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Trump Senior Adviser Releases News Everyone’s Been Hoping for: 45 Is Coming Back

Former President Donald Trump will be back on social media within the next three months — on his own platform, according to his senior adviser, Jason Miller.

“I do think that we’re going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here, with his own platform,” Miller told Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” on Sunday.

Miller said because Trump was repeatedly censored by Twitter during his presidency and then banned in January, he wants to have his own platform where he doesn’t have to answer to left-wing tech overlords.

“This is something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media,” he said. “It’s going to completely redefine the game, and everybody is going to be waiting and watching to see what exactly President Trump does, but it will be his own platform.”

Trump has been banned from Twitter, Facebook, the Facebook-owned Instagram and the Google-owned YouTube.

Since leaving the White House, the former president has issued news releases to slam the Biden administration’s catastrophic border crisis and to share other opinions.

Interestingly, Miller said he believes Trump’s prepared statements have gotten considerably more media coverage than many of his tweets did.

That said, the real estate mogul used social media (specifically Twitter) as his primary mode of mass communication when he was in office.

To this end, Miller said Trump has been having “high-powered meetings” with tech executives to develop his own platform.

He couldn’t reveal any details but said several companies have approached the former president about launching his own social media platform.

“I can say that it will be big once he starts,” Miller said. “There have been a lot of high-powered meetings he’s been having at Mar-a-Lago with some teams of folks who have been coming in.”

“It’s not just one company that’s approached the president,” he said. “There have been numerous companies. But I think the president does know what direction that he wants to head here.

“This new platform is going to be big, and everyone wants him. He’s going to bring millions and millions, tens of millions of people to this new platform.”

Christian persecution: 200 Killed, 40,000 Displaced in DRC Since January

(Persecution.org) The UNHCR has reported an “alarming increase” in attacks by the terrorist group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the start of this year.

The ADF insurgency has “killed nearly 200 people, injured dozens of others, and displaced an estimated 40,000 people in DRC’s Beni Territory in North Kivu province as well as nearby villages in Ituri province,” stated UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch, “In less than three months, the ADF has allegedly raided 25 villages, set fire to dozens of houses and kidnapped over 70 people”. These attacks leave the villages and those living in them completely devastated. Despite these continued attacks, the government in DRC has been completely incapable of protecting their citizens in Eastern DRC. Rebel and Islamic Extremists groups have run rampant in this area for more than 2 decades.

ADF, an affiliate of ISIS, has the primary aim of creating an Islamic Caliphate in Central Africa. In order to achieve this, they often assault, kidnap and kill Christians.  While a large majority (85-90%) of DRC’s population is Christian, violence rooted in Islamic extremism continues to worsen, putting the country at number 40 on the 2021 Open Doors World Watch List for Christian persecution. “These predominantly Christian communities are attacked by an Islamic extremist group with a clear Islamic expansionist agenda,” Open Doors spokesperson Illia Djadi stated in reference to ADF.

Please continue to pray for the healing of those traumatized by violence in the DRC, and for the Lord to comfort those who are grieving the loss of loved ones. Please also pray for the Lord to strengthen government protection over its people and bring peace to the nation, and for the love of Jesus to redeem the souls of those who persecute the church.

Biden: ‘There’s Not A Single Thing A Man Can Do That A Woman Can’t Do As Well Or Better’

President Joe Biden claimed during a White House event on Wednesday that there is nothing that a man can do that a woman can’t do just as well or better.

Biden made the remarks in the South Court Auditorium at an event marking Equal Pay Day.

“There’s a lot to do, but together we can ensure that our daughters have all the same rights and opportunities as our sons,” Biden said. “And if we’re able to do this, it’ll be transformational for our nation. That’s the goal. That’s what this is all about. That’s what this team, all of you, are all about.”

“Let me make one more point. You know, I’ve told my daughters, granddaughters from the time they [were] old enough to understand what I was saying — and I mean it: There’s not a single thing a man can do that a woman can’t do as well or better,” Biden continued. “Not a single thing.”

Biden was widely mocked over the statement.

Ben Shapiro, host of The Daily Wire’s “The Ben Shapiro Show,” posted a screenshot of a headline from a news article that stated: “FC Dallas under-15 boys squad beat the U.S. Women’s National Team in a scrimmage.”

Australian political commentator Rita Panahi wrote: “Such patronising bulls**t. Women can do plenty of things better than men but there’s no denying biological reality that men are stronger & faster. How many women want this job?”

Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway wrote: “What a preposterous and sad claim. Men and women are different in many ways, and that’s a beautiful and good thing!!”

Political commentator Allie Beth Stuckey wrote: “Maybe I’m weird, but I just don’t need this patronizing nonsense to feel great about being a woman. I’m so glad there are things men can do that I can’t. I’m also pretty thrilled that I can do things men can’t, like carrying and delivering babies. I don’t want to be like a man.”

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Pakistani Christian man sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam

A Pakistani court has sentenced a Christian man to death for sending “blasphemous” text messages to Muslim clerics, according to a report.

The Lahore High Court in Punjab province has revised the 2013 sentencing of the Christian man, Sajjad Masih, from life in prison to death, according to UCA News.

Masih, a Seventh-day Adventist, was accused of sending blasphemous text messages from a mobile phone to Muslim clerics and others in Gojra. The 2013 verdict included life imprisonment and a fine of 314,500 rupees, the equivalent of about $2,000.

Masih, a resident of Punjab’s Pakpattan district, was arrested in December 2011.

Police said Masih was engaged to a woman, Ruma Masih of Gojra town. But she contracted marriage with another Christian man in the United Kingdom. Masih is accused of using her SIM to send blasphemous messages to clerics as an act of revenge. 

Gojra has been a religiously sensitive area since massive attacks on Christians were triggered by reports of Quran desecration. In 2009, there were a series of riots targeting Christians in Gojra that resulted in eight deaths, including four women and a child. Muslim radicals reportedly set fire to Christian homes in the area. 

Police initially refrained from charging Masih under the blasphemy law but added the blasphemy charge to the complaint after pressure from Muslim clerics.  

Section 295-C of Pakistan’s penal code permits the death penalty for those convicted of insulting Islam or its Prophet Muhammad. International advocates have long called on Pakistan to reform its penal code as it is often used to persecute religious minorities. 

In 2015, Masih’s brother and nephew were reportedly attacked and threatened by a group of people who had not been identified.

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Wisconsin Assembly Authorizes Investigation of 2020 Presidential Election

Biden won the state by 20,682, or 0.63% of the more than 3.2 million votes cast

The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a resolution authorizing an investigation into the 2020 presidential election that President Joe Biden won, but former President Donald Trump sued over, forcing the state into a recount.

In the end, Biden won by 20,682, or 0.63% of the more than 3.2 million votes cast.

The resolution, opposed by every Democrat, gives Republicans, who control the chamber, authority to issue subpoenas to compel testimony and gather documents, said Rep. Joe Sanfelippo, the vice-chairman of the Assembly elections and campaign committee.

Trump and his allies claim there was voter fraud and other irregularities in the state, but those claims were rejected by state and federal courts. The U.S. Supreme Court also refused to hear the case, and “no significant problems were found with the state’s voting machines after audits and recounts in both 2016 and in 2020,” The Associated Press reported.

“Republicans said they wanted to gather more evidence to see if laws were broken, but Democrats said they were trying to score political points, undermining the public’s faith in elections and insulting election clerks, poll workers and others who ran the election,” wrote the AP. “Earlier this month, Republicans raised new questions about how the election was administered in Green Bay. The Assembly elections committee held a hearing on those issues but did not invite any election officials accused of wrongdoing to testify. Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich called it a ‘Stalinist show trial’ and defended his city’s handling of the election.”

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Military leaders “concerned” rank and file aren’t buying the woke narrative regarding BLM riots

United States military leaders are very busy attending to the greatest challenge facing our military:

Soldiers who do not get all their news from CNN.

Here is the breathless first paragraph of the story in The Daily Press.

WASHINGTON — During military training sessions to address extremism in the ranks, some service members have challenged why the Pentagon is not treating the violence during racial injustice protests last summer as equal to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Oh no! Our citizen soldiers are questioning CNN’s, I mean, our military leader’s woke orthodoxy.

Note something subtle here as well, the framing of the argument.

…treating the violence during racial injustice protests last summer

They are at least recognizing the violence (more on that in a bit) but then frame it as “racial injustice protests.” Some were, maybe even most if you include all the thousands of local protests, but Antifa’s repeated attempts to burn down a federal courthouse had less to do with anger and frustration over racial injustice and more to do with anger and frustration over the injustice that you can’t find a PS5 anywhere, and their moms are threatening to throw them out of the basement.

…as equal to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.

The “racial injustice protests” were merely violent, whereas what happened at the U.S. Capitol was “deadly.”

It would be easy to breeze right by that, but it matters, repeating this framing, subtly, quietly, over and over matters. People will forget that the 2020 BLM riots were much more deadly, despite the media contorting itself to claim otherwise.

Right now, few people understand anything about the circumstances surrounding the deaths that occurred at the January 6 riots, only one of which has been tied to an act of identifiable violence when a Capitol Police officer shot a Trump supporter.

That the two events are viewed as equivalent by some troops has caught the Pentagon’s attention…

That chill you just felt go up your spine?

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Cash is turning into trash, just like in Venezuela, says Max Keiser

The hosts of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy, look at the data on what the trillions in free money are doing to the wealth gap, as the topic of the demand for more of that free money trends on Twitter.

As MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor points out, cash is losing 50% of its purchasing power per year. “Why would you hold on to something like that when you have bitcoin that’s appreciating on average 200% a year for 10 years? It’s a pretty simple trade, once you see the raw numbers,” Max says.

“Paper and fiat money is now turning into trash, as it has in some of the emerging markets, like Venezuela,” he adds. “And assets like bitcoin are becoming the go-to asset to protect yourself against the melting ice cube on your balance sheet.”

Woke op-ed blasts Oral Roberts U, says pro-family Christian school should be banned from NCAA

The writer ripped ORU — whose basketball team is headed to the Sweet 16 — as a ‘hotbed of institutional transphobia, homophobia with regressive, sexist policies’

After tiny Oral Roberts University shocked the sports world with its otherworldly upsets of second-seeded Ohio State and then seventh-seeded Florida in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, you knew the woke mob sooner or later would deliver vitriol against the famously conservative Christian college.

Sure enough, a Tuesday op-ed penned by USA Today’s Hemal Jhaveri did just that.

While acknowledging that Oral Roberts has “become a fan favorite” due to its improbable underdog run, Jhaveri pulled no punches when came to the school’s moral standards, which she said are “wholly incompatible with the NCAA’s own stated values of equality and inclusion” — particularly its “discriminatory and hateful anti-LGBTQ+ policy.”

She noted that ORU condemns “homosexual behavior” along with “adultery” and “premarital sex” and requires students to pledge they won’t be in marriages other than those “between one man and one woman,” none of which is surprising for a conservative Christian college.

More from Jhaveri’s op-ed:

As a private university and under the banner of fundamentalist Christian beliefs, the school is free to impose whatever standards of behavior they see fit, even if those standards are wildly out of line with modern society and the basic values of human decency. Now, as Oral Roberts gains national attention, the focus shouldn’t just be on their very good men’s basketball team, but on their prejudiced teachings and moral regressiveness.

That Oral Roberts wants to keep its students tied to toxic notions of fundamentalism that fetishize chastity, abstinence and absurd hemlines is a larger cultural issue that can be debated. What is not up for debate however is their anti-LGBTQ+ stance, which is nothing short of discriminatory and should expressly be condemned by the NCAA.

She went on to argue that “any and all anti-LGBTQ+ language in any school’s polices should ban them from NCAA competition.”

Calling ORU “a hotbed of institutional transphobia, homophobia with regressive, sexist policies,” Jhaveri added that “there is no way to separate their men’s basketball team from the dangers of their religious dogma, no matter how many top seeds they defeat.”

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Illegal immigrants to receive more than $4 billion in stimulus checks as part of Biden’s COVID relief bill

Millions of illegal aliens are in line to be paid

Millions of illegal immigrants residing in the United States are set to receive $1,400 stimulus checks as part of Biden’s coronavirus relief package, according to a new report published this week by the Center for Immigration Studies.

In the report released Monday, the think tank determined that as much as $4.38 billion will be doled out to individuals illegally residing in the country as a part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 due to certain immigrants’ possession of Social Security numbers.

During debate over the legislation, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) took issue with that part of the bill’s language that he argued would result in payments to illegal aliens. He introduced an amendment to stop that from taking place, but the measure was quickly rejected by the Democratic majority.

At the time, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.) claimed that “undocumented immigrants do not have Social Security numbers, and they do not qualify for stimulus relief checks, period.”

But CIS Director of Research Steven Camarota responded to Durbin’s claim in the report, stating, “This is incorrect; we estimate that there are 2.65 million illegal immigrants who have Social Security numbers that allow them to receive stimulus checks. We estimate that 2.1 million of these individuals have incomes low enough to qualify for checks, and they have 1.1 million U.S.-born dependent children.”

“As a result, illegal immigrants could receive an estimated $4.38 billion in cash payments from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021,” he concluded.

What else?

In its report, CIS listed several situations in which illegal aliens could be in possession of valid SSNs, since they are often issued the number upon being granted work authorizations by the U.S. government.

“There are 653,000 illegal immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and 411,000 with Temporary Protected Status (TPS),” CIS noted, adding, “In FY 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued 882,000 work authorizations and Social Security numbers to other illegal immigrants. Among the categories eligible are adjustment of status, suspension of deportation, and asylum applicants, as well as those given withholding of removal, deferred action (non-DACA), and parolees.”

All of these individuals, CIS reported, can be considered temporarily present without status and could be subject to removal at any time. However, under the current system, they are eligible to receive certain benefits such as Earned Income Tax Credit and COVID relief checks due to their possession of a Social Security number.

Anything else?

Several major media organizations such as CNN, the Associated Press, and USA Today have since admitted in fact-check articles that indeed some illegal immigrants will receive stimulus checks, since the new law does not differentiate between citizens in possession of Social Security numbers and non-citizens in possession of SSNs.

All a person needs, according to the law, is a valid SSN and not to be a “nonresident alien.” And CNN pointed out in its fact-check that “the IRS explains on its website that undocumented immigrants qualify as resident aliens for tax purposes if they spend enough days physically present in the US.”

Furthermore, SSNs don’t expire or become void. Social Security Administration spokesperson Dorothy Clark told CNN that “once a Social Security Number has been assigned to an eligible person, it remains a valid SSN. Social Security does not void or rescind SSNs after valid assignments.”

Camarota concluded: “There is simply no question that millions of illegal immigrants will receive billions of dollars in COVID relief checks. This highlights an even more disturbing fact — illegal immigrants are being issued Social Security numbers in large numbers. This is a clear indication that America is simply not serious about enforcing its immigration laws.”

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