Sunset 5-18-26

Beneath the towering marble monuments and windswept flags of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. the United States began something far larger than a mere political celebration.

America commenced the solemn observance of its 250th birthday with a national act of prayer, gratitude, remembrance, and rededication to the principles that forged this nation from wilderness into world power.

The event titled “Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise and Thanksgiving” is not simply another gathering in the capital city. It is an attempt to restore the spiritual architecture of the American experiment at a moment when the country stands battered by division, cynicism, cultural amnesia, and political warfare.

Like weary travelers returning to the church bells of a familiar hometown after wandering through a storm, thousands gathered today not merely to celebrate America’s existence, but to ask whether the soul of the nation can still be renewed. [Roger Stone]

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Resolution--Shared Sacrifice on Government Shutdowns

Senate votes unanimously to withhold members' pay during future government shutdowns

The United States Senate passed a resolution Thursday by unanimous consent to dock senators' pay during any future government shutdown, a move that came only after two record-setting funding lapses left federal workers scrambling and Americans fuming at a Congress that kept cashing its own checks.

The measure, sponsored by Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy, advanced Wednesday with a 99-0 vote before final adoption the following day. Under the resolution, senators' salaries will be held in escrow whenever a shutdown affects one or more federal agencies. The money gets released only after funding is restored.

It is a narrow fix to a broad problem. But for the first time, senators will face at least a taste of the financial disruption they have inflicted on millions of government employees through repeated failures to fund the agencies they oversee.

Kennedy, speaking on the Senate floor, did not mince words. As the Daily Mail reported, the Louisiana senator laid out the record bluntly:

"We ought to hide our heads in a bag. It's got to stop. Shutting down government, it should not be our default solution to our refusal to work out our issues and our differences."

"This is about shared sacrifice. If senators are going to vote to shut down the government and prevent millions of federal workers from getting paid, they ought to have the same skin in the game."

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It was Democrats who shut down the government twice...Last year, the majority of the federal government was shut down for 43 days. Then, just three months after that crisis ended, the Department of Homeland Security lost its funding for 76 days. Ridiculous.

Sebastian Gorka speaks out on Tucker Carlson and Right-wing extremists

Counterterrorism Official Sebastain Gorka Mentions Tucker Carlson In ‘Right-Wing Extremism’ Exchange

An ideological fracture inside Donald Trump’s political coalition intensified this past week after a senior Trump counterterrorism adviser publicly suggested that conservative commentator Tucker Carlson had become part of a broader extremism problem facing the political right.

The controversy erupted following comments from Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism on the National Security Council.

During a recent interview, Gorka referenced Tucker Carlson and far-right streamer Nick Fuentes while discussing “right-wing extremism” and domestic terrorism concerns. The remarks quickly triggered backlash across conservative media circles and fueled debate over the future direction of the MAGA movement.

The dispute comes at a sensitive moment for Trump-aligned media personalities, some of whom have openly criticized the administration’s aggressive posture toward Iran and broader foreign policy decisions. Carlson, once one of Trump’s most influential media defenders, has increasingly distanced himself from some administration positions in 2026.

“Let’s come back to right-wing extremism. Do you regard it as a threat at all?” asked Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow during an interview with Gorka on Friday. “I mean, is there any? I guess that’s the question.

Biden files lawsuit to keep tapes away from the Public

Special Counsel Robert Hur told the world Joe Biden was too mentally impaired to prosecute

Now Biden is filing lawsuits. And he just went to court to keep 70 hours of secret recordings buried before you ever hear a single word.

In 2017, Biden sat down with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer to work on his memoir Promise Me, Dad. He brought his vice-presidential notebooks. Those notebooks contained classified information – material from Situation Room briefings, the President's Daily Brief, and National Security Council meetings.

Biden read from them out loud, nearly verbatim, on at least three separate occasions. At one point, he told Zwonitzer directly: "I just found all the classified stuff downstairs."

Zwonitzer did not have a security clearance.

Hur's February 2024 report concluded Biden "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials" – then declined to prosecute. His reasoning: Biden would present himself to a jury as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

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Bill Cassidy - Not too smart

Letlow, Fleming Advance to La. Senate Runoff, Cassidy Out

You don't impeach the President and leader of your party and expect to win

Sen. Bill Cassidy was decisively defeated in Saturday’s Republican primary in Louisiana, unable to convince voters that he deserved another term five years after voting to convict President Donald Trump during an impeachment trial over the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

He finished behind U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, who capitalized on the power of Trump's endorsement as the president continues purging his party of people he views as disloyal, and John Fleming, the state treasurer. Letlow and Fleming will compete in a runoff on June 27.

Cassidy's campaign spent roughly $9.6 million on advertising through May 16, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact. And Louisiana Freedom Fund, a super PAC supporting him, was on track to spend $12.3 million.

By comparison Letlow’s campaign, which launched Jan. 20, spent roughly $3.9 million, while a super PAC backing her, the Accountability Project, spent about $6 million.

Fleming's campaign spent about $1.5 million.

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ISIS Commander killed in Nigeria

Trump Says US, Nigerian Armed Forces Kill Second-in-Command of ISIS

President Trump said the ISIS leader killed in the operation was identified as Abu-Bilal al-Minuki

President Donald Trump said on May 15 that U.S. and Nigerian armed forces had killed the second-in-command of the ISIS terrorist group globally.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said the ISIS leader killed in the operation was identified as Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, who he said was attempting to hide in Africa.

“Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield,” he wrote.

Trump said the military received information from sources about the ISIS leader’s whereabouts in Africa. He also thanked the Nigerian government for its partnership in the operation.

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Morning Clouds 5-18-26

Minnesota Whistleblower

Crime City of Lake Worth Beach

STOLEN VEHICLE
Incident #: 26061494
300 BLOCK S E ST | 5/17/2026 @ 10:55 PM
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VANDALISM
Incident #: 26061342
200 BLOCK S C ST | 5/17/2026 @ 10:32 AM
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HOMICIDE VEHICLE HOMICIDE
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Sunset 5-17-26

Fauci looked Rand Paul in the eye and swore the federal government never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan.

His own NIH deputy contradicted him three years later.

Now Tulsi Gabbard is investigating 120 U.S.-funded biolabs – and coming for the people who buried it. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has opened an investigation into more than 120 biological laboratories overseas that operated for decades on American tax dollars.

More than 40 of those labs are in Ukraine – a country the Biden administration swore had no U.S.-connected biological research facilities.

That denial aged badly.

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Lake Worth raised electric rates to cope with rising power costs

Lake Worth Beach could cut electric rate under these conditions

Chris Persaud, Palm Beach Post

A fee on Lake Worth Beach electric customers' bills, which city officials raised months ago in the face of an unexpected winter chill, is slowly bringing the city-owned utility out of a six-figure financial hole, fueling hope that the rate can be cut again.

The hike to the utility's power cost adjustment fee netted nearly $271,000 from its nearly 30,000 customers in March, the first month it was in place, a recent report shows. That's the largest amount collected in at least two years.

The utility buys fuel and energy with money it collects through the fee, and it also aims to build savings in case either of surges in energy prices or electricity demand. Lake Worth Beach is Palm Beach County's only city generating its own electricity.

City commissioners approved the increase Jan. 29, anticipating a spike in energy demand due to a giant blast of winter air. But commissioners also voted for the rate hike after data presented to them by utility director Ed Liberty showed energy purchases cost more than the power cost adjustment fee brought in.

The utility spent $1.2 million more than the fee collected during 2025. The power cost adjustment fee in 2025 rose from $24.38 per megawatt in January to $33.96 by the end of year, before reaching $40.96 in March this year. The fee mainly pays for natural gas and solar power.

While Lake Worth Beach gets less of its energy from natural gas compared to other places — about 32% during the first quarter of 2026 vs. 70% for Florida Power & Light Co. in 2025.

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Illegal from Mexico committed election fraud

Kansas Mayor’s ICE Detention Shakes Up Town

Jose “Joe” Ceballos-Armendariz, 55, turned himself in to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials at their Wichita office on Wednesday. He is now being held at the ICE-contracted Chase County Jail in Cottonwood Falls and could face deportation proceedings.

Ceballos is a Mexican national who has held a green card since 1990. He also served two terms as mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, a small conservative town in Comanche County with fewer than 700 residents. He was first elected in 2021 and then won re-election in 2025 with 83% of the vote.

The legal trouble became public the day after that re-election, when Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced felony election fraud charges. Court records show that Ceballos voted in multiple elections even though he knew he was not a U.S. citizen. Records also say he admitted during a January citizenship application that he had falsely claimed U.S. citizenship.

In April, Ceballos pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of disorderly election conduct. The plea deal brought a $2,000 fine and one year of probation, but no jail time. He has said he believed his green card allowed him to vote and that he felt “misled” by the plea agreement.

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Tracking trash in Lake Worth Lagoon

If you see this purple card floating in the water, here’s what to do

How ‘citizen scientists’ can help track trash with the latest Lake Worth Lagoon Drift Card Study.

Calling all visitors to Palm Beach County’s waterways: Be on the lookout for hundreds of floating purple cards.

If you find one, you’ve stumbled onto a research mission involving citizen scientists and a study of how debris moves through inland waterways and accumulates on the coastline.

The 15th Lake Worth Lagoon Drift Card Study kicked off May 1 when volunteers deployed 320 bright purple cards made of thin biodegradable wood at eight different sites in Palm Beach County — from Burt Reynolds Park in Jupiter to Silver Palms Park in Boca Raton.

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Big Brother Surveilled Bret Baier

Bret Baier is Furious about a $40 Ticket in Beijing and How He Got it Should Terrify Every American

The Chinese Communist Party has built the most suffocating surveillance state in human history.

Now a Fox News crew just experienced it firsthand – and the system caught them before they could even turn off the engine.

Standing outside Haidian Station on Wednesday, Baier pointed to the skyline and counted – at minimum – twenty cameras on a single street corner. Beijing has added 1,500 new cameras just this year alone.

"They see everything," Baier told viewers of Special Report. "There's nobody jaywalking here because they could get a ticket right away."

Then came the moment that made the clip go viral: Baier's own driver parked illegally for two minutes and had a $40 fine on his phone before the crew could even set up a shot.

No officer. No confrontation. No warning.

A December 2025 report from the Austrian Strategic Policy Institute estimated approximately 600 million surveillance cameras operating across China – one of the densest surveillance networks on earth.

The infrastructure runs on a platform called Skynet, which integrates AI facial recognition, real-time traffic enforcement, and a national data-sharing system that feeds law enforcement agencies around the clock. Jaywalkers are photographed and fined automatically.

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Sharia Law

Political Islam and Sharia supremacy are incompatible with the Western legal and political order

Say it plainly. America has one Constitution, one civil law, and one sovereign people. No parallel courts. No religious veto over speech. No imported honor codes. No beachheads masquerading as “community infrastructure.”

At the “Sharia-Free America” hearing, Amy Mek and other witnesses described a coordinated ideological project: schools, courts, nonprofits, taxpayer dollars, and grievance machinery used to normalize a system that does not believe in equal liberty under law.

Muslims have rights in America. Sharia does not get supremacy over the Constitution. That line must hold.

Jimmy Lai the China political prisoner

Trump says Xi told him release of Jimmy Lai ‘would be a tough one’

China systematically suppresses democratic movements both domestically and abroad

After his two-day meeting in China this week, President Donald Trump said May 15 that Chinese leader Xi Jinping responded negatively when he raised the potential release of Jimmy Lai, the Catholic, pro-democracy advocate a Hong Kong court recently sentenced to 20 years in prison.

According to Reuters, Trump told journalists aboard Air Force One during his return flight to the U.S. that Xi was “giving very serious consideration” to releasing Zion Church founder Pastor Jin Mingri but indicated Lai’s case would be “a tough one.”

“He told ⁠me that would be a tough one,” Trump said.

In an interview with FOX News Channel’s “Special Report,” the President added that Xi’s response to the request “was not positive.”

Trump said that Xi “went through a whole thing and I said, ‘Well, we'd appreciate if you would release him. He's gotten old, and he's probably not ​feeling too well. It would be nice.’ And I did not feel ​optimistic. I have to be honest with you about that one,” according to Reuters.

Wikipedia: Lai Chee-ying, also known as Jimmy Lai, is a Hong Kong businessman, politician, and political prisoner. He founded the clothing retailer Giordano, the media company Next Digital, and the newspaper Apple Daily. He is one of the main contributors to Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp, especially to the Democratic Party.

Read the bio of Jimmy Lai

Sunrise 5-17-26

The People's House - Expelling The Fraudsters

Crime City of Lake Worth Beach

DISTURBANCE
Incident #: 26061264
1400 BLOCK LUCERNE AVE | 5/16/2026 @ 11:12 PM
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SHOPLIFTING
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200 BLOCK N DIXIE HWY | 5/16/2026 @ 8:33 PM
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THEFT/LARCENY
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700 BLOCK S J ST | 5/16/2026 @ 6:57 PM
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ROBBERY PERSON
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600 BLOCK S DIXIE HWY | 5/16/2026 @ 1:15 PM
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SHOPLIFTING
Incident #: 26061119
500 BLOCK S DIXIE HWY | 5/16/2026 @ 11:15 AM
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Sunset 5-16-26

Why Gordon Chang Is Sounding the Alarm--Gordon Chang has spent his career tracking how China turns economic access into geopolitical leverage.

He didn't hedge.

"China's regime will use investments in America to subvert and destroy our country," Chang posted. "Do not allow our enemy more bases of subversion here."

He called China America's enemy. Not a competitor. Not a rival. An enemy. [Renewedright]

WTH is Trump thinking even considering a $1 trillion China investment deal in American factories?

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