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Virginia’s Democratic senators aren’t budging from their position against funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without reforms, despite a deadly shooting involving a suspect with links to ISIS.Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., have both consistently voted with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and their colleagues against the GOP’s attempts to reopen the agency in their push for stringent reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).Senate Republicans have warned of the necessity to reopen DHS out of concern about an increase in terrorist activity in the U.S. following Operation Epic Fury in Iran.OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY SHOOTER IDENTIFIED AS MOHAMED JALLOH, FORMER NATIONAL GUARD MEMBER, ISIS SUPPORTERThat became a reality on Thursday when the FBI announced it was investigating the shooting at Old Dominion University, which left one person dead and two others wounded, as an act of terrorism after identifying the alleged shooter as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former member of the Army National Guard who was convicted of supporting ISIS.Kaine argued that Senate Democrats have repeatedly tried to reopen chunks of the agency, either through a bill that carved out funding for ICE and CBP or through standalone funding bills that Republicans have blocked.”Senate Democrats have repeatedly moved to fund — and Senate Republicans have repeatedly blocked — TSA, CISA, the Coast Guard and other entities within DHS that help keep us safe,” Kaine said in a statement to Fox News Digital.’YOU CAN CRY ABOUT IT’: TEMPERS FLARE IN SENATE AS DHS SHUTDOWN DEBATE ERUPTS, STALEMATE DIGS DEEPERWarner said in a statement to Fox News Digital that he was “heartbroken by the loss of Lt. Col. Brandon A. Shah” and lauded the Old Dominion University students who subdued Jalloh.But he pointed the finger at FBI Director Kash Patel for playing a role in the incident and demanded that Patel “answer for how the FBI lost track of a known, convicted terrorist sympathizer who was then able to get his hands on a gun and murder an American citizen.””Following Director Patel’s mass firings of experienced FBI agents and counterterrorism experts, this tragedy emphasizes serious concerns about whether his leadership has left Americans more vulnerable to threats,” Warner said.DEMS VOTE TO KEEP DHS CLOSED DESPITE AIRPORT CHAOS, IRANIAN SLEEPER CELL THREATSeparately, the lawmakers panned ICE’s handling of Abdul Jalloh, who was charged with the murder of Virginia resident Stephanie Minter earlier this year.When asked if Virginia counties should have cooperated with ICE to detain Jalloh, an illegal immigrant with a rap sheet of 30 arrests dating back to 2014, Kaine countered, “How about ICE cooperating with counties?””ICE had this guy repeatedly and let him go,” Kaine said. “And so should counties do more? Yeah, but what about ICE? Why would ICE, beginning in, like, 2017, 2018 — and that was during Trump’s presidency — not take cases like this seriously?”Warner called her murder a tragedy and said, “No one can doubt the fact that somebody who has been arrested 30 times should not be in this country.”

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A great conversation and a heartfelt celebration.
I met the great Mel K. a few years ago, and in the trenches of the information war grew a mutual admiration society and a friendship.
To connect with her and participate in her show was even more special now, as it coincides with my celebration today (March 14) of 3 years contributing to TGP.
Always generous, Mel described me as someone who ‘has been saying the truth even before it was popular to do so’.
This, of course, applies to both of us and so many other truthers out there, so ‘unpopular’ among the ruling elites that we were mass-banned from the old Twitter, and so many other social media platforms.
In our new conversation, Mel wanted to know about Brazil. She has an amazing intellectual curiosity and an understanding of how the Western Hemisphere is important for world stability.
I told her about the new scandal of Master Bank and how even Lula da Silva’s son and some of the tyrannical Supreme Court Justices like Alexandre de Moraes were involved with a vast body of evidence against them.

Not quite yet, but it’s coming.
Why pick fights with me? So silly.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 12, 2026

Kast, Noboa and Peña: rightwingers in Latin America.
I also spoke about this recent TGP article: RIGHT THING: Kast Sworn in as President of Chile, Ecuador’s Noboa Launches Offensive Against Cartels, and Paraguay Approves Defense Agreement Allowing US Military Presence.
In one day, we had these developments: while conservative Kast was sworn in as new President of Chile, Ecuador’s Noboa will launch an operation against the cartels with US logistical support, and Peña, in Paraguay, approved legislation to authorize US troops in its territory.
This Paraguay bit of news is very important, because in the Triple Frontier between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay, there is Hezbollah activity, a hotspot for drugs, weapons, and human trafficking.
Besides that, we talk about the Shield of the Americas meeting and some misadventures in the Amazon jungle for the participants of the COP30 environmental summit.
Check out the whole show:

Shield of the Americas: Spotlight on Brazil
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— The Mel K Show (@MelKShow) March 14, 2026

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Media Says ‘Gambling’ Trump Got Lucky On The Economy

Democrats have been predicting doom and gloom ever since Trump returned to office, yet the economic calamity they assured us would come has yet to materialize. But rather than give Trump credit, the narrative being pushed now is that his wins are just dumb luck.
(Washington Post staff illustration; photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post, iStock)

That’s certainly the message of a Politico piece headlined “Trump Keeps Gambling With the Economy — And Getting Away With It.” 

“President Donald Trump has spent his second term turning risky economic gambles into a way of life,” the article kicks off. “He has implemented sweeping global tariffs that have dramatically increased the cost of doing business across the world. He has sharply decreased the number of people immigrating to the U.S. He has pushed for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates under any circumstance, even though inflation has not entirely cooled. And now, he’s launched an attack on Iran, a scenario that has long been the clearest and most direct threat to one of Trump’s favored political barometers: gas prices.”

The implicit verdict is clear: these were all reckless moves, and Trump has no business still standing. Except the economy is still standing. Quite well, actually.

So-called experts warned repeatedly that Trump’s tariff regime would send prices spiraling. That didn’t happen. Inflation went down. Democrats entered 2025 predicting that aggressive immigration enforcement would “deliver a catastrophic blow to the U.S. Economy.” That blow never landed. What about the prediction that Trump’s mass deportations would devastate the economy? Not only did that not happen (albeit there was TACO’ing over the scale of deportations), it reversed the trend of rising housing costs, making them more affordable. At some point, a pattern of failed predictions stops being an argument about Trump’s recklessness and starts being an argument about the quality of the predictions.

The article quickly pivots to gas prices, which are up following the attack on Iran – though Energy Secretary Chris Wright called this a ‘fear premium’ that will fall in ‘weeks, not months’ [though we generally place little stock in bureaucrat promises].

“And now, he’s launched an attack on Iran, a scenario that has long been the clearest and most direct threat to one of Trump’s favored political barometers: gas prices,” the article warns. “The conflict has led to a jump in oil prices, though not quite to worst-case levels, and markets have been jittery about the prospect of more expensive energy and higher U.S. federal debt, stemming from the cost of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.” 

Politico is unwilling to credit the Trump administration for successfully managing the economy after the Biden administration went full leeroy jenkins on inflationary stimmies and red tape; instead, we’re supposed to be convinced that Trump is just lucky that disaster hasn’t struck, or as Politico put it, “getting away with it.”

In fact, Politico suggests that the economy is doing well in spite of Trump…

“In so many ways, that is the story of Trump’s economic stewardship up to this point. His disruptive policies have left some dents, including serious damage to his approval rating, but by the biggest readings of its health, the U.S. economy – measured by overall growth, the job market, the stock market, even inflation – largely keeps absorbing what he throws at it.”

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But mostly, the U.S. economy is just a consumer-driven powerhouse that seems hard to crush.

The closest they came to crediting Trump for anything was this painful concession:

The president himself is part of the reason for the resilience: GOP tax cuts are expected to provide a huge power-up to economic expansion this year by boosting refunds for individuals and offering immediate deductions for businesses making certain investments. And the administration’s deregulatory efforts have repeatedly driven stocks to new highs, which has helped increase the wealth of households invested in the market.

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Trump’s own effect, too, is hard to disentangle. He has demonstrated a willingness to be responsive to the desires of corporate America and to the anxieties of financial markets, but he’s also flouted both of those things far more than he did in his first term.

But all of that is just a gamble that paid off, as opposed to signs that Trump’s policies are working. The cognitive dissonance here is astounding, yet unsurprising.

Tyler Durden
Sat, 03/14/2026 – 09:55

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If you’re First Lady of New York City, you don’t get to be a private person — no matter what Mayor Mamdani says.

Nicole Kidman is sharing a hard limit when it comes to filming kissing scenes.During a recent interview on the “Las Culturistas” podcast, the 58-year-old actress revealed she “cannot stand bad breath,” calling it a “dealbreaker” for her when it comes to men. She noted, “You want me to lean in? Smell good.””You could be the most gorgeous, gorgeous guy, and you come at me with bad breath, and I’m like, ‘No, no, no,'” she shared. “It’s like, if I say ‘breathe on me’ and I have to recoil? Yikes. I’m out. I am out. You could not offer me enough money.”The “Babygirl” actress added that “the taste of the mouth and the smell of the mouth is very important to me.”MARGOT ROBBIE REVEALS HER BLUNT ‘F— YOU’ RESPONSE TO MALE CO-STAR’S UNWELCOME GIFTShe then shared an anecdote from her time filming intimate scenes with Alexander Skarsgård in “Big Little Lies,” saying she called him out on set for eating a falafel sandwich before filming a scene in which they had to kiss.”I’m like, ‘No, no, no, Alex. I’m meant to be kissing you and into you. Put away the falafel now. Because the bad breath does not turn me on,'” she recalled. “I said, ‘No more falafel. Nope. Not before you kiss. Not before you make love. No more falafel. Put the falafel away.'”Kidman joked that she’s “sure he did not eat a falafel ever again.”Skarsgård and Kidman played a husband and wife on the hit HBO show, showcasing the patterns which can exist within abusive relationships. Kidman won a Critics Choice Award, an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her work in the series, honoring real-life victims of domestic abuse when accepting these awards.LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS”Sometimes when you’re acting, you get a chance to bring a bigger message — we shine a light on domestic abuse,” she said in her acceptance speech at the Emmys in 2017. “It is a complicated, insidious disease that exists far more than we allow ourselves to know. It is filled with shame, secrecy and by you acknowledging me with this award, it shines a light on it even more. So thank you, thank you, thank you. I bow down to you.”The Academy Award-winning actress is currently starring in the Amazon Prime series “Scarpetta,” in which she plays the titular character, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a forensic pathologist working to catch a serial killer.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERDuring an interview with USA Today, Kidman discussed the character’s motivation to become a medical examiner, noting Scarpetta’s need to have “control over death” following the death of her father at a young age is something she could relate to.”I almost relate to that. I lost my father [in 2014] and my main thing was finding out why,” she explained. “I lost him very suddenly to a heart attack, but I wanted to know why, and it became an obsession. So I get why Kay chooses to do the job, because it gives her a sense of control over something that is completely uncontrollable.”The show also stars fellow Academy Award winners Jamie Lee Curtis and Ariana DeBose, who play Kidman’s sister and daughter respectively, as well as Bobby Cannavale and his son Jake.

Free Burma Rangers medics treating the wounded during a battle. Photo courtesy of Free Burma Rangers.
Across Burma (Myanmar), 3.7 million people are displaced and in need of medical and food aid, as well as international protection from government airstrikes.
Civilians are being bombed every single day by the Burma Army, and neither the UN nor the international community is doing anything to stop China and Russia’s support of the junta’s army or its access to funding, jet fuel, and weapons.
The Burma war has been ongoing for nearly 80 years, with the world largely ignoring the growing displacement and humanitarian crisis caused by a government at war with its own people.
When the generals launched a coup in February 2021, overturning the results of a free election, the news went largely unnoticed as America was wrestling with its own contested presidential election.
A year later, when Russia invaded Ukraine, coverage was so pervasive that news readers around the world believed it was the world’s only ongoing conflict.
The October 7 Hamas attack on Israel in 2023 diverted some attention away from the Ukraine war and pushed the Burma conflict even further down the list of international priorities.
At least three times during President Trump’s first and second administrations, the United States passed legislation and appeared poised to send some type of relief to Burma.
But with the current Iran conflict underway, Burma has once again fallen out of the international consciousness.
Meanwhile, the Burma Army continues its unrelenting campaign of death and displacement against the country’s civilian population.
Resistance groups are holding the line as best they can, but at this point they are running out of ammunition and have no air-defense systems to counter Burma Army drones and airstrikes.
Even at the front, many resistance soldiers wear non-standard uniforms and flip-flops. Most have no helmets, and many do not have body armor. Photo by Antonio Graceffo.
At the front, I observed that most of the resistance soldiers were not wearing helmets and most did not have body armor.
Checking the armor of the soldiers closest to me, I saw that many were wearing empty plate carriers, which provide no protection at all, while a few had cheap Chinese airsoft vests that a bullet would tear right through.
Most told me they only had thirty rounds of ammunition, and one soldier told me he only had three.
And this ragtag group of boys has spent the last five years, a quarter of their lifespans, holding the line against the powerful Burma Army before them, supported by China and Russia, with their families and loved ones in displaced persons camps behind them.
At the beginning of the revolution in 2021, the resistance fought the junta with homemade guns, including muskets. During the past five years, these have largely been replaced with weapons captured from the Burma Army, but as ammunition is now running out, they may have to revert to the muskets again. Photo by Antonio Graceffo.
Civilians are fleeing in increasingly large numbers, taking refuge in resistance-controlled areas, but those areas are shrinking. The attacks not only continue, they are getting closer.
People who have already been displaced multiple times now find themselves in camps with no water, no international support, and no international protection. The government considers internally displaced persons camps to be acceptable targets.
This month, Free Burma Rangers (FBR) on the frontlines across Burma have documented the junta’s continued pattern of attacks on civilians and displaced communities.
Burma Army troops overran Kyaw Gon Village in Kler Lwe Htoo District, Karen State, on March 5, displacing more than 4,000 villagers and capturing more than 150 civilians, including men, women, children, and infants.
Witnesses reported that captives were forced to lie beside the road and were shot if they raised their heads. At least 30 civilians were killed, and survivors were forced to dig graves for the dead.
Resistance forces retook the village on March 8 and freed 41 hostages, though many villagers remain missing and the status of those still in captivity is unknown.
Airstrikes in Mu Traw District caused further civilian casualties. On March 8, a Burma Army jet strike on Mae Kaw Law Village killed a 23-year-old villager and seriously injured her husband and two-year-old daughter while they sheltered in their home.
The following day, another jet bombing in Ta Oh Der Village destroyed five houses, injured seven villagers, and killed two people, including the seventy-year-old wife of the village pastor and her three-year-old granddaughter.
In southern Shan State, clashes in Mawkmai Township beginning February 1, 2026, when junta and Pa-O National Organization joint forces fought Pa-O National Liberation Army troops in several villages, have displaced more than 1,000 civilians, leaving many without access to food, healthcare, or clean water.
Residents who fled are hiding in forests or sheltering in communities such as Na Hee Village, in locations aid workers describe as remote and difficult to reach.
Government forces now control most of the roads, so small amounts of supplies have to be transported through the jungle. In areas where even four-wheel-drive vehicles cannot go, supplies must be carried on people’s backs or transported by motorcycles, elephants, or mules. Photo by Antonio Graceffo.
About 80 percent of the displaced population remains in hiding, fearing renewed violence. Many also avoid returning to agricultural fields due to the risk of landmines.
The Pa-O National Organization, a Burma Army-aligned militia, has provided neither medical assistance nor food aid to those affected.
Local volunteers report no functioning clinics and very limited food supplies, leaving children, the elderly, and pregnant women at particular risk.
The week’s violence ended with a Burma military airstrike on a women’s detention center in Mese Township, Karenni State, around 10:30 a.m. The center held family members of Burma Army soldiers.
The strike killed five people, including three women, one man, and one child, while another child was injured.
Free Burma Rangers evacuated the survivors and provided medical treatment before moving them to safer locations. The attack illustrated that Burma Army airstrikes have become so indiscriminate that they now kill even those connected to the military itself.
These incidents are not isolated. Burma Army operations across Karen, Karenni, and southern Shan states killed civilians, displaced thousands, and injured resistance fighters throughout early March.
UNHCR’s displacement overview as of February 16, 2026 places the total IDP figure at 3,704,700, distributed across all states and regions, with roughly 90% displaced since the February 2021 coup. Since the military takeover, millions more have experienced displacement multiple times, on average eight times per person.
Across Burma, at least 3.7 million people are living in internally displaced persons camps that have no support or protection from the UN or any international actors. The Burma Army continues to bomb the people even while they struggle to find food and water, and most have no access to medical care. Photo by Antonio Graceffo.
Roughly 4 million Burmese have fled to Thailand, where only 108,000 have been given shelter in refugee camps with UN support.
Those with passports and ID cards are able to study at university or work legally, while most of the rest survive as registered migrant workers or as undocumented laborers on farms, in construction, or in hotels.
Beyond Thailand, 1.3 million are sheltering in Bangladesh, roughly 120,000 are believed to be in Malaysia, more than 23,000 are in India, and another 1.5 million have been granted asylum in other countries.
The displacement has been driven in part by the systematic destruction of healthcare. Since the February 2021 coup through January 20, 2026, Insecurity Insight has recorded at least 1,869 incidents of violence against or obstruction of healthcare in Myanmar.
The Myanmar Armed Forces were responsible for 70% of those incidents. Healthcare facilities were damaged or destroyed on 471 occasions and seized for non-medical use 227 times.
At least 170 health workers were killed and another 909 arrested. Armed drones struck healthcare targets 74 times between February 2021 and December 2025.
The most pressing humanitarian health needs are driven by the lack of access to basic healthcare as a result of damage and destruction of health facilities, direct attacks on health centers, health workers, patients, and ambulances, logistical challenges in securing life-saving medical supplies, and the lack of trained health workers.
Access is particularly dire in Rakhine and Kayah, where nearly half the population faces serious difficulties, while between 25% and 40% of residents in Kachin, Tanintharyi, Kayin, Northern Shan, and Chin need humanitarian health assistance.
An estimated 1.5 million children under five have missed basic vaccinations since 2018, posing a serious threat of measles and diphtheria outbreaks and the possible re-emergence of polio.
The author, Antonio Graceffo, is on the river in Myanmar.
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A principal dancer at the famed New York City Ballet — the same company Timothée Chalamet’s mother and sister performed with — went viral this week for his jaw-dropping video clapping back at the actor for saying no one cares about the classical art form.

The HBO host claims Hollywood is now “terrified of looking like racists.”

Walker Hayes says his kids had a “front-row seat” to every phase of his life.During a recent interview on SiriusXM’s “The Highway”, the 46-year-old country singer spoke about the many phases of his life, and how his six kids were there to see him through every step of the way.”They’ve had the front-row seat of, you know, Costco dad. Alcoholic dad. ‘What are you going to do with your life?’ dad over COVID. Lose a kid dad, and then ‘Fancy Like,’” he said.Hayes has been open in the past about his journey to success prior to making it big as a country singer, including his struggle with alcoholism and the nights he spent working at Costco to help support his family.JOHN MELLENCAMP SHARES HIS UNCONVENTIONAL ADVICE TO HIS CHILDREN ABOUT WORKDuring an appearance on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” in November 2022, he explained how a chance encounter with a fan early in his career led him to landing a job at the retail store, adding that while he was “embarrassed” at first, his family was always very supportive.”My wife, Laney, she never never at one time, was like, ‘Hey, this dream’s a bad idea,’ she just was glad that I loved what I did and supported that. It was enough for her,” he said. “She wrote me a note every single morning I went to work at Costco. I would leave the house at three and there was always a letter and a lunch, and it was amazing. She was so supportive that year of my life.”The “Beat the Bottle” singer shares six kids with his high school sweetheart and wife Laney, and found mainstream success with the release of his hit song, “Fancy Like,” in 2021.In 2024, Hayes released an album titled “Sober Thoughts,” which included songs discussing his 20-year struggle with alcohol abuse, which ended in 2016 when he got sober. He told Fox News Digital in May 2024 that he released the album to encourage others who are dealing with substance abuse issues.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER”A big, big mission statement of mine is just recovery. I want to help anyone who is lonely and daunted by that idea,” he said. “Because there was a time in my life where I would have said, ‘There’s no recovering from this. You know, this is going to be my life.'”Hayes added that he isn’t looking to change the music industry, which he admits “can often condone that lifestyle,” but rather just “show people and just normal guys like me that there is an alternative.”WATCH: Country star Walker Hayes on kicking alcohol, staying sober in ‘industry that can often condone that lifestyle’In addition to releasing a new album in 2024, Hayes also partnered with Athletic Brewing Company, the largest nonalcoholic brewery in the United States, to release a new American pale ale named after his smash-hit song “Fancy Like.””We dropped a nonalcoholic beer, which gives you that experience,” he told Fox News Digital. “If you love the taste of beer, it’s there. But obviously, no hangover and no bad decisions.”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSThrough all of his life experiences, Hayes says he hopes his children learned that they shouldn’t be afraid to fail.”I hope they aren’t afraid of failure, and I think they see me love Laney. They do the ‘Ew, gross’ thing. I think they know I need the Lord,” he said on SiriusXM’s The Highway. “They’re backstage every night. They’re on stage many nights dancing, and so I think they have a really interesting perspective on what the world actually has to offer and what really matters.”