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Apple is launching Digital IDs, a feature that allows you to create and store an ID in Apple Wallet using your US passport. In the announcement, Apple says Digital ID acceptance will begin to “roll out first” at TSA checkpoints for domestic travel in over 250 airports across the US. You can present your Digital ID in place of a REAL ID at TSA checkpoints using your iPhone or Apple Watch. But Apple notes that it isn’t a replacement for your physical passport, and that you can’t use it for international travel or border crossings. Apple already allows you to...

General Motors (GM) has directed several thousand of its suppliers to scrub their supply chains of parts from China, four people familiar with the matter said, reflecting automakers’ growing frustration over geopolitical disruptions to their operations. GM executives have been telling suppliers they should find alternatives to China for their raw materials and parts, with the goal of eventually moving their supply chains out of the country entirely, the people said. The automaker has set a 2027 deadline for some suppliers to dissolve their China sourcing ties, some of the sources said. GM approached some suppliers with the directive in...

“It’s a bold statement, isn’t it?” Those words of Chicago City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin hardly capture the moment. Yesterday, Conyears-Ervin declared that her office would no longer invest in U.S. Treasury bonds to protest what she called the “authoritarian regime” of President Donald Trump. It is more bonkers than bold. It makes about as much sense as President Trump saying that he will not eat deep-dish pizza to protest Chicago. My hometown of Chicago is facing an economic meltdown due to towering debt and massive spending. Mayor Ben Johnson and the unions have pushed self-destructive tax schemes and borrowing plans...

A Daily T investigation has uncovered another, earlier example of the BBC doctoring footage of Trump’s January 6th speech. Not only that, but it was called out live on air by a Newsnight contributor – and nothing was done. This comes after the resignation of top BBC officials in the wake of a Telegraph story detailing how a 2024 Panorama documentary spliced footage of the president in a way that suggested he was encouraging violence. Camilla and Tim speak to the former graphic designer at Newsnight who blows the whistle on the workplace culture which allowed this to happen not...

Now many bus, semi-truck, and construction equipment drivers can’t legally perform their work. Feds say they weren’t ever “legal” anyway.California’s commercial licensing system just hit a major reset. This week, the state announced plans to revoke roughly 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses. The U.S. Department of Transportation says they “shouldn’t have been issued in the first place.” The move follows months of political tension and a nationwide audit triggered by a deadly crash in Florida involving an undocumented semi-truck driver. California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office said the revocations stem from violations of existing state law, not immigration status But he stopped...

Gregory Svirnovskiy of Politico has a very special gift of being able to ignore the more than obvious elephants in the room. This was on full display on Wednesday when he wrote about Jack Kennedy Schlossberg announcing his candidacy for the New York congressional seat now held by by retiring Congressman Jerry Nadler in "Schlossberg officially launches New York House campaign."One of the elephants in the room is Schlossberg's almost non-existent work history at the age of 32 which Svirnovskiy seems either unaware of or just ignores:

PALO ALTO, CA — A recent survey conducted by an advanced digital algorithm conclusively determined that the most oppressed person in the history of the world is, without a doubt, Michelle Obama. The algorithm searched infinite points of data and scanned millions of stories of human suffering and determined definitively that Michelle Obama has been oppressed more than any other living human. "It's amazing, really," data scientist Mark Tungston said. "Mrs. Obama doesn't seem like the most oppressed person ever, but after analyzing the data, it's clear she is. You'd think it was a coal miner in Appalachia or a...

VIDEOELBOWS UP CANADA!!!A few months ago, Mark Carney ran for Prime Minister of Canada on a platform of going ELBOWS UP in defiance of the USA and especially Donald Trump. So how did that work out? Well, despite Carney having been hyped as a (globalist) economics expert, Canada is now in such a bad way economically that their soaring inflation has caused the leftwing CBC to now hype the supposed joys of buying EXPIRED food products at discounted prices.Expired Mayo. YUMMIE!!! That very special taste due the aging process with an undertaste of sublime salmonella makes Expired Mayo a gourmet...

One of the huge bonuses to having racked up a significant number of years in life is that one gets an amazing perspective on things. For example, I've been through a number of dire apocalyptic warnings. When I was a kid, global cooling and a new ice age were going to bring down the curtain on Mother Earth within 40 years. Before the ice had a chance to show up, fears of overpopulation were being spread. Widespread famine was going to do us in. We're all aware of what happened next. When creeping glaciers and hunger hadn't brought about the...

Rep. Thomas Massie (RINO-KY )’s attempt to sabotage the Trump Administration over the J6 pipe bomb investigation completely blew up in his face when FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino responded. As TGP readers know, we’ve been told for years that an unidentified suspect, approximately 5’7, planted pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, the night before the Capitol riot. But the FBI still can’t find the person who planted the bombs. On Wednesday, Massie claimed he received a “troubling letter” which accused the FBI of retaliating against a whistleblower regarding the pipe bomb investigation. Specifically, the...

The rabbit hole that leads to answers about how the COVID-19 pandemic began just got a little deeper. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, has released documents revealing a troubling connection between the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and a University of North Carolina professor, Ralph Baric. This isn't the first time Baric's name has surfaced in connection with COVID origins. Nicholson Baker of New York Magazine wrote a story about work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in 2021, where a U.S.-funded project created a coronavirus with...

@yashar BREAKING The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement admonishing the Trump administration’s immigration actions. The last time they issued such a statement was in 2013 in response to contraception mandates. The vote to approve the statement was very close to unanimous: 216 votes in favor, 5 votes against, and 3 abstentions

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy who is running for Congress in New York, earlier this year posted an offensive comment on social media about procuring “Jew blood” and male semen for an energy recipe. Schlossberg, the 32-year-old Kennedy scion, has deleted the Jan. 20 post, in which he appeared to mock his mother’s cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the so-called Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. “I’ll have a MAHA energy ball,” wrote Schlossberg. He proposed a recipe that called for several ingredients, including “2 oz of Jew blood (ashkenazi not Sephardic).” “Baked at 300degrees until...

Today marks the tenth anniversary of a coordinated series of terrorist attacks committed by nine ISIS operatives who, beginning shortly after nine o’clock in the evening, took a total of 137 lives and wounded 416 people in Paris and the nearby suburb of Saint–Denis. The scheme was ambitious. One group of three gunmen, moving quickly through a neighborhood of restaurants and cafés, mowed down thirteen people on the streets of the tenth arrondissement and inside a Cambodian eatery called La Petit Cambodge, then took five lives on the rue de la Fontaine-au-Roi in the eleventh arrondissement before murdering twenty-one people...

🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN Here it is: Nearly half of all Islamic immigrants in the Minnesota found to have committed Ilhan Omar—immigration fraud, marriage fraud, tax fraud, loan fraud, bribery, forgery, perjury, bigamy and incest during a recent sweep by the Department of Homeland Security, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) director Joseph B. Edlow: “Since September 19th, officers from our Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate, working in teams, have conducted over 1,000 site visits across the Minneapolis–St. Paul area as part of this operation. What they found should shock all of America.”

Ukraine is facing a worsening shortage of soldiers as record numbers of men flee to Europe, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko warned in an interview. “We have huge problems with soldiers — with human resources,” Klitschko told the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network, of which POLITICO is a part, acknowledging the toll that nearly four years of war has taken on Ukraine’s capacity to replenish its ranks. He said Russian troops are advancing relentlessly, describing their assaults as “like a computer game — they just keep coming, they don’t care about fallen soldiers.” Under current rules, Ukrainians can be mobilized from...

November Marks the Beginning anti Christian Jihad by the Ottomans: The Enduring Horror of Political Islam: A Legacy of Genocide and SilenceIt's often whispered in historical footnotes that Adolf Hitler drew grim inspiration from the world's indifference to mass atrocities committed under the banner of political Islam. "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" he reportedly mused, highlighting the chilling silence surrounding the Ottoman Empire's systematic extermination of its Christian minorities. This wasn't mere conquest or war—it was political Islam in action, weaponizing religious doctrines like jihad and dhimmi status to justify the erasure of entire...

SOCIALIST WAVE? NOT HAPPENING — YET.2025 Election Reality Check: The Left’s Cracks Are Showing, and America’s Still Fighting BackAs a conservative, I take no joy in watching the radical left's grip tighten on our cities and states—yet even the most disheartening Democratic wins should remind us that their internal fractures are America’s opportunity. What unfolds in the Democrat Party doesn't just echo in blue strongholds; it reverberates nationwide, dragging us all toward higher taxes, open borders, and woke extremism. Take New York City: Zohran Mamdani, that Islamo-Marxist firebrand with a history of bigoted rants and socialist fever dreams, slimed his...

Based on CAMERA watchdog: https://www.camera.org/article/poynter-politifact-fact-check-misleads-on-beheadings/ and moreHamas Beheading of Israeli Babies During October 7 MassacreDate:October 7, 2023Location:Southern Israel (Kfar Aza, Be'eri, and others)Type:Terrorist atrocity, massacre, decapitationPerpetrators:Hamas terrorists from GazaOutcome:Confirmed beheadings of babies and children by Israeli eyewitnesses, first responders, and forensic experts. Poynter/PolitiFact fact-checks later retracted after CAMERA critique.Hamas Beheading of Israeli Babies During the October 7 Massacre During the barbaric October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel, Hamas terrorists beheaded Israeli babies and children — acts verified by multiple Israeli officials, emergency responders, journalists, and forensic pathologists. While hostile media voices fixated on disputing a specific number (“40”), the...

The sabotage of K-12 education is easily implemented by rejecting methods that work, while simultaneously forcing phony substitutes into classrooms. QED: the experts embraced a far-left ideology that prefers control and leveling. Weirdly enough, our Education Establishment ends up promoting anti-education agenda. Here are the five most egregious examples of this totalitarian strategy in action. 1) Sight-Words Versus Phonics. All the main European languages are phonetic. You first learn the alphabet, then the sounds represented by the letters; and then the blends of those sounds. This approach has always worked. It's the method used in Hebrew, Arabic, Phoenician, Greek, and...