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By Susie Moore Ever since CIA Director John Ratcliffe issued a CIA report (styled as a "CIA Note: Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Election Interference"), we've seen signs that the dam of hidden corruption regarding the Russia Collusion hoax was beginning to break. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has since issued several document disclosures related to the topic. And Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released the Department of Justice Inspector General Appendix regarding the FBI's "Midyear Exam" investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails leading up to the 2016 election.  There's a lot to review and digest. But many have been anxiously awaiting the rumored drop of the "Durham Annex," an appendix to former Special Counsel John Durham's report. And now, the  annex has landed . It's 29 pages and we're continuing to pore through it, but the real  kicker  appears to be ties t...

By Sister Toldjah Real leaders know how to actually lead and make the tough decisions, while wannabe types preen before the cameras and virtue signal on social media about allegedly standing up to those leaders. That is where the city of Los Angeles continues to find itself under the purported leadership of Mayor Karen Bass (D), who was living her  best life  on a trip to Ghana on behalf of the Biden-Harris administration in early January, even as advance  warnings  were given of the potential for the deadly wildfires that eventually broke out and devastated parts of LA. Unfortunately, Bass is still failing the residents of her city, as we saw throughout the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots in June, which got so out of control thanks to Bass's denial of reality that President Donald Trump stepped in, calling in National Guard  troops  to help restore order. This prompted a legal battle between Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) over whether Trump had ...

By Abril Elfi At least eighteen individuals have been convicted as a result of a coordinated operation between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI, which uncovered their involvement on four “dark web” sites dedicated to child sexual abuse material (CSAM). On Wednesday, the DOJ  announced  the details behind  Operation Grayskull , “a highly successful joint effort between the Department of Justice and the FBI that resulted in the dismantling of four dark web sites dedicated to images and videos containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM).” The announcement stated that the operation has led to the convictions of 18 offenders, including  Thomas Peter Katsampes, 52 , who was sentenced to 250 months in prison and lifetime supervised release for his involvement with one of these dark web sites. He was also ordered to pay $23,000 in restitution. According to court documents, Katsampes joined a dark web site dedicated to CSAM in 2022, he advertised and distrib...

By Tom Knighton Fox News is where a lot of people who are fans of President Trump go for news. While there's also Newsmax and One America, Fox News is in more homes and thus the only option for many people beyond CNN or MSNBC, which is kind of no choice at all. In the wake of the massacre in a Manhattan office building, we expect to see the latter two touting gun control. It's what they do. But Jessica Tarlov did the same on Fox News, and President Trump  didn't hide his feelings on that . President  Donald Trump  took a jab at Fox News host Jessica Tarlov and called her a "real loser" as she offered her take on gun control while honoring the victims of the New York City shooting. ... Meanwhile, she then added, "On the gun control front, what  Kathy Hochul  is talking about is the fact that when we did have an assault weapons ban from 1994 to 2004, we saw a decrease in mass shootings in this country. 70 percent less likely to happen. And then when the ban...

By Bob Hoge If you’re someone who pays attention to politics but didn’t know or care much about Cory Booker in 2018, you probably heard about the Democratic senator from New Jersey when he decided to make Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings all about himself by claiming he was having a “ Spartacus moment .” With the reference, he was clearly trying to make himself out to be some outsized hero. The phrase comes from the famous scene in the 1960 film "Spartacus," where Roman soldiers demand the slaves identify their leader, Spartacus. Instead of revealing his identity, each one defiantly declares: "I am Spartacus!" Sure, Cory, you are Spartacus. Also—you will never live that moment down.  More recently, he’s upped his drama game,  speaking for 25 straight hours  on the Senate floor in March in a weird protest that accomplished nothing and then holding a  sit-in on the Capitol steps  with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in April, ...

Mohammed al-Mutawaaq, shown here with his mother and brother, was presented by Western media as the image of widespread starvation in Gaza. The boy has cerebral palsy. (AFP) By Eitan Fischberger Over the weekend, I embedded with the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza, where I saw the enormous quantities of humanitarian aid the United Nations has been refusing to distribute. What struck me most were the thousands upon thousands of pounds of baby food, baking under the Middle Eastern sun—jar after jar of mashed carrots, pureed potatoes and fruit blends. This food could have gone to children like Mohammed al-Mutawaaq. Those who don’t know his name will almost certainly recognize his face. Pictures of him, gaunt and fragile, staring vacantly into the camera, were plastered across the homepages of major media outlets last week, from the New York Times and Politico to the BBC. Mohammed, more than anyone else, was made the face of a devastating allegation: that Israel is deliberately starv...

By Streiff Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll has pulled the plug on an attempt by someone at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to hire Joe Biden's director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Jen Easterly, a retired Army colonel, a West Point graduate, and former head of CISA, was supposed to assume  duties  "as the Robert F. McDermott Distinguished Chair in the department of social sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.” In an announcement distributed via X, Secretary Driscoll stated that Easterly's appointment was not approved and ordered a total review of how it came to be. We’re not turning cadets into censorship activists. We’re turning them into warriors & leaders. We’re in the business of warfighting. Our future officers will get the most elite training so that America can continue to dominate on the battlefield. https://t.co/MXSxLGBDVR — Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellUSA) July 30, 2025 What makes th...

By CATHERINE SALGADO Almost immediately after the U.S. Military Academy at West Point announced that a former Biden administration official and censorship czar was joining the academy as a “distinguished chair,” the Pentagon fired her. And the poetic justice was beautiful to behold.  In violation of the First Amendment, former CISA head Jen Easterly is accused of coordinating multiple censorship initiatives involving Big Tech, other government agencies, and academic institutions — even a foreign government. Now the desire to silence others has come back to bite her. Ex-CISA chief Jen Easterly had just been named the Robert F. McDermott Distinguished Chair in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point, but Trump’s Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, appears to have halted the appointment almost as soon as he learned of it.  More of this across our military and federal government, please. It is rare that powerful elites suffer any serious consequenc...

By Bonchie Republicans may have finally learned how to fight fire with fire. In an unexpected move, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) called a special session in mid-July to redraw his state's congressional map. The plan? To nuke the Democrats' dominance in several key areas, garnering five new seats. That would provide the GOP with a significant boost going into the 2026 midterms.  With that said, the new map has now been released , and it's a bloodbath for Democrats.  TEXAS GOP PROPOSE CONGRESSIONAL MAP ELIMINATING 5 DEMOCRATIC SEATS pic.twitter.com/zUgfKjHG0c — NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) July 30, 2025 Texas Republicans unveiled a new congressional map on Wednesday that would provide their party with five new red-leaning districts, a plan that — if enacted — could provide a boost to the party as it tries to cling to control of the House.  The redraw would significantly benefit Republicans by making districts held by Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Go...

By JOHN BINDER A group of House Democrats, represented by a legal firm with deep ties to Alex and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, is suing President Donald Trump’s administration — claiming the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is obstructing congressional oversight of immigration detention centers. Led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the Democrats claim Trump’s DHS is blocking them from accessing detention centers holding illegal aliens and preventing them from getting information on illegal alien detainees. Among the claims in the lawsuit is that members of Congress are unable to verify reports that DHS is violating the “fundamental rights” of illegal aliens,” according to Raskin. “The Trump Administration is systematically violating our legal right as Members of Congress to conduct oversight of DHS facilities,” Raskin said in a statement: This blockade of Congress, deliberately interfering with our constitutional duty to perform oversight of the immigra...