President Donald Trump announced the pardons of 6 American citizen who had been convicted under the Clean Air Act for “simply fixing” their cars. The cases cut against the right to repair, which President Trump acknowledged.
02a U.S. Politics – Conservative
After Springer National chose to utilize the once-iconic Scientific American magazine as a progressive agit prop organ, the publication immediately began losing subscribers. Now, Springer National has sold the publication just as the staff had overwhelmingly voted to form a union.
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In August 2021, Florida woman Precious Bland drowned her 15-month-old and stabbed her husband who tried to stop her along with her teen daughter. After she was arrested and put on trial nearly five years later, she pled insanity, claiming that she had a “psychotic break” due to the stresses of Covid. At the time of the drowning she allegedly screamed, “Jesus Christ is coming, and Covid is going to kill us all!” The judge of this case, Miguel de la O, apparently found this argument persuasive and acquitted Bland.
Typically, the story would end there. Time and again, a psychotic murderer commits a heinous crime, stands before a liberal judge and claims insanity, receives mental health treatment, and is then released back into the public so that they can have more “psychotic breaks” that harm innocent people.
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This is the best country in the world. The left knows that, which is why they refuse to leave, while attempting to lecture the masses on why this land is so evil. The problem with this is that not only is it illogical, but it will never put them on the “right side of history.” And to slander this great country and its flag on the 250th anniversary of its founding was not taken lightly by the patriots of this nation. This is why one man did what he felt needed to be done when he saw a deranged person lighting this nation’s flag on fire.
A lunatic in Durham, North Carolina, thought she or he or they was making a statement when she or he or they decided to light a flag on fire on the Fourth of July. No one was convinced of whatever it was they were trying to convey other than the other leftists on scene. The only sensible person around did what a lot of sane people would do when seeing a crazy person light a fire for no reason — stop it. This should not be controversial, but the pathetic left cannot stand it when people stand up for what is right.
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Americans all over the country celebrated the 250th anniversary with fireworks, barbecue, and friends and family. Still others celebrated by joining one of the most patriotic-looking events — which was joined by United States Marines.
On Sunday, the day after Independence Day, dozens of Marines joined hundreds of enthusiastic runners for a remarkably patriotic run in the heart of New York City.
‘It does not matter who gets in our way. We will tell them we love them, and we’ll keep it pushing anyways.’
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The First Amendment has been under a decade-long attack from the left with mainstream oppressors bulldozing anyone who opposed COVID’s origin story, engaged in scientific debates over climate change and gender norms, or argued about the emerging reality of voter fraud.
Now, a new bipartisan bill led by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) aims to tamp down the onslaught of online censorship pervading modern society with real repercussions for any government agency or representative that violates that sacred right.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told staff that the company’s effort to replace human workers with AI agents is moving slower than expected, even after the tech giant cut thousands of jobs and reorganized aggressively around artificial intelligence.
The admission came during an internal town hall after months of restructuring at Meta.
Earlier this year, the company cut roughly 10% of its workforce and reassigned about 7,000 employees into new AI-focused roles.
Those moves were framed internally as urgent, as Meta raced to compete with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and other major players in the artificial intelligence arms race.
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Scientists say they have created a fully synthetic cell that can feed, grow, replicate its genome, and divide, marking a major step toward building life-like systems from non-living chemical components.
The team from the University of Minnesota says its synthetic cell, called “SpudCell,” is the “first synthetic cell with a complete cell cycle.”
Researchers say it can “grow, replicate its genome, divide, and undergo selection and competition across multiple generations.”
The breakthrough could open the door to a new era of biotechnology in which synthetic organisms are built from scratch and programmed to carry out specific tasks.
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A New York woman has been arrested and charged with attempting to send money to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Department of Justice has announced.
Catherine Beth Washburn, 37, of Irondequoit, New York, was caught trying to fund the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Washburn was charged by criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support and resources to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, also known as Al-Quds Brigades.
The alleged support mostly came in the form of currency.
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The U.S. Department of Justice is taking Virginia to court over its so-called “assault firearms” ban, filing a lawsuit just hours after it had been slated to take effect on July 1.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., signed a law that creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for importing, selling, manufacturing, purchasing, or transferring the firearms, which include standard, semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15-style rifle, the country’s most popular firearm.
Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office filed a lawsuit Wednesday morning saying the law violates the Second Amendment.
“The Constitution is not a suggestion, and the Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” Blanche said in a press release. “This Justice Department has done more to protect the Second Amendment than any administration in our nation’s history, and we will continue to do so whenever necessary.”
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat from Texas, said on Friday that the United States owes “everything” to black women.
Crockett said during Essence’s Festival of Culture that every American should celebrate Independence Day by thanking black women for their contributions, including inventions and for birthing American democracy.
“When it comes to answering the question of what America owes black women, the answer is everything,” Crockett said.
“When we think about the sacrifices that black women have made from the moment that we were stolen from our homelands and transported into this country, to the fact that black women continue to stand as the backbones, specifically of the Democratic Party, we know that black women are always the ones that are doing the labor, but we are also the ones that are always the first targets of any harm.”
“So, this Fourth of July, I say celebrate a black woman that you know, because whether it’s an invention that she made, or whether it’s the very democracy that still hangs by a thread right now. There is a black woman to thank for her contributions,” Crockett added.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Saturday that U.S. dollar bills bearing President Trump’s signature were introduced to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are on a path toward unprecedented economic growth, lasting dollar dominance, and fiscal strength and stability,” Bessent said.
“There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S dollar bills bearing his signature, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial,” he continued.
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Hungary’s political civil war is beginning to boil over as the head of government prepares to remove the president with a bespoke amendment of the constitution that would strip him of office.
Prime Minister Peter Magyar submitted a proposal for a constitutional amendment over the weekend that would remove President Tamas Sulyok as head of state. The 17th amendment to the Fundamental Law, if passed by the Hungarian Parliament, would end Sulyok’s leadership the day after going into effect and give lawmakers 30 days to select a replacement.
“The proposal for the seventeenth amendment to the Constitution, which would bring the current president’s term to an end, is fundamentally incompatible with the rule of law,” Sulyok protested in a Sunday reaction to the prime minister.
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One deep blue D.C. suburb will not be celebrating the Fourth of July with fireworks as its local government urges residents to turn in some of their patriotic neighbors.
In Alexandria, Virginia, the local government suggests reporting neighbors who are using fireworks, said an X post.
“Fireworks are illegal in Alexandria, including sparklers. Report illegal fireworks by calling 311. Our show is next weekend,” the post read.
“Any fireworks found inside the City can be taken away. If you are caught with fireworks, you could face a Class 1 misdemeanor charge. That means up to one year in jail, a $2,500 fine or both,” the Alexandria Fire Department reminded the community in a press release.
Pope Leo welcomes migrants to Europe while Vatican keeps fortress-like borders– www.lifesitenews.com
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Images of Pope Leo XIV welcoming African migrants to Europe has sparked outrage, as some accuse the Pontiff of encouraging the weakening of western nations while maintaining Vatican City as an impenetrable fortress that threatens illegal migrants with huge fines and lengthy prison sentences.
In a widely viewed video posted by EWTN, the Pope can be seen greeting a large group of migrants who had just made their way by boat to the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa. He also prayed at a cemetery there for migrants who died making the perilous journey.
The viral video has been seen over 1.1 million times while triggering nearly 2,000 mostly negative comments because of the Vatican’s longstanding hypocrisy on migration and open borders.
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The recent wave of primary victories by Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates has the media celebrating a web of grassroots populism and a supposed “working-class uprising.” But look past the revolutionary rhetoric, and you’ll find a much more sinister reality: Modern American socialism isn’t being driven by the proletariat; it is being bankrolled by a cabal of deep-pocketed, ultra-wealthy leftists.
Historically, socialism has never been about uplifting the poor; it is an insider game designed to consolidate state control while shielding the wealth of the ruling class and ransacking the middle class along the way. To pave the way for this scam, these trust-fund radicals must first destroy the independent American family.
To do that, they have weaponized a nasty little phrase in our modern, grievance-obsessed culture. Whenever a person achieves success, buys a home, or launches a business, the bitter arbiters of online misery waste no time throwing an insult disguised as an observation: “You’re just doing well because your parents had money to help you.”
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We’ve told you about Calla Walsh, the former staffer for Elizabeth Warren, and her radical views on Islam (she loves it) and America (she hates it).
Turns out Walsh attended the funeral for Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, the brutal Islamist dictator who killed tens of thousands of Iranian protesters and oppressed women for years. That doesn’t seem to matter to Leftists like Walsh, however, because her desire to destroy America outweighs all concerns.
Ex-Dem activist Calla Walsh attends Khamenei’s funeral in Iran, hails him as ‘greatest anti-imperialist leader’ https://t.co/5fd72K0MBR pic.twitter.com/wpCjPRSeuy
— New York Post (@nypost) July 5, 2026
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Americans are spending significantly less time socializing face-to-face than they were 20 years ago, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey.
Axios reports that the average time Americans spend socializing per day has dropped from 45 minutes to 35 minutes over the last 20 years, a trend that cuts across every generation, ethnicity, and income level.
The drop-off has sparked concern among sociologists and public health officials, who warn of a growing epidemic of loneliness and social isolation
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Academics in ivory towers have risen magnificently to the challenge of scrapping every visible vestige of DEI while mastering the art of rebranding. Better yet, in a heartwarming tribute to thrift (miracles do happen), they’ve even embraced recycling: Many of the programs remain in the same buildings, the same suite of offices, and often with the very same flag-waving, preference-based personnel. It’s just camouflaged under a shinier label.
One professor, who requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions, summed up the makeover perfectly: “The campus eliminated DEI the same way my teenager cleans his room: Everything got shoved into a different closet.”
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… The Guardian found a way to arrive at America’s 250th birthday party and complain about the host, the music, the weather, the guest list, and the entire idea of celebrating.
Over this weekend of celebration, the paper’s America coverage read less like curiosity and more like a bill of indictment. President Donald Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech was framed as a “partisan attack.” America at 250 was described as “a solid global citizen gone rogue.” Another headline said Trump “hijacked” the anniversary for “political ideology and pet projects.”
The mood didn’t improve when the subject moved from speeches to people on the National Mall. One story led with “a total disappointment” as Americans dealt with brutal heat at the Great American State Fair.
Another July 4 opinion headline declared, “America is destroying itself. It’s no surprise.”
For a newspaper covering a 250th birthday, it certainly sounded eager to write the obituary before the fireworks went off.
The country is marking 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. The White House’s Freedom 250 page described a full year of events meant to honor American history, faith, innovation, and the next 250 years.
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Jason Stanley, left-wing professor and author of How Fascism Works, fled to Canada to escape President Trump, yet somehow feels compelled to appear on TV to bash his abandoned home. He made another appearance on PBS on Amanpour & Co just in time to mark America’s 250th anniversary, in order to declare his previous home is a Nazi state under Trump and Republican control.
Stanley is a frequent guest on the (formerly) tax-funded circuit of PBS and National Public Radio, and he brought his tired “fascist” gimmick to the program.
Host Christiane Amanpour: Now, controversy continues to swell around President Trump’s immigration agenda as he pushes through a series of sweeping changes from recent Supreme Court rulings terminating protected status for Haitians and Syrians to fast-tracking refugee status for white South Africans. Outrage has spread across the country….
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It felt like former President Joe Biden’s famous “Red Speech” circa September 2022, when he told a Philadelphia crowd that “equality and democracy are under assault” and that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”
The stage was bathed in dramatic, dark-red hues reminiscent of fascist regimes. Like, say, the Nazis.
As I wrote at the time, it was a “foaming, vitriolic, vengeful speech that seemed designed to pull our nation further apart and inflame the more than 73 million Americans who voted for his opponent in the last election.”
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Thursday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about John Hickenlooper.
Marlow said, “This is a guy described himself as an extreme moderate and a fiscal conservative allowing for all this socialism, Islamism, crazy stuff.”
The Alex Marlow Show, hosted by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, broadcasts coast to coast on weekdays from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern on the Salem Radio Network stations. You can listen to the radio show online here. The show also airs at 9 p.m. Eastern on the Salem TV news channel. Marlow’s podcast, The Alex Marlow Show Presented by Breitbart News, is released weekdays at 9 p.m. Eastern. You can subscribe to the podcast on YouTube, Rumble, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.
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The year before the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss, who was intimately involved in the founding of the United Nations and served as a top advisor to Truman’s Secretary of State Dean Acheson, was accused of being a Soviet agent by former communist Whittaker Chambers, among others. The statute of limitations for bringing espionage charges against Hiss had already expired, but the spy was convicted of perjury relating to his espionage work. Shockingly, Hiss was defended by a number of high-profile government officials, including future Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson and former Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis, in addition to Truman and Acheson. Following the Hiss conviction, Acheson is reported to have stated, “I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss.” McCarthy delivered his speech two weeks later.
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Trump delivers stirring America250 Finale honoring the glory of American liberty.
Trump caps sensational 250th celebration with tribute to the glory of American freedom
Delayed by storms and greeted by crowds who endured searing heat that reached 103 degrees, Trump implored the nation to never relinquish its commitment to liberty and independence or its resilience in the face of adversity.
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The final 10 minutes of an incredible 4th of July fireworks and concert celebrating America’s 250th birthday in Washington, D.C., drew a massive crowd, with President Trump and the First Lady in attendance.🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/UPdXEEqUSQ
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) July 5, 2026
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This weekend, America marked the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Across the country, millions gathered for parades, fireworks, and family celebrations filled with genuine joy and pride. Yet July 4, 2026, also served as a stark litmus test for the political soul of our nation. How our leaders and parties responded to this milestone reveals exactly what they would do if handed real power in Congress, especially the House of Representatives, this November.
President Trump and the broader MAGA movement delivered the kind of unapologetic celebration America deserves. On the National Mall, Trump addressed the nation in a rousing speech that honored our heroes, celebrated our unmatched history, and declared the American Dream is back.
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The Trump administration has cut off federal funding for New York’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, accusing Attorney General Letitia James’s office of failing to produce serious criminal enforcement results despite overseeing one of the largest Medicaid programs in the country.
HHS Inspector General Thomas March Bell notified James in a letter that her office had produced fewer criminal indictments than comparable state units by a wide margin.
The letter said New York’s unit was the worst performer among similar-sized Medicaid fraud units.
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Ocasio-Cortez’s backing of el Sayed comes after a swing of several midterm primaries showed momentum growing against the Democratic establishment, with voters in states such as New York and Colorado picking either socialist or anti-establishment challengers over mainstream Democrats. The move also bucks the primary goals of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), whose preferred candidate in the Michigan Senate race is the more centrist Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI).
“Despite our ideological differences and whatever disagreements there are in the party, every single one of us sees this moment as existential,” Ocasio-Cortez told the New York Times, who first reported the endorsement. “And I think many people are willing to put aside differences in order to give us the best chance at winning. And I think that Abdul gives us that right now.”
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The partisan nature of the Elitist Media’s news coverage even trickles down to how pardons are covered. Any pardon issued by President Donald Trump will immediately raise the media’s hackles and draw significant coverage. Controversial pardons by Democrats? Not so much.
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Minnesota officials, including Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, last month pardoned an illegal immigrant who was previously convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl and who was slated to be deported.
With the recommendation of the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission (CRC), the Minnesota Board of Pardons — led by Walz, state Attorney General Keith Ellison and state Chief Justice Natalie Hudson — granted a pardon for Laos national Tou Lue Vang, 42, at its June 10 meeting, according to a letter informing Vang of the decision from Carli Stark, the executive director of the state CRC.
The pardon essentially gives Vang a clean slate.
“Being granted a pardon is a notable achievement and a reflection of the work you have done since your conviction,” Stark wrote in her letter to Vang.
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Three graduate students sat around a table with the great historian Forrest McDonald. In the twilight of his career, he no longer taught anyone that he didn’t himself choose. That mostly meant only a handful of master’s and doctoral level students. I was fortunate to be one of them. In a 2016 obituary, the New York Times called him the “historian who punctured liberal notions,” and no notion, liberal or otherwise, did he take more glee in puncturing than poor scholarship. On this occasion, McDonald, who wasn’t particularly religious, began our discussion by holding up a copy of Barbara Tuchman’s bestseller A Distant Mirror, a history of the fourteenth century, and read aloud this passage from her forward:
“While I recognize [Christianity’s] presence [in the Middle Ages], it requires a more religious bent than mine to identify with it.”
McDonald closed the book demonstratively and tossed it on the table.
“And with that,” he declared, “read no further and throw it in the trash. Tuchman casually informs the reader in the opening pages that she hasn’t bothered to understand the mindset of the period about which she has presumed to write a history. Since the Christian faith is unimportant to her, she dismisses it as unimportant to her subject. What insight can she possibly offer about the motivations of the people of that time? Tuchman is admitting that she has no authority to write such a book.”1