A mysterious UFO has been allegedly stored at a little-known US Navy base on the East Coast for decades as the military continues to reverse-engineer its secrets. A new report has claimed that Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, better known as Pax River, has kept an ‘exotic vehicle of unknown origin’ secretly housed […]

A video is going viral of police in Miami Beach coming to a woman’s home to ask her about this Facebook post criticizing the Mayor Steven Meiner: “The guy who consistently calls for the death of all Palestinians, tried to shut down a theater for showing a movie that hurt his feelings, and REFUSES to stand up for the LGBTQ community in any way (even leaves the room when they vote on related matters) wants you to know that you’re all welcome here. ” Let’s be very clear: this is protected political speech. This is the kind of thing that happens in Europe. In the United States, it is supposed to be prohibited by the Constitution. In the video, an officer asks the woman whether she authored the post and then suggests she should “refrain from posting things like that.” He can’t say that. At all. As free speech advocacy group FIRE explains, the First Amendment doesn’t just protect speech from criminal prosecution, it also forbids government actions that chill speech. The government is not allowed to discriminate against speech based on the ideas or opinions it conveys. And when law enforcement officers show up unannounced at someone’s home to question them about political criticism of an elected official, that carries an implicit threat. Police don’t speak like ordinary government employees. Their words come backed by the state’s power to detain, arrest, and prosecute. A person of ordinary firmness, unexpectedly confronted at their home by police and told to “refrain” from criticizing the mayor, would reasonably feel pressured to stop speaking. That alone is a First Amendment violation. When police are dispatched to silence critics instead of criminals, that is not public safety. That is intimidation. And it is completely unacceptable in a constitutional republic. The post This Is America? Police Confront Woman at Home Over Anti-Mayor Facebook Post appeared first on Redacted.

Donald Trump is now openly suggesting the United States may need to stop thinking “purely of peace” in order to gain control of Greenland a territory that is not for sale, does not belong to the U.S., and has repeatedly said so. The President reportedly sent a text message to the Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. The text has been transcribed as such: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. So much to unpack here. First: why would anyone want an award that was given to Barack Obama, who presided over a drone campaign that killed civilians, including children, at scale? Who actually cares about the Nobel Peace Prize? Second: why would a perceived personal snub have anything to do with U.S. military or foreign policy? That’s not strategy. That’s Joffrey Baratheon behavior. Third: why would Norway be expected to “offer” a Nobel Prize to save Denmark from losing territory? Norway does not control Denmark. Denmark does not control the Nobel Committee. These are different countries, different institutions, different realities. There are no logical answers to these questions. Danish officials have responded with a mix of disbelief and firm rejection, reiterating that Greenland is not a bargaining chip and that its future is for Greenlanders to decide. Denmark has responded by sending troops to Greenland to try to deter President Trump. A whole 100 of them. That’s…not going to do it. The post Because He Didn’t Get a Trophy: Trump Threatens Greenland appeared first on Redacted.

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Foreign Affairs Why Won’t the U.S. Protect Its Own Citizens in Palestine? Family of Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim, a Palestinian-American teenager who was detained by Israel, sat down with The American Conservative to discuss his case. Credit: Saeschie Wagner For most of last year, Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim, a Palestinian-American teenager, was detained by the Israeli military for allegedly throwing rocks at vehicles. Ibrahim’s father Zaher Ibrahim and his uncle Zeyad Kadur sat down with The American Conservative to discuss his case and the failure of the U.S. government to protect its own citizens in the West Bank. Zeyad, can you talk about where you were when you heard about Mohammed’s extralegal detention in Israel? Zeyad Kadur: So it was a little bit after Valentine’s Day February, 2025. I got a call from his father. and he said they picked up Mohammed this morning. And I said, what do you mean they picked him up? Who’s they? He said the IDF. I said why? He said, I don’t know. They wouldn’t answer any questions.  At like 4 a.m. was when Zaher said they raided the house. There were about 25 to 30 soldiers who came inside the house and around it while Mohammed was asleep. They knocked on the door. Zaher went to see what was going on. He said there were a bunch of ski masked soldiers with flashlights and M16s. The IDF went into Mohammed’s bedroom and he woke up with the flashlights in his face. The Israelis carried him out of his bed, they zip tied his arms and they blindfolded him. And then they carried Mohammed out of the house and threw him in the back of a Jeep.  So that was in February. And I wasn’t involved, just checking in on the family, seeing what I could do for them to help out from here. And the first visit was 60 some days later from the U.S. Embassy. They said Mohammed was feeling kind of sick and he was a little pale.  So his parents didn’t actually see him directly. It was the embassy who then talked to Mohammed. The embassy showed your family the photos of Mohammed and described his complaints in this torture cell.  ZK: So the embassy was not allowed to take pictures either. They just compared the visual that they had, that they saw with their own eyes, compared to family photos of Mohammed. They weren’t allowed to take a picture or a message or a letter for us or anything.  So that was one of the rules: You can’t write them, you can’t call them, you can’t facetime. There’s no kind of communication, not for you, not for the embassy. It was just some type of Israeli law that due to security reasons, there’s no photos or videos or any type of communication with the prisoners. That was sometime in April when we got that update.  We were kind of just doing the steps of what you would do, you know, your embassy, your lawyers, and going through it with that. About five months went by, and they only had two visits in five months with Mohammed. The second visit they had, he was moved to a prison called Megiddo.  Megiddo was this really notorious prison in the northern part of Palestine or in the occupied territories.  Once he was moved there, that’s when they said, “He lost a lot of weight, nearly 30 pounds in five months and he has scabies.” They said he was really pale and weak and that he wasn’t too talkative. We ended up hiring a new lawyer from the Israeli territories. We figured that since [the Israeli lawyer] speaks Hebrew, he may be more familiar with Israeli law, because every day after October 7th, the laws would change. So this occurred in July, around the time that Mohammed’s cousin was killed in the West Bank by Israeli settlers. No one, to my knowledge, has been held accountable for that crime. Can you talk a little bit about what happened?  ZK: Yeah. So the first thing that kind of spooked us was what happened to a different young man, 17 years old, from the village of Silwad that Mohammed went to school with. We knew he was already in that prison before Mohammed, and that they were cellmates. He was a nice, healthy-sized kid, you know. He died in there due to starvation and illness. And he actually died in the cell with Mohammed. And they knew each other their whole lives, since childhood. His name was Walid. Walid passed away and his body is still in that prison in a freezer somewhere.  And then in July, Mohammed’s cousin Sayfollah went from Tampa, Florida to visit his family. And he was attacked. He was ambushed by Israeli settlers and beaten to death. And nobody was held accountable. Another young man got killed the same day there. He got shot in the back. And the bullet exited his abdomen. So there are these two 20 year olds who were killed in the West Bank, one of them an American by Israeli settlers. And that’s where I got more involved because we had one nephew who was just killed, the other nephew in a prison for five months where the kid his same age from the same town died.  I went to DC and I hooked up with a couple of organizations, one by the name of IMEU (The Institute for Middle East Understanding) and the other one was called CCR (The Center for Constitutional Rights). They had scheduled meetings with congressmen and senators for us. We were joined by four other families of Americans who were killed in Palestine, just recently that year.  Sayfollah, who was killed in July—his father joined us there in September. Another young American man from our same village, from New Orleans, named Tawfiq, 17 years old, was shot in the back of the head while he was sitting in his car by a sniper. We were joined by a young lady who was killed in the Nablus area of a village called Beta. Her name was Ayşenur; she was from Washington state and she was also shot by a sniper. She was only in the West Bank for three or four days at the time. And then some people who’ve been going through this for 23 years by the name of Cindy and Craig Corrie, the parents of Rachel Corrie, a young American girl who was bulldozed by a Caterpillar bulldozer. They ran her over and left her in the ground.  No one was held accountable for that last example, and that was over 20 years ago. So you went to DC over the summer, but Mohammed wasn’t released until the end of November. Why did it take so long?  ZK: It took nine-and-a-half months exactly. It took February 16th to Thanksgiving Day for him to get released. Why it took so long, was our whole point of argument. Why do we have to convince you guys in politics to protect a 15 year old American boy who’s innocent? We believed if he had a different name or  a different ethnicity that he would not have been there for nine and a half months. I didn’t think an Israeli American would be there for nine-and-a-half months in prison, sick and being starved and beaten by what they tell us every day is our greatest ally in the Middle East, the only democracy in the Middle East.  When Sayfollah was killed by Israeli settlers, [U.S. Ambassador to Israel] Mike Huckabee visited. And he said that he was coming to pay his respects and condolences. And he called it settler terrorism. And we said, you know, the kid is gone. Thank you for your condolences, but why don’t you help us with Mohammed? And he said he would try and see what he could do. And he didn’t.  The State Department to this day has not made one phone call to us, hasn’t reached out once, didn’t call to see if we needed help with lawyers or help with getting him on a plane or anything. And our Florida politicians were also in high positions to help us. Governor Ron DeSantis and Senator Rick Scott are huge Israeli government supporters and they’re funded by AIPAC heavily. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was a Florida Senator, a Floridian.  We thought there’d be a better sense of understanding from him but he wouldn’t respond to questions from the media or anybody else asking about Mohammed. I’m happy that he’s home and that he said he’s alive, but I’m not happy that it took us that long to get him out.  Zaher, I have wanted to talk to you for a long time about what happened to your son Mohammed Ibrahim. You are both American citizens and you frequently visit Palestine where the Israeli security forces have occupied. Last year, the IDF detained your son, tortured him, and starved him for many months in an Israeli torture chamber, in one of their prisons, without charges. Your nephew, meanwhile, in July, was murdered by Israeli settlers. No one has been held accountable for that crime.  Mohammed was abducted in February, in the middle of the night. When were you informed of that, and when was the first time you were actually able to physically see him in person?  Zaher Ibrahim: In person was the day he got released. Before that, I got reports from the embassy, they played their role, visiting him. They could have done better, but at least they were getting some kind of information for me, especially when they assigned somebody for him on this case, Mark Marino. But before that, they only sent a visitation every month or every 45 days. So there was no contact. And it’s not like it’s a letter from him. So if somebody visited him and said, “He said X,” that doesn’t really mean anything.  You finally saw him in November of this past year. What was your son like and how did he change?  ZI: I mean, he looked like his bones and skin, you know. His face shrunk. Everything shrunk on him. It was good to see him, but at the same time when you see him like that, you’re like, damn. You know, when they show you the old photos of the Holocaust, the camps that the Jews were in, the way they looked in these old photos and pictures, that’s what they’re doing to the Palestinians.  Plenty of photos have come out of these torture prisons which prove what you say is absolutely true. And Mohammed is not an exceptional case, unfortunately he’s the norm of what’s been going on, completely financed by the United States.  ZI: If they had some leverage, like America supports Israel and funds Israel, military and financial and everything, you would think that as respect, as a U.S. citizen, they would take care of him, even like maybe a month before they let him out, feed him good where he comes out looking like a normal kid, but they didn’t even do that.  This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. The post Why Won’t the U.S. Protect Its Own Citizens in Palestine appeared first on The American Conservative.

Culture Taki’s Dinner Date Here is the dream team for a big night in the city. When browsing the sport pages of the New York Post, a tabloid hard to find nowadays at even harder to locate newsstands, I always read up on the tail end of some sport hero’s interview. I said the tail end because the rest is too embarrassingly banal even for my 7-year-old grandson. The last question is always with whom the star would like to have a dream dinner. It is not the fault of the sporty ones, but their choices—no-names—sound more like a divine punishment of eternal hell than a dream dinner.  So, in order to amuse you, dear readers, I thought about whom I would name had I been asked by some newspaper or magazine, as if such things still exist. My list is simple and contains three male names: Robert E. Lee, Charles Lindbergh, and Ernest Hemingway. None of the three need an introduction, but Papa Hemingway and Charles Lindbergh, I am guessing, would not have agreed about the Second World War. The greatest American soldier, General Lee, would have most likely tried to cool Papa down, but Lindbergh was no slouch, and could defend himself just fine. Today Lindbergh’s name has been sullied by know-nothings who have slandered and libeled him as an antisemite, purely because he warned Americans that Germany’s air force was powerful and tried to keep Uncle Sam from a European war. He was, of course, right on both counts, and only gave his opinion when Congress asked for it. His unpopularity among the jealous ones increased when it was revealed by some Judas that the great aviator had great success in the skies as well as in the boudoir of some beautiful women.  Papa was also a great ladies’ man, whose answer to a ghastly New Yorker female reporter has to go down as the greatest ever: “Have you had many affairs with women other than your wives, Mr. Hemingway?” “I’ve had every woman I’ve ever wanted, and a hell of a lot that I didn’t want.” Now that’s telling it like it is, Papa, and it also shut the ghastly female reporter up. She left in a shocked state. Papa was married at the time, as in fact he was most of his life.  And now we come to the great Robert E. Lee. His fellow cadets at West Point called him “The Marble Man” for his dedication to honor, his physical beauty and grace, and blameless life. Photos of him remind one of the dignified heads of Roman emperors. Lee owned slaves but thought slavery a great evil that damaged whites more than blacks. Offered to head the Union armies by Lincoln, he declined as a point of honor, as his state Virginia came first.  I believe that Lee might have won that tragic conflict early but for the fact that Lincoln was able to run a centralized government that amounted to a virtual dictatorship, whereas the South remained a confederacy, with each state retaining elements of sovereignty over its armed forces. Jefferson Davis insisted on defending the borders of all Confederate states, thus depriving Lee of his sole chance to engage and destroy the bulk of the Northern armies in one great battle. And let us not forget that Lee was not appointed general-in-chief until 1865, with the war almost over.  I will not replay the great battle of Gettysburg between two heroic armies, except to mention the fact that had Longstreet provided more artillery support for Pickett’s famous charge the outcome might have been different. Do we bring up such matters during our dream dinner? I’m certain Papa Hemingway would have tried to rile the general by praising the northern defense, but I would have opened my mouth for the first time and changed the subject.  And for our post-prandial pleasure, while drinking a very old port, I would have my old buddy Norman Mailer drop by, a bit high and throwing left hooks inches away from Papa’s jaw line. The latter would instantly raise his dukes and then the two would laughingly embrace each other. Now you may guess what I would give for such a dinner, but, alas, it’s only a dream. It cannot even take place On High, where my four guests already are, due to my unlikely invitation to join them. But it certainly beats dream dinners that some of our sporting heroes have chosen, the ones with Jay Zee, Puff Daddy, Beyonce, Barbra Streisand—oh, to hell with this. I must stop this name-dropping once and for always. The post Taki’s Dinner Date appeared first on The American Conservative.

Foreign Affairs Neocons in Sorrow Over U.S. Not Attacking Iran Hawks are mourning but still hopeful for war. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and other hawks eagerly anticipated a U.S. attack on Iran last week in the midst of that country’s protests. The U.S. struck Iran in June, then backed off, but might a new attack be the beginning of a regime change? Graham clearly hoped so. Wednesday night felt like the brink of war. But President Donald Trump chose not to strike. Graham seemed sad about this. He even said, in a hushed and defeated tone to reporters on Thursday, that he was flying to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the matter. The senator vowed on X that the U.S. and Israel would “stand up to evil,” observing, “We live in a time of great consequence with the Middle East on the verge of previously unimaginable change. Standing together and following through on our commitments only makes us stronger.” The “unimaginable change” Graham meant was regime change war. Former Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene translated him: “Senate goes into recess and Lindsey Graham hops on plane to South Caro.. er scratch that, Israel because he’s devastated Trump didn’t bomb Iran so he has to scheme with Bibi to find another way to pressure Trump to bomb Iran.” Or as MAGA luminary Steve Bannon comically put it, “Lady Lindsey is so broken … he’s on a plane to go over and sob and put his head on Netanyahu’s shoulder and have Netanyahu burp him like a little baby because he’s all upset now that President Trump didn’t take his advice.” “Him and Tel Aviv Levin,” Bannon added, referring to neoconservative talk host Mark Levin. Of course, the Tucker Carlson-obsessed, self-identified “Great One” was upset too. After Trump didn’t order an attack, Levin worried the war drums might die down. “WARNING!” he posted on X. “I am concerned as time goes on, the immediacy and imperative of helping the people in Iran will begin to fade…” Levin added, “At some point there will be an accounting for all of this, of those within Iran who are committing these genocidal atrocities, and those in the West who’ve done nothing.” “The West” presumably meaning first and foremost the United States, a country many Trump voters once wanted to prioritize above the interests of other countries. But the obviously down-in-the-dumps Levin was still hopeful that the president would eventually embroil the U.S. in a war with Iran. “I believe strongly that President Trump is a historic and great leader who will do what he said,” Levin predicted on Thursday. “Given all that is swirling around about Iran, I would like to share this with you. I have no inside information, as I repeatedly state, but I do believe that President Trump will, in fact, do as he has said with the Iranian regime.” Washington Post neocon and former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen shares Levin’s hope and expectation. “I predict that before the year is out, Trump will visit a free Tehran — and receive a hero’s welcome from the Iranian people,” he posted on X. “MIGA!” Thiessen added. To be clear, this stands for “Make Iran Great Again,” a slogan never heard throughout the 2024 presidential election but that is now on the lips and heads of establishment Washington hawks. Not to be outdone, pro-Iran-war Republican Senator Ted Cruz made a video. “I want to talk directly to the people of Iran,” Cruz says, strutting with confidence through the corridors of Congress. “You need to know America stands with you,” Cruz vowed. “President Trump has your backs.” One former Republican congressman sang a very different tune on Thursday morning, instead thanking Trump for not taking the U.S. to war yet again. “We’re favorable toward them not dropping bombs while we slept last night,” Ron Paul said on his podcast. “That wouldn’t have been good because evidently, they may have discovered Iran is not an easy target, and it’s going to last longer than 24 hours.” The libertarian icon was expressing practical reasons for which the president might have decided to resist war with Iran, reasons that you will never hear from hawks like Graham, Levin, Thiessen, and Cruz—each of whom still has an affinity for the Iraq War despite its disastrous results, and does not mind attempting to repeat it in a country three times the size of Iraq. For neocons, war comes first. The fewer questions and concerns the better. Worrying about long-term goals and results, protracted missions, American lives, Iranian lives, U.S. national security, financial health, and Mideast stability are nuisances to be dealt with later. On Wednesday, Donald Trump put America first. Lindsey Graham and his friends hope he stops doing that. The post Neocons in Sorrow Over U.S. Not Attacking Iran appeared first on The American Conservative.

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