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The Trump administration’s FBI has released more than 100 additional pages of writings from Audrey Hale, the transgender shooter... These newly unclassified documents, part of a massive collection of notebooks and journals, offer a chilling look into the planning and financing of the assault that claimed the lives of three children and three adults. Hale, a biological woman who identified as a transgender man, used federal student financial aid, specifically Pell Grants, to fund the purchase of firearms used in the heinous 2023 attack. The FBI-released documents reportedly include Hale’s handwritten “Account Savings Record” page, tracking federal Pell Grant funds...

Florida man Michael Green is suing the Outback Steakhouse in Ocala because he says a toilet shattered and collapsed beneath him, causing "significant and permanent loss of an important bodily function." The toilet in Outback was allegedly unbolted, which caused it to shift around on the tile. When Green sat down to unload his Bloomin' Onion, he apparently found himself Down Under instead. Green says he suffered severe bodily harm from the shards of porcelain and is suing for damages in excess of $50,000. A jury will decide if he'll get a fair-dinkum payout.

A Year-and-a-Half Later, Commiefornia's Fast Food Minimum Wage Is an Unmitigated Disaster And the Democrats want this for ALL OF AMERICA!................ 2:51 VIDEO AT LINK.................

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained at least 10 to 12 workers Monday morning near a Home Depot on Imperial Avenue in Mountain View, according to witnesses at the scene where dozens of day laborers typically gather seeking employment. The arrests occurred before noon in an area across from the Home Depot, where 50 to 60 workers usually wait for day jobs. However, only a handful of workers were present on Tuesday, following the enforcement action. The Imperial Avenue location serves as a regular gathering spot where workers arrive early each morning, often dozens at a...

A history professor who taught at Harvard University for 40 years has left the Ivy League for greener pastures, penning a biting critique on the state of the school on his way out the door. In a piece titled "Why I'm Leaving Harvard," published in Compact Magazine, history professor James Hankins said he decided in 2021 to leave the school amid a flurry of wokeness and COVID restrictions, but honored a four-year retirement contract that expired just weeks ago. "We had just endured almost two years under the university’s strict Covid regime," Hankins wrote. "This was a form of emergency...

A Newsmax segment featuring California Assemblyman Kevin Kiley and Newsmax’s Joe Moeller focused on new findings of fraud and mismanagement across multiple California state programs, including community colleges, unemployment insurance, and social services, as outlined in the California State Auditor’s 2025 high-risk report. During the segment, Kiley highlighted what he described as a major discovery involving fraudulent applications submitted to California’s community college system. “Now the latest example that we’ve learned is that over a third of community college applications in the state were fraudulent. These were not real people, not real students, actually seeking a spot at one of...

An Oklahoma lawmaker has taken inspiration from an initiative in Massachusetts, to bring additional funding for education. Representative Andy Fugate has plans to introduce a millionaire tax, with the revenue going to low performing schools. ......... “An additional 2% in personal income taxes on your net income over $1 million, and an additional 2% on net income that goes over $5 million,” said Rep. Fugate. .......

Josh Gerstein of Politico is facing an avalanche of critical responses on Twitter/X over a post he published on Monday night in which he implied that Somali daycare centers might start justifiably shooting people for knocking on their doors and asking questions, under ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws. He was responding to the explosive claims made by independent citizen journalist Nick Shirley and the revelations in his recent viral video exposing hundreds of millions in alleged fraud carried out by Somali-owned daycare centers in Minnesota. Here is Gerstein’s tweet (it’s a screenshot in case he deletes it): Liberal journalists support ‘Stand...

Mali and Burkina Faso have said they are imposing a travel ban on US citizens in response to an equivalent measure announced by the Trump administration earlier this month. In separate statements issued by their foreign ministries late on Tuesday, the two West African countries said they were acting in the name of “reciprocity” after the White House announced on December 16 that US President Donald Trump was adding them and five other countries to a list of those subject to a full travel ban. The White House said the expanded ban, set to take effect on January 1, applied...

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett warned that Israel’s status in the United States “has never been so bad” and that it is being seen as a “leper state” in a lengthy social media post on Tuesday. The post castigating the current government’s public diplomacy efforts came after Bennett, who plans to run in next year’s elections, spent 10 days in the US… “The Democratic party hasn’t been with us for some time. We’re also losing the Republican party, whose support for Israel could once be counted on,” he wrote, though he credited US President Donald Trump with retaining support for...

There are now 44 million Muslims in Europe, with more arriving every day. Muslim mothers in Europe have much higher birth rates than do the indigenous non-Muslims. There is still time, however, for the indigenous peoples of Europe to stop the Muslim demographic conquest of their continent. More on the geopolitical consequences of the growing Muslim presence in Europe can be found here: “Europe is drifting away from Israel, toward Iran’s worldview – opinion,” by Micah Halpern, Jerusalem Post, December 29, 2025: Countries, like people, need friends. Those friendships are most often based on economic or military needs or the...

It’s not quite burning-scientists-at-the-stake bad, but it’s close — or at least feels that way. President Donald Trump’s administration is openly waging war against universities, closing independent science review panels, funding fewer grants, and shutting down or raising concerns about the closure of important centers of government research (even though in some cases, they’re probably not supposed to). The evidence is now clear that the modern American structure of science can no longer survive as an apolitical entity that enjoys consistent, bipartisan support. Science is now suffering a generational catastrophe, not just in terms of funding, but in terms of...

Since taking the helm at CBS News, Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has shown no fear, and her response to Hollywood leftist darling George Clooney's attack on her is truly...magnifique. It all started after the 64-year-old actor took a swipe at Weiss' leadership, of course, using broad claims, lacking any detail, about Weiss. The comments came after she pulled a 60 Minutes piece about the alleged treatment of illegal aliens in a CECOT prison in El Salvador. She later explained the reason was that it wasn’t ready, RedState reported. Statement from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss: "My job is to make sure...

Thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets in the nation’s largest cities on Saturday night amid a series of damning reports about Qatar’s ties with aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The focus on Qatar, a key backer of Hamas, came after the publication this week of reports and interviews that appeared to tie Netanyahu to the so-called Bild and Qatargate probes in which his top aides have either been prime suspects or indicted. Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called Qatargate “the most serious act of treason in Israeli history.” The anti-government rallies are backed by a...

Maintenance problems affecting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve are in the spotlight after oil releases under former President Joe Biden. President Donald Trump pledged to replenish the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve after the Biden administration sold nearly 200 million barrels of its stock — but that won’t be as simple as buying more oil. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy this week that SPR drawdowns under former President Joe Biden resulted in structural damage to facilities. More than $100 million of repairs are needed to bring the storage facilities back to full capacity, Wright...

What if you "hear" something that you've never heard before, but it's been in the Bible all along? It means we need to read our Bible more and more carefully and more thoroughly. Pastor Jack explores some very interesting scriptures about the millennium, a future event mentioned in the Word, as well as how essential it is to judge everything we hear against the Bible itself. Don't be swayed by any man's interpretation and always compare the actual Word of God to the claim. The video is 34:22 minutes long

The geniuses who are planning New York’s energy future think that they can make intermittent wind and solar generators work to power the electrical grid by the simple device of providing some battery storage. The idea is that when there is abundant wind and sun, they can store up the power for use during those calm and dark periods in the winter. How much battery storage will that take? It’s a simple arithmetic calculation, but none of our supposed experts have taken the trouble to crunch the numbers. Nevertheless, without any kind of feasibility study of whether this will work,...

Nick Shirley set off a firestorm. Check this out. [I've watched through most of these, but there could be language hiding, so be warned.] Washington: ALL VIDEOS AT LINK.......................... (Look at those mansions the Somalis are living in!!) Philadelphia: Columbus, Ohio: In Minnesota, local outlet Alpha News also provided this corroboration of Nick Shirley's claims. Prompted by a flood of tips from readers about facilities that tipsters say do not appear to be providing services, Alpha News reporters Liz Collin and Jenna Gloeb visited more than a dozen autism centers and adult day care businesses across the Twin Cities during...

Democratic proposals to repair America’s broken healthcare system have reliably shown a slide towards healthcare-for-all. But for the first time since the modern healthcare system began, Republicans have what they say is an answer. "Democrats made health insurance illegal in the United States. You can't buy health insurance. All you can buy is a health care plan. We need to allow people who just want 'I got hit by a bus, or I got cancer' insurance to buy that, and they can say, 'I can take care of everything by myself.' We need to solve that health insurance problem. Democrats...

A leaked photo reportedly from an internal U.S. Postal Service (USPS) update reveals that the agency will continue to use “non-domiciled” drivers. The leaked image purports to show that USPS, which operates independently of the president, will accept or hire non-citizen commercial drivers as of 2026. The leak comes in the weeks following the Trump administration’s announcement of increased scrutiny and English proficiency requirements for CDL issuance to migrants. Sen. Rick Scott released a statement last week urging the Trump administration to crack down on USPS CDL hiring practices. “It is deeply concerning that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reportedly...