U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — a foreign-born, Biden-appointed, lesbian judge who previously worked as a lawyer to fight the first Trump administration’s immigration policy and helped the U.N. secure asylum for so-called refugees — obliged her fellow immigration activists on Monday, blocking the revocation of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status.

That status, which Haitian migrants have enjoyed since January 2010 and over 352,000 Haitian migrants enjoy today, was set to expire on Tuesday. Without Reyes’ intervention, the Trump administration would have been able to immediately repatriate many of those Haitians who have strained citizen resources and displaced American labor in cities such as Springfield, Ohio.

‘Temporary means temporary.’

Reyes, a Uruguayan native, claimed, however, that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem not only violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause when terminating the TPS designation for Haiti but had likely done so “because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”

Much of Reyes’ Monday ruling in the class-action lawsuit reads like a piece of immigration activist agitprop.

In addition to characterizing Haitian TPS holders as valuable contributors to American society and some class members’ removal back to Haiti as “devastating because they have no meaningful ties to the country,” Reyes questioned why it was necessary to let the status expire now:

Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our health care system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things — in the public interest is not one of them.

The foreign-born judge suggested further that while the Trump administration “contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS holders are speculative,” the State Department has issued travel advisories to Americans warning of the threats of kidnapping, crime, and civil unrest in the third-world nation.

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Noem determined last year after reviewing country conditions and consulting with the appropriate government agencies that the island nation no longer met the conditions for a TPS designation.

Reyes, the same judge who tried unsuccessfully last year to torpedo the War Department’s ban on transvestites in the military, makes no secret of her animus toward the American-born DHS secretary throughout her ruling, using her conclusion, for instance, to cast Noem as a cold-hearted ignoramus.

“Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side — or at least has ignored them,” wrote the Biden judge. “Does not have the law on her side — or at least has ignored it.”

Reyes’ fellow activists celebrated her ruling.

“This was the right decision. There is no evidence that the Trump administration took the time to make a clear-eyed assessment of the risks these families would face back in Haiti before moving to revoke TPS,” Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, said in a statement obtained by GBH News. “On the contrary, the revocation appears to have been driven by racial animus and political ideology.”

“We can breathe for a little bit,” Rose-Thamar Joseph, operations director of the Haitian Support Center in migrant-overwhelmed Springfield, Ohio, told the Associated Press.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in response to the ruling, “Supreme Court, here we come.”

“This is lawless activism that we will be vindicated on,” continued McLaughlin. “Haiti’s TPS was granted following an earthquake that took place over 15 years ago, it was never intended to be a de facto amnesty program, yet that’s how previous administrations have used it for decades.”

“Temporary means temporary, and the final word will not be from an activist judge legislating from the bench,” added McLaughlin.

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President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the charge against government weaponization has reportedly been demoted from his role within the Department of Justice.

Ed Martin was initially recruited to serve as U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., but was later reassigned as the DOJ’s weaponization chief. Now, after nine months on the job, several media outlets have reported that Martin’s role has been narrowed but that he will continue serving as the U.S. pardon attorney.

His demotion may have been due to an ongoing feud with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

“President Trump appointed Ed Martin as pardon attorney, and Ed continues to a great job in that role,” a DOJ spokesperson said in a statement.

Martin’s claim to fame came after the 2020 election, when he became a vocal defender of Trump and the January 6 protesters, many of whom he represented as an attorney.

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Martin’s brief time serving as interim U.S. attorney was focused on forwarding Trump’s agenda, kneecapping prosecutors who harshly punished January 6 protesters, and advocating for the Department of Government Efficiency.

Although Martin was popular with the MAGA base, he was a tough sell for the Senate. President Trump eventually pulled his nomination in May 2025.

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In the midst of Martin’s role change, reports suggested that his demotion may have been due to an ongoing feud with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, clashing with his staff over his “lack of productivity” and his “controversial social media posts,” according to CBS News.

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Tech is the future of the American economy. This is why President Trump is investing so heavily in chip manufacturing, AI infrastructure, and nuclear power. Against all odds, he even managed to coax the tech elite to fall in line and invest in the MAGA agenda. But the more Big Tech gave to Trump and his administration, the more they took in return. Left-wing media thinks Big Tech now runs the president, but the truth is that lefty intellectuals don’t understand Trump’s Big Tech strategy at all.

Inauguration Day

The world was stunned when Big Tech CEOs gathered together in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., to watch the 47th president of the United States be sworn in. The guest list was a who’s who of tech elite, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Does President Trump own Big Tech, or does Big Tech own him?

The left painted the event as a national disgrace — proof that Big Tech was kissing up to Trump in order to save itself from the mass censorship and misinformation campaigns these companies collectively pushed onto the American people throughout the pandemic.

The right saw the union as a glimmer of hope that freedom was finally returning to the United States. Our constitutional rights were back in style, as Big Tech released its iron grip on “truth,” no longer colluding with the Biden administration to suppress dissenting voices but allowing them to speak openly, just as the founding fathers intended.

It was a great day.

Who’s playing whom?

The winning didn’t stop there, either. The Big Tech companies quickly fell in line with the Trump administration, as Mark Zuckerberg openly reduced censorship on Facebook, Apple decided to make some of its device components in America, and practically all of them donated to Trump’s White House ballroom renovation project. Trump had Big Tech in the palm of his hand.

But then the Big Tech companies rebounded, as they started to take advantage of Trump themselves. They benefited from reduced regulation on AI. They’ll get a huge data center and power infrastructure boost from Stargate. Thanks to the tax cuts outlined in the Big Beautiful Bill Act, they’ll also get to keep more of their money to reinvest into their companies.

So who’s playing whom exactly? Does President Trump own Big Tech, or does Big Tech own him?

The art of the deal

Trump is a businessman. To make a great deal, you have to negotiate — give a little to get a little — and the best deals are the ones where everybody benefits on both sides. The left’s biggest faux pas is that, even after everything Trump has accomplished in the last decade, they still believe him to be a fool instead of the business phenom that he is. Leftists have made a habit of underestimating the president, and they have lost nearly every time.

Case in point: The left’s latest tirade swears that Big Tech has Trump exactly where it wants him, even calling into question whether or not his America First agenda caters to the American people or the H-1B workers the administration supports. To get a better view of the situation, you have to zoom out to the full picture.

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Retaking the levers of power

The future of the American economy — and by default, the entire world — revolves around tech and AI. We have to be able to create it, maintain it, and control it, or we will lose vital ground to China and possibly forfeit our sovereignty on the world stage. To do that, we have to retake the levers of power that we have lost to foreign nations over the years.

Chip manufacturing

First and foremost, that means we need to be able to manufacture our own chips. While most of our computer chips — the ones that go into our phones, laptops, tablets, smartwatches, and even our data centers — are designed by companies here in the U.S., most of the manufacturing takes place overseas. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is the biggest chip manufacturer on the planet, providing hardware for Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Amazon, Google, and many more. This is why a simple Taiwan invasion from China could bring the entire tech industry to Xi Jinping’s feet, giving him total control over the production and distribution of these vital computer components.

To make sure this doesn’t happen, the United States would either need to prevent a Chinese invasion of Taiwan — a risky venture that could spark an all-out war — or bring those manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. Trump has chosen the latter, sparking companies like Intel to fire up their factories in the name of American manufacturing. While it will take time to reshore even half of our chip needs, the goal is to ensure that we always have access to the best hardware, regardless of China’s war games in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Power production

It’s no secret that generative AI has a huge impact on power — not just political power, but energy. Our current power grid isn’t enough to meet the needs of every company in the U.S. building AI products and services, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar hardly help the growing energy deficit. To bolster the grid, President Trump is investing bigly in an AI infrastructure driven by nuclear power. When compared to other energy sources, nuclear power is cleaner with zero carbon emissions (leftists should love that, but they’re programmed to hate it), more reliable, and easily sustainable. It’s everything we need, not just for AI, but for the American people, too.

Research and development

Once we have the means to manufacture chips that power AI and the energy to sustain our data centers, the only thing we need is top-tier talent to build platforms that support the most advanced AI models available. Lucky for us, the United States is home to the biggest AI companies on the planet. While China has DeepSeek, we have ChatGPT by OpenAI, Gemini by Google, Claude by Anthropic, and Grok from xAI, and there are plenty more below that.

The United States is already home to the best AI platforms, and Trump is trying to keep it that way with his H-1B visa program. While it is true that there are many Americans working at these companies in pursuit of smarter AI, Big Tech often employs top talent from other nations as well, including India, Canada, the U.K., and all around the globe.

Trump wants to bring the best talent to our country, and more than that, he needs to ensure that those intelligent workers don’t go elsewhere to help China — or any other foreign nation — overtake the West.

America First forever

Trump’s policies have paved the way for America to be a tech leader both around the globe and within the borders of our own nation. Manufacturing, energy creation, and top talent are all poised to fuel the next generation of AI development. To the credit of left-wing media, they’re right: Big Tech companies are taking advantage of President Trump and his policies, but they’re so preoccupied with their vitriol for MAGA that they don’t realize that’s the point.

While leftist government stifles private industry, the right embraces it, because it knows that when businesses succeed, the economy grows and Americans thrive. Trump wants our companies to benefit from his policies. He wants them to use the resources afforded to them to grow domestic jobs, build onshore products, and create services used by people all around the world. He wants the U.S. to build the future of what will become the AI Revolution.

Trump’s Big Tech strategy is the epitome of capitalism, the free market, and American leadership. If that’s not America First, I’m not sure what is.

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A California motorist suffered a broken back and rib after a bicycle-riding mob beat him up on a Santa Clara street amid an accident dispute Saturday, KGO-TV reported.

“On my left side, I have fractured rib number 12,” John Hidalgo recounted to the station. “And my number two lumbar vertebrae was fractured. You know, might not look like I’m severely injured, but, you know, I am in pain.”

‘The next time it happens, are they going to kill someone? Is somebody going to be tired of what they’re doing and run them over?’

Hidalgo told KGO an e-bike rider who ran a red light hit his car — and then a larger group on bikes arrived shortly after and blamed him for the accident.

Video shows the group brutally beating, kicking, and jumping on Hidalgo and destroying his car, the station said. You can view clips of the physical attack in KGO’s video report.

“I was just fighting for my life, you know?” Hidalgo added to the station. “I mean, you don’t really have time to think. It is unbelievable. But it’s starting to become kind of the norm now.”

Hidalgo told KGO he believes this group was part of a “ride out” — an informal gathering of bike riders who take over streets and sometimes perform dangerous stunts.

More from the station:

Our cameras captured video of another “ride out” on Highway 101 in San Jose, where bike riders were slowing traffic behind them.

We’ve also recently reported on other “ride outs” that turned violent, including one where a man was attacked near San Francisco’s Aquatic Park.

“It’s disheartening when you think about innocent people who are getting affected by this,” Hidalgo also told KGO. “The next time it happens, are they going to kill someone? Is somebody going to be tired of what they’re doing and run them over?”

The Santa Clara Police Department told the station they are aware of the video and are investigating the incident.

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“We see these kids all the time swerving into traffic, swerving on the sidewalks, trying to hit people, we got to put a stop to it,” Hidalgo also told KGO. “When people are getting injured and violent crimes are happening, I don’t think that’s too much to ask for.”

Blaze News has covered similar incidents involving bike-riding mobs.

About a year ago, Los Angeles Police said a group of bike riders — ranging in age between 16 and 18 years old — physically attacked a lone male victim at an intersection in broad daylight. The attack was captured on cellphone video, which shows the mob of at least a dozen repeatedly punch, kick, and stomp on the victim, who winds up flat on his back and barely moving in the middle of the busy street.

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In the comic books, Galactus devours worlds without discrimination. In real life, that role belongs to the Democratic Party.

You can see it play out in Minneapolis right now. Colorado offers its own case study. That’s where Rich Guggenheim is under attack inside the Colorado Department of Agriculture because he thought being a plant health programs manager meant focusing on — stay with me — plants, not pronouns.

Most people choose comfort. They tell themselves they agree with freedom, but they live like they don’t. They fear conflict more than they fear losing the country.

Last November, Guggenheim logged into a virtual meeting with roughly a dozen department heads. One agenda item covered a grant report tied to pest surveys, “inclusive leadership,” and employee participation in a program called “Colorado for All.”

Because when I think about protecting America’s food supply from pests, my first concern always involves the state’s ideological diversity metrics.

Guggenheim wanted to keep plants healthy. He didn’t have patience for the ritual. He typed a short comment into the group chat: “DEI on steroids.”

That was enough to trigger a full-blown response from Plant Industry Division Director Wondirad Gebru. Gebru paused the meeting and labeled the comment “inappropriate” in front of colleagues. Gebru told Guggenheim to mute his microphone.

Guggenheim did something better. He turned on his camera and accused Gebru, on the record, of viewpoint discrimination.

See, that’s how it’s done, folks. No excuses. Just a jawbone of an ass wielded without apology. Take stupid out to the woodshed and bludgeon it.

“They are trying to frame me as disruptive,” Guggenheim said. “But how can they do that when the topic is actually on the agenda?”

Next, Guggenheim told Gebru via private chat that he would file a formal whistleblower disclosure with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi at the U.S. Department of Justice. The letter he sent that same day alleged First Amendment violations through viewpoint discrimination and compelled speech, retaliation, and disregard for President Donald Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop promoting, requiring, or funding diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives that impose ideological preferencing.

He filed additional complaints with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the Office of Special Counsel whistleblower channel; an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission inquiry; a Colorado Civil Rights Division/State Personnel Board consolidated appeal; and a state whistleblower complaint.

A month later, Guggenheim received notice of a workplace investigation. The notice offered no specifics about the allegations, the complainant, or the policy at issue. The state hired an outside group to conduct the investigation.

That process is under way as Guggenheim pursues a federal lawsuit against a state whose political class has built a reputation for using institutions as weapons.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold tried to keep Trump off the presidential primary ballot before investigators examined her office’s election-security failures. Last year, lawmakers also advanced a regime of pronoun policing and gender ideology that reaches into schools and families and invites the state to play commissar.

RELATED: The taboo conservatives refuse to confront

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Colorado’s leadership class doesn’t merely govern. It disciplines.

“Destruction of Western civilization is what queer theory is all about,” Guggenheim said.

Guggenheim is 46. He doesn’t sound demoralized. He sounds ready. He believes Colorado has boxed itself in legally, which left him with a choice: comply, stay quiet, and keep his head down — or put the issue on the record and force a confrontation.

Most people choose comfort. They tell themselves they agree with freedom, but they live like they don’t. They fear conflict more than they fear losing the country.

Guggenheim’s refusal to be emotionally bullied by the pronoun police should shame the rest of us. He didn’t beg for approval. He didn’t bargain. He didn’t self-censor to keep the peace. He documented the coercion and escalated through the proper channels.

One detail makes the story even harder for the usual activists to process: Guggenheim is openly gay.

He still drew the line. He still confronted ideological coercion in the workplace. He still chose risk over submission.

That’s the right standard. What’s your excuse?

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Following the discovery that Chinese communist agents were coordinating intimidation, espionage, and coercion campaigns out of illegal police stations in the United States, officials found something potentially more threatening in Reedley, California: a Chinese biolab containing deadly pathogens including Ebola.

The secret Chinese lab apparently was not one of a kind.

‘These items, importantly, were consistent in appearance to the items found and described in the Reedley, California, lab investigation.’

SWAT officers with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department raided a home in the city’s northeast end on Jan. 31, discovering a suspected illegal biolab apparently linked to the Chinese national who owned the Reedley site.

Footage shows local and federal agents massing outside a Sugar Springs Drive residence near Washington Avenue and Hollywood early Saturday morning while drones patrolled overhead.

A tactical robot dog explored the interior and conducted air sampling before members of the LVMPD’s All-Hazard Regional Multi-agency Operations and Response team made entry.

The main house was home to three renters who were safely removed and are apparently not targets of the investigation. The locked garage was home to “refrigerators, a freezer, laboratory-type equipment, and numerous containers holding unknown liquid substances,” according to police.

The apparent biological materials, which were carefully collected over the course of the weekend along with other evidence, were initially transported to a Southern Nevada Health District facility for safe storage, then taken to an FBI lab for testing.

LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill indicated on Monday that “these items, importantly, were consistent in appearance to the items found and described in the Reedley, California, lab investigation.”

RELATED: How Americans can prepare for the worst — before it’s too late

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McMahill noted further that “the home was owned by the same individual connected to a prior, illegal bio-lab investigation in Reedley, California, that occurred in 2023.”

That individual is Jia Bei Zhu.

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party noted in its report on the Reedley biolab that the California lab operated under the direction and control of Zhu, a Chinese citizen associated with communist regime-linked companies as well with Chinese military-civil fusion entities.

‘This can’t keep happening.’

Zhu, a wanted fugitive from Canada, where he is the subject of a $330 million judgment for stealing American intellectual property, illegally entered the United States under the false identity of “David He,” said the report.

While unlawfully in the U.S., Zhu set up a network of companies and accumulated a vast supply of potential pathogens including including Ebola, COVID-19, HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis, which he is accused of keeping and poorly storing at one or more unlicensed and unregistered labs.

In addition to thousands of samples of potentially dangerous diseases and hundreds of boxes of medical devices subject to a U.S. Food and Drug embargo, the Reedley lab was home to roughly 1,000 mice that were genetically engineered to mimic the human immune system.

One lab worker reportedly told local officials that the transgenic mice were altered “to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.” Dead mice were apparently disposed of “without the use of a licensed medical waste hauler.”

According to the congressional report, the Reedley biolab received millions of dollars in unexplained payments from Chinese communist banks.

Zhu was arrested by federal agents on Oct. 19, 2023, and indicted the following month for allegedly distributing adulterated and misbranded COVID-19 test kits and making false statements to authorities about his identity. He was slapped with additional charges in 2024 for alleged conspiracy and wire fraud.

Zhaoyan Wang, Zhu’s supposed lover and business partner, was charged with helping facilitate the alleged fraud through Universal Meditech Inc. and Prestige Biotech Inc. — biolabs she operated in Reedley and Fresno. Wang is also a Chinese national.

McMahill indicated that Zhu, who has a trial hearing scheduled for Feb. 23, remains in federal custody.

The LVMPD also arrested the property manager of the Vegas residence, 55-year-old Ori Solomon, on a charge of disposing and discharging hazardous waste. Solomon was booked into the Clark County Detention Center.

On Saturday, the FBI searched a second Vegas home on Temple View Drive but found no threat at the location. The FBI also revisited the Reedley lab on Sunday, reported KFSN-TV.

Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) said in response to the latest lab discovery, “This can’t keep happening.”

“The federal government must do more to stop illegal labs from operating in our communities,” added Kiley.

Kiley and fellow California Reps. Jim Costa (D) and David Valadao (R) have called for a hearing on their Preventing Illegal Laboratories and Protecting Public Health Act of 2025.

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Many young Christian men are familiar with the advice, “Just find your wife at church.”

However, BlazeTV host John Doyle points out that it’s just “an applause line.”

“They are saying that because it feels good to counter modern degenerate dating app culture by saying, ‘You know what you need to do? You need to be trad and you need to go to church. That’s where you’re going to find a good woman, is at church,’” Doyle says on “The John Doyle Show.”

Doyle believes that equality has shown that women “do not come to family as naturally as a lot of people would like to think,” and now those women who do want a family are fewer and farther between.

And too many conservatives make excuses for them.

According to Doyle, those conservatives will say things like, “Well, women actually are obviously desiring to have a family, and … if [society] would only stop tricking them, then they could go be happy.”

“All of the rhetoric surrounding this issue places women on this pedestal and says, ‘You are not an agent. We cannot hold you accountable. It is only society that has tricked you, and you would be an angel were it not for these people tricking you into making bad decisions,’” Doyle explains.

“I’m not, like, dogging on Christian women. There are plenty of wonderful Christian women. I’m just talking about this kind of online discourse that tends to want to give this advice to these young guys, which I just don’t think is productive,” he says.

“Now, to be clear, I totally understand why people would view church as the best of all options. It seems to be the safest,” he continues, though he points out that there are plenty of churches these days run by “trans lesbian priests” that might not have the best women in attendance.

“Of course, there are plenty of conservative girls who go to church. You would be an idiot to say that’s not the case. Yet that doesn’t mean that every girl or even most girls who go to church are conservative in any meaningful sense,” he says.

“Church attendance really doesn’t tell you that much,” he continues. “It’s literally a meme on Instagram.”

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