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Protestors in L.A. riots. Video by Nick Shirley. YouTube screengrab.

What We’re Reading: Who Backs L.A. Riots?, News Bias (Again), Trump’s Tax Cuts . . . And More

News, issues and events that caught our eye.

Much More On L.A. Riots, Including Who’s Behind Them And Why

Trump floats using Insurrection Act to restore order in Los Angeles — MxM News

‘ICE Ain’t Leaving’ — ICE Chief Tom Homan, X

SEIU Union Boss Charged With ‘Impeding’ L.A. ‘ICE’ Bust — But How Did He Know About It in the First Place? — PJ Media

Who’s Behind The Anti-ICE Riots In Los Angeles? — Data Republican, X

Who’s Paying for the Violent L.A. Protests Against ICE? You Are. And It Gets Worse From There — PJ Media

FBI probes foreign, domestic funding behind anti-ICE riots — MxM News

The problem is the puppetmasters, not the puppets — Elon Musk, X

Racist Groups Behind Anti-ICE Riot Want Mexico To Reconquer America: ‘Illegal Settler Nation’ — The Daily Wire

The Thunbergian Unified Field Theory of Revolution — Michael Walsh, The Pipeline

Do Democrats Need Riots To Stay Relevant?

The LA Riots Prove that Democrats Need Illegals — American Thinker

Why Is Governor Newsom Going Full Jefferson Davis? — Victor Davis Hanson, Front Page

Anti-ICE chaos on LA streets is Democrats’ wet dream — Human Events

Arrested Migrants Defended by LA Rioters Include Killers, Pedophiles — The National Pulse

Big News Outlets (Again) Distort Riots To Favor Left

CNN: ‘Look at all the cars that AREN’T on fire’ — Jim Treacher, Substack, via X

Media Calling Riots ‘Peaceful’ — YouTube (montage)

‘Mostly peaceful riots’ return as media downplay chaos again — Washington Examiner

Border czar Tom Homan says media ignoring of facts about ICE raids fueled LA riots — Fox News, via Yahoo

Legacy Media Deems LA ICE Riots Merely ‘Protests’ As Rioters Take Torch To City — Daily Caller

Weekend of LA riots shows media hasn’t learned anything from America’s election of Trump — Just The News

BONUS: Union Chiefs, Jayapal, Pledge ‘Solidarity’ with Illegals, not Americans — Breitbart

Checking In On China

Howard Lutnick: China Trade Talks Are Going ‘Really, Really Well’ — Breitbart

With Power Waning, Xi Jinping Loses Influence in US-China Talks: Analysts — The Thinking Conservative

Another Chinese scientist — from Wuhan — charged with smuggling illegal biological material into US — New York Post

Gen. Keane warns China conducting ‘most comprehensive penetration’ of US society in our 250-year history — Fox Business

How rare earth minerals could give China the upper hand in U.S. trade talks — NBC News

What About The ‘Big, Beautiful Bill?’

Capitol agenda: GOP eyes cuts to Trump’s tax promises — Politico

Senior House Republican opposes White House proposal to cut public media funding — Politico

Uh-Oh: Just 37% want Senate to OK ‘big, beautiful bill’ — Washington Examiner

Pro-Terrorist Anti-Israel Protestors Are Gone, Biased Media Remain

The Reporting on the Gaza War Is Fundamentally Broken — National Review

Israel Deports Greta Thunberg, Fellow Activists After Attempt to Breach Naval Blockade — National Review

Miscellaneous, But Important, Stuff . . .

Trump’s Economy Is Crushing Expectations — PJ Media

CNN Data Analyst: Trump’s Immigration Approval Rating Has ‘Gone Up Like a Rocket’ — Gateway Pundit

It Looks Like the Revolution Kiddies Are Planning a June 14th Party — Hot Air

Nearly One-Quarter Of U.S. Public School Enrollment Could Be Anchor Babies — The Federalist

Here’s Who REALLY Denied National Guard Troops on January 6 — And It Wasn’t Trump — PJ Media

Al-Qaeda Leader Calls on Muslims in America to Launch Terror Attacks and Assassinate President Trump and His Cabinet — Gateway Pundit

Major data breach exposes 86M AT&T customer records, including social security numbers — here’s how to know if you were affected — New York Post

American Legislative Council (ALEC): 2025 States That Work: A Labor Policy Roadmap Across America — ALEC

Visit California: It’s America’s Future — Babylon Bee (video satire), X.com

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