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Taxpayers are poised to save $9 billion as a deadline looms for Congress to finalize a recissions package that will withdraw cash handouts for foreign interests as well as tax money being used for the leftist agenda pursued by PBS.
The bill, adopted by the House first and now by the Senate, still requires House approval of Senate changes before it can go to President Donald Trump for his signature.
It specifically attacks spending areas that are problematic for many Americans: billions of dollars being handed out to foreign interests as well as massive subsidies for the PBS operations that critics have called leftist propaganda outlets.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., documented the bias as only he can:
The Senate adopted the recissions package on a 51-48 vote following a 13-hour vote-a-rama that was written to cancel $7.9 billion in handouts to foreign interests as well as about $1.1 billion intended for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which includes PBS.
A report at Roll Call said senators restored about $400 million for PEPFAR, the president's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Democrats fighting the cost-saving plan were working without one vote, as Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith went to the hospital on Wednesday feeling unwell.
The report said, "The passage vote marked a victory for the Trump administration, which is seeking to use the rescissions process to pare back federal spending and codify cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE."
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One of the U.S. military's most high-profile and respected whistleblowers, active-duty Navy Commander Robert A. Green, Jr., says his chain of command has informed him that he is, as of July 8, "under investigation for publicly calling out the unconstitutional and illegal actions by military leadership during the COVID-19 mandates." He made the announcement in an X post the following day:
"For 4 years I have been using the same language and the same demand for accountability that I continue to use on this platform," posted Green.
"My leadership does not like that I have used the words 'domestic enemies of the Constitution' to describe many of them for their actions during the mandates. But where were they when thousands of us notified them about the laws they were breaking?" He added: "There is a clear line drawn between service members who will defend the Constitution, and Admirals & Generals who violate constitutional rights with impunity."
Former service members are reacting strongly, clearly disturbed by the news. WorldNetDaily spoke to one such individual, Dr. Chase Spears, a retired U.S. Army public affairs officer. When Green published his book, "Defending the Constitution behind Enemy Lines," in July 2023, Spears quickly took notice. Having been a writer himself while serving in the Army and knowing the challenges that come with a hostile chain of command, he admired Green's "direct approach."
"That guy has a spine like no one I've ever seen in the military in my lifetime," Spears remembers thinking. As fate would have it, two years later, Spears was able to welcome Green to his podcast, "Finding Your Spine."
With news of a formal military probe into Commander Green's public statements regarding the illegalities of the now-rescinded COVID-19 military shot mandate, Spears told WND he is "surprised to see him investigated now."
He explained, "It surprised me that he was not being investigated in the past while we were under a very hostile [Biden] administration when he wrote his book, and when he began pointing out the law-breaking and widespread rampant corruption in the military."
"From what I can tell, he has not changed, remaining consistent in making the argument that the military continues to violate law, to violate due process and to violate the Constitution," Spears said, adding, "He's now doing this under an administration that knows the reality of rampant progressivism in the ranks."
So why is Green being investigated at this time?
"Ever since the Trump administration came in and Secretary of Defense Hegseth took the helm at the Pentagon," said Spears, "life hasn't gotten easier for conservatives." To the contrary, he said, "it has gotten harder because progressively minded officers who were raised under the Obama and Biden administration are insecure about the fact there's a new sheriff in town and they're clamping down even harder on those who hold a basic constitutional, traditional worldview."
"From what I have seen, the arguments Commander Green shares are not partisan, nor in violation of the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) or Defense Department regulations against political expression by service members," Spears pointed out. "He's simply calling out where the admirals and other senior military commanders continue to violate the law, due process and the very Constitution which they swore to uphold and defend."
For Spears, "It's another indicator of the fact that the military has lost its way and its purpose of actual national defense when it is focused on these witch hunts against people in the ranks who swear by these principles, and swear to this document we call the Constitution."
"There's a [Commander Green] in every generation and in every cause," he asserted. "There's a key leader who rises to the top, whether it be for a noble cause or an ignoble cause."
Green has been "one person service members and veterans have been able to rally behind because of his courage and the courage he draws out of other people," said Spears. For example, Green "spearheaded" the Declaration of Military Accountability, which was signed by 231 service members and veterans in January 2024 to seek accountability for the wrongs imposed upon them by the tyrannically enforced COVID-19 shot mandate.
In light of the investigation against Green, Spears, a signatory of the declaration, said, "Now is the time for other constitutionally minded military members to stand up with him." He challenges them, asking, "Will you be courageous, or will you be cowardly?"
"Many fellow military members may beat their chests with all this bravado about being a warrior and never leaving another comrade behind. So if this is true, it's past time to really man up," Spears told WND. "Hold true to your oaths now or sit down forever among those across history who did nothing when the moment called."
"If you're not willing to call fouls against clear legal and moral wrongs in your personal capacity, then what good are you?" Spears asked. "If I'm not assured that you believe in this idea of America and that your oath to defend it is worth more than the air you exhale it with, how can I trust you as a military leader?"
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Officials at Georgetown University have punished a tenured professor, removing him from the chairmanship position in his department and suspending him, after he called for a "symbolic" Iranian military strike on U.S. military forces.
The teacher, Jonathan Brown, was the Alwaleed bin Talal chairman of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at the school.
He posted, then deleted, his suggestion from just last month after the Trump administration's decision to bomb Iranian military sites where nuclear bomb components might have been under development that a broader conflict could be avoided and "everyone stops" war if Iran unleashed its military with "some symbolic strike on a base."
The Washington Examiner reported Georgetown interim President Robert Groves confirmed during a congressional hearing Brown was put on leave and removed from his post as department chair.
The report noted the swift action likely allowed the school to avoid a formal investigation into its Title VI compliance by the Trump administration, which already has looked at schools including Harvard over their handling, or non-handling, of anti-Israel protests and faculty.
"Within minutes of our learning of that tweet, the dean contacted Professor Brown, the tweet was removed, [and] we issued a statement condemning the tweet. Professor Brown is no longer chair of his department, and he's on leave, and we're beginning a process of reviewing the case," Groves confirmed to the House Education and Workforce Committee, which is reviewing anti-Semitism on American campuses.
Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, in fact, retaliated against the U.S. after the nuclear sites were hit by attacking a U.S. military base in Qatar, but the move left little damage.
The Examiner revealed, "In addition to his controversial comments on the Iran conflict, Brown attracted censure in 2017 over statements he made during a lecture on Iranian slavery and sex. At the time, critics accused the Georgetown University professor, who is a Muslim, of condoning slavery and non-consensual sex in Iran while condemning Western societies for the same problems."
His comments, at the time, included, "I don't think it's morally evil to own somebody," and "Consent isn't necessary for lawful sex."
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Amid the fights developing over what Jeffrey Epstein did, or didn't do, and the documents and information the government has, or doesn't have, regarding his pedophilia and his acquaintances, there comes a high-profile personality with firsthand experience.
Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, a longtime leftist who was swept up in allegations that erupted from the Epstein scenario, his activities and his controversies, found himself accused.
Falsely.
Here is his assessment of what's going on, with the DOJ's statement that no more information likely will be released about Epstein, the claim he did commit suicide in jail while awaiting additional charges, and the charge that there is no scandalous "client" list of his acquaintances.
There has been no explanation from the Trump administration about why that information first was discussed for release, then abruptly shut down.
He said:
This is not an opinion. This is a fact. I have seen … remember I was accused falsely and …. ultimately I was completely cleared … the woman admitted she may have mistook me for somebody else and withdrew all of her lawsuits, and so from Day One, from the day I was accused, I said I want every document, because I knew every document would prove that I was innocent.
So let me tell you I know for a fact documents are being suppressed, and they're being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals. I know why they're being suppressed. I know who's suppressing them, but I'm bound by confidentiality from a judge and cases and I can't disclose what I know. But I, hand to God, I know, I know the names of people, whose files are being suppressed, in order to protect them.
They're everything, uh, look, let me tell you, a lot of them, at least one of them is somebody who was accused. Others are accusers. The judge said if somebody calls themselves a victim, a victim, we're not going to give any information about them. But they may not be victims, they may be perpetrators so we don't have information about false accusers. And we know there have been many false accusers who have accused innocent people for money, and those records are being deliberately, willfully suppressed and they shouldn't be suppressed.
If the accusation is allowed out, so should the material that diminishes the credibility of the accusers. We want total transparency on this. Every single document. No redactions, that's what I said from day one. I waive any of my rights to privacy, anything there is about me I'm happy it will be exculpatory because I know I haven't touched a woman other than my wife from the day I met Jeffrey Epstein. I don't even hug people.
But I was falsely accused. But I was able to prove it and I was able to prove it through documents and I want other people to be able to disprove false accusations through documents. But these documents are being suppressed and withheld."
Commentator and author Victor Davis Hanson has a similar take on the protection of certain individuals connected to Epstein. Here is the explanation he recently gave to Glenn Beck:
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A former model who says she was raped at least three times a day on Jeffrey Epstein's private island is now going scorched earth on President Donald Trump after his Justice Department this week reneged on its pledge to release files including names, flight logs and co-conspirators of the convicted pedophile.
In a video she posted Tuesday on X, Juliette Bryant of South Africa targeted Trump by name, the same day the president blasted a reporter for asking a question about "this creep" Epstein.
"Wow! Donald Trump! American government. Your government kidnapped me," Bryant began.
"You promised the Epstein list. Victims are being found dead. Hello! I mean the whole reason you gained presidency, Trump, was because of promising the Epstein list. Are you as much of a liar as them?
"Thank goodness for Elon Musk for actually standing up for what's right. It's funny how only South Africans stand up, because where are the other 200 Epstein victims? Although maybe they're too frightened to speak up because of the American government.
"Well, I speak for all of them. I speak for all victims. How dare your government abuse, rape and murder?! We'll be coming for you, don't you worry, government.
"You can sit there and pretend that Epstein didn't exist and that none of this happened. But guess what. We're not that f***ing stupid!
"Don't make us any more angry, otherwise we will come and we will find you. How dare you?!
In a separate interview with Don Keith, Bryant said: "If they release what they're really up to, it will break people's brains.
"People will suddenly be all anti-government. People won't want to go to work anymore. Religion will fall away, that's what will happen."
In 2022, Bryant was featured in a BBC documentary called "House of Maxwell," explaining how she became one of Epstein's trafficked sex slaves after being lured with promises of becoming a Victoria's Secret model.
In the program, Bryant said Epstein "fed off the terror … there was something about the energy of a girl being scared that he liked."
"I was being ordered to his bedroom at least three times a day."
Bryant insisted she "saw at least 60 girls coming and going" while she was on Epstein's Caribbean island.
"It was just like a factory … he was running a machine and Ghislaine Maxwell was the one operating it," referring to his convicted madam.
Bryant's new video Tuesday came amid fresh controversy when President Trump snapped at a reporter who asked if Epstein was a foreign agent.
Meanwhile, journalist Benny Johnson posted an in-depth explanation about why Americans care want details of the Epstein case, saying: "We care about Epstein because we care if our government is protecting an elite pedophile cult. That's it. That why we care.
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The saga of Sadé Perkins, the former Houston mayoral appointee who went viral with a racist tirade against the white girls killed at Camp Mystic in weekend Texas flooding, continues as her own reverend boyfriend and church officials are disavowing her remarks.
"My partner Sadé Perkins has made comments on social media regarding the horrific flooding that devastated Camp Mystic," said Rev. Dr. Colin Bossen, senior minister at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston. "I want to be clear that I disavow her comments."
"While she was not speaking on my behalf or on behalf of my congregation, I recognize that her comments have caused harm to many who are experiencing terrible loss and anxiety.
"I believe strongly that all people have inherent worthiness and dignity. Her comments were not in the spirit of the Unitarian Universalist values centered around love that my congregation and I share."
Joan Waddill, board president of the church, issued her own statement, indicating: "We are aware that a person who is affiliated with our church, but not a member or on our staff, has made offensive remarks on social media about these deaths.
"She was not speaking for the church, but only for herself. Indeed, her comments contradict the core values of our church, and we are horrified to be associated with these comments.
"We extend a hand to this person to try to help her recognize the insensitivity of her behavior while we extend our other hand and what help we might provide to the families who have been devastated by these deaths."
Perkins has continued posting her racist views online, saying: "There's children right now in ICE detention who y'all don't give two f****s about. There's no prayers going up for them, but we're supposed to stop the world and stop everything we're doing to go and hunt for these little missing white girls."
As WorldNetDaily reported Monday, Perkins, a TikTok influencer blasted "people who are donating and helping find the missing girls" in the Texas tragedy that resulted from an overnight downpour and flash flood. At least 109 people, include dozens of children, have died as of Tuesday.
Libs of TikTok labeled the comments, "One of the sickest things I've ever seen."
An update suggested the commenter was being removed, permanently, from a Houston city board to which she had been appointed.
Perkins originally said:
I know I'm probably going to get canceled for this but Camp Mystic is a whites-only girls Christian camp. They don't even have a token Asian. They don't have a token black person. It is a (sic) all-white white-only, conservative Christian camp. If you ain't white, you ain't right. You ain't getting' in. You ain't goin'. Period. And I think that context needs to be said in this matter. It's not to say that we don't want the girls to be found, whatever girls are missing or whatever right now. But you best believe, especially in today's political climate, if this were a group of Hispanic girls, especially with them being in east Texas, should be, most likely Hispanic, if this were a group of Hispanic girls out there, this would not be getting the type of coverage that they're getting. No one would give a f***. And all of these white people, the parents of these little girls would be saying things like they need to be deported, they shouldn't have been here in the first place, and yada, yada.
And before ya'll come at me. Before ya'll start leaving hate comments on my page about Oh these are just kids and they don't know no better (garble). Parents of these children who are choosing, and it is a choice in 2025. It is definitely a freaking choice. And to go into east G** **** Texas and to a (sic) all-white enclave, exclusionary, just for white people, with all the black people in east Texas, with all the Hispanic people in east Texas, somehow, some way, you have carved out an all-white, white only enclave, in east Texas, for your white children. Yah, I have a problem with that. I have a big problem with that. Once again, this is no shade to the girls. I hope they all get found, but once again, ya'll have to understand the climate that we're living in. They want you to have sympathy for these people. They want you to get out of your bed and come outta your home and go find these people, donate your money to go find these people. Meanwhile, they are deporting your family members, meanwhile, they are setting up concentration camps, and prisons for your family members. And I need ya'll to keep that in mind, before y'all get out there and put on your rain boots, and go find little girls.
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A Texas pediatrician who took to social media to claim, wildly and irrationally, that Texas flood victims, adults and children, were supporters of President Donald Trump and got "what they voted for" has been fired.
A report at the New York Post said Dr. Christina Propst first was suspended for her "vile post," then dismissed.
A commentary at Twitchy described her as a "MONSTER pediatrician" who was "cheering" the deaths of "MAGA children."
"May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry," Probst wrote in the now-viral post, the Post said. "Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts."
Twitchy commented, "We have no words. Ok, that's not true, we always have words, but none of them are PG-13 enough for this site. And the fact that she thought it was smart to post it for the whole world to see only makes it worse. Posts are forever, especially those that truly reveal who people are."
Her employer, Blue Fish Pediatrics, responded:
The Post reported, "Propst's employer, Blue Fish Pediatrics, initially said the employee had been suspended — before announcing that 'the individual is no longer employed' there."
"As we previously mentioned in our original statement, we strongly condemn the comments that were made in that post. That post does not reflect the values, standards, or mission of Blue Fish Pediatrics," the company said.
The chief of the Texas Medical Board, Sherif Zaafran, also said, "There is no place for politicization. The entire focus needs to be on looking for survivors. Any complaints we may receive will be thoroughly investigated."
The report explained, "The doctor appeared to have changed her username and profile image on Facebook since the post went viral, several X users noted. Propst's profile pages were taken down from both the Blue Fish Pediatrics site and the website for Memorial Hermann Health System, which is associated with Blue Fish Pediatrics."
Memorial Hermann said, in a statement, "This provider is not employed by Memorial Hermann. We have zero tolerance for such rhetoric which does not reflect the mission, vision, or values of our system."
Kerr County voted for President Trump in November.
Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp located along the banks of the Guadalupe River, confirmed on Monday that 27 campers and counselors had been killed.
On social media, a commenter said, "No telling how malicious a doctor like that would be."
Another told Gov. Greg Abbott, "She should lose her medical license."
A long list of insults also followed her online comments, with the mildest being, "You likely cannot uphold your oath to 'do no harm' if you actively wish death on people who simply have a difference of political opinion."
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Two American veterans working with the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) have been injured in an attack while distributing aid to Palestinians.
As reported by Fox News, the two veterans are reportedly receiving medical treatment and are in stable condition. GHF said the Americans were "highly decorated" veterans.
"GHF has repeatedly warned of credible threats from Hamas, including explicit plans to target American personnel, Palestinian aid workers, and the civilians who rely on our sites for food. Today's attack tragically affirms those warnings," the organization wrote on X.
Despite the attacks, GHF vowed that it was still committed to the mission of delivering aid to Gazans.
The group later posted an image of grenade fragments left over from the attack, showing the weapons were packed with ball bearings, Fox reported. According to GHF Executive Chairman Rev. Johnnie Moore, the grenades were found to be of Iranian origin and have been "commonly used by Hamas."
"I am sorry to say also that today's terror attack on Americans is partly a byproduct of the legitimacy that many in the press and at the [U.N.] provide to Hamas – amplifying Hamas' lies about GHF every day, but also actively collaborating with Hamas," Moore wrote on X.
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Methodist preachers, historically, were the circuit riders who evangelized much of the western United States before the states all were states. They adhered to a tradition of John Wesley's teachings and followed the population as it moved into new lands.
Now not only are circuit riders gone, but apparently so are Wesley's teachings, as the United Methodist Church in America has established a solid reputation for leftist ideologies and agendas. Homosexual clergy? Old hat. Rainbow parades. Sure. Sins? Don't worry.
But an opinion piece released at EndTimeHeadlines reveals that one congregation has taken the agenda to an extreme.
With an F-bomb-laden, LGBT "worship anthem" in which a performer loudly proclaims "I'm f****** gay."
The commentary said, "It was once said that when the Church stops offending the world, it has stopped representing Christ. That grim warning came true again in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Zao MKE Church – an official United Methodist congregation – recently led its Sunday worship with a profane, self-glorifying anthem titled, 'I'm F****** Gay.'"
The editorial explained the "pastors" are two biological females, Jonah and Cameron Overton, "who have transitioned and now present themselves as a gay male couple." The congregation rejoiced queerness, profanity and "Christian rejection."
"The chorus included the line, 'I'm f****** gay and thank God for that,' with the F-bomb blaring through the sanctuary. They even admitted replacing it with 'freakin" in other verses – for the kids in attendance – but kept one original for good measure. In a church. On Sunday. In the name of Jesus," the commentary said.
Explains the publication, "The United Methodist Church was once a movement of revival, holiness, and deep commitment to Scripture. It stood for Wesleyan theology, sanctification, the pursuit of righteousness. But today? It's quickly becoming a cautionary tale. A denomination drunk on cultural approval, hollowing itself out from the inside. You can call yourself 'Jesus-rooted' all you want – but if your message is indistinguishable from a drag club with a fog machine, something has gone terribly wrong."
That, it said, "is not a song lyric. It's a theological tragedy. It's what happens when man becomes the measure, when self becomes sacred, and when the Church forgets it is not here to mimic the world – but to confront it."
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A man who admits murdering and crucifying a Christian pastor is now giving interviews, and says he was doing God's will, with 13 other Christian leaders targeted for "execution."
Adam Christopher Sheafe, 51, is openly confessing to killing 76-year-old William Schonemann at his New River, Arizona, home in April.
The victim was found dead in his bed, covered in blood, on April 28, when deputies conducted a welfare check. Sheafe had placed a crown of thorns on the pastor's head.
If Sheafe had not been captured following a manhunt, the self-admitted killer said 13 others would have been slain.
"I was going to start in Phoenix and end in Phoenix, and circle the nation. Ten cities, 14 pastors, 10 states," he explained.
"From there, it was Las Vegas, Nevada; Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; Billings, Montana; Detroit, Michigan; New York, New York; Charlotte, North Carolina; Mobile, Alabama; Beaumont, Texas and El Paso, Texas," he said.
"I was gonna put the Ten Commandments, in order, on each of the priests, on a leather tag in the right ear after I crucified them."
Sheafe is reportedly a believer in the Old Testament only, saying the God of the Bible is not Jesus, but only the Father.
"Christian, Catholic, Mormon. Anyone preaching that Jesus is God, essentially, the Trinity, a concept created by man, by Paul. He's not God. God, the Father alone, is God," he said.
"What I'm saying is, what you're preaching is not what God said. It's the opposite of what God said."
"I don't hate Christians. I'm after the pastors that are leading them astray."
Speaking with True Crime Arizona reporter Briana Whitney, Sheafe said:
"I want the death penalty because I want to show that you can't kill God's son. The whole story is B.S."
Whitney: "So, if you're given the death penalty, it's not likely you'll be executed quickly."
Sheafe: "Well, I want to be executed quickly so we can get this show on the road and show exactly what I'm trying to do … All you gotta do is worship Jesus and you go to Heaven; your sins are forgiven. That's not what God said."
Whitney: "But did you think God was going to forgive your sins?"
Sheafe: "Absolutely he will forgive my sins. He is a forgiving God and loving God."
Whitney: "How do you justify that? I mean, if you're killing somebody or multiple people – attempted, how does that work?"
Sheafe: "It's a commandment to rid Israel of evil."
Schonemann's family released a statement in the wake of Sheafe going public with the reasoning for his crimes:
"What we have seen over the last week is this suspect enjoying the attention. His side of the story is half of the whole story, and we see the need to cover it however challenging that may be for us," the family said in a statement seen by Fox 10, although they criticized the granting of a platform to Sheafe.
"We are quite surprised by his ability to freely message with county-supplied devices. We are concerned about his increasing notoriety and possibly gaining a following," the statement continued.
"He has clearly stated his intentions to continue his mission. From the beginning, our focus has been to stop the suspect before anyone else got hurt. We see the surge of media attention and his ability to communicate freely as a very serious threat to that end."
In a commentary at Blaze Media, Owen Anderson laments the lack of outrage over the crucifixion-murder of the pastor.
"Had the victim belonged to a different religion , particularly one deemed 'marginalized' or 'indigenous,' – CNN would run wall-to-wall coverage. MSNBC hosts would cry on air about America's hatred. The Justice Department would announce investigations before the body cooled," writes Anderson.
"If the killer had cited Christian teachings while attacking a Planned Parenthood activist or drag performer, Los Angeles would be on fire and the Palestinian flag would fly from city hall. But Pastor Schonemann preached Christ crucified. And so, the outrage is muted."