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Several drag queens protested and booed President Donald Trump as he attended a performance of Les Misérables at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday. The president’s visit marked his first since the inauguration. Video captured the moment several drag queens stood up in the audience as he appeared: The president has always hailed Les Misérables as his favorite musical. As Consequence recently reported, half the play’s cast decided to boycott the performance due to the president’s visit. Several cast members of Les Misérables will not be performing “One Day More” at their Kennedy Center concert next month — instead, they’ll be...

Member of the U.S. military joined an anti-ICE protest in Dallas and said, "We won’t be pawns in stripping away constitutional rights." https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1932648094975299925

"This Is A Slowly Unfolding Fort Sumter Moment" Counterterrorism Expert & Researcher Matt Bracken Compares & Contrasts The Inciting Battle Of The First American Civil War With The New Civil War Unfolding NOW In Los Angeles(10 minute video clip below)https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1932196869729669139 The full interview is below here.https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1932217289652474228

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman was spotted Monday night chatting with Steve Bannon, according to Politico Playbook. Fetterman, who has displayed his own dramatic rightward shift, was reportedly dining at a top MAGA hangout near Capitol Hill with Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle, when the conservative news site’s old director wandered up and spoke to the pair for roughly 20 minutes. Bannon took over Breitbart in 2012, and directed the site to publish patently pugnacious rhetoric and conspiracy theories cooked up by far-right activists and white supremacists. In 2016, Bannon stepped down to join Trump’s presidential campaign as its CEO, and went on...

We spent decades kicking that rusted can, telling ourselves the road would hold if we just bought more time. But now the can is gone. It rusted through, crumbled into dust. The road behind is littered with the ruins of old promises, and ahead lies a choice.No easy paths. No shortcuts.One direction follows the same broken trail, it feels familiar, but hollow. The other, a quieter road through unknowns, dappled with light but demanding more of us.This isn't just a political moment. It's a human one.Some will see this image as the common man. Others might see the last leader...

Ukraine’s extraordinary attack deep inside Russia has, at a stroke, rewritten the rules of modern war. On Sunday a swarm of small drones, each costing under $500, rose over four Russian airfields deep inside Siberia and the Arctic and destroyed over forty strategic bombers reportedly worth over $7 billion. Thanks to meticulous planning, sophisticated military imagination and an underdog’s boldness of vision, Kyiv’s forces have landed a stunning blow on their far stronger opponent, opening a new chapter in the history of human conflict. The question that will be haunting Putin is – what’s next? Ukraine’s famously stone-faced chief of...

Vice president JD Vance's photo with Indian-origin venture capitalist Asha Jadeja Motwani became a flashpoint amid the H-1B row as social media users questioned what was the purpose of the visit at a time when MAGA activists are opposing the US's quota for H-1B programs.

In the 76 day period between Trump winning and Biden leaving office $93 billion was sent from the DOE, who GAVE IT AWAY WITH NO OVERSIGHT, TO ENTITIES WITH NO FINANCIALS“The 76-day period you're talking about, that's the period between the time that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office — How much taxpayer money went out the door of the Department of Energy?From the Loan Program Office in Loans and Commitments $93 billion. Well over twice as much as in the previous 15 years”— You’re you're telling me that the Department of Energy in the 76-day period...

I just thought this was hilarious. Common sense in a movie? WHODATHUNKIT?! RedLetterMedia mentioned it in a movie commentary years ago and I thought I would share it with my FRiends.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov held a high-level meeting with senior executives from U.S. defense contractor Raytheon on May 19, focusing on expanding collaboration in air and missile defense systems, particularly the Patriot platform. In a statement released after the talks, Umerov said he had a “productive meeting” with Joseph DeAntona, Raytheon’s Vice President for Land and Air Defense Systems. The conversation, he noted, centered on Ukraine’s urgent need for additional missile systems and interceptors to strengthen the country’s defenses against continued Russian air attacks. “The main topic was strengthening the protection of Ukraine’s skies,” Umerov said. “We discussed the...

A friend’s son just relayed that the president and administration of the University of Alabama are getting lots of hate mail for allowing President Trump to speak to their graduates on campus. If you watched that speech or just want to send a word of encouragement or appreciation, please send an email to President Bell at president@ua.edu

I'm referring to not just the curriculum or majors offered, but also the administration and staff roster. My guess: 75-80% can be eliminated without material impact to the American economy (in spite of the insistence by liberal arts professors that this won't be the case).

It is not just the Trump Tariffs The concept of "involution" in China—where intense competition leads to diminishing returns without meaningful progress—ties closely to a deflationary spiral. It’s a vicious cycle: overcapacity, weak domestic demand, and cutthroat price wars drive prices down, eroding profits, discouraging investment, and further dampening consumption. This isn’t just a recent phenomenon; China’s economic challenges have been brewing for nearly a decade, predating the tariff wars often scapegoated for the downturn. Involution and Deflationary Spiral Involution, or nei juan, reflects a structural issue where resources are poured into hyper-competitive sectors—like solar panels, electric vehicles, or real...

Russian military-affiliated sources have acknowledged the loss of a combat jet following a Ukrainian sea drone attack near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. The pro-Russian Telegram channel Rybar reported the incident late Friday, writing, “Unfortunately, the enemy attack did not go unanswered. Yesterday evening, a Su-30 naval aviation fighter was hit 50 kilometers west of Novorossiysk by a drone boat carrying an R-73 surface-to-air missile.” While official channels in Moscow have not released a formal statement, additional details were provided by Russian propagandist Ilya Tumanov, who runs the well-known Fighterbomber aviation blog. According to Tumanov, the aircraft crew ejected...

CNN anchor Dana Bash cut away from President Donald Trump’s Oval Office remarks on Monday to protest his claim that CNN “hates our country.” Trump made the comment during an Oval Office meeting with Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele, jabbing at the network over coverage of illegal immigration, particularly at the southern border, and saying that CNN “didn’t like putting out good numbers” that reflected well on his presidency. “We’re a great country, but we had stupid people running this country. And I can say what they’ve done to us at the border should never and can never be forgotten. It’s...

So since all the Democrats have been doing is having federal judges keep trying to stall and delay Trump, I have q question here: We know at least some Federal judges are on Trump's side, so why not use the tactic of every time an anti-Trump judge says blah blah blah, any one of the pro-Trump judges can simply say "Well, the ruling of that judge is wrong and Trump is actually allowed to do this and that" and then all the White House has to do is just simply side with the Judge on their team. Simply put, you...

A large anti-Trump protest took place in D.C., followed by a smaller Gaza protest and then a hamburger. Saturdays. Show not Tell PenguinSix is an apolitical guy in a political town who likes to walk a lot. He has hiked over 17,000 miles (27,000kms) in the past six years and is still walking today. He is an American expat who spent the last decade in Hong Kong with his family and is now back in Washington DC, continuing his daily ritual of taking very long hikes around the city catching the sights and sounds of the city while live streaming...

John Roberts Works for the Democrats and his handler is Norm Eisen. John Robert’s Is Completely Compromised and MUST Resign Now! (5 mins 38 seconds video in link below)https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1908111950170485093

History’s lessons are brutal: movements cloaked in moral fervor, crushing dissent with righteous fists, collapse into chaos. Mussolini’s Brownshirts stormed Jewish shops and beat “traitors” to enforce Fascist unity; Mao’s Red Guards humiliated professors and torched books to purify China’s soul. Today, in March 2025, we see a chilling parallel—Tesla dealerships firebombed, Cybertrucks vandalized, owners hounded. This isn’t mere protest; it’s a “whistle dog army,” as I call it, unleashed against Elon Musk’s wealth and Trump ties, echoing the thuggish zeal of Brownshirts and the cultural purge of Red Guards. Rooted in decades of Democratic centralization, this smiley-faced fascism—Jonah Goldberg’s...

Vietnam to cut tariffs on US products including cars and gas to avoid President Trump's reciprocal tariffs.https://x.com/watcherguru/status/1904985807426908288