In February, Trump issued an executive order freezing aid to South Africa and giving Afrikaners refugee status in the U.S.

Afrikaners are a white ethnic group with primarily Dutch ancestry. Many are farmers. Trump said in the meeting that white farmers are having their homes burned, their farms seized, and have either been killed or fear for their lives.

South Africa passed a law that allows the government to take land from farmers without compensation.

The Washington Post minimized the deaths of white farmers, saying violence in South Africa is not isolated to rural areas and not only against white people. Apparently if one group is victimized, then another group is victimized, none of the victimization matters. //

During Wednesday’s Oval Office meeting, filled with members of the media, Trump said Ramaphosa called him and asked for the meeting. After brief conversation, a reporter asked Trump what it would take to convince him that there’s no white genocide in South Africa.

Trump said the administration has heard thousands of stories about violence against white farmers. Then he had the lights dimmed and showed Ramaphosa videos of people in South Africa calling for the killing of white farmers.

In the video, Julius Malema, leader of the Marxist Economic Freedom Fighter Party, led a violent chant inside a large stadium , as supporters danced and chanted along.

“Shoot to kill the farmer! Go after the white man! You are going to run, white farmer.” The video ended with cars lined up on a desolate road with some 1,000 crosses lining the road, each representing a dead farmer, Trump relayed. In the cars were family members there to mourn.

Ramaphosa asked where the line of cars was, saying he had never seen it before.

Next there was silence in the room for about 40 seconds.

Silence is a powerful moment in negotiation. Whoever breaks silence first loses. Trump told Ramaphosa before the troubling video that he wanted to know what he had to say about it. Now a pall fell over the room as everyone, the president, the media, the world waited for Ramaphosa to speak.

And the loser was: NBC’s Peter Alexander, who broke the silence, changed the topic, and ruined the moment, but saved Ramaphosa.

“Mr. President, the Pentagon announced they would be accepting a Qatari jet to be used as Air Force One —”

Trump cut him off, saying the jet was a great thing.

“We’re talking about a lot of other things here. This is NBC trying to get off the subject of what you just saw,” Trump said. //

Ramaphosa said the U.S. could help with resources so the government can respond to the violence but did not specify if he wanted money or equipment.

He is asking for aid to combat violence the propaganda press says doesn’t exist.

President Donald Trump assaulted the media’s narrative denying the legitimacy of South Africans’ refugee claims on Wednesday, playing video evidence that detailed the ongoing racial violence and threats against white South African farmers.

During a meeting in the Oval Office, Trump ordered the lights dimmed before airing a five-minute video showing, in part, populist leader Julius Malema calling for the murder of South Africa’s white community.

Retired Professor
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It is the result of an unredeemed heart. As G.K. Chesterton famously said, "the Doctrine of Original Sin is the one philosophy that has been empirically verified by 3500 years of human experience."

Life is short,
Death is sure.
Sin is the wound,
Christ is the cure.

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The purpose of God is not to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God, and this is revealed in John 17. There is one prayer God must answer, and that is the prayer of Jesus — “that they may be one, even as We are One.” Are we as close to Jesus Christ as that?

God is not concerned about our plans; He does not say — “Do you want to go through this bereavement; this upset?” He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, nobler men and women; or they are making us more captious and fault-finding, more insistent upon our own way.

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Scarborough learns he was the target of a White House psyop. Hysterical.
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WATCH: Jake Tapper tells MSNBC 'Morning Joe' hosts that Biden made targeted effort to convince Scarborough he was fit for office
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Then, too, tucked away in there is another juicy point: Tapper spoke about Democrats saying Kamala was not up to the job behind the scenes. But then, of course, the Democrats/media tried to sell us that she was.

Shortly after the US government illegally and unconstitutionally transported about 240 Venezuelans to be imprisoned in El Salvador’s horrific “terrorism” prison on March 15, CBS News published their names. A subsequent CBS News investigation found that 75 percent of the men on that list had no criminal record in the United States or abroad. Less attention has been paid to the fact that dozens of these men never violated immigration laws either.

RUBIO: She was a guest in the United States on a student visa. No one is entitled to a student visa. We deny visas every day, and we will revoke and consider revoking visas.

JAYAPAL: You revoked her student visa based on an op-ed, which trumps the supreme law of the land, which is the Constitution.

RUBIO: If someone is coming here to stir up problems on our campuses, we're going to revoke their visa.

JAYAPAL: She didn't do any of that. She wrote an op-ed. She wrote an op-ed, and I'm talking to you about her particular case.

RUBIO: That's her lawyer's claims and your claims. Those are not the facts.

JAYAPAL: Reclaiming my time. You revoked her student visa because she wrote an op-ed.

RUBIO: Yes, proudly. //

The woman Jayapal keeps bringing up is Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen who has already graduated from the University of Massachusetts (yeah, that checks out). She wrote an op-ed claiming Israel was committing "genocide" in Gaza and demanded divestment from the American ally, providing support for Hamas.

What President Donald Trump did in the Oval Office with the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, was astonishing.

We hear people talk all the time about how, when we're talking with foreign nations, we should be pressing on human rights. Well, we got that, big time, from Trump, when he cornered the South African leader, lowering the lights and treating him to a video of evidence of the issues in his country. There wouldn't be a better time to do it, to promote change. The South African leader is there because he wants things. That's the time to say, okay, you want things, so do we, we want you to do something about what's going on.

This moment was interesting as Trump says he hadn't made up his mind yet on whether to term what's happening as "genocide," with President Ramaphosa at his shoulder. //

If it's not a genocide today, Jennings asked, how many more do we want to let get murdered before we're satisfied with the terminology? And it was a "boss move" for Jennings to note this, even as CNN was trying to call what Trump said "unsubstantiated" in the chyron underneath.

The existing limit on state and local tax deductions for itemizers is inequitable. It leads to businesses and workers relocating from districts where the cost of living is increased due to the distortionary SALT cap. This is not what Adam Smith had in mind. The greatest economist of all time would likely suggest keeping the cap but adjusting each district’s standard deduction based on its cost of living.

Start with a base of $30,000 for the 2025 tax year and adjust it annually for national CPI increases. But make geographical, not just temporal, adjustments according to differences in the cost of living among different parts of the country. Residents in New York metro area congressional districts would receive twice the annual amount, $60,000, that taxpayers get in the average district. Residents of Des Moines would receive approximately 10 percent less than the specified amount of $30,000.

It’s really very simple. Use a table like that provided by The Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) Cost of Living Index (COLI). Taxpayers in each Congressional district can be identified via https://www.coli.org. Ensure no tax increase for any taxpayer in the first year, and then gradually adjust the amount each year to achieve a fair and efficient system for everyone. If still deemed unfair, use some of the increased tax revenues to balance it out. //

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5 hours ago
What you pay in federal taxes should not be determined by where you live.

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How to fix the SALT tax cap? Eliminate it. State and local taxes should be paid by people in those jurisdictions, not shoved off onto the rest of the country via letting those people pay less federal taxes. //

Wbcoleman
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This is crazy. The SALT deduction is a subsidy to the taxing state. This proposal gives every state a direct incentive to raise taxes.

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THEY BLAMED THE LIGHTING LMAO
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The Biden campaign spent millions to stage a fake town hall — and it was so bad, they couldn’t even use any of it for campaign commercials.

Some people blamed Biden being incoherent, some blamed the “lighting."

Jennings: "They spent millions of dollars to stage a town hall and then 'oh we didn’t get the lighting right??' Unbelievable." 😂
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"Some said this was because Joe Biden was incoherent, that he could not articulate his thoughts in a pithy, or even semi-normal way," Thompson explained. "Some people just said the lighting was bad. That was the two different points of view." Consider how bad that must be when they can't even get anything usable. And that's something they could control. What about all the day-to-day issues that he was supposed to be addressing that couldn't be controlled? Who was addressing them?

Two Notable Quotes

This is from Jake Tapper talking to Megyn Kelly.

Alex [Thompson] and I are here to say the conservative media was right and conservative media was correct and that there should be a lot of soul-searching, not just among me, but among the legacy media to begin with, all of us, for how this was covered or not covered sufficiently 100 percent.

On the same day Jake Tapper was saying this to Megyn Kelly, CBS News was carrying water for Joe Biden.

Dr. Gounder worked with Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain and served on a Biden advisory board. She’s trying to claim that doctors would not check the PSA level of the sitting President of the United States because of his age.

In Chapter 3 of the book, Tapper and Thompson outline how the Biden family covered up Beau Biden’s cancer, even getting a doctor to release a “clean bill of health” statement to the media after determining Beau would not survive. But the media continues to carry water for the Biden Team.

Last night, on Leland Vittert’s must-watch show on NewsNation (307 on DirecTV / 207 on Dish / Also on YouTube TV, Hulu, Fubo, etc.), Leland interviewed Alex Thompson, Jake Tapper’s co-author of Original Sin.

Leland asked Alex Thompson if Biden’s inner circle ever expressed amazement at how much water the American political press was willing to carry for them. As a matter of fact, yes they did. This is the must-watch clip of the year so far and the other notable quote.

Just remarkable. Even the Biden Team was shocked at how much the American press was willing to lie on their behalf. Just remarkable.

So when they sought emergency relief at 12:34 a.m. on April 18, Petitioners “were fully aware that the District Court intended to give the Government 24 hours to file a response.” A.A.R.P., 605 U.S. at _ (Alito, J., dissenting). They “said nothing about a plan to appeal if the District Court elected to wait for that response.” Id.

At 12:48 p.m. on April 18, however, Petitioners “suddenly informed the court that they would file an appeal if the District Court did not act within 42 minutes, i.e., by 1:30 p.m.” Id. //

This charge is worth exploring. To get to 14 hours and 28 minutes (rather than 42 minutes), the Court was obviously starting the clock at 12:34 a.m., rather than 12:48 p.m. (when Petitioners told the district court for the first time that they wanted a ruling before the Government could respond).

But starting the clock at 12:34 a.m. not only ignores the court’s express instructions respecting the Government’s right to respond. It also ignores the fact that the Court is starting the clock at—12:34 a.m.

We seem to have forgotten that this is a district court—not a Denny’s. This is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone suggest that district judges have a duty to check their dockets at all hours of the night, just in case a party decides to file a motion.

And then he adds the cherry on top:

If this is going to become the norm, then we should say so: District judges are hereby expected to be available 24 hours a day—and the Judicial Conference of the United States and the Administrative Office of the U.S.Courts should secure from Congress the resources and staffing necessary to ensure 24-hour operations in every district court across the country.

If this is not to become the norm, then we should admit that this is special treatment being afforded to certain favored litigants like members of Tren de Aragua—and we should stop pretending that Lady Justice is blindfolded. //

anon-fht2
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The rationale for the Founders intentionally NOT Constitutionally requiring the other two branches to comply with the judiciary is playing out in real time. It is also apparent that the judicial insurrection by the district courts is bleeding over into the interactions between the lower courts, and between the lower courts and SCOTUS. Not in a good way either.

After reading the full response of the 5th Circuit appeals judge to the SCOTUS ruling, IMO Justice Roberts should be embarrassed that such a shoddy ruling by a SCOTUS court ever saw the light of day, much less received 7 votes of 9. It almost as if Justice Roberts wants a repeat of President Jackson’s response to a Marshal SCOTUS decision.

For the judicial branch, this seems like a slow motion catastrophe being played out with each new judicial “salvo” further undermining respect and trust for the judicial branch. Our Republic was in trouble enough with Congress and the Executive being viewed with disdain by most Americans. The Executive may regain some trust and respect under Trump, but the Judiciary had been more positively viewed than the other two branches, at least until this judicial insurrection against Trump began. Now the judiciary seems to being trying to outdo Congress for the level of earned contempt in which they are held, with SCOTUS attempting to show the way with this ruling.

IMO - YMMV

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"He is the worst Chief Justice in history, "

Really? Would you reconsider if you knew more facts?

Worse than Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. who wrote the Dred Scott decision, extending slavery in all States, which was one of the triggers for the Civil War?

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Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) led the charge, slamming Kennedy for a $3 billion drop in federally funded biomedical research compared to last year.

Kennedy stood his ground.

“We’re cutting waste, we’re cutting duplicative programs,” he said.

Still, Baldwin wouldn’t let up. She framed the loss of “3,200 fewer grants” as an attack on “life-saving programs.”

Kennedy hit back with a devastating stat.

“We spend 70% of the world’s biomedical research out of NIH. 70%. And we’re the sickest country in the world,” he said.

“We’ve had a 38% increase in our agency growth over the past four years,” he added. “That money has not been well spent.”

The exchange summed up a broader dynamic: Democrats trying to paint RFK Jr. as a villain, slashing life-saving science, while Kennedy pointed out that America’s health is declining because of how this money is being spent, not despite it.

3:19 PM · May 20, 2025 //

Senator Kennedy: How many employees were there at HHS when you took over?

HHS Secretary Kennedy: 82,000.

Senator Kennedy: How many do you have today?

HHS: 62,000.

Senator Kennedy: OK.

HHS: That's about the level it was in 2019, right before COVID.

Senator Kennedy: Is, is this the first time that an institution in America has ever downsized?

HHS: I don't think so. I think private and public institutions have.

Senator Kennedy: Microsoft just announced that they were going to reduce their workforce by 6,000 people. You think that will be the end of Microsoft?

HHS: Senator, we wouldn't have reduced anybody...

Senator Kennedy: You think that will be the end of Microsoft?

HHS: I don't think so, Senator. //

Senator Kennedy: Do you hate medical research?

HHS: No, I think we need to lead the world in medical research in this country.

Senator Kennedy: In fact, isn't it true, Mr. Secretary, that you would like to see more money spent on medical research?

HHS: Obviously. I'm the secretary of this department and no secretary wants to see his budget cut.

Senator Kennedy: Well, one way of doing that, it seems to me, would be to stop some of the stealing. And let me tell you what I mean by that. Suppose NIH gives a university $100 million to research, for medical research, to research a cure. And that university takes $30 million of it, doesn't spend it on the research, they use it to subsidize the rest of their university. Is... does that show a commitment to medical research?

HHS: No, and I mentioned before the example of Stanford, which was taking 78 percent in indirect costs, and we don't know what they were spending it on.

Senator Kennedy: That's a theft, isn't it?

HHS: It's not a good way to spend federal money.

Senator Kennedy: In Louisiana, we call that stealing. We call that stealing.

That's true, but there were also signs of the decline.

"One of us didn't miss the biggest story of the century," Kelly said to him, and "one of us did." //

But that's the problem. The information was there to report, and he didn't press. Even if all he did was read RedState, he would have seen it day after day.

The big pause in the following clip, where he has no real answer for why he didn't follow up, says it all for how much the liberal media failed. //

Kelly walked through so many instances that he ignored. She called out how his network called the truthful videos about Biden "cheap fakes." That's when he made a truly surprising comment that "conservative media was right." //

He denied that he had anything to do with a "cover-up."

But he did admit there should be a lot of soul searching not just by him but also for a lot of legacy media. Yes, he can say that now, because what is said about Biden now no longer matters.

The question is what it says about them when it did matter.

Once Essayli and Co. have determined that someone has committed a felony by re-entering the country, the whole game changes:

"As soon as the task force ID's an alien booked into a local jail who has a previous deportation, they seek a federal criminal warrant on them for felony re-entry, signed off on by a federal judge.

"Unlike an administrative ICE warrant or ICE detainer request, these criminal judicial warrants for 8 USC 1326 CANNOT be ignored by sanctuary jurisdictions, and California's sanctuary state law cannot shield aliens from these criminal warrants. Instead of releasing the alien inmates and ignoring ICE detainers, jails must hand the aliens over to the Feds, regardless of sanctuary policy." //

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UPDATE: US Attorney in LA Bill Essayli tells me since our report aired yesterday, he's been contacted by several other US Attorneys in sanctuary jurisdictions around the country, including CA, who are interested in taking part in this operation to "neutralize" sanctuary policies. He has calls & meetings set up to explain how to do it for other jurisdictions.
11:34 AM · May 20, 2025 //

Expect a snowball effect here - for a long time, sanctuary jurisdictions and activists have demanded of ICE "where is your warrant?!". Now, the federal plan is to "flood the system" with criminal judicial warrants which can't be ignored by local jails, and instead of just being deported, the targeted illegal aliens will now go to federal prison first - all due to lack of cooperation from sanctuary jurisdictions.

Largo Patriot
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If Democrats fought as hard for working class Americans as they fight for illegal aliens, criminals and terrorists, they wouldn't have to cheat in order to win elections.

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It’s unfathomable how far @jaketapper and @cnn have fallen. Can you imagine Walter Cronkite constantly hawking a book?! And having all his colleagues join in?! Especially one about news they should have been reporting on all year?! Good job @jonstewart!

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.@jonstewart is getting whiplash watching CNN pivot from promoting Jake Tapper's "bombshell" book to lamenting Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis
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How weird it is that the news is selling you a book about news they should’ve told you was news a year ago — for free!

There's a lot of matter around, which ensures that any antimatter produced experiences a very short lifespan. Studying antimatter, therefore, has been extremely difficult. But that's changed a bit in recent years, as CERN has set up a facility that produces and traps antimatter, allowing for extensive studies of its properties, including entire anti-atoms.

Unfortunately, the hardware used to capture antiprotons also produces interference that limits the precision with which measurements can be made. So CERN decided that it might be good to determine how to move the antimatter away from where it's produced. Since it was tackling that problem anyway, CERN decided to make a shipping container for antimatter, allowing it to be put on a truck and potentially taken to labs throughout Europe. //

The problem facing CERN comes from its own hardware. The antimatter it captures is produced by smashing a particle beam into a stationary target. As a result, all the anti-particles that come out of the debris carry a lot of energy. If you want to hold on to any of them, you have to slow them down, which is done using electromagnetic fields that can act on the charged antimatter particles. Unfortunately, as the team behind the new work notes, many of the measurements we'd like to do with the antimatter are "extremely sensitive to external magnetic field noise."

In short, the hardware that slows the antimatter down limits the precision of the measurements you can take.

The obvious solution is to move the antimatter away from where it's produced. But that gets tricky very fast. The antimatter containment device has to be maintained as an extreme vacuum and needs superconducting materials to produce the electromagnetic fields that keep the antimatter from bumping into the walls of the container. All of that means a significant power supply, along with a cache of liquid helium to keep the superconductors working. A standard shipping container just won't do. //

So the team at CERN built a two-meter-long portable containment device. On one end is a junction that allows it to be plugged into the beam of particles produced by the existing facility. That junction leads to the containment area, which is blanketed by a superconducting magnet. Elsewhere on the device are batteries to ensure an uninterrupted power supply, along with the electronics to run it all. The whole setup is encased in a metal frame that includes lifting points that can be used to attach it to a crane for moving around. //

There's a facility being built in Düsseldorf, Germany, for antiproton experiments, nearly 800 kilometers and eight hours away by road. If the delivery can be made successfully—and it appears we are just a liquid helium supply away from getting it to work—the new facility in Germany should allow measurements with a precision of over 100 times better than anything that has been achieved at CERN.