02a U.S. Politics – Conservative

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Vice President JD Vance has formally referred Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Department of Justice Monday for criminal investigation after a new House Oversight report documented years of ignored fraud warnings. “The evidence is overwhelming that state officials knew about systemic fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs and chose to look the other way,”

Vance said in a statement. Washington Times: Mr. Vance, the administration’s fraud czar, said he was making the referral after reviewing the findings from the House Oversight Committee. The committee’s report, published Monday, alleges that Walz and Ellison were “aware of widespread taxpayer fraud in federally funded social programs for years” and did not take steps to stop it.

An estimated $300 million in federal child nutrition funds and potentially $9 billion in Medicaid-related funds were “lost” or placed at “serious risk,” according to the report. “As a result, potentially billions of American taxpayer dollars were allowed to flow to fraudulent actors, while vulnerable populations were harmed and whistleblowers were ignored, sidelined and retaliated against,” the report says (Washington Times).

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Karmelo Anthony has been tried and convicted of the murder of Austin Metcalf and sentenced to 35 years in prison. But the online donations to his official fund continue to pour in.

The GiveSendGo fund has a goal of $1,396,725. As of this writing, $629,724 has been raised. But a look at the donation tracker, even hours after the verdict and sentence were announced, reveals that donations are continuing to pour in. This, despite the fact that the fund’s purpose is listed as “legal defense,” and Anthony has already been tried and convicted.

However, Anthony’s mother, Kala Hayes, also lists family-related costs.

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Just weeks after reports claimed that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison was disappointed in CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, we get the news that he intends to add to her duties by placing her in charge of editorial operations at far-left CNN after Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros-Discovery is complete.

Who knows what’s true?

Who cares?

Nothing will change.

Ibram Kendi Claims Sex Offender Who Attacked Kyle Rittenhouse Was ‘Antiracist’ ‘Demonstrator’ legalinsurrection.com
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He also implies that Trump’s father was in the KKK, an outrageous suggestion.

Ibram Kendi: Pedophile who attacked Kyle Rittenhouse was ‘antiracist’ ‘demonstrator’

Ibram Kendi’s new book treats a convicted child sex offender better than it treats Donald Trump’s father.

In “Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age,” Kendi briefly discusses the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots in Kenosha, Wis. I am currently reading the book and will publish a longer review in the near future, but in the meantime something stood out as worth highlighting.

In the book, Kendi criticizes Tucker Carlson for interviewing and praising Kyle Rittenhouse.

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Every now and again, someone in Congress takes advantage of having this or that weasel to question under oath. Sen. John Kennedy is a master at making them squirm, and all he does is calmly ask the kinds of questions Normal Americans would ask, and particularly, the kinds of follow-up questions the media and congressional Democrats never ask of Democrats. He’s never rude or angry. He doesn’t insult anyone, but when a witness is concealing something or lying, or says something absolutely stupid, he calls them on it to great comic effect.

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Trump was right. Jasmine Crockett is truly one of the most low-IQ members of society — and it might not even be close.

Crockett said her heart breaks for the Karmelo Anthony verdict. This is because she believes a young man will be sent to prison for 35 years when he has his whole life ahead of him. And no, she did not mention that another young man’s life was forever taken far too early. She was not concerned about the victim or the family.

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Rep. Crockett doesn’t hold back as she explains why the case hits close to home … and why race and venue played a huge role.

One thing she makes abundantly clear … she doesn’t think Anthony got a fair shake … especially in front of a jury that did not have a single Black juror.

Rep. Crockett feels Anthony’s claim that he was afraid during the fatal confrontation at a high school track meet was largely dismissed … and she questions whether jurors would’ve viewed the situation differently if the races were reversed.

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The president and CEO of Democrat fundraising giant ActBlue repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination Wednesday when questioned by congressional investigators about the organization’s handling of foreign donations and fraud-prevention policies.

During a hearing before the House Committee on Administration, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones declined to answer a series of questions from Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI), including inquiries about whether previous statements she provided to Congress were accurate and whether the organization weakened anti-fraud safeguards during the 2024 election cycle.

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Sometimes you just have to choose the lesser of two evils, and President Trump’s recent decision reflects that.

On Wednesday, President Trump announced he has endorsed Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine’s upcoming Senate election.

Collins has been labeled by many conservatives as a RINO after she voted to Impeach Trump in 2021 for “inciting an insurrection.”

While taking questions from the press inside the Oval Office, Trump was asked if he would be endorsing Collins, who is running against Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, to which Trump responded that he would be supporting her despite the two having different ideologies.

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YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife, Ashley, announced that they had aborted their unborn son after a Down syndrome diagnosis. In doing so, they exposed how comfortable our secular culture has become with sorting God’s image-bearers into “fit” and “unfit” categories.


For more than a decade, YouTuber Jesse Ridgway, better known as @McJuggerNuggets, has earned his living by displaying his life to an audience. So, when he and his wife, Ashley, learned that the son she was carrying had tested positive for Trisomy 21, better known as Down syndrome, the couple did what their careers had trained them to do.

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On Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced a firearms manufacturer will leave the state of Virginia over new “anti-gun legislation” and relocate to Georgia, bringing a $22 million investment and employing hundreds of residents.

Georgia attracts job creators from all over the country and world because we work with them, not against them,” Kemp said. “Our state’s pro-business approach, skilled workforce, and enduring support for constitutional freedoms make us an ideal home for manufacturers like Rideout Arsenal, and we look forward to their success here in the No. 1 state for business.”

Rideout Arsenal, the firearms designer and manufacturer launching the new facility, has announced it will be opening its doors in the South Georgia town of Thomasville.

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The online fundraiser created for convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony and his family has been taken down after raising nearly $634,000, according to a report.

Anthony was convicted of murder Tuesday and sentenced to 35 years in prison for fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas.

He has since filed a notice of appeal challenging the conviction.

In appeal documents, Anthony claimed he cannot afford a new attorney, WFAA reported.

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A nation cannot simultaneously tolerate mass unlawful entry for years and then pretend it has the infrastructure to reverse it overnight. As angry protests target Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities and political inaction continues in Washington, millions of people inside our borders face a compounding crisis of legal uncertainty. ICE personnel are caught in the crossfire, tasked with executing massive congressional mandates that are running into a wall of legal and logistical realities.

What advocates and politicians on both sides fail to consider is that a significant percentage of recent arrivals may have grounds to challenge the status of “illegal” because many feel that they arrived at the explicit invitation of the federal government. That invitation was implied by the Biden administration through state-sponsored mobile applications, financial assistance, free housing, interstate transit, and various other agency support services upon arrival, shifting the narrative from “illegal” to “undocumented.”

Attempting to retroactively deport millions who were essentially waved through an open door creates an unprecedented constitutional quagmire that will drag out in federal courts for a generation. The reality is that physically, logistically, and financially, we simply cannot remove millions of immigrants, nor can we realistically process them all through our heavily backlogged immigration court system.

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There are masses of self-proclaimed homosexual and transgender individuals surging into Seattle, Washington, from states led by Republicans that are passing new restrictions on such behaviors.

LGBT nonprofits are now lobbying the city government for more handouts as they seek to answer the influx of allies.

Over Memorial Day weekend, dozens of activists rallied to call on Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson to issue a civil emergency, according to a report from GoMag.

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That old saw about politicians eventually getting around to taxing the air we breathe hasn’t quite come true in Illinois — yet. First, Illinois Democrats have to figure out how to tax social media.

Judging by this first effort, we can relax because if Democrats in the Land of Lincoln don’t understand what social media is and how to figure out how to tax it, our air is safe.

“A nearly $56 billion state spending plan is headed to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk after the Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature approved it in the early-morning hours of another overtime spring session,” the Chicago Tribune‘s Dan Petrella noted last week. “The biggest source of new revenue is a new per-user tax on large social media companies.”

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There can be only one reason not to count votes on a single election day: fraud. Allowing votes to be accepted and “counted” for days, or, as in California, months after election day, enables one essential Democrat cheating tactic: Democrats get to know the total of Republican votes, so they know how many Democrat votes they’ll have to manufacture to win.

This is compounded by ballot harvesting, ballot drop boxes, and mail-in ballots sent to everyone, including the dead, illegal aliens, and people who haven’t lived in the state for years. Accepting those ballots prior to election day allows Democrats not only to accept and count illegal ballots, but to suppress Republican ballots. Ballots destroyed and never counted can’t be discovered in audits, which they violently resist. Add in allowing anyone to register to vote with just about anything with someone’s name on it, and you have an anti-Republican—as in our constitutional republic—single-party state.

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Judge said only a handful of allegations were even worth considering

A Chinese man cannot file a racial discrimination lawsuit against the University of Notre Dame for a legal brief that commented on genocide in the country.

District Court Judge Gretchen Lund tossed out the self-filed suit from Bing Chen, which raised concerns about an amicus filed by the Catholic university’s religious liberty clinic. Chen sought more than $1 billion in damages – $1 for every Chinese person in China, along with $1 for every American living in the United States.

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President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a U.S. purchase of the Chagos Islands as part of an effort to secure long-term American control of the strategically vital Diego Garcia military base, according to a report published Sunday by the Telegraph, the latest twist in a years-long dispute involving Britain, Mauritius, and one of Washington’s most important overseas installations.

Citing U.S. officials familiar with the discussions, the Telegraph reported that Trump administration officials have explored whether the United States could acquire the archipelago as an alternative to a plan by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s to transfer sovereignty to Mauritius.

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The second largest teachers union in the U.S. may be using pensions to advance their political agenda, an education watchdog suggests.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has advocated for fossil fuel divestments, pro-DEI boycotts and other pressure campaigns, Consumers’ Research told acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling in a letter Thursday. The letter requests an investigation into whether AFT is influencing public pension trustees to go beyond their fiduciary duties and use their position to invest in the union’s political priorities.

Millions of educators rely on public pension fiduciaries to retire. While AFT doesn’t directly control public pension funds, over 50 AFT-affiliated trustees serve on 27 public pensions funds, according to the letter.

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Students for Life of America (SFLA) President Kristan Hawkins praised the 14 State Attorneys General who signed onto a letter sent to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) led by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway.

The letter adds new voices to a growing coalition, built by SFLA, calling for accountability and information about the extent of abortion water pollution, permitted by negligent FDA polices and the failure of the Trump Administration to enforce the Comstock Act that says abortifacients cannot be delivered in the mail.

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Three Indian mariners aboard the Palau-flagged M/T Settebello were killed on Tuesday night when the United States Navy fired on the vessel for ignoring the U.S. blockade on Iran. As the Washington Examiner previously reported, the Navy fired precision strikes at the engine room of the Settebello to disable the vessel. The incident occurred as the U.S. conducted self-defense strikes against Iran for deploying a drone that took down a U.S. Army Apache helicopter on Monday.

Sarbananda Sonowal, India’s minister of ports, shipping, and waterways, announced the casualties in a social media post on X early Thursday morning.

“It is deeply unfortunate to learn of the tragic incident aboard the Palau-flagged MT Settebello,” said Sonowal. “Sadly, three Indian seafarers initially reported missing are now confirmed dead after bodies have been located and identified.”

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Legacy media don’t describe. They exist to prevent description, corralling and deflecting. In the famous description from Iowahawk, “Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.”

Four states held primary elections on June 9, and on the morning of June 10, they were either ahead in their count or about as far along in their count of ballots as California, which held its primaries on June 2. These screenshots from live election results at the NBC News website are both from Wednesday morning at 9:30 PT:

California counts far more slowly than anyone else in the country, and California’s results have the most remarkable tendency to drift: What the outcome looks like on election night has nothing to do with the final outcome. Famous 2010 election outcome summarized in a single headline about the 2010 state’s attorney general race: “When Kamala Harris lost on election night, but won three weeks later.”

The U.S. has announced it has secretly navigated more than 100 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump announced, “… More than 200 Commercial Ships have safely traveled through the Strait. This wildly successful effort is because the UNITED STATES of AMERICA CONTROLS the Strait of Hormuz — NOT Iran. Their military is defeated, and their economy is lost. It’s over for Iran! 

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The Florida Supreme Court has ruled no challenges to the new GOP voting district map will be considered before the 2026 election. Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) responded, “The Florida Supreme Court has REJECTED the challenge to the state’s redistricting plan and new map. This assures that the recently enacted map will be in place for the 2026 election.”

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