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He says the situation is worse than it looks and that family members have been denied access by the military and police in their attempts to find their children. Save the Children NGO is already operating in Venezuela. “They are taking traumatized and orphaned children for child trafficking.” “It’s not even humans doing it. These people are evil.” Video Transcript SummaryThe X post by @ShadowofEzra shares a video of a man (split-screen with disaster footage of a child being held amid rubble) who claims that elites have quickly begun trafficking children in Venezuela following a major earthquake. Key claims in...

The Supreme Court upheld states’ ability to count mail ballots postmarked by election day but arriving later, which conservatives have argued slows vote counting but liberals defend as expanding voter access.California officials and voting-rights advocates say the decision protects voters, but agreed the state needs to speed up vote counting in the future. California officials cheered a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday that allows states to continue counting mail ballots postmarked by election day but received in the days after — calling it a win for voter participation and access, including in the upcoming November midterm.They also acknowledged delays in...

In the governor’s race, Vivek Ramaswamy reminds voters that Amy Acton closed their schools.Canton, Ohio“You guys know I’ve worked with everyone on any side of an aisle who’ll solve a problem. But it’s now about extreme wealth, power, ideology, special interests, being shoved through the black box of state houses where a lot of times folks can’t even name who works there.” So said Amy Acton, Democratic nominee for Ohio governor, at the IBEW Local 212—the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers—on June 16 in the Cincinnati suburb of Sharonville. The two sentences nicely capture her campaign strategy. Emphasize bipartisanship and...

The U.S. Supreme Court is busily dishing out its final opinions before heading into America’s 250th birthday. But it’s also announcing which cases it’ll be hearing in its upcoming fall term. As part of its Monday order list, the high court revealed that it will be taking up and holding arguments in a series of legal disputes involving major policy questions. Among those granted “cert” is Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota, which deals with a challenge to provisions of Arizona law requiring residents to prove they’re American citizens when registering to vote. As The Federalist previously reported, the...

“. . . there is no saving the Left. Whatever happens to them, it will have to happen without people like you or me trying to get them to return to any place of sanity.” — Sasha Stone on Substack A punishing heat-dome creeps over the eastern half of the country just in time for the gala Fourth of July week. The days are brutal, but anything and everything crawls out of the woodwork when that blazing sun goes down and the moon comes out. Everyone’s on edge, but the edge of what? I will tell you. First, could there...

“They are stealing the children… they are taking the children who are found alone.” A desperate mother says her daughter was rescued after the earthquake, but when she went to claim her, she was allegedly told the child’s last name had been changed. The little girl has since disappeared. She claims that many children found alone are being taken, with their identities altered. Video Transcript Summary Transcription / Translation of the video (based on post context and caption):The X post features a video of a desperate Venezuelan mother speaking about her missing daughter after an earthquake. Key content from the...

Last Friday in Chicago, the Obama Presidential Center opened with Bruce Springsteen, Steven Spielberg, and other celebrities joining former presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden, along with 2024 presidential loser Kamala Harris. The Center aims to celebrate “the remarkable story of President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, America’s first Black president and First Lady.” What it truly signifies was best outlined by two prominent liberals who did notattend the gala event.In an August 2023 article at Tablet magazine, editor David Samuels interviewed Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, David Garrow. In...

GROK's description of the 20 sec video clip below:Video content: The attached 20-second clip shows President Trump unveiling large display boards for the award, featuring a prominent "1776" logo, compass emblem, American flags, and lists of honorees or participants in a formal setting.The White House repostedU.S. Department of Education@usedgovGet your popcorn ready for a showdown! Tomorrow, 8 PM ET @cbsJune 29, 2026 The rest of GROK's summary:@usedgov promotes a CBS special: The official U.S. Department of Education post hypes the Presidential 1776 Award for Civics airing tomorrow, June 30, 2026, at 8 PM ET on CBS, celebrating high school students'...

ransomnote: Grassley has held Artic Frost hearings since Sept 2025. The post below is about a hearing in late June (likely June 23–28).John F Kennedy Jr@John_F_kJr🚨BREAKING: Senator Chuck Grassley just announced that a FBI whistleblower revealed to him an FBI project called "Artic Frost" that targeted groups like Charlie Kirks TPUSA!This is a BOMBSHELL!He says that they are releasing those documents TODAY!"In total, 92 Republican targets, including Republican groups and Republican linked individuals were placed under investigative scope of Arctic Frost.""On that political list was one of Charlie Kirk‘s groups, turning point usa. In other words, arctic frost wasn‘t just...

... Wiener is the Democratic front-runner looking to replace Nancy Pelosi in the House. He’s also a gay, pro-trans leftist who’s described Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide and called for the U.S. to stop giving military aid to Israel. So he attended the trans march, as he does every year, to stand with those he thought of as his people. But Wiener is Jewish, and he took a bit too long in deciding that he needed to mimic faithfully the hardcore anti-Israel monomaniacs. So they’re now teaching him an important lesson: A Jew who shows any ambivalence about...

Scientists from NTU Singapore and Waseda University have developed a flexible "diving suit" for cyborg cockroaches, enabling the insects to survive and move underwater and in low-oxygen environments for up to three hours. Published today in Nature Communications, the study could expand the use of cyborg insects in search-and-rescue missions, especially in disaster zones where flooded rubble, puddles or partially submerged spaces can block access for conventional robots. Cyborg insects are living insects fitted with electronic controllers that guide their movement. Because they use the insect's own muscles to move, they require far less power than small artificial robots, which...

When the 10pm service of Berlin’s U2 metro line failed to set off from the station, its frazzled driver finally snapped. “Get away from the doors!” he bellowed, leaping out to berate a young woman as she pawed at the broken, flashing-red buttons on the side of the train. “Don’t touch the doors!” Unbeknownst to the driver, who seemed to think the woman’s button-mashing had caused the breakdown, Germany’s entire rail system had just been crippled by a software glitch. For the next two hours, hundreds of thousands of Germans were left stranded on platforms or sweltering in packed carriages...

For most Americans, the American Bar Association is merely a professional guild that publishes ethics opinions, hosts conferences, and occasionally weighs in on public policy. But in legal education, the ABA has long occupied a far more consequential role as de facto gatekeeper to the profession. That status helps explain why the ABA’s recent move to suspend—and purportedly, to eliminate—two of its controversial diversity mandates for law schools represents more than an internal procedural dispute. It signals a potentially significant recalibration in the balance between accreditation authority, constitutional law, and ideological conformity in higher education. To understand why the fight...

Indiana Fever forward Sophie Cunningham has taken the internet by storm this week, thanks to her interaction with Phoenix Mercury’s DeWanna Bonner during Monday’s match-up in Indiana. The WNBA’s blonde bombshell is now officially the most popular meme of the WNBA season. For context, late in the fourth quarter, tensions flared after Caitlin Clark and Bonner got into a verbal exchange following a foul. Ever since Bonner essentially deserted the Fever last season so she could play with her fiancée Alyssa Thomas, who was suspended Thursday for punching Clark in the throat, it seems as if she has a bone...

Today we remember Slim Pickens (born Louis Burton Lindley Jr.), born June 29, 1919. Best known for his memorable performances in Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles, 1941, and One-Eyed Jacks, Pickens became one of Hollywood’s most recognizable Western actors and rodeo performers. Before entertaining audiences around the world, Pickens answered the call to serve during World War II, enlisting in the United States Army Air Forces.

On Monday's episode of CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish left no doubt where her sympathies lie in the debate over birthright citizenship: squarely with those opposing any limits on the policy. After airing a clip of Speaker Mike Johnson explaining that the policy has been abused—with people crossing the border illegally simply to have a baby on U.S. soil—Cornish turned to her panel and injected her own perspective as a mother. “Does anyone on this panel have kids other than me?” Cornish asked. When Michael Scherer of The Atlantic answered "yes," Cornish continued: “Okay, do you remember being in...

As ordinary Venezuelans dig their neighbors out of their monster two-earthquake rubble with their hands, the Venezuelan government is doing all it can to sit on its hands, loot the victims, obstruct the rescue teams, harass the aid givers, block the reporters, and hide the body count. It's a foul picture, but one incident stands out: #AHORA | Parte de la delegación de rescatistas de EEUU enfrenta a Diosdado Cabello y le reclama porque le están saboteando sus esfuerzos de rescatar a las víctimas. “¿No quieres que vaya y ayude a la persona que está allí?”. pic.twitter.com/TzuSG3WKzM — Orlando Avendaño...

President Donald Trump on Monday endorsed U.S. Rep. John James, who is running for governor in Michigan."It is my Great Honor to endorse America First Congressman, John James, who is running to become the next Governor of the Beautiful State of Michigan!" the president declared in part of a Truth Social post. "John James has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next Governor of Michigan — HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!"James thanked Trump, calling him "The greatest President of my lifetime" in social media posts.

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count mail ballots that are cast by Election Day but arrive later, rejecting a GOP challenge to Mississippi law's for late-arriving ballots.In the closely watched election dispute known as Watson v. Republican National Committee, the high court split 5 to 4 in finding that Mississippi's measure does not conflict with federal statutes that set Election Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in certain years.Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the three liberal justices to uphold Mississippi's...

Street preachers Richard Penkoski and David Grisham allege Fort Worth police officers violated their First Amendment rights during Trinity Pride Fest on June 27 by preventing them from preaching on public streets and sidewalks surrounding the event and later issuing one of them a citation for disorderly conduct related to noise. ... Video of the encounter spread quickly on X after Carlos Turcios of The Dallas Express posted footage from the event. By Monday morning, the post appeared as the No. 2 item in X’s News category, according to a screenshot reviewed by The Dallas Express. Elon Musk replied to...