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

News, issues and events that caught our eye.

DOGE’s Success Means Dems Now Support Violence To Stop It

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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