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  • Freedom 250 presents the Great American State Fair | All 56 states and territories. One massive, World’s Fair–scale takeover. June 25 – July 10, 2026. America’s biggest celebration of freedom. Don’t miss it.

    04/16/2026 2:24:13 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 1 replies
    x.com ^ | April 16, 2026 | Freedom 250 @Freedom250
    Trump War Room reposted Freedom 250 @Freedom250FIRST LOOK Freedom 250 presents the Great American State FairAll 56 states and territories. One massive, World’s Fair–scale takeover.June 25 – July 10, 2026. America’s biggest celebration of freedom. Don’t miss it. April 16, 2026
  • Islamist group claims attacks on Iran International TV and Jewish sites in London

    04/16/2026 2:09:09 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 3 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 16/4/26
    An attempted attack near the London studios of Iran International, which is affiliated with the Iranian opposition, has heightened concerns over what the broadcaster says is a growing campaign of intimidation targeting its staff. A suspicious vehicle was denied entry at the main entrance of its site on the evening of Wednesday, April 15. Shortly afterward, incendiary devices were thrown into the car park of a neighboring building just meters from its studios. “Our security team responded immediately, and the police and fire brigade arrived shortly afterwards. We are grateful to them for their swift response," Iran International’s editorial board...
  • Eric Swalwell’s fall from grace was by design — and so Dems can keep their grubby hands on California

    04/16/2026 2:07:22 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 7 replies
    New York Post ^ | April 15, 2026, 10:13 p.m. ET | Miranda Devine
    Eric Swalwell was Nancy Pelosi’s made man, the golden child of San Francisco’s rotten machine politics. Today he’s roadkill, his name erased from the sign outside his congressional office, vultures feasting on his ­remains.Swalwell’s clinical political eradication this week tells you everything about the Democratic Party and how ruthlessly and efficiently it will move to keep power in the state it has controlled for 15 years and run into the ground.California, our most populous and richest state, is the engine of the Democrats’ vast patronage system, fueled in part by illegal migration and social services fraud that has ripped tens,...
  • California’s ‘GTFO’ Act Disqualifies ICE Agents from Local Public Employment

    04/16/2026 1:48:10 PM PDT · by Bullish · 20 replies
    California Globe ^ | 4/16/26 | Katy Grimes
    Assemblyman González claims ICE agents are ‘killers, terror instigators, and kidnappers’ California’s proposed “GTFO Act” is exactly what it sounds like: “Get the Feds Out.” Well, that’s what they claim it means. Assembly Bill 1896 by Assemblyman Mark González (D-Los Angeles), would bar ICE agents or Department of Homeland Security employees who participated in immigration enforcement during the second Trump administration from holding any public employment in California. Gonzalez claims ICE agents ignored “unlawful orders.” AB 1896 “Disqualifies individuals who engaged in immigration enforcement activity between January 20, 2025, and January 20, 2029 from holding state, county, or local public...
  • Trump DOT yanks $73M funding from NY for ‘failing’ to vet foreign truck drivers

    04/16/2026 1:31:26 PM PDT · by Libloather · 10 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/16/26 | Josh Christenson, Vaughn Golden
    The Trump administration is yanking $74 million in federal highway grants from the Empire State for refusing to comply with the feds’ demand that it boot immigrant truck drivers with expired work authorizations off the roads, The Post has learned. The US Department of Transportation warned Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Department of Motor Vehicles, in a bombshell letter on Thursday, that continued non-compliance could lead Washington to withhold another $147 million in highway funding grants. “I promised the American people I would hold any state leader accountable for failing to keep them safe from unvetted, unqualified foreign drivers. I’m delivering on...
  • Islamic Schools in Texas are Teaching Muslim Students to Take Over America

    04/16/2026 12:51:56 PM PDT · by JeepersFreepers · 30 replies
    X ^ | 4/15/2026 | John Guandolo
    John Guandolo is a former FBI Special Agent and counterterrorism expert. He’s warning that Islamic schools inside America are teaching Muslim students to take over America He reveals he has curriculum from Texas schools that teaches if Muslims die trying to kill all non-Muslims, they’ll be rewarded in the afterlife “Why is it that what our leaders say about Islam is exactly opposite of what Muslims teach Muslim children about Islam in US Islamic schools? I have here the most widely used tabletop book of Islamic law in North America. What it says is the purpose of Islam is to...
  • Trump Officially Renames Strait Of Hormuz The 'Donald J. Trump Strait Of America'

    04/16/2026 12:37:23 PM PDT · by Twotone · 18 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | April 15, 2026 | Staff
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of ongoing ceasefire negotiations with Iran to bring the weeks-long conflict to a close, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the Strait of Hormuz had been officially renamed as the "Donald J. Trump Straight of America." The strait remained under military blockade as tense negotiations continued, with Trump publicly declaring that the U.S. had taken control of the waterway and christened it with a new title named after his two favorite things — himself and America. "It is now the greatest strait of all time," Trump said in a post to Truth Social. "Other straits...
  • Eric Swalwell donors footed $500K in hotel bills, including rooms where alleged rapes happened

    04/16/2026 12:34:11 PM PDT · by Libloather · 32 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/16/26 | Josh Koehn, Annie Gaus
    Accused sexual abuser Eric Swalwell spent a whopping $500K of donor cash inside luxury hotels — including the rooms where he allegedly raped two women — according to campaign financial records reviewed by The California Post. The disgraced politician racked up close to $36,500 in hotel expenses over the last 12 months — billing 70 different charges in the US and Mexico, according to the records. Swalwell’s hotels of choice included the Intercontinental Mexico City, where he spent $4,300 meeting with deported resident Miguel Hildago; Hotel ZIggy in West Hollywood, the Roosevelt Hollywood, the exclusive Ned Nomad in New York...
  • ICE Director Todd Lyons just revealed ICE recently busted the largest gift card fraud scheme EVER — and that stolen money was being sent DIRECTLY BACK to military units in CHINA

    04/16/2026 12:32:20 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 22 replies
    x.com ^ | April 16, 2026 | Nick Sortor @nicksortor
    Nick Sortor@nicksortor·3h🚨 HOLY CRAP! ICE Director Todd Lyons just revealed ICE recently busted the largest gift card fraud scheme EVER — and that stolen money was being sent DIRECTLY BACK to military units in CHINAIt was being carried out by illegal Chinese men who were let in under BIDENAll military aged, of course.The scam is fairly simple: these Chinese fraudsters steal barcodes off gift cards from retail stores, place them back on the shelf, and when a shopper buys it, that money is IMMEDIATELY skimmed by CCP operatives who have the numbers in a databaseAnd the American consumer is left...
  • Fort Knox Gold Scandal?

    04/16/2026 12:30:29 PM PDT · by delta7 · 20 replies
    Goldseek ^ | 16 Apr 26 | Mike Maharrey
    Mike Maharrey’s latest Money Metals Midweek Memo zeroed in on two big themes with major implications for sound money investors. First, much of the gold supposedly backing America’s financial credibility may be lower-quality metal that does not meet modern international standards. Second, the silver market could be heading into even tighter supply conditions as a new disruption tied to China threatens copper production and, by extension, silver output. The result was an episode that tied together history, monetary policy, and today’s metals markets in a way that made the stakes feel immediate. Maharrey’s central argument was simple. Physical metal still...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - South Celestial Tree

    04/16/2026 12:08:01 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 8 replies
    NASA ^ | 16 Apr, 2026 | Image Credit & Copyright: Kiko Fairbairn Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
    Explanation: If you live in the northern hemisphere, you may have learned how to locate the North Star, Polaris, in the night sky. It can be used to find north, and it approximately marks the northern celestial pole. If you live in the southern hemisphere, there is no bright star marking the southern celestial pole, but the Southern Cross can be used to find south. The featured image was taken in Padre Bernardo (GO), Brazil. It shows the apparent motion of the stars around the apparently empty southern celestial pole over 2 hours, on August 20, 2018. Each star takes...
  • Pope Leo Celebrates Christian Genocide in Algeria

    04/16/2026 12:05:50 PM PDT · by MacNaughton · 34 replies
    FrontPageMag ^ | 4/16/2026 | Daniel Greenfield
    In 1955, Algeria had over 1 million Catholics and 140,000 Jews. Today, as Pope Leo visits Algeria, there are some 8,000 Catholics in Algeria and there are fewer than 200 Jews.99% of the population of what was one of the old territories of Christianity are Sunni Muslims.Was Islam so popular that all the Christians and Jews decided to convert? Not at all. They were persecuted, murdered, tortured and driven out by Islamic violence that occurred in our lifetimes.Christians and Jews had lived in Algeria since Roman times. Now they’re gone.This Christian genocide was endorsed by major world powers, aided and...
  • Trump’s Blockade Is Breaking Iran and European Elites Are Angry

    04/16/2026 11:54:35 AM PDT · by MacNaughton · 32 replies
    Discern Report ^ | 4/16/2026 | Brandon Smith
    ... The effectiveness of the blockade is already apparent; the propaganda bots on social media are scrambling to find a narrative to counter it, but they are failing. Why? Because Iran already tried to lock down the strait (which is an international waterway), and any government cheering (or secretly cheering) for Iran’s actions is now unable to make a rational argument against the US doing the same thing to Iran. ...I think it’s vitally important to address some lies and disinformation being spread by propagandists and foreign agents online about the US blockade, so let’s quickly go down the list…Lie...
  • Breaking: Whistleblower who helped kick off Trump impeachment has been hit with criminal referrals

    04/16/2026 11:32:27 AM PDT · by Mr. K · 47 replies
    msn ^ | 4/16/2026 | Jack Davis
    The Department of Justice has been sent a criminal referral for two individuals who helped instigate the 2019 impeachment process against President Donald Trump. The two include a whistleblower whose name is not mentioned and former Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, according to Fox News. A criminal referral is a means of asking the Justice Department to file charges. . . . "I want to refer information that may constitute possible criminal activity in violation of federal criminal law committed by one or more former employees of the intelligence community," the general counsel for the Office of the Director...
  • Starmer did not know Mandelson failed vetting, government says

    04/16/2026 11:26:34 AM PDT · by RandFan · 10 replies
    The BBC ^ | April 16 | BBC
    The prime minister did not know Lord Mandelson failed security vetting for the role of US ambassador until earlier this week, the government has said. A spokesperson said the decision to go against the recommendation of the vetting agency and allow him to take up the role was taken by officials in the Foreign Office. Sir Keir Starmer has faced calls to resign over allegations he misled Parliament and MPs when he claimed "full due process" was followed during the appointment. It came after the Guardian newspaper reported, external that Lord Mandelson was initially denied security clearance in late January...
  • We Shall Not Fight on the Beaches

    04/16/2026 11:03:55 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 10 replies
    Claremont Review of Books ^ | Spring 2026 | Theodore Dalrymple
    ... 1973, Jean Raspail, who died aged 94 in 2020, published his dystopian novel The Camp of the Saints, for which he is now mostly remembered (certainly outside of France,... ). The Camp of the Saints is a book that refuses to lie down, so to speak, despite attempts to render it invisible or make it go away. The plot is simple. A huge armada of rotting hulks, bearing a million impoverished and half-starved Bengalis desperate to reach Europe, which they suppose to be a land flowing with milk and honey, sets out from Calcutta and eventually reaches the south...
  • Harmeet Dhillon: Semiautomatic Rifles Like the AR-15 ‘Are Protected by the Constitution’

    04/16/2026 10:40:54 AM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 40 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 16 Apr 2026 | AWR Hawkins
    During a video posted to X on Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon stressed that semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15 “are protected by the Constitution.”She pointed to the Supreme Court’s Bruen (2022) decision and said, “When you look at the historical analysis — and Justice Thomas lays this out very clearly — it is clear that semiautomatic rifles of the nature of the AR-15 are protected by the Constitution and the Second Amendment.”Dhillon noted that she sent a letter to Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) warning the DOJ would file a lawsuit if the governor signed the “assault...
  • Franklin Graham: ‘I Do Not Believe President Trump Would Knowingly Depict Himself as Jesus Christ’

    04/16/2026 10:33:56 AM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 96 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 16 Apr 2026 | Hannah Knudsen
    Rev. Franklin Graham does not believe President Donald Trump would “knowingly depict himself as Jesus Christ,” weighing in on the controversial AI image posted then deleted on President Donald Trump’s account.Trump sparked outrage after many claimed the commander-in-chief depicted himself as Jesus in an image which shows Trump wearing a white robe with red sash touching a sick American. A nurse and member of the U.S. military are also in the image, which shows an eagle and aircraft in the sky along with the Statue of Liberty and American flag. Trump deleted the image and denied that he was depicting...
  • China told Maersk and MSC to drop Panama port operations, FT reports

    04/16/2026 10:28:22 AM PDT · by delta7 · 31 replies
    Reuters ^ | 15 Apr 26 | Reuters
    April 15 (Reuters) - China has told Danish shipping group Maersk (MAERSKb.CO), opens new tab and Switzerland-based Mediterranean ​Shipping Company (MSC Shipping) to cease operating ports ‌on the Panama Canal, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. In a meeting with China's state planner last month, ​Maersk and MSC Shipping were told to ​withdraw from the Balboa and Cristóbal ports ⁠immediately, the report said, citing two people ​familiar with the talks. Maersk and MSC were told not to "engage ​in illegal activities that harm the interests of Chinese companies, ‌and ⁠to uphold commercial ethics and international rules," the report said. Panama...
  • Cool Hand Luke actress Joy Harmon dies aged 87

    04/16/2026 10:19:17 AM PDT · by Kid Shelleen · 67 replies
    BBC ^ | 04/15/2026
    US actress Joy Harmon, who was best known for a provocative short scene in the classic film Cool Hand Luke, has died aged 87. Harmon died at home in Los Angeles on Tuesday after being ill with pneumonia for weeks, US media reported. Her character did not have a line in the Paul Newman prison drama and was only on screen for about three minutes, in a car-washing scene rife with sexual innuendo.