May 20, 2025
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New Jersey Democratic congresswoman charged with assaulting law enforcement at ICE facility . . . Rep. LaMonica McIver, New Jersey Democrat, is facing federal criminal charges for getting physical with ICE agents who tried to block her from entering a detention facility in Newark earlier this month. Alina Habba, the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, announced Monday that she was charging Ms. McIver with assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement. Ms. McIver dismissed the charges as "purely political." Washington Times
Politics
Why This Republican Lawmaker Is a 'No' for Now on 'Big, Beautiful Bill' . . . Texas Republican Rep. Keith Self would vote against his party's budget reconciliation bill as it currently stands. For him, the bill falls short of earlier promises of restoring fiscal balance. "The big picture was the framework that we had, which basically was $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. Assuming $2.5 trillion in growth from the tax cuts, which means we needed to find $2 trillion in spending cuts," he said of his original hopes for the bill. Daily Signal
Trump is heading to Capitol Hill to persuade divided GOP to unify around his 'big, beautiful' bill
House investigators question FBI witness about James Comey using 'honeypot' spy on Trump campaign . . . House Judiciary Committee investigators have spoken to an FBI whistleblower about FBI Director James B. Comey's alleged off-the-books spying on President Trump's 2016 campaign. The whistleblower, a former supervisory special agent, previously said in a protected disclosure to the committee that Mr. Comey sent a "honeypot" to spy on the Trump campaign before launching the now-infamous Crossfire Hurricane operation. A "honeypot" is an undercover operative who feigns sexual or romantic interest to obtain information from a target. Washington Times
'Revenge Porn': Trump Signs Bill Criminalizing Online Sexual Exploitation . . . President Donald Trump signed legislation backed by his wife aimed at protecting young people from "revenge porn." "Big thing, very important, so horrible it takes place," the president said at the Monday bill-signing ceremony in the Rose Garden. "This would be the first-ever federal law to combat the distribution of explicit, imagery posted without subjects' consent." Revenge porn is the malicious distribution of sexual images of a victim. Daily Signal
How Biden's cancer might have gone undetected . . . Whether Biden, 82, had been getting regular PSA screening before his diagnosis isn't publicly known, and prostate cancer screening for men in their 80s isn't considered standard care. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government-backed volunteer panel of experts that makes preventive health recommendations, advises against PSA screening for men ages 70 and above, based on concerns about false positives and overtreating low-risk forms of the disease. Wall Street Journal
The Biden White House lied to us about his mental acuity and likely lied about this as well. Given the workup a president receives, it's very hard to imagine that this was undetected. But I wanted to make sure you were aware of a possible alternative explanation.
Biden's 2022 cancer 'slip-up' that was downplayed by White House resurfaces . . . Biden's alarming comments came during a speech in 2022 about emissions from oil refineries near his childhood home in Claymont, Del., and which he appeared to blame for his cancer. "That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer and why for the longest time Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation," Biden said. Biden's use of the present tense "have" raised eyebrows at the time, but former White House spokesperson Andrew Bates referred The Post to Washington Post fact-check honcho Glenn Kessler, who suggested it was a reference to "non-melanoma skin cancers." New York Post
He would not likely have been suggesting that oil refineries caused skin cancer.
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It's getting nasty between Springsteen and Trump . . . Opening a tour in Manchester, England, Springsteen told his audience last Thursday that "the America I love, the America I've written about that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration." The next morning, Trump called Springsteen highly overrated. "Never liked him, never liked his music or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he's not a talented guy — just a pushy, obnoxious JERK," he wrote on social media. "This dried out prune of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back in the Country," he said. Associted Press
Culture
Women's College Honors an Inveterate Foe of Women's Rights . . . In a piece of fresh Orwellian insanity, a women's college granted an honorary degree to Rachel Levine, a Biden assistant sec retary of HHS and a man who has fathered children and who has weaponized his medical position as a doctor to attack fairness in women's sports, privacy in women's intimate settings, and a generation's ability to have children. Levine, has repeatedly condemned commonsense laws protecting women, claiming that these laws represent a threat not just to his worldview but to people's health. Daily Signal
Once again, liberal women embrace the trans agenda, which in particular harms women who have spent their whole lives training to succeed in sports.
High school female track star poses on first-place podium after finishing second to trans athlete . . . Reese Hogan, 16, was crowned runner-up in the triple jump at the CIF Southern Section Finals on Saturday — despite setting a new personal record for herself and Crean Lutheran High School at 37 feet, 2 inches. Standing in first place, junior trans athlete AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley, who won titles in the girls' long jump and triple jump, posed with competitors to take pictures on the podium. However, as the athletes cleared off, Hogan seized the moment, walked onto the first-place spot, smiled, and proudly posed for a picture. New York Post
CBS News CEO Resigns Amid Internal Unrest, Anti-Semitism Accusations, and Trump's $20 Billion Lawsuit
Virginia's new social media law targets teen access via parental consent, age checks . . . Virginia is preparing to enforce one of the nation's most sweeping new restrictions on social media access for teens, requiring parental consent, time limits and age checks for users under 16. The law, signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin in May, takes effect Jan. 1, 2026, and applies to any platform that allows public profiles, messaging and shared content feeds. Senate Bill 854 requires users to use a neutral age screen to determine if a user is under 16 and then secure verifiable parental consent before allowing more than one hour of daily use per service. The Center Square
Europe's effort to block kids from social media gathers pace
National Security
Supreme Court allows Trump to Remove Deportation Protections for Venezuelan Illegal Aliens . . . The Supreme Court will allow, for now, the Trump administration to proceed with plans to strip temporary legal protected status from thousands of illegal aliens from Venezuela living in the U.S. The court's decision allows the Trump administration to move forward with plans to cancel Temporary Protected Status for illegal aliens who entered the U.S. under the Biden administration's Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans parole program. Daily Signal
International
Russia, Ukraine to 'Immediately Start Negotiations Toward a Ceasefire,' Trump claims After Call With Putin . . . President Donald Trump spoke with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday and said he thinks the call "went very well." Following the two-hour conversation, Trump said, "Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a ceasefire and, more importantly, an end to the war." The conditions to end the war "will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of," Trump wrote in a lengthy post on Truth Social. Daily Signal
Charles Kushner, Jared's dad, confirmed as ambassador to France
Money
America's Fiscal Situation Threatens the Good Mood on Wall Street . . . Investors sold U.S. government bonds and the dollar on Monday, after Moody's Ratings late last week stripped the U.S. of its last triple-A credit rating, citing large budget deficits and rising interest costs. Adding to the nerves about America's debt trajectory, the House Budget Committee approved a tax-and-spending bill Sunday that is projected to add trillions of dollars to those deficits. Though stocks ended the session higher, selling pushed up yields on longer-term Treasurys, which rise when bond prices fall. Wall Street Journal
Forecasters: Most taxpayers would see tax cut under Republican plan . . . About two-thirds would pay less in 2027, per the Joint Committee on Taxation. About a quarter would see essentially no change in their tax bills, and about five percent would pay more. Higher-income people would be more likely to reap tax cuts topping $500, though a majority of everyone making at least $40,000 would see such a cut. Politico
You should also know
U.S. to pay nearly $5 million to family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt . . . President Donald Trump's administration is set to pay nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt to settle a lawsuit brought by the estate of the Trump supporter who was fatally shot by police when she tried to storm the House Speaker's Lobby during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to two people familiar with the matter. Babbitt's family filed the wrongful-death lawsuit in early 2024, seeking $30 million. Washington Post
Guilty Pleasures
Registration open for clothing-optional 5k race in South Carolina . . . Track suits are out; birthday suits are in. At least, that's the prevailing vibe at the Carolina Foothills Resort's Buck Creek Streak 5K on June 14. The clothing-optional trail race at the nudist resort in northern Spartanburg County has a record 161 people signed up so far. "You can go anywhere and do a 5K, but you can't go anywhere and run a 5K naked," said Tom Crowder, a lifelong nudist who's on the resort's board of directors. Spartanburg Post and Courier
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