Posts on Friday, June 13, 2025
Hamas supporter Mahmoud Khalil, a green-card holder who led pro-Hamas protests at Columbia University in New York City, will not be released from ICE custody, a New Jersey District Judge ruled on Friday.
New Jersey District Judge Michael E. Farbiarz rejected Khalil’s request for release, ruling on Friday that the anti-Israel agitator “did not put forward factual evidence as to why it might be unlawful to detain him” on a second charge, and “failed to make meaningful legal arguments.” “The Court preliminary enjoined the Respondents from detaining the Petitioner on a particular charge,” Judge Farbiarz wrote, noting, “It would be plainly be unlawful
The Interior Department plans to remove or cover up all “inappropriate content” at national parks and sites by Sept. 17 and is asking the park visitors to report any “negative” information about past or living Americans, according to internal documents. It’s a move that historians worry could lead to the erasure of history involving gay and transgender figures, civil rights struggles and other subjects deemed improper. Staff at the National Park Service were instructed to post QR codes and signs at all 433 national parks, monuments and historic sites asking visitors to flag anything they think should be changed, from a plaque to a film at a visitor’s center.
Israel’s military headquarters may have been struck after Iran’s Islamic Republic unleashed a barrage of missiles on central Tel Aviv late Friday night. Alarming footage shared on social media — and verified by The New York Times — showed a strike slamming into an area that houses several military sites, including the Israel Defense Forces’ main command center. The dramatic clips captured interceptor missiles firing into the sky moments before a blinding flash, a thunderous boom, and the explosion of an incoming warhead.
Tim Walz, Chinese Agent?
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Former vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has a longstanding affinity for Communist China. He has visited there more than 30 times, and chose China as the venue for his wedding in 1994. Walz has expressed his admiration for communism, and he had a Chinese girlfriend who almost certainly was an agent of the CCP.
So it shouldn’t be surprising that, interviewed by Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress, he unleashed a couple of howlers. Here, he expresses contempt for the military parade scheduled for tomorrow. Walz will skip the event, choosing to participate instead in an anti-Trump rally. And he hopes it rains on the soldiers: (X).
A young woman narrowly missed boarding the Air India flight that crashed on Thursday and killed hundreds of people.
Bhoomi Chauhan got caught in traffic on her way to Ahmedabad airport, thus delaying her journey to London Gatwick, the BBC reported on Friday.
The business administration student who lives in Bristol with her husband had been visiting India and was supposed to be on AI171. However, she missed the flight and later learned the plane had gone down, killing 241 people on the plane and more on the ground.
Ram admitted it screwed up by killing a legacy American-made engine known for its raw power — and is revved up to bring it back after facing major backlash.
The automaker had discontinued the beloved HEMI V-8 engine from its 2025 Ram trucks as part of a “woke” pivot by the since-ousted CEO of parent company Stellantis Carlos Tavares,
But new Ram CEO Tim Kuniskis, who came out of retirement last last year, offered up a mea culpa over the decision to pull the plug on the engine that powered the top-selling truck for decades.
In a newly-released ad, Kuniskis publicly acknowledged the misstep
On Sept. 30, 1962, the University of Mississippi experienced a “mostly peaceful” demonstration.
As with all such protests, it was peaceful until it wasn’t — it became a riot, and a particularly heinous and destructive one.
The mob attacked federal officers, including border-patrol agents, with rocks and Molotov cocktails.
They burned cars.
They smashed street lights.
They ransacked buildings.
They drove vehicles at the officers.
And they did it all to try to prevent the federal government from enforcing the law.
California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has expressed concern for the privacy of immigrants in his state, following reports that the Trump administration has shared Medicaid data with immigration officials. An internal memo and emails obtained by the Associated Press showed that Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block the data transfer, citing legal and ethical concerns. Nevertheless, two top advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the dataset handed over to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the emails show. Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) were given just 54 minutes on Tuesday to comply with the directive.
Count on Democrats to put a face to Republican efforts to cut federal benefits, rolling out potential victims who elicit the most sympathy so the media can broadcast their plight to the nation.
But Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s choice to counter a significant GOP cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was not exactly from central casting.
SNAP helps feed more than 40 million low-income Americans, which is a crisis all to itself that DC conveniently overlooks, and Republicans are advocating for nearly $300 billion in cuts through 2034, which includes pushing some of the costs down to states.
A 20-year-old Oklahoma man who pledged allegiance to ISIS was eying the iconic Oklahoma Sooners football stadium for a terrorist attack in 2023, court documents revealed this week.
The University of Oklahoma stadium holds more than 80,000 fans and games are frequently televised nationally.
Landon Kyle Swinford is awaiting sentencing in Oklahoma City federal court for possession of child pornography and communicating a threat about bombing a synagogue after pleading guilty late last year to the two felony counts.
However, he allegedly had other terrorist schemes besides a synagogue attack, one of them the stadium, a prosecution sentencing memo obtained by news outlets revealed this week.
The left-wing Congressional Hispanic Caucus is demanding an investigation into law enforcement officers who removed and handcuffed Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) press conference after he became disruptive. The caucus is also demanding DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s resignation.
“Sen. Alex Padilla was shoved, tackled, handcuffed, and detained while attempting to fulfill his constitutional duties,” Caucus chairman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) said in a statement:
That in itself would be a scandal, but the assailants were staff working for Kristi Noem, the secretary of Homeland Security. This escalation is dangerous and unacceptable. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus stands with our brother, Alex Padilla, a leader who represents all Californians.
As if things weren't tense enough already, some experts think that Iran may have been closer to assembling at least a primitive nuclear warhead than previously thought. That is, to put it mildly, disconcerting. Israel's recent attacks on Iran have been mostly aimed at destroying Iran's nuclear program along with un-aliving their senior military leaders, and if Israel had such intelligence, that may have led to the decision to attack.[snip] We should note that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, speaking on behalf of the U.S. intelligence community, is more skeptical.
The Mossad on Friday released stunning and rare video footage of its co-lead role with the air force in Israel's preemptive strike on Iran's ballistic missiles and air defenses. Three videos show the Mossad targeting ballistic missile targets, air defense targets, and general preparations for the attacks (with the agents' faces blurred out.) From the perspective of the videos, it appears the Mossad used drones from inside Iran to attack various targets.[snip] Although far more information has been publicized about the IDF's actions, these videos give readers a rare front seat into what normally are entirely clandestine operations that the Mossad does not even admit to.
I'm sure you've noticed that the world's most annoying climate doomster, Greta Thunberg, has swapped her acid-rain coat and melting glacier galoshes for a stylish keffiyeh and a Gaza-riffic t-shirt.
I'm guessing Thunberg finally fixed the climate and needed a new direction in her life. Today, hating Jews is more en vogue with the leftoids than slapping a dress onto their 10-year-old vegan son.
Who can forget the hilarity of Thunberg's transformation from greenhouse gas hack to Judeophobe?As I predicted on my daily radio show, Thunberg's latest desperate attempt for attention may be her Waterloo.
Early Tuesday evening, as National Guard troops faced off against protesters and rioters on the streets of Los Angeles, powerful teachers’ union president Randi Weingarten hosted a virtual town hall with Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.and two leading political operatives in Democratic Party politics, Leah Greenberg, founder of a political nonprofit, Indivisible, and Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of another political nonprofit, National Action Network. Greenberg hailed an upcoming wave of protests this Saturday — set to sweep through even "really red areas of the country," marked with mostly Republican voters — as a stand against President Donald Trump. Throughout the call, Weingarten beamed, excited.
In the middle of what was a crazy news day on Thursday, there was also a truly unhinged interview with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) by Nick Sortor.
Sortor caught up with Raskin outside Congress. He asked him if he still supported Kilmar Abrego Garcia after charges had been filed against him. The wild-eyed, unhinged response from Raskin was something else; he was truly triggered. Sortor brought up accusations previously made by Abrego Garcia's wife. It should be noted that Abrego Garcia hasn't been charged with anything regarding those prior accusations, and he hasn't been convicted of a criminal charge to date,
When you allow millions of people to flood into the country illegally, it's not surprising when some of them engage in identity theft and other illegal means to obtain illegitimate employment. The latest example comes to us from, of all places, Omaha, Nebraska, where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rounded up a bunch of illegal aliens from Glenn Valley Foods. One of the illegal aliens attacked an officer; ICE notes that the number of such assaults is increasing.
Nationwide, assaults on ICE officers are up 413%, The Center Square reported. Targeted worksite enforcement actions are also up, with a record more than 1,000 worksite enforcement actions
A Florida Sheriff is issuing a warning ahead of the planned ‘No Kings’ protests this weekend.Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey saying what will happen if protesters get violent or break the law in his county.(snip), “If you spit on us, you are going to the hospital and jail. If you hit one of us, you are going to the hospital and jail, and most likely get bitten by one of our big, beautiful dogs t ”(snip)
n“If you throw a brick, firebomb or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains, because we will kill you graveyard dead.”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) blew up the latest attempt by the legacy media to lie about ICE raids, calling out KTLA for reporting that the agency was targeting "a pregnant LA county mother."
In the post on Friday on X, the DHS responded to the LA market's report about the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid and headline that read "DHS Secretary Kristi Noem attends ICE raid at home of pregnant L.A. County mother."
"FAKE NEWS. At this house was an illegal alien from Mexico who had previously been deported," the DHS post read. "His criminal history includes drug trafficking and assault. ICE had a warrant for his arrest."
Police Chief Jim McDonnell was seemingly taken aback when a Los Angeles City Council member asked him if he would commit to notifying city officials about knowledge of upcoming raids so they, in turn, could inform the "immigrant community."
And by "immigrant community," she means the criminal illegal aliens being targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The brazen request came from Councilwoman Imelda Padilla (D-LA's 6th District) at a meeting earlier this week to discuss the LAPD's handling of protests against President Trump's immigration enforcement efforts.
"Can we use technology ... to create a situation where your department can identify,
On Wednesday, a massive raid by law enforcement on a house in Arizona uncovered an illegal alien cartel member hiding, along with a pile of drugs and several guns. It would have gone off much more smoothly, except that the raid caught the attention of some local nincompoops who thought an ICE raid was in progress, leading them to start a protest.
Pinal County Sheriff Ross Teeple properly identified the protesters as "idiots."
They should have put this protest on ice.
A massive raid on a suspected cartel member found in Arizona with a huge stockpile of drugs and guns was interrupted by “idiots”
On Friday, House Oversight Committee James Comer (R-KY) alerted Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) he is looking to investigate the LA riots. The Department of Justice (DOJ) also received a letter, according to Fox News. The letters taking issue with California's immigration policies were also signed by Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), who chairs the Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement.
Bass and Newsom have had particularly horrific takes on the anti-ICE, pro-illegal immigration, and even pro-terrorist riots in Los Angeles. [Tweets]
The letter to the DOJ referenced the violence employed by rioters in LA,
A federal judge has blocked an executive order (EO) from President Donald Trump that sought to require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Friday.
The article said several Democrat state attorneys general challenged the order as unconstitutional, saying it “usurps the States’ constitutional power and seeks to amend election law by fiat.” The AP also noted the EO required officials to accept only mailed ballots that came in by Election Day.
The initial executive order that was signed on March 25 required potential voters to show documents
SEATTLE — State leaders and law enforcement are bracing for a day of protests against President Trump’s immigration actions across Washington on Saturday. Gov. Bob Ferguson and local leaders held a news conference calling for protesters to remain peaceful. The governor and officials also provided updates on preparations. (Snip) Some business owners worry about another round of damage like what was seen Wednesday night in Seattle, when a destructive anti-ICE protest shut down parts of downtown Seattle. They want people to speak out, but not in a destructive way. Governor Bob Ferguson said emergency officials have a plan in case
When even CNN's own political analysts are calling out a Democrat senator for manufacturing a publicity stunt, you know something has gone seriously wrong. That's exactly what happened when Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) decided to crash a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and resist Secret Service agents. Instead of universal condemnation of how the Secret Service treated him, Padilla faced uncomfortable truths from his media allies.
The spectacle unfolded when Padilla showed up uninvited to Noem's press conference, apparently expecting to grandstand his way into the headlines. He not only disrupted her while she was speaking, but he also wasn't wearing his security pin,
Things spiraled out of control Thursday night at the Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, N.J. And if that name sounds familiar, there’s a reason. Just last month, the same facility was the site of another showdown, when far-left Rep. LaMonica McIver, joined by fellow House Democrats Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez, tried to storm the place alongside Newark’s radical mayor, Ras Baraka.
Baraka was promptly arrested and charged with trespassing — though the charges were later dropped — but that wasn’t the end of it. Things got physical fast. According to DHS officials, at least one ICE agent was assaulted during the confrontation, an incident caught on body cam.
Americans are usually an optimistic people – except when it comes to our country’s future.
Right-track/wrong-track surveys have long found yawning gaps favoring the dark view. The RealClearPolitics poll average, stretching back to 2009, reports no point with a positive majority but several where the spread was 40 or even 50 points to the negative.
When Donald Trump was sworn in last January, the wrong-track view held sway by 30 points. Followers of the news – which presents the president’s first months in office as a kleptocratic frenzy marked by destructive economic policies and naked assaults on the Constitution – would expect these numbers
During a jaw-dropping discussion at the Center for American Progress, Gov. Tim Walz, the failed vice-presidential pick on Kamala Harris’s losing 2024 ticket, openly suggested that communist China might be better suited to lead global diplomacy than the United States.
Let that sink in.
Neera Tanden asked Walz for his thoughts on the rapidly escalating conflict between Israel and Iran. After rambling about the “situation in Gaza” and lamenting how it “became a central focus in the campaign,” Walz pivoted into full China-apologist mode.
“I was there during the debates, and I voted for the Iran nuclear deal,” Walz said proudly.
One of the major long-term trends in American political culture is the migration of ideological hard liners from the fringes of the left to the more moderate and moderating mainstream. New Left radicals became rank-and-file Democrats; a youthful Saul Alinsky acolyte made it to the White House (snip.) And if there's ever been a taboo against former committed Castro regime enthusiasts making it to the highest levels of national politics, it might be on the verge of being broken too. In the mid-1970s, California Congresswoman Karen Bass. who is now under consideration to be Joe Biden's running mate, was an organizer for the Venceremos Brigade (snip.)
This week, in anticipation of the ‘No Kings’ protests planned for Saturday, a sheriff in Brevard County, Florida offered a grave warning to any protesters who might be thinking of acting out like the rioters in Los Angeles.
While he fully supports the rights of people to peacefully protest, he was pretty frank about what will happen to lawbreakers.
Townhall reports:
Florida Sheriff Warns Lefty Would-Be Rioters: ‘We Will Kill You’
At a Florida press conference, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey issued a deadly warning to potential protesters.
“If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect
Judge Charles Breyer is another member of this unholy fraternity that’s leading this judicial coup. The man tried to—and this is just beyond laughable—wrest the commander-in-chief role from the executive last night. It lasted about 30 seconds before an appeals court slapped it down for gross overreach. It’s become the hallmark characteristic of this cabal of judges who think they’re the entire government. Once again, we have a clown in robes who would fit better as an MSNBC commentator than a judge.
Charlie, brother of former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and a Clinton nominee, shares a common thread that’s shared by most of these nutty coup jurists:
The list of "partners" for the March of the Drama Queens... er... the "No King's March" that will kick off on Saturday in 1,800 cities and towns (so we're told by the organizers) reads like an American nightmare.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), and American Postal Workers Union — all public unions that use dues to fund political operations like the No Kings March — are listed as "partners" along with dozens and dozens of radical-left groups, including Planned Parenthood (no doubt looking for babies to abort), Common Cause, and another radical labor union,
Sirens sounded across Israel following the launch of Iranian missiles and after the IDF had sent an initial warning on Friday to civilians to take shelter as Iranian missiles made their way to Israeli territory.
Initial defense assessments indicate that Iran has fired at least dozens of missiles toward Israeli territory. Another barrage was fired by Iran minutes after the initial barrage, the IDF said. Witnesses reported to The Jerusalem Post sightings of interceptions in Israel's skies.
Seven people injured
A woman sustained a minor head injury from fallen shrapnel, a MDA spokeswoman said, Israeli media reported on Friday.
We now have more information on how the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles are being funded, thanks to a new report.
Federal authorities have already indicated they are investigating the source of the funding the rioters and protesters have received. But a Fox News report appears to confirm what many have already speculated: Someone is pouring oodles of cash into these operations.
Crowds on Demand, a California-based company that specializes in providing on-demand crowds for protests, told Fox News Digital it received "numerous high budget requests" to get involved with the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles and other cities but declined to participate.
A social media account has been slapped down for spreading fake news about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and it came from an unlikely source: The Los Angeles Times. An account called ‘heymrhowie’ posted a harrowing tale of an ICE raid that occurred at an elementary school graduation. It’s fodder that would be outright believed and digested by the Left. No doubt, some did, but it’s fake. The Los Angeles Times did a lengthy fact-check on the current anti-ICE riots in the city; they shockingly included this portion, which exposed the video as fake news:
According to most information flowing from the region, a second wave attack from Israel us underway (or just completed). The first wave targeting was the Iranian military leadership and nuclear scientists, the second wave hitting the nuclear installations.
We could tell from the initial targeting, the IDF were not targeting hardened installations, they were targeting people who run them where they live in the middle of the night. This appears to be confirmed by ground reporting of residences being the target with highly strategic Mossad agents on the ground doing major intelligence activity . (snip)
establishes the baseline for internal Iranian political opposition to push for regime change.
Just hours after U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer issued a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration related to the President's federalization of 4,000 California Army National Guard soldiers, ordering that Trump must return control of the Guard back to California, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked enforcement of the order pending a hearing.Newsom quickly unpinned his celebratory post from X. (snip) The three-judge panel is made up of two Trump appointees (Mark Bennett and Eric Miller) and one Biden appointee (Jennifer Sung).
This war has been distinctly one-sided so far. It’s been all Israel and no Iran.
But we won’t know for days or weeks how successful the Israeli Defense Forces were in their main objective of disabling Iran’s nuclear weapon program.
Israel says it intends to pound Iran for two weeks. If that pounding entails anything like the strikes yesterday which involved about 200 aircraft, and if Iran’s air defenses don’t improve (in fact, they are apt to deteriorate even more from the bombings) then Iran could be crippled for decades.
I’m all for it. But here are some known unknowns:
Alex Padilla is the Democrats’ new star theater kid. He happens to be bad at it, but he’s a Senator so it will get lots of play.
If the Democrats were still in power, it would result in a demand for a Special Counsel and hearings. Today’s stunt reminded me of Jon Lovitz... I’M AN ACTORRRR! In any case, Dems will wring this towel for all it’s worth. Dems and their bootlicking media love acting and actors and lawyers who act for the press. Not long ago, Dems loved Michael Avenatti. He was on a short list for the presidency. (X) That was, until he got caught stealing clients’
What a difference a few hours makes. Just when California Governor Gavin Newsom thought he had scored a political victory against President Trump, reality came crashing down courtesy of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
On Thursday night, Clinton-appointed Judge Charles B. Breyer handed Newsom what appeared to be an early Christmas present, ordering Trump to return control of the California National Guard to the Golden State's governor. Breyer claimed Trump's federalization of the Guard was "illegal" and violated both statutory authority and the Tenth Amendment.
“That’s not where we live. We live in response to a monarch. This country was founded in response to a monarch,”
As RedState reported, explosions were reported in Iran earlier on Friday morning local time, and it didn't take long for Israel to confirm they had struck. The attacks came after months of the Trump administration trying to give the Mullahs a diplomatic out that they simply refused to take.
But while initial assumptions were that this was a smaller, precise strike on Iran's nuclear enrichment capabilities, the details emerging point to a far larger operation. Not only did Israel hit over a dozen nuclear sites in Iran, but they targeted the country's top military leadership as well. That includes Hossein Salami,
Israel's Attack on Iran Was Made Possible
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Israel's highly successful attack on Iran's nuclear weapons enterprise and other regime targets was the product of years of preparation. Overnight, while the world was watching Israel Air Force strikes throughout Iran, on the ground, Israeli commandos from the IDF and Mossad were engaged in their own war. Precision-guided missiles, smuggled into Iran, attacked Iranian air defense installations and opened the way for Israeli strike fighters. Drones were launched from a clandestine base built inside targeted key Iranian commanders and nuclear scientists. In a sequence of events resembling Ukraine's destruction of a third of Russia's strategic bomber fleet, Israel used guided missiles mounted on civilian vehicles parked near
Trump Drops an All-Time Troll on Iran,
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Israeli attacks on Iran are continuing on Friday, with reports of nuclear facilities, ballistic missile sites, and the IRGC leadership being totally decimated. This was not a warning shot to get the Mullahs back to the negotiating table. It was a decapitation of Iran's military capabilities, both nuclear and traditional.
As RedState reported, IRGC supreme commander Hossein Salami was among those killed, along with what is reportedly most of his leadership structure and the nation's top nuclear scientists. The Iranians were caught off guard, not believing an attack was imminent, and their air defenses were completely ineffective.
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The state of Israel has commenced a multipronged operation against the Iranian regime nuclear weapons program and other military capabilities. Prime Minister Netanyahu announced the operation and rationale in the video below. I would take his statements here at face value. Israel could not live with the Iranian nuclear sword of Damocles hanging over its head. Netanyahu has taken action to preserve the Jewish state and Jewish civilization. If successful, the United States and the West will owe Israel a great debt. To those who have their head screwed on straight, the prospect of an Iranian regime with nuclear weapons is unthinkable.
"Just … follow the money.” – Deep Throat, All the President’s Men
That used to be the watchword for investigative journalists. If you want to uncover corruption, find out where the money is coming from and where it is going. At least it used to be.
Today? Not so much. At least not when doing so could implicate Democrats or upset the left’s agenda.
Case in point is the Los Angeles riots. There’s plenty of reason to believe that the riots are being organized and financed by unsavory characters whose mission is to foment division and violence in the United States.
On Monday, Warner Bros. Discovery made it official that they would be splitting in two with one including their movie and TV production studios, the comic book behemoth DC Studios, HBO, and HBO Max. The other? It’s likely to be far less profitable as it’ll consist of its TV channels, such as Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, Food Network, HGTV, TBS, TLC, TNT, and, most notably here, CNN. In essence, similar to what Comcast did in November.
Writing Wednesday night at Puck in his indispensable media newsletter, former CNN media reporter Dylan Byers that CNN could be doomed even more than it already has with “appalling” salaries, “ratings at a nadir,”
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Today’s Wall Street Journal editorial “Iran’s nuclear breakout” was written before the events of yesterday evening, but it sheds light on them. This is the substance of the editorial on the resolution passed yesterday by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the editorial’s concluding paragraphs (link in original):
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The IAEA finds that Iran has been hiding nuclear material. Accordingly, “the Agency is not able to verify that there has been no diversion of nuclear material required to be safeguarded under the Agreement to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices,” it writes.
Then there are Iran’s attempts to cover all of this up. Consider its Marivan site.
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The ANC's National Democratic Revolution strategy compels dominating the Judiciary; it reads: "judicial independence to be undermined, in part by vesting most appointments to the bench in an ANC-dominated Judicial Service Commission." It was therefore not unexpected that the Constitutional Court might rule in support of the slogan, "Kill the Boer".
Sadly, what Ramaphosa actually intends, despite his grand terminology, is that there will be a redistribution of wealth and asset ownership in the form of either expropriation without compensation and/or a mandatory transfer of equity in businesses held by minorities to the black majority.
President Donald Trump signed legislation seeking to rescind California’s ambitious auto emission standards, including a landmark rule that would’ve eventually barred sales of new gas-only cars in California by 2035.
In a bill signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Thursday, Trump slammed California’s planned zero-emission requirements for new car sales as “a disaster for our country.” During a meandering 50-minute speech, he argued that California’s regulations would raise car prices, hobble American car companies and place an incredible strain on electrical grids across the country. “We officially rescue the U.S. auto industry from destruction by terminating the California electric vehicle mandate, once and for all,”
The most obvious thing in the world probably doesn't qualify as "news" to most HotAir readers but it does to the folks over at NBC News. Today they have a story up about some of the far-left online accounts that are pushing for more violence and destruction from a group of people who have already done a lot of damage in Los Angeles.
NBC hasn't completely separated itself from the "fiery but peaceful" mob of other media outlets but in this piece they do at least notice that there is a clear pattern to how the far-left operates. [emphasis added]
It was approaching nightfall in Los Angeles on Sunday when black-clad
Standing alongside a hundred civic leaders as police sirens blared in the background, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivered her most impassioned critique of the federal response to anti-ICE protests to date Thursday.
The mayor — flanked by faith leaders, business leaders and immigrant rights advocates and others — defended the city’s ability to handle the sometimes chaotic protests that have swept across downtown L.A. for the last week, while accusing the Trump administration of deliberately misrepresenting the city as overwhelmed by violence.
“To characterize what is going on in our city as a city of mayhem is just an outright lie,” Bass said,
IDF Spokesman Effie Defrin on Friday morning told a press conference that Iran had launched over 100 drones toward Israel in recent hours.
He also noted that over 200 IDF aircraft have attacked over 100 targets in Iran with over 330 munitions.
He did not say when they would reach Israel, but in April 2025, it took such drones several hours.
During that Iranian attack and another attack by Tehran on Israel in October 2024, Israel had a wide alliance of US, Brits, French, and other countries helping to defend it.
After Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. booted the 17-member CDC vaccine advisory panel, the naysayers in the press clutched their pearls and howled their horrors.
Here's a typical reaction from -- where else? -- MSNBC:
Dr. Sean O’Leary, an infectious disease expert with the American Academy of Pediatrics, told NBC News that Kennedy’s evidence-free accusations are “deeply insulting to the many scientists who contribute countless hours to the process.” The doctor noted that the ACIP panel is “a model for the rest of the world,” adding that Kennedy is now responsible for “manufactured chaos.”
Late last night the IDF began what it said would be several days of airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear program and associated assets.
Good for Israel, acting as it has before (the 1967 war, the takedown of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program in 1981 and strikes on Syria in 2007) to preempt a clear existential threat to its continued existence.
No serious player on the world stage can honestly deny that Tehran has been on its final run gaining nuclear weapons, and while some will quibble about whether the regime intended to use nukes to destroy “the Little Satan”
Vacation ruse, phantom trip, hostage decoy:
How Israel misled Tehran before Iran strike
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Israel deliberately labeled Thursday night’s security-cabinet meeting as a discussion on hostage negotiations in order to lull Tehran and green-light the pre-dawn strike inside Iran, a senior Israeli source told The Jerusalem Post on Friday. According to the official, ministers were briefed in advance that the agenda would focus on the stalled talks for the release of Israelis held in Gaza. “The aim was to put Iran to sleep,” the source said. Once inside the secure forum, the cabinet unanimously approved the military operation and every minister signed a strict non-disclosure agreement, known as a Shomer Sod (“guardian of the secret”) document. Only a handful of officials
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir says the military launched its attack on Iran’s nuclear program and military “because the time had come; we’d reached the point of no return.”
“We cannot wait for another time to act, we have no choice,” he says in remarks published by the IDF.
“History, both distant and recent, has taught us that in the face of ambitions to destroy us, we must not bow our heads, and so we fight to preserve our existence. Freedom is granted to those who are willing to fight for it,” he adds.