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Nobody circles the wagons quite like the leaders of the global left, who will eagerly line up behind just about anyone — the corrupt, the vindictive, the incompetent and even the openly evil — so long as they perceive them to be “part of the team.” Take their celebration of the disturbing, real-time collapse of Brazilian democracy for an example. Incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s triumph over Flávio Bolsonaro in this week’s presidential election occurred under suspicious circumstances. Lula’s narrow victory came only after Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin — who served as Lula’s personal defense attorney in the...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani tried to replace the black female head of the city’s Commission on Racial Equity after she publicly criticized him for removing any mention of DEI from its “racial equity plan” released earlier this year. Hizzoner sent a letter to the City Council this week asking lawmakers to sign off on replacing Linda Tigani with Christopher Alexander, the executive director of New York’s NAACP. The request, which was first reported by The New York Times, was quickly met with fierce backlash from the council and others in the black community who argued that removing Tigani appeared retaliatory and...

The SS United States finally has a sinking date to become the world's largest artificial reef. The 990-foot ship, which was docked in Philadelphia for decades, will be deployed in the Gulf of Mexico about 22 nautical miles southwest of Destin-Fort Walton Beach on Nov. 12, according to an Okaloosa County, Florida, spokesperson. A sendoff ceremony will be held for the SS United States on Nov. 11. The deployment date could change based on the weather.

President Trump on Wednesday called for Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola to drop out of the race and be criminally prosecuted after it was revealed that her allies were behind an effort to bring a candidate into the race that had the same name as her GOP opponent. “Mary Peltola should resign from the race. I think she should be prosecuted criminally for what she did,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews ahead of his trip to Ohio to campaign for Republicans there. He said any of her allies who worked to recruit Daniel J. Sullivan into the...

A federal judge who has become a frequent legal thorn in the side of President Donald Trump and his allies is now presiding over a fight to unseal the warrant used to search the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. The battle over whether to unseal the search warrant comes amid two separate federal investigations into the Democratic congresswoman stemming from concerns about discrepancies between financial disclosures filed a year apart and allegations that her father committed fraud when completing immigration paperwork. Omar immigrated to the United States from Somalia in 1995, when she was 12 years old. Investigators are...

(End of the American Dream)—Archaeologists have made many surprising discoveries that simply do not fit what we are taught in our history textbooks. Vast numbers of “out-of-place artifacts” that have been found prove that ancient civilizations were far more advanced than we have been led to believe. Today, I am going to discuss some “out-of-place people” that researchers dug up in China. These “out-of-place” people create a tremendous problem for many historians and they are highly embarrassing to the Chinese government because they aren’t Asian. We are supposed to believe that China has been inhabited by the Chinese from the...

A gun control nut vandalized the 9/11 Memorial Reflecting Pool with red spray paint in a broad daylight political stunt. Jonathan Andrew Tijerina, 31, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief and making graffiti for tagging a section of the North Tower reflecting pool with the name of his website Monday evening, police said, according to CBS News New York. “Juststopkillingkids.com,” read the red spray-painted markings written across the names of dozens of victims engraved into the memorial at the footprint of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack. Thomas P. Sullivan Tijerina, 31, took credit for the vile desecration, posting...

MINNEAPOLIS — A former federal immigration judge says Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who is under investigation, could face both criminal charges and denaturalization. There are two federal probes ongoing into the congresswoman — the first into alleged immigration fraud and the second involving her financial disclosures and a sharp discrepancy reported just one year apart. “If somebody who’s a naturalized citizen — which I believe Ilhan Omar is — is convicted of a crime, that doesn’t automatically mean that they face denaturalization or anything like that,” Nathan Hansen, an attorney of 23 years, told Fox News Digital. “They would be...

The crazy far-left feminists who talk about men in a way that resembles a cliche-ridden Lifetime movie have now invented a crazy new term that they feel perfectly encapsulates the world they live in. A woman going by V (real name Even Ensler) wrote an article in the far-left The Guardian bemoaning that "endless destructive paradigm of the patriarchy" has worsened to the point that it means a more 'sinister' force is afoot. V has deemed this force "psychopatriarchy." "The wheels are off the cart," she writes. "We are in the midst of a chaotic, demented acceleration of the most...

Dozens of House Democrats are keeping their distance from Rep. Ilhan Omar as the Minnesota “Squad” rep faces a federal investigation — even as party leaders rally behind her and demand that the Trump administration back off. A letter led by Rep. Pramila Jaypal (D-Wash.) and signed by 175 House Democrats accused the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security of weaponizing law enforcement against Omar, whose Washington DC home was searched by federal agents earlier this month. Around 40 Democrats declined to sign the letter from the 214-member caucus. “Congresswoman Omar is seeking reelection in Minnesota’s 5th congressional...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Ilhan Omar reportedly held a lengthy phone call with former President Barack Obama on Tuesday, during which she inquired whether or not he still had the number for that birth certificate guy. According to a source familiar with the matter, Omar is on the market for a birth certificate guy to make all her problems go away, and was hopeful Obama could "help a girl out." ... continue reading at: https://babylonbee.com/news/ilhan-omar-calls-obama-to-see-if-he-still-has-the-number-for-that-birth-certificate-guy

The new packaging for Cheerios incorporating Ziploc bags. (Credit: General Mills) ==================================================================================== The question of how long it takes American corporations to give people what they want has been answered. It’s 85 years. General Mills has announced that at long last it will start packaging at least some of its breakfast cereal line, specifically the iconic Cheerios brand which was first introduced in 1941, along with the Honey Nut Cheerios variation, in resealable Ziploc bags. The announcement comes much to the delight of Cheerios aficionados who for decades have employed various methods of repackaging the round delight, a beloved oat-based...

When the divers ducked beneath the surface, they knew their target: a mysterious iron cauldron at the bottom of England’s River Wear. They had no idea how the vessel had ended up there, though they were fairly certain it had been underwater for hundreds of years. Their mission was to recover it from the watery darkness and bring it back to the surface. After freeing the artifact from debris, the divers secured it in thick green netting inside a metal cage. Team members on a recovery craft above then slowly pulled it up into the late morning sun. It arrived...

Oh look, the snowflakes are melting again. President Trump's planned 250-foot-tall arch would cast shadows on many graves and monuments in nearby Arlington National Cemetery, the @washingtonpost's 3-D analysis found. On some days, Trump's arch would even shade the grave and eternal flame of JFK. https://t.co/uWuEsJcpGW— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) October 27, 2026They made a 3D rendering!! TDS TO THE MAX. 🤡 Trump wants to build a big beautiful arch. And yes, that's making liberals mad for some reason. They even analyzed every single grave or monument that would be touched briefly by the shadow of the arch, then added up...

The song "Rockin' in a Free World," according to the filing, aims to capture the irony of "celebrating freedom that clearly isn't shared by all," which is “the opposite of everything that Donald J. Trump stands for.” ================================================================= Musician Neil Young filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Trump 47 Committee on Monday, claiming copyright infringement for its use of "Rockin' in a Free World" at a campaign rally. In the filing, Young alleges that his 1989 hit was played just before President Donald Trump took the stage at a Youngstown, Ohio, rally on Oct. 12, The Hill reported. According...

MINNEAPOLIS — A former federal immigration judge says Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who is under investigation, could face both criminal charges and denaturalization. There are two federal probes ongoing into the congresswoman — the first into alleged immigration fraud and the second involving her financial disclosures and a sharp discrepancy reported just one year apart. "If somebody who's a naturalized citizen — which I believe Ilhan Omar is — is convicted of a crime, that doesn't automatically mean that they face denaturalization or anything like that," Nathan Hansen, an attorney of 23 years, told Fox News Digital. "They would be...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that investigators have identified more than 400 noncitizens illegally registered to vote in Washington state, some of whom have cast ballots in multiple elections dating back decades. Many on the list are green card holders with legal immigration status and permanent residency, according to the U.S. attorney’s offices for the Eastern and Western districts of Washington. "We have identified over 400 noncitizens who are registered to vote and have voted in multiple elections. This is only the tip of the iceberg," Neil Floyd, acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, said...

WASHINGTON – Former FBI official Nikki Floris broke down in tears outside a federal courtroom Tuesday during a preliminary hearing on charges that she and another ex-bureau official lied to Congress about burying the Hunter Biden laptop story. Floris was seen weeping in a courthouse hallway during a break in the probable cause hearing in the district court for Washington, DC. She and fellow former FBI official, Bradley Benavides, self-surrendered last week and face up to five years in prison if convicted of lying to the House Judiciary Committee in 2023 about their involvement in discrediting stories about the troubled...

Nearly 200 House Democrats are moving to shield Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from further investigation after federal investigators raided her Washington, D.C., home earlier this month. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., led 175 members of the House Democratic Caucus in a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Attorney General Todd Blanche, criticizing the probe into Omar's immigration history as a partisan attack and accusing them of trying to sway her bid for another term in Congress. "Congresswoman Omar is seeking reelection in Minnesota’s 5th congressional district in just one week. News of the search warrant, whether...

U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar's account of fleeing Somalia's civil war as a child offers a timeline of her early life, family history and eventual resettlement in the United States, including a recollection of how officials recorded relatives' birth dates during the refugee screening process. The Minnesota Democrat's 2020 memoir, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey From Refugee to Congresswoman, describes a childhood disrupted by fighting in Mogadishu and a journey that took the family through Somalia and Kenya before they were eventually resettled in the United States. Omar has faced a wave of scrutiny from MAGA hard-liners and...