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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

ICE is threatening to deport the wife of a Marine Corps veteran who was still breastfeeding their youngest child, according to reports. Paola Clouatre, 25, of Baton Rouge in Louisiana, was brought to the U.S. from Mexico by her mother to seek asylum while she was still a child, her husband Adrian Clouatre told the Associated Press. But when Paola attended a green card appointment with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on May 27, she was detained by ICE over a seven-year-old deportation order that Adrian claims she had only recently found out about. "I'm all for get the criminals out of the country,' right? But the people that are here working hard, especially the ones married to Americans " I mean, that's always been a way to secure a green card," Adrian told the AP.


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Israel said at least three people had been killed in Iranian attacks Tuesday morning, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the two Middle Eastern countries had agreed to a "complete and total ceasefire." Israel's Magen David Adom rescue services said at least eight more people were injured in the early morning barrage. At least one person is believed trapped in the rubble and a residential building in Israel's south sustained heavy damage, according to emergency services.


Monday, June 23, 2025

Tesla's long-awaited robotaxis rolled out for the first time on roads in Austin, Texas on Sunday. In videos shared by Tesla on X, a small group of invited analysts, influencers and shareholders were shown participating in paid rides. The small number of vehicles deployed had a human safety operator in the passenger seat, according to reports. Read more


Journalist Ken Klippenstein has drawn attention to an overlooked remark made by State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce last month saying that the United States is "the greatest country on earth, next to Israel." "The pride of being able to be here and do work that facilitates making things better for people and in the greatest country on Earth, next to Israel," Bruce told Jewish News Syndicate. "It's an honor to be able to make a difference and to be able to speak in this regard with an administration that I love so much and that I feel genuinely represented by." It's like this administration is doing everything it can to vindicate those who accuse it of being Israel First instead of America First.


We have a new covfefe. President Donald Trump managed to spell his own name incorrectly on his Truth Social account on Sunday. In a message celebrating the return of the B-2 pilots from Iran and thanking them for their service, Trump signed off DONAKD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! Clearly tired and emotional after hours of posting online"including a 328-word essay eviscerating rogue Republican Thomas Massie"the presidential finger got the neighboring L' and K' keys mixed up in the post-bombing excitement.


A Republican member of South Carolina's state house who prosecutors say used the screen name "joebidennnn69" has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing sexual abuse material involving children. RJ May was arrested at his Lexington county home after a lengthy investigation and was ordered on Thursday by a federal judge to remain jailed until his trial. The three-term Republican is accused of using "joebidennnn69" to exchange 220 files of toddlers and young children involved in sex acts on the Kik social media network for about five days in spring 2024, according to court documents that graphically detailed the videos. During that timeframe, Joe Biden was in the final year of his presidency before May's fellow Republican Donald Trump won the November 2024 election to return to the White House in January. Read more


Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is angry and wants President Donald Trump to bomb Mexico, not Iran, she griped on social media: Twitter. "I don't know anyone in America who has been the victim of a crime or killed by Iran," she complained. "America has not dropped bunker busters on the Cartel's sophisticated drug tunnels, launched tomahawks on massive cartel poisonous drug operations, or gone to war against the cartels [sic] international terrorists [sic] networks." "American troops have been killed and forever torn apart physically and mentally for regime change, foreign wars, and for military industrial base profits. I'm sick of it." Greene insisted she did not want to "fight or fund nuclear armed Israel's wars that they started." Read more


Iranian authorities have detained a European national on accusations of "spying on sensitive areas of the country." The individual's nationality has not yet been confirmed. The alleged spy was arrested while cycling through a restricted security zone in Markazi Province. Iran's Revolutionary Guard has arrested 22 people in the city of Qom, accusing them of spying for Israel. Map: Iran. Since Israel's unprovoked surprise attack on Iran, 13 people have been executed as spies. In recent years, seven French citizens have been detained by Iranian authorities, with two still being held in custody. French President Emmanuel Macron said he had spoken with his Iranian counterpart by phone, demanding the immediate release of the two remaining detainees. Nota Bene: Emmanuel Macron promised to recognize the State of Palestine which he still has yet to do. Read more


Sunday, June 22, 2025

Apparently having an abortion at 5 weeks is fine with Republicans but after 6 weeks it's unspeakably evil Read more


The Iranian parliament backed a measure to close the critical shipping route in response to U.S. airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran, state media reported


By delivering an HIV vaccine candidate along with two adjuvants, researchers showed they could generate many more HIV-targeting B cells in mice.


Over 1,500 Iranian nationals who illegally entered the U.S. at the southern border were arrested during the Biden administration, and nearly 50% of them were released back into the country, according to a senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) source. More specifically, Border Patrol agents arrested 1,504 Iranian nationals from fiscal year 2021 through fiscal year 2024. Of the 1,504 individuals who were arrested, 729 were released into the U.S.


The United States is requesting [PDF] a month-long extension to the deadline for its final decision regarding an appeal against a judge's ruling that obtaining tower dumps is unconstitutional. The term "tower dump" refers to law enforcement obtaining records from cell towers, specifically related to individuals' locations and connection times, via warrants.


51 dead and 104 injured Muslims were taken to the few functioning hospitals in Gaza over the past 24 hours. This casualty count seems to be below average for the highly murderous IDF. The death toll in the Gaza Strip is now 55,959, the majority of whom are children and women. Since the start of Israel's Nakba against the Palestinian people on 7 Oct 2023, 131,242 Arabs have also been wounded or maimed. After AIPAC-funded US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) green-lighted the horrendous GOP budget in March 2025 which released billions of American taxpayer dollars to Israel, the IDF resumed its killing spree, resulting in 5,647 Arabs dead and 19,201 maimed since 18 March 2025. Read more


Addressing the nation from the White House on Saturday night, President Donald Trump, praised God and the U.S. military as he spoke about the American airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites. Standing at a podium flanked by JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Pete Hesgeth, Trump thanked the armed forces and made a pointed appeal to faith. "And I want to just thank everybody, and in particular, God," Trump said. "I want to just say we love you, God, and we love our great military. Protect them."


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