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Democrats in the U.S. Senate who repeatedly have demanded the continuation of the Schumer Shutdown, the suspension of the federal budget and its spending programs, on Friday got a short reprieve from a federal judge.
The Democrats in the Senate have refused to allow a short-term continuing resolution promoted by the Republicans that effectively would keep funding at the same levels for the next few weeks.
They have demanded that Congress raid Americans' bank accounts for $1.5 trillion to use for propaganda, for health coverage for illegal aliens, and such.
They were under intense pressure right now because food stamp benefits were scheduled to expire Friday night.
There is a $5 billion reserve account but Trump administration officials explained they were not allowed to access that during a shutdown.
A judge ordered them to do it anyway.
A Fox report said, "The rulings mark a blow for the administration and, for the time being, the loss of another pressure point on Democrats in the Senate to reopen the government."
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said, "We're looking at all the options."
It was Jack McConnell, a judge in Rhode Island, who took over the administration's decision-making process in light of the fact Democrats have refused to fund government programs.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was to run out of money Friday night, and even with $5 billion, won't last through the month of November.
Reports said about 42 million people get taxpayer funded help with their groceries all the time.
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by Democrat states.
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Among the many agenda points begun by Barack Obama in the White House and continued by Joe Biden was the nation's tolerant position on the persecution of Christians, especially in Nigeria.
There, Islamists have been, for years, slaughtering members of the Christian faith.
It has reached a point now that President Donald Trump has taken dramatic action, labeling the African nation a "country of particular concern" because of its death agenda.
"Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria," Trump posted to Truth Social. "Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter. I am hereby making Nigeria a 'COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN' — But that is the least of it."
He called for action against those persecuting people for their faith.
Trump announced he has told Reps. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., and Tom Cole, R-Okla., and members of the House Appropriations Committee to investigate and then report.
"The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening in Nigeria, and numerous other Countries," Trump said. "We stand ready, willing, and able to save our Great Christian population around the World!"
It was an abrupt turnabout from Obama's agenda. Obama, who once went overseas and declared that America no longer was a Christian nation, actually was accused by former Nigerian leaders of no less than facilitating the attacks on Christians.
A WND report from Obama's second term explained how Goodluck Jonathan, then just out of office as Nigeria's president, wrote in "My Transition Hours," that, Obama had taken the "unusual step" of telling Nigerians how to vote for their president.
"In that video, Obama urged Nigerians to open the 'next chapter' by their votes. Those who understood subliminal language deciphered that he was prodding the electorate to vote for the [Muslim-led] opposition to form a new government," the report said.
In fact, when Jonathan won an initial round of ballot counts, residents of Muslim-majority northern states rioted.
Eventually, the Muslim candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, was declared the winner.
"That the Obama administration may have imposed its will on a foreign country's politics and elections is hardly unprecedented. Recall the administration's partiality for the Muslim Brotherhood during and after 2012 presidential elections in Egypt; or its unsuccessful efforts to oust Israeli prime minister Netanyahu with U.S. taxpayers' money; or its efforts – with an admittedly unverified 'dossier' … to prevent then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump from being elected, or by discussing an 'insurance policy' in the event that Trump won," a columnist explained.
"So in Nigeria, the Obama administration, it seems, sought to right the apparently intolerable wrong of having a duly elected Christian president in a more than 50 percent Christian nation."
Columnist Raymond Ibrahim said, "The Obama administration insisted that violence and bloodshed in Nigeria – almost all of which was committed by Muslims against Christians – had nothing to do with religion. This despite the fact that Boko Haram – which was engaging in ISIS type of atrocities: slaughter, kidnap, rape, plunder, slavery, torture before ISIS was even born – presented its terrorism as a jihad. In one instance it even called on President Jonathan to 'repent and forsake Christianity' and convert to Islam as the price for peace."
Obama then refused to designate Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization until years after pressure from lawmakers and human rights groups.
The report noted, "Then when a conference was scheduled in the U.S. for the governors' of Nigeria's states, the Obama administration blocked the visa of the region's only Christian governor."
The Fox report said Trump's action was triggered after "entire villages have been burned to the ground, worshipers killed during Sunday services, and thousands displaced by Islamist groups sweeping through the country's northern and central regions."
Islamists have killed "hundreds" of Christians this year alone.
Fox reported, "According to the international watchdog group Open Doors, nearly 70% of all Christians killed for their faith worldwide last year were in Nigeria. The group warns that Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and Fulani militant herders are responsible for most of the bloodshed, often targeting Christian farmers in the country's Middle Belt."
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Secular educators in the United Kingdom have decided to apply "trigger warnings" to parts of the Bible.
And Andrea Williams, chief of the Christian Legal Center, said it's crazy.
"Applying trigger warnings to salvation narratives that have shaped our civilization is not only misguided, but absurd. Singling out the Bible in this way is discriminatory and deeply ill-informed. To suggest that the crucifixion story involves 'sexual violence' is not just inaccurate, it's a profound misreading of the text.
"The account of Jesus's death is not a tale of trauma, it is the ultimate expression of love, sacrifice, and redemption, central to the Christian faith," Williams said.
It is the Christian Institute that reported English literature students at the University of Sheffield now are being told to prepare for "graphic bodily injury and sexual violence" in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Same warning for Genesis, where the lives of Cain and Abel are documented.
It was just a year ago that Nottingham University put itself up for mockery when it said the "expressions of Christian faith" in medieval literature were potentially distressing.
Officials at Sheffield said, "A content note is a standard academic tool used to signpost when sensitive or graphic content will be discussed. Its purpose is to ensure subjects can be highlighted and discussed openly and critically, while preparing students who might find such details difficult."
But Angus Sauil, of the Christian Institute, pointed out, "Neither the Gospels nor Genesis give explicit accounts of Abel's murder or Jesus' crucifixion, and what the 'sexual violence' label refers to is mystifying. While Christians and unbelievers alike can be profoundly moved by the powerful and enduring words of Scripture, such passages are far less explicit than many of the set texts English Literature students come into contact with."
He continued, "What people are more likely to find offensive in the Bible are its bold assertions: that there is one God; that all have sinned and fall short of his glory; that Jesus Christ is God; that he died to offer forgiveness and eternal life to all who believe in him and repent; and that salvation is only possible through him. Such truths are offensive to many, but they are a tremendous blessing to those who believe. The only 'trigger warning' the Bible needs is 'This book may completely transform your life.'"
The Nottingham controversy, earlier, had the school telling students "Chaucer and his Contemporaries" contained "incidences of violence, mental illness, and expressions of Christian faith."
According to the Daily Mail, Monsignor Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Anglican Bishop of Rochester who converted to Catholicism, said, "Students have to be exposed to what is unpleasant and frightening so they can learn to deal with that. The Bible is very restrained in how it describes both the murder of Abel by Cain and the crucifixion, particularly if you compare the accounts of the Evangelists with something like Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ.'"
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Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat in Congress, of course is famous for dating an alleged Chinese spy. And for recently demanding that any party member desiring to run for president pledge to destroy President Donald Trump's new White House ballroom on day one.
Now, he's the subject of a report that uncovered a "bizarre inconsistency" in his payments to one California man.
Swalwell's explanation of the payments to Darly Meyer is that "Darly protects me and my family."
But the report at Fox News outlined a long list of concerns.
For example, Federal Election Commission filings from Swalwell for Congress and his Remedy PAC, dating to 2021, reveal 75 payments to Meyer, ranging from $53 to $12,000.
The total from 27 payments last year passed $120,000, and he's on track for that total this year.
The reasons for the payments included travel expenses, car service, security services and salary.
Also, "personal travel expense reimbursement," and "event flowers reimbursement," the report said.
Meyer, the report said, also runs a limousine service called CYD Global Car, which offers rides on a luxury basis.
"He is also an administrator of a Facebook group called 'CaliHaitians – Haitians in Az, Ca, Nv, Hi, Or, Wa,' which bills itself as a 'progressive community' of Haitians living in the United States, which has over 3,000 members," the report said. It's "selective" in that it determines who can join.
Swalwell also responded on social media, insisting that Fox "emailed and asked why I've spent $350,000 on security." He turned sarcastic, saying, "Maybe I should send [the reporter] the bill?"
Fox reported it appears Meyer does not have a security license.
Former FEC commissioner Hans von Spakovsky explained the accounting "is the type of bizarre inconsistency that should catch the attention of the FEC."
He suggested the agency's auditing arm should investigate.
Fox reported Swalwell earlier raised eyebrows over his spending, as he's reported multiple transactions over luxury car services, expensive restaurants and lavish hotel visits in Dubai, Berlin, Parin and more.
"Fox News Digital previously reported on Swalwell's campaign dropping tens of thousands of dollars on Just Dreaming Yacht Charters, a San Francisco agency that offers 'relaxing and luxurious' private yachts for up to 40 passengers, as a fundraising expense," the report said.
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The situation already made officials at the Loudoun County, Virginia, school district look bad.
In their pursuit of transgenderism for all, they punished, for alleged sexual harassment, two boys who caught a girl in their locker room, threatening them and worse.
The district was sued, and now a new filing in that case has charged that officials "coordinated" with a local leftist political action committee "to smear" the families of the boys.
According to the Washington Examiner, lawyers for the boys and their families have amended their complaint to charge district officials with "civil conspiracy,"
The school allegedly used the confidential information it had about the situation to give to an organization called Loudoun For All for the purpose of "stoking political outrage ahead of local elections," the report said.
The materials included press releases and a case timeline, and the new filing explains the details were leaked "to assist in issuing statements labeling the families liars," the report said.
The information, containing "false and defamatory allegations," soon appeared on the PAC's website.
"It appears the school board was passing along confidential information to a political action committee for the purpose of further retaliating against our clients," explained Ian Prior, a lawyer with America First Legal, which is working the Founding Freedoms Law Center to help the families.
It all dates back to when a girl who calls herself a boy went into the boys locker room at Stone Bridge High School and recorded the boys objecting to her presence. Even though her recording apparently violated school policy, the school chose to punish the boys.
The newest filing also charges that Loudoun's Title IX process "relied on non-credible evidence, omitted key witness interviews, and deleted video footage that could have supported the boys' account," the report said.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights already has concluded Loudoun violated Title IX by failing to "meaningfully investigate" the concerns raised by the boys – about a girl entering a male-only facility.
Based on the federal conclusions the district could lose federal funding if officials do not protect individuals in single-sex facilities.
Also, a federal judge has ordered the schools not to punish the boys further while the case is pending.
WND reported when students, fed up with the district's refusal to protect boys and girls in such settings, took to the streets to encourage voters to remove from power those with that leftist ideology.
A commentary at Twitchy was prompted to state, "BOOM! VA teens take matters into their own hands to stop school board trans-LUNACY…"
Local broadcaster WJLA said, "For the past four years, LCPS has allowed students to use bathrooms and locker rooms at school based on their chosen gender identity and not biological sex. Several students have protested the policy in the past, but the school board hasn't budged. Since the teens said the school board hasn't listened to their concerns, these students want a new school board and they're asking voters to help."
One teen told the outlet, "I've been sick of it for quite a while. I just can't put up with it anymore. It's not normal. It's not something we should be supporting."
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has called for the immediate impeachment of an anti-Trump federal judge who has been revealed to have taken part in a scheme to spy on the telephone records of a long list of sitting U.S. senators.
It is Judge James Boasberg who is the subject of criticism.
He's already, according to an analysis by experts, been revealed as a judge who made himself "like a foreign diplomat" in insisting the Trump administration following his agenda on foreign affairs.
Boasberg long has fought President Donald Trump's efforts to secure the nation's borders and remove illegal alien criminals.
He's gone so far as to try to enforce his own order despite a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court overturning him.
He was the judge who even tried to order Trump to tell airplanes carrying illegal alien criminals, that already had left American airspace, to return to the U.S. with the criminals.
Now Cruz is calling for action regarding the political activist sitting as a judge.
The senator's comments came following revelations that the Biden administration, with Boasberg's cooperation, issued hundreds of subpoenas for telephone records of Republicans under its scheme to create a number of lawfare cases against Trump – and other Republicans.
Online commenters have suggested the investigation, run by ex-special counsel Jack Smith, was intended to create additional charges against Trump and other GOP leaders should Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election. She failed.
Cruz turned fiery during a news conference about Biden's "Arctic Fost" investigation.
"The Biden Justice Department signed off on issuing subpoenas for the phone records of at least nine U.S. senators. Twenty percent of the Republicans in the United States Senate were the target of this fishing expedition. They did so in complete contravention of the Constitution—of separation of powers, of the Speech and Debate Clause, of free speech, of basic rights of privacy," Cruz charged.
He continued, "I want to talk to you about one of those subpoenas. One of those subpoenas went from Jack Smith to AT&T, seeking my cell phone communications. It went to AT&T, and I actually want to commend AT&T for doing the right thing. AT&T is based in Texas. AT&T looked at that subpoena, and they went to their legal counsel and said, 'What should we do with this subpoena?' And their legal counsel said, 'You cannot comply because this is protected by the Speech and Debate Clause of the U.S. Constitution.' And so AT&T declined to comply—did not hand over my cell phone records. Now, one might ask: ordinarily, a phone company being asked to hand over the phone records of a sitting senator would notify that senator."
But the company didn't, as Boasberg, "ludicrously" claimed, in support of a gag order, that there were "reasonable grounds" to think disclosure would lead to "destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation."
Cruz called out the judge.
"Now, I can tell you right now, there is precisely zero evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or tamper with evidence or to intimidate potential witnesses. Zero evidentiary basis for that. This order is an abuse of power. This order is a weaponized legal system," the senator charged.
He said the judge's actions are a textbook case of abuse.
"I am right now calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boasberg. Judge Boasberg put his robe down, stood up, and said, 'Sign me up to be part of the partisan vendetta against 20% of the Republicans in the Senate.'" Cruiz said. "That is a dereliction of duty and a violation of the judicial oath."
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The leftists holding state power in Colorado are making it abundantly clear: They want their favorite leftist judges to be running the United States, not the duly elected president.
The proof comes in the fact they have sued the Trump administration 41 times already.
Their latest agenda is to keep the financial benefits of the nation's Space Command headquarters within their borders.
Courthousenews explains the newest fight:
"The state of Colorado and its attorney general Phil Weiser challenged President Donald Trump's decision to move the U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, in a Wednesday lawsuit."
Weiser, an ardent Democrat, insists, "The Constitution does not permit the executive to punish or retaliate against states for lawfully exercising sovereign powers reserved for the states, as President Trump and the executive branch have unlawfully done here."
He opposes Trump's executive order to move the base, according to the report, "in retaliation for Colorado's robust vote by mail program — an executive action Colorado says violates the state's sovereignty."
Weiser even warns that Trump can "influence" Colorado's election, "then the executive branch can seize other powers not delegated by the Constitution."
The federal government, in fact, does "set some standards for voting systems, including standards for their functionality and their accessibility to individuals with disabilities, older individuals, and members of language minority groups," according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. And the president is commander of the nation's military.
Further, the federal government's Election Assistance Commission, created under federal law, establishes guidelines for systems used in states.
The Space Command has called Colorado Springs home since Trump created it in 2019, and Joe Biden made Peterson Space Force Base the formal home.
But Trump said Colorado elections, mandated by Democrats in the state to be by mail-in ballots, a system that allows for corruption more easily than some other options, are a concern.
"They went to all mail-in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections, and we can't have that. When a state is for mail-in voting, that means they want dishonest elections because that's what that means," Trump confirmed.
The report said Colorado already has "filed and joined" 41 lawsuits against Trump.
Other topics include the disputed practice, under "birthright citizenship," of giving tourist babies and children born to illegal alien criminals American citizenship.
Also Colorado has attacked Trump over National Institutes of Health funding for research, an attempt to block the Department of Government Efficiency from even using the Treasury's central payment system, an attempt to block a freeze on federal cash handouts, disputes over Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rules, and more.
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As if Zohran Mamdani's candidacy for the job as New York City's mayor weren't scandalous enough, a new firestorm has erupted.
It's because an old interview with his mother has surfaced, and in it she declares he's "not an American at all."
A report at Fox said the interview with his mother was when Mamdani was a 21-year-old college student and she specifically used language that is viewed as derogatory to the United States.
"He is a total desi," Mira Nair, who works as a filmmaker, said in her interview with the Hindustan Times in 2013.
Her son was attending Bowdoin College at the time, and was establishing his radicalization by helping to start the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter there.
"Completely. We are not firangs at all. He is very much us. He is not an Uhmericcan (American) at all. He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian," she charged.
Fox reported, "In Hindi and Urdu, 'firang' is an informal term historically used to describe foreigners or Westerners."
Mehek Cooke, an lawyer born in India who now provides commentary, said the word is a "slur."
"It's the word used back in India to mock outsiders, to say you don't belong," Cooke explained. "Using it here about your own child raised in the United States carries the same tone as calling someone a derogatory word — or worse. It's flippant, divisive, and dripping with contempt for the very country that gave your family a better life."
He added, "When Mamdani's mother says her son was 'never a firang and only desi,' it's a rejection of America. It's ungrateful, disrespectful, and frankly repulsive to live in this country since age seven, receive every freedom, education, and opportunity America offers, and still deny being American."
The report noted Mamdani was born in Uganda, moved to the U.S. when he was 7 and is a dual citizen in the U.S. and Uganda.
Mamdani's campaign already has stunned people with his advocacy for many communist ideals such as taking control of the means of production, no private property and such.
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An appeals court in Wisconsin has canceled a defamation trial for a Moms for Liberty activist who reacted to a school district's paid position of "social justice coordinator" with criticism.
The case on behalf of Scarlett Johnson was handled by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, which took the case to the appeals level even before a trial, and obtained an order that it be dismissed.
WILL lawyer Luke Berg said, "Scarlett, like all of us, has the right to question and criticize her government. The defamation lawsuit against her was meritless and should have been promptly dismissed. We are pleased that the court agreed and that Scarlett can put this distraction behind her."
Johnson, in a statement released through her counsel, said, "Free speech belongs to every mom, dad, and citizen who demands answers and accountability from their government."
The state Court of Appeals had ruled that her statements were not defamation.
"We conclude that Johnson's statements do not constitute defamation, thus, we reverse and remand for the circuit court to enter summary judgment in Johnson's favor," the appeals court said.
WILL reported, "The initial lawsuit involved a defamation claim for run-of-the-mill social media posts on X and Facebook. The posts in question criticized a school district for having a 'social justice coordinator,' and described people who hold such positions as 'woke,' 'white savior[s]' with a 'god complex,' 'woke lunatics,' and 'bullies.'"
WILL pointed out such comments are pervasive on social media and in fact were more restrained than a lot of online speech.
The plaintiff who sued previously had held that title.
"WILL stepped in to file an early appeal to avoid a costly and non-sensical defamation trial for First Amendment protected speech. We argued, and the court agreed, that for statements to be actionable for defamation, they must be 'provably false.'"
The court returned the case to the trial court with instructions to dismiss.
The ruling pointed out, "The terms 'god complex,' 'woke,' and 'white savior' are vague and do not have a clear meaning or definition. For example, some Americans define 'wokeness' as 'being informed, educated on, and aware of social injustices;' other Americans use it to mean 'being overly politically correct and policing others' words.' We are not persuaded that the terms are definitive enough to allow a jury to determine whether these terms are true or false.
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The state Supreme Court in Texas has issued a critical decision that protects religious freedom in the state.
Leftists had demanded that to be "neutral," the state's judges were required to participate in the LGBT ideology by performing "weddings" for same-sex duos, and more.
But now with a simple rule change statement, the state's highest court has killed that agenda.
A report at the Washington Examiner explains the justice on the bench said that judges who "publicly refrain from performing a wedding ceremony based upon a sincerely held religious belief" are not breaking any court system rules.
That comment was added to the state's judicial conduct code.
The move amended Canon 4 of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct. It was filed with the secretary of state and sent to the governor and other officials.
The problem had been highlighted by a fight for religious freedom conducted by Waco Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley. She declined to perform same-sex weddings, instead referring people to another authority within walking distance, and who would perform the event in the same time frame and at the same price as Hensley.
The state Commission on Judicial Conduct has accused her of violating the rules, and she sued, explaining there were a number of constitutional and legal protections for her to live by her Christian faith.
The commission had claimed her adherence to her faith showed a "bias" against some Texans.
"For providing a solution to meet a need in my community while remaining faithful to my religious beliefs, I received a 'Public Warning.' No one should be punished for that," Hensley said.
The commission ultimately withdrew its admonishment to Hensley when the state Supreme Court confirmed her lawsuit had legal standing, but it has not yet been resolved.
Another case involved Jackson County Judge Brian Umphress, the Examiner noted.
"The North Texas judge says his religious beliefs constrain him to only officiate heterosexual weddings. He is also challenging the commission's application of Canon 4 that was used against Hensley, contending it is unconstitutional and expressing concern that he could face the same sanctions," the report said.