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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to fund food stamps in full for roughly 42 million low-income Americans, after admonishing the government for delaying aid under the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the shutdown. The order, issued by Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, marked his second legal rebuke of the administration for actions that threatened to leave millions of Americans at risk of financial hardship. Reading his directive from the bench after a short but tense hearing, Judge McConnell sharply criticized the administration for ignoring his...

The lunacy imposed by leftist judges is beyond parody: A federal judge has ruled that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) must provide laser hair removal, facial feminization surgery consultations, and voice therapy for a convicted pedophile who now identifies as transgender. The inmate, identified as 47-year-old Brian Buckingham, was sentenced to more than 21 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing his 10-year-old son and producing child pornography. For probably the first and hopefully the last time in human history, behavior like this is not considered to warrant the death penalty. These days, it warrants taxpayer-funded luxuries in...

A majority of Supreme Court justices on Wednesday asked skeptical questions about President Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs on imports from nearly every U.S. trading partner, casting doubt on a centerpiece of the administration’s second-term agenda.The outcome of the case, which could be decided within weeks or months, has immense economic and political implications for U.S. businesses, consumers and the president’s trade policy.

The Radical Left (“RL”) no longer has a coherent message. President Trump, with his platform focused on restoring public order, promoting economic prosperity, securing the borders, advocating for merit-based policies, and opposing the inclusion of boys in girls’ sports, among other issues, appealed to voters, resulting in his landslide victory in 2024. The RL’s rebranding as Democratic Socialism (Mamdani, AOC, and Sanders) is nothing more than the Old Pied Piper promise of a new utopia if given more public money and power. The RL’s Marxist/Islamofascist ideology remains fundamentally at odds with and a real threat to our constitutional republic. The...

“The question is, can communist subversion be defeated without using ‘authoritarian’ measures? Is a constitutional republic equipped to deal with this kind of threat? When someone wages war on your society internally, is there a way to fight them while being civic minded? Probably not.” — Brandon Smith Doesn’t it kind of look like the Nov. 5 “Trump Must Go Now” action in Washington is designed to be our time’s Fort Sumter moment, to kick off Civil War 2.0? The organizers behind it are the usual suspects: George & Alex Soros’s Open Society Foundation at the hub and spin-offs such...

(DCNF)—Gayle King is reportedly preparing to step down as co-host of CBS Mornings next year as part of a sweeping overhaul under new parent company Paramount Skydance. King’s contract runs through May and is said to be in discussions about transitioning into a new role within the network’s news division as Paramount’s leadership reshapes the organization from the top down, according to Variety. Executives at CBS are reportedly eager to keep King under contract by offering her the opportunity to develop her own programs or specials under the network’s banner. A CBS spokesperson, however, insisted no formal talks about her...

When I found Darshan Smaaladen earlier this month, she had joined several hundred of her neighbors at a “No Kings” demonstration in Orange County, California. Not that she was there to protest. “Rallies are great,” Smaaladen told me, “but they don’t get people out to vote.”A year ago, Smaaladen had helped lead a successful campaign to recall two ultraconservative members of Orange County’s school board. Now the 52-year-old mother of three was using the “No Kings” protest as a campaigning ground for Proposition 50, the ballot measure orchestrated by Governor Gavin Newsom that would redraw California’s district map to add...

Acrowd of thousands gathered in downtown Washington, D.C., Saturday as part of the nationwide anti-Trump 'No Kings' rallies with a long list of White House actions they were protesting against: mass deportations of undocumented immigrants; National Guard deployments in Democratic-controlled cities ostensibly to combat crime; the looming expiration of Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies, which is the main cause of the ongoing government shutdown. But Saturday’s event also was an opportunity for dozens of participating federal employees, many of whom have lost their jobs and seen their years of experience be discarded, to come together. “Connecting in person with...

The same Americans who embraced the cutsie socialism of the No Kings protests are completely ignorant about actual socialism. As Bill Maher once laid bare, “For Millennials, the word socialism doesn’t conjure up images of Stalin and Castro, it conjures up images of naked Danish people on a month-long paid vacation…it’s not such a jarring proposition when socialism comes along and says you are entitled to free stuff.” That casual humor hides a grave reality: a growing portion of Democrats embrace an ideology they do not truly understand, mistaking state control and economic tyranny for harmless perks. This misunderstanding has...

As everyone knows, many took to the streets in various American cities this last Saturday to protest President Trump and his policies. The theme was “No Kings,” as if Donald J. Trump were the king of America. Far from it. As Speaker of the House Mike Johnson noted, “If President Trump was a king, the government would be OPEN right now. If President Trump was a king, they would not have been able to engage in that free speech exercise.” Gary Bauer said that the funding for all these protests came from the usual suspects: “Multiple far-left organizations funded by...

The left has completed its masturbatory "No Kings" day exercise, once again failing to recognize that Kings would not allow such a spectacle. They used violence as a means to confront alleged violence. In a display of tolerance, they chased and harassed anyone from the right just trying to cover the event. They outright called for violence And murder Another protester assured that given the chance he'd kill Stephen Miller And the ultimatum was remove Trump...or else And just in case Trump is not "removed" they're teaching their kids to kill him instead. A schoolteacher mocked Charlie Kirk's death They...

Reporter Savanah Hernandez joined Jesse Watters on Fox News to share her experience at a “No Kings” rally. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Hernandez joined a panel of other reporters, along with President Trump, White House officials, and cabinet secretaries, who participated in a roundtable event to discuss the leftwing terror network. Other reporters included Jack Posobeic, Nick Sortor, Cam Higby, Jonathan Choe, Andy Ngo, Katie Daviscourt, James Klug, Nick Shirley, Brandi Kruse, Julio Rojas, and Seamus Bruner. They all shared their knowledge of the left-wing terrorist network and some of their violent experiences with Antifa. You can watch Hernandez’s...

VIDEOMallory McMorrow, a Democrat politician who is running for the U.S. Senate from Michigan, put on her Sherlock Holmes cap and ASKED No Kings protestors if they were getting paid. Surprise! Surprise! They all DENIED it. Case closed! How can they possibly be paid if they all deny it? Don't laugh because McMorrow believes you are STUPID enough to fall for this "proof."Hey OJ! Did you kill your wife? No? Okay, that proves he was innocent!You know who else would deny she was being paid if you asked her? The last No Kings protestor in this video. However, she pretty...

The weekend’s “No Kings” protest is turning into a royal pain for one Chicago elementary school. Nathan Hale Elementary has gone social media dark after one of its teachers was identified as the woman who made a mockery of the assassination of conservative organizer Charlie Kirk, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail. But social media critics have been swarming. According to the Daily Mail, a British-based news outlet with a significant U.S. presence, a teacher at Nathan Hale, Lucy Martinez, was participating in a “No Kings” demonstration — organized internationally by progressives railing against the Trump administration — when a...

Image in Post 1. MCRD-SD graduation on October 18. I was in attendance for my grandson.

A San Antonio man is facing criminal charges after a series of social media posts in which he allegedly threatened to kill protesters attending the "No Kings" rally downtown, advising them to "say goodbye to your loved ones." Robert Flores, 66, was arrested Saturday and charged with making a terroristic threat. Authorities identified him as the user behind a Threads account used to threaten protesters, according to an affidavit supporting his arrest. ~snip~ "I'll run you (expletive) over and then go have coffee and breakfast at Jim's. You are the insignificant," read one post made Friday night. "All of you...

WASHINGTON — Thousands gathered in the nation’s capital on Saturday, rallying and repeating one refrain: “No kings.” They joined thousands of other gatherings around the country organized by Democratic groups and activists to protest President Donald Trump and his administration with a second round of “No Kings” rallies following an initial nationwide day of protest in June. While many protesters spoke to NBC News about their dissatisfaction with Trump, a plethora of left-leaning and liberal protesters also made one more thing clear: They’re not happy with their Democratic leaders, either. “I don’t have a lot of faith in the Democrats...

Have fun watching the white geriatrics dance in the "No Kings" protest. Is it like "sexually exciting" like Emily Jashinsky suggested in jest? To top it off there was George Conway too trying to rile up the crowd, with little success. A good laugh altogether.

A president steeped in constitutional lore might have been offended by claims he’s acting as a king. But Donald Trump and his entourage responded with mockery to weekend “No Kings” protests by millions of Americans — embracing the narrative in a way that explains his growing hubris and belief that he has unchecked power. The president and Vice President JD Vance this weekend both posted AI memes to social media depicting Trump in a crown. The one Trump shared was a mocked-up vision of the president flying a fighter jet emblazoned with “KING TRUMP” appearing to dump raw sewage on...

Early Tuesday evening, as National Guard troops faced off against protesters and rioters on the streets of Los Angeles, powerful teachers’ union president Randi Weingarten hosted a virtual town hall with Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.and two leading political operatives in Democratic Party politics, Leah Greenberg, founder of a political nonprofit, Indivisible, and Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of another political nonprofit, National Action Network. Greenberg hailed an upcoming wave of protests this Saturday — set to sweep through even "really red areas of the country," marked with mostly Republican voters — as a stand against President Donald Trump. Throughout the...