M.A. Rothman

Some of you have been asking what book(s) to start with, here's a post to cover 4 primary answers depending on what you like -- there are lots more than just these, and all but one of these are multi-book series. If you're into traditional thrillers, then Perimeter and Multiverse are likely good book 1 choices, though if you ask me, I'd suggest starting with Perimeter because they're related series. Darwin's Cipher is a medical thriller and Primordial Threat is a heavy on the science and mildly futuristic Science Fiction Thriller. Below are the basic descriptions: 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫: (geni.us/Gn1TlOA) Levi Yoder is a man who solves problems—Mafia problems. But when he’s diagnosed with terminal cancer, there’s nothing left to fix. He prepares to die… until the impossible happens—he learns that he's in complete remission. Before he can make sense of his second chance, Levi is thrust into a deadly game of international espionage. The CIA claims the Russian mob is gunning for him, but the truth is even more dangerous—someone wants him dead because of something his late wife did. As Levi navigates a web of deceit, organized crime, and shadowy intelligence forces, he faces an enemy he might not be able to outmaneuver. Can he uncover the truth before he and his family become collateral damage? 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞: (geni.us/3zby0R) 𝐌𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐞’𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞 What if your greatest scientific breakthrough became humanity’s biggest threat? Michael Salomon, a brilliant particle physicist, has just unlocked the secrets of tachyons—faster-than-light particles that could rewrite the laws of reality. But before he can even share his discovery, his research is seized by the government, and a stranger—one who knows his future—warns him that his work has already shattered time itself. A waking nightmare grips him: visions of a child he hasn’t lost—yet. A government that now hunts him. A student who remembers things they haven’t done—yet. Michael’s experiment didn’t just open a door; it shattered the walls between past, present, and future. Now, he must race against time—before the version of himself that already went too far dooms them all. From a 𝐔𝐒𝐀 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 best-selling author, 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 is a high-stakes sci-fi thriller that bends time, twists reality, and asks the ultimate question: 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞? 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐰𝐢𝐧'𝐬 𝐂𝐢𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫: (geni.us/94LpxLR) A revolutionary discovery. A lethal new threat. A race against time to save humanity. In Darwin’s Cipher, brilliant cancer researcher Juan Gutierrez uncovers a hidden genetic algorithm that can predict the path of a species’ evolution over millennia. His breakthrough offers a tantalizing hope for overcoming human vulnerability to disease—but shadowy forces have their own sinister plans for this genetic super-tool. When an FBI analyst investigating bizarre, unsolved cases is called out to a ranch with a single surviving calf surrounded by dead cattle, the DNA evidence points to something far beyond the ordinary. Meanwhile, a newborn child with an impossible genome sets off alarms at the NIH—and the race to contain a nightmarish outbreak begins. From hidden labs to high-security bio-containment units, Darwin’s Cipher hurtles you into a nerve-shredding chase where science, conspiracy, and evolution collide—with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance. Prepare to question everything you thought you knew about our genetic destiny. 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭: (geni.us/ye6Y) The year is 2066, and the world is oblivious to the threat it faces. The fate of humanity lies on the shoulders of Burt Radcliffe, the new head of NASA's Near Earth Object program. He's been rushing the completion of DefenseNet, a ring of satellites that are both part of an early-warning system, as well as

You'd think this is an AI-generated photo, but it isn't. It's a closeup from a video and that's exactly what this dude said... What does this say about our society that we have people walking the streets thinking this is perfectly fine and normal -- and would get angry with anyone who disagrees.

𝗝𝗔𝗣𝗔𝗡 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗗𝗚𝗘𝗗 $𝟳𝟯 𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦 Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi walked into the Oval Office today knowing this was going to be a “very difficult” meeting. She walked out having handed America another $73 billion in investment commitments. That’s the second tranche of Japan’s $550 billion total pledge — a fund Tokyo set up to win a 15% tariff rate under the U.S.-Japan Framework Agreement Trump secured in 2025. The first tranche was $36 billion. Now it’s $73 billion more, focused on critical minerals and energy. This is what America First trade policy actually looks like in practice. Other countries aren’t getting a free ride anymore. You want access to the American market? You invest in America. Full stop. Meanwhile, Takaichi also confirmed Japan will join Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense initiative — a major strategic win for Indo-Pacific deterrence. And Japan just passed a record $58 billion defense budget for 2026, standing up military capabilities that protect the First Island Chain. The same media outlets that spent years telling you tariffs couldn’t work are now watching ally after ally line up to put real money into this country. Japan. South Korea. The EU. All pledging hundreds of billions. Trump’s critics called it “vaporware.” The checks keep clearing. nypost.com/2026/03/19/us-…

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𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗔 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗔 $𝟯𝟱 𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗕𝗨𝗗𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗦. 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦𝗢𝗠 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗧 $𝟭𝟭𝟰 𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗔 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗚𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦. This is not satire. In 2022, Gavin Newsom broke ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing — an overpass for animals spanning ten lanes of the 101 Freeway in Southern California. He promised to get it done for $92 million by 2025. It is now 2026. It is not done. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗴 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘁 $𝟭𝟭𝟰 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 — with roughly $77 million coming from California state funds. And what does Newsom want to do next? 𝗛𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 $𝟭𝟬𝟱 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲. Who’s running the show? 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘁 — 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁-𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮 “#𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗔𝗥𝗦” 𝗷𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 $𝟮𝟭 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘂𝗻, 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽’𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗳𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀. Her bio lists no previous construction experience. Meanwhile, 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 $𝟮.𝟵 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲–𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 $𝟯𝟱 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀. Los Angeles just burned. Californians can’t afford their homes, their insurance, or their groceries. And Gavin Newsom is bragging about a nine-figure overpass for cougars. This is a man who wants to run the country. nypost.com/2026/03/19/us-…

𝗪𝗔𝗥 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡: 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗜𝗦 𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗗𝗗𝗟𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗔 𝗠𝗜𝗗𝗗𝗟𝗘 𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗥 If war is supposed to drive investors into gold, why is gold getting hammered? 𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝟲.𝟱% 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟭𝟬% 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 — gold’s longest losing streak since 2023.  That’s a stunning reversal for assets that supposedly thrive on geopolitical chaos. The explanation is counterintuitive but important. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗶𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘃𝗲 $𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 — and stagflation fears kill rate-cut hopes. The Fed held rates steady Wednesday and signaled just one cut for the year, with Powell saying any reduction depends on slower inflation — and that’s a direct headwind for gold, which pays no interest.  On top of that, investors are liquidating gold to raise cash during a sharp global equity selloff — selling the one asset they can sell quickly to meet margin calls elsewhere.  Here’s the bottom line for anyone with gold exposure: 𝗝.𝗣. 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗬𝗘 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝗳 $𝟲,𝟯𝟬𝟬. 𝗗𝗲𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝘀 $𝟲,𝟬𝟬𝟬. 𝗕𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.  The structural case for gold hasn’t changed — central banks are still buying, deficits aren’t shrinking, and you now have a hot war with real oil supply implications baked in. This is a correction inside a bull market, driven by rate mechanics and liquidity demands — not a verdict on gold’s long-term value. Stay disciplined. Don’t let a war-driven volatility spike cause you to make panicked decisions in either direction. nypost.com/2026/03/19/bus…

𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗗 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗬𝗢𝗨, 𝗦𝗢𝗡. Yesterday, President Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine stood at Dover Air Force Base in solemn silence as six flag-draped caskets came home — Americans k!lled when a KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq during Operation Epic Fury. At this morning’s Pentagon briefing, Hegseth spoke about what he heard from those families. 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴: “Finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done.” Then he described what happened the night before, while preparing those very remarks. 𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝟭𝟯-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿. Hegseth looked at him and said: “They died for you, son. So your generation doesn’t have to deal with a nuclear Iran.” That’s not spin. That’s the weight of command distilled into one sentence spoken to a child. 𝗨𝗦 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝟳,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲. Hegseth said the campaign remains fully on schedule, every target assigned by the president, precise and within plan. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗾, 𝗔𝗛-𝟲𝟰 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻-𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀. Those are real stakes. Real Americans buried. Real enemies being dismantled. The left will mock the moment with his son as political theater. Let them. The families at Dover weren’t performing. And neither was Hegseth. nypost.com/2026/03/19/us-…

𝗝𝗢𝗘 𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗡’𝗧 𝗔 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗟𝗘𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥. 𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗔 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗥. Joe Kent resigned this week as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, issued a dramatic statement blaming Israel for dragging America into a war with Iran, and immediately became a darling of the anti-war right. There’s just one problem. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗕𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀. Three sources familiar with the case confirmed to Axios that Kent had been under FBI investigation for months on suspicion of leaking classified information — before he ever went public with his resignation.  A senior administration official previously told Fox News Digital that Kent was a “known leaker” who had been cut out of intelligence briefings months before his resignation.  Read that again. The man who had access to America’s most sensitive counterterrorism intelligence — who reported directly to Tulsi Gabbard — was already suspected of compromising that intelligence. And he’s framing himself as a principled dissenter. Kent himself acknowledged what was coming: “I understand the way I left and writing the letter that there’s parts of this administration that are going to have to come after me and try and discredit me.”  That’s not the language of someone with a clean conscience. That’s someone who knew the investigation was there and tried to get ahead of it with a splashy resignation letter. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝘂𝗽 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗹𝘆: “I always thought he was weak on security.”  The anti-war crowd will keep celebrating Kent as a hero. But you don’t get to leak classified information for months, get caught, and then resign with a manifesto and claim the moral high ground. The investigation predated the resignation. The motive is obvious. The hero narrative is dead. nypost.com/2026/03/19/us-…

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𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗚 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗢𝗕𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗘. 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗧’𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine confirmed today at the Pentagon: A-10 Warthogs are now hunting and k!lling Iranian fast-attack boats in the Strait of Hormuz.  At the same time, Apache helicopters are striking Iranian-aligned militia groups in Iraq to suppress threats against U.S. forces.  Let that sink in. The aircraft the Air Force has been trying to retire for years — the plane Pentagon bureaucrats called a relic — is right now dismantling Iran’s navy one speedboat at a time. As of today, U.S. forces have destroyed more than 120 Iranian vessels and 44 mine-laying ships.  Iran tried to close the world’s most critical oil chokepoint. Instead they handed the U.S. military a live-fire training ground — and we’re using a 50-year-old aircraft to obliterate their fleet. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. The A-10 can loiter for hours, identify fast-moving small craft, and prosecute them with precision — exactly the mission Iran handed us in the Strait.  Congress blocked the retirement. The military deployed it. And now Iran is watching its naval forces get systematically erased by an aircraft that wasn’t supposed to exist anymore. The Strait of Hormuz will reopen. And the Warthog will have earned its place in history one more time. 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝘄𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲. nypost.com/2026/03/19/wor…

𝗙𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 — 𝗠𝗨𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗗𝗩𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗦 Markwayne Mullin’s nomination for Secretary of Homeland Security just cleared committee — 8 to 7 — with Democrat John Fetterman providing the decisive vote. That’s not a bipartisan courtesy. That’s a Pennsylvania Democrat looking at the current threat environment and deciding he’s not going to play party politics with border security and national defense. 𝗙𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗱 — 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘄𝗮𝘆. Mullin now goes to the full Senate for confirmation. With the Strait of Hormuz in crisis, Operation Epic Fury underway, and DHS in the middle of one of the most consequential moments in recent history, the Senate needs to move fast. Kristi Noem is out. The job needs to be filled. Every day of delay is a day DHS operates without confirmed leadership during a shooting war. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀.

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗦 — 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗜𝗧’𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡’𝗦 The UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan just issued a joint statement condemning Iran’s attacks on commercial vessels, civilian oil and gas infrastructure, and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This isn’t a strongly worded tweet. This is six major allied nations — including non-NATO Japan — standing together and calling out Iran by name for mining the strait, launching drone and missile attacks, and threatening global energy supply chains. They invoked UN Security Council Resolution 2817. They called for an immediate moratorium on attacks on civilian infrastructure. They welcomed the IEA’s emergency release of strategic petroleum reserves. And they explicitly said they’re ready to contribute to efforts ensuring safe passage through the Strait. 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗮 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲. Iran tried to use the Strait of Hormuz as a weapon — threatening roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply. Instead, they’ve unified the Western alliance, triggered an IEA emergency response, and handed the United States and Israel a coalition that legitimizes every next move. The regime thought choking the strait would fracture the West. It did the opposite. 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆.

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𝗚𝗨𝗧𝗙𝗘𝗟𝗗 𝗢𝗡 𝗡𝗬𝗖'𝗦 $𝟴𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗣𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡: 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘. 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗗. New York City spent roughly $81,000 per homeless person last year. Not on the homeless person. On the system built around them. Shelter operations, administration, security, healthcare, social programs, and the nonprofit executives who run it all — pulling salaries between $600,000 and a million dollars a year. Gutfeld ran the numbers. For $81,000 annually you can rent a one-bedroom apartment in a decent neighborhood, cover food, transportation, utilities, healthcare, and internet — with money to spare. So why are people still sleeping on the street? Because the money isn't designed to solve the problem. It's designed to fund the people who manage the problem. Since 2019, spending has tripled. Next year the city projects $97,000 per person. The homeless population hasn't shrunk. It's grown. And nobody running this system has lost their job, taken a pay cut, or been held accountable for a single failure. Gutfeld's diagnosis is the one the city's defenders hate most: this isn't incompetence. Calling it incompetence lets the crooks off the hook. It's a deliberate grift. Bureaucrats take your tax money, funnel it to nonprofits whose executives get rich, and the problem never gets solved — because a solved problem means the money stops. Every person sleeping on a subway grate is a budget line. Every mentally ill person deteriorating on a city corner is job security for someone with a beach house. The city's controller blamed the problem on "larger migration patterns not under the city's control." Gutfeld's response is the correct one: you don't get to spend $81,000 per person and then claim the problem is out of your hands. New York has some of the most expensive real estate in the world, some of the highest taxes in the country, and more homeless people than most American cities combined. The people running this system don't want it fixed. A fixed problem is an unemployed bureaucrat. And the beach house isn't going to pay for itself. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲'𝘀 𝗸𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

𝗚𝗨𝗧𝗙𝗘𝗟𝗗 𝗢𝗡 𝗡𝗬𝗖'𝗦 $𝟴𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗣𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡: 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘. 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗗. New York City spent roughly $81,000 per homeless person last year. Not on the homeless person. On the system built around them. Shelter operations, administration, security, healthcare, social programs, and the nonprofit executives who run it all — pulling salaries between $600,000 and a million dollars a year. Gutfeld ran the numbers. For $81,000 annually you can rent a one-bedroom apartment in a decent neighborhood, cover food, transportation, utilities, healthcare, and internet — with money to spare. So why are people still sleeping on the street? Because the money isn't designed to solve the problem. It's designed to fund the people who manage the problem. Since 2019, spending has tripled. Next year the city projects $97,000 per person. The homeless population hasn't shrunk. It's grown. And nobody running this system has lost their job, taken a pay cut, or been held accountable for a single failure. Gutfeld's diagnosis is the one the city's defenders hate most: this isn't incompetence. Calling it incompetence lets the crooks off the hook. It's a deliberate grift. Bureaucrats take your tax money, funnel it to nonprofits whose executives get rich, and the problem never gets solved — because a solved problem means the money stops. Every person sleeping on a subway grate is a budget line. Every mentally ill person deteriorating on a city corner is job security for someone with a beach house. The city's controller blamed the problem on "larger migration patterns not under the city's control." Gutfeld's response is the correct one: you don't get to spend $81,000 per person and then claim the problem is out of your hands. New York has some of the most expensive real estate in the world, some of the highest taxes in the country, and more homeless people than most American cities combined. The people running this system don't want it fixed. A fixed problem is an unemployed bureaucrat. And the beach house isn't going to pay for itself. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲'𝘀 𝗸𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

$81K to Adopt a Homeless Person

𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗜𝗥 𝗙𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗨𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗟𝗜𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗡. 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗪𝗢𝗡. Brian and Katy Wuoti are a pastor and homeschooling mother in Vermont. They fostered children during the opioid crisis when the state had more kids in care than available homes. They adopted two brothers from the foster system. For years their relationship with Vermont's Department for Children and Families was, by every account, a success. In 2022, Vermont introduced a new policy requiring foster parents to affirm gender ideology — telling children they can change their sex, using requested pronouns. The Wuotis told the state they would love any child who walked through their door. They would not tell a child that God made a mistake. Vermont revoked their license. Another family, Bryan and Rebecca Gantt — who specialize in children with special needs and had adopted three from the foster system — had their license revoked for the same reason. At the time, they had just agreed to take in a newborn whose mother struggled with addiction. That baby needed a home. The state turned the Gantts away anyway. In a state where children have slept on police station floors for lack of foster families. Here is the detail that makes this story cut deepest. Katy Wuoti herself experienced gender dysphoria as a child. She knows firsthand what the research confirms: the majority of children who experience these feelings find peace with their bodies if given time, support, love, and the freedom to grow. She wasn't speaking in theory. She was speaking from her own life. And the state of Vermont decided her experience, her faith, and her love weren't good enough. The Wuotis sued Vermont in 2023 with the help of Alliance Defending Freedom. In February 2026 — after more than three years of litigation — Vermont finally agreed to rescind its decision, allow them to reapply for their license, and end its discriminatory policy. They won. But they should never have needed a courtroom. Similar policies remain in Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington. The Trump administration has sent warning letters to those states that their policies violate the First Amendment and federal funding guidelines. The Wuotis close their account with a question that should haunt every American: if the government can declare a family unfit to foster a child because they believe sex cannot be changed — how long before the government decides they are unfit to raise their own biological children? That question has already been partially answered. In 2023, the California legislature passed AB 957, which would have made a parent's refusal to affirm a child's gender identity a formal factor in custody determinations — effectively allowing courts to remove children from parents who held the same beliefs as the Wuotis. Elon Musk called it plainly: 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘺. Newsom vetoed it. But even without the law, California courts operating under existing "best interests" standards can and do treat parental non-affirmation as a factor in custody decisions. The bill was vetoed. The legal climate it reflected was not. Vermont stripped a foster license. California tried to write it into statute. The next step writes itself. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴. dailysignal.com/2026/03/18/los…

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𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗪𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗧 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗦 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 "𝗣𝗥𝗢-𝗗𝗥𝗨𝗚 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚." 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘'𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗟 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗔 𝗦𝗔𝗬𝗦. Representative Jasmine Crockett declared on television that Donald Trump is "one of the most pro-drug trafficking presidents in modern-day history" — because federal drug trafficking prosecutions have declined since he took office. That sounds damning. It isn't. It's what happens when someone mistakes a single statistic for an argument without stopping to ask what that statistic actually means. Here's the question she didn't ask: why would prosecutions fall? There are two possible explanations. 𝗢𝗻𝗲: law enforcement stopped caring about drug traffickers. 𝗧𝘄𝗼: significantly fewer drugs are entering the country to be trafficked in the first place. Let's look at what the data actually shows. The CDC — the Centers for Disease Control — confirmed that drug overdose deaths fell by nearly 27% in 2024. That is the largest single-year decline in overdose deaths ever recorded in American history. More than 81 lives saved every day. Their most recent data through late 2025 shows the trend continuing — another 17-19% decline. We are now at the lowest overdose death numbers since 2019. Fentanyl trafficking at the southern border is down 54-56% compared to the same periods in 2024. Border encounters overall are down 92-95% from the Biden peak. Under pressure from the Trump administration, Mexico conducted the largest fentanyl seizure in its history — 1,500 kilograms — and arrested over 6,000 drug traffickers. In July 2025, Trump signed the HALT Fentanyl Act, permanently classifying all fentanyl analogs as Schedule I drugs — something Congress had been delaying for years. So let's be direct about what Crockett's argument requires you to believe. It requires you to believe that an administration that sealed the border, cut fentanyl trafficking by over half, presided over the largest drop in overdose deaths in American history, signed new permanent fentanyl scheduling legislation, and pressured Mexico into its largest ever cartel crackdown — is somehow "pro-drug trafficking" — because the number of federal prosecutions went down. When you stop the drugs at the border, fewer drugs reach American streets. When fewer drugs reach American streets, there are fewer trafficking cases to prosecute. Fewer prosecutions is not evidence of pro-drug policy. It is the logical consequence of successful interdiction. Crockett also claimed cartel members love Trump because they can get pardons from him. She provided zero evidence. Not one named cartel member. Not one documented case. Just an assertion delivered with confidence and accepted without a single follow-up question. This is not policy analysis. It is a soundbite designed for a clip, built on a statistic stripped of all context, delivered to an audience Crockett is counting on not to check her work. 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦'𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗴𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱. 𝗜𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼-𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗴 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗴 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲.

REP. CROCKETT: "International drug traffickers love Donald Trump because they know that even if they are arrested, it's easy enough to get a pardon from him." "The data shows that Donald Trump is one of the most pro-drug trafficking presidents in modern-day history." "It was never about protecting Americans. It was never about bringing democracy to Venezuela. It was never about stopping illicit drugs from entering the country. Like everything else this administration does, it was about corruption."