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There can be no doubt that Iran is actively trying to externalize the pain the U.S. and Israel are inflicting on it.

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that an Illinois federal court has allowed its class action civil rights lawsuit against the City of Evanston, Illinois’ reparations program to move forward.
Judicial Watch filed the class action civil rights lawsuit in May 2024, challenging Evanston’s use of race as an eligibility requirement for its “Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program,” which makes $25,000 direct cash payments to black residents and descendants of black residents who lived in Evanston between the years 1919 and 1969 (Flinn et al. v Evanston (No. 1:24-cv-04269)).
Judicial Watch argues that the program’s race-based eligibility program violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. So far, 137 people have received reparations payments totaling $3.47 million.
U.S. District Judge John F. Kress rejected the city’s attempt to dismiss the case, finding that the plaintiffs have sufficient standing to pursue their constitutional claims and that requiring the plaintiffs, who are white, to first file for a program they were ineligible for due to their race was a futile gesture.
Judicial Watch argued to the court:
[T]he program’s use of a race-based eligibility requirement is presumptively unconstitutional, and remedying societal discrimination is not a compelling government interest. Nor has remedying discrimination from as many as 105 years ago or remedying intergenerational discrimination ever been recognized as a compelling government interest. Among the program’s other fatal flaws is that it uses race as a proxy for discrimination without requiring proof of discrimination.
“Evanston’s reparations program provides $25,000 cash payments to blacks only,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Constitution forbids race-based government programs like this. We welcome the court’s decision to allow this historic lawsuit to move forward against this woke, racist program.”
Judicial Watch is being assisted in the lawsuit by Christine Svenson of Chalmers, Adams, Backer & Kaufman, LLC. 
In January 2025, the City of San Francisco, in a 7-3 vote by the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, authorized a settlement agreement in a taxpayer lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch, agreeing to discontinue its discriminatory guaranteed-income program funded by taxpayer money in favor of transgender individuals with a preference for biological black and Latino men who identify as women. The agreement commits the city to pay $3,250 in attorney’s fees and costs and not to create a new guaranteed income program with the same eligibility criteria.
In September 2025, Judicial Watch announced it wrote letters to the Offices of Civil Rights in the Departments of Education and Labor requesting they investigate the collective bargaining agreement between the Minneapolis Public Schools and the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers. The letters point out that the contract violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 
The City of Asheville, NC, in January 2022, settled a Judicial Watch federal civil rights lawsuit after agreeing to remove all racially discriminatory provisions in a city-funded scholarship program. Additionally, the city also agreed to remove racially discriminatory eligibility provisions in a related program that provides grants to educators. 
In December 2022, Judicial Watch announced the California Court of Appeal has upheld two injunctions against California quota requirements for corporate boards. Earlier this year, two California trial courts had found (here and here) unconstitutional state quota mandates for sex, race, ethnicity, and LGBT status. On December 1, 2022, the California Court of Appeal denied (here and here) two separate emergency requests by the California Secretary of State to lift the injunctions.
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During a time when ABC’s The View was going through their rolodex of their pre-approved “conservative” and “Republican” women since their main faker, Alyssa Farah Griffin was out on maternity leave, the old crones lashed out during Monday’s episode because an actual young conservative woman was telling women to get married and have kids.

“I don’t even know how to explain this story but I’m going to tell you what happened,” moderator Whoopi Goldberg declared. “The Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, wrapped up this weekend and conservative activist Isabel Brown had a message for her fellow Gen Z women who reportedly are the least likely group in America to get married and have kids.”

They then played this cherry-picked soundbite of Daily Wire podcaster Isabel Brown from a CPAC panel discussion:

If you’re not encouraging your children to grow up and have the courage to get married and have kids, more kids than they can afford before they think they’re ready, it is high time to start. It is these choices like deleting our dating apps and quitting birth control pills and saying I do at the altar that ultimately trickle down into the political policies that we will see save our country.

Goldberg, who had one kid, put on her white-girl-mocking voice (think ditzy valley girl accent) and lashed out at Brown with accusations hinting she was some kind of hypocrite because of what other people had said in the past about welfare queens.

“Okay. I just want to say, years ago they used to come after women of color and accuse women of color of doing this very thing. And that’s why they continued to cut all these programs and erase all these things,” she chided.

Goldberg rage inexplicable rage at Brown quickly grew until she was just screaming “what” at the top of her lungs: “And now, had I known that it turns out we are all just one group of women, we’re just one group — I mean, WHAT?! Because what is she — WHAT THE — WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?!”

 

The View has MELTDOWN over conservative woman Isabel Brown at CPAC telling women to get married and have more kids. They claim the right wants welfare queens and falsely claims feminism “was not about bucking the trend of staying at home of loving tradition:
ISABEL BROWN: If… pic.twitter.com/SCKhdyL7Ze
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 30, 2026
 

With Goldberg losing her mind, pretend independent co-host Sara Haines had to step in to take over. Haines then proceeded to engage in revisionist history of feminism telling women not to marry and have kids:

So, my ultimate beef with this is that it wraps a woman’s worth up in her ovaries in a way that for too long has happened. The whole women’s movement was not about bucking the trend of staying at home or loving tradition. It was giving women a choice to do what they wanted. And that’s what this is too. Marriage, children. It’s a choice.

Haines also took on the anti-life position of whining about there being too many people on the planet and having a family was “the stupidest, most old fashion thing.” “The world has over 8 billion people! We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies!” she shouted.

It’s worth noting that Haines was both married and had multiple kids.

Childless fake Republican Ana Navarro tried to apply the usual liberal trope response to pro-lifers, suggesting someone was trying to control “my uterus”:

But also where is the call to responsibility for the men who make — who help make these children? Right? I don’t know why it’s always people lecturing women what they have to do or not to do. Bottom line, if you’re not paying my bills, you don’t get to tell me what I do with my uterus.

With two collage-age kids of her own, co-host Sunny Hostin proclaimed having kids in this day and age was “reckless.” She then went on to shriek about how most families were too poor to have kids (unlike her) because parents supposedly needed to make $400,000 a year to take care of a child. Navarro was skeptical (Click “expand”):

HOSTIN: I think it’s just really reckless to be suggesting that people should have more children when you now know in this country there’s this affordability crisis and for a two-person household, a married household you need over $400,000 for childcare. Over $400,000. Most people don’t make over $400,000.

So, she’s advocating for people to be born into poverty, people not being able to feed those children, people not being able to educate those children, and people not being able to house those children at the same time when this government is cutting all of the services that would allow people to have families and big families.

[Crosstalk]

NAVARRO: $400,000 over the lifetime of a child or what?

HOSTIN: No. No.

NAVARRO: A year?!

HOSTIN: A year. It’s an annual income exceeding $400,000 to afford childcare.

NAVARRO: Okay, that’s got to be in New York.

HOSTIN: No. It’s all over the country. According to LendingTree analysis.

Of course, Hostin was misrepresenting that LendingTree analysis.

 

Sunny Hostin, who has 2 kids, says It’s “reckless” to have any kids at all in Trump’s America.
Whoopi gets BIG BAD. pic.twitter.com/Mbyy60pXPe
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 30, 2026
 

That analysis was for one child but for a family with two kids. “Under federal guidelines, child care is considered affordable when it accounts for no more than 7% of household income. With average annual costs for care of an infant and a 4-year-old reaching $28,190, a family would need to earn $402,708 a year to stay within that benchmark. However, typical two-child households earn just $145,656, falling far short of what affordability standards suggest,” they wrote.

“And perhaps Isabel, you want to talk to some of those red states about some of their laws about women because they’re not really encouraging women to do anything except flee from them,” Goldberg sniped as she was going to a commercial break.

Interestingly, LendingTree had more information. Most of the top 10 “states with the biggest discrepancies between average incomes, amount needed to afford child care” were blue states. The full top 10 list included: Hawaii, Nebraska, Montana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Vermont. The states with the “smallest discrepancies” were all red states.

Goldberg and the latest purported conservative filling in for Farah Griffin, Whitney Cummings mocked Brown for telling woman to have more kids when she only had one at the time. Cummings also suggested that Brown’s husband was abusive and suggested Brown needed to turn to LegalZoom for help with a divorce.

The View could have had Brown on the program to discuss her point of view in person, but the show refuses to invite Republicans not critical of the party or leadership.

“I’d like to thank the women of @TheView for showing their truest, darkest colors today: they’re literally shrieking like demons at the thought of encouraging young women to have children,” Brown responded to their criticism in a thread on X. “They want you to hate happy, healthy, fulfilled young people with kids. Even more disturbingly, they want you to hate babies so much that you never want them in the first place.”

 

They want you to hate happy, healthy, fulfilled young people with kids. Even more disturbingly, they want you to hate babies so much that you never want them in the first place.
Their response to my encouragement for Gen Z women to get married and have kids?
“You’re telling… pic.twitter.com/1EJ6h6Pbia
— Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) March 30, 2026
 

It’s worth noting that last year, The View ghouls decried President Trump’s plan to increase America’s birth rate and literally applauded rising abortion rates.

The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read:

ABC’s The View
March 30, 2026
11:17:02 a.m. Eastern

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: All right. Welcome back. I don’t even know how to explain this story but I’m going to tell you what happened. The Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, wrapped up this weekend and conservative activist Isabel Brown had a message for her fellow Gen Z women who reportedly are the least likely group in America to get married and have kids. But I want you to see this.

[Cuts to video]

ISABEL BROWN: If you’re not encouraging your children to grow up and have the courage to get married and have kids, more kids than they can afford before they think they’re ready, it is high time to start.

It is these choices like deleting our dating apps and quitting birth control pills and saying I do at the altar that ultimately trickle down into the political policies that we will see save our country.

[Cuts back to live]

GOLDBERG: [In a mocking voice] Okay. I just want to say, years ago they used to come after women of color and accuse women of color of doing this very thing. And that’s why they continued to cut all these programs and erase all these things.

SUNNY HOSTIN: Child care programs.

GOLDBERG: Name it. Name it. And now, had I known that it turns out we are all just one group of women, we’re just one group — I mean, WHAT?! Because what is she — WHAT THE — WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?!

SARA HAINES: So, my ultimate beef with this is that it wraps a woman’s worth up in her ovaries in a way that for too long has happened. The whole women’s movement was not about bucking the trend of staying at home or loving tradition. It was giving women a choice to do what they wanted. And that’s what this is too. Marriage, children. It’s a choice. And by the way —

GOLDBERG: But be responsible for God’s sakes.

HAINES: No, but be responsible. But the other thing is they act like people are sitting around just saying, ‘yeah, no, I’m good.’ Most women I know — and some don’t. But most women wanted to have children. They don’t have them for other reasons. Most women I know if they had a great candidate or partner might want to be married. Maybe they don’t.

The fact we keep putting this on women, that their only worth in society, politics, policy is if they produce a baby or have a husband is the stupidest, most old-fashioned thing! We have come too far! The world has over 8 billion people! We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies! We have arrived here! Women now and girls now have a choice! Let them do that!

ANA NAVARRO: But also where is the call to responsibility for the men who make — who help make these children? Right? I don’t know why it’s always people lecturing women what they have to do or not to do. Bottom line, if you’re not paying my bills, you don’t get to tell me what I do with my uterus.

WHITNEY CUMMINGS: I do feel like she doesn’t even realize how goofy her point was because she said we need to teach our kids to have the courage to get married. If your marriage requires courage I have a lot of questions about your husband. We need to tell this woman about Legal Zoom and how easy it is to get out of it.

NAVARRO: Do remember these are the same people who support Donald Trump. That does take courage.

CUMMINGS: I gave our girl Isabel a little Google. She has a baby, she has a one year-old. Of course, she thinks everyone should have a lot of kids. She has a 1-year-old that sleeps all day. I also was thinking I’m going to have a bunch more kids. Wait till your kid is up and walking and you spend most of your day trying to get its shoes on. You’re probably going to rethink how many kids you have.

(…)

11:21:06 a.m. Eastern

HOSTIN: I think it’s just really –

GOLDBERG: Reckless.

HOSTIN: – reckless to be suggesting that people should have more children when you now know in this country there’s this affordability crisis and for a two-person household, a married household you need over $400,000 for childcare. Over $400,000. Most people don’t make over $400,000.

So, she’s advocating for people to be born into poverty, people not being able to feed those children, people not being able to educate those children, and people not being able to house those children at the same time when this government is cutting all of the services that would allow people to have families and big families.

[Crosstalk]

NAVARRO: $400,000 over the lifetime of a child or what?

HOSTIN: No. No.

NAVARRO: A year?!

HOSTIN: A year. It’s an annual income exceeding $400,000 to afford childcare.

NAVARRO: Okay, that’s got to be in New York.

HOSTIN: No. It’s all over the country. According to LendingTree analysis. And finally, this woman makes $10,000 per speaking engagement, between $5,000 and $10,000 per speaking engagement. Maybe she can afford to do it but most people cannot.

GOLDBERG: But listen to what she’s encouraging. She’s saying don’t have any thought about what you’re doing. Yes, be thoughtful before you have a kid!

HOSTIN: Correct.

GOLDBERG: You should be thoughtful before you have a kid!

[Applause]

And perhaps Isabel, you want to talk to some of those red states about some of their laws about women because they’re not really encouraging women to do anything except flee from them.

You’re saying — you’re telling people to have as many babies as they want to. Again, I’m going to send you back into the past and I want you to look and see how people were treated. And then I want you to say you know what? Maybe this isn’t the smartest idea because I only have one child. I don’t have to deal with anything. Because I’ve got somebody who watches the kid because I noticed the kid wasn’t on the thing with her!

It’s just – don’t – Look, if y’all are Gen Z, you know this ain’t the one. This ain’t the one. Okay? We’ll be right back.

President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Monday that his administration is negotiating with “A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME” in Iran but that he is prepared to destroy the Islamic Republic’s oil, gas, and electrical infrastructure if it does not reach a ceasefire deal with the United States soon.
“The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran,” he wrote. “Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately ‘Open for Business,’ we will conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet ‘touched.’ This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year ‘Reign of Terror.'”

The president’s 15-point plan calls on the Islamic Republic to shutter its nuclear sites, end enrichment, and relinquish any uranium it has that could be made into a bomb, all conditions the hardline regime has publicly rejected. While the exact representatives U.S. negotiators have talked with remain unclear, Trump’s comments suggest that Tehran’s remaining leadership may be weary after a month of sustained U.S.-Israeli military operations.
Trump made similar threats to attack the Islamic Republic’s energy infrastructure in a Monday interview with the Financial Times.
“Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don’t,” the president said of Iran’s main oil hub. “We have a lot of options. It would also mean we had to be there for a while.”
Some 2,500 U.S. Marines arrived in the Middle East in recent days, providing Trump with the ground personnel necessary to invade Kharg Island and secure the regime’s chief source of revenue.
Trump also confirmed Monday that the United States has been in negotiations with the speaker of Iran’s parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. His status as a negotiating partner for Middle East envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner was reported last week, though Ghalibaf denied those claims and Tehran has continued to maintain that no direct talks have taken place. Even as he participates in peace talks, Ghalibaf on Monday warned that Iranian forces are “waiting for the arrival of American troops on the ground to set them on fire and punish their regional partners forever.”
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said during a Monday press conference that Trump’s offer includes provisions the regime will not accept.
“We haven’t had any direct negotiations with the U.S. so far,” Baghaei said. “What has been communicated to us, whatever you may call it, 15-points or more or less, are a set of very excessive, unrealistic and irrational demands.”
Trump stated last week, though, that Tehran is privately willing to accept his peace proposal after suffering significant military defeats.
“The Iranian regime is now admitting to itself that they have been decisively defeated,” Trump said. “They’re talking to us because they’ve got a disaster on their hands. They’re defeated. They can’t make a comeback.”
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Liberal activist/actress Cynthia Nixon apparently has a lot of time on her hands since the cancellation of HBO Max’s Sex and the City reboot which she starred in. When she’s not out on boats claiming abortion is “great,” she can be found virtue signaling in aimless protests such as Saturday’s “No Kings” gathering in New York City.

Leave it to an obsolete Hollywood actress to lecture America about supposed “kings” while cosplaying as a revolutionary in New York City. Nixon showed up at the laughably named rally and promptly unloaded on Donie O’Sullivan at CNN about how she believes the entire planet is “horrified” that Trump is president of the United States:

Millionaire liberal activist/actress Cynthia Nixon tells CNN at #NoKings rally she thinks the whole world agrees w/ her views- proving how out of touch Hollywood is with everday Americans who fairly elected Trump into office. pic.twitter.com/C9GNtlZsU8
— Dawn Slusher (@BlondeBlogger) March 30, 2026

NIXON: I think it’s really important for us to show up. I think it’s important for us to show up in New York, I think it’s important for us to show up across the country in big cities and small towns. And I think it’s important for people to show up across the world. I think that I think that the rest of the world looks at us and is so horrified by what’s happening and can’t believe that we’ve elected this man and that we’re going along with it, and we have to show out, as we’re doing today, in record numbers, to say, this is not okay with us.

Who is “us”? Speak for yourself, Nixon. Of course, a millionaire celebrity who lives in a liberal bubble would think the entire world believes as she does. She’s a prime example of Hollywood elites being out of touch with common, hardworking, everyday Americans.

You know, the ones who fairly elected Trump as president via democratic process rather than him being a bloodline heir to a throne like a king. The “no kings” chants make as much sense as the left’s Chicken Little cries of “threat to democracy” and “the Constitution is in danger!” Spare us.

Record numbers? In deep-blue Manhattan? Sure, Cynthia. The rest of the country handed Trump a comeback victory precisely because they were horrified by the open borders, inflation, and cultural insanity her crowd inflicted on them for four years.

This is the same Cynthia Nixon who got demolished when she ran for New York governor in 2018, by the way. Yet here she is again, virtue signaling at a protest that reeks of sour grapes.

Nixon’s brand of coastal elitism is exactly why Trump won twice. While she frets about supposed international feelings, working families are watching grocery bills drop, the border finally secured, and America no longer apologizing for existing. The world she claims is “horrified” includes plenty of leaders who quietly respect strength over the weakness her party peddled.

Also, does Nixon’s “rest of the world” include Venezuelans or Iranians? The people who live in or fled Iran and Venezuela because of oppression aren’t “horrified” by Trump- they’re grateful. They’ve been dancing in the streets and thanking Trump by the millions for his efforts to secure their freedom.

Venezuela is now free of dictator Nicolás Maduro, and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was eliminated while the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been hammered. But Nixon is out ironically protesting the man who made it all happen by claiming he’s the dictatorial king. #MakeItMakeSense

As usual, facts don’t matter when your entire worldview comes from Manhattan dinner parties and And Just Like That residuals. Sorry, Miranda Hobbes. The American people didn’t elect a king. They elected a president who promised to put them first. Your rally may have felt important in that little progressive bubble, but it doesn’t mesh with reality. At all.

The nonviolent who provide the violent with camouflage are either incapable of or uninterested in policing their own.

“I think the republic will survive this as well”
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The scientific and financial drive for unlimited reproductive technologies is driving this train.

Under the Constitution, education is not a federal responsibility.