Dem Senator suffers a stroke: hospitalized Saturday

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke, according to a statement released Sunday by his chief of staff, Allison Herwitt. Doctors are encouraged by his progress and expect him to make a full recovery.

Murphy, 53, reportedly began experiencing numbness in his arm Saturday afternoon while attending his son's hockey game. He was initially taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he had suffered a stroke, before being transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring.

"He was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke. He was transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring and is responding well to treatment," Herwitt said in a statement.

"The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery."

Murphy was first elected to the Senate in 2012 and took office in January 2013. He has since emerged as one of the more prominent voices in the Democratic Party and has been mentioned as a possible contender for the party's 2028 presidential nomination.

Although Murphy is not seeking reelection this year, he has been actively campaigning for Democratic candidates, spending the past several weeks trying to help his party reclaim control of the Senate. He had been scheduled to campaign for Democrats in New Hampshire on Sunday.

The sudden medical emergency is an unwelcome interruption to those political ambitions, although the news from his doctors appears encouraging.


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GOP stands with Trump over Senate challenge regarding Operation Epic Fury

Senate Republicans closed ranks on Wednesday, delivering President Trump a solid victory on his use of force against Iran, This came despite the usual lingering questions about America's role in the Middle East mess.

The Senate decisively shot down a resolution from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) that sought to limit Trump's military actions in Iran. This followed days of speculation about whether any Republicans would break ranks, as some have done in the past, to slap the president on the wrist.

The administration went all-in to rally support for Operation Epic Fury. They held multiple briefings with Congress to lay out the case. It worked, at least for the moment. It convinced some wavering Republicans to stick with continued military action against the regime.

President Donald Trump confirmed the U.S. launched strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026.

Only Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voted for Kaine's resolution. On the flip side, Sen. Jon Fetterman (D-Pa.) was the lone Democrat to cross over and support the president's position.

Democrats tried to frame Trump's moves as yet another case of him blowing past Congress's authority on military force. They complained about no clear strategy ahead and accused him of breaking another campaign promise.

"It's time for the president to keep promises, not break them," Kaine said ahead of the vote. "That's why I'm so glad that we're going to put everybody on the record … Nobody gets to hide and give the president an easy pass or an end run around the Constitution."

Democrats also hammered the administration for refusing to take ground troops off the table."They refuse to take off the table the insertion of ground troops," said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). He warned the conflict could balloon beyond air and naval ops. "This is going to make the operations in Libya look like child’s play."

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced a war powers resolution to rein in President Donald Trump's military action in Iran.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who once backed a similar resolution to curb Trump's war powers in Venezuela, made it clear he opposed this one.

But like before, he noted that any ground operation would need congressional approval."I’ve always said that committing ground troops would be something I think would require immediate congressional authorization, but that doesn’t appear to be on the immediate horizon," Hawley said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed the administration kept moving the goalposts, which he called proof positive that "a strategy is missing."

Republicans fired back that the president was squarely within his constitutional authority as commander in chief. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) dismissed the War Powers Act as "an unconstitutional shift of authority from the president." He pointed out that Congress can always pull the funding plug if it really disagrees with the action.

"We don’t need 535 commanders in chief," said Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), tearing into the legislation.

There was also clear fatigue in GOP circles over Kaine's habit of repeatedly pushing these congressional power plays in every conflict.

Republicans huddled privately on Tuesday to hash out the strikes and the looming war powers vote. This came ahead of their briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan "Raizin" Caine, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on during a meeting with oil and gas executives in the East Room of the White House, Jan. 9, 2026.

A source familiar with the closed-door session told Fox News Digital that some Republicans who might have been persuadable were fed up with Kaine's nonstop use of the Senate floor to limit Trump's war authorities.

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) highlighted that this was Kaine’s fifth resolution targeting Trump’s war powers since he returned to office last year. That tally accounts for nearly half of all war powers resolutions in U.S. history.

"These resolutions have been used only 11 times in 50 years," Barrasso said. "The senator from Virginia alone accounts for nearly half of them. Yet Senator Kaine introduced zero war powers resolutions when Barack Obama and Joe Biden were president."

Rubio told reporters after Tuesday's all-senators briefing that the administration had complied with the War Powers Act, even though it views the law as unconstitutional. He added that congressional leaders got notified before the strikes.

Rubio had earlier floated that the U.S. acted in Operation Epic Fury because Israel was set to strike first, though he later dialed that back.

"If you tell the President of the United States that if we don't go first, we're going to have more people killed and more people injured, the president is going to go first," Rubio said. "That's what he did. That's what the president will always do."

Meanwhile, U.S. forces have hammered more than 2,000 targets in Iran so far, zeroing in on the regime’s air defenses and missile stockpiles. Six American service members have been killed in the operation, along with nearly 50 top Iranian leaders.

The Iranian government claims at least 1,045 people have been killed across the country during the campaign.

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DOJ's Harmeet Dhillon Drops the Hammer: 'FAFO' Warning to Woke Thugs Targeting Her Over Judge's House Fire

Folks, if you thought the left's unhinged vendettas against Trump appointees were bad before, stand by, because Harmeet Dhillon, the no-nonsense Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, just lit a match under their feet. She's not playing games, and neither should they. In a blistering X post Sunday night, Dhillon laid it out plain: threats against her are getting funneled straight to the U.S. Marshals Service.

"We will tolerate no such threats by woke idiots, including those who work for
@GavinNewsom," Dhillon wrote. "Govern yourselves accordingly."

"FAFO," she added, using the acronym for "f--k around and find out."

That's right, Dhillon's channeling the kind of street-smart warning that the perpetually offended blue-check brigade could use a crash course in. And get this: it all stems from a grotesque pile-on after a South Carolina judge's home went up in flames. Dhillon told Fox News Digital on Monday that her DOJ team flagged some seriously sketchy replies lurking under a post from none other than Izzy Gardon, Gavin Newsom's communications director. You know, the guy who helps polish the Golden State's endless parade of scandals into "progressive" fairy tales.

Gardon had tweeted on Sunday: "A few weeks ago, one of Trump’s top DOJ officials publicly targeted this judge. Today, the judge’s home is on fire." He was pointing fingers at South Carolina circuit court Judge Diane Schafer Goodstein, whose house torched itself Saturday night. Authorities with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) are on the case—no cause confirmed yet, but three folks got hurt in the blaze.

Enter the deleted X account that had everyone’s hackles up. Screenshot shows it crowing: "I'm just saying Harmeet Dhillon's address can't be hard to find." When pressed on what that meant, the creep shot back: "I'll let you know in two weeks."

Charming, right? And who kicked off this dumpster fire? Gardon's post, which got a boost from Connecticut's own drama king, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy. He retweeted it with a screenshot of Dhillon's own words from last month—a fiery declaration that had the judge in her crosshairs for what Dhillon called a "hasty nullification" of federal voting laws.

Chris Murphy

"This @TheJusticeDept’s @CivilRights will not stand for a state court judge’s hasty nullification of our federal voting laws. I will allow nothing to stand in the way of our mandate to maintain clean voter rolls. One Citizen, One Vote!" Dhillon had posted.

Doing her job, enforcing election integrity,? How dare she? 

To Dhillon, this whole circus from Gardon and Murphy is a bullseye on her back: "grossly … outrageous, inappropriate," she told Fox News Digital, adding that in today's tinderbox climate, it "could cause me physical harm." Look, if you're a Trump official standing up for fair elections, apparently that's now grounds for doxxing and veiled threats. The hypocrisy here is thicker than a Democrat's skull. Newsom's crew, who spent years demonizing Trump as a threat to democracy, now crying foul when the DOJ actually does its job? Pulleeeze.

Gardon, predictably, fired back in a statement to Fox News Digital: "Ms. Dhillon owes us a full apology for her blatantly false implications."

"Our office never threatened her, in contrast to the Trump Administration’s vile rhetoric against sitting judges. In recent weeks, Trump officials have referred to judges as ‘terrorists’ and ‘legal insurrectionists.’ She and her associates own that dangerous, disgraceful, and un-American rhetoric, and she should apologize for that, too," Gardon added.

Pot, meet kettle. The same crowd that cheered on "punch a Nazi" chants and endless lawfare against conservatives now clutches pearls over "rhetoric"? Dhillon is not apologizing for squat; she's the one with the Marshals on speed dial. To every Gavin sycophant and Murphy moralizer out there: heed the lady. FAFO isn't just a warning; it's a promise. And in Trump's DOJ, the adults are finally back in charge.

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MSNBC Hamas sympathizer wants to protect terrorists from Israeli response to their attacks

In an effort to minimize the casualties of Hamas and give them equal footing in their quest to exterminate all of Israel's Jews and then the world's Jewish population, MSNBC anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic host, Chrissy Hayes suggested that the U.S. provide Hamas with missile defense technology so they can thwart the good guys from stopping their efforts to kill them. 

The androgynous Hayes even wondered out loud, "Can we get an Iron Dome for Gaza?"

Hayes, who claims to identify as a man, made his absurd statement on his "All In" show on Tuesday as he spoke to Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) about Israel's success in keeping its civilian population from being slaughtered from what turned out to be over 4,000 missiles fired from Gaza, in a conflict the Hamas terrorist group initiated.

Murphy claimed that both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leadership of the Hamassholes benefit in their internal politics from a longer war. Hayes then observed how the Iron Dome missile defense system whose construction was aided by the U.S., has helped minimize Israeli deaths and injuries, which didn't seem fair to Hayes, in spite of Hamas starting the conflict.

Hayes said: "You know, there's been these images I've seen of the Iron Dome system, right? This missile defense system the U.S. partly funded that has been intercepting Hamas rockets into Israel, and those rockets are being fired as a Palestinian human rights lawyer said on this show last night, 'indiscriminately civilians, a war crime by definition,' and the Iron Dome has worked quite well.... But I look at those images, and I think, "Well, good, that's good. I'm glad that those rockets are being intercepted."

He or she then suggested the U.S. provide a similar system to Gaza (which has been run by a terrorist group since 2007) for the purpose of preventing Israeli attacks from hitting Gaza's civilians [that Hamas uses as human shields because they can use civilian deaths as propaganda and don't give a rat's anus if civilians die]:

"And also, there's some part of me that's like, 'Can we get an Iron Dome for Gaza?' Can the American taxpayer foot the bill to protect innocent children in Gaza where there's two million people in one of the most densely populated parts of the world so they don't have death rain down upon them?" He is like a schmuck of the anti-Semitic kind.

Senator Murphy correctly pointed out that it would be against U.S. policy to supply anything of a military nature to Gaza as long as it is run by the Hamas terrorist group. 

Gee, ya think?

It's becoming increasingly more acceptable to openly display your anti-Semitic cretinous thinking, just like it's okay to hate White men for being white and being a man, and for hating America for being a free nation.

 my first day on the campaign trail back in 2018 by the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets, editorial boards, the political press corps, and yes, the City Hall press corps specifically.”

“If I as the black woman mayor, the first-ever, don’t challenge us, the collective us, to do better, to really make sure that in every institution it reflects the diversity, nuance, and texture, then shame on me,” Lightfoot continued.

“This isn’t my job. It shouldn’t be,” she wrote. “I don’t have time for it. But as with so many festering problems, it has only gotten worse with time. So here I am, like so many other Black women before me, having to call your attention to this problem.”

Lightfoot went further, taking to Twitter early Thursday morning to defend her policy in a series of posts.

“I ran to break up the status quo that was failing so many,” Lightfoot tweeted. “That isn’t just in City Hall. It’s a shame that in 2021, the City Hall press corps is overwhelmingly White in a city where more than half of the city identifies as Black, Latino, AAPI, or Native American.”

“Diversity and inclusion is imperative across all institutions including media. In order to progress we must change,” she continued. “This is exactly why I’m being intentional about prioritizing media requests from POC reporters on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as mayor of this great city.”

Critics blasted Lightfoot’s decision from all sides Wednesday. Beyond the journalists who noted that they were shut out by the policy limiting interviews, Lightfoot faced criticism from a Latino news organization, which refused to interview the mayor after she refused to lift the moratorium on white journalists, per Fox News.

She also faced blowback on Twitter, where racial justice advocates suggested that Lightfoot was likely using the policy to distract from her inability to handle questions of violence. “Lori Lightfoot presided over an enormous increase in homicides, almost all of them in African American or Latino communities, and she’s hoping these PR stunts get liberal America to give her a pass for failing to save people’s lives,” journalist Zaid Jilani pointed out.

Indeed, on the same day that the mayor’s office announced the policy favoring “black and brown” reporters, Lightfoot aides announced that “a compromise plan to make past police disciplinary records available to the public,” essentially turning down a request from Chicago’s racial justice activists to expand police transparency.

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Local media reporters in Chicago are alleging that Democrat Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is selecting who gets to do one-on-one interviews with her based on the race of the interviewer.

NBC 5 political reporter Mary Ann Ahern made the initial allegation on Twitter, writing: “As ⁦ @chicagosmayor ⁩ reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews – only to Black or Brown journalists.”

Chicago PBS news anchor Paris Schultz responded: “I was told the same thing.”


I was told the same thing.

— Paris Schutz (@paschutz)

Chicago PBS political reporter said that she could “confirm” what Ahern was alleging.


I can confirm, alderman

— Heather Cherone (@HeatherCherone) May 18, 2021

Lightfoot’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire or Fox News.

Australian political commentator Rita Panahi responded to the allegations by writing on Twitter: “More ‘anti-racist’ racism. Almost amusing how regressive race-obsession is celebrated among the Left.”


More "anti-racist" racism. Almost amusing how regressive race-obsession is celebrated among the Left. https://t.co/VtzpQyfklg

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) May 19, 2021

“Racism in the name of wokeism is still racism,” another commentator said. Another added, “So wouldn’t that make her a racist?”

Progressive writer Zaid Jilani wrote: “Is she going to do some kinda DNA test to assure she upholds this rule?”


Is she going to do some kinda DNA test to assure she upholds this rule? https://t.co/9d7rXZTnCV

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 19, 2021

“It is unclear when such a practice was enacted and if it only applies to local reporters, particularly after her MSNBC appearance with Stephanie Ruhle on Monday,” Fox News reported. “During her MSNBC interview, Lightfoot told Ruhle she would ‘encourage’ Chicago residents to continue wearing masks despite the new CDC guidance allowing those with the coronavirus vaccine to go without them.”

“I know for me personally, I’m going to continue to wear a mask in public and I’m going to encourage others to do so,” Lightfoot told Ruhle. “We’ve got to make sure that people are continuing to follow the public health guidance that has gotten us this far, and masks, I think, are a big and important part of that.”

Lightfoot said on Tuesday afternoon that her decision to continue to encourage people to wear masks was not based on distrust of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“But I think their guidance last week regarding masks has people confused…We need clarification,” Lightfoot said. “We still have a long way to go to hit the critical mass (of vaccinations) or herd immunity. I don’t want people to have false confidence.”

“To say, ‘If you’re vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask,’ that’s great. But what about all of the other people who are out there that aren’t vaccinated?” Lightfoot added. “There’s no way to know that. So I think for the time being, most people are gonna continue to wear masks outside of their homes.”

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Determines Who Interviews Her Based On Race, Local Reporters Claim

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Democrats keep moving the goalposts on FBI investigation

Photo: FoxNews screen grab

Surprise, surprise--Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are not satisfied with a one-week FBI "investigation" into the allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. They would like to extend it well beyond the midterm elections in a few weeks so that, if they win enough seats, they can stop him altogether.

It was totally predictable.

"If you're very confident of your position, and you appear to be, why aren't you also asking the FBI to investigate these claims?" Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) asked Kavanaugh.

Because it isn't his task to prove his innocence nor is it his authority to ask for the FBI to investigate.

You, Dianne Feinstein, had the information from Ford long before this came to light at the "Eleventh Hour" of the confirmation hearing, and if you cared a fig about Ford, you would have come forward. But you didn't because you're a political hack who doesn't give a rat's butt about anything beyond your ambitions.

Then the sans testicle-endowed, politician, Jeff Flake [R-AZ], urged President Trump to have a one-week FBI investigation, because Flake was cornered in an elevator by a leftist activist who told him that if he didn't pursue one, that means he doesn't care about her or any woman who has ever been sexually assaulted in the whole wide world.

This is known as liberal logic.

The Democrats pushed the investigation, the GOP finally agreed to have it for a full week, and now the leftist liars are [predictably] claiming the probe is not enough, prompting Republicans to accuse them of moving the goalposts.

Feinstein makes sexual innuendo to Grassley:
prove it false

Of course they're moving the goalposts. It exactly what they are doing. They know it, the GOP knows it, the public knows it, and we all pretend they are sincerely caring about "Doctor" Ford. [The scare quotes indicate the recent accusation that she is not a licensed psychologist and the honorific is not hers to use. Whether this is true or not has yet to be determined.]

Bernie "I Love Russia" Sanders (D-VT) wrote over the weekend that the FBI should not simply probe the accusations--they should also investigate into Kavanaugh's veracity during the hearing.

If Bernie and his wife are innocent, they should ask for an FBI investigation into whether or not his wife, Jane Sanders, lied about the funding regarding the now defunct college she ran.

If Cory Booker (D-NJ) was innocent, he needs to have the FBI investigate his admission to groping a young woman in the past.

I could go on and on, but I'm running out of digital ink.

On an ironic note, Democrats who were all gung-ho over calling for an FBI investigation last week are now downplaying it--perhaps because they believe that nothing damning will be found.

"Yes, of course there should be an FBI investigation,' Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted. "But whatever they find doesn't change the fact that Kavanaugh, especially after his performance yesterday, is the most dangerous Supreme Court pick in our lifetime."

That, of course, is totally preposterous.

As a judge, Brett Kavanaugh was exemplary. As a man being accused of something he did not do [which is what I finally believe], he has acted as a man would act being accused and having his good name ruined.

And if that bothers anyone, you can refer to them as a racist and a sexist.


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Dems got it backwards on democracy

The survival of our democracy depends on the adherence to the Bill of Rights. Democracy never depends on banning any right guaranteed by the finest document ever put to paper.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is calling for more tech companies to ban more sites that he and his party disagrees with, like Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Pinterest, and Spotify have done to Infowars. Murphy says the survival of American democracy depends on it.

Murphy has it a** backwards: the survival of our democracy depends on our ability to express ourselves and defend ourselves against the tyranny of government, just like the tyranny of censoring free speech erodes democracy.

If it's Alex Jones today, who will it be tomorrow? Ben Shapiro?Sean Hannity? Robert Spencer? Pamela Geller?

Even the speech of Milo Yiannopoulos, which is as detestable as Alex Jones', should not be banned because the more these idiots talk, the more normal people can see their lies.

But Chris Murphy and his ilk are more dangerous than both Jones and Yiannopoulos.

"Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart," Murphy said. "These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it," he tweeted Monday.

Murphy never explains just who determines what are the lies. He also doesn't understand that free speech is not the speech we want to hear, but the speech we don't want to hear. It's a person's right to say whatever he wants to say and our right to not listen, to walk away, to disagree and use more speech to debate.

Speech that calls for violence or puts lives at risk is already illegal.

And no, Alex, we are not 'all Alex Jones'. Just because someone defends your First Amendment right to free speech, doesn't mean they like you or believe a word you say. You are a loathsome individual who deserves not to be taken seriously, but that's the only restriction that should be placed on your words.

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Dumb-o-crats see Vegas shooting as a great political opportunity

The bodies are still warm in Las Vegas after a shooter went all jihad, and the injured are still bleeding, but the Democrats immediately jumped on the anti Second Amendment bandwagon and called for gun control. It isn't time for gun control, it's time for mouth control. 

Just shut up! 

Those idiots don't even know the facts and they're already making this a political issue. What a bunch of morons. Tell us how more gun control would have prevented this lunatic from killing at least 50 and injuring at least 500 people.

We still don't know how the shooter, Stephen Paddock, 64, got his guns nor do we know if gun control would have had any effect on preventing the Las Vegas shooting.

Sen. Chris Murphy (Dimwit--CT) couldn't wait to issue a statement Monday morning claiming that "the thoughts and prayers of politicians are cruelly hollow if they are paired with continued legislative indifference." Murphy demanded Congress "get off its ass and do something," after the shooting.

What in the world could Congress have done that would have prevented this? It's obvious that asses shouldn't be calling others 'asses.'

Pocahontas also had to get into the act. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Duh--Mass.) also couldn't keep her forked tongue silent. "Tragedies like Las Vegas have happened too many times. We need to have the conversation about how to stop gun violence. We need it NOW." (Was she putting in a plug for National Organization for Women?)

But twice a loser and forever a cold-hearted miserable person, Hillary Clinton, was so insensitive that she attacked the National Rifle Association at a time when information on the shooting is low, people from the shooting are still dying (the death toll is now up to 58) and the NRA obviously has no connection to this shooting.

Abu-Hamza al Amriki: Is hoping for gun control

In a non sequitur she said, "Our grief isn't enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again," the phony anti-feminist wrote, putting politics first and foremost.

Clinton once again ensured the nation that we were correct in not allowing her to be elected for a job she is incapable of doing.

If these politicians wanted to take real action, they would first try to understand the motivation behind these terrorist attacks and go beyond the mindless so-called solution to a problem that isn't about making more laws to prevent the lawless from breaking those laws.


And the solutions need to go beyond reading from an index card our leaders pull from their breast pockets in their $5,000 suits about how they condemn the attack in the strongest possible terms.

Terrorists must laugh at those empty words.

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