Nayib Bukele Registers to Run for Third Presidential Term in 2027

Christian K. Caruzo29 Jun

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele on Sunday registered his pre-candidacy for the 2027 presidential elections — seeking to obtain a third consecutive termafter lawmakers from his New Ideas (NI) party eliminated term limits last year.

“We’re ready,” Xavier Zablah Bukele, President Bukele’s cousin and head of the NI party wrote on social media.He accompanied the text with a photo of the pre-candidacy applications of President Bukele and Vice President Félix Ulloa. “Pre-candidacy” is a candidate status in much of Latin America prior to the official nomination of a candidate by a party or the official campaign period.

For over a century, and until recently, El Salvador’s constitution contained clauses that either forbade a president from being reelected or forbade a president from serving in consecutive terms, requiring a period of absence from the office to run again.

When Bukele was first elected president in 2019, the Salvadoran constitution explicitly forbade a president from being immediately reelected. The constitution contained provisions to strip Salvadorans of their citizen rights should they attempt to “subscribe acts, proclamations or adhesions to promote or support the reelection or continuation of the President of the Republic, or use direct means to that end.”

The Salvadoran top court — whose top justice pro-Bukele lawmakers in Congress replaced in 2021 —issued a controversial interpretation of the nation’s constitution that allowed Bukele to run again for president in 2024 by means of a legal loophole that saw Bukele resign from the presidency on November 30, 2024 — exactly six months before the end of his 2019-2024 term.

President Bukele was freely but controversially reelected by an overwhelming majority of the Salvadoran electorate in 2024 —a victory largely attributed to Bukele’s nationwide crackdown on El Salvador’s deadly gangs such as MS-13 and 18th Street. The crackdown on the deadly gangs has contributed to Bukele’s high approval ratings among the nation’s citizens, measured at 87.8 percent as of last week according to local outlets.==

Bukele carried out thecrackdown through exceptional powers granted to the executive by a “state of emergency” decree originally approved in March 2022 and that has been continuously renewed through time on a monthly basis. At press time, the state of emergency decree has been renewed every month for the past 52 months, with Salvadoran lawmakers approving the most recent renewal last week.

The Salvadoran president’s path to a potential third term was cleared by the Salvadoran Congress’ overwhelming New Ideas majority last year through constitutional reforms eliminating the presidential term limits and extending the duration of presidential terms from five to six years — effectively allowing Bukele to repeatedly run for president.

As part of a transitory measure, Bukele’s current term, which was slated to conclude in 2029, was changed to prematurely end on 2027. This move allowed for the presidential election to align with municipal and legislative ones. As a result, El Salvador is scheduled to hold its next general elections on February 28, 2027.

President Bukele has not publicly commented on his pre-candidacy registration at press time. Over the past several days, the Salvadoran president has focused his social media content on publishing footage and updates on the life-saving actions of El Salvador’s rescue team sent to Venezuela following the dual earthquakes last week that left at least 1,450 dead and thousands injured, according to the most recent update from Venezuelan authorities.

“Thank you, Nayib, thank you, Xavi, thank you, Nuevas Ideas, for this new opportunity to continue contributing to the wonderful project of transforming our country,” Vice President Ulloa wroteon social media in response to Xavier Zablah Bukele.

“Decades and centuries of unfulfilled dreams are beginning to come true. Our wise and patient people know this and stand with us,”he continued.

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2026/06/29/nayib-bukele-registers-to-run-for-third-presidential-term-in-2027/

Iran on 'THIN ICE' as Strait of Hormuz clashes threaten US deal

Fox News' Trey Yingst reports the latest on talks between the U.S. and Iran in Doha, Qatar, after weekend strikes. Dr. Qanta Ahmed also gives her analysis on the conflict

7:38

https://youtu.be/bcugheQbBvk

Pompeo WARNS US must use 'FORCE' to take this back from Iran

(No one wants his advice, he and Fox thinks he has important info and discussions. Fox hired many Trump haters so Fox is not pro Trump)

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses U.S.-Iran negotiations and a new Gallup poll on American pride

6:03

https://youtu.be/Pmw0aP0n7vg

Justice Sotomayor received concert tickets from Bad Bunny’s label

By John Fritze, CNN

Mon June 29, 2026

Source: CNN

Justice Sonia Sotomayor received more than $4,000 in concert tickets from a Puerto Rican record label that counts Bad Bunny among its clients, according to a financial disclosure report made public Monday.

Sotomayor, a member of the court’s liberal wing, disclosed receiving $4,333 in concert tickets from Rimas Entertainment “for a concert for me and guests while I was on a private trip to Puerto Rico in August 2025.” Bad Bunny was taking part in a weekslong series of performances in Puerto Rico at that time.

It was one of several notable revelations from the annual disclosure reports from the Supreme Court justices and other members of the judiciary that were made public Monday — hours after the high court handed down some of the most important decisions of its current term.

The justices reported more than $2 million in payments from publishers for books and trips across the country to promote those works.

But it also underscored the lack of detail that’s available in the reports: Nowhere does Sotomayor’s report explicitly mention which concert she attended. A court spokesperson did not respond to questions about Sotomayor’s report.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was nominated by President Joe Biden,reported $1.2 million in book “advance” revenue from Penguin Random House. Jackson continues to tour the country promoting her memoir, “Lovely One,” which she published in 2024. Jackson recently published a young adult version of her book.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was President Donald Trump’s last nominee to the high court,reported nearly $850,000 in revenue from Javelin Group, which last year published her first book, “Listening to the Law.”

Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, has also been appearing at events to promote a children’s book he wrote that is focused on the Declaration of Independence. =•Gorsuch reported $300,000 in royalty income== last year from HarperCollins Publishers.

==Supreme Court justices, who earn more than $300,000 a year, are barred from receiving more than about $30,000 in outside income annually••. Book revenue is exempt from that policy, creating an incentive for the nine to write beyond their opinions.

Conservative Justice Samuel Alito asked for additional time to file his annual report, as has been his practice over the years.

The justices also listed several trips abroad and in the US.

Barrett, for instance, reported traveling to London last fall for a “legal theory workshop” that was paid for by the University of Notre Dame Law School. Gorsuch traveled to Prague in July for an “educational program” sponsored by George Mason University.

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/06/29/politics/sotomayor-bad-bunny-supreme-court-financial-disclosures

Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

Attention Marco Rubio

Get it done. Shut down Chinese vacation babies getting U.S. citizenship.

(The SC’s decision allowed illegal aliens in.)

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/2072007094115393590

Exclusive-Nestle to cut artificial colourings from all products by end-2026

VEVEY, Switzerland, June 30 (Reuters) -Nestle plans to remove artificial food colourings from all products worldwide by the end of 2026, a senior executive told Reuters on Tuesday, making it the first major food company to take such a step.

The previously unreported target comes as food companies face mounting pressure to offer healthier products amid the rapid rise of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and growing consumer scrutiny of food ingredients.

It extends Nestle's efforts beyond the United States, where it has already eliminated artificial colourings from its portfolio.

"By the end of the year we will have the global Nestle portfolio free of artificial colours," Stefan Palzer, Nestle's technology chief, told Reuters in an exclusive interview at the firm's Swiss headquarters in Vevey.

Food manufacturers and retailers have increasingly moved to strip out ingredients such as FD&C synthetic dyes and sweeteners including corn syrup from their products.

Amid investor concerns that packaged food companies could lose out as consumers shift towards healthier diets, Nestle has increasingly focused on products aimed at weight-conscious consumers and those concerned about processed foods.

It was not a slam-dunk," Palzer said of the decision, adding that Nestle had spent years investing in the transition.

"We had to do a lot of R&D work because you have to screen all the natural solutions then you have to test those natural solutions during production, and then also test their shelf-life."

"We did it because consumers don't appreciate artificial ingredients. They want simpler recipes."

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and theFood and Drug Administration said in April last year that the agency aims to remove ingredients including artificial food colourings, citing concerns over possible links to conditions such as ADHD, obesity and diabetes, although many scientists say more research is needed.

https://www.aol.com/articles/exclusive-nestle-cut-artificial-colourings-140023000.html

Andrew Kolvet

Turning Point USA

@AndrewKolvet

What can we do now?

Pass much stricter visa laws. If you're pregnant, no visa.

Ifyou want to visit a US territory, you must have a visa with strict vetting.

End dual citizenship.

End the exploitation of U.S. surrogacy laws.

Mass deportations.

4:32 PM · Jun 30, 2026

If the mother or parents are illegal, they will have to take their child with them. And not dropped off to relatives.

https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/2071995358889267392

==‘HEINOUS’: White House Condemns Judge’s Order Mandating ‘Woke’ Ideology at National Parks

President Donald Trump on April 21, 2025.==

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A district judge mandated the restoration of “woke” messaging on climate alarmism and diversity, equity, and inclusion at national parks before July 4, and the White House plans to appeal.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March 2025, directing his administration, by July 4, to remove signs and placards condemning America’s “unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness” as “inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.”

The Department of the Interior had removed many signs, but a coalition, including left-leaning nonprofits, complained, filing a lawsuit. On June 12, a federal judge ordered the Department of the Interior to “restore and reinstall all interpretive materials” at National Park Service sites within 21 calendar days—by July 3.

“Instead of catering to the concerted efforts to rewrite American history and adopt left-wing ideology aimed at diminishing American achievement, President Trump is honoring our country’s extraordinary heritage and restoring a sense of national pride,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told the Daily Signal in a statement Monday.

“The president has put an end to the radical Left and the media’s divisive and inaccurate characterization of our nation’s history, which infiltrated our national parks and museums, and is restoring truth and sanity,” Rogers added. “The administration plans to appeal this heinous order and will not waver in defending America.”

Woke Ideology at National Parks

Trump’s order condemned what he described as a “concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”

https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/23/heinous-white-house-condemns-judges-order-mandating-woke-ideology-national-parks/

The United States has been in debt almost every single day of its existence. There was exactly one exception, and it barely lasted two years.

The man behind it was Andrew Jackson, who hated debt with a fury. He called it a national curse and meant it. When he took office in 1829, the country owed more than 58 million dollars, a staggering sum at the time. Jackson set out to wipe it to zero.

He did it the hard way. He slashed spending, vetoed infrastructure projects, killed the national bank and sold off enormous tracts of federal land in the West. There was no income tax then either. It would not exist for another eighty years. Every dollar came from tariffs and land sales.

On January 1, 1835, it was done. For the first and only time in American history, the national debt stood at zero. Washington threw a celebration. Jackson called it an event that reflected luster on the Union.

Unfortunately, the land boom that helped him clear the debt turned out to be a bubble. When he tried to cool it by requiring gold and silver for federal land, credit seized up, banks collapsed and the country fell into the Panic of 1837. The government was borrowing again almost immediately.

It has never been debt-free since. Not once in nearly two hundred years.

https://x.com/HistoryWJacob/status/2071020755966717975

Alveda King: Jasmine Crockett Suggested I’m a ‘Bastard to the King Family Legacy’

TYLER O’NEIL • June 9, 2026

The niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. responded to aDemocrat who attacked the House Judiciary Committee for inviting her to testify.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, claimed that the Republicanmajority on the committee invited Alveda King—who is often referred to as “Dr. King” to honor her doctorate in applied theology—to testify in order to sow confusion about where black people stand on policy issues.

“People of color do not feel comfortable or welcomed within your party, that’s why you have to parade someone who has the name Dr. King attached to them so that people can be confused,” she declared.

“You want them to believe that somehow she espouses who Dr. King was, yet you’ve yet to have [Martin Luther King III] come in here, you’ve yet to have Dr. Bernice King, the ones that were actually raised by Dr. King, the ones that actually probably understand the teachings of Dr. King,” Crockett added.

“I want to talk to y’all about what the Dr. King had to say about racism so that y’all don’t get it twisted and don’t get it confused just because you see the name sitting in this room,” she declared.She quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in writing, “Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race.”

Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., gave Alveda King the opportunity to respond.

“Congresswoman, I am a bit emotional,” King said to Crockett. “I’m going to watch what I say,but it seems as though you have suggested that I am a bastard to the King family legacy.”

“I am legitimately the daughter of Rev. Alfred Daniel Williams King and Dr. Naomi Ruth Barbara King,” she added. “We are a family who loves God, and I love you. God bless you.”

Fry wryly noted that Crockett left the room while King responded to her attack.

“Let the record reflect that the gentlelady from Texas left the room,” he said.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/09/alveda-king-jasmine-crockett-suggested-im-bastard-king-family-legacy/

RNC Research

Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022)

@RNCResearch

CNN: "We are just living in such a different universe if you‘re a Republican versus a Democrat, on the basic fundamental question of being proud to be an American."

Democrat leaders are brainwashing their voters to hate America.

https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/2071966539566162398

Andrew Kolvet

Turning Point USA

@AndrewKolvet

Official transcript from the US Senate on May 30, 1866. Senator Jacob Howard, who introduced the 14th Amendment:

"This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens…”

SCOTUS got this ruling 100% wrong. A total travesty.

(This has to be appealed and show the proof to SC! How this was not shown by the Trump Admin are even the SC)

https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/2071988065326030931

Judge refuses to dismiss state AGs' Meta child addiction lawsuit

Meta lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by dozens of state attorneys general accusing it of designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children and knowingly concealing the resulting harm from the public.

Claims rooted in deception, unfairness, and violations of the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act were all allowed to proceed after U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, based in Oakland, California, turned down Meta's motion to dismiss them late Monday, according to Reuters. On the separate question of COPPA's notice and parental consent requirements, the judge awarded summary judgment to the states after concluding the record left no dispute that Meta had failed to satisfy them.

The ruling addressed claims brought by 34 states, according to Courthouse News Service. The 102-page opinion deemed a substantial portion of the attorneys general's consumer protection theories viable, with thejudge writing that the way Meta designed, built, and rolled out specific product features could reasonably be found to constitute unfair or unconscionable conduct under the relevant legal standards.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields online platforms from liability for user-generated content, did limit some of the states' claims, according to Courthouse News Service.Among the features shielded by Section 230 were infinite scroll and autoplay functions, disappearing content, notification systems designed to interrupt users, and the way the platforms quantify and surface likes.

By contrast, thejudge left unprotected a separate category of features — including filters that alter users' appearances, tools for capping time on the platform, and Instagram's functionality for maintaining multiple accounts— reasoning that none of them touch on how third-party content is published.

The failure-to-warn theory survived as well, with the judge pointing to unsettled and rapidly evolving case law across jurisdictions as reason to keep those claims alive rather than cut them offat the pleading stage.

Meta's response was mixed: a company spokesperson acknowledged that the opinion helpfully narrowed certain claims in line with earlier Section 230 precedent, but said the company takes issue with the ruling as a whole. "We've developed numerous tools to support parents and teens," the spokesperson said, pointing to a new Teen Accounts feature for Instagram. (Too late you criminals)

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement that "Meta needs to be held accountable for the very real harm it has inflicted on children here in California and across the country."

The ruling is part of a large multi-district proceeding in Oaklandthat consolidates hundreds of lawsuits— from individual plaintiffs, school districts, local governments, and state attorneys general — targeting Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms over their effects on minors. Meta has separately lost bids for a new trial in Los Angeles Superior Court, where a jury found the company liable for harm caused by Instagram's design to a user who alleged she developed an addiction as a minor, and aNew Mexico jury returned a $375 million verdict against Meta for exposing children to sexual exploitation and concealing platform dangers from users.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/judge-refuses-dismiss-state-ags-133856794.html

I’m sure META is hiding illegal manipulations too. I wonder what Europe will do with this?

Judge refuses to dismiss state AGs' Meta child addiction lawsuit

(Clean copy)

Tue, June 30, 2026 at 9:38 AM EDT

Federal judge refuses to toss state AGs' lawsuit accusing Meta of addicting children hero image

Judge refuses to dismiss state AGs' Meta child addiction lawsuit

Meta lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by dozens of state attorneys general accusing it of designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children and knowingly concealing the resulting harm from the public.

Claims rooted in deception, unfairness, and violations of the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act were all allowed to proceed after U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, based in Oakland, California, turned down Meta's motion to dismiss them late Monday, according to Reuters. On the separate question of COPPA's notice and parental consent requirements, the judge awarded summary judgment to the states after concluding the record left no dispute that Meta had failed to satisfy them.

The ruling addressed claims brought by 34 states, according to Courthouse News Service. The 102-page opinion deemed a substantial portion of the attorneys general's consumer protection theories viable, with the judge writing that the way Meta designed, built, and rolled out specific product features could reasonably be found to constitute unfair or unconscionable conduct under the relevant legal standards.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields online platforms from liability for user-generated content, did limit some of the states' claims, according to Courthouse News Service. Among the features shielded by Section 230 were infinite scroll and autoplay functions, disappearing content, notification systems designed to interrupt users, and the way the platforms quantify and surface likes. By contrast, the judge left unprotected a separate category of features — including filters that alter users' appearances, tools for capping time on the platform, and Instagram's functionality for maintaining multiple accounts — reasoning that none of them touch on how third-party content is published.

The failure-to-warn theory survived as well, with the judge pointing to unsettled and rapidly evolving case law across jurisdictions as reason to keep those claims alive rather than cut them off at the pleading stage.

Meta's response was mixed: a company spokesperson acknowledged that the opinion helpfully narrowed certain claims in line with earlier Section 230 precedent, but said the company takes issue with the ruling as a whole. "We've developed numerous tools to support parents and teens," the spokesperson said, pointing to a new Teen Accounts feature for Instagram.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement that "Meta needs to be held accountable for the very real harm it has inflicted on children here in California and across the country."

The ruling is part of a large multi-district proceeding in Oakland that consolidates hundreds of lawsuits — from individual plaintiffs, school districts, local governments, and state attorneys general — targeting Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms over their effects on minors. Meta has separately lost bids for a new trial in Los Angeles Superior Court, where a jury found the company liable for harm caused by Instagram's design to a user who alleged she developed an addiction as a minor, and a New Mexico jury returned a $375 million verdict against Meta for exposing children to sexual exploitation and concealing platform dangers from users.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/judge-refuses-dismiss-state-ags-133856794.html

James O'Keefe

@JamesOKeefeIII

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O’KEEFE CATCHES LA ELECTION FRAUD AGAIN: Election Petition Worker Offers Cash for Fake Signature On CA Ballot Petition, NGO Workers Confirm Election Fraudsters Are "Still Out Here", Warns OMG Undercover Journalist To Stay Quiet Near Cops

“Alright, so the name you're gonna write Show more

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2072014265435983932

Man mauled to death by bear in mountains as police investigate sixth deadly attack within weeks in Japan

Will Miller , Foreign News Reporter

Published: 09:21, 30 Jun 2026

Police are still investigating the cause of the man’s death, but a local official revealed bite marks had been found on his body.

The victim’s identity has not been released in line with common practice in Japan.

This tragic incident comes amid a sharp rise in bear activity across Japan.In the last three months, fatal attacks have jumped fivefold compared to last year.

Five people have been killed since April, according to the environmental industry.

These deaths follow a grim record in 2025, when 13 people were killed across the country.

Meanwhile, bear sightings have soared, with more than 50,000 reported nationwide. Experts have put this down to a spike in the animals’ population.

Asiatic black bears – once listed as an endangered species – are estimated to have tripled in number in Japan since 2012.

Experts also say poor harvests of natural food like acorns and beechnuts, coupled with Japan’s shrinking rural population are believed to be driving the animals closer to human areas.

Earlier this month, dozens of police officers were deployed to the city of Utsunomiya ==to catch a bear on the loosefor four days.

In a dramatic escalation, city bosses shut down all 94 primary and middle schools after what officials say was its first-ever bear sighting.==

The terrifying animal was first seen on Saturday evening in a residential area near a park, before reappearing in the early hours of Monday morning.

It was reportedly seen half a kilometre from a middle school, triggering full-scale panic across the city of around half a million people.

In the Fukushima region earlier this month, a bear attacked four people at two factories and in a residential area as it avoided the hunters’ grasp.Shocking security footage showeda black bear appear and chase one of the employees close to the factory entrance.

Although the man attempted to flee, the bear quickly caught up, throwing him to the ground.The beast then smashed through a glass door to enter the compound, injuring an employee in his 60s.

From there, it attacked an 80-year-old woman after going north to a residential area.The bear then mauled a 60-year-old man at a manufacturer located approximately 500 metres northwest of Fukushima Steel Factory.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/16606009/

U.S. murder rate approaches a record low

Martin KasteJune 30, 20265:00 AM

As the U.S. nears its 250th birthday, it's doing pretty well by at least one measure: the national murder rate.

"The United States almost certainly had thelowest murder rate ever recorded in 2025, with the FBI having data back to 1960," says crime data analyst Jeff Asher. "And the available evidence suggests that we're going to go even lower this year."

Asher published his prediction in late May, basing it in part on the early data he collects directly from about 600 police agencies for his site The Crime Index.That nationally representative sampling shows murders dropped 18.7% in the first four months of this year, compared to the same period last year. All violent crime dropped 6.4%.

An important caveat is that this would be the lowest murder rate on record —meaning since the FBI started publishing national murder numbers in the 1950s. There are some older records of national rates of homicide (a larger category than criminal murder) kept by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"They [the CDC] have good homicide data back to 1930 or so, and there's a few years in the 1950s that were slightly lower than 2025," Asher says. "But if you put another big drop on top of that,then you're talking about this year potentially being the lowest homicide rate ever recorded, too."

If there's another "big drop" in violence this summer, it will be especially striking in light of where things stood just a few years ago. The Crime Index shows the national murder rate spiking to 6.8 deaths per 100,000 in 2021— a 54% increase over the previous low of 4.4 deaths per 100,000 in 2014.Criminologists and law enforcement officials worried the country had settled into a "new normal" of violence, especially chaotic retaliatory shootings involving young people. (WTF???)

The prosecuting attorney's office for King County, Washington, which includes Seattle, publishes some of the most detailed regional reports on shootings in the country.In the first quarter of 2022, it logged 384 "shots fired" incidents and 22 people killed. In the first quarter of this year, those numbers were 204 and nine.

"We're still having gang violence. We're still having drive-by shootings. We're still having armed robberies," says Gary Ernsdorff, who supervises the Special Operations Unit in the King County prosecutor's office. "But the numbers across the board in each one of those categories seem to be decreasing."

As the overall volume of violent crimes shrinks, Ernsdorff says he thinks things may simply be returning to normal following the social disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"When people are idle, when kids are not in school, when people aren't employed, they statistically get into more trouble and more criminal acts," he says. "We had a perfect environment to see a spike in crime."

But Jerry Ratcliffe, faculty director of the master of applied criminology program at the University of Pennsylvania, says it's important to keep in mind that other developed countries did not see the same kind of big crime spikes during the pandemic.

"That was really unique to us, which means it leads me to think it was more related to George Floyd," Ratcliffe says. The social upheaval following Floyd's murder in 2020, he argues, disrupted a generation-long decline in crime rates built in part on the data-driven, targeted policing strategies that emerged in the 1990s.

"That's something we saw withdraw for a year or two. What we're seeing now is a re-engagement of policing a few years down the line. And we continue to see again that crime reduction," Ratcliffe says.

LaMaria Pope has had a front-row seat for the recent change. She works for Choose 180, a violence-prevention nonprofit focused on young people in the Seattle area, and she remembers the anxiety of the pandemic years.

"There was a lot of guns floating around," she says. "There was almost nothing to do but engage in crime. And knowing that, 'Oh, we want to defund the police, if we call they're not going to come for two hours' — kids are smart and they picked up on that."

She credits the return to in-person programming, school and structured activities for much of the improvement. "We have a better way to connect and make an influence on our young people," she says.

But Pope isn't ready to declare victory. The cycle of retaliatory violence remains a constant undercurrent in the communities she works with.

"I will say it is better than it was four years ago," she says. "But we're still fighting that fight. It is not over."

Even a record-low homicide rate — 4.1 or even 4.0 per 100,000 — would still be double Canada's rate of 1.9.

"We're still talking about 13- or 14-thousand murders," crime data analyst Asher says. "This is not a solved problem."

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/30/nx-s1-5866810/us-murder-rate-record-low-crime-homicide

NPR didn’t like writing this.

Grace Chong, MBI

@gc22gc

BANNON: Kash, I love you, brother, but I don’t want to hear any more crime statistics.

Nobody believes them anyway. I’m sorry.

Knock it off. No more stats.I want to see perp walks of the Deep State. I want to see the Soroses perp walked. Then you can give me crime stats.

https://x.com/gc22gc/status/2071646132690993391

Left wing media are pissed at TPS for America is no longer taking illegals from two countries

Steve Bannon and Mike Davis from the Article III Project break down today's major Supreme Court rulings, including the 6-3 decision allowing the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians originally granted after the 2010 earthquake. Davis explains the straightforward cases, the left's predictable opposition, and what this means for enforcing immigration law and putting America first.

Big wins for the Trump agenda against activist courts and open-border policies. Dogs and cats in Ohio might be celebrating too!

59:23

https://www.youtu.be/NtXUOy0VSxk