May 28, 2025
Dear Patriot,
Many people thought that once President Trump was back in The Oval, we would see quick progress on everything, and he has accomplished more by this time in his administration than in any other. Now, however, the corruption and resistance is becoming more apparent by the day.
The opposition the Trump Team faces now comes from Congress—including “Republicans”—and of course the communist media. Oh, and don’t forget, there is quite the problem of rampant corruption being exposed now throughout the government.
Trump derangement is still very real, and now there is the added obstacle of massive lawfare being waged against every Trump effort to clean up the country and enforce the laws. The Democrats are filing suits by the dozen and their radical shills on the federal bench are doing their bidding.
We are particularly frustrated by the Congress ignoring the enormous fraud and waste uncovered by Elon Musk and DOGE. No one in Congress appears to have the courage to take actionand put into law each of Trump’s initiatives. We all know executive orders help now, but they can be undone by the stroke of a pen by the next President. We must continue the public outcry to demand Congress stop giving our money to foreign countries and “non-profit” organizations run by their relatives or anyone.
We ask you to continue to pray for the strength, stamina and wisdom of the entire Trump Team and the President. They are surrounded by evil people whose only reason for living is to stop the Trump agenda.
The President continues to demonstrate his strength, patriotism, and resolve to do all he can for the people who make this country work.
We will follow that lead.
Today, we look into…
what is all the news about Harvard?
who is attending Harvard?
where has the Supreme Court been?
when we make steel, we are strong.
how can we all calm down?
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1- We begin today by sending the first part of a long X post by Harvard alum Bill Ackman. Mr. Ackman is a life long, liberal Democrat donor and voter who now supports the Trump agenda.
He is a hedge fund guy who has made billions. He sees the situation at Harvard as an opportunity to make it great again. If this is a topic you are interested in, read the entire piece at the link.
While Harvard does not directly impact the majority of Americans, it is a big example of culture that has gone off the tracks. Fixing Harvard is akin to throwing a rock in a still pond. The concentric circles of influence will eventually be felt by everyone…IF we can manage to make massive change.
It has saddened to me watch Harvard
QUOTE: It has saddened to me watch Harvard, a university that I love and from which I have greatly benefited, self-immolate through gross mismanagement, poor governance, and ideological capture that have occurred over the last 15 or so years, and that have been brought into clear focus beginning on October 8, 2023.
When a day after the launch of the Hamas attack on Israel, 33 Harvard student organizations held the victims “solely responsible” for the acts of the terrorists while their extraordinarily barbaric acts were still underway, I realized that something had gone profoundly wrong at my alma mater. Further investigations on campus, including interviews and meetings I held with students and faculty, led me to conclude that the issue was not simply one of anti-Zionism or antisemitism, but rather the anti-American ideological capture of a once-great educational institution that has grossly veered from its original mission of Veritas and academic and research excellence.
For nearly two decades, Harvard students have been taught that the world can only be understood as a battle between the oppressors and the oppressed, a dangerous anti-American neo-Marxist ideology that emerged on campus, permeated the administration and the faculty, and one which has been promulgated and implemented by Harvard’s Orwellian-named Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.
While the OEDIB has recently been renamed the Office for Community and Campus Life and has taken down its website in an attempt to avoid scrutiny from the Trump administration, it has otherwise remained under the same leadership, personnel, and mission.
Rather than promoting the issues suggested by its nomenclature, in practice, DEI as implemented at Harvard is a political advocacy movement that advocates and executes on behalf of certain groups that are deemed oppressed under the DEI methodology. Under DEI, one’s degree of oppression is determined based upon where one resides on a so-called intersectional pyramid of oppression where whites, Jews, and Asians are deemed oppressors, and a subset of people of color, LGBTQ people, and/or women are deemed to be oppressed. Under DEI’s ideology, any policy, program, educational system, economic system, grading system, admission policy, (and even climate change due its disparate impact on geographies and the people that live there), etc. that leads to unequal outcomes among people of different skin colors is deemed racist.
As a result, according to DEI, capitalism is racist, Advanced Placement exams are racist, IQ tests are racist, corporations are racist, or in other words, any merit-based program, system, or organization which has or generates outcomes for different races that are at variance with the proportion these races represent in the population at large is by definition racist under DEI’s ideology. But rather than being anti-racist, DEI and its ideological framework are profoundly racist and illegal, and an important contributor to what has gone wrong at Harvard in recent years.
DEI has poisoned Harvard admissions practices as evidenced by Harvard being found in violation of race-based admission practices by the Supreme Court. It has led to the decline of excellence and meritocracy at Harvard, both in the student body and in the faculty. It has allowed antisemitism to explode on campus where chants for “Free, Free Palestine, From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free, and Globalize the Intifada,” were dismissed as viewpoint diversity and free speech “depending on the context” by the previous Harvard President despite repeated warnings that such calls for global violence would lead to innocents being harmed.
If Harvard continues on its current path, it won’t be long before permanent and irreversible damage is done. Leadership and good governance require strong and decisive actions, particularly in the midst of a crisis. The time to start saving Harvard is now.
2- Great news!
60% of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's student slots may soon be open to actual AMERICAN students!
What a refreshing change that would be.
Harvard’s Kennedy School Could Lose 60% of Students Under International Ban
QUOTE: Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government could lose nearly 60% of its student body if the Trump administration’s attempted ban on international enrollment, temporarily blocked by a judge, takes effect.
Last week, a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump from denying Harvard the ability to enroll students on foreign visas. But the administration made clear it intends to stop Harvard from being able to enroll foreigners if it continues to defy the president’s demands that it fight antisemitism and reform its “woke” curriculum and administrative practices.
The Harvard Crimson reported on the potential impact: At the Harvard Kennedy School, the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke Harvard’s eligibility to enroll international students — temporarily blocked in court — could eliminate nearly 60 percent of the student body.
The Trump administration is already withholding billions of dollars of funding from Harvard, as the university has decided to pursue lawsuits against the administration rather than negotiating with it.
3- Like Sidney, John Eastman has been hounded by the left for the daring to represent and support President Trump.
Mr. Eastman is one of the notable legal minds in the country. Here is his run down on the mess being created by the Supreme Court on the issue of birthright citizenship. It appears several Justices have not been studying American law from the past half century.
Read it in full at the link.
John C. Eastman at The American Mind
Supreme Confusion
QUOTE: Attending oral argument last week in the case touching on birthright citizenship pending before the Supreme Court, I observed a combination of confusion, omissions, and outright lies from some of the justices. As the lawyer for one of the amici, I witnessed the Court address the propriety of the nationwide, universal injunctions that have been issued by several district court judges blocking the execution of President Trump’s day-one executive order on birthright citizenship.
Let’s begin with the lies.
Early in the argument, Justice Sotomayor unequivocally stated that the Court had held 127 years ago that anyone born on U.S. soil is a citizen, and repeated that holding in three other cases since. That is false. The Supreme Court has never held that the children born on U.S. soil to temporary visitors or illegal aliens are citizens. The Wong Kim Ark case to which she was referring explicitly dealt only with a child born to parents who were lawfully and permanently domiciled in the United States—and the word “domicile” or one of its derivatives was repeated nearly 30 times throughout that opinion. Any language in the opinion beyond that is not part of the holding, but is rather non-binding dicta. The same is true with the passing references in the three other cases she cited—they are pure dicta. So her claim that the Court has already issued holdingsthat are contrary to the president’s executive order is simply untrue.
Several legal scholars have recently made the same claims, and Justice Sotomayor may have been parroting them. Yet until President Trump raised the issue in his first campaign for the presidency, almost all legal scholars writing in this area candidly acknowledged that Wong Kim Ark did not settle the question. Such is the hostility to all things Trump that the prior honest assessments have given way to a certitude that is simply not accurate.
Now for the confusion.
Justice Kavanaugh queried U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer whether excluding from birthright citizenship the children born to temporary visitors or those illegally present in the United States would be unworkable. “What are the hospitals to do,” he asked, or the states when registering vital statistics about births? Apparently Justice Kavanaugh is unaware that most countries in the world, including almost all the countries we once described as “First World,” don’t seem to have any difficulty noting on a birth certificate whether the parents were citizens or merely visitors at the time of birth. And he is apparently likewise unaware that until 1966, the application for an American passport, which could only be obtained by citizens, similarly inquired about the status of one’s parents at birth. Justice Kavanaugh’s treatment of this as an insurmountable problem is simply not compatible with the practice in the rest of the world, or even by our own government for a full century after the adoption of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Just as an erroneous view of birthright citizenship has seeped into our political psyche, so too has an erroneous view of judicial supremacy. We should applaud President Trump and those in his administration who are pressing to restore the original meaning of the Constitution on these questions.
4- There is no reporter who knows “Steel Country” better than Salena Zito. Here she projects the joy and excitment from Trump’s recent announcement about the steel business.
Trump makes deal of a lifetime for US Steel
QUOTE: Local steelworkers, community leaders, and economic experts said President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday that a deal was struck between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel will go down in American history as the most enduring economic “big, beautiful deal” the 47th president has made.
It is a deal robustly supported by the rank-and-file steelworkers from the three plants that make up the Mon Valley Works. The deal is believed to reverse the decline of steel that began under President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s.
“I am proud to announce that, after much consideration and negotiation, U.S. Steel will REMAIN in America and keep its headquarters in the Great City of Pittsburgh,” said Trump, who had been engaged in intense negotiations over a sale between the iconic American company and Nippon Steel.
“This will be a planned partnership between United States Steel and Nippon Steel…and the largest investment in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” he said.
“I applaud President Trump, Secretary Bessent, and other senior administration officials for achieving this huge victory for America and the U.S. Steel Corporation,” said Sen. David McCormick (R-PA), who, along with other members of the Pennsylvania delegation, was working with Trump, community stakeholders, and the union members of USW Local 2227.
USW Local 2227 President Jack Maskil, Vice President Jason Zugai, and safety chairman Gary Picketts, who have all clocked into their jobs at the Irvin Works mill for decades, said they were thrilled and relieved the deal would not just save their jobs but also the jobs of men and women in the surrounding communities who will now be able to work here for generations.
“We had faith in the president from the very beginning,” Zugai said from the West Mifflin plant. “I never doubted he would come through for us.”
“This is huge for Western Pennsylvania workers, families, communities, and, of course, the U.S. Steel family,” said plant manager Don German, who has worked side by side with the local union, the community, and upper management to get the word out that they supported it wholeheartedly.
“I’m so happy for those employees, both management and union, that have just started their careers at U.S. Steel. This is a huge weight lifted and a huge opportunity to keep steel in the Steel City,” German said.
A person familiar with the deal said the benefits include $14 billion in capital investment projects at U.S. Steel, with approximately $11 billion of the $14 billion invested by 2028. These are investments that U.S. Steel could not make as a stand-alone company.
Those new capital investments include $2.2 billion to revitalize the only remaining blast furnace mill in Pittsburgh, $200 million for a new R&D center in Pennsylvania to bring world-leading technology to U.S. Steel, $1 billion invested by 2028 in a new Greenfield steel mill, and $3.1 billion in Indiana to transform the historic Gary Works mill.
There will also be a $3 billion investment in the Arkansas plant, including $1.8 billion for advanced electrical steel production for power grid transformers, $800 million in Minnesota to enhance iron ore mining, and $500 million in Alabama for tubular upgrades to supply American oil and gas dominance.
The deal preserves U.S. Steel’s headquarters in the iconic Pittsburgh skyscraper, the tallest building in Appalachia, and the company will maintain its production locations and capacity in the United States. As part of the agreement, American jobs are protected and cannot be offshored.
The deal also guarantees that the majority of U.S. Steel’s board must be U.S. citizens, and key management, including the CEO, will also all be U.S. citizens. The deal outlines that U.S. Steel’s trade actions will be determined solely by U.S. citizens, with oversight from the U.S. government, and free from any interference.
“Trump can now rightly claim credit for saving these communities and the jobs of the workers who, unlike their union leadership, have served as one of his most loyal sources of support since he first ran for president in 2016. The future is now bright in Pennsylvania,” he said of the plants here and in Bucks County.
Former President Joe Biden, who stubbornly refused to consider the deal, created a self-inflicted massive political wound from his failure to move on a deal, a decision that frustrated many members of his inner circle in the White House.
It’s difficult to overstate just how devastating the demise of the old steel mills was to the region. The economic rug was pulled out from under the area, and this not only affected factory workers but destroyed everything, including restaurants, barber shops, and stores. While new industries have emerged — healthcare and education in Pittsburgh, for example — they don’t provide the kind of opportunities, especially for those who are not inclined to pursue higher education, that the old mills offered.
“It’s important to understand this was not just economic trauma; it was psychological trauma,” Sracic said, adding, “Steel. Just think of that word. It calls to mind something strong — Superman was the ‘Man of Steel.’ But also something solid, something you can depend on. In a practical sense, it also formed the backbone of the nation, necessary for everything from bridges to bullets. Take away steel, and everything collapses, or so it seemed by the mid-1980s. There is no more security.”
McCormick added, “Only Donald Trump could have made this happen."
5- Kurt has been reading our minds.
Calm Down, Conservatives
QUOTE: Many of my fellow America First conservatives need to take a chill pill and calm down. I get the frustration. I get the irritation. We’ve waited decades for justice. We’ve waited decades to use the power granted to us by the American people to reshape this country back into something like it was rather than the gross, formless blob of neo-commie failure it has become. But this Gramscian Rome wasn’t built in a day, and we’re not going to burn it down overnight, no matter how hard we fiddle. Start taking “Yes” for an answer, conservatives.
Let’s take some of the more common gripes, starting with the complaint that our Congress hasn’t passed anything. But, of course, Congress has passed several things. It passed the Laken Riley Act to keep Third World savages who are illegally here locked up. It just overturned the ridiculous California “no gas engines” law. So, the objection is not that the Republicans haven’t passed anything. It’s that the Republicans haven’t passed enough.
But there’s a structural fact that frustrated conservatives refuse to admit exists. This is why most of our actions must be taken via executive orders. Because of the Senate filibuster, we have to get 60 votes, but we have only 53 Senators. All the Democrats hang together, breaking the neck of our legislation.
What is so amazingly difficult to understand about this? Do people not know what the filibuster is? Do they not care? Look, I get the anger. I’ve been a conservative longer than many of you people have been alive. I was a conservative in the 80s, faithfully reading America’s only right-wing outlet, National Review, before it became the Teen Vogue of conservatism. All the stuff we are trying to do today is stuff that we’ve been dreaming about for decades. But we’ve been lied to, spat upon, disregarded, persecuted, and generally treated like crap not only by the Democrats but our own Republican Party for as long as I can remember. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – the Republican base is the abused spouse of American politics. We are naturally suspicious and looking for any reason to validate our gut instinct that we are about to get screwed over yet again.
That’s why we act like we do, but let’s not pretend it’s always rational. The fact of the filibuster is not an excuse for inaction; it’s the reason for it. Gravity is not an excuse why you can’t jump 50 feet high. The filibuster is a structural reality that we have to work around – unless we make the major decision to get rid of it. If you want to do that, make that argument. But don’t whine because Congress is not doing something it literally cannot do.
Trump’s been president for about four months. He’s got four years. I think Donald Trump has earned our trust over the last decade. I think we can give him the benefit of the doubt that what needs to get done is going to get done, even if it’s not right away.
That’s the bottom line. Do we trust Trump and our movement? Are we ready to accept that we’re not going to get everything we necessarily want? Are we prepared for answers that don’t fit our preconceived notions?
We can’t only run on anger. We must be ruthless. We must be cold. And for heaven’s sake, we must calm down.
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