GOP ensures ICE funding through Trump's term in office

The GOP-led Senate wasted no time early Thursday morning, ramming through a budget plan that funds the Department of Homeland Security and pours another $70 billion into immigration enforcement for the rest of President Trump’s term in office. 

Democrats were livid that illegal aliens could not remain in their voter base.

The measure cleared the narrowly divided chamber on a 50-48 party-line vote, with every Republican in support and Democrats unified in opposition. For all Republicans to stand together on any issue is known as "The Miracle on Capitol Hill."

GOP leaders hailed the passage as a critical step to lock down the border [and level the voter playing field]. The resolution now heads to the House and sets up the reconciliation process, allowing Republicans to advance the funding bill without Democrats’ filibuster roadblocks.

“We have a multistep process ahead of us, but at the end, Republicans will have helped ensure that America’s borders are secure and prevented Democrats from defunding these important agencies,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-ND).

Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) ripped into Democrats for blocking DHS funding 16 times. The department has gone without proper funding since February 14, 2026.

“Democrats are playing to the most radical members of their party. Through their actions, Democrats are putting the safety and security of our nation behind the safety and security of their own political careers,” he said from the Senate floor.

Democrats spent the debate pushing amendments they insisted would tackle housing, childcare, and health care costs.

“Instead of pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into ICE and Border Patrol, Republicans should be working with Democrats to lower out-of-pocket costs,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said.

Several Republican priorities fell short after moderate [aka RINO] GOP senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) crossed the aisle to join Democrats. The pair helped kill a proposal from Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) to strip funding from Planned Parenthood.

“One recent study found that in three years alone, Planned Parenthood got a billion and a half dollars from Medicaid and Medicare. Money to be used on these risky surgeries and [transgender] procedures for our children. This is wrong,” Hawley said. “This is a terrible misuse of federal funds, and we should put a stop to it today.”

Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Murkowski, and Collins also teamed up with Democrats to block Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) from attaching the SAVE Act, which would require photo ID to vote in federal elections, to the budget measure.

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Omar "ghosted" MN hearing on her alleged fraud ties: lawmakers take action

Minnesota Republican lawmaker Kristin Robbins doesn't mess around. She is demanding answers from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after the serial controversy magnet failed to show up at a state hearing looking into her possible connections to the massive pandemic-era fraud scandal that is still making national headlines.

State Rep. Robbins, who chairs the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee, fired off a formal letter to Omar on April 22. In it she roasted Omar, a woman who allegedly married her own brother, for blowing off the scheduled committee hearing she had been invited to attend and demanded a pile of documentation tied to the infamous "Feeding Our Future" investigation.

"Minnesotans and the Members of the House Fraud Prevention & State Oversight Committee were disappointed that you failed to appear before our committee to answer questions," Robbins wrote in the letter, obtained by Fox News Digital. The hearing zeroed in on the MEALS Act, that federal COVID-19 relief measure from 2020 sponsored by none other than Omar herself.

Even though Omar pulled her usual no-show routine, Robbins made it clear the committee still wants answers. They are now formally requesting records from Omar’s office along with responses to a list of pointed questions laid out in the letter.

Robbins wants to see communications showing how Omar pushed for expanded access to federal child nutrition programs. That includes emails, texts, and meeting records with the Minnesota Department of Education and various constituents.

The request also takes a hard look at her very public promotion of a Minneapolis restaurant that later popped up in connection with the program. Robbins pointed to a Somali-language TV appearance where Omar hyped up Safari Restaurant as a meal distribution site and demanded all communications related to that video and the restaurant’s involvement in the scheme.

That same video was played during Tuesday’s committee meeting while lawmakers dug into Omar’s ties to those in the Minneapolis Somali community linked to the fraud. Fox News Digital [and now Brain Flushings] has been all over this story for a while now.

Robbins is also seeking records of any contact between Omar and a lengthy list of people who have been charged or implicated in the Feeding Our Future case. That includes nonprofit founder Aimee Bock and dozens of alleged co-conspirators.

"She didn't even respond, ghosted us," Robbins told the outlet about the Democrat congresswoman ignoring the invitation to appear. "And her Meals Act is what created the conditions that allowed Feeding Our Future to happen."

When asked if Omar has ever bothered responding to any requests from the committee, Robbins replied, "No, we’ve sent multiple emails, multiple letters, nothing."

The letter further probes political donations Omar received from people who later got hit with charges in the case. It asks for "any and all" communications with those donors.

Robbins, who is running for governor of Minnesota, gave Omar until May 5 to cough up a written response and all the requested materials. That seems like plenty of time to get her act together. 

This latest move is just another escalation in the Republican-led effort to get to the bottom of the Feeding Our Future scandal. Federal prosecutors say it involved the theft of hundreds of millions in taxpayer-funded child nutrition aid during the COVID panic. It sits inside a broader fraud disaster believed to total in the tens of billions.

Omar’s possible connections to this Minnesota mess are only part of the fun. She is also staring down a possible ethics investigation into her personal financial disclosures and fresh accusations, including some from Vice President JD Vance, that she committed immigration fraud. The evidence that she married her brother to get him immigration status into the country is pretty damning.

Just another Tuesday in the life of the congresswoman who never seems to run out of scandals along with her dislike for white men, Israel, and the good old USA.

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Hundreds of Hezbollah scumcrumpets killed in 24 hours before Israel-Lebanon ceasefire kicked in

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The IDF just dropped a bombshell update that shows exactly how hard they were hammering Hezbollah right up until the ceasefire kicked in.

In the final 24 hours before the truce took effect, the Israeli military killed hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists and struck around 300 infrastructure targets used by the terror group. That included launchers, command centers, and weapons storage facilities scattered across Lebanon.

"More than 150 Hezbollah terrorists were killed," the IDF statement revealed, along with those massive infrastructure hits. One of the key figures taken out was Ali Reza Abbas, the commander of Hezbollah's unit in Bint Jbeil. That southern Lebanese town has long been a major Hezbollah stronghold, and it is where the IDF's Division 98 has been locked in heavy fighting lately.

"Additional commanders in the terror organization were also eliminated," the IDF added.

Abbas was not just directing attacks against Israeli forces in the area. He had a long history of involvement in terror plots targeting military personnel, especially during Operation Roaring Lion. He also played a role in trying to bolster Hezbollah's presence in Bint Jbeil.

In a separate push, the IDF's 91st Division teamed up with the Israeli Air Force for an operation in the southern Lebanese town of Dibbin just before the ceasefire.

They struck over 70 targets and killed more than 20 terrorists in that strike alone.

Since Operation Roaring Lion launched in late February, the IDF says it has taken out more than 1,800 Hezbollah terrorists across Lebanon. Not exactly the kind of scorecard that suggests the terror group is in any position to claim victory.

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Taxpayer-funded Minneapolis HS building Islamic prayer room for Muslim students

A Minneapolis-area school district has announced plans to install a dedicated prayer room and foot-washing station for Muslim students at two of its high schools, because nothing says "public education" like turning taxpayer-funded buildings into mini-mosques.

The Osseo Area Schools confirmed to Alpha News reporter Liz Collin that the remodel at Park Center Senior High School includes a prayer room, while foot-washing stations are being added to Osseo Senior High School.

The prayer room and foot-washing stations were apparently slipped into the updated plans for the district’s "Building a Better Future" initiative, a roughly 375 million dollar effort that voters approved in 2022 and 2023. Because what better way to build a better future than by renovating schools to accommodate one specific religion's rituals?

But school officials later told the Daily Mail that the Park Center Senior High School’s plans actually call for a “multipurpose space” which was “mislabeled in construction documents” as a prayer room.

“The space could be used for prayer, or other student or staff multipurpose needs throughout the day,” said Kay Villella, executive director of school and community relations.District officials also said the foot-washing plans “were included in updated plans after hearing from user groups on student needs.”

Osseo Area Schools officials have confirmed that the renovations at Park Center Senior High School will include a prayer room.

This is the pattern we have seen again and again. One-way accommodation. One-way deference. The West bends, Islam does not. The institutions of a free society, funded by the taxes of its citizens, are quietly repurposed to serve a parallel legal and moral order that regards our own as inferior. And the elites who preside over this process congratulate themselves on their tolerance, even as they surrender the very principles, secularism, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, that once defined the civilisation they claim to uphold.

It is not multiculturalism at work here. It is cultural replacement by stealth, aided and abetted by a political class too frightened or too ideologically captured to say what is plain: that no other faith demands, and receives, such institutional surrender in the heart of the West. The question is no longer whether this will continue, but how long the public will tolerate it before the consequences become impossible to ignore.

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Nigeria:Twenty murdered in suspected Boko Haram attack

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On March 31st this year, there was a suspected Boko Haram attack in Nigeria in which 20 internally displaced persons (IDPs) were murdered in Mafa, Borno State.

According to reports, the victims were IDPs who had gone into a nearby bush to simply search for firewood. The attackers slit the throats of some victims or shot them at close range. At least 30 others (including children) were abducted in the incident. The victims were described as people who had already been repeatedly displaced by Boko Haram violence.

Boko Haram and its splinter groups (like ISWAP) have carried out multiple attacks in 2025–2026 with varying death tolls, including some involving around 20 deaths (e.g., earlier incidents targeting soldiers or civilians), but the March 31st, Mafa event aligns most closely with the details you mentioned. Violence in the region remains persistent, with civilians often caught in the crossfire or directly targeted.

The armed assaults form part of a surge by Boko Haram and its Islamic State splinter group ISWAP, who have stepped up their deadly attacks on military bases and villages in Nigeria’s insurgency-hit northeast.

The gunmen raided the villages of Pubagu and Mayo-Ladde in the states of Borno and neighbouring Adamawa respectively on Tuesday afternoon, after overwhelming local vigilantes, said Mada Saidu, chairman of Askira-Uba district, where one of the attacks occurred.

At least 11 people were killed in Pubagu and nine in Mayo-Ladde. Homes and shops were torched and food supplies looted, Saidu said.

Islamist terrorists have waged a 17-year insurgency seeking to carve out an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria, killing thousands and displacing at least two million people, aid groups say, despite major military campaigns to root them out.

One is left, as so often in these grim chronicles of African jihadism, with the weary sense that the same story repeats itself with only the names of the villages and the precise number of the dead changing. The Nigerian state, for all its declarations of resolve, appears chronically unable to impose order on a region long surrendered to the logic of holy war.

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Mamdani Act: Bill introduced to deport immigrants with extremist ideologies

US Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) has dropped a monster piece of legislation that would crank up the federal government's power to deport, denaturalize, deny citizenship to, and keep out immigrants who are hooked up with extremist ideologies. We're talking socialism, communism, and Islamic fundamentalism here.

The bill, called the MAMDANI Act (Measures Against Marxism’s Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists), is a deliciously direct shot at New York City Mayor comrade Zohran Mamdani and the growing conservative nightmare of a far-left anti-Israel crowd cozying up with Islamist extremists.

Mamdani, that far-left socialist and proud anti-Zionist, has built his whole political brand on anti-Israel activism and has been hammered for pushing anti-Semitic rhetoric.

In his statement, Roy made it clear the legislation is all about giving the government better tools to screen out immigrants peddling anti-American and anti-Western garbage.

“Not just for the last six years, but for the last 60 years, our immigration system has been cynically used to disadvantage American workers’ competitiveness in favor of mass-importing the third world,” Roy added. “This has not just led to higher crime and lower wages, but also the promulgation of hostile ideologies fundamentally opposed to American values.”

The congressman said the bill is aimed squarely at what he called a “Red-Green Alliance” between far-left and Islamist extremists. That unholy partnership has been stoking antisemitism, anti-American radicalism, and open support for terrorist outfits while hiding behind the fig leaf of progressive politics.

“By targeting the Red-Green Alliance, this legislation deploys new tools to fight back against the Marxist and Islamist advance that has devastated Europe and has now arrived on our doorstep, especially in my home state of Texas,” Roy added.

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BREAKING: Trump says female Iranian prisoners will not be executed as per his request

President Trump claimed on Truth Social that he was told by Iranian authorities the eight women who were to be executed tonight, Wednesday.

He said that four of the women will be released immediately and the others will be sentenced to one month in prison, he posted.

Trump claimed credit for the lifting of the death sentence, based on a previous post where he told Iranian authorities that not executing the prisoners would be a "great start to our negotiations."

Unfortunately, the executions have not been definitively stopped or confirmed as halted. That is, reports are conflicting and basically unverified as of today.

The eight women named are: Bita Hemmati, Panah Movahedi, Mahboubeh Shabani, Ensieh Nejati, Ghazal Ghalandari, Diana Taherabadi, Golnaz Naraghi, and Venus Hosseininejad. They were reportedly arrested in connection with the 2025–2026 Iranian protests against the regime. Some faced serious charges like security-related offenses or moharebeh (waging war against Allah), which can carry the death penalty in Iran, as can many other things such as being raped as a woman without witnesses; being an atheist, Jew, Christian and refusing to pay a tax (jizya), or drawing a picture of their so called prophet, Mohammed.

Human rights groups have raised alarms about unfair trials, torture, and a broader spike in executions, in which there has been more than 1,600 in 2025, while political cases are still ongoing.

Only limited cases (e.g., Bita Hemmati as a potential first female protester execution) had clearer confirmation of death sentences from independent sources; claims about all eight being imminently executed came primarily from activist accounts, such as one by Eyal Yakoby that circulated widely.

Iran's judiciary quickly denied the claims as "fake news," stating: No such imminent executions were planned. Some of the women had already been released. 

Others faced lesser charges that would at most result in imprisonment, not death, they claim. State media echoed this, rejecting President Trump's narrative. 

No independent verification of executions being carried out, stopped, or commuted for all eight. Human rights organizations (e.g., Amnesty International) have warned of risks to protesters but haven't confirmed mass death sentences or last-minute halts for this specific group.

So what is the truth? I guess we'll find out.

Final thought: it's very possible that Iran is lying to the public about this being fake news in order to make President Trump look foolish or simply look wrong. We don't know anything right now and hopefully we'll find out soon. I would never bet against President Trump when he makes a bold claim like this one.

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Iran is a total clusterfrack today

The Iranian government appears deeply divided and weakened with power struggles.

Reports indicate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has gained significant influence to the point that the situation can be considered to be a coup, sometimes overriding civilian officials like the Foreign Minister. There's indications that IRGC commanders are controlling military decisions and even isolating parts of the leadership. 

President Masoud Pezeshkian’s administration seems sidelined in key areas and he is even less of a figurehead than ever before.

The current ceasefire is nearing its end (or extension deadline) but it looks like President Trump is going to hold off attacking the regime . Iran has sent mixed signals, some officials announced the Strait of Hormuz was "open," but the IRGC contradicted this and attacked vessels, so it's as if the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. 

The situation is highly volatile,

Iran has stated it has "no plans" for further peace talks (e.g., in Islamabad, Pakistan), accusing the US of bad faith [because we refuse to allow them to continue with their nuclear ambitions]. The Trump administration has threatened to resume strikes on infrastructure if no deal is reached, while also signaling a possible short extension tied to Iran's internal fractures.

Meanwhile, the regime continues executions, torture of detainees, and crackdowns on dissent, including against protesters from earlier this year. Opposition groups like the PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq) report ongoing anti-regime activities despite the risks.

Pro-regime rallies in Tehran supporting the government, showing some remaining base of support amid the chaos. However, these Islamists are significantly fewer in number than the Iranian people who are attempting to replace the current government with non-terrorist people.

Broader ContextThe regime survived the immediate aftermath of the strikes and Khamenei's death without collapsing, but it is "seriously fractured," as Trump has noted. Economic damage from sanctions, protests, and the war has compounded long-standing issues. The IRGC's hardline stance seems to be driving more aggressive or inconsistent policies compared to the Foreign Ministry.

No one knows exactly "who’s in charge" at every moment, with the IRGC appearing to hold significant de facto power. The situation remains fluid--talks could resume, the ceasefire could extend (or break), or escalation could return quickly. 

It's a veritable clusterfrack.

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