Day: April 29, 2026

Blackburn Slams Democrats Over DHS Funding While Promoting ICE Partnership Bill

Kaitlin Housler
DHS hire

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) spoke exclusively with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy on Wednesday, outlining new legislation aimed at expanding cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, while also criticizing Democrats over immigration enforcement and their continued refusal to fund the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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‘Major Scandal:’ Feds and Sen. Johnson Allege Government Coverups of COVID Origins, Vaccine Deaths

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Ron Johnson

David Morens, senior advisor to former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci for 16 years, spent much of his career studying the threat of viral outbreaks posed by birds, especially when infections jump from wild fowl to poultry. Now he’s facing the possibility of prison.

The chickens have come home to roost for Morens, two years after congressional subpoenas exposed his avowed practice of circumventing the Freedom of Information Act to hide conversations about the origin of COVID-19 and suggesting he did so in cooperation with Fauci, whom Morens called “too smart” to get caught.

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Comey Appears in Court After His Indictment for Allegedly Threatening Trump

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BREAKING NEWS

CBS News   Former FBI Director James Comey made his first court appearance Wednesday after his indictment a day earlier for allegedly making threats against President Trump. He did not enter a plea on Wednesday. Federal Magistrate Judge William E. Fitzpatrick read the charges against Comey and denied the Justice Department’s attempts to set conditions of release. “I don’t think conditions on release are necessary in this case,” Fitzpatrick said, adding that “they weren’t necessary last time” Comey was indicted. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Babies’ Screen Time Hits Dangerous Highs, New Study Shows

Daily Caller News Foundation
baby screen

Over 70% of children under the age of two use screens for up to several hours a day, according to a new study released Tuesday.

Commissioned by the U.K.-based 1001 Critical Days Foundation and conducted by the iADDICT research group from four U.K. universities, the study found that one in ten babies worldwide now regularly fall asleep with a screen. A meaningful minority of babies were exposed to screen time up to eight hours daily.

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Federal Judge Rules Against Trump Admin Efforts to Verify Arizona Voter Data

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BREAKING NEWS

Breitbart   A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration cannot obtain Arizona’s voter registration list as the administration seeks to ensure election integrity across the nation. Judge Susan Brnovich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on Tuesday said that the state’s voter registration list is not subject to requests from the U.S. Attorney General. Brnovich, a Trump appointed-judge, dismissed the case with prejudice because an amended complaint would be “legally futile.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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House GOP Leaders Punt Farm Bill amid Intraparty Division

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BREAKING NEWS

The Hill   House GOP leaders struck a deal with hard-line conservative rebels on Wednesday to delay a vote on the farm bill, which has been at the center of controversy in recent days as Republicans remain divided over certain provisions. The agreement came as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) held open a procedural rule vote for more than two hours to try to win over holdouts on a rule that would tee up debate on a final vote on the farm bill, a measure to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s warrantless surveillance powers and a budget blueprint to fund immigration enforcement. The holdouts eventually ended up voting yes on the rule, but only after securing an agreement that the farm bill would be punted. READ THE FULL STORY   

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SPLC’s Double Game: Funding Extremists While Spending Millions to Swing Southern Elections

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At the same time it was funding elements of extremist, racist groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center was doling out hundreds-of-millions of dollars to drive voters to the polls across several Southern states it claimed were trying to suppress minority votes.

For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has positioned itself as the nation’s preeminent watchdog, which maintained a controversial “Hate Map” that increasingly labeled benign conservative organizations and religious groups as hate groups.  

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Powell Plans to Remain on Fed Board After Chairmanship Ends

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Jerome Powell

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday confirmed that he planned to continue serving on the Board of Governors after he leaves the chairmanship.

Powell’s appointment to the board is set to last until January 2028. His term as chairman is set to expire in May. He did not, however, confirm plans to complete his term, saying he would remain “for a period of time to be determined,” The Hill reported.

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Congressional Map as Unconstitutional Racial Gerrymandering

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SCOTUS

The Supreme Court on Wednesday released an opinion striking down a set of Louisiana congressional district maps that added a second majority black district.

In 2022, Louisiana redrew its congressional district maps, which a court later ruled likely violated the Voting Rights Act because they did not include a second majority black district. The state then created a new set of maps with an explicit racial consideration to create a second black majority district, which the Court on Wednesday found was unconstitutional.

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Metro Nashville Rejects Four Charter Schools, Including Tuition-Free Music City Academy Launched by Former Tennessee Titan Kevin Dyson

Tom Pappert
Asking questions

Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) on Tuesday rejected requests to establish four new charter schools, including Music City Academy, which was proposed by former Tennessee Titans wide receiver Kevin Dyson. 

In addition to Dyson’s Music City Academy, the four schools MNPS denied the opportunity to launch were the Gate School, Nashville School of Excellence, and Empowerment Academy.

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Senator Marsha Blackburn Calls on Tennessee to Redraw 9th Congressional District to ‘Cement’ MAGA Agenda

Tom Pappert
Marsha Blackburn

After the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision, prohibiting the creation of race-based Congressional districts under the Voting Rights Act, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Wednesday called on the Tennessee General Assembly to reconvene and redraw the 9th Congressional District. 

“I urge our state legislature to reconvene to redistrict another Republican seat in Memphis,” wrote Blackburn in a post to X. “It’s essential to cement [President Donald Trump]’s agenda and the Golden Age of America.”

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Lawmakers Call for War Department to Protect Second Amendment on Federal Lands

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A group of House Republicans is calling on the Department of War to protect U.S. citizens’ Second Amendment rights on one of its agency’s federal lands.

Two dozen GOP lawmakers led by Republican Texas Rep. Pat Fallon penned a Tuesday letter to Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll asking him to direct the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) “to immediately finalize and implement” a rule change from President Donald Trump’s first administration. The updated guidance would allow Americans to carry firearms on the nearly 12 million acres of land the USACE manages, with respect to state laws.

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SELC Could Add Tennessee County Sued over Bitcoin Mining Ban to Client List amid Representation of Groups Suing Musk’s xAI, Trump’s EPA

Tom Pappert

Following recent announcements confirming its involvement in legal actions against Elon Musk’s xAI in the Memphis area, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) could soon serve as pro bono attorneys for Hawkins County in a federal lawsuit related to data centers and Bitcoin mining in upper East Tennessee. 

According to News 5 WCYB, the offer was first communicated by SELC lawyers to Hawkins County-based attorney, Crystal Jessee, who was asked to speak to the commission by Commissioner Robbie Palmer on Monday.

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Commentary: Holding the SPLC Accountable

American Greatness
FBI and SPLC

I hope you’ll forgive me this unorthodoxy, but I’m going to start today with a couple of long quotations from another author, Nathan J. Robinson. The first quote is about the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the second is specifically about the SPLC’s much-ballyhooed “Hate Map.” I swear, there’s a point to all of this.

The Southern Poverty Law Center perfectly shows social change done wrong. It was a top-down organization controlled by an incompetent and venal leadership. It was hypocritical in the extreme, preaching anti-racism while fostering a racist internal culture and being led by men whose own commitment to equality was questionable. It didn’t care about listening to and incorporating the viewpoints of the people it was supposed to serve. It was obscenely rich in a time of terrible poverty and squandered much of its considerable wealth. Finally, it picked the wrong political targets and focused on symbolic over substantive change.

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