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Compiled by Mike Hernandez, Dec. 5, 2025
There are so many stories making up the mosaic of national/international news that we can’t cover them all every week. The biggest stories now seem to be: Israel and Iran, the Trump presidency (lawfare and judges), immigration (migrants and illegals), wars, weaponization of government (the deep state) against Trump and conservatives, our nation’s debt, massive inflation, climate change controversy and related expenses of government, industry attempting to address these issues, the Chinese threat, national security, abortion, taxpayer cuts, Ukraine peace, and hatred and violence against Christians. Here are just a few:
November 30 (Sun): RedState By Jennifer Oliver O’Connell
MN DHS Employees Spill The Tea On Gov. Tim Walz’s Lying, Complicity In Somali Fraud
In case you’ve missed it, let’s review the litany of crises that have erupted under Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s two terms as governor.
- The 2020 Summer of Love, where he allowed much of Minneapolis to burn to the ground before he asked for National Guard assistance to quell the violence.
- The Trans Agenda, where policies were crammed through the legislature, including tampons in the boys’ locker room and snatching children away from parents who would not affirm their gender identity, and were allowed to flourish, destroying families and bringing harm to communities. Which one could argue led to…
- A trans male shooting up Annunciation Catholic Church, killing two and injuring 17.
- Rampant Somali fraud.
November 30: Breitbart By Elizabeth Weibel
Trump Suggests Rep. Ilhan Omar Be Thrown ‘Out Of’ U.S. Over Claims She Married Her Brother
President Donald Trump suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) should be removed from the United States, referencing allegations that she “supposedly” entered the country by marrying her brother.
Trump’s comments come as Omar and other Democrats have defended Minnesota’s Somali community, despite reports that there is evidence of “widespread fraud of taxpayers’ healthcare programs” taking place. Trump has previously announced that he would be terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) amnesty for Somalians, over reports that billions of dollars are missing.
In September, in a post on Truth Social, Trump criticized Somalia for being “plagued by a lack of central Government control, persistent Poverty, Hunger, Resurgent Terrorism, Piracy, decades of Civil War, Corruption, and pervasive Violence.” Trump also criticized Omar for telling the U.S. government “how to run America” and questioned if she was “the one that married her brother in order to gain Citizenship.”
December 1: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
Rogue Judges Boasberg And Boardman Now Refuse To Testify Before The Senate
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg and U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman have both turned down invitations to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week at the explosive hearing titled “Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Accountable.”
Judge Boasberg, a Barack Obama appointee, has drawn fierce ire from conservatives for his ruling that blocked the administration’s attempt to deport Venezuelan nationals under the wartime Alien Enemies Act (AEA). His decision came even as the White House sought to remove terrorist members linked to the Venezuelan group Tren de Aragua.
Meanwhile, Judge Boardman, the Maryland radical judge, has turned her courtroom into a sanctuary for open-borders chaos. Boardman has blocked Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. In August 2025, Boardman issued a nationwide injunction blocking the administration’s order to roll back “birthright citizenship,” effectively rejecting an effort by the current White House to restore a meaningful safeguard on automatic citizenship for children of illegal immigrants.
December 1: RedState By Nick Arama
Tim Walz’s Response When Questioned About MN Fraud Scandal
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has a bit of a problem. Even The New York Times is now highlighting the huge fraud scandal. Federal prosecutors say that 59 people have been convicted in those schemes so far, and that more than $1 billion in taxpayers’ money has been stolen in three plots they are investigating. That is more than Minnesota spends annually to run its Department of Corrections. Minnesota’s fraud scandal stood out even in the context of rampant theft during the pandemic, when Americans stole tens of billions through unemployment benefits, business loans and other forms of aid, according to federal auditors.
Outrage has swelled among Minnesotans, and fraud has turned into a potent political issue in a competitive campaign season. Gov. Tim Walz and fellow Democrats are being asked to explain how so much money was stolen on their watch, providing Republicans, who hope to take back the governor’s office in 2026, with a powerful line of attack.
December 1: California Family Council
Charter Homeschool Families Demand the Ninth Circuit End Anti-Christian Discrimination
When the Woolard, Gonzales, and Dodson families enrolled in California homeschool charter-school programs, they believed they were partnering with the state to give their children the best possible education; one that met academic standards and reflected their Christian convictions. What they did not expect was to be penalized, reprimanded, or even expelled simply for choosing a curriculum rooted in their faith. Yet that is exactly what happened.
California homeschool charter schools distribute public funds to parents so they can purchase approved educational materials. But unlike many other states, California has imposed a rigid, categorical ban on the use of any religious curriculum, even if it meets all academic requirements.
This policy is rooted in the California Education Code’s mandate that all charter-school programs must be “nonsectarian,” as well as Article IX, Section 8 of the state constitution, which prohibits public money from supporting sectarian teaching in public schools. In practice, these provisions have been stretched far beyond their original intent. Rather than ensuring that schools do not proselytize, California has interpreted them to mean that parents may not use educational funds to choose Christian materials for their own children, even in a home-based learning environment.
That is why the Woolard, Gonzales, and Dodson families were denied reimbursements and, in one case, expelled from their charter program simply because their curriculum mentioned Scripture or approached learning from a biblical worldview.
The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken clearly and repeatedly on this issue: when a state offers a public benefit, it cannot exclude families or schools because they are religious. In the landmark Carson v. Makin decision out of Maine, often summarized as the “Treat Children Fairly” case, the Court held that religious status and religious instruction cannot be grounds to deny a family equal participation in public education benefits.
December 1: California Family Council
Major CA Hospital Drops Gender Treatments For Minors After Federal Report
Last year, Sutter Health proudly advertised receiving the Human Rights Campaign’s LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Award, a badge of ideological conformity publicized across their platforms. Yet today, Sutter is sending a very different message. After years of promoting puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as unquestionable medical dogma, Sutter Health has announced it will no longer provide these interventions to minors experiencing gender confusion.
This dramatic reversal comes just days after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its peer-reviewed federal report thoroughly discrediting the scientific basis for pediatric sex-rejecting procedures.
Institutions long considered champions of gender medicine began quietly walking back their services for minors: In February, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles confirmed it was ending initiation of hormonal therapy for patients under 19. Last July, Kaiser Permanente placed significant limitations on its youth gender services. Stanford Medicine announced similar changes last summer.
For years, California legislators and progressive medical organizations dismissed all criticism of “gender-affirming care” as bigotry. But as more evidence emerges—and as detransitioners continue to speak out—the narrative is collapsing. European nations such as Sweden, Finland, Norway, and the U.K. have already abandoned the “affirm-at-all-costs” model after reviewing the same evidence now acknowledged by U.S. health officials.
December 2: Breitbart By Randy Clark
‘Operation Charlotte’s Web’ Nets 400 Illegal Aliens, Half With ‘Significant’ Criminal Records
In just a few short weeks, a Border Patrol-led task force arrested more than 400 illegal aliens in Charlotte, North Carolina. According to Border Patrol Commander Greg K. Bovino, illegal aliens targeted and arrested during “Operation Charlotte’s Web” were found to be in the company of others who also had a significant criminal history in more than 50 percent of all cases.
According to Bovino, Border Patrol agents in Charlotte noted nearly 67 percent of illegal aliens apprehended just one day in November were found to be in the company of a targeted criminal illegal alien and had a significant criminal history.
Dec. 2: Epoch Times By Tom Ozimek
Michael And Susan Dell Pledge $6.25 Billion To Seed ‘Trump Accounts’ For 25 Million Children
Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell have pledged $6.25 billion to help 25 million American children open newly created investment accounts under President Donald Trump’s Invest America initiative. The Dells gift, announced on Dec. 2, will fund $250 deposits for children aged 10 and under who were born prior to the Jan. 1, 2025, qualifying date to receive the federal government’s $1,000 newborn contribution to their tax-advantaged Invest America accounts, commonly known as “Trump Accounts.”
“TWO GREAT PEOPLE,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, reacting to the Dells’ announcement. “I LOVE DELL!!!”
The $6.25 billion donation, which is intended to encourage families to activate the new child investment accounts authorized under Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act, is expected to reach nearly 80 percent of American children aged 10 and under across 75 percent of zip codes.
The Invest America program gives every child under 18 with a Social Security number access to a federally overseen savings and investment account that families can activate beginning July 4, 2026. All accounts are professionally managed and invested in diversified index funds designed to grow over time.
Children born on or after Jan. 1, 2025, will automatically receive a $1,000 Treasury deposit at birth, while families and community members may contribute up to $5,000 total per year. Employers may contribute up to $2,500 annually to an employee’s child, and philanthropic or government contributions are uncapped.
When the children turn 18, they can withdraw the funds for “qualified purposes,” such as paying tuition, buying a home, or starting a business. The money will be taxed as ordinary income if used for non-qualified expenditures. The accounts automatically convert to traditional Individual Retirement Accounts at age 18, allowing any unused funds to keep growing over time.
December 3: Gateway Pundit By Christina Laila
President Trump Issues Full and Unconditional Pardon To Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar
President Trump on Wednesday issued a full and unconditional pardon to Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife, Imelda. Cuellar and his wife were facing a maximum of 204 years in prison after Biden’s DOJ indicted them on federal bribery and money laundering charges last year.
Biden’s DOJ charged Cuellar, a nine-term Democrat Texas lawmaker who represents an area along the US-Mexico border, after he lashed out at both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for allowing illegal aliens to pour over the border. Trump ripped Biden’s weaponized DOJ as he announced his pardon of Rep. Henry Cuellar and wife Imelda.
December 4: Breitbart By Oliver JJ Lane
UK PM’s Chief Of Staff Morgan McSweeney Ran Secret Censorship Campaign To Destroy Breitbart News: Report
The crackdown on freedom of expression and dissenting thought by the UK’s Labour government was hard-baked into its DNA long before it took power, with the “the most powerful unelected official in British politics” having run a shadowy astroturf organisation working to destroy unaligned news outlets including Breitbart, a report states.
A Labour Party thinktank cutout posing as a grassroots anti-“Fake News” group worked to kneecap left-wing outlets that were a threat to its globalist-left worldview, and right-wing outlets that positively covered U.S. President Donald Trump and ‘Mr Brexit’ Nigel Farage, it is claimed. The revelations come in an article published by Dropsite News by South African investigative journalist Paul Holden, citing “a trove of documents that expose the operation” and promoting his forthcoming book.
Crucially Morgan McSweeney, the British political activist who propelled Sir Keir Starmer to the office of Prime Minister, went on from leading this well-funded “quintessential example of astroturfing” and became Starmer’s chief of staff in government, making the alleged censorious schemer “the most powerful unelected official in British politics.”
The revelations are a blow for the now-years-long bid to woo President Trump by Sir Keir and those around him, despite their very deep ideological differences, as it makes clear the “Starmer Machine” worked diligently to destroy the new media ecosystem around the now two-times President.
December 4: Breitbart By John Nolte
Nolte: Number Of Americans Who Closely Follow The News Crashes
In 2016, 51 percent of U.S. adults said they closely followed the news. Today, that number has crashed to 36 percent.
“People in every age group are less likely now than in 2016 to say they follow the news all or most of the time,” writes the far-left Pew Research. “But older Americans remain more likely than younger adults to do so. For example, 62% of adults 65 and older now say they follow the news all or most of the time. That’s down 13 percentage points since 2016,” adds the pollster. “The decline is similar — 12 points — among adults under 30.”
“This decline in Americans’ attention to the news over the years has also occurred across other demographic groups, including education, gender, race, ethnicity and political party.”
December 4: Breitbart By AWR Hawkins
University Of Delaware Shooting Foiled: Pakistani Immigrant With ‘Cache Of Guns’ Arrested
A possible mass shooting was foiled by authorities when they searched 25-year-old Luqmaan Khan’s vehicle, discovering a Glock handgun, loaded magazines, and a conversion device that makes the pistol operate like a short-barreled rifle. WHYY reported police spotted Khan’s 2007 Toyota Tacoma “in the back of Canby Park West after the park had closed” on November 24, 2025.
In addition to the firearm-related items, police found “body armor and a notebook with handwritten notes and drawings.” In a notebook, Khan – a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen – had allegedly written, “battle efficiency: kill all – martyrdom.”
The New York Post described the items Khan possessed as a “cache of guns,” noting that an AR-rifle and a second handgun were found in his home. The Post also pointed out that some of the writing in Khan’s notebook “detailed how to evade capture after the planned shooting, and explained how a number of other weapons would be used.”
After being arrested, Khan allegedly told police that becoming a martyr is “one of the greatest things you can do.”
Khan, a Wilmington, Delaware, resident, is charged in federal court with possession of a machine gun and possession of an unregistered firearm. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
December 4: RedState By Katie Jerkovich
Melania Announces Exciting News For Displaced Kids Of Russia-Ukraine War
First Lady Melania Trump announced exciting news for displaced kids of the Russia-Ukraine war, revealing that more than a handful have been reunited with their families. In a Thursday press release from the Office of the First Lady, Trump celebrated the return of seven children — six boys and one girl — who they said “have been reunited with their families in Ukraine” as part of an ongoing humanitarian effort.
The announcement comes months after the first lady penned a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging him to end the war in the name of the innocent children. The letter obtained by Fox News, which Putin reportedly read at his Alaska Summit in August with President Donald Trump.
December 4: Epoch Times By Matthew Vadum
Supreme Court Upholds Texas Election Map That Favors Republicans
The U.S. Supreme Court ordered late on Dec. 4 that a redrawn election map expected to increase Republican representation in Texas’s U.S. House delegation remain in place. The court’s new unsigned order in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott was issued over the dissents of Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justices Samuel Alito filed an opinion concurring in the order. Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch joined the concurrence.
The Supreme Court took action hours after Texas appealed a federal district court ruling striking down the election map passed earlier this year. Under the federal Voting Rights Act, the state is allowed to file an appeal directly with the Supreme Court, skipping the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
December 5: Gateway Pundit By Bob Cushman
“The Seditious Six” Face New Legal Challenges — Massive Money Laundering Allegations Emerge
Recently, six lawmakers caused an uproar and prepared a video that implied that soldiers should not follow orders. They carefully put a spin on the Uniform Code of Military Justice in such a way as to imply Sedition.
Each line in the video is alternately delivered by Sens. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Mark Kelly of Arizona, and Reps. Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire, and Jason Crow of Colorado. These six have now acquired the moniker of “Seditious Six”.
It now appears that the six lawmakers have been found to have been heavily involved in money laundering. Investigative Reporter/Citizen Journalist, Bob Cushman, has just released an FEC data analysis that strongly suggests that Mark Kelly, Elissa Slotkin, Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Chrissy Houlahan, and Maggie Goodlander have been recipients of illegally laundered campaign funds.
In the initial investigation, Cushman cites 22 Smurf examples that have “allegedly” contributed almost three million dollars in more than 95,000 separate donations to Democratic coffers. All six members of the Seditious Six have received funds from one or more of these “smurfs”.
December 5: Time Magazine By Connor Greene
Nearly five years after pipe bombs were planted near the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national conventions in Washington, D.C., the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, authorities have arrested a suspect in the case.
Brian Cole Jr. of Virginia was arrested Thursday and charged with transporting an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials, marking the culmination of a years-long—and still ongoing—investigation, federal officials announced.
Officials said that Cole was residing in Northern Virginia, just miles from the capital. Cole, 30, is from suburban Woodbridge, Virginia, where he lives with his mother and other family members, and works for a bail bondsman’s office in Northern Virginia, according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case.
https://time.com/7338750/brian-cole-washington-dc-pipe-bombs-jan-6-suspect-arrest
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Mike Hernandez, is co-founder of the Citizens Journal–Ventura County’s online news service and writes for Citizensjournal.net and MountainTopMedia.com. He is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor, writer of “CaliRed News” on Substack.com and “Prayer Over News Daily” and edits the weekly “Stories Speak Volumes” and other columns. Mr. Hernandez mentors citizen journalists and can be contacted at MikeHernandezMedia.com.
