Oh, and they were reprimanded for doing that.

While Columbia covered up, and continues covering up, the Nazi leanings of its leftwing anti-Jew students and the radicals they invite on to campus to ringlead mob violence.

Columbia University is facing a new federal investigation over allegations from two janitors who claim they were unlawfully forced to scrub off swastikas spray-painted on campus before later being attacked and briefly trapped by an anti-Israel "mob" during the takeover of Hamilton Hall last spring.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal agency tasked with enforcing civil rights laws in the workplace, has opened a probe into complaints from Lester Wilson and Mario Torres, who were forced to fight their way out of Hamilton Hall nearly a year ago, The Post has confirmed.

Both men are making claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, alleging that they faced retaliatory harassment at the institution for "reporting antisemitic and racist conduct."

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Wilson and Torres, who had worked at the school for over five years, were both left injured as well as traumatized from the scourge of anti-Israel unrest that engulfed the Ivy League school and have since been unable to return to work as a result, according to the complaints they filed last October.

"Hours after President [Minouche] Shafik issued her statement [that the university had become 'unsafe for everyone'], an antisemitic mob assaulted two janitors inside Columbia's historic Hamilton Hall, calling them 'Jew-lovers,'" the two complaints for both men recalled of the Hamilton Hall takeover in April last year.

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It all began around November 2023, shortly after the bloody Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel sparked a war. Racist and antisemitic graffiti started to pop up, scrawled all around Hamilton Hall -- and the campus's janitors were forced to clean it up.

"Mr. Wilson recognized the swastikas as symbols of white supremacy," Wilson's complaint alleges. "As an African-American man, he found the images deeply distressing. He reported them to his supervisors, who instructed him to erase the graffiti."

"No matter how many times Mr. Wilson removed the swastikas, individuals kept replacing them with more."

Wilson lost track of how many swastikas he had to scrub, but his colleague Torres, who is Latino, pegged it in the dozens and eventually reached a point where he had enough, his complaint said.

"They were so offensive, and Columbia's inaction was so frustrating, that he eventually began throwing away chalk that had been left in the classrooms so vandals would not have anything to write with," Torres' complaint alleged.

"However, Mr. Torres was reprimanded by his supervisor for doing so."

Given the fact that Columbia University requires an electronic ID to gain entrance to Hamilton Hall, which is nestled on the school's Morningside Heights campus, and the fact that the building was equipped with security feeds, the two janitors felt the authorities could've tracked down the perpetrators.

They had reported the deluge of antisemitic, sexually obscene and racist graffiti at Hamilton Hall to campus security and concluded there was "no reason to believe" Columbia University "investigated any of the incidents" that had been flagged.

In one instance, around Dec. 6, 2023, Torres and Wilson observed masked protesters storm through Hamilton Hall chanting "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and scrawling swastikas as well as other obscene graffiti in the building.

After Wilson reported that, he was told by campus security that "the trespassers and vandals were exercising their First Amendment rights" and that "nothing could be done," per the complaint.

A student is also filing complaints against Columbia for protecting its Hamas-promoting terrorist agent Mahmoud Khalil.

Khalil, 30, also routinely boasted in class that he headed the Students for Justice in Palestine movement at Columbia and "didn't love Jews."

He was a frequent no-show to class, which centered on Israeli politics, the student recalled. And when he did attend lectures, he disrespectfully interrupted his professor, who is Israeli.

"Everything about Israel was illegitimate; everything about Zionism was illegitimate because, in his mind, it's like a farce and a fallacy to think otherwise," she said.

And Khalil routinely "targeted" Jewish students in a WhatsApp group chat the class shared, she added.

"Once or twice a week, he would just go in [the group chat] and basically instigate crazy claims that were just very antisemitic and really inflammatory, and would get into fights with people," she said.

Reading directly from the chat, she recounted, "One day a Jewish student had said, 'I'm disturbed by the normalization of the insane amount of antisemitism spewed in this chat in the last few months. Disappointed and shameful.' To that, Mahmoud said, 'Thank you. This is exactly what some are trying to do so hard in this conversation: Conflate Judaism and Zionism, so it's easier for them to shut down any criticism of the colonial, genocidal state of Israel.'

The student said it was such erratic behavior that drove her to drop the class -- although she didn't dare confront him.

"I just didn't want to become a target of his," she said.

The student, however, anonymously filed two Title VI complaints with Columbia administrators about his antisemitic rants within the group chat -- but nothing ever came of them, she said.

John Sexton reports that the Hamas-supporting rag the New York Times whitewashed Mahmoud Khalil's radicalism, but now softly admits he supports "armed resistance," which "Israel calls terrorism."

...at a discussion sponsored by the coalition of student protesters, he remarked that whether Palestinian resistance was peaceful or armed, "Israel and their propaganda always find something to attack." He added, "They -- we -- have tried armed resistance, which is, again, legitimate under international law." But Israel calls it terrorism, he said...

Sexton also reports that colleges -- or what were once colleges -- are realizing that they have lost the support of most of the country and the left doesn't have the power to save them.

Columbia University is just the start of a long-brewing backlash. On Monday of this week the Trump administration's Department of Education put 60 schools on notice that they will lose federal funding if they don't do more to crack down on antisemitism on campus.

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Unfortunately for many of these schools, they are only now realizing that they don't have a lot of friends to take up any slack if their budgets are cut.

[NYT:]

Prestigious universities have come to find adversaries in many worlds, among the working class, among rich alumni, among highly educated progressives who find them self-regarding. "Universities are good targets for resentment," said Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University who has written about modern campus politics. "They take such enormous pride in how many people they reject.

"We at universities have not done enough over the years to pay attention to those groups -- conservative groups, religious groups -- around the country that are essential parts of a democratic culture. The isolation makes us very vulnerable."

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This is sexual assault of a minor, and it needs to be prosecuted as just that.

Audra Worlow
@audrawrongspeak

Mar 15
These school administrators marched the girls into the locker room and stood there to make sure that they undressed.

The school didn't just say "you'll lose PE credit if you don't change"

They literally marched the girls into the locker room.

Who do these women think they are?

This story is based on the claims of the violated girl's mother. However, adding to the credibility of her claims is the refusal of the school or administrators involved to comment on the claims.

Middle School Staff Forced Girls to Change in Front of Trans-Identifying Boy, Mom Says

Illinois public school administrators tried to force a 13-year-old girl to change clothes in front of a biological male, in accordance with the district's "inclusive" bathroom policy that allows transgender students to use whichever locker room corresponds with their chosen gender, the mother of the girl said at a Deerfield School District 109 School Board meeting on Thursday evening.

When Nicole Georgas's 13-year-old daughter came home from Shepard Middle School on February 5, she was frightened and upset: A boy had been in the girl's bathroom.
Georgas's daughter was told by Deerfield administrators that because the male student identified as a female, he could use the girl's locker room and bathroom, Georgas said. Although Georgas expressed to the school that the district was "in clear violation" of President Donald Trump's recent executive order that restricts males from participating in female sports and using female changing rooms, her daughter's teachers and principal reiterated that under direction from the district's legal counsel, the male student could use whichever bathroom corresponded to his chosen gender.
Then, Georgas said, "the situation went from bad to worse."

"A few days later, the male student was present in the girls locker room. Feeling violated, the girls made the choice to not change into their PE clothes with the biological male student present," Georgas said at the meeting.

Administrators then supervised the locker room to ensure that all girls were changing into their physical education clothes without protest, Georgas claimed. District 109 Assistant Superintendent for Student Services Joanna Ford, Assistant Principal Cathy Van Treese, and Director for Student Services Ginger Logemann tried to force the girls to change in front of the male student, Georgas said; when contacted, the district and administrators did not respond to National Review's requests for comment.

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According to Georgas, administrators offered to move her daughter to a different PE unit.

Georgas's school board testimony was booed on Thursday evening by a large audience of transgender activists who spoke in support of the district's bathroom policy.

MXMNews:

The controversy has drawn national attention, with critics slamming the district's actions as an egregious violation of students' rights. Former Olympian and women's rights advocate Jennifer Sey condemned the district, stating, "These school officials need to be prosecuted." Republican state Rep. Blaine Wilhour blamed Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker for emboldening "woke perverts" in the education system, citing his administration's expansion of gender ideology policies in schools.

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Before getting to that: Biden low-balled the number of invaders he allowed to swarm into the country. Plot twist.

The number of illegal invaders was double what Biden claimed.

Joe Biden's presidency oversaw an unprecedented surge in immigration, with new data revealing the scale of the influx. According to a recent op-ed by Jason Richwine at the Center for Immigration Studies, net international migration during Biden's tenure was far higher than originally reported, reaching 2.8 million in 2024 alone. The foreign-born population in the U.S. has now reached a historic 53.3 million, with illegal immigration driving much of the increase. In contrast, President Trump's policies have significantly reduced illegal border crossings.

Key Details:

The Census Bureau revised its net migration figures for 2022 and 2023 from 2 million to 4 million, with 2024 alone adding 2.8 million.

The foreign-born population has hit a record 53.3 million, up from 45 million four years ago, with nearly two-thirds of the increase attributed to illegal immigration.

Illegal border crossings have plummeted under President Trump, who reversed Biden-era policies such as catch and release and mass parole.

Diving Deeper:

Newly revised Census Bureau data has shed light on the sheer scale of immigration under former President Joe Biden. As Jason Richwine writes in his March 14, 2025, op-ed for the Center for Immigration Studies, the agency initially reported net international migration for 2022 and 2023 at a combined 2 million, only to later correct the figure to a staggering 4 million. The trend continued in 2024, with an additional 2.8 million immigrants entering the country. "This is more than double the number in any single year this century prior to Biden's taking office," Richwine points out.

The January release of the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) has offered a clearer picture of immigration's impact on the nation. Richwine highlights the findings of a new report by Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler, which confirms that the foreign-born population in the U.S. has reached a record-breaking 53.3 million, up from 45 million four years ago. "The foreign-born share of the population now stands at 15.8 percent," Richwine notes, "which eclipses the highs of the Great Wave at the turn of the 20th century." This surge has accelerated decades ahead of prior projections, as the Census Bureau previously estimated that the U.S. would not reach this level of foreign-born population until 2042.

A major driver of this increase was illegal immigration. "Camarota and Zeigler estimate that nearly two-thirds of the increase in the foreign-born population over the last four years was due to illegal immigration," Richwine explains. However, under President Trump, illegal border crossings have dropped dramatically. Richwine attributes this to Trump's swift action in reversing Biden's immigration policies, stating that "Trump reversed the Biden policies of catch and release and mass parole, secured better cooperation from Mexico, and empowered interior enforcement."

You won't be surprised to learn that the organization funding the lawfare operation against Trump, trying to block him from deporting alien invaders, is funded by George Soros.

A network of left-wing organizations with financial ties to billionaire George Soros is backing a lawsuit aimed at halting President Donald Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal alien gang members.

Key Details:

The Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport nearly 300 illegal alien gang members linked to MS-13 and Tren de Aragua to El Salvador**, where they will be held in a mega-prison under an agreement with President Nayib Bukele.

Democracy Forward, a legal group assisting in the lawsuit, has deep ties to Soros-funded organizations, including the Center for American Progress, National Immigration Law Center, UnidosUS, and Color of Change.

Despite the court order, the administration maintains that the deportations had already taken place before the ruling was issued and insists that the president has broad legal authority over foreign affairs and national security.

Diving Deeper:

In a decisive move to combat violent crime and illegal immigration, President Donald Trump utilized the Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of illegal alien gang members to El Salvador over the weekend. The effort primarily targeted MS-13 and Tren de Aragua--two international criminal organizations designated as terrorist groups by the administration. However, the policy immediately drew backlash from left-wing legal groups, leading to a lawsuit seeking to block further deportations.

The ACLU and Democracy Forward filed suit on behalf of five illegal aliens currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, claiming the Trump administration illegally applied the Alien Enemies Act. A federal judge sided with the plaintiffs and issued an order to halt the deportations. However, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed claims that the administration violated the ruling, emphasizing that the order was issued after the deportation flights had already taken off.

The legal battle has exposed the deep financial connections between Soros-backed entities and groups opposing Trump's border security agenda. Democracy Forward, one of the key organizations representing the illegal aliens, has received extensive funding from the Open Society Foundation, which is chaired by Alexander Soros, the son of George Soros. The foundation has poured millions into organizations like the Center for American Progress, widely regarded as the policy arm of the Democrat Party, as well as other activist groups pushing for open borders policies.

In 2023 alone, the Open Society Foundation provided nearly $4 million in grant funding to the Center for American Progress, along with millions more to the National Immigration Law Center, UnidosUS, and Common Justice--all of which are aligned with Democracy Forward. The lawsuit represents another coordinated legal assault on Trump's immigration enforcement efforts, with Soros-linked groups playing a central role in undermining the administration's push to secure the border and combat criminal organizations.

Below, someone asked the Fort Myers, FL, city council to authorize police cooperation with ICE in situations where they've arrested a criminal for a specific crime and then discover he's also an illegal alien. He may have mentioned that Fort Myers risks all federal funding for refusing to talk to ICE at all.

The city council members responded by crying.

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Trump knows that any Democrat would do this to himself and his family. For crying out loud, Biden refused him Secret Service protection for as long as he could when Trump was the frontrunning candidate for president. And then he took protection away from Trump to task it with protecting Jill Biden who, we can now say, is not a doctor at all.

Trump pointed out that Hunter is currently in South Africa -- a nation now on the US watch list due to its racist oppression of its white minority. What's he doing there? I can only assume he's doing what he's done all his adult life, attempting to sell political influence to a scumbag foreign country.

Trump also wants to cancel Ashley Biden's protective detail.

If Hunter feels he needs protection, he can just sell more of his watercolor artworks.

More from MXM:

Secret Service protection was an outrageous misuse of taxpayer money and confirmed he was pulling the plug.

"Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States taxpayer," Trump wrote. "There are as many as 18 people on this detail, which is ridiculous!" He then announced: "Effective immediately, Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection."

Trump also revealed that Ashley Biden had a taxpayer-funded security detail of 13 agents, which he deemed excessive. "Likewise, Ashley Biden, who has 13 agents, will be taken off the list," he stated.

The decision comes amid mounting scrutiny over Hunter Biden's continued Secret Service protection despite not holding any official government role. Reports surfaced last week that he had been staying in a luxury $500-a-night villa in Cape Town, South Africa, while flanked by federal security--just as he skipped a scheduled court deposition. Trump made it clear that the American people should not be footing the bill for Hunter's personal travel.

Trump has long pushed to limit extended Secret Service protection for non-government figures, previously revoking security for former officials such as Mike Pompeo and John Bolton. His latest move reinforces his commitment to cutting unnecessary federal spending, especially when it involves high-profile figures like Hunter Biden.

Happy Tuesday, everybody. I hope that you're all having a great days and that if you're in a storm-stricken area, I hope they've got the power back on and your basements aren't overly-flooded.

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Hamas raped women, slaughtered babies, took hostages and violated their promises to return the hostages.

I'm just waiting for Regime Media to explain to me that Israel is the bad actor here.

Israel ends ceasefire, strikes Gaza after Hamas refuses to return hostages

Israel resumed military operations against Hamas in Gaza after the terror group refused multiple hostage deal offers. At least 326 Palestinians were killed in the strikes as Israel vowed to escalate operations until all hostages are freed.

Key Details:

Israeli jets bombed Hamas targets after ceasefire collapsed due to Hamas' rejection of a hostage deal.

Defense Minister Israel Katz warned of intensified military action if Hamas does not release hostages.

The Israeli military targeted Hamas commanders and infrastructure in preemptive strikes.

Hamas accused Israel of war crimes and called for international intervention.

Netanyahu reaffirmed that Israel will not stop until Hamas is destroyed and all hostages return home.

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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz justified the attacks, stating they were necessary to achieve the war's objectives. "This decision comes after Hamas repeatedly refused to release our hostages and rejected all proposals presented by U.S. President's envoy, Steve Witkoff, as well as the mediators," Katz's office wrote in a letter.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency, confirmed they had begun striking Hamas targets "under the direction of the political echelon." Israeli forces launched a series of preemptive strikes aimed at mid-ranking military commanders, leadership officials, and terror infrastructure. The operation is expected to escalate beyond airstrikes and into further military action.

Israeli officials said dozens of targets were chosen based on Hamas' readiness to execute future attacks. Additionally, authorities decided to keep schools in the Gaza Envelope closed due to security concerns.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office reiterated that Hamas had rejected all offers, including one mediated by Trump administration envoy Steve Witkoff. "Tonight, we returned to fighting in Gaza due to Hamas' refusal to release the hostages and threats to harm IDF soldiers and Israeli communities," Katz stated. "If Hamas does not release all the hostages, the gates of hell will open in Gaza."

To hell with Gaza and all of its terrorists.

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The Houthis have been around since the 1990s, when they emerged as just another lunatic Shia terrorist organization. Oh sure... they were nominally a political movement that was anti-Saudi, and of course anti-American, but let us face reality. Every Muslim freedom movement or revolutionary movement devolves into terrorism.

Here is their official slogan. Seriously:

God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse be upon the Jews, Victory to Islam

They are a garden variety terrorist group, but with a twist. They are closely aligned with Iran, and receive a huge amount of aid from that paragon of international cooperation. Primarily weapons, which is why this group of 7th century maniacs can threaten shipping at the Red Sea choke point south of the Suez Canal, and shoot missiles at Saudi Arabia. If it weren't for that twist of geography, the Houthis would be scrabbling in the dust like everyone else in Yemen, and we would never have heard of them.

President Trump's statement

The Houthi attack on American vessels will not be tolerated. We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective. The Houthis have choked off shipping in one of the most important Waterways of the World, grinding vast swaths of Global Commerce to a halt, and attacking the core principle of Freedom of Navigation upon which International Trade and Commerce depends.

Our brave Warfighters are right now carrying out aerial attacks on the terrorists' bases, leaders, and missile defenses to protect American shipping, air, and naval assets, and to restore Navigational Freedom. No terrorist force will stop American commercial and naval vessels from freely sailing the Waterways of the World.

But the vast majority of the commercial ships threatened by the Houthi terrorists are not involved in American trade. Much of our shipping is across the Pacific. So why is there not a commanding presence of European navies (stop laughing!) and perhaps the Indian Navy and Australian Navy and Japanese Navy and others busily pounding the Houthi military infrastructure into dust? Hell... what about the Saudis, who love to spend their petrodollars on high-tech weaponry, but are conspicuously absent, or on the losing end of the battle when it comes to using those toys! Yeah, the Houthis have smacked the Saudis around.

President Trump ran on a platform of no new wars, and a renewed focus on America. He is pursuing that platform with vigor, so why are we once again front-and-center in a fight that, while it does involve us, is best conducted by others?

Of course the damage being done to the Houthis is also hurting Iran, and that is an unalloyed good thing. Iran is in difficult economic straits, with inflation running at a reported 50%, demonstrations across the country, a depreciating currency, and all of their proxies getting the snot knocked out of them! Will Iran be able to resupply them with new weapons and more cash? Probably not, especially since they are very worried about an Israeli strike on their nuclear facilities, and must rebuild their destroyed air defenses.

If the long game is the destruction of the current regime in Iran, then the attacks on the Houthis make more sense. But... Europe and others still need to be involved, so at a minimum, they begin to understand that the Pax Americana that has allowed them to spend their money on themselves rather than a common defense has closed up shop.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X]

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Good morning kids. As the saying goes, when your enemy is making a mistake, never interrupt him. I find it deliciously ironic that of all people (at least on paper) Chuck Schumer is cancelling a book tour because of a leftist backlash for his support of the Trump-backed CR.

As a side note, the book is about anti-Semitism, disgustingly ironic considering the fact that despite his lineage, this self-gassing momzer, vontz, apostate has aligned himself with a party that is openly and brazenly anti-Semitic (and anti-Christian) given the events here and in Israel since October 7 2023 and the reactions of him and his party. And that is only recent history.

But that said, the vitriol and venom shrieked at him from his own side is quite enjoyable, as it certainly is one indicator that he and his party are tearing themselves apart at the mere mention of the name of Donald Trump. And if a Molotov cocktail lit with a Democrat-funded (not for long!) men's room tampon fuse should set his limo on fire, or a pre-positioned George Soros brick put a new part in his hair transplants, I won't exactly shed a tear as he and his ilk brought it upon themselves.

Despite what you may be reading and hearing in the Leftist Propaganda house organs, Trump's approval, both personal and most crucially agenda-wise are skyrocketing as the Democrats' have now dug their way clear through the Earth's core to the other side of the planet by continuing to embrace everything that normal Americans reject and are revolted by. Again, deliciously ironic for him to fear his own terror goon squads that were unleashed on America during the summer of love 2020 edition to destabilize the upcoming election and provide yet another smokescreen/excuse with the COVID lockdowns and evisceration of election security that helped the Dems steal that election. (And is COVID 2 Bird Flu boogaloo being prepped by the Deep State to take us and Trump down yet again?!)

So as Schemer cowers in fear, he and his coven of scum, criminals, degenerates and thugs continue to go all out in support of Muslim terrorists (BIRM) and criminal illegal aliens while normal people are revolted. Yup, keep raping that chicken Chucky, all the way through to the midterms and then the 16 years of J.D. Vance and his running mate.

Despite Schumer's fears, I very much doubt he'd be in favor of Kash Patel and Pam Bondi going after Antifa, BLM, ELF, Mecha, La Raza, CCAIR, Sharpton's NAN, the Black Panthers and every other official/unoffical Democrat-Leftist domestic terror organization.

Personally, I think Soros' "Open Societies" funds most if not all of these bastards and needs to be RICO'd the hell out of existence and all of his assets confiscated. And how about going after the ACLU and SPLC while we're at it?! They're the ones who conspired with this hack-in-back Boasberg to block Trump's deportation of the Tren de Aragua illegal alien animals.

Donald Trump is demonstrating a skill at backing his opponents into corners that he didn’t show in his first term. 
Of course, it helps that his enemies are, unaccountably, cooperating.
One of Trump’s best moves has been, repeatedly, to get the Democrats to take the “20%” side on the so-called “80/20 issues.” (To be fair, sometimes they’re more like 70/30 issues, but close enough.) One reason he’s been able to do this is that Democrats reflexively oppose anything he does.

So when Trump promises to cut spending sharply and reduce the debt, Democrats go all-in against it, even though it’s something a huge majority of Americans support. 
Agitating to continue waste, fraud and abuse — especially when there are truly glaring examples of it — is a bad look. But it was just the start.
Billions for USAID: An 80/20 issue. Dems took the 20% side. 
Keeping boys out of girls’ sports: Another 80/20 issue, Dems took the 20% side. 
Closing the border, energy independence, supporting Israel, deporting dangerous aliens, on and on. 
Trump has the Democrats jumping to defend basically every issue that a Democratic strategist of 20 years ago, or maybe even 10 years ago, would have told them to avoid like the plague.
Heck, while Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) was performatively trading in his Tesla for a gas-guzzling Tahoe SUV, Democrats’ new bete noir Elon Musk was rescuing Kelly’s fellow astronauts stranded on the International Space Station. (You can tell this dramatic space rescue is a good look for Trump and Musk and a bad one for the Democrats by the non-coverage it’s received in the mainstream media.)
As a consequence, Democrats have hit a new all-time low in approval ratings, while Trump’s approval is up, and the most Americans since 2004 say the country is on the right track.
Now Trump is drawing out the nation’s partisan district judges, causing them to overextend themselves in ways that will cost them — and the judiciary itself — a lot.
Lower-level federal judges have been issuing orders against the administration, purporting to block Trump-ordered spending cuts, halt layoffs of government employees and more.
In the latest incident, Chief Judge James Boasberg of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Saturday tried to block Trump’s deportation of more than 250 illegal aliens tied to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, a federally designated foreign terrorist organization.
Trump was relying on the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a venerable statute that allows the president to order the deportation of “alien enemies” in times of war, invasion, incursion or threat thereof. 
Trump’s deportation order declared that Tren de Aragua members were specifically exported here by the hostile Venezuelan government, as he placed them on airplanes and sent them to points south.
Though the law dates back to the 18th century, it has been employed regularly in modern times. A 1948 Supreme Court case, Ludecke v. Watkins, interpreted presidential authority under the law very broadly, holding that it precluded judicial review of the removals.  
Judge Boasberg is obviously inclined to disagree.
Boasberg’s ruling is part of a wide-ranging legal resistance effort, mostly organized by various left-leaning legal groups that engage in “judge shopping” to get anti-Trump decisions out of friendly district jurists. 
But in doing so, they, like the Democrats, may be playing into Trump’s hands.

Elsewhere, Israel seems to have had enough, vis a vis trading live terrorists for dead mutilated Jews. And Trump also seems to be signaling, with his retaliatory attacks on the Houthis as a warning to Iran. It might also be a green light for Bibi to strike at them before they can go nuclear.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know. 

Have a great day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• A new wave of violence is just beginning, mark my words. It won't be days of rage but weeks, months, and probably years of it.
  RAW EGG NATIONALIST: How to prep for another period of violent radicalism in America
  
• Robert Spencer: What if it was insidious and intentional?
  Journo Bumps Trump with Boom Mic — What Was That All About?
  
• Glenn Reynolds: One of Trump’s best moves has been, repeatedly, to get the Democrats to take the “20%” side on the so-called “80/20 issues.” (To be fair, sometimes they’re more like 70/30 issues, but close enough.) 
  Federal judges’ Trump hate is only harming the courts themselves
  
• America needs tariffs to reshore our factories and revive the American Dream.
  How Tariffs Will Lower the Cost of Living

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• The top broadband official at the Commerce Department has stormed off in a minute and a huff. (Politico)
  
  Evan Feinman resigned and fled the building in the middle of a spittle-flecked rant about the horrors of Elon Musk and the damage cheap, fast, reliable internet will cause to rural communities.
  
  Under the Biden administration, Feinman was the senior official in charge of a $42.5 billion nationwide rural broadband fund that connected - I am not making this up - precisely zero people.

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Howdy to all ye Hordeluns, and a Happy St. Patty's Day to ya! If yas aint drunk yet, we'll try to fix that for ya. Step inside the O'EnnTee - but watch out for pinchin' if ya don't has any green on ya!

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What are we going to do about the Baby Hippo Crisis?

Corgis are potato-shaped babies.

Another dog enjoying the playground.

Cone Bros.

A dog raised by cats has a feline personality.

A woman made a shelter for unhoused cats.

Cat brings her kitten to lay with the human baby.

Capybaras enjoy their luxurious spa.

When you see your chance, take it.

An okapi, or "forest giraffe." Looks like a mix of three different animals.

The okapi, often called the "forest giraffe" or "zebra giraffe," is frequently mistaken for a cross between a zebra and a giraffe, but it's actually the only living relative of the giraffe

Dog enjoys a toy.

Little dog tries to herd big birds.

Rescuing a poor sweet dog abandoned by its owners in the middle of a storm.

All great public works and innovations are powered by, at root, beaver.

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Homeland Security
@DHSgov

Last month, Rasha Alawieh traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, to attend the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah-- a brutal terrorist who led Hezbollah, responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade terror spree. Alawieh openly admitted to this to CBP officers, as well as her support of Nasrallah.

A visa is a privilege not a right--glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied. This is commonsense security.

The NYT:

The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that it had deported a Brown University professor and doctor with a valid visa because they said she attended a Hezbollah leader's funeral in February during a trip to Lebanon.

When questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers upon her return to the United States, Dr. Rasha Alawieh, who is Lebanese, "openly admitted" her support for the leader, Hassan Nasrallah, according to a Homeland Security spokeswoman. Dr. Alawieh was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday.

"A visa is a privilege not a right," the spokeswoman, Tricia McLaughlin, said in a statement to The New York Times. "Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied. This is common-sense security."

The department did not say how it knew that Dr. Alawieh had attended the funeral, which was held in a sports stadium and attracted tens of thousands of people. It also did not respond to questions about whether Dr. Alawieh has been accused of a crime or immigration violation.

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Late on Sunday, a team of lawyers from the firm of Arnold & Porter, who had been set to represent the family, withdrew from the case, telling the court their decision was made "as a result of further diligence."

The federal judge overseeing the case decided to postpone a hearing in the case on Monday after Ms. Marzouk requested more time to prepare. She represents Dr. Alawieh's cousin, Yara Chehab, who brought the case first to try to stop the government from deporting Dr. Alawieh, and then to seek her return to the United States.

Whoopi Goldberg is sad that her terrorist and rapist illegal alien pals are afraid of being deported.

President Donald Trump's administration deported over 200 of gang members part of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua and several members of MS-13 to El Salvador and Honduras on Saturday, which sparked backlash as a judge issued a last-minute order attempting to block the deportations. Goldberg warned that the Trump administration could randomly choose any American to be deported to a country they are not familiar with, though that would be a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution.

"If they can just come up and take somebody because they've made a decision that you're supposed to be that person, anyone of us could find ourselves being deported to some country we've never been," Goldberg said. "Well you know, it is very clear to me that if we don't continue to say, listen, I understand you want to clean out all the bad stuff, I get it. But why do you now have access to my personal information? I get the things you're trying to do, I don't get why you're taking my stuff, not just me personally, but every single one of you and your constitutional right of free speech."

Bonus: A judge hit large-cootered donut wagon Fani Willis with a big fine for hiding subpoenaed documents about her affair with Sweetdick.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been slapped with a $54,000 penalty for blatantly violating Georgia's open records laws in her politically motivated prosecution of President Donald Trump.

"The county's Superior Court Judge Rachel Krause formalized her ruling Friday and ordered Willis to pay $54,264 in attorneys' fees and litigation costs after 'intentionally' failing to provide records requested by Ashleigh Merchant, the attorney who filed the motion to disqualify Willis from prosecuting Trump on charges of allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election," reports Fox News Digital.

Krause stated that Willis' office failed to provide documents related to the employment of Nathan Wade, the former special assistant district attorney forced to resign from the Trump case due to his romantic relationship with Willis.

Merchant believed that Willis and Wade may have financially benefited from Wade's appointment as the special prosecutor in the case.

"Defendants -- through the Open Records custodian, Dexter Bond -- were openly hostile to counsel for Plaintiff, Ms. Merchant, and testified that Ms. Merchant's requests were handled differently than other requests," the court order said.

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A new NBC poll shows Trump with the highest approval ever and a party almost completely united behind him.

Check out how they spin that finding:

Poll: Trump faces early challenges on the economy as a united GOP backs big change

A new NBC News poll shows Trump with a job approval rating as high as he's ever had. But doubts loom in voters' minds, especially over the economy and government cuts.

How will Trump handle the "challenge" of record popularity?

Voters are starting 2025 sour on the state of the economy and President Donald Trump's handling of it so far, even as his election to a second term sparked an upswing in positive feelings about the direction of the nation, according to a new national NBC News poll.

So what they're trying to avoid stating clearly is that voters had had a terrible impression of the economy and the nation's direction under Biden, and now, under Trump, they are much more positive about the economy and the direction of the country. NBC wants to emphasize that the public still has doubts -- not that the public's mood has shifted much more positive than it had been.

Buoyed by jubilant and unified Republicans, who are standing in lockstep with Trump and the expansive agenda he and congressional leaders are pushing in Washington, more registered voters see the U.S. as heading in the right direction than at any point since early 2004, though a majority still say the country is on the wrong track. Trump's approval rating also equals his best-ever mark as president (47%), though again, a majority (51%) disapproves of his performance.

Remember, this is a #Rigged NBC poll of the NPR editors and fading celebrities with multiple transgender children. The numbers may be a touch off.

Meanwhile, driven in part by a pessimistic shift among Democrats since Trump's election, just 18% of voters rate the economy as "excellent" or "good" -- not as low as the poorest economic marks during the Biden administration, according to CNBC polling from 2022, but within a handful of points and as low as that mark has been in NBC News polling since 2014. Majorities of voters disapprove of Trump's early job performance on the economy (54% disapprove, 44% approve) and how he's handling inflation and the cost of living (55% disapprove, 42% approve).

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Overall, the poll reflects an America that remains deeply divided in the months following Trump's 2024 victory, as it was in the months before.

The liberal media rule is that if any liberal is unsatisfied with a Republican, the public is "deeply divided."

Biden, on the other hand, was popular, until the media pressured him to drop out.

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In another change from Trump's first term in the White House, the public has come around on his deportation-focused immigration policies, though voters are wary of his handling of other issues, including foreign policy.

Voters like the general idea of the Department of Government Efficiency, the Trump-blessed effort to slash government jobs and spending. But they harbor reservations about its rapid-fire execution so far, as well as about billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk, DOGE's de facto head.

And voters are split evenly on which party they'd like to see win the 2026 midterm elections, even as the Democratic Party faces record-low popularity and fractious divides over how to respond to Trump. (The survey was conducted March 7-11, before Senate Democrats provided a handful of votes to help resolve a government funding fight.)

"While this survey shows a mixed result for Donald Trump, Democrats are the ones in the wilderness right now," said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies. Horwitt called Trump's upside-down numbers among independents "a flashing red light across the survey."

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Trump's job approval rating (47%) and personal favorable rating (46%), along with the 44% who believe the country is on the right track, are at all-time highs in NBC News polling during his political career.

But they are also far below where previous presidents stood during the "honeymoon period" of new administrations, marking the polarization that has defined the Trump years. Slightly more disapprove of Trump's job performance (51%) and view him personally negatively (49%), and 54% see the country as on the wrong track.

Yes, because the Demented Usurprer Biden drove the country into a ditch and it's taking time to get ourselves out of it.

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When it comes to the issues, Trump fares particularly well on immigration. Fifty-five percent of voters approve of his handling of border security and immigration, while 43% disapprove. A similar share, 56%, say he's bringing the "right kind of change" on the issue, while 25% say he's bringing the wrong change and 18% say he isn't bringing change.

But that's the only one of the five issues tested in the poll -- border security and immigration, foreign policy, the economy, inflation and cost of living, and the war between Russia and Ukraine -- that sees a majority of American voters approve of how Trump is handling it.

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Just 1% rate the economy as "excellent" and 17% as "good," with 39% calling it "only fair" and 43% rating it "poor." While Republicans are more likely to have favorable views of the economy than others, majorities across virtually every demographic still view the economy in an unfavorable light.

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The NBC News poll also gauged voters' feelings on what kind of change Trump is bringing as president, with 40% saying he's bringing the right kind of change to inflation and the cost of living, while 30% say he's bringing the wrong change and 28% say he isn't bringing change.

On trade and tariffs, 41% say he's bringing the right change, 38% say the wrong change and 18% say he is not bringing change.

Overall, 46% said Trump is bringing the right kind of change, 30% said he's bringing the wrong kind of change, and 21% said he's not bringing change.

A CNN poll finds that the Democrat Party is more unpopular than it has ever been in their polling history.

The Democratic Party's favorability rating among Americans stands at a record low, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, fueled in part by dimming views from its own frustrated supporters.

With many in the party saying publicly that their leaders should do more to stand up to President Donald Trump, Democrats and Democratic-aligned independents say, 57% to 42%, that Democrats should mainly work to stop the Republican agenda, rather than working with the GOP majority to get some Democratic ideas into legislation.

The survey was taken March 6-9, days before 10 Democratic senators -- including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer -- voted with Republicans in the chamber to advance a GOP-authored spending bill to avert a government shutdown, much to the chagrin of many other Democratic lawmakers and progressive critics.

Democrats view their own party unfavorably:

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Democratic-aligned adults say, 52% to 48%, that the leadership of the Democratic Party is currently taking the party in the wrong direction. That's another shift from eight years ago, when views on this metric were largely positive.

Among the American public overall, the Democratic Party's favorability rating stands at just 29% -- a record low in CNN's polling dating back to 1992 and a drop of 20 points since January 2021, when Trump exited his first term under the shadow of the January 6 attack at on Capitol. The Republican Party's rating currently stands at 36%.

That's driven in part by relatively high levels of dissatisfaction within the Democratic Party. Just 63% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents report a favorable view of their own party, a dip from 72% in January and 81% at the start of President Joe Biden's administration. The decline comes across ideological wings, with favorability ratings for the Democratic Party falling by 18 points among liberals and moderates alike since the start of 2021.

The public no longer believes the Democrat Party is "mainstream."

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Both the Democratic and the Republican parties are viewed by about half the public as having views and policies that are too extreme, rather than generally mainstream. That's a change from 2022, when most Americans -- 56% -- called the Democratic Party's positions mainstream. Views of the GOP have remained effectively unchanged over that time.

Democrats don't like any of their possible candidates:

Democrats, who overwhelmingly consider Trump too extreme, have yet to consolidate around any one-party leader to serve as a counterpoint. Asked in an open-ended question to name the Democratic leader they feel "best reflects the core values" of the party, 10% of Democratic-aligned adults name New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 9% former vice president Kamala Harris, 8% Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and 6% House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Another 4% each name former president Barack Obama and Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, with Schumer joining a handful of others at 2%.

More than 30% didn't offer a name in response. "No one," one respondent answered. "That's the problem."

Democrats are particularly angry at Cuck Schumer for suggesting he was going to fight the CR before cucking out like a closet cuck. They're so angry, in fact, that Schumer has cancelled his book tour -- he's afraid of protests and difficult questions, but is also, he says, afraid that some of his leftwing supporters might try to physically attack him.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has canceled book tour events this week because of security concerns amid a backlash over his support for a Republican bill to prevent a government shutdown last week.

As a commenter said, he must be afraid of all those White Supremacists angry at him for not being more opposed to Trump.

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Event pages for several of the planned stops for Schumer's book, Antisemitism in America: A Warning, which is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, showed postponement announcements on Monday morning.

"Sen. Schumer's book tour events during the week of March 17 are being postponed for security reasons. We will work to reschedule this event at a later date," reads the page for an event planned to be held Wednesday at Sixth & I, a synagogue in Washington, D.C.

There were calls to protest his speeches following his vote on the funding bill, which is also known as a continuing resolution (CR).

"PROTEST SCHUMER'S BOOK TOUR NEXT WEEK," Emma Vigeland, co-host of the left-leaning show The Majority Report, posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday while also sharing a list of events planned for this week.

Backlash against Schumer continued into Monday, as he faced growing calls from the party to step down as the Democratic Senate leader. An online petition of Democrats who would withhold party donations until he steps down had been signed nearly 25,000 times.

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MSNBC deserves Joy Reid (and she deserves MSNBC).

The story goes that she conspired with other leftwing lunatic hosts Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Nicole Wallace to stage an internal coup and stop the network from attempting to "moderate." (There is no evidence it is doing so.)

Is MSNBC racist for firing the black conspirator while keeping the white conspirators? Of course it is. #MSNBCSoWhite

EXCLUSIVE: Dumped Host Joy Reid Set to 'Scream Bloody Murder' Over Being Axed from MSNBC -- 'She Knows Where the Bodies are Buried and Is Getting Set to Torch Network to Ground!'

Joy Reid, axed from MSNBC, is reportedly preparing to reveal network secrets and cause turmoil.

An unrepentant Joy Reid is set to scream bloody murder and seek vengeance against MSNBC for canceling her show, The ReidOut, and unceremoniously kicking her out the door, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The 56-year-old anchor, who had been with MSNBC for over a decade, is said to be furious over what she sees as a backstabbing betrayal from the very network she helped build.

An MSNBC insider said: "She's livid, and she knows everything. She's ready to burn the house down."

According to sources, Reid signed her own death warrant by holding an internal summit with other anchors, including Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell and Nicolle Wallace, to unite in battle against the network's new strategy to be less left-wing biased.

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Now, sources said she's looking to roast those she believes betrayed her.

The insider warned: "MSNBC wants her to sign an NDA, but that's not going to happen. If they think they are going to silence her, they better think again."

So she's making threats, or her lawyer is making threats, to try to extract an outsized payoff. Don LeMon pulled the same scam. So did Chris Cuomo.

More from the Daily Mail: Cashew-headed conspiracy queen Rachel Maddow has burned bridges with MSNBC, too.

And her ratings have plunged. Wrong time to call out the executives.

Rachel Maddow's rant at MSNBC bosses backfires spectacularly as her ratings slump

Rachel Maddow's rant at MSNBC bosses appears to have backfired spectacularly as five million viewers fled the news program in a massive 22 per cent ratings slump.

The Rachel Maddow Show dropped from 2.3 million viewers to 1.8 million viewers since the election of President Donald Trump won the election.

The star did even worse with younger viewers aged 25-54, losing 29 percent - or almost one third - of the group advertisers care about most, as reported by Fox News.

She lost a quarter of her audience, or 24 percent, in the first two months of 2025 compared to the same time last year - showing viewers are tuning out now that Joe Biden is no longer president.

Despite the overall decline, Maddow's show still managed to win its time slot last Friday and most nights last week, only losing out on Tuesday when President Trump delivered his address to the joint session of Congress.

This ratings disaster comes after Maddow had an angry meltdown with network bosses over the ousting of Joy Reid and other 'non-white' hosts.

The $25 million a year host erupted at MSNBC's new boss Rebecca Kutler live on air, saying it was 'disturbing' that 'non-white hosts in primetime were losing their shows.'

Katie Phang, who is Asian American and Jonathan Capehart, who is black, lost their primetime shows too.

Both will remain at the network, but in less high-profile roles.

Influential media newsletter Puck highlighted how Maddow's own enormous salary could help expand MSNBC's ranks considerably.

The network is laying off 125 producers- many of whom work on Maddow's show - but will rehire 110 of them.

Her program, The Rachel Maddow Show, typically reaches around 2.1 million viewers a night.

Maddow struck a $25 million a year deal which only saw her required to host one show a week, on Monday night.

She agreed to take a $5 million pay cut last year, lowering her massive salary from $30 million to $25 million - which would still equal to the combined earnings of at least 250 production staff who make each of her evening shows possible.

She agreed to cover the first 100 days of the Trump presidency after he won his second term in office and will return to her one shift a week role in April.

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Are these the West's intelligence services, or China's?

Before getting to that, the New York Times now admits the truth: Yes, covid-19 came from the Wuhan lab.

Why did they participate in this massive lying psyop against the American people?

They didn't, they say! They were "badly misled," you see.

Now, the NYT -- and not even in its own editorial voice -- wants to play victim of The Science(R):

Since scientists first began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology -- research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world -- no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.

So, the Wuhan research was totally safe and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission: It certainly seemed like consensus.

We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratory's research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions may have been terrifyingly lax.

Ahem. "Has since emerged" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting here. As early as April 2020, those "terrifyingly lax" protocols had already come to light. We also knew at that same time that the State Department had flagged the Wuhan Institute of Virology for violating safety protocols required for the kind of gain-of-function research it was conducting as far back as 2018. We also knew that The Science(R) still had zero evidence for a natural zoonotic leap to humans to explain the outbreak epicentered in the same town as the lab:

"The idea that is was just a totally natural occurrence is circumstantial. The evidence it leaked from the lab is circumstantial. Right now, the ledger on the side of it leaking from the lab is packed with bullet points and there's almost nothing on the other side," the official said.

As my colleague David Ignatius noted, the Chinese government's original story -- that the virus emerged from a seafood market in Wuhan -- is shaky. Research by Chinese experts published in the Lancet in January showed the first known patient, identified on Dec. 1, had no connection to the market, nor did more than one-third of the cases in the first large cluster. Also, the market didn't sell bats.

And yet, the New York Times went out of its way -- as did the rest of the Protection Racket Media -- to spend years treating anyone who questioned the "consensus" around a natural zoonotic leap as either a crank, a racist, or worse. Even when hints that the intel community had its doubts about the "consensus," the media rushed to defend The Science(R) from any scrutiny whatsoever.

The Regime is abandoning the China-protecting cover story of a "wet market spillover." The lie just won't hold, and is causing the world's "intelligence" services, leftwing media, and leftwing government officials further losses of credibility they just can't afford.

So the truth is being dripped out, slowly.

They all knew, they all lied, David Strom says.

We just found out that Germany's intelligence services concluded long ago with 80-95% confidence that covid-19 was cooked up in Fauci's Wuhan branch.

Now it turns out that MI-6 always knew the truth, too.

Not only did they lie, but the "intelligence" services targeted people telling the truth for censorship, debanking, and reputation-destroying smears.

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Trump ordered the airstrikes after coming in from a round of golf:

Iran-backed terrorists and scumbag pirates in Yemen have been attacking shipping attempting to navigate the Red Sea.

The Houthi rebels attacked over 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two vessels and killing four sailors, from November 2023 until January this year. Their leadership described the attacks as aiming to end the Israeli war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The campaign also greatly raised the Houthis' profile in the wider Arab world and tamped down on public criticism against their human rights abuses and crackdowns on dissent and aid workers.

Trump, writing on his social media platform Truth Social, said his administration targeted the Houthis over their "unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence and terrorism." He noted the disruption Houthi attacks have caused through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, key waterways for energy and cargo shipments between Asia and Europe through Egypt's Suez Canal.

"We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective," Trump said.

This is important, because if the Red Sea passage becomes any more unusual, global shipping will be disrupted and made much slower and more expensive:

Under former President Joe Biden, the U.S. and the United Kingdom began a series of airstrikes against the Houthis starting in January 2024. A December report by The International Institute for Strategic Studies said the U.S. and its partners struck the Houthis over 260 times up to that point.

U.S. military officials during that period acknowledged having a far-wider target list for possible strikes. While the Biden administration didn't go too far into explaining its targeting, analysts believe officials largely were trying to avoid civilian casualties and not rekindle Yemen's stalemated war, which pits the Houthis and their allies against the country's exiled government and their local and international allies, like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The Trump administration, however, appears willing to go after more targets, based on the weekend's strikes and public remarks made by officials.

"We're doing the entire world a favor by getting rid of these guys and their ability to strike global shipping," U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told CBS News' "Face The Nation" on Sunday. "That's the mission here, and it will continue until that's carried out."

Rubio added: "Some of the key people involved in those missile launches are no longer with us, and I can tell you that some of the facilities that they used are no longer existing, and that will continue."

Israel also launched its own airstrikes on Houthi-held sites, including the port city of Hodeida, over the rebels' missile and drone attacks targeting Israel.

National Security Advisor Waltz confirmed the elimination of Houthi terror leaders.

National security adviser Mike Waltz confirmed on Sunday that U.S. airstrikes "took out" multiple Houthi leaders in attacks this weekend.

Asked how the U.S. attacks this weekend differ from strikes under the Biden administration, Waltz said those "back-and-forth" strikes "ultimately proved to be feckless attacks."

"This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple Houthi leaders and took them out," Waltz said in an interview on ABC News's "This Week."

"And the difference here is, one, going after the Houthi leadership and, two, holding Iran responsible," he continued.

Waltz stressed the negative consequences that the Houthis have had on global commerce.

"It is Iran that has repeatedly funded, resourced, trained and helped the Houthis target not only U.S. warships, but global commerce, and has helped the Houthis shut down two of the world's most strategic sea lanes," Waltz said, noting nearly three-quarters of global shipping "is now diverting around southern Africa, adding to the cost of goods, disrupting global economies, adding to -- or shutting off supplies to the United States."

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Fake Jake is big mad. He lies about the situation, claiming that Trump is asserting an unconstitutional right to cancel pardons. In fact, he's asserting that only the president has the power to pardon, and these pardons were never signed by Biden, and therefore never had any effect from the moment they were presented to public.

Jake Tapper
@jaketapper

At 12:35 am ET, the president decreed that he was nullifying President Biden's preemptive pardons of members of the January 6 committee, an assertion of a power the Constitution does not bestow.

Sean Davis
@seanmdav

Jake Tapper, who a jury declared to be fake news, didn't say a word when Biden claimed to unilaterally amend the Constitution via a tweet. I guess Tapper is also back to claiming Biden was of sound mind despite trying to sell a book absolving Democrats of lying about Biden’s mental state for years.

Trump didn't make these unsigned phony pardons void. They were born void because Biden didn't sign them.

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Trump sent a planeload of illegal alien criminals to be held in El Salvador's vibrant and diverse prisons. A federal judge decided he's the Commander in Chief now and ordered the plane to return.

Trump said "whoops, the plane's gone too far, can't call it back now, gee willickers sorry."

And the left is having a nervous breakdown.

Exclusive: How the White House ignored a judge's order to turn back deportation flights

The Trump administration says it ignored a Saturday court order to turn around two planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members because the flights were over international waters and therefore the ruling didn't apply, two senior officials tell Axios.

Why it matters: The administration's decision to defy a federal judge's order is exceedingly rare and highly controversial.

"Court order defied. First of many as I've been warning and start of true constitutional crisis," national security attorney Mark S. Zaid, a Trump critic, wrote on X, adding that Trump could ultimately get impeached.

LOL. They thirst for a constitutional crisis like they thirst for racism and "white supremacy."

The White House welcomes that fight. "This is headed to the Supreme Court. And we're going to win," a senior White House official told Axios.

A second administration official said Trump was not defying the judge whose ruling came too late for the planes to change course: "Very important that people understand we are not actively defying court orders."

State of play: Trump's advisers contend U.S. District Judge James Boasberg overstepped his authority by issuing an order that blocked the president from deporting about 250 alleged Tren de Aragua gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1789.

The war-time law gives the executive extreme immense power to deport noncitizens without a judicial hearing. But it has been little-used, particularly in peacetime.

"It's the showdown that was always going to happen between the two branches of government," a senior White House official said. "And it seemed that this was pretty clean. You have Venezuelan gang members ... These are bad guys, as the president would say."

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"There was a discussion about how far the judge's ruling can go under the circumstances and over international waters and, on advice of counsel, we proceeded with deporting these thugs," the senior official said.

"They were already outside of US airspace. We believe the order is not applicable," a second senior administration official told Axios.

More from Fox: Karoline Leavitt blasted the judge for attempting to encroach on the president's sole power to conduct foreign policy.

"The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist [Tren de Aragua] aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory," Leavitt said. "The written order and the Administration's actions do not conflict."

"Moreover, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear -- federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President's conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion," Leavitt added. "A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrier full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil."

On Sunday, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele responded to Boasberg's order by joking, "Oopsie... too late," in an X post. He also shared footage of heavily-armed Salvadorean authorities escorting the alleged gang members off the planes, shaving their heads and rounding them up in their prison cells.

A total of 261 illegal aliens were deported from the U.S. to El Salvador yesterday -- 137 of which were through the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, 101 others were Venezuelans removed via Title 8 and another 21 were Salvadoran MS-13 gang members. Two others were MS-13 ringleaders and "special cases" for El Salvador.

A senior Trump administration official confirmed the numbers to Fox News on Sunday, explaining that the migrants' alleged crimes included kidnapping, sexual abuse of a child, aggravated assault, prostitution, robbery and aggravated assault of a police officer.

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Most of the legacy media had a terrible left-wing bias my entire adult life, with one very prominent exception – the Wall Street Journal. Upon my graduation from college in the 1980s, I subscribed to the WSJ. It was not only a valuable resource on all matters related to business and economics, but it also reported politics and other news with a commitment to journalistic impartiality. And most importantly, its editorial page was an oasis of conservative thought.

As we rolled into the 21st Century, the journalistic controls lapsed, and the reporting started to mirror the left-wing propaganda you could find in the New York Times. When the Trump era rolled around, the editorial page announced its obsolescence by becoming an unhinged haven for NeverTrumpism. Whether it was shilling for overseas wars, or acting as a leading voice for the uniparty, every page of the WSJ was now aligned with the Washington morass.

When I canceled my Wall Street Journal subscription in 2016 it carried an emotional punch. It was like terminating a long-time friendship with a person who had once been so important in your life.

The substack of former commodities trader Jeffrey Carter (@pointsnfigures1 on Twitter) is a must read for me, as he is always informative and educational. Last month he wrote about his decision to cancel his Wall Street Journal subscription.

In his substack, Mr. Carter writes not only of the WSJ’s wokeness and anti-Trump bias…

I have been reading the WSJ daily since I entered college in 1980. That’s 45 years of reading one paper. The WSJ used to be very good. It still has some good writers. However, much of the paper has lost its objectivity. It’s either gone woke, or the Trump Derangement Syndrome of the writer is so bad it is impossible to get decent information.

…but also about how it is incapable of even engaging in traditional journalism on non-political subjects.

I don’t want to know the stuff about Palantir that I can find using a simple web search. I want to know why Palantir does what it does, what kind of people it hires, and what kind of corporate culture it has. I want insights I can’t get from numbers. The same goes for any other company.

Most disturbing, the Wall Street Journal has become a propaganda outfit staffed by politically indoctrinated zealots.

The younger writers weren’t taught journalism in Journalism School. They were taught indoctrination, which is how they write. They are also kind of dumb when it comes to understanding how businesses operate.

There was one other publication in the ‘80s and ‘90s that I valued as much as the Wall Street Journal, and my act of canceling that subscription also felt like breaking up with an old friend. That magazine was Forbes. Under editor James Michaels, its journalists could condense so much “what, why, and how” into less than 1,000 words, and it had a right-of-center leaning. I was such a fan that I supported Steve Forbes in the 1996 presidential primaries. After Mr. Michaels retired in 1999 and the magazine went primarily digital, it became an unfocused mess that leaned hard to the left.

Forbes is now dead to me, as is The Wall Street Journal. The digital publications now carrying their names are a disgrace to those once-great journalistic institutions.

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