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It’s a feature of today’s warfare, especially in the war in Ukraine, that there are no ‘safe places’ in the rear, since artillery, drones, missiles and air raids can get to targets anywhere, anytime.

That was the case of Sunday’s attack in the Ukrainian region of Sumy, where two powerful explosions were followed by a thick column of smoke rising into the sky, as two ballistic missile strikes reportedly strike the congress center of Sumy State University.

Needless to say, both Kiev regime’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky, his handlers France’s Emmanuel Macron and UK’s Keir Starmer, as well as some MSM vehicles, called an attack on a peaceful civilian gathering, ‘an Easter celebration’.

The problem is that they forgot to silence their own Ukrainian politicians and officials, that have already denounced: the missile strike was carried out on the place where militants of the 117th territorial defense brigade were receiving awards in a widely advertised ceremony.

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The Trump DOJ opposed requests in alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s motion for additional relief.

On Friday, US District Judge of the US District Court for the District of Maryland, Paula Xinis set a new hearing in the case of alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia after the Supreme Court ruled the US must facilitate his return from El Salvador.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, photo via Murray Osorio PLLC immigration law firm.

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the US to facilitate the return of alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The ruling was unanimous. There was no dissent.

GOP faces tough trade-offs on spending and taxes in sweeping bill– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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With a budget resolution now in place, congressional Republicans are forging ahead with crafting their major fiscal overhaul. However, leadership is facing some major dilemmas over spending cuts and tax policy.

Republicans are looking to extend the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act through budget reconciliation, a legislative process that allows bills to bypass the filibuster and pass with only a simple majority in the Senate. They also want to add new tax cuts proposed by President Donald Trump to the mix.

However, given some Republicans’ contradictory desires regarding the fiscal legislation, there will have to be some major trade-offs if the party wants to push through such big tax and spending cuts with the slim Republican majority in the House and demands from Republicans in the Senate.

“I have a very strong feeling we’ve got a lot of problems here that Republicans are going to have to work out between the House and the Senate,” G. William Hoagland, senior vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center, told the Washington Examiner.

Pennsylvania: ANOTHER Assassin Charged With Threatening to Kill Trump, Officials, ICE agents– gellerreport.com
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Butler Pennsylvania again.

No Democrat legacy media coverage. They party of treason wants it. They want civil war. The gin up their base, incite their goons to violence and sit back and wait.

Pennsylvania man charged with threatening to kill Trump, officials, ICE agents

Shawn Monper of Butler, Pennsylvania, was charged with the threats earlier this week after he allegedly made threatening comments on social media, and purchased guns to allegedly carry out the threats.

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By Misty Severi, Just The News, April 11, 2025 4:08pm

The Justice Department (DOJ) on Friday revealed it has charged a Pennsylvania man with threatening to harm and kill President Donald Trump, other U.S. officials, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Shawn Monper of Butler, Pennsylvania, was charged with the threats earlier this week after he allegedly made threatening comments on social media, and purchased guns to allegedly carry out the threats.

Monper allegedly made the posts under his username of “Mr. Satan” where the user commented in February that people needed to kill Trump, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, and other Trump administration agency heads. In one message, he allegedly stated that he would “assassinate him myself.”

“I want to applaud the outstanding and courageous investigative work of the FBI and the Butler Township Police Department, who thankfully identified and apprehended this individual before he could carry out his threats against President Trump’s life and the lives of other innocent Americans,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

“Rest assured that whenever and wherever threats of assassination or mass violence occur, this Department of Justice will find, arrest, and prosecute the suspect to the fullest extent of the law and seek the maximum appropriate punishment,” she added.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is set to travel to Moscow later this week, according to Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei, who made the announcement during his regular press briefing on April 14.

Baghaei noted that Araghchi’s trip had been planned in advance and said the minister would use the opportunity to hold consultations with Russian officials about the ongoing negotiations with the United States, Caliber.Az reports, citing Iranian media.

“Araghchi will make a pre-scheduled visit to Moscow this week, during which he will discuss the latest developments in the Muscat talks,” Baghaei stated.

On April 12, Iranian and American delegations held an initial round of indirect talks in Oman, with Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi serving as the mediator. In line with Iran’s request, the negotiations were not conducted face-to-face, but through the Omani mediator. Each delegation remained in separate rooms, with messages being passed back and forth.

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Meta Platforms (META) is going to federal court today for a long-awaited antitrust trial that will force the tech giant to defend its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta stock was ahead slightly in early trading.

The $1.4 trillion market cap social media titan is accused by the Federal Trade Commission of abusing monopoly power to acquire photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging platform WhatsApp more than a decade ago. The FTC filed the original antitrust lawsuit in 2020 before it spent nearly five years winding through appeals and other motions in the courts.

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A federal judge has upheld a Trump Administration policy that allows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to carry out enforcement operations at churches and other places of worship, representing another major court victory for the administration as it seeks to accelerate its mass deportation operations.

U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, who was appointed by Trump during his first term in the White House, denied a request from more than two dozen Jewish and Christian organizations to block the policy. In a lawsuit brought forward by the groups, they argued that the policy infringes on religious freedom and was causing a drop in attendance at religious services, especially among illegal aliens who fear potential deportation.

“That evidence suggests that congregants are staying home to avoid encountering ICE in their own neighborhoods, not because churches or synagogues are locations of elevated risk,” Friedrich wrote in her ruling.

The Washington-based judge found that the plaintiffs lack standing after finding little evidence that the administration was singling out places of worship. She also rejected the claim that the policy could be blamed for drops in attendance, noting that only a handful of immigration enforcement operations have taken place in and around churches or other places of worship.

Major Study Confirms mRNA ‘Vaccines’ Lead to Organ Failure in Long Term– slaynews.com
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A major new study has confirmed that Covid mRNA “vaccines” sustained cytokine elevations, leading to deadly organ failure in the long term.

An increase in the levels of cytokines in the body is a hallmark of various inflammatory and immune responses.

Cytokine elevations can be triggered by infections, autoimmune diseases, and other conditions and are often associated with disease severity.

An uncontrolled cytokine release, known as a “cytokine storm,” triggers organ damage and other complications, as noted in a review published in the journal Inflammation.

Now, a new year-long study from leading researchers in Saudi Arabia warns that cytokine levels are raised in people who received mRNA injections.

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California, New York, and Massachusetts were responsible for $305 million of improper payments.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has revealed that $382 million in fraudulent unemployment payments have been issued since 2020, with the vast majority traced to the Democrat-led states of California, New York, and Massachusetts.

The three states were responsible for $305 million of improper payments. California alone accounted for 68 percent of benefits issued under former President Joe Biden to parolees flagged by federal authorities as either listed on the government’s terrorist watchlist or possessing criminal records.

“There’s a reason for the mass exodus from Democrat-run states that have mismanaged their economies and driven residents to the nearest Republican-led state,” White House spokesperson Harrison Fields told Fox News. “High taxes, poor stewardship of taxpayer dollars and progressive policies continue to yield negative results, which is why Americans overwhelmingly support the work of DOGE.”

DOGE reported earlier this week that hundreds of millions of fraudulent unemployment benefits went out since 2020 to tens of thousands of recipients. Among the beneficiaries were individuals with birthdays that have not yet occurred, people over 115 years old, and children.

“This is another incredible discovery by the DOGE team, finding nearly $400 million in fraudulent unemployment payments. The Labor Department is committed to recovering Americans’ stolen tax dollars. We will catch these thieves and keep working to root out egregious fraud,”  said Labor Department Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.

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In the early hours of Sunday, April 13, 2025, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and his family were forced to evacuate their official residence in Harrisburg after an arsonist set fire to the building. The fire broke out around 2 a.m., prompting state police to alert the family. No injuries were reported, but the fire caused significant damage to a portion of the residence. ​

According to the New York Post, police have arrested a suspect:

Pennsylvania State Police have arrested a Harrisburg man for the arson attack on Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family that sent them fleeing from the governor’s residence on the first night of Passover.

Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg, is expected to face charges of attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson, and aggravated assault against an enumerated person, authorities said.

Reuters had more context that the suspect had “homemade incendiary devices in his possession.”

The Governor got emotional during a press conference earlier saying:

“If he was trying to terrorize our family, our friends, the Jewish community, who joined us for a Passover Seder in that room last night, hear me on this: we celebrated our faith last night, proudly and in a few hours, we will celebrate our second Seder of Passover.”

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The only Jewish bakery in Strasbourg, France, was surrounded by a coalition of far-left activists and Muslims, who attempted to storm in and lynch the owners and employees.

The horror of it all. On Passover, no less. And Macron’s response? Give ’em a state!

And Macron’s response? Give ’em a state!

JD Vance might have had it wrong, France may be the first jihad country in the West with a nuclear bomb.

UK confident of keeping British Steel going after taking control– www.channelnewsasia.com
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SCUNTHORPE, England: Britain expressed confidence on Monday (Apr 14) that it could secure enough raw materials to keep the blast furnaces at its last maker of virgin steel burning, after the government seized operational control from its Chinese owners.

Ministers said British Steel’s owners, China’s Jingye Group, had wanted to shut the furnaces at the Scunthorpe plant after they rejected a government funding proposal, which would have forced Britain to import steel instead.

The government recalled parliament at the weekend – the first Saturday recall since the 1982 Falklands War – to give it powers to direct the company’s board and workforce and to order raw materials.

By Monday morning, it had approved the appointment of an interim chief executive and chief commercial officer – both long-term employees of the plant – and said it had established that enough raw materials were in the country.

“We need to make sure we get it into the blast furnaces,” Treasury department minister James Murray said.

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Thailand, along with the rest of Southeast Asia, got some temporary relief when the U.S. President Donald Trump chose to delay his “Liberation Day” tariffs by 90 days. Now, the country’s U.S.-bound exports only have a 10% tariff, as opposed to the 36% threatened by Trump.

Asian markets have gone on a wild ride since Trump first unveiled his reciprocal tariffs on April 2, falling and rising according to the president’s statements. Thailand’s benchmark SET index fell by 9% between April 2 and April 9, only to rally after Trump announced his tariff pause. Still, the index has yet to recover from the “Liberation Day” hit. 

“Reciprocal tariffs, we thought, were excessively high,” said Victor Cheng, the CEO of Delta Electronics Thailand, last week before Trump announced his tariff pause. 

U.S. actions were causing “anxiety and great concern,” Cheng said, but noted that customers had yet to change or cancel any orders due to the tariffs and were instead adopting a wait-and-see attitude. Cheng added later, after Trump paused his tariffs, that customers are using the 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs to “stock up”.

The CEO also explained why his U.S. customers, and not his company, “will have to bear the extra tariff on top of the original selling price.” He points out that most of Delta Electronics Thailand’s products are classed as “free on board”, which means responsibility passes from the seller—his company—to the buyer—the U.S. customer.

Trump Blasts CBS for More ‘Fake News’ Reporting on Ukraine and Greenland – RedState– redstate.com
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President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to blast CBS for its latest slate of Fake News reporting on the Ukraine War and over a story about Trump’s negotiations concerning Greenland. Trump’s rant was quite detailed, and he went as far as to call for CBS’ broadcast license to be revoked.

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There couldn’t possibly be a clearer example of media perfidy and dishonesty: back in May 2017, the Washington Post published a story about how President Trump supposedly urged Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and National Security Agency Director Adm. Michael S. Rogers to deny that there was any evidence that he had colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. There was just one catch: the story was false, and Rogers said as much to the FBI as far back as June 2017. Yet not only did the Post not take the story down; it’s still up, eight years later and long after the Russian Collusion hoax has been definitively debunked.

The story was one of many in the Post about Trump’s much-publicized collusion with Russia that won the Post the Pulitzer Prize. And apparently that was all that mattered. Truth? Accuracy? Integrity? Come on, man!

The story, along with the rest about the alleged Russian Collusion, sold papers, and made the WaPo seem as if it was once again on the cutting edge of investigative journalism. The Post was even fearlessly taking on a president of the United States, recalling the heady days of Watergate when Woodward and Bernstein bearded the wily Tricky Dick, became Redford and Hoffman, and made the Post into one of the leading newspapers in the left’s constellation of propaganda organs.

The opportunity to relive the glory days was apparently too much for the Post, and overrode all other considerations. As Matt Margolis noted Sunday, “it’s unclear whether the Post knew Rogers disputed their report before publishing it, but Rogers made it clear to investigators shortly afterward that the story was false.”

 

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Kyren Lacy, a former standout wide receiver at LSU who had declared for the NFL draft, was found dead in Houston Saturday night, his attorney confirmed Sunday. He was 24-years-old.

The cause of death is suspected to be suicide, according to a report from the New York Post. Houston police referred media inquiries to the Harris County Medical Examiner’s office, which did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press on Sunday.

Lacy was set to stand trial over his alleged involvement in a fatal car crash that killed a 78-year-old man in Louisiana this past December.

Police allege that Lacy was driving a 2023 Dodge Charger south on a Louisiana highway and “recklessly passed multiple vehicles at a high rate of speed” and entered the oncoming lane in a no passing zone, according to police documents obtained by local outlet WAFB. A truck was forced to swerve in order to avoid a collision with Lacy’s vehicle, at which point the vehicle behind it collided with another vehicle going in the opposite direction.

“Following the crash, Lacy drove around the crash scene and fled south on LA Hwy 20 without stopping to render aid, call emergency services, or report his involvement in the crash,” police documents allege.

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NPR routinely demonstrates wokeness with an anti-Israel bias. Saturday’s All Things Considered story by youth-politics reporter Elena Moore from the frontlines of the Israel-Hamas campus wars. She lamented how students are afraid of expressing pro-Hamas sympathies on progressive college campuses: “For some students who protested war in Gaza, fear and silence is a new campus reality.”

This, after NPR either ignoring or “both-siding” threats to Jewish students from those same now-suddenly terrified “pro-Palestinian” campus activists, since Hamas attacked Israeli civilians in October 2023.

Moore focused on the pseudonymous “Sam.” NPR loves playing up how dystopian America is right now by granting anonymity to all kinds of radicals. If you named “Sam,” one might be able to find her chanting pro-Hamas slogans or pro-Hamas signs about ending Israel or cheering October 7. Moore isn’t focusing on how much free speech there is in Gaza — where anti-Hamas protesters can end up dead.

Last spring, Cornell University was home to a student encampment, where dozens slept in tents on the quad to protest Israel’s war in Gaza. The demonstration lasted more than two weeks.

“It’s actually one of my most beautiful memories in Ithaca,” said a Ph.D. candidate at the school currently studying on a visa. She asked to be identified by the nickname Sam due to concerns over how she could be treated by immigration authorities if targeted for deportation.

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Prof believes universities are ‘independent’ and ‘beacons of academic integrity and free speech’

The latest authoritarian hyperbole out of academia comes from an Arizona State University “teaching and learning innovation” professor and dean.

In The Conversation, Iveta Silova chides President Trump’s efforts to curb antisemitism and DEI on American campuses, claiming “many” universities are “widely seen globally as beacons of academic integrity and free speech.”

Silova (pictured), “a scholar of comparative and international education,” says the president’s strategy of pressuring universities has “a few historical parallels” … which just happen to include Nazi Germany and Stalin’s USSR.

In the former, Silova says universities “adapted” to the Nazis’ takeover of government, and once Hitler had control he “moved swiftly to purge academic institutions of Jews and political opponents” through such means as the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.”

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A woman brazenly punched a pro-life reporter because she could not handle the truth. After video evidence and her admission, the NYPD arrested her for second-degree assault.

According to the New York Post:

Brianna J. Rivers, 30, was arrested Thursday on one count of second-degree assault for her callous beating of activist Savannah Craven Antao during a street interview on the topic of abortion last week, according to the NYPD.

“Just got word from detectives Brianna J Rivers was arrested! God is good!,” Craven Antao wrote in an Instagram post, adding in the caption,”#BlueLivesMatter #JusticeIsServed #ThankYouGod.”

The ham-fisted alleged assailant was taken into custody Thursday morning for the boorish assault that took place during a filmed interview in Harlem last Thursday.

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President Donald Trump continues fighting multiple legal battles to fulfill his promises to the American people.

These battles are mostly against activist federal judges who are working overtime to stop the president from exercising his executive authority.

According to Breitbart, that was evidenced once again this week as an Obama-appointed federal judge “blocked the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants with temporary protected status (TPS) after it was revoked.”

The ruling is the latest in efforts to wage “lawfare” against Trump and his administration on the deportation front and his broader immigration policies.

It came in the wake of the Trump administration’s removal of TPS from nearly 500,000 immigrants.

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The State Department will cooperate with a government-wide task force to collect information “involving anti-religious bias during the last presidential administration.”

The Trump administration has directed State Department employees to report incidents of alleged “anti-Christian bias” among their colleagues, as part of a broader initiative to support Christian employees across the federal government.

According to an internal cable obtained by Politico, the State Department will cooperate with a government-wide task force to collect information “involving anti-religious bias during the last presidential administration” and will document examples of anti-Christian bias via anonymous employee reports.

The cable was sent to embassies worldwide under Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s name. A department-wide notice was also sent out detailing the instructions.

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“I will never understand why!!! I am so lost and broken. This was the same dog who was side by side with my baby every single day.”

A seven-month-old baby girl was mauled to death by a family pit bull in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday.

The infant, Elizah Turner, was attacked at her home by one of the family’s three pit bulls. She was rushed to a nearby fire station and then transported to Nationwide Children’s Hospital around 11:43 am, where she was pronounced dead.

Columbus Police Sgt. James Fuqua called the incident tragic and said that it was unclear which of the multiple dogs home at the time of the attack was responsible.

“There is really not a lot of words I can say to convey how I feel and how the officers who arrived [feel]. Everyone in this process is literally grieving as if this child belonged to us because most of us are parents and can’t imagine just how this scene is,” Fuqua said, according to WBNS.

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HANOI, Vietnam — China’s leader Xi Jinping started a week of diplomacy in Southeast Asia with a visit to Vietnam on Monday, signaling China’s commitment to global trade, just after U.S. President Donald Trump upended the global economy with his latest tariffs moves.

Although Trump has paused some tariffs, China was the outlier, as he has kept in place 145% tariffs on the world’s second-largest economy.

Xi’s visit this week lets China show Southeast Asia it is a “responsible superpower in the way that contrasts with the way the U.S. under President Donald Trump presents to the whole world,” said Nguyen Khac Giang, a visiting fellow at Singapore’s ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute.

China also can work to shore up its alliances and find solutions for the high trade barrier that the U.S. has on Chinese exports.

“There are no winners in a trade war, or a tariff war,” Xi wrote in an editorial jointly published in Vietnamese and Chinese official media. “Our two countries should resolutely safeguard the multilateral trading system, stable global industrial and supply chains, and open and cooperative international environment.”

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… Right now, the deportation of Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien with reported MS-13 ties who was deported to El Salvador is the latest duel between Trump and the lefty legal community. They want Trump to return this man. The liberal media reported that the Supreme Court ordered Trump to do so, but that’s not what the ruling said. It was nuanced, with key passages dedicated to how district courts overreached in this matter:

The intended scope of the term “effectuate” in the District Court’s order is, however, unclear, and may exceed the District Court’s authority. The District Court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.

So, on that matter, Trump’s team took a blowtorch to this case. The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland broke down the new filings, responding to a motion for additional relief from Garcia’s wife [emphasis mine]:

Trump Administration begins noting that Court invited the Motion Garcia filed for “additional relief,” and that the relief sought seeks to micromanage diplomatic relations…It does.

Trump Administration argues the relief would violate SCOTUS directive to respect Article II authority.

Trump Administration then walks Judge through what SCOTUS actually ordered which was NOT an affirmance as she and Garcia continue to inaccurately claim. Here, Trump Administration stressed points I made earlier concerning what SCOTUS said

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When Taylor Lorenz was with The Washington Post, a paper she’s now left to start her own Substack, she went after Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik — whom she had doxed — for a report that claimed a link between “at least 33 instances” of threats against targets the social media account had covered.

It was “a pretty significant correlation,” Lorenz stated during an interview with Raichik. Raichik then noted that, after she was doxed by Lorenz, she “got tons of death threats this week after the entire media machine came after me. So are they responsible for those?”

No, Lorenz said during the February 2024 interview, telling her that she didn’t “think there’s, um, the same correlation.”

 

It’s worth noting, too, that Lorenz had gone on TV to cry about the horrors of online harassment … before doxing Raichik herself and leaving her to the wolves of the online horde, of course.