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Ex-Trump Advisor John Bolton Pleads Guilty to Mishandling Classified Documents

Former National Security Advisor (NSA) John Bolton on Friday pleaded guilty in federal court to mishandling classified documents.

Bolton, a prominent foe of ​U.S. President Donald Trump, was indicted on 18 counts related to improper handling of classified material and initially pleaded not guilty.

He appeared in Greenbelt, Maryland, before Judge Theodore D. Chuang, an appointee of then-President Barack Obama.

The 77-year-old  admitted to a single charge of illegal retention of classified information. The documents he retained included diary entries containing national defence information, some of it classified at the top secret level.

As part of the agreement, Bolton agreed to pay a $2.25 million fine.

Reuters reports Bolton must make half that payment ​within five days of sentencing and the full payment ​within 90 days of sentencing.

Bolton could face up to five years behind bars, though the plea deal may help him avoid time in prison.

After the judge read the allegations against Bolton in court on Friday, including about sending diary entries with sensitive information to his family members, Bolton said the accusations were accurate, CBS News reported.

“I did your honor,” Bolton confessed when asked about whether he committed the actions at hand today. He added he was “sorry for it.”

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Exhausted Troops, Supply Routes Under Constant Fire: French Reporters from Le Monde, on the Ground in Slavyansk-Kramatorsk, Experience the Ukrainian Collapse in the Donbas

In the last Ukrainian bastion in the Donetsk region, the ‘amazing’ victories on the MSM are nowhere to be found.

While there’s no denying that the recent Ukrainian drone and missile strikes are taking a toll on the Russian war effort, especially in the Crimean peninsula, the most salient feature of the war on the ground is going mostly unreported.

The siege on Konstantinovka is about to bear fruit for the conquering Russian forces.

Meanwhile, the two last Ukrainian-controlled strongholds in Donetsk are already under major stress, as Slavyansk and Kramatorsk are under heavy drone strikes, with civilians and soldiers fearing the bombings ‘will intensify’.

French newspaper Le Monde reported from the ground:

“Of all the roads leading to Sloviansk, only one remains relatively safe from Russian drones: The one that runs from Barvinkove, a west-east route lined with sad, dusty villages. Just like several other areas near the front lines, the road is covered with nets stretched between poles, forming an endless tunnel that ripples in the wind. The nets are designed to intercept explosive-laden Russian drones that dive onto vehicles, and the makeshift defenses they form have become one of the most visible symbols of how the war between Kiev and Moscow has changed.”

All the other routes are heavily targeted by enemy artillery and drones.

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DHS Lawyers Praise SCOTUS Rulings as ‘Victories for the Rule of Law, Common Sense’

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are praising decisions issued by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on Thursday, all of which make it easier to enforce federal immigration law.

As Breitbart News reported, SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, clarifying that a migrant who has not physically set foot into the U.S. is not entitled to apply for asylum and does not have to be inspected by an immigration officer.

Similarly, SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in Mullin v. Doe that President Donald Trump’s administration can end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians living in the U.S. — making them deportable.

And, in a third case, SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in Blanche v. Muk Choi Lau, which will make it easier for DHS officials to deport green card-holders who have been convicted of crimes in the U.S.

DHS General Counsel James Percival said the rulings reinforce that the nation’s borders are critical to its sovereignty.

“These three rulings are all victories for the rule of law and common sense,” Percival said:

This includes barring aliens from applying for asylum if they haven’t set foot in the United States, making it easier to remove lawful permanent residents who commit a crime, and reaffirming that TPS was always supposed to be temporary and can be cancelled at the appropriate time. Thanks to these decisions, we now have several more important tools to continue securing our borders. [Emphasis added]

Meanwhile, Democrats have panicked over the rulings. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, for instance, claimed SCOTUS is “enabling the Trump administration’s worst anti-immigrant policies, and in the process dealing our communities and our economy an undue blow.”

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Newsom urges a national ‘billionaires’ tax’ while fighting one in California

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who is considering a run for president as he approaches the end of his term, called for a national “billionaires’ tax” on Friday even as he fights another proposal targeting the wealthy in his home state.

Newsom also said the U.S. government should own a stake in artificial intelligence companies. His proposals, outlined in a Substack post, aligns him with the Democratic Party’s populist left, and he argued that urgent changes are needed to prevent the elite concentration of wealth and power from undermining democracy.

“It’s time for an economic reset for America,” Newsom wrote.

The governor announced his agenda a day after an influential health care union in California pledged to go forward with a ballot measure that would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of billionaires living in the state as of Jan. 1, 2026.

Newsom opposes that measure, as do many of the liberal interest groups that typically favor higher taxes. They fear it would drive billionaires out of California, eroding the state’s tax base over the long term for a one-time influx of cash. A technology mecca, California has more billionaires than any other state — a few hundred, by some estimates.

“You may not be able to pick up and move to Texas or Florida to shelter your income from taxation, but I promise you that billionaires can, and do,” Newsom wrote. “Wealth is movable, and it shops for the state with the lowest taxes. The fight belongs at the federal level, where this broken system was created in the first place.”

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Pete Buttigieg Says He Was Swatted and Separated From Children by Child Protective Services After Being Accused of “Unspeakable Violent Crimes”

Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg claims he was swatted this week by Child Protective Service agents and separated from his four-year-old twins. 

Buttigieg ran to Substack to write a column about the incident.

“Someone decided to hurt our family this week. I’m furious, and I want to share what happened,” he began the posting.

Buttigieg wrote:

You’ve probably heard of “swatting.” It’s a cruel and dangerous kind of hoax that has started happening more frequently in recent years. Someone anonymously calls 911 with a false report of imminent danger, such as a hostage situation, at the home of a public figure. Law enforcement swarms the house, guns drawn, terrifying the unsuspecting homeowner and family and sometimes even leading to deaths or injuries in the confusion. It’s happened to dozens of lawmakers, judges, celebrities, and others. (When I was in the Cabinet, someone attempted to do this to our home, but fortunately the hoax was quickly detected.) It’s become enough of a problem that the FBI now has a dedicated database to track such incidents.

Now imagine the same concept, but with Child Protective Services instead of a SWAT team. Hadn’t thought of that? Me neither, until a few days ago when a police officer and a CPS worker showed up at our home and politely asked to speak with me.

I showed them in, invited them on the deck so that we could hear each other over the barking dog, and asked what was going on. They explained that there had been an allegation against me, that it concerned our four-year-old twins, and that a forensic interview had been arranged for the children the following day. I could not be present at the children’s interview, nor could any family member sit in. Afterwards, they would come back and interview me. And only then would they tell me anything about the nature of the allegation.

Describing himself as “bewildered and troubled,” Buttigieg went on to reveal that “the CPS worker told me something that made my stomach turn: I was not to be alone around the children, at least until the interview took place the next day.”

“The twenty-four hours until they returned are among the darkest hours of my life. I tried to get my head around the idea that I had been accused of something so serious that I couldn’t be alone around my own children, and had consented to have them interviewed by strangers, without my knowing where the accusation had come from or even what it contained,” he wrote.

After a “sleepless night,” he says, the officers told him that an anonymous tipster told police that he had spoken to a woman, and she said that Buttigieg had “committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk.”

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France: Louis’ Family Authorizes Release of Migrant Lynching Footage to Refute Lying Globalist Regime Media Claims It Was Merely a “Brawl”

The family of Louis, a 17-year-old French teenager who died after a savage group lynching in Narbonne, in the south of France has authorized the release of footage of the attack to challenge globalist regime media descriptions of the killing as a mere “brawl.”

The family’s decision was made in grief, but also in defiance. Louis’ loved ones do not want his death softened by euphemisms, buried under anonymity or reduced to the sort of neutral language that has become standard in a France losing total control of public order.

Louis, as The Gateway Pundit previously reported, was attacked on the night of June 19 into June 20 in the southern city of Narbonne. He was found unconscious at a construction site with severe head and facial injuries and was later placed in an induced coma.

He died on June 23. His death has become yet another national flashpoint in a country already consumed by debate over migrant youth violence, mass immigration, failed assimilation and the collapse of state authority and public safety.

Five suspects have been arrested in connection with the killing. They have been identified in several reports by first names and initials as Isaac P., 18, Mathias T., 17, Jordan S., 16, Lucas P., 17, and Kilian T., 19.

Three of the suspects are minors. All five have reportedly been remanded in custody, and the case is expected to proceed as a murder investigation following Louis’ death.

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Governments Are Coming for Your Retirement Savings

We’ve warned more times than I care to count that governments are likely to steal from citizens’ pension funds.

Why?

Because it’s a big pool of cash just sitting there — and when the parasite class sees money within their reach, they simply can’t help themselves.

Perhaps most importantly, governments have control over most pension funds in the world.

Sure, most people think it’s their money sitting in the pension plan, but when you look at the fine print there’s a lot that you as an investor can’t do with ‘your money’.

First up. The “lucky country,” Australia.

“The Albanese government will tap private investors and Australia’s $4.5 trillion superannuation sector to push more defence spending off budget, prompting analysts to accuse Labor of using accounting tricks to help fund a $53 billion military build-up.”

Next up for a shafting are the Brits.

“Labour’s ‘feckless and dangerous’ pension reforms backed by MPs despite ‘socialists run out of money’ fears.”

Here’s the breakdown of what these parasites are looking to do.

  • IHT on pension pots (from 2027). Defined contribution pensions will be pulled into the estate for inheritance tax purposes. Previously exempt. Effective 40% tax on anything passed to heirs above the nil-rate band. Kills the pension-as-wealth-transfer strategy entirely.
  • “Productive finance” mandates. Pension funds — particularly local government schemes — are being pressured and directed to invest in UK infrastructure, housing, and ‘growth assets’. Classic regulatory capture: your retirement savings redirected to fund government priorities, not yours.
  • DB scheme surplus extraction. Defined benefit schemes sitting on surpluses — built up by employers overpaying — are being eyed for redistribution. Proposals to let companies extract surpluses more easily, taxing them en route. Members take the risk; someone else gets the upside.
  • Consolidation/megafund push. Forcing smaller pension schemes to merge into large ‘megafunds’ under government-friendly management — fewer decision makers, easier to lean on, easier to redirect capital flows.

Bottom line: a sovereign wealth fund built by stealth, taken from private savings by conscripted allocations into “public priorities,” with IHT as the kicker to ensure anything left behind gets clipped on the way out too.

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DSA Leader in NYC Explains How They Are Just Using the Democrat Party’s Infrastructure to Get Their People Elected

Gustavo Gordillo is the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America in New York City. During a recent interview with Spectrum News, he explained how the DSA is basically exploiting the Democrat Party’s infrastructure to get their people elected.

It just confirms that these people are not even Democrats. They are an anti-Israel, Marxist contingent that is merely using the Democrat party instead of building a party of their own.

Regular Democrats are so starved for wins, that they are allowing it to happen.

Transcript via Townhall:

“Our candidates run as Democrats. We’re on the Democratic Party ballot line. We contest the primaries,” said Gustavo Gordillo. “And when they’re in the legislature, they’re part of the Democratic Party caucus.”

“But we don’t agree with the way the Democratic Party establishment organizes or runs its party apparatus, so we try to build independence by focusing on volunteer-led movement,” Gordillo continued, “we think that everyone should be able to be trained and to become someone who can participate in the political process and we don’t really think that the Democratic Party campaigns and the establishment are run that way. And we think, you know, you really see that difference in the races we are having tonight.”

“And I think in terms of the agenda, there’s a problem in the Democratic Party where they’re funded by billionaire donors and at the same time they’re trying to represent the working class. In our opinion, you have to choose between the billionaire class and the working class. It’s just impossible to satisfy all of them,” Gordillo said.

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Activist facing prison for exposing drag event for children

French activist Yohan Pawer says he is facing possible prison time and a 45,000 € fine after denouncing what he describes as the sexualization of children at a drag-themed event in Nice, France.

Pawer, founder of the Eros collective, says his activism began in 2024 after he “infiltrated a drag queens club” where, according to him, “drag queens [were] reading stories to five-year-old children in schools.”

“I did a hidden camera,” he said. “And at the time it made a huge buzz in France.”

Pawer says the backlash also exposed a political reality many refuse to admit: “Many people think that homosexuality, when you are homosexual, you are on the left. No, there are also homosexuals on the right.”

That experience led him to create Eros, a collective of homosexuals opposed to left-wing LGBT activism. “That’s where Eros was born,” he said.

Now, Pawer says he has been placed under investigation after denouncing a “drag queen picnic” allegedly promoted for children as young as five. He claims hosts used adult sexual language and that “there were stands with pornographic books” while “children [were] running right next to it.”

“Because of denouncing that, I face one year in prison and a 45,000 € fine,” he said. “It is extremely serious.”

According to Pawer, the complaint was filed by the Family Planning organization of Nice and a local LGBT group for “defamation and public insult.”

But he insists: “We have all the evidence.”

“What I denounce is that the world of children must remain the world of children,” Pawer said. “Why do adults come into the children’s world?”

He says France is being swallowed by “wokism,” adding that “the government is complicit” and “turning a blind eye.”

Pawer says he will fight the case.

“It is out of the question that I be silenced,” he said. “I will fight until the end.”

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Minister strips parental access to children’s health records

Newfoundland parents just got the memo: Once your kid turns 12, the government says you’re no longer automatically entitled to know what’s in their medical records.

A June 19 letter from NL Health Services quietly ended automatic parental access to children’s health information. From age 12 to 15, parents now need the child’s permission to see the records. At 16, the teenager takes full control.

Sarah James Furlong, a concerned parent, took to social media in a bid to raise awareness of the apparent government assault on parental rights. Furlong is calling on parents to contact the Minister of Health, Lela Evans, to reverse the decision.

“I respect children’s rights and understand the importance of privacy,” Furlong said in a Facebook post. “However, I believe parents have a fundamental responsibility to protect, support, and advocate for their children—and that responsibility doesn’t end when a child turns 12.”

The move fits a pattern. Newfoundland and Labrador already lets students in Grade 7 and up change their names and pronouns at school without parental consent. Now the same province is extending that logic into medical records.

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