NEWS REVUE
A Satirical Look at the News: Sharp, Skeptical & Occasionally Ruthless
State of the Union
Donald Trump: "I'm inviting every legislator to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens."
The majority of Democrats in the audience did NOT stand.
I had my suspicions about this before.
But now?
This was all I needed to see with my own eyes to know for certain: the Democratic Party does NOT believe in protecting Americans.
“At least 10 FBI staffers who worked on Mar-a-Lago documents case are fired” (CBS News)
Turns out, the Joe Biden’s FBI spied on FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles while both were private citizens.
Reminiscent of Obama illegally trying, in 2016, to subvert Trump’s election with so-called “Russian interference.”
“Gavin Newsom’s arrogant memoir betrays the rot in the Democrats’ soul” (The Telegraph)
The review of Young Man in a Hurry presents Newsom as a man divided immense wealth through the Getty family while trying to construct a personal narrative of struggle and self-creation.
Newsom’s rise was heavily lubricated by elite connections—early jobs arranged through family networks, appointments facilitated by political patrons, and social access unavailable to ordinary politicians.
His book unintentionally illustrates the quiet machinery of modern American power: advancement not through insurgency or ideas, but through proximity—the right families, the right rooms, the right introductions made at precisely the right moment.
Newsom’s rise reads less like political discovery than guided ascent, a career nurtured inside networks most voters will never see and cannot enter. The memoir asks readers to admire perseverance, yet what lingers is the unmistakable advantage of starting near the summit.
“Bill Gates admits he had 2 affairs with Russian women, apologizes to staff over Jeffrey Epstein ties” (NY Post)
Gee, Bill—thanks for the confessional, years after your stream of denials.
The timing of this raises an obvious question: why now?
I guess we’re supposed to believe there’s nothing more to come out on Bill Gates beyond two affairs with Russian women.
History teaches that carefully managed confessions often serve a purpose: to control the narrative before it runs away from you.
So excuse me for thinking this is a tactic for trying to other stuff that went down far worse than “two affairs with Russian women.”
“Washington Post Losses Topped $100 Million in 2025” (WSJ)
According to Yahoo Finance, WaPo has actually lost an astonishing $300 million since 2023.
The paper that brought down Richard Nixon now finds itself struggling to survive in an era when public trust in mainstream media has collapsed alongside its business model.
Tricky Dick’s revenge from the grave?
The deeper story isn’t financial. It’s cultural.
For decades, legacy media operated as gatekeepers of a single national narrative—confident in their authority, insulated from competition, and rarely challenged by alternative voices.
Now audiences have choices. Narratives compete. And credibility must be earned rather than assumed.
“Martin Short’s daughter Katherine’s dark link to Nick Reiner revealed: Shocking twist after suicide aged 42...” (Daily Mail)
Transgender mutilations, brutal murder, suicide…
Hollywood’s celebrity parents have much to answer for.
So why does the rest of the nation continue to entrust them with creating an “entertainment” culture that indoctrinates and corrupts innocent children?
“Super-secretive Bohemian Grove society members allegedly leaked as who’s who of celebrity elite revealed” (California Post)
A much fuller examination right here…
“Cuba says 4 killed in speedboat shooting were attempting to infiltrate the country” (AP)
Cuba survives a daring one-boat invasion?
More like: a speedboat, ten men—and geopolitical overreaction.
The first casualty of any international incident is clarity.
Here are the confirmed facts.
A small speedboat approaches Cuban territorial waters. Cuban patrol forces intercept it a mile offshore. Shots are fired. Four men die. Six are wounded and detained. Cuba says the occupants were armed infiltrators planning a terrorist operation. The United States denies involvement and launches its own investigation.
This sounds like what has been going on for decades across the Florida Straits.
Extraction. Retrieval. Desperation travel.
Cuba is experiencing its worst economic crisis in decades, marked by shortages of oil, food, medicine, electricity, and other basic necessities.
Families attempt retrievals. Friends finance escape runs. Boats move quietly at night. Some succeed. Some vanish. Most never make international headlines.
Context matters. Timing, especially.
This incident occurs in the shadow of the dramatic U.S. capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, an operation that rattled governments aligned with Caracas, including Havana. Public rhetoric in Washington has increasingly linked expectations of political change in Cuba.
From Havana’s perspective, the regional message is unmistakable: regimes once thought immovable can suddenly become targets.
A small unidentified vessel approaching territorial waters, potentially armed, arrives at the worst possible time.
But the last thing Cuban leadership wants right now is escalation with the United States.
Any “provocative” incident risks providing ammunition for advocates of regime change. And the regime understands that a dramatic crisis with the United States would not go well them.
“Russian soldiers being killed faster than Kremlin can recruit them” (The Telegraph)
Vladimir Putin’s forces are reportedly suffering nearly 40,000 casualties a month since November—a rate of loss that would have stunned Soviet planners.
This is what Mad Vlad, through misadventure and hubris, has wrought on his own countrymen.
And just so word about this in Russia is silenced…
“Russia Plans to Block Telegram” (Moscow Times)
Something about 90 million Russian users learning the truth about his debacle invasion rubs Mad Vlad the wrong way.
“Moment police officer defends Christian preacher’s freedom of speech after Whitechapel group say ‘This is a Muslim area’” (Daily Mail)
1964: I was nine years old, arriving in London for the first time.
My family was collected at Heathrow by John Deegan, with whom we were exchanging houses—ours in California, his in London—for most of the summer.
From the backseat of Deegan’s Jaguar, I listened as he grumbled that “this bloody island will sink” if Britain continued letting everyone from everywhere into the country. (The Commonwealth had imploded.)
Fast-forward 62 years.
A Christian preacher stands on a London street. A crowd gathers. Voices rise.
Then comes the line that explains everything: “This is a Muslim area.”
Not a legal statement. A territorial one.
Over the past generation, parts of London have undergone profound demographic change. Entire neighborhoods have become culturally dominated by a single community—in this case, largely Muslim populations formed through decades of migration and settlement.
The irony is unavoidable: multiculturalism promises coexistence.
Yet without shared civic principles it drifts toward soft segregation—communities living side by side while enforcing invisible boundaries around acceptable speech and belief.
History offers warnings. In parts of the Middle East and elsewhere, societies fractured along religious and cultural lines have struggled to sustain stable pluralism, often with violent consequences and sometimes perpetual warfare.
“This is a Muslim area,” therefore, is not merely a complaint shouted in a tense moment.
It is a test.
Is Britain still governed by national law applied equally everywhere?
Can a shared civic identity survive when parallel cultural expectations begin to replace common rules?
The deeper anxiety is not about immigration itself, but assimilation—whether newcomers adopt the liberal norms that allowed them to arrive, or whether the liberal norms are disrespected.
One wonders if Britain’s culture and heritage can survive amid an avalanche of immigrants unwilling to accept multiculturalism in the country that so willingly adopted them.
More chillingly, as Islam steadily replaces the Church of England without a single shot fired, one further wonders if this isn’t passive invasion.
What a week—whew!
And you should too.