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Delusional Rocker Neil Young Gifts Music Catalog to Greenland, Claims It Will Help Them Cope With Trump
Singer-songwriter Neil Young’s narcissism knows no bounds.
As speculation continues to swirl as to whether or not the United States will acquire Greenland, the musician and leftist activist thinks he has found a way to help the good people of the territory cope with the looming threat of President Donald Trump sweeping them up into his mighty empire — give them all his music for free.
Rolling Stone reported Monday that Young’s website has not only his music, but also live performances, concert films, and outtakes.
Prices are anywhere from $24.99 to $99.99 annually, but Greenland is getting it all for free. Young explained via the site, “I’m honored to give a free year’s access to neilyoungarchives.com to all of our friends in Greenland.”
“I hope my Music and Music Films will ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,” he added.
“It is my sincere wish for you to be able to enjoy all of my music in your beautiful Greenland home, in its highest quality. This is an offer of Peace and Love,” Young said.
“All the music I made during the last 62 years is yours to hear. You can renew for free was long as you are in Greenland. We do hope other organizations will follow in the spirit of our example.”
This news comes after Young announced he was remaining steadfast in keeping his music off Amazon due to owner Jeff Bezos becoming more friendly with Trump. Per Rolling Stone, he commented, “My music will never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by Bezos.”
“My position is unfortunately harmful to my record company in the short term, but I think the message I am sending is important and clear. Thanks for buying music locally and from independent digital services.”
Is Young a talented artist who has made great music over the years? Certainly, but this is a bit much. It’s as if he thinks his music diplomacy is going to drive a wedge between Trump and Greenland.
In August, Young released “Big Crime,” a song where he complains about the president and calls him a fascist.
It’s all part of his effort to stay relevant. At 80, Young perceives his anti-Trump message will play well with audiences, forgetting they’ve had that same message rammed down their throats for a decade.
It’s a move that makes you wonder — Who asked for this? Who is actually that enthusiastic about Neil Young?
In 2014, U2 and Apple collaborated to put their 13th album “Songs of Innocence” on what US Magazine reported was over 500 million devices across 119 countries. Users were “gifted” an album they didn’t ask for from a band they might not have liked or even have heard of.
Throwing your music in someone’s face is not going to make them a fan.
It’s yet to be determined whether Greenland will have renewed enthusiasm against Trump after learning they can hear “Harvest Moon” for free.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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The FDA is undermining a culture of life inside and outside the womb
Last Friday during the annual March for Life, President Trump delivered a pledge to the nation: His administration stands for the “infinite worth and God-given dignity of every human life.” Vice President JD Vance’s remarks at the rally were just as clear: We must “build up that culture of life” and “cannot be neutral. Our country cannot be indifferent about whether its next generations live or die.”
Vance and Trump were primarily talking about the unborn. But their principles clearly include providing the right to life — as well as health and safety — for all citizens, especially the most vulnerable among us.
We have entire policies at the FDA dedicated to making it more difficult for children inside and outside the womb to live the lives they deserve.
Unfortunately, these principles have been undermined by a few key officials at the Food and Drug Administration, and not just for unborn children. Thousands of kids with rare diseases have seen valuable treatments slowed or even halted since last summer, thanks to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and Chief Medical Officer Vinay Prasad.
As one of the oldest living Americans with spina bifida (I celebrate my 60th birthday this year), I understand the value of providing children with rare and fatal diseases the ability to improve or even extend their lives from a personal, policy, and political perspective. I took that knowledge into the first Trump administration as the commissioner of the Administration on Disability at the Department of Health & Human Services. Today, I’m deeply concerned by what Makary, Prasad, and — at times — Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have done to reduce children’s ability to live the full length of their God-given lives.
Those concerns were why I raised the alarm when RFK Jr. was going through his Senate hearings a year ago. He had been openly supportive of abortion on the presidential campaign trail, but I and other concerned pro-life advocates were told that he would have plenty of pro-lifers around him and that people would become policy. They were right: People did become policy, but not the way we had hoped. Now, we have entire policies at the FDA dedicated to making it more difficult for children inside and outside the womb to live the lives they deserve.
Last October, the FDA outraged pro-life warriors across the country by approving a cheaper version of mifepristone, one of the most prevalent and notorious abortion drugs on the market. Women can have these drugs dropped off in their mailboxes and have abortions in the “comfort” of their own homes. The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute estimates there were over 640,000 chemical abortions in 2023 — 63% of the total abortions that year.
In 2026, there will be even more.
That number, troubling enough on its own, understates the problem because it doesn’t account for the injuries these drugs inflict on the women who take them. One devastating fact I have learned in my advocacy for people with disabilities is the particular hazard the abortion pill presents for women who use wheelchairs or otherwise live with limited mobility. Any drug that causes blood clots — and abortion drugs definitely do — will be a deadly danger to people who have limited mobility.
FDA Chief Medical Officer Vinay Prasad is similarly problematic for those who support protecting life. He not only supports legalized abortion, but since his appointment in mid-2025, Prasad has held up the production of drugs and treatments that would make real differences in the lives of kids who suffer from rare diseases like Sanfilippo syndrome and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
In 2018, Prasad opposed the Trump “right to try” doctrine, through which hundreds of patients have seen amazing results from drugs still in their experimental stages or through off-label usage. That number could be higher if Prasad’s red tape weren’t keeping effective drugs in “pre-approval” limbo.
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At HHS, the buck stops with RFK Jr. But ultimately in our government, the buck stops at the Oval Office. Trump and Vance recommitted to supporting life on Friday, and that commitment must be consistent throughout the administration. The FDA’s actions against the unborn and children with disabilities and rare diseases threaten to undermine what should be a slam dunk for Trump’s pro-life legacy.
In short, HHS and FDA appointees should be defending life, not quietly undermining it. Vance and Trump can make that happen.
Liz Wheeler’s frame-by-frame takedown: 7 reasons the Ilhan Omar assault was probably fake
On January 27, during a town hall meeting in Minneapolis, a man sitting in the front row suddenly charged at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and sprayed her with an unknown liquid using a syringe-like device. The alleged suspect, 55-year-old Anthony Kazmierczak, was immediately arrested on suspicion of assault, and Omar, unharmed, was able to continue her event. He faces charges of third-degree assault and is currently detained at the Hennepin County jail.
Some people, however, are convinced this assault was a hoax. They argue that certain details in the video footage indicate Omar staged the attack against herself, perhaps to deflect attention from controversies she’s involved in.
On this episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Liz delivers a frame-by-frame analysis of the attack, dissecting seven details she argues might confirm the growing suspicion that the entire ordeal was manufactured.
Reason 1: Security dropped the ball — or did they?
The first suspicious detail, Liz says, is that Omar’s attacker was “visibly a weirdo.”
“Look at this guy. He is clearly under the influence of something,” she says, rolling video footage from the town hall meeting that captures the up-close profile of the attacker prior to the incident.
At a “town hall event for a sitting member of the U.S. Congress — if there’s a weirdo seated in the front row, the security moves the weirdo. That’s standard procedure,” she adds.
Reason 2: Timing a little too perfect?
“It’s interesting to note that he jumped up right after Ilhan Omar said that Kristi Noem must resign,” Liz says.
“It was as if that was his cue.”
Liz says the timing of the attack makes her wonder: “Is this some kind of stage/hoax/hate crime in order to protect Ilhan Omar from any kind of enforcement of her questionable immigration activities?”
Reason 3: Suspicious head nod?
“There’s also a moment where it appears that Ilhan Omar gives him the head nod, like, ‘Go ahead,”’ Liz says, playing another video clip that captures Omar’s face immediately prior to the attack.
While Liz wants to give her “the benefit of the doubt,” when she closely analyzes the footage, she sees a definitive nod.
“She gave him a nod as if to give him his cue,” she declares.
Reason 4: Zero panic?
“Then, of course, when he does lunge at her and squirts this foul-smelling unknown substance on her, she barely flinches,” Liz notes.
She explains that if Omar was truly unaware of the attack, then surely she would’ve shown concern about the substance — perhaps a “poison chemical agent” — that was just squirted on her. Or perhaps she would involuntarily flinch, assuming that the attacker was wielding a firearm.
“And yet, she barely reacts,” Liz says.
Reason 5: Omar charges toward the danger?
Liz also finds it suspicious that Omar’s initial reaction to being sprayed was to move toward the perpetrator. Video footage captures her immediately storming away from the podium, where she was speaking in his direction.
“Instead of the kind of self-preservation move-away, she lurches towards him,” she scoffs.
Reason 6: Why spare the face?
“It’s also strange, by the way, that he didn’t aim this substance at her face. He aimed it at her sweater,” Liz observes.
If he was a genuine attacker, he likely would’ve aimed to cause true damage and thus wouldn’t have projected the liquid in a “harmless” place, she suggests.
Reason 7: No medical checkup?
The most convincing evidence that Omar staged this attack, however, is that she refused any medical testing, hazmat evaluation, or decontamination at the scene. On the contrary, she demanded to be allowed to finish her speech before examination.
“To decline to even test what this substance is or to go to the hospital and to continue speaking — these are the reasons why … so many people are asking: Is this an authentic attack, or was this a staged attack?” Liz says.
“Well, my answer to that would be this: It’s a good thing that he was arrested because if it was a real attack, he deserves to be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and if it’s a fake attack, if this was some kind of hoax hate crime, then he deserves to be investigated, prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
To hear more of Liz’s frame-by-frame breakdown, watch the full episode above.
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There Has Always Been Politics at the Kennedy Center
Hardly a day goes by without news of some performers performatively announcing that they’ll refuse to take the stage at the Trump Kennedy Center, or the press portraying a canceled event in that light.
This week, composer Philip Glass said he wouldn’t allow the National Symphony Orchestra to play a symphony he wrote honoring Abraham Lincoln. A touring production of the musical Hamilton canceled in March 2025 because, its producer, Jeffrey Seller, explained, “some institutions are sacred and should be protected from politics.” Others who have backed out reportedly include musician Rhiannon Giddens, the Martha Graham Dance Company, and banjoist Bela Fleck, who explained on social media that “Performing there has become charged and political, at an institution where the focus should be on the music.”
Some portion of contemporary artists, just like some portion of the rest of the country, doesn’t like Trump. If they don’t want to perform at the Trump Kennedy Center, no one is forcing them to, subject to the terms of whatever contract they entered into when they originally booked the engagement. But to frame it as Trump injecting politics into the supposedly previously sacred and apolitical Kennedy Center is just naive, ignorant nonsense.
It’s not as if the presidential box there during the Obama administration was packed with the president’s most vicious critics. And it’s not as if the Democrats aren’t themselves hoping to get it back under their control so that they can use it themselves. The best way to test that would be with a bill privatizing the thing by selling it to some high bidder in the entertainment industry. That’d be one way to get politics out of it. It’s unlikely.
Not everything portrayed in the press as a political exit may actually be that. Some departures or cancellations may have been motivated by economics or other reasons. The president of the Trump Kennedy Center, Richard Grenell, fumed on social media, “Guess how many reporters actually reported the facts as to who asked who to end the EXCLUSIVE Opera partnership at the Trump Kennedy Center? Zero. We have a crisis in the media. Experienced editors are allowing young reporters to simply repeat, recycle and plagiarize other reporters without checking facts.” Grenell has also asked who is making it political: the Trump administration or artists deciding to boycott the center in the Trump presidency?
Trump himself said on January 26: “People don’t realize that The Trump Kennedy Center suffered massive deficits for many years and, like everything else, I merely came in to save it and, if possible, make it far better than ever before!”
My own preference would be to avoid naming any government structures for any living politicians, and to apply that rule equally to the Trump Kennedy Center and to the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Railroad Station, President Barack H. Obama Highway in California, and the Barack Obama Presidential Expressway in Illinois.
But as the author of a book about President Kennedy, I can at least bring some experience to bear on the history of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Simply put: Yes, a performing arts center in Washington, D.C., created by Congress with the National Cultural Center Act, on federal land, with a parking garage funded by a congressional appropriation, and a board composed of and appointed by politicians will be political.
Advocates for building a performing arts center in Washington were straightforward about the political rationale for the project. The chairman of the District of Columbia Auditorium Commission, Agnes Meyer, testified to a House subcommittee on Feb. 7, 1957, “Washington is not only the Capital of the United States. It is the capital of the free world.” Meyer, a former New York Sun reporter whose husband, Eugene Meyer, owned the Washington Post and had been chairman of the Federal Reserve, spoke in the early years of the Cold War and said America was “in a period when our Republic must capture the imagination of all free peoples.”
In a Jan. 31, 1957, report to President Eisenhower, “Plans for a National Civic Auditorium and Cultural Center,” Meyer—the mother of legendary Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham—wrote that a cultural center in Washington would “enhance its prestige throughout the world.” The report warned that “in the past, some foreign visitors have left the United States with an impression of American cultural poverty.” It proposed a Great Hall where “the Government may act as host to officials of many nations.” Meyer talked about what became the Kennedy Center the way Trump talks about his plans for a new White House ballroom: as a place for events “of high ceremonial importance,” such as the Inaugural Ball.
When the building finally opened, named after a politician, it got a hostile reception from New York. Perhaps the cultural capital saw a threat from the political capital horning in—with federal subsidies—on what had traditionally been New York’s turf. The architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, in a front-page review in the Sept. 7, 1971, New York Times, dropped in a first-paragraph reference to the Nazi architect who was Hitler’s minister of armaments and war production: “Albert Speer would have approved.” Later, she hammered the point home: “This is gemütlich Speer.”
As if the Nazi comparisons weren’t enough, Huxtable also likened the new building to a Soviet Communist edifice, calling its spaces “disquietingly reminiscent of the overscaled vacuity of Soviet palaces of culture.”
Wrote Huxtable: “[T]he building is a national tragedy. It is a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.”
Art’s use for arguably political purposes long predates the Nazis, the Soviets, or the Nixon administration’s 1971 dedication of the Kennedy Center. It goes back at least to Solomon’s Temple, to ancient Greece, to the Egyptian pyramids, and to the Medici family’s patronage of the Italian Renaissance. Just as with the politicians who are the patrons, sometimes the art is great, and sometimes it is mediocre.
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SELECTIVE CRISIS: CNN Does an ‘Emergency’ Minneapolis Town Hall
CNN, in an attempt to underline Minneapolis as a national emergency, held a “State of Emergency” town hall hosted by Anderson Cooper and Sara Sidner. This townhall was short on substance, long on fluff, heavy on leftwing narratives and did little to meaningfully advance the conversation surrounding immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota.
It appears that the town hall was set up to be a Parkland-style event where conservatives were brought before the braying mob and flayed for spectacle. Border Czar Tom Homan, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Governor Tim Walz were all invited to attend. They all declined. And perhaps it was for the better.
The most notable fact about the town hall is that the recently-published video of Alex Pretti spitting at the Border Patrol and kicking the tail light off a vehicle was not aired until 28 minutes into the town hall. This allowed Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to navigate the town hall without having to speak to this new set of facts.
A notable moment from the Frey solo portion of the town hall: the first, his inability to say he supports the arrest of criminal illegal aliens, even under the gentlest prompting:
Jacob Frey just cannot bring himself to say he supports the arrest of criminal illegal aliens, even under the friendliest prompting:
ANDERSON COOPER: If Tom Homan advocates for a more targeted policy of actually going after people who demonstrably have committed a crime, not… pic.twitter.com/l5iDB4a4sJ
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 29, 2026
After the first commercial break, Frey is joined by Minneapolis Chief of Police O’Hara. When asked, Frey claims to have never seen the video and rushes to dismiss it. O’Hara then slams CBP/ICE procedures and tactics on the streets.
Jacob Frey claims to have never seen 1/13 video, rushes to dismiss. MPD Chief O’Hara slams CBP/ICE procedures and tactics on the streets. pic.twitter.com/nalQAXo4Nf
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 29, 2026
The most remarkable moment of the evening is probably Chief O’Hara defining what crosses beyond a peaceful protest and into mob violence. By this standard, Minneapolis Police should’ve cleared the streets already.
Listen closely to MPD chief O’Hara’s definition of what crosses the line beyond peaceful protest. By this standard, MPLS should’ve been shut down long ago.
ANDERSON COOPER: We’ve been talking to a lot of incredibly brave citizens, young people, old people- all ages, who have… pic.twitter.com/BHLBnY0MQM
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 29, 2026
It was time for the Republicans to take the stage. The questioning at this point got more adversarial. State representative Elliott Engel took the panel to task over jail detainers and how they could have been avoided:
WATCH: MN State Rep @elliottengenMN SCHOOLS the CNN hosts on jail detainers and how this could have all been avoided pic.twitter.com/MJk2vATTfg
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 29, 2026
State Senator Michael Holmstrom called the media out (specifically the Star-Tribune) for suppressing the ongoing massive fraud scandal.
WATCH: State Sen. @MichaelH_MN brings up the both media suppression of the massive fraud investigation, and cites it as an underlying reason for the chaos in MN pic.twitter.com/gGstYLkAv4
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 29, 2026
The elected Republicans were followed by Attorney General Keith Ellison, and an ecumenical panel.
As far as questions go, the overwhelming majority were left-leaning questions centered around cooperating with feds. The town hall was clearly set up to be an ambush for dissemination of leftwing talking points.
We note that, when examining CNN’s selective airing of town halls, there is never a town hall convened that might disturb media narrative. Town halls have never been convened subsequent to the deaths of Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungaray, and so many others. Some national emergencies appear to be more equal than others.
Perhaps, more tellingly, they are just (D)ifferent.
Federal cops in Pretti shooting placed on leave; Pretti’s family retains attorneys from George Floyd case
One Border Patrol agent and one Customs and Border Protection officer were placed on leave for their involvement in the lethal shooting of anti-ICE activist Alex Pretti, according to ABC News.
Also on Wednesday, Pretti’s family retained attorneys who had helped prosecute an officer in the death of George Floyd.
‘It’s just amateurish. It’s terrible; it’s making the president look bad on policy.’
The developments come after President Donald Trump and local Democratic leaders worked together to ease the tension from the incident Saturday.
A Department of Homeland Security notification to Congress obtained by ABC News indicated that both of the officers discharged their firearms during the incident.
Sources said that putting the two on leave was “standard protocol” for an officer-involved shooting.
Steve Schleicher is representing Michael and Susan Pretti, the activist’s parents, pro bono according to a statement from the family. Schleicher is a partner at the Minneapolis-based firm Maslon and worked as special prosecutor under Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison in the trial against Derek Chauvin.
Micayla Pretti, the activist’s younger sister, hired her own attorney, Anthony Cotton of Kuchler & Cotton in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Democrats pounced on the death of the 37-year-old ICU nurse by resuming and amplifying their calls for the Trump administration to end all ICE operations and disband the agency. Others have called for Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem to resign from the office.
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“What she’s done in Minnesota should be disqualifying. She should be out of a job,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said. “It’s just amateurish. It’s terrible; it’s making the president look bad on policy.”
On Tuesday, it was revealed that Pretti had gotten into a separate confrontation with federal agents about a week before his death. He had been tackled in that interaction and reportedly broke a rib when one agent leaned his knee on him. Pretti was released in that incident.
“That day, he thought he was going to die,” said a source who had spoken to Pretti.
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