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Amazon founder and owner of The Washington Post Jeff Bezos announced a new direction for the paper Wednesday morning as a reckoning among the media in a new Trump era continues. "I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others," Bezos wrote in a letter to Washington Post employees and posted on X. "There was...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard moved to seek out and fire employees involved in group chats in which explicit behavior allegedly was discussed. National Security Agency agents held lurid sex chats on the NSA's sensitive Intelink messaging program "featuring wide-ranging discussions of sex, kink, polyamory, and castration," City Journal reported Tuesday. Officials told ABC News that more than 100 intelligence community employees will be terminated and have their security clearances revoked. City Journal reporter Christopher F. Rufo took to social media Tuesday to announce that Gabbard is preparing a memo to be sent to all intelligence agencies to identify...

Saudi Arabia has announced significant changes for the 2025 Hajj pilgrimage, including a new rule prohibiting children from accompanying pilgrims. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah stated that the decision was made to protect children from the dangers of overcrowding during the pilgrimage, which sees millions of worshippers gathering annually. The ministry emphasized that the restriction aims to safeguard young children from potential risks associated with managing large crowds in hazardous situations. The move is also intended to make the pilgrimage experience more seamless for all attendees. Priority for First-Time Pilgrims First-time pilgrims will be given preference for the 2025...

If there were illustrated dictionaries, Tapper’s mewling face would be next to “hypocrite.” Stephen L. Miller✓ @redsteeze Here's Jake Tapper incensed over Joe Biden's "stutter" and outraged over claims of Biden's cognitive decline. Now he's cashing in on a book about Biden's cognitive decline and media cover up. There is no bottom for these people.

PoliticsJUST IN: WaPo Reporters Melt Down, Rage Quit The Paper Over Bezos’ New DirectivePublished 2 hours ago on February 26, 2025By Mark Steffen The Washington Post’s chief opinion editor chose to pick up his ball and go home after Jeff Bezos handed down new instructions ordering his department to begin running pro-America, pro-freedom columns each morning. The Amazon founder and Post owner shared on social media on Wednesday morning a note he recently sent to all WaPo staff about the change. In it, Bezos explains that, each day, the paper’s opinion pages will write “in support and defense of” personal...

Assemblyman Rick Zbur (D-Los Angeles) responded to mounting criticism on Tuesday following a huge public backlash against a bill he introduced late last week that would severely limit self defense agains t crime in the state of California. Zbur’s bill, Assembly Bill 1333, would eliminate certain circumstances under which homicide is justifiable, including, among others, in defense of a habitation or property. The bill would additionally clarify circumstances in which homicide is not justifiable, including, among others, when a person uses more force than necessary to defend against a danger.

The demand arrived at 4:28 p.m. Eastern time on Valentine’s Day.“The US government only recognizes two sexes: Male and Female. This needs to be changed immediately,” the popular right-wing account Libs of TikTok posted on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk.The missive, blasted to the account’s 4.2 million followers, was accompanied by screenshots of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the government form that determines eligibility for financial assistance in paying for college or trade school. It allowed students to identify as “nonbinary” or select “prefer not to answer” when asked to select their gender.The account...

DataRepublican revealed on Tuesday that she had been "doxxed." She chose to reclaim control of the situation by unveiling her identity. "I have been doxxed. Rather than let others control the narrative, I am addressing this directly," she wrote in a post on X. "I am 100% Deaf and nonverbal," she explained. "My lack of signing fluency does not make me any less Deaf. It is a result of a language impairment related to my autism called expressive dysphasia, which affects my ability to construct language fluently in real-time." Pounds stated that she had "recently resigned" from her job, announcing...

In 2024, the U.S. spent nearly $1 trillion on its defense budget, equal to 3.4% of GDP. In contrast, NATO members in Europe and Canada spent an average of 2% of GDP on defense. While NATO’s defense budgets have declined since the Cold War, Russia’s military spending has surged by 227% since 2000, and China’s has skyrocketed by 566%. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows the top 15 largest defense budgets in 2024, based on data from the International Institute of Strategic Studies.

The executive order states that the Arizona departments of public safety, homeland security and emergency affairs shall create a border task force. PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed an executive order instructing multiple state agencies to create a task force focused on security operations in Arizona's border counties. Dubbed "Operation Desert Guardian," the governor's task force seeks to partner with local agencies in Yuma, Santa Cruz, Pima and Cochise counties to expand security operations and dismantle criminal networks. The executive order states that the Arizona departments of public safety, homeland security and emergency affairs shall work together to deter...

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump Administration from reinstating its federal spending freeze. US District Judge Loren AliKhan, a Biden appointee, sided with the plaintiffs suing Trump and continued to block Trump’s OMB from freezing federal funds. .... Snip.... Judge AliKhan scolded the Trump Admin and said the OMB has not given a “reasonable explanation” for why it needs to freeze federal funds. “The scope of power OMB seeks to claim is ‘breathtaking,’ and its ramifications are massive,” Judge AliKhan wrote according to CBS News. “Because there is no clear statutory hook for this broad assertion of power,...

The Russian foreign minister reiterated that promoting awareness and understanding of the root causes of the conflict by any state would constitute "the best contribution to creating conditions for a just settlement"DOHA, February 26. /TASS/. The elimination of everything Russian has become a fundamental cause of the conflict in Ukraine. For a fair settlement to be achieved, Russia demands the Ukrainian authorities abandon this policy, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated at a news conference following his visit to Qatar. "Today, we have once again highlighted a blatant issue that the West has deliberately and painstakingly ignored. This is the policy...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal appellate judge delivered a heavy blow to the Trump administration today, issuing a stunning ruling that the Constitution of the United States is unconstitutional. The ruling was issued by Judge Marsha Lanning of the D.C. Circuit, who stated that the founding document of the United States was in clear violation of the Constitution. "Something being written in the Constitution does not magically make it constitutional," read Judge Lanning as she announced the decision. "All seven articles and twenty-seven amendments of the U.S. Constitution are hereby ruled unconstitutional. No elected official shall have any power mentioned...

An American Airlines flight from Boston aborted its landing at Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, Tuesday to avoid a plane departing from the same runway. “An air traffic controller instructed American Flight 2246 to perform a go-around at Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) Airport to ensure separation was maintained between this aircraft and a preceding departure from the same runway,” the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement. American Airlines said the flight landed “safely and normally” and described the move as standard operation to give the plane more time for the other plane to take off. “American...

It’s a Bible verse that has puzzled Christians and been used by critics to attack the trustworthiness of Christ Himself. When Jesus, speaking of His return, said, “Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place” (Matt. 24:34), did He believe His second coming would happen before those hearing Him would die? At first blush, it sure looks like it. Skeptical philosopher Bertrand Russell thinks so. In his essay “Why I am not a Christian”, he argued that Jesus got it wrong, saying: “For one thing, he certainly thought that his second...

This is the horrific moment a teenage boy snatched a young girl as she worshipped in a mosque and then sexually assaulted her behind closed doors. The 19-year-old suspect, since seized by police, was caught in the act on security CCTV at the mosque in Batang Kali, Selangor, Malaysia, on February 21. In the grim footage, the suspect wearing a yellow T-shirt can be seen emerging from an office and running behind a row of praying women. As all women are knelt down, he can be seen picking up the young girl, who appears to be no older than 10....

(DCNF)—The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will allow ousted employees 15 minutes to retrieve personal effects from the agency’s headquarters Thursday and Friday, the agency posted in a Tuesday notice. Former employees will be “escorted to their workspace” and undergo “x-ray machine screening upon entry” to the Ronald Reagan Building headquarters before gathering their items, according to USAID’s website. Staff were also warned against bringing any “prohibited items” — including, but not limited to, billy clubs, brass knuckles, martial arts weapons, axes or hatchets, BB guns, bows and arrows, dynamite or chlorine for pools and spas — with them...

VIDEOYou need to hear it from the lips of the man who created the FBI's Operation Honeypot, James Comey. Keep in mind that this is the man who Comey MOST admired for his ethical behavior. And that person could well be the co-defendant with Comey in the trial of the highly illegal plot to take down Donald Trump when he first ran for President.Also highly weird is that Mr. Honeypot taught a college course on the subject of ...ethics.

KEY TAKEAWAYSApple announced plans to spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years on a swath of investments, including hiring 20,000 new workers to make artificial intelligence servers in a new Texas-based factory. Apple said the 250,000-square foot Texas factory will support its Apple Intelligence AI model and will open in 2026. Apple said the $500 billion investment plan marks its largest-ever spend commitment, and includes creating a manufacturing academy and doubling the size of its US advanced manufacturing fund. Apple (AAPL) announced on Monday plans to spend more than $500 billion in the U.S....

Kirsty Shelton was at home preparing lunch and watching television with her daughters and their grandmother when they were startled by loud banging on their apartment door by a SWAT team looking for a man who lived across the hall. Shelton's mother told them they had the wrong apartment but, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Denver officers, she and her daughter were ordered outside at gunpoint. When the officers then entered the apartment, they encountered two girls, aged five and six, in their bedroom. According to the body camera footage of the June 2023 incident, an officer...