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House Speaker Mike Johnson called Tuesday for California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to be “tarred and feathered” over his response to the riots raging in downtown Los Angeles. Declining to weigh in on whether Newsom should be arrested — as President Trump and White House border czar Tom Homan have floated — Johnson (R-La.) ripped into the Golden State governor’s light-touch approach to the chaos in Los Angeles. “I’m not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested, but he ought to be tarred and feathered,” Johnson told reporters during a Capitol Hill news conference....

U.S consumer prices barely rose at all in May, the fourth straight month of mild inflation and a sign that the Trump administration’s tariffs have not raised prices on American households. The consumer price index, the government’s main inflation indicator, 0.1 percent compared with a month earlier, the Department of Labor said Wednesday. Core prices, a measure that excludes volatile food and energy prices, also climbed just 0.1 percent. Compared with a year ago, consumer prices are up 2.4 percent. Core prices have risen 2.8 percent. Economists had forecast prices would rise 0.2 percent, matching the tame inflation figure reported...

NATIONAL GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY On June 11 we celebrate the delicious food holiday known as National German Chocolate Cake Day! We can't think of a better way to learn about a cake with American roots and get our chocolate fix for the day at the same time! #GermanChocolateCakeDay Although the name may sound like the cake originated in Germany, German chocolate cake did not. In fact, the cake's roots can be traced back to 1852 when American Sam German made a type of dark baking chocolate for the American Baker’s Chocolate Company. Baker’s German Sweet Chocolate’s brand was named...

Puerto Rico recorded a positive net migration rate for the first time in several years, signaling a shift in the island’s long-standing population decline, according to the Puerto Rico Planning Board’s latest economic report to the governor and Legislature. “Puerto Rico has experienced its first recovery in migration from abroad in several years,” said Héctor Morales-Martínez, president of the Planning Board. The net migration rate reached 4.7 per 1,000 residents, meaning more people moved to the island than left during the reporting period — mid‑2023 through mid‑2024. The agency also noted population growth in 43 of Puerto Rico’s 78 municipalities...

Could artificial intelligence solve one of the Bible’s biggest mysteries? A team of researchers used AI-powered statistical modeling to analyze the authorship of the Hebrew Bible and made surprising discoveries about ancient narratives. Credit: Shutterstock A multidisciplinary team of researchers is using artificial intelligence to unravel the authorship of the Hebrew Bible’s earliest books. Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing everything from healthcare to filmmaking to finance. So, why not apply it to one of the most ancient and influential books in history—the Bible? That’s exactly what an international team of researchers set out to do. Among them was Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, an...

Four dozen protesters were arrested Tuesday evening as up to 2,000 outraged anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protestors descended on Foley Square in lower Manhattan — the second day of an “ICE out of NYC” gathering to push back on mass deportations of ICE detainees. The crowd gathered around 5 p.m. just steps away from an ICE facility at 26 Federal Plaza, and shouted “f–k you, f–k ICE” and “No ICE, no KKK, no fascist USA” to vent their frustrations with the Trump administration and its hasty — and massive — deportations. Demonstrators also clashed with those who tried to disrupt...

In the history of no good, very bad days, Tuesday, June 10th might rank right at the top for California Governor Gavin Newsom. First, Los Angeles is having a riot-strewn meltdown over — checks notes — the federal government enforcing federal immigration law, while local and national Democrats twist themselves in pretzel knots to avoid condemning said rioting while blaming it on — who else? — President Trump. Then, he got into a pissing match with the president over whether or not they had spoken on the phone. (Hint: They had, and Trump had the receipts to prove it. Gavin...

Yes, we'll build a wall. But we'll do it according to the map of Mexico from 1830

Summary and Key Points: The nearly $9 billion cost increase for Canada’s F-35 acquisition, bringing the total to $27.7 billion, is not the real scandal; it is a symptom of a deeper “strategy shock.” According to a recent Auditor-General’s report, this “sticker shock” is less concerning than the fact that Canada lacks a coherent plan to support the jets. Key basing infrastructure for the F-35s will not be ready until 2029, years after the first jets arrive in 2026, and the Royal Canadian Air Force already faces a severe pilot shortage, raising serious questions about the nation’s ability to operate...

WARNING: Graphic images and descriptions of child torture may not be suitable for all readers. Please proceed accordingly.Devout climate activist survives excruciating ordeal involving single-use plastics and non-reclining seat. The Jewish state of Israel has committed yet another genocidal war crime against humanity by sadistically torturing an autistic 22-year-old child aboard an El Al deportation flight on Tuesday. Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, was "kidnapped" earlier this week after her Gaza-bound resistance yacht was intercepted by Zionist occupational forces. The torture began almost immediately. Thunberg, who suffers from severe mental anguish on account of being passionate about climate change,...

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Prosecutors in Wisconsin have just filed an unusual document with a court: They explained that just because a person is a judge, that doesn’t mean she gets a free pass to break the law. That earlier was the stunning claim from Hannah Dugan, a now-suspended judge, arguing that prosecutors weren’t even allowed to bring a case against her after evidence showed she distracted federal agents, then let an illegal alien criminal walk out of the courthouse. Dugan’s claim was that she has absolutely immunity for whatever she does in her courtroom – even in the courthouse building. A report at...

There’s a growing call across the US, loud, unapologetic, and long overdue: End all third-world immigration. Legal or illegal. Just shut it down.

11 June 2025Saint Barnabas, Apostle on Wednesday of week 10 in Ordinary TimeSaint Barnabas Parish, OmahaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaThe following reading is proper to the memorial, and must be used even if you have otherwise chosen to use the ferial readings.First readingActs 11:21-26,13:1-3He was a good man, filled with the Holy Spirit and with faithA great number believed and were converted to the Lord. The church in Jerusalem heard about this and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. There he could see for himself that...

The default strategy of constantly defaming whites as racists is meant to dehumanize whites and render them morally unqualified to coexist in society. The Knockout Game. Polar Bear Hunting. White Girl Bleed a Lot. Flash Mobbing. There is an entire urban lexicon that describes a nationwide subculture that celebrates anti-white violence, even if progressives dismiss it all as a phony moral panic. The principal architects of The Great Hate (blue media, academia, Hollywood, government-aligned NGOs) are armchair assassins using the joystick of propaganda to incite the suggestible and the psychotic to anarchy. Both the advocates and practitioners of violence all...

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Active Marine Defies Trump’s LA Deployment, Joins Dallas Anti-ICE Protest

“‘And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrowis thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!’” (Matthew 6:28–30). Many of the people Jesus spoke to likely had little clothing to their name. So He pointed again to their surroundings, this time to flowers,...

Here’s an article you might find interesting from Science magazine on June 2. The headline is “National Academies, staggering from Trump cuts, on brink of dramatic downsizing.” Science magazine is one of those formerly-prestigious “peer-reviewed” journals where for many decades you just had to get your research published in order to become someone in a scientific field. Somewhere along the way, Science turned from scientific inquiry to orthodoxy enforcement. The National Academy of Sciences (“NAS,” and along with two fellow Academies of Engineering and Medicine sometimes called “NASEM”), meanwhile, is a federally-chartered but supposedly private entity set up to give...

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