02a U.S. Politics – Conservative

Melania’s $8M opening best documentary debut in over 10 years– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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First lady Melania Trump’s new documentary is set to outpace projections and open to the best weekend for any documentary in over a decade. 

The eponymously titled Melania was expected to open to around $5 million across 1,778 screens, according to the Hollywood Reporter. However, the film is doing better than expected with a gross of around $8 million despite negative reception from film critics.

The film’s audience is primarily women and older viewers; 72% of the film’s audience on Friday comprised of women over the age of 55, and 78% of all viewers were older than 55.

Trump Protects Pro-Life Pharmacists Who Don’t Want to Sell Abortion Pills– www.lifenews.com

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The Department of Health and Human Services, through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has issued a clear notice that pro-lifers will welcome: pharmacies nationwide are no longer required to supply the abortion drug.

Under the Biden administration, policies in favor of abortion dramatically increased. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision — which returned abortion regulation to the states and the people — the former administration issued guidance pressuring nearly 60,000 retail pharmacies to stock and dispense mifepristone and misoprostol for patients with Medicare, Medicaid, or other federally funded coverage. This move drew significant criticism and legal challenges from the onset, as many argued it overrode conscience rights and state laws.

How Activists Embed Leftist Ideology in K–12 Schools– www.westernjournal.com

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Activist organizations are developing curricula instructing teachers and students to be skeptical toward claims of anti-Semitism and sympathetic to pro-Palestinian causes, documents show.

Two pro-Palestinian organizations, Participatory Action Research Center for Organizing and Project48, orchestrate programs and disseminate materials that blame “white nationalism” for anti-Semitism and ask participants to consider the “bad habit” of whiteness, documents obtained by Defending Education and shared exclusively with the Daily Caller News Foundation show.

The activist programs are already finding their way into schools.

Canadian cabinet member suggests need for new powers to stop protests like Freedom Convoy– www.lifesitenews.com

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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – One of Canada’s most senior federal ministers seemed to suggest that the government needs more, and possibly new powers, to ensure it can deal in the future with “hostile actors” more swiftly than it did during the Freedom Convoy clearout in 2022. 

The comments were made by Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly during a recent House of Commons industry committee meeting after she was grilled by Conservative MPs about concerns over a new bill relating to the internet. 

Joly claimed that the federal cabinet under Prime Minister Mark Carney needs the new powers to deal with “a chaotic and dangerous world.”

“I think it’s important for people to remember that, since we’re living in a much more chaotic and dangerous world, the government has to deal with a lot of hostile actors that can sometimes go after our critical infrastructure including the state ones,” she told the committee.

Joly was giving her testimony regarding Bill C-8, known as An Act Respecting Cyber Security.

‘Melania’ Smashes Box Office Expectations With Jaw-Dropping Opening Weekend– trendingpoliticsnews.com

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“Melania,” the documentary centered on first lady Melania Trump, delivered a box-office surprise with a $7 million opening weekend, according to estimates released Sunday, Feb. 1, by Amazon MGM Studios.

Directed by Brett Ratner, the film had been expected to open between $3 million and $5 million. It chronicles the 20 days leading up to President Donald Trump’s second inauguration in 2025, told from his wife’s perspective. Final box-office figures will be released Feb. 2.

Anything above $1 million is “a huge number,” said Jeff Bock, senior media analyst for Exhibitor Relations, in an interview with USA TODAY ahead of the release. “That would mean that a lot of folks who don’t normally go to the movies went to this.”

‘Detransitioner’ wins $2 million malpractice suit in major legal victory– www.lifesitenews.com

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(LifeSiteNews) — In what is being hailed as a first of its kind courtroom victory against the “gender transition” industry, a jury has awarded $2 million to a young woman, who, as a teen, was disfigured by so-called “gender-affirming doctors.”

The now-22-year-old, Fox Varian, who no longer identifies as transgender, underwent a double mastectomy when she was just a 16-year-old.

Varian had testified during the trial that she had quickly regretted having her body mutilated.

“I immediately had a thought that this was wrong, and it couldn’t be true,” said the young woman. “It’s hard to face that you are disfigured for life.”

Judge Blocks Hawaii Censorship Law– thefederalist.com

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Humorless Democrats in the Trump Derangement Syndrome era can’t take a joke. Literally. Liberals in Blue state Hawaii are so joyless that they’ve criminalized satire, a mainstay of politics for centuries.

But a federal judge in Honolulu just told the leftist-led Aloha State to lighten up.

‘Kill the Joke’

In a big win for the First Amendment, Judge Shanlyn A.S. Park on Friday found Hawaii’s looming law censoring online political speech unconstitutional. The case pitted the Babylon Bee — “Fake News You Can Trust” — against Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez and the other speech silencers at the island state’s capitol, and Park’s permanent injunction stops a law that “would kill the joke.”

As the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) put it, Hawaii government officials aren’t allowed to censor political speech they don’t like. The conservative Christian network of attorneys founded to protect “religious freedom, free speech, parental rights and the sanctity of life” filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Babylon Bee and Hawaii resident Dawn O’Brien.

 

Likely 2026 Voters Support Deporting Illegals By 2:1 Margin– thefederalist.com

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Nearly two-thirds of likely 2026 midterm election voters support deporting illegal aliens from the United States, a new poll released Monday shows.

In its latest survey of 1,004 likely 2026 voters, the political polling firm Cygnal found that respondents support removing illegal aliens from America and sending them back to their country of origin by a nearly 2:1 margin (61 to 34 percent). The poll also found strong support for ICE enforcement of federal immigration laws and agreement that illegally entering the United States is a violation of such laws.

Senate To Bypass ‘Zombie’ Filibuster For Vote On Popular Voter ID Bill– trendingpoliticsnews.com

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune has indicated plans to bring the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to the Senate floor for a vote, potentially using a procedural maneuver to avoid the traditional 60-vote threshold required to overcome a filibuster.

The announcement comes after a number of House Republicans, including Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Tim Burchett (R-TN), indicated that they would move to block any legislation from being sent to the Senate until a floor vote on the SAVE Act was secured. Lawmakers had attempted to attach an amendment for the SAVE Act onto ongoing government funding bills, which is expected to end the ongoing government shutdown by funding all government departments with the exception of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Dozens of House Republicans Demand Mitch McConnell ‘Stop Stalling the SAVE Act’– www.westernjournal.com

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It appears that there may be a growing divide within the GOP, and it’s got nothing to do with redacting files associated with a convicted sex offender.

Instead, surprisingly, it’s got everything to do with requiring Americans to provide key identification before voting.

The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, per Fox News, aims to enact two key provisions.

First, it would require states to obtain proof of citizenship in-person when people register to vote.

Journalists Assaulted By Agitators at Anti-ICE Checkpoint in Minneapolis › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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On Monday, masked anti-ICE agitators in Minneapolis assaulted independent journalist Jorge Ventura and a colleague while they were filming an anti-ICE checkpoint.

“I was just assaulted by left-wing activists in South Minneapolis for reporting on a roadblock protesters set up and checking cars for ID’s,” Ventura stated on X.  “The activists grew angry when I shot footage of them turning around some vehicles that appear to be ICE agents, they tried to steal my phone and shove me back into my vehicle,” he reported, adding that they also assaulted Erik Herrera, another photographer who was on the scene.

“They tried to intimate me and forced to leave by shoving,” Ventura reported, adding, “as a journalist I have the right to be here and report.”

Man who used axe to kill his parents and two siblings set free under new policies signed by Tim Walz– www.theblaze.com

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The brutal murder of a family by a teenager in 1988 led to his being sentenced to die in prison, but new Democratic policies have led to the murderer being set free.

David Francis Brom, now 54 years old, used an axe to kill his 41-year-old mother, 41-year-old father, 13-year-old sister, and 11-year-old brother when he was only 16 years old.

Is Your Church Prepared To Stop Active Shooters Or Angry Mobs?– thefederalist.com

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Over the last 25 years, gunmen and gunwomen have launched around two dozen fatal attacks at Christian churches across the nation. As demonstrated by the invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota last month, even congregations that haven’t encountered an armed threat still face mounting hostility against their faith and parishioners.

There’s no denying houses of worship are targets for violence. There’s also no denying that death tolls in church shootings were kept at a minimum thanks to the heroic actions of good guys with guns like Jack Wilson, Caleb Engle, and Jeanne Assam.

AI Rejects Truth And Virtue Because Our Culture Taught It To– thefederalist.com

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According to a recent report, the White House is set to start using artificial intelligence to write new transportation regulations. It’s no longer a question whether this technology will have power over our lives — that moment has arrived.

As its influence grows, AI will be the source of even more heated political debates. Some on the left are horrified about the lack of DEI and the hateful expression in AI, while the White House has claimed it is too woke. Some say AI is scraping from predominantly Western sources, so it is too Western. Some Christians are horrified by the implications of what happens when you ask generative AI moral and spiritual questions, while others seriously argue that AI can be an ethical counselor and decisionmaker. The AI debates, be they political or moral, are all framed around competing assertions of truth.

Radical Changes Could be Coming to ‘Psychiatry’s Bible’– www.madinamerica.com

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From CNN. “The American Psychiatric Association announced Wednesday that it is radically reconceptualizing the main manual that clinicians use to make a mental health diagnosis. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will likely get a new name, new voices shaping its content and a new approach that will add more layers to a diagnosis.

The hope is that it will turn what some call “psychiatry’s bible” into more of a guidebook to mental health disorders — one that’s more inclusive, dynamic and educational, so patients will receive more effective treatments.

While APA updates the manual regularly to reflect the most up-to-date science, the last update was 2022. Over the years, the DSM has come under heavy criticism. Some argue it’s not scientific enough, others argue it’s not specific enough, or even practical.

Biden Judge BLOCKS Trump Administration from Ending Temporary Protection Status for Haitians– wltreport.com

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A rogue federal judge has issued an order blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian migrants.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem had ordered the termination of TPS for Haitians, and it was supposed to go into effect on Tuesday.

This would have forced hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants living in the United States to either leave or get deported.

However, U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes, who was appointed by Biden, just put an indefinite pause on that order.

Clinton Judge Releases Boy, 5, and His Father from ICE Detention, Makes Mistake So Bad on Order This May Be the First Time It’s Ever Recorded– www.westernjournal.com

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Most Americans would assume that federal judges — ostensibly some of the most important arbiters in the U.S. judiciary system — would have a pretty good grasp of the basic facts.

Things like who, what, when, where, and why are all rather important topics when presiding over any tenuous legal matter.

Alas, every once in a while, judges can apparently get those very important factoids wrong, too.

And it’s raising a lot of questions.

150,000 protestors march on Toronto to demand regime change in Iran, ask Trump to act | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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“When we bring down the Islamic regime in Iran, the world will see real peace again.”

150,000 people took to the streets of downtown Toronto on Sunday to march in solidarity with the people of Iran and call for regime change and freedom from the authoritarian Islamic regime. Many carried photos of Iranian protestors who have been killed by the regime during their ongoing crackdown against civilians. Many similar massive events have been occurring in Toronto and around the world in recent weeks.

Trump Slams ‘Total Loser’ Trevor Noah, Threatens Lawsuit Over False Epstein Claims at Grammys– slaynews.com

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President Donald Trump said Monday that he is considering legal action against comedian Trevor Noah, the host of the 2026 Grammy Awards, after Noah made false remarks during the broadcast linking Trump to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

During Sunday night’s ceremony, Noah joked that Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland stemmed from his alleged inability to visit Epstein’s private Caribbean island.

Noah appeared to be referring to Friday’s release of millions of Epstein Files.

The files were released under congressional legislation, which Trump signed into law.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Asks Police to Surveil ICE, Report Them For Prosecution– legalinsurrection.com

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Chicago Police Department (CPD) personnel should focus their time and resources on documenting interactions with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and referring them for prosecution, according to Mayor Brandon Johnson.

On Saturday, Mayor Johnson signed an executive order directing Chicago police officers to prepare reports on “any violation of state or local law by federal agents” and to ensure they preserve body-camera footage.

ANDY NGO REPORTS: Portland Antifa blog brags about attacking entire Enterprise lot over DHS rentals | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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A Portland Antifa blog has posted a claim of responsibility for attacking all the vehicles in an Enterprise rental lot. This blog has a long record of far-left political violence and intimidation.

PORTLAND, Ore. — An Antifa-linked Portland blog has published another claim of responsibility for a vandalism attack, this time targeting an Enterprise Rent-A-Car lot in northeast Portland in retaliation for the company’s business with the federal government.

Support ‘Fully Abolishing’ ICE, ‘Rip It Down to the Studs’– www.breitbart.com

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On Monday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Christian Menefee (D-TX), who was sworn in on Monday evening, discussed ICE and said he backs “fully abolishing the agency. I think you have to rip it down to the studs.” And “I want to abolish it. I think you rip it down to the studs, and when it comes back, it shouldn’t be ICE anymore.”

Co-host Joe Mathieu asked, “Well, let’s get real about what should happen. You said at your victory party that it’s time to tear ICE up from the roots. Is that abolishing the agency or reforming it?”

Menefee answered, “I support fully abolishing the agency. I think you have to rip it down to the studs.”

Ed Martin’s Role at the Trump Justice Department Got Literally Eviscerated– townhall.com

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Do you recall Ed Martin? He was anticipated to be the next United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, until Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) derailed his full-time nomination; he had been serving in an interim capacity until May 2025. But he wasn’t gone for long; he was named a pardon attorney and helmed the weaponization task force inside the Trump Justice Department. He was the point of the lance on the ongoing probe into former President Biden’s use of the autopen.

Here Are The Traitorous Republicans Who Sided With Democrats to Fund Corrupt, Criminal USADF– gellerreport.com

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Traitorous Senate Republicans joined Democrats to keep funding the U.S. African Development Foundation, even after the agency’s own leadership acknowledged corruption and DOGE flagged it for fraud.

“The USADF Director of Financial Management’s fraudulent acts betrayed the trust of the American people,” said Acting Assistant Inspector General for Investigations Sean M. Bottary. “As the Inspector General with continued oversight jurisdiction over U.S.-funded foreign assistance, we will utilize our global investigative reach to aggressively detect and disrupt those who defraud taxpayer dollars programmed overseas.”

Wait, the Minneapolis Police Are Giving the Go-Ahead for These Insane Anti-ICE Checkpoints?– townhall.com

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Minneapolis is a warzone. It’s been that way since an ICE agent shot Renee Good on January 7, after she rammed into him with her car. On January 24, Alex Pretti was shot by Border Patrol agents—both people were interfering with police actions, and their reckless actions got them killed. They weren’t executed. They were morons who did the equivalent of looking down the barrel of a loaded gun.

Still, the left-wing lynch mobs, most of them exclusively white crusty boomers and shrill progressive women, have done everything they could to disrupt ICE raids. They have an elaborate system of encrypted chats that coordinate unlawful interference operations to enforce federal immigration law. They’re psychos. And now, we have these checkpoints. These clowns block cars to run a search on people’s license plates.

Don Lemon Indicted By Grand Jury For Terrorizing Christians– thefederalist.com

pgnewser February 2, 2026 0

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In a step toward accountability, a grand jury indicted former CNN host Don Lemon over his involvement in a leftist-led storming of a Minnesota church earlier this month. The indictment led to Lemon’s arrest at the hands of federal authorities on Friday morning.

“At my direction, early this morning federal agents arrested Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy, in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota,” Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in an X post.

Lemon’s attorney Abbe Lowell also confirmed the arrest of his client. In a statement, Lowell claimed that Lemon was detained Thursday evening while covering the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California and that his “constitutionally protected” conduct in the aforementioned church storming “was no different than what he has always done” as a media figure.

Federal Judge Sides With Trump, ICE In Closely-Watched Minnesota Case– trendingpoliticsnews.com

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A federal judge on Saturday denied a motion for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by the State of Minnesota, the City of Minneapolis, and the City of St. Paul against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and related officials seeking to halt Operation Metro Surge, the Trump Administration’s codename for a massive immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota.

U.S. District Judge Katherine M. Menendez, a Biden appointee, stated in her decision that the plaintiffs had not met their burden to justify the extraordinary remedy of halting the operation based on the Tenth Amendment. She emphasized that the court was not making a final determination on the merits or commenting on the wisdom of the operation, but focused solely on the request for immediate relief.

Texas A&M ends women’s and gender studies degrees– www.thecollegefix.com

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Texas A&M university is eliminating its Women’s and Gender Studies bachelor’s degree and graduate certificate programs, campus leaders announced Friday, blaming new curriculum oversight policies and a lack of interest in the programs.

“The decision reflected both the requirements of System policies and limited student interest in the program based on enrollment over the past several years,” administrators stated in a news release, adding students currently pursuing degrees in the programs will be allowed to complete them.

Are books trendy again? Gen Z is buying more paperbacks, starting campus reading clubs– www.thecollegefix.com

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‘Print provides a welcome oasis’ for young adults, American University professor says

Amid concerns about a decline in student literacy, some universities are holding on tight to book culture with professors and student groups emphasizing the value of pleasure reading and hard copies.

“According to the American Library Association, Gen Z is buying even more print books than Millennials are,” linguistics expert and American University Professor Naomi Baron told The College Fix in a recent interview.

Elon Musk Pours Millions Into GOP 2026 Midterm Fight– legalinsurrection.com

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Elon Musk is once again opening his checkbook to influence American politics, pouring millions into Republican efforts to hold Congress in the 2026 midterm elections, according to new campaign finance disclosures reported by both Newsmax and Politico, despite flirting with the idea of creating a third party last year. 

Politico reported that Musk “poured $10 million into two major Republican super PACs at the end of last year,” splitting the donations evenly between the Congressional Leadership Fund and the Senate Leadership Fund, “two groups that aim to help the GOP keep control of Congress this year.” The Tesla and SpaceX CEO gave $5 million to each group in December, marking his second round of contributions to both super PACs during the current election cycle.

“It was Musk’s second round of donations to both groups this cycle, having previously given in June,” Politico noted, adding that those earlier donations came “amid his feud with Trump.”