Sleepy Joe is even more f—ed up than we expected. It’s Good Friday, April 18, 2025 Joe Biden, 82, is still eligible to run for president again in 2028, and hasn’t ruled anything out. The frail geezer shuffled gingerly back into the national spotlight this week, giving the…
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Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Fundraises For Columbia Activist in ICE Custody Who Endorsed Oct. 7 Attack
Isra Hirsi, the daughter of “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), promoted a fundraiser supporting Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia University student activist facing deportation over his support for Hamas. Hirsi, a far-left activist, anti-Israel agitator, and Barnard College senior, posted a screenshot of the GoFundMe with a…
Trump Admin Halts New York Offshore Wind Project, Orders Review of All Existing Biden-Era Wind Permits
The Trump administration is halting construction of a massive offshore wind project being built in federal waters off the coast of New York and ordering a sprawling review of existing offshore wind permits, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed the Bureau of Ocean…
Plagiarism Accusations Threaten To Upend Democrats’ Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Companies
A federal judge in Puerto Rico issued a scathing order last week accusing Democratic prosecutors on the island of plagiarizing nearly their entire 241-page complaint that blamed oil companies for causing global warming. In the order Wednesday, district court judge Aida Delgado-Colon outlined how David Efron, the lead…
Trump Critic Will Ruger Set To Join Administration
A top critic of President Donald Trump’s economic policy agenda has been tapped for a senior post in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. William Ruger, the former president of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), was named this week to serve as deputy director…
Northwestern Vandals Spray-Paint Hamas Triangles, ‘Intifada Now’ on Campus Building Housing Holocaust Center
Anti-Semitic vandals used red paint to write “Death to Israel” and draw Hamas triangles on a Northwestern University building that houses the school’s Holocaust center as Jewish students observe Passover. Unity of Fields, a self-described “militant front against the US-NATO-zionist axis of imperialism” that has vowed to bring…
‘Brilliant Friend’: Federal Judge Already Facing Recusal Request in Immigration Lawsuit Has Strong Ties to Lawyer Involved in the Case
An immigration activist suing the Trump administration to restore funding for a $769 million immigration contract has described the judge presiding over the lawsuit as her “brilliant friend,” giving potentially more fuel to the administration’s calls for the judge, Araceli Martinez-Olguin, to recuse herself from the high-profile case….
Attractive White Women Dominate WNBA Draft in Huge Win for DEI (PHOTOS)
The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), the nonprofit charitable arm of the National Basketball Association (NBA), has long claimed to support diversity, equity, and inclusion. Critics have argued these claims are bogus, primarily because attractive white women are woefully underrepresented in the league. The WNBA draft on Monday…
Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush Make ‘Big Announcement’: They’re Launching a Substack
Former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.) teased that he and his fellow ousted House Democrat, Cori Bush (Mo.), had “a big announcement” coming. The grand reveal? A Substack. “Stay tuned tomorrow. Me and Cori Bush got a big announcement. Big drop tomorrow. Stay tuned. Peace and love coming right…
ICE Arrests Columbia Student Activist Who Endorsed Oct. 7 Attack
ICE officials detained a Columbia University graduate student who led a coalition of anti-Israel groups and endorsed the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack. Mohsen Mahdawi had his green card revoked by the Trump administration and was taken into custody on Monday in Burlington, Vt., where he was scheduled…
‘Queer Scientist’ Charged With Firebombing Tesla Dealership, GOP Office in New Mexico
The Department of Justice has charged a self-identified “queer scientist” in the firebombings of a Tesla dealership and the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque. Jamison Wagner, 40, is accused of setting fire to multiple cars at a Tesla dealership on February 9 and vandalizing the facility with graffiti,…
Harvard Rejects Deal With Trump Admin, Putting Billions in Federal Funding at Risk
Harvard University told the Trump administration to pound sand—and take $9 billion in federal grant money along with it. The school has advised its attorneys not to pursue a deal with the administration over a series of demands, several aimed at combating anti-Semitism on campus, according to an…
Holding Space: Women Rejoice as Bezos Gal Pal, Others Make History
Lauren Sanchez, the body-positive icon and internationally beloved fiancée of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, thrust her way into the history books on Monday as part of the first all-female crew to travel to space.* Women around the world exuded feminist joy while watching Sanchez and her fellow crew…
Weekend Beacon 4/13/25
Amid the tumult over tariffs, let’s not forget a war rages on in the Middle East and terrorists are still holding innocent people hostage. Douglas Murray hasn’t forgotten. His latest book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, has just come out. Weekend Beacon…
Preeminent Wonk Kamala Harris May Launch an ‘Institute for Policy and Ideas.’ Here’s a Preview.
Kamala Harris, the preeminent intellectual of the Democratic Party, is thinking about launching “an institute for policy and ideas,” the New York Times reported this week. Its primary purpose, obviously, would be to solicit “donations” from wealthy Democrats seeking to curry favor with Harris ahead of her inevitable run…
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Parts Ways With Top DEI Officer In Wake of Free Beacon Report
NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory has parted ways with its top diversity officer, Neela Rajendra, after the Washington Free Beacon reported that the lab had changed her title in an effort to keep her. “Neela Rajendra is no longer working at [the Jet Propulsion Laboratory],” lab director Laurie Leshin…
‘Stop Dunking on Defenseless Girls’: Billboards Outside Masters, Braves Game Blast Jon Ossoff Over Trans Sports Vote
Mobile billboards spotted outside the Masters Tournament and a Braves game this week called on onlookers to tell Sen. Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.) to “STOP DUNKING on Defenseless Girls.” “Protect Girls’ Sports!” the billboards in Augusta and Atlanta read. They included the phone number for the Democrat’s congressional…
A Top Berkeley Official Said Trump Threatened Academic Freedom. She Forced Professors To Set Racial Quotas for Course Readings and Guest Lecturers.
On April 1, the chair of the University of California, Berkeley’s academic senate, Amani Nuru-Jeter, issued a dire warning about academic freedom. “Recent actions by the federal government,” she told colleagues in an email, “are chilling open inquiry and undermining self-governance at American universities.” She was referring to…
BEST WEEK EVER: Trump Frees Hottest US Hostage After Winning Trade War, Making Showers Great Again (PHOTOS)
President Donald Trump is having one of the best weeks of his presidency. The stock market surged on Wednesday after Trump declared victory against unfair trade practices. He also ended the Obama-Biden “war on water pressure” and “make America’s showers great again” by signing an executive order to…
Congressional Dems See Approval Rating Sink: Poll
Congressional Democrats remain in the dumps with voters nationally as they grapple with President Donald Trump’s opening months in office, according to a new poll. The fresh survey figures from research company Cygnal show that 55 percent of American voters view congressional Democrats unfavorably, up nearly 3 points…
Trump Admin Presses California Judge To Recuse Herself From Immigration Case Featuring Her Former Employer
The Trump administration is pressing a California judge to recuse herself from a lawsuit over funding for a federal immigration program, saying her past work for a plaintiff in the case creates “concerning conflicts of interest that have created a serious appearance of impropriety.” Last week, Araceli Martinez-Olguin,…
How a Lawsuit From Oct. 7 Victims, Including Bibas Family Uncle, Could Cripple Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera has long courted controversy for platforming terrorists across the Middle East, where it is banned from operating in Israel and some Arab countries for promoting extremist ideologies. But the Qatar-funded network’s support for Hamas terrorists isn’t just confined to the region, according to a new lawsuit…
Northwestern SJP Chapter, Quoting PFLP Terrorists, Urges Members to ‘Build an Intifada’ and ‘Destroy Amerika’
Northwestern University’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter held an anarchist training session for its members at which it cited propaganda from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group urging U.S. students to “build an Intifada” and “destroy amerika.” Northwestern’s Students for Justice in Palestine…
Outstanding Work, Doctor: How Jill Biden’s Lust for Power Saved America
Many have suspected that Dr. Jill Biden played a key role in saving the country by facilitating Donald Trump’s long-awaited return to the White House. Many have assumed the former first lady (and acting president of the United States) was possessed of an insatiable lust for power, which…
Top Dem Operative Bill Burton Behind PR Campaign for Facebook Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams
The former Facebook executive set to testify before Congress about her book, which alleges bad behavior at the social media giant, is getting public relations help from a top Democratic operative, an email reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon shows. The consulting firm founded by former Obama administration deputy…
Now They Tell Us: How Top Democrats Changed Their Tune on Biden’s Decline After the Election
Mainstream journalists spent the last four years “speaking truth to power” by helping Democrats lie to the American people about the extent of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. The truth can finally be told now that the election is over. The first of several books about the Democratic Party’s…
Weekend Beacon 4/6/25
Congratulations to Sen. Cory Booker for his record-breaking non-filibuster rant, which lasted 25 hours and 5 minutes. The previous record holder was South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond, who went 24 hours and 18 minutes. A source close to the late senator once told me Thurmond was equipped with something…
Murals at DC Protest Honor Terrorists
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Murals honoring Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists were featured Saturday at a protest that American Muslims for Palestine, a group recently accused of serving as Hamas’s “propaganda arm in New York City,” helped organize. Several Hamas flags, including one depicting a militant…