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Trump rescinds Biden’s autopen pardons: “He knew nothing about them”

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President Donald Trump has declared all pardons issued by the Biden administration null and void, citing concerns that they were executed using an autopen rather than personally signed by Biden. The move has sparked immediate legal and political debate.

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  • Trump asserted that the use of an autopen to sign pardons renders them invalid.
  • The decision could impact numerous individuals who received clemency during Biden’s presidency.
  • Legal experts are divided on whether Trump has the authority to reverse previously granted pardons.

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President Donald Trump has taken the unprecedented step of voiding all pardons issued under the Biden administration, claiming they were not lawfully executed due to the use of an autopen—a device that mechanically reproduces a person’s signature. Trump’s decision, announced early Monday, is already setting up a legal battle over the extent of presidential authority regarding clemency.

“The Constitution requires a president to personally grant pardons, and that didn’t happen under Joe Biden,” Trump stated. “We have evidence that many of these so-called pardons were nothing more than rubber-stamped approvals using an autopen.”

The decision could affect hundreds of individuals who received clemency from Biden, raising questions about whether those pardoned would be forced to return to prison or face additional legal proceedings. Trump’s administration has reportedly ordered a full review of all clemency actions taken between 2021 and 2025.

Legal scholars are divided on the issue. Some argue that the use of an autopen has been a common practice in modern presidencies and does not necessarily invalidate a pardon. Others contend that Trump’s action could set a new precedent for challenging the legitimacy of previous administrations’ executive decisions.

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Top Scientists Deliberately Misrepresented Sea Level Rise For Years

Published on October 25, 2025

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From Michael Shellenberger

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Accelerated sea level is one of the main justifications for predicting very high costs for adapting to climate change. And while good scientists have debunked acceleration claims in the past, they did not clearly show how IPCC scientists engaged in their manipulations.

For years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, has claimed that human-caused climate change has accelerated sea level rise. But that claim is false. There is no scientific evidence of accelerated sea level rise since the mid-19th Century, and thus none showing human-created emissions caused an acceleration in recent decades.
This does not mean that climate change isn’t happening. It is. It simply means that it has not caused the sea level to rise at a rate any higher than one would expect without human-caused climate change.
Not only that, but the top scientists know this fact and have deliberately misrepresented it for years, deceiving the public.
In September, I reported on one of the first global studies of sea level rise that used tide-gauge data, which is the only real-world data that goes back long enough, to the mid-19th Century, that would allow one to detect whether sea level rise had accelerated, decelerated, or remained steady. Since then, I exchanged over 50 emails with one of the world’s leading sea level rise scientists, Robert Kopp from Rutgers University, and heard back from IPCC, NASA, and NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. What I learned shocked me.
For years, the world’s top scientists have known that they cannot prove there has been an acceleration of sea level rise, and yet they have told the public that they can. Not only that, in the process of this exchange, I gained a glimpse into how the scientists have been able to mislead journalists, policymakers, and the wider public for so long.
You might think this is either old news or unimportant. Some climate scientists in years past have pointed out that the real-world data do not support claims of acceleration. And in recent years, a supposed increase in natural disasters from climate change has eclipsed sea level rise in terms of attention-grabbing headlines. But sea level rise has, since the 1990s, been the main justification for apocalyptic climate claims, and past efforts to debunk sea level rise have failed to show that scientists were deliberately misleading.
The media and others have published terrifying maps of the future showing cities underwater. Accelerated sea level is one of the main justifications for predicting very high costs for adapting to climate change. And while good scientists have debunked acceleration claims in the past, they did not clearly show how IPCC scientists engaged in their manipulations.
Not only can I prove that the real-world data do not support the claims that there has been an acceleration, I can show that the scientists deliberately misrepresented their research, and how they did it, thanks to my on-the-record email conversation with Kopp of Rutgers….
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US Deploys Gerald Ford Carrier Strike Group To Target Cartels

Published on October 24, 2025

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By Wallace White

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, on Tuesday suggested it’s time to “get rid” of Trump.

The Pentagon has authorized the deployment of a carrier strike group to combat transnational cartel activity, marking a significant escalation in a pressure campaign against Venezuela, the Pentagon announced Friday.

The Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group will be deployed to the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) area of responsibility (AOR) with an air wing, the Pentagon told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement. The move is the latest effort to increase military presence around South America in order to combat cartel operations and pressure regimes like Colombia and Venezuela.

It is unclear whether the forces will be deployed in the Caribbean Sea or the Pacific Ocean, both of which are in the SOUTHCOM AOR.

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“The enhanced U.S. force presence in the USSOUTHCOM AOR will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere,” the Pentagon said in its statement. “These forces will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle TCOs.”

Drug smugglers have increasingly resorted to underhanded tactics to avoid detection by U.S. forces, including smuggling their product aboard commercial vessels, dropping drug bales at sea via illegal flights and shipping product in smaller quantities.

The Trump administration initially deployed naval assets to the southern Caribbean in August after designating Latin American cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). Additionally, multiple bombers have flown patrols around Venezuelan airspace as a “show of force.”

Many observers have speculated that Trump’s pressure on Venezuela may open up the U.S. to a regime-change conflict in the nation. Colombia has also come under Trump’s ire, with the Treasury Department issuing sanctions Friday against Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who on Tuesday suggested it’s time to “get rid” of Trump.

 

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