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Reports: Trump to rename Department of Defense

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took to social media Thursday and appeared to confirm that the Department of Defense will soon be renamed.

Hegseth reposted Fox News’ tweet Thursday announcing that the White House will rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War. President Donald Trump will reportedly sign an executive order Friday restoring the “Department of War” label to the Pentagon, a return to the agency’s historic name, Fox News Digital .

DEPARTMENT OF WAR https://t.co/uyAZGiklRi

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) September 4, 2025

The order directs that the Department of Defense use “Department of War” as a secondary title, with Hegseth assuming the designation “Secretary of War.” A White House official told Fox News Thursday that Trump will roll out the change as part of his administration’s broader “warrior ethos” campaign aimed at reshaping the culture of the armed forces.

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Obama: Yes on Mamdani – also yes on reparations?

Fox contributor Juan Williams recently praised former President Barack Obama for getting involved in the New York City mayoral race, where the self-described “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary. Williams wrote: “Yes, Obama has earned his retirement after eight years of honorable service as president. But America is not done with him yet. President Obama, your country needs you to mentor the next generation of leaders – starting with New York’s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani.”

So, Obama comes out of “retirement” to embrace a blatant anti-Semite who, among many other brain-dead proposals, wants to “freeze” the rent of many New Yorkers, despite the abject failure of rent control throughout history.

Also, Obama, along with his former Attorney General Eric Holder, recently released a political ad. The two whipped out the race card to denounce Republican redistricting plans for, as they put it, “diluting the voting power of communities of color.”

The subjects Obama chooses to weigh versus those he gives the silent treatment are interesting.

Take his silence on reparations. Obama long opposed them. But as recently as 2021, Obama described his opposition was strategic, rather than of substance. He said: “And what I saw during my presidency was the politics of white resistance and resentment. The talk of ‘welfare queens’ and the talk of the ‘undeserving’ poor. And the backlash against affirmative action. All that made the prospect of actually proposing any kind of coherent, meaningful reparations program struck me as, politically, not only a nonstarter but potentially counterproductive.”

Obama added: “(It is) perfectly understandable why working-class white folks, middle-class white folks, folks who are having trouble paying the bills or dealing with student loans, wouldn’t be too thrilled (about) a massive program that is designed to deal with the past but isn’t speaking to their future.”

Here’s the problem for Obama: Reparations are popular among blacks, but not with any other group. A 2023 YouGov poll found nearly 70% of blacks support “cash payments” for reparations. But a 2025 YouGov poll found only 38% of adult citizens support reparations. Worse, some polling suggests support has declined in recent years. This explains why Obama is mum on the issue. If he opposes them, he loses popularity among blacks. If he supports them, he loses popularity among every other group.

Williams describes Obama as “the most popular national Democrat, with 61 percent of Americans viewing him favorably. …” The question is this: In 2008, when millions of non-blacks voted for the first black president, did they believe they elected a future reparations pusher?

Slavery was legal. The government did not own slaves. Individuals did – and nearly all were Democrats. Democrats were the party of slavery, the Confederacy, Jim Crow, the KKK, the Southern Manifesto and Dred Scott. They opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and, as a percentage in the House and Senate, voted less for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Republicans. Maybe only Democrats should pay reparations.

More recently, Democrats are the party of the welfare state that caused the epidemic of fatherlessness and the party that opposes school choice, preventing urban kids from getting a decent education.

Reparations are the extraction of money from people who were never slave owners to be given to people who were never slaves. If my great-great-grandfather robbed a bank, am I morally and/or legally obligated to pay the money back?

When I tweeted about this, one commenter replied: “No, we’re not responsible for our ancestors’ actions, but we can acknowledge history and work towards a more just future together.”

Elder: “Agreed, but slavery does not make blacks perpetual victims for whom the age old tried and true formula of hard work, sacrifice and deferred gratification does not apply.

“Second, my hope is that at some point you useful idiots will begin to appreciate the difference between the arsonist and the firefighter.”

Another commented: “What about reparations for the descendants of the 675,000 white Northerners and more than 30,000 black Northerners who died freeing the slaves? What reparations for me as a descendant of people who ran Underground Railroad safe-houses fighting off Bounty Hunters and Federal Marshals to get ‘fugitive’ slaves across the border?”

Good question. When will a reporter ask Mr. Obama?

The Barbarians within

This week, anti-American and pro-Hamas advocates gathered in Detroit at a “People’s Conference for Palestine.” There, they expressed radical solidarity with terrorism, celebrated the achievements of Hamas and denigrated the United States. “The average American will never understand the plight of the Palestinian person because the state of Israel is a carbon copy of the United States,” said one speaker. “And, therefore, the thing to do is to destroy the idea of America in Americans’ heads so that they can see the humanity of everybody outside the warping of American exceptionalism and imperialism and all these evil things.”

Points for honesty.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., also showed up to express her raging hatred against the West. “They thought they could kill us, rape us, imprison us, violently uproot us from our olive tree farms, starve our children to death, and we would disappear,” she intoned. “Well, guess what? Now we’re in Congress.”

Putting aside Tlaib’s obvious lies – the only genocidal force in the Israeli-Arab conflict is Israel’s enemies – she is right about one thing: the Barbarians have entered Congress. As I write in my new book, “Lions and Scavengers,” “The Barbarian is an outsider to Western civilization who believes that all of his own maladies and ills can be laid at the feet of the ‘colonizers’ of the West. In fact, the Barbarian argues, only violence against his purported victimizers can free him of the servile mentality that these very colonizers have instilled in him. … The Barbarians never posit a moral justification for the destruction of the Western order at their hands. They never explain just how, for example, a Palestinian state is somehow a burgeoning wellspring of human rights, or how an America without American values would make the world a better place. The only thing that matters is the destruction of the West – for in that destruction lies the supposed reclamation of the Barbarian identity.”

And herein lies the reality of the West’s decline: We have ushered in the Barbarians. We have done so out of a misguided sense of guilt; we have done so because we have swallowed whole the lie that those who are successful are exploitative, and those who are unsuccessful are inherently victimized. We have opened our doors to those who despise our civilization, and who seek to tear it down out of a sense of envy and grievance. The West has not merely gone soft on the scavengers who would destroy it; we have allowed them to cultivate an entire generation of our children. According to a new Harvard-Harris poll, some 60% of Americans aged 18-24 favor Hamas – not the Palestinians, Hamas – over Israel. That’s not because young Americans know a thing about the Israel-Hamas conflict. It’s because they have bought wholesale the notion that the civilization that has given them everything is uniquely horrifying, and that the only way to expiate that horror is to join those who would destroy the civilization.

Now, perhaps they will grow out of all of this. They’re not the first generation of Americans to turn against the country, only to age out of their ignorance and stupidity as reality took hold. But older generations didn’t have to grapple with a social media infrastructure that celebrates ignorance and performative breast-beating over understanding and moral clarity; older generations still had some leaders in the idea space willing to speak hard truths rather than perform for clicks.

The real question, then, isn’t whether the Barbarians can threaten the existing order. It’s whether we turn over our own children to them, sowing the seeds of our destruction. And that question has yet to be answered.

Fire the rest of the CDC staff, too

Last Thursday dozens of staffers, both low- and high-level, walked off their jobs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), protesting the firing of the CDC director and the subsequent resignation of three senior-level executives. This defiant walkout illustrated the dangerous arrogance of this federal agency that thinks it is above accountability to the president and the American people.

In a pitiful op-ed published by the New York Times on Monday, prior CDC directors whine about the shake-up at the agency by RFK Jr., as the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Notably, the CDC directors under the George W. Bush and first Trump administrations did not sign onto this protest.

This op-ed by former CDC officials absurdly tries to take credit for the CDC for an American lifespan that increased over half a century, which is due to improved hygiene and medical technology, and fewer accident fatalities. The CDC performance during Covid was so abysmal that poor countries managed the disease better than the CDC and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did.

The former CDC directors sarcastically put the word “treatments” in quotation marks as though that cannot be a viable alternative to vaccination. Measles is known to be worse in those who have a vitamin A deficiency, as the CDC admits on its website, and RFK Jr. should be praised for promoting greater awareness about this vitamin.

RFK Jr., to whom Trump refers as Bobby, then appointed successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jim O’Neill as the acting director of the CDC. His first public statement right out of the gate on X was spot on: “Public health is a noble calling. When it is driven by transparent data and rigorous science, it earns public trust and keeps the world safe.”

Contrary to the measles fearmongering by former CDC officials, O’Neill implied that it was “new screening technology to detect infections from foreign travelers,” as developed by the Trump administration, which partly “stopped the Texas measles outbreak.” He added that RFK Jr.’s good appointments have “ended the misuse of the childhood immunization schedule for Covid vaccine mandates.”

This perspective of Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) is refreshing. On Monday morning, President Trump signaled his support for RFK Jr.’s incoming new CDC leadership by saying, “It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs.”

“Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree! With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW,” Trump added.

By asking for more transparency about what really happened in Big Pharma’s response to Covid, “I want them to … clear up this MESS, one way or the other!!! I hope OPERATION WARP SPEED was as ‘BRILLIANT’ as many say it was. If not, we all want to know about it, and why???” Trump stated.

This punctured the appeal to Trump by the Old Guard at the CDC, who tried to get on his good side by praising the first Trump administration’s support of Operation Warp Speed. It “produced highly effective and safe vaccines that saved millions of lives during the Covid-19 pandemic,” the former CDC officials asserted.

But what about the interference by Big Pharma, the CDC and the FDA with access by Americans to inexpensive early Covid treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine? Congress funded the use of treatments other than vaccines during Covid, and several states have made ivermectin, for which a Nobel Prize was granted, available over-the-counter as is common in foreign countries.

But Big Pharma does not profit from ivermectin as it makes billions of dollars from mandatory vaccination, and every official who misled the public by disparaging ivermectin should be fired. During the Biden administration, on Aug. 26, 2021, the CDC issued an emergency CDC Health Advisory through its Alert Network by declaring that “Ivermectin is not authorized or approved by FDA for prevention or treatment of COVID-19.”

CDC officials know that 25% of all prescriptions are for “off-label” uses that have never been specifically approved by the FDA, and never will be. It was deliberately misleading for the CDC to emphasize that the FDA had not approved ivermectin for treating Covid, because generic medication is rarely approved for additional uses, as that is costly and unnecessary.

Yet this deception by the CDC and FDA was then invoked by hospitals to deny ivermectin to patients dying from Covid, and when some courts ordered hospitals to allow the treatment to save the patients, hospitals fought for reversal on appeal. It is welcome that RFK Jr. has fired leadership at the CDC, and the mass walkout there last week shows that more house-cleaning is needed at this Big Pharma-controlled agency.

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Air Force C-130 pilot, denied religious accommodation to mandated shot and grounded, finally gets justice

A C-130 Hercules taxis at Balad Air Base, Iraq, after an Operation Iraqi Freedom mission. The C-130 provides intra-theater heavy airlift throughout Southwest Asia. The C-130 is deployed from the Colorado Air National Guard’s 439th Airlift Wing in Colorado Springs. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Tony R. Tolley)

U.S. Air Force Maj. Brennan Schilperoort, a grounded C-130 pilot who faced financial penalties and discrimination for several years over his claim to a religious exemption from taking mandated flu shots, has finally achieved a measure of justice in his lengthy struggle against military leadership, as revealed in an exclusive report by this writer.

According to a Sept. 2 press release by Younts Law, which represents Schilperoort, “On August 13, 2025 – twenty months after Major Schilperoort’s initial Inspector General (IG)complaint, its denial, and subsequent appeals – the Air Force Inspector General overruled prior findings by subordinate Inspectors General. The IG substantiated Major Schilperoort’s complaint that his commander unlawfully issued a Letter of Reprimand and refused to process his December 2023 flu shot religious accommodation request.”

As Schilperoort’s legal counsel R. Davis Younts posted on X, the determination is a “huge victory for religious freedom in the military.”

Huge victory for religious freedom in the military! After years of discrimination, reprisal, withheld pay, and exclusion from the cockpit, USAF Major Brennan Schilperoort has been vindicated. The Air Force IG substantiated his complaints of unlawful reprimand & refusal to process… pic.twitter.com/OWgyDlzvm8

— R. Davis Younts (@DavisYounts) September 2, 2025

WorldNetDaily spoke to Maj. Schilperoort, who emphasized up-front that his views do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Defense or Department of the Air Force.

Schilperoort and his wife were “beyond surprised,” he said, at receiving the news and are grateful to the IG and Air Force Review Boards Agency director.

In fact, he told WND, it is his prayer that God uses this determination to “set a precedent,” one that has “huge implications for all the other service members the past many decades who were wronged by commands and their legal advisers who blocked their due-process and constitutional rights.”

Likewise, speaking to WND, his attorney R. Davis Younts held nothing back in his assessment of the case: “This vindication exposes a blatant case of religious discrimination driven by malicious compliance from low-level bureaucratic leaders who weaponized policies to target faith, compounded by flawed advice from Air Force JAGs that enabled these abuses.”

As Younts explained, “It’s a win for my client, but it also shines a light on the struggles of thousands of other service members who’ve been targeted for their beliefs, demanding urgent reforms – reforms that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Air Force Under Secretary Matt Lohmeier are championing to restore integrity and protect religious freedoms across the ranks.”

“The Air Force’s highest authorities finally admitted the Letter of Reprimand was baseless and that the religious accommodation request was mishandled – violations rooted in the malicious compliance of squadron-level bureaucrats and misguided JAG counsel that ignored clear regulations,” Younts pointed out.

“It took 20 months, multiple appeals and investigative journalism to force this review, highlighting how the system initially failed at every level due to low-level leaders’ malicious adherence to rules that punished sincere beliefs and JAGs’ poor guidance that prolonged the injustice,” said Younts. “As an attorney fighting these battles, I see this as a broader indictment of institutional bias, with implications for the many service members still enduring reprisals for standing by their faith.”

“Facing potential discharge after exemplary service,” Younts argued, “Ma. Schilperoort’s ordeal is emblematic of a larger crisis in military religious freedom, fueled by bureaucratic malicious compliance at the command level and bad JAG advice that turned accommodations into reprisals.”

Legally, he explained, the substantiations confirm unlawful actions that have harmed his client and “echo the experiences of countless others.” For this reason, “The secretary must act to restore justice, and I praise Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Under Secretary Matt Lohmeier for leading the charge against such discrimination throughout the department.”

“We need accountability now,” added Younts, while also commending Hegseth and Lohmeier for their “bold efforts to enforce real protections.” From a legal perspective, he said, Schilperoort’s case “reveals deep flaws in how commands process exemptions, affecting not just Major Schilperoort but a multitude of troops facing similar persecution amid eroding religious rights in the military.” However, he reemphasized that he is thankful for leaders like Hegseth and Lohmeier who are “stepping up to dismantle these systemic barriers.”

Maj. Brennan Schilperoort “strongly urges the current administration that these sorts of cases need to be examined at the level of the Joint Chiefs of the service branches and by their secretaries, thorough investigations directed, and appropriate punitive accountability applied fairly and based on facts across the board, regardless of rank or what position someone holds or has held.”

For the C-130 military transport pilot, “It’s past [the] time that all the weight of accountability falls downhill, while those at the top who are most responsible get to walk away scot-free.” Rather, insists Schilperoort, “This nation is demanding accountability and fair and equal treatment of the law for all, where not a one is ‘more equal’ than others.”

Making it right: Former White House physician restored to rank of admiral

Joe Biden addresses America on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022.

It’s been three years since a “politically motivated investigation” by the Joe Biden administration resulted in a reduced rank for Ronny Jackson, a former White House physician who held the rank of admiral.

Now he’s back at that rank, obliterating the Biden regime’s attempt to reduce his rank for all of his retirement to captain.

Further, the military also has granted military honors to Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed protester at the January 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capital, who was shot at point blank range and killed by a security officer there at the time.

It is RedState that detailed the restoration of Jackson’s rank.

“Jackson was a triggering figure for Senate Democrats and some Republicans during Trump’s first term. The oleaginous Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson allowed Montana Democrat Jon Tester to turn Jackson’s nomination hearing to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs into a character assassination campaign. He was twice nominated to the rank of rear (two-star) admiral, and Mitch McConnell declined to allow a vote either time.”

Then the Democrats jumped into the fight when Jackson retired in 2019 and Biden was inaugurated.

There were anonymous claims he misbehaved while White House physician, and when a Department of Defense investigation failed to substantiate any offense, the Biden administration had the inspector general reissue the report with a different conclusion.

Jackson explained, “If I had retired and not gotten into politics, this investigation would have never gone anywhere. This was happening because I am a perceived threat to the Biden administration and because a few political appointees in the Department of Defense want to make a name for themselves.”

I was, and still am, a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, and Joe Biden is a retired old FOOL.

After the Biden administration’s politically motivated attacks against me, I am pleased to share that my military rank has been fully restored.

Thank you, @SECNAV, for righting the… pic.twitter.com/XDwgxRCKMw

— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) September 3, 2025

On social media Jackson announced, “I was, and still am, a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, and Joe Biden is a retired old FOOL.”

Navy reverses demotion of former White House doctor Rep. Ronny Jacksonhttps://t.co/j07NPUZzWm pic.twitter.com/SsRVHZZx6z

— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) September 4, 2025

Further, the U.S. Air Force confirmed it is providing Babbitt with military funeral honors.

Restoration of military honors for Ashli Babbitt strikes back against a tide of Jan. 6 lies https://t.co/TsN4BOUp8c pic.twitter.com/LwC6iWpZcE

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) September 4, 2025

The Biden administration had denied that to her family.

But government watchdog Judicial Watch said a letter from Under Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier extends an offer to allow the special funeral procedures to take place.

The letter said the circumstances of the situation were reviewed and Biden’s determination “was incorrect.”

Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was shot and killed at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protest as she attempted to climb through a barricaded door to the speaker’s lobby near the House chamber.

The government also agreed to pay her family about $5 million to settle a lawsuit over her death.

 

‘Net approval rating’: CNN’s poll guy reveals ‘most popular’ Trump administration official

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten revealed on Thursday that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the “most popular” official in President Donald Trump’s cabinet.

Kennedy holds a -7 point net approval rating, which is higher than the approval ratings of Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to Enten’s aggregate data. The HHS Secretary has become one of the most embattled officials among Democrats and members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with many calling for his resignation.

“RFK Jr. is not a drag on President Trump. He’s not the most embattled. In fact, he is the most popular official in Trump’s cabinet at least according to the poll,” Enten said.

WATCH:

Kennedy fired the now-former CDC director, Susan Monarez, in August as part of his shakeup of the agency. He also fired 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which recommends which vaccines Americans should receive and when, in June for allegedly being “plagued with persistent conflicts of interest.”

One member of the panel resigned on June 4 after Kennedy removed the COVID-19 vaccine from the childhood schedule.

During a tumultuous hearing on Thursday, Kennedy got into multiple quarrels with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over his recent changes to the CDC and the vaccine schedule. Kennedy outlined the CDC’s “disastrous” failures in protecting Americans from infectious diseases and for recommending “nonsensical policies” during the pandemic, including the closures of small businesses.

“These changes were absolutely necessary to restore the CDC’s role as the world’s gold standard public health with a central mission of protecting Americans from infectious disease,” Kennedy said during the hearing. “CDC failed that responsibility miserably during COVID when its disastrous and nonsensical policies destroyed small businesses, violated civil liberties, closed our schools and caused generational damage in doing so, masked infants with no science and heightened economic inequality.”

The committee harshly criticized Kennedy for undermining confidence in vaccines and established science. Following the hearing, several Democratic members of the House and Senate called on Kennedy to resign, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

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‘Mentally unstable individuals’: DOJ considers banning transgenders from buying guns

Get ready for Democrats and other leftists, who long have called for gun limits, gun restrictions, gun bans and gun confiscations. to start defending the Second Amendment.

It’s because there are reports the Department of Justice is considering the idea of banning transgenders from buying weapons.

After all, they could be argued to fall under existing restrictions on guns for those who have confirmed mental health conditions.

It is the Daily Wire that noted, “In the wake of the latest deadly attack on a school by a transgender-identifying individual, President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is considering blocking trans-identifying people from buying firearms.”

A DOJ source explained, “Individuals within the DOJ are reviewing ways to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell.”

The reasoning is that those who say they are transgender suffer from gender dysphoria, a mental disorder.

Specifics were not yet being discussed.

But the DOJ official said, “Under Attorney General Bondi’s leadership this Department of Justice is actively considering a range of options to prevent mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, especially at schools.”

The DOJ is “actively considering” a gun ban for transgender individuals it deems “mentally ill” to prevent “acts of violence.”

Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/kSrIly1olT

— AF Post (@AFpost) September 4, 2025

BREAKING: Trump DOJ looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns – CNN

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 4, 2025

BREAKING: Trump DOJ Considers Gun Ban For Transgendershttps://t.co/l78MzLOQKz pic.twitter.com/L2yowziTwe

— Guns&Gadgets (@Guns_Gadgets) September 4, 2025

A trans gun ban is 100% justifiable.

When the Founders drafted the 2nd Amendment it’s safe to assume they couldn’t foresee pharmaceutical fueled psychopath crossdressers hunting Christians children. https://t.co/I9ECxk3Qnk pic.twitter.com/S2djAhGtaa

— The American Culturist (@MericaCulture) September 4, 2025

The most recent gun violence by a transgender happened last week at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. Trans-identifying Robert Westman, who changed his name to Robin, but also admitted he regretted brainwashing himself, shot up a school, killing two students and injuring many more.

“Westman’s actions came only two years after another trans-identifying killer, this one a woman who identified as a man, targeted Christian school children in Nashville,” the report said.

The report continued, “A review by The Daily Wire found that the Annunciation school shooting and the Covenant Christian school shooting are just two examples of a steady stream of transgender-related violence over the past decade.”

It continued, “The move would undoubtedly infuriate those on the left who believe that men can become women and women can become men — and that people who identify as transgender are not mentally ill but merely living in the wrong body. These critics argue that transgender identification is irrelevant when discussing school shootings and that even discussing the topic puts trans-identifying people in danger and should be off limits.

“In recent years, doctors, therapists, activists, and even President Joe Biden’s administration have argued that people experiencing gender dysphoria will benefit from so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ — transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers — claiming that these gender dysphoric people are more likely to kill themselves if they don’t receive such ‘care.’ Opponents of these measures, including young people who underwent the procedures as teenagers like Chloe Cole, argue that ‘gender-affirming care’ does not mitigate the distress that gender dysphoric people have, but actually often exacerbates mental health issues.”

 

‘Florida will keep leading the way’: Appeals court OKs new residents for Alligator Alcatraz

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A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a federal judge’s order to close down Alligator Alcatraz.

Last month US District Judge Kathleen Williams, an Obama appointee, barred the Trump Administration from bringing new illegal alien detainees to Alligator Alcatraz. She also ordered the facility to be dismantled within 60 days.

Alligator Alcatraz is a detention center for illegal aliens, many of whom are rapists, murderers, and designated foreign terrorists.

The facility, which opened over the summer at the direction of Governor Ron DeSantis, is surrounded by Florida’s natural defenses, including alligators, pythons, and dense swampland in the Florida Everglades.

Judge Williams previously cited environmental violations for her two-week pause on future construction.

“The facility can continue to operate and hold detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but workers will be barred from adding any new filling, paving or infrastructure for the next 14 days. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams issued the ruling during a hearing and said she will issue a written order later Thursday,” The Associated Press reported.

Late last month, Judge Williams issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump Administration from bringing new illegal aliens to Alligator Alcatraz and ordered the facility to be dismantled.

“The Court ENTERS a Preliminary Injunction prohibiting the State and Federal Defendants and their officers, agents, employees, attorneys, and any person who is in active concert or participation with them from (1) installing any additional industrial-style lighting (described by witnesses as “Sunbelt” lighting); or doing any paving, filling, excavating, or fencing; or doing any other site expansion, including placing or erecting any additional buildings, tents, dormitories, or other residential or administrative facilities on the TNT site; and (2) bringing any additional persons onto the TNT site who were not already being detained at the site at the time of this Order going into effect,” the judge wrote in an 82-page order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.

On Friday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to keep Alligator Alcatraz open.

The three-judge panel included: Majority: Lagoa (Trump), Branch (Trump) – Dissent: Jordan (Obama).

BREAKING: 11th Cir panel votes, 2-1, to allow Trump & Florida officials to keep open the Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail. Majority: Lagoa (Trump)/Branch (Trump). Dissent: Jordan (Obama). Doc: https://t.co/TscTEcU5F1

— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) September 4, 2025

Governor Ron DeSantis responded to the ruling from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and blasted the Obama judge.

WATCH:

The mission continues at Alligator Alcatraz.

The media was wrong.

The leftist judge has been overturned.

Florida will keep leading the way. pic.twitter.com/Ik2fJnqXIP

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) September 4, 2025

[Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com]