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Over the past decade, the once universally loved “Saturday Night Live” has become a clear propaganda tool of the left — consistently pushing left-wing issues while poking fun at the right.

However, that may be changing after one April 12 “SNL” skit shockingly mocked gay surrogacy.

The sketch took place at a chaotic dinner party where guests shared bizarre personal updates. One gay couple at the dinner party had a newborn baby, and the other guests then begin asking questions as to where and how they acquired a baby — even asking if they stole it.

The skit took it so far as to ask the gay couple how just the other night they were going to a gay rave called “Bulge Dungeon” when there was a baby on the way.

“There are two different ways to see this,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” says. “Either you can see it as using comedy to normalize two men purchasing a baby, or you can see it as a big vibe shift that we are actually starting to mock and deride something that deserves our mockery and derision.”

“Because it is a legitimate question. How could two men, who do not have the genetic material nor the wombs to create and bear children, have a child?” Stuckey asks.

While Stuckey is skeptical that the skit was pointing out the gay couple’s purchase of a baby as a bad thing, she did think one line from the skit was a home run.

“That line about ‘last night you were talking about going to Bulge Dungeon and now you have a baby and we’re just wondering how to square that circle,’ that was a good one. That was the best line, because if you see a lot of these men who are purchasing children, you do have some questions, like, ‘Do you know the first thing about raising a child?’” Stuckey says.

“And so I appreciate that whatever the motive is, that we are in the mode right now of mocking something that is absolutely depraved and destructive,” she adds.

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The Global Engagement Center, a multi-agency entity housed within the U.S. State Department that was
credibly accused of working with domestic and foreign organizations to silence conservative voices, was supposedly shuttered on Dec. 23, 2024. This closure was, however, a sleight of hand.

In the final weeks of the Biden administration, the censorious practices undertaken by the agency established by Barack Obama in 2011 and the officials who executed them were
migrated to a new outfit called the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub.

On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio
announced the closure of the State Department’s R/FIMI, which reportedly had 40 employees and a budget of over $51 million.

“Over the last decade, Americans have been slandered, fired, charged, and even jailed for simply voicing their opinions. That ends today,” wrote Rubio. “I am announcing the closure of the [State Department’s] Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, formerly the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which cost taxpayers more than $50 million per year and actively silenced and censored the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving.”

‘American taxpayers through the State Department were paying groups to attack Americans.’

Rubio discussed the birth and death of the censorship outfit in a live conversation Wednesday with Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, alluding to the GEC’s origins: a
pair of Obama executive orders aimed at reducing radicalization by Islamic terrorists and extremist violence threatening the interest and national security of the United States.

“Who’s going to be against that? That sounds normal,” said Rubio. “By 2020, it had grown into this movement of … actually going after individual American voices.”

Rubio noted that money from the program was being directed to supposedly “impartial” NGOs, which were “tagging and labeling voices in American politics — Ben Shapiro, the Federalist, others — tagging them as foreign agents.”

“American taxpayers through the State Department were paying groups to attack Americans and to try to silence the voice of Americans,” continued Rubio. “And there were consequences. These weren’t just a label they put on people. Some of these people got deplatformed; they got taken down; they couldn’t communicate.”

A lawsuit
filed against the State Department in December 2023 by Texas, the Daily Wire, and the Federalist accused the Biden administration of actively intervening in the news media market through the GEC “to render disfavored press outlets unprofitable by funding the infrastructure, development, and marketing and promotion of censorship technology and private censorship enterprises to covertly suppress speech of a segment of the American press.”

The lawsuit alleged that the GEC had, for instance, backed the Disinformation Index Inc., the American component of the British think tank
Global Disinformation Index, and NewsGuard Technologies.

Blaze News
previously reported that both GDI and NewsGuard Technologies generated blacklists of supposedly risky or misleading news outfits with the aim of getting them demonetized and directing funds to news organizations that parrot approved narratives.

The GDI’s fall 2022 report, for instance, labeled NPR, the Washington Post, HuffPost, and a number of other liberal news outfits with troubled relationships with the truth as the “least risky sites.”

Meanwhile, Blaze News, Reason, the Federalist, the Daily Wire, the New York Post, and other conservative publications made the top-10 list of “riskiest sites” and were smeared as having the “greatest level of disinformation risk.”

Gabe Kaminsky then of the Washington Examiner — a publication that also appeared on the GDI blacklist — reported in 2023 that GDI would compile a “dynamic exclusion list” and provide that list to corporate entities such as the advertising company Xandr. Xandr and other recipients subsequently declined to place ads on websites flagged by the GDI.

Matt Taibbi, an investigative reporter who
helped expose some of what the GEC was up to, previously told Blaze News, “The GEC was turned into a key actor in the narrative-control bureaucracy.”

“It was outrageous,” Rubio said Wednesday regarding the GEC’s work and impact.

The secretary of state noted that the GEC, which was
deemed the “worst offender in U.S. government censorship & media manipulation” by Elon Musk in the wake of the Twitter Files and found to be internally dysfunctional in a 2022 State Department Office of Inspector General report, was technically disbanded in December but really just rebranded before President Donald Trump took office.

‘Trump administration is smashing the censorship cartel.’

“Over the last few months, we’ve worked on it and just taken it down,” said Rubio.

Rubio noted in an article Wednesday on the Federalist — a publication chosen on account of its targeting by a GEC-backed organization — that “whatever name it goes by, GEC is dead. It will not return.”

Last month, Rubio and Darren Beattie, acting under secretary for public diplomacy, apparently terminated over 100 contractors who worked with the agency.

The MIT Technology Review
reported that employees at R/FIMI received an email Wednesday inviting them to a meeting with Beattie, who notified them their office and jobs were no more.

Rubio
noted his Federalist piece that “Obama’s man in charge at GEC, Rick Stengel” once said to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018, “I’m not against propaganda. Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population. And I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.”

“All too many abuses of trust that occurred at the GEC seemed to reflect Stengel’s dark founding vision,” wrote Rubio.

The secretary added:

Ultimately, the problem wasn’t that our government picked the wrong people and NGOs to police “disinformation.” The problem is that they were picking anybody to do this at all. The entire “disinformation” industry, from its very beginnings, has existed to protect the American establishment from the voices of forgotten Americans. Everything it does is the fruit of the poisoned tree: the hoax that Russian interference, misinformation, and “meddling” is what caused President Trump’s victory in 2016, rather than a winning political message that only he was offering.

“This travesty has gone on long enough,” Rubio declared.

He told Benz, “The best way to counter disinformation is free speech — is to make sure that what’s true has as equal or greater opportunity to communicate as what’s not true. We’ve learned that the hard way.”

Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission,
called Rubio’s final blow to the censorship outfit a “very important action,” adding that the “Trump administration is smashing the censorship cartel and restoring free speech rights to Americans.”

Benz
wrote, “R-FIMI is R-FINISHED.”

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A viral video showing a sports reporter asking for a young lady’s phone number during a baseball broadcast angered feminists who called it sexist and misogynist.

Sportscaster Wiley Ballard was interviewing two female fans during the broadcast of the Atlanta Braves games against the Toronto Blue Jays when he was encouraged by other broadcasters to ask for a phone number.

‘This is highly inappropriate and joking about a new pickup method on air is gross and cringy.’

“You got four innings, five innings to get the numbers!” joked play-by-play commentator Brandon Gaudin.

“All right, they want me to get your number,” said Ballard to one of the women, who obliged.

The commentators joked that it was a brilliant tactic to flirt with women at baseball games.

“I should have thought of this years ago!” said Ballard.

When the video hit the internet, however, an army of embittered Karens clawed out of the woodwork to accuse Ballard of acting inappropriately.

“It’s hard not to ignore the unbalanced power dynamics at play here, with many pointing out the obvious double standard had the genders been reversed. One can only hope Ballard learned his lesson,” responded journalist Kristen Wong at Sports Illustrated.

“An unprofessional disgrace, from the reporter, to the guys in the booth, to the producer in the truck who could’ve stopped it at any point. It’s not ‘fun’. It’s not ‘cool’. It’s not ‘harmless’. And it’s only a ‘standard’ for harassment,” wrote Fox Sports writer Ralph Vacchiano.

He added that the incident “put the woman in a terrible, unwelcome, unfair, even dangerous spot.”

“Yes it was unprofessional,” wrote one fan on social media. “If a woman in sports media did the same thing she would get crucified.”

“This is disgusting behavior. We want to make women and everyone feel comfortable at sporting events and this is what gets promoted? Hey @wileyballard_ this is highly inappropriate and joking about a new pickup method on air is gross and cringy,” replied fantasy NASCAR writer Matthew Selz.

Others defended Ballard and told social media to calm down.

“The fact that @wileyballard_ the kindest, most professional reporter I met covering Atlanta sports is at the eye of today’s dumb internet storm is objectively hilarious,” responded seasoned sports anchor Wes Blankenship. “Inhale. Exhale. And consider that you may be alive today because a gentleman asked a girl for her number.”

“All of the think pieces on Wiley Ballard have to stop. Dude is the [sic] one of the nicest guys in the business and has worked extremely hard to get where he is,” replied broadcaster Brady Penn. “To those of you crying about it being ‘inappropriate’ or ‘misogynistic’ please stop. It was two adults having a fun bit that crushed.”

Despite the Wiley flirtations, the Braves went on to defeat the Blue Jays 8 to 4.

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Karmelo Anthony — the Texas teen charged with murdering high school star athlete Austin Metcalf at a Frisco track meet April 2 — and his family reportedly moved into a $900,000 home in a gated community after Anthony’s $1 million bond was cut to $250,000 Monday, and he walked free from from jail later that same day, the Daily Mail reported.

The outlet added that Anthony, 17, and his family are renting a Frisco home in a development known as “Richwoods” for an estimated $3,500 per month, according to Zillow, and that no one answered the door for a request for comment.

‘He got a new car.’

However, the Daily Mail said that when visiting the home Tuesday, a white Suburban, a black Acura, and a third sedan were seen parked in the driveway.

One resident who asked the outlet for anonymity said the Anthony family just purchased a new vehicle: “He got a new car. If you look at the license plate, it’s got a paper tag, and it says it expires June 4.”

The Daily Mail reported that “the lavish lifestyle is in stark contract to the cash struggles Anthony’s father, Andrew Anthony, claimed to have in court Monday, where the parent claimed he was the sole breadwinner.”

At Monday’s bond hearing, Karmelo Anthony’s new attorney Mike Howard said the Anthony family “needs to be able to survive. There’s been a tremendous amount of pressure. I think at this point, living in a gated community, given everything, the safety of their younger children is very warranted. Security details and criminal defense are not cheap,” KDFW-TV reported.

WFAA-TV reported that Anthony’s father at the hearing also said his family doesn’t yet have access to the money raised through GiveSendGo — which is closing in on $450,000 as of Wednesday afternoon. The father also said the cost of moving to a new home and providing for his wife and four children prevented the family from being able to pay Karmelo Anthony’s original $1 million bond, WFAA added.

‘Not good. Not good. I don’t think he should be out.’

A number of the Anthony family’s new neighbors didn’t know they had moved into their new digs until Anthony was released from jail Monday, the Daily Mail reported.

To say they weren’t thrilled with the Anthony family’s new living situation is an understatement.

“Not good. Not good. I don’t think he should be out. I don’t understand why he had a knife? My kids were in track. Your tents, for your school — you don’t sit under another school’s tent. That is not done because everyone leaves their stuff there while they’re out on events,” one mother told the Daily Mail. “Why would you stab someone? And now he’s a few doors down. It’s very scary. Like could he rob houses? I don’t know.”

The terms of Anthony’s house arrest include that he must wear an ankle monitor, must speak to the bailiff every Friday morning, and isn’t allowed on social media.

Another concerned neighbor told the Daily Mail that “the whole reason we live here is because it’s gated” and that “this is supposed to be a good neighborhood. These are high-end houses. Not everyone can move in here. I don’t even know what to say. This is supposed to be safe.”

The same neighbor also wondered to the outlet why the Anthony family asked for donations while maintaining a lifestyle already akin to others in “Richwoods.”

One neighbor added to the Daily Mail in reference to the Anthony family: “The best thing they can do is move. I think that would be best for everyone.”

In contrast, Karmelo Anthony’s defenders have been going viral on social media, with one of them actually declaring that Metcalf “got exactly what he deserved — point blank, period.”

What’s the background?

Frisco police told KXAS-TV they were called to Kuykendall Stadium around 10 a.m. April 2 after a 17-year-old stabbed a 17-year-old during a confrontation, which ultimately proved fatal. Police added to the station they arrested Karmelo Anthony and charged him with Metcalf’s murder.

‘What kind of parents did this child have? What was he taught?’

The victim’s father, Jeff Metcalf, told KXAS his son didn’t know the student who attacked him and that Austin’s identical twin brother, Hunter, not only saw the stabbing but also tried to stop the bleeding. You can view KXAS’ video report here.

“I tried to whip around as fast as I could,” a teary-eyed Hunter told WFAA. “I looked at my brother, and I’m not going to talk about the rest. I tried to help him.” You can view WFAA’s video report here.

Hunter told WFAA he held his brother until first responders started attempting resuscitation.

Jeff Metcalf added to KXAS that Hunter “was holding on to [Austin], trying to make it stop bleeding, and he died in his brother’s arms. I rushed up there, and I saw him on the gurney, and I could tell — they said he wasn’t breathing. I could see all the blood, and I saw where the wound was, and I was very concerned, so I had to find his brother, and we rushed to the hospital. And we prayed, and it’s God’s plan, I don’t understand it, but they weren’t able to save him. This is murder.”

Jeff Metcalf also told KXAS that the suspect got angry after being told he was in the wrong place and being asked to move: “I’m not trying to judge, but what kind of parents did this child have? What was he taught? He brought a knife to a track meet, and he murdered my son by stabbing him in the heart. The guy was in the wrong place, and they asked him to move, and he bowed up. This is murder.”

However, Karmelo Anthony’s father contended in an interview with the New York Post that “everyone has already made their assumptions about my son, but he’s not what they’re making him out to be.” Anthony’s father added to the paper that his son is “a good kid. He works two jobs. He’s an A student, has a 3.7 GPA.”

The suspect’s father also told the Post, “I feel bad for the other parents and family, and words can’t explain how both [families] have been affected by this tragedy.”

After the stabbing, the arresting officer said Karmelo Anthony reportedly told him, “I was protecting myself,” before the officer questioned him about the incident, WFAA-TV reported, citing the arrest affidavit.

Anthony also reportedly told the officer that Metcalf “put his hands on [him],” the station said, citing the affidavit, after which Anthony was handcuffed.

The arresting officer soon told a fellow officer arriving on the scene that he had the alleged suspect — and Anthony reportedly interjected, “I’m not alleged; I did it,” WFAA reported.

A witness reportedly noted to police that Metcalf — who competed for Memorial High School — told Anthony he had to move from under his team’s tent, the station said, citing the affidavit. With that Anthony opened his bag and reached inside, the witness told police, WFAA said.

“Touch me and see what happens,” Anthony told Metcalf, the station added, citing a witness.

Metcalf reportedly touched Anthony, the witness told an officer, and Anthony told Metcalf to punch him and see what would happen, WFAA reported.

Metcalf then reportedly grabbed Anthony, after which Anthony reportedly pulled out what the witness recalled as a black knife and stabbed Metcalf once in the chest before running away, the witness said, the station reported, citing the affidavit.

Metcalf reportedly grabbed his chest and told others to get help, the witness told police, according to WFAA.

While Anthony was in the back seat of a police vehicle, an officer saw fresh blood on his left middle finger, the station said, citing the affidavit.

WFAA, citing the document, said Anthony while he was in the back seat of the vehicle also reportedly asked the officer if Metcalf was going to be OK. While being escorted to the squad car, Anthony asked an officer if his actions could be considered self-defense.

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A Wisconsin teenager — who apparently had his sights set on assassinating President Donald Trump — has allegedly killed his mother and stepfather as a part of his plot.

The teen, Nikita Casap, 17, faces nine felony charges, including two counts of murder and two counts of hiding a corpse. Federal investigators are pursuing an additional three charges: presidential assassination, conspiracy, and use of weapons of mass destruction.

An affidavit from federal authorities claims that Casap was in touch with “other parties” regarding his plan to kill the president and overthrow the government — which he appeared to have planned to accomplish via the drone and explosives he bought.

“Understand that this is another assassination plot against the president,” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” comments, disturbed. “Thank God it was thwarted. Thank God this evil individual or this individual who had embraced evil was unable to successfully kill the president.”

“But also, understand the reality of what we’re facing. What happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 last year, and then what happened again on Donald Trump’s golf course, were not isolated attempts on Trump’s life. This is an ongoing effort to murder the president of the United States,” she continues.

A sweep of his background reveals that the teen had been indoctrinated with far-left-wing ideology.

“Surprise, surprise,” Wheeler says. “He was an anarchist. He wanted to overthrow the government of the United States.”

Casap was also reportedly in touch with people from Russia and neo-Nazi groups.

“This young man who murdered his parents in order to steal their money to fund his attempt to assassinate President Trump, this is not just some crazy kid. This is what happens when you spend decades telling these young men, ‘You’re evil because you’re white. You’re evil because you’re a man. President Trump is a Nazi,’” Wheeler says.

“This is not a coincidence,” she adds.

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A federal judge granted the Associated Press an injunction on April 8, preventing the Trump administration from excluding the liberal publication from press events at the White House.

The ruling, which an attorney for the government suggested “constitutes an unprecedented intrusion into Executive authority,” was celebrated by the liberal publication and others antagonistic of the Trump White House.

The AP and its allies were premature in their celebration.

The White House apparently found a way to minimize its encounters with the AP without running afoul of the injunction.

Days after appealing the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the White House changed its policy for the press pool, abolishing the news wire service seat and replacing it with a second print reporter seat.

Previously, the AP shared a guaranteed rotating spot with Reuters and Bloomberg. The three outfits have now been dropped into a much larger group of print media organizations eligible for inclusion in the pool.

The New York Post, which was first to report the changes, indicated that the reassignment of the three wires expands the White House print rotation from 31 to 34 spots and “dramatically” decreases opportunities for each wire service.

‘The Court does not order the Government to grant the AP permanent access to the Oval Office, the East Room, or any other media event.’

The White House’s new policy eliminating the wire spot states that:

“outlets will be eligible for participation in the Pool, irrespective of the substantive viewpoint expressed by an outlet”;
“eligible outlets will be chosen for the White House Press Pool on a rotating basis”;
“wire-based outlets will be eligible for selection as part of the Pool’s daily print-journalist rotation”;
“the White House Press Secretary shall retain day-to-day discretion to determine composition of the pool”; and
“the President retains absolute discretion over access to the Oval Office, Air Force One, and other comparable sensitive spaces.”

“The makeup of the pool is far more reflective of the media habits of the American people in 2025,” a senior White House official told the New York Post. “The White House press policy continues to be grounded in fairness for all outlets that wish to cover the White House.”

U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden noted in his ruling last week that the AP must be put “on an equal playing field as similarly situated outlets, despite the AP’s use of disfavored terminology.”

“The Court does not order the Government to grant the AP permanent access to the Oval Office, the East Room, or any other media event,” continued McFadden. “It does not bestow special treatment upon the AP. Indeed, the AP is not necessarily entitled to the ‘first in line every time’ permanent press pool access it enjoyed under the [White House Correspondents’ Association]. But it cannot be treated worse than its peer wire services.”

The new policy appears to satisfy McFadden’s requirement since it deprives all of the wire services of their coveted spot.

Lauren Easton, a spokeswoman for the AP, said in a statement, “The administration’s actions continue to disregard the fundamental American freedom to speak without government control or retaliation.”

“For decades, the daily presence of the wire services in the press pool has ensured that investors and voters across the United States and around the world can rely on accurate real-time reporting on what the president says and does,” said Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait, who was similarly upset over the apparent checkmate. “We deeply regret the decision to remove that permanent level of scrutiny and accountability.”

WHCA president Eugene Daniels of MSNBC bemoaned the shake-up in a statement Tuesday night, suggesting the three liberal publications were somehow owed their traditional spots.

“The changes to the press pool today show that the White House is just using a new means to do the same thing: retaliate against news organizations for coverage the White House doesn’t like,” said Daniels. “The Associated Press, Bloomberg News and Reuters play an integral role in coverage of the presidency and should be allowed their traditional spots in the pool.”

The AP filed a court motion Wednesday claiming the White House’s press pool shake-up was a violation of McFadden’s injunction. The liberal publication asked the judge to enforce his preliminary injunction.

The court has ordered the parties to appear for a hearing on April 18.

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Newly released dashcam video shows the moment of a crazy hit-and-run accident involving multiple vehicles in Southern California last week that led to a bizarre chain of events culminating in the arrest of the wife of rock band Weezer’s bassist.

As Blaze News previously reported, 51-year-old best-selling author Jillian Lauren Shriner was arrested last Tuesday and charged with attempted murder of a peace officer.

‘It’s crazy how just one man can cause so much chaos.’

Shriner exited her home in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at the same time police swarmed the area to search for three suspects involved in a hit-and-run incident. Police say Shriner was armed with a handgun.

“The officers ordered Shriner to drop the handgun multiple times; however, she refused,” according to the police report obtained by KNBC-TV. “Shriner then pointed the handgun at the officers, and an officer-involved shooting occurred.”

Citing Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson Jennifer Forkish, the Los Angeles Times reported that Shriner “pointed her gun at officers” and “opened fire.”

Cops allegedly returned fire and shot Shriner in the shoulder, and then she fled into her home.

Shriner then purportedly exited her house and surrendered to the police. She was transported to a hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.

Police reportedly recovered a 9mm handgun from Shriner’s home.

Shriner — the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner — was taken into custody but released after posting a $1 million bond.

Police officers reportedly apprehended the alleged hit-and-run driver in a neighboring back yard. Video seemingly shows the suspect attempting to blend into the neighborhood by watering a garden and wearing only his boxers.

The man was arrested and charged with one count of misdemeanor hit-and-run. He allegedly got into a car crash with two other vehicles on a nearby freeway.

KABC-TV released wild dashcam video of the crash, as well as the suspect fleeing the crime scene with clothes and a guitar.

Video shows a gray sedan swerving across multiple lanes, slamming into a black car, and then a Tesla crashing into the other vehicles from the rear.

David Gonzalez was driving his brand-new Telsa when he was involved in the three-car collision.

“I thought I was in an episode of ‘GTA,'” Gonzalez said of the crash, referring to the Grand Theft Auto video game. “Honestly, that stuff just doesn’t happen.”

Gonzalez suffered an injured back and broken arm in the crash and will require surgery.

His Tesla, which he purchased just two weeks ago, was totaled.

Gonzalez said of the events following the car crash, “Ripple effect. At the moment, I had no clue what happened after, but it’s crazy how just one man can cause so much chaos.”

Shriner is scheduled to return to court on April 30.

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An American who had been a hostage of Iran called out the hypocrisy of Democrat Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey for hopping into action for a migrant from El Salvador after previously ignoring the man’s captivity.

Booker excoriated the Trump administration over the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an accused MS-13 gang member who was deported to an infamous terrorist prison in El Salvador. Xiyue Wang claims that Booker did nothing for him while he was held hostage in Iran.

‘Booker never advocated for my release & refused to speak to my wife.’

“The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the Trump administration must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia,” wrote Booker on social media. “The story of his detainment is horrifying, all of us must share his story and demand his quick and safe return. An assault on the due process rights of anyone is a threat to the due process rights of everyone.”

The unanimous ruling from the court said that Garcia must be brought back to the U.S., but the Trump administration has claimed that his return is out of its power, while the El Salvadoran president also rejected the idea when questioned by reporters.

Politico reported Tuesday that Booker was organizing a delegation of Democrats to go to El Salvador to try to help Garcia.

Wang responded to the report in a post on social media Tuesday.

“I was an NJ resident, Sen. @CoryBooker’s constituent, when I was jailed in Iran as an American hostage,” he wrote. “Sen. Booker never advocated for my release & refused to speak to my wife. Sen. Booker is a hypocrite.”

When he was confronted with some of the efforts Booker did undertake on his behalf, Wang admitted his error but persisted in his opinion that Booker did not do enough to free him.

“As Sen. Booker’s constituent, I expected him to do more,” he responded. “There are other members in Congress across the aisle, who weren’t my reps and did more, like [Rep.] Chris Smith (D-N.J.) & [Rep. Pramila] Jayapal (D-Wash.).”

“Sen. Booker does not appear to be consistent in advocating for unjustly detained Americans abroad, he seems to take a special interest in this specific case because President Trump deported the person in question,” Wang added.

Critics of the Trump administration argue that the evidence of Garcia’s gang membership was dubious because the man had never been criminally charged after entering the U.S. The claim that he was a gang member was made by a confidential informant and also on the basis that Garcia was wearing a Chicago Bulls hoodie and hat.

Attorneys for the Trump administration also admitted in court that he was deported based on a “clerical error.”

Wang, a Chinese-American graduate student at Princeton University, had been convicted of spying by the Iranian government without evidence and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2017. The Trump administration was able to secure his release in 2019 as part of a prisoner swap.

Princeton had defended Wang’s actions and said he was innocent of the charges issued by the hostile Iranian government.

“He was not involved in any political activities or social activism,” the university said in a statement, “he was simply a scholar trying to gain access to materials he needed for his dissertation.”

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A federal judge sided with a school district that banned a protest against transgender athletes that involved pink wristbands with “XX” written on them, referring to female chromosomes.

Parents of female student athletes at Bow High School in New Hampshire filed a lawsuit against the Bow School District after they were banned from school property and all sports events over the protest.

‘The judge openly admitted that Pride flags are allowed because they promote “inclusion,” but wristbands defending women’s sports are banned because they might “offend” someone.’

On Monday, United States District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe said that the school was within its rights to ban the parents because the school had an obligation to protect any student from harassment or intimidation.

“The question then becomes whether the school district can manage its athletic events and its athletic fields and facilities,” said Judge McAuliffe, “in a manner that protects its students from adult speech that can reasonably be seen to target a specific student participating in the event (as well as other similar gender-identifying students) by invited adult spectators, when that speech demeans, harasses, intimidates, and bullies.”

“The answer is straightforward: Of course it can. Indeed, school authorities are obligated to do so,” McAuliffe wrote in the ruling denying a preliminary injunction.

The parents had worn the wristbands in a silent protest against the school allowing a transgender student to play in the girls’ soccer game. Officials stopped the game and had police issue “no trespass” orders against the parents.

Anthony Foote, one of the parents involved, told the New Hampshire Journal that they would continue fighting the issue in court.

“What was our offense? Supporting girls’ sports and defending biological reality?” Foote asked. “This ruling is a slap in the face to every parent who believes schools should be a place of fairness, not political indoctrination. The judge openly admitted that Pride flags are allowed because they promote ‘inclusion,’ but wristbands defending women’s sports are banned because they might ‘offend’ someone. That’s viewpoint discrimination, plain and simple — and it’s unconstitutional.”

The parents are represented by the legal nonprofit Institute for Free Speech, whose senior attorney Del Kolde released a statement about the ruling.

“We strongly disagree with the court’s opinion issued today denying our request for a preliminary injunction. This was adult speech in a limited public forum, which enjoys greater First Amendment protection than student speech in the classroom,” Kolde said.

“Bow School District officials were obviously discriminating based on viewpoint because they perceived the XX wristbands to be ‘trans-exclusionary.’ We are still evaluating our options for next steps,” he added.

McAuliffe has not yet ruled on the request for a permanent injunction.

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The El Salvadoran national accused of being a member of MS-13 and was deported back to the Central American country has been showered with support from Democrats for being a “wrongly deported Maryland man.” New information about what he allegedly did while in the United States appears to bolster the reasons for his deportation.

While Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s family denies he is a gang member, court documents show his wife had previously asked for a protective order against him for alleged domestic violence.

‘Van Hollen said he promised Vasquez he will do everything he can to bring Abrego Garcia home.’

As first reported by independent journalist Andy Ngo and then confirmed by Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin, Jennifer Vasquez petitioned a Maryland court for a domestic violence protective order against Abrego Garcia in 2021. Vasquez also filed and received a protective order in 2020. The public court documents do not provide details of the alleged domestic violence.

The protective orders are in stark contrast to what Vasquez now says about Abrego Garcia. In a GoFundMe for the family, Vasquez says, “Kilmar is an excellent father. He has always been there for our three children and all of their needs. … Kilmar has been the main provider of our household and the love of my life for over seven years. Since our family has been separated, I have been devastated and confused.”

Vasquez added Abrego Garcia’s deportation has been an “unjust family separation.”

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday to advocate for the government to allow Abrego Garcia to be released back to the United States. In a video posted on X, Van Hollen said he promised Vasquez he will do everything he can to bring Abrego Garcia “home.” Van Hollen also expressed hope he would be able to meet with high-level government officials, indicating El Salvador’s government has not agreed to talk with him so far.

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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele told reporters during his visit to the White House this week that Abrego Garcia will not be turned over to the United States. The Trump administration has also said if he ever is returned, he will simply be put back into federal custody because he does not have a legal basis to remain in the United States.

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President Donald Trump’s Department of State is reportedly weighing closing nearly 30 embassies and consulates as part of its plan to massively reduce the agency’s budget.

State Department memos obtained by the New York Post and several other outlets revealed that the agency outlined a strategy to slash its spending by $26 billion in the upcoming fiscal year. The latest draft budget proposal suggested cutting the agency’s funds by nearly half compared to the previous fiscal year.

‘The president has made it clear that he is committed to cutting the federal deficit and improving the return on investment for the American people.’

The agency would endeavor to achieve these savings by reducing diplomatic engagement work by $4.5 billion and terminating $21.5 billion in foreign assistance, the Post reported. The document weighed slashing funding to the United Nations and NATO.

Additionally, the memo floated closing at least 17 consulates and 10 embassies, including posts in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, South Korea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Malta, Maldives, Grenada, Luxembourg, Lesotho, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan.

One center in Iraq was listed for potential closure, and two others may see expenditures “drastically” reduced.

The proposed downsizing also considered consolidating outposts in countries with multiple consulates, such as Japan and Canada.

A State Department spokesperson told the Post, “The president has made it clear that he is committed to cutting the federal deficit and improving the return on investment for the American people.”

“As the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has said, the administration’s funding decisions will be reflected in the President’s Budget Request that will be provided to Congress soon,” the spokesperson said.

The closures have not yet been announced, “and operations continue as normal,” the representative added.

Tammy Bruce, a spokesperson for the department, suggested to CNN that reporting regarding the State Department memos was inaccurate.

“I would suggest that you check with the White House and the president of the U.S. as they continue to work on their budget plan and what they submit to Congress,” Bruce told the news outlet. “The kinds of numbers and what we tend to see is reporting that is early or wrong, based on leaked documents from somewhere unknown.”

During a Tuesday briefing, Bruce noted that there was “no final plan” on the yearly budget and any cost-cutting decisions would be “up to the White House.”

“I can tell you that whatever you’ve seen in public was not released from this entity, was not released from this department. It was not released by the secretary,” she said.

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Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) has been in the headlines for her wild antics quite a bit in the not-so-distant past, but this time the reason appears to be a little more serious.

Crockett is officially under investigation by the Federal Election Commission for money laundering through the Democrat donation site ActBlue and alleged voter intimidation, after conservative advocacy group the Coolidge Reagan Foundation filed a complaint against her.

A donor was reported to have given 53 separate donations to her campaign that totaled $595 and were made through the ActBlue donations portal. The donations were tied to a 73-year-old Texas resident named Randy Best, but Best’s wife claims to have no knowledge of the donations.

“Now, we have an official FEC investigation into Jasmine Crockett’s campaign, which this says that it was $870,000 dollars of ActBlue donations and that it’s unclear how many of these are similarly fraudulent transactions made in the name of unsuspecting, innocent people, who did not actually provide the funds,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” explains.

“It’s almost like ActBlue has been acting as this giant money-laundering operation for the Democrats,” she continues, adding, “That kind of talk is why I’m demonetized from YouTube.”

Eric July agrees that it’s likely a much bigger problem than just Crockett.

“I mean, you can just look at Congress in general. I mean, I feel like we talk about it every week, how it comes under question how so many of these people get rich despite the salaries that they have. And it’s not like they’re somehow becoming business gurus just by getting some congressional insight,” July tells Gonzales.

“I’m already under the impression that most of them are a bunch of crooks,” he continues. “I mean, they’re swindling the American people regardless, but I believe that a lot of them are also enriching themselves and just using the political system as it is to do it.”

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The left is the party that spawned critical race theory — the fundamentally flawed ideology that claims our constitutional framers were influenced by the racist norms of their time and therefore all the systems they created are tainted by those biases.

Mark Levin says it’s a shameful lie.

The truth is many of the framers despised slavery, but they had to make a hard deal with the slave states in order to form the United States. Without that union, there would have been no Civil War and no Abraham Lincoln to bring slavery to an end.

At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the delegates could not agree on the issue of slavery, so they left the issue to their children and grandchildren, Levin explains.

However, the framers knew that “a nation born out of the Declaration of Independence where all men were created equal” could not coexist with slavery.

Thomas Jefferson, who albeit owned slaves, tried to “put a provision in the Declaration of Independence about slavery,” but “it was withdrawn because they were in the middle of what started a revolutionary war for their own survival. … They had to come together to fight the [British].”

Ultimately, the fight for independence from Britain and national unity took precedence over the issue of slavery until Abraham Lincoln was elected president and the Civil War thankfully put it to an end.

“[Abraham Lincoln] loved the Constitution of the United States, and he loved the Declaration, and he cited them repeatedly, especially the Declaration, as justification for fighting the [Civil] War to the end and abolishing slavery,” says Levin.

He wouldn’t have done that, though, if our founding documents were inherently pro-slavery and pro-white supremacy, as the left suggests they are.

To hear more of Levin’s analysis, including his take on the dangerous idea of nullification, a pre-Civil War movement that would have shattered the Republic, check out the clip above.

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Britain’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the legal definition of “woman” excludes male transvestites.

Conservatives and feminists such as J.K. Rowling celebrated the court’s affirmation of reality. Meanwhile, gender ideologues and LGBT activists who recently suffered other monumental defeats in the isles — namely Britain’s ban of puberty blockers and the landmark Cass Review’s confirmation that so-called gender science is bunk — melted down, characterizing the ruling as potentially harmful.

The court was tasked with sorting out the “correct interpretation” of the 2010 Equality Act, specifically the terms “woman” and “sex.” The act provides protection against discrimination on the basis of various immutable characteristics.

The case found its way to the U.K.’s highest court on account of a legal dispute between the feminist organization For Women Scotland and the leftist Scottish government.

The feminist organization For Women Scotland kicked things off in 2018 by challenging Scottish legislation that would include male transvestites in quotas for women. The Scottish government maintained that men who secured gender recognition certificates identifying them as female were women where the law was concerned, reported the BBC. The case snowballed from there.

“This examination of the language of the EA 2010, its context and purpose, demonstrate that the words ‘sex,’ ‘woman’ and ‘man’ in sections 11 and 212(1) mean (and were always intended to mean) biological sex, biological woman and biological man,” the court noted in its 88-page ruling.

‘Women are women and men are men: you cannot change your biological sex.’

“Interpreting ‘sex’ as certificated sex would cut across the definitions of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ and thus the protected characteristic of sex in an incoherent way. It would create heterogeneous groupings,” stated the court. “As a matter of ordinary language, the provisions relating to sex discrimination, and especially those relating to pregnancy and maternity, and to protection from risks specifically affecting women, can only be interpreted as referring to biological sex.

Just in case there was any remaining doubt, the court clarified that a female posing as a man and carrying a GRC is a woman where the law is concerned and a male posing as a woman and carrying a GRC is a man.

The court evidently did not buy the suggestion that admitting that men are not women under the law would cause disadvantage to transvestites, noting they were still protected from discrimination under the Equality Act.

Judge Patrick Hodge, deputy president of the U.K. Supreme Court, stated that the ruling should not be read as “a triumph for one or more groups in our society at the expense of another.”

Contrary to Hodge’s suggestion, the ruling amounted to a major victory for those Britons keen on keeping opportunistic men out of women’s spaces. After all, the court ruled that male transvestites with GRCs can be excluded from single-sex spaces such as women’s bathrooms, changing rooms, and hostels.

“If sex means biological sex, then provided it is proportionate, the female-only nature of the service would … permit the exclusion of all males including males living in the female gender regardless of GRC status,” said the court. “Moreover, women living in the male gender could also be excluded under paragraph 28 without this amounting to gender reassignment discrimination.”

“Absolutely jubilant here, tears!” For Women Scotland tweeted upon learning of the ruling.

Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch noted, “Saying ‘trans women are women’ was never true in fact and now isn’t true in law, either.”

Badenoch characterized the ruling as a “victory for all of the women who faced personal abuse or lost their jobs for stating the obvious. Women are women and men are men: you cannot change your biological sex.”

J.K. Rowling noted, “It took three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish women with an army behind them to get this case heard by the Supreme Court and, in winning, they’ve protected the rights of women and girls across the UK.”

The three women Rowling referred to are Trina Budge, Marion Calder, and Susan Smith, the directors of For Women Scotland.

The leftist Scottish government vowed to remain an inclusive country after its defeat Wednesday, reported the Telegraph.

A spokesman for the government said, “We want to reassure everyone that the Scottish government is fully committed to protecting everyone’s rights, to ensure that Scotland remains an inclusive country.”

“This judgment further reinforces that the Equality Act does not, and never has, allowed for the self-identification of sex under the Act,” the Edinburgh-based policy analysis group Murray Blackburn MacKenzie noted in a statement.

“Nonetheless, policies based on self-identification remain in place across the U.K., in hospitals, police forces, schools, and prisons. The U.K. and devolved governments, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission, need to take responsibility for their role in this, take urgent steps to clear up the confusion, and ensure the ruling has effect on the ground,” added the policy group.

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The intrigue swirling about Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James has deepened. According to a member of the Trump administration, James not only falsified records in connection with multiple properties, but she even previously listed her father as her husband to secure a mortgage.

In the last few weeks, allegations surfaced that James, 66, and a relative purchased a home in Norfolk, Virginia, in August 2023. In documents tied to the purchase, James pledged to use the home as her “principal residence,” an apparent violation of a New York statute that requires all statewide officeholders to reside in New York, as Blaze News previously reported.

A strong motivation for promising to use the home as her primary residence would be to secure better loan terms, since primary residences are considered less risky for lenders than secondary residences.

President Donald Trump turned a national spotlight on the allegations by posting a report about them on social media Sunday night. In the attending message, he called James “a totally corrupt politician” and a “wacky crook” who should resign “IMMEDIATELY.”

Within hours, William Pulte, the director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche referring James for criminal investigation.

‘While this was a long time ago, it raises serious concerns about the validity of Ms. James [sic] representations on mortgage applications.’

In addition to the alleged misrepresentations on the documents related to the Norfolk home, James also falsified records related to a Brooklyn, New York, property, Pulte claimed. Though the property was listed as having five units in January 2001, after purchasing the property the following month, James allegedly listed the property as having only four units.

According to Pulte, the purpose of fudging the number of units would be to secure a conforming loan from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, entities of the federal government under the purview of the FHFA. To qualify for a conforming loan, a property may have no more than four units.

“Ms. James, for both properties listed above, appears to have falsified records in order to meet certain lending requirements and receive favorable loan terms,” Pulte wrote.

Pulte further alleged that James has a history of submitting fraudulent real estate documents dating back all the way to the early 1980s. In 1983, James and her father apparently signed documents claiming to be husband and wife to secure a mortgage on a home, Pulte said.

In other documents dated May 4, 2000, “Ms. James was listed again as ‘husband and wife,'” Pulte added, though whether her father was also mentioned in those documents is unclear.

“While this was a long time ago, it raises serious concerns about the validity of Ms. James [sic] representations on mortgage applications,” Pulte claimed.

On account of James’ apparent pattern of lies and obfuscations to game the lending system, Pulte recommended the Department of Justice look into whether she committed wire, mail, and bank fraud and made false statements to a financial institution, among other crimes.

In a statement, a spokesperson for James dodged the specific allegations entirely and instead suggested that “bullies” in the Trump administration were attempting to “weaponize” the federal government against upstanding, law-abiding officials.

“Attorney General James is focused every single day on protecting New Yorkers, especially as this administration weaponizes the federal government against the rule of law and the Constitution. She will not be intimidated by bullies — no matter who they are,” the statement said.

‘[James] insisted that these technicalities matter and that the powerful should not be given a free pass.’

This turn of events is even more remarkable considering the accusations James has lobbed at Trump and the Trump Organization.

In October 2023, just two months after buying the Norfolk home and about the time she was supposed to make it her “principal residence,” James launched a civil suit against the Trump Organization, claiming it overvalued properties to negotiate better deals with banks and insurance companies.

A jury agreed and slapped the organization with a staggering $455 million judgment. The judgment is currently under appeal, and members of a New York appeals court already signaled support for overturning or at least reducing it.

Now that James is facing similar allegations, leftists and and their media allies are accusing the administration of exacting retribution against Democrat officials like James who engaged in a lawfare campaign against Trump. The Daily Beast claimed that Trump is seeking “revenge” with the criminal referral from Pulte.

But others, including legal scholar Jonathan Turley, noted that James set a high standard regarding Trump and his responsibility for any misstatements, no matter how minor, from the organization that bears his name. If held to the same standard, she will likely fall short, Turley indicated.

“She insisted that these technicalities matter and that the powerful should not be given a free pass,” Turley explained to Laura Ingraham on Fox News Tuesday night. “Well, that bill has come due.”

The DOJ did not respond to a request for comment from “The Ingraham Angle.”

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While the Biden administration normalized and encouraged declaring your pronouns to everyone you meet, the Trump administration is doing what it can to reverse the previous obsession with gender.

Starting with the “pronouns in bio,” which was made clear when White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the White House will no longer respond to journalists who advertise their gender on their profiles.

“Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story,” Leavitt said.

“I freakin’ love this so much,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” exclaims happily. “It’s such a welcome change. What a departure from Sam Brinton having the nuclear codes and he was out stealing other women’s clothes, because he wasn’t one, but he dressed like one, but he didn’t look like one because he was doing the bare minimum effort.”

“If you live out there in fantasy land, and you don’t realize that if you have a penis you’re a man and if you have a vagina you’re a woman, there’s just really no point in this engagement,” Gonzales continues, adding, “I’m really not tired of the winning.”

And it’s clearly run its course, as even CNN hosts are getting called out for misgendering their fans.

In a town hall interview with Bernie Sanders on CNN, the mic was handed to a young woman whom Anderson Cooper introduced with “she/her” pronouns. The woman made sure that her first sentence to the pair was “they/them pronouns, actually, thank you.”

“A gay man just got corrected,” Gonzales comments, adding, “They’re not part of the protected class any more.”

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The mother of Rachel Morin expressed her disdain for Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) for going to extreme lengths to advocate for the return of an illegal alien who was deported back to El Salvador.

Patty Morin told Sean Hannity on Tuesday that Van Hollen and other Maryland Democrats did not reach out to her when her daughter was murdered by an illegal immigrant who gained access to the United States during the Biden-Harris border crisis. The man accused of the horrific crime was found guilty by a jury this week.

“I’m actually angry. I’m actually outraged, but I’m too sad at the moment to show anger at the same time. He did not call our family; he did not give condolences. There was no action [from] the Democratic Party in any way. … In Maryland, none of the senators did anything to help search for the murderer of my daughter,” Morin said.

The only Democrat who reached out to her was Maryland Governor Wes Moore, but he did so only after she had talked with President Donald Trump.

‘El Salvador has made it clear they will not be releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States.’

Morin said many people do not fully understand how gruesome her daughter’s murder was.

“Three-fourths of her brain was hemorrhaged. … Three-fourths of her skull was bashed in. She had a six-inch square in the back of her head where the skull was shattered, the way that you would crush an eggshell. Her face was bashed in,” Morin explained.

“The murderer drag her 150 yards as blood gushed out of her head,” she continued.

Democrats, Morin said, are more concerned about letting illegal aliens like her daughter’s killer into the United States and defending their ability to stay in the country instead of defending American citizens.

Van Hollen posted a video on X Wednesday morning showing he was getting ready to fly to El Salvador’s capital.

“I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home,” he said.

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El Salvador has made clear it will not be releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States because he is an El Salvadoran citizen. The federal government said even if El Salvador releases him back to the U.S., Abrego Garcia would be put back into federal custody and be subject to removal once again.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) announced Wednesday morning that the state filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump to end the administration’s “unlawful” tariffs.

The complaint aims to prevent Trump from imposing increased tariffs against Mexico, China, and Canada and establishing a baseline 10% tariff on all countries.

‘His plan levels the playing field for businesses and workers to address our country’s national emergency of chronic trade deficits.’

Newsom claimed that Trump lacked the authority to enact the fees.

According to the lawsuit, while the administration is relying on the International Economic Emergency Powers Act to implement the changes, that law has never previously been used to justify tariffs. The complaint contended that only Congress can approve such action.

Newsom’s office said, “The IEEPA gives the President authority to take certain actions if he declares a national emergency in response to a foreign national security, foreign policy, or economic threat. The law, which was enacted by Congress in 1977, specifies many different actions the President can take, but tariffs aren’t one of them. In fact, this is the first time a president has attempted to rely on this law to impose tariffs.”

The administration has stated that increasing tariffs aligns with Trump’s “America First” agenda by boosting the economy and ensuring fair treatment for the U.S. in global trade.

Newsom, who has set aside $50 million to challenge the Trump administration, claims that the tariffs are hurting Americans. Meanwhile, California has asked the federal government for $40 billion in wildfire recovery aid, while it is borrowing billions of dollars to fund Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, after it was expanded to provide coverage to illegal aliens.

“President Trump’s unlawful tariffs are wreaking chaos on California families, businesses, and our economy — driving up prices and threatening jobs. We’re standing up for American families who can’t afford to let the chaos continue,” he stated.

The governor insisted that the tariffs amounted to a tax increase on the American people. Under Newsom, California has the highest taxes in the nation.

Bonta claimed that Trump’s tariffs would have “very real consequences for Californians across our state.”

“I am proud to go to bat alongside Governor Newsom to fight for California’s vibrant economy, businesses, and residents,” he said.

White House spokesman Harrison Fields responded to Newsom’s lawsuit announcement.

“Never Trumpers will always oppose him, but President Trump is standing up for Main Street by putting an end to our trading partners — especially China — exploiting the U.S. His plan levels the playing field for businesses and workers to address our country’s national emergency of chronic trade deficits,” Fields said.

On Tuesday, Trump posted on social media, “The United States is taking in RECORD NUMBERS in Tariffs, with the cost of almost all products going down, including gasoline, groceries, and just about everything else. Likewise, INFLATION is down. Promises Made, Promises Kept!”

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Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Wednesday that he will prevent the Senate from advancing President Donald Trump’s nominations.

Schumer argued that Trump intends to use the justice system for political gain, despite the president himself being the target of government weaponization for the last decade.

Since Schumer lacks enough senators to block nominees through a vote, he will instead invoke a lesser-known tactic.

“Donald Trump has made clear he has no fidelity to the law and intends to use the Justice Department, the U.S. attorney offices and law enforcement as weapons to go after his perceived enemies,” Schumer said in a statement. “Such blatant and depraved political motivations are deeply corrosive to the rule of law and leaves me deeply skeptical of Donald Trump’s intentions for these important positions.”

Although Schumer has decided to lead the charge and thwart Trump’s nominees, the Democrats have not yet been successful in their efforts. Thanks to the Republican majority, all of Trump’s nominees have been confirmed, even those who were subjected to aggressive backlash and behind-the-scenes lobbying campaigns.

Since Schumer lacks enough senators to block nominees through a vote, he will instead invoke a lesser-known tactic.

Senate leaders like Schumer typically rely on senators to approve confirmations for judicial nominees from their states, waiting to advance the confirmation until they receive a “blue slip” signaling the senator’s approval.

Schumer, who represents New York, will refuse to return the “blue slips,” which would allow the confirmation process to begin for Jay Clayton, who was nominated to serve as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph Nocella Jr., who was nominated to be lead prosecutor in the Eastern District.

Republicans are now forced to weigh their options. In the past, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, abandoned the “blue slip” practice for circuit court nominees during Trump’s first administration. Since then, the Senate has upheld the practice for other nominees, and Grassley has signaled that he will honor the precedent for U.S. attorney nominees.

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Police charged a Washington State University instructor as well as a college staff member with assaulting a MAGA hat-wearing student of color on Feb. 28, according to a video report from Turning Point USA’s Frontlines.

WSU junior engineering student Jay Sani — a conservative and big supporter of President Donald Trump — said in the clip that WSU instructor Patrick Mahoney and staff member Gerald Hoff ambushed and physically attacked him outside of the Coug, a campus bar. The attack was captured on surveillance video and is included in the Frontlines video report, which you can view here.

‘To make it clear, I hate to say this, but I’m brown, but forget it. I’m an engineering student that wants to get the degree and move on. So what if I like someone that you don’t like. We have the 1st Amendment, and it’s not okay that just because you don’t like that person, I should be attacked for it. You had a chance in November to oust [Trump], but you didn’t.’

Sani said he was wearing a red Make America Great Again hat at the time of the attack and that Mahoney “ripped the hat off my head.” In a Facebook post describing the attack, Sani said Mahoney “crumpled” up the MAGA hat and “threw it into the street, and yelled … words to the effect of ‘go get it bitch.'”

Sani said he threw his food at Mahoney’s face but that Mahoney and Hoff ganged up on him, saying Mahoney “grabbed my chest and slammed it on the concrete as I was falling” and “punched me a bunch of times on the back” and that Hoff “kicked me a bunch of times, too.”

The Frontlines report includes images of Sani’s “multiple scrapes and bruises” resulting from the two-on-one beatdown.

Caught and cuffed

The video report also shows Pullman police catching up with Mahoney and Hoff on bodycam video timestamped in the early morning hours of March 1, just hours after the attack.

“I seen this guy f**king on campus before,” Mahoney says on police bodycam video in reference to Sani. “I know he’s, like, [a] f**king right-wing dude.”

Mahoney also tells police, “I, like, grabbed his hat, threw it, and said, like, ‘go get it.'” Hoff admits to police that “we did grab him and bring him to the ground.”

However, Mahoney is heard actually telling cops that he didn’t hit Sani and that “I don’t think I did f**king something illegal, right?”

A voice — presumably an officer — is heard saying on the bodycam clip that “it’s unwanted touching,” after which Mahoney says, “It’s unwanted touching. I don’t know what that is, right?”

Mahoney adds on the bodycam clip that Sani “wanted to fight” and “f**king got what was coming to him, right?”

The video notes that Mahoney and Hoff were arrested and charged with fourth-degree misdemeanor assault. The WSU student newspaper, the Daily Evergreen, confirmed their arrests and charges.

The Frontlines video report said Mahoney is a WSU graduate student and instructor who teaches a freshman-level political science class — and is a “notorious far-left activist who hates conservative values and is a regular at pro-Hamas protests in the city.”

Mahoney also “has strong ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, progressive pro-labor groups, and is someone who publicly touts his admiration for the communist party,” the video report adds, citing Sani. The video also points out a hammer and sickle pin seen on Mahoney’s jacket lapel in his WSU headshot:

Patrick MahoneyImage source: Washington State University website

The Frontlines video report adds that WSU temporarily suspended Mahoney from classes and teaching duties. The Daily Evergreen confirmed Mahoney’s suspension.

However, the video report said Sani is speaking up because Mahoney could be reinstated and that his victim doesn’t want that to happen. “He shouldn’t be teaching here in my opinion, because if you can’t tolerate different opinions, then what’s the point?” Sani said in the video.

In reference to Sani’s skin color, he added in his Facebook post, “To make it clear, I hate to say this, but I’m brown, but forget it. I’m an engineering student that wants to get the degree and move on. So what if I like someone that you don’t like. We have the 1st Amendment, and it’s not okay that just because you don’t like that person, I should be attacked for it. You had a chance in November to oust [Trump], but you didn’t.”

The Frontlines video report said WSU leaders wouldn’t comment on the situation, citing student privacy laws, and that a Frontlines reporter knocked on Mahoney’s door to inquire if he wanted to comment on the assault but that he replied, “No, go away,” from behind the closed door.

The Frontlines video report added that “we were unable to reach Hoff to get his side of the story, but found his LinkedIn account indicating that he’s employed at WSU. Again, the school would not comment on Hoff’s status, either.”

The video report added that WSU is preparing for a Thursday event featuring TPUSA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk and that the event “is already drawing online chatter from violent militant groups like Antifa and other left-leaning students who are promising to disrupt and cause chaos.”

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