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President Trump announced Saturday that the U.S. had successfully bombed multiple nuclear sites in Iran, representing the first time the United States has conducted a direct attack on the regime.
"We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan," Trump wrote in the post. "All planes are now outside of Iran's airspace."
He said a "full payload of BOMBS" was dropped on the primary site, Fordow.
Fox News reported that Fordow, Iran's main underground enrichment site, was difficult for the Israeli Army to destroy due to its location, leading to requests for the U.S. to use its B-2 stealth bombers and 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs.
All planes are safely on their way home, according to Trump.
"Congratulations to our great American Warriors," he wrote. "There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter."
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If extremism is a competition, Democrat lawmakers in Oregon are in the finals.
They arranged for a drag show to highlight their resolution, from Portland Rep. Travis Nelson, that honors the black drag industry in the state.
Oregon Live waxed eloquent about the event, with, "Isaiah Esquire danced his way through the Oregon House of Representatives on Wednesday to the sounds of Aretha Franklin, followed closely by fellow Black drag performer Aqua Flora, who held a pride flag aloft as they sashayed down the chamber's center aisle."
The report noted Speaker Pro Tempore David Gomberg said it was "appropriate" for lawmakers to applaud during the performance.
Nelson said, "Your presence, artistry and courage are a powerful reminder of the joy, resilience and cultural impact of drag in Oregon and beyond. Thank you for sharing your light with us this morning."
Nelson, as Oregon's first openly LGBTQ African American lawmaker, offered the self-promoting resolution weeks ago, pointing out that resolutions in the body rarely recognized members of the state's LGBTQ community.
Just two Republicans supported the measure, with most GOP members not in attendance.
A report from Fox News said drag queens Isaiah Esquire and Aqua Flora lip-synched Aretha Franklin's "A Deeper Love" and another tune while wearing bright gold outfits and dancing around the room.
Nelson described the performance as "incredible."
In a statement to Fox News Digital, House Republican Leader Christine Drazan condemned the performance as an "ostentatious display" of "social activism."
"Yesterday's ill-advised performance broke our chamber protocols and standards for opening ceremonies in the Oregon House of Representatives. Turning the House Floor into a smokey bar is beneath the dignity of this body. Opening ceremonies are not the time or place for ostentatious displays of political symbols and social activism," Drazan said.
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A recent article promoting education software company Terra Dotta's new "Next Gen" platform paints a deceptively optimistic picture of a tech upgrade for international student services. It positions the tool as a critical solution for navigating compliance with the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS, the Department of Homeland Security's online system for tracking certain classes of foreign students in the U.S. But the article ignores the deeper and more ominous consequences of what Terra Dotta has actually built – a streamlined, automated pipeline from foreign student enrollment to long-term employment, bypassing essential safeguards meant to protect American workers and U.S. immigration integrity.
Beneath its glossy branding, the Next Gen platform is not merely a foreign student support tool, but an end-to-end foreign labor funnel. The software doesn't stop at admissions or visa monitoring; it actively guides students through the life cycle of employment-based immigration, from Optional Practical Training (OPT) and STEM OPT to H-1B visas – and ultimately green card sponsorship.
This automation of the visa-to-work pathway is not incidental; it's the core feature. The purpose of "Next Gen" is to ensure international students remain in the U.S. labor market long after graduation, regardless of workforce demand or labor market conditions. Thus, this is not about support, but rather about retention, conversion and exploitation, all driven by institutions that profit from international tuition and foreign labor demand.
Institutions aren't adopting Terra Dotta to better serve students; they're doing it to protect revenue. After all, international students contributed $43.8 billion to colleges and universities in the United States in 2023-2024. Their presence financially props up graduate programs, funds administrative expansion and helps universities inflate job-placement statistics through extended work authorization loopholes like STEM OPT. Tools like Terra Dotta's ensure these students stay in compliance, remain enrolled and transition smoothly into U.S. employment pipelines, often while bypassing U.S. citizens for entry-level STEM jobs.
This is a business model disguised as education, and platforms like Next Gen provide the back end infrastructure.
The worst part is the automation itself. By embedding immigration transitions into campus systems, the platform removes friction points that might otherwise catch abuse. There is no human discretion, no case-by-case analysis, no scrutiny of student merit or employer intent. If a foreign student gets flagged for SEVIS termination, the system alerts the student before any consequence hits. If a visa deadline approaches, the system nudges the student toward the next immigration category, usually one that benefits the student's institution or a tech employer looking for a cheap hire. It is an unregulated, AI-assisted visa machine that institutionalizes what should be a rigorously controlled process.
Terra Dotta's software is not helping U.S. compliance, it's replacing it. And in so doing, it's enabling the systematic exclusion of U.S. workers from the hiring process. The same universities can now implement software that guarantees foreign nationals uninterrupted access to U.S. jobs, making their university more competitive to attract international students while taxpayers and students foot the bill. This is the quiet digitization of labor displacement, and it's being sold under the guise of student support.
What the PIE News article really showcases is a tech-enabled end-run around immigration enforcement. There's no mention of the abuse of STEM OPT, which lets foreign graduates work for up to three years without employer sponsorship or labor market testing. There's no mention of the 4,700 SEVIS terminations that occurred in just one semester, many tied to fraud or non-compliance. There's no acknowledgment that these so-called student pipelines are now the backbone of major corporations' offshore labor strategies. And there's certainly no accountability for how tools like Terra Dotta are fueling this system.
This isn't innovation. It's automation for exploitation. While the media frames Terra Dotta's rollout as compassionate modernization, Americans should see it for what it really is: a fully digitized foreign worker pipeline built right into America's schools, paid for with tuition dollars and protected by silence.
The only thing Next Gen supports is a future where American graduates are replaced – by design.
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Leftists, Marxists, activists for illegal immigration into America and even gangs have objected to President Donald Trump's agenda to secure America's borders and deport illegal alien criminals.
His plans come after Joe Biden essentially unlocked the doors, opened the borders and let millions of illegal aliens into America to take jobs, benefit from government social programs and more.
Trump's work has shown results: Statistics show during May border agents released no illegal aliens into the U.S., compared to more than 60,000 given that privilege under Biden a year earlier.
But this the agenda has come criticism, legal opposition, organization resistance and even riots, like those in Los Angeles that activists tried to spread across the country in their "No Kings" protests.
But one state now is offering an addition to Trump's program that takes will take a few breaths away.
It's proposed by Florida and it's called "Alligator Alcatraz," a secure detention facility to be located in the Everglades on land surrounded by alligators and pythons.
A report from the Washington Examiner said Florida officials now are considering the plan for a large immigration detention facility there.
The land currently is owned by Miami-Dade County.
"The proposal by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier comes as the Trump administration has set a quota for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to make 3,000 arrests of illegal immigrants per day," the report said.
It already has an airstrip, which would benefit programs to process and deport illegal aliens.
"If somebody were to get out, there's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide," Uthmeier told Fox Business. "Only the alligators and pythons are waiting. That's why I like to call it 'Alligator Alcatraz.'"
Construction could begin within weeks if the project gets the proper permissions, he said.
The Examiner reported, "Uthmeier's proposal comes as ICE detention centers have reached capacity for detaining immigrants. Almost 90% of individuals held by ICE are being detained in facilities operated by private, for-profit corporations."
Congress currently is working on a plan to raise the funding for ICE detention operations from $3.4 billion to $45 billion.
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A Colorado man, Barry Morphew, has been arrested and charged with his wife's murder five years after she disappeared.
And two years after her body was found.
KDVR television in Denver said Morphew was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of first-degree murder for the death of Suzanne, apparently in 2020. Her remains were found in Saguache County in 2023.
He was arrested in Arizona on Friday and the 12th Judicial District is working to have him extradited to Colorado, the report said.
He had been charged earlier, but that case was dismissed before her body was found.
In a statement, District Attorney Anne Kelly said, "Federal, State and local law enforcement have never stopped working toward justice for Suzanne. The Twelfth Judicial District Attorney's Office stands in solidarity with Suzanne's family and the citizens of Chaffee and Saguache Counties in pursuing the Grand Jury's indictment.":
Suzanne Morphew, 43, was reported missing on May 10, 2020, after she went for a bike ride and didn't return.
Barry Morphew quickly was suspected and charged, but the case fell apart over claims a district attorney at the time had withheld information from the court.
Reports at the time confirmed the marriage was turbulent, with Suzanne reportedly having an affair and Barry facing claims he was an abuser.
Suzanne's bike was found abandoned close to the family's $1.5 million home but reports say police suspected it was staged.
The Daily Mail reported, "Barry told police he was out of town for a landscaping job three hours away in Broomfield, just outside of Denver. He had spent the night before her murder in a cheap hotel room that his coworker later found scattered with wet towels and stinking of chlorine."
Her body was found later, and an autopsy concluded she died by murder after a cocktail of drugs used to tranquilize wildlife was found in her bones.
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President Donald Trump is calling for a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute fraud that may be found in the 2020 presidential election results.
That was the election that installed Joe Biden in the Oval Office, after he ran a campaign from the basement of his home, and there were multiple cases of election fraud.
According to the legacy media, he beat Trump, who had installed a thriving economy in the nation, rebuilt America's image around the world and tackled a long list of other problems, like high taxes.
Besides the fraud that was discovered, there were two major undue influences, including one that a pollster discovered probably cost Trump the election.
The first influence was Mark Zuckerberg's decision to hand out hundreds of millions of dollars, through foundations, to mostly leftist local elections officials who often used the money to recruit voters in Democrat districts.
Never before had such a sum of private money been used to influence a U.S. election, and it prompted multiple states to ban that activity.
The bigger influence was the FBI's decision to interfere. It did so by advising legacy and social media outlets to suppress information contained in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden that confirmed scandalous details about the Biden family's business operations.
That advice came at a time that the FBI knew the details were accurate.
Congress later determined members essentially were running an international influence peddling scheme that netted millions of dollars.
But the laptop details were true, and that information largely was withheld from American voters.
Trump took to social media to demand action.
"Zero Border crossings for the month for TRUMP, verses 60,000 for Sleepy, Crooked Joe Biden, a man who lost the 2020 Presidential Election by a 'LANDSLIDE!' Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD! The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING. A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America! Let the work begin! What this Crooked man, and his CORRUPT CRONIES, have done to our Country in 4 years, is grossly indescribable! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
A report at Just the News added, "Trump's call for a special prosecutor comes in the wake of reports from the FBI that China had conspired to mass-produce fake driver's licenses to carry out a massive fake ballot scheme in the 2020 election."
Officials told Just the News that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had captured nearly 20,000 fake driver's licenses in July 2020. Those revelations have called into question the assertions from former FBI Director Christopher Wray that he knew of no foreign interference plots ahead of the election.
They have further reignited Trump's own claims of large-scale election fraud in 2020 that he has said affected the results."
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Stephen King has come up with some scary scenarios in his horror stories. So have Alfred Hitchcock, Edgar Allen Poe and Bram Stoker.
But none envisioned what a stunning new research paper has confirmed: There are human remains in America's water systems.
The horror is the result of America's new abortion industry agenda to deliver chemical abortion drugs to women.
The research paper, "Abortion in our Water, A Special report: Chemical Home Abortions & the Disposition of Aborted Fetal Remains," comes from Liberty Counsel Action.
"This is an unfolding environmental and public health crisis," John Stemberger, chief of Liberty Counsel Action. "The same water that Americans use to drink, cook, and bathe in may contain residuals from powerful, lethal abortion drugs. No one voted for this, and if folks were aware, there would be public outcry. We are all living with these consequences. The EPA instructs Americans not to flush baby wipes, tampons, or goldfish, and yet it allows abortion providers to use wastewater treatment facilities as medical waste facilities and biohazard centers – flushing human fetal tissues that include newly formed organs, placenta, and bone fragments."
The 86-page paper contains an executive summary and is documented with 335 footnotes. Its primary author is Abigail Forman, a former legislator from Minnesota who serves as a researcher and policy analyst with Liberty Counsel Action, an organization chaired by constitutional law attorney Mat Staver, chief of Liberty Counsel, which has fought some of the biggest fights for the pro-life beliefs across the nation.
The paper documents how an estimated 30-40 tons of hazardous medical waste, including human remains, are being flushed.
It analyzes the impacts of flushing the abortion pill, Mifepristone, and other chemical abortion drugs and their residue, each year.
It draws of a variety of studies and peer-reviewed research, petitions to the EPA, government resources and interviews with water treatment experts.
It draws attention to:
The report notes President Donald Trump repeatedly has called for "crystal-clean water" and it now calls on him to act.
The report also calls on Congress and federal agencies to immediately investigate the oversight failures related to the original and subsequent approvals of Mifepristone and propose new regulations that treat "at-home" chemical abortions with the same environmental scrutiny as hospital-based procedures.
The report notes that the original application for FDA approval of the abortion chemicals was flawed because it claimed, citing an environmental assessment from the Population Council, that the impact of the drug on the environment would be minimal.
There was no consideration of the human remains.
"These gross oversights amount to clear violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Clean Water Act (CWA)," the report charges.
"Students for Life of America estimates that 40+ tons of chemically tainted medical waste have entered our wastewater treatment plants, which, in any other context, would be a national scandal. As it pertains to other possible human harms, it is important to note mifepristone acts as an endocrine disruptor (a chemical that may mimic or interfere with a body's hormones) by blocking a vital fertility hormone. Mifepristone is also known to form 'active metabolites,' that is, metabolites that retain therapeutic effects. After being excreted by women, these metabolites enter wastewater treatment plants—most of which are not designed to remove them—and may end up in our water supply," it warns.
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Four men have pleaded guilty to charges coming out of a $550 million USAID fraud scheme, pulling back the curtain on some of what went on in the federal operations that were targeted by Elon Musk when he was working with the Department of Government Efficiency.
His plan essentially gutted that program, and now some of the details are emerging.
One report confirmed that the defendants in the case "used YOUR tax dollars to buy NBA tickets, country club weddings, and laundered MILLIONS in cash through corrupt entities."
The report said, "One defendant 'exploited his position at USAID to line his pockets with bribes in exchange for more than $550 million in contracts.'"
A New York Post report said the defendants included a federal contracting officer and three businessmen.
They pleaded guilty on Thursday to participating in that scheme.
"Roderick Watson, of Maryland, is alleged to have received bribes valued in excess of $1 million while working at USAID in exchange for using his position as a trusted overseer of taxpayer money to direct 14 prime federal contracts to two consulting companies, Apprio and Vistant," the publication reported.
The 57-year-old pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official and could get up to 15 years in prison.
Walter Barnes, owner of Vistant, and Darryl Britt, owner of Apprio, used Paul Young, the president of a subcontractor used by both Vistant and Apprio, as a middleman to conceal some of the bribes destined for Watson, the Department of Justice charged in the case.
Each of the business operators pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official and Barnes pleaded to securities fraud.
The DOJ explained it was back in 2013 when Watson, working at USAID, agreed to use his influence to push contracts to Apprio, which was given the privilege of lucrative federal deals because of its status as a "socially and economically disadvantaged" business.
"When Apprio 'graduated' from the SBA 8(a) program, the scheme shifted, and Watson began awarding prime contracts to Barnes' Vistant company – an Apprio subcontractor – between 2018 and 2022, in exchange for bribes," the report said.
The money went to, among other things, an NBA game suite, a country club wedding, down payments on two homes, cell phones and even "jobs for relatives," the DOJ said.
The skimming operations where concealed with shell companies, fake invoices and fraudulent accounting documents.
The Trump administration, in its demands to shut down USAID, charged that there was widespread waste, fraud and abuse there.
A DOJ spokesman said the four "violated the public trust by corrupting the federal government's procurement process."
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President Donald Trump has announced a new list of sanctions targeting the rogue Islamic regime in Iran, this time putting in the bull's-eye eight companies that are involved "in the procurement and transshipment of sensitive machinery for Iran's defense industry."
The sanctioned include the Hong Kong-based Unico Shipping, Shun Kai Xing, a bulk carrier owned by Unico Shipping, Zhang Yanbang, shipmaster of the Shun Kai Xing, China-based Futech, Hong Kong-based Athena Shipping, Singapore-based V-Shipping. China-based Shenzhen Xinxin Shipping and
Turkey-based Edis Dis Ticaret Limited Sirketi.
A report from the Washington Examiner said the goal is to undermine Iran's military even as Trump is considering whether to take military action.
"The U.S. remains resolved to disrupt any effort by Iran to procure the sensitive, dual-use technology, components, and machinery that underpin the regime's ballistic missile, unmanned aerial vehicle, and asymmetric weapons programs. We have been clear: those who enable these schemes will be held accountable," explained Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. "Treasury will continue to degrade Iran's ability to produce and proliferate these deadly weapons, which threaten regional stability and global security."
Trump announced just a day earlier he will decide whether to join Israel in action against Iran in the next two weeks.
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Somalia native Rep. Ilhan Omar has deleted her own statement about slavery in the United States after being confronted by the fact that her own native soil has thousands in slavery.
Omar, a far-left Democrat from Minnesota whose own political career has been littered with scandals over her marriages, routinely blasts America as a horrible country for its treatment of immigrants, blacks, and more.
She often has confirmed she is in Congress to look out for the interests of Somalia's people.
It was when she posted a Juneteenth comment that she was caught.
She said, "160 years ago on June 19, 1865, slavery ended in this country. Today, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, and achievement, and continue the work to root out systematic racism from our policies and institutions."
It was commenter Gunther Eagleman who responded, "Somalia still has slaves. Ilhan should go fight to free her own people," and then later followed with, "She deleted her post."
A report at the Gateway Pundit said, "Another Juneteenth post by Omar remains, 'On Juneteenth, we remember that freedom is not always swift but it is always worth the fight. It's a powerful reminder of how long justice can take to reach those who deserve it most. Today, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, and achievement, and continue the work to root out systematic racism from our policies and institutions.'"
The report cited a 2024 State Department report confirming human trafficking in Somalia: "IDPs, minority populations, people residing in al-Shabaab territory, and Somali children working in informal sectors remain the most vulnerable to sex trafficking and forced labor. Some Somalis willingly surrender custody of their children to people with whom they share familial ties or clan linkages who may subsequently exploit some of these children in forced labor or sex trafficking. Traffickers may exploit children in forced labor in agriculture, domestic work, herding, selling or portering khat, crushing stones, fishing, forced begging, or construction."
And the report noted a 2023 Walk Free estimate of nearly 100,00 enslaved in Somalia.