U.S. Supreme Court upholds Texas’ newly
redrawn congressional map
Posted By: Dreadnought, 4/28/2026 8:08:00 PM
Texas’ newly redrawn congressional map is officially cleared for use, after the U.S. Supreme Court formally overturned a lower court’s ruling Monday. In November, the high court allowed the map to be used temporarily. Monday’s ruling maintains that status quo, ensuring the new lines will be used for the 2026 midterms. The ruling ends, for now, the lengthy legal battle over Texas’ efforts to add as many as five more Republican seats to the U.S. House. Texas took up this unusual mid-decade redistricting effort over the summer, after President Donald Trump pushed the state to help shore up the GOP’s narrow majority
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Finally, Some Covid Accountability?
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Yesterday the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment of David Morens, who was a Senior Adviser to Anthony Fauci during the covid era. The indictment includes allegations against two co-conspirators, who have been identified as Dr. Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, and Dr. Gerald Keusch, an associate director of Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory Institute. EcoHealth Alliance is the nonprofit that got grant money from the National Institutes of Health and passed it on to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to do research on coronaviruses
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Today the FBI executed twenty-two search warrants around the metropolitan Twin Cities in its continued investigation of the massiive public-programs fraud committed by an almost exclusively Somali cast of perpetrators. The United States Attorney will present the evidence to a federal grand jury and secure indictments in due course. In the Feeding Our Future case, the time between the searches and the first indictments ran some nine months.
The FBI conducted the searches today on a panoply of daycare centers (thank you, Nick Shirley), autism providers, and perhaps other businesses receiving funds under one or another of Minnesota’s fourteen waivered Medicaid programs. These programs have been looted by fraudsters
On Tuesday afternoon, CNN and MS NOW swooned over King Charles III’s speech to a Joint Session of Congress, choosing not to focus on the historical lessons and shared values that kept the West alive (although its current state is debatable), but on the moments regarding climate change, checks and balances, NATO, and Ukraine to name a few the left has declared outright jabs at President Trump. The two networks trumpeted Charles as a “headmaster” delivering an “extremely political” but “vivid” “masterclass” with a set of values “in complete opposition” that were “batted for” embattled Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer. CNN led the way in its proverbial weak knees
Virginia Democrats are running out of runway.
The Supreme Court of Virginia has denied Attorney General Jay Jones's motion to stay an injunction issued by a Tazewell Circuit Court judge. The injunction blocks certification of the redistricting referendum results and throws the party's carefully engineered power grab into serious legal jeopardy.
Certification was scheduled for Friday. With the stay denied, that deadline is now in doubt, and the ripple effects could reach all the way to the August primary elections. Virginia law requires the Department of Elections to move voters into new districts before any primary can proceed — a process that takes several weeks.
Texas’ newly redrawn congressional map is officially cleared for use, after the U.S. Supreme Court formally overturned a lower court’s ruling Monday.
In November, the high court allowed the map to be used temporarily. Monday’s ruling maintains that status quo, ensuring the new lines will be used for the 2026 midterms. The ruling ends, for now, the lengthy legal battle over Texas’ efforts to add as many as five more Republican seats to the U.S. House.
Texas took up this unusual mid-decade redistricting effort over the summer, after President Donald Trump pushed the state to help shore up the GOP’s narrow majority
The North Carolina State Board of Elections has identified over 30,000 dead people’s names on their voter rolls in the latest illustration of exactly why Republicans are right to push election integrity reforms.
Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon highlighted the exposure of the 34,000 deceased voters’ names. She has been leading the federal charge on trying to pressure states into investigating and cleaning their voter rolls, and is currently fighting dozens of leftist states in court for their data. The new North Carolina data is just one more vindication of the Trump administration’s argument that our elections
Jimmy Kimmel’s Blood Feud With Melania
Trump: Why Disney Fiddles as Its Magic
Kingdom Burns 3 replies
Trump: Why Disney Fiddles as Its Magic
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I’m a professional political writer: PJ Media pays me to analyze politics, culture, news, and entertainment. Our business relationship isn’t complicated: I write it, and PJ Media publishes it.
But it’s a high-risk job on all sides. When you opine about controversial topics like race, gender, public policy, and war, you’ll inevitably offend someone. (And not always deliberately!)
Question: If I write something that millions of PJ Media readers find offensive, disgusting, and gross, whose fault is it?
Maybe it’s the audience’s fault. If you guys misinterpreted what I wrote, then I’m blameless. Hey, that’s on you people. Can’t blame me for the misinterpretations of others. Right?
Wrong!
It’s my fault.
Consumer Confidence Defies Expectations, Rises in April as Labor Market Outlook Brightens
MIAMI, FLORIDA - APRIL 11: U.S. President Donald Trump waves to the media after walking of(Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
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Consumer confidence rose in April to the best level of the year, as consumers took a more optimistic view of the jobs market and their income prospects.
The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index climbed to 92.8 from an upwardly revised 92.2 in March, handily beating the consensus forecast of 89 in surveys of economists conducted by both Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.
The Expectations Index
WASHINGTON — King Charles III on Tuesday reaffirmed the United Kingdom and the United States’ long “special” relationship, calling it a "story of reconciliation, renewal and remarkable partnership" born out of "bitter divisions of 250 years ago." In a rare speech to Congress, the king marked the landmark anniversary of America's independence from British rule, and he nodded to his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who addressed the Congress from under the same “watchful eye of the Statue of Freedom above us” 35 years ago.
“The story of the United Kingdom and the United States is, at its heart, a story of reconciliation, renewal and remarkable partnership,”
Trump Family Welcome Royals to White House
With Rousing Speech Celebrating American History 2 replies
With Rousing Speech Celebrating American History 2 replies
President Trump hailed “the two most exceptional nations the world has ever known” as he and First Lady Melania welcomed the Royal couple to the White House on Tuesday morning for the first full day of the state visit marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. King Charles III and his Queen Consort Camilla arrived at the White House on Tuesday morning as invited guests of U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania, met by an impressive display of martial music, an honour guard of U.S. troops, and the executive mansion draped in American and British flags.
President Donald Trump welcomed King Charles to the White House, calling it an “honor” and “tremendous privilege” to host the royals.
Trump noted in his remarks the irony of honoring the British king to mark the 250th anniversary of the country, calling American patriots who gained independence in 1776 heirs to the United Kingdom.
“American patriots today can sing ‘my country ‘tis of thee, great land of liberty’ because our colonial ancestors first sang ‘God Save the King,’” the president said.
Trump hailed the U.S. and U.K. militaries for fighting together
Detained, for now
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From the New York Post,
Defiant WHCD shooting suspect Cole Allen charged with trying to assassinate President Trump.
Allen appeared before a (lower-level) magistrate judge today on a criminal complaint (which can be read here). He was ordered detained pending a full detention hearing on Thursday.
The next step will be for the Dept. of Justice to seek a formal indictment by a grand jury, in order to proceed with felony charges against Allen.
Forgive me if I have grown completely cynical about federal district courts in blue locales
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The latest controversy hovering over liberal comedian Jimmy Kimmel is leaving a sour taste among those in ABC's orbit. Kimmel is under fire yet again, this time for a poorly-timed joke he made targeting President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump just two days before Saturday's shocking assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) Dinner, where the Trumps and nearly the entire Cabinet were located.
On his own program, the late-night host depicted his own version of the WHCA Dinner where he emceed the annual gala, and leveled several jabs at both the president and first lady.
President Trump on Sunday evening blasted ’60 Minutes’ anchor Norah O’Donnell for reading portions of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter’s manifesto.
A heavily armed man stormed the lobby of the Washington Hilton Saturday night, sprinted past a Secret Service checkpoint and shot at a Secret Service agent.
The shooter, identified as Cole Allen, 31, of Torrence, California, was taken into custody and charged with using a firearm during a crime of violence and assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon.
On Sunday it was revealed that Cole Allen wrote a manifesto and expressed his hatred for “pedophile, rapist” Trump.
Rep. Ilhan Omar got dragged on social media Monday afternoon for an outlandish gaffe in which she referred to World War Two as “World War Eleven” in a statement opposing the implementation of the Alien Enemies Act by the Trump administration to deport narco-terrorists from the United States. Check out some of the best reactions from online:
I guess that it should comes as no surprise that the congresswoman who "mistakenly" claimed that she was worth $30 million when she apparently doesn't even tout a net worth of $100,000 couldn't tell the difference between two and eleven.
Former President Barack Obama claimed Sunday “details about the motives” of accused White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter Cole Allen were still unknown despite the gunman confessing he was targeting top Trump officials in a raving manifesto.
“Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all of us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy,” Obama wrote on X Sunday afternoon.
“It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them –
Mamdani’s plan to delay pension payments
echoes the schemes that brought NYC to
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echoes the schemes that brought NYC to
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Despite a $7.1 billion hole, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pushed back against any serious cutting to his budget and instead wants to delay required payments to city pension funds.
That’s precisely the kind of tactics that brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy in the ’70s.
At the least, it will saddle future taxpayers with unnecessary costs.
For the moment, the city is on-track to meeting its long-term pension-funding obligations by its 2032 deadline.
Yet to help close his budget hole, Mamdani would push $1 billion worth of payments into the 2040s.
That would be both costly and risky.
WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump savagely criticized ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel as a “coward” Monday after he referred to her as “an expectant widow” two days before Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting. “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” Trump, 56, wrote in a post on X. The comic is facing severe backlash after the attack on the gala dinner, in which a Secret Service agent suffered minor injuries after a gunman charged a checkpoint
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) attacked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt for criticizing Democrats for their violent rhetoric after a shooting took place in the vicinity of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
During a press conference on Monday, Jeffries labeled Leavitt a “stone-cold liar,” and accused her of reading “talking points” and being critical of words Democrats had said.
“I know you said you stand by your comment, but at the same time you have been a subject of threats as well, so, with respect to this comment about maximum warfare, even if it’s about redistricting, why not tone down the language
Muslim voters are reshaping U.K. politics,
creating new challenges for Starmer government 19 replies
creating new challenges for Starmer government 19 replies
The growing numbers of Muslims in the United Kingdom, along with their organized and issue-driven politics, has made them an increasingly consequential – if not outsizes – part of the country's electorate – representing new challenges for Prime Minister Keir Starmer's center-left government and efforts to maintain a unified stance on key issues.
Recent elections have shown the country's estimated 4 million people, or roughly 6.5% of the country's overall population, have been enough to determine electoral outcomes in specific districts and nudge national parties to re-calibrate their platforms.
Teachers’ unions have spent more than $1 billion in member dues and fees on political activism and left-wing social causes since 2015, according to a new watchdog report.
The spending captured in Defending Education’s report includes both national and local unions, including $669 million from national unions and $339 million at the local level.The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), two national teachers’ unions, spent a combined $669 million over the past ten years, including $44 million to For Our Future, a progressive political group focusing on social equity and climate justice in key battleground states;
Defiant WHCD shooting suspect Cole Allen
charged with trying to assassinate President Trump 17 replies
charged with trying to assassinate President Trump 17 replies
WASHINGTON — The suspected White House Correspondents Dinner shooter Cole Allen was charged with trying to assassinate President Trump on Saturday night — as he made a defiant first appearance in court.
The 31-year-old accused madman spoke loudly and confidently answering a judge’s questions in federal court in Washington, DC, as he was hit with the charges of attempted assassination of the president, transportation of a firearm across state lines to commit a felony and discharging a gun.
He faces life in prison if convicted of the top charge.
Allen — who walked into the courtroom unshackled with a somber look and wearing a blue jail jumpsuit — answered
Today is not a good day for the Canadian trade team.It started with Quebec’s new Premier in Washington DC meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer {citation} in order to talk trade {SEE TIMELINE} saying on Twitter, “Quebec wants a renewal of the [USMCA] to ensure a stable and predictable framework for our economic exchanges.” However, Mrs. Christine Fréchette (pictured left) then bragged about having strategic discussions with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. {citation}
Earlier, RedState reported on a statement made by Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) a day after the third assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in less than two years.
In a Sunday night tweet, Jeffries wrote that "America will not be lectured about civility by far-right extremists in Congress. Particularly those who provide aid and comfort to hundreds of violent rioters who brutally beat police officers on January 6." He added, "Now is a time to unify," which was a rather strange remark considering he just called his political opposition, which has legit concerns about incendiary Democrat rhetoric, "far-right extremists."