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In 2014, Marco Rubio reminded the world that Ukraine had given up the third-largest nuclear arsenal on the planet in exchange for security assurances under the Budapest Memorandum — and he insisted the United States would support Kyiv for as long as necessary. Rubio in 2025 sounds very different. Now he is pressuring Ukraine to make concessions to Moscow and hand over territory without any real security guarantees.

New video shows police body slam a 16-year-old student to ground—kneel on his back and punch him over and over. Officer then drags him away by his dreadlocks—after he's already handcuffed. Family has now filed a lawsuit. He suffered a concussion—plus severe emotional trauma. Maurice Williams said he is afraid to go outside now—and is even considering cutting his dreadlocks to feel safer. He has hired renowned civil rights attorney John Burris who is best known for representing Rodney King. "One of the things that we dealt with in the Rodney King case, that he had a hard time coming to grips with in his life... and he ultimately cut short his life." "He couldn't get over the images he could see everyone talk about all the time." Officer Bianca Camacho has been "administratively reassigned" within the Fairfield Police Department pending an investigation. The incident occurred on the campus of Fairfield High School in Solano County, California.

Word of the day: “screwworm.” The parasite has been moving north throughout Central America and Mexico. The USDA puts the closest confirmed cases ~25 miles south of the US-Mexican border. For many in the cattle industry, it’s a case of when rather than if it reaches the US.

🔴 Kushner’s $500M Belgrade project crashes in scandal. In 2024, backed by billions from Saudi Arabia & others, Jared Kushner struck a sweetheart deal with Serbia to turn the former Yugoslav military HQ into a Trump-branded luxury hotel & residences. The deal included: ➤ A 99-year lease for free ➤ Option to convert it to full ownership — at no cost ➤ Trump himself stood to profit from it. 🚨 The problem? The site is a protected cultural landmark under Serbian law. The Serbian govt rushed to change the law in November — triggering mass youth protests. Thousands formed a human shield around the site. Then came the collapse: ➤ Top Serbian officials charged with forgery & corruption ➤ Massive public backlash ➤ Kushner’s firm abruptly pulled out In the end: ▪️ $500M frozen in a failed vanity project ▪️ Saudi & Gulf funds paid millions in fees to Kushner just to sit on that cash ▪️ No project. No profits. Just global embarrassment. 💸 Corruption, influence, Trump ties — and nothing to show for it.

While Russia bombs Ukraine and kills civilians, President Trump is bizarrelysending a delegation to a conference in Russia to discuss economic development.   I challenged Secretary Rubio today to explain why we would send any U.S. official to a such an event designed to prop up Putin's war machine.

UPDATE: Dulce Diaz was in fact a U.S. citizen and the Trump admin has now acknowledged the fact and issued her a passport. Below was DHS’s angry (and utterly false) claim to the contrary. Proof that, yes, ICE has at times detained US citizens in error.

Bryce Mitchell on Trump's White House UFC fight: Our government is desecrating its role in society by entertaining sports. Our government is to protect and serve the people. Our tax dollars and resources are funding this operation. The government is supposed to protect us, not entertain us.

🚨BREAKING: In Chicago, ICE agents were filmed hitting the car of a U.S. citizen, assaulting a bystander who was filming, pointing a taser at innocent people, and driving away before local police could even verify their identities. And we’re supposed to believe they’re making our communities safer. The video shows ICE agents chasing a man through Albany Park. Two agents grab him and rip his shirt off during the chase, while one of the agents drops a fully loaded magazine… and leaves it there. The man manages to get away and runs across a street, where cars are stopped at a red light. An ICE agent then drive a black SUV into a U.S. citizen’s vehicle in an attempt to cut off the man running. The man is eventually surrounded by agents, when one agent suddenly grabs the man and aggressively throws him to the ground, as multiple agents immediately pile on top of him as he screams for help. As this is happening, residents begin recording what they are witnessing. That’s when another agent enters the scene with his taser already drawn. Despite another agent already standing next to a person filming, he walks directly toward the bystander, shoves them backward, and screams, “Back the fuck up.” The person filming isn’t attacking anyone… or interfering with the arrest. In fact, you can see them nodding and saying “okay.” Yet, the agent continues advancing toward them with a taser. Which all raises some serious first and fourth amendment concerns. And let’s talk about the woman whose car was hit… Her vehicle gets run into, during a federal operation… and then they threatened to arrest HER. And afterward, local police told her they were not given proof of the agents’ identity at the scene. One officer reportedly said, “[The agents] didn’t want to show us proof of that,” when speaking to the woman whose car was hit. AND THEN, according to reporting from the scene, one of the ICE agents had a Jerusalem cross sticker on the back of his phone. The Jerusalem cross is a Christian symbol dating back to the Crusades that has more recently gained popularity among some far-right and white supremacist groups. Maybe that’s something DHS would like to explain. So, if federal agents can crash into civilian vehicles, leave loaded ammunition in public streets, point tasers at bystanders, and aggressively confront, and assault, people exercising their constitutional rights… Then the people holding the cameras aren’t the problem. The cameras are documenting the problem.

CONGRESS IS SELLING OUT AMERICA TO ISRAEL 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Congress SILENTLY Moves to Merge the U.S. and Israeli Militaries Section 224 of the 2027 NDAA hands one Pentagon executive agent the job of SYNCHRONIZING U.S. and Israeli forces across AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, and biotech. The provision calls for "network integration" and "data fusion." Strip the jargon and it means America's military data becomes Israel's data. The same bill grows Israeli weapons plants in Mississippi and Arkansas. Those jobs are a leash, and the lawmakers holding districts full of them will never vote no again. A NYT/Siena poll this month found only 16% of Americans want weapons sent to Israel with no new limits. Congress is doing the opposite of what the country asked for, and the committee votes on this JUNE 4th. Handing a foreign army ALL YOUR DATA and your factory floor is not an alliance. It is surrender.