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A suspect wanted in connection with an attack in which two Swedish soccer fans were shot dead in Brussels in 2023 was arrested in Malaga, Spanish police said on Saturday.

Two Swedish men were shot and one was injured when an attacker opened fire before a match between Sweden and Belgium in October 2023.

The victims were a man about 70 years old from the Stockholm region and a man about 60 years old who lived abroad, Sweden’s foreign ministry said at the time.

So they weren’t any threat to anybody.

Spanish police said they arrested the suspect, who was not named, at Malaga airport as he was about to board a flight to leave the country.

“The man provided the firearm to the attacker,” Spanish police said in a statement.

The suspect was due to appear in court in Madrid on Saturday to face extradition hearings to Belgium where he faces charges of terrorism and homicide, police sources told Reuters.

Hours after the Brussels attack, police shot dead a suspect in a cafe in the Belgian capital.

The 45-year-old identified himself as a member of the Islamic State group and claimed responsibility in a video posted online.

Imagine how low the crime rates would be if young black males were prohibited from possessing firearms.

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A man who entered the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, and was later arrested said President Donald Trump’s pardon this week was “a glorious moment.”

Siaka Massaquoi, a conservative actor and former first vice chair of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, spoke to The Daily Signal about his experiences with law enforcement and Trump’s decision to pardon 1,500 individuals on his first day in office.

Like others who entered the Capitol building on that fateful day in 2021, Massaquoi recalls being interviewed, recording video, and leaving at the request of a police officer.

When describing the events of Jan. 6, he called the situation a “honeypot” and “entrapment.”

“I’ve seen videos where Capitol Police removed fencing and the signs that said that it was a restricted area. … We were entrapped by the Biden administration,” he told The Daily Signal.

Massaquoi was not contacted by law enforcement regarding his presence at the Capitol until FBI officers raided his home on June 10, 2021.

“It was a raid to my house, and 15 agents, and guns drawn,” Massaquoi said during an interview Thursday. “When I heard, ‘FBI! FBI!’ the first thought that came to mind was, ‘You have got to be kidding me.’”

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That weekend, the centre of Washington was largely deserted, thanks to an elaborate “security bubble” around the White House and the Capitol. Other areas also seemed empty, possibly because the more enthusiastic Democrat voters decided that the best way to protest Trump’s inauguration was to leave town and avoid the incoming crowds. On Saturday night much of the city seemed to have been partly abandoned to visitors in bright-red “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” baseball caps, most of whom aimed to get roaring drunk.

Undercover Trump supporters in wealthy liberal areas like Georgetown decided that it was safe to come out of the closet. They have long signalled their unacceptable views by smoking certain brands of cigarette, or using nicotine pouches. But that night, you could see chubby young Republican men in glasses walking around the streets in MAGA caps, either in small groups or (occasionally) with dates. Many had just left victory parties, and were wearing evening dress. They tried their best to ingratiate themselves with their fellow Trump supporters from out of town, who might have voted for the same presidential candidate, but did not seem to be on the same team.

MAGA-cap men who didn’t live in or near Georgetown, or work in politics or media, or ostentatiously read books, adhered to a code of masculinity that had been established by 1980s action films, and professional wrestling of the Hulk Hogan era. By contrast, those who aspired to be their overlords in the Republican Party inclined towards a kind of nostalgic Anglophilia with literary pretensions. The relatively few women who could be seen in Georgetown that night were evidently more interested in the men who weren’t trying to impress them by quoting G. K. Chesterton.

The Crustian condescension just drips–that’s an awfully long nose to look down on the part of a fashionable minority from the Turd World.

CIA now backs lab leak theory to explain origins of Covid-19 (The Guardian)

CIA says that Covid-19 probably leaked from Chinese laboratory (Financial Times)

CIA now says COVID-19 ‘more likely’ to have come from lab (Reuters)

CIA shifts assessment on Covid origins, saying lab leak likely caused outbreak (NBC News)

Pete Hegseth confirmed as defense secretary after Vance breaks tie (Washington Poop)

Trump fires at least 12 independent inspectors general, US media say (Reuters)

McConnell sends a message (Politico) Yeah, “I am a RINO!”

Great Purge By Trump & Corporate America Could Leave “Thousands Of DEI Experts Unemployed”   Wouldn’t that be wonderful?

The owner of CBS News is talking about caving to Trump (Erik Wemple/Washington Post)

RFK Jr. skipped meeting where officials planned fight against a future pandemic (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)

Dems Balk on Negotiating Extension of Tax Cuts That’s because Democrats hate tax cuts. Your money is their money, and they want to spend it.

WHO to Limit Travel, Freeze Hiring After Trump Announces Withdrawal  Kick those pigs away from the trough.

Trump’s Obscene Jan. 6 Pardons Will Live in Infamy (Walter Olson/The UnPopulist)

Trump’s DEI push doesn’t level the playing field. It digs trenches. (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Mexico refuses to accept a U.S. deportation flight (NBC News)

Trump Halts Ukraine Aid As State Dept “Totally Went Nuclear” On Foreign Assistance

CBS’s King Blasts Trump for Having Too Few Blacks – ‘The View’s’ Hostin Says There Were Too Many

Mississippi Bill Would Reward Bounty Hunters Who Nab Migrants

US Agencies Begin Removing DEI Guidance From Web in Trump Crackdown

FDA Pulls Web Pages on Diversity With Clinical Trials

Convicted Defamers at CNN Lecture About ‘Deepfakes’ Under Trump

Here’s how Trump’s pause on wind projects could threaten jobs and climate goals (Julia Simon/NPR)  Notice that the jobs come first.

Interior Department Says Gulf of Mexico Is Now ‘Gulf of America’ (Lisa Friedman/New York Times)

EXCLUSIVE: Read the Frantic Memo Eric Holder Sent Clients After Trump Declared War on DEI

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Lawmakers returning to Salem for the start of the Legislative session this week are being greeted by roadside messages encouraging them to “Free Eastern Oregon” by moving the border. The billboard campaign is the work of the Greater Idaho Movement, an organization seeking to move Oregon’s border so that the conservative eastern counties of the state can become part of Idaho.

The messages, running on five different screens across the Salem area and I-5 corridor, are varied, but all relate to the same theme of self-determination for the people of eastern Oregon and the feeling that the wishes of the people there are not being heard or respected.

“For four years, voters in eastern Oregon have been passing our measures telling their elected leaders they want them to pursue moving the border. The people have spoken and the Idaho Legislature has already passed a memorial supporting border talks. It’s time for Oregon’s Legislature to stop holding eastern Oregonians captive and let us go,” said Matt McCaw, Executive Director of the movement. “This campaign is a message directly to the legislators who have the power to do that.”

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Apparently it wasn’t affordable for the company to offer it, so they didn’t. The next step is a law to force companies to provide the service anyway (as with hospitals), so the companies go out of business or go somewhere else, and everybody suffers.

Price controls don’t work If they force the price lower than the market price, supplies dry up.

Examples: Minimum wage laws, insurance premium caps, ‘price-gouging’ laws, ‘windfall’ taxes, etc.

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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced that it has dismissed 11 complaints related to so-called “book bans.” The complaints alleged that local school districts’ removal of age-inappropriate, sexually explicit, or obscene materials from their school libraries created a hostile environment for students – a meritless claim premised upon a dubious legal theory. Effective Jan. 24, 2025, OCR has rescinded all department guidance issued under the theory that a school district’s removal of age-inappropriate books from its libraries may violate civil rights laws. OCR is also dismissing six additional pending allegations of book banning and will no longer employ a “book ban coordinator” to investigate local school districts and parents working to protect students from obscene content.

“By dismissing these complaints and eliminating the position and authorities of a so-called ‘book ban coordinator,’ the department is beginning the process of restoring the fundamental rights of parents to direct their children’s education,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor. “The department adheres to the deeply rooted American principle that local control over public education best allows parents and teachers alike to assess the educational needs of their children and communities. Parents and school boards have broad discretion to fulfill that important responsibility. These decisions will no longer be second-guessed by the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education.”

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And you know the reason why.

Gothamist.

Seven men have been indicted for what authorities say was their involvement in a deadly, gang-related shootout in front of young children at a Richmond Hill baby shower last year. One of the men has yet to be apprehended.

The shooting resulted in the death of 24-year-old Great Neck, Long Island resident Jefari Dobie-Reinhardt and injuries to three others in attendance, according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz’s office.

More than 40 people, including four children, were in attendance at the baby shower, which took place on May 4 at the Volume Seventeen event venue on Atlantic Avenue, the DA’s office said in a statement Friday. It said two people first opened fire at a crowd of about a dozen people outside, before panicked attendees ran indoors, and then several people fired guns back out through the venue’s windows to the sidewalk.

At least 35 bullet casings, one fired bullet and two live cartridges were recovered at the venue, authorities said. In the statement, Katz described the shooting as “a scene out of the Wild West.”

Imagine how low the crime rates would be if young black males were prohibited from possessing firearms.

New York Times.

Gov. Gavin Newsom came into office in 2018 confronting one of the deadliest and most destructive fires in the state’s history: the Camp fire. Even before he was sworn in, Mr. Newsom accompanied Donald Trump, then the president, and Jerry Brown, then the governor, in inspecting a blaze that killed 85 people and consumed over 153,000 acres around the Butte County town of Paradise.

On Friday, more than six years later, Mr. Newsom will once again greet Mr. Trump as the president comes to Los Angeles to view the aftermath of the latest devastating wildfires that have swept California.

These new fires — in the Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles and in Altadena — serve as a reminder that Mr. Newsom’s tenure as governor has been defined by catastrophe and crisis, whether natural or man-made: fires, mudslides, atmospheric rivers, the Covid pandemic, the at-times violent protests against police brutality after the murder of George Floyd.

“It’s mind-boggling the number of natural disasters and otherwise he has to deal with,” said Anthony Rendon, who served as speaker of the California Assembly from 2016 to 2023. “It is something that has bracketed — and maybe even defined — his time in office as governor.”

Progressive chickens coming home to roost. Incompetence will out.

UPDATE: Group Launches New Recall Effort To Remove California Governor

UPDATE:  Gavin Newsom Shut Down a Volunteer Wildfire Response Force, Leaving LA Firefighters Shorthanded for 10 Days

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On Monday, PBS News Hour’s White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez called up the liberal media’s campaign-period name-calling of re-elected President Trump as “the convicted felon,” while skating over Biden’s preemptive family pardons.

Co-anchor Amna Nawaz launched the festival of excuse-making on outgoing President Biden’s behalf.

UPDATE: Violent Illegal Gang Member: “Biden Forever.” Thanks Obama “For Everything He Did For Me”

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Amazon has recently made several major internal changes, including removing statements advocating for LGBTQ rights and racial equity from its public listing of corporate policies. This is a bold move for the second-largest employer in the world, which also just announced a documentary with First Lady Melania Trump.

The deletion of previous statements pledging to commit to “equity for Black people” and “LGBTQ+ rights” were removed from a page on the company’s website in December, as were any mentions of the word “transgender,” according to The Washington Post.

Take the red pill, Jeff!

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A US-designated terrorist group still remains the current de facto ruling entity in Damascus and over Syria. But for the West, all that matters is that al-Qaeda linked Jolani is not Assad. A decade-plus long proxy war in pursuit of regime change finally overthrew the secular Baath government early last month, and resulted in the hardline Islamists of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) controlling most of the country.

The West appears to be fully embracing the new rulers which we previously referred to as al-Qaeda in suits. This week we have been treated to the spectacle of a HTS representative speaking on the main stage at Davos. He’s come a long way from Idlib and its black flags… straight to the red carpet jet-setting champaign-sipping insider atmosphere of world elites.

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Jim Acosta may soon be out of a job at CNN and begging for a new one at MSNBC, the only network likely to put up with his self-righteous preening these next four years with Donald Trump as president. The notoriously obnoxious host, best known for making a scene at press conferences during the first Trump administration, is reportedly threatening to quit after CNN asked him to accept a humiliating demotion by moving his weekday show, CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, from 10 a.m. to the “graveyard shift” between midnight at 2 a.m.

CNN executives have even offered to move Acosta to Los Angeles so he can live in the Pacific Time Zone. They’ve pitched the idea by noting that midnight on the East Coast is primetime (9 p.m.) on the West Coast and suggesting that CNN is more than just “an Acela corridor network.” (It’s not.) Acosta wasn’t thrilled about the new time slot, which remains the subject of “active discussions,” according to a network spokesman. The host ended his show on Wednesday with a defiant sign-off: “Still reporting from Washington, I’m Jim Acosta.” The Los Angeles Times reported this week that Acosta may leave the network rather than accept the embarrassing reassignment. One CNN insider told Fox News the graveyard shift is Acosta’s only option if he wants to stay. “He could have a real slot, but the choice is to not give him one,” the insider said.

UPDATE: Jim Acosta Absent From New CNN Program Schedule

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Republicans in the House and Senate jointly introduced the bill with broad backing, signaling that the measure is an early priority in both legislative chambers. The legislation would impose sanctions on the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for providing millions of dollars to imprisoned terrorists and their families. It also would sanction any “foreign persons” known to facilitate these payments or help the Palestinian government administer the program.

This ought to have been done under the Carter administration and continued under every subsequent President.

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Of course they are. This is the Marxist ‘reserve army of the unemployed’ except that proglodytes have discovered that such don’t need to be employed, just dependent on government benefits that will last so long as they vote for the Party of Free Stuff.

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We’ll still need an Underclass to do the shit jobs that can’t be automated, now that Americans are too narcissistic to do such work, and traditionally that was were ‘migrants’ started out before the Welfare State made malingering so comfortable.

Reuters.

Good. Let him spend his money rather than stick the taxpayers with it.

President Donald Trump goes off the rails when asked about California wildfires (ABC 7 Los Angeles)

Trump suggests Ukraine shouldn’t have fought back against Russia (NBC News)

US judge blocks Trump’s order curtailing birthright citizenship (Reuters)

The real reason Trump wants to end birthright citizenship (Washington Poop) As if Eugene Robinson had any clue about what the real reason is that Trump does anything.

Judge blocks Trump’s ‘blatantly unconstitutional’ executive order that aims to end birthright citizenship (CNN)

Trump birthright citizenship order could leave U.S.-born babies of asylum-seekers ‘stateless,’ attorneys say (NBC News) No, it won’t–they all come from countries where your citizenship is determined by what citizenship your parents have (jus sanguinis).

Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Plan to End Birthright Citizenship (New York Times).

Trump administration defends his birthright citizenship order in court for the first time (Daniel Barnes/NBC News)

A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship (Associated Press)

A Trump movie that Trump hates is going to get a lot more attention, courtesy of the Oscars (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)  My, what a surprise.

The Price of Speaking Up in Trump’s America (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)

The Truth Speakers – In a terrible week for our country, three stars shone brightly through the gloom. (Jay Kuo/The Status Kuo)

Bishop Mariann Budde angered Donald Trump with her inauguration sermon. Rabbis like me should have such courage.  Go badmouth Trump. Doesn’t take any courage at all.

God Clarifies That ‘Wherever Two Or Three Are Gathered In My Name, I Am With Them’ Doesn’t Apply To Episcopalians (Babylon Bee)

The varieties of Trump-hatred

Murkowski announces she’ll oppose Hegseth (Connor O’Brien/Politico)  The wicked witch of the north burnishes her RINO credentials.

U.S. judge temporarily blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order (Brian Mann/NPR)

Trump tells the world to show him the money (Eli Stokols/Politico)

‘They Should Not Have Been Prosecuted’: Trump Pardons Pro-Lifers Convicted Under FACE Act

What It Means That Republicans Aren’t Acting on the Pete Hegseth Allegations (Bret Stephens/New York Times)  It means that they think the allegations bullshit, which they are.

Well, Well, Well: Trump Can’t Lower Egg Prices After All (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

Rubio instructs staff to freeze passport applications with ‘X’ sex markers (Joseph Gedeon/The Guardian)

Trump’s First Shot in His War on the ‘Deep State’ (Shane Harris/The Atlantic)

RINO Defections Fail To Derail Hegseth As Senate Confirmation Advances

Trump MemeCoins Set To Be Sued… But To What End?

New Bill Would Codify Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order Into Law

Trump Brings Stellantis Jobs To Illinois… Pritzker Takes Credit

ICE agents arrest hundreds of migrants in sanctuary cities, including New York City (abc7NY)

Internet Spams Trump’s ‘DEI Truth’ Tip Line With Porn, ‘Simpsons’ Jokes (Matt Shuham/HuffPost)  Proglodyte refusal to grow up is signature.

Portland Church Vows To Protect Illegal Immigrants From Deportation

Trump Officials Move to Quickly Expel Migrants Biden Allowed In Temporarily (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)

Trump’s rapid changes in U.S. government stuns, stirs anxiety among federal workers (Tim Reid/Reuters)

Health researchers alarmed as Trump administration pauses travel, communications (Washington Post) The squeals you’re hearing are pigs being kicked away from the trough.

Newsom plans to crash Trump’s LA wildfire visit (Christopher Cadelago/Politico) I’d love to see him get arrested by the Secret Service.

“Deportation Flights Begin”: White House Announces First Jumbo Jet Of Illegals Departs America

Elon Musk doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt (Zack Beauchamp/Vox) It’s not about what’s fair, it’s about the Hunt for Heretics and Sinners.

Trump doesn’t only want to end DEI. He’s also voiding a Civil Rights-era anti-discrimination rule. (CBS News)

Hundreds of “illegal immigrant criminals” arrested, hundreds more flown out of U.S. by military, White House says (CBS News)

North Dakota Sued the Interior Department at Least Five Times Under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now He’s Set to Run the Agency. (ProPublica)

Trump’s budget pick, Russ Vought, is starting to upend Washington (Washington Post)

Trump’s gusher of misleading economic statistics at Davos (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)

How Trump decided to kick off his second term with blanket Jan. 6 pardon (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post) Which is why he was elected.

DOJ orders federally funded legal service providers to stop providing support at immigration courts (Laura Romero/ABC News)

Trump’s ICE nabs child sex offenders among 530+ illegal immigrants caught in single day (Adam Shaw/Fox News)

Biden embraced diversity efforts. Trump has moved to demolish them. (Joe Davidson/Washington Post)  Which is why he was elected.

Trump Bars Transgender Women From U.S. Prisons for Female Inmates (New York Times)

How Trump Will Fail – After a four-year hiatus, we are once again compelled to go spelunking … (David Brooks/New York Times) David Brooks is just an anti-Trump proglodyte after all.

Trump’s Plan to Crush the Academic Left (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)  Couldn’t happen too soon.

There Is No Resistance – To see how far the lines of normal have moved since President Donald … (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

Revealed: Trump Pentagon nominee endorsed extremist Christian doctrine on podcast (Jason Wilson/The Guardian)  To The Guardian, all Christian doctrines are ‘extremist’.

How Republicans Learned to Excuse Political Violence (Will Saletan/The Bulwark) By constantly losing to Democrat political violence.

Trump’s DEI orders may halt progress for disabled workers (Emily Peck/Axios)

Trump’s F.B.I. Pick Sees ‘Deep State’ Plotters in Government, and Some Good in QAnon (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)

Rutgers Center Cancels Conference in Response to Trump DEI Orders (Jessica Blake/Inside Higher Ed)

Watch: Davos Globalists Admit “We Have Lost To Trump”

Trump Leaves Pompeo, Hook and Bolton Unprotected (Wall Street Journal)

The Border Debate Is Over. Dems Lost. (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)

Trump Drive to Cut Safety Net Could Hit His Voters (Jason DeParle/New York Times)

Trump enlists attorney general to investigate Biden administration (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)

Judge bars Rhodes, other Oath Keepers from entering DC without court permission (Ella Lee/The Hill)

Former Secret Service agent: Trump put Bolton, Pompeo ‘at significant risk’ (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

Musk Tells a ‘Joke’ (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  But not as much of a joke as the Kristol Krew.

Donald Trump is not waiting for RFK Jr. – he has already started his war on public health (Amanda Marcotte/Salon) Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

CNN Panel Imagines Images of Crying Mothers to Battle Trump On Birthright Citizenship

Charlamagne Demands Dems Stop ‘Frolicking With Fascist Bull****,’ Treat Trump Like Hitler

The Markets Are Ignoring Everything Trump Said To Focus Just On One Partial Quote

Trump empowers deportation agents to target migrants Biden administration allowed into the U.S. legally (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)

Judge bars Oath Keepers founder, freed from prison by Trump, from visiting Capitol (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Trump returns – and so does his astounding ignorance (Dana Milbank/Washington Post)

Somebody Call Daniel Dale! CNN and Others Have No Idea What a ‘Treaty’ Is

Trump Admin Moves to Expel Biden’s ‘Paroled’ Migrants

Rhode Island judge specializing in immigration law resigns after FBI raids office (Fox News)

Two Words and a World of Trouble (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Nazispalooza: The Left’s Third Reich Mania Collapses Into Comedy

In California Fires, Trump Blames Newsom for Withholding Water. Experts Disagree. (New York Times)

ABC ‘News’: Ana Navarro Claims Trump Rolled Back Interracial Marriages

PBS Worries Trump May Impose ‘Government Line’ With Tech Supporters

Clever Immigrant Evades Trump’s Deportation Efforts By Not Raping, Murdering, Stealing, Or Entering Country Illegally (Babylon Bee)

Fauci Stripped of Government Security Protection (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)  Stripped!

Trump Leaves Democrats Dazed and on the Defensive (Reid J. Epstein/New York Times)

DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)

Freed Jan. 6 Convicts Are Back on the Street and Ready to Help Trump (Wall Street Journal)

Federal Agencies Erase DEI Guidance From Websites

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My heart sank listening to Washington Bishop Mariann Budde during a post-inauguration service at Washington National Cathedral, the beautifully sculpted, limestone, crown jewel church for Episcopalians like me in the D.C. area.

The majestic National Cathedral hosted similar inauguration prayer services 10 times before. This time, sadly, Budde gave the perfect illustration of why the Episcopal Church, and other Mainline Protestant denominations (including woke Lutherans and Presbyterians) are rapidly losing members nationwide.

Too often, Episcopal churches are narrow-minded, progressive political rallies instead of expansive, inspiring communities of God’s unconditional, eternal love. I say this as a proud baptized and confirmed member of the Episcopal Church, the church of George Washington and many other Founding Fathers.

From Short Circuit, a newsletter of the Institute for Justice:

Two married Indian nationals have lawfully lived in the United States on employment-based nonimmigrant visas since 2012. After waiting in line almost eight years for a green card, they thought they had reached the front, only to be told two years later that their applications were on hold indefinitely until more immigrant visas became available. The last time this happened, applicants waited eight to nine years for final adjudication. Fed up with the delays, they sue. Third Circuit: Federal law gives USCIS unreviewable discretion on how to manage green card applications and the visa backlog. Whether this particular policy is sound is not for courts to say.

Perhaps if we made the immigration process a bit more user-friendly and less GOVERNMENT-STUPID, we wouldn’t have so much of a problem. Just sayin’.

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Reports this week point to new figures showing that “up to” 585,000 illegal migrants live in London, which is equivalent to one in 12 of the UK capital’s population. One migration expert told europeanconservative.com that the true number is likely to be “even higher.”

Migration Watch chairman Alp Mehmet said that the think tank “estimates the overall number of illegal migrants in the UK to be around 1.5-2 million, the bulk (circa 60%) of whom will be in the capital.”

In other words, there could be between 900,000 and 1.2 million illegal migrants in London.

Robert Bates, who is research director for the Centre for Migration Control, also told this publication that “we need to find, detain and deport every single person living in the UK illegally” because “they pose a potential security threat and impose an unjust cost on the British taxpayer.”

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Bomb threats targeting 292 schools across Hungary caused widespread evacuations and the cancellation of classes on Thursday, January 23rd. Police conducted thorough searches of the affected institutions, but no explosive devices were found, allowing pupils to return to school on Friday.

Following the bomb scares, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said that his country would not only be facing threats but also acts of terrorism if they had admitted migrants to Hungary.

Speaking to Kossuth Rádió on Friday, Viktor Orbán said it was possible that the threats were orchestrated from an international hub, one beyond the reach of Hungarian authorities. He pointed to similar bomb threats against Slovakian and Czech schools last year. On Wednesday, numerous schools in Bulgaria also received bomb threats.

He noted that acts of terrorism occur regularly in Western Europe, therefore it is impossible to dismiss such events with a mere shrug of the shoulder. He stressed that “if we had allowed migrants in, we would not be facing threats, but acts of terrorism.”

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carried out a raid on a Newark business Thursday, detaining non-citizens and citizens alike, according to Mayor Ras J. Baraka.

“A Newark native, Baraka is the son of poet and activist Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones) and his wife Amina Baraka.” — Wikipedia. Another Democrat grifter who thinks that adopting an Arab (or Arab-sounding) name is ‘more authentically black’, even though the Arabs (and other Muslims) enslaved more black Africans than white Europeans.

The incident, which could not immediately be confirmed with ICE or its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, comes three days after President Donald Trump reiterated on Inauguration Day his campaign pledge to launch a mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.

Baraka denounced the raid as an “egregious act” conducted without a warrant and in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees “the right of the people be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

This clown needs to consult a lawyer before spewing his lies. ICE doesn’t need a warrant to detain suspected illegal immigrants, any more than police need a warrant to detain suspected robberts.

“One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned,” Baraka, a Democrat seeking his party’s nomination for governor this year, said in a statement late Thursday afternoon. “Newark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized.”

Documentation needs to be checked. Fakes are all around us. ‘Nobody is above the law.’

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The Labour Party and Liberal Democrats both adopted the APPG’s definition of ‘Islamophobia’ and in the process defined not only historical facts such as “Muslims spreading Islam by the sword or subjugating minority groups under their rule” as Islamophobic but committed  themselves to automatically believing “Muslim majority states” making accusations of “genocide perpetrated against Muslims” in Israel and anywhere else, and to also suppressing any discussion of Muslim sex grooming gangs as Islamophobic and a danger to Muslims.

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On the first day of his administration, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders which promise to end hysteria over fearful narratives.

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Until yesterday’s knife jihad attack, I had never heard of the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg. Today brings news that Aschaffenburg is a veritable multicultural paradise, with Muslim “refugees” playing major roles involving the use of knives.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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Following the brutal attack that cost two people their lives yesterday, including a 2-year-old child, in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg, Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel is calling for mass deportations.

“In Bavaria, which is governed by the CSU, an Afghan in Aschaffenburg kills a toddler (2) and a good Samaritan (41) who rushed to help the child. The Afghan had previously followed the child’s daycare group. My thoughts are with the relatives and the injured. Remigration now!” wrote Weidel on X.

NBC News.

Gee, I wonder why?

LiveScience.

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems.

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China’s first Type 054B frigate, the Luohe, was commissioned into the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) on Wednesday. The PLAN’s newest warship is purportedly bristling with advanced features. Its commissioning follows a Pentagon warning late last year about Beijing’s growing ability to quickly churn out high-end vessels as part of a rapidly expanding fleet with increasing reach across the globe. The ship class, referred to by the U.S. and NATO as the Jiangkai III class, could eventually become the backbone of China’s combat fleet in the future, although Luohe and a second Type 054B are believed to be the only two built thus far.

The Luohe was commissioned at the Qingdao Comprehensive Support Base, situated just across the Yellow Sea from South Korea. The ship was launched in 2023 and underwent sea trials last year. While Beijing released few technical details on the vessel, online posts citing the government state that the ship displaces about 5,000 tons. It is also believed to be longer and more capable of future system upgrades than its predecessor, the Type 054A.

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Last year, the British government decided to end tax breaks for wealthy foreigners, a decision that may have contributed to 10,800 millionaires fleeing the U.K. in 2024, Bloomberg noted. Now, though, Reeves is considering an amendment that would lessen the impact of those plans, multiple people familiar with the matter told the outlet, requesting anonymity as the details have not yet been publicized. That amendment would allow some people to more easily access the temporary repatriation facility (TPF), which lets non-doms bring in previously earned foreign income and gains at a reduced tax rate.

“The temporary repatriation facility is designed to encourage non-doms to bring their funds to the U.K., encouraging them to spend and invest this money here,” the Treasury said in a statement cited by Bloomberg. The current program is available for three tax years from 2025, with a tax rate of 12 percent for the first two years and 15 percent for the third year. The planned amendment wouldn’t change the tax rates or the length of the TRF, people familiar with the situation told the publication.

While the proposed changes to the tax regime may be celebrated by some high-net-worth individuals in the U.K., they may not largely affect the outflow of millionaires.

Once the government gets the idea that your money is its money, it’s hard to go back.

Gothamist.

New York state Assemblymember Al Taylor of Harlem retired at the end of last year — which is probably news to his constituents, whom he still represents.

Taylor, a Democrat, is the latest state lawmaker to take advantage of a constitutional quirk that lets him collect his public salary and pension at the same time. All he had to do was briefly “retire” before beginning his new term, which he did by filing his papers on Dec. 31, and return to work the next day.

Taylor will now receive his $142,000 base salary as well as public retirement benefits that could exceed $75,000 annually, depending on which payment option he selected and whether he selected a beneficiary. He is one of at least 15 New York state lawmakers currently collecting a public pension and public salary, according to the state comptroller’s office. Taylor did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Fact check: Trump litters Oval Office interview with false claims (CNN) The notion of CNN doing a ‘fact check’ is ludicrous.

Trump suggests Biden and those he pardoned should be investigated (Politico) That would seem to be the finger of God pointing.

Trump’s team wants snitches to expose DEI work (Axios) Taking another page from the Democrats’ own playbook. Sauce for the goose….

Trump says China is ‘operating’ the Panama Canal – here are the facts (The Guardian)

Republicans balk at new Hegseth allegations (Politico)  Yeah, this is another Kavanaugh tempest-in-a-teapot.

CBS 58 weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture (Journal Sentinel)

Democrats Slow G.O.P. Rush to Confirm Trump Nominees (Carl Hulse/New York Times)

House passes Laken Riley Act, sending it to Trump for first legislative win (The Hill)

Trump has canceled Biden’s ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of ‘drain the swamp’ (Will Weissert/Associated Press)

Trump Begins Deep State Purge At DOJ

Hundreds of subreddits are considering banning all links to X.com in response to Elon Musk’s salute … (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

First Round of Illegal Migrants Detained in Colorado  How’s that ‘sanctuary city’ thing working out for you, Denver?

Trump DOJ gears up for immigration enforcement (Politico)

Justice Department freezes all cases in civil rights division (Perry Stein/Washington Post)

State Dept.: Only US Flag Can Be Flown at Embassies

Trump’s Immigration Plans Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

MSNBC’s Joyless Reid Joins Elon Musk Nazi Salute Hoax

Trump targeted federal workers in his opening act, starting with DEI employees (Washington Post)

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring (Science)

ACLU Sues Over Expedited Deportations  Of course it does.

Rubio Moves Swiftly to Implement Trump’s DEI Directive at State Department

Rubio is heading to Panama (Politico)

Trump pardons police officers convicted of murder, obstruction in man’s death (Aysha Bagchi/USA Today)

Trump Repeals Embarrassing Biden Policy Allowing Transgenders To Serve In US Military

Trump pardons two D.C. officers convicted in fatal chase (Washington Post)

Trump says FEMA is “getting in the way” (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)

Trump’s Rush List for Security Clearances Poses Risks, and Congress Will Have No Oversight (NOTUS)

Trump suggests Biden and those he pardoned should be investigated (Irie Sentner/Politico)

Trump threatens to withhold aid for California wildfires in first TV interview since inauguration (Washington Post)

A Line-by-Line Breakdown of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order (Elie Mystal/The Nation)

FTC Chairman Ferguson Announces that DEI is Over at the FTC (Federal Trade Commission)

President Donald Trump goes off the rails when asked about California wildfires (Rob Hayes/ABC7)

Trump says he may withhold federal aid for Los Angeles if California doesn’t change water policies (Associated Press)

Trump’s sweeping new order tries to dismantle DEI in government – and the private sector (Andrew Prokop/Vox)

Trump Administration Cancels Flights for Refugees Already Approved for Travel (New York Times)

Russian Official Warns Trump Against Taking Control Of Panama Canal

Trump undercuts enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Immigrants rush to prepare for Trump deportation raids (Axios)  They can always leave.

Trump’s Week 1 revenge tour rips through Washington (Zachary Basu/Axios) You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.

Trump Calls for MSNBC to Be Shut Down in Nighttime Rant (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)

The Memo: Trump 2.0 comes into focus (Niall Stanage/The Hill)

CNN Plots Major Overhaul as It Enters a New Trump Era (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)

Judge to Weigh Challenge to Trump Birthright Citizenship Order

The shitcoin presidency – $TRUMP is taking corruption to new levels. (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)

What Republicans Could Cut to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts: Medicaid and More (New York Times)

The Vibes They Are a-Shiftin’ – But it’s really not clear what they are shifting to (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)

Playbook: Donny does Davos (Jack Blanchard/Politico)

Trump’s Actions Are Not Just Lawless; They Defy Our Deepest Values (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit and attempts to dictate what ‘our’ values are.

Federal employees are told to name colleagues who work in DEI roles or risk ‘adverse consequences’ (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)  Using the levers of the Deep State against them. (Do you think they’ll take the hint?)

‘The gloves are off’: Trump appears poised to cash in from his presidency in new ways (Fredreka Schouten/CNN)

Donald Trump’s war on DEI is not about “merit” (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  As if Amanda Marcotte would recognize merit if it bit her on the foot.

Donald Trump Is Running Riot (David French/New York Times)  David French burnishes his cuckservative credentials.

Hegseth’s ex-wife gives new statement to FBI amid scrutiny over his nomination (CNN)

In first days, Trump deals ‘death blow’ to DEI and affirmative action (Washington Post)  Here’s hoping.

Trump falsely triples number of reported overdose deaths as he targets cartels (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post) Quibbling about numbers means you can dodge discussing the problem. Welcome to modern ‘journalism’.

Trump’s D.E.I. Order Creates ‘Fear and Confusion’ Among Corporate Leaders (Emma Goldberg/New York Times) And rightly so. Those who bend with the wind are in deep doo-doo when the hurricane arrives.

Trump Revokes Security Detail for Pompeo and Others Despite Threats From Iran (Maggie Haberman/New York Times)

China Will Be Thrilled if Trump Kills America’s Green Economy (Jennifer Granholm/New York Times) Watch me wave my hands while I steal the taxpayers blind!

Trump’s anger toward World Health Organization may reshape global health, politics (Washington Post)

Justice Dept. Cancels Entry-Level Job Offers in Honors Program (Glenn Thrush/New York Times)

U.S. Climate Policy: Turnaround Time for Trump

What to Consider Buying Before Trump’s Tariffs Go Into Effect

‘Fact-Based’ AP Hypes Hoax of Elon Musk Offering ‘Nazi Salutes’ at Inauguration Event

‘A Bounty on My Head’: Congress’s First Transgender Member Faces the Trump Era (Annie Karni/New York Times)

WAR WITH TRUMP: Soros DA Scheming to Re-Prosecute Pardoned January 6 Defendants

What Trump didn’t say in his inauguration speech (Bernie Sanders/The Guardian)  Bernie Sanders has fun making shit up.

‘What Are You, a Salute Truther?’ Scott Jennings CLOWNS NYT Reporter Over Dumb Elon Salute Hoax

Federal Government Drops COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement For Legal Immigrants

Trump Admin Taking Out the NASA Trash

The American Mind.

hijacking the review process for K-12 history and civics curricula. Educators and radicals, in league with one another, are conspiring to turn students against America’s traditional cultural and political institutions.

Now that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being exposed as ahistorical indoctrination, a new permutation of neo-Marxist theory is gaining currency in our schools. It’s called postcolonialism. Its stated mission is to fight “settler colonialism,” a term used to describe any society supposedly built upon the oppression and genocide of indigenous people. Examples of “settler societies” include Israel, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Canada, and the United States. The recent student activism against Israel, which denied the country’s right to exist and celebrated terrorist attacks against it, demonstrated the true nature of postcolonialism and its power to inspire hatred on campus.

Whereas CRT is largely an American phenomenon, postcolonial ideology developed within a broader global context, emerging out of the various movements to end empire around the world—much as CRT emerged as a mutation of the movement to end racial segregation in America. What the civil rights movement is to CRT, the decolonization movement is to postcolonialism. The intellectual forefather of postcolonial ideology is the Marxist intellectual Frantz Fanon, whose writings glorified Algeria’s violent resistance to French control in the middle of the 20th century.

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After a string of scandals, will it finally be the end of the line for the United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) now that Israeli hostages have claimed they were held at one of its refugee camps? Don’t hold your breath.

Israel’s Channel 13 network reported on Wednesday that during their 471 days in captivity—which ended in the ‘gift’ of terrorist-branded goodie bags—Emily Damari, 28, Romi Gonen, 24, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31, “were hidden for part of the time in U.N. shelters.”

The Other McCain.

He must be a white supremacist, right?

I’m sure the analysts at the FBI will have fun trying to discern some kind of coherent ideology in his manifesto, but it’s really just a collage of nihilistic craziness — “soyjak” memes, tributes to various mass murderers, “groyper” stuff, etc., and honestly what I want to say to these kids is simple: Y’ALL NEED JESUS!

Seriously. These kids see no meaning or purpose in their lives, which is an inevitable consequence of the de-Christianization of our culture. Our education system is openly hostile to Christianity, based upon the liberal secular humanist belief that Christianity is harmful, but if our Soros-funded cultural overlords were ever to make the mistake of inviting me to speak at one of their confabs at Davos or Aspen, I’d wake them up from their secular pipe dream: You think the “Religious Right” is dangerous? Wait until you get a look at what the Atheist Right has in store for you.

UPDATE: Antioch school shooting: Nashville suspect, 17, posted alt-right paraphernalia, photos from past school shootings (Angele Latham/The Tennessean)  Who are you going to believe, a journalist or your lyin’ eyes?

UPDATE: Alleged Nashville school shooter appears to have praised Hitler and shared neo-Nazi content

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Three weeks of intense wildfires have ignited speculation on X, with many questioning whether arsonists may be to blame for the ignition source of the wildfires. There have been several instances where arsonists were arrested. Meanwhile, mainstream far-left media outlets have struggled to convince the public that evil ‘global warming’ is the primary cause.

When government workers spend their time focused on who gets the spoils rather than on doing their jobs, dystopia arrives on big iron-shot hooves.

Daniel Greenfield.

Leftism is a giant conspiracy theory. Its paranoid schizophrenic view of the world is not unique. The perception that the world is invisibly controlled by forces and agendas that most people are not aware of pervades many cults, conspiracy theorists and radical movements. But what is unique about the Left is its image as an intellectual movement and a cultural force that has enabled its paranoid worldview and its raving hostility to the world as it exists to dominate the discourse at the expense of the ideas, beliefs and cultures that predated it.

The central leftist conspiracy theory is wrapped in academic theories taught in every university, and its premises are as deeply embedded in our culture as they were in the USSR and much of the western world, willingly or unwillingly, knowingly or unknowingly, has come to see at least some of reality through the lens of leftist conspiracy theories and to echo its messages.

Wokeness is the act of ‘awakening’ people to that alternate reality by imposing that lens.

Wokery is voluntarily taking the blue pill.

Quillette.

In January, the world’s second-largest restaurant chain, McDonald’s, and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, both joined the long list of multinational corporations that have announced they are discontinuing their formal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. It’s a trend that also includes such household names as Amazon, Walmart, Molson Coors, Ford Motor Co., John Deere, Lowe’s, Harley-Davidson, Toyota Motor Corp, and, as of this week, the U.S. federal government: Donald Trump’s administration has ordered all federal workers staffed in DEI roles to be placed on paid leave.

In explaining its move, McDonald’s cited the “shifting legal landscape”—specifically, a June 2023 US Supreme Court decision that struck down race-based affirmative-action programs in college admissions as unconstitutional. In its memo to employees, Meta likewise cited Supreme Court jurisprudence, as well as the fact that “the term ‘DEI’ has also become charged, in part because it is understood by some as a practice that suggests preferential treatment of some groups over others.”

While Trump’s name doesn’t appear in these memos, the president’s previous comments likely played a role in corporate decision-making. This week’s anti-DEI executive order was no surprise, as Trump had pledged to “eliminate all diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the entire federal government”; and his most vocal conservative supporters typically attack DEI as being inspired by “woke” or even Marxist principles—an affront to the merit-based ethos.

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Long-running accusations of anti-Semitism that for years dogged California’s troubled National Guard resurfaced at a crucial time for the force that is currently battling historic Los Angeles wildfires. A fired commander with extensive firefighting experience has filed a lawsuit alleging he’s now on the sidelines because he’s Jewish.

Brigadier General Jeffrey Magram is suing the state of California, Governor Gavin Newsom (D.), and Adjutant General Matthew Beevers, a Newsom appointee who was previously accused of referring to his Jewish subordinates as “kike lawyers.” Magram claims his dismissal was driven by anti-Semitic animus.

The California National Guard is the largest such force in the country, and 2,500 guard members (including some reinforcements from Nevada and Wyoming) are now battling the wildfires from the air and the ground, as well as helping with public safety. But the “scandal plagued” guard, as the Los Angeles Times calls it, has been bogged down by unseemly allegations of impropriety, including the coverup of an incident in which someone urinated in a guardswoman’s boot, indecent exposure at a restaurant, retaliation against whistleblowers, and the use of spy planes and fighter jets to monitor and intimidate protesters.

Magram’s ouster just over two years ago came after an inquiry found he used military personnel for personal tasks, among other infractions that the inquiry claimed compromised his leadership. He was one of five generals who were fired or retired under pressure amid ballooning scandals at the guard in the last few years. But in his lawsuit, Magram—who was not implicated in the more lurid scandals that dogged the guard—argues he was targeted in a smear campaign that overlooked a sterling record because he is Jewish.

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A presidential pardon is not a get-out-jail-free card. Those who receive presidential pardons face two significant hurdles.

First, a presidential pardon only wipes the slate clean for federal crimes—it offers no shield against state or local charges. This gap in protection is precisely how Donald Trump found himself entangled in criminal cases across four jurisdictions: New York, Georgia, Florida, and the District of Columbia. Each of these jurisdictions operates independently beyond the reach of presidential clemency, underscoring the limits of federal immunity.

Secondly, presidential pardons leave the door open to civil penalties. Federal or state governments, as well as private parties, can pursue restitution or damages through civil courts, even in the absence of criminal penalties. Individuals who receive pardons may still face a range of lawsuits and financial claims, including those initiated by the federal government.

Ironically, receiving a pardon can heighten the risk of civil lawsuits and state or local prosecution. Pardons attract heightened scrutiny from the public and potential plaintiffs, including well-funded advocacy groups eager to pursue justice or restitution. Preemptive pardons, such as those issued by President Joe Biden, are especially prone to being viewed as implicit admissions of guilt, potentially intensifying the drive for civil litigation or state and local criminal prosecution.

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Embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that the Democratic Party “left” him and the working class behind, during an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that aired on Tuesday.

“People often say, ‘You don’t sound like a Democrat. You seem to have left the party,’” Adams told Carlson.

“No, the party left me, and it left working-class people.”

Throughout the interview, Adams tied his indictment on bribery and corruption charges to his decision to speak out against the illegal immigrant surge in New York City.

He claimed those who push back on “the norm” within the Democratic party get “demonized.”

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Like the Left Coast, the Ivy League has descended into a dystopia of wokery that will, unless they come to their senses, eventually destroy them.

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In exchange for the Trump administration safeguarding access to key visa programs for Indians, India has offered to take back 18,000 of its citizens illegally living in the United States, Bloomberg reported.

India is hoping President Donald Trump maintains the H-1B visa program, which some of his supporters oppose. Of the 386,000 H-1B visas granted in 2023, 72% came from India, according to government data.

The country also wants Trump to maintain its student visa program and prevent Trump from ramping up tariffs against it, Bloomberg reported.

India is not using illegal migration to the U.S. to dump its underclass, as Mexico has done for the past sixty years. These are mostly high-tech workers and bright university students who just figure that they can make more money in the U.S.–India wants them back to reverse the ‘brain drain’.

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I believe in restraint, tradition, decorum, and the precepts of our system of criminal justice: deterrence, punishment, and retribution. Turning the other cheek accomplishes none of these. Joe Biden’s last-minute pardons for his family, and his unprecedented preemptive pardons for members and staff of the January 6 Committee, Anthony Fauci, and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Milley, underscore the necessity for Congress and Donald Trump’s Justice Department to perform their duties to investigate crime.

The Supreme Court made clear in Burdick v. United States (1915) that the “confession of guilt implied in the acceptance of a pardon” may be avoided only by rejecting it. In December, the Biden Justice Department advised a federal judge that January 6 defendants hoping for a pardon from soon-to-be President Trump “would first have to accept the pardon, which necessitates a confession of guilt.”

The Biden administration and its proxies engaged in the unrestricted, weaponized use of our justice system to take down the leading Republican candidate for president and his family, supporters and advisors, as well as Christians, conservatives, and pro-life activists. They censored, investigated, humiliated, intimidated, arrested, indicted, and jailed their political opponents using long-abandoned, novel, and manifestly flawed legal theories.

Democrats express horror that the Trump Justice Department might investigate whether laws were broken by officials who engaged in these tactics. They angrily assert that if the Trump administration exacts “retribution” it would endanger civil liberties and tear asunder the fabric of our justice system.

This reminds me of bullies who strike a classmate and then recoil, wag a finger at the victim, and warn him that he better not hit back.