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Comedian D.L. Hughley said black Philadelphia Eagles players who visited President Trump at the White House are obviously the type of men who do not care about issues that affect other black people.

Hughley launched attacks at the president and called him a racist who is “eroding black history” and rolling black people back to a point of being “nonexistent.”

The Philadelphia Eagles recently visited the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl win in February, and media members and commentators were quick to attack running back Saquon Barkley for golfing with the president ahead of the visit.

Hughley, while speaking to TMZ, rejected the idea that the event was a historical formality and criticized Barkley and other Eagles players for honoring a president “who assaults black people” and “insults [black] history on a daily basis.”

“I think that it’s not just political. What Donald Trump has done and is doing to black history is unsavory and is undeniable. Donald Trump is deliberately trying to erase black people’s history, for whatever quest.”

‘He seems like the type of guy who would do that and be indifferent to what’s happening to black people.’

Hughley then launched into a diatribe and claimed he is able to tell that certain black people, simply by observing them, are the type of people who do not care about other black people.

“Any black man that [goes to the White House] is going to obviously catch some level of heat. When a black person does it, when it’s a black person, I can always tell what kind of black person. I can always tell what they are.”

Hughley continued and claimed that Barkley had a white girlfriend who used the “N-word” in reference to a song, which served as evidence for him that he is the “kind of guy that is indifferent to what black people go through.”

“It’s just true,” Hughley continued. “And I think I’ve noticed that to be consistent with a lot of black people who show up [to Trump events]. So to me, he seems like the type of guy who would do that and be indifferent to what’s happening to black people.”

TMZ’s Harvey Levin challenged Hughley, saying that in his experience, the president is willing to listen to “the last person in the room” and said surely it is worth it to try to have a conversation with the president on policy rather than not engage him due to his perceived beliefs.

“If you’re just out of the game, good luck to you for the next four years,” Levin said.

Hughley persisted, though, and said Trump has a “lack of respect for black people” and draws in black people like Barkley.

Barkley recently responded to criticisms by saying, “Maybe I just respect the office,” and that he had also recently golfed with President Barack Obama, proving his impartiality on the matter.

However, those remarks sparked even more backlash, particularly from Philadelphia-area sports writer Les Bowen, who took to his X account to say Barkley did not grasp the politics he was getting himself involved in.

“Saquon is a good person & a wonderful player. It’s tricky when people in sports, with huge platforms & good intentions, blunder into stuff they don’t fully grasp,” Bowen wrote. “To me, this is ‘Reggie White at the Wisconsin legislature’ level cluelessness. Not a bad guy, but out of his depth.”

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One of the nation’s largest day-care providers, KinderCare, is not the rosy, child-friendly company it purports to be — and independent investigative journalist Edwin Dorsey has the receipts.

“One thing that I’m very good at is using FOIA, the Freedom of Information Act, to get copies of complaints people are sending to regulators. So one common thing I’ll do in my research is I’ll go to the FTC, and see what complaints people are submitting to the FTC, and go to local state attorney offices and see what complaints people are submitting to state AGs,” Dorsey tells Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”

When he did this for KinderCare, he found that the company has “a lot of child safety issues.”

“And not the type of stuff you’d normally expect, where maybe a kid fights with another kid or somebody has allergies. There was issues where kids were escaping from the KinderCare locations, kids were getting locked in rooms with no supervision, kids were overdosing on drugs brought by the staff,” he tells Stuckey.

In one case, a woman dropped her child off at KinderCare, only to be called six hours later and told that her child was throwing up and needed to be picked up.

“She took him home and she knew right away something was wrong, and so she went back to KinderCare and said ‘What happened? My kid was fine this morning and now he’s very, very sick and has all these bruises, and clearly, something’s wrong,’” Dorsey explains.

“KinderCare denied anything was wrong, but the mother knew something was wrong, so she took her kid to the hospital, and the hospital did a drug test and this 2-year-old tested positive for cocaine,” he continues.

The police got involved and searched the mother’s house, but they didn’t find anything. That’s when they looked into KinderCare, where it turned out one of the staff members brought cocaine to work in a bag.

“This is the type of pattern of misconduct you’ll see at KinderCare locations. There’s about 70 in the state of Texas; there’s hundreds nationwide,” Dorsey says. “And the common theme I see in all these KinderCare cases is the company is never transparent with the parents about what happened.”

Not only are there more stories like this child’s, but KinderCare is receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in government subsidies.

“KinderCare largely caters to working families. They also have a program to watch kids whose parents are in the military, so service members, and about 35% of their revenue comes from the U.S. taxpayer, which is their largest source of revenue, through the child care development block grant,” Dorsey tells Stuckey.

This grant was started in 1990 under President George H.W. Bush.

“The idea being that early childhood education, having kids in information day-cares, is so beneficial to early childhood education and to kids’ development that the government should be subsidizing it. And the reality is, it’s kind of the opposite,” Dorsey says.

“In addition to all these safety issues and ingesting cocaine and roaming the streets, it does not seem like it’s beneficial for your development to have 20 kids in a room supervised by someone earning $12 an hour in a corporate environment that just doesn’t care about these kids,” he adds.

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The nonprofit organization Safe House Project launched an innovative anti-trafficking app Simply Report on Tuesday, empowering users to safely, anonymously, and effectively report instances of suspected human trafficking, Blaze News learned.

Lawmakers and law enforcement alike have backed Simply Report, pointing to features that help streamline the reporting process and bridge the gap between “community awareness” and “actionable intervention,” according to a press release obtained exclusively by Blaze News. The app combines AI filters and human oversight to properly vet and direct tips to appropriate authorities as well as connect trafficking survivors to the organization’s expansive national network of safe houses.

‘Simply Report is a game-changer.’

“We are at a turning point in America’s fight against human trafficking,” Kristi Wells, co-founder and CEO of Safe House Project, said in a statement. “While the current hotline was a valid solution at the turn of the century, trafficking criminals have evolved, leveraging modern-day tools and technology — and so must we.”

“This app is about removing barriers,” Brittany Dunn, co-founder and COO of Safe House Project, said. “For too long, human trafficking has been shrouded in darkness. Simply Report will increase reporting, which will drive clarity, accountability, and care. It’s not just a tool — it’s a lifeline.”

Both legislators and law enforcement agencies have praised the app as a “game-changer” that has modernized the long-standing but outdated human trafficking hotline. With innovations like Simply Report, Safe House Project is hopeful that human trafficking will be eradicated altogether.

“The failure of the national human trafficking hotline has left too many victims without help, and Congress needs to step up,” Republican Rep. Pat Harrigan of North Carolina said in a statement. “We need to pass stronger laws, invest in frontline organizations, and make sure law enforcement has real-time tools to find and support victims faster. I am proud to stand with the men and women leading this fight, and I urge my colleagues to work together to bring real solutions to every community.”

“What law enforcement agencies need most are accurate, timely leads that we can pursue with the urgency warranted by these horrific crimes,” Chief Jarryd Rauhoff of the Biscoe Police Department said in a statement. “Simply Report is a game-changer. It strengthens the bridge between local communities and law enforcement while ensuring survivor anonymity and safety remain front and center.”

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Atlantis is a legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, which was once believed to be a rich island ruled by powerful princes who had conquered many lands of the Mediterranean until they were finally defeated by the Athenians and their allies.

While many people don’t believe the island was real, Jimmy Corsetti of “Bright Insight” has done some digging of his own, and he’s fairly convinced it was not only real, but the truth is being hidden.

“11,600 years ago, there was a sudden rapid rise in global sea levels, which means that we should be searching off the coastline for hundreds of miles,” Corsetti tells Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”

“And here’s something that’s unbelievably fascinating,” Corsetti explains. “We’ve all heard of Atlantis from Plato. Well, Plato got the legend from his distant relative, who was Solon, who was said to be the wisest of the seven sages.”

“So, he went there 2,600 years ago, or 600 B.C.,” Corsetti says, referring to when Solon went to Egypt.

“The priests in Egypt had said that it had happened exactly 9,000 years earlier. Well, 600 B.C. or 2,600 years ago minus 9,000, is precisely 11,600 years ago — the precise time of when we have scientific evidence that shows there was a sudden and rapid rise in global sea levels,” he continues.

“This is not just some Disney movie or some casino in the Caribbean. There’s actual scientific evidence that corroborates that this was possible,” he adds.

Corsetti also believes he may know the location of the lost city of Atlantis.

“I don’t know if you’re familiar with the Richat Structure in the Western Sahara Desert, which I’ve been putting on blast as being the most likely location of Atlantis,” he explains. “It just so happens to match more than a dozen striking similarities of what Plato had described of Atlantis.”

“The topic of Atlantis is not far-fetched. It’s actually incredibly reasonable to suggest that humans would have been doing interesting things at that period of time and were wiped out by global events,” he adds.

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Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) ratified a bill on Friday requiring priests to break the seal of confession if informed of abuse.

As this law invites the government into the confessional, likely violates the Constitution’s Establishment Clause, and puts priests at risk of automatic excommunication, Catholic bishops in Washington state have vowed defiance and the Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation.

Senate Bill 5375, which passed the state Senate in a 28-20 vote and the state House in a 64-31 vote, requires any person operating in an official supervisory capacity with a nonprofit or a for-profit organization — including priests, ordained ministers, and rabbis — who has “reasonable cause to believe that a child has suffered abuse or neglect” to notify law enforcement or the Department of Children, Youth and Families.

Unlike a
previous version of the legislation, SB 5375 offers no carve-out for allegations learned as a result of a confession.

The final bill report actually
clarifies that the Democratic law mandates no one except for members of the clergy to report abuse when that information is obtained solely as a result of a privileged communication.

‘He can make no use of knowledge that confession gives him about penitents’ lives.’

By mandating priests to divulge information gleaned in the confessional, the Democratic law puts priests at risk of excommunication.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states:

Given the delicacy and greatness of this ministry and the respect due to persons, the Church declares that every priest who hears confessions is bound under very severe penalties to keep absolute secrecy regarding the sins that his penitents have confessed to him. He can make no use of knowledge that confession gives him about penitents’ lives. This secret, which admits of no exceptions, is called the “sacramental seal,” because what the penitent has made known to the priest remains “sealed” by the sacrament.

The Code of Canon Law
cited by the Washington State Catholic Conference in its oppositional statements is similarly clear on the issue: “The sacramental seal is inviolable; therefore it is absolutely forbidden for a confessor to betray in any way a penitent in words or in any manner and for any reason.”

Canon Law notes further that a “confessor who directly violates the sacramental seal incurs a latae sententiae — automatic — excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.”

Democratic state Sen. Noel Frame, a prime sponsor of the bill, did not appear to be concerned about such consequences, stating, “There are some things that it doesn’t matter what religion you are in; you never put somebody’s conscience over the protection of a child,”
reported KXLY-TV.

During debate in February, Republican state Sen. Leonard Christian noted that the legislation would force “somebody who’s given their entire life — raised their hand, made an oath with God almighty — to choose between God’s law and man’s law.”

‘After the apostles were arrested and thrown into jail for preaching the name of Jesus Christ, St. Peter responds to the Sanhedrin: “We must obey God rather than men.”‘

Catholic bishops in the state have made clear which law takes precedence.

The Most Rev. Thomas Daly, Bishop of Spokane,
reassured Catholics in his diocese Friday that their priests and bishop “are committed to keeping the seal of the confession — even to the point of going to jail.

“For those legislators who question our commitment to the safety of your children, simply speak with any mom who volunteers with a parish youth group, any Catholic school teacher, any dad who coaches a parochial school basketball team or any priest, deacon, or seminarian, and you will learn firsthand about our solid protocols and procedures,” said Bishop Daly. “The Diocese of Spokane maintains an entire department at the Chancery, the Office of Child and Youth protection, staffed by professional laypeople. We have a zero-tolerance policy regarding child sexual abuse.”

Seattle Archbishop Paul Etienne
underscored in a statement Sunday that while the Church “agrees with the goal of protecting children and preventing child abuse” and already has policies requiring priests to be mandatory reporters, the seal of confession will not be broken.

“This weekend at Mass, the first reading was from the Acts of the Apostles. After the apostles were arrested and thrown into jail for preaching the name of Jesus Christ, St. Peter responds to the Sanhedrin: ‘We must obey God rather than men’ (Acts 5:29),” wrote the archbishop. “This is our stance now in the face of this new law. Catholic clergy may not violate the seal of confession — or they will be excommunicated from the Church.”

‘The law appears to single out clergy as not entitled to assert applicable privileges.’

“All Catholics must know and be assured that their confessions remain sacred, secure, confidential, and protected by the law of the Church,” added Archbishop Etienne.

The archbishop also raised the question of why privileged communications between priest and penitent were singled out but not the communications between attorney and client, doctor and patient, and spouses.

“This new law singles out religion and is clearly both government overreach and a double standard,” wrote Archbishop Etienne.

The Justice Department announced a First Amendment investigation into the Washington state law on Monday, calling SB 5375 an “anti-Catholic law.”

Like Archbishop Etienne, the DOJ also expressed interest in why Washington Democrats singled out members of the clergy as the only “supervisors” who may not rely on applicable legal privileges as a defense to mandatory reporting.

“SB 5375 demands that Catholic priests violate their deeply held faith in order to obey the law, a violation of the Constitution and a breach of the free exercise of religion cannot [sic] stand under our constitutional system of government,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
said in a statement.

“Worse, the law appears to single out clergy as not entitled to assert applicable privileges, as compared to other reporting professionals,” continued Dhillon. “We take this matter very seriously and look forward to Washington State’s cooperation with our investigation.”

Gov. Ferguson, who identifies as a Catholic,
said in a statement obtained by the Seattle Times, “We look forward to protecting Washington kids from sexual abuse in the face of this ‘investigation’ from the Trump administration.”

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Quite a few Blaze News readers reacted with interest to a recent story of ours about a Georgia high school student who was caught on cellphone video punching a teacher in the face.

Sadly, that’s not exactly a new phenomenon in our society any more, as more and more students appear emboldened not only to talk back to their teachers and verbally abuse them — but also to physically attack them.

‘The sad part about it is that teachers are being treated like that every day. They’re being assaulted, abused, and something needs to be said about it.’

Meanwhile, teachers have their hands tied. What can they do? Do the victimized teachers simply allow students to pummel them to pieces as they suffer busted-up faces, broken bones, and missed work time as well as ongoing mental and emotional trauma?

Or do they — literally — fight back?

That’s what the teacher did in the recent Blaze News story noted above. As onlookers in the hallway in Martin Luther King Jr. High School let out an approving holler in unison after the student let the punch fly, the irate teacher was seen on video hitting his attacker with a punch of his own. Two of them, actually.

With that, two other males — one wearing a gray hoodie and the other wearing a white hoodie — go after the teacher and knock him to the floor. By this point, the frenzied students are behaving as if they’re watching a UFC match. The teacher gets up again, and there’s a little bit of pushing and shoving, but that’s where the 45-second clip ends.

The DeKalb County School District said in a statement that several students reportedly initiated the physical fight with the teacher, and WXIA-TV reported that three students were charged with battery and disrupting public school while the teacher in question was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation.

In the aftermath, Superintendent Devon Horton said the trio of brawling students should not be “criminalized.”

But what about the teacher? At present, his fate has not been made pubic.

The following are some examples of what happens when fed-up teachers fight back against students who cross the line and physically attack them.

14-year-old student hits 64-year-old teacher with basketball amid argument — and hits him with racial slurs, too. Teacher arrested after punching, beating on student. But a year later, DA has change of heart.

Marston Riley’s last day teaching at Maywood Academy High School in the Los Angeles area was Nov. 2, 2018 — but Riley, then 64 years old, didn’t depart by choice.

On that day, Riley — a music teacher — asked a 14-year-old male student to leave the classroom for not wearing a proper uniform. The student in question allegedly refused, KTLA-TV reported. Cellphone video shows the boy swearing at the teacher and repeatedly calling Riley, who is black, the N-word.

The student also is seen throwing a basketball at Riley, after which the station said Riley pulled out his cellphone to call for backup.

“C’mon, bro,” the student is heard saying. “Walk the f**k back [N-word].” Riley does walk back, and video shows the student continue the verbal barrage, including calling Riley a “bitch” and challenging him: “I’m right here, bro. Everybody watching, my [N-word]. What’s up?”

Riley warns the student several times, “You better leave” — and a minute and a half after video of the confrontation started, the teacher is seen suddenly punching the boy in the face. The student attempts to defend himself and moves backward to the far edge of the classroom as Riley delivers another blow and knocks him down. The student gets up, drops his backpack, and squares off. Riley then delivers what appear to be at least another dozen or so punches and goes after the kid again after others attempt to intervene.

Staff dragged away the boy who started the confrontation, and he was taken to a hospital, where he was treated for moderate injuries and released, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing the sheriff’s department.

Riley was arrested Nov. 2 on suspicion of child abuse and causing great bodily injury on a child, KTLA reported, and he was released the next morning after posting $50,000 bail, the Times said. But all the students who spoke to the station hours after the fight were sympathetic to Riley and said the student in the video pushed him too far. In fact, one student told the station it was a setup: “Everything was planned out. There were students there who were already taking out their phones to record the incident. I don’t think it’s completely fair that they’re just putting the blame all on [Riley], when I personally know that he’s a good guy.”

What’s more, a GoFundMe page a fellow school district employee set up for Riley to assist with legal fees eventually topped $190,000.

In a 2020 interview, Riley told KCAL-TV he retired before the district handed down a punishment; the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office a year after the fight dismissed the case against Riley, NBC News said.

In the TV interview, Riley said people have to know about the continuous abuse teachers endure: “The sad part about it is that teachers are being treated like that every day. They’re being assaulted, abused, and something needs to be said about it.”

You can view a video report here that includes clips of Riley’s fight with the student as well as the 2020 follow-up interview with Riley.

Angry student bumps teacher, steps on her foot. Teacher explodes, punches student — and gets charged and jailed. Not long after, however, authorities are singing a very different tune.

A Maryland high school teacher was charged and jailed in November 2019 after cellphone video recorded a fight between the teacher and an angry 17-year-old female student, who started things by bumping Vivian Noirie and stepping on her foot in a Largo High School classroom.

With that, Noirie started punching the student, who police said was angry at the teacher for contacting the student’s parents the night before. Other school employees separated the teacher and the student, after which the student struck Noirie.

Noirie, 36, was charged with physical child abuse and second-degree assault and was locked up in the Prince George’s County jail from Nov. 15 until Nov. 18. However, a lawyer for Noirie said students had assaulted the teacher three times already.

Prince George’s County Education Association President Theresa Mitchell Dudley defended Noirie, saying that “what response comes from administration when you call the office and ask somebody to come up because a student is stalking you in your classroom, that’s a whole other conversation that we need to have.”

Dudley added in a later statement that “there is an issue of a lack of respect for educators. Verbal and physical assaults on educators are too common. There is a sense that as an educator we should continue to keep taking abuse, threats, and assaults from students, parents, and administrators because we are the adults in the room. … Educators are human and need the same emotional and mental supports as students to ensure that situations are appropriately addressed. …”

But by the following January, charges were dropped against Noirie, the Associated Press said. Dudley told the AP that cellphone video of the altercation shows the student was “clearly the aggressor” and that Noirie never should have been charged.

You can view a video report here about the incident, which includes blurred clips of the fight; the video report was published before charges against Noirie were dropped.

Substitute teacher’s head left bloody in chair-throwing fight with middle schoolers caught on video. Official says students attacked first in classroom fracas.

A substitute teacher at a Dallas-area school was left bloody and required medical assistance after a chair-throwing fight with students caught on video in March 2022. The fight occurred at DeSoto West Middle School, police said, and a DeSoto ISD representative told WFAA-TV students attacked the teacher first.

Craig Miller — a school safety consultant and former Dallas ISD police chief — told KDFW-TV that legal action likely will be taken in this incident. “[The student will] face serious assault charges based upon the angle that I saw in the video,” Miller added to the station. “It could very well be an aggravated assault, which also then could be enhanced, possibly because it happened to an educator in a school environment.”

Miller also told KDFW the teacher in this case likely has the right to defend himself but that the video doesn’t tell the entire story of what took place, particularly what led to the incident. You can view video of the fight here.

Battery warrants obtained for 3 high schoolers after video shows teacher getting physically attacked. Student actually throws chair at teacher, who fights back against student who repeatedly shoves him.

A fight between a Warren Easton Charter High School teacher and three students in early October 2023 was caught on video and soon went viral, WWL-TV reported. The teacher first approaches a student, after which the student pushes the teacher away three times, the station says.

With that, the teacher grabs the student, and the pair begin to fight. Then a second student hits the teacher with a chair and then throws the chair at the teacher.

Arrest warrants were obtained for three juveniles on charges of simple battery, the station said. You can view a report about the incident here.

Entitled student gets physical with substitute teacher who took her phone. But teacher fights back — and a knock-down, drag-out brawl ensues.

Video sent to WRAL-TV shows a North Carolina substitute teacher and a juvenile student arguing over the phone in a Rocky Mount High School classroom in April 2023. The student appeared to attempt to grab the phone from the teacher’s hand, after which the teacher shoved the student away. With that, the student took a swing at the teacher with her right arm — and then the brawl began.

The teacher soon brought the student to the floor, threw a few punches, and pinned the screaming student while hollering for someone to get another teacher into the classroom. Soon after, the teacher and student both were charged with simple assault, WTVD-TV reported.

The teacher reportedly quit the profession in the aftermath and defended her actions; months later she reportedly was found guilty of misdemeanor simple assault. It isn’t clear what happened to the student.

HS student who apparently believes he’s invincible challenges substitute teacher, ‘What’s up, boy?’ — and even gets in teacher’s face while bumping, shoving him. Furious teacher finally has enough.

Cellphone video was rolling when a student began fighting a substitute teacher in a classroom at Golden Valley High School in Merced, California, in March 2023, KMPH-TV reported.

The station said video shows a student approaching the teacher and asking him, “What’s up, boy?” and getting in the teacher’s face and shoving him. Soon the teacher throws a clipboard at the student, the station said, after which the student begins throwing punches at the teacher. KMPH said it appears the teacher tried to hold the student in a headlock until the student surrendered.

Merced Union High School District told the station it has investigated the incident and can’t provide further details due to privacy laws. You can view cellphone video here that shows the altercation.

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“Sovereignty” may have won the Kentucky Derby. But if it’s going to win in Washington, Republicans need to stop stalling and start delivering.

Many of us backed Donald Trump in 2024 with a clear, urgent checklist of national priorities. None matter more than mass deportations. Only one real legislative vehicle remains to force the issue: budget reconciliation.

If Republicans won’t use the reconciliation bill to cut inflation, they should at least use it to shut down the invasion.

Let’s be blunt. Republicans have no plan to cut spending. The only debate is how much debt they’ll add. That leaves mass deportations as the last major policy goal still backed by both the White House and much of the GOP.

Yet under current judicial norms, each of the 20 million deportations could require a court fight. At this pace, Trump would remove fewer than 1 million people by the end of his term — only to be followed by a radical Democrat ready to usher in 20 million more.

What’s the solution?

The House Judiciary Committee earmarked $81.4 billion for ICE and deportation-related activities in its reconciliation bill. But that money means nothing — worse, it only inflates the debt — if we don’t fix the lawfare loopholes and end the legal incentives that fuel this invasion.

This isn’t just about funding. It’s a matter of policy. The final reconciliation bill must include structural legal reforms. Otherwise, the invasion continues — with billions wasted in the process.

According to sources, congressional allies plan to attach an amendment to upcoming legislation that would put an end to immigration-related lawfare once and for all.

The proposal would bar anyone who isn’t a green card holder — including all illegal aliens and temporary visa holders — from gaining standing in Article III courts to challenge their deportation. In other words, rulings by immigration judges would be final. Unless the government seeks to imprison someone on criminal charges, no foreign national has a due-process right to remain in the country against the national will. The bill simply reaffirms long-standing principles that activist judges have chipped away at for years.

The amendment also tackles lawfare targeting red states trying to enforce immigration laws. Once Trump leaves office, a legal backstop must be in place to prevent a fresh wave of illegal immigration from overrunning states like Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, and Idaho.

Federal judges have repeatedly blocked these states from criminalizing illegal presence. This bill would strip federal courts of jurisdiction in such cases. Any legal challenge would go through state courts instead, making state supreme court rulings final and beyond the reach of federal review.

Unless Trump starts ignoring rogue judicial rulings, this legislation is his only realistic path to carrying out mass deportations.

He must go all in and make it clear to Congress that he won’t accept procedural excuses about the Byrd Rule or Senate parliamentarian objections. The Senate majority can overrule the parliamentarian — something they already plan to do to pass tax cuts.

This is Trump’s moment to force the issue. No more delays. No more legal sabotage. No more excuses.

The House Judiciary Committee’s draft of the major spending bill includes a provision aimed at curbing judicial abuse — but it doesn’t go far enough.

The measure would require judges to collect a bond from plaintiffs seeking injunctions against the federal government. If they fail to collect it, their rulings would be void under Rule 65 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

But the reform is too narrow to matter. The NGOs suing to block immigration enforcement have deep pockets. Judges can easily set token bond amounts that do nothing to deter meritless lawsuits.

Still, the provision proves a vital point: Republican leadership is willing to include policy-related language in a reconciliation bill when it suits them. That means nothing prevents them from going further and defunding litigation aimed at sabotaging deportations.

This is Trump’s last real chance to salvage his immigration agenda. Reconciliation offers his clearest shot at using party control to pursue an objective he can’t afford to lose.

If Republicans won’t use the reconciliation bill to cut inflation, they should at least use it to shut down the invasion.

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Former NFL head coach Bill Belichick is all over the news once again, but this time it’s not for a Super Bowl win. Rather, it’s because Belichicks’s 24-year-old girlfriend appeared controlling in an interview with CBS News — which the pair are now trying to downplay.

“I agreed to speak with CBS Sunday morning to promote my new book, ‘The Art of Winning; Lessons from My Life in Football.’ Prior to this interview, I clearly communicated with my publicist at Simon and Schuster that any promotional interviews I participated in would agree to focus solely on the contents of the book,” Belichick said in a statement.

“Unfortunately, that expectation was not honored during the interview. I was surprised when unrelated topics were introduced,” he continued. “After this occurred several times, Jordon, with whom I share both a personal and professional relationship, stepped in to reiterate that point to help refocus the discussion.”

“She was not deflecting any specific question or topic but simply doing her job to ensure the interview stayed on track. Some of the clips make it appear as though we were avoiding the question of how we met, but we have been open about the fact that Jordon and I met on a flight to Palm Beach in 2021,” he added.

Belichick went on to say the clips had been “selectively edited” to “suggest a false narrative that Jordon was attempting to control the conversation.”

Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” believes that Belichick really did agree to a conversation about his book, but CBS saw a more lucrative opportunity with Belichick’s “sugar baby there.”

However, he doesn’t believe Belichick’s decision to date the 24-year-old is a wise one.

“I look at Bill Belichick’s lack of wisdom, and it’s amazing,” Whitlock says, noting that a recent New York Post article details Hudson’s $8 million real estate portfolio that she put together since meeting Belichick.

“She just started buying property in 2023 and getting loans for property, and this is all spelled out in the New York Post. And Bill Belichick saying they met in 2021. My math is right — that’s four years ago, and that makes her, if my math is correct, 20 at that time,” he continues.

“Bill Belichick would have been 69, and he met a 20-year-old on a plane, and by 2023 she started acquiring real estate property,” he adds.

Basically, Whitlock believes Belichick has fallen for Hudson’s scheme.

“I don’t know if Jordon Hudson is an escort, a pro. I do know she’s a young woman that is taking advantage of a 73-year-old man who’s in a full-blown life crisis because of his failure with dealing with the aftermath of Tom Brady leaving the New England Patriots,” Whitlock says.

“This man is incredibly insecure, and this woman is taking advantage of it,” he adds.

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Hi, I’m Lauren Fix, longtime automotive journalist and a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Welcome back to “Quick Fix,” where I answer car-related questions you submit to me. Today’s question comes from Don in Longmont, Colorado.

Dear Lauren:

My 2008 Toyota Tundra has a 5.7 liter engine, and I bought it new in 2008. The specs say the gas tank is 26 gallons, however, I’ve never been able to put more than 22 gallons in it, even when the gas gauge reads empty or E.

Some have said Toyota does this on purpose to keep you from running out, or keep the fuel pump covered to keep it cool, or maybe the gauge is just off. What do you think?

I think you’re on the right track, Don. You do not want your car to run out of gas completely — and not just because you’ll be stuck somewhere.

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The legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, and Nicaragua will be continued after a federal appeals court ruled against the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump revoked the Temporary Protected Status for the migrants as a part of his effort for mass deportations from the U.S. The administration had appealed a judge’s order to halt the revocation of legal status, but the request was rejected on Monday.

‘We need to follow the rule of law and not some advice from an activist judge who makes a foolish ruling.’

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security had terminated a TPS extension for 600,000 Venezuelans in January that had been issued under the former Biden administration.

In April, San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Edward Chen blocked the termination of TPS and suggested that the action was motivated by racism.

“The secretary made sweeping negative generalizations about Venezuelan TPS beneficiaries,” said Chen of DHS Sec. Kristi Noem. “Acting on the basis of a negative group stereotype and generalizing such stereotype to the entire group is the classic example of racism.”

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in Boston, Massachusetts, denied Trump’s appeal of a separate and similar order from the U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama.

“The early termination, without any case-by-case justification, of legal status for noncitizens who have complied with DHS programs and entered the country lawfully undermines the rule of law,” said Talwani in her ruling.

Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, vehemently criticized the ruling that opposed Trump’s order.

“TPS isn’t meant to be decades long,” Homan said previously. “TPS needs to be temporary in nature. We need to follow the rule of law and not some advice from an activist judge who makes a foolish ruling.”

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Last week, President Trump signed an executive order defunding PBS and NPR. The move comes after the confirmation that several private media outlets were paid with government funds during the Biden administration and put out misinformation against President Donald Trump during his campaign.

Sara Gonzales says, “It couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people.”

Leftists, of course, are pearl clutching, calling it “dictatorial” and “tyranny.” But their case falls flat when you consider that NPR “had a feature on a gay anteater couple for Valentine’s Day” and argued that “being healthy is a form of discrimination.”

Or how about the fact that PBS argued that Joe Biden was cognitively “quite acute” even while he was misspeaking at every event and stumbling around cluelessly.

“Your tax dollars at work, ladies and gentlemen,” sighs Sara.

However, one of the most egregious examples of bias happened in 2020, when “NPR refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal,” claiming there were too many “red flags.” NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik even pushed the “it’s probably Russia” narrative.

NPR CEO Katherine Maher, despite admitting to Congress that the network failed to adequately cover the Hunter Biden laptop and COVID-19 origin stories, is now declaring war on the executive order.

“We will vigorously defend our right to provide essential news, information and life-saving services to the American public. We will challenge this Executive Order using all means available,” she said in a statement.

Maher’s claim to value free speech rights, however, is undermined by the fact that NPR suspended veteran editor Uri Berliner for publishing an article in which he argued that the network had “lost America’s trust” with its left-wing bias and lack of balanced reporting.

“They punished him for telling the truth at a media organization that is supposed to just be telling the truth,” says Sara, noting that Berliner also revealed that NPR’s Washington, D.C., newsroom had 87 registered Democrats and zero Republicans in editorial positions.

“If you didn’t realize it before, you should by now. NPR and PBS, so long, sayonara, good luck getting the money somewhere else, because taxpayers don’t need to pay for your left-wing bias and your leftwing agenda.”

To hear more of Sara’s commentary, watch the episode above.

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The Trump administration announced Monday that it would end all new federal research grants for Harvard University, as the feud between the president and the university continued.

Education Dept. Secretary Linda McMahon excoriated the university in a scathing letter sent to their president, according to the New York Times.

‘Taxpayer funds are a privilege, and Harvard fails to meet the basic conditions required to access that privilege.’

The letter mocked the “embarrassing” remedial math program offered to students and the plagiarism scandals that have plagued some university officials.

“Harvard University has made a mockery of this country’s higher education system,” McMahon wrote. “It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system.”

Harvard has filed a lawsuit against the administration over federal funds that were cut to the university over accusations that they had not done enough to curtail intimidation and violence against Jewish students by pro-Palestinian protesters.

“The government has not — and cannot — identify any rational connection between anti-Semitism concerns and the medical, scientific, technological, and other research it has frozen that aims to save American lives, foster American success, preserve American security, and maintain America’s position as a global leader in innovation,” reads the lawsuit.

A previous statement from a Trump spokesperson said the university did not deserve to receive the funds.

“The gravy train of federal assistance to institutions like Harvard, which enrich their grossly overpaid bureaucrats with tax dollars from struggling American families is coming to an end,” said spokesperson Harrison Fields. “Taxpayer funds are a privilege, and Harvard fails to meet the basic conditions required to access that privilege.”

The Times reported that federal funding accounted for about 11% of the university’s revenues in 2024, or about $687 million.

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A former Florida sheriff’s deputy was arrested Saturday morning and accused of armed robbery of a bank, WKMG-TV reported.

Ocala police responded around 9:30 a.m. to a robbery at TD Bank on Southeast 17th Street, police said.

Thagard handed the bank teller a note stating, ‘This is a robbery, I have a gun and will shoot if any alarms or dye packs are inclosed [sic]. Fill this bag with … at least [$]50K. Big bills only. Wait 2 mins to call police.’

The suspect had fled the scene with more than $5,000 before officers arrived, police said.

Police learned that the suspect had handed a note to the bank teller stating that it was a robbery and that she was armed with a gun, police said.

Within 11 minutes, officers found the suspect — Christina Gates Thagard — driving westbound on Southwest College Road, near the College of Central Florida, police said.

Police dashcam video recorded Thagard’s arrest, as she is ordered out of a car, puts her hands above her head, and asks officers, “Oh, my God! What is going on?”

Image source: Ocala (Fla.) Police Department

Thagard was taken into custody and questioned at police headquarters, cops said, adding that evidence tied to the bank robbery — including clothing, a medical glove, the stolen money, and other items — was found in her vehicle.

Surveillance video and witness descriptions confirmed Thagard’s involvement, police said.

She was seen on surveillance video wearing a hoodie, sunglasses, a medical mask, and a glove on only one hand, WKMG said. Thagard handed the bank teller a note stating, “This is a robbery, I have a gun and will shoot if any alarms or dye packs are inclosed [sic]. Fill this bag with … at least [$]50K. Big bills only. Wait 2 mins to call police,” WOFL-TV reported.

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Thagard initially denied involvement, claiming two acquaintances had borrowed her car and may have committed the robbery without her knowledge. However, detectives noted several physical similarities between her and the suspect on video, including unique fingernail patterns and clothing.

A detective established probable cause, and Thagard was charged with robbery with a firearm and taken to the Marion County Jail, police said.

Police told WKMG they have not yet located a firearm.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office confirmed on Monday morning that Thagard, 40, previously worked for the agency as a deputy, WKMG reported. The sheriff’s office said it last employed Thagard in April 2016.

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President Donald Trump’s administration released a budget plan on Friday that proposed drastic cuts across the federal government, including slashing the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s discretionary funding by more than 40%.

The budget referred to the federal government’s current rental assistance program as “dysfunctional.” NPR reported that it essentially called to end the Housing Choice Voucher Program, also known as Section 8, noting that it would slash rental aid by roughly 40%.

‘It furthers our mission-minded approach at HUD of taking inventory of our programs and processes to address the size and scope of the federal government, which has become too bloated and bureaucratic to efficiently function.’

According to the administration’s budget plan, the proposal aims to empower states to provide housing assistance “by transforming the current federal dysfunctional rental assistance programs into a state-based formula grant which would allow states to design their own rental assistance programs based on their unique needs and preferences.”

If adopted, the budget would place a two-year cap on rental assistance for able-bodied adults. It would also ensure that “a majority” of the funding went toward the elderly and disabled.

“A state-based formula program would also lead to significant terminations of federal regulations,” the budget continued. “In combination with efforts related to opening up federal lands, this model would incentivize states and the private sector to provide affordable housing.”

Additionally, the budget would earmark $25 million in housing grants for individuals aging out of the foster care system.

HUD Secretary Scott Turner released a statement responding to Trump’s proposed budget, calling it a “bold … reimagining of how the federal government addresses affordable housing and community development.”

“It rightfully provides states and localities greater flexibility while thoughtfully consolidating, streamlining, and simplifying existing programs to serve the American people at the highest standard,” Turner said. “It creates the opportunity for greater partnership and collaboration across levels of government by requiring states and localities to have skin in the game and carefully consider how their policies hinder or advance goals of self-sufficiency and economic prosperity.”

He added, “Importantly, it furthers our mission-minded approach at HUD of taking inventory of our programs and processes to address the size and scope of the federal government, which has become too bloated and bureaucratic to efficiently function.”

Critics of the plan have argued that it would lead to a spike in homelessness.

Kim Johnson, policy manager with the National Low Income Housing Coalition, told NPR, “We would see, I think, homelessness escalate in a way that has been really unprecedented and unheard of.”

NLIHC argued that the budget would “decimate HUD’s vital affordable housing, homelessness, and community development funding.”

“In total, the ‘skinny’ request foreshadows a full request that will aim to slash HUD spending by 44% from FY25, including a proposal that would result in an unprecedented 43% cut to HUD’s rental assistance programs,” the nonprofit stated.

NLIHC noted that 200,000 households currently depend on the HCV program.

Others supported Trump’s move to reduce Section 8 funding significantly.

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter wrote in a post on social media, “Section 8 housing is a scam for slumlords to charge the government exorbitant rents on behalf of non-paying welfare recipients. Can’t imagine anyone OTHER THAN a slumlord defending it.”

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A former teacher in Wisconsin is facing serious accusations of having an illicit sexual relationship with an underage student that allegedly happened several years ago, according to court documents.

Rebecca Ryan, 43, was arrested on April 29 and charged with three counts of sexual assault by school staff, according to the Post-Crescent. Each charge reportedly carries a maximum prison sentence of three years and three years of extended supervision.

Sgt. Schnese of the Appleton Police Department questioned Ryan and noted that ‘she was breathing with shallow breaths’ during the interrogation.

Ryan is barred from having contact with the alleged victim or having any unsupervised contact with any children under the age of 18 that is not related to her.

Ryan is currently being detained at the Outagamie County Jail on $50,000 bond, according to jail records.

According to the criminal complaint obtained by WLUK-TV, the former student — who is now 25 years old — informed police in March that he was an alleged victim of child sex abuse by a former teacher when he was a 17-year-old student at Appleton West High School.

The alleged victim said the sexual encounters occurred during the first semester of his senior year, between September 2017 and January 2018.

The alleged victim claimed that it was Ryan who sexually abused him.

The former student told detectives that the first time he had a sexual encounter with the teacher was in a vehicle in the overflow parking lot of Appleton West High School, according to the criminal complaint. The alleged victim also claimed that he and the teacher had sex on two other occasions inside a vehicle at two different parking lots, and the last sexual encounter happened before he turned 18 years old.

Officers with the Appleton Police Department reportedly had the alleged victim call Ryan while police recorded the phone call.

When the former student asked Ryan if she was still teaching, she allegedly replied that she is no longer a teacher and is now a nanny.

The alleged victim reportedly asked Ryan if she would be willing to talk about their time together in high school.

She reportedly responded, “I mean, I guess. It depends on what. I don’t know. Ugh. I can talk to you about general.”

According to the affidavit, the alleged victim elaborated, “Like us having sex and stuff.”

Ryan reportedly replied with a nervous laugh and said, “No.”

She allegedly told the former student to “hold on a second,” and he remained on the line for about three minutes without any response from Ryan, so he hung up on the call.

The alleged victim purportedly called Ryan back, but the call was sent to her voicemail.

Sgt. Schnese of the Appleton Police Department questioned Ryan and noted that “she was breathing with shallow breaths” during the interrogation.

He wrote in the affidavit, “Shortly thereafter, Rebecca placed her head in her hands and said, ‘I did not sleep with [VICTIM 1].'”

The Appleton School District noted that Ryan had been employed by the district from August 29, 2016, through Feb. 9, 2018.

The school district added, “During her time with the district, there were no reports or allegations involving inappropriate contact with students. We are committed to partnering with the Appleton Police Department as needed to support any ongoing investigations.”

Ryan is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on May 6.

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning gain-of-function research on pandemic pathogens that many believe was the true source of the coronavirus pandemic.

The research typically involves modification of existing viruses in order to make them more infectious and studying the outcomes in order to prevent and treat possible pandemics.

‘Researchers have not acknowledged the legitimate potential for societal harms that this kind of research poses.’

After the global pandemic, many theorized that the source of the virus was a laboratory leak involving gain-of-function research, possibly at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The theory was initially ridiculed as a racist conspiracy theory by many, but has since been corroborated by more evidence.

The administration said the order would “drastically reduce” lab-related incidents involving gain-of-function research “like that conducted on bat coronaviruses in China by the EcoHealth Alliance and Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

Trump’s order ends federal funding for the research in countries like China, Iran, and others without sufficient oversight. It also orders U.S. agencies to identify such research that might imperil public safety and end federal funding for any programs.

“For decades, policies overseeing gain-of-function research on pathogens, toxins, and potential pathogens have lacked adequate enforcement, transparency, and top-down oversight,” read a fact sheet from the administration. “Researchers have not acknowledged the legitimate potential for societal harms that this kind of research poses.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was among the most prominent critics of the lab-leak theory and defended the use of gain-of-function research.

“President Trump has long theorized that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and has consistently pushed for transparency in investigating its origins,” said the statement from the administration.

The Obama, Biden, and first Trump administrations all previously implemented policies pausing or limiting gain-of-function research.

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A professor who identified as a “social justice advocate” was arrested for allegedly streaming child sexual abuse videos at his residence in Texas.

Zaid Mashour Haddad was arrested on Tuesday after the Federal Bureau of Investigation said he was previously caught streaming an illegal video while they conducted a search warrant. The victim in the video was said to be a boy of about 7 or 8 years old.

Conversations on Telegram allegedly showed a pattern of accessing and saving links of child sexual abuse.

Haddad was a teacher at the University of Texas at San Antonio and had lectured at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He was charged with one count of possession of child pornography and one count of knowingly accessing child pornography material with the intent to view it, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.

Authorities said that his conversations on Telegram allegedly showed a pattern of accessing and saving links of child sexual abuse.

The search warrant was conducted in July 2021, leading to questions as to why it took so long for Haddad to be arrested.

“What’s shocking is law enforcement. Seven- or 8-year-old being abused on his flat screen and left him in our community for four years in a role where he has access to children,” said criminal attorney Joe Hoelscher to KABB-TV.

Haddad’s profile at UTSA identified him as a “social justice advocate.”

If convicted, Haddad faces up to 20 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and a lifetime of supervised release.

Haddad had also been an adjunct faculty member at Nevada State College. His curriculum vitae showed that he had received an “LGBTQ Lavender Faculty” award in 2016.

A photo of Haddad can be viewed on the news video report from WOAI-TV on YouTube.

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A Vanity Fair writer was ridiculed for claiming that supporters of President Donald Trump were to blame for a “protein mania” among Americans.

The article by Keziah Weir says that the “Make American Great Again” movement is fueling the demand for protein that has been building for decades. Weir cites examples from the “manosphere,” including popular podcaster Joe Rogan among the protein culprits.

‘This is undeniably one of the dumbest, most hate inspired screeds I’ve ever seen.’

The article gives a history of quack science that sold protein shakes and supplements as a solution to many health problems. It also notes that masculinity is often linked to eating meat and that popular podcasts glorify the obsession with protein.

“Whether our current protein path leads to an accidental brush with transcendence, or face down on the pavement as gunshots ricochet nearby, remains to be seen,” Weir concludes in the article.

Weir’s bizarre accusations were mocked by many on social media.

“This is undeniably one of the dumbest, most hate inspired screeds I’ve ever seen. The hard left (ie Vanity Fair & their supplicants) want you drugged, sick and sterile. What a sad, pathetic existence this must be,” read one response.

“You know things are going good when vanity fair is upset about protein,” said Trent Staggs, a Utah mayor.

“Vanity Fair doing their part to help convert Democrats to Republicans,” joked another user.

“I think We The People are kind of past this concept of dismantling the patriarchy and white men are bad and blah blah blah blah blame MAGA … LOL,” read another response.

“This trash rag can go bankrupt. This is why no one takes mainstream publications seriously anymore,” said another user.

A 2019 study claimed that Caucasian Americans contributed to global warming by having a typical diet of “environmentally intense foot items” at a higher rate than other ethnic groups.

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Tennessee state law enforcement has released bodycam footage from a November 2022 traffic stop involving the left’s darling, illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

While the traffic stop report doesn’t mention anything about human trafficking, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Trisha McLaughlin believes otherwise.

“This is textbook human trafficking,” McLaughlin said in a segment on Fox News. “I’ll remind viewers that there were eight other individuals in this car that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving. They were driving allegedly from Texas to Maryland. That’s a three-day journey, not a single piece of luggage in that vehicle.”

“That screams of human trafficking,” she continued. “I also want to remind viewers that in 2019, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was arrested. He was arrested with multiple other members of MS-13. He was decked out in MS-13 symbols — ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,’ which is MS-13’s logo and slogan.”

But that’s not all. According to McLaughlin, Abrego Garcia allegedly had “drugs and rolls of cash on him” and in the past was accused by his wife of detaining and abusing her, as well as psychologically abusing her and her children.

“How is this the story that Democrats are willing to fight for? How is this the one thing that has captivated all of their attention in all of these media headlines right now?” Jill Savage asks independent journalist Breanna Morello.

“It’s pretty strange because one would think this would not be the person they’re putting on a pedestal when it comes to this immigration topic. Obviously, they’re trying to win over their voter base so that they feel a little bit more passionate about this argument because many people are on the fence, or they’re swinging with President Trump these days,” Morello tells Savage and Matthew Peterson.

“We’ve seen it based on the polls when it comes to immigration,” she continues, “And I just think it’s so crazy that they’re picking this person to go out there and throw their whole support behind. It makes me wonder, did they actually understand what he was doing or what he was accused of in the past? Or did they just find one person, think that they could win over the American people with him, and didn’t do any research?”

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit delivered the Trump administration a “huge victory” on Saturday, blocking the order of a lesser court that required the reinstatement of over 1,000 Voice of America employees.

Kari Lake, senior adviser for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which supervises Voice of America, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, and a handful of other state-funded outfits including Radio Free Europe, called the ruling a “BIG WIN in our legal cases at USAGM & Voice of America. Huge victory for President Trump and Article II.”

“Turns out the District Court judge will not be able to manage the agency as he seemed to want to,” added Lake.

The appeals court’s 2-1 ruling, which saw Trump-appointed Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao pitted against dissenting Obama-appointed Judge Cornelia Pillard, held that “the government is likely to succeed on the merits because the district court likely lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to enjoin USAGM’s personnel actions and to compel the agency to restore RFA’s and MBN’s FY 2025 grants.”

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 14 aimed at reducing various “unnecessary” elements of the federal bureaucracy “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.” Among the entities targeted was the USAGM.

‘Ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda.’

In a corresponding fact sheet, the White House shared links to articles criticizing the quality and neutrality of the state media outfit’s output, as well as a link to a write-up of the American Accountability Foundation’s 2022 lawsuit alleging that VOA had “been infiltrated by anti-American, pro-Islamic state interests.”

Blaze News previously reported that pursuant to the president’s executive order, approximately 1,300 VOA journalists and other employees were placed on administrative leave, and funding was suspended to VOA’s sister networks.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled against the administration on April 22, noting that its stated efforts to “ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda” were “arbitrary and capricious” and “likely in direct violation of numerous federal laws,” including the VOA’s congressionally established charter in the International Broadcasting Act.

Lamberth ordered the administration to “take all necessary steps to return USAGM employees and contractors to their status” prior to Trump’s March 14 EO; to restore VOA programming; and to restore fiscal year 2025 grants to Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. He also demanded that the administration provide him with monthly status reports “apprising the Court of the status of the defendants’ compliance with this Order.”

‘The injunction threatens its prerogative to “speak with one voice” on behalf of the United States in foreign affairs.’

The appeals court said in its Saturday ruling that Lamberth “likely lacked jurisdiction over the USAGM’s personnel decisions” as federal employees may not use the Administrative Procedure Act to challenge agency employee actions.

“Congress has instead established comprehensive statutory schemes for adjudicating employment disputes with the federal government,” noted the court.

While the dissenting Obama judge on the appeals court expressed doubt that Congress’ chosen administrative methods could properly process agency-wide claims for over 1,000 employees, the majority noted that “administrative agencies are not powerless to issue broad-reaching relief in large-scale personnel matters.”

The court said that Lamberth similarly lacked jurisdiction to restore Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks’ grants for fiscal year 2025.

“If a claim against the United States is contractual ‘at its essence,’ district courts have no power to resolve it,” wrote the majority. That authority belongs to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

The appeals court also recognized that Lamberth’s order requiring the restoration of all employees and contractors is a harmful “intrusion” that implicates the Trump administration’s foreign-affairs authority since USAGM is responsible for presenting the views of the government and supporting U.S. foreign policy.

“By depriving the Executive Branch of control over the individuals involved in its international broadcasting, the injunction threatens its prerogative to ‘speak with one voice’ on behalf of the United States in foreign affairs,” said the court.

Margot Cleveland, senior legal correspondent at the Federalist, noted that this “conclusion should have wide-spread ramifications” because many of the legal challenges brought against the Trump administration “are about employment decisions which CONGRESS said are NOT for district courts to decide.”

The appeals court’s decision landed a day after the Department of Justice notified lawyers representing VOA workers that they could return to work this week.

In a letter obtained by The Hill sent to VOA staffers’ lawyers, the DOJ wrote, “USAGM currently expects staff to begin to return to the office next week, as security, building space, and equipment issues require a phased return.”

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