News items and commentary that need some serious sunshine
This is the seventh post in the ongoing weekly feature that highlights news and commentary on important geopolitical, cultural, and economic issues that the Democrat-media complex buries because they expose the hypocrisies associated with the continuing Marxist-Democrat narrative. Everything is properly sourced and linked for follow-up reading, whether from legacy media, independent sources, or social media.
Here we go!
Lies Exposed about “Gender-Affirming” Interventions. The activist T part of LGBTQI-world has claimed in recent years that laws restricting medicalized “gender-affirming” interventions for minors (puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgeries) cause higher suicide rates among young people with gender dysphoria. That is a common advocacy talking point. It is not a well-supported scientific consensus. The claims are based on short-term clinic studies that are observational, small, high-attrition, and do not isolate treatment from other care or from preexisting psychiatric illness (e.g., Tordoff et al). Those studies were used by the Biden regime (with the evil assistance of their legacy media sycophants) to incentivize the medical industry to expand those crackpot therapies as “tested science” and to perform irreversible sex change operations (a/k/a child mutilation) on mostly young people. The below linked article identifies the latest study that debunks those claims. From the article: “When we examined the widely cited claim that restricting pediatric sex-rejecting procedures will spike suicide rates, we found it rests on a mass of shoddy and dishonest research,” Ian Kingsbury, senior director of Do No Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine. Read more below:
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ActBlue Caught Accepting Foreign Donations. Federal law (52 U.S.C. § 30121) makes it illegal for a foreign national—meaning a foreign government, foreign political party, foreign-organized or foreign-based entity, or any individual who is neither a U.S. citizen nor a lawful permanent resident—to contribute, donate, or spend money (including independent expenditures and electioneering communications) in connection with any federal, state, or local election, and it is also illegal for anyone to solicit, accept, or receive such funds. U.S. candidates, committees, and other recipients who knowingly solicit, accept, or receive a prohibited foreign contribution face both civil and criminal penalties under the Federal Election Campaign Act (52 U.S.C. § 30109), plus a duty to refund the money. A knowing and willful violation is a crime if the amount received (aggregated in a calendar year) is large enough: (1) $2,000–$24,999: up to 1 year in prison, a fine, or both, or (2) $25,000 or more: a felony ofD up to 5 years in prison, a fine, or both.
As reported by the below-linked article, a House Judiciary report just produced screenshots of ActBlue’s internal Slack messages that expose the fraud associated with ActBlue’s acceptance of foreign donations. Their “passport verification” process only checks that the number has the right number of characters. No database check or real verification is EVER performed. No wonder 10 ActBlue employees have plead the 5th Amendment during “testimony” to Congress so far! This should be one of the biggest political stories of the years, so it is no wonder the Democrat-media complex has been totally silent on this long-term criminality that funded countless Democrat campaigns over the years. How many elected Democrats belong in jail for accepting foreign money? Here’s the article that they don’t want anyone to read:
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The Inversion of “Religion of Peace” Leads to other Cultural Inversions. The English slogan “religion of peace” for Islam is modern: in 1930 the Indian Muslim historian Ishtiaq Husain Qureshi published The Religion of Peace in Delhi for English readers, arguing that jihad had been misunderstood and that Islam meant goodwill and order rather than the older Western tag “religion of the sword.” The phrase then circulated modestly among English-speaking Muslims—including Malcolm X, who in the 1960s, as a Nation of Islam spokesman, called Islam a religion of peace—before the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in 1996 urged members to present Islam as “the religion of peace and tolerance.” After 9/11 it became a staple of Western official speech (notably George W. Bush’s “Islam is peace”), even as critics treated it as ironic given conquest, jihad doctrine, dhimmi status, and later terrorist violence. The modern inversion from “sword to peace” tracks with other Western inversions of reality in recent years, not the least of which includes these whoppers from the article linked below: “Men are women. Children are consenting adults. Speech is violence. Violence is speech.” You’ll note that these are the kinds of inversions touted as truth and science by leftists and most Democrats these days. Read more about how it came about here:
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Democrats Sue to Keep Welfare-Dependent Immigration Going. Here’s another 80-20 issue on which the Democrat-media complex is on the losing side. The Trump administration recently reimposed a rule that makes legal immigrants less likely to secure green cards if they have used any form of welfare in the past, including subsidized healthcare services, food stamps, or public housing. Of course, the Democrats (the usual suspects being NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson) immediately sued to reverse the rule. How many Americans support giving taxpayer-funded benefits to immigrants of any stripe? No wonder we’re $40 trillion in debt! Read about it in the below-linked article:
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The Universe Wasn’t Accidentally Created. Polling consistently shows a large “God gap” between the two major U.S. parties. Pew’s recent Religious Landscape Study finds that roughly four-in-ten Democrats or Democratic leaners are religiously unaffiliated—atheist, agnostic, or “nothing in particular”—compared with a much smaller share of Republicans, who remain far more likely to identify with a religion, pray daily, and say they believe in God with certainty. Atheists and agnostics themselves lean Democrat by lopsided margins (around 80 percent or more). In comparative terms, therefore, nonbelief and secular identity are far more concentrated in the Democrat coalition than in the Republican one. Together with the ACLU and other “non-profits”, the Democrat-media complex has pushed separation of church and state on Americans for decades, claiming “the science is settled” on this topic, too. Needless to say, they will keep the below-linked article buried as they continue to collectively deny the existence of God. A former atheist who spent years treating science as god and the universe as a miraculous accident has now concluded that “the cosmos is not a lucky pile of numbers. It is a work of genius.” Hint: that means God. Read more about how he made that conclusion here:
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The DC Beautification Initiative Continues. President Trump’s D.C. beautification effort began with a March 2025 executive order titled “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful,” pairing crime and quality-of-life enforcement with a coordinated campaign to restore monuments, parks, fountains, statues, and federal landscapes ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary. The initiative has included graffiti removal, clearing homeless encampments on federal land, rehabilitating long-dry fountains such as those at Meridian Hill and Lafayette parks, work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, statue restorations (including gold leaf on some sculptures), and park cleanups such as at East Potomac Park, with later budget proposals adding a $10 billion Presidential Capital Stewardship Program for construction and beautification. Officials have framed the work as reversing years of neglect, and residents and visitors alike could see the decline for themselves especially in recent years.
Since Congress restored limited home rule in 1973, every elected mayor of Washington, D.C.—from Walter Washington through Muriel Bowser—has been a Democrat, and the 13-member D.C. Council has likewise been dominated by Democrats in every session. That one-party hold on local government has lasted more than half a century, even though Congress still retains oversight of District laws and budgets. The Democrat Party ignored the rot for decades. Rather than pitching in to help, they have described parts of the beautification effort as cosmetic or vanity-driven. They reflexively attack all efforts to return DC to what it should have been all along: a shining city and a testament to the greatness of America. Shame on them! Read more about the latest success in the East Potomac Park here:
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Why Did DiGenova Quit? Joe diGenova, a Reagan-era former U.S. attorney and Trump ally, was appointed in April 2026 as counselor to the attorney general to lead the Justice Department’s South Florida “grand conspiracy” grand-jury inquiry—based largely in Fort Pierce—into whether Obama- and Biden-era officials, including figures such as former CIA Director John Brennan, conspired to deprive Donald Trump of his rights through earlier investigations. After about five months of subpoenas and witness work but no indictment, he resigned on 10 September 10 following reported clashes with Attorney General Todd Blanche and other DOJ leaders over the probe’s pace and management.
The allegation in this X post by @FloppingAces (a self-described a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and retired law-enforcement officer) has a different take on DiGenova’s resignation and is worth considering: “DiGenova was ready to drag Barack Obama in front of that grand jury. Todd Blanche killed it. DiGenova quit.” Read more about it here:
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Judicial Tyranny in Minnesota. A breaking news report states that Minnesota Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz used a January 2026 “emergency lunch” with fellow judges – publicly framed as a discussion of whether to overrule a magistrate who had denied arrest warrants tied to the Cities Church incident, including one for Don Lemon – as cover for coordinating resistance to ICE’s Operation Metro Surge. The next day Schiltz issued an order accusing ICE of nearly 100 court-order violations, a list that was rushed together to portray the Trump administration as lawless.
Furthermore, the Minnesota bench apparently acted collectively rather than independently – sharing email threads, templates, and spreadsheets, setting tight response deadlines, and staying glued to phones to halt removals – while Schiltz cast the clash as a defense of the “rule of law.”
Read more about this below, including the recommendation made for action:
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Democrat Lawfare by Letitia James and Arthur Engoron Busted. The Democrat lawfare operation did its best to try to destroy President Trump before he ran for office again in 2024. A key lawfare case was orchestrated against him in New York. In New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil fraud case, Justice Arthur Engoron found Donald Trump, his company, and others liable in February 2024 for inflating asset values on statements of financial condition used with lenders and insurers. A centerpiece example was Mar-a-Lago: Engoron accepted county assessments putting the club at about $18–$27.6 million and treated Trump’s $426–$612 million figures as a massive overvaluation—James’s office called it at least 2,300%—in part because deed restrictions barred treating it as an unrestricted private residence. Engoron ordered roughly $355 million in disgorgement against Trump (about $454–$465 million for the defendants together), which grew past $500 million with interest, plus limits on New York business activity.
Now Forbes Magazine (a reliable Democrat legacy media outlet) buries the lede in a story attacking the “billionaires who benefited from Trump’s election.” Turns out that the latest evaluation of Mar-a-Lago validates President Trump’s range of value range presented during that kangaroo court trial, and the judgment against him was bogus! The Democrat-media complex will never admit that Democrat lawfare has been massively focused on “getting Trump” for years. Read the Forbes article here:
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Memphis Is Another Anti-Crime Success! On 15 September 2025, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum titled “Restoring Law and Order in Memphis,” creating the Memphis Safe Task Force to flood the city with coordinated federal, state, and local enforcement against street and violent crime—using the National Guard plus FBI, ATF, DEA, ICE, Homeland Security Investigations, and the U.S. Marshals, at Tennessee officials’ request after FBI data ranked Memphis among the nation’s highest-crime cities. He framed the effort as a replica of the earlier Washington, D.C., “Safe and Beautiful” surge and said similar operations would proceed city by city, with Chicago next after a more limited FBI presence there; the Memphis force later became the flagship example of that model.
Well, the results are now in, and they are of course buried and/or panned by the Democrat-media complex. From the article linked below: Arrests made by the Memphis Safe Task Force… include 1,408 known gang members, as well as 1,363 people apprehended for narcotics offenses, 1,276 for firearms violations, 131 for homicide, and 125 for sex offenses….” Read more about the continuing successes of President Trump’s anti-crime initiatives here:
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The Democrat Flipflop on H-1B Visas. In 2006, then-Senator Barack Obama argued that illegal immigrants should not be allowed to work in the United States and that employers should have to offer jobs to American citizens at a decent wage with benefits before turning to guest workers—a labor-first stance he wrote into Senate immigration amendments. Over the following two decades the Democrat mainstream moved toward treating high-skilled temporary visas, especially H-1B, as a competitive necessity: party platforms opposed Trump-era H-1B cuts, Democrats proposed expanding employment-based visas and streamlining entry for STEM talent, and many leaders framed foreign professionals as essential to tech, hospitals, and growth. That amounts to a flip-flop—from “Americans first at a good wage” to defending a program employers use to hire foreign workers in large numbers.
The problem for Democrats is this. In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued civil investigative demands to nearly 30 North Texas firms suspected of H-1B abuse through “ghost offices,” sham websites, and empty worksites used to sponsor foreign workers, while federal prosecutors in Dallas have separately charged a visa-mill scheme that allegedly used fake jobs and payrolls. In California, the owner of a San Jose staffing firm pleaded guilty to visa fraud for filing H-1B petitions that claimed jobs existed at end-client companies when they did not, and two other men pleaded guilty after petitions were filed for nonexistent University of California positions and then passed to other clients.
The optics for Democrats are bad: supporting foreigners at the expense of American workers through a fraudulent visa program. Watch the short Obama video here as a reminder of how far the Democrat Party in recent years:
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The Trump Economy Delivers! Here are some statistics from the new Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement reported at the below linked article: median household income reached an all time high of $87,500; Hispanic and black poverty hit an all time low; incomes for the lowest 25% rose to the highest level EVER; and child poverty hit an all time high. Read more about this and other information (complete with tables and charts) the Democrat-media complex buries and obfuscates here:
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Butler Assassination Attempt “A Democrat Plot”? President Trump said this week that the Biden-era FBI mishandled the investigation of the July 13, 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt, claiming that when he returned to office much of the file on shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks was “missing, altered, corrupted, or gone,” and that newly reported details—including the alias “Bob Dole” and earlier warning signs—should have surfaced sooner. On Truth Social he blamed former FBI Director Christopher Wray and called the attack “a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed,” going far beyond the FBI’s 2024 finding that Crooks acted alone after nearly 1,000 interviews and with no established political conspiracy.
The president’s bombshell statements are frequently the opposite of conventional wisdom on the various topics and reflexively written off as “hoaxes, lies, and conspiracy theories” by the Democrat-media complex. Note that frequently the difference between conspiracy theories and the truth is function of time, and President Trump has been right about sensational claims in the past, including Hunter Biden’s laptop, the COVID lab-leak as a live hypothesis, the Steele dossier and FISA process, and government weaponization of political speech. Read more about his latest bombshell statement here:
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Emmy Awards Crash (Again). “Go woke, go broke!” A fitting for Hollywood’s Emmy Awards. Emmy viewership has collapsed from nearly 22 million in 2000 and more than 10 million as recently as 2018 to roughly 6.7 million in 2026, as noted in the below-linked article. The 2026 viewership was down about 10 percent from 2025. The reason for the decline is obvious: years of one-sided speeches, late-night “resistance” branding, virtue-signaling on the latest Democrat political narrative(s), and awards that track coastal Democrat taste have made the show feel like a party meeting rather than a national celebration of TV. That charge gained force when 2025 winners highlighted “F*** ICE” and “Free Palestine” but skipped other news, and when Emmy voters in 2026 again gave awards to niche, critic-beloved prestige shows instead of the widely watched popular hits. Read more about the Democrat-media complex crocodile tears here because the legacy media has been silent about it:
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RFKjr Lights Dallas on Fire. Lastly, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now President Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary, spoke in September 2026 at the first-ever Republican midterm convention in Dallas – the city where his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963. The force of the speech came from a lifelong Democrat and senior member of the Kennedy family arguing that the party of FDR, JFK, and RFK had abandoned its own creed. Kennedy outlined that older Democrat Party as pro-labor, pro–Bill of Rights, anti-cronyism, pro-merit, pro-Israel, and committed to offering jobs to Americans before guest workers. He then said COVID was the break: censorship of dissent, church and business shutdowns, liability shields for drugmakers, vaccine mandates, and what he called a turn toward elites, racial division, and “Trump hatred” as a substitute for policy. He closed by accusing Democrats of using lawfare and rule changes to sideline 2024 primary challengers—including himself—and of anointing Kamala Harris without a primary vote: “A party of no kings simply anointed a queen.”
Read more about his wonderful speech here that the Democrat-media complex has panned and ignored because it skewers the Democrat Party narrative so carefully cultivated over the years:
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CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
Here ends the seventh weekly summary of news items that the Democrat-media complex ignore or obfuscate because they don’t fit their political narrative or – worse for them – actually destroy their evolving political spin-job(s). These are some of the REAL news stories that the legacy media and Democrat Party are covering up – or about which they are flat-out lying!
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