Rubio takes on Dual Role with the Government

Trump makes Rubio's national security adviser role permanent, formalizing historic dual appointment

President Trump signed a commission permanently installing Marco Rubio as national security adviser while Rubio keeps his post as Secretary of State, making him only the second person in American history to hold both jobs at once.

A White House official confirmed the signing, which The Hill reported on Monday. Rubio had been serving in the national security adviser role on an acting basis since May 2025, when Trump tapped him to replace Mike Waltz.

President Donald Trump replaced Mike Waltz as National Security Adviser in May 2025 following a high-profile messaging scandal, political pressure from conservative activists, and internal West Wing friction, as reported by outlets like the BBC. Trump subsequently nominated Waltz to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the interim national security adviser.

The formal commission ends more than sixteen months of interim status and cements a consolidation of foreign-policy authority that has no modern precedent outside the Nixon era.

The last person to serve simultaneously as Secretary of State and national security adviser was Henry Kissinger, who held both titles from 1973 to 1975 under President Nixon. Rubio now joins that short list of one.

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JENNINGS: “It was a momentous thing.”

Scott Jennings Makes CNN Face the Greenland Deal They Said Would Never Happen

Scott Jennings, CNN’s lone conservative voice, turned an on-air discussion of President Trump’s new Greenland Deal into a victory lap. The other panelists were left to listen as Jennings revisited months of criticism aimed at Trump’s Greenland vision.

For months, critics on the left had claimed that Trump was undermining American foreign policy and putting the relationship with Denmark at risk. They also argued that his approach was weakening Europe and NATO. Jennings used the segment to remind the panel of those warnings—and to compare them with what he said actually happened.

Jennings pointed to remarks from Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. The source account described those remarks as strongly pro-American and pro-Trump. According to the transcript published via Overton News, Frederiksen heaped praise on both Trump and the United States.

That collided with earlier predictions that an agreement involving the United States and Greenland would never happen. Jennings placed those predictions beside the outcome he was describing: a deal that got done despite the uproar, followed by a speech he said could not have been more supportive of Trump and American interests.

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American technology companies moved to Florida

Two of California's important tech companies moved to Florida

California lost 100,397 tax filers and $11.9 billion in adjusted gross income. New York lost 71,987 filers. Florida gained 55,359 filers and $20.6 billion in income which is more than any other state in the union. The current is unmistakable. ServiceNow and D-Wave just followed it to the Palm Beaches.

In the past year, two of California's most important technology companies both shifted their futures to the same Florida county. One a Fortune 500 AI leader, the other the world's only dual-platform quantum computing pioneer. They are not outliers. They are the clearest signal yet of a structural reordering of the American technology economy.

ServiceNow, the Santa Clara-based Fortune 500 AI platform with nearly $11 billion in revenue and more than 27,000 employees worldwide, committed to a 200,000-square-foot regional innovation hub at 10 CityPlace in downtown West Palm Beach.

The expansion will generate over 850 jobs in five years at an average salary of $170,000, with projected regional economic impact above $1.8 billion. CEO Bill McDermott didn't hedge: "The AI innovation economy has a new epicenter in West Palm Beach, Florida." Inside the hub, ServiceNow is also building an AI Institute and a startup accelerator — engineered to seed the next generation of enterprise technology companies in the region.

Months later, D-Wave Quantum Inc., the world's only dual-platform quantum computing company — announced it would relocate its global headquarters from Palo Alto to Boca Raton, establishing its primary U.S. R&D facility at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus.

D-Wave simultaneously signed a $20 million agreement with Florida Atlantic University to install an Advantage2 quantum computer on campus, making FAU the first Florida university to host a dedicated quantum system. State and city performance-based incentives exceeded $5 million. More than 100 high-paying technology and research positions are expected on the ground by year's end.

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Seattle is paying to manage crime it refuses to stop

Seattle mayor spends $1.7 million on grocery store security instead of enforcing the law

It's easier to ignore the problem than to fix it

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is funneling $1.7 million in taxpayer money to hire security guards and patch up grocery stores battered by retail theft, a plan critics say treats the symptom while ignoring the disease of rampant crime.

Wilson announced the city-funded grocery-support initiative earlier this week as part of Seattle's 2026 budget. The plan targets 10 independent grocery stores, offering one-time funding for security upgrades and repairs along with a full year of business support. The city will also partner with the Independent Grocers Alliance to study eight neighborhoods as potential sites for new grocery stores.

The mayor framed the spending as a lifeline for neighborhoods losing access to affordable food. In a social media post, Wilson said that "keeping our neighborhood grocery stores safe and supported is essential to making sure every Seattleite has a reliable, affordable grocery store near them."

But the announcement landed in a city where larceny-theft is the most commonly reported crime in every police precinct, and where the police force has been gutted over the past five years. Wilson announced that she had hired 66 new police officers.

Critics say the city is paying to manage crime it refuses to stop.

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Defying a little man with a little gavel would do the nation good.

Late-night ruling has turned the White House press dispute into an argument over whether presidents must obey judges. Don Surber reports that Judge Timothy Kelly temporarily ordered restoration of CNN, MS NOW and Politico’s credentials, finding likely due-process violations.

Surber's proposed response: ignore him. But the hour of a ruling does not determine its authority, and temporary relief is not a final merits judgment. The Supreme Court’s general rule requires compliance with orders issued by courts possessing jurisdiction until those orders are reversed through proper proceedings.

Will Trump use White House press access to make his stand against what many regard as a runaway judiciary?

Ignore the judge. Is Donald Trump the president or are the district judges in DC running the country?[Don Surber]

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A deliberate assault by the Biden-Harris DOJ and Special Counsel Jack Smith

House Judiciary report accuses Biden-era DOJ of spying on GOP lawmakers during Jack Smith's Trump investigations

The House Judiciary Committee released an interim report Wednesday alleging the Biden-Harris Justice Department secretly obtained phone records and text messages from dozens of Republican members of Congress during Special Counsel Jack Smith's twin probes of Donald Trump, a move the committee says violated core constitutional protections.

The report, the product of a multi-year congressional investigation into Smith's tenure, concludes that the FBI and Smith's team used grand jury subpoenas to sweep up toll records from at least 17 GOP lawmakers and text messages from as many as 44, all without notifying the affected members or giving them a chance to challenge the collection in court.

Among those whose records were gathered: former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan himself.

The committee's central charge is that Smith's operation trampled the Speech or Debate Clause, the provision in Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution that shields members of Congress from executive-branch interference in their official duties.

That clause exists for a reason older than the republic itself, to prevent a president or his prosecutors from using law-enforcement power to rifle through a legislator's work product and private communications.

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The Ban of some news networks from the White House Press Pool

Why CNN, MS NOW, and Politico Deserved to be Banned From the White House

CNN spent years telling America that Donald Trump was a threat to democracy. Trump just threw CNN, MS NOW, and Politico out of the White House for lying to his face.

Trump didn't mince words in his Truth Social announcement Friday. "I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico," Trump wrote, adding more bans were coming.

He also called out Politico specifically – the outlet that received an $8 million government subscription deal under Joe Biden. Eight million of your taxpayer dollars kept Politico on life support during the Biden years. Now they're suing the man who cut off their government welfare check.

Reporters from CNN and MS NOW went live Saturday to report their press badges had been deactivated when they arrived for work. Politico's White House reporter had her badge physically confiscated. The three outlets filed a joint statement calling the ban "viewpoint discrimination" that violates the First Amendment.

Here's what they left out of that statement: the Supreme Court already settled this question sixty years ago...a 1965 Supreme Court ruling that draws a hard line between the right to publish and the right to walk into any government building you want. Those are two different rights – and the First Amendment only protects one of them.

A federal appeals court sided with the White House – ruling the president has broader discretion over which journalists enter restricted spaces like the Oval Office and Air Force One.

That case is still technically pending, but the appellate ruling is already on the books. CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are walking into court to fight a legal battle where Trump's lawyers will hand the judge a ruling that already went his way.

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Austin City Council will fund Defense for Illegal aliens

Austin City Council Uses Consent Agenda to Pass $850K in Taxpayer Funding for Illegal Alien Deportation Defense

On Consent Agenda so no discussion or debate

There was a time when “sanctuary city” was the most offensive label a municipality could earn. Those days are long gone.

Across America, a growing number of blue-city governments have graduated from passive non-cooperation with federal immigration enforcement to something far more aggressive: organized, taxpayer-funded legal warfare designed to keep illegal aliens planted firmly on American soil. Forget symbolic gestures and sternly worded press releases.

Your money is now being wired directly to attorneys whose entire job is to defeat your own country’s laws.

So what happens when a city government decides its allegiance belongs not to the citizens paying the bills, nor to the Constitution its officials swore to defend, but to foreign nationals whom a federal judge has already ordered removed?

One Texas city just answered that question – and they went to remarkable lengths to make sure nobody noticed.

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Austin is home to the University of Texas widely recognized as the most liberal major city in Texas, and often described as a progressive "blueberry in the tomato soup" of a predominantly conservative state.

Lake Worth Beach man takes Plea Deal in Shooting Death

Delray Beach: Beach murder suspect accepts plea deal, doesn’t admit guilt

Facing a possible life sentence, Mark David Anderson on Wednesday accepted a plea deal that will allow him to be freed in two years in connection with the 2023 shooting death of a popular Delray Beach computer tech at a beachside condominium.

Anderson didn’t admit guilt in connection with the gunshot slaying of 58-year-old Albert Camentz during an alcohol and drug-fueled get-together at Berkshire by the Sea, 126 N. Ocean Boulevard in Delray Beach, about a block north of Atlantic Avenue.Instead, the 48-year-old Lake Worth Beach man took what is called a “best interest” plea.

That means he didn’t admit guilt but agreed to be punished, acknowledging that he could have been found guilty of second-degree murder at a trial that was to begin Monday.

The plea deal ends the bizarre case that was compromised when one of the two witnesses — Jack Feinberg — fatally shot himself last summer.

Posted by The Coastal Star By Jane Musgrave

Principles First; Truth Always --The Prickly Pear

If the midterm argument is really about your wallet, the numbers aren't close

• 19.2% vs. 7.8%. Cumulative inflation: Biden versus Trump.
• 41% higher. Avg. gas prices under Biden versus Trump. Peaked at $5.01 per gallon.
• $1,200 to $2,000. What the typical household loses every year if the Trump tax cuts were allowed to expire.
• 12%: How much stock market growth under Biden lagged behind Trump’s first term.
• Net total energy exporter: Under Trump, the United States reached this status for the first time in 67 years.

You pulled up to the pump this week and watched the number climb past where it should be. A tariff fight with Canada reads more like a family feud than foreign policy. The Oval Office has gone gold, and somebody decided the Kennedy Center needed a facelift. You are allowed to be annoyed.

But do not confuse annoyance with danger. Gold trim is temporary. A worldview is not.

Every election comes down to one question: the vision, not the man. Which side is more likely to advance my prosperity and my security? That is the whole ballot. Everything else is window dressing.

It's not just what their leaders say out loud. It is that their voters actually believe it.

Written by:  Editors of The Prickly Pear

Creeps arrested on Human Trafficking

Man arrested on human trafficking charges of disabled person; police seek more victims

The Boca Raton Police Department is asking potential victims to come forward following the arrest of a man in connection with an ongoing human trafficking investigation. Maximiliano Buitrago, 51, was arrested along with Charlie Pardieck, 51, on Sept. 16, 2026, with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Boynton Beach Police Department. 

The investigation began when Boynton Beach Police shared information with Boca Raton authorities about the possible trafficking of an intellectually disabled adult victim in Boca Raton in July 2025.

According to police, Pardieck, who is related to the female victim, was paid to transport the victim to a studio on North Federal Highway in Boca Raton. There, Buitrago allegedly photographed the victim’s feet, legs and hands, telling Pardieck the images would be sold to third parties for sexual gratification.

This is not Buitrago’s first arrest on human trafficking charges. Boynton Beach Police arrested him in July 2026 on charges involving a minor when investigators said Buitrago posted advertisements near a middle school offering payment for photos of feet and modeling sessions.

Detectives believe there may be additional victims who have not yet come forward. Anyone with information about this ongoing investigation is encouraged to contact Detective Davis at (561) 620-6167.

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Going after fauci--

Peter Navarro’s book, Why Fauci MUST Rot in Prison, puts his pandemic-era disputes with Anthony Fauci at the center of a proposed prosecution.

Speaking with publisher Tony Lyons at MAHA Action, Navarro describes records he says reveal contradictions between Fauci’s private deliberations and public statements.

Fauci’s diary shows that while he was pushing universal vaccination onto the American people, he was privately expressing doubts.

He also revisits their disagreements inside the Trump administration and outlines his interest in pursuing cases through state courts. The presentation combines Navarro’s firsthand account of those policy battles with accusations he develops in the book. His central contention is that scrutiny of pandemic decisions should extend to individual accountability.

Good Night, Patriots!

U.S. now has permanent control over Greenland Security

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a deal with the leaders of Greenland and Denmark

This will allow a larger U.S. military presence in the key Arctic territory

Trump participated in a signing ceremony on the morning of Sept. 22 alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen at the U.N. General Assembly in New York City.

“This HISTORIC deal is critical for American national security and defense in the Arctic Region,” the White House wrote in a statement on X.

During his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 22, Trump announced that the United States will build two major military bases in Greenland.

“No U.S. adversary will ever be permitted to establish a military presence in Greenland anymore, or make sensitive investments there without our express written approval,” Trump said. “We will immediately begin the process of developing a large military presence in the appropriate locations.”

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Democrat Mayor removed from office after 10 months for Malfeasance and Sexting

Stockbridge's youngest mayor removed after sexting and spending scandals

— then blamed the city for not training him

By Jayden Williams, the 23-year-old who made history as Georgia's youngest elected Black mayor, lasted less than a year in office before the Stockbridge City Council impeached him over misused city funds and sexually explicit messages with a teenage mentorship student.

Williams broke his public silence after the removal, telling WSB-TV he never expected to lose his job. He admitted the relationship with the 18-year-old male high school student was "somewhat" inappropriate but insisted he had not violated his oath of office.

He blamed city officials for failing to walk him through basic financial procedures, even as records showed thousands of dollars in personal purchases charged to a city account.

The Stockbridge City Council voted earlier this month to remove Williams on grounds of malfeasance, misfeasance, and violation of his oath of office, according to Breitbart. The city issued a terse confirmation:

"The City of Stockbridge confirms that the City Council has taken formal action concerning the Office of Mayor. The Mayor has been removed from office." Williams had taken office in January and served roughly ten months.

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Communists behind anti-ICE protests in Austin

Socialist and communist groups coordinated 'spontaneous' anti-ICE protests in Austin, investigation finds

Within hours of an ICE officer shooting a Venezuelan national in Austin, Texas, a network of socialist and communist organizations launched a synchronized social-media campaign and mobilized protesters to the scene, all while local media described the demonstrations as spontaneous.

The shooting happened around 12:56 p.m. Central Time on Sunday, September 20, when an ICE officer fired on 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez during a traffic stop near Anderson Square and Research Boulevard. Pérez was hospitalized in serious but stable condition and later placed in federal custody.

By 4:19 p.m., roughly three and a half hours later, the Party for Socialism and Liberation's national X account had posted "BREAKING. MAN SHOT BY ICE AGENTS IN AUSTIN" and "ICE OUT OF AUSTIN NOW!" The Austin PSL chapter simultaneously pushed a matching graphic on Instagram, coordinating with PSL chapters in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Waco.

A Fox News Digital investigation traced the rapid mobilization across at least three distinct far-left organizations, the PSL, the Democratic Socialists of America's Austin chapter, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

It was found that their social-media posts went live within minutes of each other, carried coordinated messaging, and funneled thousands of supporters toward the protest site before most local outlets had finished reporting the basic facts of the shooting.

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Networks banding together to punish Trump

All five White House television pool members, including Fox News, agreed to halt pooled coverage of President Trump

This occurred after the administration banned CNN, MSNBC, and Politico, a move the outlets are now challenging in federal court

The suspension landed Monday, the same day CNN was scheduled to serve as the rotating pool representative inside the White House. Instead of providing the shared camera feed that every network relies on for presidential events, the pool went dark.

Fox News Media, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and NBC News issued a joint statement announcing the stand-down, framing it as a defense of independent reporting rather than a favor to any single competitor.

The trigger was straightforward: the Trump administration revoked press credentials for journalists at CNN, MSNBC, and Politico, accusing the three outlets of publishing what the president called "fake news."

The three banned organizations responded by filing a lawsuit the same morning, invoking the First Amendment. The collision between the White House and the press corps now sits in two arenas, the courts and the briefing room, with no clear resolution in sight.

This is the first time I can remember Fox News siding against Trump, effectifvely removing him from his biggest market on cable news.

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Perhaps he will go to Newsmax as the news media has removed themselves from Trump, the major news maker in the world...cutting off your nose to spite your face.