Wednesday Wanderings

On a sunny and mild Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to a poll, Democrats now rate Cuba higher than Israel.

From FrontpageMag, the left hates that the U.S. now has some responsible leadership.

From Townhall, people who voted for then-Vice President Harris for president can't reasonably be called "conservatives".

From The Washington Free Beacon, the International Red Cross, facing criticism from Republicans over participating in Hamas propaganda, seeks to place ads in TWFB.

From the Washington Free Beacon, according to President Trump, the U.S. and Ukraine will sign a "very big" minerals deal.  (Would this be a case of winning "bigly"?)

From The Federalist, Trump is expected to tap lawfare target Jeffrey Clarke as the regulation czar in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

From American Thinker, the Chinese Communist Party is terrified of......dancers.

From MRCTV, after years of censorship, platforms owned by Meta will instead adopt "community notes" as done on the platform X.

From NewsBusters, according to journalist Ian Lee of CBS, DOGE might turn you into bear food.

From Canada Free Press, the Trump administration's resolutions on Ukraine go one for two at the U.N.

From TeleSUR, the Citizen Observatory of Political Violence records 56 cases of political violence in Ecuador.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Ukraine, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and "his flock of headless chickens".

From EuroNews, prosecutors in Romania charge former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu with six criminal counts.

From Free West Media, Blackwater founder Erik Prince wants to join in the deportation business.

From ReMix, former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is called into court as Polish prepares for upcoming elections.  (If you read Polish, read the story at Salon24.)

From Balkan Insight, Republika Srpska leader Milorad Dodik vows to defy a court verdict against him.

From The North Africa Post, a team of specialists at the Moulay Youssef Hospital Center in Rabat, Morocco performs the first-ever tricuspid valve insufficiency surgery.

From The New Arab, an Iraqi delegation plans to visit Syria to discuss border security and the threat from ISIS.

From the Daily Mail, an AI-generated video shows a statue of Trump and bearded belly dancers in a remade Gaza Strip, and provokes outrage.

From Gatestone Institute, it's time to bring down the curtain on Iran's axis of terror.

From Radio Free Asia, China conducts live-fire military drills near Taiwan "without warning".

From The Stream, CNN "blandly" reports that anti-Trump deep state government employees might hand U.S. secrets to foreign countries.

From The Daily Signal, the Office of Civil Rights in Trump's Department of Education investigates alleged civil rights violations ignored under then-President Biden.

From The American Conservative, Trump's executive order boosting in vitro fertilization presents a problem for pro-lifers.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned mineral deal between the U.S. and Ukraine.

From BizPac Review, filmmaker Michael Moore claims that deported illegal aliens could cure cancer or save the earth from a killer asteroid.

From The Daily Wire, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard plans to investigate the national security implications of the U.K.'s demand to Apple.

From the Daily Caller, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin of The View shuts down panelist Sunny Hostin's attempt to make the issue of illegal immigration about race.

From the New York Post, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S.-bound migrant boats are making "U-turns" and going back to where they came from.

From Breitbart, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa attacks U.S. President Trump and promises to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

From Newsmax, the Trump administration requires federal agencies to develop plans to eliminate employee positions.

And from the Genesius Times, federal judge Hugh Jassole rules that asking government employees what they've done this week is unconstitutional.