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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Consumption is flourishing in immigration detention centers across the country, yet another sign that America is grinding its way through a second Gilded Age. It's better known now by its other name, tuberculosis, and it's the most deadly infectious disease in the world, the World Health Organization says, responsible for killing 1.5 million people each year, even though it's both preventable and curable.


A federal judge blocked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from investigating Media Matters for America, the liberal watchdog group that has criticized the spread of hate speech on X since Elon Musk purchased the platform.


Using the state apparatus to suppress truth is a dishonest, despicable and obvious gambit. Why?


Monday, August 18, 2025

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee announced Monday it expects to begin receiving files related to Jeffrey Epstein from the Department of Justice (DOJ) by the end of the week.


House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem would be a top target of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee if Democrats retake the House in the midterms. Read more


Matt Drudge's eponymous news aggregator, The Drudge Report, linked to an op-ed as one of its lead headlines on Monday, asking "IS THE DON BEING BLACKMAILED?" The headline harked back to the heyday of the Trump-Russia scandal, which was fueled by President Donald Trump calling for Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's campaign and widespread allegations that the Trump campaign was coordinating with Russia in 2016. The op-ed Drudge linked to was penned in June of 2025 with the headline, "The idea that the Kremlin has kompromat on Trump seems increasingly plausible." The piece by Irish Times columnist and former Irish Minister of Justice Michael McDowell warned that if Trump "capitulates to Putin on Ukraine, it will grossly and perhaps fatally betray the principles on which Nato was founded."


The Indian illegal immigrant truck driver accused of causing a crash that killed three people in Florida crossed into the U.S. through California in 2018, and was arrested by Border Patrol two days later. Harjinder Singh, 28, faces deportation and three counts of homicide " negligent manslaughter/vehicle following the incident on the Florida Turnpike in Fort Pierce on Tuesday. Following his arrest on Sept. 20, 2018, near San Ysidro, California, "he has been pending immigrant proceedings since," a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) statement to Fox News said.


President Zelensky's visit to Washington precedes a key White House meeting focused on ending the Russia-Ukraine war, a topic also discussed by President Trump with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Trump has publicly stated that Zelensky can end the war quickly if he chooses, suggesting that Crimea cannot be regained and Ukraine should not join NATO.


Trump posted a mysterious message on his Truth Social account on Sunday that left people puzzled, at least for a little while. In the midst of a posting spree in which he attacked the media, blamed former President Joe Biden for Russia's war on Ukraine, and defended himself after last week's seemingly unproductive meeting with Vladimir Putin, the president posted a message with just four letters: "Bela." Read more


New automation and AI tools"including an "AI-Enabled Fire Control Concept""were a central feature of the industry-day presentations. AI is expected to help network a wider variety of radars and missile batteries, and may enable the tracking of far more missiles than is possible today. Read more


One day after Islamophobe Laura Loomer posted videos on social media of children from Gaza arriving in the US for medical treatment and questioning how they got visas, the State Department said it was halting all visitor visas for people from Gaza pending a review. The vastly underqualified USSECSTATE Marco Rubio, a vapid empty suit, said the action came after "outreach from multiple congressional offices asking questions about it." Loomer called the medical treatment of crippled and maimed children from Gaza a "national security threat." She asked who signed off on the visas and demanded the person be fired. Loomer tagged Rubio, Dummkopf Trumpf, JD Vance, GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Read more


Sunday, August 17, 2025

Psychopathic puppy-killing freeloader Kristi Noem announces that 1.6 million illegal immigrants left the US. And here are three recent horrendous ICE incidents:

  • ICE thugs deploy taser against helpless deliveryman in Wash DC: Tasered DC Victim.
  • ICE goons detains seven-year-old NYC girl and sends her and mother to Texas gulag; brother to NJ concentration camp: Seven Year Old NYC Victim.
  • ICE Brownshirts open fire on family in truck in San Bernardino: Attempted Murder in California. Read more


    Prison officials may have cleared Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell to leave prison on work release assignments " a privilege experts say authorities virtually never grant convicted sex offenders. Maxwell currently serves a 20-year federal sentence for sex trafficking minors. Maxwell's Bureau of Prisons classification now lists her custody status as "OUT," indicating she can work outside the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas with minimal supervision. The development comes just weeks after the convicted child trafficker spent nine hours over two days providing information to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as part of what sources describe as a cooperation agreement. Read more


    Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that "we're not at the precipice" of a peace agreement after President Trump's Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin ended without a deal on Russia's war in Ukraine.


    Despite Trump's claim to have made "a lot of progress" and that the summit was a "10 out of 10," all signs point to a huge win for the Russian autocrat. And by the end of their meeting, Trump had offered a massive concession ...


    The IDF recently killed another a prominent Palestinian footballer forcing the head of European football's governing body to address the hypocritical policy of banning Russia but not Israel. "This is a legitimate question," Alexander Ceferin replied: "In principle, I do not support banning athletes from participating in competitions. In the case of Russia, the athletes have not been participating for three-and-a-half years and the war has only worsened. I know that many of the athletes oppose the regime, but they still cannot play. I am against being denied the right to participate in our competitions. Israel is allowed to play in our facilities. This is our decision as of now," Ceferin said. "It's hard for me to say what will happen in the future, but I really think that all athletes should be given the opportunity to compete. The rest of the things should be resolved in other ways." Read more


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