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What We’re Reading: Iran’s Reckoning, ‘ICE-ing’ Crime, Surprising Education Successes … And More

Some headlines, issues and news that caught our eye.

Decision Day Nears For Iran As U.S. Prepares Strike

Trump Huddles With Netanyahu As U.S. Military Show Of Force Builds Near Iran — Daily Wire

U.S. Buildup In Mideast ‘Looks Like Desert Storm’ — Buzz Patterson, X

Iran draws missile red line as analysts warn Tehran is stalling US talks — Fox News

Netanyahu to discuss potential Iran strikes with Trump as Washington and Tehran resume talks — CNN

Trump says he might send second carrier to strike Iran if talks fail — Axios

Who Is ICE Arresting? Mostly, Criminals

CONFIRMED: Majority of Illegals Detained by ICE Have Criminal Records — The National Pulse

DHS cites 33,179 Illegal Immigrants in California prisons, urges state to hand them over — Fox26 News

American Education Failures … And Successes

Returns to Extra Year Of Education Are Close To Nothing — Kyklos, meta study, via Wiley Online Library

The government does a poor job of educating students but excels at fleecing taxpayers — American Greatness

These Three Red States Are the Best Hope in Schooling — Nicholas Kristof, New York Times

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ may spur significant changes to higher education in 2026 and the rise of ‘un-college,’ experts say — CNBC

SAVE Act To End Voting Fraud Faces Tough Opposition

Mullin: There Are Bipartisan Talks About Pairing Immigration Reform with SAVE Act — Breitbart

Dem Sen. Fetterman backs SAVE Act, says voter ID ‘not Jim Crow’ — ABC27.com

House set to vote on SAVE Act requiring ID to vote — Fox News (video)

Dems’ Election Fraud Fetish Will Be What Ends America — Stephen Kruiser, PJ Media

Senate Republicans Have The Power To Force Democrats To Filibuster Voter ID — So Why Don’t They? — Daily Caller

Democrats oppose SAVE Act because they cannot win without millions of illegal votes — Human Events

‘Trump-Epstein Were Pals’ Narrative Ends Badly

Bombshell New Docs Show Trump Called Police About Epstein in 2006: ‘Thank Goodness You’re Stopping Him’ — Red State

The Democrats’ Trump-Epstein Smear Campaign Just Collapsed — Matthew Margolis, PJ Media

Awesome Roundup Of Reactions — Ace of Spades HQ

FBI: Epstein Didn’t Run a Sex-Trafficking Ring for the Powerful — Ed Morrissey, Hot Air

Why Were So Many Powerful Men Comfortable With Epstein After His Arrest? — Daniel Greenfield

The Democrats’ Serious Race Problem

Democrats stir up racial division to seize political power — it’s time we stop falling for their hoaxes — The New York Post

Texas Lawmaker Goes Mask Off: Non-Whites Can “Take Over This Country” — Legal Insurrection

China’s Democrat Minority Leader in Texas Calls for Race War — Front Page Magazine

Will ‘Lost Angeles’ Also Go Socialist, Like New York And Seattle?

Avowed Socialist Nithya Raman Enters Los Angeles Mayoral Race — Legal Insurrection

DSA’s Socialist Takeover Plot for Los Angeles: Seizing Homes, Defunding Cops, and Turning the City into another Marxist Experiment — California Globe

Spencer Pratt, Reality TV Star, Announces Run for Mayor as L.A. Remembers Fires — New York Times

Kicker: Los Angeles Is Spending Over $1 Billion To House the Homeless. It’s Failing — Reason

Medical Profession Decides To Quit Preying On ‘Transgender’ Kids

When Medicine Abandons Children – And the Reckoning to Come — Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., American Thinker

US medicine must choose between a collapsing consensus on pediatric trans surgery and kids’ well-being — Gerald Posner, New York Post

Wide World Of (Woke) Sports

TMZ’s Halftime Show Poll Isn’t Going the Way They Hoped — Townhall

TPUSA vs Bad Bunny: Did the NFL Adopt the Bud Light Strategy? — Hot Air

GOP Rep. Alleges Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show Was ‘Illegal,’ Moves for ‘Dramatic’ FCC Action Against NFL and NBC — Western Journal

There’s one very BIG reason why the Super Bowl shows are deviant and anti-white … — Revolver

Milan Olympics: Honor the Country or Hand Back the Gear — PJ Media

Olympic Curler Blasts ICE: ‘What’s Happening in Minnesota Is Wrong’ — Breitbart

Eileen Gu, American-Born Olympian Competing for China, Blasts Trump for Criticizing Athletes: ‘Runs Contrary to the Olympics’ — Breitbart

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