Friday, August 08, 2025

IT'S APPARENT THAT THE PROBLEM OF ANTISEMITISM IN THE US IS APPROACHING THE LEVEL OF AN EPIDEMIC

As antisemitism surges, the Islamist threat must be taken seriously

It’s time to pull CAIR’s tax exemption and designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. 

 

By Jonathan S. Tobin 

 

JNS

Aug 8, 2025

 

Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) sign at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Credit: DC Stock Photograph/Shutterstock.
Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) sign at its headquarters in Washington, D.C.
 

You don’t need to read the latest FBI hate-crime statistics to know that there has been a surge in antisemitism in the United States since Oct. 7, 2023. The evidence that a global wave of Jew-hatred was making itself felt was plainly evident on the streets of American cities, and especially on college campuses, where mobs were chanting for the destruction of the one Jewish state on the planet and for terrorism against Jews everywhere. There was also the series of violent murderous attacks on Jewish targets, as well as the mainstreaming of blood libels about Israel and Jews in legacy media outlets.

But a deep dive into the report issued by the FBI this week for crimes reported in the year 2024 confirmed for anyone not already convinced that antisemitism is spiking. Of all the crimes based on religious prejudice that year, some 69.1% were against Jews. Though Jews have been the leading victims of such attacks for as long as the FBI has been issuing statistics, this was an increase over previous years.

Just as significant was the annual reminder that despite the push in the media and from groups purporting to represent the interests of Muslim Americans to treat Islamophobia as a national problem second only to anti-black racial prejudice, the evidence for that assertion is still lacking. In fact, crimes against Muslims were second only to those against Jews. Indeed, despite the rising population of believers in Islam and declining American-Jewish demographics, attacks on Jews again vastly outnumbered those against Muslims, with only 9.3% being listed as anti-Islamic.

Surge in Jew-hatred

That means Jews were about 660% more likely than Muslims to be victims of anti-religious-bias offenses in the United States last year. Throw in the fact that the numbers of anti-Jewish crimes recorded by the Anti-Defamation League are far higher than those in the FBI statistics, and it’s apparent that the problem of antisemitism is approaching the level of an epidemic.

What isn’t to be found in the data is an understanding of the primary engines of antisemitism in 21st-century America.

There are a variety of sources of the world’s oldest hatred, some from the left and some from the far-right. But that which has been directed against Jews since the Hamas-led Palestinian-Arab attacks on southern Israeli communities started the current war with unspeakable atrocities has largely been driven by those who support the perpetrators. That is why any discussion about the massive uptick in anti-Jewish crimes must not only focus on notorious instances of antisemitism, such as the encampments at major universities, where Jews were targeted by woke leftists activists, or even the vitriol spewed by right-wing podcasters like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. We must also speak directly about the widespread antisemitism that is coming out of the Muslim-American community and the groups, both foreign and domestic, which are helping to direct and fund it.

This is why authorities shouldn’t just note the hate-crime statistics with dismay and issue anodyne statements calling for everyone to be nicer to each other. Instead, action must be taken to curb the activities of hate groups, especially those masquerading as civil-rights advocates and those who receive foreign funding from entities and states playing an active role in spreading Jew-hatred.

CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood

At the top of the to-do list should be the stripping of one of the principal engines of American-Muslim antisemitism—the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)—of its tax-exempt status, as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) recently demanded. Just as high on that list must be a congressional vote to do something the United States should have done decades ago: designate the Muslim Brotherhood, which plays a large role in fomenting hate at home and abroad—and to which CAIR is directly connected—as a terrorist organization, as members of the Senate and House have proposed.

The Brotherhood is a century-old group, founded in the Middle East and dedicated to unremitting conflict and hatred of the West, particularly of Jews. Its loosely organized network was a major source of instability in countries like Egypt, but in our day, its most prominent offspring is Hamas. Its leadership lives in Qatar and, backed by the enormous oil wealth of that emirate, spreads its ideology throughout the world.

One example of its activity is, as documented by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy, is its thorough infiltration of Canada via local Muslim groups. This poses a threat to both the Jewish community and the country’s democratic culture, as it seeks to shut down scrutiny of its antisemitism by using the government in Ottawa to punish acts of alleged Islamophobia.

As was the case in 2019, when President Donald Trump first proposed, but ultimately failed, designating the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, there will be considerable opposition to such a measure today.

At the heart of that reluctance is the conviction among many in America’s political/foreign-policy establishment, the mainstream media, academia and the world of popular culture that to speak of Muslim antisemitism—and the way those influenced by or part of the Brotherhood’s network are promoting hate—is something that can’t be done. Why? Because those who have tried to point out the problem expose themselves to charges of bigotry and Islamophobia.

A mythical backlash

For much of the last 24 years, since the 9/11 attacks, Americans have been subjected to endless lectures about their obligation not to associate Islam with Islamist terrorism. Those admonitions about the evils of religious prejudice were correct as a matter of principle. But in the context of the misnamed “war on terrorism” launched by President George W. Bush against a global Islamist terror network, those warnings tended to undermine the sense of urgency about the struggle.

Indeed, Bush’s incessant scolding about Islam’s being a “religion of peace” didn’t merely verge on the comic. It also made a mockery of any hope of having a serious national discussion about the distinction between the many peace-loving Muslim citizens and the hundreds of millions of other followers of that faith who supported Islamist sects that were anything but peaceful.

That confusion led to a standing narrative in American culture—bolstered by the manifest opposition of the mainstream liberal media in any conflict with non-Western belief systems—in which the main outcome of 9/11 was a mythical backlash against Muslims. Over the years, that fictional wave of prejudice was never backed up by objective evidence that it was anything more than stray anecdotes woven together in order to subvert efforts to take the threat of Islamist terror seriously.

Eventually, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of Islamist front groups masquerading as civil-rights organizations—such as CAIR—it was expanded into a new form of bias for which Americans were told they must atone: Islamophobia.

But, curiously, as soon became apparent, most of what was labeled “Islamophobia” wasn’t really prejudice against Muslims. Instead, it almost always involved attempts to call attention to the antisemitism in the Muslim world–specifically in relation to groups like CAIR with roots in Muslim Brotherhood-related activities, among them fundraising for Hamas.

Indeed, what they really mean when they cry “Islamophobia” is that holding Muslims accountable for the hate uttered by those who speak for them is something they not only won’t tolerate; they’re determined to ban it.

Biden and DEI

This sentiment was never more in fashion than during the Biden administration, when toxic left-wing ideologies like critical race theory and intersectionality were embraced by the bureaucracy. President Joe Biden’s decision to force the entire federal government to implement the woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in all of its doings meant that Islamophobia became a particular priority for Washington.

The notion that Muslims were under particular threat from other Americans wasn’t backed up by hate-crime statistics or anything else. But it fit in with the mantra that all “people of color” or designated minorities were under continual threat and in the right no matter what they did. By the same token, the impulse to see Jews and Israel as “white” oppressors who were always in the wrong made itself felt even when the White House tried to pretend that it cared about antisemitism.

That was made clear when Biden included CAIR, a major source of Jew-hatred itself, in his task force working on a strategy against antisemitism. This was followed up in the last weeks of the administration by the issuance of a strategy paper about Islamophobia that sealed the Democrats’ effort to create a moral equivalence between a real problem—antisemitism—and a fake one.

The second Trump administration has started to roll back this whitewashing of CAIR. But it needs to go further.

By stripping CAIR of its non-profit status and potentially designating it, along with its spiritual godfathers in the Muslim Brotherhood, as affiliated with terrorism, the government can send a strong message that it will no longer tolerate the way a conspiratorial Islamist group’s message of terror and hate has infiltrated the American mainstream.

Doing this won’t have an impact on anyone’s First Amendment rights, since American citizens will always be free to voice their opinions, even when hateful. But the Brotherhood and its network are criminal organizations linked to some of the worst terrorist atrocities of recent history. Saying this out loud doesn’t constitute Islamophobia. It’s a recognition of a potent source of Jew-hatred that has been flying under the radar of government scrutiny by pretending to be defending a minority community against hate.

More to the point, it is way past time for the government to take notice of the fact that these foreign conspirators and their local agents are the engine of a surge in attacks on American Jews that should not be tolerated.

Arrayed against this effort are powerful and wealthy forces, principally a regime in Doha that poses as a U.S. ally while also backing Iran and Hamas. To this end, Qatar has not only become the largest foreign funder of American higher education, but also has used its wealth to buy influence on both the left and the right, including with Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff.

The statistics showing the rise in antisemitism should be a wake-up call to an administration that wants to be taken seriously on the issue.  And it will require confronting the Brotherhood’s Qatari paymasters local network affiliates like CAIR. If Washington doesn’t act, the out-of-control surge in Jew-hatred will only get worse.

MAJOR WESTERN MEDIA OUTLETS HAVE BEEN PERPETRATING A SYSTEMATIC JOURNALISTIC FRAUD ON THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING AS THE TRUTH IMAGES GENERATED GY A JIHADI TERRORIST GROUP INTENT ON EXTERMINATING ISRAEL AND MURDERING JEWS

The media front in the war against civilization

Journalistic fraud has been committed in the service of a very great evil. 

 

By Melanie Phillips 

 

JNS

Aug 7, 2025

 

 

A German media investigation revealed that a Palestinian photographer staged some images taken in Gaza (Photo Credit: Süddeutsche Zeitung)

A German media investigation revealed that Palestinian photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha staged images of women and children pleading for food in Gaza.
 

Dramatic evidence was produced this week to illustrate the hijacking of the Western media by Hamas in its attempt to turn Israel into the pariah of the world and accelerate the destruction of the Jewish state.

The German publications Bild and ddeutsche Zeitung revealed that Western media outlets had been publishing images purporting to be of starving Gazans but which were in fact staged and manipulated by Hamas as part of its propaganda offensive to blacken Israel’s name.

Bild showed how a widely circulated picture of apparently desperate Gazan women and children holding out empty pots for food had been staged. Photographs taken from other angles revealed the Gaza photographer, Anas Zayed Fteiha, orchestrating the tableau by getting the women and children to pose beseechingly with their pots being offered not toward the food site but toward him.

Fteiha, whose pictures have been published by CNN, the BBC and Reuters, has a record of posting hatred toward Israel and the Jews.

He has also worked with the Europe Palestine Network, which says it conducts “global actions in Europe,” portraying hardship in Gaza while promoting “resistance” against Israel internationally.

As an activist posing as a journalist, he is far from alone. ddeutsche Zeitung found that many of the Arab photographers operating within the Gaza Strip have Hamas connections. A historian and photography expert, Gerhard Paul, told the paper that, in southern Gaza, “Hamas controls 100 percent of image production” to generate Western sympathy while inflaming anger toward Israel. 

In other words, major Western media outlets have been perpetrating a systematic journalistic fraud on the public by promoting as the truth images generated by a jihadi terrorist group intent on exterminating Israel and murdering Jews.

Even without the German papers’ investigation, the deceit has been obvious enough to anyone whose grip on reality has not been loosened by hatred of Israel.

The pictures of skeletal Gazan children allegedly being starved by Israel were in fact of children with terrible congenital diseases. The “starving” women and children in Fteiha’s picture were conspicuously well fed. 

There is zero evidence of Israel’s deliberately starving the Gazans, because that claim is a lie. The only people being starved to death are the Israeli hostages.

The fraud doesn’t stop at the published images. Media outlets constantly use as reliable the Hamas totals of those killed in the war, even though these ludicrously fail to acknowledge that any of the dead were Hamas terrorists.

The near daily reports by the BBC and other outlets falsely accusing Israel of deliberately firing on civilians queuing for food ignore the video coverage of Hamas deliberately shooting them dead for receiving this aid.

They ignore the evidence of Hamas gunmen stealing the food from the trucks for themselves. And they ignore the Gazans in orderly queues at the American-Israeli aid points cheering President Trump and the Israel Defense Forces for safely providing them with food by preventing it from being stolen by Hamas.

The media ignore all this, because Western journalists refuse to acknowledge anything that challenges their core narrative of Israeli abuses and “Palestinian” victimization.

Back in 2014, journalist Matti Friedman, who worked for the Associated Press from 2006 to 2011, blew the whistle about a media class that was determined to push a story of Jewish moral failure in the Middle East.

As he recounted, media outlets systematically erased news about Israel that put it in a good light, distorted Middle East history and reversed cause and effect to promote Palestinian-Arab propaganda. Acting in concert, they portrayed Israel as a country “whose motivations could only be malevolent, and one responsible not only for its own actions but also for provoking the actions of its enemies.”

They were backed up by an interchangeable world of progressive NGOs and academics who were referred to as experts, “creating a thought-loop nearly impervious to external information.”

The result—as Friedman wrote last year in The Free Press, when the Oct. 7 atrocities and the war that followed put this malevolent onslaught on steroids—was “the creation of a news story that happens to press one of the deepest buttons in Western civilization: the idea that the evils of a given time are personified by Jews, and thus doing something about Jews isn’t bigotry but virtue.”

Many are now claiming absurdly that this sustained journalistic corruption and moral collapse are the product of Israel’s not allowing Western journalists into Gaza. A number of reporters are embedded with the IDF, but foreign journalists aren’t allowed to move freely around the Strip.

The logic of such critics is non-existent. The fact that Israel doesn’t let the media roam around Gaza hardly explains why the press and broadcasters therefore publish Hamas lies and “Pallywood” theatrics day in, day out.

The critics assume that Western journalists in Gaza would produce enlightenment about the war because they would be reporting in good faith. This is fanciful and naive.

All journalists in Gaza work on terms dictated by Hamas. Arab reporters and photographers who supply Western media outlets with material either fear or support Hamas. Any Gazan reporter or photographer who steps out of line faces being removed or killed.

Yet the media have never once publicly acknowledged that every report or image from Gaza is produced under Hamas censorship. As Friedman noted in 2014, it’s why AP would censor certain information from Gaza because Hamas had threatened the agency’s reporters if it appeared, but failed to inform its readers about those threats and told them instead that Hamas was “becoming more moderate.”

News desks collude in these lies because they are ravenous for the story their Gaza fixers, stringers or photographers provide—the story of “Palestinian” suffering and Israeli evil.

Not one of their reports or images from Gaza can ever be assumed to be truthful, because their sources are all Hamas mouthpieces or sympathizers.

On today’s Gaza battlefield, the risks posed by this media corruption, both to Israel’s security and to the truth, are magnified many times over.

It’s not just that opening up Gaza to Western journalists would mean even more Hamas-dictated propaganda bamboozling even larger swaths of the Western public, and playing into their own innate prejudices against Israel and the Jewish people.

Given the obsessive and malignant partisanship by Western journalists in support of the “Palestinian” cause, they might well pass on to Hamas information they discover about IDF positions, intentions or army units.

The despicable behavior by the Western media is not some marginal sideshow. The media is itself an active front in this war, a crucial weapon being wielded by the Islamic world against Israel through Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar and Iran. 

This axis has been waging a cognitive war against Israel by suborning and weaponizing the entire liberal internationalist establishment through the United Nations, human-rights law, international courts, NGOs, the universities and, above all, the Western media.

Whether they realize it or not, all have been harnessed to the same cause—to bring about the darkest and most deeply embedded desire of the West to knock the Jews off their moral pinnacle and cast them instead as the cancer of the world.

The Western media must therefore be regarded as an enemy force in the service of a great evil. Rather than giving it more access and privileges, it must accordingly be fought, along with the Islamic forces that have deployed it as a key front in the war they are waging against civilization itself.

MARCO RUBIO: 'AS LONG AS HAMAS EXISTS AS AN ARMED GROUP IN GAZA, THERE WILL NOT BE A PEACEFUL FUTURE BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN AND THIS CAN NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN'

‘It will not be an occupation; the goal is to eliminate Hamas’

Stopping Hamas is not only an Israeli imperative, it is a Western one. 

 

By Fiamma Nirenstein 

 

JNS

Aug 8, 2025

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the northern Gaza Strip with Defense Minister Israel Katz, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, Southern Command head Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor and division and brigade commanders, April 2025. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the northern Gaza Strip with Defense Minister Israel Katz, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, Southern Command head Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor and division and brigade commanders, April 2025.
 

It was an unusually candid moment. Speaking to a small group of journalists before Thursday night’s Security Cabinet meeting—a rare move in itself—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made something crystal clear: Israel’s upcoming operation in Gaza is not about permanent occupation.

The goal is to dismantle Hamas’s war machine and, at the right moment, hand administrative control to reliable international partners—trusted Arab states that understand the stakes.

But this will be a strategic shift. Israel will remain only where necessary to ensure that Gaza can never again serve as a launchpad for terror. The decision comes after 672 exhausting days of war—days marked by courage, sacrifice and national resilience, but also by deep wounds: tens of thousands injured, many psychologically scarred, families shattered, an economy under strain and a rising tide of antisemitism at home and abroad.

The Security Cabinet debate that led to this decision was fierce but ultimately unified. Netanyahu was determined to send in IDF forces to Gaza City and areas in the Gaza Strip not under Israeli control. Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir urged a more cautious approach, surrounding the remaining terror strongholds to protect the hostages’ lives.

Now reality has forced Israel’s hand: Hamas has flatly refused to release the captives. Those skeletal men, women, and children cannot wait. Israel cannot permit Hamas to continue torturing them to death, nor to keep plotting the next Oct. 7 from the tunnels of Gaza.

As U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio put it bluntly: “As long as Hamas exists as an armed group in Gaza, there will not be a peace; there will not be a peaceful future because it’s going to happen again and this can never happen again.”

Washington understands this. Unlike Europe, which continues to wring its hands and pressure Israel, the United States has chosen to work alongside the Jewish state toward ending the war on terms that secure its people.

The emerging plan zeroes in on Gaza City—a dense hub of a million people, with Hamas’s command entrenched beneath a vast human shield. Hostages are believed to be there. Israel would evacuate civilians to newly built humanitarian zones—camps, hospitals, aid centers—prepared over several weeks.

During this time, the IDF would pause its advance to allow safe passage and separate civilians from Hamas’s underground lairs. Sixteen new U.S.-supported aid centers would operate around the clock, delivering food and supplies. Once civilians are safe, the military would move in decisively.

This could be the turning point. Twenty years ago, Israel withdrew from Gaza, dismantling communities, leaving behind agricultural infrastructure in the hope that international aid and opportunity might foster a peaceful Palestinian neighbor. Instead, Hamas destroyed the greenhouses, tunneled for war and unleashed two decades of terror—culminating in the blood-soaked atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023.

Stopping Hamas is not only an Israeli imperative, it is a Western one. If the West cannot confront a genocidal Islamist movement after the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, it forfeits its own moral standing.

Yet Europe, obsessed with pushing for a Palestinian state with no borders, no leaders, and no safeguards, has perversely encouraged Hamas to reject yet another hostage deal. Rather than demanding Israel halt its campaign, European leaders should be calling on Hamas to surrender and release its victims. That would be the true test of whether they care about peace.

Israel has already paid a staggering price—over a thousand soldiers killed, and yet the army remains ready, united, and unmatched in its skill and resolve. The IDF is not fighting for a political faction, but for the hostages, for the safety of every citizen, and for a future where Hamas can never again drench this land in blood.

History will remember who stood with Israel in this fight—and who stood in the way.

PAROLE BOARDS USUALLY IGNORE THE OBJECTIONS OF AUTHORITIES TO THE RELEASE OF A PRISON INMATE THEY GET AT MANY PAROLE HEARINGS

Tennessee Quadruple Murder Suspect Freed Despite DA’s Explicit Parole Warning


By Jenna Curren

 

Law Enforcement Todat

Aug 8, 2025

 

Austin Drummond after arrest

Austin Drummond at the time of his arrest by the Jackson police

 

MADISON COUNTY, TN - In 2020, a Tennessee district attorney sent a letter to the Tennessee Board of Parole warning them that the alleged suspect in a quadruple murder case could pose a serious threat to the public.

At the time of the letter, Austin Drummond was in prison for an armed robbery, WSMV reported. The letter, written by 26th District Attorney General Jody Pickens, was sent to the parole board before Drummond's 2020 parole hearing. He was up for early release that July in connection with an armed robbery he committed at a gas station.

He was serving a 13-year sentence after he swiped $44 from a Circle K while armed, court records show. The letter described him as someone who is "not capable of living among society," with calls to his dad showing how he threatened jurors after his trial, saying "They are going to regret it" and "I'll be out one day," according to prosecutors. 

"This officer strongly opposes his early release on parole," Pickens wrote, condemning Drummond as a "dangerous felony offender" and confirmed member of the Vice Lords street and prison gang, Law & Crime reported. 

"He entered a Circle K convenience store and pointed a revolver pistol at the victim in this case as he demanded money from her," Pickens proclaimed. "After his jury trial, Drummond made a phone call to his father, where he threatened the jurors and the victim in this case."

Drummond is suspected of murdering four members of a family he allegedly "knew" just months after getting out of prison. He is being sought for the murders of 21-year-old James Matthew Wilson, 20-year-old Adrianna Williams, 38-year-old Cortney Rose, and 15-year-old Braydon Williams.

On Saturday, August 2nd, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said that two suspects were taken into custody over the weekend and charged with accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. The individuals have been identified as Tanaka Brown and Giovonte Thomas. Details have not been released on how they allegedly "assisted" Drummond. 

Federal investigators and TBI agents have been on the ground in Tennessee, aiding police with the death investigation after the bodies of Drummond's alleged victims were found on Tuesday, July 29th, in Lake County. The probe stemmed from the discovery of Wilson and Williams' seven-month-old daughter in a "random individual's front yard" that day, police said. The victims were found around five hours later.

"Spot him? Do not approach!" the Dyer County Sheriff's Office warned on Facebook. In an update on Tuesday morning, August 5th, authorities announced the arrest of Drummond, WKRN reported. TBI released a photo of Drummond moments after he was taken into custody. 

Court records show that Drummond has multiple convictions on his record, including the robbery and a retaliation "for past action" charge, which is when someone commits an act of harming or threatening someone in response to their prior involvement in legal proceedings.

The retaliation charge reportedly stemmed from Drummond's threats that he made about jurors, which Pickens referenced in his letter. "Drummond's behavior while in prison should also be taken into consideration," the DA wrote. "He has 25 disciplinary actions against him that include refusing orders, drug possession, defiance, and being in possession of a deadly weapon."

Prosecutors said that Drummond was charged with attempted murder after he completed his sentence for the robbery in connection with an incident he was allegedly involved in while in prison, along with contraband in a correctional institution. 

Photos on Drummond's Facebook page, which authorities are using to share pictures of him during the ongoing manhunt, allegedly show him eating pizza and drinking alcohol while in prison. "This type of behavior clearly demonstrates that Drummond has no desire for rehabilitation," Pickens said. "And is not capable of living among society." 

THIS DOESN'T EXACTLY JIVE WITH THE REPORTED LOSS OF 258,000 JOBS IN JULY

Reshoring Surges in This Southern State—What It Could Mean for the Housing Market

 

By Kiri Blakeley

 

realtor.com 

July 28, 2025

 

Reshoring Surges in This Southern State—What It Could Mean for the Housing Market


Jobs are coming back to the U.S. and some states are leading the way—which could have an effect on the local economy and the housing market.

President Donald Trump has been vocal about wanting to bring manufacturing jobs back—known as "reindustrialization" or "reshoring."

It's already happening—but some states are reaping the benefits far more than others, says a new report by the nonprofit group The Reshoring Initiative.

Texas ranks No. 1 with the most jobs announced for 2024 and now, 2025.

"In 2024, U.S. manufacturing reshoring and foreign direct investment (FDI) remained strong, driven by companies seeking to shorten supply chains, reduce exposure to geopolitical risks, and avoid costs associated with impending tariffs," says the report.

After peaking in 2022 with almost 350,000 announced new jobs from reshoring or FDI, the numbers have slipped to almost 245,000 in 2024.

And now "reshoring" (moving jobs back to the U.S. that had previously been offshored) outpaces FDI by the largest margin recorded since tracking began in 2010, with 156,973 reshored jobs versus 87,968 FDI jobs, declares the report.

This is reversing a long-term trend since 2010, when a mere 10,868 jobs were reshored.

Reshoring jobs "were driven by a gradual recognition that numerous costs and assorted risks often outweighed the substantial differences in manufacturing costs and FOB ("free onboard"—a term for shipping costs) prices," says the report.

In early 2025, new policy expectations emanating from the Trump White House triggered a surge of recommitment to "Made in the USA" products.

The industries that are reshoring are led by computer and electronics products, electrical equipment and appliances, transportation equipment, chemicals, and machinery.

Key factors driving reshoring in 2025 include proximity to market, government incentives, impact on domestic economy, skilled workforce, infrastructure, and tariffs.

Tariffs were a key factor in contributing to a company deciding to reshore jobs. Tariffs were up 455% year over year, the highest key factor increase by far.

As for corporations, Walmart is by far the largest reshorer, announcing 300,000 jobs for 2025, followed by Apple with 20,000, CMA CGM with 10,000, and GE Aerospace with 5,000. Stellantis and GE Vernova are each contributing 1,500 jobs, while Siemens is adding over 900, according to Visual Capitalist and Tema ETFs.

Other companies include Samsung with $65 billion worth of investments in the U.S., and Tesla with $5.5 billion.

 

Several states across the country are benefiting from jobs coming back to the U.S 
Several states across the country are benefiting from jobs coming back to the U.SReshoring Initiative

What reshoring means for housing

With all of these companies adding jobs to the U.S. workforce, what will that mean for housing?

"This means more demand for housing, which will be welcome in Texas, where inventory has grown significantly and the housing market has slowed down," says Realtor.com® senior economist Joel Berner, of the state ranked No. 1 for reshoring.

"Builders will continue to deliver competitively priced homes to these markets, but the level of building is high enough in Texas and South Carolina (No. 2) that they may not have to pick up the pace too much. We would expect steady price growth to continue here."

Housing affordability is a concern when it comes to bringing jobs back to U.S. soil.

"Reshoring could mean more competition for homes on the market, which could drive up prices and hurt affordability," says Berner. "It just depends on whether incomes grow enough to absorb these potentially higher prices."

"In states seeing major investments from high-tech and advanced manufacturing firms—like Texas, South Carolina, and Michigan—we could see stronger demand in the for-sale market, especially in suburban areas with available land," John Macke, research manager for John Burns Research and Consulting, tells Realtor.com.

"These are often high-skilled, well-paying jobs that support homeownership, even in a higher mortgage rate environment."

But for lower-wage jobs, that isn't necessarily the case, especially given that the residents with the higher wage jobs will push up prices.

"For lower-wage manufacturing growth in states like Mississippi or New Mexico, rental demand is likely to see the biggest boost," he adds.

For secondary markets, even a small bump in jobs can have an big impact.

"A single facility bringing 2,000 to 5,000 jobs can have an outsized impact in these areas—especially where housing inventory is already tight—which could lead to upward pressure on both rents and home prices," he says.

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States winning the biggest

States that benefit the most from reshoring in Q1 2025 tend to be in the Southeast.

This isn't a surprise, given that corporations will seek out skilled workforce availability and pro-business environments that include lower corporate taxes, less expensive land, lower labor rates, fewer unions, and more state incentives, says Reshoring Institute founder Harry Moser.

"To the extent that reshoring adds hundreds of thousands of jobs drives housing, the people have to live somewhere," he tells Realtor.com. "We have about 2 million more jobs than we would have had in the past 15 years if those trends hadn't occurred, and those people are working and living somewhere. Those jobs allowed people to afford housing."

In terms of lower housing costs, the exception here is Washington state (No. 7), which has the by-far highest median list price of $674,750, due to the presence of big tech firms such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Oracle, and Meta.

NO MORE GOVERNMENT FOOD BENEFITS FOR JUNK FOOD

Six More States Ban Junk Food From SNAP Benefits

 

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Newsweek

Aug 5, 2025 

 

IT'S OFFICIAL ... THE FEDS ARE INVESTIGATING LETITIA JAMES

By Bob Walsh

 

 letitia james


The DOJ has announced today that they are formally investigating New York State Attorney General Letitia James for fraud as well as some of the crap related to her attempted political assassination of Donald Trump.  You might remember her platform for running was 'I WILL GET DONALD TRUMP."  She never said that he had done anything, merely that she would get him.

The fraud is related to her mortgage situation, pretty much like Adam Schiff.  The attempted political assassination of Donald Trump may be harder to deal with as Pam Bondi will probably try to find an actual crime to go after, which might not be there.  Being an asshole is not a criminal offense under most circumstances.

Getting a conviction is another matter.  That doesn't mean it won't be fun to watch.

A PRETTY EXPENSIVE FUCK YOU

By Bob Walsh

 

 

 

The people who keep track of such things are asserting that Gavin Newsom's FUCK YOU to the peasant-voters and to Donald Trump (by way of a special election) will cost the people of the formerly great state of California about $200 million.  Newsom denies it.  He is, as usual, full of shit.  Assuming it happens, which is far from a sure thing.  

Even though the lead time for the maps, which are ALLEGEDLY going to be prepared by the CA legislature have already been drawn up in DC, may not be an issue the legislature will still only have five work days in which to invalidate various portions of CA law and the state constitution and pass the legislation necessary to get the issue on the ballot.  

That doesn't mean Gavin won't give it a serious attempt.  He might even pull it off.  Assholes sometimes do win.

AND THE FIRST DROPOUT IS ... ELENI KOUNALAKIS

By Bob Walsh

 


Eleni Kounalakis is the current Lt. Governor of the formerly great state of California.  She announced ages ago that she was running for governor next year.  She just announced that she is now NOT doing so.  She is going for State Treasurer instead.  A much easier run but still a good spot at the public trough.    

CREATIVE ENCOURAGEMENT

By Bob Walsh

 

Texas Capitol


Governor Abbot of Texas has asked the FBI to start looking into the situation with the fleeing legislators.  There is an interesting angle on it.  The democrats had been soliciting donations to pay the democrats.  The republicans are calling them Beto Bribes as Beto ORourke has been one of the big movers and shakers in that arena.  Turns out that that can be considered bribing a public official to not do their job, i.e. commit nonfeasance in office.  

Already a couple of the democrats have come back more or less voluntarily.  They were being fined $500 a day for no-show days.  Works for me.

Thursday, August 07, 2025

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BEFORE AND AFTER OBAMA

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THE RISING STAR IN A FALLING PARTY

Trump-hating Jasmine Crockett 'a work-shy nightmare who screams at staff and dreams of going viral': 'All diva'

 

By Jon Michael Raasch 

 

Daily Mail

Aug 7, 2025

 

Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett
A former aide for Jasmine Crockett told the New York Post that 'She is never in the office and is very disengaged. She does her bullshit that goes viral, and then freaks out over the most random things.'
 

Rising Democratic star Jasmine Crockett has been accused of screaming at staff, making an aide cry, opting to work from home rather than in Congress and being 'rude.'

Crockett, 44, has quickly rocketed into an outsize role in the Democratic Party since being sworn into office in January 2023. 

The former Texas House Representative and public defender has been rewarded for her vocal opposition to President Donald Trump with a profile-raising speaking spot at the Democratic National Convention last summer and is a cable news mainstay on CNN and MSNBC. 

But three sources that worked with or for Crockett have revealed to the New York Post that working for the congresswoman is a nightmare. 

From making staff cry to hardly showing up to work in her Capitol Hill office, the sources are spilling the tea on what working for the left's rising star is really like. 

'She is laying around her apartment, won't come into the office, and is really just indifferent to staff and will scream at them,' a former aide told the Post

'She is never in the office and is very disengaged. She does her bulls*** that goes viral, and then freaks out over the most random things.'

Another source close to Crockett's team shared: 'It is widely known that she's not nice to staff and is just not a really dedicated member focused on constituents.'

 

Sources that have worked for or closely with Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, have said the congresswoman is rude and treats her staff poorly, according to the New York Post

Sources that have worked for or closely with Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, have said the congresswoman is rude and treats her staff poorly, according to the New York Post 

Crockett has frequently lashed out at President Donald Trump, recently calling him a 'piece of s***'

Crockett has frequently lashed out at President Donald Trump, recently calling him a 'piece of s***'

 

A third source revealed: 'She is focused almost exclusively on being an influencer, not a member of Congress.' 

They described the Democrat as 'all diva, no wow.' 

Crockett's office did not respond to the New York Post's request for comment. She also did not respond to the Daily Mail's request for comment.

When the Texan does choose to show up to work on Capitol Hill, she prefers to be driven from her apartment to the complex in a rented car, and not to be chauffeured around in a staffer's vehicle - as is common practice. 

It 'has to be an Escalade,' one source revealed, noting that the liberal also wants her aides to open the door for her once she is ready to disembark.  

'You're technically allowed to do this but it's wildly inefficient. Instead of using the scheduler's car, she rents a car every week in DC,' one of the sources said. 'She expects her staff to drive her around while she's in the back seat.'

They added that Crockett's 'treating the staffer like an Uber driver' appeared like a 'power play.'

The lawmaker's antics have, at times, left her staffers feeling uncomfortable, the Post reports.

 

One source described Crockett as 'all diva, no wow'

One source described Crockett as 'all diva, no wow' 

 

After a headline-grabbing back-and-forth during a House Oversight Committee hearing last year in which Crockett accused Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of having a 'bleach blonde bad built butch body,' some of the lawmaker's LGBT staffers were perturbed. 

Within Crockett's staff arose complaints about the congresswoman's use of the term 'butch.' 

'She told her gay staff members, 'That's not offensive. You're stupid if you think so,'' a former Crockett aide claimed. 'It was kind of like how Trump says, 'The gays love me.''

The report accused Crockett of burning through staff quickly, with many either being fired or leaving on their own accord. 

And when it comes to her press staff, the Democrat wonders why they are even necessary given her skyrocketing media profile. 

'She gets rid of press people because she's like, 'I do all of the press stuff,'' one of the sources claimed. 

'She thinks she's her own best adviser, she knows best, and has this toxic staff environment.'

One incident recounted involved Crockett berating an aide until the point of tears. 

'Do you really want to be here?' a source recalled the Democrat saying to a crying staffer. 'And if not, you can leave!' 

A young black woman, who was eventually fired by Crockett, told a colleague: 'I don't want to hear Jasmine Crockett talk about helping black women when she just fired one for no reason!' 

In a recent interview with the Atlantic magazine, Crockett called a staffer and scolded him in front of the reporter for leaving an unclear note on her schedule.

In the same interview, after an aide brought the lawmaker lunch, Crockett peered inside, recoiled and said 'This looks like crap,' according to the report. 

After the interview, the Texan became upset with the reporter and tried to retroactively kill the profile. 

She told the Atlantic journalist she was 'shutting down the profile and revoking all permissions.' 

Though, as that's not how journalistic practices are normally handled, the piece was published anyway. 

I'M SURE MADURO IS SHAKING IN HIS BOOTS

Trump puts $50 million bounty on Venezuelan president for helping terrorists bring 'deadly violence' to US

 

By James Cirrone 

 

Daily Mail

Aug 7, 2025

 

The Trump administration announced a $50 million reward for information leading to the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro (center), who is widely considered a dictator

 

The Trump administration is now offering a $50 million reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, who is widely considered a dictator.

The announcement came directly from Attorney General Pam Bondi, who accused Maduro of conspiring with multiple gangs to bring guns and illegal drugs into the United States.

'Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like [Tren de Aragua], Sinaloa and Cartel of the Suns to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country,' she said.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has so far seized 30 tons of cocaine that were subsequently linked to Maduro and his associates, Bondi said.

Nearly seven tons of that total was linked to Maduro himself, she added, explaining that this represents a primary source of income for gangs operating in Venezuela and Mexico.

'Cocaine is often laced with fentanyl, resulting in the loss and destruction of countless American lives,' Bondi said.

Maduro, 62, has been in the crosshairs of the American justice system since March 2020, when he was indicted in the Southern District of New York on a litany of charges related to drug trafficking.

They included narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.

 

 FILE - Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department, Feb. 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

WILL TRUMP NOW DEMAND THAT SOUTH PARK BE CANCELLED?

'ICE Barbie' Kristi Noem's cosmetic surgery and puppy slaughter is brutally-mocked in latest South Park episode

 

By Germania Rodriguez Poleo 

 

Daily Mail

Aug 7, 2025

 

South Park's new episode, which aired on Wednesday, mocked Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's 'ICE Barbie' style

 

South Park continued its rampage against the Trump administration in its latest episode, which portrayed Kristi Noem as a Botox-obsessed puppy killer.

The second installment of the show's latest season, titled Got a Nut, showed Noem shooting several dogs as Botox melted off her face - a reference to her admission that she once put down a rowdy puppy.

'A few years ago I had to put my puppy down by shooting it in the face, because sometimes doing what's important means doing what's hard,' Noem said in the episode as she introduced herself to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruits.

'Now I will ask for the same determination from you. Because detaining and questioning people is never easy,' Noem's South Park version added as she flipped her hair.

The Secretary's good looks then disappeared as she takes a bath on the episode, before a glam squad appeared to put her public face back on. 

The episode eventually showed ICE agents and Noem raiding heaven as her face melted and fell onto the floor, taking on a life of its own.


Noem was portrayed repeatedly shooting puppies - a reference to her admission that she once killed her own puppy

Noem was portrayed repeatedly shooting puppies - a reference to her admission that she once killed her own puppy

The parody showed Noem's face melting off  as she goes about her DHS duties

The parody showed Noem's face melting off  as she goes about her DHS duties