• Daylight Saving Time: Most Americans sprang forward an hour on Sunday morning as the semiannual time change ritual once again interrupted sleep cycles and led to general discombobulation. While the time change is simply an annoyance for the vast majority of the country, it does result in significant negative outcomes for some. The American Heart Association has found a marked increase in the number of heart attacks and strokes in the days immediately following a time change, likely associated with interruptions in a person’s sleep cycle. Messing with the body’s natural circadian rhythm raises tension levels that can negatively impact the heart. The change also causes more car accidents and less productivity at work. Maybe it’s time to finally end this clock-changing fiasco, if only for the sake of health.

• Fake Biden signatures: It’s no secret to sentient beings that Joe Biden was increasingly cognitively disabled during his disastrous term, so perhaps it’s not surprising that he couldn’t even sign his name to all the executive orders he supposedly authorized. That’s the finding of The Heritage Foundation’s investigative arm, the Oversight Project, which reports that every signed document it examined wasn’t signed by Joe Biden at all but instead by an autopen, which renders an identical signature every time. The only exception? Biden’s announcement that he was dropping out of the presidential race last year. This, of course, makes us wonder: Was Joe Biden even aware of the decisions he was supposedly making, or were his staff making those presidential decisions without the president’s knowledge?

• Trump admin axes Columbia’s subsidies, arrests campus Jew-hater: Columbia University claims it’s committed to fighting anti-Semitism on its campus, but talk is cheap. Accordingly, the Trump administration is canceling some $400 million in federal contracts and grants to the school. “Universities must comply with all federal antidiscrimination laws if they are going to receive federal funding,” said Education Secretary Linda McMahon. Meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested protest leader Mahmoud Khalil Saturday at his university-owned apartment. Khalil’s lawyer said ICE agents were executing a State Department order to revoke his green card and student visa, but says the arrest is unlawful and cites the government’s “targeting” of thugs like Khalil “for criticism of Israel’s assault on Gaza.”

• Adding insult to injury for Payton McNabb: Donald Trump honored Payton McNabb during his joint address to Congress last week, noting that she’s a real victim of the craziness of allowing males to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. McNabb suffered an end to her high school sports career when she took a spiked volleyball to the face from a “transgender-identifying” male player of an opposing team. McNabb didn’t just suffer the end of her athletic career; in May 2024, she was also kicked out of her college sorority, Delta Zeta, after she calmly asked a man in a dress why he was in a women’s restroom on campus. Delta Zeta found her guilty of violating its “Anti-Bullying Policy” and having engaged in “Moral-Prejudicial Conduct.” Instead, she has been bullied by other women too afraid to call a man a man.

• No more TSA collective bargaining: On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security announced an end to collective bargaining for all Transportation Security Administration employees. According to the DHS, the reason is to keep Americans safe. Apparently, too many TSA employees were gaming the system, taking advantage of benefits programs to effectively avoid working. The DHS noted that over 60% of TSA workers with poor performance records were allowed to stay employed. The DHS blamed the union for hindering the TSA from getting rid of bad employees, which, frustratingly, forced TSA employees who are doing their jobs well to have to make up for the slackers. The DHS now aims to clean out these underperforming employees from the ranks of the TSA.

• 31 million Americans borrowed $74 billion for medical services: Thank goodness for ObamaCare — otherwise, healthcare costs would be out of control, right? Right? As it stands, healthcare has become so expensive that 31 million American adults borrowed $74 billion last year for medical care. That means more than one in 10 adults couldn’t afford to pay for healthcare — even though many of them already had health insurance. It’s one thing to borrow money for a car or a house or even a college indoctrination education, but borrowing money for healthcare? Thus, not only were you not allowed to keep your health plan if you liked it, but you were also sold a bill of goods about the affordability of the so-called Affordable Care Act. Thanks, Obama!

• Canadian Liberal Party election: Canada has a new incoming prime minister, as the governing Liberal Party just voted to replace the outgoing Justin Trudeau, who resigned earlier this year, with newcomer Mark Carney. Interestingly, Carney is not a member of Parliament. He formerly served as the head of the Bank of Canada and also the Bank of England. Carney blasted Donald Trump over his calling Canada the 51st state, saying, “Canada will never ever be part of America in any way, shape, or form.” Carney was also critical of Trump’s tariffs, vowing to go toe to toe with any tariff raises. Canada will have its general elections this coming fall. The Conservative Party had been polling well ahead of the Liberal Party, though that advantage has dried up in recent weeks.

• Secret Service shoots man near White House: Time was when the U.S. Secret Service having to shoot an armed man near the White House was kind of a big deal. But in the era of Trump, during which the Leftmedia has normalized presidential assassination, not so much. Just after midnight Saturday, 27-year-old Andrew Dawson of Indiana was shot by Secret Service agents, who’d been alerted by Indiana police earlier in the day that a “suicidal” man was on his way to DC. The agents say Dawson had a firearm and a knife when they confronted him and that he didn’t comply when they told him to drop his weapons. Instead, he reached toward his waist, and the agents opened fire. The man’s condition isn’t known, but no agents were hurt, and President Trump was at Mar-a-Lago at the time.

• Syrian civil war continues with more slaughter: “In any event, Syria is a mess, but is not our friend, [and] THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.” So said Donald Trump on December 7, 2024, when the Syrian civil war was at its height. The next day, Bashar al-Assad and his regime collapsed. Now, the new regime, led by Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, a member of a terrorist group, is trying to consolidate power in the face of the remaining Assad loyalists. Over the weekend, death estimates from sectional violence ranged from 150 to more than 1,300, with the bulk of the larger figure representing the massacre of civilians, often Christians.

• Climate cultists feel really entitled to YOUR money: Climate United has filed a lawsuit against Lee Zeldin’s EPA and Citibank to get access to $7,000,000,000 in frozen funds. The Trump administration seems to think it should at least get to scrutinize those funds before writing the checks. In a statement that would give any Austrian economist a heart attack, Climate United claims that “private investment is not an option, as the green financing program was intended to use public funds to areas the private sector historically avoids.” If the free market avoids an area, there’s almost always a good reason. Climate United, however, says we must have faith that it sees something the free market does not.

Headlines

• Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to Colorado law that bans conversion therapy (Just the News)

• FEMA has fired more bosses in connection with hurricane recovery crews avoiding Trump homes (Just the News)

• Israel announces halt to its supply of power to Gaza (Times of Israel)

• Ukrainian forces in Kursk near collapse after Russian forces launch surprise assault through gas pipeline (Washington Examiner)

• Humor: Laid-off IRS agent gets new job checking receipts at Costco exit (Babylon Bee)

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