What if UFC Freedom 250 is not merely a sporting event, but yet another symbolic ceremony in the restoration of American sovereignty?
If the Act of 1871 marked the beginning of America’s transformation from a constitutional republic into a corporate entity operating within a commercial and maritime legal framework, then reversing that process would require more than legislation and executive orders.
It would require a public restoration; a visible sequence of events marking America’s return to the principles upon which it was founded in 1776.
And that process began on June 14, 2025, Flag Day. Not just any date, but the anniversary of the adoption of the American flag in 1777, the enduring symbol of the Republic and the law of the land.
The next major step came on April 18, 2026, when President Trump publicly read from 2 Chronicles, calling the nation back to God. This represented far more than a religious message, it was a public appeal to return to the original source of authority established in 1776.
Nine days later came the visit of King Charles and Queen Camilla.
This is where things become particularly interesting. If 1776 represented America’s separation from the British Crown, then the King’s presence during a supposed restoration process carries obvious symbolic significance. Even more curious was the revival of the ancient tradition known as “telling the bees.”
For centuries, bees were informed when a monarch died, when ownership changed hands, or when authority was transferred from one custodian to another. The ritual traditionally marked the end of one era and the beginning of another. It now marked the symbolic return of authority from the Crown back to the American people.
On May 17th came the National Prayer of Dedication, exactly one lunar cycle after Trump’s call for the nation to return to God. This represented the public rededication of the nation and the reaffirmation of the original covenant.
Then came the changing of the guard at the Federal Reserve.
On May 25th, Kevin Warsh was sworn in as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the institution that represents the central pillar of the debt based financial system that emerged from the post 1871 order.
These events are steps in a carefully sequenced process.
Which brings us to June 14, 2026, exactly one year after Flag Day, a UFC event is scheduled to take place on the South Lawn of the White House.
At first glance it appears completely unrelated to everything that came before it. But what if it is not?
What if UFC Freedom 250 serves as a public symbolic ceremony marking the people’s participation in, and acceptance of, the restoration process itself?
Major transitions require more than declarations from leaders and symbolic gestures from institutions. They require the visible participation of the people themselves.
Throughout history, public ceremonies have served as a means of expressing collective consent. Coronations, public oaths, parades, celebrations and national spectacles have all been used to mark the acceptance of a new order, a new ruler or a new chapter in a nation’s history.
The UFC Freedom 250 is more than entertainment; it’s a highly visible public spectacle taking place on sovereign American soil, on Flag Day, exactly one year after the alleged restoration process began and only weeks before the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
An estimated one billion people will be watching, emotionally investing themselves in the spectacle.
The foreign champions and contenders represent the established international order, while the American fighter competing on sovereign American soil represents the ‘we the people’ reclaiming their own ground.
The event functions as a visible demonstration that the American people embrace a return to the principles of 1776 and the sovereignty that was lost after 1871.
The fight itself is not the point, the point is the ceremony, the point is the people’s participation.
UFC Freedom 250 may represent yet another step in a process that began a year earlier and culminates on July 4th, 2026, exactly 250 years after America declared its independence from the British Crown and placed itself under the sovereignty of God.
The battle for independence did not end in 1776, it has taken two and a half centuries to complete.
SCOTUS begins unloading big decisions; “major wins” for Republicans; shackles stripped off; Haitians now face largest mass deportation in history; Trump’s reverse-lawfare strategy pays off; more.
Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! Yesterday the Supreme Court began publishing its more controversial decisions, including a pair of immigration cases that badly triggered the left. We’ll look at why it triggered progressives, why CNN calls the decisions “major wins” for conservatives, and why they made the New York Times fret about ‘taking the President’s shackles off’— a very odd metaphor for them to use. Then we’ll connect all that to Trump’s anti-lawfare strategy and even to the SAVE Act’s prospects.
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As we rocket into the tail end of June —the Nation’s 250th Anniversary is now only eight days away— the Supreme Court is following its usual custom of clearing its back catalog of controversial decisions. Next week is the final week when the headline cases drop. But we’re starting to reach the good stuff. Yesterday, CNN reported, “Supreme Court gives Trump major wins on two immigration cases.” That was a pretty tame example.
Democrats of all stripes are losing their minds, and corporate media is unloading bizarrely hysterical headlines. But it was terrific news for Springfield’s cats and dogs.
The Justices have a habit of saving their spiciest cases for last, practically tossing them to clerks over their shoulders as they race to their cars to get out of dodge before the fireworks start. Waiting till the last second has the happy effects of: reducing the hordes of angry activists screaming into air horns, shrinking crowds infesting the Court’s front porch, and eliminating the ever-present miasma of rancid B.O. floating up from sweaty protesters into SCOTUS windows.
You can’t blame them. If SCOTUS released its sauciest cases early in the term, it would have to endure constant protests. And, ‘Ain’t nobody has time for dat.’ After all, that’s their workplace.
What I immediately noticed in yesterday’s dump of highly controversial immigration cases was that it suggests the final batch of eight orders we have yet to see will be off the chain. Before we discuss what happened yesterday, note what the Court is still holding back: birthright citizenship, transgender sports bans, agency removal power, Fed appointments, and mail‑in ballot deadlines.
Those last eight will explode into view next week, days or hours before the Court takes its summer holiday, and right before the Independence Day weekend.
Happy Fourth of July, America!
⚖️ SCOTUS dropped only four opinions yesterday. The first decision held that Hawaii may not enforce special gun restrictions just because ancestral spirits told it to (i.e., “Hawaiian native traditions”). You think I’m joking? Justice Alito wrote, “the Second Amendment has the same meaning in all parts of the United States. It cannot give way to ‘the spirit of Aloha’ in Hawaii any more than it can yield to the spirit of the Big Apple or the Windy City.”
Hawaiians. SMDH.
The next decision made the unsurprising (but disappointing) 7-2 decision that Roundup must only follow the EPA’s labeling rules to avoid liability for ‘failure to warn’ injuries, and not whatever juries think should be on the labels. A very odd couple dissented— Justice Neil Gorsuch joined Justice Jackson’s dissent.
It wasn’t a major decision. They didn’t hold that Roundup was globally immune from any injury claims— just claims related to labeling. But SCOTUS knew it was potentially explosive.
Those were the two uncontroversial decisions. The bombs came next.
⚖️ The last two were the pair of immigration cases that CNN’s headline called “major wins” for Trump. TAW! You know what thatmeans. “Major wins” trigger progressive hysteria. The Washington Post’s overwrought headline even suggested the decisions threatened public health:
(Mixed metaphor alert! Immigrants ‘brace’ for impact, not fallout. Like, the impact of being thrown in an ICE van. For fallout, they need to wear a radiation suit or something. Come on, guys. Probably a rushed headline.)
The New York Times published this alarming guest essay based on the immigration decisions, broadening them into a dystopian theme of diabolical authoritarianism once again descending on the country and causing the ‘sunset of democracy’ or whatever:
(This headline was also rushed. First, unshackling presumes the presidency isshackled to begin with, and that shackling is a good thing. But who or what shackled the presidency to begin with? The Deep State? It never says. Second, aren’t shackles something you put on slaves? How could that be a good thing?)
In the pair’s first decision, the Court explained what the word “arrived” meant. Federal law lets foreigners who’ve “arrived” in the U.S. apply for asylum. Activists prefer that “arrived” include migrants reaching any Mexican border town, where NGOs all have asylum offices.
SCOTUS said nope. Arrived means you’re in the house. Or in this case, in the country. They must literally cross the border before they are entitled to apply for asylum.
So that was bad enough; a clear win for Trump. But that first decision was just the local warm-up band. The headliner was next.
⚖️ The second immigration decision set the political world on fire. Oddly, the case doesn’t sound like it should have been an earthquake. Once again, the Court merely defined a common dictionary word, this time the word “temporary.”
If temporary means anything, they opined, applying common sense, it’s that something temporary has to end sometime.
(On an aside, this is the kind of clear-eyed analysis I wish they’d done during the pandemic about all the “temporary” states of covid emergency. Oh well. I suppose some temporary things persist longer than others, like herpes outbreaks. “There is nothing so permanent as a temporary government program.” — Reagan.)
In the decision, styled Mullin v. Doe, the Court lifted lower court injunctions blocking the Trump Administration from terminating the “temporary protected status” of 350,000 Haitians and a few thousand Syrians. They are not citizens or even applicants for citizenship, but have been here “temporarily” for ages, on the theory that the U.S. is nicer and safer than the third-world hellholes where they came from.
Activist judges had agreed with activist plaintiffs that, while ‘temporary’ doessuggest some kind of ending, Trump is a racist. And if he is a racist, then he shouldn’t be allowed to cancel people’s temporary protected status (TPS).
The Supremes said the activists were looking in the wrong spot. The law “trumps” anyone’s feelings. Then —and this was the hand grenade— it said federal courts shouldn’t meddle in the President’s immigration decisions. Regarding TPS, SCOTUS explained that immigration law both gave the DHS Secretary broad discretion to terminate temporary status and also stated that there is “no judicial review of any determination of the Secretary.”
KABOOM.
⚖️ “The administration is now free to move forward with what immigrants’ rights advocates describe as the largest de-documentation in U.S. history,” the Times piece explained. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called it, “a cruel and inhumane decision; the Supreme Court just turned its back on more than 300,000 Haitians and thousands of Syrians.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) pitched a dramatic, grandstanding press conference on SCOTUS’s front porch (see?), calling Mullin v. Doe, without exaggeration, a “horrendous, racist policy of deportation” that was “offensive to everyone on every single level.”
Whew!
The reaction was immediate, sort of crazy, and it was everywhere. NYC’s Boy Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued a defiant statement calling SCOTUS’s decision “a cruelty that has become normalized,” pledging solidarity with “Haitian and Syrian brothers and sisters” (even using the Marxist dog whistle ‘solidarity’ three times in less than two minutes), and vowing that the decision was “something that we will not ever accept.”
Many commenters noted it sounded like Mamdani promised to defy the Supreme Court. Which was weird because Democrats can’t shut up about President Trumpsupposedly defying court orders. But never mind! That’s different.
Anyway, the big-talking Mamdani bragged about how 3 million New Yorkers (out of 8 million) are natives of other countries. He even read out a Mayor’s office emergencytoll-free hotline for any “affected immigrants,” which he repeated twice: 1-800-354-0365.
Wouldn’t it be a shame if that number were clogged with people asking so many silly questions that operators went insane?
Remember all the amusing viral mashups from the 2024 election season’s evergreen story about Haitian TPS immigrants in Illinois, crashing into school buses, harvesting geese from city parks, and eating locals’ pets. In tearful tirades at city council meetings, multiple residents reported Haitian petnapping was happening. But Springfield’s police chief and part-time slumlord (he owns two dozen migrant rental houses whose rent is paid by federal tax dollars) “debunked” the story. So.
⚖️ I’m telling you: pay attention to this. For some reason, this story about a relatively small group of affected Haitians is still huge. As we’ve now seen, corporate media, far-leftists, and rank-and-file Democrats are all squealing like slaughtered pigs. What in Hades is going on?
First of all, it’s historic in ways that might escape casual notice. SCOTUS just unraveled a longstanding, secret law that Democrats used to sneak in large numbers of illegals, but legally. Yesterday, activist Guerline Jozef, the founder of an NGO called the Haitian Bridge Alliance, explained the big picture. Listen to the whole thing; it’s important (and it’s less than 60 seconds).
Temporary has always been interpreted more like indefinitely. “We have TPS holders who have been in this country, calling the U.S. home for the past 10, 15, 20 years,” Guerline said. Twenty years! Who even needs citizenship, when TPS is available?
“They are our doctors, caregivers, attorneys, taxi drivers,” she continued.
Wait, what? Doctors and attorneys? Those jobs require licenses. To get a license to practice law, applicants must graduate from a credentialed law school (a three-year, full-time program) and then pass a state bar exam. Medical licenses are even more demanding.
So… how are ‘temporary’ refugee residents —noncitizens— getting professional licenses that take years of effort for citizens to obtain?
In other words, this clever progressive wordplay has been concealing illegals for a long time. TPS was the secret sauce for how Biden quickly brought people into the country in large numbers and long-term, despite any pesky ‘problems’ precluding real citizenship applications (like criminal histories).
But yesterday’s decision was the first real reduction in the TPS laws in, well, forever. Which brings us to the second dangerous point for Democrats. If it’s okay for the Administration to end TPS status for Haitians and Syrians because courts must refrain from meddling, then it is also okay to end TPS for residents of 17 other countries, which is over a million more noncitizens who are absolutely not voting in elections, perish the thought.
⚖️ As I explained, the Court has essentially held that federal courts have no businessreviewing the administration’s decision to terminate TPS. That is a structural precedent: it swells presidential discretion (“unshackling”) over a major immigration program and shrinks judicial checks.
Most importantly: this SCOTUS decision affects all future administrations and countries (not just Haiti and Syria).
Don’t miss the staggering implication: President Trump is finding ‘Plan B’ strategies to make his executive orders permanent, without needing new laws from Congress. He’s driving the migrant bus around the uncooperative legislative branch to the courthouse.
Since Republicans in the Senate won’t help, Trump is getting help from a surprising source: Democrat lawfare. Whenever the Supreme Court decides a case, it makes binding law. Thus, future presidents can’t just reverse Trump’s executive orders, since the legal precedent has confirmed them.
Trump’s team realized there are two sources for law: the Legislative branch andthe Judicial branch. He’s not bothering much with the messy, delayed, and often unsatisfying business of lawmaking in the House and Senate sausage factories.
That’s why the Democrats and their socialist allies are so upset. They shouldhave kept out of all the lawfare, but they just can’t help themselves. It’s like an OCD. But they are starting to catch on now, waking up to how Trump is using their reflexive litigation against them.
For example, yesterday, Gavin “Slick Willy 2.0” Newsom —discussing his 2028 run on his own podcast— said the Court needs to be expanded to 13 Justices. “We gotta win; we gotta consolidate power,” he explained. He talked about Court packing more than he did about Democrats needing to win back the House or Senate.
⚖️ Finally, let’s tie some threads together. How about something really cool to think about? President Trump has often said he’d pass the SAVE Act by executive order if Congress doesn’t. Nobody knew what he meant. But here’s the thing— federal law already prohibits non-citizens from voting in federal elections. That law is already on the books.
The problem is, apart from a handful of red states, nobody bothers to enforce that federal law. Well, guess what?
Last year, President Trump issued an executive order to proactively enforce existing election law by requiring states to verify legal ID for voting. Then, of course, Democrats sued in several blue jurisdictions. The cases are working their way through several courts right now. Many cases mean many shots on the SCOTUS goal.
The decision teed that particular case up for appeal, which puts it on track for SCOTUS review.
Among other proposed changes, President Trump’s order would require people to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote, prevent mail ballots from being counted if they arrive after Election Day, even if they were postmarked by then, and punish non-compliant states by withholding federal money.
Next, imagine that the Supreme Court upholds parts or all of Trump’s executive order as constitutional. That would take even more shackles off the President and allow him to enforce existing laws, which is literally the Executive Branch’s primary purpose.
One of the ways Trump upholds his “Trump always wins” brand is through maintaining multiple paths to victory. This week’s SCOTUS decisions already set the progressive world afire. I can’t wait to find out what next week will deliver.
Have a fantastic Friday! Tune back in tomorrow morning, for the Weekend Edition’s roundup of essential news and caffeinated commentary.
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Blog reader Florian has a friend who saw a water spout rising out of Lake Constance which borders Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Florian consulted his Pleiadian guides who gave him this explanation…
‘In all major lakes, there are portals that are frequently used by extraterrestrials as bases. When a ship rises from the lake, a column of water forms. These phenomena will become increasingly noticeable, as they serve to make us aware of the peaceful coexistence with the E.T.s—they have always been among us, but now, due to the rising energies, they want to prepare us for physical contact.
And they emphasized once again the importance of watching the water…’ (Florian)
My friend Sue took this cloud ship pic this morning. Note the green tinge.
Sue just emailed me this beautiful sunset pic. Fortunately my post is late today…!
Finally, as I was driving around today I thought to myself, ‘I can’t take 3D life seriously anymore. I need to hover. All day, just hover at my 60,000 foot perspective…’
Observe – don’t absorb. It really is easier to handle 3D life when you follow this strategy.
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Dominion drops its billion-dollar war on Mike Lindell, an antifa cell draws 450 years for the ICE attack, and the DOJ’s fraud blitz tops records — the greatest law-and-order era of our lifetimes.
Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! Today’s law and order roundup includes: Dominion drops its billion-dollar crusade against pillow magnate Mike Lindell; an “idea” gets a century in federal prison as eight antifa militants draw 450 combined years for the July 4th ICE attack; the DOJ’s fraud blitz blows past 455 defendants and $6.5 billion; murder hits a 125-year low; and corporate media conceals the biggest law-and-order surge in American history.
In the wake of 2020’s disastrous Mail-In Election, colorful MyPillow founder Mike Lindell made the fateful decision to dabble in politics. Apparently a glutton for punishment, as his very first political project, Lindell heroically reached for the highest-voltage rail in 2021’s political climate— voter fraud.
Hardly any underachiever, Lindell decided to focus on the problems with electronic voting systems (“EVS”). He often appeared on his own streaming channel to warn Americans about them, and even released an anti-EVS documentary called “Absolute Proof” as early as February 2021. He might as well have painted a huge ACME-style bullseye on the seat of his suit’s trousers.
During the 2020 election, two major players dominated the electronic (“touchscreen”) voting market in the swing counties: Dominion and Smartmatic. Lindell’s documentary accused both companies of throwing the 2020 election for Joe “Cole Slaw” Biden. Both companies, plus one executive Lindell called out in his documentary, sued Lindell for over a billiondollars in defamation damages— each. They argued that Lindell could not, in fact, absolutely prove they programmed their machines to cheat, and that he was actually just trying to become the world’s richest pillow stuffer. (They also sued Fox, Newsmax, Rudy Giuliani, attorney Sydney Powell, and anybody else they could find.)
The timing was unfortunate for Lindell and the other defendants. The lawsuits landed on judges’ desks during the manic, post-January-6th “insurrection” hysteria and general conservative roundups. In February, 2021, even posting 2020 election-fraud memes to Facebook was considered to be a dire national security threat. Weaponized government had just finished its warm-ups and stretches and was heading down the track. The left coined the term “election denier,” which described a thoughtcrime 1,000 times worse than Hitler Memorabilia Collection.
As the nation’s most outspoken pillow salesman and notorious election denier, Lindell was repeatedly investigated, detained, and the FBI confiscated his phone and devices (so agents could try to find an actual crime to charge him with, but failed).
But the civil lawfare dragged on for years, costing Lindell $20 million in attorney’s fees to date. (His estimate.) The executive, Eric Coomer, won a $2.3 million jury verdict in June of last year. Lindell has appealed. Last fall, Smartmatic won a summary judgment on liability, with a jury trial on potential billions in damages still pending.
Ironically, in October, 2025, Smartmatic —a company founded by three Venezuelan engineers connected to Hugo Chavez, and having an opaque international ownership structure— was criminally indicted, for bribery and other crimes unrelated to the 2020 election. That case goes to trial in January 2027.
Unfortunately for Smartmatic, it can’t sue the DOJ for defamation.
Also in October —the same month as Smartmatic’s indictment— all of Dominion’s assets were sold to Liberty Vote, a St. Louis-based company founded by Scott Leiendecker, a former St. Louis Republican city elections director. The assets that Liberty acquired included the Lindell lawsuit.
This week, Liberty Vote settled and dismissed Dominion’s lawsuit. Lindell told the Associated Press, “It was a nice gesture.” The terms of the settlement are confidential, but Lindell seems to be in high spirits. I assume he paid nothing. So, between the two lawsuit-happy EVS providers that may have helped elect Joe Biden from his basement campaign, one is under criminal indictment, and the other was sold for scraps to new conservative ownership.
“I’m not stopping,” Lindell told reporters. “All voting machines have to go, and they know that.”
🗳️ Republican election officials have already ditched Dominion and Smartmatic. But now, Democrats are caught in a crack. There is zero chance (maybe less than zero) that blue counties would ever use an EVS supplied by any company: controlled by a former Republican election official, named “Liberty Vote,” and that let Election Denier Mike Lindell off the hook. Indeed, at the time of acquisition, Liberty announced it was “a new chapter for American elections, one where trust is rebuilt from the ground up.”
That’s not exactly a sales pitch to progressives. So that takes Dominion out of the running. And since Smartmatic sits under DOJ indictment, it’s not exactly a favored pick these days, either.
The already slender EVS market is growing thin to the point of invisibility. The two remaining players —ES&S (headquartered in Nebraska) and Hart InterCivic (HQ in Texas)— are preferred options for red counties, which means they are viewed with deep suspicion by blue counties. So, as contracts expire and come up for renewals, blue counties face difficult decisions, with supervisors likely to be criticized by their progressive voters whichever way they go.
Obviously, paper ballots are not a new idea. Both election security experts and academic computer scientists have been recommending them for years, even before 2020, since they create a voter-verified paper audit trail that is independent of any software. The Brennan Center, the MIT Election Lab, and CISA have all been pushing in this direction.
It would be an easy solution, but it won’t be easy for Democrat Election Supervisors to go back to paper, since that will be seen as giving Trump what he wants. But seriously, at this point, what are their alternatives? This thorny EVS conundrum is another finger curled into the polycrisis fist.
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In the most astonishing development of the Millennium, if not all human history, an “idea” just got a century in prison. The New York Times soberly reported, “Protesters Accused of Antifa Ties Sentenced to Up to 100 Years in ICE Attack.” Out of nowhere, the subheadline whined, “The penalties, issued in an attack where a police officer was shot, dwarfed those given to Jan. 6 rioters.” Spoiler alert: this has nothing whatever to do with January 6th, except in the Times’ deranged imagination.
Last year on Independence Day, 10 heavily armed and masked Antifa militants in black bloc costumes bravely resisted fascism by ambushing an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. They were armed with assault rifles, pistols (over 50 firearms total), ammunition, commercial-grade fireworks, radios, military-grade first-aid kits, body armor, and electromagnetic blocking devices.
The New York Times referred to them as “a group of protesters.” I am not making that up:
And, “accused of being members of Antifa?” Really, Times? As the same sentenceadmits, a jury already convicted them. There are no more accusations. Antifa membership was inherent in the jury’s verdict. They aren’t “accused,” they are convicted terrorists. That phrase was absent from the article. But I digress! Back to the attack.
The Antifans fired rockets into the building and cars, trying to flush out the ICE agents so they could kill them. The agents wisely stayed put.
When a police officer arrived on the scene responding to a 911 call from the ICE agents, the militants shot him in the neck. He miraculously survived. Unfortunately for the Antifans, attempted murder is sentenced the same as completed murder. In total, Antifa fired at least 30 assault 5.56 caliber rounds in the attack.
For whatever it is worth, three of the ten, including one of the ringleaders (and sex worker), Bradford “Meagan” Morris, were transgender. For more of the sordid details, here’s a link to heroic independent journalist Andy Ngo’s Substack article.
🔥 On Tuesday, eight of the convicted terrorists were sentenced to a combined 450 years in prison. (The other two cooperated.) Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor and Judge Mark T. Pittman handed down the sentences, which the New York Times called “historic,” and they didn’t mean it in a good way. The cell’s chief, Benjamin Hanil Song, who shot Alvarado police officer Thomas Gross, got 100 years— a life sentence.
Six more defendants also convicted of terrorism charges each got between 50 and 70 years in prison; one “only” got 30 years.
To say the least, this was a major federal terrorism sentencing. It is the first of its kind under the Antifa designation, with life and half-life sentences given to the convicted terrorists. The Times has a national security desk, a courts desk, a criminal justice desk full of reporters who cover federal terrorism prosecutions as their primary beat, and one January 6th specialist.
So of course, Times’ editors assigned the Antifa story to its “January 6th and Trump Criminal Cases reporter,” Alan Feuer:
(And, “former President Trump”? 🙄 Could the editors be any more obvious?)
The Times raced to compare the sentences to the January 6th prosecutions, which it labored to point out were commuted anyway. “The most severe sentence faced by a Jan. 6 defendant was the 22-year term given to Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys,” the outraged Times insisted.
But Tarrio wasn’t even in DC on January 6th, hardly an apples-to-terrorists comparison, a distinction that the Times didn’t draw.
🔥 Later in the story, the Times sneered at President Trump’s 2025 executive order declaring Antifa to be a “domestic terror organization” — which, the Times reported contemptuously, is “a designation that does not actually exist under U.S. law.”
Um. Biden’s DOJ, in its 2021 National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, explicitly elevated domestic terrorism, including from “anti-government” and “anarchist violent extremists.” In other words, using language that clearly encompassed antifa-style groups, and making that its top priority. Biden’s FBI pursued domestic terrorism investigations into even nonviolent activity under itsdefinition. The Times never mentions thathistory.
And of course, the jury convicted the Antifans of domestic terrorism, which proves beyond argument that a legal definition doesexist under U.S. law. (Just more Times misinformation.)
The story ended by quoting Ben Song’s grieving mother, who complained the convictions were just “a government lie made to prosecute innocent people in order to get political persecutions.”
But the jury heard 12 days of testimony, 46 witnesses, and over 210 exhibits, including bodycam video of Song yelling “get to the rifles” and opening fire, DNA and fingerprint evidence, encrypted chat logs, and testimony from the three cooperating co-defendants. The Times mentioned the shooting only in the final paragraph and attributed it to “prosecutors said.”
Needless to say, the Times never ran sympathetic, unchallenged quotes from January 6th defendants’ mothers calling their sons innocent of seditious conspiracy. It’s almost like the Times supports realdomestic terrorism, as established by a jury of the convicted terrorists’ peers.
🔥 Terrific Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche tweeted, “The sentences handed down today make clear that antifa terrorists who attack law enforcement and federal facilities will face swift and uncompromising justice.”
That is true. But it is also true that the convictions put the lie to the corporate media’s mendacious narrative that “Antifa is just an idea, not an organization.” Joe Biden first used that excuse in the initial 2020 presidential debate, and it became the standard corporate media deflection narrative whenever Antifa violence was raised.
The Baghdad Bob media reflexively repeated that narrative as a conversation-ender. In its article, the Times refused to capitalize “antifa,” though it has no problem capitalizing “Oath Keepers” and “Proud Boys.”
But the DOJ’s own evidence —which the jury accepted— showed a structured “North Texas Antifa Cell” with: a recognized leader (Song) who recruited members, distributed firearms, and ran combat training sessions; operational security protocols (encrypted apps, auto-delete, Faraday bags, monikers); advance planning and reconnaissance; shared ideology documented in “zines” and group chats; and coordinated tactical execution on the night of the attack. That is not an idea. It is a de facto organization, or at minimum a cell within a larger network, which is precisely how the government successfully charged it.
And so we finally arrive at the most historic aspect of Tuesday’s sentencing. For the first time in history, an “idea” was sentenced to life in prison. But even that happy news overshadows the flood of DOJ cases and convictions against similar criminals in the last couple weeks.
The Justice Department said the operation spanned 56 federal districts and 45 states and territories, with all 50 state Medicaid Fraud Control Units taking part, for an incomprehensible $6.5 billion in fraudulent billings. The DOJ reported seizing roughly $182 million in cash, luxury vehicles, jewelry, and other assets tied to the alleged schemes.
Federal officials said they were moving away from a “pay and chase” approach, toward data analytics that flag suspicious billing patterns before claims are paid. “CMS is done playing catch-up,” CMS Director Mehmet Oz said, adding that “stopping them before a single dollar leaves the building is smarter.” Indeed.
From October 2023 to April 2025, prosecutors alleged Las Vegas nurse Marizel Yukee and unnamed co-conspirators submitted an eye-watering $906 million in fraudulent Medicare claims for “medically unnecessary allografts.” (A type of skin graft.)
Brandy Kaye Hernandez, 48, of Richmond, Texas, was charged with providing fraudulent rehab services. Ironically, Brandy and her co-conspirators are now headed for criminal justice rehabilitation.
Also yesterday, from Pittsburgh’s Trib Live, food stamp fraud:
Earlier this month, in Ohio, as reported by the Center Square:
The charges included two state employees, in a 32-count indictment for allegedly billing $30 million for therapeutic behavioral services that were never provided, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced.
Carone, 56, and three co-defendants were accused of illegally steering nearly $7 million in federal grant money for migrant housing to a Queens hotel owner in exchange for a $120,000 bribe, which he “hoped would grow,” according to the indictment. Those arrests came along with news that the homes of three former and current high-ranking NYPD officials were raided as part of a probe into another suspected bribery scheme that also took place during the covid period. (All Democrats.)
Those examples were not even all the DOJ’s announcements this month. The Department of Justice is clearly working overtime, and the data proves it. The annual healthcare fraud takedown is a standing, combined DOJ/HHS program dating back to at least 2016, so fraud enforcement is not new. But the scale under the Trump 2.0 is absolutely unprecedented, and the breadth of enforcement across other categories goes well beyond any prior period.
For comparison, the number of healthcare fraud defendants charged during the four years of Biden: 138 (2021), 90 (2022), 78 (2023), and 193 (2024). If the numbers seem weak, consider that the DOJ was busy prosecuting non-violent Capitol Hill tourists and grandmas protesting abortion clinics. So.
But just last year alone, Trump’s DOJ charged 324 health care fraud defendants— nearly as many as all four years of Biden. At the time, DOJ called it “the largest health care fraud takedown in U.S. Department of Justice history.”
We don’t have the 2026 figures yet, but just June’s headlines alone put this year’s figure well into the 600s— so far. The one case with 455 defendants itself dwarfs prior years. But it goes far beyond healthcare, as the historic Antifa case tells us. What we are now seeing is a sustained, high-tempo enforcement of white-collar crime, across healthcare fraud, government program fraud (like food stamps and migrant housing), political violence, election crimes, and public corruption simultaneously.
🔥 Finally, let us not forget the Trump DOJ’s crackdown on regular crime that has already produced record-low murder rates. An illustrative April headline from the baffled New York Times:
2025’s murder rate of approximately 4.0 per 100,000 is the lowest on record since at least 1900. And it’s not just murders. Overall violent crime fell -9.3% — described by the FBI as “the single largest decrease in violent crime and murder since 1937.” In 2025, robbery fell -18.5%, aggravated assault -7.2%, rape -7.6%, and property crimes dropped -12.4%.
D.C. violent crime plunged -25% during just Trump’s first 100 days in his second term— and that’s even allowing for DC’s artificially low reported crime rates predating Trump 2.0.
The DOJ is also prosecuting profound evil, from dark-web sex-trafficking and child blackmail/exploitation networks like 764, a historic first, to gangs like MS-13, Tren de Aragua, and the Trinitarios— all under broad, organizational RICO-style group prosecutions instead of one-by-one cases.
Historic comparisons fall pitifully short. Sure, Robert Kennedy tackled the mafia in the 1960s, and Rudy Giuliani took out all five New York City mob bosses in the 1980s. True, Reagan launched a war on drugs, and Clinton passed a tough federal crime bill that Democrats have now erased from their memories like they stared too long at the neuralyzer from Men in Black. And, post 9/11, Attorney General John Ashcroft cracked down on terrorism.
But each of those historic “law and order” eras had one or two dominant targets— the Mafia, the drug trade, al-Qaeda. What stands out about the current DOJ is the simultaneity: healthcare fraud, gang networks, political violence, public corruption, cartel FTO prosecutions, trafficking, and child exploitation networks are all being aggressively pursued at the same time, using a consistent enterprise-theory framework across all of them, from financial crimes to ‘ordinary’ street crimes.
We are truly living in a remarkable, historic “law and order” period. Open your eyes. This is unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes, which you would never know from the corporate media. You’re welcome. (Shameless plug: Help C&C keep spreading truth.)
Take a break from doomscrolling and enjoy the great news.
Have a terrific Thursday! Slide back here tomorrow morning, for more essential news and caffeine commentary.
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