We are living through an age that has abandoned the dedicated pursuit of truth. Our politicians and news personalities talk about “the narrative.” Our academies teach young minds to accept “expert opinion.” Our philosophers argue that truth is “subjective.” Social theorists argue that truth is an “illusion” that powerful people use to control others.
Whenever I hear Democrat Senator Cory Booker all riled up on television, he’s talking about “her truth,” “his truth,” or even “their truth” — as if a hundred conflicting descriptions of the same event could all be truthful.
During Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, Democrats called Dr. Christine Blasey Ford to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Ford claimed that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in 1982 when both were in high school. Kavanaugh vehemently denied the allegation and argued that many parts of Ford’s story didn’t add up. When Kavanaugh told the senators that the whole thing was a political spectacle being used as a weapon to derail his confirmation, Senator Booker shouted, “Are you calling her some kind of political operative?” Kavanaugh calmly pointed out, “The witnesses who were there [the party at which Blasey Ford claimed the alleged assault occurred] say it didn’t happen.” Kavanaugh then stated that, although Blasey Ford’s allegations were false and harmful, his “family has no ill will toward her.”
This is how Booker responded to Justice Kavanaugh’s total denial of the allegation against him: “She came forward. She sat here. She told her truth.” Her truth. Not the truth. The “truth” that was most likely to help Democrats “Bork” Kavanaugh’s nomination — just as then-Senator Joe Biden and fellow Democrats tried to do during Justice Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings back in ’91 when they brought in a witness who claimed that Thomas had made “unwelcome sexual comments” when the two worked together, a charge Thomas similarly and furiously denied.
What was revealing about Booker’s made-for-TV moment was his disregard for whether Kavanaugh had actually done anything untoward forty years earlier in his life. He didn’t care. The lack of any evidence that could credibly support Blasey Ford’s allegation didn’t matter. Nor did it matter that Kavanaugh flatly denied the allegation. For Booker, the only “fact” that mattered was that Blasey Ford was willing to testify to something that might sink Kavanaugh’s nomination. “Her truth,” even if false, made it compelling.
Booker’s flippant disregard for the truth was reminiscent of President Bill Clinton’s rationalization to a grand jury that he never lied about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky when he told his staff, “There’s nothing going on between us,” and Jim Lehrer of PBS, “There is no improper relationship.” As everyone who recalls Lewinsky’s stained blue dress knows, Clinton’s statements were lies. But when Clinton testified before members of a grand jury, this was his truth:
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the — if he — if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not — that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.…Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said ‘no.’ And it would have been completely true.”
At that moment, President Clinton proved to Americans that he had no interest in truth. He did not care if he lied. He cared only whether the American people might catch him in a lie. Whether Clinton had “plausible deniability” mattered. Whether he could confuse enough jurors over the meaning of “is” mattered. But the truth? Well, the truth is for rubes and suckers. Clinton’s dissembling and Booker’s disregard for what actually happened in 1982 are symptoms of the same disease: our dishonest age’s abandonment of — and even hostility toward — what is true.
Politicians lie. That’s hardly breaking news. What is newsworthy, though, is that our society does not even pretend to pursue truth anymore.
During COVID, we were forced to follow government mandates that made absolutely no sense. Why was it safe for Walmart to remain open when small businesses were forced to close? How could paper masks, arrows painted on the floor, plexiglass walls, or six feet of space save us from microorganisms that don’t care about such things? Why should schools be closed when the virus posed the least threat to young people? Why should healthy people who had already acquired natural immunity be forced to take an experimental injection? The public was right to ask so many valid questions. Yet our government-run health organizations responded with juvenile insouciance: We’re working at the speed of science! That was the “scientific” equivalent of, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
We’re fifteen years into this gender-bender madness during which “experts” (including too many with M.D.s) claim that biological sex is not real and that what we perceive as male or female is nothing more than a self-imposed social construct. People who have refused to play this delusional game have been fired from jobs. People looking for jobs tell obvious lies.
During Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn asked, “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?” The newest member of the Supreme Court replied, “No, I can’t.” “You can’t?” Blackburn asked incredulously. The jurist who holds one of the most powerful offices in the United States claimed, “Not in this context. I’m not a biologist.” This is where we are now. A judge with two Harvard degrees can’t tell the American people whether she is actually a woman.
A few days ago, reporter and columnist John Stossel noted that twenty years have passed since former Vice President Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was released in theaters. Along with a short five-minute video that includes research scientists from the Heartland Institute debunking the pseudoscience behind “climate change” fearmongering, Stossel summed up Gore’s lies thusly: “NONE of his scary predictions have come true. Mt. Kilimanjaro still has snow and Glacier National Park still has glaciers.” Yet included in that short video is a litany of celebrity “experts” and Democrat politicians all parroting the same lie: We have only twelve years left to live.
The “global warming” liars spent the last twenty years scaring children all over the world by telling them that they would die before being old enough to drive. Now some of those scared kids have children of their own, and the “climate change” con is still going. Prominent Democrats such as Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, and Richard Blumenthal have even supported legislation that would prohibit funds to federal agencies that “challenge the scientific consensus on climate change.” In other words, Democrat politicians wish to outlaw the Scientific Method.
Our society does not doggedly pursue truth. It pursues ideological compliance.
Truth does not require President Joe Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board to arbitrate reality for the public. Science is never “settled,” as President Barack Obama claimed in his 2014 State of the Union Address. People without PhDs are quite capable of defining a “woman” and deciding for themselves whether to wear paper masks. To pretend otherwise is just another lie.
Here’s the real problem, though: When our politicians, scientists, educators, and philosophers spread the lie that there is no objective truth, they transform our existence into gooey meaninglessness. Because if everything is “true,” then nothing is true. And if nothing is true, then politicians will decide what is “true” for us.
Pursuing truth does not mean that we ever obtain it. It is the vigilant pursuit of truth, though, that gives us sufficient wisdom to recognize the lies and liars among us. In an age when liars rule, question everything.
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"The case has stunned national security observers and raised serious questions about the federal government’s security clearance and vetting systems." —Newsmax
In the annals of Deep State WTF-ery, is there a stranger case than CIA officer David Rush turning up with $40-million in 303 one-kilogram gold bars, plus $2-million in cash, plus a stash of 30 mostly Rolex watches? Well, yeah, the stranger story is how the guy got hired by the CIA in the first place.
Rush was arrested on Monday, May 18, by an FBI SWAT team at his home in Loudoun County, VA. Agents searched the house all day long and found the stash. Rush is currently charged with theft of public money and allegedly falsifying his military and academic credentials to obtain federal employment benefits, including roughly $77,000 in improper military leave pay. He’s scheduled to make a federal court appearance in Alexandria today.
Rush first applied for a job at the CIA in March 2006. He claimed to have a bachelor’s degree in math from Clemson University and a master’s from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He was rejected. He reapplied later that same year. Bumped again. He reapplied again in 2009, adding a new credential: that he’d been a US Navy test pilot and flight trainer. This time, he was hired.
Rush’s college credentials were found to be false, but it is unclear when that was discovered. Since he included them in his two earlier 2006 failed applications, why were they not flagged in his successful 2009 application? His claim of being a US Navy pilot was also found to be false (he was an information systems tech in his Navy service). The FBI affidavit unsealed recently details the pattern of lies across all applications.
Understand that CIA vetting procedures are supposed to be exceedingly rigorous. The process is stressful and invasive — many candidates drop out or are weeded out. The background check involves interviews with practically everybody who knows the applicant going back decades, his criminal history, work, financial history, education, military service. The applicant gets a polygraph exam. Even after getting hired, monitoring continues.
Rush was hired at the very start of the Obama admin; Leon Panetta was the newly appointed CIA Director. Wouldn’t you like to hear him ‘splain how David Rush managed to get hired? Was somebody smoothing his way in? Rush rose to become a senior executive service (SES) officer with a top-secret (TS/SCI) security clearance. His exact duties, the division he worked for, his day-to-day responsibilities have not been disclosed.
Rush allegedly requested the gold and foreign currency from the CIA for “work-related expenses” between November 2025 and March 2026. The agency later could not account for the assets or locate records explaining their official purpose. A search of a storage locker at CIA connected to Rush turned up only a small amount of the requisitioned cash.
“There is a whole process that we go through to get that money. I don’t just walk into the logistics office and say ‘Excuse me, I need $100,000 tomorrow.’ There is a form I have to fill out. It’s not a bank vault you walk into. It doesn’t work like that.” — Tracy Walder, 46, a former FBI special agent and CIA officer, quoted in The New York Post.
Wouldn’t you assume that some higher-up CIA officer would have to sign off on such a colossal requisition of gold and money? (And where does the CIA get so much gold on-demand?) Perhaps the very Director of the CIA approved it — which would be John Ratcliffe through 2025 up to right now. Doesn’t he have some ‘splainin’ to do? (Was Rush set-up? Was this a sting?)
Assuming Rush spent some period of time as an entry-level CIA employee, when did his rise to SES level happen? John Brennan became CIA Director in early 2013 (the start of Barack Obama’s second term). What were David Rush’s relations with John Brennan? Was Brennan his mentor? Does the gold stash have any connection with the current legal problems of John Brennan and other former high officials involved in the long-running “grand conspiracy” case about the attempted overthrow of a president?
You might imagine that Rush’s phone and computers were seized in the May 18th raid on his house — though it’s unlikely he used such conventional channels for black ops chatter. It’s conceivable, though, that any alt-communications of his were captured by the vast national security surveillance apparatus, and that DNI Tulsi Gabbard might have come across them this past year. How else might Director Ratcliffe have been tipped off?
This story is not going away. The scale of the grift is spectacular and vivid — 303 gold bars! — like a Hollywood movie. Rush’s explanation of “work-related expenses” sounds preposterous. If the requisitions were made serially, over several months, as appears, then the agency had more than one opportunity to review and question them.
Rush faked his entire back-story. How incompetent (or corrupt) are the agency’s past managers that he got away with it for so long? How many other gross fakers, rogues, grifters, and tools are embedded in the agency, and who are they really working for? The institutional embarrassment is monumental. Trust in the so-called Intel Community is at an all-time low. Indictments and trials are coming. This is the Deep State on parade like a naked emperor.
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In my August 4, 2025 ANP Article I discussed Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814). Elbridge was Governor of Massachusetts from 1810-1812. His administration was known for creating partisan electoral districts. At one point, a political cartoon labeled this process "The Gerry-mander" and included the following political cartoon (click the image to enlarge it) illustrating how gerrymandering worked back then:
States now reapportion their electoral districts every 10 years to reflect the change in their population based on the census. The idea is to make the number of voters included in each created district equal. So if you have 10 districts and 1,000 people, each district would ideally have 100 people in it. The problem is legislators within each State want to 'favor' their own party when reapportioning or creating new districts. When this happens, it is called "gerrymandering" by the other party.
But gerrymandering is not illegal. In a June 27, 2019 SCOTUS 6:3 decision, SCOTUS found there is no constitutional procedure for creating districts, so states can create their districts however they decide. But, when the process to create districts violates the Equal Protection Clause 478 US 109, 116-117 (1986) it can and should be litigated. Yet, SCOTUS cautions States about involving the courts in the gerrymandering process, as that would create an unprecedented intervention in the American political process. Apparently, this gave States the idea that 'anything goes' when redistricting.
Congressional districts are 'awarded' based on the number of US Citizens living in a particular state. However, the 2020 census did not have the 'citizenship' question on it. The previous administration removed the question about citizenship and the deep state actors told President Trump in 2019 that it was too late to add the citizenship question back onto the census in time for the 2020 census.
Anyone researching genealogy knows that the different censuses asked different questions; however, one question that was consistently asked until the 2020 census was about citizenship, specifically asking when was the person naturalized, in addition to asking where all members of the household were born as well as where the parents of the adults in the household were born. Even the 1950 census (the "newest" census available to researchers due to privacy concerns) the question of where were you born is asked followed by asking if the person is naturalized. The 1950 census did not ask where the parents of the adults in the household were born. The 1960 census will not be available for review by researchers until 2032.
That means that the 2020 census numbers reported for each state reflected the sheer number of people residing in the state rather than the number of US Citizens that were living in each state. And some of the states went wild redistricting their state Congressional districts based on that sheer number of people rather than on the number of citizens.
To add insult to injury, with the installation of autopen into the White House, and the subsequent DEI & Woke EOs that administration put out, some States decided that they should gerrymander the district map to reflect districts that would represent their constituency based on race, against the advice of SCOTUS when they reminded litigants that the Equal Protection Clause applied to gerrymandering. One state that ignored that advice and wound up in the court system was Louisiana.
On January 15, 2024, the Louisiana legislature passed, and their Governor signed on January 22, 2024, SB8, which provided for redistricting of the State based on race. This created 6 bizarre shapes for these districts (wikipedia provides historical district maps for Louisiana from 1973 to 2025):
to maximize the voting strength of African American voters by stripping them from their communities in far-flung regions of Louisiana and consolidating them into two districts that stretched hundreds of miles in length and dwindled to less than a mile in width.
The lawsuit also points out that Hays v. Louisiana (1996) had a similar map that was rejected by the courts. They go on to explain that the difference between then and now is that the State has acknowledged these district boundaries were drawn to explicitly segregate voters based on race. The State held on to its idea of creating 2 congressional districts with a majority of Black voters (with an over 50% Black voting age population). The lawsuit sought the following relief:
this Court “immediately notify the chief judge of the circuit, who shall designate two other judges” so that “[t]he judges so designated, and the judge to whom the request was presented, shall serve as members of the court to hear and determine the action or proceeding.” 28 U.S.C. § 2284(b)(1).
Plaintiffs pray that this Court issue a declaratory judgment that SB8 is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, issue an injunction barring the State of Louisiana from using SB8’s map of congressional districts for any election, and institute a congressional districting map that remedies these violations.
Plaintiffs also request all fees and costs recoverable under 42 U.S.C. § 1988.
The three-judge court convened by Chief Judge Priscilla Richman hereby APPOINTS Magistrate Judge Kayla D. McClusky to this matter to handle attorney admission requests, pro hac vice applications, and all other matters referred to her by the three-judge court.
As our colleagues so elegantly stated in Hays II, the long struggle for civil rights and equal protection under the law that has taken place in Louisiana and throughout our country, includes:
countless towns across the South, at schools and lunch counters, at voter registrar’s offices. They stood there, black and white, certain in the knowledge that the Dream was coming; determined that no threat, no spittle, no blow, no gun, no noose, no law could separate us because of the color of our skin. To say now: “Separate!” “Divide!” “Segregate!” is to negate their sacrifice, mock their dream, deny that self-evident truth that all men are created equal and that no government may deny them the equal protection of its laws.
Hays II at 125. The Court agrees and finds that SB8 violates the Equal Protection Clause as an impermissible racial gerrymander.
In light of the foregoing, the Court GRANTS PLAINTIFFS’ REQUEST FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF. The State of Louisiana is prohibited from using SB8’s map of congressional districts for any election.
On April 29, 2026, SCOTUS issued a 6:3 decision on Phillip Callais, et.al., Applicants v. Louisiana, et.al. docket # 25A1197 (24-109 and 24-110):
The State’s attempt to satisfy the Middle District’s ruling, although understandable, was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and we therefore affirm the decision below. . . . In considering whether the Constitution permits the intentional use of race to comply with the Voting Rights Act, we start with the general rule that the Constitution almost never permits the Federal Government or a State to discriminate on the basis of race . . . The judgment of the District Court is affirmed, and these cases are remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion.
On April 30, 2026, Judges Carl E Stewart, Robert R Summerhays, and David C Joseph considered the SCOTUS decision and ordered
This Court's ruling having been affirmed and the matter remanded by the supreme Court, the permanent Injunction issued by this Court prohibiting the State of Louisiana "from using SB8's map of congressional districts for any election" remains in effect. [Doc. 198].
The State of Louisiana will be afforded the opportunity to enact a Constitutionally Compliant map consistent with the Supreme court's Opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, 6708 US ____ 2026 and this Court's Injunction. [Doc. 198].
The State of Louisiana shall file a brief outlining how the State intends to comply with the supreme Court's opinion in Louisiana v. Callais and this Court's Injunction within three (3) days of receipt by this Court of a certified copy of the Supreme Court's Judgment. Any responses to the state of Louisiana's brief by other parties may be filed within three (3) days thereafter.
The State immediately filed an appeal to SCOTUS over how long they were given to remedy the congressional map. On May 4, 2026, SCOTUS Judges Alito, Thomas, & Gorsuch issued the following judgement:
The dissent in this suit levels charges that cannot go unanswered. The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional (nearly 7 months ago). The dissent does not claim that it is now too late for the state legislature or the District Court to adopt a new map that complies with the Constitution. Nor does the dissent assert that it is not feasible for the elections to be held under such a map. Instead, the dissent offers two reasons for its proposed course of action. One is trivial at best, and the other is baseless and insulting. Thus, the application to issue the judgment forthwith presented to JUSTICE ALITO and by him referred to the Court is granted.
Even after this final decision by SCOTUS and the final decision of the District Court, the State continued to attempt to stay the order. Leading to the May 27, 2026 order from Judges Carl E Stewart, Robert R Summerhays, and David C Joseph:
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that on or before June 1, 2026, Defendant Nancy Landry shall file a verified affidavit listing the true operational deadline to implement a new congressional districting map to be used in the November 3, 2026, election. The affidavit shall include the factual and legal bases for the operational deadline by describing the time periods in advance of the November 3, 2026, election date that are required to implement each step of the process.
The Louisiana decision was quickly followed by the May 8, 2026 SCOVA decision in Virginia which Virginia was currently fighting. However, the Virginia Governor has conceded to SCOVA's decision stating Virginia would use the 2021 district map. All of the Virginia's state representatives are up for reelection in 2026.
These decisions have led more states to redraw Congressional districts for their state to undo the racially based gerrymandering that has now been officially declared unconstitutional by SCOTUS. It has also led to massive breakdowns of Democrat lawmakers in those states, such as Congress members Hakeem Jeffries and Mark Warner. And a Utah Supreme Court Justice resigned after accusations of an affair with an attorney in the redistricting case she was adjudicating in 2026. In California, the courts refused to enjoin the 2026 election map but the suit is ongoing as of May 8, 2026. In addition, on May 10, 2026, SGTReport published an article questioning California's election integrity due to the discovery of uncounted ballots which were discovered after the 'official' count was reported.
On the other hand, Democrat states are toying with the idea of redrawing their Congressional districts to ensure only Democrats can be elected to office (some states with more than 40% Republican voters in their state currently have zero Republican representation in Congress).
So where does redistricting stand in the wake of the SCOVA and SCOTUS decisions? Ballotpedia shows California, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio (required by law to redistrict before 2026 elections), Tennessee, and Texas passed new congressional maps between 2024 and 2026. Litigation has led to a new Utah map. Alabama and Georgia are currently experiencing ongoing litigation about their maps. In New York, SCOTUS said they could wait until after the 2026 elections to redraw. All 50 states redrew their congressional districts after receiving the results of the 2020 census. RedState reports that Mississippi is planning to redistrict at their earliest opportunity. RedState also reports that Tennessee is currently redistricting based on the recent SCOTUS decision.
Without election reforms, there will be much more fraud regardless of how districts are drawn. Between now and next census, the citizenship question needs to be put back on the census form, including the "where were you born" and "where were your parents born" questions. And Congress needs to get off their collective duffs and start passing President Trump's election reform EOs!
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On May 27, 2026, the White House published the release Powering America’s Future: President Trump’s Policies Fuel Demand for Skilled American Workers announcing that there is a shift towards needing skilled workers in the trades (carpentry, building, refrigeration, plumbing, electrical, etc.) as manufacturing in the US comes back online. This could signal the end of the "college for all" trend we have seen K-12 schools take in their curriculum. Workers are discovering that pay for skilled trades people matches or exceeds college graduate pay. In addition, contractors are reporting shortages of the skilled trades people needed which is driving wages for those positions even higher.
President Trump and his administration have created pathways to high-paying careers in the skilled trades without adding the crushing debt that many college graduates deal with after graduation. His administration has reformed broken Federal programs with a goal of recruiting over one million new apprentices in skilled trades. DOE added a Workforce Pell Grant program to assist high school graduates in starting their apprenticeships in the skilled trades. DOL is awarding grants to expand apprenticeships for shipbuilding, defense, and nuclear. DOL has also created a landmark initiative to include AI skills into apprenticeships. In addition, new safeguards have been created to bar illegal aliens from taxpayer-funded workforce programs. Visit the ApprenticeshipUSA website for more information on the apprenticeship programs
All of these actions are to ensure that we have the workforce ready to rebuild American manufacturing, factories, and supply chains. There will be hundreds of thousands of annual openings for construction and electrical workers, and recentjobsdata reinforces this projection. The release concludes:
America is rebuilding — by Americans, for Americans. Under President Trump’s leadership, a new generation of skilled workers is rising to power a new Golden Age of American manufacturing and prosperity.
On May 27, 2026, President Trump held the 12th Cabinet meeting of his 2nd term. President Trump began the meeting addressing:
the fact that zero illegal aliens were released into our country;
largest drop in the murder rate in 125 years;
over 11,888 illegal alien murders have been removed;
Fentanyl is down 61% by land;
Fentanyl is down 97% by water/sea/ocean;
average tax refund is nearly $5,000 in 2026 ;
stock market has made 68 all-time record highs;
401Ks are up almost $30,000 since January 2025;
prescription drug prices are down;
with 1,000 generic drugs added to TrumpRx this year;
we made the largest investment in the US military of $1 trillion;
Iran wants a deal;
look at what is happening with the midterm elections;
Operation Epic Fury insures the world's number 1 sponsor of terror never obtains a nuclear weapon;
White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud is finding billions of dollars;
look at what the Somalians have done to Minnesota with fraud;
people on Social Security over 115 years old getting payments;
thanking outgoing Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard who worked tirelessly to restore trust and focus on the intelligence and with the intelligence community, exposing things.
17:32 Vice President JD Vance:
DOE found student loan fraud;
HUD found housing fraud;
Department of Agriculture found food stamp fraud;
HHS found Medicaid and Medicare fraud;
SBA found fraudulent loans given under the autopen administration.
21:43 Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche:
over 400 law enforcement actions related to major fraud (arrests, convictions, indictments) in 51 days;
$1 billion fraud conviction in Florida last week;
arrested 15 people in Minnesota last week (who were stealing while being in our country illegally).
24:30 President Trump then addressed the Stacy Abrams environmental fraud.
24:56 EPA
over $29 billion cancelled at EPA;
win in appeals court on canceled grants.
26:16 President Trump then addressed we have $18 trillion dollars being invested in our country (autopen had much less than $1 trillion).
26:49 Secretary of State Marco Rubio
on Iran, we prefer the negotiated, diplomatic route and we're giving it every chance to succeed;
Iran, and these people in charge of Iran, can never have a nuclear weapon;
on our border security, we now have 20 countries that have signed 3rd country national agreements (safe countries where illegals who refuse to go home can be sent);
Ebola we cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the US;
Armenia signed a critical mineral memorandum of understanding;
Venezuela - stabilization, recovery, and transition; oil is being professionalized to the benefit of the Venezuelan people and they are selling it at market rates;
Venezuelan money is going to a special account at the US Treasury which is audited by KPMG (and it's no longer being stolen);
Cuba is in a lot of trouble, we will be talking to Cuba to provide a better outcome for the Cuban people.
31:38 President Trump stated: we are producing more oil in the US than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined.
32:02 Department of Interior
opened lease sales on public land which is bringing more money into the Treasury;
we are now largest natural gas producer in the world;
bringing Venezuela oil to our Gulf Coast refineries is helping to keep the price of gas down in the US;
we are working hard in California, they have 5 tremendous oil reserves, to open those reserves again;
California just violently closed down but the Department of the Interior is opening it up again.
36:09 President Trump stated: DC is looking beautiful, almost all of the 28 fountains are open, the reflecting pool is almost ready to open, Lafayette Park, the entrance to the White House, is being redone.
45:00 Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth
President Trump created the conditions to ensure the American people and the world are safeguarded from this generational threat authorizing Operation Epic Fury;
Iran's navy is at the bottom of the sea, their air defense, air force, and defense industrial bases are destroyed;
the US instituted a world class blockade keeping Iran from receiving or sending anything by sea;
DOW is prepared for both a peace deal and for going to war;
we are experiencing historic recruitment rates beating last year's historic rates even faster;
funding the military as created over 1 million American manufacturing jobs;
Southcom commander landed a helicopter peacefully at the US embassy in Venezuela;
we've secured the southwest border;
we are going to war with the cartels through America's counter cartel coalition;
President heard the call of Nigerian Christians killed by ISIS telling DOW to take out those responsible, which they did but it was never reported in the media.
49:49 President Trump says recruitment is up even with police and firemen with record recruitment in every single branch of the military.
50:10 SBA
small businesses account for 2 out of 3 jobs created;
small businesses are hurt by fraud;
SBA found $200 billion in fraudulent PPP loans that the autopen administration tried to hide and forgive;
SBA has barred 140,000 people from ever getting SBA loans again (they defrauded the government for about $9 billion);
we are seeing record business formation this year with manufacturing expansions (98% of all manufacturers are small businesses);
small businesses account for 75% of our defense industrial base.
53:40 President Trump reminded everyone about the visit to China.
54:09 Department of Treasury
on the economy: 2 words: resilience and prosperity;
pro-growth policies creating renewed optimism and momentum;
record numbers of Americans are working;
real GDP has risen 2.7% over the past 4 quarters;
says prices are transitory, oil will be lower once the Iran conflict ends;
we have never sold so much energy to the rest of the world;
business investment rose at 10.4% annual rate in 1st quarter;
capital expenditures and business equipment rose more than 17%;
private sector is adding jobs;
building factories is turning into manufacturing jobs;
stock market has hit new highs, since the market lives "in the future" it looks to the other side of the Iran conflict showing strong optimism for the future;
62 million tax returns took advantage of one of the 4 signature policies: no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no taxes on social security, and deductable auto loans;
Nearly 6 million children were signed up for Trump Accounts (the app is available for every platform today, May 28, 2026);
Unemployment remains low at 4.3%.
58:06 President Trump asked the press if there were any questions (of course there are!), and the questions lasted until 1:19 when the press was shooed out so the actual Cabinet meeting could commence.
Congress is on vacation; however, they are calling each chamber to order for a 'pro forma' meeting about every 3 days in order to keep President Trump from making recess appointments. In the interim, ICE and CBP remain unfunded, the SAVE America Act goes unpassed, and We The People become more and more annoyed with our "elected representatives" who are not representing us in doing what we want them to do. As we are seeing in primary races, current "elected representatives" are being replaced with other candidates. Do you think the rest of them are learning from this? NOPE. They are delusional, telling themselves that President Trump has no impact over their individual races. That their "constituents" will reelect them for the same position; but how can they think that when they aren't doing the will of their constituents?
The SENATE last convened on May 26, 2026 at 8am for a pro forma session and adjourned shortly thereafter. Next meeting is pro forma at 3:30pm on May 28, 2026.
The HOUSE last convened on May 26, 2026 at 11am and adjourned at 11:03am. Next meeting is noon on May 29, 2026.
142 Presidential Orders, Memoranda, Determinations, Permits, and Notices
On May 27, 2026, the FR published the Presidential Action Emergency Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2026 which was signed May 21, 2026 then sent straight to the FR for publication. This Presidential Action is an Emergency Determination Memorandum for the Secretaries of State, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services. President Trump has determined that an unforeseen emergency refugee situation exists due in part to the actions of the Government of South Africa and the leaders of their prominent political parties that are disrupting US Refugee Admissions Program operations located in South Africa. As a response to these situations, admission of Afrikaners from South Africa is justified by the grave humanitarian concerns and is within our national interest as well. President Trump has determined an increase from 7,500 to 17,500 is warranted to be allocated consistent with EO 14204 Addressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South Africa signed February 7, 2025 (discussed in my October 31, 2025 ANP Article). The Memorandum goes on to clarify:
Refugee admissions under this determination, which may reach but not exceed the numerical limit described herein, are in all respects subject to the requirements of other Presidential policies and actions, whether issued prior or subsequent to this determination. Those Presidential policies and actions include, but are not limited to: Executive Order 14161 (discussed in my June 1, 2025 ANP Article), which mandates that refugees receive the most stringent identification verification of any class of alien seeking admission or entry to the United States; Executive Order 14163 (discussed in my October 31, 2025 ANP Article), which suspends the entry into the United States of refugees other than when the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security jointly determine that an admission is in the national interest and does not threaten the security and welfare of the United States; Executive Order 14204 (discussed in my October 31, 2025 ANP Article), which provides for refugee resettlement of Afrikaners from South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination; and Proclamation 10998 which restricts the entry of certain foreign nationals whose admission would be detrimental to the national interest.
President Trump concludes the Memorandum writing:
In accordance with section 101(a)(42)(B) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 110l(a)(42)(B)), and after appropriate consultation with the Congress, I specify that, for Fiscal Year 2026, Afrikaners from South Africa processed consistent with the directives in Executive Order 14204(discussed in my October 31, 2025 ANP Article), may, if otherwise qualified, be considered refugees for the purpose of admission to the United States within their countries of nationality or habitual residence.
17 SCOTUS stays or motions to vacate of lower court orders
2 SCOTUS affirmation of lower court order
10 suits where judges ruled for the federal government
10 suits where judges ruled against the federal government
6 criminal prosecutions by the DOJ:
Representative McIver,
former FBI Director James Comey, dismissed without prejudice 11/24/2025,
former National Security Advisor John Bolton,
(illegal alien) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ordered released 12/11/2025;
New York AG Letitia A James, dismissed without prejudice 11/24/2025,
Congressional candidate Katherine Abughazaleh
A new complaint [Andrew] Floyd [additional plaintiffs Jonathan Caravello, City of New Haven, National Abortion Federation, and Common Cause] v. DOJ, Blanche, Woodward, Bessent, and Anti-Weaponization Fund docket # 1:26-cv-01399 filed in District Court, E.D. Virginia on May 22, 2026 about weaponization fund where the nonprofit organization Common Cause, a former federal prosecutor, and the city of New Haven, Connecticut, among others, sued the Trump administration to prevent the dispersal of payments in the so-called Anti-Weaponization Fund. The lawsuit seeks the following relief:
Declare unlawful the creation of the Anti-Weaponization Fund as in violation of the Constitution and the APA, and as ultra vires;
Vacate and set aside the creation of the Anti-Weaponization Fund as arbitrary, capricious, or an abuse of discretion under 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A); contrary to constitutional right under 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(B); not in accordance with law under 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A); in excess of statutory jurisdiction, authority, or limitations, or short of statutory right under 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(C); without observance of procedure required by law under 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(D);
Stay the creation of the Anti-Weaponization Fund during the pendency of this lawsuit under 5 U.S.C. § 705;
Preliminarily and permanently enjoin Defendants, their officers, employees, and agents from taking any further action pursuant to the creation of the AntiWeaponization Fund, including, but not limited to,
Transferring any money to an account for the Fund, or, if such money has already been transferred, ordering Defendants to immediately reverse that transfer;
Accepting or processing any claim submitted to the Fund;
Making any payment out of the Fund;
Appointing any Members to the Fund; and
Reconstituting the Fund under a different name.
Award Plaintiffs their costs, reasonable attorney’s fees, and other disbursements deemed appropriate; and
Grant such other relief as the Court deems necessary, just, and proper.
The plaintiffs are represented by Democracy Forward Foundation in Washington DC.
Initial Case Assignment to District Judge Leonie M Brinkema and Magistrate Judge Ivan D Davis.
Declaring that Defendants willfully, knowingly, and/or by gross negligence unlawfully accessed and inspected Plaintiffs’ confidential tax return information in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 6103;
Declaring that Defendants willfully, knowingly, and/or by gross negligence unlawfully disclosed Plaintiffs’ confidential tax return information in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 6103;
Awarding Plaintiffs, pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 7431(c)(1), the greater of either $1,000 in damages for each unauthorized disclosure of their tax return information, including each subsequent disclosure by third parties, including by the New York Times, ProPublica, and by many additional print, broadcast, cable, social media and other platforms, which amounts to at least $10,000,000,000.00, see Diamond Article, supra, or the actual damages sustained by Plaintiffs and all related entities, including each of the 418 Trump Organization-affiliated entities that received notices from the IRS, which also amounts to at least $10,000,000,000.00;
Awarding Plaintiffs reasonable costs and attorney’s fees pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 7431(c)(2)-(3), and as may otherwise be permitted by law;
Awarding Plaintiffs punitive damages pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 7431(c)(1)(B)(ii) because the unlawful disclosure of their confidential tax returns and return information was either willful or the result of gross negligence;
Ordering Defendants to pay damages under the Privacy Act’s damages provision,
5 U.S.C. § 552a(g)(4)(A), for actual damages resulting from the IRS’s failure to maintain its records in a confidential manner;
Awarding costs and pre-and post-judgment interest as allowed by law; and
Any such other relief as the Court deems just and proper.
President Trump was represented by Brito, PLLC; Ian Michael Corp; and Daniel Z. Epstein.
However, on May 27, 2026, 35 former Federal Judges motioned for the case to be reopened. Those judges are (only 34 of the 35 are listed in the appendix):
Judge Michael Luttig, U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Ret.)
Judge Nancy Gertner, U.S. District Judge, District of Massachusetts (Ret.)
Chief Judge John W. Bissell, U.S. District Judge, District of New Jersey (Ret.)
Judge Geraldine Soat Brown, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Northern District of Illinois (Ret.)
Chief Judge U.W. Clemon, U.S. District Judge, Northern District of Alabama (Ret.)
Judge Susan E. Cox, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Northern District of Illinois (Ret.)
Judge Morton Denlow, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Northern District of Illinois (Ret.)
Judge David K. Duncan, U.S. Magistrate Judge, District of Arizona (Ret.)
Chief Judge Sheila Finnegan, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Northern District of Illinois (Ret.)
Judge Jeremy Fogel, U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California (Ret.)
Judge James C. Francis IV, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Southern District of New York (Ret.)
Judge Steven M. Gold, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York (Ret.)
Judge A. Benjamin Goldgar, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Northern District of Illinois (Ret.)
Judge Paul W. Grimm, U.S. District Judge, District of Maryland (Ret.)
Chief Judge Robert Harlan Henry, U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (Ret.)
Judge Thelton Henderson, U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California (Ret.)
Judge Richard J. Holwell, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York (Ret.)
Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, U.S. District Judge, District of Columbia (Ret.)
Judge John E. Jones III, U.S. District Judge, Middle District of Pennsylvania (Ret.)
Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn, U.S. District Judge, Northern District of Texas (Ret.)
Judge Roanne L. Mann, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York (Ret.)
Judge A. Howard Matz, U.S. District Judge, Central District of California (Ret.)
Chief Judge Paul Michel, U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Ret.)
Judge Kathleen O'Malley, U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Ret.)
Judge Brian Owsley, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Southern District of Texas (Ret.)
Judge Philip M. Pro, U.S. District Judge, District of Nevada (Ret.)
Judge Victoria A. Roberts, U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Michigan (Ret.)
Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York (Ret.)
Judge Fern M. Smith, U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California (Ret.)
Judge John D. Tinder, U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Ret.)
Judge Ursula Ungaro, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of Florida (Ret.)
Judge T. John Ward, U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Texas (Ret.)
Judge Mark L. Wolf, U.S. District Judge, District of Massachusetts (Ret.)
I note how many of them (at least 23) are from the usual activist judge places (like California, New York, DC, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, etc.). Whereas others are from blue areas within the state (Like TX & FL). And many are probably RINOs.
These judges argue President Trump committed fraud:
A Voluntary Dismissal with Prejudice Is Subject to Rule 60.
Non-Parties May Move Under Rule 60.
The Court Sua Sponte May Investigate Whether a Fraud Has Been Perpetrated on the Court
The Parties’ Actions Constituted a Fraud on the Court that Merits Voiding the Dismissal Under Rule 60(d).
In the Alternative, the Court Should Void the Dismissal Under Rule 60(b)
A group of retired federal judges is asking a U.S. district court judge to reopen a lawsuit President Trump and his family pursued against the IRS over leaked tax records, asking the court to investigate whether a deal to end the case was an act of fraud. https://t.co/krwkCEH7TR
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 28, 2026
Those are some of the exact words used by Google’s censors, aka 'Orwellian content police,' in describing many of our controversial stories. Stories later proven to be truthful and light years ahead of the mainstream media. But because we reported those 'inconvenient truths' they're trying to bankrupt ANP.
