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June 02, 2025
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News...

Illegal alien terrorist attacks elderly Jews with Molotovs at Colorado hostage vigil
An Egyptian national who overstayed his visa under Biden assaulted a peaceful pro-Israel gathering in Boulder using Molotov cocktails while shouting pro-Hamas slogans. Six elderly victims were hospitalized, and the FBI is treating it as a terrorist attack.

Trump commends Elon Musk as he departs from DOGE: 'Americans owe him a great debt of gratitude'
"He's one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced," Trump said. "He stepped forward to put his very great talents into the service of our nation, and we appreciate it."

Axios: Patel and Bongino's choppy transition from roasting the FBI to running it
Patel's and Bongino's recent Fox News interviews, and sources familiar with their reception inside the bureau, make clear the difficulties they face in maintaining confidence with three key audiences: their fans, their employees, and the president.

Civil rights watchdog threatens to sue USDA for continuing to discriminate against white farmers
Whistleblowers have accused the agency of providing loan relief under former President Joe Biden based on race.

New docs reveal how FBI insiders buried evidence of Spygate crimes
Nellie Ohr isn’t a new name in the Russiagate saga, but newly released documents from Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office shatter the fiction that she was just a low-level researcher and reveal her as a key conduit between Clinton operatives, the DOJ, and the FBI.

LA mayor used this lone home to claim she’s cutting red tape for wildfire victims — but owner says he’s had to fight at every turn
Mayor Karen Bass used Walter Lopes’ Pacific Palisades home as a prop to pat herself on the back for helping the neighborhood rebuild after the January wildfires.

Illinois advances high-speed rail study as federal officials cite California failures
Illinois is studying high-speed rail to link cities like Chicago and St. Louis as the federal government reviews California's delayed and over-budget rail project.

Demonic ‘Annabelle’ doll ‘safely back’ in custody after claims it escaped, caused havoc in NOLA
The haunted doll toured New Orleans days before a prison break and a historic plantation fire, sparking conspiracy theories despite handlers insisting it was never out of control and remained under priestly supervision.

Teen arrested after 121 car break-ins freed in 5 hours as police blast ‘broken system’
Maryland cops found stolen keys and loot from over 50 cars at the 16-year-old’s home, but juvenile officials let him go anyway — leaving the police chief fuming and crime victims footing the bill.

Politics...

Biden lashes out at reporters, claims he could 'beat the hell' out of journalists who exposed mental decline
Joe Biden told reporters he’s mentally fine and physically capable — so much so that he could physically take on the journalists who wrote about his cognitive collapse.

Devine: Jill Biden’s ‘work husband’ Anthony Bernal may have played a key role in covering up Joe’s cognitive decline
What is becoming clear is that the social-climbing former first lady and the aide she calls her “work husband,” Arizona-born former child actor Anthony Bernal, played a bigger role in this con job than previously has been acknowledged.

Bill Clinton insists Biden was in ‘good shape’
“I saw President Biden not very long ago, and I thought he was in good shape,” said Clinton. “I had never seen him and walked away thinking, he can’t do this anymore.”

Trump’s Budget Chief Responds To Elon’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Critique
"This bill doesn't increase the deficit or hurt the debt."

Sen. Rick Scott calls for more budget cuts to restore ‘fiscal sanity’ into Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill
The Florida senator warned that without bigger spending reductions, U.S. debt could hit $60 trillion in a decade, slamming the current bill’s 1.7% cut as nowhere near enough.

Vast majority of Americans don’t see Dems as a party with strong leaders that get stuff done: CNN poll
Only 16% of Americans say Democrats have strong leadership, while 40% say Republicans do — and GOP also leads on getting things done, as voters express growing frustration with government failure.

Tampon Tim tells Democrats to ‘bully the s**t’ out of Trump
“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner, a little bit more fierce," the failed VP candidate told a crowd.

Dems silent as Cory Booker gives 'Nazi salute' at California convention
This is as clear of a Nazi salute as you'll ever see.

Rep. Jerry Nadler’s staffer detained for harboring rioters
“The Trump administration is trying to intimidate members of Congress,” said Nadler, who was previously named as the smelliest member of congress. “They’re behaving like fascists. We have to fight them. We don’t want to be a fascist country.”

Chuck Todd mocks Democrats for needing ‘anthropologists’ to understand white male voters
The ex-NBC host slammed his party for spending 15 years marginalizing white men, then acting shocked when that bloc abandoned them — calling their late scramble to connect “pathetic” and out of touch.

Economy...

Trump, triumphant, celebrates historic US Steel-Nippon deal in Pittsburgh
In addition, the president announced that the tariff on steel would double from 25% to 50% in order to "help" the steel industry. Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro cheered Trump's actions, saying it will help protect high paid union jobs.

Washington state caps rent hikes at 10% through the end of the year
Rent control always works out well.

Immigration...

Supreme Court clears Trump to deport 500,000 Biden parole migrants
The high court sided with Trump, lifting a lower court's block and allowing him to end Biden's CHNV program, which let 30,000 foreign nationals a month enter the U.S. despite widespread fraud and no legal basis to stay.

Biden admin ‘ignored or dismissed’ more than 7,000 reports of trafficking migrant kids
The Biden administration “ignored or dismissed” more than 65,000 reports related to migrant children — including more than 7,300 reports of human trafficking, according to details of a Department of Health and Human Services summary released by Sen. Chuck Grassley.

Boston ICE agents forced to retreat from murder suspect arrest after activists blew their cover
Anti-ICE activists intervened and obstructed the officers, with one individual later posting a video online bragging about running the agents out of the area.

Another Democrat compares ICE to Nazis who 'terrorize people' in the night
"This is Gestapo-like behavior," Congressman Dan Goldman claimed. "Plainclothes officers wearing masks are terrorizing immigrants who are doing the right thing by going to court, following up on their immigration proceedings, and trying to come into this country lawfully, which is through asylum."

More than 130 retired judges urge federal court to drop charges against Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan
In an amicus brief filed Friday, the group of judges argue that Dugan shouldn't be prosecuted because "she is entitled to absolute immunity for her official acts."

Huge ICE sweep busts 100+ illegal aliens at Florida worksites
Governor Ron DeSantis, who has pledged to support the Trump administration's deportation efforts, called the operation a "major bust."

NYC councilwoman brags she spent $10K on dental work for illegal aliens, demands taxpayers do the same
Upper West Side Democrat Gale Brewer said she’s paid thousands for illegal aliens' dental bills and scolded city officials for not doing more to fund migrant health care — even as critics say her own district is being ignored.

COVID...

FBI's investigation on COVID cover-up zeroing in on three separate plots
The bureau is investigating three major COVID scandals: China’s hidden virus origins, the deletion of federal data, and political tampering with vaccine approvals — driven by whistleblowers, court wins, and internal emails showing a coordinated effort to mislead the public.

WAR News...

Trump-hating Pentagon employee arrested for trying to hand US secrets to foreign government
A Defense Intelligence Agency staffer with top-secret clearance was busted after allegedly trying to trade classified intel for citizenship abroad, claiming Trump’s presidency was "extremely disturbing" and not worth staying in America for.

Middle East...

MAGA Influencers Target Israel — and Trump
As Trump moves to crush campus anti-Semitism and confront Iran, he’s battling not just the left, the U.N., and globalist institutions — but also some MAGA influencers and insiders peddling Hamas-aligned propaganda and undermining his Middle East policy from the inside.

GHF proves IDF did not shoot at innocent Gazans at aid distribution sites
News channels such as CNN and BBC still have false reports of 31 Gazans killed by IDF fire as their headlines, despite GHF's video evidence.

Ukraine - Russia...

Ukraine wipes out dozens of Russian doomsday nuclear bombers in massive surprise attack on air bases
Officials claimed they had destroyed more than one-third of Russia’s strategic bombers in the strike.

China...

Harvard Has Trained So Many Chinese Communist Officials, They Call It Their ‘Party School’
From Politburo members to Xi Jinping’s daughter, generations of CCP elites have passed through Harvard — earning it a reputation in China as the regime’s premier foreign training ground.

Massive 19-state operation shatters Chinese sex-trafficking networks
Chinese organized crime is fueling a $5 billion-per-year sex-trafficking empire in the United States, operating numerous illicit massage parlors where 75,000 victims are enslaved and traumatized.

Europe...

Soccer riot in Paris leaves 2 dead, nearly 600 arrested after Champions League win
After a French team won Europe’s top soccer tournament, celebrations turned into chaos with more than 200 cars torched, cops and firefighters attacked, and hundreds injured.

British Airways flight attendant goes missing on superjumbo A380 jet, found naked and dancing in bathroom
A male flight attendant was found naked and dancing in a business class bathroom mid-flight as colleagues accused him of going on a drug-fueled bender.

Entertainment...

Anthony Weiner Mesmerizes 'The View' Gasbags Who Don't Seem To Mind He's A Registered Sex Offender
Leave it to the bozos in "The View" audience to give registered sex offender Anthony Weiner, who spent 18 months in prison after being convicted of sexting with a 15-year-old girl, a round of applause after the politician declared that he's a changed man and can help society as a politician in the Democratic Party.

Media...

Nothing in AP’s Presidential Records Act hit piece on Trump is true
A federal records expert torched the AP’s claim that Trump is hiding records, revealing instead that no administration, including Biden’s, follows digital archiving laws — and that the real scandal is a broken, politicized National Archives.

CNN: The ‘R-word’ is back. How a slur became renormalized.
Editor's note from CNN: This article features language that may be hurtful to readers.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Gallup: Record Party Divide 10 Years After Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Republican support has dropped as the left has pushed more and more extreme LGBT policies, such as trying to normalize sex changes for children and having boys in girls' sports and roaming girls' locker rooms.

Oregon Girls Turn Backs On Medal Ceremony With Trans-Identifying Competitor
"We did it because someone has to say this isn’t right."

Education...

Obama judge blocking Trump’s Harvard efforts was previously overturned by SCOTUS for pro-Harvard ruling
Allison Burroughs, who just blocked Trump’s move to defund Harvard over anti-Semitism and national security failures, is the same judge the Supreme Court overruled for backing Harvard’s unconstitutional race-based admissions.

Bill Maher supports Trump's war on Harvard: 'I’ve been s**tting on Harvard long before he was'
“It’s because Harvard is an a**hole factory in a lot of ways that produces smirking f**k faces,” Maher says.

Health...

White House scrambles to fix RFK Jr.'s 'MAHA' report after fake citations, broken links exposed
The administration claimed “formatting issues,” but the report featured citations to studies that don’t exist — undermining a key health initiative led by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and billed as “historic.”

Religion...

Egypt seizes land from 1,500-year-old Orthodox monastery, Greek archbishop calls it a threat to Christianity
The head of Greece’s Orthodox Church slammed Egypt for ruling that Saint Catherine’s Monastery no longer owns its surrounding land, accusing the government of trying to erase a vital Christian site and breaking promises to protect it.

AI...

For Some Recent Graduates, the AI Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here
The unemployment rate for recent college graduates has jumped as companies try to replace entry-level workers with artificial intelligence.

Meta hands over risk reviews to AI, cuts out humans on 90% of decisions
Meta is replacing human oversight on content and safety with AI-driven auto-approvals for major product changes — including those affecting kids, privacy, and misinformation — allowing faster rollouts with less scrutiny.

Science...

America’s scientific institutions lost their soul when they kicked out God
Once rooted in faith, science has been hijacked by dogmatic secularism, leaving students adrift in a worldview that denies meaning, identity, and purpose. It’s time to restore the harmony between Scripture and science.

Animals...

Cat poop parasite may be nuking male fertility, new study finds
This parasite is stereotypically associated with crazy "cat ladies" on account of the parasite's presence in cat feces — cats are its only known definitive hosts — and its association with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and suicidal behavior.

250 million bees unleashed upon Northern Washington after truck overturns
A semi hauling 70,000 pounds of honey bee hives overturned near the Canadian border, sending a massive swarm into the air as crews scrambled to recover the queens and avoid stings.

June 2, 2011 - Anthony Weiner sends a picture of his... What word got Stu in trouble?... Is Coldplay behind the new pro-Palestinian pop song?... Why do people who have made it in America turn on capitalism so quickly?... Ben Shapiro on the show...

Trump's proposal explained: Ukraine's path to peace without NATO expansion

ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Contributor | Getty Images

Strategic compromise, not absolute victory, often ensures lasting stability.

When has any country been asked to give up land it won in a war? Even if a nation is at fault, the punishment must be measured.

After World War I, Germany, the main aggressor, faced harsh penalties under the Treaty of Versailles. Germans resented the restrictions, and that resentment fueled the rise of Adolf Hitler, ultimately leading to World War II. History teaches that justice for transgressions must avoid creating conditions for future conflict.

Ukraine and Russia must choose to either continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

Russia and Ukraine now stand at a similar crossroads. They can cling to disputed land and prolong a devastating war, or they can make concessions that might secure a lasting peace. The stakes could not be higher: Tens of thousands die each month, and the choice between endless bloodshed and negotiated stability hinges on each side’s willingness to yield.

History offers a guide. In 1967, Israel faced annihilation. Surrounded by hostile armies, the nation fought back and seized large swaths of territory from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. Yet Israel did not seek an empire. It held only the buffer zones needed for survival and returned most of the land. Security and peace, not conquest, drove its decisions.

Peace requires concessions

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says both Russia and Ukraine will need to “get something” from a peace deal. He’s right. Israel proved that survival outweighs pride. By giving up land in exchange for recognition and an end to hostilities, it stopped the cycle of war. Egypt and Israel have not fought in more than 50 years.

Russia and Ukraine now press opposing security demands. Moscow wants a buffer to block NATO. Kyiv, scarred by invasion, seeks NATO membership — a pledge that any attack would trigger collective defense by the United States and Europe.

President Donald Trump and his allies have floated a middle path: an Article 5-style guarantee without full NATO membership. Article 5, the core of NATO’s charter, declares that an attack on one is an attack on all. For Ukraine, such a pledge would act as a powerful deterrent. For Russia, it might be more palatable than NATO expansion to its border

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Peace requires concessions. The human cost is staggering: U.S. estimates indicate 20,000 Russian soldiers died in a single month — nearly half the total U.S. casualties in Vietnam — and the toll on Ukrainians is also severe. To stop this bloodshed, both sides need to recognize reality on the ground, make difficult choices, and anchor negotiations in security and peace rather than pride.

Peace or bloodshed?

Both Russia and Ukraine claim deep historical grievances. Ukraine arguably has a stronger claim of injustice. But the question is not whose parchment is older or whose deed is more valid. The question is whether either side is willing to trade some land for the lives of thousands of innocent people. True security, not historical vindication, must guide the path forward.

History shows that punitive measures or rigid insistence on territorial claims can perpetuate cycles of war. Germany’s punishment after World War I contributed directly to World War II. By contrast, Israel’s willingness to cede land for security and recognition created enduring peace. Ukraine and Russia now face the same choice: Continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

The loneliness epidemic: Are machines replacing human connection?

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Seniors, children, and the isolated increasingly rely on machines for conversation, risking real relationships and the emotional depth that only humans provide.

Jill Smola is 75 years old. She’s a retiree from Orlando, Florida, and she spent her life caring for the elderly. She played games, assembled puzzles, and offered company to those who otherwise would have sat alone.

Now, she sits alone herself. Her husband has died. She has a lung condition. She can’t drive. She can’t leave her home. Weeks can pass without human interaction.

Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

But CBS News reports that she has a new companion. And she likes this companion more than her own daughter.

The companion? Artificial intelligence.

She spends five hours a day talking to her AI friend. They play games, do trivia, and just talk. She says she even prefers it to real people.

My first thought was simple: Stop this. We are losing our humanity.

But as I sat with the story, I realized something uncomfortable. Maybe we’ve already lost some of our humanity — not to AI, but to ourselves.

Outsourcing presence

How often do we know the right thing to do yet fail to act? We know we should visit the lonely. We know we should sit with someone in pain. We know what Jesus would do: Notice the forgotten, touch the untouchable, offer time and attention without outsourcing compassion.

Yet how often do we just … talk about it? On the radio, online, in lectures, in posts. We pontificate, and then we retreat.

I asked myself: What am I actually doing to close the distance between knowing and doing?

Human connection is messy. It’s inconvenient. It takes patience, humility, and endurance. AI doesn’t challenge you. It doesn’t interrupt your day. It doesn’t ask anything of you. Real people do. Real people make us confront our pride, our discomfort, our loneliness.

We’ve built an economy of convenience. We can have groceries delivered, movies streamed, answers instantly. But friendships — real relationships — are slow, inefficient, unpredictable. They happen in the blank spaces of life that we’ve been trained to ignore.

And now we’re replacing that inefficiency with machines.

AI provides comfort without challenge. It eliminates the risk of real intimacy. It’s an elegant coping mechanism for loneliness, but a poor substitute for life. If we’re not careful, the lonely won’t just be alone — they’ll be alone with an anesthetic, a shadow that never asks for anything, never interrupts, never makes them grow.

Reclaiming our humanity

We need to reclaim our humanity. Presence matters. Not theory. Not outrage. Action.

It starts small. Pull up a chair for someone who eats alone. Call a neighbor you haven’t spoken to in months. Visit a nursing home once a month — then once a week. Ask their names, hear their stories. Teach your children how to be present, to sit with someone in grief, without rushing to fix it.

Turn phones off at dinner. Make Sunday afternoons human time. Listen. Ask questions. Don’t post about it afterward. Make the act itself sacred.

Humility is central. We prefer machines because we can control them. Real people are inconvenient. They interrupt our narratives. They demand patience, forgiveness, and endurance. They make us confront ourselves.

A friend will challenge your self-image. A chatbot won’t.

Our homes are quieter. Our streets are emptier. Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

Before we worry about how AI will reshape humanity, we must first practice humanity. It can start with 15 minutes a day of undivided attention, presence, and listening.

Change usually comes when pain finally wins. Let’s not wait for that. Let’s start now. Because real connection restores faster than any machine ever will.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Exposed: The radical Left's bloody rampage against America

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For years, the media warned of right-wing terror. But the bullets, bombs, and body bags are piling up on the left — with support from Democrat leaders and voters.

For decades, the media and federal agencies have warned Americans that the greatest threat to our homeland is the political right — gun-owning veterans, conservative Christians, anyone who ever voted for President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden once declared that white supremacy is “the single most dangerous terrorist threat” in the nation.

Since Trump’s re-election, the rhetoric has only escalated. Outlets like the Washington Post and the Guardian warned that his second term would trigger a wave of far-right violence.

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing.

They were wrong.

The real domestic threat isn’t coming from MAGA grandmas or rifle-toting red-staters. It’s coming from the radical left — the anarchists, the Marxists, the pro-Palestinian militants, and the anti-American agitators who have declared war on law enforcement, elected officials, and civil society.

Willful blindness

On July 4, a group of black-clad terrorists ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Alvarado, Texas. They hurled fireworks at the building, spray-painted graffiti, and then opened fire on responding law enforcement, shooting a local officer in the neck. Journalist Andy Ngo has linked the attackers to an Antifa cell in the Dallas area.

Authorities have so far charged 14 people in the plot and recovered AR-style rifles, body armor, Kevlar vests, helmets, tactical gloves, and radios. According to the Department of Justice, this was a “planned ambush with intent to kill.”

And it wasn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a growing pattern of continuous violent left-wing incidents since December last year.

Monthly attacks

Most notably, in December 2024, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. Mangione reportedly left a manifesto raging against the American health care system and was glorified by some on social media as a kind of modern Robin Hood.

One Emerson College poll found that 41% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 said the murder was “acceptable” or “somewhat acceptable.”

The next month, a man carrying Molotov cocktails was arrested near the U.S. Capitol. He allegedly planned to assassinate Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

In February, the “Tesla Takedown” attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships started picking up traction.

In March, a self-described “queer scientist” was arrested after allegedly firebombing the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Graffiti on the burned building read “ICE = KKK.”

In April, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-Pa.) official residence was firebombed on Passover night. The suspect allegedly set the governor’s mansion on fire because of what Shapiro, who is Jewish, “wants to do to the Palestinian people.”

In May, two young Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Witnesses said the shooter shouted “Free Palestine” as he was being arrested. The suspect told police he acted “for Gaza” and was reportedly linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

In June, an Egyptian national who had entered the U.S. illegally allegedly threw a firebomb at a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado. Eight people were hospitalized, and an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor later died from her injuries.

That same month, a pro-Palestinian rioter in New York was arrested for allegedly setting fire to 11 police vehicles. In Los Angeles, anti-ICE rioters smashed cars, set fires, and hurled rocks at law enforcement. House Democrats refused to condemn the violence.

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In Portland, Oregon, rioters tried to burn down another ICE facility and assaulted police officers before being dispersed with tear gas. Graffiti left behind read: “Kill your masters.”

On July 7, a Michigan man opened fire on a Customs and Border Protection facility in McAllen, Texas, wounding two police officers and an agent. Border agents returned fire, killing the suspect.

Days later in California, ICE officers conducting a raid on an illegal cannabis farm in Ventura County were attacked by left-wing activists. One protester appeared to fire at federal agents.

This is not a series of isolated incidents. It’s a timeline of escalation. Political assassinations, firebombings, arson, ambushes — all carried out in the name of radical leftist ideology.

Democrats are radicalizing

This isn’t just the work of fringe agitators. It’s being enabled — and in many cases encouraged — by elected Democrats.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz routinely calls ICE “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attempted to block an ICE operation in her city. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents to a neo-Nazi group. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson referred to them as “secret police terrorizing our communities.”

Apparently, other Democratic lawmakers, according to Axios, are privately troubled by their own base. One unnamed House Democrat admitted that supporters were urging members to escalate further: “Some of them have suggested what we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” Others were demanding blood in the streets to get the media’s attention.

A study from Rutgers University and the National Contagion Research Institute found that 55% of Americans who identify as “left of center” believe that murdering Donald Trump would be at least “somewhat justified.”

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing. They don’t want the chaos to stop. They want to harness it, normalize it, and weaponize it.

The truth is, this isn’t just about ICE. It’s not even about Trump. It’s about whether a republic can survive when one major party decides that our institutions no longer apply.

Truth still matters. Law and order still matter. And if the left refuses to defend them, then we must be the ones who do.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

America's comeback: Trump is crushing crime in the Capitol

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Trump’s DC crackdown is about more than controlling crime — it’s about restoring America’s strength and credibility on the world stage.

Donald Trump on Monday invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and deploying the National Guard to restore law and order. This move is long overdue.

D.C.’s crime problem has been spiraling for years as local authorities and Democratic leadership have abandoned the nation’s capital to the consequences of their own failed policies. The city’s murder rate is about three times higher than that of Islamabad, Pakistan, and 18 times higher than that of communist-led Havana, Cuba.

When DC is in chaos, it sends a message to the world that America is weak.

Theft, assaults, and carjackings have transformed many of its streets into war zones. D.C. saw a 32% increase in homicides from 2022 to 2023, marking the highest number in two decades and surpassing both New York and Los Angeles. Even if crime rates dropped to 2019 levels, that wouldn’t be good enough.

Local leaders have downplayed the crisis, manipulating crime stats to preserve their image. Felony assault, for example, is no longer considered a “violent crime” in their crime stats. Same with carjacking. But the reality on the streets is different. People in D.C. are living in constant fear.

Trump isn’t waiting for the crime rate to improve on its own. He’s taking action.

Broken windows theory in action

Trump’s takeover of D.C. puts the “broken windows theory” into action — the idea that ignoring minor crimes invites bigger ones. When authorities look the other way on turnstile-jumping or graffiti, they signal that lawbreaking carries no real consequence.

Rudy Giuliani used this approach in the 1990s to clean up New York, cracking down on small offenses before they escalated. Trump is doing the same in the capital, drawing a hard line and declaring enough is enough. Letting crime fester in Washington tells the world that the seat of American power tolerates lawlessness.

What Trump is doing for D.C. isn’t just about law enforcement — it’s about national identity. When D.C. is in chaos, it sends a message to the world that America is weak. The capital city represents the soul of the country. If we can’t even keep our own capital safe, how can we expect anyone to take us seriously?

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Reversing the decline

Anyone who has visited D.C. regularly over the past several years has witnessed its rapid decline. Homeless people bathe in the fountains outside Union Station. People are tripping out in Dupont Circle. The left’s negligence is a disgrace, enabling drug use and homelessness to explode on our capital’s streets while depriving these individuals of desperately needed care and help.

Restoring law and order to D.C. is not about politics or scoring points. It’s about doing what’s right for the people. It’s about protecting communities, taking the vulnerable off the streets, and sending the message to both law-abiding and law-breaking citizens alike that the rule of law matters.

D.C. should be a lesson to the rest of America. If we want to take our cities back, we need leadership willing to take bold action. Trump is showing how to do it.

Now, it’s time for other cities to step up and follow his lead. We can restore law and order. We can make our cities something to be proud of again.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.