A Forced Threesome and Then a Rape, Actress Jessica Mann Tearfully Tells the Jury in Harvey Weinstein’s NYC Trial
April 29, 2026
Incarcerated Hollywood producer WEeinstein, and his accuser Mann – Wiki Commons
Weinstein is afraid to die in prison.
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s third NYC rape trial is ongoing, and yesterday (28), his accuser was in tears as she testified against him.
Jessica Mann and prosecutors from the Manhattan DA’s Office wait outside Judge Farber’s courtroom before she begins her testimony against Harvey Weinstein. pic.twitter.com/G6jXixgCJB
“Jessica Mann, now 40, hysterically broke down on the witness stand when she recounted in court for the third time how the grotesque, then-300-pound Weinstein pinned her down on a bed before allegedly raping her inside the Doubletree Hotel in Midtown on March 18, 2013.
‘I said, ‘No’ over and over, and I tried to leave’, Mann said through sobs, shortly before showing jurors how Weinstein allegedly pinned both of her wrists above her head during the sex attack.”
Mann said that the mogul ‘treated her like he owned her’.
“Mann said Weinstein also raped her later that year — and that she passed out during the assault because he was ‘so heavy’.
The jailed mogul, who sat in a crinkled suit in a wheelchair, was originally convicted of raping Mann in 2020, but the state’s high court later over turned the verdict, paving the way for a second trial that then ended with a hung jury.”
DOJ Sues Big Tech Giant Cloudera for Blocking American Workers in Favor of Foreign Visa Holders, Same Company Sued Trump in 2017 Over Refugee Ban
April 29, 2026
The Trump Department of Justice has filed a federal lawsuit against Cloudera Inc., a major Silicon Valley tech company, for deliberately discriminating against qualified American workers in favor of foreign visa holders for high-paying tech positions.
The Civil Rights Division’s lawsuit accuses Cloudera of violating the Immigration and Nationality Act by creating a sham, separate hiring process designed to deter and exclude American citizens while fast-tracking foreign workers on temporary visas.
“Employers cannot use the PERM sponsorship process as a backdoor for discriminating against U.S. workers,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said. “The Division will not hesitate to sue companies who intentionally deter U.S. workers from applying to American jobs.”
According to the DOJ, Cloudera set up a dedicated email address for job applications that was deliberately configured not to accept emails from outside the company.
American workers who followed the company’s posted instructions received automatic bounce-back messages stating that their applications could not be processed.
The complaint alleges Cloudera intentionally created a separate recruitment and hiring process to deter U.S. workers from applying, and also did not consider them, for lucrative technology jobs that the company earmarked for people with temporary employment visas. Cloudera created an email account that did not allow external emails, but still instructed applicants to use that unworkable email address to apply for jobs. The Division received a charge of employment discrimination from one U.S. worker who tried to apply using the email account Cloudera set up, but received a bounce back notification. When sponsoring current employees under the permanent labor certification program (PERM), Cloudera purposely failed to recruit U.S. workers in good faith.
At the same time, Cloudera was actively sponsoring foreign workers for permanent residency through the Department of Labor’s PERM program, a process that legally requires employers to make a genuine good-faith effort to recruit and hire qualified American workers first.
America’s civil rights and labor laws are clear: if you want to sponsor people with temporary visas for permanent residency, you cannot discriminate against U.S. workers. In fact, employers must sign under penalty of perjury that the job opening “does not involve unlawful discrimination by race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, religion, handicap, or citizenship.” 20 C.F.R. § 656.10(c)(5) (emphasis added). These protections are to ensure that U.S. workers are given a fair opportunity to compete for jobs because nonimmigrant visa programs have “been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor.”
The DOJ is seeking a court order that would stop the illegal hiring practices, fine the company for each victim, require the company to pay lost wages to American workers who were shut out, and allow for any other corrective measures the judge finds appropriate.
This action is part of the Trump administration’s Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative, which targets companies that illegally favor temporary visa workers over American citizens. Since its relaunch, the initiative has already produced ten settlements.
In 2017, Cloudera was one of 97 major companies that filed an amicus brief in federal court opposing President Trump’s temporary travel ban on refugees and visa holders from certain countries.
As The Gateway Pundit reported at the time, Cloudera joined other Big Tech firms in claiming the policy harmed their business interests and ability to hire foreign talent.
It turns out, the company was rigging its own hiring system against American workers to benefit the very foreign visa programs it was fighting to protect.
State Department to Issue Limited-Edition Passports Featuring President Trump’s Portrait and Signature for America’s 250th Birthday
April 29, 2026
The State Department has announced it will issue a limited run of specially designed passports featuring President Donald Trump to commemorate America’s upcoming 250th anniversary.
Trump will be the first living president to appear on an official U.S. passport.
“As the United States celebrates America’s 250th anniversary in July, the State Department is preparing to release a limited number of specially designed U.S. passports to commemorate this historic occasion,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott told the Associated Press.
“These passports will feature customized artwork and enhanced imagery while maintaining the same security features that make the U.S. passport the most secure documents in the world,” Pigott added.
The passports will feature President Trump’s portrait on an interior page, a gold imprimatur of Trump’s signature, a redesigned passport cover with “United States of America” printed in bold gold lettering at the top and “Passport” at the bottom, and a small gold-laminated American flag on the back cover featuring the number “250” encircled by stars.
The Associated Press reports:
The only presidents featured in current U.S. passports are in a double-page depiction of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
Other depictions include the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and scenes of the Great Plains, mountains and islands. Current passports also contain quotations from Martin Luther King Jr. as well as Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower.
The special passports have the same security features as normal passports and will be fully valid for international travel.
Between 25,000 and 30,000 of these limited-edition passports will be produced.
The passports will become available shortly before Independence Day 2026 and will initially be issued as the default passport for in-person applicants at the Washington, D.C., passport agency.
A State Department official told Fox News that the special passports will be available for “any American citizen” who applies for a passport during the rollout, until they run out.
Standard passports will remain available through normal channels or online.
The White House has also launched a website for all its Freedom 250 initiatives, complete with a countdown clock and a video series titled “The Story of America.”
The National Mall in DC will feature the “Great America State Fair” from June 25 through July 10. There will be a Ferris wheel and pavilions representing each state and territory.
Vermont Christian School Banned from All Competitions for Standing Up for Girls Wins $566K in Damages
April 29, 2026
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A Christian school that was punished for refusing to play against a transathlete has won a settlement from the State of Vermont.
In 2023, The Gateway Pundit reported that Mid Vermont Christian School (MVCS) withdrew from Vermont’s Division IV basketball tournament due to a biological male being on the opposing team.
MVCS head of school Vicky Fogg explained in a statement it was unfair and unsafe for the high school girls to play against a biological male.
Following the forfeiture, the school was banned from participating in sporting events going forward. In addition, the school was banned from participating in all VPA-sanctioned activities, not only athletics but also extracurricular competitions such as drama and debate, as well as science and math fairs.
In November 2023, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys filed a lawsuit against Vermont officials on behalf of the school. A district court denied the school’s injunction request that would have allowed it readmission into the VPA for all sports, so ADF appealed the case to the 2nd Circuit and, in September 2025, the 2nd Circuit ruled in favor of Mid Vermont Christian.
“The VPA likely violated Mid Vermont’s First Amendment right to free exercise of religion because its consideration of Mid Vermont’s case was not neutral,” the ruling reads.
The court went on to explain: “[the VPA] acted with hostility toward Mid Vermont’s religious beliefs. The VPA’s Executive Director publicly castigated Mid Vermont—and religious schools generally—while the VPA rushed to judgment on whether and how to discipline the school. In upholding the expulsion, the VPA doubled down on that hostility by challenging the legitimacy of the school’s religious beliefs.
And … the punishment imposed was unprecedented, overbroad, and procedurally irregular. Those facts strongly support the inference that Mid Vermont’s religious objection ‘was not considered with the neutrality that the Free Exercise Clause requires.’
Now, Fox News reports that State education agencies in Vermont have settled with the school for over $566,000.
State education agencies in Vermont have paid over $566,000 in damages and legal fees to a Christian school that was banned from all sports and academic competitions for two years after its girls’ basketball team refused to compete against a trans athlete in 2023.
A settlement agreement following mediation was finalized on Tuesday that awarded the plaintiffs, including the Mid Vermont Christian School and its law firm Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the $566,000.
How the Media Killed Charlie Kirk and Are Fanning Political Violence
April 29, 2026
Charlie Kirk died while engaging the public in fair and open discussion. Media falsely framing him as a racist and homophobe encouraged liberals to wish him dead and to celebrate when their wish was granted. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.
“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.” —Charlie Kirk
Videos circulating online show Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erica Kirk, being rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner minutes after shots rang out in a failed assassination attempt on President Trump. Through her tears, she says, “I just want to go home.” Coming less than a year after her husband’s assassination, the moment was a painful reminder that the targeting of both Charlie Kirk and President Trump stems from an ongoing media campaign to foment hatred against them.
With Kirk, that campaign succeeded. With Trump, it has failed at least five times. Meanwhile, Erica Kirk lives not only with the grief of losing her husband but with the relentless attacks on his name and legacy.
Christian conservative commentator Charlie Kirk built his career visiting college campuses and engaging in open debate with anyone who disagreed with him. The media portrayed him as a racist and homophobe, and as with Trump, many on the left posted calls for his death online. When he was killed, the celebrations were widespread. Those who justified his murder repeatedly cited media fabrications about what Kirk believed and what he had said.
The documented record shows that media coverage and social media amplification produced outright fabrications, decontextualized clips, and false attributions, some circulating the day he was murdered and used to justify his killing.
The Racial Slur Fabrication: A viral post on X, viewed more than 16 million times in less than two days, falsely claimed Kirk had called an Asian woman in his audience a racial slur during a debate, accompanied by a TikTok montage captioned “He made millions off of his racism and sexism.” What Kirk actually said was “I live like a capitalist every single day, Cenk!” directed at Cenk Uygur, co-host of The Young Turks, who had interrupted from the floor during a debate Kirk was having with Hasan Piker at Politicon in October 2018.
Uygur is a Turkish-American man, not an Asian woman, and he was a debate participant, not an audience member. The full video, posted by The Young Turks themselves, confirms this.
The “Stoning Gay People” Fabrication: One of the most egregious examples involved author Stephen King spreading the claim that Kirk had advocated stoning gay people. Kirk had been discussing comments made by YouTube personality Ms. Rachel, who cited Bible scripture in support of Gay Pride Month. Kirk’s point was that the same scripture contains harsh prohibitions; he was arguing she was quoting the Bible selectively.
Kirk’s full statement was: “So you love God, so you must love his law. How do you love somebody? You love them by telling them the truth, not by confirming or affirming their sin. And it says, by the way, Ms. Rachel, might want to crack open that Bible of yours, in a lesser reference, part of the same part of scripture is in Leviticus 18, is that thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death. Just saying. So, Ms. Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19, love your neighbor as yourself. The chapter before affirms God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”
After backlash, King retracted the claim and apologized.
“Black Women Do Not Have the Brain Processing Power”: A viral post attributed to Kirk claimed that Black women as a class lack the brain processing power to be taken seriously. What Kirk actually said, on his July 13, 2023 show, was this, directed at four specific women who had each publicly identified themselves as affirmative action beneficiaries in the weeks after the Supreme Court ended affirmative action in college admissions:
“If we would have said three weeks ago that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative-action picks, we would have been called racist. But now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us. They’re coming out and they’re saying, ‘I’m only here because of affirmative action.’ Yeah, we know. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”
Kirk never mentioned race. He named four individuals who had made that admission themselves and responded to their own public statements. The media stripped the self-identification that triggered his remarks and rebroadcast the “brain processing power” line as a blanket statement about all Black women.
The AEI found that Snopes knowingly substituted a categorical statement about an entire demographic for the narrower, specific one Kirk had actually made and called it journalistic dishonesty.
“Black People Were Better Off as Slaves”: The claim that Kirk said Black people were better off under slavery has no documented source, no verified clip, no transcript, and no credible outlet attributing those words to him. It circulated as character assassination without evidentiary basis.
“The Civil Rights Act was a mistake”: Kirk did make the statement, but the media stripped its policy argument entirely. In December 2023 at AmericaFest, Kirk said: “I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I’ve thought about it. We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s.”
His argument was that the Act created what he called a “permanent DEI-type bureaucracy” that has limited free speech, a position rooted in legal scholarship, including Christopher Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement, which argues the Civil Rights Act functioned as a rival constitution that frequently clashed with the original.
The underlying policy claim, that Great Society welfare programs damaged Black family structure, is supported by decades of data. The Institute for Family Studies reports that in 1950, just 9% of Black children lived without their father, and by 1960 the Black marriage rate remained close to the white marriage rate despite open racism and widespread poverty.
By the mid-1980s, Black fatherlessness had skyrocketed; today, only 44% of Black children have a father in the home. The rate of Black out-of-wedlock births rose from 24.5% in 1964 to 69% by 2022, per Heritage Foundation data drawn from federal statistics.
The Heritage Foundation further notes that in 1959, despite a Black poverty rate of roughly 55%, more than 75% of Black children were born to married parents, a figure that has since inverted. Brookings confirmed the 1965 baseline of 24% and documented the trajectory through 1990. Economists Walter E. Williams and Thomas Sowell, both Black, argued the Great Society expansion contributed directly to the destruction of Black family formation. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a liberal Democrat, made the same warning in his 1965 report and was attacked by the left for it.
“Gun Deaths Are the Price of Freedom”: Kirk’s actual statement was: “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our God-given rights.” This was reframed as a callous endorsement of mass death.
“Buy Weapons, Buy Ammo, You’re With People Who Want to Kill You”: The viral framing of this quote claimed Kirk directed it at an Israeli student facing death threats from pro-Hamas peers on campus. That account appears to originate from a single Medium blog post with no primary source citation and is not verified.
The primary source is Kirk’s own podcast, where he said: “There’s not much you can do, folks. You have a government that hates you, you have a traitor as the president. Buy weapons, I keep on saying that. Buy weapons. Buy ammo. If you go into a public place, bring a gun with you, and if you live in a state that doesn’t allow you to do it, I got nothing for you, man.”
It was a general Second Amendment argument directed at his podcast audience, not targeted advice to any individual.
The Truth About Kirk’s Final Moments: A persistent myth holds that there was karmic irony in Kirk’s death, that a man who once said gun deaths were an acceptable cost of the Second Amendment died defending that position. The verified transcript of his final moments, however, shows that Kirk was shot mid-exchange in a discussion about transgender mass shooters, not gun rights:
ATTENDEE: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?
KIRK: Too many.
ATTENDEE: In America, it’s five. Now, five is a lot, right? I’m going to give you some credit. Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?
KIRK: Counting or not counting gang violence?
The shot came immediately after Kirk’s last words. His killer, Tyler Robinson, was in a romantic relationship with a transgender partner.
Even in reporting his death, mainstream media lied, and until today, most liberals and critics believe there was some karmic irony in that a man who supported the Second Amendment was killed defending the Second Amendment. However, the truth of the alleged irony is that Charlie was discussing trans shooters when he was shot by someone in a relationship with a trans person.
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