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Yesterday President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting: “Immediate Declassification of Materials Related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation.” [ORDER TEXT HERE]Within the XO President Trump informs the Attorney General (Pam Bondi) the Director of National Intelligence (Tulsi Gabbard), and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (John Ratcliffe), “I have determined that all of the materials referenced in the Presidential Memorandum of January 19, 2021 (Declassification of Certain Materials Related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation), are no longer classified.”However, there’s an important set of qualifiers.“I have further determined that the material proposed for redaction...

Why young men love the old school masculinity of James Bond and The Godfather over modern Hollywood.

PARIS/BRUSSELS, March 26 (Reuters) - European efforts to create security arrangements for Ukraine are shifting from sending troops to other alternatives as they face political and logistical constraints, and the prospect of Russia and the United States opposing their plans, officials said. France, which has been working closely with Britain to come up with options, will host 30 leaders and delegations from around 30 countries on Thursday, part of what has become a "coalition of the willing" to try and flesh out some ideas. But while London and Paris have been working for weeks on a plan to send thousands...

Katherine Maher is preparing for the hot seat. The embattled NPR CEO is scheduled to testify before Congress later today and will face intense scrutiny from Republicans who have already introduced legislation to defund the left-wing radio station. Last year, I published exclusive reports on Maher’s background as a US-backed regime change agent in the Middle East and North Africa, her role in censoring information as CEO of Wikipedia, and her troubling social media history, which revealed significant left-wing ideological bias and support for removing the political opposition from digital platforms. I have prepared briefing notes for members of the...

Ex-“Squad” Reps. Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman claimed that Democrats had originally wanted to pass $10 trillion in spending as part of former President Joe Biden’s doomed Build Back Better (BBB) Act. “We were at 10 [trillion] and then it went down to 6 and down to 3 and down to 1.7, I believe,” Bush said on the “Bowman and Bush” podcast on March 14. The two were reflecting on the collapse of Biden’s ambitious Build Back Better Act, which called for hundreds of billions of dollars of investments in “social infrastructure” programs such as universal child care, an expansion...

TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT PHARMA ADS — If you believed everything you read on social media, you’d think HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had issued a sweeping proclamation Monday morning to ban prescription drug advertising on TV. That was the chatter on social media platform X from a prominent retail trader account, prompting Prescription Pulse sources to reach out and wonder what they were missing. Turns out, it wasn’t much. “The social chatter you are hearing that HHS banned pharmaceutical advertising is not accurate,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told us.

THIS IS INSANE: If the liberal wins in Wisconsin next Tuesday, she will REMOVE 2 GOP Congressional districts... WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT CANDIDATE BRAD SCHIMEL: "Little did I know when I got into this race 16 months ago that we were going to be called the most important race in America in 2025." "My opponent got caught by the New York Times getting on a Zoom call with our state Democratic Party chair and billionaire leftist donor, Reid Hoffman, promising that if she got elected on the court, they would turn two Republican congressional seats into Democrat congressional seats." "Now, just...

LeShon Johnson, a former running back for the Green Bay Packers and Arizona Cardinals, was arrested as part of the largest FBI crackdown on dog fighting in the history of the bureau. Johnson, 54, has been charged in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma with violations of the dog fighting prohibitions of the federal Animal Welfare Act. Specifically, Johnson is charged with possessing, selling, and transporting 190 pit bulls and other dogs similar to pit bulls for dog fighting. Federal authorities raided Johnson’s property and seized the 190 canines in October 2024. “Animal abuse is cruel,...

@LauraLoomer claims to have uncovered a potential Chinese espionage operation involving Alex Wong, Trump’s Deputy National Security Advisor appointed on November 22, 2024, and his wife, Candice Chiu Wong. Candice C. Wong clerked for Justice Sotomayor, began as a U.S. Attorney in 2015 under the Obama regime, was nominated to the U.S. Sentencing Commission in 2023 by Biden, and prosecuted J6ers. Alex worked at Covington & Burling, a firm Trump stripped of security clearances on February 25, 2025, for "Weaponizing Government." Were these two involved in the Signal Chat group setup with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg?

While the default European position on purported leaked messages calling their defence policy pathetic freeloading has been outrage and despair, the United Kingdom accepts “the Americans have absolutely got a case” on lack of military spending on the continent. Responding to alleged leaked ‘Signal’ encrypted messenger texts between senior Trump administration figures including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Britain’s defence minister declined to join in outrage and say the messages have a point. Speaking to Times Radio on Wednesday, Defence Minister John Healey said he found America’s new attitude that Europe must stop totally relying...

In a gut punch to Second Amendment defenders, the Supreme Court today upheld a Biden administration rule clamping down on “ghost guns,” those untraceable firearms that patriots and hobbyists have long cherished as a symbol of American freedom. With a 7-2 decision, the court greenlit a radical overreach by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), mandating serial numbers, background checks, and age verification for gun kits bought online. Last year, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a 2022 rule aimed at weapons that could be built from parts bought online without...

It would not have been surprising at all that a visitor to Mr. Mark Steyn’s home in New Hampshire, USA, on the evening of March 4th would have heard the popping of bottles of champagne being opened and the clinking of glasses amidst cheerful toasts. On that Tuesday, Justice Judge Alfred S. Irving, Jr. of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia issued a long (over 14,000 words) Final Judgment Order, reducing the punitive damages charged against Mr. Steyn from an astronomical $1 million to a modest $5,000 in a 12-years long defamation suit launched by the plaintiff Dr....

A new lawsuit targeting President Donald Trump's administration over leaked Pentagon plans in a Signal chat has been assigned to Judge James Boasberg, the same judge who ordered a halt to the administration's deportation efforts. The government watchdog group American Oversight filed the lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others violated federal records laws by discussing Houthi attack plans in a Signal groupchat. The contest has now been randomly assigned to Boasberg, who serves on the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., condemned "rogue judges" like Boasberg in a statement to Fox...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) proposed legislation on Tuesday, the Nutritious SNAP Act, aimed at reforming SNAP to ensure that those who use it are doing so for healthy food options. Paul’s office issued a release on Tuesday asserting that SNAP has been a contributing factor “in a new public health crisis — obesity and chronic disease — by subsidizing the purchase of junk food with taxpayer dollars.” “SNAP was designed to fight hunger and improve nutrition — not to subsidize soda and junk food,” Paul said. “It makes no sense that taxpayer dollars are being used to fund an epidemic...

Napster (Yes, that Napster) has just been sold for $207 million, leading an entire generation of people to simultaneously ask: "Wait, was Napster still around?" The popular and original mainstream illegal music file-sharing platform that caused absolute mayhem for record labels in the early 2000s was sold to tech company Infinite Reality on Tuesday for a whopping $200+ million figure, as the startup said that it hopes of transform the streaming service into a music Metaverse of sorts. What's wild about the whole thing is that Napster's website was shut down 24 years ago after being sued into oblivion by...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday said “very sensitive information” was discussed during a Trump administration group chat on Signal that included a journalist, but the longtime ally of President Trump said he sees the snafu as a “lessons learned” episode. “Recent revelations about the content of the texts — while not discussing war plans per se — do in fact detail very sensitive information about a planned and ongoing military operation,” Graham said in a statement. “Lessons learned.” Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic and former foreign affairs correspondent, reported Monday that he had been inadvertently included...

So, about that Signal chat. On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Yemen on the Signal messaging app. He answered, “Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that.” At a Senate hearing yesterday, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, were both asked about the Signal chat, to which Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic,...

An AI robot of Suzanne Somers recently "reunited" with the actress' husband, Alan Hamel—and fans are firmly divided over the interaction. The Three's Company star died at 76 in October 2023 after a battle with breast cancer. Somers was married to Hamel, 88, for 46 years. On March 24, Hamel participated in a public demonstration alongside the AI creation, during which he spoke with Somers' younger "AI twin." “Meeting you was like a breath of fresh air,” the robot told him in a video shared by The U.S. Sun.

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I asked ChatGPT the following question and was pleasantly surprised with this answer. I think this would be a wonderful idea. Especially if such chats with the public was made on a Sunday evening on television head to head against 60 minutes. It would give people a lot to talk about Monday morning at work. "Make the case for President Trump to give a version of the fireside chats in order to explain to the American people progress of his administration and the findings of Doge for the benefit of the American public". ChatGPT Response A modern version of Franklin...