Friday, June 6, 2025

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BIG BREAKING: Appeals court says Trump can BAN Associated Press from Oval Office

The US Court of Appeals for DC has just ruled that President Trump can ban Associated Press reporters from the Oval Office in a 2-1 ruling.

Here’s the news:

The two judges in this ruling were both appointed by President Trump, ruling that Trump will likely succeed on the merits of the case because access to the Oval Office has nothing to do with the First Amendment.

BOOM!

https://therightscoop.com/big-breaking-appeals-court-says-trump-can-ban-associated-press-from-oval-office/

Handful of House Democrats join Republicans in sanctuary city crackdown

Multiple Democrats break with party to support Republican-led immigration enforcement measures


A pair of bills cracking down on sanctuary cities passed the House of Representatives this week — with the support of multiple Democrats.

On Thursday, the House passed a bill to relocate Small Business Administration (SBA) offices from jurisdictions that shelter illegal immigrants. 

The legislation passed the House in a 211 to 199 vote, with five Democrats joining the GOP: Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Laura Gillen of New York, Don Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, saw several members of his caucus vote with House Republicans, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on sanctuary city bills. 

That's despite House Democratic leaders urging lawmakers to vote against the bill.

SBA offices at the regional, district and local levels would be required to relocate if the administration publicly designated their locations as sanctuary jurisdictions.

"House Republicans are holding these cities accountable for their refusal to follow immigration law and protect their citizens," House Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the No. 3 House Republican, told Fox News Digital of the bill.

"Under President Trump, lawlessness that endangers the American people and prioritizes illegal aliens will not be rewarded with federal dollars and resources."

Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, is among the Democrats who voted for both bills. 

The second bill, which passed on Friday morning, would add explicit language banning people in the U.S. illegally from obtaining SBA loans.

Eight Democrats voted for that legislation — Perez, Cuellar, Gillen and Davis all voted for the bill, along with Reps. Tom Suozzi of New York, Josh Harder of California, Marcy Kaptur of Ohio and Kristen McDonald Rivet of Michigan.

House Democratic leaders did not appear to give their caucus guidance on how to vote for the bill.

The Trump administration, however, celebrated the bipartisan vote.

"By harboring criminal illegal aliens, sanctuary cities jeopardize both the lives of American citizens and the livelihoods of our small businesses — which is exactly why the SBA is moving our field offices out of these lawless jurisdictions and into safer, more accessible communities that comply with federal law," SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler told Fox News Digital. "This Administration is committed to ending the illegal invasion of our nation – and I am grateful for the bipartisan group of House lawmakers who voted in support of that agenda."

Rep. Laura Gillen, D-N.Y., also voted for both pieces of legislation.

It is a sign of illegal immigration’s continued potency as a political issue, after proving key to Republicans’ victories in the House, Senate and White House last year.

The former bill was introduced by Rep. Brad Finstad, R-Minn., and the latter by Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/handful-house-democrats-join-republicans-sanctuary-city-crackdown

Murdoch Media Empire Unleashes Barrage of Globalist Attacks on JD Vance

WASHINGTON — Aging billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling empire of U.S. media properties, including most notably the Wall Street Journal but also Fox News and the New York Post, have been steadily ramping up attacks on Vice President JD Vance.

The barrage on Vance, which seems to be a continuation of the Murdoch properties’ unsuccessful efforts to stop President Donald Trump from selecting Vance as his running mate last year during the 2024 presidential election, has included well more than a dozen hits in the Wall Street Journal against him and individual hits in the New York Post and Fox News as well.

The efforts from Murdoch’s properties are drawing the ire of people close to the president and vice president as well, with one source close to Vance telling Breitbart News that this is quite clearly a globalist plot to undermine the president’s agenda on peace and trade.

“Neocons have been screwing up U.S. foreign policy for decades and they’re furious that they have no foothold in this administration,” a source close to Vance told Breitbart News. “President Trump has ended Houthi terrorist attacks on U.S. ships, freed all living American hostages in Gaza and he’s forcing Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table and stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. They hate his success because it has exposed them as massive failures.”

A senior GOP political adviser added that this shows the Murdoch properties are out of step with the direction of the Republican Party.

“It’s a shame so much of the old guard media is still pushing forever wars and completely out of touch with the direction of the GOP,” the GOP adviser told Breitbart News.

Another GOP strategist with close ties to the Trump White House, added that people inside the administration and those close to it are more than happy to work with other outlets like Breitbart News instead of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal since those outlets seem to be running counter to the wishes of the electorate.

“President Trump has been the leader of the Republican Party for almost a decade, and Murdoch-media still isn’t onboard with his agenda,” the strategist said. “They’re digging their own graves and they’re going to keep losing access. There are plenty of outlets the White House can talk to, like Breitbart, who reach Republican voters and actually believe in making America great.”

Dating back to February, the Wall Street Journal has run a whopping 17 op-eds at least, and letters-to-the-editor attacking Vance—a pattern that seems to have increased in frequency in late May and early June. They attack Vance mostly on economic and foreign policy issues, showing a deep divide between the old guard of the GOP establishment and the new rising economic nationalist wing of the party that Vance quite clearly represents.

For instance, before the passing of Pope Francis, the Wall Street Journal back in mid-February ran this headline: “The Pope vs. JD Vance on Immigration.” The opinion piece, from a Canada-based priest, called for Vance—who is a Catholic convert—to ditch his principles and side with Francis against “mass deportations.” Vance, of course, has done nothing of the sort and stands arm-in-arm with Trump and his administration as they carry out immigration enforcement.

Then, a couple weeks later, the Journal began ripping Vance in a pair of pieces attacking his views on Germany where the Vice President went to call out the regime in Berlin for a lack of freedom of speech. Instead of calling out the German government for their oppressive, speech-stifling behavior toward the opposition, the Journal incredibly sides with the oppressors in a bid to rip Vance.

When that did not work in wiping out the vice president, the Murdoch-owned newspaper turned next to pressuring Vance on Ukraine. An early March letter to the editor from a Pennsylvania man amazingly attacks Vance after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s blow-up in the Oval Office that saw Zelensky unceremoniously kicked out of the White House. This was the headline to that: “Has Vance Said Thank You to Ukraine Once?”

An Editorial Board piece from the Journal later, in late April, accuses Vance of having made what it calls the “cardinal error” of Trump’s second term by following the president’s directions in peace negotiations between the Russians and the Ukrainians and having the gall to try to understand what both sides want. The Editorial Board piece, which comes from the people who run the newspaper, points to this quote from Vance: “We’ve really tried to understand things from the perspective of both the Ukrainians and the Russians. What do Ukrainians care the most about? What do the Russians care the most about? And I think that we’ve put together a very fair proposal.”

And then the Editorial Board argues that Vance’s comment there “reveals the Administration’s cardinal error,” and pushes Trump to change course on Russia and Ukraine writing that “Mr. Trump can’t want his legacy to be handing Ukraine to Mr. Putin.”

Even more pieces from the Journal attack Vance on the Signal chat leak to The Atlantic magazine, with one Editorial Board slam on March 24 falsely arguing that Vance broke with the president in them, then another the next day on March 25 again slamming Vance falsely as having shown in the messages “contempt for allies.”

Less than two weeks later on April 4, the Wall Street Journal was at it again, this time running another letter-to-the-editor that compared Vance to assassins who plotted to successfully murder Roman emperor Julius Caesar under this headline: “Et Tu, Vice President Vance?”

An opinion piece a few days earlier accused Vance of plotting against Trump and beyond his term in office. “JD Vance Already Has an Eye on His Post-Vice Presidency,” read a headline from the opinion piece in the Journal published on April 1 written by Journal editorial page writer Barton Swaim.

Then in early May, the Editorial Board was at it yet again, writing a straight up attack on Vance on Trump’s tariffs after the vice president’s visit to a steel plant in South Carolina.

Then later in May, the Journal’s Kimberley Strassel argued that Vance criticizing Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts “Courts Trouble for Trump” and was “unhelpful to the administration.” Two days earlier, the Journal had printed an opinion piece from former Bill Clinton administration and former Al Gore and Walter Mondale campaign official William Galston attacking Vance over his arguments that the courts should be deferential to the administration on deportations. Interestingly, the article does not disclose, at least in the online version, that Galston worked for top Democrats including Clinton, Gore, and Mondale.

The Journal has also run a series of op-eds and letters-to-the-editor in recent days attacking Vance’s views on trade and markets.

In addition to the steady drumbeat of attacks from the Journal, Murdoch’s other major U.S. properties like Fox News and the New York Post have jumped on the bandwagon as well with anti-Vance attacks. For instance, Fox News ran this headline on May 21: “Will Vance remark about US bailing on Ukraine encourage Putin to sink nascent peace talks?”

The article is centered around a quote from an official with a questionable group called the “Foundation for the Defense of Democracies” criticizing Vance on his comments on the Russia-Ukraine negotiations. That very same group led a series of criticisms against Trump’s special envoy and senior adviser Steve Witkoff, who previously responded to them in a Breitbart News exclusive published earlier in May. The baseless attacks, first on Witkoff and now on Vance, seem centered on undermining Trump’s push for peace worldwide, particularly in the Middle East and in Europe.

And in the New York Post, Kimberley Strassel echoed attacks on Vance made in the Wall Street Journal over his criticisms of the U.S. Supreme Court. “JD Vance sabotages self with attack on Supreme Court,” was the headline in a May 30 New York Post column from Strassel.

All of this, of course, comes after as Breitbart News has previously reported there was a serious effort from Murdoch-owned media outlets to undermine Trump’s then-eventual decision to make Vance his running mate last year. And it also comes after a decade-long string of attacks from such outlets on Trump himself, as Breitbart News also reported earlier this year.

How this all shakes out—and whether the Journal and other Murdoch-owned properties like Fox News and the New York Post face any serious consequences—remains to be seen. But it’s clear from conversations with Breitbart News with many of them that most people around the president and vice president are not too pleased with them at the moment.

“The ongoing barrage of BS against true America First leaders to bolster Fox News’ and the Wall Street Journal’s neocon plants is getting old and tired,” a very senior well-connected source close to Trump’s family told Breitbart News. “It’s a sure way to see that true conservative leadership never happens again in this country.”

But one thing is very clear: Since these Murdoch-owned outlets failed so spectacularly to stop Trump over the last decade multiple times, this probably bodes very well for Vance’s chances long-term politically–if they are attacking him, he is probably winning and they know it.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/06/murdoch-media-empire-unleashes-barrage-of-globalist-attacks-on-jd-vance/

Meet the 'Radical' Abortion Activist and 'Defund the Police' Advocate Behind the Democratic Party's $20 Million Campaign to 'Understand Men'

Ilyse Hogue, former president of NARAL, has made a career of alienating male voters with woke nonsense. Now she's leading a campaign to win them back with 'super charged social listening.'

Ilyse Hogue / Instagram

The Democratic Party's widely ridiculed campaign to spend $20 million on a "strategic plan" to "study young men" was spearheaded by the former president of a left-wing activist group that supported efforts to "defund the police," denounced the Supreme Court nomination of "frat boy" Brett Kavanaugh, and attacked "white women" for upholding "the patriarchy."

Politico reports that Ilyse Hogue, former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America (now known as Reproductive Freedom for All), cofounded the Speaking with American Men project, or SAM for short, along with MSNBC contributor John Della Volpe and former Democratic congressman Colin Allred. In an interview with the Virginia-based news blog, Hogue argued the widespread mockery of the group's efforts, which include "super charg[ing] social listening" and analyzing the "syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality" in male online communities, proved that they were on the right track.

"Democrats are seen as weak, whereas Republicans are seen as strong," Hogue said. "Young men also spoke of being invisible to the Democratic coalition, and so you've got this weak problem and then you’ve got this 'I don’t think they care about me' problem, and I think the combination is kind of a killer."

Ilyse Hogue / Facebook

Hogue, a professional left-wing activist who worked at groups such as Media Matters, MoveOn.Org, and Greenpeace before joining NARAL in 2013, is perhaps uniquely ill-suited to the task of helping Democrats win back male voters. In July 2024, for example, when her activist husband helped organize the widely mocked "White Dudes for Harris" fundraiser, Hogue was initially skeptical, but eventually came to see it as "sexy." (It was not.)

NARAL, which Hogue led until 2021, routinely endorses unpopular left-wing policies it says are necessary to advance the cause of reproductive freedom, and often deploys the sort of academic jargon most American men would find ridiculous. "We have to meet this moment by dismantling the systems of oppression that are still so entrenched in society," NARAL wrote on social media in April 2021. "We have to defund the police. We have to achieve racial justice. We have to end the Black maternal mortality crisis. Reproductive freedom won't be possible until we do."

Ilyse Hogue / Instagram

NARAL, which supported efforts to defund the police as recently as May 2024, has also lobbied Congress to extend Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants, attacked "white women" as bad feminists who "uphold the patriarchy," and denounced the "culture of white supremacy" in the United States that must be dismantled along with other "structures of oppression that prevent us from ever reaching true reproductive freedom." As president of the organization, Hogue organized protests opposing Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. "We'll be DAMNED if we're going to let five MEN—including some frat boy named Brett—strip us of our hard-won bodily autonomy and reproductive rights," NARAL wrote in 2018, several weeks before Christine Blasey Ford claimed (without compelling evidence) that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s.

Ilyse Hogue / Instagram

Hogue's personal views appear to be no less extremist than the views espoused by NARAL. "When I talked to people, I’m usually the most radical person in the room," Media Matters president Angelo Carusone said in 2017. "I don’t feel like that when I talk to Ilyse." As a Greenpeace activist in 1999, she was arrested and briefly jailed during the infamous "Battle for Seattle" protests against the World Trade Organization. In recent years, Hogue has posted on social media about how "climate deniers share a common bond with misogynists," and defended woke terminology such as "pregnant people" and "people who menstruate" for promoting "accuracy, not controversy" because "[f]ighting for trans rights is mutually reinforcing with fighting for women's rights." In August 2020, Hogue said she was "proud" to have signed a letter urging Congress to "divest from policing and invest in black and brown communities." She pals around with Linda Sarsour, the left-wing activist who has been widely condemned for her anti-Semitic views.

Instagram / Ilyse Hogue

The activist's Instagram account is rife with obnoxious left-wing memes and punditry. On Mother's Day in 2018, she posted a reminder that the holiday was "founded by a radical feminist, activist, and suffragette," and urging her followers to celebrate by "owning the power of all women." She has compared the anti-American football activist Colin Kaepernick to civil rights icon Rosa Parks, and repeatedly expressed her admiration for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who described Kaepernick's refusal to stand for the national anthem as "dumb and disrespectful."

On Hogue's watch, SAM has been using its enormous budget to hold focus groups with young men who have outlined the (obvious) reasons why Democrats are hemorrhaging support among their demographic. For example, a man of the racial identity formerly known (by Democrats) as Latinx complained that Kamala Harris focused on, "Oh, I got Beyoncé on stage with me. Oh, I got Lady Gaga on stage," and "it just kind of felt like, what does that have to do with me? I'm trying to move up in life."

Kamala Harris won just 42 percent of the male vote in 2024, the lowest figure on record.

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/meet-the-radical-abortion-activist-and-defund-the-police-advocate-behind-the-democratic-partys-20-million-campaign-to-understand-men/

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