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BREAKING: CBP reports June was the lowest month of illegal crossings ever recorded at the southern border, w/ just 6,072 for the month. The Biden admin routinely had 6,000+ in a single day.

CBP reports ZERO releases of illegal aliens into the US in June, compared to 27,776 in June 2024.

CBP says June was second month in a row of zero releases of illegal aliens at the southern border.

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A reminder, President Biden routinely claimed he had "done all he can do" with the border, and that bipartisan legislation was needed to fix it.

That claim turned out to be unequivocally false.

Alan Derschowitz now clarifies: There's not an "Epstein client list," just names that have come up in grand jury testimony of largely-innocent people. And he says these records are redacted by the New York courts, not by the DOJ.

arvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz on Tuesday asserted that juges in New York were responsible for suppressing information related to the Jeffrey Epstein case rather than the Trump administration.

"So, many of the things that are being suppressed are being suppressed by two judges in Manhattan, and they're doing it largely to protect the alleged accusers who are, in the view of the judges, victims, even though we don't know what their actual status is," he told Chris Cuomo.

He further asserted that, while there is no one client list, the FBI possessed an affidavit from Epstein accusers, that he said "accuse various people of having improper sex, and that has been redacted, the names of the people accused have been blacked out."

Dershowitz went on to assert that the redactions could be reversed were the matter to reach a court.

Julie Kelly points out that while MAGA is roiling about Epstein, we're ignoring major victories.

Among others:

Many DOJ employees are leaving voluntarily rather than anxiously refresh their email inbox for a message with the subject line, "Notice of Removal From Federal Service." Dozens of employees working at the DOJ unit responsible for defending the administration against a nonstop deluge of lawsuits have resigned, according to a Reuters analysis this month. Prosecutors complained of a heavy workload--boo hoo!--and ideological differences with the new boss.

"Many of these people came to work at Federal Programs to defend aspects of our constitutional system. How could they participate in the project of tearing it down?" one lawyer who recently quit told Reuters.

A similar exodus is underway at the DOJ's civil rights division where nearly 70 percent of the division's attorneys have headed for the exits rather than work for Harmeet Dhillon, the president's pick to run the office. Apparently the totally nonpolitical lawyers object to doing things like keeping boys out of girls' sports, protecting children from surgical mutilation, and combating religious bias--just a few of Dhillon's stated objectives.

All of this comes on top of months of success in identifying and firing known partisans at both the DOJ and FBI, an historic purge with no signs of stopping. The moves are "creating rampant speculation and fear within the workforce over who might be terminated next," former staffers told the Washington Post.

Trump's DOJ has sent out subpoenas to butcher-shops still performing "gender affirming" mutilations on children.

Watch how the left-wing garbage blog United Press International reports this:

he Justice Department on Wednesday announced that it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics performing gender-affirming care for minors, as the Trump administration ramps up its attacks on this marginalized community.

No information about the doctors and clinics subpoenaed was provided by the Justice Department, though it suggested the subpoenas were part of investigations into "healthcare fraud, false statements and more."

"Medical professionals and organizations that mutilate children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable by this Department of Justice," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement.

The Pentagon is snubbing the left-wing, Deep State operation called "The Aspen Security Forum." This is a subsidiary of the Aspen Institute, which infamously brought in the FBI to wargame a "table simulation" instructing the media to suppress any reportage on a hypothetical leak of Hunter Biden's laptop.

The Pentagon has pulled all military speakers from the event, calling the organization "globalist."

The Pentagon has pulled roughly a dozen high-ranking U.S. military officials who had been slated to participate in this week's annual Aspen Security Forum, Just the News has learned.

The Defense Department cited the left-wing nature of the Aspen Institute and the participation of such critics of President Trump as Biden administration National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

The annual forum put on by the Aspen Institute -- which has been dubbed "the mountain retreat for the liberal elite" -- describes the event as "the premier national security and foreign policy conference in the United States."

Roughly a dozen top Defense Department officials -- including the secretary of the Navy and the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command -- are still listed as speakers on the Aspen Security Forum agenda this week, but a source told Just the News over the weekend that that will no longer happen.

"The Department of Defense has no interest in legitimizing an organization that has invited former officials who have been the architects of chaos abroad and failure at home," Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson told Just the News.

"They are antithetical to the America First values of this administration. Senior representatives of the Department of Defense will no longer be participating in an event that promotes the evil of globalism, disdain for our great country, and hatred for the President of the United States," Wilson also said.

A professor of music was punished by his left-wing fake "university" for saying the unsayable: That classical music is not racist.

It took a lawsuit, but he just got a $750,000 settlement.

More than four years after suing the University of North Texas for punishing him in a spat over alleged racism in classical music, distinguished research professor Timothy Jackson accepted a $725,000 settlement with the taxpayer-funded school in a legal fight that pitted embattled state Attorney General Ken Paxton against former state Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell.

The parties filed a joint stipulation of dismissal earlier this month, signed by Paxton's office as counsel to UNT and Mitchell as co-counsel to Jackson. The settlement also gives back Jackson the music theory journal he founded and edited and even reduces his teaching load.

UNT kicked Jackson out of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies, named after German music theorist Heinrich Schenker, and put it on ice for five years after Jackson published an issue responding to a black peer's claims that the Jewish Schenker was an "ardent racist."

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The university opened an investigation of the journal and editors including Jackson after anonymous graduate students condemned the Ewell response issue for "platforming of racist sentiments" and demanded its editors be punished. Ewell wrote and circulated an "open letter on antiracist actions" against the journal as well.

To encourage learning English and assimilation, Trump slashes the budgets for translation services to the minimum necessary levels.

The Department of Justice said it is coordinating a government-wide effort to reduce the use of foreign languages in public-facing services, calling many such programs "non-essential." Attorney General Pam Bondi said the DOJ will lead efforts to codify Trump's executive order and eliminate "wasteful virtue-signaling policies," emphasizing a focus on national unity through shared language. According to Breitbart News, DHS has also been instructed to discontinue translation services for calls regarding immigration or employment matters.

Tom Cotton wants to close the birthright citizenship loophole, at least for criminals.

Sen. Tom Cotton has introduced a bill to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens, terrorists, and foreign spies. The move backs President Trump's America First agenda and targets a key driver of illegal immigration.

Key Details:

Cotton's bill would deny automatic citizenship to U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, foreign terrorists, and foreign spies.

The legislation responds to what Cotton calls a major contributor to the illegal immigration crisis under President Joe Biden.

The Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled that children of illegal immigrants must be granted citizenship under the 14th Amendment.

You might think that doesn't go far enough but I know what he's up to: He's using the left's tactic of making a "test case" for the courts that they will have a lot of trouble knocking down, thereby establishing the precedent to go further with the next bill.

Comer subpoenas Biden's former chief of staff/Lead Puppeteer.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Tuesday subpoenaed Joe Biden's deputy chief of staff when Biden was president.

The committee had requested the former White House official, Annie Tomasini, to appear for a deposition on Friday.

Tomasini appeared for a transcribed interview in May, and her legal counsel has confirmed her voluntary appearance for July 18, according to the subpoena. However, on Monday, her lawyers requested a subpoena to compel her appearance on July 18.

"The Committee seeks information about your assessment of and relationship with former President Biden to explore whether the time has come for Congress to revisit potential legislation to address the oversight of presidents' fitness to serve pursuant to its authority under Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, or to propose changes to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment itself," the subpoena reads.

They have only one mode: Groomer.

Trump's Rapid Response account puts together clips of Democrats calling for/inciting violence:

More in the thread. The people calling for violence need to realize that people calling for violence declare themselves valid targets.

Amusing thread: A guy asked out a girl. The girl then asked if he was a conservative, because she would never date an icky conservative.

She got an answer quickly:

Because he posted this, she began shrieking that he was endangering her already-endangered mental health and had a lawyer contact him.

posted by Ace at 06:25 PM

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