Posts on Saturday, February 7, 2026
Billionaire developer Rick Caruso took a swipe at Spencer Pratt’s long-shot mayoral bid — while doubling down on his scathing criticism of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass over her response to last year’s deadly wildfires.
Caruso believes the former reality TV star’s political ambitions may be “well-intended,” but warned that Los Angeles can’t afford another inexperienced leader running a city of nearly four million residents.
“I think he’s a very well-intended guy,” Caruso told The Hollywood Reporter of Pratt, a fierce critic of Bass who kicked off his mayoral campaign this week.
If you want to buy spray paint you need an ID. The same applies for renting a car, buying tobacco products, buying alcohol, getting a hotel room, buying keyboard cleaner, and many more everyday purchases.
As it would turn out, you also need an ID if you want to attend a campaign event for Democrat Senator Jon Ossoff.
The Gateway Pundit reported,
Like the rest of his party, Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia opposes the idea of voter ID, but you better have an ID if you’re planning to attend his campaign rally this weekend.
This is true of the Democrat National Convention as well.
President Trump has always understood a truth that much of Washington either ignores or refuses to confront. Nations do not endure on rhetoric alone. They endure because they raise strong families, cultivate capable citizens, and think beyond the next election cycle.
The twin initiatives announced recently, Trump Accounts and TrumpRx, should be understood through that lens. Together, they represent a domestic strategy aimed not merely at governing the present moment, but at securing the future of the country itself.
In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from 66 international organizations deemed “redundant, poorly managed, unnecessary, costly, ineffective,” or that were instruments of America’s adversaries. Among them are various United Nations agencies and, most significantly, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the latter of which is the backbone of global climate governance.
During his first term, President Trump removed the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. But a newly elected President Joe Biden promptly returned the nation to the agreement in 2021, making ...
If you want to understand where American healthcare, advertising, and culture are colliding in real time, you could do worse than watching the Super Bowl. For decades, the game’s commercials have been a mirror of American priorities, from beer and cars to dotcoms and smartphones. Over the past decade, prescription drug companies have increasingly muscled their way into the field. What used to be an occasional novelty has become a full-blown marketing strategy, with pharmaceutical giants paying top dollar to pitch treatments to more than 100 million viewers at once.
Update On National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe's
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In December, 2025, The Gateway Pundit reported on the shooting of two National Guard members near the White House that killed 20-year old Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, and left National Guardsman, 24-year-old Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, in critical condition. (snip) Wolfe's recovery has continued to move forward, and by mid-December, he was moved from the hospital to an inpatient rehab facility. On Tuesday, Wolfe shared his first public message (snip) [:] "I'm grateful to be alive. Thank you for your prayers and support," he wrote. "It's all been overwhelming and I'm trying still and determined. It's been hard to go through something like this. Thank uou for everything."
Among the people running to fill the seat vacated by former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of her former staffers, Jim Tully. Introducing himself on a local conservative radio show in January, he didn’t mention his connection to Greene until asked by the host.(snip)There’s a clear pattern in how the Republicans running to replace Greene address her resignation and her split with President Donald Trump. Those who are better known due to their prior involvement with local GOP politics strike a balance between showing loyalty to Trump and respect to Greene, while newcomers have less hesitation about taking shots at her.
Since the start of the Trump administration’s “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota, federal prosecutors have reportedly charged 158 anti-ICE agitators with federal crimes, including “FACE Act violations, conspiracy charges, and obstruction of federal agents.” Some of the offenses carry penalties of up to 20 years in prison.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced last week that she “expect more arrests to come” as the Justice Department is poised to crack down on similar anti-ICE insurgencies nationwide.
Those arrested in Minnesota include nine agitators who disrupted a church service (including Don Lemon, and a number of “ICE Watch” insurgents who “blocked, assaulted,
Politics is the great leveler: It makes even the most inspired and insightful voices sound banal.
In his hurriedly cobbled-together new song railing against “King Trump’s” immigration policies, the supremely talented Bruce Springsteen sounds like a million other angry Blue Sky posters as he lambasted the “occupier’s boots,” brought down against “Citizens [who] stood for justice.”
Accepting her Song of the Year Grammy on Sunday, Billy Eilish offered support to anti-ICE protestors by mouthing the mindless slogan, “Nobody is illegal on stolen land.” Artists have every right to express their opinions about current events. But what’s telling is the dispiriting contrast between the imaginative power of their best—
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito may have just dropped a hint about his retirement, and it could be as soon as July.
According to the far-left The Nation magazine, Alito is planning to publish his upcoming book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and the Country, on October 6th of this year.
This date is just one day after the Supreme Court starts its 2026-2027 term, which always begins in the first week of October.
Elie Mystal, a notorious race-baiter who regularly appears on cable news, laid out the case in a recent article:
The diplomatic expansion signaled commitments by the two nations to strengthen their Arctic presence and partnerships with Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory that has become a focal point due to Trump’s assertion that U.S. control of the island is a national security priority.”
A delegation of senior Canadian officials, including Governor General Mary Simon, and foreign minister Anita Anand, travelled to Nuuk on Friday to formally open Canada’s consulate, accompanied by a Canadian Coast Guard ship.
At a flag raising ceremony, Anand said that the consulate symbolises Canada’s long-term commitment to ‘stand together with the people of Greenland and Denmark’.”
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today announced the War Department would sever its academic ties with Harvard University, because attendance at the school no longer meets the needs of the War Department or the military services.(snip) Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, the War Department will discontinue graduate-level professional military education, fellowships and certificate programs at the school. Hegseth noted that military personnel who are currently attending classes will be able to finish those courses of study.
Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) announced on Friday his retirement from Congress, making him the 30th House Republican not running for reelection this year. Amodei said in a statement that it is the “right time” for him to end his time in the House. He’ll finish his current term before moving on from public service. He’s served in the House since 2011, and he sits on the House Appropriations Committee, House Natural Resources Committee, and multiple subcommittees.(snip) Twenty-one Democrats are also not seeking reelection, putting Congress on track for potentially record turnover.
Democrats want to get you killed
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Politicians and other Democrats desperate to keep untold millions of illegals in the country at all costs have gone beyond trying to provoke violence against Normal Americans and immigration agents. They’re plainly telling their dim-witted and easily enraged followers to kill Normal Americans and ICE agents. [snip]
The Manhattan Democrat in a House Judiciary Committee hearing had said “what is really the major problem in this country today, is the fascism in our streets, the attacks on American citizens by masked hoodlums.”
“If you were attacked by a masked person, you might think you were being kidnapped. You’d be justified in shooting the person to protect yourself,” he said.
Respect is nothing more than an abstraction until somebody refuses to show it; that's when symbols clarify moments.
Flags matter because they represent authority, sacrifice, and ownership. The World Health Organization (WHO) crossed that line when it decided to keep the United States' flag after President Donald Trump withdrew from the organization. That decision led to a rare action on the world's political stage: Somebody acted. President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the WHO because of decades of mismanagement, compliance with hostile governments, and repeated failures during global health scares. There are consequences resulting from the withdrawal: legal, diplomatic, and symbolic.
On Monday, police announced they’d collected hazardous biological material that sent a cleaning lady to the hospital from a Las Vegas residence, reports National Review’s Jim Geraghty. The residence’s owner, Jia Bei Zhu, “is a Chinese citizen who was indicted” for selling unapproved COVID test kits. But Zhu apparently had also operated other biolabs containing transgenic mice and pathogens, and engaged in “unknown pathogen-related activity” while receiving “unexplained payments” from China. “Clearly, he wasn’t just running a scam” to sell Chinese test kits. And it’s “hard to believe” no one in China’s government “had any idea what Jia Bei Zhu was doing with his biolab”:
Get ready for Congress to waste its time fighting over the SAVE Act, with both sides pretending it would do far more evil or good than makes any sense at all.
Don’t get us wrong: Requiring photo ID to vote is a no-brainer, the rule around the world from Albania to Zambia — but it wouldn’t actually be a major factor in cleaning up US elections.
Of course Democrats are absurd in pretending it’s Jim Crow 2.0 (a line they used in denouncing a Georgia law that led to increased minority turnout), as evil as pre-1965 literacy tests or poll taxes.
Hogwash! Participating in society —
Another day, another report of massive fraud against taxpayers.
Team Trump revealed on Friday that it’s found $8.6 billion in shady COVID-era loans in the Golden State — and is acting to blunt the damage.
This, just two days after White House announced that JD Vance will chair a task force to clean up fraud-riddled California.
Kudos to the White House for pushing hard to reveal, stop and punish fraud in a state with few controls on public spending. Vice President Vance and Co. should keep pushing, digging and holding perpetrators accountable; taxpayers deserve no less.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has made a massive ruling in favor of President Trump and the ICE removal process [pdf Ruling Here]. In short, throughout the nation 360 immigration judges had previously ruled that illegal aliens (applicants for admission) should be granted bond and released during the removal proceedings.
The Fifth CCA has now ruled the aliens can be detained as they go through the removal process. This means ICE captures the illegal, holds them in detention and then rapidly deports them. The ruling, which will likely be appealed to the supreme court, fast-tracks the removal.
For too long, America’s retirement system has worked for the few, not the many.
Wall Street insiders, wealthy elites, and big public pension funds have built wealth via the private markets – private equity, private credit, and real estate. Meanwhile, hardworking Americans are told to stay in their lane. If you work a regular job and save through a 401(k), you are effectively shut out from greater choice and investment access for your well-earned money.
That’s not an accident. Elites – like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) – don’t want this change because it erodes their interests and your opportunity for wealth creation.
During a special Thursday evening Founders Roundtable with Breitbart Fight Club, #1 New York Times bestselling investigative journalist and Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer said China is exploiting birthright citizenship policies around the globe to exert control, an issue he elaborates on in his latest book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon. Among other revelations in The Invisible Coup, Schweizer said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is actively involved in encouraging its nationals to gain American citizenship through America’s birthright citizenship policy that allows the U.S.-born—
The ongoing struggle to protect the right of public employees to disassociate themselves from unions whose values they don’t share has a number of heroes. There’s Pamela Harris, for example, plaintiff in Harris v. Quinn, which affirmed the right of homecare providers to opt out of union membership and dues in 2014. Or Rebecca Friedrichs, whose lawsuit against the California Teachers Association would have extended the same right to all public employees had it not been interrupted by the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. And Mark Janus, who finally championed those rights in Janus v. AFSCME.
Former Jets first-round draft pick Darron Lee was arrested and charged in Tennessee for allegedly murdering his girlfriend, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office said Friday night.
Lee, who was selected by the Jets with the No. 20 pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, is being charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence. Jail records viewed by The Post show that he is currently being held without bond and has a court date set for Wednesday.
The body of Lee’s girlfriend was found in a home near Ooltewah Elementary School in Hamilton County on Thursday, according to the sheriff’s office.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching an investigation into ABC's "The View" amid the agency's crackdown on equal time for political candidates, Fox News Digital has learned. Last month, the FCC announced it will require the broadcast networks to adhere to the "statutory equal opportunities requirement," citing the Communications Act of 1934, "including the airing of late-night and daytime talk shows." A source at the FCC told Fox News Digital that Monday's "View" appearance by Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico triggered the probe.
Critical Mineral Reserve May Reduce Supply
Shock, But May Have Unintended Consequences,
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President Donald Trump announced Monday the creation of a critical mineral reserve that will function a lot like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Project Vault, as it is called, will store minerals in the same way the SPR stores crude oil, with the goal of shielding domestic manufacturers from supply shocks. (snip) These minerals are used in a range of technologies, including military applications and consumer electronics. The project could help address this vulnerability the U.S. has, but as with any government program, it comes with some potential unintended consequences, experts say.
President Donald Trump’s lawyers scored big on Friday when a Texas-based appeals court allowed officials to hold arrested migrants in detention so their migration cases can be quickly decided.
“ENORMOUS Immigration win for President Trump,” said Eric Wessen, the Solicitor General in Iowa’s Attorney General’s Office. He added:
The Fifth Circuit, the first federal court to address President Trump’s expedited removal efforts, sides with the administration. Illegal aliens may be detained and removed!
The 2:1 decision “is a big deal,” said Ilya Shapiro, a lawyer at the Manhattan Institute.
FBI Director Kash Patel says his agency has resumed an aggressive counterintelligence offensive against China and its Communist Party (CCP) that had been sidelined during the Biden presidency but is concerned the prior administration may have "buried" the truth about dangerous biolabs on U.S. soil tied to Beijing. (snip) Jia Bei Zhu was arrested in 2023 on allegations he was running an illegal biological lab in Reedley, Calif.. On Saturday, the FBI and local police raided a similar biolab in Vegas (snip.) Police and lawmakers say the two labs are closely connected. (snip) [A House committee] highlighted Zhu's links to the (snip) CCP in a 2023 report.
It's a question that I had not put too much thought into until recently, but in light of the revelations over the past year from DOGE, the current fraud investigations in Minnesota, Oregon, Maine, and California (and I hope that will soon expand to all 50 states), it really has struck me that a huge proportion of our economy is probably just money laudering.
Of course, we all understood at some vague level that there had to be a large amount of money laundering going on. The illegal drug trade alone is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and that is just one portion of a large black market.
Removing adolescents' healthy body parts under the guise of treating gender dysphoria could soon become a "thing of the past" as doctors reckon with the reality of financial penalties. A detransitioner's landmark $2 million victory in her malpractice case and the first major medical association's new opposition to "gender-affirming" surgeries for minors will force medical professionals to seriously weigh the consequences of offering these procedures (snip.) [HHS] announced in December proposed rules that would strip Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that perform sex change procedures on minors.
NYC socialists use Calif. playbook to
form anti-ICE teams to monitor Home Depot,
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form anti-ICE teams to monitor Home Depot,
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They’re California schemin’!
New York City socialists are importing even more aggressive tactics from their comrades on the Left Coast as they open up a new front in their fight to obstruct federal immigration agents, the Post has learned.
Delis, car washes, gas stations, hardware stores like Lowe’s and Home Depot — any workplace known to attract illegal migrants — will be infiltrated by teams of at least five to interfere with a fed takedown. At a meeting last week in Midtown hosted by the Chinese Communist Party-linked People’s Forum, activists urged Big Apple socialists to form “patrol” teams, with roles that include not one but two videographers, a photographer, a
Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley brushed off a question Wednesday about how her wealth jumped to as much as $8 million after initially entering Congress with a negative net worth.
Pressley entered Congress after upsetting incumbent Democrat Rep. Michael Capuano of Massachusetts in a 2018 primary election, according to Ballotpedia, and her initial financial disclosure led some to conclude her net worth was in the negatives. Fox Business reporter Chad Pergram questioned Pressley after her financial disclosure for 2024 indicated a net worth of as much as $8 million, due to multiple rental properties in Massachusetts and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Gen Z, this will smart.
The generation born between 1997 and 2010 is the very first generation who did worse in school than the generation before them, according to a top neuroscientist.
And shockingly, they are proud of it.
“They’re the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized academic tests than the one before it,” Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, 43, told The Post. “And to make matters worse, most of these young people are overconfident about how smart they are. The smarter people think they are, the dumber they actually are. “They underperformed on basically every cognitive measure, from basic attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function and general IQ.”
UCLA DEI Chief Finds Out the Hard Way
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We saw how some deranged, sick leftists celebrated the murder of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk after his brutal assassination in September 2025. It’s one thing to oppose someone’s viewpoints; it’s another to take joy in their killing.
One of the worst of the lot was UCLA DEI chief Jonathan Perkins, and he just found out that his demented views are too much for even the administrators of that woke institution. He has no regard for the sanctity of human life, but evidently, we’re supposed to cry over his pets:
UCLA finally fired its DEI chief months after the woke administrator publicly celebrated the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk —
It is not momentous events that are the most meme-worthy. Rather, it is moments when liberals show their true colors and embarrass themselves, often in relatively trivial ways, that set meme-creators to work. This week, along with the ongoing fiasco in Minnesota, we had severel such events.
The Washington Post, hemorrhaging losses, laid off a large portion of its staff, causing its newly-unemployed reporters to demonstrate outside the building. They marched in defense of the moral principle that Jeff Bezos is obliged to support them forever, no matter how much money they lose. I wonder whether some of the newly-laid-off demonstrators have been covering economics for the Post.
Also, more Epstein documents
DHS Goes Full-Court Press on Gavin
Newsom With Receipts on Criminal Illegals
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Newsom With Receipts on Criminal Illegals
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One of the most important things a Republican president can do when they take office is to immediately set out to fulfill important campaign promises, to show the voters who elected them that they meant what they said. This is something Donald Trump did very early on at the start of the 47 era with the implementation of his immigration enforcement agenda.
We're a little over a year into his second term in office, and even Trump's staunchest critics would have to agree that the southern border is 100x more secure now than it was when Joe Biden left office. Further, our streets are safer thanks to the immigration enforcement agents
The Left is beginning to panic about Tulsi Gabbard's investigation into the massive election fraud in 2020.
They have good reason to. For the first time since then, I actually have hope that the fraud will be exposed for all to see. I would say that the evidence produced will be undeniable, but the left will always deny what they find inconvenient. But still, by the time Gabbard is done, a lot more people will believe what has been pretty obvious for a long time:
It looks like things have taken a turn for the better in Minneapolis. Last night, local police did some actual policing. They made arrests of some of the activists hounding ICE and they declared an unlawful assembly at one point.
These are things they should have been doing all along but Mayor Frey had pulled them back putting the protesters directly in confrontation with the activists. Now it appears that that Tom Homan, who Trump sent to Minneapolis a few days ago. It looks like Homan and Gov. Walz might have worked out some kind of deal.