Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists over new Air Force One reporting

Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists over new Air Force One reporting

The Trump administration has issued subpoenas to several New York Times journalists after the newspaper reported on security concerns with the president’s new plane, according to the outlet.

The Times said its journalists were subpoenaed on Friday by the US justice department to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan five days later, marking the latest effort by the Trump White House to compel testimony from journalists under the threat of penalty. Agents delivered some of the subpoenas to the Times reporters at their homes, the paper added.

A US justice department statement responding to a request for comment about the subpoenas mentioned investigating “breaches of national security”.

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Cuba Falling: Code Pink and Other Commies Plan to Riot in the U.S. to Support the Regime

Cuba Falling: Code Pink and Other Commies Plan to Riot in the U.S. to Support the Regime

I was just reading an essay on social media in which a Cuban woman calls the island nation a “concentration camp,” and she has a point. The humanitarian situation there is worse than it has ever been. Earlier this week, the country experienced yet another nationwide blackout. Food and potable water are becoming more and more scarce, as is medical care. Hundreds of political prisoners remain in detention centers. Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are ready to fix these results of systematic oppression — that has lasted nearly seven decades — but the regime refuses to allow it. Instead, it does a lot of blaming and chest thumping, and promises major reforms in name only.

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Mark Carney won’t let Donald Trump see him sweat, but it comes at a cost

Mark Carney won’t let Donald Trump see him sweat, but it comes at a cost

Watch Mark Carney, not long ago thought to be a political novice, work a press scrum. We’re now used to the half-beat pause before the prime minister answers, the banker’s habit of restating the question in duller language, draining it of drama, and the refusal, almost physical, to take the bait.

That composure can come across as a personality quirk but it’s more likely a construction. This week, a remarkable two-part Wall Street Journal (WSJ) investigation shows us what it was built to withstand.

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25 Million Communists in America

25 Million Communists in America

35 years after the fall of the USSR the first official Communist DSA member, who admired Stalin, will likely be headed to Congress for the next term, in defiance of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment and the Communist Control Act. But who is out there voting for Communists?

Despite the countless millions dead at the hands of the Communist regimes, a significant portion of the electorate has a positive view of Communism as a political movement.

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If Mark Carney can avoid lecturing Saudi Arabia, why not Donald Trump?

If Mark Carney can avoid lecturing Saudi Arabia, why not Donald Trump?

On Thursday, Mark Carney stood in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and said something long overdue when it comes to Canadian foreign policy. The PM called for an end to Canada endlessly lecturing other countries.

Carney was responding to a question about doing business with countries where we have a different view when it comes to issues like human rights.

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Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Really Is Slashing Violent Crime

Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Really Is Slashing Violent Crime

Is crime falling? Some conservatives, notably Steve Bannon, argue that Americans should ignore the FBI’s crime statistics showing record drops in violent crime. The murder rate last year fell to the lowest rate ever recorded, and the violent crime rate is clearly at the lowest in many decades. But Bannon recently declared that “nobody believes” FBI crime data or its director, Kash Patel, adding: “I don’t want to hear any more statistics about how crime’s coming down.”

That skepticism overlooks an important distinction.

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Mamdani Lists ‘Little Palestine’ as Immigrant Enclave, Ignores ‘Little Italy’

Mamdani Lists ‘Little Palestine’ as Immigrant Enclave, Ignores ‘Little Italy’

Little Italy is a New York City landmark. It’s a cultural touchtone where movies have been set. Tourists troop over to pick up Sopranos t-shirts and go out to an Italian restaurant.

‘Little Palestine’ is Islamic colonialist nonsense that no one had ever heard of. But the Mamdani regime predictably put out a map of what it claimed were “New York City Immigrant Enclaves” which listed ‘Little Palestine’, ‘Little Pakistan’, ‘Little Yemen’, ‘Little Albania’ and ‘Little Egypt’, but didn’t mention ‘Little Italy.’

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How Many Crimes Do Illegal Immigrants Commit?

How Many Crimes Do Illegal Immigrants Commit?

Last week, the Supreme Court decided three major immigration cases, including a ruling on the scope of the Constitution’s birthright citizenship provisions. The broader immigration debate, however, remains far from settled. Disagreements persist over everything from whether and under what circumstances foreigners should be permitted to enter the United States to how vigorously existing immigration laws should be enforced, if at all. Advocates of more restrictive immigration policies and stronger enforcement tend to rely on one rationale above all others: public safety. Indeed, the extent to which immigration affects public safety is, in many ways, the central question around which the broader debate revolves.

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ICE Charges Woke Doxxer and Targets Chihuahua-Killing Illegal Alien

ICE Charges Woke Doxxer and Targets Chihuahua-Killing Illegal Alien

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested a serial anti-ICE doxxer and requested custody for a deportee who re-entered the United States and shot a small dog.

The first story regards Gregory John Curcio, a 68-year-old Santa Monica resident. He hates ICE so passionately that he has not only doxxed an ICE agent, putting her at risk of assault from wacko activists, but he also repeatedly harassed the agent’s mother, who lived in the same building as him.

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Trump ‘immediately’ asking US Supreme Court to reconsider birthright citizenship case

Trump ‘immediately’ asking US Supreme Court to reconsider birthright citizenship case

President Donald Trump has said he will “immediately” ask the US Supreme Court to rehear a case challenging birthright citizenship in the US.

It comes a week after the high court ruled that those born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship, rejecting Trump’s executive order that sought to restrict the 150-year-old policy.

While the Supreme Court allows for such a request, the high court has rarely ever granted a rehearing. The last time a decided case was reheard was some 60 years ago.

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Canada Tells US There’s ‘No Basis’ for Forced Labour Tariffs

Canada Tells US There’s ‘No Basis’ for Forced Labour Tariffs

Ottawa told Washington its safeguards against imports made with forced labour are robust enough as the threat of additional U.S. tariffs looms.

The Canadian government filed an official response with the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on July 6, the deadline for doing so.

“Canada respectfully submits that there is no basis for the imposition of additional Section 301 duties on Canadian goods,” says the document. It argues Canada has an existing prohibition against forced labour goods and has introduced new legislative measures to reinforce the regime.

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Trump has ‘won the argument’ on NATO defence spending, Carney says at summit

Trump has ‘won the argument’ on NATO defence spending, Carney says at summit

NATO countries are bolstering their militaries after U.S. President Donald Trump “won the argument” on defence spending, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday.

Trump has long said allies don’t spend enough on defence and that the U.S. has carried more than its fair share of NATO’s defence spending burden.

Carney told reporters in Turkey on the last day of the summit that Trump is looking to shift that burden – something former U.S. president Barack Obama had sought as well.

h/t Hermes

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Riot Instigators Reveal Communism Inside Anti-American ‘Socialist’ Agitation

Riot Instigators Reveal Communism Inside Anti-American ‘Socialist’ Agitation

Aweek before the 250th anniversary of America declaring independence, more than 1,000 people assembled at the nation’s capital to make a declaration of their own: their vision to dismantle America’s founding institutions. “All of US Next250 National Mobilization” protested the Trump administration, debuted new “founding documents,” and re-envisioned America as seen by Marxist revolutionaries.

“It’s not just a day, it’s a movement, and it’s been three years in the making,” Saru Jayarman, a co-organizer of Next250, told The Federalist. “This is the time to set the tone for what the next 250 years will be.”

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Carney’s Davos speech written at 4 a.m., Trump’s volatile call with Trudeau, and other things we learned from a WSJ article

Carney’s Davos speech written at 4 a.m., Trump’s volatile call with Trudeau, and other things we learned from a WSJ article

This week, the Wall Street Journal published a two-part series, with the first part titled “There Is No Going Back: The Inside Story of Europe’s Rupture With America.” While it looked at the general situation in Europe, the second was all about Canada’s role, and specifically that of Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Its headline was “The Canadian Who Steered Europe Away From the U.S.,” with the subhead: “Facing threats from Trump, Mark Carney emerged as a central figure in a project to reshape the Western alliance.”


Parts 1 and 2 linked below.

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Trump has not forgotten about Greenland

Trump has not forgotten about Greenland

If European leaders had a bingo card of all the fights Donald Trump could pick with them, at this week’s Nato summit in Ankara they would have won a blackout. Starting as he meant to go on, Trump used a joint briefing with Nato chief Mark Rutte this morning to reheat his litany of grievances with fellow members of the alliance.

Trump today declared that he was ‘not happy with Nato because of what they did with Greenland’ and their refusal, as he sees it, to help the US with the war in Iran. Greenland, the President said, was a ‘big problem for us’, going on to claim – falsely – that ‘it’s not important for Denmark’.

Didn’t forget Spain either!

h/t patthedog

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