The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda on Friday signed a peace deal facilitated by the U.S ... read more
We don't have s" under control," a Los Angeles Police Department commander told me on Sunday. "It's a godsend that the National Guard and the Marines are here." Officers on the street felt the same way, though the LAPD forbids them to express that view in public, the commander said. There are two different pictures of what happened in Los Angeles"the official one from California's elected leaders and the media, and the ground-level view from law enforcement. On Saturday"a week after President Trump activated the National Guard and six days after Gov. Gavin Newsom told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that local law enforcement officers were "sufficient to maintain order""a crowd broke into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center downtown to liberate the detainees ...
Navy Secretary John Phelan took to social media Wednesday evening to announce that the Navy had reached its enlistment goal for fiscal 2025. The Navy met its goal three months ahead of schedule, recruiting 40,600 sailors, according to a post on X.
In light of the Los Angeles riots, certain corporate propagandists are pushing a sympathetic fiction that it was the Biden administration making mistakes and bungling its way through border and immigration policy that got us to this stage. They're painting a picture of well-meaning Democrats caught in a political riptide " clumsy, unprepared, overwhelmed, a bit nave but well-meaning. Of course, this narrative is nothing more than a Big Lie, an effort to use corporate media's reach to rewrite history in real time in hopes that the American electorate will forget the facts and history. Because what we are witnessing in Los Angeles, and what we saw at our southern border for the last four years before Trump won reelection, is not a mistake. It was a deliberate act of malicious political engineering intended to dramatically reset our nation's political and social agenda. We need to stop pretending otherwise
California Sen. Alex Padilla is getting plenty of mileage out of his scuffle with the Secret Service and federal authorities in Los Angeles Thursday. Padilla's Senate and campaign X.com accounts posted a total of seven outraged videos in the first 24 hours after the altercation. Viral videos of the incident show a Secret Service agent dragging a fuming Padilla out of a press conference with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and he identifies himself as a senator only as he's being pushed out the door. The agent then forces Padilla to the ground, while two agents handcuff him. Padilla, however, wasn't arrested. Within the hour, agents released him with no charges
" Is it wrong for good people to disagree with their government?"
Of course not. But that is t what the poll that Fetterman cited was about.