Yesterday, Speaker Mike Johnson spoke confidently about the passage of a bill that Republicans were putting on the floor that would limit the number of U.S. Supreme Court Justices to nine. Johnson also mentioned that they had secured the votes of some Democrats who were not part of the far-left faction who would be voting with them today.

Johnson explained that in addition to defunding the police, abolishing the border and abolishing prisons, that Democrats would like to pack the U.S. Supreme Court. After referring to the New Democrat Party as “Democrat Socialists and Democrat Communists,” Johnson said, “They’re gonna get a chance to show us,” where stand tomorrow.

After explaining that an amendment to change the U.S. Constitution requires a 2/3 vote, he told the media, that Republican House members “priorities are the same as the American people’s priorities,” which was a subtle way of reminding everyone how out-of-touch Democrats are with their constituents.

Speaker Johnson just dropped the hammer.

A constitutional amendment to LOCK the Supreme Court at NINE justices hits the House floor TOMORROW.

“We will keep the nine.” pic.twitter.com/vzUFuXOq4G

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) September 1, 2026

Only moments ago, the Democrat Socialists and Democrat Communists did exactly what Mike Johnson dared them to do, they voted against locking down the number of U.S. Supreme Court Justices at nine.

Eric Daugherty posted a clip from Fox News announcing the disturbing news.

ALL BUT ONE HOUSE DEMOCRAT JUST VOTED TO PACK THE SUPREME COURT

Speaker Johnson just forced them to admit it: 212-206, the measure has FAILED which would’ve blocked the Supreme Court from being packed, keeping it at 9 Justices

They just told America they FULLY intend to weaponize SCOTUS if they re-take power!

This, with making DC and Puerto Rico states + nationwide mass mail-in voting + no voter ID + open borders is HOW THEY STEAL AMERICA

ALL BUT ONE HOUSE DEMOCRTAT JUST VOTED TO PACK THE SUPREME COURT

Speaker Johnson just forced them to admit it: 212-206, the measure has FAILED which would’ve blocked the Supreme Court from being packed, keeping it at 9 Justices

They just told America they FULLY intend to… pic.twitter.com/DtScbsF2fp

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 2, 2026

A constitutional amendment is what it would take to lock the Court at nine justices. Packing it with more seats takes only a statute — and that statute is close to impossible while President Trump holds the veto.

Perhaps putting the names of Democrats in swing districts on the record who voted against limiting the number of seats on the Supreme Court wasn’t such a bad idea afterall. Unless they live in a solidly blue district, making Democrat U.S. Representatives show their constiuents who they really are is probably a very good strategy and can be used to harm them in the midterms.

The Constitution does not freeze the Supreme Court at nine justices. Article III leaves the number to Congress. Nine is a statute from 1869. If Democrats should win the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms, they could introduce a bill creating extra seats, pass it through the House by simple majority, and pass it through the Senate — but only with 60 votes if Republicans filibuster, or by first changing Senate rules with 51 votes to kill that filibuster. Confirming the new justices is a separate, simple-majority vote.

That still is not enough. The new Congress arrives in January 2027. President Trump would definitely veto the bill. Overriding a veto takes two-thirds of both chambers, which a narrow midterm majority will not have. So control of the House and Senate in 2026 would likely not lead to Democrats adding more seats the Supreme Court.

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The NBA on Wednesday suspended Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and fined the team $30 million for violating the salary cap rules.

Per ESPN: The NBA has ruled on the Los Angeles Clippers in for salary cap circumvention investigations on Kawhi Leonard after yearlong probe — stripping the franchise of 5 first-round picks, issuing a $30 million fine to owner Steve Ballmer and suspensions for Ballmer, Lawrence Frank and Gillian Zucker, sources tell ESPN.

Kawhi Leonard will have to pay $700,000 in restitution for improper benefits by the Clippers for his uncle and former business rep, Dennis Robertson. No contract void or suspension for Leonard. And Robertson — who was fired by Leonard in June — is being banned by the NBA from all business dealings.

BREAKING: The NBA has ruled on the Los Angeles Clippers in for salary cap circumvention investigations on Kawhi Leonard after yearlong probe — stripping the franchise of 5 first-round picks, issuing a $30 million fine to owner Steve Ballmer and suspensions for Ballmer, Lawrence… pic.twitter.com/JCV5bI88BE

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) September 2, 2026

CNBC reported:

The NBA on Wednesday said it had suspended Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer for one year as part of a broad array of sanctions on the basketball team and its two most senior executives for violating the league’s salary cap circumvention rules related to star player Kawhi Leonard and four companies that did business with the team.

Ballmer “knowingly” sought to help Leonard obtain off-court income opportunities” worth millions of dollars, and approved a business deal that Ballmer “knew was a precondition for Aspiration Partners to enter into an endorsement agreement with Mr. Leonard, and for his failure to create conditions under which his organization abided by the NBA’s circumvention rules,” the league said.

The Clippers were also fined $30 million, and will forfeit five first-round picks in the NBA draft, one each year beginning with the 2029 draft. The Clippers and its personnel will be subject to a compliance and monitoring program overseen by the league office for five years, according to the NBA.

Clippers President of Business Operations Gillian Zucker was suspended without pay for one year, and President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank was suspended without pay for six months. Zucker and Frank were “primarily and directly culpable” for this organization’s misconduct, an investigation found.

Steve Ballmer a year ago

“We, the Clippers, have abided by the salary cap circumvention rules because that’s the right thing to do. And we have done that.” pic.twitter.com/tInl38BK54

— BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) September 2, 2026

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It’s well documented that Angel Reese may not have been the brightest bulb on the porch during her college years.

Angel Reese is lighting up the internet again with her 2024 quote on bikini shots.

This was from her podcast, “Unapologetically Angel” in September 2024.

Co-host: So when you were talking about being sexualized in the media, a lot of people were like, well, she asked for it.

Angel Reese: That’s what I’m saying. Like, what does that mean?

Co-host: I don’t know.

Angel Reese: I don’t get what that means because there are— I’m a beautiful girl. Like, I’m a beautiful woman. I’ve been posting pictures in my bikinis. I got a nice body and I work hard for it. And if I want to post a picture in my bikini, I should be able to without being sexualized. Where I’m saying I’m axxing for it or like, being able to have a moment where like I’m being vulgar or I’m, I’m this, that, like it is— and it’s the same, it’s just, it’s been happening for a really, really, really long time now. And now it’s just like, okay, like find something new.”

Co-host: I think once you reach a certain level of stardom, people forget that you’re a 22-year-old girl.

Angel Reese: I literally am 22. I don’t know, do other people go through this?

So… Does she not understand that men will sexualize a bikini photo? Isn’t that the only reason you would post a bikini shot?

Here is the video again – it’s making rounds today.

Via Brick Center.

Angel Reese on being sexualized:

“I’m a beautiful woman, I got a nice body, and I work hard for it. If I want to post a picture in my bikini, I should be able to without being sexualized.”

“I think once you reach a certain level of stardom, people forget that you’re a… pic.twitter.com/u7hbVBCvhf

— BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) August 29, 2026

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The culture of death has totally engulfed Canada.

Canada’s assisted suicide are rapidly (and disturbingly) expanded in recent years, with 5% of the deaths in the country currently due to MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying).

The demand for euthanasia in Canada is so high that doctors who provide it reportedly cannot keep up.

Now, a group of godless Canadian doctors is again pushing for euthanizing disabled newborn babies.

Daily News reported:

“As assisted deaths have become a major part of Canada’s health care system, the Quebec College of Physicians suggested legalizing euthanasia for infants born severely ill.

As The Atlantic noted, the practice is legal in the Netherlands – the first country to adopt it since Nazi Germany did it in 1939.

In 2022, Louis Roy from the Quebec College of Physicians raised the notion of euthanasia for babies up to a year old ‘who are born with severe deformations, very grave and severe medical syndromes, whose life expectancy and level of suffering are such that it would make sense to ensure that they do not suffer’.”

ICYMI – Doctors in Canada renew calls to euthanize infants born with disabilities, stating it “may be an appropriate treatment,” with the Quebec College of Physicians reiterating that deliberately ending a child’s life constitutes “care.” pic.twitter.com/X10VHTEuAy

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 28, 2026

Life News reported:

“The college first pushed the idea in 2022, when Dr. Louis Roy appeared before Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying. Roy said MAID could be considered for “babies from birth to one year of age” born with severe deformities or disabilities.

He described infants ‘who are born with severe deformations, very grave and severe medical syndromes, whose life expectancy and level of suffering are such that it would make sense to ensure that they do not suffer’.

[…] The public reaction in 2022 was immediate. Then-Liberal Disabilities Minister Carla Qualtrough rejected the idea on CBC Radio. ‘There is no world where I would accept that’, she said.”

Read more:

CULTURE OF DEATH: Canadian Parliamentary Committee Urges Government to Exclude People With Mental Illness From ‘Assisted Suicide’ Legislation

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The military conflict between the United States and Iran, now in its seventh month, escalated sharply this week. U.S. Central Command struck Iranian military targets on September 1, following a U.S. attack on IRGC rocket launchers at Larak Island on August 30 and a subsequent widening of the exchange of strikes. Iran retaliated with attacks on U.S.-linked bases in Jordan, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Iraq.

The fighting, which began February 28, has centered throughout on control of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil once passed daily before Iran began contesting it.

The U.S. imposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports on April 13 after talks in Islamabad aimed at ending the conflict collapsed. This was an economic-pressure measure targeting Iran’s trade and oil exports, distinct from the separate military campaign to clear mines and protect third-party shipping in the strait itself. According to CENTCOM’s own accounting, more than 20 warships have redirected 82 commercial vessels since the blockade restarted on July 14.

Yet, despite the presence of U.S. Navy security, on the evening of August 31, two supertankers, the Bahri-operated Sidr and the South Korean-operated Senegal Prosperity, were struck by unidentified projectiles minutes apart. These were the first attacks on commercial shipping there since CENTCOM declared the lanes clear of mines.

Taken together, the picture is neither of a reopened strait nor a fully closed one. Flows are severely reduced, though no longer at zero, and a growing share of regional oil is bypassing the waterway entirely. Some of these workarounds are benefiting U.S. allies, and many are expected to become permanent even after the conflict ends. This would permanently reduce both the strait’s importance and the IRGC’s ability to use it as leverage over regional oil exports.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, crude oil and petroleum liquids moving through the strait before the conflict averaged 20.4 to 21.6 million barrels per day in the fourth quarter of 2025. That volume fell to 14.6 million barrels per day in the first quarter of 2026 and then to just 4.9 million barrels per day in the second quarter. The EIA’s most recent Short-Term Energy Outlook, released on August 11, with the next update due September 9, assumes shipments will “remain severely constrained through August, with flows slowly increasing in September.”

Separately, as confirmed by the same EIA reporting, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been actively rerouting crude away from the strait. Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline, with a capacity of 7 million barrels per day, carries oil overland to Red Sea ports. The UAE’s Habshan-Fujairah pipeline adds another 1.8 million barrels per day of bypass capacity, with plans to double it.

Combining that roughly 8.8 million barrels per day of bypass capacity with the 4.9 million barrels per day that moved through the strait in the second quarter puts total regional throughput at approximately 13 to 14 million barrels per day. This is still below the pre-conflict baseline of roughly 20 million barrels per day, but it is much better than the situation just a few short weeks ago.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this week that oil pipelines would bypass the strait entirely within two years, making it “a worthless piece of water.” President Trump, for his part, used the moment to float renaming the waterway “Trump Strait” in a Wednesday-morning social media post, days after signing an order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America.”

Estimates of the economic toll on Iran vary by source. FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power put the total economic damage at approximately $144 billion, or roughly 40% of Iran’s pre-war GDP, with a plausible range of $50 billion to $300 billion. It attributed two-thirds of the damage to the U.S.-Israeli air campaign and one-third to the U.S. naval blockade.

The campaign’s most consequential strikes reportedly hit Iran’s petrochemical hubs at Mahshahr and Assaluyeh, including a March 18 strike on the South Pars complex, which accounted for more than 48% of Iran’s pre-war petrochemical output. Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani put the total direct and indirect damage even higher, at approximately $270 billion. That is close to the IMF’s estimate of Iran’s entire 2026 GDP of roughly $300 billion.

The economic strain is evident in Iran’s currency and inflation data. The rial fell to a record low of two million to the U.S. dollar in August, while year-over-year inflation reportedly reached 84%. Iranian state-affiliated media reported that real wages have more than halved over the past decade, with the base wage falling to the equivalent of $83 per month. U.S. strikes on Tehran’s petroleum storage and distribution infrastructure, combined with the naval blockade, have been linked to fuel shortages and long lines at gas stations in the capital.

Casualty figures diverge sharply depending on the source, and the cumulative toll has grown substantially since the conflict’s opening days. Iran’s Foundation of Martyrs and the independent Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) have put the cumulative number killed at between 3,468 and 3,636. U.S. and Israeli estimates put the toll at 6,000 or more. Estimates of the number injured range from 15,000, according to U.S. and Israeli figures, to 26,500, according to Iran’s Health Ministry.

Claims that Iran has requested negotiations are not clearly supported by the current record. In mid-August, Iran officially denied allegations that it had conducted back-channel talks with the U.S. through Kurdish intermediaries in Iraq. An IRGC spokesperson dismissed the claims as “fantasies from defeat and desperation.”

Monday, August 17, also marked the end of the 60-day ceasefire and negotiation window established by the Pakistani-mediated Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, signed in June. Separately, Pakistan reported “significant progress” in its mediation effort as of August 25, after Pakistan’s army chief and interior minister met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran.

However, no direct U.S.-Iran talks are currently underway. President Trump has said he does not expect Iran to agree to the terms he considers necessary, reiterating that Iran cannot be permitted to obtain a nuclear weapon.

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