Posts on Wednesday, March 25, 2026
The Justice Department has settled for roughly $1.2 million a lawsuit from Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty during the Republican’s first term to lying to the FBI about his conversations with a top Russian diplomat and was later pardoned.
Court papers filed Wednesday do not reveal the settlement amount, but a person familiar with the matter, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to disclose nonpublic information, confirmed the total as about $1.2 million.
On Tuesday, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that dramatically expands the federal government’s authority to detain migrants without bond, holding that even those arrested inside the United States — far from any port of entry — can be subject to mandatory detention. In Herrera Avila v. Bondi, the court adopted a broad interpretation of federal immigration law that effectively erases the long-assumed distinction between migrants stopped at the border and those living in the interior.
Joaquin Herrera Avila entered the United States illegally in 2006 and again in 2016. He was arrested during a 2025 traffic stop and placed in removal proceedings
A cryptic video posted by the official White House X account sent social media into a frenzy of speculation about whether a major new military escalation against Iran is imminent. The shaky footage, which has since been taken down from the official account, appeared to point downwards towards a woman's booted feet, with a voice asking: "It's launching soon right?" Within an hour of being posted the clip had attracted 1,500 comments, with many users convinced the phrase — believed by some to have been spoken by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt — signals a dramatic new development in America's war with Iran.
I'm not a fan of the "even was FORCED to report " types of stories.
Sure, these outlets are biased and often push hoaxes, but there is something kinda icky about saying they were "forced" to report something. As snide and cynical as I am, even I believe that when their ideological lenses get taken off at times they see reality.
Or not. In any case, we should take our wins when they come, and this one certainly fits the "win" category. NPR ran a story from Iraq's border with Iran, in which the reporter interviewed Iranians
William Shakespeake's birthplace will be de-colonised over fears that portraying his success as the "greatest" playwright "benefits the ideology of white European supremacy." Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust owns buildings in the playwright's hometown of Stratford-on-Avon. (snip) The trust also said some of its items could be contain language or depictions that are racist, sexist, or homophobic. (snip) Some productions of his works have been slapped with trigger warnings for misogyny, racism and "problematic radicalised dynamics" that link whiteness to beauty. (snip) In 2022 (snip) Dr. Helen Hopkins (snip) postulated that the idea of Shakespeare's "universal" genius "benefits the ideology of white European supremacy."
Steve Hilton, the leading candidate for governor despite his status as an unapologetic Republican in blue California, called it a perfect metaphor for the state's spate of recent failures. (snip) the University of Southern California abruptly canceled its televised gubernatorial debate last Monday (snip) Those invited included (snip) Steve Hilton (snip), Chad Bianco (snip), Rep. Eric Swalwell, (snip) Katie Porter, (snip) Tom Steyer and (snip) Matt Mahan. (snip) Under California's "top two" primary system, only the two candidates with the most votes regardless of party, will advance to the general election. Democrats are deeply concerned that Hilton and Bianco are poised to do so (snip.)
It has been a few days since an Illinois Democrat has pulled a cheap political stunt that essentially mocks the murder last week of 18-year-old college student Sheridan Gorman, allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien, so Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson decided to step up and fill the void.
In an unbelievably cruel and tone-deaf maneuver, Johnson on Wednesday held a big press conference to gleefully unveil a new city snowplow that will be clearing city streets while bearing a sign reading, "Abolish ICE," which is apparently the winning entry of a plow-naming contest.
"This name derives from our city’s legacy of standing up for justice, dignity,
This is a huge win for President Trump and the American people. All those activist judges just got a good ol’ fashioned spanking by a higher court(snip).This fight was about whether ICE can keep illegals detained while deportation proceedings are underway or whether lower-court judges can keep stepping in to give them bond hearings and release them back into the country.Judges in Minnesota have been siding with the illegals,
The “tolerant” left is at it again, and this time, it’s coming from the “Golden Years” crowd.
Two elderly leftists in Arlington Heights, Illinois, have been arrested and charged after a months-long investigation into the disgusting vandalism of the Republicans of Wheeling Township headquarters.
According to the Arlington Heights Police Department, 72-year-old Brock McNerney and 69-year-old Moisette McNerney were taken into custody on Monday in connection with the defacement of the headquarters last January.
The pair now face misdemeanor charges of criminal damage to property and criminal defacement of property under Illinois law.
Minnesota Election Judge PLEADS GUILTY
to Letting Unregistered Voters Cast Ballots
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to Letting Unregistered Voters Cast Ballots
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In another devastating blow to the Democrats’ endless claims that there’s no election fraud, a Minnesota election judge has now pleaded guilty to a felony for deliberately allowing unregistered voters to cast ballots on Election Day.
Timothy Michael Scouton, 65, of Nevis, Minnesota, the head election judge in rural Badoura Township, Hubbard County, admitted in court on Monday that he allowed 11 unregistered individuals to vote without meeting the most basic legal requirements.
Scouton was responsible for ensuring that all voting procedures complied with Minnesota law.
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso delivered a blistering floor speech Tuesday, exposing the Democrat Party’s priorities during the ongoing partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
While roughly 50,000 TSA agents are required to work without pay, causing massive airport delays and forcing hundreds to quit, Democrats are laser-focused on protecting illegal aliens.
Barrasso played a clip of Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy admitting on live television, “The people we care most about… are the undocumented.” He explained that the Democrat strategy for over 30 years has been to make undocumented immigrants citizens.
President Trump was right to say that the U.S. and our allies faced an "imminent threat" from Iran.
I can now report, based on former Iranian intelligence sources with personal knowledge of the inner workings of the Supreme Leader's office, that February 28 was the final meeting of a core group of Iranian decision-makers to determine the fate of Iran's clandestine nuclear weapons program.
Since the June 2025 strikes on Iran's nuclear weapons enrichment and production facilities had failed to eliminate the 460 kg of uranium enriched to 60%, top Iranian security officials were debating whether to weaponize that stockpile into nuclear warheads. The group had been meeting regularly under the auspices
Orange man is sooooo bad that Foreign Policy Magazine's columnist and (of course) Columbia University Professor Howard French argues that America should lose the war to Iran.
No, I am not kidding. It's not that French is arguing that Iran is the good guy. He concedes that they are not. It's just that America under Trump is so, so horribly bad that his winning the war is unthinkable.
Better that a regime that murders its citizens by the gross, rapes and mutilates young women for not wearing a hijab, and that executes people for being gay survive than have Donald Trump be the author of its demise.
As an effort to end a war, the effort to negotiate with Iran already appears to have as little value as negotiations did before it began. As an effort to delay escalation until appropriate assets arrive in the theater, the five-day delay on Donald Trump's ultimatum on Hormuz traffic looks valuable indeed.
Through indirect channels, the US has sent the Iranian regime a 15-point plan to end the current conflict. The Wall Street Journal summarizes it as essentially the US position before the war, along with a demand to allow traffic to resume unmolested through the Strait of Hormuz. That means no enrichment, dismantling
Old and busted: Sophie's Choice. New nuclear hotness: Barack's Choice – brought to you by the New York Times.
The Paper of Record reported on Monday about efforts to build an oral history of the Obama presidency, split between Columbia University (with Obama's cooperation) and the traditional repository at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. Peter Baker's lengthy report leads with the story behind Joe Biden's decision not to run for president in 2016, as well as a vague allegation about racism in the GOP toward Obama. That leads to another revelation that certainly seems a lot more newsworthy
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will soon declassify a top secret document related to Trump’s first impeachment that then-House Intel Chairman Adam Schiff locked away in a SCIF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] for years. Per investigative reporter Paul Sperry: “I’m told Trump intel czar Tulsi Gabbard will soon declassify an explosive top-secret document former House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff locked away in a Capitol SCIF several years ago and wouldn’t let even members of Congress see…”
A flyer with a classic Brooklyn accent is going viral after saying ICE agents at airports were just there to help and “not bothering nobody” as unbearably long lines continued to snake around terminals Wednesday. Brooklyn resident Chris Scali’s brief interview with News 12 quickly went viral after he shrugged off lefty criticism of the federal agents’ presence at Newark Liberty International Airport this week.
Joe Kent Reportedly Wanted to Testify
in the Trial of Charlie Kirk’s Assassin.
This Story Is Nuts. replies
in the Trial of Charlie Kirk’s Assassin.
This Story Is Nuts. replies
This story is wild. I’ll leave this here for y’all to comment below, but apparently, former National Counterterrorism Center head Joe Kent offered to testify in the trial of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, for the defense. Michael Shellenberger of Public wrote a post about these allegations, specifically that Kent felt the FBI didn’t properly investigate the crime, believed there was a “foreign nexus,” and yes, Israel was part of this crazy story, although Kent couldn’t provide anything conclusive. He also claimed he was blocked from investigating this matter further, which is reportedly bunk since his agency had no authority to analyze what had been collected
Iran is ramping up its threats as negotiations to end the war appear to be faltering and a U.S. ground operation becomes more likely.
Iranian state media outlet Tasnim News Agency, citing a "military source," indicated that Tehran was prepared to close the Bab al Mandeb, a critical waterway linking the Red Sea to the Arabian Sea, in the event of a U.S. ground op.
“If the enemy wants to take action on land in the Iranian islands or anywhere else in our lands or to inflict costs on Iran with naval movements in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman,
TSA experiencing highest wait times in
history — and may be forced to shutter
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history — and may be forced to shutter
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Airline passengers are experiencing some of the highest security wait times in the 25-year-history of the Transportation Security Administration — with some taking more than four-and-a-half hours to make it through checkpoints, a top official told Congress Wednesday.
TSA acting administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill testified to the House Homeland Security Committee that her beleaguered agency is “being forced to consolidate” and “may have to close smaller airports if we do not have enough officers.”
“It is a fluid, challenging and unpredictable situation. We understand this is frustrating and disruptive,” she added. “This is unacceptable.”
Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is in a heap of legal trouble. Last fall, she was indicted for allegedly stealing $5 million in FEMA funds, with court records showing that Cherfilus-McCormick and her brother, Edwin McCormick receiving the FEMA funds as part of a COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract in 2021. The $5 million was an overpayment of those FEMA funds, and the indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to steal it by routing it through multiple accounts.
The Miami Herald reported that Cherfilus-McCormick spent the money on a $109,000 three-carat yellow diamond ring, as well as $2.4 million to Cherfilus-McCormick's consulting company,
My daughter Katie was killed by a man who should never have been here.
On January 19, 2025, an illegal immigrant drunk driver slammed into the car she was riding in at nearly 80 miles per hour. The impact killed her.
Her name was Katie Abraham.
She was my youngest daughter. She loved the water, loved music, and had the kind of joy that filled every room she entered. She had dreams, plans, and a life that should still be unfolding today.
Instead, her life ended on an Illinois roadway because of policies our leaders insist are both compassionate and moral.
A Venezuelan national is suing the United States after he was one of hundreds of people deported to El Salvador last year.
In March 2025, President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to remove roughly 250 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, even when a federal judge attempted to stop the flights. Under a deal with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, the men were sent to the country’s CECOT mega-prison and held without trial.
Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel’s lawsuit claims he came to the United States legally as an asylum seeker and was waiting for an immigration hearing. He was “seeking to do everything by the book,”
Democrats Just Can't Let This Go
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For some reason, Democrats are still trying to use their politically-motivated investigations into President Donald Trump to score cheap political points against their opponents.
The barrage of prosecution efforts failed to achieve their intended purpose: To ensure Trump didn’t win the 2024 election. But folks like Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-08) still can’t let go of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into the president.
This time, it involves the classified document case that resulted in the raid of Trump’s home in 2022. Raskin sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi accusing Trump of stealing highly sensitive classified documents when he left office after the 2020 election.
CNN on Wednesday interviewed a TSA union representative who blasted Congress for failing to reach a funding deal for the Department of Homeland Security, leaving TSA agents and other federal employees without pay for more than 40 days.
The representative described how she and her colleagues are scraping by, skipping meals, stretching every dollar, and explained why many TSA agents are no longer showing up for work. [Tweet, video]
"My in-laws also work for the agency. So even the people that we could have probably asked for some sort of money or some sort of help, they're also on the same position where they cannot help,"
Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old student attending Loyola University, was walking along Lake Michigan with some friends last Thursday just after 1:00 a.m. in the sanctuary city of Chicago, which is located in the sanctuary state of Illinois, when an animal from Venezuela, who snuck into the country illegally during Joe President's single term, decided to shoot her in the head, killing her on the spot. (Snip) This latest murder got me thinking: How many Americans have illegal immigrants killed thus far this year? Unfortunately, the answer is almost impossible to determine, and that isn't an accident.
Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Ill.) theatrically laid flowers at a street memorial for domestic terrorists Alex Pretti and Renee Good, both killed while illegally and violently interfering with federal immigration operations. And the father of a young woman killed by an illegal alien criminal is disgusted at Pritzker's fake and politically fueled posturing.
A drunk illegal alien from Guatemala killed 20-year-old Katie Abraham in a hit-and-run in January 2025. Abraham and her friend Chloe were at a stop light when the Guatemalan crashed into their vehicle and fatally injured both girls. Katie's father appealed to Pritzker, as the state's governor, to help bring public attention to Katie's tragic death,
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is on Team Soros. He’s a devout Soros-ist. He belongs to the Soros Tribe of globalist politics. By the way, he’s a Democrat, too. He may as well have introduced himself this way on March 24, when he held a grandstanding presser on site at the Philadelphia International Airport to make it clear that he does not take orders from President Donald Trump.
The Soros-sponsored lawyer told the press that, if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents now on site at the airport step out of line by breaking the law, “I will put you in handcuffs, and I will put you in a courtroom,
As PJ Media previously reported, an illegal immigrant whom the Biden administration had caught and released at the border — and whom Democrat-run local authorities turned loose again after he committed a crime in Chicago — went on to murder Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman. He approached her, raised a gun, and opened fire as she tried to flee. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
This is what sanctuary policy looks like in practice. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have made it a point of pride to shield illegal immigrants from federal immigration authorities, even when those immigrants have criminal records.
A viral clip is making the rounds showing Christopher Hitchens, who passed away in 2011, giving a talk in 2005. (Snip)In it, he discusses the Barbary slave trade that captured an estimated 1.5 million Europeans and Americans over several hundred years.
(Snip)all of this has been driven by religious imperatives and duties written into the Koran.
That is reality, not “Islamophobia,” a word the left recently invented to protect their radical Islamist allies in the West. The threat of destruction from radical Islamists, as we term them today, has always been real and as imminent as their abilities allow.
Two men have been arrested and charged after a U.S. Park Police officer was shot in Southeast D.C. Monday night.
What we know:
Authorities say two men opened fire around 7:30 p.m. as a USPP officer was driving an unmarked white Tesla in the 5000 block of Queens Stroll Place in the southeast. [snip]
. The officer managed to drive a short distance before stopping, where other officers provided aid before he was flown to a hospital via helicopter.
21-year-old Darren Foster of Southeast, DC was stopped Monday shortly after the shooting. 22-year-old Asheile Foster of Southeast, DC was located on Tuesday.
Six Chinese citizens, two China-based
pharmaceutical companies indicted in fentanyl crackdown replies
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Six Chinese citizens and two China-based pharmaceutical companies have been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly selling and delivering chemical precursors used to make fentanyl intended to be smuggled into the U.S., FBI Director Kash Patel says.
Patel posted on X that indictments were handed down Tuesday.
The defendants were also indicted for allegedly forging an alliance with a Mexican drug cartel, according to the Justice Department, Fox News reported.
A grand jury in Dayton, Ohio, returned charges against the Shandong Believe Chemical Company and Shandong Ranhang Biotechnology, in addition to Chinese citizens Hanson Zhao, Gao Yanpeng, Xia Yi, Zhang Jian, Wang Zhoalan, and Zhang Chunhai.
Doomed Air Canada Flight 8646’s cockpit recorder has revealed how the trip turned from routine to tragic within 3 minutes on Sunday.
Both the pilot and co-pilot were killed and more than 40 other people sustained injuries when the jet crashed into a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York City around midnight.
National Transportation Safety Board senior aviation investigator Doug Brazy shed some light on the plane’s harrowing final minutes Tuesday, providing a detailed timeline starting with the flight crew contacting the air traffic control tower up until the moment of the deadly crash:
Meta failed to protect kids from sexual predators and misled users about its platforms’ safety, violating New Mexico law, a jury found Tuesday in a landmark case.
The tech giant was ordered to pay $375 million in civil penalties.
The verdict came after six weeks of testimony from witnesses that included ex-Meta executives, teachers and online safety experts.
New Mexico prosecutors argued that Meta hid the extent of safety issues that kids faced on Facebook and Instagram and failed to enforce its claimed minimum age limit of 13 – even as its algorithms allegedly made it easier for creeps to target kids for online harassment and even sex trafficking.
Maryland Dems mocked for prioritizing
tampons in men’s bathrooms amid state
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tampons in men’s bathrooms amid state
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Maryland Del. Kathy Szeliga, R-Baltimore County, is calling out Maryland Democrats for backing a bill that would stock tampons in men’s bathrooms in state-owned buildings — an idea she says is emblematic of Annapolis’ misplaced priorities. Szeliga said that after she was made aware of HB 941, she took to the House floor to question which public buildings would be impacted. In particular, she wanted to know if the state's professional sports facilities, such as where the Ravens and Orioles play, would be impacted. During her remarks, the GOP Maryland lawmaker also questioned language in the bill ordering "appropriately sized tampons"
President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported goods suffered a Supreme Court legal rebuke in late February, but they’re not doing much better in the court of public opinion. As the latest I&I/TIPP shows, a plurality of voters don’t believe the economy will get a boost from tariffs, which win strong majority support only from Republicans.
It was once the case that most conservatives and many moderates rejected tariffs on imported goods as an unwanted distortion of free trade. Meanwhile, liberals embraced tariffs as a welcome tool of government “industrial policy.”
But President Trump has flipped the script.
A CNN reporter was left stunned after security checkpoint wait times dropped from hours to minutes at a major Atlanta airport following President Trump’s deployed ICE agents to assist unpaid TSA agents. Senior National Correspondent Ryan Young reported in disbelief that the presence of unmasked immigration agents at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport sparked a dramatic shift, with travelers zipping through security after weeks of grueling lines amid the partial government shutdown. “Wolf, I almost can’t believe I’m able to say this, the times have dropped off tremendously this morning,” Young told anchor Wolf Blitzer Tuesday morning from inside the major
California governor debate canceled after
criticism of criteria that excluded candidates
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criticism of criteria that excluded candidates
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A California gubernatorial debate was canceled just hours before it was set to occur on Tuesday after mounting criticism that only white candidates in the crowded field had qualified for the event. The criteria to participate in the debate, which was set to be co-sponsored by the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles TV station KABC, had emerged in recent days as a source of controversy in the wide-open race to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom. The sprawling field includes eight prominent Democrats and two major Republicans, as well as several other lesser-known candidates. USC had faced condemnation for
Last month, 12-year-old Ava Little committed suicide. Apparently, she did so because she was being chronically bullied at Byron Middle School, Peach County, Ga.
According to Little’s family, none of the school’s anti-bullying measures or guidelines was implemented, even as “other students targeted her over and over again.” The bullying began in fifth grade and intensified this year. According to Paige Day, Ava’s aunt, her parent’s tried to get the school to intervene, but Peach schools were “consistently underwhelming. They failed her 100%.”
Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott filed a lawsuit Monday against government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and one of its former employees after his tax returns were part of a major leak to media outlets in 2020.
The lawsuit comes after President Donald Trump sued the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department two months ago for their roles in the leak, which targeted multiple notable wealthy people, including Elon Musk.
OpenAI will soon shut down its Sora AI video-generation app, the company said in a surprising announcement Tuesday. "We’re saying goodbye to Sora," the company wrote in a post on X. "We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work."
The closure of the resource-intensive AI app comes ahead of an expected initial public stock offering from OpenAI in the coming months.
OpenAI has recently come under intense pressure from rival AI company Anthropic, whose AI systems have soared in popularity among leading businesses and software engineers.