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“Will Not Settle For a Bad Nuclear Deal With Iran…UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.” — President Donald J. Trump

President trump has made it clear that U.S. policy is a nuclear Iran is not acceptable. Now is not the time to negotiate any deal with this brutal regime, and all sanctions must be fully enforced — no sanctions relief. The committee will work to ensure Iran’s full compliance with IAEA investigation into undeclared nuclear sites. Combat Threat of Iran Drones and Missiles. Iranian drones are fueling conflicts around the world, including attacks on U.S. servicemembers in the Middle East, Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine, and the conflict in Ethiopia.

Protect Americans.. The Trump administration will take significant action to deter Iranian a plots against Americans and Iran-backed proxy attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East. Iran must immediately release American citizens being held hostages, and the administration must prioritize freeing these hostages as soon as possible.

‘No Kings’ protest fliers found in car of man suspected of shooting Minnesota lawmakers…

Fliers associated with Saturday’s nationwide protests of President Trump were found in the car of a man accused of killing Minnesota’s former House speaker and her husband and wounding two others. The Minnesota State Patrol warned residents to avoid “planned demonstrations” across the state Saturday, “out of an abundance of caution” as they hunt down the shooter. Police warned residents in the area not to open their doors for a cop impersonator as they hunt for the man they said is armed and dangerous. Rep. Melissa Hortman, the former speaker of the Minnesota House, and her husband, Mark, were killed, Gov. Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, were shot multiple times in a separate attack by the same suspect and are undergoing surgery.

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VIDEO: Tyler O’Neil Lays Out How Organizations Like the SPLC, CHIRLA, and Antifa Fuel Violence and Riots

Investigative journalist and author Tyler O’Neil joins PragerU CEO ‪@realtalkwithmarissa‬ to explain how the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), brands mainstream conservative and Christian groups as “hate groups” while defending groups like Antifa. He exposes how the SPLC’s so-called “hate map” has inspired real-world violence, shaped government policy, and been weaponized by Big Tech and the media to suppress dissent. He also draws concerning connections between radical activist groups like Antifa and CHIRLA, showing how these organizations fueled anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles all while receiving taxpayer funding. If you thought the SPLC was just another civil rights nonprofit, this conversation will shock you.

  • 00:00 What is the SPLC?
  • 03:53 A Hate Map That Inspired Violence
  • 06:47 Media, Lawsuits & the SPLC Agenda
  • 10:09 Charlottesville, Big Tech & Corporate Influence
  • 13:11 Why Mainstream Groups Are Now on the Hate Map
  • 15:16 SPLC Scandals: Racism, Sexism, Offshore Money
  • 18:30 The Union Revolt & Culture of Corruption 22:04 How the SPLC Weaponizes Intersectionality
  • 27:04 Dark Money, Immigration, and the Woke Agenda
  • 44:45 What You Can Do to Fight Back

WATCH: Tyler O’Neil Lays Out How Organizations Like the SPLC, CHIRLA, and Antifa Fuel Violence and Riots

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Trump Response to L.A. Riots Applies Lessons Learned in 2020

The Los Angeles riots have driven California progressives back to a familiar strategy: blame Trump. For instance, after days of dallying, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) on Tuesday finally declared an overnight curfew in Downtown Los Angeles “to stop bad actors who are taking advantage of the President’s chaotic escalation.” But Trump has “been here before,” and he knows how events play out.

“You have to remember, I’ve been here before,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I went right by every rule, and I waited for governors to say, ‘Send in the National Guard.’ They wouldn’t do it, and they just wouldn’t do it. It kept going on and on [and] got worse and worse.”

Trump was recalling the fiery protests in the summer of 2020, for which a mainstream media outlet devised the anti-description, “mostly peaceful.” After seven days of rioting in Minneapolis, Trump continued, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) “wouldn’t call the National Guard, and we ultimately just sent in the National Guard. We stopped it, but that was after seven days.”

“And I said to myself, ‘If that stuff happens again, we’ve got to make faster decisions because they don’t want to do it,’” Trump added. “If we didn’t send in the National Guard quickly, right now, Los Angeles would be burning to the ground.”

Some politicians disagree — or at least claim to. “You all don’t think that somehow, because they called out the National Guard, there was violence?” queried Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). “There was no violence. I was on the street. I know.” The curfew imposed by Mayor Bass would beg to differ.

But the mainstream media is all too happy to back up the argument that Trump’s handling of the crisis has been heavy-handed. “Trump is acting like an authoritarian,” complained CNN. “This Is What Autocracy Looks Like” agreed The New York Times. “Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s clearest step yet towards authoritarianism,” echoed the Financial Times.

When the left-biased media calls a Republican president’s actions “authoritarianism,” it says less about the action itself than about the commentators’ dislike of authority wielded by their political opponents.

“What’s happened so far is that Trump has acted within the law … to use the National Guard (and now a contingent of Marines) to protect federal personnel and property in L.A.,” argued Rich Lowry. “Most people don’t feel threatened or provoked by guys in camo standing impassively in front of a federal building.”

At least at first glance, a federal judge agrees. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, a judge on senior status in the Northern District of California, denied Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D) emergency request for a temporary restraining order to prevent Trump from federalizing the California National Guard. Judge Breyer is a former Watergate prosecutor and the brother of retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, one of the court’s liberals.

Breyer scheduled a hearing on the motion for Thursday. He gave the federal government until 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday to file arguments, then California has until 9 a.m. on Thursday to respond.

The more time that passes, the more evidence suggests that Trump was right to categorize the L.A. riots as a re-run of 2020. Despite the intervening Biden administration, the players and politics remain fundamentally identical, except that Trump enjoys a stronger position. Even the cause — opposition to law enforcement — is nearly the same, although that is certainly no requirement to draw out leftist activists. Already, anti-ICE protests have spread across the country, including New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, and Atlanta. NBC News “counted at least 25 rallies and demonstrations coast to coast” on Monday and Tuesday.

Trump provided further explanation for his actions while speaking at Fort Bragg, days before the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday. The point of defending American property in American streets is the same as defending it abroad, he said. “Generations of Army heroes did not shed their blood on distant shores only to watch our country be destroyed by invasion and third-world lawlessness here at home — like is happening in California,” Trump urged. “As commander-in-chief, I will not let that happen.”

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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Can You Handle the Truth!

For the last 20 years I have reported on Agenda 21. As a result, when I ran for office I was put on the Southern Poverty Law Center list of domestic terrorists. I was yelled at, called names, and had people walk out of seminars that I conducted. But it didn’t matter.  The truth is the Truth, and once you see it you can’t unsee it! The truth doesn’t go away. It doesn’t change from person to person, from story to story, from show to show.

We created a wonderful group of patriots, called The Agenders (patriots exposing and ending Agenda 21).

I said we were like farmers sowing the seeds of the plan called Agenda 21. We were educating the people and asking that they share the message. Today, I can see that evil plan unfolding right before my eyes.

The Globalists are determined to Destroy our way of Life

They are determined to make sure that no one, except them, owns anything including their own lives!

It is the Goal of Globalists to own, and control, EVERY ASPECT of Human Activity.

I am happy to see that many wonderful American Patriots have decided that the truth is most important; owning their lives and living their own lives is more important than living as a slave under the dictates of a technocratic group of evil criminals. We can no longer depend upon our government to bring us the Truth on anything. We prayed and we voted for Donald Trump,  considering the circumstances and uphill battle, is doing an amazing job.

The tentacles of Agenda 21 are so very deep and so distorted. The Marxist youth of the ’60s have become the rulers of today. They use the climate hoaxes to spread their warped and twisted ideology. Carbon dioxide is not the enemy. Carbon dioxide sustains life.  Without CO2 we would be dead.

That is the Goal: Global Depopulation

Plants thrive on carbon dioxide. Animals thrive when plants thrive, because food is abundant. Fossil fuel creates energy, which is a source of power. According to these globalists  abundant cheap energy cannot be given to the ordinary population.

Land cannot be controlled by an ordinary person,  because it creates inequity. Therefore, the government must control all land. Everything, and I mean everything, will be systematically doled out to only those who continue to carry forward the distorted globalist message.

Remember their goal: DEPOPULATION. Less people, less problems.

We must become Truth Warriors

Their goal is the only thing that counts, and their goal is to depopulate the planet as quickly as possible.

On today’s show you will hear about vaccines and the destruction that they are doing to humanity. They have turned humanity into a group of Lab Rats and we are subjects of their experimentation on all diseases known to man.

They lied, and tried to kill all of our cows for farting. They killed millions of chickens, for no reason. They are trying to destroy our food with biochemicals. What we see is an attack on Humanity,  because they hate Humanity.

To Globalists, we are too stupid, to be allowed to live!

How do we get rid of these people? We must continue to fight. Our weapon of choice must be Truth.  We must fight the media, call them out and not accept their lies.  We must fight for true elections, vetting people but recognize that no one is perfect. If the candidate does not understand the goals of Agenda 21 or Agenda 2030, then they don’t belong in office. We must do that by paying attention to our primaries. If we don’t get the right people in office, the President’s Agenda for the people stops. Our legislators in our states anre stopped, and insane rules and regulations stay in the forefront.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to watch the 2 documentaries in the links below…

The History of Marxism in America: AGENDA: Grinding America Down | Curtis Bowers

Our Future Already Here: The Agenda: Their Vision – Your Future (2025)

Invite others over for a movie night, and watch with a pad and pen. You probably will want to see them more than once but they explain the history and the future they have in store for us, unless we Act.

Saving America is up to us!

So please, I ask you to share this newsletter.  Share the podcast.  Share the documentaries. Then choose your passion, and work to expose the Truth. Make sure that you and everyone you know, vets new candidates and votes in the Primaries. We can no longer have RINOS elected by 19% of the vote, and be happy.  It is up to us to Keep America First, the leader in this troubled world.

Let Truth be our weapon, for it is the only thing that counts.

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113 Democrats Vote against Condemning Anti-Semitic Terror Attack

For anyone with lingering doubts about whether anti-Semitism in America has increased, 26% of the House of Representatives voted Monday night against condemning anti-Semitic terrorism. When the House took its roll call on a resolution (H.Res.488) “Denouncing the antisemitic terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado,” 113 Democratic members refused to condemn the violence. This disturbing development demonstrates how completely progressive ideology has warped the moral worldview of some American lawmakers, such that they cannot vote to condemn violent, racialized attacks.

On June 1, an Egyptian national, who was in the U.S. illegally, attacked a group of elderly Jews during their weekly march in recognition of the hostages still held by Hamas. Armed with Molotov cocktails and homemade flamethrowers, the man sent eight victims to the hospital with burns as he yelled, “Free Palestine.” The victims were aged 52 to 88, including a Holocaust survivor and certainly played no personal role in Israel’s military campaign against Hamas terrorists in Gaza; the man simply attacked them because they were Jewish.

It’s worth stating the good news, first: a clear bipartisan majority approved the resolution in the House of Representatives — 205 Republicans and 75 Democrats voted to condemn this vulgar terror attack. However, six members (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene [R-Ga.] and five Democrats) voted “present,” while 33 members, split between both parties, did not vote.

The resolution, introduced by freshman Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Colo.), simply declared, after a modest preamble:

“That the House of Representatives—

“(1) condemns Mohammed Sabry Soliman and his antisemitic terrorist attack on peaceful demonstrators supporting the release of the hostages held by Hamas;

“(2) affirms that free and open communication between State and local law enforcement and their Federal counterparts remains the bedrock of public safety and is necessary in preventing terrorist attacks; and

“(3) expresses gratitude to law enforcement officers, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] personnel, for protecting the homeland.”

This praise for law enforcement and condemnation of terror was too much for some members to stomach, and 113 Democrats voted against the resolution. (Perhaps these Democrats were thinking of the ongoing L.A. riots and did not want to support either ICE or cooperation between federal and state law enforcement — clever of Evans to include that.)

For his trouble, Evans earned only mockery from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). “Who is this guy? He’s not seriously concerned with combating anti-Semitism in America. This is not a serious effort. This guy’s going to be a one-term member of Congress. He’s a complete and total embarrassment,” Jeffries jeered. In answer to his first question (yes, he intended it rhetorically), Evans is a former Army Black Hawk pilot and former police officer.

Some Democrats criticized Evans’s resolution because they preferred a different resolution condemning the Boulder attack offered by Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), in whose adjacent district the attack occurred. But the House only voted on one resolution — that offered by Evans — and even Neguse chose to vote for it.

The reason why most members, even a significant number of Democrats, supported the resolution is because the moral position is clear. Violent acts of terrorism against innocent civilians are always condemnable, whether committed by Hamas operatives against Israelis at the Nova music festival or by an Islamist radical in Boulder, Colo.

To underscore this point, Hamas is still an evil terrorist organization holding onto dozens of kidnapped civilians, which it cynically uses as bargaining chips to extract ever greater concessions out of Israel. The Boulder terror victims were attacked while attempting to remind an indifferent world of this fact.

“Our life turned upside down,” said Ilan Dalal, father of hostage Guy Dalal. “Me and my wife, we had two jobs each. We provided our family with dignity. And since then, we stopped working. We are unable to do anything except fight to bring them back.”

During a recent meeting at Family Research Council headquarters, Dalal took pains to remind Americans that hostages like Guy, and Guy’s lifelong friend Evyatar David, are human beings, just like everybody else. “They both had dreams, he said. “Guy just finished his education in computer science before he was abducted. He managed to work for a new company for two months, and he taught himself to speak and write Japanese because his dream was to go to Japan and travel and see the world. Evyatar also had a dream to become a music producer.”

The young men were 22 when captured, and now they are 24. “They both have already [had] two birthdays in captivity,” Dalal declared, “two birthdays in the tunnels, without their friends, without their family, without their love.”

For a while, the families held onto hope that at least their sons were still alive. But after the release of Tal Shoham, an older man who shared their captivity, they were shocked by the barbarous conditions. “We didn’t think that their conditions of captivity [were] so harsh,” Dalal reflected. “We really thought that they [were] treating them [with] more dignity. But when Tal was released, we found the truth.”

“The tunnel that they are held in is booby trapped with explosives, which the terrorists threatened to set off if the IDF is approaching. And, since we don’t know the quality of the explosives, it might go off accidentally and kill them. And one of the guards can go crazy … and he can kill them, or they just die from the bad condition they are in,” he related. “They are beaten, starved, and abused on a daily basis. And the last sign of life … was three months ago.”

To hear such accounts and conclude, “Actually, I’ll side with terrorists,” reveals a terribly warped moral compass. Ninety years ago, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party targeted Jews for extinction because his racial ideology viewed them as impure, inhuman. Today, a new racial ideology — a Marxist one — holds sway in leftist circles, and once again Jews find themselves the target. This time, the Left accuses the Jews of colonialism for returning to their homeland, siding with the interloping Arabs merely because — they suppose — Jews have white skin, and Arabs have brown skin — an imaginary distinction that pays little heed to the facts.

But a person’s moral character is revealed through his actions, not his skin color. To say otherwise is to descend into total moral relativism — with a sturdy dose of racism to boot.

Earlier this month, a cadre of diehard progressives determined to prove their morally backward hypothesis of Israel’s supposed evil by launching a so-called “freedom flotilla” to bring humanitarian aid from Sicily to Gaza, hoping somehow to break Israel’s naval blockade. But Israel called out the ship for what it was, a “selfie yacht” carrying less aid than a single truck entering Gaza from Israel. In fact, when Israel boarded the vessel, they came bearing food and water.

Israel offered a solution to the Left’s self-deception about the morality of their war with Hamas. They invited — nay, compelled — the activists (including the nearly forgotten Greta Thunberg) to watch a 43-minute film depicting the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023.

Of course, unbelief is often a matter of the will, not the mind (Isaiah 6:9-10); the truth can only change the minds of those willing to accept it. Reportedly, the activists simply refused to watch the film.

“These anti-Semitic flotilla activists closed their eyes to the truth and once again proved they prefer the murderers over the victims,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said. “They continue to ignore the atrocities committed by Hamas against Jewish and Israeli women, the elderly, and children.” So, too, it seems, does a quarter of the House of Representatives.

AUTHOR

Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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GOV. NEWSCUM ‘COME AFTER ME, ARREST ME’: California Governor, Los Angeles Mayor Encourage Anti-Law Enforcement Violence

The ICE officials, the National Guard and other cooperating law enforcement officials are simply executing what is a lawful act (immigration enforcement and protecting the safety and security of those engaged those actions).

This is the response of Democrat ‘leadership,” party of treason.

Gov. Newsom adds fuel to fire, dares Trump’s border czar Tom Homan to arrest him amid violent anti-ICE riots

By Emily Crane, NY Post, June 9, 2025:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom added fuel to the fire after daring President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan to arrest him for failing to crackdown on violent anti-ICE agitators in his state.

“Come after me. Arrest me. Let’s just get it over with, tough guy,” the defiant Democrat told NBC News on Sunday.

Newsom’s taunt came soon after Homan had warned that the governor and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass could both face federal charges for trying to thwart ICE raids throughout the city.

“I’ll say it about anybody,” Homan had said in a weekend interview as fiery scenes erupted throughout Los Angeles.

“You cross that line, it’s a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien. It’s a felony to impede law enforcement doing their job.”

In response to the violence, Trump said he’d deploy 2,000 California National Guard troops to the city as federal immigration agents faced off against scores of anti-ICE protesters for a third day.

Newsom, who insisted the Trump move would only exacerbate the conditions, stoked the flames — as he accused the administration of using federal power as a political weapon.

“He’s a tough guy. Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me,” Newsom told the outlet.

“But you know what? Let your hands off 4-year-old girls that are trying to get educated. Let your hands off these poor people. They’re just trying to live their lives, man. Trying to live their lives, paying their taxes. Been here for 10 years. The fear, the horror.”
Governor Gavin Newsom speaking at a press conference. 3

“The hell are they doing? These guys need to grow up. They need to stop, and we need to push back. And I’m sorry to be so clear, but that kind of bloviating is exhausting. So, Tom, arrest me. Let’s go,” he added.

Newsom, for his part, said he plans to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration first thing Monday to thwart the deployment of troops.

“They had to coordinate with the governor of the state,” Newsom said.

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“They never coordinated with the governor of the state.”

“This is about authoritarian tendencies. This is about command and control. This is about power. This is about ego,” he added.

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As for LA Mayor Bass, she’s a radical:

She has decades of infatuation with socialism and Cuba-style communism. When she was a potential VP pick for Biden in 2020, The Atlantic did a profile highlighting her decades of engagement in Cuba: she’s also the only person on Biden’s list who spent part of the 1970s working construction in Fidel Castro’s Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade, a group that has organized annual trips to Cuba for young, leftist Americans for half a century….. Bass went to see Castro speak in Revolution Square in Havana, joining “about a bazillion people” in the crowd, she said. Although she couldn’t understand him, he was “extremely charismatic.”… Bass’s interest in Cuba kept up after she became a member of the California assembly. She went to the country again in 2005, on a trip organized by the California lobbyist Darius Anderson and paid for out of her campaign account, according to campaign-finance records kept by the California secretary of state. She’s returned several times since being elected to the U.S. House in 2010. She visited Alan Gross, the USAID contractor whom Cuba accused of being a spy, during his five years in prison, and joined then–Secretary of State John Kerry when he went to Havana to raise the American flag over the reestablished U.S. embassy in 2015 (Atlantic).

And: Many of you will remember, Bass was in Africa during the devastating fires in January. Why was she in Africa? Desert Sun: Bass was in West Africa to attend the inauguration of Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday. Jan 4 (Desert Sun).

Why is that so exciting for her? The Socialist International explains: The Socialist International congratulates John Dramani Mahama on his election as President of Ghana, a clear reflection of the trust placed in his leadership. We also applaud the National Democratic Congress (NDC), a valued member of our global family, for its dedication to democracy and social justice (Socialist).

Mahama in 2012: “I am still a socialist” (Newsweek). So: Bass abandoned Los Angeles in the fires to celebrate the achievement of her like-minded brother in Ghana. Don’t trust her today.

Governor Newsom: We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved (Newsom).

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass: My office is in close coordination with immigrant rights community organization. We will not stand for this (Bass).

More: We are going to fight for all Angelenos (Bass).

Fox 5: Peaceful protests turn violent…  (Fox 5).

Sarah Arnold of Townhall: California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) urged anti-ICE demonstrators to resist President Donald Trump’s actions, telling them not to give the president what he wants—even as he called on protesters to deescalate and stand down amid a third consecutive night of violent unrest. “California – Don’t give Donald Trump what he wants,” Newsom wrote on X.(Townhall).

Newsom calls Trump a dictator: These are the acts of a dictator, not a President (Newsom).

This is not the language of de-escalation. Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass endanger our first responders. California Rep. Darrell Issa: Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass have a real habit of letting Los Angeles burn (Issa).

Angeles Mayor Bass ordered LAPD to stand down when ICE was under siege.

RELATED ARTICLE: Trump says Tom Homan should arrest Gov. Gavin Newsom as riots in LA rage

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Newsom’s political future ‘practically nonexistent’ as LA devolves into riots, social media critics predict California governor faces mounting criticism over handling of riots just months after outrage over fire response

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s floated potential run for the White House in 2028 was likely thwarted by his handling of the anti-ICE riots gripping Los Angeles, conservative social media critics predict.

Newsom has been floated as a likely 2028 Democratic contender for the White House as he wraps up his second term as governor in 2026. Riots plaguing the city in response to the Trump administration’s efforts to remove illegal immigrants residing in Los Angeles, which come on the heels of massive wildfires that rocked southern California this winter, have left Newsom on precarious political ground, according to conservatives who are balking at his response to the LA chaos.

“Gavin Newsom’s odds of clinching the 2028 presidential race are practically nonexistent,” X user Angela Belcamino posted Monday. “Across the country, Americans are eyeing California’s struggles under his watch, convinced he’d unleash the same chaos nationwide if he ever won the White House.”

“Gavin Newsom’s handling of the LA riots should be considered an in-kind contribution to the JD Vance 2028 presidential campaign. Newsom is providing a lot of ad material for free,” one social media account posted on Sunday.

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Israel on the cusp of civil war?

The only way to prevent a civil war in Israel is to acknowledge its impending outbreak, so that steps can be taken to forestall it. 

Israel is on the brink of civil war. An irreconcilable rift is beginning to open up between rival segments of Israeli society, which no amount of unilateral goodwill can amicably bridge. The tectonic fault lines, threatening to split the nation’s societal fabric asunder, center on Benjamin Netanyahu’s tenacious hold on power, despite multiple attempts to pry it loose.

Weaponizing the legal system

Having seemingly despaired of the possibility of defeating him at the polls, his adversaries have turned—more clumsily than not—to weaponising the legal system as a means of realizing their political goals.

This precipitated the maladroitly concocted indictments against Netanyahu, in which. whenever a prosecution witness took the stand, his/her testimony ended up strengthening the defense!!! Indeed, after hearing the prosecution’s case, the judges (even before the testimony of any defense witness), in a rare moment of judicial lucidity, warned the prosecutors that they had not made their case on the corruption charges against Netanyahu, and suggested they be dropped. The suggestion was obdurately ignored, apparently in the desperate hope that the defense witnesses would provide the proof that the prosecution witnesses failed to do. Go figure!

Thus, goaded by their incandescent anti-Bibi enmity, the people, who have done the most to erode public trust in the legal system in general and the judiciary in particular, are the jurists in general and the Justices in particular. Nothing could underscore this more than the recent High Court decision regarding the dismissal of Ronen Bar, the current head of Israel’s Internal Security Service (ISS, widely known as the Shabak). Indeed, it was so patently absurd as to make it almost comical. As an unvarnished attempt to smother common sense with legalistic gobbledygook, it made a caricature of the judicial process.

Undisputed failure insufficient grounds for dismissal?

Arguably, the most ludicrous element in the verdict was the assertion that there was not “an adequate factual foundation” for the dismissal. This is an astounding claim, itself devoid of any “factual foundation”. Indeed, it is difficult to conceive of anything more counterfactual. After all, what could comprise a more valid factual foundation for Bar’s dismissal than his undisputed failure to give the alert over the impending Hamas assault on October 7th, his equally abysmal failure to prepare for it and to respond to it adequately once it occurred? In fact, if the government is to be faulted over the Bar’s removal, it should be over why it took so long to do so.

Likewise, the court’s assertion that the PM could not be involved in the dismissal decision since he was in a position of a “conflict of interest”—because two associates of his were being investigated on flimsy charges of having illicit dealings with Qatar, makes little sense.  Unless, of course, the intention is to pave the way for disqualifying the PM from future decisions.  For, the clear significance of this verdict is that all it takes to preclude the PM from taking part in any future decisions, is to implicate some of his associates—even on the most implausible grounds—in a trumped-up investigation expressly designed for that very purpose.

The onset of dystopia?

Interestingly, the clear—and erroneous—implication of the court’s ruling is that ongoing Shabak investigations come to a shuddering halt whenever the Director’s term ends, and a successor is appointed. Otherwise, why would any successor be presumed to pursue suspicions of Qatar-related malfeasance less vigorously than the current Director? Indeed, given his past failures, why would the current Director be considered essential to the Qatar investigation—unless his overt anti-Netanyahu proclivities are deemed an overriding consideration??

Sadly, it appears that enmity towards Netanyahu has pushed his antagonists to the brink of insanity and, in some cases, arguably beyond. Likewise, it has propelled Israeli society to the brink of a dystopian reality, and in some cases, arguably beyond.

Thus, enraged and exasperated by Netanyahu’s remarkable ability to withstand their continued and concerted efforts to remove him from office, his adversaries—including former PMs, defense ministers, IDF Chiefs-of-Staff, heads of intelligence services—have committed acts of unmistakable sedition and treason, openly urging members of the military not to serve—thereby conveying a message of national disarray and division, emboldening the country’s enemies, bent on its destruction.

With regard to the onset of dystopia, it should be noted that what once was the socio-political divide between Left and Right in Israel has been largely replaced by a schism, separating the fervent anti-Bibi zealots from those who are not. Although these dividing lines are not identical, they do largely overlie and overlap each other. Accordingly, keeping this minor discrepancy in mind, I will, for the sake of semantic convenience, retain referring to the rivalrous factions as “Left” and “Right.”

Rift unbridgeable by rational reasoning

With this methodological/linguistic caveat behind us, it is important to note that those on the “Right” generally seem unable to gauge the depth and intensity of the hostility and opprobrium their political rivals on the “Left” feel for them. Naively, those on the “Right” believe that what separates them from their countrymen on the “Left” is a difference of opinion (albeit profound) that, potentially, can be bridged (albeit with difficulty).

Sadly, this is not the case.

The rupture is not one that can be bridged by rational reasoning or argument—not even by bitter experience that unequivocally demonstrates how unfounded their positions are.   Indeed, to a large degree, many on the “Left” do not have an opinion as such, but rather an ambition, and to fulfill that ambition, they are willing to adopt any opinion—as well as its diametric opposite—so long as it can be used to malign their opponents on the “Right”.

Thus, as the socio-political agenda of the “Left” gradually drifted further and further away from the harsh realities of the Middle East, its electoral constituency shrank accordingly. However, this was not something the “Left” found particularly perturbing. For as long as they controlled the judiciary (and to a lesser degree, the mainstream media), they still could determine much of the tenor of the socio-political realities prevailing in the country.

Understanding the “Left’s” incandescent fury

This is the reason for the near apoplectic reaction to the attempted judicial reform in early 2023—particularly the system of appointing judges. For, this directly impacted the epicenter of the “Left’s” power.  Thus, given its diminishing electoral appeal and the unlikely prospect of it ever regaining power via the ballot box, the “Left” responded with a combination of horror and fury that drove it to unprecedented extremes—including reinventing, even inverting, the use of language, which exposed its true beliefs regarding the imperatives of political life in Israel.

Accordingly, as soon as then-newly elected Justice Minister Yariv Levin presented his initiative to the public, they immediately branded it as a “Revolution”, a term usually reserved for extra-parliamentary opposition to an incumbent government, not to policy proposals from such governments, particularly lawfully elected ones. Indeed, the use of the term seems to indicate that they believe that the “Left” is the truly ordained leader of the country, and the incumbent government is merely an impudent usurper, swept to unmerited positions of power by unworthy “plebs”, otherwise known as “Bibists” (reminiscent of “Baboons”?)

Thus, in their eyes, the judicial reform is an insufferable challenge to the established order and to the true ruling class—hence a “revolution”.

Borderline sedition

Furthermore, the reform’s proposal, that decisions should be transferred from unelected, unaccountable forums to elected, accountable forums, makes the “Left’s” accusation that the measure is somehow “undemocratic”, manifestly ridiculous. After all, is palpably absurd to claim that a system, in which a narrow, unelected forum of around a dozen appointed officials, with no accountability to the public, has the ultimate authority on matters of vital national importance, is more democratic than one, in which that authority is vested in the hands of over 60 elected parliamentarians, regularly answerable to the public.

Accordingly, the Bibi-phobic “Left” have created a dystopian-like reality in Israel, where, just as in Orwellian Newspeak, language is manipulated and distorted to serve political purposes. Thus, words take on meaning antithetically opposite to their commonly used sense. In Orwell’s 1984 dystopia, “war” was “peace”; “freedom” was “slavery” and so on.  In the emerging Israeli dystopia, “dictatorship” is “democracy”; “revolution” is “elected government policy”; “entitlement” is “patriotism”; and “sedition” is “loyalty”.

Indeed, it is a sense of entitlement, not of patriotism, that drives the anti-Bibi “Left”.  It reflects a selective loyalty to Israel, in which borderline sedition, purposefully undermining the nation’s security, economy and international standing, is preferable to accepting the victory of political rivals.

Time to gird our loins

There is a popular belief that, in Israel, civil war is not possible because a war requires two opposing sides to participate in it, and the “Right’ will always refrain from a fratricidal conflict against fellow-Jews—as was the case when Menachem Begin restrained his followers from the responding to the lethal sinking of the Altalena off the coast of Tel Aviv by forces under the left-leaning David Ben Gurion.

Sadly, today this belief has been overtaken by events and is no longer valid. The gravity of the Bibi-phobic “Left’s” actions is such that it can no longer be condoned. Action against them must be taken, lest the very bedrock on which the nation is founded be irreparably eroded. Indeed, it is clear that today, the “Left” is determined to prevent the government from making any significant decisions in the future—by means of torturously concocted quasi-legal impediments.  No amount of rational reasoning will be of any avail. A confrontation is both unavoidable and imperative. A line must be drawn in the sand. It must be made indelibly clear to the anti-Bibi “Left” that there are limits to political rivalry, which cannot be breached. Sedition in the guise of political dissent will not be brooked, and the State apparatus will be mobilized to confront, contain, and counteract any such instances.

Such confrontation cannot, and must not, be delayed. Leniency today will only compound the problem—and the peril—tomorrow.

Sadly, the time to gird our loins is now!

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THE PARTY OF EXTREMISM

THE PARTY OF EXTREMISM

Along the way I realized what they were really doing was telling on themselves.

Starting somewhere around 2017 I noticed a trend.

As we all know, after Trump won, there was mass hysteria. The increasingly woke left had lost. It defied their imaginations, and so their imaginations got to work. It couldn’t have been that they weren’t popular, it had to be something else.

Oh I know, they thought, everyone who isn’t me is an extremist.

Over the course of about ten years, the media’s usage of “right wing extremism” and “far right” and “radical right” exploded. Just to give you an indication, The Guardian has used the term “far right” in 6,389 articles versus “far left” appearing in just 376.

The trend was so pronounced that Manhattan Institute bubbas did a study they published in The American Conservative.

Here’s a series of graphs from the article.

But what is it exactly they’re calling extreme?

You, Dear Reader. And me. JD Vance. People who think borders are real. People who think gender is real. Is God real to you? You’re an extremist.

Let’s go further, should people be punished for committing crimes? Yes? You’re an extremist!

Is it okay for a man to get in a boxing ring and beat the pulp out of womenFirst of all, they say, he’s not a man. Oh he is actually? Oops. If the answer is still ‘no,’ guess what: Extremist.

If you won’t refer to an El Salvadorian national who more than likely trafficked human beings for MS-13 as a “Maryland Man” and instead call him an illegal or a “member of MS13” — which are both accurate and literal — then guess what? Yup, extremist again.

You get the point. As the most powerful left wing institutions competed with themselves to get ever further to the left, alienating normal people and losing elections in the process, everyone who was not in their real estate became an extremist to them.

The reality is the reverse though. They’re simply telling on themselves.

Recent months have brought things into sharp focus. Radical student bodies stormed university buildings in support of Hamas, a literal terrorist group. Wine moms and white collar elites burned and defaced Teslas. An illegal alien set a group of elderly people on fire while shrieking “free Palestine.”

This is the contemporary left.

And it isn’t just acts of violence, terrorism, looting, and rioting that they’ve attempted to normalize.

Virtually the entirety of the political left’s intellectual platform is extremist. Castrating mentally unwell children. Legalizing crime. Defending terrorist groups. Policing speech instead of streets. Attacking Western values. Dismantling the family structure. Teaching small children about marginal sexual experiences. Assigning value to people based primarily on their race or, even more perverse, sexual preferences.

They baked a hierarchy of racial and immutable traits into everything they do, from college admissions to government benefits to ads for hardware stores. There are awards in this hyper-liberal bizarro world that you cannot win without publicly reporting the racial makeup of your staff.

Almost nothing that normal people find good in this world is immune.

High School sports, in some ways the last bastion of local community in America, has become an intellectual battleground for a question whose answer is obvious to anyone: Should men physically beat women?

It’s not even a question … unless you work at The New York Times. In that case, it’s worthy of debate.

As the old adage goes in politics, “whatever they accuse you of doing, they’re actually doing.”

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Geoffrey Ingersoll

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SCOTUS Slows Judicial Overreach in Environmental Cases as Ire Grows over Universal Injunctions

A recent decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court has curbed some judicial overreach and continued a thread previously taken up by the nation’s highest court regarding the relationship between judicial interpretations and the authority of government agencies. In Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, decided Thursday, the Supreme Court vacated a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit which had itself vacated a decision by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) that granted permission for construction of a railroad.

The case originated when Seven County Infrastructure Coalition applied to the board for permission to build a railroad in 2020. STB compiled a staggering 3,600-page report on the possible environmental impacts of building the railroad and ultimately concluded “that the project’s transportation and economic benefits outweighed its environmental impacts” and granting permission for the railroad to be constructed.

After lawsuits were filed, the circuit court vacated the STB’s decision, ruling that the board had not properly considered “the potential environmental effects of increased upstream oil drilling … and increased downstream refining of crude oil” in the area where the railroad was to be constructed, citing the provisions established in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Supreme Court ruled Thursday, “The D.C. Circuit failed to afford the Board the substantial judicial deference required in NEPA cases and incorrectly interpreted NEPA to require the Board to consider the environmental effects of upstream and downstream projects that are separate in time or place from the” construction and operation of the railroad.

NEPA requires STB and similar agencies to consider the possible environmental impacts of proposed projects and suggest viable alternatives. The Supreme Court’s ruling clarified, “Some federal courts reviewing NEPA cases have assumed an aggressive role in policing agency compliance with NEPA, and have not applied NEPA with the judicial deference demanded by the statutory text and the Court’s cases.” The ruling continued, “When, as here, a party argues that an agency action was arbitrary and capricious due to a deficiency in an EIS, the ‘only role for a court’ is to confirm that the agency has addressed environmental consequences and feasible alternatives as to the relevant project.”

The ruling, authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh and joined by seven of his fellow justices, with Justice Neil Gorsuch recusing himself from the case, stipulated that legal questions are for courts to decide, while “factual determinations” are for the relevant agencies to decide. “Courts should defer to agencies’ discretionary decisions about where to draw the line when considering indirect environmental effects and whether to analyze effects from other projects separate in time or place,” the ruling affirmed.

Specifically, Kavanaugh cited Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, one of a pair of cases which the Supreme Court decided last summer, undoing what was known as the “Chevron doctrine.” In the 1984 case of Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the Supreme Court instructed all courts to defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute within the scope of its operation if that statute was considered “ambiguous.” The policy significantly bolstered the power of federal agencies to interpret statutes without judicial oversight. Last year, the Supreme Court determined that the Chevron doctrine was unconstitutional, conflicting with both the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the federal judiciary’s constitutional authority to interpret statutory texts and effectively permit executive agencies to usurp the role of the judiciary in interpreting statutes.

Citing Loper, the Supreme Court clarified that although NEPA requires environmental impact reports to be “detailed,” and “the meaning of ‘detailed’ is a legal question … what details need to be included in any given [report] is a factual determination for the agency.” Kavanaugh wrote, “NEPA does not allow courts, ‘under the guise of judicial review’ of agency compliance with NEPA, to delay or block agency projects based on the environmental effects of other projects separate from the project at hand.” He added, “Courts should afford substantial deference and should not micromanage those agency choices so long as they fall within a broad zone of reasonableness.”

The Supreme Court ruling comes as numerous federal courts have issued sweeping universal injunctions against President Donald Trump and his administration, highlighting calls for the highest court to curb judicial overreach. In comments to The Washington Stand, Article III Project Senior Counsel Will Chamberlain stated, “The court’s decision Thursday was very obviously right — even the Democrats did not dissent. NEPA reviews do not have to be as onerous as the D.C. Circuit suggested.” He added, “The Supreme Court, however, needs to do more to curb the judicial sabotage by resentful lower court judges.”

Within his first 100 days back in the Oval Office, Trump and his administration were slapped with at least 25 universal injunctions by federal district courts, according to a Congressional Research Service report. Injunctions and temporary restraining orders (TROs) have targeted many of the president’s actions, including carrying out mass deportations, withholding federal funds from “sanctuary cities,” ending birthright citizenship, protecting children from harmful gender transition procedures, slashing wasteful agency spending, downsizing the federal workforce, bolstering election integrity, and reorganizing agencies like the Department of Education.

The Trump administration has repeatedly petitioned the Supreme Court to intervene and curtail the lower courts’ use of nationwide injunctions. While the Supreme Court has handed the president mixed results — significant wins in some cases and temporary setbacks in others — it has not yet taken action against the increasing use of universal injunctions.

However, the Supreme Court did hear oral arguments in mid-May in a case in which the Trump administration has centered its attention on the rash of injunctions enjoining the president’s agenda. Some justices indicated during oral arguments an openness to curbing universal injunctions but appeared unsatisfied with the Trump administration’s suggestions on what measures to use in place of universal injunctions. A decision in the case is expected by late June or early July.

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S.A. McCarthy

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THE DIFFERENCE: DeMS13 = Hate, MAGA = Hope!

America was at a crossroads on November 5th, 2024. They had to choose between a party that hid the fact that a President, for four years, was actually an autopen. America was run by a cabal of bureaucrats, not a duly elected leader.

A rival party’s presidential candidate, for the first time in American history, became a convicted felon.

Money was wasted, wars were started, friends like Israel were ignorded, massacres occurred globally, while the bureaucrats laughed and profited at the expense of the American people.

Policies were enacted that defied scientific truth including the greatest lie of all that a man could be a woman and vis-a-versa. This led to a society and culture in which our schools became indoctrination centers, our media outlets spewed out propaganda. Schools began to teach our children what to think, not how to think. In just four short years the beaucrats and teachers’ unions dumbed down America’s children. Universities became hot beds for socialist and Islamic terrorism.

Americans were imprisoned and many died, including 13 U.S. soldiers during the Afghanistan pull out. Businesses were closed due to a fake COVID crisis. The people suffered from a vaccine that harmed or even killed them.

Families and entire communities were destroyed during multiple hurricanes and the government did nothing to help.

Millions of criminal illegal aliens were allowed to cross our borders with the help of the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. and so-called sanctuary cities and states.

Millions of Americans lost their jobs and were replaced with cheap illegal alien workers.

Gas prices rose due to the anti-fossil fuels Green New Deal, that harmed everyone. The government actually believed in the myth that with enough electric vehicles, windmills, solar panels, regulations and mandates they could actually control the weather.

Then something miraculous happened.

A movement began to take shape. It was based upon a simple notion to take America back from the bureaucrats and return power to the people. This movement slogan was Make American Great Again. It’s leader was a man who served as President of these United States of America. It was a man who lost an election in 2019 because the party of bureaucrats stole it. But that leader would not give up and he would return once again to lead the MAGA movement.

That leader became the 47th President despite numerous assassination attempts, media propaganda and a lawfare campaign not seen before. He won against all odds.

Why? Because the people knew that he was their last best hope to save our Constitutional Republic.

Did the party of bureaucrats get loud and clear messages from the people? No.

Once the 47th President was sworn into office the party of bureaucrats turned into the DeMS13 party. They declared war on the new president in the streets, in the courts and in the halls of Congress.

This new DeMS13 party protected the criminal illegal aliens rather than we the American citizens. They voted against every bill proposed by the new president, not for political reasons, but out of spite and hate for the American people.

The DeMS13 party voted against cutting waste, fraud and abuses against Americans. They voted against tax cuts. They voted unanimously to keep the status quo of big government, more regulation, more spending, more wars and more hate.

You see the DeMS13 party got rich off of their policies. They became millionaires, as did their families, while the people suffered. The became what they imported in the millions: human traffickers, gangsters of the worst and most evil in American history.

They dug themselves in a hole so deep that it reached hell, and yet they just can’t stop digging.

But the American people have stood fast like the Patriots at Lexington and Concord. They fought back against the King of England. Let today’s Patriots fight against the DeMS13 party.

As we approach the 2026 midterm elections we have now only two parties, traitors and patriots. On the 250th anniversary of our Republic these MAGA patriots and solidify its control of the three branches of government by electing their fellow patriots. Patriots who stand for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Patriots who stand with the God of Abraham and his son Jesus of Nazareth. Patriots who are faithful parents and grandparents, and yes, great grandparents.

America wil continue to be the city on the hill, shining brightly and envied by all as a place where anyone can come to to embrace its values and traditions.

The DeMS13 party is the party of hate. The MAGA Patriots are the party of hope!

Let’s all Keep America Great!

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Attorney General Eliminates Far-Left American Bar Association’s Role in Vetting Judicial Nominees

It won’t affect the rogue, radical judges running amok but going forward it will impact future nominees.

Attorney General Eliminates American Bar Association’s Role in Vetting Judicial Nominees

The association ‘no longer functions as a fair arbiter of nominees’ qualifications,” Pam Bondi said.

By Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times, May 31, 2025:

Attorney General Pam Bondi has ended the role of the American Bar Association (ABA) in vetting people nominated by the president to serve as judges.
Bondi said in a May 29 missive to ABA President William R. Bay that the association “no longer functions as a fair arbiter of nominees’ qualifications and its ratings invariably and demonstrably favor nominees put forth by Democratic administrations.”

She said that the association has refused to fix the bias in its rating process and that the Department of Justice will stop directing nominees to provide waivers that let the ABA access non-public information on the nominees, including bar records.
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Nominees will also neither respond to ABA surveys nor sit for interviews with the association, Bondi said.
“The American Bar Association has lost its way, and we do not believe it serves as a fair arbiter of judicial nominees,” Bondi wrote on social media platform X.

She said the Department of Justice “will no longer give the ABA the access they’ve taken for granted.”

The ABA did not respond to a request for comment and has not appeared to respond publicly to the development.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told The Epoch Times via email that the development was not surprising.

“Since the George W. Bush administration, the ABA has increasingly failed to give all judicial nominees a fair shake, particularly those nominated by Republican administrations. They have also consistently taken partisan stances on political issues and chosen to act like a progressive advocacy organization,” he said. “The Judiciary Committee will still accept letters from the ABA, the same as we do for all outside organizations, but it doesn’t make sense for this administration to be giving favored access to an organization that’s consistently shown political bias.”

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the panel, criticized the move.

“This decision overturns a practice that has been in place for nearly 70 years under Republican and Democratic Administrations alike in order to provide cover for unqualified and extreme nominees who would crumble under a nonpartisan review by their peers,” Durbin told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.

The ABA is an association of lawyers and judges. It says it has more than 400,000 members. An ABA committee began conducting independent evaluations of the qualifications of judicial nominees in 1953.

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Defense Intelligence Agency Employee Charged With Trying To Send Classified Data To Foreign Government

FBI officials announced Thursday that a 28-year-old Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) employee was arrested for allegedly attempting to transmit national defense information to an officer or agent of a foreign government, according to a press release.

The suspect, identified as Nathan Vilas Laatsch, was arrested in northern Virginia following an investigation launched after a tip that someone had “offered to provide classified information to a friendly foreign government.” In a statement posted to X, FBI Director Kash Patel said the case highlights “the persistent risk of insider threats.”

“This case underscores the persistent risk of insider threats. The FBI remains steadfast in protecting our national security and [many] thanks [to] our law enforcement partners for their critical support,” Patel wrote.

According to officials, court documents show Laatsch had been employed by the DIA since 2019, working in its Insider Threat Division and holding a Top Secret security clearance.

In March, the FBI received a tip about a potential threat and discovered an email in which the sender said he did not “agree or align with the values of this administration” and was “willing to share classified information,” including “completed intelligence products, some unprocessed intelligence and other assorted classified documentation.”

Laatsch unknowingly began communicating with an undercover FBI agent, believing they were an official of the foreign government. The 28-year-old allegedly transcribed classified information onto a notepad at his desk and, over the course of approximately three days, repeatedly exfiltrated the information from his workspace.

By May, Laatsch was surveilled by the FBI at a drop location, handing off a thumb drive containing classified information, according to officials.

“Following Laatsch’s departure, the FBI retrieved the item, which was a thumb drive later found to contain a message from Laatsch and multiple typed documents, each containing information that was portion-marked up to the Secret or Top Secret levels,” the press release states. “The message from Laatsch indicated that he had chosen to include “a decent sample size” of classified information to “decently demonstrate the range of types of products” to which he had access.”

Between May 15 and May 27, Laatsch allegedly gathered more classified information, telling the undercover agent he would consider “citizenship for your country” or “other compensation.” As the 28-year-old prepared to deliver a second batch of materials on Thursday, FBI officials then arrested the former DIA employee.

Since President Donald Trump returned to office in January, several federal departments have faced internal leaks. In February, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem suggested that “corrupt” FBI agents were behind a leaked memo detailing a planned large-scale ICE raid in the Los Angeles area.

In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Noem said DHS had identified “some” of the leakers and warned there would be consequences for those involved.

“We are continuing to get more. They will be fired. There will be consequences. And remember, when they leak information to the press in order to blow an op, they are putting law enforcement lives in jeopardy,” Noem said. “They are risking their lives and putting their families in the position where they have to live without those individuals any further.”

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UK: Tommy Robinson’s First Interview After Being Released from Prison

Anyone who doubts Tommy’s explanation for why he was imprisoned just needs to look at all the people jailed for telling the truth about the Southport stabbings. The UK is a nascent Orwellian state. But it is maturing as one very quickly.

Note that Great Britain is now charging Tommy for all their legal costs for sending him to jail. I was not aware that was a thing outside of the Soviet Union.

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TEXAS Under Attack!

The Great State of Texas (a Republic if you can keep it) is under direct assault by foreign entities. Actually, Texas has been under assault for some time, but the infusion of anti-American elements has successfully remained hidden below the political and social radar. No one would imagine the Republic of Texas (yes, the state came into the union with the understanding plus full and complete agreement that it would remain a Republic within the association of states in the union), so no one could imagine the Republic of Texas allowing such seduction and infusion of Middle Eastern and South American entities allowed into the state remain and sabotage the goals, traditions and principles of Texas. But this is exactly what has been taking place all the while Texas shouts its’ unique ways and means, not to mention such American traditions like the Dallas Cowboys, Sweet Tea, and gas station parking lot Bar-be-que. You heard me right on my last description, “gas station parking lot Bar-be-que” which only “old school” Texans understand.

The Republic of Texas is experiencing a deliberate flow of anti-Texans hell bent on taking over and turning this once proud Republic into a mirror image of many Middle Eastern Islamic countries accompanied by massive financial infusion from MS-13 and related terrorism and hard-core gangs. It may well come down to the people of Texas, the ranchers, cowboys, old-school Texans to pick up their weapons and defend the land they so love. With the exception of a few politicos, many in Texas elected office will do little to save the very state they claim to love.

The following description is written by Michael Yon. Mr. Yon is an independent journalist, and the following words are his, I take NO credit but give thanks to him and Steve Bannon for the investigations and research they accomplished to bring to light what has been deliberately hidden from public view, including from many in the Great State and Republic of Texas. Thank you, Michael Yon for writing this expose on Texas and the ugly truth hidden in broad daylight.

Today I (Michael Yon) will also go on with Steve Bannon on War Room. Yesterday I flew over Colony Ridge, Texas. An invasion city built with help from Governor Abbott. Early yesterday morning I flew over Colony Ridge with Dave Cannon in his helicopter. Fog became thick because Colony Ridge is built on precious low wetlands. So, we came back with Dave’s airplane and got higher after the fog burned off. Bottom Line — a critical mass of Texas Law Enforcement is refusing to help with mass deportations. Texas DPS specifically. The Department of Public Safety leadership is outright refusing to help deport. As are many local law enforcement agencies. A critical mass of Texas leadership is captured and helping destroy Texas and the rest of America. Many officers are angry. Trump promised mass deportations yet even Texas refuses to do it. Tom Homan is very angry.

Some local and county leadership in Texas are ready to roll and work mass deportations. Others are openly obstructing cooperation with ICE. Importantly; ICE itself is obstructing ICE duties. ICE is specifically at fault. Any law enforcement who refuses to help mass deportations should see their federal funding cut immediately. Likewise at State level, including Lone Star Texas. Cut Texas funding immediately. Section 287(g) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1357(g)) is being incinerated by various agencies in Texas. Florida is working hard to get things done. Texas is at best limping to catch Florida. More realistically, Texas is behaving like California while Texas pretends to be TEXAS!

Colony Ridge in Liberty Country near Houston is effectively another sanctuary zone. Yes, there was one flashy bust. And then nothing. ICE refuses to address Colony Ridge and other invasion colonization zones. As does Texas DPS itself. These bustling sanctuary rape and drug zones are heavily populated by illegals. Texas Governor Abbott takes big money from the developer. Remember…I warned about Abbott for years and took much flak. It’s all turned out to be perfectly accurate.

Nobody needs to go to Mexico to fight cartels. They are very powerful and know how to throw the money around. Abbott takes money to help cartels operate in sanctuary zones. That makes Abbott part of the cartel machinery. Bottom line.

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