Good morning, folks. Curious about the image below? It’s a lie by omission. I’ll explain in today’s lead story.

• 🛸 Today, the House holds hearings on UFOs

• ❎ 66% of Dems support socialism, 14% of Republicans

• 📈 44% say U.S. is on right track, up 10% since Biden

• 🇺🇸 On this day in 1776, ‘United Colonies’ is renamed ‘USA’

^{Sources: Daily Wire, Gallup, McLaughlin & Assoc, History}

Trump weighs in on Charlotte stabbing

President Donald Trump condemned the brutal stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte train by a career criminal – while the silence and gaslighting from Democrats and the media grows deafening.

The details: Zarutska was stabbed in the throat three times on August 22 while taking a train home from work by 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr., a repeat offender with more than a dozen convictions on his rap sheet.

• Observers pointed out that the surveillance footage appears to reveal Brown saying, “I got that White girl,” as he walked off the train.

President Trump weighed in yesterday, telling reporters:

• “There are evil people, and we have to confront that. I just give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed this morning or last night in Charlotte by a madman… It’s right on the tape, not really watchable, because it’s so horrible, but just viciously stabbed. She’s just sitting there.”

What the media is saying: Not much, except to try to twist it into a right-wing conspiracy.

• Axios framed the story as "MAGA influencers seeking to elevate the issue,” and blamed "the rising number of surveillance cameras in public spaces" as "accelerants" for spreading these stories.

• Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles initial statement on the brutal murder didn't mention the victim, and instead appeared the sympathize with the killer, saying: “We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health. Mental health disease is just that — a disease like any other that needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence and commitment as cancer or heart disease."

• Fox News' host Will Cain called out the “lie of omission” from the mainstream media, namely the New York Times, which has of yesterday has zero articles about the victim.

Soft-on-crime Democrat policies: In 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd riots, then-Governor Roy Cooper created the "Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice" to push for more pre-trial release for criminals – which is exactly why Decarlos Brown Jr. was on the streets and able to murder Iryna.

What now? FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X: “🚨 The FBI has been investigating the Charlotte train murder from day one. Stay tuned.”

• The FBI confirmed it’s investigating as a potential domestic terror case.

Big picture: This murder epitomizes the cost of weak-on-crime policies. The killer should have been locked up a long time ago. But as usual, stupid Democrat policies put criminals over law-abiding citizens.

[Source: Breitbart, NY Post, Breitbart]

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Thune gets ready to push Trump nominees past Democrat obstruction

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is moving to rewrite the chamber’s rules in response to Democrats using unprecedented delays to prevent President Donald Trump’s nominees from being confirmed.

Set the table: For decades, the Senate has advanced noncontroversial presidential nominees by voice vote or unanimous consent to keep business moving. But for the first time in history, not a single Trump nominee has been approved this way, as Democrats weaponize procedure to slow the process.

The numbers: By this point in Biden’s presidency, 230 nominees were confirmed via voice vote.

The details: Thune will begin procedural steps this week to push through a rules change that will allow larger batches of nominees to be grouped together for approval rather than individually.

• Thune said: “No party should be able to weaponize the confirmation process the way that Senate Democrats are doing now, in a way that has never been done before. This total obstruction simply cannot be the standard moving forward.”

Perspective: Over 1,200 positions in the Trump government require confirmation. At today’s pace, hundreds of vacancies would remain by the end of Trump’s term.

Real talk from G: This is all the Democrats have left: Stall and delay.

[Source: Breitbart, The National Pulse]

✅ Senate Majority Leader John Thune plans to alter Senate rules this week to allow President Trump’s political appointees to be confirmed in large batches to circumvent unprecedented Democrat obstructionism. Read more.

💉 The FDA announced it will investigate reports of child deaths after COVID-19 vaccinations. Read more.

🇮🇱 Israel has ordered a complete evacuation of Gaza City, home to around a million Palestinians, ahead of its planned military takeover. Read more.

👙 The 2025 Victoria's Secret runway show will feature Alex Consani, a transgender biological male. Read more.

🤡 A federal appeals court upheld an $83.3 million judgment against President Trump for defamation against writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019. Read more.

🧊 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has launched "Operation Midway Blitz" in Chicago to crack down on illegals and crime. Read more.

✝️ Pope Leo XIV declared a 15-year-old computer whiz who died in 2006 the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint. Read more.

🏛️ The Supreme Court allowed President Trump's firing of a Biden-appointed Federal Trade Commissioner to stand while it considers the case. Read more.

🇫🇷 The French government collapsed after the prime minister lost a confidence vote in parliament, setting the stage for snap elections that could hand Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally party a majority. Read more.

📝 The Wall Street Journal published what it claims is a Trump birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, sparking backlash from Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who called it “fake news” and emphasized Trump’s ongoing lawsuit against the paper. Read more.

🦊 The Murdoch family has reached a deal that will see Rupert Murdoch's politically conservative eldest son, Lachlan Murdoch, control the empire that includes Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. Read more.

🇮🇱 At least six people were killed and more than a dozen were injured after a pair of attackers opened fire on a bus in Jerusalem. Read more.

🎥 Trump announced "total protection" for the right to prayer in public schools. Watch.

🎥 President Trump spotlights a 12-year-old boy whose school forced him to read a book about gender transition to kindergarten students. Watch.

🎥 NFL QB Lamar Jackson shoves a fan. Justified? Watch.

🎥 Man calls Don Lemon a "f*cking moron" straight to his face. Watch.

🎥 Communist Zonhran Mamdami pledges to abolish the NYPD gang database if elected mayor. Watch.

🎥 President Trump reposted this clip about thimerosal in vaccines. Watch.

🎥 Woman flips her car while filming herself singing a Britney Spears song. Watch.

🎥 Tucker Carlson calls out Mark Cuban to his face. Watch.

🎥 Go long: During my commute to work today, I’ll be listening to the full panel with Tucker and Cuban. Watch. [59min]

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