June 23, 2026

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2020 Election Fraud Evidence Stays

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A motion by Fulton County election officials to have the 2020 ballots seized by the FBI returned has been denied by a Federal Judge, meaning the case will go on.

Judge denies request to return 2020 ballots seized from Fulton County, Georgia – The Washington Post
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A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a request to order the return of more than 600 boxes of voting material seized earlier this year by the FBI amid an investigation involving a Georgia county at the heart of President Donald Trump’s grievances about his 2020 election loss.

Tools of Engagement – May 2026

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Originally published May 1, 2026 for our monthly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

RISE OF THE PROGRESSIVE NATION

In our March 27, 2026, MIA Quarterly, Paul Gordon Collier did a bellwether deepdive on the rise of the progressive nation from within the American nation.

In that analysis, Collier concluded, “We believe the GOP is no longer a viable alternative to the progressive nation, as it mostly exists within it. If we could compel Americans to act, we would encourage them to explore what American rule of law is for themselves and with their family, friends, and neighbors.

Identify Americans in your community and fellowship primarily with them.

We need conversations, public ones, that invite an exploration of American Rule of Law, of what makes us American, so we know what we are fighting for and what we are fighting against.

From this, we need American parties to emerge that are pledged to not offer policies that violate our American Rule of Law standards. That standard is to have state power bounded by the self-stewardship agency power of its citizens.

Most likely, there will be a left party that favors the weak over the strong and a right party that favors merit over social hierarchies. Yet BOTH will offer no threat to the individual’s capacity to be a self-stewarded individual.”

One step that could be taken is organizing meetups, physical and virtual meetups, with people in your community (real or virtual) to have conversations, presentations on American rule of law and how Americans might organize OUTSIDE of the GOP and DNC institutions altogether.

If you feel so inclined and equipped, here are some resources to help you learn how to create such events, virtually and in real life.

  1. How to Host Community Events – VIPTOGO
  2. How to Create an Event on Facebook: Public or Private – Wikkihow.com
  3. How to Organize a Convention: Step-By-Step Checklist Guide – Crowdultra.com
  4. The Essential Conference Planning Checklist – Eventbrite
  5. THE STATE OF THE AI STATE

In the April 17, 2026, issue of MIA, Paul Gordon Collier and Staff did a Deep Dive Report on the current state of rising AI States. In the Deep Dive, they wrote, “AI is here, and it will touch every part of your life. Whatever you do, if it involves repetition or thinking, AI will be replacing you or aiding you.

As we have said in our earlier AI report for our Futureq series, becoming adept at using AI as a tool to augment whatever you do to make a living, or whatever you hope to do to make a living, is not only advantageous, but it’s also essential. Your competition is already using these tools, and the best ones are the most adept at getting the tools to effectively do what they want them to do.”

While we will be working to keep you up to date on the emerging AI state, we always recommend you rely on multiple sources to steward your understanding of the world (more on this later).

Here are some top AI News websites, all of which have some degree of capture by corporate and/or state authority, but all of which are still useful for learning what’s really going on in AI development.

We ourselves monitor these sites.

We will start our list with our own website:

  1. Mindful Intelligence – AI Watch News Tag
  2. MIT Technology Review – AI Topic
  3. The Rundown AI – Main Site
  4. Wired – Artificial Intelligence Tag
  5. Venture Beat – AI Category
  6. Stanford HAI – News

HOW IRAN KILLED NATO

In our April 24, 2026, issue of MIA, our Military Affairs Correspondent, Michael Cessna, wrote a Deep Dive on the current state of the Iran War. In that Deep Dive, Cessna noted: “Even if Donald Trump commits political suicide by ending Operation Epic Fury prematurely, and unilaterally withdrawing U.S. combat forces from the Persian Gulf Theater, the regime in Tehran has been fatally compromised by combat operations to date.

“They have lost too many experienced leaders – those capable of holding down the tensions and rivalries between the various factions of their state – too many physical assets, as their air force, in addition to their navy, is now functionally non-existent.

“Even their oil production capacity has been so badly damaged, it is effectively a non-entity in contributing to Iranian state revenues…and that’s before addressing the looming water crisis.

Where Iran had been the major proxy supporter of terror groups throughout the Middle East, they can no longer do so: their internal currency is worthless, and with the current loss of oil revenue, they have no meaningful way to pay for their mercenaries imported from Lebanon, Gaza and Iraq.”

After all the Iranian people withstood, after the military has been essentially wiped out, the regime is still standing because they still have small-arms power while their citizens remain unarmed.

Learning how to make your own guns, for personal use, and following all local, state, and federal laws, could be a great way for you to enjoy the still-existent right to bear arms most Americans continue to enjoy, a right that the Iranian people sure wish they had.

If they had arms in the first place there would be no need for U.S. and Israeli air strikes to topple the regime. If they had arms in the first place, most of the draconian laws would not been proposed, let alone been enforced.

Learning how to make guns in an emergency, to get to other guns, within the boundaries of all local, state, and federal laws, might be a more practical, and easier-to-learn skill you will hopefully never has to use. It is also a great way to introduce yourself to full home gunsmithing.

  1. RESOURCES FOR MAKING GUNS:
  1. RESOURCES FOR MAKING EMERGENCY GUNS:
  1. TRUMP’S DINNER THEATER

This month’s Deep Dive Report is on progressive violence as seen through the bellwether event, the White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting.

Our staff noted, “The President has chosen to call for the firing of Jimmy Kimmel over his “expecting widow” comments, while Trump’s FCC now moves to challenge ABC affiliate broadcast licenses. The move is clumsy and the justification for it is not clear, especially when it doesn’t target the whole broadcast industry.

IF ABC has violated broadcasting licensing standards, so has the rest of the industry.

In U.S. law, the standard is not what we know but what we can prove. We know Kimmel’s statement was intentionally broad enough that you can assume he’s inciting violence against the President but proving that in a court of law would be, well, extremely challenging.

The FCC move in and of itself would be great if it had already happened, and if it happened for every major broadcast corporation AFTER a study ACTUALLY showed violations of broadcast licensing had been occurring systematically for decades.

We think a serious study would most likely reveal this decades-long systemic pattern of violations to be true, but it would also expose both the GOP and DNC’s involvement in perpetuating this unofficial alliance between the government and corporate media, or rather, between political parties and corporate media.

This soft power appears to be a tool the President doesn’t want to completely forfeit, even if it means not vanquishing one of the two hearts of progressive power, the progressive corporate media control of socio-cultural production, signaling, and gatekeeping.

What this means is the average news reader will continue to find it difficult to understand the reality of power with a news industry filled with battling narrative war machines, the political party press.

Our site, mindfulintelligence.news, is not a comprehensive news aggregate site, but rather it is a bellwether aggregate and news analysis site. We have an American bias in our aggregation selection process, but that American bias compels us to give you samples of both major factions, the conservatives and republicans, in our aggregation.

It goes without saying we recommend our own site to get a sense of competing narratives that allow you to discern for yourself for your own self-stewarded understanding of the reality of power.

Here are a few pure news aggregators that focus on capturing more of the totality of major news coverage on a given day:

  1. AllSides
  2. Ground News
  3. Memorandum
  4. SmartNews

 

Final Thought – 26-05-01- Building Castle Life

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Originally published May 1, 2026 for our monthly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” – Edmund Burke

“The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

Our Hope Exit Castle project has become our Hope Estates project. We started this project off attempting to build a working model of an extended family household running a Castle, a building that combines private residence with public service space.

While that is still our goal, we now have another property that could eventually become a similar type of space (Castle Space) and two other properties that are too small to become Hope Exit Castles. They could become satellites for future Castle builds.

In purchasing our church, we came to learn of a growing movement to convert churches to living space. What we did not see was any great effort to both preserve the church’s capacity to service the community through its space alone and create private space for the castle’s stewardship family.

Optimally, the extended family would have no less than 5 members and no more than 10. Ours might start around 6 or 7.

Churches remain a potential future opportunity for Hope Exit Castle plants, including in the communities where our small properties are located. What we learn through our Riqueday Castle project in Canton, PA will help us with future potential church to castle conversions.

Apartment buildings could also become future Hope Exit Castles. Our Harrisburg project will prepare us for such future potential Apartment building to castle conversions.

Hope Exit Castles are not exits from the controlling world, but rather exits from dependence on the controlling world. Yet they are also servants to the victims of that same controlling world. They are still connected to the controlling world through service to those it forgets.

Among our readers we are certain there are those who have perhaps more resources than we do to attempt something similar. If you decide to start, write to us at MIAMAILROOM@gmail.com, subject Hope Exit Castle. If you have already begun, or have built a successful model, write to us as well with the same subject, Hope Exit Castle.

Either my brother or I will write you back. We will hope to regularly communicate with you, to learn from you while you learn from us. Whatever is relevant to our readers that you’d freely share, we will share with them.

While we are looking primarily to convert what is to what might be, churches and apartment buildings to castles, we are also hoping to live long enough to break ground on our first experimental community of 10k people, where every space is designed and built from scratch.

The primary impediment to sustaining extended family structures is the capacity to provide for yourselves through your own actions a sustainably flourishing standard of living and the training that makes such an outcome possible.

Outside of very large cities, the capacity of a community to provide sustainably flourishing vocations to whole extended families decreases the smaller it gets. Even a city of 100,000 will have a hard time keeping extended families together for a few reasons.

One major reason is that the highest skilled will gravitate towards the few most wealthy corporations that can pay them. Generally, those positions are in cities like New York, NY, not Allentown, PA, and certainly not in Canton, PA.

We believe we have the technology, ESPECIALLY with AI, to create communities that can design, plan, create, and serve 80% of its FLOURISHING wants and needs and 95% of its essential needs with a population of 10,000 people.

If a community can do that, it can provide the kind of high-skilled vocation high-skilled people would need to feel fulfilled, at compensations that allow them and their immediate families to live flourishing lives.

The community would be 2-3 square miles, populated by extended family homes (15-20 people each), which would in turn have the capacity to meet 1/3 of its flourishing wants and needs and 80% of its essential needs.

We will share more ideas about this concept in our upcoming special publication, Hope Exit, scheduled to be released with our Quarterly issue on July 10, 2026. This is part of your subscription.

Back on solid ground, three of our four properties have updates to report. In our current home, we recently had a crisis with a broken lawn mower and broken washer. We have been able to replace our broken lawn mower with one that works a lot better than the last. As I am the one who mows, this has been a godsend for me.

Our broken washer has also been replaced, and that washer is significantly better than our last one. My wife primarily does our wash, while my daughter (who is going to college) does her own. For my wife and daughter, the washer does 3 times the amount in one load than the old one did, and in a little less time, with significantly less noise (our washer was very loud towards the end).

In both instances, brokenness led to more flourishing outcomes in the end, though the extra cost, in and of itself, is not sustainable. In our case, we can meet this need, thankfully.

The Riqueday Castle has had plastering done to patch up some holes. We’ve identified a leak in the roof that is affecting one of our window wells in the sanctuary. We are in the process of considering contractors for a bid on a new roof, and contractors for a new bathroom and laundry hookup.

Mowing season is back in action, so our unofficial caretaker, Anthony, is on the job once again.

We have been saving towards our property taxes (we have 3 that come to a total of around $7K) and are about ready to pay one of them (the $4K one) soon. We will be opening up a bank account in the name of Riqueday Castle; with myself, my wife, and my brother being the authorized users.

After we do this, we will start paying our Castle bills through that account. We can also then have a shared account to throw money in so we can build it up for needed future investments.

We have a mystery in our electric bill that saw a bit of an unexpected spike (not significant, but not unnoticeable either). So far, we haven’t figured out what the culprit is. We will see if it continues with the next bill.

We have procured donated furniture which I have not yet seen. Brother Bill and Anthony will be taking the furniture to the Castle where we will all decide what goes where, though a few pieces are specifically for Bill’s future living quarters.

In Harrisburg, Bill, Anthony, and one of Bill’s close friends, cleaned up the third-floor apartment. Anthony painted the front room. Bill ordered furniture for the apartment which has yet to be assembled. Bill has also ordered a new toilet to be installed in the bathroom.

After the apartment is livable, Bill will be able to make more trips to DC where more opportunities for clients are. I will go with him on some occasions, but not often. We are seeking more business to raise more funds for our Hope Estate project. If you need website marketing, design, or building, or reputation protection, or research, ping us at MIAMAILROOM@gmail.com, subject Business Query.

Had we not chosen to embark on this project, both my brother and I were in comfortable circumstances. The level of business we had was more than sufficient to sustain us at this comfortable level. Yet I would not trade that comfort (which I do sometimes miss) for the opportunity I have to contribute to human understanding through my success or failure.

Can we redesign our very home life to accommodate extended family living that serves the community as well? It is better for me to fail than to have lived in comfort never having tried to answer that question for myself when I had the resources to do so.

I say this to appeal to you, the reader, who might have such resources, to consider trying something similar yourself. If you choose to start, or if you’ve already started, or if you’re well into doing what we’re calling “Castle living,” let us know at MIAMAILROOM@gmail.com. It could be the start of a fruitful conversation for all.

House Ends DHS Shutdown

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The U.S. House has passed partial funding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), sending the bill to the President for an expected signing. The passage ends the 76 days of DHS shutdown.

Congress ends record-shattering DHS shutdown – Politico

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On the 76th day since Department of Homeland Security funding lapsed, Congress passed a bill Thursday restoring the flow of federal dollars to most of its agencies — without solving any of the policy disagreements that led to the record-breaking shutdown.

The House approved by voice vote the partial DHS funding measure the Senate passed more than a month ago. President Donald Trump is expected to swiftly sign the bipartisan legislation, fully funding the Coast Guard, TSA, Secret Service, FEMA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with other offices within DHS that don’t deal with immigration enforcement.

SCOTUS Protects Rule of Law By Gutting Racial Gerrymandering– thefederalist.com

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It’s been a long week for the gerrymandering Democrats.

On Monday, attorneys representing Virginia Democrats’ absurdly gerrymandered rewrite of the commonwealth’s congressional maps faced some pointed questions from a skeptical-sounding Virginia Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, the high court denied a motion brought by Virginia Attorney General Jay “Two Bullets” Jones to appeal Tazewell County Circuit Court Judge Jack “Chip” Hurley Jr.’s immediate ruling declaring unconstitutional last week’s referendum to change Virginia’s constitution. Voters narrowly approved a ballot question seeking to “temporarily” rip out a 2020 amendment that put political map-making in the hands of an independent commission — an inconvenient impediment to Democrats’ drive to change the current congressional maps to grab four more seats in Congress in the midterms. If all goes as the Dems planned, the new maps would give them a 10-1 advantage in Virginia’s congressional delegation.

Also on Tuesday, a three-judge panel dismissed a leftist lawfare group’s “novel” lawsuit seeking to rewrite Wisconsin’s congressional maps further to the Democratic Party’s advantage. The ruling marked the second rejection of the Democrats’ efforts to nix congressional maps drawn by the Red China-sounding People’s Maps Commission, handpicked by far-left Gov. Tony Evers. They have hopes a liberal-led Wisconsin Supreme Court will come to their rescue.

Trump Fires Board Overseeing DEI-iddled National Science Foundation– legalinsurrection.com

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The Trump administration has removed the entire board of independent overseers for the National Science Foundation (NSF), CBS News reports. The decision, announced Friday, eliminated all 22 members of the board, which had planned to meet next week.

“I wasn’t entirely surprised, to be honest,” said one dismissed board member in an email.

Another dismissed board member noted the vast changes the Trump administration hopes to accomplish regarding the move.

“I think this is one more indication of the sweeping changes that the administration has in mind for the NSF.”

The board members were released via an email from the Presidential Personnel Office which noted that “on behalf of President Donald J. Trump,” their positions were to be terminated, “effective immediately.”

9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules AGAINST anti-ICE protesters, says federal officers can use crowd control munitions at Portland ICE facility | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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“The First Amendment does not protect vandalism, criminal trespass, or obstruction of law enforcement,” wrote Judge Kenneth Lee in the court’s decision.

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against a group of anti-ICE protesters, blocking a lower court judge’s order that barred federal officers from using less-lethal munitions to disperse unruly crowds at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon. The facility has been the site of ongoing violent demonstrations since June 2025.

The 2-1 panel decision, issued on Monday by judges Kenneth Lee, Eric Tung, and Ana de Alba, the last of whom dissented, states that protesters failed to show that federal officers deployed crowd-control munitions as a means of retaliation, rejecting the plaintiffs’ arguments that their First Amendment rights were violated. The decision is a permanent administrative stay granted to the Department of Justice (DOJ) pending further appeal proceedings, in which the panel ruled that the Trump administration is “likely to succeed on the merits” of the case.

SCOTUS Kills Race-Based Gerrymandering

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There were three big wins this month for the Republicans in the Gerrymandering Wars that culminated with a major SCOTUS ruling on race-based gerrymandering.

First, the Virginia Supreme Court continues to refuse to certify the special election that saw the Progressives win the “right” to use gerrymandering to eliminate 4 GOP U.S. House Seats.

Second, SCOTUS has confirmed the Texas gerrymander map that switches 5 Democrat-held seats to 5 likely GOP seats. In Florida, a gerrymander plan is advancing in the legislature that would net the GOP 4 more seats in the U.S. House.

Third, SCOTUS has struck down race-based gerrymandered districts in a move that is existentially threatening to the Democrat Party in its current iteration.

SCOTUS Protects Rule of Law By Gutting Racial Gerrymandering– thefederalist.com
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 bombshell ruling gutting the discriminatory practice of racial gerrymandering in the redistricting process. The 6-3 majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, found unconstitutional the twisting of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by courts “to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids.”

“It’s been a good week” for the rule of law, election law expert Hans von Spakovsky told The Federalist following the SCOTUS ruling in Louisiana v. Callais.

Supreme Court Gives Republicans a Much-Needed Redistricting Win with Texas Ruling– www.westernjournal.com
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The Supreme Court reinstated Texas’s redrawn congressional map Monday, resulting in a huge win for Republicans, which could help them keep control of Congress.

The map was originally redrawn in August 2025 at the behest of President Donald Trump to add up to five additional House seats for the GOP as they head into a critical midterm election cycle this November.

It was instantly met with legal challenges, with a lower court issuing an injunction blocking the new map.

In December, the Supreme Court stepped in and issued a stay, keeping the map in place until a final ruling could be issued.

The justices initially faulted the lower court for committing “serious errors,” the main one being that it “failed to honor the presumption of legislative good faith by constructing ambiguous direct and circumstantial evidence against the legislature.”

Monday’s 6-3 vote reversing the lower court ruling fell along ideological lines, with the conservative justices ruling in the state’s favor, and the three liberal justices dissenting, according to Reuters.

 

VA Supreme Court Denies Emergency Appeal From AG Jay Jones To Certify Gerrymander Election – theroanokestar.com
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On April 28, the State Supreme Court rejected an emergency appeal from Attorney General Jay Jones to certify the ballots from the April 21 yes/no gerrymandering election. This means, instead of the high court now greenlighting an acceptance of the results from the controversial election, they will continue to deliberate before issuing their opinion, thus keeping the final result unknown for now.

As reported here, on April 21, a preponderance of late-reporting “yes” votes from Fairfax County pushed the “yes” side to victory, with a margin somewhat over 80,000.

AI creates 1K Jobs at Salesforce

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced online plans to hire 1000 new college graduates to drive the “exponential” potential of AI. He said in his X post, “… they said AI would kill entry-level jobs.  Meanwhile these grads & interns are building it.”

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Marc Benioff has announced plans to hire 1,000 graduates and interns at Salesforce, positioning the move as a counterpoint to fears that artificial intelligence will erode entry-level job opportunities.

In a post on X, Benioff said the new hires would contribute to building AI-driven products within the company, including initiatives such as Agentforce and Headless360. He encouraged graduates to apply through the company’s recruitment channels, emphasising that young talent is actively participating in developing the very technologies expected to disrupt traditional roles.

UK Judge Dismisses Charges Against Pro-Life Grandma for Protesting Abortion– www.lifenews.com

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A Scottish judge has dismissed charges against 75-year-old pro-life grandmother Rose Docherty, who was arrested last September for peacefully protesting abortion outside an abortion center in Scotland.

Docherty was merely holding a sign and offering consensual conversation in a so-called buffer zone outside a Glasgow hospital that kills babies.

Sheriff Stuart Reid at Glasgow Sheriff Court ruled that prosecutors “failed to disclose an offence known to the law of Scotland” and dismissed the two charges of “influencing” within the zone pro loco et tempore.

Docherty, a Christian grandmother from Glasgow, had stood silently with a sign reading: “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.” She did not approach anyone, did not discuss abortion and offered conversation only to those who wanted it.

Canada Said Her Only Choice Was Assisted Suicide, Texas Helped Save Her Life– www.lifenews.com

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Kristin is a wife and a mother who was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. What followed was not just a battle against disease, but a fight for her very dignity.

Living in Canada, Kristin says doctors told her that her only option was physician-assisted suicide. Instead of offering aggressive treatment or hope, she was allegedly told that her condition was terminal and that procedures like HIPEC surgery would not save her life.

Rather than honoring her life, the system presented her with a devastating alternative: end her life early instead of pursuing further care.

But Kristin and her husband, Donovan, refused to accept that answer.

High Court overturns conviction of pro-life campaigner who sent abortion images – Christian Concern– news.google.com

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A High Court judge has overturned the conviction of veteran pro‑life campaigner David Skinner, for sending an email with graphic images opposing abortion and censorship zones around clinics in Bournemouth.

On Friday 24 May Mr Justice Saini ruled that although the offence was technically made out under domestic law, maintaining a criminal conviction would amount to a disproportionate interference with freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

The judgment was handed down on Friday 24 May in Bournemouth, bringing to an end a criminal proceedings that have lasted nearly 3 years, as the court said the case raised fundamental constitutional issues under Articles 9 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

China develops a new fuel cell that turns coal directly into electricity without burning |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Chinese researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking ‘Zero-Carbon-Emission Direct Coal Fuel Cell’ (ZC-DCFC) that fundamentally transforms coal-based energy. Led by Xie Heping at Shenzhen University, this innovation bypasses traditional combustion – the process responsible for massive carbon emissions and energy loss in conventional power plants. By utilising electrochemical oxidation, the system converts coal’s chemical energy directly into electricity, as noted in the Energy Reviews journal.

This closed-loop technology not only prevents the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere but also captures it in situ, converting it into valuable chemical feedstocks like synthesis gas or sodium bicarbonate. This development challenges long-standing assumptions about the environmental impact of coal, potentially providing a cleaner pathway for utilising vast fossil fuel reserves.

Appeals court defends ICE in suppressing Portland riots; says sanctuary laws forced agency to act– www.washingtontimes.com

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A federal appeals court blocked a lower court ruling that had found ICE went too far in suppressing riots in Portland, Oregon, saying the officers weren’t retaliating against protesters but rather trying to clear out an unruly crowd.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision Monday, said demonstrators were engaged in clearly illegal activity but state and local authorities refused to respond, due to their “sanctuary” policies.

So U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had to take matters into its own hands.

The court said some of ICE’s conduct may have strayed over the line, but they said that wasn’t evidence of a broad, unwritten policy to punish protesters who were exercising their First Amendment rights.

Scientists discover how to freeze transplant organs without cracking them– www.sciencedaily.com

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Cryopreservation, the process of preserving biological tissue by cooling it to extremely low temperatures, often sounds like something out of science fiction. In reality, scientists have been studying and refining this technique for nearly a century. Progress remained slow for decades, but that began to change in 2023, when researchers at the University of Minnesota successfully transplanted a cryopreserved kidney into another rat. That milestone demonstrated that frozen organs could one day be used in human transplants.

Despite that progress, preserving larger organs remains a major hurdle. One of the biggest problems is cracking, which can occur when tissues are cooled too quickly. These fractures can damage the organ and make it unusable, making crack prevention a critical goal for advancing organ preservation and transplantation.

A team at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Matthew Powell-Palm from the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, has introduced a new approach aimed at addressing this issue. Their research outlines a method that could reduce the likelihood of cracking during cryopreservation.

Trump’s reviving U.S. manufacturing, just in time for the midterms– www.americanthinker.com

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Imagine an America where factories hum again, jobs return to towns long left behind, and the heartbeat of industry pulses stronger than it has in years.

Under President Donald J. Trump, that vision is becoming reality.

Democrats spent years pushing a narrative that manufacturing’s decline was inevitable, a so-called Trump Effect they blamed on him while their own policies accelerated the bleeding. Trump has ended that lie. American manufacturing is surging back, and the numbers prove it.

Republicans must recognize this triumph, especially now, as midterm season unfolds. They should defend it fiercely, for Democrats’ woke leftist base would dismantle every gain with vindictive speed if handed power again.

Manufacturing is expanding for the third straight month. Its key index posted the highest reading since 2022. New orders are rising for the third consecutive month as both American and overseas buyers seek U.S.-made products. Production has grown for five months running and is accelerating at a pace unseen before the disastrous Biden-Harris era. The Philadelphia Fed’s Manufacturing Index surged in April, beating forecasts.

Red states are not waiting for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act– www.theblaze.com

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President Donald Trump continues to prioritize the passage of the SAVE America Act, keeping election integrity at the forefront in Washington. However, states are not waiting for Congress to act. Across the country, this shift has been building for years, and it is becoming harder to ignore.

The SAVE America Act should be passed because it aligns federal elections with the direction states are already taking.

Florida offers one of the clearest examples. Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed a state-level measure requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and directing officials to verify applicants using existing data systems. The approach mirrors what the SAVE America Act would do at the federal level. DeSantis said the law would “strengthen the security, transparency, and reliability of Florida’s election system.”

Florida is not alone. In Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves signed the SHIELD Act, which requires officials to verify citizenship when individuals register to vote, including checks against federal databases and regular audits of voter rolls. Reeves called it “another win for election integrity” and made clear that the state intends to keep strengthening its system.

New Hampshire Democrat Dumps Party, Flips to Republican– slaynews.com

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A New Hampshire lawmaker has formally left the Democrats and registered as a Republican, citing a growing divide between his personal views and the direction of the party.

State Rep. Dale Girard, who also serves as mayor of Claremont, announced the switch in a public statement.

The politician confirmed that he changed his party affiliation at City Hall.

Ron DeSantis Unveils Florida Congressional Map That Could Give Republicans a Big Boost in the Redistricting War– www.westernjournal.com

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a new congressional redistricting map on Monday that could net the Republican Party four more seats in the House of Representatives.

Republicans currently hold 20 of the Sunshine State’s 28 seats, so if the new map is approved, it could increase to 24.

DeSantis told Fox News, “Florida got shortchanged in the 2020 Census, and we’ve been fighting for fair representation ever since. Our population has since grown dramatically, and we have moved from a Democrat majority to a 1.5 million Republican advantage. Drawing maps based on race, which is reflected in our current congressional districts, is unconstitutional and should be prohibited.”

“Our new map for 2026 makes good on my promise to conduct mid-decade redistricting, and it more fairly represents the makeup of Florida today,” DeSantis added.

Lincoln Reflecting Pool Restoration Saves and Dazzles

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President Donald Trump oversaw an upgrade of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that saved the nation hundreds of millions and left the monument looking better than ever before.

Trump Restores a Landmark and Saves Millions – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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President Donald Trump has directed a major renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, giving Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum the lead on the project. The pool badly leaked and looked neglected for years.

 

Trump chose an industrial-grade swimming pool surface in American flag blue. The coating covers the aging granite bottom and seals the leaks.

Trump announced the work on April 23 and set a clear timeline. The job costs around $1.5 million and should finish within weeks. Previous plans called for full granite replacement at roughly $301 million, stretching over many years.

That’s the approach Trump rejected while selecting a faster, cheaper solution that delivers results right away. The pool sits between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument and serves as one of the most recognized landmarks in the country. The renovation keeps it ready for national events and daily visitors.

The president announced the renovation at an Oval Office event Thursday, saying the coating had already begun. He was inspired to tackle the project after a friend visited from Germany and lamented that the water was filthy and looked disgusting, Trump said.

“And I went over there with Secret Service in tow, and I said, isn’t that a shame? That’s terrible,” Trump said, showing reporters a photo of the site as it undergoes work.

The project is one more makeover refashioning the nation’s capital to Trump’s liking, following others such as the demolition of the White House’s East Wing to make room for a new ballroom.

 

Trump has focused on visible results people see without digging through reports, pointing to years of neglect that left the water dirty and the pool in poor condition. Crews have already begun work and continue moving at a steady pace. The new blue surface reflects the sky and the monuments surrounding it, giving the site a clean and finished look.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool carries deep historical weight. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on those same steps in 1963, with the pool stretching out before him.

Generations have gathered there for moments that define the country; maintaining that space requires attention, funding, and a willingness to act when problems appear.

Trump, as is his custom, chose to act.

In Trump’s telling, the reflection pool project is a case study in business acumen. The president said he scrapped plans to have the granite replaced, which he said was estimated to cost $301 million and would take at least three years.

Instead, Trump said he called a few pool contractors he knows from past real estate projects — “I have a guy who’s unbelievable at doing swimming pools up the road,” Trump said.

The president went with a plan to clean the granite and lay down a new “industrial grade pool” surface for $1.5 million, he said. All told, it would take a few weeks. Trump noted it would be ready well before July 4, when the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence.

Trump brought up the project unprompted and spoke about it for several minutes at a White House event on efforts to reduce drug prices. He said he initially wanted a turquoise-colored surface “like in the Bahamas” but was sold when a contractor suggested “American flag blue.”

 

As you can imagine, TDS hit critics who are pushing back, with some questioning the color. Others wonder about the method, yet none of those complaints change the basic outcome. The pool no longer leaks, keeping costs low, with a short timeline. Visitors will see a clean and functioning landmark instead of a worn and failing one.

Burgum has overseen the project through the Interior Department and has worked to keep it moving without delays. He’s supported a practical approach that avoids construction and unnecessary spending, an approach that stands in contrast to the earlier proposal that would’ve drained hundreds of millions of dollars and tied up the site for an extended period.

Trump said U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum told him there have been “a lot of problems” with the pool, adding that it hasn’t worked properly for “many years.”

The president said the pool is “decaying” and plagued by leaks, adding that the renovation could be completed more quickly and at a lower cost than traditional reconstruction. He has framed the effort as part of a broader push to improve the appearance of Washington, D.C., and prepare for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

The results show the difference.

Washington has seen plenty of projects stall, drag on, or balloon in cost, a pattern that has become familiar. Trump’s approach breaks from that pattern by setting a goal, funding it, and completing it without unnecessary delay. The reflecting pool now stands as an example of how quickly a problem can be resolved when leadership chooses action over process.

 

The broader point reaches beyond a single landmark. Government often promises improvement and delivers paperwork. In this case, the work is visible, measurable, and complete within a short window.

The pool holds water, the surface looks clean, and the setting matches the importance of the memorial it serves.

While critics keep talking, renovations keep standing.

 

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Senate GOP Finally Passes ICE Fund Bill

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Using a procedure called “budget reconciliation,” the GOP-led house finally passed a bill funding ICE and Border Patrol through President Trump’s current term. The bill now goes to the House, where it is expected to barely pass, before it gets to the final passage stage.

Senate Republicans Secure ICE Funding In Late-Night ‘Vote-A-Rama’– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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Senate Republicans pushed a border-enforcement funding plan over the finish line in the early hours Thursday, advancing a measure aimed at bolstering U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol through the remainder of the Trump administration.

Using the budget reconciliation process, which allows certain legislation to pass the Senate with a simple majority, the chamber adopted the bill shortly after 3:30 a.m. Eastern following roughly six hours of debate, CBS News reported.

The overnight session featured a “vote-a-rama,” a fast-moving marathon in which senators offer amendments that receive limited debate and must be voted on.

The measure passed 50-48, with Democrats voting no. Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted against it, according to the Senate roll call. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa did not vote.

Jesus Restored by Italians in Lebanon

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Italian Peacekeeper Troops in Lebanon delivered a new Jesus statue to a Lebanon village that saw their previous Jesus statue smashed by an Israeli soldier in a now-viral video. The IDF has apologized and punished the solider responsible.

Italian peacekeepers replace Jesus statue wrecked by Israeli soldiers– www.channelnewsasia.com
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ROME: Italian UN peacekeepers have replaced the statue of Jesus Christ vandalised by Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Thursday (Apr 23).

The sculpture of a crucified Jesus was located in the Christian village of Debl in south Lebanon, near the border with Israel.

A photo shared online showed an Israeli soldier using a sledgehammer to strike the head of the statue, sparking international condemnation.

Meloni in a statement thanked the Italian contingent of the UN’s UNIFIL peacekeeping force “for deciding to donate a new crucifix to the Lebanese village of Debl”.

She said the instalment of the new statue was “a powerful message of hope, dialogue and peace”.

Democrats Dig in Against ICE As GOP Forces Funding Showdown – RedState– redstate.com

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In the early hours of Thursday morning, Senate Republicans did what Democrats have spent months refusing to do: fund the men and women enforcing America’s immigration laws.

The chamber adopted a budget blueprint 50-48 after an all-night marathon of amendment votes known as a “vote-a-rama” that stretched past 3:30 a.m. It was a hard-fought win that moves the country one step closer to ending a self-inflicted Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown that Democrats have done nothing to resolve.

The vehicle is budget reconciliation, a parliamentary process that lets legislation clear the Senate with a simple majority rather than the 60 votes Democrats have used to block immigration enforcement funding at every turn. The goal is to unlock roughly $70 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) up front, with the full framework potentially reaching $140 billion through the end of President Trump’s term.

Republicans aren’t apologizing for the urgency. They’ve seen what happens when Democrats get power, and they have no intention of leaving the border undefended the next time it happens.

U.S. Military Gets Vaccine Freedom

pgnewser April 22, 2026 1

Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth has ended mandatory flu vaccines for military personnel. While flu vaccines will still be offered, military personnel can now opt out of them if they so choose.

Hegseth says U.S. military no longer requires flu vaccination, drawing criticism from health experts– www.scientificamerican.com
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Hegseth says U.S. military no longer requires flu vaccination, drawing criticism from health experts

The decision to no longer enforce mandatory annual flu shots for military personnel could mean more troops will get sick during flu season, one expert says

The U.S. military will no longer require service members to be vaccinated against the flu, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a social media post on Tuesday, a decision that some health experts say could endanger troops.

“The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately,” Hegseth wrote in the post.

The policy stands in contrast to the current recommendations of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country’s highest public health body, which says all Americans over the age of six months who do not have contraindications should get the annual flu shot. The CDC estimates that the vaccine saved some 12,000 lives and prevented about 180,000 hospitalizations during the 2024–2025 flu season.