Month: April 2026

First, the Japanese team gave the English squad a playing lesson, then the fans went viral for their elevated behavior.

Soccer is the most popular sport on Earth, but when it comes to the fans, many times they broadcast a terrible image of violence and chaos to international viewers.

But that’s not the case with the highly civilized Japanese fans.

After a stadium game ends, the stands are usually littered with plastic cups, fast-food wrappers and the like.

But what transpired after Japan’s landmark win against England in Wembley was very different.

Thank you @jfa_samuraiblue pic.twitter.com/M2OL30QGkZ

— Wembley Stadium (@wembleystadium) March 31, 2026

The Telegraph reported:

“Supporters of the Blue Samurai stayed behind for 30 minutes to celebrate their first victory against England. They then collected litter and left the away section as tidy as they found it.

Footage of the Japan fans collecting rubbish into blue plastic bags, when most other supporters would be returning home down Wembley Way, has gone viral. Officials from Wembley thanked the away fans for their clean-up operation, which has become a tradition for their supporters.”

The Japan team take the acclaim of their loyal fans here at Wembley after beating England 1-0 at the nations stadium pic.twitter.com/XaJVcyhSov

— Layth (@laythy29) March 31, 2026

“They also cleaned the stands at the last World Cup in Qatar after beating Germany at the Khalifa International Stadium. Experts say cleanliness is part of Japanese culture and has become part of the football-watching experience.

After their defeat to Belgium knocked them out of the 2018 World Cup, the Japanese team left their dressing room spotless in Rostov-on-Don, with a note reading ‘Спасибо’, thank you in Russian.”

Amazing from Japan.
This is how they left the changing room after losing v Belgium: cleaned it all.
And in the middle, have left a message to Russia: “Spasibo” (Thank you) pic.twitter.com/lrwoIZt2pR

— Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) July 3, 2018

While the rapidly evolving Japanese soccer team may still have a lot to learn, the fans are some of the most fantastic in the world, ready to bring their clean game to the US for the World Cup.

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Foreign Affairs

The Emptiness of ‘Concern’ Over West Bank Pogroms

American and Israeli officials may make noises about the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, but there’s precious little action.

The brutality—and frequency—of violent attacks on Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has become so appalling that even U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently expressed “concern” over it. 

“That is a topic we follow very closely,” he said. “I think you’ll see the government there do something about it.”

Not only Rubio appears to have been moved to say—if not actually do—“something about it.” IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir spoke out against it, Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth (the West Bank’s military commander) issued an entire letter against it, and even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bothered to show up in person at Israel’s Central Command headquarters, where he—so it was reported—“pounded the table”.

That any of these nothingburgers is even dignified with reporting is no less than pathetic. These are cost-free public relations fixes for Israel’s national project of ethnically cleansing growing areas of occupied Palestinian land of as many Palestinians as possible. This is not a project of some “out-of-control hilltop teens,” the oft-deployed lie Israel used until recently as its earlier line of PR nonsense. It is a state-led project, expressing—if anything—the extent to which Israel is, in fact, in control: controlling more land with fewer Palestinians.

One vivid way of seeing through the propaganda is by identifying a key aspect that is carefully absent from all the recent verbiage: return. None of the abovementioned officials—or their many peers in that chorus of hypocrisy, carefully posturing now to be “concerned”—is demanding, or even speaking of, that most obvious remedy to the violent displacement of dozens of Palestinian communities over the past two-and-a-half years: that those that have been displaced will be compensated, protected, and allowed to safely return to the lands they were uprooted from. According to Israeli human rights group B’Tselem’s figures, Israel forcibly displaced (as of March 16 2026, since October 7, 2023) 59 Palestinian communities, home to more than 4,003 people, in Areas C and B of the West Bank. They should all be allowed to return.

Another assured way for spotting nonsense is noting the strange phenomenon of people in power doing everything in order to avoid using, well, their power. Moving their lips, writing letters, even pounding on a table! But since when does a military commander write a letter in order to achieve an objective? If Bluth was genuinely concerned with the war crime of forcible transfer committed under his watch, he would issue his officers an order and follow up on its implementation. Instead, he wrote a letter. Similarly, when Rubio was asked about expecting potential “repercussions” if “attacks continue against the Palestinians,” he flatly replied, “I don’t”.

Finally, it is worth remembering for how long Israel has been “failing” in dealing with “settler violence.” More than 40 years ago, Deputy Attorney General Yehudit Karp resigned from leading a special Israeli government team appointed to examine “law enforcement” over Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Approximately a year after issuing a scalding interim report detailing her team’s findings, Karp wrote to the Attorney General that “no real action has been taken to draw the conclusions required by the report, and it remains ignored.”

Really, at what point will it finally be recognized that a decades-old “failure to take action” is in fact not a break in the system, but rather a key part of the system itself—the system which is using all forms of violence against Palestinians in order to displace them? That state-organized violence can be bureaucratic, using the Israeli-controlled planning committees to designate Palestinian homes as “illegal,” then issuing demolition orders against them? Or it can be applied through direct military action, as in the Gaza Strip or throughout Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank? Or it can be in the form of political backing, legal impunity, and state-funded infrastructure underwriting the supposedly non-state violence of repeated pogroms against Palestinian communities?

Rubio was correct in commenting that “there’s a lot going on in the world right now.” Indeed. Be that as it may, what Israel does in the West Bank is underwritten by its closest ally—the United States.  As such, American citizens appalled by Israeli actions against Palestinian civilians should know that their government hasn’t gone beyond that lowest of diplomatic bars: “concern.”

State sanctioned ethnic violence shouldn’t be met with hollow “concern.” It is a war crime, and it should be dealt with as such: not with letters, but with accountability.

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing federal agencies to create a nationwide list of eligible voters, a mandate expected to trigger immediate legal battles as critics warn the directive exceeds presidential authority and threatens state control of elections.

Federal Agencies Tasked With Voter Database

The order instructs the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration to compile voter eligibility lists for each state. Trump also directed the U.S. Postal Service to refuse delivering absentee ballots to anyone not appearing on state-approved lists, though legal experts question whether the president possesses authority over Postal Service operations. The directive additionally requires ballots to include secure envelopes featuring unique tracking barcodes.

Legal Challenges Mount Against Election Orders

This represents Trump’s second major election executive order, following a March 2025 directive that sought sweeping changes including documentary proof-of-citizenship requirements for federal voter registration and Election Day ballot receipt deadlines. Courts blocked substantial portions of that earlier order after voting rights organizations and Democratic attorneys general filed lawsuits alleging unconstitutional federal overreach. David Becker, a former Justice Department attorney, stated the new order demonstrates Trump has not learned from previous blocked attempts to control state-run elections.

Allegations and Constitutional Concerns

During the signing ceremony, Trump repeated unsubstantiated claims about mail ballot fraud, stating the order would help with elections. Multiple audits, investigations, and court proceedings have debunked his allegations of widespread voter fraud. Trump previously told a conservative podcaster he wants to take over elections from Democratic-controlled areas, citing fraud claims that numerous official reviews have disproven. Constitutional scholars maintain states possess primary authority over election administration, making federal mandates of this scope legally vulnerable to judicial review.

President Trump’s solicitor general made the so-called ‘smartest’ liberal Supreme Court Justice look like a complete fool after she tried to school him on the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship.

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, Trump is attending oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court concerning birthright citizenship, becoming the first sitting president in American history to attend oral arguments.

As TGP readers know, Trump issued an executive order last year that proclaimed that children born to illegal alien parents in the United States or temporarily present are not American citizens. But black-robed tyrants masquerading as judges have blocked the order, even after the Supreme Court rejected nationwide injunctions by rogue leftist judges at the time.

In July 2025, two rogue federal judges and a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Trump’s birthright citizenship order.

During the hearing, Kagan tried to corner Solicitor General John Sauer for agreeing with Justice Alito that birthright citizenship should not apply to children of illegal aliens.

Kagan went on to say that historical texts, including the Constitution, do not support Sauer’s argument that the term “jurisdiction” requires complete allegiance to the United States rather than to foreign powers.

Instead, she said Sauer was relying on obscure sources to advance a more ‘esoteric’ interpretation of the 14th Amendment.

But Sauer blew up Kagan’s argument with a major truth nuke: he pointed out several examples from the Founders and those involved in the drafting of the 14th Amendment who said that temporary visitors and those not domiciled with full loyalty to America were never intended to pass on automatic citizenship to their children born here.

Talk about a huge backfire by Kagan.

LISTEN:

Justice Kagan tried to pin Solicitor General Sauer into a corner during arguments over birthright citizenship, suggesting the challengers’ position relied on some esoteric theory rather than the plain text.

Sauer dismantled that by going straight to the source. The men who… pic.twitter.com/TZZsqdssFZ

— Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) April 1, 2026

KAGAN: You can’t be arguing in the way Justice Alito suggests…Your whole theory of the case is built on that group; you don’t get to talking about undocumented persons until much later. So, you can’t really be going with Justice Alito’s theory; you must be saying that there is a principle that was there at the time of the 14th Amendment.

Isn’t that right?

SAUER: We agree there is a principle there at the 14th Amendment. The term jurisdiction means allegiance, as strongly reflected in 19th-century sources…The allegiance of an alien present in another country is determined by domicile.

That’s the principle that applies here.

KAGAN: Where does this principle come from? Allegiance, I think you point to a Lincoln funeral speech as your primary example of where this principle comes from. It’s not what we think of when we think of the word jurisdiction.

The text does not support you. What you’re looking for is some more esoteric meaning…You’re using some pretty obscure sources to get to this concept.

SAUER: Take it straight from the Framers’ mouths. Senator Trumbull was asked What is jurisdiction?’

He said it means not owing allegiance to anybody else.

Senator Bingham, the original author of the 14th Amendment, said that within the jurisdiction of the United States, a parent must not owe allegiance to any foreign sovereignty.

There are over a dozen sources that specifically address temporary sojourners within the five decades, and they say that temporary sojourners’ children are not included.

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The weeks-long war in Iran may be nearing its end, provided the Islamist dictatorship bends the knee on a highly critical condition.

On Wednesday, President Trump took to Truth Social to deliver some promising news: Iran’s new ‘president’ has just asked America for a ceasefire to end the fighting. Trump said he’s considering the proposal but has one condition: that Iran reopen the Hormuz Strait, which the nation closed last month.

Otherwise, the bombing will continue.

The announcement comes just hours before Trump is scheduled to address the country on the war.

“Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a CEASEFIRE!” Trump announced on Truth Social.

“We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!” he added.

The Hormuz Strait is considered to be one of the world’s most critical oil chokepoints, connecting the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, it accounts for more than 35% of all seaborne oil trade, largely destined for Asia.

Trump has also provided more reason to believe the bombing campaign will wind down soon during a phone interview with the New York Post on Tuesday.

We’re not going to be there too much longer. We’re obliterating the sh*t out of them right now,” Trump said.

“We won’t have to be there much longer — but we have more work to do in terms of killing their offensive, whatever offensive capability they have left.”

An end to the war will certainly be a welcome relief, especially given that Americans are paying $4 per gallon for gasoline.

High gas prices have a particularly profound impact on working-class people, who make up the majority of Trump’s base.

Getting out of Iran would also likely boost Trump’s poll numbers, which have been in a freefall since the war began.

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President Donald Trump is inside the United States Supreme Court right now as oral arguments have officially begun in one of the most consequential cases in modern American history.

This is history unfolding in real time. For the first time ever, a sitting president is physically present during Supreme Court oral arguments.

BREAKING: Trump departs for the Supreme Court, which is hearing oral arguments today in Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case. pic.twitter.com/JK7y65gRjH

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) April 1, 2026

Moments ago, President Trump entered the hallowed halls of the U.S. Supreme Court, taking a seat INSIDE the courtroom to personally oversee oral arguments in the monumental case Trump v. Barbara.

This marks the FIRST TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY that a sitting president has attended oral arguments at the nation’s highest court.

While previous presidents hid behind their desks and let activist judges dismantle our borders, President Trump is leading from the front. He is there to defend his January 2025 Executive Order aimed at ending the “Birthright Citizenship” magnet that has incentivized illegal migration for decades.

The radical ACLU and their “open borders” allies are currently pleading with the Justices to keep the floodgates open, but they have to do it while looking the President of the United States right in the eye.

“I’m going. I think so. I do believe,” Trump told reporters yesterday.

And he kept his word. He is there to ensure the 14th Amendment is finally interpreted the way the Founders intended, not as a loophole for lawbreakers.

Trump: I have listened to this argument for so long. And this is not about Chinese billionaires who are billionaires from other countries, who all of a sudden have 75 children, or 59 children in one case, or 10 children, becoming American citizens.

This was about slaves. And if you take a look—slaves—we’re talking about slaves from the Civil War. And if you take a look at when it was filed, all of this legislation, all of this—everything having to do with birthright citizenship—it was at the end of the Civil War.

The reason was it had to do with the babies of slaves and the protection of the babies of slaves. It didn’t have to do with the protection of multimillionaires and billionaires wanting to have their children get American citizenship.

It is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s been so badly handled by legal people over the years. If you look at the original birthright citizenship papers, they all happened right after the Civil War. The reason was it had to do with the babies of slaves.

And hopefully it’s going to stay, because our country is being scammed. We’re getting all of these people—they’re selling the rights to them.

Representing the American people is Solicitor General D. John Sauer—the same legal powerhouse who secured the massive presidential immunity victory. He is squaring off against the ACLU’s Cecillia Wang in a battle for the soul of our Constitution.

Solicitor General John Sauer already came out swinging, dismantling the Left’s long-standing interpretation of birthright citizenship.

Sauer: This conclusion reflects the original public meaning of the clause. When Congress used the term “not subject to any foreign power” in the Civil Rights Act of 1866, it rejected the British conception of allegiance.

Senator Trumbull explained that “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the clause means “not owing allegiance to anybody else.” In 1884, this Court recognized that “subject to the jurisdiction” means owing direct and immediate allegiance.

The clause, thus, does not extend citizenship to the children of temporary visa holders or illegal aliens. Unlike the newly freed slaves, those visitors lack direct and immediate allegiance to the United States.

For aliens, lawful domicile is the status that creates the requisite allegiance, and the text of the clause presupposes domicile. For decades following the clause’s adoption, commentators recognized that the children of temporary visitors are not citizens.

And illegal aliens lack the legal capacity to establish domicile here. Unrestricted birthright citizenship contradicts the practice of the overwhelming majority of modern nations.

BREAKING: President Trump is sitting INSIDE the Supreme Court oral arguments right now and they have officially BEGUN

History was just made!

Solicitor General Sauer is dropping truth, saying the 14th Amendment does NOT extend citizenship to illegal aliens

“Unlike the newly… pic.twitter.com/PRJqsIyrSH

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 1, 2026

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President Trump is making a historic move this morning that is sending the left into hysterics, including at least one Democrat congresswoman.

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported , Trump is attending oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court concerning birthright citizenship, becoming the first sitting president in American history to attend oral arguments.

As TGP readers know, Trump issued an executive order last year that proclaimed that children born to illegal alien parents in the United States or temporarily present are not American citizens. But black-robed tyrants masquerading as judges have blocked the order, even after the Supreme Court rejected nationwide injunctions by rogue leftist judges at the time.

In July 2025, two rogue federal judges and a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Trump’s birthright citizenship order.

After learning about Trump’s bold move to attend today’s hearings, Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) went on X and posted an absolutely unhinged tweet with several F-bombs.

“So f**king f**ked up. I’ll pray they f**k him to his face,” she wrote.

“Sorry, I say f*ck a lot these days.”

Was Lee worried that Trump would somehow influence the Court with his presence?

Lee later deleted the tweet, but the Internet is forever.

According to Trump, the 14th Amendment is being hijacked by the left to give citizenship to ‘anchor babies,’ children of illegal migrants.

Here is what the order states:

“It is the policy of the United States that no department or agency of the United States government shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship, to persons: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.”

Trump goes on to explain in the executive order why the 14th Amendment has always excluded infants born illegally present in the United States.

[The] Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Consistent with this understanding, the Congress has further specified through legislation that “a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is a national and citizen of the United States at birth, 8 U.S.C. 1401, generally mirroring the Fourteenth Amendment’s text,” the order reads.

According to PBS, a final ruling by the Court is expected by early Summer.

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Former U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz made some interesting claims regarding aliens during his recent interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson.

During his interview with Gaetz, Johnson asked Gaetz who is now an anchor at OAN, what was the most disturbing alien information; he received as a member of Congress.

Gaetz responded, by sharing he received intel of locations of alien hybrid breeding programs.

The former Congressman from Florida stated, “I had someone come and brief me who was in a military uniform, worked for the United States Army, that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with humans to create some hybrid race that could engage in intergalactic communication.”

Gaetz the emphasized, “An actual uniformed member of the United States Army briefed me on that.”

WATCH:

I asked Matt Gaetz What Is the Most Disturbing Alien Finding He Learned In Congress:

Alien ‘Breeding Programs’ and ‘Non-Human Biologics’

“I had someone come and brief me who was in a military uniform, worked for the United States Army, that was briefing me on the locations of… pic.twitter.com/XRIwZTXeIw

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 31, 2026

Shortly after Gaetz made his remarks Australian Senator Ralph Babet who serves in the Australian Parliament echoed Gaetz claims and took to X writing, “Let’s just say some of you would be very surprised who’s not entirely human.”

LOOK:

I wish I could say more but unfortunately everything I know about the alien hybrid program is classified.

Let’s just say some of you would be very surprised who’s not entirely human.

That’s all I’m authorised to disclose at this time. https://t.co/YCiabSuWhr

— Senator Babet (@senatorbabet) March 31, 2026

Recently, Benny Johnson has been on a spree asking former and current U.S. officials on the topic of aliens.

Johnson asked NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman in an interview he conducted this week, whether aliens exist.

Isaacman responded, “There’s a chance.”

WATCH:

NASA Administrator Declares Alien Life ‘EXISTS’

Jared Isaacman tells me he’s 90% sure America will find Extraterrestrial LIFE on Mars.

“I would say there is a chance there could be life out there — everywhere.”

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman: “There’s two trillion… pic.twitter.com/D7CBdFYdVC

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 31, 2026

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