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ActBlue, the dominant digital fundraising platform for Democrat campaigns, is now under intense scrutiny as allegations of fraud, unauthorized recurring donations, and potential links to illicit financial networks come to light. …***Founded in 2004, ActBlue operates as a non-connected political action committee (PAC) registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). ...ActBlue’s innovation lies in its facilitation of millions of micro-donations, often under $50, allowing even grassroots candidates with little name recognition to raise substantial funds. This model has become a cornerstone of Democrat fundraising strategy ...***One of the primary concerns raised by lawmakers centers on donor identity verification. ... Allegations...

Preston Damsky is a law student at the University of Florida. He is also a white nationalist and antisemite. Last fall, he took a seminar taught by a federal judge on “originalism,” the legal theory favored by many conservatives that seeks to interpret the Constitution based on its meaning when it was adopted. In his capstone paper for the class, Mr. Damsky argued that the framers had intended for the phrase “We the People,” in the Constitution’s preamble, to refer exclusively to white people. From there, he argued for the removal of voting rights protections for nonwhites, and for the...

Domestic regime change is no stranger to Thailand, which has had at least 12 successful coups and 31 Prime Ministers since the founding of its current constitutional monarchy in 1932—itself the product of a coup. It’s for that reason that Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who took over after her fellow Pheu Thai party predecessor Srettha Thavisin was ousted from power last year, has sought to insulate the government against military takeovers, which have typically occurred in coordination with conservative, royalist elites. It’s likely, however, that she’s failed. Amid an escalating crisis sparked by border tensions with neighbor Cambodia, experts and...

Just over two months ago, the Rand Corporation released a study on the cost of producing multi-family housing in three states: California, Colorado, and Texas.The results were paradoxically shocking, yet utterly predictable.California, it turns out, is a ridiculous place, run by ridiculous people, with ridiculous regulations. Or, as the folks at Rand put it, “The average market-rate apartment in California is roughly two and a half times the cost of a similar apartment constructed in Texas on a square-foot basis—and regional differences within California, where costs in the San Francisco Bay Area are roughly 50 percent higher than costs in...

Officials in New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington issued statements after the U.S. military operation...Three major U.S. cities indicated they’re on heightened alert following U.S. military airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday.In an announcement on Saturday night, President Donald Trump confirmed the U.S. military carried out bombing missions targeting three facilities, prompting threats from Iranian officials.“We’re tracking the situation unfolding in Iran,” the New York City Police Department stated in a post on X on Saturday evening. “Out of an abundance of caution, we’re deploying additional resources to religious, cultural, and diplomatic sites across NYC and coordinating with...

Prior to President Donald Trump authorizing targeted strikes against Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, federal agents and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers have been arresting Iranian nationals, nearly all men, in the U.S. illegally. In the last few months, federal prosecutors have also brought terrorism charges against Iranians, including those in the U.S. working for the Iranian government. Iran is a designated state sponsor of terrorism. Iranian nationals illegally in the country are considered “special interest aliens” under federal law. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Sunday issued a warning to all Americans to be on a heightened...

The mullahs threatened they could awaken terrorist “sleeper cells” in the U.S. should we attack them. Well, now we have attacked them—in extraordinary fashion, no less—and multiple cities are on heightened alert for possible violent responses.What if some potential terrorists were let in by an administration that refused to police its borders or deal with illegal immigrants? That could very well be the case, because former President Joe Biden’s regime encountered thousands of Iranian nationals at the border during his term—and let over 700 of them loose.The numbers are sobering. Look at how they got worse each year as Biden...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge in Tennessee plans to order the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, while he awaits a federal trial on human smuggling charges. But Abrego Garcia is not expected to go free because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will likely take him into custody and possibly try to deport him. In a ruling on Sunday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes denied the U.S. government’s motion to keep Abrego Garcia in detention before his trial. She scheduled a hearing for...

President Trump said on Sunday that the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement should abandon Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) after his pushback Saturday night against the U.S. strikes on Iran. In a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called Massie “not MAGA” and “a simple minded ‘grandstander’ who thinks it’s good politics for Iran to have the highest level Nuclear weapon.” Massie is weak, ineffective, and votes ‘NO’ on virtually everything put before him (Rand Paul, Jr.), no matter how good something may be. He is disrespectful to our great military, and all that they stand for, not...

“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” Ayatollah Khomeini bragged while holding our hostages. The Carter administration had undermined the Shah’s government in favor of the Islamists who seized power and then prevented the embassy’s Marine guards from defending the facility and the people inside against the Muslim ‘student’ groups who claimed to be coming in peace. The “peaceful” student activists took over our embassy and held our people hostage. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei taunted President Trump with the same slogan in June after being asked to give up Iran’s nuclear weapons program. “Our response to the US nonsense...

1) As I like to do, I wanted to wait til some of the Iranian Fordow dust settled. It will be weeks before anyone knows for sure how much damage was done to the Iranian nuke program, but suffice it to say that when combined with the earlier Israeli attacks . . . heap big damage. 2) The extent of this damage was seen in the Iranians' response, which was "WE'RE GOING TO SUE!" Yeah, that's a real deterrent there! 3) A word on the attack itself. It was carried out with precision not seen since Schwartzkopf's "Hail Mary" in...

NEW: Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department edits post after sending condolences to families in Iran who were “impacted” by Iran’s nuclear sites getting blown up.

“Trump received a communiqué from Iran just days before the US military strikes on its nuclear facilities threatening to activate sleeper-cell terror inside the United States if it were attacked, sources told NBC News.”

In a separate 13-article resolution, the OIC condemned both the Israeli and American strikes, declaring its “full solidarity with Tehran”.

Hitler is informed the United States has struck several key Iranian nuclear facilities, including Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan

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Statement from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East Note: His Eminence Metropolitan Saba, the seminarians and other pilgrims in Lebanon are a great distance from this violence, praying for the souls impacted by this attack. Statement Issued by the Patriarchate of Antioch (Article in English) (المقال باللغة العربية) Damascus, June 22, 2025 On this day when our Antiochian Church commemorates All the Saints of Antioch, the treacherous hand of evil struck this evening, claiming our lives, along with the lives of our loved ones who fell today as martyrs during the evening Divine Liturgy at the...

U.S. Border Patrol agents have uncovered and disabled a large-scale narcotics smuggling tunnel linking Tijuana to the San Diego area. The uncompleted tunnel extended more than 1,000 feet inside the U.S. and was highly sophisticated. In early April, Border Patrol agents assigned to the San Diego Sector Tunnel Team discovered the tunnel as it was actively under construction. The Tunnel Team made entry into the tunnel, which ran under a portion of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. Based on preliminary indications, the tunnel had a projected exit point near or within a nearby commercial warehouse space.

Bernie Sanders took his “Fighting the Oligarchy” tour back on the road this weekend, but there was one noticeable guest missing. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ name was nowhere to be found on the latest tour dates announced on social media Thursday by the socialist Vermont Senator. The lefty pair made headlines when they rallied across the country this spring, fueling rumors of a future presidential run by the Bronx/Queens Congresswoman. But it now looks like AOC might have to do without the private jets, at least for a little while. Rising lefty star and new Squad member Greg Casar (D-Texas) is touring...

Over 1,500 Iranian nationals who illegally entered the U.S. at the southern border were arrested during the Biden administration, and nearly 50% of them were released back into the country, according to a senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) source. More specifically, Border Patrol agents arrested 1,504 Iranian nationals from fiscal year 2021 through fiscal year 2024. Of the 1,504 individuals who were arrested, 729 were released into the U.S. The number of Iranian nationals arrested at the southern border increased year-to-year, with 48 being arrested in FY21; 197 in FY22; 462 in FY23 and 797 in FY24. Likewise,...