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Sunrise is bankrolled by a who’s who of deep-pocketed left-wing organizations. Open Society Foundations has sent it $2 million since 2019, according to its grant database. Half of the money supported general “social welfare activities.” The Ford Foundation contributed $150,000 in 2024 and $550,000 in 2025, while the MacArthur Foundation—the 12th-largest private charity in America—gave $250,000 in 2024, according to tax filings and grant disclosures.

President Trump is restoring law and order. Transcript Summary Well, I think every day we get a murderer off the streets of Minneapolis. The public is safer, and President Trump is keeping his promise to the American people. And we literally have arrested and detained thousands of illegal criminals in Minnesota since President Trump came back into the White House. And I've never met a family that ever said, oh, I wish you would have left that rapist free. I wish you would have left that murderer on the streets. So we're just so thankful that we have a president...

🚨 DEMOCRATS IN FULL PANIC MODE! New DEVASTATING poll drops: Americans TRUST Republicans MORE than Dems on: • Economy & Inflation: +6 points • Tariffs: +2 points • Immigration: +11 points • Border Security: +28 POINTS

Donald Trump’s attempt to bully his Nato allies into handing over Greenland by imposing tariffs is, even by his standards, a step too far. The President is used to getting what he wants — to use his own words, “the soft way or the hard way”. And with one eye on his historical legacy, Mr Trump seems determined to purchase or annex the Arctic island, even if in the process he unleashes a trade war and destroys the Atlantic alliance. Nothing can justify this exercise of raw power. The US already has a base in Greenland and could, if it...

Both winners advance to their respective conference championship games next Sunday.

Just days into 2026, Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz announced he would not run for a third term, citing his need to focus on a growing welfare fraud scandal — a surprise announcement that sent shock waves through the state. Forty-eight hours later, a 37-year-old woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, touching off protests, furious reactions from Democrats and a surge of even more federal immigration personnel to the area as part of President Donald Trump’s ongoing national crackdown. This confluence of events has placed the national spotlight squarely on Minnesota — and...

Pro-Scottish independence accounts on X have gone dark after Iran's Internet shutdown - after experts exposed their links to the regime in Tehran. Multiple accounts, which regularly pumped out pro-independence messages, abruptly stopped posting on January 8 - the date the Iranian authorities began their blackout in a bid to quell nationwide protests. The profiles claimed to be ordinary Scottish people, with names including 'Scottish Lad' Jake and 'Proud Scottish lass' Fiona.

HOUSTON – A woman was arrested after allegedly throwing a weighted plate at another woman’s head at a 24 Hour Fitness in Houston, according to deputies with Constable Mark Herman’s Office. The incident occurred on Jan. 7 at the 24 Hour Fitness located at 1000 Lake Plaza Drive. Deputies said the suspect recognized the victim as someone her partner was involved with and assaulted her inside the gym. The suspect walked up to the woman at the gym, held a 25-pound weight plate and said, “B**** I’m going to drop this plate on you.” During the altercation, investigators said the...

It has been a while since Metallicman has been here, I thought that this post of his was interesting, especially now. This is a multi-part posting. The amount of content is enormous and the scope is too broad for a couple of paragraphs. Please follow the arrows to move between the different sections. Also note that this article covers a very politically-incorrect subject matter, and supporting photos and writings are very graphic. This is not for children or people of tender sensibilities. ...there are periods in history when the entire paradigm you’ve been accustomed to living under changes rather abruptly...

She reversed the executive order on day one of her governorship, drawing sharp criticism from Republicans who argue the commonwealth will be less safe. Virginia Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger reversed a high-profile immigration enforcement policy established by outgoing Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Spanberger, sworn in earlier in the day as Virginia’s 75th governor and the first woman to hold the office, signed an executive action rescinding Executive Order 47—a directive issued last year that had authorized Virginia State Police and Department of Corrections personnel to assist federal immigration authorities under a 287(g) agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)....

President Donald Trump announced on Jan. 17 that the United States will impose a 10 percent tariff on eight European countries that have opposed America’s efforts to acquire Greenland—a move the president says is critical for U.S. national security. The tariff, set to take effect Feb. 1, targets Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland—all NATO members. Trump warned that the tariff will rise to 25 percent on June 1 if a deal is not reached. “This tariff will remain in place until a deal is reached for the complete and total purchase of Greenland,”...

🚨BREAKING: Four MS-13 gang members arrested in Senator @ChrisVanHollen’s Maryland for luring a 14-year-old boy into a park and hacking the child to death with machetes. Which anti-ICE Mommy wants to take these illegal alien killers home to play with their kids?

US ambassadors have taken a chainsaw to the United Nations budget as part of President Trump’s mandate to have the world organization “get back to basics.” US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz and Management and Reform Ambassador Jeffrey Bartos told The Post they helped reduce the entire UN budget by $570 million — and America’s portion of that payment to the international governing body by around $126 million. “The UN has agreed to the first real budget cuts – actual real cuts for the first time in modern history, pretty much since the founding of the organization,” Waltz recently...

People don't like to discuss progressivism. They don't like to discuss the progressive party. It doesn't really make any sense to me, these are some of the most important things we ought to be discussing. Here is the party platform of the Progressive Party. What do you see? One of the very first declarations is for the direct election of senators - essentially the 17th amendment. Is this left wing or right wing? It calls for nationalizing issues out of the hands of the states. Is this left wing or right wing? There's social justice and industrial justice. Is this...

VIDEOYou can always rely on CNN's Manu Raju to serve up plenty of Democrat Hopium even if an election is many months away in the future as you can see here. Your Humble Correspondent drops his normal irreverent attitude and provides serious insights into Manu's large servings of Democrat Hopium.

Explanation: This infrared view of Jupiter by Webb is illuminating. High-resolution infrared images of Jupiter from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) reveal, for example, differences between high-floating bright clouds -- including the Great Red Spot -- and low-lying dark clouds. Also clearly visible in the featured Webb image are Jupiter's dust ring, bright auroras at the poles, and Jupiter's moons Amalthea and Adrastea. The footprint of large volcanic moon Io's magnetic funneling of charged particles onto Jupiter is also visible in the southern aurora. Some objects are so bright that light noticeably diffracts around Webb's optics creating streaks. Webb,...

[Catholic Caucus] Germany’s “slime Mass” apology exposes deeper fault lines in the ChurchA Catholic diocese in Germany has issued a formal apology after a televised Christmas Eve Mass from Stuttgart provoked a storm of criticism over an unconventional Nativity scene broadcast nationwide on public television.The Mass, aired on ARD from St Mary’s Church in Stuttgart, featured an artistic portrayal of the newborn Christ by an adult female performance artist curled in a foetal position and covered with sticky rice paper, intended to evoke the vernix of a newborn child. It was quickly dubbed “slime Jesus”. The broadcast was produced by...

Remember during Covid when liberals kept insisting that they were the ones who believed in "THE Science?" Well now that "THE Science" has proved to become politically inconvenient for them we see the hilarious spectacle of those same liberals denying basic science such as during a recent Senate hearing when a leftist doctor refused to answer the simple question of "Can men get pregnant?"We can now also see that same pathetic denial of obvious scientific reality taking effect in the current arguments surrounding the Supreme Court case about upholding state bans of biological males aka trans-women participating in women's sports....

By conducting repeated, non-authorized “hearing-like” events across multiple states, Democratic lawmakers are substituting narrative judgment for formal oversight — a practice that weakens institutional norms without formally breaking them. They explicitly disclaimed constitutional authority while theatrically imitating it — which tells you they understood the limits and chose to step around them anyway. This hearing asserts criminal guilt against federal law enforcement outside the courts while enforcement is ongoing, effectively placing Congress in an extra-constitutional adjudicatory role. By moving a self-described “sixth hearing” out of Washington and placing it under the control of ideologically aligned senior members, Democrats are asserting...

Wyoming’s first hard rock mine in a century is all but shovel ready and may be sitting on a pile of gold much larger than what’s so far been showcased for investors. The CK Gold project, 20 miles west of Cheyenne past Curt Gowdy State Park, also could be worth a lot more than previously estimated because of an explosion in the value of gold. It’s more than doubled since about a year ago. Chairman of the U.S. Gold Corp. board, Luke Norman, told investors this past week that the company now believes its project is sitting on top of...