violated his oath of office “by knowingly concealing or permitting the concealment of widespread fraud within Minnesota​ state administered programs, despite repeated warnings, audits, reports, and public indicators of​ systematic abuse.”
  2. Article two alleges Walz violated his oath of office by “actions and omissions that interfered with lawful oversight, investigation, or corrective​ action related to fraud in Minnesota state agencies.”
  3. Article three alleges Walz violated his oath of office by “placing political consideration above lawful administration, thereby breaching the​ public trust.”
  4. Article four alleges Walz violated his oath of office by “failing in his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws of the State of Minnesota, particular laws governing stewardship of public funds.”

“We are stewards of the public dollar,” said Wiener. “They put their faith in us to take that money and spend it wisely. And when we see this massive amount of fraud that’s been taken place, and we’ve known this for years, it’s not anything new. It’s been going on for quite some time. I take that very seriously.”

Wiener said he has been working on these articles of impeachment for two months. He was going through the state constitution when he “kind of stumbled” across the process.

“When I looked at the articles of impeachment, I thought this is a way that the legislators can, through the process, through our state constitution, hold the governor accountable for the massive amounts of fraud that have taken place in the state,” said Wiener.

(Read more at KTTC)

If it is newsworthy to report on Texas Democrats fleeing the state to derail the Republican governor’s agenda, it likely is also newsworthy to report on a Minnesota Republican filing impeachment papers to derail the Democrat agenda

The press should report on the news, not cull it.

Democrat journalists, it is not your job to decide what the public hears (that is, unless you work for the ministry of propaganda).

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Blind spot #2: the “you are just a YouTube-er” arrests that happened against conservative journalists bite Don

Don Lemon gets arrested despite his claims that “I am just a journalist”

Twitchy does a good job of grinding on just about every sarcastic point to be made about the arrest of Don Lemon after the invasion of a church by Don and other radical leftists.

ImageWelp, Don Lemon has been arrested for the part he played in attacking St. Paul Cities Church where adults screamed at children and told them their parents were Nazis and would burn in Hell. What makes this even better is that the mealy-mouthed hater was busted while he was covering the Grammys.

Bravo on this one, Karma. Well-payed. Would it be corny to say Karma deserves a Grammy?

Heh.

Here’s his statement as released by his attorney, Abbe Lowell.

Brian Stelter is all over it.

Heh. Again.

Post continues:

… the truth and hold those in power accountable. There is no more important time for people like Don to be doing this work.”

“Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this arrest, and that is the real indictment of wrongdoing in this case. This unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand. Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court.”

(Read more and see the additional two tweets at Twitchy)

What of the J-6 participants who were there just recording as free-lance journalists and were arrested?

Birmingham, Alabama’s ABC radio news affiliate pointed in an 18 April 2021 article to at least eight who were arrested despite their claims (similar to Don Lemon) that they were in the press.

The Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January created a trove of self-incriminating evidence, thoroughly documenting their actions and words in videos and social media posts. Now some of the camera-toting people in the crowd are claiming they were only there to record history as journalists, not to join a deadly insurrection.

It’s unlikely that any of the self-proclaimed journalists can mount a viable defense on the First Amendment’s free speech grounds, experts say. They face long odds if video captured them acting more like rioters than impartial observers. But as the internet has broadened and blurred the definition of a journalist, some appear intent on trying.

At least eight defendants charged in the Jan. 6 riot have identified themselves as a journalist or a documentary filmmaker, including three people arrested this month, according to an Associated Press review of court records in nearly 400 federal cases.

(Read more liberal drivel at ABC)

Sorry, Don. Biden’s J-6 inquisition burned that bridge.

Unless liberal journalists are really Animal Farm pigs who are “more equal” than the rest of us, Don is going to jail. Hopefully for at least three and a half years of solitary, like the J-6 crowd.

So, let’s review what comes out on the alternative press

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File this under “About time” and “Watch this for future development”

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FBI executes a search warrant at the Fulton County, Georgia Elections office

NTD News outlines the events leading up to the FBI raid on Georgia’s Fulton County Elections Office (aka one of Biden’s election trickery centers).

Fulton County Georgia Elections offices raided by FBIThe FBI executed a search warrant on Jan. 28 at a Fulton County elections office not far from Atlanta.

The FBI’s field office in Atlanta confirmed the raid.

“FBI Atlanta is executing a court-authorized law enforcement action at 5600 Campbellton Fairburn Road,” a spokesperson told The Epoch Times.

“Our investigation into this matter is ongoing, so there are no details that we can provide at the moment.”

The address referred to by the FBI is the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center in Fairburn, Georgia.

President Donald Trump has long argued that election improprieties in the state contributed to his loss in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election.

Last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit against the county, seeking voting records from the 2020 election.

Last week, when discussing the 2020 election, Trump said that “people will soon be prosecuted for what they did” but did not elaborate.

The case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleging that Trump and 18 others participated in an illegal scheme to overturn the 2020 election results was dismissed by a Georgia court in November 2025.

The DOJ’s suit, filed on Dec. 11, 2025, stems from a July resolution passed by the State Election Board of Georgia “calling upon the assistance of the Attorney General to effect compliance with voting transparency.”

Before that, in October 2025, the DOJ had requested “all used and void ballots, stubs of all ballots, signature envelopes, and corresponding envelope digital files from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County.”

County officials responded, saying the records were under seal and could not be produced without a court order.

(Read more at NTD News)

Upon seeing this article, several things sprung to mind

When I saw this article, these questions came to mind:

  • Will the Democrat press report this raid when they passed over similar news-worthy items (like the four articles of impeachment filed against Walz a half-month ago or the attacks by Alex Pretti showing him kicking out the brake lights of a federal vehicle while armed)?
  • Why should they object to the raid of Fulton County Elections Board records when they celebrated the raiding of a the home of a former president/current presidential candidate?
  • Will this be the first of many raids on crooked elections offices?
  • Will my dad soon be able to stop voting Democrat?
    When I die, don't let me vote Democrat

Truth of this matter is that this story is not a quick-boil story. This is not a 100-yard dash.

This story is a slow cooker. This one is a marathon.

Good news about this is that Democrats seem to be panicking

To have Democrats walking away without answering questions, it looks like we have nothing but good news here.

Still, let’s not forget what has been left for us on video and in other records

And let’s not set aside the standard established for treating those accused of fraud

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Democrats might consider the words this man spoke about our border

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July 2010 by President Obama on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

In a 1 July 2010 address, President Obama made this somewhat MAGA speech on the integrity of our borders

(starting with the eighteenth paragraph)

So the politics of who is and who is not allowed to enter this country, and on what terms, has always been contentious. And that remains true today. And it’s made worse by a failure of those of us in Washington to fix a broken immigration system.

To begin with, our borders have been porous for decades. Obviously, the problem is greatest along our Southern border, but it’s not restricted to that part of the country. In fact, because we don’t do a very good job of tracking who comes in and out of the country as visitors, large numbers avoid immigration laws simply by overstaying their visas.

The result is an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. The overwhelming majority of these men and women are simply seeking a better life for themselves and their children. Many settle in low-wage sectors of the economy; they work hard, they save, they stay out of trouble. But because they live in the shadows, they’re vulnerable to unscrupulous businesses who pay them less than the minimum wage or violate worker safety rules -– thereby putting companies who follow those rules, and Americans who rightly demand the minimum wage or overtime, at an unfair [dis]advantage. Crimes go unreported as victims and witnesses fear coming forward. And this makes it harder for the police to catch violent criminals and keep neighborhoods safe. And billions in tax revenue are lost each year because many undocumented workers are paid under the table.

More fundamentally, the presence of so many illegal immigrants makes a mockery of all those who are going through the process of immigrating legally. Indeed, after years of patchwork fixes and ill-conceived revisions, the legal immigration system is as broken as the borders. Backlogs and bureaucracy means the process can take years. While an applicant waits for approval, he or she is often forbidden from visiting the United States –- which means even husbands and wives may be forced to spend many years apart. High fees and the need for lawyers may exclude worthy applicants. And while we provide students from around the world visas to get engineering and computer science degrees at our top universities, our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or power a new industry right here in the United States. Instead of training entrepreneurs to create jobs on our shores, we train our competition.

In sum, the system is broken. And everybody knows it. Unfortunately, reform has been held hostage to political posturing and special-interest wrangling -– and to the pervasive sentiment in Washington that tackling such a thorny and emotional issue is inherently bad politics.

Just a few years ago, when I was a senator, we forged a bipartisan coalition in favor of comprehensive reform. Under the leadership of Senator Kennedy, who had been a longtime champion of immigration reform, and Senator John McCain, we worked across the aisle to help pass a bipartisan bill through the Senate. But that effort eventually came apart. And now, under the pressures of partisanship and election-year politics, many of the 11 Republican senators who voted for reform in the past have now backed away from their previous support.

Into this breach, states like Arizona have decided to take matters into their own hands. Given the levels of frustration across the country, this is understandable. But it is also ill conceived. And it’s not just that the law Arizona passed is divisive -– although it has fanned the flames of an already contentious debate. Laws like Arizona’s put huge pressures on local law enforcement to enforce rules that ultimately are unenforceable. It puts pressure on already hard-strapped state and local budgets. It makes it difficult for people here illegally to report crimes -– driving a wedge between communities and law enforcement, making our streets more dangerous and the jobs of our police officers more difficult.

And you don’t have to take my word for this. You can speak to the police chiefs and others from law enforcement here today who will tell you the same thing.

These laws also have the potential of violating the rights of innocent American citizens and legal residents, making them subject to possible stops or questioning because of what they look like or how they sound. And as other states and localities go their own ways, we face the prospect that different rules for immigration will apply in different parts of the country -– a patchwork of local immigration rules where we all know one clear national standard is needed.

(continued after a few paragraphs)

Ultimately, our nation, like all nations, has the right and obligation to control its borders and set laws for residency and citizenship. And no matter how decent they are, no matter their reasons, the 11 million who broke these laws should be held accountable.

Now, if the majority of Americans are skeptical of a blanket amnesty, they are also skeptical that it is possible to round up and deport 11 million people. They know it’s not possible. Such an effort would be logistically impossible and wildly expensive. Moreover, it would tear at the very fabric of this nation -– because immigrants who are here illegally are now intricately woven into that fabric. Many have children who are American citizens. Some are children themselves, brought here by their parents at a very young age, growing up as American kids, only to discover their illegal status when they apply for college or a job. Migrant workers -– mostly here illegally -– have been the labor force of our farmers and agricultural producers for generations. So even if it was possible, a program of mass deportations would disrupt our economy and communities in ways that most Americans would find intolerable.

Now, once we get past the two poles of this debate, it becomes possible to shape a practical, common-sense approach that reflects our heritage and our values. Such an approach demands accountability from everybody -– from government, from businesses and from individuals.

Government has a threshold responsibility to secure our borders. That’s why I directed my Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano — a former border governor — to improve our enforcement policy without having to wait for a new law.

(Read the whole speech at President Obama’s White House site)

If you don’t want to read this speech, why not listen to it?

Mind you, to get beyond the jawboning, you will need to advance the video a bit.

So what did he do under his proxy Joe but flood us with millions more of these illegals

For this reason, I can only suggest that the Democrats work for the betterment of Democrats without consideration of what helps the American pocketbook.

That is to say, they are willing to flood the nation with between 8 and 10 million illegal aliens in four years (or maybe 11 million as reported by the BBC) and pay each of those illegals

All of this was in the works while native-born Americans struggled to weather the Biden years.

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Paid protesters, coordination, and more

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Nate Freidman shows how there are paid protesters

In a set of tweets, Nate Freidman lays out his discovery that the ICE protesters provably include paid protesters.

When it gets to the point where your protesters have crowd control with vests, you know the group is big

The photo below demonstrates the extent of the paid protester crowd (where they must have vested crowd control of their own).

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The complex far-left network that helped put Alex Pretti in harm’s way — including encrypted chats, street alerts

The New York Post describes the network of complex communications that may have played a part in making Alex Pretti a martyr for the Anti-ICE Left.

The skirmish that led to Saturday’s fatal shooting of an agitator by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis and the response that followed were driven by a complex network of far-left organizations with a wide range of causes, a Fox News Digital investigation found.

A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE “Abductors” in a sophisticated database reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that agitators were already mobilized at the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed minutes before any shots were fired.

ICE and Border Patrol agents were there to arrest an illegal immigrant criminal, and Pretti and others were there, outside a donut shop, to meet them as part of a strategic pattern of organized interference with law enforcement operations.

Over the following hours, a national network of socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist cells in the United States leveraged the tragic fatality into a nationwide protest operation. While grief and outrage over Pretti’s death is genuine, the network’s real-time rapid response, using short sensational video clips and emojis as weapons of propaganda, offers a window into the disciplined logistics, messaging and coordination of far-left warriors fomenting insurgency-like confrontation with authorities.

“This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities,” Vice President JD Vance observed in a Sunday post on X.

The encrypted Signal messages obtained by Fox News Digital in real time show that anti-ICE “rapid responders” were actively tracking, broadcasting and summoning “backup” around federal agents outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue, where the shooting happened. Local “rapid responders” made at least 26 entries into a database called “MN ICE Plates” in the critical hours before and after the killing, documenting the license plate numbers and details of alleged ICE vehicles they claimed to see around Nicollet Avenue.

The entry at row 344 read, “At the nicollet [sic] murder,” chronicling a black Jeep Wagoneer at the location with agents allegedly “involved in shooting.” Row 338 had a “Glam Doll Donuts” entry, tracking a black Ford Taurus.

Row 344 read, “At the nicollet [sic] murder,” about a black Jeep Wagoneer at the location with agents allegedly “involved in shooting,” and row 338 had a “Glam Doll Donuts” entry on a black Ford Taurus.

MN ICE DATABASE

At 9:50 a.m. ET, just before the killing, a user identified as “Willow” shared a 22-second video on an encrypted Signal chat for anti-ICE “rapid responders.”

“26and 3rd,” wrote “Willow,” quickly following up with, “Outside Glam Doll.”

The video showed two agents, one wearing a vest marked “POLICE,” studying the front door of Glam Doll before walking away, past a sign in the window that read, “ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA.”

(Read more at the New York Post)

This, like the article below, seems straddle the line between free speech (with its related observation) and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

I find it rich that these Leftists so openly use these practices that demonstrate a RICO mindset (maybe because they know they have their biased judges to pull them out of the fire).

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An Oregon group creates a database of license plates used by ICE

Noah Hurowitz of The Intercept provides details as to how the Oregon protesters have used coordination to track ICE agents.

Activists in the Pacific Northwest are building a database of license plates used by immigration authorities with the hope of keeping tabs on agents’ movements.

The database, put together by an autonomous group of volunteers, currently lists more than 600 plates matched to the make and model of the vehicle they were spotted on. Most of the sightings coming from vehicles involved in enforcement actions in and around Portland, Oregon.

In helping community members to identify unmarked vehicles used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, organizers hope to give people information about the government’s activities in their area, according to one activist involved in the effort.

“It helps reduce the unknown and reduce fear,” the activist said, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation from authorities. “ICE is doing whatever they can to be undetected, and so anything we can do to chip away at that obfuscation.”

Rather than hosting the database on a centralized website, which they fear would be vulnerable to subpoenas and takedown orders, the group put their findings out through the InterPlanetary File System, or IPFS, a decentralized, peer-to-peer method of file distribution.

The database is built around community submissions of photos of ICE vehicles in action. Once the images come in, volunteers vet each picture to confirm that the plate and vehicle in question are being used by agents. The activist who spoke with The Intercept declined to go into detail about how the volunteers vet the information but said that every plate listed publicly in the database has appeared in at least two sightings.

“The reason we’re confident in what we released is that we have probably twice as many plates as what was published, but we made a decision to only publish those plates that had at least two observations,” the activist said. “And while we’re confident in the rest of the database, this was an extra measure to reduce confusion and inaccuracies. We want people to feel like they can trust what we’re publishing, and we don’t want to accidentally cause harm by releasing inaccurate information.”

The effort comes amid a dramatic uptick in ICE activity in Oregon. For most of the year, ICE officers had largely contented themselves making targeted arrests, such as picking people up at immigration check-ins or detaining people with existing deportation orders. In October, however, federal agents began taking more sweeping actions, according to Natalie Lerner, a board member with the Portland Immigration Rights Council.

Fools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end.

Proverbs 29:11 might be a good verse for the protesters to take to heart as they want to broadcast their rage and then vindicate themselves by trying to show how only the other side was at fault.

Like the videos posted by the ICE protesters that stormed the church, this article might become useful against these people if and when they are taken to court.

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Four reasons not to trust the left in reporting on the Minnesota riots

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We have a press that will not challenge any portion of what it sees as a socialist agenda

Watch first the unedited clip of Levy Armstrong protesting at a church and then listen to her claim

As demonstrated by the comparison of the entry clip of Levy Armstrong (provided by the Megyn Kelly Show) to the CNN interview concerning the same protest. There is no pushback on an obvious lie.

While there don’t seem to be remaining videos of the entire invasion that have not been buried in commentary, there are videos spliced together like the one from the Independent showing the entry of the protesters and the confrontations by the protesters. As opposed to the claims of Ms. Armstrong, this was not respectful or peaceful.

We have politicians on the left who continue to stoke the flames

Walz and Ellison make things even worse with disgraceful remarks about ICE and the Border Patrol shooting

Red State lays out a few of the inflamitory statements by Tim Walz and Keith Ellison made in the wake of the most recent attack on ICE agents.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison made further remarks on Sunday about the shooting of Alex Pretti by the Border Patrol after a struggle in Minneapolis.

Walz’s remarks were full-on disgraceful, and he was definitely trying to whip people up against the federal enforcement.

He claimed that Pretti was “murdered in front of the world.” So much for waiting for the facts. He’s tainted any investigation in his state. While he praised Pretti, Walz didn’t take any responsibility for encouraging him and others against ICE. It is that “resistance” that has led to these confrontations and put people, activists, and agents in danger.

He couldn’t even get the facts right as he spoke. He claimed that Pretti was shot by ICE when he was shot by a Border Patrol agent. But saying that doesn’t help to continue stoking the hate against ICE. He called for ICE agents to be pulled before they “kill another person.”

Walz wanted to talk about Alex Pretti or Renee Good, but he didn’t want to talk about the stories of the people raped or killed by illegal aliens, or the crimes of the illegal aliens who ICE and other federal agents are removing from the community. Funny how that works.

Walz asked what side people wanted to be on: the side of an “all-powerful federal gov’t that can kill and kidnap its citizens” or the side of peaceful citizens. He even termed it an “occupation.” He was truly living in an alternate reality. No one is being “kidnapped,” and if you are hitting agents with your car, obstructing their operations, or biting off their fingers, you are not peaceful. The only “occupation” here is their occupation with trying to resist federal law enforcement and defend illegal aliens.

He claimed it wasn’t a “political debate” anymore, that it’s become a “moral debate.”

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

This is rich coming from the guy who put tampons in the boys bathrooms of elementry schools

Walz, clean up your own sick act before lecturing others.

I will admit that all of us are sinners, including myself. Nonetheless, considering the degree to which Governor Walz likely has taken children down the wrong path with his policies, let’s consider:

“If anyone causes one of these little ones — those who believe in me — to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. (Matthew 18:6 NIV)

Although there are past articles to prove the press wrong, the press will not go back to things that incriminate Democrats

In 2011, Obama detained and deported Americans

NBC News provided a 2011 article documenting at least a part of the 75 Americans deported under the Obama administration (as opposed to none who have been deported under Trump).

A growing number of United States citizens have been detained under Obama administration programs intended to detect illegal immigrants who are arrested by local police.

In a spate of recent cases across the country, American citizens have been confined in local jails after federal immigration agents, acting on flawed information from Department of Homeland Security databases, instructed the police to hold them for investigation and possible deportation.

Americans said their vehement protests that they were citizens went unheard by local police and jailers for days, with no communication with federal immigration agents to clarify the situation. Any case where an American is held, even briefly, for immigration investigation is a potential wrongful arrest because immigration agents lack legal authority to detain citizens.

“I told every officer I was in front of that I’m an American citizen, and they didn’t believe me,” said Antonio Montejano, who was arrested on a shoplifting charge last month and found himself held on an immigration order for two nights in a police station in Santa Monica, Calif., and two more nights in a teeming Los Angeles county jail cell, on suspicion he was an illegal immigrant. Mr. Montejano was born in Los Angeles.

This year the immigration agency has been rapidly extending its leading deportation program, known as Secure Communities, with a goal of covering the whole country by 2013. Under that program, fingerprints of every person booked at local jails are checked against Department of Homeland Security immigration databases. If the check results in a match, federal immigration agents can issue detainers, asking local law enforcement authorities to hold a suspect for up to 48 hours.

Detentions of citizens are part of the widening impact on Americans, as well as on immigrants, of President Obama’s enforcement strategies, which have led to more than 1.1 million deportations since the beginning of his term, the highest numbers in six decades.

John Morton, the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency gave “immediate and close attention” to anyone who claimed to be a citizen.

(Read more at NBC News)

It would seem that the press avoids criticizing Obama as if he has reached sainthood

Criticism of just about any former Democrat president seems to be verboten in the press cult.

Oddly, even when it seems like a contradiction of reality, the press will promote Democrats (one case in point that comes to mind might be the case where the New Hampshire press deemed Bill Clinton the “Comeback Kid” even though he was third behind Paul Tsongas and Jerry Brown in that primary).

Local governments have been working in cooperation with anti-government forces

MAZ: Minneapolis autonomous zone established by Antifa (with the cooperation of Minneapolis Police) amid ongoing anti-ICE riots

Human Events eventually lays out how Minneapolis police (while not cooperating with ICE) has coordinated with Antifa and BLM to set up the Minnapolis Automous Zone (MAZ). I inserted bolding for emphasis.

(starting at the fourth paragraph)

City officials confirmed that the zone was established in part by Minneapolis authorities. Police Chief Brian O’Hara announced that the city had created a vehicle exclusionary zone in the area where the shooting took place. According to O’Hara, police officers, alongside the National Guard, would maintain the zone, and he encouraged those wishing to protest to do so “lawfully” and “peacefully.”

“The number one priority of our police officers is to protect life and maintain public safety for all people in our community,” O’Hara said.

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It’s not just the Minnesota Police. Ask Minnesota State Representative Alex Falconer

It seems Representative Falconer has been organizing anti-ICE resistance signal chat groups (or “Rapid Response” groups). Could this be their version of “Minute Men?””

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Terrorizing neighborhoods with ICE agents and National Guard troops has an affect even the NYT cannot ignore

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In the New York Times lib-speak: murder rate drops to lowest level since at least 1900

Even though the New York Times (aka the “NYTwits”) claims not to be able to find the reason for the reduction in murders, they still reported on the current and sudden reduction in crime.

The national homicide rate is projected to hit its lowest point in over a century. A line chart showing the homicide rate in the United States from 1900 to 2025. It was projected to be 4 per 100,000 residents in 2025.

Homicide rate between 1900 and 2025

(Read as much as you can afford at the New York Times)

Enforcing our borders and deporting violent illegals seems to have sent a message to both imported and native-grown thugs

Now that the use of ICE agents beside National Guard troops may have put the “fear of God” into both the native and Biden-invited thugs, maybe there is room for believers to introduce both the law and the grace of God.

Vice President Vance on getting illegal alien criminals out of America

Various proofs that there is no law enforced in Jacob-Frey-land

Proof 1

Proof 2

Proof 3

 

From Schumer Shutdown to Stand-Down?

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From Schumer Shutdown to a stand-down

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air does more than I can do at the moment: discuss the movement from a potential shutdown to a proposed budget bill.

ImageNearly three months ago, Chuck Schumer got pushed into turning the budget deadline into a hostage to reverse the GOP’s reconciliation bill. He lost. Now it appears that Democrats may have learned a lesson from Schumer Shutdown, and at a surprising time.

For weeks, it has been clear that Democrat leadership had decided to avoid another shutdown, but the escalation from the progressive Left on immigration enforcement created a new complication. Part of the remaining funding left to be negotiated involves the Department of Homeland Security, and the radicals want that blocked until Donald Trump backs down on ICE operations in sanctuary states and cities. This time, it appears the adults won the battle, at least if Politico has the story correct on the new omnibus for the FY2026 budget:

The bicameral breakthrough on funding for the Pentagon and the nation’s largest nondefense agencies is the product of private negotiations between top appropriators in the two months since Congress ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

House leaders plan to hold a vote later in the week on the legislation, which would boost defense funding to more than $839 billion. It would also fund the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Education, and Homeland Security.

After the fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this month, congressional Democrats have demanded that any new DHS funding come with conditions to crack down on the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics, even as many Democratic voters call for defunding the agency.

The final compromise would keep ICE funded at $10 billion for the fiscal year that ends in September, while reducing the agency’s budget for enforcement and removal efforts. It would mandate that DHS use $20 million to outfit immigration enforcement agents with body cameras, direct the department to give officers more training on diffusing conflict while interacting with the public and provide $20 million for independent oversight of DHS detention facilities.

Pedant alert: The proper term is “defusing,” not “diffusing.” In fact, “de-escalation” is the most proper term, and that kind of training is certainly worthwhile. In fact, some blue-state leaders might consider sitting in on a few classes, but there’s nothing wrong with Congress providing funds for better training. 

Progressive Democrats wanted much more in “reforms” of ICE, much of which would have handcuffed immigration enforcement altogether. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) complained publicly about funding “the out-of-control agency” at all. So why push through this omnibus? First, another shutdown would impact agencies that Democrats need for their own agenda, especially HUD and Education. More importantly, the White House already has funding for ICE available through another shutdown:

Democrats note that federal cash would stop flowing to other agencies, including TSA and FEMA, if Congress allows DHS funding to lapse, while the Trump administration could continue funding ICE with the pot of $75 billion Republicans enacted for immigration enforcement through the party-line tax and spending package they enacted last summer. The other alternative — running DHS on a stopgap funding patch — would maintain the status quo for money and policy while giving the Trump administration more discretion in how to use DHS cash.

That’s what we call “leverage.” The GOP foresaw this problem long before the first shutdown and prepared ICE for it. The omnibus bill will create new mandates and potential limitations on ICE operations, especially in detention facilities, which Democrats claim are operated in an unconscionable manner (without providing any evidence for it). Having that kind of influence is better than getting cut out of the loop.

Interestingly, Democrats caved on the ObamaCare subsidies, too. The new omnibus does not extend the pandemic subsidies, Politico reports. That is the subject of separate negotiations, but also, Republicans have the option of creating a new reconciliation package to address the larger health-care reform package that Trump teased last week. In the meantime, though, Democrats probably feel that the increased costs to middle-class subscribers hurts Republicans more than Democrats, and that may not be an erroneous assumption. 

(Read more at Hot Air)

However, if the things I have heard on the sidelines are true, this bill should be sent back

If the current bill actually does do the following:

  • Restores funding to some of the Democrats’ favorite NGO’s for spreading money among the camps of illegals
  • Re-starts programs ended by the Department of Government Efficiency (DoGE)
  • Hides other little Easter eggs in its thousands of pages

Then it should be sent back with instructions to start again.

While I am all for ending Obamacare and funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement, there has to be a better way to make sausage.

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Leftists adopt the tactics of Islamists as Walz-inspired activists storm church

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Leftists storm Minneapolis church hunting alleged ICE agent

Townhall uses a collection of tweets and summaries to lay out what happened at a Southern Baptist Church in Minneapolis on 18 January 2026.

Leftists have spent their weekend attacking people in Minneapolis who vaguely resemble immigration officers. 

This morning, a group of anti-ICE protestors stormed what appears to be Cities Church in Minneapolis because they believed that a church employee worked for ICE, according to videos posted to social media. 

(Read more and see five more tweets at Townhall)

I am told the law Biden used to prosecute grandmothers praying outside abortion clinics to prosecute Don Lemon and the others who invaded this church

There are legal points that the leftists with Don Lemon seem to have forgotten or ignored:

  • The FACE Act not only protects abortion facility entrances, but likewise protects religious facilities
  • The free speech protections of the First Amendment do not provide coverage for invading private property (which a church — owned by either the members of the church or the denomination — constitutes)
  • Making a video outside of the church where you detail how you flew to Minnesota having planned with the protesters to invade the church might be evidence of violation of RICO.

  • Further, I am certain that there are legal points that I have not considered.

William Kelly shattered one church member’s ear drum (in DC, his hometown)

Remember when Democrats called on us to be compassionate about George Floyd (whose “I can’t breathe” complaint that started before he was held down and before he was in the back of the cruiser likely because of heart arrhythmia brought on by drug use)? Now they want us to ignore the attacks of William Kelly.

Oddly, Democrats like William Kelly take the Christian message and either twist it or hypermagnify it to the point where no mortal could meet its requirements. On the other hand, when it comes to Islam, where murder of opposing faiths can be found in its Quran, he holds reverence in his heart.

Since William Kelly and others on the left are challenging us with non-Biblical suggestions about what Christ would do, let’s follow an actual command of Christ and be “as wise as serpents, and innocent as doves.” That is to say, let’s know who we are up against while not unnecessarily denegrating the man.

While the videos below show Wiliam Kelly does not afford anyone else the honor due them (refer to the bottom tweet), we can provide all due honor as he is perp walked (refer to the last quarter of the top tweet).

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Even after the death of Renee Good, Democrats seek these self-defeating trends

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Democrats tend toward violence

Women are more likely to support political assassinations

The Daily Wire describes the findings of a recent poll where women seem to have come out in support of political violence on both ends of the spectrum (but primarily on the left).

Women are more likely than men to believe political assassination can be justified as “assassination culture” rises, according to polling exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire.

Women on both the Left and the Right were 14% to 20% more likely than men to believe the political assassination of high-profile figures could be justified, the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) found. The poll comes amid a spike in political violence marked by the assassinations of Charlie Kirk and UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, as well as the attempt on President Donald Trump’s life.

What is most surprising about the findings, according to NCRI’s co-founder Joel Finkelstein, is that those who justified political assassinations were not part of traditional high-risk groups, but people of all persuasions and demographics.

“We dug into the data because this felt like it was describing a deeper moral crisis,” Finkelstein told The Daily Wire. “We assumed young men would be driving this, given unemployment, disengagement, and declining graduation rates. That’s why we explicitly examined gender. What surprised us, honestly shocked us, was that women were more likely to show tolerance for political violence.”

To conduct the poll, NCRI used CloudResearch Prime Panels, from a nationally representative sample of American adults concerning political attitudes, public figures, and views on the future of the United States. Respondents were asked to rate, on a seven-point scale, “How unjustified or justified would someone be if they killed Zohran Mamdani?” and “How unjustified or justified would someone be if they killed Donald Trump?”

Although women commit far fewer murders in the United States — accounting for roughly 13% of all killings over the past five years — the poll found they were more likely than men to say a political assassination could be justified. Specifically, 54.7% of women compared with 45.2% of men expressed some justification for Mamdani, while 57.1% of women expressed some justification for Trump, compared to 50.1% of men.

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(Read more at the Daily Wire)

Is this a result of “women … change the natural use into that which is against nature”

While the thrust of Romans 1:26-32 centers on the abandonment of natural drives and the adoption of unnatural sexual tendencies, might it also point to the abandonment by women in their roles of nurturers and their adoption of abortion?

Or is this a case of the pollsters asking their questions just after the vest videos of the ICE shooting came out?

Might this be a case of women reacting to the crime in Democrat cities? (As with Jewish women traumatized first by a man who shoots a young couple and shouts “Free Palestine” and then traumatized by the election of Mamdani — who will not renounce statements like “from the river to the sea.”)

Democrat areas see violence against the law

In Portland, two police are shot

ABC News tells as little as it must on the shooting of two Portland police.

A manhunt continued on Tuesday for a gunman who shot and wounded two Portland, Oregon, police officers after they responded to a call of an armed man making threats in a residential neighborhood, authorities said.

The unidentified suspect opened fire on the officers at around 8:21 p.m. local time on Monday in the area of Northeast 17th Avenue and Northeast Clackamas Street in the city’s Sullivan’s Gulch neighborhood, according to a statement from Portland police.

“This is a stark reminder of the dangers of the job, the jobs that our officers go out every day to serve and protect our community and we’re grateful for,” Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said during a press conference.

(Read more at ABC News)

While I am sure the police are motivated to catch this shooter, do you think Portland’s populace is sticking their necks out?

I am sure that if this shooter is even a low-ranking member of Antifa, he will never see justice.

Manhunt underway after Indiana judge and his wife shot at their home

Fox News describes the manhunt being executed across Indiana in response to the shooting of a judge and his wife.

A judge and his wife were injured in a shooting Sunday afternoon in Lafayette, Indiana, prompting a multi-agency investigation involving local, state and federal law enforcement.

The Lafayette Police Department said Judge Steven Meyer was shot in the arm and his wife, Kimberly Meyer, was shot in the hip at their home on Mill Pond Lane at about 2:15 p.m.

Police said shell casings were recovered at the scene and both victims received medical treatment and are listed in stable condition.

The shooting remains an active investigation involving multiple agencies, including the Lafayette Police Department, Indiana State Police, the Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office, the West Lafayette Police Department, the Tippecanoe County Prosecutor’s Office and the FBI.

(Read more at Fox News)

Like the shooting outside of the Dallas ICE detention facility, this seems like the work of a rank amatuer

Like the shooter who perched himself on a rooftop near the Dallas ICE facility (meaning to shoot ICE officers, but actually shooting three illegal aliens in detention before shooting himself), this shooter seems like an amatuer. By placing what seem to be haphazard shots, this just does not seem like someone who has even spent any time with a gun.

Meanwhile, the party that calls conservatives “Dictator” and “Nazi” weilds power in a dictatorial fashion

Spanberger and her Democrat colleagues in Virginia work to prevent the election of future conservatives

DC Fox affiliate WTTG provides a bit of masked insight to the actions of newly-elected Virginia Governor Spanberger and her Democrat colleagues as they inact the things whined about by Democrats nationwide.

On Saturday, Jan. 17, Virginia swore in its first female governor—Abigail Spanberger. 

During her first day on the job, she signed a total of 10 executive orders covering a wide swath of policy issues. 

From affordability to housing and public education, Spanberger used Day 1 of her governorship to set the tone for her administration’s policy. 

Let’s delve into what each of these executive orders say. 

General affordability

Executive Order 1

Big picture view:

Executive Order 1 directs the governor’s agencies and secretaries across the state to “prepare recommendations on reducing costs for Virginians” in specific policy areas: housing, health care, child care, education, energy and living expenses such as groceries.  

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Executive Order 2

Executive Order 2 also deals with affordability. 

This order directs the secretary of health and human resources to create an “Interagency Health Financing Task Force” to “take action to ensure health care affordability for all Virginians,” according to the order’s text.

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Executive Order 3

Executive Order 3 directs multiple state agencies to conduct a review of the permitting and regulation practices that affect housing development throughout the state of Virginia, according to a press release from the governor’s office. 

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Strengthening public education 

Executive Order 4 

Executive Order 4 addresses public education in the state. 

The order directs the state’s education department to “strengthen core instructional systems in literacy, mathematics, school accountability and assessment,” according to a press release. 

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Executive Order 5

Executive Order 5 establishes an Economic Resiliency Task Force “to coordinate a statewide response to federal workforce reductions, funding cuts, tariffs and immigration impacts,” according to a press release. 

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Governing in higher education 

Executive Order 6

Executive Order 6 directs the Department of Education and the Secretary of the Commonwealth to “review and evaluate the process for appointing members to public higher education governing boards, per the press release. 

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Establishing equal opportunity 

Executive Order 9

Executive Order 9 declares that it is “the firm and unwavering policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia to ensure equal opportunity in all facets of state government,” the order’s text states. It further prohibits discrimination based on “a broad range of protected characteristics” such as race, sexual orientation and more. 

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Changing law enforcement priorities 

Executive Order 10 

Executive Order 10 rescinds Executive Order 47, which former Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed last year.

(Read the whole stupifying thing at WTTG)

Between and behind the lines, this is what these orders mean to me

To me, these executive orders spell out:

  • For EO’s 1-3, these seem to be the taking of property (whether it is groceries, healthcare, or housing) by the government for the purpose of doling it out to certain constituents. Hence, it spells out socialism.
  • EO 4 seems to be nothing but the rewarding of a key constituency (the education vote).
  • EO 5 looks a heck of a lot like insurrection on the part of Virginia government (preparing to have federal funds cut due to their sanctuary state policies).
  • EO 6 seems to be an instance of making sure Democrats are in charge of education.
  • EO 9 pushes transgender ideology into state policy (proving Spanberger is for “they/them” and not you).
  • EO 10 tries to force law enforcement to not cooperate with ICE.

Crazy thing is that there is a lot more (especially on gerrymandering and abortion) that the press is not reporting.

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Are Congressional hearings pending for Google? Google (barely) amends its news search interface to allow a limited voice.

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Yesterday, I ran across this article in The Blaze detailing how to add a few conservative perspectives to the news Google weights with the New York Times, Variety, the Washington Post, CNN and numerous other liberal outlets.

Gone are the days when you type hot-button topics — say “latest on border security” or “ICE protests” — into Google and are forced to sift through the same list of mainstream left-wing propaganda while the sources you trust are intentionally buried.

In an act nothing short of miraculous, Google recently handed power back to the user with a new tool called the Preferred Sources feature. With a few clicks of a button, you can personalize your news-related search results so that your most pressing questions are met with the unfiltered answers you value.

Ready to make it happen? Here’s how to flip the script on Google’s algorithm, transforming it from gatekeeper to your personal servant in just five simple steps.

Step 1: Go to google.com and sign in using your Google account information. Note: You must have a Google account to use the Preferred Sources feature.

Step 2: Search a current news topic (e.g. Iran protests, Trump tariffs, border security updates). You will see articles from mainstream sources, like CNN, NPR, USA Today, AP, Reuters, etc.

Step 3: Directly to the right of the “Top Stories” header at the top of your Google search page, you will see an icon that looks like overlapping boxes with a star in the middle. Click or tap that icon to open the Preferred Sources pop-up.

Step 4: In the text box, type theblaze.com. When it appears in the results, check the box next to it and click “Reload results.”

Step 5: Refresh your Google page — you’ll start seeing boosted results from Blaze News where relevant.

(Read more at The Blaze)

Yes, this does add a small conservative voice (but no balance)

First, let me be clear that I added the following conservative outlets to the Google input:

  • The Blaze,
  • Breitbart,
  • ZeroHedge,
  • The New York Post,
  • The Washington Examiner,
  • Townhall,
  • Twitchy,
  • The Daily Caller,
  • The Daily Wire, and
  • The Daily Mail.

After adding these conservative voices to my news feed regarding the Minnesota riots, I got no conservative outlets (out of the four articles listed at the top). All of them came from the PBS, CBS, YouTube, and CNN. When I selected the More News button, the first four pages (and I did not investigate beyond that) were all unselected sources — mostly liberal. When I went to the individual selected sources on the list (from The Blaze to The Daily Mail), they all had articles mentioning Minnesota. Hence, I am throwing a yellow flag on this against Google.

Add to that the fact that none of this gets saved from search to search. All of it must be re-selected for each search. Therefore, I am throwing another yellow flag against Google. This is total bull hockey.

Biased Google News

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Peace in the midst of chaos

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The following comes through the notes of Mark Ramsey and the responses of the class.

The prophecy

  1. The voice you listen to the most

    Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. “Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”

    As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

    Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you.

    Whose voice or voices are you listening to the most?

    One member said that they listen to American Family Radio. Another noted their listening habits with the Fox News network. A third mentioned how she listened to a mixture of voices on YouTube. A fourth noted their habit of listening to NewsMax. A fifth mentioned their listening to a local Christian station (KSBJ). Next, one mentioned her habit of listening to preacher David Jeremiah.

    When asked about the response that these sources of information produce, there were differing responses. The member who listened to Fox noted that he got angry after hearing the lies presented by the opposition. A second noted that she got nervous (since she did not know that we would not be in the birth pangs).

    It is the voice of Jesus Who can tell us what is happening in the world and why it is happening and what will happen next.

    Do you believe this? If so, why?

    Fewer than 50 days after His sermon on Olivet, Jesus ascended to heaven from that very mountain and He will return to that same place on earth at the second coming.

    Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

    He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

    After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

    They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

    Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city. (Acts 1:6-12 NIV)

    On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. (Zechariah 14:4 NIV)

  2. The setting

    Jesus departed from the temple, symbolizing the withdrawal of God’s presence from that sacred place-Matthew 24:1- “Jesus left the temple”; “Jesus went out and departed the temple. After this, one of His disciples remarked, “Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!” Mark 13:1

    In response, Jesus made an astonishing prediction.

    Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” (Matthew 24:2 NIV)</p (Matthew 24:2 NIV)

    Why is Jesus’ prophecy of the destruction of the temple important?

    One member noted that this prophecy shows Christ’s authority when it comes to all of the other prophecies.

    Jesus’ prophecy was fulfilled exactly as He said it would be. That prophecy is the prelude to the Olivet Discourse and because His words came exactly true, we can fully depend on the accuracy of the rest of what He said about the future

    The disciples responded by asking two questions.

    As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” (Matthew 24:3 NIV)

    Jesus began to answer by describing what we often call “the signs of the times”-things that will happen just before He returns.

    Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains. (Matthew 24:4-8 NIV)

    Does this passage cause you anxiety or peace or another emotion? Explain.

    One class member said that it makes her excited to see the evidence of the coming Lord. A second noted that it makes her anxious because some of her family has not accepted the Lord. A second said that it makes him anxious because he does not know whether we will have to endure many of the birth pangs.

    In Matthew 24:6, Jesus says, “see to it that you are not alarmed” (NIV and ESV) or “see that you are not troubled” (NKJV and ASV) or “see that you are not frightened” (NASB 1995).

    Why should we not be alarmed or troubled or frightened by these events?

    Notice in 24:8, Jesus says these are the beginning of birth pains-contractions which begin and increase during the birth of a baby. The Greek word is “odin”

    The signs that Jesus promised are like birth pains they are occurring now. Increasing in frequency and pointing toward the rapture of the church.

    The moment the church is gone, those signs will become more severe as the world enters the time of tribulation

  3. The significance of the prophecy

    Dr. David Jeremiah describes the significance of the prophecy of the Olivet Discourse:

    1. Jesus wants to teach us about the future
      He prepared His disciples for upcoming events and He does the same for us. in the Olivet Discourse, He warned the disciples and us about the end of history. He showed us the signs to watch for and how to live. Will we listen and how will we respond?
    2. Jesus wants to transform us for the future

      As we are transformed by God’s Word, we will be able to meet the demands of the future.

      “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. (John 16:1 NIV)

      I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, (John 16:4 NIV)

      If we are genuinely hearers and doers of the Word, what do you think will be the result in the midst of this chaos?

    3. Jesus wants us to trust Him with the future

      Remember the former things, those of long ago;
        I am God, and there is no other;
       I am God, and there is none like me.
      I make known the end from the beginning,
        from ancient times, what is still to come.
      I say, ‘My purpose will stand,
        and I will do all that I please.’
      From the east I summon a bird of prey;
        from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.
      What I have said, that I will bring about;
        what I have planned, that I will do. (Isaiah 46:9-11 NIV)

      Can you trust jesus with the future and, more importantly, can you trust Him with your future specifically?

      Notice that Jesus didn’t answer the question about the timing of the destruction of the temple or answer their two questions in great detail

      Why?

      One member noted that people need the urgency of a prophecy without a date. A second observed that this emphasizes that we are not in control. A third suggested that it pushes us to remain faithful.

      Jesus was reminding His disciples that they didn’t have to figure out all the pieces of the end times puzzle but instead, they needed to recognize their responsibility was to trust Him with the future and remain faithful to Him until the end.

      Jesus didn’t give us this information to frighten us. He wants us to know what is ahead and wants us to make sure we can face it with confidence, hope and peace.

      For instance, in the weeks to come, we will examine one of the signs, which is deception. Are we living in a time of rampant deception?

      Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. (Philippians 2:14-16a NIV)

 

More questions for the Ayatollah about the military base threat Iran just voiced

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Second verse same as the first

After last week’s post on the message broadcast by Iranian state television threatening another Trump assassination attempt, it seems the Iranians are not finished with threats.

“Do Not Play Games:” Trump issues a clear warning after reports of Iran targeting US military bases

The Daily Caller lays out the response by President Trump to the latest threats against US military bases.

Iran may be gearing up to attack U.S. military bases and should expect harsh retaliation from President Donald Trump if it does, the State Department said Saturday.

The U.S. has “heard reports that the Islamic Republic is preparing options for targeting” bases amid days of threats exchanged between the two countries, the State Department said on X in Farsi, according to the social media site’s translation function. Tensions between Trump and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei escalated in recent weeks after Trump publicly sided with anti-regime protesters in Iran and warned of possible military intervention on their behalf.

“As President Trump has repeatedly emphasized, all options remain on the table, and if the Islamic Republic regime attacks American assets, the Islamic Republic ‘will face a force that is very, very powerful,’” the State Department said. “We have said this before and we say it again: Do not play games with President Trump.”

Protesters in Iran took to the streets en masse starting in late December 2025 to demonstrate against its Islamic government, even burning and vandalizing mosques, according to multiple reports. Human rights watchdogs have accused Iran of killing the demonstrators by the hundreds.

(Read more at the Daily Caller)

My blog is not a large one, but the ideas that cross it surely must be common to the conservative side of the aisle

Therefore, let me repeat the questions posed last week to Iran:

  1. Does the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania (the one depicted in the Iranian media) reflect the work of an accomplished and experienced assassin (backed by a competent enemy government) or the bumbling of a teen?
  2. Since you make the failure of the last attempt to everyone’s center of attention, did you purposefully miss the last time?
  3. Over the past few weeks, whose leader is rumored to have plans to escape to Russia (hardly an Islamic republic) if riots continue?
  4. Does anyone remember who ordered the bombing that took out the Iranian general Soleimani? Who has the better track record in this event?
  5. More recently, do you remember the bunker-buster bombs that caused you to abandon your nuclear ambitions?
  6. Also, I notice you are back to burning American flags. Are you trying to boost the sale of American flags?

For years, I have heard of the growing church in Iran

With reports of this unrest begining in “late December” (would that be on or near a Christian holiday observed on 25 December) — might this be a case of spiritual renewal as happened prior to the American Revolution (the First Great Awakening many of us learned about in school)?

I pray for the safety of the church in Iran.

Furthermore, Iran, have you heard of “not poking the bear”

Here in America, it is good advice to “not poke the bear” when you don’t want to be eaten.

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Six questions for the Ayatollah about the assassination threat Iran aired against Trump

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First, since the main stream media doesn’t report on things that benefit President Trump, let me first quote a reliable source for the facts

Iran airs a threat against President Trump on their state-run station

The New York Post informs us of the media piece that Iran used to threaten President Trump.

Iran issued a sickening threat against President Trump Wednesday, broadcasting a picture of the commander in chief during the 2024 Butler rally assassination attempt — with the words “This time it will not miss the target.”

The ominous warning was aired on Iranian state-run TV, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.

It marks Tehran’s most direct threat yet against Trump, following his repeated threats that the US will strike the country if it continues its brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters.

tweet showing Iran's threat

(Read more at the New York Post)

Now, let me ask the threatening Iranians these questions

In all of this taunting by the Iranians, five questions come to mind:

  1. Does the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania (the one depicted in the Iranian media) reflect the work of an accomplished and experienced assassin (backed by a competent enemy government) or the bumbling of a teen?
  2. Since you make the failure of the last attempt to everyone’s center of attention, did you purposefully miss the last time?
  3. Over the past few weeks, whose leader is rumored to have plans to escape to Russia (hardly an Islamic republic) if riots continue?
  4. Does anyone remember who ordered the bombing that took out the Iranian general Soleimani? Who has the better track record in this event?
  5. More recently, do you remember the bunker-buster bombs that caused you to abandon your nuclear ambitions?
  6. Also, I notice you are back to burning American flags. Are you trying to boost the sale of American flags?

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Three more attacks on ICE agents

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In the land packed with protesters interfering with ICE arrests of murderers, another attack occurs

ICE-involved shooting reported during Minneapolis enforcement action

Fox News writes of another shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis that occurred after a Venezuelan illegal alien and his helpers took a shovel and a broom handle and proceeded to attack the agent.

ImageA U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent is in the hospital after being ambushed during an attempt to arrest a Venezuelan national in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The agent was ambushed by two people while attempting to conduct a traffic stop on an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, DHS said, adding that the agent fired his gun during the alleged attack because he was “fearing for his life and safety.”

One Venezuelan suspect was shot but is reported to be stable and is now in custody, DHS said.

The incident began at about 6:50 p.m. local time when federal law enforcement attempted to make a traffic stop, according to DHS, who added that the suspect was released into the country under the Biden administration in 2022.

The suspect attempted to evade arrest by driving off but crashed into a parked car, DHS said. He then fled on foot.

According to DHS, when an officer caught up to the suspect and attempted to take him into custody, the suspect resisted and “violently assaulted the officer.”

DHS said two additional individuals came out of a nearby apartment while the officer and suspect were engaged in a “struggle on the ground,” and attacked the officer with a snow shovel and a broom handle.

(Read more at Fox News)

A word to the wise for illegals: it will reduce your chances of getting shot if you don’t attack

Believe it or not, but attacking law enforcement once you are already known to break other law will greatly increase the chances that you will be fatally shot.

If you don’t resist and don’t attack, you will likely not be killed by the police or ICE agents.

If there are any who might cry out “Why did you have real bullets,” I would remind you that ICE arrests murderers

ICE arrests all sorts of illegal alien undesirables: murderers, rapists, child molesters, and worse. Therefore, they have to protect themselves ant the public from these criminals.

Oddly, the Left (like Jon Stewart and Becca Good) seem to think this is all just a play or a movie where good guys shoot blanks.

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Another ramming attack (now in San Antonio)

In San Antonio, an illegal alien rams his car into an ICE agent, injuring the agent

San Antonio ABC affiliate KSAT describes the scene where an ICE agent defended himself from attack by a Venezuelan illegal alien who used several autos to ram the officer in an attempt to flee.

 Video shared by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows someone ICE says is an immigrant ramming into agency vehicles in a San Antonio parking lot, injuring an officer.

ICE and Gov. Greg Abbott said in X posts that the driver was an immigrant.

“Yesterday, in Texas, a criminal illegal alien tried to run over our officer — smashing vehicles and leaving one officer injured and sent to the hospital,” the agency said Wednesday.

(Read more at KSAT)

Despite the way the “Tide Pod challenge” popped up on TikTok, America does not need another example of FAFO

As many home-grown dumb things occur here daily, we don’t need to import this.

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Another case of political subversion by the lying Left

In contradiction to Mayor Frey’s claim, the ICE agent suffered internal bleeding after Renee Good’s vehicle struck him

Fox News reports that the ICE agent rammed by Renee Good suffered internal bleeding from the attack (in contradiction to Mayor Frey’s claim that he “walked away with a hip injury that he might as well have gotten from closing a refrigerator door with his hips.”)

The federal agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week suffered internal bleeding to his torso when he was struck by her vehicle, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday.

The extent of the bleeding to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross was not immediately clear.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had previously said the agent was treated at a hospital following the incident on Jan. 7 before being released later that same day.

The health update comes after Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey previously downplayed the agent’s injuries.

“The ICE agent walked away with a hip injury that he might as well have gotten from closing a refrigerator door with his hips,” he told reporters Friday. “Give me a break. No, he was not ran over. He walked out of there with a hop in his step.” 

(Read more at Fox News)

Maybe I should not call Mayor Frey a liar (since he may have a homocidal refrigerator)

Maybe Mayor Frey gets injuries causing internal bleeding from his refrigerator. Who knows?

Still, out of all of these attacks, the attacks that hurt America the most are the Frey and Walz attacks

Whether they are just stupid statements or intentional lies, these attacks by Democrats do the worst damage to America.

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Example after example of Democrats and the Left yelling “No, look over here!”

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The object of distraction seems always in flux

Crowd confronts immigration agents door-knocking in south Minneapolis

The Sahan Journal documents the crowd of 100 (in a city of millions) that surrounded ICE agents as they attempted to arrest murderers and rapists illegally in the country. Additionally, the Journal did not mention what portion of the 100 were paid.

ImageFederal immigration agents detained three people and deployed chemical agents at multiple locations around E. 34th Street and Park Avenue in Minneapolis’ Powderhorn neighborhood Tuesday morning. At least two were observers and not the target of immigration enforcement operations.

Around 9:40 a.m., community response networks began sending alerts about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) door-knocking at E. 34th Street and Park Avenue. By 10 a.m., a crowd of over 100 observers had gathered, confronting agents at multiple intersections. 

Among the detainees was a woman who was forcibly removed from her vehicle after agents smashed her passenger-side window. 

In a video taken by Sahan Journal, the woman can be seen arguing with agents prior to being grabbed by multiple agents and carried to agents’ vehicle. The woman can be heard shouting that she is disabled and on her way to a doctor’s appointment that ICE was obstructing. Prior to the detention agents had instructed her to drive away.

Shortly after, another observer on site was tackled and forcibly put in agents’ vehicle as well. According to state Rep. Aisha Gomez, DFL-Minneapolis, who was present at the scene, agents pushed the man’s head into the concrete prior to carrying him away. Gomez also said that agents were physical with her as well. 

“These officers have obviously not had the basic law enforcement training,” Gomez said. “I was shoved with no verbal communication whatsoever.” 

Andy Larson, a south Minneapolis resident who was out observing ICE activity Tuesday, told Sahan Journal that one protester kicked out the taillight of an ICE vehicle and was tackled to the ground up the road on Park Avenue and E. 36th Street.

(Read more at the Sahan Journal)

Democrats: if you are blocking people’s lives, you may not win votes

There may be locals complaining about ICE blocking the way to wherever the people have to go. However, there are many people in Minnesota who know ICE is arresting murderers and rapists. Further, they know that it is the protesters who are blocking the streets.

Democrats: while you may have distracted us from the tens of billions scammed by Somalis, …

While Democrats may have distracted us from tens of billions taken by Somalis, I would say that pointing out that you (Democrats) stand against the thing that got Trump elected is worse. Additionally, getting law enforcement in danger of being killed, getting protesters killed, and then trying to blame it on the opposition — that is much worse.

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Arctic Frost probe driven early on by anti-Trump FBI agent and claims by liberal outlets

Just The News sites the internal FBI emails that showed how a key FBI agent — who had already demonstrated a bias against the POTUS — consistently circulating and citing anti-Trump articles as support for pushing an inquiry into Trump over J6. It turns out the agent likely had a hand in having those articles published in the first place.

An FBI supervisor who openly opposed Donald Trump on social media played a crucial role in igniting the controversial Arctic Frost probe, pressing to add the former president as a formal subject of the investigation and circulating articles from liberal activists and leftwing news sources to make his case, according to evidence recently turned over to Congress and obtained by Just the News.

Special Agent Timothy Thibault, who left his role as the assistant agent in charge of its Washington field office in August 2022 after his anti-Trump social posts became public, organized the initial electronic communication that authorized the start of the Arctic Frost probe.

He also circulated by email clippings from such anti-Trump outlets as Just Security, NPR, and The Washington Post, pushing for a criminal probe of Trump related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, the memos show.

When Thibault’s colleagues originally drafted the investigation’s launch document to focus on the Trump campaign and affiliated and still unknown subjects, “Add DJT” was scribbled onto the draft memo. Emails indicate Thibault was pushing to add Trump to the investigative launch document.

Revelations include emails from 2022 where Thibault shared articles and podcasts critical of Trump, including a prosecution-style memo authored by a former Obama DOJ official. 

Thibault also sought to promote media coverage from outlets with left-leaning perspectives, such as NPR, as well as podcasts produced by The Daily Beast. The focus of these articles was Trump’s alleged crimes and efforts to overturn the election.

An unearthed email from April 2022 showed Thibault approving the opening of Arctic Frost.

The former FBI official did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent to him by Just the News through lawyers who previously represented him.

(Go to Just The News to read much more and to use a link to the “prosecution-style article”)

Let’s call this the “Rinse and Repeat” procedure of the Democrats

Just like Proctor and Gamble’s Head and Shoulders shampoo multiplied the amount of its shampoo sold by including “rinse and reapeat” in the instructions on its bottles, the Democrats must have done the same (since they have repeated the same pattern shown in the above article for years).

When have they done the same thing over and over (you might ask)? Here are the last few times this pattern was repeated:

  • It occurred with the raid on Mar-A-Lago, when the FBI spread documents out on the floor, photographed them, and then told the press that former presidents had no right to have documents while:
    • Ignoring Biden’s documents obtained while he was senator,
    • Ignoring Obama’s documents in the cement coffin in Chicago,
    • Ignoring Pence’s documents (who was never President),
    • And ignoring every president after the concept of secret documents was created.
  • It was central to the “Russia, Russia, Russia” hoax and baseless FISA warrants that eventually exonerated Carter Page.
  • Likewise, it was a great part of how Hillary pushed the Steele dossier into the news cycle and had the FBI investigating President Trump until he was exonerated by the Mueller Report.

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In contradiction to reports Trump was attacking the Fed

Breitbart points at the irregularities which all suggest that it was Jerome Powell who went to the press with the news of the criminal charges to ward off his impending end-of-term.

Jerome Powell has decided he is under assault from the Trump administration and has issued a declaration of war.

The Fed chairman on Sunday night took the unprecedented action of releasing a video accusing the Trump administration of using the Justice Department to put pressure on the central bank. He said that the Fed on Friday had received subpoenas for a grand jury and been threatened with criminal charges related to the renovations of the Fed’s headquarters in Washington, DC, and his related testimony to a Senate panel last year. But these inquiries were merely “pretexts,” Powell claimed. The real goal was the subversion of Fed independence.

It is an explosive charge. Powell is accusing the Trump administration of not only attempting to undermine the independence of the Fed but also of misusing the Justice Department to accomplish this aim. And it was delivered in a highly provocative way: a two-minute video statement released prior to the open of Asian markets. It would be hard to design something better aimed at disrupting financial markets, although we cannot know if this was Powell’s goal. At the very least, Powell chose a time and format that ensured the message hit global markets immediately and left the White House no quiet way to contain it.

If causing a sell-off was the intention, however, it failed. Futures suggested the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 might drop by just half a percentage point and the Nasdaq Composite by a bit more. No sign of a crash. By midday Monday, even those small moves had been erased, and the major indexes had flipped green. Investors refused to panic over the alleged threat to the independence of the Federal Reserve. The S&P closed at a fresh all-time high on Monday.

The Rush to Judgement Against Trump

The pundits and legacy media immediately assumed the veracity of Powell’s accusations, convicting Trump of attempting to seize control of monetary policy without even a moment’s hesitation. Verdict first, evidence later—the typical response to any charge levied against President Trump. The market, however, may have sussed out that Powell’s allegations do not make much sense. Even if Trump were tempted to use lawfare to force Powell out of office, what would be the point? Powell’s chairmanship will expire in five months. He has just three more Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings as chair. Why hound a guy out of an office when he is already marching toward the exit?

It is true that Powell could stay on as governor until 2028. But harassing him with a Department of Justice investigation seems more likely to encourage Powell to stick around than to leave. Powell now views this as a personal battle over his integrity and as an assault on the independence of the Fed. If he was not planning on remaining on the Fed board before, he probably is now.

Using the Justice Department to pursue a vendetta against Powell would also risk alienating the other members of the FOMC, many of whom personally like Powell and have served under him for years.  Even if the investigation were to somehow force Powell from the Fed—perhaps because an indictment would give grounds for the president to remove him—the next chair would be faced with a monetary policy committee that would likely feel duty-bound to demonstrate their independence by refusing to cooperate with the administration’s economic policies.

(Read more at Breitbart)

While I don’t know Powell to be a Leftist or a Democrat, there seems to be much more behind these distractions.

All of these seem to point to the fact that America has lost its way.

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No issue could better illustrate how America has lost its way than the Supreme Court arguments on transgenders in girls sports

Politico has five take-aways and none touch on the central question mulled by the Supreme Court

Politico laid out five topics it called “take-aways;” however, none of them addressed the one thing that would sink the case of the American Civil Liberties Union before the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed in for the first time on transgender athletes participating in women’s sports — an issue that has sparked state bans across half the nation and has become a key part of President Donald Trump’s attempts to curtail the rights of transgender Americans.

The oral arguments in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. focused on state laws in Idaho and West Virginia that ban transgender women and girls from competing on sports teams aligned with their gender identity.

ImageJustices weighed the policies, probing attorneys for the states on everything from how to define a woman, the definition of sex, fairness in women’s sports and whether to toss or send the cases back to lower courts. The court’s conservative majority appeared inclined to allow the state bans to proceed, but some justices also seemed to want to find a way to allow other states to retain their transgender-inclusive sports policies.

Transgender athlete participation for years has largely been determined by state and local athletic associations. But the arguments come as the Trump administration has sought to implement policies establishing that there are only two sexes, male and female, and scrap discrimination protections for transgender people based on gender identity.

So far, the Trump administration has endorsed banning transgender athletes from women’s sports, sought to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth and transgender military service members and stopped issuing passports with nonbinary sex markers.

The Education Department is also engaged in legal battles with states, including Maine, California and Minnesota, over the federal government’s efforts to strip the states of their federal funding due to their policies allowing transgender girls to compete on girls’ sports teams.

While the Education Department awaits rulings in those cases, Secretary Linda McMahon said Tuesday her agency will “remain steadfast in enforcing Title IX as it was intended, rooted in biological reality to ensure fairness, safety and equal access to education programs for women and girls across our nation.”

Here are POLITICO’s top takeaways from the arguments that could determine the fate of transgender sports participation policies nationwide.

The court mulls the downside for blue states

Several justices appeared intent on getting some assurance that if the court upholds the West Virginia and Idaho bans, it would not disturb laws and policies in other states that require schools to allow transgender students to compete on teams that align with their gender identity. Supporters of the red-state bans tried to wave those concerns away, but ran into one problem: the Trump administration is arguing in court that the inclusive blue-state rules violate Title IX, the federal law guaranteeing gender-equity in education.

(continued)

The justices’ talk of treating states equally even if they go in different directions is similar to sentiments they aired in October during arguments on another transgender-related case: a challenge to Colorado’s ban on so-called conversion therapy for minors, including counseling aimed at changing gender identity. In that case, which has yet to be decided, justices said allowing Colorado’s law to remain on the books could prompt more conservative states to try to ban gender-affirming care for teenagers.

Public discourse about trans athletes was mostly on the sidelines

During Tuesday’s arguments, justices appeared mired in the details about how legal precedents and anti-discrimination protections apply to state laws barring those athletes from women’s and girls’ competitions.

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Justices weigh options that could dodge a definitive ruling

In 2020, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Lindsay Hecox and three unnamed plaintiffs to challenge Idaho’s law — the first in the nation of its kind. Hecox, who was a trangender freshman at Boise State University at the time, wanted to compete in track. But the athlete has since urged the high court to dismiss her case. She cited significant challenges, including illness and her father’s death, and has decided to permanently withdraw from all women’s sports at BSU.

(continued)

Male-dominated chess clubs and sex differences in teen brains

Lawyers for Idaho, West Virginia and the Trump administration all argued Tuesday that, at least in the context of education, athletic competition stands alone as an area where sex really makes a difference.

Coach K rides a different bench

When the high court ventures into matters of school sports, without fail, one justice is the most animated and impassioned: Kavanaugh. Such was the case Tuesday as Kavanaugh — who has coached a 5th- and 6th-grade girls’ basketball team for years — wrestled with the transgender athletes’ cases and tried to convey the stakes for all involved.

(continued with extreme amounts of bull fodder)

(Read the whole mess at )

The one topic that was central to the Supreme Court arguments was the concept of biological sex

If we return to only considering biological sex as determined by X and Y chromosomes, then this whole transgender argument falls apart. However, it seems that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson could not conceptualize this issue.

However, considering her confirmation hearings, why should this surprise us?

Nonetheless, in front of the entire court, she persisted with:

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With one article pointing toward a postive effect of the Somali scams, we also have three pointing toward the continuing problems that started the scams

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On one hand, we have an awakening

Somali scams expose a toxic brew of wokeness, welfare, and immigration

The New York Post provides some hopeful indications that the Somali scams may have at least woken up some in the conservative and moderate camps of our political matrix.

It’s clear that an outsized level of corruption exists among the Somali newcomers in Minnesota.

Tax dollars allegedly flow into autism treatment centers to treat children who don’t have autism, and state funds prop up charitable ventures that employ scores of people but fail to engage in any legitimate charitable functions.

That’s just what we know from the existing indictments.

And while most of the reporting not unexpectedly focuses on the fiscal extent of the fraud, there’s a broader, gnawing crisis: the immigrant reliance on welfare.

It’s difficult to work out the exact percentage of Minnesota Somalis who rely on some form of government handout, but it’s extraordinarily high.

President Donald Trump shared a graph on social media that showed 72% of Somalis were on welfare.

It’s unclear where he got those numbers, but it’s not beyond the realm of possibility.

One study, for instance, contends that 86% of Somali households with children receive Medicaid.

Reliance on the state is antithetical to long-term economic and civic success.

Just look at Europe, where numerous large cities feature suburban enclaves, virtual ghettos, teeming with immigrants who subsist on the dole.

The most notorious are the banlieues of France, where generationally unemployed Muslims live in crime-ridden suburbs.

But in Germany, descendants of Turkish guest workers and their families who came in the 1950s still congregate in the same isolated areas, unable to integrate, with a large percentage unemployed and subsisting off generous social benefits.

Somali defenders point out that criminality among immigrant groups isn’t unique to this era. Anyone who’s ever seen a mafia film likely agrees.

The big difference is that most ethnic criminals of the past preyed on their own communities, because the state wouldn’t or couldn’t properly protect them.

But Somalis have almost certainly been able to engage in the unprecedented defrauding of taxpayers because politicians, either obsessed with identitarian ideas or looking for new constituents, coddle them.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz responded to the fraud story by accusing those who amplified it, including Vice President JD Vance, of being driven by “white supremacy.”

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey groused about the “racism directed at a black immigrant community,” tying it to the killing of George Floyd.

(Read about the scamming of Minnesota’s Medicare by tourists, Biden-era boondogles, and more at the New York Post)

If a state’s Medicare is so lax that tourists come to scam it, it is not Medicare — it is a money pit.

State issues like this lax Medicare policy must be either cleaned up or made the total responsiblity of the state (and, since money is fungible, that would mean cutting all federal funds off from that state until the issue is fixed).

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On the other hand, we these guys

A Somali-born Oregon state senator tells ICE to get out of “our community”

Lifezette illustrates the first bit of proof of the cesspool we still stand in due to having opened our borders to people who don’t assimilate and don’t accept Western values.

ImageA Democratic state senator in Oregon publicly denounced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a press conference in Portland, telling federal authorities to leave the state as the Department of Homeland Security released details about a recent shooting involving suspected members of a violent Venezuelan gang.

Oregon State Sen. Kayse Jama made the remarks Thursday while speaking to reporters as local and state leaders gathered to address an incident involving federal agents and two individuals in Portland.

Jama, a Muslim who was born in Somalia, directed his comments specifically at federal immigration authorities.

“Let me say to the federal agencies and ICE. This is Oregon, we do not need you, you’re not welcome, and you need to get the hell out of our community,” Jama said during the press conference.

(Read more at Lifezette)

To become a naturalized citizen, a person must pass a civics test. This guy needs to go back and review the chapters on federal authority

Sorry, Senator Jama, but federal authority overrides state authority. You cannot tell ICE to get out.

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A Somali-born city councilor in Maine resigns days after taking office (amid residency questions and a felony charge)

Fox News provides evidence of the second issue showing that we were in error to allow an Islam-based group into our Judeo-Christian system.

A Somali man elected city councilor in Maine has resigned days after taking office following his indictment on a felony charge and an investigation over his residency in the district he served, according to local reports.

Iman Osman, who served as a city councilor in Lewiston, wrote in a resignation letter sent to Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline and City Council President David Chittim that he did not come to the decision lightly, WMTW-TV reported.

“For the betterment of our community and in the best interest of our city, I believe it is time for me to step aside,” Osman wrote in the letter. “I hope my resignation serves as a call to action for those who remain — an opportunity to reflect on the values of respect, inclusivity and kindness that should guide our public service.”

Osman’s resignation comes after a grand jury indicted him on Dec. 1 on charges stemming from the alleged theft of two firearms between Nov. 15, 2023, and Oct. 11, 2024, according to the outlet.

Osman pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Lewiston District Court on Tuesday, Maine Public reported.

Osman also faced scrutiny over his residence, which was listed in the indictment as an address that has been condemned since October 2024, according to the reports.

(Read more at Fox News)

While it was our mistake for having elected someone who cheated on his residency and otherwise committed a felony, it would be nice if we follow this model with Ilhan Omar

Since Ilhan Omar seems to have provably have lied on her immigration forms by marrying her brother to help him into the country, it would be nice if we could likewise get rid of her.

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The scam-connected firm owned by Ilhan Omar’s husband is caught scrubbing names from its website as her worth grows to $30 million

Twitchy gives us a series of links, quotes, and tweets that provide a heaping spoonful of circumstantial evidence that a bunch of taqiyya is occurring.

Speaking of Minnesota and fraud, The New York Post reports that the husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar, who now has an estimated net worth of $30 million, has been scrubbing names from his venture capital firm’s website as scrutiny grows over Omar’s newfound riches.

Gabrielle Fahmy and Geoff Earle report for The Post:

Embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband’s venture capital firm quietly scrubbed key officer details — including former Obama officials — as scrutiny grows over the family’s skyrocketing wealth, The Post has learned.

Omar (D-MN) went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year — as a massive, up to $9 billion fraud scheme involving the Somali community in her district unfolded right under her nose in Minnesota.

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It was Somalia-born Omar — who was seen in a resurfaced video last month dishing out food in a restaurant now at the heart of the scandal — who introduced the legislation critics say paved the way for what the feds have called the largest fraud of the pandemic.

The Jimmy Choo wearing socialist introduced the MEALS Act in Congress in 2020, relaxing oversight of government sponsored children’s meals programs during the pandemic, which critics say allowed fraudsters to claim they served millions of meals without verification, while pocketing millions of dollars in government subsidies.

Shortly after the scheme played out, Omar’s husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, launched Rose Lake Capital in 2022, a venture capital management firm.The company saw its reported value go from nearly zero in 2023, to between $5 million and $25 million in just a year, and somehow claims to having already amassed $60 billion assets under management — an amount many money managers on Wall Street only dream of.

(Read at Twitchy to see twelve additional tweets proving the point of Omar’s participation in this scam)

This deserves a full court press by the resources of the DOJ and FBI

If Hillary Clinton can make up the Russian collusion hoax, turn it over to Perkins Coie, transform it into the Steele Dossier, feed it to news outlets, and make it the basis for investigating President Trump for his first term, then Ilhan Omar can be investigated by our FBI.

Remember that Omar wrote one of the bills that allowed this fraud

Remember that Ilhan Omar wrote the COVID-relief bill for Biden that allowed much of this scamming.

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Peace in the midst of chaos

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The following comes through the notes of Mark Ramsey and the responses of the class.

Do we interpret scripture in the context of culture or do we interpret the culture in context of scripture?

  1. A day of reckoning?

    “Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:14-15 NIV)

    Christians are told that we’re intolerant for claiming that God and His Word are the sole source of truth for all humanity. Our culture and world say there is no objective truth and each individual has their own truth based on their life experiences. In reality, those who claim to be tolerant seek to be dominant with no room for disagreement.

    There was and is tremendous pressure in some quarters to keep our perspectives to ourselves.

    Often, we are probably faced with the temptation to stay quiet and keep the “peace.”

    Do we have to ask ourselves the question in these circumstances, “Am I living to please people or please God?”

    Have you experienced a time where you had to make such a decision? What did you learn from that decision?

    The first to respond told of how he had not accepted the COVID shot and how he had been refused entry to certain facilities where he made deliveries based on their claims he would be a disease vector (even though you could be vaccinated and later get COVID).

    The second to respond noted that California had discriminated against churches (notably the church led by John McArthur) and, therefore, society would likely discriminate against us.

    A third noted how she had been hired at a grocery store with her stipulation that she get every second Sunday off. After hiring, she was required to work every Sunday for just over the first month. When she then had the chance to talk to her HR, she repeated back to them their promise to allow the second Sunday off (only to have that woman tell her that she was in charge of scheduling and it did not matter). At that point, the class member quit that job.

    Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John replied, “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges! As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.” (Acts 4:18-20 NIV)

    What was the result of Peter and John’s boldness?

    After further threats they let them go. They could not decide how to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened. (Acts 4:32 NIV)

    Does this example inspire you?

  2. Church as usual?

    Have you noticed the amount of people who are “deconstructing” their faith? Primarily, Christian artists, celebrities and influencers, although there are others.

    Do unbelievers see us as angry or self-righteous or hypocritical?

    Or do others see us as loving, courageous and humble witnesses to the Gospel?

    Which view do you believe is the most dominant viewpoint?

    Some theologians describe our churches in America as falling into three categories:

    • Complicit – churches which participate, accept and embrace the worldly culture compromising biblical principles.
    • Complacent – churches which disagree with the culture but do not actively oppose it.
    • Courageous – churches which say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done to embrace the truth of God’s Word and reject the worldly culture.

    How would you describe your church? Why?

    One member noted that the pastor was courageous in proclaiming the truth from the pulpit and across the Internet. A second pointed to the fact that the members got out of their comfort zones in the many outreaches (into the local neighborhood, to the Tamina community, to prisons, in handing out Gideon Bibles, …).

    A third noted that, on Saturday, he had driven past a young man holding a sign reading “F*** Trump, F*** ICE, F*** the border, F*** God.” At first, it was the temptation of this member to take an axe handle and discuss things with the boy. However, he brushed that off and drove on. As the evening wore on, he became convicted that he should witness to that young man; however, he never went back. Therefore, he would have to confess that he had avoided the Great Commission.

    A fourth noted how she read the Bible to say that we are to be doers of the Word and not just hearers. Therefore, based on the many ministries she has the opportunity and blessing to work in, she counts this church as courageous.

    What can we do to prepare ourselves for the days ahead rather than simply doing church as usual?

    What can we do to leave a helpful legacy for the believers who follow us?

    What will it take to avoid sitting on the fence?

    It was then pointed out by several that we should pray when it comes to things outside of our grasp. Pray for boldness when God brings it to you. Pray for those confronted with choice will obey the law. Pray that they will seek to change law that needs to be changed. Pray for law officers who work to enforce the law. Additionally, as princes in this land, vote to install representatives that will faithfully execute and uphold the law.

  3. Evil prevails when Christ followers do nothing

    BREAKING NEWS: Evil never retreats on its own, it only retreats when a greater force is applied against it. Obviously, the only force which is greater than evil is the Lord God Himself.

    Guess what? He works through the church, the bride of Christ

    Do you believe that you have been called to this hour and this is your moment as a representative of the Lord, in God’s timeline? If so, what does that mean in practical terms?

    It is a call to be in the world but not of the world, to confront the culture yet not be contaminated by it; this is not about us, but about Christ, we are called to be ambassadors for Christ empowered by the Holy Spirit.

    Our humility should be disarming, our courage admired, our love should be attractive but we will probably be accused of bigotry and intolerance, our commitment to the biblical doctrine despised and our biblical standards completely rejected this should be no surprise.

    What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31 NIV)

    Do we interpret Scriptures through the lens of the culture or do we interpret culture through the lens of Scripture? Which of these will be our ultimate authority?

    Jesus predicted days like this would come. (the Olivet Discourse)

    God gave a promise to Israel that I believe that we can borrow for ourselves.

    I took you from the ends of the earth,
      from its farthest corners I called you.
    I said, ‘You are my servant’;
      I have chosen you and have not rejected you.
    So do not fear, for I am with you;
      do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
    I will strengthen you and help you;
      I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41: 9-10 NIV)

    Do you agree that this verse is applicable to us today? Explain.

    But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. (1 Peter 4:13-14 NIV)

    Do you believe this verse applies to you? Explain.

    But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen. (2 Timothy 4:17-18 NIV)

 

Talarico’s unchallenged 9 March monologue taken apart

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Talarico tries to redefine the narrative away from what Democrats have centered it for the past 17 years

However, his monologue shows us the empty hole of Democrat promises

The Talarico campaign putlished what he thinks to be a defense worthy of a Senate candidate.

Well, I think it’s interesting. I’ve been in this race for 5 days and I’ve had a lot of interviews with national media.

No one’s ever asked me about the cost of housing. No one’s asked me about the cost of child care. No one’s asked me about the cost of prescription drugs.

The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.

And so, what I would say is that the only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.

Trans people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.

Trans people aren’t taking away our healthcare.

Undocumented people are defunding our schools.

Muslims aren’t cutting taxes for themselves and their rich puppet politicians.

And so we need not only the media, but all of us to focus on the real problem at hand.

Talarico wordsResponding question
Well, I think it’s interesting. I’ve been in this race for 5 days and I’ve had a lot of interviews with national media.From the time that you started running against Crockett, you were exposing your left wing views to the world. Still, all I have seen in the way of the media interviewing you have been puff pieces.
No one’s ever asked me about the cost of housing.Nothing is stopping you from presenting a plan to lower housing prices. Therefore, do you have a plan that does not copy President Trump’s plan to lower housing prices by preventing wholescale purchase of residential housing by institutional investors? By looking at your website, it seems that you don’t have anything but a copycat plan.
No one’s asked me about the cost of child care.Since planning for our children’s futures accounts for most of what we focus on, Trump accounts that allow us to set money aside tax-free for our children is a great boost.

However, after searching the web for “Talarico on childcare” and only coming up with links to your views on public education, I have to question your sanity. My child is my child and not a ward of the state. Therefore, when it comes to child care, you had better extend your view beyond public education.

No one’s asked me about the cost of prescription drugs.Again, it seems that Talarico looks at what President Trump has done with TrumpRx and said “Ooo, I like that. I promise to do that (fingers crossed).”

Talarico says he will do it, but we know about “promises, promises.”

The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.Actually, your party (starting with Obama and extending to Biden) has gotten boys who say they are girls into girls locker rooms. Since that has become something to touch all of our sensibilities (whether by experience or tangentially), you cannot duck this topic.
And so, what I would say is that the only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.Because 36.2% of American employees find jobs under people making at least $1 billion, I think those 40 million people would have a bit of disagreement with your assessment of being oppressed.
Trans people are 1% of the population.Actually, PubMed puts it at about 0.5% and Williams Institute puts it at about 0.8%. You ought to get your head out of Wikipedia and join the real world.
Trans people aren’t taking away our healthcare.No, trans people are not taking away my healthcare. However, healthcare costs have risen continually since only Democrats voted to pass the “Affordable Care Act”. Furthermore, even after it passed millions have remained uninsured despite the promises of Obamacare.
Undocumented people are defunding our schools.No, they are not defunding our schools. However, illegal aliens have cost Texas school districts as much as $63 million since 2021 according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Muslims aren’t cutting taxes for themselves and their rich puppet politicians.Something tells me that you are not familiar with the term “jizya” or the efforts of many Democrats to establish Sharia in America (or maybe you are and would like to hide it, since you consider atheists, Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims more Christ-like than your Christian colleagues)

Also, you have said things along the lines of “white guilt”

In the recent past, I have read one tweet of yours chiding white people for living:

If you really believed that, then why did you allow a one-sided interview that gave you an advantage (by partnering with a White late-night host) over a Black opponent?