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PALM BEACH, Florida – President Donald Trump believes there's "something wrong" with Democrats in power and the party itself is in serious trouble, possibly becoming a "minor party" in American politics based on their recent actions.

Trump appeared on "Sunday Morning Futures" on the Fox News Channel, and host Maria Bartiromo asked the president about the Democrats' behavior at his joint address to Congress last Tuesday.

"They're gonna sit there angry, insolent," Trump said.

Bartiromo noted: "I was surprised at the Democrats' behavior the other night because you delivered among the most diverse, expanded audience – Republicans, Democrats, Independents. Is it just that the Democrat leadership that does not see that?"

"There's something wrong with them," Trump replied. "I can't even believe it. They lost an election in a landslide. They were talking about men playing in women's sports."

"I made a speech, the Republicans were going wild and the Democrats were having their little signs up … and I said it's unbelievable."

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Taking a Saturday afternoon stroll as the vice president of the United States isn't always a peaceful activity.

Vice President Vance reported on X that a group of "Slava Ukraini" protesters today followed him and his 3-year-old girl, shouting – "as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared."

Vance ends his post with: "It was a mostly respectful conversation, but if you're chasing a 3-year-old as part of a political protest, you're a s%#t person."

See his post:

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Demand letter to school district results in resolution of problem brought by conservative student

A report from the American Center for Law and Justice has confirmed that an "environment of intimidation" created by a radical leftist teacher for students in a school district has been ended, following its demand letter to the school district.

The location of the district and the identities of the student and teacher involved were not released, as the dispute never rose to the level of a court action.

But the ACLJ, which for years has battled on behalf of constitutional rights, confirmed the dispute was resolved satisfactorily.

Its own reporting confirms it was a "major victory" on behalf of the student, "whose constitutional rights were systematically violated."

When it became aware of the weaponization of a classroom against conservative students, the ACLJ wrote to the district insisting on corrective action.

The teacher in question "spent up to one-third of the 90-minute class" delivering her own politics, in an "aggressive" fashion, and attacking President Donald Trump.

"This teacher also engaged in a deeply troubling pattern of viewpoint discrimination that strikes at the core of First Amendment protections. She used her classroom as a political forum for discussion but then shut down our client, a Christian student with conservative beliefs, whenever she disagreed with the teacher and supported President Trump," the ACLJ reported. "The classroom became a forum where students who agreed with the teacher's political views were encouraged to speak, while those with conservative perspectives were systematically suppressed. The teacher went beyond merely sharing opinions into creating an environment of intimidation that prevented students from expressing alternative viewpoints."

Included in the teacher's wild claims were about Trump establishing "concentration camps" for African Americans – using time that could have been focused on "actual course material," the report said.

"We were prepared to file a lawsuit in federal court on the student's behalf to ensure that this conduct stopped. We are pleased that our legal demand letter got the attention of the district before the deadline we provided. It responded and resolved this situation to our client's satisfaction," the legal team said.

Among the district's commitments are that it will "comply with the requirements of the First Amendment and district policy."

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Democrats, under the regime of Joe Biden and Kamala Biden, plunged head-first into an unlimited, unrestricted, uncontained agenda for transgenderism.

Males in girls' showers in schools? No problem. Men in rooms for females on overnight school trips? Sure. Males disrobing and being nude with women in locker rooms? Just fine. In fact, FORCING young girls to share their intimate and private areas with males who claim to be women was standard platform plank material.

But now that might be changing, as the agenda has earned a huge thumbs-down from the American public lately.

In fact, there's been significant backlash after every Democrat who voted recently on a Senate plan to protect females from men who call themselves women in those areas refused to support it.

A report in Axios said one Democrat, Sen. Cory Booker, of New Jersey, recently pointed out, "There are really important issues that we should be discussing on the local level, within sports leagues and within conferences."

The report said it is ardent leftist Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., who is spearheading an effort to consider leaving "the issue of trans athletes playing in women's sports to state and local governments."

The report explained the significance of the apparent change in ideology for Democrats; "Democrats privately admit they need a sharper response to counter Republican attacks on their support for transgender rights, especially when it involves sports."

The "leave-it-to-states" plan is emerging in the Senate, said the report, which described how Baldwin, "feared Republicans were flooding the zone with their attacks without Democrats having a clear and consistent rebuttal."

Her comments have included, "Republicans in Washington are saying they know better than parents and local school districts. They are wrong. I trust parents, schools and local sports leagues to make these decisions for their children."

Just days ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a staunch Democrat who may be looking for higher office, "broke with progressives by saying transgender participation in sports was an 'issue of fairness,'" the report explained.

Booker, in fact, told the publication, "When it comes to sports leagues, they have to find a way to create fairness."

It was Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who said, "Every state and every community is going to come to their own decision on it."

A report at the Daily Caller News Foundation noted, "Democrats' deference to subnational governments on the issue of transgender athletes is a notable departure from their positions on a host of issues — ranging from COVID-19 vaccine mandates to abortion access — where the party advocates for the federal government to determine and impose policies on all 50 states."

But Americans have spoken: A February poll from Gallup found 66% of American adults say transgender athletes should "compete on teams that match their sex assigned at birth." Nearly that many would ban so-called "gender-affirming care," which includes giving chemicals and sometimes disfiguring surgeries to children.

It would be just one agenda point on which Democrats are trying to make their own views align with America's, after a 2024 election in which they delivered landslide-proportion failures in the White House, the Senate, the House and many, many down-ballot races.

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DOGE, President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, has uncovered the fact that taxpayers have been paying for thousands of unnecessary computer software licenses.

And the work to cancel and end them already is under way.

A report from Fox News noted the 11,020 Adobe Acrobat licenses in the Department of Housing and Urban Development – with zero users.

There also were 35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three products, and only 84 were being used. And 1,776 Cognos licenses, with only 325 being used.

Of the 800 WestLaw Classic licenses, 216 were used, and there were only 400 users for 10,000 Java licenses.

DOGE chief Elon Musk explained, "There are vast numbers of unused software licenses in every part of the government. Your tax dollars are being wasted."

The announcement follows similar investigation results from the General Services Administration, Department of Labor, Small Business Administration, and Social Security Administration.

"Agencies often have more software licenses than employees, and the licenses are often idle (i.e. paid for, but not installed on any computer)," DOGE said on social media. "For example, at GSA, with 13,000 employees, there are 37,000 WinZip licenses," "19,000 training software subscriptions (and multiple parallel training software platforms)," "7,500 project management software seats for a division with 5,500 employees," "3 different ticketing systems running in parallel."

The statement confirmed, "Fixes are actively in work."

GSA spokesman Stephen Ehikian replied, "Hope we didn't make you wait too long… within 3 hours of @DOGE post, @USGSA is taking immediate action to reduce $5.5M of IT spend & working to identify additional reductions across all categories—ensuring strong stewardship of your tax dollars."

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Disney is reaching into its archives to pull out and reuse a thematic element in a children's production that it hasn't used in nearly 30 years, since "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."

And a report at The Blaze warns that "it will delight Christian parents and drive liberals crazy."

The element is prayer, and it appears in Pixar's animated series called "Win or Lose."

The report explains that's the stories of "eight different characters as they each prepare for their big championship softball game — the insecure kids, their helicopter parents, even a lovesick umpire."

In the premiere episode one character, Laurie, is battling self-doubt and "bows her head and folds her hands in prayer to ask God for strength."

"Dear heavenly Father, please give me strength. … I just want to catch a ball or get a hit. I promise I'll be good, and I, uh, won't do that thing again," she promises God.

The Christian Post documented, "The scene marks the first time a Disney character is portrayed offering an explicitly Christian prayer since 1996's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' and its song 'God Help the Outcasts,' which includes the lyrics, 'God help the outcasts / Hungry from birth / Show them the mercy / They don't find on earth / God help my people / We look to You still / God help the outcasts / Or nobody will.'"

Another report explained Disney's 2007 "Bridge to Terabithia" featured characters who are Christian, attending church and discussing faith.

The report said LGBT ideologues at PinkNews complained, "The introduction of an explicitly Christian character is fairly innocuous on its own standing, but the context surrounding the show — and Disney at large — has left some LGBTQ+ TV lovers a little uneasy."

The report noted Laurie doesn't appear to be "anti-trans," but it does indicate Disney moving "toward a more traditional, conservative worldview."

Disney, of course, has been the target of much criticism in recent years for having gone wildly "woke" and pro-LGBT in its productions, especially for children, productions that largely have failed to be significant successes.

The report said LGBTQ Nation "ranted," "Her introduction comes as Donald Trump and the Republican party continue to terrorize the trans community and use Christianity as justification, all the while claiming that Christians are being persecuted by diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts."

The Blaze noted it had reported weeks ago that Disney had embedded a transgender character in a children's production, but then eliminated "a few lines of dialogue that referenced gender identity."

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Multiple Democrats are pledging allegiance to the U.S. Department of Education after President Donald Trump, as part of his agenda to eliminate waste, fraud and corruption in the federal government, has called for it to be shut down.

In fact, public schools in American are run mostly by local boards following state regulations, but a commentary at Twitchy explained the huge significance of a federal bureaucracy to dictate to schools.

"Local school districts receive only a small fraction of their funding from the federal government—an amount so negligible it would barely be missed if it disappeared. Instead, this money could be redistributed to the states, allowing them to allocate it to schools based on specific needs, such as areas with extreme poverty or a high percentage of students with learning differences. The real reason Democrats champion the Department of Education, however, is that it serves as a tool to promote their Leftist 'woke' agenda," it said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to social media to insist that Democrats would "fight" Trump's plans, because, "Almost 90% of students in the U.S. attend public school. And every single district will suffer."

But social media suggested that Schumer was far wrong.

Author Michael Shellenberger said, "Closing the Department of Education will hurt kids, say Democrats. The evidence suggests the opposite. The Dept. of Ed. promoted pseudoscientific alternatives to the science of reading & direct instruction of math. The result? A catastrophic decline in student performance."

And at RedState was a response to Schumer: "Total nonsense backed by zero empirical evidence. The Department of Education has produced 'worse' outcomes for students over the years. It's pushed nonsense alternative learning methods that have led to falling test scores and higher rates of illiteracy."

Another pointed out how scores have declined while funding has skyrocketed:

Others openly disputed Schumer's claims, including one who pointed out that the states and local boards "managed to educate children for 200 years before the dept. was established."

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'Parents, now is the time that you share the receipts of the betrayal that has happened in our public schools'

The Department of Education, which will be reduced in a major way if President Donald Trump's government efficiency campaign proceeds as he has planned, has in the interim opened a portal for people to report discrimination in K-12 schools.

In an announcement, the agency said it's EndDEI.Ed.Gov website is for parents, students, teachers and community members "to submit reports of discrimination based on race or sex in publicly funded K-12 schools."

"The secure portal allows parents to provide an email address, the name of the student's school or school district, and details of the concerning practices," the agency said. The information will then be evaluated for "investigation."

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Activist groups must cover 'potential costs and damages from a wrongly issued injunction'

For a long time federal law has allowed the government to ask courts to order plaintiffs who are suing the government to post bonds that would cover "potential costs and damages from a wrongly issued injunction."

Seldom has that provision in the law been utilized.

But it will be now, under orders from President Donald Trump, who explained in a new order Thursday, "In recent weeks, activist organizations fueled by hundreds of millions of dollars in donations and sometimes even government grants have obtained sweeping injunctions far beyond the scope of relief contemplated by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, functionally inserting themselves into the executive policy making process and therefore undermining the democratic process."

Those cases include challenges to Trump's decisions to fire executive branch employees, to cut off inappropriate funding and to eliminate fraudulent activities in the federal spending.

"This anti-democratic takeover is orchestrated by forum-shopping organizations that repeatedly bring meritless suits, used for fundraising and political grandstanding, without any repercussions when they fail. Taxpayers are forced not only to cover the costs of their antics when funding and hiring decisions are enjoined, but must needlessly wait for government policies they voted for. Moreover, this situation results in the Department of Justice, the nation's chief law enforcement agency, dedicating substantial resources to fighting frivolous suits instead of defending public safety," Trump said.

He said a key to fighting such abuse is "Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) (Rule 65(c))."

That mandates "that a party seeking a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order (injunction) provide security in an amount that the court considers proper to cover potential costs and damages to the enjoined or restrained party if the injunction is wrongly issued," Trump explained.

He said enforcement of that provisions "is critical to ensuring that taxpayers do not foot the bill for costs or damages caused by wrongly issued preliminary relief by activist judges and to achieving the effective administration of justice."

He then ordered that it now is the "policy" of the U.S. to demand that parties seeking injunctions "cover the costs and damages incurred if the government is ultimately found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained."

His instructions are that the heads of executive branch agencies are "directed to ensure that their respective agencies properly request under Rule 65(c) that federal district courts require plaintiffs to post security equal to the federal government's potential costs and damages from a wrongly issued injunction."

The instruction covers "all lawsuits filed against the federal government seeking an injunction where agencies can show expected monetary damages or costs from the requested preliminary relief, unless extraordinary circumstances justify an exception."

He pointed out that the rule actually "mandates the court to require, in all applicable cases, that a movant for an injunction post security in an amount that the court considers proper to cover potential costs and damages to the enjoined or restrained party."

In some cases the requirements could prove incredible. For example, in one case recently litigated, plaintiffs demanded that the government hand out $2 billion in cash to various organizations. Should a case such as that ultimately fail, the plaintiffs could be liable for the $2 billion in damages.

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Claims financial distress because of a plunge in income, lagging sales of his artwork

Hunter Biden, documented by congressional investigators to be among the Biden family recipients of tens of millions of dollars in a years-long influence peddling operation while Joe Biden was vice president, then president, now is claiming financial distress.

The claims appear in his demand to drop a lawsuit that he brought against a former White House aide to President Donald Trump.

A report in the New York Post explains that Hunter Biden, 55, cited plunging sales of his artwork and his book, as well as a California fire that burned a home he was renting.

And "significant debt."

He had sued Garrett Ziegler in 2023 with a long list of claims that he illegally accessed and circulated embarrassing contents of the laptop Biden had abandoned at a repair shop.

Ziegler obtained access to the information in the abandoned computer and published it on his website Marco Polo.

Hunter Biden's legal action accused Ziegler of violating data laws by accessing "tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, and dozens of videos and recordings" from the laptop.

In fact, it was the details in that laptop, which have been confirmed as true, that prompted the FBI to interfered in the 2020 presidential election by falsely claiming that the information was "Russian disinformation," when it was not. The bureau told media organizations to suppress the truth, they did, and a subsequent polling showed that likely was a key factor in Joe Biden's election win that year.

"[Hunter] has suffered a significant downturn in his income and has significant debt in the millions of dollars range," his court filing states.

"While I was aware that my financial position had significantly deteriorated over time, it was not until the past month that I realized I had to take drastic actions to alleviate this situation," Hunter Biden charged.

"In the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023, I sold 27 pieces for art at an average price of $54,481.48, but since then I have only sold 1 piece of art for $36,000. Similarly, for my book sales, in the six month period before the statements (April 1, 2023 through September 30, 2023), based on the September 30, 2023 statement, 3,161 copies of my book were sold, but in the six months after the statements, only approximately 1,100 books were sold."

Even worse, he's not getting invitations, and paychecks, to talk to people.

"Given the positive feedback and reviews of my artwork and memoir, I was expecting to obtain paid speaking engagements and paid appearances, but that has not happened," he said.

He further complained about the work he must to do fto ind another residence, as his rental was torched by the Pacific Palisades fire.

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, a popular legal commentator and expert on the Constitution, was one of those who had been threatened by lawyers acting on behalf of Hunter Biden to suppress his own comments.

He explained, "Hunter spent years suggesting that the laptop images and emails might be Russian disinformation (with the help of obliging mainstream media), (but) the contents were found to be authentic by courts and agencies."

He explained, "Years ago, I wrote about how the Biden team had decided to use a scorched earth strategy to target critics. Various people, including myself, were threatened with lawsuits—actions that could drain the targets of hundreds of thousands of dollars and tie them up in court for years. In my case, I received a letter from [Bryan M.] Sullivan that I could face a defamation action if I do not retract (or if I repeat) my criticism of [lawyer Kevin] Morris's representational relationship with Hunter. I responded by immediately revealing the contents of his letter and repeating those allegations. Sullivan and Morris never sued."

Turley pointed out, "Hunter has reportedly received millions not just from alleged influence peddling over the years, but from friends in the forms of loans and support. Throughout those years, he has continued to live a relatively extravagant lifestyle. One line of income was created through his art sales. However, there were reports of a collapse in the value of Hunter's art with the departure of his father from office. With the loss in the value of his influence, there was a telling drop in the demand for his art."

He noted, "What they seem most concerned about is that Ziegler will now seek fees and costs from Hunter. (Previously, Hunter was able to secure such costs from Ziegler for a filing that the court found meritless.) The motion … provides new insights into how Hunter's financial situation has declined due to his father and his family's political influence."

Turley confirmed the filing also notes Hunter Biden may be reviewing other lawsuits "he has brought … against other targets."

Joe Biden issued a blanket pardon for Hunter for anything offense he committed over a period of some 11 years covering the time when Joe Biden was vice president and president.

Hunter Biden had been convicted of gun felonies, and had pleaded guilty to tax felonies.