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Kamala Harris, abruptly picked by the elite in the Democrat party to replace a mentally failing Joe Biden on the presidential ballot this year, long has been an extremist.

On abortion. On censorship. On the border. On transgenderism. On fracking. On many other topics.

And the media is trying to steer voters away from those details as she runs a shortened campaign for president this summer and fall.

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A federal appeals court has unleashed a stunning ruling that could end up impacting the Jan. 6, 2021, convictions of protesters at the U.S. Capitol.

It is the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that determined that geofence searches are not allowed under the U.S. Constitution. Those are identifications of individuals using GPS or other technology that provides authorities with names and locations of individuals at a particular time.

The case at hand involved robbery, and Judge James C. Ho, a possible candidate under a Trump presidency for the Supreme Court, explained with clarity how the geofence technology isn't allowed in a ruling that now conflicts with a ruling from another circuit, making a Supreme Court decision more likely.

He said, "Geofence warrants are powerful tools for investigating and deterring crime. The defendants here engaged in a violent robbery – and likely would have gotten away with it, but for this technology. So I fully recognize that our panel decision today will inevitably hamper legitimate law enforcement interests."

But, he continued, "Hamstringing the government is the whole point of our Constitution. Our Founders recognized that the government will not always be comprised of publicly spirited officers – and that even good faith actors can be overcome by the zealous pursuit of legitimate public interests. 'If men were angels, no government would be necessary.' The Federalist No. 51 … 'If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.' But 'experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.' It's because of 'human nature' that it's 'necessary to control the abuses of government.'"

ArsTechnica reported the fact that geofence warrants, in identifying all users or devices in a geographic area, now are banned by the circuit court's ruling as a violation against unreasonable searches.

The report said the ruling found, "This court 'cannot forgive the requirements of the Fourth Amendment in the name of law enforcement.' Accordingly, we hold that geofence warrants are general warrants categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment."

The case involved three Mississippi men convicted of a 2018 armed robbery. And the ruling said, even though geofence warrants are unconstitutional, the convicts were not allowed to suppress evidence because "law enforcement acted in good faith in relying on this type of warrant."

The Electronic Frontier Foundation called it a "'major" change.

"Closely following arguments EFF has made in a number of cases, the court found that geofence warrants constitute the sort of 'general, exploratory rummaging' that the drafters of the Fourth Amendment intended to outlaw. EFF applauds this decision because it is essential that every person feels like they can simply take their cell phone out into the world without the fear that they might end up a criminal suspect because their location data was swept up in an open-ended digital dragnet," the group said.

Such searches almost always involve searching the Google database for details about people, time and locations.

In the process, Google determines which accounts were within the defined boundaries and gives law enforcement an "anonymized list" of suspects. Law enforcement then can seek additional information, including, eventually, the ID of account holders.

Previously, the Supreme Court has said the government invades a person's reasonable expectation of privacy when it tracks people by cellphone data.

It was investigative reporter Julie Kelly who reminded that the federal government used geofence warrant information to identify January 6 protesters.

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In a lengthy conversation with two of the most influential people in the world Monday night, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk sounded the alarm to former President Donald Trump about a potential Kamala Harris victory in the 2024 presidential race, saying, "I think we're in massive trouble with a Kamala administration."

"It's essential that you win for the good of this country and that's understating my position," Musk told Trump during the event on X, which is owned by Musk.

The pair discussed some of the hottest topics plaguing the nation, including the border disaster, the financial pain caused by inflation and an anemic economy, and what would happen to America should Democrats win the White House.

"You are the path to prosperity, and Kamala is the opposite," Musk told Trump. "I'm just trying to tell people my honest opinion."

America is at a fork in the road … We're at a fork in the road in the destiny of civilization and I think we need to take the right path, and I think you're the right path. … We're in deep trouble if it goes the other way."

Musk summarized what Americans are longing for, saying, "We want safe and clean cities we want secure borders, we want sensible government spending … stop the lawfare and, how are those even right-wing positions? Those are just common sense."

Trump hammered on Kamala Harris and her political track record "destroying" California.

"It's almost not livable there," the former president noted. "She was involved in the destruction of San Francisco and California and she'll be involved in the destruction of America if elected."

"We have a defective government, these are defective people, and they shouldn't be running it."

"He's incompetent and she's incompetent," Trump said of Joe Biden and Harris. "I think she's more incompetent than he is, and that's saying something because he's not too good."

Run for the border

Both Musk and Trump spent a large portion of the two-hour event focusing on the problems the Biden-Harris administration has caused at the border.

"Crime all over the world is down, and wait till you see the numbers we have," Trump said, noting leaders across the globe are sending their worst citizens to America.

"This is a migrant crime," and the former commander-in-chief said he was considering changing his catchphrase of "Biden Migrant Crime" to "Kamala Migrant Crime."

"These are rough people. These are criminals that make our criminals look like nice people."

Trump said Kamala is "such a liar because she was called the border czar and she never even went there."

"People can't allow them to get away with their disinformation campaign … She was totally in charge. [Biden] didn't even know what was going on. He wouldn't know the difference."

Musk explained that he had visited the U.S. southern border and said: "It looks like a 'World War Z' zombie apocalypse at times."

"I saw for myself in Texas. It's real. I'm seeing this in real-time," he said, wondering to himself, "Is this made up or real?"

"The people that I saw did not look friendly."

"This is a fundamentally existential issue for the United States," Musk continued. "I'm not sure we have a country at that point."

As far as where the migrants are coming from, Musk said: "It's earth, the rest of earth. It would only take a few percent of the rest of earth to overwhelm the U.S. … It's just not possible for there United States to absorb everyone from earth."

Trump promised: "We're gonna have the largest deportation in history, otherwise we're not gonna have a country."

The REAL warming problem

"The biggest threat is not global warming," said Trump. "The biggest threat is nuclear warming."

"This is no longer army tanks shooting at each other. It's a level of destruction and power that nobody's ever seen before."

"We have to not allow anything to happen with stupid people like Biden. … Biden had a low I.Q. 30 years ago, but he might not even have an I.Q. at all right now. there's nothing on the board that goes that low."

"We have an administration that made [the possibility of nuclear war] more prevalent. The words that he was using, the stupid threats coming from a stupid face."

Trump said he had a "good relationship" with Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who informed Trump the communist dictator had "a red button on his desk" to launch nuclear missiles.

Trump quipped: "I said I have a red button on my desk too, and my red button works!"

"If you have a smart president, we are not in danger from those countries," he added.

The American exodus

Musk discussed skyrocketing prices for goods and services that are causing severe financial pain for millions of Americans, indicating, "Inflation is just a form of taxation."

"Inflation comes from government overspending because the government checks never bounce. … We need to reduce our government spending … and we need to live within our means."

He said if states "risk bankruptcy and they're not getting bailed out by the federal government, that's the only thing that will make them change."

"So many of these governors have so many people leaving their states, they should get U-Haul Salesman of the Year."

Trump agreed, saying, "It's a disaster with inflation."

"Today, [Americans] are using all their money and borrowing money just to live. … "This stupid administration allowed this to happen. Do you think Biden could do this interview? Do you think Kamala could to his interview?

"No, they could not," Musk replied.

Back to Butler

Trump announced he would be going back to Butler, the Pennsylvania town where he was nearly assassinated on July 13, with his next visit expected in October.

"I think I'll probably start by saying, 'As I was saying, before I was rudely interrupted," Trump clowned.

Regarding the chart on illegal immigration he was looking at when he was struck in the ear by a bullet, Trump said half-jokingly: "Illegal immigration saved my life."

"It's very much, I say an action of God," Trump said his head turning at the precise moment to avoid being killed. "It's a miracle and I'm honored by it."

"It was a miracle, if I hadn't turned my head, I wouldn't be talking to you right now," Trump told Musk, who replied: "From a different realm," perhaps.

"Your actions in the heat of fire," Musk continued, "you can't fake bravery under such circumstances. A lot of people admire your courage under fire there."

Trump said: "I'm gonna sleep with that chart always, that chart was very important for several reasons."

The conversation was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, but was delayed for at least 45 minutes, with Musk saying a large Distributed Denial of Service attack on his platform prevented users from accessing his talk with Trump on time.

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Both Democrat presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and her VP pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, appear to live out their faith.

That would be social issues, progressive ideologies, activism for same-sex marriage and "reparations" for blacks who never were slaves, editing the Bible on an as-needed basis, promoting abortion and transgenderism and provoking racism by campaigning for "anti-racism" programs that often are racist themselves.

It is the Washington Stand that has reviewed the church attended at times by Harris, as well as the community in which Walz participates.

"For spiritually active, governance engaged conservatives (SAGE Cons), who know firsthand the formative role a church can play, a candidate's church background is an important issue that often receives little coverage in the mainstream media," the report explained.

To fill in that gap, the publication cited several facts about Harris's faith organization, Third Baptist Church in San Francisco.

A typical "black" Baptist church, the report said it has a pastor who has been there nearly five decades, a veteran of the civil rights era. In fact, Amos Brown Sr. has used his church for an "array of social programs" concerning refugees, addictions, free lunches and the like.

Brown was "deeply shaped by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. He grew up in Mississippi only an hour away from Emmett Till, a black teenager about Brown's age who was lynched and murdered in 1955 after he was accused of offending a white woman," the report said. He was with the NAACP for years and as recently as weeks ago was citing his great-great-grandfather's experience with slavery and related a story "of a KKK ambush against a young black pastor."

He worked against Clarence Thomas' nomination to the Supreme Court, and testified to the Senate against Thomas when Joe Biden was the chairman of the committee reviewing that nomination. He criticized the U.S. for abandoning a conference promoting anti-Semitism and implied America was culpable for triggering the 9/11 attacks, the report said.

He promoted same-sex "marriage" when that dispute was raging in the state, endorsed cash payments to black Americans who never were slaves. And he's used his pulpit to promote Harris, as during an Aug. 4 sermon said, "We better stop this culture war that's going on in America, about whether or not a woman can lead this nation. This has got to stop, this culture war about where the woman belongs. For I heard Sojourner Truth said, a long time ago, 'Ain't I a woman? I can pick up a pail of water. I can move a log. I can do anything a man can do.'"

The publication, describing Walz's Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul, said it is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which is a group of "liberal" congregations that thinks the Bible gives room for people to come to differing conclusions.

The organization's lead preacher is Jen Rome, who recently encouraged the congregation to "free themselves from the 'garbage' of societal norms."

"We humans love to make systems or hierarchies, whether that's government, or religion, or gender, or race. We just live in all that stuff. We breathe it in, and the dynamics just circulate around in ourselves," she said.

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Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan prosecutor who took years-old misdemeanor business records charges for which the statute of limitations had expired, and made them felonies against President Donald Trump because he claimed they were done in furtherance of some other unspecified crime, now is facing a lawsuit for his actions.

It is America First Legal that has sued Bragg for refusing to turn over records of how he developed his case, whether he consulted with the Joe Biden administration in the case, and whether it was a "partisan prosecution" against the GOP presidential nominee.

At the time Trump was opposing Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential race. Since then, the elites of the Democrat party essentially tossed Biden under the bus and named Kamala Harris as his replacement.

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Even woke leftists know CNN is anything but an objective broadcaster of news.

During Monday night's broadcast of "The Late Show," host Stephen Colbert was talking with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, and he told her: "I know you guys are objective over there, that you just report the news as it is."

And that's when the studio audience burst into laughter.

"Was that supposed to be a laugh line?" Collins wondered with a smile.

"It wasn't supposed to be, but I guess it is," Colbert responded impishly.

Brent Baker of the Media Research Center tweeted: "Not even NYC lefties buy CNN as objective."

Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA noted: "Even liberals know CNN is functionally a Democrat super PAC."

Other commenters indicated:

"That was hilarious, even the woke crowd knows."

"An actual journalist would be embarrassed by this but not @kaitlancollins, she takes pride in the fact people know she works for a propagandist organization."

"These people like @kaitlancollins need to be laughed out of the room every time they open their mouth… "Was that supposed to be a laugh line?' Your career as a 'journalist' is a laugh line. "

"The fact that 'news anchors' are treated as celebrities, tells you everything you need to know."

"This clip epitomizes the decline of late-night 'comedy' shows: @colbertlateshow trying to make a political argument, and then cringes when his audience laughs! Even his trained seal viewers know that @CNN is fake news."

"Somehow Kaitlan Collins never learned the difference between being a journalist and Democrat fan girl. She may be the very worst of the faux journalists on @CNN. And that's no small feat. CNN having her do the rounds on the late-night talk show to see if they can salvage her failing show. Doubt it will help. Look for her 'departure' from CNN shortly after the election. Maybe Don Lemon has an opening."

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In the old days, there were a few major news publications that could attract the attention of millions. There were rare television events that maybe would draw tens of millions.

In today's web world, millions of views are common, tens of millions happen, too.

There even are instances where there are more than that.

But a billion is a high water mark, and Elon Musk has confirmed that's how many views were generated by his Monday night discussion with President Donald Trump.

He confirmed that combined views and subsequent discussions surpassed a billion, and the counting still was going on.

"Between 7:47 PM and 10:47 PM ET, President Donald Trump's Space post received 73 million views. During the same period, there were 4 million posts about Elon Musk and President Trump's conversation on X, generating a total of 998 million views," he added.

An analysis of the event, posted on Revolver. News, explained, "And while having over a million people listening live is very impressive – we don't think Kamala could get over 1,000 'real' people – the number of folks who have watched the interview after the fact is through the roof, now surpassing one BILLION views. Yes, BILLION with a 'B.'"

It concluded, "The mainstream media is dead. How do we know? Just look at the signs. Take Tucker Carlson, for example – he's racking up tens of millions of views on his new internet platform and X, way outpacing what he did at Fox News, and surpassing Joe Rogan in popularity. Who can forget the Trump/Tucker interview that racked up over 200 million views in less than 24 hours? President Trump chose that interview over participating in the GOP primary debates. Smart move."

It continued, "Let's face it, people are fed up with the regime-run media worldwide, and especially in the U.S., where the so-called 'unbiased' media is nothing more than left-wing propaganda too. It's stomach-turning. The mainstream media's coffin just took another nice pounding with the historic interview between President Trump and Elon Musk. This much-anticipated talk crashed the internet, literally. The two men talked about mass deportations, solving inflation, stopping WW3, and defeating the deep state."

The analysis noted technical problems at the beginning: "It's unclear if the crash was due to a cyber attack or just a massive influx of people trying to log on. However, they managed to get it up and running and had to 'cap it' at over a million people tuning in live. It was an online moment to remember, that's for sure."

The campaign for Kamala Harris responded with a statement complaining about, "Donald Trump's extremism and dangerous Project 2025 agenda," ignoring the fact that Trump has confirmed he is not associated with Project 2025, which is a separate set of goals assembled by those unrelated to the Trump team.

Harris's campaign claimed the Trump event involved "self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024."

Trump's follow-up, predictably, did not take long: "Understandable that Kamala's campaign would find it confusing to listen to a presidential candidate speak off the teleprompter for more than 0 seconds."

While multiple legacy media outlets complained about the event, describing it as failed, even the leftists at CNN admitted the success of the event.

Musk and Trump spoke for more than two hours on topics ranging from the July 133 assassination attempt on Trump to the border, the state of the nation, the world, and more.

CNN media analyst Sara Fischer said one explanation for the technical issues was that it was a distributed denial of service attack, but she openly wondered.

"The problem with the DDOS attack … is that it often looks very much like just a very popular event and so we're just sort of having to take Musk's word for it. There has been third-party reporting that suggests it wasn't a DDOS attack, it was just X's systems responding to a flood of interest in this interview, but that speaks to some of the success of this interview, right?"

She continued, "It was 40 minutes of delay, of glitches, but once it got up and running, you had, I saw, over two million people joining the space live. You had over 50 million people who viewed it."

She said that suggests "people wanted to hear from the president."

And, "I think the other part is people like listening to this bromance go down. You know, Elon Musk isn't a journalist, he's not trying to press them on hard questions and you did see some sparks fly in that conversation at one point, the president sort of suggesting that Elon Musk come and join his administration. We'll see where that goes."

Fischer said it was expected that the Harris camp would portray it as "just billionaires" in support of Trump.

"But … the problem is that not a lot of people see it that way. People see Elon Musk, a lot of people, as giving a voice to the masses, as being more populist. People see Donald Trump as being more populist. And so even if the Harris campaign is going to try to convince people that this is just billionaires having fun, I think a lot of people saw it as just two regular people who are friends. That's how the American people might be looking at this."

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In a situation that is becoming more and more common as the failures of the transgender ideology and industry become evident, a family in Colorado is suing a local school district for its decision to "socially transition" a young girl in violation of the family's instructions, and then conceal the campaign.

CPR reports the family, living in Adams County to the north of Denver, is suing, in federal court, and state and local education authorities.

They charge a high school pushed a young girl into a "social transition" to male identity and concealed their actions from her parents, who did not know of it and provided no consent.

The case charges the school officials knowingly and willfully violated the parents' constitutional rights.

The case, on behalf of "John and Jane Doe," charges their 14-year-old high school freshman sought help from a counselor "to help her socially transition to a male identity."

The counselor agreed to help but refused to contact the parents.

The report continues, "The lawsuit claims that a counselor at School District 27J then allowed for A.D. to take online therapy sessions on the counselor's computer so A.D.'s parents would not be aware of the social transition."

A district official said there would be no comment on pending litigation, and officials still were reviewing the case.

The report explained, "The lawsuit alleges that the school's actions helped ruin their relationship with their child and eroded trust."

The situation developed even as the family "informed the counselor they did not want A.D. to be socially transitioned."

Their lawyer, former state Secretary of State Scott Gessler, charges that's a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment which, "protects the fundamental rights of parents to direct and control the upbringing of their children."

The family's First Amendment also was violated by the undue influence of the state.

The girl now has realized that she doesn't have a transgender identity, is "de-transitioning," and is now "on the path to a happier and healthier life," the legal filing states.

The far-left lawmakers in Colorado, where the statehouse and governor's office all are controlled by Democrats adopted a law that requires schools to refer to students by their "chosen" pronouns but fails to provide any process for parental consent.

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The FBI's stunning armed SWAT-style raid on President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home is coming back into the news, with plans by his lawyers for a $100 million lawsuit that charges that agency, under the administration of Joe Biden, attacked him with "clear intent to engage in political persecution."

The fact that it was a political move is almost without doubt, as the same bureaucracy had let Joe Biden off the hook for the same violation – reportedly keeping government papers, although there were differences.

Trump, as president, had the authority to declassify papers as he wished; Biden's offenses were from his time as senator and vice president, and he did not have the same authority.

Further, the special counsel investigating Biden for having government secrets in his personal offices, his home, even a relatively unsecured garage in a stash next to a classic car, recommended against formal criminal charges because of Biden's declining mental capacities.

But the bureaucrats also let former Vice President Mike Pence off the hook for similar circumstances, making it even more clear that Trump was a political target.

A report at RedState explains Trump's legal team is preparing the $100 million lawsuit against the Department of Justice for the actions on Aug. 8, 2022.

Trump attorney Daniel Epstein has filed a notice to sue the Justice Department. The Justice Department has 180 days from the date of receipt to respond to Epstein's notice and come to a resolution. If no resolution is made, Trump's case will move to federal court in the Southern District of Florida, the report explained.

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JERUSALEM – A situation which 24 hours or so before seemed somewhat ambiguous at best, appeared to crystallize Monday as evidence suggests Iranian hardliners have won the day and decided to to strike Israel for eliminating Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

Indeed, reports surfaced that Hezbollah has largely emptied Beirut's Dahiyeh neighborhood – the one in which its Chief of Staff Fuad Shukr was killed in an Israeli missile strike about 12 hours before the Haniyeh hit – of its entire headquarters – including computers and other equipment for fear of Israeli reprisals in the event of an attack on the Jewish state.

It is unclear if this includes the organization's leader – Hassan Nasrallah – who is thought to move his location daily from safe house to safe house, and whom many suspect is sequestered somewhere underground – and has been for more than a decade – fearful of any Israeli attempts to assassinate him.

On Sunday, it appeared Iran was potentially experiencing pangs of doubt about its proposed massive retaliation to Haniyeh's killing on its soil – and the attendant humiliation for both the location and timing. There were also doubts about whether Iran would risk a regional war to avenge the blood of a Palestinian, albeit one who was supposed to be an honored guest at its new president's investiture.

However, overnight Sunday positions appeared to change and a hardening of Iran's stance led Israel and the United States' respective defense establishments beginning to warn Tehran's response could be in a matter of a few days, if not an even shorter timeframe.

The U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin wrote on X he had called his Israeli counterpart Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to reiterate Washington's commitment to Israel's protection – and an acknowledgment he was ordering the "strengthening of U.S. military force posture and capabilities throughout the Middle East."

Indeed, the Department of Defense revealed Secretary Austin ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, along with F-35C fighters, to accelerate its transit to the Central Command area, bolstering the military presence already provided by the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group. Additionally, the USS Georgia, a guided missile submarine, has been deployed to the region. USS Georgia is armed with some 150 Tomahawk cruise missiles.