A new policy threatens Second Amendment rights, sparking outrage among patriots. Proposed Gun Control Legislation Raises Concerns In a controversial move, Congress has proposed new gun control measures aimed at increasing background checks and restricting certain types of firearms. The proposed legislation has stirred significant debate among conservative circles, who view it as an infringement on the Second Amendment rights. Many argue that the focus should be on addressing crime and mental health rather than penalizing responsible gun owners. President Trump has been vocal about his opposition to the proposed legislation, emphasizing his commitment to protecting the Second Amendment. He has assured supporters that he will veto any bill that threatens the constitutional rights of American citizens. During a recent rally, Trump stated that the government should prioritize the enforcement of existing laws rather than imposing new restrictions on gun ownership. Impact on Law-Abiding Citizens Conservative leaders highlight that the proposed measures would primarily impact law-abiding citizens rather than criminals who obtain firearms through illegal means. They argue that additional regulations could hinder the ability of individuals to protect themselves and their families. This sentiment resonates strongly within conservative communities, where self-defense and personal liberty are highly valued. Critics of the legislation point out that similar measures in the past have not effectively reduced crime rates. Instead, they advocate for solutions that focus on improving mental health services and increasing law enforcement capabilities. By addressing the root causes of violence, conservatives believe that communities can be made safer without compromising constitutional rights. Trump’s Stance and Conservative Support Trump’s firm stance against the proposed gun control measures has garnered widespread support from conservative groups and Second Amendment advocates. Organizations such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) have praised the President for his unwavering commitment to defending gun rights. The ongoing debate underscores the deep divide between those advocating for stricter gun laws and those who prioritize individual freedoms and constitutional protections. As the discussion continues, conservatives urge lawmakers to consider the implications of any new legislation and to uphold the principles enshrined in the Constitution. The battle over gun rights is likely to remain a pivotal issue in the political landscape, with both sides fiercely defending their positions. Sources: 2019–2020 Hong Kong Protests – Wikipedia Hong Kong: Freedoms, Democracy, and Protests – CFR The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance – CBS News Timeline of Key Dates in Hong Kong’s Protests – The Business Standard Hong Kong Protest Movement Data Archive – Hong Kong FP

EL PASO, Texas—Two Border Patrol vehicles stopped for a moment as they drove along the southern border, the only activity that could be seen from along the wall dividing Mexico and El Paso, Texas. The border wall stretched far into the desert from the view of the helicopter.   There has been a decline in activity along the border in recent months, a Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations pilot explained, but the agents still patrol the skies night and day.   “Recently, obviously, we’ve gotten great operational control of the border,” El Paso Air Branch Director Efren Gonzalez told The Daily Signal.   “Stats are coming down, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that traffic is not coming through,” Gonzalez said. “It’s just we’re performing the job to a higher level and partnering up with the Department of Defense and other law enforcement agencies to be able to secure the border and do our job, contrary to [the] previous administration, where we felt like we, you know, were doing it halfway.”  CBP’s Air and Marine Operations work hand in hand with Border Patrol. They are the eyes in the sky, and seek both to detect threats on the ground and carry out rescues.? pic.twitter.com/JYFhy4XEDV— Virginia Allen (@Virginia_Allen5) August 30, 2025 CBP’s Air and Marine Operations works hand in hand with Border Patrol. When an agent sees a threat from any one of the Air and Marine Operations’ roughly 240 aircraft, they coordinate with Border Patrol, or other law enforcement officials on the ground, to respond.   There are areas along the border where Border Patrol cannot station personnel, Gonzalez explained, so “if we see an abnormality coming across the border, then we start communicating [with Border Patrol] on the radio.”   In addition to working to prevent threats from crossing the border, Air and Marine Operations also conduct rescue missions.   “It’s not safe to cross the border,” Gonzalez says, adding, “We have predators out in the desert, snakes, mountain lions, … black bears.” Temperatures can easily reach over 100 degrees in the summer, or drop very low in the winter.   The border wall can be up to 30 feet, but “smugglers don’t care,” he says. “They’ll bring them up with a rope on one side, and then there’s nothing on the outside, and they expect for them to … slide down, [but] it doesn’t always go that way.”  If a migrant gets hurt in the desert or can’t keep pace with the group he or she is with, human smugglers will leave him or her behind. Air and Marine Operations sometimes discover injured or abandoned illegal aliens before it’s too late, but that’s not always the case.   El Paso Air Branch Director Efren Gonzalez (The Daily Signal) CBP Air and Marine Operations conducts rescue missions of hikers or other individuals who might find themselves stranded as well. Agents also respond to national disasters in the U.S., working closely with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and they provide support and security during large events, such as presidential inaugurations or the Super Bowl.  There are about 1,800 Air and Marine Operations agents throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition to operating in the sky, the CBP branch also has about 300 marine vessels working to respond to threats and crisis situations across U.S. waters.   The post Eyes in the Sky: Patrolling the Border From Above   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In a column earlier this month, I argued the deep state is no longer deniable, thanks to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. I outlined the structural design of the deep state as revealed by two recent declassifications: Gabbard’s ODNI report and the Durham annex released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). These documents expose a transnational apparatus of intelligence agencies, media platforms, think tanks, and NGOs operating as a parallel government.The deep state is funded by elite donors, shielded by bureaucracies, and perpetuated by operatives who drift between public office and private influence without accountability.But institutions are only part of the story. This web of influence is made possible by people — and by money. This follow-up to the first piece traces the key operatives and financial networks fueling the deep state’s most consequential manipulations, including the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.Architects and operativesAt the top of the intelligence pyramid sits John Brennan, President Obama’s CIA director and one of the principal architects of the manipulated 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment. James Clapper, who served as director of national intelligence, signed off on that same ICA and later joined 50 other former officials in concluding the Hunter Biden laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” ahead of the 2020 election. The timing, once again, served a political objective.James Comey, then FBI director, presided over Crossfire Hurricane. According to the Durham annex, he also allowed the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server to collapse after it became entangled with “sensitive intelligence” revealing her plan to tie President Donald Trump to Russia.That plan, as documented in the annex, originated with Hillary Clinton herself and was personally pushed by President Obama. Her campaign, through law firm Perkins Coie, hired Fusion GPS, which commissioned the now-debunked Steele dossier — a document used to justify surveillance warrants on Trump associates.Several individuals orbiting the Clinton operation have remained influential. Jake Sullivan, who served as President Biden’s national security adviser, was a foreign policy aide to Clinton during her 2016 campaign. He was named in 2021 as a figure involved in circulating the collusion narrative, and his presence in successive Democratic administrations suggests institutional continuity.Andrew McCabe, then the FBI’s deputy director, approved the use of FISA warrants derived from unverified sources. His connection to the internal “insurance policy” discussion — described in a 2016 text by FBI official Peter Strzok to colleague Lisa Page — underscores the Bureau’s political posture during that election cycle.The list of political enablers is long but revealing:Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who, as a former representative from California, chaired the House Intelligence Committee at the time and publicly promoted the collusion narrative while having access to intelligence that contradicted it.Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), both members of the “Gang of Eight” with oversight of intelligence operations, advanced the same narrative despite receiving classified briefings.Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, exchanged encrypted text messages with a Russian lobbyist in efforts to speak with Christopher Steele.These were not passive recipients of flawed intelligence. They were participants in its amplification.The funding networks behind the machineThe deep state’s operations are not possible without financing — much of it indirect, routed through a nexus of private foundations, quasi-governmental entities, and federal agencies.George Soros’ Open Society Foundations appear throughout the Durham annex. In one instance, Open Society Foundations documents were intercepted by foreign intelligence and used to track coordination between NGOs and the Clinton campaign’s anti-Trump strategy.This system was not designed for transparency but for control.Soros has also been a principal funder of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which ran a project during the Trump administration called the Moscow Project, dedicated to promoting the Russia collusion narrative.The Tides Foundation and Arabella Advisors both specialize in “dark money” donor-advised funds that obscure the source and destination of political funding. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was the biggest donor to the Arabella Advisors by far, which routed $127 million through Arabella’s network in 2020 alone and nearly $500 million in total.The MacArthur Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation also financed many of the think tanks named in the Durham annex, including the Council on Foreign Relations.Federal funding pipelinesParallel to the private networks are government-funded influence operations, often justified under the guise of “democracy promotion” or counter-disinformation initiatives.USAID directed $270 million to Soros-affiliated organizations for overseas “democracy” programs, a significant portion of which has reverberated back into domestic influence campaigns.The State Department funds the National Endowment for Democracy, a quasi-governmental organization with a $315 million annual budget and ties to narrative engineering projects.The Department of Homeland Security underwrote entities involved in online censorship programs targeting American citizens.RELATED: The deep state is no longer deniable — thanks to Tulsi Gabbard Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Pentagon, from 2020 to 2024, awarded over $2.4 trillion to private contractors — many with domestic intelligence capabilities. It also directed $1.4 billion to select think tanks since 2019.According to public records compiled by DataRepublican, these tax-funded flows often support the very actors shaping U.S. political discourse and global perception campaigns.Not just domestic — but globalWhat these disclosures confirm is that the deep state is not a theory. It is a documented structure — funded by elite donors, shielded by bureaucracies, and perpetuated by operatives who drift between public office and private influence without accountability. This system was not designed for transparency but for control. It launders narratives, neutralizes opposition, and overrides democratic will by leveraging the very institutions meant to protect it. With the Durham annex and the ODNI report, we now see the network's architecture and its actors — names, agencies, funding trails — all laid bare. What remains is the task of dismantling it before its next iteration takes shape.Want more from Glenn Beck? 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A rare Bronze Age funnel-shaped axe that legends suggest may be made of meteorite iron has been found in Paau Village on the island of Borneo. It is approximately 3,000 years old and is the first Bronze Age axe head of its kind found in Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of Borneo). Paau Village is in the middle of the Riam Kanan Reservoir and is very remote, accessible only by a two-hour boat journey. The axe head is one of numerous ancient artifacts discovered by Rahmadi, one the 600 inhabitants of the village, while panning for gold. It is the object that most impressed archaeologists when they saw it in Rahmadi’s generally impressive collection, because funnel axes are so rare and this is the only one known from Kalimantan. It is evidence that the area was developing metalworking technology at the same time as other populations elsewhere in the archipelago, and using it for artistic and symbolic purposes. This discovery also caught the attention of Hartatik, a member of the Banjar Regency Cultural Heritage Expert Team (TACB). He explained that the funnel axe, also known as “Gigi Petir” or Untu Gledek by the Javanese, has its own mythological origins. It is said that the object appeared after lightning struck and became embedded in the ground or a tree. However, scientifically, researchers suspect it was made using metal technology from melted meteorite rock. These types of axes were not utilitarian tools like their stone predecessors. They were very small and light, designed for their form over function. Archaeologists believe they were symbols of social status, or maybe used as valuable trade goods. Cultural heritage authorities and archaeologists plan to collaborate on further study of the artifact. It needs to be authenticated first and foremost (there is a thriving market in counterfeit antiquities in Indonesia), and its original context explored. If its authenticity is confirmed, the axe will shed new light on Borneo’s early metalworking abilities.