Soros-Funded Group That Helps Unemployed Adults Obtain Food Stamps Leads Charge Against Work Requirements in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
More than 3.1 million jobless working-age adults without disabilities or dependents receive food stamp benefits, in part due to a Soros-funded nonprofit group that collaborates with states to secure federal work requirement waivers. That same group is now falsely claiming that homeless people, veterans, and former foster youth will lose access to food stamp benefits under the Republican reconciliation bill.
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The Ongoing Failure Of Affirmative Action
'What is your strategy?' Stephen A. Smith blasts Democrats for opposing Trump with no policy ideas
Broadcaster Stephen A. Smith does not think the Democrats have a real policy plan and warned the party could lose more ground in the 2026 midterms.
Smith, who is continuously in the news as a possible candidate for the 2028 Democratic ticket, received an endorsement of sorts from President Trump during a recent town hall event, with the president even calling him "a good guy."
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The ESPN personality has not been shy about his problems with Democrats being too far left, and he continued his critiques of some of the party's most prominent voices like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas).
On his podcast, "The Stephen A. Smith Show," the host chastised the women for simply opposing President Trump while offering no alternative plan.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at a "Fight Oligarchy" event in New York City in May 2025. Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images
"When I hear Jasmine Crockett talking about how 'I'm just against all things and everything Trump,' is that legislating?" Smith asked. "Isn't it an obligation that you have to come up with something?"
Smith invoked President Barack Obama as a Democrat who knew how to battle partisanship and reach out to Republicans and said Democrats need to back down from their position of perceived authority in order get at least some "of what [they] want."
'If you don't come up with an answer soon, Trump and his peeps are going to answer it for you.'
Smith continued, "With what AOC is doing, what Bernie Sanders is doing, with what Jasmine Crockett is doing, I don't know if that's going to win you back one of the houses of Congress come 2026."
The host then asked Democrats point-blank, "What is your strategy? That's all I'm asking. It's a question for Democrats everywhere because if you don't come up with an answer soon, Trump and his peeps are going to answer it for you, and they're going to win the midterms in 2026, and then you'll really be up s***'s creek."
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AOC has been traveling the country with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on a "Fight Oligarchy" tour aimed at the president and special government employees like Elon Musk.
This continual push for outrage over issues like illegal immigration, the Department of Government Efficiency, and tariffs has caused a significant amount of "outrage fatigue" among the populous, according to news commentator Ian Miles Cheong.
"The Democrats do not have a real strategy apart from trying and failing to generate outrage against him," Cheong told Blaze News. "Judging from the low inflation and increases in job creation, that's unlikely to happen unless something major — some black swan event — occurs."
Unfortunately for the Democrats, internal conflict has likely gotten in the way of the party presenting a unified vision, Cheong concluded.
"It doesn't look like they’ll come to terms with reality until after the current election cycle."
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How Left-Wing Bureaucrats Hijacked the Bidding Process for Georgia's Multibillion-Dollar Medicaid Contract
How will you ensure access to dental care across the state of Georgia? That's the sort of question the state's Department of Community Health asked in 2015 to determine which insurance providers would administer Medicaid to millions of people across the state. Then, last year, the state reopened the bidding process for the multibillion-dollar contract—and senior career staffers hijacked it to insert a question related to transgender children into the bidding process, internal documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.
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Democrat-Controlled Trade Tribunal Rules Against Menthol Vape-Maker, Contravening Trump's Opposition to Menthol Bans
A little-known, Democrat-controlled trade tribunal ruled against the maker of the country's only FDA-approved menthol e-cigarettes, a controversial decision that seemingly defies several aspects of the Trump administration agenda. The commission issued the ruling before President Donald Trump could fill two vacant positions at the tribunal, which is required by law to have an equal number of Democrats and Republicans.
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Inside State-Run 'Bias-Response Hotlines,' Where Fellow Citizens Can Report Your 'Offensive Joke'
In January 2020, the top law enforcement agency in the state of Oregon launched a "Bias Response Hotline" for residents to report "offensive ‘jokes.’" Staffed by "trauma-informed operators" and overseen by the Oregon Department of Justice, the hotline, which receives thousands of calls a year, doesn’t just solicit reports of hate crimes and hiring discrimination. It also asks for reports of "bias incidents"—cases of "non-criminal" expression that are motivated, "in part," by prejudice or hate. Oregonians are encouraged to report their fellow citizens for things like "creating racist images," "mocking someone with a disability," and "sharing offensive ‘jokes’ about someone’s identity."
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Biden wants to put a gloss on his foreign policy failures — these failures included
President Joe Biden, apparently keen to rewrite history before fading into it, will reportedly seize on the opportunity Monday to once again characterize his disastrous presidency and foreign policy blunders as successes.
According to the the Associated Press, the deeply unpopular 82-year-old Democrat is expected to claim in his capstone address regarding his foreign policy legacy that he and his administration restored American credibility on the world stage and strengthened critical alliances supposedly strained by his predecessor's prioritization of American citizens. Biden is reportedly also planning to suggest that he provided the world with a "steady hand" during his four scandal-plagued years in office.
Biden's Monday speech at the State Department's headquarters will bookend his first major foreign policy speech on-site where he suggested on Feb. 4, 2021, both that "the muscle of democratic alliances ... have atrophied over the past few years of neglect and, I would argue, abuse" and that the U.S. under President-elect Donald Trump had ceased to stand "shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies and key partners."
In addition to promising to advance the security of the American people ahead of letting well over 10 million foreign nationals steal into the homeland, Biden said that he would be effective in dealing with Russia and counter communist China's "aggressive, coercive action," as well as end the war in Yemen, which is covered in the Obama administration's fingerprints.
Biden, Democratic lawmakers, and their devotees in the liberal media emphasized at the outset of his presidency that the "adults [we]re back in charge," President-elect Donald Trump serving as the point of comparison.
Trump, embracing Ronald Reagan's "peace through strength" approach in his first term, previously
- brokered the formal normalization of diplomatic relations between various Arab states and Israel;
- made good on past administrations' promises to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem;
- whacked Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi;
- signed an executive order temporarily banning nationals from six Islamic terrorism hotbeds from traveling to the U.S.;
- pressured NATO allies to meet their financial obligations in the way of defense spending;
- put North Korea’s Kim Jong-un on notice with the threat of "fire and fury like the world has never seen";
- negotiated a new trade agreement with South Korea and an updated version of NAFTA with Canada and Mexico;
- withdrew from the 2015 Paris climate accord and United Nations Human Rights Council;
- largely defeated ISIS in Syria;
- pulled out of the Iran nuclear agreement;
- reoriented the U.S. national security apparatus from a Middle Eastern focus to instead a focus on competing with communist China;
- levied tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Chinese goods;
- re-established the Quad partnership with Australia, India, and Japan; and
- managed various other foreign policy successes, including breaking from his predecessor's longstanding custom of starting a new war.
With his alternatively "steady hands" on the reins, Biden steered Americans into danger and American foreign policy through embarrassment after embarrassment.
For instance, Biden botched the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Amid the confused exit during which the U.S.-backed Afghan government imploded, an Islamic terrorist — who reportedly had been released amid the chaos just days earlier from the Parwan prison at Bagram Air Base — detonated a suicide bomb on Aug. 26, 2021, at Abbey Gate, the last route open for Afghans into the Hamid Karzai International Airport, killing 11 U.S. Marines, a soldier, a sailor, and hundreds of Afghans, and leaving 45 other U.S. service members wounded.
Beside endangering service members and leaving multitudes of Americans behind, Biden also left the Taliban with over $7 billion worth of military equipment.
One intelligence assessment estimated that among the hardware left behind for the Islamic extremist regime were 2,000 armored vehicles and 40 aircraft, including UH-60 Black Hawks, scout attack helicopters, and ScanEagle military drones.
Biden proved unable or unwilling to extend a steady hand to the hundreds of thousands of Christian Armenians of the former Republic of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, who were violently displaced in recent years by the Islamic Azerbaijani regime.
Azerbaijan, which the Biden administration has provided with military assistance despite its alleged war crimes and torture of Armenian prisoners, launched a blitzkrieg on the Armenian enclave in September 2023, killing hundreds of people, destroying churches, and forcing the Christian population to flee, in many cases on foot.
The apparent ethnic cleansing took place within days of a State Department official suggesting that the U.S. would not "countenance any action or effort, short-term or long-term, to ethnically cleanse or commit other atrocities against the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh."
'The United States is in a worse geopolitical position today than it was four years ago.'
Azerbaijan was not the first aggressor nation to realize that Biden was big on talk and light on action.
Despite Biden's "steady hand" and foreknowledge of an imminent "incursion," Russia invaded Ukraine under the Democratic president's watch, this time on a scale far exceeding its previous invasion of Crimea during the Obama-Biden years. Biden has slapped Russia with numerous sanctions, poured over $175 billion into the occupied nation, and risked a direct shooting war with Russia by authorizing Ukraine's use of long-range American missiles, yet an armistice in the region remains out of his reach.
During a press conference ahead of the invasion where Biden suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin "does not want any full-blown war," the Democratic president stressed that Putin "is trying to find his place in the world between China and the West." It appears that with the Biden administration's persistent nudging, Putin has found a close friend in communist China — constituting another major foreign policy blunder.
Brahma Chellaney, professor emeritus of strategic studies at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, noted last year that:
It is U.S. President Joe Biden's foreign policy that has helped turn two natural competitors into strategic collaborators. A forward-looking approach would have avoided confronting Russia and China simultaneously, lest it drive the two nuclear-armed powers into an unholy alliance. But Biden has managed to lock horns with both Moscow and Beijing simultaneously, though it should be noted that his China policy is comparatively softer and more conciliatory.
Like other critics, Chellaney noted that U.S. sanctions on Russia have effectively transformed Beijing into Moscow's banker and more than doubled trade between the two nations.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said in October 2024 that Beijing's relationship with Moscow would be strengthened in the coming months, as Russian gas exports to China continue to surge and the BRICs organization continues to grow in strength relative to American-led economic organizations.
Just a year into Biden's presidency, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) noted that "the president's weakness on the world stage has only emboldened our adversaries to become more aggressive in their rhetoric and their actions."
Over the past four years, China, America's preeminent adversary, has ramped up its attacks on American cyber infrastructure and sovereignty, evidently thinking little of Biden and his occasional tough talk.
The Wall Street Journal revealed in September, for instance, that the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Salt Typhoon compromised at least eight American telecommunications companies, including AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI said in a joint statement, "We have identified that PRC-affiliated actors have compromised networks at multiple telecommunications companies to enable the theft of customer call records data, the compromise of private communications of a limited number of individuals who are primarily involved in government or political activity, and the copying of certain information that was subject to U.S. law enforcement requests pursuant to court orders."
Chinese hackers with ties to the communist government also stole at least 60,000 emails from State Department accounts during Biden's tenure; gained access to the computer networks of a major American transportation hub; and compromised Treasury Department computers.
Brushing Biden's "steady hand" aside, Beijing has also sent spy craft over the mainland U.S.; operated illegal police stations on American soil; threatened diplomats; and dispatched agents to execute espionage and political destabilization missions.
"The United States is in a worse geopolitical position today than it was four years ago," Stephen Wertheim, a historian and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, recently told CBS News. "The United States is immersed in a massive war on the European continent with serious escalation risks; it's back to bombing the Middle East with no end in sight; and it has entered into a full-spectrum strategic rivalry with China."
"The United States cannot expect to prioritize China while remaining the leading military power in Europe and the Middle East. If the United States truly wants to prioritize China, it needs to pull back elsewhere," added Wertheim.
Biden told USA Today in an interview last week, "I hope that history says that I came in and I had a plan how to restore the economy and reestablish America's leadership in the world."
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Anti-Semitism, DEI, and Skyrocketing Costs: The Challenges Facing Incoming Education Secretary Linda McMahon
Over the past four years, colleges and universities have violated the civil rights of Jewish students. Transgender ideology has proliferated, threatening women's sports. And diversity, equity, and inclusion have increasingly trumped merit in the hiring and accreditation processes.
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Top Neuropsychology Organizations Poised To Make ‘Equity, Justice, and Inclusion’ a Core Part of Training Guidelines
The top neuropsychology organizations in North America may soon adopt training guidelines that call on clinicians to use "social justice frameworks," acknowledge "systemic oppression," and pursue "equitable and just scientific knowledge," according to a copy of the guidelines reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
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