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Far-Left Trans Kids Crusader Peggy Flanagan Captures Minnesota Democrat Senate Primary [WATCH]
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Far-Left Trans Kids Crusader Peggy Flanagan Captures Minnesota Democrat Senate Primary [WATCH]

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Minnesota Democrats have selected Peggy Flanagan as their candidate for the United States Senate, handing the primary victory to a far-left politician known for embracing radical gender activism and opposing tougher immigration enforcement, as reported by The Post Millennial.

Flanagan secured the Democrat nomination after building a political identity closely tied to the priorities of the activist left.

Her victory shows exactly where Minnesota Democrats want their party to go, and it is nowhere near the political center.

Among Flanagan’s most memorable displays was a shirt bearing the message “Protect Trans Kids” alongside the image of a tactical knife.

The combination was hardly subtle, presenting a political slogan with imagery that looked more like a warning than a call for thoughtful debate.

The shirt attracted attention because the national debate over gender policies involving children has become increasingly intense.

Parents across the country have demanded transparency, biological reality, and a meaningful voice in decisions affecting their sons and daughters.

Flanagan, however, has planted herself firmly with activists who insist that objections to their agenda must be treated as intolerance.

That posture may excite the progressive base, but it leaves little room for families with serious concerns about medical procedures, school policies, privacy, and parental rights.

Her record also includes praise for Democrats who voted against the Laken Riley Act.

The legislation was named for Laken Riley, the Georgia nursing student whose murder became a national symbol of the devastating consequences tied to weak immigration enforcement.

For many Americans, the measure represented a basic attempt to protect communities and ensure that dangerous illegal immigrants did not remain free after encounters with law enforcement.

Flanagan instead applauded members of her party for opposing it, making her priorities unmistakably clear.

That position could become a major liability in a general election, particularly as voters continue to rank public safety and border security among their leading concerns.

Minnesota families may reasonably wonder why resistance to immigration enforcement deserves celebration from someone seeking a seat in the United States Senate.

The Democrat primary result also offers another reminder that the party’s activist base remains deeply committed to cultural politics.

While working families struggle with prices, public safety, schools, and economic uncertainty, party leaders continue racing toward positions crafted for progressive organizations and online applause.

Flanagan’s nomination will likely please the same political class that treats every cultural dispute as an opportunity to lecture ordinary Americans.

The establishment left may celebrate her victory, but the general electorate will have an opportunity to examine what she has actually promoted.

Republicans now have a clear contrast to present.

They can campaign on parental rights, secure communities, responsible immigration enforcement, and respect for citizens who do not want government institutions imposing ideological experiments on children.

Minnesota has often leaned toward Democrats in major statewide contests, but that does not mean voters automatically support every radical position advanced by the party.

A Senate campaign places those positions under a brighter spotlight, where slogans and activist symbolism can face sustained scrutiny.

Flanagan will also have to explain why praising opposition to the Laken Riley Act served Minnesota voters.

That question goes beyond partisan theater because immigration enforcement has direct consequences for public safety, local budgets, police departments, and families.

The primary outcome confirms that Democrats are not retreating from the cultural and immigration battles that have alienated many working-class Americans.

Instead, Minnesota Democrats have elevated a candidate whose public record embraces those fights with enthusiasm.

For conservatives, the race now carries national significance because every Senate seat affects judicial confirmations, border policy, federal spending, and the reach of Washington.

Minnesota voters will decide whether Flanagan’s brand of progressive activism belongs in a chamber already filled with politicians eager to push the country further left.

American Airlines Jet Spews Flames, Forces Terrifying Emergency Landing [WATCH]
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American Airlines Jet Spews Flames, Forces Terrifying Emergency Landing [WATCH]

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An American Airlines Boeing 737 was forced into an emergency landing in South Carolina after flames erupted beneath its left wing shortly after takeoff.

The aircraft had reportedly struck birds while departing Myrtle Beach for Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday.

Passenger Patrick Gotwalt captured dramatic video showing fire and orange flashes streaming from the engine as the jet climbed over the water.

The alarming scene unfolded while the aircraft shook and witnesses on the ground heard several loud popping sounds.

Nearby beachgoer Lindsey Mackey told CNN that the noises came before bright flashes appeared beneath the wing.

What began as a routine short flight quickly became a frightening test for the passengers, crew, and pilots responsible for getting everyone safely back to the airport.

American flight 1760 was carrying 172 passengers and nine crew members when the trouble began. The pilot reported an engine problem shortly after leaving the runway and issued an urgent distress call to air traffic controllers.

“Mayday, mayday, mayday. We’ve got an engine problem here,” the pilot said, according to an audio recording obtained from LiveATC.

The call left little doubt about the seriousness of the situation as controllers and airport workers prepared for the aircraft to return.

Another pilot in the area apparently witnessed the encounter with the birds and reported what he had seen over the radio. “I saw he took up birds, it looked like, at least in the left side engine,” the pilot said.

Operations crews soon discovered multiple bird remains scattered across the runway, providing more evidence of what caused the frightening episode.

Workers moved quickly to clear the debris while the American Airlines jet circled and prepared for its emergency approach.

“We’ve got a lot of bird debris out here. We’re going to grab as many big pieces as we can,” one operations worker said over the radio.

The blunt report offered a grim picture of the impact, even as the crew remained focused on safely returning the damaged aircraft. The visible flames were likely caused by birds burning after entering the engine.

Authorities found no initial evidence that a fire had developed inside the engine itself, an important distinction given the dramatic images recorded by passengers and people below.

American Airlines confirmed that the flight returned to Myrtle Beach shortly after departure because of what the company described as a maintenance issue.

That corporate phrasing was technically tidy, but the flames, distress call, violent shaking, and runway debris told passengers exactly how serious the moment felt.

“The aircraft landed safely and has been taken out of service to be inspected by our maintenance team,” an American Airlines spokesperson told The Post.

The jet remained grounded while specialists examined the aircraft and assessed any damage caused by the reported bird strike.

The airline also arranged another plane to complete the interrupted trip to Charlotte. “Our team worked to get customers on their way to Charlotte on a replacement aircraft,” the spokesperson added.

No injuries were reported among the 181 people aboard, despite the shaking and flames visible outside the cabin.

Passengers credited the pilots and flight crew with remaining composed while they leveled the aircraft, flew over the ocean, and organized the return to Myrtle Beach.

One passenger said the plane initially appeared to climb normally before beginning to shudder violently on the side where the bird strike occurred.

The aircraft remained in the air for roughly 15 minutes before touching down safely at the airport.

“The pilots were nice and calm; they seemed to level off, they went over the ocean, gave us a notice that they were coming back, and we came back. I guess we were up about 15 minutes, maybe,” the passenger told WCNC.

The safe landing prevented a terrifying engine incident from becoming a tragedy. It also highlighted the value of experienced pilots who kept their heads, followed emergency procedures, and brought nearly 200 people home while flames flashed outside the cabin.

Colombia Building Collapse Caught on Camera as Massive Quake Leaves 111 Dead [WATCH]
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Colombia Building Collapse Caught on Camera as Massive Quake Leaves 111 Dead [WATCH]

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A terrifying video captured the moment a building in Pereira, Colombia, shook violently and collapsed Monday as a magnitude 7.4 earthquake devastated the western part of the country.

At least 111 people were killed, and 87 others were injured as officials scrambled to assess widespread destruction, as reported by Fox News.

The footage shows the structure trembling while horrified witnesses scream from nearby. Sections of the building crumble into the street before the entire structure gives way in a massive cloud of dust and debris.

Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella declared a state of emergency while rescue crews searched damaged and collapsed buildings across several cities.

The disaster erupted only days after he entered office, handing the new president an immediate and deadly test.

De La Espriella said: “The national government has all of its capabilities deployed to protect lives, assist affected communities and deliver aid wherever it is needed. The first priority is rescuing the people trapped under the rubble.”

The United States Geological Survey reported that the earthquake struck near San Jose del Palmar in Choco at a depth of approximately 107 kilometers, or 66 miles.

The United States tsunami warning system said the powerful quake did not create a tsunami threat.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration was watching the crisis and prepared to assist Colombia.

Rubio wrote on X, “The Trump Administration is closely monitoring the large earthquake that struck Colombia and stands ready to support the people of Colombia and President @ABDELAESPRIELLA’s Administration.”

Rubio also urged Americans in Colombia to enroll in the State Department Smart Traveler Enrollment Program.

He advised travelers and residents to monitor updates from the United States Embassy in Bogota as emergency conditions continued.

Some of the most severe casualties were reported in western Colombia, where entire communities were left digging through rubble.

Authorities said at least 40 people died in Risaralda, which includes heavily damaged Pereira, while 27 were killed in Valle del Cauca, home to Cali.

Officials also confirmed nine deaths in Choco, two in Caldas and one in Antioquia, according to The Associated Press.

Rescue operations remained active as crews searched unstable structures and relatives waited for word about missing loved ones.

Cali Mayor Alejandro Eder said more than two dozen structures had collapsed across one of Colombia’s largest cities.

With people still trapped beneath the wreckage, city officials requested additional disaster response teams from Bogota and Medellin.

Eder told Blu Radio, “At this point, two people have already been rescued alive, one elderly woman and one young girl. There are more people trapped.”

He added, “We have at least 12 critical points and 25 collapsed structures that we are responding to.”

Emergency workers and residents continued moving through dangerous debris as the possibility of further collapses remained a serious concern.

The earthquake’s epicenter was located near San Jose del Palmar in Choco, a sparsely populated province along Colombia’s Pacific coast.

Choco Governor Nubia Carolina Cordoba Curi reported injuries and significant damage in Quibdo, the provincial capital, while warning residents to remain alert for aftershocks.

Colombia’s civil aviation authority suspended flights at airports in Pereira, Manizales, Quibdo, Armenia, Cartago and Buenaventura.

Inspectors were dispatched to examine runways, terminals and other facilities for structural damage before normal operations could resume.

The national disaster agency said the earthquake struck at 7:34 in the morning local time and was felt across much of Colombia.

The shaking triggered evacuations, damaged buildings and sent frightened residents rushing into streets and open areas.

Witnesses also reported feeling the earthquake across the border in Venezuela, including in Tachira state and the central western city of Barquisimeto.

The tremors brought fresh alarm after twin earthquakes struck Venezuela in June and killed more than 6,000 people, mostly along the coast near Caracas.

Rescue crews now face the grueling task of reaching survivors while damaged buildings, blocked streets and continuing aftershocks complicate operations.

For Colombia’s new government, the priority is brutally clear: find the trapped, deliver aid, and prevent the death toll from climbing further.

President Trump Used Catering Truck and Air Force One Decoy to Evade Iranian Threat: Report [WATCH]
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President Trump Used Catering Truck and Air Force One Decoy to Evade Iranian Threat: Report [WATCH]

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President Donald Trump reportedly slipped out of Air Force One through an airport catering truck during a covert security maneuver in Turkey, allowing him to board a smaller military aircraft while another presidential jet served as a decoy, as reported by Fox News.

The operation unfolded at Ankara airport on July 8 after intelligence officials identified what was described as a credible Iranian threat against Trump.

The president was leaving a NATO summit amid heightened security concerns following American military strikes against Iranian targets earlier in the summer.

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Trump had arrived in Ankara aboard a new Boeing 747- 8 donated by Qatar.

Security officials, however, apparently decided that a very public departure aboard the highly recognizable aircraft would provide hostile forces with too much useful information.

According to reporting by The Washington Post, Trump first climbed the stairs of the older blue and white Boeing 747 traditionally associated with Air Force One.

He waved to cameras and entered the cabin, giving reporters and observers every reason to believe the president was aboard.

Once outside public view, Trump and a small group of aides reportedly moved through an exit on the opposite side of the aircraft.

An airport catering truck had been raised to the door, providing cover for a maneuver that looked ordinary from a distance.

The truck was then lowered and driven across the tarmac to a waiting Air Force C 32A, a modified Boeing 757.

Trump quietly boarded that aircraft while much of the White House staff and traveling press remained focused on the larger jet.

Reporters and staff members boarded the older Boeing 747 believing Trump was inside.

They were instructed to close their window shades before takeoff, a request that now appears to have been part of the larger effort to conceal the president’s actual location.

The decoy aircraft initially appeared on radar without a call sign, according to flight tracking information reviewed by the newspaper.

It later began using the AF1 call sign during the flight, even though the president was reportedly traveling aboard the smaller military plane.

Trump flew secretly aboard the C 32A to RAF Mildenhall in England, arriving shortly before the decoy aircraft.

Exactly how the president transferred back to the larger plane after landing in Britain was not disclosed, which is probably the point of a successful security operation.

At approximately 10:56 p.m., Trump appeared before television cameras and descended the external stairs of the older presidential aircraft.

Minutes later, he boarded the new Qatar-donated Boeing 747- 8 for the return flight to Washington.

Staff members and reporters also transferred to the newer aircraft before departure.

The carefully staged movements allowed security officials to protect Trump without publicly revealing the extent of the Iranian threat or the precise route used to counter it.

When reporters asked why the window shades had been ordered closed in Turkey, Trump offered his characteristically blunt explanation.

“You’re probably on a dangerous flight because of the sleaze bags that we have to deal with.”

Trump also said he faces threats constantly and described himself as “Number One” on Iran’s target list.

Given the reported intelligence and the elaborate precautions taken in Ankara, that concern was clearly more than the usual Washington chatter dressed up as national security drama.

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said the new aircraft had been equipped with advanced security measures intended to protect the president and his staff.

He added, “As the president has said recently, there are many enemies of America who have their sights on him, and we use every tool at our disposal to address those threats.”

The Air Force also defended the safety and capabilities of the new presidential aircraft.

Officials said mission security, communications, and operational requirements remained the priority, while some less frequently used capabilities were adjusted during the aircraft’s preparation.

The reported maneuver showed how quickly presidential security planning can change when intelligence points to a specific foreign threat.

Iran has repeatedly treated Trump as a prime enemy, and American officials were not about to gamble his safety for the convenience of photographers, flight watchers, or an impatient press corps.

Fauci Texts Expose Biden’s Surgeon General Raising Fetal Mutation Fears Before Public Vaccine Push [WATCH]
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Fauci Texts Expose Biden’s Surgeon General Raising Fetal Mutation Fears Before Public Vaccine Push [WATCH]

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Newly released messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government-issued phone reveal that top federal health figures privately discussed serious concerns involving pregnant women and mRNA vaccines, as reported by The Gateway Pundit.

Those conversations stand in sharp contrast to the confident public assurances that followed only days and months later.

Republican Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky released the January 25 and January 26, 2021, exchange on Monday.

It was part of an initial disclosure drawn from more than 34,000 text messages and 522 voice messages recovered from Fauci’s phone.

The messages show Fauci raising a potential danger connected to the second vaccine dose during early pregnancy.

He wrote that because “many people have significant cytokine storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”

Rochelle Walensky, who would lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under President Joe Biden, acknowledged the issue. She responded that it was “definitely a good point, esp after dose two.”

Vivek Murthy, who soon became Biden’s surgeon general, then raised another alarming concern circulating at the time.

His private response showed that questions about fetal development were being discussed at the highest levels of the federal health establishment.

“I’ve been hearing the concern about the mRNA causing mutations in the developing fetus as well. That’s a really good point re the cytokine storm post second dose,” Murthy wrote in the exchange.

The next day, Murthy highlighted a World Health Organization announcement advising against Moderna vaccination for pregnant women because sufficient data were not available.

He asked Fauci and Walensky for their assessment because “I imagine we will all get asked about this.”

Fauci answered by arguing that officials needed to weigh vaccination concerns against the dangers posed by COVID.

He also claimed that more than 10,000 pregnant women had already received vaccines with “no issues.”

Just days later, Fauci presented a much calmer message to the American public.

On February 3, 2021, he said the Food and Drug Administration had found “thus far… no red flags about that, about pregnant women.”

By August 2021, Fauci’s public language had become even more forceful.

He insisted there was “no indication whatsoever” of increased adverse issues and declared it was “pretty clear that pregnant women should get vaccinated.”

Murthy also publicly promoted vaccination during pregnancy, with little trace of the uncertainty reflected in his private message.

Americans were told to trust the experts, while the experts themselves had privately traded concerns about miscarriage, inflammatory reactions, mutations, and limited pregnancy data.

“It’s all the more important for you to get vaccinated if you are pregnant or if you are trying to become pregnant … The data points show that the vaccines are safe during these various stages before and during pregnancy … They found generally that anytime during your pregnancy is actually fine [to get the vaccine], and that’s why the recommendation is just to get it,” Murthy said.

The contrast does not prove that every concern raised in those messages became a confirmed medical outcome.

It does, however, expose how uncertainty discussed behind closed doors was scrubbed from the government’s polished public messaging as officials pushed Americans toward compliance.

Questions also surfaced concerning reproductive toxicology testing involving Moderna’s vaccine.

In August 2022, The Gateway Pundit reported that internal company documents obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request described skeletal variations among offspring of vaccinated laboratory rats.

Judicial Watch obtained roughly 700 pages connected to Moderna’s Biological License Application submitted to the Food and Drug Administration.

Former pharmaceutical executive Alexandra Latypova analyzed portions of the material, according to reporting cited by The Epoch Times.

The documents reportedly showed that six of 149 fetal rats had wavy ribs, while five of those six also had rib nodules.

Those animal findings did not by themselves establish the same outcome in humans, but they added context to why pregnancy safety questions deserved transparency rather than political stage management.

Federal health officials had every opportunity to tell Americans that the evidence was still developing and that legitimate questions remained.

Instead, the public received sweeping certainty while private messages revealed a far more cautious conversation, another reminder of why trust in Washington’s health bureaucracy collapsed.

From Safe, Legal, and Rare to Anytime, Any Reason: Massachusetts’ Radical Abortion Shift [WATCH]
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From Safe, Legal, and Rare to Anytime, Any Reason: Massachusetts’ Radical Abortion Shift [WATCH]

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Anyone who has held a newborn understands the instinct to protect that tiny life.

The wonder is immediate, which is why the idea of deliberately ending a child’s life near delivery strikes millions of Americans as not merely controversial, but morally grotesque.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has now signed legislation that critics say permits abortion throughout pregnancy, including near the moment of birth, as reported by PJ Media.

That makes Massachusetts the eleventh state, according to the cited advocates, to allow abortion under standards broad enough to reach the final stage of pregnancy.

At nine months, viability is not an abstract medical debate.

The child is fully capable of living outside the womb, and the decisive legal question under this framework can rest on the wishes of the mother and the professional judgment of the physician performing the abortion.

That is not the tidy story offered by abortion lobby public relations teams. They prefer sterile language about access and protection, because plain English would force voters to confront what happens to a developed child when an abortion is performed so late.

The new law removes the previous limit that generally restricted legal abortions after 24 weeks, with limited exceptions.

It permits an elective abortion later in pregnancy when the physician determines it is appropriate, handing extraordinary authority to the same person who stands to carry out the procedure.

That arrangement deserves scrutiny, not applause.

A safeguard is not much of a safeguard when the person making the judgment is also the provider performing the abortion, yet Massachusetts Democrats treated the signing ceremony like another triumphant stop on the progressive social agenda.

The details of later abortions are brutal, which is precisely why abortion advocates often hide behind euphemisms.

Susan B. Anthony Pro Life America says procedures in the second and third trimesters can involve dismemberment or induced labor, and it cites research estimating that more than 60,000 abortions occur after 15 weeks each year.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro Life America, said, “It should shock the conscience that tens of thousands of unborn Americans are barbarically dismembered limb by limb and torn apart every single year. Sadly, that number will only increase with Gov. Healey’s approval of the Abortion Up Until Birth Bill.”

The image of Democratic officials smiling around Healey only deepened the revulsion.

Some of those celebrating are mothers themselves, and Americans are entitled to ask how anyone who has cradled a newborn can endorse a legal structure that leaves a fully developed unborn child exposed to intentional destruction.

The press predictably reached for its favorite verbal camouflage.

CBS News described the measure as legislation to “strengthen abortion protections,” while Boston.com called it an expansion of “abortion rights,” phrases that carefully avoid describing which human being receives no protection at all.

The measure is titled the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, another polished label designed to make radical policy sound administrative and compassionate.

The Massachusetts House passed it by a vote of 119 to 33 in July, showing this was no narrow or reluctant decision.

Myrna Maloney Flynn, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, warned, “This law exposes the dishonesty behind the claim that no one supports abortion until birth. When lawmakers remove every objective limitation and authorize an abortion provider to decide whether an abortion may be performed at any point in pregnancy, abortion until birth is precisely what the law allows.”

Supporters will insist that doctors deserve discretion and that hard cases require flexibility.

But when a law abandons objective limits and leaves the final call to an abortion provider, skepticism is not extremism; it is the minimum response expected from citizens who still recognize unborn children as human beings.

Healey and her allies can celebrate their signatures, polished talking points, and friendly headlines.

They cannot erase the moral reality behind the language, or the disturbing fact that modern Democrats keep pushing abortion policy toward the most radical boundary imaginable while calling the result health care.

President Trump Overhauls Childhood Vaccine Schedule, Torches Establishment Media Silence [WATCH]
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President Trump Overhauls Childhood Vaccine Schedule, Torches Establishment Media Silence [WATCH]

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President Donald Trump on Monday called out the establishment media for refusing to ask serious questions about vaccines, suggesting powerful medical and pharmaceutical interests may help explain the silence, as reported by Breitbart.

His remarks came after he signed an executive order revising federal childhood vaccine recommendations.

Breitbart News asked Trump why major media outlets so often seem unwilling to question vaccine policies, even as those policies affect millions of American families.

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The president responded by pointing to the influence of medical organizations and drug companies.

“It’s amazing. When you come up with a recommendation for a vaccine, it could be the medical groups, the pharmaceutical groups, I don’t know, you know? But it is amazing. There’s nothing that we lose with this,” he said.

Trump argued that reconsidering federal vaccine recommendations presents little downside while potentially offering enormous benefits.

That basic cost and benefit discussion is apparently too much for a media establishment that spent years treating even modest vaccine questions as forbidden speech.

“If the worst thing that would happen would be nothing happens. We’re not going to lose anything. At the same time … we could save hundreds of thousands of lives, millions of lives, and I wish we could have done it a long time ago,” he added.

The president predicted that the revised childhood vaccine schedule will produce “tremendous results.”

His administration is moving ahead after an earlier effort was halted in court, another familiar obstacle for a White House trying to challenge entrenched federal policy.

“We got stopped by court. We had a court, I guess, in Massachusetts that stopped us very early on. … I’ve believed in this for a long time, so now, we’re getting it done, and I think you’re going to see potentially tremendous results,” he said.

Trump’s executive order recommends childhood immunizations covering 11 diseases.

That represents a reduction from the 18 diseases included in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations issued in 2024.

The change marks a significant shift in federal guidance and gives greater weight to a more limited group of vaccinations focused on serious diseases.

It also places parental concerns and scientific scrutiny back into a discussion that government officials and media gatekeepers too often portrayed as settled beyond debate.

“Effective immediately, my administration is recognizing gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations for only 11 core vaccinations against the most serious and dangerous diseases, along with the MMR, which hopefully will be split up,” he added.

The order recommends separating the combined MMR vaccine into three individual shots for measles, mumps, and rubella.

It also recommends administering those vaccines during separate medical visits rather than combining them into a single appointment.

That recommendation is likely to receive substantial attention from parents who have asked for more flexibility in childhood vaccination decisions.

For years, many of those parents were dismissed, mocked, or censored instead of being met with transparent information and respectful answers.

The White House also encouraged states with school vaccine mandates to review the new federal recommendations when considering their own laws.

Because states exercise significant authority over school attendance requirements, the guidance could influence policy debates across the country.

“States that enact school vaccine requirements are advised to consider the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations and consider updating their laws to reflect the recommendations,” the White House noted in a release.

Federal agencies were likewise directed to promote the administration’s revised guidance through their existing legal authorities.

The White House presented the effort as a way to ensure Americans receive stronger scientific information rather than messaging filtered through political or corporate interests.

“All Federal agencies are advised to advance the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations based on their relevant authorities to ensure Americans have the best scientific information,” the release added.

Trump’s challenge to the media lands after years of aggressive establishment efforts to shut down vaccine debate, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic.

Reporters who once claimed their mission was to question authority often acted more like public relations staff for federal health bureaucrats and pharmaceutical companies.

The new order does not eliminate childhood vaccination recommendations, despite the predictable hysteria likely to emerge from liberal commentators.

Instead, it narrows the recommended schedule, separates the MMR shots, and asks government institutions to revisit policies that have long escaped meaningful public scrutiny.

For Trump, the issue is not merely about changing a chart issued by federal health officials.

It is about forcing institutions with enormous power over American families to answer questions that a compliant press has apparently decided are too inconvenient to ask.

Black Conservatives Torch the Smithsonian’s Assault on Black American History [WATCH]
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Black Conservatives Torch the Smithsonian’s Assault on Black American History [WATCH]

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The Smithsonian National Museum of American History is facing fierce criticism from Black conservatives who say the institution has traded honest education for ideological propaganda.

Bishop Earl Walker Jackson, an author, commentator, and descendant of enslaved Americans, argues that the museum now presents the nation through a relentlessly hostile lens, as reported by Red State.

Jackson rejects the leftist habit of reducing the American experience to race, class, grievance, and oppression.

His family history includes great-grandparents who were enslaved, yet he still recognizes the extraordinary freedom and opportunity available to Americans today.

“This is a wonderful country; it’s the greatest nation on earth.”

That message is apparently too hopeful for cultural gatekeepers who prefer portraying the United States as an endless crime scene populated by permanent victims and hereditary villains.

Jackson said that “if you were born an American, you hit the proverbial lottery because you have more opportunity and hope than any people living anywhere else on the planet.”

His gratitude directly challenges a political industry that depends upon keeping Americans divided, suspicious, and angry.

The controversy intensified after the White House accused the Smithsonian of “ideological capture.”

That charge brought renewed attention from Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have begun examining how a taxpayer-supported institution presents the Founding Fathers, slavery, race, immigration, gender, sexuality, and economic inequality.

In July, the House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency held hearings connected to a 162-page report titled “Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Reshape the Past.”

The White House Domestic Policy Council issued the report on July 4.

According to the report, the National Museum of American History has increasingly minimized the founders while filtering major events through fashionable progressive theories.

Instead of giving visitors historical context, the museum allegedly pushes conclusions about systemic injustice and social justice activism.

Museum director Dr. Anthea Hartig received particular scrutiny during the congressional hearing.

Her responses did little to reassure critics who believe the museum has wandered far beyond education and entered the business of political instruction.

Hartig has openly embraced the language of reparations, restorative justice, and historical correction.

Under that approach, radical Marxist activist Angela Davis can be elevated as a feminist icon while Mickey Mouse is dragged into racial politics because Steamboat Willie supposedly reflects “blackface minstrelry.”

That is not sober historical scholarship. It is ideology dressed in museum credentials, funded by the public, and displayed to visitors from around the world as though progressive interpretation were settled fact.

Hartig reportedly receives $370,000 annually while overseeing this transformation of a national institution.

Americans have every right to ask why their money should finance exhibits that appear more interested in condemning the country than explaining its complicated and triumphant history.

Jackson is hardly alone in objecting to this grievance-centered narrative.

Many Black conservatives acknowledge the horrors of slavery and discrimination while refusing to accept the absurd claim that America is defined only by its sins.

John Allante McAuley, a former candidate for Philadelphia Republican chairman, visited the President’s House Slave Exhibit after activists accused the Trump administration of whitewashing slavery.

His assessment challenged the familiar outrage script promoted by liberal activists and their media allies.

“Once again, you have Black liberals doing the bidding of white liberals here, and they want to keep you angry.” McAuley also warned, “They want to keep us angry, they want to keep us hating America.”

That anger is politically useful because citizens who believe America belongs to them will defend it, improve it, and preserve it.

Citizens taught that the nation is irredeemably evil are easier to recruit into movements determined to dismantle its institutions and traditions.

McAuley also said, “There’s no accountability being taught.”

His broader argument is that historical slavery should be understood fully, including the role of Africans in the slave trade, but should not become an all-purpose excuse for present failures.

American history contains cruelty, courage, injustice, sacrifice, failure, and redemption.

Removing any part distorts the record, but forcing every event through a single lens of oppression destroys the larger national story just as surely as ignoring slavery would.

The Trump administration is right to demand accountability from the Smithsonian and insist that national museums return to factual history.

Black conservatives who refuse the left’s permanent victimhood narrative are making clear that America is their inheritance too, and they will not surrender it to professional grievance merchants.

Judge Freezes Mamdani’s Chaotic Luxury Tax and Wipes Away His Homeowner Shame List [WATCH]
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Judge Freezes Mamdani’s Chaotic Luxury Tax and Wipes Away His Homeowner Shame List [WATCH]

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Big Apple homeowners scored an early courtroom victory Monday after a judge blocked Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s chaotic rollout of New York City’s new luxury second home tax, as reported by The New York Post.

The temporary ruling puts the socialist mayor’s prized levy on ice while furious property owners press their case.

Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi issued a temporary restraining order preventing the city from acting on 17,000 notices mailed by the Department of Finance.

The pause will remain in place until at least an August 31 hearing.

Those notices warned homeowners that they could face tax bills reaching five figures unless they applied for exemptions.

For residents suddenly ordered to prove their homes are actually their homes, City Hall’s concept of fairness apparently came with paperwork and a deadline.

Mamdani quickly vowed to challenge the ruling and revive his tax campaign.

His spokesman Matt Rauschenbach insisted, “We disagree with today’s ruling, but we are confident in both the pied à terre surcharge and the City’s ability to implement it fairly and effectively.”

The tax was approved by state lawmakers and Governor Kathy Hochul during the spring.

It applies to one- to three-family homes valued at $5 million or more, along with cooperative apartments and condominiums valued at $1 million or more, when those properties are unoccupied and not primary residences.

The legal setback arrived only hours after Hochul urged Mamdani to clean up the confused rollout.

“We’re not responsible for the rollout,” Hochul told reporters at an unrelated Bronx event, before adding, “We’ll encourage City Hall to try and streamline this.”

That was a convenient bit of distance from a governor who previously championed the tax as a way to make wealthy foreign property owners pay more.

Hochul still supports the levy, but her office now says questions about administering it belong to City Hall and the courts.

The trouble began when city officials published a database containing more than 900,000 homeowners who might be affected.

Mamdani had warned wealthy residents to check their mail, but the sprawling list swept in scores of confused New Yorkers whose properties appeared to fall outside the law.

City Hall then mailed 17,000 notices telling recipients they would be taxed unless they secured exemptions.

Instead of using available state records to identify qualifying properties, the administration effectively shifted the burden onto homeowners and told them to prove their innocence to the tax collectors.

Three homeowners responded with a lawsuit filed Friday, arguing that the bungled process “caused mass confusion.”

They said officials ignored extensive state data that lawmakers had specifically made available for determining which properties could legitimately face the surcharge.

Plaintiffs Rachel O’Brien and Carmine Morano are Staten Island residents whose homes appeared on the published list. Morano is the father of City Councilman Frank Morano, while O’Brien is the councilman’s wife.

The third plaintiff, Chelsea resident and declared Mamdani supporter Simon Hedley, received one of the mailed notices.

His exemption was approved after he uploaded a tax return Saturday, one day after joining the lawsuit, showing that even the mayor’s own supporters can get caught in City Hall’s bureaucratic net.

City attorneys said the Department of Finance had received 3,801 challenges to its initial primary residence determinations.

They argued that pausing the process could delay nearly 8,000 appeals and prevent corrected information from appearing on November tax bills.

Ozzi was not persuaded and temporarily sided with the homeowners.

His order requires the city to remove the online list of roughly 900,000 taxpayers and bars officials from taking further action based on either the database or the mailed notices.

Hedley welcomed the ruling while acknowledging that officials responded quickly after he submitted his documents.

“Hopefully, they can take the opportunity to roll things out a bit more smoothly,” he said regarding the approaching court hearing.

The homeowners are represented by Randy Mastro, who served as first deputy mayor under former Mayor Eric Adams.

Before the ruling, Mamdani joked, “There are a few things more certain in New York City than death, taxes and Randy Mastro filing a lawsuit against this administration.”

This time, however, Mastro delivered a clear setback to City Hall.

“We are very gratified by the judge’s decision, which has vindicated the rights of hundreds of thousands of New York City homeowners who were subjected to a process they never should have been a part of in the first place,” he said.


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