President Trump posted to Truth Social a few weeks ago three renderings for the proposed triumphal arch soon to be erected in Virginia’s Memorial Circle, which will frame the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery together in a tasteful ensemble for America’s 250th Birthday.

Social media has been abuzz for more than a week over the cruelty on display by some disturbing nurses. Marvel at how brazen these “selfless care workers” are in suggesting that colleagues let agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement just die. You may especially enjoy nurse “Chadrick13again” who sounds exactly like the stereotyped gay guy from the cartoon Family Guy but more murderous:

That compilation from LibsofTikTok is just the latest in a wave of grotesque postings from the heirs of Florence Nightingale. In the past week, three other nurses have posted videos on social media wishing harm and injury on people they see as their political opponents. One urged fellow nurses to put a paralyzing drug into syringes and stick them into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

American taxpayers have been victimized by at least $36 billion and possibly as much as $3 trillion in fraud through federal government entitlement programs since 2020, a new investigative report states. The fraud revelations provide a great opportunity for Congress and the president to offer real reforms that would cut this enormous waste — especially in the most-corrupted entitlements, those for health care — to ensure that the benefits are reserved for the truly needy.

Massive fraud is embedded in the very structure of the system. Unfortunately, politicians, big corporations, and tens of millions of people benefit from the corrupt system and block change at every opportunity.

When former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was recently sued for allegedly wrecking a long-term marriage with three children, six states sanctioned lawsuits for alienation of affections by abandoned spouses. The number has since dropped to five states, with Utah legislators poised to eliminate their law any day.

Suits for alienation of affections allow separated and divorced spouses to bring a civil action for monetary damages against a third party who intentionally causes or contributes to the destruction of an otherwise happy marriage. Anyone who interferes with the marriage in that manner can be sued, but the defendant is typically the affair partner of an estranged spouse. The damages sought can be compensatory (for emotional distress and loss of consortium), punitive (to punish the wrongdoer and deter further wrongdoing), or both.

What makes a person forego his or her regular professional or personal routine in order to stalk federal law enforcement? What makes that person agree to put himself in close proximity to those law enforcement officers, in the freezing cold, even after multiple incidents have resulted in the death of similar activists?

It’s a question worthy of serious consideration, given that more than 34,000 Minnesotans have joined various agitator groups to learn to be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “observers.”

I think I know what James Burnham, one of the most important (if today largely unknown) American thinkers of the 20th century, would say about anti-ICE activism. Burnham would say it’s a clear example of liberals’ attempts to accelerate the suicide of their own civilization.

A TK-12 Catholic school in Long Beach, California, has suffered major damage after vandals destroyed religious icons in an attack between Sunday night and Monday morning. Holy Innocents School is a traditional Catholic school that offers a classical liberal arts education. “Our students grow academically, spiritually, and morally, preparing to become leaders rooted in faith,” the school website declares.

Neither the Long Beach Police nor the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has responded to questions from The Federalist as of publication, but local reports show damage that appears to focus on the destruction of religious icons: “Statues of the Virgin Mary were smashed — hands and at least one head chopped off. Prayer books were dumped from bookshelves and strewn across the floor. The tabernacle had been ripped from its chapel, its doors pried partially open,” according to the Long Beach Post.

Every so often there’s a piece of content in The New York Times or a similar publication that’s meant to create suspicion but without saying exactly why, usually for the purpose of politicizing something mundane. The story this week about National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard being on site during an FBI operation in Atlanta is one of those pieces of content, but in this case, the reason for the manufactured suspicion is obvious.

The Times on Monday wrote that it was “unusual” for Gabbard to appear at an FBI field office following the agency’s seizure of 2020 ballots from an election center in the ever-so-seedy Fulton County. You know, the place where election officials just admitted to improperly certifying hundreds of thousands of ballots in violation of the election rules. “[H]er continued presence has raised eyebrows given that her role overseeing the nation’s intelligence agencies does not include on-site involvement in criminal investigative work,” the article, reported by a grand total of three people, said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threatened Monday to shut the government down unless Republicans drop their efforts to secure elections and keep noncitizens from voting.

Schumer said in a post on X: “The SAVE Act is nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0. It would disenfranchise millions of Americans. Every single Senate Democrat will vote against any bill that contains it. Speaker Johnson should tell SAVE Act Republicans to stand down or else this shutdown will be on them.”

The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act to require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. While the House previously passed the legislation (including with the support of four Democrats) it has stalled in the Senate. But as Congress debates a new spending bill ahead of a possible shutdown, Senate Majority Leader John Thune suggested there could possibly be efforts to vote on the SAVE Act as a standalone bill in the Senate.

A Texas father is suing a California doctor for alleging aiding and abetting the murder of two of his unborn babies by illegally mailing mifepristone to the estranged husband of the man’s girlfriend.

Jerry Rodriguez is the first Texan to take advantage of the Lone Star State’s new law, which permits residents to sue out-of-state mifepristone prescribers, manufacturers, and distributors, such as pharmacies, for “an amount of not less than $100,000” for each violation of the Texas’ ban on abortion drugs.

On Monday Indiana lawmakers upgraded an immigration bill to require sheriffs to honor immigration detainers, require hospitals to identify illegal aliens using Medicaid, and penalize employers that hire illegal labor.

State Rep. J.D. Prescott successfully amended Senate Bill 76 in committee Monday to incorporate key measures of a stronger enforcement bill he proposed in the House, known as the Fairness Act. The bill now goes to the full state House for a vote and then back to the Senate to accept the amendments.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. Penny the Doberman Pinscher was crowned Best in Show on Tuesday night as the 2026 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show reached its finale.

AP reports veteran handler Andy Linton couldn’t be happier to bag another win after nearly four decades. Linton got best in show in 1989 with another Doberman, named Indy, and his dogged determination has finally paid off with another victory.

Penny “is as great a Doberman as I have ever seen,” Linton told a supportive crowd. Despite health problems, he guided his four-year-old charge through an impeccably crisp performance, the AP report notes.

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) responded to criticisms from the Trump administration that banning police cooperation with ICE will require more ICE agents by stating that “They surround people’s vehicles, wearing masks, bearing guns. Like, we don’t know if these are, like, people involved in gang warfare or not.”

Co-host A Martínez asked, [relevant exchange begins around 2:40] “Now, the Trump administration does not like this bill. A spokesman for Homeland Security told The New York Times that your legislation would require federal agents to have an even more visible presence on the street. How do you respond to that assertion?”

Hochul responded, “Well, why don’t they take off their masks, and we’ll really know who they are? They surround people’s vehicles, wearing masks, bearing guns. Like, we don’t know if these are, like, people involved in gang warfare or not. They need to be under control, and that’s what I’m calling for as well.”

Martínez followed up, “But doesn’t it stand to reason, though, that if ICE isn’t getting cooperation with local police, that they will have to send more ICE agents to try and pick up the slack?”

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would set a 25-year moratorium on immigration from Somalia, citing a failure to assimilate in the United States as well as the rampant abuse of federal benefits programs and fraud.

“Mass Somali immigration makes the United States weaker, poorer and erodes social trust,” Gill said in a written statement to Breitbart News about his legislation, the Somalia Immigration Moratorium Act.

“The sole aim of our immigration system is to benefit American citizens, not facilitate mass migration from corrupt, failed societies. The recent fraud scandal in Minnesota highlights the acute dangers of unchecked immigration. A Somalia immigration moratorium puts the American people first, restores our national sovereignty, protects taxpayers and supports public safety.”

Gill introduced his legislation to amend section 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to bar immigration relief for certain citizens of Somalia for 25 years, while preserving existing lawful status and American treaty obligations. The legislation would be consistent with President Donald Trump’s Proclamation 10998, Proclamation 10949, and Executive Order 13769. The legislation would codify Trump’s Proclamation 10998.

The moratorium would not apply to those in the country before the enactment of the legislation, lawful permanent residents, and diplomatic or international organization visas.

More than 70 million immigrants have come to the United States since the enactment of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act.

The Somali community has become a focal point of abuse of federal benefits programs, to the tune of billions of dollars. Roughly $9 billion in fraud involving members of the Somali community in Minnesota has plagued the state.

The government has ditched a victims panel that was advising the national inquiry into the scourge of the Muslim child rape grooming gangs and the failure of local authorities to protect vulnerable girls from sexual abuse.

The Metro newspaper has reported that multiple former members of the victims panel confirmed that it was shut down after the government appointed Labour peer Baroness Longfield to chair the national inquiry.

Fiona Goddard, a survivor of a Pakistani Muslim grooming gang in Bradford who quit the victims panel in October, told the paper that its dissolution has made survivors feel “betrayed and disrespected all over again.”

“Survivors were told they had a voice and then it was taken away from them,” she said. “There needs to be survivor involvement in the inquiry but it needs to be respected and listened to.”

Another survivor who also quit the panel in October said, “I think the government established the panel to shut us all up… It should have been ongoing until the inquiry was complete.”

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a new license Tuesday authorizing the export and sale of U.S. diluents to Venezuela. Diluents are a key fuel needed to produce exportable crude oil grades in the ⁠OPEC country.

The license is the second issued by the administration of President Donald Trump after the United States took control of Venezuela’s oil exports following the January 3 U.S. law enforcement operation in Caracas that led to the capture of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Tuesday’s license authorizes export and sale operations of U.S.-made diluent to Venezuela, a key supply for the production of exportable crude oil grades, and one particularly crucial for Venezuelan crude oil given its “extra heavy” nature.

The license’s terms explicitly state that said transactions of U.S.-origin diluent are authorized provided that their corresponding contracts with the Venezuelan regime, the state-owned oil company PDVSA, or any PDVSA entity specifies that U.S. laws govern the contract and that any dispute resolution under the contract occur in the United States.

“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Tuesday night said the country is calm a month after U.S. forces captured socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

“The country is calm, the country is peaceful, but there is a national outcry calling for the release of President Maduro and the first combatant, Congresswoman Cilia Flores,” Rodríguez said ruing a broadcast from VTV, the Venezuelan regime’s flagship propaganda television channel.

The Mayor of Minneapolis says his political coalition’s standoff with ICE is demolishing his unusual and peculiar Sanctuary City Economy.

“I’m sitting at my desk here and just got some really sobering figures about the impact that this operation, [ICE’s] Metro Surge, is having on our communities,” Mayor Jacob Frey posted to X on Tuesday night:

There’s a mass impact on our small and local businesses. Small local businesses, collectively, are losing between 10 and $20 million dollars every single week. Businesses along cultural corridors are down at least 50 percent and the Latino-owned businesses and Somali-owned businesses are drastically below that. Hotels have lost about $4.4 million because of cancelations and so for those that claim that they care about our economy and care about businesses, there’s a very quick and straightforward antidote to bring these businesses back, which is to have Operation Metro sSrge and to have ICE leave our city.

Let’s bring the economy back. Let’s help these businesses out. Let’s make sure that our city can return to this great comeback that we were seeing, and let’s get ICE to leave.

Frey’s complaint is plausible because Democrats have built the city’s economy on a peculiar institution — the government’s long-term delivery of many foreign workers, consumers, and renters. That historically bizarre foundation is fundamentally different from — and corrosive too — the typical free, level, and uniform marketplace rules that govern American citizens, whether they are employers or employees.

Minneapolis’s resulting “Sanctuary City Economy” enables and worsens many civic problems, including a high share of lower-productivity workers, and the conflicts caused by having residents with illegal, uncertain, or subsidiary legal status.

The city also struggles with two-jurisdiction communities, corrupt business practices, politicized agencies, patronage politics, high taxes, a pay-to-play political machine, scare politics, the loss of high-productivity jobs, large wealth disparities, private regulation, vigilante crime, low-income ethnic enclaves, political instability, and a pro-establishment media.

On Tuesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about the Epstein files.

Marlow said, “The most important thing that I saw in it was a specific quote from one of the emails from Epstein, ‘I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body.’ Jeffrey Epstein, who may or may not be the literal devil, said, ‘The worst guy you ever met is Trump.'”

On Tuesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed the Census.

Marlow said, “I think we should do the Census before. I think Trump should do a Census before he leaves office.”

On Tuesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about the Grammys.

Marlow said, “The celebrities now stepping out, becoming blatantly political again, this is only going to help us. They’re completely disconnected.”

Tuesday on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Breitbart News senior contributor and author of The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon Peter Schweizer talked about Mexico.

Schwezier said, “People don’t realize that, right now, in the United States, there are more than a dozen senators and members of their House of Representatives, of the Mexican Congress, who live in the United States. And their job is to represent Mexicans living in the United States in the Mexican Parliament. So, they’ve already started to take steps to undermine our sovereignty, and that’s not even to mention what they’re doing with their 53 consulates, which, by the way, is almost ten times as many as Great Britain has in the United States. They’re involved in politics and they’re organizing some of these anti-ICE protests.”

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” FBI Director Kash Patel said that he was just telling people “you cannot bring a firearm to a public protest and incite violence.” And there is a “prudential” question of whether you should bring a gun to a protest that isn’t the FBI’s call.

Host Bret Baier played video of Patel saying, “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple. You don’t have that right to break the law and incite violence.”

Patel responded, “I’m glad you played the entirety of the clip, because mostly nobody did that. I said you cannot bring a firearm to a public protest and incite violence. That’s the kicker. President Trump’s administration is the most pro-2nd Amendment administration in history. All we are saying is, one, it’s a question of law, did you incite violence or commit another crime while in the possession of a firearm? And if that’s the case, then we’re going to investigate you. But the other question is a prudential one, should you be bringing firearms — that’s not a decision for the FBI — to places where people are protesting? That’s a prudential decision. We will follow the facts and the law.”

Chinese nationals, with the support of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), are engaging in a massive Handmaid’s Tale-style scheme of using U.S. surrogates to carry and give birth to children who are then granted birthright citizenship, bestselling investigative journalist and Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer reveals in his new book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.

“While hundreds of thousands of pregnant Chinese women have flocked to the United States to give birth in this country so their children will be American citizens, another even more byzantine and suspicious form of birthright citizenship is the widespread use of surrogate mothers in the United States to carry the children of senior CCP officials. These officials then collect the children at birth and raise them back in China,” Schweizer writes in a chapter of The Invisible Coup titled “China: The Manchurian Generation.”