The federal government just told noncitizens who cast ballots in American elections that prosecutors are coming for them.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday it had charged 16 people in seven states with illegally voting, registering to vote through false citizenship claims, and related fraud, according to a press release from the department’s Office of Public Affairs. Many of the accused are noncitizens alleged to have voted in federal contests.
The department paired the filings with a blunt message on social media. “Let this be a warning to ANYONE trying to cheat and undermine our elections,” the DOJ wrote. “Spread the word!”
Prosecutors brought cases in Texas, Idaho, Georgia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Michigan, the DOJ said. Investigators working the files also turned up alleged wire fraud, passport and identification fraud, and unlawful firearm purchases.
These criminals allegedly voted in 2022 AND 2024 elections. Let this be a warning to ANYONE trying to cheat and undermine our elections. Spread the word! https://t.co/fkGs8eKitz
— DOJ Rapid Response (@DOJRR47) September 19, 2026
In Georgia, DOJ said Analiea Milliscent Eccles, a 44-year-old Venezuelan national and DACA recipient, voted nine times between 2008 and 2024 and now faces counts of voting as a noncitizen and falsely claiming citizenship. A federal grand jury in Boise indicted Idaho’s Avila Gomez, a Mexican national, on a stack of charges that includes wire fraud, passport fraud and firearm offenses after he allegedly voted in 2022 and 2024.
New Jersey’s Santana Coulibaly, a lawful permanent resident, registered in 2016, voted in 2018 and 2020, and submitted a provisional ballot last year, according to the department. Eight of the defendants live in Texas.
Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Fraud Division told Fox News the administration has now charged 50 noncitizens with illegal voting. “America’s elections are for Americans,” McDonald said.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Fox News investigators have topped 1,620 open cases, made 151 arrests, and are reviewing more than 300,000 suspected cases. “One is too many, but the fact that we have 300,000 cases we’re looking into right now and 1,620 cases that are under investigation, and 151 arrests is unacceptable,” Mullin said.
The department stressed the charges are accusations and every defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Britain is facing a potential slavery reparations lawsuit from Caribbean nations.
The issue is due to be raised at the Commonwealth summit hosted in Antigua in November, which the King is set to attend.
The Caribbean Community group confirmed last week it was ‘preparing to advance reparations on the agenda of the upcoming 28th Commonwealth heads of government meeting’.
Member countries have long demanded trillions in compensation for the slave trade, described by the UN this year as ‘the gravest crime against humanity’. Britain abolished slavery in 1834 throughout most of its empire, decades before the US did so.
The UK has long rebuffed reparations demands, with Downing Street saying: ‘The transatlantic slave trade was abhorrent. We fully recognise the strength of feeling.
‘The UK’s position is clear – we do not and will not pay reparations. The UK is committed to continued dialogue with all our partners on legacies of the past.’
But Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, is hosting a conference this week to discuss how to obtain compensation and has suggested legal action via the international courts as an option.
She said the reparations could be paid over generations, in the same way the British Government accrued debt to pay off slave owners over several generations.
Ms Mottley added: ‘We have no desire to bankrupt anybody, but we have a desire for justice.’
She also claimed the ‘white’ West’s refusal to pay reparations, while also acting with moral superiority, was hypocritical.
‘Those who want to preach morality, and those who want to tell us about good governance, who want to create the illusion of appropriateness, goodness, purity – the language associated with ‘white’ – are perpetrating a mockery,’ she said.
If pursued, the strategy would involve bringing a case to the International Court of Justice claiming Britain was breaching treaty obligations by not paying compensation.
The UK is a party to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The treaty states that reparations should be made for any examples of racial discrimination.
And the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination suggested last month that the convention should cover ‘reparation for acts of racial discrimination linked to the continuing consequences of historical injustices’.
As such, a UN member state could sue Britain on the grounds that it has breached this treaty.
The committee also recommended measures such as building statues of notable Africans to highlight the positive contributions of the diaspora globally, and expanding teaching about the slave trade in schools.
To assist possible legal claims, Ms Mottley announced that she had appointed a ‘technical committee’ to dig up economic evidence of the harms done to Barbados, which could then be presented in support of the case for redress.
Campaigners have stressed that reparations could take various forms, from development aid to support with healthcare, rather than simply a cash payment.
When the lights go down in the California town People are in for the evening I jump into my car and I throw in my guitar My heartbeat in time with my breathing
Driving over Kanan, singing to my soul There’s people out there turning music into gold
From singer John Stewart’s 1979 hit Gold.
People turning music into gold is a nice compliment about the recording industry and its quest to entertain the masses.
If I were to write a song about journalism, I would have to title it Feces. The reaction to Trump’s announcement that he reached an agreement with Denmark to control Greenland is a classic example of people spinning gold into, well, you know what.
On Friday, President Trump tweeted:
BREAKING NEWS: I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns.
There will be NO COST to the United States! At my direction, we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland, and the United States of America.
Additionally, from now on, no U.S. adversary can EVER have a base in Greenland, have a military presence in Greenland, or make sensitive investments in Greenland, without our express written approval.
For over 100 years, Presidents have known the strategic importance of Greenland, but NONE of them were able to do anything about it. I am proud to be the President that permanently and conclusively addressed this very important situation. This is an “Infinite Life” Agreement, there is no end! We are very honored and proud of what has just taken place, and everything agreed to today will be cherished by the American People.
We will immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland, of which there are many. We will work with the people of Greenland in its development and construction. This solution is a great one for the United States of America, Denmark, Greenland, and all of our Allies. We look forward to working with the wonderful people of Denmark and Greenland toward a magnificent future with respect to this large, and highly strategic, parcel of land. We will be very protective of it!
This is a dream come true for the United States of America, one that is very important, historic, and special. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
That is pretty big news. On Day 607 of his second presidency, Donald Trump has achieved what the press said was impossible.
This is an example of the press reaction then.
Rather than admit the pundits were wrong and Trump once again made a great deal, the press immediately began spinning gold into, well, feces.
The New York Times said, “U.S. Has Reached Security Deal on Greenland, Trump Says — The full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon.”
Trump’s tweet included details in 331 words.
It costs us nothing.
It is permanent.
It allows us to build military bases.
It gives us control of the frozen island.
Sky News, the CNN of Britain, tweeted, “Atlantic Council senior fellow Elizabeth Braw says ‘not very much’ has changed for Greenland after its new security deal with the U.S. and Denmark, but it gives Donald Trump ‘something to show the world.’”
Control of the largest island in the Arctic is a pretty big deal. If it were not, why would the press oppose it so much when Trump first announced his plan to acquire Greenland?
The Washington Post reported, “Trump hails Greenland security deal that falls short of takeover.”
Falls short. We just can do whatever we want militarily without having to feed its 56,945 inhabitants. Denmark spends 6+ billion Danish krone on the island or roughly $1 billion a year.
But there is a downside. Bloomberg reported, “U.S. Strikes Greenland Deal to End Row That Threatened NATO.”
Darn it. We’re still stuck with NATO.
The Atlantic piled a nice dung heap quickly, reporting, “The Greenland Fiasco Stumbles to an End.
“President Trump announced an agreement that appeared to satisfy all parties but came at a great cost.”
The media dismissed the acquisition of Alaska as Seward’s Folly.
The Atlantic story began, “Jesper Møller Sørensen, the Danish ambassador to Washington, projected an air of calm. He was serving hors d’oeuvres, including reindeer sausage and smoked salmon, at his residence, where American, Danish, and Greenlandic guests had gathered for a Wednesday event billed as ‘A Taste of the Arctic.’ On the terrace, he told me that months-long discussions about the future of Greenland were heading in a good direction. But, he warned, the outcome would depend on whether one person could be swayed.
“It was obvious that he was talking about President Trump, who has long coveted Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark. Trump has claimed that the United States needs the island for national security, at times declining to rule out using force to acquire it. When his rhetoric became more threatening earlier this year, the Danish armed forces flew emergency blood supplies and explosives to the island to prepare for a potential U.S. attack. The Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, warned that a U.S. invasion would mean that ‘everything ends’ for NATO—something of an understatement for a scenario in which one founding member of the alliance attacks another.”
Trump needs Greenland to build the Golden Dome that will protect the USA, just like the USA has protected Greenland since 1942.
In 1940, Denmark fought Germany bravely for six hours before capitulating. That left Greenland unguarded. A year later, FDR agreed with the Danish ambassador to defend Greenland. That was 8 months before Hitler declared war on the USA.
The press always seems to get Greenland wrong.
On January 19, 2023, Tony Heller tweeted this image.
And he said, “It is -65F in Greenland. CNN says Greenland is the warmest in at least 1,000 years.”
Also on Friday, Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. A reporter from NBC ragged him about some right of corporate America to roam the White House.
The president replied, “Our country has to have honest news. You know, you don’t have a country unless you have, as I say, borders, good voting, straightening them out. Borders are unbelievable. Nobody’s come into our country in the last 17 months illegally. But you need borders, and you need fair and free voting. And you know what you need? You need a free press. You need a fair press and an honest press.”
The evidence from just one of the Trio of Liars:
Trump’s complaints are legitimate. Consider how it messed up coverage of the assassination attempt.
That lie stayed up for two hours. This was not a mistake. This clearly was an attempt to play down a sniper’s bullet clipping his ear.
Trump fired CNN on Day 607.
It should have been Day 1 but he had bigger pigs to slaughter.
“Now with this deal in Greenland, coupled with the Venezuelan removal of Maduro, President Trump has secured the western hemisphere from any potential Chinese or Russian infiltration.”
The Donroe Doctrine.
Trump negotiated an excellent deal for the USA and I guess Greenland too. He spun ice into gold—a Golden Dome—and the press tried to spin it into brown snow.Subscribe
I picked We won’t have a next Dem president, and if we can actually secure elections and voting, we won’t for awhile. That party needs to be stripped to its bare bones or disbanded. They are a ridiculous joke.
And when the Mullahs are taken down, their nuclear threat removed, free navigation returns to the seas, and Iran joins the family of real nations as a result of Trump’s “war of choice” the disloyal Marxist press and their enablers in the once great democrat party will criticize the legitimacy, cost, and length of the war. They cannot be hated enough!
Have you been to the library lately? I bet you haven’t. I bet, unless you have young kids, you haven’t been there in 10 or 20 years, at a minimum. Why would you go when you have everything they offer available to you at home, either delivered immediately digitally, or the next day physically? It begs the question: why are we still paying for them?
Yes, the things in libraries are “free,” but sometimes free is too high a price to pay for something.
There are two types of libraries: the small ones in rural communities, and the large ones in major cities. The small ones are cesspools of left-wing propaganda – go to one and look at the children’s book section and you’ll see “graphic novels” that would put the Penthouse letters section to shame. There are drawings for kids that, if they were photographs, would be a crime.
But these are done under the banner of “diversity,” so they’re important and good…or something.
The big city libraries are glorified homeless shelters. It would be child abuse to bring your kid there without an armed guard. The smell of body odor and weed has tattooed itself to the books and walls, and whispers of “Quiet, please” have been replaced by grunting junkies if you happen to disturb their high.
What does the library offer that people need?
Used books are basically given away online and in local shops or garage sales, and they have no due date. Anything new can be bought cheap online or just digitally, requiring no space to store them.
I remember when they started carrying VHS tapes and DVDs, giving Blockbuster fits over the “free” competition. It was just a ploy to get people to go into them again. It worked for a while, then it worked out about as well as it did for Blockbuster.
Now, libraries are meeting places for Drag Queen Story Hour and deviant art that couldn’t make it anywhere merit mattered.
Librarians get taxpayer money to put on events, and they all end up being left-wing events. Why do conservatives vote to fund our opponents? Is it simply because voting against library funding would trigger some kind of nostalgia in people that doesn’t exist otherwise? They’re there, they exist, and people are free to go to them, but we don’t. Still, the prospect of them going away maybe triggers something in people they don’t want to let go of, even though they have no practical use for them.
It’s the mentality that fills boxes in basements with things we can’t get rid of but never see the light of day – sentimental value does not create usefulness or shelf space.
My wife will kill me for this, as she absolutely loves libraries, but even she comes away from trips with the kids there full of disgust over what the kids’ section is full of.
We should not be paying for it.
Sell the books, sell the buildings and the land, use the money to pay off debt or lower taxes, and recognize that the days of libraries are over. They weren’t necessarily rendered useless by the Internet, but by the people hired to run them.
The problem isn’t the concept; it’s the people. The politicians who must bring a left-wing agenda into everything they do and the librarians who can’t have a desk without a seizure-inducing “progressive” rainbow flag on it. The 40-year-old single white women angry at the world that all their abortions didn’t pay off with love, riches and happiness who’ve decided to take their pending fear of dying alone out on the societal norms they think they’re courageously standing up to. They’re the type of people who view agreement and conformity to a radical left-wing agenda as an act of rebellion.
We should stop paying them by eliminating the need for their jobs.
Shut it all down. History is full of things – businesses and organizations – that have outlived their usefulness. The library absolutely had its time and place, but that passed long ago. It’s time to call it a day and stop wasting money by funding our opponents. Maybe a new, online model can be created by the private sector – if there’s one thing to know about life is if there is an actual need or want, the private sector will fill it – or some left-wing billionaires can step up and pay for them. Otherwise, close them down, end the subsidized indoctrination and drug centers (watch this video for one example) and enjoy the savings.
The fabled “diploma divide” reveals a darker truth about a pervasive belief in a “right to rule” among Democrat elites.
The commentariat has made much lately of the fabled “diploma divide” in our politics and the propensity of “highly educated” voters to cast their ballots for Democrats. Their fascination with this statistic reveals a belief that the modern conservative movement – “America First,” “MAGA,” whatever you want to call it – is little more than a peasants’ revolt against the so-called elites who now dominate most of our institutions.
Democrats have never been particularly good at masking their disdain for Americans who don’t share their progressive sensibilities. Perhaps the most infamous example is Hillary Clinton’s 2016 remark about “deplorables.” But Barack Obama also smeared voters who are “bitter” and “cling to guns or religion,” while Joe Biden called Trump supporters “garbage” and various other Democrats have slandered Trump and his supporters as “racist” and “fascist,” ad infinitum.
The clear pattern that emerges is that liberal elites simply think that they are better than everyone else and thus have an inherent right to rule over them. This sentiment is why Sarah Longwell, publisher of the Bulwark, appeared recently on the Radio Atlantic podcast and declared: “The Republican Party has to be defeated, and I think MAGA specifically, I want to defeat it and then salt the Earth with its ashes.”
Such vitriol is the product of sheer loathing for ordinary Americans and reflects real fear that the Republican coalition is now building on the working-class base that defected from the Democrats in 2016.
Democrats hope to replace those voters with college-educated voters. But there’s a problem with that plan – college-educated voters are not all trending Democrats’ way. According to a Pew Research Center analysis, college grads went for the Democrat presidential nominee by 21 points in 2016 and 24 points in 2020, but only 16 points in 2024.
Even among white college grads, Democrats’ advantage declined from 17 points in 2016 to 15 points in 2020 and then 12 points in 2024. Meanwhile, Trump’s advantage among non-college educated voters steadily grew from seven points in 2016 to eight points in 2020 and 14 points in 2024.
The only educational group among whom Democrats enjoyed a consistently large advantage was voters with postgraduate degrees. They won this cohort by 37 points in 2016, 35 points in 2020, and 32 points in 2024.
In short, Democrats have bet the house on courting voters with advanced degrees – particularly those in nebulous fields such as “gender studies.” These degree-collectors took out loans for exorbitant sums to buy diplomas with no real economic utility. This is why we have as of late seen a groundswell of support within the Democrat Party for student loan forgiveness and “tax the rich” schemes that would redistribute wealth to this impoverished class of advanced degree holders.
The number one concern of this group of voters is locking the rubes out of power – starting with Donald Trump who, despite being a New York billionaire, has more than any other politician in recent memory channeled the frustrations of the working class.
Consequently, if the Democrats retake the House in November, they will impeach the President again. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who would likely become Judiciary Committee chairman, recently told NBC’s Meet the Press that Trump has “undoubtedly” committed impeachable offenses. This echoed a press release he issued last year discussing impeachment:
“Impeachment is a critical means of political and constitutional self-defense that the people have available to use against a lawless president who acts like a king and commits high crimes and misdemeanors against the people.”
Raskin was, of course, a major driver of the two previous Trump impeachments and was the lead House manager in the second Senate impeachment trial. The second trial was so farcical that Chief Justice John Roberts, who would normally preside over such proceedings, refused to participate.
A third impeachment would likely be just as ridiculous, but securing a conviction wouldn’t really be the point. The real object of the game would be to crush the morale of the peasants’ revolt against the brave new world established by the Obama and Biden regimes and only interrupted by Trump.
It is difficult to overstate the shock to the system that was caused by Trump’s 2016 victory. Hillary Clinton was Obama’s anointed successor, and she was meant to serve her two terms consolidating Obama’s nascent one-party autocracy. Thus, when the hoi polloi got above themselves and put Trump in the White House, his destruction became the primary objective of Washington’s self-appointed optimates.
The evidence for this was released to the public by then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on July 18, 2025:
“The issue I am raising is not a partisan issue. It is one that concerns every American. The information we are releasing today clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government. Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people.”
After months of investigation into the conspiracy, DNI Gabbard discovered that President Obama ordered DNI James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Secretary of State John Kerry, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Andrew McCabe to manufacture a fraudulent Intelligence Community Assessment based on the notorious Steele Dossier. This bogus assessment was used by these people as the basis for launching a years-long attempt to destroy Donald Trump’s presidency.
The same assessment was also used as the basis for the infamous Russia Hoax and the interminable Mueller investigation – which never found a scrap of evidence that Trump or any of his associates had colluded with Vladimir Putin to somehow rig the 2016 presidential election.
Despite having been thoroughly debunked, sections of the dossier were nonetheless used by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the pretext for launching the first impeachment inquiry and the 2020 impeachment trial. DNI Gabbard wrote this about the Obama cabal:
“Their egregious abuse of power and blatant rejection of our Constitution threatens the very foundation and integrity of our democratic republic. No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again. The American people’s faith and trust in our democratic republic and therefore the future of our nation depends on it. As such, I am providing all documents to the Department of Justice.”
All of which, oddly enough, brings us back to the diploma divide. What do Barack Obama, James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, and Andrew McCabe have in common? They are all “highly educated” elites with advanced degrees from Ivy League universities.
William F. Buckley famously said, “I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”
Buckley was obviously on to something. It is hardly a secret that most elite schools have become leftist indoctrination camps and their diplomas are nothing more than participation trophies. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in international relations and economics. Have you ever heard her discuss either topic without laughing aloud?
If the MAGA movement is a peasants’ revolt, power to the hoi polloi. The republic can’t stand any more “elites” like Barack Obama, Joe Biden, or their bumbling enablers.
If it wasn’t so serious, the latest Islamic attack on America’s Jewish and Christian foundation would be comical
As has been recounted by various American Thinker writers, the Islamic pernicious offense marches on, mostly unabated. The lack of serious pushback, to date, is scandalous.
Many if not all rabbis, of every Judaic denomination, assert that they do not want to infuse negativity into Jewish classes or religious services. But what about during the rest of the time? And it appears the Christian world has ignored this growing encroachment as well.
While our population is being coddled with a dearth of danger warnings, many Islamic youths and adults are trained in martial arts and inundated with continuing lies regarding Middle East history. Specifically maddening are the global lies that persist regarding the horrific events of the Hamas attacks against mostly Israeli civilians on October 7. Defying logic, after about 1,200 Israelis were gang-raped, burned alive, and murdered, and over 200 kidnapped, some already dead, their bodies paraded through the streets of Gaza as trophies, the world blamed and continues to blame Israel.
Islamic tactics do not change. Yesterday, September 19, 2026, was the day before the start of the Jewish most sacred religious holiday: Yom Kippur. For 24 hours, Jews do not eat or drink. They repent of anything they have done to hurt another human being and ask him and G-d for forgiveness.
However, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, a unique event occurred at the mammoth mall there, owned by the Simon Company. In an outside parking lot area, stretching for blocks, a halal food festival was permitted. Such an event is a first. The area was filled with what appeared to be over 100 tents, with merchants purportedly selling food and merch. Due to the configuration of the tents, and lines of people waiting to get in, it was impossible to know if propaganda materials were also present. People stood in line for blocks to enter, and more hijabs were worn than normally seen.
The most flagrant oddity is that for whatever reason, the mall permitted an event not previously open to any other group. Moreover, true to type, Muslims selected the halal festival date the day before the most sacred Jewish holiday.
America must wake up. All one needs to ponder is the creep of Islamic political growth occurring in the U.K.
For those who observe Yom Kippur, I trust you have an easy fast.
Iran has conveyed seven conditions to Washington for the start of any negotiations, Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei said Saturday, as President Donald Trump weighs whether to resume major attacks on Iran.
“The United States, if it wants to extricate itself from the predicament it has created, must accept Iran’s rights and conditions,” Rezaei wrote on X, saying the seven demands had been communicated to Washington.
He did not spell out all seven in the post. Earlier Saturday, however, Rezaei told Al Jazeera that Tehran was demanding an end to the war “on all fronts,” the release of frozen Iranian assets and an end to the US naval blockade as conditions for a settlement.
He said a Qatari mediator had conveyed Iran’s terms to Washington and that Tehran was awaiting Trump’s response.
Iran and the United States have remained engaged in indirect diplomacy throughout months of fighting and since the collapse of the Islamabad memorandum of understanding.
The memorandum, signed in June after Pakistan-hosted talks, was intended to halt the fighting and pave the way for a broader agreement. Both sides later accused the other of violations, and it expired in August without producing a lasting settlement.
Trump told Axios on Thursday that he had a “big decision” coming over whether to resume large-scale attacks on Iran, while saying Tehran remained in direct contact with Washington and wanted a deal. He is due to discuss the war with leaders of six Persian Gulf states in New York next week.
Pakistan, another key intermediary, is sending Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi to Tehran on Sunday. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the visit was focused on bilateral ties and previous agreements between the two countries and that he was not aware of any specific US message or proposal due to be conveyed.
Baghaei acknowledged Pakistan’s continuing mediation role, saying it was natural for Islamabad to pursue diplomatic efforts, but said he had no information about any particular initiative attached to the visit.
Rezaei meanwhile struck a harder military tone, saying Iran had changed its strategy toward Washington after the United States withdrew from the memorandum. He said Tehran had recently tested an anti-ship missile near a US aircraft carrier and claimed Iran was better prepared to confront American air attacks after identifying weaknesses in the US military.
Nuclear pressure
On nuclear policy, Rezaei said Tehran remained committed to the late supreme leader’s fatwa against nuclear weapons and had not changed its nuclear doctrine, though he added that “we do not know what will happen in the future.”
He said Israeli and US actions already provided grounds for Iran to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but Tehran had not made such a decision and any move would depend on Washington’s conduct.
Rezaei told the state TV Washington had demonstrated that adherence to the global nuclear non-proliferation system offered countries little protection from military attack.
US President Donald Trump’s war on Iran has made nuclear weapons more attractive worldwide by demonstrating that neither the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty nor membership in the International Atomic Energy Agency offers protection, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security… pic.twitter.com/RNSSxOulAI— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) August 23, 2026
Saudi-Yemen escalation
In his Saturday interview, Rezaei also said Iran wanted the fighting between Saudi Arabia and Yemen to end and believed the Yemeni side also sought an agreement with Riyadh.
Hours earlier, an air attack struck a jet-fuel storage facility at Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, marking the first direct assault on the Saudi capital in months, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Houthis later claimed two operations using missiles and drones, saying they struck “sensitive and important” targets in Riyadh and Saudi Aramco facilities in Yanbu. Military spokesman Yahya Saree did not explicitly identify the airport as a target.
President Trump said on Sunday that he has agreed to convert plans for a massive triumphal arch into a “top grade Military Complex,” equipped with snipers and drone storage.
“At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch,” Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
Work on the 250-foot-tall arch was expected to begin this month, with plans to start excavation on the site across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., on a traffic circle near Arlington National Cemetery. The arch is proposed to be clad in granite and topped with three golden statues and have an observation deck.
The president said Sunday that the arch would “house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas,” along with holding “large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage.”
Mr. Trump said there will be “no facility like this anywhere in the World.”
“Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all!” he added.
The administration has said that the arch’s development, which comes as part of a broader effort by the president to put his architectural stamp on the nation’s capital, will recognize the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence this year. But it’s drawn pushback amid concerns that the monument’s height could interfere with sightlines between major D.C. monuments and Arlington National Cemetery, along with its proximity to Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration determined on Friday that the arch poses no hazard to flights coming into and departing from the nearby airport, despite concerns from Democratic lawmakers that the project would further complicate an already complex airspace.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, currently polling 4th in the 2028 Dem presidential primary behind AOC, took another victory lap claiming that he protected California from ‘election interference’ especially from the federal government, by signing a bunch of illegal laws banning examination of ballots.
Three of these are especially problematic.
AB 282 (Pellerin) – Makes it a felony 1) to seize or cause or assist in the seizure of ballots, election records, or certified voting technology before election results are certified by the elections official and 2) for any person with authority to direct another person subject to their supervision or authority to seize ballots, election records, or certified voting technology before election results are certified.
AB 1664 (Jackson) – Requires a local agency, political subdivision, or elections official to provide notice to the Secretary of State and the California Attorney General immediately, but no later than one calendar day, after becoming aware of any warrant, subpoena, or active law enforcement investigation pertaining to the search, seizure, or retention of any election records or certified voting technology.
SB 1418 (Cervantes) – Makes it a crime to take election materials or voting technology from the custody of election officials and expands the types of materials required for preservation if an election contest or criminal proceeding is ongoing.
These are all, based on the public statements from Newsom, AG Rob Bonta and other top officials, intended to block federal election oversight.
“Donald Trump won’t stop until he can exert dictatorial control over your free vote and disenfranchise millions of people this November. California will stop him at every opportunity. We have no bigger task than fighting to protect the right to vote from interference and meddling – the future of democracy is on the line. These bills today build upon the wall California has built to safeguard our electoral process.”
Governor Gavin Newsom
California previously got away with blocking cooperation with federal law enforcement on immigration, including by threatening local law enforcement with penalties for cooperating with federal law enforcement. This secessionist stuff is now being boosted by also blocking cooperation with federal election oversight.
Now, personally, I think that federal election oversight is controversial, but this precedent was created through civil rights act enforcement and Dems were quite enthusiastic when it was happening in southern states, not in southern California. Too bad, the precedent is there, and it can be used.
Passing state laws to block federal investigations is creeping rather close to a Fort Sumter moment, but Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Dem supermajority decided to bypass creeping towards Fort Sumter and went right to racing towards it because this fourth bill takes the treason cake.
Governor Newsom signs bill to protect California’s sovereignty and guard against unauthorized military deployments
LOS ANGELES – Strengthening control over out-of-state military forces on California soil, Governor Gavin Newsom today signed a bill that would prohibit other state militaries from entering California without the Governor’s explicit permission.
At a time when the Trump administration is increasingly treating states as targets rather than partners, Senate Bill 1354 by Senator Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera) makes clear that California will not surrender its constitutional role, its values, or the rights of the nearly 40 million people who call this state home.
This new law gives the Governor — as commander in chief of California’s militia — a defined role in determining when out-of-state military forces may enter California for state missions.
The new law prohibits military personnel from another state, territory, or the District of Columbia from entering California to perform military duty or law-enforcement functions without the permission of the Governor. The bill preserves an exception for forces lawfully called into active federal service under Title 10 and acting under the authority of the President or Secretary of Defense.
While this law does not apply to federal active-duty personnel operating under federal Title 10 authority, with the Governor’s signature of this bill, it closes a legal loophole where other states could have deployed their military under Title 32 — even at the President’s suggestion
It’s not a legal loophole. Governors grant permission to National Guard deployments. And insisting that any use of the National Guard has to be under Title 10 unless it’s directly authorized by Newsom is either senseless or a slippery slope towards an Insurrection Act confrontation.
Passing laws like this seems utterly senseless unless a state is preparing to resist federal authority using military force.
At some point when a state has passed a whole raft of laws trying to block federal law enforcement, federal election and now federal military deployment, we have to consider it to be in a Fort Sumter scenario and actively trying to secede from the United States of America.
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