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🚨 BREAKING: Nokomis Daycare, the Somali Daycare who said someone broke in and stole all their documents yesterday, actually had NOTHING STOLEN, per Minneapolis Police So the owners LIED, knowing a federal investigation was imminent. This place needs to be raided NOW!

SALEM, Ore. — The Salem City Council voted 5–4 on Dec. 8 to reappoint Kyle Hedquist to the city’s Community Police Review Board, a volunteer panel that reviews complaints about police conduct and makes recommendations to the police chief.

Nearly a year into President Donald Trump’s second administration, the signs that his controversial immigration policies will continue to show themselves in many ways are only growing more frequent. Along with near-daily headlines involving eye-popping statistics, arrests and deportations, a recent Washington Post report outlines a new plan that calls for Dallas County to soon be the home of the nation’s second-largest ICE detention facility. “The Trump administration is seeking contractors to help it overhaul the United States’ immigrant detention system in a plan that includes renovating industrial warehouses to hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time, according...

Open your wallet and remove a $20 bill. On the front, it reads: “Federal Reserve Note.” To understand the coming financial crisis, we need to trace the journey that bill took to reach your wallet. To accommodate the myriad ways in which the federal government subsidizes Americans, the Federal Reserve is about to unleash waves of new money. Things are going to get worse, not better. With inflation still too high, the Federal Reserve announced it will begin injecting another $40 billion into the money supply per month.Like all money, the bill in your wallet was created to finance something...

Daily Readings from the USCCBIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only-begotten Son, full of grace and truth. John 1:1; 14The Prologue to John’s Gospel, John 1:1-18, is one of the most profound and theologically rich passages in Scripture. It is both contemplative and mysterious, inviting us to come to know God in His essence through the depth of contemplative prayer. The opening words, “In the beginning…,” echo...

Has Trump Derangement Syndrome mutated? There certainly seems to be evidence of a new strain spreading even on the right, which we can label “Vance Derangement Syndrome.” The American Spectator recently published a passive-aggressive essay by Neal B. Freeman in which he suggests that if JD Vance were to become president, it “would be his first real job.” Apparently, serving as a Marine, a U.S. senator, and as vice president of the United States is not sufficient experience, in Freeman’s view. Although he attributes the “first real job” statement to unnamed “critics,” he clearly believes it to be an accurate...

Despite the U.S. Justice Department's claim in a new court filing that there is “overwhelming evidence” of a Virginia man’s guilt in the D.C. pipe-bomb case, his location and movements on Jan. 5, 2021, do not appear to be as clear-cut as the FBI’s cellphone evidence implies. When the FBI arrested Brian Jerome Cole Jr. Dec. 4 at his mother’s home in Woodbridge, Va., agents filed a federal court affidavit that relied heavily on pings from Cole’s cell phone. Those pings placed him in a variety of general areas on Capitol Hill the night of Jan. 5. The FBI said...

Joseph Goebbels said that if you tell a lie that's big enough often enough, people will believe it. Liberal lies are soothing. They create an alternate reality and play into popular prejudices, including hatred of the rich, oil companies and Jews. The big lies of 2025 included:

Already known details of how Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were killed have now been shuttered by the LA County Medical Examiner under a court order sought by the LAPD. The department wants to keep its findings sealed and away from the prying eyes of the “media and the public” as they try to make substantial progress before a potentially decisive court hearing next week. Halting “the public release of any investigative information, notes, reports, or photos” of the Reiners’ death, the judge approved order went into effect on December 29. The order specifically says the Medical Examiner can...

🚨 BREAKING: OVER 40 “daycare centers” in Columbus, OH opened up using the SAME defunct Somali shell company on the SAME day, and collected $14 MILLION in subsidies in 2024 alone Just CUT OFF the subsidies all together! It’s OUT OF CONTROL!

Scavino released a video, without comment, portraying President Trump preparing his team for 2026. Best to watch the entire 44 second video here.Below, I broke the video into 3 clips and typed in the movie dialogue above the clips.Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 @DanScavinoCommander in Chief: "Hold the line. Stay with me. Brothers, what we do in life echoes in enternity."Commander: "Strength and honor."Man replies, "Strength and honor."Commander: "At my signal, unleash Hell." December 30, 2025

The number of violent offences involving an adolescent attacking their parents or step-parents has increased by more than 60% in the past decade, according to figures recorded by the UK’s biggest police force. Data released by Scotland Yard reveals that there were 1,886 such offences recorded in 2015 but this increased to 3,091 in the first 10 months of 2025 alone. The offences involved a suspect aged between 10, the age of criminal responsibility in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and 17 who had been recorded as being the child or stepchild of the alleged victim. The Metropolitan police figures...

At least 41 young men have died as a result of circumcision procedures as part of traditional initiation activities in South Africa in November and December, authorities said Tuesday. Traditional initiation is a rite of passage into manhood for young men that is practiced annually by various ethnic groups in Africa, including parts of South Africa. Among them are the Xhosa, Ndebele, Sotho and Venda communities. Traditionally, young men are isolated at initiation schools where they are taught cultural values and responsibilities as they become adults. The circumcision part of the initiation results every year in the deaths of some...

Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the former senator and US representative of Colorado known for his passionate advocacy of Native American issues, died Tuesday. He was 92. Campbell died of natural causes surrounded by his family, his daughter, Shanan Campbell, confirmed to The Associated Press. Campbell, a Democrat who stunned his party by joining the Republican Party, stood out in Congress as much for his unconventional dress — cowboy boots, bolo ties and ponytail — as his defense of children’s rights, organized labor and fiscal conservatism.

Shocking videos show a Lancaster, Southern California street fight in broad daylight escalating until a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed. The Christmas Day brawl devolved into a blaze of gunfire that also injured four others.

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...