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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was consulting with his national security team Tuesday about next steps with Iran as he looked to get a better understanding of the number of Iranian citizens who have been killed and arrested in more than two weeks of unrest throughout the country.
Trump said he believes that the killing is “significant” and that his administration would “act accordingly.” He added that he believed the Iranian government was “badly misbehaving.”
But the president said he has yet to receive a confirmed number of Iranians killed in the protests that began late last month,
Crude oil prices rose more than 2% on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump canceled all meetings with Iranian officials and promised protesters that help is on the way.
U.S. crude
oil rose $1.65, or 2.77%, to close at $61.15 per barrel. Global benchmark Brent
gained $1.60, or 2.51%, to settle at $65.47 per barrel.
The Islamic Republic’s security forces have cracked down on large-scale demonstrations with hundreds of people reportedly dead. The government has cut off Internet access in Iran, making it difficult to verify how the situation is evolving on the ground.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to intervene
Faith leaders, union representatives and community members are calling for a Day of Truth and Freedom on Friday, Jan. 23 — urging all Minnesotans not to go to work, school or go shopping in response to Operation Metro Surge. Organizers held a news conference Tuesday morning outside of the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis to announce the statewide day of mourning and action. It comes amid ongoing tensions over the federal law enforcement surge in Minnesota that escalated after ICE officer Jonathan Ross fatally shot 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Renee Good last week. Auxiliary Minister JaNaé Bates Imari of
I don’t think anyone would confuse Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson with a sharp legal mind. She often comes across as the poster child for what’s wrong with DEI hires. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Little v. Hecox, a case that will likely decide whether laws barring biological males from competing on girls’ sports teams are constitutional. Given that Jackson famously admitted during her confirmation hearings that she didn’t know what a woman was — because, as she put it, she’s “not a biologist” — you knew she was bound to be a real spectacle.
Politically, we have a firestorm brewing. In Minneapolis, an ICE agent shot and killed a protester. In Portland, ICE shot two more, this time in a felony traffic stop. As I write this, Law Dork reports protests in DC demanding “STOP ICE TERROR NOW.”
On the opposite side, we have DHS Secretary Noem calling the actions of the protesters in Minneapolis “domestic terrorism,” and VP Vance clearly outlining the facts indicating that the shooting was, in police parlance, “a good shoot” in self-defense. The cherry on top of this fecal sundae is Minnesota Governor Walz’s assignment of the Minnesota National Guard to “assist Minneapolis police.” One must wonder just what sort
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is upgrading her Los Angeles real estate portfolio, trading one celebrity-soaked neighborhood for another.
Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff recently dropped a little over $8 million ($8.15 million) on a 4,000-square-foot, four-bedroom, six-bathroom home in Point Dume, a neighborhood in Malibu that’s home to a who’s who of both Hollywood and — more recently — Silicon Valley power players, the California Post has learned. In recent weeks several Point Dume residents have spotted Emhoff strolling through the neighborhood which rests on a 63-acre promontory perched above one of California’s most famous and exclusive beaches known as Little Dume.
Access to Little Dume, which boasts
A Maryland Democratic legislator is proposing a measure to prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers hired during the second Trump administration from joining state police.
The measure by Delegate Adrian Boafo is titled the ICE Breaker Act of 2026 and will be introduced when the General Assembly returns for the new session next week, according to local NBC affiliate News4.
“Everywhere I go in my district, folks are asking, what are we going to do about ICE?” Boafo said. “There’s only so much the state can do, but you know what I could do? Make sure that those ICE officers never have a job here in the state of Maryland.
Americans who remember how an incident in Minneapolis six yeas ago plunged the whole country into a summer of rioting -- then years of elevated criminal violence -- should think carefully about where the protests over the death of Renee Good are leading. Like the killing of George Floyd, Good's tragedy is being exploited for a political purpose with the radical activists (snip) demanding an end to (snip) not only the agency, ICE, but the enforcement of the nation's democratically enacted immigration laws. It's the protesters veto, an assertion by activists of a right to cancel laws they don't like.
Los Angeles County is considering designating ICE-free zones as a response to the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
The proposal comes from Los Angeles County Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Hilda Solis, who sit on a board that governs the county. The plan is for an ordinance to be drafted and brought before the board in 30 days.
Speaking during Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Horvath said, “Our federal government is killing its own citizens” in broad daylight and in front of witnesses and cameras. "People have been shot; people have been killed; families have been shattered,” said Horvath.
Dilbert creator Scott Adams passed away on Tuesday after a battle with prostate cancer.
He was 68 years old.
In addition to the Dilbert comic strip, Adams has a podcast dubbed, “Coffee With Scott Adams,” where he often voiced his support for President Trump.
Adams was one of the first people to predict a Trump 2016 victory.
Last year Adams revealed he had an aggressive form of prostate cancer that spread to his bones. He said he had months to live. (snip) “I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and look forward to spending an eternity with Him,” Adams said in his final message before he passed away.
It’s interesting that our liberal friends are all fainting this week because of the death of Renee Nicole Good on January 7 at the hands of an ICE agent during a “peaceful protest” where she was using her SUV to block ICE operations. Almost exactly five years ago on January 6 our liberal friends had no problem with a Capitol police officer shooting Ashli Babbit as she climbed unarmed through a broken window into the Capitol in an “armed insurrection” against the United States government.
What is going on with our liberal friends training divorced mothers of three to engage in protest against ICE agents searching for illegal aliens
Federal prosecutors have charged a Maryland man with orchestrating a years-long theft scheme inside the U.S. House of Representatives, alleging he stole hundreds of government-issued cell phones and sold them for personal profit.
The findings of this case were revealed by the Department of Justice on Monday.
Christopher Southerland, 43, of Glen Burnie, was arrested Friday after a federal indictment was unsealed in U.S. District Court, according to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro. Authorities said the stolen devices were worth more than $150,000.
According to the indictment, Southerland worked as a system administrator for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure from April 2020 through July 2023.
Democrats who have supported efforts to ban stock trading by members of Congress are frustrated by a new Republican-led bill that they say comes up short. But at least one has already signed on to support it.
“If the choice in front of us is either do nothing or do something to rein in the corruption around here, then I’m willing to work with anybody to make progress,” Rep. Josh Riley said.
Riley, who represents a swing district in New York, said while he’s also backing legislation “that goes a lot farther,” he won’t let the “perfect be the enemy of the good.”
“I think we should force everybody to divest their stocks.
The O’Keefe Media Group on Tuesday released video of a Secret Service agent assigned to JD Vance leaking sensitive information to an undercover reporter.
The agent at the center of O’Keefe’s latest sting, Tomas Escotto, is a Biden holdover and has only been a US citizen since 2018.
Escotto told the O’Keefe Media Group undercover reporter details about how Vance is surrounded and revealed advanced security procedures.
The Secret Service agent also revealed Vance’s future travel plans and sent images from Air Force Two while he was traveling with Vance.
Washington National Opera Bows out of
55-Year Residency at Kennedy Center After
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55-Year Residency at Kennedy Center After
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The Washington National Opera (WNO) is taking its final bow and leaving the Trump-Kennedy Center in what one WNO director called the “takeover” of the institution by President Donald Trump.
“Today, the Washington National Opera announced its decision to seek an amicable early termination of its affiliation agreement with the Kennedy Center and resume operations as a fully independent nonprofit entity,” the opera said in a statement to the New York Times.
The company said its board of trustees voted to move all its upcoming performances out of the center’s 2,364-seat Opera House. They intend to find new locations in Washington, DC, but no leases have yet been signed.
President Trumps said Tuesday that he's preparing to halt federal funding to sanctuary cities and states on Feb. 1 -- potentially yanking billions in revenue in response to laws barring cooperation with immigration agents. "Starting February 1, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens," Trump said during a speech in Detroit. "It breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come. So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary cities.
Actor Timothy Busfield "presented himself" to authorities, a representative for Busfield confirmed Tuesday, after two children accused him of sex abuse in New Mexico.(snip)“As my client said during the video when he was turning himself in, he wants to turn himself in because he wants to clear his name and reputation," Stein said. "He didn’t do anything wrong. These accusations are false as the investigator from the independent law firm found." (snip)"Based on what was alleged, and all evidence gathered, including multiple witness statements, I found no corroborating evidence that Mr. Busfield engaged in inappropriate conduct or that he was ever alone with the twins on set," McGovern
Actor-director Timothy Busfield is facing two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse, according to an arrest warrant issued by the Albuquerque Police Department (APD). He allegedly engaged in unlawful sexual conduct with twin 11-year-old boys. One of the children says that this disturbing activity began when they were just seven years old. The boys were child actors on the TV show The Cleaning Lady, which Busfield directed between 2022 and 2025.
According to People magazine, it all started in November 2024 when "a doctor at the University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) alerted police about alleged sexual abuse."
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has renewed his call for the reconstruction of “La Gran Colombia,” proposing a confederation of autonomous nations to be established through a popular constituent vote.
The proposal, announced via social media on Saturday, comes just one week after the United States military captured former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. Petro’s vision seeks to revive the 19th-century state — which comprised modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela — as a defensive and economic bloc, a move critics view as a populist strategic pivot amid heightened regional tensions and U.S. interventionism.
United States President Donald Trump says he will slap a 25 percent tariff on any country doing business with Iran, ratcheting up pressure on its government, which is facing its biggest protests in decades.
Years of Western sanctions have battered the OPEC member nation’s economy, causing high inflation, unemployment and the collapse of its currency, the rial. The current protests were triggered by the mounting economic woes, which the Iranian government has struggled to address, partly due to its economic isolation.
Its main source of revenue comes from exports to China, Turkiye, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and India.
Former NFL wide receiver Frank Murphy called on male athletes to stand up for their female colleagues and help promote fairness in women’s and girls’ sports.
Murphy, who serves as the chairman of Athletes for America at the America First Policy Institute, appeared on "Fox & Friends First" on Thursday and talked about blue states thumbing their nose at President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban biological males from girls’ and women’s sports.
A massive and dangerous Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data breach has reportedly leaked details of numerous ICE and Border Patrol agents at a time when leftist violence against them is high.
The Daily Beast reported on the leak to ICE List, which was created by Crust News and explicitly dedicated to doxxing and harassing ICE agents, based on the site's description (not linked here to avoid promotion of the doxxing). If the radical activists have indeed laid their hands on the personal information of thousands of DHS officers, this could spur a massive wave of targeted domestic terrorism.
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The United States has designated the Egyptian, Lebanese, and Jordanian branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as global terrorist organizations, citing their alleged support for the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
This move, formally set in motion last November, will trigger sanctions against one of the Arab world's oldest and most influential Islamist movements.
The US Treasury Department confirmed the three chapters are now "specially designated global terrorists," accusing them of backing or encouraging violent attacks against Israel and American partners.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to uphold state laws that ban transgender athletes from taking part in girls' and women's school and college sports.
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, heard more than three hours of oral arguments in separate cases involving two transgender students, Becky Pepper-Jackson and Lindsay Hecox, who challenged state bans in West Virginia and Idaho, respectively.
Both won lower court injunctions that allowed them to continue to compete in sports.During arguments, questions asked by justices indicated a majority appeared reluctant to find that the laws violate either the 14th Amendment to the Constitution,
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the first official set of Muslim Brotherhood chapters that are designated as “global terrorist” organizations. The first set will not come as a big surprise: Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood were chased out of the country by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi over a decade ago. The Jordanian chapter is similarly aligned and was previously targeted by King Abdullah. The Lebanese faction is not as well known, but their support for Hamas is well understood.
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CBS is calling the unfortunate shooting of Renee Good "murder" now, and Indivisible-sponsored anti-ICE protesters are producing videos purporting to show ICE officers behaving badly. (Indivisible is funded by Soros' Open Societies Foundation and the Tides Foundation, among others.) (X) Almost all these incidents are staged for propaganda purposes. Even the incident in which Good was killed was a staged photo-op gone wrong, which is why her wife and others were there on the sidelines filming from many different angles.
Well, in Tennessee, these protesters were caught in a hoax. They released a video purporting to show the Tennessee Highway Patrol running down a protester.
I was in Las Vegas with my family the week before Christmas. On the drive back to California we passed a solar generation site called Ivanpah. If you haven't seen this before it's pretty striking in person. Instead of using photo-voltaic cells, the site has three towers surrounded by mirrors. The mirrors focus light and heat on the towers which use the concetrated heat to turn turbines.
The site was built with funds from several major companies including Google and a federal loan guarantee of $1.6 billion dollars. When this site opened in 2014, it was considered a step into the future of solar energy,
The Trump administration is ending Temporary Protected Status (DPS) for Somalia, affecting several thousand Somalis currently living in the U.S. and several hundred living in Minnesota under the protection. Somali migrants with TPS will be required to leave the country by March 17. "Temporary means temporary," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law's requirements for Temporary protected Status." "Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests," Noem added. "We are putting Americans first.
Death toll from Iranian protests surpasses
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The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran surpassed 2,000 people on Tuesday, activists said, as Iranians made phone calls abroad for the first time in days after authorities severed communications during a crackdown on demonstrators.
The number of dead climbed to at least 2,003, as reported by the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. That figure dwarfs the death toll from any other round of protest or unrest in Iran in decades and recalls the chaos surrounding the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Iranian state television offered the first official acknowledgment of the high death toll, quoting an official saying the country had “a lot of martyrs”
As the world watches Iran, those inside the country are dealing with a communications shutdown that makes it nearly impossible to get any message out. For many Iranians, both home and abroad, isolation and chaos have been piled on top of more existential concerns over the future of their country.
Precise information is difficult to come by, but estimates suggest between 95 and 99% of the country's communication network — from mobile phone and internet signals to landline telephones — has been blocked since Friday.
Clintons Decline To Testify In Congressional
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Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement posted on X that they do not plan to appear for their scheduled depositions this week. "Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and it's principles, no matter the consequences, the Clintons wrote in a 8-page letter. "For us, now is that time." (snip) [Congressman James] Comer said Tuesday morning, "We will move next week in the House Oversight Committee . . . to hold Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress."
Federal investigators have no plans to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, and the Justice Department won't open a civil rights investigation into the incident from last week in Minneapolis.
The agent fired three shots after Good, 37, accelerated her SUV while he was in front of the car during an immigration enforcement operation that Good and other anti-ICE activists were attempting to obstruct.
The FBI took over the case from local authorities, and continues to review his conduct and physical evidence, including his service weapon. However, sources close to the investigation say the likelihood of criminal charges has decreased, though the decision isn't final.
Amid ongoing investigations into public fraud in Minnesota Republicans are preparing a bill to make such schemes deportable offenses and appear willing to even explore denaturalization. (snip) Speaking on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast this week, Rep. Buddy Carter, R-GA, touted the importance of a planned bill to make convicted fraudsters of foreign origins eligible for deportation and denaturalization. Sen. Marsha Blackburn has sponsored the bill in the upper chamber. (snip) It remains unclear whether the legislation will secure enough support to overcome the Senate filibuster and become law.
A Somali lawmaker described to the Daily Caller how his government functions as a “fraud pipeline,” siphoning U.S. tax dollars from foreign aid, health care and day care into one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world.
Dr. Abdillahi Hashi Abib, a sitting member of the Somali Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of the People, told the Caller the corruption surfacing in Minnesota and across the United States did not emerge spontaneously, but is a downstream consequence of Somalia’s deeply entrenched system of corruption.
(Snip) Abib asserted that despite repeated efforts to share the data with U.S. agencies, he has been ignored as the problem
The Department of Homeland Security revoked Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from thousands of Somalis living in the United States, including the hundreds currently residing in Minnesota, as the Trump administration continues its efforts to crack down on widespread welfare fraud and immigration violations in the state.
Somalis were initially granted TPS in 1991 as conditions in the country deteriorated as a result of civil war. President Joe Biden extended TPS protection for Somalis in September 2024. Somali migrants living in the U.S. under TPS have until March 17 to leave the country.
A UK man who is thought to be Britain’s youngest dementia sufferer recently passed away from the disease at only 24 years old. Andre Yarham, from Norfolk in England, was just 22 when he was first diagnosed with dementia.
At the age of 24, most brains are still settling into adulthood. But Yarham’s brain looked decades older — resembling the brain of a 70-year-old, according to the MRI scan that helped diagnose him with the disease.
The Minnesota ICE Watch group of which slain Minneapolis protester Renee Good was a member shared a detailed manual providing instructions on fighting police officers to free arrested radicals from their grasp, comparing each "de-arrest" to a "micro-intifada." (snip) The manual -- which says on the front cover it was published in the Spring of 2024 --outlines four tactics for interfering with arresting officers, such as the best kind of grip to use while yanking someone in custody out of their hands, or even suggestions for "pushing and pulling an officer" off an arrestee.
"Dilbert" creator Scott Adams died Tuesday at the age of 68 after a battle with prostate cancer.
Reports broke Monday that Adams had entered hospice care and was declining at a rapid pace. As of press time, his X account was broadcasting a live video of his friends mourning his death.
Adams was most well-known for his cartoon comic strip "Dilbert", but later became a successful podcaster, hosting "Coffee with Scott Adams." He was a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump.
Prior to his death, Adams embraced Christianity.
City Agency Promotes ‘Art Of Civil Disobedience’
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A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, government agency is promoting an upcoming class by local leftist groups on “civil disobedience” from its social media accounts.
The city’s Commission on Human Relations (CHR) reposted a joint announcement on Saturday advertising the event by the Pittsburgh chapters of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the 50501 Movement on Instagram and X.
The three-hour Tuesday evening talk will feature an unnamed “practitioner and trainer with extensive experience” and civil rights lawyer Mike Healey, according to the posts.
WASHINGTON — The repressive Iranian regime is likely in its “final days and weeks,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz dramatically predicted Tuesday — as shocking images emerged of thousands killed in a bloody crackdown by Tehran. “If a regime can only keep itself in power by force, then it’s effectively at the end. I believe we are now seeing the final days and weeks of this regime,” Merz told reporters during a trip to India. “In any case, it has no legitimacy through elections in the population. The population is now rising up against this regime.”
The Left tried to bury the Somali fraud story, but it just wouldn’t stay buried.(snipNew reporting shows that dozens of Somali-owned transportation companies have been collecting government funds while literally transporting no one. They are nonexistent operations. According to investigator David Hoch, entire transportation outfits only exist on paper. He visited around seventy of them and found nothing, nada, zilch. No offices, vehicles, or business activity at all.(snip). Hoch says that when Somali patients go to the doctor, they suddenly “forget” how to speak English, triggering the use of these paid interpretersAnd those interpreters bill around one hundred bucks an hour. (snip). The interpreters also need transportation,
Social media has become a driver of information, among many other things, but it’s also provided the single greatest argument toward ending women’s suffrage. I’m sorry, but white, crusty, liberal women have killed the case for the 19th Amendment. Should there be a complete and total shutdown of women’s voting rights until we can figure out what’s going on? Maybe. Look, we know what’s going on, to be honest. We killed their hopes of a Hillary Clinton presidency and obliterated Kamala Harris’ shoddy, inept, and overall shambolic 2024 campaign.
With all the whining, ranting, and calls for violence, have you noticed one common theme regarding
A largely ignored, but interesting, development has arisen in the upcoming California gubernatorial contest. It is a viable petition that has been filed with the California Secretary of State that could potentially see Rep. Eric Swalwell, contending for the Democratic nomination in the governor’s race, thrown off the 2026 ballot.
The legal case has been brought by California resident, documentarian, and indefatigable investigative reporter Joel Gilbert. Gilbert has been doing yeoman’s work for Gateway Pundit in researching and reporting on Swalwell’s apparent gross misrepresentations in various official documents that are shocking in their brazenness. When considered in light of his aspirations for still higher office,
Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett
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Discusses Economic Situation and Jerome
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National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett appears on CNBC to discuss the current status of the Trump economy. Obviously, the first question to Hassett surrounds the announcement by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell that he is under a grand jury investigation.
Director Hassett rightly notes the DOJ is independently investigating the issues of Powell as a result of both a Senate Banking Committee (Tim Scott) and House criminal referral for misleading and false testimony related to the construction of the FED building in Washington DC. Both the decisions by the Federal Reserve and the Dept of Justice are not outcomes of President Trump’s decision making.
Ibrahima Diop, the finance boss at Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), has been placed on administrative leave, Alpha News has learned. Alpha News has reported extensively on Diop and questionable contracts with Frontier Transportation Services, hired by MPS to transport Homeless and Highly Mobile (HHM) students in passenger vans. Additionally, another transportation company under contract with the district was filmed dropping children off at the now-closed Quality "Learing" [sic.] Center -- a moment many believe was staged to make the site appear active. MEISA Transportation Services were recorded outside of the Minneapolis daycare made famous in a Nick Shirley video for misspelling the word "learning."
State Representative Gabby Salinas (D-Memphis) introduced a bill last week that seeks to interfere with the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Tennessee.
House Bill (HB) 1482 would prevent ICE agents from using areas such as public parking lots, vacant lots, public garages, public schools, and religious institution property as a “staging area.”
The bill defines a “staging area” as an “area that is used to assemble, mobilize, and deploy vehicles, equipment, or materials, and related personnel.”
“No child or person should fear being abducted or risk having their family ripped apart when they leave their home,” Salinas said on Facebook. “We are losing friends, neighbors,
President Donald Trump said last week that he was “immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes” and “will be calling on Congress to codify” the proposal. His advisers need to show him why that’s a bad idea.
Trump promised to “discuss this topic, including further housing and affordability proposals, and more, at my speech in Davos in two weeks.” So there is time to present clear arguments that should convince him to quietly drop the plan.
If we had an audience with the president, we’d first remind him that the government in a free country has no authority to determine who
Australia’s new social media age-limit law, which set the minimum age for opening or maintaining a social media account to 16. The second-biggest news? As Australia’s law went into effect, there was a global chorus of parents, journalists, and political leaders who stood up, applauded the bold move, and asked, “Can we do that, too?” Bloomberg, in an article titled “TikTok, Instagram Ban for Australian Kids Heralds Global Curbs,” provides a list of countries in which legislation has been, or soon will be, introduced:(Snip)
The idea is spreading, and each nation considering such a policy should ask two important questions:
State Representative Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville) announced on Monday that she will not run for Congress in 2026, citing the “unimaginable toll” her special election campaign took on her health last year.
Behn made the announcement less than two months following her December 2 concession speech following her loss to U.S. Representative Matt Van Epps (R-TN-07), when she suggested she may challenge the newly elected Republican during the 2026 midterm elections. Both candidates ran last year to fill the seat vacated by former U.S. Representative Mark Green upon his retirement.
“Running for this race was really tough, and after much consideration, I’ve decided to run only for reelection to my State House seat,”
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) on Monday took a swing at his Democratic congressional colleague Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) over Iran. (snip)The president’s saying he’s now considering taking military action inside Iran, do you want the U.S. to get involved like that?” Bolduan asked Fetterman. “Sure, absolutely. And now, if it continues to make more sense, absolutely. I think I was the only Democrat that fully supported our strike of their Iranian nuclear facilities last year. And now, by then, without those kinds of strikes, Iran could have acquired a nuclear bomb,” the Keystone State senator responded. Key national security officials with the Trump administration—
J.K. Rowling blasted the silence of leftists who claim to be human rights supporters amid the recent anti-Islamic regime protests in Iran, saying their silence proves they don’t care about "people being oppressed and brutalized" as long as it’s being “done by the enemies of your enemies.”The famed “Harry Potter” author was one of the first to effectively rail against the injustice of the insane transgender agenda, proven right by everyone eventually. And once again, she’s on the right side of history, showing her support to those people who are risking their lives in Iran by speaking out against their oppressive government.
Rarely can more than two birds be killed with one stone in foreign policy. That is, unless leadership can grasp multi-causality or multi-causal synchronicity and carry out bold and adept policy executions with finesse in different theaters. A unique part of President Donald Trump’s success in leadership is precisely this ability.The surprise stealth operation in Venezuela in the dark of early morning January 3, 2026, resulted in the flawless capture of President Nicolás Maduro – one of the worst international criminals and enemies of the United States. What many underappreciate is that the Venezuela shaped by Maduro is the key to achieving peace in the Western hemisphere and beyond.
Earlier today the Supreme Court denied cert in a case called Marquis v. Massachusetts, upholding a decision by the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts that the colonel of the state police has the discretion to decide who is "suitable" to own and carry a firearm in the state. That "suitability" authority is given to local police chiefs as well, and goes well beyond the "shall issue" criteria that SCOTUS said was constitutional in the Bruen decision.The SJC will soon have the opportunity to review another "suitability" case, and in this particular matter a Massachusetts appellate court actually got it right.
Have you ever “taken to the streets” over any issue? Marched in a protest? Chanted whatever some weirdo ordered you to repeat? Maybe, but probably not. The only protests or marches I’ve ever attended were one against war a friend wanted to go to and he didn’t want to drive to DC alone (plus, I’d never been to DC at that point), one I got extra credit for in college involving newspaper strike, and one that was an annual even to “protest” pot laws because we went to meet chicks and get stoned in a crowd – mostly the novelty of it (which is now common).
You won't catch the mainstream media digging too deep into Renee Good's backstory. They want you to see her as an innocent “Minnesota Mom” who dropped her kid off at school and just accidentally wound up in the middle of an ICE operation. The truth is, she was there to obstruct ICE and antagonize them. She eventually attempted to run one over with her car, getting shot in the process.
The left has invested heavily in this narrative, which is why they don’t want you to know the truth about her anti-ICE activism and her involvement in Minnesota ICE Watch.
I keep a mental "reality rating" of friends and cohorts when it comes to political accuracy. People, mostly libstanks, like to vomitously spew out political "facts" they believe to be true, which a 30-second web search will usually prove false.
Today, when a member of a cohort with a "reality rating" of 0% (she hasn't been right even once) gleefully asked me if I had heard that Elon Musk's Grok AI was churning out nude pictures of celebrities and even kids, I honestly said I had not heard this "fact." But I knew one thing for sure: It's a lie. I was right.