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Imtiaz Mahmood@ImtiazMadmood·5hThis isn't Beirut or Tehran. This is Macron's France.Images of the destruction caused by riots from Kurdish immigrants in France are making headlines around the world.This is a reality that the mainstream media isn't reporting on. Why?- @HJB_News_ April 6, 2026

Donald Trump has branded Mexico a narco-state, accusing it of failing to control its border.

Majid Khademi, the IRGC intelligence chief killed in Tehran early Monday, was not a battlefield commander so much as a career security insider who rose through Iran’s secretive counterintelligence system and helped oversee repression, surveillance and anti-infiltration work. His death matters because he sat at the junction of two of the system’s most sensitive functions: guarding the Guards from infiltration and directing the intelligence arm accused of crushing dissent. In March, Washington’s Rewards for Justice program offered up to $10 million for information on Khademi and other senior IRGC figures, a sign that he was seen abroad not just as...

MAZE@mazemoore·21hThis scandal should be revisited and investigated further. Be sure to watch both videos in this thread.Gavin Newsom's wife has made a few documentaries. They shouldn't be called documentaries because they are just trashy movies bashing men and bashing America.Here's where it gets interesting.In 2023 the watchdog group Open The Books discovered that some of her documentaries were being streamed in the California public schools and that the Newsom's made millions by charging the schools to play them.In other words, the Newsoms made the schools force the kids to watch these disgusting movies created by Newsom's wife, and they...

The Los Angeles Dodgers are playing hardball with their most loyal fans, and this time, the boys in blue are looking more like corporate bullies. Despite half a century of loyalty — long before the era of QR codes — the Dodgers flat-out refused to provide Segal with paper tickets for the 2026 season, effectively shutting him out of games. Holding up a relic of a flip phone that definitely doesn’t support the MLB Ballpark app, Segal told local reporters that he doesn’t have an iPhone. In fact, he doesn’t know how to use a computer. An iron-fisted “digital-only” policy...

A 26-year-old promising dental student died in a Connecticut hospital’s intensive care unit that was being overseen by a “tele-health” doctor — who pronounced him dead via a video call, a lawsuit alleges. Conor Hylton’s family slapped the wrongful death lawsuit against Bridgeport Hospital Milford Campus last month for allegedly not having a physical doctor on-site when he was admitted to the ICU in August 2024, according to the filing. Hylton, who was studying at UConn School of Dental Medicine, took a turn for the worse in the hours after he went to the hospital seeking treatment for pancreatitis and...

This spring, universities are hosting “UndocuGraduation” ceremonies for illegal alien students that are closed to the public and separate from traditional commencement ceremonies. Schools describe the ceremonies as “private” or “intimate,” likely out of deportation fears, requiring advance registration and only revealing the location to confirmed attendees. Many of these events are hosted by university resource centers for illegal alien students, which provide instructional guidance on how to handle interactions with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to best avoid arrest and deportation. These centers also often provide taxpayer-funded legal services for illegal alien students. 1. University of California, San...

Gavin Newsom’s transport secretary has admitted criticism of California’s high-speed rail is justified — as estimates of the project show it will be a struggle to be completed. Officials now say it will cost an eye-watering $126 billion to finish the line from Los Angeles to San Francisco — which is more money than Amtrak has ever received from the federal government since it was established in 1971, a damning 60 Minutes report revealed. That’s and a huge uptick when compared to the $33 billion voters were told the rail would cost when it was announced way back in 2008....

Colorado attorneys are starting to push back after a certification prompt began appearing when they log into the state’s court e-filing system. The requirement traces back to Senate Bill 25-276 and related statutes, including C.R.S. § 24-74-105, which deal with how the state handles nonpublic personal identifying information. Under that law, access to certain data comes with a certification—made under penalty of perjury—about how it will be used. On paper, the statute applies broadly to third parties accessing protected data. In practice, though, the certification has now been built into Colorado Courts E-Filing (CCE), meaning attorneys are being asked to...

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for the Justice ​Department to move forward with dismissing a criminal case in which Steve Bannon, an influential ally of President Donald Trump, was convicted after defying ‌a congressional subpoena. The justices threw out a lower court's decision to uphold Bannon's 2022 conviction for refusing to turn over documents or testify to a congressional panel that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. Trump's Justice Department, in urging the Supreme Court to toss the lower court's decision, told the justices in court papers it has...

The Islamic Republic's repression machine has been severely damaged by Israeli attacks from its highest to its lowest levels. In addition to dozens of senior repression commanders, nearly 5,000 oppressors were killed and 21,000 others were injured. At least 130 intelligence headquarters, barracks, police stations and Basij bases were also destroyed. On Saturday, March 9, 1404, around 9:00 AM Iran time, citizens observed explosions. In Tehran, the explosions were around the «-bit led» complex. They still did not know that Ali Khamenei, the 86-year-old leader of the Islamic Republic, who had spent 36 years of his life commanding the suppression...

We reported some time ago on New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to create a “Department of Community Safety.” This is the initiative that gets characterized misleadingly as simply a plan to replace cops with social workers. It is much more than that. It is much more frightening than that. It is the ultimate fulfillment of the leftist vision of abolishing the police and substituting for them a cadre of individuals who will be empowered to forge the new society Mamdani and his Marxist supporters envision. The first step in this effort has been the creation of something called...

FBI Director Kash Patel is allowing the FBI to Bury the Seth Rich case or does he even know what’s going on? Attorney Ty Clevenger has been working on the Seth Rich case for a decade. The Deep State actors running the government continue to stall and defy court orders, and Clevenger continues to demand justice. It is believed that Seth Rich is a pivotal key to the Russia Collusion coup attempt of the first Trump Administration. The Deep State DOJ and FBI have gone through extreme efforts to cover up any information they have on Seth Rich. Rich is...

The New York State Department of Health on Thursday shared updated guidance on eating fish you catch, and it includes a major change for the Hudson River. For the first time in 50 years, the department says everyone can now eat "some fish" from the Lower Hudson River — that covers Rip Van Winkle Bridge in Catskill to the southern tip of Manhattan. (...) "PCB levels in some of the fish had gone down enough that we are now able to allow families — even younger women and children — to eat some of the fish," Van Genechten said. (...)

The AFP reports that a 600-year-old grape seed recovered from a medieval waste pit in northern France is genetically identical to grapes used today to make pinot noir wine. A team of researchers led by Ludovic Orlando of the French National Center for Scientific Research sequenced the genomes of 54 grape seeds dating from about 2300 B.C. to the medieval period. The oldest grapes in the study were found to have come from wild vines. The scientists determined that early farmers began using clonal propagation techniques as early as 625 to 500 B.C., when domesticated grapevines were grown in southern...

Poll in Spain: Trump and Netanyahu are seen as two of the three most dangerous leaders in the world. Trump was ranked as the biggest threat to world peace, followed by Russian President Putin. Spaniards perceive Netanyahu as more dangerous to peace than Iran's new leader. 81% of survey respondents said Trump is endangering global peace - more than any other leader. The Spanish government is considered the most hawkish in Europe against Israel and President Trump's policies. Why it matters: The survey reflects the worsening criticism in Spain towards Israel and the US, also among citizens and not just...

The Senate filibuster is often romanticized as a noble safeguard of minority rights, a procedural guardrail that forces consensus and slows the passions of majorities. Yet the actual history of the filibuster—its accidental creation, its use by factional minorities, and its long record of blocking popular and essential legislation—tells a very different story. From the beginning, the filibuster has been less a principled protection of deliberation than a tool for thwarting the democratic process, empowering small groups of senators to override the will of the electorate and frustrate the functioning of representative government. Its history demonstrates not a tradition worth...

Thousands of people took to the streets in cities across the US on March 28. The scenes were loud, organized and unmistakable. Crowds filled major intersections, chanting in unison while holding signs emblazoned with slogans such as “No Kings,” “No Imperialism” and “No War.” This message was repeated across cities with striking consistency; the same script had been carried from one place to another. But the signs told only part of the story. Behind them were organized banners, printed and distributed by well-known activist groups. Names such as the Democratic Socialists of America, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and...

LONDON — London police are urgently investigating how armed protection officers guarding Mayor Sadiq Khan left a bag of guns outside his home. The Metropolitan Police said in a statement late Friday that five officers had been removed from front-line duties while inquiries were being carried out. The weapons cache, which according to The Sun newspaper included an MP5 semiautomatic Heckler & Koch ­carbine, a Glock pistol, Taser and ammunition, were found in south London Tuesday by a couple, who then informed the Metropolitan Police.

Back in May 2024, I had a post titled “So How Are Things Going In China?” The post was inspired by a New York Times article of April 15 of that year that had reported that China’s economy had grown “more than expected” in the first three months of 2024; and by a just-issued IMF prediction that China’s economy would grow by 5% in 2024. To believe the New York Times and the IMF, in 2024 the Chinese economy was growing at an annual rate of 5% or more. For 2025, China again reported a GDP growth rate of about...