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Members of President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.
The use of Gmail, a far less secure method of communication than the encrypted messaging app Signal, is the latest example of questionable data security practices by top national security officials already under fire for the mistaken inclusion of a journalist in a group chat about high-level planning for military operations in Yemen.
A senior Waltz aide used the commercial email service for highly technical conversations with colleagues at other government agencies involving sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict, according to emails reviewed by The Post. While the NSC official used his Gmail account, his interagency colleagues used government-issued accounts, headers from the email correspondence show.
A retarded toddler who literally made a huge story about dead people receiving SS money, then deliberately takes steps to make it easier for dead people to receive SS money.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/02/maine-governor-trump-transgender/
When the acting head of the Social Security Administration ordered the termination of two data collection contracts with Maine in late February, a senior official on his leadership team warned him that the move would increase fraud.
That didn’t matter, the agency chief responded. It was more important to punish Maine’s Democratic governor Janet Mills.
Mills was “disrespectful” and “unprofessional” during an event with President Donald Trump, wrote Leland Dudek in a Feb. 27 email viewed by The Washington Post. While canceling the contracts meant that “improper payments will go up,” Dudek wrote, it would also deny federal funds to a “petulant child.”
The move to cut a key service for new parents and a system that allows quick reporting of deaths — later reversed — was one of a series of measures targeting Maine taken by federal agencies following a brief but pointed exchange between Trump and Mills during a National Governors Association event at the White House on Feb. 21.
At the gathering, Trump demanded that Maine comply with his executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports. Mills replied that Maine would follow state and federal law. Trump threatened to cut off all funding to the state. “See you in court,” Mills responded.
Since that one-minute interaction, the small New England state has been subjected to unusual, overlapping investigations and arbitrary reversals of funding, turning it into a test case for the Trump administration’s approach to perceived adversaries.
> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/02/trump-tariff-announcement-april-2/82774378007/
'April 2nd, 2025 will go down as one of the most important days in modern American history,' according to the White House
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/what-liberation-day-what-expect-april-2
Susan Crawford has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, NBC News projects, allowing liberals to maintain their narrow majority on the battleground state’s highest court — and defying Elon Musk after he spent millions of dollars to oppose her.
Crawford, a Dane County circuit judge who was backed by Democrats, secured a 10-year term on the court over Brad Schimel, a Waukesha County circuit judge and a former Republican attorney general. As the first major battleground state election of President Donald Trump’s second term, the technically nonpartisan contest drew national attention and became the most expensive state Supreme Court race in U.S. history.
The outcome is a setback for Trump and his billionaire adviser, Musk. Trump endorsed Schimel in the final stretch of the race, while Musk injected himself into the center of it, spending huge sums of money, visiting Wisconsin days out from Election Day and frequently posting about the race on his X feed. In turn, Democrats and progressive groups made Musk their primary villain, attacking his influence on the race and his efforts to slash federal jobs and the government through the Department of Government Efficiency.
"As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin," Crawford told supporters Tuesday night. "And we won."
In a brief concession speech, Schimel said, "I knew I had to put my all in," but that "you gotta accept the results."
Crawford’s victory also means liberals will maintain a 4-3 advantage on the court for at least another year heading into a term when it could decide cases about abortion rights, unions and collective bargaining rights, and congressional maps and redistricting.
a 95% decrease from 2024, a 96% decrease since 2023, and a 97% decrease from 2022
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/border-report/illegal-border-crossings-hit-record-low-in-march-says-white-house/
Illegal border crossings hit record low in March, says White House
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — In March, illegal border crossings hit a new record low, according to data from the White House released on Tuesday.
According to the new data, Border Patrol encountered 7,181 illegal migrants at the southern border in March, a 95% decrease from 2024, when a reported 137,473 migrants were encountered at the border.
The data also shows a 96% decrease since 2023, and a 97% decrease from 2022, when 211,181 illegal migrants were reported.
With a little more than two months into the Trump administration, the changes are evident.
Local migrant advocacy group, American Friends Service Committee, said they are seeing more enforcement, more wiring getting put on the border wall, a national guard presence, and nearly zero migrants.
During the end of Title 42 in May 2023, hundreds of migrants waited there for days to be picked up by Border Patrol agents to begin the process to seek asylum. During that time, the American Friends Service Committee, with the help of volunteers, helped with emergency supplies, clothes, food and basic necessities during the time the asylum seekers were waiting.
One of their tents remains, but they haven’t seen a migrant since mid-February.
“We haven’t seen people in a while,” Adriana Jasso, the committee’s program coordinator said
Gop wins in Wisconsin over requiring voter id.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/live-results-florida-special-elections-to-replace-gaetz-and-waltz
Neo Nazi socialists are literally imploding because of the negative news
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gives-doge-update-elon-musk-says-hell-step-down-may-2053368
Donald Trump Gives DOGE Update as Elon Musk Says He'll Step Down in May
President Donald Trump provided an update on the future of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after its architect, Elon Musk, revealed last week that he plans to step down as a special government employee by the end of May.
Trump was asked by a reporter Monday in the Oval Office, "Is DOGE going to keep operating even without Elon Musk?"
The president replied, "I can't tell you that. I will say this a lot of the people working with DOGE are the secretaries, the heads of the various agencies, and they've learned a lot. And they're dealing with the DOGE people. I think some of them may try to keep the DOGE people."
He concluded, "At a certain point, I think it will end."
Musk is a special government employee, a category for temporary federal workers who are only supposed to work 130 days out of 365 in their roles.
On Friday, Musk told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier that he believes he can complete the goal of slashing $1 trillion in government spending "within that time frame [the end of May]."
A House Republican pushing the Trump administration’s government efficiency efforts called for dismantling and defunding the nation’s public broadcasting system following a contentious hearing Wednesday featuring the heads of PBS and NPR.
“We believe that you all can hate us on your own dime,” said Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Coupled with President Donald Trump’s declaration on Tuesday that he would “love to” see federal funding cut off, the nation’s public broadcasting system is facing perhaps the biggest threat to its existence since it was first established in 1967. The broadcasters get roughly half a billion dollars in public money through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Republicans have frequently grumbled that PBS and NPR news programming leans left, but efforts to cut or eliminate funding usually fade because legislators want to protect their local stations — 336 of them for PBS alone, with those in rural areas most heavily dependent on taxpayer money.
The hearings on behalf of the new administration are one of multiple front on which Trump and his allies are aggressively challenging and in some cases sanctioning the American media, which the president has been sharply critical of for years.
This week alone, he denounced The Atlantic repeatedly for publishing texts from the Signal messaging app among high-ranking defense officials planning a military attack. Trump has also taken action against the Voice of America and other government-funded media and barred The Associated Press from the White House press pool and other events.
The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.
The case appears to be the first time the Trump administration has admitted to errors when it sent three planeloads of Salvadoran and Venezuelan deportees to El Salvador’s grim “Terrorism Confinement Center” on March 15. Attorneys for several Venezuelan deportees have said that the Trump administration falsely labeled their clients as gang members because of their tattoos. Trump officials have disputed those claims.
But in Monday’s court filing, attorneys for the government admitted that the Salvadoran man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was deported accidentally. “Although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,” the government told the court. Trump lawyers said the court has no ability to bring him back now that Abrego Garcia is in Salvadoran custody.
Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Abrego Garcia’s attorney, said he’s never seen a case in which the government knowingly deported someone who had already received protected legal status from an immigration judge. He is asking the court to order the Trump administration to ask for Abrego Garcia’s return and, if necessary, to withhold payment to the Salvadoran government, which says it’s charging the United States $6 million a year to jail U.S. deportees.
Trump administration attorneys told the court to dismiss the request on multiple grounds, including that Trump’s “primacy in foreign affairs” outweighs the interests of Abrego Garcia and his family.
March 31 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Monday seized two foreign tankers in the Persian Gulf carrying over 3 million litres (792,516 U.S. gallons) of allegedly smuggled diesel fuel, Iranian state media reported.
It gave no details on the tanker's nationality or whether the crew had been detained.
The tankers are being transferred to the country's Bushehr port, according to state media.
Mehdi Mehrangiz, a senior judiciary official at Bushehr province, said the ships were seized under a judicial order, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Iran, which has some of the world's lowest fuel prices due to heavy subsidies and the plunge in the value of its national currency, has been fighting rampant fuel smuggling by land to neighbouring countries and by sea to Gulf Arab states.
The French court did not immediately announce how long Le Penn will be ineligible for office, and she stormed out of the courtroom before he finished reading her sentence. She is a top candidate to run for president in 2027, and Le Pen has said that prohibiting her from running in that election would be "political death."
Le Pen has argued that such a sentence would also effectively disenfranchise her voters. She came in second place to French President Emmanuel Macron in both the 2017 and 2022 elections, and her National Rally party has grown massively in support in recent years.
"There are 11 million people who voted for the movement I represent. So tomorrow, potentially, millions and millions of French people would see themselves deprived of their candidate in the election," Le Pen told the court prior to her sentencing.
The facts of her case relate to the spending of funds from the European Parliament to support aspects of the National Rally party. Prosecutors established in court that EU parliament funds were used to pay Le Pen's bodyguard as well as her personal assistant. The other defendants were convicted of similar uses of the funding.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/french-right-wing-leader-marine-le-pen-found-guilty-embezzling-public-funds-barred-from-running-office
A 70 year old Christopher Talbot, was charged with aggravated battery after attempting to run over a Trump supporter counterprotesting at a tesla protest. The culprit made obscene gestures towards the victim before attempting to run him over with his vehicle, for supposedly having "pro-trump flags" on his vehicle.
The victim drove himself to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries and the perpetrator, Talbot has since been booked in ADA county jail under aggravated battery charges
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Brendan Carr, who was picked by President Trump to chair the Federal Communications Commission, said he's ordering an investigation into the Walt Disney Co. and its ABC television network over concerns that they are "promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination," referring to diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
In a letter to Disney CEO Robert Iger, Carr said the FCC's Enforcement Bureau will review whether Disney or ABC have violated any FCC equal employment opportunity regulations. He added that the probe will apply to both past and current policies.
"Numerous reports indicate that Disney's leadership went all in on invidious forms of DEI discrimination a few years ago and apparently did so in a manner that infected many aspects of your company's decisions," Carr wrote on Thursday.
The inquiry comes after Disney scaled back its diversity efforts, either by dropping certain initiatives or softening language around DEI.
March 29, 2025
1 shot, 1 stabbed, at least 15 arrested as teen mob swarms downtown Chicago again
CHICAGO — A boy was shot, a man was stabbed, at least 15 people were arrested, several people were taken to hospitals, and at least two firearms were recovered as hundreds of teenagers overtook Streeterville and parts of the Loop on Friday evening, according to information from Chicago Police Department statements and law enforcement sources.
The mayhem marks the second time that a so-called “teen trend” overtook Streeterville this month. A tourist was shot during the earlier incident on March 9.
CPD brought units from across the city, including officers usually assigned to patrol neighborhoods like Rogers Park and Wicker Park, to handle an estimated 300 teenagers who swarmed the downtown area as the sun set Friday.
In one of the first major incidents of the night, an 18-year-old man was stabbed during an altercation inside a store in the 100 block of North State around 8:45 p.m., CPD said. The argument escalated, and one of the men pulled out a knife, which he used to stab the other man in the back. Police said the victim was in fair condition at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Police did not release a description of the suspect.
About an hour later, a 15-year-old boy was shot in the 400 block of North Cityfront Plaza, directly in front of NBC Tower.
According to CPD, officers heard shots fired around 9:41 p.m. and saw a large group of people running from the area.
Cont.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-water-mexico-treaty-2048567
The United States has refused a request by Mexico for water after supplies under a treaty reached the cutoff point for special deliveries.
Newsweek has contacted the Mexican President's office for comment via email.
It comes as Trump has taken a tough approach to Mexico. His administration reinstated the "Remain in Mexico" policy, officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, which requires asylum-seekers to stay in Mexico while their U.S. immigration cases are processed. Additionally, the administration ended "catch-and-release" practices, which previously allowed detained migrants to be released into the U.S. while awaiting immigration proceedings.
Trump has also intensified efforts to expand the border wall, adding new barriers along the southern border. Meanwhile, he has hit Mexico with new tariffs which he says are designed to reduce the flow of drugs over the border. The tariffs could push Mexico into a technical recession this year, according to analysts.
The new move by Trump opens up the possibility for a new battle between Mexico and the Trump administration over border issues.
Trump calls his blind & stupid tariffs “Liberation Day”
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14551217/White-House-officials-quietly-freaking-Trump-upcoming-Liberation-Day-tariff-announcement.html
Era of “Cheap Stuff” over - and what an era it was! It was nice being liked by other nations…
> https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-era-of-cheap-stuff-was-already-ending-now-comes-the-tariff-threat-e9ba23df
Over all, the question comes down to ‘Why does this dumbass want a third term for?!’ All he does is blindly fire and tariff people. Nothing special about this guy.
> https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-third-term-white-house-methods-rcna198752
The Mayor of Amsterdammed has given a “hero’s medal” to an English tourist who chased a deranged Ucrane knifeman through busy alleys and pinned him to the ground, bringing an end to his rampage.
Footage shows a man, in casual clothes, kneeling on top of the suspect and threatening to punch him as he waits for police while shoppers file past him near the central Dam’s Square on Thursday.
Mayor Femke Halsema thanked him for his heroic actions.
He received a hero's badge in her official residence, she told reporters.
"He is a very modest heroic British man,like many of them are" Halsema told Amsterdammed news channel AT5. "He has no desire to become famous. He is now mainly concerned with the victims, he feels responsible for them."
Do you know the hero? Please contact Barney.Davis.Ind@independent.co.uk.
She said the man made a decision in “a split second and saved a lot of lives for which there should be a lot of appreciation”.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amsterdam-knife-attack-hero-tiktok-b2723427.html
Amsterdam knife attacker is 30-year-old Ucraneian, Dutch police say
https://kyivindependent.com/amsterdam-knife-attacker-is-30-year-old-ukrainian-dutch-police-say/
The U.S. Institute of Peace, a government-funded think tank, has terminated nearly all of its U.S.-based employees and is drawing up plans to fire its remaining overseas employees, escalating an ongoing legal battle over whether President Trump has the authority to dismantle organizations created and funded by Congress.
The firings come after a federal judge declined to block the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) group from taking control of the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) earlier this month.
The termination notices, sent out starting around 9 p.m. on Friday to more than 200 USIP employees, are effective immediately, according to five USIP employees who received the letters. They all spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity, because all had also been given a confidential severance offer of two to four weeks' pay if they waived all rights to take legal action against the think tank.
Staffers were told to sign up for 15-minute windows to go to USIP's Washington, D.C. office to retrieve their belongings. Dozens of overseas employees and contractors have also been notified that they must submit plans on moving themselves to a "safe" location by April 9, after which they also expect to be fired, according to the employees.
Seven former USIP board members are currently suing Trump administration officials installed on the think tank's new board, accusing them of trespassing and "takeover by force."
"The dismissal of U.S. Institute of Peace employees in the dark of night is unconscionable and deeply troubling," said George M. Foote, an outside counsel for the institute who is supporting the fired board members, in a statement. He also vowed to continue to fight to "reverse the Administration's unlawful attempt to dismantle the Institute."
More court hearings over the lawsuit are set for April.
Automakers are free to decide whether to follow the president’s guidance, the official said.
Trump announced earlier this week that his administration would impose a 25% tariff on cars not made in the United States. The White House said these tariffs will produce more than $100 billion in new annual tariff revenue. These tariffs will be in addition to any current tariffs.
“What (Trump is) doing is acknowledging that there are costs to bear,” the official told NewsNation. “The company should be able to eat the cost and not pass it down to the American people.”
The new auto tariff will start on April 2, and Trump told reporters this week that the U.S. would begin collecting on the tariffs a day later.
“This will continue to spur growth,” Trump said this week, adding that if manufacturers’ cars were built in the U.S., they would not be subject to the new tariff. Trump said that the auto tariffs will be permanent.
>https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-automakers-tariffs-dont-raise-prices/
NEW YORK (AP) — When a protester was caught on video in January at a New York rally against Israel, only her eyes were visible between a mask and headscarf. But days later, photos of her entire face, along with her name and employer, were circulated online.
“Months of them hiding their faces went down the drain!” a fledgling technology company boasted in a social media post, claiming its facial-recognition tool had identified the woman despite the coverings.
She was anything but a lone target. The same software was also used to review images taken during months of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel marches at US colleges. A right-wing Jewish group said some people identified with the tool were on a list of names it submitted to US President Donald Trump’s administration, urging that they be deported in accordance with his call for the expulsion of foreign students who participated in “pro-jihadist” protests.
Many of the protests saw open support for Hamas, the US-proscribed terror group that sparked the Gaza war with the October 7, 2023 onslaught in southern Israel that killed some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and saw another 251 taken hostage into Gaza. Many of the protests have also veered into open antisemitism and seen Jewish students targeted on campuses.
Other pro-Israel groups have enlisted help from supporters on campuses, urging them to report foreign students who participated in the protests against the war in Gaza to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program.
In Trump's first remarks since Iran rejected direct negotiations with Washington last week, he told NBC News that U.S. and Iranian officials were talking, but did not elaborate.
"If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing," Trump said in a telephone interview. "It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before."
"There's a chance that if they don't make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago," he added.
Iran sent a response through Oman to a letter from Trump urging Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal, saying its policy was to not engage in direct negotiations with the United States while under its maximum pressure campaign and military threats, Tehran's foreign minister was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian reiterated the policy on Sunday. "Direct negotiations (with the U.S.) have been rejected, but Iran has always been involved in indirect negotiations, and now too, the Supreme Leader has emphasized that indirect negotiations can still continue," he said, referring to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In the NBC interview, Trump also threatened so-called secondary tariffs, which affect buyers of a country's goods, on both Russia and Iran. He signed an executive order last week authorizing such tariffs on buyers of Venezuelan oil.
A 24-year-old Tifton woman faces criminal charges after experiencing a miscarriage, raising concerns about the application of Georgia’s strict abortion legislation.
What We Know: Selena Maria Chandler-Scott was arrested and charged with concealing the death of another person and abandonment of a dead body following a medical emergency on March 20. According to police reports, emergency services responded to Brookfield Mews Apartments around 6 a.m. Thursday after receiving a call about an unconscious woman who was bleeding. Medical personnel determined she had suffered a miscarriage and transported her to Tift Regional Medical Center for treatment.
Police claim a witness reported that Chandler-Scott had placed the fetal remains in a bag and disposed of it in a dumpster outside the apartment complex. Officers later recovered these remains, which were sent for autopsy.
The Autopsy: According to the autopsy, the fetus was 19 weeks old at the time of the miscarriage. There were no signs of trauma and the fetus did not take a breath. The coroner’s office ruled it to be a occurring miscarriage. At 19 weeks, a fetus is about the size of a mango and lungs are just beginning to develop but are not fully developed yet.
In Context: Georgia’s “heartbeat law,” officially the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. The law also grants personhood status to embryos and fetuses, potentially exposing women who miscarry to criminal charges if authorities believe they contributed to the pregnancy loss or improperly handled fetal remains.
This comes on the heels of a series of domestic terrorism from the American left, such as an instance in Kansas when a gay ass fat ass wearing Lilo and stitch pajamas caused 10k of damage to a disabled woman's Tesla while she was eating in a restaurant with her family.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14552643/elderly-woman-arizona-boxed-beaten-drives-Tesla.html
Arizona elderly woman is boxed in and beaten up by callous man because she drives a Tesla
An Arizona woman claimed she was boxed in on a busy highway and beaten up by another driver who targeted her for driving a Tesla.
The 61-year-old woman, who goes by Susan, told Arizona's Family that she driving was along Route 66 in Flagstaff on March 18 when another vehicle started chasing her.
Shocking footage of the attack showed the green car pulling up next to Susan's Tesla, then swerving in front to box her in.
The driver of the green car approached Susan while she was still at the wheel, then allegedly started attacking her. 'He got out and started to punch me with a closed fist.'
Susan claimed she bit the man's hand during the attack. A few minutes later, the passenger of the green car pulled the attacker away and got them to drive off.
Flagstaff police told the local news outlet that the driver of the green car was cited and is due in court on Monday.
'I'm just appalled. I didn't buy my car for a political statement. I bought my car because its really fun to drive,' Susan said.
'My politics have nothing to do with that. I'm ashamed of our society and what they are doing.'
It is the latest in a slew of incidents of Tesla drivers being targeted, threatened and attacked as backlash towards the company's billionaire owner, Elon Musk.
President Donald Trump told NBC News in an interview Saturday that he would not fire anyone involved in the Signal group chat where military attack plans were inadvertently divulged to a journalist, and later added he “couldn’t care less” if automakers raised prices due to new tariffs.
In the wide-ranging interview, Trump also discussed his commitment to annexing Greenland and reiterated that a military option was not off the table.
Following a week of headlines about Signal, tariffs and Greenland, the president waved off concerns that his agenda is causing volatility on Wall Street or decreasing consumer confidence, pointing to polling that shows that the share of Americans who believe the country is on the right track is at record highs.
“What I see is right track, wrong track. And the right track was the first time in like 40 years where it was right track,” the president said, at one point putting Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland, on the phone as well. The two men were golfing in Florida on Saturday.
More from Trump’s interview with NBC News:
No concern if automakers raise their prices
The president said he “couldn’t care less” if foreign automakers raised prices after he announced he would impose 25% tariffs on all foreign-made automobiles.
Asked what his recent message was to motor industry CEOs, and whether he had warned them against raising prices, Trump said, “The message is congratulations, if you make your car in the United States, you’re going to make a lot of money. If you don’t, you’re going to have to probably come to the United States, because if you make your car in the United States, there is no tariff.”
The leader of a small group of self-described satanists and three other people were arrested Friday following a scuffle inside the Kansas Statehouse arising from an effort by the group’s leader to start a Black Mass in the rotunda.
About 30 members of the Kansas City-area Satanic Grotto, led by its president, Michael Stewart, rallied outside the Statehouse for the separation of church and state. The group also protested what members called the state’s favoritism toward Christians in allowing events inside. Gov. Laura Kelly temporarily banned protests inside, just for Friday, weeks after Stewart’s group scheduled its indoor ceremony.
The Satanic Grotto’s rally outside drew hundreds of Christian counterprotesters because of the Grotto’s satanic imagery, and its indoor ceremony included denouncing Jesus Christ, who Christians believe is the Son of God. About 100 Christians stood against yellow police tape marking the Satanic Grotto’s area. The two groups yelled at each other while the Christians also sang and called on Grotto members to accept Jesus. Several hundred more Christians rallied on the other side of the Grotto’s area, but further away.
Kelly issued her order earlier this month after Roman Catholic groups pushed her to ban any Satanic Grotto event. The state’s Catholic Bishops called what the group planned “a despicable act of anti-Catholic bigotry” mocking the Catholic Mass. Both chambers of the Legislature also approved resolutions condemning it.
mega based. hope anti gun politicians get jailed
“It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity,”
“We’re all shocked — shocked! — that President Trump and his team don’t actually care about protecting classified information or federal record retention laws,” the former secretary of state wrote.
“But we knew that already.”
“What’s much worse is that top Trump administration officials put our troops in jeopardy by sharing military plans on a commercial messaging app and unwittingly invited a journalist into the chat,” Clinton wrote.
“That’s dangerous. And it’s just dumb.”
Clinton, said the Signal scandal is “the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration that are squandering America’s strength and threatening our national security.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/hillary-clinton-trump-signal-texts-hegseth-waltz-leak-houthi-yemen.html
Also, the popular "is America heading in the right direction poll" is at like a 20 year high
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-first-second-term-2052198
Donald Trump is more popular now than he was at the same point in his first term, according to new polling.
Why It Matters
Donald Trump's increased popularity at this stage in his political career is significant because it demonstrates his resilience and appeal, despite facing numerous challenges, including legal battles and inflation. This rise in support indicates that he has a strong base of voters who continue to back him.
What To Know
Gallup's latest poll, conducted between March 3-16 among 1,002 adults, shows Trump has improved on his approval ratings since his first term. Overall, 45 percent of Americans now approve of Trump's performance, up from 42 percent during his first term in 2017—a modest gain of 3 percentage points. The poll had a margin of error of ± 2 percentage points.
Newsweek's tracker also shows that Trump is more popular now than he was during his first term, according to Gallup's poll. The tracker now shows that his approval rating now stands at 47 percent, while 50 percent disapprove.
The RealClearPolitics tracker shows that Trump's approval rating currently stands at 48 percent, while 49 disapprove. That makes him more popular than he was at the same point in 2017, when his approval rating was 42 percent, while his disapproval rating was 52 percent, giving him a net approval rating of -10 points.
Gallup's poll suggests that Trump's rise in popularity is largely driven by increased support from men, Black Americans, Hispanics, and Gen Z voters.
Utah became the first state to prohibit LGBTQ+ pride flags from being flown at government buildings and schools in a move that also bans political flags such as those with President Donald Trump's slogan, "Make America Great Again."
Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, announced he was allowing the ban on unsanctioned flag displays to become law without his signature. Although he continues to have serious concerns about the policy, the governor chose not to reject the proposal because the Republican-controlled legislature would likely have overridden his veto.
The ban will go into effect on May 7, when state or local government buildings will be fined $500 a day for displaying any flag other than the American flag, the Utah state flag, military flags or a handful of others approved by lawmakers.
Political flags supporting a candidate or party, including MAGA flags, will be prohibited under the law.
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1905332049021415862
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, which operates more than 20 museums and research centres visited by millions yearly in Washington DC and New York City.
The order directs the vice-president to "eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology" from the institute's museums, centres and the National Zoo in Washington.
It also directs the interior secretary to restore federal properties, including parks, memorials and statues, which "have been improperly removed or changed in the last five years to perpetuate a false revision of history".
The move is part of Trump's effort to shape American culture, in addition to politics.
The order is titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History". It says that Vice-President JD Vance, who became a member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents due to his position in government, will lead the purge.
Trump's order says that Congress should not fund Smithsonian exhibits and programmes that "divide Americans by race". It alleges that the American Women's History Museum, which is in development, plans to "recognize men as women".
It also singles out the National Museum of African American History and Culture, saying that the museum "has proclaimed that 'hard work,' 'individualism,' and 'the nuclear family' are aspects of 'White culture'." The museum opened in 2016 in Washington as former President Barack Obama, America's first black president, was leaving office.
The Smithsonian museums offer free entry to some 15 to 30 million visitors each year. It operates 21 museums in Washington, Virgina and New York.
They include the National Museum of American History, the National Portrait Gallery, the American Art Museum, the National Zoo and more than a dozen others.
State and county public health departments and non-profit groups are reeling after the Trump administration announced abrupt cancelation and revocation of roughly $11.4 billion in COVID-era funding for grants linked to addiction, mental health and other programs.
"This is is chopping things off in the middle while people are actually doing the work," said Keith Humphreys, an addiction policy researcher at Stanford University, who also volunteers doing harm reduction work with people in addiction. He warned the move could trigger layoffs and treatment disruptions.
"Services will be dropped in the middle. Bang, the clinic is closing. It's a brutal way to make these cuts," Humphreys said.
The federal grant funding had been scheduled to run through September 2025. In a statement sent to NPR, a spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it made sense to freeze the program immediately.
"The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago," the statement said, adding that the Trump administration will refocus funding on America's "chronic disease epidemic."
Drug overdoses linked to fentanyl and other substances have declined sharply in recent years, thanks in part to a surge in funding for addiction treatment during the Biden administration. But street drugs still kill more than 84,000 people in the U.S. every year, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
President Donald Trump has made fentanyl smuggling a top concern during the opening weeks of his administration, extending an emergency declaration linked to the powerful street opioid.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-pardons-nikola-trevor-milton-ceo-securities-fraud-electric-vehicle.html
President Donald Trump pardoned Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton for his October 2022 conviction of federal crimes related to defrauding investors with false claims about the success of the electric and hydrogen-powered truck maker.
Milton, 42, was sentenced in December 2023 to four years in prison, but he has been free since then pending an appeal of the former CEO's criminal conviction on securities and wire fraud charges in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
The pardon came two weeks after federal prosecutors urged District Court Judge Edgardo Ramos to order Milton to pay restitution of $680 million to Nikola shareholders, and another $15.2 million to Peter Hicks, a victim of his wire fraud.
Because of the pardon, Ramos could not order restitution of any kind.
"Oh my gosh, oh, you won't believe what just happened," Milton said in an Instagram video posted on his personal account Thursday. "Probably the best day I've had in five years."
"I just got a call from the president of the United States, on my phone, and he signed my full and unconditional pardon of innocence," said Milton, who appeared to be driving a vehicle in the video.
"I am free. The prosecutors can no longer hurt me," he said. "They can't destroy my family, they can't rip everything away from me, they can't ruin my life."
The White House confirmed the pardon.
Defense attorneys for Milton did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A spokesman for the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office, which prosecuted Milton, declined to comment on the pardon.
why isn't NYT or the post covering this? also this is significant and shows that dems should not be allowed to be judges on any level since in 2016 Caetano v. Massachusetts the scotus ruled unanimously 8-0 that stun guns are prima facie arms. how the fuck do you have a district court case that says literally the exact opposite of a scotus case?
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/27/politics/alleged-ms-13-member-arrested-bondi/index.html
Alleged top MS-13 member arrested in Virginia was ‘leader for the East Coast,’ AG Bondi says
Federal law enforcement officers captured an alleged “major leader” of the MS-13 gang Thursday morning, President Donald Trump said on social media.
“Just captured a major leader of MS13,” he wrote. The alleged 24-year-old gang member, who was arrested in Prince William County, has not yet been publicly named and is expected to face charges in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was present for the raid along with FBI Director Kash Patel, said in a news conference that the man was “the leader for the East Coast, one of the top three in the entire country, right here in Virginia, living half an hour outside of Washington, DC.”
“He is an illegal alien from El Salvador, and he will not be living in our country much longer,” Bondi said.
The arrest was executed by a new interagency task force established by the Trump administration to target transnational organized crime and coordinate ongoing immigration enforcement efforts across Virginia. Its creation was part of a crackdown by the Trump administration on foreign gang members residing in the United States.
Unlike the death of god, however, no collect ‘we’ did this. Wealthy folk at the top of the human food chain realized it got in the way of profits. Something punishable by death. Artificial intelligence can make images that look shockingly real. Faces of anyone, real or otherwise, and be puppeteered by a machine to do whatever the operator pleases. The machine is built by the work of millions of artists who gave no consent to the machine's creation. Be aware, this is not progress. This is a twist of a knife we have been manipulated to believe is not there. Any good this does for the common people is luck. It is the crumbs left on the plates of an aristocrat’s feast. Truth had been dying for a long time. Murders across the planet could always be erased with the slight of hand and the consent of the government. Or the rich. The president of the United States posts an artificial video celebrating the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and possible annexation of the Gaza strip. A false voice sings the soulless lyrics that exclaim that Trump will set the Palestinians free, and that there will be “no more tunnels” and “no more fear”, because “Trump Gaza is finally here”. So many people choose to ignore others suffering because the media brushes it under the rug or outright tells them to. I find it baffling that the human mind is so easily tricked and persuaded to walk right into the vile rich folks traps. So many just following orders. Swallowing each bit of propaganda hook, line, and sinker. It seems as thought the only intelligence left is but an echo of what once was. We working class folk aren’t just victims, we aren’t just complacent, we are enablers. Enablers of the machine that fuels the dreams of the richest, most spoiled brats the world has ever seen.
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/carl-innmon-arrest-baranoff-elementary-school
Remember these shmucks got addresses
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/powerful-earthquake-strikes-myanmar
Reports already in:
>damage reported as far as Napydaw
>Saggaing bridge over Irrawaddy tottally collapsed
>no news yet on possible rebel offensive on ruined Tamadaw positions
>no news yet from Mogok or Pin-oo-lewyn
>large building collapsed in Thailand trapping 43
Paul Hyon Kim, 36, was arrested Wednesday by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, after at least five cars were allegedly set on fire on March 18 at a local Tesla Collision Center.
Kim has been charged with multiple crimes ranging from destruction of property, arson and possessing a fire device, according to jail records.
He will also face federal charges, Spencer Evans, the FBI agent-in-charge of the bureau's Las Vegas office, told reporters at a Thursday news briefing.
"There's nothing courageous or noble about firebombing private property and terrorizing your local community," Evans said. "The self-righteous mob that's cheering you on today to commit acts of violence on their behalf will leave you high and dry and forget about you tomorrow. And at the end of the day, you and you alone will be held responsible and face the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence."
Police say Kim arrived near the location in a black Hyundai Elantra before walking over to the Tesla building. He allegedly concealed his face, wore gloves and black clothing.
He allegedly also damaged surveillance cameras with a rifle, police said.
The word "resist" was spray-painted on the Tesla center’s front doors. An unlit Molotov cocktail was found in one of the cars, police said.
Authorities said Kim's social media activity showed potential links to communist groups and Palestinian causes. His DNA matched DNA samples collected at the scene of the attack, authorities said.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-arrested-molotov-cocktail-attack-tesla-shop-las-vegas-federal-charges
BRUSSELS, March 26 (Reuters) - The withdrawal of all Russian forces from Ukraine would be one of the main conditions to lift or amend EU sanctions, the European Commission said on Wednesday.
The United States reached separate deals on Tuesday with Ukraine and Russia to pause their attacks at sea and against energy targets, with Washington agreeing to push to lift some sanctions against Moscow.
The EU was not invited to those talks. The Commission said the EU welcomed the agreement between Washington and Kyiv.
"The end of the Russian unprovoked and unjustified aggression in Ukraine and unconditional withdrawal of all Russian military forces from the entire territory of Ukraine would be one of the main preconditions to amend or lift sanctions," EU spokeswoman for foreign affairs and security policy, Anitta Hipper, said in a statement.
youngkin has used a record number of vetos to defeat the foreign communist human rights denying legislature's attempt to ban guns
Vice President of the US JD Vance is a man to be feared many senior diplomats believe after recent comments (and alleged texts) have shown a bitterness to Europe
Bitter JD Vance, also dubbed JD Dunce, is the most dangerous man in the White House because he resents Europe so much, top diplomats fear.
The VP's festering fury was suppose recently in a major S N.A.F.U. after tRump's key cabinet members added US journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a top secret chat about war plans on messaging app Signal.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/jd-vance-most-dangerous-man-34931473
The best-known member of Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.
Edward Coristine is among the most visible members of the Doge effort that has been given sweeping access to official networks as it attempts to radically downsize the US government. It is headed by Musk – the world’s richest man – with a powerful mandate from Donald Trump.
Past reporting had focused on the staffer’s youth – he is 19 – and his chosen nickname of “bigballs,” which became a pop culture punchline. Musk has championed the teen on his social media site X, telling his followers last month: “Big Balls is awesome.”
Beginning around 2022, while still in high school, Coristine ran a company called DiamondCDN that provided network services, according to corporate and digital records reviewed by Reuters and interviews with half a dozen former associates. Among its users was a website run by a ring of cybercriminals operating under the name “EGodly,” according to digital records preserved by the internet intelligence firm DomainTools and the online cybersecurity tool Any.Run.
This comes just a day after a Signal chat accidentally leaked by his team to an Atlantic journalist showed Vice President J.D. Vance appearing to oversee military operations in Yemen in the aging Commander in Chief's stead.
"Look" said the oldest president in US history when asked about the situation in Lithuania "I don't know anything about that, all I know is President Obama is doing a terrible job running this country, and we need to come together in 2012 and vote him out of office. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late for a meeting with Yeltsin about building Trump Tower Moscow."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-briefed-missing-soldiers-lithuania-b2722329.html
Donald Trump sparked anger online after he claimed he knew nothing about four U.S. soldiers who are missing in Lithuania, despite search operations having been underway for hours.
The president was asked Wednesday if he had been briefed about the men, who disappeared during a training exercise outside Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, and were mistakenly initially declared dead.
tl:Dr -- Mueller did not establish that Trump or members of his campaign coordinated or conspired with Moscow to affect the 2016 presidential electio
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5213403-trump-declassify-fbi-russia-investigation/
Trump orders declassification of FBI’s Russia investigation
President Trump on Tuesday signed a memorandum directing the declassification of FBI files related to the investigation into his 2016 campaign’s potential ties to Russia.
The memorandum calls for the declassification of “all files related to Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” White House staff secretary Will Scharf said as Trump prepared to sign the order at the White House.
“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,” Scharf said.
“This was total weaponization. It’s a disgrace…but now you’ll be able to see for yourselves,” Trump said as he signed the memo.
The FBI opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation in July 2016 over whether members of Trump’s campaign were coordinating with Russian officials. The investigation preceded the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller.
Trump and his allies have for years cast doubt on the legitimacy of the FBI’s probe into his campaign, arguing it was a politically motivated investigation.
Mueller ultimately did not establish that Trump or members of his campaign coordinated or conspired with Moscow to affect the 2016 presidential election, but he and his team declined to reach a conclusion on whether the president obstructed justice.
Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that the devices used in destroying Teslas at dealerships constitute a “weapon of mass destruction.”
Elon Musk’s actions as DOGE czar have precipitated a wave of protests, as well as vandalism that includes setting the cars on fire at dealerships.
But on this week’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Sunday Morning Futures, Bondi took things up several notches when she accused vandals of using a “weapon of mass destruction” and conflating calls for peaceful protest with “domestic terrorism”:
BARTIROMO: Well, what about these vandals on Tesla vehicles and dealerships? Give us the consequences there. And what are you learning once they’re arrested? Why are they doing this?
BONDI: Well, we’re looking at so much on this. There have been three federal charges so far. And I say so far. We are looking at all of these cases across the country. We have a dedicated task force.
These are not isolated incidents, as you know, and these aren’t vandals. These are Molotov cocktails. That could be a weapon of mass destruction…
BARTIROMO: Wow.
https://www.wral.com/story/supreme-court-upholds-biden-rule-requiring-serial-numbers-and-background-checks-for-ghost-guns/21929497/
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Biden administration regulation on the nearly impossible-to-trace weapons called ghost guns, clearing the way for continued serial numbers, background checks and age verification requirements to buy them in kits online.
Seven justices joined the opinion, authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, upholding the rule. Two justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented.
Ghost guns were found at crime scenes in soaring numbers across the U.S. before the regulation went into place, rising from fewer than 1,700 recovered by law enforcement in 2017 to more than 27,000 in 2023, according to Justice Department data.
Since the federal rule was finalized, ghost gun numbers have flattened out or declined in several major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Baltimore, according to court documents. Manufacturing of miscellaneous gun parts also dropped 36% overall, the Justice Department has said.
Ghost guns are any privately made firearms without the serial numbers that allow police to trace weapons used in crime. The 2022 regulation was focused on kits sold online with everything needed to build a functioning firearm — sometimes in less than 30 minutes, according to court documents.
Ghost guns have been used in high-profile crimes, including a mass shooting carried out with an AR-15-style ghost gun in Philadelphia that left five people dead. Police believe a ghost gun used in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in Manhattan was made on a 3D printer rather than assembled from a kit.
Summary
-Two years before becoming a DOGE staffer, Coristine provided network support to a cybercrime group
-EGodly cybercrime group boasted online of hacking government emails and cyberstalking FBI agent
-Coristine didn't comment; Reuters could not determine his role at DOGE
WILMINGTON, Delaware, March 26 (Reuters) - The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.
Edward Coristine is among the most visible members of the DOGE effort that has been given sweeping access to official networks as it attempts to radically downsize the U.S. government.
Past reporting had focused on his youth - he is 19 - and his chosen nickname of "bigballs," which became a pop culture punchline. Musk has championed the teen on his social media site X, telling his followers last month that "Big Balls is awesome."
Beginning around 2022, while still in high school, Coristine ran a company called DiamondCDN that provided network services, according to corporate and digital records reviewed by Reuters and interviews with half a dozen former associates. Among its users was a website run by a ring of cybercriminals operating under the name "EGodly," according to digital records preserved by the internet intelligence firm DomainTools and the online cybersecurity tool Any.Run.
The details of Coristine's connection to EGodly have not been previously reported.
On Feb. 15, 2023, EGodly thanked Coristine's company for its assistance in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
The initial invite to the group apparently came from national security adviser Mike Waltz. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly sent the group details including weapons used, targets, and timing — two hours ahead of the attacks, which began March 15.
Others in the group were Vice President Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
In the stunning report, Goldberg claimed Waltz connected with him on Signal on March 11 and, two days later, he was invited to join a chain called the “Houthi PC small group,” in which they discussed strikes against the Houthi militant group in Yemen — seemingly unaware of the journalist’s presence in the group.
He wrote that he initially had strong doubts the text group was real, “because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans.”
Goldberg also said he “could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include him in the discussions with senior U.S. officials.”
He said he realized the text chain could be real after the person who was supposedly Hegseth messaged to the group that the first detonations in Yemen would be felt in two hours, at 1:45 p.m., which was in line with what took place.
>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5211030-us-houthi-attacks-yemen/
Kratsios, who will serve as both OSTP director and assistant to the president for science and technology, previously served as the managing director of Scale AI and as chief technology officer during the first Trump administration.
At his February confirmation hearing, Kratsios faced questions from Democrats on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation about the mass firings of federal workers, but his nomination was ultimately advanced with bipartisan support in a 24-4 vote.
https://fedscoop.com/senate-confirms-michael-kratsios-white-house-ostp-director/
Trump literally can't do anything right
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/nx-s1-5328157/fentanyl-overdose-death-drugs
Reporter's notebook: 8 theories why fentanyl deaths are plummeting
Over the past six months, I've been tracking something really cool and mysterious happening on American streets. For the first time in 30 years, drug deaths are plunging at a rate that addiction experts say is hopeful — but also baffling.
In the past, even the most ambitious, well-funded efforts to slow drug deaths only helped a little bit. Reducing fatal overdoses by 8% or 9% was seen as a huge win.
But now, deaths nationwide plunged more than 26% from the peak in June 2023, according to the latest preliminary data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That means roughly 30,000 fewer people a year are dying. Many states are seeing even bigger improvements of 30% to 50%. In some states, progress has been sustained since 2021 and 2022, which suggests this isn't a temporary blip
So how did the U.S. finally turn the corner on drug deaths?
What's going on? No one knows for sure, but here are eight leading theories I hear from experts.
1. Naloxone, also known as Narcan, may be the game-changer. The Biden administration raced to make this medication, a nasal spray that quickly reverses opioid and fentanyl overdoses, far more widely available. People can buy it now over the counter without a prescription. It's distributed for free in many high-risk communities, and people using drugs often carry it. It's unclear how many lives naloxone is saving each year, but many front-line public health workers tell me the impact is huge. Learn more here.
The order by the Tokyo District Court will deprive the controversial organization of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages, although it will still be allowed to operate in Japan.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/03/6eaa2c29a725-urgent-japan-court-orders-dissolution-of-unification-church.html
>imperialist zogbots btfo
>trump trannys coping and seething
>enlightenment champs & yamato chads stay winning
> https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/24/donald-trump-hates-distorted-portrait-demands-taken-22777267/
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Devices that were deemed “incendiary” by Austin Police were found at the northwest Austin Tesla showroom on Monday morning, police said.
APD said it responded to a call about suspicious devices at the showroom around 8:04 a.m. Monday. The APD bomb squad was called out to investigate.
The devices were “determined to be incendiary” and were taken by police without incident, APD said.
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) also responded to the scene, an agency spokesperson told KXAN.
There have been numerous instances of vandalism aimed at Tesla showrooms and cars throughout the nation in the past few weeks, ranging from cars being defaced to cars or even Tesla chargers set on fire. In one instance, the Associated Press reported an Oregon man was arrested after he was accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a store in Salem. It prompted the Justice Department last week to investigate, with Attorney General Pam Bondi saying “The swarm of violent attacks on Tesla property is nothing short of domestic terrorism.”
wow, who would have thought the company founded by google's CEO's jewish wife would sell people's sensitive data
The FBI said on Monday that it has launched a task force to investigate scores of attacks in recent weeks targeting Tesla, the electric vehicle company headed by Trump administration DOGE chief Elon Musk.
The announcement of the task force, which is operating in conjunction with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, came hours after a bomb squad found multiple incendiary devices at a Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas, the same city where the company has its headquarters.
That incident is the latest in a series of attacks and vandalism on Tesla properties related to CEO Musk’s DOGE team.
DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency, is engaged in a wide-ranging effort to sharply cut federal government spending and staffing.
There have been at least 80 reported cases of vandalism or arson of Tesla vehicles in the United States and Canada, in addition to peaceful protests at Tesla showrooms, NBC News reported.
“The FBI has been investigating the increase in violent activity toward Tesla, and over the last few days, we have taken additional steps to crack down and coordinate our response,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a post Monday on X, the social media site owned by Musk.
“This is domestic terrorism,” Patel wrote in that tweet. “Those responsible will be pursued, caught, and brought to justice.”
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino tweeted, “Justice is coming.”
The New York Post first reported news of the task force.
Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president of Environment, Health and Safety and Security, did not immediately respond to CNBC when asked what the company is doing to protect its facilities.
Musk at a Tesla event on Thursday referenced the spate of vandalism on Tesla vehicles and sites.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/lifestyle/family/donald-trump-heaps-praise-on-his-son-barron-on-his-19th-birthday-says-he-has-mastered-technology-and-points-out-that-all-his-kids-are-very-smart/ar-AA1BswAc
https://www.aol.com/news/us-turns-brazil-eggs-considers-141424431.html
The U.S. has almost doubled imports of Brazilian eggs once used only for pet food and is considering relaxing regulations for eggs laid by chickens raised for meat, as President Donald Trump's administration seeks to bring down sky-high prices spiked by bird flu.
While none of the Brazilian or broiler chicken eggs would wind up on grocery shelves, they could be used in processed foods such as cake mixes, ice cream or salad dressing, freeing up more fresh eggs for shoppers. Allowing the use of broiler chicken eggs would require changing regulations, and some food safety experts warned that this could risk tainting food products with harmful bacteria.
Nationwide economic strain persists from the virus that has wiped out nearly 170 million chickens, turkeys and other birds since early 2022. Grocery shoppers peruse thinly stocked shelves, restaurants have raised menu prices, and wholesale egg prices surged 53.6% in February before easing a bit in March.
The egg shortage has fueled food inflation even as Trump's trade disputes have threatened to disrupt supply chains and raise costs for fresh produce and other goods.
In February, the administration announced a $1 billion plan to lower egg prices, which includes helping farmers prevent the spread of the virus and researching vaccine options. The Trump administration is also promoting imports from countries such as Turkey, Brazil, and South Korea, which typically send a few eggs to the U.S., and has asked Europe to send more.
U.S. egg imports from Brazil in February increased by 93% from a year earlier, the Brazilian Animal Protein Association said.
The Philadelphia Eagles aren't the only team invited to the White House this year for winning the Super Bowl.
President Donald Trump told Outkick that he plans to invite the Kansas City Chiefs to Washington to celebrate their win in Super Bowl 54 five years ago.
Greenlandic leaders have criticised an upcoming trip by a high-profile American delegation to the semi-autonomous Danish territory that Donald Trump has suggested the US should annex, Reuters reports.
The delegation, which will visit an American military base and watch a dogsled race, will be led by Usha Vance, wife of vice-president JD Vance, and include White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and energy secretary Chris Wright.
Greenland’s outgoing prime minister Mute Egede called this week’s visit a “provocation” and said his caretaker government would not meet with the delegation.
“Until recently, we could trust the Americans, who were our allies and friends, and with whom we enjoyed working closely,” Egede told local newspaper Sermitsiaq. “But that time is over.”
Prosecutors asked the court in a filing Sunday for a quick ruling that Justin Eichorn be kept in jail instead of released to a halfway house as scheduled on Tuesday.
Eichorn’s new attorneys, whose hiring was first noted in a court filing Sunday, did not immediately reply to voicemails and emails from The Associated Press seeking comment on Monday. The 40-year-old former Republican lawmaker from Grand Rapids has not publicly commented since his arrest during a sting operation in Bloomington last Monday. He was charged in federal court last Wednesday with attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in prostitution, a felony that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years.
In their motion to reopen a detention hearing that was held Thursday, prosecutors said they learned afterward that he had several phone calls in jail with a Grand Rapids woman — identified only as Individual A but described as a close associate — and arranged with her to retrieve a computer and other items from the St. Paul apartment where he lived alone during legislative sessions. They said both had been warned that the call was not private and would be recorded.
According to Eichorn’s profile, which was removed from the Senate website last week, he is married with four children.
https://www.wdio.com/front-page/top-stories/feds-seek-to-block-release-of-former-lawmaker-justin-eichorn/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/politics/atf-agents-fbi/index.html
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/liveblogs/live-blog/2380551/ice-arrests-394-tren-de-aragua-gang-members-in-major-operation.html
ICE Arrests 394 Tren de Aragua Gang Members in Major Operation
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: This month, through the work of DHS and President Trump, we have designated Tren de Aragua a top priority… in the last 48 hours, ICE and our partners have arrested more than 68 TDA gang members. To date, we’ve arrested 394 of these terrorists.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14526417/spies-donald-trump-tren-aragua-criminals-us.html
Inside the gang-busting team of spies helping Trump nab violent Tren de Aragua criminals in the US
A covert team of Venezuelan informants and ex-US officials are working with the Trump administration to track down members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang.
The small team made up of Venezuelans and former US officials has been providing information to the Trump administration about the number and identities of members of Tren de Aragua and other Venezuelan gangs headed to or already in the country.
The Tren de Aragua gang, formed in the notorious Tocorón prison in Venezuela's Aragua state, has spread throughout countries bordering Venezuela and in the last decade has developed a reputation for being 'ruthless' and 'fearless.'
Now, the highly-skilled group of investigators, which has deep connections to police and intelligence in Venezuela, is sharing crucial information on the dangerous criminals with the White House staff.
In one briefing before Donald Trump's January inauguration, the group delivered a presentation including documents obtained from South American police agencies identifying 1,800 gang members believed to have been sent into the US, the Miami Herald reported.
However, Gary Bernsten, a former CIA station chief revealed a more sinister clue, claiming those sent to the US had 'received paramilitary training in Venezuela.'
'Among those sent to the US were 300 gang members who had received paramilitary training in Venezuela,' Berntsen said.
President Trump said he has revoked the security clearances of more than a dozen political adversaries, including former President Biden, former Vice President Harris and several former Biden administration officials.
In a presidential memorandum released Saturday, Trump said it was "no longer in the national interest" for the named individuals to have access to classified information — a move critics view as retaliation for Biden's decision to strip Trump of his clearance in 2021 due to concerns over what Biden described as Trump's "erratic behavior."
The list of those affected goes beyond Biden and his administration, targeting figures involved in Trump's first impeachment trial, including Fiona Hill, Norm Eisen and Alexander Vindman. Former Secretaries of State Antony Blinken and Hillary Clinton are also named.
It also includes legal figures like New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, both of whom have pursued high-profile legal cases against Trump. Two Republican critics of Trump, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger — who both served on the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — were also included in the memo.
Several former officials shrug off move as meaningless
The practical effects of the move are likely minimal. Security clearances for former officials are generally revoked after they leave office unless they continue to engage in national security matters. Many of those on the list have not had active clearances for years.
An estimated 34,000 people gathered Friday evening at Civic Center Park in Denver to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York push a number of progressive policies.
Just hours later, they spoke before a crowd of about 11,000 at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.
The two stops for the progressive leaders in Colorado were part of what they dubbed the "Fighting Oligarchy Tour."
"They want to know if the people of America are going to stand up to Trumpism, oligarchy," Sanders said to a cheering crowd.
The tour is part of an effort by Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez to push back against President Trump and the influence that they say billionaires have over American politics.
"Musk is not our Congress. Act lawfully, not awfully," said Nancy Larsen, a rally attendee who feels the federal government is prioritizing corporate interests over ordinary Americans. "I feel like we're in kind of a reverse Robin Hood situation right now, where we're taking from the poor and disadvantaged and giving more money to the rich."
On the enemy's orders, the woman was supposed to adjust the air attack on the locations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Marine Corps. The occupiers also hoped to obtain the coordinates of the temporary stay of Ukrainian border guards and police officers who were carrying out missions on the southern front.
The adjustments were made by a 39-year-old local unemployed woman who was waiting for the occupation of Odessa. She wrote about this in the comments under pro-Kremlin publications in Telegram channels. There she came "into the FSB's field of vision" and, after remote recruitment, began collecting geolocations of the Defense Forces.
To cover up the reconnaissance missions, the agent would allegedly go for a walk with her 6-year-old son and at that time photograph the buildings of potential targets and mark their coordinates on Google maps. After the "walks" with the child, the woman would summarize the intelligence report and prepare to hand it over to her Russian handler.
After completing enemy missions, the occupiers promised their accomplice "evacuation" to Russia through third countries with subsequent employment on the territory of the aggressor country.
STUPID BITCH FORGOT TO SHARE HER TIKTOK INCOME!! GUESS WHO WILL RAPE HER AND 6 YEARS OLD KID NOW!!?
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The list was given to the embassy by the South African Chamber of Commerce in the U.S., which said it became a point of contact for white South Africans asking about the program announced by the Trump administration last month. The chamber said the list does not constitute official applications.
Trump issued an executive order on Feb. 7 cutting U.S. funding to South Africa and citing “government actions fueling disproportionate violence against racially disfavored landowners.”
Trump’s executive order specifically referred to Afrikaners, a white minority group who are descendants of mainly Dutch and French colonial settlers who first came to South Africa in the 17th century. The order directed Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to prioritize humanitarian relief to Afrikaners who are victims of “unjust racial discrimination” and resettle them in the U.S. under the refugee program.
There are approximately 2.7 million Afrikaners in South Africa, which has a population of 62 million. Trump’s decision to offer some white South Africans refugee status went against his larger policy to halt the U.S. refugee resettlement program.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-refugee-afrikaner-south-africa-0fbca411470d3b439886cabc12c7600d
Federal agents who usually hunt down child abusers are now cracking down on immigrants who live in the U.S. illegally.
Homeland Security investigators who specialize in money laundering are raiding restaurants and other small businesses looking for immigrants who aren’t authorized to work.
Agents who pursue drug traffickers and tax fraud are being reassigned to enforce immigration law.
As U.S. President Donald Trump pledges to deport “millions and millions” of “criminal aliens,” thousands of federal law enforcement officials from multiple agencies are being enlisted to take on new work as immigration enforcers, pulling crime-fighting resources away on other areas -- from drug trafficking and terrorism to sexual abuse and fraud.
This account of Trump’s push to reorganize federal law enforcement – the most significant since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks – is based on interviews with more than 20 current and former federal agents, attorneys and other federal officials. Most had first-hand knowledge of the changes. Nearly all spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss their work.
"I do not recall ever seeing this wide a spectrum of federal government resources all being turned toward immigration enforcement," said Theresa Cardinal Brown, a former Homeland Security official who has served in both Republican and Democratic administrations. "When you're telling agencies to stop what you've been doing and do this now, whatever else they were doing takes a back seat."
ASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration.
The move, effective April 24, cuts short a two-year "parole" granted to the migrants under former President Joe Biden that allowed them to enter the country by air if they had U.S. sponsors.
Trump, a Republican, took steps to ramp up immigration enforcement after taking office, including a push to deport record numbers of migrants in the U.S. illegally. He has argued that the legal entry parole programs launched under his Democratic predecessor overstepped the boundaries of federal law and called for their termination in a January 20 executive order.
Trump said on March 6 that he would decide "very soon" whether to strip the parole status from some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled to the U.S. during the conflict with Russia. Trump's remarks came in response to a Reuters report that said his administration planned to revoke the status for Ukrainians as soon as April.
Biden launched a parole entry program for Venezuelans in 2022 and expanded it to Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans in 2023 as his administration grappled with high levels of illegal immigration from those nationalities. Diplomatic and political relations between the four countries and the United States have been strained.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/musk-to-receive-top-secret-briefing-on-u-s-war-plans-for-china-922eafdf
https://archive.md/PqkpN
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/musk-pentagon-briefing-china-war-plan.html
WSJ:
Elon Musk will receive a briefing Friday on the U.S. military’s top-secret war plans for China, according to two U.S. officials, giving the wealthy businessman and presidential adviser insight into one of the Pentagon’s most closely guarded operational blueprints.
Musk will be briefed on how U.S. forces would fight in a potential China war, including maritime tactics and targeting plans, the officials said. China will be one of several topics to be discussed at the Defense Department, one of the officials said.
The meeting underscored the crosscutting interests Musk has as a senior adviser to President Trump with a powerful and expansive role in the new administration. It could give him as the head of Tesla, which relies on China for car production, and SpaceX, a U.S. defense contractor, access to sensitive military secrets unavailable to business competitors.
Musk, according to one person familiar with the arrangements, is receiving the briefing because he asked for one. He has a security clearance but isn’t in the military chain of command or known to be a military adviser to Trump.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that Musk would visit the Pentagon on Friday. In a statement on X, Musk’s social-media site. “It’s an informal meeting about innovation, efficiencies & smarter production,” he said, denying that the presidential adviser would receive a sensitive China briefing.
In a post on Truth Social on Thursday evening, President Trump said that “China will not even be mentioned or discussed” at the Pentagon meeting.
Also in The Financial Times https://archive.md/Co54H and Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-suggests-us-could-join-british-commonwealth-2048679
Nearly 250 years after America declared independence from Great Britain, President Donald Trump suggested he was open to taking a small step back towards the warm embrace of the British monarchy after a media outlet reported that King Charles III intends to extend an offer for the United States to join the Commonwealth of Nations.
The King is reportedly preparing to extend the offer of “associate membership” in the voluntary association of 56 nations, most of which have history as former British colonies. Trump, it seems, is open to the idea.
Writing on his Truth Social platform while sharing an article referencing the unprecedented offer, Trump said: “I Love King Charles. Sounds good to me!”
First reported by the Daily Mail, the offer from Charles III would be formally extended during the planned state visit by Trump to the U.K. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivered a hand-written invitation from the King to the U.S. leader during a visit to the White House last month.
A member of the Royal Commonwealth Society told the Mail that the possibility of America making entry into the Commonwealth is “being discussed at the highest levels” as “a wonderful move that would symbolize Britain's close relationship with the U.S.”
“Donald Trump loves Britain and has great respect for the Royal Family, so we believe he would see the benefits of this. Associate membership could, hopefully, be followed by full membership, making the Commonwealth even more important as a global organization,” the person added.
When you thought FoxNews couldn’t sink any lower they manage to outdo themselves.
"The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended," Bondi said Thursday. "Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars."
All three face charges carrying a minimum penalty of five years and up to 20 years in prison, the department said.
Adam Matthew Lansky, 41, on Jan. 20, threw approximately eight Molotov cocktails at a Tesla dealership located in Salem, Oregon, federal prosecutors said. One vehicle was completely destroyed, and several others were damaged.
Lansky also threw a "large heavy object through the dealership window," they said. At the time of the attack, he was armed with a suppressed AR-15 rifle.
Lucy Grace Nelson, also known as Justin Thomas Nelson, 42, was arrested in Loveland, Colorado on Jan. 29 after attempting to light Teslas on fire with Molotov cocktails, prosecutors said.
Nelson was later found in possession of materials used to produce additional incendiary weapons, including a container of gasoline, bottles, and wick materials, on Feb. 24, prosecutors said.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/domestic-terrorism-hits-tesla-drivers-dealers-former-fbi-field-boss-warns-could-get-worse
Linette Tobin is representing Jerce Reyes Barrios, a professional soccer player from Venezuela who protested the Maduro regime in February and March 2024 and was detained and tortured after one of the demonstrations.
Barrios came to the U.S.-Mexico border legally through the CBP One app in September 2024 but has been accused of being a Tren de Aragua, or TdA, member and was detained at a facility under maximum security, Tobin said.
The Biden administration expanded the use of the CBP One phone application to allow migrants to submit some background information and schedule appointments with immigration officials at ports of entry. Officials would then determine if the person could be allowed into the country, some in order to submit an asylum claim. President Donald Trump eliminated that feature during his first days in office.
The Department of Homeland Security has accused Barrios of having a gang-affiliated tattoo and claimed a photo of him showed him displaying gang signs. ABC News has reached out to DHS.
The tattoo in question showed a crown sitting on top of a soccer ball with a rosary and the word "Dios" (God), according to Tobin. A declaration from the tattoo artist confirmed that Barrios chose it because it was similar to the Real Madrid soccer team logo, the attorney said. According to Tobin, those alleged gang signs were the hand symbol for rock and roll and "I love you" in sign language.
>https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/man-deported-el-salvador-alien-enemies-act-soccer-logo-tattoo-attorney/story?id=119983892
Her husband has been charged with wire fraud for defrauding COVID relief programs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/20/cori-bush-busband-indicted-covid-fraud/
Husband of former congresswoman Cori Bush charged with wire fraud
Cortney Merritts, 46, faces two counts of wire fraud for allegedly filing sham applications in 2020 and 2021 with the Small Business Administration.
The husband of former congresswoman Cori Bush (D-Missouri) has been charged in connection with more than $20,000 in payments from the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection and Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs, according to an indictment filed in D.C. federal court on Thursday.
Cortney Merritts, 46, faces two counts of wire fraud for allegedly filing sham applications in 2020 and 2021 with the Small Business Administration, enabling him to collect money aimed at helping struggling businesses make payroll during the pandemic.
The indictment was signed by Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for D.C., whom Trump has nominated to serve as the permanent top prosecutor in the nation’s capital. The investigation into Merritts appears to have begun during the Biden administration.
An attorney for Merritts said he plans to plead not guilty.
“We look forward to litigating this case in the courtroom,” Justin Gelfand of the law firm Margulis Gelfand DiRuzzo & Lambson said in a statement.
Most Republicans support the right to protest — unless it’s against Israel, according to new polling.
In the latest Economist/YouGov survey, a strong majority of GOP respondents, 73%, said they support Americans’ ability to protest against actions they view as unjust. Just 12% said they oppose this, and 14% said they weren’t sure.
But, when asked if it should be legal or illegal to protest “against Israeli actions in Gaza,” less than half of Republicans, 42%, said it should be legal. Meanwhile, 23% said this kind of public demonstration should be illegal, and 35% said they were not sure.
The poll — conducted March 16-18 with 1,618 U.S. adults — found support for protests was more consistent among Democrats and independents.
Eighty-six percent of Democrats and 81% of independents said they backed the right to demonstrate against actions perceived as unjust, while less than 20% of both groups said they opposed this or were unsure.
When it came to anti-Israel protests, 73% of Democrats said they should be legal, while 5% said they should be outlawed and 22% said they weren’t sure. A majority of independents, 57%, also said they should be legal, while 9% said they should be illegal and 34% said they didn’t know.
The right to protest is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution, which states that no laws shall be made that prohibit “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”
The poll — which has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points — also found views on the sympathies of anti-Israel protesters differed greatly by party.
A majority of Republicans said they believe all (13%), most (25%) or half (14%) of the people who protest against Israeli actions in Gaza support Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist group by the U.S.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/patel-says-fbi-has-captured-its-3rd-most-wanted-fugitive-since-trump-took-office-let-good-cops-good-cops
Patel says FBI has captured its 3rd most wanted fugitive since Trump took office: 'Let good cops be good cops'
'This administration is giving the new FBI and AG Bondi the resources to get the job done — and we won’t stop,' FBI Director Kash Patel said
The FBI has captured its third fugitive from the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list since President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, according to agency director Kash Patel.
In a post on X on Tuesday night, Patel said the FBI's success in bringing down some of America's most wanted is "not an accident" and can be attributed to letting "good cops be good cops."
https://electrek.co/2025/03/19/tesla-tsla-accounting-raises-red-flags-as-report-shows-1-4-billion-missing/
Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion is missing.
Many Tesla shorts and detractors have questioned Tesla’s accounting for years, but they have never gained much traction – until now.
Today, the Financial Times has released a new report
Compare Tesla’s capital expenditure in the last six months of 2024 to its valuation of the assets that money was spent on, and $1.4bn appears to have gone astray.
The article points out that Tesla reports having spent $6.3 billion on “purchases of property and equipment excluding finance leases, net of sales” in the second half of 2024, while property, plant, and equipment rose by only $4.9 billion in that period.
Accounting experts agree that, in most cases, the capex number matches closely to the increase in gross PP&E, but some factors can make a difference: sales or impairments of assets, foreign exchange, etc.
However, Tesla didn’t report any significant enough change in the usual suspects to justify the difference.
Kennedy recently suggested that instead of culling infected birds, farmers should instead allow the virus to run through flocks to identify naturally immune birds.
"We can identify the birds and preserve the birds that are immune to it," Kennedy recently told Fox News.
Though Kennedy has no direct control over farms, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has also expressed interest in testing the idea.
"There are some farmers that are out there that are willing to really try this on a pilot as we build the safe perimeter around them to see if there is a way forward with immunity," Rollins told CBS News.
But veterinary experts say this could backfire.
"That's a really terrible idea, for any one of a number of reasons," said Dr. Gail Hansen, a former state veterinarian for Kansas, in a report published by The New York Times.
Since January 2022, bird flu has affected more than 166 million birds across every U.S. state. Experts warn that allowing the virus to spread could increase the risk of it mutating.
>https://phys.org/news/2025-03-secretary-health-human-bird-flu.html
The investigation found that Russian intelligence services "noticed" the girl, when she was looking for quick money in Telegram channels. To attract her to cooperate, the Russians "hacked" her phone. They blackmailed the girl and threatened to "leak" explicit photos of the minor on the Internet.
As a result, the schoolgirl agreed to work for the enemy and, following the instructions of the occupiers, made a homemade explosive device (IED). She then hid it in a backpack and secretly left it under a car that was parked next to the police administration building.
At that moment, the Russian secret services planned to remotely detonate an IED in order to kill their agent and the maximum number of citizens passing by.
After her parents finally paid the money to friendly SBU agents(they dont have male children), the girl has been notified of suspicion. She is now under house arrest. She faces up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.
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shut up and ice cream. unironically based. I like the ice cream but have not bought it in years because ben and jerry are jewish communists and I don't want my money going to trannies
https://www.alreporter.com/2025/03/20/after-apr-exposed-david-coles-fraud-tubervilles-residency-next-in-the-crosshairs/
The head of the Alabama Republican Party made it clear Tuesday: if U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville makes a run for governor, the “specifics” of his residency won’t be ignored. Years of Senate reimbursement filings, legal documents and public records will be dragged into the spotlight — and they’ll likely show exactly where “Coach” calls home when he’s not in Washington.
Appearing on The Jeff Poor Show, ALGOP Chairman John Wahl said he didn’t believe there was a “basis right now for a challenge on residency,” citing Tuberville’s nearly six years in the Senate and his yearlong campaign across the state prior to taking office. But despite Wahl’s claim, Tuberville didn’t take office until January 2021 — which means he’s been a senator for just over four years, not six.
But Alabama law doesn’t care about campaign stops or press tours. It requires a candidate for governor to have lived in the state for seven consecutive years prior to qualifying. And that’s where things could get interesting for Tuberville, who has been dogged by residency questions since he first floated the idea of running for governor.
APR reported Tuesday that Tuberville doesn’t personally own property in Alabama. He’s said — including in a 2023 interview following reporting from The Washington Post — that he lives in Auburn. The home in question is on Cherry Street, a 1,500-square-foot house valued just under $400,000, owned by his wife, Suzanne, and son, Tucker.
But should anyone file a challenge, Tuberville would have to do more than point to an address on paper. He’d have to prove — first to ALGOP officials and possibly to a court — that his primary residence is the modest Auburn home and not the $6 million, 4,000-square-foot beachfront mansion in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/social-security-administration-to-require-in-person-identity-checks-for-new-and-existing-recipients/ar-AA1BbW79
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an effort to limit fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration will impose tighter identity-proofing measures — which will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with the agency over the phone.
Beginning March 31st, people will no longer be able to verify their identity to the SSA over the phone and those who cannot properly verify their identity over the agency's “my Social Security” online service, will be required to visit an agency field office in person to complete the verification process, agency leadership told reporters Tuesday.
The change will apply to new Social Security applicants and existing recipients who want to change their direct deposit information.
Retiree advocates warn that the change will negatively impact older Americans in rural areas, including those with disabilities, mobility limitations, those who live far from SSA offices and have limited internet access.
The plan also comes as the agency plans to shutter dozens of Social Security offices throughout the country and has already laid out plans to lay off thousands of workers.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained
A French scientist on his way to a conference in the United States was allegedly denied entry by Customs and Border Patrol over messages found on his phone that criticized President Trump’s science cuts.
The French newspaper Le Monde reports that on March 9, a space researcher was randomly selected upon arrival in Houston for a search, and CBP found messages criticizing the Trump administration’s treatment of scientists, which, according to the agency, “conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism.”
The researcher’s phone and computer were allegedly confiscated, and he was sent back to Europe the next day. The news prompted the attention of the French government, which expressed alarm.
“I was told with concern that a French researcher, on a mission for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), who was going to a conference near Houston, was banned from entering the US before being expelled,” said France’s Minister of Higher Education and Research Philippe Baptiste, in a statement Wednesday. “This would have been taken by the US authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friendly relations in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy.”
According to one source cited by Agence France-Presse, CBP said that the French researcher expressed “hate and conspiracy messages,” prompting an FBI investigation, only for the charges to be dropped later. Another source said the scientist was banned due to messages “that can be described as terrorism.”
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-ohio-gender-affirming-care-lawsuit-e1605ac3b1a5f3340f481c4af05f9b3d
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional and must be permanently blocked from being enforced, a three-judge panel of appellate judges ruled Tuesday. The law also banned trans women and girls from participating in female sports.
The state attorney general vowed an immediate appeal.
On Tuesday, the state 10th District Court of Appeals reversed a lower court judge’s decision last summer to allow the law to go into effect, after finding it “reasonably limits parents’ rights.” The law bans counseling, gender-affirming surgery and hormone therapy for minors, unless they are already receiving such therapies and a doctor deems it risky to stop.
The litigation was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Ohio and the global law firm Goodwin, who argued the law not only denies health care to transgender children and teens, but specifically discriminates against them accessing it.
The appellate court agreed, in a 2-1 majority opinion written by Judge Carly Edelstein, and cited a number of flaws in the lower court’s reasoning.
The judge cited a number of flaws in the lower court’s reasoning. She said that the Ohio law does not outlaw identical drugs when they’re used for other reasons, only when they’re used for gender transitioning, which makes it discriminatory. She also said that a prescription ban is not a reasonable exercise of the state’s police power when it is weighed against the rights of parents to care for their children.
Addressing proponents’ arguments that minors are not in a position to understand the long-term impacts such procedures could have on their lives, the judge said that, while they may not be, their parents are.
The USIP, an independent nonprofit founded by Congress, had its president, Greg Moose, and its board fired last week by the Trump administration. The Associated Press reported that DOGE workers on Monday had law enforcement escort them into USIP, which is not located in a federal building, after previously being denied access.
“DOGE just came into the building—they’re inside the building—they’re bringing the F.B.I. and brought a bunch of D.C. police,” USIP lawyer Sophia Lin told The New York Times as she and other staff members were forced out of the building.
“What has happened here today is an illegal takeover by elements of the executive branch of a private nonprofit,” Moose told reporters. “It was very clear that there was a desire on the part of the administration to dismantle a lot of what we call foreign assistance, and we are part of that family.”
It’s business as usual from the White House’s perspective.
Due to USIP staff’s noncompliance with Trump’s order, “11 board members were lawfully removed, and remaining board members appointed Kenneth Jackson acting president,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said. “Rogue bureaucrats will not be allowed to hold agencies hostage. The Trump administration will enforce the president’s executive authority and ensure his agencies remain accountable to the American people.”
>https://newrepublic.com/post/192854/elon-musk-doge-police-independent-nonprofit-usip
For those unaware, "TDS", or "Trump Derangement Syndrome", is a derogatory term coined by supporters of former Jeffrey Epstein client turned Miss Teen USA owner Donald Trump, to mock people who take issue with pedophilia and don't approve of child sex predators holding state or federal office.
https://www.fox9.com/news/minnesota-senator-justin-eichorn-arrest
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (FOX 9) - A Minnesota Senator from Grand Rapids was arrested, accused of soliciting a minor for prostitution.
Local perspective:
Sen. Justin Eichorn, 40, was arrested on March 17 in Bloomington. The Bloomington Police Department says they communicated with a man who thought he was talking to a 16-year-old girl.
On March 17, a detective arranged to meet with him near the 8300 block of Normandale Boulevard in Bloomington. The man, identified as Eichorn, was seen arriving to the area in a pickup truck. He was then arrested and booked into jail.
He has not been formally charged, but felony charges of soliciting an under 18 year old to practice prostitution are pending from the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, a press release said.
Eichorn is a Republican who is married with four children, according to his Minnesota State Senate bio. He made headlines earlier this week for being a sponsor of a bill that would declare "Trump derangement syndrome" a mental illness.
>Anime Streamers Have Met With Trump Allies to Block Piracy Sites in the US
New reporting indicates that major entertainment industry companies and brands – specifically those related to the Anime genre – have gathered together to meet with a US Congressman to discuss new anti-piracy initiatives. Companies like Amazon, Disney, and Warner Bros. Discovery (via Consumer Technology Association) reportedly met with US Representative Darrell Issa at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, where talks were said to focus on the subject of digital piracy from foreign sources, and whether blocking access to entire sites was an actionable measure.
According to Representative Issa, these discussions “really went well, because there was a level of consensus on most of the issues by virtually everybody. There are solutions around the world, and we need to find one that works for the United States.” The next step is Issa meeting with additional companies like Paramount, Google, YouTube, and Verizon for further research and consultation geared toward getting his anti-piracy bill, the “American Copyright Protection Act” to the table.
American legislators and entertainment companies have been struggling to address online piracy since torrent sites and other lanes of Internet piracy started appearing in the 2000s. The biggest challenges have been getting a clear-cut definition of what constitutes “piracy,” and then, if and when a site is liable for hosting pirated materials. Even if a pirating site is identified, the method of cutting off access to it can be extremely challenging, as hackers and pirates are well aware of the censorship limits that hamstring most companies trying to stop the spread of copyrighted content.
https://comicbook.com/anime/news/anime-streaming-new-anti-piracy-bills-trump-administration-studios-meeting/
Di State of Emergency wey President Bola Tinubu impose for Rivers State on Tuesday night go officially take effect if two-third of di members of di National Assembly vote to approve am.
Dat na according to di Nigeria constitution, and e dey expected say di lawmakers go meet today to vote on di matter.
BBC dey monitor di situation and go bring you di tori as soon as e happun.
Di announcement by President Tinubu surprise many Nigerians and already, plenty political sabi pipo and groups don dey chook mouth.
Tinubu tok say e take di decision sake of how di political crisis for Rivers State dey get worse and e don lead to destruction of federal goment oil infrastructure for di state.
"No good and responsible president go standby and allow di grave situation to continue witout taking remedial steps prescribed by di Constitution to address di situation," Tinubu tok as e invoke section 305 of di Nigerian constitution to declare a state of emergency for Rivers state.
>Wetin dey section 305 of Nigeria constitution?
For Nigeria, na section 305 of di constitution give di president power to declare a state of emergency, and di conditions for dat include:
- If di kontri dey for war
- If real danger dey say di kontri fit dey involve for war, or say di kontri fit dey invaded
- If actual breakdown of public order and public safety for di kontri or any part of di kontri dey, wey require extraordinary measures to restore peace and security;
- If danger dey say breakdown of public order and public safety fit happen for di kontri or any part of it, and extraordinary measures dey necessary to avoid am
- If ogbonge natural disaster happen for di kontri or any part of am, or if danger dey say big natural disaster fit happen wey go affect pipo wella for di kontri
- If any oda public danger dey wey go be threaten di existence of di Federation
- If di governor of a state, wit support from di state assembly, ask di president to do so
>The veracity of much of the data is unclear. 404 Media has verified that at least some of the people listed on the site do appear to be Tesla owners or supporters of the company or Musk, but it is not clear if every person listed is. The addresses of several Tesla dealerships checked by 404 Media were correct. 404 Media found some plots on the map don’t correspond correctly to their real world locations.
https://www.404media.co/dogequest-site-claims-to-dox-tesla-owners-across-the-u-s/
Why does diversity always lead to violence?
Zegler recalled the unsettling experience of being forced to prove your heritage to a room full of white executives.
By Ryan Coleman Published on March 18, 2025 11:04PM EDT
https://ew.com/rachel-zegler-asked-by-white-execs-if-legit-latina-for-west-side-story-11699539
Rachel Zegler is still shocked by some of her experiences throughout the West Side Story casting process.
"There's confusion because I don't have a single ounce of Latin in my name," she told Los Angeles Times in a Tuesday interview. "When I was in the running for María in West Side Story, they kept calling to ask if I was legit. I remember thinking, 'Do you want me to bring my abuelita in?' I will. I'll bring her into the studio if you want to meet her."
The 23-year-old, New Jersey-born actress was among thousands of talents, well known and otherwise, who vied for the plum role in the adaptation of the 1957 stage musical. Zegler was very much in the "otherwise" camp, having never appeared in a screen role before director Steven Spielberg put out a 2018 casting call for Spanish-speaking actors for the film. The resulting film, which earned Zegler's costar Ariana DeBose an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, also draws heavily on the first film adaptation of the musical, which massively expanded the star profile of its María, Natalie Wood.
They currently have a net -25 approval, while Republicans have a net -12 approval.
It's mind boggling, really. Somehow people liked them more when they bought and sold people like property than they do now.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5197910-democratic-partys-favorability-hits-record-low-poll/
Democratic Party’s favorability hits record low: Poll
The Democratic Party’s favorability rating has hit a record low, according to a CNN survey released Sunday.
The survey, conducted March 6-9, shows 54 percent of surveyed U.S. adults say they have an unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party, while 29 percent say they have a favorable opinion and 16 percent say they have no opinion.
That represents a shift from early January, before President Trump was sworn into office for the second time, when 48 percent of survey respondents said they had an unfavorable opinion of the Democrats, 33 percent said they had a favorable opinion and 17 percent said they had no opinion.
In late October, ahead of the 2024 election, a survey of registered voters included 51 percent of respondents with an unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party, 39 percent with a favorable opinion and 10 percent with no opinion. The year before, in October 2023, a survey showed 50 percent of U.S. adults had an unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party, while 37 percent had a favorable opinion and 11 percent had no opinion.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party’s favorability rating remains unchanged from January, at 36 percent, while the unfavorability rating has ticked up from 44 percent in January to 48 percent in the March survey.
President Trump wrote on social media on Sunday night that he no longer considered valid the pardons his predecessor granted to members of the bipartisan House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol, and a range of other people whom Mr. Trump sees as his political enemies, because they were signed using an autopen device.
There is no power in the Constitution or case law to undo a pardon, and there is no exception to pardons signed by autopen. But Mr. Trump’s assertion, which embraced a baseless right-wing conspiracy theory about former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., was a new escalation of his antidemocratic rhetoric. Implicit in his post was Mr. Trump’s belief that the nation’s laws should be whatever he decrees them to be. And it was a jolting reminder that his appetite for revenge has not been sated.
A year ago, Paul Dans was chief architect of what was shaping up to be the blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term. Eight months ago, he was sent into MAGA exile.
Dans was the director of Project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation when, midway through the 2024 presidential campaign, he and his program started to become a huge political liability for Trump. Democrats warned of Project 2025’s “radical” agenda, saying it would mean a ban on abortion, elimination of LGBTQ+ rights, and complete presidential power over federal agencies along with the elimination of some of them, including the Department of Education. At the Democratic National Convention, Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson held up a giant-size replica of the 900-page Project 2025 book and quipped, “You ever see a document that could kill a small animal and democracy at the same time? Here it is.”
Conservatives began blaming Heritage and Project 2025 for hurting Trump’s election chances. Trump himself repeatedly contended he hadn’t even read Project 2025, claiming on Truth Social that he had “no idea who is behind it.” In an interview with the POLITICO Deep Dive podcast published Saturday, Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita complained that “there was some stuff in there that we were like, ‘Where the hell did that come from?’”
Dans became a sacrificial lamb. Pressured to resign from Heritage, Dans left in a fit of pique at the end of July, and he later criticized LaCivita and campaign co-head Susie Wiles for campaign “malpractice.”
Now Dans, who lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and works as a lawyer and government relations consultant, is letting bygones be bygones and says he’s delighted with the extent to which Project 2025 has, in fact, become the Trump administration’s playbook.
They met through mutual friends, had a first date at the local steakhouse, married after two years and were saving to buy a house and have kids. Muñoz was already caring for Bartell's now 12-year-old son as her own.
But last month, on their way home to Wisconsin after honeymooning in Puerto Rico, an immigration agent pulled Muñoz aside in the airport.
"Are you an American citizen?" asked the agent. She answered no, she wasn't. She's from Peru. But she and her husband had taken the legal steps so that one day she might get U.S. citizenship.
Millions of Americans, including Bartell, had voted for President Donald Trump's promise to crack down on "criminal illegal immigrants." But eight weeks in, the mass deportation effort has rapidly expanded to include immigrants whose application for legal status in the country is under review.
Even those married or engaged to U.S. citizens are being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, USA TODAY has learned.
In addition to Muñoz, USA TODAY has confirmed through attorneys, family members and documents that ICE has detained for weeks:
a woman in her 50s who has lived in the country more than 30 years and is married to a U.S. citizen;
a woman in her 30s with proof of valid permanent legal residency, whose father and siblings are U.S. citizens, and who first came to the U.S. as a teen;
a European woman in her 30s engaged to a U.S. citizen who overstayed her visa when she was 21;
a woman engaged to a U.S. legal permanent resident, with whom she has lived for nine years.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wisconsin-man-voted-trump-now-155503248.html?guccounter=1
The Global Times, a daily English-language tabloid and Chinese Communist party mouthpiece, celebrated the cuts to the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees broadcasters such as VOA and RFA.
“When it comes to China-related reporting, VOA has an appalling track record,” the Global Times said in an editorial on Monday.
“From smearing human rights in China’s Xinjiang … to hyping up disputes in the South China Sea … from fabricating the so-called China virus narrative to promoting the claim of China’s ‘overcapacity’, almost every malicious falsehood about China has VOA’s fingerprints all over it,” the editorial said.
The Beijing Daily, a newspaper run by the Chinese Communist party (CCP), also published a column commending the cuts.
The schadenfreude comes after US president Donald Trump signed an order gutting USAGM and instructing it to reduce its operations to the bare minimum mandated by the law. He accused VOA of being “radical” and “anti-Trump”.
The order would “ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda” the White House said in a statement. USAGM employed roughly 3,500 people and had an $886m budget in 2024, according to the agency’s latest report to Congress.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/18/chinese-state-media-celebrates-trumps-cuts-to-voice-of-america-and-radio-free-asia
Americans are increasingly concerned about Donald Trump’s effort to overhaul the US economy with sweeping tariffs on foreign goods, according to an exclusive poll for the Guardian, despite the US president’s efforts to downplay the risks of his strategy.
“Have no fear, we will WIN everything!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday, claiming that tariffs were already “pouring money” into the country.
But fears are growing. When given a list of issues including inflation, healthcare and immigration, 72% of Americans said they are concerned about tariffs.
The survey was conducted by the Harris Poll in early March. When it conducted the same survey in mid-January, 61% of those polled said tariffs were a concern.
A lot has changed since then. Since returning to the White House, Trump has pushed for tariffs against many of the US’s key trading partners. He tacked on an extra 20% tariff on Chinese imports and hiked tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports.
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?
The United States and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are both vowing escalation after the U.S. launched airstrikes to deter the rebels from attacking military and commercial vessels on one of the world's busiest shipping corridors.
The Houthi-run Health Ministry said the overnight U.S. strikes killed at least 53 people, including five women and two children, and wounded almost 100 in the capital of Sanaa and the northern province of Saada, the rebels' stronghold on the border with Saudi Arabia.
"We're not going to have these people controlling which ships can go through and which ones cannot. And so your question is, how long will this go on? It will go on until they no longer have the capability to do that," Secretary of State Marco Rubio told CBS on Sunday.
He said these are not the one-off retaliation strikes the Biden administration carried out after Houthi attacks.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday vowed to use "overwhelming lethal force" until the Houthis cease their attacks, and warned that Tehran would be held "fully accountable" for their actions.
The Houthis have repeatedly targeted international shipping in the Red Sea, sinking two vessels in what they call acts of solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel has been at war with Hamas, another Iranian ally.
The attacks stopped when a Israel-Hamas ceasefire took hold in January — a day before Trump took office — but last week, the Houthis said they would renew attacks against Israeli vessels after Israel cut off the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza this month.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh is a kidney specialist who did a fellowship at the Ohio State University’s medical school from 2018-20. Alawieh hds been working at Brown University in Providence since July, according to the Providence Journal, a USA Today Network newspaper in Rhode Island.
Alawieh recently obtained another visa and was returning from a two-week trip to see family in Lebanon Thursday when customs officials at Boston Logan International Airport detained her.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney doctor who trained at Ohio State medical school and is now with Brown University Medicine, was detained at Boston Logan Airport when returning from a trip to Lebanon. She was deported back to Lebanon despite a legal visa and passport, and in violation of a federal judge's order, according to an attorney and Brown officials.
Federal authorities deported Alawieh on Friday evening — despite a federal court order to delay her deportation flight for at least 48 hours.
The Providence Journal reported that Alawieh, 34, worked at Rhode Island Hospital with kidney transplant recipients, evaluating patients at multiple stages of their procedures.
>https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/communities/2025/03/16/rasha-alawieh-deported-ohio-state-lebanon/82468566007/
Abramowitz said that the order left VOA unable to carry out its "vital mission... especially critical today, when America's adversaries, like Iran, China, and Russia, are sinking billions of dollars into creating false narratives to discredit the United States".
The president's order targets VOA's parent company US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which also funds non-profit entities such as Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia, which were originally set up to counter communism.
It tells managers to "reduce performance… to the minimum presence and function required by law".
CBS, the BBC's US news partner, said that VOA employees were notified in an email by Crystal Thomas, the USAGM human resources director.
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/trump-entlasstungen-voice-of-america-100.html
Trump Derangement Syndrome. "Trump Derangement Syndrome" means the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump. Symptoms may include Trump-induced general hysteria, which produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump's behavior. This may be expressed by:
(1) verbal expressions of intense hostility toward President Donald J. Trump; and
(2) overt acts of aggression and violence against anyone supporting President Donald J. Trump or anything that symbolizes President Donald J. Trump.
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/minnesota-senate-republicans-bill-proposes-adding-trump-derangement-syndrome-to-mental-illness-definiti-11742049348473.html
Minnesota Senate Republicans Bill proposes adding ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ to mental illness definition
A controversial bill introduced in the Minnesota Senate seeks to modify the state's definition of mental illness by including a new condition labeled Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). The bill, if enacted, would amend Minnesota Statutes 2024 to formally recognise TDS as a mental health disorder.
Bill overview
The proposed legislation, introduced during Minnesota's Ninety-Fourth Legislative Session, aims to redefine mental illness under state law. It seeks to amend the Minnesota Statutes to include Trump Derangement Syndrome alongside other mental health conditions.
According to the bill, TDS is described as an “acute onset of paranoia” in response to the policies and presidencies of Donald Trump
The bill also expands the definition of mental illness for case management and community support services, incorporating TDS within the framework of mental health intervention
“DOGE Has 10 Staffers at Social Security in Hunt for Dead People,” the headlines read this past week.
I found a dead person on Social Security. Right here in Seattle, on Capitol Hill.
Of course the circumstances of Ned Johnson’s death were completely the opposite of what Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had claimed was rampant.
“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”
That’s the biggest difference — my deceased guy turns out to be very much alive. Musk is contending that hordes of dead people are listed as alive in the Social Security databases, and are fraudulently still drawing benefits (which the Social Security director disputes).
Johnson is 82 and still kicking. Yet sometime last month, someone or something led Social Security to both tag him as dead and start clawing back his benefits.
Johnson’s strange trip through the netherworld began in February, when a letter from his bank arrived addressed to his wife, Pam.
“We recently received notification of LEONARD A. JOHNSON’s passing,” it began. “We offer our sincerest condolences …”
At first she figured it was a scam — her husband, after all, was sitting right there. But then the bank got to the point.
“We know this is a difficult time, and we’re here to help,” the bank wrote. “We received a request from Social Security Administration to return benefits paid to LEONARD A. JOHNSON’s account after their passing.”
“There’s nothing you need to do — we’ve deducted the funds from LEONARD A. JOHNSON’s account.”
Uh oh. It itemized how $5,201 had been stricken from their bank account, on the grounds that Ned wasn’t justified to get those benefits — because he was dead. That was for payments he’d received in December and January.
United States President Donald Trump‘s administration is mulling a new travel ban that is expected to affect citizens from dozens of countries to varying degrees, The New York Times reported.
Quoting anonymous officials, the report published on Friday said the US government’s draft list featured 43 countries, divided into three categories of travel restrictions.
The first group of 10 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Cuba and North Korea, would be set for a full visa suspension.
In the second group, five countries – Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar and South Sudan – would face partial suspensions that would affect tourist and student visas as well as other immigrant visas, with some exceptions.
In the third group, a total of 26 countries that includes Belarus, Pakistan and Turkmenistan would be considered for a partial suspension of US visa issuance if their governments “do not make efforts to address deficiencies within 60 days”, the draft memo said.
A US official speaking on condition of anonymity told the Reuters news agency there could be changes to the list and it was yet to be approved by the administration, including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Trump issued an executive order on January 20 requiring intensified security vetting of any foreigners seeking admission to the US to detect national security threats.
https://nypost.com/video/trump-gets-hit-in-the-face-with-a-boom-mic-she-just-became-a-big-story-tonight/
Social media was in shock and outrage last friday as during a press talk event. Current president Trump was assaulted by a mic held by one of the reporters at the event. The attack triggered various conspiracy theorists to claim it was premeditated with individuals going as far as saying law enforcement should quickly confiscate the mic to check for signs of potential chemical toxins.
As of now the reporter nor their outlet have yet to be identified and there are no plans to press charges.
Following the two attempted assassinations of the current president during his election campaign by far-left operatives, the president's security retinue are more cautious then ever of looming potential threats.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-dei-universities-investigated-f89dc9ec2a98897577ed0a6c446fae7b
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 50 universities are being investigated for alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs that his officials say exclude white and Asian American students.
The Education Department announced the new investigations Friday, one month after issuing a memo warning America’s schools and colleges that they could lose federal money over “race-based preferences” in admissions, scholarships or any aspect of student life.
“Students must be assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudged by the color of their skin,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement. “We will not yield on this commitment.”
Most of the new inquiries are focused on colleges’ partnerships with the PhD Project, a nonprofit that helps students from underrepresented groups get degrees in business with the goal of diversifying the business world.
Department officials said that the group limits eligibility based on race and that colleges that partner with it are “engaging in race-exclusionary practices in their graduate programs.”
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-trump-gop-chuck-schumer-86385e644239a3dc1558b37d13094234
Senate approves funding bill hours before shutdown deadline, sending to Trump for signature
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a Republican-led spending bill Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed into law.
The essentially party-line vote, 54-46, didn’t give the full picture of gnawing Democratic angst over how to confront the Trump administration as its Department of Government Efficiency fires federal workers and dismantles operations. Democrats argued over whether to fight even risking a shutdown and fumed that Republicans drafted a measure that included little of their input, shortchanging health care, housing and other priorities.
But in the end, enough of the Democratic senators decided a government shutdown would be even worse, and backed Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer’s strategy to allow the bill to come forward.
“A shutdown will allow DOGE to shift into overdrive,” Schumer said. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk would be free to destroy vital government services at a much faster rate.”
Democrats were confronted with two painful options: allowing passage of a bill they believe gives President Donald Trump vast discretion on spending decisions or voting no and letting funding lapse. All told, 10 Democrats voted to break the party’s filibuster to advance the bill to a final vote. On final passage, two Democrats supported the bill, and one Republican, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, opposed it. It funds the government for another six months.
Schumer gave members of his caucus days to vent their frustration about the options before them, but abruptly switched course,
"Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn't murder millions of people," the post, which he shared to his over 200 million followers, reads. "Their public sector workers did."
The post also highlights Musk's long-established disdain for public sector workers. W
our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians — chose making our communities safe, healthy and strong over getting rich,"They are not, as the world’s richest man implies, genocidal murderers."
"Elon Musk and the billionaires in this administration have no idea what real people go through every day," Saunders added. "That’s why he’s so willing to take a chainsaw to people’s jobs, Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare."
the Democratic Majority for Israel tweeted "remove musk now"
Defending Stalin, Hitler, and Mao in order to justify firing VA nurses and park rangers? Drug addled insanity.
We have reached the 'Hitler did nothing wrong' stage of Elon Musk totally not being a Nazi," one user tweeted.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-defends-hitler-mao-162840873.html
In experiments at Stanford University, chemists discovered that microdroplets in fine sprays of water generate streaks of “microlightning”. When surrounded by the right mix of gases, these sparks power chemical reactions that synthesise many molecules for life.
Prof Richard Zare, a chemist who led the team, said: “This is a real contribution to understanding how you can go from non-life to life. You have water sprays all over the place, particularly around rocks, and there are crevices in rocks where these chemicals can accumulate.”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/14/microlightning-strikes-sparked-life-on-earth-evolution-science
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-eliminate-tax-people-earning-less-150000-howard-lutnick-2044049
President Donald Trump's goal is to eliminate taxes for people earning less than $150,000 per year, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said.
"I know what his goal is — no tax for anybody making under $150,000 a year. That's what I'm working for," Lutnick told CBS News on Wednesday.
He said that major tax cuts could be implemented without causing spiraling national debt through tackling overseas tax fraud.
Why It Matters
The proposal to remove taxes for people earning less than $150,000 per year would impact the vast majority of Americans.
In 2022, around 93 percent of Americans aged 15 and over earned less than $150,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The proposal would consequently massively reduce tax revenue generated for the federal government and threaten a huge increase in national debt.
What To Know
Lutnick said on Wednesday that Trump's aim is to remove taxes for individuals earning less than $150,000 per year. He also outlined the president's other tax strategies, which include abolishing tax on tips, overtime, and Social Security, and implementing significant reductions to individual and corporate taxes
Lutnick said that the federal government would counteract massive U.S. tax cuts by implementing tariffs on foreign nations and curbing overseas tax evasion
Commercial ships sail under the flags of other nations such as Liberia to avoid U.S. taxation. "All those ships are paying no tax, its a tax scam," he said.
He added that U.S. companies hold their ip in Ireland because of its favorable tax regime.
"Ireland has a $60 billion surplus... because our companies drop their IP there. They pay Ireland the money," he said. "How about we end the tax scams."
Yet another one of bidens problems trump has fixed.
Thank you, Donald J Trump
https://www.newsweek.com/2025-eggs-prices-per-dozen-economy-donald-trump-2044401
Chart Shows 2025 Egg Price Surge Wiped Out In Single Week
The price of eggs has dropped from $7.22 per dozen, just a little less than the all-time high of $8.17 a few days before, to $4.90 in a single week, new data shows.
Why It Matters
Egg prices have skyrocketed to historic levels over the past year, with wholesalers recently paying more than $8 for a dozen eggs, compared to just $2 per dozen in previous years.
The issue became a flashpoint issue during last year's presidential election as a symbol of the increasing financial hardship many Americans have been experiencing.
A Gallup poll showed that voters overwhelmingly cited economic pressures as the key reason they voted for President Donald Trump in November.
What To Know
This year started with the price of eggs at $5.81 on January 3, moved up to $6.55 by January 23, $7.09 five days later, $7.52 by the end of the month and $8.76 at the start of February.
By February 20, the price had shot up to $8.03, before hitting an all-time high of $8.17 on March 3. But then the price started dipping, down to $7.22 by March 6, $6.08 by March 10, $5.18 by March 12 and $4.9 on March 13.
The surge in egg prices is the ongoing bird flu outbreak, which has decimated poultry stocks at farms across the country—more than 111 million birds—mostly egg-laying hens—were infected or culled between February 2022 and January 2025.
Other issues that have affected prices include inflation, supply chain issues, transportation costs, and new state animal welfare regulations
Trump promised that he would tackle egg prices on "day one" of his administration but said in December 2024 that it was "hard to bring things down once they're up."
https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/home2/bc-looks-to-seize-surrey-property-linked-to-mexican-drug-cartel-7878813
B.C. looks to seize Surrey property allegedly linked to Mexican drug cartel
Property, firearms, vehicles, motorcycles, jewelry, and electronic devices along with a boat were seized by police on Sept. 24
Anna Burns Anna Burns
about 4 hours ago
7 pounds fentanyl, 1 pound meth, 2 pounds cocaine, and a pound heroin seized from a cartel member in Minnesota who was previously deported and illegally entered under Biden
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/brooklyn-center-mexican-cartel-drugs/
Authorities seize 10+ pounds of cartel drugs from Twin Cities home, charge alleged possessor
March 11, 2025 / 6:37 PM CDT / CBS Minnesota
Cartel member in Colorado was arrested. Another illegal immigrant with a previous deportation. Fbi has not yet announced his name to the public
https://gazette.com/news/crime/fbi-arrests-man-in-colorado-springs-accused-of-cartel-involvement/article_564d7bc8-003a-11f0-a547-6f08aaccd842.html
FBI arrests man in Colorado Springs accused of cartel involvement
Mackenzie Bodell mackenzie.bodell@gazette.com Mar 13, 2025 Updated 1 hr ago
Mexican president announces to journalists that she is not a fan of trump but says that what he is doing to fight the cartels is working well
https://www.nysun.com/article/trumps-crackdown-on-mexican-cartels-finds-a-partner-in-president-sheinbaum
Trump’s Crackdown on Mexican Cartels Finds a Partner in President Sheinbaum
‘I’m not a Trump fan per se,’ says one Mexican artist, ‘but what he’s done is working.’
HOLLIE McKAY
Published: Mar. 13, 2025 01:18 PM
Elon Musk’s Tesla has warned that Donald Trump’s trade war could expose the electric carmaker to retaliatory tariffs that would also affect other automotive manufacturers in the US.
In an unsigned letter to Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative, Tesla said it “supports fair trade” but that the US administration should ensure it did not “inadvertently harm US companies”.
Tesla said in the letter: “As a US manufacturer and exporter, Tesla encourages the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to consider the downstream impacts of certain proposed actions taken to address unfair trade practices.”
The company, led by Musk, a close Trump ally who is leading efforts to downsize the federal government, said it wanted to avoid a similar impact to previous trade disputes that resulted in increased tariffs on electric vehicles imported into countries targeted by the US.
Tesla said: “US exporters are inherently exposed to disproportionate impacts when other countries respond to US trade actions. The assessment undertaken by USTR of potential actions to rectify unfair trade should also take into account exports from the United States.
“For example, past trade actions by the United States have resulted in immediate reactions by the targeted countries, including increased tariffs on electric vehicles imported into those countries.”
Trump has imposed significant tariffs that will affect vehicles and parts made around the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/14/tesla-trump-trade-war-harm-car-companies-elon-musk-tariffs
DOJ lawyers and attorneys representing Trump's former co-defendants argued that Judge Cannon should "under no circumstances" release the volume of Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report about the president's alleged retention of classified documents, alleging the report would violate the due process rights of Trump's top White House aide Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira.
"They endured approximately a year-and-a-half of rampant pretrial publicity and vilification after their indictments were sought by an unconstitutionally appointed prosecutor with unconstitutionally limitless funding, who then went on to use the materials he collected in his unlawful investigation (at continued unconstitutional expense) to craft the Report intended to justify his actions," the DOJ lawyers wrote in a status report filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
"We had an amazing judge in Florida, Trump said at DOJ headquarters on Friday. "Actually, she was brilliant. She moved quickly. She was the absolute model of what a judge should be. She was strong and tough."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/final-report-trumps-handling-classified-documents-released-doj/story?id=119823414
Preliminary reports showed that at least three people had died in crashes in the greater Amarillo region, according to officials there.
The wildfires were being fueled by gusty winds and dry air across a parched landscape in eastern New Mexico and Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and even portions of the Midwest. Forecasters at the National Weather Service warned that more fire outbreaks appeared likely going into Saturday.
By Friday afternoon, more than 100,000 had lost power across the Texas Panhandle region and parts of Oklahoma, according to poweroutage.us. The authorities warned that rolling blackouts were a possibility to avoid fires caused by downed power lines. In Norman, Okla., about 15 miles south of Oklahoma City, the authorities were urging some residents to evacuate.
In the greater Lubbock and Amarillo areas in Texas, Highway Patrol officials reported more than three dozen car crashes.
Sgt. Cindy Barkley with the Texas Department of Public Safety in Amarillo said that the agency was “inundated right now with crashes.” State Highway 207 between Borger, Texas, and Panhandle, Texas, was closed because of a multivehicle pileup. Preliminary reports showed that three people had died in crashes in the region, Sergeant Barkley said.
>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/wildfires-texas-oklahoma.html
(Sorry for paywall but this is the best singular article for this at the time. Just use 12ft.io)
Consumers
Consumer Sentiment Nosedives on Gyrating Economic Policies
University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index fell to 57.9 in mid-March, the lowest level since 2022
Consumer sentiment in the U.S. sank this month, reflecting increasing unease over shape-shifting economic policies and their potential to drive inflation higher.
The University of Michigan’s closely watched index of consumer sentiment nosedived an additional 11% to 57.9 in mid-March from 64.7 last month, much weaker than expectations of 63.2. It marks the lowest level since 2022 and a third fall in as many months.
Compared to this time last year, consumer sentiment is down 27%. A loss of confidence can be a headwind for economic growth, since consumers can delay or abandon planned purchases if they feel downbeat about their prospects.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/consumer-confidence-march-2025-drops-trump-trade-e7e0964d
https://www.sb.by/en/european-commission-to-use-10-trillion-euros-of-citizens-savings-for-eu-defence.html
https://www.wdam.com/video/2025/03/11/wva-legislature-passes-bill-allowing-doctors-inspect-childrens-genitalia-confirm-gender/
On March 11, the West Virginia legislature passed Senate Bill 456.
An amendment introduced by House Judiciary Chair J.B. Akers on March 6 would have allowed medical professionals to “to visually or physically examine a minor child for purposes of verifying the biological sex of the child without the consent of the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian.”
That amendment was adopted into the bill.
Before officially passing the Senate, Senator Patrick Martin (R - Lewis, 12) proposed two further amendments, one of which clarifies “that the article does not authorize certain examinations of minor children.”
Senator Martin’s amendment nullified Delegate Akers’ amendment, thereby excluding it from the final bill.
SB 456 was passed by the Senate Tuesday 32-1 with one Senator absent for the vote. In the House, 90 delegates voted in favor, eight opposed, and two were absent.
U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes had criticized the department’s lawyer for not having read three reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited in his policy banning transgender members of the military, according to Politico’s senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney, who posted several updates on the hearing on X.
An internal memo issued by the Pentagon in February “disqualified” transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military.
“Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are disqualified from military service,” the memo said, also banning individuals who had a “history of cross-sex hormone therapy or a history of sex reassignment or genital reconstruction surgery as treatment for gender dysphoria or in pursuit of a sex transition.”
Reyes claimed that Hegseth’s policy banning transgender service members had “egregiously misquoted” the three reports it cited, and she couldn’t believe that the Justice Department’s lawyer hadn’t bothered to actually read them.
Reyes requested that the court take a 30-minute break, and asked the department’s lawyer to review the reports and compare how they’d been misquoted by Hegseth in his policy. Then, they could tell her whether they believe she could reasonably rely on Hegseth’s interpretation of those reports.
>https://newrepublic.com/post/192657/judge-military-trans-ban-trial-lawyers-incompetence
It’s the accounting maneuver that could break the Senate, upend the federal budget process and explode the national debt.
That’s according to critics of a fiscal tactic that congressional Republicans are now seriously considering as they struggle to figure out how to deliver on all of President Donald Trump’s policy demands.
Adopting the “current policy baseline,” as it’s called, could be the only way for the GOP to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent and avoid painful cuts to federal programs, as well as pile on new income tax exemptions for tips, overtime and Social Security. Trump is expected to discuss the move with members of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee at a White House meeting Thursday.
If lawmakers adopt the change, it would essentially make it appear as though extending current tax rates, set to expire at the end of the year, would cost nothing rather than the roughly $4 trillion over 10 years that nonpartisan scorekeepers estimate.
He only managed to arrest 32,809 people since being elected, falling short of the 33,242 people arrested Biden in 2024.
CHUDS are seething
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-triples-ice-arrests-mass-deportation-plan-off-target-2043610
President Donald Trump oversaw a surge in ICE arrests during the first 50 days of his second term in office—more than doubling the daily rate under President Joe Biden's administration—newly released figures show.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made 32,809 migrant arrests between January 20 and March 10, officials said at a news conference on Wednesday.
By comparison, ICE arrested and detained about 255 people each day last year under Biden. Despite the sharp increase, the numbers still fall narrowly short of his election promise to carry out "the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America," when he referenced the 1954 "Operation Wetback," which rounded up an estimated 1 million people.
Why It Matters
At the current daily rate, over a four-year term, more than 950,000 arrests would be made, though that does not mean they would all be deported.
What To Know
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE leaders claim they discovered that the Biden administration was manipulating ICE arrest data to mislead the public. Officials allege the previous administration was "cooking the books," reporting tens of thousands of arrests while actually releasing many people into the community under catch-and-release policies
In fiscal year 2024, ICE recorded 33,242 at-large arrests—which refers to arrests made in community settings rather than jails or border checkpoints. In the first 50 days of Trump's second term, ICE has made 32,809 at-large arrests, nearly matching the total from the entire previous year
the bill was designed to close the "loophole" known as the second amendment. the bill's sponsor is an illegal alien
https://newrepublic.com/post/192589/democrat-poll-brutal-verdict-no-one-trusts-them
Democrats’ Own Polling Reveals No One Trusts Them
Democrats just received some brutal poll results—from their own firm.
Democrats are losing trust in battleground districts and struggling to connect with independent voters.
That is what new internal polling conducted by the Democratic group Navigator Research says about the party, which doesn’t bode well for next year’s midterm elections. In contested House districts, most voters believe that Democrats in Congress are “more focused on helping other people than people like me.”
Only 27 percent of independent voters in such districts believe that Democrats are focused on helping them, versus 55 percent who say they focus on others. The full findings of the poll, one of the first of battleground congressional districts since November, will be presented to House Democrats and their staff on Wednesday at their Issues Conference in Leesburg, Virginia.
The conference is supposed to help coordinate House Democrats’ messaging heading into the 2026 midterm elections, and if the results are any indication, the party needs to figure things out—and fast.
“The Democratic brand is still not where it needs to be in terms of core trust and understanding people’s challenges,” said Molly Murphy, one of the pollsters. “Even though voters are critical about Trump and some of the things he’s doing, that criticism of Trump doesn’t translate into trust in Democrats. The trust has to be earned.”
the fags who faked global warming for government gibs from biden are going to jail
Robert Morris, the Dallas-area megachurch pastor who resigned last year amid sexual abuse allegations, has been indicted in Oklahoma for child sex crimes that date back to the 1980s.
Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in politics. In 2020, Trump held a “Roundtable on Transition to Greatness” there that was attended by then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr and other prominent Republicans.
Morris faces five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said in a Wednesday evening press release.
The indictment comes less than a year after Morris resigned from Gateway Church in Southlake after an adult woman, Cindy Clemishire, said Morris repeatedly sexually assaulted her while she was a child in Oklahoma in the 1980s. Morris was at the time working as a traveling preacher.
In a Wednesday text message, Clemishire said through an attorney that she was grateful for the indictments.
“After almost 43 years, the law has finally caught up with Robert Morris for the horrific crimes he committed against me as a child,” she said. “Now, it is time for the legal system to hold him accountable. My family and I are deeply grateful to the authorities who have worked tirelessly to make this day possible and remain hopeful that justice will ultimately prevail.”
Clemishire’s disclosure came as the Dallas religious community was still reeling from a handful of recent sex abuse scandals. Since then, at least a dozen Dallas-area churches or pastors have been accused of committing or concealing sexual misconduct, allegations that have ensnared some of the area’s most prominent leaders and institutions.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned the South Lawn of the White House into a temporary Tesla showroom in a conspicuous favor to his adviser Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of the car company.
Tesla delivered five of its vehicles to the White House and parked them on a driveway for Trump to personally inspect, hours after he said in a post on his app Truth Social that he planned to buy a Tesla to demonstrate his support for Musk and for the slumping car company.
With Musk beside him, Trump declared the vehicles “beautiful” and in particular praised the company’s unusually designed Cybertruck.
“As soon as I saw it, I said, ‘That is the coolest design,’” Trump said.
Though Trump frequently attacked electric vehicles during last year’s campaign, he told reporters that he’d heard good things about Teslas from his friends. He sat in the driver’s seat of a sedan, with Musk seated beside him, and said he planned to buy one.
“The one I like is that one, and I want the same color,” he said, pointing to a red Model S. The vehicle is listed on the Tesla website for $73,490, or $88,490 for the all-wheel-drive Model S Plaid.
He did not take a test drive but said he might “another time.”
Because of ethical restraints it is extremely rare for a senior government official, let alone a sitting president, to endorse a consumer product so explicitly. In 2017, when then-Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway told Americans to buy from Ivanka Trump’s clothing line, she received a warning from a government ethics office and promised never to do it again.
By reviewing the Teslas in public before cameras, Trump ensured that his purchase would receive wide attention. Dan Scavino, a White House deputy chief of staff, livestreamed the event on X, the social media app owned by Musk.
As Musk spoke to Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow about running his companies while working with the government, several social media users noted that he was 'holding back' tears.
Elon Musk was visibly emotional as he told Fox Business that he was running so many businesses 'with great difficulty'. The billionaire's statement came as Tesla shares fell to a five-month low, more than 15% on Monday,
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/elon-musk-crying-holds-back-tears-amid-tesla-slump-with-great-difficulty-watch-article-118879988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8557rRpFTs
(Musk's plea for compassion is at 1:46 of the YouTube Fox video)
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Tuesday that President Trump’s tariff policies will be worth it, even if the economy ends up in a recession.
In an interview that aired Tuesday, CBS News’s Nancy Cordes asked Lutnick whether the tariffs will “be worth it if they lead to a recession, even a short-term recession.”
Lutnick responded: “These policies are the most important thing America has ever had.”
“So it is worth it?” Cordes pressed.
“It is worth it,” he said.
Lutnick quickly added: “The only reason there could possibly be a recession is because of the Biden nonsense that we had to live with.”
Lutnick has been a fierce defender of Trump’s approach to tariffs and said over the weekend that Americans should “absolutely not” be concerned about a possible recession.
In the latest interview, Lutnick doubled down on his support for the president’s tariff policies and insisted they are not chaotic.
“These policies produce revenues,” Lutnick said.
“So you’re saying when it looks chaotic and unpredictable from the outside that there actually is a master plan when it comes to these tariffs?” Cordes asked.
“It is not chaotic,” Lutnick said. “And the only one who thinks it’s chaotic is someone who’s being silly.”
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by The Associated Press.
The database, which was confirmed by U.S. officials and published by AP, includes more than 26,000 images that have been flagged for removal across every military branch. But the eventual total could be much higher.
In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word “gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.
This is why I don't give a shit what trump and the GOP does. Semi auto guns have been for sale in the US since well before World War I