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A Senate committee is investigating the administration of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over executive orders that made radical changes in the city’s definition of anti-Semitism and its position […]

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The success of the United States's three-phase plan toward stabilizing Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro depends on neutralizing Iran's military presence in the country as well as Russia and China's encroachment, the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) warned this week.

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President Donald Trump is providing full support and resources to Savannah Guthrie and her family as the search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie continues. Trump issued a statement Feb. 4 to Truth Social noting that he had spoken to Guthrie and shared the news with her. His announcement comes days after Nancy disappeared from her Arizona […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As lawmakers and other notable figures gathered once again for the annual solemn occasion to petition the Almighty God on behalf of the country, politicians were reportedly hoping that the National Prayer Breakfast would wrap up in time for them to make it to the scheduled Coke Orgy Lunch.

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The majority of the French public is in favour of banning groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood network, which seeks to advance Islamist principles in the West, such as the adoption of Sharia law.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump celebrated the return of faith in the United States at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday morning.

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For Trump, the problem at the NSF is the problem in the entire government. Do the agencies carry out the president's directives?

One of America’s most well-known left-leaning legal groups has asked the United Nations to investigate the Trump administration, alleging human rights violations and racial discrimination by federal agents in Minnesota.  

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Minnesota sent an “urgent submission” to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, or CERD, regarding federal immigration enforcement and treatment of protesters in the state. 

The U.N. committee defines early warning measures as “aimed at preventing existing situations escalating into conflicts.” It defines urgent procedures as responding to “problems requiring immediate attention to prevent or limit the scale or number of serious violations.”

The ACLU request calls for the U.N. committee to use its early warning and urgent action procedures to probe alleged violations of international human rights obligations. 

“The Trump administration’s egregious crackdown in Minnesota is not only flouting the Constitution but also United States international human rights obligations that prohibit the use of racial and ethnic profiling, extra-judicial killings and unlawful use of force against protesters and observers,” said Jamil Dakwar, director the Human Rights Program at the American Civil Liberties Union.  

The ACLU’s submission argues that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have stopped and arrested residents of Minnesota based on race, ethnicity, and national origin, which is a violation of rights enshrined in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, or ICERD.

The United States signed on to the convention in 1994. 

“We are calling on the United Nations to hold the U.S. government accountable for its blatant violations of international law and to officially report on its disregard for their human rights treaty obligations,” Dakwar added.  

Dakwar is a longstanding critic of President Donald Trump, posting on X, formerly Twitter, after the 2020 election, “No matter who wins, it’s deeply concerning that millions more Americans chose to support Trump since 2016 despite his clear record of mishandling the pandemic, endorsing racism, violence and misogyny, dehumanizing migrants, and defying scientists and public health experts.”  

In May 2020, after Trump announced Antifa would be classified as a domestic terrorist group, Dakwar posted, “We repeatedly warned against Trump’s authoritarianism but this move is very dangerous and seriously threatens basic civil liberties and human rights.”

“He is promoting white supremacy agenda and abusing presidential powers,” Dakwar said.

In December, ICE increased deployment to the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, but began a drawdown of agents this week. Also, ICE agents fatally shot two anti-ICE agitators in matters under internal investigation.  

The ACLU asserts federal agents ignored human rights in their enforcement activity, and have unfairly targeted Somali and Latino communities. 

Neither ICE nor the Department of Homeland Security immediately responded to inquiries for this story.  

The press offices for the U.N. and the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights did not immediately respond to inquiries for this story. 

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Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman, Tom Cotton, outlines via his X account that he has reviewed the intelligence community whistleblower complaint being used in a ridiculous effort to impeach DNI Tulsi Gabbard and finds it “not credible.” [SOURCE] The entire construct of this CIA-NIC ‘whistleblower’ operation is transparent.  We have outlined the basic parameters […]

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Comedian Ben Bankas called out a Minnesota venue for canceling six of his sold-out shows over backlash in response to a joke he made about 37-year-old ICE agitator Renee Good. "F**k 'em," Bankas said. "They were pussying out because they got a weird voicemail from a liberal."

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Shortly before Christmas, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Undersecretary of State Sarah Rogers made a dramatic announcement: the U.S. was placing five individuals described as “agents of the global censorship-industrial complex” on a visa sanctions list in an effort to curb foreign suppression of Americans. The undoubted headliner of the group is Thierry Breton, the former E.U. Internal Market Commissioner who spearheaded efforts to enforce the E.U.’s Digital Services Act (DSA) during the last years of his tenure in the European Commission. The list also includes the two managing directors of the hitherto relatively obscure German organization HateAid, which serves as a so-called “trusted flagger” under the DSA.

As someone who has written extensively on the reality of foreign censorship of Americans under the DSA (I covered this topic in the Spring 2025 issue of the Claremont Review of Books) and has specifically called attention to the role of trusted flaggers using the example of HateAid, I was pleased that the State Department is aware of the organization. But unfortunately placing HateAid’s directors on a visa sanctions list will do nothing to impede the organization from continuing to contribute to the censorship of Americans under the DSA.

The sanctions list appears to be premised on the idea that foreign censorship of Americans is essentially the product of bad actors. Indeed, talk of an amorphous censorship-industrial complex tends to reinforce this idea. This bad actors paradigm may be appropriate for the other organizations whose officials are included on the sanctions list, even if one should have a closer look at the sources of their funding before concluding they are unambiguously private actors. But it is certainly not appropriate for HateAid.

HateAid is not just a private organization that lobbies online platforms to censor. Rather, it is a formally private organization that has been invested with what is, in effect, a public function by a foreign government (Germany) under a foreign law (the DSA). It is funded by the German government and served that government in an advisory capacity even before it was appointed as a trusted flagger.

Under the DSA, trusted flaggers discharge the quasi-public function of identifying online content that is illegal under the laws of the country whose government appointed them. In the case of HateAide this includes Germany’s myriad “hate speech” laws that have criminalized all sorts of speech that is perfectly legal in the United States. Even mere insults are a crime under German law. Much of HateAid’s would-be public advocacy work in Germany is devoted to defending public officials—in particular Green Party politicians—against content that on closer inspection bears a remarkable resemblance to what Americans would call criticism or satire, not hate.

Their expertise having been certified by the government that appointed them, the DSA demands that trusted flaggers be given priority treatment by the platforms on which the “allegedly problematic” content has been posted. This means that content should, as a rule, be removed or otherwise suppressed, for instance, by having its visibility restricted. (Visibility suppression should normally be reserved for legal but harmful content. But the flagging prerogatives of trusted flaggers de facto extend to the latter.)

So in short, visa sanctions or not, HateAid will continue to exercise the powers with which the German government has invested it under the DSA. And online platforms will continue to take special account of HateAid’s notices of “illegal” speech simply because it is the law—even if it is not American law and the speech in question is constitutionally protected in the U.S.

Unlike the oft-invoked censorship-industrial complex, the European censorship apparatus is anything but amorphous. It is a highly formalized system involving myriad regulatory hoops through which the platforms are expected to jump. It demands that they be in continuous contact with E.U. officials and member-state authorities (or proxies like HateAid) on their content moderation.

For example, under the DSA major platforms and search engines are required to submit periodic risk assessment reports showing that they are doing enough to combat “systemic risks,” such as the threat of “disinformation,” that supposedly arise from the use of their services. X’s most recent such report—which is otherwise heavily redacted—notes that during the reporting period, “We continued to proactively engage and exchange information with the European Commission, the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Parliament, and Member States’ key authorities….”

The EEAS is the E.U.’s foreign service. Imagine the uproar if X was found to be consulting with, say, our own U.S. State Department on combatting disinformation or any other aspect of its content moderation. This is precisely the sort of thing that President Trump’s January 20, 2025 executive order “Ending Federal Censorship” was intended to forbid. But it is precisely the sort of thing going on under the aegis of the DSA, and it is happening all the time. The whole point of the DSA is, after all, to establish public oversight—that is, European oversight—of platforms’ content moderation.

To get an idea of not only how extensive but also how invasive such oversight can be, consider this recently published study by none other than HateAid. The study aimed to test platform compliance with the DSA by reporting allegedly illegal content and measuring the extent to which it was removed. It should be recalled that HateAid’s task is to uphold German law, not any other law. Nonetheless, the report refers to global removals, not just local removals (for example, geo-blocking of content in Germany).

Readers may be surprised to learn that of all the platforms, X was found to be the most compliant, removing nearly three-quarters of the content reported to it. They may be even more surprised to learn that, whereas the percentage of items removed declined on Meta platforms in 2025—after President Trump’s inauguration—HateAid reported that X “showed modest improvement”—that is, it removed even more reported content.

But perhaps the most significant thing about this study for our purposes is that it was almost entirely conducted before HateAid was named a trusted flagger. Imagine how much higher the removal rates are now—perhaps even approaching 100%, which is clearly the organization’s goal.

Moreover, precisely this kind of testing exercise has been integrated into the E.U.’s formal DSA oversight under the aegis of the so-called Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online+ (that is, a revised version of this code). Although adherence to the Code is voluntary, participation serves as a means of demonstrating DSA compliance. All of the major platforms, including X, are signatories. Under the Code, platform compliance is periodically tested by monitoring organizations. If the European Commission names a trusted flagger as a monitor, the platforms may not refuse the nomination (see footnote seven here).

The only way to deprive trusted flaggers like HateAid of their censorship powers over Americans is to bring this whole massive European censorship apparatus tumbling down. The American government needs to get the DSA repealed or, barring this highly unlikely eventuality, to counter-regulate—that is, to ensure that American tech companies do not comply with the DSA, or at least not in any way that restricts Americans’ First Amendment rights. If European governments have a problem with American speech, then the platforms can geo-block, but nothing else; no global removal and no visibility filtering. I have offered a sketch of such counter-regulatory legislation in “Make Speech Free Again,” which appeared in the Spring 2025 issue of the CRB.

If the U.S. does not go after the DSA system itself, then it is game over: free speech is gone, and our censors are European.

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Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae took a gamble by holding early parliamentary elections as a referendum on her agenda, but the gamble looks like it will pay off as her enormous personal popularity is set to sweep more members of her governing coalition into the Diet.

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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for video footage and photographs of the attack on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, TX, on July 4, 2025 (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No.1:26-cv-0331)).

Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a component of the Department of Homeland Security, failed to respond to a July 10, 2025, FOIA request for:

1. All video surveillance footage depicting the attack on the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas on or about July 4, 2025

2. All body worn camera footage depicting the attack on the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas on or about July 4, 2025

3. All photographs depicting the attack on the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas on or about July 4, 2025

Immigration and Customs Enforcement described the incident at its Prairieland detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, as a “planned ambush.” A group of suspects began shooting fireworks at the facility while others damaged vehicles and sprayed graffiti, apparently to lure officers outside. When officers responded, one was shot in the neck. Attackers fired 20 to 30 rounds at unarmed detention officers. Authorities say the suspects intended to kill corrections officers.

A federal grand jury indicted nine individuals identified by prosecutors as members of Antifa, and charged seven additional people “with offenses including rioting, using weapons and explosives, providing material support to terrorists, obstruction, and attempted murder of an Alvarado police officer and unarmed correctional officers at the Prairieland Detention Center.”

President Trump in September 2025 issued an executive order designating Antifa as “a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.” He designated it a “domestic terrorist organization,” and directed federal law enforcement to “utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all [Antifa-aligned] illegal operations.”

“The ambush on the Prairieland ICE facility was a predictable outcome of years of anti-ICE and anti-border-security rhetoric from Democrat officials,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The media, and the radical Left repeatedly label ICE agents as ‘racists’ and ‘kidnappers’ and are creating a climate conducive to domestic terrorist attacks.”

In December 2025, Judicial Watch sued the Department of Homeland Security for records on migrants who entered the United States from 2020–2025, using arrest warrants and removal orders as proof of identification.

In November 2025, Judicial Watch sued Evanston, IL, Mayor Daniel Biss for records related to obstruction of federal immigration enforcement, as well as Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs for records regarding her office reportedly ordering state police and the National Guard to withhold cooperation from federal immigration enforcement authorities.

Judicial Watch in December 2025 pointed out that in just two states with “sanctuary” policies, nearly 9,000 criminal aliens were released from jails and prisons since January 20, defying Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers to deport them.

In October 2025, Judicial Watch reported on a Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF), established by President Trump on the day of his inauguration to tackle a pandemic of transnational organized crime created by the Biden administration’s “disgraceful” open border policies, had made thousands of arrests and seized over 1,000 illegal firearms, 91 tons of drugs and $3 million in currency.

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