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I’m wondering if at this point, we can all agree that the Covid shot was a bioweapon? Check out this data, originally from VAERS, compiled and organized by a website known as openvaers.com:
VAERS dropped the receipts on miscarriage/stillbirth reports by year… and just take a look at 2021-2022.
From basically flatline for decades to over 3,500+ reports in 2021 alone? That’s not a gentle curve - that’s a cliff.
They told pregnant women these shots were ‘safe and… pic.twitter.com/0uzFrmjX7X
— “Sudden And Unexpected” (@toobaffled) April 13, 2026
Sure, openvaers.com is “anti-vaccine,” but perhaps because of numbers like this?
Rep. Eric Swalwell, a former Democratic frontrunner in the California gubernatorial race, resigned from Congress on Monday amid sexual misconduct allegations. Swalwell announced his resignation in a statement posted to his X account, while still denying some of the allegations made against him in recent days. “I am deeply sorry to my family, staff, and constituents for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past. I will fight the serious, false allegation made against me. However, I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistakes I did make,” Swalwell said in the statement. This is breaking news. Please refresh for
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., announced he would resign his congressional seat on Monday on the heels of multiple bombshell reports last Friday that forced him to drop out of a bid to become the next governor of California.
Dems, the media, and liberal journalists love to call President Trump and his supporters every rotten name in the book. They take some bizarre moral high ground that doesn’t actually exist, because the left is a godless political party that is more interested in pushing alternate lifestyles than traditional Christian ones. But what’s very interesting is that, if you wait a bit, the loudest voices attacking Trump and his followers will someday fall. And when they do, it becomes more apparent that they were actually the real “monster” hiding under the bed (snip) Meet Thomas Pham LeGro, an award-winning journalist and former Washington Post editor,
When Joe Biden was installed as president, he wanted one thing more than almost anything else: to be remembered as the president who beat COVID. His strategy was simple: go all in on pushing the COVID vaccines — the same vaccines he said before the election shouldn’t be trusted. Be that as it may, his decision to put all of his chips on pushing the vaccines forced his administration to make some very shady decisions.
New details emerging from a Senate investigation confirm that Biden administration officials at both the FDA and CDC knew about a significant stroke risk tied to Pfizer's bivalent COVID-19 booster in people over 65.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Friday entertained the idea of a partnership with former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, commending the Republican for speaking out against President Trump’s threats against Iran.
“As a human being and as an American citizen, I am relieved that Donald Trump has accepted a ceasefire and withdrawn his threat to destroy Iranian civilization,” Khanna said in a video posted on social platform X. “But let’s be clear, this did not happen because of Congress, which barely made a whimper.”
Swalwell’s blanket party
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The Dems depantsed the repulsive Eric Swalwell over the weekend in an attack with something like the Pearl Harbor effect. It swiftly sunk Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign. We followed the depantsing, but without quite the humorous detachment of Wall Street Journal Free Expression editor Matthew Hennessey. There are several interesting angles to the story and he inflicts glancing blows on most of them. He doesn’t expressly mention the apparent knowledge of members of the press about Swalwell’s way with women.
We knew about Fang Fang, okay, but we seem to have gone beyond an old-fashioned scandal into #MeToo territory. Now it’s getting serious. At the end of his column Hennessey
In another bit of supposed do-gooding that’s guaranteed to boost costs for regular New Yorkers, City Council progressives are looking to shut down the “last-mile delivery” industry to appease Big Labor.
This would goose customer bills roughly $664 a year — another blow to NYC affordability.
City Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán (D-Queens) wants to slam the small, independent services that contract with Amazon, FedEx, DHL, FreshDirect and other businesses to finalize deliveries from distribution centers, forcing them to directly hire their own drivers simply to make it easier for the Teamsters to unionize these workers.
Many would just respond by moving their centers outside the five boroughs,
President Trump's Sunday night Truth Social post of an AI-generated image appearing to depict him in the likeness of Jesus Christ sparked intense backlash, even from some of his most vocal supporters. The image, a slightly altered version of one posted months ago by right-wing influencer Nick Adams, shows the president in a white robe and red sash with a ball of light in one hand and the other hand extended in healing.
CBS committed a crucial triple-bogey-like error. There is nothing like watching Rory McIlroy win a back-to-back Masters for golf fans — that is, if you can actually see the winning shots. The broadcast failed to show McIlroy’s final four shots of the tournament as he claimed the first repeat green jacket since Tiger Woods in 2002. And CBS went on to hear it from golf fans. “CBS not being able to show the location of the final two approach shots of the masters is the cherry on top of an all-time horrible broadcast,” an X user posted.
“Very on brand for golf broadcasting that the cameraman lined up
Good morning and welcome to Sunday, April 12, 2026. (Snip) I’ve been watching this business with Eric Swalwell, who used to be the odds-on favorite to win the California governor’s seat. As with Bill Cosby before him, I wondered why the sudden shift of loyalties, what caused the bright orange circle on his back. I know that other of our great team of writers here at PJ Media have spoken up on this, but I felt given my Cosby comments last year, I should add my voice. One such incident is a one-off. More than that is a pattern, and in this case, an important one.
Almost 40 years ago, one of the great buddy cop franchises was born. Lethal Weapon, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, hit the screens for the first time. It made a whole bunch of money and spawned three sequels over the next dozen years.
In one early scene, Gibson's character, a L.A. cop going through an immense amount of personal and mental grief and trauma, is up on a roof with a potentially suicidal jumper. The conventional wisdom, of course, is to talk to him, keep talking, and wear him down by talking until he gives up and lets himself be taken away in a rubber truck. Gibson's Martin Riggs
No kidding. Man, you can't put anything past those mullahcrats! Imagine how embarrassed they'll feel when all of their neighbors explain that firing missiles and drones at their energy production facilities and hotels are also acta belli.
The US will impose a blockade on all Iranian ports, effectively cutting off all income to the Iranian regime and the IRGC, starting in less than an hour. The IRGC junta responded from its fainting couch that it considers a blockade "an act of war," and threatened escalation:
The spokesman for the National Security Commission in Iran’s Parliament said President Trump’s threat to impose a naval blockade could be nothing more than “bluster,”
"The spice must flow."
Fans of Frank Herbert's Dune know that melange makes interstellar travel and trade possible. Its only source is the desert world of Arrakis, which makes it the most valuable real estate in the known universe. The spice is addictive. Arrakis is home to crusading religious fanatics whose supreme leader holds the spice hostage.
If you're thinking, "That sounds an awful lot like Persian Gulf oil," Herbert is way out ahead of you.
President Donald Trump gets it. But what if, instead of spending another 40 or 50 years letting religious fanatics keep a stranglehold on the world's supply of melange — er, oil — we just sort
Monday morning begins with a slight setback on the litigation front for President Donald Trump: A federal judge in Florida has dismissed his lawsuit for defamation against the Wall Street Journal and related defendants. But — it's important to note that this dismissal was "without prejudice," meaning Trump is free to amend his complaint and take another crack at the case if he wishes to do so.
To quickly refresh, in July, Trump sued the WSJ and related individuals/entities for defamation after the Journal ran what was hailed as a damning exposé — claiming that its reporters had seen a birthday album compiled for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th
This year, the average tax refund was up 11%, according to IRS data, thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cut individual income taxes by almost $130 billion dollars.
Which makes the findings of this month’s I&I/TIPP Poll so shocking.
Yes, the poll found that the public is fairly evenly split when it comes to tax fairness. [snip]
But the poll also found that 40% of adults believe their taxes are “much” or “somewhat” higher, while just 10% said they were either “somewhat” or “much” lower.
That’s a 4-to-1 difference. This makes no sense.
DEI Is Illegal
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I have said it many times over the years: DEI, like affirmative action before it, is not just immoral. It is illegal, at least in employment and education. But for many years, the law went unenforced. That changed with the Supreme Court’s decision in the Harvard and North Carolina cases, the most important decision of recent years. The Court held that the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act mean what they say: race and sex discrimination are illegal.
That decision empowered the Trump administration to take action against the discriminatory policies that have been rampant in both the corporate world and academia. Thus, the Department of Justice has just
Iran doesn't have a lot of cards to play in the fight with the United States.
One of the few is that they seem to have folks on the left attacking everything President Donald Trump says or does in regard to Operation Epic Fury. That may give them thoughts. If they just hang in there, the Democrats' attacks on Trump may force him to pull back.
However, in another way, the Democratic reactions may have helped Trump and convinced the Iranians that Trump was going to drop "hell" on them as he promised. He had already been pounding them as it was. But you had people like former
Eric Swalwell Continues to Crash and Burn
As Billionaire Boots Him From Mansion
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As Billionaire Boots Him From Mansion
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California Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-14) has just seen one of the most stunning political implosions you will ever see. Just days ago, he was the frontrunner in the California gubernatorial race, but on Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on extremely serious sexual allegations against the congressman, and since then, his world has imploded.
Almost every person or organization who endorsed him has rescinded their support, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has opened an investigation, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) has indicated she’s going to file a motion to expel him from Congress, and the pugnacious Rep. finally gave into the overwhelming outcry Sunday and dropped his bid
President Donald Trump is considering fresh strikes on Iran after high-stakes peace talks with the regime failed — and as the US prepares Monday to block the Strait of Hormuz, according to a report.
The president is mulling limited military strikes on the country, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
An all-out bombing campaign on Iran’s infrastructure is also on the table after negotiations with the Islamic Republic fell through in Pakistan on Sunday, the sources said, but is unlikely. Trump, meanwhile, threatened again to target Iran’s infrastructure.
“I would hate to do it, but it’s their water, their desalinization plants, their electric-generating plants,
Over 50 former staffers of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) have called for his resignation following a series of sexual assault and misconduct allegations.
The signed open letter described the allegations against Swalwell as both “serious” and “credible.”
“The allegations reported by the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN are serious, credible, and demand accountability,” the letter said. “We stand unequivocally with our colleague, who showed extraordinary courage in coming forward to share her truth. We believe her.”
Both CNN and the Chronicle reported that a former staffer accused the California gubernatorial candidate of sexual assault,
The good life in the United States is over for seven Iranian nationals linked to the brutal regime in Tehran after they were targeted for removal this month by a State Department of State and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) crackdown. Over the weekend, the California Post and the New York Post published a roundup of those detained and headed for deportation, the lion’s share of the crackdown centered in Los Angeles, which has a large Persian community. Among the most prominent is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, the woman known as “Screaming Mary.”
President Donald Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV, labeling him as “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” and added that he does not want a Pope who opposes the actions of the Trump administration.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump stated that he likes Pope Leo’s brother “much better” than he likes the Pope. Trump also noted he does not want a Pope “who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,” or who “thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela. Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” Trump wrote.
Whoever’s calling the shots in Iran wasted yet another chance for peace over the weekend, and now President Donald Trump will again call Tehran’s bluff.
Iran’s negotiators refused to satisfy America’s demands Saturday in talks in Pakistan, as regime leaders bet that playing the Strait of Hormuz card would get Trump to blink.
Instead, he played it right back at them — announcing his own blockade, so that Iran’s oil exports (which had continued despite the war) will also be blocked.