Federal Appeals Court Bats Down Biden Judge, Sides with Trump, Says ICE Can Resume Swift Deportations
June 23, 2026
A federal appeals court on Tuesday sided with Trump and ruled that ICE may resume swift deportations.
In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order titled, “Protecting the American People Against Invasion.”
Last August, a federal judge blocked President Trump from rapidly deporting illegal aliens.
US District Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, called President Trump’s expedited removal of illegal aliens from the interior of the US a “skimpy process.”
“The procedures the Government currently uses in expedited removal, however, create a significant risk that it will not identify these disqualifying criteria before quickly ordering someone removed. And the lack of available review means that once the removal happens, it is largely too late to correct the error,” Judge Cobb wrote in a 48-page opinion.
On Tuesday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision threw out a lower court ruling that blocked Trump from carrying out mass deportations.
The three judge panel included: Majority: Walker (Trump), Rao (Trump) and Dissent: Wilkins (Obama).
A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to resume carrying out speedy deportations of undocumented migrants throughout the United States, not just near the border.
A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit threw out a lower court ruling that temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s expanded use of expedited removal. The ruling was a big victory for the Republican administration, which views the expansion of so-called expedited removal as a key tool for carrying out its mass deportation policy.
An attorney for the plaintiffs said the ruling “undermines the fundamental principle that people receive due process when the government seeks to deport them.”
“The Trump administration’s push for fast-track deportations will subject people to an unfair and error-prone system,” Anand Balakrishnan, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement.
UPDATE: Tesla Auto-Pilot VP Says Driver Who Crashed into Home at 73 MPH Killing Elderly Woman Overrode Self-Driving Mode – Elon Musk Says Driver’s Claim “Makes No Sense”
June 23, 2026
Blue Tesla crashes through home, killing elderly woman
Tesla has responded to the high-speed crash at a Texas family’s home, which killed an elderly woman, while the car was in self-driving mode, the driver claims.
Tesla leadership, including CEO Elon Musk, has denied that the car was driving itself.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported on the incident, where the driver claimed the Tesla Model 3 was in self-driving mode before flying through the front yard and plowing into the home.
76-year-old Martha Avila Mantilla, a grandmother, was killed in the crash.
WATCH:
Additional video from another residence shows the Tesla flying through the neighborhood before the collision.
Initial reporting suggested that law enforcement was investigating the driver’s claim that he was in autopilot mode at the time of the crash. The driver, 44-year-old Michael Butler, did not initially face charges.
Via ABC News:
However, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk said the claim that the car was in autopilot “makes no sense” as Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature “drives slowly through neighborhood streets and this was a high speed crash.”
Yes, this makes no sense. FSD drives slowly through neighborhood streets and this was a high speed crash!
Ashok Elluswamy, the director of Tesla’s Autopilot software and Vice President of artificial intelligence, replied, saying, “Yup. In this case, the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100% of the accel pedal in this residential area. They reached a speed of 73 mph during the crash, and had the accelerator pressed even after the crash.”
Yup. In this case, the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100% of the accel pedal in this residential area. They reached a speed of 73 mph during the crash, and had the accelerator pressed even after the crash.
Elluswamy further blasted early reports as “blatantly irresponsible”
“Planting such [Fear, uncertainty, and doubt] in the minds of general public, who might not know all the facts, might prevent them from using this technology that makes them safer,” he added, claiming that autonomous vehicles are “far safer than manual driving.”
This blatantly irresponsible reporting does more harm to people than they realize.
Using Tesla self-driving is far safer than manual driving, and this was measured over 10B miles.
Planting such FUD in the minds of general public, who might not know the all the facts, might…
USAID Liberal Corruption and Circular Funding: How Taxpayer Dollars Were Used Against U.S. Policies and Interests
June 23, 2026
President Trump shut down USAID because of waste and corruption, but also because taxpayer money was flowing directly and indirectly to groups promoting liberal agendas in opposition to U.S. policy.
President Trump was criticized for cutting USAID funding shortly after taking office in his second term. He argued that USAID was plagued by waste, fraud, and corruption, with taxpayer money funding projects such as DEI workplace training in Serbia and transgender theater productions in Ireland.
The White House released a documented list of expenditures that included hundreds of thousands of dollars to a nonprofit linked to designated terrorist organizations after an OIG investigation had been launched, millions to EcoHealth Alliance, which was involved in research related to the Wuhan lab, and funding that resulted in hundreds of thousands of meals being distributed to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria.
Beyond waste and fraud, USAID funds also flowed to organizations that were at odds with U.S. interests, including groups that funded protests against U.S. policies within the United States and undermined US policy abroad.
George Soros, one of the largest donors to the Democratic Party and left-wing causes in the United States, became a central figure in the USAID corruption debate. Open Society Foundations has stated that claims it receives USAID funds or directs USAID spending are “manifestly false.” However, the organization’s own records and federal grant data indicate a financial relationship with USAID.
The Soros Foundations’ 2001 annual report listed USAID as a “donor partner,” while congressional testimony by Tyler O’Neil, citing USASpending.gov records, documented USAID grants to the Alliance for Open Society International, a legal arm of the Open Society Foundations. The grants were identified by federal grant numbers AID122A000200042, SLMAQM11GR635, and SLMAQM11GR0635. The arrangement creates a circular flow of taxpayer money, with federal funds flowing to Soros-linked organizations that then support left-wing activism, protests, and Democrat-aligned groups.
In addition to funding Soros-linked organizations directly, USAID awarded more than $27 million to the Tides Center, an organization that has received tens of millions of dollars from Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
The Tides Center functions as a donor-advised fund that masks the identity of original donors. Its grants do not disclose which donor directed the funds, and the IRS does not require donor disclosure. Tides founder Drummond Pike stated, “Anonymity is very important to most of the people we work with.” In 2023, the Tides network took in nearly $800 million, with major donors including Soros, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Ford Foundation.
Politico reported in May 2024 that Tides was “seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros.” A New York Post review of Open Society Foundation records found OSF provided $13.7 million to Tides during 2016–2022, and tax filings show OSF contributed $25.8 million between 2020 and 2021 alone, earmarking portions for pro-Palestinian causes. Beyond direct funding, Tides is a major funder of the Shadow Party, a Soros-conceived network of unions, nonprofit activist groups, and think tanks engaged in campaigning for Democrats.
After September 11, 2001, Tides formed a “9/11 Fund,” later replaced by the “Democratic Justice Fund,” financed in large part by the Open Society Institute. The Tides Center also launched Palestine Legal, which provides legal representation to anti-Israel protesters.
The USAID-Tides connection extended to domestic political activism. According to a review of USASpending.gov records, the People’s Forum, one of the organizations coordinating protests against Trump’s deportation orders, received $3.5 million from USAID indirectly through NGOs. Other organizations in the same network receiving USAID funds include Liberation in a Generation ($1 million), which seeks to abolish capitalism; Haymarket People’s Fund ($5 million), funding anti-racist grassroots organizations; and TRANSFORMING POWER ($3 million). USAID also awarded over $800,000 to New Venture Fund, another dark money pass-through nonprofit.
Tides has funded Jewish Voice for Peace, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, IfNotNow, CodePink, and the Westchester County Peace Action Committee, which supports Students for Justice in Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine. In 2024, Tides funded Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus protests through its donations to Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow.
Tides granted $286,000 to the Alliance for Global Justice in 2023, which served as the fiscal sponsor of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in October 2024 as a “sham charity” providing material support to the PFLP, a terrorist organization that participated in the October 7 Hamas attack.
The same funding pipeline extended into foreign politics. Between 2021 and 2024, USAID and the State Department awarded more than $50 million to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA). During that period, RPA donated $557,000 to its affiliate, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), which then provided approximately $4 million to groups funding anti-Israel protests in the United States and Israel, including $440,000 to Jewish Voice for Peace.
RPA maintained that its federally funded projects had “no direct relation to Israel.” The committee’s counterargument was that federal grants covering one part of a nonprofit’s budget free up other funds for unrelated activities.
The House Judiciary Committee’s July 2025 memo on Israel provides the most fully documented instance of the complete pipeline. The Biden-Harris administration provided $42,000 to the Movement for Quality Government to conduct Civic Activism Training in Israeli high schools.
PEF Israel Endowment Funds provided over $884 million to groups involved in anti-democracy protests. The Jewish Communal Fund provided over $42.8 million to the anti-Netanyahu protest headquarters and its two main funders. Abraham Initiatives, a U.S. government grantee that received approximately $2 million in federal funds, led anti-government protests in Israel and, according to a 2023 audit, failed to comply with anti-terrorism procedures in a USAID-funded program.
The committee concluded the Biden administration “provided grant funds to groups that contributed directly and indirectly to the judicial reform protests that sought to undermine the Israeli government.”
The terrorism connections were not limited to pass-through funding. The Middle East Forum found evidence of $164 million in approved USAID grants, $122 million of which ended up supporting radical or terror-tied organizations. The Bayader Association for Environment and Development in Gaza received at least $900,000 in U.S. government funding despite openly collaborating with Hamas officials and holding joint events with Hamas leaders. USAID issued a grant to Bayader on October 1, 2023, one day before the Hamas attack on Israel.
World Vision, a humanitarian NGO receiving USAID grants, sub-awarded funds to the Islamic Relief Agency, a group sanctioned for financing terrorism. A 2023 USAID Inspector General audit found two material instances of noncompliance with anti-terrorism reporting procedures in one USAID-funded program.
At a House Oversight DOGE Subcommittee hearing in June 2025, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene described what she called the “Democrat Circle of Life”: a Democrat administration creates grant programs for NGOs and directs taxpayer resources to those organizations; former officials then leave government to work for the NGOs, collect taxpayer-funded salaries, and donate to Democrat campaigns. Greene stated, “Federal agencies fund the NGOs, and the NGOs shape the agencies’ behavior. It can be hard to tell where the government ends, and the NGO begins.”
Federal Election Commission data show that 97% of USAID employees’ personal donations went to Democrats. Personnel records show former USAID officials moving into Democrat-aligned NGOs. USAspending.gov records show those NGOs receiving taxpayer grants, while FEC data show NGO leaders donating to Democrat campaigns.
The central mechanism enabling this pipeline is fungibility. As Rep. Jim Jordan stated, “Money is fungible. It’s tough to track exactly, but it looks like some of this money was also then being run through one or two NGOs, winding up on college campuses.” When USAID funds one part of an NGO’s budget, the organization’s other funds are freed for protests and political activism without the grant explicitly authorizing those activities.
BRITISH POWER PLAYS: Outgoing PM Keir Starmer Reportedly Sabotaging Leftist Successor Andy Burnham at Every Step
June 23, 2026
Outgoing PM Starmer and presumed new Labour leader Burnham – Wiki Commons
Is Starmer purposely sabotaging his ‘assassin’?
Yesterday (22), as he announced his resignation in front of the Number 10 Downing Street residence, outgoing premier Keir Starmer said that he would bow to pressure from Labour MPs ‘with good grace’.
But today, reports are piling up, suggesting his behavior is anything but gracious.
To begin with, ironically, the Andy Burnham team is mad at Starmer for resigning too fast.
Daily Mail columnist Dan Hodges put it like that: “Team Burnham’s fury at Starmer for refusing to stay on until September. ‘Andy’s not going to be close to being ready to be Prime Minister.’”
Can’t believe I missed this.
How the HELL can the BBC justify spending licence fee payers’ money on a helicopter to follow a sodding train that Andy Burnham in on?
The same Daily Mail later published a full report by Hodges on this:
“As one Starmer ally told me: ‘He’s not going to sit in No 10 twiddling his thumbs while Burnham gets his robes measured for a coronation. If the party wants him to keep the ship steady through an [internal] election, fine. But if not, he won’t be hanging around.’
Within Labour’s deeply divided ranks, there are two interpretations of Starmer’s decision. To his supporters – and even several of his erstwhile opponents – this is the legitimate response of a man who has just been brutally driven from office and can’t be expected to have his assassin’s best interests at heart.
As one Starmer ally told me: ‘Andy’s team were desperate for him to wait until September to hand over. They wanted time to properly prepare. Well, tough. You asked for this. You’ve spent the past month telling everyone, ‘That’s politics: You don’t get to choose when you enter or leave the stage’. Fine. Stop crying, suck it up, and get on with it.’
Within Team Burnham, there is a view that Starmer is guilty of deliberate sabotage. ‘He’s tried to kneecap us before we’ve even started,’ one told me last night. ‘He could have waited till the [September’s party] conference, and we could have had a respectful handover. But he’s decided just to walk away’.”
Team Burnham pressed Keir Starmer to stay on over the summer to give their man time to prepare for power. Starmer rebuffed them in no uncertain manner: you’re forcing me out because you think I’m useless. So why should I wait til September at your convenience?
As I said on…
“Sir Keir Starmer has refused to delay the publication of his defense budget any further, despite allies of Andy Burnham saying he has no right to go ahead with it.
The outgoing Prime Minister is planning to unveil his defense investment plan (DIP) in time for the Nato summit in Turkey on July 7. However, he is expected to be replaced by Mr. Burnham as soon as July 17 in what is expected to be a short transition of power.
Downing Street has insisted that Sir Keir would finalize the DIP – which has been at the center of a major row at the heart of Government – in the next fortnight. Allies of Mr. Burnham argued that Sir Keir should not be able to make such long-term spending commitments just weeks before he is likely to leave Downing Street.
They said the gravity of the situation demanded that Mr, Burnham – assuming he replaces Sir Keir – made all final decisions regarding the DIP, which would outline British military spending for the next decade.”
Las Vegas Middle School Teacher Admits to Breaking Policies, Pushing LGBTQ+ on 11-Year-Old Children… “Everyone Should Be a Little Gay” (VIDEO)
June 23, 2026
The O’Keefe Media Group caught a Las Vegas middle school teacher breaking policies and pushing LGBTQ+ propaganda onto 11-year-old children.
Christopher Segal, an English teacher at Gunderson Middle School was caught on hidden camera admitting he coaches minors on coming out as queer.
The teacher, who goes by “Mx” also admitted to condemning black “MAGA” kids and lashed out at parents for not being supportive of their queer kids.
“I’ve had kids ask me, like, coach them on coming out [as Queer],” Christopher Segal told the undercover OMG journalist.
Segal admitted to breaking the law by calling the kids by their preferred pronouns.
“I break the law [CCSD Policies] and still call kids what they want me to call them,” he said.
“They [Kids] come out [as Queer], and I’m like, “awesome.” They know I’m queer,” Segal said.
“I had a group of, like, four boys who, at the bottom there, just did giant MAGA letters. And I was like, and two of them were black kids. Why are you MAGA kids?” he said.
WATCH:
EXPOSED: Las Vegas Middle School Teacher Who Instructs 11 Year Olds Admits To Breaking @ClarkCountySch District Pronoun Policies, Reveals To Pushing LGBTQ+ On Children “Everyone Should Be a Little Gay,” Spills That He Coaches Minors On Coming Out As Queer, Condemns School Parents… pic.twitter.com/IbZ1dpgKMw
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