Posts on Monday, December 8, 2025

President Trump is expected on Monday to announce a $12 billion aid package for American farmers, moving to support a sector that's been hurt by tariffs and a U.S. trade war with China. A senior administration official told CBS News that Mr. Trump will unveil the plan during a White House event, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins expected to join Mr. Trump and several farmers at the announcement. Roughly $11 billion of the government assistance is set aside for the Department of Agriculture's Farmer Bridge Assistance program, which the White House has said will offer one-time payments to farmers for row crops.

The House Armed Services Committee has released the full text of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2026 [SEE TEXT HERE]. The massive bill consists of 3,086 pages, making the fiscal year 2026 NDAA longer than the manuscript of War and Peace. Most people will never read it, so a 24-page Summary Version is Here.The FY 2026 NDAA authorizes $892.6B for defense, which includes $153B for procurement, $142B for Research and Development, and $235B for military personnel. The legislation: Codifies 15 Trump EOs on military reform, border security, and DEI elimination. Boosts shipbuilding, aircraft, munitions; funds Taiwan aid and Israel programs; reforms acquisitions; enhances border support including $900M for counter-narcotic

Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Anzaspwer felt that taquitos were a perversion of the purity of minimalist ideals. Gosh, it seems like just last week that I was lamenting the grandstanding antics of one of the members of Congress from my home state. (This is where I wish I had come up with my good friend Stephen Green's "Editor's Note" bit; it's so much fun.) I believe that it was also last week that I wrote something about questioning why I always end up in places where I am not a good fit politically.

Following three days of negotiations in Florida (Thur, Fri, Sat) between President Trump emissaries Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and Ukraine emissaries Rustem Umierov and Andrii Hnatov, the group then held a 2-hour phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. No substantial progress was reported. However, military officials Umierov and Hnatov then flew to meet Zelenskyy in London where French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are assembled to discuss alternatives to ending the conflict.

President Joe Biden was warned by advisers that his immigration plans could lead to “chaos” at the US border — but he ignored them, a newly uncovered memo reveals. His team doled out the advice to Biden when he was still campaigning against President Trump back in 2020, the New York Times reported. “A potential surge could create chaos and a humanitarian crisis, overwhelm processing capacities and imperil the agenda of the new administration,” Biden’s advisers wrote. The memo warned that a huge influx was possible given Biden’s approach, a backlog from the Trump administration, and COVID hardships.

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, announced this weekend that he would run for president in the 2026 election – but would step down from the campaign should his father be freed and allowed to run for a second term. The younger Bolsonaro confirmed on social media on Friday that he would run for president with his father’s blessing, ending a period of uncertainty for Brazilian conservatives given multiple prominent potential candidates, including Flavio’s stepmother Michelle Bolsonaro and the conservative Governor Tarcísio de Freitas of Sao Paulo. Senator Bolsonaro asserted that he had discussed the presidential election with his father and that the former president had

This weekend, London officially turned on it’s Christmas tree lights… Revealing once again the most tired looking pathetic tree and decorations on the planet. The London Mayor Sadiq Khan was there, pretending to be impressed by a display into which less effort has gone than than your Dad’s half baked effort in the early 1980’s with 20 year old stuff scraped together from out of the attic. OK, we get it, it’s a “traditional” spruce from Norway. They’ve been sending one since 1947. But can they not send a better one? And get some better lights on it? Of course the replies are closed. We all know why.

Former House Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, is dropping out of the Lone Star State's Senate race, he announced on Monday. Allred's announcement comes as rumors swirl about progressive Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, potentially entering the fray as soon as late Monday afternoon. "l've come to believe that a bruising Senate Democratic primary and runoff would prevent the Democratic Party from going into this critical election unified against the danger posed to our communities and our Constitution by Donald Trump and one of his Republican bootlickers [Attorney General Ken Paxton, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, or Rep. Wesley Hunt

Pete Hegseth “runs around on a stage talking about lethality and warrior ethos and killing people. … That’s not the message that needs to come from the Secretary of Defense,” complained Sen. Mark Kelly last week.The message, especially coming from a former Navy captain, is so bizarre it borders on satire. Nations have had organized armies since recorded history started around 3000 B.C. And, in the words of the late, great Rush Limbaugh, the whole point of having a military is to kill people and break things, even if that military is exclusively employed for defensive purposes.[snip] But Kelly’s message is more than just a dumb comment.

Mayor Eric Adams panned Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s plans to end police sweeps of homeless camps as “idealism colliding with realism” – and said the young upstart was going to have to get serious about governing soon. “I appreciate the idealistic view he has of life because you need that as a mayor,” Adams told ABC7 in a Sunday interview at Gracie Mansion. “But the realism is — imagine if we said that you are allowed to sleep on the streets of our city in tents and encampments with 230,000 people coming to our city,” he said. “You know what that would look like?

Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) absolutely dismantled ABC’s fake news anchor George Stephanopoulos on live television. The exchange erupted over President Trump’s newly announced full pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández. On November 28, 2025, President Trump announced he would grant a full and complete pardon to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in U.S. court on drug-trafficking and firearms charges. Hernández, extradited in 2022 and sentenced to 45 years in federal prison, has long argued that the Biden DOJ politically targeted him using the coerced testimony of cartel members tied to Honduras’s radical leftist Libre Party.

The Trump administration will sweep Minneapolis seeking criminal illegal aliens after rampant fraud in Minnesota, White House Border Czar Tom Homan told CNN. The interview follows Somalis in Minnesota taking $14 million from a program meant to help kids with autism. CNN’s Dana Bash: “I’ve talked to several state and local officials who have said that the number of Somali immigrants that are living in the U.S. illegally [in Minneapolis] is very small… And this is about scaring people more than it is about arresting criminals.” Border Czar Tom Homan: “Well, we just started…

Tucker Carlson has announced he is buying property in Qatar while denying ever taking money from the Gulf state. The former Fox News host made the admission when he interviewed Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani at the Doha Forum on Sunday. 'I have been criticized as being a tool of Qatar, and I just want to say - which you already know - which is I have never taken anything from your country and don't plan to,' Carlson told the world leader. 'I am am, however, tomorrow buying a place in Qatar,' he then revealed. 'I like the city, I think it's beautiful, but also to make a

Let’s get right into it, shall we? Attorney Gregory Joseph has filed a Petition for Postconviction Relief seeking to vacate the 2021 second-degree murder conviction of former Minneapolis Department Officer Derek Chauvin related to the death of pseudo-saint George Floyd. (News of which you certainly missed because, despite its sensational assertions, it was largely swept under the rug by legacy media.) Why now? As counsel expresses in a 71-page memorandum accompanying the petition, in the vain hope (to somewhat give away the conclusion here) that “removed from the hysteria of the day,” a court “can finally look at the facts

Obamacare subsidies are a tangled web of fraud, according to a new report from the General Accounting Office. The report said insurance companies collected $94 million for people who were dead, one piece of what the Congressional Budget Office estimates to be $27 billion in annual Obamacare fraud, according to the National Pulse. The GAO report said 58,000 Social Security numbers linked to advanced premium tax credits matched numbers in the Social Security death data. More than 7,000 individuals were found to have died before their coverage even began. In one case, one Social Security number was used to receive 125 insurance policies covering 26,000 days — the equivalent

The Council of American-Islamic Relations's (CAIR) political advocacy arm, CAIR Action, is operating "without the licenses, registrations, or legal authority required in any of the 22 states where it raises money or conducts political activity," an investigation shared with the Washington Free Beacon states. According to a watchdog group, CAIR's nationwide political machine has systematically evaded state and federal regulators in what may amount to an illicit fundraising scheme. CAIR Action is incorporated in Washington, D.C., where it steers a nationwide political operation that solicits donations, endorses candidates, organizes voter influence campaigns, and maintains the infrastructure that powers its massive advocacy network. But CAIR Action "never obtained the Basic Business License

"Stand with Ukraine! Free Palestine! No One is Illegal!" Did I forget any other empty slogans? For the last eight years, the basement-dwelling interlocutors of the Left have screamed and yelled for The Revolution, bearing their signs, blocking the streets, and bawling in front of politicians' homes. Conservatives and the general public have endured these mantras blasted all over social media and the airwaves. These empty epithets have dominated college campuses, overwhelmed classrooms and public squares, and they featured prominently in debates, podcasts, and talk shows. The Left never tires of finding causes to fight for. Whatever declares war on the West, undermines natural law and basic reality, and places power above principle,

It’s not like you didn’t know this already: Joe Biden’s incompetence ushered in the return of Donald J. Trump. Yet, there were plenty of opportunities for Biden and the Democrats to prevent what would become the greatest political comeback of all time. Why didn’t this happen? For some reason, Biden and his crew of invalids thought that Americans wouldn’t mind that the southern border would be awash with illegal aliens, and that any enforcement measures would turn Latino voters against Democrats. Ironically, the latter is why there was such a violent swing to Trump with Hispanic voters in the 2024 election. They were warned, and they ignored it.

In Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, the Trump administration has an unparalleled degree of energy expertise at the helm. They are engineering the administration’s abandonment of the Green New Deal in favor of reliable, affordable energy. Wright is one of the country’s top energy experts, and, having discussed energy issues with Burgum, I can attest that the former Governor of North Dakota is extraordinarily knowledgeable as well. Energy policy is perhaps second only to illegal immigration as a signature strength of the Trump administration. Yesterday Burgum tweeted a graphic that American Experiment published last year. It illustrates how wind and solar produce electricity only episodically,

President Trump expressed angry regret over his eyebrow-raising pardon of Rep. Henry Cuellar last Wednesday after the pol quickly confirmed his reelection plans as a Democrat. Cuellar (D-Texas), 70, who sits in one of the House Democrats’ most competitive seats faced federal bribery, money laundering, and foreign-agent charges for allegedly taking $600,000 from Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil company and a Mexican bank. “Only a short time after signing the Pardon, Congressman Henry Cuellar announced that he will be ‘running’ for Congress again, in the Great State of Texas (a State where I received the highest number of votes ever recorded!), as a Democrat,” Trump raged in a lengthy Truth Social post.

President Donald Trump just made a bold move to challenge the medical establishment. One of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s constant warnings for years before he joined the Trump administration was that many vaccines given to infants and children were not properly tested for safety. Now, as a federal healthcare entity finds evidence that at least one vaccine given babies is potentially dangerous and/or unnecessary, Donald Trump has ordered a comprehensive reevaluation of America’s recommended infant vaccine schedule.

Last month, Florida Attorney General James Uttmeier made public a letter to the American Bar Association (“ABA”) accusing it of violating the First Amendment right to religious freedom when it said a Catholic law school did not meet one of its equal opportunity accreditation standards. The school is Florida’s St. Thomas University College of Law, and the standard is number 205, titled “Non-discrimination and Equal Opportunity.” The ABA’s finding did not specify how St. Thomas fell short. Standard 205 is distinct from the ABA’s standard 206, which requires law schools to commit to diversity ideology to get accredited.

The arrest of the alleged J6 pipe bomber just lumps mystery on top of mystery. What we know from court documents and media reports since his arrest Thursday is that suspect Brian Cole Jr., is a black, 30-year-old loner who lives in his mom’s basement in the middle-class suburb of Woodbridge, Va., a 20-minute drive from Washington, DC. According to his family, he is borderline autistic, and incapable of such a crime. In interviews, Cole’s grandmother, Loretta Cole, has said he is “very naïve . . . He’s almost autistic-like because he doesn’t understand a lot of stuff. “He’s slow. He may be 30, but he’s got the mind of a 16-year-old.”

How the USPS stole Christmas. Hundreds of care packages sent to US military members stationed overseas during the holidays were returned to a Connecticut-based nonprofit over a “ridiculous” minor technicality cited by the United States Postal Service — and now there’s no way the boxes will make it to the service members in time. Three weeks ago, nonprofit Boxes to Boots shipped 1,139 holiday care packages intended for overseas service members. Of those, 884 were flagged by US Customs and sent back by USPS to the nonprofit, based in Berlin, Conn., though some were also lost in transit, the charity organizers told NBC Connecticut.

Hamas leader Khaled Mashal declared that “the resistance and its weapons are our honor and glory” and that “the battle is not over,” boasting that rights are won “at the recruitment office, not the U.N. Security Council” — a declaration that directly contradicts President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan and celebrates the October 7 “Al-Aqsa Flood” massacre as a turning point to push Israel off “our homeland” and the international stage. Speaking Saturday by video to the “Pledge to Jerusalem” conference in Istanbul, the head of Hamas abroad used a keynote address carried on Al Jazeera to lay out an uncompromising roadmap that flatly rejects the core elements -

Border Czar Tom Homan has been given a tough job to do. His part in fixing four years of incompetence and outright refusal to enforce immigration law would be enough to make Hercules take pause. But Mr. Homan and those working with him are getting it done. In his latest, Mr. Homan, in an interview on Fox News, added another statistic to his growing list: Over 62,000 children redeemed from captivity. On Sunday, Tom Homan took to his official X account to add to that counting of coup:

From the moment Elon Musk began musing about buying Twitter in 2022, the left began warning that his pledge to restore free speech to the social media platform was a threat to democracy. To most Americans this claim had a distinctly Orwellian ring and very few voters shared the fear that the platform could be used by conservative extremists to spread “disinformation” that would present a danger to the republic. What the left really feared, of course, was that Musk would reveal that Twitter was an integral part of the censorship-by-proxy strategy used by the government to silence inconvenient speech.