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by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project: Last month, Tether — the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin — froze $24 million in USDT at the request of authorities, citing compliance with anti–money laundering regulations. The move was immediately celebrated by the pro-centralization, pro-government crowd as a win for “financial safety.” But in reality, it’s another warning […]

by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan: Ukraine’s ruler, Volodymyr Zelensky, has rejected the peace terms set forth by the United States ruling class. From the beginning, Zelensky has declared that he will not accept any deal with territorial concessions. Zelensky has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for territorial concessions to Russia, claiming no such agreement […]

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President Donald Trump announced Monday he’s taking decisive action to reduce crime in Washington, D.C., drawing attention to violent crime rates not only in the nation’s capital, but in major cities across the U.S.   “We have other cities that are very bad—New York has a problem, and then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland,” Trump said at a White House press conference Monday morning to announce that the federal government is taking control of the D.C. police in an effort to crack down on crime.   “We’re not going to lose our cities over this,” Trump said, referring to crime.   Efforts to clean up cities in the U.S. will “go further” than the nation’s capital, but “we’re starting very strongly with D.C.,” he said.   In 2024, there were 187 homicides in the District of Columbia, down from 274 in 2023. If Washington. D.C., were a state, it would have the highest murder rate, based on population, of any state in the nation. Going by raw numbers alone, a number of U.S. cities experienced more homicides than the District in 2024. The FBI reports violent crime fell 4.5% across the U.S. in 2024, compared with 2023, and many cities are seeming the same positive pattern, but some cities across the U.S. continue to experience hundreds of killings every year.   NEW YORK  In 2024, there were 382 homicides and nonnegligent manslaughter incidents in New York City, according to city data.   In June, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the Big Apple had seen the “lowest number of shootings and homicides in recorded history” between January to May of this year. He added, however, it is not enough for crime to decline, that citizens should also “feel safer.”   The Citizens Budget Commission, a New York City-based bipartisan think tank, reported in June that just “42% of New Yorkers rate public safety in their neighborhood excellent or good, down from 50% in 2017.”   CHICAGO   In 2024, there were 573 homicides in Chicago, down from 620 the previous year, an 8% decline according to the Chicago Police Department.   “This year, the Chicago Police Department continued to drive down violent crime, while focusing on the victims affected by the trauma of these crimes,” police Superintendent Larry Snelling said in January.   BALTIMORE  In Baltimore, there were 201 homicides in 2024, a 23% decline from 261 in 2023, according to the Baltimore Police Department.  “Creating a safer Baltimore remains our top priority, and I want to thank the dedicated men and women of the Baltimore Police Department for their intentional and relentless efforts to reduce crime in our great city,” Richard Worley, the city’s police commissioner said in January.   “We know very well that there is much more work to be done in building trust with our communities, and we plan to build on these successes in partnership with all our stakeholders and community partners,” Worley added.   DETROIT   Detroit recorded 203 homicides in 2024, marking a 19% decline from the previous year, according to the Detroit Police Department.   (Screenshot) PHILADELPHIA  Homicides in Philadelphia fell to 269 in 2024 from 410 the previous year and the lowest homicide rate for the City of Brotherly Love since 2014.   The post 5 Cities With More Homicides Than Washington appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Heritage Foundation founder and former President Ed Feulner was remembered Monday at a memorial service for his commitment to moral seriousness. Feulner, who passed away on July 18, served as Heritage’s president from 1977 to 2013 and again from May 2017 to January 2018. His Mass of Christian burial took place at the Basilica of Saint Mary in Alexandria, Virginia. Feulner was a practicing Catholic and a graduate of the Jesuit-run Regis University in Denver, Colorado.  During the service, he was commemorated by grandson William Lown, who shared his experience knowing the conservative legend foremost as a grandfather.  “Growing up, I had no idea the man, my grandfather, was outside of our family. It wasn’t until I was about 8 years old that I attended Heritage’s New York City Christmas party for the first time, and I had multiple people come up and tell me how much of a legend. … He was only a legend because he would convince my parents to let me stay up late and eat his favorite crinkle [cookie] with him,” Lown recalled fondly.  “It has truly been inspiring to grow up and see the impact my grandfather had, on not only our beloved country, but throughout the world,” Lown eulogized.  Feulner’s son, Edwin J. Feulner III, elaborated on his father’s famous catchphrase, “Onward!” “There are so many analogies I could use this quote for with Dad. They almost write themselves, the ascending 60 years, always-uphill path of moving conservatism into the mainstream, or convincing people and leaders around the world that freedom is actually the best way to govern your people, and so many more examples that made up Dad’s life’s work. He knew the important things in life would not come easy, yet those are the ones worth climbing the hill for,” he said. Fr. Robert Sirico, the founder of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, a think tank that Feulner served on the board of, gave the service’s funeral homily.  Sirico began his address by noting that it was above his pay grade to canonize Ed and that he feared that “there would be many in this city of the devil’s advocates who would impede the process of his cause,” prompting chuckles from assembled friends and family. The Catholic cleric continued, “Rather, we gather today in the presence of the risen Lord, who is the way, the truth, and the life, and by whom we are each invited to follow to that place that He invites us. We do this with tears gripped by grief, but not by despair, because again, as Jesus admonishes us in the opening words of this Gospel, ‘Let not your hearts be troubled.’” Sirico, who collaborated with Feulner for years, remembered him as “a man of intellect, conviction, immense public influence.” “But today we do not stand here to catalog his accomplishments, though they were many. Rather, we come to acknowledge something more important. He was a baptized son of God, sealed with the Holy Spirit, nourished with the Holy Eucharist, and sent forth into the world to bear witness to that truth. He ran this race before our eyes, and often encouraged many of us present here to run along with him,” the Catholic priest explained. Sirico added, Feulner “never let his faith be hidden. He allowed it to inform his love for this country, his commitment to ordered liberty, and in his defense of the dignity of every single person, without regard to their status. His work was animated not by ideology, but by a deep moral seriousness, what St. Thomas Aquinas would call magnanimitas—magnanimity.” “That is the virtue of a great soul, bigheartedness, which seeks to do great things for God, for the truth and for the glory and good of others. It is one of the noblest and most overlooked of the Christian virtues. It refers to the disposition of the soul toward greatness, especially in the pursuit of honor, excellence, and holiness—again, all for the glory of God and the good of others,” he continued.  “You see, Ed did not believe that the success of some required the diminishment of others, either in the world of ideas or in the operations of a free economy. This virtue, which St. Thomas called the ornament of all the other virtues, elevates these other virtues by setting them in service to great ends,” he said. “Ed believed this. He staked his life on it. And so even as we mourn his death, we hold fast to the hope that he now sees, not dimly as in a glass or a mirror, but face to face that he would come to know even as he was known, the Lord whom he served through his work, his mind, his prayers, and his confessions.” The post Heritage Founder Feulner Recalled as ‘a Man of Intellect, Conviction, Immense Public Influence’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Conservative groups loudly condemned a Massachusetts police agency for citing the Southern Poverty Law Center in attacking the parental rights group Moms for Liberty in a law enforcement training. Moms for Liberty called for a retraction, suggesting that the police agency actually went further than the SPLC in attacking the parental rights nonprofit. The SPLC, which gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy in the 1980s, added Moms for Liberty to a “hate map” alongside Klan chapters in 2023. It branded the parental rights nonprofit an “anti-government extremist group,” but stopped short of calling it a “hate group.” Even so, the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee included Moms for Liberty in a report on “Freedom and Hate: Speech, Crimes & Groups,” suggesting the organization is a “hate group.” “The fact that the discredited SPLC listed Moms for Liberty as an ‘anti-government extremist group’ is bad enough,” Tina Descovich, CEO and co-founder of the parental rights group, told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday. “But to have the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee echo this false claim and add to it that we’re a ‘Hate Group’ is beyond outrageous.” “They need to immediately issue a public apology for incorrectly targeting moms and dads that advocate for parental rights,” Descovich added. The Movement Behind Moms for Liberty The Massachusetts Republican Party also condemned the training. “Parents are right to seek a say in what their kids are being taught in public schools,” Massachusetts GOP Chair Amy Carnevale told The Daily Signal. “It’s disgraceful to see Moms for Liberty be classified as a hate group for exercising that right.” The parental rights movement grew out of the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools remained closed and required students to wear face masks late into 2020 and 2021, and when remote learning allowed parents to see that schools had been teaching their children divisive gender and racial lessons. The SPLC and many teachers unions champion such lessons. “While Gov. Maura Healey and the Massachusetts Teachers Union are busy stream-rolling our children’s educational futures to enact their far-left agendas, the MassGOP is focused on recruiting concerned parents to run as Republicans up and down the ballot in 2026,” Carnevale added. The ‘Discredited’ SPLC Moms for Liberty is not the only conservative group on the SPLC “hate map” in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Family Institute also appears on the map as an “anti-LGBTQ hate group.” The institute condemned the police training. “We are deeply disturbed that our state’s law enforcement officers are being trained to brand conservative organizations like Moms for Liberty as ‘hate groups,'” Sam Whiting, the institute’s general counsel, told The Daily Signal. “The Southern Poverty Law Center has been discredited time and time again as a radical left-wing organization that weaponizes the language of ‘hate’ to disparage any group that disagrees with their politics,” Whiting added. “The Massachusetts Police Municipal Training Committee was negligent at best to use the SPLC as a source and should take immediate action to remove anti-conservative bias from its trainings.”  Critics on both the Right and the Left have accused the SPLC of exaggerating “hate” to demonize its opponents and raise money. Former SPLC staffer Bob Moser called the “hate” accusations a “highly profitable scam.” Former ACLU President Nadine Strossen dissented from the SPLC’s accusation that the conservative Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom is a “hate group.” Focus on the Family Critics have long called the SPLC “anti-Christian” because it puts conservative Christian groups on the “hate map,” claiming these groups demonize LGBTQ people. The SPLC long defended itself from such claims by noting that it did not put the conservative Christian organization Focus on the Family on the “hate map.” Yet earlier this year, the SPLC did just that. Focus on the Family also condemned the Massachusetts police training. “The SPLC is impetuously sloppy with their hate list which provides no useful information to anyone, save for the SPLC’s fund-raising efforts,” Glenn T. Stanton, director of global family formation studies at the Christian nonprofit, told The Daily Signal. “The Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee shows their own poor sleuthing skills by giving it any credence,” he added. “Since the SPLC’s ‘hate list’ is so partisanly slanted against mainstream conservative organizations, it certainly does raise the question of what kind of justice good conservative citizens under their jurisdiction might expect.” Committee Stands by Moms for Liberty Attack The Municipal Training Committee did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by publication time, but a spokesperson stood by the training in a statement to GBH News. The representative said the curriculum “draws on a broad range of open-source materials and activity happening across Massachusetts to expose officers to the perspectives they may encounter in the field while emphasizing respectful, unbiased engagement with all members of the public.” The SPLC did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment, but an SPLC research analyst, speaking to GBH News, praised the training committee for including Moms for Liberty in the curriculum. The post ‘Beyond Outrageous’: Conservatives Slam Blue State Agency for Attacking Moms for Liberty in Police Training appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois seemed to short-circuit during an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday after being asked whether it was hypocritical of him to mirror Texas' redistricting plan. Pritzker was thrust into the national spotlight recently after he offered to shield many of the 50 Texas...