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A pro-ICE billboard appeared in a heavily trafficked part of San Francisco this week ahead of the Super Bowl, prompting an outcry from immigrant rights advocates in the city.
The digital billboard, at Mason and Jefferson streets near Fisherman’s Wharf, displayed images of what appeared to be Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and messages that say “Cheering because the home team finally started investing in defense,” “Defensive player of the year: ICE,” and “They can’t win without defense. Neither can America.” American Sovereignty, a conservative group, said that it had placed the sign.
The Melania Trump feature length film, Melania, hauled in an impressive million dollars at the box office on Monday, according to studio sources who say the swell of grassroots support for the Amazon MGM documentary film during its historic opening weekend has prompted the studio to add it to more than 200 theaters in a throng of new cities and markets where the Brett Ratner-directed hit is already showing.[snip] Amazon MGM, according to Beckman, is “really psyched” to bring Melania into more domestic markets. “We’re expanding to almost 200 more theaters, bringing the total domestic number to nearly 2,000 theaters nationwide,” Beckman said.
The head of the Minneapolis teachers union said in a recent interview that elected officials are involved in anti-ICE agitation in the city. "The notion that people that are actively engaged in ICE Watch, (snip) in Signal chat groups, running plates, in their cars doing patrols -- that somehow we're ashamed (snip), that somehow you can call our bosses and (snip) then we would be shunned (snip) . . ." Marcia Howard told Al Jazeera (snip.) "Our bosses are in the Signal chats with us," she said. "Our elected officials are in the chats with us."
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One year ago, young and beautiful Katie Abraham was in a car with her college friends, waiting at a red light in Urbana, Illinois. Julio Cucul Bol, a 29-yeqr old citizen of Guatemala -- and in the United States illegally having adopted fake Mexican identify -- was driving drunk behind her (snip) coming upon Katie's car at speeds approaching 80 miles per hour. Then the crash. Abraham, 20, was killed. By the luck of the demons, Bol lived and ran away (snip.) And what have we seen since? Chaos as the left, once again, uses force to impose its will on Americans. (snip) [W]hat does Katie Abraham get? The grave.
Migrants flowing across the southern border during the Biden administration have become a trickle under President Donald Trump, according to a new analysis of federal data.
Border Patrol had 237,538 encounters with migrants at the border during the 2025 fiscal year, according to a Pew Research report.
The federal fiscal year begins Oct. 1, which means that roughly four months of the Biden administration are included in the 2025 data.
The data showed a massive drop from full years when former President Joe Biden was in the White House.
French Finance Minister Jacques] Necker, you remember, asked the people to come and help him against the aristocracy. The people came fast enough at his bidding, but, somehow or other, they would not go away when they had done their work. I hope Lord Grey will not see himself or his friends in the woeful case of the conjuror, who, with infinite zeal and pains, called up the devils to do something for him. They came at the word, thronging about him, grinning, and howling, and dancing, and whisking their long tails in diabolic glee;
It's the same dark money with new signs. Anti-ICE protests in Minnesota may appear to be "grassroots" efforts organized by concerned citizens, but they're really funded with megadonor money -- some coming from China. (snip) "My team's best judgment is that it's the Neville Singham network that is most active in Minnesota, partly because that's the most crazy network. But they aren't alone," Scott Walter, president of Capital Research and an expert on dark money outfits, told the Post. Walter was referring to the People's Forum and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, both funded by China-based former software exec Roy Singham. (snip)
This article was originally published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission.
One of the most annoying things about climate doomsayers is the certainty with which they make their dire predictions, while simultaneously making excuses for all their past prognostications that failed to materialize. Let’s revisit a few.
In the early to mid-1970s, several magazine articles and a number of scientists predicted that cooling trends could usher in a new “mini-ice age” beginning within a few short years. Didn’t happen. In fact, new crystal balls went from cold to hot.A June 1989 Associated Press story quoted “a senior U.N. environmental official”
This new age will be one of relentless improvement,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised last November as voters handed him the keys to the city. But that was before the temperatures truly dropped.In his inaugural address, the incoming mayor said, in one particularly tortured passage, “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.” Together, he added, New Yorkers are “warmed against the January chill by the resurgent flame of hope.” Through communalism, “we will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”
Democrat Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY) on Tuesday said Americans would be justified in shooting masked ICE agents.
“What is really the major problem in this country today is the fascism in our streets,” Nadler said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
“The attacks on American citizens by masked hoodlums. If you were attacked by a masked person, you might think you were being kidnapped,” Nadler said.
“You’d be justified in shooting the person to protect yourself,” Nadler added.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the modified spending package on Tuesday, which the Senate had handed them on Friday. The move ended the government shutdown that kicked in on Saturday, which most people weren't even aware of. More than that, it marks the first time that Congress has managed to do its job and pass a plan for the upcoming fiscal year without being in a major state of stopgap crisis.The only catch is that the spending bill funds almost the entirety of the U.S. government — except for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
'A Great Victory for the American People':
Trump Signs Consolidated Appropriations
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As RedState reported, the House, on Tuesday afternoon, voted 217 to 214 to agree to the Senate amendments on the spending package and reopen the federal government. This, in turn, sent the Consolidated Appropriations Act to the desk of President Trump, who signed the bill in the Oval Office later on Tuesday afternoon, surrounded by GOP congressional leaders.As he signed the measure, President Trump delivered remarks, praising the legislation.Trump not only highlighted the benefits of the measure itself, but also lauded the reopening of the government.
Several American mayors, including local leaders from Minnesota who have publicly opposed funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),traveled to China last fall on an all-expenses-paid delegation organized by a communist, pro-China influence group. The benefactor -- the United States Heartland China Association -- is a group that belongs to the Chinese Communist Party's United Front influence apparatus, which seeks to influence overseas politics in favor of China.(snip) Chinese Communist leaders have openly characterized United Front work as a core tool of their external influence strategy. Xi Jinping described the United Front as an "important magic weapon" for subverting politicians abroad.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law a massive funding package to end the brief government shutdown that began Saturday. The bill passed the House earlier Tuesday on a vote of 217-214, after passing the Senate last week. The legislation will ensure full-year funding for the federal government through the end of September, with the lone exception of the Department of Homeland Security, which is put on a two-week leash as Democrats insist on changes after federal agents fatally shot two Americans in Minneapolis.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) released new guidance on Tuesday cautioning physicians against performing gender-transition surgeries on minors, marking a significant breakthrough for critics of the procedures who have long called on major medical associations to be transparent about the harms associated with medicalizing gender dysphoric children.
The new ASPS guidance acknowledges that there is insufficient evidence to prove that irreversible gender-related surgical interventions have longterm benefits for adolescents and therefore recommends that surgeons delay
Drastic cuts forced on the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) by President Donald Trump withdrawing U.S. taxpayer dollars from the globalist behemoth are hitting hard, the organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus lamented.
Ghebreyesus told the agency’s annual executive board meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, that 2025 was “undeniably one of the most difficult years in our organisation’s history”, with many donors tightening their belts, AFP reports.
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Trump confirmed the U.S. was exiting the agency on the first day of his return to office in January, 2025, having criticised the organisation for being too “China-centric” during the coronavirus pandemic.
In just one weekend, Melania’s $7 million, three-day weekend haul has already out-grossed the entire domestic run of five 2025 movies nominated for this year’s Academy Awards. This includes — tee hee — two Best Picture nominees.
The Secret Agent: $3.25 million — Four Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Actor, Casting, and Foreign Film.
Sentimental Value: $4.57 million — Eight Oscar nominations for Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Foreign Film, and Editing.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: $1.09 million — Best Actress.
Blue Moon: $2.11 million — Best Actor, Original Screenplay.
It Was Just an Accident: $1.78 million — Original Screenplay, Foreign Film.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien with an active deportation order who was just one week away from becoming a New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officer.
On Tuesday, ICE officials confirmed to Fox News’s Bill Melugin that ICE agents arrested 46-year-old illegal alien Larry Temah of Cameroon in New Orleans, Louisiana.
According to ICE, Temah had recently been recruited to become an NOPD officer and was just a week away from graduating from the NOPD police academy at the time of his arrest.
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson told Melugin:
This illegal alien from Cameroon, Larry Temah, is not only breaking the law with every step he takes
Dr. Jill Biden's ex-husband Bill Stevenson is charged with the murder of his wife Linda, who was found unresponsive in her Delaware home in December and later pronounced dead. Bill was indicted on a first-degree murder charge and taken into custody without incident on Monday Feb. 2, the New Castle County Police Department said in a press release. "Officers immediately administered life-saving measures; however, despite their efforts, Linda was later pronounced deceased," police said, and confirmed her body was discovered in the living room of the home.
Ministers have admitted that riots could break out outside a new migrant camp in East Sussex. Steve Reed, the communities secretary, said that moving hundreds of migrants into the former army training facility at Crowborough could raise anxiety among residents and lead to protests and even riots similar to those in the summer of 2024. The Home Office transferred the first 27 men to the Crowborough camp last month and plans to house up to 540 at the site over the next year.
What if I told you Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has the power and the votes — right now — to save Republicans’ congressional majorities, President Trump’s second-term agenda, and maybe the republic itself, all while poleaxing Democrats on the short side of an 84-15 issue?
Requiring voters to prove their citizenship is one of the most popular ideas in the country, with 84 percent of Americans supporting and only 15 percent opposed. That’s why 36 states and most of the world’s developed countries already have it on the books.
Jim Crow is back, you guys! Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer invoked Jim Crow regarding the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. Schumer whined:I have said it before and I’ll say it again, the SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow-type laws to the entire country and is dead on arrival in the Senate,” Schumer said in a statement on Monday. “If House Republicans add the SAVE Act to the bipartisan appropriations package it will lead to another prolonged Trump government shutdown.
President Donald Trump’s Small Business Administration (SBA) is stopping the issuance of small business loans to foreign nationals, requiring that a business be 100 percent owned by a U.S. citizen or U.S. national to receive such a loan.
This week, the SBA published a memo requiring that, beginning next month, applicants for the agency’s primary small business loan be American citizens or American nationals.
“… effective March 1, 2026, SBA hereby revises Standard Operating Procedure 50 10 8 Lender and Development Company Loan Programs guidance related to businesses owned by non-U.S. citizens,” the memo states:
John Ondrasik hasn’t won a Grammy … yet. The Five for Fighting singer came close with “Superman (It’s Not Easy),” a song that evolved into more than just a Billboard smash over time. “Superman” became part of America’s enduring spirit following the Sept. 11 attacks. So Ondrasik knows a thing or two about both music and culture. It’s why he decided to weigh in on Sunday’s Grammy awards, a night replete with ugly, persistent attacks on ICE agents. (snip) Disturbed lead singer David Draiman shared a similar post regarding the Grammys.