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California’s first lady, Jennifer Newsom, is getting slammed for going on a shopping trip in Beverly Hills with a $2,500 handbag while riots rocked Los Angeles. Newsom, 50, was seen at the luxury shopping complex One Beverly Hills as she stepped out with a bodyguard. “Dear God. She came to Los Angeles to shop using her $4K purse,” Ric Grenell, a special envoy for President Trump, said on social media. “[Gov. Gavin Newsom] and his wife don’t care about the chaos.” Holding a Goyard tote bag worth $2,500 and wearing $500 Common Project sneakers, she seemed unfazed by the chaos...

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has launched an explosive investigation into the growing chaos engulfing Los Angeles and other Democrat-run cities. As Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, Hawley is demanding accountability from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), a left-wing pro-illegal immigration group that has come under fire for allegedly funding and facilitating violent anti-ICE protests that have spiraled into riots. The Gateway Pundit previously reported that according to a damning exposé by investigative account @DataRepublican, several nonprofit organizations and shadowy political fronts played a pivotal role in igniting the chaos that saw federal officers attacked,...

It’s been a minute since I posted something. This had me ROFL

A pro-Democrat labor union’s San Francisco chapter hired an admitted sex offender to a top position after she served jail time for child sexual abuse at a California high school. Noelia Linares, a business agent at SEIU Local 87, pleaded “no contest” in 2018 to sex crimes involving a minor. The plea stems from a 2017 arrest, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Linares’ group is part of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a national organization that backs Democratic political campaigns and helps migrant workers avoid deportation. SEIU helped spark protests in Los Angeles that...

As images of protests in Southern California have flooded television and social media in recent days, a key question has emerged: Why are so many protesters carrying Mexican flags at an American political protest? The sea of red, white and green Mexican flags at anti-deportation protests this week in Los Angeles has been seized upon by conservatives who argue that the demonstrations are inherently un-American, causing some protesters to consider leaving them at home. Photos of masked provocateurs waving Mexican flags atop burning Waymo taxis spread instantly across conservative social media this weekend. Republicans pointed to them as a prime...

Forget the notion of “sell in May and go away.” There are a set of dynamic metrics at work within the economy framed by “Trumponomics,” which refers broadly to his administration’s approach, that includes tax cuts, deregulation, protectionism and trade policies that the stock market is embracing.Nearly halfway through 2025, the U.S. equity market has endured a 20% correction, a radical set of tariff policies employed or threatened, sweeping D.O.G.E. actions, the DeepSeek torpedo into the AI port bow, followed by a reaffirmation of the historical capex spending binge by the hyperscalers and sovereign governments (Saudi Arabia, etc.) and two...

Secretary Kennedy made a stunning statement regarding the childhood schedule, vaccine trials and the ACIP on X. I know many have read that statement there, but it deserves to be immortalized. Below this short video, I have copied his statement in full. Quote: “Yesterday, I retired 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP, the CDC external panel that wields the grave responsibility of adding new vaccines to the recommended childhood schedule. Over the coming days, I will use this platform to announce new members to populate ACIP. None of these individuals will be ideological anti-vaxxers. They...

Nearly 20 percent of Iowans must obtain an occupational license before they can work. A new law is lowering barriers to employment in the Hawkeye State. Last week, Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed House File 711 into law, creating an apprenticeship program that allows unlicensed individuals to provide cosmetology and barbering services under the supervision of someone who is licensed and after completing two hours of education on sanitation rules. Businesses that participate in this program are required to register with the state's Board of Barbering and Cosmetology Arts and Sciences and comply with safety and sanitation requirements. Consumers must...

Ukraine’s successful use of cheap, commercially available drones to destroy high-value Russian military assets serves as a stark warning that US air bases could be similarly vulnerable. Veteran Navy SEAL Brandon Webb, invoking the legacy of the 1980s “Red Cell” security-testing unit, argues that a modern adversary could use inexpensive drones, 3D printers, and readily available technology to cause catastrophic damage to US air power.

A United States Department of Justice employee secretly spiked his pregnant girlfriend’s drink with an abortion drug to induce a miscarriage without her knowledge, according to cops. Justin Anthony Banta, 38, who works in the IT department of the DOJ, is charged with capital murder in Parker County, Texas, for allegedly putting “Plan C” abortion drugs in his pregnant girlfriend’s coffee, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. [SNIP] It was not clear what sort of punishment Banta faces on the capitol murder charges, however capital murder is the only death-penalty eligible charge in Texas.

An English instructor at Glendale Community College recently sent an email encouraging the campus community to join in protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The call came as riotous demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles have included destruction of property, looting, arson incidents, and the injury of at least five police officers. On Sunday, Julie Gamberg, a faculty member at Glendale Community College, sent an email promoting anti-ICE demonstrations organized by the Democratic Socialists of America’s Los Angeles chapter, according to screenshots of the note circulated on X. “Citizens who know their rights can disrupt and slow ICE incursions,” states...

BRUSSELS, June 11 (Reuters) - The world experienced its second-warmest May since records began this year, a month in which climate change fuelled a record-breaking heatwave in Greenland, scientists said on Wednesday. Last month was Earth's second-warmest May on record - exceeded only by May 2024 - rounding out the northern hemisphere's second-hottest March-May spring on record, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a monthly bulletin

Germany didn’t go directly from Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 to the Holocaust. Like the jihad against Jews in America today, it was done in stages. A milestone in the death march was Kristallnacht, or “Night of Broken Glass,” on Nov. 9 and 10, 1938. In an orgy of violence, the Nazis torched synagogues and looted Jewish homes and businesses. Nearly 100 Jews were killed, and 30,000 were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

That civil war is looming in the West is a logical conclusion of standard, well-understood precepts of social science. The likely fracture of multicultural societies along lines of identity is an obvious hypothesis. The configuration of demographic geography, and the factional polarisation that is its political consequence, is a measurable fact. The precariousness of contemporary urbanity is a thing which geographers have worried over for at least a half century.[xvi] In short, the situation which I have described above is unpleasant, but it is not controversial as far as our grasp of current reality and theoretical understanding of how societies...

SummaryArests made in areas under curfewProtests spread to cities like New York, Atlanta, ChicagoTexas to deploy National Guard ahead of more protestsCalifornia governor says, "Democracy is under assault"LOS ANGELES, June 11 (Reuters) - Several U.S. cities braced for a new round of protests on Wednesday over President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration raids, as parts of Los Angeles spent the night under curfew in an effort to quell five days of unrest.Officials were also preparing for nationwide anti-Trump demonstrations on Saturday, when tanks and armored vehicles will rumble down the streets of Washington, D.C., in a military parade marking the U.S....

Disney-owned ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel downplayed the violent, destructive, insurrectionist L.A. riots Tuesday night and said he was “very angry” that immigration officials were arresting murderers, drug dealers, and rapists. During Tuesday evening’s Jimmy Kimmel Live monologue, Kimmel blasted the Trump administration for “abducting” people off the streets for deportation and for sending the National Guard to break up what Kimmel called “peaceful demonstrations” occurring in Los Angeles. “I’m very angry, I have to say. I cannot believe what’s going on. I knew it was going to be bad, I did not know it was going to be this...

Protesters gather ahead of a protest march in Dover on the south-east coast of England, on April 27, 2025. Do you have concerns about mass migration? Are you worried that a lack of integration is causing damage to society? Would you ever describe yourself as a “cultural nationalist?” According to Prevent, the British government’s official counter-extremism scheme, this makes you a potential terror threat. The Telegraph reported last week that an online training “refresher course” on Prevent’s site lists “cultural nationalism” as one belief that could see an individual referred for “de-radicalisation” training. It defines this as the conviction that...

[Catholic Caucus] Underground bishop made auxiliary in key Chinese archdiocese close to TaiwanBishop Lin Yuntuan's appointment to the Archdiocese of Fuzhou is significant for a number of reasons and comes as the first test of Pope Leo's response to China.In a noteworthy move, Pope Leo XIV appointed an underground bishop as auxiliary of a key diocese in China, with the appointment also recognized by the Chinese authorities.As announced by the Holy See Press Office bulletin today, Bishop Joseph Lin Yuntuan today became the auxiliary of the Diocese of Fuzhou.An additional statement from the press office director read:We are pleased to...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place.” Matthew 5:17–18The law and the prophets, as found in the Old Testament, consists of three types. First, there are the moral laws, such as the Ten Commandments, that are primarily based on the natural law...

President Donald Trump has notched a significant victory over Democrats, with polling showing him outperforming his rivals on one of the most contentious issues: immigration. On the broader question of trust, Republicans now lead Democrats on immigration by 6 points in CBS and CNN polling and 19 in the latest Ipsos survey. Why It Matters It comes after Trump sent 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 Marines to Los Angeles in response to reported violence against law enforcement, specifically ICE agents carrying out deportation raids in the city.