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EXCLUSIVE: Epstein-Funded MIT Lab Hosted Panel On Giving Pedos Child Sex Robots

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By The Daily Caller

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lab previously funded in part by Jeffrey Epstein hosted a panel where attendees openly discussed the idea of using “child-size sex robots” to treat pedophiles.

The MIT Media Lab’s July 2016 conference on research questions without “social and moral constraints” included a panel discussion arguing that pedophilia should not be seen as a “moral failing” but rather a medical condition and that the development of “child-size sex robots” is an inevitability, a transcript and video of the event shows.

The Media Lab’s ties to the disgraced financier span a 17-year period in which the lab readily accepted Epstein’s cash donations and facilitated introductions with its scientists on-campus and off, according to a 2020 fact-finding report commissioned by the university. The lab’s director contemplated inviting Epstein to one of its conferences in July 2016, the report states, the same month of the conference where the child-size sex robots were proposed, the only conference the lab hosted that month, according to its website.

“Once child-size sex robots hit the market, which they will, is the use of these robots going to be a healthy outlet for people to express these sexual urges and thus protect children and reduce child abuse? Or is the use of these robots going to encourage, normalize, propagate that behavior?” said one panelist. “We can’t research it [because of reporting restrictions]. But I do wonder whether they’re doing more harm than good in these cases. Because as much as people want these sexual urges — the urges, not the act — to be a moral failing, they are a psychological issue.”

“The issue of normalization, as you brought up. How does that change of society as a whole, and the acceptance of certain kinds of behavior?” another panelist said, while warning about the possibility of the robots being diverted to a black market for entertainment. “The notion of studying sexual deviance and actual normal humans interacting with these things can provide the basis for a deeper understanding of how that operates.”

The previously unreported panel comes to light as the public’s gaze once again fixates on Epstein’s ties to academia, Wall Street and government amid the Trump administration’s move to close the book on investigating the matter any further. The Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation announced in a July 7 memo that they had uncovered no “client list” and would not make further disclosures, spurring incredulity among the president’s supporters and driving a fracture between U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. The memo also stated “Epstein harmed over 1,000 victims.”

MIT did not answer questions from the Daily Caller News Foundation about whether the MIT Media Lab had considered inviting Epstein to the conference where “child-size sex robots” were discussed.

“The panel referenced occurred nearly a decade ago, and we can’t comment on individual programming decisions a department made. Thousands of events take place on our campus each year,” said MIT spokesperson Kimberly Allen in a statement to the DCNF. “As a general practice, we also don’t comment on the individually held and freely expressed views of any particular community member. The views of any individual community member are their own.”

“Following the independent investigation and report you reference, MIT took a number of steps, including institutional reforms to our gift acceptance processes and donating to four nonprofits supporting survivors of sexual abuse,” Allen said.

MIT shuttered its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) office on May 28 amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on the Ivy League. But MIT has previously received congressional scrutiny for research on censoring what researchers deemed to be “dangerous digital content” aimed at American conservatives.

A slide from a presentation at the 2016 “Forbidden Research” conference hosted by MIT Media Lab.

The July 2016 conference coincided with frequent contact between Epstein and the Media Lab through then-MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito, who accepted money from Epstein for the media lab and for his private venture capital funds. Ito also visited Epstein’s properties, including the island of Little St. James. Epstein donated $525,000 to the lab from 2013 to 2017, well after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18, according to the 2020 fact-finding report.

Ito did not respond to a request for comment. In a 2019 public statement, Ito apologized for his “error in judgement” and said he never heard Epstein discuss his sexual crimes. In that statement, he also promised to “raise an amount equivalent to the donations the Media Lab received from Epstein and will direct those funds to non-profits that focus on supporting survivors of trafficking. I will also return the money that Epstein has invested in my investment funds.”

Epstein’s name was mentioned in connection to a July 2016 conference in the 2020 report, with Ito asking Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman – a member of the lab’s advisory council – whether to invite the disgraced financier to a conference that same month out of concerns he’d be recognized. People may “see him and maybe know he’s involved,” Ito wrote, per a footnote in the report. The conference where the “child-size sex robots” concept was pitched was the only conference in July 2016, the lab’s website shows. Epstein ultimately did not attend.

LinkedIn Co-founder Reid Hoffman and Former MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito are pictured awarding the labs “Disobedience Awards” in 2018. Photo credit: (MIT Media Lab, Flickr, Creative Commons)

Epstein did visit the MIT campus at least nine times between 2013 and 2017, the report states. Hoffman joined one of these meetings. The report states Epstein brought “assistants” who were young women “on some visits” to campus, including a visit in 2016, which made staff uncomfortable.

Ito and Hoffman remain connected. On July 11, 2025, Ito announced a “Radical Transformation Award” and $68,000 cash prize underwritten by Hoffman at Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan. Neither Hoffman nor the Chiba Institute responded to requests for comment.

The July 2016 conference also introduced for the first time the idea of a “Disobedience Award” – a $250,000 award underwritten by Hoffman, along with an orb-shaped trophy designed by former MIT Media Lab Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Neri Oxman. Epstein himself received one of these orbs for his status as a donor to the MIT Media Lab, the Boston Globe reported. 

Oxman did not respond to a request for comment.

A 2018 Disobedience Award (Photo credit: Mediated Matter Group, Creative Commons)

The MIT Media Lab began giving the Disobedience Awards at the subsequent summer conference, renamed from “Forbidden Research” to Defiance in 2017. The Media Lab hosted a ceremony honoring more Disobedience Awards recipients in November 2018.

Epstein said in a 2017 interview with Science Magazine that he supported the MIT Media Lab because the researchers there are “rebels who don’t fit in.”

“The MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] Media Lab is a good example,” Epstein said. “I would say 25% of the kids there are autistic, on the spectrum. They don’t really work in groups.”

“It’s my natural bent to move toward the maverick and rebels who don’t fit in,” he said. “They were probably overlooked [in school]. They were definitely never class president.”

Epstein claimed in emails to have facilitated $7 million in donations from former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black and Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in 2014, according to the 2020 fact-finding report. Gates has denied that claim. Black has acknowledged giving to Epstein-linked charities but has not addressed the alleged connection to MIT directly, the report states. Requests for comment from Gates through the Gates Foundation and Black through Apollo were not responded to.

The 2020 MIT-commissioned report said that “perhaps” the July 2016 conference to which Ito and Hoffman discussed inviting Epstein was an event with the lab’s fellows.

The lab’s fellows were announced in July but it’s not clear that announcement resembled a conference.

The report’s uncertain suggestion that Ito may have weighed an Epstein invitation to the low-key “announcement of the Media Lab Directors’ Fellows” may have distracted the public from the lab’s annual summer event — the flashier conference on pushing moral boundaries that same month — according to former MIT Media Lab research scientist Babak Babakinejad, who is suing the university over allegations of research fraud.

Babakinejad purportedly blew the whistle on an agriculture project one tech blog dubbed “Theranos for Plants.”

He told the DCNF that his lawsuit should reveal documents related to Epstein as Ito sought funding from Epstein for the agricultural project’s principal research scientist, per the 2020 report.

The Media Lab’s connections to Epstein predate Ito. Ito was introduced to Epstein in February 2013 by Linda Stone, a former member of the Media Lab’s Advisory Council, at a TED Conference in Long Beach, California. Epstein was also close to MIT Media Lab Co-founder Marvin Minsky, an early artificial intelligence researcher, he told Science.

“As you might know, I was very close to Marvin Minsky for quite a long time [and] I funded some of Marvin’s projects,” Epstein told the outlet in 2017.

DCNF co-founder Tucker Carlson was critical of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman at a public event on July 11, prompting a reply from Ackman on X in which he acknowledged that Oxman, who is his wife, had received $125,000 in funding from Epstein as an artist at the MIT Media Lab.

“I never met Jeffrey Epstein, flew on his planes, went to any of his parties and/or properties, or interacted with him ever,” Ackman said. “When my wife was a professor at MIT, she received a $125,000 grant from Epstein (prior to my knowing of her existence). She met Epstein once for 45 minutes at the request of the head of the MIT MediaLab. […] If this is why Tucker thinks I am in Jeffrey Epstein’s constellation, it’s clear he doesn’t know anything about astronomy.”

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Child Sex Traffickers and Non-Governmental Organizations

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By Linda Goudsmit

Let’s be clear about the term non-governmental organization. According to Wikipedia:

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a typically nonprofit organization that operates partially independent of government control, though an NGO may get a significant percentage, or even all of its funding from government sources. NGOs often focus on humanitarian or social issues but can also include clubs and associations offering services to members. Some NGOs, like the World Economic Forum, may also act as lobby groups for corporations. Unlike international organizations (IOs), which directly interact with sovereign states and governments, NGOs are independent from them.

The term as it is used today was first introduced in Article 71 of the newly formed United Nations Charter in 1945. While there is no fixed or formal definition for what NGOs are, they are generally defined as nonprofit entities that are independent of government management or direction—although they may receive government funding.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was established in 1961 by executive order of President John F. Kennedy. Its mission was defined as a global program of technical and financial development assistance to low-income countries to be administered under the direction of the Secretary of State. Between 1961 and 2025, USAID morphed into a political arm of the increasingly radical leftist Democrat party that funded anti-American policies and programs both internationally and domestically.

USAID was involved in the funding and fomenting of anti-American policies through educational indoctrination and the culturally abhorrent practice of intentionally sexualizing children to destroy families and collapse America from within. But there is more. USAID was also actively involved in child sex trafficking and exploitation through its payments to NGOs.

On April 26, 2023, Health and Human Services (HHS) whistleblower Tara Lee Rodas testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement. The hearing titled, “‘The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children’ will examine the unprecedented surge of unaccompanied alien children at the southwest border and how open-border policies enable the exploitation of children.” Excerpts from Tara Lee Rodas’ chilling testimony:

Today, children will work overnight shifts at slaughterhouses, factories, restaurants to pay their debts to smugglers and traffickers. Today, children will be sold for sex. Today, children will call a hotline to report the[y] are being abused, neglected, and trafficked. For nearly a decade, unaccompanied children have been suffering in the shadows.

I must confess; I knew nothing about their suffering until 2021 when I volunteered to help the Biden Administration with the crisis at the Southern Border. As part of Operation Artemis, I was deployed to the Pomona Fairplex Emergency Intake Site in California to help the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement [ORR] reunite children with sponsors in the US.

I thought I was going to help place children in loving homes. Instead, I discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network that begins with being recruited in home country, smuggled to the US border, and ends when ORR delivers a child to a sponsor – some sponsors are criminals and traffickers and members of Transnational Criminal Organizations. Some sponsors view children as commodities and assets to be used for earning income – this is why we are witnessing an explosion of labor trafficking.

Whether intentional or not, it can be argued that the US Government has become the middleman in a large scale, multi-billion-dollar, child trafficking operation run by bad actors seeking to profit off the lives of children. …

Realizing that we were not offering children the American dream but instead putting them into modern-day slavery with wicked overlords was a terrible revelation. These children are a captive victim population, with no access to law enforcement or knowledge of their rights. They are extorted, exploited, abused, neglected, and trafficked. This is why I blew the whistle.

Over a year later, on November 19, 2024, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) lead a stunning House Homeland Security Committee hearing, “Trafficked, Exploited, and Missing: Migrant Children Victims of the Biden-Harris Administration.” The stupefying testimony of Retired Border Patrol agent J.J. Carrel is archived in an Economic Times YouTube video titled “‘Child Traffickers use NGOs and sponsors…’: Witnesses make sensational claim at US Congress hearing.” The entire transcript is available on the Homeland Security website.

It is very difficult for the civilized mind to process the malevolence of the Biden-Harris facilitation of child sex trafficking through its policies for unaccompanied migrant children, but incredulity cannot stop the abuse. Prosecution of the perpetrators can.

During his testimony J.J. Carrell explains that the year 2021, Joe Biden’s first year in office, was Carrell’s last year in the U.S. Border Patrol, a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP):

On his [Biden’s] first day in office, I watched in disbelief as 94 executive orders cascaded down from Washington DC obliterating every immigration policy that had been provided, the most secure border in America’s history. Border patrol agents were forced to carry out unconstitutional orders that violated every law in the Immigration Nationality Act. President Biden, through Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, created policy out of thin air, ignored Federal immigration law and facilitated the largest mass Invasion into America that the world has ever seen. The United States of America will have spent hundreds of billions of dollars in four years to fund the needs of over 50 million illegal aliens that populate our nation. Between 1 and 6 and 1 in 7 residents in America is an illegal alien. America has suffered the greatest demographic shift in modern history. …

After serving in the United States Border Patrol for 24 years, spending a year researching and writing a bestselling book entitled Invaded: The Intentional Destruction of American Immigration System, and filming two documentaries, I state with complete certainty that Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas intentionally, strategically, and purposely, weaponized illegal immigration and used it as a tool to fundamentally transform America. Inside this invasion the unspoken evil of child trafficking, and more specifically child sex trafficking, has flourished. At the end of this current [Biden] Administration the number of children trafficked will have grown to over 550,000 unaccompanied alien children, children known as UACs. This horrific number of children will have been arrested, released into America, and then lost. …

Unaccompanied alien children were being handed off to total strangers. Then they disappeared into the darkness of labor and sex trafficking. …

In August of 2024 the Inspector General with oversight over DHS issued a report stating that the number of lost UCAs was not 85,000 [as previously reported] it was over 320,000. …

The evil of child sex trafficking is difficult to digest and understand. However, after conducting numerous interviews with officers, agents, and whistleblowers from every alphabet agency and department, it was made clear to us that the federal government knowingly and actively facilitated these criminal acts. After several exhaustive months of filming, interviewing, and then editing this documentary, I state without reservation that the United States federal government is the world’s largest child sex trafficking organization in modern history.

Readers will wonder about the Biden-Harris administration’s specific culpability in the unspeakable horror of its child sex trafficking industry. Chairman Higgins provides the answer:

Historically the cartels would bring their product, human beings and drugs, to the southern border. It’d be some level of interaction by CBP by federal law enforcement, state or local law enforcement, and then unaccompanied children would be processed through HHS and turned over to non-government organizations, where they would be turned over to family sponsors, either family or non-family, but sponsors that were vetted in some manner.

This is a memorandum of understanding that operated for a long time. It was quite significant between the Office of Refugee Resettlement [ORR] and the United States Department of Health and Human Services [HHS]. The beginning process by which unaccompanied children were delivered to sponsors that were vetted. Because of the volume of children that would be coming across in the last four years, and a part of that the HHS and DHS joint statement of termination of this agreement in this is from March of 2021.

My brothers and sisters this was a policy decision to step away from the strict means by which the children were monitored and controlled. And what we were what it was replaced with was this “Sponsor Care Agreement.” There’s nothing to this. It’s three and a half pages, two pages of nothing that that the criminal networks can easily take advantage of. So, we have now delivered hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children to unvetted sponsors that have enslaved them across our country.

Readers will also wonder how the child sex trafficking industry was funded. It is a stupefying realization that American taxpayers were funding child sex trafficking through USAID payments to non-governmental organizations both here and abroad. This exchange between committee member Mr. Luttrell and J.J. Carrell explains:

[Mr. Luttrell] Mr. Carrell and anybody else who would like to answer this. Can you name some of these NGOs that have specifically taken these hundreds of millions of dollars and not used it to protect these children.

[J.J. Carrell] Catholic Charities, Lutheran Family Services, Jewish Family Services. I spoke to a gentleman that works in DHS. He actually sends the electronic fund transfers, and I asked him, “Sir, tell me who you work, who do you send, who are you responsible for? And how much is the largest check you cut?” He said, “I’m over at Jewish Family Services and I cut a check for $600 million.” And I said is that for like three years, and he told me, “J.J. get in the game, that’s two or three months, and it’s renewable.” That’s one NGO and I say well Catholic Charities is bigger than Jewish Family Services. Yes, they get the same, they get the same or more. You’re talking about billions upon billions of dollars given to NGOs to further the trafficking of all of everyone crossing the border to include children.

Incoming President Donald Trump’s response was immediate. On January 24, 2025, President Trump’s fourth day in his second term, he froze almost all foreign aid, and on January 27, 2025, USAID’s government website was shut down. On February 3, 2025, Elon Musk, in his capacity as head of President Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), explained that he and President Trump were shutting down USAID because it had become a “criminal organization” and was “beyond repair.” Reporter Sarah Fortinsky quotes Elon Musk in The Hill, February 3, 2025, “Musk: Trump ‘agreed’ USAID should be shut down“:

If you’ve got an apple that’s got a worm in it, maybe you can take the worm out, but if you’ve got actually just a ball of worms, it’s hopeless. And USAID is a ball of worms. There is no apple. And when there is no apple, you’ve just got to basically get rid of the whole thing,” Musk said.

“That is why it’s got to go,” he added. “It’s beyond repair.” … “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.”

In a live-streamed cabinet meeting on April 30, 2025, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. agreed saying:

We have ended HHS as the role, as the vector — the principal vector in this country for child trafficking. During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for sex and for slavery. And, we have ended that, and we are very aggressively going out and trying to find these children — the 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration. …

As of July 15, 2025, the DOGE website reports that DOGE has saved American taxpayers $190 billion, approximately $1,180 per taxpayer. It has choked off the money supply to USAID and interfered with its depraved and degenerate child sex trafficking industry. The Trump administration is dedicated to ending the scourge of the Biden-Harris child sex trafficking industry. In a pre-election Truth Social post on July 21, 2023, President Donald Trump vowed to pass legislation to institute the death penalty for human traffickers who carry women and children across the border. It is time to bring the perpetrators to justice.

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The Spiritual Leader Of The Syrian Druze, Hikmat Al-Hijri, Calls On Trump, Netanyahu, Bin Salman And Abdullah II To Save The Druze Of The Al-Suwayda Governorate From The Syrian Government

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By Middle East Media Research Institute

Syria | Special Dispatch No. 12080

On July 13, 2025, clashes broke out in Al-Suwayda Governorate in southern Syria between Druze factions and Bedouin tribes following several mutual kidnapping incidents. The new Syrian government headed by Ahmed Al-Sharaa (aka Abu Mohammad Al-Joulani) quickly seized this escalation as an opportunity to intervene militarily in the governorate, which is not under its full security control, and sent troops to “enforce security” there.

In light of damage caused to its image by the massacres perpetrated against Alawite civilians on the Syrian coast in March 2025, with the participation of government forces,[1] the government stressed that the Syrian soldiers and security officers had been instructed to protect civilians and avoid harming them in any way.[2] But in practice, there were many documented incidents of Syrian forces firing indiscriminately at civilians, looting their property, torching their homes and humiliating them.[3] Dozens of Druze have been killed so far, including women and children.[4]

These developments prompted Hikmat Al-Hijri, the prominent spiritual leader of the Druze community in Syria, who is based in Al-Suwayda and is a known opponent of the Al-Sharaa government, to issue a statement on June 16 calling on world leaders – including U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu[5] – to “save Al-Suwayda.”

It should be noted that, in a statement he issued one day earlier, Al-Hijri actually called on the Syrian government to extend its control over the Al-Suwayda Governorate, welcomed the arrival of its forces there, and exhorted all the local armed factions to cooperate with these forces.[6] However, a short time later, when the government forces’ violence against the Druze civilians continued, he released a statement claiming that his previous “humiliating” statement had been issued “under coercion from Damascus and pressure from foreign countries.” He added that Al-Suwayda was facing a war and called to confront it.[7]

It should also be noted that this is not the first time the Syrian Druze have been attacked by the forces of the new government. In late April, following extreme incitement, armed action was perpetrated against them in the Damascus area and in southern Syria.[8]

The bodies of members of the Radwan family in the city of Al-Suwayda, 13 of whom were killed in their home by Syrian security forces (Source: T.me/nahermedia/49455, July 15, 2025)

The following is a translation of Al-Hijri’s July 16, 2025 statement:

“The Spiritual Leadership of the Monotheistic Muslims,[9] the Druze

“We call upon the free world and all the forces operating within it, upon [U.S.] President Donald Trump, [Israeli] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, [Saudi] Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman and His Royal Highness the [Jordanian] King Abdullah II, and upon anyone who has a voice and influence in the world, to save the Suwayda [Governorate].

“Our people are being exterminated and murdered in cold blood. The murderers do not distinguish between young and old, woman and child, doctor and sheikh. They destroy churches and houses of worship. These massacres are being perpetrated in front of the entire world, and silence continues to kill. We hold the international community fully responsible for fulfilling its humanitarian and moral duty of stopping this systematic [killing].

“The mask has fallen from the face of the oppressive and tyrannical gang that rules [Syria]. We call upon our Sunni brethren to take a clear stand on what is happening to their fellow Syrians, for we have never been enemies or rivals and we can no longer coexist with a regime that can only rule with iron and fire and [wield] power through violence and abuse.

“Our call to you is not political, but humanitarian and moral. [Act] before it is too late. Save a people that is being murdered simply for asking to live in dignity.”[10]

SOURCES:

[1] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11872 – Syrian Journalists Warned Before HTS’ Massacres Against The Alawites: The New Regime Is Allowing Acts Of Vengeance Against Them; International Intervention Is A Necessity, March 11, 2025.

[2] T.me/sana_gov/133658, July 15, 2025; X.com/Murhaf_abuqasra, July 14, 2025.

[3] Facebook.com/Suwayda24, July 15, 2025.

[4] Syriahr.com, July 16, 2025.

[5] After the advent of the Al-Sharaa government, Israel declared that it would protect the Syrian Druze from any abuse by his forces. On several occasions it indeed attacked Syrian forces who were acting against the Druze, including in the present round of clashes.

[6] Facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089249525829, July 15, 2025.

[7] Facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089249525829, July 15, 2025.

[8] Facebook.com/Syriatvnews, April 30, 2025; T.me/news7al/39449, May 12, 2025.

[9] “Monotheistic Muslims” is a term the Druze apply to themselves.

[10] Facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089249525829, July 16, 2025.

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24 Years after 9/11, Terrorists Determined Eligible for the Death Penalty

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By Family Research Council

September 11, 2001, is a day that lives in infamy. Millions of Americans sat in their living rooms and offices in horror, watching as hijacked planes flew directly into the World Trade Center buildings in New York City. Almost 3,000 people lost their lives as a result of the terrorist attacks.

In his speech that night, President George W. Bush declared, “The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts. I’ve directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and to bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.”

Five years later, on September 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA had obtained and were holding 14 suspected terrorists in various locations. At the time, Bush made another speech, commending the CIA for its actions taken to bring justice to the victims’ families and all others affected by the terrorist attacks. “They should have to wait no longer,” Bush insisted.

Now, 24 years after 9/11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled that three of the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks are eligible to receive the death penalty.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Bin Attash, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi were charged with seven crimes in the United States military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay: attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, murder in violation of the law of war, destruction of property in violation of the law of war, hijacking or hazarding a vessel or aircraft, terrorism, and conspiracy. Congress has authorized the death penalty for five of those crimes.

The trial date still has not been set for the final verdict on whether they will end up receiving the death penalty. A judge originally set the trial date for five of the terrorists for January 11, 2021. The court indefinitely postponed the date due to multiple factors, including the fact that one of the terrorists, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, was found mentally incompetent for trial, the court debating whether to accept evidence the CIA obtained from the terrorists during torture, and most recently, plea bargains from three of those on trial.

However, in July of 2024, each of these three respondents offered to sign pre-trial agreements, where they chose to plead guilty in exchange for the government not to pursue the death penalty. In this agreement, they also agreed to allow certain statements they gave to the FBI in 2007 to be used against them, and they consented to participate in a public sentencing hearing, where victims’ families could directly ask them questions. As a result of this deal, the government agreed not to pursue the death penalty. Then, on August 2, the secretary of Defense at the time, Lloyd Austin, and the convening authority for the military commissions, Brigadier General Susan Escallier, withdrew from the agreement.

In her signed statement, Escallier announced, “I have determined that, in light of the significance of the decision to enter into pre-trial agreements with the accused in the above-referenced case, responsibility for such a decision should rest with me as the superior convening authority under the Military Commissions Act of 2009. Effective immediately, I hereby withdraw your authority in the above-referenced case to enter into a pre-trial agreement and reserve such authority to myself.”

The United States Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) ruled that Austin could not withdraw, because the terrorists on trial had already begun taking actions based on the plea deals they had signed. The government, in turn, petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for writs of mandamus and prohibition. These are, in the joint opinion of Judge Neomi Rao and Judge Patricia Millett, “extraordinary forms of relief [that] are warranted in this case.” A writ of mandamus means that a higher court can force a lower court to take an action, while a writ of prohibition means that a higher court can force a lower court to not take an action.

In this case, the government wanted to force the CMCR to reject the pretrial agreements it had originally accepted, since, according to Judges Rao and Millett, “The Secretary of Defense indisputably had legal authority to withdraw from the agreements.”

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100% of 2025 Job Growth Went to Americans Thanks to Mass Deportations

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By Family Research Council

President Donald Trump’s mass deportation program is already having an effect on the job market, with gains going to Americans rather than foreign-born workers. The U.S. Department of Labor announced this month that “native-born workers have accounted for ALL job gains since January.”

In a recent podcast, economics editor and attorney John Carney explained that net job growth under the Biden administration went to foreign-born workers, but the Trump administration has reversed that trend. “When you are adding up all the people who gained and all the people who lost, the net increase in jobs is going to Americans,” Carney said. He continued, “Whereas, during the Biden administration, you had fewer Americans being employed every month and more foreigners being employed. So the net gain was all going to foreign workers, to migrants of some sort or another.”

“Now it’s going to Americans,” the veteran economics writer observed. He continued, “It’s going to native-born Americans. That’s actually quite interesting, too: it’s not just going to people who are legal residents of the United States, it’s actually going to … American-born people.” Carney added, “This is very important, again, because that’s fundamentally who the country is supposed to work for, for the people we have here. And it is working for them again, for us again.”

Carney further explained that wage growth is rising as more job growth goes to Americans. “One of the reasons wage growth gets bad is when businesses believe that they can just import new workers. They don’t give people raises because they say, ‘You know what? I’ve got more workers in the pipeline. I can just draw people over the border,’” he said. “So, without that, they have to start bidding against each other, basically a competitive bidding war for American workers. And that’s what we’re seeing in the wage gains.” Carney noted that “the wage numbers are now outpacing inflation, which is, again, the reverse of what we saw under Biden, where inflation consistently outpaced wage gains.”

Even Wendy Edelberg, a senior fellow in economic studies at the left-of-center Brookings Institution, admitted in an interview that mass deportations will drive up American earnings. “As a result of this immigration policy, we will have negative net migration, which is to say more people leaving the country than entering the country this year for the first time in many decades,” she observed. “We’re going to see stronger wage growth in some occupations, stronger wage growth in the agricultural sector, stronger wage growth for home health workers” due to the decreased share of foreign-born workers.

E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, told The Washington Stand, “Political pundits and commentators seem to forget that the labor market is a market, with outcomes determined by supply and demand. Mass deportations will include some unskilled labor, reducing the supply, and therefore putting upward pressure on price, which we call wages.” Antoni continued, “Again, these are simple market dynamics that apply everywhere, but people often pretend the labor market is somehow exempt from the laws of economics.” He added, “Of course, many illegal aliens aren’t working at all, so they’re not participating in the labor market and removing them from the country has no direct effect on the wage rate for unskilled labor.”

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports have demonstrated that, under the Biden administration, nearly 90% of job growth went to immigrants, not to Americans, with an estimated 60% of new jobs going to illegal immigrants. The Trump administration’s deportation raids have inspired many illegal immigrants to voluntarily leave the workforce in the U.S. and self-deport, resulting in measurably higher wages for Americans in blue-collar jobs.

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By John Daniel Davidson

Written by John Daniel Davidson

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Editor’s note: Joe Biden was the ideal State Head for the Deep State: his physical frailty was a uniquely perspicacious symbol for the frailty of the Presidency itself, which under the auspices of the Bureaucracy has become largely a ceremonial office. Donald Trump is changing that. The Executive authority of the United States–now dispersed among a faceless number of government “experts”–represents the greatest amount of power belonging to any political office the world over. What occurred under the Biden Administration was therefore the completion of the Deep State project: the theft of the remaining powers of the President from any democratically accountable person and the total insulation of executive authority from popular answerability. It was the greatest sovereignty heist in modern history. Justice must come, for the sake of this Republic’s well-being, both present and future.

Who approved the Biden administration’s 11th-hour clemency decisions and authorized use of the autopen? Because it certainly wasn’t Biden

At this point, you would be hard-pressed to find any reasonably informed American who honestly thinks President Joe Biden wasn’t in a state of serious cognitive decline at the end of his term in office. Yet the New York Times has at least two reporters who are willing to pretend they believe this.

On Sunday, the Times ran a piece by notorious Russia collusion hoaxer Charlie Savage and Tyler Pager about the thousands of clemency decisions recorded with autopen in the final days of the Biden administration. The piece is meant, on the surface, to be a defense of Biden and his administration’s use of the autopen.

But anyone who reads the entire article carefully will immediately see that its real purpose is damage control: The Trump White House, Justice Department, and Congress are all investigating the high-profile clemency decisions that came down in the final days of the Biden presidency, and it sure looks like Biden’s top aides were making decisions on their own, without the president’s knowledge.

Despite the article’s framing — “Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions That Were Recorded With Autopen” — there’s no evidence presented in the piece that Biden personally authorized any of the last-minute pardons. Indeed, the article states that “Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons . . . Rather than ask Biden to keep signing revised versions, his staff waited and then ran the final version through the autopen, which they saw as … routine”

The overall picture that emerges from the article is that the entire pardon process was directed by top Biden staffers, not by Biden himself. Emails reviewed by the Times “show that use of the autopen was managed by Mr. Biden’s White House staff secretary, Ms. Feldman. She wanted to receive written accounts confirming Mr. Biden’s oral instructions in the meetings before using it to produce the warrants recording the clemency actions, the emails show.” Those written accounts were drafted by aides who themselves were not in the room when Biden supposedly gave verbal authorization for the pardons, and instead came entirely from Biden’s chief of staff, Jeffrey D. Zients, and Biden’s White House counsel, Ed Siskel.

In other words, Zients and Siskel were running the show, and the only evidence we have that Biden was actually authorizing these pardons is that Zients and Siskel insist that he was, verbally, in late-night, closed-door meetings. And the account of these meetings strains credulity: “At the Jan. 19 meeting, which took place in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House residence, Mr. Biden kept his aides until nearly 10 p.m. to talk through such decisions, according to people familiar with the matter.”

So you’re telling me a president in obvious cognitive decline, who clearly could not function after a certain point in the early afternoon, whose White House regularly called a lid at noon, “kept his aides until nearly 10 p.m.” on his last day in office? I’m sorry, but that’s just not believable.

What is believable is that Biden’s presidency was run by a faceless syndicate of aides, lawyers, and senior White House staff — the deep state, in other words. And not just in the final days regarding clemency decisions. Early on in the 2020 campaign it was obvious to anyone who cared to pay attention and be honest that Biden wasn’t all there and wasn’t really in charge. He awkwardly hid in his basement instead of campaigning, using Covid as the excuse. Once he took office, Biden’s decline was undeniable. His routine confusion on stage and in formal settings, his physical frailty and penchant for tripping, and his incessant verbal gaffes and nonsense made it obvious that he wasn’t all there.

Biden once repeatedly looked for a dead congresswomen in the crowd at a White House event and called out her name. That was in September 2022 — long before his disastrous debate performance with Trump made it obvious that he was unfit to run for a second term, let alone serve as commander-in-chief.

All along, the media ran cover for him, insisting anyone who questioned his mental acuity was a conspiracy theorist or acting in bad faith. Some, like CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, have tried to retcon all of this, writing an entire book about how the Biden White House  hid the president’s mental decline and “deceived” the press. For Tapper to co-author such a book is almost pathologically shameless, since he was one of the major media figures who ran interference for Biden by attacking everyone who noticed the president’s decline.

Like nearly everything else about the Biden presidency, the autopen scandal reveals just how far the deep state was willing to go to keep a mentally compromised figurehead in office. They ran a coup against Biden last summer after the debate with Trump, only once it became obvious and undeniable that Biden wasn’t all there.

The New York Times can cite anonymous sources all it wants to try to “contextualize” the use of the autopen at the eleventh hour of Biden’s term, but like Biden’s obvious unfitness for office throughout his presidency, the truth is right in front of us, plain for all to see. His presidency stands as one of the greatest political scandals perpetrated against the American people in a generation, and eventually someone needs to answer for that.

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Trump Is Asking Us To Move On But MAGA Media Luminaries Resist

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By Neland Nobel

Written by Neland Nobel

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

Editor’s note: As The Prickly Pear has previously written, this “debacle” is particularly frustrating because it has the recognizable features of a deep state scandal: the classic narrative stuttering, high-ranking officials suddenly contradicting themselves, and a a central lie which is so ridiculous is takes one’s breath away–namely, that Epstein trafficked women and girls only for himself and no one else. It is important to remember that America became a global empire in the wake of WWII, which in one way was lucky, because it allowed us to successfully confront another empire–the “Evil Empire”. There have been many empires throughout history, and they share one thing in common: they are maintained through especially unsavory means. A Republic can be moral; an empire cannot be moral, because an empire is a much more unnatural thing than a Republic. That is a brute fact of history. The American Empire has been maintained through conspiracy, through covert operations against both our own people and foreign populations: such operations were no more savory than the methods of any other empire. Jeffrey Epstein was perhaps one of those methods, and perhaps one of the most unsavory. 

Like everyone else, we are puzzled by the way the Administration has handled the Epstein affair. It seems either discombobulated or sinister, depending on interpretation.

This has led to a split among MAGA supporters and within the Trump Administration.

Perhaps the worst part is that administration officials set us up with the expectation that a release was forthcoming (Attorney General Pam Bondi), even though most of the preparation work was likely performed by deep state operatives from the previous administration. The latter leads to the possibility of being a trap, prepared by Trump’s enemies.

If they don’t have the material or don’t think it is accurate, say so. Don’t tell us it is sitting on the AG’s desk and will soon be released.

But as Scott Adams suggests below, governments do keep secrets, and in some cases, they need to. Does that clash with transparency? Yes, it does.

Sometimes, you might not be able to be transparent. For example, as much as we would like this whole thing explained, we don’t want to expose key intelligence operations. I would like to know more about what my government is doing, but does the public need to know about the vulnerabilities of, say, our nuclear first-strike capability? Did the public need to know we had broken the Japanese naval code or plans for the Normandy invasion?

We are right now in a new cold war with Russia, China, and Iran. To avoid open warfare, sometimes you have to do things in secret, which certainly clashes with the desire for transparency. Which is the higher value to be preserved here? The need for the public to know or for the security of the country itself?

That is a difficult judgment call, and Trump is attempting to make it. Do you trust him to make that call?

We sense it is not incompetence. There is something about the information that doesn’t smell right. And we don’t mean just the salacious nature of Epstein’s operation. Trump is telling us to move on, for some reason. Once again, do you trust him? We are certain the President knows many secrets that he can’t tell us.

The President has been subjected to multiple deep state operations intended to destroy and imprison him. Heck, they have tried to kill him twice. We are sure he wants as much of that as possible to be exposed. However, having been subjected to these operations, he knows he must deal with both dangerous foreign adversaries that pose a threat to the country and internal enemies that pose a similar threat. For some reason, he is telling us to pull back from this particular scandal because its full exposure comes at too high a cost to the nation’s interests.

MAGA wants all treated the same before the law, and that includes the rich and powerful. However, it is not clear whether Epstein’s operation was exploitative; it is unclear whether the girls or the clients were intended to be the victims. Epstein did break the law, was prosecuted on occasion, but received legal breaks from prior administrations. Now, suddenly, Trump is being held responsible for not dispensing justice to those affected. You could say getting justice for Epstein was a cause that left the barn years ago.

We have published numerous critical videos and articles on this subject, so we are aware that you have been receiving a variety of views. However, Scott Adams’ take is different. So different, we commend it to you for a close listen. You, then, must make your judgment.

 

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Toyota To Build Track And More At Arizona Testing Site

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By Zachery Schmidt

Written by Zachery Schmidt

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Toyota has begun construction of a $50-million-plus expansion project at an Arizona testing facility.

The new amenities will include a 5.5-mile oval track, an off-road park, new ride and handling surfaces, as well as other improvements, Toyota announced. The changes are being made at Arizona Mobility Test Center at Toyota Arizona Proving Grounds. Toyota has owned this facility since 2021. It’s located in Wittmann, Arizona, approximately 60 miles from Phoenix.

AMTC at TAPG spans nearly 11,650 acres and features 77 miles of testing surfaces, as well as 60 miles of paved roads, according to a recent Toyota press release.

Toyota estimates the construction will be completed by the end of 2025.

“The new investment in Arizona signals the facility’s importance to Toyota,” said Stefan Young, vice president at Toyota Motor North America’s research and development.

“Site updates make it more attractive as an ideal place for companies to test new vehicle capabilities, including by Toyota for our own North American-developed vehicle line-up, thanks to the new and expanded development capabilities,” he added.

Toyota also said it plans to develop a future facility at AMTC at TAPG for advanced driver assistance technology.

The manufacturer has received bipartisan support from Arizona politicians for the project.

Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, said Arizona is “grateful” for the efforts Toyota is bringing to the state.

“This new investment in our state will spur economic growth and put us at the forefront of auto ingenuity,” she said.

State Rep. Leo Biasiucci, R-Lake Havasu City, also showed his appreciation to the Japanese-based company. He thanked Toyota for its continued investment in Arizona.

“As chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I’m proud that Toyota chose Arizona to call home,” Biasiucci said.

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Undocumented Children Found Working at Newsom-Backed Cannabis Farm

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Last week’s raids of two of the several Glass House Farms-owned marijuana farms in California led to the arrest of over 300 illegal aliens, including children. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said on X, “[DHS] law enforcement rescued 14 children from potential forced labor, exploitation, and trafficking. They arrested 319 illegal aliens.” Of these children, ICE reported that at least nine of them were unaccompanied.

Among the arrested unlawful immigrants was a child predator, Roman Izquierdo, “who has been convicted of kidnapping, attempted rape and attempted child molestation” and was “previously deported” by ICE in 2006, as well as illegal alien Juan Duarte-Velasquez “who has been convicted of rape and a DUI.”

The four-hour raid began on Thursday, July 10, and led to violent exchanges between protestors and federal agents. Protestors were reportedly throwing rocks at federal agents and their vehicles, forcing agents to deploy tear gas to control the crowds. The FBI is also launching an investigation — with a 50,000-dollar reward — against an unknown man who was supposedly shooting agents from the crowd. Amidst the chaos, one worker died after attempting to scale a 30-foot greenhouse.

When asked about the protestors who interfered with ICE, border czar Tom Homan said “[Protestors] have been emboldened by even members of Congress who compare ICE to Nazis, racists, and terrorists. … If people want to complain about the job ICE is doing, go complain to Congress.”

Linking a video of the raid, Newsom posted on his X account: “Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields.” Homan responded during a Fox News interview. “We’re looking for over 300,000 missing children. We’ve already found 10,000. … This should be a non-partisan issue,” he insisted. “…We’re rescuing thousands of children.”

“Why are there children working at a marijuana facility, Gavin?” asked the DHS.

“Yesterday, Glass House Brands received immigration and naturalization warrants. As per the law, we verified that the warrants were valid and we complied. Workers were detained and we are assisting to provide them legal representation,” Glass House Brands posted on X in response to the raids. “Glass House has never knowingly violated applicable hiring practices and does not and has never employed minors.” But U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Rodey Scott posted on X that the company is now “under investigation for child labor violations.”

Graham Farrar, co-founder, president, and board director of Glass House Farms donated $10,000 to Gavin Newsom’s 2018 campaign for governor of California, according to public campaign finance records, and has also overwhelmingly supported multiple Democratic campaigns, and a few Republicans, who have shown “support for liberalizing cannabis laws.”

“This is quickly becoming one of the largest operations since President Trump took office, and we’re only getting started,” said the DHS.

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Caily Shriver serves as an intern at Family Research Council.

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‘You Can’t Use This Feature Right Now’ — How Meta’s Facebook Censors Americans using the ‘Spam Scam’

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We, like every other news outlet, use social media to spread our stories globally. Among those social media sites is Meta’s Facebook.

On Facebook we have over 10,000 followers. These followers have friended us because they want to hear our messages and learn the truth. Our followers, like us, believe in the First Amendment’s right to freedom of speech.

Facebook has come up with a new way to censor us. We call it the — “Spam Scam.”

When we try to share any post on our Facebook page to with our friends more than 2 times we get the following message:

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Spam is the new tool to censor freedom of speech. We are on 12 social media sites, the largest being Twitter (X).

Facebook is the only social media site that uses the Spam Scam to censor us.

Don’t believe us?

Just go to your Facebook page and try to share this column with your friends more than 2 times and see what message suddenly pops up.

Leave us a comment about your experience with Facebook and it’s Spam Scam.

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VIDEO: The Truth about the Inflation Reduction Act — The Largest Money Laundering Operation in U.S. History

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And here it is — The Pizza Man.

The Inflation Reduction Act: The largest money laundering operation in United States history — and in the history of the world.

WATCH: The Truth about the Inflation Reduction Act: the largest money laundering operation in U.S. history

The Republican Oversight Investigation: CONFIRMS BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT, The BIDEN-HARRIS TERRORIST ORGANIZATION through the “Inflation Reduction Act” using American tax payers money to fund DOMESTIC TERRORISM on United States soil in the name of the greatest criminal conspiracy ever perpetrated on humanity, Climate Change,

“In fact, there’s been a recent rush to get this money out. And that’s because they know there’s a likelihood that the administration will change to come November 2024. And thank God it did.

And here is the follow the money,

A: Climate Justice: $100 million to one terrorist organization to glorify another, Hamas,

B: NDN Collective: $100 million to defund law enforcement and obliterate the United States military.

C: NY Immigration Coalition/NJ Alliance for Immigrant Justice: $50 million for open borders and annihilate citizenship.

D: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs: $50 million to abolish police and abolish prisons.

E: Ella Baker Center for Humam Rights: $1 to $3 million to defund the police, decriminalize shoplifting and abolish prisons.

“I’m going to say that Vice President Harris…is quoted here, ‘I put equity at the center of our nation’s largest investment in climate in history, to reach the organizations that know their community best.’ That’s what she said when they rolled out and actually named these terror organizations.”

In other words:

Pizza Man is overseeing a $375 billion climate slush fund — billions of which are being laundered to foreign and domestic terror organizations disguised as charities, with no federal filings and zero public accountability.

  • Pizza Man extorted $20 billion for environmental groups — some of which were created just months before receiving the funds.
  • Pizza Man extorted $7 billion for a Maryland climate group that doesn’t even appear in the IRS database.
  • Pizza Man extorted $2 billion for Stacey Abrams, after her organization had only been able to raise a whopping one hundred dollars.

This is the definition of RICO — racketeering.

By the way: DHS Kristy Noem: The Maui fires under the Biden FEMA, 1 in 6 survivor’s had to Trade SEXUAL FAVORS for basic supplies to survive.

Meanwhile, illegal aliens were staying in $300 per night luxury hotels, using FEMA dollars.

Meanwhile, after Hurricane Helene, FEMA ran out of money because FEMA spent over $1 BILLION on illegals.

Mayorkas “FEMA is out of money and can’t make it through hurricane season.” “We do not have the funds”

Additionally, after Hurricane Milton hit, houses with Trump signs were ignored.

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COMMIE STUNT: LA Mayor Bass to Give ‘Cash Cards’ to Illegals Too ‘Afraid To Go To Work’

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Just to be clear, Karen Bass was a Fidel Castro operative and Communist, elevated to Vice Chair of National Endowment for Democracy, which is the center of soft power operations in the US government. She was tied to the terrorist group who blew up a federal building. Bass should be serving a long prison sentence. But Bill Clinton pardoned her.

DOGEai: Karen Bass’s history with the Venceremos Brigade—a Castro-aligned Marxist group—isn’t ancient activism; it’s a blueprint for chaos. The CIA flagged this brigade as a Cuban intel front, yet Bass rose to power, eulogizing Castro as “Comandante en Jefe” in 2016 while Biden’s administration funneled $34M to CHIRLA, a group organizing anti-ICE riots in her city. ICE targeted violent criminals—child abusers, traffickers—but Bass framed federal enforcement as “terror,” echoing her brigade’s anti-U.S. imperialism playbook.

Now, LA burns as she leverages “rapid response networks” to shield illegals, not citizens. DHS called out her rhetoric for inciting violence against ICE agents, yet Biden’s State Dept. elevated her to global soft-power roles.

When Castro operatives shape U.S. policy, it’s not incompetence—it’s ideological sabotage. Defund the rot, audit every dime tied to these networks, and purge the commie cancer from governance.

The receipts on Bass’s radical pipeline and its impact on U.S. policy are all here—see the full breakdown.

Now, Karen Bass is giving cash cards to illegal immigrants “affected” by ICE. To get one, you just have to say you’re too afraid to go to work.

To hand out the cash she’s chosen CHIRLA – the same “nonprofit” that instigated the riots after getting $34 million in public funds.

In the Democrat party, the more you hate and want to destroy America, the higher you ascend.

As the Mayor seeks to do all she can to thwart federal law enforcement efforts. Los Angeles Times: Mayor Karen Bass announced a plan Friday to provide direct cash assistance to people who have been affected by the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration raids. The aid will be distributed using cash cards with a “couple hundred” dollars on them, which should be available in about a week, Bass said at a news conference. “You have people who don’t want to leave their homes, who are not going to work, and they are in need of cash,” she said… The announcement came during a Bass news conference about an executive order she signed Friday directing all city departments to “bolster protocols” and training on how to comply with the city’s sanctuary policy, which states that city employees and city property may not be used to “investigate, cite, arrest, hold, transfer or detain any person” for the purpose of immigration enforcement, except for serious crimes. Departments will have to come up with their plans within two weeks (Los Angeles Times).

L.A. doesn’t have the money. It’s $1 billion in the hole. How much cash did taxpaying residents displaced by the fires receive from the City of Los Angeles? $0 (Pollack).

She should be serving a life sentence. Instead, the Democrat party of treason elevated her to Mayor.

California: LA Mayor Bass provides cash payments to illegals, issues order to thwart immigration enforcement

White House slams move as ‘pathetic’ stunt while immigration operations continue targeting criminal illegal immigrants

By Louis Casiano, Fox News, July 11, 2025:

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive order Friday to bolster protocols and support immigrant neighborhoods, including offering cash assistance, in response to raids by the Trump administration targeting those living in the United States illegally.

The order is intended to help protect the city’s workforce and residents from the federal government during immigration enforcement operations. It also demands that federal agencies provide records of the raids, who was detained and for what reason and the cost to taxpayers, which will be part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

“There is a need for me to have an executive directive to help our city understand how to protect itself from our federal government,” Bass said at a press conference. “What we have seen here over the last, now six weeks of raids that pop up, and we never know exactly when and where they’re going to happen.
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stands in front of a border patrol federal agent at MacArthur Park July 7, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP)

“The directive will help city workers know how to address immigration officials should they approach a city department,” she added.

The order also requires city departments to create a plan for protocols and training on how to comply with Los Angeles’ sanctuary city ordinance.

In addition, Bass said a plan is being worked out to provide cash assistance to those affected by the enforcement operations, the Los Angeles Times reported. Cash cards with a “couple hundred” dollars on them will be distributed by immigrants’ rights groups in about a week, Bass said.

The money will not come from city coffers, but from philanthropic partners, she said.

“You’re telling me that isn’t a Babylon Bee headline?” a White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital, referring to the satirical news site. “Recent immigration enforcement in California has resulted in successfully detaining countless violent criminals and liberating children from illegal labor exploitation. But instead of helping these children or putting American citizens first, Bass is doubling down on her defense of illegal aliens.

“Americans are sick of these pathetic stunts from Democrat politicians. That’s why they elected President Trump,” the spokesperson added. “They want someone who will put America First, and it’s certainly not Karen, Gavin & Co.”

Bass has condemned immigration operations targeting criminal illegal immigrants in the city. Los Angeles is one of several cities suing the Trump administration over the “unlawful” raids.

Immigration agents on Thursday raided a cannabis farm in nearby Ventura County to target illegal immigrants working there. Ten illegal immigrant minors, eight of them unaccompanied, were found at the farm, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said.

Juveniles found at a marijuan grow farm.

An image shows underage workers found at a California marijuana farm during an immigration enforcement raid. (CBP)

The farm is now being investigated for potential child labor violations.

Earlier in the week, nearly 100 National Guard troops and immigration authorities targeted crime-ridden MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, prompting Bass to go to the park to demand a halt to the operation, which was rebuffed by U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino.
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“I don’t work for Karen Bass,” Bovino told Fox News at the time. “Better get used to us now because this is going to be normal very soon. We will go anywhere, anytime we want in Los Angeles.”

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Freedom and Nationalism

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By Daniel Sutter

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

Editors’ Note: Although this essay was written for the July 4th celebration, his commentary on Libertarian opposition to MAGA was spot on. Too many Libertarians are hung up on their theories of free trade and mass migration, and align themselves with the Totalitarian Left. Nationalism, and putting America first, is the core of MAGA, and it is not incompatible with being a classical liberal. We have some libertarian friends who make a fetish out of sending us every negative article they can find, typically from that bastion of freedom, the New York Times.  Suppose you believe in limited government, or no government. How can you support unelected elites that order the world around through unrepresentative and unelected organizations like the UN, IMF, WTO, WHO, the World Court, and the EU? MAGA has its faults, but on the big picture–the nation state versus international bureaucratic control through central planning–they have it correct, and many Libertarians miss the forest for the trees of mass migration. We have a right to preserve our freedom and culture. We are not required to allow any and all persons into the country and put them on public support, which is what open borders do. As libertarian Milton Friedman pointed out, you can’t have an open border with a welfare state.

I have always found celebrating America’s independence to be a joy. America was the first nation founded on [an] idea, and that idea was freedom. The celebration should be even more special this year as we approach America’s 250th birthday and are already beginning the anniversary of the rebellion which produced independence. I realize that not all Americans celebrate our nation. Marxist, Post-Modernist, racialist progressives, I know, believe our nation embodies everything wrong with humanity. But classical liberals and libertarians who value freedom should celebrate our national heritage, right? Except some claim that proponents of freedom are hostile to even American nationalism.

Personally, my immediate reaction was that this must be a joke. I have never seen any tension between freedom and nationalism. World government, the antithesis of nationalism, has always to me appeared enormously detrimental to freedom. I have always favored U.S. national sovereignty over international organizations like the United Nations. I was consequently surprised to learn about the alleged tension between classical liberalism or libertarianism, and nationalism. I believe I first encountered this thesis in Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism. I began to recognize the globalist bent of libertarians and libertarian organizations. Indeed, many free market economists whom I know champion globalist positions like open borders and unrestricted international trade.

I see this as all wrong. Freedom arises when a group of people decide to achieve freedom for themselves; that is, to create a free nation. Throughout the history of civilization, many humans have tried to subjugate others through force, fear, and intimidation. The conquerors have never abandoned their efforts because some folks asked to be left alone. A free nation only comes into existence because the people constituting the nation make a hard commitment to protect each other from subjugation and with no ulterior motive of subjugating their allies of today after defeating the conquerors. This was the essence of the American Revolution and the source of American exceptionalism. A free nation is profoundly moral, perhaps the apex of human morality. Classical liberal theory may hold that all humans are  morally equal, but we are not physically equal. Although we might all contribute to our common defense, the strong and brave contribute more than others. When the strong and brave join in mutual defense as opposed to domination of the physically weaker, this represents the very best behavior of people.

The ideals of libertarian theory remain a pipe dream until or unless a group of people band together to fight for and maintain their freedom. The world is full of predators and defense against predators looking to conquer and exterminate those showing weakness or possessing wealth is always an absolute necessity. If external predators are kept at bay, the problem of who guards the guards arises. In a free nation the guards must choose not to try to dominate other citizens. George Washington returned to Mount Vernon after winning our independence, and he did not use the Continental Army to subjugate Americans. Forging a free nation must involve significant trust, first trust those who do the heavy lifting to secure freedom will not in turn subjugate those they have defended against foreign predators, and second that citizens will not irresponsibly pick fights with others, creating messes for the group.

We should celebrate any nation coming remotely close to realizing the ideal of freedom. And those fortunate enough to be born into a free nation, we should honor those who established and protected this freedom, deliberately choosing not to dominate the fellow citizens they protected.

To be clear, nationalism can be a form of collectivism and has served as cover for efforts to curtail individual freedom. But the voluntary commitment to mutual defense at the core of a free nation is to be celebrated. 

I find the ambivalence and perhaps even hostility of libertarians most surprising because Ayn Rand, a dominant intellectual force of modern libertarianism, was a true patriot for her adopted United States. She always rejected any moral equivalence between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, argued that a free nation could invade an unfree nation whenever it chose, and advocated for rational self-interest in national defense. As just one illustration, consider the following passages from her essay, “The Roots of War”:

A dictatorship is a gang devoted to looting the effort of the productive citizens of its own country. When a statist ruler exhausts his own country’s economy, he attacks his neighbors . . . A country that violates the rights of its own citizens, will not respect the rights of its neighbors . . .

Needless to say, unilateral pacifism is merely an invitation to aggression. Just as an individual has the right of self-defense, so has a free country if attacked.

Ayn Rand was a true America Firster.

We should recognize and applaud the universalism of classical liberalism. The political philosophy was not applicable to only some humans. The principles and rules were based on human nature, specifically our ability to reason and cooperate. Brad Thompson details this for America’s founders in America’s Revolutionary Mind. The rules of just conduct could potentially apply to everyone. This was not a political philosophy patched together to defend the acts of one nationality, race, or religion but one which all humans could live by and up to. Classical liberalism’s universal message conflicted with those seeking to defend and maintain slavery. Phil Magness in The 1619 Project: A Critique highlights the tension between liberalism and Southern efforts to defend the peculiar institution. Defenders of slavery understood the need to reject the entire liberal, free market project to justify continued human bondage. Recognizing the applicability of a system of peaceful cooperation to all humans signifies moral progress and comprises an admirable element of liberalism.

Proponents of liberty seemingly forget, however, that while everyone can potentially live by the rules of freedom, many humans do not embrace this. While we might offer philosophical tracts about the rights and freedoms of all humans, which all should possess. Many humans continue to want to subjugate others or to serve them. Others wish to compel their neighbors to live or worship as they command. In such a world people only have the rights and freedoms they can make others accept. Achieving freedom requires a group to recognize the value of each individual and commit to defend their freedom. A nation – a free nation – is the only way to approximate the classical liberal and libertarian ideal.

American libertarians should also not be ashamed to feel patriotism. Emotions are an automatic human response when we observe good in the world. This was another theme of Miss Rand. Consider this from her essay “Apollo 11″ on watching the rocket’s blastoff:

I found myself waving to the rocket involuntarily, I heard people applauding and joined them, grasping our common motive; it was impossible to watch passively, one had to express, by some physical action, a feeling that was not triumph but more: the feeling that the white object’s unobstructed streak of motion was the only thing that mattered in the universe . . . That we had seen a demonstration of man at his best, no one could doubt – this was the cause of the event’s attraction and of the stunned, numbed state in which it left us.

Freedom is good. Stories of the Americans who chose to put their lives in danger to protect freedom should cause an emotional response. Feel free to cheer at Fourth of July fireworks or get misty eyed watching a documentary on the American Revolution. Freedom isn’t free and the moral choice people make to fight for a nation’s freedom should move the rest of us. Founding and maintaining a free nation is among the best that humans can do.

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Daniel Sutter is Affiliated Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center and Professor of Economics at the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University.

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2024 Was A Year Of Bullet-Dodging

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By Elle Purnelle

Written by Elle Purnelle

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

Sometimes we see the divine hand of providence work in the shadows. Other times, it’s caught on live television

One year ago Sunday, presidential candidate Donald Trump turned his head to point to a graphic at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Milliseconds later, gunshots — or, if you’re MSNBC, “popping noises” — rang out. Trump recoiled and was immediately buried by a pile of Secret Service agents.

For 59 seconds, Americans watching the live-streamed rally wondered if the former president was hurt or even alive. Screams from rally-goers punctuated the televised audio feed; as we would later learn, three attendees had been shot. A beloved wife and daughter were realizing that Corey Comperatore, a firefighter from Buffalo Township, had been fatally shot while shielding them from the gunfire.

You know what happened next. Despite the best efforts of the Secret Service, Trump stood up and pumped his fist, shouting “Fight! Fight! Fight!” It was immediately clear the image of the bloodied, defiant president would be the single most iconic moment of his political career.

Within hours, Trump would arrive at the Republican National Convention, where his announcement of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate would cement the tone of the third Trump campaign. This was no compromising choice designed to appease the old guard of the Republican Party; Trump was all in.

Meanwhile, Democrat strategists scrambled. Things had never looked good for the doddering, confused, and unpopular incumbent. Now that the entire country had watched his opponent tangle with death and win, things had never looked worse. The following weekend, Biden’s Twitter account announced his retreat from the presidential race.

For the next 107 days, Americans would be inundated with PR to convince them that Biden’s vice president and heir apparent, Kamala Harris, was “joyful” and “brat.” She washes her collard greens in her bathtub, just like the rest of us!

Leading up to November, Trump World projected nothing but confidence. His voters looked around at polls predicting a statistical tie, and wondered how such a lopsided matchup could be so close. They all remembered 2020, when Democrat jurisdictions changed voting procedures to allow an unprecedented flood of low-security mail ballots and Big Tech companies censored bombshell news to shield the Biden campaign.

In four years, the Democrat campaign strategy had evolved from rigging election processes to publicly waging a legal battle to throw the opposition and his allies in prison. During those same four years, a weaponized Department of Justice threw peaceful pro-life advocates in prison, raided their homes, and terrorized their families. The president of the United States promised a “winter of severe illness and death” to Americans who made their own cost-benefit analysis about the Covid-19 virus and an experimental shot. People who chose not to take it for medical or religious reasons were unceremoniously fired. In many Democrat-run areas, churchgoers were forbidden to gather together for worship or the taking of communion. Schoolchildren lost years of learning, and teachers taped useless masks to their faces in the name of compliance.

Tens of millions of illegal aliens poured across the southern border, tacitly blessed by the White House, and innocent Americans were raped and murdered as a result.

Nameless aides propped up a Potemkin president. Everyone in America knew it was happening, but talking heads on television dutifully repeated the lies they would later cash in on. The Biden administration tried to launch a “disinformation governance board” to police Americans’ speech. What the administration deemed “an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories,” including dissenting opinions about Covid-19 and the 2020 election, was characterized as a “terrorism threat” by the Department of Homeland Security.

Public schools deluged kids with pornographic and racist curricula. When parents protested, the secretary of the Education Department secretly colluded with a school boards group to smear those parents as domestic terrorists, too.

It’s worth remembering how bad we let things get. Who knows what would have happened if the assassination attempt in Butler had succeeded? Now is a good time to thank God it didn’t.

Events of massive political import are governed by the same hand of divine providence as the millions of personal events — the conversations, acts of love, happy accidents, or silent miracles — that happen every day. Sparing Trump’s life last July was no exception. Nor was the election four months later, in which the worst excesses of the Biden years were repudiated.

It’s an ancient mistake to make messiahs out of politics. But likewise, it’s foolish to believe a God who clothes lilies and feeds sparrows is neglectful of the earthly authorities He commands His people to respect. To do either is to think too little of the sovereignty of God. It is the God of Heaven, the prophet Daniel says, who “changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings.” When doing so spares us from evil, we ought to thank Him.

The great theologian Charles Spurgeon thought his listeners’ forgetfulness of God’s providence in their lives was likely “the greatest stronghold of our natural Atheism.” He warned them, in an 1858 sermon, not to harbor “a doubt of God’s dealings with us in the arrangements of outward affairs.”

The umbrella of God’s loving providence makes our political developments both more significant and less consequential. When we look at earthly rulers, we can recognize their significance as instruments of His divine will, and we can happily trust that they will not ruin it. Spurgeon continues:

God hath not arbitrarily marked out the world’s history; he had an eye to the great architecture of perfection, when he marked all the aisles of history, and placed all the pillars of events in the building of time.

Sometimes those events happen quietly. On occasion, they happen on live TV.

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This Land Is Your Land

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By Tony Francois

Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

Senator Lee should introduce the New Frontier Homestead Act of 2026

Should the federal government auction less than one percent of non-conservation status public lands to alleviate housing shortages and reduce the federal debt? This is how Utah Senator Mike Lee tried to frame the question when he included a provision to this effect in the Senate version of the Big Beautiful Bill. Alas for Senator Lee, the New Right’s resounding answer has been hell no, and he has beaten a hasty retreat. Perhaps to his relief, the Senate Parliamentarian ruled the public land sale provision ineligible for the reconciliation procedure under which the BBB was being handled. Mr. Lee lives to fight another day, but can the New Right be warmed up to his proposal?

For many years, Western Republicans have chafed at the federal government’s poor management of public lands, which make up most of the acreage of several states. California is almost half public land, while Nevada is more than 80%. Western states average about 50% public lands.

These lands were open to homesteading until 50 years ago, just as was the vast American valley of the Mississippi. But where the Great Plains were rapidly settled with farms and towns, the arid Mountain West saw far less settlement. Late 19th-century technology was inadequate to access the water resources necessary to farm most of the high desert, so homesteaders stuck to the very few fertile stream valleys. The rest of the land remained free for mining and cattle grazing.

Some of it was eventually settled in the first half of the 20th century thanks to large irrigation projects, and vast areas were classified as national forests, preserving them for timber production. Dozens of national parks were added to the mix at the dawn of the environmental movement in the 1960s, and federal legislation ended homesteading in 1976. The frontier, long practically closed by technological and cultural limits, was now formally and legally closed as well.

The conservation and recreation values of these millions of acres of public land are high, and for many millions of Americans (and a notably strong cohort in the New Right) the opportunity to hike, backpack, camp, fish, hunt, and just be more human is an essential element of our American heritage.

Much public land is in various types of “conservation status”: wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, and the like. But many millions of acres are “generic” and managed (or mismanaged) by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service for mining, grazing, and timber production. It is a mistake to think of every acre of public land as pristine wilderness fit only for permanent preservation and enjoyment in its natural state. But it is also a profound error to think of public lands with spreadsheet-brain proneness to maximize measurable financial value.

These are the teeth of the trap into which Senator Lee stepped.

Reopening the Frontier

What policy problem was Lee’s bill meant to solve? Not fire danger, not reduction in productive resource development, not revitalization of struggling rural towns—all of which haunt the West after decades of federal ineptitude. No, it was introduced to help pay down the national debt and solve the conundrum of housing affordability, which congressional allies then restated as affordable housing, which most people know is not even the same thing.

Lee wanted to sell areas of public land suitable for housing development near cities, with priority given to isolated tracts with existing infrastructure services, and excluding pretty much everything in conservation status. Many New Right critics argued that nothing in the bill prevented the sale of non-conservation lands that nonetheless have high recreational value and use. But I don’t think that was the biggest problem with the bill.

In my view, it was that the legislation would not help solve the problem Lee wanted to address. Outrageous housing costs are caused by local land use practices, not federal land ownership near cities. If Senator Lee’s bill was passed and signed by President Trump, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum could designate a perfect area of land in Solano County, California (let’s stipulate that nobody would object to this specific sale), and sell it to Silicon Valley billionaires trying to show the world they can build a new city in California. The tech bro town fathers would still be completely helpless when they apply to the Solano County Planning Commission for permits to build California Forever. Some new housing, maybe someday—but not so affordable.

Any undeveloped land the federal government transfers into private hands would then be fully regulated by state and local governments, under whatever rules those zoning overlords impose. And the only players likely to prosper in such environments are large-scale developers with substantial capital who currently operate those systems effectively.

There is another feasibility problem with Lee’s bill. Who would anyone trust within the federal land bureaucracy to carry out such a program effectively, and would other federal laws allow it to move forward? Lee’s bill had no exemptions from federal environmental review or the Endangered Species Act. The discretionary selection of lands to be sold under his bill would languish through years of planning, interagency consultation, and environmental review, followed by more years of litigation extending so far into the future that we would be dealing with Elon Musk’s breakaway Republic of Mars long before anyone sells your favorite MAGA influencer’s favorite hiking trail to BlackRock.

So should Senator Lee avoid introducing another public lands bill in the future? No.

Many critics of Lee’s bill conceded that some disposal of public lands could be in the public interest. The real questions are: Which ones, what for, and how to ensure that the purpose is achieved?

The state of water technology closed the frontier to new settlement decades before Congress repealed the Homestead Act in 1976. But the technological frontier has remained open, and lack of water is not the same barrier it was a century ago for at least some settlement of the arid West. Conservation, building, well technology, and the increased feasibility of non-agricultural settlement make it possible to found new communities in areas that once lacked adequate water resources.

What was impossible in 1925 is possible today: the reopening of the Western frontier to new settlement.

A generation of Americans yearning to build something good in their own country should be allowed the opportunity to try what their grandparents succeeded wildly at. The Western half of the United States should be open to technologically feasible settlement in the same way the Eastern half was. New towns that could grow into new cities would foster the Golden Age that everyone is tweeting about—which need to be built in real time. Just doing things is better than endless planning, consulting, assessing, and other forms of bureaucratic morass that engulf everything it touches.

Just Doing Things

Senator Lee should introduce a different bill: the New Frontier Homestead Act of 2026.

The first task is defenestrating state and local land use veto holders from the conversation. If reopening the frontier to technologically feasible settlement on public lands is a congressional objective, then the county planning commission is just going to have to pound sand. The tech bros aren’t going to build California City if the Solano County planning Karens have anything to say about it. The New Frontier will have to be opened under federal protection.

The second task is like the first: preventing federal laws and bureaucracy from killing it. To be exempt from state law, the land will have to remain in federal ownership or control while development occurs. But for any desirable development to occur under federal protection, several elements of federal law will have to be explicitly waived as well. This list of federal anti-development statutes can be copied and pasted from the congressional authorization to build the border wall. Presto—no environmental review, no decades-long interagency consultation over habitat for gnatcatchers. Instead, this is about “just doing things.”

With those obstacles surmounted, how would the Act work?

The current Interior Department and Forest Service (perhaps a DOGE-type team within each) should propose a list of non-conservation lands to be opened (the percentage of non-conservation public land in the original Lee bill, which was between .5 and .75%, is probably about right). Congress could then put that list in legislation. Or it could distill the list into a clear set of criteria for parcels. Proposing a list before the legislation is enacted would demonstrate the competence of the GOP and the Trump Administration, and help build the cultural and policy case for the New Frontier Homestead Act.

If the NFHA is wildly successful, more might be done in a future round. If it flops, relatively little harm will have been done. In any event, the conservation ethic will remain strong and serve as a natural check on the disposal of large amounts of public land, as will the usefulness of much of it, particularly for mining strategic metals and rare earths. Once the lands are determined, they should be catalogued into 40-acre parcels for disposal, just as with the original Homestead Act.

Only adult, natural-born citizens would be eligible for a New Frontier homestead. No shell companies, no layers of corporate bureaucracy concealing pension funds, insurance companies, multinationals, or sovereign wealth funds. These would be the only qualifications for eligibility.

Requiring individuals to take responsibility at the front end helps vet applicants and limits them to only one entry. The Lee bill allowed any type of entity to win two parcels per auction cycle. But the Tocquevillian spirit of the original Homestead Act, focused on small holdings and personal development, is needed to open the New Frontier.

The original Homestead Act allowed anyone to stake a claim and then build a home and farm the claimed land over five years. If a threshold percentage of the homestead was farmed over those five years, the Land Office transferred ownership to the homesteader. Farming was the necessary foundation for a new community in the 19th century.

This is clearly not true today, with new technology and new economics. One should still be allowed to establish title through farming part or all of the land. But other ways of improving land should be counted, including starting businesses that employ a given number of people who live on the 40 acres, building homes with related amenities (like a church, school, clinic, or community store) and similar measures of development.

For simplicity and to minimize the amount of judgment and discretion exercised by federal bureaucrats charged with approving the final patents, the qualification for obtaining the land grant should be very clear and enforceable. This will lead to some oversimplification and perhaps gaming the requirements, but the alternative is endless fights over whether a homesteader has done enough to earn the patent. We want this to succeed wildly, not be a federal program to install rural broadband.

If the homesteader doesn’t develop the homestead adequately, he loses his investment, and it goes back to the pool for reallocation. Great rewards require great risks and are not for the faint of heart. Tolerating risk of loss is a necessary filter for the pioneers we want on the New Frontier.

The Lee bill awarded parcels to winners at auction. The biggest war chest would win twice in every auction cycle. Instead, the way to choose the pioneers without advantaging the oligarchs is by lottery. Anyone with a dream can get land, not just the wealthiest auction bidders, and if anyone can win, more people with good ideas or energy will try it.

Various lottery methods can be used. Entrants could be aggregated nationwide, with the entire pool chosen from for each parcel. Or entrants could designate one or a small number of parcels to be considered, and then the lottery for each parcel could be among those most interested in it. Though once your number is pulled, you are then ineligible for another parcel in the lottery.

What will the winning pioneers pay? Processing costs. If we want the New Frontier settled by young builders with vision, energy, and optimism, we can’t give them the student loan treatment. Yes, they will get an enormous benefit for very little land cost if they succeed, and no, this won’t help pay off the $37 trillion national debt. But today nearly everyone in the Western portion of the Mississippi Valley lives on land that was once given by the federal government to a homesteader. We all idolize the pioneer spirit of those homesteaders, our great-grandparents who made something out of nothing and built a nation. We don’t resent the fact they were given 40 acres of Mississippi Valley farmland for $10 as part of a strategic policy to settle a nation.

So there we are: the New Frontier Homestead Act. Natural-born citizens are eligible to enter a lottery to be awarded 40 acres of public land. If they develop to specific benchmarks within five years, free of both state and federal regulation, the federal government grants them title upon payment of processing costs.

Do you want to renew America? This is a pretty good start.

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Trump Reportedly To Ship Offensive Weapons To Ukraine In Major Pivot

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By Wallace White

Written by Wallace White

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

Editors’ Note: President Trump’s bombastic style has carried him a long way, but so far has not moved Putin.  His fervent expectation that Vladimir Putin would seek a settlement with Ukraine, given that Trump was now the US President, appears to be in trouble. The alliance between Russia and China is formidable. He has given the Russians a lot of opportunity, and their response seems to be to gear up for more war. What is Trump now supposed to do?  He may be forced to backpedal to his political base in the interest of stopping aggression. Meanwhile, Zelensky remains as obdurate as Putin and runs a corrupt regime that keeps cancelling elections and imprisoning political opposition. To be sure, this situation is not of Trump’s making. This mess occurred mainly on the Democrats’ watch, and they distracted the American people by trying to undermine Trump’s first term by associating Trump with Russia. Putin made his aggressive moves under the Democrats. Socialist leaders of NATO have also been responsible for the current situation by adopting a green agenda and then relying on Russian energy. They also pushed for aggressive expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders, despite the warnings Putin provided. The pathetic state of the European defense establishment was also a significant incentive for Putin. However, it now appears that additional pressure needs to be put on Putin.  He would not go for the carrot, so it is time for the stick. But the US does not want, and is not ready for, a land war in Eastern Europe. Trump has a difficult needle to thread, and we should all appreciate the situation he now faces.  He does not want a war, but rewarding aggression can also encourage war. 

President Donald Trump will reportedly announce a new plan Monday to support Ukraine, and offensive weapons are expected to be part of the plan, sources told Axios.

Such a move would further indicate a major pivot in policy for the Trump administration towards Ukraine after Trump greenlit sending Patriot missile defense batteries to Ukraine July 7 after a temporary pause, two sources with knowledge of the plan told Axios. The president has become publicly frustrated with Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing the leader of stalling peace talks to continue his military campaign.

Trump is expected to announce the plan during his meeting with NATO Secretary Mark Rutte on Monday morning, according to Axios. The shipments reportedly may include long-range missiles that could strike as deep as Moscow, two sources told Axios, though neither source was aware of any final decision.

“Putin really surprised a lot of people,” Trump told reporters Sunday. “He talks nice but then he bombs everybody in the evening. So there’s a little bit of a problem there. I don’t like it.” Ukraine received $66.9 billion worth of U.S. weapons from the start of the war in 2022 through March 2025, according to the State Department.

Shipments of Patriot batteries were initially paused on July 2 pending a review of U.S. weapons stockpiles, a move that was possibly the brainchild of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby. Dwindling U.S. armament stockpiles have long been a concern of foreign policy and defense experts.

However, Trump then announced July 7 the missile shipments would resume, but the shipments would contain fewer Patriot batteries than initially planned and have their price tag covered by NATO. Trump was reportedly hesitant to send the Patriot batteries to Ukraine, telling his confidants that “this isn’t my war” at the time, sources told Axios on July 8.

Russia and Ukraine have continued to exchange drone and missile strikes while the frontlines on the ground remain relatively stable. Ahead of Trump’s expected announcement, Russia launched 136 drones into Ukraine, with Kiev neutralizing 108 drones while the rest impacted 10 locations, ABC News reported Monday.

The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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AG Secretary Rollins is Still Working for the Kochs, not Trump

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“In the last five years, he has advertised in local newspapers and accepted more than a dozen unemployed applicants from the state’s job agency. Even when the average rate on his fields was $20 an hour, the U.S.-born workers lost interest, fast. “We’ve never had one come back after lunch.” — Bob Goehring, grapes farmer in California who is re-engineering his vineyards so they can be harvested by machines

“There is a shortage of ready, willing and able agricultural workers. It’s a crisis. There is not a demographic in the United States that is willing to do the work. It’s hard, cold and dirty. We either will import our workers or we will import our food. It’s one or the other.” — Brandon Mallory, CEO of Agri-Placement Services

“The people I know are wonderful people. They care about their jobs. We trust them with our animals, for God’s sake. This is everything for us. This is our livelihood. If we were to lose our export markets, it would have a huge, immediate impact on the food industry. Period. They’re not taking away jobs. They’re filling a void. They’re here for the same reasons our parents were. They’re here to provide a better life for themselves and their families.” — unnamed farmer in Vermont

“We have a high percentage of undocumented workers, many of whom have been here for years. They are dependable and they run the machinery and they are managers, and they are some of the most important people on those farm operations. People are very, very concerned because we are afraid our migrant workers won’t come, or these enforcement measures will result in much stricter enforcement and people will end up being pulled off of highways and out of the fields during the season.” — Larry Wooten, North Carolina Farm Bureau

In June, Trump floated a “temporary pass” for illegal aliens in farm and hotel work. The administration has mostly left the agriculture sector alone.  Recently, however, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested more than 70 workers at an Omaha, Nebraska meat packing plant.

Other federal agents targeted cannabis farms north of Los Angeles, on the same day, June 11th. Multiple agents arrived at the Glass House Farms, a state-licensed cannabis facility which is considered illegal under federal law, in Camarillo. Federal authorities had a warrant for illegal employees. Another raid also occurred at another Glass House Farm in Carpinteria. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, Tricia MacLaughlin said investigators found nine unaccompanied migrant children there.   Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said the facility was “under investigation for child labor violations.”

In addition, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said the FBI has offered a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an unknown suspect who appeared to fire a pistol at federal law enforcement officers near Camarillo.

As the quotes above indicate, the migrants helping with agriculture and dairy farming are very important to the ranchers and farmers.  Many of them are seasonal, but some have full time jobs on the farms and ranches and are supporting their families.  They are honest and reliable people.

How does ICE know whether they’re documented workers or not?

That’s the question.

Harm could come to both the migrant employee and the employer who has crops that must be harvested or lost.

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins

Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins wants to legalize illegals working for big farms.  Rollins comes by this desire naturally as she was the former Koch Brothers think-tank chief.  Her dream is waves of government-approved cheap foreign labor flowing over the border, which matches the desires of her former employers.

Her roots are planted deep in Texas with former President George W. Bush and Texas Governor Rick Perry, neither of whom are considered conservatives. From 2003 to 2018, Rollins was president and CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a Koch Brothers-funded think tank.

David Koch, who died in 2019, was on the boards of Earth watch Institute, an environmental, sustainability, Agenda 21 group, and the globalist new age Aspen Institute formerly headed by deceased new age environmentalist Maurice Strong,

the forerunner of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum.  Strong was the founder and first Secretary General of United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).  He was the driving force behind the birth and imposition of UN Agenda 21, now the Great Reset.

The Kochs signed onto an amicus brief for the supreme court supporting gay rights and gay marriage.  In 1980, David Koch backed a platform calling for the full legalization of abortion.

Their 2018 ad campaign for amnesty showed they promote open borders, mass immigration, and mass amnesty for illegal aliens, despite opposition from the American people.  The ad promoted endless free trade, and foreign interventionism.

Koch money supported Andrew Cuomo as Governor of New York, who had publicly stated, “America has never been great.”

They also had a multi-year, multi-million-dollar campaign to tout free trade and oppose tariffs, defying President Trump’s goals.

Secretary Rollins’ agendas are those of David and Charles Koch.

For more on the privately held Koch Industries and their political activities, the following two articles, here and here, will inform and enlighten.

In 2013, Rollins said, “They are not going back to Mexico.”  For Rollins and the TPPF, one key aspect of the immigration reform agenda was essential: a colossal expansion of a guest worker program for foreigners.  She acknowledged her support for amnesty and for importing a greater number of foreign laborers into the U.S. in a revealing 2013 interview with Texas Monthly magazine. “Brooke Rollins: Time for Conservatives to Do the Right Thing.”

Donald Trump nominated Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture, a woman who wanted to legalize 11 million aliens a dozen years ago via Obama, and is now in charge of an agency that oversees a corporate Big Ag construct that employs untold millions of illegals today.

Brooke Rollins seeks to implant the Koch cheap labor economic vision inside the America First Trump White House.  She is not on our side!

From Liberty Nation News, “We will have a 100 percent legal workforce [on America’s farms] very, very soon,” Rollins told reporters on July 4th while standing alongside Trump. “The President and I have consistently advanced a ‘Farmers First’ approach, recognizing that American households depend upon a stable and LEGAL agricultural workforce,” she wrote in a June 15th social media post.

Note the word in all caps, it’s like that for a reason!

When Donald Trump was running for President in 2016, the Koch brothers were brutally honest about how much they despised him.  They had formed the GOP in their likeness for years and Trump could foil it.  Instead, they weaseled their way into Trump’s first term with two of their people in top positions, Mike Pence as Vice-President and Kellyanne Conway as his campaign manager and later as counselor to the president.  Conway and Pence brought in another 42 Koch people.  Josh Pitcock was Pence’s first Chief of Staff.  His wife, Katherine Seaman, worked for disgraced FBI Agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.  It is alleged that this was the backdoor to the FBI eliminating General Michael T. Flynn as National Security Advisor.

Brooke Rollins is in position to gain the desires of her former employers, and Trump is all for it because he believes migrants will help American farmers. The Ag Secretary is planning a massively expanded guest worker program that grants blanket legal status to millions of foreign farm workers. It is one way to claim you have eradicated the illegal alien problem in the fields.

MAGA stalwarts must be wondering why Trump would ever get on board with such a thinly disguised ruse.

Once again, I have to ask, “Who vetted these nominees?”

Seasonal Migrant Workers

The United States allows migrant agricultural workers who come for specific harvests, but return home after the season.  They are primarily overseen by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) which is now run by Lori Chavez DeRemer, a former republican congresswoman.  DeRemer served only one term in congress and lost her reelection bid.  She is a left of center republican who only voted with the constitution 33% of the time.

The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the DOL administers and enforces the law under the 1983 Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA).  The act establishes employment standards for migrants. It assures fair and prompt wages, decent housing that meets safety and health standards, safe and insured transportation vehicles, written information for workers about employment terms and conditions as well as requiring employers and contractors to maintain accurate records.

The MSPA requires farm labor contractors to register with the DOL and obtain certificates of registration before engaging in any farm labor contracting.  The employers who use the services of farm labor contractors are required to verify the contractor’s registration status.

There are a number of other federal laws in addition to the MSPA administered by the DOL which provide protections for ag workers.

  • The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage and child labor standards, although some ag exemptions apply according to the USDA.
  • The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) sets safety and health standards for most workers, including those in agriculture.
  • The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) includes provisions addressing employment eligibility, verification, and non-discrimination, enforced by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Justice’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices, respectively.

Many states have their own specific laws and regulations for farm workers according to the USDA and in these cases, the law setting the higher standard is applied.

The MSPA has was amended in 1986.  It provides the proper protections for these seasonal migrant workers and their families.  It was originally established to address concerns about the treatment and working conditions of these laborers.

The MSPA helps foreign workers and their employers.

The Bracero Program was in effect from 1942-1964 for migrant labor.  Bracero means, “one who uses his arms” or “manual laborer.”  It was an agreement between the US and Mexico which allowed temporary workers from Mexico to assist in agricultural harvesting as well as working in the railroad industry. It provided a large workforce for agriculture, but faced criticism for its treatment of workers.

The H-2A visa program which allows foreign ag workers to come into the U.S. temporarily is essentially the modern-day equivalent of the Bracero program, but with protections for the migrant workers.

Despite the end of the Bracero Program in December of 1964, U.S. growers continued to rely heavily on Mexican migrant workers beyond the 1960s.  Without oversight, exploitation of these workers often occurred, including low wages and exposure to dangerous chemicals.

The 1983 MSPA resulted from public outcry and increased awareness of the difficult conditions faced by migrant workers, including low wages and poor living conditions. The MSPA addressed these issues, for employees, employers and state laws.

Since 1942, we have had seasonal migrant workers who have come to America to help with agricultural harvesting, dairy farmers and ranchers.  H-2A workers must not replace American worker jobs, and the contractors must show that the migrants are needed.

(In the late 70s, my daughter spent her summers in Indiana farm fields de-tasseling corn with her high school friends.  They were up and out early and didn’t get home until late afternoon. They made good money for their hot and tiring work.)

We have had programs for seasonal foreign agricultural labor for 83 years.  They come and work and when the harvest is over, they go home.  No problem, as long as they are treated fairly and given a decent wage, housing, and are covered with insurance should an accident happen.

Problems arise however, when illegal aliens have crossed the border and are being paid cash under the table.  These employees, whether temporary or permanent, would not be protected under the MSPA.

H-2A workers are allowed to stay employed, but their employment is tied to the specific employer and the temporary nature of the work they are authorized to perform. They are admitted to the U.S. for temporary or seasonal agricultural work and must generally leave after the authorized period of employment, which is usually no longer than one year, but can be extended up to a maximum of three years.

After reaching the 3-year limit, a worker must leave the U.S. for at least 60 days before being eligible to return as an H-2A nonimmigrant.

Larry Wooten of the North Carolina Farm Bureau says many of these workers excel at and care about their jobs and many want to become permanent employees.  If both the employee and employer are in agreement, there should be a way to help them do that without having to leave for 60 days before they can return.

American citizenship is an option that should be considered.  Many of these migrants become managers who are extremely valuable to the employer.  There needs to be a way employers can help their employees permanently remain in America and in their employ.

Conclusion

Secretary Rollins must be made to understand that there will be no mass amnesty for those who broke the law and invaded our country. Neither will waves of government-approved cheap foreign labor flowing over the border for agricultural purposes be legalized and given amnesty.

Under President Reagan’s Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, approximately 2.7 to 3 million people were granted amnesty and approved for permanent residence.  Subsequent executive actions and congressional measures aimed at family reunification impacted a larger number of people by providing protection and a path to potential future legalization for families of those who received amnesty under IRCA.

In 2013, Congressman Steve King (R-IA) spoke to congress.  He said that three million people “received amnesty” under the 1986 law. To that number, he added an

additional five people for each newly legalized person, to reflect those legalized under family reunification policies. That meant an additional 15 million people.

The number of foreign agricultural workers, particularly those employed through the

H-2A visa program, has been increasing.

Should Secretary Rollins succeed in “legalizing” migrant farm workers, amnesty will once again be granted to many millions.

This is a huge issue that needs to be hammered out in county commissions and state legislatures before the two parties in D.C. get involved.

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‘The Man That Saved Our Country’: Donald Trump Talks About What He Wants His Legacy To Be

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By The Daily Caller

President Donald Trump did a one-on-one interview on Fox News’ My View with Lara Trump Saturday where he touched on a whole host of issues, including his legacy.

Lara began by asking Trump whether the four-year gap between his terms has played a role in his recent successes.

“Well, experience is very important in life. I think talent is more important than experience but if you can have them both somehow it’s a very good thing, but experience is very important,” he responded.

“I think it also helped; it was very bad for the country, but it also helped to have four years of horror. What went before me was horror, and by comparison, I think anything looks good, and I don’t want to demean what we’ve done because we’ve done a lot of records,” he went on to say. “What they’ve done to our country should never be forgiven … allowing millions and millions of people to come into our country that shouldn’t be here.”

“It was almost like they tried to kill our country,” Trump said while describing what he called a “horror show” for the four years Biden was president.

Trump then went on to tout his administration‘s successes and compliments he’s received from other world leaders.

“The beautiful thing is, now we have the hottest country in the world,” he proclaimed.

“You know I was with the king of Saudi Arabia, the leader of Qatar, the leader of the UAE, and many other leaders at NATO. Separately, every one of them virtually said, ‘you have the hottest country in the world right now, and six months ago, we thought your country was dead.’ They actually thought it was dead and it felt dead. We had not only no leadership, we had negative leadership. So I think that probably makes it look good too, but we’ve done a lot.”

Lara then asked Trump what kept him going after losing the 2020 election when people were saying it wasn’t possible for him to make his way back to the White House.

“Well, number one, I saw what was happening to the country. They were destroying our country. They were allowing people to come into our country from prisons, from mental institutions, gang members — the worst gang members in the world, make our gang members look like … nice people — they were coming in at levels that nobody had ever seen before. No checking, no vetting, no anything, just come into our country and do whatever you want,” Trump said.

Trump also added that fixing the border crisis is a big job along with what his administration is already doing by lowering the costs of energy and curbing inflation.

“It’s a big job getting thousands … hundreds of thousands of criminals out of our country. 11,888 murderers, many of those people have killed more than one person … and he [Joe Biden] let them into our country,” he said. “I guess it wasn’t him so much as the people surrounding the beautiful resolute desk — and I know them all — and they’re not good, they’re smart but they’re not good. They’re smart in a different way, but evil intention”

“He was the worst president in the history of our country,” Trump went on to say, talking about Biden. “Nobody’s done such damage to our country, and we’re fixing it and I think we’re fixing it very fast.”

Trump finished the interview by talking about how he would like to be remembered from his time as president.

“A good person, but a person that saved out country. I really believe our country was going down for the fall. I don’t know if it ever could’ve come back, it was very close to the edge,” he said

“I really would really like to be known as the man the saved our country.”

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Europe veers Right—Towards Israel and Trump?

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By Dr. Martin Sherman

There are accumulating—albeit belated—signs of a new political assertiveness in Europe, together with a growing appreciation of Israeli resolve and Trumpian toughness

“…this concept [of multi-culturalism] has failed, and failed utterly.” —Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, 2010

Winds of change are finally beginning to blow in Europe.

With them, they carry potential implications not only for the European continent itself but for Israel and the wider Middle East—as well as for relations with Washington, particularly with the current Trump administration.

A stiffening of political will?

A clear indication of the stiffening of political will was reflected in a recent conference held in Vienna.

Under the auspices of former Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian, and with the participation of Members of European Parliament from Germany, Holland, and Belgium, as well as prominent guests of honor from across the continent—including France, Hungary and the UK, the conference focused on “Peace, Freedom, and Security.”

Billed as “The Vienna Conference of European Patriots”, it evinced the ominous banner, “Europe on the Brink – Between Self-Denial, Islamism, and Geopolitical Irrelevance”, reflecting the sense of concern that prevailed at the event. Speakers warned that what once was celebrated as “multicultural open-mindedness” is increasingly proving to be myopic political naivety. Several speakers expressed alarm at what they perceived as an “urgent threat”—i.e., the looming spectre of a steadily creeping transformation of European social order into “Islamist authoritarianism”. The overall sentiment was that the real threat menacing Europe today is not an external one, but more an internal one—eroding the very core of European society.

A threat to national cohesion

This perception dovetails well with the perturbing findings of a government-commissioned probe into the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in France. The report warns that “The Muslim Brotherhood movement is a “threat to national cohesion” in France and action must be taken to stop the spread of “political Islamism.”

Indeed, there was particular disapproval of France, which, it will be recalled, granted the Ayatollah Khomeini political asylum. It was here that he spent his last months in exile under the benign neglect of the French authorities, before returning triumphantly to Iran, where hordes of his devotees, inflamed by his corrosive credo, swept the radical Islamists to power, later to be “exported” globally.

Moreover, along with a considerable body of expert opinion, blame was also attributed, in large measure, to France for the turmoil in Libya and the overthrow of a then much chastened Gaddafi. Paris’s rash haste in siding with the rebels precipitated the current chaos and subsequent flow of migrants into the EU. According to one 2020 study of events in Libya, “Paris soon became the most intransigent power in international efforts to foster negotiations between the Gadhafi regime and the leadership of the revolutionaries…The result of this policy is clearly visible: What has ensued is almost ten years of conflict and social distress.

Significantly, the failure of the current French administration, under Emmanuel Macron, to control the still ongoing tide of Muslim migrants and their overflow across the Channel into the UK has earned the ire of his British neighbors, even eliciting calls for his recent—and unduly ostentatious—state visit to be cancelled.

Flaccid France

Indeed, at the Vienna conference, Macron was taken severely to task for blunders at home and abroad.

Indeed, the French daily, Le Monde, recently outlined the pervasive domestic strife afflicting the country: “There is a rise in bankruptcies and restructuring plans, alongside calls for strikes at Air France, the national rail company …and within the civil service. Additionally, a new wave of unrest is spreading among farmers. [with] this unrest, stemming from economic difficulties and budgetary austerity measures”.

Yet, with the home-front in turmoil, Macron chose to commit his foreign policy to what is increasingly becoming a forlorn anachronism–a Palestinian state—and one likely to place him in direct confrontation with an increasingly assertive and proactive Trump administration. Moreover, in view of the appalling atrocities of October 7, together with the overwhelming support they received from the Palestinian public, both in Gaza and the West Bank, this policy would be an unconscionable reward for blood-curdling terror. As such, it is not only practically unfeasible, but morally bankrupt as well.

In contrast to the censure of the flaccid EU policy, there was praise for both Israel and the Trump administration. Israel was lauded for conveying a clear message with its resolute military action and pinpoint intelligence that left the Iranian nuclear program largely in ruins. Likewise, President Trump was commended for launching his B-2 bunker-busting bombs and Tomahawk missile strikes on the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan facilities in support of Israel’s action, and for laying the foundation for a restructured Mid-East via the “Abraham Accords.

A new European assertiveness

There are accumulating signs of a new political assertiveness and a growing appreciation of Israeli resolve to resist, and stare down what, until recently, seemed to be intimidating radical Islamist threats. With it, a grudging appreciation of Donald Trump may also be emerging, together with a budding acknowledgement of the efficacy of his tough stance on issues his predecessors eschewed. Hopefully, the recent Vienna conference is a sign that the edifice of Europe’s socio-cultural heritage can still be salvaged.

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Nazi-Collaborator George Soros Funneled $37 Million to Jihad Communist Zohran Mamdani

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By The Geller Report

Why is this hostile foreign actor still allowed to undermine and sabotage our system of governance and law and order?

The ruin of this great nation is a long term project for Nazi collaborator George Soros, who described his work confiscating property from the Jews as “the happiest days of my life.” In a CBS 60 Minustes interview, George Soros reflected on his time collaborating with the Nazis, “”for me, it was a very positive experience,” “it was a very happy making, exhilarating experience,”  “for me it was a very positive experience.”

Soros means to finish the job his Nazi pals couldn’t.

“The Soros agenda is one of death and destruction in the name of open borders and ending Western Civilization,” warned Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project at the Conservative Heritage Foundation

One NYP commenter pointed out: “As galling as this is, to add injury to insult, Soros’ organizations are considered tax free charitable organizations. That’s like giving a charity designation to the mafia and drug cartels. But considering much of that money goes straight into the pockets of democrat politicians it is not hard to understand the selling out of their souls to this kind of evil.”

George Soros funneled $37M to Working Families Party, other lefty groups backing Zohran Mamdani

By Rich Calder, NU Post, July 12, 2025:

That’s rich.

Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn’t exist, but it’s unlikely he’d be the front-runner to become the Big Apple’s next mayor if it wasn’t for one — far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show.

Mamdani recently told NBC News’ “Meet the Press, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly” while doubling down on his plan to jack up property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” if elected mayor.

Zorhan Mamdani, New York City mayoral candidate, at a Working Families Party event.

George Soros’ Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled over $37M combined to the Working Families Party and other left-wing groups who helped Zohran Mamdani win NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary. Michael Nigro

But in less than a decade, Soros’ ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least other nine left-wing groups whose endorsements and get-out-the-vote groundwork played a pivotal role in helping Mamdani upset ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation’s records show.

Since 2016, the far-left, socialist-friendly WFP — which helped score Mandani the Democratic line by brokering cross-endorsement deals that squeezed out Cuomo — has pocketed a staggering $23.7 million from Soros through its nonprofit fundraising arm Working Families Organization Inc.

And at least another $13,944,005 went to the nine nonprofits and their offshoot fundraising entities — including the Make The Road Action ($3,515,00), and social justice nonprofits Community Voices Heard ($2,635,000) and Move On ($2.3 million), and the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace Acton ($650,000), according to records.

All those groups backed the Queens assemblyman’s mayoral campaign – as well as his Marxist agenda that includes advocating for criminal migrants and condemning Israel.

“While Zohran Mamdani attacks job creators and rails against wealth, the truth is he’s benefiting from millions in support from billionaires and the very nonprofit network he pretends to stand apart from,” Mayor Eric Adams told The Post.

“You can’t have it both ways. We need leadership that brings people together — not politicians who demonize success while quietly cashing in on it,” added Adams, a registered Democrat seeking re-election as an independent.

Billionaire George Soros has a long history of funding socialist and other lefty causes — and politicians who support them. AFP via Getty Images

The mayor touted he’s a great example of the “American Dream,” considering he was born into poverty 64 years ago in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and now runs the “greatest city in the world.”

“The idea that billionaires or successful people shouldn’t exist isn’t just extreme — it’s un-American,” Hizzoner added.

Douglas Kellogg, state projects director for the conservative anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform, said no one should be surprised Soros’ money is quietly driving Mamdani’s campaign.

The Working Families Party tapped Mamdani as its favored candidate in the mayoral race. LP Media

“George Soros is like a comic-book villain, James Bond villain who’s funding a movement designed to undermine individual freedom and liberty across the globe,” said Kellogg.

“And he’s been doing it for years, and he’s continues to do it and finds new effective faces to put in front on it. If communism and socialism was popular, he wouldn’t have to spend so much money and take so much time to try to achieve it.”

Kellogg also said he believes there will be a mass Big Apple exodus of “productive, law-abiding citizens who make New York great” if Mamdani is mayor, “so the taxpayers and businesses have a lot to lose.”

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