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  • Well Done, Sergeant Jay, and Thank You (video)

    07/01/2025 6:42:04 PM PDT · by bitt · 8 replies
    https://jonathanturley.org/ ^ | July 1, 2025 | JONATHAN TURLEY
    I had to share this moving video of the final march of the 41st Sergeant of the Guard, Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Jay. As a military history nut, one of my favorite (and repeated) experiences is watching the changing of the Guard at Arlington. The precision, dignity, and respect of the ceremony should be witnessed by every American. Since 1948, the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment “The Old Guard” has guarded the Tomb 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This was the final march of the 41st Sergeant of the Guard and it was especially moving as Jay...
  • Fordow Stood Still: Why Iran’s Uranium Stayed Put

    07/01/2025 5:59:10 PM PDT · by bitt · 52 replies
    On June 22, 2025, the United States struck deep. Using bunker-buster bombs, Operation Midnight Hammer targeted Iran’s most fortified nuclear facility, Fordow, along with a constellation of related sites. Within hours, a new narrative emerged. According to some analysts and media commentators, Iran had foreseen the strike and whisked its highly enriched uranium out of harm’s way just days before the bombs fell. It is a seductive story, part thriller, part geopolitical chess game. But it is also, on closer inspection, fiction. Fordow is not a shipping warehouse. It is a subterranean stronghold. Situated 2,500 feet beneath the mountains near...
  • Elon Musk escalates Trump feud — vowing to back Rep. Thomas Massie, one of the prez’s biggest rivals

    07/01/2025 7:21:27 AM PDT · by bitt · 90 replies
    https://nypost.com/ ^ | July 1, 2025 | Patrick Reilly
    Elon Musk escalated his feud with President Trump, announcing that he would be backing one of the commander in chief’s biggest foes in congress, Rep. Thomas Massie — the libertarian-leaning House lawmaker who Trump has vowed to see defeated in the midterm election. Musk signaled he would donate to the Kentucky Republican’s 2026 reelection campaign on X when he responded “Me” to a post asking who would be backing Massie’s congressional bid. Trump, meanwhile, had pledged to support whichever candidate runs in the primary against Massie, who the president lambasted as a “loser” and “Third Rate Congressman” in an online...
  • With code words and dog whistles, Zohran Mamdani puts a pretty face on hate

    06/30/2025 7:58:10 AM PDT · by bitt · 20 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | June 29, 2025 | Post Editorial Board
    Zohran Mamdani sure is good at putting a pleasant face on hate. His platform’s pointed reference to boosting property taxes on white New Yorkers is “just naming things as they are,” he claimed Sunday, simply “an assessment of what neighborhoods are being under-taxed versus over-taxed.” So why make a point of linking it to race, unless you’re talking code? Similarly, he wouldn’t back down on his defense of the phrase “Globalize the intifada,” which along with “From the river to the sea” is blatantly about opposing Jews as Jews and eliminating Israel. But “that’s not language that I use,” he...
  • Miranda Devine: How the Biden admin ‘weaponized’ the justice system against Trump aide Peter Navarro

    06/30/2025 7:51:08 AM PDT · by bitt · 10 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | June 29, 2025, | Miranda Devine
    Former first lady Jill Biden’s factotum Anthony Bernal refused to testify before Congress last week for a scheduled interview about the President Joe Biden autopen scandal. Now Bernal will be subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to compel his testimony about who was really running the White House during Biden’s term — or face potential criminal charges of contempt. That’s a real possibility for Bernal and other former White House officials implicated in the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline, considering that the Biden administration broke all norms when it jailed President Trump’s White House adviser Peter Navarro and former adviser...
  • Canada hands big win to Trump, suspends U.S. tech firm tax that had roiled trade talks

    06/29/2025 9:01:53 PM PDT · by bitt · 27 replies
    https://justthenews.com ^ | June 29, 2025 | John Solomon
    Canada announced Sunday night it was suspending a tax on U.S. technology firms that had caused President Trump to suspend trade negotiations between the two nations, handing a major victory to the American president. The Canadian government said it was suspending enforcement of the tax that was due to be collected starting Monday, saying the action was taken “in anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement with the United States.” Prime Minister Mark Carney informed the Trump administration of the decision, and the two sides plan to resume trade talks on or about July 21. Trump had called the...
  • Friends With Benefits: Stacey Abrams Funneled $20 Million to Her Lawyer

    06/29/2025 7:51:01 PM PDT · by bitt · 37 replies
    https://www.theohiopressnetwork.com ^ | Jun 29, 2025 | Paul Sperry
    A nonprofit founded by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams to protect voting rights paid more than $20 million to a lawyer who is a close friend and helped set up two of her private businesses, according to tax and state incorporation filings and other records obtained by RealClearInvestigations. Abrams’ Fair Fight Action redirected the tax-exempt donations and government grants to Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, her former campaign chair between 2019 and 2023. Most of the funds covered legal expenses charged by the boutique law firm Lawrence-Hardy co-founded, for a failed race-bias lawsuit filed against Abram’s Republican opponent, Gov. Brian Kemp, after she...
  • Israeli court postpones Netanyahu’s corruption trial after Trump calls for case to be dropped

    06/29/2025 12:39:26 PM PDT · by bitt · 9 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | June 29, 2025 | Ronny Reyes
    The Jerusalem District Court agreed to postpone Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial — just hours after President Trump called for the case to be dropped while suggesting American aid could hang in the balance over the decision. The court revealed Sunday that Netanyahu will not have to testify for the next two weeks due to diplomatic and national security issues, two days after the judge initially rejected the premier’s repeated requests to have the trial delayed. The new order came after Trump took to Truth Social and slammed the corruption trial — which sees Netanyahu accused of bribery,...
  • I Investigated Where AOC is Really From, What We Found Will Stun You: The Biggest Fraud in Congress? (VIDEO 11 MIN)

    06/29/2025 12:28:33 PM PDT · by bitt · 57 replies
    https://youtu.be/Cfj5py3BGjs ^ | 6/29/2025 | Benny Johnson
    I Investigated Where AOC is Really From, What We Found Will Stun You: The Biggest Fraud in Congress? I travelled to AOC’s hometown, it’s not what she says it is..
  • Top local NY Dem tipped off accused child molester before bust, new lawsuit claims: ‘She needs to resign’

    06/29/2025 12:13:33 PM PDT · by bitt · 21 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | June 29, 2025 | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
    The mayor of Mount Vernon tipped off a political pal that he was about to be busted for allegedly molesting a 12-year-old girl — two weeks before the creep was locked up, a bombshell lawsuit claims. Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard allegedly summoned disgraced basketball coach Dwayne Murray to Mount Vernon City Hall in late April to warn her “close associate” of the pending bust, one of several hair-raising claims laid out in the suit filed Monday by community activist Gabriel Thompson. “I just see lawlessness,” Thompson told The Post. “She needs to resign. Are you kidding me? The mayor of a...
  • Fatwa Calling for Muslims to Assassinate President Trump Issued by Iranian Ayatollah

    06/29/2025 12:01:54 PM PDT · by bitt · 99 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ ^ | Jun. 29, 2025 | Kristinn Taylor
    Iranian Shiite Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, 98, issued a fatwa calling on Muslims worldwide to assassinate President Donald Trump, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The semi-official Iranian news outlet Mehr News Agency reported on its English language site on Sunday (excerpt): Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi has issued a fatwa in which he declares anyone who threatens Leader, and Shia Marja to be the Enemy of God, who has to be fought against according to Islamic teachings. After threats were made by the criminal American president and the leaders of the child-killing Zionist regime against the Leader of...
  • Chinese military-tied company appears to be choosing new hires at Ford battery plant company

    06/29/2025 9:10:10 AM PDT · by bitt · 8 replies
    https://justthenews.com ^ | June 29, 2025 | Steven Richards
    The Chinese military affiliated battery manufacturer CATL appears to be in charge of hiring for roles at the Ford plant that executives said would be wholly owned and operated by the American company. AChinese company appears to be in charge of hiring workers for Ford’s new battery plant in Michigan, contradicting the company’s statements that it will be an American-owned and operated project, and amplifying concerns from locals about potential national security implications. The plant has generated significant controversy because of Ford’s partnership with China-based Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited, known as CATL, which closely collaborates with the Chinese military and...
  • BREAKING: Senate Finally Advances President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” After HOURS of Drama and a Visit From VP JD Vance – Two GOPers Vote NO

    06/28/2025 8:21:25 PM PDT · by bitt · 63 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ ^ | Jun. 28, 2025 10:11 pm | Cullen Linebarger
    The Senate has advanced President Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill to a full debate despite two GOP defections after hours of drama. The final tally was 51-49. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina were the two Republican nays. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin initially voted no but switched to yes. Vice President JD Vance arrived at the Capitol earlier to potentially cast a tie-breaking vote. WATCH Vice President Vance enters the Capitol as he prepares to break a potential tie on the first procedural hurdle on the GOP reconciliation bill pic.twitter.com/d2ATm6dP6m — Max Cohen (@maxpcohen) June 29, 2025...
  • Elon Musk doubles down on ‘big beautiful bill’ criticism, calling it ‘utterly insane’ and ‘political suicide’

    06/28/2025 8:07:19 PM PDT · by bitt · 52 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | June 28, 2025 | Shane Galvin
    Elon Musk waded back into politics Saturday with a series of sharp social media criticisms of the Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill,” calling it “utterly insane” and “political suicide.” The SpaceX CEO, who turned 54 on Saturday, expressed his frustration and rage at the massive spending bill on social media ahead of the critical vote on which the Trump agenda hinges. “The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” the former DOGE chief wrote on X ahead of a Senate debate on the legislation. “Utterly insane and destructive. It...
  • Why millionaires are planning to escape from New York

    06/28/2025 6:47:24 PM PDT · by bitt · 73 replies
    https://www.thetimes.com ^ | , New York Thursday June 26 2025, | Beth Landman | Bevan Hurley , New York | Will Pavia
    The morning after Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, Tom O’Donoghue’s phone was ringing off the hook. O’Donoghue, who runs a luxury construction firm in the Hamptons — the summer playground for rich New Yorkers — said his clients were in “complete disbelief” that a socialist was suddenly the favourite to win November’s general election. “One of my clients has 150 commercial buildings in the city and he just told me that he had contacted his attorney this morning. They’re getting out of New York,” he said. Though the former New York governor Andrew...
  • Trump’s Description of Ilhan Omar is 100% Spot-On

    06/28/2025 2:10:53 PM PDT · by bitt · 37 replies
    https://pjmedia.com/ ^ | June 28, 2025 | Robert Spencer
    Trump delivered his characterization of Omar to the world in the course of a Tuesday post on Truth Social about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling for him to be impeached for daring to strike the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear program. The president paused for a moment from his likewise deadly accurate portrayal of AOC (to whom he referred as “one of the ‘dumbest’ people in Congress”) to go after her Squad colleague.” Ilhan Omar, Trump wrote, “does nothing but complain about our Country, yet the Failed Country that she comes from doesn’t have a Government, is drenched in Crime and Poverty,...
  • Justice Kagan’s Own Words Come Back to Haunt Her on Nationwide Injunctions

    06/28/2025 8:02:53 AM PDT · by bitt · 47 replies
    https://pjmedia.com ^ | June 28, 2025 | Matt Margolis
    The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc., released Friday, finally put the brakes on the reckless abuse of nationwide injunctions by lower courts—and has Democrats in full meltdown mode. The left’s favorite judicial weapon just got neutered, and the hypocrisy is impossible to ignore. The liberal wing of the court didn’t do itself any favors, either. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent was so horrible that Justice Amy Coney Barrett felt compelled to call it out in the majority opinion. But Justice Elena Kagan’s credibility also took a direct hit. In a stunning display of judicial flip-flopping, Kagan’s...
  • WATCH: Russian President Putin Praises ‘Courageous’ Trump, Says That Relations With the US Are Beginning To Improve

    06/27/2025 1:40:29 PM PDT · by bitt · 21 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ ^ | Jun. 27, 2025 | Paul Serran J
    Russian President Vladimir Putin held a press briefing today (27) in Moscow, following his visit to Belarus for the Eurasian Economic Union summit in Minsk. There was plenty of recrimination for the collective West, but respect and even a certain amount of praise for US President Donald J. Trump’s courage and efforts for peace. Here’s a summary of what Putin said, according to a report by Sputnik: “Russia is ready for the third round of negotiations with Ukraine. The date is being discussed by the heads of the delegations. The proposals from Ukraine and Russia for ending the conflict are...
  • SCOTUS conservatives issue scathing rebuke of Justice Jackson in injunctions ruling

    06/27/2025 8:15:44 AM PDT · by bitt · 93 replies
    https://justthenews.com/ ^ | Published: June 27, 2025 | Ben Whedon
    "JUSTICE JACKSON would do well to heed her own admonition: “[E]veryone, from the President on down, is bound by law.” Ibid. That goes for judges too," she added. T he Supreme Court's Friday ruling narrowing the scope of judicial injunctions also included a scathing rebuke of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, asserting she sought an "imperial judiciary" and that her views ran afoul of more than 200 years of precedent. "We will not dwell on JUSTICE JACKSON’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this:...
  • Pete Hegseth Reveals New Name for USNS Harvey Milk

    06/27/2025 7:46:40 AM PDT · by bitt · 73 replies
    USNS Harvey Milk will be the USNS Oscar V. Peterson. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the new name for the naval ship USNS Harvey Milk will be the USNS Oscar V. Peterson. "We are taking the politics out of ship naming," Hegseth said in a statement to officially announce the name change. Why It Matters Hegseth has vowed to uproot what he has characterized as the woke agenda from the military, restoring what he has called the "warrior ethos" and renaming the USNS Harvey Milk is part of that broader drive. Harvey Milk was California's first openly gay politician and...