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  • We Must Resist the Sharia-ization of America

    08/19/2026 4:14:16 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 3 replies
    Town Hall ^ | 19 Aug 2026 | Kurt Schlichter
    Everywhere you look around the United States, it seems that our political leaders are falling all over themselves to hand this country over to fanatical Muslims. From the building of massive mosques to illegal street takeovers for prayer sessions, to building religious foot-washing stations in airports to Muslim fanatics winning elections to straight-up indoctrination, the chickens of decades of Third World immigration are coming home to roost. As we’ve seen in Europe, once they come seeking refuge from the hellholes they came from, they immediately seek to convert Western countries into the hellholes they came from. The question is whether...
  • CNN is upset and accusing Pete Hegseth of using a transphobic slur during a speech

    08/19/2026 4:08:48 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 9 replies
    HEGSETH: "At the Dept. of War, we do TRAINING — not TRANNIES!" "Color blind, gender neutral, merit-based. That's it. We want the best." TAPPER: "Calling transgender trannies is obviously a SLUR they don't like! Treat people with dignity."
  • US National Debt Tops $40 Trillion

    08/19/2026 3:40:59 PM PDT · by thegagline · 28 replies
    NewsMax ^ | 08/19/2026 | Staff
    The U.S. national debt has surpassed $40 trillion for the first time, marking a historic milestone in a borrowing buildup that has accumulated over generations, through wars, recessions, tax changes and the expansion of major federal benefit programs under presidents of both parties.The Treasury Department reported that total public debt outstanding reached about $40.047 trillion Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. The number is striking, but the more significant measure for economists is debt held by the public — money the federal government owes to investors and other entities outside the federal government. That...
  • REVEALED: Anti-American Socialist Hasan Piker’s Brother Reportedly Held TOP-SECRET Security Clearance — Worked on Air Force One and Nuclear “Doomsday Plane” at Boeing

    08/19/2026 3:37:33 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 8 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | August 19, 2026 | Jim Hoft
    While far-left Twitch millionaire Hasan Piker built an enormous following attacking the United States, praising communist dictators, and declaring that America “deserved 9/11,” his younger brother was reportedly working on some of the nation’s most sensitive military aircraft. Murat Piker, Hasan’s younger brother and frequent livestream companion, spent more than a decade working as an aerospace engineer at Boeing, according to a bombshell report from the Washington Free Beacon. His projects reportedly included the new Air Force One, the E-6B Mercury nuclear command aircraft, airborne surveillance systems, military drones, satellites, and Boeing spacecraft. According to Murat’s public LinkedIn profile, he...
  • HOA surveillance cameras secretly installed for ‘neighborhood security’ draw massive backlash — and are killing home sales

    08/19/2026 3:33:51 PM PDT · by CFW · 11 replies
    NYPost ^ | 8/19/26 | Mary K. Jacob
    Big brother is watching your open house. Homeowners associations across the country are quietly signing up for Flock Safety’s license plate cameras, and the backlash is now strong enough to blow up home sales, kill signed contracts and land cities in court, with New York at the center of the fight. Nowhere is the backlash more raw than in the Adirondacks, where the fight has already toppled a signed contract and sparked open revolt inside a gated community. In Saranac Lake, a resident living behind a gate who protested the cameras in his own neighborhood said the issue isn’t security...
  • Minnesota’s “Outstanding Refugee” Arrested and Charged with Million Dollar Medicaid Fraud, Tied to Sex Trafficking Ring

    08/19/2026 3:28:58 PM PDT · by Impala64ssa · 3 replies
    Geller Report ^ | 8/18/26 | Pamela Gellar
    Salman Elmi was awarded “Outstanding Refugee” by Minnesota. He was just charged for a $1 million Medicaid fraud scheme. The award was given by the Minnesota Department of Human Services, which ironically administers Medicaid payments. Today, a DHS spokesperson sent me this statement: “Salman Elmi’s alleged actions are disturbing and do not reflect the goal of the Outstanding Refugee Awards. They also do not represent Minnesota’s refugee community. We are surrounded by neighbors, coworkers, employees and friends, with powerful stories of resilience in the face of difficult circumstances, who are showing leadership in small as well as large ways to...
  • Prince Harry and Meghan moving back to the U.K.

    08/19/2026 3:14:40 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 43 replies
    CBC News ^ | August 18, 2026
    The Palace says the couple will continue to be non-working Royals and private citizens. Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, ‌are moving back to the United Kingdom with their children, Buckingham Palace confirmed Wednesday.
  • State approves ‘Zone Zero’ fire-safe landscaping rules, reshaping yards for millions of Californians

    08/19/2026 3:14:22 PM PDT · by Vendome · 12 replies
    LA Times ^ | August 19, 2026 | Noah Haggerty and Hayley Smith
    California’s Board of Forestry has approved sweeping Zone Zero rules, banning plants within one foot of homes and most combustibles within five feet for millions in high fire-risk communities. Existing homeowners in state responsibility and very high hazard zones will have up to five years to comply with Zone Zero, while new construction must adhere immediately. Officials say the changes are crucial as worsening wildfires have destroyed tens of thousands of homes; studies show hardened houses and cleared Zone Zero improve survival and insurability. The rules ban all plants within a foot of the home and require the first five...
  • Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the UK this MONTH

    08/19/2026 3:12:10 PM PDT · by Jemian · 14 replies
    Daily Mail/UK ^ | 19 August, 2026 | GETHIN HICKS, REPORTER and REBECCA ENGLISH, ROYAL EDITOR and SHANNON MCGUIGAN, NEWS REPORTER
    Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the UK this MONTH and enrolling Archie and Lilibet in school - but sources insist 'there's no half in-half out option' for being royal Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the United Kingdom this month - six years after leaving for the US. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are understood to be returning for an 'extended period', with Archie and Lilibet set to enrol at a British school. The family will move into a non-royal residence and will not be working royals. King Charles was only informed...
  • The DSA is performing the devil’s greatest trick

    08/19/2026 3:04:26 PM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 5 replies
    Charles Baudelaire, a French poet, gets credit for the line about the Devil’s greatest trick being to convince you he doesn’t exist. (No, it wasn’t Kevin Spacey in the movie “The Usual Suspects.”) Usually people reach for it to describe evil operating in plain view, unbothered, because nobody bothers to look.It came to mind reading the Democratic Socialists of America’s 2025-2026 platform. More precisely, it came to mind watching what happens to that platform once it reaches any election campaign.Nothing about the document itself is hidden. It sits on the organization’s website. The national political committee adopted it formally. Fox...
  • Mossad spy agency, held a phone call with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani last week, prior to the airstrike on a Syrian military base [due to Turkish presence].

    08/19/2026 2:41:39 PM PDT · by Milagros · 3 replies
    JPost on X ^ | Aug 19, 2026
    The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: The head of Israel's Mossad spy agency, Roman Gofman, held a phone call with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani last week, prior to the airstrike on a Syrian military base. The Israeli Prime Minister's Office said the strikes were due to Turkish military presence in Syria.
  • ICE still blocked from churches of Cooperative Baptists, Quakers, Sikhs

    08/19/2026 2:37:02 PM PDT · by thegagline · 21 replies
    The Center Square ^ | 08/19/2016 | Alan Wooten
    Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are blocked from entering churches of Cooperative Baptists, Quakers and Sikhs to carry out enforcement operations unless they have a warrant, or in certain specified circumstances, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. Upholding last year’s preliminary injunction, the appellate court’s unanimous decision from a three-judge panel also applies to other agents in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The injunction restored part of a sensitive location policy that had been revoked by Homeland Security. Many churches within CBF since have posted signage letting everyone, including immigrants to America who broke the...
  • Leo XIV’s Newest Appointments: WEF, Agenda 2030 and Women-Must-Become-Priests

    08/19/2026 2:34:08 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | August 19, 2026 | Gloria TV
    Leo XIV’s Newest Appointments: WEF, Agenda 2030 and Women-Must-Become-Priests On 18 August 2026, Pope Leo XIV appointed twelve new consultors to the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Leo XIV fills the Vatican's social-policy apparatus with mostly anti-Catholic figures.1. Peter G. Kirchschläger, 49, Social ethicist, University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandIn December 2018, he said that the Catholic Church has an unresolved human-rights problem regarding the impossibility of women's ordination to the priesthood. He even claimed that the state "may not look away" but has an obligation to press the Church on it. When presented with the argument that women dissatisfied with...
  • Karen Bass ripped after viral video lays out taxpayer-funded match of campaign donations

    08/19/2026 2:27:13 PM PDT · by DFG · 12 replies
    Fox News ^ | 08/19/2026 | Peter D'Abrosca and Louis Casiano
    Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing scrutiny after an online ad revealed that campaign contributions from supporters of her re-election bid would be matched by taxpayer dollars. "Your donation to our campaign right now is more critical than ever before," said Bass, speaking into a lapel microphone with upbeat music playing in the background of the ad, which was posted to her campaign's X account. "Let me explain," she continued. "Thanks to LA's super match program, every qualified donation from Los Angeles residents is matched 6-to-1 by the city. But after the primary, we had to start over...
  • Somali daycare owner wins DFL House primary as state violations continue to pile up

    08/19/2026 2:20:50 PM PDT · by READINABLUESTATE · 21 replies
    Alpha News ^ | Jenna Gloeb
    A Somali refugee turned St. Cloud businessman whose childcare center has racked up years of state licensing violations is now one step closer to the Minnesota Legislature. Abdi Daisane won last week’s Democratic primary with 62.5% of the vote, advancing to the November general election against Republican Mike Conway in House District 14A. Daisane, who was born in Somalia and spent time in a Kenyan refugee camp before entering the United States, has owned Blooming Kids Child Care Center in St. Cloud since 2017. Alpha News first reported on the center’s history of violations in July 2024, when Daisane was...
  • SF high school where 94% flunk math has California’s highest Berkeley acceptance rate

    08/19/2026 2:01:53 PM PDT · by CFW · 23 replies
    NYPost ^ | 8/19/26
    A San Francisco high school where students get top grades simply for showing up now has the highest acceptance rate in the state to the prestigious University of California, Berkeley — as critics blame rampant grade inflation and rock-bottom standards for a surge in ill-prepared college students who end up dropping out. Mission High School had a 45% acceptance rate into the elite university, with 34 out of its 76 applicants gaining admission last fall, far ahead of the state average of 15%, according to data compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle. But it’s not because of superior academics, critics...
  • Rick Scott: Trump will have to resume full war with Iran

    08/19/2026 1:59:18 PM PDT · by McGruff · 38 replies
    The Hill ^ | Aug 19, 2026 | Ryan Mancini
    Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Tuesday said President Trump will have to resume a full war with Iran days after the initial failed ceasefire deal expired. Asked if the president should follow through on his threat last month to “bomb and destroy” at least “ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT” near Tehran if the Iranian regime fired at U.S. ships in the Strait of Hormuz, Scott answered in the affirmative. “I think he’s going to have to,” the Florida Republican told NewsNation’s Blake Burman in an appearance on “The Hill.” “I mean, here’s a president that doesn’t like war. None of...
  • Hope for Prisoners founder Ponder arrested for sexual assault and more

    08/19/2026 1:53:12 PM PDT · by thegagline · 8 replies
    The Nevada Current ^ | 08/18/2026 | Dana Gentry
    Jon Ponder, a three-time bank robber who was pardoned by President Donald Trump, was arrested Tuesday by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police on nine felony counts and 11 gross misdemeanors. The charges include sexual assault and sexual abuse of a prisoner by an employee, contractor, or volunteer.Other charges against Ponder include multiple counts of unauthorized contact with prisoners, attempted coercion that is sexually related, and open and gross lewdness. The Current was first to report in April that Ponder had been banned from Nevada prisons, where Hope for Prisoners, a non-profit organization Ponder founded, provides reentry services. Ponder has long been...
  • Trump immigration crackdown hits another milestone

    08/19/2026 1:39:39 PM PDT · by thegagline · 6 replies
    The Center Square ^ | 08/19/2026 | Sarah Roderick
    A hurdle to adding the final country to the list of temporary protected status terminations has been eliminated as the Trump administration continues to crack down on immigration, with refugee numbers at a record low.A Boston judge, Brian Murphy, lifted a final administrative stay, ending TPS for over 5,000 Ethiopians in the U.S. under the program, marking the 13th country with TPS status to be terminated in President Donald Trump’s second term.Those countries include Afghanistan, Burma, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security argued in a social media...
  • 20 tons of squid spill across Rhode Island road

    08/19/2026 1:35:03 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 32 replies
    KITO-TV7 ^ | August 19, 2026 | Natalie Dreier
    NARRAGANSETT, R.I. — Crews in Rhode Island had quite a mess to clean up after a tractor-trailer carrying 20 tons of squid was involved in a crash, spilling its load. The crash happened in Narragansett, Rhode Island, WFXT reported. Narragansett Police said the tractor-trailer had been “negotiating” a turn when the trailer dislodged from the cab and flipped on its side, ABC News reported. The squid covered parts of the road as crews had to clean up the slippery, and possibly worse, smelly mess on Aug. 16. “At the time of the incident, the fully loaded trailer was transporting squid...