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"When they go low, we're going to bury them below the Capitol. That's what we're going to do, because this is about protecting democracy," Swalwell tells me on California's redistricting efforts.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has been quietly pardoning migrants with decades-old criminal histories — including at least one who killed another man. The Dem governor recently granted the extreme act of clemency to 13 migrants, including Somchith Vatthanavong, a 52-year-old Laotian man who entered the US illegally and was convicted of manslaughter in 1990, the New York Times first reported. Vatthanavong, who fled to the US after the Vietnam War, claimed to the outlet that he was defending himself during an altercation outside a pool hall when he fatally shot a man. “They’ve paid their debt, and I’ll be damned if...

World renowned CV19 critical care and pulmonary expert Dr. Pierre Kory was one of the first to call for Ivermectin (IVM) and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to treat Covid in the early days of the pandemic. Instead, Big Pharma, the CDC and FDA trashed the effective and safe drugs to push a CV19 vaccine. That was the first big Covid lie. Dr. Kory was worried about the “Calamitous Suppression of Early CV19 Treatment.” Nearly a million Americans died for lack of treatment. The second big lie was the CV19 vaccines. We were told they were “safe and effective,” and they turned out...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to having the US and Europe provide Ukraine with NATO-style security guarantees as part of deal to end the war, President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday. “We were able to win the following concession: That the United States could offer Article 5-like protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The compromise, which emerged from Trump’s Alaska summit with the Russian strongman, “was the first time we had ever heard the Russians agree to that.” The arrangement Witkoff...

WASHINGTON — Hundreds gathered peacefully in the nation's capital on Saturday afternoon to protest President Trump's attempted takeover of the city's police department and deployment of National Guard units alongside federal agents. Starting with a rally in the northwest neighborhood of DuPont Circle, protesters chanted, "Shame" and "Trump must go now!" while demanding an end to the "crime emergency" that Trump declared in an executive order on Monday.

The battle between Texas and Democrat states over gerrymandering seems likely to touch on the biggest driver of Democrat gerrymandering which fundamentally altered the political balance of power in state after state. Louisiana v. Callais is likely headed for a big Supreme Court decision that will fundamentally change how the Voting Rights Act enforces minority districts. There’s nothing to celebrate about the 60th anniversary of the VRA, a civil rights era relic which long ago stopped fighting segregation and instead enforced partisan gerrymandering with no end in sight. When the Supreme Court began allowing VRA ‘monitoring’ of elections in some...

When the Bedale hoard was first discovered by metal detectorists in 2012, it was immediately recognized as one of the most significant assemblages of Viking-era silver objects and jewelry that had ever been found in England. Dating to the late ninth or early tenth century, the collection consists of 29 silver ingots and several elaborate neck rings, among other items. According to a statement released by the University of Oxford, a recent study of the origins of the Bedale silver is shedding new light on the international scope and far-reaching extent of Viking trade. Researchers led by Oxford archaeologist Jane...

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to “robust” security guarantees, including “effectively” offering Ukraine Article Five-like protection, during their historic Friday meeting. “We agreed to robust security guarantees that I would describe as game-changing,” Witkoff said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Witkoff explained that Russia agreed to allow the United States and other European countries to “effectively offer [Ukraine] Article Five-like language to cover a security guarantee,” referring to the provision of NATO that states an attack on one NATO member is seen as an...

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Several weeks ago, an unknown 27-year-old named Shane Tamura walked into a skyscraper lobby in midtown Manhattan, took out an assault rifle he carried with him from Las Vegas, and opened fire. His killing spree resulted in the death of four individuals; it is the worst mass shooting in New York City for over two decades. Within hours, social media was awash with memeified images reminiscent of those that circulated last December, when an otherwise reclusive 26-year-old named Luigi Mangione walked to the New York Hilton Midtown, pulled out a 3D-printed pistol, and fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Both...

Thousands gathered in cities across the country on Saturday to protest President Trump's plan to keep control of Congress after the 2026 midterms by pushing Republican-led states to redraw their congressional maps in favor of Republicans. The president’s push for the rare and aggressively partisan redistricting, while centered on Texas so far, has set off a furious response among many Democratic state leaders and party activists. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Friday that he was moving forward with a plan to redraw his state’s lines, and allow voters to approve it in November. On Saturday, progressive activists, labor...

As the Trump administration looks to increase the number of deportations of undocumented immigrants, a new battle has opened inside the nation's immigration courts. Immigration judges and lawyers are being targeted for following established procedures. ... The fear intensified in March when President Donald Trump issued an executive order that accused immigration lawyers of coaching their clients to lie in asylum petitions. The president then directed the U.S. Attorney General to identify misconduct "such as filing frivolous litigation or engaging in fraudulent practices" and sanction attorneys who "violate professional conduct rules." ... There's been an ongoing purge of immigration judges...

democrats are a mess. A tawdry, discombobulated mess. They are flailing about trying to find something they can stick to Trump, but nothing is. The Epstein filesNo one really cares about this anymore, but that's not stopping the democrats. Two different judges have refused to allow the release of the files (one was an Obama-appointed judge) but they persist in asking for something that is not allowed, and they know it. Kristi Noemdemocrats are seeking to get Kristi Noem killed. They have twice doxxed her home address and then wonder why she's staying in quarters normally occupied by an Admiral...

The central strategy of media bias is defining your terms. The most obnoxious strategy of liberal journalists is defining the Republicans as ideological extremists engaging in culture wars and weaponizing partisan narratives for political victory. They pretend Democrats are nothing like this. The epic political battles of our time are between the ultraconservatives and the nonpartisans. The same exercise happens with federally funded messaging, from public broadcasting to national museums. When President Donald Trump demands a review of these taxpayer-subsidized narratives, it’s considered some kind of authoritarian crusade against nonpartisan truth-telling. It doesn’t matter how much left-wing propaganda Trump voters...

“You essentially define the AI equivalent of drives and instincts found in humans and animals,” LeCun explained in a LinkedIn post. “So in addition to drives for things like empathy and subservience to people, you have a large number of low-level rules like ‘don’t run over humans’ or ‘don’t swing your arm if holding a knife near people.'”

Man in U.S. illegally charged after crash kills 3 on Florida Turnpike ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — An illegal immigrant has been arrested in connection with a deadly crash on Florida's Turnpike. The crash occurred around 3 PM on Tuesday near Fort Pierce. Troopers said a semi-truck tried making a U-turn in an 'official use only' area, causing a minivan to crash into the truck. Three of the minivan's passengers died. The driver, Harjinder Singh, has now been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide. Officials said he entered the US illegally by crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018....

Daily Readings from the USCCB“Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three; a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.” Luke 12:51–53Jesus introduces this passage by saying, “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already...

The socialist politicians are coming! In Minneapolis, democratic socialist Omar Fateh is favored to be Minneapolis’ next mayor. In New York City, bettors say there’s an 80% chance that socialist Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor. “We have to continue to elect more socialists, and we have to ensure we are unapologetic about our socialism,” says Mamdani. But he should be apologetic! Socialism wrecks lives. My last column/video covered some of Mamdani’s bad ideas, but he has so many, I needed part II: Mamdani promises buses “fast and free for every New Yorker.” Free would be nice, if the...

Researchers inside the hospital’s Lawson Research Institute, studying heart attack recovery in humans, use the dogs as stand ins. They induce up to three-hour-long heart attacks in the animals before killing them and removing their hearts, according to internal photos, documents and two current staff members who work there. It is a clandestine process that has successfully kept the hospital’s long-standing dog research program hidden from the public and patients.

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(8/17/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the Bible1 Corinthians 10:1-5Warnings From Israel’s History 10 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual food 4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased...