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In yet another blow to immigration enforcement, a federal judge in Illinois is reportedly preparing to order the mass release of thousands of illegal aliens detained during ICE’s “Operation Blitz,” a nationwide crackdown on criminal and repeat immigration violators. According to ABC7 Chicago, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings, a Biden appointee, is weighing whether to grant what’s called “equitable relief” that could see federal immigration authorities forced to release thousands of detainees into so-called “alternatives to detention” programs, ankle monitors, smartphone check-ins, and other ineffective tracking methods widely criticized as loopholes by law enforcement officers. The case stems from the...

The Turkish Air Force C-130E went down in the country of Georgia as it was returning home from Azerbaijan. Videos show a Turkish Air Force C-130E Hercules cargo plane falling in multiple pieces from the sky earlier today. The center fuselage with the wings still attached is notably seen spiraling straight down toward the ground. The aircraft, which tragically had 20 individuals onboard, came down in Georgia as it was flying from Azerbaijan to Turkey. VIDEO AT LINK................. Footage of Turkish C-130 military transport plane crashing in Georgia after taking off from Azerbaijan https://t.co/6WPtqeJKc8 pic.twitter.com/ixA67w8Ndq— Polymarket Intel (@PolymarketIntel) November 11,...

A Florida 15-year-old was caught brazenly slamming a metal shovel onto the hood of a police cruiser with an officer inside, leading to the teen girl being charged with a felony. Amy Chance was arrested in a suburban neighborhood of Port St. Lucie on Nov. 3 after an officer arrived to investigate a disturbance at her family home caused by the teen, authorities wrote in a press release. Bodycam footage released by the Port St. Lucie Police Department shows the shovel-wielding teen in the middle of the street and approaching the officer as he was sitting in his patrol car....

A North Carolina senator is holding up Mississippi’s nominations for federal judgeships and U.S. attorneys because he wants Sen. Roger Wicker to help an indigenous group in his state gain federal recognition as a tribe. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis told a reporter from NOTUS that his block on four Mississippi nominees is due to negotiations with Wicker, Mississippi’s senior senator, over federal recognition of the Lumbee and other issues unrelated to the nominees themselves. Wicker serves as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which has enormous sway over the legislation in which the Lumbee tribe would be recognized. “Roger’s...

Behold, the “Sky Stadium” announced by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the latest jazzy edition to their utopian “smart city” project known as The Line or NEOM — an $8-trillion, 105-mile-long megastructure composed of two 1640-foot-high mirrored slabs that enclose a creamy nougat center of jungly foliage and water features integrated with apartments, offices, schools, and (of course) shopping. It’s completely insane, you understand. The Line was first featured on this site in August 2022. Three years on, the project is buckling under the weight of its psychotic grandiosity. Here’s a cross-section of the The Line’s beginning at the...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(11/12/25)[Prayer]The Scriptures in Handel’s “Messiah”Isaiah 40:55 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.Holy Bible, The King James Version________________________

snip The agreement includes a “minibus” of three appropriations bills, which will fund some parts of the government through next fall. The rest of the government will be funded through Jan. 30. The deal includes funding of the food assistance program known as SNAP for the rest of the fiscal year through September 2026, meaning families will be fed and food stamps can’t be used as leverage in any funding fight in the coming months. The group of eight also got some wins for federal workers, who have been under siege since Trump’s inauguration, facing aggressive Department of Government Efficiency...

The Trump administration’s tariff regime is under consideration at the Supreme Court. President Trump’s approach — largely focused on the careful and potent use of tariffs as a negotiating tool for so much more than simple trade — is unique and unprecedented, so it’s not surprising that it would be challenged, and that it would reach the High Court. These cases are not the simple “slam dunk” that many of the president’s opponents think they are. ... So even though the press and punditry may present the issue as if the Trump administration is the first ever to step on...

“‘Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles had occurred in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you’” (Matthew 11:21–22). Indifference is a terrible form of unbelief. It so totally ignores God that He is not even considered worth arguing about. As Josiah realized after God’s people rediscovered His book, “great is the wrath of the Lord that burns against us, because our fathers...

Universal Basic Income is a snare and a delusion that cedes all human liberty to the government. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. – George OrwellGeorge Orwell’s telescreen is no longer “suspend your disbelief”-level fiction. And the foot meting out the punishment may soon be the state’s, delivering your Universal Basic Income in UBI Dollars (UBIDs). I have recently written about AI and UBI, positing that AI will lead to sufficient disruption to make UBI a near-certainty. In this essay, I combine these threads in relation to a current political...

A school board member in upstate New York thanked Big Apple voters for bringing on the “Islamic takeover of western society” by electing Zohran Mamdani as mayor — sparking outrage from parents, local reports said. Carmel school trustee Michael Torpey, in Putnam County, made the inflammatory remarks in a video of himself he posted on Facebook on election night last Tuesday, according to News 12 and Lohud. “We accomplished more at our school board meeting tonight than Zohran Mamdani has in his entire career in public service which didn’t exist until tonight, thanks to the good people of New York...

12 November 2025Saint Josaphat, Bishop, Martyr on Wednesday of week 32 in Ordinary TimeSt. Josaphat Catholic Church, DetroitReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingWisdom 6:1-11Kings, your power is a gift to you from the LordListen, kings, and understand;rulers of remotest lands, take warning;hear this, you who have thousands under your rule,who boast of your hordes of subjects.For power is a gift to you from the Lord,sovereignty is from the Most High;he himself will probe your acts and scrutinise your intentions.If, as administrators of his kingdom, you have...

Voters in Texas' capital overwhelmingly rejected a plan to raise taxes to pay millions for homeless services last week, but that isn't stopping local leaders from looking for the money in other places. The City of Austin is now proposing cutting millions in funding from the fire and ambulance services to give it the city's unsuccessful program for people on the streets. 'It's a slap in the face because they really aren't listening, and they really are steamrolling, whatever they want to do, and continuously trying to undermine the public will,' local public safety advocate Cleo Petricek told Daily Mail...

Conservative women give us a fighting chance. After New York City voters chose the terrorist-sympathizing communist Zohran Mamdani to lead them toward a future of more crime, higher taxes, and worse public service, post-election autopsies (or perhaps pre-autopsies of New York’s inevitable suicide) noted how overwhelmingly young women went for Zohran the Barbarian. According to exit polling, 84% of women between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine voted for the magical Marxist Muslim. Only white men voted against the guy who cracks jokes with Islamic fundamentalists who celebrated the 9/11 terror attacks. Democrat pundits point to this statistic as evidence...

Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italian tourists who allegedly paid £70,000 to shoot innocent people in 'human safari' hunting trips to Sarajevo, with extra charged to kill children. The wealthy foreign gun enthusiasts are accused of travelling to the city for 'sniper tourism' during its four-year siege in the 1990s by Serb-Bosnian militias amid the Bosnian War. Between 1992 and 1996, more than 10,000 people were killed in Sarajevo by shelling and sniper fire in the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. The tourists, who are understood to have had ties...

Uber driver Rosie Ramirez’s electric vehicle can go some 260 miles at full charge, which should be plenty on Oahu. But that mileage is quickly eaten up as Ramirez ferries passengers around the island, and she’s learned the hard way that she can’t count on EV chargers to be available for a top off. Ramirez said she starts planning where to charge once the range is down to about half, and even then she has to be prepared for chargers to be out of commission or for other drivers to have beaten her there. “It’s very frustrating,” she said last...

In a jaw-dropping development, artificial intelligence has uncovered something hidden within the Shroud of Turin — and scientists are at a loss to explain it. The mysterious relic, long believed by some to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, has now revealed unexpected patterns or data that challenge conventional understanding. What did AI really detect? Is this evidence of a divine fingerprint, an ancient code, or something else entirely? As theories swirl and experts scramble for answers, one thing is clear: the Shroud of Turin just got a lot more mysterious.

I don’t know what you did on Friday night, but I spent about 90 minutes in the vice president’s study with him and the men you see above, talking geopolitics, Hungary, and the survival of Christianity in Europe, among other things. Of course I can’t be indiscreet about the discussion, but it was rich and vigorous. I’m really glad that JD got to experience the actual, living Viktor Orban in person, and to see for himself how wrong the propaganda is. They got on very, very well. I was able to have a few minutes with the vice president before...

I despise the Groyper movement, but if you want to understand where Fuentes gets purchase with young men I will tell you how it happened by telling you about my experience at the orientation night when my son joined elementary school band: My 11 year old son son joined the elementary school band, and so I went to the parents orientation night which was held at a local high-school. As the night went on it became obvious to me why young men rage against the larger social system.

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