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On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) talked about a potential ICE detention facility in Chester, NY and said that “quite literally, myself and others have said, if we have to, like, chain ourself to the perimeter of this, we are not going to let this happen in our community. We’re not going to let this happen in our country.” Host Rachel Maddow asked, “So, let me ask you about this process, do you actually believe that the prison camp isn’t coming to Chester? Do you think this is settled now?” Ryan answered, “Look,…
For the West, any agreement with countries outside its political and military bloc has always been temporary. Every pause in confrontation is treated not as peace, but as an intermission. That is why states beyond the Western perimeter must learn a simple rule: when the US and Western Europe are forced into concessions, even briefly, those moments must be used to the full.Now, by most accounts, is one such moment. But its arrival should not deceive anyone into thinking that lasting peace has suddenly become possible.Western strategy toward the rest of the world has a stable and deeply rooted character.…
I feel quite exasperated right now. Everyone knows that the economic numbers that federal bureaucrats in Washington are feeding us each month are fraudulent. It has been that way for a very long time. The employment numbers are a perfect example of this. Every month they give us a headline number that looks pretty good, and then months later they revise it much lower when nobody is paying attention. That is the game they want to play, and many of us understand that. But this latest stunt that they have pulled is absolutely astounding. More than a million U.S. jobs…
Philippine Senator Risa Hontiveros and Philippine Coast Guard spokesman Commodore Jay Tarriela were visiting their country’s South China Sea outpost on Thitu Island on Saturday when their phones displayed a roaming message that said, “Welcome to CHINA.” They described the message as one of many intimidation tactics China uses to press its claims to reefs and islands that are claimed by the Philippines and other countries. Thitu is a tiny island in the chain known to Westerners as the Spratly Islands. Filipinos refer to the northeastern section of the chain as the Kalayaan Island Group, and their name for Thitu…
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Monday that the Iranian regime would face “a force they cannot even imagine” should it attack the Jewish state, as U.S. refueling and cargo aircraft landed at Ben Gurion Airport and an American carrier strike group advanced toward the eastern Mediterranean amid escalating regional tensions. Addressing the Knesset — Israel’s parliament — during a special debate, Netanyahu said the country is navigating “very complex and challenging days,” cautioning that “no one knows what tomorrow will bring.” He said he had conveyed a direct message to Tehran: if it makes “perhaps the most serious mistake…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reversed its plan to temporarily shut down TSA PreCheck while the agency remains without funding, with officials announcing that airport escorts for members of Congress will be suspended instead. TSA PreCheck and Global Entry, both services that offer air travelers a faster security experience for a fee, were set to pause on Sunday as a result of the partial government shutdown that began on February 14, Breitbart News reported. A press release from DHS announced that PreCheck, which runs through DHS’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA), will still be available. “At this time, TSA…
The EU’s top executive body has urged US President Donald Trump not to impose new tariffs on the bloc’s goods and to clarify his position following a US Supreme Court ruling that struck down most of his earlier measures.On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump had no authority to impose tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Trump responded by signing an order imposing a 10% global tariff through a different law and later said he would raise it to 15%. He denounced the justices who ruled against him as “a disgrace to the nation.”In a…
Claire Lai, daughter of Hong Kong media mogul turned political prisoner Jimmy lai, published a letter this weekend to Chinese Olympic champion Eileen Gu asking her to appeal to the Communist Party for her father’s freedom. “I believe that you — a celebrated member of the Chinese Olympic team and someone deeply respected within Chinese society — could be a catalyst for a humanitarian gesture by the Chinese government,” the younger Lai wrote in the letter, published in the New York Post. “I appeal to your stated desire to be a ‘force for good.’” Eileen Gu, referred to in Chinese state…
On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) discussed tariffs and said that “the importers may have reduced the price to factor in the tariff. So, those companies may not have actually been penalized. The penalty was paid by the consumers here.” Khanna said that in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on IEEPA tariffs, there should be a tariff rebate that goes directly to people. Khanna added, “He basically took money from them in a way that was unconstitutional. They should look at that money, and they should give it back as a refund…
A court ordered the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland on Thursday to pay $1.5 million in damages to religious parents after the board tried to indoctrinate young school children with LGBTQ+ propaganda. The school board agreed to the settlement after the Supreme Court sided with religious parents last summer who challenged the board’s refusal to allow K-5 students to opt out of LGBTQ+ curriculum. Under the settlement, the board must provide parents with advance notice about curriculum involving family life and sexuality and provide the option for parents to opt their children out of such instruction, attorneys said.…