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Appeals Court Raises Doubt Over Trump Admin's Ballot Lawsuit Against California Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court on Sunday expressed skepticism over the Trump administration's bid to require California to set aside mail-in ballots from voters whom the government suspected of being noncitizens. The Ninth Circuit of Appeals held an emergency teleconference hearing after the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a notice of appeal seeking the court's intervention. During the hearing, Circuit Judge Mark Bennett said California has the authority under the elections clause to determine how...

Creepy Paid Democrat Propaganda Script Drops... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, Democrat-aligned influencers have flooded social media with near-identical videos accusing Elon Musk of trying to buy the midterm elections. The clips use the same phrasing, the same framing, and the same call to action. Accounts that normally post independent-sounding commentary suddenly received the same memo. Wall Street Apes highlighted the pattern, posting a compilation that shows multiple creators delivering the message in lockstep. The videos hit the same beats: Musk is trying to buy the elections, the effort is funded through...

Trump Cuts Off NATO's Mark Rutte In Oval Office After Sitting Out Iran War As expected, President Trump took the opportunity to chastise NATO for its lack of participation in the Iran war while hosting the alliance's Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House. "We didn’t need help on this at all. We demolished them in literally the first week," Trump said of Iran before reporters, while seated across from Rutte. That's when the president said, "But it would have been nice if they would have said, ‘We’d like to...