Posts on Wednesday, January 14, 2026
There's a new development in the yearslong international mystery over Havana Syndrome: The U.S. has obtained and has been testing a device that officials believe could be linked to the debilitating condition.
Sources said the device was quietly obtained by the Department of Homeland Security in late 2024, almost a decade after symptoms of what became known as Havana Syndrome were first reported by U.S. embassy personnel in Cuba. The Pentagon has since been testing the portable, backpack-sized device, which emits pulsed, radio-frequency energy and contains components of Russian origin.
The sources said Homeland Security investigators believe it may be capable of reproducing the effects described by victims of Havana Syndrome.
“People live in homes, not corporations.”
That didn’t come from a leftist on the campaign trail but from President Donald Trump.
Between defending the killing of Renee Nicole Good and disparaging the anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis, the president announced Wednesday(opens in new tab) on Truth Social that he was “immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes.” He called on Congress to codify the policy without details about how it would be implemented or whom it would affect.
“[The] American Dream is increasingly out of reach for far too many people, especially younger Americans,” the president wrote.
The Trump-Kennedy Center has ended its exclusive partnership with the Washington National Opera, citing unsustainable financial losses and the desire to open the stage to opera productions from across the United States and the world.
According to an exclusively obtained letter provided by the Trump-Kennedy Center to WNO leadership dated January 13, 2026, and sent via Federal Express, the Trump-Kennedy Center (TKC) made clear that the exclusive relationship with the WNO had become unsustainable. The Center emphasized a commitment to commonsense financial planning, stating, “The Trump Kennedy Center (Center) business plan calls for programs to be net neutral either by corporate contributions, individual donors or sponsorships if the program
Rachel Maddow likes to play armchair political scientist. Asked by Jimmy Kimmel if she thinks the “peaceful protests” she highlights on her show do any good, Maddow enthusiastically replies, “Yes!” and explains:
In political science terms, there’s what’s called the 3.5% rule which is that if you look at authoritarian regimes of various kinds all over the world over the last like century, once you have 3.5% of a population protesting nonviolently against a dictator or an authoritarian, that is essentially an unstoppable force that they can’t oppose. And that precludes them from consolidating dictatorial power….It’s not that much larger a number than what we are already seeing in
The Quest for PeakStupid
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The overlooked value of social media is how it provides people with a global platform for broadcasting rank stupidity. This week’s first contestant in the race to the bottom is Ken Martin, Chair of the Democratic National Committee, who plowed new ground by comparing events in Minnesota to those in -- wait for it -- Iran. That’s right; thousands of Iranians being slaughtered because they want to be free of the mullahs is exactly like one American being killed for trying to run down an ICE agent.
"From Tehran to my birthplace of Minneapolis,” wrote Martin, “people are rising up against systems that wield violence without accountability. In Iran, brave protestors
A group of Republicans is launching a bid to impeach Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
State Representative Mike Wiener provided Newsweek with articles of impeachment he had drafted to remove Walz from office, while on X, other Republicans in the state House said they wanted to introduce articles of impeachment against the Democrat amid mounting concerns about fraud in the state.
"Democrat control of our state has led to 9 billion dollars of fraud that we currently know about," Wiener told Newsweek. "Governor Walz said 'the buck stops with him.' Since he refused to resign the next step is impeachment.
President Donald Trump is weighing imminent military action against Iran that could come “in the next 24 hours,” according to a Reuters report citing European officials, as the Pentagon begins pulling personnel from key U.S. bases across the Middle East and Tehran warns it would retaliate if Washington strikes.
The Reuters report, published Wednesday, said two European officials assessed U.S. military intervention now appeared likely, with one saying it could come within the next 24 hours, while an Israeli official similarly said it appeared Trump had made a decision to intervene — though the scope and timing remained unclear.
The determination came as the United States began withdrawing some personnel from bases
The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter Wednesday morning as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of unlawfully hoarding federal secrets. Agents searched journalist Hannah Natanson's home in Alexandria, VA (snip.) Natanson covers the federal workforce for the newspaper and described herself as "the federal government whisperer" (snip.) The target of the investigation is Aurelio Perez-Lugones (snip) who has a top-secret security clearance (snip) [and] is accused of taking home classified intelligence reports. (snip) The defendant has held a security clearance for over 25 years (snip.)
Contrary to the media’s blaring headlines about “the health care crisis,” there’s another question the press should answer but won’t. To wit: Why is it only a “crisis” when a Covid-era entitlement expires on Republicans’ watch?
While Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., eggs on the press by pontificating about a “health care crisis” caused by the recent expiration of enhanced Obamacare subsidies, he and his colleagues selectively and cynically ignore the recent past. The same Senate Democrats who now call the lapse of enhanced Obamacare subsidies a “crisis” let a far larger Covid-era program expire on their own party’s watch with barely a peep of objection.
A leading proponent of face masks as a means of countering the spread of respiratory infections appears to have changed her mind. Professor Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford – described as the “high priestess” of the face mask movement, who even appeared on her X feed wearing two face masks during the COVID-19 years – has endorsed a letter to the WHO in which it is claimed, as reported in the Guardian, “There is ‘no rational justification remaining for prioritising or using’ the surgical masks that are ubiquitous in hospitals and clinics globally, given their ‘inadequate protection against airborne pathogens’.”
"If you’re allowing Blackstone to come in and outbid a family of four from buying their home, now they get trapped in a one-bedroom apartment on the wrong side of town. Their entire life trajectory has been upended because a private equity institution came in and outbid them.”
– James Fishback, GOP candidate for governor of Florida, speaking to Pirate WiresWhat Fishback is describing is indeed, as he puts it, “the number one problem in America: affordability.” He goes on to explain what is an inevitable premise of nationalism: “If you can’t buy a home, you can’t get married. If you can’t get married, you can’t have kids. If you can’t have kids, what’s the point?” Criticizing a childless life and extolling the virtues and fulfillment of a life that includes having children is the point Fishback is referring to, but he would probably agree it is also the point, the reason, and the required element for preserving a nation.
– James Fishback, GOP candidate for governor of Florida, speaking to Pirate WiresWhat Fishback is describing is indeed, as he puts it, “the number one problem in America: affordability.” He goes on to explain what is an inevitable premise of nationalism: “If you can’t buy a home, you can’t get married. If you can’t get married, you can’t have kids. If you can’t have kids, what’s the point?” Criticizing a childless life and extolling the virtues and fulfillment of a life that includes having children is the point Fishback is referring to, but he would probably agree it is also the point, the reason, and the required element for preserving a nation.
Democrats are being told not to say ‘abolish ICE’ because it will hurt their chances in the midterms. Of course, they want to say it and they believe it, they even want to do it, but it’s a losing political message and they know it.
It is basically ‘defund the police’ all over again, and even though they meant that one too, they know that it damaged them politically.
Saying ‘abolish ICE’ simply reinforces the idea that Democrats care more about illegal aliens than they do about American citizens, a concept that they have done nothing to dispel in recent months.
On Wednesday morning, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions held a hearing on the dangers posed by chemical abortion drugs. During the proceedings, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) posed a simple, direct question to Dr. Nisha Verma, a board-certified OB-GYN, who was there as a Democrat witness.
“Dr. Verma, I wasn't sure I understood your answer to Senator Moody a moment ago. Do you think that men can get pregnant?” Hawley asked.
That should have been the most straightforward question in the world to answer. It required no policy analysis, no nuanced debate, no medical jargon. It only needed honesty.
But, instead, we got evasion.
Verma immediately signaled distress, explaining, “I hesitated
The family of Renee Good, the woman shot by an ICE agent during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, has hired the same law firm that represented George Floyd’s relatives.
Chicago-based Romanucci & Blandin announced Wednesday it will represent the parents, siblings and widow of Renee Good, The Hill reported. The firm secured a $27 million settlement for the Floyd family in 2021 after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed Floyd during an arrest.
Good, 37, died on January 7 after ICE agent Jonathan Ross reportedly shot her in south Minneapolis.
A website dedicated to leaking personal information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents was reportedly subject to a cyber attack that its founder believes may have originated in Russia.
Dominick Skinner, a Netherlands-based immigration activist, told The Daily Beast that his website, ICE List, came under cyberattack Tuesday evening after the publication reported Skinner planned to release personal information, obtained through a whistleblower, about thousands of employees.
The attack, known as a Direct Denial of Service, is when a perpetrator seeks to disrupt access to a network or service by flooding it with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload the system.
JPMorgan Chase Bank is suing former Chicago Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot for letting her $11K credit card bill go unpaid for 17 months.
The media has learned that Lightfoot, who became the first Democrat Chicago Mayor not reelected to city hall in about 40 years, was served with a subpoena at her $900,000 Chicago home in October, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Chase ultimately decided in March that her $11,000 bill would be a charge-off, but her last payment of $5,000 on the debt was made on August 7, 2024, according to the bank’s records. The bank reported that Lightfoot has had the card since 2005.
Lightfoot seems to be struggling to pay her
On Wednesday, after a closed-door meeting with American officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen held a press conference. His remarks sounded cautiously optimistic.
The narrative presented by the American president, as we've been reporting, is that Greenland should become an American possession. Needless to say, Denmark and Greenland aren't keen on the idea. While it seems unlikely that the United States would attempt to take Greenland by force, the big island does in fact occupy a vital strategic position in the North Atlantic; it's something worth trying to make a deal over.
Remember 2020, the halcyon days of mask mandates? I was working in New Jersey when the entire COVID panic started, and one would have thought the very air had turned radioactive. Many people accepted it as a silly necessity, but there are always those who take things to a ridiculous level. We all remember the sights of people driving alone, in their personal cars, wearing masks, or walking alone, outside, on a sunny day, again wearing a mask. That's OK. I've always thought that stupid people should be conspicuous.
Sanity may be returning, here and there. Now, at Oxford University, former double-mask advocate Professor Trish Greenhalgh has
From the moment the Renee Good case broke, it had all the ingredients of a political wildfire. On one side, you had left-wing activists, media outlets, and grifters working overtime to turn the death of radical lesbian Renee Good into the next “Summer of Love.” On the other hand, you had reasonable people who watched the footage and tried to figure out what really happened… because when more video angles were shared, the narrative everyone was being sold began to unravel.m (snip)Thanks to a new report from CBS News, the media’s favorite victim script has been dealt a serious death blow.
Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, both appointees of President Donald Trump, appeared to be buying into “transgender” ideology during oral arguments for a case regarding men playing in women’s sports.
Gorsuch’s major contribution to the Tuesday oral arguments thus far was relatively early on, when he suggested that people identifying as “transgender” should be considered a “discrete” group “given the history of de jure discrimination against transgender individuals in this country.” The justice essentially asked whether those who claim to be “transgender” should be a legally protected class.
When Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro blew off subpoenas issued by Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 committee, refusing to answer questions before a kangaroo court, they received four-month prison sentences, which they both served in their entirety. And, both men suffered serious financial ruin; Navarro revealed that by the end of his trial, he was expecting to spend three-quarters-of-a-million dollars for his defense.
Now, according to a report from Politico, Bill and Hillary Clinton have followed suit, officially refusing to testify before Congress about their respective relationships with Jeffrey Epstein:
DC U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro Gives Full
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U.S. Attorney for the District of Washington DC, Jeanine Pirro, goes public explaining the backstory of the DOJ reviewing the Federal Reserve Board and Chairman Jerome Powell.
As noted by USAO Pirro, Chairman Powell refused to respond to questions for two months despite three repeated requests. The DOJ was then forced to issue a subpoena to get a response. Again, Powell never responded; instead, he went to the media to claim he was being politically targeted. WATCH: (Video)
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A proposal by Washington state Democrats to ban most law enforcement officers from wearing face-concealing masks during public operations is drawing sharp criticism from federal officials, who warn the measure could endanger officers at a time when violence and threats against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are rising dramatically nationwide.
If enacted, Senate Bill 5855 would prohibit local, state, and federal law enforcement officers, including ICE agents, from wearing masks that obscure their identities during public interactions, with limited exceptions for undercover assignments and certain tactical operations. The bill received its first hearing on Tuesday before the Washington Senate Law & Justice Committee.
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) released the December price information on Tuesday 1/13/26 [DATA HERE]. Overall, the topline inflation number is moderate at 2.7% much lower than economists projected.However, that’s not the only important element. To get an understanding of the impact from tariffs to imported consumer goods, you can look at TABLE-2 [DATA HERE]. As you skim the categories we import the most, electronics, television, sporting goods, apparel, shoes, tools, furniture, etc. what you will note is that the prices are stable with negligible inflation impact noted.
There's a lot to dislike about Amazon as a company, but one thing it did was allow people to have access to legions of potential customers. This is true for authors who might not have the name to get into a lot of bookstores, but also for people selling any number of other products.
And, as a private company, Amazon has some discretion in what they sell and what it won't. I don't always agree with that position, but as someone who has been a business owner more than once, I'm fine with it because I don't want people telling me what I have to do with my business, either.
Judges typically don't weigh in on legislation before it becomes law (and is subject to litigation), but a trio of federal judges are speaking out in favor of a bill in Congress that would grant them the right to carry a concealed firearm in all 50 states.
Writing at the Wall St. Journal, judges Elizabeth Branch and Robert L. Wilkins (and supported by Judge Trevor N. McFadden) have come out in favor of Sen. Tom Cotton's Protect Our Prosecutors and Judges Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act and allow prosecutors and federal judges with a concealed carry permit to carry across state lines,
The United States is pausing immigrant visa processing for 75 countries, the State Department told The Epoch Times.
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The suspension takes effect Jan. 21The State Department said in a statement posted on X that it “will pause immigrant visa processing from 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates. The freeze will remain active until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people.”
The department said the pause affects countries “whose immigrants often become public charges on the United States upon arrival.
President Donald Trump’s State Department is freezing all visa processing from 75 countries that the agency has discovered produce waves of welfare-dependent migrants to the United States.
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that such visa processing would be frozen to avoid more welfare-dependent migration to the U.S.
“The State Department will pause immigrant visa processing from 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates,” the State Department wrote in a statement. “The freeze will remain active until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people.”
“The pause impacts dozens of countries – including Somalia, Haiti, Iran, and
Justice Elena Kagan broke with the Supreme Court’s liberal justices on Wednesday in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, which revived a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows the counting of mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, a provision long criticized by President Donald Trump. The justices ruled 7–2 that Rep. Mike Bost, R‑Ill., has standing to sue, even though the late‑arriving ballots were unlikely to have affected his decisive victory. Illinois officials had warned that letting the case proceed could spur a wave of election challenges and disrupt ballot counting, while Bost argued that the
The US and UK are reducing the number of personnel at the Al-Udeid air base in Qatar, as US President Donald Trump considers whether to take action against Iran over its crackdown on anti-government protests.
Officials have told CBS, the BBC's US partner, that the partial American withdrawal was a "precautionary measure". The BBC understands some UK military personnel are also being removed.
A Qatari government statement said the measures reportedly being taken by the US were "in response to the current regional tensions".
For the first time in 50 years, the U.S. experienced negative net migration in 2025 because of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal border crossings and heightened deportation efforts, an enormous victory for the White House as it faces renewed backlash against its heavy-handed enforcement tactics.
The U.S. had net migration of -10,000 to -295,000 due to a combination of deportations, self-exits, and a significant drop in illegal immigration resulting from increased border security measures, according to a new Brookings Institution analysis. Those numbers represent a significant victory for President Trump,
The federal agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week suffered internal bleeding to his torso when he was struck by her vehicle, a DHS official confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday.
The health update comes after Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey previously downplayed the agent’s injuries.
"The ICE agent walked away with a hip injury that he might as well have gotten from closing a refrigerator door with his hips," he told reporters Friday. "Give me a break. No, he was not ran over. He walked out of there with a hop in his step."
A Department of Homeland Security employee has allegedly leaked sensitive and personal information regarding thousands of federal immigration officers to an anti-ICE website, the Daily Beast reported Tuesday. (snip) ICE List founder Dominick Skinner told the Daily Beast that the employee gave him the list on Monday, which contained sensitive information about approximately 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol Employees. Skinner, who is Irish with American relatives, is based in the Netherlands, which puts him outside the United States' jurisdiction.
Iran set to hang protester in what would
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Iran is reportedly set to execute its first protester in connection with mass arrests over the widespread anti-regime demonstrations, according to human rights groups.
Erfan Soltani, 26, is scheduled to be hanged to death on Wednesday after he was arrested last week during the protests in Karaj, the NGO groups Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) and National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFD) said.
"His family was told that he had been sentenced to death and that the sentence is due to be carried out on 14 January," sources told IHRNGO.
IHRNGO Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said in a statement that "the widespread killing of civilian protesters in recent days
Trump Has Options To Address Iran's Killing
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Protests are rocking the Iranian regime, which has now resorted to violent crackdowns on protesters to regain control. President Donald Trump (snip) is weighing how to respond. (snip) "The Trump Administration has a range of policy options, which do not require boots on the ground," Bridgett Toomey, (snip) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Just the News. (snip) "[T]he Trump Administration could enable Internet and other communications to circumvent the regime" (snip.) "The United States could conduct cyber operations targeting the Islamic Republic's cyber apparatus" (snip.) "The seizure of sanctioned oil vessels is already a tool that the U.S. has employed " (snip.)
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Juliana Peres Magalhães, 25, took the stand Tuesday for Brendan Banfield's trial on aggravated murder and firearms charges in the deaths of his wife and a stranger.
Christine Banfield, a pediatric ICU nurse, was stabbed and Joseph Ryan was shot in a Herndon, Virginia, home on Feb. 24, 2023, medical experts and police testified Tuesday.
Prosecutors are trying to convince a jury that Brendan Banfield, 40, staged the killings to look like Ryan was an intruder who stabbed Christine before Brendan shot Ryan in defense.
“We’re here today because Brendan Banfield, the man seated behind me, killed his wife, Christine Banfield, and another man, named Joseph Ryan
For someone who grew up watching the mellow Mister Rogers, I am not a fan of Ms. Rachel’s hyper, loud, fast-paced, spellbinding style. Frankly, I find it overstimulating and nauseating.
I also take umbrage with Ms. Rachel’s proclivity to insert her radical political views upon susceptible young kids, something Mister Rogers never did.
Despite my misgivings, Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, is a YouTube star in the child education/entertainment realm. She has more than 14 million subscribers and more than one billion views. She also has a huge following on TikTok and other social media platforms.
Recently, Ms. Rachel joined forces
Independent Journalist Reveals Shocking
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Minnesota and Maine are two different states, but have a lot in common when it comes to Medicare fraud. Steve Robinson, an independent journalist and editor of the Maine Wire (snip) pointed out some of the incredible similarities (snip.) "we find (snip) home care LLCs and go knock on the door and nobody's home (snip) and we'll find that they've also got LLCs in Minnesota (snip.) "These are really the same. It's one organization (snip.) I think that the government of Somalia is backing this as a nation-building project to increase the flow of remittance money into the country," he said.
In an exclusive interview with DW, Iranian human rights activist and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi calls for urgent measures to prevent the killing of civilians in Iran. The US could use "jamming technology" to disrupt regime's communication with its security forces and the spread of its propaganda.
Ebadi also proposes "highly targeted actions against Iran's supreme leader and senior commanders of the Revolutionary Guard," noting that similar operations have previously occurred in Iran without harming civilians.
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Limited government proponents should feel uneasy. On the right, populists deride economic liberty’s supporters as anachronistic “market fundamentalists.” The free market, they suggest, is not aligned with the preferences or interests of the Republican Party’s new working-class coalition. Many of these populists are eager to abandon freedom for tariffs and other forms of “industrial policy”—a euphemism for granting the state authority to pick economic winners and losers. Unfortunately, trends on the left may be even worse.
With populists embracing new state interventions and untrammeled executive power, freedom advocates find their influence on the right at a nadir. Perhaps overtures to the center-left are in order?
A China-born US Navy sailor who sold sensitive ship information to the Chinese government under the encouragement of his mother was ordered to spend 16 years in prison on Monday.
Jinchao Wei, 25, was blasted as a “traitor” as he was ordered to spend 200 months behind bars by a federal judge in San Diego for selling national defense information to an intelligence officer working for the People’s Republic of China for $12,000, the Justice Department announced.
“This active-duty US Navy sailor betrayed his country and compromised the national security of the United States,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said. Investigators found that Wei was recruited by the Chinese foreign intelligence officer,
State Representative Justin Jones (D-Nashville) on Tuesday appeared at an anti-ICE protest at the Tennessee State Capitol, where the Democratic lawmaker was captured on video with a banner that read “Abolish ICE,” with activists protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
At least one camera captured Jones carrying the banner as he repeatedly stated “Abolish ICE” while the crowd cheered and photographers jostled to snap images. [Snip] The protest in Nashville came one day after an anti-ICE activist in Memphis claimed he was struck by a Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) vehicle, though law enforcement has debunked the claim.
After 2 years of pro-Hamas riots that included multiple assaults on Jewish New Yorkers, streets being blocked off and synagogues terrorized, including a mob chanting “We support Hamas” outside a synagogue last week, New York’s Attorney General Letitia James finally acted by… forcing the shutdown of Betar, a pro-Israel activist group, accusing it of “widespread persecution of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian(s)”
Attorney General Letitia James, an ally of Mamdani, claimed that Betar’s activism is “driven by broad hostility and animus toward several protected groups, in violation of New York civil rights laws.”
Her evidence of this was that “members repeatedly referred to keffiyehs – traditional Palestinian scarves – as
Somali Suitcase Stash: Feds say $130 million
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Federal agents investigating a Somali immigrant operation that moved massive amounts of cash in suitcases from the Minneapolis airport to overseas have uncovered a new leg of the courier journey: the Columbus, Ohio airport.
Homeland Security Department officials told Just the News that Transportation Security Administration officers tracked and flagged about $136 million in bulk cash in outbound luggage at the passenger checkpoints at John Glenn Columbus International Airport since November 2023.
The cash movements were made by U.S. citizens of Somali origin who flew out of the Columbus airport en route to either the airports in Minneapolis or Atlanta, and the couriers always declared the cash
Justice Samuel Alito was on fire Tuesday during oral arguments in Little v. Hecox and utterly destroyed Kathleen R. Hartnett, the attorney representing a biological male student who wants to play sports on the girls’ team. His questioning cut right through activist jargon and forced the case onto solid legal ground, revealing just how contorted the arguments become when ideology collides with biological reality.
For instance, when transgender activists are asked a simple question — “What is a woman?” — the response is usually a circular word salad claiming that “a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman.” Using a word to define itself explains nothing,
President Donald Trump has, by many accounts, had one of the most successful first years of any presidential term. And yet, his favorability ratings among voters has barely budged. Why? Support from independents and Democrats has weakened, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
This month marks the first year of Trump’s return to the White House. How is he doing?
Each month, I&I/TIPP ask a random sample of Americans the following question about presidential leadership: “Overall, is your opinion of Donald Trump generally favorable, generally unfavorable, or are you not familiar enough to say one way or the other?”
Eleven House Democrats jumped party lines to vote with their Republican counterparts in a bid to overturn regulations pushed during former President Joe Biden’s tenure.
According to Fox News, the House of Representatives voted 226-197 to overturn Biden-era regulations effectively aimed at restricting how strong shower heads could be.
Federal law already caps how much water a shower head is allowed to emit. During the Biden administration, regulators took a broader view of that rule. They concluded that showers equipped with multiple nozzles had to be treated as a single unit, meaning the total water flow across all heads could not exceed the legal maximum.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development likely paid out more than $84 million in ineligible assistance to Minnesota during President Joe Biden’s final year in office — including to more than 500 “deceased tenants,” according to officials and documents reviewed by The Post.
HUD has been looking into billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded housing aid doled out by the Biden administration — and its most recent review found $84.6 million in potentially erroneous payments in fiscal year 2024.
That included up to $496,000 in improper assistance to 509 dead tenants.
Approximately $246,000 more was shelled out to 20 people whose Social Security numbers couldn’t be verified, meaning they were likely non-citizens.
When the Trump administration sent some 2,000 immigration agents to the Twin Cities area, they were met by activists who trailed their movements and harassed them outside their hotels. The activists are members of radical groups that together have received millions of dollars from the Left's premier foundations and dark money networks, including George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
At the center of the unrest is the Sunrise Movement, a left-wing group founded to fight climate change that has since directed its local chapters to fight the Trump administration. For Sunrise Twin Cities, that means
UN to Censor All Criticism of the Climate
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In the era of disinformation, obscurantists reject not only scientific evidence but also the progress of multilateralism.... They attack institutions, science, and universities. It is time to once again defeat the denialists." — Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, November 10, 2025.
Get it? Those who disagree with the UN and WEF agendas on climate change, regardless of their scientific credentials, are "denialists" who must be "defeated."The United Nations is trying to control what people can hear, read and think about climate change just when social media companies like Meta are reversing their years-long policy of 'fact-checking,' climate change policy debate—which Meta admits resulted in censorship...
The following is an eyewitness account from a young Iranian woman based in Tehran, who does not want to be identified for safety reasons. She has been cut off from contact with the outside world since the Iranian government instituted a media blackout, but on Monday briefly managed to receive messages from The Post. Over several hours, with a very patchy connection, she shared a harrowing — but hopeful — account of what is happening on the ground right now. Here are her words:
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.”
That’s a quote often attributed (perhaps incorrectly) to Vladimir Lenin — but whoever said it first, it’s certainly true of the last week or so.
Just look at the headlines.
In Iran, the mullahs who have ruled since 1979 are collapsing in the face of widespread popular revolt.
For nearly all of the 47 years since Jimmy Carter allowed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to take power in the fallacious belief that it would somehow advance the cause of human rights, Iran has been a major rival to the United States in the region and around the world.
President Trump on Tuesday threatened to take “very strong action” against the Iranian regime if anti-government protesters are executed.
“I haven’t heard about the hanging. If they hang ’em, you’re gonna see some things that – I don’t know what you’re – where you come from and what your thought process is, but you’ll perhaps be very happy,” Trump told “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil during an interview in Detroit.
When Dokoupil asked the president to clarify what he meant, Trump responded: “If they do such a thing, we will take very strong action.” More than 2,000 Iranians have been killed amid the regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters,
Ford workers cheered President Donald Trump during his visit to an F-150 plant in Dearborn, Michigan, on Tuesday. Workers erupted in applause as Trump made his way through the factory. The president heard from some workers and took selfies with several of them.
Trump inspected assembly operations during the tour, including a “stop at a station which is called the ‘body decker,’ where the truck gets put together” and another “where a team installs hose connections,” per the White House press pool, citing Ford spokespeople.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday elbowed its way into the debate over President Donald Trump’s effort to acquire Greenland, slamming the U.S. for “using other countries as an excuse for pursuing its own selfish interests.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning was responding to a reporter who quoted Trump saying that if America does not acquire Greenland, “Russia or China will.” The Arctic bears on the common interests of the international community. China’s activities in the Arctic are aimed at promoting the peace, stability, and sustainable development of the region. They are in line with international law,” Mao responded.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was told over the weekend that a new Nick Shirley video being released soon - maybe even as early as Monday — is "ten times worse" than the "Quality Learing Center" daycare scam.
In Shirley's previous video, he and his source, David Hoch, who has been investigating this billion-dollar-plus scam for years, discovered multiple daycare centers in one building without children in them for years. And this is where Hoch says is the heart of the ongoing continuing criminal enterprise.
Hoch says the new video will show that most of these companies are Somali-owned, and his and Shirley's visit to these companies found zero—
Since its founding, presidents, vice presidents, and other senior government officials have relied on the United States Secret Service (USSS) to provide security for them and, if needed, their families. The USSS has, for the most part, done their best, regardless of the personal opinions of agents. That's how an organization like this should - must - work. So when an agent betrays that trust, it's all the more hateful. But that is precisely what James O'Keefe seems to have uncovered, in the form of a USSS agent on the detail of Vice President JD Vance,
President Donald Trump channeled the late, great former First Lady Nancy Reagan in his not-so-subtle message that the gravy train is over for Democrats leading sanctuary states and cities, ending federal funding for illegal immigration. Speaking in Michigan on Tuesday, President Trump addressed members of the Detroit Economic Club about issues facing his administration, including the recent massive child care welfare fraud scandal uncovered in Minnesota under Democrat Governor Tim Walz’s leadership, and his next move to end federal payments to places like California, where Governor Gavin Newsom put illegal aliens' lives ahead of American citizens.
Zohran Mamdani’s tenant advocate, or housing czar, Cea Weaver apparently used to teach a course at New York University, but the school appears to be scrubbing their website of any mentions of her.
The school is claiming that it’s because Weaver has been facing harassment over her communist ideas like collectivizing housing.
Would the school have to do this if her ideas were popular or even just sane?
NYU Deletes Extremist Mamdani Housing Czar’s Information From Website As Cea Weaver Faces ‘Harassment’ Over Calls To ‘Impoverish the White Middle Class’
New York University has taken down the page for a class taught by New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D.) housing czar, Cea Weaver,
President Trump’s impromptu remarks from inside the Ford F150 plant will probably not make headline news because, well, quite frankly, what President Trump says below is something the financial media just don’t want to discuss.
This is really an important point. In the era where information is skewed based on the interests of the organization sharing the information, government or private sector media, it is extremely valuable to just listen to what President Trump says directly. In comments such as this brief segment below, you can see exactly where he is going with manufacturing and trade policy.
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Key Change to CBS News Piece on Minneapolis
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Key Change to CBS News Piece on Minneapolis
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One of the most maddening things about the mainstream media is their deliberate word choices in describing people or things that have happened or allegedly happened, with the goal of crafting a specific narrative, and usually one that lines up with leftist talking points on any given issue.
We saw it, for instance, in many of the stories about illegal immigrant and suspected MS-13 gang member and accused domestic abuser Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the press often sympathetically referred to as a "Maryland father" in either the headlines, promos, or the opening paragraphs of their stories on his deportation to El Salvador