Bessent Denies Threatening To Punch Bill Pulte, Confirms He Threatened To Kick His Ass

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent denied threatening to punch now-Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte “in the fucking face” during a summer 2025 spat.

At a Wednesday Senate Finance Committee hearing, Bessent denied threatened to punch Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, but confirmed that he threatened to “kick his ass.”

Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis asked Bessent to confirm what he said on Wednesday, to which Tillis responded with “Good. I share the emotion.” Tillis has expressed that he does not support Pulte’s confirmation to be DNI on a permanent basis.

“Whoever told the President to go ahead and commit to this publicly before vetting it should lose their jobs, because they should know that the math just works against Pulte being confirmed,” Tillis said, according to CNBC.

“Whoever told the President to go ahead and commit to this publicly before vetting it should lose their jobs, because they should know that the math just works against Pulte being confirmed,” Tillis said, according to CNBC.

The confrontation last summer occurred at an inaugural dinner at the executive branch after people told Bessent that Pulte had been criticizing him to President Donald Trump. (Read more from “Bessent Denies Threatening To Punch Bill Pulte, Confirms He Threatened To Kick His Ass” HERE)

The Not-So-Shocking Reason Why Trump Picked Biggest Goon In Washington To Replace Tulsi Gabbard

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Aside from a handful of terminally online MAGA supporters, pretty much everyone across the political spectrum let out a collective groan Tuesday when news broke that Bill “50-Year Mortgage” Pulte was tapped as the new acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

Tulsi Gabbard, the former DNI in the Trump administration, stepped down from her position in May. She explained that her resignation was necessary to support her husband during his treatment for an “extremely rare form of bone cancer.” On Tuesday, President Trump announced her replacement: the biggest goon in Washington.

The grandson of William J. Pulte, the billionaire founder of the home construction firm PulteGroup, Pulte has no known background in intelligence, which perhaps makes him a perfect fit for the role. Pulte is the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), and will continue serving as such. As National Review’s Andy McCarthy notes, his real job at FHFA has been pretty much to sift through a database and find dirt that the Trump DOJ can use to wage fruitless lawfare campaigns against Democrats Letitia James, Lisa Cook and Adam Schiff.

Oh, it’s also been to come up with brilliant ideas to help Americans buy homes. Pulte was the Trump official behind the comically stupid idea to turn more Americans into debt slaves with the 50-year mortgage back in November 2025. He actually pitched the idea to Trump by bringing a poster board as if he were a middle schooler presenting his final term project. Pretty much everyone, right and left, dunked on the plan. The Daily Caller reported at the time that several Trump allies were annoyed that he “jumped the gun” without fully discussing the idea.

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SPLC Donor Money Paid For Klan Hoods And ‘Cross-Burning’ Supplies, DOJ Says

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The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center reimbursed Ku Klux Klan members for money spent on cross-burnings and materials used to make Klan garments, the Department of Justice alleged in a superseding indictment filed Tuesday.

The DOJ’s original indictment from April alleged that SPLC shelled out money to Ku Klux Klan leaders, neo-Nazis and an Aryan motorcycle gang. Tuesday’s indictment alleges that in or around 2010, two Klan members identified only as F-31 and F-32 “feared for their safety from other Klan members and reached out to SPLC for help to “get out of the movement.”

The two Klan members “attended extremist group rallies in multiple states” while using SPLC donors’ money, per the indictment.

“This led to F-31 rising from merely a group member to a leadership role within an extremist group,” according to the indictment. “In the new leadership role, F-31 actively recruited new members using donors’ money.”

F-32 similarly participated in recruiting new Klan members using SPLC donors’ money, the indictment alleges. An unnamed SPLC employee “knew that F-32 used donors’ money to purchase material to make Klu Klux Klan garments” for other members, according to the indictment. (Read more from “SPLC Donor Money Paid For Klan Hoods And ‘Cross-Burning’ Supplies, DOJ Says” HERE)

The Surveillance State Is Here — Congress Must Fight Back

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It should shock every American that the United States now ranks among the world’s most heavily surveilled nations — keeping dangerous company with authoritarian regimes like China, Russia, and Iran. How did the land of the free become one of the most watched societies on Earth?

Our Founders designed the Bill of Rights as a fortress against government intrusion. Free speech, freedom of assembly, and protection from warrantless searches were meant to prevent exactly what is now unfolding in the United States: a government that is constantly watching its citizens.

Since 9/11, mass surveillance has been normalized. Cameras are everywhere. Data collection is constant. And few people stop to ask who’s watching, why, and for how long.

There are currently four main pillars of the surveillance state, and Congress has a duty to act to dismantle each of them.FISA: From Foreign Spying to Domestic Abuse

FISA: From Foreign Spying to Domestic Abuse

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was originally created to track foreign threats abroad. Today, it has been twisted into a tool for spying on Americans. (Read more from “The Surveillance State Is Here — Congress Must Fight Back” HERE)

Missing Nuclear Lab Worker Found ‘Skeletonized’ in Remote Forest With Gunshot Wound to Skull

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The mystery surrounding a missing New Mexico nuclear laboratory employee has taken a grim turn after investigators discovered her remains in a remote national forest nearly a year after she vanished.

Melissa Casias, a 54-year-old administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, was found dead Monday in a secluded area of Carson National Forest, according to reports. Authorities said her remains were severely decomposed and largely skeletonized.

Casias disappeared on June 26, 2025, after leaving her home in Ranchos de Taos, a small community northeast of Santa Fe. Her disappearance sparked an extensive search and months of unanswered questions.

According to former homicide detective Thomas McNally, who was hired by Casias’ family to investigate the case, the mother of one was found propped against a tree with an abandoned firearm nearby. McNally told reporters that the remains showed a gunshot injury to the skull.

The investigator said one detail stood out to him: despite being exposed in the wilderness for months, the body reportedly showed little evidence of animal activity or disturbance.

McNally believes foul play may have been involved and has questioned aspects of the official investigation. He indicated that Casias’ family is considering legal action against authorities over their handling of the case.

Casias worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the historic facility established during the Manhattan Project and long associated with U.S. nuclear weapons research.

The circumstances surrounding her disappearance have puzzled investigators from the beginning.

According to reports, Casias allegedly erased records from her cellphones before leaving the devices and her identification behind at home. Earlier that day, she had driven her husband, Mark Casias, who also worked at the laboratory, to work.

McNally said the couple reportedly argued during the drive over a vape pen. After dropping her husband off, Casias allegedly returned home and told her daughter, Sierra, that she planned to work remotely.

Family members said nothing appeared unusual about her behavior.

“She looked totally normal,” McNally told reporters, citing the daughter’s account.

The last confirmed sighting of Casias occurred around 2:20 p.m. when she was seen walking east along State Road 518, roughly three miles from her home.

McNally has suggested she may have been trying to get away from someone when she disappeared, though authorities have not publicly confirmed that theory.

During the investigation, Casias’ husband reportedly suggested she may have left voluntarily and was involved with another man. McNally has disputed that narrative and said investigators should take a closer look at alternative explanations.

Authorities have not announced whether the death has been ruled a homicide, suicide or accidental shooting. The case remains under investigation as officials work to determine exactly what happened to the longtime laboratory employee in the final hours before she vanished.

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House Defies Trump and Passes War Powers Resolution to Halt Military Action Against Iran — Thanks to 4 GOP Defectors

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Four House Republicans voted with Democrats Wednesday to pass a war powers resolution aimed at forcing President Trump to end military action against Iran.

The measure cleared the House in a 215-208 vote – two weeks after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) pulled a planned vote on the resolution after it appeared Republicans would not be able to defeat it.

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Tom Barrett (R-Mich.) and Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) joined every Democrat in backing the measure to end the three-month-long war.

The resolution will now head to the Senate, which advanced its own war powers resolution last month when a handful of GOP senators broke ranks with the president.

“The passage of my War Powers Resolution is a significant bipartisan rebuke of President Trump’s illegal and costly war in Iran, and the first step toward ending it once and for all,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), the sponsor of the measure, said in a statement.

“Trump’s war has failed to accomplish the Trump Administration’s stated goals with respect to Iran,” Meeks continued. “If anything, it has pushed a diplomatic resolution of Iran’s nuclear program further away.” (Read more from “House Defies Trump and Passes War Powers Resolution to Halt Military Action Against Iran — Thanks to 4 GOP Defectors” HERE)

Democrat Goes off the Rails, Allegedly Flashing Gun at County Employees

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A troubled Democratic congressional candidate in Hawaii has been arrested after allegedly brandishing a firearm at county employees.

At around 9:30 a.m. on Friday, a suspect later identified as 40-year-old Kirill Basin marched into a county building in Wailuku and began “brandishing a firearm and engaged in a verbal altercation with County employees,” prompting a call to dispatch at approximately 10:57 a.m., according to a press release from the Maui Police Department.

The county has not explained the 90-minute gap between when the suspect first arrived and when police were finally called, the Honolulu Civil Beat reported.

Basin was arrested in Kihei around 12:30 p.m. and taken into custody without incident, police said. He was later charged with felony first-degree terroristic threatening.

“The Maui Police Department will not compromise public safety, and incidents of this nature are taken extremely seriously in Maui County,” said a statement from Chief John Pelletier. “I am extremely proud of the quick response and professionalism displayed by our personnel, which helped ensure a peaceful resolution.” (Read more from “Democrat Goes off the Rails, Allegedly Flashing Gun at County Employees” HERE)

Mystery of How Bible’s Garden of Eden River was Formed Unlocked in Major Geological Discovery

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Researchers have finally discovered the “Genesis” of the legendary Middle Eastern river that was described in one of the Bible’s most important stories, per an eye-opening study in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The Euphrates River is featured in Genesis as one of a quartet of waterways that originated in the Garden of Eden, the lush oasis where the so-called first humans, Adam and Eve, were said to have resided.

In fact, this mighty river is cited over 50 times throughout the ancient text from Genesis through Revelation, where it is described as drying up in preparation for the Battle of Armageddon.

Coincidentally, the real-life water body, which stretches 1,740 miles through Turkey, Syria and Iraq, played an equally important role in shaping the earliest human civilizations: Along with its sister river, the Tigris, it helped provide the vital water supply that helped Mesopotamia — also known as the cradle of civilization and the Fertile Crescent — flourish some 6,000 years ago, National Geographic reported.

However, contrary to the depiction in the Bible, the origins of the Euphrates have remained a mystery — until now.

According to the study, conducted by an international team of researchers, this iconic river was formed from the convergence of two rivers flowing from Türkiye to the then-arid Mediterranean Basin between 3.6 million and 1.6 million years ago. (Read more from “Mystery of How Bible’s Garden of Eden River was Formed Unlocked in Major Geological Discovery” HERE)

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Trump says ‘Crazy’ Netanyahu has Made Everyone Hate Israel in Furious Phone Call – Report

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Donald Trump lashed out at Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an expletive-laden phone call over Israel’s continued strikes in Lebanon on Monday, according to US media reports.

The US president was reportedly furious after Iran threatened to suspend peace talks with the US over Israel’s strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon, telling the Israeli prime minister that “everybody hates Israel” because of his actions.

In his public remarks after the two leaders spoke, Trump announced that a partial truce had been agreed between Israel and Hezbollah and that the call had been “very productive”.

But behind closed doors Trump is said to have yelled at Netanyahu over the phone, calling him “f****** crazy”, Axios reported late on Monday, citing two unnamed US officials familiar with the call.

“You’re f****** crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your a**. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this,” Trump said, according to a US official’s summary of the remarks. (Read more from “Trump says ‘Crazy’ Netanyahu has Made Everyone Hate Israel in Furious Phone Call – Report” HERE)

Secretary of State Rubio Says Iran ‘War over Now’

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Tuesday that the Iran war is “over now,” while laying out what he described as the Trump administration’s non-negotiable conditions for any broader agreement currently under discussion with Tehran — including the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the surrender of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile, and severe long-term restrictions on the regime’s nuclear program before any sanctions relief would be considered.

Speaking in his first public congressional testimony since the launch of Operation Epic Fury in February, Rubio argued the Trump administration’s military and economic pressure campaign has significantly weakened the Islamic Republic while pushing Tehran into negotiations over aspects of its nuclear program the regime had previously refused to even discuss.

“There is the prospect before us — which could happen today, it could happen tomorrow, it could happen next week,” Rubio told lawmakers, referring to ongoing negotiations between Washington and Tehran. “For the first time, certainly in my memory, they have agreed to negotiate aspects of their nuclear program that just a month ago, just a year ago, they were refusing to even mention.”

Rubio said the current phase of negotiations is centered on forcing Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz and commit to follow-up talks over its nuclear infrastructure and highly enriched uranium stockpile, while making clear the administration would not offer upfront sanctions relief in exchange for reopening the strategic waterway.

“They have to announce very clearly the straits are now open. We’re not charging a toll. We will help remove the mines that they put in there, and they will not fire on ships,” Rubio said, adding that Tehran must also agree to negotiations over “severe and long-term limitations and cancellation of enrichment activity.” (Read more from “Secretary of State Rubio Says Iran ‘War over Now’” HERE)

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