The deeper agenda behind Trump’s Reflecting
Pool glow-up
Posted By: Dreadnought, 6/9/2026 1:13:03 PM
Washington, DC’s newly refurbished Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool isn’t just reflecting the monuments at either end. It’s mirroring President Trump’s surprisingly sophisticated campaign to restore nothing less than America’s soul. For years, the reflecting pool was an unsightly green algae-plagued mess, due to an Obama-era effort to make it more environmentally friendly. As the Washington Post reported in 2012, algae were already blooming in it a week after its reopening. “This is a direct consequence of the fact that this is a green project,” a National Parks Service spokesperson said at the time. “The conditions are pretty good for algae, once it gets in there.”
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Washington, DC’s newly refurbished Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool isn’t just reflecting the monuments at either end.
It’s mirroring President Trump’s surprisingly sophisticated campaign to restore nothing less than America’s soul.
For years, the reflecting pool was an unsightly green algae-plagued mess, due to an Obama-era effort to make it more environmentally friendly. As the Washington Post reported in 2012, algae were already blooming in it a week after its reopening.
“This is a direct consequence of the fact that this is a green project,” a National Parks Service spokesperson said at the time. “The conditions are pretty good for algae, once it gets in there.”
Almost a full week after Election Day in California, Democrats have finally managed to scrape together enough highly suspicious and possibly fake votes to squeeze Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt out of the runoff race. But Republican Steve Hilton will be advancing to the general election later this year in the gubernatorial race, per DDHQ Monday evening.
Hilton had 25.1% of the vote and Democrat Xavier Becerra had 27.67% of the vote with 84% counted at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time June 8. Hilton was almost three points ahead of Tom Steyer in third.
Judge blocks Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee
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A federal judge on Monday vacated President Donald Trump's $100,000 fee for employers' H-1B visa applications.
The policy implementing the large fees on high-skilled worker visas violated the federal Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution, Judge Leo Sorokin declared in the ruling in U.S. District Court in Boston. Sorokin agreed with the 20 Democratic-led states that brought the suit in finding “the substance and application of the $100,000 payment reveal that it is a tax,” and that Congress had not delegated that power to the executive branch.
The judge cited precedent that the Supreme Court set in February, when it struck down Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs on the grounds
California elections are conducted ridiculously, taking days and weeks to come to a conclusion, and raising questions about the process. This isn't a new question; this has been going on for years.
As my colleague Susie Moore opined in her morning minute, the process lends to suspicion. If it looks like a duck, it's going to make people think it's a duck.
What's more infuriating is the reaction from the left and the media, like, "Oh, this is normal." It may be normal for California, but it's not normal for most of the rest of the world. As my colleague Bob Hoge put it, "The system that Democrats created
Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday Israel would “hold fire” after President Trump called on the prime minister and Iran’s leadership to return to a cease-fire.
Netanyahu said the fighting “on the Iran front” had been contained — making clear that Hezbollah targets in Lebanon remain separate, which Iran has tried to link to the ongoing US-Israel-Iran cease-fire.
“If they [Iran] make a mistake and resume attacks we will respond powerfully,” Netanyahu said. “Israel has the right to defend itself and we implement it when needed.” Earlier Monday, Trump told both Israel and Iran to stop “shooting” at each other in a post to Truth Social,
Khamenei, IRGC, Iranian military communication
lines disrupted, source tells anti-regime outlet 5 replies
lines disrupted, source tells anti-regime outlet 5 replies
Communication lines between Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei and other Iranian officials have been disrupted since Sunday night, according to information obtained by the anti-regime London-based outlet Iran International.
A source familiar with the escalation, including Iran launching missiles towards Israel on Sunday night and Monday morning, said that the launches were likely carried out under "pre-established military protocols without coordination with Khamenei's office," Iran International reported.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' response to Israel's strike on Dahiyeh in southern Beirut appeared to be too rapid to have followed an exchange of messages between Khamenei and the IRGC and military chiefs, the source added.
Boomers: A Generation of Scrooge McDucks?
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Boomers: Is there anything they don't do wrong? Not to hear the Millennials and Zoomers tell it, there isn't — with a big push recently in the mainstream media. Today's Big Boomer Problem: They're hoarding the wealth.
It was either my partner in thoughtcrime, Stephen Kruiser, or Yours Truly (honestly can't remember which) who pointed out ages ago on Five O'Clock Somewhere that Lefties have this Scrooge McDuck image of wealthy people and particularly of business.
Every successful businessman has a vault full of gold coins and rubies somewhere, and they go swimming through their riches whenever the fancy strikes, lording it over all the little people
A poll shows many Democrats would rather live in a different country and wave goodbye to the United States of America, the news coming as more in the party view socialism favorably.
The Elon University/YouGov America 250 National Survey that was performed between April 30 and May 4th asked respondents “Is there any other country on Earth you would rather live in than the United States today?” to which 55 percent of Democrats said yes.
Thirty-eight percent of Independents said yes while only 10 percent of Republicans gave the same answer:
The Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, is wowing skeptics after months of criticism from the radical left.
The Trump administration has continued to debunk criticisms of the Reflecting Pool restoration process. The establishment media has been one of the worst offenders, penning articles picking apart the shade of blue chosen for the bottom of the pool and more. The Washington Post ran to a “color consultant” who believes the shade will look “very dismal.” The New York Times also targeted the improvements made to the pool.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum pointed out that former President Obama’s administration closed the Reflecting Pool for two years, spending a whopping $38 million
Watch: Steven Spielberg Says ‘Disclosure
Day’ Will Leave Christians Questioning
Their Faith in God 24 replies
Day’ Will Leave Christians Questioning
Their Faith in God 24 replies
Half a century after Steven Spielberg challenged audiences to think about what lies beyond the starry canopy that defines our universe in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the director is again challenging accepted precepts of faith and singular belief in a supreme being.
His new film Disclosure Day sees him revisit the possibility of aliens: “I absolutely think that they have been here, and they are here,” he outlined in an interview with CBS News.
First he outlined the themes behind the $115 million creation and the answers it (possibly) posed to questions of life, faith and mortality.
Hegseth attacks Europe on immigration
at D-Day event, continuing trend for Trump officials 4 replies
at D-Day event, continuing trend for Trump officials 4 replies
LONDON — For the second time in a week, a top Trump administration official has publicly criticized Europe over migration levels, the latest in a series of attacks aimed at political leaders on the continent. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a speech marking the anniversary of D-Day in France on Saturday, commemorating 82 years since the 1944 push to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, to lambast what he described as another “invasion” of Europe’s shores.
“Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies,” Hegseth said at the event in Normandy.
“Beaches in Spain, in Italy, in Greece and Bulgaria.
To earn of the last minutes of Henry Nowak’s life would be shocking and distressing under any circumstances. The stabbed teenager begged officers for help, as they handcuffed him before realising their mistake. To watch those final moments, on the police body-cam footage released this week, is all the more immediate, and unbearable. The outrage is widely shared. But the way it has been weaponised is alarming. His family’s wish is for his legacy to be a renewed effort to reduce knife crime, not increased antagonism along racial and religious lines. Instead, the unscrupulous are using the power of the footage and the speed of social media to spread myths
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A poll shows many Democrats would rather live in a different country and wave goodbye to the United States of America, the news coming as more in the party view socialism favorably.
The Elon University/YouGov America 250 National Survey that was performed between April 30 and May 4th asked respondents “Is there any other country on Earth you would rather live in than the United States today?” to which 55 percent of Democrats said yes.
Thirty-eight percent of Independents said yes while only 10 percent of Republicans gave the same answer:
Watch: Steven Spielberg Says ‘Disclosure
Day’ Will Leave Christians Questioning
Their Faith in God 24 replies
Day’ Will Leave Christians Questioning
Their Faith in God 24 replies
Half a century after Steven Spielberg challenged audiences to think about what lies beyond the starry canopy that defines our universe in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the director is again challenging accepted precepts of faith and singular belief in a supreme being.
His new film Disclosure Day sees him revisit the possibility of aliens: “I absolutely think that they have been here, and they are here,” he outlined in an interview with CBS News.
First he outlined the themes behind the $115 million creation and the answers it (possibly) posed to questions of life, faith and mortality.
Are They Cheating In California?
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Election Day returns indicated that Spencer Pratt had easily secured the second position in the Los Angeles Mayor race, and would face incumbent Karen Bass in the general election. But ballots have continued to come in and be counted, and a remarkable number of those ballots have been for the initial third-place candidate, Nithya Raman. So it looks like the runoff election will be between two far-left candidates, and Los Angeles will continue to go downhill.
Conservatives generally assume that the fix was in, and Raman’s renaissance is due wholly or in part to voter fraud. Are they right? Today’s Unleash Prosperity Hotline (which you should subscribe to if you don’t)
When the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's tariffs last February, the president lashed out against two Supreme Court Justices he nominated calling them fools and lapdogs. The president has frequently railed against judges when they rule against him. What often happens next is a barrage of violent threats from his followers against those judges. As we first reported in March, we spoke with 26 federal judges – nine Democratic appointees, 17 Republican, both sitting and retired. The sitting judges told us they feel under siege. Most would not appear on camera, fearful for their safety.
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman has overtaken former reality TV personality Spencer Pratt for the second spot in the Los Angeles mayoral runoff, according to updated vote totals released Sunday by the LA County Registrar-Recorder.
Raman, a progressive Democrat representing the city’s 4th Council District, now holds 27.12% of the counted ballots. Pratt, a registered Republican who ran on a law-and-order platform, sits at 26.69%. The gap stands at 3,113 votes.
Decision Desk HQ projected Sunday that Raman had secured the second of two spots in the nonpartisan primary, which advances the top two finishers to the November 3 general election
Last Thursday, even as California’s chaotic primaries demonstrated the need for a nationwide election integrity law, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) voted to kill the SAVE America Act. This would be understandable if the bill were unpopular with the electorate. But its requirement that voters in every state must provide proof of citizenship before registering to vote and produce a photo ID when casting a ballot are wildly popular among Republicans and Democrats. Yet, because its passage is one of President Trump’s top priorities, TDS forced them to ignore his agenda.
It’s not often life showcases a problem in real time. It is now in the form of California and the Senate.
It’s become clear that California voting is designed to give Democrats the ability to cheat. Aside from Ranked Choice Voting scam and a universal mail-out of ballots, the state allows 30 days for votes to be counted, a fraud facilitator if there ever were one.
We’re seeing it play itself out very much in real time. Last week in Los Angeles in the battle for Mayor, at one point after an update of 24,000 votes, Spencer Pratt, a guy with 30% support, did not gain a single vote.
Dozens of driverless trucks are hitting the road as industries rush toward automation.
PepsiCo is partnering with autonomous vehicle startup Gatik to rollout a fleet of 35 driverless trucks, Wall Street Journal reported Monday. It’s reportedly the first time a U.S. company disclosed using autonomous trucks on public highways. The 26,000-pound vehicle featured by WSJ is one of many driverless trucks designed by Gatik with embedded cameras, radar, and lidar technology. The startup secured $600 million in revenue through multiyear contacts with multiple companies, according to WSJ. “These operations that we’re running today are real,”
Boomers: A Generation of Scrooge McDucks?
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Boomers: Is there anything they don't do wrong? Not to hear the Millennials and Zoomers tell it, there isn't — with a big push recently in the mainstream media. Today's Big Boomer Problem: They're hoarding the wealth.
It was either my partner in thoughtcrime, Stephen Kruiser, or Yours Truly (honestly can't remember which) who pointed out ages ago on Five O'Clock Somewhere that Lefties have this Scrooge McDuck image of wealthy people and particularly of business.
Every successful businessman has a vault full of gold coins and rubies somewhere, and they go swimming through their riches whenever the fancy strikes, lording it over all the little people
LA Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt has dropped to third place and will not make the runoff. Leftist city council member Nithya Raman, who previously conceded defeat, has now leaped into second place after winning approximately 40% of all mail-in ballots received in the past few days. A stunning, remarkable, incredible and some say unbelievable outcome.
There are still several days of ballot counting ahead. After all, the creation of ballots takes time and resources, and as noted by several people in/around the LA area, locally sourced, artisanal ballots can take much longer to be grown and curated.
(snip). Remarkable.
Lawyers representing accused murderer Karmelo Anthony rested their case Monday, after their 19-year-old client declined to take the stand in his own defense. (snip) In one specific case, a witness called by the defense contradicted Anthony’s self-defense claim by saying, “I think Karmelo was in the wrong.”
Prosecutors then asked, “Did Karmelo Anthony provoke the confrontation?”
The defense witness responded, “Yes.” That’s just one example of a defense case that appears to have gone off the rails.
We must take the mentally ill off the
streets to prevent another Penn Station
stabbing spree 13 replies
streets to prevent another Penn Station
stabbing spree 13 replies
One man sits at the top of a short escalator, surrounded by trash; he offers a running, often threatening commentary about the end times. If asked to move, he screams. Sometimes he just screams.
In the main plaza, a drug addict in tatters reels across the floor, accosting anyone who slows down — the New Jersey riders, the business travelers, the tourists.
[snip]That’s what happened Sunday night, when a mentally ill man pulled a knife and stabbed and slashed five people. The tragedy that homeless advocates claim never happens happened again.
How many stories have you read recently about the mentally ill pushing people onto subway tracks?