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Muslim group to sue Florida governor

Fla gov Ron DeSantis
© Joe Raedle/StaffFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said on Tuesday it would sue Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after the Republican labeled the group a "foreign terrorist organization." CAIR called the move unconstitutional and defamatory.

DeSantis signed an executive order on Tuesday designating CAIR as a "foreign terrorist organization" and urged state agencies to act against anyone who provides "material support" to the group.

In response, CAIR's Florida branch announced a lawsuit, saying the governor's "designation has no basis in law or fact." Deputy executive director Hiba Rahim said at a news conference that the order was an attack rooted in conspiracy theories and compared it to past efforts that targeted Jewish, Irish, and Italian American communities.

The order alleges CAIR has ties to Palestinian militant group Hamas and it instructs Florida agencies to prevent CAIR from receiving "any state contracts, employment or funding."

Dollars

Surprise! (not): Oklahoma BLM leader latest to be accused of blowing funds on trips, real estate, shopping sprees

black lives matter protest flag
© Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images
There appears to be a pattern of BLM activists using donations to enrich themselves.

The leftist identitarian organization Black Lives Matter has long been attractive to bad actors keen to manufacture outrage and cash in on liberal guilt. While some BLM activists have already been exposed as criminals, it appears the rot goes far deeper.

The Justice Department announced on Thursday that a federal grand jury has indicted the executive director of Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City, Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, on charges of wire fraud and money laundering.

'It is not about me at all.'

Dickerson, a 52-year-old pro-abortion and pro-Palestinian activist, is accused of embezzling millions of dollars and blowing various funds on recreational travel, shopping, real estate, and even a new vehicle.

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Star of David

1,000 Christian Zionist pastors from the US visit Israel on trip funded by the Israeli Foreign Ministry

HuckabeeIsrael
© Huckabee X accountMike Huckabee, US Ambassador to Israel • Pastor Summit
An evangelical pastor who helped organize the summit called for Trump to support Israel annexing the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

A group of more than 1,000 American Christian Zionist pastors and influencers has spent a week in Israel on an all-expenses-paid trip that was funded by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Tuesday.

Mike Evans, an evangelical pastor who helped organize the trip, told CBN News:
"This is the first time in history that the state of Israel has officially partnered with 1,000 strategic pastors to commission them as ambassadors to combat antisemitism and reach the youth of their generation. Right now there's an ideological war that Israel is losing, so they need the evangelicals, they need the Zionists to fight an ideological war."
Christian Zionists like Evans believe that the modern state of Israel has the right to all of the land in historic Palestine, including the Israeli-occupied West Bank, based on the Bible, a view that has its roots in dispensationalism, a Christian theology developed in the US in the 19th century.

Gavel

Derek Chauvin seeks new trial in George Floyd murder case

Derek Chauvin
© APDerek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis Police Officer convicted in the murder of George Floyd, is appealing his case to the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is seeking a new trial in the murder of George Floyd. Chauvin has served five years of his 22½-year sentence.

Chauvin was convicted of murder charges. Chauvin and officers Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao were found guilty on federal charges of violating Floyd's civil rights.

In 2021, Judge Peter Cahill sentenced Chauvin to more than the recommended 12.5 years because Chauvin occupied a position of authority as a police officer, and because he demonstrated particular cruelty in the killing.

His attorney filed court documents asking that three criminal convictions be vacated. The filing accuses prosecutors of misconduct and argues that false testimony from expert witnesses deprived Chauvin of a fair trial.

Question

Burglary at Francois Hollande's home raises questions over security

François Hollande
© Joel Saget/AFPFrançois Hollande
François Hollande's Paris home has been burgled, raising questions about the former French president's security.

Two men have been arrested and charged over the alleged break-in and theft, which took place on Nov 22 but only came to light on Tuesday. Two bodyguards were expected to be on duty.

A source close to Mr Hollande, 71, said he was "shocked" but that police had reacted swiftly to the burglary, limiting the consequences for the former leader and his partner, Julie Gayet, a 53-year-old actress and producer.

Police in Paris confirmed that intruders forced entry into Mr Hollande's home in the capital's eastern 20th arrondissement, when he and Ms Gayet were out.

Bizarro Earth

The world moves on from climate change leaving Australia on a sinking ship

Sinking Ship
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It was never about The Science

And so we find that the global consensus quietly dispersed, there were no press releases, no ceremonies, just the dawning realization that nearly everyone had left the party without saying goodbye. And they didn't wait for the UN to say "the science" was fine. The herd is on the move regardless...

One of the top majordomos at BHP delivers the bad news to Anthony Albanese. Everywhere on Earth is more attractive to a miner than Australia is. The world has changed, and everyone wants cheap energy, critical minerals, and lower taxes and other countries are giving it to them. Even Canada (ferrgoodnesssake!) is "walking back policies that the country can't afford". While Australia is the last nation on Earth steaming ahead to Renewable-nirvana.

Brandon Craig specifically mentions problems with climate targets, competitively priced energy, and Net Zero.

In the nicest possible way he's telling our PM that his Net Zero plan is a dog.

Gavel

Unsealed documents show Wisconsin judge in Trump electors case didn't write his own ruling

Dane County Circuit Court Judge John Hyland Wisconsin
Wisconsin's Dane County Circuit Court Judge John Hyland
Unsealed documents accuse retired Dane County Judge Frank Remington of ghostwriting Judge John Hyland's order rejecting a dismissal motion.

Explosive new court documents unsealed Tuesday detail the alleged judicial misconduct of the Wisconsin judge presiding over a politically-driven criminal case targeting the attorneys who represented the 2020 Trump campaign in the battleground Badger State. Dane County Circuit Court Judge John Hyland had outside help from a former judge with a "grudge," according to the court filings.

Hyland, in so many words, told defendants to go pound sand. He will not remove himself from the case and the march to a perfectly-timed election-year trial will go on. To the people who feel more than ever that it will be impossible to get a fair trial in far-left Dane County, the judge effectively said, Trust me.

Earlier this week, attorneys for Jim Troupis, President Donald Trump's Wisconsin recount counselor following the rigged 2020 presidential election, filed several motions not only asking Hyland and his staff to step aside, but to vacate the judge's August order rejecting the defendants' motion to dismiss the case. The omnibus motion and an appendix spelling out the allegations were sealed — that is until Hyland opened them Tuesday afternoon.

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Hardhat

The hidden force driving the HIRE Act, which threatens to flood the US with even more foreign workers

ITServe alliance logo guest foreign workers visa pipeline
For more than a decade, a powerful, foreign-aligned organization has operated largely out of public view while quietly reshaping America's immigration system to serve its own economic interests. That organization, ITServe Alliance, is a consortium of more than 2,200 outsourcing and labor-brokerage companies tied overwhelmingly to India's IT services pipeline. Though it presents itself to lawmakers as a domestic business association promoting "innovation" and "high-skilled talent," its internal statements, litigation campaigns and foreign partnerships tell a very different story.

Today, ITServe stands as the primary force behind the deceptively branded High-skilled Immigration Reform for Employment (HIRE) Act legislation marketed as modernization, but engineered to inject an even larger volume of foreign labor into the U.S. workforce.

The HIRE Act was first introduced at the end of 2022 by Indian-born Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D.-Ill., then reintroduced in 2023 and 2025. Across every version, the objective is identical: Expand access to foreign labor - especially from India - and widen the H-1B pipeline for employers and outsourcing firms. Each iteration pushes the same agenda: More H-1B inflow, fewer caps, accelerated green cards, reduced scrutiny on H-1B-dependent employers and broader offshore labor channels that benefit visa-dependent staffing companies, not American workers.

Handcuffs

Irish teacher who refused to 'call a boy a girl' in trans row will remain in jail for Christmas, judge rules

Enoch Burke
Burke (centre right) leaving the High Court in Dublin
A teacher who refused to 'call a boy a girl' will remain in prison over Christmas after he was jailed last month for contempt of court, a judge has ordered.

Enoch Burke has been detained in Mountjoy Prison since late November for breaches of a court order directing him not to trespass at Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath, where he worked as a teacher.

He has been engaged in a legal dispute with the board of the school stemming from a request in 2022 from the then-principal that a student be addressed by a new name and pronoun.

Since then, Burke has been found to have repeatedly trespassed on school property in breach of court orders.

He was brought before the High Court in Dublin on Wednesday for a hearing on several matters relating to the dispute.

Bizarro Earth

Best of the Web: 'No US citizens': Meet the IT firms discriminating against American workers

lancesoft tech discriminate americans h-1b
© LanceSoft/LinkedInLanceSoft has been found to actively discriminate against American citizens in its hiring practices
The job post for LanceSoft, an IT staffing firm committed to "diversity, equality, and inclusivity," began innocently enough.

The $60-per-hour role would be based in Santa Clara, Calif., focus on "technical support," and entail a 3-10 p.m. shift. Posted on Nvoids, an IT jobs aggregator, the ad described LanceSoft as an equal opportunity employer and said that the firm, one of the largest staffing agencies in the country, strives "to be as diverse as the clients and employees we partner with."

"We embrace people of any race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender identity, and sexual orientation," the Nov. 25 post read.

This particular job, however, would not be open to a very large group of people: citizens of the United States.

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