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When the Senate returns from a weeklong recess, it will have just days to avoid a partial government shutdown. The funding deal that ended the last government shutdown, the longest shutdown in American history, is set to expire on Jan. 30. The Senate has passed six of the 12 spending bills to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year. The six that remain include Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, Transportation-HUD, Financial Services, National Security-State, and Homeland Security. Senate leadership predicts that funding for Homeland Security will be the most difficult to pass because of Democrat opposition to ICE operations. Senate Makes Progress Before the Senate left Washington on Thursday afternoon, the upper chamber passed a three-bill spending package. The Senate voted 82-15 on the package that combined the Commerce-Justice-Science, Interior-Environment, and Energy-Water funding bills. The price tag for the three-bill package, which is now heading to President Donald Trump’s desk, is $180 billion. As part of the deal to end the 2025 government shutdown and reopen the government, the Senate previously passed three of the appropriations bills, Agriculture, Military Construction-VA, and Legislative Branch, with funding through the end of the fiscal year. I want to thank our colleagues on the Appropriations Committee for their diligence in crafting these bills.My hope is that we’ll be able to build on the progress we’ve made this past year to get the appropriations process back to what it should be – an open process that every… pic.twitter.com/XDdP4pHBOh— Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) January 15, 2026 Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., congratulated the members and the appropriations committee on the Senate floor on Thursday for their success so far. He noted that in 2025 the Senate was able to pass three single government funding bills before August, “through regular order, a process that gives all senators the opportunity to make their voices–and the voices of their constituents–heard,” said Thune. Homeland is The Hardest Since the ICE-involved shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota, Democrats are trying to leave out funding for the immigration agents from the DHS funding bill. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: “I get asked a lot of time, ‘What’s the one thing that keeps you up at night?’ It’s the violence and the attacks on officers, agents, and not only them, but their families.”Acting Director Lyons joined “The Signal Sitdown” shortly after the… pic.twitter.com/SzZyF8ya9K— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) January 7, 2026 ICE increased operations in Minnesota after large-scale fraud was exposed at government-funded childcare centers. “Homeland is obviously the hardest one,” Thune said. He suggested that a continuing resolution is a possible outcome if the parties can’t negotiate. “We should not be limiting funding for homeland security in a dangerous time,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Fox News. “We need officials to allow law enforcement to do their job,” Johnson continued. Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has demanded “common sense measures” to be taken to assure immigration agents will conduct themselves, “in a manner that is at least consistent with every other law enforcement agency in the United States of America.” INSANE!Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey calls to end funding for the Department of Homeland Security and ICE.MARKEY: "We must stop funding DHS and ICE thugs…"Democrats are siding with criminals, not the American people. pic.twitter.com/Ezr25yAyFj— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 14, 2026 Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which boasts almost 100 members, has taken a more aggressive stance. “Our caucus will oppose all funding for immigration enforcement in any appropriations bills until meaningful reforms are enacted to end militarized policing practices,” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said during a press conference. Some Republicans have been open to negotiations suggesting more training to be required for agents. “The more training they could have, the better it’ll be, because they’re dealing with some strange stuff going on that’s coming at them in a lot of different directions,” said Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va. The post Can the Senate Keep the Government Open and Fund ICE? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

On Sunday, anti-ICE agitators invaded a church sanctuary in the middle of service, a shocking escalation arguably inspired by the Left’s extreme rhetoric against immigration enforcement. “Justice for Renee Good!” shouted agitators as they walked directly into the middle of the sanctuary, surrounding worshippers in Cities Church, a non-denominational Christian church in St. Paul, Minnesota. (An ICE agent fatally shot Good while she was driving her car, right after her car hit him. She had been using the car for hours to frustrate ICE’s law enforcement efforts.) The agitators targeted the church because one of the pastors, David Easterwood, also works with ICE. An agitator who goes by the name “DaWokeFarmer” posted videos of the action. This is not peaceful protest. This is an invasion of a sacred space. Anti-ICE agitators disrupted Cities Church in the middle of service. Warning: the agitators on the Left are serious. The man who posted this video bragged about doing this—comparing it to Jesus flipping over… pic.twitter.com/BeeIdubpwM— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) January 19, 2026 DOJ Investigating Church Invasion The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is investigating the incident for potential violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Sunday. While the Justice Department under former President Joe Biden used the FACE Act to target pro-life protesters who demonstrated outside abortion clinics, the law also protects houses of worship. The @CivilRights is investigating the potential violations of the federal FACE Act by these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers. @AGPamBondi https://t.co/uZBBv1iuuH— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) January 18, 2026 After the Biden DOJ weaponized the FACE Act to target pro-lifers, Dhillon seems ready to use the FACE Act for its intended purpose—to protect civil rights. Former CNN host Don Lemon traveled with the agitators, and claims to have merely been reporting on the incident. Yet he clearly coordinated with Nakima Armstrong, the group’s leader who previously led Minneapolis’ NAACP chapter, ahead of the church invasion. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Don Lemon (@donlemonofficial) Whatever Lemon’s involvement, the agitators who desecrated a house of God deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Innocent Victims These agitators didn’t just confront a church that also employs an ICE employee. They harassed innocent men, women, and children for the crime of worshipping God. Little children do not deserve to have their songs of praise interrupted by aggressive chanting. Of course, this church invasion does not represent the first time anti-ICE agitators have harassed innocent bystanders. Agitators have also accosted a man for the crime of driving a Chevy Suburban, the same kind of vehicle ICE officers use. In a separate incident anti-ICE agitators harassed tech workers at a deli, mistaking them for ICE agents. While Lemon may cloak himself in the free speech rights of a journalist, these agitators showed no compassion for journalist Nick Sortor when he came by, asking questions. Agitators surrounded his vehicle, smashed his windows, stole his camera, and seem to have threatened his life. Make no mistake: We have roving bands of Red Guards who make it their mission to oppose law enforcement and to terrorize ICE. They’re not afraid of harassing innocents to further their agenda. Where Does This Come From? This isn’t happening in a vacuum. Earlier this month, Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz—who has yet to condemn the desecration of the church—suggested that President Donald Trump was at war with him and threatened to call the National Guard to oppose ICE agents in Minneapolis. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, also a Democrat, said ICE should “get the f— out of Minneapolis.” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., called ICE an “occupying force.” This rhetoric comes amid the Left’s push for “sanctuary” policies that hamstring the federal government’s ability to enforce immigration law and deport illegal aliens. Democrat governors openly say that immigration law should not be enforced in their jurisdictions. On her very first day in office, Virginia’s new Democrat governor—Abigail Spanberger—rescinded the order directing law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. Democrats have even whittled away at America’s sovereignty by making my birth state of Colorado a “sanctuary state.” President Donald Trump returned to office in part because the Left had gone off the deep end on immigration. While former President Barack Obama enforced immigration law, the Left demonized immigration law under Trump, and Biden effectively opened the border, allowing millions of illegal aliens to pour into the country. A vast network of left-leaning nonprofits has demonized immigration law in the name of compassion. The Center for American Progress and the American Civil Liberties Union urged Biden to open the border. Now that Trump has closed the border and sought to deport illegal aliens, the ACLU is hard at work challenging nearly every move in the courts. Another network of nonprofits reaped rich benefits from federal grants in exchange for transporting immigrants across the country. Naturally, these groups complained to high heaven and sought to sue when Trump started clawing this money back. Now, the Left’s dark money network is funding the groups organizing anti-ICE agitators—whose aggressive tactics Renee Nicole Good employed. While Good’s death was tragic, the ICE agent who shot her arguably fired in self-defense. The Left has seized on her death as some sort of gross miscarriage of justice, taking any opportunity to demonize Trump’s attempt to bring back law and order. Trump has surged ICE officers to Minneapolis in part because local law enforcement will not work with ICE to enforce the law. Whatever you think of Trump finally enforcing immigration law in Minneapolis, I hope you will stand with me in condemning the desecration of a church. These agitators will consider no space sacred enough to trample on in their demonization of law enforcement. Americans across the country should pay close attention. The post Thanks to the Left’s Extreme Rhetoric, Anti-ICE Agitators Are Now Invading Church Services appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has indicated he is prepared to consider barring children under the age of 16 from social media, saying that “all options are on the table” to improve online protections for young people. The Government is currently reviewing measures adopted in Australia, where new restrictions have already resulted in the blocking of hundreds of thousands of accounts. Asked whether he would support a similar approach in the UK, Starmer said: “We need to better protect children from social media. We’re looking at what is happening in Australia. All options are on the table in relation to what further protections we can put in place. Whether that’s under-16s on social media or an issue I am very concerned about, under fives and screen time. Children are turning up age four at reception having spent far too much time on screens.” More: Digital ID UK: Starmer’s Expanding Surveillance State His comments reflect a growing appetite within Labour to intervene more directly in how children access digital platforms and its broader push to integrate digital ID into more aspects of life. Ministers are reportedly studying ways to strengthen age-related restrictions amid growing political and parental pressure to address potential harms linked to screen use. The Sun reported earlier this week that the Prime Minister was leaning toward a ban, with officials examining options for tighter controls. A vote in the House of Lords this week on a cross-party amendment to restrict under-16s from social media could push the matter back to the Commons for further debate. The Conservative Party has already pledged to pursue a similar ban. However, enforcing such a ban would require significant changes to how people access the internet. In order to block under-16s, social media platforms would need to introduce mandatory age verification systems, meaning that every user, not just children, would have to prove their age through digital ID checks. This would likely involve uploading government-issued identification or biometric data, creating vast databases linking real identities to online profiles. Once in place, these systems could normalize digital ID checks across the internet, turning age verification into a routine requirement for online activity. Such a move would also erode the ability to speak anonymously online. When every account must be tied to an official identity, people may self-censor out of concern that their personal details could be exposed. This would undermine one of the core principles of free expression on the internet: the right to participate in public conversation without being surveilled. The security implications are also considerable. Databases containing both adult and child identification records would become high-value targets for hackers, increasing the risk of data breaches and identity theft. While protecting children from harmful online environments is a widely shared goal, the enforcement model required to achieve it through an under-16 ban would reach far beyond child safety. It would reshape the structure of the open internet, replacing anonymous participation with an identity-verified system in which privacy becomes conditional and speech more easily traced. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Keir Starmer Considers Under-16 Social Media Ban That Could Require ID Checks for All UK Users appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Don Lemon, Boko Haram, and the KKK All Attack Churches for Spreading the Wrong Word

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Every Friday evening, our house goes offline. My wife and I close our laptops, silence our phones, and step away from the world for about 24 hours. We don’t watch any movies, don’t listen to any music, don’t drive anywhere in the car, and don’t buy anything at the store. Our kids may not be as plugged in as my wife or I am, but they too retreat from the world outside our family. I remember what actually matters. I feel less angry, less anxious, and less consumed by things beyond my control.We do this every week because we observe the Jewish Sabbath, which begins just before sundown on Friday night and ends just after sunset on Saturday. Pressing pauseThe truth is not many people observe the Sabbath like we do. Of course, all traditionally inclined Jews observe in our same way, but there aren’t that many traditionally observant Jews in the world. In terms of world population, the number of people who take a 24-hour break from the internet every single week on the Sabbath is rather small. That number should be larger. I say that not because I think more people should be religious in the same way we are; in my view, everyone has their own faith, and it’s not my place to tell people what to believe. But I do think people should observe some sort of Sabbath because it’s good for you. I'm not the first to suggest that both gentiles and Jews could benefit from this ancient tradition. The late Charlie Kirk observed the Sabbath much like we do. At the time of his assassination, he was preparing to launch a book on the personal benefits of stepping away from the world every Friday evening.Creative controlI can personally vouch for all the benefits the Sabbath brings. Getting away from the internet for a solid 24 hours every single week keeps me sane. Really, I’m not exaggerating. I would lose my mind without it. I don’t know how I would handle being plugged in 24/7 — 24/6 I can do, but no more than that. To be honest, I feel myself starting to get sick of X, Instagram, news, and everything else searchable by Friday afternoon. I feel myself starting to get physically ill and more angry than I ought to be as the hours wind down before the weekend. After six days of online living, I start to feel like a rubber band about to snap. Too many competing signals crowd my brain, making it impossible to think clearly. By the time the sun begins to set, I hate the internet so much that I just want to unplug from everything. So that’s what I do. And why not? Even God — the original Sabbath-keeper — needed a break after creating the world:And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made (Genesis 2:2-3, NKJV).And He didn't have social media. Stranger dangerNever before in history have human beings had such constant access to the wider world. We can read news from every corner of the globe, peer into places our ancestors never knew existed, and absorb information about people we don’t know and never will. We can even enjoy the strange, modern pleasure of being insulted by random strangers online who, for reasons known only to them, have decided they hate us.These are all recent developments — and they come with modern, often negative consequences.Our ancestors never lived in a world like this. And it is, frankly, a wild one. It has a way of convincing us that trivial things matter more than they do, of distracting us from what truly matters. It pulls our attention away from our families and from God and pushes it instead toward a constant stream of strangers, gossip, and noise. It wears on you. It drives you a little crazy.I think we’re seeing the effects of that now. A world permanently plugged into the internet is a world slowly losing its bearings. People become meaner, more confused, more absorbed in distant controversies and less attentive to the people right in front of them. They become less themselves and more like the mob — less human, in a subtle but troubling way. The always-online state has made us coarser, and we are worse for it.RELATED: Erika Kirk joins Glenn Beck to discuss Charlie’s legacy and his book on honoring the Sabbath Glenn Beck, Erika Kirk. Image source: Blaze MediaKeeping quietEvery week when I unplug, I arrive at the same realizations. They usually come sometime around Saturday afternoon. I remember what actually matters. I feel less angry, less anxious, and less consumed by things beyond my control. I feel more like myself. My mind is clearer. My heart is gentler. I am, quite simply, more at peace.I wish I could remember all of this without the Sabbath. But I can’t. I’m not perfect — far from it. And maybe, just maybe, God knew something about the people He created when He gave us a day of rest.I step away from the internet and the world of work every Friday night. I don’t think you have to do it exactly the way I do — or even on the same day — for it to matter. Maybe for you it’s Saturday night to Sunday night. Maybe it’s all day Sunday until Monday morning. Whatever works for you is fine.I only know what works for me: turning off my phone every Friday evening, watching my wife and daughter light the Shabbat candles, sharing a meal together, not checking the news, and spending 24 hours in a small, quiet cocoon — safe, for a time, from a chaotic world.