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The American people still do not know, and may never know, all of the players in Washington and elsewhere who carried out the Democrat party's lawfare against President Trump over the years.

But they now know those who were the pushers behind the agenda: Former Attorney General Merrick Garland, ex-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and ex-FBI chief Chris Wray.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has released documents showing those names as the activists who were pushing for the "Arctic Frost" investigation that produced much of the Democrats' lawfare against Trump.

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More than 2,000 names verified as non-citizens have been found on the voter rolls in Texas – and an unknown number of these people are illegal aliens.

The data comes from Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson, who said Monday that 2,724 non-citizens were found to be registered to vote in the state after officials cross-referenced voter rolls with a federal citizenship database.

"Only eligible United States citizens may participate in our elections," Nelson said. "The Trump administration's decision to give states free and direct access to this data set for the first time has been a game changer, and we appreciate the partnership with the federal government to verify the citizenship of those on our voter rolls and maintain accurate voter lists."

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Iran's Shariah agenda, specifically the Islamic law and government's demand for "modesty" in women's attire, has taken a huge hit because of online videos.

They show Ali Shamkhani, "one of the Islamic Republic's top enforcers" of clothing for women that covers them up, parading around at his daughter's wedding, and she is wearing a very revealing strapless gown with a plunging neckline.

So is Shamklhani's wife, according to the reports.

A journalist's report said, "The daughter of Ali Shamkhani one of the Islamic Republic's top enforcers had a lavish wedding in a strapless dress. Meanwhile, women in Iran are beaten for showing their hair and young people can't afford to marry. This video made millions of Iranian furious. Because they enforce 'Islamic values' with, bullets , batons and prisons on everyone but themselves. … The same regime that killed #MahsaAmini for showing a bit of her hair, jails women for singing, whose hired 80,000 'morality police' to drag girls into vans, throws itself a luxury party. This isn't hypocrisy, it's the system. They preach 'modesty' while their own daughters parade in designer dresses."

Another commenter said, "He employs morality police and imprisons any woman who does not wear a veil in Iran. One rule for him and one rule for everyone else in Iran."

The Daily Mail reported, "Footage circulating on social media shows Ali Shamkhani, a top advisor to Iran's supreme leader and a member of the Expediency Council, escorting his daughter, Fatemeh, into a wedding hall at Tehran's luxury Espinas Palace Hotel. The bride wore a strapless white dress with a low neckline and entered the grand room to cheers and music."

Iranian social media, the report said, was "accusing Shamkhani of hypocrisy, considering the mandatory hijab and modesty laws that have restricted women's dress for decades."

Shamkhani was secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, which is responsible for the regime's national security, between 2013 and 2023.

He held that position, the report said, "when the government organized a brutal crackdown on the protests following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, who died in police custody in 2022 after being arrested for allegedly violating rules requiring women to wear the headscarf."

The report said, "The wedding of Shamkhani's daughter was reportedly held in April 2024 and attended by members of Iran's political elite."

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PALM BEACH, Florida – Tom Cruise has competition. It looks like President Donald Trump is suddenly the No. 2 top gun in America.

The commander in chief late Saturday posted an epic artificial intelligence video of himself piloting an American fighter jet called "King Trump," dumping what appears to be loads of feces on "No Kings" protesters who are voicing their objections this weekend against the president.

Among the protesters is left-wing influencer Harry Sisson, who is seen getting completely doused with poop.

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A Democratic U.S. senator has introduced a bill that would allow federal workers not being paid during the government shutdown to forgo their rent or mortgage payments, without penalty.

The bill, introduced by Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and 17 Democratic colleagues, would relieve workers and contractors from their obligations to pay rent, mortgages, insurance premiums and student loan payments during shutdowns, reports Reason.

In addition, it stays eviction and foreclosure proceedings for 30 days after the shutdown ends, with a penalty of fines or even jail time.

Said Schatz: "Right now, hundreds of thousands of federal workers, federal contractor employees, and their families don't know whether they'll be able to pay rent and make ends meet. Our bill will protect these workers and make sure they aren't harmed during this shutdown."

What Schatz does not mention is that once the shutdown ends, all back pay owed will go to those same federal workers — money that can be used to catch up with rental payments.

As Reason reports, a recent study published in the Journal of Urban Economics compared the strength of tenant protections to rents. It found that stronger tenant protections reduced evictions but also reduced vacancies and were correlated with higher rents and higher rates of homelessness.

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For years, India has marketed itself as the world's next great innovation hub, the emerging Silicon Valley of the East. Politicians, business leaders and industry groups have celebrated the nation's engineers as global talent, proudly pointing to every Indian-origin CEO leading a major American tech firm as proof of India's global prominence. The narrative being pushed has been that India was no longer just the world's back office – it was the future of technology.

Yet beneath the glossy slogans of "Digital India" and "Make in India," reality dictates a very different story.

The promise of innovation has rarely matched the results. As noted in a report by The Wire, India's allure for investors stems not from its depth of talent, but from the fact that its "labor is cheap and laws are lax." Still, American venture capitalists, eager to stake a claim in the "next tech frontier," have bought into the illusion. Capital flowed, partnerships multiplied and billion-dollar valuations were built, not on genuine technological breakthroughs, but on carefully crafted narratives that sold success.

Why India copies well but fails to lead in innovation

When "multinational educational technology company" BYJU's emerged, it quickly became the perfect poster child for India's startup dream. It was marketed as a unicorn – that is, a privately held startup company with a valuation of over $1 billion – proof that India could not only serve Silicon Valley, but become it. The company promised to transform how children learn and to usher in a new age of digital education. Yet, true to the national pattern, the promise unraveled quickly.

From unicorn to black sheep

Before its eventual financial and legal collapse, BYJU's stood as one of India's most celebrated startup success stories.

Founded in 2011 and officially being dubbed a unicorn by 2018, it grew from a small tutoring operation into India's most valued startup by 2022, ultimately being valued at $22 billion.

Its learning app soon became a household name across India and founder Byju Raveendran earned a spot on the Forbes list of India's richest people, celebrated as a self-made visionary transforming education. Former employees recalled his taste for five-star hotels and luxury cars, while his wife and co-founder, Divya Gokulnath, was seen networking in elite tech circles and Silicon Valley gatherings. Together, they emerged as global power players, symbols of a new generation of Indian entrepreneurs reshaping the country's image on the world stage.

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In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, an Oklahoma State University student is going public after a school official reprimanded him for his support of the slain civil-rights leader, saying some people could be "triggered" simply because he wore a Turning Point USA hat with the number 47 on it.

Student Joshua Wilson is exposing the actions of Melisa Echols, OSU's coordinator of student-government programs, who told him: "As a person who doesn't look like you and has not had the same lived experience as you, I have family who don't look like you who are triggered – and I will be very candid with you – who are triggered by those hats and by that side."

While Wilson told Echols he understood her concerns, he didn't believe wearing a Turning Point hat was partisan, and he rejected the claim it was somehow harmful to other students.

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It is the next step in the war against InfoWars, the Alex Jones organization that was sued over his comments about the Sandy Hook school shooting and the families involved. And it's gone to the Supreme Court.

Jones, who was declared liable for more than a billion dollars in damages in default judgments from two different judges, is challenging those rulings.

Jones has submitted an appeal to the high court that centers on a judgment in Connecticut.

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President Trump Saturday vowed to get members of the military paid Oct. 15 despite the ongoing government shutdown that has prevented nearly all federal employees from being paid.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said he directed Secretary of War Pet Hegseth to find the funds to make good on payday Wednesday, saying, "we have identified funds to do this."

Insisted Trump, " I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown."

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For years already, Democrats and other leftists have described conservatives as "Nazis" and President Donald Trump as a "Hitler."

It's not because they are doing the things of the evil empire during World War II; it's because they have a political ideology and agenda that disagrees with Democrats and leftists.

But the constant and incessant characterizations have produced their results: An explosion of threats against the president, federal officers and their supporters that in all likelihood should not be ignored.

For example, the Department of Homeland Security posted online an audio of a threat delivered by telephone to the spouse of a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

"I don't know how you let your husband work for ICE, and you sleep at night. F–k you, f–k your family. I hope your kids get deported by accident. How do you sleep? F–k you. Did you hear what happened to the Nazis after World War II? Because it's what's going to happen to your family," said the woman making the threat.

Homeland Security explained, "Antifa terrorists are threatening the FAMILIES of our law enforcement. We will hunt these sickos down and put them behind bars. In Texas, the spouse of an ICE officer received a voicemail filled with violent threats. If you don't believe that radical anarchists want ICE law enforcement dead, listen to this."

Social media commenters joined the conversation, with, "The party of love, peace, and tolerance," and "I was reliably told that this never happens."

Recently, a sniper attacked an ICE facility in Texas, and authorities said the attacker was aiming at officers, but instead killed two detainees.

Another jumped straight to a conclusion: "These people are demons."

Yet another, "Democrats must cut out their anti-ice rhetoric."

The New York Post said, "The Department of Homeland Security has condemned the 'dangerous' doxxing of immigration agents and their families as the agency pleads to dial down the pervasive and escalating rhetoric emanating from lefty politicians and media outlets."

DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said, "The men and women of ICE and CBP are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, they just want to go home to their families at night. The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop."

Physical assaults already have exploded by 1,000% on federal agents, authorities have noted.

The report said three women were indicted last month, accused of stalking an ICE agent to his home.

"When they arrived at the agent's home, they continued streaming while shouting to bystanders that their 'neighbor is ICE,' 'la migra lives here' and 'ICE lives on your street and you should know.' They publicly disclosed the agent's home address and encouraged viewers to 'come on down,'" the report said.

Another case involved the arrest of f 68-year-old man in San Diego after he posted the home address of a federal lawyer online and urged people to "swat" her.

That's a "dangerous harassment tactic," the report said, where fake emergency calls are made to provoke an armed response by police.

There even are bounties being offered:

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem condemned the activities and warned about the surge in threats.

She charged that those delivering violent rhetoric actually are "making plans to ambush them and to kill them."

It was in the Dallas shooting that authorities reported the gunman apparently used a software program to track ICE agents.

Threats even have been documented against Washington officials, including Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.

And others have been targeted, too.