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ICE Launches Sweeping New York City Enforcement Blitz as Crackdown Expands [WATCH]
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ICE Launches Sweeping New York City Enforcement Blitz as Crackdown Expands [WATCH]

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Federal immigration officers have launched a major enforcement operation in New York City, beginning in Queens on Monday and expanding across other parts of the metropolitan area on Tuesday, according to sources who spoke with NewsNation.

The move marks a significant escalation in immigration enforcement in one of the nation’s most prominent sanctuary friendly strongholds, where local leaders have spent years making life harder for federal officers and easier for illegal aliens.

The operation comes more than a month after White House border czar Tom Homan warned that more immigration enforcement resources were headed to New York City.

Last week, Homan said ICE would be increasing its presence after an alleged attack on a federal building.

Homan made clear that the operation was already in the works before that incident, but he argued the attack showed the rising hostility aimed at federal immigration officers.

That hostility has not appeared out of thin air, despite what the professional excuse makers on the left would like voters to believe.

“There’s just another example of someone attacking ICE because of the constant mismessaging and vilification of the men and women of ICE,” Homan told reporters last week.

According to NewsNation, the operation is being handled by federal officers already assigned to the New York field office.

Sources said ICE has not yet brought in agents from other locations, meaning this is not some mystery invasion cooked up in a fever dream on cable news.

The enforcement push is reportedly focused on illegal aliens and other noncitizens who were released after local jails and prisons refused to honor ICE detainers.

In plain English, federal immigration authorities asked for these individuals to be held for transfer, and local officials let them walk back into the community instead.

That is the sanctuary city shell game in action. Local politicians posture about compassion, then regular citizens are left to deal with the consequences when dangerous policies collide with reality.

New York’s Protect Our Courts Act generally blocks ICE from making civil immigration arrests while people are traveling to, attending, or leaving state courthouses.

The law has become another barrier in a growing maze of restrictions that make federal immigration enforcement more difficult in a city already drowning in migrant related chaos.

Even with those restrictions, sources told NewsNation that the operation could lead to collateral arrests.

That means officers may detain people who were not the original targets if they are encountered during the operation and are found to be in the country illegally.

Homan has repeatedly said that anyone in the United States illegally remains subject to immigration enforcement, even if that person was not initially listed as a target by the Department of Homeland Security.

That is not radical.

That is called enforcing the law, a concept that seems to baffle more than a few blue city officials.

For weeks, Homan has indicated that ICE would expand operations in New York City, though he declined to provide a specific timeline.

He has also sharply criticized New York leaders after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation limiting cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities inside local jails.

Hochul signed that legislation at the end of May, further cementing the state’s resistance to federal immigration enforcement.

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A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson declined to confirm whether Monday’s operation had started, citing operational security.

The spokesperson did offer a broader statement about the agency’s mission.

“ICE agents uphold our nation’s immigration laws in all 50 states, seven days a week, 24 hours a day,” the spokesperson said.

That message will not sit well with the sanctuary crowd, but it is exactly what many Americans have been demanding.

After years of open border madness, catch and release politics, and local governments thumbing their noses at federal detainers, voters are watching to see whether Washington is finally serious.

New York officials can keep pretending that obstruction is virtue, but ICE appears to be moving forward anyway.

If local leaders will not help enforce immigration law, federal officers are making clear they are prepared to do the job themselves.

CIA Whistleblower Says Intel Shadow Government is Blocking Trump and Shielding China [WATCH]
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CIA Whistleblower Says Intel Shadow Government is Blocking Trump and Shielding China [WATCH]

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A former senior CIA operations officer is now putting words to what millions of Americans have suspected for years, that unelected intelligence officials have been quietly treating themselves as the real power in Washington.

James Erdman III, speaking with investigative journalist Catherine Herridge, described a culture inside the intelligence community where career officials see themselves as the “adults in the room.”

That phrase always seems to show up right before the voters are told their choices need adult supervision.

Herridge displayed papers marked “DRAFT” and referenced an email reportedly tied to FBI Foreign Interference Task Force Lead Nikki Floris.

The message allegedly stated, “I am basically running a shadow government inside the FBI right now.”

Herridge then asked the obvious question. “Is there a shadow government?”

“There’s certainly people who believe that they are the adults in the room, and they’re here to make sure that the political leaders that are in charge, we can’t let them do anything too crazy. We’re here to make sure we temper their worst tendencies,” Erdman replies.

“I think that in effect, what you have are people who act as a shadow government, whether they know they’re doing it or not.”

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That answer should chill anyone who still believes elections are supposed to mean something.

Erdman is not some random commentator yelling into the void, he is a former senior CIA operations officer describing how powerful bureaucrats can quietly resist the elected commander in chief.

According to Erdman, that resistance showed up in multiple ways during President Trump’s time in office.

He pointed to opposition inside the system to Trump’s election integrity efforts and to attempts to shape or soften what made it into the President’s Daily Brief, especially when the subject was China.

That is not a minor paperwork dispute.

The President’s Daily Brief is supposed to give the president the clearest intelligence picture available, not a curated narrative from officials who think Trump cannot be trusted with facts they find politically inconvenient.

Erdman said there was hesitancy in the system when it came to confronting China while Trump was in office.

Given the Washington establishment’s long record of treating Beijing like an investment partner instead of a hostile communist regime, that claim lands with a lot more weight than the usual media fact check crowd will want to admit.

The China angle also brings to mind retired Army General Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

According to the book “Peril,” Milley privately assured Chinese General Li Zuocheng near the end of Trump’s first term that the United States would not strike China without advance warning from him.

“General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time,” Milley purportedly said.

“It’s not going to be a surprise.”

For normal Americans, that sounds less like steady leadership and more like a bureaucratic class deciding it can freelance foreign policy when it dislikes the man elected by the country.

In any sane capital, that kind of conduct would trigger serious accountability, not cable news praise and book tour rehabilitation.

Erdman also defended then Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, saying she was one of the few officials willing to pursue real intelligence community reform in line with Trump’s directives.

“I think she’s (Gabbard) the only one who actually conducted IC reform and did exactly what President Trump was asking her to do,” he said.

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That matters because the permanent class in Washington does not fear speeches, press conferences, or strongly worded letters.

It fears reform, exposure, and losing the ability to bury information until it is politically safe.

The election interference issue only makes the story more explosive.

Newly declassified documents and recent statements from Trump have pointed to Chinese Communist Party access to personal data connected to roughly 220 million American voters.

Trump has alleged that intelligence collected by the FBI in 2020 was buried by rogue officials, and that it included claims about China trying to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden.

“Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats, stated that China’s activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden,” Trump said.

He also cited the alleged FBI message at the center of this growing scandal.

“Another official inside the FBI wrote that she was running a ‘shadow government’ to keep intelligence about China’s election meddling from becoming known.”

The media will do what it always does when the deep state gets caught with its hand in the machinery.

It will pretend the story is too complicated, too old, too partisan, or too dangerous for ordinary Americans to understand.

But the issue is painfully simple.

If unelected officials inside the intelligence community are blocking, massaging, burying, or slow walking intelligence because they dislike the president voters chose, then the constitutional order is being replaced by bureaucratic veto power.

Erdman’s account does not sound like a theory anymore.

It sounds like a warning from inside the walls, and Washington’s permanent class is not going to enjoy the sunlight.

‘Hit List’: Mamdani Doxxes Wealthy NYC Property Owners in Tax Grab Database [WATCH]
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‘Hit List’: Mamdani Doxxes Wealthy NYC Property Owners in Tax Grab Database [WATCH]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s City Hall has taken its class warfare act from campaign slogan to searchable database, publishing the names and addresses of New York City property owners who could be hit by the state’s new second home tax.

The city Department of Finance uploaded a list that claims to identify unoccupied, nonprimary residences across the five boroughs valued above $1 million.

It includes the full names and addresses of the owners, effectively putting thousands of wealthy New Yorkers on public display for the sin of owning property in a city that already taxes nearly everything that moves.

The database follows a widely mocked post from Mamdani on X, where the mayor warned affluent residents to “check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs, because you’ve got mail,” referring to notification letters headed their way.

“The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That’s only possible when we all pay our fair share,” Mamdani wrote Thursday.

That phrase, fair share, has become the left’s favorite magic spell.

Somehow it always translates to government taking more money, spending more money, and then acting shocked when taxpayers start looking for the exits.

Mamdani, a self styled socialist favorite of the progressive crowd, has long supported the second home tax approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul and Albany Democrats.

The levy targets city residences that are not used as primary homes, a policy sold as a way to squeeze revenue from wealthy owners who supposedly are not contributing enough.

Critics have warned the tax could hammer property values and chill investment in a market already burdened by sky high costs, red tape, and political hostility toward owners.

In other words, Albany Democrats may once again discover that punishing success does not magically create prosperity.

City Hall claims the tax could bring in about $500 million a year for the Big Apple budget.

Democratic City Comptroller Mark Levine’s office has offered a less rosy estimate, placing the figure closer to $340 million to $380 million, with the possibility that revenue could shrink over time.

That is the part progressives never like to discuss.

When government builds budgets around soaking a targeted group, that group tends to adapt, relocate, sell, or stop investing.

Mamdani has made clear that this is not a one time money hunt.

Earlier this year, he threatened to raise city property taxes by a staggering 9.5% unless he was allowed to tax the rich to help close a budget hole first pegged at $12 billion and later revised down to $5.4 billion.

That little revision alone should make taxpayers nervous.

If City Hall can misjudge a budget gap by billions, perhaps handing politicians another pile of cash is not the grand civic solution they pretend it is.

The mayor is now moving forward with his broader campaign promise to pull more money from rich New Yorkers to fund a sweeping redistribution agenda.

The problem for regular families is that these schemes rarely stop with penthouses, vacation apartments, and people with names in glossy magazines.

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According to the report, even the middle class is not safe from the expensive wish list Mamdani wants to finance.

Since taking office, he has backed roughly $23 billion in taxes, a number that ought to send a shiver through anyone still trying to afford rent, groceries, insurance, or a mortgage in New York.

The Post also reported that Mamdani is pushing a months long pressure campaign for even more state tax hikes, including measures aimed at city property owners.

That means the second home tax may be less of a finish line and more of a preview.

Publishing a searchable database with names and addresses raises obvious privacy concerns, especially in a city where political rhetoric against the wealthy has become increasingly aggressive.

It is one thing to debate tax policy, but quite another to put a public target list online and dress it up as fiscal fairness.

For the left, though, this is the governing model.

Identify a villain, publish the receipts, demand more money, and call anyone who objects greedy.

New York’s leaders insist they are protecting parks, libraries, and schools.

Yet residents have heard these promises for decades while city government grows larger, services remain uneven, and taxpayers are told the next tax hike will finally fix everything.

Mamdani’s database is a blunt message to property owners that City Hall knows where they are and wants a bigger cut.

For a city already struggling to keep taxpayers, businesses, and families from fleeing, that is quite a gamble.

The political class may cheer another tax on the wealthy today.

Tomorrow, when the bill spreads wider and the revenue fails to match the sales pitch, ordinary New Yorkers will be left wondering how yet another progressive experiment became their problem.

Democrat Infighting Explodes as Bernie Sanders Turns on Party Bosses [WATCH]
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Democrat Infighting Explodes as Bernie Sanders Turns on Party Bosses [WATCH]

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Sen. Bernie Sanders defended the progressive wing of the Democratic Party during an interview with CBS News’ Margaret Brennan, pushing back on criticism from longtime Democratic strategist Rahm Emanuel and arguing that voters across the country are rejecting the party’s establishment.

The exchange centered on Emanuel’s contention that progressive messaging is hurting Democrats politically. Brennan asked Sanders to respond to Emanuel’s criticism.

“He’s saying those are losing messages that are going to hurt the party overall,” Brennan said. “How do you respond?”

Sanders dismissed Emanuel’s position and suggested it reflects the priorities of Democratic insiders rather than rank-and-file voters.

“That is what that is what Rahm Emanuel is saying, who no doubt has the support of millions of working class people,” Sanders said.

He acknowledged ongoing ideological divisions within the Democratic Party.

“Look, this is an argument. There’s no debate. There is a strong division within the Democratic Party,” Sanders said.

According to Sanders, the divide is between party leaders he says rely on wealthy donors and a growing progressive movement seeking major policy changes.

“You have an establishment like Rahm Emanuel, who are dependent on billionaire campaign contributors and want to maintain the status quo,” Sanders said. “Then you have a progressive movement.”

Sanders argued that recent political developments demonstrate growing support for progressive candidates and policies in several states.

“What is getting these guys nervous is we are winning all over this country,” he said. “It’s not only Mamdani in New York City, is in New Jersey. It’s in Ohio. It’s in Colorado.”

He contended that dissatisfaction extends beyond Democratic voters and includes frustration with both major political parties.

“People are sick and tired of the Rahm Emanuels, and the Democratic establishment and the Republican establishment,” Sanders said.

Sanders said many Americans are asking why the United States has not adopted a universal healthcare system similar to those in other developed nations.

“They are asking simple questions, Margaret,” Sanders said. “Why, in God’s name, are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right?”

He continued, “Pretty simple question. Canada does it. Europe does it. Somehow we can’t do it.”

Sanders also pointed to wealth inequality, citing businessman Elon Musk as an example.

“Why do we have an economy in which one man, Mr. Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom half of American society?” Sanders asked.

He also questioned whether future generations will enjoy the same economic opportunities as previous ones.

“Why do the economists tell us that in the richest country in the history of the world, our kids will likely have a lower standard of living than their parents?”

Sanders argued that growing economic frustration is fueling demands for sweeping political and economic reforms.

“The American people are tired of a rigged economy, a corrupt campaign, finance system,” Sanders said.

He concluded by arguing that voters are seeking fundamental change rather than preserving existing political leadership.

“They want real change,” Sanders said. “They don’t want Rahm Emanuel and the establishment maintaining the status quo.”

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Top DSA Marxist Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, Reveals Plans to Wipe Out America’s Institutions [WATCH]
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Top DSA Marxist Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, Reveals Plans to Wipe Out America’s Institutions [WATCH]

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The Democratic Socialists of America are not exactly hiding the ball anymore.

In a Fox News interview, DSA co chair Megan Romer acknowledged that the group’s platform includes abolishing borders, granting amnesty to illegal immigrants, and eliminating prisons.

That is not a conservative fever dream or some overheated campaign ad.

That is the agenda, stated plainly, from one of the people helping steer the socialist movement now trying to drag the Democratic Party even farther left.

Romer said the DSA platform also calls for defunding the Pentagon, abolishing the Senate, replacing the presidency and the Supreme Court, and abolishing United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

For a movement that loves to lecture America about democracy, it sure seems eager to tear down nearly every institution voters still recognize.

The border plank alone should make every sane American stop and take notice.

Open borders and mass amnesty are not immigration policy, they are an invitation to erase national sovereignty and reward lawbreaking on a grand scale.

For years, conservatives have warned that the activist left does not merely want softer immigration laws.

It wants a country where borders are treated as offensive, enforcement is treated as cruelty, and citizenship becomes little more than a paperwork inconvenience.

Now the DSA is saying the quiet part out loud.

Abolish borders, abolish ICE, and hand amnesty to illegal aliens, then expect working families to smile while communities absorb the cost.

The prison plank is just as revealing. Abolishing prisons may sound fashionable in faculty lounges and activist meetings, but in the real world, criminals do not vanish because progressives change the vocabulary.

Families dealing with rising crime, repeat offenders, and soft on crime prosecutors have already seen what happens when ideology outruns common sense.

The DSA response is apparently to go even further and remove the very institutions designed to separate dangerous people from the public.

Then there is the Pentagon.

Defunding America’s military while hostile regimes are testing the limits of American resolve is not brave or visionary, it is reckless.

China, Russia, Iran, and every terrorist network on earth would love nothing more than a weakened Pentagon and a political class too busy chanting slogans to defend the country.

The DSA platform would make America less secure while pretending moral superiority is a defense strategy.

The call to abolish the Senate is another window into the movement’s mindset.

When institutions stand in the way of radical goals, the answer is not persuasion, compromise, or winning over voters, it is demolition.

That same attitude appears in the desire to replace the presidency and Supreme Court.

The left has spent years raging at the Court when it refuses to rubber stamp progressive priorities, and the socialist answer is apparently to scrap the structure rather than respect constitutional limits.

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This is the difference between reform and radicalism.

Reformers try to improve systems, radicals try to raze them and hope something better magically rises from the rubble.

The problem for Democrats is that the DSA is not some distant campus club with no relevance to real politics.

Its ideas keep moving into the bloodstream of the modern left, especially in deep blue cities where the activist class sets the tone and elected Democrats scramble to keep up.

That is why these admissions matter.

The platform is not simply a wish list, it is a preview of what the left’s loudest faction believes government should become.

Republicans would be foolish not to make voters hear every word of it.

In swing districts and working class communities, there is no great hunger for open borders, abolished prisons, a gutted military, and a constitutional system tossed into the shredder.

The DSA may dress its agenda in activist language, but the substance is brutally clear.

Tear down the border, empty the prisons, defund national defense, dismantle key institutions, and call it progress.

Most Americans still believe a country should have borders, laws, courts, a military, and consequences for crime.

If that now counts as extremism to the socialist left, then the political contrast for the next election just became very easy to explain.

Fauci Diary Exposes Cozy Media Ties, Trump Tensions and Celebrity Fixation [WATCH]
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Newly released diary entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci are giving Americans a rare look behind the curtain at the man who became the government face of the COVID 19 era, complete with media chatter, celebrity encounters and internal White House drama.

The records were released by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R Ky., just days before Fauci is set to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee after being subpoenaed by Paul.

The diary details Fauci’s daily role during the pandemic through meetings, calls and personal notes, showing how quickly public health policy turned into a mix of politics, television management and celebrity culture.

For Americans who remember the lockdown years, the entries add another layer to a familiar story.

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The experts lectured the country about sacrifice while Washington insiders and media favorites appeared to orbit one another quite comfortably.

Early entries show Fauci describing a warmer relationship with President Donald Trump than many might expect.

Fauci wrote that Trump repeatedly sent questions his way during White House meetings and called him “the smartest person in the world.”

Trump also told Fauci, “We are counting on you,” according to the diary.

Fauci later wrote that Trump appeared “enamored” with him as his national profile exploded during the pandemic.

That relationship did not stay smooth as the pandemic dragged on.

Fauci’s notes describe mounting friction inside the White House, especially with then White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Fauci wrote that Meadows threatened to keep him off television and pushed him to soften his public messaging.

In one entry, Fauci described Meadows as “screaming” over comments Fauci had made in public.

The diary paints then White House communications director Alyssa Farah in a much more favorable light from Fauci’s perspective.

In a May 2020 entry, Fauci said Farah admitted White House staff had been “holding me back” and that the situation had “gotten out of hand.”

According to Fauci, Farah promised to begin approving his television requests again.

In Washington, access to a camera can apparently become its own form of oxygen.

Other communications figures did not fare as well in Fauci’s private notes.

Fauci took sharp aim at then HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Michael Caputo, accusing him in crude terms of publicly backing his media appearances while privately blocking them.

The diary also shows how deeply television journalists figured into Fauci’s pandemic world.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper appears repeatedly in the entries through calls, texts and even dinners at Tapper’s Washington home.

Fauci wrote that Tapper privately checked whether a CNN interview had caused trouble for him with the White House.

When The Atlantic’s Peter Nicholas suggested Fauci had been “humiliated” over a canceled Tapper interview,

Fauci responded with a blunt and vulgar dismissal in his notes.

CNN’s Dana Bash also appears in the diary after Fauci’s heated exchange with Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.

Fauci wrote that Bash texted him that he was “a better man” and relayed that Wolf Blitzer joked nobody would have blamed him for telling Jordan off.

The next day, Fauci said Bash texted him again, this time pointing him to a Vanity Fair headline mocking Jordan’s performance at the hearing.

The cozy media club always seems to know when to send flowers and when to sharpen knives.

The entries also include billionaire Oracle co founder Larry Ellison, who became part of White House discussions about using Oracle technology during the pandemic. Fauci described Ellison as “a bit of a loose cannon.”

Then there is the celebrity parade. Julia Roberts hosted Fauci on Instagram Live, sent him flowers and later presented him with an award, while Anna Wintour, Trevor Noah, Steph Curry, Sean Penn, Matt Damon and Lil Wayne all show up in the broader Fauci orbit.

The diary reads at moments less like a public health record and more like a guest list for the political class during crisis mode.

Americans were told to stay home, stay quiet and trust the science, while the science was apparently fielding celebrity messages.

The final notable cameo comes from the 2022 Kennedy Center Honors.

Fauci wrote that he hugged Hunter Biden, who joked the internet “would explode” if someone photographed them together because they were both “being attacked by the far right GOP.”

Paul’s release lands as Fauci prepares for another round of scrutiny on Capitol Hill.

For many conservatives, the diary will only fuel questions about whether pandemic leadership was driven by sober public health judgment, political instincts or a taste for fame.

The country is still living with the consequences of decisions made during those years.

Fauci’s own words now offer a revealing glimpse into the power circles, media friendships and celebrity fascination surrounding one of the most controversial government figures of the pandemic.

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John Kennedy Calmly Wrecks Margaret Brennan Over Nasty SAVE Act Gotcha [WATCH]
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John Kennedy Calmly Wrecks Margaret Brennan Over Nasty SAVE Act Gotcha [WATCH]

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Senator John Kennedy walked into CBS territory on Sunday and gave viewers another reminder that a calm answer can be far more devastating than a shouting match.

The Louisiana Republican appeared on “Face the Nation” with Margaret Brennan, where the conversation moved through the Saudi nuclear deal, energy prices, and the familiar topic that makes the legacy press break out in hives, election integrity.

Things sharpened when Brennan turned to the SAVE America Act, a Republican backed election reform measure that Democrats and their media allies have been busy branding as some dangerous partisan scheme.

The House passed the SAVE America Act less than two weeks ago as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, according to the original report, and Republicans have been using the reconciliation process to keep the proposal moving.

Brennan described the bill as “highly controversial, highly partisan” before trying to frame the issue as a threat to public faith in elections.

That is rich coming from the same media universe that spent years lecturing Americans about democracy while brushing aside basic concerns about voter confidence.

Her question was not exactly subtle.

She suggested Republicans would be forcing through a Republican only election policy right before the midterms and asked whether that would damage trust in the system.

Kennedy did not take the bait.

Instead, he answered in the plain spoken style that has made him one of the more effective Republican communicators in the Senate.

“No. In my opinion, for both sides to have credibility in our elections, we need to do two things:” Kennedy said.

From there, he laid out the simple argument that drives the SAVE America Act.

“Number one, you have to prove who you say you are in order to register to vote and to vote.”

That point should not be controversial in any serious country that expects citizens to trust its elections.

Americans need identification to board planes, cash checks, buy certain medicine, enter federal buildings, and in countless states, even to purchase alcohol.

Yet when Republicans say voting should require proof of identity and citizenship, the political class suddenly acts like someone suggested abolishing the Bill of Rights.

Kennedy continued with the second point, saying, “Number two, we need to go back to having an election DAY, not an election MONTH.”

That line cut straight through years of bureaucratic fog surrounding modern election administration.

For generations, Americans understood Election Day as a civic deadline, not a sprawling season of ballot chasing, mass mailing, extended counting, and legal wrangling.

The longer the process stretches, the more room there is for confusion, suspicion, and political gamesmanship.

Kennedy then summarized the purpose of the bill in terms almost any voter can understand.

“That, to me, is what the SAVE Act is all about. And I think that we can pass it and craft it in a way to survive a Byrd bath (for reconciliation).”

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The left and its media partners prefer to dress the debate in dramatic language because the basic policy is hard to attack honestly.

Asking voters to prove they are eligible is not voter suppression, it is election protection.

Brennan’s framing revealed the usual Washington reflex.

If Democrats change voting procedures, the press calls it expanding access, but if Republicans insist on identity checks and a real Election Day, suddenly it becomes a sinister power grab.

That double standard is why Kennedy’s answer mattered.

He did not let the conversation become a lecture from a television host about alleged Republican recklessness.

Instead, he returned the discussion to the core question.

Should Americans have to prove who they are before registering and voting, and should elections have clear rules and a clear endpoint?

For ordinary citizens outside the Beltway bubble, those ideas sound less like controversy and more like common sense.

The only people who seem terrified of them are the ones who benefit from a system that leaves too much room for doubt.

Kennedy’s exchange with Brennan showed exactly why election integrity remains a major issue for conservatives.

Voters want confidence, transparency, and rules that apply before the votes are cast, not excuses after the damage is done.

The SAVE America Act will keep drawing fire from Democrats and their friends in the press, because that is what happens when Republicans touch the machinery of elections.

But Kennedy made the case with a smile, a steady voice, and a reminder that common sense still has a place in the Senate.

CBS tried to tee up a gotcha moment.

Kennedy turned it into a lesson.

Jewish Stabbing Victim Fled NYC for Florida as Mamdani Chaos Boils Over
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A Jewish man who was stabbed on Manhattan’s Upper West Side had recently moved from New York City to Florida, reportedly at least partly because he had seen enough of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s anti Israel posture and the city’s ugly surge in antisemitism.

Moshe Yezhak Grunhaus, 50, was allegedly attacked Thursday after leaving a synagogue near Amsterdam Avenue and West 86th Street.

Police say the suspect, Raul Morales, was armed with a screwdriver and repeatedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the violent episode.

Grunhaus had already left New York for Surfside, Florida, near Miami, according to the report.

He was only back in Gotham for a few days to clear out his apartment, which is a grim little snapshot of where the city now stands.

A source told JNS that frustration with Mamdani was part of the reason Grunhaus decided to leave the city for good.

For many Jewish New Yorkers, that is not exactly a mystery wrapped in a riddle.

“It makes sense, honestly,” a neighbor who wished to remain anonymous told The Post Saturday.

“I mean, given the hatred that is being spoken by our mayor about towards the Jewish community, he’s not welcoming. He’s not encouraging people to be proud of their Judaism here, and it’s very obvious.”

The neighbor continued: “I mean, we all know what he was screaming when he attacked those people. He said, ‘Allahu Akbar So, like, are you kidding me?

Another resident was just as blunt about the climate in the city.

“I think the mayor is definitely aggravating the negative side of it. He’s saying things that he doesn’t have the authority to say. Like he wants to arrest the Prime Minister of Israel.”

That same resident added, “People who wear kippahs definitely have to be more cautious.”

In a city run by progressives who never run out of press conference language, that sentence should embarrass every official who helped create this mess.

Grunhaus had been publicly focused on antisemitism in New York, often tagging Mamdani while sharing stories from people who said they had faced anti Jewish hatred.

One post from the Israeli Consulate described a Jewish man and his family being confronted in broad daylight.

“I hope your kids die,” the June 28 repost read.

“That’s what a stranger said to Rami Feinstein and his family in broad daylight in New York. Not online. Not anonymously. In the middle of a New York street. This is what antisemitism looks like when hatred becomes acceptable, normalized and ignored.”

Grunhaus also posted about the Israelis murdered by Hamas in the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks.

In October 2025, he wrote, “Standing here @ Mount Herzl Cemetery 2 years after the October 7th massacre (Hebrew calendar, day after but first day of funerals for the nation),”

He added, “Commemorating our heroes who were the first of many to sacrifice their lives to protect our nation. Never Again!”

A month later, he posted photos of two Israeli hostages still held by Hamas.

Mamdani, asked about the issue at an unrelated Bronx event, gave the usual official response.

He said, “There’s no tolerance for bigotry,” while also acknowledging that Jewish New Yorkers remain the majority of hate crime victims across the city.

A rally organized by End Jew Hatred was planned for Sunday morning at 509 Amsterdam Avenue to “unite against hate on the Upper West Side” and call out Mamdani.

A flyer posted to X did not bother with polite political theater, declaring, “Blood is on Mamdani’s hands,”

Yitz Landes, 37, a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, said Jews in the city “are on edge,” according to the report.

His mother lives in the building next door to the apartment Grunhaus was clearing out.

Like Grunhaus, Landes said he “always wear a kippa in the city. I would feel weird not to. I don’t want to give up wearing it publicly, and I hope I can continue to do it.”

Morales, described as an ex con, allegedly stabbed 57 year old Chok Sung a few blocks away before the attack on Grunhaus.

He was arraigned on two counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault and one count of attempted assault, all being prosecuted as hate crimes.

A judge ordered Morales to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, and he is due back in court on July 30.

Both victims are stable, with Sung still hospitalized and Grunhaus released Friday, while New Yorkers are left asking why basic public safety now feels like a luxury item.

Fetterman Baffled by GOP Fan Base But Rejects Lara Trump Party Switch Pitch [WATCH]
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Fetterman Baffled by GOP Fan Base But Rejects Lara Trump Party Switch Pitch [WATCH]

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Sen. John Fetterman is once again proving to be one of the strangest figures in today’s Democratic Party, a maverick from Pennsylvania who keeps irritating the left while earning unexpected praise from Republican voters.

During a prerecorded interview on “My View with Lara Trump” that aired Saturday, Fetterman admitted he still does not quite understand why so many Republicans seem to like him.

“I go everywhere. I do most of a lot of the shopping. And people will approach me, and it’s almost uniformly very positive,” Fetterman said.

The Pennsylvania Democrat added, “I can’t fully understand, I’ve seen polling, why I’m so popular with Republicans. I don’t really understand that, but I’m always going to treat both sides with respect.”

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That sentence alone probably explains half of the mystery.

In a Democratic Party where calling Republicans fascists has practically become a nervous tic, basic courtesy now qualifies as political rebellion.

Fetterman stressed that he refuses to describe Republicans as Nazis or fascists, saying disagreements should be handled with respect.

Imagine that, a United States senator suggesting political opponents are not comic book villains.

His numbers with Pennsylvania voters show just how upside down the current political map has become.

A recent Quinnipiac University poll found Fetterman with a 77 percent approval rating among Republicans in the state, while Democrats gave him a 69 percent disapproval rating.

That kind of split would have been almost unthinkable a generation ago.

Today, it makes perfect sense in a party where the loudest voices seem more interested in campus protest slogans than normal working class voters.

Lara Trump told Fetterman the Republican Party would “love” to have him switch sides.

The senator, however, rejected the offer, at least for now.

“My whole family is Republican, and I think they love me,” Fetterman quipped, adding that his father was watching the interview.

He said his criticism is aimed at the most extreme forces inside his own party, not at everyday Democrats.

“My criticism is directed at the extreme, in my view, indefensible kinds of views [of] things,” Fetterman said.

He also warned about primary candidates in his party who keep moving further left on Israel and America.

“People that are winning the primaries, they are almost always anti Israel and then anti American, and they’ve been forced to delete all the outlandish things that they’ve said,” he said.

Fetterman has repeatedly broken with his party’s activist wing through his firm defense of Israel.

That stance has made him a target for the left, where support for America’s closest Middle East ally is apparently now treated as some exotic right wing habit.

He has also clashed with Democrats during government shutdown fights, refusing to simply follow the party line when he believes the left is playing games with basic governance.

For voters tired of performative outrage, that sort of bluntness has obvious appeal.

Republicans have noticed.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota and others have reportedly made overtures to Fetterman, hoping he might consider leaving the Democratic Party.

Fetterman has repeatedly said he is not switching parties.

Still, he has left himself one notable caveat, suggesting that if Democrats become aggressively hostile to Israel, that could change the equation.

That answer should make Democratic strategists a little nervous, assuming they still have time between scolding voters and chasing approval from online activists.

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Fetterman may not be a conservative, but he has learned that the hard left has a very low tolerance for dissent.

Despite his reputation as a thorn in the side of progressives, GovTrack has ranked Fetterman as more liberal than more than a dozen Senate Democrats based on his voting record.

In other words, Republicans are not cheering him because he suddenly became Barry Goldwater.

They are responding to something simpler.

He talks like a human being, shows up in places outside the left wing media bubble, and refuses to pretend that every Republican voter is a threat to civilization.

Fetterman also complained about what he sees as a double standard inside the Democratic coalition.

Far left politicians can attack moderate Democrats all day long, but when he criticizes the extreme wing, the outrage machine starts spinning.

“There’s also been a double standard. People, whether it’s [Bernie] Sanders or other people, are allowed to criticize Democrats, but when I call out the extreme … I get the criticism like ‘why are you going on Fox?’” Fetterman said.

“I’ll have a conversation with anyone that’s going to play it straight as you and Fox has,” he added.

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That is the real offense in the eyes of the modern left.

Not just that Fetterman criticizes them, but that he is willing to sit down with people they have declared off limits.

For now, Fetterman remains a Democrat, much to the disappointment of Republicans hoping for a dramatic party switch.

But his popularity with GOP voters is no mystery to anyone paying attention.

When one Democrat declines to spit venom at half the country, defends Israel without apology, and calls out the radicals in his own backyard, Americans notice.

These days, that is apparently enough to make him sound like a rebel.

Van Jones Praises Trump for Showing Up Then Rips Speech as Mean and Small [WATCH]
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CNN commentator Van Jones did something unusual during coverage of the rescheduled White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

He gave President Trump credit before promptly returning to familiar cable news form and tearing into the president’s speech.

The dinner had been moved from its original April 25 date after a gunman stormed the security perimeter and fired a shot in an attempt to assassinate Trump.

That ugly backdrop made the president’s decision to attend the media gala more notable than the usual Beltway cocktail circuit chatter.

CNN anchor John Berman explained that the evening’s schedule had changed.

The awards for journalists would come before Trump spoke, meaning the president would have to sit through honors given to reporters who often cover him with all the warmth of an IRS audit.

“The president was going to speak first, then the awards. So, he could have left, in theory, if he wanted to,” Berman said before turning to Jones for analysis.

Berman added, “This time, he’s going to have to sit through and watch awards being given to reporters who report on him, maybe in ways he doesn’t like. One wonders how he might feel about that.”

Jones responded with a rare moment of praise for Trump, acknowledging that the president was not ducking the room or heading for the exit. For once, even a CNN panel had to admit the obvious.

“You really do have to give President Trump credit tonight,” Jones said.

“I mean, we were saying he was going to basically do his thing and run away.”

“He’s not running away,” Jones added.

“He’s going to be there. And maybe someone will have the courage to speak up [against him]. Maybe they won’t. But he’s putting himself in harm’s way in that regard.”

That was about as generous as the moment was going to get.

After Trump delivered his remarks, which included jabs at the press and candid comments about his relationship with the media, Jones shifted hard into criticism.

“I think the worst thing you can say is that it just wasn’t funny at all,” Jones said.

“It just wasn’t funny. It was mean and small. But you can be mean and small and funny. This was mean and small and not funny.”

Jones argued that Trump missed a chance to speak to Americans facing real problems.

His complaint was that the president focused too much on himself and his adversaries rather than kitchen table issues.

“And he didn’t talk about any American besides himself and his enemies,” Jones continued.

“There are people at home who can’t figure out how to pay for gas. There are people at home who worry about their nephew who’s serving overseas.”

“There’s people at home who have real problems, who would love to see somebody reflect their reality and maybe make fun of some of their enemies, some of their problems. He missed the entire opportunity to talk to those people.”

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Of course, the idea that the White House press dinner is suddenly sacred ground for working class policy talk may surprise Americans who know it mostly as a room full of journalists, celebrities, consultants and politicians congratulating one another.

Still, Jones framed the speech as a squandered opportunity.

The moment also came after Jones recently appeared to push back against the far left activists gaining influence inside his own party.

The longtime progressive Democrat warned that some ideas being packaged as progressivism are doing damage to Democrats.

Jones condemned Democratic Socialists of America aligned positions on Hamas, policing, prisons and borders.

“Supporting Hamas is not progressive. ‘No police, no prisons, no borders’ is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE,” Jones said.

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That admission marked another notable break from the activist fringe, even if Jones remains firmly on the left.

It also showed the growing panic among Democrats who can see the party’s radical wing turning off voters outside the faculty lounge and protest encampment circuit.

So the evening delivered a strange split screen. Jones praised Trump for showing up and sitting through a room full of media elites, then blasted him for being, in his view, too harsh and not funny enough.

For Trump supporters, the spectacle likely looked simpler.

The president walked into hostile territory, took the heat, fired back at the press, and left CNN debating whether he deserved credit or condemnation.


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