The Town of Ocean City will not move forward with the acquisition of a 193-acre property to the west of Berlin for the development of a future sports complex. A majority of the Ocean City Council on Monday shared their concerns about either the project or location, as well as intense opposition from neighboring property owners. A motion to pass the first reading of an ordinance, authorizing the Mayor and City Council to purchase the property, failed for lack of a second.

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Investigative reporter Paul Sperry posted a damning update to the Jim Comey “86 47” beach story on Friday.

According to Paul, there is evidence that Jim Comey’s wife Patricia sent him a Google screenshot of a non-violent definition of the term “86” two minutes before Comey posted his infamous rock picture of “86-47” on Instagram.

Paul Sperry: BREAKING: An FBI affidavit for a search warrant in the James Comey presidential threat case reveals his wife Patrice Comey sent him a Google screenshot of a nonviolent definition of the term “86” two (2) minutes before Comey posted the alleged threat against President Trump, indicating some forethought his posting could be construed as a threat.”

86 is a common street term for murder. Comey and his wife thought they were being cute.

Comey was also one of the leaders along with Barack Obama and John Brennan who decided to run a coup against the US President during Trump’s first term in office.

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Ethan Curreri is a former New York City police office who arrested Laken Riley’s killer for a lesser crime six months before the illegal migrant was released — thanks to New York’s sanctuary policies — and moved to Georgia. Curreri was invited by President Trump to speak at the Angel Family event at the White House in February 2025, where the families of victims of criminal migrants gathered. Curreri is now a an officer with the Juno Beach Police Department in Florida.

I began my law enforcement career with the NYPD assigned to the 113th Precinct in South Jamaica, Queens.

I’ve walked into many difficult scenes as a police officer, but nothing compares to standing in a room full of broken hearts at the White House.

On Feb. 23, 2026, President Donald Trump hosted the Angel Family Remembrance Ceremony honoring those who lost their lives at the hands of illegal immigrants. The President gave me the opportunity to share the story that connects me to the families of those victims.

A 68-year-old Martinez, California, retiree was fatally stabbed outside his own home, allegedly by an illegal immigrant a judge had released on his own recognizance just one day earlier, prompting DHS to demand Governor Gavin Newsom hand the suspect over.

Todd Stewart had lived on his quiet street in Martinez, a small city just east of San Francisco, for roughly 40 years. Prosecutors say Marcos Iriarte-Valdez, a 36-year-old Venezuelan national, killed him during an attempted burglary, one day after a Contra Costa County judge turned Iriarte-Valdez loose despite his criminal record and a pending home-detention violation. Fox News reported that DHS has now placed an immigration detainer on the suspect and is publicly pressuring California’s governor to surrender him to federal custody for removal.

The timeline is damning. Iriarte-Valdez was arrested on a Tuesday for allegedly violating a condition of his home detention, itself tied to earlier burglary charges. On Wednesday, an unnamed judge ordered him released on his own recognizance. By Thursday, Stewart was dead.

Investigators say Stewart encountered Iriarte-Valdez in the garage of his Martinez home. Iriarte-Valdez allegedly tried to flee, then stabbed the 68-year-old retiree and killed him. Martinez police arrested Iriarte-Valdez on Friday evening after tracking him through automated license-plate-recognition technology and community tips.

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Police have reportedly obtained 8 felony warrants in connection with the case

At least five people were shot at Virginia State University (VSU) Saturday morning, and one remains in critical condition, according to university officials and the VSU Police Department.

Police arrested 19-year-old Camron Harris of Henrico, Virginia, on Saturday after finding him hiding in a dormitory closet on campus in connection with the shooting, The Associated Press reported.

Harris is not a VSU student, Chesterfield County Police said.

Police obtained eight felony warrants in connection with the case, including for malicious wounding and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, according to the AP. It was not immediately clear whether Harris had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.

“Officers responded to the 3300 block of Boisseau Street at approximately 1:28 a.m. and discovered five individuals suffering from gunshot wounds outside VSU residence halls,” a university official told Fox News Digital.

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An experimental vaccine may offer a way to intercept pancreatic cancer before it becomes invasive, potentially preventing the disease in people born with a high genetic risk.

The new vaccine targets a KRAS mutation found in more than 90 percent of pancreatic cancers, or roughly 60,000 of the more than 67,000 Americans diagnosed with the disease annually.

The vaccine trains the immune system to spot and destroy cells that carry the KRAS mutation. By doing so, researchers hope to intercept the disease at its earliest, precancerous stage long before it turns invasive and deadly.

In a small trial of 20 high-risk patients, all with a KRAS mutation or a strong family history of the disease, the vaccine triggered immune responses in 90 percent of participants. None developed pancreatic cancer during the follow-up period.

The results mark the first time a vaccine targeting mutations on the KRAS gene has been tested in people with a hereditary predisposition to pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest, with a five-year survival rate of just 13 percent. It is often diagnosed late because its early symptoms are vague and easily mistaken for other conditions, by which time the cancer has usually spread.

In a trial of 20 high-risk patients, the vaccine triggered immune responses in 90 percent of participants. Over 16.5 months, none developed pancreatic cancer and some saw their precancerous cysts shrink.

Pancreatic cancer rates have been steadily climbing over the past three decades. Since 1995, the overall incidence has risen by nearly 20 percent – from 10.6 to 11.9 per 100,000 people – with women seeing a sharper increase than men.

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It’s finally happened. An Obama-appointed judge has decided to uphold the law, rather than indulge her feelings about Donald Trump. Her cocktail circuit friends will surely be disappointed in her.

So will Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5), given the litigants in the case. The case, African Communities Together v. Mullin, challenged the Trump administration’s decision to terminate Somalia’s TPS designation, which had been scheduled to take effect March 17.

U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs had initially stepped in on March 13, just four days before the termination was supposed to become effective, and temporarily froze the administration’s action.

As we reported earlier on RedState, Burroughs had faced an impeachment effort after refusing to clear the way for the Somali deportations.

“SCOTUS made it very clear that lower courts cannot suspend TPS. Yet, an Obama-appointed judge is defying the Court and the Constitution in an attempt to subvert the will of the President,” Republican Rep. Andy Ogles (TN-5) said in a statement.

“This judicial activist’s obstruction of the people’s will must be stopped. Judge Burroughs must be impeached,” he added.

“On Monday I will file Articles of Impeachment against Judge Allison Burroughs for her unconstitutional act of Judicial Activism!!! Enough is enough, Americans First NOT 3rd world migrants,” he wrote.

In August, Rep. Ogles did just that. Then, like magic, she had a change of heart.

On Friday, Judge Burroughs denied an effort to keep Somalia’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation alive, lifting the administrative stay she had previously imposed while the case played out.

Of all the things the United States State Department or Health and Human Services might choose to fund, groups supporting Islamic terrorism should not even be on the list. And yet, it’s happened; both of those agencies have sent $2 billion in taxpayer money to a group that was convicted in an Israeli court of providing support to Hamas.

Why would we send money to people like that?

The State Department worked with World Vision to distribute $2 billion in global health foreign assistance even though an Israeli court convicted the nonprofit’s Gaza affiliate operations manager of sending up to $50 million to Hamas in 2022. Separately, the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) provided nearly $80 million to 14 organizations linked to terrorism and extremism.

In 2022, we might note, that was during the Biden administration. Anyone surprised? It would be easy to lay all this at Joe Biden’s feet, but he may well have had very little idea what was going on, as by 2022 his obvious and apparent dementia had already taken hold. No, this is a stark example of what can happen when you have a leftist administration left to its own devices, with a chief executive that is incapable, incoherent, and incompetent.

Here’s the onion:

The Middle East Forum (MEF) recently reported that 14 terror-linked and extremist organizations, led by CAIR, collected nearly $80 million from HHS through the Refugee Resettlement, Health, and Mosque Renovation grants. Through this fund, the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) California chapter received the most of any Islamist group, collecting $42.2 million in funding from the HHS to provide legal and social services to Afghan refugees.

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The socialists have been getting a lot of attention of late with their wins in primaries.

Unfortunately for them, though, their unhinged positions are also being exposed. As Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) previously said, one of the most effective strategies against them is simple: “Operation Let Them Speak,” as he termed it.

We heard from Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) National Political Committee member Frances Gill in an interview on Sunday, confirming some of their wild positions like abolishing police and prisons, but also acting like people were “promised” success if they went to college and were ‘highly educated.” If they didn’t achieve “success,” it was because things are tipped to benefit the wealthy — not because of their own failures or because they got degrees that weren’t marketable.

Meanwhile, former Vice President Kamala Harris, who is increasingly looking like she will run in 2028, has been trying to cozy up to the socialist mayor of New York City, and she’s endorsed the socialist-backed Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan. So she’s already showing she’s making the wrong choices, even before she formally declares her presidential run. Kamala also is saying Democrats have to get “comfortable” with adopting a certain “ruthlessness” in their approach.

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San Francisco police officers smashed an innocent man’s car window, pulled him out of his vehicle and dangerously pepper-sprayed him after law enforcement made an avoidable mistake.

The innocent man reportedly died by suicide after losing everything as a result of the detainment and ensuing legal trouble.

The San Francisco Department of Police Accountability (DPA), a police watchdog agency, said Monday that two officers had violently arrested Matthew Ludwig on the night of July 4, 2024, because they wrongly believed he was driving a stolen car.

That happened because law enforcement had entered the wrong license plate into their system, according to the DPA’s findings.

Police then followed Ludwig and smashed the window of his Honda Accord while he was stopped at a red light, the watchdog agency said.

The officers, who were named as Jonathan Zepeda and Vinesh Govindbhai in a complaint filed by the DPA last May 28, then pulled him out of the car and onto the street.

Zepeda drew his gun, while Govindbhai pushed Ludwig’s shoulders and head toward the street pavement, per the complaint.

Body camera footage posted by the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office showed Govindbhai telling Ludwig to ‘put your f***ing hands behind your back’ after yanking him out of the car.

Govindbhai then warned Ludwig that he was ‘about to get sprayed’ before pepper-spraying his face in very close proximity.

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Here’s a fresh outrage thanks to Democrats’ all-out resistance to immigration enforcement: Pedro Aguilar-Alvarez, an El Salvadoran illegal immigrant who’s been running amok in the US for years, just got no-bailed prior to sentencing for his fourth DWI bust.

That’s right: Aguilar-Alvarez was duly tried and convicted — then Judge Bryan Browns, a veteran of pro-crime law shop Legal Aid, released him before sentencing, despite the massive flight risk he presents.

The pattern — thug jumps the border, is shielded by “sanctuary” extremism, only to commit a new crime here as Dems double down on “mercy” — repeats in blue state after blue state.

Sheridan Gorman was a college freshman from New York shot to death in March in Chicago by a Biden-era Venezuelan “asylum seeker.”

North Carolina authorities have arrested the individual responsible for an incredibly wicked and stunning attack on a hard-working mom of three earlier this month.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Jacksonville DoorDash driver Christen Phillips suffered life-threatening injuries earlier this month following one of the worst possible attacks of road rage imaginable.

The 34-year-old Phillips was on her way to deliver an order in Onslow County at 1:19 a.m. Saturday, when she came up to a green traffic light. But the car in front of her, a Range Rover, refused to move.

She began honking her horn. The driver allowed Phillips to pass, but then followed her all the way to her stop.

Wisconsin’s likely winner in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for governor is making Democrats shudder.

Francesca Hong is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who has been defending her past trashing of Thanksgiving in the closing days of the race, as noted by The Hill.

A social media post from her account in 2020 said America should “cancel Thanksgiving” in order to “stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed Indegenous [sic] folx and women.”

Democratic pundit James Carville, in a recent X post, called Hong “a font of zany liberal, faculty lounge exotica.”

But according to The New York Times, Hong is riding a series of polls giving her double-digit leads as Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary approaches.

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SPRING HILL, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida mother of two was kidnapped and killed by a Pinellas County deputy who then died by suicide Monday, according to authorities.

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco and Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri held a joint press conference Monday night to share more details on what Gualtieri described as a “horrific situation.”

Nocco said the victim and her two children, ages 9 and 12, had just returned from a trip to the beach when they found the suspect, Deputy Troy Savetz, 47, in the front yard of their Hudson home.

“They went from the best day of their lives probably to the worst day of their lives,” Nocco said.

Savetz and the victim had been in a “tumultuous” on and off again relationship, according to authorities. Officials said Savetz began arguing with the victim over a TV set and took her phone when she tried to call 911.

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Private 2021 messages show Fauci warned cytokine storms after the second dose could cause miscarriage

A Senate Republican leading the charge on investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci’s old government phone told Fox News Digital that the revelation that the former COVID-czar was concerned that vaccines could cause miscarriages was “just the tip of the iceberg.”

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., in an interview with Fox News Digital, alleged that the first tranche of texts from Fauci’s old government iPhone was a clear sign that the man who became the face of the nation’s COVID-19 response said one thing privately while taking a different message to the public.

“We tell pregnant women don’t even have a glass of wine and yet we coerce them, convince them, sometimes mandated them, to get an experimental gene therapy as early as the first trimester,” Johnson said. “This is truly sick.”

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I hope the resident got all of his or her valuables out of the house now that it’s being blasted all over social media that the house is unoccupied.

WHO/WHAT: Wicomico County Recreation & Parks will host a check presentation celebrating the Gatorade Community Grant awarded to the organization by Ava Twilley, who was recently named Gatorade Maryland Softball Player of the Year.

Gatorade Player of the Year Community Grants empower all 610 State Gatorade Player of the Year recipients to award a $1,000 grant from Gatorade to a social impact partner of their choice that helps the next generation of athletes reap the benefits of sport.

WHEN: THURSDAY, AUG. 13 at 4 P.M.

WHERE: HENRY S. PARKER ATHLETIC COMPLEX, FIELD 7 ½

BACKGROUND: Little League Challenger is an adaptive baseball program for individuals with physical and intellectual challenges.

The Gatorade Player of the Year Program honors the top athletes in high school sports, champions the next generation of greats by recognizing their all-around excellence and propels their futures with ongoing, unmatched support and opportunities only Gatorade’s legacy in sport can provide. Gatorade Player of the Year is the top honor in high school sports, celebrating the nation’s best high school athletes for their excellence in sport, academics and community.The program has an elite legacy, including star alums like Peyton Manning, Paige Bueckers, Cooper Flagg, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and more. From professional athletes and coaches to CEOs, Gatorade Player of the Year alumni showcase the power of sport and serve as role models for the next generation of greats.

As part of Gatorade’s commitment to breaking down barriers in sport, every Player of the Year receives a grant to donate to a social impact partner of their choice. To date, the Gatorade Player of the Year program has provided more than $6.4 million in grants to winners across more than 2,200 organizations.

Gatorade State Player of the Year recipients can also submit a video explaining why the organization they chose is deserving of one of 12 Spotlight Grants, which awards an additional $10,000 to the organization.

It all started with complaints from residents in Springfield, OH that a surge of Haitian migrants was causing chaos and an odd disappearance of local wildlife and pets.  City officials and local companies where shipping the migrants in by the thousands and giving them jobs.  NGOs arranged for extensive handouts including housing, food and cash. Initially, all of this was done while avoiding any discussion with the community at large.

The surge started after 2021, but the Biden Administration denied that such a plan existed.  Within a few years, Springfield’s Haitian population grew from a couple thousand to over 15,000 migrants.  That’s nearly 25% of the total population of the city.  This does not happen without government coordination.

When Donald Trump dared to address the issue in a debate with Kamala Harris, the media and Democrats exploded with outrage.  But Trump’s assertion that the migrants were “Eating the dogs and eating the cats” in Ohio likely helped to win him the presidency.  His position echoed a growing concern among native citizens over the rapid invasion of the third world into the US and the fact that most of these people will never assimilate into American standards.

This problem is about the be rectified, with ICE officially operating in Ohio.  The Haitian round-up has begun.  With the latest Supreme Court decision, TPS designations can now be terminated by the Trump Administration. Many migrants exploiting TPS are being called in by ICE to turn in their passports and wear an ankle monitor.  These are people who will likely be deported in the near term.  NGO’s are already trying to preempt deportations by mobilizing well funded left-wing activists.

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In revealing the commonalities of the Reds and the Greens in the Red-Green Axis, we have elucidated their shared goals of violence, wealth redistribution, inequality before the law, a binary world, monopoly rule by the elites, and controlling the totality of society. Here we explore the promise of transitional phase slaughter.

Both Islamic political systems and Marxist-Leninist communism make two promises about the violent neutralization of internal rivals. The first is that it will happen: a transitional phase, necessary to secure the new order. The second is that it will end: temporary by design, giving way once the order is secure.

Both systems keep the first promise and break the second.

Marxism states both explicitly. Islamic political theory implies them structurally. Neither system’s own history shows the second promise kept. In both, what was authorized as a passing emergency became, in practice, a standing condition, reopened by each generation against a new list of names.

Marx and Engels wrote that between capitalist and communist society lies a transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin, in The State and Revolution, built an entire argument on the promise attached to that dictatorship: it is temporary by definition because the state itself will “wither away” once class antagonism is eliminated and coercion becomes unnecessary. This is not a minor clause. It is the doctrine’s central justification for tolerating the dictatorship at all.

The Bolsheviks began implementing their slaughter within a year of taking power: the September 5, 1918, Decree on Red Terror, which ordered class enemies isolated in concentration camps and authorized summary execution, was issued after the assassination attempt on Lenin and the killing of the Petrograd Cheka chief.

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The FBI had 14 informants feeding the bureau information on the Biden Crime Family related to Ukraine, according to newly declassified documents obtained by Just The News.

However, the FBI ran a secret counter-operation dubbed “Round River” to bury the evidence.

Just The News founder John Solomon is currently in charge of the White House Government Transparency Task Force.

They can’t win without CHEATING! The modern Democrat Party is completely LAWLESS.

Former Lumberton Township Mayor and current Committeewoman Gina LaPlaca, along with her husband, Democratic operative Jason Carty, are facing a new round of criminal charges after prosecutors say they submitted fraudulent signatures to place LaPlaca on the June Democratic primary ballot for the Lumberton Township Committee.

Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw’s office announced the charges this week. An investigation found that multiple people whose names and purported signatures appeared on LaPlaca’s nominating petition never signed it and never authorized anyone to sign on their behalf. Without those fake signatures, LaPlaca would not have had enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot at all.

LaPlaca, 47, signed a sworn affidavit claiming she had “personally circulated the petition” and that every signature was in the voter’s own handwriting. Investigators determined her husband Carty, 49, also collected signatures. The petition was submitted to the Lumberton Township Municipal Clerk by Carty.

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Plus, Nick issues a wake-up call to Americans: “Don’t fall for the trap,” and the Fraud Ledger goes live.

Governor Kathy Hochul’s campaign received $55,000 from social adult daycare centers in Flushing, the New York City neighborhood where Nick Shirley investigated alleged fraud. This month, the New York Post reviewed donation records, visited the two largest donors, and found both centers empty of patients during business hours. Nick had found the same situation there about a month earlier.

A mob of teens swarmed a 7-Eleven convenience store in Oakland, causing serious damage and sparking widespread fear in the community.

Shocking video captured around 4.30pm local time on Saturday outside of the franchise in the 500 block of International Boulevard showed an agitated young crowd entering the store and then rushing away on bikes while an alarm sounded.

Later in the footage, a smaller group of youngsters could be seen violently shattering part of the front door.

When they could not force their way in, at least one member of the group was observed trying to climb into the store through the broken glass while someone could be heard encouraging the others to ‘go in there with him.’

There were only two employees inside the convenience store when the initial attack happened, according to KTVU.

The employees reported that the crowd consisted of roughly 20 people who looked to be between 14 and 20 years old.

They stole multiple items before rushing out, only for part of the group to return after the workers locked the door and called 911.

‘I feel scared,’ Jasshan Singh, one of the employees inside at the time, told the outlet. ‘We can’t do anything. We can’t even run.’

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RedState columnist and author Buzz Patterson knows a thing or two about presidential security and flight operations.

After all, he served 20 years on active duty as an Air Force pilot, received the Air Medal for flying combat support missions into Sarajevo, and from 1996 to 1998 he served as a senior military aide to President Bill Clinton and was put in charge of the nuclear football. Following his WH service, he became a commercial pilot and best-selling author.

He knows a thing or two about what he’s talking about, then, and he’s deeply concerned that top-secret information about President Trump’s early July decoy flight out of Ankara, Turkey, was leaked to the media in August. The president was seen publicly boarding Air Force One, but was then secretly transferred to a different military aircraft due to Iranian threats.

Patterson says we have no business knowing about it:

A retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who carried the nuclear “football” for former President Bill Clinton is sounding the alarm that exposing the vital national security secrets that protected President Trump from a potential attack on Air Force One could put presidents, military personnel and the White House press corps in danger for years to come.

“If somebody leaked it, it was somebody involved in the process, and that scares the hell out of me,” Robert ‘Buzz’ Patterson tells Fox News Digital.

He added that the operation was “brilliant” and wishes he had been part of it, it was so well done.

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(LINKWOOD, MD) – Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred early this morning in Dorchester County.

The deceased is identified as a five-year-old female. An additional victim, a 30-year-old male, was flown by Maryland State Police Aviation Command to a local trauma center for treatment of his injuries.

Around 2:17 a.m., troopers from the Maryland State Police Easton Barrack responded to a residence in the 3900-block of Ocean Gateway for a report of a shooting. Upon arrival on the scene, troopers located two victims with suspected gunshot wounds.

Investigators from the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit responded to the scene. Crime Scene Technicians from the Maryland State Police Forensic Sciences Division additionally processed the scene for evidence.

Anyone with information related to this case is asked to contact the Maryland State Police Easton Barrack at 410-822-3101. The investigation remains active and ongoing.

County tourism officials promoting briny seafood caught in coastal bays

Iran has mocked U.S. President Donald Trump over his secret aircraft switch during a visit to Turkey, claiming the extraordinary security operation showed his fear of Iran’s military power.

The Islamic Republic’s embassy in South Africa also piled in, sharing a meme showing Trump inside a catering box surrounded by food and warning that he ‘will be hidden in a trash can before long’.

The embassy’s X account, which is listed on its official website, often goes viral for memes that are also reported by Iranian state media.

‘Again, Trump, with his new scandal, has become the top subject in the U.S. media these days. A scandal stemming from fear of Iran’s military power, a power that caused Trump, last month, while returning from Turkey, to secretly switch his plane,’ said a presenter on state television, adding that the episode has become a source of ‘humiliation’ for Trump.

Tehran also hit back at Trump’s claim that the US has ‘total control’ of the Strait of Hormuz, insisting the vital waterway remains under the ‘management and control’ of the Islamic Republic.

Hossein Taeb, the head of Iran’s Basij paramilitary unit, made the declaration on Thursday, a day after Trump’s remarks.

Trump’s secret aircraft switch was prompted by a threat that Air Force One could be targeted by a shoulder-fired missile, a person briefed on the matter said.

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Kamala Harris is back on the road, and apparently the 2024 election taught her one lesson above all others: the system must be the problem.

During a Friday swing through New Orleans, the former vice president told students she plans to spend the next several months rallying voters across the South. Harris tied the tour to the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which she claimed, “basically undid the Voting Rights Act.” She also accused Republicans of trying to cheat ahead of the November midterms.

“I’m spending my time to remind people that even though they’re trying to put obstacles in front of us, even though they’re trying to cheat — because they are trying to cheat,” Harris said, “that that’s not a reason that we just stay in bed and keep the covers over our heads and say, ‘well, wake me up when it’s over.’”

Stirring stuff. A sober defense of democracy from the woman currently crisscrossing the country to tell Democrats that the other side cheats, the Electoral College is rigged, and what her party really needs is more “ruthlessness.” At the same rally, Harris was welcomed as “Madame President.” The Electoral College apparently missed that memo.

Harris spent Friday barnstorming New Orleans. She addressed hundreds of students at an InspireNOLA back-to-school rally in the morning, then headlined the Louisiana Democrat Party’s “Masquerade Sneaker Ball” that evening. New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno also presented her with a ceremonial key to the city at a private event before the gala. Apparently losing the presidency comes with perks.

Prepared excerpts supplied ahead of Harris’s evening address said Democrats needed to develop a “ruthlessness that must be the attitude of the Democratic Party.” She was careful to explain that she meant the nice kind of ruthlessness.

“This fight requires that we start to get comfortable with some things — including having a certain kind of ruthlessness. Now, I don’t mean ruthlessness like the cruelty they show. I mean the kind that is uncompromising in its impatience with injustice, that shows no mercy for corruption, that fights back hard when they threaten the power of the people.”

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“I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women’s basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention.”

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has called for the league to hold discussions about transgender-identifying athletes competing in women’s basketball following ongoing controversy and the recent announcement of two former NBA players seeking WNBA draft eligibility.

Englebert sent a memo to WNBA teams on Friday to address the issue, according to ESPN.

“I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women’s basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention,” the memo said. “I wanted to reach out to share how we are approaching these conversations at the league office and to thank those of you who have responded to questions from the media with thoughtfulness and professionalism.”

Engelbert said the issue will also be discussed next week at a previously scheduled meeting that includes team presidents and general managers.

“We recognize that this is a complex and nuanced topic, and we will continue to have important conversations with all of you and the Players Association in the weeks and months ahead,” Engelbert added in the memo. “We also plan to convene additional discussions and offer listening sessions for any team leaders who would like to participate. Your perspectives and feedback are invaluable, and I appreciate those who have already reached out to share their thoughts.”

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New York taxpayers spend more per public school student than anyone else in the country. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Albany Democrats have never had trouble finding more money for the system. Making sure children can read has proved much harder.

Preliminary results released by the New York State Education Department show that just 48 percent of students in grades three through eight were proficient in English language arts during the 2025-26 school year. Math proficiency reached 57 percent, while 47 percent of fifth- and eighth-graders met the standard in science. Final results are expected in November after districts review the data.

The elementary grades were worse. Only 43 percent of third-graders, 48 percent of fourth-graders, and 43 percent of fifth-graders scored proficient in English language arts. Third-grade proficiency fell 11 points from the previous school year. Fifth-grade proficiency fell 14 points.

The state cannot blame a new test for the drop. The English language arts assessments have measured the same standards since 2023, and the department says the yearly results can be compared directly.

The department acknowledged the size of the problem in unusually direct terms:

“We will not minimize or attempt to explain away what the data tell us. When scores increase, we report that progress. When they decline, we report that as well. Our responsibility is not to create a narrative around the results, but to understand them, identify where students need additional support, and act accordingly.”

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Investigative reporter Catherine Herridge secured a major, though temporary, victory for press freedom after a federal judge clarified that she will not have to keep paying an $800-per-day contempt fine while her legal team asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her First Amendment case.

The court also denied plaintiff Yanping Chen’s request to increase the daily fine to a staggering $5,000 and ordered that the money Herridge has already paid be returned, Herridge announced Friday in a statement on X.

The district court has clarified that I don’t have to pay the $800 daily contempt fine for refusing to disclose my confidential sources while our team asks the Supreme Court to hear our First Amendment case.

The court also denied the plaintiff, Yanping Chen’s request to raise the daily contempt fines to 5K. The court ordered reimbursement for the fines I have already paid.

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Conservatives used to joke that the left was trying to turn the government into a nanny state. Now, Zohran Mamdani is taking it literally.

The New York City mayor is launching a service where people in the city can drop their kids off at the park to be looked after by government officials while the parents can have a date night. What could possibly go wrong?

Would you be comfortable dropping your kids off at a New York City park and then going out to dinner?

ABC News in New York reports:

Date night, anyone? NYC launching free babysitting program for parents

New York City is giving parents a chance for a night off through a new pilot program that will provide free child care for hundreds of families next month.

Mayor Mamdani announced the launch of “Parents’ Night Out,” a city-sponsored program that will offer free babysitting for up to 500 children on Aug. 16 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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For two decades, the comforting response to mass surveillance was arithmetic. Yes, the government collects everything, but nobody could possibly look at it all. The haystack was too big. Your ordinary life was protected not by law but by the sheer impossibility of anyone caring enough to sift through it.

Artificial intelligence just deleted that protection, because AI is a machine built for exactly one thing, finding needles in haystacks.

Look at what has already been deployed while the public debated chatbots. Flock Safety, a private company, operates license plate readers in more than 6,000 American communities, capturing over a billion images every month and storing them in searchable databases, according to an analysis by the Center for Democracy and Technology.

Motorola’s competing network claims cameras from over 3,700 agencies and business partners. Layer on facial recognition, gunshot detection microphones, drone-as-first-responder programs, and AI platforms that can search body camera footage and police databases in plain English, and you have something no free country has ever possessed, a near-complete, machine-readable record of where ordinary citizens go, when, and with whom.

The new systems do not merely record. Vendors now advertise “anomaly detection,” algorithms that flag a vehicle for appearing at unusual places or times, with no crime committed and no warrant sought. That is pre-crime, sold as a software feature. And because the infrastructure is owned by private corporations under contract rather than built by government under statute, it arrived without a single vote being cast on whether Americans wanted to live under it.

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Socialists just can’t let the “dream” of prison abolition go until it becomes your nightmare.

Leftist politicians are struggling to handle the crime issue on the campaign trail as the signal has clearly gone out from their top “influencers” to avoid talking about “defund the police.”

Their media allies say that socialist candidates are “recalibrating,” which is an obvious spin to explain the spin.

The American people deserve the truth.

What socialists believe about police and prisons cuts to the heart of their utopian, unhuman belief system. Everything they do flows from a fundamental misunderstanding of humanity.

Much has been made about the zany Democratic Socialists of America platform that promotes such sober-minded policy ideas as eliminating borders, mass amnesty for all illegal aliens, and doing away with the Senate.

But in my mind, none of those ideas are as loony—or as emblematic of their false ideology—than their proposals about crime and prison.

The DSA website has a section devoted to the so-called Abolition Working Group, “formed to create a collective orientation towards abolitionist organizing within DSA and to build meaningful relationships with external organizations committed to the struggle for liberation.”

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Rush Limbaugh had a saying to explain how he would drive a point home about the left that perfectly applies to what we’re seeing in the WNBA today. He said that sometimes you have to illustrate the absurd through absurdity.

In other words, you have to take the left’s premise to its ultimate conclusion to more fully see just how messed up it is.

That would be a perfect description of how the WNBA is totally blowing its current men-in-women’s-sports crisis.

My colleagues David Manney and Robert Spencer both wrote separate stories about this trend, which is getting increasingly absurd: We now have former NBA stars declaring their intent to enter the WNBA draft as women.

But it’s not just that. It’s the reaction they’re getting from the left, which in unison is saying, “No fair, you can’t do that!”

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Apparently, one of the best ways to make $400,000 a year in the New York area is to work for the Port Authority, according to the NY Post.

Twenty Port Authority employees, including 17 cops, cleared $400,000 in total compensation last year as the agency’s payroll sailed past $1.2 billion. And much of the magic came from everyone’s favorite government money fountain: overtime.

According to payroll data obtained by the Empire Center for Public Policy, 323 employees collected at least $100,000 in overtime alone. Of those, 189 were Port Authority cops. Eight top earners managed to rack up more than $200,000 each in OT. Police Lt. Nicholas Federico won the unofficial jackpot. His $180,691 base salary came with another $215,717 in overtime, helping push his total compensation, including benefits, to $466,775.

Detective sergeants Dewan Maharaj and Robert Zafonte Jr. weren’t exactly eating ramen either. Both finished around $448,600, with Maharaj collecting nearly $148,000 in overtime and Zafonte adding about $139,000. The NY Post writes that the overtime crown belonged to chief maintenance supervisor Reginald Bowers, who piled up $231,916 in OT and finished with $421,041 in total compensation.

And this wasn’t just a few employees discovering the cheat code.

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In recent weeks, quite a few Democrats and people in media have tried to compare the rise of the DSA in the Democrat Party to the rise of the Tea party in the GOP, but that is a false comparison.

The Tea Party wanted Republicans to return to Constitutional, small government and common sense spending. The DSA wants to burn the Constitution and the country along with it.

This weekend on ABC News, Scott Jennings rejected an argument from longtime Democrat figure Donna Brazile when she tried to make this comparison. He is exactly right.

Transcript via ABC News:

DONNA BRAZILE, FORMER DNC CHAIR & ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, first of all, I think she’s a smart politician. She clearly has spent some years in Congress understanding that you got to build a coalition, that you got to go out there and represent your values and views. But as you know, I’ve been in this big tent party probably longer than most people.

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The Justice Department filed three lawsuits Monday against states that offer in-state tuition for illegal aliens, after securing victories in five similar cases.

“Congress long ago made clear that states cannot put illegal aliens over our nation’s own citizens,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said in a statement first provided to the Daily Signal. “By granting illegal aliens in-state tuition, New York, Vermont, and Connecticut are doing just that. No more.”

“Our efforts will not cease until President [Donald] Trump’s promise is fulfilled: illegal aliens will not receive benefits denied to our nation’s own citizens,” he added.

The DOJ sued Connecticut, New York, and Vermont, alleging that the states violate federal law by requiring colleges and universities to extend discounted tuition rates to illegal aliens.

The lawsuits claim that the policies violate 8 U.S.C. § 1623(a), which states that “an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a state … for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit (in no less an amount, duration, and scope) without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a resident.”

The DOJ case against Vermont cites Senate Bill 191, Act No. 136, which extends eligibility for Vermont in-state tuition benefits, including grants and scholarships, to certain illegal aliens. Sections of the law explicitly bar the Board of Trustees of the Vermont State Colleges from adopting in-state tuition policies that would “discriminate against or exclude a person based solely on the person’s immigration status, or lack thereof.”

The case against Connecticut cites five state laws, one dating back to 2011, which extend in-state tuition benefits to illegal aliens. One of the laws, Connecticut General Statutes § 10a-19m, “makes illegal aliens who meet a threshold of residency in Connecticut and maintain that status for at least five years eligible for student loan reimbursement payments while denying U.S. citizens not residing in Connecticut that same benefit.”

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, a Democrat, shot back after the lawsuit Monday.

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Sports Illustrated had an interesting choice of words after Saturday’s WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky.

Although the Fever would best the Sky 90-86, the story that made headlines came with two minutes remaining in the first quarter, when the Fever’s Sophie Cunningham was clotheslined to the face by the Sky’s Dijonai Carrington in a moment that Fox News’ Outkick Sports reported left the star player with a bloody mouth.

Carrington was given a foul, upgraded to a Flagrant 2, and subsequently ejected from the game.

Sports Illustrated covered the game, but their headline called the violent foul a “Bitter Taste of Karma.”

Outkick’s Clay Travis posted a screenshot to social media platform X with the full headline that read, “Sophie Cunningham Got a Bitter Taste of Karma After Drawing Flagrant Foul in Fever-Sky.”

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The Smithsonian Institution, particularly the National Museum of American History (NMAH ) and related exhibits, has been accused of downplaying or negatively reframing aspects of American history in favor of a more critical, race- and social-justice-focused narrative.

Now, the great-grandson of a slave, bishop and author Earl Walker Jackson, is blasting the institution for its anti-American woke indoctrination against ‘the greatest country on earth.”

The White House shared a 162-page report from the Domestic Policy Council,  “Saving America’s Story,” that accuses the NMAH of “ideological capture” by a “radical, activist ideology.”

Further, it claims the museum erases or minimizes America’s heritage, downplays the Founders and positive milestones, emphasizes social justice themes, and treats the American story as a tool for division rather than shared national pride. The report was released on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

In March 2025, President Trump issued the Executive Order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” and ordered steps to counter what the administration described as a widespread effort to rewrite U.S. history by casting founding principles and achievements in a negative light (as inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive).

It specifically called out the Smithsonian for promoting “divisive, race-centered ideology.”

Fox News reports that, “although his great-grandparents were enslaved, Jackson believes that ‘if you were born an American, you hit the proverbial lottery because you have more opportunity and hope than any people living anywhere else on the planet.’”

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In case you’re unfamiliar with her, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace (SC-1) doesn’t exactly do subtle. In keeping with that theme, the South Carolina lawmaker dropped a pretty straightforward assessment of Muslim lawmakers in America and watched the left completely lose their collective minds.

Mace, in a post on X late Friday, suggested that all public officials who are practicing Muslims are a clear and present danger to the Republic.

“Every single Muslim holding public office in America is a Trojan horse, and a threat to both national security and our republic,” she wrote. “We refuse to be silent.”

The outrage machine kicked into overdrive almost immediately.

Critics pounced. Some raced to their keyboards to denounce Mace’s fiery remarks.

Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA-7) was one of the more vocal opponents of the comments, calling them “disgusting” and “dangerous.”

“This is absolutely disgusting and dangerous. Republicans must denounce this blatant Islamophobia,” she responded. “To Muslim communities across America: I will always stand with you.”

Mace didn’t back down.

“She’s right. I don’t want to get stabbed or blown up by a suicide bomber – nor do I want to hear the call to prayer five times a day in the United States of America,” she fired back. “Total Islamophobe here.”

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Eight-time, best-selling financial author Jim Rickards is warning of a financial calamity already underway that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is trying to contain.  It is the Japanese yen carry trade where the US Treasury is propping up the yen’s value.

Is the yen carry trade coming to a halt and can it blow up things?  Rickards says, “The answer is yes and yes…”

“Somebody wrote me and asked if the yen carry trade is a big deal?  I wrote them back and said there is nothing bigger.  This is actually the biggest story in the world.”

In simple terms, the problem is people have been borrowing at 0% in yen to do deals around the world.  Everything was fine until interest rates in Japan started going up after more than two decades.  Rickards says, “This is the engine of global economic growth.  It has been powering the US economy and the global economy for over 30 years.  What could go wrong?”

” The thing that could go wrong the fastest is if Japanese interest rates went up. . .. The bank of Japan says it is going to keep raising interest rates.  It’s not going to the moon, but 3% for yen (and Japanese) interest rates is like going to the moon when it’s been 0% for 20 years. 

So, now, the yen carry trade is unwinding. . .. The original borrower borrows dollars to pay back the yen loan, swaps the yen and pays back the yen loan.  What if you can’t borrow?  What if the bank says sorry, no soup for you. . ..

Now, what do you do if you want to get out of the yen carry trade?  You have to sell assets.  So, you are going to sit there and make a lot less money or even lose money, or you are going to dump assets to get dollars to pay back the yen loan.  They are both bad for the markets.  It you have to sell assets, guess what?  The price goes down, and other people have to sell assets.  The next thing you know it’s a stampede, and everyone is running for the exit.  This is not a few investment banks on Wall Street or a few hedge funds. 

This is the whole world getting out of the leveraged exchange rate engine that has been running the world for 30 years.  That is the financial equivalent of all out nuclear war.”

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I did not know this until I saw it mentioned on X (formerly Twitter).  When a company hires J1 student temporary or season employees, they do not have to pay the 7.5% FICA or Social Security tax on the wages.

If a company hires a seasonal American student, they have to pay the 7.5%. If the company hires a foreign student, they don’t.  This creates a perverse incentive for private equity firms, companies or corporations to hire foreign seasonal workers.  This is true, I checked it out.

Apparently, this is now the common approach within the hospitality industry to save money and increase profit from payrolls. Unfortunately, this approach puts young Americans at a disadvantage when seeking summer or short-term seasonal employment.

For fiscal Year 2025: The U.S. State Department processed 506,142 applications and successfully issued 451,803 J-1 visas.

Now, obviously there may be some regions or areas where there are not enough young people to fill the jobs.  However, if you do the math that 7.5% employer contribution saved is a lot of incentive for the corporation to avoid hiring seasonal American workers.

One student making $20/hr x 500 hours worked (over 3 months) = $10,000 payroll.  The company has to pay an additional $750 in social security if the student is American.  The $750 is saved if they use a foreign J1 student worker.

If the hospitality organization hires 20 seasonal workers for 3 months, using the J1 visa process saves them $15,000 in taxes.

A private equity group, multinational owner or corporation running the business is likely to be looking at the bottom line.

Additionally, this J1 entry allows the overall immigration system to be abused if the person doesn’t leave the USA at the conclusion of their employment.  How many illegal aliens are created by those who enter under a J1 visa and never leave?

Suspicious Cat is now aware, and, well, increasingly suspicious:

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For many Americans, cracking open a diet soda is a small daily treat – fizzy and sweet, with none of the calories or sugar of standard soft drinks.

But a new study suggests that even diet drinks could be turbocharging brain aging.

Researchers in Brazil honed in on aspartame, a sugar-substitute 200 times sweeter than table sugar found in diet soda and sugar-free desserts.

In a study of nearly 13,000 adults, the team found people who consumed about the same amount of aspartame found in one can of diet soda experienced 1.6 extra years of cognitive aging compared to those who consumed minimal amounts.

Even those consuming less than a can’s worth of aspartame experienced 1.3 years added years of brain aging.

And in cognitive tests, this group had more than a 60 percent faster decline in thinking and memory skills, showing a ‘clear difference’ between those consuming the most and least aspartame.

As the brain ages, certain structures begin to break down, including the volume of the frontal cortex and protective myelin covering nerve cells. This leads to slowed processing speed and memory, signs of cognitive decline.

The researchers cautioned, however, that the study cannot prove aspartame directly causes cognitive decline and that conditions like diabetes can contribute to the heightened risk.

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Marxist streamer Hasan Piker has emerged as an increasingly visible, if unofficial, spokesman for the Democratic Socialists of America’s rapidly expanding political action network. He campaigned for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong while cultivating close ties with socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

From an electoral-risk perspective, Piker is becoming a liability for Democrats. His far-left, anti-American rhetoric provides Republicans with what we called “a gift” last week. Even Hillary Clinton warned on Friday that the GOP’s “anti-communist messaging is very effective.”

The Democratic Party’s failure to formally denounce Piker and distance itself from his agenda…

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SALISBURY, Md. – The Wicomico County Fair returns to WinterPlace Park in Salisbury this Friday-Sunday, Aug. 14-16.

The event is produced by Wicomico Farm & Home Show and Wicomico County, and it is presented by Perdue, Toyota, Piedmont, Baths by Spicer Bros., IBEW and Carter Machinery.

This year’s event celebrates 90 years of Fair traditions.

“The Fair serves to showcase the importance of agriculture on the shore in a family-friendly atmosphere,” said Zach Evans, chairman of the Wicomico County Fair. “We are honored to be celebrating our 90^th anniversary, and grateful to the community for continuing to support the event.”

Returning fair events include the Maryland High School Rodeo; mounted shooters; 4-H and FFA competitions; livestock shows; watermelon, pie and hot wing eating contests; petting farm; duck races; car shows; music; vendors; and fireworks on Friday.

Exciting new additions include the return of amusement rides and music from Jimmy Charles on Friday evening.

Iran’s state Mehr has purported to release video of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei for the ‘first time’ since the start of the war, and since he was wounded in a US-Israeli airstrike in the opening days of the attacks of over five months ago. The state-released footage is titled “First Images of the Leader” – and shows the Ayatollah addressing students, after months of speculation over his status, or whether he is even alive. He has not been seen or heard from directly since the war began, amid conflicting reports and accounts. The video has no date or location given. It appears to be in response to recent Israeli media reports alleging his deteriorating health.

However, analysts – as well as social media users in Iran – were quick to identify the footage as old material from his past lectures in Qom. This has in turn resulted in accusations of a cover-up, and that Tehran is in damage control concerning his status. For example, one hawkish US-based think tank researcher and pundit, Jason Brodsky, has commented on the released footage as follows:

This footage is old, from before the war. It was first circulating in March. It’s telling Iran’s regime’s Mehr News feels the need to circulate old video of Mojtaba.

Foreign press reports, including Russian and Chinese state channels, have been reporting the footage soon on the heels of Iranian state media circulating it…

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How are dead Democrats supposed to produce an ID to vote?

Dimwit Kamala Harris, likely the densest candidate to ever run for president, a woman who struggled to complete full sentences without some nonsensical rambling diatribe, spoke out against the SAVE Act on Friday.

Unfortunately, she thought it was a good idea to post her thoughts on social media.
Big mistake.

She obviously is unaware of her limitations.

On Friday, Kamala Harris warned Americans that the SAVE America Act will force people to prove who they are to vote!
The horror!

Kamala Harris:  This president is trying to push this SAVE Act, which basically would require that for people to register to vote, you’re gonna have to have proof of who you are through a passport, which a lot of Americans don’t have, or a birth certificate. Same point, obstacles to make it difficult for you to register to vote.

And then you got the states. 19 states have already passed laws to make it more difficult to vote, and the ones that that haven’t passed a law are doing it in practice in many places around our country. Why? ‘Cause they’re scared of you. They are scared of your power, the power you have, the power of your voice through your vote.

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Duke University Law School is being credibly accused of discriminating against white and Asian students in admissions and the Trump DOJ is already investigating.

The Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon put out a brutal press release, which we have included below.

First, the basic facts, from The Hill:

DOJ accuses Duke Law of racial discrimination against white, Asian applicants

The Justice Department (DOJ) concluded an investigation into Duke University School of Law, determining the school unlawfully discriminated against white and Asian applicants in admissions for three past incoming classes.

In a findings letter released Thursday, the department’s Civil Rights Division said Duke Law took racial diversity into consideration when admitting students to its 2023, 2024 and 2025 classes, violating the 2023 Supreme Court ruling that severely limited the use of race in college admissions.

“Duke Law School doesn’t get a free pass to discriminate against white and Asian students simply because it thinks it has good intentions,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said in a statement. “Using ‘diversity’ essay questions to identify preferred races for admission is still illegal discrimination based on race.”…

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The sister of the man with a lengthy rap sheet who was arrested for randomly assaulting women in Dilworth, North Carolina, has spoken out on her brother’s crimes, revealing that left-wing judges keep releasing him despite pleas from the family to “get my brother in an institution.”

In an interview, Hunt’s sister, who asked to remain anonymous, revealed that she has tried pleading with law enforcement, attorneys, and even judges to get her brother off the street before he kills somebody.

Still, he has been released every time he assaults somebody and likely will be released soon after his latest assault case.

“From what I know, his diagnoses are paranoid schizophrenia, PTSD, and bipolar disorder,” she said. She further said that Hunt had previously attacked herself and their mother, leading to calls to the police.

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The Democrat party leadership—sensing its mortal danger from a very well-organized and radicalized Islamo-socialist movement—is trying to stay afloat, claiming that the Democrat Party is a “big tent” where the socialists can find a welcome home:

But ironically, as the “big tent” expands, the number of constituencies inside the tent shrinks.

The traditional power bases of the Democrat party, the working class and minorities, are not part of the Islamo-socialist movement. Instead, the “socialist” part is comprised almost uniformly of downwardly mobile, white college-credentialed losers.

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A former United States Department of Agriculture program director was sentenced earlier this week to 24 months in prison in connection with a kickback scheme.

Kirk Perry, 62, and his nephew, Jamarea Grant, 32, of Cleveland, Ohio, conspired to bill the government nearly $400,000 for work that Grant did not actually perform.

Perry, of Lorain, Ohio, pleaded guilty April 29, 2025, before U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to conspiracy to commit money laundering, property and honest services wire fraud. His nephew, Grant, pleaded guilty on Nov. 27, 2024, to the same charge.

 “Kirk Perry brazenly abused his position of authority and betrayed the public trust by diverting hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for his own benefit,” said U.S. Attorney Pirro. “Today’s sentence makes clear that he will be required to repay the very funds he siphoned from the American taxpayer and serve a prison term for his conduct. My office will continue to pursue anyone who exploits a government role for personal gain and ensure that taxpayer money is protected from fraud and abuse.”

In addition to the 24-month prison term, Judge Kollar-Kotelly ordered Perry to serve two years of supervised release and to pay restitution of $399,319. Federal prosecutors had requested restitution and a prison term of 33 to 41 months.

“The sentence issued today reflects our commitment to thoroughly investigate fraud, waste, and abuse by those entrusted with high-level government positions. This employee not only abused his authority by ensuring a family member was hired on contracts he oversaw, but he also devised a scheme ultimately to direct these monies to himself,” said Special Agent in Charge Jeldrys Lowry of the USDA OIG Sensitive Investigations Office. “Uncovering fraud requires diligent review and the USDA OIG will relentlessly pursue these illicit schemes ensuring taxpayer dollars are safeguarded. We are grateful to our partners at the USAO for their support in bringing this investigation to its culmination.”

Incumbent Rick Meehan, left, and Council President Matt James will both seek the mayoral seat in this fall’s municipal election.

Churchill Downs discloses plan in federal filing, says no timetable established

The Wicomico County Solid Waste Division is pleased to announce that the finishing touches are being made at our Hebron Convenience Center, and the station will be back open to our Residential Household Permit holders as of Wednesday August 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM. The site recently underwent a full renovation, including; full dock and bulkhead replacement, earth work, a new 24×80’ concrete base and pad, and site beautification. Our team is proud to present the finished product and we look to bringing projects like this to bear, as we prioritize other locations across the County.

If you are a regular customer of our Hebron site, please note that our waste-oil and antifreeze collection station is still being renovated at this time. If you are in need of disposal of these products, please visit our main Solid Waste Campus on Brick Kiln Road, or the next closest Convenience Center to your home. The full list of stations can be found here; at Convenience/Recycle Center Information | Wicomico County, MD – Official Website

We hope to have the Hebron waste-oil/antifreeze collection back up and running in a few weeks.

Far leftist YouTube streamer Hasan Piker called out moderate Democrats who don’t fall in line with the left’s agenda.

During a recent stream, Piker reacted to Fox News coverage of Michigan progressive Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who narrowly won his primary race.

During the stream, he called for the Democrat Party to embrace “Marxist-Leninist” ideology and said those who don’t support El-Sayed and the socialist movement should be punished.

“Notice how whenever someone comes out and says, ‘yeah, that’s actually a bad association,’ immediately it’s weaponized by the Republicans,” he said. “This is why you can’t. This is why you have to have discipline. This is why you have to abide by the party line. Okay. You can’t be out here doing that. You can’t be out here saying like, ‘oh, I’m a centrist Democrat and I think Abdul is a bridge too far.’”

Piker continued, saying “That must be punished” and “If there’s one Marxist-Leninist doctrine that the Democratic Party should deploy, it’s that. Okay, follow the party line.”

“Sure, we’ll have robust democracy, a robust democratic back and forth internally within the party. But once it’s over, once the winner is declared, no more factionalism. It’s over. Abide by the party line,” Piker added.

Piker has drawn criticism for past controversial statements he made. During a livestream after a trip to China, he said, “I got stopped by a cop who thought I was making fun of Mao Zedong, which I never would and never will.”

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