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The Hunterbrook Media story.
The Commercial Appeal story 1 and story 2 as of 1:21 PM today.

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A Fake Protest Song for Fake Victims

The following video is embedded for context and reference as part of our reporting. This footage is presented as originally published to support independent analysis, which appears below the video.

Opinion by BenQQ

(1.28.26) Presumably Bruce Springsteen was so incensed at the recent shootings of possibly paid interrupters getting injured by federal agents doing their jobs, he said he wrote and performed this in a couple of days. It sounds like he channeled Dylan in writing and performing his new protest elegy, Streets of Minneapolis. However, I wrote this in 30 minutes, though I won’t be performing it.

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It starts out,

Through the winter’s ice and cold 
Down Nicollet Avenue 

A city aflame fought fire and ice 
‘Neath an occupier’s boots
  [No, Bruce. There is no occupation. Ask Ukraine what an occupation is.] 

King Trump’s private army from the DHS 
 [No, Bruce. Trump is not a king. He has legal authority to dispatch federal law enforcement agents to apprehend illegal criminals, including illegal aliens who have no right to reside in this country.]

Guns belted to their coats 
[And you brave revolutionaries would want them to come unarmed?] 
Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law
  [True.]

Or so their story goes
  [Bruce, what other story is there? At this point I’m hoping your little ditty will rhyme out Trump's secret motivation.] 
Against smoke and rubber bullets
[Yes, you would have wanted them to use real bullets as in Iran?] 
By the dawn’s early light
[By my viewing, I saw no media reports of people protesting at dawn.
  But I’ll give you some paid protestors probably were putting in for overtime pay.]

Citizens stood for justice
 [Justice or radical lefties fighting the feds for gullible voters? A political claim.]

Their voices ringing through the night 
[No. There were not any voices “ringing,” but whistles and pots and pans banging.]

And there were bloody footprints
[Actually, there were no “bloody footprints” anywhere.] 

Where mercy should have stood 
[The first death was an attempted run-down, the second was from an armed intruder
  in to an official ICE operation. In the second instance, we don’t know essential facts, yet. So, Mercy?] 

And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets 
 [Very dramatic. Nobody was “left to die.” Both died instantly by assaulting  with vehicle and violent intent against law enforcement officials.]

Alex Pretti and Renee Good
[Accurate.]

Wait. I can’t stop. There so much more…

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice 
Singing through the bloody mist 
  [Yeah, Bruce. Those fascist machine guns mowed your people down…]

We’ll take our stand for this land 
And the stranger in our midst 
 [Sounds damn poetic. But all 20 million strangers your Biden let in so his party could retain raw power? Don’t think so.]

Here in our home they killed and roamed 
In the winter of ’26
 [So actually which victims are you singing about? The victims of illegal aliens whom, again, Joe Biden turned loose on the American people? The numbers of victims illegal aliens dwarf any accidental killings of questionable "demonstrators."] 

We’ll remember the names of those who died 
On the streets of Minneapolis
[What about remembering the names of all the Americans who died at the hands of illegal border crossers, the hundreds of thousands of trafficked children, raped women and drug victims all made possible by neuro-degenerate Joe Biden with the help of the cartels?] 

You get my point. You can take apart every line of this plaintive performance. Artists can say what they want, but some people expect a legitimate basis for their art instead of left wing propaganda.

Yes, you can sing along, wave your lighter in the air as you hypnotically sway back and forth if you want, but remember clever people, especially communists, love to get you emotionally committed and do stupid things. That’s how they’ve always gotten idiot followers to do their dirty work.

The CA Throws Shade on Trump’s Safe Task Force Memphis Stats

(1.26.26) Memphis in particular has been cited as a success story by the Trump administration of his Safe Task Force program to arrest or deport violent illegal aliens, gang members and assorted criminals loose in our cities. Our city came up again in a press conference following the shooting death by a Border Patrol agent of an armed activist in the current Minneapolis anti-ice riots that have taken over certain parts of the streets there.

Commercial Appeal today cast shade on the purported reduction of violent crime in Memphis as stated by the Trump Memphis Safe Task force. The CA's objection: the crime stats don't jive with those of the city. The story--and how the city counts its crimes compared to the task force--would make a good in-depth story to see if the city is reducing crime so it can be put in a better light. We've talked about this before, but apparently the city counts a crime scene regardless of victims as one crime while the feds count individual victims. We would appreciate a clarification from the MPD.

However, while it is well known the Commercial Appeal is opposed to Trump, we find it therefore predictable the CA would be less than supportive of any effort to reduce crime in Memphis that has been called the “murder capital of the country”--lest Trump would seem at least objectively acceptable to Memphians.

If the CA were to actually cover Trump in more stories even in the context of its own politically Democratic stance, the paper would have more legitimacy regarding any story about him. Maybe the next story will be: do Memphis politics ignore the price of crime from personal property to murder while not revealing crime stats of individual victims? Here’s the CA story.

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Really, Commercial Appeal? Isn’t it time to rethink Trump?

A Commercial Appeal Commentary Review by BenQQ

(1.24.26) In a market where few people are Trump supporters or even objective observers, a local musician gets a long editorial in the Commercial Appeal, the big daily in Memphis, to call for Trump’s ouster. Zach Bair seems to be upset over the, well, unexpected outcomes of Trump’s work, like “drama and chaos.” I think of it like Christmas morning every time I wake up. So we obviously have differing political starting points with different appreciation of Trump’s policies. 

First thing, he links to an article in NPR (and PBS) broadcasters who assuredly hated Trump for defunding their biased reporting, as evidence Trump is withholding data within the Epstein files, a folly now discredited–especially since everyone knows Trump and Epstein had a serious falling out after he apparently hit on at least one of his employees at Mar-a-Lago. Further, the “Epstein files” are not one single thing—and much, if not all (who knows?) of what it really is is tied up in courts, privacy law and institutional self-protection. Further, a lot of those files are tied up in grand juries and victim protection laws.  At any rate, the Epstein files, regardless the Epstein Transparency Act, releasing those files in bulk, would ruin innocent reputations and lives. But few Dem liberals–or apparently their media–take that seriously.

He jumps from Epstein to (our currently favorite “narco terrorist” per Trump) Nicolas Maduro, as if the two have close weight. The first, irrelevant. The second, guilty as hell in the importation of drugs that has killed thousands of Americans. But that’s not all. Maduro, who unfortunately had a penchant for mocking Trump in a cringey dance that his subordinates thought was oh so funny, was captured ever so elegantly by American operatives, thus sending a message to dictators everywhere, no matter how many you kill, you–(and your ol’ lady)–will not get away with it.

In so doing, he reclaimed South America from incursions of Russia, and especially China, in the “Donroe Doctrone” (Monroe Doctrine). Compare that to the previous insouciant president who claimed the latter was just a “competitor.” There are plenty of both solid and dotted lines of corruption from the Biden family to China and Russia. And yes, Hunter flew with dad on Air Force One to China. (And yes, Dad pardoned Hunter of all crimes he committed, may have committed, was ever charged with or could have been charged with.) Nice.

One problem that Zach has is he does not know how to read Trump. But he’s not alone. Almost all Dems and some Repubs still are left in a confangled mental mess after listening to Trump: he’s going to invade Greenland, occupy Venezuela, rebuild Gaza into a tourist resort and more. They haven’t learned Trump starts from a position of strength and even fear, just like many other successful CEOs. (Remember, Trump comes from New York real estate and beat out the meanest tycoons therein.) You want your president to have that as a characteristic asset, not a quiet self hating putz like the previous president.

No, he would never invade Greenland. You want him to take Greenland by agreement and, again, keep China and Russia out of that strategic location to shorten the flight of their missiles into the U.S. and secure the Arctic as well.

Next on the menu, indeed: Iran, Cuba. By the way, We’ll get to those later. However, I am not one completely satisfied with Trump’s behavior via foreign policy. Even thou my interpretation of his aforementioned CEO principles never fail (the US is the company, everybody else is either a client or an enemy poaching on the market), I was appalled at Trump’s attitude toward Ukraine, as well as his relative quiet re Taiwan. 

Let me unload on Trump even further here: His problem with Ukraine is the whole thing is like a bad weather issue. Both sides are losing people. It’s all the same. No, Mr. President, Ukraine is fighting for its freedom and independence against a barbarous enemy. It is not the same. Quit acting like it is. They want to be western, to be friends, to trade with us. So, still once again, he has decided to come down on the side of Ukraine with new armaments. The Russians are now, by many reports, under extreme pressure to find an end to their blood thirsty typical aggression. Trump’s weakness, in my opinion, is obvious: he can be flattered into the deal but seems to see his error at the last minute. But maybe that’s really at not the last minute…or an error.

Then Zach expresses sympathy for Renee Good, the woman who apparently attempted to run down an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. For that, the officer fired back, killing her instantly. The only person I have sympathy for in that case is her 6 year old daughter who was expecting mommy to return home as she always did. But thanks to the irresponsible rhetoric of the likes of now disgraced Gov. Tim Walz who lost billions due to his ignoring hundreds of whistle blowers of Somali corruption, mommy won’t be coming home. I blame mommy, not the ICE officer who protected himself and others.

The ICE journalistic malpractice media pandemic per legacy media is a natural hotbed of graphic reporting: See ICE hold a small child hostage, See ICE shoot a “demonstrator.” See ICE drag a woman from her car. See how ICE “looks” like Nazis. All only a small part of stories that don’t include the whole.

Zach ends his piece by claiming Trump has “weaponized” the federal government using a private “police” (his quotes) “that has zero constitutional authority over U.S. civilians…” For this argument, he links to the Associated Press which seems to think a state that has refused local police support to ICE during the current mob takeover of public street, should then conduct the lead investigation of a federal officer? I’m not a lawyer, but I would aver that outcome as much as possible, especially considering the Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey chose political rabble rousing over thoughtful leadership with: “To ICE, get the f* out of Minneapolis.”

In conclusion, Bair claims Trump is “weaponizing” government and even has sympathy for former FBI Director Comey and New York Attorney General “Big Tish” Leticia James, both down the line corrupt and insanely anti-Trump for power and political reasons, “respectively.”

Trump kept Comey on as FBI head but fired him in May 2017, rightfully suspecting disloyalty. During his time as Trump’s FBI Director, Comey has said he visited Trump’s office, wrote down detailed notes and gave them to a friend to give to the media–very much a serious violation of FBI policy but DOJ of course declined to prosecute. Comey’s leak led directly to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s multi-million dollar witch hunt investigation.

But let’s remember before Trump was even president, Comey launched Crossfire Hurricane in the first mammath major government weaponization against Trump, an elected president of the U.S.

“Crossfire Hurricane” was  the FBI’s investigation into whether Trump’s 2016 campaign coordinated with Russia, which later conjoined with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s multi-million dollar investigation. No Trump associates were ever convicted for conspiring with Russia. 

By the way, our own Dem Rep. Steve Cohen spent the virtual entirety of Trump’s first term running around claiming Trump was a number of things: crook, racist, fraudster among others. I wrote about that extensively and have published one interview he did with a local TV station where he ran unchallenged with all of his wild accusations.

Comey also went after Trump associates Michael Flynn, Carter Page, Paul Manafort,  George Papadopoulos. Further, Comey had enabled the continued investigations of Trump allies Roger Stone, and even Jared Kushner and Donald Trump, Jr. Of the above, two were convicted of lying and one financial crimes

Letitia James mounted spurious charges that were eventually dismissed, as have been an assortment of state and federal charges all emanating from the deep state. 

Never has there been such a coordinated conspiracy of weaponization that included electoral fraud and widespread lawfare against a popularly elected president. The Democrats had finally learned Stalin's method: 'show me the man and I will show you the crime.'

However, Trump has come out on top every time with a row of historic successes in his second term to boot. Apparently, the Commercial Appeal will not report on that.

Here's Zach Bair's piece. LInk.

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"WHY ARE Y'LL DOING THIS TO ME?"
Good question. The Story Didn't Answer that.
a media review by BenQQ

Channel 24 set the story up like this: “'Why are y'all doing this to me?': Memphis restaurant owner reflects on viral video showing law enforcement standoff.”

Here’s what the story is about:  For some still unknown reason, Memphis police, the Memphis Safe Task Force and national guardsmen showed up at a local sandwich shop in black neighborhood last night. There were no reported arrests. The owner of the shop verbally confronted the officers and rhetorically demanded to know, “Why are y’all doing this to me?” It was too good to pass up, 24 slapped his plaintive wail up in big fat letters as a dramatic title.  

In a somewhat confusing story where there were two incidents in different parts of town: one in a East Memphis restaurant where there was gunfire and at another restaurant in Orange Mound, a high crime area, where there was no gunfire. Incidents involving ICE occurred at both restaurants at about the same time, according to 24. Otherwise, there is apparently no reported connection between the two. 

However, visual clues in their own story raises more questions that went unanswered. Had they been, it could explain at least in part why there was a congregation of the three partnering agencies at that location. 

For example, Channel 24’s video started with a closeup of an official looking pre-printed professional sign on the door of the business that read “NO ICE ACCESS IN THIS BUSINESS.” Pre-printed signage can be an indication of outside organizational involvement. It’s not hard to print this kind of signage on your computer.

I was hoping to see the reporter get the owner in front of a camera and ask at least a couple of these questions:
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--Did he make the sign on his door or did someone else make it?
--If the latter, then who made it?
--How long had he opined about ICE in the way reflected on his door sign?
--What were his reasons for opposing ICE?
--What does he think about President Trump?
--Did he or someone else make his anti-ICE sign?
--Finally, had he lost business as a result of ICE presence previously?

But it is obvious the reporter did not want an objective piece. Just reinforce black owner-as-victim for easy consumption by mostly black viewers. To top it off, the reporter dragged in a “local activist” to spout off about how unfair it all was.

I can’t help it. By this time I’m shouting at my television which is beginning to take it personally.
Ask him:

--Did he create that door sign?
--Had he met or spoken with the owner to work this story?
--Was he employed to be an activist or does he get any payment to work political issues?
--Sure, we know you’re an activist, but what other issue have you acted upon?

The police, guard and ICE are not completely off the hook here, either. The story was legitimate. Whenever a bunch of law enforcement officers show up at a small business like this, people deserve answers. According to the reporter, she asked and they provided nothing–not even a standard operation statement.

Finally, I’m not speaking for any of the agencies here, but if I were police/guard/ICE headed to that: 1) location in a high crime area, 2) where people hear plenty of anti-Trump propaganda and biased media, 3) knew the owner was anti-ICE, 4) was dramatically refusing service to ICE officers, 5) while a state governor and mayor called ICE repressive, I would not want to show up without force. That’s just me. Call me evil.

Here’s Channel 24’s story. What do you think?

Anti-ICE Mob Attacks Church Services, Possibly Breaking Federal Law. Don Lemon reportedly videos for his podcast.

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Updates
1.20.25 Democrat Minnesota Attorney General said it was OK for a mob to storm into a church and demonstrate. However, the Face Act makes it a federal crime, to "injure, intimidate, or interfere" with a person lawfully trying to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship. The act also protects persons seeking reproductive health services. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon threatened liberal podcaster Don Lemon with charges under the Ku Klux Klan Act during a television appearance Monday. An egregious example of a "journalist" fomenting, if not manufacturing, news is Lemon's aggressive impromptu interview of church officials as the organization he obviously supports disrupted church services. Lemon touted his first amendment rights which apparently included storming church services. Lemon had Democratic MN Attorney General Keith Ellison on his podcast who retouted Lemon's belief that the incursion into the church was protected by first amendment rights. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz has not condemned the church attack. Opinion: Apparently, Democrats love their people attacking a church--just like Hitler's goons did to synagogues--but can't stand it when their Dem. goons who attack ICE officials are arrested.

(1.19.26) An anti-ICE mob in Minneapolis stormed into regular church services yesterday to protest ICE actions.  The disruptors accused the pastor of secretly leading federal immigration enforcement in the state. The mob cited no law that would make that illegal. However, 18 U.S. Code 247 makes it illegal to obstruct the free exercise of religious beliefs.

At the church disruption, the New York Post reported the mob yelled “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good.” Good is the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE officer after she apparently tried to run over him with her car, according to video. No charges have been filed against the ICE officer who fired the fatal shot. Reportedly, another anti-ICE attacker hit the same officer about six months ago, causing injuries. The feds say this time the officer suffered internal bleeding and was released from the hospital the same day.

At the disruption, former CNN host Don Lemon was reportedly filming the event for his podcast. His presence caused one person to say he was reminded of CNN on location at the home of Peter Navarro, a White House aide to former President Trump, at Navarro’s early morning arrest by Biden officials.

The sanctuary city mayor mocked the injury. He reportedly said the injured agent "walked away with a hip injury that he might as well have gotten from closing a refrigerator door with his hips. Give me a break. No, he was not ran over. He walked out of there with a hop in his step." 

A Jan. 14 ICE news release said, “The criminal illegal aliens–members of criminal gangs like MS-13, Paisas, Oriental Boys, MS-13 and more–have extensive rap sheets that include homicide, sexual assault and weapons crimes.”

Frey has lead the city in active resistance to federal actions relating to ICE law enforcement apprehensions.

Trump reportedly says “We’re coming!” to freedom fighters in Iran.

Tousi.tv is reporting Trump is on his way to help the protestors finally put an end to the repressive regime that is now killing thousands in the streets, according to observers. If Trump attacks the Iranian military structure and drives Ayatollah Ali Khamenei out of the country, if not outright killing him, via special U.S. forces, the massive population of disaffected Iranian young people will break out into a new future hopefully free of Islamic theocracy, according to activists. Moreover, Iran itself could build a foothold friendly to the west in the heart of Muslim country.

Barack Obama, in response to a Hague legal judgment, flew in $400 million in cash on pallets in the dead of night ostensibly as part of the long standing financial dispute stemming from the 1979 Iranian revolution in which 66 Americans were illegally held for 444 days under harsh conditions. They were never compensated by Iran. Shortly thereafter, Obama paid an additional $1.3 billion in interest to Iran. Obama had hoped such a payment would make Iran less antagonistic toward the west. It didn’t work.  

Even with an international court order, it is hard to believe Trump would make any payment under the circumstances. Trump has threatened to drop the hammer once and for all on the current theocratic dictator Khamenei. Commentators are saying dictatorships are learning Trump, unlike Obama and Biden in particular, has a limit on this president’s patience.

However, the problem, say Democratic critics, Trump’s actions are really not in American interests. For example, Kamala Harris, the vice presidential running mate to now Missouri Gov. Tim Walz, currently embattled over the Somalian multi-billion dollar scandal that is said to reach deep into state offices, maybe even Walz’s, announced Trump’s snatching Nicolas Maduro, a known narco oil terrorist out of Venezuela to face American justice, is illegal. 

In Africa in June, Trump went after the Islamic terrorist group Boku Horam for mass execution of Christians and in December he dropped penetration ordinance down the chutes of an Iranian nuclear construction site.

Apparently, Trump knows how and when to be the world’s policeman, especially when it comes to American interests.

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Trump Defends Christians on Christmas Day

(12.26.25) After Post-1960 Nigerian independence, ethnic and religious divides fueled violence, including 1953 Kano clashes, 1966 pogroms, Sharia implementation in the 2000s, and Boko Haram/ISIS attacks targeting Christians, causing mass deaths amid poverty and governance issues.

Therefore, Trump has recognized the need to defend Nigerian Christians after criticizing the government's inaction against jihadist violence, designating Nigeria a "Country of Particular Concern" in November 2025.

Influenced by religious freedom advocates and intelligence on ISWAP (Islamic State – West Africa Province) atrocities, he ordered targeted Christmas Day strikes as a bold message to protect persecuted minorities, aligning with his pro-Christian foreign policy.

Critics claim Trump's actions create risks to civilians, sovereignty breaches, and ignore root causes. Trump countered that the strikes were precise, Nigerian-approved operations eliminating terrorists who perpetrate genocide-like attacks on Christians. He argued delays enable more deaths, framing the action as essential humanitarian defense that prioritizes security over endless diplomacy.

Trump's Nigeria success may inspire defenses of Christians elsewhere, per his religious freedom orders. Likely targets include ISIS remnants in Syria/Iraq, church crackdowns in China/North Korea, or insurgencies in Mozambique/Sahel, contingent on intel, partnerships, and balanced military-diplomatic strategies to avoid overreach.

Official government photographs of the bombing itself have not been released publicly to maintain operational security. However, here are links to official statements and related official images/graphics from U.S. government sources:

• U.S. Africa Command Press Release on the Strike: https://www.africom.mil/pressrelease/36158/us-africa-command-conducts-strike-against-isis-in-nigeria
• White House X Post with Official Graphic of President Trump's Statement: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2004347074595234163 (includes image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G9DedVLXAAAdVUD.jpg)
• AFRICOM Media Room (for potential gallery updates): https://www.africom.mil/media-room

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Business

-Memphis International Airport announced a record 11 new flights added in 2025, with details on destinations highlighted as a top story (The Commercial Appeal).

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Trump's Safety Task Force Yields Results

firearms offenses, assaults, robberies, homicides, and organized crime.

Homicide-related— Around 15 homicide suspects arrested (earlier reports cited 10–23warrants for homicide).

Firearms-related— Approximately 227–300 arrests involving illegal guns or firearms offenses.

Narcotics/drug-related— Around 301 arrests specifically for narcotics (plus broader drug trafficking ties via gangs).

Violent crime warrants (from earlier November data, likely higher now) —Includes 136 for aggravated assault, 153 for domestic violence, 31 for robbery, and 15 for sexual assault.

The task force emphasizes targeting repeat violent offenders and gangs to reduce serious crime (with reported drops in murders, assaults, etc.), but independent analyses show boosts in traffic and drug charges too.

The best Trump’s critics can do is say the benefits of a safer community are not going to be permanent (while the Commercial Appeal bewails allegedly unfair ICE pick ups.) The media that actually reports Trump’s actions in Memphis without painting it as otherwise failing is to be applauded. Such reporting is reflective of the Memphis market demographics of Democratic viewers and readership. Memphis is a black, Democratic town and seldom do the media forget who’s consuming them.

Numbers above are fluid as operations continue. Sources include U.S. Marshals Service press releases and local news reports.

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Attacks Raise Renewed Alarms Surrounding Illegal Immigration

Recent mass killings and attacks raise questions regarding the ultimate outcome of allowing unassimilated populations to settle in western democracies.

An April 2025 page in the DHS site reported: "In Fiscal Year 2024, the Biden Administration made just 113,000 administrative arrests. From January 20 to April 1 of 2021, the last administration released over 184,000 illegal aliens into the country." Democratic policies allowed, even actively encouraged, illegal immigrants to cross the border unvetted. Homeland Security reports on their website that the agency had 11 million "border encounters" under the Biden administration. However, there is no accurate number as to how many illegal aliens got into the country under Biden.

Now people are thinking about the actual harm Biden did to the country with his open border policies. Internationally, unfettered open borders to illegal aliens unwilling to adopt cultural standards of their adopted country abound. Not so oddly, they are flocking to western countries with constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.

Muslims attacked Jews Dec. 14 killing 15 to 16 people of various ages and wounding 40+ others in a Sidney Hanukkah event. Austrian authorities classified the attack as terrorist with an anti-Semitic motive. 2021 Australian Census shows about 604,000 people identify as Muslim.

The Brown University shooting, where 2 people were killed and 12 wounded, has not been confirmed as of yet as political or religiously motivated. Though commentators say it appears one of the victims was a young woman who may have been targeted because she ran a Republican campus organization.

In Savannah, Georgia, Dec 10, an unknown man threw acid on the face of a 46 year old woman walking in a park after attending a church Christmas program. Though no evidence indicates political or religious motivation, commentators bring up this is a method used against people in South Asia, Middle East and Africa. Rare in U.S., UK and Australia

Communities are far safer under Trump. Illegal crossings are down 99.99% according to the DHS site. This saves even blue cities like Memphis, budgets in providing services and police protection. Add to that generally, Trump's safety task force is driving illegal aliens from the city, thus increasing safety and saving tax payer money.

Local News Roundup-12.23.2025
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Two Memphis River Parks Partnership employees were robbed at gunpoint early Monday while in their work truck downtown—the robber even creepily said he'd been "watching" them.

Do You Know Who Tina Peters Is? Why Did Trump Pardon Her? MAGA calls her a “political prisoner.”

(12.15.25) Tina Peters was a Mesa County, Colorado official responsible for administering local elections. She said she became concerned about voting machine results after the 2020 election about which she said she noticed irregularities and unexplained changes in the county’s election system records following a ‘trusted build,’ a software update required by the state.

Not that there weren’t plenty of ‘irregularities and unexplained changes’ during that election where Trump defied the massive smearing by legacy corporate media and local Democratic politicians such as the allegations of Russian collusion and an assortment of other forms of criminal crookedness coming from, for example, Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis. None of his allegations ever played out but media loved it. Cohen today stays off the anti-Trump Democratic bandwagon.

Election fraud and the Democratic mania to ‘get Trump’ during his first administration motivated a few players in blue states to fight for electoral integrity. In the case of Tina Peters fighting for election integrity, the Democratic blowback was legally devastating.

Today she is behind bars in Colorado, held in solitary confinement reportedly for her own protection. According to her attorney John Case, medical care is slow to come for Peters, a Gold Star Mom in her 70’s who has a cough and is a survivor of lung cancer. She has no previous criminal history. To date, Colorado has refused to transfer Peters to another prison where she can receive medical care, according to her attorney speaking on Steve Bannon’s War Room show. Supporters say this is much like the cases of the Jan. 06 convictions who had been over-charged and over-sentenced on political considerations.

Trump granted a “full pardon” to Peters December 11, citing that she was working to check fraud in a federal election and therefore is eligible for presidential pardons. The state of Colorado contends Trump’s pardon does not apply because Peters was convicted under state law. Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution gives the president power to grant: “Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United State.”

Her case: according to Peters she believed that system and configuration files on integrity challenged Dominion voting machines changed after the trusted build in early 2021. She declared these changes made it impossible to tell if election records were being overwritten or altered. Therefore, as Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, the official in charge of overseeing elections, she allowed unauthorized access of a technician to copy sensitive data for possible use to support her stated purpose to preserve election system data before the mandated software update following the 2020 election.

Peters was indicted in March 2022 for crimes related to allowing unauthorized access to county equipment and records. Significantly, she was not indicted on altering votes. The case centered on security protocol violations and misuse of authority. That distinction—process violations vs outcome manipulation—is central to why her supporters argue the prosecution was politically motivated.

In March 2023 Peters had a misdemeanor conviction for not turning over an Ipad to government investigators over a recording of a court hearing. She was sentenced to four months home detention and a fine.

A hearing is scheduled on her case in January.

More:

Tina Peters

John Case on War Room

12.10.25 Here's what you should know.

U.S. Forces Seize Sanctioned Oil Tanker in Coordinated Maritime Operation

Boarding teams secure vessel off Venezuela as part of ongoing efforts to enforce international sanctions and disrupt unauthorized oil shipments.

U.S. forces conducted a coordinated maritime operation today to seize a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to federal officials. The action is part of an ongoing effort to enforce international sanctions and disrupt unauthorized oil shipments linked to restricted entities. Government-released footage shows helicopters approaching the vessel and boarding teams securing the ship in a controlled, orderly manner. Officials described the mission as a routine but significant enforcement step demonstrating the continued readiness of U.S. forces to carry out complex maritime security operations.

President Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy continues to fuel key parts of the U.S. economy and middle-class livelihoods.

Proponents argue that the renewed focus on trade renegotiations and targeted tariffs has helped revive sectors weakened in previous years by incentivizing domestic production and reshoring supply chains. By pressuring foreign competitors and creating a more favorable environment for U.S. manufacturers, these policies are credited with stimulating investment, boosting output, and helping drive a broader economic rebound following the disruptions and inflationary pressures of the Biden era.

Yes, some recent small-business confidence indexes show a sharp drop as owners cite rising costs tied to tariffs and inflation, with many raising prices or struggling to stay profitable. Additionally, U.S. farmers — a substantial slice of the middle class in rural areas — have voiced that a newly announced $12 billion aid package falls well short of covering losses from trade disruptions and export challenges, especially with China, illustrating how tariff fallout is reverberating through agriculture. Critics argue these trade policies are increasing everyday expenses on goods and squeezing job growth in manufacturing and retail sectors, pushing living costs higher for average Americans.

The President, whom we have styled as America's modern CEO, has only been at work for less than a year. We say: keep the Democrats at bay so American can grow and heal from the disastrous Biden era.

Healthcare and tax/social policy debates affecting family budgets

On the legislative front, Trump has backed new measures aimed at providing direct payments (e.g., $1,000–$1,500 health-care checks) for certain Americans enrolled in high-deductible health plans, an attempt to ease healthcare costs for middle-income households. However, broader changes like proposals to scrap the Biden-era SAVE student-loan repayment plan could increase financial burdens on borrowers — many of whom are middle-class adults struggling with debt. Meanwhile, moves to weaken vehicle fuel-economy standards are controversial: the administration suggests this will lower car prices, but analysts dispute this, warning that lifetime fuel costs could rise. These policy shifts reflect mixed signals on affordability and cost-of-living relief for middle-income families. New York Post+2The Guardian+2

Our assessment at this time: anything is better than the Obama giveaway to the insurance companies. Trump is dealing with affordability. We think Biden never did.

Healthcare and tax/social policy debates affecting family budgets

Amid persistent inflation and everyday price increases, Trump has publicly defended his economic record. And he'd better: his policies have only been in effect for less than a year and already we see lower gasoline prices and a backoff from Biden era inflation. At recent rallies, he’s acknowledged that consumer prices are “too high.” He's working on it, thought polling and reports indicate dissatisfaction among middle-class voters who feel affordability hasn’t improved as promised--despite falling taxes and inflation.

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