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While students stand tall against anti-Semitism, where are “the adults in the room?”

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WHERE ARE THE VOICES AND FACES AGAINST ANTI-JEWISH MOB RULE?

WHERE ARE THE CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS AGAINST ANTI-JEWISH MOB RULE?

WHERE ARE THE LIBERALS AGAINST ANTI-JEWISH MOB RULE IN LIBERAL NYC AND NY STATE?

WHERE ARE THE ADULTS WHO COMPREHEND THAT MOB RULE WILL RULE THEIR GATED NEIGHBORHHODS AND THEIR “PROTECTED FAMILIES”?

WHERE ARE THE ELECTED LEADERS WHO REMEMBER HISTORY’S LESSONS ABOUT MOB RULE THAT KILLED THEIR OWN LEADERS?

All New Yorkers must stand up against the antisemites — Including the Mayor

By New York Post Editorial Board

With an antisemitic flag hoist above an NYU celebration and pro-Hamas mobs besieging synagogues and marching through Jewish neighborhoods screaming “Zionism will fail!” and beating up Jews who cross their paths, what are New Yorkers of good will to do?

Not just Jews: They’re the target now, but the whole city needs to counter this venom.

Well, the whole city except for our mayor, since Zohran Mamdani keeps justifying the haters as “enforcing international law” or “protesting genocide” or whatever.

That’s why it’s hard to disagree with ex-Assemblyman Dov Hikind’s call to boycott the Jewish heritage event Mamdani’s hosting Monday at Gracie Mansion, urging Jewish leaders “to take a stand. Show pride. Have self respect.”

Meanwhile, the City Council and Legislature must step up to maximize protections against the haters who’ve weaponized the First Amendment.

The council needs to override Mamdani’s veto of Intro 175-B, a bill to allow — not require — the NYPD to establish protest buffer zones outside schools simply to ensure free entry and exit.

The mayor and his allies claim this would stifle civil liberties, but whose? Goons eager to surround schools and harass students and teachers?

State lawmakers, meanwhile, should back Gov. Kathy Hochul’s push for a law protecting all houses of worship with buffer zones that keep demonstrations back, reinforcing a city law (one Mamdani didn’t veto only because he knew he’d be overridden).

Genuine liberals need to start drawing a line against the “progressives” who justify violence — including attacks on law enforcement — in the name of protest.

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Speaker Mike Johnson Warns of ‘Mini Mamdanis’ Taking The Country ‘Far, Far Left’

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Members of the Marxist-Islamic left being elected to political office across the United States is a national security threat. The future does not bode well for America if this evil movement is not defeated.

WATCH: SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: “There are little Mamdanis popping up all across the country…openly avowed socialist Marxist ideology.”

Mike Johnson warns of ‘mini Mamdanis’ taking the country ‘far, far left’

By Washington Examiner, May 14th, 2026

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) raised the alarm about progressives similar to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani “popping up” in elections across the country as more left-leaning candidates gain momentum within the Democratic Party.

Johnson cautioned against the shift in an interview with Fox News released Wednesday, saying it is something that has “never [been] seen before in American history.”

“The way I describe it in summary is there are mini Mamdanis popping up all around the country,” Johnson said. “They’re openly about socialist, Marxist ideology.”

The speaker’s comments come as more progressive candidates across the country either win their primaries or gain more national attention, including Senate candidates Graham Platner in Maine and Abdul el Sayed in Michigan.

Johnson pushed back on critics who equate Democrats becoming more progressive with Republicans starting the Tea Party after former President Barack Obama was elected, arguing the change in the GOP was about “fiscal responsibility.”

“The Tea Party reset in the Republican Party was about fiscal responsibility,” Johnson said. “This is about moving away from a constitutional republic to a communist utopian ideology.”

“It’s a dangerous thing for the future of the country,” he added.

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Left Doesn’t Know a Fascist from their Butts

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The left is always calling conservatives including Republicans Fascists and Trump and others Hitler but wouldn’t know a Fascist if one bit them in their collectivist butts nor do they know their facts and history about Hitler who was a Socialist, like them.

‘We Are Socialists’

Mark Lewis

“We are socialists.” So said Adolf Hitler.

The Left desperately tries to portray Hitler as some sort of “rightist,” mainly because he was so opposed to Soviet Bolshevism. But just as there are different manifestations of “right-wing” philosophies, there are different “left-wing” ideologies as well. And socialism is a leftist philosophy, not a “rightist” one. “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” was the official name of Hitler’s political party (“Nazi” comes from the German word “Nationalsozialistische,” national socialist). Hitler was a totalitarian leftist, not a Christian, right-wing, pro-American, freedom-loving conservative.

Here is Hitler’s full quote:

“We are socialists. We are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system, the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being, according to wealth and to property instead of responsibility and performance. And we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”

Find me one word in that statement that a member of the modern American Democratic Party would disagree with, except they wouldn’t like the words “responsibility” and “performance.” Those aren’t in any leftist dictionary.

The Left, the Democrats, are socialists. Not Donald Trump, who is probably as much of a capitalist as anyone in the country. But…the Left lies.

And, indeed, I recently published an article in which I demonstrated that lying was a major component of leftist ideology. Yes, they lie, obviously, all the time, but “propaganda” might be an even better word for what they try to spread. And that brings me to Adolf Hitler’s number one propagandist/liar, Joseph Goebbels.

Goebbels pushed Nazism as hard as anyone could, and he wrote about how he did it. Here are a few choice Goebbels quotes.

1. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

How many Americans actually believe the Left’s lie that Donald Trump is a Nazi, when, in reality, it is the Democrats who are the true socialist totalitarian party? In the same vein, Goebbels wrote, “If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.” Of course, it doesn’t really become the truth, but people believe it is. Or those who are naïve and inclined to believe what they want to.

Goebbels also said, “The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.” Almost comical. “Surely that has to be true. Nobody would tell, or believe that big a lie.” Well, yes, Democrats tell lies like that all the time, and, yes, their sheep believe them. The bigger the lie, the more people who will believe it, said one of the master propagandists of human history.

2. “The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.”

The “rank and file” are the stupid masses, the naïve, the “primitives,” the “useful idiots,” the sheep who will believe anything their masters say. Goebbels said propaganda must be kept simple so those brainwashed masses can understand it, and repeated often enough so that the “big lie” will sink into unthinking brains. Goebbels’ words are a masterful description of what the Democratic Party is doing in America today.

3.  “Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.”

Make sure these sheep think they are “acting on their own free will.” How many Democratic Party faithful would admit they are really being programmed by master propagandists, being led by the nose to their own slaughter?

And this sublime thought:

4. “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”

The Deep State brilliantly employs the corporate media, the “great keyboard on which government can play,” to get its message out to the “primitives” of America. Democrats want to control the government, so they must control the media. And, largely, they do. But, fortunately, not all of it. If the Democrats ever gain the totalitarian control of the government they crave, they’ll do what leftists Hitler, Stalin, and the CCP did (and do) and shut down any opposition. They tried that under Biden and had some success, but they won’t dominate everything until they obtain totalitarian power. The corporate media—and braindead RINOs—are trying their hardest to help them.

Because they believe their own lies, their own propaganda, the Left has become completely divorced from reality. They no longer think, speak, or behave rationally. Truth becomes fiction to them, and lies become the truth. Men can become women just by saying so, men can “marry” men and women can “marry” women, children can decide their own gender and be mutilated for life to achieve it, unborn babies aren’t human and can be killed at a mother’s whim, illegal aliens have the same rights as citizens—these chimerical fantasies are what happen when you lie long and hard enough, and begin to believe your own rhetoric. A person like that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction, normality and abnormality. Not surprisingly, it happened to Joseph Goebbels:

5. “The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.”

His last two sentences are certainly true: Christ is the embodiment of love, and Marx of hate. But his first statement shows how completely removed from reality he, and the Nazis (and the Democrats) were (are). He actually believed the Nazis were fighting on the side of Jesus. Hitler hated Christianity, or perhaps, thought he could determine what true Christianity is. Just like modern Democrats in America do. They can find all sorts of ingenious concoctions to defend their godless ideals as something Jesus would approve of. It’s sickening, and it’s sad. It is, perhaps, their biggest lie of all.

Who are the real Nazis in America? Whose propaganda proves it?

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Did China Take ‘The Deal’

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By all appearances, China’s President Xi Jinpeng took the deal President Trump offered him in Beijing.

At their joint press conference on Thursday, President Trump said that he and Xi were “united” when it came to Iran: no nukes, open the Strait of Hormuz without Iranian blackmail, and no Chinese weapons sales.

And while President Trump said before the summit he didn’t need Chinese help with Iran, after their initial meeting he told Sean Hannity that China will help “in any way it can.”

If all of this comes true, it is very bad news for Tehran.

Trump offered China a choice: enjoy your new status as the G2 with the United States, along with a $400 billion trade relationship that will continue to expand; or enjoy your missile sales to Iran and your dependence on Iranian oil.

The Iranians just watched as their biggest ally went over to the enemy.

The United States has a long history of playing the Chinese against the Russians, starting with Nixon’s famous trip to China in 1972.

Trump never made the same type of effusive statements with Putin during his first term, before the Ukraine war. Nor did he travel to meet Putin with a plane-load of US corporate CEOs.

A $400 billion trade relationship with Russia? Russian corporate investment in the United States? Are you kidding? All they have to sell are weapons and oil. And while they would love to get their hands on our high tech, why in the world would we sell it to them or allow them to invest in our companies?

Trump is not a China hawk. But neither is he a China appeaser.

On Taiwan, he was extremely cautious. He said he understood how strongly Xi felt about Taiwan and how much they wanted it back, but that he felt Xi didn’t want to go war to achieve that. He also told reporters on Air Force One that America didn’t need a war “9500 miles” from home.

When asked whether he had discussed a pending arms sales to Taiwan with Xi, Trump said Xi had raised the subject and yes, they had discussed it.

That prompted New York Times reporter David Sanger, whom Trump called the “fake news” and even “treasonous” for his false reporting on the extent of Iran’s surviving missile capabilities, to ask him if that meant he was revoking President Reagan’s 1982 pledge not to consult with the PRC on arms sales to Taiwan.

“1982?” Trump said. “That’s quite a long time ago.”

The 1982 pledge was part of the so-called “Six Assurances” that allowed the Reagan administration to expand relations with China while not throwing Taiwan under the bus.

All six were expressed as negatives. “We have not agreed to prior consultations on arms sales to Taiwan,” reads one. “We have not agreed to take any position regarding sovereignty over Taiwan,” reads another.

President Trump made clear he was not taking any position over Taiwan’s sovereignty, and pointedly would not tell Xi, when asked, whether the United States would defend Taiwan if China invaded.

But I can just about guarantee you that the New York Times will blast him for throwing Taiwan under the bus because he discussed the pending arms sale to Taiwan with President Xi.

Let’s recall that Bill Clinton was a China hawk when he ran for president against George H.W. Bush in 1992. Indeed, I helped draft a speech for the campaign that blasted the elder Bush for “cozying up to dictators from Baghdad to Beijing.”

But he soon turned into a China appeaser, once emissaries from Chinese military intelligence, working through the Lippo Group in Indonesia, bailed out his bankrupt campaign in October 1992 by handing over a briefcase containing $3 million in cash during a famous limo ride.

In the early months of his first term, Clinton put into motion the “China Plan” drafted by three relatively obscure academics in a 1992 National Academy of Sciences study. (The authors were William Perry, who went on to become Clinton’s Defense Secretary, Ashton Carter, who succeeded Perry as SecDef, and Mitchel Wallerstein, who was put in charge of the Pentagon’s export control office.)

The plan called export controls a “wasting asset” and called for removing them for China. Bill Clinton added the sauce: millions of secret campaign cash from Communist China and their cutouts. (I wrote about this extensively in the American Spectator in the 1990s and in a 2000 book, Selling Out America).

Among the sales that allowed China to leap-frog its way to building 5th generation stealth fighter jets were the advanced machine tools used in the B-1 bomber plant in Columbus, Ohio. I was fired from Time Magazine in July 1994 for reporting on that.

But President Trump is no China appeaser as Clinton was. He gave the Chinese very little during this trip. For example, he made no commitment to Xi that he would remove Chinese companies from US sanctions for buying Iranian oil, or that he would allow Chinese ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz.

The proof of the pudding will be if the Chinese stop supplying Iran with drone parts and sodium perchlorate, an oxydizer used to make solid rocket fuel.

During Epic Fury, four cargos of Chinese sodium perchlorate reached Iran, while China airlifted other weapons to Tehran once the ceasefire kicked in.

If they stop these sales, Trump will be pleased and good things will happen. If they don’t, you can expect Chinese ships to remain blocked in the Persian Gulf or intercepted by the US blockade.

I discuss the Beijing summit, Trump’s growing frustration with Iran, and Russia’s latest ICBM, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.
 
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“PARTNERS NOT RIVALS”: Trump and Xi Toast Great Friendship in Beijing, High Stakes Trade Talks, Taiwan Threat Looms

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President Xi welcomed President Trump with unprecedented pomp-filled ceremony in Beijing. Huge respect.

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a high-stakes summit in Beijing focused on trade, Iran, Taiwan, energy security, and stabilizing U.S.-China relations. Both leaders publicly praised the importance of the relationship, agreed Iran must not obtain nuclear weapons, and emphasized keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. Xi even offered to help facilitate stability in the region.

Trump pushed for expanded U.S. market access, more Chinese purchases of American goods, and cooperation on fentanyl trafficking, while also inviting Xi to visit the White House in September. The visit included major ceremony and business delegations featuring top American CEOs.

At the same time, tensions remained beneath the diplomacy. China warned that Taiwan is the “most important issue” in U.S.-China relations and said mishandling it could lead to “clashes and even conflicts.” Xi stressed that China and the U.S. should be “partners rather than rivals,” while Trump repeatedly described the talks as “great” and predicted a “fantastic future together.”

FOX Updates:

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping both laud the importance of the U.S.-China relationship during a state banquet on the second day of Trump’s high-stakes China visit.

During Trump’s speech, he invited Xi to visit the White House on September 24.

Trump and Xi sat down for two-and-a-half hours before the banquet, discussing oil, the war in Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, increasing U.S. access to Chinese markets and halting the flow of fentanyl precursors to the U.S., according to a White House readout of the bilateral meeting.

The two sides agreed that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and that the Strait of Hormuz must remain open, according to the White House

A Chinese spokesperson said Xi warned Trump that if the Taiwan issue is not “handled properly,” the two countries “will have clashes and even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy.”

Trump and Xi are expected to sit again for a bilateral tea meeting at 11:40 a.m. Friday local time (11:40 p.m. Thursday ET).

What Xi wants from Trump as Beijing seeks leverage in high-stakes summit

President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a moment when both Washington and Beijing are trying to stabilize one of the world’s most consequential rivalries without giving ground on deeper strategic disputes.

The two-day visit marks Trump’s first trip to China since 2017 and comes amid mounting tensions over trade, artificial intelligence, Taiwan and the fallout from the war with Iran. While the White House is framing the summit as an opportunity for new economic agreements and “rebalancing” the U.S.–China relationship, analysts say Beijing’s priorities are far broader and more long-term.”

Trump arrives seeking headline deals and visible momentum ahead of the midterms,” wrote Zongyuan Zoe Liu, senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. “Xi is playing a longer game, focused on strategic patience rather than substantive compromise.”

Xi offered to help open Strait of Hormuz, Trump tells Hannity

President Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an exclusive interview that Chinese leader Xi Jinping offered to assist with ensuring navigation through the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. and Iran so far have yet to reach a definitive deal to end the war.

“President Xi would like to see a deal made. He would like to see a deal made. And he did offer, he said ‘if I can be of any help at all, I would like to be of help,’” Trump told Hannity.

“Look, anybody that buys that much oil has obviously got some kind of relationship with them, but he said ‘I would love to be of help, if I can be of any help whatsoever.’ He’d like to see the Hormuz Strait open,” Trump said.

Trump invites Xi to the White House in September as Chinese leader’s last visit dates back to Obama

Addressing a state dinner in Beijing, President Donald Trump invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Madam Peng to visit the White House on September 24.

Xi was last at the White House in September 2015, during a state visit hosted by President Barack Obama. That remains his most recent White House visit as China’s leader.

Xi was last in the United States in November 2023, when he traveled to San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). During that visit, he met with then-President Joe Biden on the summit sidelines.

Before his visit to Beijing this week, Trump last met with Xi in person during the APEC summit in October 2025 in South Korea. During his first term, Trump hosted Xi at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in April 2017 and met with him several other times outside the U.S. in Beijing, Argentina and Japan.

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Trump toasts to ‘rich and enduring ties’ between US and China

President Donald Trump toasted the strong relationship between the U.S. and China, calling it “one of the most consequential relationships in world history,” during a Thursday speech at a state banquet in Beijing.

“From the beginning, our citizens have shared a deep sense of mutual respect. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin published The Sayings of Confucius in his colonial newspaper and today a sculpture recognizing that ancient Chinese sage is carved into the face of the United States Supreme Court very proudly,” Trump said.

He continued to tout the two countries’ ties, highlighting Chinese immigrants’ labor on U.S. railroads and the modern day Chinese population’s love of American exports like basketball and blue jeans.

“Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast food chains in the United States all combined. And that’s a pretty big statement,” Trump continued.

“This bond of commerce and respect that stretches back 250 years is the foundation for a future that benefits both of our nations. The American and Chinese people share much in common. We value hard work. We value courage and achievement. We love our families, and we love our countries. Together, we have the chance to draw on these values, to create a future of greater prosperity, cooperation and happiness and peace for our children. We love our children. This region and the world is a special world with the two of us united and together,” Trump said.

“And I’d now like to raise a glass and propose a toast to the rich and enduring ties between the American and Chinese people. It’s a very special relationship, and I want to thank you again. This has been an amazing period of time. Thank you, President Xi,” Trump concluded.

Xi Jinping touts US-China as ‘the most important bilateral relationship in the world’ during banquet

Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed the U.S.-China relationship as “the most important bilateral relationship in the world” during a toast at a state dinner with President Donald Trump and an American delegation in Beijing on Thursday.

“Today, President Trump and I had in-depth exchanges on China-U.S. relations and the international and regional dynamics. We both believe that the China-U.S. relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. We must make it work and never mess it up,” Xi said through a translator.

“Both China and the United States stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation. Our two countries should be partners rather than rivals. President Trump and I also agreed to build a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability to promote the steady, sound and sustainable development of China-U.S. relations and bring more peace, prosperity and progress to the world,” Xi said.

“Looking back at the course of China-U.S. relations, whether or not we could have mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation is the key to whether the relationship can advance steadily. The world today is changing and turbulent,” Xi continued. “China-U.S. relations concern the well-being of the over 1.7 billion people of both countries and affect the interests of the over 8 billion people of the world. Both sides should rise up to this historic responsibility and steer the giant ship of China-U.S. relations forward steadily and in the right direction.”

“Now, please join me in a toast to the development and prosperity of China and the United States, and the well-being of our people, to the bright future of China-U.S. relations and the friendship between the two peoples, and to the health of President Trump and all the friends present. Cheers,” the Chinese president concluded.

US readout of Trump-Xi meeting leaves out Taiwan issue, while China’s version gives stark warning

A White House readout of the subjects discussed during the Thursday bilateral meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping did not include any information about Taiwan.

The readout, posted to the White House’s X account, detailed a number of subjects the two world leaders discussed but did not mention the controversial Taiwan subject.

China’s version of the readout, however, included the Taiwan issue, with a spokesperson writing in an X post that “President Xi Stressed to President Trump that the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-U.S. relations. If it is handled properly, the bilateral relationship will enjoy overall stability. Otherwise the two countries will have clashes and even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy.”

“‘Taiwan independence’ and cross-Strait peace are as irreconcilable as fire and water. Safeguarding peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait is the biggest common denominator between China and the U.S.” China’s statement concluded.

Before Trump departed for the state visit, reporters asked him at the White House if the U.S. would continue selling arms to Taiwan.

“I’m going to have that discussion with President Xi. President Xi would like us not to, and I’ll have that discussion. That’s one of the many things I’ll be talking about,” Trump responded.

Foreign policy analysts have previously noted the unprecedented nature of the possibility that a U.S. president discussing Taiwan arms with China.

“I believe that no U.S. president has ever publicly stated that he is discussing arms sales to Taiwan with a Chinese leader. One of President Reagan’s Six Assurances was that the United States ‘has not agreed to consult with the PRC on arms sales to Taiwan,’ which is often interpreted as a promise not to do so,” foreign policy analyst Bonnie Glaser wrote in February.

In the lead up to the summit, Chinese state media has referred to Taiwan as “the first red line” in the bilateral meeting.

White House says Trump-Xi talks advanced trade, energy and Iran alignment

The White House said President Donald Trump had a “good meeting” with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, highlighting discussions on expanding economic cooperation and market access for U.S. businesses. According to a readout posted on X, the two sides also discussed increasing Chinese purchases of American agriculture and addressing fentanyl precursor flows into the United States.

Leaders agreed the Strait of Hormuz must remain open to ensure global energy flows, while Xi expressed opposition to its militarization and signaled interest in buying more U.S. oil. Both sides also agreed that Iran should not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.

Trump wraps Temple of Heaven tour following talks with Xi in Beijing

China’s President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on May 14, 2026. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via REUTERS)
President Donald Trump concluded his tour of the Temple of Heaven, a historic 15th-century site, following a round of talks early Thursday with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Trump returned to his hotel just after 1:55 p.m. local time and is not expected to appear publicly again until later Thursday evening, when he will attend a state banquet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Trump briefly responded to a question before the tour about how the meeting went, simply describing it as “great.”

Trump says meeting with Xi was ‘great’ after talks in Beijing
Trump says meeting with Xi was ‘great’ after talks in Beijing

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived at the Temple of Heaven, a historic 15th-century site, following a round of talks early Thursday.

The two leaders arrived just after 1 p.m. local time after departing the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

They are expected to tour the site.

When asked by a reporter how the meeting went, Trump briefly responded, “It was great.”

He did not respond to questions about Taiwan.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said following the meeting that Taiwan remains the “most important” issue in U.S.-China relations.

China says Taiwan is ‘most important’ issue in US ties after Trump-Xi talks

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said early Thursday that Taiwan remains the “most important” issue in U.S.-China relations following initial talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump.

“President Xi stressed to President Trump that the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-U.S. relations,” Mao said in a statement. “If it is handled properly, the bilateral relationship will enjoy overall stability. Otherwise, the two countries will have clashes and even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy.”

Mao added that “Taiwan independence” and “cross-Strait peace” are “as irreconcilable as fire and water.”

“Safeguarding peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait is the biggest common denominator between China and the U.S.,” she said.

China says US talks yielded ‘positive outcomes’ as Trump-Xi meeting begins

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning provided an update early Thursday following initial talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump.

“President Xi stressed to President Trump that facts have shown time and again that trade wars have no winner,” Mao said in a statement. “China-U.S. economic and trade ties are mutually beneficial and win-win in nature. Where disagreements and frictions exist, equal-footed consultation is the only right choice.”

“Our economic and trade teams produced generally balanced and positive outcomes,” the statement continued. “This is good news for the people of the two countries and the world. The two sides should jointly sustain the good momentum that we have worked hard to create.”

In a separate statement, Mao said Xi described the current international landscape as “fluid and turbulent.”

“The world has come to another crossroads,” Mao said. “Can China and the United States overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm of major-country relations? Can we meet global challenges together and provide greater stability for the world? Can we build a bright future together for our bilateral relations in the interest of the well-being of the two peoples and the future of humanity?”

“These are the questions vital to history, to the world, and to the people,” the statement added. “They are the questions of our times that the leaders of major countries need to answer together.”

Mao also reiterated that the two countries share common interests, noting that “success in one is an opportunity for the other, and a stable bilateral relationship is good for the world.”

“We should be partners, not rivals,” Mao added. “We should help each other succeed and prosper together, and find the right way for major countries to get along well with each other in the new era.”

China rolls out red carpet for Trump as Xi meeting tests trade, Taiwan tensions

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People on May 14, 2026 in Beijing, China. President Trump is meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing to address the Iran conflict, trade imbalances, and the Taiwan situation while establishing new bilateral boards for economic and AI oversight. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump was greeted with pomp and circumstance by the Chinese as he met China’s President Xi Jinping ahead of a high-stakes bilateral meeting between the two nations.

After arriving in his armored vehicle Thursday morning local time, Trump met with Xi in front of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in front of crowds of military personnel, dignitaries, music and children.

After shaking hands with the Chinese president, the pair introduced each other to their dignitaries and later stood beneath a ceremonial red-and-yellow canopy for a photo-op as the star-spangled banner and China’s national anthem played in the background.

“That was an honor like few I have ever seen before,” Trump said after they made their way into the Great Hall. “I think I was particularly impressed by those children. They were happy, they were beautiful. The military is obvious — it couldn’t be better — but those children were amazing, and they represent so much. And I know, I know, they represent so much to you.”

The ceremony marked the formal start of Trump’s high-stakes visit, with the pageantry outside the Great Hall giving way to a series of meetings expected to focus on trade, security and the broader effort to stabilize relations between Washington and Beijing.

During the opening ceremony, Trump walked around and admired the pomp and circumstance that included children waving flags and holding flowers.

The event included marching by Chinese soldiers and music from Chinese military bands.

This is an excerpt of an article by Fox News Digital’s Alec Schemmel.

Trump’s upbeat China message collides with deepening Beijing rivalry

President Donald Trump opened his high-stakes meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping by predicting a “fantastic future together” — striking an unusually warm tone as his administration pursues new trade and investment deals with Beijing.

“In fact, the longest relationship of our two countries that any president and president has had,” Trump said at the start of the bilateral meeting Thursday local time. “We’ve had a fantastic relationship. We’ve gotten along.”

“And whenever we had a problem, we worked that out very quickly,” he continued. “We’re going to have a fantastic future together.”

The comments came as Trump arrived in Beijing accompanied by a delegation of top American executives, underscoring the administration’s focus on economic dealmaking even as broader tensions between the two countries remain unresolved.

The delegation includes executives from major U.S. firms spanning aerospace, finance, technology and agriculture, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon.

White House officials said ahead of the trip that Americans should expect the president to “deliver more good deals,” with talks expected to include aerospace, agriculture and energy, as well as continued work on a proposed U.S.-China “Board of Trade” and “Board of Investment.”

A senior administration official said the potential trade framework under discussion could involve “double-digit billion” levels of commerce, along with possible purchase commitments from China in areas such as aircraft and agricultural products.

The emphasis on dealmaking comes after years of friction between Washington and Beijing over trade, technology and military competition.

This is an excerpt of an article by Fox News Digital’s Morgan Phillips.

Graham says Trump-Xi summit success depends on China’s actions

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said late Wednesday that the success of President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping will depend on China’s actions afterward.

“I’m going to judge this summit by what China does,” Graham said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “Xi could pick up the phone and end the Russia-Ukraine war. He could pick up the phone and end the Iran conflict, if he chose to.”

Graham said the “only thing China respects is strength.”

“So when this is over, if they’re still doing the same thing with Iran and Russia and we don’t punish China, we’ve made a mistake,” he said.

Graham reiterated that the goal of the summit is to get China to act “more normal.”

“The bottom line is, I want a good relationship with China, but if President Trump doesn’t make it clear to President Xi that your bad actions regarding Iran and Russia — fueling terrorism and a never-ending conflict — they need to change.”

“If they change, you’ll be rewarded,” he added. “If they don’t, you’ll be punished. If we don’t communicate that, then I think we’ll have failed to achieve the goal of this summit for me, which is to get China to be more normal.”

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Pamela Geller

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Israel to Sue New York Times for Defamation

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The just-published New York Times piece by Nicholas Kristof, accusing Israel of horrific crimes, including the sexual abuse of “Palestinians” in Israeli prisons, with victims said to include men, women, and children, and of “training dogs” to rape “Palestinians” as well, has quite properly enraged the government and the people of Israel. The Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in a Thursday, May 14 statement that Israel will take legal action against the Times over Kristof’s column.

More on this welcome news can be found here: “Israel to take legal action against ‘New York Times’ over claims of ‘dog rape’ of Palestinians,” by Shir Perets, Jerusalem Post, May 14, 2026:

Israel will take legal action against The New York Times over a column penned by Nicholas Kristof, which included allegations of serious sexual abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a Thursday statement.

The PMO, which referred to the accusation as “one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar instructed officials to begin preparing a defamation lawsuit against the publication.

“They defamed the soldiers of Israel and perpetuated a blood libel about rape, trying to create a false symmetry between the genocidal terrorists of Hamas and Israel’s valiant soldiers,” Netanyahu wrote on X/Twitter….

The planned lawsuit would focus on whether statements in the article crossed the legal threshold from opinion or criticism into actionable defamation. It was not immediately clear where the lawsuit would be filed, what damages would be sought, or whether Israeli state institutions or individual officials would be listed as plaintiffs.

On Wednesday, the New York Times issued a statement affirming its support for Kristof’s controversial op-ed, saying he “draws together on-the-record accounts and cites several analyses documenting the practice of sexual violence and abuse conducted by various parts of Israel’s security forces and settlers.”

His “deeply reported piece of opinion journalism starts with a proposition to readers: ‘Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape,’” the news outlet stated.

“The accounts of the 14 men and women he interviewed were corroborated with other witnesses, whenever possible, and with people the victims confided in – that includes family members and lawyers,” the outlet said.

Kristof’s sensationalist charges, including the charge that the IDF deliberately has trained dogs to “rape” “Palestinian” prisoners, has spread around the world, causing untold harm to Israel’s image. Kristof relied on “Palestinians” for this malignant misinformation, apparently unaware that “Palestinians” have a long history of lying, and he never bothered, prior to publication, to obtain a comment, and rebuttal, from Israel that he might at least have included in his piece; he might even have checked with canine trainers who, to a man, have now publicly spoken about the impossibility of training dogs to rape humans.

This isn’t the only part of Kristof’s hit piece that is blatantly false, but it is the most outrageous and unbelievable of his many outrageous and unbelievable claims. When Israel did respond to the piece, and denounced its wild fabrications, the NYT doubled down, claiming that it stood by Kristof’s piece, and by the “Palestinians” upon whose testimony he relied.

This was too much for the government of Israel to let pass with just a denunciation of the New York Times and Kristof. It knew his piece damages Israel’s reputation around the world, and not just among those who are always prepared to believe the worst of the Jewish state. That preposterous charge about that canine corps of doggy rapists, and other bizarre charges, too, which Kristof made, will now become the stuff of approving comments from Hamas, CAIR, the Iranian government, and of course wsuch people as Francesca Albanese, Roger Waters, Susan Sarandon, Rashida Tlaib, Wally Shawn, Zohran Mamdani, and others of that silly-sinister ilk, whose name, alas, is legion, will pick them up and repeat them.

Now the New York Times will be sued for defamation by the State of Israel. How much will it ask for? Let it be Trumpian in size — a billion dollars, or two, or more. How do you measure the cost of such lies being made and disseminated across the globe, to the reputation of the Jewish state? How many more attacks on Israelis or Jews will be the result of those baseless kristovian charges?

Israel thinks that the New York Times will rue the day it published Kristof’s hit piece, not because it will have come to its senses, morally — the New York Times long ago lost that sense when it comes to its reporting on Israel — but because having to pay a billion or two for having published Kristof’s calumny, which is a kind of updated version, applied to the Jewish state, of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, will be painful. Does anyone doubt that the State of Israel will be able to call on the best defamation lawyers in the world, no matter where the suit is brought?

But here is another question. Why should Israel limit itself to suing the Grey Lady? Shouldn’t the onlie begetter of this defamation, the egregious Nicholas Kristof, with his long history of anti-Israel animus, also be sued? Let his days be full of exhausting testimony, both his own and that of others, and of withering cross-examinations, as lawyers for the plaintiff make mincemeat of him, and when the verdict comes down, he who is morally bankrupt will now be personally bankrupt as well.

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Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley ripped for calling evictions an ‘act of violence’

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A House Democrat is facing backlash for comparing evictions to violence, despite appearing to benefit from rental income tied to her husband’s growing real estate portfolio. “Eviction is an act of violence,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., said in a video posted to social media Thursday. “And we have to do everything to prevent it.”. “It degrades the health of communities. There is great stigma associated with it,” she continued. “Housing is a human right.”
Pressley, a progressive lawmaker and member of the “Squad,” has long advocated for rent cancellation legislation and pushed for an eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic. She introduced legislation Wednesday that would prevent evictions from being factored into credit reporting and fund legal assistance for those at risk of eviction.

Her sales pitch is falling flat with supporters of free markets and conservatives. “Great. When can I move into your house for free?” journalist Brad Polumbo wrote in response to Pressley’s statement. “The only violence in this statement is what Ayanna Pressley is doing to the meaning of words and the English language,” conservative commentator Steve Guest added.

A spokesperson for Pressley emphasized the congresswoman’s perspective on evictions in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Evictions are destabilizing life events with devastating consequences for the physical, financial, and mental wellbeing of those being evicted, who are disproportionately women and families with young children,” the spokesperson said. Pressley, a four-term lawmaker, has previously faced charges of hypocrisy for pushing rent-relief policies while appearing to profit from her husband’s status as a landlord.

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Trump Lands in China

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White House: It will be Trump’s second meeting with President Xi in the US president’s second term.  The first was on October 30 last year at the APEC summit in South Korea. This is the first state visit to China by a U.S. president since Trump’s 2017 meeting.

He arrives at a time when the U.S. and China are competing for dominance in trade and technology as well as global influence.

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Last October, Xi and Trump met in South Korea and agreed to a truce in their trade war, with the US unwinding tariffs that had hit 145 per cent after Beijing squeezed the supply to the US of critical minerals needed to manufacture high-tech products.… Some US officials say both sides are now pursuing “strategic stability” to buy time to work on their weak spots — including rare earths for the US and semiconductors for China. But others have disparagingly dubbed it “strategic deference” on the part of the US, and worry that Washington is abrogating its role in securing the world order against growing authoritarianism led by Xi and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. American allies in Asia are especially anxious that Trump — who at that encounter with Xi in October described the Chinese president as “a friend of mine, really for a long time now” — might concede ground on regional security, especially on Taiwan, which Beijing regards as its territory. Trump has at times seemed ambivalent about Taiwan despite its importance to the US and its allies as a strategic bulwark in the western Pacific and its dominance of the advanced semiconductor industry (Financial Times).

President Trump and Elon Musk … reunited again. The president has personally invited the Tesla CEO, along with a powerful delegation of top American business leaders, including Apple’s Tim Cook and BlackRock’s Larry Fink, to join him on a high-stakes trip to China this week…. After months of distance following the 2024 election cycle, the high-profile reunion signals a renewed alliance as the Trump-Musk power duo prepares to negotiate major business deals and push for American interests. The band is back together again, albeit in a less dramatic capacity (RedState).

Joining the delegation are Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk of Tesla, Larry Fink, David Solomon, Jane Fraser, Stephen Schwarzman, Chuck Robbins, Cristiano Amon, and executives representing companies such as Boeing, Micron Technology, Visa, Mastercard, GE Aerospace, Cargill, and Meta Platforms.

The delegation spans nearly every major sector tied to the U.S.-China economic relationship, including semiconductors, AI infrastructure, consumer tech, banking, aerospace, payments, biotech, manufacturing, and agriculture.

The fact that so many CEOs are personally making the trip shows just how high the stakes remain for both sides.

NY Post: Despite the hype surrounding China’s artificial intelligence capabilities, progress remains heavily dependent on theft and smuggling. The Chinese Communist Party, meanwhile, is determined to maintain tight control. That has become increasingly clear ahead of this week’s Beijing summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.

Entourage of Tech Leaders to Join Trump on China Trip

Including, notably, Elon Musk.

The Chinese leader wants to lead the world in what he terms an “epoch-defining technology.” He appears confident that Trump, preoccupied by his war against Iran, has limited options to counter Beijing’s increasingly brazen activities.

Last month, the White House accused Beijing of “industrial-scale” theft of know-how from American AI labs. Meanwhile, US prosecutors claim to have busted an international smuggling ring that funneled advanced chips worth billions of dollars to China in defiance of sanctions.

The CCP is also stepping up efforts to protect China’s own AI innovation, blocking a $2 billion takeover by Meta of a Chinese AI start-up called Manus. For good measure, the authorities prevented Manus’ two founders from leaving the country.

Cheaper & faster

The accusations of theft refer to a process called “distillation,” whereby China is accused of illicitly training its smaller AI models on the output of larger (and expensively developed) US models.

A leaked internal memo written by Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said: “The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distill US frontier AI systems.”

Distillation involves the creation of thousands of fake accounts for the targeted AI chatbot or tool, with the accounts working together to extract information.

The US AI company Anthropic said it had detected 24,000 fraudulent accounts, which had generated more than 16 million exchanges with its powerful Claude chatbot. It accused leading Chinese labs of being behind the campaign in order to acquire powerful capabilities “in a fraction of the time, and at a fraction of the cost.”

The company also warned that “distilled” apps would carry none of the safeguards of the original against using AI for such activities as developing bioweapons or carrying out destructive cyberattacks and thereby “creating significant national security risks.”

Beijing also appears to have established an extensive and lavishly funded smuggling network to get around US restrictions on the sale of the top-end Nvidia chips used for training AI models.

In a series of indictments against Chinese nationals, federal prosecutors describe how servers containing “billions of dollars” of restricted chips were shipped to front companies in Southeast Asia before being repackaged and diverted to Hong Kong and mainland China.

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Pamela Geller

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WATCH: The Vienna Café that Refused to Boycott Israel at Eurovision

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The Vienna café that refused to boycott Israel at Eurovision. After most Vienna venues refused to host Israel’s Eurovision delegation, a non-Jewish Austrian couple opened their café as an unofficial Israeli embassy, declaring it a public stand against rising antisemitism in Europe.

As part of a local initiative in Austria, cafés were invited to host different Eurovision delegations. But when it came to Israel’s delegation, no café initially agreed to participate.

That’s when the local Jewish community stepped in — and Lisa and Johannes answered the call.

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How Did This Leftist Group Smuggle Its Divisive Ideas Into 169 School Districts, Without Parents Knowing?

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The Southern Poverty Law Center has spread its woke activist agenda in education to at least 169 school districts in 42 states, according to a new report, and the impact of teachers unions helps explain this expansive influence.

Learning for Justice, the SPLC’s education arm, promotes “social justice” activism, pushes racially divisive messaging, and advocates transgender ideology. The program, launched as “Teaching Tolerance” in the 1990s, dropped the emphasis on “tolerance” amid the Great Awokening in February 2021. Around that same time, the program removed its own impact statement from the website, which had previously bragged that “more than 500,000 educators” read its magazine, screened its films, visited its website, and used its curricula.

The parental rights group Defending Education exposed Learning for Justice’s broad influence in an exhaustive report Tuesday.

“Unbeknownst to parents, the Southern Poverty Law Center has been poisoning pupils’ minds around the country for years with its toxic curriculum,” Nicole Neily, the group’s president, told The Daily Signal. “SPLC lesson plans on issues such as queer theory, white privilege, and anti-racism have supplanted traditional coursework in history, social studies, and other core classes—teaching children to view themselves and others through the lens of identity politics, and that America is forever stained by its original sin.”

How did the SPLC spread its tentacles this far? America’s two largest teachers unions—the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers—help explain it, as does the American School Counselor Association.

“By promoting and integrating Learning for Justice content and standards into mental health programming and curricula, the teachers unions and ASCA are giving the far-left organization credibility,” Rhyen Staley, director of research at Defending Education, told The Daily Signal. “This is deeply troubling for a variety of reasons, especially since the SPLC has put parents on its ‘hate map’ for simply raising concerns with their local school districts.”

The SPLC gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy, but weaponized that history to smear conservatives and raise money. In 2023, it added Moms for Liberty, Defending Education, and other parental rights groups to the “hate map,” placing them alongside Klan chapters and calling them part of “the infrastructure upholding white supremacy.”

Last month, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy charges for sending $3 million to KKK members. While the SPLC claimed it was paying “informants” to prevent violent attacks, the Justice Department says it was using donor cash to prop up the very “hate” it claims it exists to “dismantle.” The SPLC has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The SPLC enjoys undue influence in the media, in corporate America, and with a vast network of donors, so it stands to reason that Learning for Justice might achieve a broad impact. Even so, the boost from teachers unions and the American School Counselor Association can’t have hurt.

The Teachers Unions

The Defending Education report cites the National Education Association’s January 2021 “Racial Justice in Education” resource guide, which touts Teaching Tolerance as a “partner” and notes that the NEA partnered with Teaching Tolerance to “create a three-part webinar series” to help “address the climate issues.” The National Education Association claims 3 million members.

The association’s President Becky Pringle condemned the SPLC indictment.

“Civil rights organizations work to ensure we can live free from discrimination,” she wrote on Bluesky. “By indicting a group that fights bias and tracks extremists, Trump’s Department of Justice is abusing its power, making us less safe. They will stop at nothing to crush free speech and further hate.”

The National Education Association did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by publication time.

The American Federation of Teachers has promoted the SPLC program as far back as 2016, listing “Teaching Tolerance” as a resource on “school discipline.”

In a social media post, the federation’s President Randi Weingarten also condemned the indictment.

“It’s absurd but predictable [the SPLC] is being wrongfully targeted, an org that has documented hate & extremist groups for 50+ years,” she posted on Bluesky. She called the indictment “part of a coordinated attack on civil rights and an escalation of the campaign against those with whom this admin disagrees.”

The American Federation of Teachers has approximately 1.6 million members.

These unions, which have a well-documented leftist slant, enjoyed tremendous influence in the Biden administration.

The American Federation of Teachers did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by publication time.

The School Counselors

The Defending Education report also noted that the American School Counselor Association, which claimed in 2023 to have over 43,000 members across the country, incorporated the “Social Justice Standards” into its key documents.

The association modeled its Student Standards: Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success and Student Standards Crosswalk on the SPLC materials.

Neither the NEA nor the AFT nor the ASCA nor the SPLC responded to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by publication time.

The American School Counselor Association did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by publication time.

A Rising Movement

Moms and dads across the country are taking a stand against the SPLC.

Republicans in Maryland have openly condemned the state’s “implicit bias training” that incorporated Learning for Justice materials. Courage is a Habit has exposed ASCA’s reliance on the SPLC. Lake Havasu Unified School District in Arizona has rooted out an education resource that directed students to avoid the websites of SPLC-smeared “hate groups.”

Last week, Moms for Liberty leader Rosalind Hanson spoke out at Montgomery County Public Schools, condemning MCPS’ use of the Social Justice Standards.

This Defending Education report will hopefully inspire more moms and dads to ask school boards to stop relying on the SPLC. They may find my book, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” a resource in this effort.

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Tyler O’Neil

Tyler O’Neil is senior editor at the Daily Signal and the author of two books, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” Follow on X Tyler2ONeil.

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Trump Travels to China for Major Summit With Xi With Tech Titans in Tow

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The summit is big. Huge.

President Donald Trump is traveling to China alongside a CEO lineup that reads almost like a list of the most powerful companies in America.

The president is expected to pressure the Chinese president on Iran.

Financial Times: President Donald Trump will urge President Xi Jinping to curb China’s support for Iran when the leaders meet in Beijing this week. “I would expect the president to apply pressure,” a US official told reporters in a briefing. He said Trump would resume previous discussions with Xi about China’s support for Iran and Russia, including providing them with dual-use components and potential arms exports. “I expect that conversation to continue. I think you’ve seen some actions, meaning sanctions, coming out from the US side just in the last few days that I’m sure will be part of that conversation,” the official added.

The state department on Friday imposed sanctions on three Chinese satellite companies for providing imagery and other services to Iran that helped it conduct military strikes against US forces in the Middle East. The Treasury also sanctioned Yushita Shanghai International Trade for helping Iran import man-portable air-defensive systems [Manpads] from China…. Trump and Xi are meeting six months after reaching a one-year trade war truce at their summit in South Korea. The second official said it was unclear if they would extend the ceasefire in Beijing, or later. “I’m confident that we’ll announce any potential extension at the appropriate time,” he said.

Entourage of Tech Leaders to Join Trump on China Trip

Including, notably, Elon Musk.

RedState:  Rusty Weiss at RedState:  President Trump and Elon Musk … reunited again. The president has personally invited the Tesla CEO, along with a powerful delegation of top American business leaders, including Apple’s Tim Cook and BlackRock’s Larry Fink, to join him on a high-stakes trip to China this week…. After months of distance following the 2024 election cycle, the high-profile reunion signals a renewed alliance as the Trump-Musk power duo prepares to negotiate major business deals and push for American interests. The band is back together again, albeit in a less dramatic capacity.

Joining the delegation are Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk of Tesla, Larry Fink, David Solomon, Jane Fraser, Stephen Schwarzman, Chuck Robbins, Cristiano Amon, and executives representing companies such as Boeing, Micron Technology, Visa, Mastercard, GE Aerospace, Cargill, and Meta Platforms.

PJ Media: The delegation spans nearly every major sector tied to the U.S.-China economic relationship, including semiconductors, AI infrastructure, consumer tech, banking, aerospace, payments, biotech, manufacturing, and agriculture.

The fact that so many CEOs are personally making the trip shows just how high the stakes remain for both sides.

More from David Manney at PJ Media.

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Pamela Geller

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The Jew-Hatred Pandemic No Longer a Mystery

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No matter how bizarre or puzzling or impossibly complex crime scenes seemed to be, the detective Sherlock Holmes, accompanied by his friend Dr. John Watson — both fictional characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 1800s — never failed to solve them.

Using keen observation — actually noting teeny, tiny, sometimes microscopic details that eluded even the sleuths at Scotland Yard — as well as the forensic science of the day, Holmes astounded the experts and ultimately became one of the most popular figures in all of literature…to this day!

Holmes may lie in the realm of fiction, but every now and then, a real-life character comes along who reinforces the concept of exceptionalism, who demonstrates that there are still highly original thinkers among us who can shed light where only darkness once prevailed.

And that Would Be?

That would be Warren Kinsella, a native Canadian with an impressive résumé and a long list of accomplishments.  In this riveting interview, featured on Israpundit.org, he relates how in his experience in running political campaigns — and being the campaign manager for Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (1993–2003) — he instantly recognized that the virtual explosion of worldwide anti-Semitism after October 7, 2023 was significantly similar to…yes, political campaigns, in which those who run them are primarily concerned with (1) Volunteers, (2) Leadership, (3) Messaging, (4) Money, (5) Advertising, and (6) Social Media.

The campaign against Israel, Mr. Kinsella said, was “ready to go” and “kicked off” with 2,500 anti-Israel protests around the world — “even before Israel started to fight back!  They were using professional signs, professional organizers, a professional global campaign, and that’s hard to do, but they pulled it off.”

Additionally, Mr. Kinsella said that this pro-Hamas, anti-Israel campaign targeted young people who were more “susceptible to conspiracy theories, more susceptible to accept antisemitic tropes — the Holocaust didn’t happen, Jews control the world, et al. — all of that nonsense. Young people, unfortunately, in Canada and the U.S. and Europe, were much more willing to accept those types of lies.”

Mr. Kinsella explained that in this global eruption of Jew- and Israel-hatred, the campaign manager was Iran, Qatar was the banker, China and Russia acted as campaign co-chairs, Hamas and Hezb’allah were on the front lines, and also that “the alphabet soup of NGOs (non-governmental organizations), nonprofits, and charities pushing these hateful messages were ready to move … while October 7 was happening … which was either a hell of a coincidence, or they knew in advance what was going to happen.”

This is among hundreds of facts that he documents scrupulously in his new book, The Hidden Hand: The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda.

I remember watching the returns of the 2000 presidential election, when the Republican governor of Texas, George W. Bush, ran against the Democrat senator from Tennessee, Al Gore.  In the hotly contested race, the vote was so close that it ended up in the Supreme Court, which declared the recount dispute in favor of Gov. Bush and pronounced him the winner.

But what puzzled me at the time and raised some red flags in my mind was that the very next day, instantaneously it seemed, there appeared professionally produced protest signs and placards and enormous crowds of protesters — fueled by the efforts of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson — to fight the Supreme Court decision.

How could they produce those signs and all those people overnight? I wondered.

And that is not to omit Black Lives Matter, the Marxist terrorist group that rampaged across the U.S. in 2021 to protest the death of George Floyd and was responsible for about $2 billion in property damage, devastating arson, widespread theft, the injuries of more than 240 police officers and destruction of hundreds of police precincts, upward of 30 murders, and the defacement and vandalism of synagogues, at which they screamed “F— the Jews and Kill the Police.”  That BLM! The group that was magically able to mobilize huge crowds of like-minded thugs overnight!  How did they do that?

Oh, and you cannot make this up: While Black Lives Matter raked in $90 billion, guess what they did with some of that money!  They imitated the white people and the capitalists they claimed to detest — but actually envy with blazing green-eyed jealousy — by purchasing a $6-million-dollar mansion in lily-white Belair, one of the toniest residential enclaves of California.

Even before that, the same questions occurred to me when the protesters from Antifa — the so-called anti-fascist group — so reviled the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016 that they decided to storm through America, committing unspeakably violent crimes.  And then we learned that on various street corners, there were neatly piled mounds of bricks, placed strategically so that they had plenty of ammunition to hurl these missiles through the windows of various businesses, thereby telling the world of their hatred of our electoral system and of capitalism.

Where did those brick piles come from? I wondered.

The Money Angle

Many of these seditious and, I think, treasonous organization are funded by none other than white, leftist, America-hating — and envious — billionaires.

According to writer Vanessa Berg, “most people who participate in anti-Jewish discourse do not wake up thinking, ‘How can I be antisemitic today?’  That’s not how systems work.  They respond to incentives.  Today, hostility toward Jews is not just expressed; it is incentivized — not everywhere, not by everyone — but enough to matter, enough to shape behavior, enough to create a system in which attacking Jews … can be profitable.”

“In previous eras,” Berg continues, “antisemitism spread through institutions like churches, governments, and political movements.  Today, it spreads through markets: attention markets, media markets, political markets.  That shift matters because markets don’t ask whether something is true or just.  They ask whether it works.  And right now, in too many cases, attacking Jews works.”

Words

After the catastrophic terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, when 1,200 Jewish men, women, children, and infants were savagely set on fire, raped, violently tortured, and then murdered, and 251 were taken hostage — also to be tortured and raped in the elaborate tunnels the terrorists constructed underground, with the help of massive international donations of money — untold numbers of passionate pro-Israel commentators and journalists throughout the world expended multimillions of words in Israel’s defense.  Just to mention some of my own: here and here and here and here.

Many of these articles attempted to explain the international volcanic eruption of Jew- and Israel-hatred and the embrace of the terrorists by traditional American conservatives such as the execrable Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, as well as their incomprehensible, bizarre, and equally passionate support for the murderers, rapists, and torturers of Hamas — those ferocious genocidal terrorists who were acting on the mandates of not only their public statements over decades, but also their written charter and, of course, the non-negotiable dictates of their bosses and sponsors, the murderous mullahs in Iran.

I certainly missed many of these articles, but of the ones I read, none succeeded in explaining this “spontaneous” worldwide explosion of in-your-face racism, lawlessness, and deep hatred.

Except for…

Kinsella succeeds in spelling out the elaborate planning — indeed, orchestration — that has gone into the constant drumbeat of anti-Jew and anti-Israel demonstrations worldwide, of huge crowds blaming Israel for being attacked, of equally “spontaneous” demonstrations on campuses, on street corners, in major cities throughout the world, with demonstrators all decked out in keffiyehs and holding up professionally created placards, all condemning “genocidal” and “apartheid” Israel.

Not only that, but vicious videos like this, with so-called journalists like Megyn Kelly asking quite sneeringly, “Who are they?” — the Jews and Israelis, that is — and Israel-loathing obsessives like Carlson and Owens and Fuentes sharing their vomitus and bile with anyone who has the stomach to watch or listen, and to like-minded racists.

These kinds of demonstrations, Kinsella says, have been going on for years, actually for decades on end.

Indeed, recent headlines attest to this hatred’s pandemic nature.  Here is but a minuscule example:

Is There a Solution?

Author Kinsella suggests a number of strategies, all of which involve significantly more accountability and punishment than now exists for the purveyors of antisemitism.  Among them:

  • Defeating anonymity so that the thugs who wear masks and use fake names online are subject to new laws that level serious consequences.
  • Penalizing the haters to the full extent of the law instead of deporting the non-citizens or allowing turnstile so-called justice.
  • Targeting online antisemitism, including all the fake accounts, and using regulatory powers, including imprisonment.
  • Forcing social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, X, Instagram, and TikTok to be much stricter in moderating content or else facing serious consequences themselves.
  • Funding bias crime units, and if they don’t exist, creating them.

The Pushback

By the same benevolent mercy and justice described in the Hebrew Bible, God blessed Israel by vanquishing from history the immensely powerful empires that sought to extinguish the Jews — the Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Assyrians, et al., all of them extinct for centuries.

And when He observed the psychotic October 7 attack on his “chosen people” as so sinful, so craven, so immoral, so bestial, he sent President Donald J. Trump to aid our closest ally and to instruct a largely racist world about the difference between right and wrong and good and bad, and also what is worthy of defending and fighting for at this fraught time in world history.

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Soviet Fascism: Worldwide Threats and Threats from Within — Part II

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The ideology and system of Soviet Socialism have been born and established in 20th century Russia. That new ideology and system in Global politics was designed by Dictator—Comrade Stalin in the end of 1940s. Its first victory was the establishment of the system in North Korea 1948 and in China 1949. I am a former Soviet attorney, who loves America and writes about Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism. In my last column Soviet Fascism: Worldwide Threats and Threats from Within April 23, 2026., I described the cause of the chaos and violence in America due to her mistakes by ignoring the history of the 20th century. I also gave my analyses of the Soviet/Russian influence in Africa, presenting the story of one African country called Somalia and the Soviet fraud in America. Researching the history, I found a very interesting article describing the KGB’s operations in Africa.

From Khrushchev’s KGB to Putin: the deep roots of Russian influence in Africa

Spy games  Africa

“When Russian President Vladimir Putin develops his network of influence in Africa, he isn’t doing so at random. He is drawing on the rich history of Soviet relations with African countries that dates back to the 1960s and the efforts made by Russian spies during the Cold War to counter US influence on the ground.

Issued on: 18/07/2023 – 19:33Modified: 18/07/2023 – 23:08

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An illustration created using a photo of documents burned by the staff of the Soviet embassy in Leopoldville before leaving the premises after Joseph-Désiré Mobutu’s coup d’état. © Associated Press

1960 was a momentous year for what would soon become the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The country wrested independence from Belgium in June, installing its first democratically elected government. In September, power struggles led Joseph-Désiré Mobutu AKA Mobutu Sese Seko, secretary of state at the time, to carry out his first military coup. And a few months later, Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was assassinated.

This rapid succession of events marked a pivotal year in history, but not just for emancipation rights in Africa. Some 11,000 kilometers east of Kinshasa, in Russia, the Kremlin’s foreign policy took a new turn amid the crisis that gripped the Belgian Congo. Alexander Shelepin, head of the KGB at the time, realized there were barely any Russian spies south of the Sahara Desert. There was a solid base of secret agents in Egypt, a few scattered across the Maghreb and some with ties to the local Communist Party were stationed in South Africa.”

It is for a reason​, in my writings I made the KGB the main subject—I knew the dirty game of this agency spying globally and I was sure: they would come to America. And they did. Don’t ask what happened with the Dems party, which has an Anti-American policy and is enraged by American success in Iran. They are fighting Republicans and every Trump’s steps. My numerous columns are telling you about the KGB infiltration into the Dems party in detail. I was giving you names of the traitors, and there are thousands if not millions of them. It took many years since the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, who loved America and drove pro-American policy. By the way, all assassinated people in America at the beginning of the 1960s had been the Democrats! It has been a coordinated attack on Democrats, which probably, affected their psychic

This is the time to remind you of my definition of WWIII made decades ago. WWIII: Recruitment and infiltration, drugs and assassinations. It is very important to remember that definition, because it totally describes the constant actions of the KGB”s Mafia/Army and elements of its mission, executing WWIII. The KGB’s Mafia/Army-the Evil Doer is my primary topic I have been writing and reporting for decades—it grew from the simple KGB to the KGB’s Mafia/Army—Evil Doer. Remember the Evil Doer serves the entire Socialist/Communist criminal cabal—Russia, North Korea, China and Iran. In my opinion that aggressive force infiltrated the Democrat party and dictated its anti-American stand. I have been warning people about the KGB’s Mafia/Army (my term) for forty years. I believe that the past influences and determines our presence and future and its knowledge is critical for success in our country. I suggest every politician, the Democrats and Republicans, to read this article to learn what America missed in the 20th century.

You see by yourself the drastic transformation of the Dems party—it has become an Anti-American party. The Dems excuse the inexcusable and undermined America’s foundation. The recent investigation of the Southern Poverty Law Center—SPLC proves it. The Justice Department has accused the self-styled civil rights nonprofit of using paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups and funneling money to extremist groups. I would say that it is only a tip of the iceberg. The Democrat party controls SPLC and I have been writing about it since 2017. Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a Governor of Virginia in cahoots with Andrew McCabe participated in Charlottesville’s neo-Nazis group. Republicans should study this connection and expose the Dems. Read my columns of 2017 and this one WARNING: Evil is Attacking America August 22, 2018.

The Democrat party was using Weaponization of hate. Biden’s team used weaponization of Law Enforcement, which weaponized the entire American government. But America doesn’t know that the entire idea of Weaponization came from Stalin’s ideology and system of Soviet Socialism. You will be surprised by the term Soviet Socialism, because some Republicans are telling you that Marxism is our enemy. This is a critical mistake, due that mistake the KGB’s Mafia/Army was taken out of the picture, as if it doesn’t exist. But the aggressive and brutal force exists throughout our nation and globally. We are paying a dear price for missing Russian history of the 20th century. So, Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism does exist. Marx had given to the European Industrial countries Marxist Theory, but none of those countries materialized the Theory. Read my column  WWIII: It  Is not Marxism, It Is Soviet Fascism  March 13, 2026.

Yes, Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism exists: it is a highly anti-Semitic, corrupt, abusive and violent system created by Stalin in the 20th century. It was Stalin who had married the system of Soviet Socialism with Islam—a brutal fusion, the World is fighting today. That brutal fusion of Soviet Fascism is hanging over the world. It had been spread globally and entered America in the 21st century. You saw it recently at May-Day events with Communist banner flying in America. Thousands protesters and agitators were gathering through our nation. What do you think who organized and funded those masses? Yes, the local Communist parties, Democratic Socialists, which means all Progressive Democrats and… the KGB’s Mafia/Army-the Evil Doer. This foreign force infiltrated the entire American Society, its Democratic Institutions, courts, business and educational system through the Democrat party. Read my column The Global Spy Ring February 27, 2026.

Putin’s Network of Influence in America

Do you remember “ Putin’s network of influence” in Afrika? The article presented above. The same network Putin has in America: Socialist/Communist cabal of Soviet Fascism managed by the KGB’s Mafia/Army—Evil Doer. That network has one goal—dismantling free market capitalism and implementing the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism. To grasp the parameters of that network just recall:

  • Protests Climate change (2016-present)
  • Anti-Israeli Protests (2017-present)
  • Protesters in 200 Colleges and Universities (2017-present)
  • Protests against I.C.E. (2024-present),
  •  Black Lives Matter (2013-present) – Advocating against systemic racism and police brutality.

​ ​I gave you only a few examples, but they all aimed at disrupting our unity and free market capitalism: they were all coordinated by the KGB’s Mafia/Army. There are individuals’ members of this network like George Soros and Bernie Sanders. Soros was colluded with Gestapo in Hungary and when the Soviets came, he was recruited by the KGB and sent to the London School of Economics to study. Sanders spent his Honeymoon in the Soviet Union, where he was recruited. Those two have been harming America for over thirty years with impunity. Because of the absence in the FBI and CIA professionals and specialized members, the experts in the Soviet/Russian Intelligent Apparatus, which infiltrated them for over thirty years. You see the result in 2026.

​The current Director of the FBI Kash Patel thinks he knows the underground forces weakening us. I doubt it. The upcoming Mayoral election in California brings a lot of discussions on the Palisades’ wildfire. In my opinion, the Palisades wildfire was prepared and planned by the KGB’s Mafia/Army. Do you remember the picture of burning Tesla’s cars? ” Mar 21, 2025 Protesters are targeting the company’s showrooms and vehicles with increasingly violent actions.” You can see the sad images of 4-6 cars burned by arsonists. Arson and Molotov cocktails are the Red Flag of the Evil Doer. Despite the arrest of the arsonist in the Palisades’ case, it is only a tip of the iceberg. Karen Rass, mayor of Los Angeles, has committed sabotage, if not organized the entire crime. Pratt is a breath of fresh air in corrupt Democrats’ California riddle with fraud. He is right hammering Rass; she is actually even more dangerous. Read my column: Putin’s Socialist Revolution in America, February 4, 2026.

​Many Dems consider themselves Socialists and  embracing Soviet Socialism, one of them Kamala Harris, she endorsed Rass. Unfortunately, America doesn’t know Soviet Socialism and can’t recognize it as the enemy of the American republic. The World has only one Socialism—Soviet Socialism. Europe has never materialized Marxist Theory, in fact, none of the European countries accepted Marxist Theory. We only have the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism. Look at my story. My Communist husband didn’t want to emigrate; I was forced to divorce him. To take my children with me, I left all my property to him to get his permeation. This was the law of Soviet Fascism and the same I see in America. Do you know that 66% of Dems have ended relationships over politics? This is the best evidence of Soviet Fascism within the Democrats party. But there are many others.

​The Socialist/Communist cabal and “network of influence” are working together under supervision of the Evil Doer preparing new cadres of Soviet Fascism in America. The Democrat party beside Kare Rass, have Mamdani, Katie Wilson, and Governor Abigail Spanberger of Virginia. Watch them! Those new cadres of communists will be able to demolish our Constitutional Republic every day with big smiles on their faces. The Dems also have new cadres of Stalin’s brutal fusion. Hasan Piker is an extreme communist political commentator, a Muslim, brought up in Turkey. His parents prepared him to be a political activist, like Mamdani’s parents did. Both families came from the countries with “Putin’s Network of Influence.” Turkey has close ties with Putin.

​A Muslim from Egypt Abdul El-Sayed wants to be Senator. His father, like the parents of Mamdani and Piker, was preparing him for a political activist’s career. His father was an engineer and… Imam… Here are two information about Abdul El-Sayed:

El-Sayed associated with the notoriously radical MSA, an organization with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. In the course of his response to Colbeck, an angry El-Sayed said: “I knew, when I decided to run as the first Muslim American ever to run for governor, that I would face the ugliness of white supremacy, the ugliness of racism.”

In 2011 earned a PhD in public health from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar(like Clinton). In 2012 he was awarded a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. (Paul Soros was the late brother of billionaire philanthropist George Soros, and Daisy was Paul’s wife.) For me, all three examples displayed patterns of “Putin’s Network of Influence” in America. Besides that, we have our native communists. Minnesota AG Keite Ellison is one of them. As a communist (read his speeches) he allowed Soviet Fraud to be spread nationwide and corrupt the entire state of Minnesota with the “help” of the Dems’ Rep. Omar. One fraudster plans to buy a house in Nairobi! Read my column: Soviet Fascism: Worldwide Threats and Threats from Within. Part I,  and columns about Mayor Pete, George Stephanopolus and six Dems running for the presidency of the U.S. in 2020. Kash Patel and you will be very surprised…            

Don’t be surprised by the rise of Anti-Semitism in the World. Read my column The Global Spy Ring February 27, 2026.

Iran: A State of Soviet Fascism

The destruction of the residential area in Ukraine by Russia reminds me of WWII. A devoted disciple of Stalin/Andropov, Vladimir Putin didn’t change the system of Soviet Socialism—oppressive regime is alive and well, and History explains the events going on in the 21st century… As soon as Yuri Andropov became the KGB Chairman (1967-1982), he took the Soviet Foreign policy in his own hands. Infiltration of the Middle East by a “network of influence” was going on successfully for 10-12 years, prior to the 1979 revolution. His design provided a quick and positive result in 1979—the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism was implemented in some countries of the Mideast including Iran. This knowledge is a must dealing with Iran, a country of Soviet Fascism. The Iranian regime of IRGC in power is a prototype of the Russian KGB or current FSB in power. You now know the KGB…

​The Strait of Hormuz shouldn’t be in the hands of the current Iranian regime—it is a well-functioning artery of Global Trade. The Strait is a part of International Waters washing several countries. Those countries should set up a Board of Directors to manage the Strait of Hormuz. They may invite America to manage that Board of Directors: it will be fair…

My fellow Americans!

God Blessed our country, giving us a brilliant, brave, and trustworthy

President Donald J. Trump.

God bless President Donald J. Trump and his family!

God bless the United States of America!.

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To be continued at www.simonapipko.com and www.drrichswier.com/author/spipko/

Marcel Villa: The Hazardous and Rewarding Work of Practicing Independent Journalism in Cuba (Part 1)

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Marcel Villa does not come from academia; he holds no formal degree certifying him as a journalist or photographer. Perhaps that is precisely why he is, today, one of the most intriguing communicators on the island — someone who does not take for granted the postmodernist dogmas prevalent in state-run higher education or in courses designed for the independent press. And that stance has come at a cost.

He recalls his teenage years as those of an undisciplined youth, “without much sense of future direction.” At age 21, he sat for the entrance exams and enrolled in law school through a special program for working students. He admits he chose the major “more out of family influence than any true vocation.”

In 2018, while in his third year of studies, his older brother — who has lived in Spain for the past 20 years — gifted him a camera. Almost simultaneously, he discovered the small world of the non-state press in a Havana that was experiencing the ultimately fruitless apertura (opening) initiated by Barack Obama.

The profession he chose is not an easy one. Practicing independent journalism in Cuba remains a pursuit subject to a level of persecution rarely seen elsewhere in the hemisphere. The Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression reported that in the month of March alone, there was a surge in internet outages, arbitrary detentions, incarcerations, attacks, threats, and both psychological and physical assaults.

On the island — currently a focal point of international attention due to the potential for political change under pressure from the Trump administration — Villa uses video interviews, travel chronicles, and photojournalism to document a fractured nation that continues to survive despite socialism.

Here is Part 1 of my interview with Marcel.

How did you get your start in the world of the independent press?

It was in 2018, when I submitted a feature story to Play-Off Magazine — an independent Cuban sports publication. The piece was about a Dominican priest living in Havana who was using soccer as a tool for social change.

At the time — alongside my studies — I was working as a pizza maker at a cafeteria in Alamar; I would spend 12 or 13 hours there, working non-stop, for $10 a day. It was exhausting. I was just at the café when I received the news that Play-Off Magazine had accepted my feature story and that I would be able to contribute to them on a regular basis. Immediately afterward, I feigned a stomachache, hung up my apron, and walked out — never to return. That day, Play-Off became my job.

I wasn’t a photographer yet, nor did I aspire to be one; I was barely just learning how to use a camera.

My intention was to become a journalist, so I focused on writing the text, treating photography more as a supplement. Lacking formal professional training, I had gaps in my theoretical knowledge and errors in my writing — flaws I gradually corrected as I studied journalism manuals and my editors provided feedback. In that sense, Play-Off served as a school for me.

And when — and why — did you shift your focus to photography?

In 2019, I watched the film “The Pirates of Somalia,” and it sparked the idea for me to travel to the Isle of Pines. I thought: This will be my Somalia. Once there, I sought out stories that I could later turn into feature articles, chronicles, or even — I considered — an investigative piece. I laugh about it now, looking back, because the whole trip was incredibly ill-prepared. I hadn’t even arranged a place to stay.

I arrived on the island and knocked on the door of the very first house I saw that was renting out a room. I spent a week in the city of Nueva Gerona, burning through my savings; as a consequence of my journalistic wanderings around the city, I ended up being interrogated by State Security (SE — the political police) just hours before my scheduled departure.

The day after I returned to Havana, State Security contacted me again — but this time, they tried to recruit me as an informant within Play-Off. I refused, and for months afterward, I lived in fear that they would retaliate against me.

During that period, the era of openness in Cuba — sparked by the “thaw” under the Obama administration — was drawing to a close, and with it, the boom in independent media. Some magazines went on hiatus; many others simply didn’t survive. My trip to the Isle of Pines had been a complete fiasco. I was never able to land any actual journalistic assignments during my time there. Photography — both as an art form and a craft — was captivating me more and more.

All of this, combined with the apprehension left over from my run-in with State Security, led me to dedicate myself to photography full-time. Although I became a professional photographer and focused on more commercial genres, I continued to collaborate occasionally with Play-Off.

I dropped out of law school, knowing it was a profession I would never actually practice, and devoted myself full-time to studying and honing my skills with my camera. I completed a basic course at an excellent private institution called the Havana School of Creative Photography; everything else I learned on my own — through books, articles, and videos.

From that time until 2023, I shot Quinceañera celebrations, music videos, still photography, theater productions, fashion shoots, special events, nightlife scenes, and more. To make a living as a photographer in Cuba, you have to be extremely versatile, as the market is quite limited.

But then you returned to independent media — and not merely as a contributor, but by founding a publication of your own.

Yes. In 2022, together with three friends, I founded POB Magazine, an independent photography journal. We kept it running for a year using our own resources. Its editorial line was largely inspired by Play-Off; we used photography — along with the testimonies of photographers — as a window onto the reality of life in Cuba.

A series of cyberattacks on our website — occurring just days before our one-year anniversary — forced us to cease publication. We decided to put the project on hold until we could secure the necessary funding. While it was active, the magazine was very well received within the Cuban photography community; being its co-founder and director gave me significant visibility within the independent media landscape.

In that same year — the year POB Magazine went on hiatus — I returned full-time to the world of journalism, this time working as both a photographer and a video producer. I gradually began to move away from the more commercial genres of photography and video, shifting my focus instead toward photojournalism and documentary photography.

Since then, I have collaborated with most of the independent Cuban magazines and newspapers currently in existence — almost always anonymously. I also contribute regularly to El País, and on a couple of occasions, I have worked with El Confidencial — both based in Spain.

(Read Part 2)

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Yoe Suarez

Yoe Suárez is The Washington Stand’s international affairs correspondent. He is an exiled journalist, writer, and producer who investigated in Havana about torture, political police, gangs, government black lists, and cybersurveillance. A graduate of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, he was a CBN correspondent, and has written for outlets like The Hill and Newsweek. He has appeared on Vox, Univision, and Deutsche Welle as an analyst on Cuba, security, and U.S. foreign policy.

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Dems’ Seat-Stealing Scheme Backfires, Reviving GOP Midterm Hopes

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Politics can turn on a dime, and no one is more painfully aware of that than Democrats. After a euphoric April that saw the party pull off a stunning congressional map heist in Virginia, the party of Minority Leaders Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) and Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) has come crashing back to earth — hard. In a matter of 10 days, not only has the state supreme court struck down that referendum Democrats spent $64 million on, but the U.S. Supreme Court tossed a favorite tool of the Left — racial gerrymandering — triggering a massive race to redraw the entire red South. Suddenly, the plans for a November victory parade seem surprisingly premature.

On Friday, in a decision that several legal experts expected, the Commonwealth’s justices ruled that “the legislative process employed” to advance the referendum was unconstitutional and “incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy.” It was an outcome that former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli predicted, noting that there were at least four violations of the state constitution in the process that led to the Democrats’ narrow win at the ballot box. And to many, that win, a squeaker at 51-49%, proved why the purple state should have never been redrawn in the first place.

For Republicans, who were furious at the power grab in Governor Abigail Spanberger’s (D) state, the ruling gives voice to millions of disenfranchised voters who stood to lose four seats in the U.S. House. “This is the correct decision, and it was always going to end up this way,” Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) agreed. “Democrats broke laws that they helped write in the first place, blew through deadlines, wrote a biased and misleading ballot question, and lied to the voters in all of their advertising to support the referendum. The voters of Virginia banned gerrymandering six years ago, and that ban remains in effect today,” he reiterated. “This is a great day for fair elections and the rule of law, and it’s a great day for the Commonwealth of Virginia.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who already has an uphill climb for the midterms, cheered the result as “a victory for democracy.” “[It] ensures Virginians have fair representation in Congress,” he said.

On the Left, Jeffries and company decried the decision as “shocking,” while Virginia House Speaker Don Scott (D) issued a statement saying, “We respect the decision of the Supreme Court of Virginia. … We respect the court. But we will keep fighting for a democracy where voters — not politicians — have the final say. Because in Virginia, power still belongs to the people,” he argued.

And while Democrats complain about the “unfairness” of the decision, Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) said it didn’t take a legal genius to see that this was a possibility. “They didn’t pay attention to the fact that they had to follow the Virginia Constitution. And they rushed it through. And they made a number of mistakes [by not following the letter of the law].” But “they’re still complaining that, ‘Well, it went to the voters in the referendum, and those people’s votes didn’t count.’ Well,” Griffith said on Friday’s “Washington Watch,” “they should have anticipated that and gotten all of the i’s dotted, and the t’s crossed. When you do something in an unconstitutional manner under the Virginia Constitution, you’ve got to expect that the court will take action against it. Whether a million people voted in the referendum or 1,000,006 voted in the referendum is not the issue. The issue is, did you follow the rules?”

Frankly, he suspects, “In their heart of hearts, deep down, when they’re not playing politics, I think even the Democrats know that they were pushing the envelope and trying to get by with one quickly. They thought the referendum would basically cow the court into doing it. … And I give the court credit for having the fortitude to recognize that they’re going to irritate the legislature, which appoints them.” Yet, at the end of the day, “The court did its job. It was tough for them to do it. Some of them are likely not to be reappointed by the legislature because of it. But they did the right thing anyway. And I just have great respect for the Virginia Supreme Court for doing the right thing.”

Meanwhile, the setback on the Democratic map is a huge blow heading into November, Axios admits. While a lot of pundits have been crowing that the GOP is on the verge of a midterm bloodbath, the reality is that this is “a huge boost to Republicans’ chances of keeping the House,” the outlet notes. “Even some Democrats now concede that they basically need to run the table in November.”

It also drives home just how much work the Left has to do in agenda-setting. They can’t rely on anti-Trump sentiment carrying the day, as one anonymous House Democrat conceded. “[We] cannot take a midterm victory for granted,” the member told reporters. “Relying too much on the administration’s unpopularity and not enough of their own positive agenda could put an otherwise sure victory at risk.”

With the 10-1 edge in Virginia off the table, Democrats will struggle to make up a lot of ground in the redistricting arms race that has launched in earnest in the South after the U.S. Supreme Court’s rollback of racial gerrymandering. As Punchbowl News warns the Left, “As many as 10 seats could now swing toward Republicans in a worst-case scenario for Democrats,” while adding, “this all remains very fluid.”

Already, Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Mississippi have rocketed out of the gates to redraw their maps after the justices’ ruling in Louisiana v. Callais — some states even postponing their primary elections to make sure they get their new districts approved first.

The governors of one of those states, Louisiana’s Jeff Landry (R), agreed it was about time that the stranglehold of the Voting Rights Act was loosened. “I think that the Supreme Court has finally helped untangle Louisiana and many states, especially across the South, [from] a nasty wave of litigation that’s been going on since the 90s. … Louisiana has been engaged in 27 federal lawsuits since the 1990s, which has basically taken away the legislature’s power to draw congressional districts.” No longer, he continued, can Democrats “blame the Civil Rights Act for losing elections. That’s the bottom line.”

Finally, Landry told Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, “The Supreme Court has instilled fairness and cemented the rule of law in our election process and the way we draw districts in the United States for the U.S. House of Representatives.”

Fellow Louisianan Mike Johnson echoed that sentiment, pointing to a GOP pick-up of at least eight to 10 seats. “It depends on how many states get in on this,” he stressed to Perkins. “And this trend was long overdue. I mean, for years, we argued … that the common sense reading of the Constitution says you cannot use race as a determining factor [to draw districts]. You can’t discriminate against voters of any skin color. And that’s what the previous regime, the previous kind of rules, had done. So the Supreme Court has finally set that right. And you see a number of states jumping in to correct that.”

In Tennessee, mayhem broke out on the floor of the state House when the general assembly passed a map that turned all nine of the congressional districts red. Governor Bill Lee (R) called lawmakers back into a special session after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Callais to right what many see as a long-time wrong. The state’s House speaker, Cameron Sexton, defended the move on “Washington Watch,” calling out the “aggressive, vile protestors” and Democratic caucus for creating chaos in the Capitol. “We’ve gone through that before,” he shrugged. “We powered through it. We passed it out, and now it’s law.” If the other side sues, Sexton isn’t worried. “We’re prepared. … I feel comfortable that we’re going to win it in the long term, and then the maps will be upheld at some point.”

Ultimately, the entire landscape is changing, David Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst for the Cook Political Report, underscored to “Washington Watch” guest host Jody Hice. “Keep in mind that by 2029, we could see states across the Deep South sending zero Democrats or black representatives to Congress from states that have some of the highest black populations in the country. … This is going to have the effect of eradicating Democrats from red states, and blue states eradicating Republicans from their delegations.” Places like Illinois could pass a map, he warned, with 17 Democrats and zero Republicans by drawing downstate of Chicago. “Same thing in California. Democrats could draw [a] 52-to-0 map. And so, this is further polarizing Congress.”

At the end of the day, he explained, “What it means is that the battle for control of the House is going to come down to a small group of states with neutral maps that were installed by courts or commissions. And that’s why the bulk of the toss-ups in our chart right now are in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, [and] Iowa — states where neither party dominates this process.”

And that’s just fine with most Americans, whose biggest concern is a fair and level playing field. “We [need] maps that accurately reflect the population of [our] states,” Johnson insisted to Perkins. “And this is the genius of the Founders, how they set up the three branches of the federal government for checks and balances. And you can’t allow political issues to be the main driving factor in making sure that people are fairly represented in their states,” he argued. “The court has to look at this objectively. They have to evaluate these ideas on the basis of the Constitution. I think they did the right thing here, and it was a long time coming.”

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Suzanne Bowdey

Suzanne Bowdey serves as editorial director and senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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