The Trump administration has directed two intelligence agencies to train their satellite surveillance capabilities on the U.S.-Mexico border region as part of a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration and drug cartels.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which are part of the Department of Defense, oversee spy satellites and analyze imagery for the Pentagon and other intelligence organizations.

Their engagement, coupled with troop deployments, shows increasing militarization of the southern border, where President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency.

Reuters could not determine whether the effort, which has not been previously reported, would gather imagery of U.S. territory.

Asked by Reuters about their roles in border surveillance, the NGA said it had created a task force to coordinate its “support to the U.S. border mission,” while the NRO said it was partnering with the intelligence community and Pentagon “to secure U.S. borders.”

Their participation is in response to sweeping executive actions by Trump aimed at stopping unauthorized border trafficking and crossings, as well as deporting those in the United States illegally – estimated to be up to 14 million people.

The White House and Defense Department did not respond to a request for comment. Trump made immigration enforcement a central part of his campaign that catapulted him to the presidency Jan. 20.

While the government has deployed artificial intelligence and drone surveillance at the border for years, the latest initiative seeks to expand the use of military capabilities generally built for conflict overseas.

The government could use AI to identify objects or persons of interest by sifting through satellite images and other data feeds, much like the Defense Department can do on the battlefield, said two sources familiar with the initiative.

Though Reuters could not determine the exact scope of this effort, the new focus on the border could force the administration to grapple with safeguards against collecting intelligence on Americans, three experts said.

While laws generally restrict U.S. spy agencies from surveilling citizens and other legal residents, they allow immigration authorities to conduct physical searches “within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States.” Regulations have defined this as 100 air miles from the border – an area including cities such as San Diego and El Paso.

“If they follow the law, these agencies should only collect on the other side of the border in foreign territory,” said Paul Rosenzweig, a lawyer who specializes in national security and privacy law. “But how they implement that, and if they do, are legitimate oversight questions.”

A spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the government’s lead unit for integrating spy efforts, told Reuters that all intelligence activities are “legal and authorized” and conducted “in a manner that protects the civil liberties and privacy of U.S. persons.”

The NGA and NRO declined to detail what they are collecting and whether such surveillance could include U.S. territory, citing the need to protect operational details. The NGA works on a wide array of efforts including mapping features of the Earth and informing commanders of the exact location of U.S. forces and adversaries.

Reuters could not ascertain whether any other U.S. intelligence agencies would be involved in the effort. The Central Intelligence Agency has no role in domestic immigration enforcement. “Once foreign criminals are inside the United States, they are not within the purview of the CIA,” a third source said.

Digital Wall’

The Trump administration has elevated border security in its ranking of national intelligence priorities, allowing the government to direct more resources to it, one of the sources said.

In a separate annual threat assessment released Tuesday, the U.S. intelligence community ranked transnational criminals such as drug-trafficking organizations among top national security threats – listed above those posed by North Korea, Iran and other foreign adversaries.

In addition, the National Security Council, an interagency group that advises the president on a range of defense and foreign policy matters, has received daily briefings on immigration detentions numbers, including the arrest of unaccompanied children, according to internal government documents reviewed by Reuters.

Multiple defense contractors – new and legacy ones alike – are in talks with various government agencies to aid the border-security work, building on existing deals they have, said the two sources aware of the initiative.

The contractors’ work would require navigating legal boundaries, including creating security policies to prevent unlawful checks on Americans, the sources said.

Industry software also could connect sensor towers to satellite and drone video feeds showing at-risk areas, and then AI could flag leads to authorities, these sources said.

A “digital wall” to augment the border’s physical one would be the goal, said one of the sources.

For instance, data analytics provider Palantir powers the so-called Maven Smart System for the Pentagon, via contracts it won last year valued at about $580 million. Maven pulls together data and uses AI to speed up target identification for intelligence analysts. Palantir has long worked with the Department of Homeland Security as well.

Anduril, a defense tech startup, designs sensor towers and related software. Last fall, the company announced it had deployed 300 autonomous versions of these towers for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, detecting and tracking objects of interest through radar and other technology.

In recent months, Palantir, Anduril, Elon Musk’s SpaceX and other newer contractors have discussed a consortium to jointly bid for U.S. defense deals and outcompete the Beltway’s legacy players, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Palantir and Anduril spokespeople declined to comment. SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment.

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There’s an awful lot of outrage on the news and social media from transgenders and transexuals.  They’re claiming that President Trump’s support of a two-sexes description of humanity is putting them in danger.  Some are calling for violence against anyone who tries to stop a man, dressed like a woman, from entering ladies’ rooms.  Others are threatening to assault anyone who uses the “wrong” pronoun when addressing them.  We’ve seen videos of confrontations between trans people and those who refer to them by their true sex.  Tik Tok is replete with video warnings and death threats against people who dare to defy this new definition of reality.

All of the above is tantamount to using brute force to terminate common sense.  Therefore, if a bearded man, wearing a dress, stockings, and high heels, walks up to you and introduces himself as Mary, you may be risking a punch in the face if you display shock or confusion.  Moreover, if you address him as “Sir,” you could end up dodging bullets.

This is where liberal orthodoxy has taken us in just a few decades.  During a saner time in our history, if we had heard that a man, wearing lipstick and a long blonde wig, had been caught frequenting a lady’s room, he’d soon be doing time in a place where men might appreciate his newfound feminine identity.

Aside from the obvious vulnerability of women and little girls, when men feel free to invade those private areas, there’s also the danger of causing disruption to the psyche of impressionable children.  If they were indoctrinated to believe that it’s safe to be alone with adult men in private rooms, cars, and other isolated areas, they might become easy targets for pedophiles and sex-traffickers.  It seems to me that it’s more important to protect the lives of women and children than it is to defend the self-image of those with gender dysphoria.  In the popular comedy television series M*A*S*H, there was a character named Corporal Klinger who dressed like a woman in an attempt to prove he was mentally ill so he could get a Section 8 discharge from the military.  Of course, that was during an era of common sense.

Sadly, we’ve entered an era in which every form of behavior, regardless of how bizarre, is expected to be more than tolerated, to be warmly embraced.

The famous British author J.K. Rowling recently said, “It seems that, in order for a transgender-identified man to be comfortable and authentic, everyone in the vicinity must abandon their freedom of speech and belief to accommodate his identity.”  As expected, Ms. Rowling is being pilloried by those left-wing radicals who formerly were stalwart advocates of free speech.

Furthermore, for trans people to label their critics with epithets like “transphobic” or “hater” is a transparently deceptive tactic to align themselves with racial or ethnic groups that have faced bigotry.  The fact is that no one is forming gangs of thugs to hunt them down.  No one is trying to force them to conform to societal standards.  And no one is plotting to eradicate them.  Most people mind their own business until someone threatens their safety or the safety of their family.

If a guy wants to wear a dress and take hormones to feminize the modulation of his voice, there’s no law to stop him.  Nevertheless, just as this country is free enough to allow even the oddest of behaviors, it is also free enough to allow dissent from those who aren’t comfortable with same.  Ultimately, we all enjoy the right to be who we are, but not the right to force others to embrace or applaud who we are.

To once again quote Ms. Rowling, “If a person’s happiness and self-esteem resides entirely on whether or not they can compel everyone around them to lie, whether out of fear or pity, I would respectfully suggest they are unlikely to have a very comfortable life and are about as far from being ‘authentic’ as it is possible to be.”  The trans community should heed the wisdom of her advice.

Bob Weir, American Thinker

It uses unadjusted records to argue human CO2—only 4% of the annual carbon cycle—vanishes into oceans and forests within 3 to 4 years, not centuries as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims. During the 2020 COVID lockdowns, a 7% emissions drop (2.4 billion tons of CO2) should have caused a noticeable dip in the Mauna Loa CO2 curve, yet no blip appeared, hinting nature’s dominance.

Robert Malone, M.D., Malone News

You have to respect that, the guy did win. It’s more than half the country… you can not like Trump, you can hate him, but you can’t hate everybody who voted for him… I don’t hate half the country and I don’t want to hate half the country,” Bill Maher said.

Maher’s attitude differs from most Democratic voters I have encountered. Most Democratic voters loathe people who voted for Trump. In my observation, anti-Trumpers vacillate between raw hatred of Trump voters and a childlike refusal to accept that anyone could have voted for him. Viewing themselves as enlightened, objective and well-informed, these poor bewildered saps are 100 percent the product of a media that entirely manufactures a false narrative about the characteristics of Trump positions and the wide variety of reasons people have voted for him three times, in some cases. Democratic voters are so unhinged about Trump, they seem not to have noticed how their own openly socialist and fascist candidates have taken on positions differing little from history’s greatest murdering sociopaths, like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

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Here’s another unhinged Democrat inciting violence: @RepJasmine Crockett says you should “punch” your opponents, then says Senator @tedcruz “has to be knocked over the head, like, hard.”

Of course this freak is violent. She’s a Communist and a fascist, and violence is what Communism and fascism are all about. My question is: Why are people who threaten violence even permitted to hold office?

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The media of the Democratic Party is excited about AOC becoming their new leader.

If AOC is the last hope of the Democratic Party, what does it say about the Democratic Party?

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“They tried to kill us… They tried to sterilise us.”

Dr. Naomi Wolf exposes Pfizer’s “intentional attack” on women and babies.

“They killed the babies, and they knew it. They poisoned the breast milk, and they knew it… They lowered the sperm count, and they knew it.”

“This is satanic on a massive level… the fact that they knew they were doing this, which—if you read the Pfizer papers—you cannot conclude otherwise.”

Dr. Naomi Wolf, Wide Awake Media

The Trump administration is reportedly pausing millions in federal funding for Planned Parenthood, essentially defunding the abortion giant, while it reviews whether any of the money was spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were set to receive approximately $120 million this year, with the money earmarked for pregnancy testing, evaluation, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infertility counseling, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the move Tuesday.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order shortly after taking office in January eliminating federal DEI efforts, and a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) told Reuters that “HHS is reviewing grantees to ensure compliance with President Trump’s executive orders.”

The money is reportedly distributed by HHS’ Title X program, with the $120 million being about half of the funding available to the program for this year. Under the program, roughly four million people access services through a network of around 4,000 clinics.

“The Trump-Vance-Musk administration wants to shut down Planned Parenthood health centers by any means necessary, and they’ll end people’s access to birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and more to do it,” Planned Parenthood Federation of America President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson told the Journal.

Democrats in Congress also slammed the administration’s move to halt the funding.

“Fundamentally, we are talking about the Trump administration cutting off very basic and lifesaving health care,” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said, according to The Washington Times. “Title X has long had bipartisan support, and I hope every one of my colleagues who support basic, cost-saving family planning services will speak out against this illegal hijacking of lifesaving funding women across America are counting on for health care.”

Trump said Tuesday that he may direct the Justice Department to bring criminal charges against Planned Parenthood officials for allegedly trafficking in aborted fetal tissue.

“I think you are talking about a subject that’s been a heated subject, and we’ll look into it,” Trump told reporters when asked about probing the fetal harvesting allegations. “We’ll look into everything, but that’s certainly a subject that’s been debated for a long time, and we will look into it.”

In 2015, an anti-abortion activist group released undercover videos that showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing how to abort a fetus to best preserve its organs for biomedical research, as well as negotiating the sale of aborted fetal tissue.

In one case, a Planned Parenthood representative joked about wanting a Lamborghini with the undercover anti-abortion activists, who were posing as researchers.

After the videos were released, Planned Parenthood’s then-President Cecile Richards reportedly sent an 11-page letter to members of Congress, admitting that affiliates had accepted payments of up to $60 per “tissue specimen” obtained through abortion, but claimed they were cost reimbursements, which are permitted under federal law.

In her letter, Richards also admitted that “adjustments that facilitate fetal tissue donations rarely occur at a few of our clinics that offer women this service.

The Trump administration is reportedly pausing millions in federal funding for Planned Parenthood, essentially defunding the abortion giant, while it reviews whether any of the money was spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were set to receive approximately $120 million this year, with the money earmarked for pregnancy testing, evaluation, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infertility counseling, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the move Tuesday.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order shortly after taking office in January eliminating federal DEI efforts, and a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) told Reuters that “HHS is reviewing grantees to ensure compliance with President Trump’s executive orders.”

The Trump administration is reportedly pausing millions in federal funding for Planned Parenthood, essentially defunding the abortion giant, while it reviews whether any of the money was spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were set to receive approximately $120 million this year, with the money earmarked for pregnancy testing, evaluation, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infertility counseling, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the move Tuesday.

Newsmax

It’s no secret that Barack Obama was the most divisive president of our lifetime—especially when it came to race. Who can forget the chaos and racial resentment that boiled over during his time in office, as he led the country down a path of confusion, division, and unrest?

Obama was the absolute opposite of unity—and sadly, to this day, we’re still paying the price for the division he sowed.

This is Obama’s legacy on race relations in America:

Even Fox Business ran a report on Obama’s catastrophic record on race relations—eight years ago.

It all started with the Trayvon Martin case, when Obama made matters worse by inserting himself into the controversy. Instead of cooling tensions, he poured fuel on the fire by suggesting that Trayvon—a known bully and thug by all honest accounts—“could have been my son.”

VIDEO AT LINK……………….

Yes, Barry—and sadly, considering what we all know about you now, that’s probably the most accurate description of your hypothetical “son” yet.

But that was just the beginning for Obama.

Little did we know back then, he’d go on to spend his entire tenure dividing the nation and fueling chaos, confusion, and unrest. From Trayvon Martin to BLM to George Floyd—and every firebombed city in between—it felt like once Obama grabbed the reins, America transformed into one massive, slow-burning riot.

So how did it all come to be?

Well, if you ask national security experts like Mike Benz, it wasn’t that difficult. In fact, it was pretty slick. According to Benz, the key piece of the puzzle is a government-backed organization you’ve probably heard a lot about lately: USAID.

Mike believes Obama funneled money through USAID to bankroll his street-level chaos right here in the U.S.—playing a calculated game of financial cat and mouse across offshore accounts and the shady banking alleys of the Cayman Islands.

Of course, it’s worth noting that there’s no concrete or independently verified evidence from official government records, audits, or mainstream investigations to confirm this as fact. But that’s exactly how corruption works. If it were easy to audit and trace, it wouldn’t be a successful corruption racket—now would it?

Here’s Mike Benz explaining on Joe Rogan’s show exactly how he believes Obama used USAID to fund his “rent-a-riot” racket in the US.

HOLY CRAP

Obama pretended to send USAID money to aid foreign countries but was actually funneling it to Cayman Islands to be used for “Rent-a-Riots” pic.twitter.com/3VN70jiIlr— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 23, 2025

This latest news is concerning to say the least—but let’s be honest, it’s not exactly shocking, is it? The company Obama keeps tells you everything you need to know about his life—and his intentions.

Take a look:

This might also explain why the Left is absolutely losing it over the DOGE’s investigations into fraud and waste. They’re not just poking around paperwork—they’re raiding the riot and election slush funds that have kept the Dem machine humming for years.

Now that USAID has been shut down, the Left is being forced to personally fund the destruction of America. And let’s just say—they’re not enjoying the price tag.

We’ll leave you with this meme—it sums up most of America’s problems in one perfect snapshot.

Revolver News, Staff

• U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced plans to open more land for oil and gas drilling in Alaska and remove restrictions on building an LNG pipeline and mining road
• This follows President Donald Trump’s order to boost energy development in the state
• Burgum said the government will reopen 82 percent of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve for leasing and allow drilling on 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

WASHINGTON, D.C.: U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has announced plans to open more land for oil and gas drilling in Alaska and remove restrictions on building an LNG pipeline and mining road.

This follows President Donald Trump’s order to boost energy development in the state.

Burgum said the government will reopen 82 percent of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve for leasing and allow drilling on 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). He also lifted restrictions on land near the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and Dalton Highway, allowing Alaska to move forward with the Ambler Road and Alaska LNG Pipeline projects.

“It’s time for the U.S. to use Alaska’s rich resources to support the nation’s economy, including Alaskans,” Burgum said.

Drilling in Alaska’s Arctic region has been controversial. Some lawmakers and tribal corporations want more drilling to create jobs, while past Democratic administrations have aimed to protect the environment. A lease auction in January, required by Congress, failed to attract any energy company bids.

Alaska’s Republican leaders, including Governor Mike Dunleavy, have pushed to reverse Biden-era restrictions on resource development. Some Indigenous groups, like the Kaktovik Iñupiat Corporation, welcomed the decision, saying it supports their right to develop their land.

However, environmental groups strongly opposed the move, arguing it threatens wildlife like caribou and polar bears and contributes to climate change. “Expanding oil drilling in the Arctic is harmful to people, wildlife, and the climate,” said Carole Holley of Earthjustice’s Alaska office.

Oil companies remain cautious, as future political changes could once again block drilling in the region.

Robert Besser

Quite the statement, eh? Let me explain. I’m well into my 60s and for my entire adult life I’ve heard that public school teachers are underpaid. It has been repeated as a mantra for decades.

Ignoring for a moment whether it is true or not — and the answer to that is generally, it depends — let’s accept the mantra and analyze why public-school teachers are still underpaid after all these years.

It’s not spending. As most voters know, it seems that every stinking year there is some ballot initiative or measure or legislative move to increase spending for our woefully underfunded public-school systems. It never seems to end. There doesn’t seem to ever be a point of “we’re good.”

Total nationwide spending on public K-12 education is approaching a trillion dollars! In most states, public K-12 education consumes around 50% of the entire state budget. Nationwide, we now spend an average of $17,000 per student per year. In New York it is $33,000! Yet teachers remain underpaid.

The Department of Education’s spending has gone from just under $11 billion in 1980 to a high of almost $193 billion in 2010 to last year’s spending of $158 billion. Yet teachers remain underpaid.

The number of administrators versus teachers has exploded — “The number of district administrators in U.S. public schools has grown 87.6 percent between 2000 and 2019 compared to student growth at 7.6 percent and teacher growth at 8.7 percent.” And many (most?) of the administrators make more than teachers. Yet teachers remain underpaid.

Remember when technology was going to transform public education? We’ve spent billions on classroom technology and what have test scores done? At best stayed flat, in many cases they went down.

Rather than throwing away all those billions on technology — projected to increase to over $132 billion by 2032 — which has had no discernable impact on education outcomes, why wasn’t it spent to help out the underpaid teachers? Every teacher out there could probably be making an additional $10,000 to $20,000 in annual salary. In all likelihood this would have led to better educational outcomes than wasting it on unnecessary, ineffective technology. Yet it wasn’t and teachers remain underpaid.

Here in my hometown, the local school district is spending hundreds of millions of dollars tearing down functioning schools and building new ones. They say the schools are old but in the neighborhood I live, many of the houses were built in the 1960s yet no one is tearing them down. In fact, they are in great demand.

I’ve worked as a management consultant for decades and I can assure you there isn’t a for-profit business in the country whose boss says, “Well, things aren’t looking good so we are going to have to tighten our belt.  So, we’re going to tear down our building and build a new one!” Never happens because it doesn’t make sense. Yet it is happening in school districts across the land at the same time we continue to hear the sad lament that teachers remain underpaid.

So, no matter how you slice it, spending has gone through the roof over the years yet teachers are still underpaid? This is where the stupidest creatures on the planet analysis comes from.

Do you see a pattern here? Public-school teachers — and generous taxpayers — have been played as saps for decades. And you all just accepted it. No, in fact you all in general wholeheartedly supported it.

And thus, my accurate description of public-school teachers being some of the stupidest creatures on the planet. Don’t shoot the messenger just because it is true.

You all have been the somewhat willing victims of a terrible joke that has gone on for over 50 years. 

The teachers unions (NEA and AFT) have done a terrible disservice to teachers — and society at large — for decades. The unions are pretty good at getting Democrats elected but not so good at actually operating as a union for teachers.

Sadly, the unions are an integral part of the Democrat machine, not really “teachers” unions at all. Instead, they take the teacher’s money via dues — and more importantly, their incredible political power — and use them in forced servitude to the Democrat party. A machine that clearly doesn’t want to pay teachers more because they like having an army of disgruntled folks who can be quite effective at getting Democrats elected. 

Get that? The evidence is overwhelming they don’t want to pay you more. They want the issue and you underpaid foot soldiers forever. As Forrest Gump would say, stupid is what stupid does.

In the for-profit world, a primary job of a union is to attempt to grab a bigger share of the profits from the shareholders and put it in their members pockets.

If the teachers unions are actually attempting to do so — and it sure doesn’t look like it — they are poor at doing much of anything in helping raise teacher’s pay. But don’t blame the unions, blame the brain-dead liberal teachers who actively support this slavery to the Democrat machine and subsequent wage depression. The vast majority of you are willing participants. When you live by the rule of the tribe above all else, don’t be crying to others because the tribe is using you all like a dirty dishrag.

You can get into a rage over the evil conservatives yet it isn’t conservatives who are holding you back. It is your blind, mistaken belief your education unions are fighting for you rather than accept the harsh, quite obvious reality they don’t really give a damn about you other than to give them political power. You seem to have forgotten the power is yours by your numbers, not theirs.

Now, I’d rather we allow the citizens who earned this money to keep it, but if we are going to spend it anyway, I’d rather raise teacher pay by tens of thousands of dollars — and as the above shows, the money is there. This at least has a chance of actually impacting kid’s educational outcomes.

But I won’t be holding my breath, because history shows public K-12 teachers are some of the stupidest creatures on the planet.

John Conlin is an expert in organizational design and change. He also holds a BS in Earth Sciences and an MBA and is the founder and President of E.I.C. Enterprises. He has been published in American Greatness, The Federalist, The Daily Caller, American Thinker, the Houston Chronicle, the Denver Post, and Public Square Magazine among 

You have to respect that, the guy did win. It’s more than half the country… you can not like Trump, you can hate him, but you can’t hate everybody who voted for him… I don’t hate half the country and I don’t want to hate half the country,” Bill Maher said.

Maher’s attitude differs from most Democratic voters I have encountered. Most Democratic voters loathe people who voted for Trump. In my observation, anti-Trumpers vacillate between raw hatred of Trump voters and a childlike refusal to accept that anyone could have voted for him. Viewing themselves as enlightened, objective and well-informed, these poor bewildered saps are 100 percent the product of a media that entirely manufactures a false narrative about the characteristics of Trump positions and the wide variety of reasons people have voted for him three times, in some cases. Democratic voters are so unhinged about Trump, they seem not to have noticed how their own openly socialist and fascist candidates have taken on positions differing little from history’s greatest murdering sociopaths, like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

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Here’s another unhinged Democrat inciting violence: @RepJasmine Crockett says you should “punch” your opponents, then says Senator @tedcruz “has to be knocked over the head, like, hard.”

11¹111Of course this freak is violent. She’s a Communist and a fascist, and violence is what Communism and fascism are all about. My question is: Why are people who threaten violence even permitted to hold office?

Michael J. Hurd