Posts on Thursday, December 4, 2025
Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested an Afghan national on suspicion of providing support to the ISIS terrorist group, the third such arrest in a week, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) statement. Jaan Shah Safi was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Waynesboro, Virginia. Safi is an “illegal alien terrorist who entered the U.S. on Sept. 8, 2021, in Philadelphia” under President Joe Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome program, the statement said. He had applied for Temporary Protected Status, but his application was terminated once DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ended TPS for Afghans.
The Babylon Bee – America’s unofficial newspaper of record – said they are indeed, but it turns out to be satire.
I think.
The Bee’s piece was in the heavy wake of a story that Somalis in Minnesota bilked the government out of something like a billion dollars. I say “billion” not in the way I say “gazillion.” The figure is actually, literally – and by “literally” I don’t mean figuratively – something like . . . a billion dollars.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Paris talking to Emmanuel Macron last weekend while Rubio, Witkoff and Kushner were meeting with Ukraine officials in Florida. This telephone call is reported to have taken place the following day, on Monday.
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy together with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and European Council President António Costa held a conference call.
Accused DC pipe-bomber Brian Cole Jr.’s face was revealed for the first time since he was busted for allegedly planting explosive devices outside the Republican and Democratic National Committees ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
Cole’s mother shared the smiling picture of him in a blue dress shirt and tie on Instagram for National Son’s Day in September 2024 — more than three years after the alleged attempted bombing.
After nearly five years, the January 6 pipe bomber was arrested by the FBI on Thursday.
Brian Cole, 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was taken into custody and charged with use of an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials.
Cole planted pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, the night before the Capitol riot.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on said during a press conference on Thursday that the FBI solved the case without any new tips or witnesses.
It's easy to look at a collapsing civil society in a foreign country and comfort ourselves that, despite all our problems, we're not as bad off as those people. Americans are especially apt to do this with our cousin Great Britain, whose country now is in a state of precipitous and probably irreversible decline, and whose political leadership is openly hostile to the native population. But it's a mistake to comfort ourselves this way, partly because the corruption of a place like Britain . . . doesn't stay confined to their shores but eventually makes its way to ours.
Reform UK would have won every mayoral election Labour has delayed for two years as part of a highly convenient local government reorganisation. The Telegraph‘s Ollie Corfe has more.
Zia Yusuf, Reform’s former Chairman and current Head of Policy, said the Government had made a “blatant attempt to stop big wins” for the Right-wing party by delaying the election of four new mayors. He is not wrong.
The reasons behind the decision on Thursday to delay the elections may well be technical, with Labour blaming ongoing local government reorganisation, but there is no denying the move is also highly convenient for Sir Keir Starmer’s party.
A University of Oklahoma student’s final grade won’t be affected after she controversially flunked a Bible-based essay on gender that was assigned by a trans instructor — triggering widespread backlash.
Samantha Fulnecky, 20, filed a discrimination complaint with the school last week after she was given an F for arguing in her psychology class paper that “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
The school has since revealed the failing grade will have no bearing on Fulnecky’s academic standing after the course’s professor, Mel Curth, was placed on leave and administrators launched a probe into the junior’s complaint.
The controversial assignment was supposed to account for 3% of Fulnecky’s final grade.
There's good news for Republicans on the congressional redistricting front Thursday evening, as the Supreme Court has now granted Texas' application to stay a divided three-judge district court panel ruling that enjoined the use of the newly drawn map.
Following the panel decision in mid-November, Texas appealed directly to the Supreme Court (as is permitted in redistricting cases), and the court swiftly issued an administrative (temporary) stay of the lower court decision. On Thursday, in a 6-3 ruling, the court formally stayed the panel decision pending its appeal on the merits. The practical effect of this
In the eyes of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, the plan is nothing but another temporary ceasefire, not different than previous ones reached between Israel and Hamas over the past two decades.
Those who think that Hamas, by agreeing to Trump's "peace plan," has abandoned its desire to eliminate Israel or has softened its position toward Israel are unfortunately dead wrong.
Hamas leaders have stressed their opposition to the involvement of any non-Palestinians in the future administration of the Gaza Strip.
President Trump is backing retiring Rep. Troy Nehls’s (R-Texas) identical twin for his House seat.
“It is my Honor to endorse MAGA Warrior TREVER NEHLS, who is running to represent the incredible people of Texas’ 22nd Congressional District,” Trump said in a Truth Social post Thursday. Trever’s brother is the GREAT Congressman from Texas, Troy Nehls. He and his family are fierce advocates for our Movement to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. As a former Fort Bend County Constable, and retired U.S. Army Colonel, Trever strongly supports our incredible Law Enforcement, Military, and Veterans, and knows the Wisdom and Courage it takes to Ensure LAW AND ORDER,” he added.
If this were not a family news website, I would have used a more colorful title.
One of the defining features of our age is the incredible stupidity of many of those in the public eye. People with the IQ of an acorn lecture us about climate change or that boys and girls are interchangeable like socks. Sports stars, music makers, billionaires, and Hollywood grandees can never find the off switch to their mouths when they discuss things that they do not understand. That never stops them. Whichever way the wind is blowing left, they add their views, though the world would be better off without their empty "wisdom."
There’s a special place in hell for
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women like Olivia Nuzzi — whose career
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There’s a reason that women like Olivia Nuzzi used to be shunned by polite society in more orderly times.
Any woman who sets her sights on a married man is making a deliberate, selfish choice to cause pain to another woman. This is not a sisterly act.
Through history, women who make enemies of other women are seen as lethal to the tribe’s cohesion and are cast out. That’s the way it was when shame existed, and genteel social norms had replaced stoning or drowning or other horrors the medieval world bestowed on women.
Olivia Nuzzi's book "American Canto" was released this week and panned by critics.
Many Americans sense our country is drifting into turmoil—and, in many ways, it is.
The headlines tell a grim story: an Afghan national once connected to U.S. intelligence is accused of shooting two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C.; New York City’s mayor-elect, a citizen only since 2018, lectures the Oval Office and his constituents on “international law”, apparently unaware of the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause; deeply troubling incidents involving migrant communities in Minnesota and Michigan; and an atmosphere of accusation coming from the political left, in which President Trump is alternately branded a dictator, a king, and a fascist.
In such moments, people naturally look for clarity and explanation.
The state of Illinois is about to make it possible for illegal aliens to access state and local student financial aid. Governor J.B. Pritzker has already signed the law and it goes into effect on January 1st of 2026.
This is happening as the Trump Justice Department is suing various states over this exact issue. Student financial aid that is meant for American citizens should not be going to people who are in the country illegally.
This is an issue that goes directly to the core of what Trump has run on repeatedly. A law signed by Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL)
Pope Leo Striking Out in Lebanon
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Growing up in Chicago as a White Sox fan, it’s safe to assume that Robert Francis Prevost was very much part of the baseball culture. It’s also safe to assume that he knows the term “swing and miss.” As Pope Leo, it’s astounding to see him swing and miss, not once but three times, in the context of his brief visit to Lebanon. Arriving in the war-torn and Hezbollah-dominated country, Pope Leo delivered public remarks ranging on a variety of topics - peace, religious coexistence, the country’s economic crisis, political divisions, and lingering effects of the Israel-Hezbollah war.
There’s this thing in politics where people scramble to find something “good” to talk about for their side, no matter how bad reality happens to be. It’s like someone being blown up in a terrorist attack, but their pants were not stained or torn at all – whew! It’s a special kind of “missing the forest for the trees” you can only find in politics and dysfunctional relationships. Under the banner of “Tennessee Election Result Is a Fire Alarm for Republicans,” the editors at Newsweek (yes, it still exists – in digital form, anyway,
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro had strong words to share about former Vice President Kamala Harris in a recent Atlantic profile. The governor, 52, bristled at questions about Harris' memoir, 107 Days, which recounts her brief campaign for the White House in 2024 after former President Joe Biden dropped out of the race. (Snip) She also wrote that Shapiro was fixated on the official vice president's residence, allegedly asking about the number of bedrooms and measuring the drapes. "He moved between outrage and exasperation as I relayed the excerpts," Alberta wrote. Responding to one claim from Harris — that he had prematurely
The FBI has arrested a suspect in its investigation into pipe bombs planted near the Republican and Democratic national party headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021 according to a federal law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.
Brian Cole was identified as the suspect in custody, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter. The arrest marks a breakthrough in a case that has stymied investigators for nearly five years.
Over the past week, prominent Democrats and left-wing pundits have openly promised that once they are back in power, they will do what it takes to ensure Republicans never obtain power again — while punishing those who have been in power. And while Democrats are openly sketching out their plans for a permanent, one-party realignment, Republicans are busy passing meaningless resolutions condemning socialism.
On Monday leftist agitator George Conway told The Bulwark, “There has to be kind of a Reconstruction Era.
And this is a critical part of the reconstruction program — that lawyers are going to have to figure out mechanisms that are constitutional
Vital SCOTUS Case Tests The President’s
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Absolute Authority To Remove Executive
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On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Trump v. Slaughter — a case that at its simplest level concerns whether the president had the power to fire Rebecca Slaughter, a member of the Federal Trade Commission. The case, however, actually presents a much more profound issue concerning separation of powers and executive authority under Article II, and whether the Supreme Court should reverse the near century-old precedent of Humphrey’s Executor.
Starting, though, at the simplest level: In March of 2025, President Trump notified Slaughter that he had removed her “from the Federal Trade Commission, effective immediately,” because her “continued service on the FTC is inconsistent with [the
Two Virginia twin brothers were arrested for their alleged roles in deleting government databases hosted by a federal government contractor, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.
Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, both 34, were indicted last month for allegedly conspiring to delete databases used to store U.S. government information, the DOJ said in a news release.
The arrests come after Bloomberg News reported in May how the brothers allegedly compromised data across several agencies, including the IRS and the General Services Administration.
Nothing says “hope and change” quite like bulldozing a beloved public park for a 235-foot phallic tower dedicated to oneself. Welcome to the Obama Presidential Center (OPC), an $830 million (and rising) vanity project in Chicago’s historic Jackson Park. The man who once preached community organizing couldn’t find a single non-park site in his hometown for his monument. I get angry every time I see a story about this thing. It feels as if Obama is giving America a gigantic, double-barreled middle finger. (snip) Let’s start with the trees: over 800 mature oaks, many a century old, were felled for parking and “campus” space. Environmentalists who paralyzed industries
Fake People And Phony SSNs Had 100% Success
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A scathing new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report identified rampant fraud and systemic failures in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace just as Congress is battling over the future of Obamacare's enhanced premium subsidies. The report, released Wednesday, revealed that fictitious identities, invalid Social Security numbers and even deceased individuals were routinely approved for taxpayer-funded subsidies. Among the findings, every application submitted by investigators using fabricated or invalid Social Security numbers was approved for overage in 2024.
A key adviser to War Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the upcoming Pentagon inspector general report om so-called "Signalgate" does not find that Hegseth shared classified information when texting about upcoming strikes against the Houthis -- and that the report will reveal improper cell phone practices by former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Navy Reserve Commander Tim Parlatore, a lawyer and an adviser to Pete Hegseth, told "Just The News, No Noise" on Wednesday that the report . . . "totally exonerates" the war secretary, and that it reveals details about the extensive use of Signal by Biden national security officials as well.
FBI makes arrest in investigation into
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WASHINGTON — The FBI made an arrest on Thursday in its nearly 5-year-old investigation into who placed pipe bombs in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
The arrest marks the first time investigators have settled on a suspect in an act that had long vexed law enforcement, spawned a multitude of conspiracy theories and remained an enduring mystery in the shadow of the dark chapter of American history that is the violent Capitol siege.
Election Integrity Push: DOJ On Track
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To Compel Voter Roll Cleanups In Over
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The Trump Justice Department is on track to compel more than half the states to clean up their voter rolls and believes sloppiness that left dead people and non-citizens in a position to vote in Democrat-run states is intentional, a top prosecutor told Just the News. . . . "And the goal is to cram as many people on there and make voters who are not particularly engaged, make it easy for someone else to fill out their ballot and return it for them when they don't care enough to do it themselves," she added.
The FBI has made an arrest in connection with pipe bombs planted near the Republican and Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C. on the eve of Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill Riot. . . . The person arrested is a male and the arrest included the FBI going to a house in northern Virginia, a senior law enforcement official told Just the News. A second senior law enforcement official said . . . the FBI has yet to learn the suspect's motive and that the investigation continues.
The FBI has made an arrest in connection with pipe bombs planted near the Republican and Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C. on the eve of Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill Riot. . . . The person arrested is a male and the arrest included the FBI going to a house in northern Virginia, a senior law enforcement official told Just the News. A second senior law enforcement official said . . . the FBI has yet to learn the suspect's motive and that the investigation continues.
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the planting of pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican National Committees on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, The Post has confirmed.
The arrest, first reported by CNN and the Associated Press, comes one month before the fifth anniversary of the melee that briefly delayed congressional confirmation of former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory — and closes an embarrassing chapter for the FBI, which had been castigated by lawmakers for the lack of progress in identifying a perpetrator.
New Post reporting reveals the widely hated congestion-pricing scheme isn’t delivering on its promises; Let’s hope President Donald Trump can soon make good on his promise to kill it.
The tech company TomTom reports traffic in the zone has dropped about 4% in the first third of the year, in contrast to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s claim of an 11% drop.
Plus, businesses tell The Post that they simply add congestion zone costs to all their invoices — thereby inflating everyone’s costs. [snip]
For now, Hochul’s heinous charge on working-class drivers and small businesses of up to $21 a day remains in effect.
On November 29, 2025, a leaked internal FDA memo written by Vinay Prasad -- the new director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) -- confirmed what many parents had warned and what California officials had aggressively denied: American children died because of the COVID vaccines. The memo summarizes an FDA review of 96 pediatric deaths reported between 2021 - 2024, cases drawn from VAERS and cross-checked against records, timelines, hospitalization notes, and autopsies where available. After this review, analysts concluded that "no fewer than 10" children likely died because of the vaccine.
President Donald Trump took another welcome step this week to free the auto industry from the grip of federal regulators who are largely to blame for the boring, homogenized fleet of cars that fill up the roads these days.
On Wednesday, Trump released a plan to roll back federal corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard to levels that won’t force Americans into electric cars.
In what he’s calling a reset, the plan is to chuck the Biden administration’s fuel mandate – a mandate specifically designed to force car buyers into EVs.
As the White House correctly put it,
Affordable Care Act subsidies have been granted, without the required documentation, to 90% of fictitious applicants over the last two years, according to a damning government watchdog report released Wednesday.
The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) preliminary findings of ongoing and covert testing of Obamacare found “fraud risks” in the federal ACA marketplace, specifically related to the healthcare program’s advance premium tax credit – a subsidy Democrats shut down the government over last month in a failed effort to extend the tax credit for three more years.
“The federal Marketplace approved coverage for nearly all of GAO’s fictitious applicants in plan years 2024 and 2025,
Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry lashed out at California Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday, arguing that he overlooks women and shouldn’t “be our next president.”
“At this stage in my life, I have zero f–ks left to give,” Berry said in remarks at the Dealbook Summit before taking aim at the Democratic governor, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
“Back in my great state of California, my very own governor, Gavin Newsom, has vetoed our menopause bill, not one, but two years in a row,” the “Catwoman” star continued. “But that’s OK, because he’s not going to be governor forever, and the way he has overlooked women,
Hoo boy. Sometimes, you might do something so embarrassing, so humiliating, that you want to hide in the closet. The prestigious science journal Nature may be thinking about doing that right about now, because on Wednesday, they officially retracted an influential 2024 climate report that predicted gloom and doom, death and misery, and impending economic catastrophe.
As is the case with so much of the leftist climate narrative, their wild claims were quite simply unproven:
In April 2024, the prestigious journal Nature released a study finding that climate change would cause far more economic damage by the end of the century than previous estimates had suggested.
Ilhan Omar Claims Trump Demonizing Ethnic
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Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said President Donald Trump’s comments about Somalians were creating a dangerous situation because his followers have “exhibited violence.”
Today at the White House, Trump said, “These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country. They’ve taken billions and billions of dollars. They have a representative, Ilhan Omar, who they say married her brother. She should be thrown the hell out of our country. And most of those people, they have destroyed Minnesota.”
Host Jake Tapper said, “What is the practical impact when a President of the United States demonizes an entire group of people based on ethnicity?
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised President Donald Trump on Wednesday, telling podcaster Joe Rogan that “everything” the president “thinks through is very practical, common sense, and logical.” Jensen also credited Trump’s energy policy with saving AI, telling Rogan, “Without energy growth, we can have no industrial growth. And that was what saved the AI industry.”
“President Trump is very different. He surprised me,” Huang told Rogan during Wednesday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. “First of all, he’s an incredibly good listener. Almost everything I’ve ever said to him, he’s remembered.” “Yeah, people only want to look at negative stories about him, or negative narratives about him,” Rogan said, to which
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his administration is resetting Biden-era Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that increased car prices.
Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the reset in the Oval Office while flanked by Republican lawmakers and auto industry leaders. “We’re officially terminating Joe Biden’s ridiculously burdensome, horrible, actually, CAFE standards that impose expensive restrictions and all sorts of problems to auto makers,” Trump said.
The president noted that the CAFE standards imposed by the previous administration impacted both domestic and foreign manufacturers making cars for the American market and, in turn, consumers.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ky.) is compelling former special counsel Jack Smith to testify behind closed doors about his criminal prosecutions of President Trump.
Jordan subpoenaed Smith Wednesday to have him testify at a deposition on December 17 and provide documents to the committee ahead of the interview.
“Due to your service as Special Counsel, the Committee believes that you possess information that is vital to its oversight of this matter,” Jordan said in a letter accompanying the subpoena.
The subpoena to have Smith testify privately comes after Smith requested a public hearing to dispel what he considers Republican misconceptions about his cases against Trump.
The shooting of two National Guard members in Washington last week has taken a jarring new turn, and the emerging theory about the gunman’s motive points to a far deeper national security threat.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the 29-year-old Afghan national accused of killing Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and critically wounding Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, had served alongside U.S. forces in Afghanistan before Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal. If you’ve been wondering why someone who once helped American troops would suddenly target National Guardsmen, you’re not the only one asking that question. Federal investigators now believe the Taliban may have blackmailed Lakanwal into carrying out the attack.