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The violence and size of the anti-ICE riots in Minnesota took federal officials by surprise. But maybe they shouldn’t be shocked. As it turns out, and as is often the case when it comes to far-left demonstrations, outside money, organizations and foreign influence are firing the revolt. As Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche this week told “The Ingraham Angle,” investigators discovered a “massive fraud going on all through Minneapolis, all through Minnesota, and suddenly it turned. It turned almost on a dime, and it became suddenly all about ICE, all about getting ICE out and how horrible ICE was...

Just in the past few weeks, it has come to the attention of the American People that, in many cities across the country, Teachers are taking entire classes of students out of school to demonstrate against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who are enforcing Federal Law by removing Illegal Alien Criminals from our midst. These mostly far-left teachers are also teaching their students about how to “demonstrate” against their own government, and how to act in ways that might injure them. Yes, that’s what Teachers, paid with YOUR tax money, are indoctrinating your children to do. Yeah, these “teachers.”...The...

In the world of scientific research, some discoveries change the very fabric of how we understand human development and the intricate connections that shape our lives. Katie Hinde, a pioneering researcher and biologist, is one such figure whose groundbreaking work has reshaped our understanding of breast milk.

...as scientists link a surge in orca activity to collapsing ice, while fishermen celebrate a new gold rush and climate activists demand a total fishing ban (continuation of headline) The morning the whales came, the harbor in Nuuk went quiet in a way that had nothing to do with silence. Motors idled low, conversations broke off mid-sentence, and a line of people abandoned their coffee cups on the dock to lean over the railings. Out there, barely a few hundred meters from the ice-streaked shore, the black-and-white backs of orcas cut through the steel-blue water like a row of moving...

Amber Glenn, a figure skater with Team USA in the Winter Olympics, claimed that it had been a “hard time” for the LGBTQ community under the Trump administration. While speaking to reporters, Glenn claimed that the Trump administration’s policies weren’t “just affecting the queer community, but many other communities,” according to The Blast. “It’s been a hard time for the community overall and this administration. It isn’t the first time that we’ve had to come together as a community and try and fight for our human rights,” Glenn told reporters. “And now, especially, it’s not just affecting the queer community,...

Not in Britain's repertoire anymore.Well, seems that Great Mediocre Britain is continuing its slide into obscurity and irrelevance.I admit it is somewhat depressing to have a ringside seat at the destruction via self-loathing of one of the great Empires of history.If you think I exaggerate, google “British Museum” and see how much whinging, snivelling, and garment-rending British “scholars” are indulging in regarding “stolen artefacts”.Uh huh. You know what happens to “repatriated” artefacts?Museums after Islamist Douchebags get doneSo far, religious fanatics haven’t gone running into the British Museum with sledgehammers because pre-Islam artefacts are heresy. Yes! Let us tear our shirts...

Democrats successfully defended a conservative seat in rural Louisiana on Saturday night, as Chasity Martinez defeated Republican Brad Daigle by a dominant 62-38 margin—a massive 37-point overperformance compared to the 2024 presidential result. Republicans had hoped to score their first legislative pickup of any kind during Donald Trump’s second term, and they had good reason to think they might succeed in the 60th House District. Voters in the district, which includes part of Assumption and Iberville parishes (Louisiana’s equivalent of counties), had long backed state and local Democrats but had moved decidedly toward Republicans on the federal level in recent...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(2/8/26)[Prayer]A New Study For A New Year: PersonalitiesGenesis 24:10-27 10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. 11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. 12 And he said O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee,...

Meet Politico's Supervillains of the TDS Universe. Artist Natalia Delgado provided us with a rendering of the sheer villainy of a howling mad J.D. Vance, whose angry piercing gaze seems about to burn the hearts out of sensitive Georgetown liberals whose world has been turned upside down in the wake of the 2024 election.Behind Vance, staring ominously out at the world, is the spooky Big Brother hypnotic glare of the unholiest of all unholy supervillains, none other than Orange Man Bad. Who, oh who, can combat the overwhelming power of the MAGA supervillains? Fortunately, Politico reporter Gregory Svirnovskiy on Thursday...

The Talk Shows Feb 8th, 2026 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. Mark Warner (Deep State-Va.); Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas); Dr. Scott Gottlieb, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) ; David Becker, Executive Director and Founder at Center for Election Innovation & Research. FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.); Sen. Mark Warner (Deep State-Va.); Fox News Law Analyst Paul Mauro, retired NYC Police Inspector. Panel: Francesca Chambers, Tiffany Smiley, Whine Williams and Roger Zakheim. MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen...

Another sterling week for the Trump administration, another interval of agony for his opponents. The attention of those less politically minded is focused on the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy -- always fodder for the would-be Colombos and Miss Marples -- and the Olympics. Yet this week saw some victories for the administration along with some serious unfinished business. The ousted dictator Nicolás Maduro seems isolated, depressed, and devoid of funds sufficient to hire teams of lawyers to defend him. Any claims he might have for immunity seem destined to fail. The evidence establishes he was born in Colombia;...

Japan's conservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has won a decisive victory in the country's snap parliamentary election, according to exit polls ...

@RupertLowe10 Right. I want to make this clear. Plenty of people have attacked our inquiry for ‘not having statutory powers’. Yeah. We know. OBVIOUSLY. We are not the Government. Clearly. But so what? Honestly, what’s the alternative? Sit on our arses and do nothing? Tweet? Wait for Labour to act? It just doesn’t work. Not for this. If what we’re doing, raises sufficient awareness and stops just ONE GIRL from being raped and abused by these muslim gangs? Then good. I say that is time and money well spent. But trust me, we are aiming for much, much more. Our...

It's a question that I had not put too much thought into until recently, but in light of the revelations over the past year from DOGE, the current fraud investigations in Minnesota, Oregon, Maine, and California (and I hope that will soon expand to all 50 states), it really has struck me that a huge proportion of our economy is probably just money laudering. Of course, we all understood at some vague level that there had to be a large amount of money laundering going on. The illegal drug trade alone is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and that...

Lindsey Vonn crashes early in Olympic downhill, taken off the mountain in a helicopter

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A man was sitting in his car late Tuesday in the 1000 block of Crestwood Street in Jacksonville’s North Shore neighborhood when he was approached by four people armed with guns. The incident occurred at about 11:40 p.m., according to a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office news release. The armed suspects commanded the victim to get out of the car. The man complied, exited the car, and then there was an exchange of gunfire between the victim and the suspects, the news release states. The victim shot two of the assailants; one in the leg, the other in the...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is under fire this week after a Los Angeles Times report claiming she successfully altered in her favor a critical after-action report on the devastating southern California wildfires that killed 31 people. While Bass has repeatedly denied that she interfered with the report, the Los Angeles Times reports, citing two sources, that Bass was concerned that the city could be exposed to legal liability for its lack of preparedness and removed or softened language implicating the city. One of the key changes, according to the Los Angeles Times, was altering details about failures to fully...

Longtime House appropriator Mark Amodei, R-Nev., who currently oversees spending for the Department of Homeland Security, announced Friday that he will not run for reelection in November. “I came to Congress to solve problems and to make sure our State and Nation have a strong voice in the federal policy and oversight processes,” Amodei said in a statement. “I look forward to finishing my term. After 15 years of service, I believe it is the right time for Nevada and myself to pass the torch.” Since prevailing in a special election in 2011, Amodei has grown accustomed to winning reelection...

Trump: All Your Safe Space Are Belong to Us. The inauguration of President Trump destroys every safe space and protest in Washington DC. The Invasion of the Deplorables has begun. You have no place to hide, stream your crying. All Your Base Are Belong to Us. All Your Base Are Belong To Trump

Despite the program's size, fewer families now receive direct cash assistance than in previous decades. Federal data shows that about 849,000 families received monthly TANF payments in fiscal year 2025, down from approximately 1.9 million families in 2010. Instead, states have increasingly directed funds to contractors, nonprofits and other government programs. Nick Gwyn, a policy expert with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said the shift reflects a broader transformation in how the program operates. 'The program has drifted away from the core purpose of supporting families with very little income,' Gwyn told the WSJ. More than $30 billion...