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Federal judge rules warrantless searches using automated license plate readers as unconstitutionalA federal judge in Tulsa, Oklahoma ruled on Oct. 1 that a sheriff’s deputy violated the Fourth Amendment by searching a woman’s license plate in Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader system without a warrant, marking one of the first federal court rulings to declare such surveillance unconstitutional. The case involved Melisa Kyle, whose…
One Big Beautiful Bill Act Medicaid cuts begin: Thousands of lawful immigrants lose health coverage, advocates warn of widespread falloutThis rule uses the lie of “Medicaid fraud by illegal immigrants” to implement a Digital ID control system, stripping healthcare from legitimate citizens—especially the mentally ill, homeless and elderly—as part of the depopulation agenda, forcing them into sickness and death. Refugees, asylees, domestic violence survivors and sex trafficking victims—not…
DEFEND IP Legislation Seeks New Powers to Block Foreign Piracy WebsitesA new bill introduced in Congress would allow U.S. federal courts to issue site blocking orders that broadband providers and public domain name system resolvers would be required to execute, according to the bill text. The legislation, titled the Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property Act, or DEFEND IP,…
White House Rushes To Unload $400M in Ukraine Aid Before Congress Can Take It BackThe White House plans to use $400 million in previously approved military aid for Ukraine before a statutory deadline, according to officials familiar with the matter. The move, first reported by the Libertarian Institute, comes as the Trump administration seeks to wind down U.S. involvement in the conflict while satisfying congressional requirements on…
CBP Axes Biden-Era Rule Permitting Private Donations for Detained IllegalsCustoms and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott issued a memo withdrawing the agency from a Biden-era directive that authorized the solicitation and acceptance of private donations for illegal aliens in federal custody, according to Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin. Scott told Melugin on Sept. 23 that the order is no longer needed or…
Democrats look to confront Benjamin Netanyahu, as a political reckoning with Gaza’s mounting death toll nearsFor decades, criticizing Israeli policy on Capitol Hill was treated like touching a live wire. Lawmakers from both parties recited the same talking points about Israel being America’s staunchest ally, and anyone who strayed from the script risked political exile. That era appears to be ending. As Democratic leaders prepare for a possible House takeover […]
Pfizer Grants to Nonprofits Preceded Massachusetts Vaccine Exemption Lobbying LetterPfizer paid $500,000 to two nonprofits that later signed a June 1 letter urging Massachusetts lawmakers to advance House Bill 2554 (H.2554), according to the company’s fiscal year 2024 U.S. Medical, Scientific, Patient and Civic Organization Funding Report. The report lists a $400,000 payment to the American Society for Meningitis Prevention (ASMP) for…
Pentagon Inspector General Report Outlines U.S. Munition Shortfalls Due to Iran WarThe U.S. Department of War‘s inspector general (IG) has informed Congress that the war on Iran has produced strategic munitions inventory shortfalls and exposed bottlenecks in the industrial base needed to replenish them, according to a report released Monday, Sept. 14 [1][2]. The munitions expenditure on Operation Epic Fury has resulted in strategic…
U.S. Reprograms $52 Million in Military Aid From Europe and Middle East to AmericasThe U.S. Department of State notified Congress on Tuesday, Sept. 15, that it will reprogram $52 million in foreign military financing, shifting the funds from four countries in Europe and the Middle East to four nations in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to officials familiar with the notification. The money is being redirected from […]
Bernie Sanders introduces AI censorship bill that JAILS innovators creating systems that empower the people with decentralized knowledgeThe same London-based nonprofit that branded Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and 11 other Americans as the “Disinformation Dozen” in 2021, quietly renamed itself last month, gearing up for a new phase of censorship in the coming turbulence of the AI censorship wars. In 2021, this clandestine organization triggered a cascade of censorship that stripped millions […]
Johnson Says Trump’s Proposed $5,000 Payments Would Require Congressional ApprovalHouse Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that President Trump’s plan to send $5,000 dividend checks to American adults would require an act of Congress, according to interviews on CNN and NBC. “I would assume, yes, he’d need Congress to act, and that’s a creative idea,” Johnson told CNN’s “State of the Union” [1][2]. Trump […]
Citizenship Under Siege: Denaturalization Cases Surge, With DOJ Filing 105 Lawsuits in Seven MonthsAt least 105 civil denaturalization lawsuits were filed in federal district courts during the first seven months of 2026, including 50 in July alone, according to data published by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) [1]. The organization previously reported that roughly 125 such lawsuits were filed nationwide between…
Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Citizenship Verification of VotersThe Justice Department on Sept. 8 filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court seeking to allow the federal government to verify the citizenship of voters using the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) immigration database [1]. The request follows a federal judge’s ruling earlier in the year that determined the administration’s use…
Twenty-five years of “temporary”: how 9/11 built a surveillance state Americans never voted forThe towers fell in a single morning, but the government that rose from the rubble never stopped growing. A quarter-century after September 11, 2001, the emergency measures that the federal government swore were only temporary have calcified into a permanent architecture — an alphabet soup of agencies, a legal doctrine of pre-emption, and a surveillance…