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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is revealing bounties of up to $10,000 have been put on the heads of federal agents, encouraging Americans to murder officers enforcing U.S. immigration laws.
"Gangs, cartel members, and known terrorist organizations have placed bounties on the heads of several of our law enforcement officers," Noem posted Sunday on X.
"These violent riots are not about free speech. This is the rule of law vs. anarchy. We will win."
U.S. cities including Portland, Oregon, and Chicago have been the scene of increasing attacks against ICE officers in recent days, and during an appearance on "Fox & Friends" Sunday morning, Noem detailed the bounties that urge Americans to kidnap or kill the federal officers.
"Our intelligence indicates that these people are organized," Noem said.
"They're getting more and more people on their team as far as attacking officers and they're making plans to ambush them and to kill them."
"We have specific officers and agents that have bounties that have been put out on their heads. It's been $2,000 to kidnap them, $10,000 to kill them. They've released their pictures. They've sent them between their networks and it's an extremely dangerous situation and unprecedented."
Noem said "protective detail" has been placed around the targeted officers, and DHS has "changed some of our operations to keep our officers safe."
"But make no mistake," she added. "This isn't just about protesting free speech or that they don't like that people out here are upholding the law of our country.
"They're actually going out there and saying, 'Kill these people, and we'll give you this much money to do it.'"
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They call you a neocon to silence you. They smear you as a warmonger, a globalist, or worse, just for believing America must stand strong. Clifford May, founder of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, destroys that lie. He shows why weakness provokes war, how China is building an empire through supply chains and TikTok, why Iran still chants "Death to America," and what happens if we stop leading the free world. This is about truth, survival, and the future of your children. If America retreats, communists and Islamists will fill the void. Watch this and understand what is at stake.
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The federal government went into a partial shutdown mode on Wednesday after Democrats demanded an extraordinary $1.5 trillion in spending for a wide range of their constituencies, including Obamacare subsidies, illegal aliens and leftist propaganda.
And one of the first consequences was an $18 billion hit to the state represented by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who led the battle for the shutdown.
The New York City projects affected by the White House punching the pause button also hit in the district represented by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., another advocate for the massive spending agenda.
A report at the Daily Mail noted that those who are "leading the obstruction against Trump's agenda."
The "hardball" announcement came from Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, who said the projects were blocked immediately to prevent funds "flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles."
President Trump, meanwhile, has discussed his opportunity for a renewal of the cuts made to the federal workforce early in his term by the Department of Government Efficiency.
Tens of thousands of jobs were eliminated as unnecessary.
Vought was scheduled to meet with House Republicans about those plans.
He is responsible for about 3 million workers, and his agency decides which government jobs are essential, and continue to get funding during a shutdown, and which do not.
The publication reported, "Vought previously warned agencies to get ready for a 'reduction in force notices for all employees,' specifically highlighting departments and programs that he referred to as 'not consistent with the president's priorities.'"
The OMB memo just days ago said agencies needed to have a list of layoff options for workers "whose salaries aren't paid using the Big Beautiful Bill, obligatory funds. This also included 'programs and projects' that are not consistent with 'the president's priorities.'"
Trump repeatedly has spoken of options that the administration has during a shutdown that can create impacts that are "irreversible."
Trump said, "A lot of good can come down from shutdowns. We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn't want."
House Speaker Mike Johnson, whose body approved a resolution extending government spending only to see it defeated by Democrats in the Senate, said the shutdown will last until Democrats decide to end it.
Leftist labor unions already are threatening to sue over any job reductions.
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The father of a crime victim has unleashed at a congressional hearing on those who tolerate career criminals on America's streets.
It's becoming more and more common, under agendas perpetrated on America by elected and appointed Democrats in recent years, for criminals to be allowed back on the streets after being charged, even multiple times.
One case involves career criminal Alexander Davante Dickey, "who was arrested 39 … times, 25 felonies," who allegedly executed a 22-year-old woman, Logan Federico, while she was visiting friends at the University of South Carolina, according to reports.
Hear her father describe his heartbreak at the violence suffered by his daughter, "[He] dragged her out of bed naked, forced on her knees with her hands over her head … BANG! Dead. Gone."
Editor's Note: Be aware of harsh language throughout:
It was the Senate Judiciary Committee that was hearing evidence about the costs inflicted by judges and prosecutors, often extreme leftists, who have become soft on crime in America.
The hearing was part of a broad examination of the toll of crime, and the efforts by the administration of President Donald Trump to reduce violent crime.
A report at Fox said Stephen Federico warned lawmakers, "I will fight until my last breath for my daughter. You need to fight for the rest of our children, the rest of the innocents, and stop protecting the people that keep taking them from us, please."
The father told lawmakers after killing his daughter, the suspect "went to a store and used her debit card," the report said.
"When they saw his face on the video, they didn't have to do a check. He was arrested so many times they knew who he was," Stephen Federico said.
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Some of the money given to officials in Pennsylvania as part of a settlement with opioid makers is being used to take children to LGBT indoctrination classes.
It is a report in the Free Beacon that explains how Democrat House candidate Bob Harvie, a county commissioner, manages a local fund distributing money from the drug makers settlement.
"While the money is supposed to go toward 'Prevention, Treatment and Recovery' services, Harvie used some of it to transport kids as young as 14 to an 'LGBTQ-youth' center that offers 'medical transition' seminars," the report said.
It was the Bucks County commissioners, a board headed by Harvie, that handed out $13,500 to Planned Parenthood Keystone for "Expanding Services and Transportation" to the Rainbow Room, a local center that caters to gay and trans youth, the report said.
The Delaware Journal said the cash handout was actually used to take students to Rainbow Room events.
The report noted that such facilities promote events about the "Fun facts, weird history, busting myths, breaking stigma" on topics like "SEX ED NIGHT MASTURBATION."
"The Rainbow Room hosted a 'Queer Prom,' where attendees as young as 13 were given goody bags with condoms, lubricant, and dental dams, used to prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases during oral sex," the report explained.
Just recently it promoted a seminar "meant to teach kids as young as 14 'the basics of transgender identities, social transition, medical transition, and more!'"
Harvie currently is a Democrat candidate running against Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, who won his last race by 10 points.
Further complicating Harvie's legitimacy as a candidate is the fact he and other Democrat Bucks County officials voted last year to defy state law and count invalid mail-in ballots during an election recount.
"The Rainbow Room's sexually explicit programming has been a hot-button issue for years in Bucks County, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. In addition to local news coverage of its controversial activities, state senator Doug Mastriano (R.) proposed a bill in 2023 to classify drag shows as an 'adult oriented business' after learning the Rainbow Room hosted a drag show for children," the report said.
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Most Americans assume that when a company posts a job opening, it actually wants someone to apply. That's how the labor market is supposed to work.
But in the world of immigration sponsorship, job postings sometimes serve a very different purpose: checking a box for the government, while keeping American workers in the dark.
Under the Department of Labor's PERM process (Program Electronic Review Management), employers seeking to sponsor foreign workers for green cards must first prove they tried to hire Americans. The law requires them to place ads, review resumes and certify that no qualified U.S. worker was available before moving forward with sponsorship.
Yet most Americans have never seen these ads – because employers often place them where no one is likely to look. They thus satisfy the letter of the law while ensuring the jobs are already earmarked for someone else. That's where Jobs.Now, a U.S. worker advocacy group, stepped in. By republishing these hidden ads online, Jobs.Now gave them the visibility the law intended, visibility that many employers have quietly worked to avoid.
Instacart's heavy hand
When Jobs.Now reposted one of Instacart's PERM ads to make it visible to the public, the publicly traded San Francisco-based company didn't thank the website for the free advertising. Instead, Instacart sent a trademark complaint letter.
The letter, transmitted by a third-party enforcement firm, accused Jobs.Now of "infringing Instacart's intellectual property rights" and even suggested the group suspend their web domain. The company reserved the right to pursue monetary damages, all because an advocacy group had posted a job listing that Instacart itself was legally required to advertise.
The real issue – and what Instacart's ads expose
Why such a heavy-handed response? The answer may lie in Instacart's job advertisements and recruitment practices tied to the PERM program. Federal rules, written decades ago, force employers to place notices in old-school newspapers and state workforce sites. But the intent of the law is clear and companies must make a "good faith" effort to recruit Americans before turning to foreign workers. That means actually trying to reach U.S. applicants, not burying ads where no one will look, or setting up recruitment processes designed to avoid finding U.S. candidates.
How Instacart blocked Americans
Jobs.Now's reposting exposed the truth: Instacart's job ads were nowhere to be found on the company's career page, LinkedIn, or any platform where real applicants look for work. Instead, the posting was buried in a classified newspaper, directing candidates to mail paper resumes to "Global Mobility," a department that does not hire Americans but oversees visa processing for foreign workers.
That distinction is critical. In 2025, almost no one applies for a tech job by mailing in a paper resume. And even if an American did, his or her application would never reach a hiring manager. It would be funneled straight to the immigration team whose role is not to recruit talent, but to record why no U.S. worker was deemed "qualified."
The two-track system
The Department of Justice has already gone after companies for similar practices. Facebook paid $14 million and Apple paid $25 million in settlements for requiring mailed resumes and reserving jobs for foreign workers through the PERM process.
Like Facebook, Apple forced applicants for PERM positions to submit paper resumes by mail instead of through its online portal, and it left those jobs off its public-facing career site. Investigators found that Apple's practices weren't consistent with the way it usually hired, which was overwhelmingly through digital systems designed to attract a wide pool of candidates.
In both cases, the DOJ made clear the issue wasn't that companies were using the PERM process; that's allowed by law. The issue was that they intentionally set up a two-track system: one for normal jobs where Americans could apply easily and another for PERM jobs where the process itself made it virtually impossible for Americans to compete.
Why Instacart's response matters
The key question now is why Instacart chose to file a trademark complaint when Jobs.Now was, in effect, providing free visibility for a job posting Instacart was already legally required to advertise?
If the postings are legitimate, wider visibility should mean more qualified Americans applying. But the company's legal maneuver suggests something else: that these ads may not truly be about recruiting U.S. workers at all, but about protecting a visa pipeline while keeping the door closed to the very people the law was designed to protect.
Turning the tables on corporate abuse
At its core, the PERM system was designed to test the U.S. labor market. Sharing those job ads publicly and encouraging qualified Americans to apply isn't just lawful, it's exactly what the process requires. When companies or their attorneys try to suppress that visibility with trademark claims or intimidation tactics, they may be crossing a legal line of their own.
Federal law, under INA §1324b, makes it an unfair immigration-related employment practice to intimidate, threaten, coerce or retaliate against anyone for exercising or helping others exercise their rights under the statute. That protection extends to advocates who assist U.S. workers in seeing or applying for jobs. Trying to prevent circulation of these ads could be interpreted as obstruction of compliance evidence. And suppressing access to recruitment ads could make the labor market test fraudulent, since U.S. workers cannot reasonably find and apply.
What began as a trademark threat could end up flipping the script on Instacart. By trying to muzzle the lawful sharing of job ads, it may have invited even sharper scrutiny, not only of how the company recruits, but of how it responds when Americans shine a light on the very system meant to protect them.
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Television show entertainer Jimmy Kimmel returned to some of the stations that used to carry his show Tuesday might but offered no apology, only an "explanation" for his false claim that MAGA members were trying to "score political points" over the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
The co-founder of Turning Point USA was gunned down by a sniper during a free speech event at a Utah college. The suspect, Tyler Robinson, is known to have been radicalized by leftist ideologies in recent months. He was living with a roommate who was a male who claimed to be female, and the shooter had engraved radical slogans on the bullets he loaded into the rifle that was used.
Kimmel's jokes about the Kirk murder included his statement, "The MAGA gang is desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
He was suspended by ABC and other station ownership organizations, only to be allowed back on the air on Tuesday by ABC. The other ownership groups, Sinclair and Nexstar, still have him banned.
A report at Washington Examiner revealed that after Kimmel's return, Andrew Kolvet, who worked as a producer for Kirk, said Kimmel's refusal to offer an apology, just a claim that "it was never my intention to blame any specific group," failed.
"Not good enough," Kolvet wrote on social media.
He explained, "Jimmy, it's simple. Here's what you need to say: 'I'm sorry for saying the shooter was MAGA. He was not. He was of the left. I apologize to the Kirk family for lying. Please accept my sincere apology. I will do better. I was wrong.'"
Kimmel's claim that it was "important to me as a human" that people believed his claim that it never was intention "to make light of the murder of a young man," was met with loads of skepticism.
From online social media commenters: "It was precisely his intention to make light of it, which explains his recklessly inaccurate depiction of the killer's ideology and then cutting away to that edited South Lawn clip, which was designed EXCLUSIVELY for comedic effect. And no apology, inflaming it all further."
And, "He didn't just make light of the murder of a young man he and his staff mulled it over first. Someone said 'hey, let's make a joke about Trumps response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, while implying he was MAGA'. No one said it's too soon or disrespectful, they ran with it"
And, "Sounded to me like a lot of dancing around the subject. Half hearted, and weak at best. In the end, it doesn't really matter. 70 affiliates aren't airing his show, and his ratings will probably continue to tank. Good luck Jimmy. Maybe it's time to bring back the trampoline"
The Washington Examiner also cited other criticisms of Kimmel, whose show ratings have been plunging.
Piers Morgan said, of Kimmel's call for understanding of his lack of intent to "make light of the murder," "Yet that is exactly what he did."
Morgan added, "Hard to feel sympathy for Jimmy Kimmel and his crocodile tears given how gleefully he has always gorged on the career entrails of conservative stars who lost their jobs like Tucker, Roseanne etc. He's become a partisan political activist, not a comedic host."
Kimmel also, the Washington Examiner reported, brought in religion as his defense, citing a statement from Erika Kirk, Charlie's widow, who publicly forgave her husband's accused killer, recalling the example of Jesus.
Kimmel claimed, "That is an example we should follow. If you believe in the teachings of Jesus as I do, there it was. That's it. A selfless act of grace, forgiveness from a grieving widow. It touched me deeply, and I hope it touches many, and if there's anything we should take from this tragedy to carry forward, I hope it can be that and not this."
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After a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky in New York Tuesday, President Trump posted that the embattled nation "is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form" and "maybe even go further than that!"
Trump also endorsed the ongoing arrangement whereby the U.S. sells weaponry for the war to NATO, which then sells it Ukraine.
Posted Trump on Truth Social:
"After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form.
"With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option. Why not? Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win. This is not distinguishing Russia. In fact, it is very much making them look like 'a paper tiger.'
"When the people living in Moscow, and all of the Great Cities, Towns, and Districts all throughout Russia, find out what is really going on with this War, the fact that it's almost impossible for them to get Gasoline through the long lines that are being formed, and all of the other things that are taking place in their War Economy, where most of their money is being spent on fighting Ukraine, which has Great Spirit, and only getting better, Ukraine would be able to take back their Country in its original form and, who knows, maybe even go further than that!
"Putin and Russia are in BIG Economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act. In any event, I wish both Countries well. We will continue to supply weapons to NATO for NATO to do what they want with them. Good luck to all!"
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Erika Kirk, the widow of Christian martyr Charlie Kirk, delivered a tearful, powerful message Sunday for the assassin who executed her husband, expressing her personal forgiveness.
"My husband Charlie, he wanted to save young men. Just like the one who took his life," Mrs. Kirk said through tears at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
"That young man. That young man. On the cross our Savior said, 'Father forgive them for they not know what they do.' That man, that young man, I forgive him."
"I forgive him because it was what Christ did, and is what Charlie would do.
"The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the gospel is love and always love. Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us."
Dressed in white before a crowd of more than 70,000 inside and an estimated 130,000 more outside, Erika explained: "Eleven days ago, God accepted that total surrender from my husband and then called him to his side."
"On the afternoon of Sept. 10, I arrived at a Utah hospital to do the unthinkable: To look directly at my husband's murdered body. I saw the wound that ended his life, I felt everything you would expect to feel. I felt shock, I felt horror and a level of heartache that I didn't even know existed."
"But there was something else, too. Even in death I could see the man that I love. I could see the single gray hair on the side of his head, which I never told him about – now he knows. Sorry, baby."
Erika said Charlie, the founder of Turning Point USA, was "ready to die" and that "he named his organization well. He knew things were not right with America, especially with young people, and that they needed a new direction."
"Charlie passionately wanted to reach and save the lost boys of the West. The young men who feel like they have no direction, no purpose, no faith and no reason to live. The men wasting their lives on distractions and the men consumed with anger and hate."
"When he went onto campus, he was looking to show them a better path and a better life that was right there for the taking."
President Donald Trump spoke after Erika, and publicly comforted her on stage to conclude the memorial service.
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The chief law enforcement officer of one state in Australia is warning that under a new law, some prayers all of a sudden are illegal.
That word comes from Michael Daley, the attorney general for New South Wales.
The details were released by the Australian Christian Lobby, which warned, "Have you ever been asked to pray for someone who is questioning their sexual desires or biological sex, but is seeking to be obedient to God's word?
"According to the Attorney General, Michael Daley, the NSW Conversion Practices Ban Act makes some prayers with, or over, someone about these matters illegal regardless of consent.
"We thank the Hon. Susan Carter for advocating for clarity on the legislation. Thank you for asking the questions no one else will. We will continue to advocate for clear answers on this legislation and work to ensure that everyone has the right to pray without limitations.
"As we live with this new legislation, let us reflect on the prayer for boldness in Acts 4:23-31, specifically verse 29 – 'Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.' Pray our churches and Christian leaders remain bold and uncompromising in their commitment to God's Word in their ministry."
According to the Christian Institute, Daley was responding to a question from politician Susan Carter, who raised concerns over the Conversion Practices Ban Act.
"Daley implied that this could even include silent prayer, when Carter raised it as an example," the report explained.
The organization Anti-Discrimination NSW said "conversion practices" could resemble "prayer or pastoral conversation that is intended to change or suppress someone's gender or sexuality."
Carter raised the question about whether the government was prohibiting prayer.
Daley confirmed, "If it's an unlawful prayer, then it's not a lawful prayer."
Lyle Shelton, of the Family First Australia organization, turned blunt: "Prayer has always been about change – change in circumstances, change in hearts, change in lives. To criminalize a prayer that someone requests is a staggering overreach of state power into the private and spiritual lives of citizens."
He continued, "It is chilling to think that a mum or dad, pastor, or friend could face sanction for praying with someone who explicitly asked for prayer to help them follow God's word."
Simon Calvert, of the Christian Institute and spokesman for the Institute's Let Us Pray campaign, which opposes new legislation, said in March: "A ban is not necessary, because everyone is already legally protected from abuse, and not possible, because banning harmless speech about sex and sexuality is tyrannical."