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Harvard's Disgraceful 'Bothsidesism' Confirms Its Systemic Anti-Semitism Problem Guy Benson The 'Islamophobia' charade exists for one reason: To partially mollify the anti-Semites, Islamists and anti-American extremists who made the anti-Semitism investigation necessary. This is pathetic and craven. It offers a further indictment of the structural, deeply-ingrained poison that has spread at this and other similar institutions.  Congress Must Repeal All Green New Scam Subsidies Steve Milloy President Trump campaigned on “ending the Green New Scam.” That’s the trillion dollar-plus climate spending in Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. The repeal of the pointless and inflationary subsidies should be a no-brainer layup for congressional Republicans. The opportunity to do so is coming up as part of the President’s much-anticipated Big Beautiful Bill. The good news is that, because the IRA was enacted by reconciliation, it can also be repealed by reconciliation. That is exactly how Republican leadership plans to pass the Big Beautiful Bill, possibly as early as Memorial Day. The problem is that, while all Republicans seem to want to pass some sort of Big Beautiful Bill, not all want that bill to repeal the Green New Scam. |
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| Trump to Shake Up the U.S. Drug Industry 'Almost Immediately' with New Executive Order "For many years the World has wondered why Prescription Drugs and Pharmaceuticals in the United States States of America were SO MUCH HIGHER IN PRICE THAN THEY WERE IN ANY OTHER NATION, SOMETIMES BEING FIVE TO TEN TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE SAME DRUG, MANUFACTURED IN THE EXACT SAME LABORATORY OR PLANT, BY THE SAME COMPANY???" Trump wrote. "It was always difficult to explain and very embarrassing because, in fact, there was no correct or rightful answer. "The Pharmaceutical/Drug Companies would say, for years, that it was Research and Development Costs, and that all of these costs were, and would be, for no reason whatsoever, borne by the ‘suckers’ of America, ALONE. Campaign Contributions can do wonders, but not with me, and not with the Republican Party," the president continued. | |
| Trump Order Seeks to Ease Regulatory Burden on Americans President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday afternoon to deter criminalization of Americans who violate federal regulations as opposed to laws passed by Congress. Trump signed the order to “ease the regulatory burden on everyday Americans and ensure no American is transformed into a criminal for violating a regulation they have no reason to know exists,” according to a White House fact sheet on the order. Trump has signed a slate of executive orders since entering office the second time attempting to reverse government overregulation, including one requiring executive agencies to identify 10 regulations for elimination for every new one they seek to create. |
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| Trump May Zap 'Energy Star' Efficiency Program That Some Say Ruins Appliances and Isn't Needed The Environmental Protection Agency reportedly plans to eliminate the Energy Star program. The move would be in line with the Department of Energy’s announcement in March that it would postpone implementation of some of the Biden administration’s appliance efficiency standards in line with President Donald Trump’s “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation” agenda. Citing unnamed sources, The New York Times reported that the announcement was made during a staff meeting on Monday. The Times report also cites a recording of the meeting it obtained. | |
| Trump’s Houthi Deal Channels America First, Leaving Out Allies Who Refused to Support U.S. Action President Donald Trump’s recent ceasefire agreement with the Yemen-based Houthis exempted U.S. ships from their strikes in the Red Sea, but excluded U.S. allies, a provision that has many nations that refused to support Washington’s efforts livid. The Houthis are one of three main combatants in the ongoing Yemeni Civil War and occupy a sliver of highly strategic territory on the Red Sea coast near the Bab al Mandeb, called the "Gate of Tears" in the Arab world. Their forces have, since the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza War, conducted missile strikes and seizures against vessels traveling the Red Sea in support of Hamas. |
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| Supreme Court Affirms President Trump Can Block Mentally Unstable People from the Military The Supreme Court lifted a lower-court judge’s ruling that paused the administration’s ban on mentally unstable people who were uncertain of their gender. The DEI judges (Latino, Lesbian and Black) dissented. Previously, President Trump stopped allowing transvestites to participate in military service for obvious ‘mission critical’ reasons. A lower court said that was unconstitutional and blocked the ban. The Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that stopping psychologically unstable trans-identifying people, was within the scope of authority of the commander in chief.  |
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| 'Egregious': Senate DOGE Caucus Leader Uncovers Federal Employees Cashing Taxpayer Checks While Doing Union Work Tyler Durden “Through the course of the past 10 years and studying government efficiency and fraud, waste, and abuse, we have uncovered the issue of taxpayer-funded union time. It’s where we see federal employees – and they can legally do this right now – work during their regular workday, and do that as taxpayer-funded dollars going to their paycheck, but they’re not actually working on their duties as a federal employee,” Enrst said during a panel discussion on government bureaucracy at the The Hill & Valley Forum this week. |
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| Biden Memo Let Feds Target Americans for 'Non-Criminal Behavior' Before Catholics, Parents Probed The Biden administration authorized federal law enforcement four years ago to target Americans engaged in "concerning non-criminal behavior" in the name of fighting domestic terrorism, with a specific eye on those serving in the military, owning firearms, or spreading what officials considered to be "xenophobic" disinformation, according to newly declassified documents. The stunning breadth of the mandate was disclosed when Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently released a fully unredacted version of the prior administration’s "Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism." | |
| DoJ Opens Investigation Into Minnesota DA Who Refused to Charge Tesla Vandal with Felonies Rick Moran A Minnesota prosecutor who refused to charge a vandal who keyed several Tesla vehicles with a felony is under investigation by the Department of Justice for taking a defendant's race into consideration in plea negotiations. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said the DoJ’s Civil Rights Division will review whether policies in the Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty's office constituted “a pattern or practice of depriving persons of rights, privileges or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.” | |
| Trade War Fallout in China a Mystery; Beijing Stopped Reporting Key Economic Data Elizabeth Stauffer Despite reports of increasing worker unrest across China caused by “production shutdowns and job cuts” as well as a warning from Goldman Sachs that up to 16 million Chinese may soon be unemployed, Beijing continues to project confidence in its trade war with the U.S. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Chinese government began withholding critical economic data in 2022, around the same time its economy began to sputter “under the weight of excessive debt, a crumbling real-estate market, and other troubles.” |
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| Dems Demand ‘Due Process’ for Illegal Aliens, But Obama Deported 83% Without Judge or Trial Craig Bannister Democrats and liberal media are crying for “Due Process!” in their efforts to demonize the Trump Administration’s efforts to swiftly remove illegal aliens from the U.S. – but, in FY2013, 83% of the illegal aliens deported by Democrat President Obama weren’t given a trial. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, when the Obama Administration set a record by deporting 438,421 illegal aliens, four of five of them were deported without appearing before a judge, due to the administration’s increased use of two non-standard procedures that circumvent the court system: |
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| Iran Threatens U.S. Bases ‘Wherever They Are’ as New Ballistic Missile Revealed Iran unveiled a new solid-fueled ballistic missile and claims it has stationed similar systems nationwide, according to state-run TV, which cited military officials promising the ability to strike U.S. bases and interests “wherever they are” if war breaks out. On Sunday, Iranian state media broadcast images of the new “Qassem Basir” missile during a televised appearance by Defense Minister Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh, amid rising tensions with Washington over Tehran’s growing missile capabilities and nuclear enrichment program.  7 Iranians Arrested in UK Over Terror Plot "Hours Away" A suspected Iranian terror attack was hours away from being launched on British soil, The Telegraph understands. Five men, including four Iranian nationals, were arrested at locations across England on Saturday in what the Home Secretary described as one of the biggest counter-terror operations in recent years. Counter-terror police arrested a further three Iranian men in London as part of a separate operation, fearing they would leave the UK or destroy critical evidence against them after the other raids. What the Hell Is Going on in Iran This Time? Stephen Green Iran is on fire – literally, again – and nobody knows why. A massive power plant and a "cardboard factory" caught fire bigly in Iran over the weekend. But there is impressive new video of Iran's port explosion from last week. Iran International [TV] reported that a "series of incidents unfolded in Alborz Province, west of Tehran, on Saturday evening, including two fires, reports of an explosion, and a magnitude 4.0 earthquake, according to official statements and eyewitness accounts." Israeli action? Typical authoritarian regime attention to maintenance issues? God just doesn't like the mullahs' regime? Who knows. |
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| Duffy Blasts Biden, Buttigieg for Ignoring Report About Failing Air Traffic Control System: 'DID NOTHING!' Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called out the Biden administration for allegedly neglecting a government agency's report about the poor state of the air traffic control system. "A government watchdog warned Biden & Buttigieg about the failing air traffic control system," Duffy wrote. "Look at this report. They knew the air traffic control system was strained AND STILL DID NOTHING!" |
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| Disturbing Claim Surfaces About What the Biden Team Chose Over Flight Safety Elizabeth Elkind The chairman of the House's Aviation Safety Caucus is accusing the former Biden administration of helping fuel the current air traffic control (ATC) crisis, by its choice to fund progressive diversity initiatives instead of modernizing the aging system. Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., told Fox News Digital that the former administration's marquee bill, the bipartisan infrastructure bill, was among several "missed opportunities" to fund a revamp of the ATC system. | |
| Amtrak Taken for a Ride in Wild $12M Scam by 119 Employees, Crooked Docs – More Than Half Kept Their Jobs: Bombshell Probe The workers ripped off Amtrak’s health plan in a kickback scam that saw them taking bribes from crooked doctors who then filed fake claims – and some employees went full mob and shook down medical providers for their cut of the cash, the company’s Office of the Inspector General said in a report released Tuesday. “The sheer volume of employees who cavalierly participated in this scheme to steal Amtrak’s funds suggests not only a serious lapse in basic ethics, but a troubling workforce culture, at least in the Northeast region, in which blatant criminal behavior was somehow normalized,” Inspector General Kevin H. Winters said. |
Biden’s favorite ride. Did he get a cut? |
| Dispatches from Self-Occupied Britain Stephen Green Britain's big secret is out, and frankly, it was never really a secret. A leaked study for the UK's Department for Business and Trade (DBT) "found that the transition to net zero [carbon emissions] by 2050 could have a significant impact on growth and could spur inflation," according to a recent report in the Telegraph. The report compared Net Zero's effects to "the global financial crisis caused by the 1973 oil embargo imposed by Arab states on Israel during the Yom Kippur War." The difference is that the Arab oil embargo lasted five months and was imposed by hostile Arab regimes, but Net Zero is supposed to last forever and is imposed by the hostile regime right there in London. |
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| Poll: 59% of Palestinians in West Bank Say October 7 Massacre Was ‘Correct Decision’ “59% of Palestinians polled in the “West Bank” still think that Hamas’ made the “correct decision” to torture, rape, burn alive, murder, and kidnap hundreds of hostages – even including children,” the media watchdog Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) observed. Having learned nothing from the October 7 massacre and its aftermath, nearly 80 percent of all Palestinians were opposed to the dismantling of Hamas as a terrorist fighting force, poll numbers show. “77% of Palestinians overall (and 85% of Palestinians in the PA-controlled “West Bank”!) “oppose the disarmament of Hamas in the Gaza Strip in order to stop the war on Gaza,” the media watchdog added. |
Why No Nation Wants the Palestinians [4-min video] |
| Washington State Public Defender Caught Occupying University Building Along with Antifa Extremists Antifa violence at a West Coast campus reportedly included a county public defender among the dozens arrested while peddling Hamas sympathies. Campus craziness may have considerably toned down under President Donald Trump – who, unlike former President Joe Biden, held the taxpayer-funded schools accountable – but it hasn’t been totally eliminated. During one of the latest displays of antisemitism, rife with vandalism and arson, roughly 30 protesters attempted to occupy a University of Washington building, along with one man said to work for the King County Department of Public Defense. |
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| Qatar and China Are Pouring Billions Into Elite American Universities Frannie Block & Maya Sulkin Foreign donors have given as much to U.S. universities in the last four years as they did in the previous 40, according to a new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute shared exclusively with The Free Press. The study shows an explosion in overseas funding for American schools between 2021 and 2024, with nearly $29 billion in foreign money donated during that period. Qatar and China are among the largest sources of funding. “The floodgates opened during the Biden era,” said NCRI’s co-founder Joel Finkelstein. “This isn’t just a financial issue – it’s a national security crisis. Hostile powers are buying influence on American campuses at an industrial scale.” | Amazing how the funding exploded during Biden's watch |
| Brown Univ Ends Anti-Israel High School Education Program After Report Exposes Ties to Qatar Jane Coleman  Last month, in a little-reported turn of events, Brown University ended its long-running sponsorship of a high school history program after a watchdog group revealed the curriculum’s ties to Qatar. The school’s decision to shutter the program comes amid heightened scrutiny of foreign influence peddling in higher education. And it comes amid recent revelations that America’s universities, emboldened by a willfully blind Biden administration, have been pocketing billions of dollars from countries like Qatar that are hostile to Western values. |
Blatant anti-Semitism taught as history |
| Antisemitism: The Modern Forces Fueling an Ancient Scourge David Swindle Last week, it emerged that the left is trying to tar Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) as mentally unhinged because he supports Israel in its existential war for survival against the genocidal forces of Hamas and Iran. The tactic of claiming that mainstream political views with which you disagree constitute mental illness is a classic Stalin-esque tactic. In Soviet Russia, dissidents were diagnosed as clinically insane and stuck in “asylums” that were actually prisons, where they were subject to a variety of tortures in the name of regaining their “mental health.” | |
| Colorado Is Building a Gender Ideology Dystopia Tyler O'Neil A school board in Colorado cannot remove sexually explicit, profane, and “transgender” books from school libraries because the school board is conservative, according to a federal judge touted as the first openly lesbian judge west of the Mississippi. The ACLU’s Colorado chapter filed a suit on behalf of two minors, the NAACP Wyoming State Area Conference, and the Authors Guild, claiming that the school district engaged in viewpoint discrimination when removing the books. The judge granted a preliminary injunction in March, forcing the Elizabeth School District (a suburb southeast of Denver) to restore the books. | |
| Catholic Church to Excommunicate Priests for Following New U.S. State Law The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring the reporting of child abuse confessions to authorities will be excommunicated. The new law, which will take effect on July 27, eliminates the long-standing confidentiality of the confessional, forcing Catholic leaders and lawmakers into a highly charged standoff over religious liberty and child protection. However, the Archdiocese of Seattle and several bishops argue that the law not only contravenes church doctrine but crosses constitutional lines, while supporters maintain it is a crucial step to protect minors from abuse. |  |
| Planned Parenthood Prescribing Cross-Sex Hormones to Minors, Undercover Investigation Finds Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, has been prescribing cross-sex hormones to minors as young as 16 without proper documentation or oversight, an undercover investigation reveals. Live Action, a pro-life organization, released a series of phone call recordings in which a woman posing as a 16-year-old girl called several Planned Parenthood clinics asking for hormones to transition. | |
| HHS Releases Damning Report on 'Gender-Affirming Care' Jeff Charles The Health and Human Services (HHS) Department released a report detailing damaging information about the use of “gender-affirming care” on minors suffering from gender dysphoria. Progressives are already slamming the report because it pokes gaping holes in progressive gender ideology. The report explains how the prevailing “gender-affirming care” model is not adequately supported by the science. It questions the ethical basis for foisting irreversible treatments such as puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries on minors. |
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| Kentucky Universities Cancel LGBTQ, Black Grad Ceremonies to Comply with anti-DEI Law Kentucky universities are canceling identity-based graduation ceremonies in response to recent anti-DEI legislation passed by lawmakers. The University of Kentucky (UK) in Lexington canceled its Lavender Graduation celebration for LGBT-identifying graduates and its Harambee Unity Celebration for black graduates, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports... Campus Reform is tracking a growing nation-wide trend of states passing anti-DEI legislation similar to Kentucky’s H.B. 4. |
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| Harvard Professor Convicted for Hiding Ties to China Gets New Job ... in China A Chinese university which faced scrutiny for its ties to American colleges has hired a former Harvard University chemist convicted of hiding his connections to the country. As reported by The Harvard Crimson, Charles Lieber “started his new role at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, where he now holds the school’s highest faculty rank, in Shenzhen, China, on April 28.” Lieber received two days in prison, six months house arrest, and a fine for hiding Chinese government affiliations and a $50,000 monthly salary and quietly retired from Harvard in 2023, as The College Fix previously reported. |
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| Virginia AG Opens Investigation into Loudoun County Public Schools over Transgender Locker Room Incident Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has opened an investigation into Loudoun County Public Schools after the district attempted to discipline three boys who expressed concerns over the presence of a girl in the men’s locker room. The female student, who identifies as a male, has used the boys locker room at Stone Bridge High School for months in accordance with district policy that allows students to use the bathroom or locker room that corresponds with their gender identity and not their biological sex. In March, the female student allegedly used her phone to record a group of boys in the locker room, one of the boys’ fathers told 7News’s Nick Minock. |
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| The Biggest Shot of
Adrenaline Into U.S. Manufacturing Since WWII Stephen Green Aaron Slodov, analyst and creator of the REINDUSTRIALIZE summit, took a deeper look inside the $150 billion [defense supplementary] bill this weekend and found a lot to like. More than 10% – $25 billion – is "aimed squarely at building things – new shipyard kit, missile lines, additive factories, depots, and the skilled-labor pipelines to run them." Another $10 billion is devoted to immediate needs like munitions, "everything from long-range anti-ship seekers to automated factory lines that print rounds like soda cans." |
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Bathrooms and the Counterrevolution Lawrence Person The social justice left are always the aggressors in the culture wars, shrieking their outraged victimhood when conservatives merely roll back their unpopular excesses. Perhaps no issue is more emblematic of that than tranny bathrooms. Before the Obama Administration, forcing ordinary people to accept men using women’s restrooms was never a policy Democrats promoted, but suddenly it became Holy Writ. It was an early sign that Social Justice was firmly in the diver’s seat of the Democratic Party, and the idiocy showed up everywhere, including Texas. |
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| Biden Gave Asylum to Nearly 600
Migrants with Terrorism Ties Nearly 600 individuals with ties to terror organizations entered the United States and were granted asylum by the Biden administration, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said during a cabinet meeting Wednesday. The finding came after Gabbard directed the National Counterterrorism Center to identify cartel members present in the United States, as well as those who’ve attempted to enter the country through legal or illegal means. |
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| Dems' War on Deportations Hits Snag
As Damning Revelations About Abrego Garcia Mount In recent weeks, evidence has emerged that Abrego Garcia beat his wife and was caught trafficking migrants during his time living illegally in Maryland. He has since been deported to El Salvador, where several Democrats, including Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, have rushed to meet with him and decry what they say was a lack of due process extended to him. "The fact that they went to the mat for this guy just shows exactly who they are," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on "Fox & Friends Weekend" on Saturday. "That they are people who don't put America first. They don't care about our citizens and protecting our communities. So, I'm glad that the onion's been peeled back and that their true motivations have been revealed, and this is just one of the cases that we're getting off the streets." |
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| Tennessee Bodycam of 'Maryland Man'
Traffic Stop Shows Troopers' Hands Tied Despite Smuggling Clues The Tennessee Highway Patrol released body camera footage of its 2022 encounter with Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, where state troopers suspected he was involved in human trafficking... A source familiar with the situation told Fox News Digital that there was a conversation in the redacted portion of the video where state troopers discussed calling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The troopers called ICE, which didn't come to pick up Abrego-Garcia. The source added that when state troopers entered Abrego-Garcia's name into the National Crime Information Center, a warning appeared that showed he was suspected of being a gang member or terrorist. |
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| HHS to Reexamine Massive $89
Billion Contract Awarded to California Nonprofit The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is reportedly reconsidering a massive contract the National Cancer Institute awarded to a California nonprofit in January to operate a cancer research lab in Maryland. The $89 billion award was given to the Alliance for Advancing Biomedical Research on January 17, just three days before former President Joe Biden left office. The nonprofit is also considered untested because it has not received or spent a penny since its inception in 2022, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Wednesday. |
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| Report: $48 Million in DOD-Funded
Research Benefitted Chinese Military U.S. military-funded research has “directly or indirectly” benefitted Chinese firms linked to the People’s Liberation Army, according to an April 2025 study by Parallax Advanced Research, a defense contractor based in Ohio. “The U.S. is inadvertently accelerating China’s military modernization and eroding its own technological edge,” argued former Air Force intelligence officer L.J. Eads, the study’s author. In 2023-2024, U.S. Army, Navy, or Air Force research offices spent more than $48 million on 17 different research projects that involved “Chinese Military Companies (CMCs) – entities formally designated by the U.S. government as threats to national security,” the report catalogued. |
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| Unearthed Footage Exposes Medical
School Administrators Pledging to Resist Trump Executive Orders Leaked video obtained by Fox News Digital shows school administrators at an Illinois school of medicine rejecting multiple Trump executive orders, including on combatting DEI, and outlining how the school plans to fight back against them. Trump’s executive order on gender ideology "is an attack on women" and on "basic human rights," according to Dr. Jerry Kruse, Dean, Provost, and CEO of Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine. Kruse recently gave a speech in a small group discussion about Trump’s executive orders and actions that was obtained by the medical and policy advocacy group Do No Harm. |
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| The Ivanpah Boondoggle Bird Slaying Mega Solar Farm Admits Failure David Blackmon Fifteen years ago, operators of the Ivanpah thermal solar facility – NRG Energy, Google, and BrightSource Energy – got a $1.6 billion loan from the Department of Energy. Now 11 years later, the facility is closing. Why did the government fund a five-square-mile laser death rate that kills 6,000 birds a year? That is Ivanpah, a solar farm in the Mojave Desert. And the birdpocalypse isn't even the biggest part of this boondoggle. |
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| The Spain and Portugal Blackout: A Warning from the Future of ‘Green’ Energy On April 28, 2025, a catastrophic power outage plunged millions of people in Spain and Portugal into chaos. The blackout, one of Europe’s largest in recent memory, struck shortly after midday, instantly severing electricity supplies and disrupting transportation, healthcare, and communication across the Iberian Peninsula. This disaster wasn’t caused by extreme weather or natural disasters, it was driven by a dangerously unstable reliance on intermittent renewable energy. Net Zero Madness: Reliance on Solar Blamed for Huge Europe Power Cut Oliver JJ Lane As noted by Javier Blas, Red Eléctrica (RE) remains silent on the actual causes of those “events” but it is reported Tuesday morning that the network has acknowledged it is “plausible” the cause was a sudden loss of solar power at a time when it was supporting 70 per cent of national demand, causing the whole system to stall. Spain has one of the greenest power systems in the world, and just this month, it celebrated powering the entire Iberian Peninsula – the south-western part of Europe, primarily covered by Spain and Portugal – with only renewable energy. Like many European countries, left-wing Spain has been busy demolishing its conventional power plants and is even, like Germany, decommissioning its nuclear power fleet. Yes, We Can Blame Solar for Spain’s Blackout. And If the Socialist Government Doesn’t Change Course, Expect More Blackouts Robert Bryce When in doubt, deny. That’s the strategy Spain’s top officials are using in the wake of Monday’s blackout, which affected more than 55 million people. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, a socialist, denied that his country’s heavy reliance on wind and solar were to blame for the blackout, saying “There was no problem caused by an excess of renewable energy.” He also claimed nuclear power was “no more resilient than other sources” during the power outage and that nuclear plants are not “currently competitive with renewable energy.” Sanchez has promised a full investigation into the blackout. |
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| Latest Rockefeller-Crafted Climate
Attribution Study Funded by…U.S. Taxpayers? Kyle Kohli Here we go again as the old Rockefeller gang gets back together, pushing another flawed climate attribution study they claim is case “closed” in an overt effort that blurs the line between academic and outright activism to support climate litigation against American energy companies. In a study published in Nature, researchers from Dartmouth University argue that attribution science – the attempt to link a certain amount of greenhouse gas emissions to a specific energy company – should be used not to develop a better scientific understanding of the world, but as a blunt tool in the courtroom. |
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| Federal DOJ Sues Michigan, 3 Other
States on Climate Actions The U.S. Justice Department filed lawsuits against four states this week, claiming their climate actions conflict with federal authority and President Donald Trump’s energy dominance agenda. The DOJ on Wednesday filed lawsuits against Hawaii and Michigan over their plans for legal action against fossil fuel companies for harms caused by climate change. On Thursday, the DOJ sued New York and Vermont, challenging their climate superfund laws that would force fossil fuel companies to pay into state-based funds based on previous greenhouse gas emissions. |
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| China Quietly Exempts Key U.S.
Goods from Tariffs: Report Chinese officials are quietly drawing up a "whitelist" of critical U.S. goods that importers rely on to exempt them from Beijing's retaliatory tariffs, Reuters reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The news adds to a growing number of reports from China of businesses discovering that tariffs have been waived on some goods, such as certain semiconductor and integrated circuit products. It also shows how, underneath its tough rhetoric, Beijing is trying to mitigate the impact of the U.S. trade war on its export-reliant economy, the world's second-largest, which was already under pressure from a broader slowdown. |
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United States Files False Claims Act Complaint Against Three National
Health Insurance Companies and Three Brokers Alleging Unlawful
Kickbacks and Discrimination Against Disabled Americans The United States filed a complaint today under the False Claims Act (FCA) against three of the nation’s largest health insurance companies – Aetna Inc. and affiliates, Elevance Health Inc. (formerly known as Anthem), and Humana Inc. – and three large insurance broker organizations – eHealth, Inc. and an affiliate, GoHealth, Inc., and SelectQuote Inc. The United States alleges that from 2016 through at least 2021, the defendant insurers paid hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks to the defendant brokers in exchange for enrollments into the insurers’ Medicare Advantage plans. |
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| Emmy Nomination for Outstanding
Edited Interview Goes to '60 Minutes' for Kamala Episode – Yes, You Read That Right Cortney Weil The controversial "60 Minutes" episode featuring then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris has now been officially nominated for an Emmy – and not for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. On Thursday, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 2025 News and Docs Emmys. Among the nominees for Outstanding Edited Interview is "The Democratic Ticket," the interview between "60 Minutes" correspondent Bill Whitaker and Harris. '60 Minutes perpetrated a Giant FRAUD against the American People.' |
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| Trump Cuts Federal Funding for NPR
and PBS Over ‘Biased’ Coverage President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday night cutting federal funding for NPR and PBS, decrying both outlets for their allegedly "biased" coverage. The president's order calls on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to "cancel existing direct funding to the maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding" to NPR and PBS. It also notes that the "heads of all agencies shall identify and terminate, to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, any direct or indirect funding of NPR and PBS." |
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| Trump Administration Revokes Visas
from 37 Johns Hopkins Students for Pro-Hamas Activism 37 international students who attend Johns Hopkins University have had their student visas revoked amid the Trump administration’s removal of allegedly pro-Hamas protesters. The university confirmed the revocations in a statement to CBS News, but stated that it had not been given specific reasons by the federal government. 15 percent of Johns Hopkins first-years are international students, according to the university website. |
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| Sex-Change Procedures for Minors
Cause 'Irreversible' Damage for 'Very Weak Evidence of Benefit': HHS
Report The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released a comprehensive review warning that sex-change surgeries and interventions for minors carry "significant risks" but have "very weak evidence of benefit." Transgender procedures – including puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and sex-change surgeries – are all "associated with significant risks," with most causing "irreversible physical or physiological effects," according to the 409-page report. The HHS researchers added that there is "very weak evidence" that the procedures offer any benefit for children suffering from gender dysphoria, citing "systematic reviews of evidence around the world." |
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| Trans-Identifying Male Sweeps
Women’s Events at U.S. Masters Swim National Championships A trans-identifying male competed in the U.S. Masters Swimming Spring National Championship meet, and he took gold medals in every event he entered – in the 45-49 age group of the women’s division. Ana Caldas, who has also raced under the names Hannah Caldas and Hugo Caldas, swam in five individual events and three relays over the course of the four-day competition in San Antonio – and won every individual race: the 50 yard freestyle, the 100 yard freestyle, the 50 yard breaststroke, and the 100 yard breaststroke. Caldas came in a full three seconds ahead of the second place finisher in the 100 yard freestyle, and four seconds ahead in the 50 and 100 yard breaststroke events. |
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| Maine Rocked by Trans Athlete
Dominance at Girls' Track Meet Amid Ongoing Legal Conflict with Trump A girls' track meet in Maine became the subject of widespread controversy after a trans athlete dominated multiple running events. The incident took place as the state faces internal and federal pressure to keep trans athletes out of girls' sports, and a lawsuit over the issue from President Donald Trump's administration. The athlete has been making national headlines in Maine dating back to that month after jumping to 4th place in the 5k division in the girls' category after previously finishing 172nd among boys. |
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| VP Vance Criticizes Nike's Role in
Canceled Youth Trans Study According to OutKick, Vance criticized Nike during his appearance on the "Clay & Buck" radio show for allegedly funding research examining the effects of gender-affirming care on young male athletes to determine if medical intervention could enable their "fair" participation in girls' and women's sports. Nike's role in the study remains unclear, with the company stating the research "was never initialized" and "is not moving forward." However, the study's lead researcher, Dr. Kathryn Ackerman, and secondary researcher, Joanna Harper, have both publicly acknowledged Nike's funding involvement, creating a discrepancy in the narrative. |
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| Higher Ed Advisor Wants ‘Autonomy’
for Colleges, But Strict Oversight of Homeschoolers The new “strategic initiatives” advisor for the American Association of Colleges and Universities argues colleges are under attack from conservatives who are seeking to control what is taught. “At a moment of great challenges for colleges and universities, liberal education has never been more necessary or more important,” Jeremy Young stated in a news release... [Young] serves on the board of the Coalition for Responsible Home Education. He also served as its interim executive director for almost a year in 2021-22. A manual published by CRHE titled “Parental-Rights Extremism Messaging Guide” accuses “Christian fundamentalists” of using homeschooling to “abuse” their children. The group updated its guide in Oct. 2022, just months after Young joined the board. |
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| Scathing Harvard Report Details Pervasive Anti-Semitism Driven By 'politicized Instruction' Harvard University, in the midst of its funding fight with the Trump administration, released its long-awaited anti-Semitism report on Tuesday. It provides a scathing account of life at the Ivy League institution in the wake of Oct. 7, finding that "politicized instruction" in four Harvard schools "mainstreamed and normalized what many Jewish and Israeli students experience as antisemitism." |
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| SCOTUS Takes on EO to
End So-Called Birthright Citizenship Mark Alexander Not since President Dwight Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback” (yes, that was the name of Ike’s program to deport millions of illegal aliens) has any administration seriously dealt with illegal immigrants – until Donald Trump arrived in 2017. He made stopping illegal immigration a centerpiece of his administrative objectives. Trump made progress against almost insurmountable odds. But Joe Biden and his Democrat Party hacks orchestrated their bulk-mail ballot fraud in 2020 to dispose of Trump. They opened our southern border in order to rig national elections. And not only is the flood of illegal immigrants now breaking the bank of the Demos’ so-called sanctuary cities and states but the flood of bloodshed by violent immigrants is on the Biden/Harris regime and will take years to clean up. |
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| The Founders Agree with
Trump on Alien Enemies Act Bradley Devlin Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gang member and citizen from El Salvador, has become an avatar of The Resistance 2.0. The story of his deportation to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 has been twisted into an allegory for life under the second Trump administration. In the words of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y.: “Kilmar is all of us.” Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, has taken a primary role in arguing the administration’s justification for the use of the Alien Enemies Act. Miller’s argument centers on the president’s prerogative in foreign affairs as enshrined in Article II of the Constitution. |
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Late Night EXTRA! How Letitia James Fraud Came Crashing Down! EXCLUSIVE: New York Attorney General Letitia James, who became President Donald Trump's nemesis after accusing him of mortgage fraud, is now battling the very same allegations, and her chief tormentor is a legendary scam artist who says he knows a crook when he sees one. Sam Antar, who kept the books for his cousin, "Crazy Eddie" Antar, while he built a New York-area consumer electronics empire, helped his late relative skim cash and inflate the value of their company before leaving investors high and dry in the late 1980s. He says he knows every trick in the fraud book and smells a rat in James' real estate filings. Earlier Coverage Letitia James' Mortgage Misclassification Just Got Worse Sam Antar This isn’t a minor paperwork discrepancy. Five-unit buildings are classified as commercial properties under federal lending guidelines, subject to stricter underwriting standards, higher down payments, and less favorable terms. By repeatedly downgrading the unit count – sometimes to as low as a single-family home – James may have accessed residential mortgage products exclusively designed for primary residences with substantially more favorable terms. |
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| House Judiciary Committee Is Losing
Patience with Fani Willis Chris Queen The ongoing sniping between the House Judiciary Committee and Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani “Cash Stash” Willis isn’t going to end anytime soon. It’s been nearly two years since the committee began looking into Willis’ “politically motivated prosecution” of Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants – and that was months before the scandal erupted involving her relationship with her special counsel, who was underqualified to prosecute corruption cases but was embroiled in an affair with the DA. In February 2024, the committee subpoenaed records from Willis’ office; a year later, the committee demanded more records from the prosecutor’s office. Willis has stomped her feet, and her staff has dragged its feet. And Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the chair of the committee, has had enough. |
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| SCOTUS Is Injuring Its Credibility
More Than Journos Ever Could Shawn Fleetwood Throughout Wednesday and Thursday alone, judges across multiple venues handed down decrees barring numerous executive actions taken by the president since returning to office. From DEI to election policy, these cases are but a few of the more than 170 lawsuits Democrats and left-wing political actors have filed to sabotage Trump and the 77 million Americans who voted for him. Despite this clear effort to destroy American democracy via a judicial coup, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) seems to have no interest in stopping it. The nation’s highest court has had ample opportunities to halt these lower court judges’ destructive antics but has repeatedly declined to do so. |
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| The Oligarchy Hoax: How Democrats
Use Marxist Rhetoric to Mask Their Elite Power Vaughn Cordle, CFA Since Barack Obama’s election, the Democratic Party has rebranded itself as the voice of the “common people” – not through policy, but through narrative warfare. The latest hoax claims America is 'sliding into oligarchy' under Republican leadership, specifically Trump. It’s a smear designed to mask the real consolidation of power within their ranks. The irony is clear: while Democrats scream “oligarchy,” they are the party of billionaires, Big Tech, and Wall Street. Companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft are dominated by Democratic-aligned executives, who not only shape public discourse but bankroll the party’s apparatus. |
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| Nadine Menendez, Wife of Disgraced
NJ Sen. Bob Menendez, Found Guilty in Sweeping Bribery Case; Faces
Significant Prison Time Nadine Menendez was found guilty on Monday of acting as the partner in crime of her convicted husband, ex-Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, by brokering backdoor bribery deals that saw the couple showered in gold bullion bars, wads of cash, and a Mercedes-Benz convertible. Jurors, who got the case Friday, convicted Nadine of 15 counts, including conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiring to make her husband a secret agent of Egypt, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, conspiracy to commit extortion, and obstruction of justice for trying to thwart the feds’ investigative efforts. |
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| Comer Refers Former NY Gov Andrew
Cuomo to DOJ for Prosecution House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Monday referred former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution, after he allegedly made false statements to Congress. The referral accuses Cuomo of purposely lying to Congress about his handling of the COVID-19 nursing home scandal in his state. The former governor, who led the state during the pandemic, issued a mandate in 2020 that required nursing homes in the state to admit untested or possibly contagious patients. It allegedly resulted in the deaths of over 15,000 people. |
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| AG Pam Bondi Leads Task Force to ‘Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias’ in Federal Agencies Attorney General Pam Bondi and other members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet have launched a task force to address anti-Christian bias in federal agencies that they argue escalated under the Biden administration. The goal of the task force is to identify any unlawful, anti-Christian policies, practices or conduct across the government. The task force will in that effort seek input from the faith-based organizations and state governments to end such bias and fix deficiencies in existing and regulatory practices that might be contributing factors. “The Biden administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent anti-Christian offenses,” Bondi said. |
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| Buried Biden-Admin Bombshell 2.0 Government Accountability & Oversight GAO has uncovered certain facts which the Trump administration absolutely must consider and exploit as it pursues its announced regulatory corrections. This information sheds light on the previous administration’s process for adopting an unlawful “suite of regulations” imposing the “climate” agenda without any statutory authorization. Turns out, that plan was more unlawful than even we knew. In fact, this information rightly puts an immediate end to the flagship rule, the Biden administration’s ‘Clean Power Plan 2.0’. |
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| The Blade Stops Here: France Holds Wind Industry Accountable at Last Charles Rotter This isn’t just a one-off judicial reaction. It represents a seismic shift in how the French legal system – and perhaps the broader public – are beginning to confront the uncomfortable truth about wind energy’s collateral damage. Despite the Green orthodoxy that surrounds renewables, wind turbines kill birds. And not just any birds. In this case, the victim was the breeding male of a golden eagle pair that had nested just three kilometers from the turbine site, a distance well beyond typical disturbance buffers used in wildlife protection. Environmental groups hailed the court’s decision as a victory, but the implications go much deeper. For years, bird deaths caused by wind turbines have been ignored, downplayed, or dismissed as unfortunate but tolerable trade-offs in the race toward “net zero.” But the Bernagues case shatters that illusion. The U.S. Government Must Step In: Two New Studies Imply the Golden Eagle Cannot Survive More Wind Turbines David Wojick  The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act specifically says that the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) cannot issue more “take” (that is kill) permits than the population can survive. Two new studies together imply that the golden eagle wind-kill taking is at that limit or beyond. Clearly FWS must stop issuing new wind turbine take permits until it rigorously assesses this situation. No new wind turbines should be erected. Some presently in operation may have to shut down. Fortunately, new eagle kill permits are presently on hold under the President’s Executive Order, but we are also talking about the law. Related — Not Green: Eagles Constant Victims of Wind Industry’s Endless Bird Slaughter |
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| EPA
Chief Lee Zeldin Unleashed: He Blasts NY Green Energy Laws As 'Delusional' and a 'Catastrophe' Ed Ireland In an interview with the New York Post..., Zeldin slammed New York’s Climate Act, advanced by Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York Democrats, as “delusional” and a “left-wing recipe for an energy and economic catastrophe.” Zeldin’s comments come after the Trump administration halted the Empire Wind Power project off the New York-New Jersey coast, a setback to the State’s effort to meet the unachievable mission reduction mandates under its much-criticized green energy laws. Not mincing words, Zelden, who is a New York resident and represented New York's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2015 to 2023, told The Post, "New York’s lofty climate goals don’t come equipped with any feasible plan to actually achieve them. The consequence is that the people who can least afford the economic pain are the ones who get targeted and harmed the most." |
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| Kansas
School Removes Electric Buses from Use Over Student Safety Concerns --
Note: Biden EPA Required Removal of Diesel Buses As Condition for Grant
Money A Kansas school has stopped using its electric school buses out of an abundance of caution after reports of the buses losing steering and braking, posing a threat to student safety. Working for you, 27 News reached out to the six school districts that initially received federal funding to purchase electric school buses. While some districts report the buses are functioning well, Wabaunsee USD 329 said it removed buses from service “in line with our highest priority of student safety.” Canadian Maker, Lion Electric, Now in Bankruptcy Proceedings. Do 'Green' Buses Really Pass the Green Test? 2020 Flashback Duggan Flanakin Should Americans follow China in a massive commitment to supposedly eco-friendly battery-electric buses (BEBs)? California has mandated a “carbon-free” bus system by 2040 and will buy only battery or fuel cell-powered buses after 2029. Other states and cities are following suit. |
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| The Great Green Lie: Wind & Solar Aren’t Saving the Planet, They’re Wrecking It Limits to Green Energy Are Becoming Much Clearer Gail Tverberg The idea that unreliable wind and solar can save the planet is one of the greatest lies, ever told. In touting their purported environmental credentials, the crony capitalists, rent-seekers and fawning advocates never take into account any of the associated costs. It’s all sunshine and suitably stiff breezes, as far as the wind and sun cult is concerned. At the heart of economics is the need to account for all costs and weigh them against any purported benefits. Then, and only then, can a net benefit of any chosen course of action be determined. |
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| New Study Reveals Soaring Costs of California’s Green Energy Transition Wayne Winegarden and Kerry Jackson As the U.S. marks Earth Day, a new study released today by the Pacific Research Institute, a nonpartisan, California-based, free-market think tank, reveals the staggering costs California consumers and businesses will incur as the state pursues its aggressive green energy mandates. The paper, “The Cost of Going Green,” provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic burden placed on Californians by the state’s forthcoming green energy requirements. According to PRI’s analysis, California households will bear significant costs, estimated to be between $17,398 and $20,182 per household, to fund the state’s transition to alternative energy sources between 2025 and 2050. |
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| ‘War On Coal Is Finally Over’:
Energy Experts Say Trump Admin’s Deregulation Agenda Could Fuel Coal’s Revival Audrey Streb Within the first months of his second administration, President Donald Trump has prioritized “unleashing” American energy and has already axed several of what he considers to be burdensome regulations on the coal industry, promising it’s “reinvigoration.” Trump signed an executive order on April 8 to revive the coal industry, and shortly after moved to exempt several coal plants from Biden-era regulations. Though it has become a primary target of many climate activists, coal has been historically regarded as readily available and affordable, and several energy policy experts who spoke with Daily Caller News Foundation believe Trump has the cards necessary to strengthen the industry. |
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| Updates on the Collapse of the
Climate Scam Francis Menton The good news on the Endangerment Finding front is that EPA under new Administrator Lee Zeldin is very much on the job of eliminating the EF. Of course, once it has been rescinded it will face a blizzard of legal challenges. I hope and expect that Zeldin and his team are up to the job of carrying out a rescission that will stick. Separately, Tom Nelson has made a thing out of compiling a growing list of “Signs That The Climate Scam Is Collapsing.” That list is now up to some 33 items and counting. |
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| Trump Speaks Truth to Power Adam Ellwanger & John J. Waters In The Constitution of Athens, Aristotle tells a story of the tyrannical ruler Pisistratus, who went into the countryside to observe the farms upon which he imposed taxes. Seeing a farmer working a dry piece of ground, Pisistratus approached the man to ask what the land produced for him. Not recognizing Pisistratus, the man replied: “Aches and pains! And that’s what Pisistratus ought to have his tenth of!” As king, Pisistratus had the prerogative to kill the farmer on the spot, but he was so impressed with the man’s frank speech – his parrhesia – that he exempted the farm from taxation. Since the beginning of Trump’s political career, nothing has bothered the establishment more than the way he speaks, and what he says. Whether the criticism is valid is irrelevant because Trump’s parrhesiastic style of speaking helped put him in the Oval Office. |
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| Over 100 Illegal Immigrants
Arrested in Colorado Springs Massive Underground Nightclub Raid Federal authorities announced Sunday that more than a hundred illegal immigrants were detained in a massive raid at an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs that officials say was "frequented by TdA and MS-13 terrorists." The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rocky Mountain Division led a multi-agency operation early Sunday morning and arrested 114 illegal immigrants at the venue that contained more than 200 people inside. Authorities uncovered drugs, including pink cocaine, as well as evidence of prostitution and multiple firearms during the operation, according to the DEA. |
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| Academics, Medical Professionals
Who Criticize Gender Ideology Get Help from Courts, Lawmakers Judges appointed by presidents of both parties and red states are tag-teaming to protect academics and medical professionals from inquisitions based on their speech and conscience, amid a flood of signed legislation just this month cementing parental, religious and sex-based rights while kneecapping government promotion of gender ideology. The University of Louisville agreed to pay former psychiatry professor Allan Josephson nearly $1.6 million to resolve his retaliation and nonrenewal lawsuit rather than risk a worse result from a jury, in damages and being forced to rehire him, after the 6th U.S. Circuit of Appeals stripped its public officials of qualified immunity, Josephson's lawyers said last week. |
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| Yale Derecognizes Students for
Justice in Palestine Chapter After Group Blocks Jewish Students' Access to Parts of Campus Yale University stripped the school's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, Yalies4Palestine, of its status as a recognized student group on Wednesday after it established a short-lived encampment. The decision may give insight into how Yale president Maurie McInnis, who called the police to arrest student protesters in her last job, will combat anti-Israel agitators at the Ivy League university. In a Wednesday afternoon statement, Yale revealed that university staff had warned Yalies4Palestine the day before the encampment that "further violations would jeopardize the group’s privileges" during a meeting about prior infractions. |
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| Princeton’s War on Civil Rights Christopher F. Rufo & Ryan Thorpe Princeton Univ president Eisgruber was right to say that he presides over a system of racial discrimination – but not in the way he imagines. The university does not discriminate against “oppressed” groups, such as blacks and Latinos, but against those seen as “oppressors.” “At Princeton, it’s totally common knowledge that there are favored groups and disfavored groups,” one professor said. “And the disfavored groups are whites, Jews, males,” and others commonly disliked by the Left. A City Journal investigation confirms that Princeton has, in fact, entrenched a system of racial discrimination and segregation. We have obtained more than a dozen internal documents and conducted interviews with a half-dozen employees, who confirm that the university has flagrantly violated the principles of the Civil Rights Act in the name of “social justice.” |
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| Gretchen Whitmer's Bureaucrats Sued
for Requiring 'implicit bias' Training to Keep Medical License Greg Piper The scientific rigor behind "implicit bias" has been questioned since at least 2009, when the Journal of Applied Psychology deemed the evidence "surprisingly weak" that the Harvard-designed implicit association test "predicts discriminatory behavior," despite the confident claims of psychologists and pop-science purveyors including Malcolm Gladwell. "Sexy But Often Unreliable," Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin declared in 2011 in reviewing the "replicability of experimental findings with implicit measures." Implicit bias training keeps showing up in professional mandates, however, prompting a liberty-minded public interest law firm to bring lawsuits on behalf of medical professionals against what they portray as ideological compulsion. |
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| More Than $300 Million Raised for
DEI Initiatives in U.S. Higher Education, Report Finds A nonprofit organization’s investigation tracked down donations equal to over $300 million in funding to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at dozens of colleges and universities across the U.S., while also reporting that the DEI funds still exist after the federal government’s termination efforts and have been simply renamed. “We have been able to track down over $336,271,100 in donations to fund institution DEI programs, scholarships, and offices,” a report on Defending Education’s investigation stated. |
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| Gender Ideology Under Fire in
Courts as Liberals Dig In; "Sex" and "Woman" Refer to Biological Sex Oral arguments this week in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court and a ruling earlier this month by Britain’s Supreme Court are the latest evidence that left-wing gender ideology is on its heels worldwide -- but liberals in some states are nonetheless doubling down on it. The British Supreme Court’s decision on April 16 sent shockwaves throughout the country and across the Atlantic, as judges ruled that males who claim transgender status and identify as women do not qualify as women under the country’s anti-discrimination law. |
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| Pro-Woman Advocates Slam Nike Over Alleged Funding for Puberty-Blocker Study It recently came to light that the biggest sports apparel company in the world, Nike, is apparently helping to fund a study on the use of puberty-blockers in children and how it affects their athletic performance. The short version of the study's purpose is simple: how much medication, hormones and surgery needs to be given to young boys to allow them to "fairly" compete in girls' and women's sports? To this point, Nike has not confirmed its financial investment in the study, but they have not denied it, either. Of course, most rational-thinking people already know the answer that this study seeks to find. |
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| How Democrats Used NGOs
to End-Run Voters: A 'parallel government' Glenn H. Reynolds I’m often darkly amused by common examples of inherently false nomenclature: “Jumbo shrimp.” “Government ethics.” “Unbiased news media.” And one of our society’s biggest falsehoods-in-a-name: “Non-governmental organizations.” We imagined they raise money, help the downtrodden, send out press releases and engage in other private activities to promote the causes they favor. They’re not government entities, we thought – the very name says that – but a species of private charity whose good intentions deserve the benefit of any doubt. Perhaps some NGOs do operate in that way. |
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| When Judges
Become Prosecutors: The Curious Case of Judge Boasberg Amuse on X  In
a republic governed by laws and not by men, the judiciary’s role is to
interpret the law, not invent it. Yet in the curious and increasingly
troubling case presided over by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, the
distinction between interpretation and invention has collapsed into
something that more closely resembles judicial activism on stilts. In
his April injunctions halting deportation flights under President
Trump’s lawful immigration crackdown, and his subsequent finding of
criminal contempt against Department of Justice officials, Boasberg has
not merely tested the outer limits of judicial power, he has bulldozed
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| Alito Blasts 'unprecedented' SCOTUS
Move to Halt Trump's Venezuelan Deportations: 'legally questionable' Justice Samuel Alito wrote a fiery dissent against a recent Supreme Court move to halt President Donald Trump's deportations of Venezuelan criminals under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The decision, which was issued early Saturday morning, effectively blocks the deportations of Venezuelan migrants under the 18th century law. In a decision that was also signed off on by conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, the court advised the White House not to remove Venezuelans held in Texas' Bluebonnet Detention Center "until further order of this court." Alito disapproved of the timing of the decision, which he described as being "literally in the middle of the night." |
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| RECEIPTS Included: Trump Wasn’t
Kidding When He Promised $7 Trillion in Investments President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that he’s procured $7 trillion in incoming investments to the United States may very well have been an underestimate. “We have, I would say, more than $7 trillion now … of investments coming in,” Trump told reporters on April 9th. “Apple is coming in for $500 billion alone. We have other companies coming in with massive numbers. We have car companies that are coming in. No, we’ve never seen anything like it, maybe in the 1940s or 50s or something, but we’ve never seen anything like it,” he added. |
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| NVIDIA Announces AI Supercomputers Will Be Built Entirely in the U.S. for the First Time Spurred on by President Trump’s tariffs and a focus on returning to U.S.-based  manufacturing,
NVIDIA has announced that, for the first time, the company’s AI
supercomputers will be built entirely in the U.S. The company announced
it is is working with its manufacturing partners to design and build
factories that including commissioning more than a million square feet
of manufacturing space to build and test NVIDIA Blackwell chips in
Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas. Mass production at both plants
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| 'DELETE DELETE DELETE': Trump's Mass Deregulation Push About to Launch Ed Morrissey The New York Times reports on a new and "novel legal strategy" that the Office of Management and Budget director will soon deploy. Rather than go through months of process for repealing regulations – required under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) – the White House plans to treat a massive amount of regulation as legally moot in light of Supreme Court precedents. Using the U.S. DOGE Service to target such regulations, the administration will simply delete them from the federal register... Trump set the ball rolling last week, in an executive order that may have flown under the radar. The title certainly addressed the intent clearly: "Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations." It ordered regulatory heads to repeal regulations mooted by ten Supreme Court decisions between 2015 and 2024, with Loper Bright at the very top of the list, and contains the core of the administration's legal argument… |
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| State Department Axes $214 Million
in Foreign Grants, Removing 139 Taxpayer-funded Grants DOGE carried out the "supplemental review of remaining foreign assistance grant programs" after the State Department completed its initial foreign funding review in late February, an internal State Department memo obtained by the Free Beacon shows. Though the initial review saw the agency identify $60 billion worth of foreign grants for elimination, DOGE's supplemental probe revealed "a significant number of grant programs which remain inconsistent with Administration policies," particularly those related to "media advocacy programming," according to the memo. |
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| Federal Agency Refers New York AG
Letitia James to DOJ for Prosecution for Alleged Mortgage Fraud The federal government's main housing loan agency has referred New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime nemesis of President Donald Trump, to the U.S. Justice Department for possible prosecution over alleged mortgage fraud, according to a letter obtained by Just the News. William J. Pulte, the director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), made the referral Monday to Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy Todd Blanche, and attached evidence he said corroborated earlier media reports alleging irregularities in a series of loans James obtained, including for a property in Virginia. Ex-Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby Avoids Prison Time for Perjury and Mortgage Fraud Convictions [23may2024] |
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| Top Hegseth Adviser Dan Caldwell Put on Leave in Pentagon Leak Probe One of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense, a U.S. official told Reuters. Caldwell was placed on administrative leave for "an unauthorized disclosure," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The decision has not been previously reported. "The investigation remains ongoing," the official said without providing details about the nature of the alleged disclosure, including whether it was made to a journalist or to someone else. |
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| Did EPA Destroy Federal Records? 114th Congress Today, the Subcommittees on Oversight and Environment held a hearing to clarify when the Federal Records Act applies to certain information and how it has been implemented at the Environment Protection Agency (EPA). In particular, the hearing reviewed safeguards to prevent both the inadvertent as well as intentional destruction of information that should be preserved as a federal record. |
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| Bill Taking Aim at IRS Would Strip
Agency of Guns and Ammo While American taxpayers are familiar with the annual rigmarole of filing their federal taxes and realizing just how much of their hard-earned money Uncle Sam is taking away, several House Republicans are pushing a proposal to take some things away from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS): Guns and ammunition. The "Why Does the IRS Need Guns Act" would disarm the federal agency, prohibiting the commissioner of internal revenue from using funds to buy, receive or store firearms and ammo, and requiring the transfer of IRS firearms and ammunition to the Administrator of General Services. |
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| Gavin Newsom’s Grid Impossible Robert Bryce Make no mistake, California Governor Gavin Newsom is running for the White House in 2028. In February, he launched a podcast with the uncatchy name, “This is Gavin Newsom.” His first guest was conservative activist and commentator Charlie Kirk, the head of Turning Point USA. Newsom claims he wants to have “honest conversations” with people on both sides of the political aisle. Whatever you think of Newsom, you have to admire his cheekiness. Recall that last December, the too-handsome-by-half politico convened the California legislature for a special session designed to “protect California values” during the second Trump term. How are those California values working out? |
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| 'Champagne Socialists' Sanders and
AOC Spotted Boarding Private Jet on 'Fighting Oligarchy' Tour Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., chartered a private jet worth up to a staggering $15,000 an hour for several West Coast stops on their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour. Sanders boarded the luxury Bombardier Challenger private jet at the Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California, on Tuesday afternoon, according to a photo captured by a source on the ground and shared exclusively with Fox News Digital. Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, whom the source also spotted boarding the private jet, spoke at their "Fighting Oligarchy" event in Bakersfield just hours earlier.  |
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| Bucks County Democrats Up to Even
More Dirty Tricks with Their Climate Lawsuit That's Going Nowhere Thomas J. Shepstone Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has become a complete joke under the current Democrat majority on the County Board of Commissioners. They’ve been pursuing a profoundly silly climate for some time now. Their Republican colleague initially went along but soon saw the light and reversed his position. Then, there were those 2024 election shenanigans the two Democrats tried to pull. Now, there’s this, courtesy of our friends and former colleagues at Energy In Depth: Bucks County commissioners may have thought they were pulling a fast one in filing a climate lawsuit against energy producers without public input last year, but a Pennsylvania judge just ripped down the curtain on their climate lawsuit stunt. |
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| Climate Myths John Stossel I guess United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres didn't think his hyping global warming risks brought him enough attention, so now he says, "The era of global boiling has arrived!" Global boiling? Give me a break. Yes, the climate is warming. We can deal with that. What annoys me is politicians, activists and media pushing hysterical myths. |
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| Trump Admin Halts New York Offshore
Wind Project, Orders Review of All Existing Biden-Era Wind Permits The Trump administration is halting construction of a massive offshore wind project being built in federal waters off the coast of New York and ordering a sprawling review of existing offshore wind permits, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. "Approval for the project was rushed through by the prior administration without sufficient analysis or consultation among the relevant agencies as relates to the potential effects from the project," Burgum wrote. He said the halt on Empire Wind will be in effect indefinitely until further review is completed to "address these serious deficiencies." |
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| New Study Finds Human CO2 Impact Too Weak to Play ‘Dominant Role’ Kenneth Richard In a new study, geology professor Dr. Wojciech Stankowski has summarized some of the reasons why the prevailing narrative that humans can drive climate change by burning more or less fossil fuels cannot be supported by the evidence. Past natural climate changes such as Greenland’s “temperature increases of up to 10°C within just 50 years” 14,700 and 11,700 years ago confirm that the modern climate change rate (just 0.05°C per decade since 1860) falls well within the range of natural variability. |
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| Tim
Walz State Employee Allegedly Caused $20K in Damage Vandalizing Teslas
– Weeks After Governor Mocked Automaker's Stock Prices A Minnesota state employee was reportedly busted for allegedly causing approximately $20,000 in damage while vandalizing Teslas – just weeks after failed vice presidential candidate and Gov. Tim Walz publicly mocked the electric car company’s falling stock. Dylan Bryan Adams, a 33-year-old fiscal policy analyst for the North Star State, was arrested on suspicion of keying multiple Teslas in Minneapolis while out walking his dog in an act of destruction caught on vehicle surveillance, according to a Minnesota-based crime watch account. [Multiple videos capture crime] |
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| Top Trump Agency Hypes Importance
of REAL ID Enforcement, Citing One Key Reason The Department of Homeland Security reveals that stopping illegal immigration is a major reason why it’s holding firm to the current May 7 REAL ID deadline despite the deadline being pushed numerous times over the course of several years. In a memo exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, the department said part of the reason REAL ID will be enforced is to prevent those in the country illegally from flying – unless they are looking to self-deport on an international flight. |
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| Social Security Launches New ID
Technology to Prevent Fraud The Social Security Administration (SSA) has rolled out “enhanced technology” to detect suspicious activity in telephone claims or banking changes. The new technology will strengthen identification verification, preventing fraud. The SSA had initially planned to roll out new identity proofing policies in March, but pushback from beneficiaries and advocates delayed it. The policies have gone through two changes so far. So, what are these ID proofing policy changes, and how will they affect you? |
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| Granddaughter of Hillary Clinton’s
‘Hero and Mentor’ Slapped with Felony Charges After Ransacking Stanford
President’s Office The granddaughter of Hillary Clinton's mentor was officially charged with felony vandalism and trespassing after she "ransacked" the Stanford University president’s office as part of an anti-Israel demonstration last year. Edelman was arrested after the office takeover last June, but the case has been in limbo for months while prosecutors decided whether to bring forth charges. Felony vandalism and conspiracy to trespass both carry potential jail sentences in California. |
Edelman has an elite left-wing pedigree |
| Nancy Pelosi Adamantly Refusing to
Step Down – Embodying the Problem with Democratic Leadership Nancy Pelosi is adamant she won’t release her grip on the Democratic Party despite their resounding defeat in 2024 and a growing chorus urging her to step down, sources tell The Post. Ex-President Joe Biden named Pelosi one of the chief architects of the move to push him aside for Kamala Harris to run at short notice, and she was instrumental in the disastrous $1 billion campaign which followed – leading the party to lose the White House, Senate and House of Representatives. |
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| ICE Arrests Columbia Student
Activist Who Endorsed Oct. 7 Attack Mohsen Mahdawi had his green card revoked by the Trump administration and was taken into custody on Monday in Burlington, Vt., where he was scheduled to take a citizenship test. Mahdawi’s attorney told the Intercept that Mahdawi was detained for his "Palestinian identity" and that he had come "to this country hoping to be free to speak about the atrocities he has witnessed." But Mahdawi, a graduate philosophy student in Columbia’s School of General Studies, has also said he "can empathize" with Hamas over the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 slaughter and has publicly called for the destruction of Israel. Last year, he honored a commander in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, a U.S.-designated terror group that participated in the attack alongside Hamas. |
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| Harvard Rejects Deal with Trump
Admin, Putting Billions in Federal Funding at Risk The school has advised its attorneys not to pursue a deal with the administration over a series of demands, several aimed at combating anti-Semitism on campus, according to an email sent Monday to faculty members from university president Alan Garber. The decision puts billions of dollars in federal funding to Harvard at risk: The Trump administration announced late last month that it was examining nearly $9 billion in grants and contracts to the school, and it froze $2.2 billion in Harvard grants just hours after Garber's announcement. |
Harvard to Trump admin. - pound sand |
| Illinois Trans Athlete Policy
Brewing Conflict Within State The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) announced it will not comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to keep trans athletes out of girls and women's sports. In a public letter to state GOP lawmakers, the IHSA said Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and the Illinois Department of Human Rights have declared that state law requires that transgender athletes be allowed to participate based on gender identity. |
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| The Liberals’ License:
How the Left Finds Release in an Age of Rage Jonathan Turley “We should replace our piece of crap Constitution.” Those words from author Elie Mystal, a regular commentator on MSNBC, are hardly surprising from someone who previously called the Constitution “trash” and urged not just the abolition of the U.S. Senate but also of “all voter registration laws.” But Mystal’s radical rhetoric is becoming mainstream on the left, as shown by his best-selling books and popular media appearances. There is a counter-constitutional movement building in law schools and across the country. And although Mystal has not advocated violence, some on the left are turning to political violence and criminal acts. It is part of the “righteous rage” that many of them see as absolving them from the basic demands not only of civility but of legality. |
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| Supreme Court Slapdown
of Judge Boasberg Sends Message to Federal Judges on Overreach Ben Whedon The Supreme Court decision reversing U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s block on President Donald Trump’s deportation of gang members under the Alien Enemies Act sent a stern message to federal judges nationwide that overreach and venue shopping won't be tolerated. The Trump administration has witnessed a record number of temporary restraining orders (TROs) against its policies, with lower-level federal judges imposing sweeping blocks on executive actions, notably those involving immigration. The Department of Justice has repeatedly urged the Supreme Court to narrow the scope of federal injunctions or to clarify the extent of lower court judges’ authority to interfere in executive branch operations. |
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| How “Tesla Takedown” Activists Fool
the Public Christopher F. Rufo and David Reaboi Last month, a wave of more than 200 protests targeting Tesla properties erupted across the United States. The media portrayed this movement, officially branded the “Tesla Takedown,” as a spontaneous grassroots backlash against CEO Elon Musk’s role in dismantling waste and fraud in the U.S. federal bureaucracy. Each of these demonstrations appears to have been sparsely attended, but both the number of protest sites and the timeline of events suggest a coordinated effort. A closer look suggests that Tesla is the latest target of an activist and organizing ecosystem that the Left has built over decades. That infrastructure manufactures, amplifies, and strategically uses protests and “direct actions” to force concessions or policy change. ...The goal is to bypass the normal channels of democratic decision-making, obtaining desired ends through minoritarian pressure campaigns. |
Hardly a grassroots movement |
| Jonathan Turley on Why the Left
Began Hating Musk David Strom By now there are a ton of reasons why the left hates Elon Musk. His role in DOGE and defunding the illicit and evil NGOs and threatening the sinecures of leftists like Stacey Abrams tops the list, but Musk turned into their Emmanuel Goldstein long before Elon hooked up with Trump. Jonathan Turley, whose current project is reclaiming free speech for all Americans, hits the nail on the head when he points out that Musk's ultimate sin in the eyes of the left was his purchase of Twitter and his release of the Twitter Files. |
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| Trump Goes Gangbusters on Coal
Power and Coal Mining to Supply AI Energy Demand JoNova In the last twenty years 770 coal turbines have been switched off in the U.S., and Donald Trump wants to turn as many back on as he can. Any moment now President Trump is expected to sign an executive order that will boost coal mining, keep old coal power stations running and restart shuttered coal plants. The word is that the U.S. government will define coal as a “mineral” which allows him to use presidential wartime authority to speed up approvals for coal mines, and to bypass environmental red tape and even prioritize exploration and mining on federal lands. |
Don't be a "wowser" |
| U.S. to Screen Immigrants’ Social
Media for ‘Antisemitism’ Dave DeCamp On Wednesday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it would begin screening the social media activity of immigrants for “antisemitism” as part of the Trump administration’s broad crackdown on pro-Palestine speech. The USCIS, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said it would start considering “aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests.” |
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| Sanctuary Cities Shielded Over 20K
Criminals, Expert Testifies Catherine Salgado Leftist sanctuary states and cities have reportedly actively thwarted arrests of 25,000 criminals between October 2022, during the open borders Biden-Harris administration, and early February 2025, just after Donald Trump took office. Democratic mayors, sheriffs, governors, and other officials from California to Illinois to Arizona have vowed to continue to protect dangerous migrant criminals, illustrating how truly sick and anti-American they are. Democrats want to use floods of illegal aliens to rig the Electoral College and Congressional apportionment in their favor. |
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| America Has a Robed Politician
Problem Frank Ricci Injunctions are hard-fought and not often won – unless, it seems, you’re trying to handcuff the Trump administration from fulfilling its constitutional duty under Article II. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s bill – the Judicial Relief Clarification Act – aims to quell the flames. He writes that these injunctions “have become a favorite tool for those seeking to obstruct Mr. Trump’s agenda,” and the numbers prove it: over two-thirds of all universal injunctions in the last 25 years targeted Trump’s first term... When unelected judges usurp the executive’s authority, they don’t balance power – they subvert it. |
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| House Passes Bill Restricting
District Court Judges from Issuing Nationwide Injunctions The House on Wednesday passed a bill restricting district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions in a move that would vastly diminish the ability of courts to block President Trump’s policies. Dubbed the No Rogue Rulings Act, the legislation from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) would limit judges to providing relief only to parties directly involved in the suit. The bill passed in an 219-213 vote. |
No Rogue Rulings Act |
| Why Government Reform May Hinge on
Ending Federal Unions Sean Higgins President Trump’s executive order ending collective bargaining for a wide swath of federal cabinet agencies and other government entities is a laudable attempt to end the failed experiment with federal government unions. Federal workers were first granted collective bargaining rights under Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, thanks to then-President Jimmy Carter. Section VII of the law, which deals with labor-management relations, states: “The President may issue an order suspending any provision of this chapter with respect to any agency, installation, or activity order, located outside the 50 States and the District of Columbia, if the President determines that the suspension is necessary in the interest of national security.” |
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| Bombshell Report Exposes Biden's
Massive Chinese Spy Cover-Up Matt Margolis  The
Biden administration has been caught red-handed prioritizing Beijing's
feelings over American national security. In a shocking revelation, we
now know that Biden officials engaged in secret discussions with
Chinese counterparts about their spy balloon before
bothering to inform the American public that our sovereignty had been
violated. According to a report from Fox News Digital, Internal State
Department documents reveal that on Feb. 1, 2023, while a Chinese
surveillance balloon was floating across our nation collecting
intelligence, Biden officials were more concerned about how exposing
this breach would affect our "relationship" with China. Seriously? |
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| DOGE Official Confirms What We've
Known All Along: Illegal Immigrants Are on Medicaid and Voting Becky Noble Democrats love to portray themselves as the compassionate ones. They just want to help people, especially the poor and downtrodden. When you ask them about illegal immigration, they will tell you that these are just poor people looking for a better life for themselves and their families. That's why they were perfectly okay with a wide-open southern border and letting millions of people into the country. It was all about compassion. However, as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to dig into the twisted story of America's finances, we are finding out that the compassion ruse is just that, another Democrat party scheme. |
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| DHS
Officials Ask IRS to Use Tax Data to Locate Up to 7 Million Immigrants Federal immigration officials are seeking to locate up to 7 million people suspected of being in the United States unlawfully by accessing confidential tax data at the Internal Revenue Service, according to six people familiar with the request, a dramatic escalation in how the Trump administration aims to use the tax system to detain and deport immigrants. Officials from the Department of Homeland Security had previously sought the IRS’s help to locate 700,000 people who are subject to final removal orders and had asked the IRS to use closely guarded taxpayer data systems to provide their names and addresses. |
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| GOP Senator Turns Tables on Dem
Narrative About Social Security and Medicare: 'Get Fraud Out of There' Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is clapping back against accusations from Democrats that Republicans are trying to make cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits for seniors. "The message to seniors is really pretty simple. We are going to strengthen Social Security. That is our goal. And one of the ways we're doing that is by rooting out waste, fraud, abuse," she told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview, saying the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been an effective tool for doing so. The senator is touting the RETIREES FIRST Act, which would raise the income bar for somebody to be required to pay federal taxes on their Social Security payouts. |
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| DOGE Uncovers Massive Unemployment
Fraud Under Biden Administration The depths of incompetence and potential fraud under the Biden administration seem to know no bounds. The DOGE team has uncovered yet another bombshell that should have every American taxpayer seeing red: the government paid out millions of dollars in unemployment benefits to people with birthdays in the future. Yes, you read that right. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt teased a "horrible" and "incredible" discovery earlier this week, and now we know why. The DOGE team's investigation into unemployment insurance claims revealed a level of absurdity that even Elon Musk had trouble believing at first. |
Happy Tax Day April 15! |
| Jasmine Crockett Faces FEC
Complaint Over ActBlue Donations A conservative group filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) over ActBlue donations that allegedly violated federal election law. The complaint, filed with the FEC late last month by the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, accuses the congresswoman’s campaign of failing to properly disclose a contributor’s identity and accepting contributions in the name of another. ActBlue, a fundraising platform used by Democrats and Democrat-aligned groups, has been under intense scrutiny in the past year over allegations of donation fraud and “straw donors.” |
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| Conservative Group Aims to
Countersue After SPLC Dragged It Through 9 Years, Demanded $200B in ‘Frivolous Lawsuit’ A conservative Christian law firm is gearing up to countersue the Southern Poverty Law Center after the left-leaning firm attempted to bankrupt it with a “frivolous lawsuit” that demanded $200 billion in damages. The SPLC represented a woman who dragged Liberty Counsel through nine years of legal purgatory, all based on a lie. The SPLC did not originally represent the woman, but joined the case after she sued Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian law firm the SPLC has branded an “anti-LGBTQ hate group.” |
A different kind of lawfare |
| Christian Nationalism Simply Means
Homesickness for America Stella Morabito “Christian nationalism” is the bad penny that keeps turning up in media propaganda. Over and over and over again. It’s an obvious trope that often conflates fascism with a very natural love of homeland. Nationalism is very connected with a sense of identity and the hardwired human need for a sense of belonging. If Americans (as well as other peoples) have more consciously embraced it, I think that’s because many have felt like displaced persons adrift in a sea of wokeness. |
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| Illinois Democrat Minimizes Violent
Acts Committed by Illegal Immigrants As Just 'a few crimes' Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García, D- Ill., appeared to dismiss illegal immigrants attacking and murdering Americans as simply "immigrants committing a few crimes" Wednesday. Garcia made his remarks at a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement hearing where he feigned surprise that Republicans were "scapegoat[ing] immigrants once again." "Republicans have lifted up some tragedies that involve immigrants committing a few crimes," Garcia said, claiming Republicans were being "dishonest and cruel." |
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| Gov't Climate Propaganda Agency
Caught Raking in Billions to Push Gov't Climate Propaganda Charlie Martin There's a common term in Washington, D.C. – "beltway bandit." A beltway bandit is any of the thousands of consulting and services firms whose essential business model is to exploit political connections to obtain government contracts. A lot of that business depends on having the customer's confidence that any reports resulting from those contracts will do two things. First, the reports will say exactly what the customer agency thinks is in their best interest, and second, that the contracting agency's goals can only be met if it receives substantially increased funding. |
USGCRP is awarded about $5 billion in the 2025 budget |
| Police Report Exposes Black
Suspect’s Motive in Fatal Stabbing of White Teen Law enforcement authorities have released the arrest report of Karmelo Anthony, the black man accused of fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf – a white college teen with a 4.0 GPA – over a seat dispute at a California track meet earlier this month. The report, released by the Frisco Police Department and shared Monday on X by journalist Sarah Fields, contradicts the left’s casting of Anthony as the real victim of the seat dispute on April 2. According to the report, Anthony threatened Metcalf before fatally stabbing. |
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| The Italian Lesson: Why Trump Needs
to Break Columbia University Ian Oxnevad In the age of Trump, Columbia University and American higher education are in crisis. That crisis is a familiar one to Italy. Today, the United States is confronting something in higher education that Italy confronted decades ago when its university system birthed an era of unrest, mayhem, murder, and terrorism in the form of the Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse). Columbia University’s commitment to race-based “diversity, equity, and inclusion” politics, ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), faculty with ties to terrorism and Iran, and its rabid anti-Semitism should all serve as warnings for what universities can produce. |
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| GOP Lawmakers Launch Investigation
Into High Ivy League Tuition Prices Top Republican lawmakers launched an investigation into Ivy League universities’ tuition costs this week, alleging potential violations of antitrust laws. Led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, the probe asks the eight universities to produce documents “regarding their apparent collusion to raise tuition prices,” a news release states. |
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| Maine Stepped in It Big Time Casey Ryan President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon have spent the past few months undoubtedly working hard to eliminate radical gender ideology from America’s schools. Despite their best efforts to ensure our academic institutions provide a proper education to students, Maine has adamantly defied them at every turn, in an apparent attempt to overtake California as the woke capital of the United States. Maine’s defiance began in February when Trump held an annual dinner for the nation’s governors. As the president discussed his executive order to prohibit men from participating in women’s sports, he called out Maine’s Democrat Gov. Janet Mills and said her state would lose federal funding if she did not comply. Mills responded that she would see Trump in court. |
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| Protecting the Playing Field: GOP Urges Governors to Take Action on Women’s Sports Brooke Singman Republican Sens. Jim Risch and Tommy Tuberville are urging governors across the country to adhere to President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep men out of women’s sports while also demanding state-level action to ensure female athletes "receive the same assurance of fairness nationwide." In February, Trump issued an executive order titled Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports and affirmed the position that the U.S. "must preserve fairness, safety, and equal opportunity for female athletes." |
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| Disney Editing Blunder: This Uighur
Concentration Camp Can Be Clearly Seen in the Background of 'Mulan' Every movie has mistakes, except The Princess Bride. But Disney made a particularly embarrassing blunder with its recent release of Mulan, which was filmed in China. During editing, the filmmakers failed to notice that a Chinese concentration camp where Uighurs are kept was left in the background of the film. Oops-a-daisy! Someone's getting reamed for this one!  |
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| Judge Boasberg Is Not My
President Don Surber The question before the court now is if the Elections Have Consequences Rule applies now or only when we have a DEI hire as president because if a president needs the permission of a judge to do his job then he is not the president; the judge and 676 other district judges are because now they are somehow empowered to stop any and all acts of the president. But the twigs are not the tree. We shall see if the justices agree. On Friday, President Trump filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of District Judge Boasberg’s unprecedented and unconstitutional order to stop enforcing immigration law, this time through the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as amended in 1918 to include females. Two years before American women got the right to vote, non-American women got the right to be tossed into prison and deported. |
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| Trump Starts Undoing
JFK’s Worst Mistake I & I Editorial Board While Democrats were busy hyperventilating over the nothingburger “Signal scandal,” President Donald Trump quietly took an action that could do more to drain the swamp – and Democratic Party finances – than any other action he’s taken to date. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order that ends collective bargaining rights for most federal workers, a move that “is a magnitude of tenfold on what they’ve done so far on their attack of the federal workforce and the labor movement,” Cathy Creighton, director of Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab, told the Washington Post. Actually, it is the first step toward righting a wrong committed by President John Kennedy in 1962 when he signed an executive order allowing federal workers the right to collectively bargain. |
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| Musk Derangement Syndrome Has Dems
Rejecting Everything They Claim to Stand For Jonathan Turley In this age of rage, it is common for people to become the very thing that they despise in others, jettisoning their most cherished values to strike out at those they hate. Since the election, Democrats have shown that very self-destructive quality of rage in adopting anti-immigrant, anti-free speech, anti-labor, and even anti-environmental positions to get at Donald Trump or his supporters. It consumes every part of a person. It is addictive, and it is contagious. What these rage addicts will not admit, however, is that they like it; they need it. |
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| 'Bad Faith' James Boasberg Too
Conflicted to Judge Trump Deport Case – Recuse Yourself, NOW! Post Editorial Board Federal Judge James Boasberg is ablaze with righteous anger, accusing the Trump administration of acting in “bad faith” over his order to stop deportation flights carrying killers, rapists and thugs to El Salvador. As is usual with the Trump-deranged, Boasberg is projecting. He’s the one acting in bad faith by taking up this case (or any other Trump-related business) at all. His daughter, Katharine Boasberg, works at a pro-crime nonprofit called Partners for Justice, which receives millions in taxpayer bucks and is headed by a leftist opponent of the Laken Riley Act (i.e., someone who wants more rape and murder by border-jumpers, not less). |
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| Judge Boasberg’s Brother Has Cushy State Department-Backed Job in Singapore The brother of Judge James Boasberg – currently the de-facto face of the judicial activism threatening to thwart the MAGA agenda – has long been a critic of President Donald Trump and previously pushed for the hiring of illegal aliens into U.S. schools. He now heads a Singaporean school promoted by the State Department. Conservative provocateur Laura Loomer exposed Saturday that Judge Boasberg’s brother, Tom Boasberg, has deep ties to the anti-Trump movement, dating back to Trump’s first term in office. Loomer suggests that this raises serious questions about the judge’s partiality as he oversees cases involving the Trump administration. |
Yes. One would wonder! |
| Chuck Grassley Lays Out Plan to
Rein in Wayward Judges Putting ‘Unnecessary Stress’ on Courts Grassley, an Iowa Republican, has introduced the Judicial Relief Clarification Act of 2025, which would place limits on federal courts by preventing them from issuing injunctions that apply to parties who are outside of the relevant case. Grassley has a large group of Republican co-sponsors but there aren't any Democrats supporting the bill yet. "When a national injunction is put in place, it affects all the other 92 district federal district courts, I should say, court districts throughout the country. It becomes national," Grassley said on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. |
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| The Cover-up of Biden's Cognitive
Decline Was Even Worse Than We Thought Matt Margolis Let’s put this into perspective, shall we? While White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor claimed that “President Biden remains a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief,” Kamala's team was maintaining spreadsheets of federal judges who could swear her in as president at a moment's notice... This isn't just about an aging president's decline; it's about a massive deception perpetrated on the American people. While Harris's team was drawing up contingency plans for scenarios ranging from pre-primary departure to death in office, the administration was gaslighting the public about Biden's capabilities. |
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| CA Fails Audit of Federal Programs,
66% of COVID Unemployment Benefits in Question California did not materially comply with the requirements for seven of the 22 federal programs the state auditor examined, including “pervasive” noncompliance in its unemployment benefits program, which could put essential federal funding at risk... “While Gavin Newsom chases the national spotlight, Californians are left with an administration that can’t accomplish the basic functions of government,” said California State Assembly Minority Leader James Gallagher to The Center Square. “The federal government is right to take a look at this spending and decide if it’s appropriate to keep throwing resources at an administration that treats it like Monopoly money.” |
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| California Funnels $18 Million Into
the Left’s Dark Money Network Under Gavin Newsom California under Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom has funneled around $18 million to the Tides Center, a dark money nonprofit that directs donor cash to various leftist projects, The Washington Free Beacon reported. The San Francisco-based Tides Center and its sister nonprofits, the Tides Foundation and Tides Advocacy, direct money to in-house projects known as “fiscal sponsorships,” alongside separate nonprofit entities. This enables Tides to cloak which projects receive the money. ... California officials told the Free Beacon that the database is missing information from some departments, meaning total payments to the Tides Center likely add up to more than $18 million. |
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| The NGO Complex Is Irredeemably
Corrupt David Strom Imagine those commercials with Sarah McLachlan music playing, with children and puppies, and the nonprofit execs pleading for just one more dollar to save one more life. It is all BS. NGOs don't exist to do the things they advertise, although they often do some of the work they say as a cover for their real purpose. That purpose is to skim off the top and employ politically connected people. Hide behind a good cause, and you can do whatever you want. Look at Gavin Newsom's 10-year plan to eradicate homelessness, almost 2 decades in and billions have been spent, thousands employed, and the homeless problem is greater because that is how you keep the money flowing. |
CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, earned $721,000 in total compensation in 2022 |
| The Feds are Hiding the Eagle Death
Data David Wojick  Imagine
there is an industry product that is killing thousands a year and the
number is growing. The government is tracking it closely, while keeping
the data secret in order to protect The Product.
Outrageous,
right? But that is exactly the case with wind power killing eagles.
Every wind-killed eagle found at an industrial wind site is quickly
reported to the federal Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Every year
each site also submits an annual kill report to FWS. None of this data
is publicly available. The FWS eagle kill data is all a big government
secret designed to protect the wind industry from public outrage. This
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| Solar Developers Battle Rural
Opposition in Ohio Where State Law Protects Local Permitting Agency In 2021, the Ohio legislature passed a law granting local entities the authority to approve or reject large renewable energy projects within their jurisdiction. Local opposition has become such a formidable force against the build-out of wind and solar that several states have passed laws limiting local authority or are considering such legislation. Ohio’s unique law, known as Senate Bill 52, has made the state a hotspot for renewable rejections by local authorities. According to the Renewable Rejection Database, a project maintained by energy journalist Robert Bryce, 789 wind and solar projects have been rejected in the U.S. since 2013. Of those projects, 197 of them, or 25% of the total, were rejected by local governments in Ohio. Only five of those projects were rejected prior to 2021. |
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| Many Democrats Deny Biden Ever Made
War on Oil, but a New Report Documents His War Effort Kevin Killough The American Energy Alliance (AEA) has been keeping a tally of actions that Congress and current administrations have taken that impact the production of oil and gas in the U.S. The report starts with President Donald Trump signing 200 executive orders, including a declaration of a national energy emergency, an end to former President Joe Biden’s pause on liquified natural gas export permits, and an order to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. The list also includes Congress passing the repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act’s methane fee and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin’s plan to review 31 regulations the Biden administration rolled out. “In just over 60 days, President Trump and Congress have already taken over 50 actions to reverse the damage. |
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| Ancient European Floods Were Much
Worse Than Anything in the Last Century JoNova All that stuff about a 1 in 100 year flood, they have no idea! It turns out the worst flood on the Rhine was not in 2024 but in 1374. On the Severn, in England the worst year for “climate change” was 250 BC. Obviously neither of them were due to man-made oil and gas. A thousand news headlines have said modern floods were unprecedented, or were 1 in 1000 year events, or were caused by “climate change” and they were all based on just 120 years of data (or less), and they were all wrong. |
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| Trump Cancels Biden Grants to
China-Tied Think Tank Behind War on Gas Stoves The first grant was worth about $5.3 million and designed to fund the Rocky Mountain Institute's pilot project retrofitting a 120-unit building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with green energy technology. Then-energy secretary Jennifer Granholm said in March 2022 the grant funding proved the Biden administration was "in an all-out sprint to beat the climate crisis" while Sen. Ed Markey (D., Mass.) said it would help protect the country "from upheaval caused by the global fossil fuel market." The second was a $1.5 million grant to fund research into the viability of electric vehicle carshare programs. The research, according to the Department of Energy, would assess business models in the United States for resilience and "equity." |
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| Shed No Tears for Fired Federal
Workers I & I Editorial Board Estimates about how many jobs have been cut so far differ. The press claims DOGE has eliminated around 100,000 federal jobs. Challenger, Gray & Christmas says 62,530 were let go in January and February. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded a net loss of only 6,700 federal jobs in February... The reason all this is such a shock to federal workers is that they assumed that their gravy train would go on forever. They don’t deserve anyone’s sympathy. |
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| The Inconvenient Truth About H-1B
Visas Americans are told that mass immigration will bring the world’s geniuses to our country. The numbers tell a different story. Hayden Ludwig President Donald Trump's mandate from the voters undoubtedly gives him wide latitude to close the border to illegal aliens, which he has done. Border crossings are down 90 percent and more illegal aliens were arrested in Trump’s first 50 days than across Joe Biden's final year in office. Now, many in the America First movement are asking, “What about reducing legal immigration?” |
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| UN Official Reappointed Despite
Accusations of Antisemitism Controversial United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese has been reappointed to the position for another three-year term. Multiple countries and organizations have condemned Albanese over her history of antisemitic remarks. However, a committee tasked by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) with reviewing complaints about Albanese was convinced by her "detailed explanations" that she was not an antisemite. "We’re talking about one of the world's most blatant legitimizers of Hamas terrorism, who says literally that Israel does not have a right to defend itself," UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer told Fox News Digital. "It's a horrible statement on the state of the UN today." |
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| Five Ways Non-Citizens With Social
Security Numbers Can Scam America Beth Brelje When Elon Musk and his DOGE colleague Antonio Gracias showed a Wisconsin audience how non-citizens get Social Security Numbers (SSNs), their presentation painted the clearest picture yet of the long-term damage former President Joe Biden’s open border policy will have on the United States. Standing in front of a huge chart, they showed how the number of SSNs issued to new non-citizens spiked in 2024. The total SSNs issued in 2021 was roughly 270,000; in 2022 it climbed to 590,000, and in 2023, there were 964,000 SSNs issued to new non-citizens. But in 2024 it more than doubled to over 2 million. |
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| Florida, Kansas Senators Intro
LEDGER Act After DOGE Uncovers $4.7 Trillion in Untraceable Treasury Payments Senators Rick Scott (R-FL) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) announced the introduction of the LEDGER Act – new bill aimed at bringing much-needed transparency and accountability to federal spending. The legislation follows a bombshell discovery by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that $4.7 trillion in U.S. Treasury payments were unmarked and untraceable. The Locating Every Disbursement in Government Expenditure Records (LEDGER) Act would require the U.S. Department of the Treasury to implement a system that tracks all government outlays and disbursements, ensuring that every tax dollar spent is clearly recorded, categorized, and available for review. |
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| Trump Shares Video of Houthi
fighters' Deaths in U.S. Strike on Yemen "They will never sink our ships again!" U.S. President Donald Trump shared a controversial video on Friday, purportedly showing the deaths of dozens of Houthi fighters following an American airstrike in Yemen. The black-and-white footage, posted on Trump's Truth Social network and other social media platforms, was captioned with the comment "oops." The video, resembling footage captured by military drones or loitering aircraft, shows several dozen human figures from a near-vertical angle. "These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack," Trump wrote in the accompanying text, using an alternate spelling for the Yemeni rebel group. |
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| Embalmers Issue Chilling Warning as
'Horrifying Fibrous Clots' Found in 27% of Covid-Vaxxed Corpses Embalmers and investigators have issued a chilling warning after uncovering new evidence regarding surging reports of “white fibrous clots” found in the corpses of people who received Covid mRMA “vaccines.” During 2024, embalmers reported that the clots were discovered in 27% of Covid-vaccinated corpses. The staggering discovery has prompted a team of experts to investigate the surging reports of “white fibrous clots.” |
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| Nashville Police Downplay Religious
and Transgender Elements of Covenant Shooting in Final Report The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) in their final report on Wednesday appeared to downplay the role that religion and gender played in the 2023 Covenant School shooting. Shooter Audrey Hale, who was born female but identified as male, fatally shot six people at a Christian school in Nashville on March 27, 2023. Three of the victims were elementary aged students. Hale was killed by police shortly after the massacre. Hale notoriously slammed white privilege, women, and Christianity in writings prior to the attack, with the shooter stating in one passage that they wanted to "kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little f*gg*ts w/your white privlages [sic]." Hale was also "hoping for a high death count." |
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| Trans Teacher Performs Sexual Dance
Inside Classroom for ‘Visibility’ A troubling video making the rounds online is the latest example of why home schooling is increasingly becoming the only option for many parents. The footage was shared on a TikTok account that has gone private and features what appears to be a man imitating a woman while dancing in a classroom. The caption identifies the man as a trans teacher and while it’s not clear who the individual is, the footage is disturbing nonetheless. “Trans teacher films a video of himself doing a s*xually suggestive drag dance in his classroom. These are the people teaching your kids,” opined the highly popular Libs of TikTok X account. |
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| Here’s
Why America Has a Home-Schooling Revolution It gets little media coverage, but the reality is that millions of American parents have given up on the public education system and joined the home-schooling movement. But there is so much more to the reason home-schooling is exploding, including the fact the on-going failure of the public schools is entirely predictable if you know the European roots of public education. [Read the Comments] |
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| Pro-life Activist Left Covered in
Blood
After Being Sucker-Punched During NYC Street Interview on Abortion  A pro-life activist in New York City was sucker-punched in the face while doing a street interview about abortion, leaving her bloodied and requiring stitches, viral video shows. Savannah Craven Antao, a 23-year-old reporter for advocacy group Live Action, was conducting a man-on-the-street interview in Harlem on Thursday, discussing the topic of Planned Parenthood with an unidentified pro-abortion New Yorker. |
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| Missouri’s Top Cop Suggests Planned
Parenthood Veering Toward Crime by Helping Minors Get Abortions Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has vowed to fight Planned Parenthood as the abortion giant argues it has the right to help minors cross state lines to obtain abortions in violation of state law. Voters narrowly approved a right to abortion access within Missouri during the November elections, though lawmakers retained the ability to restrict abortion after fetal viability. The state still requires parental consent and notification for a minor to obtain an abortion. |
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| The Foundation That’s Bankrolling
Radical Activists in Higher Ed John D. Sailer At Columbia University, the Racial Justice and Abolition Democracy Project created a curriculum to help college students imagine a “society without jails and prisons.” At Morgan State University, the Black Queer Everything initiative developed “transformative pedagogies” about “racism, inequality, and injustice.” And at UCLA, the Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses program promoted using “tribal critical race theory” to interpret precolonial history. Beyond their radical bent, these programs have one thing in common: |
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| Nurses Punished for Warning Friend
About Transgender Surgery, Criticizing 'Transgender Activists' Express the wrong view related to gender identity, even privately, in Canada's British Columbia and you may be fined $10,000 or lose your professional license and career. The silver lining: The creator of one of the most lucrative media franchises in history might help you fight back. Human rights and professional misconduct tribunals sent a chill through the Pacific Province in recent weeks through rulings against a woman who questioned her transgender friend's medical plans to resemble the opposite sex and another who expressed her fondness on a billboard for Harry Potter creator and gender-critical activist J.K. Rowling. |
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| Masked ‘Antifa’ Goons Destroy TPUSA
UC Davis Campus Event, Mass Assault Conservatives While Cops Do Nothing Campus police and the University of California, Davis, are being slammed for doing nothing to stop a mass assault against conservatives. “They stole the canopy, ripped down banners, smashed foam boards, and even tried to steal the iPad and laptop of a [TP USA student] field rep,” TPUSA reported on Thursday. “TPUSA students were shoved and had objects thrown at them – while police did nothing,” the group added in a post on X. “Only after the damage was done did law enforcement finally form a perimeter. This is the reality of free speech on campus.” |
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| Trump Admin Freezing $510 Million
in Federal Funding to Brown University The administration intends to withhold $510 million in federal funding to Brown University while it reviews the Ivy League School’s response to alleged cases of antisemitism on its Providence, R.I., campus, as well as the institution’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies, a White House official confirmed Thursday. Brown University Provost Frank Doyle told faculty and staff in an email Thursday that he was “aware” of the “troubling rumors emerging about federal action on Brown research grants” but that he had “no information to substantiate” a potentially imminent funding pause. |
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| The Nadir of the Climate
Change Movement Steven F. Hayward It is possible that the Trump Administration is going to deal the death blows to the long-running climate change hysteria and government hostility to fossil fuels, not just in the United States but around the globe. The Trump Administration has moved well beyond merely supporting increased oil and natural gas production. It has also launched steps to dismantle the foundations of anti-energy climate policy, in particular, a proposed reversal of the so-called "endangerment finding" that gave the EPA jurisdiction to regulate greenhouse gases, which were never explicitly included in any of the various Clean Air Acts passed over the last 50 years. Trump's EPA is also proposing to revise the EPA's flawed "social cost of carbon" analysis, which is used to justify costly green energy schemes. |
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| The Tide Is Turning
Against the Fantasy Economics That Prop Up Net Zero Matthew Lynn For most of the last decade, corporate leaders have insisted that the transition to a carbon-neutral economy was win-win. We would save the planet and get richer at the same time. But hold on. The Australian airline Qantas has just broken ranks, admitting that flying may soon be the preserve of only the privileged, while a wealth of research is making it clear that environmental goals have hammered the economy. In reality, bosses are starting to admit what has been obvious for some time. Net zero is making us poorer – and that means we have to rethink the way we go about reducing carbon emissions. |
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| Why Did The Atlantic’s
Goldberg Wait 13 Days to Notify Waltz About ‘Massive Security Breach’? Craig Bannister On Monday, The Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg confirmed with the Trump Administration that national security was breached by his accidental inclusion in a text message group initiated by National Security Adviser Michael Waltz – 13 days after he first suspected his inclusion was a mistake. Instead of immediately addressing the national security threat by asking Waltz if his addition to a Signal text messaging app group was a mistake, Goldberg apparently waited nearly two weeks – all the while suspecting that national security was being breached – before bothering to contact Waltz and other high-ranking officials to question his inclusion in the group. Two hours after his inquiry on Monday, the Trump Administration replied, confirming he was added to the group inadvertently. Goldberg, then, promptly published his story, titled “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans”: |
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| Trump Says He Won't 'Fire People'
Over Signal Flap President Donald Trump on Saturday made his clearest commitment to not fire anyone over an accidental leak of his administration’s plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen. “I don’t fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News' Kristen Welker. He also said that he had confidence in Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, and Pete Hegseth, his Pentagon chief. |
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| Plaintiffs Challenging Trump DEI
Order Are Playing Judicial Games Margot Cleveland A group of plaintiffs asked a federal judge on Saturday to vacate the injunction he had previously entered in their favor against the Trump Administration that halted the implementation of the president’s directives to end DEI initiatives. The plaintiffs’ move came after a federal appellate court stayed the injunction, signaling a likely reversal of the injunction on appeal and a win for Trump. This motion represents the second effort within as many weeks by litigants to game the judicial system to avoid losing to the president on appeal. The courts should refuse to play along, including in this case by denying the motion to vacate the injunction. |
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| New Dirt on Judge Boasberg Raises
More Questions Matt Margolis The district court judge who recently blocked President Donald Trump's efforts to deport illegal alien gang members attended a suspiciously partisan legal conference just months before his ruling, according to a judicial ethics report. Judge James Boasberg, who serves on the D.C. District Court, participated in what appears to be nothing more than a Democrat strategy session masquerading as a legal conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. The conference’s agenda items, “Judges in a Democracy” and “State of Democracy,” sound eerily similar to the Democrats’ tiresome 2024 campaign rhetoric about “saving democracy” – which, of course, has become the justification for their using the courts to obstruct Trump’s agenda. |
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| The Case for Removing Judge
Boasberg's Security Clearance M Dowling Mike Davis called for President Trump to remove Judge Boasberg’s security clearance. No one, not Congress or the Supreme Court, is doing anything about Boasberg. Boasberg wants those Tren de Aragua back in the country. He won’t remove the TRO because he said the domestic terrorists marked for deportation under the Alien Enemies Act are likely to win. He claims they are entitled to individual hearings and due process. Attorney Mike Davis explained that he did not have the power to do what he was doing. It’s not the proper court. Davis also presents an excellent case for removing Judge Boasberg’s security clearance. |
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| White House Office Moves to Limit Union Rights for Federal Employees The memo cites authority issued under the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act, which Trump is also using to end collective bargaining agreements with federal unions that represent agencies with national security missions, per a White House Fact Sheet. The order impacts all agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Treasury Department, Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the General Services Administration, and more. |
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| Follow the Money: Is This the Real
Reason the Left Is Freaking Out About the Department of Education? Tyler O'Neil  Judging
from the Left’s responses to President Trump’s order to wind down the
Department of Education, you might be forgiven for thinking the
president had just started World War III. These people know, of course,
that eliminating the Department of Education doesn’t actually mean
“declaring war on America’s students” or demolishing the “public
education system.” (Even school choice, which may weaken public schools
by allowing tax dollars to follow students to home schooling and other
options, will only introduce competition for public schools, not
destroy them.) President Trump didn’t order the demolishing of schools
– he ordered the Department of Education to begin the process of
turning its functions over to state education departments and to other
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| You Won’t Believe What Insanity HHS
Was Funding Catherine Salgado Do you want your taxpayer dollars funding studies on preventing pregnancy in “transgender boys” or HIV stigma in Thailand? Fortunately, Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary also considers that a waste, so he’s cutting numerous idiotic woke studies. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Trump’s new agency heads have uncovered billions of dollars of egregious fraud and waste, including the previously unknown agency whose employees lived “like kings” and the Social Security funding for 150+ year olds. Now HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is looking to streamline the massive, unwieldy, unconstitutional, and harmful federal healthcare agencies. It’s time to cure the woke mind virus. Read on for mind-blowing craziness. |
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| Trump Declassifies FBI's Russia
Investigation President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing the declassification of FBI files connected to the inquiry into his 2016 campaign's potential ties to Russia, The Hill has reported. The memorandum calls for the declassification of "all files related to Crossfire Hurricane investigation," White House staff secretary Will Scharf said, who added that "we believe that it's long past time for the American people to have a full and complete understanding of what exactly is in those files." |
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| Biden Bailout Fallout: VA Budget Bungling Led to Veterans Affairs Crisis Last Year President Joe Biden's dramatic emergency request to bail out the VA last year was rooted in massive bureaucratic bungling and resulted in Congress appropriating money that was not needed, the agency’s internal watchdog concluded. The inspector general report published Thursday confirms that a $2.9 billion supplemental request went unused because the agency failed to account for “prior-year recoveries” in its budget planning. Had the agency taken into account those recovered funds, the inspector general found, its projections “would have shown a reduced risk of a shortfall by year-end.” |
Emergency budget request was akin to a type of political extortion |
| Confirmed: Biden Was Given the
Press Questions In Advance David Strom  Imagine if the Donald Trump for President campaign demanded that questions directed at Trump were pre-scripted and that the campaign would get the right to pre-approve quotes derived from those interviews. We would hear nonstop about propaganda, suppressing the truth, First Amendment concerns, and be treated to a media freakout that would go on for days or weeks. Now look at how the same Pravda Media responded to demands by the Biden administration's demands for the same privilege: mute compliance. |
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| The Democratic Party Died but the Autopsy Results Are Being Ignored John Sexton Politico Magazine published a story today looking at the current state of the Democratic Party. The news is not good if you're a Democrat. It's not just people outside the inner circle, i.e. the base and the voters, who are angry, it's also people much closer to the action. The story picks up with a gathering to decide who should lead the DNC into the future. “How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris’ defeat?” asked MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart. Every candidate raised their hand. “That’s good,” he added. “You all pass.” Later, a DNC member asked, in reference to party positions: “Will you pledge to appoint more than one transgender person to an at-large seat?” Only one of eight contenders kept their hand down. |
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| Sweeping Trump Order Overhauls U.S. Elections, Including Citizenship Requirement President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order to overhaul elections in the U.S., including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and demanding that all ballots be received by Election Day. The order, titled "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections," stated the U.S. has failed "to enforce basic and necessary election protections" and called on states to work with federal agencies to share voter lists and prosecute election crimes. |
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| With Federal Election Looming,
Liberal Canadian PM Accused of Plagiarism While Studying at Oxford Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing allegations that he copied parts of his 1995 doctoral thesis at Oxford University without proper credit. The report comes as he's seeking election to remain the country's PM next month, when Canadian voters head to the polls on April 28. The National Post reviewed Carney’s thesis, "The Dynamic Advantage of Competition," with three university experts, who found at least 10 instances of apparent plagiarism. |
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| Youngkin Pushes to Strip Funds from
'sanctuary' Localities Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is renewing his push to end so-called "sanctuary cities" in the commonwealth by proposing a budget amendment that would strip state funding from local governments that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. The policy appears in Youngkin's proposed budget amendment presentation, which includes a requirement for local law enforcement to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. |
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| BOMBSHELL: Anti-Israel Groups in
U.S. Had Foreknowledge of October 7 Attack, Lawsuit Alleges Rick Moran A lawsuit brought by the families of victims of the October 7 attacks in Israel alleges that several pro-Hamas and anti-Israel groups in the United States aided and abetted the Hamas attack. Some groups reactivated their dormant social media accounts just prior to the attacks, according to the lawsuit. Among the groups being sued is Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), whose leader, Mahmoud Khalil, sits in an ICE detention center in Louisiana awaiting deportation. “Defendants in this case are Hamas’ propaganda arm in New York City and on the Columbia University campus,” the suit states. |
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| U.S. Halts Financial Contributions
to WTO, Trade Sources Say The Trump administration is retreating from global institutions it sees as at odds with his "America First" economic policies. It plans to quit some, such as the World Health Organization, and has cut contributions to others as part of a broad review of federal spending. The WTO has already been hobbled by a U.S. move in 2019 during Trump's first term to block new judge appointments to its top appeals court, which left its key dispute settlement system only partially functional. Washington had accused the WTO Appellate Body of judicial overreach in trade disputes. |
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| Rep. Catches NPR CEO Denying She
Read ‘Reparations’ Book She Bragged About Reading Craig Bannister At a House hearing probing why American taxpayers should have to fund the biased propaganda of her organization on Wednesday, National Public Radio (NPR) CEO Katherine Maher got called out by Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) for making a false claim. “Radical leftist @NPR CEO Katherine Maher claims she never read ‘The Case for Reparations’ Yet publicly tweeted about reading it. Was she lying then or is she lying now?” Rep. Gill asks in a social media post including a video clip of the exchange. Rep. Gill was grilling the NPR CEO about a host of her past social media posts, which exhibited blatant political bias and voiced support for controversial, far-left views, when the subject of the book came up: |
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| Las Vegas Judge Declines to Release
Suspect in Tesla ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Attack A federal magistrate judge declined Friday to immediately release the man accused of setting fires at a Tesla collision center, citing her concerns of returning him to the community without his mother’s supervision. Las Vegas Metro police arrested Paul Kim, 36, on Wednesday night on charges including arson and possessing an explosive device, the 8 News Now Investigators first reported. U.S. Marshals later took Kim into custody on federal charges. During a detention hearing Friday before Magistrate Judge Elayna Youchah, prosecutor Jacob Operskalski called Kim a “flight risk” and said the Department of Justice considered his alleged actions “domestic terrorism.” |
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| 6 Unbelievably Scammy Federal
Practices DOGE Staff Reveal in Fox Interview On Thursday evening, Elon Musk and some of his Department of Government Efficiency team sat for an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier on “Special Report.” The nerd dream team includes a former rocket scientist, a Houstonian who ran five successful businesses, and the billionaire co-founder of Airbnb. Musk said he thinks the team can cut the federal deficit by $1 trillion within 130 days. He and the other DOGE engineers gave some eye-popping examples of how scam-ridden federal programs have become. |
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| Another
Day, Another Lefty Scam Organization Exposed Lawrence Person The ongoing DOGE revelations prove that leftists feel absolutely no compunction about stealing money from taxpayers. Given that, and the revelations of where all those #BlackLivesMatter dollars ended up, perhaps it’s not surpirsing that more and more obviously feel no compunction about stealing from their own organizations. |
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| Report Warns of Major Wireless Shortfall by 2027, $1T+ in Costs A Thursday report from IT consulting firm Accenture, commissioned by wireless trade association CTIA, warns of a projected spectrum shortfall that could see demand overwhelm existing infrastructure by next year and cause substantial outages by 2027. "The U.S. faces a spectrum crisis, with long-term negative implications for U.S. economic growth. Rising demand on networks and constrained supply is pushing networks to their limit," the executive summary opened. "By 2027, the U.S. is expected to face a critical spectrum deficit, where the available spectrum will not be able to support connectivity demand in high-traffic areas during peak hours." |
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| CA Lost 173K Private Jobs, Added 181K Government, Largely Part-Time Jobs California has lost 173,000 fully private sector jobs since January 2023, offset by a gain of 181,100 largely part-time government and government-supported jobs. Thirty-eight percent of these new government and government-supported jobs are from elderly or disabled individuals using state funds to pay household members and others minimum wage for part-time care and assistance. The report also found that while hourly wages are up, average hours worked are down, suggesting employers are cutting hours to reduce labor costs, such as those imposed by the state’s sector-based minimum wages. |
Way to go, Gavin! |
| NJ Gov. Hopeful Defends Nation of
Islam After Video Surfaces of Him Applauding Violent Rhetoric by Louis Farrakhan New Jersey gubernatorial candidate and Newark mayor Ras Baraka (D.) defended the Nation of Islam and accused critics of trying to silence him after a video surfaced showing him applauding racist and violent comments from Louis Farrakhan, the group’s notorious anti-Semitic leader. While serving as Newark’s deputy mayor in 2004, Baraka hosted Farrakhan to celebrate the first day of Kwanzaa. The Nation of Islam minister encouraged the mostly black audience to "break his neck" if "the cracker hit you on the jaw," called white people "the devil," and praised Baraka’s father. Baraka, for his part, called Farrakhan a "role model" whose teachings helped him "become a man" as a college student. |
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| Black City Official Charged with
Putting a Noose on Her Own Desk and Faking a “Hate Crime”  A
black city official in Pennsylvania is charged with faking a racist
threat that triggered outrage from activists and a response from the
FBI. Allentown, Pennsylvania school board member LaTarsha Brown
allegedly planned[sic] a small noose on her own desk in Allentown’s
City Hall in January before telling authorities she was targeted,
police said Monday in a press release Brown previously filed workplace
discrimination claims against City Hall but now faces possible jail
time over the noose incident, which prompted cries of rampant bigotry
from figures such as Democratic city council member Ce-Ce Gerlach,
local media reported. |
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| Why Libs Should Want to Shut Down
the Department of Education Don Surber President Trump’s destruction of the federal Department of Education is overdue because the states, not the president, should decide education policy. Once the federal DOE is gone, we should get rid of the state DOE’s and let local school boards set the policies. Once the state DOEs are gone, we should have a beer and chill. Of course there is too much money involved for this to happen. The money does not go to the classrooms but to six-figure school superintendents, contractors, union featherbedding, bureaucratic featherbedding and the like. Education is the perfect place for scoundrels because no one follows the money and any proposal not to increase spending by at least the rate of inflation is reported by the media as anti-education. Hamas terrorists hide behind children. So do the educrats. |
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| Cornell Reinstates DEI Hiring
Statement After Temporary Removal Micaiah Bilger – Assistant Editor College Fix As it turns out, Cornell University is not ending its commitment to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in its hiring practices. On Friday, the Ivy League institution added back DEI language to its Equal Education and Employment Opportunity Statement after removing it earlier this month, The Cornell Daily Sun reports. A university spokesperson said the removal of the DEI language was a “clerical error.” |
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| University of Michigan Ends DEI
Office, Cracks Down On $250M DEI Campaign After String of Controversies The University of Michigan has announced significant cuts to its $250 million Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, including abolishing its DEI office, following a string of controversies surrounding the school’s promotion of the ideology. The university announced on Thursday that it would immediately shutter its “Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion” and end the “DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan.” The school administration will now “shift resources to increase investments in student-facing programs, such as financial aid, mental health resources, pre-professional counseling and other efforts.” |
Watch this doesn’t return under a different guise! |
| House Passes DETERRENT Act to Boost
Transparency on Foreign Funding in Higher Education The House of Representatives passed legislation on March 27 that would require American colleges and universities to disclose all foreign gifts and contracts from countries of concern, as part of an effort to increase transparency and curb foreign influence in U.S. higher education. The bill, H.R. 1048 – formally titled the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (DETERRENT) Act – passed on a bipartisan 241–169 vote. |
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| U. Washington Affirms Commitment to
Ending Antisemitism After Trump Warning The University of Washington, following a year-long surge of anti-Israel protests on campus, reaffirmed its commitment to protecting the Jewish community in response to a recent warning letter from the Trump administration. The public university was one of 60 that received letters from the U.S. Department of Education this month, warning that the federal government could pull their funding if they “do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus.” |
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| Trump Pauses Federal Funds for
Planned Parenthood The Trump administration is reportedly pausing millions in federal funding for Planned Parenthood, essentially defunding the abortion giant, while it reviews whether any of the money was spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were set to receive approximately $120 million this year, with the money earmarked for pregnancy testing, evaluation, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infertility counseling, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the move Tuesday. |
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| Colorado State University paid
Women’s March Organizer Linda Sarsour $7,000 for Speaking Engagement Colorado State University paid Linda Sarsour, a controversial anti-Israel activist who has been accused of anti-Semitism, $7,000 for a 2024 speaking engagement, a document obtained by Campus Reform shows. The university paid the $7,000 to Sarsour to be the keynote speaker for an April 3, 2024 speaking engagement, as shown in a university contract obtained by Campus Reform. |
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