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are banks becoming the secret police?
Banks are narcing on you because Congress forces them to. From: Nicholas Anthony/Reason. The Bank Secrecy Act regime forces banks to report customers to the government for an ever-growing list of “red flags.”
⭐️ Victor Davis Hanson: Trump and his new frenemies, abroad and at home. From: American Greatness. In an address to the World Economic Forum, President Trump criticized Europe's regulatory and environmental policies, advocating for U.S.-led free-market capitalism to enhance Western prosperity.
Trump says he ‘immediately halted' hiring of new IRS agents. From: Jack Phillips/Epoch Times-Zero Hedge. “We’re in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them or maybe we move them to the border..."
🙄 Nazispolozza. The Left’s Third Reich mania collapses into comedy. From: Jonathan Turley. “One of the least successful efforts of the left and many in the media this election was to paint Republican voters as “Nazis” hellbent on destroying democracy.”
Will any federal officials pay for what they did? From: James Bovard/Brownstone Institute. The biggest scientific con of the century is finally being exposed.
👉 Federal workers feel targeted, melt down over Trump's EOs, hiring freezes, and death of DEI. From: Jennifer Oliver O’Connell/Red State. In the first official week of his presidency, Donald Trump has done as promised: taken a wrecking ball to business as usual in the federal government.
So Trump nixed your bullshit DEI job. From: Ryan Zickgraf/Unherd. Corporations are sick of diversity hacks.
🤥 Latest anti-Trump hoax: Chicago school district falsely claims ICE came to elementary campus. From: Ashe Schow/Daily Wire. The false claim was spread far and wide before the truth came out.
The reactionary turn against nuclear power. From: Marco Visscher/Spiked. How disillusionment with modernity birthed the anti-nuclear movement.
🎯 Legal expert predicts Trump's 'two sexes' order will help eradicate 'radical gender ideology' from US schools. From: Taylor Penley/Fox News. ADF CEO and President Kristen Waggoner hailed the movement as a 'revolution of common sense.’
Age verification laws meet VPNs and lawsuits in a war over speech and privacy. From: J D Tuccille/Reason. A new crop of restrictive laws faces a friendly reception in the courts but ongoing public resistance.
🚩 U.S. national debt burden tops $106,000 per person. From: Casey Harper/The Center Square. The national debt is over $36 trillion, currently on pace to surpass $37 trillion later this year.
Insurance isn’t evil . . . From: Eric Peters Autos. It isn’ evil to sell insurance. Just as it isn’t evil to sell electric cars. The evil arises when people are forced to buy either thing.
🔥 How bureaucracy fueled the Los Angeles wildfires. From: Jon Miltimore/Daily Economy. Half of California is ‘publicly owned’ and subject to multiple bureaucracies. They not only neglected fire controls, but fined people who took basic precautions.
Jury nullification in New York. From: Stephen I. Siller/American Thinker. If New Yorkers don’t get over their Trump-hatred, they’ll never notice how their rights are being eroded.
🇬🇧 Covering for their own failures, U.K. officials blame violent crime on access to knives. From: J D Tuccille/Reason. Politicians who’ve dropped the ball inevitably see the solution as reducing people's freedom.
Business elites truly believe Trump could be on the verge of solving one of the world’s most difficult problems: The Ukraine War. From: Charles Gasparino/NY Post. Until now, it showed no signs of ending and even threatened nuclear war.