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Federal court blocks Trump admin from sending detained Venezuelan immigrants to Guantánamo Bay

Decoding Islam’s notorious resistance to assimilation in the West is as simple as understanding the doctrine’s relational values. Despite its religious veneer, Islam can easily be defined and understood by one non-religious word: tribalism. This is key. The entire appeal of Muhammad’s call to the Arabs of his time lay in its perfect compatibility with their tribal mores, three in particular: loyalty to one’s tribe; enmity for other tribes; and raids on the latter to enrich and empower the former. For seventh-century Arabs—and later tribal and pastoral peoples, such as the Turks and Tatars, or Mongols, who also found natural...

<p>Compared with the blanket US tariffs, China’s measures — which target US exports of liquefied natural gas, coal, crude oil and farm equipment as well as some automotive goods with levies of 10 per cent to 15 per cent — were seen as creating space for negotiations to avert a wide trade conflict.</p>

Danish campaigners are proposing to buy California from the United States and turn it into a territory of Denmark in response to Donald Trump's bid to acquire Greenland. The 'Denmarkification' campaign says it seeks to crowdfund $1trillion to purchase the US state, after which it plans to instill it with Danish values and make the most of its sunny weather and resources. President Trump has repeatedly expressed an interest in making Greenland - an autonomous territory of Denmark - part of the US, citing its strategic importance and mineral wealth. He has not ruled out using military or economic power...

How is it that Democrats and progressives can ignore illegal and immoral actions within their own party and fixate on denouncing the perfectly legal and moral actions of Republicans and MAGA supporters? Back in 2009, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) declared that "illegal migration is wrong, plain and simple. Persons who enter the U.S. without permission are illegal aliens and should not be treated the same as those who entered legally." By 2022, 11 million illegals had entered the United States during the Biden/Harris administration, and Senator Schumer was advocating for their citizenship. MAGA Republicans are horrified at what those illegal immigrants...

Former CAIR employee from Kentucky was filmed hitting and cursing at ultra-Orthodox man in a Manhattan office. Former CAIR employee from Kentucky was filmed hitting and cursing at an ultra-Orthodox man in the lobby of a Manhattan office building; After footage of incident went viral Noora Shalash was arrested; She will be charged with aggravated harassment and second-degree hate crime. New York police arrested Noora Shalash, 39, of Kentucky, following an antisemitic attack that occurred in an office building in Manhattan against an ultra-Orthodox man who was passing by. She also made anti-Jewish remarks, including "F**k the Jews." A video...

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Did you know that approximately $1,000,000,000 in obviously fraudulent payments flow through the U.S. Treasury’s payment system every week? Until Elon Musk and his DOGE team stepped in, nobody in the government was doing anything about this theft. Please read all the way to the end of this article for the details. Suspiciously, the Democrats are desperately trying to get the courts to keep Elon Musk and his team out of the U.S. Treasury’s payment system. Why is that? What are they working so hard to hide? The truth is that Elon Musk and his DOGE team are beginning to...

10 February 2025 Saint Scholastica, Virgin on Monday of week 5 in Ordinary Time St. Scholastica Parish, DetroitReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingGenesis 1:1-19God saw that it was goodIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, and God’s spirit hovered over the water. God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light. God saw that light was good, and God divided light from darkness. God called light ‘day’, and darkness...

At less than three weeks into the second Trump administration, the Wall Street Journal somehow discerned on Friday that "The Mood of the American Consumer is Souring."The premise of the story by reporters Rachel Wolfe and Joe Pinsker was also highlighted in the subtitle, "Tariff threats, market turbulence causing jitters early in Trump’s second term." And as proof for this premise a grand total of one, count 'em, ONE Trump voter whose mood soured was presented. The broad sweeping generalities about the supposed quick mood change started right from the get-go in the story:

@elonmusk The @DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants. Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order. That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals! A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.

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A left-wing, vampire-obsessed after-school program teacher is accused of sexually abusing two young girls for years at a Harlem school in New York and filming child sex abuse material, according to a new lawsuit reported on by the New York Post. “Miles McNeal, 26, an after-school program teacher whose online alter ego pushed communist propaganda and fetishized vampires, allegedly touched and photographed young students’ naked bodies, had them assume sexual positions, and showed them pictures of the genitalia of other kids while threatening them to stay silent, the victims said in court papers,” the report states. The lawsuit further alleges...

California has long been the most insurrectionist of the states. Some states promised sanctuary to illegal aliens. California promises to go after law enforcement if they follow the law and cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Now California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who hopes to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom, is threatening hospitals that they must ignore Trump’s executive orders and go on sterilizing kids. California Attorney General Rob Bonta today reminded California hospitals and federally-funded healthcare providers of their ongoing obligation under California anti-discrimination law to provide gender affirming care amid confusion resulting from President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget...

After President Trump’s near assassination, the Secret Service complained that it needed more money. My take was that this is what government officials always claim after a massive screw-up and that more money is not needed. Does the Secret Service actually need more money? It has a $3 billion budget. That’s around double what it was in 2000. Only about $1.2 billion of that goes to protective operations and only about $73 million gets spent on providing security at presidential campaigns. $138 million gets spent on training and professional development. ... I did a deeper dive back in December. The...

The Democratic Party is polling about 31 percent approval, a near-historic low. Despite enjoying a huge lead in fundraising, legacy media favoritism, and incumbency, in the 2024 election, Democrats lost the White House to Donald Trump. Ever since, they have offered nothing new, no novel agenda, no innovative policies—nothing other than screaming that they are loudly against everything and anything that the president is for. In the past, what did they accomplish by following their prior two impeachments with attempts to de-ballot Trump? Who thought sending an FBI swat team to raid Trump’s home or waging five lawfare civil and...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass backtracked on Saturday amid reports that her wildfire recovery czar, Steve Soboroff, would be compensated $500,000 for 90 days of work. The Los Angeles Times first reported Saturday morning that Soboroff, a real estate developer and longtime civic official, would be paid $500,000 over the course of three months for working as the city’s “chief recovery officer.” His compensation was to come from charity organizations, but Bass, who first tapped Soboroff for the job on Jan. 17, quickly reversed course by Saturday evening. She said Soboroff would now manage the rebuilding of the city free...

Netflix series American Primeval has come under fire from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-say Saints (LDS), which has branded the show "dangerously misleading." The Mormon church responded to the series in a release on Friday, calling it "dangerously misleading" and the portrayal of Young "egregiously mischaracterized." "A recently released streaming series presents a fictionalized interpretation of events in mid-19th century Utah. While historical fiction can be illuminating, this drama is dangerously misleading," the church wrote. "Brigham Young, a revered prophet and courageous pioneer, is, by any historical standard, egregiously mischaracterized as a villainous, violent fanatic. Other individuals and...

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has canceled more than $180million in contracts from the Department of Health and Human Services - including nearly $170,000 allocated for a museum exhibit on Dr Anthony Fauci. DOGE announced on social media Friday that it canceled 62 contracts at HHS over the course of 48 hours. 'These contacts were entirely for administrative expenses - none touched any healthcare programs,' DOGE wrote. 'This included terminating a $168,000 contract for an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the NIH museum.' It also included a screenshot of the funds allocated for the Fauci exhibit, showing the money was...