What We’re Reading: DOGE’s Big Wins, Shutdown Averted?, China’s Real Threat … And More

What We’re Reading: DOGE’s Big Wins, Shutdown Averted?, China’s Real Threat … And More

The escalating leftist violence against conservatives from Trump and Musk on down — Andrea Widburg, American Thinker

The Left Escalates Its Attacks on Musk — Hot Air

X Rocked By Major Outages, Elon Musk Says ‘Massive Cyberattack’ To Blame — The Daily Wire

‘Elon Is Obviously Over The Target’ — Libs Of TikTok, X

Is ActBlue Funding Terrorist Campaign Against Tesla? — David Strom, Hot Air

Elon Musk Hit the Mother Lode of the Deep State. Is He Now an Assassination Target? — PJ Media

Anti-Musk protesters attack Tesla sites with guns and Molotov cocktails — The Telegraph, via Yahoo

Whatever happened to antifa? — The Spectator

The Rise of Civil Terrorism — City Journal

Deep State Cuts Are Only Just Getting Started

MUSK: DOGE Will Cut $1 TRILLION in Spending ‘Unless We’re Stopped.’ — PJ Media

EPA Chief Lee Zeldin Cancels ‘400 DEI and Environmental Justice Grants,’ Saves Nearly $2 Billion — Breitbart

Expect no end, no slowdown, in Trump’s non-stop offensive — Behind The Black

DOGE Makes Another Bombshell Discovery — PJ Media

Here’s Where Trump’s Government Layoffs Are Targeted—As NOAA Reportedly Set To Cut 20% Of Staff — Forbes, via Archive.today

The (huge) hidden benefits of DOGE’s work — American Thinker

Musk Calls Entitlement Fraud ‘The Big One To Eliminate’ — Forbes, via MSN

Stacey Abrams slammed after defending $2 billion in Biden-era EPA funds to buy green energy appliances — Fox News, via Yahoo

Budget Talks: Agree To Disagree Until Next Year?

House Passes Funding Bill To Avert Government Shutdown, Slash Spending by $7 Billion — Washington Free Beacons

 Dems threatened government shutdown over Elon Musk hate, Republicans say — Fox News

Republicans advance a government funding bill despite Democratic opposition — AP, via MSN

Are We Finally About To Be Hit By Biden’s Recession?

Ignore the stock market — Wall Street is detoxing from government spending addiction — Charles Gasparino, New York Post

Brace Yourselves: The Next Media BIG LIE Is About to Drop — PH Media

Basic Recession Math — Wall Street Mav, X

Wall Street Journal warns there could be a coming ‘Trump recession’ — The Hill

Egg Prices Plummet — Newsweek

China’s Threat To U.S. Is Real And Growing

China is an existential threat to this country — American Thinker

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: We have let China export their economic system to us — YouTube (video)

China’s Xi Jinping may be the biggest threat to the global economy, former Treasury official warns — Fortune, via Archive.today

As Ukraine Distracts, China Advances in Our Own Hemisphere — American Greatness

Despite Big Drop, Illegal Immigration Still A Big Issue

Blocked From Reaching the U.S., Migrants Begin the Reverse Journey South — Wall Street Journal, via Archive.today

J.D. Vance: Unchecked Migration Is Killing The American Dream — The Federalist

Trump Admin To Deport Foreigners Who Come To American Universities And Shill For Terrorists — The Federalist

Tom Homan on Sanctuary Cities: I’m Going and ‘Bringing Hell with Me’ — Breitbart

Miscellaneous, But Very Important, Stuff . . .

BREAKING: Ukraine Agrees to 30-Day Ceasefire; Now the Ball Is in Putin’s Court — Red State

TRUMP RESTARTS MILITARY AID TO UKRAINE — Citizen Free Press

BREAKING: Trump will not impose 50% Canadian steel, aluminum tariffs, says top trade advisor — CNBC

Ontario’s Ford suspends U.S. electric surcharge after Lutnick agrees to trade talks — CNBC

UK, EU and NATO Partners Launch Massive Wave of Drone Attacks Against Moscow — Conservative Treehouse

Tulsi Gabbard Rips Security Clearances From 51 Spies Who Lied, Hits Biden With Some Bad News Too — Red State

Greenlanders vote in election dominated by Trump’s control pledge — Reuters

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