Posts on Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Five tunnels burrowing into a group of mountains, a large support structure and a wide security perimeter: That’s all you can see of Iran’s mysterious Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant from recent satellite imagery.
The secretive, heavily guarded complex built close to the holy city of Qom has been fueling speculation about its true nature and size since it was first made public in 2009.)snip)
Its main halls are an estimated 80 to 90 meters (around 262 to 295 feet) beneath the ground – safe from any aerial bomb known to be possessed by Israel, making destroying the facility from the air a near-impossible task.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was taken to the hospital on Tuesday after suffering an allergic reaction, according to a DHS spokesperson. She was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital. It is unclear what triggered the event. Noem is said to be alert and recovering. Bruce LeVell, former Executive Director of President Donald Trump's National Diversity Coalition, took to social media to send Noem well wishes.
"My dear friend @Sec_Noem, our fearless Secretary of Homeland Security, was just rushed to the hospital," LeVell wrote on
There’s been a new, disturbing development in the case of the Chinese plot to interfere in the 2020 election. (snip) According to the recall notice, intelligence agencies weren’t just asked to disregard the report — they were ordered to “destroy all copies” and “remove the original report from all computer holdings.” This wasn’t routine bureaucratic cleanup. It was a deliberate effort to wipe damning evidence from existence. The FBI didn’t just bury credible intelligence about Chinese election interference; it tried to scrub it from history.
One of the most under-reported stories of the past 24 hours may well be the fact that we actually do know how President Trump's base feels about Israel and Iran, despite attempts by some in the legacy media—not to mention click-servative ne'er-do-wells on X who are mired in engagement farming—to portray MAGA as being fractured over the matter. A lot has been made in recent days, particularly on X, over what some have perceived as a schism forming amongst Trump's base, with, in basic terms, the "America first" side favoring diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict while the more pragmatic wing seemed to be open to the U.S.
There is literally only one bomber and one bomb to make the big badda-boom that could destroy Iran's last remaining nuclear enrichment plant from the air. (Skip) Several VIP commenters expressed enthusiasm for dropping a MOAB on Fordow. Surely, at 30 feet long, more than three feet in diameter, and with 18,700 pounds of H-6 — a high-explosive mixture more powerful than TNT — a couple of MOABs ought to take Fordow off the map, right?
Not so fast. Officially known as the GBU-43, MOAB doesn't make the right kind of boom.
It's all in the name.
The moment Israeli fighter jets cracked open Iran’s air-defense umbrella last week, the professional panic class—President Trump aptly calls them the “Panicans”—went straight to Defcon Twitter, wailing that World War III had begun and demanding that America stay out of it. As if we weren’t already in it. The Pentagon has been clear: our forces are in a defensive posture, which means active radar, ready launchers, and iron in the sky—not a bunch of soldiers sitting around waiting to be target practice. And now, for anyone still half-asleep, the President just announced that we hold “complete and total control over Iranian skies.”
After a recent anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protest in Boston, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons was asked why his agents wore masks. Protesters have likened masked law enforcement members to "secret police" for trying to hide their identities.
“A lot of agencies were invited to come out two weeks ago in Los Angeles, where we ran our operation where ICE officers were doxed,“ Lyons said.
“So let’s just say that again. People are out there taking photos of the names, their faces, and posting them online with death threats to their family and themselves,” Lyons added.
“So I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks,
A man who was arrested at Saturday's "No Kings" rally in West Chester, Pa., on gun charges is now in a lot more trouble after police found a huge cache of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in his home after executing a search warrant.
Kevin Krebs, 31, was arrested at the rally after attendees flagged him for suspicious behavior when he was seen strapping on tactical gear and allegedly brandishing a firearm. He was taken into custody after police discovered that he did not have a concealed carry permit.
According to the West Chester Police arrest report:
Joy Behar Forgets Arnold Schwarzenegger
Is an Immigrant and Asks About ICE Raids—His
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Is an Immigrant and Asks About ICE Raids—His
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As conservatives, we have a sort of love/hate relationship with "The View." For as long as it has been on the air, we are constantly baffled at how it stays on the air, and who would actually use minutes of their life to go sit in the studio audience, much less watch it at home. However, the truth is that the hopelessly uninformed, vapid gals of "The View" provide some of the best nonsensical content around. Their latest guest to once again put their collective idiocy on display is former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. [Tweet, video]
"The Governator" sat down with Joy and Whoopi, et al,
Trump calls for ‘unconditional surrender’
from Iran, says U.S. knows where its leader
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from Iran, says U.S. knows where its leader
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President Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. knows where Iran has hidden Ayatollah Ali Khamenei while Israeli bombs drop.
“We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there — We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. “But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin.”
In another post Tuesday, he called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender” in all caps.He said earlier, “We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran.”
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) teared up during a Tuesday speech on the Senate floor while recounting being “physically” and “aggressively forced out” of a press conference for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Los Angeles. The Democratic lawmaker said his federal escorts “stood by silently” as he was wrestled to the ground for interrupting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (R) on Thursday. “I was physically and aggressively forced out of the room, even as I repeatedly announced I was a United States senator and I had a question for the secretary; even as the National Guardsman and the FBI
Downfall of the ayatollahs?
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Untergang (Downfall, 2004) is a movie about the last days of the Hitler regime, including Hitler's nine-millimeter-and-cyanide honeymoon with Eva Braun.
We are now looking at the final days of Iran's theocracy, which is likely to collapse by the end of the week; one week after Israel began military action.
It is well known from history that, when a country's leaders flee the battlefield, the war is over for them.
At Gaugamela in 331 B.C.E., the massive Persian army collapsed when King Darius turned his chariot to run from Alexander the Great, who was personally trying to kill him.
Once his army saw him flee, it lost its will to fight
Booking photo released of former Coast
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former Coast Guard lieutenant has been arrested for allegedly making threats to assassinate former President Donald Trump, according to court documents obtained by Fox News.
The suspect, Peter Stinson, a Virginia resident, served as an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1988 to 2021. He was a sharpshooter and a FEMA instructor. (snip)
Authorities say the threats involved graphic references to guns, poisoning, and knives, posted across various social media platforms.
Stinson also allegedly remarked about "not having the necessary skills" to carry out an assassination but hinted that he might not be entirely truthful.
Former Coast Guard Officer Arrested for
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Allegedly Making Numerous Trump Assassination Threats replies
A former Coast Guard officer has been arrested and faces federal charges for allegedly making numerous assassination threats against President Donald Trump, according to newly unsealed court documents.
Virginia resident Peter Stinson, who served in the Coast Guard as a Lieutenant from 1988 to 2021 and received awards for his sharpshooting skills, is named in the criminal complaint by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for allegedly leveling a host of violent online threats against Trump, ABC News reported.
Prosecutors said Stinson, who was also a FEMA instructor during the same time frame — and "self-identified" ANTIFA member — used his accounts on X and Bluesky
Soy Boy California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) wants law enforcement to stop wearing masks to cover their identity, but has no problem with violent domestic terrorists wearing masks at the same “protests.” How upside down is that?
We are not talking about peaceful protests here. Those who are burning, looting, setting cars on fire, and breaking windows are domestic terrorists, not peaceful protestors. Peaceful protestors hold placards, set up stands with mics, or civilly disobey. But once they turn the corner to destroying private property, burning cars in the streets, throwing chunks of cement at passing cars, and doxxing law enforcement officials, they become criminals.
The next flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s battle to reshape the federal judiciary is coming — and it’s dividing the right.
Trump recently appeared to declare war on the Federalist Society, the powerful conservative legal advocacy organization that played an essential role in his election both in 2016 and 2024. After one of his first-term appointees ruled against him in a major challenge to his tariffs, Trump launched a public tirade against the former chair of the group, Leonard Leo, who Trump described as a “sleazebag” who “probably hates America” before blaming the group for “bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations.”
As President Donald Trump weighs what to do next with Iran's nuclear program, spending Tuesday morning in the White House Situation Room, Vice President JD Vance is speaking out about his view "from the inside. Here is his statement about the situation in full, which was posted on X: “Look, I'm seeing this from the inside, and am admittedly biased towards our president (and my friend), but there's a lot of crazy stuff on social media, so I wanted to address some things directly on the Iran issue: First, POTUS has been amazingly consistent, over 10 years, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
MAGA Splits Over Iran?
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Little noticed in the hyper-compressed news cycle is the minor revolt among some of Trump's strongest supporters, who are loudly dissenting from the Trump Iran policies.
"Hey, I voted for peace!" seems to be the war cry. John wrote about Trump's split with Tucker Carlson last night. Both Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon have been pushing back on Trump's support for the war, and both have been accusing Israel of betraying the United States by dragging us into the war. They are just the tip of the iceberg. A significant fraction of the "America First" MAGA influencers are inclined to see that policy as "Fortress America,"
The not-at-all peaceful Los Angeles anti-ICE riots did more than turn downtown LA into a no-go zone and cause chaos and damage; they also cost the city a fortune in police overtime and other expenses. This is what Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom condone.
The toll comes in at almost $20 million of our taxpayer dollars:
The anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests-turned-riots last week in Los Angeles have cost the city nearly $20 million, with much of that coming from costs associated with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Fresh off his visit and short trip to the G7 in Canada, President Donald Trump is spending the morning in the White House Situation Room going over options as the Iranian regime refuses to surrender its nuclear program. Trump reiterated his position aboard Air Force One that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and said he wants a real "end" to the issue -- either through force or surrender. [Tweet, video]
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who has been in and out of a bomb shelter since last Thursday night, knows the situation is serious and is urging Trump to listen to God as he makes his decisions:
Dems' Pitch to Win Back Hispanic Voters:
'We Need Illegals to Mow Our Lawns and
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'We Need Illegals to Mow Our Lawns and
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No matter what they're doing at the time — rioting, condescending, or pandering — the Democratic elite want the electorate to believe that their brand is compassion. In any leftist's telling of the story, they simply care more than us coldhearted conservatives. (Snip) Democrats long ago went all-in on open borders not only because they wanted to quickly turn illegals into loyal voters for them, but also because they thought it was the perfect pander move to keep the Hispanic-American voters in line. If it doesn't involve pandering, Dems don't understand it.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday has demanded that Iranian forces unconditionally lay down their arms and is suggesting that American forces may target Iran’s head of state if the Islamic Republic doesn’t cease targeting Israeli civilians or targets any American forces in the region.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that the U.S. “know exactly where” Iran’s “so-called Supreme Leader,,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is “hiding” and described him as an “easy target” who is currently “safe” in his current location.
“We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now. But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers,” the president continued before adding:
Everything about Operation Rising Lion moves so quickly that it seems impossible that Israel's multi-domain assault on Iran's military, political, terrorist, nuclear, and repression infrastructure is barely five days old.
Yet Iran's most important nuclear weapons asset — the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP) — remains. Buried perhaps 200 feet underground near the ancient city of Qom, the super-modern facility is probably the most hardened target in the whole of Iran. Israel lacks both the bunker-buster munitions necessary to destroy FFEP from the air and the heavy bombers needed to deliver them.
Hold that thought; we'll come back to it.
Since the Mullahs seized power in Tehran in 1979, the U.S. has been playing for a tie in Iran. Now, it is time for President Trump to play for a win.
For forty-six years, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his predecessors have been waging a war against the U.S. and our allies in the Middle East. “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” have not been just slogans but decades-long causes.
Iran’s war against Washington has at times been overt, as when the regime sanctioned Iranian students storming the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. For 444 days, fifty-two Americans were held hostage. In the process,
Iran apparently had not adjusted to its new 2025 status—or maybe it had. Most of its bought terrorists are currently either destroyed or anemic.
There is no more ascendant Iranian “Shia crescent” in the Middle East. Russia is no longer a Middle East power, patron, and protector.
The Assad dynasty imploded, flipping Syria from an Iranian proxy into a likely Iranian enemy. Hezbollah, once supposedly the most fearsome of all the Iranian terrorist tentacles, was humiliated and neutered by a series of surreal Israeli operations.
I haven’t kept up with the College World Series games like I planned to, and I missed one heck of a historic game on Monday. As soon as my editing shift ended and my phone came off Do Not Disturb, I saw a slew of notifications from ESPN about the game between Arkansas and Murray State. (Snip) But Wood pulled it off. He pitched the first no-hitter in the College World Series since 1960 and the third of all time. To top it all off, Wood threw an astonishing 19 strikeouts, which set a new College World Series record,
Who Killed Pride Month?
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As you may have noticed, celebrations of “pride” have been much more subdued this Pride Month than they were in recent memory. The parades this year are less conspicuous and bombastic. Corporate websites are less obnoxious and explicit. And perhaps most notably, triumphant in-store displays have disappeared almost entirely or, at the very least, are much smaller and more restrained than in past years.
According to some in the mainstream media, all of this moderation—or abandonment—of LGBT “pride” has the same root cause as all evils in contemporary America: Donald Trump. The president is so mean, so nasty, and so omnipotent that companies fear him and
Sen. Bernie Sanders is endorsing Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral primary election.
Sanders made the announcement Tuesday morning, saying in a statement, "We need a new politics and new leadership which is prepared to stand up to powerful corporate interests and fight for the working class."
Zohran Mamdani is running an inspirational grassroots campaign, centered on the construction of 200,000 new affordable housing units, a rent freeze, free public buses, cutting fines and fees for small businesses, investing in citywide mental health services, city-owned grocery stores, universal free childcare and a minimum wage increase. He will pay for this agenda
Nearly 1 million illegal immigrants have
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‘self-deported’ under Trump, which
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While ICE arrests and deportations have grabbed headlines, President Trump is also running a separate but complementary “mass deportation” program — one that encourages aliens here unlawfully to go home voluntarily.
And if reports are correct, that plan is more successful than anyone could have imagined.
Based on government data, my organization, the Center for Immigration Studies, has conservatively estimated there are about 15.4 million illegal aliens in the United States, a 50% increase over the four tumultuous years of the Biden administration. That’s no surprise, given how Biden and his Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ignored congressional detention mandates and ushered millions of illegal migrants
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass compared the impact of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids to the coronavirus lockdowns that her party imposed on California, in that both kept people at home.
Bass made the comparison over the weekend in visits to small businesses in a neighborhood that, the Los Angeles Times, depended on the “immigrant” economy (the Times never used the word “illegal).
The Times reported: Bass visited a number of small businesses in Boyle Heights with Assemblymember Mark Gonzalez (D-Los Angeles), including Casa Fina, Distrito Catorce, Yeya’s and Birrieria De Don Boni, as well as the Estrada Courts public housing project,
A 57-year-old man is in custody and charged with both murder and attempted murder after he allegedly shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, prompting a statewide manhunt over the weekend. (snip)
Corporate media and Democrats alike were quick to amplify the narrative that Boelter voted for Trump.(snip) Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., took it further by demanding “we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA’s legitimization of political violence.”
In his nine-post thread, Murphy claimed that while Republicans “have also been the target of inexcusable violence,” that “this isn’t a ‘both sides’ issue.”
President Donald Trump’s deputies have reversed the short-lived ICE exemption policy for hotel, farm, and restaurant companies, according to the Washington Post.
The newspaper reported the ICE reversal late on Monday:
Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including its Homeland Security Investigations division, told agency leaders in a call Monday that agents must continue conducting immigration raids at agricultural businesses, hotels and restaurants, according to two people familiar with the call. The new instructions were shared in an 11 a.m. call to representatives from 30 field offices across the country.
Israel will not stop fighting Iran until it has destroyed the Iranian regime’s ballistic missiles and its nuclear facilities, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Operations Directorate chief Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk said Tuesday.
Basiuk spoke as speculation mounted about a possible ceasefire between Israel and Iran, as President Donald Trump left the G7 meeting in Canada early, and as Iran reportedly asked mediators to find an end to the war.
The general’s response suggests that Israel will not leave its security up for negotiation any longer. Missile barrages have disrupted life in Israel, and highlighted the potential dangers of nuclear-armed warheads.
Despite the opposition he's receiving from ostensibly "right-wing" figures, including Tucker Carlson, President Donald Trump is not backing down. On Monday evening, Axios and CNN reported that the White House was already working toward a "ceasefire" deal that would presumably save the Mullahs, but at 1:00 AM on Tuesday, the president held a press gaggle, slapping down those anonymously-sourced reports. It sure sounds like he wants Israel to finish the job and take this to an actual end, not just a resumption of the status quo under some "deal." Trump went so far as to say that Iran "giving up entirely" is the goal and that “I’m not too
The Metro Nashville Council will vote on Tuesday on Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s request to establish the Mayor’s Office of Financial Empowerment, which would operate with grant funding from two nonprofit organizations.
Should the Metro Council approve the mayor’s request, the office would receive more than half of its funding through a grant from the Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund, but would also depend on nearly $130,000 from the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT), the nonprofit announced as Nashville’s partner for the “Belonging Fund” created in the wake of a federal immigration enforcement operation that saw nearly 200 illegal immigrants
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a despicable organization. It has spent its lifetime attacking and lying about organizations that don’t agree with its leftist policies. But it’s finally being challenged for defamation by the Dustin Inman Society, an organization involved in immigrant issues. Unfortunately, SPLC claims they are a hate group and anti-immigration. The Society is pursuing a defamation lawsuit against the SPLC:
A federal judge says one of Georgia's most vocal advocates for strict immigration policies can move forward with its defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center over being labeled an ‘anti-immigrant hate group.’ (Snip)
The decision allows the Dustin Inman Society to demand emails,
Mike Lindell, the chief executive of MyPillow and staunch supporter of Donald Trump, has lost a defamation case brought by a former employee of a voting equipment company.
A jury in Denver, Colorado, ordered Mr Lindell to pay $2.3m (£1.7m) to Eric Coomer, a former security and product strategy director at Dominion Voting Systems.
Lindell falsely accused Mr Coomer of helping to rig the 2020 vote, which was won by Joe Biden. During the two-week trial, Lindell stuck by baseless claims that the election was stolen from Donald Trump.
FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a bombshell Monday evening, handing Congress an intelligence report that raises serious questions about China’s role in the 2020 election. According to the report, Chinese operatives mass-produced counterfeit U.S. driver’s licenses as part of a broader scheme to flood the system with fake mail-in ballots—benefiting… you guessed it… Joe Biden.
This wasn’t just foreign meddling—it was industrial-scale fraud, enabled by a broken mail-in voting system the Democrats have long been exploiting. The report confirms what many of us suspected all along: the integrity of the 2020 election wasn’t just compromised—it was hijacked.