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🤪 The government says money isn't property — so it can take yours. From: Rob Johnson/Reason. In a jaw-dropping argument, the Department of Justice claims seizing $50,000 from a small business doesn’t violate property rights because money isn’t property.

Universities announce plans to defy federal immigration enforcement. From: Jonathan Turley. With the election of Donald Trump, the federal government and both local and educational authorities are on a collision course over immigration policies.

👏 Trump signs executive order paving way to deport anti-semitic student visa holders. From: Matthew Xiao/Free Beacon. President also plans to sign order prohibiting federal funding to schools that teach CRT or radical gender ideology.

Why we need DOGE: 5 crazy examples of how the government has been wasting your tax dollars. From: Michael Snyder/The Most Important News. The U.S. government has been wasting money in some of the most bizarre ways imaginable.

🤥 The mean girls of liberal media. From: Jenny Holland/Spiked. A New York magazine hit-piece on the alleged ‘cruelty’ of Trump supporters has backfired spectacularly.

Team Trump is winning the media battle. From: Brianna Lyman/The Federalist. By treating left-wing press as the propagandists they are.

🎯 Dems worry Kash Patel could weaponize FBI against political enemies like they did. From: Beth Brelje/The Federalist. No wonder Democrats are worried; the nation has seen the FBI used as a political weapon, and leftists don’t want it pointed at them.

Biden's record-breaking regulatory run. From: Eric Boehm/Reason. In four years, Biden issued regulations costing an estimated $1.8 trillion, by far the highest total in American history.

🙄 The excuses for DEI programs get worse and worse. From: Stefan Padfield/Real Clear Markets. The justification typically included a claim that diversity is good for business, but that claim won't fare any better under serious scrutiny than the old one did.

Test scores take another dive as schools pocket $billions. From: I & I Editorial Board. After predictably plunging during the COVID school-shutdown years, scores show no signs of snapping back. This is child abuse on a national level.

🔎 Test scores show how teacher union-driven lockdowns devastated kids. From: NY Post Editorial Board. Most of America's kids aren't regaining the ground lost to school shutdowns during the pandemic.

Trump issues orders to promote school choice, end "anti-American" teaching. From: Coster & Layne/Reuters. Trump signed executive orders to promote parental choice in school selection and end federal funding for curricula that he called the "indoctrination.”

💰 Senate committees waging war on RFK Jr.’s MAHA vision are knee deep in Big Pharma, food industry cash. From: Daily Caller News Foundation. For example, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon received $2.5 million from the pharmaceutical industry between 2019 to 2024.

Fifth Circuit declares federal age limits on adult gun ownership unconstitutional. From: Jonathan Turley. The Trump Administration will likely support the ruling and not appeal to the Supreme Court.

🔥 LA's electric vehicle obsession hampers fire cleanup amid fears lithium-ion batteries are ticking time bombs. From: Sonya Gugliara/Daily Mail. The 'extremely dangerous' lithium-ion batteries used to power electric vehicles are hindering California's wildlife cleanup efforts.

Donald Trump is emphatically correct about birthright citizenship. From: Josh Hammer/Daily Signal. Fourteenth Amendment-mandated birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens is, at best, a live and unsettled legal debate.

🚩 4 states introduce bills allowing murder charges for women who get abortions. From: Lauren Taylor/Straight Arrow News. Many of those laws have targeted abortion providers, like doctors and hospitals, for performing the procedure.

California politicians look to make the highest gas prices in the country even higher. From: Zack Budryk/The Hill. A bill proposes to shift the cost burden from climate disasters from homeowners to oil and gas companies.

⭐️ California dreamin.’ From: Kevin Brady/American Thinker. Every day, we learn more about the monumental ineptitude of elected officials in California.

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