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  • Florida makes one thing absolutely clear after Obama judge orders teardown of Alligator Alcatraz

    08/23/2025 2:19:18 PM PDT · by Twotone · 56 replies
    The Blaze ^ | August 22, 2025 | Joseph Mackinnon
    An Obama judge issued an injunction on Thursday ordering Florida not only to halt the arrival of new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz but to begin dismantling the facility. The Sunshine State isn't rolling over, and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' office indicated that President Donald Trump's deportation campaign will continue as planned. Quick background After DeSantis tasked state leaders with identifying places for a new detention facility to temporarily house outbound criminal noncitizens, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier made a public pitch in favor of "Alligator Alcatraz" — "an old, virtually abandoned airport facility" in the Everglades that could serve as...
  • Trump Proposes Expanding Concealed-Carry Rights to Washington, D.C. to Combat Rising Crime

    08/23/2025 1:04:00 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 23 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 23, 2025 3:15 PM | Sarah Arnold
    During a Q&A session in the Oval Office on Friday, President Donald Trump reignited the national conversation on gun rights by proposing a bold expansion of concealed-carry laws to include Washington, D.C. Trump argued that residents of the nation’s capital must have the ability to protect themselves amid a surge in violent crime.“People have to be able to protect themselves,” Trump said. “Especially in Washington, you walk down the street, a guy comes up and slugs you. He’s got a pistol in his hand. You can be tough, you can be powerful, or you can be a guy that weighs...
  • UK free speech crackdown sees up to 30 people a day arrested for petty offenses such as retweets and cartoons

    08/23/2025 7:36:27 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 59 replies
    NYP ^ | 08 19 2025 | Chadwick Moore
    Bernadette Spofforth lay in jail on a blue gym mattress in a daze, finding it difficult to move, even breathe. “I just closed down. But the other half of my brain went into Jack Reacher mode,” she said, referring to the fictional action hero. “Every single detail was in this very vivid, bright, sharp focus.” She remembers noticing that you can’t drown yourself in the toilet, because there’s no standing water in it and the flush button is too far to reach if your head were in the bowl. She’d end up being detained for 36 hours in July 2024....
  • Russia’s Terms for Ending Ukraine War Revealed After Trump-Putin Talks

    08/23/2025 7:37:06 AM PDT · by SaxxonWoods · 82 replies
    GreekReporter ^ | 8/17/2025 | John Koutroumpis
    Under the proposal, Russia is insisting on full control of the Donbas region, which includes the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. Moscow is demanding that Ukrainian forces withdraw entirely from the area. In return, Russia has indicated that it would pull back its troops from certain occupied zones in the northeastern Sumy and Kharkiv regions and agree to “freeze” the frontlines in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to travel to Washington on Monday, where he will meet with Trump to discuss the emerging framework and its implications for the...
  • Trump’s Vendetta Campaign Targets John Bolton

    08/23/2025 8:16:44 AM PDT · by karpov · 89 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | August 22, 2025 | WSJ Editorial Board
    President Trump promised voters during his campaign for a second term that he had bigger things on his mind than retribution against opponents. But it is increasingly clear that vengeance is a large part, maybe the largest part, of how he will define success in his second term. His revenge campaign took an ominous turn Friday as FBI agents raided the home and office of Mr. Trump’s first-term national security adviser John Bolton. They brought two broad warrants to search the “premises.” Agents showed up unannounced at his Bethesda, Md., home at 7 a.m. They confiscated his wife Gretchen’s phone...
  • Kash Patel’s FBI raids John Bolton’s home, office in probe over sending classified documents to family

    08/23/2025 5:35:44 AM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 68 replies
    New York Post ^ | Aug. 22, 2025 | Caitlin Doornbos
    FBI agents raided the Maryland home and Washington, DC office of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton Friday morning in a high-profile probe of allegations that he sent “highly sensitive” classified documents to his family from a private email server while working in the White House.Federal investigators went to Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md., at 7 a.m. in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post. Agents later went to Bolton’s office in downtown DC, but did not enter until a judge signed a warrant for that location late Friday morning.“NO...
  • 270,000 Illegals ‘Forcibly Returned’ To Mexico… as Los Angeles COLLAPSES

    08/23/2025 2:52:16 AM PDT · by EBH · 64 replies
    YouTube ^ | 8/21/2025 | Cash Jordan
    ICE raids are closing businesses and creating ghost towns throughout areas of California. A recent study estimates around 200,000 job losses due to these raids so far, which has local progressives sounding the alarm. Journalistic report. Includes news footage for purposes of commentary, criticism and analysis. 0:06 Huntington Park, California, now feels it has a bullseye on its back because of ramped up ice rates. So almost half the people living in some California towns do so while living in America ill legally. And while the lawless residents of these cities gripe to the news of how ICE raids are...
  • MoneyWatch Cracker Barrel loses almost $100 million in value as stock plunges after new logo release

    08/22/2025 7:40:28 PM PDT · by xxqqzz · 81 replies
    CBS ^ | August 22, 2025 | Aimee Pichi
    Cracker Barrel shed almost $100 million in market value Thursday after its stock plunged following the release of a new logo. The new design eliminates a longstanding drawing of an overall-clad man leaning against a barrel, in favor of a cleaner logo featuring just the chain's name. Shares of Cracker Barrel fell $4.22, or 7.2%, to $54.80 in Thursday trading, shedding $94 million in market value. The stock had dipped to a low of $50.27 earlier in the day, representing a loss of almost $200 billion in its capitalization. Cracker Barrel shares gained in early trading Friday, but resumed their...
  • Bolton investigation linked to overseas intelligence

    08/22/2025 6:58:19 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 25 replies
    NYT via Seattle Times ^ | 08 22 2025 | Julian E. Barnes
    The information that provided the basis for the warrant to search John Bolton’s home Friday was based on intelligence collected overseas by the CIA, according to people who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation. John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, provided Kash Patel, the FBI director, with limited access to the intelligence. It involved the mishandling of classified material by Bolton, the people said. The search of the home and office of Bolton, who was national security adviser during President Donald Trump’s first term, was a major escalation of a long-running inquiry into whether he collected...
  • Another Trump Victory: Here's Why Canada Had to Cave on Retaliatory Tariffs

    08/22/2025 6:33:28 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 10 replies
    Red State ^ | 08/22/2025 | Nick Arama
    We saw great news earlier with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinting that interest rate cuts will be coming. Then, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that tariffs on foreign countries will likely reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over the decade. Those stories likely helped to send the stock market soaring, with the Dow Jones hitting its all-time high. Now there's more positive news. President Donald Trump and Canadian leader Mark Carney had a phone call on Thursday on trade issues. As a result, Carney announced on Friday that Canada would be dropping most of its retaliatory tariffs on...
  • Feds nab suspected MS-13 gangster, top 700 arrests in DC crackdown

    08/22/2025 5:36:37 PM PDT · by Libloather · 4 replies
    Fox News ^ | 8/22/25 | Peter D'Abrosca
    Thursday's arrests in Washington, D.C., during the Trump administration's federal crime crackdown included a suspected member of the brutal Salvadoran street gang MS-13. "Just yesterday we made 40 arrests, took 5 more illegal firearms off our streets, and had 36 ICE arrests—including a suspected MS-13 gang member," Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X Friday morning. Thursday's arrests bring the total to 719 since President Donald Trump announced his effort to federalize the D.C. police Aug. 11, according to Bondi. She thanked Trump for his "unwavering support to make DC safe again!" Approximately 800 National Guard troops have descended upon...
  • BREAKING: CIA Director John Ratcliffe provided Kash Patel access to US intelligence that served as the basis for the warrant to raid Bolton

    08/22/2025 3:51:55 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 47 replies
    The Post Millennial.com ^ | 8/22/2025 | Thomas Stevenson
    CIA Director John Ratcliffe was able to share information with FBI Director Kash Patel that led to the raid on John Bolton's home. Bolton is a former national security advisor to President Donald Trump in his first term. Human Events Daily Host Jack Posobiec revealed on X in an exclusive report, "CIA Director John Ratcliffe provided Kash Patel access to US intelligence that served as the basis for the warrant to raid Bolton."
  • Wrongly deported migrant Abrego released, but he may be detained again

    08/22/2025 2:54:40 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 23 replies
    Reuters ^ | August 22, 20254:30 PM CDT | Luc Cohen
    Summary Abrego ordered released on bail after wrongful deportation Trump administration brought him back to face criminal charges Defense lawyers fear deportation to third country despite release Noem says U.S. will continue to seek his deportation Aug 22 (Reuters) - Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation in March to his native El Salvador made him a symbol of President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies, was released from criminal custody in Tennessee on Friday, his lawyer said.Abrego, 30, was deported to his native El Salvador in March despite a 2019 immigration court ruling that he not be sent there due...
  • Timing of Letitia James’ Zelle suit backfiring as NY AG faces her own legal woes

    08/22/2025 2:20:30 PM PDT · by Libloather · 9 replies
    NY Post ^ | 8/22/25 | Charles Gasparino
    Wall Street bankers are throwing shade on New York AG Tish James’s sensational fraud accusations against the popular Zelle payments platform – claiming it looks like a cheap stunt to divert attention away from her own legal woes, On The Money has learned. On Thursday, James was dealt a major blow when her own mortgage-fraud case against President Trump – and the nearly $500 million against him – was tossed by a New York appellate court skeptical of the evidence the AG presented in the case. That’s after she filed another lawsuit last week in New York State Supreme Court,...
  • DOJ Releases Maxwell Transcript and Audio

    08/22/2025 12:06:04 PM PDT · by chuck allen · 34 replies
    Todd Blanche ^ | 8/22/25 | Fox News
    In the interest of transparency, @TheJusticeDept is releasing the complete transcript and audio of my proffer of Ms. Maxwell. The transcript and audio are linked below. https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-interview
  • Gavin Newsom Officially Endorses Physical Violence Against MAGA - We're Gonna Punch MAGAs in the Mouth

    08/22/2025 11:19:17 AM PDT · by Boomer · 56 replies
    Western Journal ^ | 8.22.25 | Samantha Chang
    Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to spout dangerous, left-wing rhetoric — this time inciting violence against Trump supporters and other conservatives. Newsom spewed his venomous bile Wednesday while cosplaying as a tough guy on “The Siren” podcast, during which he urged leftists to “punch” MAGA supporters.
  • Sean Duffy, Congress move to pull the plug on Newsom’s $128B train to nowhere

    08/22/2025 11:05:48 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 08/22/2025 | Wendi Strauch Mahoney
    On August 19, 2025, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform escalated its scrutiny of Gavin Newsom’s vanity project: a high-speed railway that was originally supposed to connect California’s major cities by 2020. Congressional Oversight may mark the final phase in the latest review process that began in October 2024. This is not the first time the project came under federal fire — an earlier FRA review in 2019 led to termination of a key grant, which was later reinstated on smaller scale in 2021 and tied to the Central Valley segment.Specifically, the other important FRA review in 2019...
  • D.C. Democrats Are Furious At Trump For Stopping All The Homicides

    08/22/2025 9:56:34 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 14 replies
    The Federalist ^ | August 21, 2025 | Brianna Lyman
    Democrats in Washington, D.C., are furious — not because violent crime was spiraling out of control, but because President Donald Trump did something to stop it.A new Washington Post-Schar School poll found that roughly 8 in 10 D.C. residents oppose Trump’s deployment of the National Guard. The poll was conducted between Aug. 14 and Aug. 17 and surveyed 604 D.C. residents with a +/- 4.1 percentage point margin of error.This outrage was unsurprising, given that the propaganda press peddled the same narrative in recent days. A quartet of so-called journalists at CNN reported on Aug. 14 that a crowd in...
  • Jerome Powell hints long-awaited rate cuts are coming soon — the first during Trump’s term

    08/22/2025 7:39:28 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    CNN via MSN ^ | 08/22/25 | Bryan Mena
    The job market is on such shaky ground that the Federal Reserve may soon need to cut interest rates to support the economy, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Friday at a key central banking forum. In one of his most consequential speeches, Powell suggested the labor market could benefit from lower rates, which the Fed has kept unchanged for eight straight months. “Downside risks to employment are rising,” Powell said in prepared remarks for his keynote speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He said the possibility of Trump’s tariffs having...
  • Wondering why Bolton’s house was just raided? We’ve got the scoop and a spicy twist…

    08/22/2025 6:11:06 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 102 replies
    Revolver News ^ | August 22, 2025 | Staff
    If you’re just waking up, wipe the sleep from your eyes and pour yourself a strong cup of coffee, because we’ve got a big one for you. The Deep State’s biggest warmonger and most famous mustache, John Bolton, just had his home raided at 7:00 a.m. As videos and tweets flood social media, everyone’s asking the same thing: what’s really going on? Thanks to Catherine Herridge, we’ve got the inside scoop. Developing: I understand that @FBIDirectorKash has reopened a high profile National Security case involving former national security adviser John Bolton that was shut down by the Biden administration. I’m...