Former President Barack Obama is supporting California’s mid-cycle redistricting effort as a “responsible approach” to Republicans drawing new maps in Texas.
Obama praised California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ballot measure proposal to redraw congressional districts and tilt at least five congressional districts in the state towards Democrats at a fundraiser on Tuesday for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
“I believe that Governor Newsom’s approach is a responsible approach,” he said, according to excerpts obtained by POLITICO. “I think that approach is a smart, measured approach, designed to address a very particular problem in a very particular moment in time.”
ISRAEL has begun its full invasion of Gaza City as it aims to completely wipe out Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Wednesday.
IDF troops now control the outskirts of the besieged city, one of the terror group’s last strongholds, Israeli military spokesperson Brig Gen Effie Defrin said.
The mainstream media doesn’t understand a very basic point. Texas and California are both redrawing their congressional district maps, but they aren’t doing the same thing.
On CNN, gubernatorial candidate and former Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) responded when asked if California redistricting was an example of two wrongs not making a right.
Straight from the fascist playbook, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller stood with National Guard troops — along with JD Vance and Pete Hegseth — at Washington D.C.’s Union Station this morning, bashing the nearby folks protesting Trump’s police takeover as “crazy communists.” — Read the rest
These were the words a young woman heard from her obstetrician as they looked at an ultrasound image of her baby at about seven months’ gestation. The baby already weighed more than five pounds.
The conversation took place in Maryland, where there are no limits on abortion and where Medicaid foots the bill. It’s not possible to know why a doctor would make such a suggestion to a woman so far along in her pregnancy, but the price tag for a third-trimester abortion can be $10,000 or more.
If recent reports are true, Sen. Adam Schiff could have some explaining to do. According to newly-released documents, a Democratic whistleblower told the FBI that Schiff approved leaking classified information regarding the alleged Russiagate scandal to smear President Donald Trump. According to the report:
“When working in this capacity, [redacted staffer’s name] was called to an all-staff meeting by SCHIFF. In this meeting, SCHIFF stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States DONALD J. TRUMP. SCHIFF stated the information would be used to indict President TRUMP.”
Most Austrians see Christianity as an important part of the country’s cultural heritage.
According to a recent survey presented by Austrian Family Minister Claudia Plakolm, 69 percent of Austrians favor keeping crosses in public school classrooms even in areas with a non-Christian majority. Moreover, 79 percent said they want Christian (and specifically Catholic) holidays like St. Nicholas’ Day, Easter, and St. Martin’s Day to be celebrated in schools.
Nebraska is partnering with the Trump administration to open “Cornhusker Clink,” a detention center to house illegal immigrants awaiting deportation or other proceedings, in a remote southwest corner of the state, Gov. Jim Pillen announced on Aug. 19.
The state will work with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to convert its Work Ethic Camp in McCook into the holding center.
About 20 Army National Guard soldiers will also help provide administrative and logistical support to federal immigration officials as they work together to enforce immigration laws in the state. The soldiers are scheduled to start training within the next week, Pillon announced.
Male athlete sues Swarthmore College for not letting him run on women’s track team
A biological male sued the Philadelphia-adjacent Swarthmore College this past week for not allowing him to run on the women’s track team.
Evelyn “Evie” Parts, who began hormone replacement therapy as a high school junior and is listed as “female” on his birth certificate, social security card and driver’s license, had run on Swarthmore’s women’s team since 2020,
Go after the criminals, and crime goes down. And we are now seeing that in action in Washington, D.C.
Hundreds of arrests have taken place in the nation’s capital since President Donald Trump announced a crackdown in crime, with federal agents and the National Guard assisting law enforcement to clean up the streets.
According to the Washington Post, over 450 arrests have taken place since Aug. 7.
The D.C. Police Union released its numbers on social media platform X, showing how dramatically crime has gone down.
The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on four members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for targeting Israelis and Americans for prosecution.
The ICC last year issued warrants for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the sanctions in a post on X in which he explained that the ICC “continues to disregard national sovereignty and facilitate lawfare through efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, and prosecute American and Israeli nationals.”
The American Academy of Pediatrics has given up the ghost. Each set of recommendations and guidance from the organization shows it to be a left-wing activist group that should no longer be treated with the reverence that it once was.
The AAP has split from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance on COVID-19 vaccines for children. The CDC removed the COVID-19 vaccine from its immunization schedule recommendations for children, which lists vaccine recommendations from birth to age 18. The first COVID-19 vaccination recommendation for children was at six months old, along with their first vaccination for the flu.
The Chinese Communist Party has now been exposed for building an advanced nationwide digital surveillance system for the Serbian government that is currently being used to shut down the resistance to the regime. Citizens have been protesting since a November 2024 train station canopy collapse that killed 16 people.
The government led by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), led by President Alexsander Vucic, is being accused of being corrupt to the point of making Serbia a dangerous place to live due to mismanaged public works projects. Now, protestors are being met with pro-government counter-protestors, with the violence reportedly only increasing in these clashes.
BELGRADE — The Serbian government is substantially expanding its advanced Chinese-made surveillance system, leaked documents reviewed by RFE/RL show, despite years of protests and backlash from the public over its use.
The documents seen by RFE/RL contain contacts with the Chinese technology giant Huawei.
They show large purchases of software and services necessary to increase the scale of a program called Safe City, a project first sold by Huawei in 2017 through a strategic partnership deal with Serbia’s Interior Ministry.
The program aims to provide facial and license-plate recognition and other surveillance capabilities integrated into a unified, citywide system.
Months of protests in Serbia reached a new intensity Wednesday night as riot police intervened to separate rival demonstrations of anti-government protesters and supporters of President Aleksandar Vucic. The president once again accused unnamed foreign powers of orchestrating the protests, which first began after the deadly collapse of a subway station sparked accusations of widespread government corruption.
Supporters of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) threw flares and firecrackers at anti-government protesters in Novi Sad on Wednesday evening, prompting police to intervene to end the standoff, a major escalation of nine-month-long protests in Serbia.
The student-led protests in Serbia first started in November after a train station canopy collapsed in Novi Sad, killing 16 people and triggering accusations of corruption in state infrastructure projects.
Protests have since drawn hundreds of thousands of people, shaking President Aleksandar Vucic’s firm grip on power. His supporters have recently started organising counter-demonstrations, fuelling fears of possible violence.
Protesters block main state Serbian TV building as tensions soar ahead of a planned large rally – ABC News Source Link Excerpt:
Several hundred student protesters have blocked Serbia’s public television station building in Belgrade as tensions are soaring in the Balkan country days ahead of a planned large rally over the weekend billed as an endgame in months of anti-government demonstrations.
The students first blocked the TV building in central Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, late on Monday and several hundred gathered again early on Tuesday, after announcing that their blockade will last for at least 22 hours.
University students in Serbia are behind almost daily rallies that started after a concrete canopy crashed down in November at a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad, killing 15 people. The protests have rocked populist rule of President Aleksandar Vucic and his firm grip on power.
Scientists from Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with partners in Greenland and Canada, have identified a previously undocumented class of PFAS (poly- and perfluorinated alkyl substances) in the blubber of killer whales.
The new study, published in Environmental Science and Technology Letters, reveals the presence of five fluorotelomer sulfones—highly fluorinated, lipophilic (fat-loving) chemicals never before reported in wildlife. Unlike well studied PFAS, which typically accumulate in protein-rich tissues such as liver and blood, these new substances accumulate in fat-rich blubber.
“This is the first time that highly fluorinated PFAS has been shown to preferentially accumulate in fat,” says lead author Mélanie Lauria, formerly a doctoral student at the Department of Environmental Science at Stockholm University and currently at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG).
Mexico sends 26 cartel members to U.S. in deal with Trump administration– www.cbsnews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Mexico sent 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States Tuesday in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as American authorities ratchet up pressure on criminal networks smuggling drugs across the border.
Those handed over to U.S. custody include Abigael González Valencia, a leader of “Los Cuinis,” a group closely aligned with notorious cartel Jalisco New Generation, or CJNG. Another defendant, Roberto Salazar, is wanted in connection to the 2008 killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy. Other prominent figures have ties to the Sinaloa Cartel and other violent drug trafficking groups.
“These transfers are not only a strategic measure to ensure public safety, but also reflect a firm determination to prevent these criminals from continuing to operate from within prisons and to break up their networks of influence,” Mexican Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said in a news conference on Wednesday.
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum also said earlier Wednesday that the transfers were “sovereign decisions,” but the move comes as the Mexican leader faces mounting pressure by the Trump administration to crack down on cartels and fentanyl production.
Late last month, Mr. Trump spoke with Sheinbaum and agreed to put off threatened 30% tariffs for another 90 days to allow for negotiations.
The transfers are a milestone for the Trump administration, which has made dismantling dangerous drug cartels a key Justice Department priority. It’s the second time in months that Mexico has expelled cartel figures accused of narcotics smuggling, murder and other crimes amid mounting pressure from the Trump administration to curb the flow of drugs onto American streets.
“These 26 men have all played a role in bringing violence and drugs to American shores — under this Department of Justice, they will face severe consequences for their crimes against this country,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. “We are grateful to Mexico’s National Security team for their collaboration in this matter.”
In February, Mr. Trump signed an executive order designating CJNG, Sinaloa and six other cartels — Tren de Aragua, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Cártel del Noreste (formerly Los Zetas), La Nueva Familia Michoacana, Cártel de Golfo (Gulf Cartel), and Cárteles Unidos — as foreign terrorist organizations.
The cartel figures were put on planes to the U.S. after the Justice Department agreed not to seek the death penalty against any of the defendants or against any cartel leaders and members sent to the U.S. in February. That transfer was of 29 cartel figures, including drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985.
“This transfer is yet another example of what is possible when two governments stand united against violence and impunity,” U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson said in a statement. “These fugitives will now face justice in U.S. courts, and the citizens of both of our nations will be safer from these common enemies.”
Sheinbaum has shown a willingness to cooperate more on security than her predecessor, specifically being more aggressive in pursuit of Mexico’s cartels. But she has drawn a clear line when it comes to Mexico’s sovereignty, rejecting suggestions by Mr. Trump and others of intervention by the U.S. military.
Last week, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News that Mr. Trump directed the military to target drug cartels in Latin America. Sheinbaum responded Friday by saying there would be “no invasion of Mexico.”
Also included in the group expelled Tuesday was Servando Gómez Martinez, also known as “La Tuta,” a former school teacher who became one of Mexico’s most-wanted drug lords as head of the Knights Templar cartel. He was captured in 2015 and sentenced to 55 years in a Mexican prison in June 2019.
Mexican federal police escort who they identify as Servando “La Tuta” Gómez, leader of the Knights Templar cartel, as he sits inside a helicopter at a Federal hanger in Mexico City, Feb. 27, 2015.
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Gomez led the quasi-religious criminal group that once exercised absolute control over Michoacan and he liked to appear in interviews and videos. The cartel orchestrated politics, controlled commerce, dictated rules and preached a code of ethics around devotion to God and family, even as it murdered and plundered.
Abigael González Valencia is the brother-in-law of CJNG leader Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, a top target of the U.S. government. Abigael González Valencia was arrested in February 2015 in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco and had been fighting extradition to the United States since then. The U.S. government has offered a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to “El Mencho’s” arrest or conviction.
Alongside his two brothers, Abigael González Valencia led “Los Cuinis,” which financed the founding and growth of the CJNG, one of the most powerful and dangerous cartels in Mexico. CJNG traffics hundreds of tons of cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl into the United States and other countries and is known for extreme violence, murders, torture, and corruption.
One of his brothers, José González Valencia, was sentenced in Washington’s federal court in June to 30 years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to international cocaine trafficking. Jose González Valencia was arrested in 2017 under the first Trump administration at a beach resort in Brazil while vacationing with his family under a fake name.
Those still using the ageing Sky Q platform might want to finally ditch their dish and try something new this week. Sky is currently offering a very tempting freebie when customers buy its latest Glass Air TV. As long as you act before July 30, you’ll get free access to eye-popping Ultra HD 4K content – that’s something all users usually need to fork out extra for.
For example, those with a Q box under their telly will find £13 added to their monthly bill when wanting to watch shows and movies in stunning UHD.
It’s a decent saving and means you’ll get an image that’s four times more packed with pixels than regular High Definition (HD).
Of course, you will need to switch to that Sky Glass Air telly, but even that has its advantages.
This broadband-powered screen starts from just £6 per month and offers simple set-up, no need for an engineer to visit and regular updates from Sky.
Plants also have immune systems, just like animals. They use special receptors to spot harmful bacteria and defend themselves. One key receptor, called FLS2, helps plants detect flagellin, a protein in the tails that bacteria use to move.
But bacteria are clever. They continually modify the protein to evade the plant’s defenses.
To help plants fight back, scientists at UC Davis used artificial intelligence, specifically AlphaFold, a tool that predicts protein shapes. With it, they redesigned FLS2 to recognize more variations of flagellin, thereby strengthening the plant’s immune system and making it harder for bacteria to trick it.
The researchers studied plant receptors that could detect a wide range of bacteria, even if those receptors came from non-crop plants. By comparing these with less effective receptors, they determined which amino acids needed to be modified.
Dinosaurs might not have dental records, but their fossilized teeth offer fascinating clues into their dietary habits. Inspecting chemical signatures stored in the enamel, scientists writing in Palaeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology found that different species of herbivores had different preferences and were partial to different parts of the plant — a fact that enabled vast and diverse ecosystems to flourish for millions of years.
“It’s really just more proof that this ecosystem was as spectacular as we thought it was,” lead author Liam Norris, a recent doctoral graduate at the University of Texas’ Jackson School of Geosciences, said in a press release.
Physicists have created a quantum bit, or qubit, the fundamental storage unit of a quantum computer, out of antimatter for the first time. The researchers used magnetic fields to trap a single antiproton—the antimatter version of the protons inside of atoms—and measured how fast its spin changed direction for almost a full minute. The findings were published on July 23 in the journal Nature.
Quantum computers made of antimatter qubits are still a long way off and would be much harder to build than matter quantum computers—which are already extremely tricky. The feat is exciting, however, because of what such antimatter experiments could reveal about the universe itself.
A particle’s spin can be in a state of “up” or “down,” just like a computer bit can take on a state of “0” or “1.” But where a classical bit must be in either of the latter two states, the antiproton qubit’s spin could be up, down or any combination of both at the same time. This fantastical ability of qubits is what sets them apart from classical bits and promises that quantum computers will one day offer incredible improvements in calculation speed and ability compared with today’s computers.
Trump’s US Steel Deal Is a Historic Achievement– www.dailysignal.com Source Link Excerpt:
WEST MIFFLIN, Pennsylvania—Local steelworkers, community leaders, and economic experts said President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday that a deal was struck between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel will go down in American history as the most enduring economic “big, beautiful deal” the 47th president has made.
It is a deal robustly supported by the rank-and-file steelworkers from the three plants that make up the Mon Valley Works. The deal is believed to reverse the decline of steel that began under former President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s.
“I am proud to announce that, after much consideration and negotiation, U.S. Steel will REMAIN in America and keep its headquarters in the Great City of Pittsburgh,” said Trump, who had been engaged in intense negotiations over a sale between the iconic American company and Nippon Steel.
“This will be a planned partnership between United States Steel and Nippon Steel … and the largest investment in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” he said.
Senate Hearing on Judges Blocking Trump’s Executive Orders– www.breitbart.com Source Link Excerpt:
The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on judges using universal injunctions to block President Donald Trump’s executive orders on Wednesday, April 2.
The hearing, titled “Rule by District Judges II: Exploring Legislative Solutions to the Bipartisan Problem of Universal Injunctions,” will examine what Congress can do in response to lone district judges acting to block the implementation of Trump’s orders across the entire country.
The House held a similar hearing on Tuesday as the Supreme Court remains uninvolved in resolving the conflict between the executive and judicial branches of government.
VP FAMILY AMBUSHED, AID CUT OFF AFTER ZELENSKY-TRUMP DONNYBROOK – The oval office kerfuffle that led to Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Zelensky being kicked out of the White House continues to have multiple major consequences. One of those consequences was a ski trip ambush of the Vice President’s family by radical Ukraine supporters. This led to the family having to be moved to an undisclosed location.
Another potential fallout is news of potential collusion before the meeting between Zelensky and Democrat leaders that may have led to the conflict in the first place. All aid to Ukraine has been suspended, which includes any aid in the pipeline due to be delivered.
Since the meeting, Zelensky has been walking back some of his comments, claiming he is “read to work under Trump’s strong leadership.” The failure by the Europeans to deliver U.S. level guarantees under the Biden administration has led Zelensky to reconsider whether he should, in fact sign the rare earth mineral rights deal.
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AFTER FAILED UNVEILING, BONDI PREPARES SECOND EPSTEIN FILE RELEASE – After Attorney General Pam Bondi’s first round of Epstein file releases turned out to be years-old publicly available files, attention turned to the NY FBI office, where the head was forced to resign. Allegedly, he was preventing the files from being released. Bondi now claims she has a truckload of files to go through and release.
TARIFF WARS ESCALATE AS U.S. BATTLES CHINA, CANADA, MEXICO – President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on Canada and Mexico have hit after the administration determines they did nothing of significance to ward off the tariffs. Canada has responded with its own 25% tariff, which has triggered another counter-tariff from Trump.
China has announced its own counter-tariffs, which includes 15% tariffs on U.S. farm products like chicken and pork. The CEO of Target is warning Americans the tariff escalation will cause prices to rise “within days.”
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TRUMP’S GAZA PLAN HAS AN ARAB COMPETITOR – Arab leaders have been meeting in Cairo behind closed doors in an effort to develop a Gaza plan that won’t involve the U.S. taking the commanding lead in the project. So far, it appears President Trump’s dramatic “Riviera of the Middle East” declaration is working as it might have been intended, spurring decades-delayed action.
U.S. CONTRACTOR LOOKS TO SQUEEZE CHINA OUT OF PANAMA – Black Rock Inc looks to take over operating duties of Panama Canal ports after a Hong-Kong-owned company is being forced to sell its interests in the venture.
DEMS KILL BILL BANNING TRANS-IDENTIFYING MALES FROM PLAYING FEMALE SPORTS – A bill that would have prevented trans-identifying males from playing female sports failed to reach a 60-vote minimum after all 45 Democrats voted No on the measure.
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TRANS SURGERIES MAY BE HARMING MORE THAN HELPING? – A new study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine claims “gender-affirming surgery” produces more incidents of depression and suicide among transgender-identifying people than among those that did not get that surgery.
LA TIMES TO USE AI TO OFFER COUNTERPOINTS – The LA Times announced plans to use AI to generate counterpoints to any opinion or editorial pieces the publisher shares. The owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said all “Voices” articles, articles that contain any opinions in them, even straight news, will get the AI counterpoint treatment.
IS THE EU READY TO DANCE WITHOUT AMERICA? – The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, has called on Europe to find a new representative for the “Leader of the Free World” because Trump’s America isn’t it. Her response came after the President threw Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Zelensky out of the oval office and cut off all aid to his country.
SOCIAL MEDIA FACE RISK ASSESSMENT DEADLINE IN UK – UK regulators have informed social media companies they have until the end of March to produce a report detailing how they hope to deal with “online risks” as defined by the Labour-controlled government.
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FBI’S EPSTEIN FILE PROTECTOR FORCED TO RESIGN – The head of the NY FBI Office has resigned after seeing thousands of Jeffrey Epstein files allegedly reach Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office. He declared, “Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did. I was not given a reason for this decision.”
CANADA’S LEADING LIBERAL PARTY VOICE CALLS FOR NUKES AGAINST AMERICA – Chrystia Freeland, Liberal Party Leader candidate – “The U.S. is turning predator and so what Canada needs to do is work closely with our democratic allies, our military allies. I would start with our Nordic Partners specifically Denmark, which is also being threatened and our European NATO allies. I would be sure that France and Britain were there, who possess nuclear weapons.”
ZELENSKY LOSES PR WAR TO TRUMP – Two recent polls show Donald Trump won the American audience in his battle with Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Zelensky in the oval office, which ended with Zelensky being kicked out.
LOOKS TO DEVELOP INHOUSE CHIP INDUSTRY ON TAIWAN’S DIME – Taiwan’s top chip maker, TSMC, looks to invest $100 billion in the U.S. over the next four years in what promises to be, for the U.S., technological development, and, for Taiwan, an invested partner capable of defending them from Mainland China.
IS TRUMP MOVING TO SAVE TINA PETERS? – The Department of Justice is looking into the sentencing and prosecution of Tina Peters, who, as a Colorado County Clerk, claimed she exposed a major hack vulnerability in the election system. She was sentenced to 9 years.
EU GAVE MORE MONEY TO RUSSIA THAN UKRAINE DURING WAR – The EU, apparently has given Russia more money for its energy than it gave to Ukraine to support them during the war.
Why did Germany’s SPD party do so badly in the election? – DW (English) Source Link Excerpt:
The day after Hamburg’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, March 2, cautious optimism was in the air at the Social Democratic Party (SPD) headquarters in Berlin. “The result made us smile,” said party co-chair Saskia Esken.
The SPD won 33.5% of the vote in Hamburg, more than double its February 23rd federal election result of only 16.4%. That was the SPD’s worst federal election result since 1887 — back when it was still called the Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany. The Bundestag election reflects a depressing, decades-long downward trend for the party.
The SPD’s 25.7% share in Germany’s last federal election in 2021, now seems to have been an anomaly. Back then, opinion polls had put the party at 15% for months. Its surprising comeback was due to crucial mistakes by its main rival, the center-right Christian Democratic Party (CDU). Those within SPD ranks later described it like this: “We thought we had won — but it was only that the others had lost.”
Trump continues his offensive even in the face of contentious judicial checks and even threats, leaving the Democrats unable to do little more than create interpretive dance protests that only reinforce how tone deaf the party that celebrates hate speech regulations and misinformation censorship truly is.
BATTLING THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE
President Trump quietly gutted the majority of the administrative state’s power with an executive order that will undo 90 plus years of work that increasingly diminished the real power of the Presidency over his own executive branch. This created an unelected administrative class that was left to largely create their own policies regardless of who was President.
Now, decades of work will be undone, and even a return to the White House in 2028 would leave the Democratic Party with the unenviable position of having to recreate their administrative state with a far more sophisticated and informed audience than the ones that allowed this leviathan to rise in the first place.
THE WAR IN UKRAINE
The Ukraine Peace deal that might be is being undermined in part by the heated rhetoric flying between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Zelensky. It appears as if Zelensky thinks he’s running for office against Trump rather than running a country in the middle of a war that is largely being subsidized by the United States.
Methinks the leader is living in a leftist-run bubble of misinformation and false bravado that is void of any attachment to the reality of power around them.
GERMANY AND FREE SPEECH
While Germans prepare to vote this Sunday in an election in which the “far right” party AfD appears to be surging, their country’s anti-free-speech policies were being highlighted on the illegal DNC content marketing media outlet CBS news in a way that seemed more about attempting to normalize such controls, rather than rightly chastise them from an American perspective.
DOGE AND “YOU’RE FIRED”
The wars between DOGE and the courts and Trump and the courts continues, with DOGE highlighting an accounting loophole that allows for trillions of dollars to remain unaccountable. As DOGE is allegedly exposing fraud and waste, Trump is cleaning house from within, axing lawyers hired by the Biden administration.
PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS
So far, the relentless pushback against anti-Americanists, be they domestic or foreign, continues at breakneck speed by the Trump administration, with the one potential early error that might one day come back and hurt the Trump administration, the move to throw out the charges against NY Mayor Eric Adams until a newly appointed U.S. Attorney can reassess the case after the election.
Outside of that glaring exception, this writer is positive on the direction things are going, believing the work being done now would set the Democrats back at least 5 years, maybe more, just in rebuilding up the legacy administrative networking and knowledge these now destroyed institutions are permanently losing.
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TRUMP XO WRESTS EXECUTIVE POWER FROM ADMINS TO PRESIDENT BY ENDING INDEPENDENT ENTITIES
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that effectively ends “independent” boards, commissions and agencies that began to be created 90 years ago under then-President Franklin Roosevelt.
The move effectively cuts off unaccountable administrative power from most government agencies that are currently populated with such entities.
Trump said in his order, “These agencies issue rules and regulations that cost billions of dollars and implicate some of the most controversial policy matters, and they do so without the review of the democratically elected President. They also spend American tax dollars and set priorities without consulting the President, while setting their own performance standards.” Read more
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TRUMP, ZELENSKY IN PUBLIC VERBAL SPAR STRAINS U.S.-UKRAINE RELATIONS
Volodymyr Zelensky, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, has accused U.S. President Donald Trump of being trapped by a bubble of “misinformation.” Trump has responded that Zelensky is a dictator who should be more grateful to the American people than he is.
The jabs were followed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressing frustration at Zelensky’s alleged duplicity in promising to introduce legislation to pay back some of the billions of dollars given to it by the U.S. only to later announce publicly Ukraine rejected the request. Read more
HUNDREDS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC-ERA SCIENTIFIC PAPERS GET RETRACTED
During the Covid-19 Pandemic, any information that went against the official narrative was deemed “anti-science” and “misinformation.” Now, many of the justifications for the official narrative, scientific papers, are now being retracted.
Retraction Watch reports 505 studies on Covid-19 have been retracted as of February 17, 2025. Retraction Watch Co-Founder Ivan Oransky told The College Fix, “Why do they feel the need to rush papers through? Well, it’s because that’s how they get or keep their jobs, that’s how they get grants, everything is based on that. When you know that your whole career depends on publishing papers in particular journals, you’re going to do what you have to do to publish those papers. Most of the time that means you work hard, you hire the smart grad students and postdocs.” Read more
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“Experts” Raise Alarm for Potential China Invasion of Taiwan under Chaotic Trump Presidency
A new report by the Lau China Institute and the Policy Institute at King’s College London suggests a Trump Presidency combined with a Pro-Independence government in Taiwan dramatically increases the chances an invasion by China is soon to come.
The report also suggests President Trump himself could “plunge the world into a crisis.” It should be noted the Lau China Institute is subsidized largely by a pro-CCP Hong Kong businessman named Lau Ming-wai. Read more
CBS Appears to Promote German Arrests of Internet Users for Making “Hateful Content”
Following on the heels of CBS News Host Margaret Brennan claiming free speech is what enabled the rise of the Nazis, a segment on 60 minutes that appeared to be promoting German police arresting people for making hateful online content has some concerned CBS may have abandoned the free speech values that make the free press possible in the first place. Read blurb
HOLLYWOOD BOWL WILL HAVE BLACK LESBIAN PLAY CHRIST IN “JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR”
Hollywood Bowl will be casting a black open lesbian to be Jesus in the upcoming production of “Jesus Christ Superstar.” The actress is Cynthia Erivo, who is best known for her role in the film “Wicked.” Read blurb
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly found $4.7 trillion in payments were not documented sufficiently to determine where those payments were going. Going forward, the option to leave payment details blank is no longer available. Read blurb
MUSK SUGGESTS $5K DOGE PAYOFF POTENTIAL TO AMERICAN TAXPAYERS
Elon Musk suggested the savings DOGE creates through cutting waste and fraud in government could lead to a “stimulus check” for the American people, an idea the President seemed to support later. Read blurb
TRUMP AXES BIDEN-APPOINTED PROSECUTORS
President Donald Trump announced the termination of Biden-appointed Attorney Generals on a Truth Social post, stating “Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before. Therefore, I have instructed the termination of ALL remaining ‘Biden Era’ U.S. Attorneys. We must ‘clean house’ IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence.” Read blurb
WYOMING BILLIONAIRE PUTS HIS HAT IN THE TIKTOK RING
Wyoming Entrepreneur Reid Rasner has made an offer to buy TikTok for nearly $50 billion. Reid hopes to create a new Silicon Valley in Wyoming with his purchase. Read blurb
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TRANS TERRORIST GROUP LEADERS CAPTURED
The leader, along with two other members, of the transgender-far-left cult called “Zizi” was captured by Maryland Police. The group is believed to behind multiple murders, though the initial charges are not murder related. Read blurb
BIDEN ILLEGALS POORER, LESS EDUCATED THAN PREVIOUS ONES
The Centers for Immigration Studies released a report that shows the poverty levels among illegal aliens that entered the U.S. under Biden’s watch are much higher than in previous migrations. Read blurb
CALIFORNIA APPEALS COURT RULES CHRISTIAN BAKERY MUST DESIGN GAY MARRIAGE CAKE
A California Appeals Court has ruled that a Christian bakery in Kern County does not have a right to refuse cake decorating service to a gay couple. The company offered the couple, Eileen and Mireya Rodriguez, a three-tiered non-symbol-added cake. Read blurb
TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBERS GET “LIGHT SENTENCE” FROM NY COURT
Two members of the gang “Tren de Aragua” saw their felony drug and gun charges reduced to misdemeanors and their bail knocked down to nothing by NYC court. Read blurb
MISSOURI AG FILES LAWSUIT TO OVERTHROW LOCAL “CONVERSION THERAPY” BANS
Missouri’s Attorney General, Republican Andrew Bailey, is seeking a remedy from the courts to end the ban on so-called “conversion therapy,” therapy designed to direct people away from LGBTQ lifestyles. Read blurb
EVEN FORD ADMITS THE EV AGE IS NOT YET HERE
Ford CEO Jim Farley told investors in an earnings call that the market for electric vehicles isn’t there, that “the economics are unresolvable.” Read blurb
