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By Kyle Becker Robert F. Kennedy Jr. entered the lion's den that is CNN on a Sunday morning, and he was looking for pelts. The Health & Human Services Secretary unleashed a tirade worthy of his flame-throwing boss in a media takedown for the ages. RFK Jr.'s victim? Dana Bash. You might recall that her name featured prominently in " Fauci's diary ." They got into it hot and heavy when Bash predictably went on offense against Kennedy. Bash: "Covid was a scary time." RFK: "You were scaring people." Bash: "Why are you saying that?" RFK: "Because that was the job of CNN. To put the chyrons up on how many people are dying to get people to believe a lie." pic.twitter.com/oTItEWU7BR — Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 2, 2026 RFK Jr. ripped into CNN over "scaring people." He pointed out, "that was the job of CNN. To put the chyrons up on how many people are dying to get people to believe a lie." Kennedy...

By Matt Margilis An Obama-appointed federal judge just decided the Supreme Court's rulings are more like suggestions, and Republicans in Congress are done pretending she has the authority to make that call. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs issued an order on Friday blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals. It was a brazen display of judicial activism , and it took Republicans about a weekend to respond. 🚨 A federal judge has again blocked the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalia, issuing a new administrative stay after plaintiffs filed an amended complaint and emergency motion. pic.twitter.com/6l1hYYPqNH — SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) July 31, 2026 Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) announced he will file articles of impeachment against Burroughs on Monday, accusing her of trampling both the Constitution and a Supreme Court ruling that should have ended this fight already. On Monday I wil...

By Teri Christoph We didn't give this schmuck any attention here at RedState when he made headlines a few months back for refusing a summer job offer because the company wanting to hire him was run by a pair of Jewish brothers. But, the kid's parents just went beast mode on him, and that's surely worth a mention. The kid's name is Austin Franco, and he's a 19-year-old student at Cornell University who became internet infamous back in June after he turned down a summer internship opportunity at New York City company VryfID because co-founders Gabe and Aiden Einhorn were Jewish. CEO Gabe Einhorn posted the sordid tale on X, saying a job interview had been offered to Franco via the website Handshake , and Franco responded, " Not interested in working for a Jew . Thanks." “Not interested in working for a jew” This kid applied to our job on handshake, we accepted him, and then he responded this. He probably knows nothing about Jews accept for what they t...

By Nick Arama We've been talking about the pressure on the Iranian regime and how close they may be to collapse.  They've been getting pounded by the U.S., and the naval blockade has been crushing them. Their leadership, their military, and their economy are all in shambles. They've been conducting public executions in an attempt to hold the people in check. At this point, the regime is hanging on by bluster and big talk.  The question that's been hanging out there for a bit is: With all the chaos, where is the reaction of the Iranian people?  Well, now there's indication that reaction is coming, and the regime isn't going to enjoy it.  The streets of Iran are near a breaking point over public executions, economic collapse and a war that’s been raging on for more than five months, anti-regime figures in Tehran told The Post. “A revolution can happen any day now — people want revenge,” a protest leader said, referring to the regime’s brutal January crackdow...

Nevada's Lake Mead is at 27 percent of capacity. Together with Lake Powell, Lake Mead supplies drinking and agrigultural water to much of Arizona, California and Nevada. (The Denver Post) By Elise Schmelzer Federal water managers on Friday announced a 10-year plan to manage the Colorado River that opens the door to unprecedented water supply cuts to three states and will require near-constant negotiation between water users in the river basin. The report made public Friday is the culmination of years of intense and divisive negotiations to replace the 2007 operating guidelines, which governed the critical river for the last two decades and expire this year. But unlike previous long-term operating guidelines, the report does not prescribe specific management rules. Instead, it sets parameters for specific operation plans that will be re-negotiated every two years. Those two-year plans will determine how much water will be released from the system’s two major reservoirs — Lak...

By Ward Clark The old grounds of the American Civil War are still hiding the odd musket ball, shirt button or even cannonball, and now and then someone finds one. If you find something like that on any of the battlefields that are now national historical sites, of course, you can't keep them; they are historical artifacts that belong to the public, not to an individual. Rather more so for artifacts that are in a museum or official National Parks Service or state park display; take something from those, and you are stealing. Seems a kid visiting Mobile (Alabama) Bay's Fort Morgan didn't get the message. He managed to lift five Civil War cannonballs from the fort and hid them in his grandmother's luggage - where they were discovered by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents at the Gulf Shores International Airport .  A TSA agent discovered a set of stolen Civil War-era cannonballs in a passenger’s suitcase during a routine security screening at an ...

By Charles Creitz Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci may be spending more time in the Deep South than he envisioned after officials in Alabama and Florida announced plans to investigate whether he can be held accountable under state law for maladministration of the COVID-19 response. Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times during a Senate hearing Wednesday. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., argued that former President Joe Biden’s blanket pardon eliminated Fauci’s federal criminal exposure for covered conduct and undercut his basis for refusing to answer. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., alluded to that detail and told Fox News Digital that same pardon cannot prevent prosecution at the state level under the Constitution — which says presidential pardons cover "offenses (sic) against the United States." "Anthony Fauci is responsible for the deaths of millions of Americans and ten...

By Ben Smith A federal judge refused Thursday to shut down the Trump administration's landmark attempt to use a long-dormant national security court to deport an Afghan woman accused of helping her family plot an ISIS massacre on American voters, and the case is just getting started. Chief Judge Joan Ericksen refused to dismiss the case against Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old Afghan national living in Fort Worth, Texas, and denied a request to release her from custody, handing the Justice Department a critical early win in a case that has no precedent. Haji Zada entered the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident, a status she is now at risk of permanently losing. The hearing marked the first public proceeding in the nearly 30-year history of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, a court Congress built specifically for situations like this one and then left on the shelf for three decades. As RedState previously reported , the Trump administration made the unprecedented decision to f...

By Shira Ovide Over the past decade, the giants of Silicon Valley became reliable engines of the American economy and the nation’s retirement accounts. Must-have digital products like Google and Facebook hooked people and businesses, spewing geysers of cash that made tech giants the new blue chip stocks and fattened investment portfolios as markets soared. The finances of America’s technology stalwarts now look very different. To develop and deliver what the companies say is revolutionary artificial intelligence, they’re feeding every available dollar into the cash-incinerating maw of AI machines. Tech superstars that once had oodles of cash left over at the end of each year are now flipping into the red, with enormous stakes for every American and the wider economy. To optimists in Silicon Valley, the White House and beyond, the big AI bet promises an even bigger payoff: huge corporate profits and a society-wide boost to wealth and well-being when AI delivers the promised tran...

By FRANCIS KAPPER As the program that manages the U.S. draft modernizes, commentators are debating whether a potential Draft is around the corner. The U.S. Selective Service is responsible for managing the U.S. Draft and is currently pushing to modernize the mechanisms that could make the draft a reality, the Military Times reported. As this event is closely timed with an escalation in the Russo-Ukrainian and Iran Wars, some experts have begun debating whether or not a draft could be looming. The draft could be as soon as “a few years from now,” former Green Beret and war correspondent Michael Yon told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Right now they’re probing and putting it out there to make people used to the idea, like okay, we’re just going to register now,” Yon told the DCNF. “That’s all it is. So they’ve been floating it for a while” “There is very little prospect for a traditional military draft of the sort the country has relied upon in previous eras,” Peter F...

By Bryan Hyde U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is currently moving to open four new major detention facilities across the United States with a combined capacity to hold 5,500 detainees. Just the News reports that ICE has sent out a request for information seeking contractors who could operate detention facilities near Denver, Miami and Seattle, and central Pennsylvania. The request calls for 1,500 beds near Denver, 1,500 near Seattle, 700 near Miami, and 1,800 in Pennsylvania. Trump administration plans four new ICE detention centers to expand capacity https://t.co/r1s5D1iYjT pic.twitter.com/u5wMR9S76z — RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) July 30, 2026 According to federal solicitation documents , ICE wants turn-key existing facilities that would be ready to begin housing detainees within 30 days after a contract is awarded. Each facility is required to be reserved exclusively for ICE detainees. Solicitation documents indicate a massive shift toward centralizin...