The DSA represents a third of the Democrat Party now, and its leaders are being groomed by the Chinese Communist Party. Party officials are flying DSA leaders to China for indoctrination and demanding they sign pledges to defend the CCP.
About a dozen Democratic Socialists of America activists have publicly pledged to “support” and “defend” China amid an apparent push by the communist nation to court members of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s party.
Friends of Socialist China, a London-based group, touts 952 signatories on its pledge to “support the People’s Republic of China and to promote understanding of Chinese socialism.”
Eleven self-described DSA or DSA International Committee members are among those that “resolve to support, defend and build understanding of Chinese socialism,” The Post found.
The Times of London first reported on the DSA signatories.
The pledge argues that “the global advance to socialism is indispensable if humanity is to survive and to flourish,” while decrying capitalism as “totally incapable of solving the problems of poverty and inequality” and being “ inextricably linked with war, empire, racism, misogyny, alienation, and environmental destruction.”
“Why China?” the pledge continues. “We support all states building or aspiring to socialism, and we favour the highest level of unity and friendship between them. We foreground China in particular because its size and level of development give it an objectively critical role in the global transition to socialism.”
The document lauds China as “the most prominent force pushing for the establishment of a multipolar system of international relations and a new international economic order” and “a global leader in the struggle to avoid climate breakdown.
“As such, the continued survival of Chinese socialism is a crucial matter not only for the Chinese people but for all humanity.”
The Post previously reported that in order to meet a rising interest in the Chinese Communist Party, the DSA launched a monthly seminar last year about “modern China and lessons for US socialists.”
Among the wild claims made during the DSA’s first CCP seminar was that China has a “strong democracy.” There was no mention of China’s tight restrictions on freedom of expression.
A few weeks before the launch of the seminar series, a five-person DSA delegation flew to Beijing to celebrate China’s 80th anniversary of the victory against Japan.
“It was an impressive display of ‘unity in multi-polarity’ featuring Russian President Putin and Indian Prime Minister Modi, as well as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,” wrote NYC DSA member Dee Knight. “Beijing buzzed with excitement.”
DSA meeting minutes dating back to 2021, obtained by Newsweek in January, show that members have openly discussed repeated trips to China to meet with CCP officials under the banner of “anti-imperialism.”
The minutes, however, also show that there is internal division about how close the DSA should be to the authoritarian communist country.
“This isn’t what I signed up for and I imagine it’s not what a majority of members signed up for,” an outraged member of the DSA’s International Committee said in one meeting.
“There’s no way you can be a part of the organization and promote the things they’re doing.”
The DSA did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, a flawed but fairly sensible piece of legislation, put into places measures like the ability to classify foreign terrorist groups and ban funding to them, as well as keeping terrorists out of America, and it also created the U.S. Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC).
That was 30 years ago.
ATRC had the ability to remove terrorists based on secret evidence, but was never used despite the obvious need for such a thing. Then Judge James Boasberg suggested that the DOJ go to the ATRC instead of going to him and the court just got its first case.
The Justice Department has filed the first-ever case in the U.S. Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC), seeking to remove Nazira Haji Zada, 47, residing in Fort Worth, Texas. Zada, the matriarch of an alien Afghan family, is being removed for her role in a plot to commit an ISIS-inspired mass shooting on Election Day in 2024 for which her son, Abdullah Haji Zada, and son-in-law, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, were previously arrested and convicted. The application to remove Nazira Haji Zada was filed on July 15. Zada was arrested earlier this week and will appear before the ATRC’s Chief Judge Joan N. Ericksen in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, July 30, at 11:00 a.m.
“Congress created the Alien Terrorist Removal Court three decades ago to remove from the United States alien terrorists who never should have been here in the first place,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “The allegations in this case show the matriarch of an ISIS-sympathizing family aiding in a plot to launch a mass casualty attack on American voters on Election Day. The Department’s application in this court makes clear that terrorists have no place in the United States of America.”
“This is a historic step asking this court for the first time to remove an individual from the United States who supported a plot by ISIS-sympathizing family members to commit an act of terrorism in America,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “No one should be allowed to come into our country and then betray it. The FBI and our Justice Department partners will not hesitate to use all available resources to protect the American people.”
The Zadas were Afghans brought to the United States.
Is this case going to go well? Probably not. The U.S. Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC) has five judges appointed by Chief Justice Roberts.
If you’re getting a creeping feeling of unease, consider that there’s a reason that Judge Boasberg suggested this notion.
Chief Judge Joan N. Ericksen of ATRC reacted with a notable lack of enthusiasm to being asked to do her job. The media will describe her as a Bush appointee, as are the other 4 judges on the court, but she came out of Hennepin, and the vibe on them is very much that of liberal Republicans.
Here was Judge Ericksen’s response.
“On July 15, 2026, the United States filed an Application to the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq. to remove the respondent in the above-captioned matter from the United States. On July 16, 2026, the Court held a hearing as contemplated by § 1533(c)(1), at which the Court heard attorney argument but no sworn testimony was taken. During the hearing the United States offered to supplement the record with information, and the Court had questions about the nexus that the government alleges between the actions of the respondent and the specific sections and subsections it invokes with respect to those actions. The answers persuaded the Court that the Government could benefit from the opportunity for more thoughtful consideration.”
The court needs a different composition, that much is clear, if it is to be able to do its job.
The ACLU and the usual suspects will cry about scary courts and secret evidence. Hopefully the DOJ has properly prepped its case, and reactivating the court is a no-brainer and forcing it to at least try to do its job is 30 years overdue.
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In The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (2021) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exposes the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (1984-2022) as an agent of a “vaccine cartel” who advanced the interests of Big Pharma and himself at the expense of American and world public health. The book reads like a legal brief and begins with these introductory words:
I wrote this book to help Americans––and citizens across the globe––understand the historical underpinnings of the bewildering cataclysm that began in 2020. In that single annus horribles …, liberal democracy effectively collapsed worldwide. The very governmental health regulators, social media eminences, and media companies that idealistic populations relied upon as champions of freedom, health, democracy, civil rights, and evidence-based public policy seemed to collectively pivot in a lockstep assault against free speech and personal freedoms.
Suddenly, those trusted institutions seemed to be acting in concert to generate fear, promote obedience, discourage critical thinking, and herd seven billion people to march to a single tune, culminating in mass public health experiments with a novel, shoddily tested and improperly licensed technology so risky that manufacturers refused to produce it unless every government on Earth shielded them from liability. …
Standing at the center of all the mayhem, with his confident hand on the helm, was one dominating figure. As the trusted public face of the United States government response to COVID, Dr. Anthony Fauci set this perilous course and sold the American public on a new destination for our democracy. …
In this book, I track the rise of Anthony Fauci from his start as a young public health researcher and physician through his metamorphosis into the powerful technocrat who helped orchestrate and execute 2020’s historic coup d’état against Western democracy. I explore the carefully planned, militarization and monetization of medicine that left American health ailing and its democracy shattered. I chronicle the troubling role of the dangerous concentrated mainstream media, Big Tech robber barons, the military and intelligence communities and their deep historical alliances with Big Pharma and public health agencies. The disturbing story that unfolds here has never been told, and many in power have worked hard to prevent the public from learning it. The main character is Anthony Fauci (pp. xiv-xvi).
Skyhorse Publishing provides a clarifying summary on the book’s jacket:
The Real Anthony Fauci reveals how “America’s Doctor” launched his career during the early AIDS crisis by partnering with pharmaceutical companies to sabotage safe and effective off-patent therapeutic treatments for AIDS. Fauci orchestrated fraudulent studies, and then pressured US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators into approving a deadly chemotherapy treatment he had good reason to know was worthless against AIDS. Fauci repeatedly violated federal laws to allow his pharma partners to use impoverished and dark-skinned children as lab rats in deadly experiments with toxic AIDS and cancer chemotherapies.
In early 2000, Fauci shook hands with Bill Gates in the library of Gates’ $147 million Seattle mansion, cementing a partnership that would aim to control an increasingly profitable $60 billion global vaccine enterprise with unlimited growth potential. Through funding leverage and carefully cultivated personal relationships with heads of state and leading media and social media institutions, the Pharma-Fauci-Gates alliance exercises dominion over global health policy.
The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government and quasi-governmental agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19 virulence and pathogenesis, and to muzzle debate and ruthlessly censor dissent.
On February 13, 2025, President Donald J. Trump appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). On July 27, 2026, RFK Jr. revealed that his office had discovered Fauci’s personal diaries that had been “sequestered and secreted” on government property across eleven servers at HHS. He turned the diaries over to Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) who had been investigating the origins of COVID-19 and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On July 29, 2026, Anthony Fauci appeared before the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to testify about his role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Committee chairman Senator Rand Paul focused on entries from Fauci’s personal diaries between December 2019 and December 2022, which the senator had released to the public in advance of the hearing. Sen. Paul asked Fauci questions about the origins of COVID-19, US funding for gain-of-function research in China, Fauci’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the glaring inconsistencies between Fauci’s private comments in his diaries and statements he made to the American public.
After the diaries were released, RFK Jr. noted that these are not personal journals. They are government records created on a government computer by a federal employee during one of the most consequential public health emergencies in history, and under federal law the documents belong to the American people.
The world watched as the infamous Anthony Fauci, architect and spokesman for the most colossal humanitarian hoax ever perpetrated in world history, sat in silence and, on advice of counsel, pleaded the 5th Amendment 111 times to protect himself against self-incrimination. Fauci refused to answer all questions posed by all Republican senators who questioned him. The Democrat senators did not ask questions, instead they offered obsequious statements in support of Fauci. The political theater on July 29, 2026, was a spectacular visual display of an orchestrated crime of omission. But why? Fauci had already been granted full immunity for the years 2014-2022 by former president Democrat Joe Biden just before he left office.
Let’s review the actual text of the Fifth Amendment to our Constitution. I have bolded the text most relevant to this discussion:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
We are a world at war: Globalism vs. Nation-states. The below opening paragraph of all forty-five chapters of my 2024 release, Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier––Reality Is, documents the nature of globalism and its existential threat to our constitutional republic.
Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.
In June 2020 I published The Book of Humanitarian Hoaxes: Killing America with ‘Kindness’. The humanitarian hoax is the deliberate and deceitful tactic of presenting a destructive policy as altruistic. The humanitarian huckster presents himself as a compassionate advocate when in fact he is the disguised enemy.
Humanitarian hoaxes are tactical weapons in the globalist war on nation-states that rely on public incredulity. It is extremely difficult for the civilized mind to process the malevolence and deceit of a eugenicist’s mind, particularly during times of war.
In Nazi Germany the strategic goal was to create the perfect Aryan race to rule the world. So, Josef Mengele, Hitler’s sadistic Angel of Death, had tactical license to do horrific experiments on living human beings even without anesthesia. Mengele’s particular interest was identical twins––one twin was the subject and the other the control––all were inmates at Auschwitz and most of the twins studied were between ages two and sixteen. German incredulity denied the existence of such barbarity.
Specifically, Mengele studied heterochromia iridium (eyes of two different colors) by introducing chemicals or hormones into the children’s eyes. According to Wikipedia Mengele’s research was done on behalf of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology and the German Research Foundation, and grant funds were used to build a pathology Laboratory attached to Crematorium II at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Mengele kept personal diaries and records of his experiments at Auschwitz that included measurements, notes, and documentation about his work with twins which he took with him when he fled. Most of what is known about Mengele’s experiments comes from survivor testimony.
Bioethicist Dr. Dianne Irving did her senior thesis on Josef Mengele and offers extraordinary insights in her reflections on ethics, eugenics, and the chilling descriptions of Mengele’s work which are documented in her personal essay published, October 18, 2003, Me and Mengele. Dr. Irving’s concerns regarding eugenics are chronicled in her extensive and broad-ranging body of work that is archived and available to read on LifeIssues.net/Dianne N. Irving Library.
The financial connections between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under Anthony Fauci are well-documented and public. In 2003 The Gates Foundation provided $200 million in grant money for Initiatives like Grand Challenges in Global Health in which Fauci served on the scientific board. In 2010 The Gates Foundation partnered with NIAID and the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on a global vaccine action plan in which Fauci served on the scientific board.
In a now infamous 2010 Ted Talk, Bill Gates stated unapologetically, “The world today has about 6.8 billion people. That’s heading up to about nine billion. If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps ten or fifteen percent.” Ten or fifteen percent of 6.8 billion people eliminates 680 million to 1.02 billion people!
The globalist elite who funded and fomented Fauci’s work, like Bill Gates, are unapologetic eugenicists whose overarching goal is to reduce the overall human population in preparation for their global totalitarian Unistate––the Great Reset where you will own nothing and be happy––an absurdity described by Klaus Schwab, founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum from its inception until his resignation in 2025.
Curiously, the entire COVID-19 debacle had been rehearsed years before at a tabletop exercise––Event 201––conducted on October 18, 2019, at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in New York City in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Self-described as a high-level pandemic exercise, “The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.” Event 201 simulated a fictional pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus that came from pigs rather than bats and spread globally.
Event 201 was conducted by men and women who represent the arrogant, self-serving, supremacist, globalist perspective that is void of any moral compass or regard for anyone’s life but their own. COVID-19 was and continues to be the greatest humanitarian hoax ever perpetrated in the history of the world––and Anthony Fauci is its huckster-in-chief.
Think of it––millions of people were deliberately lied to and deliberately experimented on with COVID mRNA “vaccines” that are NOT vaccines––they do not prevent transmission or provide immunity. Under Fauci the definition of a vaccine was changed to “reduce symptoms” to perpetrate the hoax, and every batch of the experimental injections was numbered for identification. American incredulity rejected the reasons for the change.
The “lockstep assault against free speech and personal freedoms” that RFK Jr. describes in his introductory remarks is a reference to one of the four fictional scenarios presented in a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation scenario-planning report, “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development.” The scenario referenced is called “Lock Step” and describes a future of strict top-down controls that remain after a severe pandemic. The importance of the lockstep approach is that it represents the public/private collusion that is the infrastructure of globalism’s planetary Unistate to be administered by the lethally corrupt United Nations and its equally corrupt associated internationalized agencies.
The introduction to Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier––Reality Is is subtitled: Freedom Is an Adult Enterprise.
The purpose of this book is the defense of America’s children. …
The future of America lies in the ability of our nation’s children to become rational, autonomous, psychological adults with the critical-thinking skills required to preserve our constitutional republic. …
As I look back over the last several years, it is clear to me that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s COVID-19 political medicine protocols and the Biden regime’s lawless anti-American policies are both orchestrated, coordinated tactical operations in globalism’s War on America. Their interrelated domestic policies have been instrumental in weakening the national economy, national security, national defense, public health, and military readiness, while simultaneously strengthening America’s commitment to globalism’s internationalized mandates that comport with the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Goals and Agenda 2030, and the World Health Organization’s centralized international control.
Consider Voltaire’s famous remark, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Now consider some of the absurdities Americans accepted as facts during the COVID-19 madness: the necessity for lockdowns, masking, social distancing, school closures, business closures, church closures, social isolation, and especially acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccines that are not vaccines. In fact, COVID-19 jabs are experimental gene-altering mRNA treatments that were never properly tested for safety, require continuous boosters, and are now being given to babies!
Anthony Fauci and Josef Mengel have much in common. Both knowingly, actively, and sadistically facilitated the dangerous and deceitful political medicine of their time. Anthony Fauci is a sociopath without compassion or feelings of responsibility for what he has done, and, like sociopath Josef Mengele, there is no punishment that can possibly match the depth and breadth of his depravity and crimes against humanity. Yet Fauci sat at the hearing, a free man with full immunity, claiming 5th Amendment protection, and refusing to answer questions he was subpoenaed to answer. Anthony Fauci is a criminal who cannot be allowed to escape responsibility for his role as humanitarian huckster-in-chief for the most colossal humanitarian hoax ever perpetrated in world history.
On July 4, a documentary titled “Remember the Alamo: Don’t Sharia My Texas” was released, drawing attention from supporters and critics alike over its information on Islam.
The film, created by Chris Burgard, argues that there is a coordinated effort to introduce Sharia law into American society, with Texas serving as the primary target. Throughout the documentary, speakers claim that Dallas has become the “Mecca of the West.”
The documentary opens by recounting the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution in 1836 before shifting to the new threat Burgard says the state now faces in the threat of Islam.
Burgard interviews several individuals throughout the film, including former U.S. Rep. Allen West, former FBI Special Agent and counterterrorism expert John Guandolo, investigative journalist Lara Logan, and retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
According to the documentary, Islamic leaders are working to expand Islam’s influence in Texas. The film includes clips of Islamic scholars and imams discussing their religious beliefs and goals, as well as segments examining terrorist attacks carried out on U.S. soil. Burgard also argues that Islamic organizations have increasingly used litigation, or “lawfare,” to advance their objectives.
The documentary features an interview with Aziz Budri, Muslim scholar and founder of the Muslim Association of America, discussing his views on Islam and its practice.
Another portion of the film focuses on Nigeria, where Burgard shows how tens of thousands of Christians in the region have been killed by Islamic groups. The documentary includes an interview with a Nigerian journalist who explains how Muslims are systematically executing jihad in the country.
Logan also recounts her experience covering the 2011 protests in Egypt, during which she was beaten and sexually assaulted for almost 40 minutes. Her testimony, along with comments from her husband, is used in the documentary to illustrate the dangers women face in Muslim-majority countries.
Burgard told the Daily Signal he made this film to warn Americans about the growing threat.
“We made this movie to protect Texas and America from Sharia law,” Burgard said. “I made this movie so that we could avoid the violence.”
Burgard also described the strategies Islamic leaders are using to expand their influence in the United States.
“As we say in the movie, when you see all these military-aged men closing down a street and praying, it’s not because they don’t have room in the mosque—they’re claiming that territory,” Burgard said. “Those images are going out to the rest of the Islamic world, and they’re saying, ‘We claim this territory.’”
He added that, in 1991, “the Muslim Brotherhood adopted this mission to take down the United States from the inside.”
“They would destroy America and the North American Western Civilization from the inside,” Burgard said.
The documentary was released as several Islamic development projects have drawn public attention in North Texas. Among other developments, a former Korean church is being converted into a mosque and Islamic academy in Richardson, and plans are underway for a proposed mosque expansion in McKinney.
Earlier this month, the San Antonio Current published a film review by Julianna Plewes describing Burgard as a “far-right filmmaker.”
Plewes wrote that the documentary “weaves in both fact and fiction, often with narrative glue heavy on unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.”
In an unpublished rebuttal provided to the Daily Signal, Burgard said Plewes never contacted him or the film’s producer, Tim Lowry, for comment before publishing the article.
“That’s lazy journalism at best. … I will let those who watch the film at RememberTheAlamomovie.com decide for themselves,” Burgard wrote.
The documentary is available for purchase for $19.99. Burgard is also hosting screenings across Texas. Information on the film and screenings are posted on the movie’s website.
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REUTERS—The United States on Friday banned imports from 43 more companies over alleged human rights abuses of Uyghur and other minority groups, including Hunan Aihua Group, one of China’s largest capacitor manufacturers, according to a government posting.
The companies were added to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, which restricts the import of goods tied to what the U.S. has determined are China’s human rights abuses and ongoing genocide in the Xinjiang region.
The latest additions also include companies in the pharmaceutical, metals, cotton, food and lithium production sectors.
The posting marks the first time companies have been added to the list under the Trump administration, and brings the number of entities on the list from 144 to 187. It is also the largest number of entities added in one action since the Act was signed into law in December 2021. Companies on the list are believed to mine, produce or manufacture their goods with forced labor.
Companies on the List
“Today’s action by the Trump administration strengthens America’s economy against products made with slave labor and sends a message to the Chinese Communist Party that we will not look the other way on its genocide and human rights abuses,” Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on China, said in a statement.
The U.S. has said Chinese authorities have established internment camps for Uyghurs and other religious and ethnic minority groups in China’s western Xinjiang region. Beijing has denied any abuses.
Hunan Aihua Group was added to the list because the U.S. believes the company sources chemical foil and other materials from Xinjiang, the Department of Homeland Security said in the posting in the U.S. Federal Register.
The company, which supplies consumer electronics, industrial, automotive and renewable energy markets, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Chacha Food Co., whose products are exported to nearly 50 countries and regions, was also added to the list, according to the posting. Others on the list included Xinjiang Tianhongji Technology Co., Tefeng Pharmaceutical Co., Tianshan Aluminum Group, and Henan Guorong Electronic Technology Co.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The companies could not immediately be reached.
(Reporting by Karen Freifeld; editing by Chizu Nomiyama and David Holmes)
President Donald Trump dismissed speculation that Iran was behind a cyber attack targeting dozens of water systems in Minnesota, blaming instead the state’s “corrupt governor,” Tim Walz, and the state he runs.
“I just want to mention that, we heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack, and they blame it on Iran,” he said at the start of a Cabinet meeting Friday at Camp David, Maryland.
“I don’t think so. I think I blame it on Minnesota because they’re grossly incompetent,” Trump said. “There was a cyberattack of 30 water plants, and I would blame it on Minnesota and the governor, the corrupt governor of Minnesota. They like to say, oh, is Iran? Iran should be so lucky. Iran’s got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota.”
Report: Iran behind Minnesota cyberattack?
FOX9: Iran possibly linked to MN water system cyberattacks: report
U.S. officials suspect Iran-affiliated hackers may be responsible for the cyberattack this week that impacted more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota, according to a New York Times report.
What we know:
The New York Times reported Thursday morning that U.S. officials suspect that Iran-linked hackers may be responsible for the attack. The Times report states that this is a preliminary assessment and officials have not yet determined for certain who is responsible for the cyberattacks.
Officials said it was possible the attacks may have been committed by someone posing as Iranian hackers in an attempt to increase tensions between the two nations – but experts told the New York Times that scenario was unlikely.
What they’re saying:
FOX 9 has reached out to both state and federal officials to seek confirmation of the New York Times report. State officials deferred to federal investigators, stating they were best positioned to assess the actors. The state also didn’t wish to speculate on the matter.
FOX 9 hasn’t yet heard back from FBI officials, but in a statement to the New York Times they declined to comment on who may be responsible for the attacks.
Cyberattack impacts Minnesota water systems
The backstory:
This week, state officials reported technology for water systems about 36 Minnesota communities had been targeted in a coordinated cyberattack.
Officials said they were working with federal authorities and private sector companies to respond to the attacks and to secure systems. As of Tuesday, state officials said they weren’t aware of any municipalities that were asking residents to alter drinking water usage.
On Wednesday, Plymouth officials announced they had restored communications with their water facilities and the system was back to running normally. The City of Maple Plain, which had declared a local emergency, also ended its emergency on Wednesday citing a stabilization of services.
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For the first time ever, a Presidential cabinet meeting is being broadcast live from Camp David
POTUS Warns: “Spain Today, America Tomorrow” if Border Security Is Reversed.
Speaking during a Cabinet meeting at Camp David, President Trump pointed to the unfolding migrant crisis in Spain’s Ceuta enclave as a warning of what he believes could happen in the United States if Republicans lose control.
“When I watched it, I said, that’s going to be a talking point for the midterms.”
President Trump said Spain’s crisis was driven by “weak law, bad management, but very liberal law,” arguing migrants responded to policy changes by crossing the border in massive numbers.
“If we’re not in office, our country will be invaded at levels that made Spain look small time.”
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Holocaust and genocide studies are certainly not the same as advancing Islamic and Arab studies materials. Does the law include curriculum materials for Judaism studies?
Let’s hope this ridiculous law is challenged legally. Already it’s drawing such concern:
Chris Healy, executive director of the Connecticut Catholic Conference, concurred. The Courant cited him as saying that the Islamic curriculum “validates, endorses the teaching of public religion in a public school, which is a clear violation of the First Amendment.”
“This is so clearly unconstitutional,” he said. “These issues were brought respectfully to the legislators, and yet they decided to go forward.…
It’s a DEI curriculum that’s intended to be force-drilled into the minds of youngsters. The curriculum is a win for Islam and its Sharia encroachments across the West. It’s no surprise that “several Muslim leaders and Democratic politicians mostly welcomed the move.”
Farhan Memon, CAIR-CT chairman, stated: “We want to make sure that as the state fulfills its mandate to create this curriculum, that it’s done with a view that’s not only accurate, but also ensures that we’re not introducing new biases into the curriculum at the same time..”
“New Connecticut law requires educators to develop curriculum materials for Islamic, Arab studies,” Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2026:
The Hartford skyline comes to light reflected in the Connecticut River and seen from Great River Park in East Hartford, Connecticut, on November 11, 2024.(photo credit: Mark Mirko/Connecticut Public via Getty Images)
Educators in Connecticut must develop curriculum materials for Islamic and Arab studies according to a new state law that went into effect earlier this month.
The new law, which appears as a small provision in a larger bill, requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to make curriculum materials available to school boards on Islamic and Arab studies and encourage them to provide this instruction.
The law already requires SBE to make curriculum materials available for various other programs, such as African-American and Black studies, Puerto Rican and Latino studies, Native American studies, and Asian American and Pacific Islander studies, and the Holocaust and genocide awareness.
After the state develops the materials to teach Islamic and Arab studies, it will be optional for districts to include the studies in their own curricula.
Several Muslim leaders and Democratic politicians mostly welcomed the move.…
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This is simply amazing. The FBI has told a federal court that, at a rate of 500 pages a month, processing records from the “hidden room” at FBI Headquarters would take approximately 158 years.
The room — now dubbed the “burn bag room” — holds over 2 million pages of records, according to the FBI’s own filing. Then-Deputy Director Bongino said in May 2025 that some of the records were found stashed “in bags.”
In the filing, weasked the court to allow it to question the FBI, through a limited deposition, about its handling of the records — including who discovered the room and when, who had access to it, its security classification, how records ended up stored in file cabinets, safes, boxes, and burn bags, what the FBI has done to bring them under standard records management, and whether the records were ever searched in response to other FOIA requests.
The FBI reports that it has yet to access a safe believed to contain records. The agency alsoalleges that “it will take approximately 158 years to process at a rate of 500 pages a month.”
The FBI opposes the request for discovery. A status conference is scheduled before U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich on August 3, 2026 in Washington, DC.
Our 2025 complaint sought all records in the room, which it described as “[a]ll documents referenced by Deputy Director Dan Bongino” concerning a room at FBI Headquarters, as well as internal FBI communications among officials in the offices of Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Bongino about the discovery of the documents, and any directives issued on how the records should be handled. The FBI currently says it has no records responsive to the Patel/Bongino communications and directives categories. The plaintiff is challenging the government’s search for these records as well.
In a Fox News interview on May 29, 2025, then-FBI Deputy Director Bongino disclosed the room’s existence, stating:
“There was a room [in FBI Headquarters], and we found stuff. A lot of stuff … hidden from us at least and not mentioned to us. And then found stuff in there. A lot is from the Comey era. We are working … right now to declassify. And just so you know, because I get the public—I totally understand people saying ‘well do it now.’ The process is: not all of the information is ours to declassify. Some is other intelligence agencies’…. We literally can’t do it. Once that gets done … and you read some of the stuff we found—that, by the way, was not processed through the normal procedure, digitizing and putting in FBI records. We found it in bags, hiding under Jim Comey’s FBI. You’re going to be stunned.”
We previouslyuncovered that the room is a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) containing several safes—now identified as twenty file cabinets—holding between roughly 950,000 and 1,900,000 pages of records, split into two categories: “legacy files,” older records mostly tied to two closed historical investigations and more recent files tied to active investigations and prior Special Counsel records, reportedly including material connected to Special Counsel Jack Smith.
American citizens should be outraged that the FBI just told a federal court judge that its stonewalling means it will take 158 years to release the 2 million weaponization and lawfare records in its secret ‘burn bag’ room. The American people need to know today how the FBI was used as a political weapon against Donald Trump and other innocents.
This is the latest in a series of Judicial Watch investigations targeting shady FBI weaponization and abuse of power.
In August 2019, we uncovered “302”report material from FBI interviews with Bruce Ohr, who was removed from his position as U.S. Associate Deputy Attorney General in December 2017.
In March 2019, wereceived heavily redacted records from the Justice Department that reveal that Ohr remained in regular contact with former British spy and Fusion GPS contractor Christopher Steele after Steelewas terminated by the FBI in November 2016 for revealing to the media his position as an FBI confidential informant.
In December 2018, weuncovered U.S. State Department documents showing classified information was researched and disseminated to multiple U.S. Senators by the Obama administration immediately prior to Trump’s inauguration. The documents reveal that among those receiving the classified documents were Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Sen. Robert Corker (R-TN). We obtained the documents through a FOIA lawsuit for records of the Obama State Department’s last-minute efforts to share classified information about Russia election interference issues with Cardin.
In August 2018, we announced that in response to a ourFOIA lawsuit, the Justice Department admitted in acourt filing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign part-time advisor who was the subject of four controversial FISA warrants.
Also in August, we forced therelease ofheavily redacted records about Christopher Steele, the former British spy, hired with Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee funds, who authored the infamous dossier targeting Trump during last year’s presidential campaign. The documents show that Steele was cut off as a “Confidential Human Source” (CHS) after he disclosed his relationship with the FBI to a third party. The documents also show at least 11 FBI payments to Steele in 2016 and document that he was admonished for unknown reasons in February 2016.
In July 2018, we releaseddocuments about FISA warrants targeting Carter Page, who had been a Trump campaign adviser.
Virginia Removes 6,531 Declared Noncitizen Registrations from Voter Rolls
Records from the Virginia Department of Elections show the commonwealth cancelled 6,531 “declared noncitizen” voter registrations between June 2024 and June 2026 after we launched an inquiry.
The Virginia Department of Elections produced records in response to the below June 2026 Judicial Watch request:
Pursuant to Section 8(i) of the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA”), Judicial Watch, Inc. respectfully requests from your office all pertinent records in the past two years concerning “the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency” of the Virginia official list of eligible voters. Specifically, Judicial Watch requests the following:
1. All records concerning the names and addresses of registrants removed from the official list of eligible voters pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 24.2-427(B)(iii) and Va. Code Ann. § 24.2-427.
2. All records concerning all voter registrations that may not to be United States citizens by reason of reports from the Department of Motor Vehicles or from the Department of Elections based on information received from the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program (SAVE Program).
3. All ERIC reports, data, match lists, or other records received from or related to the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) system concerning potential voter deaths, change-of-address notifications, or other eligibility issues (including any associated processing, verification, or removal actions taken by the Department of Elections in response to such ERIC reports).
No voting histories were produced for the cancelled declared noncitizen registrations.
According to an April 2026, Virginia Attorney General letter:
DMV [Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles] creates a list of “all persons who have indicated a noncitizen status” when applying for or renewing a license, or identification document. In practice, DMV compiles a list of any individual who checks “no” in response to the question “Are you a citizen?” in an online portal. There are reports that this method has resulted in flagging eligible citizens due to inadvertent user error. DMV furnishes this list of self-attested noncitizens to ELECT daily. ELECT then electronically matches the DMV list against the voter registration list, and transmits, for each match, information from the DMV list to the appropriate registrar. After independently confirming that the individual flagged by DMV matches a voter registration record, registrars must send a notice of intent to cancel, allowing the person 14 days to submit a sworn statement confirming citizenship. If the person does not respond and confirm their citizenship, the registrar must cancel their registration. For clarity, in this opinion, this second program is called “Self-Attestation Removals.”
Also in April 2026, Virginia entered into a settlement with leftist groups in which Virginia agreed to pause the program to remove declared noncitizens from voting rolls for the 90-day period before federal elections. (The Attorney General letter cited above confirms this new policy.)
A federal law –18 U.S.C. § 1015(f) — makes it a crime to knowingly make a false claim of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote or vote in any federal, state, or local election. 18 U.S.C. § 611 — is the direct prohibition on aliens voting in any election for federal office.
It is disturbing beyond belief that as many as 6,531 noncitizens were registered to vote in Virginia. We are demanding more details and so should federal law enforcement, especially as Virginia is set to stop removing declared noncitizens from the rolls in the run-up to the November election. These Virginia numbers show that the New Jersey noncitizen voter scandal is just the tip of the iceberg and is a national crisis.
We are a national leader in election integrity and voting rights litigation, with a record of successful lawsuits enforcing constitutional redistricting standards and cleaning voter rolls nationwide.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced its intention to file a motion to intervene in our federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a California political candidate and a state political party against the State of California due to its failure to maintain accurate voter rolls as required by the NVRA.
A federal court in Illinois ruled that our lawsuit to force the cleaning of voter rolls may proceed in that state.
In January 2026, in a historic case we filed, the Supreme Court decided 7-2 in favor of Congressman Mike Bost and two presidential electors who were before the court to vindicate their standing to challenge an Illinois law allowing the counting of ballots received up to 14 days after Election Day.
Judicial Watch Sues FBI for 30 Million Transferred January 6 Phone Records
The infamous House January 6 Select Committee didn’t target just President Donald Trump. Republican senators were also dragged into scandal.
We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records concerning the committee’s transfer of approximately 30 million lines of telephone toll data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (Judicial Watch, Inc., v. U.S. Department of Justice(No. 1:26-cv-02557)).
We sued after the FBI failed to comply with an October 2025 FOIA request for:
Communications of former Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Denver Riggleman (R-VA) with FBI officials regarding the reported acquisition or offer to provide the telephone toll data.
All FBI records and internal communications regarding the reported acquisition or offer to provide the telephone toll data collected by the House January 6 Committee.
In February 2022, the FBI opened “Arctic Frost,” an investigation into alleged efforts by Trump campaign associates to obstruct Congress’s certification of the 2020 election. The probe aggressively targeted dozens of GOP officials and organizations before closing in January 2025.
A December 2023 FBI FD-302 interview summary reveals that Kinzinger proactively offered the January 6 Committee’s massive database to the FBI. The summary states:
Kinzinger stated the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol (the “Select Committee”) collected and linked a substantial amount of telephone data, and noted the FBI may already possess such data. While former Congressman Denver Riggleman worked with the Select Committee, he (Riggleman) had a contact and was able to obtain toll information, including for White House “root” or switchboard numbers via congressional subpoena. Kinzinger noted that he (Kinzinger) did not conduct the analysis himself, but that Riggleman had identified certain telephonic connections between numbers identified as being associated with the White House and certain individuals….
Kinzinger indicated that Riggleman may have never received direction on what to do with the toll data, which included approximately 30 million lines of data. Kinzinger believed it was in an electronic format, but did not know if it was the original [redacted] returns.
In October 2025, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary reported that “the FBI targeted eight Republican senators’ personal cell phones for ‘tolling data’ as part of its Arctic Frost investigation. One Republican member of the House of Representatives was also impacted. The Arctic Frost investigation formed the basis of [Special Counsel] Jack Smith’s elector case against President Donald Trump.”
The FBI must stop concealing the truth. Thirty million lines of Americans’ phone records weaponized by a partisan committee and federal investigators against President Trump and his supporters represents one of the most brazen abuses of power in modern history. The American people deserve every record — no more stonewalling.
We have conducted a massive, independent investigation into the events of January 6.
On July 6, 2026, the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department released to us over 1,000 hours of body-worn camera footage in 1,627 videos from the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol event. The videos were released because of an April 2026 court ruling in a DC FOIA lawsuit. The videos are available via the Judicial Watch website here.
In August 2025, we announced that the U.S. Air Force would finally provide full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol by then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021. Babbitt was the only official January 6 homicide victim. The Biden administration had previously denied Babbitt and her family these honors in retaliation for being at the U.S. Capitol that day. This decision came on the heels of a massive, nearly $5 million Trump administration settlement to her family for wrongful death and other claims against the U.S. Government.
In July 2025, we sued the Justice Department for records on accelerated January 6 prosecutions after Trump was elected president in November 2024. The Biden administration, anticipating President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to issue pardons for January 6, 2021, defendants, is believed to have accelerated prosecutions in the final months of Biden’s term.
In March 2024, we received Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) records from the Justice Department in a FOIA lawsuit that showed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deployed personnel to Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.
In October 2023, we received the declaration of James W. Joyce, senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel for the Capitol Police, in which he describes emails among senior officials of the United States Capitol Police (USCP) in January 2021 that show warnings of possible January 6 protests that could lead to serious disruptions at the U.S. Capitol.
Judicial Watch Sues for Robert Mueller Records
The American people deserve a full accounting of Robert Mueller’s record—from the FBI’s dramatic expansion of surveillance powers after September 11 to the abusive special counsel investigation targeting President Trump. The Justice Department should immediately release every record concerning Mueller so Americans can judge his work for themselves.
We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Justice Department’s Office of Information Policy (OIP) failed to respond to a March 24, 2026, FOIA request seeking:
All records in any form related to the former FBI Director, Robert Swan Mueller, III, born on August 7, 1944, in New York City, NY, who died on March 20, 2026.
Mueller served as FBI director from September 2001 to September 2013. During his tenure, the FBI significantly expanded its domestic surveillance authorities. Among other powers, the bureau made extensive use of expanded authorities under the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, including National Security Letters, which allowed the FBI to compel the production of financial, telecommunications and internet records without prior judicial approval while often prohibiting recipients from disclosing the requests.
Three years after Mueller left the FBI, the bureau launched “Crossfire Hurricane,” also known as “Russiagate,” into allegations of links between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. Then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel in May 2017 to continue the investigation. Mueller served in that role until March 2019.
Mueller’s investigation concluded that it “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
In May 2023, Special Counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI failed to uphold its mission of “strict fidelity to the law” when pursuing Crossfire Hurricane and found that the bureau lacked sufficiently corroborated information to justify opening a full investigation.
In March 2025, President Trump issued a memorandum, calling for the immediate declassification of materials “related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation.”
We have pursued dozens of FOIA lawsuits in connection with the illicit targeting and other abuses of President Trump and his associates.
In October 2020, we uncovered emails between former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, who joined the Mueller team in 2017, and former FBI attorney Lisa Page showing that Microsoft Outlook’s Exchange server had to recreate multiple meetings that were “missing” from Page’s initial calendar entries. These missing meetings included the subjects “Going Dark Strategy Meeting,” “Twitter” and “702 Reauthorization Strategy Coordination Bi-Weekly” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)).
In September 2020, we received Justice Department records showing that senior members of Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office repeatedly and “accidentally” wiped phones assigned to them (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-02693)).
Also in September 2020, we uncovered Justice Department records that included a May 2017 email documenting that Mueller informed the attorney general’s office he was withdrawing from consideration for FBI director. The email raised questions about Mueller’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in July 2019, when he said a May 2017 interview with Trump was “not about me applying for the job” as FBI director (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00481)).
In July 2020, we uncovered emails showing that Strzok, Page and other top FBI officials in the days before and after Trump’s 2017 inauguration discussed a White House counterintelligence briefing that could “play into” the FBI’s “investigative strategy” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)).
In February 2020, we made public Strzok-Page emails showing direct involvement in the opening of Crossfire Hurricane. The records also showed additional “confirmed classified emails” were found on Clinton’s unsecured non-state.gov email server “beyond the number presented” in then-FBI Director James Comey’s statements; Strzok and Page questioned the access the Justice Department was granting Clinton’s lawyers; and Page revealed that the Justice Department was making edits to FBI FD-302 reports related to the Clinton Midyear Exam investigation. The emails also detail a discussion about “squashing” an issue related to the Seth Rich controversy (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)).
In February 2020, we uncovered Rosenstein’s communications with former Obama officials, such as Eric Holder, as well as information sharing with the media in the days immediately surrounding the inception of the Mueller investigation (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00481)).
In October 2019, we released Rosenstein’s communications that included a one-line email to Mueller stating, “The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions,” and “off the record” emails with major media outlets around the date of Mueller’s appointment. In May 2017, Rosenstein had written a memo to President Trump recommending that FBI Director James Comey be fired. That day, Trump fired Comey. Three days later, on May 12, Rosenstein sent the email assuring Mueller that Trump and his staff were not included in their “discussions” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00481)).
In May 2019, we released Justice Department records containing text messages and calendar entries of Mueller special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann showing he led the hiring effort for the special counsel team. Weissmann was formerly the Obama-era chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Fraud Section (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-01356)).
In July 2018, we received FBI records concerning the assignment of Strzok to Mueller’s operation, showing that Strzok insisted on retaining his FBI security clearance, declassification and other authorities before moving to the Mueller team (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (No. 1:17-cv-02682)). Strzok was removed from the Mueller investigative team in July 2017, with the move becoming public in August. He was reassigned to a human resources position.
SPLC’s Radical Curriculum Used to Train Educators Across U.S.
Do you know what they’re teaching your children? Do you know what they’re teaching your children’s future teachers? Our Corruption Chronicles blog has a disturbing report.
The leftwing ideology deeply embedded in the American public education system is being fortified with the incorporation of a radical “Learning for Justice” curriculum—often funded with taxpayer dollars—in colleges across the country that are training future teachers, assuring that the indoctrination continues for generations to come. A new report published by an education nonprofit reveals that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a controversial leftist group that slanders conservative organizations in an interactive “Hate Map”, created the program lessons, resources and Social Justice Standards (SJS) in the educator training classes at Colleges of Education (COE) across the country. In some cases, federal grants pay for the biased teacher training that blends social justice standards into virtually all lessons.
The outrageous Learning for Justice curriculum is used to train future educators in 38 states plus the District of Columbia and at least 100 COEs nationwide utilize it, according to the probe conducted by the nonprofit Defending Education. The Virginia-based group confirms that the COEs that have adopted the SPLC’s material are responsible for preparing K-12 classroom teachers as well as the continuing education of present teachers and administrators, which means they play a major role in what content, materials, best practices and perspectives shape the educators. “This report also examines academic journal articles, doctoral dissertations, and master’s theses to provide additional insight into how SPLC materials and Social Justice Standards are incorporated into Colleges of Education, teacher preparation programs, and K-12 classrooms,” reads the report published by the charity that aims for the reestablishment of a quality, non-political education for all students. “Importantly, few COEs outwardly acknowledge their use of SPLC materials; instead, many COEs hide their usage and promotion behind faculty login pages.”
Among the cases outlined in the report is a $275,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for a venture between Northern Arizona University and the Flagstaff Unified School District that incorporates Learning for Justice’s SJS into its computer science curriculum. In another example, the Department of Education gave a California graduate program $3.3 million to “develop and cultivate educators-in-training” with “social justice teaching ideas and practices,” including “Social Justice Standards from Teaching Tolerance.” The University of Maryland College of Education’s master’s for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teachers features a key theme of “Equity, Access, and Anti-bias Education” that integrates social justice standards and critical practices from the SPLC’s Learning for Justice into its programs. The entire Maryland State Department of Education also incorporates Social Justice Standards into its regulations governing new teacher induction programming run by school districts. The University of Michigan’s education program is centered on a “more just and equitable elementary science teaching” that draws from Learning for Justice and Kutztown University in Pennsylvania forces future educators to complete a special “teaching tolerance module” to fulfill a requirement of developing an understanding of diversity.
The list of examples goes on and on, with colleges in California, Oregon, Washington State, Massachusetts and Virginia using the discriminatory SPLC material. Even top public universities in Republican states have adopted it and mandate it in educator training courses. The University of Florida’s College of Education has a required course called “Equity Pedagogy Foundations” that aims to define educational equity by exploring the foundational concepts of race, class, ability and sexuality as they impact children in schools. Florida Atlantic University trains future teachers with courses such as “Introduction to Diversity for Educators, Equity Issues in Multicultural Education and Education in Multicultural Society.” The University of North Texas makes future educators take an advanced teaching course that features required readings from Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Standards. The University of Kansas incorporates the SPLC’s “importance of multicultural education” in all teacher programs and Western Kentucky University mandates a diversity in the classroom course that requires students to read a book called “There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom.”
This latest report on the SPLC’s enormous influence in training the nation’s educators comes on the heels of an equally disturbing investigation that revealed the leftwing group has received millions of taxpayer dollars to spread its hateful message and materials across the United States, including in public schools. The money came from states, cities, counties, universities, school districts, and other public entities to help fulfill the SPLC’s stated mission of “dismantling white supremacy” and “creating a world where Black and Brown communities are represented and respected by our democracy.”
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At the first-ever live-streamed Cabinet meeting from Camp David, Vice President JD Vance, leader of the administration’s new anti-fraud task force, announced record-breaking levels of fraud against the American people.
“We have identified $230 billion of fraud that’s being perpetrated against the American people, and we have halted $56 billion,” Vance announced at Friday morning’s Cabinet meeting led by President Donald Trump.
“The level of corruption and fraud that took place under the Biden administration was unprecedented,” Trump said following Vance’s announcement.
While Vance confirmed they identified $230 billion in fraud, he said it’s hard to get it back or track it down once it’s “out the door.” But now that it is identified, Vance said they can stop it from happening again.
“This really has required a whole administration approach to try to tackle fraud,” Vance continued. He thanked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler, and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Douglas Collins for their help uncovering fraud.
“The level of corruption is incredible,” Trump continued. He cited Minnesota, California, and Maine as the states with the highest levels of corruption.
“We’re going to keep on working at it because we believe the American people deserve to have their money spent as you, the Congress, have directed,” Vance said to Trump.
In addition to the $230 billion in fraud already uncovered, Vance also announced that Trump is set to announce 17 new anti-fraud actions later Friday. Vance said these actions will total more than $300 million saved for the American people.
On Thursday, as first reported by the Daily Caller, the Department of Justice uncovered $350 million in alleged Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program fraud across the southeastern United States. Vance thanked Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald and the National Fraud Enforcement Division at the DOJ.
“My message to the fraudsters is this: Our team is getting bigger, our resolve is getting stronger, and your time is getting shorter,” McDonald said at the announcement.
Just last week, the Treasury Department and Secretary Scott Bessent, working with Vance, implemented new guardrails to prevent fraud. The department created a new screening system to detect federal payments being sent to dead people. Already, the system has stopped almost $100 million that had been marked to be sent to those who are deceased.
Camp David, the presidential retreat center, is one of the most private facilities in the country and is rarely, if ever, seen by the public. This was the first Camp David Cabinet meeting livestreamed to the American public, highlighting the administration’s promise of transparency.
Despite massive spending in the 2025 Virginia gubernatorial race, the gun-control organization backed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have left the state with far more modern semiautomatic firearms than there were prior to a short-lived ban.
Pro-Second Amendment organizations filed suit after Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed SB 749, a ban on so-called “assault weapons,” into law May 14, eventually securing court orders blocking the legislation. Following a decision by state courts to pause the litigation on Virginia’s ban pending the Supreme Court’s decision in Viramontes v. Cook County, a case challenging a similar ban on modern semiautomatic weapons, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) Litigation & Intelligence Coordinator Rob Romano summarized the outcome from the series of events in a Thursday post on X.
“Pretty funny how Everytown spent $1 million to get Spanberger elected so she could sign this ban, and now the end result will potentially be less than a month of it being in effect but significantly more of the guns and magazines in the state than if she vetoed it,” Romano said.
Everytown touted its $1 million ad campaign for Spanberger shortly after she defeated then-Republican Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in the 2025 gubernatorial race.
Pretty funny how Everytown spent $1 million to get Spanberger elected so she could sign this ban, and now the end result will potentially be less than a month of it being in effect but significantly more of the guns and magazines in the state than if she vetoed it https://t.co/UMqmRBwSNV
When signing the bill, Spanberger claimed that the ban on modern semiautomatic firearms would “protect families.” What happened instead is a classic example of unintended consequences, most of which end up on the positive side of the ledger for the Second Amendment community.
The court’s orders blocking the law took effect on July 21, less than three weeks after the effective date of the ban. Despite the uncertainty of whether SB 749 would take effect on July 1 due to the litigation from pro-Second Amendment groups, including the National Rifle Association (NRA), Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and FPC, AR-15s and similar firearms that would be covered by the ban were flying off the shelves, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported in June.
“They’re buying the living daylights out of ARs,” Karen Ballengee, owner of Southern Police Equipment, said. “They’re buying guns as fast as they can get their hands on them.”
Background check totals appear to bear that out. The FBI reported carrying out over 73,000 background checks on the National Instant Check System in Virginia during May, more than twice as many as the total conducted in May 2025.
In an article published May 13, The New York Times noted that both the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle (which bears a resemblance to the M16 and M4 select-fire weapons used by the U.S. military) and semiautomatic rifles with cosmetic features or accessories that make them look like fully-automatic AK-47s are popular firearms owned by millions of civilians. Or, in simple language, lots of people use them for reasons that are perfectly legal.
The shorter phrase is that these guns are in “common use.” Per Heller and Bruen, firearms in common use for lawful purposes fall under the Second Amendment’s protection; in other words, they can’t be banned.
In addition to the ban on so-called “assault weapons,” the bill Spanberger signed also outlawed standard-capacity magazines, setting an arbitrary limit of 15 rounds. That is also on hold pending the Supreme Court’s ruling in Viramontes.
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Thousands of Tunisians are again chanting “Leave!” as economic hardship and political repression fuel growing anger against President Kais Saied.
Approximately 2,500 demonstrators marched through central Tunis over the weekend, demanding Saied’s resignation and reviving slogans associated with the 2011 revolution that triggered the Arab Spring.
Protesters denounced repeated water and electricity cuts, rising living costs and the erosion of political freedoms.
Tunisia’s unemployment rate stood at roughly 15% during the first quarter of 2026, while inflation and scarce employment opportunities have placed additional pressure on households and young graduates.
Story by Mohammad Mansour
Five years after Tunisian President Kais Saied suspended parliament and attained sweeping powers, the country remains sharply divided, grappling with a severe economic downturn and a worsening political deadlock.
Saied’s supporters continue to view the measures taken by him in July 2021 – when he suspended parliament and dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi – as a necessary “correction” to save the country. The opposition says that since then, state institutions have collapsed, promises have gone unfulfilled, and there has been an unprecedented concentration of power in his hands.
Speaking to Al Jazeera’s Ma Waraa al-Khabar (Behind the News) programme, political and economic experts debated the legacy of Saied’s five-year rule, painting a picture of an economy hindered by a poor business climate, populist policies, and a lack of clear vision.
An economy in free fall
Since Saied assumed near-total control of the levers of power five years ago, Tunisia’s economic indicators have largely plummeted.
Chkoundali attributed this sharp decline to an environment that drives away investment, exacerbated by a significant burden from taxes, which have risen by five percentage points since 2015.
Taxation, he argued, is no longer used to stimulate investment but simply to collect revenues at the expense of economic growth.
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Guess What? – You have been redefined. You are now:
HUMAN CAPITAL
“To most people, capital means a bank account, a hundred shares of IBM stock, assembly lines or steel plants in the Chicago area. These are all forms of capital in the sense that they are assets that yield income and other useful outputs over long periods of time.
Therefore, economists regard expenditures on education, training, medical care, and so on, as investments in human capital.
They are called human capital because people cannot be separated from their knowledge, skills, health or valuesin the way they can be separated from their financial and physical assets.” – Gary S. Becker
Today’s unsuspecting children … Human Capital – are being indoctrinatedinto this collective mindset in every school program that they use.
Over the past few weeks, President Trump gave to Education Secretary, Linda McMann, the task of closing the Federal Department of Education. He was thinking that by giving the states the responsibility of educating our children, they would turn to American history, economy and values. Wrong. Home schooling is the only answer. It’s the stupid curricula.
Remember when Governor Scott was in office and he tried his hardest to convince Floridians that the Florida Sunshine State Standards are NOT Common Core? Governors in other states are playing the same delete/replace game. Changing the name does not change the goal. Common Core is Communism, alive and well In public schools.
What Governors learned is that Americans are NOT THAT STUPID. Americans are fighting back!
Whenever I start a battle, I ask myself who is the enemy and what are we trying to accomplish?
What we do know:
Common Core is merely an implementation plan for Communism.
Common Core is all about creating “drones” for a planned, outcome-based economy run by corporate government.
STEM programs are a way to siphon off those with highest intellect to work in government-approved labs.
The rest of the Human Capital are dispensable.
AMERICANS, the new Indentured Servants
The purpose of all kids must go to college with high tuition is promoted in order to force the human capital into debt.
Human Capital in debt can own nothing and are forced into mandatory volunteerism of meaningless professions to work off their debt. Human Capital in debt can own nothing and are also known as “indentured servants”.
Common Core and its cousins, NCLB, School to Work, and Goals 2000 have been with us for years under a variety of names in a distinct effort to dumb-down Americans in favor of Outcome-Based Education by using a stimulus-response training program.
Your child’s destiny is predetermined by a Globalist corporation on a computer stored in an AI data center.
Who owns the data?
Who is making money from the data?
Who wants to be spied on 24/7?
Globalists believe that Dumb people require less of their government. We are doing ourselves a huge disservice unless we look at the whole picture.
Listen to Kat Stansell and me discuss the lies and harm being done to America by our Leaders.
Recently, Tallahassee passed SB484, to “regulate” data centers, which are suddenly being built by the thousands, all over the nation. Most citizens do NOT want them due to concerns coming from water, fuel and health issues, all of which are very valid…
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Republican Wisconsin House candidate Michael Alfonso discussed the importance of supporting the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement as a new father in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Alfonso, 26, is endorsed by President Donald Trump as he vies in a five-candidate Aug. 11 GOP primary for a sprawling northwestern Wisconsin district the president won by more than 22 percentage points in the 2024 election. If elected, he would likely be the youngest member of Congress and the first member born in the 2000s.
“As a young guy, I just had a daughter. The rising costs of health care is one of those scary things that scares not just my generation, but even the older generation. Prescription drugs, you name it,” he told the DCNF. “But if we’re going to have a serious discussion about the rise of health care costs, we can talk about how us as a nation, we have an obese crisis.”
Alfonso added that he “believes” in the MAHA movement led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“This idea of getting food from the farmers to the … local sellers to the local consumers. I stand behind that 100%.,” he stressed. “We have a chronic disease crisis. If we want to lower the cost of health care, one of the easy things we can do is just be healthier.”
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The young candidate is running to represent Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District to replace incumbent Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany, who is instead running for governor. Alfonso’s father-in-law, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, represented the district from 2011 to 2019. Alfonso previously worked as the producer of The Dan Bongino Show, a popular conservative podcast, and as an accountant at a Catholic Church.
In addition to his support from Trump, Alfonso also received an endorsement from MAHA Action — a group aligned with the broader MAHA movement. The organization supported seven candidates at the time of the DCNF’s interview with Alfonso, a number that had grown to ten by Friday. All candidates it backs are Republicans.
A few MAHA-Action backed candidates including Republican Louisiana Senate nominee Julia Letlow and Republican Iowa gubernatorial nominee Zach Lahn already won contested primaries this cycle. Lahn’s win over a Trump-backed opponent was considered a major upset and came after he spent much of his primary campaign focusing on his support for the MAHA movement.
Alfonso told the DCNF of a solution he thinks can both make the American food supply healthier and benefit farmers in his district.
“There’s a lot of discussion about food dyes in our foods, particularly Red 40,” he said. “One of the alternatives to red dye 40 is actually using cranberries as a natural dye.”
He alluded to the fact that Wisconsin produces about 60% of the nation’s cranberry supply.
“So, we’re very excited about that. I was just with a couple cranberry growers, and they’re already getting some plans ready for if those decisions come down,” Alfonso told the DCNF.
However, the fact that Alfonso is only one year older than the minimum age to run for Congress has caused some to call him unprepared for the job, with one three-time Trump voter telling The Associated Press in early July, “it’s insulting to people in the 7th that someone who lacks qualifications and any life experiences and any kind of demonstrable leadership skills or experience is even being touted as a candidate”
The 26 year old told the DCNF that he has been working since he was 14.
“Whether it’s Ace Hardware or putting myself through through college, doing construction or producing one of the largest conservative podcasts in the entire country, I’ve been on the frontlines of the working class and this battle against radical leftism my whole life,” he said. “And I do ask the question, what has experience ever gotten us in politics?”
Alfonso’s two main primary opponents are former Iran hostage and county GOP leader Kevin Hermening, and Jessi Ebben — who works in public relations and is backed by the Club For Growth and Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna. Business owner and self-identified moderate Republican Niina Baum and contractor Don Raihala are also vying to win the GOP primary race.
While polling on the race has been sparse, a TIPP Insights survey sponsored by the League of American Workers released in early May showed Alfonso as the frontrunner with 35% support, with Hermening at 21%, and Ebben and Baum tied at 5%. Thirty-four percent of respondents were undecided.
Ebben accused Alfonso of nepotism during an April debate.
Alfonso responded to these attacks in April, telling journalist Emily Jashinsky “It’s rich. When people start losing in a race they’ll throw anything at you.”
“If Republicans are going to be serious and actually win races, we need to raise money,” he added, attributing a recent landslide loss for a conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate to poor fundraising.
During his interview with the DCNF, Alfonso also observed how unionized workers — a longtime reliable Democratic voting bloc — have trended right in recent years, especially under Trump’s leadership of the GOP.
“When I talk about, the Teamsters, the unions, the guys that are actually building America, they look at the Democrats and they say, ‘My grandfather was a Democrat. My father was a Democrat. I must be a Democrat,’” he said. “But then they see the Democrats with these green New Deal, Green new scam policies where they’re not building anything.”
“They’re telling them, ‘Hey, go take a hike,’” Alfonso emphasized. “We don’t need your job anymore.”
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — More than 50 officials from seven southeastern states convened Thursday to sign a data-sharing agreement with the Department of Justice aimed at rooting out fraud.
Across the seven states, officials have uncovered roughly $350 million in alleged fraud, according to information shared with the Daily Caller. Under the Memorandum of Understanding signed Thursday, the states will give the DOJ access to “publicly available corporate registration and public benefits payment data held by these state agencies.” It is data officials said will help the department spot fraud patterns faster.
Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, met with dozens of state officials before his press conference to discuss their work and how the federal government could better support it. The Daily Caller was the only outlet allowed in the room.
“To state partners here and across the country is this: the fraud division and our U.S. attorneys’ offices are ready to help you scale your efforts to strengthen your cases and deliver results for the taxpayers of America,” McDonald said at a press conference following the roundtable.
“Your partnership with us is the antidote to the fraud epidemic facing our nation. And my message to the fraudsters is this: Our team is getting bigger, our resolve is getting stronger, and your time is getting shorter,” he added.
SCOOP: The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division has uncovered roughly $350 million in alleged fraud across the Southeastern U.S., resulting in charges across 7 states, @DailyCaller has learned.
The southeastern states have agreed to a data-sharing…
Over the hour-and-a-half meeting, which ran past its scheduled end, officials walked through the progress they’d made uncovering fraud in their states. North Carolina asked for “department-wide access to advanced data analytics tools” to help farm data. They called on Congress to help combat fraud. Others described working across party lines, and some revealed how gangs are using fraud schemes to recruit teenagers.
Mississippi used the meeting to announce a new fraud task force, made possible by a grant program the DOJ unveiled. It is the first such federal grant awarded. The room traded notes on how other states could tap the same program.
“We’re going to be able to have five new prosecutors come in and work specifically on fraud. We’ll be able to hire a law enforcement officer specifically on this task force as well, and an analyst,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch told the Caller in an interview about the grant. “This gives us the opportunity to hire people that are dedicated.”
South Carolina and North Carolina brought news of their own. South Carolina officials announced they had uncovered the largest Medicaid fraud in state history, crediting an unlikely partnership for cracking the case: they worked alongside North Carolina, with an attorney general’s office led by a Democrat.
“Elected Republican, elected Democrat, state, federal, South Carolina, North Carolina — and if it hadn’t been for our ability to work together with their U.S. Attorney’s office … we would not have been able to uncover the largest Medicaid fraud in South Carolina history,” one state official said during the roundtable.
On the $350 million in fraud found across seven states, I ask Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald why this had previously gone unnoticed till now.
His response: “We have leadership in place who have decided to make this a priority to give the tools to the agents that… pic.twitter.com/hqE8oPBeDd
In an interview, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson credited his North Carolina counterpart, Jeff Jackson, with making fraud a priority of his administration. It was one reason the two states could work together. And Wilson said the DOJ has been instrumental in letting states across the country coordinate.
“When the administration makes it a priority at the federal level, it helps us support our priorities at the state level,” Wilson told the Caller. “Knowing that I have a liaison, a person I can call directly, it helps us make it a bigger priority here at the state. When we’re out operating by ourselves in the wilderness, we can only do so much.”
Wilson noted that when fraud crosses a state border, he loses jurisdiction. With an assistant attorney general dedicated to fraud, states can now call on the DOJ and its specialized fraud office to bridge that gap.
“[They] can break down those jurisdictional barriers, those geographic barriers, even the cultural barriers,” he said.
State officials aren’t the only ones happy to get more resources to fight fraud; federal officials expressed relief to the Caller as well. Fraud has been a long-time issue. The year prior, the FBI had 21 billion dollars reported to them in fraud, Heith Janke, the FBI assistant director, told the Caller. That is a 26% increase from the previous year.
“We’ve always had dedicated agents that investigated fraud, but not enough. We never had enough agent support. We never had enough prosecutor support to really tackle all this. I think the change is that this administration has said enough’s enough, fraudsters,” Janke told the Caller, adding that they have more agents, analysts and prosecutors under the Trump administration.
James Harris, Homeland Security of Investigations assistant director, told the Caller that the Trump administration’s focus on fraud has renewed hope among federal agents.
“If we don’t have the support or the partnerships, you can’t really go too far. You just kind of scratch the surface,” Harris told the Caller.
“But when you have the partnerships and do stuff like we did today, and you have the support, you know, then we can go zero tolerance. Then we can then unleash everything that we have,” he added.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The DOJ Fraud Division is hosting a roundtable with 8 U.S. Attorneys Offices, 7 State Attorneys General Offices, 5 federal law enforcement partners, and over 50 state officials to discuss how they can work together to root out fraud across the country. pic.twitter.com/0TCWCMpm61
The administration’s focus on fraud came after YouTuber Nick Shirley exposed nearly a dozen Somali-run daycare centers in Minnesota that were not actually providing services.
The Trump White House later launched a task force dedicated to rooting out fraud across the country. The effort has been led by Vice President JD Vance, who McDonald reports to in his newly created position.
“The fraud-fighting team assembled here today is resolved to work together to break those cycles and bring the fraudsters out into the light,” McDonald said Thursday.
“When federal prosecutors work with state agencies to share leads, data, strategy, the American people win. Better intelligence, better cases, better training, more money returned to victims, and more fraudsters behind bars where they belong,” he continued.
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One of the things that is perplexing and often a topic of conversation is this new American-Western European alliance or absorption of Islam and Marxism-socialism-communism. In other words, people who identify as radical Muslims, often in their alliance, include people who are traditional Western Marxists, and it doesn’t seem possible for a variety of ways.
There’s a lot of antitheses. Do we really believe that these upscale people in blue enclaves in the United States who declare themselves socialist and are voting for people like Zohran Mamdani, or Ilhan Omar, or Rashida Tlaib, who are proud, and active, and often fervent Muslims, tolerate gays? Do you really believe if you said, “I am gay, and I’m proud of it, and I want to announce that in Saudi Arabia,” you wouldn’t be in trouble?
Do you really believe that if you went to Iran and said, “I want to repeal all the sodomy laws,” you wouldn’t be in trouble?
Or if you went, let’s say, to Egypt and you said, “I wanna have a trans, sexual support group,” you wouldn’t be in trouble? Do you really believe that upscale, independent women in Western cities, maybe unmarried, professional, doesn’t that bother them a little bit when they ally themselves with radical Muslims who tell them that, as far as men go, their dream is going to an Islamic heaven and having the sexual use as if they’re almost tools of 72 virgins?
Does that go well with a book editor in Manhattan or the head of an NGO in Denver? I don’t think so.
Another thing that’s quite different is Islam believes in Allah, and that’s it. All other people who are non-believers are doomed to hell, and the duty is to spread worship, loyalty, fealty to the Muslim Allah.
But throughout the history of socialism and Marxism and communism, all of them agree on one thing, that religion is really the opiate of the masses. They feel that class struggle is harmed or negated by people who believe in a God. In the Christian sense, they feel that, blessed are the meek, blessed are the poor.
That Sermon on the Mount doesn’t do anything. It basically says there will be social justice in heaven, but not here. If you’re poor, you go to heaven by being morally better than the rich man. Remember, it’s harder for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than a rich man, Jesus says, to go to heaven.
So, the message for believers is that there is social justice in heaven. The message for a socialist, communist, Marxist is it’s right now. There is no heaven. There is no God. We have to get social justice now.
Another thing that’s very different is Marxists believe in the state control of the means of production, and socialists believe that this—there can be private property, but mostly the utilities, the railroads, the steel companies, most all of the muscles of a society are owned also by the state.
But they believe in a commission, a committee, a chairman. They don’t believe that one exercises power through royalty or succession, although most communist and Marxist states, which we see in North Korea and we see in Iran, they’re very similar in some ways. But, in the Arab world, monarchy is pretty much de rigueur, as we see in the Gulf states.
But Marxism says, “No, we don’t believe in kings. We overthrow them.” That was what the revolutions of 1848 were about. That’s what the French Revolution was about. That’s basically what the Bolsheviks were trying to get rid of an imperial dynastic tsar. So, that’s another antithesis.
Another thing is the Arab world is based on tribalism, that your first loyalty goes to people who look like you, speak a dialect of Arabic like you, and have a local or regional affinity, a proximity to you.
That’s always been the challenge of the modern Arab nation or state. How do you include people from seven, 10, 15, 20 different tribes who have fought each other for centuries and only come together when coerced to, for example, under the Ottoman Empire?
But Marxism is very different. Your first allegiance is not to people who look like you.
It’s to the global proletariat, the oppressed, the Comintern. Socialists believe that they have more in common with people in Europe who are fellow socialists than they do with rich people or, or people who are devoutly religious in their own country.
So tribalism is part of Islam’s foundation. Globalism is central to the socialist or the communist or the Marxist.
However, all of that said, someone’s going to say, “Well, Victor, they’re alike. They have a coalition. Zohran Mamdani is a hardcore Marxist, and he’s a hardcore Islamicist, and so is Ilhan Omar, and so are almost all the people in Dearborn, Michigan, it seems like, and so are these new socialist candidates that are popping up like flowers everywhere in blue cities and urban areas.”
So, what’s the similarities? One, they hate Western civilization. They can’t stand the values of Western civilization, free speech, religious opportunity, market capitalism, etc. They both hate that and Islam has been, has been at war with the West since the seventh century, and it’s fought Westerners not just in the Crusades, but all through the history of the Byzantine Empire, all through the history of Europe and North Africa.
And when [Osama] bin Laden said the great tragedy was that Islam lost its hold in Europe, what he was basically talking about was the Battle of Tours and the stopping of the Islamic movement northward into Europe. They, of course, have, in the Quran and its related apocrypha, there’s a lot of hatred of Jews.
They hate Israel with a passion. So do Marxists, socialists. I’m not sure why they do, given the creation of Israel was based on a kibbutz system, which is socialistic in nature, and many of the original generation who settled in Israel even before World War II came there as dissidents from Eastern Europe and Russia, and they believed in a socialist future.
But that’s all ancient history now. As of now, what draws Muslims to the new left-wing hardcore socialist and communist, and what draws them to include rather antithetical Muslims into their movement, they hate Israel with a passion, and they hate Jews.
There’s another, similarity. They hate capitalism.
They do not believe that a person should have freedom of opportunity to start his own business, to make a profit. In the Islamic world, interest is frowned upon officially. Not that the Gulf states are run … The Gulf states are run on hypercapitalism, but officially they find, euphemisms and mechanisms to get around prohibitions in the Quran for hypercapitalism or laissez-faire capitalism.
And of course, capitalism is the main enemy of Zohran Mamdani and others who feel it’s unfair, it doesn’t share the wealth. They believe in the message not of the Americans, “Give me liberty or give me death,” a revolution to ensure political freedom, but a holistic, totalitarian, three-hundred-and-sixty-degree revolution of fraternity egalitarianism.
In other words, we’re not just going to give people freedom to speak. We don’t want them to have freedom to speak. We want to make them equal on the back end by the use of government coercion.
Both of them hate democracy then. They don’t like the people voting because, in the Arab world or the Muslim world, there will be people who object to the role of women, especially in the modern age, or the role that intolerance for sexual minorities or the intolerance shown Christians.
And so, they will object, and they wouldn’t want to express that objection. That’s taboo. And we know from the history of socialism, they say they believe in free speech, but very quickly socialists try to outlaw it, and when they become communists, they kill for it.
That’s another difference. And both of them justify violence.
They believe the violent method is necessary for the, desired end. And so you see people who are committing … Who are the people that commit violence? Who was the person just this week in New York that stabbed somebody? Who was the person in Europe that tried to run over people at a gay party?
Who are the people protesting ICE? Who are the people on the campus protesting violently? They are either radical Islamicist or they’re radical socialist communist Antifa types, or often they’re mixed together in the same demonstration.
Finally, remember that Hitler himself said he was a national socialist.
Yes, he made deals with crony capitalism, but even though he said he despised Bolshevism, he said after he was looking back in his final days that he admired Joseph Stalin’s communism, and he said that if he had defeated the United States and Russia, he would have executed American leaders, but welcomed Stalin in kind of a genteel captivity.
And by the same token, Hitler said that he preferred Islam to Christianity. He had a great deal of admiration for the Grand Mufti. There was an alliance of radical Islam with national socialists. They both hated capitalism, and they hated the same thing as we’ve just reviewed, and they liked many of the same things.
Hitler was not a hypercapitalist. He was a socialist, a national socialist. And in some ways, even though he said he despised Bolsheviks, they had a lot in common.
So, remember, next time you see this bizarre, weird, surreal alliances or people shouting Allah Akbar or, power to the people, spread the word. They’re not as different as you think.
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To hear the mainstream media tell it, the November elections are just a formality. Republicans, bogged down by the economy, Donald Trump’s sagging approval ratings, the Iran war, and their base’s general malaise, don’t stand a chance, they insist. But the Left’s echo chamber — while correct on the historical trends for the party in power — has one goal, and one goal only: deflate the Right at all costs. But is the GOP’s obituary already written, or is there hope of a conservative comeback? Here are five areas where the president’s party might have an unexpected edge.
1. Fundraising
One of the things that surprised House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) most about his new job in 2023 was the amount of time he was expected to devote to raising money. At one point, Punchbowl News reported, the Louisianan balked at the duty, declaring that the Founding Fathers “didn’t intend for the speaker of the House to be the primary fundraiser of the party.” But, as reporter Jake Sherman pointed out, “[T]hey also couldn’t have foreseen that the House would be a billion-dollar battleground every two years.”
Whether or not he wanted to do it, this speaker has more than excelled at it — smashing records for the GOP and building an impressive war chest heading into the bloodiest battle he’s experienced at the helm. By 2025, he’d even set a Republican high-water mark, the most ever raised by a speaker in a single year. Facing strong headwinds, the Louisianan’s shocking talent for raking in cash will be a major comfort to his vulnerable members. Between April and June of this year, he socked away another $19.1 million for a total of more than $135 million during this election cycle. A half-million of that has gone to two dozen “battleground incumbents,” and his sidekick, Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), has pumped $55 million into the chamber’s coffers.
Even The Washington Post admits that the Republican Party has “a lopsided cash advantage” down the home stretch, thanks in part to the movement’s super PACs. Right now, the GOP is sitting on a $300 million-plus advantage over their Democratic counterparts, Axios reports, “and that doesn’t include the $400 million sitting in Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC.”
Add that to Elon Musk’s latest announcement that he’s getting off the sidelines to help the GOP in the midterms, and Republicans are almost certainly striking fear into Democratic headquarters. The billionaire’s financial backing in 2024 — a whopping $260 million — was a huge reason for the party’s success. This time around, his America PAC will focus on “door-knocking, digital advertising and direct mail aimed at turning out the conservative base, including voters who typically are less inclined to cast ballots in a non-presidential election year,” Musk’s team explained. “By focusing on voter turnout,” Axios notes, “Musk’s group will allow other GOP groups to gear their efforts toward TV ads.”
2. Polling
The landscape has looked incredibly bleak for Trump’s party these last few months, but that picture is slowly changing, experts say. Despite the perfect storm of issues plaguing the GOP, Americans are gradually inching back into the conservative camp. In the generic ballot contest, which is a great indicator of midterm success, Republicans have been down as many as 10 points. They’ve cut into the Democrats’ lead by as many as five to seven points, according to both Reuters/Ipsos and Economist/YouGov.
“If the Republicans are within two, that’s a good sign,” Breitbart’s John Nolte stresses. “As we all know, pollsters tend to underestimate Republican turnout because most pollsters are leftists more interested in wishcasting and manipulating public opinion than reporting on it.”
Now, obviously, trying to make up ground in this hostile environment isn’t easy. Over at RealClearPolitics, the GOP is still trying to claw its way out of a five-point deficit, an unsurprising gap given the affordability crisis in America, Trump’s unusually low approval rating, and the drag always felt by the majority party. “The political party in power, especially the one that holds the White House, tends to go into the midterms with a big disadvantage,” Nolte warns. “The reason for this is simple: the voters who lost the White House two years earlier feel motivated to register their displeasure, while those voters who won the White House tend to be pretty satisfied with things and therefore not as motivated to vote.”
That said, the Democratic Party is wildly unpopular right now. “A staggering 63% of voters now view the Democratic Party UNFAVORABLY, while just 33% still hold a favorable view. That’s nearly two-thirds of the country.” So we’ll see.
3. The Rise of Democratic Communism
Speaking of unpopularity, the best gift Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) could give Republicans right now is his party’s lurch toward the Democratic Socialist movement gripping the deepest blue states. Everyday voters are still picking their jaws off the floor after the DSA’s radical list of goals: abolishing prisons, the presidency, U.S. Senate, the Electoral College, the Supreme Court, and ICE; public ownership of every company; single-payer medicine; a new American Constitution; and a basket of other insanely extremist demands that would burn our nation’s longtime traditions to the ground.
The president and GOP leaders have seized on the Democrats’ crazy train, warning that this latest alliance with the fringe Left will “destroy” the country. “They’re siding with the radical Left communists taking over the party,” Trump emphasized. “… [N]ormal socialists who can destroy a country too. They’re not going fast enough. Do you remember, like, in one of my State of the Union speeches, I said, we will never be a socialist country. But I was right. We’re going to be a communist country,” he continued. “That’s what they want. They skipped socialism.”
The campaign ads on the DSA’s wish list alone — which they refuse to disavow — write themselves. Speaker Johnson, in a conversation with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, was blunt about the threat. “You and I were talking off stage a little while ago, and I said, ‘You know, if somebody had told us even 10 years ago that on the 250th anniversary of the greatest nation in the history of the world, we would be in an open contest about whether we were going to maintain a constitutional republic or go down this dark, dangerous, deadly road to communism, [I would be shocked],” he shook his head. “That is what we are facing in a midterm election. And that’s why I think this midterm is unlike any other.” This isn’t “a referendum on Donald J. Trump,” Johnson insisted. “It’s a referendum on Thomas Jefferson. I mean, the foundational principles of the nation are imperiled. And you have a rising number of barbarians who are coming up through the primary system in the Democrat[ic] primaries.”
While the DSA has had a surprising amount of success in primary and mayoral elections, their appeal is only in the deepest of blue states. And the traditional Democrats know it. They’re panicked by leadership’s public indifference to the pendulum swing. “In Ohio, in Nebraska, and parts of Arizona, far-left candidates are just not going to win,” incumbent Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-Ohio) implored. Others, like Rep. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) echoed that concern. “We are the ones that overperform because of our ability to get moderate Republicans to support us. That’s how we win in the toughest seats.”
Johnson couldn’t help but underscore the crisis. “By my count, we’re up to, I think, 29 of these people,” he told Perkins. “And they espouse crazy, radical, un-American views. They want no borders. They want no prisons. They want to eliminate entire institutions like the U.S. Supreme Court. They want to remove the presidency. They want to pack the Supreme Court. They think the House itself should run the whole government, which, by the way, they want to assume all the power or control over production. And it’s madness,” he contended.
“There’s a bunch of them coming up through the system,” the speaker said. “I will be administering the oath to people who have open disdain for the founding principles of their country. It’s an unprecedented time. And so, I’m telling you, people who love America and common sense have to get off of their good intentions right now and get engaged. Your neighbors, your family, your friends at church. Everybody needs to understand this one’s for all the marbles. And we are not overstating that. It’s not campaign rhetoric.”
4. Redistricting
It feels like forever ago that Texas Democrats fled the state over the GOP’s congressional map that would do away with what the Supreme Court has now affirmed as unconstitutionally gerrymandered districts. Over the next 12 months, that redistricting battle would become a nationwide war that raged in states from coast to coast. Now, a year into the Republicans’ efforts to do away with the unfair race criteria of the Voting Rights Act, they’re finally reaping the rewards.
That unique arms race, as it was coined by so many reporters, did ultimately result in a congressional map that’s more favorable to Republicans heading into these midterms. Ten states have new district lines, which has radically reshaped the GOP’s odds for November, Cook Political Report notes. This week, in an updated look at 2026, the highly-respected outfit released a report with the caption, “Re-Redistricting Yields a More Republican, Less Elastic House Map.”
“The Cook Political Report has updated its Partisan Voter Index (PVI) scores for all ten states that redrew their lines for 2026. And although 80% of states didn’t redistrict, the shift is still dramatic: the median House seat now sports a Cook PVI score of R+3, two points redder than prior to this cycle’s gerrymandering arms race,” they share, “making it exceedingly difficult for Democrats to win the House in anything other than a favorable political environment. In other words, even if Democrats do take back the House majority in 2026, they will be under increased pressure to retaliate in the states they control to keep it in 2028.”
Under these new lines, they continue, “assuming both parties win all the seats where the partisan fundamentals strongly favor them (today, no House Democrat represents a seat redder than R+5 and no House Republican represents a seat bluer than D+5), Democrats would need to win 57 of the 77 seats in the D+5 to R+5 range (74%) to win the barest possible majority. Under the old lines, they would have needed to win 59 of the 87 seats in that range (68%).”
Adding to Jeffries’s woes, “More Democratic-leaning seats became GOP-leaning than vice-versa,” Cook explains. Of course, they add, “None of this is to say that Democrats are no longer favorites to take back the House in 2026; in fact, winning a chunk of seats with PVI scores of R+3, R+4 or R+5 is very realistic, even probable, in a midterm wave environment. But this cycle’s redistricting race to the bottom makes Democrats’ task considerably harder by lowering their ceiling for gains, and makes the House much less elastic and less responsive to the vicissitudes of the national mood.”
FRC Action’s Matt Carpenter put it this way to The Washington Stand, “History shows, with few exceptions, that the party out of power makes gains during midterm elections. Midterm elections almost always generate lower turnout than presidential elections, and often the base of support for the party out of power is more enthusiastic to vote than that of the majority.” He adds that in recent years, “the list of truly competitive races in the House has dwindled to between 20 and 30. The result has been House majorities built on the slimmest of majorities. The 2026 midterms are shaping up to be historic — not necessarily because of any these conditions are missing — but because of the introduction of something new: the rare mid-decade redistricting battle. Republicans were able to net more safe districts for their candidates than the Democrats and have thus narrowed the path for a Democratic majority in the House, by forcing them into the position of having to basically run the table of toss-up and leans-Democrat districts.”
That dynamic changes things, Carpenter highlights. “Given the imbalance, to the advantage of House Republicans, in campaign spending, we could see Republicans buck history and retain the Speaker’s gavel after November. To be clear, Democrats have their own advantages, their candidates are raising a lot of money, and their voters are itching to vote. But those Democratic advantages could be blunted by the party’s embrace of candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America promises that hurt the party’s appeal in less urban, more moderate districts. The fact remains, with a little more than three months to go until election day, there is still plenty that can happen. Control of Congress is essentially a jump ball.”
5. Time
Three months is a lifetime in politics. A lot could happen — especially in the Iran war, which is the nexus of a lot of angst about the economy, the president’s priorities, etc. Between now and then, the GOP plans an unprecedented midterm political convention, which could make a dent in the Republican base’s enthusiasm and also help outline the clear contrasts between the two parties’ very different values.
Nolte observed, “There will be a ton of news cycles between now and Election Day, along with an equal number of surprises. So we are still in Anything Can Happen Land. My primary point here is that if you only paid attention to the media, you’d think the GOP had zero chance of holding on to the House,” he wrote. “Well, that simply is not true. That wouldn’t be true regardless of the polling because Trump is the only person in the country who has a national movement behind him, and it’s one of the largest political movements in American history. That matters. Turnout will win or lose the House, and Trump can turn them out.”
As Johnson reiterated, “It’s going to come down to a handful of votes in just a couple of districts. Cook Political Report currently says … on election night you should expect 212 Republican seats, 205 Democrat[ic] seats. It leaves less than 20 seats in the middle as the jump ball,” the speaker summarized. “So the whole balance of Congress, I think, will come down to less than 20 seats. … We have a slight fundraising advantage over Democrats right now because people believe the stakes are so high. I’m absolutely convinced God’s not done with America yet. We’re going to grow this House majority, and we’re going to keep this thing going so we can save the greatest nation in history.”
In the meantime, he asks for prayer. “My familiar refrain [is] we need wisdom, stamina, discernment. Probably in that order. So we appreciate those prayers.”
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In just seven years, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) has spent nearly $60 million on lawyers.
During fiscal year 2026 alone, the district set a new record, spending $14.4 million on legal fees.
Fiscal Year
Legal Fees
2020
$6,401,078
2021
$5,066,049
2022
$6,312,989
2023
$6,925,475
2024
$11,619,332
2025
$7,656,968
2026
$14,440,784
Total
$58,422,675
Source: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests and FCPS Transparency
For a school system that routinely cites budget constraints when discussing teacher pay, classroom resources, and student services, these legal expenditures deserve far more public scrutiny than they have received.
The most striking figure is the nearly $8.9 million paid to King & Spalding during fiscal year 2026. That single firm’s bill exceeded FCPS’s total annual legal spending in every fiscal year before fiscal year 2024.
King & Spalding is representing FCPS in litigation brought by a teacher whistleblower who alleges that school officials participated in funding and facilitating student abortions without parental or guardian knowledge or consent. Although King & Spalding—the law firm that was both the district’s external “independent” investigator and its defense—has suggested that FCPS is innocent in all matters, the whistleblower continues to pursue charges for retaliation against a whistleblower.
FCPS is also spending heavily to defend itself in litigation involving some of the district’s most controversial policies, including those concerning gender identity, student pronouns, access to sex-specific facilities and sports, and lack of parental notification regarding students’ gender transitions.
The legal spending extends well beyond courtroom defense. The district has repeatedly hired outside law firms to conduct what it characterizes as “independent” investigations into its own actions.
Following allegations that an illegal immigrant sexually assaulted 13 female students at Fairfax High School, FCPS retained McGuireWoods to investigate the administration’s response, reportedly paying attorneys up to $1,850 per hour.
The outcome surprised few.
Last month, Superintendent Michelle Reid announced that “the external investigation confirmed that our administration acted promptly and appropriately to stop this behavior.”
Then the district refused to release even a redacted copy of the report to parents or the public, citing attorney-client privilege.
That sequence raises an obvious question: How “independent” is an investigation when the client selects the investigators, pays millions of dollars for their work, and then withholds the report from public view?
Public schools exist to educate children—not to build legal war chests. Yet the district’s legal spending has become so large that it now rivals the budgets of many entire school divisions in Virginia.
Taxpayers have every right to ask why a school district is spending nearly $60 million on lawyers in seven years. Parents have every right to ask why outside counsel is receiving millions while classrooms continue to compete for limited resources. And citizens should expect greater transparency when public dollars are used to defend controversial policies, commission “independent” investigations, and fight litigation against the very community the district is supposed to serve.
Nearly $60 million in legal fees is not merely an accounting statistic. It is a reflection of institutional priorities. The question is whether those priorities still align with the educational mission that taxpayers expect FCPS to fulfill.
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For the past few weeks, I have been going by gas stations in the south of France, wondering if I was seeing double.
In early July, as prices were going down, something strange was happening to diesel. For the first time in twenty years, it was more expensive than premium gas.
I remember when Emmanuel Macron, the French boy president I call “Little Cookie” because of the way the locals pronounce his name in the south of France, tried to do this during his first few months in office in 2017.
He wanted to get rid of diesel vehicles because his enviro-crazy advisors told him they were not just big pollutants, but were keeping people from making the switch to electric vehicles (diesel engines are so much more efficient and powerful than normal gasoline engines, at least in Europe).
Added to that was the fact that French farmers, winegrowers, construction workers, and a host of related small business owners had been able to buy diesel for their vehicles at half price, without government taxes. These were the dirty unwashed Frenchmen who had never been to an elite school, and Macron instinctively hated them all.
The result of that exploit, which would have doubled the price of diesel fuel and bankrupted many farmers, was the gilet jaune movement, or what the Brits dubbed the “yellow jackets,” after the yellow safety jackets people put in their windshield to show their discontent.
Today, diesel fuel has not gone up because of French government policy, and there are no more yellow jackets on the roads.
This time, it’s the Putin tax.
On July 9, after successive drone attacks on Russian refineries that choked off diesel supplies, Putin ordered Russian refiners to stop exporting diesel fuel entirely so they could keep the domestic market supplied.
I don’t remember seeing headlines about this in the European press, but if you go back, the news was reported, even by CNN. Americans paid no attention to it, because we don’t import much diesel fuel from Russia. But Europe certainly does.
This is yet another sign I see of the surprisingly successful strategy of the Ukrainian military to bring the war home to the people of Russia, but also to their fellow Europeans.
Putin is increasingly behaving as an embattled dictator. Facing parliamentary elections in September, he has sent out his goons to arrest anyone in the opposition who actually declares themselves opposed to his policies.
That includes Russia’s biggest opposition party, Yabloko. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peshkov, brushed those reports aside like any czar’s aide would brush off an incoming mortar round. Yabloko? he said, incredulous. “They are not a party. They are no more than a cell.”
When i heard that I thought of Baghdad Bob, who claimed there were no US forces anywhere near Baghdad as US tanks rolled up behind him on live TV.
Tehran’s embattled dictators have also appeared increasingly on the ropes.
Last week, foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, the two-faced negotiator who begs Trump in private to stop bombing while in public he beats his chest just like any other Revolutionary Guards officer, made an astonishing revelation.
He said that in December, just weeks before the regime opened fire and killed 54,000 protestors, the regime nearly lost control of Iran’s second-largest city, Mashad.
The regime has become so embattled that it is now treating 90% inflation as if it were a success story. I’m not joking. Check it out, here.
The Trump administration continues to tighten the noose around the regime’s neck.
Not only does our military pound the IRGC every time they attack ships trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz under US supervision and protection, but the Treasury is going after Iranian assets worldwide, including bitcoin money-laundering operations in Dubai.
Earlier this week, the Dubai authorities shut down a $4 billion bitcoin scheme — get this — that was used to launder the proceeds of illicit gambling inside Iran!
I remain sanguine about the war, the future of the people of Iran, and even about Russia and Ukraine, because corruption cannot last forever. After all, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, it figured number 8 on the Lord’s bad list.
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There have been numerous recent takedowns of Dr. Fauci based on his own very revealing diary (e.g., here, here, here, and here), and then his uncooperative Senate hearing (e.g., here, here, and here).
I’m not here to pile on, but rather to bring into focus what I feel are the four (4) most appalling — yet rarely addressed — outcomes from his unscientific actions.. It seems like these have gotten lost in the jungle of the many problems he contributed to. Part 1 will outline two of these, and Part 2 will spell out the other two.
Two (of many) examples of Dr. Fauci’s malfeasance are that he misrepresented the COVID-19 vaccine’s safety and efficacy (e.g., see here), and he aggressively attacked the legitimacy of scientifically proven COVID-19 treatments (e.g., Ivermectin, Vitamin D, etc. — see here).
To see the broader picture, please re-read what I wrote two years ago, which outlined six (6) failures of our COVID policies. These detrimental policies are largely attributed to the inept, self-serving leadership of Dr. Fauci.
Due to the combination of those horrifically irresponsible, unscientific positions, 600,000± Americans died unnecessarily (e.g., see here).
Let me repeat: some 600,000 Americans died UNNECESSARILY…
To put that in perspective, that is more Americans than died in World War IplusWorld War II!
One man had the medical training and had a position of power to have been able to have saved 600,000± American lives. Yet he chose not to…
The economic impact on just America from costs that were substantially preventable (i.e., if Dr.Fauci and his acolytes actually followed real Science protocols) is in the neighborhood of $25 TRILLION!
Here is a sample study that was done early on (2020), but it does a good job of explaining some of the extensive COVID-19-related economic impacts. Of course we can not put a realistic financial evaluation on the 600,000± unnecessary deaths, and in 2020 we didn’t know the final death count… Here is AlterAI’s more detailed cost assessment.
Just think of what $25 Trillion could have done if used productively…
Eliminate 100% of poverty in the U.S… Cure several major diseases (cancer, Parkinson’s, etc.)… Complete national infrastructure overhaul (repair every bridge, road, etc.)… Total energy independence (reliable, safe, and free electricity for every citizen)… Genuine complete education reform… Substantially reduce income taxes for all citizens… Completely fix the Social Security system… Significantly reduce our debt, Etc., etc.
Forget the business of where the COVID-19 virus started, etc., and let’s focus on the REALLY MAJOR harms caused by Dr. Fauci and others of his ilk. Watch this revealing video of Dr. Scott Atlas (who was there) to see how quickly and easily most “top-level” people capitulated to unscientific behavior.
How can we shrug our shoulders at 600,000± Americans being murdered due to incompetence, greed, arrogance, etc.?
How can we shrug our shoulders at a $25± Trillion cost to Americans again due to incompetence, greed, arrogance, etc.?
Where are the Nuremberg trials for these crimes against humanity?
As a minimum, the mug shots of the main culprits should be on Wanted posters in every post office in the country.
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