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[ad_1] President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused other countries—particularly China—of attempting to influence American politics, all while his administration is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to shape political debates abroad. The State Department is currently accepting applications from MAGA-aligned groups in Europe for two or three grants, ranging from $1 million to $3 million, out of a total funding pot of about $4.9 million. The grants are intended to fund research, conferences, cultural programs, and civil-society groups addressing “mass migration,” national sovereignty, and lawfare, all in the name of defending “our common Western civilizational heritage.” The agency is also looking…

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[ad_1] President Donald Trump claimed that the Iranian government is not engaging in honest negotiations with the US.  “Iranian Leadership is unbelievably duplicitous! They ask for a meeting, some would say ‘beg,’ talks begin, with more scheduled in the immediate future,” he wrote on Truth Social Monday. “And they say, openly and proudly, that they’re not having any discussions, that nothing is being talked about, and they’re only dealing with ‘Oman.’” On Sunday, Trump said that he called off a major attack on Iran at the request of Tehran and because the parameters of a deal had been reached. The…

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[ad_1] Readers of the blog may recall a certain John Doe who is suing Penn, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Berkeley for alleged discrimination; he argues, among other things, that “in service of their goal to [exterminate] or enslave all non-Jews, the Jewish supremacists discriminate [against] non-Jewish whites,” including him. He also seeks to proceed under a pseudonym, partly because he claims a fear of physical harm: So far, courts have rejected his pseudonymity claim, and he’s appealing the decision in his Penn case to the Third Circuit. But in the meantime, what to do about his other cases? Well, in the…

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[ad_1] Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. froze a $130 million crypto wallet linked to Iran’s IRGC as part of a broader effort to track and seize assets tied to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and increase economic pressure on Tehran. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Fox News on Tuesday that the United States froze a crypto wallet linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps worth $130 million, part of a campaign to track the assets of Iran’s supreme leader around the world. “We are tracking these accounts all over the world,” Bessent said, in remarks that framed the Treasury work…

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