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IT’S OVER: Trump and Musk’s Relationship Falls Apart


First, it was just the “Big, Beautiful Bill.” Elon Musk
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irresponsible, and Donald Trump disagreed. Nothing vicious, just a respectful
ideological difference.

The dispute got personal on Thursday, however, with the president suggesting
the former DOGE boss is suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome
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escalations.

Then, things reached the point of no return. Musk cranked the heat up
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later, alleging that Trump is in the Epstein files, andthat’s why his
administration hasn’t made them public.


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Retweets about impeachment, the “Liberation Day” tariffs causing a recession,
and the chief executive’s old acquaintanceship with Epstein quickly followed,
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NO LAUGHING MATTER: Comedian Gets Eight Years in Jail for Telling Jokes


Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy went on a blistering tirade
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Wednesday, arguing that people should not be allowed to make offensive jokes.
Spit flew from his lips as he raged.

The Brazilian government appears to agree with Portnoy’s sentiment. One of
that “free” country’s federal courts sentenced comedian Leonardo Lins toeight
years in prison earlier this week as punishment for comedy he spread in a
YouTube post. The video reportedly contained distasteful humor about black
people, obese people, the elderly, HIV-positive people, homosexuals, indigenous
people, people from the Northeast, evangelicals, Jews, and the disabled.

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condone that form of comedy, but there’s a big difference between opposing it
on a human level and insisting it should be illegal. There are plenty of things
free citizenscan do, but acknowledging that is entirely different from
believing theyshould. Saying nasty things is chief among them.

If populations lack authority over their own tongues, then they are not truly
free. While government censorship against mean language may seem moral, it is
really the beginning of a slippery slope toward tyranny. Brazil is well on its
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ICE Officers Are Stranded in Africa


Have you ever been stuck in Djibouti?

Three Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are right now.

According to a new report, the officials are stranded in the African country
with eight criminal illegal immigrants after a judge barred the octet’s
deportation to South Sudan. The convicts, found guilty of murder, sexual
assault, robbery, arson, and more, are living in a shipping container on a U.S.
naval base with around-the-clock surveillance from the agents. The officers
regularly encounter toxic smog from nearby burn pits and live under the threat
of Houthi rocket attacks.

The group remains in Djibouti because U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy
blocked the Trump administration from deporting invaders to countries from
which they did not come. The White House claims the deportees’ crimes were so
“monstrous and barbaric” that no country other than war-torn South Sudan will
take them.

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Read more here, including details about the criminals’ records and a look at
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Does Hakeem Jeffries Want ICE Agents to Get Murdered?


Hakeem Jeffries is pledging to expose the identities of ICE agents involved in
recent immigration raids. His promise comes despite official warnings that
anti-law activists could target and harass the public servants if their names
become available.

“This is America. This is not the Soviet Union. We’re not behind the Iron
Curtain. This is not the 1930s,” the Democrat House leader said on Tuesday.
“And every single one of [the agents], no matter what it takes, no matter how
long it takes, will, of course, be identified.”

We’re not clear on what having a functioning immigration system has to do
with Joseph Stalin’s Russia, but we do know that Jeffries’s vision could
endanger law enforcement officers in similar ways that the murderous Soviet
leader’s purge policies did to people in his country. Earlier this week, acting
ICE Director Todd Lyons revealed that his agents are facing increased “death
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Supreme Court Says Discrimination Is Illegal, Even If It’s Against Straight
Whites


Title VII is clear: workplace discrimination based on race, religion,
ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation is illegal. This is America, where we’re
supposed to treat people based on their character, not their demographics.

Does that apply to non-minorities, too? Say, to straight white people?
According to the Supreme Court, yes it does.

In a unanimous Thursday decision, the High Court revived a lawsuit from Ohio
woman Marlean Ames, who claims to be the victim of reverse discrimination. Her
employer, the state’s Department of Youth Services, allegedly denied her a
promotion because she isn't a lesbian, instead hiring a gay woman for a
position she sought, then demoted her from the job she already had and filled
the spot with a gay man.

A federal district court previously ruled against Ames, saying citizens filing
reverse discrimination complaints must clear a higher bar than those with
allegations ofnormal discrimination, which ironically is discriminatory in and
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REPORT: White House Shuts Down Ukrainian Rocket Shipments


When you pay your taxes, you probably want the money to go toward things that
make your life better. That’s a reasonable stance.

It’s also what makes Washington using fortunes of taxpayer dollars to fund
foreign war machines so frustrating. The United States needs help with
homelessness, education, infrastructure, the economy, the drug crisis, and
plenty of other issues. Could our politicians maybe use our paychecks to solve
those problems before sending lethal aid to Ukraine, Israel, and who knows
where else?

The Trump administration took a step in the right direction on Thursday,
reportedly redirecting shipments of anti-drone technology initially meant to
fight Russia to U.S. Air Force units in the Middle East. Although the American
troops in that region probably shouldn’t be there in the first place, they
surely deserve strong security as long as they are. These munitions should help
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Trump Threatens to Sanction Ukraine


Donald Trump compared Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky to two bickering
children on Thursday, saying, “Sometimes you’re better off letting them fight
for a while and then pulling them apart.”

The comment came during an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor
Friedrich Merz, who urged the president to put more pressure on Moscow, through
sanctions or other means, to pursue a diplomatic solution to finally end their
war.

“It could be on both countries to be honest,” Trump quickly replied. “You
know, it takes two to tango, but we’re going to be very tough, whether it’s
Russia or anybody else.”

Does that mean he sees the Ukrainians as an equal obstacle to peace as the
Russians? Maybe. Whatever happens next, the White House should ensure all
policies relating to this conflict advance the interests of the United States.
The previous administration spent years prioritizing other countries’ needs,
and it turned out disastrously. The president should make any decision on
sanctioning Ukraine, Russia, both, or neither based on how it will affectour
country, not a foreign agenda that has nothing to do with the American people.
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Bill Clinton Demands We Ignore Biden’s Decline Because it Was in the Past


Shut up!

That’s what Bill Clinton wants us to do when it comes to Joe Biden’s dazed and
confused state.

The one-time first gentleman hopeful said Americans “should think less about
that and more about the future” during a Thursday appearance onThe View,
insinuating that the United States spending four years under a commander in
chief with the mental wherewithal of a pile of dirt is somehowno big deal
because there’s a new president now.

See how this works? The establishment is thrilled to milk the past when it
comes to stories like 2021’s election justice protest, George Floyd, or the
now-debunked Russia hoax. But when it comes to things that hurt them
politically?

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Jasmine Crockett Says You’re Not Allowed to Criticize Stacey Abrams


Did you know the Biden administration gave Stacey Abrams’s nonprofit a $2
billion grant?

That fact alone raises some obvious questions. Was that a fair allocation of
taxpayer dollars? Would Abrams have still received the money if she were a
Republican? Or even a regular, non-political person?

Democrats don’t want you to wonder about those things, so they’re resorting
to their typical strategy for whenever they’re in a pinch:calling their
opponents racist. Party intellectual thought leader Jasmine Crockett pushed
that deranged narrative on Thursday, accusing people who think shelling out$2
billion for Stacey Abrams might not be the best use of government money of
wanting to “keep a strong black woman down.”

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“To hear the comments about Stacey Abrams, it really got me goin’,” the
distinguished congresswoman said. “Why not muddy the water if we can to keep a
strong black woman down?”, she then accused critics of asking themselves before
daring to suggest Abrams shouldn’t have received the $2 billion. Recall that
she wants to be one ofWashington’s most powerful Democrats
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Commentary


$600,000 Salaries and No Taxes?


Harvard has been in the news a lot lately, but some of the stories are hard to
follow.

Sure, headlines about the university losing its ability to enroll foreign
students or forfeiting federal funding tend to garner plenty of attention. How
much, though, do they impact the average American? Not a ton.

But the institution’s tax-exempt status? That’s a different story. By
allowing the stuffy Cambridge academic hub to dodge paying federal income
taxes, the government sends the clear message that the school gets special
privileges Washington wouldnever afford everyday citizens. Given the university
has an endowment ofover $50 billion
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, it could surely stomach cutting Uncle Sam a check or two. But it doesn’t.

Education conglomerates like Harvard are far from the only groups somewhat
free from the IRS’s wrath, and one of them is particularly on our minds today:
non-profit hospitals.

A Wednesday Townhall column
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broke down the seemingly crooked relationship between those entities and the
government, detailing how they overwhelmingly fail to provide the public
service they should to justify swiping left on their taxes.

Before exploring some numbers, it’s worth taking a step back and pondering
what an institutionshould do to warrant an exemption. From an economic
perspective, the answer is simple. They should provide the public with at least
as much value as they save by not paying taxes. Makes sense, right?

So how are America’s non-profit hospitals behaving? Do they meet that bar?
Not even close. According toa study
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cited in the aforementioned article, “more than 1,900 nonprofit hospitals
receive more in tax breaks than they give back to their community, totaling
billions” of dollars in profits. The report analyzed figures from 2,425
hospitals throughout the U.S., meaning over 80% are taking more than they give.

“In total,” the Townhall piece states, “the amount was so staggering – a
shocking $25.7 billion in fair share deficits – it would have been sufficient
to ‘pay off the medical debt of everyone in California, Texas, New York, and
Pennsylvania combined.’”

Now here’s the real kicker, also as written in the article. Emphasis is ours:

“Americans are starting to notice that ‘non-profit’ hospital CEO salaries have
reached Fortune 500 levels, and continue to rise exponentially. Between 2012
and 2019, CEO compensation grew 30 percent –reaching a mean average of over
$600,000 a year – which, frankly, seems kind of ‘profitable.’”

$600,000 salaries and no taxes? Doesn’t that sound like abuse?

We’re not typically clamoring for more government regulations, but anyone
raking in 600 grand to run a “charitable” organization that’s actually an
overwhelming net taker should probably be subject to some tighter rules. The
current situation is clearly unfair to regular people, and that’s who both the
government and so-called charities are supposed to serve.

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This Day in History


June 6, 1944: D-Day. Led by Dwight Eisenhower, Over 150,000 Allied soldiers
landed on the beaches of Normandy to liberate Western Europe from the Nazis.
Although the Allies only landed fractions of the intended supplies and
vehicles, they triumphed in their invasion and pushed German rule out of
Northern France within three months. Roughly 4,000 Allied troops died in the
effort.



 

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