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Vice President JD Vance on Saturday bluntly defended the Trump administration’s recent targeted U.S. Military strike of Tren de Aragua cartel drug smugglers. “Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,” Vance posted to X. Far-Left social media activist Brian Krassenstein replied to Vance, “Killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime.” “I don’t give a s*** what you call it,” the VP bluntly responded. The response, only posted hours ago, already has over 1.3 million views. Screenshot: X Vance later doubled-down, mockingly posting, “Democrats: let’s send your kids to die in Russia. Republicans: actually let’s protect our people from the scum of the earth.” Democrats: let’s send your kids to die in Russia. Republicans: actually let’s protect our people from the scum of the earth. — JD Vance (@JDVance) September 6, 2025 This is certainly not the first time Vance has been blunt in his response to Left-wing defenses of apparent criminals. Vance notably went viral back in January when CBS anchor Margaret Brennan tried to argue about when exactly an Afghan national who was plotting a terror attack in the U.S. was radicalized. “I don’t really care, Margaret,” Vance memorably interrupted her argument. “I don’t really care, Margaret.“ ?????????? pic.twitter.com/qpAKCxDalh — Ginny Robinson (@ImGinnyRobinson) January 26, 2025 Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of Americans have suffered synthetic opioid-related deaths. During the open-border Biden era, tens of thousands of pounds of fentanyl were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). It’s unclear how much fentanyl made it into the U.S. illegally. Trump’s administration has not only closed the border and started deporting illegals, but they are being proactive with cartel members. This past week, as referenced by Vance, Trump posted a video of the military strike against Tren de Aragua members in the Caribbean Sea. As noted by The Daily Wire, the strike took place in international waters and killed nearly a dozen terrorist cartel members carrying illicit drugs, according to Trump. pic.twitter.com/vEVGYVgLAg — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 2, 2025 Additionally, Trump’s strikes against drug cartels are only getting started, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio said on Wednesday that the Trump administration would no longer rely on stopping drug runners when they arrive on U.S. soil, The Daily Wire reported. Instead, the United States will take out cartel members before they reach the country to spread their “poison.” “Interdiction doesn’t work because these drug cartels — what they do is they know they’re going to lose 2% of their cargo. They bake it into their economics,” Rubio said. “What will stop them is when you blow them up. You get rid of them.” Related: U.S. Drone Strikes Cartel Drug Boat, Trump Posts Video For World To See: ‘BEWARE!’

The stepfather who always believed in her was with her at the end, as his ashes rested inside her necklace while she crossed the finish line. Brooke Johnson had just become the first woman to cross the United States on a skateboard—a record-setting 3,226-mile journey that began in Santa Monica, California and ended when she […] The post 29-yo Becomes First Woman to Cross U.S. on a Skateboard–Honoring Stepfather Whose Ashes Were Carried in a Necklace appeared first on Good News Network.

Friends, As a member in good standing of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, I am simply appalled by our beloved organization’s resolution declaring the conflict in Gaza a “genocide.” This elite group of academics, researchers and complete randos—I mean, I paid $125 to join this very week—has allowed our once-sterling reputation to be forever tainted. Why do I speak up? Need it be said that as a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, I am apparently one of the “world’s top scholars” on the matter of genocide. It’s not just me saying this! It’s the BBC, as well as virtually every major news organization in the world. An impressive-sounding organizational name is all one needs to get into the papers. None of the reporters bothered to investigate who the “scholars” voting on this resolution were. Not even the names of the draftees were shared—a lack of transparency that undermines our credibility. Take the Jew-baiting “human rights” activist Agnes Callamard of Amnesty International, who contends that an “overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars” backed a resolution that finds what is happening in Gaza “meet(s) the legal definition of the crime.” That is not true. A week ago, I could have voted on the genocide resolution, and my expertise is, let’s face it, predominantly in ‘80s and ‘90s indie rock. Indeed, according to our dear former two-term International Association of Genocide Scholars advisory board member Sara Brown, only 128 of the association’s approximately 500 members participated. There was no “consensus’ on the resolution despite our communications officer Emily Sample falsely claiming so to The Washington Post. We should really have a meeting about her future at our organization. While we typically debate controversial resolutions in “a virtual town hall” (or so I hear), leadership declined to hold any discussions on this matter, according to Brown. As a member in good standing, I have access to the organization’s LISTSERV, which shows there were zero comments on the resolution before its passage. The resolution itself is an embarrassing collection of half-truths and lies. It reads like the work of an earnest college freshman who believes hyperlinking a bunch of biased sources is tantamount to research. We repeat a litany of uncorroborated accusations made by Hamas and others. Remarkably, our resolution goes beyond the accusation of the terrorist organization. Hamas, for instance, has said that 58,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war, including 17,000 children. We contend that Israelis murdered 50,000 children alone, a completely concocted number. But, like Hamas, we don’t bother making any distinction between combatants and innocents. As highly respected scholars, we should be better than the Gaza Health Ministry. We then cite organizations that have altered their definition of “genocide” for this conflict to place the burden of proof on Israel rather than those making the accusation. Is this how world-renowned scholars do their work? Because it seems like a shoddy shortcut. We don’t even link to the work of a single one of our members. The war, which started when Hamas sent an army into Israel to murder, rape, torture and kidnap civilians, including children, is tragic. But our organization has now created a precedent that makes virtually every conflict a “genocide.” If Israel wanted to commit genocide, it would not be sending hundreds of thousands of metric tons of food and supplies to Palestinians in Gaza. It would not provide clean water and move the population away from war zones. Israel has gone out of its way to avoid civilian casualties while fighting combatants who hide behind noncombatants (something that we never mention). If a handful of unnamed members of our organization are willing to distort reality, not to mention decency, to spread the propaganda of a terrorist state, what is our scholarship really worth? The genocide accusation is a hoax. I think they know it. I think that’s why there was no debate, why the authors of the resolution aren’t named, and why barely anyone voted. We can do better. Though I noticed as I write this letter that my membership has been rescinded. Anyway, sincerely, David Harsanyi (former member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars) COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post An Open Letter to My Esteemed Colleagues at the International Association of Genocide Scholars appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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In the span of only two minutes, HBO’s Bill Maher unleashed a trio of hysterical and outrageous claims about President Trump’s utilization of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. First, he subtly implied the move was akin to a dictator like Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine, calling it “Page One Of The Dictator Handbook.” Then he doubled down on making fun of DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine for getting assaulted, before finally again warning the move might be the beginning of the end for democracy. Maher worried that, “Trump says, ‘I'm not a dictator, I just know how to stop crime,’ and I take him at his word because when has he ever told a lie—but I will say this: page one of the dictator handbook is pretexts. You find a pretext to do what you want to do anyway. Say you want to invade another country—well, you say that some people of your ethnicity living in that country are being persecuted: voila, reason to invade.”     Dictators who have done that include Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler. Moving on, Maher added, “But as pretexts go, Big Balls getting mugged? That takes some big balls. Now, that's not to say crime in D.C. isn't an actual problem. It's the 36th most violent city in the country—not as violent as Little Rock, Arkansas, or Shreveport, the city represented by noted crime boss Mike Johnson.” Maher then insisted he wasn’t trivializing D.C.’s crime problem but couldn’t help himself, “But D.C. has had 194 carjackings this year, most involving guns. That's not Mayberry. Poor Big Balls got carjacked on a date, which shocked everyone - not that he was carjacked, that he was on a date.” He also declared that, “Trump brags about the 87 percent decrease in carjackings in D.C. since the troops moved in. Yes, military states can reduce crime, point conceded. Will militarizing our cities make them safer? Yes. But not safer for democracy. Once it's normal to have an army loyal to you already in the streets, game over, that is how all future political disputes will be decided.” Meanwhile, far from possessing the moral certainty that one can have in denouncing the evilness of invading Ukraine or Czechoslovakia, liberals can’t decide whether Trump’s deployment of the National Guard means D.C. is under military rule or if he is wasting their time by having them do landscaping projects. Is democracy under threat, or are the soldiers just clearing leaves in the park?  Here is a transcript for the September 5 show: HBO Real Time with Bill Maher 9/5/2025 10:54 PM ET BILL MAHER: Trump says, "I'm not a dictator, I just know how to stop crime," and I take him at his word because when has he ever told a lie —but I will say this: page one of the dictator handbook is pretexts. You find a pretext to do what you want to do anyway. Say you want to invade another country—well, you say that some people of your ethnicity living in that country are being persecuted: voila, reason to invade.  But as pretexts go, Big Balls getting mugged? That takes some big balls. Now, that's not to say crime in D.C. isn't an actual problem. It's the 36th most violent city in the country—not as violent as Little Rock, Arkansas, or Shreveport, the city represented by noted crime boss Mike Johnson. But D.C. has had 194 carjackings this year, most involving guns. That's not Mayberry. Poor Big Balls got carjacked on a date, which shocked everyone - not that he was carjacked, that he was on a date. You're way ahead of me. All right. Trump brags about the 87 percent decrease in carjackings in D.C. since the troops moved in.  Yes, military states can reduce crime, point conceded. Will militarizing our cities make them safer? Yes. But not safer for democracy. Once it's normal to have an army loyal to you already in the streets, game over, that is how all future political disputes will be decided.

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