The five bills Gavin Newsom signed made California the first state to bar federal officers, including ICE, from hiding their identities

 

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Gavin Newsom signs bill banning ICE agents from wearing masks during operations - MEAWW News 

For now, the spotlight remains on ICE. Whether the agency complies or fights back in court could determine how much power California truly has to set its own ground rules when it comes to immigration enforcement

 ."SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA: On Saturday, September 20, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a controversial new law that bans most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while carrying out official duties."Senate Bill 627, known as the No Secret Police Act, will take effect January 1, 2026, and already has sparked heated debate across the country.

New law cracks down on masked agents

"The bill, authored by state Senator Scott Wiener, specifically prohibits ski masks, balaclavas, gaiters, and similar face coverings worn by officers during enforcement actions. It applies to local police, state troopers, sheriffs, and even federal agents such as ICE operating in California.

"Exceptions include undercover assignments, tactical raids, or medical face coverings like N95s.

"In addition, the law requires officers to clearly display their badges or identification unless a valid exemption applies. Supporters argue this will make it harder for officers to intimidate residents while concealing their identities.". . .

"Federal officials were quick to push back. The Department of Homeland Security blasted the law as “despicable,” warning that removing masks from agents leaves them vulnerable to retaliation.

"ICE representatives say anonymity is essential because officers often face harassment, stalking, and threats against their families.

Legal experts also warn that the law may not stand up in court.

"Federal supremacy laws generally override state rules when conflicts arise, raising doubts about whether California can force federal agents to comply. Lawsuits challenging SB 627 are widely expected." . . .

Democrats’ rhetoric endangers ICE officers

No, Newsom’s California police cannot arrest masked ICE officers: Former cops   . . ." 'When a federal officer is acting within their official capacity and doing what they believe is ... within the scope of their employment, they cannot be prosecuted, even if it in fact violated a state law," said Fahey, now partner with the Holtzman Vogel law firm in Washington. "Everyone knows that [California] can't do this."

Bill Johnson, executive director of a national police organization representing more than a quarter of a million officers, agreed with Fahey.

" 'It seems pretty clear from a constitutional perspective that any efforts by California to thwart federal law enforcement actions will fail under the federal constitution's Supremacy Clause," said Johnson, who leads the National Association of Police Organizations. "No doubt the governor and his advisers are aware of this, but once again have chosen the cheap theatrics of another ill-advised state policy that will be quickly struck down." . . .

Was The Escalator ‘Failure’ At The UN A Pre-Meditated Snub Against The POTUS?

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"If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately."

"Just one day earlier, the London Times talks about the escalator at the UN accidentally-on-purpose failing to make a political point and then he shows up and … well wouldja look at that!

Wild of the Times to report on a nutty conspiracy theory even BEFORE it really happened,isn’t it?

"Let’s go back to the beginning. Yesterday was the day for Trump’s big address to the United Nations. Right off the top in his speech, he called out two ‘malfunctions’ he had encountered since he arrived. First, the elevator ‘malfunctioned’ while he and the First Lady as soon as they stepped on it. Second, was the teleprompter mysteriously not working… until it did partway through his speech.

"Undaunted, he used both as part of the framing of the UN’s own poor judgment and failure to get things done properly. If it was an attempt to fluster him or make him screw up his speech, it backfired.    Just one day earlier, the London Times talks about the escalator at the UN accidentally-on-purpose failing to make a political point and then he shows up and … well wouldja look at that!" . . . More...

If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately.

The Times reported this on Sunday.👇 pic.twitter.com/NitsWbGYG0

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) September 23, 2025

Trump Gets a Letter From Maduro. Venezuela Gets More Trouble at Sea. Democrats Melt Down.

" But back to Maduro. We learned over the weekend that the shaken dictator sent a letter to Trump, begging for diplomacy." Sarah Anderson

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

PJ Media  "Every time I write something about our current entanglement with Venezuela lately, something else explodes just after we publish it. Sometimes literally. On Friday, I gave a little update on, among other things, how many cartel boats out of the South American country that our military has blown up and then walked away from my computer for the day, only for President Donald Trump to announce via social media that we got another one. This time, we killed three narco-terrorists. " . . .

"If you're keeping track at home, that's the fourth cartel boat out of Venezuela that the United States has blown up this month. Both the president and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have suggested that it won't be the last and that the action is actually deterring cartels from taking to the Caribbean Sea to spread their poison to the rest of the Hemisphere and more specifically, our country. Meanwhile, officials in the Dominican Republic say they seized "377 packages of cocaine" from one of the boats destroyed last week. 

Related: Cartel Boats Sunk, 75,000 Pounds of Cocaine Seized — Americans Say: Keep Striking

"The words and actions of Venezuela's illegitimate president Nicolás Maduro prove that he's rattled, and he should be. He's on the brink of losing everything, and there is a $50 million reward out for him. 

"Apparently, Democrats are equally rattled. Last week, Sens. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) introduced a resolution that would stop these strikes on the drug boats, even though most Americans agree with the president's actions. The bill won't pass, and even if it did, Trump would veto it, but it does, as The Hill points out, force Republican senators to praise or condemn the actions on the record. Schiff and Kaine both spoke on the measure on Friday, and it sounds like they're both just sad that they're not involved." . . .  More

Sarah Anderson is a freelance writer and journalist. When she's not writing, you can find her hanging out on her small farm, swimming, traveling, yelling at a football game, or watching State Department briefings for fun.  

Unapologetic Jimmy Kimmel Still Delivering Politics Instead of Punchlines

 The American Spectator  

"America needs jokes now more than ever. Last night, Jimmy Kimmel instead gave them another diatribe. In comedy, boring offends most."

"Rosanne Barr returned to ABC’s airwaves last night after a seven-year exile.

Just kidding.

"Jimmy Kimmel returned to ABC’s airwaves after a seven-day exile.

That was my attempt at a joke. Kimmel, who increasingly delivers speeches instead of punchlines, should try one sometime. (RELATED: The Return of Jimmy Kimmel)

When the network canned Roseanne for offensive comments issued on her own time, that amounted to freedom of association. When the network suspended Kimmel for offensive comments on its airwaves, that amounted to censorship.

"The Left sees everything backwards in a funhouse-mirror reflection that distorts reality to its liking.

"ABC suspended Kimmel last Wednesday after he attempted to characterize the murderer of Charlie Kirk as essentially subscribing to the same views as his victim. This follows a long-established pattern of people living in an ideological hallucination, denying reality and instead conveniently blaming the people they hate for political assassinations and other atrocities. (RELATED: Jimmy Kimmel Is Living in a Material World)

"A Communist did not murder John F. Kennedy, they have insisted for the last 62 years — the John Birch Society or the CIA or some other villain straight out from Progressive, Inc.’s central casting did it. Black Muslims didn’t murder Malcolm X, George W. Bush really engineered 9/11, and a furry-enthusiast sharing a bed with a transgender paramour, radicalized to the Left according to his family, repeatedly complaining that Kirk spread “hate,” and writing anti-fascist slogans on his assassin’s tools did not kill the Turning Point USA founder — a MAGA Republican did it.

"MAGA Republicans, at least in the Boston market, could find some irony in a commercial for Join.ICE.gov airing in the block of ads immediately preceding the program. Jimmy Kimmel Live started with a cable-news montage of commentary on the controversy that resulted in the host’s brief suspension — and undoubtedly a brief boost in ratings." . . .

Jimmy Kimmel TV Comeback Collapsing as Sinclair Broadcasting Group Says It Won’t Air Show on Its ABC Stations 

. . . “Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!‘ across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming,” a rep for Sinclair said. “Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return.”  Nexstar has not issued a statement as of this writing."

No, firing Charlie Kirk’s haters is not a free speech problem 

. . . "If people at any business cheer someone’s death because they oppose his policies, whom else would they think it is okay to kill?  Should an employer be required to keep him employed because of free speech?  I don’t think so." . . . 

Parody: Rough Week For Liberal Comedy As Kimmel's, Colbert's Monthly Cycles Sync Up

It sounds like the restless natives won . . . " Let's see what happens. Whether Jimmy returns or not, the people who watch TV between San Francisco and Washington D.C. are making their feelings heard. They are sick and tired, as I am, of programming under FCC licenses that turn into infomercials for the Democrats.

What else do you call "The View" but an informercial? It's 60 minutes of ladies attacking President Trump. They call it "free speech," but in fact it's an unbalanced discussion of events. Yes, we have a right to look at their licenses and remind them that they are not serving their community's interest. Again, check out Sinclair and Nexstar."

Jimmy Kimmel Insists He Hadn’t Meant to Brand Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Assassin as MAGA  . . . "Again, Disney/ABC pulled Kimmel because of the false accusations due to consumer anger:

• ABC station owners told Disney about their concerns with the comments
• Advertisers called in about the comments
• Nexstar and Sinclair threatened to preempt the show

"It had nothing to do with the FCC comments."

Watch: Kimmel Makes It About Himself, Delivers Emotional Non-Apology on His Return  . . . "There was no government suppression of your show, Jimmy. If there had been, you wouldn't be back on so quickly. Private companies can pull you for saying something you shouldn't, that they know is wrong, or that they think adversely affects their bottom line. That's America, and you suffer the consequences of being a horrible human being. Government suppression is what happened with Google because of pressure from the Biden team."

Hot Takes: People Demolish Kimmel for 'Crocodile Tears,' Point Out Where Real Suppression Has Been    . . . "I reported earlier on Jimmy Kimmel's non-apology emotional statement. 

"He was very emotional and said he didn't intend to blame any group in his comment. Yet he did, whether he admits it or not. Then, even in these new comments, he refused to acknowledge what the authorities have said is the leftist politics of the alleged killer. Jimmy Kimmel made it about him, alleging suppression by the government."

Was Kirk ‘Divisive’—or Did He Simply Say What Millions Believe?

"Charlie Kirk’s critics branded him “divisive,” but his defense of common-sense values made him a unifying voice for millions—until the Left sought to silence him."

American Greatness   

"As many have observed, the murder of Charlie Kirk by a deranged leftist silenced one individual, but it awakened the voices of a movement that hitherto had hardly known it had a voice."

 

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is exercised that Charlie Kirk once said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was “a mistake.”

"Rep. Bennie Thompson sees AOC’s charge and raises it: “The fact is,” he said in an official statement, “Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric was divisive, disparaging, and too often rooted in grievance. The beliefs he evangelized normalized fringe views on race, sex, and immigration. Unfortunately, his rhetoric resurrected dangerous prejudices of a dark past.”

"Gosh. Here’s a question, Congressman. What sort of grievance would someone have to entertain in order to be moved to describe someone who simply sought to engage young people in conversation as “divisive” and “disparaging?” Follow-up question: Did Charlie Kirk try to “normalize” fringe ideas about “race, sex, and immigration?” Or were the ideas he espoused, in fact (you see that two people can deploy the “in fact™” gambit), perfectly normal ideas that reflected the beliefs of millions of Americans, even if those ideas departed from the Washington consensus?

"As for the Civil Rights Act, Charlie Kirk did say its expansion was “a huge mistake.” Here’s the context. A student asked Charlie whether he wanted to get rid of the Civil Rights Act. He replied that he thought we should have a one-page bill that outlawed racial discrimination and left it at that. Most Americans, he went on to note, don’t support forcing women’s sports teams to allow men pretending to be women to compete. But the Civil Rights Act has been interpreted to say just that.

"He agreed with the original intention of the bill, he said, but argued that it was “too broadly written” and played into the hands of people who wanted to expand and weaponize the bill to enforce a radical progressive agenda that included so-called “affirmative action,” i.e., reverse racism in the form of discrimination against whites and Asians. Result? A 100-page bill that created “a permanent anti-racist bureaucracy within our federal government to go find racism where it doesn’t exist and create it in new places where it otherwise did not exist.”

"Christopher Caldwell touched on an essential aspect of Kirk’s observation in his book The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. It is common in academia and the media, Caldwell notes, to regard the Civil Rights Act as a great victory for equality and social progress. After all, was it not a potent weapon in the battle against Jim Crow and other expressions of racism?" . . .  More...

Megyn Kelly slams ‘coward’ Van Jones for branding Charlie Kirk ‘racist’ 2 days before assassination — then writing CNN op-ed praising him

Megyn Kelly slams ‘coward’ Van Jones for branding Charlie Kirk ‘racist’ 2 days before assassination — then writing CNN op-ed praising him  "Megyn Kelly ripped CNN analyst Van Jones as a “coward,” accusing him of smearing Charlie Kirk as a “racist” just two days before the conservative activist was gunned down — and then shifting his tone after Kirk’s death to protect his image.

"Kelly reacted to an essay that Jones posted on CNN in which he revealed that Kirk sent him a private message on X the day before his assassination on Sept. 10 — inviting him to his show for a “respectful conversation about crime and race.”

"On her SiriusXM show, Kelly said Jones “came out on Friday with a nice story about Charlie, and as I’m sure he predicted, it’s now getting even conservatives to say nice things about Van.”. . .   

Stabbing Suspect Accused of Murder: 'I Got That White Girl' | Newsmax.com  . . . " 'I didn't notice until now that the man accused of stabbing and killing the Ukrainian young woman in Charlotte, N.C. said on camera, 'I got that white girl, got that white girl' while walking around with her blood dripping from his knife. Nobody reacts . . ."

 Megyn Reveals Erika Kirk Was Shaken by ‘Jezebel’ Article that Detailed Placing Curses on Charlie Kirk – Megyn Kelly   "I have been wrestling with whether to bring you this story for a few days now. I have been wrestling with it because I find it so vile and off and odd, but I decided that I had to report on it because the groups who did this deserve public censure. 

"When I was out in Arizona last week I learned that, two weeks before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the far left website Jezebel declared that it had a mission to cast bad luck or a curse on Charlie. They wanted to hurt him in some way. They declared, “If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.' ”   Video

Democrats vs. Free and open speech

 Youtube ADMITS Biden Forced Them To Censor Conservatives, A RECKONING Is Coming

And then there was Google: Google Admits to Censoring Americans at the Behest of the Biden Admin, Vows to Make Amends

Try to find a counter argument to a leftist post one has to dig far deeper than the first page to discover it. Meanwhile the same leftist posts will be repeated several times before one can find any counter arguments. TD

Law Is Passed. Gavin Newsom and his California Senators are ending Free Speech   "This information is largely accurate based on official records. SB 771 is a real bill introduced in the 2025-2026 California legislative session by Senator Henry Stern (D), with several Democratic coauthors. It passed the Senate on September 11, 2025 (ayes 27, noes 9), passed the Assembly on September 10, 2025, and was enrolled (officially prepared) on September 16, 2025. As of September 23, 2025, it has been presented to Governor Newsom but has not yet been signed, vetoed, or otherwise acted upon—he has up to 30 days from presentation to decide. If signed, the bill would take effect on January 1, 2027. Key Provisions of SB 771The bill adds a new title to California’s Civil Code (Title 23, commencing with Section 3273.72) focused on holding large social media platforms accountable for certain civil rights violations facilitated by their algorithms. Here’s a breakdown: