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Islam's religious law, Shariah, has been trigger point for a protest that involved punches thrown, scuffles, someone stealing a Quran and more in the Muslim-dominated city of Dearborn, Mich.
The result was a slew of online videos showing the fisticuffs and other violence.
One report confirmed, "Violent Muslim protesters attack provocateur Jake Lang as he hits a Quran with bacon," the consumption of which is banned by Islam.
The protest was to oppose the advance of Shariah Islamic law in America, and Muslim demands for a higher level of protection for Islam than for Christian or Judaism or their components. For example, an "artist" years ago created a stir and won acclaim for submerging a crucifix in Urine and calling it "P— Christ."
The Shariah opponents clashed with pro-Islam radicals in Dearborn, a city now run by Muslims in government there.
CBS reported the "dueling demonstrations stemmed from when Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Anthony Hudson falsely claimed that there was Shariah Law in Dearborn."
Hudson later walked back those comments, explaining, "If we're going to bring these people together, then we're going to lead by example and come down here, put boots on the ground and walk with these people and show that we can come together."
Joining the protest was Lang, a candidate for Senate from Florida.
Lang challenged the status quo by trying to burn a Quran, which was ripped from his possession by a counter-protester. He then grabbed another Quran, slapping it repeatedly with a slab of bacon before it, too, was stolen from him.
Lang had promoted his activism ahead of time.
And it's not the only action Lang is taking regarding what he feels is improper Muslim influence, with his lawsuit charging that the incoming New York City mayor, a Muslim, is discriminating against Christians.
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A handful of Democrats in Congress who served in the U.S. military and intelligence community are raising eyebrows with a new video encouraging current service members to refuse to follow "illegal orders" issued by the administration of President Donald Trump.
"We want to speak directly to members of the military and the intelligence community who take risks each day to keep Americans safe," the lawmakers say, taking turns in brief clips. "We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now."
"This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence-community professionals against American citizens. Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.
"Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.
"We know this is hard and that it's a difficult time to be a public servant. But whether you're serving in the CIA, the Army, our Navy, the Air Force, your vigilance is critical and know that we have your back. Because now, more than ever, the American people need you. We need you to stand up for our laws, our Constitution and who we are as Americans."
The video concludes with the message: "Don't give up the ship."
Democrats featured in the video are Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, a former CIA officer; Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, a former Navy captain and astronaut; Rep. Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, a former Navy officer; Rep. Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire, a former intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve; Rep. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, a former Air Force officer; and Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado, a former paratrooper and Army Ranger.
Stephen Miller, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security, says: "Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection."
LibsofTikTok commented: "Elected Democrats just released a video encouraging members of the military to commit treason and DEFY orders from Trump and Hegseth."
Others noted:
"This is seditious conspiracy. Arrest every one of them."
"That's a helluva way for the Dems to advocate for military members ending their careers."
"Every attempt to take over this country has failed. Now the Epstein documents are coming out. And coincidentally you're asking our military to commit treason, just as you all probably have. How fitting."
"Who's going to charge them with treason? No one. And they know it, so they feel totally free to break the law."
"I notice they didn't mention what, specifically, the danger is. In what way is our laws and constitution being challenged? In fact, they didn't even vaguely state this. Just more nonsense."
"Is this unlawful? If so, arrest them. If not, ignore them."
"Looks like some treason indictments are needed. @FBI @DOJCrimDiv."
"The Democrat party was built on treason."
"Haha, these are the same people who voted against our military personnel and federal employees receiving compensation for their work."
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While the federal government cracks down on illegal aliens who obtained commercial driver's licenses from California, the state of New York has its own scandal where employees of the Department of Motor Vehicles were allegedly getting paid to take the written driving tests on behalf of trucker-wannabes.
Seven people, including DMV employees, have been charged with 51 felony counts by the Nassau County District Attorney's Office on Long Island.
"Bypassing that safeguard is far from a harmless shortcut, it is a dangerous threat to public safety," said New York Inspector General Lucy Lang last month.
WABC-TV reported: "Among those charged include Kanaisha Middleton, a supervisor at the Garden City branch of the DMV, as well as her sister, Jamie Middleton, who is accused of taking at least 10 different permit tests for no-show drivers.
"Surveillance images show Jamie Middleton wearing different disguises, even fake facial hair as she posed as a man who would be applying for a commercial driving permit, but she forgot to take off her fake nails."
"We think it's pretty, pretty poor. The finger nails kind of gave it away," Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said.
"She's in disguise, coming in different clothing and even going so far as to wear fake mustaches, beards, glasses, masks – almost like a spy in an espionage thriller,"
according to the New York Post.
"These disguises were all about selling the scheme for the cameras," she said. "[The real applicants] never set foot in the Garden City DMV, never clicked a single button to take the required test."
Authorities say the defendants charged up to $3,000 per test, with two of the accused working the DMV counters so they could wave through the phony test taker.
Donnelly said Middleton sat for at least 10 tests, despite looking nothing like the applicants.
"One day, she actually sat twice. Came out, went back to the counter, and back in five minutes later," Donnelly said.
Charges include impairing the integrity of a government licensing examination, tampering with public records, corrupting the government and falsifying business records.
If found guilty, the accused face a maximum sentence of 2.5 to 7 years in prison.
As WorldNetDaily reported last week, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Transportation revealed California has issued 17,000 commercial licenses to "dangerous" foreign-born truck drivers.
"After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday.
"Now that we've exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked."
"This is just the tip of the iceberg. My team will continue to force California to prove they have removed every illegal immigrant from behind the wheel of semitrucks and school buses."
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An Oregon school district has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle with two educators who were punished, then fired, for speaking out against the injurious transgender agenda the district was adopting.
The trans ideology as promoted by Joe Biden and his administration for years includes giving chemicals to children to delay puberty, then doing mutilating body surgeries on the child.
Grants Pass, Ore., educators Katie Medart and Rachel Sager had launched a grassroots movement called "I Resolve" to speak out on a school gender identity education policy, and to offer alternatives that would allow teachers to continue teaching without submitting their religious beliefs to the social agenda.
And one that would respect the rights of parents to know what their children were being given in school.
They posted a video on their own website promoting their beliefs and efforts.
Subsequently, Grants Pass School District 7 officials suspended them, then fired them.
"Educators are free to express opinions on fundamental issues of public concern—like gender identity education policy—that implicate the freedoms of teachers, parents, and students," said Mathew Hoffman, of the ADF, which represented the teachers along with the Pacific Justice Institute.
"The Grants Pass School District is taking the right step by acknowledging that teachers don't give up their First Amendment rights when they set foot on school property. Public schools can't retaliate against speech simply because they disagree with what's said."
Sager and Medart have worked in the education field for many years, including at North Middle School in Grants Pass. Sager served as assistant principal, and Medart taught science there, the legal teams explained.
Their legal action charging the school violated their free speech, religious freedom and equal protection rights was settled with the district agreeing to pay $650,000 in damages and attorneys' fees.
And the school is issuing a public statement acknowledging that the teachers' wrongful termination fell short of its standards and responsibilities, providing positive letters of recommendation for both, and revising the district's policies and practices to comply with the First Amendment.
The case had been headed for trial, which the district avoided by reaching the settlement, after the usually far-left 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the teachers' favor by partly vacating a lower court's decision for the school, and ordering a trial to be held.
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In a result that could be filed under, "Well, Duh!" a new report says leftist, high-tax states like New York and New Jersey recently have lost the taxes on some two-thirds of a trillion dollars in residents' taxable incomes.
It's because residents are fleeing states where gender ideology, communist ideas and socialism is surging.
It is the Unleash Prosperity organization that reported this week that New York lost the ability to tax more than $517 billion in residents' incomes from 2013 to 2022. New Jersey, another enclave of leftists, lost $170.1 billion.
California lost the taxes on $370.1 million in residents' incomes and Illinois lost the taxes on $315.2 billion.
The four states alone, all dominated by Democrat politics and politicians, lost the ability to tax nearly $1.4 trillion in income, and that will continue into the future.
A report at Fox Business said, "The report covers cumulative gains and losses in each state's resident income, as a mover takes their income to another state for subsequent years – not just the first year after their move."
"New York and New Jersey combined have lost two-thirds of a trillion dollars in net income and purchasing power over the last decade due to moving vans departing these states," said Steve Moore, economist and co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, in an interview.
"This has been one of the greatest wealth losses for one region in American history. New Jersey and New York are being bled to death by low tax states in the South," Moore said.
At the other end of the scale was Florida, where a gain of $1 trillion in taxable income was confirmed, as well as Texas, with saw a $290 billion increase.
The report said, "Based on tax filing data from the 2011-12 period through 2021-22, New York lost a net 1.757 million residents to domestic migration, while California lost 1.632 million, Illinois 881,012 and New Jersey 350,111 over that period."
Florida gained nearly 1.6 million and Texas 1.2 million.
The report, according to the New York Post, follows "an election where New Jersey chose to stay left and New York City opted to go farther left.
It explained, "It's not uncommon to look at the one-year losses and gains of income from internal migration such as taxpayers fleeing New York for Florida, but that fails to capture the long-lasting impact: The migrant's income is lost (or gained) year after year for the rest of his or her life."
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It's more important than climate change, schools, gun violence, health care and inflation.
More significant that the economy, taxes, immigration and abortion.
A higher priority than crime, morals and political divisions.
It's fighting President Donald Trump. It's holding onto Trump Derangement Syndrome.
That's the result of a polling done by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution of Democrat voters in the state.
A full 20% of the Democrats responding said "standing up to Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans" is their most important issue.
Only 17% cited inflation and 15% the economy and jobs.
Longtime Democrat focal points, climate change, abortion, immigration and such all were in single digits.
A report from Townhall said, "The poll found that among likely Georgia Democratic primary voters, 17 percent cited inflation and the cost of living as their top concerns. About 15 percent said the economy and jobs are number one. Yet, when it comes to 'standing up to Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans,' about 20 percent indicated this is their top issue."
GOP respondents in the same polling picked cost of living, 18%, as their highest priority, followed by economy 14%, immigration, 13%, crime 12%. Schools and taxes came in at the high single digit levels.
The report said, "So, despite higher prices at the grocery store and elsewhere (thanks Biden), Democratic voters in the Peach State believe the Orange Man What Is Bad™ is the most pressing issue facing them today. Yes, they are concerned about economic issues when you combine the numbers for inflation and jobs, but the fact that they are still fixated on the president shows how deeply Trump Derangement Syndrome runs among Democrats."
It continued "Imagine being more concerned about who sits in the White House than crime in your communities and the lack of quality education — issues that the president has little control over. These are issues that state and local governments are supposed to address. Yet, too many voters still think the president is the most important issue facing the country."
Social media included several opinions:
"In a new poll out of Georgia, Democrats say their 'single most important issue' is standing up to Abraham Lincoln and anti-slavery Republicans."
"I'll live under a bridge if it means standing up to Trump! That'll show him!"
"DNC convinced a certain demographic to put TDS over prosperity …and they're guzzlin it"."
Interesting to see abortion and climate change have suddenly become non-issues for liberals. Powerful, the TDS is within them."
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Some comments have the power to simply bring the conversation to a halt.
Even when the conversation is on video, with a podcaster from the New York Times.
It is Greg Gutfield of Fox News that leveled the field when he was asked about Planned Parenthood getting mean letters.
"Well, I mean, they are killing children," he said, leaving the New York Times host with a stunned look on his face.
Commenters online gave Gutfield heart and thumbs-up emojis,
One abortion promoter oddly felt it important to add to the conversation about Planned Parenthood, one of the biggest abortion industry providers in the world: "Zero kids are killed at Planned Parenthood. Kids are born."
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Stacie Laughton, a man who was elected to the New Hampshire legislature as a woman multiple times and resigned multiple times, now is facing a potentially lengthy prison sentence after pleading guilty to the sexual exploitation of children.
Laughton, 41, a Democrat, had been arrested and charged in 2023 in a case where authorities alleged his "former intimate partner," a daycare worker named Lindsay Groves, "admitted" taking sexually explicit photographs of children at the center where she worked and sending them to Laughton.
The report said the sentence for Laughton could be up to 30 years.
The Gateway Pundit said Laughton was charged with sexual exploitation of children, aiding and abetting.
The Department of Justice announced, "According to the charging documents, a preliminary forensic review of Groves' cellphone allegedly revealed over 10,000 text messages between Laughton and Groves that included discussion about, and transfer of, explicit photographs that Groves had taken of children while employed at Creative Minds daycare – including at least four sexually explicit images of children who appear to be approximately three to five years old, as well as explicit descriptions of sex with each other and others, including children."
Groves also is facing various charges.
The DOJ's charges continued, "The charge of sexual exploitation of children provides for a sentence of at least 15 years and up to 30 years in prison, at least five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and statutes which govern the determination of a sentence in a criminal case."
Laughton's guilty plea came during a court appearance in Boston.
Social media responses included:
"Shocking."
"Sick."
"Ick."
"I was reliably told this doesn't happen."
And, 'Psychos."
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Subpoenas are being prepared – and sent out – in the Department of Justice's case to hold Barack Obama's CIA chief, John Brennan, accountable.
He reportedly was one of the instigators of many of the lawfare cases against President Donald Trump.
Reports now confirm that the DOJ is preparing a set of grand jury subpoenas as part of an investigation, being run out of Florida, into Brennan, "and the probes by the CIA and FBI into Russian interference in the 2016 election."
Those claims included that Trump's campaign was coordinating with Russia, a claim that has proven to have been made up.
Jason Reding Quinones, the U.S. attorney in South Florida, is developing the evidence, along with senior staff at the DOJ in Washington.
The investigation was confirmed by the White House weeks ago after reports surfaced that Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the probe based on a criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
A lawyer advising the DOJ has confirmed that the grand jury will consider "whether top Obama and Biden officials engaged in a massive conspiracy to violate Donald Trump's civil rights through the Russia investigations and the probes by special counsel Jack Smith," MSNBC reported.
Smith brought two lawfare cases against Trump, both of which have since died.
Brennan, now working for MSNBC, claims he's innocent.
He has separately been accused by the House Judiciary Committee of lying to Congress, an allegation he also disputes.
WND previously reported that the Steele dossier, that collection of wildly false claims about President Donald Trump that was funded by supporters for twice-failed Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and used by Democrats to undermine Trump's presidency, was coming back with a bite.
It was the CIA, through an officer, that drafted an annex containing a summary of the dossier, which actually came from a hired former British agent. And it was Brennan, then CIA chief, who decided to include information from the dossier in an "Intelligence Community Assessment." And it was Brennan who overruled senior CIA officers who opposed the inclusion of that material.
The claim is that Brennan "made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact" about the dossier when testifying under oath to the House Judiciary Committee.
In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, from Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the chairman of the committee, said, "We write to refer significant evidence that former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview before the Committee on the Judiciary on May 11, 2023. While testifying, Brennan made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the CIA.
"Under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, a witness commits a crime if he 'knowingly and willfully . . . makes any materially false . . . statement or representation' with respect to 'any investigation or review, conducted pursuant to the authority of any committee . . . of the Congress[.]' Congress cannot perform its oversight function if witnesses who appear before its committees do not provide truthful testimony. Making false statements before Congress is a crime that undermines the integrity of the Committee's constitutional duty to conduct oversight," the letter said.
Brennan's accused of "denying that the CIA relied on the discredited Steele dossier in drafting the post-2016 election Intelligence Community Assessment; and … testifying when he told the Committee that the CIA opposed including the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA)."
This scenario was detailed on Jordan's letter:
On January 6, 2017, the CIA, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and National Security Agency published a declassified version of an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) titled Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections. The ICA stated, among other things, that Russia 'developed a clear preference' for President Trump and 'aspired to help' him win the election. This conclusion—now known to be false—was based in part on the Steele dossier, which 'was referenced in the ICA main body text, and further detailed in a two-page ICA annex.' The Steele dossier was a series of reports containing baseless accusations concerning President Trump's ties to Russia compiled and delivered to the FBI in 2016 by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. Subsequent investigations confirmed that the Clinton campaign and the DNC paid Steele via the law firm Perkins Coie and opposition research firm Fusion GPS to provide derogatory information about Trump's purported ties to Russia, which resulted in the discredited dossier. In July 2025, the Trump Administration declassified numerous documents showing that the ICA's main findings were false and that the Obama Administration knowingly fabricated the findings for the purpose of undermining the Trump Administration.
Further, evidence now confirms "Brennan falsely testified to the Committee. During a transcribed interview on May 11, 2023, Brennan stated that 'the CIA was not involved at all with the [Steele] dossier.'"
Brennan's claims, the letter charged, "cannot be reconciled with the facts."
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Two prominent Republican U.S. senators have come out in favor of killing the filibuster rule that requires 60 votes to "end debate" on a bill – like the one Democrats have rejected to reopen the federal government.
President Trump has strongly urged the chambers Republicans to make the rule change, but Majority Leader John Thune says the GOP doesn't have the votes required to do so.
Both Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., spoke out Wednesday in favor of ending the filibuster.