Putin Responds to Trump’s Humanitarian Appeal to Spare the Lives of Ukrainian Soldiers in Kursk Region

Credit: President of Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded to Trump’s urgent appeal to spare the lives of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers currently encircled by Russian forces in the Kursk region.

On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed “in principle” to a U.S.-proposed 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine.

The move, which could mark a significant step toward ending the drawn-out and costly war, came with Putin’s cautious but measured response: discussions with the U.S. must continue, and critically, a call with President Trump should be on the table.

On Friday, Trump took to Truth Social, stating:

“We had very good and productive discussions with President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday, and there is a very good chance that this horrible, bloody war can finally come to an end — BUT, AT THIS VERY MOMENT, THOUSANDS OF UKRAINIAN TROOPS ARE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY THE RUSSIAN MILITARY, AND IN A VERY BAD AND VULNERABLE POSITION. I have strongly requested to President Putin that their lives be spared. This would be a horrible massacre, one not seen since World War II. God bless them all!!!”

Read more:

Trump Urges Putin to Spare Ukrainian Soldiers in Kursk, Warns of ‘Horrible Massacre’

Putin acknowledged Trump’s plea, but made it clear that his military’s actions are a direct response to what he called “Ukrainian militants’ numerous crimes against civilians.”

While the Kremlin officially classifies these actions as “terrorism,” Putin nonetheless extended a conditional offer of mercy, provided that Ukrainian troops surrender their arms.

Putin said:

“We have read today’s appeal from President Trump to spare the lives of servicemen of the Ukrainian Army in the Kursk region. In this regard, please note that Ukrainian militants have committed numerous crimes against civilians.

These acts, as I have already stated, are classified by us as terrorism. At the same time, we are sympathetic to President Trump’s call to be guided by humanitarian considerations regarding these servicemen.

In this regard, I emphasize that if they lay down their arms and surrender, they will be guaranteed life and dignified treatment.

To effectively implement President Trump’s call, there must be an appropriate order from the military and political leadership of Ukraine to its troops to lay down their arms and surrender.”

WATCH:

⚡ BREAKING: President Putin responded to President Trump regarding his appeal to spare Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region:

“We have read today’s appeal from President Trump to spare the lives of servicemen of the Ukrainian Army in the Kursk region. In this regard, please… pic.twitter.com/RmmbqO1oS3

— Russia is not Enemy (@RussiaIsntEnemy) March 14, 2025

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BREAKING IN WISCONSIN: Appellate Court Blocks Democrats’ Effort to Allow Voting Online Outside Election Law

Guest post by Jefferson Davis

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Madison – Activist leftist judges in Dane County and progressive liberal democrat operatives were dealt a major blow on Wednesday, March 12th, by the 2nd District Court of Appeals when the 3-Member Appellate Court unanimously blocked the liberal’s cooperative effort to create legislation out of thin air while attempting to inject as many ballots as possible into elections with very little verification and or oversight for electors by Clerks and their Staffs.
The Democrats wanted this plan in place for the Wisconsin Supreme Court Race on April 1st.
Activist leftist judges in Dane County and their progressive liberal democrat partners (Disability Rights Wisconsin and League of Women Voters) were successful in creating new State of Wisconsin Election Law out of thin air in June of 2024 when far-left progressive activist Dane County Circuit Court Judge Everett Mitchell ruled that,
“…voters who self-certify that they can’t read or mark a paper ballot without help to request absentee ballots electronically from local clerks. The voters can then cast their ballots at home using devices that help them read and write independently. They will still be required to mail the ballots back to the clerks or return them in person, the same as any other absentee voter in the state.” (Click here for full story.
This ruling was immediately appealed by the Republican-Controlled Legislature in August of 2024.
The liberal Dane County Circuit Court Judge’s ruling was put on hold by the Appellate Court so that this liberal ruling would not be implemented in time for the 2024 Wisconsin Presidential Election.
Estimates are that less than 100,000 adult Wisconsin residents may have some visual impairment.
The unapologetic and brazen efforts of leftist activist judges and progressive liberal democrat operatives are to apply the Saul Alinsky, “Rules for Radicals”, plan of picking a target and then put that plan on steroids via the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Transforming America.
The democrats and their operatives have bottomless pits of cash, endless lists of attorneys (Elias, Eisen, Holder, etc.) a cadre of sympathetic judges, total disregard for the law and sycophant plaintiffs that play this movie of attacking election integrity over and over again knowing that they probably won’t prevail in the end, but at least they gummed up the system in the process with the press and media bobbing their heads in approval with their fawning coverage of events.
In Wisconsin, only military and overseas voters are allowed to have a ballot emailed to them.
Wisconsin has 4 Appellate Court Districts.
The three 2nd District Appellate Court Judges (Gundrum, Lazar and Grogan) are to be commended and thanked profusely for their law-and-order ruling of simply following the law and blocking attempts by leftist activist judges and democrat operatives to usurp the Legislature and creating laws out of thin air that would obviously benefit democrat efforts to inject more ballots into elections.
The liberal progressive democrat operatives will not appeal this ruling.  They may continue to pursue their efforts of changing the law at the Circuit Court level with a friendly activist judge.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu called the ruling, “A victory for the rule of law and election security in Wisconsin!  Allowing courts to decide who can vote from home, using the internet, would weaken election integrity and hurt voters’ faith in our elections.”
Shockingly, even the Wisconsin Department of Justice, under the direction of Hillary Clinton operative Josh Kaul, which represented the Wisconsin Elections Commission, admitted this process would be open to “security risks” and could cause “confusion”.

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It’s Not Just Joe Biden – Barack Obama Used Autopen and Form Letters When He Sent Condolences to Families of Fallen Soldiers

As reported earlier, the intrepid investigators at the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight project, led by longtime investigator Mike Howell, has compared the Biden signatures on nearly every document from his administration.

They discovered that it’s obvious that Biden never actually signed anything himself.

WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE AUTOPEN CONTROLLED THE PRESIDENCY

We gathered every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of his presidency.

All used the same autopen signature except for the the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the… https://t.co/CC3oJUkNr4 pic.twitter.com/mtNrZsALDu

— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) March 6, 2025

And they suggest that it’s possible Biden didn’t even know what was being signed on his behalf.

The rate of identical signatures indicates that the entire Presidency operated with the use of a staffer applying either the automatic pen to a document, or by using a saved image on a computer affixing Biden’s consent to something he may have been unable or unwilling to consent to.

Biden’s Chief of Staff was Ron Klain, and then Jeff Zients. Klain now works for AirBNB. Zients was a former board member of Facebook. Both had ties to Obama and the disastrous governmental response to COVID.

But it wasn’t just Joe Biden.

Barack Obama used an autopen to sign condolence letters to families of fallen soldiers and he used the same form letter for each family.

The Gateway Pundit discovered this back in 2012 when we were talking to the families of the SEAL Team 6 members who were shot down by the Taliban after the death of Osama bin Laden.

On August 6, 2011, 30 US service members were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter they were being transported in crashed in Wardak province, Afghanistan. It was the deadliest single loss for U.S. forces in the decade-long war in Afghanistan. 17 members of the elite Navy SEALs were killed in the crash.

In 2012, Karen and Billy Vaughn, parents of Aaron Carson Vaughn, spoke at the Defending the Defenders forum sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots outside the RNC Convention in Tampa. Karen brought a copy of the form letter they received following their son’s death.

It’s a form letter.


It was signed by an electric pen.

That’s not all.

Karen Vaughn reached out to the parents of the other SEALs killed in that crash.
Their letters were all the same.
Form letters – signed by an electric pen.

SEAL Team 6 members killed by the Taliban in 2011.

Here’s a closer look at the letter sent to the parents of Chief Petty Officer Nicholas H. Null.
It’s the same form letter.

After the deadliest single loss of US forces in Afghanistan, Barack Obama sent out form letters to the parents.

But there’s more… Obama did send a personal letter to rapper Heavy D’s family when he passed away.

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EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Pelosi’s 2024 Opponent for US Congress, Republican Bruce Lou, Speaks Out on Pelosi’s Stunning Mental Decline — Outlines Pelosi’s Crooked Succession Plan 

Side-by-side: Nancy Pelosi (Flickr); Republican Bruce Lou (Courtesy of Lou)

27-year-old San Francisco Republican Bruce Lou won the honor of taking on Democratic Party mob boss Nancy Pelosi in the General Election for the U.S. House of Representatives, after flattening a field of six primary election opponents—including multiple Democrats. 

“In the Primary, there were actually four Democrats and four Republicans running here in San Francisco—a district with the lowest Republican registration in the United States, hovering around 7%,” Bruce Lou told The Gateway Pundit, in an exclusive interview. 

“From the start of the campaign, we worked as though nothing was given. When you don’t expect anything, and then you get a result like ours, it is a tremendous victory,” Lou said.

Lou, an entrepreneur, wiped the floor with his more experienced political opponents in the primary, winning nearly twice as many votes as Democrat Marjorie Mikels, the third-place finisher.

Lou won nearly the same number of votes as his bottom four primary opponents combined.

“In the primary, I was endorsed by pretty much every Republican organization—from the California Republican Party to the San Francisco Republican Party, down to community advocacy groups.

“I was endorsed by Bay Area Homeowners; I was endorsed by Senator Rand Paul; I was endorsed by [Assistant Attorney General] Harmeet Dhillon. 

“But elections are not won on endorsements; they are won by engaging with voters. 

“We ran advertisements everywhere, and we had a very strong ground game. I believe that I ran the best campaign of any candidate in the primary – not only for our party platform, but also in terms of outreach and organization. It was a massive team effort that got me over the finish line,” Lou said.

In the general election—head-to-head against Pelosi—Lou garnered over 64,000 votes, winning 19% of the vote in a county with 7% Republican registration.

Lou lamented the opportunity to debate the senile Speaker Emerita.

“We very much would have liked to debate Nancy Pelosi, but of course, she refused to debate me. She feels this seat belongs to her – that she is unassailable. 

“This is common to a lot of the Democrat establishment, the Democrat elite. They refuse to engage in good faith debate because they feel like, ‘Why should they lower themselves to our position of the common people?’

“And frankly, she would lose a debate against me. Nancy Pelosi hasn’t put together a coherent policy position in quite awhile; in fact, she can’t string together two coherent sentences – even on national television.” 

Lou tore into Pelosi’s congressional record, which has become the subject of national disgrace.

“Nancy Pelosi has done so poorly for the people of San Francisco. We have crime; we have homelessness; we are suffering so much at home; yet, Nancy Pelosi gets on her high horse and talks about vague concepts like how Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.

“She knows that she’s living in an ivory tower, and she doesn’t want to be challenged by an opponent,” Lou said.

As The Gateway Pundit recently reported, Joe Biden revealed to President Trump that he blamed “Barack and Nancy Pelosi” for his ouster as the Democrat party’s presumptive nominee in 2024.

Lou echoed this account full-throatedly.

“Nancy Pelosi had an outsized influence doing backroom deals to influence the election; she was the one who pushed Joe Biden out; she launched a backroom coup against Joe Biden to force him out of the race and install Kamala Harris – a puppet.

“Kamala has no agency of her own; she is fully controlled by the Democrat elite and the establishment, led by Nancy Pelosi. 

“Pelosi has been in Congress for 38 years, and she represents the worst of American politics. It’s all swamp politics; it’s backroom politics, not benefitting her constituents, but serving her own interests; putting the interests of her party and the interests of foreign powers over her constituents and the people of the United States,” Lou said.

On the contrary, Lou offered his constituents the opportunity to vote for a common-sense candidate. 

“I represent the opposite [of Pelosi]; I put my constituents first; I listen to their concerns even when they disagree with me. I am a man of the people, and I listen to the people. Nancy Pelosi is an elite; I doubt she knows how much gas and groceries cost. [The people’s] concerns are not what Nancy Pelosi is babbling about on national TV. 

“Americans are concerned about their daily quality of life issues, public safety, education, taxes, property rights, being able to afford a home, and being able to raise a family. These are issues that Pelosi’s not focused on,” Lou said. 

As a San Francisco political insider, Lou detailed Pelosi’s crooked succession plan.

“Nancy wants a political successor, and the person that she has in mind is her daughter, Christine Pelosi. Christine has been building up her influence in the Democrat party for quite a few years; quietly building up internal political capital in order to prepare herself for her run. Nancy figured she would keep the seat warm until next term when her daughter, Christine, can swoop in and win the seat,” Lou said.

Under this order of succession, Pelosi’s dynasty will reign in deep blue San Francisco for over half a century, should Christine Pelosi continue to be re-elected.

But across the aisle, Lou mounted a campaign that intended to fight for the common people. Lou now appears destined to become a fixture in California politics. 

“I am dedicated to providing positive change to the people of San Francisco and the people of the United States,” Lou said. 

“[I am] dedicated to fighting the corruption that has infected our politics.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Says a ‘Reckoning’ Has Finally Come for Radical Left Wing Higher Education

Conservative historian and scholar, Victor Davis Hanson, believes the time has finally come for a reckoning in higher education.

Colleges and universities have always leaned left, but in recent years Americans have watched in horror as academia turned into a straight-up progressive indoctrination machine. People go into debt to send their kids to these schools which then transform their once happy children into raging Marxists.

If colleges want to be that way, it’s their business but it doesn’t have to be done with taxpayer dollars.

Hanson writes at Townhall:

Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education?

Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal — and suicidal.

They did so with impunity.

Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s elite movers and shakers that they could always do almost anything they wished.

By the 1970s, non-profit universities had dropped pretenses that they were apolitical and non-partisan.

Instead, they customarily violated the corpus of iconic civil rights legislation by weighing race, gender, and sexual orientation in biased admissions, hiring, and promotions.

Hanson suggests that college endowments are now fair game:

Congress will soon pass legislation that will tax the annual multimillion-dollar income from multibillion-dollar endowments at somewhere between 15 and 20%.

There will be no more “overhead” or “surcharges” on government campus grants allowed larger than 15%.

Those two reforms alone could cost some of the richest campuses nearly a half billion dollars a year in lost income.

Everyone should pay close attention to what’s happening with the Trump administration and Columbia University. It’s basically a preview of what is going to happen at a number of other schools. Trump is making it clear that if these schools refuse to change, they will have to learn to live without federal funding. This is long overdue.

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BREAKING: Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson Expose Deep State Witch Hunt — New Records Confirm Corrupt FBI Seized Trump, Pence Government Cell Phones and Conducted Sweeping Interviews to Push Bogus ‘Arctic Frost’ Probe

Photos by Brandon Bell/Getty Images and Jerry Lampen/AFP via Getty Images

Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) have blown the lid off yet another sham investigation orchestrated by Biden’s corrupt Department of Justice (DOJ) and the politically compromised FBI.

According to newly uncovered documents, the agencies weaponized their power to target President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, and their allies through an illegitimate probe dubbed “Arctic Frost.”

Armed with whistleblower disclosures and damning internal documents, the senators are sounding the alarm over “Operation Arctic Frost,” a taxpayer-funded witch hunt that seized government-issued cell phones belonging to former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence while conducting a sweeping barrage of interviews across the country.

The FBI did not require a warrant to take possession of government phones from the Biden White House. However, after securing the devices, agents began preparing a search warrant to access their data, sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News.

“The Biden White House played right along with the FBI’s ‘gotcha’ scheme against Trump,” the source told Fox News.

“Biden’s Office of White House Counsel, under the leadership of Dana Remus and Jonathan Su, gave its blessing and accommodation for the FBI to physically obtain Trump and Pence’s phones in early May 2022. Weeks later, the FBI began drafting a search warrant to extract the phones’ data.”

In a fiery letter dated March 13, 2025, addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, Grassley and Johnson pulled no punches.

They allege that Arctic Frost, launched in April 2022 under the Biden administration, was a blatant abuse of power spearheaded by anti-Trump FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Timothy Thibault.

The senators claim Thibault violated FBI protocols—specifically the “No Self-Approval Rule”—to kickstart the investigation, which later morphed into Special Counsel Jack Smith’s baseless elector case against Trump, relying on fabricated justifications, including the absurd claim that Trump and his associates had engaged in “fraudulent” activities related to the 2020 election.

The whistleblower documents detail how the FBI aggressively pursued over 50 subpoenas, secretly gathered records from more than 100 different facilities and email accounts, and conducted a second wave of interviews across multiple states in their desperate attempt to manufacture a case against Trump and his allies.

But perhaps the most damning revelation is that the DOJ and FBI took possession of government-issued cell phones that previously belonged to Trump and Pence—devices that were apparently retrieved from White House personnel.

These phones, which could contain sensitive presidential communications, were seized before any search warrants were even obtained.

In other words, the FBI was fishing for dirt first and worried about legality later.

Jack Smith’s Phony Prosecution Traced Back to Biden’s FBI

The Arctic Frost probe, which started in April 2022, was fast-tracked by anti-Trump operatives and prioritized “over all other cases,” according to leaked internal emails.

Source: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley
Source: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley
Source: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley

Each week, investigative updates were sent up the chain, landing on the desks of top brass like Washington Field Office (WFO) Assistant Director in Charge Steven D’Antuono and Special Assistant Jill Adams. The goal? To lay the groundwork for an indictment against Trump that would later be handed over to Jack Smith’s team of partisan prosecutors.

By May 2022, the FBI had already mapped out its endgame: building a “narrative” that painted Republican electors and Trump campaign officials as part of a “scheme.”

The FBI even attempted to merge Arctic Frost with a separate DOJ-OIG investigation into former Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, further proving their intent to drag as many Trump allies as possible into their web of lawfare.

Read the press release below:

In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) made public legally protected whistleblower disclosures showing the FBI, as part of its Arctic Frost investigation, acquired the government cell phones of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, among other government officials.

FBI agents used taxpayer dollars to crisscross the country and conduct dozens of interviews in support of the political probe.

The unclassified FBI records convey the alarming scope and speed of the FBI’s 2022 investigation of President Trump, which they dubbed “Operation Arctic Frost.”

The investigation – launched by anti-Trump FBI agent Timothy Thibault in a breach of FBI protocol – formed the basis of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s elector case against Trump. Upon opening the investigation, Thibault vowed it would be “prioritized over all others in the Branch” and commented that “it frankly took too long for us to open this [investigation].”

“Sunshine is the best disinfectant,” the chairmen wrote to Bondi and Patel.

“The American people deserve to know the complete extent of the corruption within the DOJ and FBI that led to the investigation into President Trump. We are making this information public for purposes of public accountability and to provide specific examples of past behavior at your institutions that must not be repeated.

Quite simply, the public has a right to know what happened in Arctic Frost and, based on what we’ve exposed to date, the American public deserves better from its law enforcement agencies.

It is important that every individual at your agencies maintains the highest level of professionalism, and does not allow political bias to motivate or guide their investigative work.”

Within weeks of opening Arctic Frost on April 13, 2022, FBI agents began taking aggressive action to build out their case. The following is a summary of some Arctic Frost investigatory updates, based on unclassified internal FBI records:

Update 1 (April 22-25, 2022):

FBI begins scheduling over a dozen interviews in coordination with 13 FBI field offices.
DOJ and FBI begin the process of acquiring Trump and Pence’s government phones, which were in the Biden White House’s possession.

Update 2 (May 2-3, 2022):

FBI begins analyzing communications between Trump team members and Republican electors.
FBI meets with Justice Department (DOJ) officials to discuss possible search warrants for the Trump and Pence cell phones.

Update 3 (May 10, 2022):

FBI attempts to contact individuals in states throughout the country to schedule interviews.

Update 4 (May 13-17, 2022):

FBI obtains Trump and Pence’s government phones and enters them into evidence for the case.
FBI interviews the first Trump administration’s Deputy White House Counsel.
Additional interviews are planned with Trump administration officials, including employees from the Offices of the President and Vice President, DOJ and former Director of National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe.
DOJ and FBI begin discussing the possibility of merging the DOJ Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigation, which included former Acting Assistant Attorney General (AAG) for the Civil Division, Jeffrey Clark, with the FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation.
DOJ OIG makes plans to seek search warrants for phones associated with former AAG Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman, Mark Meadows and Ken Klukowski.

Update 5 (May 21-24, 2022):

FBI makes the decision to add former AAG Jeffrey Clark to the Arctic Frost investigation.
FBI drafts a search warrant for the Trump and Pence cell phones in its possession.
Plans continue for additional interviews with former Trump administration officials.

Update 6 (May 27, 2022):

FBI plans to conduct approximately 50 interviews, coupled with subpoenas, across at least seven states during the week of June 20, 2022. Interviews are set to take place with those who “signed and/or mailed the certificates in each state, as well as the Trump Campaign’s Directors of Election Day Operations for the relevant states, and certain GOP officials who are believed to have facilitated the scheme by communicating with individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the ‘fraudulent’ or ‘alternate’ electors.”
The DOJ OIG investigation that includes Jeffrey Clark is formally merged with the FBI Arctic Frost investigation, providing FBI access to phones and email accounts from a variety of DOJ officials, including former Attorney General Bill Barr.

Resources and Staffing

Over the course of just four days in June 2022, the FBI Arctic Frost team spent approximately $16,000 in taxpayer-funded travel to “conduct more than 40 interviews, serve subpoenas and execute several cellular device search warrants.”

Grassley & Johnson Demand Answers

Senators Grassley and Johnson, long-time champions of government transparency, are demanding immediate action.

Their letter to Attorney General Pamela Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel calls for the full disclosure of all internal records, investigative updates, and a complete breakdown of taxpayer dollars wasted on this political persecution.

“The American public deserves better,” the senators declared, condemning the blatant corruption of the Biden administration’s DOJ and FBI.

“The extent to which federal law enforcement weaponized its authority to target Trump and his allies is beyond troubling—it’s a national disgrace.”

Their letter requests that all records related to Arctic Frost be turned over by March 27, 2025.

Read the full letter below:

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Bureaucrats Defy Trump’s Cuts: Nearly 40 Transgender Animal Experiments, $400M in Tax Dollars, Still Active

Despite early intervention efforts on the part of the Trump Administration [and its Department of Governmental Efficiency] to revoke, freeze, and eliminate a number of unorthodox government-sponsored experiments involving transgender hormone testing on animals, nearly 40 such federal grants – including one disbursed via the Department of Veteran’s Affairs – remain active according to the most recent data available.

Last week, among the sweeping cuts outlined as part of the administration’s efforts to increase government efficiency and tamp down government waste, included seven grants funding such animal experiments, but three programs similarly recognized and named by the White House press release remain active with almost $4 million taxpayer dollars still slated to flow into these experiments.

These programs include Duke University’s $455,000 grant allocation for the purposes of injecting mice with cross-sex hormones to study the impacts of gender-affirming estrogen therapy and how it might impact HIV vaccine response. Additionally, Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center was awarded a currently active grant just shy of $300,000 to study how testosterone therapy might support female mice induced with breast cancer. Finally, Indiana University continues to benefit from over $3.1 million in taxpayer funding for the purposes of studying how transgender hormone therapy in animals may impact their risk of asthma.

WCW exposed dozens of active tax-funded projects where experimenters are subjecting lab animals to gender-affirming hormone therapies & transition surgeries, injecting them w/vaccines, overdosing them on sex party drugs, electroshocking them & other abuseshttps://t.co/MbzOouEE6H pic.twitter.com/SA727FxDZI

— White Coat Waste Project (@WhiteCoatWaste) March 9, 2025

These projects are part of a broader agenda spanning multiple federal government departments and through which its initiatives have seen nearly $400 million in tax revenue allocated to the study of transgender animal testing. These experiments range from surgically altering the gonads of rats to mimic sex-change procedures to force-feeding testosterone to adolescent mice.

Even the Department of Veterans Affairs was unable to escape this sweeping agenda, with a study on how the induction of gender-transitioning hormone therapy might affect bone structure – a topic arguably difficult to tie to the patient outcomes of former service members.

The VA’s involvement is particularly controversial, and this program’s continued operation runs in stark contrast to DOGE’s stated goals of curbing such DEI-driven spending. Why bureaucrats embedded within the VA and National Science Foundation are allowed to continue to prioritize these projects while now under the direction of the Trump Administration remains a mystery.

This is not just an issue of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; it is also an issue of bad science and a misallocation of resources that could be better used for other efforts.

Despite significant strides made by the Trump Administration, dozens of these studies and grants remain active, and American tax dollars continue to work for the machinery of critical theory, leaving much of the fight to be settled.

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Trump Declares War on Fake News: Says Media’s Biased Coverage is ‘ILLEGALLY’ Swaying Judges Rulings and ‘MUST BE STOPPED’

Screenshot: The White House

President Donald Trump has fired a blistering warning shot at the mainstream media, declaring CNN, MSNBC (or, as he calls them, MSDNC), and other leftist outlets as “corrupt” and “illegal” for their blatant propaganda designed to manipulate public perception and, even worse, sway judicial rulings.

For years, the mainstream media has colluded with the radical left to paint a distorted reality where Trump is the villain and their corrupt Democrat allies are the heroes. Viewers who rely on cable news across the globe are being fed this manipulated reality, and the consequences are dangerous.

Speaking in a rare address at the Department of Justice, Trump did not hold back, laying out the case against the so-called “news” networks that operate more like the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party than actual journalism.

“I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion, they’re really corrupt, and they’re illegal. What they do is—it’s legal,” Trump said, leaving no room for interpretation.

“It makes no difference how big a victory I had. I can have the biggest victory in history. It makes no difference what a failure the other side has—these people are going to go after me…

He went further, declaring that the media’s deliberate distortion of the truth is swaying judicial rulings, making fair trials impossible in America.

“These networks and these newspapers are really no different than a highly paid political operative, and it has to stop. It has to be illegal.

“It’s influencing judges, and it’s really changing the law. And it just cannot be legal. I don’t believe it’s legal. And they do it in total coordination with each other,” Trump said.

WATCH:

Trump made it clear that his administration and his movement are about one thing: restoring law, order, and integrity to the American system.

“Everything we do, we’re restoring law, restoring order, and restoring public safety in America. We’re bringing honor and integrity and accountability back to the highest levels of the FBI, DOJ, and throughout our government. We’re bringing our country back faster than anyone ever thought possible.
We’re working so hard at doing it, and we want fairness in the courts. The courts are a big factor,” Trump said.

Trump’s words ring especially true in the wake of the political lawfare being waged against him.

Radical activist judges, far-left prosecutors, and juries in deep-blue states have turned the justice system into a weapon against conservatives.

And behind it all, according to Trump, the mainstream media is acting as the Deep State’s propaganda machine.

From the Russia hoax to the sham impeachments, from the January 6th witch hunt to the politically motivated trials meant to derail his 2024 comeback, Trump has been the number-one target of an all-out assault by a corrupt establishment.

The legacy media paint Trump and his supporters as “threats to democracy” while they themselves undermine America’s institutions by poisoning the minds of the public and corrupting our judicial system.

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Peace Through Strength: U.S. Forces Eliminate ISIS Global Operations Chief and Second-in-Command in Precision Airstrike

Abu Khadija (Credit: Eishan.net)

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), in cooperation with Iraqi Intelligence and Security Forces, executed a precision airstrike on Thursday that eliminated one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists—ISIS Global Operations Chief and second-in-command, Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, known as “Abu Khadijah.”

The strike, carried out in Iraq’s Al Anbar Province, not only neutralized Abu Khadijah but also took down another high-level ISIS operative.

Abu Khadijah, the Emir of ISIS’s senior decision-making body, was instrumental in coordinating global terror attacks, overseeing logistics, and funneling finances to sustain the radical Islamist network. His elimination is a crippling blow to the remnants of ISIS.

“Abu Khadijah was one of the most important ISIS members in the entire global ISIS organization. We will continue to kill terrorists and dismantle their organizations that threaten our homeland and U.S., allied and partner personnel in the region and beyond,” said Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, commander, U.S. Central Command.

Following the strike, CENTCOM and Iraqi forces confirmed the successful elimination of both terrorists.

“Both terrorists were wearing unexploded “suicide vests” and had multiple weapons,” according to the press release.

“CENTCOM and Iraqi forces were able to identify Abu Khadijah through a DNA match from DNA collected on a previous raid where Abu Khadijah narrowly escaped.”

Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rufayy’l, widely recognized as Abu Khadija, was a senior figure in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a radical jihadist group infamous for its brutal terrorist campaigns across Iraq, Syria, and beyond. An Iraqi native, he joined ISIS during the… pic.twitter.com/FKp023tUKb

— Sam (@5oclockhere) March 14, 2025

Iraqi National Intelligence Service eliminated lSlS terrorist Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rufay’i, known as (Abu Khadija).

He was considered one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world. pic.twitter.com/wHrfmwETZ7

— Azat (@AzatAlsalim) March 14, 2025

President Trump, who pioneered the Peace Through Strength doctrine that decimated ISIS under his administration, responded to the news with a powerful statement on Truth Social:

“Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government. PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!”

Meanwhile, CENTCOM released the airstrike footage on X, offering the world a front-row seat to American justice in action.

CENTCOM Forces Kill ISIS Chief of Global Operations Who Also Served as ISIS #2

On March 13, U.S. Central Command forces, in cooperation with Iraqi Intelligence and Security Forces, conducted a precision airstrike in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, that killed the Global ISIS #2 leader,… pic.twitter.com/rWeEoUY7Lw

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 15, 2025

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