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Firm in the belief that immigration enforcement is bad for business, Southwest Airlines is pushing back hard against efforts to detain illegal immigrants at U.S. airports, according to a new report. A report from The Wall Street Journal highlights a July 25 incident in which an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent tried to board a Southwest Airlines jet in Dallas. The agent was prevented from carrying out his duties by the airline, the outlet reported. Dallas-based Southwest staff also refused to share passenger information with ICE. The Wall Street Journal cited a source it did not name as saying that...

All OutKick founder Clay Travis did was challenge the WNBA and “the Science” cult to put their money where their mouth is and prove that biological males don't have an unfair physical advantage over women in sports, and the alphabet soup mafia in the media are already losing their collective mind. Travis pledged $10 million August 3 for the WNBA to put their defending champion Las Vegas Aces up against a boys’ high school basketball team of his choosing, with the apparent intent of showcasing the idiocy of biological males competing in women’s sports. Jana Shortal, an anchor of Twin...

The leader of a moderate Democrat group said members are gearing up for a battle with democratic socialists who may try to capture the presidential nomination in 2028, the New York Times (NYT) reported Thursday. Some Democrats, including Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), have been warning against the rising influence of socialists and communists in the Democrat Party, Breitbart News reported Wednesday. Indeed, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed beat establishment Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in Tuesday’s primary in Michigan, where “the radical transformation of the Democratic Party is center stage,” Breitbart News said Wednesday: El-Sayed, a public health official and former failed...

We are finally getting a clearer picture of what happened during COVID. Not because the people who locked us up, masked our faces and forced unproven chemicals into our bodies have suddenly become transparent, but because Anthony Fauci’s COVID-era diary is coming into public view. This long document makes one thing painfully clear: the people who forced us to surrender our lives to their expertise did not have the expertise they claimed. At best, they were guessing. And when their guesses failed, they did not retreat. They didn’t come clean. They doubled down. Arrogance unbridled.. Our health, our freedoms, our...

Progressive candidates continue to rack up wins in primary elections across the United States, propelled by a new left-wing media ecosystem allowing them to build a national profile on their own terms -- and sidestep the traditional gatekeepers of the Democratic establishment. For Pennsylvania state Representative Chris Rabb, ​a Democratic socialist who recently prevailed in a congressional primary against a more moderate rival, appearances on programs like "The Majority Report with Sam Seder" and "Breaking Points" played a key role in his political breakthrough. "It ‌helps me increase my visibility, validation and ability to raise money,” said Rabb, describing it...

Cases of leprosy are on the rise in Florida, and health officials are linking many cases to exposure to a specific animal. As of July 23, Florida’s Department of Health reported 17 cases statewide, with 81 percent in Central Florida, according to NewsNation affiliate WFLA. The heaviest concentration of cases has been reported in Volusia, Brevard, Lake, Orange and Seminole counties. Last year, Florida had 36 cases, a record high since reporting began in 1992. At least 26 of those cases were contracted in Florida, one was contracted out of state, and two were contracted outside the country. Where the...

Evan Barker believed she was a lifelong Democrat. Born into a Kansas City union family, she campaigned for Barack Obama while still in high school and was a community organizer for Hillary Clinton in 2015. Working for the consultancy Left Rising, she writes, “I built my name as a ruthless fundraiser … I was a live player who helped progressive insurgents” — including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush and Jasmine Crockett — “infiltrate from within.” But her new book, “Nothing Left” (Threshold Editions), out today, gives a look at how Barker lost faith in her party — and, in 2024, voted...

Arizona's largest county suffered a significant breach of its election data in the days before the 2020 presidential election when a self-described hacker foiled security and obtained 633,000 voter registration files but the Biden Justice Department and local prosecutors declined to bring charges even after the FBI got the suspect to confess, according to declassified documents made public Thursday by the White House. The scraping of Maricopa County's voter registration files was the most flagged security incident in a cyberintrusion log kept by U.S. spy agencies in the days around the Nov. 3, 2020 election, and it caused an extensive...

There is “nothing more American” than socialism, and it has proven to deliver life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Colorado congressional candidate Melat Kiros asserted during a recent interview. Kiros, who believes there should be a Trans Bill of Rights, made the declaration during a recent interview on PBS’s Firing Line with Margaret Hoover . The candidate staunchly defended socialism, asserting that it has delivered on the ideas outlined in the founding documents of the United States. “I don’t think there’s anything more American than subscribing to an economic philosophy that, as the evidence shows, is the only one...

Arizona's largest county suffered a significant breach of its election data in the days before the 2020 presidential election when a self-described hacker foiled security and obtained 633,000 voter registration files but the Biden Justice Department and local prosecutors declined to bring charges even after the FBI got the suspect to confess, according to declassified documents made public Thursday by the White House. The scraping of Maricopa County's voter registration files was the most flagged security incident in a cyberintrusion log kept by U.S. spy agencies in the days around the Nov. 3, 2020 election, and it caused an extensive...

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has signed what she calls the strongest law in America for blocking and punishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. The sweeping PROTECT Act restricts civil immigration arrests in courthouses, public schools, child-care centers, and health-care facilities unless agents have a judicial warrant. It also limits cooperation between state and local authorities and federal immigration officers. Healey did not hide the target. At the signing, the Democrat repeatedly attacked ICE, President Donald Trump, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller while promising that federal agents who violate state residents’ rights will face consequences. Her same-day...

A growing anti-Muslim movement is gaining traction in Japan. When most people think of Japan, they don’t picture a country with a significant Islamic presence or a growing number of mosques. But the reality may surprise them. Japan has long been viewed as one of the few remaining countries willing to fiercely protect its national identity, traditions, and culture. What many of us didn’t realize was that the left had been quietly working its way in all along… just take a look at these numbers. East Asia Forum: Japan’s Muslim community has grown rapidly to around 420,000 people What Japan...

The Brief The City Council voted 7-0 late Tuesday to approve plans for a new McKinney Islamic Association facility. The vote followed hours of public comment involving debate over traffic, religious concerns, and hostility toward supporters. Located at Virginia Parkway and Crutcher Crossing, the new site will include a sanctuary, classroom building, and gymnasium to serve a growing congregation. ==================================================================== McKINNEY, Texas - The McKinney City Council late Tuesday night unanimously approved plans for a new mosque, ending years of community debate over the development. McKinney approves new mosque What we know: The McKinney Islamic Association has been a part...

Footage circulating purporting to be from the North African desert shows what looks like an enormous column of sub-Saharan African men moving under escort. Some estimates put the number at a hundred thousand. Commentators claim Algerian military vehicles and personnel are shepherding them toward the coast. If the scale and direction prove accurate, Europe faces another deliberate pressure wave on top of the chaos already unfolding in Ceuta. Wait until they see what is comingI said early on Algeria with their best chums Iran and Russia would weaponise invasionHere are thousands of Sub Saharans beinv escorted across the desert by...

Despite “his own visceral contempt for their adherents,” the future supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, found utility in integrating “the influence of the leftist ideologies that had made such a mark on the Middle East over previous decades” into his revolutionary pitch. That is how Jason Burke, author of the new book The Revolutionists, describes the genesis of what would become the Iranian “red-green alliance” in his epic retelling of how the Marxist militants of the 1970s evolved from Cuban-style communists into socialist pan-Arabists and, eventually, Islamists. Subtly, Khomeini and his deputies integrated the...

The Epstein files: what we know about his links to Iran. Feb 4, 2026. Newly released documents from the Jeffrey Epstein case include multiple references to Iran, ranging from claims of a meeting with a former Iranian president to allegations of arms trading, financial networks, and property links connected to Tehran. Among the emails released from the Jeffrey Epstein case is a letter written by Robert Trivers, a prominent American evolutionary biologist, referring to a meeting between Epstein and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s former president. This is not the only instance in which Iran appears in the documents made public by...

Vice President JD Vance floated on Wednesday the possibility that in three years’ time, firebrand Michigan Democratic nominee Abdul el Sayed could be sitting in the White House as commander in chief. Vance raised the prospect of an el Sayed administration during an anti-fraud event at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, arguing that Congress needs to codify stricter guidelines to prevent future scams in taxpayer-funded federal programs. “This effort will fundamentally always have a limitation unless our colleagues in the House and the Senate are working with us,” he said. “We don’t want the next administration, whoever you know, God...

We live with humans. We watch them every single day. 😼 And the questions just keep coming. In this episode of The Cat Podcast, Biscuit and Ash reopen the investigation into what humans actually do all day — same human, same couch, brand new evidence. Because the human bathes on purpose, walking into a special room to stand under indoor rain, and on special occasions he fills a giant bowl with hot water and just marinates in it for an hour. He owns a perfectly good indoor stove, then walks right past it to go fight a fire in a...

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed had been the newly picked Democrat party nominee for U.S. Senate from Michigan for only hours when startling charges about improper connections and cash arose. El-Sayed’s campaign had taken in more than $115,000 from people “who work for or have held leadership roles with the Council on American-Islamic Relations,” according to a Fox News report. The problem with that? CAIR has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and formally designated or labeled as such in Florida and Texas. CAIR, the politically active organization promotion Islam throughout America, in fact, was named as an...

Grocery prices are insane. They’re still rising. Addressing this problem should be the number one priority of every elected leader. End the stupid foreign wars and focus on this issue. It’s one of the main reasons socialists are gaining power.— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 3, 2026