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The city of Columbus, Ohio, the state’s capital and largest city, said it would raise the Somali flag ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.
“Happy Somali Independence Day!” the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department said in a now-deleted post.
“As we celebrate the unification of the Trust Territory of Somaliland and the State of Somaliland into the Somali Republic in 1960, City Hall will be raising the flag of Somalia,” it added.
Columbus, Ohio Parks & Rec DELETES post celebrating “Somali Independence Day” afterintense backlash: pic.twitter.com/0f6ZKvg0WL
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) July 1, 2026
Here’s the post before it was deleted:
The U.S. Department of Justice is taking Virginia to court over its so-called “assault firearms” ban, filing a lawsuit just hours after it had been slated to take effect on July 1.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., signed a law that creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for importing, selling, manufacturing, purchasing, or transferring the firearms, which include standard, semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15-style rifle, the country’s most popular firearm.Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office filed a lawsuit Wednesday morning saying the law violates the Second Amendment.
Everyone once in a while the cultural marxist way to describe a middle eastern attacker gets a new euphemism. Today’s update comes from politically correct Scotland (snip)Girl, 16, raped in Glasgow park by 'tanned, European' man as cops issue update (snip)Tanned European man”
I wonder how long it took them to come up with that one?
Imagine being so consumed by hatred for Donald Trump and his immigration agenda that you would hand a full pardon to a man who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl for four years, just to keep him from being deported.
You do not have to imagine it. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) actually did it.
Last month, Walz pardoned Tou Lue Vang, a 42-year-old illegal immigrant convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, wiping his record clean and shielding him from deportation to Laos. It’s bad enough that the pardon erased Vang's conviction entirely, but what makes it worse is that Walz did it to rescue him from the consequences that Trump's immigration enforcement
Even though the Supreme Court has put out some disastrous duds, they’ve also handed President Trump major victories as well. They cleared the way for his team to end Temporary Protected Status for tens of thousands of Haitian migrants. What does TPS mean, exactly? Well, in short, when a foreigner is on TPS, they don’t have to work, and there’s no risk of being deported.Temporary Protected Status (TPS) does not require you to work. Instead, it gives eligible individuals the legal permission to work in the U.S. and protects them from deportation. TPS does not require you to hold a job; it simply provides the legal right to work if
Only two days after Pennsylvania withdrew from the Great American State Fair, U.S. Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvania, and David McCormick, R-Pennsylvania, announced a coalition of organizations would represent the Keystone State at the fair.
The fair, which runs from June 25 to July 10 in Washington, D.C., is part of a bigger effort to commemorate America's 250th birthday. It was organized by Freedom 250, a nonprofit created as part of President Donald Trump's effort to commemorate the county's semiquincentennial that works closely with the White House's America 250 task force.
The New York City Council approved a new budget on Tuesday that allocates almost $7 million for “trans equity” programs and doesn’t include any spending for the additional police officers Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised to hire.
Mamdani previously pledged to hire 580 new cops, but the money for the new positions was noticeably absent from the city’s most recent $126 billion spending plan.
“Why isn’t there more money for police?” state Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar said in reaction to the budget.
A Tale Of Two Governors
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom can’t help himself when it comes to bragging about the performance of the state while he’s been in charge. Often it means saying things that are wildly untrue.
Take his latest attempt at self-congratulation.
In a post on X, Newsom claimed, “Since 2019, California has grown about 40% in its economy — no other jurisdiction in the United States has come close. We have no peers.”
That might be accurate if what Newsom meant was that California has no peers when it comes to how badly the state’s economy has been performing since 2019.
Newsom’s 40% growth rate is in nominal terms. In real terms,
Pete Buttigieg’s harrowing swatting story from last week is now coming under scrutiny, suggesting he may not be telling the entire truth.
As TGP’s Jordan Conradson reported, Buttigieg claims he was swatted this week by Child Protective Service agents and separated from his four-year-old twins.
Buttigieg ran to Substack to write a column about the incident.
Describing himself as “bewildered and troubled,” Buttigieg said that “the CPS worker told me something that made my stomach turn: I was not to be alone around the children, at least until the interview took place the next day.”
After a “sleepless night,” he says, the officers
An unarmed man was fatally shot in a broad daylight ambush during a dispute over a parking spot at a North Lauderdale Walmart on Tuesday.
62-year-old Bart Diguglielmo was shot by a woman during an argument over a parking space.
The unidentified shooter is claiming self-defense. Diguglielmo was not armed.
Diguglielmo’s family said he was a Christian man and a decorated veteran who served in Desert Storm in the Army National Guard.
The shooting was captured on a Tesla cam and cell phone camera.
NBC Miami reported:
A man who was shot by a woman during what authorities said was a dispute over a parking space at a North Lauderdale Walmart has died, officials said.
CCP Expanding International Repression
Through New ‘Ethnic Unity Law,’ Warns
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Through New ‘Ethnic Unity Law,’ Warns
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WASHINGTON—House lawmakers on June 30 introduced a bipartisan resolution condemning China’s new ethnic unity law, saying the law will expand the regime’s efforts to enforce its ideology internationally and eliminate cultural and religious rights.
The measure by Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) comes amid growing concerns in Congress about the Chinese law, which allows Beijing to target people in the United States and beyond.
The Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress law, enacted on July 1, formalizes a longstanding push to prioritize Mandarin Chinese in education from kindergarten and promotes a unified national identity among the country’s 55 officially recognized ethnic minority groups.
Second-class citizens': Angel Families
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President Donald Trump has made fighting illegal immigration the centerpiece of his second administration, but for too many families across the country, finding justice has been elusive.
Many illegal immigrants who have committed crimes have escaped justice under the Biden administration, while the families of the victims faced ineffective investigations, protracted legal cases, and, in some cases, saw the perpetrators receive light prison sentences.
“These people are shown so many privileges in this country and American citizens are really considered, in my opinion, second-class citizens when it comes to crimes committed against them by illegals,”
President Trump has posted an A.I. video of himself as a doctor, diagnosing celebrities with ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’.
The clip features recreations of Hollywood actors and celebrities Trump has previously criticized, including Whoopi Goldberg, Robert De Niro, Julia Roberts and Rosie O’Donnell.
“Have you or someone you know been diagnosed with TDS?” the A.I.-generated Trump asks at the start of the clip posted to Truth Social late Wednesday. “The symptoms can be relentless. Fortunately, I’m Doctor Trump, and I have a treatment plan.”
The A.I.-generated commander-in-chief then invites the viewer to hear from some of his “patients.”
“We wanted to inform you…”
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Rom Braslavski is a former Israeli hostage held in Gaza. He was working as a security guard at the Nova music festival during the October 7 massacre as an active-duty soldier on leave from the Logistics Corps. In captivity he was tortured and assaulted. In the video below he is informed by an Israeli security official that his chief tormentor in captivity — a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad — has been sent to his allotted virgins in the sky. (X) The Times of Israel reports the story here, the Jerusalem Post here. The Post story adds: “The military also said that Abd al-Aal commanded
Las Vegas cops busted a transgender gunman who allegedly planned a casino massacre using a huge cache of weapons.
Allison Howlett, 36, who was born a man but lives as a woman, was arrested Saturday on charges of making terroristic threats, assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft, gun theft and other offenses.
The wild story unfolded shortly after 9:30 a.m. Saturday when Howlett’s former spouse, who is female, called police to report Howlett had stolen her car and the vehicle held numerous firearms, Henderson Police Chief Reggie Rader said. The former spouse said Howlett intended to commit “suicide by cop” or carry out a mass shooting, Radar said.
An active-duty Air Force officer was arrested on the steps of the US Capitol on Wednesday while protesting Trump and calling for his impeachment in uniform.
Jason Watson, a US Air Force Major who attended the US Air Force Academy, participated in a press conference sponsored by far-left lunatic Rep. Al Green (D-TX), where he called for his boss, the commander in chief, to be removed and convicted.
According to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Watson could face court-martial proceedings for contempt toward officials stemming from his participation in the event and his calls for Trump’s impeachment.
Idaho has decided the death penalty shouldn't depend on a drug company, a missing vein, or a supply chain nobody wants to talk about.
As of Wednesday, the state has now made the firing squad its primary method of execution. Lethal injection remains available as a backup, but Idaho has moved the rifle ahead of the needle because the old system has become slow, fragile, and legally tangled. From Newsmax:
The state spent more than $1 million on the project, including rifles for volunteer marksmen.
The move comes as states continue searching for alternatives after repeated problems with lethal injection and recent legal challenges involving nitrogen gas executions.
Ex-CIA chief accused of orchestrating
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Former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan is suing the Trump administration and demanding a court order to require officials to preserve records of the criminal investigations against him. Brennan served as CIA director under former President Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017. In a court filing reviewed by Fox News Digital, Brennan asks the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to issue preliminary injunctive relief to "protect his constitutional rights as the current target of two federal investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice."
Attorneys for Brennan assert that the DOJ has launched its investigations "at the direct urging of President Trump" and that the investigations amount to
Do you remember 1976, fellow old folks? I do. Ι was fourteen years old, and living in Washington, D.C., and spent the summer exploring the Air and Space museum and other attractions of the nation’s capital, as well as the big bicentennial celebrations on the National Mall, where every state had a booth showing off the marvels that, each claimed, were best enjoyed within its own peerless and paradisal confines. The one I remember most was Mississippi’s, which was offering samples of fried catfish — not, indeed, a delicacy with which most Beltway denizens had any familiarity.
China Hawks, Tech Investors And Former
Lawmakers: Meet Hegseth’s New Picks
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Lawmakers: Meet Hegseth’s New Picks
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has selected a new team to help shape policy for the Pentagon.
The Department of War’s (DOW) new Defense Policy Board roster will be composed of former government officials, Silicon Valley investors, nuclear deterrence specialists, former lawmakers, economic security officials and conservative policy figures. Hegseth is adding the fresh appointees to the board as the Trump administration institutes sweeping reforms to the Pentagon and pivots towards the artificial intelligence (AI) arms race with China.
The DOW board will be chaired by Robert Lighthizer, who was President Donald Trump’s U.S. trade representative during his first term, from 2017 to 2021. “Established in 1985, the Defense Policy Board is
As I watched Wednesday night’s FIFA World Cup game between the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina, I thought to myself, this is why so many Americans don’t love soccer. Disallowed goals, overly dramatic performances following minor injuries — and a bullshot red card that threatened to pull victory from the hands of the Americans.
By the end, though, I was a believer as the team pulled together and thrashed out an epic 2-0 victory, despite being a man down for over 36 minutes. (X) The red card is so devastating because not only does it result in the penalized player being kicked out, but
DHS Puts Walz on Blast for Pardoning Criminal
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As we've written before, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) simply cannot stop himself from putting his foot in his mouth, something we saw most recently with his reaction to the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday that "we hold that the States may maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females."
RedState reported on Walz's predictable reaction, which was to tweet that "As the Supreme Court says states can be cruel to trans kids, my message is clear: Here in Minnesota, we stand with and value our trans neighbors and youth."
A number of Minnesota Republicans blasted back, including state Senator Julia Coleman (Carver County), who wrote in part, " What’s cruel
The United States Justice Department sued California on Wednesday to halt a newly enacted law banning retail sales of Glock and Glock-style handguns, the most popular pistols sold in the state, and simultaneously challenged a decades-old list that severely restricts which handguns may be legally purchased there. The 17-page complaint, filed in federal district court in Los Angeles, argues that both restrictions violate the Second Amendment. The lawsuit escalates a months-long standoff between the Trump administration and California’s Democratic leadership. “The Second Amendment is a sacred right belonging to all Americans, even those in California,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.
Something is brewing inside the Democrat Party, and this time, Donald Trump has nothing to do with it. Behind closed doors, the establishment wing of the party is squaring off against a coup led by self-declared socialists, and the fight over who controls the party's future is only getting started.
Fox News host Jesse Watters laid out exactly how this ends on The Five, and it should terrify anyone still clinging to the idea that the Democrat Party can hold itself together heading into the next presidential race.
Asked by co-host Emily Compagno whether the country is actually being taken over, Watters didn't offer easy reassurance.