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"May their father be cursed," sneered Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, mocking the United States in a televised speech. This crude insult wasn't a one-off—Abbas repeated it and was met with laughter and applause by the audience. It takes some nerve for Abbas to say something like that, after the Palestinians have received over $2.1 billion in American taxpayer-funded aid just since October 7, 2023. In the speech, which was broadcast on official PA television, Abbas did not just curse but openly ridiculed the US, boasting about his repeated defiance of American leaders and policies: "33 times I told them...

The head of the US National Science Foundation, a $9 billion agency charged with advancing discoveries across the scientific spectrum, resigned Thursday amid sweeping changes spearheaded by the current Trump administration. NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan has led the agency since he was selected by President Donald Trump during his first term and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in June 2020. “I believe I have done all I can to advance the critical mission of the agency and feel that it is time for me to pass the baton to new leadership,” Panchanathan said in parting remarks, which were provided to...

A State Department list of 898 approved government grants and contracts authorized by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) includes over $2.5 billion of authorized funding to organizations that have previously supported the charitable infrastructure of designated terrorist organizations. In March, the State Department provided a document to Congress listing some 5,341 awards terminated as part of the administration’s decimation of USAID, alongside 898 surviving grants. Surviving beneficiaries that have supported terrorist charitable infrastructure are set to receive, the Middle East Forum has found, a total of $2.5 billion across 103 awards [see Appendix], for projects that the USAID...

THREAD - US Global Leadership Corporation, representing 400 NGOs Nicolas Turza, the person who got exposed by @JamesOKeefeIII and OMG, was featured in the following YouTube video by an interesting super-NGO - the US Global Leadership Corporation. In the video, he argues for the involvement of USAID and Department of State in military operations. click to view videoUS Global Leadership Corporation on its Youtube Channel describes itself as representing 400 NGOs and businesses. Its mission - "support the smart power approach of elevating diplomacy and development alongside defense in order to build a better, safer world." If you've been with...

Megyn is joined by David Zweig, journalist and author of An Abundance of Caution…

USAID funding cuts have had a devastating impact on Irish aid agencies working in developing countries, according to documents seen by RTÉ News. The documents also reveal the cloud of uncertainty that has overshadowed Irish non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the days and weeks following US President Donald Trump’s executive order to freeze and terminate foreign aid funding. […] Hundreds of redundancies have been reported across the Irish aid agency sector and development projects in countries such as Sierra Leone, Somalia and Syria have been significantly affected. GOAL and Concern were the largest recipients of US government funding, with annual income...

Congresswoman Harriet Hageman discusses the significance of Elon Musk’s DOGE and the secrets of USAID, including its sponsorship of BLM and Antifa. In this broad scope interview she explains to Winston how she thinks Mark Zuckerberg rigged the 2020 election. She tells of her introducing the Censorship Accountability Act, her political journey, including her defeat of Liz Cheney in Wyoming and the border security situation between the US and Mexico. Is Harriet Hageman even more MAGA than President Donald Trump? All this and much more, recorded at the second Alliance For Responsible Citizenship conference in London. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:52...

In a stunning display of conservatives’ determination, two Republican senators have introduced a piece of legislation that will redirect taxpayer funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to rebuilding and repairing state veterans’ homes, hot on the heels of the discovery that a significant portion of USAID’s funding was being used to advance a woke agenda on a global scale. For context, on April 10, 2025, Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Veterans First Act of 2025, a piece of legislation that hits particularly close to home for Sen. Tuberville, who is Alabama’s...

Hamas is facing a new problem in Gaza: coming up with the cash it needs to pay its rank and file. Israel last month cut off supplies of humanitarian goods to the enclave, some of which Hamas had been seizing and selling to raise funds, according to Arab, Israeli and Western officials. Its renewed offensive has targeted and killed Hamas officials who played important roles in distributing cash to cadres and sent others into hiding, Arab intelligence officials said. In recent weeks, the Israeli military has said it killed a money changer who was key to what it called terrorist...

By her own admission, Stacey Abrams has made a number of "personal financial missteps” in her career. Despite a history marked by bill collectors, tax liens, and ethics investigations, the Georgia politician and Democratic Party activist has managed to amass a small fortune – while working most of her career in the not-for-profit sector. Financial records show that when she first entered statewide politics in 2018, she reported a net worth of less than $109,000. By 2022, the last year she had to publicly file a financial report, it had grown to more than $3.2 million. Abrams is probably even...

Back on February 14, I had a post titled “How Much Of This Has Been Paid For By The U.S. Taxpayer?” The post asked that question about a sample of issues held dear by the Left: migrant caravans, services in the U.S. to illegal aliens, DEI and climate alarm. Over the intervening weeks it has become clear that the general answer is “a lot of it,” but the details will be slow to emerge. For example, you can go to the website of DOGE and get an endless list of hundreds of contracts and grants that have been reduced or...

A pair of organizations, partially funded by George and Alexander Soros’s network of left-wing nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), are behind a lawsuit that has thus far successfully blocked President Donald Trump from deporting migrants who were released into the United States through Biden’s parole pipeline. In March, Trump revoked parole for about 532,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who were released into the U.S. interior by the Biden administration despite having no legal status. ... Trump administration told such migrants that they would need to self-deport from the U.S. or face deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

The left has gone so far off the rails, even their own pet projects are crashing and burning. When you push radical nonsense long enough, eventually the donors dry up, the base checks out, and the circus tent folds up and collapses. Well, that’s exactly what’s happening with David Hogg’s once-hyped anti-gun group, March for Our Lives. ... What started as a media-fueled movement is now just another fading left-wing activist project that’s gasping for air. Turns out, screaming about gun bans and calling half the country “terrorists” isn’t a smart or sustainable business model. Who knew? The group just...

new study led by researchers at Florida State University somewhat shockingly suggests that married people are more likely to develop dementia.Would you believe me if I told you that staying single or ending your marriage could lower your odds of getting dementia? A 2019 study from America found that unmarried people had “significantly higher odds of developing dementia over the study period than their married counterparts”. Indeed, married people are generally thought to have better health. Studies have shown that they are at reduced risk of having heart disease and stroke and they tend to live longer. So why...

WASHINGTON — The White House has begun to notify Congress of its request to eliminate “all” public broadcasting funding and codify foreign aid cuts identified by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, The Post has learned. Major proposed clawbacks in the so-called “rescissions” plan include $1.1 billion in appropriated funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funds to PBS and National Public Radio, and $8.3 billion from USAID. A memo drafted by White House budget director Russ Vought — and requested by GOP congressional leaders — accuses CPB of a “lengthy history of anti-conservative bias” and cites “waste,...

Dismantling USAID is worth little if we continue sending money to some of its biggest contractors.I will have a more extensive article on this subject later in the week, but suffice it to say that the UN’s World Food Program headed by Cindy McCain is a deeply dishonest and dangerous organization.Even USAID’s watchdog questioned the lack of oversight in the massive funding going to the group which has repeatedly lied about a fake famine inside Israel, in Gaza, and which operates in enemy terror states.Now, after an initial announcement that the WFP’s funding was pulled, it’s being put back.The US...

When COVID happened, I was still a devout Democrat. I did notice that it seemed like we were all working hard to sabotage Trump rather than come together as a country to help him deal with a once-in-a-generation pandemic. That would be the first tiny crack in the surface of my bubble. I wondered why our hatred of Trump was more important than dealing with this once-in-a-generation crisis. It was verboten to think such a thing. What I learned then is that they are all about clinging to power. They want their Woketopia back, and they’re willing to go to...

A protester at the anti-Trump/anti-Musk rally holds a sign reading, “Somebody just do it already.”

Rumors are swirling around ActBlue, a key fundraising platform for the Democrats, which has repeatedly given money to progressive politicians and far-left groups like Black Lives Matter. Critics, including lawmakers and investigative journalists, have noticed suspicious financial activity that may indicate a vast network of fraud. For context, the House Administration Committee recently uncovered evidence that illegal donations from China, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela might have been laundered to Democratic campaigns through ActBlue. In response, the committee sent a letter to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones to begin an investigation. In any case, Walter Curt, a prominent investigative journalist, took to...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has long portrayed itself as America’s humanitarian aid organization, delivering assistance to developing nations. With an annual budget of nearly $40 billion and operations in over 100 countries, it represents one of the largest foreign aid institutions in the world. But recent disclosures reveal its true nature as something far more systematic: an architect of global consciousness.