January 5:

250 Years of America, and It Started With Gun Confiscation
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/01/05/250-years-of-america-and-it-started-with-gun-confiscation-n1231090
Here, in the 250th year of our nation’s founding, the anti-gunners would do well to remember that no matter how much they want gun confiscation, we’re no less likely to balk at such a thing than our forefathers were. rewrite(liberals don’t STUDY history’s cause and effect, they try to rewite it to justify their own agenda – jlr)
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Gun Confiscation Came First: How Disarming Colonists Led to Revolution
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/gun-confiscation-american-revolution/
As America approaches its 250th anniversary, this history deserves careful reflection. The Second Amendment was not written out of paranoia. It was written from experience.

Sales of NFA Items Surge After Repeal of $200 Tax Takes Effect
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/01/05/sales-of-nfa-items-surge-after-repeal-of-200-tax-takes-effect-n1231097
(However, until suppressors, short-barreled rifles, shotguns, et al. are REMOVED from the NFA, you still MUST submit photos, fingerprints, and the paperwork to REGISTER it with the ATF, and then wait for up to a year for ATF approval. The job is only 1/3 done. the 2nd and 3rd are removing suppressors, SBRs, et al. from NFA, The final 1/3 is defunding, dismantling, dissolving, destroying all of the 4473 data they have stored, and closing the ATF and all of its self-made-up rules forever, NOT moving its functions, registration files, and 4473s files sent to the ATF by gun dealers when they close their business, and people to another department in the government, and then continueing ATF business as usual under a differnt name. – jlr)

Tenth Circuit Slaps Down New Mexico Over Waiting Period, Yet Again
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/01/05/10-circuit-slaps-down-new-mexico-over-waiting-period-yet-again-n1231092

Court Decision Shredding California’s Open Carry Ban Could Have National Implications
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/01/05/court-decision-shredding-californias-open-carry-ban-could-have-national-implications-n1231094
The Ninth Circuit’s recent decision in Baird v. Bonta could have national implications on the right to carry going forward, both in the handful of states where openly carrying firearms is prohibited as well as several blue states where open carry is allowed without the need for a permit.

Pete Hegseth’s Accountability Announcement About a ‘Seditious Six’ Dem Triggers Chuck Schumer
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2026/01/05/secwar-pete-hegseth-makes-an-accountability-announcement-about-one-of-the-seditious-six-dems-n2423554?
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Pete Hegseth takes action against Sen. Mark Kelly, who egged on military to defy Trump in viral video
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/01/05/pete-hegseth-takes-action-against-sen-mark-kelly-who-egged-on-military-to-defy-trump-in-viral-video-1613933/
“Therefore, in response to Senator Mark Kelly’s seditious statements — and his pattern of reckless misconduct — the Department of War is taking administrative action against Captain Mark E. Kelly, USN (Ret),” the War Secretary added. “The department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay.” “Captain Kelly’s status as a sitting United States Senator does not exempt him from accountability, and further violations could result in further action,”
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rcd vis e-mail
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar
https://x.com/SecWar/status/2008189258528665898?s=20

WATCH Pro-Maduro Protester MALFUNCTION As Nate Friedman Shows Him Footage of Venezuelans Celebrating -Vid
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/01/05/nate-friedman-protester-venezuela-n2423525
video – 00:01:36 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2007601639029608737
video – 00:00:29 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2007630439503278583

Socialist Network Mobilized Pro-Maduro Protests in 100+ Cities Within 12 Hours of Capture
https://istandforfreedom.com/socialist-pro-maduro-cities/
“A few of us stood up all night last night when we heard the news, conferring with each other, conferring with other organizers and, by 3:30, 4 o’clock this morning, we put out the call for demonstrations to happen today,” Brian Becker of the ANSWER Coalition admitted, describing the overnight mobilization that produced protests in “100-plus cities.

Venezuela Vexed: Chuck Schumer Was Fired Up for Maduro’s Removal Until Trump Made It a Reality (WATCH)
https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2026/01/05/chuck-schumer-on-maduro-then-and-now-hypocrisy-n2423536
2020. Chuck Schumer criticizes Trump for not bringing an end to the Maduro regime.
Schumer: “The President brags about his Venezuela policy? Give us a break. He hasn’t brought an end to the Maduro regime.”
video – 00:00:48 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2007868827355484611

The Trump Effect: One Day After Maduro Capture, Reports Say Iran’s Supreme Leader Preparing to Flee Country to Moscow
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-effect-one-day-maduro-capture-reports-say-irans-supreme-leader-preparing-flee-country-moscow/

Maduro First, Mexico Next? Trump Teases Next Possible Military Target After Capture of Maduro
https://www.westernjournal.com/maduro-first-mexico-next-trump-teases-next-possible-military-target-capture-maduro/
“She’s a good woman, but the cartels are running Mexico. She’s not running Mexico, the cartels are running Mexico,”…“And we can be politically correct and be nice and say… she’s very frightened of the cartels, they’re running Mexico. I’ve asked her numerous times, would you like us to take out the cartels. ‘No, no, no, Mr. President, no, no, no, please.’”…“So, we have to do something because we lost — the real number is 300,000 people, in my opinion. They like to say 100,000. 100,000 is a lot of people, but the real number is 300,000 people,” Trump continued. “And we lost them to drugs. And they come in through the southern border, mostly the southern border. Plenty come in through Canada, too, by the way, in case you don’t know. But they come in through the southern border, and something’s going to have to be done with Mexico.”
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Venezuela Now Hunting Supporters of Maduro’s U.S. Capture
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/01/05/venezuela-now-hunting-supporters-of-maduros-us-capture-n2197782
Object lesson: When a corrupt government falls, every remaining aspect of that government has to be pulled out, root and branch, and every member of that illegitimate government, at the minimum, removed from any government role. And there just aren’t many governments more illegitimate than the rule of Venezuela by the thug-dictator Nicolás Maduro. Now the top man and his wife are facing federal charges in the United States, but his illegal junta is still in charge of the South American nation, and already, they are seeking reprisals against anyone in Venezuela who may have supported the American raid.
(Venezuela is FA, and soon my be in the DJT FO phase – jlr)
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Venezuela Reportedly Ignores Trump Warnings, Initiates Ominous Manhunt
https://www.westernjournal.com/venezuela-reportedly-ignores-trump-warnings-initiates-ominous-manhunt/
… the state of emergency declared on Saturday, shortly after Maduro’s capture, includes a decree to “immediately begin the national search and capture of everyone involved in the promotion or support for the armed attack by the United States.”

Stephen Miller being considered for a role that will make liberal heads explode
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/01/05/stephen-miller-being-considered-for-a-role-that-will-make-liberal-heads-explode-1614007/
The Washington Post is reporting that Stephen Miller is being eyed for a higher role, and it may involve Venezuela.

Mamdani’s new director singles out ‘white families’: Property will go from an ‘individual good to a collective good’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/01/05/mamdanis-new-director-singles-out-white-families-property-will-go-from-an-individual-good-to-a-collective-good-1613993/
NYC Mayor Mamdani’s Tenant Director, Cea Weaver: “We’ll transition from treating property as an individual good to a collective good. Whites especially will be impacted.”…While Weaver has evidently deleted her X account, she hasn’t done so quickly enough to prevent her ardent communist positions from being highlighted on social media. Libs of TikTok highlighted an August 2019 post that read, “Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.”
video – 00:00:35 – https://x.com/i/status/2008031475057439076
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‘Seize private property’: NYC’s socialist mayor taps communist sympathizer to lead office to ‘Protect Tenants’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/seize-private-property-nycs-socialist-mayor-taps-communist-sympathizer-to-lead-office-to-protect-tenants
…an undated video resurfaced on social media of the activist discussing her goal to eliminate private property ownership. “I think the reality is, is that for centuries we’ve really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good,” Weaver stated in the video. “And transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that families, especially white families but some [people of color] families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have.”
but wait, there’s MORE
New Yorkers seething over latest hike in subway fare
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/01/05/new-yorkers-seething-over-latest-hike-in-subway-fare-1613927/
(Mamdani swore to NYCers that everything would be free – jlr)

Woman films and confronts trans gym-goer masturbating in ladies room at Planet Fitness
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/01/05/woman-films-and-confronts-trans-gym-goer-masturbating-in-ladies-room-at-planet-fitness-1613977/
Man pretending to be a woman caught msturbating in the women’s bathroom with women present “I’m allowed to be in here… I’m a transgender.”…The location was later identified as a California Planet Fitness.
video – 00:04:37 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2007990639397679375

It’s always J6: Dem insists Maduro arrest done to distract from 5th anniversary of the ‘insurrection’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/01/05/its-always-j6-dem-insists-maduro-arrest-done-to-distract-from-5th-anniversary-of-the-insurrection-1613921/Another day, another Democrat trying to pan President Donald Trump’s policies and actions as a “distraction” from an imaginary evil…U.S. Rep. Marilyn Strickland latched onto the latest narrative in an appearance on MS NOW as she pointed to the “coincidence” of Maduro’s capture with the upcoming anniversary of the Capitol riot, something that Democrats never let go of, and Congress plans to resurrect again as it reconvenes.
video – 00:04:20 – https://clipscache2.grabien.com/c/streams/3303/Uv3nscB6j6fKMdktleG6iQ/1767687206/3303756.mp4
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Carville dumps his Grampers over Venezuela, claims Trump plot to distract from Epstein
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/01/05/carville-dumps-his-grampers-over-venezuela-claims-trump-plot-to-distract-from-epstein-1613924/
video – 00:06:21 – https://youtu.be/WqiIBwic6Mc
(liberals can’t even agree on why DJT arrested Maduro at this time – jlr)

Judge cuts off ousted Venezuelan dictator Maduro as he tries to defend himself in court
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/01/05/judge-cuts-off-ousted-venezuelan-dictator-maduro-as-he-tries-to-defend-himself-in-court-1613996/
The federal judge overseeing Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s case cut off the ousted leader as he tried to defend himself in court on Monday, according to several reports. Judge Alvin Hellerstein, a Clinton appointee, interrupted Maduro to say he was only asking for his identity, noting “there will be time and place to get into all of this,” according to the New York Times. Both Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty during their arraignment in Manhattan. (What did they expect? – jlr)

Sanctioned oil tankers try mass run at US blockade of Venezuela
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/01/05/sanctioned-oil-tankers-try-mass-run-at-us-blockade-of-venezuela-1613960/
At least 15 U.S. sanctioned oil tankers have reportedly broken the complete blockade of Venezuelan oil exports since the Saturday capture of ousted socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, using so-called “dark mode” tactics to evade capture. Four tankers, now some 30-miles off port, were tracked by satellite sailing east…These tankers did not secure authorization from the new interim government led by Maduro’s former vice president, the NYT reported citing internal communications and two anonymous sources in the Venezuelan oil industry. The remaining ships have not been located and are not broadcasting any signals. “The embargo on all Venezuelan oil remains in full effect,” President Donald Trump said

Hilton Hotels Is About to Have a Very Bad Week After What They Just Pulled in Minneapolis
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/01/05/hilton-hotels-dhs-n2668912
They’ve decided to opt for the Bud Light Treatment and align themselves with the Left’s anti-Trump “Resist” movement. How? By denying hotel rooms in Minneapolis to government officials. Both the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have called out the hotel mega-chain. “When officers attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously CANCELLED their reservations,” DHS wrote on X. “This is UNACCEPTABLE. Why is Hilton Hotels siding with murderers and rapists to deliberately undermine and impede DHS law enforcement from their mission to enforce our nation’s immigration laws?” DHS also shared an email from a Hilton employee with the subject “Upcoming reservation.” In the email, the employee wrote, “After further investigation online, we have found immigration work connected with your name, and we will be canceling your upcoming reservation. You should see a proper cancellation email in your inbox shortly from Hilton.” Another screenshot shared another message that read, “This email is in regards to the reservation you made with the Hampton Inn Lakeville property. We have noticed an influx of GOV reservations made today that have been for DHS and we are not allowing any ICE or immigration agents to stay at our property. If you are with DHS or immigration, let us know as we will have to cancel your reservation. Please pass this info to your coworkers that we are not allowing any immigration agents to house on our property.”
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Updated: Hilton Responds After DHS Says Hotels Told Them to Pound Sand, Stay Somewhere Else
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/01/05/no-vacancy-dhs-says-hilton-hotels-told-them-to-pound-stand-stay-somewhere-else-n2197784
Hilton Hotels has finally responded with a milquetoast statement claiming their properties “serve as welcoming places for all.” It does not say whether there will be any consequences for the apparently inhospitable attitude of its member hotel or hotels…We are investigating this matter with this individual hotel, and can confirm that Hilton works with governments, law enforcement, and community leaders around the world to ensure our properties are open and inviting to everyone.

Is ‘Little Rocket Man’ About to FAFO? North Korea Reports Hypersonic Missile Test Flights
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2026/01/05/is-little-rocket-man-about-to-fafo-north-korea-reports-test-flights-of-hypersonic-missiles-n2197771
As North Korean media reported on Monday, Kim, the Hermit Kingdom dictator — hilariously dubbed “Little Rocket Man” by President Donald Trump during his first term — observed test flights of hypersonic missiles and emphasized the need to strengthen the country’s nuclear war deterrent. While Kim has puffed out his chest and made more ridiculous bluffs than most of us can remember throughout his vice-like grip on the Hermit Kingdom, surely he’s not insane enough to think he could win a nuclear war with the United States, right? Dunno. But I do know that if he were foolish enough to try, North Korea would likely be reduced to a smoldering parking lot if necessary.

Centrist House Democrats Furious Over Party Leadership’s Response to Maduro Capture
https://www.westernjournal.com/centrist-house-democrats-furious-party-leaderships-response-maduro-capture-report/

SBSS 9 – The Historical Case For $960 Silver
video – 00:05:39 – SBSS 9 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLhqp0-jnTU&t=23s

January 6:

as if on cue – – –
Venezuela’s Acting Gov’t Blames The Jews for Maduro Seizure
https://gellerreport.com/2026/01/venezuelas-acting-govt-blames-the-jews-for-maduro-seizure.html/
…blaming Israel for a U.S. military operation against the Nicolás Maduro regime—an accusation as deranged as it is revealing…Venezuelan officials openly invoke antisemitic tropes—calling the operation “Zionist”—while Western activists and influencers echo the slander, proving once again that when a tyrant falls, the reflex of the Jew-haters is not to celebrate freedom, but to blame the Jews.

US Mint unveils new coins for America’s 250th birthday
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/new-coins-americas-250-birthday-us-mint-pictures/507-07327abe-6c49-4eb6-835a-496adba9fa75
The United States Mint unveiled the designs for the coins on Wednesday night at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The designs commemorate the United States’ semiquincentennial milestone and will be displayed on the 2026 dime, quarter, and half-dollar coin.

Judge Resigns After Conviction for Helping Violent Illegal Immigrant Evade ICE Arrest
https://americanjournaldaily.com/judge-illegal-conviction/
In her resignation letter, Dugan had the audacity to frame her criminal actions as a noble crusade, claiming she is fighting for an “independent judiciary.” Give me a break. A truly independent judiciary is one that is free from political bias and loyal only to the law. What she did was the exact opposite: she allowed her radical politics to command her, turning her into an activist who happened to wear a robe. Her fight is not for the independence of the judiciary; it is for the supremacy of her own ideology over the rule of law. It is the arrogant belief, common among the liberal elite, that the rules don’t apply to them if they are acting in the service of a cause they deem righteous.

(rcd over the transom today – jlr)
The Immediate Liberation of Tina Peters: A Plain Reckoning
https://professordavidclements.substack.com/p/the-immediate-liberation-of-tina
I OPENED MY EMAIL after posting my thanks to President Trump for pardoning Tina Peters. Demons howled. Tim Johnson wrote, “She’s not pardoned you f–king moron. Do you not understand how the law works, you idiot? Seriously consider suicide.”…Tina had copied the records, preserved the truth of votes shifted in the night like shadows fleeing light. For that, the state had chained her, called it a the crime. But truth is no crime.

Gets WORSE: Can’t IMAGINE Why Minneapolis Hilton’s Leaders Didn’t Want ICE Around (Check Out Who RUNS It)
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/01/06/cant-imagine-why-the-minneapolis-hiltons-leadership-didnt-want-ice-around-check-out-who-runs-it-n2423590
(All Indians from India, and ALL giving the same residence address – jlr)

Hilton Axes Hotel From Their Systems After Video Shows Them Continuing to Ban DHS and ICE Agents
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/01/06/hilton-axes-hotel-from-their-systems-after-video-shows-them-continuing-to-ban-dhs-and-ice-agents-n2197811
Hilton Hotels swiftly terminated its franchise agreement with an independently owned Hampton Inn in Minnesota after a video surfaced showing the hotel continuing to refuse rooms to DHS and ICE agents. Less than two hours after the video had been uploaded to X, Hilton issued another statement saying they were dropping that particular hotel from their list of franchisees and accusing ownership of lying to them about making corrections to their policy.

Etiquette Is Civilization: How Manners Make Freedom Possible
https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2026/01/06/etiquette-is-civilization-how-manners-make-freedom-possible-n4947962
… When adulthood carries no honor and no expectation, people stop aspiring to it. You wind up with a nation of self-indulgent toddlers…The result is a paradox familiar to anyone living in a bureaucratized society: the more formal rules are added, the worse public behavior becomes. Not because rules are evil, but because rules cannot substitute for internal restraint. This is where “Karen” behavior emerges, not as a personality flaw, but as a learned strategy.
(An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. – Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon.- jlr)

Why the Second Amendment is life-or-death important.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/why-the-second-amendment-is-life
The best way to define Colectivos is the final form of Antifa: A disparate bunch of people, highly oriented to Socialism, mostly by convenience and no military training required. where do they get guns in a country that has gun control laws that would make Moms Demand and Brady have uncontrollable orgasms? From the Government, of course. Why? Because the population is NOT armed and they can be easily bullied by the Colectivos with the not-so-tacit blessings of the powers that be.

Is there a difference between opportunistic predators and inner city youth?
https://www.facebook.com/reel/840424462150458

January 7:

9-11-2001 has been “officially” DISREMEMBERED by New York State and NYC
New York Governor Orders World Trade Center Lit Green for Muslim American Heritage Month, Sparking Backlash
https://istandforfreedom.com/new-york-trade-muslim/

rcd via e-mail
Trump: ‘The Fraud Investigation of California Has Begun’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/01/06/trump-the-fraud-investigation-of-california-has-begun/
“California, under Governor Gavin Newscum, is more corrupt than Minnesota, if that’s possible??? The Fraud Investigation of California has begun. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Democrat Leaders Rush To Defend Brutal Dictator
https://gellerreport.com/2026/01/democrat-leaders-rush-to-defend-brutal-dictator.html/

‘Nothing Is Off the Table’: DOJ Tightens Noose as Nicolás Maduro and Wife Plead Not Guilty, Victims Demand Maximum Justice
https://gellerreport.com/2026/01/nothing-is-off-the-table-doj-tightens-noose-as-nicolas-maduro-and-wife-plead-not-guilty-victims-demand-maximum-justice.html/
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DAY 10: Iran Erupts Nationwide: Protests Reach 28 Provinces as Chants for the Shah Return Grow and Death Toll Rises
https://gellerreport.com/2026/01/day-10-iran-erupts-nationwide-protests-reach-28-provinces-as-chants-for-the-shah-return-grow-and-death-toll-rises.html/

The Simurgh Rises: How an Ancient Persian Myth Has Become the Symbol of Iran’s Revolt
https://gellerreport.com/2026/01/the-simurgh-rises-how-an-ancient-persian-myth-has-become-the-symbol-of-irans-revolt.html/
The Simurgh, the majestic bird of Persian lore, traditionally described with the head of a dog, the claws of a lion, and the tail of a peacock, embodies centuries of pre-Islamic wisdom, resilience, and the inherent power of the people. From the epic verses of Ferdowsi to the Sufi parables of Attar, the Simurgh now soars through protest art, poetry, and social media, offering a potent counter-narrative to the centralized authority of the Ayatollahs. An ancient myth has taken flight, becoming a powerful symbol of resistance against the clerical regime in Iran.

“DEATH TO KHAMENEI!”: Iran Uprising Explodes, Police Defect, IRGC Collapses in Tehran as Banks Burn and Towns Go Regime-Free
https://gellerreport.com/2026/01/iran-uprising-explodes.html/
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Escape From New York: Mamdani Edition
https://wilderwealthywise.com/escape-from-new-york-mamdani-edition/
…if you want to sell your multifamily building, you must first offer it to the city and favored nonprofits…For how long? Six months…An owner must notify the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), and these ***friends of Zohan “qualified entities” get first dibs. If you finally get an offer from a private buyer, NYC and its pet nonprofits still have a right of first refusal to match the offer within 15 days.

And now for something totally different
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1942194023038309
The clueless green mindset ignorance here is absolutely stunning – and she isn’t going too far, an expensive distance, but not far

January 2-4, 2026

White House Confirms U.S. Attack on Venezuela Captured Maduro
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-white-house-confirms-u-s-attack-venezuela-captured-maduro/
President Donald Trump announced shortly after 4 a.m. Eastern that the attacks on Venezuela had led to the capture of the country’s fugitive strongman accused of narco-trafficking, Nicolás Maduro.

‘The Irony. The SIZZLE’: Hilarious Thread Highlights the BEST Satirical Posts Following Fall of Maduro
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/01/04/caroline-di-russo-thread-venezuelan-posts-n2423528

BREADCRUMBS: Asra Nomani Exposes Who Organized and FUNDED Pro-Maduro Demonstrations in MUST-READ Post
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/01/04/asra-nomani-who-is-behind-the-pro-maduro-protests-thread-n2423527

when “the system” becomes “the enemy”
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/when-the-system-becomes-the-enemy
the lessons of international order for domestic systems

rcd via e-mail
Maduro Arrest Is ‘America First’ – Until We Start Painting George Floyd Murals
https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/maduro-arrest-is-america-first-until
The entire government of Venezuela is a drug cartel. Their No. 1 export is cocaine. Their No. 2 export is cocaine boats. The national coat of arms is a coke spoon and two straws.

rcd via e-mail
Why Arresting Maduro Was Legal, Lawful, and Long Overdue
https://newsletter.amuseonx.com/p/why-arresting-maduro-was-legal-lawful
The arrest of Nicolás Maduro has been described by critics as an act of war. That description is mistaken. It misunderstands both the legal posture of Maduro himself and the nature of the action taken against him. The operation that resulted in Maduro’s capture was not a declaration of hostilities against Venezuela. It was the execution of a long-standing criminal indictment against an individual who, under US law and widely accepted principles of international law, was never entitled to the protections of a lawful head of state.

An Economist’s Investment Advice: Go Long Texas
https://texianpartisan.com/news/texasnews/short-united-states-and-long-the-republic-of-texas-economist-makes-the-investment-case-for-texit/
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Austin’s Final Breath Echoes Through Texas History
https://texianpartisan.com/community/cultural-heritage/austins-final-breath-echoes-through-texas-history/

Biden’s ‘extravagant’ pension is largest of any president in history – and even more than what he earned as prez

https://nypost.com/2026/01/04/us-news/bidens-pension-is-largest-of-any-us-president-in-history/

Former President Joe Biden’s long career in politics allowed him to retire with the largest taxpayer-funded pension of any ex-prez in US history — $417,000, or more than his presidential salary, an expert says. Biden, 83, was in line to rake in the massive amount from two pension funds in his first year as former president, according to an analysis by National Taxpayer Union Foundation Vice President Demian Brady.

Predictions For 2026
https://wilderwealthywise.com/predictions-for-2026/

DOGE WAS RIGHT: HUD Finds $5+ Billion in Fraud in One Year Under Biden—Dead Tenants, Fake IDs, Inactive Accounts Paid
https://gellerreport.com/2026/01/doge-was-right-hud-finds-5-billion-in-fraud-in-one-year-under-biden-dead-tenants-fake-ids-inactive-accounts-paid.html/

‘THEY WERE HIRING IDIOTS’: FBI Agent Explains How DEI Split The Agency and Led to Disaster
https://gellerreport.com/2026/01/they-were-hiring-idiots-fbi-agent-explains-how-dei-split-the-agency-and-led-to-disaster.html/
Leftist rule hollowed out once-great institutions and turned them against the American people.

“FINAL BATTLE’: Regime Panics as Clerics Flee Cities and Iran Erupts Nationwide, “DEATH TO KHAMENEI!” “LONG LIVE THE SHAH!”
https://gellerreport.com/2026/01/iran-final-battle.html/
Iran’s exiled Shah and National Leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi II, urges the world: “The tide of history is turning. I invite you not only to witness the birth of a new Iran, but to stand by our side as we achieve it and to work with us to build a legacy of lasting peace.”
(evidently the Iranian PEOPLE do not wish to be eradicated, and Iran turned into a parking lot – jlr)

(File under AYSN? – jlr)
Washington State AG Warns Citizen Journalists To Stop Investigating Somali Daycares Or Face Potential Hate Crime Charges
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/washington-state-ag-warns-citizen-journalists-stop-investigating-somali-daycares-or-face
(Don’t investigate crime committed by our protected special population, or we will charge you with a crime, that you havent actually committed, and prosecute/perescute you for it – jlr)

Mamdani’s Chilling Inaugural Remarks Are a Harbinger of Trouble to Come
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/01/01/mamdani-inaugural-remarks-n2197681
video – 00:00:09 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2006818419686121475

Weekend Knowledge Dump- January 2, 2026
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weekend-knowledge-dump-january-2-2026
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.

Sunday 2A: Seconds Count
https://wilderwealthywise.com/sunday-2a-seconds-count/
When seconds count, the cops are minutes away. If you say this to a cop, it tends to irritate them. Along with calling them “second responders”. But those are both true statements.
All the songs so far are here (LINK). You can pre-purchase all the rock songs now wherever you buy music electronically – do a search for Wilder’s Hammer. I’ll get the country songs up when I have a few hours of free time.

I hunted until the last minutes, of the last day, of the last month of the 2025 deer season in Texas.
The 2025 Texas Deer season count is: 3 in the freezer(60#+, mostly 1#chubs of ground deer, and 4″ vacpaks of backstrap), 15+ seen over the 9 week +2 days season, 2 missed shots right at sundown+30 minutes, and I let 2 doe walk away today.  Next year I hope to max out my deer license.

January 5, 2026

Craigslist ad seeks ‘child actors’ for Minneapolis daycare inspection.
https://x.com/lizcollin/status/2007940190220808349
Minneapolis Craigslist post in search of child actors for daycare site where funding was “cruelly ripped away without cause.”
“To help hurry this state vetting process, we are looking to hire 20 child actors for 3 days while state is present on site.”
$1,500/day

Venezuela op heralds the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ era of ruthless American action
https://nypost.com/2026/01/04/opinion/venezuela-op-heralds-the-donroe-doctrine-era-of-ruthless-american-action/
His critics on left and right called it risky and impossible — but Venezuelans all around the world are thanking him, cheering in the streets from Miami to Buenos Aires.

Cuba, Venezuela, China, And America’s Left-Wing Revolution
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cuba-venezuela-china-and-americas-left-wing-connection

Russia, China Demand That US Immediately Release Maduro From Custody
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-china-demand-us-immediately-release-venezuelas-maduro

‘Come Get Me, I’ll Wait Here’: Maduro’s Fiery Dare To Trump That Didn’t End Well
https://www.news18.com/world/come-get-me-ill-wait-here-maduros-fiery-dare-to-trump-that-didnt-end-well-ws-l-9808929.html
video – 00:01:02 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2007603407235006793

Maduro “Effed Around & Found Out”; Trump Says ‘We Will Run Venezuela’ Until Safe Transition After Operation ‘Absolute Resolve’
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-forces-strike-venezuela-trump-reveals-maduro-has-been-captured

Operation Absolute Resolve: Why Trump Went Off Script And Why It Will Not Matter
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/operation-absolute-resolve-why-trump-went-script-and-why-it-will-not-matter

One quick point of order.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/one-quick-point-of-order
Out of all the dumb protest signs, the middle one takes first place in the Tim Waltz championships. By the time they designed, printed and marched with this sign, Maduro was well on its way to breakfast in America and all military personnel were back to their transports or points of origin. There was no bombing to be stopped, but never let an old worn out slogan go to waste.
( Please note who the offended/hosting party is – jlr)

Real Venezuelans Flood NYC to Counter Paid Leftist Democrat Protests Defending Bloody Dictator Nicolás Maduro
https://gellerreport.com/2026/01/real-venezuelans-flood-nyc-to-counter-paid-leftist-democrat-protests-defending-bloody-dictator-nicolas-maduro.html/

Why We Need the Gold Standard
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/lew-rockwell/why-we-need-the-gold-standard/
“It is easy to understand why people viewed the gold standard as the symbol of this greatest and most beneficial of all historical changes. All those intent upon sabotaging the evolution toward welfare, peace, freedom, and democracy loathed the gold standard, and not only on account of its economic significance. In their eyes the gold standard was the labarum, the symbol, of all those doctrines and policies they wanted to destroy.”

Suspect Arrested After JD Vance’s House Comes Under Attack
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-suspect-arrested-jd-vances-house-comes-attack/
The suspect is accused of causing property damage to a personal residence associated with the vice president. The damage included broken windows on the exterior of the home, according to the statement. The attack comes amid an ongoing wave of violence nationwide that has targeted prominent conservatives.

the low identity agitariat is the true enemy of liberty – and the path back to better
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-low-identity-agitariat-is-the
i actually once had a woman i was arguing with at a party in SF tell me “logic is the tool of the oppressor!” as a final emotive bastion from being cornered by sense.

Day Seven of Iran’s Uprising: Death Toll Rises, Regime Panics as Orders to Silence Pro–Reza Pahlavi Slogans
https://gellerreport.com/2026/01/day-seven-of-irans-uprising-death-toll-rises-regime-panics-as-orders-to-silence-pro-reza-pahlavi-slogans.html/

Mamdani Promises to Replace ‘the Frigidity of Rugged Individualism’ with ‘the Warmth of Collectivism’
https://gellerreport.com/2026/01/mamdani-promises-to-replace-the-frigidity-of-rugged-individualism-with-the-warmth-of-collectivism.html/

Oil and gas prices expected to stay significantly lower through 2026
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/oil-gas-prices-expected-stay-significantly-lower-through-2026
The national average for gasoline fell to $2.83 per gallon to start 2026, marking the fifth straight week of declines and the lowest prices Americans have seen so far this year. Hawaii remains the most expensive state at $4.42 per gallon. (almost EVERYTHING, except sand, coconuts, hot lava, pineapples, and fish is imported to Hawaii – jlr)
Oklahoma is the cheapest at $2.24, and the lowest-priced markets are now in the low-$2 range as refineries boost output and demand remains seasonally soft.

rcd via e-mail
Canada Covers Up The Horrific Events That Happened All Over Europe On New Years. Ask Yourself Why?
https://librti.com/view-video/canada-covers-up-the-horrific-events-that
video – 00:13:08 – https://librti.com/view-video/canada-covers-up-the-horrific-events-that

Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: Stochastic Warfare
https://wilderwealthywise.com/civil-war-2-0-weather-report-stochastic-warfare/
(stochastic, adjective, 1: random, 2: involving chance or probability – jlr – I didn’t know either)
I have maintained the Clock O’Doom at 9., given the open support of assassination and criminality by the GloboLeft and the increase in violence as well as direct interference with ICE and the insertion of the military into law enforcement. Beware: the number can climb quickly.
My advice remains. Avoid crowds. Get out of cities. Now. A year too soon is better than one day too late.

‘Let others worry’: Scandal-plagued Tim Walz announces he will not seek third term
https://www.theblaze.com/news/let-others-worry-scandal-plagued-tim-walz-announces-he-will-not-seek-third-term
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Tim Walz Ends Reelection Bid, Blames Trump
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-tim-walz-ends-reelection-bid-blames-trump/

A little humor…To start your week…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/a-little-humor-5f5
If you’re an old fart…TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA; AND TO ALL WHO DIDN’T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN’T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!

December 29th:

GOP Rep to Force Vote on Expelling Ilhan Omar from Congress
https://www.westernjournal.com/gop-rep-force-vote-expelling-ilhan-omar-congress/

$18 BILLION Stolen Taxpayer Dollars in Somali Fraud, Millions FUNNELED TO DEMOCRATS
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/9-billion-stolen-taxpayer-dollars-in-somali-fraud-millions-funneled-to-democrats.html/
In the latest developments in the largest fraud heist in our nation’s history, it has been revealed that many of the fake child care centers are donating to national Democrat races across the country.

Leftists Lose It Over Post Declaring Christmas Is About Christ
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/leftists-lose-it-over-post-declaring-christmas-is-about-christ/?
DHS released at 11:18 a.m. on December 24: “Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior.” Journalist James Surowiecki had this to say: “A government agency endorsing Christianity is blatantly, comically unconstitutional. But blatant unconstitutionality is par for the course for this administration.” Notorious neocon and Never-Trumper Bill Kristol, meanwhile, declared the post, which included a 90-second video of iconic Christmas footage, to be “un-American” and “un-Christian.” (Yes, that’s right – Kristol’s Trump Derangement Syndrome has apparently become so severe that he now believes declaring the truth of Christmas to be “un-Christian.”)

ELECTION JIHAD: Niqab-Clad Lifelong Democrat Enters NC Republican Primary, With No Other GOP Candidates Filed
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/election-jihad-niqab-clad-lifelong-democrat-enters-nc-republican-primary-with-no-other-gop-candidates-filed.html/

LAWFARE AGAINST AMERICA: Soros-Backed Group Trains Jurors to Sabotage Trump Trials
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/lawfare-against-america-soros-back-group-trains-jurors-to-sabotage-trump-trials.html/
A Soros-backed NGO network is now openly working to subvert the American justice system from the inside. A newly formed Washington, D.C. group, Free DC, tied to Community Change and Community Change Action, is reportedly training residents to infiltrate juries as so-called “skeptical jurors” in federal cases involving President Trump and his administration. Co-founder Alex Dodds openly boasted that jurors possess “enormous power” not merely to weigh evidence, but to judge the administration itself. Critics warn that these sessions amount to instruction in jury manipulation and trial rigging — conduct explicitly prohibited under 8 U.S.C. §1503, which bars efforts to corruptly influence jurors or obstruct justice. This is not activism. It is lawfare — and it strikes at the heart of the rule of law.

WATCH Muslims Take Over Toronto Shopping Center, Threaten to Kill Shoppers and Demand Extermination (Intifada) of Jews
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/watch-muslims-take-over-toronto-shopping-center-threaten-to-kill-shoppers-and-demand-extermination-intifada-of-jews.html/
video – 00:03:24
https://twitter.com/i/status/2004941141683445813

When you import the 3rd World – You get 3rd World values.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/when-you-import-the-3rd-world
The ability of the average American to remain convinced that the entire World is just like them is rather cute.
Folks, fraud and bribery is the norm in the Third World. In tribal cultures fraud and bribery are not only the norm, but are the rule . If the average American reader takes nothing else from this essay, please understand that fraud and bribery are not crimes in the Third World; that fraud and bribery are not only not crimes in tribal society, but they are expected, required, and a perfectly acceptable part of every day tribal life. And Somalia is not only Third World, but it is excessively tribal.

Senate Dem Vows to Oppose New Pro-2A U.S. Attorney
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/12/29/senate-dem-vows-to-oppose-new-pro-2a-us-attorney-n1231056
“Despite good-faith efforts at a bipartisan nomination process with the Trump White House, the MAGA Department of Justice insisted on a MAGA stooge with neither the qualifications nor temperament for this position. There will be no blue slip, and we will be rid of him soon enough.” Added U.S. Sen. Jack Reed: “Despite our good faith conversations with the Administration, they chose a partisan interim appointment. Rhode Islanders deserve a capable U.S. Attorney who can serve them long-term.” Whitehouse, you might remember, was one of several Senate Democrats who threatened to pack the Supreme Court with anti-gun justices if the Supreme Court took up the case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York (which was ultimately mooted when the city and state changed the challenged law). In a bizarre amicus brief, Whitehouse and three other Senate Democrats declared that any effort by the Court to “expand the Second Amendment and thwart gun-safety regulations” should come to a screeching halt. If not, they suggested SCOTUS would need to be “restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.”

Couple Charged With Threatening Armed Citizen Who Shot Their Son in Self-Defense
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/12/29/couple-charged-with-threatening-armed-citizen-who-shot-their-son-in-self-defense-n1231054

Rubbing It in Our Faces: Somali Group Taunts Taxpayers Amid Billion-Dollar Fraud Scandal
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/12/29/somalian-satire-video-n2423339
video – 00:00:45 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2005006795484680603

A little humor…To start the week…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/a-little-humor-b6a
For all those special ladies in our lives! – – – MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL???

December 30th:

READ THIS! – watch the videos
They Always Threaten Violence
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/12/30/they-always-threaten-violence-n3810349
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Very Liberal People 8x More Likely to Support Political Violence Than Very Conservative
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/09/16/yougov-poll-very-liberal-people-8x-more-likely-to-support-political-violence-than-very-conservative-n3806852
Liberals have been very clear that they view even speech—even SILENCE—as violence, and have created what is now called an “assassination culture” that celebrates Luigi Mangione, and inspires people, including doctors, teachers, judges, and some political commentators to celebrate the death of political figures they hate.
(Believe what the left, especially the FAR left, says – they want you dead. They are becoming – they are becoming more explicit in their verbage – jlr)

Why do you need an AR 15 and a shitload of loaded high cap magazines?
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/why-do-you-need-an-ar-15-and-a-shitload-of-loaded-high-cap-magazines?
The enemy is domestic, is here and wants you dead. Rashida Tlaib’s congressional district is in Dearborn, Michigan. Here are her constituents calling for “Death to America.” They also cite terrorist Ayatollah Khomeini as an “inspiration.”

Need more popcorn…The CF in Minnesota isn’t going away…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/need-more-popcorn
What people seem to not want to understand is that this level of corruption is a WAY OF LIFE for most Africans! Their whole culture revolved around stealing from others to enrich ‘their’ family. ‘Their’ family means literally their direct family, followed by their tribe, followed by other Somalis. As far as they are concerned, it’s them against everybody else, and they will use anything they can to win. The Somalis have not ‘acclimatized’, ‘assimilated’, or anything else. They’ve huddled up by family and tribe, excluded any American influences, and continued their Somali lifestyle in MN.

Tales of Deportation Woe.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/tales-of-deportation-woe
Dear Media: If the point you are trying to make is to make us feel bad for these people, you are halfway succeeding: We are feeling bad, but mostly for how low the journalistic standards have dropped below zero and right now somewhere on the fourth sub-basement.

Rigid & Dogmatic Thinking: Not a good thing.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/rigid-and-dogmatic-thinking-not-a
Evil evolves, it is Darwinian in its existence. Terror adapts and creates new pathways which experts are failing to see because they do not replicate the old ways they are used to fight and win.

CLOWN WORLD: Failed State Somalia to Take Up Presidency of UN Security Council
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/clown-world-failed-state-somalia-to-take-up-presidency-of-un-security-council.html/
Beginning January 1, Somalia—a nation synonymous with state failure, piracy, jihadist control, and systemic human-rights abuses—will assume the presidency of the United Nations Security Council. No, this is not satire.

$1.26M Child Care Fraud Center’s Phone Leads Directly to Tim Walz’s Office
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/1-26m-child-care-fraud-centers-phone-leads-directly-to-walzs-office.html
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“Quality Learing Center” First Domino To Fall As Somali-Linked Minneapolis Daycare Scandal Shocks Nation
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/network-mapping-nick-shirleys-empty-minnesota-daycares
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“I Flagged Them All”: Attorney Says US Gov’t Investigating Somali Welfare Fraud In Ohio
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/i-flagged-them-all-attorney-says-us-govt-investigating-somali-welfare-fraud-ohio

Major Cities Cancel New Year’s Plans Amid Terror Threats Linked To Open Border Policies
https://americanjournaldaily.com/nye-terrorism-blue-cities/
…the traditions we held dear are being systematically dismantled. The confident, joyful spirit of American life is being swapped out for a timid, fearful posture…We cannot accept this surrender as our new reality. The American spirit does not hide. The answer is not to cancel our lives but to demand leaders with the fortitude to put American safety, American law, and American culture first. A new year is a time for resolutions. Ours must be to reclaim this nation from the cowards who would rather see it dismantled than defended.

Arizona Sees 92% Drop in Illegal Entries Under Trump, Media Ignores Success
https://americanjournaldaily.com/arizona-border-trump/
In Arizona, one of the epicenters of the Biden-era invasion, illegal entries have plummeted by an incredible 92%. This isn’t some statistical blip or a rounding error. It’s a monumental achievement. It’s called a promise kept

Crockett Flies Into a Rage Over Vance’s ‘Street-Girl Persona’ Comments
https://www.westernjournal.com/crockett-flies-rage-vances-street-girl-persona-comments/
“her street-girl persona is about as real as her nails.”… Crockett responded on MS NOW’s “The Weekend Primetime,” arguing that Vance was attempting to “rile up his base” and claiming Republicans feared her Texas Senate campaign before refuting the accusation…“The only reason you’re the vice president is because the current president tried to have his last president klled.”
video – 00:00:26 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2003138258814079384
Crockett also accused Vance of racism over his allegation. “I have been a black woman my entire life. I promise you there are other people just like JD Vance who have tried to do the same racist tropes my entire life,”

ICE Data Shows 70% of Illegal Immigrants Arrested in 2025 Have Criminal Records in US
https://americanjournaldaily.com/ice-illegals-criminals/

December 31st:

WATCH
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1864516744066206

rcd via e-mail
Deputy HHS Secretary to Minnesota: ‘We Have Turned Off the Money Spigot’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/12/30/gravy-train-over-as-feds-ends-childcare-payments-to-minnesota-amid-rampant-fraud-allegations-n2668691
e-mail quote – “Gee, I wonder if some “judge” is going to try to have these funds continue…”

Iran Claims They’re in ‘All-Out War’ With US, Europe and Israel
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/iran-claims-theyre-in-all-out-war-with-us-europe-and-israel.html/

Nothing Is Done: When High Crimes and Treason Go Unpunished, the Republic Is Already Lost
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/nothing-is-done-when-high-crimes-and-treason-go-unpunished-the-republic-is-already-lost.html/
Looking back at 2025, the most stunning takeaway is the sheer, almost incomprehensible scale of Democrat criminality: high crimes committed openly, systematically, and with total impunity—without prosecutions, without reforms, without consequences. Power insulated itself from law, corruption was normalized as governance, and accountability was erased as an operating principle. In a functioning republic, crimes trigger investigations and punishment; in 2025 America, they triggered silence, cover-ups, and escalation. What shocked the nation was not merely the wrongdoing, but the unmistakable message it sent: the law no longer applies to Democrats

Gas Prices Drop for 5th Consecutive Week: GasBuddy
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/gas-prices-drop-for-5th-consecutive-week-gasbuddy-5963954
Gas prices continued their sharp downward trend throughout December, falling by nearly 23 cents over the month to a national average of $2.75 per gallon on Dec. 29—the lowest level recorded since 2021, according to a report by fuel price comparison app GasBuddy. The national average price of diesel fuel, meanwhile, was $3.52 per gallon, a dip of more than $0.05 from a week earlier. Average gasoline prices were lowest in Oklahoma at $2.17 per gallon and highest in Hawaii at $4.36.

the servant becomes the master – the corrupt are easy to capture
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-servant-becomes-the-master
i’m not sure who needs to hear this, but there is nothing even remotely sophisticated about these endless somali and NGO/immigration frauds. not PPP, not food, not autism, and not daycare or welfare or SNAP or free rent. it’s all blatant, hammer in the face stuff.

George Clooney and Family Abandon America, Take French Citizenship
https://americanjournaldaily.com/george-cloooney-america/
Clooney’s move to France, where he and his entire family have now taken citizenship, is the ultimate power play of the globalist class…it isn’t even clear if Clooney will retain his American citizenship

California’s Proposed 5% Wealth Tax Prompts Billionaire to Plan Exodus from State
https://americanjournaldaily.com/blue-state-tax-hikes/
The stampede to sane, free states like Florida and Texas isn’t just about money. It’s a desperate escape from a society drowning in its own progressive policies—crime-ridden streets, rampant homelessness, and a government openly at war with its own citizens. Even Governor Gavin Newsom knows this is insane, but he’s just a passenger on a runaway train driven by radicals. Don’t fool yourself into thinking this is just a California problem. It’s a preview. This is the future the left wants for the entire country. This is the rot that President Trump’s America First, pro-business agenda is designed to stop. What is happening in California is a clear and present danger, a warning that when you stop rewarding creators, you are left with nothing but takers.

How are those wonderful Gun Laws working?
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/how-are-those-wonderful-gun-laws
When TDS makes people support TdA, you know we are in trouble. Shielding the Enemies of the United States because you do not like the guy in the 1600 Pennsylvania makes you a Domestic Enemy in my humble opinion.

??????????????????? Who signed off the evening news with my subject line quote ????????????????????

I wish you all a Healthey, Safe, Prosperous, and Happy New Year

January 1st, 2026:

An Autopsy of a Fading Civilization Afraid to Name Its Enemies
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/an-autopsy-of-a-fading-civilization-afraid-to-name-its-enemies.html/
In his December 2025 commentary for The Daily Signal, “Leaders Fail When the Threat of Radical Islam Is Ignored,” Victor Davis Hanson does not merely contribute to the 24-hour news cycle; he pens a digital memento mori for a fading civilization.
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Why Western Leaders Won’t Acknowledge ‘Radical Islam’
video – 00:07:55 – https://youtu.be/TVmmAQAJ53U

FROM 9/11 TO THIS: Zohran Mamdani to Become NYC’s First Mayor Sworn In On The Quran
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/from-9-11-to-this-zohran-mamdani-to-become-nycs-first-mayor-sworn-in-on-quran.html/
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Jihad Mamdani Appoints al Qaeda Terrorist Lawyer for Top Role
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/jihad-mamdani-appoints-al-qaeda-terrorist-lawyer-for-top-role.html/

New Year’s Eve Islamic Terror Attack Thwarted in Texas
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/new-years-eve-islamic-terror-attack-thwarted-in-texas.html/

Former TSA Agent Exposes Somali Fraud in Real Time at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/12/31/former-tsa-agent-exposes-somali-fraud-in-real-time-at-minneapolis-st-paul-airport-n2197640

Angry Wisconsin Business Owner Finds Out: Leave Politics at Home
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/31/angry-wisconsin-business-owner-finds-out-leave-politics-at-home-n2197639
Why are people on the left always so angry? And what makes them think they can take that anger out on anyone who disagrees with them, with shocking and callous impunity? This was always a bit of a head-scratcher, but it’s gotten much worse in the Age of Trump.

President Trump Announces a Change in Strategy for National Guard Troops in Some Blue Cities
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2025/12/31/president-trump-announces-a-change-in-strategy-for-national-guard-troops-in-some-blue-cities-n2197661

What’s coming in case you did not know.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/whats-coming-in-case-you-did-not
…the Old Media. It has been 99.999999999% against Nick Shirley and his report…
And here is the warning: None of their defenders belong to their tribes. And if you do not know what that means, let me make it very clear: They will ignore you in the best of cases or simply kill you if you are annoying. Extra hacking effort will be applied to you if you truly become a menace to their interests.
A Video from Nick Freitas is an indicator.
embedded video – 00:00:41
V – referenced above
When you import the 3rd World – You get 3rd World values.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/when-you-import-the-3rd-world
BUT WAIT, There’s more
Citizen Journalists Uncover Defunct Shell Organization Linked To 40 Ohio Daycares
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/citizen-journalists-probe-inactive-daycares-across-democrat-run-cities

Why January’s “new year” is about doors, not seasons
https://www.collapselife.com/p/janus-roman-new-year
The month we usher in today takes its name from Janus, the Roman god of thresholds, gates, and passages. The Latin root of his name, ianua, means door. That essentially makes Janus a doorman, presiding over entrances and exits, beginnings and endings, contracts and transitions. Significantly, he is depicted as having two faces — one looking backward, one forward — making him able to see inside and outside, ahead and behind, simultaneously.

Politico Legal Reporter Suggests Shooting Journalist Investigating Somali Daycare Fraud
https://americanjournaldaily.com/politico-legal-somalis-fraud/
“At some point, the amateur effort to knock on doors of home daycares intersects with robust stand-your-ground laws” — Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) December 30, 2025
That wasn’t a random comment from some basement-dwelling troll. That was the considered opinion of Josh Gerstein, the “Senior Legal Affairs Reporter” for Politico, a pillar of the D.C. media establishment. He openly fantasized about an independent journalist being gunned down for investigating massive daycare fraud in Minnesota—a story Gerstein’s own outlet wouldn’t touch.

The desperate search for a new COVID. – Just don’t look behind the curtain.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/the-desperate-search-for-a-new-covid
Dropping case numbers and low amount of deaths do not sell fear, only indignation of wasting the people’s time with badly manufactured health panic.

Lin-Manuel Miranda Cancels Entire Run of Hamilton at Trump-Kennedy Center
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2026/01/01/lin-manuel-miranda-cancels-entire-run-of-hamilton-at-trump-kennedy-center-n2423340

Call To Activism Bathes in the World’s Worst Cologne Over Trump’s New Year’s Eve Gait
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2026/01/01/call-to-activism-bathes-in-the-worlds-worst-cologne-over-trumps-new-years-eve-gait-n2423453
… of all the malodorous bouquets in the world, there is no cologne worse than desperation…instead of enjoying New Year’s Eve as most normal, not mentally ill people do, Call to Activism spent hours examining everything about President Trump’s party at Mar-a-Lago to usher in 2026. What was the result of all their frenzied sleuthing? This: OMG!!! Trump just showed up at Mar-a-Lago to celebrate New Year’s, dragging his right leg, and quickly adjusted his walk when he realizes the cameras are on. What’s Trump hiding?

Carol Roth Hilariously Notices Something About Mamdani’s Coronation
https://twitchy.com/gordon-k/2026/01/01/carol-roth-hilariously-notices-something-about-mamdanis-coronation-n2423457
Carol Roth @caroljsroth – When a commie throws a party…Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, no bathrooms

Experts Say 2025 Was So Hot It Pushed Earth Past Critical Climate Change Mark
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2026/01/01/experts-say-2025-was-so-hot-it-pushed-earth-past-critical-climate-change-mark-n2423386
the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the threshold set in the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times. Experts say keeping the Earth below that limit could save lives and prevent catastrophic environmental destruction around the globe.

10 Gun Laws Just Changed in December — Most Gun Owners Missed This
video – 00:16:20 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWZ3mtrO5M0
In this video, we break down ten major gun law changes triggered by recent December federal court decisions that are already reshaping firearm ownership across the United States. From carry permits and interstate travel to ammunition purchases, privacy protections, and assault weapon bans, these rulings directly affect how law-abiding gun owners can legally buy, carry, transport, and own firearms in 2026. Many of these changes are happening quietly, without mainstream media coverage, leaving millions of gun owners still operating under outdated rules that no longer apply. If you care about the Second Amendment, gun rights, and staying legally protected while exercising your freedoms, this is information you cannot afford to miss.

Welcome to the Dumpster Fire of 2026
Origins of a dumpster fire – Where did the phrase come from?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6FqIIUc-NRg

December 24th:

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg Orders Return of More Than 200 Illegal Aliens Deported to El Salvador
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/12/23/judge-jeb-boasberg-orders-return-137-illegal-aliens-deported-to-el-salvador-n2423174

Adam Schiff LOSES HIS MIND when Trump nominee REFUSES to take any of his BS
video – 00:12:56 – https://youtu.be/zgZPzz9fUKA

No wonder fmr. Prince Andrew was sweating the Epstein files! Emails from Balmoral are disturbing
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/23/no-wonder-fmr-prince-andrew-was-sweating-the-epstein-files-emails-from-balmoral-are-disturbing-1612066/

JD Vance goes through grueling training with Navy SEALs team
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/23/jd-vance-goes-through-grueling-training-with-navy-seals-team-1612027/
“Just finished PT with the Navy SEALs for 90 minutes (I’ll post some photos when I get them). They took it easy on me and I still feel like I got hit by a freight train. So grateful to all of our warriors who keep us safe and keep the highest standards anywhere in the world!”
video – 00:00″12 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2003309777884246119
AND
Leftists Seethe As JD Vance Works Out With Navy SEALs, Posts Hilarious Meme
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/12/23/leftist-seethe-as-jd-vance-works-out-with-navy-seals-posts-hilarious-meme-n2197422

Secret Service Agent Protecting JD Vance Has Home Raided by FBI
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/12/23/secret-service-agent-protecting-jd-vance-has-home-raided-by-fbi-n2197409
The FBI, earlier this month, executed a raid on the home of a Secret Service agent currently serving on Vice President JD Vance’s protective detail. It was part of an ongoing investigation into alleged tax and wire fraud.

Member of Somali Terrorist Cell That Plotted Second 9/11 Gets Unwelcome Surprise from Trump DOJ
https://www.westernjournal.com/member-somali-terrorist-cell-plotted-second-9-11-gets-unwelcome-surprise-trump-doj/
A judge sentenced a Kenyan national to two consecutive life sentences on Monday for plotting a plane attack reminiscent of 9/11

Newsom Loses More CA Business and Wants to Take Away the Farm
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/12/23/newsom-loses-more-ca-business-and-wants-to-take-away-the-farm-n3810189
Gavin Newsom created a task force to address “the agricultural land equity crisis.”…“Agricultural land equity is when all people have secure and affordable access to viable land for the care, relationship with, and cultivation of food, fiber, medicine, and cultural resources without systemic barriers, disparities, or exploitation.”…Approved by legislators in the California Budget Act of 2022, the 13-member task force is proposing several steps to redistribute agricultural land to “socially disadvantaged farmers,” claiming “diversity” will result in ecological benefits, environmental protection, and climate resiliency.

Texas Man Fatally Shoots Two People Who Allegedly Followed and Attacked Him
https://www.westernjournal.com/texas-man-fatally-shoots-two-people-allegedly-followed-attacked/

Dec. 19 & 20, 2025:

FBI agent, John Guandolo perfectly explained Islam in 3 minutes.
video – 00:02:49 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BDn0ueW6xc

(worth the 11 minuteas it takes to watch – jlr)
America’s Future – If Gavin Newsom becomes President of the United States
https://libsarenuts.substack.com/p/americas-future
The auto industry just quit California!
video – 00:10:54 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr55hPXyGt4

(This is worth reading – jlr)
Ten Dollar Gasoline: Coming Soon to California
https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2025/12/19/ten-dollar-gasoline-its-in-our-future-n4947283
Let’s be more specific: $10 gas in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California? Yeah, that does sound a bit more likely, doesn’t it?… Chevron’s CEO Mike Wirth decided to shut down operations in California. He texted the governor, saying, “I’d like to tell you about it before you read about it.” Common courtesy, right?
After 140 some-odd years, a $300 billion company, with thousands of jobs on the line, is throwing in the towel, deciding to leave the state. The consequences of this are enormous. Newsom’s response? “I don’t need to talk about it. I’m good.”…If you add in the Phillips 66 operation in LA County and Valero up in the Bay area, a total of three refineries are gone. That’s about 20% of the total gasoline supply in the state.

GOP Congressmen Starting ‘Sharia Free America Caucus’ to Counter Islamic Law and Protect the Constitution
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/gop-congressmen-starting-sharia-free-america-caucus-to-counter-islamic-law-and-protect-the-constitution.html/

Somali “Staggering, Industrial-Scale” FRAUD in ONE STATE Far Exceeds Somalia’s ENTIRE GDP
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/somali-staggering-industrial-scale-fraud-in-one-state-far-exceeds-somalias-entire-gdp.html/

Milwaukee judge found guilty of obstruction for allegedly helping illegal migrant evade arrest
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/milwaukee-judge-found-guilty-obstruction-allegedly-helping-illegal-migrant
Dugan was convicted of one felony count of obstruction and acquitted of concealing an individual to prevent arrest.

Guilty!!!
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/guilty
Now if they would do the same to these protesters that think they are above the law…

redux
You say that like it is a bad thing.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/you-say-that-like-it-is-a-bad
(Look at the number of federal employees – appx. 1% of the total US population currently works for the government – jlr)

Over the Summer Violent Brown University Antisemites Demanded Cameras Be Disabled To Protect “Protesters”
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/over-the-summer-violent-brown-univ-antisemites-demanded-cameras-be-disabled-to-protect-protesters.html/

FIVE TERRORISTS ARRESTED En Route to Bondi Beach to Slaughter Jewish Mourners at Vigil For Victims of Islamic Massacre
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/jewish-vigil-targeted-five-terrorists-arrested.html/

rcd via e-mail
You Won’t Believe What the Australian PM’s Solution to the Bondi Beach Terror Attack Is
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/12/19/aussie-government-to-collecct-and-destroy-hundreds-of-thousands-of-firearms-n2668186
The Australian Prime Minister has announced their solution to the Bondi Beach terror attack in Sydney, Australia. They will repeat what the country did in ***1996, and collect and destroy “hundreds of thousands of firearms.” Never mind the threat of radical Islam, jihad, or antisemitism.
If American conservatives need a reminder on why our Second Amendment should be protected, this is it.
UPDATE
A reporter asked Prime Minister Albanese whether radical Islam posed Australia’s greatest domestic security threat, and he replied that neo-Nazis, not Islamist extremism, were the primary concern.
video – 00:01:22 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2001942914717597942

San Francisco Hillel Set Aflame, Building Destroyed, Shabbat and Chanukah Events Canceled
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/san-francisco-hillel-set-aflame-building-destroyed-shabbat-and-chanukah-events-canceled.html/
Hillel is the world’s largest Jewish campus organization, Last night, the San Francisco chapter was set on fire.

201 Democrats Vote AGAINST Bill Keeping Gangbanger Illegals Off U.S. Streets
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/201-democrats-vote-against-bill-keeping-gangbanger-illegals-off-u-s-streets.html/

IMPEACHMENT MADNESS: Democrats Prove They Have No Real Interest in Governing
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/impeachment-madness-democrats-prove-they-have-no-real-interest-in-governing/

Grinch Christmas card pulled from supermarket chain after transgender activist complains
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/19/grinch-christmas-card-pulled-from-supermarket-chain-after-transgender-activist-complains-1611320/
“The phrase ‘identifying as’ is an anti-trans dogwhistle and has long been used as a derogatory way of describing trans people and invalidating their gender, whereby it suggests a person’s gender being anything other than what fits neatly into the cis male/female binary is something people can ‘choose’.”…he believes that the card “belittles the identity of trans and non-binary people”.

Trans Sec Sean Duffy’s daughter unloads on ‘unconstitutional’ TSA after ridiculous experience
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/19/trans-sec-sean-duffys-daughter-unloads-on-unconstitutional-tsa-after-ridiculous-experience-1611301/
“I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I’m pregnant and didn’t feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner,”…“The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman into just walking through the scanner because it’s ‘safe.’”…“After finally getting the absurdly invasive pat-down, I barely made my flight. All this for an unconstitutional agency that isn’t even good at its job,”…“Perhaps things would have gone more smoothly if I’d handed over my biometric data to a random private company (CLEAR). Then I could enjoy the special privilege of waiting in a shorter line to be treated like a terrorist in my own country.”…“Is this freedom? Travel, brought to you by George Orwell—and the privilege of convenience based solely on your willingness to surrender biometric data and submit to radiation exposure? The ‘golden age of transportation’ cannot begin until the TSA is gone,”

Trump DOJ slams door on welfare for illegal aliens, ends Clinton-era loophole draining taxpayer dollars
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-doj-slams-door-on-welfare-for-illegal-aliens-ends-clinton-era-loophole-draining-taxpayer-dollars

Trump Signs Historic $901B Defense Bill, Delivering Troop Pay Raise and Eliminating Woke Programs
https://istandforfreedom.com/trump-defense-bill-troop-raise/

West Coast, Messed Coast™ — 58 Reasons Why Blue Cities Are Circling the Drain
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/12/19/west-coast-messed-coast-58-reasons-why-blue-cities-are-circling-the-drain-n4947280

House Republican Considering Plan to Expel Ilhan Omar from Congress
https://www.westernjournal.com/house-republican-considering-plan-expel-ilhan-omar-congress/
“actively considering” forcing a vote to expel Omar,

Pete Hegseth Announces Plan to Restore George Washington’s Military Chaplain Corps to Its Former Glory
https://www.westernjournal.com/pete-hegseth-announces-plan-restore-george-washingtons-military-chaplain-corps-former-glory/

‘We Don’t Dispute’ It: Georgia 315k Vote Bombshell Blows a Big Hole in 2020’s ‘Most Secure Election’ Lie
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/12/19/we-dont-dispute-it-georgia-315k-vote-bombshell-blows-a-big-hole-in-2020s-most-secure-election-lie-n2197283
A Georgia State Election Board investigation substantiated that Fulton County violated election rules in 2020 by failing to have poll workers sign required tabulation tapes for early votes in 36 out of 37 advanced voting precincts, affecting approximately 315,000 ballots.
AND
rcd vis e-mail
Fulton County Admits It ILLEGALLY CERTIFIED 315,000+ Ballots In 2020 Election!
https://wltreport.com/2025/12/19/breaking-fulton-county-admits-it-illegally-certified-315000/
315,000 and Trump lost Georga by 12,000 – Bet it will not make news at 11

Wife thinking outside the ice box
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/wife-thinking-outside-the-ice-box
Damn, she knows her economics. She can squeeze a penny better than any locomotive.

Department of War: Done playing games.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/department-of-war-done-playing-games
Today, we hunted and we killed our enemies. Lots of them. And we will continue.
‘Murica and Fuck You.

AYSM???
DeKalb County Ends COVID-19 State of Emergency After Five Years, Sets Jan. 5, 2026 Office Return
https://istandforfreedom.com/dekalb-state-emergency-over/

Unhinged female absolutely pummels male employee at Planet Fitness in Florida
https://www.theblaze.com/news/female-caught-on-video-beating-up-male-planet-fitness-employee-florida
it apparently all started when the male employee told the female gym member to lower her voice or he’d call the police, he female “became irate,” balled her fists, and got in the male employee’s face — but the male pushed her away with both hands twice “in self-defense,”
video – 00:01:11 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4mFmo31WEY

Woman arrested for allegedly punching two NYPD officers during ‘mostly peaceful’ Tyre Nichols protest — and she’s reportedly released without bail
https://www.theblaze.com/news/woman-arrested-for-allegedly-punching-two-nypd-officers-during-mostly-peaceful-tyre-nichols-protest-and-shes-reportedly-released-without-bail

Fed Up with Islam, James Woods Issues Savage Statement That Will Offend Every Muslim on Earth, But Could Give Hope to Everyone Else
https://www.westernjournal.com/fed-islam-james-woods-issues-savage-statement-will-offend-every-muslim-earth-give-hope-everyone-else/
“…terrorists are not fringe actors or radicals; these are people following the dogma found in the Quran, which is clear in its call for Muslims to use violence in furtherance of their cause.”

When Gun Control Fails…The Government doubles the dosage of Gun Control.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/when-gun-control-fails
In Bondi Beach, it was only the terrorists and the useless police who had weapons. civilians were unarmed. Clearly the fault resides with the civilians who shall be even more disarmed so they can be kept safe from the terrorists by cops trained in Uvalde and Broward county.
Embedded video – 00:00:25

The most recent articles from Active Response Training – Weekend Knowledge Dump- December 19, 2025
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weekend-knowledge-dump-december-19-2025
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.

Joyous Noel, part 3 – The last part, I think.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/joyous-noel-part-3
he first two stories I did about the Välkkykettu flew out of my fingers, as I tried to keep up with the images darting through my mind, not knowing where the stories were going — only that I needed to get them on the screen before they went away.
This one — this one I sat down and deliberately plotted. I had an idea of what I wanted to say, and what I needed to write about to say it … but I’m not as happy with this one. It doesn’t have as much of the Old World, Northern European Fairy Tales feel as the first two.
Ah well. I suspect that my brain-squirrels have ADHD’d, and I’m about to get intensely focused on something entirely different.
I am mildly astonished that the Välkkykettu have taken off like they have — “Neo-folklore” is untapped territory for me — but I’m grateful none the less.
I’d like to point out that Sam Robb came up with the Välkkykettu, but they so very well illustrated a point I have been making for years — the point that childhood has become too safe, too nerfed — so I grabbed the Flickerfoxes and ran with them.
And you have read the results on these pages. Part 1 is here; and Part 2 is here, if this is your first time reading about the Välkkykettu.
Raconteur Press will publish a children’s book about the Flickerfoxes for Christmas 2026 — in the meantime if you enjoy these little scribbles, feel free to share them.
When you do, please remember to attribute them to me, of your kindness.

Dec 21, 2025:

Dumber, Sicker, & Poorer
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/12/19/dumber-sicker-poorer/
The chart below is a fascinating snapshot of the last 75 years in the demise of the American empire.

When you understand the working age population is 275 million and your friendly number fudgers at the BLS declare 103 million of them NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE, and hysterically declaring only 7.8 million Americans are unemployed, you understand what a fraudulent economy we have.
The reported 4.6% unemployment rate is complete and utter bullshit. In reality, it is north of 20%.

Jasmine Crockett Spirals Into Word Salad Answer When Cornered on Reparations
https://www.westernjournal.com/jasmine-crockett-spirals-word-salad-answer-cornered-reparations/

New Protest at the Kennedy Center Tells You Everything You Need to Know About the Left
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/12/20/protest-at-kennedy-center-n2197336
visdeo – 00:01:00 – https://youtu.be/M9PXWCAvhaU

Mystery Solved: This Is What It Takes for Local Cops to Arrest Somebody at Portland ICE HQ
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/12/21/what-does-it-take-to-get-arrested-around-here-portland-police-finally-arrest-trantifa-outside-of-ice-hq-n4947348
Protesters can assault, mob, and chase reporters on the streets of Portland without fear of arrest, but a full-grown man punching a cop in the face in front of a crowd will get arrested.
Protesters can assault, mob, and chase reporters on the streets of Portland without fear of arrest, but a full-grown man punching a cop in the face in front of a crowd will get arrested.
video – 00:01:18 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2002253329053933761

USER WARNING! – not judging, just saying
Notes from the edge of civilization: December 21, 2025
https://www.collapselife.com/p/notes-from-the-edge-of-civilization-bcc
The article basically boils down to this: as sex toys get “smart,” they also get chatty.

Florida man says he ‘teleported’ into stolen BMW, blames ‘X-Men,’ thanks cop for rescuing him from ‘aliens’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/florida-man-bodycam-video-car-crash-aliens-teleport

Nothing to do with Deer: Sunday Country Second Amendment
https://wilderwealthywise.com/nothing-to-do-with-deer-sunday-country-second-amendment/
I say again, Let me make somethin’ perfectly clear, The Second Amendment has nothin’ to do with deer.
MP3 audio – 00:03:49 – https://wilderwealthywise.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Nothin-to-do-with-Deer-v3.mp3
https://wilderwealthywise.com/music-collection/

About the Välkkykettu – A brief look into my mind.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/about-the-valkkykettu
Some folks have asked if I mind if they write stories about the Välkkykettu1, and I don’t mind(ish) — but I thought that a brief post about what went through my mind as I created my own version of the character might be helpful.

Dec 22 & 23, 2025:

Re-examining “I’m Coming To Your House When Things Get Bad!”
https://paultmartin.com/blog/f/re-examining-im-coming-to-your-house-when-things-get-bad
https://paultmartin.com/blog/f/project-dealing-with-the-im-coming-to-your-house-crowd
(See the quotes after my sig line – JLR)

Charlie Kirk was right: How Islam is destroying the West
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/relatable/charlie-kirk-was-right-how-islam-is-destroying-the-west
Western nations are collapsing under the weight of mass migration, failed assimilation, demographic upheaval, and the growing alliance between Marxist and Islamist ideologies — a threat Charlie Kirk warned about with clarity long before his death.

California Faces Fuel Disaster As Refineries And Gas Stations Shut Down
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/california-faces-fuel-disaster-refineries-and-gas-stations-shut-down
Gavin Newsom ‘s major refinery law, ABX2-1 (signed Oct 2024), gives the state power to mandate minimum fuel storage levels and control refinery maintenance to prevent price spikes, empowering the California Energy Commission (CEC) to stabilize supply. This builds on earlier efforts (like SB X1-2) creating an oil market watchdog (DPMO) to increase oversight, aiming to stop refiners from manipulating supply for profit, while also adding data reporting requirements for companies. In response, companies are shutting down refinery operations in the state.
video – 00:11:49 – https://youtu.be/Rdx2QbY9Dwo
California trying to KEEP oil and gas firms from LEAVING THE STATE
video – 00:08:29 – https://youtu.be/hXPhvM02KOY
You Thought You Could Leave California. Now They’re Following Your Money!!
video – 00:06:59 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKOU0hscYtg

Epstein Files Photos Hit Democrats Hard
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/reckoning-epstein-files-photos-hit-democrats-hard.html/
They SCREAMED for the files, now they’re running for the hills.

House Votes to Criminalize Chemical Castration and Mutilation of Children
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/house-votes-to-criminalize-chemical-castration-and-mutilation-of-children.html/
The bill passed with near-unanimous Republican support, with three Democrats—Reps. Henry Cuellar (TX), Don Davis (NC), and Vicente Gonzalez (TX)—voting in favor, while four Republicans opposed it.

“Conspiracy Theorists” Right Again on 2020 Georgia Election Irregularities
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/conspiracy-theorists-right-again-on-2020-georgia-election-irregularities/
( My pronouns are: I/told/you/so – jlr)

The Terrorists Are Inside the Gates
https://patriotpost.us/articles/123695
Tens of thousands of suspected or confirmed international terrorists have been identified within the borders of the United States.

The Stockholm Syndrome of the West
https://patriotpost.us/articles/123694
The West’s response to rising anti-Western violence has become grimly predictable: capitulate to antagonists and silence those who resist. A recent incident at a vigil for victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack crystallized this dynamic…populations are told that lowering expectations is the path to peace.

All I Want for Christmas Is Some Blue State Sanity
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-some-blue-state-sanity/

South Carolina Committee Defies Mayor’s Order to Remove Nativity Scene, Citing Supreme Court Precedent
https://istandforfreedom.com/south-caroline-order-nativity/

CUBA: Is Trump About to Do What No Other President Could?
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/12/22/cuba-is-trump-about-to-do-what-no-other-president-could-n4947376

The Democrats Need to Start Panicking About the Epstein Files
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/22/the-democrats-need-to-start-panicking-about-the-epstein-files-n4947385

Once Again, Another Nation’s Crime Surge Is Somehow America’s Fault
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/12/22/once-again-another-nations-crime-surge-is-somehow-americas-fault-n1230998
…the New York Times has a whole story about the issue of American guns fueling crime in another country. This time, it’s Canada…Homicides have spiked in Canada in the past decade, most of them from guns. That’s roughly the same timeframe that Canada’s been on an anti-gun jihad and trampling all over gun ownership in the Great White North.

Bondi Beach Jihad Attack: Islamic State-Linked Plotters Recorded Antisemitic Videos — 15 Dead, 40 Wounded”
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/bondi-beach-jihad-attack-islamic-state-linked-plotters-recorded-antisemitic-videos-15-dead-40-wounded.html/
AND
Australia’s Response to Islamic Terror: SUBMISSION – Sharia (Hate Speech Laws) and Gun Laws (Disarm Law Abiding Citizens)
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/australias-response-to-islamic-terror-submission-sharia-law-hate-speech-and-gun-laws-disarm-the-law-abiding.html/
( I predict that because of (Sharia (Hate Speech Laws)), the politicians will retreat at the cries of Islamaphobia, and the laws will be withdrawn – jlr)

YALE COMPLETES INTELLECTUAL PURGE: Zero Republicans Across 27 Departments As Viewpoint Apartheid Replaces Academic Freedom
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/yale-completes-intellectual-purge.html/
Yale has finally achieved liberal nirvana. According to a recent report from the Buckley Institute, there is now not a single Republican found across 27 of 43 departments at Yale University.

Insurance Giants Win, Everyday Americans Lose Under Obamacare’s Corrupt Regime
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/reminder-insurance-giants-win-everyday-americans-lose-under-obamacares-corrupt-regime/

It appears that even the Amish are seeing the handwriting on the wall with growing societal collapse!
video – 00:08:03 – https://youtu.be/6vmqjKA9Z4w

A little humor…To start the week! – An oldie but a goody!
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/a-little-humor-421

December 16th:

Chuck Schumer Accuses GOP Senator of ‘Despicable Islamophobia’ for Telling the Truth
https://www.westernjournal.com/chuck-schumer-accuses-gop-senator-despicable-islamophobia-telling-truth/
What makes Islam different in the world we live in is that a percentage of its adherents are not only open to practicing violence — they positively glory in it. “Islam is not a religion. It’s a cult. Islamists aren’t here to assimilate. They’re here to conquer,” Sen.Tuberville

Global Rightward Shift Continues as Chile Chooses “Trumpian” President
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/global-rightward-shift-continues-as-chile-chooses-trumpian-president/

Deport Illegal Aliens – Laws Require It
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/deport-illegal-aliens-laws-require-it/

The illegal immigrant with more power than the president
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/kilmar-abrego-garcia

Pentagon ‘Escalating’ Review of ‘Serious Allegations’ Against Mark Kelly
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/12/16/pentagon-reportedly-escalating-review-of-serious-allegations-against-mark-kelly-n2197170

Australian Prime Minister Has Finally Figured Out What ‘Inspired’ Bondi Beach Terrorists
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/12/16/australian-prime-minister-has-finally-figured-out-what-motivated-bondi-beach-terrorists-n2197165
…the attack was “inspired by a terrorist organization, by ISIS,”
AND
After Failing to Engage Bondi Beach Terrorists, Guess Who the Australian Police Did Shoot
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/12/16/australian-cops-shot-bondi-beach-hero-n2667954

Islam in the West: From Sydney to California, Islamic Terror Strikes Jews in Coordinated Attacks
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/islam-in-the-west-from-sydney-to-california-islamic-terror-strikes-jews-in-coordinated-attacks.html/

Walz to Issue Toothless Executive Orders on Guns While Pushing for Semi-Auto Ban
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/12/16/walz-to-issue-toothless-executive-orders-on-guns-while-pushing-for-semi-auto-ban-n1230934
Walz is now issuing a couple of toothless executive orders aimed at firearms.
and
Walz signs executive orders on guns, establishes Statewide Safety Council
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/walz-to-sign-executive-orders-on-guns-establish-statewide-safety-council/
One order expands education on extreme risk protection orders — also known as “red flag” orders — and safe gun storage and directs the Department of Commerce to collect data from insurance companies on the “costs of gun violence.” The second creates a Statewide Safety Council with a stated goal of preventing “mass violence, targeted attacks, and domestic terrorism.”

More Tax on Tips: Blue States Undercutting New Federal Tax Cuts
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/more-tax-on-tips-blue-states-undercutting-new-federal-tax-cuts/
Trump and every Republican should make these sadistic Democrats famous and hammer them mercilessly until they let every American who is entitled to these tax cuts savor them in full.

US Oil and Gas Industry Sets Production Records in November, Led by Texas
https://amac.us/newsline/economy/us-oil-and-gas-industry-sets-production-records-in-november-led-by-texas/

Australia news and views – THIS IS WHAT FOREIGN NEWS IS

Australia Shows ‘Assault Weapon’ Bans Are the Start, Not the Endgame for Gun Controllers
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/12/15/australia-shows-assault-weapon-bans-are-the-start-not-the-endgame-for-gun-controllers-n1230927
V
‘Speed, accuracy, precision’: How gun makers market the weapons used at Bondi
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/speed-accuracy-precision-how-gun-makers-market-the-weapons-used-at-bondi/ar-AA1SlPnI

Conservationists slam ‘pointless’ federal regulator’s long-awaited draft to crack down on rat bait poisoning of wildlife
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/conservationists-slam-pointless-federal-regulator-s-long-awaited-draft-to-crack-down-on-rat-bait-poisoning-of-wildlife/ar-AA1Sr4Si

Aussies warned as $63,000 in fines handed down for illegal camping acts: ‘Crackdown’
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/aussies-warned-as-63-000-in-fines-handed-down-for-illegal-camping-acts-crackdown/ar-AA1SpLCm

Popular Aussie restaurant chain fined $2,035 for handing banned items to customers
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/popular-aussie-restaurant-chain-fined-2-035-for-handing-banned-items-to-customers/ar-AA1SpM1J
aws also banned the sale or supply of a number of single-use plastic items, including plates, cutlery, drink stirrers and expanded polystyrene food service items.

Farmers can’t legally replant their own seeds – this is why
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/farmers-can-t-legally-replant-their-own-seeds-this-is-why/ar-AA1Sp5oJ
Farmers not being able to legally save and replant their seeds is the result of several factors that gradually reorganized power, profit, and policy to transform the global seed system as we know it…many of these same companies sell seeds genetically modified to be used with specific chemical inputs, their control over both markets is mutually reinforcing.
embedded video – 00:46:58

December 17 & 18th:

Tim Walz Hysterically Rants Against ‘Assault Weapons’ … But Cannot Define What One Is
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/12/17/tim-walz-hysterically-rants-against-assault-weapons-but-cannot-define-what-one-is-n2422938
Tim Walz, who went on an unhinged rant about ‘assault weapons’ in the wake of the Brown shooting. Walz assured us that he knows exactly what an assault weapon is, and then proceeded to NOT define one. “I don’t want to hear how do you define assault weapon. I damn sure can assign what it is and describe what it is and tell you what it does.” (Not that it would matter even if he could define one. The Second Amendment doesn’t say that we the people have the right to bear only the arms that don’t hurt leftists’ tender, fragile feelings.)
video – 00:00:42 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2001007674515935613

‘Beachhead of criminality’: Trump admin urges Walz to resign in light of ‘ghost students’ fraud scheme
https://www.theblaze.com/news/beachhead-of-criminality-mcmahon-urges-walz-to-resign-in-light-of-ghost-students-fraud-scheme
Ghost students will reportedly engage remotely and do the bare minimum of classwork until financial aid funds are doled out around 10 days into the semester. Once their payday arrives, they usually vanish. “They collected checks from the federal government, shared a small portion of the money with the college, and pocketed the rest — without attending the college at all,”

Sen. Mark Kelly Posts Yet ANOTHER Video to Let Us Know He Won’t Be Intimidated
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/12/16/sen-mark-kelly-posts-yet-another-video-to-let-us-know-he-wont-be-intimidated-n2422923
It should send a shiver down the spine of every patriotic American that the president and secretary of defense would abuse their power to come after me or anyone this way.
It wasn’t enough for Donald Trump to say I should be hanged. It wasn’t enough for Pete Hegseth to threaten me with a court martial. Now they are threatening everything I fought and served for across twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy– all because I repeated something every service member is taught.
The United States has the most professional military in the world – I trust their integrity. What I don’t trust is Pete Hegseth, a recklessly unqualified secretary of defense who has already shown he will corrupt any process to make an example out of me and send a message to every veteran and every American that they shouldn’t speak out.
If Trump and Hegseth think this will stop me from doing what I’ve done every day of my adult life – fighting for this country – then they’ve got the wrong guy. Tomorrow, and the next day, I will keep doing my job representing Arizona.
video – 00:01:09 – https://twitter.com/i/status/200075235638474784V
AND
Pentagon Escalates Probe of Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly to an ‘Official Command Investigation’
https://www.westernjournal.com/pentagon-escalates-probe-democratic-sen-mark-kelly-official-command-investigation/

rcd via e-mail
Rob, kill and destroy
https://tierneyrealnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/rob-kill-and-destroy
In 2017, Rob Reiner founded the Committee to Investigate Russia (CIR) for the sole purpose of trying to tie President Trump to Russia so he could be indicted, arrested, imprisoned or executed for alleged collusion with Russia. IN OTHER WORDS, ROB REINER HELPED LAUNCH THE RUSSIAN COLLUSION HOAX TO STEAL THE WHITE HOUSE FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP AND DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.

rcd via e-mail
Authorizing Deadly Force During the Illegal Raid on Mar-a-Lago Was Inexcusable
https://newsletter.amuseonx.com/p/authorizing-deadly-force-during-the
The FBI warned DOJ and White House it lacked probable cause to search the former president’s home and that the raid was unnecessary and dangerous.

Virginia Democrat Delegate’s Daughter Threatens To Poison ‘White MAGA Families’ Food
https://americanjournaldaily.com/democrat-maga-restaurants/
“If I owned a soul food place and a white MAGA family showed up to my restaurant, there’s a high chance that I’m going to put Windex in their food, some type of toilet cleaner, saliva, feces, you’re really trusting to walk your a* in somebody’s facility knowing that you’ve caused their entire life to change in a matter of a couple years, and it’s your fault. You trust those people to make you food?” She continued, “There would be Windex in all of your food, all of it, and I’m gonna sit there and smile the whole time you’re eating. I don’t give a fck.”…A young woman openly fantasizing about poisoning American families—including children—with cleaning chemicals and human waste. Smiling as they unknowingly consume it. That’s not political commentary. That’s derangement. And someone taught her to think this way.

Trump Media & Technology Group to Merge with TAE Technologies, a Premier Fusion Power Company, in All-Stock Transaction Valued at More Than $6 Billion
https://truthsocial.com/@truthsocial/posts/115740353552762086
Combined company expects to site and commence construction of the first utility-scale fusion power plant in 2026

Four Days Later: Brown University Shooter Still At Large As Bizarre Anomalies Mount In Investigation
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/four-days-later-brown-university-shooter-still-large-bizarre-anomalies-mount

Consumer prices increased in November at an annualized rate of 2.7%, lower than expected
https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/consumer-prices-increase-annualized-rate-27-november-lower-expected…lower than the projected 3.1%

The Woke Nurse Who Viciously Attacked ‘Granny Jeanie’ Over Charlie Kirk Shirt Is Cooked – Watch Her CEO Describe His Last 24 Hours
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-woke-nurse-viciously-attacked-granny-jeanie-charlie-kirk-shirt-cooked-watch-ceo-describe-last-24-hours/
video – 00:01:51 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2001436246271242486

Chico Target employee responds to viral video backlash
https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/chico-target-employee-responds-to-viral-video-backlash/article_f8b81e6b-67bd-40d3-a44a-e6333a84bd8b.html
video – 00:03:15 – https://redirect.field59.com/video/cd8d08414ee04ea6255c90765d39ccb20f9f9450.m3u8

SNAP Recipient Complains About New Rules Blocking Junk Food Purchases: ‘What Is the Point?’
https://www.westernjournal.com/snap-recipient-complains-new-rules-blocking-junk-food-purchases-point/
A Missouri woman on Thursday receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds complained about only being able to buy “real food” with the program…“That’s not even cool, like why they do that?”…“I don’t know what Trump is doing or what is going on.”” “What is the point of food stamps if it’s just for ‘real food?’”…worried about whether parents would be able to purchase snacks their kids liked to eat.

Trump delivers pot reform dream — but stops short of full marijuana legalization
https://nypost.com/2025/12/18/us-news/trump-to-deliver-pot-reform-dream-but-rescheduling-stops-short-of-full-legalization/
…action will move pot from “Schedule I,” the most restrictive Controlled Substance Act designation for drugs with a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical value, to Schedule III

House Republicans Pass Reform Bill to Cut Costs and End Obamacare Subsidies, Saving $35.6 Billio
https://istandforfreedom.com/republicans-reform-costs-obamacare
The Congressional Budget Office confirmed the bill would reduce federal deficits by $35.6 billion. Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett put it bluntly: the only people prospering off the current system are insurance companies, “and they’re getting fat.”

Chevrolet’s Beautiful 2025 Christmas Ad Celebrates Family, Avoids Politics – Wins Widespread Praise
https://istandforfreedom.com/christmas-ad-family-politics-praise
The video is a reminder of how holidays are meant to be spent: In the loving company of family.
The world has become a fast-paced, dog-eat-dog place where it’s easy to overlook the little things in life that mean the most. Spending time with family has fallen by the wayside in the interest of personal progress and career advancement.
2025 video – 00:03:21 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB-DXIGGoqc
2024 video – 00:05:26 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeaHlhDypFw
2023 video – 00:02:55 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_R4q70_rJg
2001 video – 00:04:00 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ1uqkBeTHY

The next Carrington Event would hit a very different world
https://www.collapselife.com/p/solar-storm-satellite-collapse
New calculations show a major solar storm could trigger cascading failures across GPS, communications, and navigation.

You say that like it is a bad thing.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/you-say-that-like-it-is-a-bad
Once there are more people working for a federal paycheck than citizens in the private economy, they are no longer working for you, but you are working for them.

The reason U.S. Navy is using drones against cartel boats.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/the-reason-us-navy-is-using-drones
(Sad, but true. The Navy, in large part, does NOT use small arms.  It is entirely different watching target practice in a unit that uses small arms daily, whether it be the master-at-arms, Marines, or special warfare operators. – jlr)

VIRAL video: Somali man taunts Americans — ‘Go to work for me, you fking white animals!’
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/steve-deace-show/viral-video-somali-man-taunts-americans-go-to-work-for-me-you-f-ing-white-animals
“Thank you for working so hard so I can be home all day — free. I can use my EBT. Go to work for me, white boy, white girl! Yeah! Go to work for me, you fking white animals! Fking work for me. Yeah, you f*king work for me. And the U.S. government — they work for me. All of you work for me. Now go to work.”
video – 00:00:44 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2000954226118172826

A new Christmas fable – Courtesy of Raconteur Press.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/a-new-christmas-fable
While Santa Claus brings gifts to good little boys and girls, and Krampus punishes children who misbehave, the less well-known Välkkykettu (Flickerfox) traditionally rewards those children who are both good and bad: those hyperactive, impulsive, chaos-gremlins we all know and (sometimes) love. To these lucky children, he brings gifts that are equal parts delightful and disastrous.
AND
Joyous Noel! – Have a present.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/joyous-noel
Sam Robb’s Välkkykettu thing got hold of me, and I’ve been batting it around a little obsessively. I crunched my whole concept into a children’s Christmas story.
As a present to our Gentle Readers, here’s a children’s Christmas tale:
AND
Joyous Noel, Part 2 – This Flickerfox thing won’t let go.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/joyous-noel-part-2
My brain squirrels have decided that they like the Flickerfox thing we’ve been doing, so here’s another Christmas story for y’all.
Enjoy!

Dec. 11-13, 2025:

A new Christmas fable
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/a-new-christmas-fable
While Santa Claus brings gifts to good little boys and girls, and Krampus punishes children who misbehave, the less well-known Välkkykettu (Flickerfox) traditionally rewards those children who are both good and bad: those hyperactive, impulsive, chaos-gremlins we all know and (sometimes) love. To these lucky children, he brings gifts that are equal parts delightful and disastrous.

Stanford Medicine study shows why mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/12/myocarditis-vaccine-covid.html
Stanford Medicine investigators have unearthed the biological process by which mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 can cause heart damage in some young men and adolescents — and they’ve shown a possible route to reducing its likelihood. Using advanced but now common lab technologies, along with published data from vaccinated individuals, the researchers identified a two-step sequence in which these vaccines activate a certain type of immune cell, in turn riling up another type of immune cell. The resulting inflammatory activity directly injures heart muscle cells, while triggering further inflammatory damage.
and
‘Yes, Some Children… Died From COVID Shots, Major Legacy Media Concedes as British Gov. Hides Excess Death Data
https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/yes-some-children-died-from-covid

Georgetown prof starts running after realizing he’s talking to James O’Keefe — and his racial ‘slurs’ are on camera
https://www.theblaze.com/news/georgetown-prof-starts-running-after-realizing-he-was-talking-to-james-okeefe-and-his-racial-remarks-were-on-camera
Jonathan Franklin, a former race and identity correspondent for National Public Radio who now apparently serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, recently went into panic mode after realizing he had made a series of damning remarks to investigative journalist James O’Keefe on a hidden camera.
video – 00:14:25 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8zldpIW0Bk

Obama Judge Saves MS-13 Predator, Blocks Deportation of Violent Illegal Alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia Again
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/judicial-tyranny-obama-judge-saves-ms-13-predator-blocks-deportation-of-violent-illegal-alien-kilmar-abrego-garcia-again.html/

Congress Passes $900B Defense Bill with Trump-Supported China Investment Ban Despite Conservative Opposition
https://istandforfreedom.com/congress-900b-china-ban/

Jasmine Crockett dared anyone to find examples of Democrats championing violence — and the GOP delivered
https://www.theblaze.com/news/jasmine-crockett-challenged-americans-to-find-examples-of-her-championing-violence-gop-delivered
video – 00:02:05 – https://x.com/i/status/1998819087913263356

James Carville Criticizes Jasmine Crockett’s Senate Bid, Says She’s Too Self-Centered to Win
https://www.westernjournal.com/james-carville-criticizes-jasmine-crocketts-senate-bid-says-self-centered-win/

Walz Jumps Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire As Federal Probe of Massive Minnesota Welfare Scam Widens
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2025/12/11/walz-defiantly-jumps-out-of-the-frying-pan-as-federal-probe-of-massive-minnesota-welfare-scam-widens-n2197027
and
Bask in the Backfire As Tim Walz Warns Minnesotans Not to Elect a Con Man As Governor
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/12/11/bask-in-the-backfire-as-tim-walz-warns-minnesotans-not-to-elect-a-con-man-as-governor-n2422736
and
Somali Fraud Ring: Porsche in Garage, Villa in Maldives, Wire Transfers to China – Paid by Poor MN Kids
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/12/11/bari-weiss-minnesota-investigation-villas-n2422730

11 Signs That Our World Is Rapidly Becoming A Lot More Orwellian
https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/11-signs-that-our-world-is-rapidly-becoming-a-lot-more-orwellian/
(Michael Snyder has good information, but he is a doom and gloom purveyor, and is also trying to sell you his apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic books – jlr)

AOC Blows Nearly $50K on Puerto Rico Luxury While Denouncing the Rich
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/12/11/aoc-bad-bunny-concert-lots-of-spending-n2422733
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dropped almost $50,000 on hotels and meals in Puerto Rico in the third quarter of this year — as well as renting a San Juan venue where she was caught on tape grooving at an August Bad Bunny concert.

13 House Republicans Side with Democrats, Vote to Overturn Trump Executive Order
https://www.westernjournal.com/13-house-republicans-side-democrats-vote-overturn-trump-executive-order/
“most of the Republicans who backed Golden’s measure are expected to either face at least somewhat tough re-election bids or have districts located in blue states where bipartisanship is expected on certain key issues.”

House Rejects Fifth Trump Impeachment Attempt as 23 Democrats Join Republicans in 237-140 Vote
https://istandforfreedom.com/house-5th-trump-impeachment-attempt/

Significantly Lower Than Pond Scum
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/significantly-lower-than-pond-scum
Nothing has ever been dumber. No human beings have ever been less impressive than the Democrats on this congressional committee. I can’t really say anything about it — no insult could ever be adequate, and I feel frustrated by the inadequacy of my chosen headline. Sample argument from Rep. LaMonica McIver, referring to her Republican colleagues on the committee: “Y’all is kissin’ Trump’s butt cheeks”
video – 00:05:06 – https://youtu.be/A4J0kzYTMaE
Noem was also questioned by Rep. Shri Thanedar, who is absolutely not doing Borat-type schtick
video – 00:04:50 – https://youtu.be/DNZ19ToFj9E
Bennie Thompson tried to ask Noem about “the unfortunate accident that occurred with the National Guardsmen,” referring to the murder of the West Virginia National Guard’s Spc. Sarah Beckstrom
video – 00:00:33 – https://youtu.be/UbddylWgm2o

“Democrats Know Their Constituents Can’t Read Charts. That’s Why…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-know-their-constituents-cant-read-charts-thats-why
The Biden-Harris regime had four full years to fix the beef problem, yet failed to act; instead, they focused on nation-killing progressive policies, if that’s ‘green’ or open borders, that have caused the current mess we’re in today.

Prepare For Coming World War, NATO Chief Says
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/prepare-coming-world-war-nato-chief-says
NATO chief Mark Rutte on Thursday gave a major address in Berlin wherein he pleaded with members of the alliance to drastically step up joint defense efforts, in order to face down a coming conflict with Russia that could be “on the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured.”

Rep Massie Introduces Bill For US To Dump ‘Cold War Relic’ NATO
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/massie-introduces-bill-us-dump-cold-war-relic-nato
“We should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our own country, not socialist countries… US participation has cost taxpayers trillions of dollars and continues to risk US involvement in foreign wars… America should not be the world’s security blanket – especially when wealthy countries refuse to pay for their own defense,”

An “Existential Crisis” To Close 2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/existential-crisis-least-some
(Economic TDS from Europe – jlr)

Mapped: Gas Prices by U.S. State in 2025
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-gas-prices-by-u-s-state-in-2025/

Where U.S. wages are keeping ahead of inflation
https://www.voronoiapp.com/economy/Where-US-wages-are-keeping-ahead-of-inflation-7232

J6 Chair Makes Jaw-Dropping Claim: Pipe Bomb Videos Outside RNC and DNC Deleted—‘Doesn’t Exist’
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/12/12/j6-chair-makes-jaw-dropping-claim-pipe-bomb-videos-outside-rnc-and-dnc-deleteddoesnt-exist-n2197054

Trouble in Lefty Paradise? Recent Mamdani Moves Might Already Be Giving His Radical Base Buyer’s Remorse
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2025/12/12/trouble-in-lefty-paradise-recent-mamdani-moves-might-already-be-giving-his-radical-base-buyers-remorse-n2197064
Zohran Mamdani faces backlash after a leaked list of Democratic Socialists of America “demands” — described by critics as ‘weird, scary, and insanely stupid’
video – 00:00:26 – https://x.com/i/status/1986901472500719657

Dems Drop What They Call a ‘Disturbing Pic’ of Trump From Epstein Estate… Just 1 Problem
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/12/12/foiled-again-dems-drop-what-they-call-a-disturbing-pict-of-trump-from-epstein-estate-just-1-problem-n2422789
This so-called disturbing picture Democrats seem to think will prove he’s a pedophile is quite frankly, ridiculous … take a look:

Dems Would Last Maybe 5 Minutes in the Civil War They Think They Want
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/12/12/dems-would-last-maybe-5-minutes-in-the-civil-war-they-think-they-want-n4946954

DOJ Sues Four States for Violating Federal Election Law
https://www.westernjournal.com/doj-sues-four-states-violating-federal-election-law/
Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Nevada.

Obama’s ‘Most Transparent Ever’ Scam: No Library, Just a Private ‘Center’ to Hide & Control His Records
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/12/12/obamas-library-is-a-center-not-a-library-limiting-journalists-n2422783
the Obama Presidential Library will not actually be a library in the truest sense. It will be a ‘center’ and run privately. Barack Obama made that very conscious choice so his people could control how much access the public and journalists have to his archives and records.

Governor Tim Walz Is Asked About Responsibility for Somali Fraud Scandal and Pivots to ‘White Men’
https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2025/12/12/somali-leaders-about-holding-their-community-accountable-walz-white-people-are-bad-n2422786
Question: Do you want to hear more from Somali leaders about holding their community accountable?
Answer: video – 00:01:07 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1999533244379693252

Border Tsar Homan Announces Investigation Into Rep. Omar: A Case For Fraud Or Defamation?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/border-tsar-homan-announces-investigation-rep-omar-case-fraud-or-defamation
and
White House Posts Proof Ilhan Oma Married Her Brother
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/white-house-posts-proof-ilhan-omam-married-her-brother.html/
BUT WAIT, there’s more
Border Patrol Chief Promises to Arrest Ilhan Omar
https://twitchy.com/videos/2025/12/13/border-patrol-chief-promises-to-arrest-ilhan-omar-n2422803
Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino’s BOMBSHELL promise to put Rep. Ilhan Omar in HANDCUFFS, the final nail in the coffin that PROVES she really did marry her brother,
and also
Mollie Hemingway’s Wake-Up Call: Ilhan Omar’s Alleged Brother-Marriage and Fraud Must Be Investigated Now
http://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/12/12/mollie-hemingway-reminds-america-of-the-serious-claims-against-omar-n2422794
and
If Brother-Marriage Claim Is Libel, Ilhan Omar Should Sue and Cash in Like Trump Did
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/12/12/ilhan-omar-why-doesnt-she-sue-for-false-marriage-claims-n2422782

Colorado School Districts Settle Lawsuit, Can Maintain Girls’ Sports Based on Biological Sex
https://americanjournaldaily.com/school-girls-sports-ban/

A weekly supplement to the AlertsUSA National Threat and Incident Notification Service
https://www.threatjournal.com/archive/tj12132025.html
Homeland Peril: 18,000 Embedded Jihadists

NBC ‘News’ Breaks Story on Trump’s Racist Font War
https://twitchy.com/gordon-k/2025/12/12/nbc-news-trumps-racist-font-war-n2422775
Secretary of State Rubio has concluded Calibri is a DEI font and orders US diplomats to revert to Times New Roman in official communications.
(Never forget that “Orangeman BAD”, and so are his accomplices, the equivocality of this is – https://alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar/1941-nazis-ban-jewish-fonts/ – jlr)

YGTBSM!!!
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/ygtbsm
Democrats have a knack for downplaying political violence when it suits their political narrative, but Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) took it to a new, disgraceful low on Thursday.

**NEW MEXICO MAKES THE NATIONAL NEWS AGAIN, AND SADLY, YET AGAIN, NOT IN A GOOD WAY – JLR
New Mexico’s Misguided Gun Control Crusade: Targeting Dealers Won’t Stop the Violence
https://bearingarms.com/kerry-slone/2025/12/10/new-mexicos-misguided-gun-control-crusade-targeting-dealers-wont-stop-the-violence-n1230869
The latest anti-2A proposed bill, sponsored by Rep. Andrea Romero (D-Santa Fe) and Sen. Heather Berghmans (D-Albuquerque), would require enhanced training and state licensing akin to that for bartenders or cannabis sellers, mandatory inventory tracking, and employee protocols to flag “problematic” customers.
(This mindset is why we no longer live in New Mexico – jlr)

North Carolina Woman’s Lawsuit Gives SCOTUS a Chance to Establish National Reciprocity
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/12/11/north-carolina-womans-lawsuit-gives-scotus-a-chance-to-establish-national-reciprocity-n1230888
The Supreme Court has explicitly stated that the Second Amendment isn’t a second-class right. Well, no other constitutional right ends at the border of the state where we live, so Gardner’s case would be an excellent vehicle for SCOTUS to put the right to bear arms on the same level as our other enumerated rights, including the right to be secure in our persons and property, our freedom of speech, and our right to due process.

DEFCON 2 IMHO
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/defcon-2-imho
If for no reason the mall’s doors close down and the escalators stop working, yours truly (if not already out) would scramble to an emergency exit in a very expeditiously manner or at worst, find a secure & defensible position with good cover and wait for shit to either calm down or hit the fan.
And return fire if required.
PS: Regular people seemed to think it was unexpected, interesting and non-threatening.
That’ how they get killed.

Federal Delays Cost Texas Ranchers Billions in Screwworm Crisis
https://texianpartisan.com/analysis/economic-analysis/federal-delays-cost-texas-ranchers-billions-in-screwworm-crisis/
Texas lawmakers heard conflicting reports Tuesday about the state’s readiness to combat the New World Screwworm, exposing dangerous gaps in federal response planning that put $11 billion in annual economic activity at risk.

National Democrats put Texas House on list of legislative targets for 2026
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/10/texas-house-legislature-election-2026-national-democrats/
Rep. Christina Morales, the new chair of the Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee, said she wants to initially target five GOP-controlled districts, with a broader list to come later.

Texas Showdown: GOP’s Wesley Hunt Now Dares Dem Crockett to Face-Off
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/12/texas-showdown-gops-wesley-hunt-now-dares-dem-crockett-to-face-off-n2197065

Federal Judge Deals Massive Blow to Transgender Policy, Finally Rules Against Men in Women’s Prisons
https://www.westernjournal.com/federal-judge-deals-massive-blow-transgender-policy-finally-rules-men-womens-prisons/
A new federal ruling said that a Texas prison is not permitted to house male inmates who claim transgender identity with females.

Gun Grabbers’ Amicus Brief Ignores History of NFA
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/12/12/gun-grabbers-amicus-brief-ignores-history-of-nfa-n1230898
The National Firearms Act was the first federal gun control law in the country, only it was never billed as a gun control law. It was sold to the American public and the courts as a tax. The registration of NFA items was simply a way to make sure the tax had been paid on regulated items.

The most recent articles from Active Response Training
https://philelmore.substack.com/p/the-urge-to-police-your-fellow-man
V
The Urge to Police Your Fellow Man
https://philelmore.substack.com/p/the-urge-to-police-your-fellow-man
V
Massad Ayoob: 6 Must-Know Court Cases For Gun Owners
https://athlonoutdoors.com/article/massad-ayoob-6-must-know-court-cases-for-gun-owners/#massad-ayoob-6-must-know-court-cases-for-gun-owners-1
Update your legal knowledge by reading this article from Mas Ayoob. Then go read his book. (https://amzn.to/4aJiNKW)

At the Beginning of Credit Destruction Cycle – Ed Dowd
https://usawatchdog.com/at-the-beginning-of-credit-destruction-cycle-ed-dowd/

Ilhan Omar’s Republican Opponent Reveals Congresswoman’s ‘Deep Ties’ to Somali Fraud Scandal
https://www.westernjournal.com/ilhan-omars-republican-opponent-reveals-congresswomans-deep-ties-somali-fraud-scandal/

The gift…That keeps on giving…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/the-gift
She ‘somehow’ thinks she’s actually popular with the people of Texas. But what she doesn’t realise is it’s because she is comedic relief…
and
Democrats Panic as Crockett Torpedoes Dreams of Flipping Texas
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/13/democrats-panic-as-crockett-torpedoes-dreams-of-flipping-texas-n4947026
and
Jasmine Crockett Claims She Gets the Struggles of Farmers and Ranchers, Knows the Smell of Paper Plants
https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2025/12/13/jasmine-crockett-says-she-understands-the-struggles-of-farmers-ranchers-n2422802
She fancies herself a candidate for everyone. That belief has led her to adopt whatever persona she needs in the moment to rope in gullible voters.
video – 00:00:42 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1999843498149757346
video – 00:00:29 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1999864517661270355

Ted Nugent’s loud protest is the wake-up call Western elites want to ignore
https://www.theblaze.com/align/ted-nugents-loud-protest-is-the-wake-up-call-western-elites-want-to-ignore
In America, no foreign religion should be granted the right to reorder everyone’s routine…The call to prayer has no place in polite society. There’s a difference between freedom of religion and freedom to dominate the public square.
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CHRISTMAS DESECRATION: Live Nativity Smashed, Donkeys Beaten, Tortured, Violent Attackers Defecate in Church in Germany
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/christmas-desecration.html/
A quiet German town was left shaken after a pre-dawn attack that targeted a live Christmas nativity scene in Erbach, Germany, turning a family holiday tradition into a shocking scene of deliberate desecration and cruelty. Police say attackers arrived around 4 a.m. intent on destruction—beating two donkeys used in the display, smashing electrical equipment, and ripping apart decorations before moving on to desecrate the nearby Protestant church, where they vandalized the interior and defecated inside…The attack has heightened fear among residents and comes amid growing concern across Germany over repeated Islamic assaults on Christmas markets and Christian symbols, forcing once-festive public spaces to be guarded by armed police and bomb squads as communities brace for further violence during the holiday season.
(Possibly coming here, sooner than you might think – jlr)
to wit:
Terror Group CAIR’s Top Dog Calls To Destroy America and Impose Sharia Law
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/terror-group-cairs-top-dog-calls-to-destroy-america-and-impose-sharia-law.html
Muslim Brotherhood leader openly says they hope to have 50 members of Congress in the next 6 years, and then brags that this is how they will dismantle America and replace it with the most brutal system – sharia (Islamic) law.
video – 00:00:25 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1999638772040745395

(MUSLIM) GUNMEN KILL AT LEAST 11, WOUND 29 IN TERROR TRACK ON JEWISH HOLIDAY EVENT IN AUSTRALIA
https://justthenews.com/government/security/gunmen-kill-least-11-wound-29-terror-track-jewish-holiday-event-australia
At least two gunmen opened fire on a Jewish holiday celebration Sunday on a beach in Sydney, Australia, killing at least 11 revelers and injuring 29 in what authorities immediately declared a terror attack.
V
Bondi Beach Terrorist Attack
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/bondi-beach-terrorist-attack
V
The Bondi Beach Shot Not Taken.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/the-bondi-beach-shot-not-taken

When I became a man – I put away childish things.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/when-i-became-a-man
Governments have been experimenting with national-level gun control for almost a hundred years. National-level gun control is a simple idea for a complex problem, and is the benchmark for childish thinking. It doesn’t work, it never works, and it’s time to stop thinking like children and try something else.
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Corruption Seems to Be a Way of Life in One Party — Guess Which One
https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2025/12/14/corruption-seems-to-be-a-way-of-life-in-one-party-guess-which-one-n4947051

Democratic-led states sue Trump administration over $100K H-1B visa fee
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5647485-democrat-attorneys-general-lawsuit-trump-h-1b-visa-fees/
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield (D) on Friday led a group of 18 Democratic states in filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over President Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa application fee. Collectively, the attorneys general argued that the new price tag attached to foreign visas will pose a barrier to ****** U.S. employers seeking to hire highly skilled foreign national workers to alleviate nationwide labor shortages.

Today’s TDS example:
CNN’s Erin Burnett obsesses over Trump condoms, ‘disgusting’ slogan in latest Epstein smear job
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/13/cnns-erin-burnett-obsesses-over-trump-condoms-disgusting-slogan-in-latest-epstein-smear-job-1610032/

Less than one year out from midterms, some Democrats embrace ‘abolish ICE’ movement
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/13/less-than-one-year-out-from-midterms-some-democrats-embrace-abolish-ice-movement-1609991/
Democrats squaring off in primaries across the country are calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or for major changes that would strip the agency of its core functions. The resurgence of the “Abolish ICE” movement comes as some Democrats argue President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown has gone too far, though leading Democrats have still not coalesced around an alternative immigration policy platform.

Rashida Tlaib Claims Congress Has ALL THE MONEY to Feed and Give FREE Healthcare to Everyone and YEAH No
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/12/14/rashida-tlaib-proves-she-has-no-idea-how-government-works-congress-money-n2422831

Here’s Further Proof That ‘Jingle Bells’ Is Racist
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/12/13/heres-further-proof-that-jingle-bells-is-racist-n2422828
https://x.com/zoomafrika1/status/1999511427183530303

Illegal Who Entered 7 Times and Sexually Assaulted Woman Praised by Judge for His ‘Family Devotion’
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/12/13/man-who-entered-illegally-7-times-and-sexually-assaulted-woman-commended-for-his-family-devotion-n2422821

Sen. Mark Warner Says Type of Ammo Used in Drug Boat Strike Was ‘Anti-Personnel’
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/12/13/abc-news-sen-mark-warner-says-type-of-ammo-used-in-boat-strike-was-anti-personnel-n2422810
…So the military was supposed to have used munitions designed to destroy the drugs but leave the boat and the smugglers alone?

Questions Surround Mass Shooting at Brown University; Several Reported Injured
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/12/13/questions-surround-mass-shooting-at-brown-university-that-injured-at-least-20-n2422826

What’s In Your Coffee? Unexpected Facts Behind Your Morning Cup
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whats-your-coffee-unexpected-facts-behind-your-morning-cup
Coffee is beloved for its caffeine kick and flavor, but it also helps reduce risks from chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes, cancer, and heart disease thanks to high levels of antioxidants and other bioactive compounds…along with its nutty flavor and comforting aroma, researchers have found traces of potentially cancer-causing roasting byproducts, mycotoxins from mold, cholesterol-raising compounds, and even pesticide residues that can linger from farm to mug…Your Choice of Coffee Matters – Everything from the type of coffee purchased to the package it comes in, and even what’s stirred into it, can change what ends up in a cup of joe.

White House Christmas Ornaments Through the Years
https://www.rd.com/list/christmas-ornaments-white-house/

humor rcd via e-mail
The Covidiot: Animated Movie – The Cavidiot and the Quest for a free hot dog by John Cooper.
video – 00:04:58 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYb8VvXfTeQ
The Covidiot: & The Quest for a Free Hotdog Paperback – December 14, 2024 by MR John Cooper (Author) – on Amazon – https://a.co/d/0VFEAtF
and another book
COVIDIOTS: Stories of idiotic acts and bizarre behaviour Paperback – April 5, 2020 by Natalia Gómez Álvarez (Author), Steven Richard Harris (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/COVIDIOTS-Stories-idiotic-bizarre-behaviour/dp/B086Y6KDC1
“Covidiots – Idiotic Acts and Bizarre Behaviour”, is a tongue-in-cheek look at humankind’s stupidity in the face of the biggest crisis the modern world has seen. With stories including bumbling politicians, amateur inventors, and people that chose to follow blindly whatever advice they found online, these bite-sized tales will make you wonder how on earth we survived the Covid-19 pandemic.`

Dec. 14-15, 2025:

if not invasion, what? – calling things by their names
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/if-not-invasion-what
when large numbers of violent people come from abroad with no intention of joining a civilization but rather to pillage, attack, and to dominate it, how is one to describe this course of events?
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Hamas Terrorist Mobs Attack Chanukah Concert in Amsterdam, Chanting “Kill The Jews”
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/hamas-terrorist-mobs-attack-chanukah-concert-in-amsterdam.html/

Seems IMPORTANT: Brown Classroom Where Gunman Opened Fire Belongs to THIS Teacher Teaching THESE Subjects
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/12/14/oh-brown-teachers-name-courses-and-classroom-where-gunman-opened-fire-is-very-telling-n2422838
The shooting occurred in the classroom of Professor Rachel Friedberg…who is Jewish, part of the Program in Judaic Studies, and whose research focuses on the intersection of economics and Jewish Studies

2 DEAD: Brown University Gunman Targeted Jewish Class, Allegedly Shouted in Arabic, Police and Media Refuse to Deny or Confirm
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/2-dead-eyewitnesses-say-university-brown-gunman-yelled-allahu-akbar-police-and-media-refuse-to-deny-or-confirm.html/
and
Latest Brown University Shooting Update Is Wild…and This Story Has Become a Total Circus
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/12/14/latest-brown-university-shooting-update-is-wildand-this-story-has-become-a-total-circus-n2667880

Israel Warned Far-Left Aussie Government MULTIPLE TIMES of Impending Antisemitic Attacks, Bibi Slams PM Albanes For Weakness and Inciting Jew Hatred, ‘Pouring Fuel on Antisemitic Fire’
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/israel-warned-far-left-aussie-government-multiple-times-of-impending-antisemitic-attacks-bibi-warned-canberra-was-pouring-fuel-on-antisemitic-fire.html/

Australia Discovers What It Means to ‘Globalize the Intifada’
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/12/14/australia-discovers-what-it-means-to-globalize-the-intifada-n4947062
…two Muslims opened fire upon a Hanukkah celebration. And so now the world has yet another example of what looks like when an intifada is globalized.

‘Targeted, Antisemitism’: 16 Dead, 38 Injured After Father & Son Terrorists Attack Sydney Jewish Celebration
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/evil-act-anti-semitism-terrorism-12-dead-after-shooting-australian-jewish-event

MASS SLAUGHTER: Muslim Terrorists Open Fire on Jews Celebrating at Chanukah Festival on Bondi Beach, 16 DEAD INCLUDING CHILDREN & RABBI, 40 Injured
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/mass-slaughter-muslim-terrorists-named-in-antisemitic-hanukkah-massacre-at-bondi-beach-12-dead-including-children-rabbi-29-injured.html/

Islamic Groups Celebrate Mass Slaughter of Jews at Chanukah Festival in Sydney, Australia
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/savages-islamic-groups-celebrate-mass-slaughter-of-jews-at-chanukah-festival-in-sydney-australia.html/

Bombs Found At Scene of Deadly Islamic Attack on Chanukah Celebration on Bondi Beach
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/several-bombs-found-at-scene-of-deadly-islamic-attack-on-chanukah-celebration-on-bondi-beach.html/

Australia Jihad Massacre: Police Stood Down, Heroic Shopkeeper Tackled and Disarmed Terrorist
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/australia-jihad-massacre-police-stood-down-did-not-return-fire-heroic-shopkeeper-tackled-and-disarmed-terrorist.html/

The Australian Police Reportedly ‘Froze’ During Bondi Terror Attack
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/12/15/the-australian-police-reportedly-froze-during-bondi-terror-attack-n2667883

When you outsource your security to the government – You get government security.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/when-you-outsource-your-security
This is what happens when you outsource your personal security to the government. And — of course — the Aussie government is promising even more restrictive gun laws. Of bloody course.⁴
and
Australia PM’s Proposal After Terrorist Attack Couldn’t Be More Predictable (US Dems Are Doing the Same)
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/12/15/australia-pms-proposal-after-terrorist-attack-couldnt-be-more-predictable-us-dems-are-doing-the-same-n2422862
Following a trrorist attack targeting jews in Sydney by islamic trrorists, the Prime Minister of Australia warns about “right-wing extremism.”…Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese proposed tougher national gun laws after a mass shooting on Sydney’s Bondi Beach left at least 15 people dead…“It means introducing a bill to parliament to — I mean, to be really blunt — make it more difficult to get these horrifying weapons that have no practical use in our community.”

Wajahat Ali Rages at The New York Times for Being HONEST About Bondi Beach and ‘Globalizing the Intifada’
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/12/15/wajahat-ali-upset-with-nyt-for-printing-the-truth-bondi-beach-n2422857
We really were shocked to see the NYT, of all typically Lefty rags, calling the terrorism we saw in Australia what it really was.
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Congress strips merit from the military and shackles the president in one bill
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/congress-strips-merit-from-the-military-and-shackles-the-president-in-one-bill
The National Defense Authorization Act restores DEI loopholes, protects bureaucrats, and undermines Trump’s national security plan.

Ilhan Omar Tries to Paint Somali Fraudsters Who Stole $1 Billion as Victims, Investigation as Racist
https://www.westernjournal.com/minnesota-rep-ilhan-omar-attempts-paint-alleged-perpetrators-1000000000-fraud-scheme-victims/
and
https://istandforfreedom.com/homan-somali-visas-deport/
Homan revealed that nearly 50% of visas in the Somali community appear to be fraudulent…“Multiple deportations are coming,”\…soon, those who’ve made a mockery of our immigration system will understand it too – from the departure lounge of their deportation flights. https://istandforfreedom.com/homan-somali-visas-deport/

DC Police Chief Cooked Crime Books: New Oversight Bombshell Drops
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/14/dc-police-chief-cooked-crime-books-new-oversight-bombshell-drops-n2197118
https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-bombshell-report-revealing-d-c-s-police-chief-deliberately-manipulated-crime-data/
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/MPD-Interim-Report.pdf

Watch: Leftist Says He ‘Deserves to Be Robbed’ for Being White, Regrets It Seconds Later
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-leftist-says-deserves-robbed-white-regrets-seconds-later
video – 00:03:00 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1998843172500431180

Woke Libs Freak Out and Label Pantone’s Color the Year ‘Racist,’ Then Look (Even More) Ridiculous When They Learn Who Runs the Company
https://www.westernjournal.com/woke-libs-freak-label-pantones-color-year-racist-look-even-ridiculous-learn-runs-company/\\
Just to get this out of the way, I find the mere concept of “Color of the Year” incredibly stupid. But it takes a particularly special brand of stupid to then get offended over such an absurd concept. And, well, you’re not going to find a more special brand of stupid than when dealing with the terminally offended far-left.

Texas Accuses Doctors of Medicaid Fraud for Secret Transgender Procedures on Minors
https://americanjournaldaily.com/texas-doctors-medicaid/
This is a five-alarm fire of a scandal, and it’s burning with your money. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is alleging that two doctors didn’t just break the law by performing these procedures on kids. The real kicker is that they cooked up a clandestine plot to make every single Texan pay for it.

It Worked: Dems Line Up Behind Moronic Firebrand Republicans Picked For Swing Senate Seat
https://www.westernjournal.com/worked-dems-line-behind-moronic-firebrand-republicans-picked-swing-senate-seat/
It worked. Nice job, GOP!

Border Patrol Kills Suspected Cartel Member After ‘Struggle’ on the Banks of the Rio Grande
https://www.westernjournal.com/border-patrol-kills-suspected-cartel-member-struggle-banks-rio-grande/

Hollywood Legend Rob Reiner, Wife Michele Have Been Killed by Their Son Nick
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-report-hollywood-legend-rob-reiner-wife-michele-killed-son-nick/
and
The LAPD Presser on the Deaths of Rob Reiner and Wife Michele Singer Was a Total Disaster
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/12/15/the-lapd-presser-on-the-deaths-of-rob-reiner-and-wife-michele-singer-was-a-total-disaster-n2667886

Minneapolis mayor’s awkward Somali food stunt backfires — and Sara Gonzales’ taste test sets off the left
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/minneapolis-mayors-awkward-somali-food-stunt-backfires-and-sara-gonzales-taste-test-sets-off-the-left
After Jacob Frey’s strained on-camera attempt to praise Somali cuisine, Gonzales tried it herself — sparking a wave of outrage and death threats.

Senator Cornyn Introduces Bill to Strip Tax-Exempt Status from CAIR After Terror Designations
https://istandforfreedom.com/cornyn-bill-status-cair-terror/

‘Complete lizard person’: Chuck Schumer gives stunningly tone-deaf remarks following Australia attack
https://www.theblaze.com/news/complete-lizard-person-chuck-schumer-gives-stunningly-tone-deaf-remarks-following-australia-attack
“Of course, I’m going to say a few words about the terrible shooting in Australia,”…”First, of course, as I always say, no matter what, go Bills!”…”They beat the Patriots today. It’s a big deal
video – 00:00:12 – https://x.com/i/status/2000247735988244630
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Liberal Lowlife: Mark Kelly – (This is possibly behind a paywall – jlr)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/12/15/democrat-douchebag-profiles-mark-kelly-n2667872
Picking the biggest d-bag Democrat is a little like picking the prettiest woman wearing a burqa – you know they exist, or at least assume, but it’s just an impossible task since, thanks to the drapes they’ve covered their bodies with because “men” wouldn’t be able to control themselves otherwise, you have no way to know which one wins. In the case of which Democrat is the worst human being, you have to start with the obvious: every single one of them qualifies; it’s really just a battle of degrees. So let’s take a look at one of the top contenders in the game right now: Mark Kelly
The senior Senator from Arizona is the perfect contrast between resume and execution. On paper, the bald phallus model has the ideal life. He was a fighter pilot, he was an astronaut and the attempted murder of his wife by a crazed leftist brings in a lot of sympathy too. But his character made him lose out to being chosen as running mate for Kamala Harris to a guy who lied about his military service and his even his high school football coaching job.
How big a scumbag do you have to be to lose out to a guy who lied about his rank and serving in combat? As you might imagine, it involves his fidelity to something important, and it isn’t the truth.
These are just rumors, of course, as far as the general public knows. The Harris campaign paid people to dig beneath the rumors; what they found remains their little secret. It is, however, worthy of note that while they have expressed disappointment over picking Fraudie Murphy, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, no one has ever expressed regret about NOT picking Mark Kelly. It’s the difference between being upset over your fantasy football quarterback being injured in week one and using your first round draft pick to choose Arron Hernandez.
Kelly might be the only person I’ve ever heard brag about their service in the first Gulf War. Not that there wasn’t danger or it is something those who served shouldn’t be proud of, but it was very short and the Iraqi military turned out to be significantly less a threat than was publicly thought prior to the war.
Still, Kelly did fly his planes and drop his bombs, so there’s that. Still, he talks about it like it was Midway.
Then he went to space, which is cool. He delivered a lot of cargo as a Space Shuttle pilot. I’ve never heard any other Space Shuttle pilot talk about their service like they’d cured a disease like Kelly does, they downplay it. It’s not like being an intergalactic Door Dasher, but still…
Kelly then retired from NASA to focus on his family, especially since his wife had been horribly injured when a lunatic tried to kill her at a public event. He wanted to help her write her book and focus on spending time with his family, according to him at the time.
After a few years, Kelly made a bunch of money off China and had had enough of his family, so he decided to run for the Senate on his biography and the attack on his wife. He won because his biography, on paper, is impressive, and the attack on his wife was horrible.
Since winning, Mark Kelly has served without distinction. A few self-serving laws regarding Arizona Indian tribes and “co-sponsoring” bills that became law – which is literally the least a Member of Congress can do – and that’s about all he’s done.
He is still milking his military service, only this time in an attempt to undermine the chain of command. It’s gross, really.
Mark Kelly now spends his days kissing the asses of wealthy Democrat donors, sucking up to celebrities and trying to bilk poor people out of what remains on their high-interest credit cards in the hope of running for president in 2028. See, while being a sketchy guy with low character is a disqualifying trait as a running mate, there is no background check when it comes to winning a party’s nomination.
All the while, he ducks behind his disabled wife every time righteous and justified criticism is hurled his way. It’s gross. He’s gross. He’s also the most frequent emailer to fundraising lists on the left.
He has sent 13 emails begging for money since December 2nd, with subject lines like “I will not give up on our country” and “President Trump is calling for me to be hanged.” The bald bag of douche is desperate to exploit his popularity among the hate America crowd. It’s hard to feel bad for morons being conned out of their money, but it does add a level of scumbagery when the guy doing it spends his time insisting he’s a hero, a sentiment no person not on his payroll appears to share.
Mark Kelly is the perfect Democrat: a shameless self-promoter, perfectly willing to take money from anyone, shady and sleazy business and personal history and quick to duck behind his wife when anyone calls him out on any of it. I’d peg Kelly’s chances of securing the Democratic nomination at this point at about 27 percent.
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Never Forget
https://patriotpost.us/humor/123581-never-forget-2025-12-15

A little humor…To start the week…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/a-little-humor-648

Note: It’s Allyson’s fault these haven’t been going out. She apologizes profusely.

Dec 6-8, 2025:

THE GREAT AMERICAN REVIVAL: Trump’s Second-Term Revolution Restoring American Greatness
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/the-great-american-revival-trumps-second-term-revolution-restoring-american-greatness.html/

‘Enemy of Europe’:LiberalglobalistsattackTrump over recognizing ‘civilizational erasure’ in Europe
https://www.theblaze.com/news/enemy-of-europe-liberals-globalists-attack-trump-over-recognizing-europe-is-set-for-civilizational-erasure

Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: A Color Revolution In Progress?
https://wilderwealthywise.com/civil-war-2-0-weather-report-a-color-revolution-in-progress/
In this issue:  Front Matter – Mere Anarchy is Loosed Upon the World– Violence and Censorship Update – Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – “It wasn’t worth it.” – Links

Widespread Obamacare Fraud: Phony SSNs Had a 100% Success Rate for Getting Coverage, Investigation Finds
https://www.westernjournal.com/widespread-obamacare-fraud-phony-ssns-100-success-rate-getting-coverage-investigation-finds/

University of Minnesota faces backlash over project that seeks to cure the ‘Whiteness Pandemic’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/university-of-minnesota-faces-backlash-over-project-that-seeks-to-cure-the-whiteness-pandemic
‘Family socialization into the centuries-old culture of Whiteness — involving colorblindness, passivity, and fragility — perpetrates and perpetuates US racism.’

George Clooney Drops Bombshell: “My Wife Helped Draft The Muslim Brotherhood’s Constitution”
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/george-clooney-drops-bombshell-my-wife-helped-draft-the-muslim-brotherhoods-constitution.html/

JD Vance Responds as Media Seeks to Stoke Controversy Over His Wife’s Wedding Ring
https://www.westernjournal.com/jd-vance-responds-media-seeks-stoke-controversy-wifes-wedding-ring/

Congress Seeks to Block Trump’s Caribbean Strikes on Narco-Terrorists/
https://americanjournaldaily.com/congress-cartels-boat-strikes/

Trump Unveils Strategy Shifting U.S. Focus to Western Hemisphere, Warns Europe of ‘Civilizational Erasure’
https://istandforfreedom.com/trump-focus-hemisphere-europe/
The new National Security Strategy released Friday unveils what Trump calls his “corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine—a 21st-century assertion that America’s backyard comes first. “In everything we do, we are putting America First,”

Why do you carry high capacity magazines?
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/why-do-you-carry-high-capacity-magazines

Clowns acting rather poorly.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/clowns-acting-rather-poorly
4 – 26 sec videos

Lobbyist of the Maduro Cartel in the USA. – Senator Adam Schiff
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/lobbyist-of-the-maduro-cartel-in
and
Venezuela’s former intelligence leader Hugo Carvajal has CONFIRMED that Democrat Senator Adam Schiff and Democrat Congressman Eric Swalwell, both of California, are two of the top names on the VENEZUELA LIST of US politicians that are receiving MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN KICKBACKS AND LAVISH GIFTS from the Maduro regime and Venezuelan drug trafficking
https://x.com/i/status/1997391603900801204
and
Democrats once called out links between drug trafficking and terrorism but then came Trump
https://justthenews.com/government/security/democrats-once-called-out-links-between-drug-trafficking-and-terrorism-trumpsThat was then, this is now: Dems even specifically identified Venezuela, where Trump has focused most of his pressure, as a hub for drug trafficking linked to such terrorist groups.

GOP Senator Moreno Introduces Bill to End Dual Citizenship for Migrants
https://americanjournaldaily.com/gop-senator-migrants

Senate Republicans Confirm 97 Trump Nominees After Democrat Blockade Backfires
https://americanjournaldaily.com/sen-dems-trump/
Dems Thought They Scored a Victory Against Trump’s Agenda – Then Everything Backfired

Illegal Alien Pays the Price After Injuring 4 Police Officers in Gas Station Shootout
https://www.westernjournal.com/illegal-alien-pays-price-injuring-4-police-officers-gas-station-shootout/

Can presidents fire all federal bureaucrats at will? Supreme Court to hear case with major implications
https://www.theblaze.com/news/can-presidents-fire-all-federal-bureaucrats-at-will-supreme-court-to-hear-case-with-major-implications

Jasmine Crockett’s Utterly Bizarre Campaign Kickoff Video Is Nothing but Trump Insulting Her Non-Stop for 45 Seconds
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-jasmine-crocketts-utterly-bizarre-campaign-kickoff-video-nothing-trump-insulting-non-stop-45-seconds/
video – 00:00:44 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1998140978285150336
and
Chris Cillizza Says Jasmine Crockett’s Bid for the Senate Is ‘Beyond Bad for Democrats Nationally’
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/12/08/chris-cillizza-says-jasmine-crocketts-bid-for-the-senate-is-beyond-bad-for-democrats-nationally-n2422613

Entitled Somalian, now a state rep describes how miserable her experience of life in America was
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/08/entitled-somalian-now-a-state-rep-describes-how-miserable-her-experience-of-life-in-america-was-1608854/

Hey, Guess What the Experts Were Wrong About This Time!
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/12/08/hey-guess-what-the-experts-were-wrong-about-this-time-n4946805

Texas Enacts Women’s Privacy Act, Mandating Biological Sex Bathrooms with $125,000 Daily Penalties
https://americanjournaldaily.com/texas-womens-act-mandating-penalties/

Dec 9, 2025:

Christmas Season Story – Because I’m me
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/christmas-season-story

The Stages Of A Color Revolution… And Where America Is Right Now
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/the_stages_of_a_color_revolution_and_where_the_u_s_is_right_now.html
(A “color revolution” (sometimes called a “soft coup” or “regime-change operation by non-kinetic means”) is a modern form of orchestrated political upheaval designed to replace an existing government without traditional military invasion or civil war.)
and
America’s “Color Revolution” – Updated 8/15/2023
https://marisol-nostromo.medium.com/americas-color-revolution-343cdf1b1181

Able-bodied 38-year-old man goes viral for response to Trump food stamp restrictions: ‘That’s some bulls**t!’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/snap-welfare-man-viral-trump
Scott is 38 years old, doesn’t have kids or a job, doesn’t go to school, and is not disabled. But he’s upset that his SNAP food benefits are imperiled.
video – 00:02:13 – https://youtu.be/ZDQLnF8qSt4
“AWWWWW! Poor baby has to go to work like the rest of us!!” one commenter said.

Tucker Carlson Embraces Jihad in Doha
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/tucker-carlson-embraces-terrorism-in-doha.html/

Convicted Muslim Brothers Hired Back, Destroying Federal Systems, U.S. Databases Wiped at Multiple Fed Agencies
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/from-prison-to-pentagon-previously-convicted-muslim-brothers-hired-back-destroying-federal-systems-u-s-databases-wiped-at-multiple-fed-agencies.html/
the truly terrifying part is this: these jihadis had already been convicted of hacking federal systems once before, served prison time, and were still trusted again with privileged access to government data…used that access to wipe nearly 100 databases, steal IRS and EEOC records, compromise Homeland Security systems,

Obama’s DEA Deputy Chief Indicted for LAUNDERING $12 MILLION For TERROR CARTEL, Plotted to Acquire Explosives, Military-Grade Weapons, and Armed Drones for Cartel Use
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/obamas-dea-deputy-chief-indicted-for-laundering-12-million-for-terror-cartel-plotted-to-acquire-explosives-military-grade-weapons-and-armed-drones-for-cartel-use.html/

“SHE DOESN’T SERVE AMERICA”: Former Somali Prime Minister Declares Ilhan Omar Serves Somalia Not America
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/she-doesnt-serve-america-former-somali-prime-minister-declares-ilhan-omar-serves-somali-not-america.html/

Trump announces $12 billion in aid to farmers
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-farmers-aid-package-china-rcna247988
China recently started buying U.S. soybeans again after a trade war halted the purchases in a blow to American farmers.

Fed expected to deliver third straight rate cut this week amid labor concerns
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/fed-expected-deliver-third-straight-rate-cut-week-amid-labor-concerns

Cities are pulling back from a surveillance network expanding rapidly beyond their control
https://www.collapselife.com/p/flock-ring-camera-national-surveillance-grid
License plate readers, home security cameras, and outsourced data labeling have created a control grid that was approved piecemeal before anyone realized how it would chillingly coagulate against us.

Community Leader Gives Ilhan Omar UP, Admits She Did INDEED Marry Her Brother in Rush to ‘Get Him Papers’
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/12/09/new-report-claims-ilhan-omar-did-marry-her-brother-and-theyve-got-receipts-n2422630

Tilting FOR Windmills? Leftist Judge Demands Trump Grant Permits for Green New Scam
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/12/09/tilting-for-windmills-leftist-judge-demands-trump-grant-permits-for-green-new-scam-n2422618
…US District Court Judge Patti Saris, a Bill Clinton appointee, has mandated that President Trump MUST greenlight permits for more windmills.

and
Trump order halting wind energy projects is unlawful, judge rules
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/3911299/trump-order-halting-offshore-wind-unlawful-judge/
U.S. District Judge Patti Saris ruled Monday afternoon that the president’s Day One executive order suspending all new permits and leases for onshore and offshore wind energy projects was illegal, vacating the order.
embeded video – 00:01:41

The New Nullification
https://patriotpost.us/articles/123367
How Democrat leaders are turning political disagreement into a license for defying lawful authority.

Impeach Ketanji Brown-Jackson
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/12/09/impeach-ketanji-brown-jackson-n3809682
an ideologue who rejects the fundamental legal principles that underpin the Constitution. What most people interpret as stupidity is in fact a commitment not just to progressive outcomes, many of which could be accomplished through winning successive elections, but to the Wilsonian progressive vision of a technocratic rather than democratic, rules-based Constitutional order.

FA to FO
Chicago Teen Shot After Pointing Gun While Stealing Car
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/12/08/chicago-teen-shot-after-pointing-gun-while-stealing-car-n1230855
Generally speaking, shooting someone who’s stealing property isn’t seen as a lawful act of self-defense. If, however, that thief also presents a reasonable threat to the life and safety of another, though, then that usually would be considered a justifiable use of deadly force.

Is the President in Charge of the Executive Branch?
https://patriotpost.us/articles/123372
The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case yesterday that could have drastic implications for our system of three, not four, constitutional branches of government.

Trump pledges to reassert Monroe Doctrine to restore American power
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-pledges-reassert-monroe-doctrine-restore-american-power
Strategy aims to enlist established friends and expand relationships while countering adversaries
PDF – 33 pages – https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

DOJ Sues Blue States for Blocking Voter Roll Audits
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/doj-sues-blue-states-for-blocking-voter-roll-audits/
…forced to file lawsuits against 14 Democrat-dominated states pursuant to persistent violations of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). NVRA requires states to maintain accurate voter rolls by conducting regular list maintenance to remove ineligible voters…The list of the states that the DOJ had to sue will surprise no one: California, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

6 in ’26! Six Important Financial Changes to Watch for in 2026
https://amac.us/newsline/economy/6-in-26-six-important-financial-changes-to-watch-for-in-2026/

Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Up Her Own Doctrine About ‘Experts’ in Bizarre Tangent During Supreme Court Oral Arguments
https://www.westernjournal.com/ketanji-brown-jackson-makes-doctrine-experts-bizarre-tangent-supreme-court-oral-arguments/
In short, We the People created the Constitution, which created the co-equal legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Nowhere did We the People create a fourth branch of “experts.”

Court Upholds Trump’s Trans Military Ban
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/09/breaking-court-upholds-trumps-trans-military-ban-n4946871

Jasmine Crockett announces campaign for Texas Democratic Senate primary
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/jasmine-crockett-texas-senate-democratic-primary/
and
Jasmine Crockett’s Finances Exposed – Subject to Personal Liens While She Spends $50k-100k of Taxpayer Cash on Limos, Luxury Hotels Just This Yearhttps://www.westernjournal.com/jasmine-crocketts-finances-exposed-subject-personal-liens-spends-50k-100k-taxpayer-cash-limos-luxury-hotels-just-year/
video – 01:16:10 – https://youtu.be/cmIAkv7fs7w
and
After clashes with Trump, could a Rep. Jasmine Crockett Senate run energize Republicans in addition to Democrats?
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/clashes-trump-jasmine-crockett-senate-run-energize-republicans-democrats/
and
Jasmine Crockett Sheds a Tear While Announcing Senate Run and Teasing the ‘JC Way’
https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2025/12/09/jasmine-crockett-cries-senate-race-announcement-n2422615
and a redux
‘Very low-IQ person’: Jasmine Crockett launches Senate campaign with funny video that may give the GOP the last laugh
https://www.theblaze.com/news/very-low-iq-person-jasmine-crockett-launches-senate-campaign-with-funny-video-that-may-give-the-gop-the-last-laugh
and
After Radical Democrat Announces Senate Run, Texas Gov Makes a Hilarious Prediction → I hope he’s right…
https://istandforfreedom.com/texas-abbott-crockett-senate/
“Jasmine Crockett about to learn the hard way that most Texans are very different from her district, her base & her values. She’ll be pummeled for her progressive socialist agenda & get crushed by the Republican nominee for Senate. The Texas political cemetery is filled with blow hards like her who have no idea what it’s like to run statewide.”
and
Jasmine Crockett’s Senate Campaign Ad Gives Away What She’s Really After
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/09/jasmine-crocketts-first-campaign-ad-is-the-dumbest-senate-launch-in-history-hands-down-n4946855

Giffords Proves Gun Laws Do Not Reduce Homicides – Of course they did so accidentally
https://www.2acops.com/p/giffords-proves-gun-laws-do-not-reduce

DOJ promises ‘a lot more action’ on gun rights with new Second Amendment enforcement section
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-promises-a-lot-more-action-gun-rights-new-second-amendment-enforcement-section
Harmeet Dhillon says department will fight unreasonable state and local restrictions
(I have severe doubts that this DOJ, or any other administrations DOJ, will treat the 2nd ammendment like the 13th,15th,19th,24th,26th or any other enumerated rights – jlr)
and
John Lott Fires Back at Critics of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Defending 2A
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/12/09/john-lott-fires-back-at-critics-of-dojs-civil-rights-division-defending-2a-n1230862
gun rights are civil rights, and they’re civil rights that are often being denied to black and Hispanic Americans because they’re not wealthy enough to jump through the hoops. Rights aren’t for the rich. They’re for every American.

(worth reading and listing to – – and remembering – jlr)
Tuesday Tune: Forgotten War
https://wilderwealthywise.com/tuesday-tune-forgotten-war/
imbeded AUDIO – 00:05:59 – https://wilderwealthywise.com/tuesday-tune-forgotten-war/

Atheist Looks Forward To The Warmth And Cheer Of Arbitrary Cultural Traditions With No Transcendent Meaning
https://babylonbee.com/news/atheist-looks-forward-to-the-warmth-and-cheer-of-arbitrary-cultural-traditions-with-no-transcendent-meaning

Dec 10, 2025:

FEDERAL RESERVE CUTS INTEREST RATES FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE TIME
https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/federal-reserve-cuts-interest-rates-third-consecutive-time
The reduced rate is the lowest it has been in nearly three years

Trump Announces Jerome Powell May Not Actually Be Fed Chair Since He Was Appointed Via Biden’s Autopen
https://www.westernjournal.com/late-breaking-video-trump-announces-jerome-powell-may-not-actually-fed-chair-since-appointed-via-bidens-autopen/
Thanks to promiscuous use of the autopen, some actions taken in former President Joe Biden’s name might qualify as illegitimate.

‘DON’T DRIVE JEWS’: Jewish Miss Slovakia Miriam Mattova Kicked Out of Uber For Being Jewish
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/dont-drive-jews-jewish-miss-slovakia-miriam-mattova-kicked-out-of-uber-for-being-jewish.html/
Canadian-Slovakian Jewish model Miriam Mattova was kicked out of an Uber in Toronto when the driver realized she was a Jew.

Zohran Mamdani Appoints Convicted Armed Robber Who Served 7 Years As Criminal Justice Advisor
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/insane-zohran-mamdani-appoints-convicted-armed-robber-who-served-7-years-as-criminal-justice-advisor.html/
(Well, he certinally knows the CJ system – jlr)

Florida Designates CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood Foreign Terrorist Organizations
https://gellerreport.com/2025/12/florida-designates-cair-and-muslim-brotherhood-foreign-terrorist-organizations.html/
Following on the heels of Texas Governor Abbott, Florida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations.

Survey: 91 Percent of College Students Think ‘Words Can Be Violence.’ That Could Feed Real Violence.
https://reason.com/2025/12/10/survey-91-percent-of-college-students-think-words-can-be-violence-that-could-feed-real-violence/
Of all the stupid ideas that have emerged in recent years, there may be none worse than the insistence that unwelcome words are the same as violence… Americans worry that the country is becoming less friendly to free expression. But the insistence of too many people that words and violence are the same thing is a big part of the problem.
and
How the assassination of Charlie Kirk is reshaping campus speech nationwide
https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/how-assassination-charlie-kirk-reshaping-campus-speech-nationwide

Unhinged Dem. Rep. Shri Thanedar Announces Murder-Based Impeachment Articles Against Hegseth
https://www.westernjournal.com/developing-unhinged-dem-rep-shri-thanedar-announces-murder-based-impeachment-articles-hegseth/

Trump Smacks EU with Official Declaration Saying Their Freeloading Days ‘Are Over’
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-smacks-eu-official-declaration-saying-freeloading-days/

Dozens of teenagers loot 7-Eleven in brazen flash-mob robbery — and post video on social media
https://www.theblaze.com/news/7-eleven-looting-video-mob
…in downtown Los Angeles in broad daylight.

DOJ Steps in After Boys Get Punished for Telling the Truth
https://redstate.com/eli-shepherd/2025/12/10/doj-steps-in-after-boys-get-punished-for-telling-the-truth-n2196979
The Department of Justice confirmed on Monday that they sued the Loudoun County School Board for allowing a biologically female student into the boys’ locker room, then punishing the boys who dared to say, “Uh, this seems wrong.”…And the boys got punished. This is where we are as a country.

Trump Goes Full MAGA at Pennsylvania Rally, Hands GOP the 2026 Talking Points
https://redstate.com/chase-jennings/2025/12/10/master-messenger-trump-goes-full-maga-at-pennsylvania-rally-hands-gop-the-2026-talking-points-n2196984
President Trump in Pennsylvania is crystal clear: “After just 10 months, our border is secure, our spirit is restored, inflation is stopped, wages are up, prices are down…and America is back!”
Video – 00:01:20 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1998560393632035282
Video – 00:01:05 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1998560601312997846
Video – 00:01:02 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1998569472156917914
Video – 00:00:36 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1998573740859310146

Democrat Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against RFK Jr.
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-democrat-introduces-articles-impeachment-rfk-jr/
“Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people — spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs, and putting lives at risk,”

SAFEGUARDING THE VOTE: Trump Administration Further Modernizes Citizenship Verification
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/safeguarding-the-vote-trump-administration-further-modernizes-citizenship-verification/

Trump Says U.S. Military Captured Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-trump-says-u-s-military-captured-oil-tanker-off-venezuelan-coast/

Gas Prices Drop To Lowest Level In Nearly 5 Years Across US
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/gas-prices-drop-lowest-level-nearly-5-years-across-us
“The national average has just slipped below $2.90 per gallon for the first time since May 2, 2021,”

Centuries-old payment method could disappear just weeks after pennies are retired
https://www.the-sun.com/money/15613177/
A notice from the Federal Reserve this week suggested that bank checking services could soon be “winding down”.

Democrat Congressman Calls U.S. ‘Great Satan,’ Echoing Iranian Regime Propaganda
https://americanjournaldaily.com/dem-congress-us-iran/
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) reverted to the talking points favored by Iranian terrorists during a recent interview, – “We are the world’s number one bully, and we are using our immense unrivaled power to rule over those who have less power,” he claimed, adding, “This sends a shocking message to the world that America is indeed the — what did they used to call it — the great hand of Satan, or something like that… I mean, America under the Trump regime is demonstrating that that moniker is entirely accurate. That’s what we’ve become in this country, the great Satan.”

HOMAN CONFIRMS DHS IS INVESTIGATING WHETHER ILHAN OMAR CAME TO US ILLEGALLY BY MARRYING BROTHER
https://justthenews.com/government/security/homan-confirms-dhs-investigating-whether-ilhan-omar-came-us-illegally-marrying
Homan also said DHS is conducting an extensive review of visa fraud within Minnesota’s Somali community, which comes after the department claimed 50% of visas in Minnesota are fraudulent.

Alabama Gets “F” From Anti-Gun Organization. Let’s Examine Why That’s A Compliment
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/12/09/alabama-gets-f-from-anti-gun-organization-lets-examine-why-thats-a-compliment-n1230866
Alabama just got a big, old “F” from the Giffords…In fact, it means the state is respecting the Second Amendment

How to Spot a Veteran: A Field Guide
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/09/how-to-spot-a-veteran-a-field-guide-n2196969
In the years since I hung up Uncle Sam’s colors, I’ve been noticing some ways by which I can spot fellow veterans.

[Note: backlog of Missives is due to Allyson, not JLR.]

Nov. 6-7, 2025:

LARGE SOLAR ERUPTION
Major Solar Shockwave hits in 24 Hours as Earth Geostorm Already Begins ERUPTION
video – 00:33:06 – https://youtu.be/Mtp0sri71QE
Massive explosions on the Sun continue with two new 7.4 and 8.7 m-flares, both of which more directly launched coronal mass ejections towards Earth than the two X-flares from the day before. They are estimated to arrive in 24 hours or so on November 7th early morning UTC, and this is as the Earth is already in a G2 geomagnetic storm with a coronal hole high-speed-stream impact soon to occur. A massive spike in plasma density is coming and then afterwards, a solar wind void that could trigger BIG earthquakes. Geophysicist Stefan Burns reports…

This Cold Blast Will Hit Different…
video – 00:09:58 – https://youtu.be/Gf070xMcnLE
Severe storms with a hail threat are possible Friday in the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. A blast of much colder air will then surge across the Upper Midwest this weekend.

“We’re Coming After You” – How Some On The Left Found Peace Through Hate
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/11/03/were-coming-after-you-how-the-left-found-peace-through-hate/
The key to hate is to decouple it entirely from reason and reality. Only then can you hate completely without restraint or regret.
Hateful speech is in vogue as Democratic leaders ramp up violent rhetoric and political violence rises. The key is to get voters to hate your opponent so much that they forget how much they dislike you.

A Quarter of Americans Now Believe Political Violence is Justified
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/11/04/a-quarter-of-americans-now-believe-political-violence-is-justified/
We have seen a rise in both rage rhetoric and political violence. New polling shows a shocking level of support for political violence, even after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. A new poll shows roughly a quarter of voters believe political violence is justified with the highest percentage among younger voters. The poll shows that 55 percent of Americans expect political violence to increase with the highest percentage among Harris voters at 61 percent. Younger Americans are the most supportive of political violence. The poll shows that one in three Americans under 45 years old believes that political violence is justified. (because “political violence” is a far-away thing, it has not touched them personally – jlr)

A quick challenge.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/a-quick-challenge
They do not fear us. They mock us.
Politeness and the expectation of fairness will be our demise, political and otherwise.

Congressional Judiciary chairs urge SCOTUS to address possible ethics violations by federal judges
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/congress-judiciary-chairs-urge-scotus-address-possible-ethics-violations
The letter specifically refers to anonymous statements federal judges have made to the New York Times that appear to smear the Supreme Court, and describes the relationship between the high court and lower courts as a “war zone.”

Democrats on Track to Destroy the Union Once Again
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/11/democrats_on_track_to_destroy_the_union_once_again.html
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: Democrats are just as determined to destroy the union today as they were in the 1860s.

Nancy Pelosi Announces Her Retirement After Nearly 40 Years in Congress
https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-nancy-pelosi-wont-seek-reelection-ending-storied-career-us-house/

SCOTUS reinstates Trump transgender passport policy
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/scotus-reinstates-trump-transgender-passport-policy
The ruling comes after the Trump administration appealed a lower court order from September that allows transgender or nonbinary people to request a male, female, or “X” identification marker on their passports, rather than choosing their biological sex.
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