Friday, March 20, 2026
Note to Ldotters:
Please remember, no duplicates, no blog posting
unless you have permission from staff, no local crimes and
no posting just to elicit nasty reactions.
Any post with three lines or fewer will be deleted.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Lucianne.com Ad-Free Subscription
Learn More or Enter Code
Latest Posts
Democrat Representative Veronica Escobar (TX-16) is coming under fire after Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons banned one of her senior caseworkers from all ICE facilities for allegedly posing as a licensed attorney at least 11 times to gain unauthorized access to detainees at a facility in El Paso, Texas.
The staffer, identified as Benito Torres, also stands accused of smuggling cell phones inside the detention center in clear violation of security protocols.
In a letter to the congresswoman, Lyons demanded answers on whether she knew about or authorized Torres' actions, if she condones such behavior, and what steps she will take to hold him accountable.
"The available evidence demonstrates your staffer,
California has already sued the Trump administration at least 54 times a little more than a year into his second term. State Attorney General Rob Bonta claims the lawsuits are an effort to hold President Donald Trump accountable. But litigation goes both ways. The administration is now suing California over its zero-emission (in effect, electric) vehicle mandate.
The Justice Department says that California’s ZEV mandates and its stringent standards for CO2 emissions violate federal law, which expressly prohibits states from setting their own fuel economy standards for cars, adding
Democracies depend not only on fair elections but on public confidence that elections are fair. Once people begin to doubt the integrity of the system, the legitimacy of the outcome begins to wobble. In the United States today, few issues have done more to shake that confidence than the debate over voter identification.
The strange thing about the debate is that identification is required for almost everything else.
Americans must show ID to board an airplane, obtain employment, open a bank account, collect Social Security benefits, purchase alcohol or tobacco, or obtain a driver’s license. Identity checks are simply part of everyday life.
I think a few years ago, one European diplomat said, “Well, he’s a bull in a China shop, only he’s a bull in a nuclear China shop.” Maybe, maybe not.
But let’s just review what’s taking place right now. For the second time, we’re bombing Iran, and this time the negotiations clearly were not going to lead to this 47-year problem resolution.
Iran’s theocracy has no intention of stopping nuclear proliferation. It wants a bomb to dominate the Middle East, to intimidate the petro kingdoms of the Gulf, to show its dominance over Sunni Islam, and to destroy eventually Israel, threaten Europe for blackmail concessions and eventually us.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, deactivated an old X account after a series of resurfaced posts showed her praising Palestinian terrorists, bashing Israel and criticizing the US military.
The Big Apple’s 28-year-old first lady — who has faced backlash over her social media history the past two weeks — took down the account a day after the Washington Free Beacon revealed a flurry of alarming posts she made on X and Tumblr in her teens and early 20s.
While her X account — under username @_RamaDee — was deleted as of Thursday, Duwaji’s public Instagram page, which has 2 million followers, remains active.
President of Costa Rica Rodrigo Chaves Robles announced on Wednesday that his country would cut all diplomatic ties to Cuba, shutting down its embassy in Havana and ordering all Cuban diplomats out of the country.
Chaves Robles, whose term is slated to end in May, explicitly stated that his opposition to socialism and communism – and an escalation in human rights abuses by the Cuban Communist Party at home – were the reason for his decision.We do not recognize the legitimacy of this government,” the president asserted on Wednesday. “We have to clean the hemisphere of communists. Simple as that.”
Former FBI Director James Comey has been subpoenaed as part of the Justice Department's "grand conspiracy" probe, two sources confirmed to Just The News Thursday.
The investigation is looking into claims that Democrats attempted to undermine President Donald Trump, treating the last decade of political weaponization of law enforcement and intelligence agencies as an ongoing criminal conspiracy.
The probe is being led by Jason A. Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is overseeing the case, according to Axios.
EU member state leaders gathered in Brussels on March 19 to discuss urgent issues such as the war in Iran and aid for Ukraine. However, despite "heated" debates, they were unable to convince the Hungarian prime minister to lift his veto on the €90 billion loan.
Here’s what happened today in Brussels, what the EU is hoping for, and whether there is a plan B in RBC-Ukraine's material.Orbán’s oil leverage: the Hungarian prime minister refuses to lift his veto on financial aid for Ukraine until the flow of Russian oil is restored.
Aid in doubt: the EU’s final communiqué expressed hope for the first payments to Ukraine as early as March–April,
Pakistan, included by US President Donald J. Trump in his "Board of Peace" for the Gaza Strip, nevertheless continues to be one of the most dangerous countries for Christians and other non-Muslims. International watchdog organizations continue to rank Pakistan among the most difficult countries for Christians.
"The year 2025 was marked by a deepening crisis for religious minorities in Pakistan, characterized by entrenched legal discrimination, rising mob violence, and a climate of near-total impunity for perpetrators." — 2025 report by "Voice of Pakistan Minority."
War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that the unfolding U.S. operation against Iran remains “laser-focused” and decisive in achieving its objectives, pushing back on comparisons to past prolonged conflicts while outlining a campaign he said is systematically degrading Tehran’s military capabilities.
Speaking at a Pentagon briefing on day 20 of Operation Epic Fury, Hegseth opened by directly challenging portrayals that the operation risks becoming a drawn-out war akin to Iraq or Afghanistan, arguing the mission is tightly defined and purpose-driven.
“The media here — not all of it, but much of it — wants you to think, just 19 days
A coalition of 40 Democratic states, cities and counties sued the Trump administration on Thursday, challenging the recent termination of a longstanding policy allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate climate pollution.
The lawsuit, and others like it, will kick off a years-long court saga that could wind up at the Supreme Court and determine the fate of Trump’s plan to undo decades of climate policy.
First issued in 2009 during the Obama administration, the endangerment finding is considered the federal government’s most powerful tool to tackle climate pollution. The finding determined that six greenhouse gases could be categorized as dangerous to human health
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Thursday that he does not intend to put ground troops in Iran, undercutting an anonymous report claiming his administration is considering putting thousands of troops in the Middle East.
Trump dispelled the notion that he is considering adding troops to the Middle East during a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae in the Oval Office. “Do you intend to lift sanctions on Iranian oil, and do you intend to potentially put U.S. troops or more troops in the region?” a reporter asked.
“No, I’m not putting troops anywhere. If I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you,
Iran's Princess Noor Pahlavi to ‘Post’:
‘Iranians have chance to reclaim their
country’ - interview replies
‘Iranians have chance to reclaim their
country’ - interview replies
There is something extraordinary about how a young woman, born and raised in the United States, can become a voice for people she has never met in a country she has never seen, thousands of miles away. But for Iran’s Princess Noor Pahlavi, daughter of the exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and granddaughter of the former shah, Mohammad Reza, that is the situation she finds herself in. As the Islamic Republic regime of Iran faces daily strikes and military pressure from the US and Israel, and with its leadership decimated, many are looking to the day the regime falls.
As more and more people flee blue states and their high-tax, soft-on-crime, expensive cost-of-living environments, Democrats are going to become more desperate to stop the population hemorrhaging. Some places, like California, have tried exit taxes. New York Governor Kathy Hochul begged wealthy New Yorkers to return to fund her fraudulent, expensive welfare programs.
In Washington, they're now forcing people to prove their houses have an acceptable "home energy score" before they're allowed to sell.
A key Senate committee voted 8-7 on Thursday to advance President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next secretary of the Department of Homeland SecurityThe vote in the Senate Homeland Security Committee sends Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to the full Senate for consideration one day after a contentious confirmation hearing.
The committee is divided between eight Republicans and seven Democrats. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who chairs the committee, voted against Mullin after taking him to task for “anger issues” at his hearing one day earlier.
You could be forgiven for wondering who and what to believe when you go on social media or look at the regime media, or listen to politicians, and you’re bombarded with all sorts of information, opinions, and assertions about the Iran War, but take heart. There’s an easy way to sift through it all to separate the wheat of valuable insights from the chaff of absolute stupidity. If somebody’s telling you that we are losing this war, he’s an idiot, or a liar, or both, and you should ignore everything he says.
Right up front, let’s be clear about something.
U.S. Moves to Denaturalize Nigerian National
Behind Tax Scam That Targeted Over 259,000 Victims replies
Behind Tax Scam That Targeted Over 259,000 Victims replies
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed and served a civil denaturalization complaint in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Maryland, against Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem, a native of Nigeria who organized a vast conspiracy to steal identities and file fraudulent tax returns.
In 2017, he was convicted of 19 counts of mail and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and sentenced to 15 years in prison. But in 2024, then-President Biden commuted his sentence after only six years.
The newly filed denaturalization complaint alleges that Kazeem’s fraud scheme, which he committed in the years before and after his naturalization,
As a member of the conservative media ecosystem, I see stories all the time about the heinous crimes that illegal aliens commit. It’s always terrible to hear about people losing their lives at the hands of illegals, but certain crimes hit home for me in a different way. (Snip) Another death at the hands of an illegal immigrant hit home for me this week, and not just because it also took place in my home state. Earlier this month, Thomas “Wayne” Reynolds perished when Guatemalan illegal alien Felix Domingo Perez Camacho caused an accident that claimed Reynolds’ life. ICE caught Camacho this week.
If Democrats believe it is permissible and even laudable to break our immigration laws, can we really be surprised when Democrat staffers break other laws too in order to assist criminal foreigners?
Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin posted accusations from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that one of Rep. Veronica Escobar's (D-Texas) staffers illegally impersonated a lawyer in order to assist detainees. Benito Torres lied about his credentials so that he could have access to illegal aliens and provide them cell phones. Escobar did not respond to Melugin‘s request for comment, which is hardly surprising.
Comedian and podcast host Adam Carolla totally nuked liberal Democrats for criticizing President Donald Trump and his domestic and foreign policies, going on to say, quite loudly, what conservatives have been thinking about individuals who wish former Vice President Kamala Harris had won the 2024 election. It would be the understatement of the year to say Carolla didn't hold back.
“If Kamala Harris was in charge right now, Iran would have a nuclear device and the border would be wide open. So SHUT THE F*** UP! SHUT UP! You don’t know what the f*** you’re talking about! You’re DUMB!” Carolla stated during a recent episode of his podcast.
New York City's first lady, Rama Duwaji, glorified terrorist violence in a wide range of posts made on social media when she was a teenager and in her early 20s, celebrating members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group and the First Intifada, a Washington Free Beacon review of her old X and Tumblr accounts found.
Duwaji, 28, posted a photo to her Tumblr account in September 2017, when she would have been 20 years old, of the infamous Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled. Under the username "diimashq," she echoed one of Khaled's most famous statements.
"If it does good for my cause,
The Little Orange Rooster
replies
I should call today's newsletter Sophie's Choice. She (snip) likened our situation with NATO to that of the Little Red Hen. (snip) when it came time to eat the bread, each one volunteered to help. The Little Red Hen told them "No. You did not help (snip.) I will eat the bread myself." The other animals shrugged their shoulders, went to the store, took out their EBT cards, and ate lobster and steak. (snip) Which brings up America's Little Orange Rooster. (snip) Each nay-saying nation wants and needs that oil from the strait of Hormuz (snip.) the rest of the NATO countries believe they still have EBT cards.
Useful idiots in California want to bend the knee to Islam, removing all doubt that this state can be saved.
KTXL reported on Sunday that Democratic State Assemblyman Matt Haney has introduced a bill that would officially recognize two Muslim holidays — Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha — as state holidays.
Eid al-Fitr, as the BBC noted, means “festival of the breaking of the fast,” marking the end of Ramadan. Muslim community leaders commended the bill as a “historic step” in efforts to combat Islamophobia, per KTXL.
Arkansas governor says she was asked to
leave a restaurant because employees felt 'threatened' replies
leave a restaurant because employees felt 'threatened' replies
Arkansas GOP Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday that she was asked to leave a restaurant in Little Rock last week because her presence made employees and customers feel "threatened."
Sanders previously served as White House press secretary during President Donald Trump's first term and has since been a supporter of the president's immigration policies.
The governor said she was dining with two other moms at the restaurant, which has been identified as The Croissanterie, when the owner allegedly told members of her security detail that Sanders must leave because her "presence made their employees feel threatened."
"Arkansans are known for their warm hospitality, and while that restaurant didn’t meet