You don’t think any oil is leaving Iran with over 3,662 miles of land that borders 7 other countries?
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Jon Ossoff silent on SPLC indictment after taking more than $700K from affiliate of indicted group
Sen. Jon Ossoff faces GOP attacks over his ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center following its indictment for alleged fraud and money laundering schemes.
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Federal prosecutors' stunning indictment of a left-wing activist group for alleged financial crimes is reverberating in Georgia's 2026 Senate race, with Republicans targeting Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., for his past ties to the organization.
The Department of Justice brought criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center in April for allegedly defrauding its donors by secretly transferring money to extremist groups with the goal of infiltrating and monitoring their activities.
Ossoff, the most vulnerable Senate Democrat running for re-election in 2026, is endorsed by the law center’s 501(c)(4) arm. The group contributed more than $700,000 to his campaign account in 2020, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.
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Iran blockade ‘going global’ is a warning signal to China and Russia
President Trump calls the Iran blockade unbelievably effective as U.S. forces seize ships carrying oil worth millions, sending a message to Russia and China.
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On Tuesday, U.S. Marines from USS Tripoli once again fast-roped from their MH-60 Seahawk helicopters onto the deck of a suspicious container ship named Blue Star III heading for Iran. That makes a total of 39 vessels turned back, boarded or seized since April 13.
"The blockade has been unbelievably effective," President Donald Trump said on Sunday. Economic pressure is the main point of the blockade, but it has military impact far beyond the Strait of Hormuz.
"We seized their sanctioned ships, and we will seize more," U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth briefed at the Pentagon on Friday, April 24. "Our blockade is growing and going global," Hegseth added.
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Out of control, unqualified illegal alien truckers endangering kids on US roads, insider warns: ‘Just madness’
A trucking industry insider warns about unqualified CDL holders on U.S. highways, calling sham driving school abuse and lax standards "just madness."
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A trucking industry insider is warning about a deadly danger rampant on U.S. highways: unqualified, under-trained commercial truckers, many of whom are illegal immigrants and cannot read basic road signage.
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Anti-ICE demonstrators detained after protesting arrest of illegal immigrant facing assault, drug charges
Nearly 10 people were detained in Brooklyn after anti-ICE protesters gathered outside a hospital following the arrest of an illegal immigrant, DHS says.
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Nearly 10 people were detained in New York over the weekend as anti-ICE demonstrators were protesting against the arrest of an illegal immigrant accused of assault and drug possession, according to officials.
The protests erupted in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood after ICE arrested Chidozie Wilson Okeke, an illegal immigrant from Nigeria with previous arrests for assault and drug possession, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Okeke entered the U.S. on a tourist visa in 2023 and overstayed his visa that required him to leave the country by Feb. 26, 2024, DHS said.
During an immigration enforcement operation on Saturday, Okeke refused to comply with ICE agents' commands to exit his car and attempted to hit them with the vehicle, according to the agency. He is accused of being "physically combative" and attempting to punch and elbow ICE agents.
During the medical evaluation, a crowd of anti-ICE protesters gathered outside the hospital. DHS says the group damaged several ICE vehicles and assaulted agents, causing minor injuries.
"Peaceful protest"
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Klobuchar vows fraud crackdown, audit of MN gov’t as GOP blasts Walz ties
Sen. Amy Klobuchar unveils a sweeping plan to overhaul Minnesota state government, pledging audits and anti-fraud measures in her governor race.
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Why now?? Where have you been all these years???
Lot of truth here.....
American teenagers may be doing to themselves what the Chinese Communist state does to its citizens.
An Ivy League professor — an old-fashioned liberal who actually cares about free speech — recently warned me about what’s happening in classrooms like his.
He encourages class discussion of the great books he teaches in class — but students are reluctant to speak.
Not because they’re afraid of the professor, but because they fear each other.
Communist regimes have tried to stamp out dissent for more than a century; tyrants and totalitarians have always tried to sow suspicion among their subjects, turning friends, neighbors and even family members into informers against anyone who won’t conform to the party line.
That’s the scenario in George Orwell’s dystopian classic “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” and it’s the intention behind China’s insidious “social credit” system today.
What Orwell never imagined, though, was that young men and women in a free society would one day willingly impose “political correctness” on their peers — and use the 21st century’s decentralized social media to do it.
Students, the professor told me, are afraid to be recorded on their classmates’ cellphones talking about politics and political philosophy — the subjects he teaches — and don’t want to disagree with their fellow students about anything because the person they’re arguing with might belong to a “disadvantaged” group.
It’s not only what you say that’s dangerous, but who you say it to.
A young man getting into an argument with a young woman, or a white student with a black student, is not a good look on social media, and a classroom conversation runs the risk of sparking an online inquisition.
Conservative students, who often have to face ostracism for their dissenting views, might be less intimidated than liberals and progressives, who aren’t used to not fitting in.
But all too many liberals have been conditioned from a young age, both at home and in school, to believe that good-faith argument about serious subjects is inherently offensive — you might hurt the feelings of the person you’re arguing with.
Better to remain silent, even if the professor urges you to speak up.
Communists in the 20th century used very heavy-handed tactics to punish dissidents.
But the more groups like the independent, Catholic-inspired labor unions of Poland’s Solidarity movement were harassed, the more they resisted.
What’s terrifying about the new self-imposed social control in America is that it’s more effective using less coercive and more decentralized techniques.
And the effect is a kind of brainwashing, no less than what Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith suffers in Room 101 of the Ministry of Love.
Once young men and women get used to censoring themselves and their defensive crouch becomes permanent, they don’t need to be punished anymore: Their thoughtcrimes will have been stopped before they can begin.
This American-style social credit system is what happens of when pervasive technology combines with an ideology that claims to be about compassion and tolerance — but that really uses those noble-sounding principles as a pretext for enforcing submission.
That part Orwell did anticipate: There’s a reason Big Brother’s inquisition is called the Ministry of Love.
Anecdotes aren’t data — maybe my professor friend has just had an unusually passive set of students for the past 10 or 15 years.
Yet plenty of other indications support what he tells me.
A study published in Science last month by researchers at Stanford University, for example, found one-third of American teens prefer turning to AI for “serious conversations” rather than engaging with another human being.
This was a study of artificial intelligence’s people-pleasing bias — it tells users what they want to hear.
It doesn’t argue, contradict or hurt anyone’s feelings, “even when users engaged in unethical, illegal or harmful behaviors,” the study noted.
“The very feature that causes harm also drives engagement,” the report’s abstract concluded.
That might be said about today’s liberalism as an ideology, too — it may sound agreeable and nice, but adopting it leads to harm, including the psychological damage that politically left-wing people report experiencing at much higher levels than conservatives.
Fragility, bitterness, timidity — these are the fruits of the orthodoxy America’s elite has embraced, and which its children enforce against outliers with vigilante zeal.
The victim mentality has become an excuse for bullying.
And rather than confront it, many young people find it easier to make friends with an AI chatbot than with one another.
Social isolation is socialism’s greatest ally, while the kinds of community the Communists could never stamp out, not with all the power of Soviet tyranny, are the secret to freedom’s survival.
Something as simple as a robust debate in class strikes a blow against Big Brother — and against Little Brother’s snooping cellphone.
American teenagers may be doing to themselves what the Chinese Communist state does to its citizens.
An Ivy League professor — an old-fashioned liberal who actually cares about free speech — recently warned me about what’s happening in classrooms like his.
He encourages class discussion of the great books he teaches in class — but students are reluctant to speak.
Not because they’re afraid of the professor, but because they fear each other.
Communist regimes have tried to stamp out dissent for more than a century; tyrants and totalitarians have always tried to sow suspicion among their subjects, turning friends, neighbors and even family members into informers against anyone who won’t conform to the party line.
That’s the scenario in George Orwell’s dystopian classic “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” and it’s the intention behind China’s insidious “social credit” system today.
What Orwell never imagined, though, was that young men and women in a free society would one day willingly impose “political correctness” on their peers — and use the 21st century’s decentralized social media to do it.
Students, the professor told me, are afraid to be recorded on their classmates’ cellphones talking about politics and political philosophy — the subjects he teaches — and don’t want to disagree with their fellow students about anything because the person they’re arguing with might belong to a “disadvantaged” group.
It’s not only what you say that’s dangerous, but who you say it to.
A young man getting into an argument with a young woman, or a white student with a black student, is not a good look on social media, and a classroom conversation runs the risk of sparking an online inquisition.
Conservative students, who often have to face ostracism for their dissenting views, might be less intimidated than liberals and progressives, who aren’t used to not fitting in.
But all too many liberals have been conditioned from a young age, both at home and in school, to believe that good-faith argument about serious subjects is inherently offensive — you might hurt the feelings of the person you’re arguing with.
Better to remain silent, even if the professor urges you to speak up.
Communists in the 20th century used very heavy-handed tactics to punish dissidents.
But the more groups like the independent, Catholic-inspired labor unions of Poland’s Solidarity movement were harassed, the more they resisted.
What’s terrifying about the new self-imposed social control in America is that it’s more effective using less coercive and more decentralized techniques.
And the effect is a kind of brainwashing, no less than what Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith suffers in Room 101 of the Ministry of Love.
Once young men and women get used to censoring themselves and their defensive crouch becomes permanent, they don’t need to be punished anymore: Their thoughtcrimes will have been stopped before they can begin.
This American-style social credit system is what happens of when pervasive technology combines with an ideology that claims to be about compassion and tolerance — but that really uses those noble-sounding principles as a pretext for enforcing submission.
That part Orwell did anticipate: There’s a reason Big Brother’s inquisition is called the Ministry of Love.
Anecdotes aren’t data — maybe my professor friend has just had an unusually passive set of students for the past 10 or 15 years.
Yet plenty of other indications support what he tells me.
A study published in Science last month by researchers at Stanford University, for example, found one-third of American teens prefer turning to AI for “serious conversations” rather than engaging with another human being.
This was a study of artificial intelligence’s people-pleasing bias — it tells users what they want to hear.
It doesn’t argue, contradict or hurt anyone’s feelings, “even when users engaged in unethical, illegal or harmful behaviors,” the study noted.
“The very feature that causes harm also drives engagement,” the report’s abstract concluded.
That might be said about today’s liberalism as an ideology, too — it may sound agreeable and nice, but adopting it leads to harm, including the psychological damage that politically left-wing people report experiencing at much higher levels than conservatives.
Fragility, bitterness, timidity — these are the fruits of the orthodoxy America’s elite has embraced, and which its children enforce against outliers with vigilante zeal.
The victim mentality has become an excuse for bullying.
And rather than confront it, many young people find it easier to make friends with an AI chatbot than with one another.
Social isolation is socialism’s greatest ally, while the kinds of community the Communists could never stamp out, not with all the power of Soviet tyranny, are the secret to freedom’s survival.
Something as simple as a robust debate in class strikes a blow against Big Brother — and against Little Brother’s snooping cellphone.
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U of Washington women's soccer team played a high school boys squad, and you'll never guess who won
The University of Washington women's soccer team had a match against an under-14 boys squad, and the results represented another catastrophic blow to the "gender equality" argument in sports.
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If you're shocked by this result, you're either way too far down the rabbit hole of trans indoctrination and gender equality in sports, or you just haven't been paying attention, because we've seen something even more egregious happen on the pitch before.
If you are still banging the drum that men and women, on the whole, are equal when it comes to competitive sports, then your head is buried so far in the sand that it's going to take a backhoe to get you out.
Crap, you just have had to watch the Olympic Hockey Games to prevent "going down the Rabbit Hole" regarding this topic.U of Washington women's soccer team played a high school boys squad, and you'll never guess who won
The University of Washington women's soccer team had a match against an under-14 boys squad, and the results represented another catastrophic blow to the "gender equality" argument in sports.
If you're shocked by this result, you're either way too far down the rabbit hole of trans indoctrination and gender equality in sports, or you just haven't been paying attention, because we've seen something even more egregious happen on the pitch before.
If you are still banging the drum that men and women, on the whole, are equal when it comes to competitive sports, then your head is buried so far in the sand that it's going to take a backhoe to get you out.
The final nail in the coffin was the Admiral's comment, "I like watching the women better than the men. You can actually follow the puck instead of trying to figure out where it went!!"
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And yet lots of folks don't get it!
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