Daily Dispatch - 11 February 2025

I need a nap

TOP STORIES

1. Judge Rules That Trump Administration Defied Order to Unfreeze Billions in Federal Grants - The New York Times

2. Top Justice Department official orders prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams | AP News

3. Trump announces 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports

4. Trump says ceasefire deal should be canceled if Hamas doesn’t release all hostages by Saturday | AP News

5. Defense Secretary Hegseth restores Fort Bragg name

POLITICS

1. Your Brain on Trump: D.C. Psychologist Sees Uptick in Democrat Patients

2. Judge: Trump admin defying order to release federal funds - WHYY

3. Trump DOJ Orders Prosecutors to Drop Charges Against Adams

4. What the judicial branch can do when a president refuses to comply with a court order : NPR

5. Trump’s proposal for Gaza entangles Arab allies

6. ‘Democracy Under Siege’: Five Former Treasury Secretaries Freak Out As Musk’s DOGE Set to Audit Agency

7. Exclusive | ICE makes staggering 11K illegal migrant arrests in just 18 days -- forcing agency to take over four federal prisons

8. Isaiah L. Carter on X: "Of course he is, because @RepKweisiMfume is COMPROMISED, to the tune of $367,116,273.00. That's the amount of money that went to Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, Inc., a nonprofit headed by Krishanti O'Mara Vignarajah, the sister of Thiru Vignarajah, former Deputy https://t.co/Ck0qQ0WhiQ" / X

9. (16) DataRepublican (small r) on X: "🧵THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They Believe They Are “Democracy” The seven NGOs in the chart below, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State. Around 2019, the phrase “democracy in https://t.co/eG3mI1lOuQ" / X

10. (16) Rothmus 🏴 on X: "Read Thomas Sowell. https://t.co/druQjzk6oU" / X

11. (16) Jeff Carlson on X: "According to the State Department, approximately 1.5 million NGOs are operating in the United States. You read that right. More than 1.5 million NGOs in the US alone. All of them feeding directly or indirectly off your taxpayer dollars. https://t.co/EeAyynHg1u" / X

12. MAGA PATRIOT TGM (TERI) on X: "Chuck Schumer’s Whistleblower Reporting System seems to have backfired. Conservatives are actively reporting Democrat crimes. The system has crashed. Makes me smile. https://t.co/fqZjld8xOr" / X

13. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Launches 'Rapid Response Task Force' to Stop Trump's Popular Agenda - www.conservativeroof.com

14. Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother, reveals Somali community leader | Daily Mail Online

15. FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order

16. Lisa Murkowski and Bill Cassidy indicate they vote to confirm Tulsi Gabbard | Fox News

17. Mexico demands investigation into U.S. military-grade weapons being used by drug cartels | PBS News

18. Trump signs executive order targeting South Africa over land law

19. (13) zerohedge on X: "Biden's legacy: 2024 jobs numbers revised by ~600K lower https://t.co/A9UStUzkm2" / X

EUROPE

1. Why more young men in Germany are turning to the far-right

2. French Far-Left Leader Mélenchon Openly Calls For Great Replacement in Shock Speech

3. UK Sport to Deploy AI for Monitoring and Censorship of Online Speech Targeting Olympians

4. P(16) Insurrection Barbie on X: "A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Church World Service, HIAS, and Lutheran Community Services against the Trump administration to challenge the suspension of refugee admissions and the cutting off of aide money for refugees. Every single single one of these organizations" / X edophile Who Killed Young Girl May Have His Sentence Reduced Due To German Government's Decision To Lower Penalties For Child Pornography Possession - Reduxx

ISRAEL

1. Hamas tells Trump 'threats have no value,' as Israeli far right praises US ultimatum | The Times of Israel

2. Why is the Lebanon-Syria border tense and is Hezbollah involved?

OTHER

1. Breaking Energy Bombshell: New Energy Secretary Chris Wright Gives Glowing Endorsement Of Nuclear Energy And Building More Radioactive Plants Across The Country

2. DataRepublican (small r) on X: "Fun fact: The Rockefeller Foundation (EIN 131659629) is led by Rajeev J. Shah, who previously served as the administrator of USAID under Barack Obama. While the foundation does not appear in my dataset due to insufficient contribution records, a closely related Donor-Advised https://t.co/Ln2ulqjHvU" / X

JACOB ENGELS

How Obama and McConnell Bipartisanly Screwed the Farmers of Illinois and Kentucky | The Gateway Pundit | by Jacob Engels