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US food poverty doubles in 4 years – Axios

Food insecurity among American adults has nearly doubled since 2021, Axios reported on Sunday, citing data from Morning Consult. The striking statistic comes amid steep cuts to federal food assistance programs in the world’s largest economy, fueling concerns about the welfare of millions.

US President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” signed into law last week includes $230 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over the next decade. The legislation imposes stricter work requirements, extending mandates to individuals up to age 64 and reducing exemptions for parents.

The proportion of US adults reporting that they sometimes or often do not have enough to eat has been steadily rising in recent years, according to the survey.

In May, 15.6% of adults were classified as food insecure, nearly twice the rate recorded in 2021. At that time, expanded SNAP benefits and an enhanced Child Tax Credit had helped reduce poverty and increase access to food.

The increase in food insecurity comes as the US economy shows signs of strength and stock markets hit record highs.

John Leer, chief economist at Morning Consult, noted a problem: “There’s such a disconnect now between record highs on Wall Street and elevated levels of food insecurity.”

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Trump Admin Is Prosecuting One of the Few Doctors Who Honored his Hippocratic Oath to ‘Do No Harm’ during Covid Madness

A Utah surgeon, Dr. Kirk Moore, is facing the prospect of 35 years in federal prison for alleged criminal acts.

His crime?

The doctor destroyed thousands of vials of mRNA COVID vaccines, giving his patients vaccine cards without taking the shots, and injecting saline into children whose parents wanted them to believe they got vaccinated without risking the deadly side effects.

The 58-year-old Dr. Michael Kirk Moore Jr. operates Plastic Surgery Institute of Utah in Salt Lake County. He began his trial on Monday, July 7, at the federal courthouse in Salt Lake City.

A rally took place Monday at the courthouse steps, organized by We Are The People Utah, in support of the doctor. Among those in attendance were veterans of the health freedom movement, including vaccine safety activist Robert Scott Bell, as well as the team that produced the documentary film Died Suddenly.

Countless other prominent figures in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, including Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, joined online to stand with Dr. Moore.

According to Zero Hedge, the charges against him were filed in 2023 by the Department of Justice under Joe Biden, and have not been dropped yet by President Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has not intervened in the case, but did publicly expressed his support in April of this year, saying on his government verified X account, “Dr. Moore deserves a medal for his courage and commitment to healing.”

The charges against Dr. Moore include conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to convert, sell, convey, and dispose of government property; and conversion, sale, conveyance, and disposal of government property and aiding and abetting.

The government property being referred to is $28,000 worth of government-provided COVID-19 vaccines, also referred to by Pfizer as “government prototypes” due to their experimental, untested, and dangerous nature.

Dr. Moore is also accused of distributing at least 1,937 “fraudulently completed vaccination record cards” to his patients, none of which are testifying for or against him in court. He also allegedly administered saline shots to some of his patients’ kids, admitted by the DOJ to have been carried out with the full knowledge and consent of their parents, so their children would actually believe and act as if they were vaccinated, and not have to lie to live a normal life with their friends amidst the pandemic mandates and madness.

This is a bizarre case. And it’s quite sad that the Trump administration is continuing to prosecute it against one of the few doctors who actually honored his Hippocratic oath, to do no harm.

As of Monday, a ‘GiveSendGo’ donation campaign for him is at just under $140,000.

Zero Hedge reports that Dr. Moore was arrested when the charges were made official in 2023 under the Biden regime.

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Iran: Reward to Assassinate President Trump Rises – Jumps to $21 Million

The THAAR.IR regime-linked website in Iran is offering over $21 million to the person who assassinates President Donald Trump.

The reward size increased by several million in recent weeks.

The reward was first reported at the Iran So Far Away Substack.

The website was also includes several reasons why they are urging the assassination of the US leader.

The so-called crimes include bombing the Iranian nuclear sites, calling the regime ‘terrorists’, killing terror leader Qassem Soleimani and exiting the lousy JCPOA nuclear agreement.

An Iranian Ayatollah in June issued a fatwa calling on Muslims worldwide to assassinate President Trump.

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Pulitzer Follies: Trump lawsuit exposes uncomfortable truths about journalism’s highest award

President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board is forcing into the public eye uncomfortable revelations about how the news industry’s top prize giver handled the unraveling of Russia collusion allegations, exposing conflicts in testimony and an admission that people other than Trump complained about its 2018 awards to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their coverage of the now-discredited scandal.

While the litigation in an Okeechobee County, Florida courthouse makes its way to the Florida Supreme Court, new admissions by the intelligence community have undercut the factual basis underlying some of the stories that won the two newspapers the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting.

One of those stories was a December 2017 report by The Washington Post that accused Trump of ignoring or trying to downplay U.S. intelligence claims that Putin tried to help him win the 2016 election. “Nearly a year into his presidency, Trump continues to reject the evidence that Russia waged an assault on a pillar of American democracy and supported his run for the White House,” the Post’s award-winning story declared.

While there remains widespread consensus inside U.S. spy agencies that Russia hacked Democratic National Committee emails that embarrassed Hillary Clinton, the narrative the news stories spawned — namely, that Russia’s intent was to help Trump win the election — is disputed.

The claim that Putin was specifically trying to help Trump was included in a December 2016 Obama administration intelligence community assessment (ICA), but in fact there were concerns about that claim and the way that review was done inside the intelligence community, according to new evidence made public this month.

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Trump says Ukraine will need Patriot missiles for its defense, chides Putin

U.S. President Donald Trump said Ukraine would need Patriot missiles for its defenses, after speaking with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday, and voiced frustration over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s failure to end the fighting.

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he had a good call with Zelenskiy, repeating that he was “very unhappy” about his call with Putin a day earlier, given what he called the Russian leader’s refusal to work on a ceasefire.

Asked whether the United States would agree to supply more Patriot missiles to Ukraine, as requested by Zelenskiy, Trump said: “They’re going to need them for defense… They’re going to need something because they’re being hit pretty hard.”

Trump touted the efficacy of the Patriot missiles, calling the weapon “pretty amazing.”

Asked about the prospects for a ceasefire, Trump said, “It’s a very tough situation… I was very unhappy with my call with President Putin. He wants to go all the way, just keep killing people – it’s no good.”

Zelenskiy said he had agreed to work on increasing Kyiv’s capability to “defend the sky” as Russian attacks escalate, adding in a message on Telegram that he discussed joint defense production, as well as joint purchases and investments with the U.S. leader.

Ukraine has been asking Washington to sell it more Patriot missiles and systems that it sees as key to defending its cities from intensifying Russian air strikes.

A decision by Washington to halt some shipments of weapons to Ukraine prompted warnings by Kyiv that the move would weaken its ability to defend against Russia’s airstrikes and battlefield advances. Germany said it is in talks on buying Patriot air defense systems to bridge the gap.

A source briefed on the Trump-Zelenskiy call told Reuters they were optimistic that supplies of Patriot missiles could resume after what they called a “very good” conversation between the presidents.

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What? Trump Says He’s Working on Legislation to Protect Illegal Alien Farm and Hospitality Workers – Says People Who Don’t Support Amnesty for Illegal Farm and Hospitality Workers are “Serious Radical Right People”

President Trump stunned many of his supporters during a rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday when he revealed that legislation is being drafted to apparently grant amnesty to some illegal aliens in the agriculture and hospitality industries.

He appeared to credit his Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for the idea. “You’re the one that brought this whole situation up,” Trump said to Rollins from the stage.

“You had cases where, not here, but just even over the years, where people have worked for a farm, on a farm, for 14, 15 years, and they get thrown out pretty viciously, and we can’t do it,” the President told the crowd. “We’ve got to work with the farmers and people that have hotels and leisure properties too.”

However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, deportations of illegal aliens, even the so-called “noncriminals,” are working for American workers. After a major ICE raid at Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, Nebraska, every seat in the plant’s waiting area was filled with prospective new hires, just 48 hours after federal agents cleared out the illegals, none of whom were “violent offenders.”

It is also unclear why the President wants to allow employers to break federal law. 8 U.S.C. § 1324 “makes it unlawful for any person or other entity to hire, recruit, or refer for a fee, for employment in the United States an alien knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien.”

Criticizing those who would not support this move, he said that it’s the “serious radical right People” who won’t be “quite as happy.”

Does wanting accountability for people who are living and working in our country illegally make you “radical” now?

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Trump’s Big Brother Bill Expands the U.S. Surveillance State

On Tuesday, US Vice President J.D. Vance helped push Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act through the Senate with a tie-breaking vote. Vance’s vote came after Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina joined Democrats to vote against the bill, leading to a tie of 50 to 50.

The bill now moves to the U.S. House of Representatives, where Republicans aim to deliver the final version of the bill to Trump’s desk by July 4th.

The 900-page bill has its share of critics on the left and a few on the right, such as Rand Paul and Thomas Massie. One of the measures that was nearly universally opposed was a 10-year ban on local or state regulation of AI. Under a section titled “Moratorium,” the bill stated,”No State or political subdivision thereof may enforce, during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, any law or regulation of that State or a political subdivision thereof limiting, restricting, or otherwise regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems entered into interstate commerce.”

This clause would have prevented any state or local political body from enforcing regulations on AI systems. Ultimately, the moratorium was defeated in an all-night voting session.

While a ban on AI regulation would have been potentially disastrous, I believe the focal point of the opposition should be the fact that the bill expands the immigration police state, and the use of Artificial Intelligence, facial recognition, and biometric data collection of Americans.

According to Biometric Update, the bill would “codify a vision of the national security state where biometric surveillance, AI, and immigration enforcement converge at unprecedented scale.”

So what does the bill actually contain?

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, also known as House Resolution 1, gives more than $175 billion in immigration funding for 2025 alone. While opponents of illegal immigration may cheer this funding, we should take note that $30 billion is for “digital modernization efforts” involving AI and biometric surveillance.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will receive $2.5 billion specifically for artificial intelligence systems, biometric data collection platforms, and digital case tracking.

Under the heading “U.S. Customs and Border Protection Technology, Vetting Activities, and Other Efforts to Enhance Border Security,” the bill gives $637 million for the “deployment of technology, relating to the biometric entry and exit system under section 7208 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004”.

The section also states that the funds may only be used for “the procurement or deployment of surveillance towers” after they have been tested and accepted by US Border Patrol.

The mention of a biometric entry/exit system and surveillance towers is perfectly in line with the long-term plans of the US government and Donald Trump during his first administration. In fact, I’ve argued since Trump’s election in 2016 that the issue of immigration would be used to divide the masses and help usher in the final stages of the American police state.

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Well, Now We Know Why Trump-Hating Newspaper Hid Reader Comments on Assassination Story…

The attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pa., one year ago this month was fake, according to Washington Post readers. Worse, the paper is trying to protect its crazed readers by hiding their comments.

Comments to a Post story, excerpting a juicy new book about how Democrats knew all along that Joe Biden was a terrible candidate and couldn’t win the 2024 election, revealed just how untethered to reality this bunch really is. It’s as if they’d read the Washington Post and come away believing President Donald Trump was Hitler and couldn’t be believed or something. 

These TDS-afflicted readers will be startled to learn for the first time that one congressional rep texted with his colleagues during a Zoom meeting with “a mumbl[ing] and rambl[ing],” and “sometimes incoherent” Biden that the president’s behavior in this meeting was “'[W]orse than the debate,'” the Post belatedly divulged.

Another tidbit that would have been nice to know before the election was that Democrat Leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer, held a secret Rehoboth Beach meeting with Biden, where he overheard the explosive meeting from another room. When he got face time with Biden, Schumer allegedly “told Biden that if they held a secret ballot, maybe five of the fifty-one senators would want him to stay in the race.”

He also allegedly told Biden that Kamala Harris had a better chance of winning the 2024 race than the president did and urged Biden to get out of the race. Of course, he never said anything remotely like this out loud for public consumption. One wonders if the four current and former reporters who wrote “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,” saved these damning reports about Biden for after the election to help the home team. 

The book excerpt and the story’s reporters described the near-life-ending head shot by saying, “Trump felt a sting on his right ear, like the world’s largest mosquito.” We can’t imagine why Post readers would think the assassination attempt was fake.

The book excerpt also reported that the president cleaned his blood-stained suit, but did save his bloody red hat from that real assassination attempt one year ago, on July 13.

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Big Beautiful Bill Will Massively Expand The Digital Biometric Surveillance State

Bill allocates billions for digital tracking systems nationwide, mostly under the guise of ‘border security.’ All major state and federal highways will be monitored 24/7 in real time.

The Senate version of H.R. 1, otherwise known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, reflects an aggressive expansion of AI-driven federal biometric surveillance infrastructure under the Trump administration’s second term.

The website Biometric Update, which reports on all things digital and biometric, posted an article on June 30 that points out how President Trump’s BBB will expand the digital surveillance state exponentially and place the U.S. on an irreversible course toward a biometric slave state that tracks the movement of everyone, everywhere.

According to the article, the 940-page bill does much more than allocate dollars; it would codify a vision of the national security state where biometric surveillance, artificial intelligence, and immigration enforcement converge at unprecedented scale.

The bill passed the Senate on Tuesday, July 1, after earlier passing the House and now returns to the House for reconciliation. Trump has said he’d like it on his desk by July 4.

According to Biometric Update:

“Passed out of the House along party lines earlier this year, the Senate version now reflects the Trump administration’s deepening focus on internal surveillance and deportation infrastructure. Although a final vote is pending in the Senate and will need to be passed by the House, what’s already in the legislative text that likely will remain intact is deeply consequential for civil liberties, biometric privacy, and immigration governance.”

It goes on:

“At its core, H.R.1 dedicates over $175 billion in immigration-related funding for fiscal year 2025 alone, which is by far the largest such allocation in U.S. history and represents a dramatic technology buildout. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would receive nearly $30 billion in funding through 2029, earmarked not only for personnel and deportation operations, but also for digital modernization efforts that lean heavily on AI and biometric surveillance. More than $5.2 billion within ICE’s share is dedicated to infrastructure modernization, including $2.5 billion specifically for artificial intelligence systems, biometric data collection platforms, and digital case tracking.”

DHS officials familiar with the bill’s intent say the funds are aimed at expanding ICE’s access to mobile biometric tools, integrating facial recognition into field operations, automating risk scoring for individuals in deportation proceedings, and accelerating case processing through AI-driven platforms.

This massive digital surveillance buildout is being done under the guise of immigration enforcement and border security. But that’s a ruse. A psyop.

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Joe Biden Complains Trump is Undoing His Incredible Accomplishments: ‘I Worked So Damn Hard’

Joe Biden is complaining that his so-called accomplishments are being undone by President Trump.

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Biden gave a more than hour-long speech in San Diego on Wednesday to thousands of human-resources professionals gathered by the HR trade group SHRM.

“We strengthened NATO in a significant way,” he said. “I’m getting calls—I’m not going to go into it, I can’t—from a number of European leaders asking me to get engaged.”

“I’m not, but I’m giving advice,” he added.

The 82-year-old added that he was voicing his concerns because he “really cared about what I was doing.”

“Many of the things I worked so damn hard, that I thought I changed in the country, are changing so rapidly,” he complained.

Biden did not mention Trump by name, although such remarks give an insight into how he is feeling about his legacy being undone.

Such criticism of Trump’s handling of defense spending was criticized by the White House.

“Thanks to President Trump, NATO allies have made a historic 5% defense spending pledge, Iran’s nuclear capabilities are obliterated, and our country’s standing on the world stage is restored,” said White House spokesperson Anna Kelly.

The former president, who came to power through an election that was tainted by widespreaed fraud and irregularities, has mostly remained quiet since departing the White House back in January.

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