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July 2, 2025 – State Department: 90% of foreign aid was never used for its intended purpose

July 2, 2025 – The Census Scam: How sanctuary states steal congressional seats and electoral votes

(Credit: ACLU)

California would be the biggest winner in the sanctuary vote scam, as it would gain 11 more congressional seats due to immigrants and their young children being counted in the census.

President Trump is once again pushing to exclude illegal aliens from the census count used to determine congressional representation and Electoral College votes.

On January 20, 2025, he rescinded a Biden-era executive order that had mandated counting all residents regardless of immigration status, signaling his intent to revisit the policy. The president argues that including undocumented immigrants dilutes the political power of U.S. citizens and amounts to a form of voter suppression.

Trump declared that “States adopting policies that encourage illegal aliens to enter this country and that hobble Federal efforts to enforce the immigration laws passed by Congress should not be rewarded with greater representation in the House of Representatives”.

Liberal states are already mobilizing resistance, as they did during Trump’s first term when challengers led by New York, along with cities, counties, and immigrant rights groups, argued that Trump’s move could leave several million people uncounted and cause California, Texas and New Jersey to lose House seats.

New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Trump of trying to “punish states that are immigrant-rich” and “transfer power from those states that have significant number of immigrants to those that do not”, with groups including the ACLU immediately filing lawsuits arguing the policy violates the Constitution and federal law.

The scale of sanctuary jurisdictions protecting illegal aliens is staggering. The Center for Immigration Studies identifies 13 sanctuary states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Washington, along with 220 sanctuary cities and counties across the United States.

(…) This represents a massive transfer of political power from states that enforce immigration law to sanctuary jurisdictions that actively shield illegal aliens. The census scam allows sanctuary states and cities to artificially inflate their political representation while law-abiding states lose congressional seats and electoral votes they rightfully deserve based on their citizen populations. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/2/2025)  (Archive)

July 4, 2025 – DataRepublican exposes a Soros-funded former Defense Department advisor celebrating the flash flooding and deaths in Kerr County, Texas

Carlos Alvarez-Aranyos (Credit: LinkedIn)

Hello “Mrs. Butters” – or more likely, Mr. Álvarez-Aranyos,

I came across American Opposition via the link in your X bio and decided to take a closer look.

According to its own description, American Opposition is a “non-profit, non-connected political action committee created to counter the rise of fascism in the United States.” In reality, it looks more like a barely-functioning vanity project. The FEC filing (Committee ID: C00896720) confirms it’s a newly formed PAC with little traction or visibility.

If your Threads activity is any indicator – where you regularly post that Pete Buttigieg deserves more influence than Harry Sisson or Lindy Li, it’s no surprise the project isn’t gaining ground.

The American Opposition Threads feed mostly showcases photos of the founder (you) attending protests. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that this PAC serves as a vehicle for you to play full-time activist on someone else’s dime — though apparently, not many dimes are coming in. Despite your background, it seems you didn’t cultivate enough support in the NGO world to land real institutional backing.

Let’s review that background: You launched the online edition of Editora Listín Diario while still in college. Later, you advised the Department of Defense on “strategic communications” during the Iraq and Afghanistan operations. Most notably, you led strategic comms for Protect Democracy during the 2020 election, a group bankrolled in large part by Open Society Foundations. That’s Soros money, plain and simple.

So the image starts to clarify: a military-to-NGO pipeline operative with Soros backing, trying to rebrand as grassroots opposition. But if this PAC is your flagship, the branding isn’t working.

So your way of coping with your own failure is to mock Texans suffering through a devastating natural disaster on an X account called “Mrs. Butters.”

Stop being evil.

Many on the left are amused by the devastation and deaths that were caused by the flash flood in Texas on July 5, 2025. (Credit: clipping from Chicks on the Right video)

Texas Pediatrician Suspended and Removed Over Viral Flood Rant Hoping MAGA Residents ‘Get What They Voted For’

Democrat-Appointed Official Attacks Flooded Texas Summer Camp as ‘Whites-Only’ as Child Death Toll Rises

July 4, 2025 – DCCC Chair DelBene: It’s GOP’s fault Dems aren’t talking about tax cuts for non-rich

On Wednesday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press Now,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chair Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) said that Democrats haven’t really talked about extending the 2017 tax cuts for people making under $400,000 annually because Republicans aren’t being bipartisan.

Host Kelly O’Donnell asked:

“Another component of this is maintaining the 2017 tax cuts, at that time, so, now, it would be a matter of maintaining that, not new cuts for most Americans. The Democratic Party in 2024 did talk about wanting to make sure that those tax levels remained low for those earning under $400,000 a year. But I don’t hear Democrats talking about the tax cut piece of this much. What’s your response to that?”

DelBene answered:

“Well, I think, maybe we would be in a different place if we were actually coming together to talk about what we can do to help make sure families across the country can thrive. We would talk about putting together a tax policy that is fair, that puts working families first, this is tax policy that puts billionaires first, all of the permanency in the tax bill that they’re putting forward is for the wealthiest and large corporations. It’s not for working families. So, let’s have that conversation. Let’s have that be the priority, let’s expand the child tax credit and help, again, lower childhood poverty across the country. These are important priorities, something we could be working on in a bipartisan way, but there’s been nothing bipartisan about this.”

(Breitbart News, 7/4/2025)  (Archive)

July 5, 2025 – Sanjay Gupta gaslights the public about his history of reporting on the Covid vaccine

Sanjay Gupta, much like his buddy Jake Tapper, is now trying to gaslight us and rewrite history.

Gupta just told Gavin Newsom that it was a mistake for people to claim that the vaccine protected against infection and transmission, but that he wasn’t one of the people making those claims.

Hey Gupta, nice try. Let’s roll the tape.

July 6, 2025 – The DOJ and FBI say they found no proof Jeffrey Epstein was murdered, kept a “client list,” or blackmailed powerful figures

December 19, 2023 Federal judge confirms the existence of a Jeffrey Epstein “associates” list:


In February 2025, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi stated on Fox News that a Jeffrey Epstein “client list” was “sitting on my desk right now to review,” suggesting it was under consideration for public release as directed by President Trump.

Mike Benz explains exactly how the Epstein files are controlled by the CIA, not the FBI, and demands that the agency release everything to the public:

“I want answers from the CIA. You and I can’t get the kind of access he had as normal civilians. In 2020 the Justice Department did a 350 page report.. One footnote.. About CIA connection.. that says “We asked Acosta about Jeffrey Epstein being an Intelligence agent, he said no.” Softball question of the century.”

“That’s all we get? No questions about conversations, no evidentiary trail or who spoke to him. Set up to fail. End of the story. There is a complete lack of enthusiasm to finding out the answers. They have not shown us any evidence of what they’ve seen. Is there no evidence of no appetite?”

Mike Benz exposes Former U.S AG Bill Barr’s dark history with Epstein, He was the CIA’s mop-up man and his father worked directly with him, “Family business”:

“Epstein died under his watch.. Did the blocking and tackling the first time around. There was an immediate conflict of interest.. Both were actively involved in the Iran-Contra scandal.”

“You had an immediate conflict of interest when Barr said Epstein killed himself and that the case was closed. You’ve got the CIA’s mop-up man as the head of the Justice Department and his father worked directly with Epstein. Father like son, family business.”

July 6, 2025 – Deep Dive: $500 million in media funding; Who’s calling the shots behind the headlines?

It’s not just censorship – it’s coordination. In Episode 2 of Deep Dive, we go inside the censorship-industrial complex with @MikeBenzCyber, @NakedHedgie, @laszloan, and @LucyKomisar.

USAID. Soros. Internews. OCCRP. Bellingcat. They say they support democracy. But from Hungary to Brazil, Slovakia to the U.S., they’ve become the new information warlords.

This isn’t about truth.

It’s about power and who controls the story.

DEEP DIVE Episode 2 – ONLY on 𝕏

00:10 – “The Blob”: Pentagon, State, USAID, donors, and 10,000+ NGOs – all moving in sync.

02:15 – Internews trained 9,000 journalists and reached 778M people…in one year.

03:47 – Reagan’s CIA workaround: how Internews and NED were born after Church Committee fallout.

05:09 – Internews’s playbook: media ops for regime change in Brazil, Serbia, Belarus, and more.

06:42 – “They glorify protests. Amplify resistance. Demonize governments.”

08:02 – Censorship business model: media pressure + ad boycotts + AI.

08:33 – Hungary’s 2022 election: $10M in foreign influence and NGO pipelines exposed.

10:04 – How USAID money is laundered through subgrants to influence media and activism.

11:38 – “This wasn’t about aid. It was political warfare with U.S. tax dollars.”

11:54 – “Pentagon money goes offshore.” @LucyKomisar on how Lichtenstein & Luxembourg hide the flow.

13:16 – OCCRP and Bellingcat: same fake HQ in Amsterdam – a glorified PO box.

14:51 – OCCRP: “We launder money for other journalists.”

16:29 – Bellingcat isn’t independent, it’s an intel proxy with NATO ties.

18:03 – MH17: How unverified claims became global consensus.

19:51 – @MikeBenzCyber: “AI is the weapon. This is the New Manhattan Project for censorship.”

21:05 – Germany’s NetzDG law sparked a global AI censorship arms race.

22:32 – 859M tweets scanned in 2020. 22M flagged. One election.

23:42 – EU’s censorship network: think tanks, academia, public funds — and no oversight.

24:40 – @NakedHedgie: “My book was banned twice for challenging a Western narrative.”

25:31 – Amazon deletes your book. And your reviews. And your voice.

26:25 – “Every post is filtered. Every view is ranked. This is algorithmic control.”

27:46 – Who codes the AI…controls the world.

29:01 – CCDH’s STAR framework: the UN-backed blueprint for silencing “unapproved” news.

July 7, 2025 – Democrats are told to ‘get shot’ for the anti-Trump resistance

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined by fellow Democrats, speaks out against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at a press conference on July 02, 2025. (Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

At town halls in their districts and in one-on-one meetings with constituents and activists, Democratic members of Congress are facing a growing thrum of demands to break the rules, fight dirty — and not be afraid to get hurt.

Why it matters: House Democrats told Axios they see a growing anger among their base that has, in some cases, morphed into a disregard for American institutions, political traditions and even the rule of law.

  • “This idea that we’re going to save every norm and that we’re not going to play [Republicans’] game … I don’t think that’s resonating with voters anymore,” said one House Democrat.
  • Another told Axios that a “sense of fear and despair and anger” among voters “puts us in a different position where … we can’t keep following norms of decorum.”
  • Axios spoke to more than two dozen House Democrats for this story, with many requesting anonymity to offer candid insights about their interactions with constituents and activists.

Zoom out: For months, Democratic lawmakers have fumed that their base’s demands to “fight harder” misunderstand the lack of legislative and investigative power afforded to the minority party in Congress.

  • “We’ve got people who are desperately wanting us to do something … no matter what we say, they want [more],” Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), the chair of the center-left New Democrat Coalition, told Axios.
  • Liberal voters have angrily accosted Democrats at town halls for — in their view — not doing enough to counter President Trump’s agenda.
  • In response, some Democrats have tried to up the ante: Heckling Trump, mounting rogue impeachment attempts, and getting tackled by law enforcement and even indicted in their efforts to scrutinize the president’s deportation campaign.

What we’re hearing: The grassroots wants more. “Some of them have suggested … what we really need to do is be willing to get shot” when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies, a third House Democrat told Axios.

  • “Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public,” the lawmaker said.
  • A fourth House Democrat said constituents have told them “civility isn’t working” and to prepare for “violence … to fight to protect our democracy.”
  • A fifth House Democrat told Axios that “people online have sent me crazy s*** … told me to storm the White House and stuff like that,” though they added that “there’s always people on the internet saying crazy stuff.”

Between the lines: While other Democratic lawmakers said their discussions haven’t gone that far, nearly every one who spoke to Axios cited examples of voters’ panic and fury fueling demands to adopt brute force tactics. (Read more: Axios, 7/7/2025)  (Archive)

July 8, 2025 – Another color revolution is forming against President Trump – this one darker than ever…

(Credit: Revolver News)

For decades, the United States government has run covert psychological operations overseas to destabilize foreign regimes and engineer regime change under the false banner of spreading democracy. They make these color revolutions look like spontaneous protests and “people power” movements. But they’re all staged. They’re run by government spooks, globalist nonprofits, and media hacks. This is the same script they’ve used overseas for years, and now they’re running it here, against Americans.

And they’re at it again, but this time the colors are darker than ever and the revolution is sneakier than ever before. More on that shortly…

Since Donald Trump splashed on the political scene, riding that Trump Tower escalator down to political history, the national security blob has turned its arsenal against the American people. The intelligence tricks that were once used on foreign authoritarians are now being used to destroy Trump and his movement.

We at Revolver didn’t just call this early; we actually laid it all out. Our original Color Revolution series exposed how deep this US psyop went. We named names. We connected dots. We pulled receipts. And that’s exactly why we became a target.

Revolver:

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a component of the Department of Homeland Security — yes, the same Department of Homeland Security that housed the ill-fated, Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board led by everyone’s favorite Harry Potter erotica musician Nina Jankowicz (we’re not kidding).

While CISA was engaged in fairly aggressive censorship efforts designed to combat foreign disinformation, it ran into some First Amendment limitations when it came to its true desire to censor domestic political speech in the lead-up to the 2020 election. This is where the other organization Taibbi mentions comes into play–the technically non-governmental Election Integrity Partnership (EIP). Because the EIP was not technically part of the government, it could engage in the aggressive censorship that CISA and DHS wanted, without having to worry about minutiae such as the First Amendment…

That little nugget above might sound like a weird alphabet soup of censorship, but when you break it down, it’s actually the building blocks of a full-blown regime control machine that’s cleverly hiding behind words like “safety” and “integrity,” and of course their precious “democracy.”

(…) And that’s the key here, folks. Color revolutions aren’t just about protests or elections. They’re about controlling the way people absorb and think about events. They shape perception. And that brings us to the next chapter of this playbook.

Because now, the same regime change operatives that Trump fired from the federal government are back, and they’re pissed and aren’t hiding their agenda, not even a tiny bit. Here’s what these bad guys are up to now.

NOTUS:

Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump’s power.

For years, these officials were stationed across the globe actively supporting opposition movements in autocratic nations. Now they’ve got time, a network of former colleagues and a growing sense of moral indignation. “Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We’ve become one,” said a currently employed federal official, who spoke to NOTUS on condition of anonymity. “They were so quick to disband AID, the group that supposedly instigates color revolutions. But they’ve done a very foolish thing. You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population. If you kept our offices going and had us play solitaire in the office, it might have been safer to keep your regime.” The former officials tell NOTUS they’re holding workshops on a tactic called “noncooperation.”

They’re building a network of government workers willing to engage in even minor acts of rebellion in the office. And they’re planting the seeds of what they hope could become a nationwide general strike. Some in the informal network of Trump opponents are sharing an old CIA pamphlet with allies who still work in the government: It’s called “Simple Sabotage.”

So, to put it as simply as possible, Trump didn’t just fire a few bureaucrats; he inadvertently scattered an entire trained insurgency out into the wild. These are people who spent their careers funding revolutions, starting civil unrest, and pushing political dissidents into so-called “peaceful protest” in authoritarian states. And now they’re applying all that expertise… right here at home, in the land of the “free.”

They’re actually holding workshops on “noncooperation.” They are literally passing around CIA sabotage manuals as some quiet bedside reading material. And they’re setting up nationwide “resistance” networks. And yes, you know this all sounds familiar, because this isn’t our first rodeo. We busted the color revolution door wide open with our reporting on the actual architect of this very playbook: Norm Eisen.

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Revolver:

In our report on Never Trump State Department official George Kent, Revolver News first drew attention to the ominous similarities between the strategies and tactics the United States government employs in so-called “Color Revolutions” and the coordinated efforts of government bureaucrats, NGOs, and the media to oust President Trump. Our recent follow-up to this initial report focused specifically on a shadowy, George Soros-linked group called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), which convened “war games” exercises suggesting the likelihood of a “contested election scenario” and of ensuing chaos should President Trump refuse to leave office.

We further showed how these “contested election” scenarios we are hearing so much about play perfectly into the Color Revolution framework sketched out in Revolver News’ first installment in the Color Revolution series. This third installment of Revolver News’ series exposing the Color Revolution against Trump will focus on one quiet and indeed mostly overlooked participant in the Transition Integrity Project’s biased election “war games” exercise—a man by the name of Norm Eisen. As the man who implemented the David Brock blueprint for suing the President into paralysis and his allies into bankruptcy, who helped mainstream and amplify the Russia Hoax, who drafted 10 articles of impeachment for the Democrats a full month before President Trump ever called the Ukraine President in 2018, who personally served as special counsel litigating the Ukraine impeachment, and who created a template for Internet censorship of world leaders and a handbook for mass mobilizing racial justice protesters to overturn democratic election results, there is perhaps no man alive with a more decorated resume for plots against President Trump.

Indeed, the story of Norm Eisen—a key architect of nearly every attempt to delegitimize, impeach, censor, sue, and remove the democratically elected 45th President of the United States—is a tale that winds through nearly every facet of the color revolution playbook. There is no purer embodiment of Revolver’s thesis that the very same regime change professionals who run Color Revolutions on behalf of the US government in order to undermine or overthrow alleged “authoritarian” governments overseas are running the very same playbook to overturn Trump’s 2016 victory and to preempt a repeat in 2020.

To put it simply, what you see is not just the same Color Revolution playbook run against Trump, but the same people using it against Trump who have employed it in a professional capacity against targets overseas—same people, same playbook. In Norm Eisen’s case, the “same people, same playbook” refrain takes an arrestingly literal turn when one realizes that Norm Eisen wrote a classic Color Revolution regime change manual and conveniently titled it “The Playbook.”

(Read more: Revolver News, 7/8/2025)  (Archive)

July 8, 2025 – FBI launches criminal investigations of John Brennan, James Comey

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Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey are under criminal investigation for potential wrongdoing related to the Trump–Russia probe, including allegedly making false statements to Congress, Justice Department sources told Fox News Digital.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred evidence of wrongdoing by Brennan to FBI Director Kash Patel for potential prosecution, DOJ sources told Fox News Digital.

The sources said that the referral was received and told Fox News Digital that a criminal investigation into Brennan was opened and is underway. DOJ sources declined to provide further details. It is unclear, at this point, if the investigation spans beyond his alleged false statements to Congress.

As for Comey, DOJ sources told Fox News Digital that an investigation into the former director is underway, but could not share details of what specifically is being probed.

(Read more: Fox News, 7/8/2025)  (Archive)

July 8, 2025 – Chinese state-sponsored hacker is arrested on U.S. warrant for computer intrusions and theft of information

Illustration: Ben Jones

A 33-year-old Chinese national has been taken into custody for his alleged involvement in U.S. computer intrusions between February 2020 and June 2021, including the reckless and indiscriminate HAFNIUM campaign that compromised thousands of computers worldwide.

Authorities took People’s Republic of China (PRC) national Xu Zewei (徐泽伟) into custody in Milan, Italy, as he departed a plane from China at the request of the United States.

Xu is charged along with PRC national Zhang Yu (张宇), 44, in a now unsealed nine-count indictment returned in November 2023. They were both involved in computer intrusions between February 2020 and June 2021 at the direction of officers of the PRC’s Ministry of State Security’s (MSS) Shanghai State Security Bureau (SSSB), according to the indictment.

The charges allege MSS and SSSB are PRC intelligence services responsible for PRC’s domestic counterintelligence, non-military foreign intelligence and aspects of the PRC’s political and domestic security. When conducting the computer intrusions, Xu worked for Shanghai Powerock Network Co. Ltd., one of many “enabling” companies in the PRC that conducted hacking for the PRC government, according to the charges.

“The indictment alleges that Xu was hacking and stealing crucial COVID-19 research at the behest of the Chinese government while that same government was simultaneously withholding information about the virus and its origins,” said Nicholas Ganjei, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. “The Southern District of Texas has been waiting years to bring Xu to justice and that day is nearly at hand. As this case shows, even if it takes years, we will track hackers down and make them answer for their crimes. The United States does not forget.”

“This arrest underscores the United States’ patient and tireless commitment to pursuing hackers who seek to steal information belonging to U.S. companies and universities,” said John A. Eisenberg, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division. “The Justice Department will find you and hold you accountable for threatening our cybersecurity and harming our people and institutions.”

“While the world was reeling from a virus that originated in China, the Chinese government plotted to steal U.S. research critical to vaccine development,” said FBI Houston Special Agent in Charge Douglas Williams. “Xu Zewei, an alleged hacker acting on behalf of China’s primary spy agency, targeted COVID-19 data using sophisticated cyber techniques and tradecraft. His landmark arrest by FBI Houston agents in Italy proves that we will scour the ends of the Earth to hold criminal foreign adversaries accountable.”

According to court documents, in early 2020, Xu and his co-conspirators hacked and otherwise targeted U.S. based universities and leading immunologists and virologists conducting ground-breaking research into COVID-19 vaccines, treatment and testing. The charges allege Xu and others reported their activities to officers in the SSSB who were supervising and directing the hacking activities. For example, on or about Feb. 19, 2020, Xu allegedly provided an SSSB officer with confirmation that he had compromised the network of a research university located in SDTX. On or about Feb. 22, 2020, the SSSB officer directed Xu to target and access specific email accounts (mailboxes) belonging to virologists and immunologists engaged in COVID-19 research for the research university, according to the allegations. Xu later allegedly confirmed for the SSSB officer he acquired the contents of the researchers’ mailboxes.

Beginning in late 2020, Xu and his co-conspirators exploited certain vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, a widely used Microsoft product for sending, receiving and storing email messages, according to the charges. Their exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server was allegedly at the forefront of a massive campaign targeting thousands of computers worldwide and known publicly as “HAFNIUM.”

In March 2021, Microsoft publicly disclosed the intrusion campaign by state-sponsored hackers operating out of China. In July 2021, the United States and foreign partners attributed the HAFNIUM campaign to the PRC’s MSS, which they and private sector cybersecurity leaders condemned as “indiscriminate,” “reckless,” “irresponsible” and “destabilizing.”

The charges allege victims of Xu’s exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server were a university located in SDTX and a law firm with offices worldwide, including in Washington, D.C. After exploiting computers running Microsoft Exchange Server, Xu and his co-conspirators allegedly installed web shells on them to enable their remote administration. According to the indictment, these web shells were specific to HAFNIUM actors at the time. As with the earlier COVID-19 research intrusions, Xu and Zhang allegedly worked together on the HAFNIUM intrusions under the supervision and direction of SSSB officers. For example, on or about Jan. 30, 2021, Xu confirmed to Zhang that he had compromised the university’s network, according to the charges, and on or about Feb. 28, 2021, updated an SSSB officer on his successful intrusions. This SSSB officer then directed Xu to obtain a list of other, successful intrusions from a second SSSB officer, according to the allegations. The charges allege unauthorized access to the law firm’s network allowed Xu and his co-conspirators to steal information from mailboxes and search them for information regarding specific U.S. policy makers and government agencies. Their search terms allegedly included “Chinese sources,” “MSS” and “HongKong.”

The announcement of charges against Xu is the latest describing the PRC’s use of an extensive network of private companies and contractors in China to hack and steal information in a manner that obscured the PRC government’s involvement.  Operating from their safe haven and motivated by profit, this network of private companies and contractors in China allegedly cast a wide net to identify vulnerable computers, exploit those computers, and then identify information that it could sell directly or indirectly to the PRC government. This largely indiscriminate approach can result in more victims in the United States and elsewhere, more systems worldwide left vulnerable to future exploitation by third parties, and more stolen information, often of no interest to the PRC government and, therefore, sold to other third-parties.

In April 2021, the Justice Department announced a court-authorized operation to remediate hundreds of computers in the United States left vulnerable by HAFNIUM actors.

Xu is charged with two counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to do which all carry possible prison terms of up to 20 years in federal prison. The indictment also includes conspiracy to cause damage to and obtain information by unauthorized access to protected computers, to commit wire fraud and to committing identity theft as well as two counts of obtaining information by unauthorized access to protected computers. If convicted on any of those charges, he could receive up to five years, while intentional damage to a protected computer carries a maximum 10-year-possible sentence on either of two counts as charged. For the aggravated identity theft, he could receive another two years which must be served consecutively to any other prison term imposed. All convictions would also have the potential of up to $250,000 as a possible fine.

Zhang remains at large. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to contact the FBI 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).

The FBI’s Houston Field Office is conducting the investigation.

SDTX Assistant U.S. Attorneys S. Mark McIntyre and John Marck and Deputy Chief Matthew Anzaldi of the National Security Division’s National Security Cyber Section are prosecuting the case.

(justice.gov, 7/8/2025)  (Archive)

July 8, 2025 – Speaker Johnson reveals new federal law codifies 28 Executive Orders signed by President Trump

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Speaker Mike Johnson has announced that 28 of President Donald J. Trump’s executive orders have been officially codified into federal law under the newly passed “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

“Last week, when House GOP passed the One Big Beautiful Bill, we codified into law 28 executive actions taken by President Trump.   More to come!,” Johnson wrote in X.

The legislation enshrines a robust America First agenda — ranging from national security to economic revival — making it nearly impossible for future administrations to undo without going through Congress. Among the codified executive actions:

  1. Securing our borders
  2. Declaring a national emergency at the southern border of the United States
  3. Protecting the American people against invasion
  4. Ending taxpayer subsidization of open borders
  5. Restricting the entry of foreign nationals to protect the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security and public safety threats
  6. Implementing the President’s “DOGE” cost efficiency initiative
  7. Protecting America’s bank account against fraud, waste, and abuse
  8. Continuing the reduction of the federal bureaucracy
  9. Stopping waste, fraud, and abuse by eliminating information silos
  10. Iron Dome for America
  11. Unleashing American drone dominance
  12. Restoring America’s maritime dominance
  13. Unleashing American energy
  14. Reinvigorating America’s beautiful clean coal industry
  15. Unleashing Alaska’s extraordinary resource potential
  16. Declaring a national energy emergency
  17. Immediate measures to increase American mineral production
  18. Immediate expansion of American timber production
  19. Clarifying the military’s role in protecting the territorial integrity of the United States
  20. Keeping Americans safe in aviation
  21. Improving education outcomes by empowering parents, states, and communities
  22. Reforming accreditation to strengthen higher education
  23. Establishing the President’s Make America Health Again Commission
  24. Further amendment to duties addressing the synthetic opioid supply chain in the People’s Republic of China as applied to low-value imports
  25. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) global tax deal (Global Tax Deal)
  26. Enforcing the Hyde Amendment
  27. Celebrating America’s 250th birthday – Garden of Heroes
  28. Making the District of Columbia safe and beautiful

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/8/2025)  (Archive)

July 8, 2025 – Biden doctor, Kevin O’Connor, refuses to testify on Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, pleads the 5th

h/t Gateway Pundit

July 8, 2025 – Ten individuals charged with attempted murder of federal officers and firearms offenses in Alvarado police officer shooting

Ten individuals have been charged for their roles in the shooting of an Alvarado police officer at the Prairieland Detention Center.

Today’s announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy E. Larson, Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas FBI R. Joseph Rothrock, and Enforcement Removal Operations Dallas Acting Field Office Director Joshua Johnson.

According to a criminal complaint filed today, the defendants, dressed in black military-style clothing, began shooting fireworks at the facility, as part of an organized attack.

After approximately 10 minutes of convening, one or two individuals broke off from the main group and began to spray graffiti on vehicles and a guard structure in the parking lot at the facility. An Alvarado police officer responded to the scene after correctional officers called 911 to report suspicious activity. When the Alvarado police officer arrived, one alleged defendant positioned in nearby woods shot the officer in the neck area. Another alleged assailant across the street fired 20 to 30 rounds at unarmed correctional officers who had stepped outside the facility.

As alleged in the complaint, AR-style rifles were found at the scene. The assailants fled from the detention center but were stopped by additional law enforcement officers. Some defendants were wearing body armor, some were armed, and some had two-way radios. A total of twelve sets of body armor were found during searches of vehicles associated with the defendants, on their persons, and in the area around the Prairieland Detention Center.

Additionally, officers found spray paint, flyers stating, “FIGHT ICE TERROR WITH CLASS WAR!” and “FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS,” and a flag stating, “RESIST FACISM – FIGHT OLIGARCHY.” One of the alleged attackers had cell phones inside a “Faraday bag,” used to block phone signals and commonly used by criminal actors to try to prevent law enforcement from tracking their location.

Ten individuals were charged in one complaint with three counts of attempted murder of federal agents and three counts of discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Those include:

• Cameron Arnold
• Savannah Batten
• Nathan Baumann
• Zachary Evetts
• Joy Gibson
• Bradford Morris
• Maricela Rueda
• Seth Sikes
• Elizabeth Soto
• Ines Soto

As outlined in the complaint, officers photographed the graffiti, flyers, flag, body armor, and magazines containing ammunition:

“Make no mistake, this was not a peaceful protest,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Nancy E. Larson. “This was an ambush on federal and local law enforcement officers. This increasing trend of violence against law enforcement will not be tolerated in the Northern District of Texas. Those who use violence against law enforcement officers will be found and prosecuted using the toughest criminal statutes and penalties available.”

“The incident at the Prairieland Detention Center underscores the dangers that officers face daily. We want to thank all the law enforcement agencies that promptly responded and assisted in apprehending the suspects,” said FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge R. Joseph Rothrock. “The FBI stands with our partners and pledges that violence against law enforcement will not be tolerated. We are committed to thoroughly investigating this weekend’s incident and will hold those responsible accountable for threatening the safety of law enforcement.”

“Violence, threats of violence, and attempts of vandalism at our ICE Facilities will not deter our officers at ICE from fulfilling their duties, said Josh Johnson, Acting ERO Dallas Field Office Director. “This type of vigilante lawlessness is emblematic of the dangers federal, state, and local law enforcement officials face every day.”

A criminal complaint is merely an allegation of criminal conduct, not evidence. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. If convicted, the defendants face a minimum penalty of ten years in federal prison and a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

The investigation was conducted by the Dallas FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Office (ICE ERO), Homeland Security Investigations, ATF, Texas Department of Public Safety, Alvarado Police Department, and Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Frank Gatto and Shawn Smith are prosecuting the case.

us_v_arnold_et_al_complaint.pdf

(justice.gov, 7/8/2025)  (Archive)

July 9, 2025 – Former FBI agent says Dan Bongino fired him because he was friends with Peter Strzok

Additional Resource

(New York Times, 7/5/2025)

July 9, 2025 – Marc Elias tells media to ignore the FBI’s criminal investigations of John Brennan and James Comey

July 9, 2025 – Documents reveal USAID PREDICT shipped thousands of virus samples to Wuhan Lab

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) transferred thousands of viral samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China over a 10-year period without securing a formal agreement to govern the exchange, according to newly obtained internal documents.

These documents, which were not previously disclosed, highlight significant gaps in oversight and accountability during a global public health program partially funded by the American government.

At the center of the matter is USAID’s $210 million PREDICT program, led by the University of California-Davis.

The initiative collected viral samples across several countries, including China’s Yunnan Province, a region known to host coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.

The program aimed to identify pandemic threats but lacked clear protocols for long-term sample storage and tracking once federal funding concluded in 2019.

Documentation from the program, reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF), revealed that 11,000 samples were exported to WIV with no indication of safeguards to ensure the materials were not diverted for unauthorized use, such as bioweapons development, or that the U.S. government could later access them for investigation.

[predict] Re: Action required: PREDICT Close Out Sample Disposition Plan by Red Voice News

(LifeZette, 7/9/2025) (Archive)

As a sidenote, our PREDICT tag timeline reveals this story:

October 2009 – SoS Hillary launches USAID’s PREDICT, a project to study emerging pandemic threats; Metabiota founded by Nathan Wolfe in 2008 becomes a partner; Hunter Biden later invests in Metabiota in Ukraine

July 10, 2025 – Alan Dershowitz: “Documents are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals; I know why they’re being suppressed; I know who’s suppressing them”

Dershowitz, who was named as John Doe in the Epstein court documents, said that he knows the names of the individuals on Epstein’s client list.

“Documents are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals. I know why they’re being suppressed. I know who’s suppressing them. But I’m bound by confidentiality from the judge on the case and I can’t disclose what I know,” Dershowitz told Sean Spicer.

Full Interview:

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/10/2025)

July 10, 2025 – Senator Mike Lee: “I’ve been asked today why I think Jeffrey Epstein *might* have been a gov asset”

July 10, 2025 – Six Secret Service agents suspended from 10 to 42 days for failures in Butler, PA

The popular headlines read that six secret service agents were suspended last month.  However, a more fulsome review of the disciplinary action highlights a slight slap on the wrist as the suspensions were from 10 to 42 days.

The disciplinary action follows an internal review of the failures of the Secret Service during President Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania that almost cost him his life.

WASHINGTON – Six agents were suspended by the U.S. Secret Service for failures connected to last year’s attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, an official told ABC News.

The personnel moves were confirmed four days shy of the anniversary of the July 13, 2024, shooting incident that left Trump’s ear bloodied.

Corey Comperatore, a firefighter attending Trump’s campaign rally that day, died in the attack.

[…] The discipline against the six agents was issued in recent months, and the agents were given the right to appeal. The suspensions ranged from 10 to 42 days, according to the official, who was briefed on the agency’s actions.

The positions of those suspended ranged from supervisory level to line agent level, a source familiar with the agency’s decision told ABC News. (read more)

(Conservative Treehouse, 7/10/2025)  (Archive)

EXCLUSIVE AND #BREAKING: The real story behind the six Secret Service suspensions over Butler failures:
Key supervisors who signed off on the Butler security plan and two who were on the final walkthroughs before the J13 rally were never disciplined but instead received BIG PROMOTIONS, multiple sources in the Secret Service community tell RealClearPolitics @RCPolitics.

One of those supervisors on the final walkthroughs, Nick Menster, was assigned this year as the No. 2 in charge of the Lara and Eric Trump protective detail. The other, Nick Olszewski, ironically, became the chief (special agent in charge) of the Inspection Division, which is responsible for ensuring the accountability and integrity of the agency’s personnel and operations.

Inexperienced agents positioned for failure and a more senior agent who spoke out about the ambiguity about the AGR roof coverage, according to Secret Service sources and Congressional testimony, are taking the fall.

Rank-and-file agents are incensed over the decision not to hold the supervisors accountable, further sinking the low morale and exacerbating retention problems throughout the agency. Secret Service Director Sean Curran was in charge of the Donald Trump detail at the time of the rally, and Menster served under his command.

Another big point – multiple Secret Service sources tell me that the original Secret Service disciplinary recommendations varied but maxed out at 52 days without pay. However, lawyers for the agents were able to scale that discipline down to 10 to 42 days without pay. This is a relatively light punishment for such egregious failures, but the fact that some of these agents didn’t receive the supervisory oversight that an outdoor rally of this magnitude required is likely a mitigating factor. If so, that begs the question of why key supervisors appear to have skated.

The agents being suspended may still decide to sue the agency.

“We avoided more severe sanctions, and now we’re assessing the next steps with respect to these discussions,” said Larry Berger, an attorney for several of the suspended agents who previously has served as a general counsel for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. Berger now has his own firm, Berger and Deplas.

Three of the six who are taking the fall (unpaid suspension) are:

Myotsoty Perez – an inexperienced agent (according to Congressional testimony, which did not name her) who was the “site agent” in charge of the security for the rally. She was part of the regular Donald Trump detail and was not chosen for the big outdoor J13 rally, but simply had her “rotation” come up, according to multiple Secret Service sources.

Meredith Bank – a far more experienced agent out of the Pittsburgh Field Office who was serving as the “lead agent” for the day of the rally – overseeing operations from the time then-candidate Trump arrived at the airport to the final departure. She told Congressional investigators that she informed Perez that her supervisor, Nick Menster, would be asking her where the local law enforcement were to be positioned in/on the AGR building. Menster, however, never specifically asked that question, according to the Congressional transcripts.

Dana Dubrey – a mid-level agent in the Pittsburgh Field Office who served as the “site counterpart.”

Tim Burke – the chief (special agent in charge) of the Pittsburgh Field Office.

Brian Pardini – the No. 2 in charge of the Pittsburgh Field Office.

John Marciniak – the Uniformed Division counter sniper who was assigned to the rally late because of the Iranian threat to Trump’s life. Marciniak had just two days, instead of the customary five, to formulate his security plan.

More reporting to come — especially concerning Burke and Pardini.

There’s a big contingent in the Secret Service that believes the Pittsburgh office is unfairly taking the fall when the Trump Detail, and the team of Miyo Perez, Nick Menster, with Nick Olszewski, serving as an inspector assigned to rally, are traditionally parties that should be ultimately responsible for a rally’s overall security and failures of the security plan and execution.

July 10, 2025 – Rogue judge defies SCOTUS ruling on injunctions, blocks Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship for illegal aliens

Joseph Laplante blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship order (Credit: X/joma_gc)

On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Laplante announced that he would issue a preliminary injunction against President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for illegals and narrow the class covered to children only.

Laplante, who was nominated by George W. Bush, also said he would grant a 7-day stay of order for “court efficiency.”

As The Straits Times reported, Laplante made the ruling after the ACLU and other illegal alien activists begged him to grant class action status to a lawsuit they filed seeking to represent any babies whose citizenship status would be threatened by the implementation of Trump’s directive.

Laplante agreed to certify the plaintiffs as a class representing the babies and said the decision to issue a nationwide injunction was “not a close call.”

“That’s irreparable harm, citizenship alone,” he said. “It is the greatest privilege that exists in the world.”

This ruling came after the U.S. Supreme Court on June 27 restricted the ability of judges to block Trump’s policies using nationwide injunctions. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/10/2025)  (Archive)

July 12, 2025 – John Solomon confirms the DOJ and FBI have been secretly building a conspiracy case against the Deep State

John Solomon says he has confirmed that the DOJ & the FBI has been secretly building a massive conspiracy case against the deep state! 💥

“MAGA base, Americans, will be happy when they see where this is all heading in the next few weeks… I’ve got it confirmed. There’s a conspiracy case that was opened that looks at this window as a very large window.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a special prosecutor named by Pam Bondi in the next week or two. And why does this become significant? Because you don’t have to necessarily then bring the grand jury or the indictment in Washington, DC… it allows them to go to some place like Florida…

This has been going on behind the scenes… This is a REALLY big deal…

I think the most likely scenario is a large conspiracy case and it starts in the middle of July 2016, when John Brennan walks into President Obama two days before Crossfire Hurricane is launched… President Obama and Brennan knew… that this was a dirty trick by Hillary Clinton. That would be the first overt act and it would carry through…

It allows for a very large series of events to be wrapped into a single conspiracy, and all of them to be brought into the indictment.”

Patriots, it’s time. We knew it was heading this way, we kept the faith, but now it’s materializing right in front of our eyes!