2025 Conservative Article Reference List Archives

Below are links to primarily Conservative, Libertarian-leaning articles and/or blog posts that I have found enlightening about what is happening in America and the World right now. Scan the list and read what catches your eye; for some, just reading the headlines will provide adequate insight.

Hopefully, you will take the time to read some of them, which should open your eyes to the reality of the #DeepState and those promoting the #NewWorldOrder as well as consistent #MediaBias and ongoing #FakeNews gaslighting as well as the relentless attack on American values by Liberals and the #Progressive Left.

Liken the process of becoming better informed to working on a large puzzle. As you read more and more about what is going on, things begin to fall into place, and you finally see the big picture.

(FYI – I occasionally include links to articles that, although not newsworthy, are so silly and/or outrageous that they need to be seen to show the level of idiocy that exists these days.)

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March 31, 2025

American Thinker: So General Milley was running the whole Ukraine war with Russia without telling the public – And the U.S. just kept getting deeper and deeper into a war that could have led to a direct conflict with Russia. – While the American public under the Biden administration was told, via Congress, that the U.S. was supplying arms to Ukraine, actually, the U.S. was pretty much running the whole show. – This long and interesting report begins with this…

Forbes: Trump Is Right About Ending The Debt Ceiling – The debt ceiling does nothing to enforce fiscal discipline and threatens real economic harm. – Congress should drop this outdated and dangerous charade. – Productive policies would include cutting tax rates, cutting unnecessary spending, rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse, pursuing deep deregulation, and generating more revenue from expanding energy production. – Does all this sound familiar?

Resist The Mainstream: Speaking at a town hall event in Wisconsin on Sunday night, Musk announced that DOGE will investigate the financial dealings of lawmakers who have become “strangely wealthy.” – Elon Musk, “There is a massive amount of corruption. – Effectively, there’s a giant fraud loophole where the government can send money to an NGO that is then no longer the government by the laws of the U.S…

Boston Herald: The bill’s due for lawmakers making bank on stocks – Rank-and-file members of Congress make $174,000 annually, and yet scores of lawmakers who have spent decades on Capitol Hill are multi-millionaires. – “How do they get $20 million if they’re earning $200,000 a year?” Musk asked and said, “We’re going to try to figure it out and certainly stop it from happening.”

American Thinker: The Recently Returned Astronauts Carefully Tell The Truth – Elon Musk famously noted he offered to rescue them, but Biden’s Handlers refused. – While still stranded on the ISS, Burch Wilmore confirmed Musk’s account, and shortly thereafter, he and Williams were successfully returned to Earth while Boeing still apparently has no idea why its “Starliner” capsule malfunctioned or whether it will ever fly in space again…

Washington Free Beacon: The Department of Transportation is ramping up its investigation into internal practices put in place years ago that allegedly prioritized DEI over merit when hiring air traffic controllers. – Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday that he retained the California-based white-shoe law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to further review the situation…

American Spectator: Europe Is No Longer Worth Defending – Since we no longer share the same ideals of freedom and democracy, we should no long shoulder their burdens. – Europe is obsolete, arrogant, and parasitic. – That Europe refuses to recognize its sins along these lines does not expiate them. – Europe’s combined economic weight declines precipitously each year, something hardly lost on Trump and his team, a result of the idiotic policies of the continent’s ruling elite…

Western Journal: Leavitt Sets the Media Straight About a Trump Third Term, You Guys Keep Asking the Question, Then Melt Down When He Answers. – Trump, “A lot of people want me to do it, but we have a long way to go; it’s very early in the administration.” – “There are methods by which you could do it.”

Epoch Times: The Defense Department on Monday revealed that it would be imposing “sex-neutral” standards for military combat roles. – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the changes to its physical fitness requirements in an effort to “fix” the standards that he said were “lowered” under President Barack Obama’s administration.

One America News: Secretary Of State Rubio Says 17 More MS-13 And Tren de Aragua Gang Members Have Been Deported To El Salvador, ‘Including Murderers And Child Rapists’ – “In order to keep the American people safe, @POTUS designated the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. These criminals will no longer terrorize our communities and citizens,” he continued.

Western Journal: The White House Is Preparing A New Press Seating Plan For Press Briefings That (Literally) Puts Left-Leaning Mainstream Media Outlets in Their Place – Prominent seats in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room are coveted because it’s easier to catch the press secretary’s eye. – White House officials say it is a “fundamental restructuring of the briefing room, based on metrics more reflective of how media is consumed today…

American Spectator: Shooting Blanks From the Bench – For far too long, federal judges have feigned godhood or kingship, but they have neither the ability nor funding to enforce their rulings. – Ordinarily, when a federal district court prohibits the enforcement of a government policy, the ruling protects only the plaintiff(s) in that particular case. – But recently, an increasing number of activist federal judges have expanded the application and reach of their rulings by issuing so-called “nationwide injunctions.”…

Tablet Magazine: Prime Minister Netanyahu Takes On Israel’s Deep State – The firing of domestic security chief Ronen Bar is the latest battle in the war at home. – Bar’s removal is long overdue. – For starters, he is probably the person most directly responsible for the disaster of Oct. 7. Gaza is the Shin Bet’s intelligence turf, and so Bar’s advice to refrain from raising the level of alert on the night before the IDF naturally accepted the massacre…

Western Journal: A ‘Very Angry’ Trump Sends Threats to Both Putin and Zelenskyy, ‘We Made a Deal’ – Trump said if Russia sabotages any hope for peace, it will pay the price. – “If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault — which it might not be — but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia.”…

Daily Fetched: ICE Agents Were Targeted in Viral TikTok Video Urging Viewers To Shoot Ice Agents On Sight – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took to social media to denounce the threat, vowing to take action against the individual responsible for posting the video. – “If you threaten or attempt to harm a law enforcement officer, we will find you and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.”

Victor Davis Hanson: Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in America – Trump is racing to dismantle decades of leftist policies, but success hinges on speed, discipline, and the Supreme Court, while at the same time facing fierce resistance from entrenched institutions. – Trump is currently waging a 360-degree, 24/7 effort to undo at least the last 20 years of the most recent manifestation of the leftist cultural revolution inaugurated by Barack Obama…

The New York Post: Elon Musk reveals DOGE’s new target are members of Congress who got ‘strangely wealthy’ while in office – His current theory is, “They’ll [the government] send the money overseas to one NGO [non-governmental organization], then they’ll go through a bunch of them, and then I’m highly confident that a bunch of that money then comes back to the United States and lands in their pockets.”…

Zero Hedge: In Latest Blow To European Democracy, A Judge Rules Marine Le Pen Is Ineligible To Run For President In 2027 – Le Pen said before the trial that the matter is entirely political and that her opponents wished for her “political death.” – Even the leader of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) Jean-Luc Melenchon appeared ill at ease. – Other commentators have expressed surprise at not only the verdict but also the decision to exclude her from elections.

Amuse on X: From Trump to Le Pen, Lawfare and the New World Order – For years, French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen has been the bête noire of Brussels. – Her real crime? – Proposing that the French—not the European Commission—should determine France’s future. – After leading in the polls for the 2027 presidency, she was slapped with a conveniently timed conviction for misallocating parliamentary staff funds—a technicality so esoteric it wouldn’t pass muster in a Texas HOA dispute…

Powerline: Inside Social Security – Antonio Gracias shares what he has discovered inside the Social Security Administration. – There are a lot of people in Government who took huge risks to get us this information and show us what’s going on. These are very good people. – GRACIAS: “In 2021, 270,000 non-citizens got social security numbers. In 2024, 2.1M non-citizens got social security numbers.

American Thinker: Slaying the University Dragons – Most Americans don’t realize just how evil our universities have become. – As a general rule, the lower the acceptance rate at the school, the more radical the faculty, making the Ivy League schools some of the worst. But even unheard-of Universities in random small towns suffer from the same disease. – Nearly 100 percent of professors aren’t just run-of-the-mill Democrats but are full-throated radicals…

American Thinker: Canada Embraces European Suicide – Installed Canadian PM Mark Carney will likely retain his office following their snap election on April 28. – His Liberal Party is riding a wave of anti-Trump, anti-American mania ignited by the U.S. president’s imposition of tariffs and emasculation of Justin Trudeau. – A big reason is that they have been fed lies about their nation’s relative strength and sovereignty all their lives…

American Thinker: Why Do Democrats Hate Women and Girls? – Trump and Republicans are striving to bring back common sense and decency to women’s sports, while Democrats are exerting every effort to thwart such measures. – The social issue du jour is transgenderism. Democrats are the party of transgenderism, which represents only a tiny fraction of the population. – Male athletes are 10-25% faster and stronger than female athletes when comparing…

Zero Hedge: Vaccine stocks tumbled in the early U.S. cash session after Dr. Peter Marks, a top FDA regulator and pro-vaxxer, abruptly resigned on Friday. – Wall Street analysts view Marks’ departure as a bearish signal for vaccine stocks, such as Moderna, Novavax, BioNTech, and others, which already face mounting headwinds, including a wave of layoffs expected at the Department of Health and Human Services.

California Globe: Gavin Newsom Talks and People Everywhere Cringe – Newsom’s rebranding podcast isn’t going so well – Newsom is trying to distance himself from himself and attempting to rebrand himself as a likable moderate gent. – The problem is, he’s not likable, his lengthy record of leftist politics is undeniable, and he is not a man of honor. – A recently released Capitol Weekly poll found that 13% of voters now have an improved perception of the Governor, with a huge 26% saying that it harmed their perception of Newsom…

March 30, 2025

Epoch Times: President Trump Threatens Secondary Tariffs on Russian Oil If Ukraine Cease-Fire Fails – Trump said he‘d impose sanctions ’if Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault.’

Epoch Times: President Trump Threatens Iran With Bombing And Secondary Tariffs If It Fails to Make Nuclear Deal – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian earlier said the Islamic regime is declining direct negotiations with the United States over its fast-track nuclear program.

Breitbart: Hamas operatives kidnapped, tortured, and executed 22-year-old Palestinian Oday Nasser Al Rabay, who participated in last week’s protests wave of protests against the terror group, according to his family. – His body was left in front of his family’s home over the weekend.

Wall Street Journal: A Bill to Stop Nationwide District Court Judge Injunctions – Senator Chuck Grassley, “My legislation would curb judicial policymaking and politicization of courts. – The obvious solution is to limit district courts to resolving the cases only between the parties before them. If the Supreme Court won’t act to rein in the lower courts, Congress must.”

American Thinker: I’ve recognized manipulation in the past, and I see it now on the Supreme Court – The decision to place John Roberts, and not a more experienced justice, in the Supreme Court’s top seat is beginning to make sense, and not in a good way. – We have a supposedly conservative Chief Justice who belongs to the same secretive “club” as patently evil Judge Boasberg, chief judge of the DC district court…

Front Page: Trump Secured The Border for Only 0.2% of the Cost of the Border Crisis – Mainstream media hypes the cost of securing the border but refuses to discuss the cost of open borders. – The House Budget Committee estimated the cost of the crisis at $150 billion, while others put it at $200 billion or even higher. – $330 million would be around 0.2% of $150 billion.

American Spectator: The Teachers Unions Utilize ‘NewsGuard’ to Censor Education – In the name of ‘media literacy,’ K-12 students have been systematically steered toward leftist ‘news’ outlets. – This effort began with the advent of the internet and the increasing tendency of students to go online in search of information for homework projects. – Newsguard ratings strongly suggest a bias toward corporate media outlets with a lot of Democrat-friendly content…

Slay News: Putin’s Limousine Explodes Just Days After Zelensky Boasted He ‘Will Die Soon’ – The vehicle exploded near Moscow’s Federal Security Service (FSB) headquarters. – The official limousines erupted in flames following a large explosion. – Video footage from the incident shows significant damage to the rear of the car, where the fire was most intense…

Daily Wire: President Trump Is ‘Absolutely’ Considering Annexing Greenland, ‘I Don’t Take Anything Off The Table’ – Trump on Saturday expressed “100%” certainty that the United States would eventually “get Greenland.” – Trump made the comments in a 10-minute phone interview with NBC News.

Jerusalem Post: Iran urges confidentiality in letters exchanged between Trump and Khamenei – The report comes amid contact between the Islamic Republic and the US over reported efforts to reach a nuclear deal. – The letter included a two-month deadline by which a new nuclear deal could be reached, two sources confirmed…

Geller Report: STOP THE STEAL – Milwaukee Officials Are Handling Ballots In Secret Back Rooms With No Observer Access In This Critical Wisconsin Supreme Court Race. – “This Supreme Court election is ground zero. – Every conservative voice should be sounding the alarm. – If Brad Schimel doesn’t win on April 1st, the GOP will lose two House seats in 2026—and with them, the majority.”

National Pulse: Attorney General Pam Bondi Promises ‘NO PLEA DEALS’ in The Tesla Vandalism Cases. – Expressing the urgency of enforcing stringent measures against these acts, Bondi warned those involved to cease their terroristic activities. “They are setting off bombs and huge, massive fires in residential neighborhoods and charging stations…

Zero Hedge: An Ex-WSJ Journalist, Asra Nomani, Revealed 24 Organizations Funding Tesla Takedown Madness – Democrats unleashed their coordinated, NGO-driven color revolution—dubbed the ‘Tesla Takedown’—nationwide on Saturday. – 100% of the groups are aligned with the Democratic Party, yet most enjoy tax-deductible status as 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations, claiming they are “nonpartisan.” – Here is the chart…

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Judge Boasberg Is Currently America’s Most Powerful Man – Democrats don’t have a counter-agenda, so they use the judiciary, and they use four or five of these ultra-liberal judges, and they become for weeks on time the most powerful people in the United States. – It’s sort of delay, delay, delay, and eat up a year of the Trump administration because they have nothing positive to contribute to America.”

FAR: Karoline Leavitt Tells Us What It’s Like To Work for President Trump – In a special episode of “The Signal Sit Down” filmed at the White House, Leavitt opens up about her relationship with President Donald Trump, her political upbringing, and how the president is garnering record support with young voters.

March 29, 2025

The Daily Fetched: Elon Musk and DOGE have uncovered more outrageous instances of government waste, this time highlighting how private contractors exploited the government during the Biden administration. – Musk pointed to one case involving a simple 10-question survey about Americans’ use of national parks. – A contractor was paid nearly $1 billion, almost a third of the department’s budget, for the simple survey, the results of which were never used for anything.

Center Square: The Department of State will assume many of the responsibilities and oversight of programs previously performed by the U.S. Agency of International Development, effectively shuttering the controversial USAID department. – Elon Musk’s DOGE had been targeting USAID’s questionable spending for cuts, which led to legal challenges.

Epoch Times: Federal Judge J. Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York Halts The Shutdown of Voice of America – VOA employees secured a court order that prevents the Trump administration from shuttering the outlet for now.

PJ Media: You Won’t Believe What Insanity HHS Was Funding – Do you want your taxpayer dollars funding studies on preventing pregnancy in “transgender boys” or HIV stigma in Thailand? Fortunately, Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary also considers that waste, so he’s cutting numerous idiotic woke studies.

Breitbart: A growing number of illegal migrants are smuggling themselves out of the United States to avoid the legal penalties of government deportations, according to multiple witnesses. – “I’ve been a journalist for more than 25 years, but I never thought I would see this,” said Alfredo Corchado, an American journalist in Texas and Mexico and an executive editor at the Puente News Collaborative.

Sharyl Attkisson: 15 Surprising Facts About Greenland and the U.S. – Trump is the 3d U.S. president to try to acquire Greenland – The U.S. Currently Defends Greenland’s Security – Thule Air Base Monitors Russia – Shipping Lane Importance – Rare Earth Riches – Greenland’s Massive Size Surprises Many – Norway Used to Own Greenland

CNBC: Elon Musk has combined two of his companies, xAI and X, into a single entity. – xAI is the acquirer, valued at $80 billion in the deal, while X is valued at $30 billion. – Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion in 2022 and later changed the name to X.

Slay News: The House has voted to end former President Biden’s regulations that placed restrictions on refrigerators and freezers. – The vote is part of a wider effort by Republicans and President Donald Trump to roll back Biden-era regulations that targeted common household appliances. – The rules would have imposed more strict energy efficiency standards for commercial refrigerators and freezers.

Epoch Times: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Allows DOGE to Continue to Downsize USAID – The new ruling suspended a Maryland federal judge’s order to block the Trump administration’s efforts to pare down USAID operations.

Breitbart: Britain’s government is hoping to reach a last-minute post-Brexit trade agreement with Washington to avoid — or at least mitigate — more tariffs set to be announced on Wednesday by US President Donald Trump.

American Thinker: On The Anti-Trump Lawfare – Yes, it’s a conspiracy – Congress is working on bills that would clip the wings of out-of-control, partisan Democrat politicians in robes…

American Greatness: The Left and the Department of Education, It Is Not About the Money – The left clings to the Department of Education not for funds but for control—using it to sever parental rights and indoctrinate children under the guise of education.

FAR: Bret Baier’s Interview With Elon Musk And His DOGE Team – During this informative interview, Elon Musk and key members of his cost-cutting team discuss their efforts to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse from the government. – Some of their jaw-dropping discoveries will blow you away…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures: Signals Crossed Edition – In Week 10 of the Trump administration, battles of one kind or another are raging across the country.

March 28, 2025

Breitbart: There Was Panic On The Streets Of Bangkok As 7.7 Magnitude Quake Collapsed A Skyscraper Under Construction – Dash cam footage captured the shocking moment the skyscraper quickly collapsed – The construction site of a new 30-story government building promptly turned into a disaster scene, with people jumping into cars to escape or shrieking as they fled on foot.

New York Post: Vladimir Putin threatens to ‘finish off’ Ukrainian troops after a bold violation of the US-backed partial cease-fire. – Russian forces this week attacked a Ukrainian energy facility in Kherson, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned, accusing Putin of breaching the precarious deal halting military action in the Black Sea and pausing long-range attacks on energy infrastructure…

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to step in and allow the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador while a legal battle plays out in lower courts. – The move comes two days after an appeals court upheld a temporary block on the Trump administration’s ability to deport illegal migrants under the Alien Enemies Act. – In their request, the DOJ argued that federal courts should not be allowed to interfere with diplomatic matters…

Conservative Brief: Trump, Musk Go All In On The Wisconsin Supreme Court Race – Both parties are paying attention to the fight on Tuesday between conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel and liberal Dane County Judge Susan Crawford. – The winner will take over the seventh seat on the state’s Supreme Court, which was left open when a judge retired.

Slay News: President Donald Trump has secured a huge economic boost as durable goods orders in the US experienced a surprising increase in February instead of the projected decrease. – In February, orders for durable goods, items expected to last three years or more — rose by 0.9% to a total of $289.3 billion. – This outcome exceeded economists’ predictions, which anticipated a 1.0% decline.

Slay News: DOGE has just saved American taxpayers $billion more after cutting several huge contracts funding “climate change activities” in foreign countries. – DOGE eliminated more than 100 taxpayer-funded contracts that sent American tax dollars to foreign nations to pay for “woke” pet projects. – DOGE axed 113 contracts totaling $4.7 billion in potential spending.

Zero Hedge: The EU Plans Concessions For Trump After Reciprocal Tariffs Hit – In what may be the first clear confirmation Trump’s plan to realign the global trader system is working, the European Union is identifying concessions it’s willing to make to Donald Trump’s administration to secure the partial removal of the US tariffs that have already started hitting the bloc’s exports and that are set to increase after April 2.

Zero Hedge: PM Mark Carney’s Useless Tough Talk Tough – Carney proclaimed the end of Canada’s close ties with America, but he may be whistling past the graveyard. – There is little logic or energy behind Canada remaining an independent country today, as our friend Peter Nimitz details in the post he has generously allowed us to excerpt. – Looking back before the year 2025, Canada appears to be a fluke of history…

Daily Wire: Trump Had ‘Extremely Productive Call’ With Canada’s New Liberal PM And Says ‘We Agree On Many Things. – Trump and Carney spoke over the phone as the two neighboring countries discussed a possible agreement on fair trade. – Prime Minister Mark Carney had previously said Canada’s “old relationship” with the United States “is over.”

Epoch Times: U.S. District Judge James Boasberg Orders US Officials to Preserve Their Signal Messages – The order was handed down after a hearing involving government lawyers and the watchdog group American Oversight, which sued the officials this week over their recently disclosed chat on Signal. – Judge Boasberg recently blocked the government from deporting suspected and confirmed members of the Tren de Aragua gang under a wartime law that President Donald Trump invoked…

American Thinker: Trump Is Not Destroying the Constitution, But Rather Restoring It –The skirmishes between the judiciary and the executive branch have escalated into a full-scale war with unelected partisan judges refusing to let President Trump govern. – It may look like a war between the President and the Courts, but it’s really about the Left vs. the Right, with the Constitution caught in the middle.

Washington Examiner: Republican Senators Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and Bernie Moreno introduced a bill on Thursday to “terminate the Department of Education.” – The department’s final day would be Dec. 31, 2026, according to the proposed legislation. – This is the third time Senator Paul introduced a bill to end the Education Department after proposing similar legislation in 2020 and 2021.

Daily Wire: President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that will end collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal employees whose work is related to national security. – The EO applies to public sector unions representing workers in federal agencies “with national security missions,” including the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Science Foundation, and the Coast Guard…

FAR: The Darien Gap Revisited – In the first full month of President Trump’s second term, border patrol encounters with illegal crossers dropped 96% from the year before. – But preventing people from ever reaching America’s southern border in the first place can save suffering and even lives. – Now, there’s a renewed push to close the notorious Darien Gap, and border czar Tom Holman says things are about to change.

American Thinker: The Paris Climate Agreement Was Doomed From The Start – It was flawed and doomed to fail from its inception, so it is long past time for all parties to it and the media to acknowledge this fact. – Physics, economic, and social realities on the ground, and the structure of the treaty itself ensured that the Paris Agreement would be ineffective in preventing greenhouse gas emissions from rising…

Geller Report: Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the revocation of at least 300 student visas. –His action targets foreign students engaged in activities Rubio describes as causing chaos on American campuses, including violent demonstrations and vandalism. – Rubio emphasized a policy of zero tolerance for disruptive behavior by foreign visitors, indicating that such measures will continue…

Breitbart: The Trump administration is investigating California over a law signed by Governor Newsom last year that bars school districts from adopting policies requiring schools to notify parents if their children want to change genders. – Polls show the vast majority of Californians agree parents have the right to know if children want to change gender…

March 27, 2025

One America News: North Korea sent more than 3,000 soldiers to Russia in January and February. – This announcement comes as Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenk stated a visit by North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un to Russia is currently being prepared. – An estimated 11,000 troops from North Korea have been sent to Russia so far…

National Pulse: Zelensky Launches A Scathing New Attack on The Trump Team – “Europe, unlike the US, has discipline and no chaos.” – “Members of the Trump administration are falling for Russian propaganda surrounding the conflict.” – “Special Envoy Steve Witkoff doesn’t look like a military man, he doesn’t look like a general, and he doesn’t have such experience.”…

Western Journal: Guess Which Judge Protected Hillary by Delaying Release of 15k of Her Emails Until After the 2016 Election – U.S. District Judge James Boasberg – Boasberg, as you might know, is the Obama-appointed judge who’s attempted to block President Donald Trump’s fast-track deportation of members of the Venezuelan transnational gang Tren de Aragua and is now in charge of another case…

AMUSE on X: Don’t Blame The Trump Administration, Signal Chat Was Biden’s Idea – This encrypted messaging app, lionized by privacy advocates and lamented by transparency watchdogs, was not some novelty recently smuggled into the West Wing under cover of chaos. – It was, rather, a tool normalized under President Joe Biden, whose administration quietly blessed its use among White House officials…

One America News: A Federal Judge Rejects The Trump Admin’s Ban On Transgenders Serving In The Military – D.C.-based U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, a Joe Biden appointee, claimed that the Department of Defense’s justification for the ban was based on “pretext and anti-trans policy.”

Just The News: A Homeland Security watchdog confirms the Feds lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied border kids. – From fiscal years 2019 to 2023, more than 448,000 unaccompanied minors were transferred to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services custody, with the majority then released to sponsors. – However, more than 31,000 of the children’s release addresses were blank, missing apartment numbers, or otherwise incomplete.

News Busters: These Four Minutes of PBS Coverage Make A Strong Case for Defunding PBS – The facts be known, the commentary on shows like NewsHour is as far in crazy left-wing territory as most prime-time MSNBC shows, and it’s been this way since at least the 1990s.

Center Square: Thursday, President Trump called for defunding National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service, two partially federally funded groups under scrutiny. – Trump’s comments come after heads of both NPR and PBS defended their work at a Wednesday Congressional hearing. – Trump, “NPR and PBS, two horrible and completely biased platforms (Networks!), should be DEFUNDED by Congress, IMMEDIATELY.”

American Thinker: Big Tech’s Invisible Hand, How Google and Meta Manipulate our Elections – Together, they create a duopoly that influences what billions of people see, read, and think every day. – Their dominance is not just a business achievement; it functions as a political weapon. – These companies have the tools, the data, and the motive to sway voters, and they haven’t been hesitant to use them…

Center Square: California lost 173,000 fully private sector jobs since January 2023. – This was offset by a gain of 181,100 largely part-time government and government-supported jobs in the state. – Thirty-eight percent of these new jobs are from elderly or disabled individuals using state funds to pay household members and others minimum wage for part-time care and assistance…

Brownstone Institute: Dr. Robert Malone Endorses Susan Monarez for Director of the CDC – He describes her as an administrative dynamo who, as acting CDC director, has been working closely with DOGE and is doing an excellent job as acting director. “If the MAHA agenda is to succeed, it will need people like Monarez to lead in key administrative positions.” – “The energetic Monarez may be just what the doctor ordered for treating a very sick CDC.”…

Breitbart: Zelensky Declares Ukraine Will ‘Never Cede’ Occupied Territories to Russia And Suggests President Trump Is Being Naive About Putin. – Ahead of peace talks in Riyadh earlier this week, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said that Ukraine’s, and indeed the rest of the world’s, willingness to acknowledge that it had lost the territories to Russia would be key to whether a peace settlement could be reached between Moscow and Kyiv.

Newsmax: The Trump administration directed two intelligence agencies to train their satellites on the U.S.-Mexico border region as part of a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration and drug cartels. – The NGA and NRO are part of the Department of Defense. They oversee spy satellites and analyze imagery for the Pentagon and other intelligence organizations.

Epoch Times: Trump Withdraws Stefanik’s Nomination to Be Ambassador to UN – Trump asked Elise, as one of his biggest Allies, to remain in Congress to help deliver on his promises. – “With a very tight Majority, he doesn’t want to take a chance on anyone else running for Elise’s seat.”

Geller Report: A THIRD of All DC District Judges Were Not Born in the United States – These Obama and Biden-appointed judges are foreign-born and had no experience as Judges when appointed. – And now they are ruling the country?

Daily Fetched: President Trump has signed a new executive order mandating that voters provide proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote. – The order aims to strengthen election security and ensure that only American citizens can cast ballots in U.S. elections. – Thirty-five states required voters to present identification before casting a ballot during the November election.

Newsmax: The Recent McLaughlin Brothers Poll Reflects Trump’s Successes – “Donald Trump’s job approval right now is 52% approve, 43% disapprove,” he said. “In our last poll, the Republicans are leading the generic ballot for Congress, 47%-43%. But Donald Trump can seal the midterm elections by stopping the tax increase.”

Geller Report: Jasmine Crockett, Chuck Schumer, and Fellow Democrats Admit They Only Care About Hurting Trump, Not Passing Legislation – Crockett’s” blatant disregard for productive governance highlights the growing trend among some Democrats, prioritizing partisan attacks over meaningful policy work that could actually benefit the American people.

Western Journal: Gabbard Quickly Smashes The Democrats ‘War Plans’ Lie – “Were there any sources described in the Signal chat?” Steube asked Gabbard. – “No, congressman,” she responded. – “Were there any methods described in the Signal chat?” he asked. – “No,” she responded. – “Were there any locations?” he asked. – “No,” she responded again. – “Therefore, due to the fact that there were no sources, no methods, no locations described in the Signal chat, it does not make the discussion classified, is that correct?” he asked. – “That is up to the secretary of Defense’s determination,” Gabbard said…

Gatestone Institute: The Alien Enemies Act, ‘Public Safety,’ the Separation of Powers, and That Important Little Word ‘Or’ – Former AG William Barr, “The president is absolutely right to be frustrated and concerned about the way the courts are handling this. – The Constitution gives the president the power to make the judgments about how we deal with foreign nationals when national security concerns animate us.”…

America Greatness: Is Tren de Aragua a Military Incursion? You Bet! – This article is based on an intelligence briefing and refutes Boasberg’s central argument—that it is inappropriate for President Trump to apply the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua. – Predicates for invoking the Act include “any invasion or predatory incursion attempted … by any foreign nation or government” and that “the President shall make a public declaration of the event.” – So, are those conditions met?…

New York Post: A Top MS-13 leader from El Salvador, described as ‘worst of the worst,’ was arrested in Virginia during a major Trump-backed operation – The joint operation involved the FBI, ICE, ATF, the Virginia State Police, and Prince William County Police Department. – FBI Director Kash Patel, “This is what happens when you let good cops be cops.”

One America News: President Trump Announces 25% Tariffs On Automotive Imports And Vows ‘Business Will Flourish’ – Trump, “This will continue to spur growth like you haven’t seen before,” Trump stated on Wednesday. – “We’ll effectively be charging a 25% tariff. But if you build your car in the United States, there is no tariff.”

Victor Davis Hanson: From Profanity Chic to Terrorist Porn – Democrats, reeling from electoral losses, embrace profanity-laced rhetoric, street-theater activism, and veiled support for political violence, alienating voters and further hastening their decline. – “Asshole” is now the standard Democrat epithet for Musk, as voiced by Sen. Mark Kelly. “D*ck” is the preferred Musk slur from Sen. Tina Smith. – Xenophobia is also now Democratic chic.

FAR: The Biden Administration’s 57 Censorship Initiatives – President Joe Biden and his administration spent four years continuously attacking the First Amendment and the free speech rights enshrined by the nation’s Founders. – The degree and extent of their coordination is dizzying, spanning no fewer than 90 different government agencies…

Wall Street Journal: RFK Jr. Plans 10,000 Job Cuts in A Major Restructuring of The Health Department – The worker cuts are in addition to roughly 10,000 employees who opted to leave the department since President Trump took office through voluntary separation offers, according to the documents. – Changes would reshape the nation’s health agencies and close regional offices.

Townhall: FBI Director Kash Patel delivered to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence the long-awaited documents relating to the 2017 congressional baseball shooting. – “These are documents sought by Capitol Hill officials for almost 8 years,” Patel said on Wednesday. – “Providing these documents was one of our top priorities in delivering a new FBI era of transparency.

The Federalist: On top of its blackout of the Hunter Biden laptop story, here are 10 other times NPR proved it doesn’t deserve another taxpayer dime. – 1. SCOTUS Maskgate – 2. ‘Babies Are Not Babies Until They Are Born’ – 3. Live Broadcasting an Abortion – 4. The Tear Gas Hoax – 5. ‘In Defense of Looting’ Promotion…

March 26, 2025

Epoch Times: Zelenskyy Says US Has Offered ‘Full-Scale’ Critical Minerals Deal – Kyiv says Washington’s proposal is a ‘full-scale agreement’ that could pave the way for a joint revenue-sharing agreement on rare earths. – Negotiators from the United States, Russia, and Ukraine have been engaged in talks in Saudi Arabia this week as Washington seeks to broker a peace deal between the two nations.

Sharyl Attkisson: How Many Have Actually Died In The Russia-Ukraine War? – Pinning down the precise number, now grinding into its third year, is fairly impossible, but we know that soldiers and civilians alike have paid a steep price on both sides. Our best estimate is ~43,000 Ukrainian Soldiers, 12,605 Ukrainian Citizens, 146,000 to 211,000 Russian Soldiers, and ~80 Russian citizens. – This does not include all those wounded…

Breitbart: Inside the CCP’s United Front Work in Minnesota – Just a ten-minute drive from the Governor’s Mansion sits a brutalist brick building that houses a secret Chinese Communist Party front operation that serves several functions for the CCP, with none of them good for the US. – Xi Jinping describes their work as a “magic weapon” that helps “undermine the sovereignty and integrity of the political system of targeted states…

Just The News: House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan lays out a sweeping agenda for needed judicial reform – He plans to address reforms to the judicial system in three ways: passing legislation to limit nationwide injunctions by individual federal judges, wielding Congress’s appropriations power to curtail judicial activism, and conducting hearings on judicial conduct.

Western Journal: The Biggest Lie Nobody Caught – JD Vance Obliterated Signal Story Writer Jeffrey Goldberg With A Single Revelation – It’s very clear Goldberg oversold what he had, but one thing in particular really stands out. – Remember when he was attacking Ratcliffe for blowing the cover for a CIA agent? It turns out Ratcliffe was simply naming his chief of staff…

Center Square: The city of Los Angeles has issued just four rebuilding permits in the Pacific Palisades 75 days after a fire devastated most of the coastal community, highlighting the city’s struggle with providing basic government services. – Amid a $1 billion deficit, the mayor is seeking a $1.9 billion bailout from the state on top of the $2.5 billion in fire aid already approved. – Newsom, in turn, is seeking a $40 billion bailout from Congress and the Trump administration.

American Thinker: Payback, J.D. Vance calmly gives Denmark a real reason to be paranoid since they asked for it. – They had their chance to be hospitable to Mrs. Vance and talk dog sled race, but instead, they were rude and overreacted. – So, as a result, they got a visit from J.D. to a Greenlandic U.S. military base and can only wonder what kind of discussions went on behind closed doors.

Daily Signal: NPR’s CEO Inadvertently Makes the Case On Why We Need to Defund NPR – If you watch nothing else from the hearing, this clip demonstrates everything you need to know about NPR’s leadership. – In just two minutes, Representative Brandon Gill exposed NPR’s CEO as a phony, dishonest ideologue who has no business running a taxpayer-funded media network…

Western Journal: The White House Immediately Goes on the Offensive as The Atlantic Releases The Full Signal Chat, It’s Just ‘Another Hoax’ – White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt set the facts straight that no actual “war plans” had been divulged, while Trump explained that he thought it was much ado about nothing and that they’ve already pinpointed the issue.

Daily Wire: Judge Boasberg, Who Blocked The Deportation Flights, Has Been Assigned To A Signal Chat Lawsuit – The lawsuit was filed by an organization that claims the Signal Chat violated the Federal Records Act. – The communications were released Monday by The Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, after he had been inadvertently added to the chat.

Real Clear Politics: President Trump Is Fighting Dozens of Lefty Judges as The Cowardly Supreme Court Dithers – In Monday’s emergency application, Trump’s Solicitor General Sarah Harris challenged a San Francisco district court judge’s injunction preventing federal offices in all 50 states, including Agriculture, Defense, Treasury, and Commerce, from downsizing

Epoch Times: President Trump issued an executive order on March 25 directing federal officials to take steps to make sure illegal immigrants and other noncitizens do not vote in federal elections. – The order also says the U.S. attorney general shall take action against states that count ballots received after Election Day, setting up legal showdowns.

Slay News: A Joe Biden-appointed federal judge has blocked DOGE from accessing data from three federal agencies. – U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman argues that the data-sharing effort is a potential legal breach – In just two months, over 120 lawsuits have been presented in reaction to more than 90 executive orders, proclamations, and memos issued under Trump’s administration…

Breitbart: A trio of federal judges in California declared on Tuesday that President Trump must welcome roughly 40,000 refugees approved by Joe Biden’s deputies. – In Seattle, another federal judge ordered the Trump administration to keep paying the quasi-government agencies that settle the refugees in Americans’ crowded housing, schools, and workplaces, such as in Springfield, Ohio. – The judges’ policy preferences are likely to be appealed by Trump’s deputies…

Slay News: President Trump’s administration warned Egypt it faces losing billions of dollars in U.S. aid if the government refuses to take in refugees from Gaza. – Egypt’s struggling economy could benefit from the generous aid package. – However, if the Egyptian government waits much longer to accept the deal, the U.S. will offer it elsewhere, a source close to the discussion said.

Associated Press: U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason Rules The Biden Administration Unlawfully Canceled Oil And Gas Leases in Alaska Refuge – AIDEA filed the lawsuit against the Biden administration in 2023 after the Department of Interior canceled oil and gas leases it won in January 2021.

The Federalist: Senate Democrats Claim The Censorship Industrial Complex Never Existed, But If It Did, It Was A Good Thing – At a Senate Judiciary hearing, Democrats can’t help but admit they support government censorship of free speech. – This was a hard case for Senate Democrats to make on Tuesday, in part because the evidence of a robust censorship industrial complex targeting First Amendment-protected speech is, at this point, overwhelming.

American Conservative: The Real Meaning of Signalgate – Republican foreign policy is wide open in a way it has not been in generations. – Trump’s success in keeping his campaign promises on foreign policy rides on conversations like the one his deputies had before the Yemen strikes. – Those promises include delivering an America that is militarily strong but judicious in its use of force…

City Journal: Ten Questions for NPR CEO Katherine Maher When She Testifies Before Congress. – In 2020, you wrote that “America is addicted to white supremacy” and expressed support for race-based “reparations.” Do you still believe that America is addicted to white supremacy? – In 2016, you chastised Hillary Clinton for using the words “boy and girl,” arguing that her words were “erasing language for non-binary people.” Can you tell us what a “non-binary person” is?…

American Thinker: PM Mark Carney’s snap election is a globalist power grab disguised as leadership by continuing Trudeau’s agenda but with a more polished image. – But President Trump saw this coming, and he may be the only one ready to stop it. – Carney’s sudden rise to power isn’t a win for democracy; it’s another step toward globalism in a Canadian suit.

American Thinker: Representative Jasmine Crockett mocked Texas’s wheelchair-bound Governor Abbott as ‘Governor Hot Wheels,’ then kept on digging – It is time for Democrats to get rid of this rancid cupcake, billed by the NYT as one of the party’s “most effective communicators.” – Some have called her “the unquestioned leader of her party,” and since then, Crockett has shown us who she really is, spewing stuff like this…

Wall Street Journal: Trump Says Russia Might Be ‘Dragging Its Feet’ on The Cease-Fire Deal – The president observed he had used similar tactics in real-estate negotiations. – Trump’s comments came hours after the White House announced a Black Sea cease-fire deal and Russia promptly demanded additional steps from the West on sanctions relief before complying with such a truce.

March 25, 2025

Western Journal: The White House said Tuesday that Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire in the Black Sea and a ban on striking each other’s energy facilities. – “If implemented, the agreements could mark a major step toward a wider deal to end the three-year-long war.”- Both nations rely on Black Sea ports to conduct world trade…

Daily Wire: The U.S. Military Staging Serious Firepower Near The Middle East After President Trump Warned Iran that it Must Enter a Nuclear Deal in the Next Several Weeks or Else its Nuclear Program Will be Eliminated. – The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is the only aircraft in the world capable of carrying the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). – At least three B-2 bombers, three C-17 cargo planes, and 10 aerial refueling tankers were deployed…

One America News: President Trump Requests ‘Immediate’ Declassification Of Materials Related To FBI’s Russia ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ Investigation. – A crucial document that prompted the start of the investigation was the “Steele dossier,” which contained scathing and unsubstantiated claims about Trump’s alleged coordination with the Russian government…

Resist The Mainstream: – Trump clarified that Goldberg’s inclusion in the military plans chat was a mistake, explaining that it was “one of National Security Advisor Michael Waltz’s people” who had mistakenly added the journalist’s number. – Despite the controversy, Trump emphasized that Goldberg’s presence in the group chat had “no impact at all” on the mission being discussed.

Resist The Mainstream: FBI Director Kash Patel is pushing back against claims made by CNN and others regarding potential personnel changes within ATF. – Patel, who also serves as acting ATF director, addressed these allegations in a memo to ATF staff, calling the report “entirely false” and accusing the media of spreading misleading information.

Daily Wire: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi is reportedly weighing cutting tariffs on the tens of billions of dollars worth of U.S. goods that come into his country every year in an effort to stave off President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs that are set to go into place next month. – India believes that Trump’s tariffs would hit 87% of the goods they export to the U.S. every year.

One America News: Trump’s Nominee For Secretary Of the U.S. Navy, John Phelan, Has Been Confirmed By the Senate – Phelan pledged to review the Navy’s existing contracts while simultaneously focusing on a clean audit. – During his hearing on February 27th, Phelan expressed that the Navy desperately needed more innovation and reform…

Western Journal: On Monday, ICE announced that an “enhanced targeted enforcement operation” conducted last Tuesday through Sunday in Massachusetts, including the sanctuary city of Boston, netted 370 arrests of illegal aliens. – Those arrests occurred in the wake of a defiant statement from woke Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston.

Lumen News: The U.S. Senate voted 53-47 to confirm Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to serve as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest provider of funds for biomedical research. – They also voted 56-44 to confirm Dr. Marty Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Gateway Pundit: Peace Negotiations Between The US, Russia, and Ukraine Enter The Most Critical Phase – The main sticking issue is well known: Moscow demands control over the entire territory of four regions that voted in a referendum to be part of Russia – Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, even the parts yet to be conquered. – Both Russia and The US Have Released These Full Official Statements Following Monday’s Talks…

Zero Hedge: Washington and Moscow are seeking to revive the Black Sea Grain deal that allows Ukraine to ship its grain and agricultural products to global markets. – The White House on Tuesday published two readouts that feature a ceasefire at sea “to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea.”

Zero Hedge: Russia Says Ukraine Continues To Strike Energy Sites In Violation Of Trump Agreement – Russian sources have identified that among the locations hit was the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station in Russia’s Krasnodar Region. It was struck in the early hours of Monday…

Townhall: A Line-by-Line List Showing How About How Totally Screwed The Democrat Party Is Right Now – The party has its lowest favorability ever. – There is no popular national leader to help improve it. – They have insufficient numbers to stop most legislation in Congress. – Their dwindling influence over the media ecosystem, with right-leaning podcasters and social media accounts rising. – Young voters are growing dramatically more conservative. – The bad 2026 map for Senate races. And the list goes on…

One America News: DOGE has made significant progress in its commitment to rectifying inaccuracies within the Social Security database, now having officially designated seven million individuals previously recorded as being over 120 years old as deceased. – This follows after DOGE had previously alerted the public on March 18th that out of over 12 million individuals aged 120 and up in their records, approximately 3.2 million had been classified as deceased.

Western Journal: Maxine Waters Broke Down in Public And Began Spouting Bizarrely Wild Lies About Melania As The Ignorant Crowd Ate It Up – Haha, she sure showed them! – That is until the crowd Googled her claims and found out exactly where Melania Trump and her parents came from and how they obtained their U.S. citizenship.

Issues & Insights: Shed No Tears For Over Paid And Over Protected Fired Federal Workers – Job cuts of this magnitude aren’t unprecedented; just the overheated coverage is. – The Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded a net loss of only 6,700 federal jobs in February. – In Bill Clinton’s first term in office, he shed more than 330,000 federal workers, with no protests and virtually no media coverage.

American Thinker: Go Ahead, Canada, Breaking Up Is Not That Hard to Do – Canada, once the proud, passive-aggressive roommate of America, is now trying to shack up with the European Union – With Donald Trump back in the White House, looking to balance the trade deficit, tariffs, and defense spending, Canada is realizing that the gravy train may be reaching its final stop…

American Thinker: Trump Didn’t Kill the Old World Order, Rather, He Pronounced It Dead – In the first 60 days of his second administration, President Trump has made it clear that he intends to end the old world order that has shaped our planet since World War II, causing former allies in Europe, Canada, and Mexico to be confused and exhausted. – There is a simple explanation for Trump’s foreign policy actions: he is a businessman trying to fix America’s balance sheet, and this is how he is doing it…

The Federalist: Trump Isn’t Defying The Courts, He’s Defending The Constitution – The courts have an important constitutional role to fulfill, but it is NOT to play president. – These rulings are not mere disagreements, as Chief Justice John Roberts claimed last week; they are direct assaults on the president’s constitutional power. – Trump must confront these courts!

American Greatness: Trump: Making College Campuses Safe for Jews Again – Trump has cracked down on campus anti-Semitism by targeting pro-Hamas activists, cutting university funding, and launching a task force to protect Jewish students. – President Trump is doing everything he can to show himself to be the best friend the Jewish people have ever had in the White House.

Zero Hedge: Lunatics At An AOC Rally Brazenly Call For Trump To Be Tortured & Murdered – Is this what the Democrat Party now represents? – Hordes of lunatics at an AOC/Bernie Sanders rally were recorded threatening violence to Trump. – Is it any wonder these mentally disturbed people start acting like this when the Democrats they have been conditioned to worship openly call for violence?…

Newsmax: The White House on Tuesday refuted a report that war plans were discussed on a virtual group chat that Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally allowed to join. – “Jeffrey Goldberg is well-known for his sensationalist spin. – Here are the facts about his latest story: No ‘war plans’ were discussed. – No classified material was sent to the thread…

American Thinker: Trump Is Making Coal Great Again – President Trump and his energy advisors understand that coal must play a key role in the nation’s energy portfolio. – Most Americans probably think coal is an antiquated form of energy, but it remains one of the most affordable, abundant, and reliable energy sources on the planet, with an energy density that is far ahead of any so-called green energy source.

News Busters: The “legacy media” network newscasts continue their shameful reporting on the campaign of violence currently unfolding against Tesla in protest of founder Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration. – Today’s stories included the rehashing of a familiar trope. – “Mostly peaceful” has made its return to our political discourse by the mainstream media…

March 24, 2025

New York Post: President Trump yanked Secret Service protection for ex-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. – Mayorkas, who was the face of the previous White House’s lenient stance on illegal immigration, initially had his taxpayer-provided security detail extended for six months by President Joe Biden before it was cut short by Trump this week.

Resist The Mainstream: The FBI announced Monday that it has launched a high-stakes investigation into a series of violent attacks targeting Tesla vehicles and charging stations across the country, labeling the incidents “domestic terrorism.” – The FBI’s task force consists of 10 agents, including members from ATF and the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division…

Breitbart: Elon Musk revealed that DOGE discovered the Small Business Administration gave more than $300 million in loans to children under 11 years old. – Musk revealed. “I think the youngest, Kelly, was a nine-month year old who got a $100,000 loan. That’s a very precocious baby we’re talking about here.”

Breitbart: During a recent cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump estimated that his administration has already “identified maybe $4 trillion worth of companies moving back or going to move back” to the United States thanks to his tariff policies. – They’re coming back. Some of them left us from many years ago, decades ago, and they’re all – it seems they’re all coming back,” he said.

One America News: Trump’s Cabinet And Musk Gathered For A Third Meeting On Monday Where Agency Leaders Discussed Potential Cuts To Programs Deemed Wasteful. – At one point, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stated that he was working with Musk and DOGE on upgrading the nation’s outdated air traffic control systems…

The Defender: President Donald Trump plans to nominate Susan Monarez, Ph.D., as director of the CDC, where she has served as acting director since January 23.- The decision comes after the White House withdrew its nomination of Dr. Dave Weldon to lead the agency. Multiple senators had concerns about Weldon’s general lack of preparation for the role.

Slay News: A groundbreaking study using AI confirmed that globalist narratives about “climate change” and “global warming” are a hoax. – xAI’s Grok 3 beta was used to produce the first-ever AI-led peer-reviewed climate science paper. – AI was used to analyze temperature, sea ice, and atmospheric CO2 data to investigate whether humans are changing the climate through excess emissions…

Breitbart: During portions of an NPR interview, Democrat Representative Tom Suozzi said, “It’s clear Republicans want to shrink government and cut taxes, but what Democrats want to do on anything other than abortion and LGBT rights is unclear.” – “We can’t just resist. It can’t just be why we’re against Trump and what’s wrong with Trump.” And that is why “the Democrat brand has been damaged.”

Epoch Times: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Has Stepped Down Amid The Push For Postal Service Reforms – This comes 10 days after he agreed to work with DOGE and the GSA on ways to make the USPS more efficient and six days before the first phase of service enhancements is expected to be implemented. – Deputy Postmaster General Doug Tulino will temporarily assume the position.

Western Journal: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said during a Cabinet meeting Monday that she plans to eliminate FEMA but did not provide further details. – Both Noem and President Trump have suggested in the past that states could exercise more control over disaster relief rather than having a federal entity manage their responses.

Revolver: District Judge Jeb Boasberg The Personification Of Antifa On The Bench – While other radical judges dabble in partisanship, Boasberg has set the gold standard. – He’s shameless, biased, and proudly unaccountable. – He checks all the boxes: Never Trump leadership – Judge shopping games – Absurd cruelty toward J6 defendants – A fellow at a NeverTrump organization, the Rodel Institute.

American Spectator: RFK Jr. and the Approaching Death of Major Media – Banning drug ads may or may not make America healthy again, but it will make mainstream media accountable again. – It’s been rumored for quite some time, and on Monday, there was widespread speculation that HHS Secretary Kennedy plans will soon announce that pharmaceutical TV advertising will be stopped.

American Thinker: America’s New Generation of Young Women Who Don’t Want Marriage or Babies – The Wall Street Journal has a long article addressing the problem, and I’ll throw in my two cents for some additional reasons behind it. – The Wall Street Journal essay pointed out that women have shifted dramatically leftward politically while men have gone in the opposite direction…

Epoch Times: The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to intervene and block a lower court order that reinstated thousands of fired probationary employees in the federal government. – Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris filed an emergency request on March 24, asking the Supreme Court to enter an administrative stay…

LifeZette: New Epstein Files Are Incoming – The ‘FBI Working Around the Clock’ After The Patel, Bongino Push – They are now preparing for another major release—files related to the case of Jeffrey Epstein. – “It’s is literally all hands on deck.” – Dozens and dozens of agents” have been pulled from regular assignments to assist in reviewing and redacting sensitive information…

Zero Hedge: The Fed’s OWN Data Shows It Is Lying About Inflation and Tariffs, So Is It Playing Politics? – The Fed SHOULD Have Cut Rates Last Week. – Instead, rates are on “hold,” reasoning that potential tariffs the Trump administration will introduce might trigger inflation. – They did this during Trump’s first term in 2018. – Europe, Japan, China, and countless other nations have introduced tariffs, duties, and other trade restrictions in the past with ZERO uptick in inflation…

Zero Hedge: The Winning Continues With Hyundai The Latest Company In A Long Line To Announce Billion Dollar Investments In The U.S. – Hyundai Motor Co. plans to invest $20 billion, a portion of which will fund a new steel mill in Louisiana that is expected to employ 1,500 workers and supply Hyundai and Kia’s American EV production. – Hyundai’s decision mirrors a broader trend of foreign companies increasing U.S. production to avoid Trump’s escalating tariff threats…

Just The News: Months before he blocked President Donald Trump’s deportations of illegal alien gang members, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg attended a privately funded legal conference in Idaho that featured sponsors and speakers who have expressed clear anti-Trump sentiments, particularly on immigration. – You can view that disclosure here, which is also linked to the official website of the D.C. District Court…

Gateway Pundit: Judge Boasberg Responds to Trump DOJ’s Invocation of State Secrets Privilege – Judge Boasberg gave lawyers for Venezuelan deportees until March 31 to respond to the Trump administration’s invocation of the state secrets privilege. – He has previously expressed doubts about whether the privilege applies in this scenario.

Townhall: President Donald Trump announced Monday morning additional U.S. sanctions will be placed on Venezuela as further punishment for an influx of violent gang members into American communities by imposing what is known as a Secondary Tariff on the Country of Venezuela. – Any Country that purchases Oil and/or Gas from Venezuela will be forced to pay a Tariff of 25% to the United States on any Trade they do with our Country.”

Newsmax: President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan announced Monday that ICE arrested 370 immigrants in Boston last week, a majority “being significant criminals.” – “Massachusetts Governor Healy and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu should be ashamed of supporting sanctuary policies by releasing public safety threats back into the public, rather than working with ICE…

American Thinker: Live by the Autopen, Die by the Autopen – The heavy use of the “Autopen” has been in the news these past few weeks and displays the governing of America behind the scenes without any transparency or accountability, that is, until now. – Who operated Biden’s autopen, and under whose guidance? AG Pam Bondi must investigate this insurrection during Biden’s presidency.

Breitbart: House Speaker Mike Johnson recently noted the high ratio of federal judge-issued injunctions against the Trump administration compared to other presidential administrations over the past 100 years. – A whopping 62% of the federal injunctions issued over the last century were against Trump, with 92% of those issued by Democrat-appointed judges.

Townhall: Last Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education and remarked that he was hopeful that members of Congress would vote to do so, even Democrats. – Senator Rand Paul is heeding the call by introducing such a bill…

Zero Hedge: Mapping The Staggering Growth Of The US Government – A recent review of the Federal Register found at least 75 of the 441 entities listed were defunct, defunded, disbanded, renamed, merged with another entity, or completed their mission, etc. – This provides even more evidence that federal record keeping is also a big mess. – The scope and complexity of the task before DOGE becomes even clearer as you drill deeper…

American Thinker: Are Turkish President Erdoğan’s days numbered? – The man who took Turkey from a secular nation to an Islamist one may finally have driven his people to take extreme measures against him. – Last week, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s Islamist president, arrested a political rival. That sparked several days of protest, and today, it’s seemingly culminated with protestors invading the presidential palace…

Western Journal: Democrats Are Using Fake Attendee Numbers To Support Rally Attendance According to GPS Data. – There were only 20,189 devices at a recent rally, so the crowd size was smaller than what Sanders and AOC claimed. – Also, “84% of the devices present had attended 9 or more Kamala Harris rallies, Antifa/BLM, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests,” while “31% had attended over 20.” So, they were primarily the same crowd. – How many of them were paid?

Lawyer Lisa: “Without CO2, there is no life on Earth, Even if John Kerry, John Podesta, and other Greenies Say Otherwise – Plants like three times what is in the Atmosphere. – CO2 has greened the planet by 17% in the past 30 years and reduced the Sahara Desert by 7%…

Lawyer Lisa: TRUMP’s New EXECUTIVE ORDER DECLARES C02 IS NOT A POLLUTANT AND IS ESSENTIAL FOR PLANTS – The order highlights CO₂’s critical role in photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into energy and produce the oxygen we breathe. – This executive order represents a major shift from prior climate policies that treated CO₂ as a dangerous greenhouse gas.

Dr. Meryl Nass: So how did Mark Carney, who never won an election, become Canada’s Prime Minister? – Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss said all his policies while head of the Bank of England were awful, and his daughter is a trans activist. – Will he be the one to give Canada its final coup de gras?

The Expose: Canada’s new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, will impose the Globalists’ climate change scam on Canadians – Carney has a background as a rich “elite” banker and globalist with a history of questionable deeds and allegiances. He has been actively involved in global climate initiatives, playing a key role in promoting climate-related financial disclosures such as…

Victor Davis Hanson: California and Its Collapsing Blue-State Democrat Model – California’s high taxes, crime, and regulations are driving an exodus and shifting political power to red states as the once-prosperous blue-state model collapses under economic and social strain. – California is not waking up, but will other blue states see the light and pivot?…

American Thinker: Is Australia Set to Become a Security Threat for the United States? – Australia’s ‘Asianization’ direction is problematic, given China’s demands of fealty from its overseas communities. – Its Great Replacement is conducted through mass immigration as well as the deluge of overseas students, the highest per capita in the West…

Washington Free Beacon: Inside the Country’s Largest COVID Fraud – A cast of almost entirely Somali immigrants is charged with siphoning some $250 million from the federal child nutrition program administered by the Minnesota Department of Education into their own pockets between March 2020 and January 2022…

Townhall: A “transgender”-identifying activist has been charged with vandalizing a newly constructed Tesla service center near Chicago following the fire bombings of two other Tesla sites allegedly by “trans” suspects. – Evan “Erin” L. White, 27, the third known “trans” extremist arrested over attacks on Tesla, allegedly spray-painted obscene messages against Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the Chicago-area property’s walls and windows.

California Globe: Is Governor Gavin Newsom Setting The State For Our Next Republican Governor? – California started the year with $76 Billion in debt. – Net job growth in January was exactly 0. – California has the second highest unemployment rate of all 50 states. – California is one of only five states that haven’t recovered to pre-COVID levels. – The proportion of Californians receiving unemployment payments is nearly double the national average…

Cal Matters: CalFire released its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps. – Different colors come with different rules. – The new fire maps put nearly 4 million Californians in hazardous zones, so what does that mean for the people who live there?

Center Square: An ominous John Hopkins University report identified 20 bridges nationwide at serious risk of ship collisions, potentially resulting in a collapse like the one that brought down the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. – Most of the bridges identified through the study are located in major metropolitan areas, including New Orleans, Houston, New York City, and San Francisco, including one of the world’s most iconic bridges, the Golden Gate Bridge.

March 23, 2025

Washington Times: Unelected judges trying to diminish Trump’s executive weight to thwart the policies of our democratically elected president. – President Trump says that this is nonsense, that these judges have gone well beyond their authority, yet Chief Justice Roberts says the proper way to address these claims is in the appellate courts. – But that could take years unless the Supreme Court issues a sweeping opinion stifling the madness…

Resist The Mainstream: President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to take legal action against attorneys and law firms that file what he calls “frivolous” unreasonable litigation against his administration. – Trump cited legal rules prohibiting lawyers from submitting cases that aim to “harass” or “cause unnecessary delay” and asked Bondi to explore further steps to counter these tactics…

Epoch Times: The Cartels’ Advanced Technology Is A Growing Threat To The US – Their top-level spyware, deadly drones, and encrypted networks give Mexican cartels a high degree of sophistication. – Nowadays, it’s more one small army against another small army as the cartels fight one another, and there’s a lot of collateral damage…

Daily Signal: Is This the Real Reason the Left Is Freaking Out About the Department of Education? – It represents a serious threat to the big national teachers unions. – America’s two largest teachers unions—the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association—are notorious for bankrolling Democrats and leftist causes.

Gateway Pundit: Barack Obama Was Using USAID to Pretend to Send ‘Aid’ Overseas But Was Laundering It to Train For ‘Rent-a-Riots’ Instead – This is a huge development but maybe not so surprising considering how Democrats believe they can do anything they please with other people’s money…

Breitbart: British engineering giant Rolls-Royce is reportedly preparing to increase manufacturing production in the United States to avoid tariffs imposed by President Trump. – The aerospace and defense company is apparently considering shifting production from countries impacted by Trump’s tariffs, such as China, Canada, and Mexico, where it currently has around 6,000 workers.

American Spectator: The Ever Growing Global Censorship Cancer – While the US attempts to stop it from spreading, the EU enters stage 4 metastasis. – The tragic irony here is that the U.S. taxpayers, as well as the hapless subjects of the EU, have been paying GDI to promulgate this nonsense and to censor news and commentary outlets that engage in supposed wrongthink…

Breitbart: A report from CNN indicates FBI director Kash Patel, who is also ATF acting director, plans to cut “as many as 1,000 ATF agents” and move them to the FBI. – The ATF has about 2,600 agents and more than 5,000 employees, a number that has remained largely unchanged for years.

Gatestone Institute: China Has Set Up Iran’s Next War in the Middle East – Iran, in short, has a nuclear weapons program because of China. – Diplomats from Russia, Iran, and China met in Beijing this month to support Iran’s nuclear weapons program. – Most of Iran’s liquid-fueled ballistic missiles are North Korean missiles with new paint…

American Thinker: The Iranian Regime’s Nuclear Crisis and Diplomatic Tensions – The world is finally catching up to the fact that Iran is on the verge of going nuclear, but Iran’s internal agenda makes negotiations almost impossible. – Mounting international pressure on Tehran and possible sanctions, including snapback mechanisms, are possible courses…

Daily Wire: What It’s Like To Be Swatted – Conservative influencers are increasingly the targets of swatting. – Swatting is a pernicious practice wherein someone calls the police to falsely report a serious crime at an innocent individual’s home, bringing fully armed police and SWAT teams to the home. – This account is particularly alarming…

American Thinker: If you think USAID was bad, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. – The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is a 230-employee agency that supposedly mediates disputes between unions and businesses, but that mediation is “voluntary.” – FMCS clearly seems to exist for the benefit of those on its payroll, but not much else…

American Thinker: How much did Former President Joe Biden know? – He suddenly abandoned his traditional moderate approach and turned into the most left-wing president on record. – This leads us to the ‘autopen’ controversy and a huge question. – I’d love to know who was calling the shots or managing the “autopen.” – I fear that someone was the puppet master, and I’d like to know who it was.

American Thinker: The FBI Flees The FBI – Kash Patel and Dan Bongino have a monumental task ahead of them. – This includes catching and prosecuting FBI employees who are not only destroying evidence but trying to flee the country. – Fortunately, it appears there were at least a few honest, competent agents at the FBI who noticed and reported this…

Washington Examiner: The Border Patrol’s mission is shifting in the Trump age, ‘There are consequences now’ – In the 60 days since President Donald Trump took office, agents have found themselves back in the jobs they signed up to do. – What you see now is the probability of detection, apprehension, and then consequences being delivered…

Zero Hedge: The Golden Age Of Nuclear Energy Is Here – The Biden Administration spent hundreds of billions of dollars to push renewables, and the result was a 30% increase in national utility prices. – America stands on the brink of a nuclear energy revolution. – Advanced nuclear technology and small modular reactors (SMRs) are proving to be game changers.

American Thinker: A 1979 Perspective on The Department of Education – For those trying to tell you that the DoE was universally popular when it was established, this reporter says otherwise. – Student reporter Patricia Hagen’s article “Education Department, Boon or Blunder? – In the ensuing 46 years, taxpayers have spent billions for basically nothing.

FAR: An Enlightening Donald Trump Jr. Interview – Subjects of interest included: What President Trump learned during his first term. – JD Vance’s rise from obscurity to Vice President. – Trump’s 2024 campaign and the people he surrounded himself with. – The future of the now MAGA Republican party...

March 22, 2025

Zero Hedge: US Top Envoy Steve Witkoff To Tucker Carlson, The ‘Elephant In The Room’ Which Will Decide Peace In Ukraine – The fate of the annexed territories in Ukraine’s east “no one wants to talk about.” – Witkoff admitted that militarily and politically, Moscow now exercises full control over the bulk of these territories, as Ukraine forces continue to be steadily retreating from their remaining holdouts in Donetsk.

Gateway Pundit: The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, reached out directly to President Trump with a historic proposal. – Help defeat a brutal rebel force terrorizing his nation, and in return, America will gain direct access to one of the world’s richest untapped troves of critical minerals worth an estimated $24 trillion.

American Spectator: The Meaning of US Airstrikes on Houthis – Airstrikes raise the question of Washington’s long-term commitment to the region since terror groups have doubled down on their resistance. – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised an “unrelenting” airstrike campaign until Houthis threats stop, saying, “This campaign is about freedom of navigation and restoring deterrence.”

Western Journal: Trump’s ‘Bad Idea’ Just Brought $5 Billion to the US in One Day – Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Trump’s new effort to attract the world’s wealthy to pay for U.S. residency status is already paying off big time. – Trump’s program is a replacement for the EB-5 program, offering green cards to foreigners who commit to investing at least $1 million in job creation in the U.S.

Epoch Times: The DOJ Probes Classified Intel Leak to New York Times Challenging Deportation of Venezuelan Gang Members – ‘We will not tolerate politically motivated efforts by the Deep State to undercut President Trump’s agenda by leaking false information,’ a DOJ official said.

Western Journal: A Former Clinton Pollster Is Stunned, ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’ – Mark Penn, “I’ve never seen anything like this in over 40 years of polling. – Democrat Party ratings have collapsed from a 47% favorable down to 29% and 27% in some polls – That’s an incredible loss of moderate, working-class voters.”…

Gateway Pundit: Speaker Johnson Reveals House Plans to Limit Abuses of Activist Judges and ‘Expose the Worst Offenders’ – Our Judiciary GOP will expose the worst offenders in a high-profile hearing & we are preparing urgent legislative action, like Representative Darrell Issa’s bill to stop unfounded nationwide injunctions.”

Gateway Pundit: The DOJ Files Motion to Disqualify Obama Judge Beryl Howell From Perkins Coie Case – The DOJ argued that Judge Howell must recuse herself because of her personal bias against Trump. – In its motion to disqualify the judge, the Trump DOJ included a recent video of Beryl Howell going on a crazy tirade against Trump…

Western Journal: Leakers Get Worst News Imaginable, The Pentagon Has Launched Investigation And Will Use Polygraph Tests – The hunt is on for Pentagon leakers who shipped the media doses of Fake News. – Citing sources it did not name, The NYT reported Thursday that Elon Musk was scheduled to receive a Friday briefing on America’s plans for a conflict with China…

Geller Report: The White House RESCINDS Security Clearances Antony Blinken, Jacob Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissmann, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Cheney, Kamala Harris, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family…

Epoch Times: DHS Revokes The Temporary Legal Status Of ~530,000 Immigrants Who Entered The US Under Biden’s Humanitarian Parole Program. – DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stated that the department will end the two-year parole program launched in 2022, allowing entry of people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. – Parolees without a lawful basis to remain in the US following termination of the CHNV parole programs must depart the US before their parole termination date…

Washington Free Beacon: Israel Resumes War in Gaza With Plan To Conquer Strip – When Israel’s defense minister threatened to take the Gaza Strip from Hamas piece by piece, he was not just saber-rattling. – Amid airstrikes across Gaza starting early Tuesday, Israeli ground forces on Wednesday retook much of the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza…

American Thinker: Adventures in Politics, When I Was an ‘Autopen’ – The more politicians need to sign things, the more likely they are to use one. – However, only the president can sign a presidential pardon. – Not even a machine programmed to sign the president’s name on his behalf can issue a pardon. – Not the VP, the chief of staff, or even Dr. Jill…

Powerline: Uncovering Israel – The coverage of Israel’s efforts to defend itself against Hamas and its other genocidal enemies leaves something to be desired. – The mainstream press continues to cite the work of the “Gaza Health Ministry” or “Gaza’s Palestinian health authorities” in reporting on Palestinian casualties…

Zero Hedge: The Darkest Secret Behind Democrats’ Economic Policy – Everybody understands if we run up too much debt, the country could, in essence, go bankrupt. – What’s really alarming now is the pace at which we are running up this debt. – This article points out the fatal hypocritical flaw that exists in Democrats’ reasoning as it relates to America’s financials.

Just The News: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis returned almost $900 million in federal funding to the federal government after meeting with Elon Musk. – DeSantis, “For years, Florida has been trying to return federal funds to the federal government due to the ideological strings attached by the Biden Administration, but they couldn’t even figure out how to accept it.”

Resist The Mainstream: In a recent interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, Sam Corcos, a special adviser to the U.S. Treasury Department and a deputy in DOGE, explained that contractors and special interest groups consume a staggering 80% of the IRS’s $3.5 billion annual budget, a problem that DOGE seeks to address.

FAR: Scott Adams is a former Democrat and the genius creator of Dilbert comics. – He also hosts a popular show on YouTube called Scott Adam Says. – Recently, he highlighted various Democrat actions that display how far adrift the zany left has gone…

American Thinker: The Center of Infection – It is interesting to learn the various federal judges trying to legislate from the bench all live within walking (or at least biking) distance of each other. – Could their real conflict of interest, especially on any decisions related to DOGE and trimming federal spending or the federal workforce, be their homes, more specifically, their possible declining home equity…

Epoch Times: Columbia University Makes Numerous Policy Changes in Response to Trump Admin’s Demands to Combat Anti-Semitism – A student mask ban—unless for health or religious reasons, a revised admissions and recruitment process, an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Judges Gone Wild Edition – Democrat judges staged a coup, attempting to seize control over the executive branch, and Democrat activists turned violent…

March 21, 2025

Epoch Times: Trump Says He Is Not Sharing China War Plans With Musk Due To Possible Business Conflicts – President Donald Trump dismissed media reports on March 21 regarding a planned briefing for Tesla CEO Elon Musk about a potential military conflict with China…

Daily Wire: President Trump vowed on Friday that his administration would prosecute those who are involved in carrying out attacks on Teslas to the fullest extent of the law. – Trump made the remarks when asked about the attacks from far-Left extremists while he spoke to the media in the Oval Office after unveiling the world’s first sixth-generation fighter jet.

One America News: The United Arab Emirates has decided to invest $1.4 trillion in the US economy over the next decade – The announcement came after an anticipated meeting between President Trump and an Emirati official took place this week…

American Spectator: A new report based on Israeli intelligence chronicles the long-term collusion between Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and others that resulted in the October 7 terror attack on Israel. – The report asserts that this objective was fast-tracked operationally following May 2021, and perhaps most prominent in these plans was the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attacks, Yahya al-Sinwar.

Vigilant Fox: Award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson is blowing the whistle on how pharmaceutical companies slowly took control of the media—beginning around 2006. – According to Attkisson, this shift didn’t happen overnight, but looking back, she says the warning signs were there.

Center Square: Updated federal data shows California gained 76% fewer jobs in 2024 than initially estimated, gaining only 60,000 jobs instead of the earlier announced 250,000 jobs. – A 2024 state-funded report found that California private sector employment went into a downturn in 2022, with job growth only coming from the public sector and related employment…

Victor Davis Hanson: The Lengths Democrats Are Willing to Go to Stop Trump – Ten things that are thematic of the Democrat’s agenda: Donald Trump must be considered a Mussolini-like figure, and by extension, the same is true of Elon Musk. – You have to stop ICE from deporting anybody, even if they’re a criminal. – To achieve our goals, chaos must be created…

AMUSE on X: Why Trump’s Education Overhaul Is Long Overdue – The federal government has spent over $3 trillion on education since 1979, yet American students remain shockingly unprepared for the modern world. – More than 60% of fourth graders and 74% of eighth graders are not proficient in math, while 70% of fourth and eighth graders fall below proficiency in reading…

One America News: Johnson & Johnson will spend $55 billion in the U.S. over the next four years on manufacturing, research, and technology investments. – Johnson & Johnson said it represents a “25% increase in investment compared to the previous four years” and builds on their “already elevated U.S. investment levels resulting from the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act” under President Donald Trump’s leadership.

Center Square: A close look at the Department of Education’s grant funding shows that millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent at universities to train social workers to push Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at K-12 schools. – Now that President Donald Trump has banned that kind of funding, schools will have to find workarounds or drop the programs altogether.

Breitbart: Sabotage Questioned After A ‘Catastrophic’ Transformer Fire Closed Heathrow Airport, Causing A Global Travel Disruption – Counter-terror police are leading the investigation, but there is no indication of the cause yet – Heathrow Airport will remain closed until 11.59 pm on March 21st while power is being restored

Conservative Brief: An FBI agent who said that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani “may have been compromised” by Russian agents and accused the first Trump administration of political bias was detained at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport before he could leave the nation. – Jonathan Buma, a counterintelligence expert and 15-year FBI veteran who had criticized the first Trump administration’s handling of classified material, allegedly printed out almost 130 files from FBI networks…

American Thinker: President Trump’s Siberian Shuffle, Or Playing The Long Game With Russia – Far from a concession, it’s a calculated realignment—leveraging economic incentives for geopolitical control. – His plan calls for a comprehensive agreement: the recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea and Donbas, Ukraine’s accession to the European Single Market, and the stationing of European—rather than American—peacekeeping forces at Ukraine’s borders with Russia…

American Thinker: NATO And The German Straitjacket – The reassertion of Russian military strength and Trump’s determination to make NATO allies pay their fair share has changed everything for Germany. – It is faced for the first time in several generations of needing to decide between guns and butter. – Lavish social benefits may need to be curtailed if Germany intends to resurrect its military prowess…

American Thinker: Trump Wants Peace, While Europe Wants War – The U.S., starting with Clinton and continuing through Biden, provoked the Ukrainian tragedy via NATO’s eastern expansion that could easily escalate into nuclear WWIII.. – Trump’s attempt to exit from this vicious circle during his first term resulted in Russiagate and two impeachment efforts inspired by the U.S. Uni-Party of War…

Daily Wire: President Donald Trump, joined by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office on Friday, announced that the U.S. Air Force is moving forward with the production of a new U.S. Military jet called the F-47 that will replace the F-22 Raptor. – Hegseth praised Trump for pushing the F-47 program forward, saying the Biden administration “paused this program and were prepared to potentially scrap it.”

Slay News: Trump Official Who Gutted USAID Resigned And Put Two Former DOGE Employees In Charge of The Agency – This comes after USAID was exposed by Trump and DOGE senior advisor Elon Musk as a slush fund for dubious left-wing projects. – But the reforms aren’t over. – The administration wants to move USAID’s remaining 1,000 programs to the State Department. – USAID would be renamed the U.S. Agency for International Humanitarian Assistance, which requires approval from Congress…

Zero Hedge: America First Legal released explosive new documents that expose a vast, government-backed censorship operation to silence Americans under the guise of “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation.” – They reveal a disturbing alliance between the GEC, USAID, the British Foreign, Commonwealth, Development Office (FCDO), and media censorship organizations, all working in lock-step to manipulate public discourse, control media narratives, and suppress free speech.

AMUSE on X: The Price of Patriotism, Elon Musk’s Costly Crusade Against Government Waste – If Musk truly sought to manipulate government for personal gain, he would follow their playbook. – He would operate from the shadows, funding activist networks to do his bidding. – Instead, he has put his fortune and safety on the line…

Geller Report: An Obama federal judge has issued a two-week temporary restraining order preventing Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing personally identifiable information from the Social Security administration. – Today’s ruling follows a string of judicial DOGE-blocking – as their access to records across the federal government has prompted disputes with senior officials at various agencies.

Washington Examiner: DOJ prosecutions of migrants and smugglers surge under Trump – The Trump DOJ and Border Patrol are working together to impose consequences on people who illegally enter the United States, are caught transporting illegal immigrants, are moving drugs into or from the border, and for other related crimes, all in an effort to deter future illegal immigration and narcotics trafficking…

Racket News: A Timeline Of The Road to Taking Down the Department of Education – There have been consistent efforts to close the agency for 45 years. Here are key events and people who are part of that history. – Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan said in 1980 that he would abolish the Department of Education if given the chance. – President Reagan called for “dismantling” the agency during his 1982 State of the Union address…

March 20, 2025

One America News: President Donald Trump has officially signed an executive order to reduce the size and scope of the Department of Education. – On Thursday afternoon, Trump signed the long awaited executive order, which instructs Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to shrink the size and scale of the $100 billion department…

Gateway Pundit: Chief Justice John Roberts Exposed For Attending A Secretive, Invite-Only “America Inns of Court” Club of Elite Judges and Lawyers That Includes James Boasberg, Beryl Howell, Amit Mehta, and Ketanji Brown Jackson – John Roberts has been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court since September 2005. What in the world is he doing fraternizing in a secret group with far-left colleagues? – This is a shocking development.

Epoch Times: U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said on March 20 that the Trump administration’s response to his request for more information on the timing of the Venezuelan deportation flights was “woefully insufficient” and accused officials of shirking their responsibilities under his order that called for the flights to cease. – The White House said on Wednesday that its mass deportations will continue as the Justice Department contests Boasberg’s order.

Daily Caller: Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reportedly granted the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) new authority over USAID by appointing a senior DOGE official to serve as the Chief Operating Officer. – Tammy Bruce, the spokeswoman for the State Department, said the shift in USAID’s management plays “an indispensable role in aligning all U.S. government foreign assistance with the president’s priorities.”

Western Journal: Pam Bondi Drops the Hammer on Three Suspects Arrested For Tesla Attacks – “The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended,” Bondi said in the statement. “Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the DOJ will put you behind bars.” – For these actions, these suspects face charges that can carry five to 20 years in prison.

Resist The Mainstream: FBI Director Kash Patel says the Bureau has apprehended three fugitives from its 10 Most Wanted list since President Trump’s inauguration on January 20th. – Patel, “That’s not an accident.” – “When you let good cops be good cops, this is what happens.” – “This administration is giving the new FBI and AG Bondi the resources to get the job done, and we won’t stop.”

Dov Fischer: The Dictatorship of Obama Judges – It is the role of the courts to interpret laws and to stop a president from being a dictator and running roughshod over the Constitution, but who stops a dictator judges? – I originally thought that the most powerful American judges were the Supreme Court justices. In time, however, I learned that the District judges really are the most powerful. – Their corrupt game is played as follows…

American Spectator: Chief Justice John Roberts Is Responsible for the High Court’s Self-Delegitimization – Roberts’s tenure has been a series of decisions that have eroded the integrity of the judiciary. – Roberts first showed his hand in the landmark 2012 Obamacare case. – In the years since, there have been several examples of Roberts ruling in high-profile cases, clumsy attempts to make “both sides” of the court and both sides of the broader American public happy…

Western Journal: An activist group backed by progressive financier George Soros called on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down from leading the party in the upper chamber. – Ezra Levin, the co-executive director of Indivisible, said in a March 15 statement that Schumer leading “the charge to wave the white flag of surrender” means he should stop serving as Democratic leader.

Daily Wire: President Trump revealed on Friday that the SBA and Health HHS will take over some education programs after Trump signed an order Thursday seeking to dismantle the Education Department. – “We have a [student loan] portfolio that’s very large. – Lots of loans, tens of thousands of loans,” Trump said. “It’s a pretty complicated deal. And that’s coming out of the Department of Education.”

PJ Media: Americans Are Still Fleeing Blue States and Taking Their Electoral Votes Along With Them – It’s too soon to look at 2028 because we don’t even know who the players are, but ’32 is ripe because we’re halfway to the next congressional apportionment and are getting a good idea of how the biggest player in the game, the Electoral College map, is changing. – According to the latest from The American Redistricting Project, the winners are (almost) all in the red states.

One America News: Canadian furniture maker Prepac is closing down its manufacturing plant in Delta, British Columbia, and moving all production to its other manufacturing plant in North Carolina, which first opened in 2021. – Due to the closure, over 170 Canadians will lose their jobs at the British Columbia plant, as Unifor representatives suggested that those positions would be moved to the North Carolina plant…

Vigilant Fox: Vivek Ramaswamy’s Game-Changing Idea to Shake Up Public Education – Implement merit-based pay for all public school teachers, principals, and administrators. – Vivek, “Pay for performance. That’s what businesses do. There’s no reason we shouldn’t be running our public schools in the same way.”

Geller Report: Ukraine has accepted a partial ceasefire with Russia on Wednesday after a “very good phone call” between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky. – The call came one day after a similar conversation between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin and centered on many of the issues previously discussed in that call.

Daily Wire: The US Navy is reportedly planning to send a second destroyer to patrol the waters around the southern border as part of President Donald Trump’s historic crackdown on illegal immigration and drugs. – U.S. Northern Command deployed the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely to the Gulf of America on March 15, 2025, to work with the U.S. Coast Guard in drug interdiction missions.

Zero Hedge: Did Powell Just Align With Trump? – Two likely conversations that occurred sometime after Trump’s inauguration. – Trump to Powell: Lower rates and inflation won’t be a problem; I’ll get oil prices lower. – Trump to OPEC+: Lower oil prices, and I’ll weaken the dollar, helping your EM economies. – We believe that is what is going on behind the scenes right now. The Bottom Line is that tariffs and tax cuts are the sizzle here. – Cheaper energy and a weaker dollar are the rewards.

Zero Hedge: A Rogue Soros-Funded NGO Is Plotting A Multi-City Assault On Tesla As Leftist Domestic Terrorism Escalates – Anti-DEI crusader Robby Starbuck explained more about this rogue non-profit. – Over the next few days, you’re going to see an organized progressional protest effort at Tesla stores put together by a group called Indivisible. – George Soros’ foundation has given Indivisible nearly $8 million for their “activism.”…

USA Today: Trump to sign an Executive Order Thursday aimed at eliminating The Department of Education – Trump will direct his education secretary, Linda McMahon, to take ‘all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the DOE. – Trump is expected to sign the order, which has been in the works for weeks, at a White House ceremony attended by several Republican governors and state education commissioners.

2nd Smartest Guy: The Democrats Paid For Hit Pieces Used To Impeach Trump With USAID Money – The Trump administration has been hard at work trying to shutter one of the most criminal government agencies in USAID, which is nothing more than a CIA black ops money laundering node. – “The map of 55,000 NGOs, which was essentially just a democratic propaganda machine that was exposed. That was all just money being funneled circularly.”

Daily Wire: The Trump Administration Has Secured The Release Of A U.S. Citizen Held Captive By The Taliban Since 2022 – George Glezmann’s health has deteriorated significantly while in captivity. – Delta Airlines mechanic George Glezmann was visiting Kabul as a tourist when he was detained by the Taliban on December 5, 2022, and held without cause or being charged. – He was in Afghanistan to fulfill his dream of visiting every country, having already been to “well over 100.”

Western Journal: Spine-of-Steel Attorney General Bondi Tells U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of DC to Pound Sand, Saying The Administration Will Follow the Law Instead of A Crony Judge – Bondi said Boasberg Has no Authority to Block Trump’s Deportation of Terrorists. – “Our lawyers are working on this, and we will answer appropriately.”…

The Federalist: The Ever-Growing Judicial Insurrection Is Worse Than You Think. – It is an attempt by the judiciary to prevent the duly elected president from reclaiming control of the Executive Branch from the federal bureaucracy. – The deep state has long functioned as an unelected and unaccountable fourth branch of the government. – This unconstitutional fourth branch has always been controlled by Democrats and leftist ideologues who have effectively supplanted the political branches…

New York Sun: New York City’s law allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections is unconstitutional, according to the state’s highest court. – On Thursday, six of the seven justices on New York’s Court of Appeals struck down New York City’s law, which would have given more than 800,000 non-citizens with permanent residency or are eligible to work the right to vote in local elections.

AMUSE on X: During his presidency, Joe Biden orchestrated an illegal scheme to manipulate the electoral system, using Executive Order 14019 to funnel federal resources into Democrat-controlled voter registration efforts. – Led by House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, Republican lawmakers are demanding full transparency and accountability from the federal agencies that participated in this unlawful order…

Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Knew They Were Lying to Us All Along – They pushed falsehoods on COVID, Biden’s fitness, Hunter’s laptop, and the border, dividing the nation. – These perpetrators have neither apologized for their lies nor tried to either deny or substantiate them. – No one involved has ever been held legally accountable. – The Biden administration will be remembered as the most duplicitous and dishonest presidency in modern history.

American Thinker: Suddenly Jerome Powell is concerned about inflation – Nothing seemed to faze him during Biden’s years. – When inflation shot up to over 9%, he just said they were transitory. – The Federal Reserve has lost hundreds of billions since 2020, so it printed more money to cover those losses. – The federal debt went up $2.3 trillion, from $32.2 trillion to $35.5 trillion, during FY 2024. – Where did the extra $500 billion go? – Down the drain!

American Thinker: Islam is Destroying Western Culture Here And Abroad – If you wish to experience Europe with all its unique nations, hurry, but be careful where you go because the entire continent is rapidly changing due to (legal and illegal) unchecked Islamic immigration, demographic shifts, and political pandering. – Most European leaders are blind to what is happening or just don’t care. – If you voice concerns, you’re quickly called Islamophobic…

Washington Free Beacon: These Democrats in Congress Drive Luxury Cars on The Taxpayer Dime – Representative Jasmine Crockett billed taxpayers $11,996 in 2024 for her lease on a fresh set of wheels. – Crockett obtained her taxpayer-funded vehicle through a little-known fringe benefit that allows representatives to bill the public for a fresh set of EPA-approved wheels to traverse their congressional districts.

March 19, 2025

American Greatness: Zelensky’s Popularity Plunges – Zelensky’s recent dust-up in the Oval Office with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance showcased for many Americans the reality of Volodymyr’s greed and lack of appreciation. – Politics is a fickle business, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lost the favor of sensible Americans, who demand that our focus and resources be devoted to the US homeland, not far away, intractable wars.

Vigilant Fox: The Conspiracy Buried in the JFK Files – According to this file, one day after JFK’s assassination, Underhill “left Washington in a hurry and showed up at the home of friends in New Jersey. – He was very agitated.” – It goes on to say, “A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the [JFK] assassination, he [Gary Underhill] confided, and he was afraid for his life and would probably have to leave the country.” – Less than six months later, Underhill was found shot to death…

Daily Signal: Legal Analysis Finds The Biden Autopen Actions Are ‘Non-Delegable’ and Therefore ‘Invalid.’ – “If President Biden’s non-delegable official actions were not his own, then they are invalid,” the analysis says. – “Start with the Constitution. – Multiple Constitutional provisions, like the pardon power, vest those powers solely in the president. – In those cases, the president affixing his signature is his execution of the acts as president.”

Western Journal: Trump DOJ Hits Back After Judge Boasberg Blocked Deportation Flights and Now Demands Answers to 5 Questions – “Continuing to beat a dead horse solely for the sake of prying from the Government legally immaterial facts and wholly within a sphere of core functions of the Executive Branch is both purposeless and frustrating to the consideration of the actual legal issues at stake in this case.” – Boasberg has extended the deadline for his answers to noon Thursday…

New York Post: The Democrats’ silence is damning as leftist violence explodes – Tesla dealerships are being firebombed and shot at, while Tesla vehicles are vandalized and their owners assaulted. – Trump-supporting influencers are getting “swatted,” set up for dangerous police encounters by opponents who phone in hoax distress calls. – But no calls for an end to the violence are coming from the Democrats nor their media allies.

Daily Mail: What 286 days in space does to a human body – Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams’ unplanned extended stay on the International Space Station could have serious health impacts. – From ‘chicken legs’ and ‘baby feet’ to an increased risk of cancer, experts warn that the stranded astronauts could face years of health complications. – As they emerged from their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule yesterday, medical teams rushed to help them onto stretchers…

California Globe: A Senate bill that would have repealed the Low Carbon Fuel Standard gas tax increase of 65 cents a gallon that was adopted last year was killed in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee. – SB 2 was two votes shy of passing the committee. Senators Suzette Martinez Valladares, Megan Dahle, and Melissa Hurtado all voted in favor of SB 2. – Senators Lena Gonzalez and Steve Padilla voted against the bill.

Daily Wire: Trump Warns Iran To ‘Immediately’ Cut Off Support To Houthis – The U.S. military has repeatedly hit the Houthis over the last several days, killing numerous terrorists and destroying troves of weapons. – Trump, “Iran must stop the sending of these Supplies IMMEDIATELY.” – “Let the Houthis fight it out themselves. – “Either way, they lose, but this way, they lose quickly.”

The Right Scoop: The IDF has launched ground operations in both central and southern Gaza again after pulling out for a ceasefire. – Over the past 24 hours, IDF forces have begun a focused ground operation in the center of the Gaza Strip and the south to expand the security zone and create a partial buffer between the north and south of the Strip and re-extended their control to the center of the Netzarim axis.

Western Journal: The Judge Overruling Trump On Deporting Gang Members Is Set to Get Disgraceful Status Less Than 1% of Federal Judges Have Ever Had – Representative Brandon Gill introduced articles of impeachment against US District Judge James Boasberg. – The resolution said that the commander-in-chief has “broad authority over the executive branch, including authority to protect the nation,” which includes the Alien Enemies Act under which he deported the Venezuelan gang members.

City Journal: The Supreme Court Should Step In And Curb Activist Judges – The recent order to turn back deportation flights carrying alleged Tren de Aragua members midair shows why SCOTUS should act now to prevent a constitutional crisis. – During the George H. W. Bush administration, then-Attorney General William Barr faced a similar challenge from an activist judge and won his case when Ken Starr’s principal deputy at the time was a young lawyer named John G. Roberts…

American Spectator: This Mess Is of Your Own Making, Chief Justice Roberts – Nobody voted for judicial supremacy, and it certainly wasn’t the Founding Fathers’ intent. – It’s been less than two weeks since Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the Democrats, and things have gotten even worse. – The number of absurdly partisan judicial orders purporting to thwart the Trump administration’s executive actions has only grown…. – Click Here For The Video

American Thinker: The Supreme Court Has Long Held That The Alien Enemies Act Gives The President Plenary Power – The AEA is one of our nation’s oldest statutes, enacted in 1798, 11 years after America’s founding. – Many of the same men who drafted the Constitution later drafted and approved the Act. In 1814, the Supreme Court enunciated an important principle that has never been challenged: While an individual alien enemy’s property is not automatically up for grabs, the AEA sets a very different standard for the executive’s control of an alien enemy’s person…

Breitbart: A radical Biden-appointed judge cited the Broadway musical “Hamilton” in her legal opinion that ordered the Trump administration to reinstate transgender soldiers in the U.S. military. – Judge Ana Reyes, the first lesbian to serve on the U.S. District Court for DC, blocked President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth from banning transgender enlistment in the U.S. military, granting a preliminary injunction in Nicolas Talbott et al. v. United States, et al.

The Federalist: The Biden Judge Blocking The Military’s ‘Trans’ Policy Donated Thousands To Democrat Candidates And Causes – Reyes’ left-wing track record calls into question her ability to remain impartial on political matters brought before her…

Western Journal: Governor Ron DeSantis’ Solution to Stop the ‘Sabotaging of President Trump’s Agenda’ by Federal Judges – DeSantis, “Congress has the authority to strip jurisdiction of the federal courts to decide these cases in the first place.” – “The sabotaging of President Trump’s agenda by “resistance” judges was predictable, so why were no jurisdiction-stripping bills teed up at the onset of this Congress?”

Conservative Brief: Attorney General Pam Bondi ended federal lawsuits that the Biden administration had filed against local police and fire departments over ignoring DEI and using merit-based hiring policies. – Under the Biden administration, the DOJ’s Office of Civil Rights had sued local first responders for prioritizing merit in hiring rather than making decisions based on race.

Townhall: A radical Soros-funded group is reimbursing far-left activists for costs incurred from protesting DOGE czar Elon Musk at Tesla dealerships across the country. – Indivisible Project, bankrolled primarily by Open Society Foundations, the nucleus of the Soros grant-giving nexus, is one of the main activist organizations behind the anti-Musk movement targeting Tesla showrooms all over America.

Zero Hedge: AG Bondi Declares The “Swarm Of Violent Attacks” On Tesla As Domestic Terrorism – The DOJ has already charged several perpetrators, that in some cases involve five-year mandatory minimum sentences,” Bondi stated. – “We will continue investigations, including those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and fund these crimes.”

Resist The Mainstream: Hackers Release Personal Information of Tesla Owners, Fueling Nationwide Anger – A shocking cyberattack has rocked the Tesla community as hackers released an interactive map exposing the personal details of Tesla owners across the U.S. – The website https://dogeque.st/ that included names, addresses, phone numbers and emails of Tesla drivers and locations of Tesla showrooms and charging stations, even the homes of key government officials is no longer accessible…

City Journal: Who Are the Shadowy Figures Defending Mahmoud Khalil, The Columbia agitator picked up by immigration enforcement last week? – The accused Hamas sympathizer is shrouded in mystery, and so are his supporters. – His case gives us a glimpse into a well-established network linking American universities, international progressive NGOs, and government agencies that places ideologues like Khalil in positions of power and influence and promoting radical policies…

WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: Check this graph out! – The Biden Administration killed nearly 8 MILLION chickens ahead of President Trump’s Inauguration, leading to supply shortages and higher prices. – The Egg Crisis is Biden’s Crisis, but President Trump and Secretary Rollins are fixing it!

Breitbart: Doug Burgum Explains The ‘Four Babies,’ Drill Baby Drill, Map Baby Map, Mine Baby Mine, and Build Baby Build – “On the map baby map, U.S. Geological Survey maps the enormous resources we have onshore, offshore and specifically subsurface.” – Regarding Build Baby Build, “We’ve got to build more baseload power. – We’re dangerously out of whack between intermittent, unreliable, and expensive versus affordable, low-cost base load, which endangers our whole grid…

Breitbart: Virtually all of the new jobs created during the Biden administration went to newly arrived illegal migrants who poured across the US/Mexico border. – Peter Navarro, “Immigration is fine if it benefits a country, but not if it destroys a country.” – “I mean, interesting statistics here; I was surprised that the Biden regime even published it…

New York Sun: The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network announced a new Geographic Targeting Order to crack down on questionable cash transactions made across seven counties in TX & CA by lowering the threshold for banks to file Currency Transaction Reports from the usual $10,000 to as little as $200. – The new order was created “to further combat the illicit activities and money laundering of Mexico-based cartels and other criminal actors along the southwest border.

Slay News: The DOD is planning to slash up to 60,000 civilian jobs as the Pentagon seeks to reduce the department’s civilian workforce by 5-8%. – A senior U.S. defense official said on Tuesday that approximately one-third of the employees the DOD will dismiss are already leaving voluntarily, with almost 21,000 leaving through the deferred resignation program.

American Thinker: Syria: We need to talk about Turkey – Erdogan’s efforts to support al-Shara and undermine Israel forewarn us we may well have a foe we will eventually need to confront. – More than 1,300 Syrians are reported to have been murdered in a mere 72-hour time span; women, children, and entire families were erased in a matter of hours. – There is a crisis going on in Syria for Christians and the Alawite minority, and we cannot be silent!

Real Clear Investigations: Los Angeles Is Getting Scorched Due To Its Homeless Problem – A new investigation by KCAL News using LAFD data found that since 2019, the number of fires connected to a homeless person has increased by the thousands. In 2024 alone, there were nearly 17,000 such fires. – A separate investigation by NBC4’s I-Team tallied nearly 14,000 homeless fires a year earlier. – A Fox 11 reporter says fire officials were advised to evade questions about homeless fires…

Washington Free Beacon: Democrats Turn to A Legally Dubious Ruling Coauthored By A DEI Activist To Protect California’s EV Mandate Banning New Gas-Powered Cars Over The Next Decade – The quick turnaround on the document raises questions about the level of involvement from the Democrat lawmakers who requested the opinion As the office usually takes months to complete analyses, not a couple of weeks.

March 18, 2025

Epoch Times: Putin Agreed to A Limited Cease-Fire on Energy Targets Following His Phone Call With Trump – Zelenskyy responded, saying Ukraine would support a cease-fire on energy infrastructure. – The Trump and Putin discussion lasted nearly 90 minutes. – Trump, “My phone conversation today with President Putin of Russia was a very good and productive one.”

AXIOS: Just eight months after President Trump picked JD Vance to be his vice president, Vance is already positioned to be MAGA’s heir apparent for 2028. – Many of Trump’s longest-serving aides and most fervent supporters now see Vance as the vehicle to lock in Trump’s worldview for at least the next decade. – In their view, Trump broke the old Republican Party, and Vance is the right person to finish building the new one.

Vigilant Fox: Elon Musk Exposes the System Keeping Government Fraud Alive – He told Senator Ted Cruz there are at least 14 “magic money computers” that can “send money out of nothing,” meaning these government systems are issuing trillions in payments with little oversight or much-needed real-time accountability. – Hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars are misallocated or disappearing while the actual financial activity remains hidden deep inside these systems…

Gateway Pundit: Some of the Biggest Bombshells Uncovered by Internet Sleuths in the Newly Released JFK Files – A CIA Memo from September 24, 1963, Confirms Lee Harvey Oswald Was Under Surveillance by CIA, 59 Days Before JFK Assassination – Gary Underhill claimed the CIA was responsible for JFK’s assassination—then he was later found dead in what was ruled a “suicide.” – Sergy Czornonoh said that Oswald would be killed after assassinating Kennedy and that Martin Luther King Jr. would also be assassinated…

Epoch Times: A Federal Judge Blocks DOGE Dismantling USAID – U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang said in his opinion that the actions at issue “relate largely to the structure of and resources made available to a federal agency, not to the direct conduct of foreign policy or engagement with foreign governments.” – He ordered Musk and DOGE to reinstate access for USAID workers and contractors to USAID systems and not to take any further actions…

Epoch Times: The Starliner Astronauts Return to Earth After Nearly 10 Months in Space – At 5:54 p.m., Cheers erupted as drogue parachutes deployed, followed shortly by the main parachutes, slowing the spacecraft from more than 370 mph down to 16 mph. – “What a ride,” Commander Hague said. “The capsule’s full of grins, ear to ear.”

Vigilant Fox: Elon Musk Dropped a Bombshell on Biden’s Role in The Astronaut Crisis – Musk shared that SpaceX could have rescued the astronauts stranded in space for nine months “after a few months at most.” – He offered to bring them home, but the Biden administration, who was in office at the time, “rejected” his offer for “political reasons.”

Western Journal: Two IRS agents who blew the whistle on the agency’s kid-gloves treatment of the former first son are being rewarded with top positions at the Treasury Department. – Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler are IRS agents who spent years investigating Hunter Biden’s tax evasion case. – And one of their primary functions, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, will be to “investigate the wrongdoing at the IRS.”

New York Post: President Trump released 80,000 JFK assassination files as his administration touts a ‘new era of maximum transparency.’ – Several Trump administration officials told The Post in advance of the release that they did not expect new bombshells to emerge from the documents, most of which appeared to relate to the initial investigation of the assassination by the Warren Commission helmed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren in 1964.

Daily Signal: How Many Tax Dollars Bankrolled Union Efforts to Block Trump? – The Trump administration is demanding that each government agency provide an accounting of just how much money it spent negotiating collective bargaining agreements with unions. – The question is, how much time did government employees use working on behalf of unions?

Zero Hedge: The Putin-Trump Phone Call Lasted About 90 Minutes, Focusing On ‘Normalization’ & Peace. – It was widely reported earlier Tuesday that the US could be ready to extend to Moscow the recognition of sovereignty over the Crimean peninsula, which should be the easiest to grant. – The White House has also been floating possible territorial concessions, something which Zelensky and hawkish supporters in the EU have rejected.

New York Times: President Trump Promises To Release ‘All’ Kennedy Assassination Files On Tuesday – More than 80,000 pages would be disclosed, with no redactions in contrast to previous releases. – The National Archives and other agencies have provided no details or a timeline for the release of the files, however, and it was unclear if they would be disclosed all at once or in batches over the coming days or weeks…

Newsmax: Trump’s Court Deadline to Explain The Deportation of Venezuelan Gang Members – The controversy began with Trump’s proclamation published on Saturday invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 – Judge Boasberg is asking government lawyers to clarify exactly when Trump’s declaration was published, when it took effect, how many people subject to it were taken into custody, and when the flights took off…

Washington Examiner: Restraining Judicial Tyranny – A grave threat to democracy emerged during the first weeks of President Trump’s second term, as judges, acting in coordination with left-wing activist groups, are abusing the judicial power to thwart the will of the people and undermine temperate and deliberate jurisprudence. – The Trump administration petitioned the Supreme Court last week to take action, narrowing the power of district court judges to issue nationwide injunctions.

Fox News: The January 19th ceasefire is over as Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas refused to release the hostages. – Defense Minister Israel Kat, “Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began striking Hamas terrorist targets across Gaza in order to achieve the war objectives set by the political leadership, including the release of all our hostages—both the living and the fallen.” – At least 404 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in the airstrikes…

Breitbart: Israel consulted with the Trump administration before renewing its attack on Hamas in Gaza, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. – Israel returned to war after Hamas rejected efforts to reach a second ceasefire deal that would have seen all of the roughly 60 hostages — 24 of whom are thought to be alive released. – Hamas offered only the release of five Americans (one alive).

Breitbart: Homeward Bound, The Stranded NASA Astronauts Depart The International Space Station For Their Return To Earth – NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are on their way home after being stranded on the ISS orbital laboratory for 286 days. – Their return is thanks in no small part to the combined drive and ambition of President Trump and Elon Musk to “go get them.”

John Daniel Davidson: Trump Is Right To Push Back Against Judicial Supremacy – For too long, we have accepted the fallacious notion that the federal judiciary has the exclusive power of constitutional interpretation and that the states and the other branches of the federal government are bound to accept whatever these courts decide. – This myth of “judicial supremacy” has thrown the constitutional system devised by our Founders out of balance, and it needs to be rejected…

Breitbart: The Trump administration awarded a contract for the construction of new border wall segments along the Texas-Mexico border, the first such award of Trump’s second term. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection awarded Granite Construction Company the border wall contract using funding appropriated in the agency’s 2021 fiscal year budget…

Daily Wire: The FBI Has Extradited A Top MS-13 Leader From Mexico To Face ‘American Justice’ – Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales is accused of providing material support to terrorists, earning him a spot on the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted’ list. – Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, was designated a foreign terror organization last month by the Trump administration.

Slay News: The Biden Administration Enriched ‘Nonprofit’ Executives With Border Crisis Dollars As Immigrant Children Suffered Abuse – The nonprofit Southwest Key Programs, the largest operator of shelters for unaccompanied alien children in the U.S., struck gold when awarded $3 billion from the Biden administration and allowed top executives to double their large salaries, even as kids suffered abuse.

American Thinker: The FBI Must Investigate Itself And, Once Cleaned, Several Other Political Crimes – The Epstein and Seth Rich cases are the beginning of cleaning out the Deep State, including the rot in the FBI and DOJ, but there’s much more to do. – The FBI’s rat-holing of the Epstein documents and Seth Rich’s computer are just the tell-tale sign and tip of the iceberg of a massive ongoing RICO criminal conspiracy extending back to Benghazi…

American Thinker: Tariffs As A Weapon Of Economic Warfare – With tariffs, there are always two types of economic effects: short-term and long-term. – Tariffs are not designed to provide instant gratification but are a strategic tool to correct longstanding imbalances. – The pain felt in the short term is part of a broader effort to rebuild America’s manufacturing base and reduce its dependence on foreign goods…

Zero Hedge: President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was authorizing his administration to use coal-fired power plants for energy production to counter China’s economic advantage. – Trump stated that the nation’s coal industry had been “held captive by environmental extremists,” which he said had allowed countries such as China to gain an economic advantage over the United States by opening hundreds of coal-fired power plants…

March 17, 2025

Center Square: Trump says Iran will ‘be held responsible’ for future Houthis attacks – “Let nobody be fooled!” Trump said in a statement. “The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters, and thugs based in Yemen, who the Yemeni people hate, all emanate from and are created by IRAN.

Daily Mail: President Trump ENDS Secret Service protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden – Trump Hunter for going to South Africa and taking his details, citing the high cost to the U.S. taxpayer. – Typically, former presidents and first ladies are protected by the Secret Service for life, but their children are not guaranteed protection after they turn 16 unless the president gives it to them.

Breitbart: The Pentagon is deploying a U.S. Navy destroyer to the Gulf of America as part of its mission to secure the southern border, Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell said Monday. – The USS Gravely departed Naval Weapons Station Yorktown for a scheduled deployment to the Gulf of America, Parnell said during a first Pentagon briefing.

Breitbart: The DOJ responded to U.S. District Judge James Boasberg blocking President Trump’s usage of the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected members of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), saying the “court lacks the jurisdiction” to interfere. – Attorney General Pam Bondi, “This order disregards well-established authority regarding President Trump’s power, and it puts the public and law enforcement at risk.”…

Red State: Stephen Miller Obliterated A CNN Anchor’s Line of Questioning on The Tren de Aragua Deportations – Tren de Aragua members were taken to El Salvador and are being housed at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). Just over 100 of the passengers were removed from the United States under Title VIII removal proceedings, and 137 were removed pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act…

Western Journal: Trump Orders United States Agency for Global Media, the parent entity of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe That Has ‘Pushed Divisive Propaganda for Years’ to Be ‘Eliminated to the Maximum Extent Allowable’ – Other agencies include the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars…

American Thinker: Hills to Die On, Democrats Sure Know How to Pick Them – In their quest to Get Trump on immigration, probably their strongest point with the Left, they’ve picked three migrant cause célèbres they’re waving at the public, promoting them as sob stories and “threats to democracy,” and boy, do they stink. – First off, Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born “Palestinian” and citizen of Algeria. – And don’t forget the criminal gang members that were just sent packing…

American Spectator: The Democrats’ Civil War Over Transgenderism Is Running Out Of Gas – One by one, Democrats are deciding that the jig is up, and it’s time to join the side of the American people on transgenderism. – Rahm Emanuel is just the latest Democrat to defect over the issue not long after California Governor Gavin Newsom…

New York Post: Trump says Biden’s autopen pardons are now ‘void, vacant and of no further force or effect,’ and vows a probe of the Jan. 6 House select committee. – “Joe Biden did not sign them, but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!” he said of the oldest-ever president and concerns about his age-related mental abilities at 82.

American Thinker: House Speaker Mike Johnson reveals why the Autopen scandal is such a big deal – Biden didn’t even know that he blocked LNG exports to Europe, and that is because he’s not the one who did it. – Evidence has been emerging for a week that nearly every document Joe Biden allegedly signed after assuming office, every executive order, every pardon, every Congressional bill signed into law, every international treaty, every lifetime judicial nomination (including the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson) was signed with not one, but two Autopens. – This is who was running things…

Western Journal: President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the National Guard was deployed to Arkansas after tornadoes ripped across the Midwest and South. – At least 42 people were killed, according to NBC. Three people were reported killed in Alabama, three in Arkansas, 12 in Missouri, four in Oklahoma, eight in Kansas, six in Mississippi, two in North Carolina, and four in Texas.

Epoch Times: President Trump Says He Will Discuss A Cease-Fire With Putin on Tuesday – Trump said he foresees a ‘very good chance’ of reaching a cease-fire deal with The Russian Leader. – “We will be talking about land. We will be talking about power plants,” he said. “I think we have a lot of it already discussed by both sides, Ukraine and Russia. We’re already talking about that, dividing up certain assets.”…

Lifezette: Three months into his second term, President Trump has reached the highest approval rating of his presidency, according to a newly released NBC News poll. – More Americans believe the country is on the right track than at any point since 2004, signaling a shift in public sentiment. – The poll, released Sunday, showed that 47% of registered voters approve of Trump’s performance, while 51% disapprove.

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration says it disregarded a judge’s order to turn around two planeloads of Venezuelan criminals because the flights were over international waters and, therefore, the ruling did not apply – Senior officials made clear that it’s “Very important that people understand we are not actively defying court orders.”

Paul A. Szypula: Watch as the 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, and 23 MS-13 gang members arrived in El Salvador on Sunday from the US. – See them leaving the plane and being taken by the military to their future home in a high-security prison…

Victor Davis Hanson: What Are the Left’s Solutions for the Problems They Created? – The U.S. faces mounting trade deficits, immigration crises, and endless foreign wars, while critics of Trump’s policies offer no viable alternatives to the many Biden-era failures. – Does the WSJ truly believe that the current $1.7 trillion budget deficit stacked on top of $36 trillion in national debt and an annual $1 trillion trade deficit is sustainable in any fashion?

Gateway Pundit: Demented Obama Judge Judge James Boasberg, Who Wanted to Liberate The Venezuelan Gang Members, Sent 70 Trump Supporters to Prison on Made-Up 1512c Charges that SCOTUS later overturned. – Judge Boasberg was assigned as the top judge in the FISA Court in early 2020. One of his first actions was to appoint David Kris, an Obama-era national security leader, to review the reforms the FBI will be making to its FISA application process…

City Journal: Trump’s College Crackdown Is Their Fault – Universities spent decades prioritizing activism over education. – When university presidents were asked about the causes of declining public confidence in higher education, only 11% identified “ideological bias” as the biggest cause of public mistrust (though twice as many acknowledged it as a “valid concern”).

March 16, 2025

American Thinker: The Biden White House mixed it up with not just one but two autopens – Autopens are cool devices for those who need to repeat their signature over and over – It’s different, though, when you occupy an important position and your decisions must clearly emanate from you, and not from an automated process or someone supposedly acting on your behalf…

One America News: The Democrat Party’s Favorability Rating Falls To A Historic Low – The Democrat Party’s favorability rating stands at 29% – a record low in CNN’s polling dating back to 1992 and a drop of 20 points since January 2021. – The historic low favorability ratings are in contrast to the GOP’s favorability ratings, which hovers at around 79% favorability rating among Republicans, according to CNN…

New York Sun: Obama Appointed U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg Ordered Planeloads of Deported Venezuelan Gang Members To Return to America – His ruling came hours after President Trump said the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was invading the US and invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 – The president of El Salvador, the planes’ intended destination, and Secretary Rubio both stated that the deportation operations had already concluded.

Geller Report: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew Has Rescued The Stranded Astronauts – The hatch of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft opened March 16 at 1:35 a.m. ET and the members of Crew-10 entered. – Astronaut Anne McClain from Crew-10, “I cannot tell you the immense joy of our crew when we looked out the window and saw the Space Station for the first time. – You can hardly even put it into words…”

American Thinker: Trump begins restoring law and order – Take a look at three of the president’s appointees and the good work they’ve done already. – Trump, “Justice isn’t about politics, it’s about protecting the people,” and Pam Bondi came armed with evidence. – In just three weeks, Kash Patel’s revitalized FBI team executed 2,741 arrests. – At the border, Tom Homan is sending cartel operatives packing…

American Thinker: Do We Have 677 Unelected Presidents? – A TRO requires the applicant to show a substantial likelihood of success and immediate harm, while a preliminary injunction involves a more rigorous evaluation. – The curtain must fall on the notion that hundreds of unelected district court judges, often with outlying political beliefs and of various levels of judicial temperament and legal ability, should be permitted to act as America’s Chief Executive.

Geller Report: These are the 26 Republicans that just voted against codifying DOGE foreign aid spending cuts into law – Senators Lindsey Graham, Barrasso, Boozman, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cramer, Crapo, Fischer, Grassley, Hoeven, Hyde-Smith, Lankford, McConnell, McCormick, Moran, Mullin, Murkowski, Ricketts, Rounds, Scott, Sullivan, Thune, Tillis, Wicker, and Young. – It’s time to start calling and writing to them.

American Thinker: Why Aren’t Johnny And Susie Reading To Grade Level? – So how did the 18% manage to learn what the 82% didn’t? – By the time kids get to high school with badly deficient reading skills, there is virtually nothing that can be done for them. – So how did the 18% manage to learn what the 82% didn’t? – Their unique genetic endowment and personal qualities allowed them to better pay attention and assimilate whatever instruction they got…

March 15, 2025

Gateway Pundit: Zelensky Keeps Pushing for WWIII, Bragging That His New 621-Mile Long-Range Missiles Can Hit Moscow – Trump was right when he said you can’t make peace deals with Ukraine as long as Zelensky is calling the shots. – Why is Zelensky pushing the world toward World War III? And who thinks that is a good idea?…

Western Journal: Trump Announces Military Action Against US Enemy: ‘We Will Use Overwhelming Lethal Force Until We Have Achieved Our Objective’ – President Trump has unleashed America’s military might in the Middle East, attacking the Houthi rebels in Yemen and killing off an Islamic State leader in Iraq. – “They have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American, and other, ships, aircraft, and drones,” Trump said.

Western Journal: Staffer Suspected of Abusing Biden’s Auto-Pen – An unnamed Biden aide used an autopen to sign official documents without other aides knowing whether Biden actually approved the actions. – The staff member in question would say he was doing what “the boss” wanted, but no one dared ask if this was true. – “I feared no one as much as I feared that [staffer]. – To me, [the staffer] basically was the president.”…

Breitbart: Attorney General Pam Bondi criticized a federal judge who blocked the deportations of suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua after President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. – Bondi issued a formal statement saying U.S. District Judge James Boasberg had “supported” TdA “terrorists over the safety of Americans.”

Zero Hedge: A New Beltway Intrigue, Follow The Biden EPA Money – When the Biden administration announced $27 billion in environmental grants last April, it set the clock ticking on a predicament. – Just how would they get such enormous sums for Biden’s envisioned NetZero future out the door before the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30? – $20 billion went to just eight nonprofits that, like the EPA itself, had never handled such gargantuan grants…

One America News: Mark Carney Was Sworn In As Canada’s Prime Minister And Says He ‘Respects’ Trump – Trudeau did not have the best relationship with Trump, but Carney says his approach will be different. – “In many respects, part of my experience overlaps with that of the President – we’re both looking out for our countries. But he knows, and I know from long experience, that we can find mutual solutions that win for both,” he said.

Fox News: President Trump signed the continuing resolution, officially averting a government shutdown – The CR extends the government’s budget through the end of September and was approved by a majority of Senate Republicans. – Only Sen. Rand Paul, R-K.Y., voted against the bill. – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faced backlash on Friday from fellow Democrats after announcing his intention to vote for the bill.

Epoch Times: President Trump Revoked 19 More Biden-Era Executive Actions – Biden’s 2021 executive order that raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour. – Biden’s use of the Defense Production Act in his energy transition agenda. – Biden’s executive order “funneling federal resources into radical biotech and bio-manufacturing initiatives under the guise of environmental policy.”…

Epoch Times: President Trump signed an executive order late Friday seeking to dismantle eight federal agencies – The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, US Agency for Global Media, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Institute of Museum and Library Services, US Interagency Council on Homelessness, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, The Arctic Research Commission and the Minority Business Development Agency.

Zero Hedge: President Trump Cancelled Security Clearances Of Lawyers Involved In The Russiagate And J6 Prosecutions – Trump’s revocation order applies to employees of New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison “pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with the national interest. – The law firm has been a close ally to Democrats coming after Trump, including the Russiagate collusion investigation that found no collusion…

Gatestone Institute: Iran’s Mullahs Can Never Change, Never Be ‘Friends’ – This is because The Islamic Republic of Iran is not a normal state or even a conventional dictatorship. – It is an ideological entity that derives its very identity from opposition to the United States, Israel, and the West. – It was born out of the 1979 revolution, and its core identity was forged in opposition to the United States and Israel…

Townhall: The Trump administration is considering targeting the citizens of as many as 43 countries as part of a new ban on travel to the United States. – A draft list of recommendations developed by diplomatic and security officials suggests a “red” list of 11 countries whose citizens would be flatly barred from entering the United States. They are Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. – There are also orange and yellow lists…

Daily Wire: Trump Scores Legal Win After Biden Judge Blocked DEI Slashing. – The judges found that the “sweeping block went too far.” – An appeals court on Friday said President Donald Trump could continue to slash diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs from the federal government as a lawsuit plays out.

Slay News: FBI Director Kash Patel Moves to Investigate Judge Merchan’s Family Over Anti-Trump Courtroom Corruption – Merchan, a Joe Biden donor, oversaw the Democrats’ so-called “hush money” case against Donald Trump that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg led. – During the trial, it emerged that he had deep ties to the Democrat Party. – Also, his daughter, Loren Merchan, worked on the election campaigns of several high-profile Democrats, including Adam Schiff and Kamala Harris…

American Thinker: The Slush Fund Nobody Voted For – Biden’s EPA delivered billions in taxpayer dollars to a select group of left-wing nonprofits, bypassing Congress, financial oversight, and public scrutiny. – Now, the Trump administration is fighting to unwind it. – EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has launched an aggressive investigation into how these billions were distributed, why they were shielded from standard financial accountability, and whether federal laws were broken.

American Thinker: Hacktivism And the Possibility Of WW III – The recent cyberattack on X that originated from a Ukrainian IP address has set off alarm bells. – Is this the work of rogue Ukrainian actors furious about peace negotiations? – Or a classic Russian false-flag operation? – Or maybe, just maybe, it’s an entirely unrelated third party stirring the pot for reasons unknown?

American Thinker: Democrat Violence and Manhood – The Democrat/socialist/communist Party is playing with fire but is too deranged to realize it burns everyone. – Vance had Secret Service protection, so he and his daughter weren’t in danger, and Vance treated the “protestors” with the civility they denied him. – But he’s absolutely right: they were shit people. – They should know one doesn’t terrorize little children…

American Thinker: What DOGE Is Accomplishing – What began as a fiscal experiment has transformed into something more revealing: a relentless spotlight on the Democrat party’s entrenched priorities, operational dependencies, and, increasingly, strategic struggles in the face of Musk’s unorthodox crusade. – Musk’s actions are revealing layers of what some Republicans describe as Democratic hypocrisy.

Breitbart: Vice President Vance announced Friday that businesses and corporations that invest in the United States “will be rewarded” with things such as having their taxes cut and would also benefit from decreasing regulations and energy costs. – At Vantage Plastics, a plastic manufacturing plant in Bay City, Michigan, Vance spoke about how the Trump administration’s “goal is to make it easier and more affordable to make things again” in the U.S.

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, St. Patrick’s Pi Day Edition – Yesterday was Pi Day, the day on which Albert Einstein was born and Karl Marx died. – Math nerds and freedom lovers everywhere celebrated…

March 14, 2025

Red State: Marco Rubio Tells South Africa’s Terror-Simping Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool To Leave – Rasool offered that President Trump was a White supremacist leading a White supremacist movement – Secretary Rubio, “South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country.” – “Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates Trump.” – “We have nothing to discuss with him, so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA.”

Fox News: SpaceX’s Crew-10 launched into space Friday to bring home two NASA astronauts who have been stuck at the International Space Station since June 6. – The crew of four geared up in the “suit-up room” amid photos of the Apollo crew before driving to the launchpad in multiple Teslas adorned with “LIF10FF” license plates — an ode to the mission number.

One America News: The Senate narrowly passed the Continuing Resolution, successfully averting a government shutdown. – The Friday vote was 62-38, with ten Democrats voting with all Republicans. The sole Republican to vote with the opposition was Senator Rand Paul.

Slay News: The Ridiculous Political Puppet Show – 50 House Democrats Made Identical Social Media Posts – The same message that was posted by dozens of Democrat lawmakers on Thursday read: “House Democrats stand united for a four-week funding extension that stops harmful cuts, keeps the government open, and allows Congress to reach a bipartisan funding agreement.”
“I am ready to vote today, tomorrow, or Friday to pass a four-week extension.”

Newsmax: The Supreme Court said it will consider the Trump administration’s request to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to take effect in part while legal fights play out. – The court signaled it would consider the appeal by ordering responses from states and organizations that have challenged the constitutionality of Trump’s order to be submitted by April 4th…

Daily Wire: The FBI Going After Those Responsible For Recent ‘Swatting’ Incidents – Patel, “The FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable.” – Senator Lee suggested that the incidents should be prosecuted as attempted murder…

Newsmax: The Senate passed a bipartisan bill that permanently classifies fentanyl-related substances as Schedule 1 narcotics before their temporary status expired on March 31. – The Halt Lethal Trafficking Fentanyl Act passed by an 84-16 margin, with all 16 no votes coming from Democrats.

Daily Fetched: These Are The 16 Senate Democrats That Voted Against The Fentanyl Crackdown Bill – Angela Alsobrooks of MD) Lisa Blunt Rochester of DE, Cory Booker of NJ, Tammy Duckworth of IL, Mazie Hirono of HI, Ed Markey of MA, Jeff Merkley of OR, Chris Murphy of CT, Alex Padilla of CA, Bernie Sanders of VT, Adam Schiff of CA, Chris Van Hollen of MD, Raphael Warnock of GA, Elizabeth Warren of MA, Peter Welch of VT, and Ron Wyden of OR.

Gateway Pundit: “The Case Against Me Was Bullshit!” – Applause Broke Out After President Trump Slammed Jack Smith During His Fiery DOJ Press Conference. – “We must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls. Unfortunately, in recent years, a corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated that trust and goodwill built up over generations,” Trump said…

Liberty Daily: FCC Chair Brendan Carr has unveiled a sweeping regulatory rollback initiative to end the regulatory onslaught from Washington. – Carr, “For too long, administrative agencies have added new regulatory requirements in excess of their authority or kept lawful regulations in place long after their shelf life had expired. – This only creates headwinds and slows down our country’s innovators, entrepreneurs, and small businesses.” – Everything is under new scrutiny…

Center Square: ICE and law enforcement partners “apprehended 214 illegal aliens” in Virginia as part of a targeted operation, which included the apprehension of “dangerous” gang members and convicted murderers. – The operation focused on “transnational organized crime, gangs, and egregious illegal alien offenders” in Northern Virginia between March 1 and 13. The arrests included individuals allegedly connected to “notorious MS-13 and 18th Street gangs.”

Geller Report: Muslim Terror Supporters Screamed “Allahu Akbar” As They Attacked Police in NYC’s Time Square – Why are these people in our country?

New York Post: US Envoy Witkoff left Moscow without a cease-fire agreement after Putin rejected Trump’s terms, saying, ‘A lot still needs to be done’ – Trump’s proposal was straightforward: Russia and Ukraine would halt all conflict for 30 days, and conduct a prisoner exchange as signs of both parties’ commitment to finding a peaceful resolution. The US would also restart sharing intelligence with and delivering aid to Kyiv.

Zero Hedge: Putin Calls For All Ukrainians In Kursk To Surrender After President Trump’s Request To Spare Lives – Putin acknowledged Trump’s request. – “If they lay down their arms and surrender, we will guarantee their lives and dignified treatment in accordance with international law and Russian legal norms.” – Putin also emphasized the “numerous crimes against civilians” in the region, also has hundreds of thousands of citizens have fled over the last six months…

Slay News: Islamic terrorist group Hamas has agreed to finally 21-year-old Israeli-American Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage being held in captivity in Gaza, has been held for 525 days. – It’s unclear when the transfer will happen, but the news comes as talks are ongoing in Qatar to establish the next phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

Western Journal: Trump Orders The Military To Devise A Plan For Retaking The Panama Canal – Potential plans range from “partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops’ seizing the canal by force.” – Sources said that military coercion is highly unlikely, but it could become an option if Panama doesn’t cooperate with the United States.

Western Journal: Schumer Flinches, Tells Democrats to Back Down and Support GOP Plan – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer must have read the tea leaves, or he reread his old social media posts and speeches and remembered what he said about government shutdowns during the Biden administration when the Democrats had control of the Senate.

Washington Free Beacon: Get the Chuck Outta Here: Democrats Are Finally United (Against Themselves) – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vowed to mobilize her social media fans in an effort to force a government shutdown – Schumer’s colleagues in the Senate were similarly aggrieved. – A number of them released statements Thursday denouncing the Republican plan to keep the government open…

Just The News: FBI Director Patel says the agency is working with law enforcement to investigate recent swatting incidents – “The FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable.” – “This isn’t about politics; weaponizing law enforcement against ANY American is not only morally reprehensible but also endangers lives, including those of our officers.”…

Townhall: Oregon Has Strict Gun Control, And Here Is Solid Proof It’s Not Helping – Gunshots were fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon on Thursday for the second time in a week in ongoing vandalism and protests around the country since CEO Elon Musk became a key figure in the Trump administration. – A similar incident happened on March 6 at the same location. Police said they continue to work with federal partners at the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives to thoroughly investigate…

Daily Wire: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Friday that she was “aggressively pursuing” individuals within the intelligence community who have leaked information to legacy media outlets, such as NBC News and The Washington Post. – Gabbard said that leakers violated the law by providing reporters with classified information about American foreign policy on Iran, Israel, and Russia.

Charlie Kirk: Clinton appointee Judge William Alsup says the Trump Admin has to rehire 30,000 laid-off probationary hires… This isn’t judicial review; it’s a dictatorship by a big ego with a gavel. – SCOTUS must intervene, and soon!

The U.S. Sun: Chilling photos show China’s giant D-Day style INVASION BARGES that are moored off the coast of Taiwan as fears grow they are preparing for an. – The giant troop-carrying barges are capable of delivering fleets of tanks and thousands of troops directly onto Taiwanese roads. – China is building at least five of the giant troop-carrying barges, according to satellite imagery and military sources. – This is how the mega barges work.

AMUSE on X: The Coordinated Attack on Conservatives Is A RICO Case in the Making – A well-funded, highly organized effort is underway to destabilize the United States and crush conservative voices – Who benefits from this orchestrated chaos? – The answer is clear: Soros-backed organizations seeking to destabilize Trump’s administration, Democratic elites desperate to reclaim power, and corporate media eager to craft a narrative that portrays conservatives as extremists…

Townhall: This Is The Latest Government Agency Planning To Cut Thousands of Jobs – Outgoing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told lawmakers he signed an agreement with the Department of Government Efficiency to cut costs at the beleaguered agency. – DeJoy outlined issues with mismanagement of its self-funded retirement assets and workers’ compensation program, unfunded mandates imposed on USPS by legislation, and burdensome regulatory requirements…

Breitbart: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on ‘Reprivatization’ of Economy – The Biden administration relied on blowout spending. – President Trump’s administration is “laser-focused” on cutting the deficit and getting spending “under control,” part of his larger vision of “reprivatization” of the U.S. economy so economic growth is no longer dependent on government spending but instead on private sector growth.

American Thinker: Donald Trump’s Return Shows A Foreign Policy Reset After Biden’s Weakness – Trump’s second term marks the return of his unapologetic approach to foreign policy. – But it isn’t just about economics or military power, but about demanding more from allies, too. – His showdown with Zelensky was a perfect example. – On March 3, 2025, military aid to Ukraine was suspended. – Zelensky’s sudden change of heart was proof that Trump’s tactics were working…

American Thinker: NATO, Ukraine, And The War Hawks’ Pixie Dust Playbook – The Never-Ending War crowd wants you to believe three things at once: – NATO expansion deters aggression and won’t provoke retaliation. – Giving Ukraine de facto NATO security guarantees will protect it but won’t require American blood and treasure if war breaks out. – Russia will accept NATO troops or bases in Ukraine but won’t view that as an existential threat. – And yet…

American Thinker: The Defenders of Destruction – Only mentally disheveled subversives and press charlatans would rank purposeful violence as legitimate protest. – Upon hearing that President Trump rightly condemned the vandalism and arson of Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism, MSNBC host Alicia Menendez grabbed up her fake news bullhorn: “So, just to be clear, you protest a private company, you are labeled by this administration a domestic terrorist.”…

Megan Redshaw: Dr. David Weldon’s CDC Nomination Was Killed at the Eleventh Hour – Officially, he didn’t have the votes from two Republican holdouts. Unofficially? The move reeked of political pressure—specifically, from the most powerful force in Washington: Big Pharma – Big Pharma didn’t want Weldon to lead the CDC, and his letter makes it very clear why they made sure he didn’t get the job…

American Thinker: Go Away, Randi – It took a while, but parents finally figured out that the teachers’ unions are more about electing Democrats than teachers their kids. – Maybe this is why more parents have opted for home-schooling or doing whatever it takes to put them in a private school. They want their kids educated, not indoctrinated. – Yes, the DOE has to go and take down Randi Weingarten as well…

Zero Hedge: Mass Cases Of EDS Have Been Reported Worldwide – Symptoms of the disease previously seen in the U.S., including hysterical frothing, weird public tantrums, and calling everyone who you disagree with a Nazi, have now also been reported in London. – Billboards and ads are popping up everywhere across the city in a coordinated effort to smear Musk for merely being associated with President Trump.

Zero Hedge: Which US States Import The Most From Canada And Mexico? – Following President Trump’s imposition of 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as retaliatory tariffs from Canada, trade across North America’s borders has suddenly become much more expensive. – Visual Capitalist’s chart shows Montana, Maine, North Dakota, Vermont, and Michigan in the lead, with Hawaii, New Jersey, and New York importing the least…

Breitbart: The demolition of Biden-era migrant processing centers along the Southern border began this week in Texas. – The Biden administration used the soft-sided facilities to expedite the entry of migrants into the U.S. after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. – They are no longer needed. Due to the unprecedented drop in apprehensions of illegal aliens as a result of President Trump’s leadership…

Issues & Insights: ICYMI, Our Border Is Now Definitely Closed To Illegal Immigration – Seven recent developments and news reports illustrate just how much the administration’s efforts have borne fruit. – A Wall Street Journal found Trump’s border policies had a major impact on Southern border traffic. – A Panama Migrant Authority report shows that illegal Darien Gap crossings, a popular route for U.S.-bound migrants, have dropped 99% since Trump took office…

March 13, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: EXCLUSIVE, The Most Explosive Revelations From Jake Tapper’s New Book About Biden’s Decline (Part 1) – Although it wasn’t easy, we were able to get our hands on an advance copy and quickly realized the situation was even worse than originally thought. – “Time to get changed,” Joe said, mounting the conference room table and rolling onto his back. – “Then Jill pulled a fresh pack of incontinence guards from the nearest filing cabinet…

Breitbart: Promises Made, Promises Kept As Producer Inflation Stopped Cold In Trump’s First Month When Core Prices Fell – Economists had forecast a 0.3 percent increase in the broad producer price index (PPI) and an even larger 0.5 percent increase in core producer prices. – Instead of the expected price surge, we got price stability—and even declines in core producer prices.

Breitbart: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Launched An Inquiry Into A DEI Activist That Offered Exam Answers to Minority Air Traffic Controller Candidates Before Testing – Sean Duffy, “I am launching a full investigation into the DEI hiring allegations at the FAA immediately.” – “If true, swift accountability will come for those responsible.” – “We need the best and brightest, not buzzword, DEI hires”…

Washington Free Beacon: The Trump Administration Slaps Fresh Sanctions on Iran’s Oil Minister and ‘Shadow Fleet’ Ferrying Illicit Iranian Crude – Additional sanctions were placed on entities from several countries, including India and China, for their role in shipping Iranian crude across the globe. This includes “a vast shadow fleet of vessels” that disguise the Iranian oil and export it primarily to Beijing at significantly reduced prices.

AMUSE on X: Trump’s Industrial Miracle, Making America a Factory Giant Again – His philosophy is simple: reward those who invest in America and penalize those who seek to profit while producing elsewhere. – Trump’s arsenal includes tariffs to neutralize foreign competition, tax incentives to make domestic production more attractive, and targeted infrastructure investments to create an ecosystem conducive to industrial expansion…

Washington Post: Inside A Mexican Cartel ‘Extermination’ Camp – Mexico has grappled for years with a crisis of disappearances, with more than 110,000 people reported missing. – Hundreds and hundreds of singed bone remnants were found, but the image that really stunned Mexicans was all the shoes – Several other extermination camps have been found in Mexico, and mass graves turn up nearly every week, but the site in Jalisco elicited a particular horror…

Gateway Pundit: Russian President Putin Accepts The US-Ukraine Ceasefire Plan, But With Specific Conditions – Russia only seeks a long-term peace settlement that takes into account Moscow’s interests and concerns. – Americans understand that Ukraine’s membership in NATO is out of the question in the context of a peaceful settlement.” – Putin will likely find a way to keep the process going strong. – There are skilled negotiators on both sides, so it’s unlikely that the US team went on a limb on a losing proposition.”

Daily Wire: The Chinese Navy carried out an unannounced military exercise over the last month in which it encircled Australia, causing alarm amongst military experts. – The military exercise was the furthest south the communist nation’s navy has ever gone, the report said. – The incident has Australian officials racing to equip its army with new anti-ship missiles fired from mobile launchers and advanced targeting radars.

PJ Media: On Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer was practically gloating when he announced that it looks like the House Continuing Resolution (CR) doesn’t have the votes to get past a filibuster. – The Democrats’ tough talk about the CR funding bill is already showing cracks. After days of chest-thumping and virtue signaling, it’s looking like all that bravado was just a front. – Despite Schumer’s claims, Democrats really don’t want a shutdown and don’t have the needed votes.

Gateway Pundit: A mob of radical pro-Hamas protesters have taken over the restaurant inside the iconic Trump Tower in New York City. – The radical protesters who stormed Trump Tower are now reportedly being arrested…

Modernity News: MSNBC Describes The Violent Attacks On Tesla Dealerships As ‘Protests’ – Attackers have put staff in danger and even set fire to Tesla dealerships and charging stations, but the MSNBC hosts were visibly annoyed that President Trump agreed their actions could constitute domestic terrorism. – In one case, explosives were even discovered at a dealership in Colorado…

Resist The Mainstream: Under the new leadership of FBI Director Kash Patel, the agency has begun releasing hundreds of documents related to its involvement in the January 6 Capitol riots and its investigation into pipe bombs discovered outside the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters. – The disclosure follows a subpoena from House Republicans who have accused the Bureau of withholding key information.

Resist The Mainstream: InfoWars host Chase Geiser was the target of a swatting incident on Tuesday, just one day after the tragic death of his colleague Jamie White in Austin, Texas, who Alex Jones says was “brutally murdered.” – When asked about a potential connection, Geiser responded, “We were both on the same Ukraine enemies of the state list…

AMUSE on X: Under the Biden administration, political discourse was systematically manipulated through a vast censorship apparatus designed to suppress dissent. – A confluence of government agencies, Big Tech firms, and nominally independent NGOs constructed an intricate censorship regime extending across national borders, presenting a grave challenge to the foundational principle of free speech…

American Thinker: Is ActBlue a Criminal Enterprise? – ActBlue was founded in 2004 as a Democrat Party PAC ostensibly to organize and raise campaign funds from “small donors.” – Never in the 236-year political history of the United States has there been a more expansive, criminal, and blatant scheme to manipulate the electoral process than the actions of ActBlue in league with the Democrat Party…

Gateway Pundit: Radical US District Judge William Alsup, a Clinton Appointee, Orders The Government to Rehire Thousands of Fired Probationary Employees in Six Federal Agencies – The six government agencies include The VA, DOD, Energy, Interior, Treasury, and Agriculture. – It is unclear how many probationary employees Trump has already fired, but there are potentially 200,000+ federal employees across government agencies.

Slay News: A Barack Obama-appointed federal judge has ordered DOGE and its senior advisor, Elon Musk, to reveal plans for downsizing the government. – Judge Chutkan’s directive comes as 14 Democrat state attorneys general are suing Trump, Musk, and DOGE, arguing that Musk is unconstitutionally wielding power. – Chutkan allowed three weeks to produce the information, noting the information ultimately will help the judge decide whether to block DOGE’s operations altogether.

Epoch Times: U.S. District Judge William Alsup Orders The Trump Admin to Reinstate Thousands of Fired Employees – He ruled the administration must bring the workers back because the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) does not have the power to order firings and that there is evidence the office improperly directed the termination of newer employees at the agencies. – The full number of impacted workers is not clear, but numbers at least 9,100, based on previous public statements…

Gateway Pundit: Trump Signs An Executive Order Cracks Down on Radical Activist Judges and Far-Left Groups That Are Abusing The Courts. – The order tells federal agencies to make sure that whenever someone sues the government for an injunction, the agency should request that the plaintiff (the person or organization suing) provides enough money upfront to cover possible costs and damages the government might suffer if the injunction turns out to be unjustified.

Daily Wire: President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to stop judges across the country from governing the “whole nation from their courtrooms. – Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris submitted an application to SCOTUS for a partial stay of an injunction issued by a Maryland court while simultaneously filing similar injunctions for cases in Washington State and Massachusetts…

Daily Wire: The DOJ has launched a criminal investigation into hotels in New York City that were accused of operating as shelters for illegal aliens on taxpayers’ dime. – The investigation centers around the funding and management of the program. – The subpoenas said investigators sought evidence and testimony from the hotels over “an alleged violation” of federal immigration law…

Townhall: Trump Is About to Invoke The Alien Enemies Act Law to Make a Massive Move Against Illegal Immigration – It is unclear how the administration will carry out this strategy, but there are indications that it will be used to target criminal gangs. – The Act was originally intended to be used when the United States found itself at war with another country or if a foreign government has invaded, or threatened to invade, the U.S.

American Thinker: Trump must designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization – This group has produced more terrorists than any other Islamist group in history. – It is the mastermind behind modern Islamic terrorism. – The M.B. is the ideological and “administrative” force behind ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Boko Haram, who are responsible for the most brutal of terrorist attacks. – And yet these groups are blacklisted as terrorist organizations, but not the M.B.

The Defender: The Makary And Bhattacharya Nominations Move to Full Senate Vote, But Trump Pulls Weldon’s Nomination to Lead CDC Due To Inadequate Support – The Senate Health Committee today voted 14-9 to endorse Dr. Marty Makary to lead the FDA and 12-11 to endorse Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the NIH.

Vigilant News: An IRS Tax Examiner Goes on Record and Blows The Whistle on The Agency – “We can’t do anywhere close to what the American people think we can.” – David Nelsen said the outdated software has led to a bloated workforce and delays in tax processing. – “We could probably reduce the size of the IRS substantially with changes, programs, a centralized inventory system, replacing IDRS,” he said.

American Thinker: Terrifying Tariffs Or Tax Policy as Back-Door Foreign Aid – It depends on what America wants out of its tariffs, added revenues, or “back door” foreign aid. – Prior to the 16th Amendment, government revenue came almost exclusively from tariffs and excise taxes. – How did we allow that tariff imbalance to happen? – Actually, it’s a long-established policy intended to supplement the Marshall Plan of 1948. – Here’s how it evolved…

Washington Examiner: President Trump has threatened the European Union with 200% tariffs on alcohol after the EU announced a slate of tariffs on American products beginning next month. – The European Union’s tariffs include 50% tariffs on whiskey, a measure Trump decried as “nasty” when announcing the renewed tariff threat.

American Thinker: The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to vacate the lower court’s order in the USAID case has sharply divided legal observers – Justice Alito’s fiery dissent—joined by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, must not be rationalized away. – At its core, the USAID case is about jurisdiction. – Federal district courts have no authority over government contract disputes—period…

American Conservative: The Afghan Refugee Program Is an Unfixable Mess And Could Bring Another Terrorist Attack – The State Department has resettled 200,000 Afghans in the U.S., but whistleblowers point to corruption and lax security vetting. – The good news is that the new Trump administration has paused resettling Afghans. – The bad news is that Congress wants to continue the program…

Victor Davis Hanson: Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education? – First-Amendment-protected free speech all but vanished on elite campuses. – Any guest speaker who dared to critique abortion on demand, Middle East orthodoxy, biological males dominating women’s sports, or diversity/equity/inclusion dogmas was likely to be shouted down or, on occasion, roughed up…

American Thinker: Democrats Are So Passionate – But what they are passionate about is not a pretty picture. – They are extremely passionate about anything LGBTQ+, especially transgenderism, and even more passionate about trans men being welcomed to play among female athletes. – Then there is their campaign to promote all manner of sexual indoctrination to all of America’s children, K through 12. – There is generously paid for by Soros-affiliated organizations, NGOs, and the like.

Breitbart: Gavin Newsom The must borrow $3.44 billion to cover a shortfall in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, a year after expanding it to offer free health care to illegal aliens. – Beginning January 1, 2024, illegal aliens residing in California become eligible for taxpayer-funded health insurance. – Newsom boasted California would become the first state to achieve universal access to health care coverage.

March 12, 2025

Breitbart: The latest federal government data shows that President Biden’s deputies exploded the foreign-born share of the United States by at least 8.3 million, up to a record 15.8%, or one in six people in just four years. – In 2023, the Census Bureau said the foreign-born share of the U.S. population would not hit 15.8 percent until 2042.

Victor Davis Hanson: Why Won’t Europe Step Up and Help Ukraine? – We have 500 million people in Europe who are very upset that 330 million people across the ocean in America will not help 40 million people fighting 140 million people in Russia. – So, of all the players in this drama, it’s Europe who should be in the driver’s seat. – They’re also running a $200-plus billion trade surplus with the United States…

Breitbart: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Orders Force-Wide Review of Existing Fitness and Grooming Standards – Hegseth, “Our troops will be fit, not fat.” – “Our troops will look sharp, not sloppy.” – “We seek only quality, not quotas.” – “Our adversaries are not growing weaker, and our tasks are not growing less challenging.”…

Epoch Times: The EPA Plans To Roll Back Numerous Climate Regulations, Including The EV Rule – Administrator Lee Zeldin said the EPA would take steps to roll back 31 regulations to fulfill President Donald Trump’s “promise to unleash American energy, revitalize our auto industry, restore the rule of law, and give power back to the states.”

Just The Facts: An Overlooked Treasury Report Supports Musk’s Warning About Federal Deficits Sinking the U.S. – The quietly released January Treasury report shows if the federal government reported its finances like large corporations are required to report by law, it wouldn’t show a National Debt of $36 trillion, but $143 trillion in debts, liabilities, and unfunded obligations. – This equals 85% of all the wealth Americans have accumulated since the nation’s founding.3

Epoch Times: U.S. immigration detention facilities have reached capacity at about 47,600 beds, a top-level ICE official said on March 12 in a call with reporters. – The federal government is now seeking more bed space for detained illegal immigrants, added the official, who requested anonymity as a condition of the call.

Western Journal: Warning, The FBI Warns Americans to Delete These ‘Smishing’ Text Messages Immediately And Don’t Click On The Links. – This new wave of “smishing” has already “exploited more than 10,000 newly registered domains, using fake payment demands to steal personal and financial information.” – These “smishing” messages typically follow the same “script,” with the most recent wave being characterized by saying you have an unpaid toll due…

Zero Hedge: The WSJ’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Declares It’s Over For Ukraine In Kursk As Ukrainian Troops Are In Full Withdrawal Amid Rapid Russian Gains. – There are no more cards to play, as Trump put it last month while hosting Zelensky at the White House, and now this assessment proves truer than ever. – Russians are now studying the new US-Ukraine proposal for a 30-day truce in order to jump-start direct negotiations to end the war.

Zero Hedge: The Unimaginable Details Of The Great Gas Pipeline Caper Of 2025 That Led To Russia’s Kursk Victory – Briefly put, 800 Russian special ops marched 12 km. (7.2 miles!) through an abandoned gas pipeline (in some portions crawling, came out the other side, and in conjunction with other Russian troops, closed the trap door on Zelensky’s Kursk misadventure…

Slay News: President Trump has nominated Retired Air Force Lt. General Dan “Razin’” Caine as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to replace General Charles Q. Brown. – Brown was ousted because he supported Marxism DEI implementation. – One of Trump’s improvements to the military is to dispense with DEI policies that have arguably harmed wartime readiness.

Issues & Insights: As DOGE Makes Cuts, A Majority Want Gov’t Workers Treated Same As Those In Private Sector – When asked, “Should federal employees be treated differently than private-sector workers in terms of pay, benefits, and job protections?” An I&I/TIPP Poll, taken from Feb. 24-26, found of those queried, 65% said, “No, they should be treated the same.” Just 22% answered, “Yes, they should receive more.” Another 13% responded “not sure.”

Epoch Times: President Trump Says People Vandalizing Tesla Dealerships Could Be Labeled As Domestic Terrorists – There have been multiple attacks on Tesla dealerships and charging stations in recent weeks. – Trump told reporters his administration is already aware of who some of the people are behind the attacks, adding that law enforcement will soon apprehend them.

Western Journal: Trump’s Lawyer Goes Public After Biden’s Fake White House Teleprompter Equipped Video Set Is Found – Were this for a Republican president, White House correspondents would be parked day and night outside the fake Oval Office, reporting breathlessly on a crisis of confidence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. In this case, they simply forgot about it. — Now, Alina Habba reminded us of our propped-up president who pretended to run the country between January 2021 and January 2025.

Daily Mail: President Trump might have moved closer to achieving his goal of acquiring Greenland after two political parties that favor independence from Denmark won in the country’s parliamentary elections this week. – The country’s center-right Democrat Party, which favors gradual independence from Greenland, won 29.9% of the vote, meaning it will have to form a coalition with other parties to form a government.

Breitbart: Americans got relief from inflation in February as prices rose at the slowest pace since last summer. – Overall consumer prices climbed just 0.21 percent, the smallest increase since August 2024. In January, prices jumped 0.5 percent compared with December. – Core prices also rose 0.2 percent, half of January’s 0.4 percent surge.

New York Sun: New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen Announces Retirement, Making Her the Third Democrat To Forgo Reelection – Other Democrats are reportedly eyeing the exit as the Senate map points to a Republican majority for years to come. – In their best-case scenario, Democrats would have to defend their open seats in Michigan, Minnesota, and New Hampshire while also reelecting Geprgoa Senator Ossoff.

Washington Free Beacon: The Trump Admin Terminates $20B in Biden Climate Funding Over Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Concerns – A $2 billion grant for a group linked to Stacey Abrams is among those canceled – The grants were awarded under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program, which was created by former president Joe Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act…

American Thinker: President Trump’s ‘America First’ Policies Are The Only Path to True Economic Strength – It’s time to stop getting distracted and start seeing the real results that are lifting all communities across this country. – I’ve seen firsthand how weak U.S. leadership allowed unfair trade deals, weak foreign policies, and leaders more interested in their careers than in serving the people has weakened America…

American Thinker: A Theory On Why The Left Lost – There are two approaches to achieving political change in reasonably functional modern societies. – The first depends on persuasion. – The second approach relies on destabilization. – Democrats are well on board that particular train wreck…

American Thinker: Returning to an Earlier American Identity – Trump represents a return to pre-Wilsonian ideals of individualism and bourgeois initiative. – The thrust toward collectivism and expansion of federal power began during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson. – Wilson supported the creation of a Federal Reserve Bank to manipulate our monetary policy and a federal income tax to expand the administrative authority of the federal government…

American Thinker: President Trump’s Digital Fort Knox, Bitcoin, the Dollar, and America’s Financial Future – Trump isn’t just stockpiling Bitcoin, he’s weaponizing it. – President Trump’s Bitcoin strategy is not merely an exercise in asset accumulation. A key goal is stabilizing cryptocurrency markets to reduce systemic financial risks. – A more stable Bitcoin market has cascading macroeconomic effects…

Geller Report: What Democrats did is unconscionable. – They raped the American taxpayer to get super rich and impose their perverse, insane pathologies on the public. – The NIH has canceled grants, including $620K for “an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys.” – $699K for studying “cannabis use” among “sexual minority gender diverse individuals.” – $740K for examining “social networks” among “black and Latino sexual minority men in New Jersey.”…

March 11, 2025

Western Journal: Ukraine accepts cease-fire deal, says Rubio: ‘We’ll take this to the Russians’ – Rubio, standing alongside national security advisor Mike Waltz, did not detail exactly what was in this agreement, but according to a readout provided by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, Kyiv has agreed to a 30-day ceasefire contingent on Moscow’s acceptance of the terms…

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Many Reasons to Be Upset With Mexico – Mexico knows it has been doing four things, with impunity, especially under Joe Biden, that are not sustainable. – The first there was a NAFTA $10-$20 billion trade surplus. Then it went to $40 billion, then it went to $50 billion. – During Trump’s first term, it was renegotiated and kind of stayed static. – Now, it’s over $175 billion due to how China manipulates it. – Then there’s the border...

Western Journal: Trump’s Done Messing Around With Canada – “Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on ‘Electricity’ coming into the US, we will increase the 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA. “This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th.”

Epoch Times: Ontario to Suspend Electricity Export Tariff After The Premier And US Commerce Secretary Speak – Ford and Lutnick will meet in Washington on March 13 “to discuss a renewed USMCA ahead of the April 2 reciprocal tariff deadline.” – Ontario Premier Doug Ford had said on March 11 he would not back down from his decision to put a 25 percent tax on electricity supplied to three U.S. states…

Epoch Times: Trump Drops Plan to Double Tariffs on Canadian Steel and Aluminum After Ontario Suspends Energy Export Tax – Ontario suspended its 25 percent electricity export tariff after the premier and U.S. commerce secretary spoke on March 11.

Daily Signal: The House voted 217-213 Tuesday to pass the Republicans’ continuing resolution to avert a partial government shutdown that was set to begin Friday. – The CR passed along party lines with the exception of Rep. Thomas Massie, who remained the only Republican in opposition. All Democrats voted against it except Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine. – The bill will now go to the Senate, where its prospects remain uncertain.

Epoch Times: The White House Says Trump Won’t Cut Into Social Security and Medicare Following Musk Statement – Must was referring to government findings about fraud and waste, such as a U.S. Government Accountability Office report estimating that the US stands to lose $521 billion annually to fraud, namely within the Medicaid and Medicare programs, and of course, the mainstream media twisted the facts…

Washington Examiner: A Court steps in after USAID employees were ordered to shred or burn classified documents – White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said the ‘shedding’ email was sent to “roughly three dozen employees” and downplayed the coverage of the burn orders as “more fake news hysteria.” – U.S. Customs and Border Protection is planning to move into the USAID facility.

Gateway Pundit: In yet another stunning example of government waste, the Biden administration’s $3 billion scheme to convert the USPS fleet to electric vehicles has delivered nothing but empty promises, skyrocketing costs, and a mere 93 delivery vehicles out of the planned 50,000.

Daily Wire: Trump Halts Funding To Maine Schools As State Refuses To Bar Trans-Identifying Athletes From Women’s Sports – The pause in funding impacts eight public colleges in the University of Maine System. – President Trump warned during a White House event in late February that he would cut funding to Maine schools if the state continued to allow trans-identifying males to compete on girls’ and women’s sports teams.

Conservative Compass: Trump’s Plan to Fix the Economy: Why It Might Hurt Before It Gets Better – Trump’s plan is about long-term health, not short-term comfort. – It’s going to feel rough for a while, but it’s necessary to fix the damage caused by reckless spending and overregulation…

Daily Wire: The Stock Market Plunges, So What Happens Next? – When you mess with the market mechanisms, people don’t like it. – Emerson’s new poll shows President Trump’s handling of the economy underwater by 11 points, but his job approval rating remains at 47-45, which is largely due to the widespread and correct perception that he totally changed the game on immigration.

Epoch Times: The Department of Education To Cut Half Of Its Workforce – Cost-saving measures also include closing all offices, including those in New York, Boston, Dallas, Chicago, and San Francisco. – The laid-off staffers will be awarded severance payments based on their years of service, with the most senior members receiving up to 20 weeks of salary…

California Globe: A California Voter ID Ballot Initiative Is Announced For The 2026 Ballot – A coalition of elected officials and campaign committees have also announced support and released polling showing overwhelming bipartisan support for a Voter ID Initiative in California – with a super-majority of Republicans and Independents and a majority of even Democratic voters supporting the initiative.

Just The News: JD Vance meets with House Republicans on Tuesday morning to rally support for a spending measure to avert a looming government shutdown ahead of a final, full-chamber vote scheduled for later in the day. – This resolution would fund the government through September. – Trump endorsed the continuing resolution over the weekend and encouraged all Republicans to vote for it.

Politico: The Democrat Party’s brand is in rough shape in the congressional battleground districts. – Nearly two months into the Trump administration, a majority of voters believe Democrats in Congress are “more focused on helping other people than people like me,” according to an internal poll conducted by the Democratic group Navigator Research. Among independents, just 27% believe Democrats are focused on helping them…

Conservative Brief: The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate voted 67 to 32 to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as President Donald Trump’s Labor secretary. – Trump picked Chavez-DeRemer for the job because her father was a Teamsters member, a sign that Trump is angling to break up the Democrats’ long-standing alliance with organized labor.

American Thinker: A ‘Putin’s Puppet’ President? Obama’s Truly Shocking Record – As usual with the left, whatever they accuse Republicans of doing is what they’ve done themselves, and nowhere is that more obvious than with Obama and Putin. – When one reviews Obama’s table-setting rhetorical blunders and truly shocking betrayals of allies, stripped of the whipped cream of the legacy media, it makes it painfully easy to see who was, in reality, “aligned with Putin” and was, in fact, his “puppet.”

American Thinker: China’s 4-Stage Strategy to Surpass the USA – Their fourth stage is the most critical. – China’s goal is to become self-sufficient in high-tech industries and become a nation of indigenous innovators. – Policies include their “Made in China 2025 initiative, and, most recently, Xi Jinping’s emphasis is on developing China’s technological power, which has led the country to spend massively on R&D, becoming the second largest R&D spender in the world after the United States.

Townhall: President Trump, “I Want Thomas Massie Gone.” – Trump is trying to get a clean continuing resolution passed to keep the government’s doors open. – The real fight is not this CR; it’s the coming budget reconciliation package. – Yet, as things stand, it appears Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky is the lone Republican planning to vote no, so Trump wants him Primaried…

Townhall: Now Elon Musk is the new whipping boy because he’s a Trump supporter, helms DOGE, and is wealthy. A New Video Confirms What We’ve Long Suspected About These Anti-Elon Protests – And to the shock of no one, these left-wing activists are being paid to cause mayhem. – “I get paid to be out here,” said the man holding an anti-Musk sign. – “Definitely. 100 percent,” he added...

Issues & Insights: One Fact Is Missing From Every DOGE Story – The next time you hear someone complaining that DOGE is “slashing” federal spending or “dismantling” the government, pay close attention. There will almost certainly be an important fact left out: The gargantuan federal deficit. – When President Donald Trump took office, the federal government was $840 billion in the red, a 58% increase from the prior fiscal year.

Red State: There Goes That Democrat Narrative, The Latest News on Egg Prices Show They Are Going Down – It’s now dropped more than 11 percent, as you can see at this link on Trading Economics, from its high. – The average is now lower than it was when Trump came into office. – It’s now at 6.0831 per dozen. – It was 6.80 when Trump took office.

March 10, 2025

One America News: Joe Biden’s Autopen Signature Is On Most Official Documents According To An Oversight Project – Their latest investigation shows that every document bearing President Biden’s signature throughout his presidency was signed using an autopen, except for one. One America’s Stella Escobedo spoke with Mike Howell, the executive director of the Oversight Project, about this. The Autopen is not supposed to be used for important documents…

One America News: U.S. National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard Announces Revocation Of Security Clearances For Numerous Biden Administration Officials – I have revoked security clearances and barred access to classified information for Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, and Andrew Weissman, along with the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden ‘disinformation’ letter…

Slay News: Elon Musk Confirms X Hit with ‘Massive Cyberattack’ Causing Global Outages – On Monday, tens of thousands of reports were submitted to DownDetector. – Users reported they could not access the X app or website or that they could not access posts. – Musk, “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources.”

Daily Wire: The Senate Confirmed The Last Of Trump’s Cabinet Secretaries – 17 Democrats joined with most Republicans in voting for Lori Chavez-DeRemer to become Labor Secretary. – The Senate has now approved all 21 positions in Trump’s “formal” Cabinet in the seven weeks since Inauguration Day.

Daily Signal: A recent RMG Research poll found that 98% of respondents believe there is at least some corruption in the federal government. – More than two-thirds of respondents (69%) said there is “a lot” of corruption in the federal government, while about a quarter (23%) agreed there is at least “a little.”

Canadian Independent: President Trump responds To Canada announcing a 25% surcharge on electricity supplied to the US – Despite the fact that Canada is charging the USA Tariffs of 250% to 390% on many of our farm products, we’ll just get it back on April 2nd. – Canada is a Tariff abuser and always has been, but the US is not going to be subsidizing Canada any longer…

Julie Kelly: The D.C. Appellate Court Sides With Trump in Dellinger Case – Trump’s DOJ argued that the president has the authority to fire a political appointee with executive branch authority – The 3-judge panel determined the president would win on the merits of the case and had choice words for Hampton Dellinger and Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who kept him in the post for almost a month.

Washington Examiner: A New York federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to deport a Columbia University student who led controversial pro-Palestinian protests on campus. – Judge Jesse Furman ruled Khalil cannot be deported until a court rules on a petition challenging the move.

John Leake: Has Trump Seen Proof that Funds For Ukraine Were Stolen? – I get the impression that President Trump has been presented with documentary proof of what has, for me, been a mere hunch. – The gigantic flow of weapons from the U.S. to Ukraine raises the suspicion that the country has become a supply depot for international arms dealers…

Daily Signal: A majority of registered voters approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance, according to a poll released Friday by the Napolitan Institute that found the president’s job approval rating at 51%, with 32% strongly approving. – That effort has also received positive feedback from Americans, with another recent poll finding that 51% of Americans support the president’s efforts to pare down staff at government agencies…

Clash Daily: World Economic Forum Puppet Trudeau Is Gone, So Let’s Meet Mark Carney, The WEF String-Puller Who Replaced Him – Canada just went out of the frying pan and into the fire. – This guy is all in on the globalist vision. – Here is a Jordan Peterson video that provides an absolutely SAVAGE contrast between Trudeau and Carney…

Daily Wire: The Biden-era CBP One app used as a gateway for migrants to enter the US will now be used to enable illegal aliens to self-deport back to their home countries. – The now-named CBP Home app will now allow migrants to “submit intent to depart” and “verify departure” from the United States.

Daily Wire: After the terrorist group Hamas ignored a Saturday deadline from Israel to release more of the 59 hostages they hold, Israel cut off supplying electricity to Gaza. – Doron Arbely, “Today there is no electricity line leading from Israel into Gaza. – Twenty-four of the hostages Hamas is holding from their murderous October 7, 2023 massacre of more than 1200 Israelis are believed to be still alive…

Center For Immigration Studies: President Trump Is Preparing to Use The Alien Enemies Act To Combat Mexico And The Drug Cartels – Trump has seemingly been building that Mexico is a mafia state and acts of the Mexican drug cartels in the US should be considered acts of the Mexican government itself. – Trump’s EO seemed to lay out a case, stating that “international cartels constitute a national-security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime…

Chronicles Magazine: What Kash Patel Will Find in the Kavanaugh FBI File – If Patel and Bongino ever do see the full Kavanaugh FBI files, I believe they will be shocked. – I also believe the file contains information showing that the Kavanaugh hit was a deep-state operation that involved criminal activity like extortion and witness tampering and that those behind it still have not, to this day, been named…

Issues & Insights: Net Zero Is A Big Fat Zero For Economic Growth – Cutting greenhouse gas emissions was going to save the planet at no cost. – It turns out it’s an economy wrecker. – In truth, the IRA was nothing more nor less than a backdoor effort to impose the Green New Deal scam that Biden and company had tried and failed to pass through Congress previously.”

Breitbart: Eighty-three percent of the programs directly funded and administered by USAID were canceled Monday by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. – The decision came after a six-week review of the programs. – Rubio said their funding was antithetical to the core interests of the United States: The 5200 contracts that are now canceled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve (and in some cases even harmed) the core national interests of the United States.

Dallas Ludlum: The Feds Take Down Massive A Smuggling Ring That Trafficked ~20,000 Migrants From Guatemala To The US – Eduardo Domingo Renoj-Matul and his enforcer, Cristobal Mejia-Chaj weren’t just moving people—they were running a full-scale trafficking machine, charging migrants up to $15,000 for the dangerous trek through Mexico and across the U.S. border…

Daily Fetched: The US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California charged 128 illegal immigrants with illegally entering the country within the first two months of President Donald Trump’s term. – McNally stated that under Joe Biden, there was zero interest in enforcing immigration laws, with just 128 arrests between 2021 and 2024.

California Globe: California Representative Kevin Kiley Calls on FBI to Investigate California’s High-Speed Rail: No Power, No Money, No ‘High Speed’ – High-speed rail has been bilking the taxpayers since 2008. – California’s High-Speed Rail project is now 17 years old, with no track, no trains, and $13 Billion gone…

American Thinker: Everything You Know About the USAID Case May be Wrong – Perhaps Justice Barrett didn’t sell out conservatives and is just waiting for the right opportunity to rule on the merits rather than on a leftist judge’s procedural mess. – First, the plaintiffs were in the wrong court. – The District Court has no authority to order that the government pay a debt. – Barrett went along with an institutional distaste for reaching the merits of a case until the lower courts fully developed it.

Washington Examiner: White House seethes over a ‘stab in the back’ by OpenAI chief Sam Altman – In his first move on his first full day back to the White House, Trump secured $500 billion in private investment for “Stargate AI, he hosted the IT chiefs anchoring the project, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. – Now Altman is hosting a big fundraiser for Trump critic Sen. Mark Warner in 10 days at $1,000 to $22,000 a pop…

Townhall: Trump Could Recoup Court Costs From Fani Willis Case – Recently passed Georgia Senate Bill 244 paves the way for defendants in Georgia to recover attorney-related expenses and other court costs in proceedings where the DA is kicked off a criminal case due to prosecutorial misconduct. – Records show Trump paid his top attorneys about $2.7 million, and the Georgia GOP spent at least $2 million on the legal defense of other Trump allies…

The Federalist: Your Complete Guide To The Lawsuits Challenging A President’s Power To Fire Executive Officials – Since President Donald Trump reclaimed the executive branch in January, more than 50 lawsuits have been filed to halt his America-first efforts. – Trump’s firing of non-executive branch officials spurred litigation, including Dellinger v. Bessent, Harris v. Bessent, Wilcox v. Trump, Grundmann v. Trump, and Storch v. Hegseth…

The Federalist: The Trump Admin And All Republican States Should Ditch The American Bar Association – The ABA deeply affects the U.S. lawyer pipeline and licensing system, accrediting law schools, rating judges, and weaponizing lawyer discipline.- Its rabid leftism means the ABA systematically ratchets the entire U.S. legal system against the U.S. Constitution.

The Federalist: After A Four-Year Nap, New York Times To Start ‘Fact-Checking’ The White House Again – Apparently, Trump-era reporting is such a departure from usual reporting that it requires an explanation. – The implication is that the infamously truth-stretching Biden didn’t need fact-checking, but Trump does. – Unfortunately, the Times has a long history of not carefully fact-checking when the target is an opponent of Democrats.

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Democrat ‘Allies’ – The current Democrat Party is completely unaware that to stop Trump, they must become far more unpopular than Trump. – We are witnessing the most radical counter-revolution in the last 100 years as the Trump administration attempts to slash government spending and federal bureaucracies. – Rather than agree on anything with Trump, Democrats automatically oppose everything he does, even if that means pushing issues that 70% of the populace want…

Daily Fetched: Popular sports and media personality Stephen A. Smith gave The View hosts a sobering reality check this week when he vehemently rejected their claims that President Donald Trump doesn’t have a political mandate. – Smith emphasized how Trump has built a political operation that extends far beyond politics and predicted that Trump’s successor would likely come from within his political circle, naming VP J.D. Vance and Senator Marco Rubio as strong contenders…

American Thinker: Crisis fatigue catches up with the Democrats – The Democrats are finding out that cultivating a state of fear in the populace to attain and maintain power has its limitations. – Fearmongering from Democrats on COVID, Climate, and Russia has finally exhausted the voting public. – Over time, people get tired of hearing the same old drumbeat, yet it is amazing people fall for these narratives in the first place…

Fox News: A new study reveals the ‘staggering’ scope of DEI infusion into government under Biden, showing over $1 trillion was spent promoting it. – The new study, conducted by the Functional Government Initiative and the Center for Renewing America, identified 460 programs across 24 government agencies in the Biden administration that diverted resources to DEI initiatives.

2nd Smartest Guy: Just like the Intelligence Industrial Complex, their various Federal agencies, “nonprofits,” and corporate partners-in-crime created the PSYOP COVID-19 scamdemic, so too has a H5N1 PSYOP-BIRD-FLU been cooked up via gain-of-function by yet another criminal government entity in the USDA. – Thankfully, Kennedy is opposing this bio-terror democide of humans and animals alike; to wit:…

March 9, 2025

Wall Street Journal Opinion: A Government Shutdown Test for Republicans – The Speaker’s bill is a continuing resolution to maintain current funding levels and priorities, with a few modifications. – The bill adds some $6 billion for defense above current levels and some more for border security. – This and some other increases will be offset by about $13 billion in reductions for domestic accounts. – Failing to unite behind Speaker Mike Johnson’s funding bill will empower Democrats…

Epoch Times: Mark Carney Will Be Canada’s Next Prime Minister After Winning The Liberal Leadership Race – Carney, a former central banker, won the leadership race on March 9 on the first ballot with 85.9% of the nearly 152,000 votes. – Trudeau said last week that the exact date he would leave the top role will be decided between him and the new leader.

Gateway Pundit: Elon Musk Reveals His “Key” to Ending the War In Ukraine for Good and Delivered Two Inconvenient Truths – “Place sanctions on the top 10 Ukrainian oligarchs, especially the ones with mansions in Monaco, and this (the war) will stop immediately.” – He once challenged Putin to a physical fight and said Ukraine’s army would completely collapse if he cut off Starlink in the country…

Washington Free Beacon: A Syrian Columbia Student Activist in ICE Custody After Trump Admin Revokes Visa – Mahmoud Khalil, an encampment negotiator, pledged to push the school to divest from Israel by ‘any available means necessary.’ – A public ICE database first listed Khalil as being held in an Elizabeth, N.J., detention center. By Monday morning, it said he had been moved to a facility in Louisiana.

American Spectator: ActBlue Probes May Shut Down DNC Money Laundry – The fundraising platform is suspected of identity theft, credit card fraud, and various other financial crimes. – This may well be what precipitated the sudden departure of seven senior officials from ActBlue in February…

Zero Hedge: Groundbreaking DOGE Report has Extensive Implications – The report was entered this past week by Brian Harriss of Georgia, who requested DOGE to investigate US Tax Court Judge Michael B Thornton, who he believes is has been laundering bribe money through his real estate holdings – Declaring only $211k in income, he regularly took out $400-600k loans on his properties, and they were often repaid within 6 months to a year…

Sharyl Attkisson: From Leaks to Lies, 50 Reasons Trust in FBI Leadership Has Faded – As Kash Patel takes the helm as new FBI Director, he has stated he plans to dig deep into systemic corruption and incompetence to reinvent the agency. – He has a big job. – What follows is a relative shortlist of FBI missteps and abuses that have shaken public confidence over the past 25 years…

American Spectator: End the Department of Education to End DEI – This framework of racial preferences and social engineering didn’t emerge in a vacuum. It was cultivated by a bureaucracy designed to exert ideological control over education – Without the DOE’s coercive funding and regulatory mandates, schools would be free to focus on academic excellence rather than political orthodoxy…

Breitbart: Two illegal aliens with lengthy criminal records in sanctuary cities were arrested after allegedly shooting and killing a man who tried to stop them from stealing a catalytic converter. – Wilber Alberto Rabanales, a Guatemalan national, and Jose Christian Saravia Sanchez, a Salvadoran national, were arrested by law enforcement officials with the Inglewood Police Department in Inglewood, California, on Friday.

Slay News: Missouri AG Bailey Demands The DOJ Investigate Biden’s Mental Decline During His Presidency For most of his presidency, and especially toward the end, it was clear to many, including Democrats, that Biden was suffering from significant cognitive decline. – Consequently, various top officials now want to know how far gone Biden was at the end, especially since he signed a flurry of pardons in his final days and hours in office.

Just The News: A Secret Service shot a man near the White House – Local police had reported that a “suicidal individual” was potentially traveling to the D.C. area from Indiana. – Secret Service agents eventually located the individual’s vehicle and saw an individual on foot matching the description nearby. – As officers approached, the individual brandished a firearm, and shots were fired. – The man’s condition has not been disclosed…

American Thinker: President Trump brings sanity to Russia and Ukraine – With a firm ultimatum, President Trump has made it clear that the war must end. – Trump delivered a direct challenge to Vladimir Putin: engage in peace negotiations now, or face crippling economic consequences.- Unlike the weak, aimless leadership of the previous administration, President Trump’s strategy is crystal-clear: apply maximum pressure to end the war, not prolong it…

PJ Media: President Trump Slashes ALL South Africa Aid, Citing Anti-White Government Policy – Trump, “South Africa is being terrible, plus, to long-time Farmers in the country.” – “They are confiscating their LAND and FARMS, and MUCH WORSE THAN THAT. – Any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship.”…

American Thinker: Musk meetings with cabinet could be key to DOGE success – Trump told his Cabinet members that they held the authorization to hire and fire, but they’d best act quickly because he is not changing his agenda to cut the bloat in government. – Those who sit around and don’t prioritize the staff they want to keep will be at the mercy of Musk. – They are now on notice.

Resist The Mainstream: DHS has recently begun administering polygraph tests to its employees as part of an effort to identify potential leakers of sensitive information related to immigration operations. – According to sources familiar with the practice, these tests are being conducted to determine who might be disclosing details about planned operations to the media.

American Spectator: Bhattacharya Did Not Follow the COVID Herd – Trump’s pick for the NIH was right about COVID, and when the healthcare establishment went after him, he didn’t buckle. – As Democrats and some Republicans tried to get Bhattacharya to renounce Trump’s budget and personnel cuts, Bhattacharya stayed focused on his goal of not suppressing research that questions orthodoxies…

American Thinker: Three Preposterous Stories – A $600,000 grant to study menstruation in “transgender men. – A child rapist stays in the U.K. because deporting him would harm his mental health. – An Albanian criminal has been allowed to stay in Britain in part because his 10-year-old son does not like the chicken nuggets served in foreign countries. – And the insanity continues…

March 8, 2025

Geller Report: SYRIA GENOCIDE – The Biden regime backed the new Syrian government by al-Qaeda Terrorist al-Jolani (Jawlani) telling the American people that Jawlani’s new government was going to serve all Syrians. – He even sent them ‘ humanitarian aid.’ – Now Christians and non-Muslims are being rounded up en masse by the Biden-backed Islamic regime in Syria…

Center Square: House Republicans on Saturday released a 99-page bill to avoid the looming government shutdown. – The bill would keep most government spending on cruise control through the end of the current fiscal year on Sept. 30. – March 14 is the deadline for the House and Senate to pass the continuing resolution and send it to President Trump’s desk.

Zero Hedge: President Trump Asks “All Republicans” To “Give Us A Few Months” And Approve The GOP Continuing Resolution – The bill largely maintains current spending levels, adding $8 billion for defense programs and $6 billion for veterans’ healthcare. – Non-defense spending would drop by approximately $13 billion…

Breitbart: Canadian Premier Danielle Smith Says Trudeau Blew Tariff Negotiations in First Mar-a-Lago Meeting – We certainly have more dependence on U.S. trade than in any other market, but it’s mutually beneficial, so I think that we started on the wrong foot…

Red State: JD Vance Speaks Up for Normal People After Ukraine Activists Once Again Pester His Young Family – This weekend, pro-Ukraine activists once again pestered the Vance family, this time, inexcusably, while the dad was on a walk with his 3-year-old child. – VP Vance shared this story on his X account on Saturday...

California Globe: A Shocking 16,000 Jobs Have Been Lost Due to California’s $20 Fast Food Wage Hike – The data comes from the new Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages – Before Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the $20 minimum wage for fast food workers, he had been warned by many that it would be devastating for the industry, but he did it anyway…

Gateway Pundit: Elon Musk Reveals The Big-Name Democrat Donors Funding Attacks on Tesla Stores, With Many Resorting To Violence – The Five ActBlue-funded groups include Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America. – ActBlue funders include George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman, and Leah Hunt-Hendrix.ActBlue is currently under investigation…

Zero Hedge: Senator Rick Scott is touting a bipartisan effort known as the “Sunshine Protection Act” to make Daylight Saving Time the national year-round standard. – Of more than one million users polled, 58.1 percent said they’d prefer clocks to stay one hour ahead, versus 41.9 percent who said one hour behind. – While most of the nation participates in Daylight Saving Time, Hawaii and parts of Arizona do not adhere to it.

Dr. Owen Anderson: More Winning, Arizona State University Has Retreated on DEI Ideology – It turns out Columbia losing $400 million in federal funding is a language universities suddenly understand. – ASU has begun fundamentally changing its web pages, quietly removing DEI rhetoric…

American Thinker: EU and Ukraine, Stop Blaming Trump And Look in the Mirror – European leaders criticize President Trump for allegedly undermining Zelensky as he seeks to create space for negotiations, yet they failed to prevent Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the first place. – Trump remains the only leader advocating for a pragmatic resolution to the mess in Eastern Europe. – Quick population facts per AI query: Europe = ~750 million, Russia = ~144 million, Ukrainene = ~35-38 million, and USA = ~345 million…

American Thinker: Zelensky’s Arrogance – President Zelensky often uses half-truths and power moves to get his way in his dealings with foreign leaders. – Because Ukrainian diplomacy retains its Soviet political culture, He often starts his conversations with a litany of requirements and claims, making unreasonable demands in a categorical tone. – There is no room for gratitude for gifts provided in this paradigm…

Zero Hedge: The case for getting out of NATO encompasses four fundamental propositions – 1. The Federal budget has become a self-fueling fiscal doomsday machine. 2. Fiscal salvation requires slashing the Warfare State by at least $500 billion per year. – 3. Return to the “no entangling alliance” wisdom of the Founders… – 4. Debunk NATO’s false claim that it brought peace and security to post-war America when it actually transformed DC into the War Capital of the World…

Real Clear Politics: DOGE Has The Consultant Cabal on the Run – The DOGE team is looking into the most inflated portion of the unofficial “shadow” bureaucracy: government consultants with the biggest names in the business like Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, and IBM. – One of them, Booz Allen Hamilton, reportedly depends on federal contracts for 98% of its $11 billion revenue…

One America News: The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that it was putting a plan back in place to recover 100% of overpayments to beneficiaries. – This comes after the agency abandoned the policy last year after calls over cases where Americans received bills amounting to thousands of dollars due to overpayments.

New York Post: The frontrunner to take over the reins from Justin Trudeau on Sunday when Canada’s Liberal Party chooses its new leader is a tough-talking former Goldman Sachs executive who compared President Trump to the Harry Potter villain Voldemort. – Mark Carney, credited with helping Canada dodge the worst of the 2008 financial crisis when he was governor of the Bank of Canada, is viewed by his countryman as the politician most trusted to handle Trump, polls show.

American Thinker: Can You Trust Air Travel? – A recent report on the FAA’s systems and infrastructure is, frankly, terrifying. – The agency’s aging systems, some of which date back several decades, are no longer able to meet the growing demands of the aviation industry. -Urgent action is needed to modernize critical systems to ensure safety, efficiency, and capacity in the face of ever-expanding air traffic…

American Thinker: Blue on Blue Leads To Heartache on Heartache – The Blue team has a real problem. – Doubling down on Trump’s Derangement Syndrome is not working. In fact, it only doubles their problems because the public can smell an irrationally crazy person a mile away. – Centrists know that those infected with TDS will vote for any Democrat. – So they have a BIG problem when rational people see too many performances like they had the other night…

American Thinker: Unleashing American Competitiveness Via Trump’s Pause Of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – Unshackling private American companies from the FCPA is one step in leveling the playing field with China. – China understands economic warfare well. – The Belt and Road Initiative announced by Xi Jinping outlines a grand plan to reorient global commerce around the Eurasian landmass with China at its center…

American Greatness: The Democrat’s Descent From Ridiculousness to Farce – Farce may, in fact, be too generous a description of modern Democrats and their party’s policies and programs. – But farce rolls on as Trump helpfully spoke recently about more of the discoveries being brought to light by Elon and the DOGE crew, such as $520 million “for a consultant … [on] environmental, social governance investments in Africa.”…

American Thinker: Closing the DoE – President Trump has called the DoE a “big con job,” and he’s absolutely right. – It’s time to put education back in the hands of parents and states where it belongs. – The DoE wastes taxpayer money every single day. It’s been a drain on our country since its creation in 1979. – It was never about reform — it was a political payoff to the NEA, bought in exchange for their ongoing endorsement and political support…

Resist The Mainstream: President Trump shot down suggestions of a dispute between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk during a cabinet meeting on Friday, labeling NBC News reporter Gabe Gutierrez a “troublemaker” for raising the issue. – The incident unfolded after Trump signed an executive order to establish the White House Task Force for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the Oval Office.

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Ad-Vance Guard Edition – Somehow, this is the week that the Memosphere decided that JD Vance needed to be the newest object of memorialization…

March 7, 2025

Breitbart: DHS Security Secretary Kristi Noem, “We have identified two leakers of information here at the Department of Homeland Security, who have been telling individuals about our operations and putting law enforcement lives in jeopardy.” – “We plan to prosecute these two individuals and hold them fully accountable for what they’ve done.”

Townhall: Kash Patel’s FBI Shocks The Nation With Three Treason Arrests Just Two Weeks Into His Role – The arrests were announced on Friday. – Authorities have yet to disclose the full details of the case, but sources confirm that the suspects allegedly betrayed the nation and attempted to sell government secrets to China.

Slay News: U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Refuses to Block DOGE from Accessing Treasury Systems – Judge Kollar-Kotelly noted that the plaintiffs haven’t shared anything to indicate any immediate risk of lasting damage from information being revealed. – The employees are already obligated to keep such information secret.

Daily Signal: The Trump administration celebrated its first monthly jobs report Friday, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics announcing the addition of more than 151,00 new jobs in February. – The manufacturing industry is already rebounding, as there were 9,000 new auto jobs created—the most auto jobs added in 15 months!…

Tablet Magazine: Why Tariffs Are Good – The verdict of history is clear: No country ever industrialized by pursuing free trade. – The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny, especially when it comes to U.S. trade with China – When it comes to tariffs as a tool of economic statecraft in general, the gap between establishment rhetoric and actual government practice is big enough to drive a Chinese EV through…

Zero Hedge: The Trump Administration Yanks SBA Benefits From Illegals – The SBA will now require all SBA loan applicants to include citizenship verification so that only legal citizens are accessing its programs. – The SBA is also relocating offices in six sanctuary cities, including locations in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York City, and Seattle.

Zero Hedge: Why Stocks Suffer Their Worst Week In Six Months – An avalanche of geopolitical and macro-economic headlines crossed paths with an ugly technical situation. – Growth Concerns, Tariff Fatigue, Global Complexity, Weak Technicals, Liquidity, Consume Woes, Systematic Supply…

Washington Free Beacon: The EPA cannot track or conduct oversight of more than $650 million in taxpayer funds that a Biden-backed green group wired to dozens of credit union accounts in February. – Inclusiv, which received $1.9 billion last year as part of the EPA’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program, transferred the funds to 108 credit unions across 27 states and Puerto Rico…

Daily Caller: Don Jr., ‘Are You F*cking Retarded?’ in response to a question about whether he is running for president in 2028. – Don Jr., “I accurately predicted that my buddy JD would be an instant power player in national GOP politics, so your theory is that I worked my ass off to help get him the VP nomination because I want to run for president in 2028? – Are you fucking retarded?” he asked.

Powerline: Other People’s Money – The VA canceled a $56,000 contract to water ~8 plants for 5 years. – This equates to ~$1400/plant/year. – The contract has been canceled, and DOGE will water the plants free of charge. – I wish President Trump well in his effort to clean up Washington, D.C., but he has his work cut out for him as the incompetence and the corruption run deep.

Daily Wire: Gavin Newsom Starts His 2028 Campaign With Painfully Obvious Lies – As it stands, Newsom is the most effective candidate that Democrats can run in four years. – Newsom suggests that it’s profoundly unfair for a man to compete in women’s sports, as any sane person must. – But then he still tries to find some kind of middle ground with the bit about how we have to have “grace” for self-identified trans people because “they’re more likely to commit suicide.”…

Daily Wire: President Trump stated that he is considering imposing sanctions on Russia until a peace deal is reached between Russia and Ukraine. – Trump, “Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late.” – Thank you!!!

JD Rucker: Peacemaker Trump Has Both Putin and Zelensky Ready to Agree to a Truce – A lot can still happen, but as of now, things are looking very good for a near-future peace agreement. – In separate stories, it is being reported today that both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are taking the final steps before coming to the table to discuss a truce or temporary ceasefire…

Geller Report: Too Many Autopen Signatures – Missouri AG Andrew Bailey asked the DOJ to investigate whether Biden’s cognitive mental decline allowed unelected officials to make decisions without his knowledge or approval. – If so, Biden’s executive orders, pardons, and other actions may be unconstitutional and void.- There are legitimate concerns in Washington that the United States effectively lacked a president retaking the Oval Office…

Slay News: Tulsi Gabbard Reveals Biden Freed ISIS-Linked Illegal Aliens Into America – Only eight out of more than 100 migrants with suspected ISIS ties were locked up or deported after illegally crossing into the U.S. – The rest were allowed to freely enter the interior of the United States, unchallenged. – Trump officials are working to track down the terror-linked migrants…

Geller Report: ActBlue, a major Democratic fundraising group, saw an exodus of at least seven senior officials and has “plunged into turmoil” as it faces an investigation from Republicans in Congress. – ActBlue was the creation of David Brock – best known for the propaganda outlet Media Matters for America. For too long, they have gotten away with political warfare and lawfare, not to mention fraud & theft & money laundering.

Washington Free Beacon: Less than a month after the Palestinian Authority supposedly ended its longstanding payments for terrorism, the funds appeared to go out this week as usual. – While Palestine Post and the authority’s other official channels did not specify that the monthly payments were for terrorism, social media users were more forthright…

Townhall: Officials at USAID and grantees could potentially face criminal charges for fraud after the agency’s deputy administrator-designate found abuse of taxpayer funds was far worse than first reported. – Acting USAID Chief Pete Marocco reportedly told Congress he is considering criminal referrals regarding fraudulent spending activities within the agency…

Zero Hedge: DHS Ends TSA Collective Bargaining After Bombshell Finding Of ‘More Of Them Being Full-Time Union Workers’ Than Actual Airport Screeners. – The TSA has more people doing “full-time union work” vs. performing actual screening functions at 86% of US airports. – Even more alarming, a recent TSA employee survey found that over 60% of “poor performers” are allowed to stay employed and “not surprisingly, continue to not perform.”

Brownstone Institute: Deborah Birx, former WH Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator, came from a department everyone now knows to be a front for CIA propaganda and regime change operations. – This announcement contains hints that public health agencies or officials did not choose Birx. Rather, she appears to be coming from the national security apparatus and “will be supported by the National Security Council staff.”…

Liz Wheeler: The content of the new House report on the January 6th pipe bomber is shocking. – The FBI tracked phone data & narrowed the suspects down to 186 phone numbers, and then down to 1 phone number. And then the FBI suddenly stopped the case. – They just ended it without explanation…

Breitbart: Billions of dollars spent on services for homeless people in Los Angeles are unaccounted for after a court-ordered audit conducted by Alvarez & Marsal Public Sector Services of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority – A&M’s audit painted a picture of a fractured and inefficient system that failed to properly manage taxpayer funds or track the effectiveness of homelessness programs.

The Federalist: If The Biden Family Business Was Built On Anything But Access, It Would Be Thriving – Based on his latest court filings, it’s clear that Hunter’s ability to rake in the big bucks without the ‘big guy’ has vanished. – A recent court filing by the younger Biden’s attorneys revealed that their client is in a deep financial hole…

Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration is canceling roughly $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University. – The Ivy League school has come under scrutiny by the Trump administration for its alleged failure to protect Jewish students. – Universities must comply with all federal antidiscrimination laws if they are going to receive federal funding,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement…

New York Post: The State Department has yanked the first visa of a foreign student linked to “Hamas-supporting disruptions” after President Trump vowed to crack down on those involved in anti-Israel protests on college campuses. – Neither the student’s name nor nationality was released due to “legal constraints.”

FAR: It’s Harder Than We Thought – Did you see Elon Musk’s latest interview with Joe Rogan? – It covered some details concerning what DOGE has discovered in the course of their work over the last month and ten days. – For instance, at the U.S. Treasury, the outgoing payment systems had not been monitored, audited, or even looked at by an elected official or outside appointee since 1945 or possibly earlier…

Focal Points: BREAKING, RFK Jr. and Federal Health Agencies Wisely Oppose Mass H5N1 Animal Vaccination Over Mutation Concerns – “All three of my health agencies—NIH, CDC, and FDA—the acting heads of those agencies—have all recommended against the use of the bird flu vaccine.”

Brownstone Institute: Covid Response at Five Years, Jury Trials and Vaccine Mandates – During the COVID response, Big Pharma enjoyed its most profitable years while the rest of the world suffered under lockdowns and school closures. – Pfizer’s annual revenue jumped from $3.8 billion in 1984 to a record $100 billion in 2022. – From 2020 to 2022, Moderna’s revenue increased by over 2,000 percent…

Center Square: A court-ordered assessment determined why LA’s homelessness spending fails to produce any results. – `The City of Los Angeles recently spent $2.3 billion on homelessness spending, but officials often paid bills without verifying services were provided. – It could not actually assess much of the spending because ”insufficient financial accountability led to an inability to trace substantial funds allocated to the City Programs.”

March 6, 2025

Epoch Times: A Federal Board Has Blocked Thousands of Trump Admin Terminations – Cathy Harris, chairwoman of the Merit Systems Protection Board, said in the order that evidence presented by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) indicated the department illegally fired some 5,950 workers on probationary status or newer employees…

The Center Square: President Trump walks back tariffs on Mexico and Canada for another month – Trump granted temporary tariff relief to both Canada and Mexico on Thursday by exempting goods under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement from tariffs until April 2.

Resist The Mainstream: President Trump is poised to take a historic step as early as next Thursday to reshape American education by issuing an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education. – The move would direct Education Secretary Linda McMahon to initiate the process of dismantling the federal agency, according to The Wall Street Journal.

California Globe: The Presidential Ambitions behind Gavin Newsom’s Metamorphosis To The Right – It’s been only 6 weeks since President Trump’s inauguration, and we have Gavin Newsom’s metamorphosis to appear more moderate for his 2028 Presidential run. – Is Newsom a shapeshifter, or has he seen the light? We all know the answer: Newsom is a politician. – Is Newsom reading the tea leaves?…

MSN: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups, according to senior State Department officials. – The effort — which includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders’ social media accounts — marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government’s policing of foreign nationals’ conduct and speech.

Gateway Pundit: President Trump Has Stripped Security Clearances of Employees at Perkins Coie, the DNC Law Firm Linked to Hillary Clinton and Bogus Russia Dossier. – Perkins Coie and Hillary Clinton were behind the hoax, and Hillary got a light slap on the wrist for her crimes.

Western Journal: House Democrats Who Caused a Spectacle During Al Green Censure Process Now Face Punishment – Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee formally moved to have the members who participated in the protest “removed from their committee assignments in light of conduct they exhibited on the floor of the House.” – The House sergeant at arms is to provide a list of the affected representatives within a week…

Western Journal: A Lifelong Democrat Flips Parties After Hitting Her ‘Breaking Point’ During Trump’s Address to Congress – I watched with my husband as fellow Democrats (ironically wearing pink for women) sat there either stone-faced or seething with disgust while the family of Laken Riley was honored and a young boy with cancer became an honorary secret service agent”…

Epoch Times: The Social Security Administration Is Rectifying Beneficiary Records of People Aged 100 or Older – President Trump recently revealed that millions of people aged above 100 years were listed as eligible for Social Security, with databases listing 3.47 million Social Security members aged 120 to 129 years old, 3.5 million people aged 140 to 149, and more than 130,000 people over 160 years old…

Just The News: The HHS Department Inspector General identified a significant fraud scheme to divert funds from Medicare and Medicaid programs. – Individuals impersonating hospital providers targeted contractors and state agencies administering federal programs by submitting false “electronic funds transfer authorization requests,” resulting in the diversion of nearly $27 million from the programs. – The “full extent of EFT fraud could be more extensive.”…

Washington Free Beacon: The Top 10 Catastrophic Climate Change Predictions That Failed – 1) In 1970, S. Dillon Ripley, as secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, warned that 75%t to 80% of species would be extinct by 1995. – 2) In 1970, Kenneth Watt, an ecologist and professor at the University of California, Davis, warned that “there won’t be any more crude oil,” that “none of our land will be usable” for agriculture, and the world would be 11 degrees colder by the year 2000…

Zero Hedge: Trump Increases The Pressure On Zelensky – European officials have been told that President Donald Trump wants to link the proposed US-Ukraine minerals deal to demands for Kyiv to commit to a quick ceasefire. – This could cause peace talks to come together quickly as Ukraine possesses little or no leverage with either Moscow or Washington and is now heavily relying on Europe, which can’t do the heavy lifting…

Zero Hedge: The Trump Team Is Holding Secret Talks With Ukrainian Opposition As US Sours On Zelensky – You know Zelensky is in trouble when even Democrats are calling for Ukraine elections. – A Politico article notes, “Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job.”

Western Journal: This Is How Badly Zelenskyy Messed During His Meeting with Trump. – American military aid to Ukraine was stopped so abruptly that planes carrying weapons to Ukraine were ordered to turn around in the sky. – The Pentagon confirmed on Tuesday that Trump ordered a pause on all aid to the Eastern European nation, with all assistance officially coming to a stop as of Monday evening…

Red State: Sebastian Gorka Reveals What Trump Told Him to Do With an ISIS Terrorist Camp – Gorka said that on day eight of Trump’s presidency, Gorka and his team placed a map on the Resolute Desk showing the location of an ISIS compound in Northern Somalia. – It had been surveilled for a year and a half during Biden’s presidency, but nothing was done. – Trump looked at Gorka and asked, “Why are we surveilling them?” Trump took out his trademark marker, checked the “go” box on the operational orders, and said: “Kill them, kill them now.”

Epoch Times: U.S. authorities charged a dozen Chinese contract hackers and law enforcement officials for their involvement in a years-long hacking campaign to steal data from the U.S. government and undermine dissident groups. – Eight of the defendants work for i-Soon, a Chinese tech firm that has hacked victims around the globe, including U.S. government agencies and dissident groups that the CCP considers a threat…

Newsmax: China Is Worried About Trump’s Tariff Plan – A Foreign Ministry spokesman late Tuesday in Beijing warned China is ready for any “type of war” with the U.S. – However, Chinese President Xi Jinping is concerned Beijing could find itself cut off by trade restrictions and sanctions because such a scenario would mean fewer outlets for its goods and limited access to vital technologies, and the U.S. buys substantially more from China than the other way around…

Epoch Times: President Trump paused his 25% tariff for Mexican goods and services that are covered under the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement until April 2. – Trump, “My with President Sheinbaum of Mexico relationship has been a very good one, and we are working hard, together, on the Border, both in terms of stopping Illegal Aliens from entering the United States and, likewise, stopping Fentanyl.”…

Breitbart: A border wall upgrade construction project canceled by President Joe Biden is back underway in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. – U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks announced that the Trump administration ordered the restart of a Biden-era-canceled border wall upgrade project along the Texas border with Mexico. – USBP began installing 18-foot-tall border wall panels in the Rio Grande Valley Sector’s Hidalgo County today…

Vigilant News: Sanctuary City Mayors Got a Reality Check During Yesterday’s Heated House Hearing – The arguments from these mayors weren’t just weak; they were detached from reality. – Republican lawmakers didn’t hold back, hammering them with hard numbers and real-world consequences of their so-called “sanctuary” policies. – Their main defense was that sanctuary policies help build trust between immigrant communities and law enforcement…

Slay News: HHS Employees Have Been Given Until Next Friday to Apply for Early Retirement Amid Federal Downsizing – The notification emails also requested that they provide details on their successes over the preceding week. – Eligible personnel must be 50 years old with 20 years of federal service or any age with 25 years, among other qualifications. – The NTEU informed its members that they are required to cooperate with the agency’s decision…

Bari Weiss: The DOJ is investigating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion program that was part of Biden’s $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act and managed by the EPA – The fund was supposed to address the climate crisis while revitalizing communities that it considered “historically left behind.”- But it appears nothing was revitalized except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials…

John Daniel Davidson: If The Supreme Court Is Going To Ignore The Constitution, Trump Should Ignore The Supreme Court – Its shocking decision to allow a D.C. district court judge to order the Trump administration to disburse $2 billion in federal grant money is a major blow to the separation of powers undergirding our constitutional system of government. – In a blistering dissent, Associate Justice Samuel Alito slammed the majority for giving a green light to the lower court’s judicial overreach…

Julie Kelly: Hampton Dellinger Is Unemployed–For Now – A three-judge panel of the DC appellate court just put a hold on Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s order reinstating Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel, but the fight isn’t over yet. – The court set an expedited briefing schedule for both parties; oral arguments could take place in late April.

Zero Hedge: The House Has Censured Democrat Representative Al Green For His Outburst During Trump’s Address To Congress – On Thursday morning, the resolution to censure Green was approved in a vote of 224-198, with ten Democrats voting to censure.

Daily Wire: Trump’s Office Of Civil Rights Is Targeting Maine For Defying Trump’s Order On Women’s Sports – The Trump administration’s Office for Civil Rights, part of the Health and Human Services Department, revealed they issued a formal notice of violation against the Maine Department of Education for violating federal Title IX regulations. – The letter delineated two cases where Maine permitted boys to compete in girls’ sports…

Townhall: Elon Musk’s ‘America PAC’ Just Released Its First-Ever TV Ad – Its 60-second ad titled “Thank You, President Trump,” highlights a list of accomplishments since he took office just six weeks ago. – The $1 million ad buy is running in the Washington, D.C., media market and across the nation…

Vigilant Fox: Bill O’Reilly Reveals the Dark Future Trump Created for the Democrat Party – Their obsessive hatred of Trump has clouded their judgment so much that they’ve lost all sense of reality and purpose. – When you hate someone to that level, you lose all perspective, you lose all feeling, you’re consumed.” – If O’Reilly is right, Democrats could be locked out of the White House for far longer than anyone expected…

Breitbart: JD Vance at the Border, Trump ‘Is Doing a Huge Favor’ for Mexico By Battling The Drug Cartels – “Fentanyl is the single largest cause of death among young Americans, and we know that a substantial portion is made in China. – They come to Mexico. – They’re manufactured in Mexico and brought across the border by the Mexican drug cartels.”

Gatestone Institute: Rebuilding Gaza is Pointless Unless Hamas is Eradicated – The establishment of a new government in the Gaza Strip while Hamas maintains its military capabilities there unfortunately will not work. – The terrorist group could have built schools, universities, and hospitals. Instead, it chose to invest $Millions in building a vast network of tunnels to attack Israel, smuggle and hide weapons…

American Conservative: Yes, Zelensky Is a Dictator – Zelensky’s fans ignore his numerous anti-democratic actions beyond remaining in office after his term expired. – Under his rule, the Ukrainian government has outlawed nearly a dozen opposition parties, stifled the press, launched a campaign against uncooperative churches, and conducted a program of arbitrary imprisonment, torture, and assassination. – Much it even before the February 2022 Russian invasion…

Victor Davis Hanson: Five Ukrainian Fables – Fable One: Donald Trump Is Appeasing Russia – Who wiped out the Wagner group in Syria, Who sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first, and Who warned Germany not to become dependent on the Russian Nord Stream II deal? – Fable Two: A Trade War – Donald Trump is not wildly slapping tariffs on Europeans. – Fable Three: America Is Bullying Europe – The U.S. does not actively interfere in European elections and politics…

Breitbart: French President Emmanuel Macron said in an address to the nation on Wednesday evening that Europe should be prepared to defend itself and Ukraine without the help of the United States, a demand long made by President Donald Trump. – The French leader said he “wants to believe that the US will stay by our side” but added, “we have to be ready if that is not the case.”…

FAR: Things Democrats Refused To Applaud When President Trump Addressed Congress – Here is a quick list of 35 things that Democrats refused to applaud when President Trump addressed Congress Tuesday evening…

American Thinker: Schrödinger’s Women’s Sports Is Simultaneously Existential and Irrelevant, According to Democrats – The transgender issue, particularly its impact on women’s sports, was a defining wedge in the presidential election. – 70% of voters said Trump’s stance against transgender participation in women’s sports was critical to their vote, with 6% saying it was their top issue. – The election results confirmed the obvious: voters had had enough. Yet the battle continues…

Brownstone Institute: Is This What Winning Looks Like? – The confirmation hearings for Jay Bhattacharya as secretary of NIH just ended. – Nothing played out as I had expected. – But now that I think about it, it played out exactly as I should have expected. – His vast knowledge of medicine, science, and economics is unmistakable. – The Biden administration called him a “fringe epidemiologist” and sought to censor his opinions on COVID, yet the topic was not discussed…

March 5, 2025

One America News: Trump Warns Hamas To Release All Hostages Now Or Face The Consequences – “I have just met with your former Hostages whose lives you have destroyed. – This is your last warning! – Now is the time to leave Gaza while you still have a chance. – Also, to the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. – If you do, you are DEAD! – Make a SMART decision. – RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW, OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!”

One America News: Russia Agrees To Work With Trump On Iranian Nuclear Talks – This report was confirmed by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who stated that “Russia believes that the United States and Iran should resolve all problems through negotiations.” – Peskov added that Moscow “is ready to do everything in its power to achieve this.”

Revolver: – The Democrat’s 80/20 Problem – They’re pandering to the unhinged 20% while the other 80% look on, wondering where their common sense and sanity went as they double down. This is the infamous 80/20 problem, and it’s exactly why President Trump won in a landslide in 2024. – Take any major issue in the US, like transgender men hijacking women’s sports, and the Democrats’ 80/20 problem is on full display. – Trump planted his flag with the 80% on every major issue…

The Daily Fetched: Adam Schiff’s Ukraine Connection Under Fire as Eric Ciaramella Resurfaces – President Trump has long accused Schiff of lying and manipulating intelligence in order to push narratives that weaponized the government against him. – FBI Director Kash Patel, who played a crucial role in exposing the Trump “Russia Russia Russia” collusion hoax, is now digging deep into Schiff’s involvement and whether he committed treason…

American Greatness: China is ready to assume indirect leadership of the Organization of American States – China extended its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to the hemisphere. BRI involves trillions of dollars in logistical infrastructure and development, with other tools to build its hegemony to displace the U.S. – Almost two-thirds of OAS members have signed on to BRI…

Epoch Times: The US Air Force Has Announced Its First Drone Aircraft With Fighter Designations – Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said the two drone fighter prototypes are scheduled to begin flight tests this summer. – The Air Force said both prototypes are being considered for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, which seeks to pair drones with current and future generations of manned military aircraft…

Newsmax: The Trump Admin Continues to Cut The Federal Workforce – The Department of Veterans Affairs has outlined a plan to fire as many as 83,000 by the end of 2025, and the IRS plans to reduce its workforce by 50%. – Democrats have challenged President Donald Trump’s actions to streamline the bureaucracy.

Zero Hedge: The White House has denied a Wall Street Journal report that states that President Trump “is expected to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday aimed at abolishing the Education Department,” calling the report “More Fake News!” – The WH added that “President Trump is NOT signing an Executive Order on the Department of Education today.”

Washington Free Beacon: Biden Awarded $28 Million to Mysterious ‘Vaccine Company’ – The generically named firm has no website, shows its mailing address As A PO Box, and is being run by former Biden staffers. – Why are no alarm bells going off? – Vaccine Company, Inc. was awarded a lucrative government contract but has left virtually no public footprint showing what it has done with the taxpayer funds.”…

Sharyl Attkisson: There are some Federal employees at NIH making $100k to do absolutely nothing – Because it is so difficult to fire federal employees when they get on the wrong side of a vindictive supervisor, the supervisor may simply isolate the person and give him nothing meaningful to do. – Read on for details and to view the two videos where the employees told their own outrageous stories.

FAR: President Trump Just Talked With PM Trudeau – And this is what he had to say after reflecting on their conversation.

Toronto Star: Karoline Leavitt, “The President sent me out here with a statement directly from him, “We spoke with the big three auto dealers and give a one-month exemption on any autos coming through USMCA.” – “Reciprocal tariffs will still go into effect on April 2, but at the request of the companies associated with USMCA, the president is giving them an exemption for one month so they are not at an economic disadvantage.”

Zero Hedge: Trump’s Policy Will Embolden The Developing World To Reject The Climate Agenda – When the United States pivots sharply, other nations reassess their positions. – His withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, expanding American oil and gas exports, terminating the Green New Deal, and eliminating the prospect of carbon tariffs offer a lifeline to developing nations grappling with chronic energy poverty.

Townhall: The Democrat’s Absurd Rebuttal to Trump’s Speech – Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) capped off a humiliating night for the Democratic Party by claiming President Trump doesn’t believe America is an “exceptional nation.” – In delivering the Democrat’s rebuttal to Trump’s speech, the former CIA analyst went on to argue the president “doesn’t think we should lead the world.”…

Epoch Times: 12 Takeaways From Trump’s First Major Policy Speech to Congress – Tax Cuts Promised for All Americans – Border Closed And Deportations Underway – A ‘Common Sense Revolution’ – Tariffs Explained, ‘A Little Disturbance’ – DOGE Findings Highlighted – A Balanced Budget Promise – Victims Spotlighted – A Direct Appeal to Greenlanders – A Letter From Zelenskyy – A New Shipbuilding Office…

Fox News: Reactions To President Trump’s Addresses Congress – Polls show massive positive reception – Trump, “The American dream is surging bigger and better than ever before.” – Representative Andy Ogles, “This was an absolute disgrace for the Democrat Party.” – “This is an example of their lack of leadership, their lack of vision, and, quite frankly, a lot of the victims that were in the crowd were because of their failed policies.”…

Issues & Insights: Trump’s Triumphant Speech Left Democrats With Egg On Their Faces – Trump declared “America Is Back, then boasted, toasted, roasted, blasted, and vision-caste, as he recited his many accomplishments since taking office a short time ago: Freezes on hiring, regulation, and foreign aid, Termination of the “Green New Scam” and the “insane electric vehicle mandate,” Ending “weaponized government,” censorship, DEI and critical race theory…

American Thinker: Trump’s address to Congress showed Democrats are even more repulsive than we thought – Refused to stand for Laken Riley’s family – Refused to stand for D.J. Daniel – Refused to stand for the family of the firefighter killed at a Trump rally – Some Democrats did, however, wear pink in support of women’s rights, which is odd since they all just voted against keeping men out of women’s sports…

Townhall: These Democrat Women Were Ridiculous at Trump’s Address to Joint Session of Congress – Representatives Nydia Velázquez, Pramila Jayapal, Maxine Dexter, Sarah McBride, and Teresa Leger Fernández were among the leftist liberals who wore pink to protest the president’s supposed “war on women.” – Ironically, not a single one voted to keep men out of women’s sports…

American Spectator: Trump Now Stands Astride American Politics Like a Colossus – But Trump Derangement Syndrome is so strong with Democrats, they couldn’t even bring themselves to applaud universal victories. – Among the things they would not applaud were American farmers, US Manufacturing, Small Businesses, Tax Cuts, Catching terrorists, Protecting Women, Energy Independence, Stopping Drug Cartels, and the list goes on…

New York Post: Democratic lawmakers were trolled after showing up to the joint session of Congress Tuesday night brandishing the black signs with phrases like “false” and “Musk Steals,” which they repeatedly flashed as Trump was delivering his speech. – The stunt was widely ripped for falling flat, even among notoriously left-leaning MSNBC hosts and late-night comedians.

AMUSE on X: President Trump’s decision to temporarily reduce federal credit card limits to $1 embodies core conservative fiscal values of accountability, transparency, and prudent financial management. – Critics may dismiss the policy as disruptive, but it is precisely this disruption that effectively addresses decades of unchecked bureaucratic excess, misuse, and financial irresponsibility…

American Thinker: Trump Is On The Verge Of Ending The EPA’s Tyranny – Few people realize just how destructive the modern EPA is, so we’d better hope that Trump’s efforts are successful. – The move to declare CO2 a pollutant and man its evil cause agent began in the 1970s with the creation of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. – Armed with a SCOTUS ruling, Obama’s EPA acted unilaterally, declaring CO2 a pollutant it could regulate…

Breitbart: The United States suspended providing military intelligence to Ukraine as part of the freeze on assistance until Ukraine chooses President Trump’s path to peace and comes to the negotiating table. – The US is the senior partner in the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network that includes the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, which share their spy network information without redaction or control…

Zero Hedge: The Israeli government is preparing a “hell plan” for the Gaza Strip that would involve cutting all electricity and water to the territory on top of the blocking of food, fuel, and all other goods. – Israel’s “hell plan” also involves forcing Palestinians in northern Gaza to move to the south to prepare for a resumption of the bombing campaign…

Wall Street Journal: the North Korean Defector Who’s Been Called a ‘Hero of Ukraine’ – Lee Seongmin, a 37-year-old human-rights worker who is an Ivy League graduate and fluent in English, has helped Ukrainian forces understand the motives driving Kim Jong Un’s young fighters, translating key documents and shaping anti-regime leaflets meant to persuade North Korean soldiers to surrender…

Truth Barrier: Did Zelensky Go To The White House With A Sham Contract, Already Having An Agreement With The UK? – Could this be true? – The truth should be known soon…

Newsmax: A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to let President Donald Trump’s administration withhold payment to foreign aid organizations for work they already performed for the government. – Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh dissented from the decision…

March 4, 2025

Breitbart: A CBS news poll shows an astounding 76 percent of Americans viewing the speech approved of Trump’s remarks, with only 23 percent disapproving. – Sixty-eight percent of viewers described Trump’s speech as “hopeful,” with a majority also describing it as “presidential,” “inspiring,” “unifying,” and “entertaining.”…

One America News: Democrat Representative Al Green Removed From The House of Representatives After Repeatedly Heckling President Trump During His Speech – Speaker of the House Mike Johnson warned Green several times to stop interrupting the president. – Johnson then removed the Democrat from the chamber by ordering the Sergeant At Arms to restore order…

Daily Signal: The 13 Winners and Losers From Trump’s Address to Congress – The Winners: President Trump, Sergeant-at-Arms William McFarland, DOGE, The American Farmer, Democracy, and 13-Year-Old D.J. Daniel, Greenland. – The Losers: Representative Al Green, Former President Joe Biden, Criminal Illegal Immigrants, Gender Ideology, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Endless Wars…

Daily Signal: 10 Takeaways From President Trump’s Congressional Address – ‘Restore Common Sense’ – ‘Nothing I Can Do To Please The Democrats’ – ‘Restore True Democracy’ – ‘They Tariff Us, We Tariff Them’ – ‘A Gigantic Natural Gas Pipeline’ – Trump Honored Laken Riley – ‘End the Savage Conflict’ – ‘A Terrible Lie’: Trump Stood Against Child Sex Changes – ‘Combating Inflation’ by Ending ‘Waste, Fraud, and Abuse’ – Democrats Sit As A Young Cancer Patient Honored…

Victor Davis Hanson: The Pentagon’s Partisan Letter Against Trump And Hegseth Is Debunked – This is not the politicization of the Pentagon, but rather the depoliticalization. – And it’s not new. – Prior presidents have fired generals. – The next thing is the Pentagon has real problems with its emphasis on DEI, they have flunked—they have neglected things. – We are short 155 mm shells. We are short certain types of cruise missiles…

Western Journal: Linda McMahon Announced The Department of Education’s ‘Final Mission’ After She Was Sworn in as Its Chief – McMahon will take the lead to launch an “effective transfer of educational oversight to the states” that will “mean more autonomy for local communities and end the overreach from Washington.” – Trump is expected to sign an executive order seeking to cut the DOE to its bare bones and to push Congress for legislation to eliminate it…

California Globe: An Official Recall Effort Begins Against LA Mayor Karen Bass – The Recall Karen Bass Committee says the primary reason the recall was started was because Bass mismanaged the wildfires, along with her slashing the LAFD budget before the fires. – ‘You give that petition to any Palisades resident, and they are going to sign it without question because she doesn’t deserve to be called an Angelino.’…

Daily Wire: The US and Ukraine are reportedly planning to sign the economic deal that was supposed to be signed last week today. – Reuters reported that President Trump wants it signed before his address to Congress Tuesday night so he can announce it at the event, but cautioned that plans could change…

Townhall: Key Panama Canal Ports Will Now Be Brought Under American Control – A consortium of U.S. investors—led by American asset manager BlackRock—has reportedly struck a $22.8 billion deal buying majority stakes in ports on both sides of the Panama Canal from Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchinson. – Trump has repeatedly raised the alarm about China’s influence over the canal…

Epoch Times: Zelenskyy expressed regret over last week’s clash with President Trump and VP Vance. – “Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be.” – “We would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive, adding that he wants to sign a rare earth minerals deal with the US and be part of peace talks with Russia.

Breitbart: U.S. Vice President JD Vance, “European leaders puff up their chests and say they back war for as long as it takes in public, but once there’s no journalist in earshot, they become realistic about needing to end the Ukraine war.” – Their comments come amid a flurry of activity in Europe as leaders scrabble to discover whether they can indeed fund the war to continue indefinitely alone in the absence of American support…

The Federalist: How Biden’s Blank Check For Ukraine Disastrously Bounced – The public humiliation of Zelensky was perhaps avoidable, but the net result was not. – It was a necessary corrective to the mountain of lies on which U.S. aid to Ukraine has been predicated since Russia’s invasion. – Americans spent perhaps $300 billion to help Ukraine win, but this was never remotely plausible…

Daily Wire: Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Ansarallah, commonly referred to as the Houthis, has been re-designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. – “Today’s action taken by the State Department demonstrates the Trump Administration’s commitment to protecting our national security interests, the safety of the American people, and the security of the United States,” Rubio said in a statement.

Slay News: The Obama Administration Ordered DEI Prioritized When Hiring Air Traffic Controllers – The qualifying questionnaire for ATC applicants was skewed to favor DEI initiatives. – Underqualified candidates were often given key positions to meet DEI hiring quotas.- Even worse, emphasis and priority were placed on candidates who played multiple sports in high school, with less priority on those who had ATC positions in the military…

One America News: President Trump announced he would stop all federal funding for schools that allow “illegal protests.” – He also stated that agitators could be imprisoned or sent back to the country they originated from. – Trump’s warning came as multiple chaotic anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protests have continued to once again ravage college campuses across the US.

Slay News: A Haitian migrant who was imported into the US under one of Joe Biden’s mass immigration programs was just arrested for triple murder. – 26-year-old Mackendy Darbouze’s involvement includes the brutal murder of two children…

Daily Wire: A Top FBI Official Who Wanted To ‘Dig In’ Against The Trump Administration Has Been Ousted From The Bureau – James Dennehy’s ouster comes weeks after he sent an email to his staff encouraging them to “dig in” as the Trump administration probed the FBI investigation into the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. – Dennehy was reportedly told to resign or be fired on Friday…

Zero Hedge: The FBI Is Still Refusing To Produce Evidence On Seth Rich Laptop – The FBI will only provide an index that gives a brief description of the evidence and an explanation of why it is being withheld.

Geller Report” Democrat Shills Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker ‘Spontaneously’ Parrot The Same Democrat Lies and Propaganda, Word for Word Before Trump Addresses Congress – They did this knowing their co-conspirators in the Democrat legacy media will print it word for word to ‘frame the news.’ – This perfectly encapsulates how the left coordinates their narratives. – There is zero independent thought or messaging…

Daily Wire: Democrats Are Scheming To Disrupt Trump Speech To Congress – “Some members have told colleagues they may walk out of the chamber.” – Using props has reportedly been discussed, including noisemakers, signs with anti-Trump or anti-DOGE messages, hand clappers, and red cards. – Some are even considering coordinating their clothes by using pink, black, or blue and yellow colors to protest…

Slay News: A recent government inspector general’s report revealed that $1.8 million in taxpayer money was funneled to the Taliban through a series of foreign aid programs. – These funds were distributed through various foreign aid initiatives for expenses such as local employee taxes and registration fees for vehicles. – The discovery has raised major questions about financial oversight and has sparked a political backlash.

Daily Wire: GOP-led Senate confirmed Linda McMahon to become secretary of the Education Department, a federal agency that President Donald Trump has indicated he wants to dismantle in favor of giving states more power in running schools. – The upper chamber voted 51-45 to approve Linda McMahon as Education Secretary…

Breitbart: Egypt’s Alternative to Trump’s Plan, $53 Billion To Rebuild Gaza in 5 Years – Arab leaders meet in Cairo on Tuesday with Egypt to present a plan for Gaza that would sideline Hamas and create interim bodies run by Arab, Muslim, and Western states in contrast to U.S. President Donald Trump’s idea of a “Middle East Riviera”…

Washington Examiner: Canada and Mexico slap retaliatory tariffs on the US – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced 25% retaliatory tariffs on the US as the drama around President Trump’s tariffs has boosted Trudeau’s drowning Liberal Party. – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum also announced Mexico would be imposing retaliatory tariffs but did not provide details about how severe the tariffs would be or what products they would affect…

Western Journal: Mexico ‘Seeks to Extinguish’ US Second Amendment in Bizarre Supreme Court Battle – SCOTUS will hear a lawsuit on Tuesday in which Mexico plans to blame American firearm manufacturers for its consistent difficulties with running a functional country – Mexico is demanding $10 billion in damages, claiming that such firms are complicit in arming the cartels…

American Thinker: Now, Republicans Are The Peaceniks – It’s Democrats who seem to have developed an inordinate fear of Putinism and are determined to make war on him, warmongers all. – So the Democrats encouraged Zelensky to sabotage the deal with Trump, resulting in the late great Pissing Match in the Oval Office last week…

American Thinker: No More Globalist Delusions, Ukraine’s War Strategy Has Failed – Trump says, No more blank checks. – No more globalist wars. – No more illusions because America Comes First. – The math just doesn’t work. Reclaiming lost territory whether in Donetsk, Luhansk, or Crimea—would require hundreds of thousands of troops, and Ukraine doesn’t have them, and America won’t send occupation troops…

American Thinker: What DOGE is really learning – Elon Musk spoke with Joe Rogan over the weekend and had some powerful thoughts on illegals and entitlement fraud. – Musk has gone through thousands of records and seen where the leakage is, where the waste and fraud are, and where the sensitive spots are for those who benefit from it. He calls this entitlements fraud “the heart of it.”

Vigilant News: “Everything is Going to Come Out” – AG Pam Bondi Says She Received A “Truckload” of Hidden Epstein Documents Hidden Away In The Southern District of New York. – “I have the FBI going through them … Now that we have Kash here, it’s a game changer, of course, and Director Patel is going to get us a detailed report as to why the FBI withheld all of those documents.”…

Townhall: Guess Who Has Has Interesting Ties to USAID – Between 2013 and 2021, Ex-Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s sister, Stephanie, was a high-ranking officer at the Population Council, a pro-abortion NGO formed from a conference of population control activists and several well-known eugenicists. – USAID gave the group more than $144 million in grant money…

The Free Press: The $20 Billion Slush Fund For Progressive Nonprofits – These billions didn’t revitalize anything—except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials. – These eight groups were allocated sums ranging from $400 million to $6.9 billion. – Several of them were formed in August of 2023, just one month after the grant applications went live in July of 2023…

American Thinker: LeftSpeak – Leftist newspeak and wordsmithing have evolved to the point that a new English-to-LeftSpeak dictionary needs to be established should any communication between the left and traditional English speakers be salvaged. – For starters: – Democracy: Government by a permanent, unelected, leftist bureaucracy. – Constitutional crisis: Anything said or done by the Trump Administration. – Tolerance: My way or the highway…

March 3, 2025

Fox News: The Trump administration is pausing all aid to Ukraine, including weapons in transit or Poland, until Ukrainian leaders show more appreciation for U.S. support and a commitment to peace. – “This is not permanent termination of aid; it’s a pause,” the official emphasized, adding that it is in response to Zelenskyy’s conduct over the last week...

Revolver: Tucker Carlson reveals why Lindsey Graham turned on Zelensky so fast – Congress propped up Ukraine for years, ignoring widespread corruption. – Now that the truth is unraveling, they’re getting ahead of the fallout by blaming Zelensky. – Over the past three years, Ukraine sold huge quantities of American weapons at twenty cents on the dollar. – These weapons are now in the hands of Hamas, the Mexican drug cartels, and the forces now controlling Syria…

Daily Signal: Senate Democrats voted Monday to block a bill that would have prevented biological males from participating in women’s sports from reaching the floor. – The vote failed along party lines, with 51 Republicans in favor of ending the debate and bringing it to the floor and 43 Democrats and two nominal independents voting against it.

Daily Signal: Iowa has become the first state to pass a bill that removes gender identity from the state’s civil rights law. – On Friday, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed SF418, which eliminates “gender identity” as a protected class under the Iowa Civil Rights Act. – It also defines sex as “the state of being either male or female as observed or clinically verified at birth.”

Western Journal: Federal agents disrupted a massive human smuggling operation on Friday when they arrested two Guatemalan men accused of trafficking 20,000 illegal immigrants into the United States since 2019. – Eduardo Domingo Renoj-Matul and Cristobal Mejia-Chaj now face the possibility of the death penalty if convicted. – The smuggling operation featured elements akin to kidnapping and extortion...

Washington Free Beacon: Solar Company That Received $3 Billion Biden Loan Warns It Might Go Bankrupt – Sunnova Energy received the largest federal loan to a solar company in history. – Sunnova’s ties to Biden administration officials and the history of consumer complaints against the company drew scrutiny and led to investigations by Republican lawmakers…

Washington Free Beacon: Trump’s EPA Has Referred Biden Green Grants to The Inspector General, Citing A ‘Pattern of Political Favoritism.’ – The first is the Biden EPA award for $2 billion to a brand new nonprofit linked to perennial Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams. – The second is in regard to an EPA official who led green grant disbursals and oversaw a $5 billion grant to his former employer….

Gateway Pundit: Europe is slamming President Trump for refusing to keep funding the Ukraine war. – While European leaders scramble to figure out how to bankroll it and keep it going, China is busy hacking Poland’s space agency and Belgium’s intelligence services. – The CCP loves it when the U.S. and the world are focused on Russia because Beijing is clearly the much larger security threat…

Zero Hedge: Trump, “That Is The Worst Statement That Zelensky Could Have Made.” – Zelensky said that he sees the end of the war with Russia as being “very, very far away” and believes that Ukraine has a strong enough partnership with the US to keep aid flowing. – This comes amid various unconfirmed reports that Trump will discuss halting military aid to Ukraine in a meeting with key advisors on Monday…

Zero Hedge: The US Reportedly Halts Offensive Cyber Ops Against Russia – The length of the pause is uncertain, but the purpose seems clear: To demonstrate goodwill as the Trump administration earnestly seeks a negotiated end to the three-year-old war in Ukraine, which has been costly not only to the two warring countries, but to the United States and Western European countries that first precipitated that conflict, and then perpetuated it…

Breitbart: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video Sunday thanking President Donald Trump profusely for his help in what seemed a pointed and deliberate contrast to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s behavior. – Trump had just expedited the delivery of $4 billion in arms (in contrast to President Joe Biden) and had offered a proposal for extending the Gaza ceasefire…

PJ Media: It’s Official, USAID Is All But Dead – The White House intends to “eliminate roughly $60 billion in foreign aid spending and terminate 92% of grants issued by USAID.” – “The figures were included in a State Department memo detailing the results of a 90-day review of US foreign aid ordered by President Trump,” which identified “nearly 15,000 grants and targeted almost 10,000 for elimination, the majority of which were issued by USAID.”

The Federalist: A Leftist Judge Has Created A Full-Blown Constitutional Crisis, — Soon To Be Overturned By SCOTUS – Obama appointee, Judge Amy Berman Jackson, ruled late Saturday evening mandated that five executive branch officials “recognize plaintiff’s title and position as Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel,” and “not obstruct or interfere with his performance of his duties.”…

Zero Hedge: The Pentagon Deploys Mechanized Infantry And Air Support To Secure Mexico Border, Including A Team Of 4,400 Soldiers – The units are equipped with wheeled vehicle and air capabilities and are set to reinforce border operations in the coming weeks. – Complementing this, the GSAB, with roughly 650 troops, brings aviation muscle, UH-60 Black Hawks for command and medical evacuation, and CH-47 Chinooks for heavy lifting to enhance operational reach and support.

American Thinker: DOGE Is Only The Beginning – Our entire political establishment is on trial here. – We are now realizing that the defect in our various governments is not entirely contained among the woke, leftist Democrats but is rather a problem involving our entire political establishment. – How else could such immense mishandling of public money be so easily uncovered so quickly?…

Geller Report: Seven Politically Connected NGOs Are Hoarding 90% Of The $300 Billion In Taxpayer Money Meant for Nonprofits. – They serve as the Uniparty’s enforcement arm, pushing propaganda under the guise of “protecting democracy.”- These NGOs act as a loophole to funnel billions into shadowy, unaccountable organizations—doing things that would be illegal if carried out directly by the government itself…

Breitbart: Honda Is Moving Civic Production from Mexico to Indiana in Response to Trump’s Tariffs – The change underscores how manufacturers are scrambling to adapt to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada. – While several automakers have expressed concerns about the levies, Honda’s move is the first concrete measure by a major Japanese car company…

Newsmax: 5 Big Reasons Dan Bongino Be A Great Deputy FBI Director – 1. He served as a police officer and a Secret Service agent. – 2. Bongino is known as one of the best communicators in the business. – 3. He has consistently advocated for accountability in government institutions. – 4. He has Secret Service experience dealing with national security. – 5. Bongino and Patel will bring a different perspective to the FBI’s leadership.

Center For Immigration Studies: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in U.S. History Is Over – A fitting tombstone might read “RIP, January 2021 to January 2024 Mass Migration Crisis.” – President Trump invoked a few simple steps required in existing immigration law, detention, border expulsion, and interior deportations on his first day in the Oval Office.

Victor Davis Hanson: Who Really Politicized the Pentagon? – The Pentagon has long been political. — Trump’s firings aren’t new, but their results will reveal if the military is truly depoliticized or just under new management. – Firing generals is hardly new. – Many presidents have relieved commanding officers, even wartime combat theater commanders, without much, if any, explanation. – Let’s first consider just one recent pre-Trump presidency, the tenure of Barack Obama…

Breitbart: Apparently bolstered by fawning displays of support from European leaders in London on Sunday, Zelensky expressed intent to continue the war until he is satisfied with the security guarantees on offer from Western powers. –
Zelensky, “If you don’t have an end to the war and you don’t have security guarantees, no one is able to control a ceasefire.”…

FAR: Cutting Zelensky Down To Size – Putting Zelensky in a more objective light was a necessary first step. – The next step is to bring some objectivity to the subjects of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the origins of the Russia-Ukraine War. – Ideally, Vice President Vance could give Americans a more accurate explanation of how we got here. – Glenn Greenwald did that recently in this X thread…

American Spectator: The Mendacious Media Coverage of Zelensky’s Stunt – They have used deceptively edited videos to support dishonest reports about what actually happened. – Anyone watching the entire event, instead of the deceptively edited clips featured on most “news” sites, will see that neither the President nor the Vice President “ambushed” Zelensky. – The argument erupted after a reporter suggested that Trump was “too closely aligned” with Vladimir Putin…

Daily Wire: Trump Wants To ‘Spend Less Time Worrying About Putin’ and Focus More On Illegal Immigration, “So that we don’t end up like Europe!” – President Trump wants to further intertwine the American and Ukrainian people to show Russia’s leadership that there was no daylight, but Zelensky came into the Oval Office and tried to re-litigate in front of the world...

American Thinker: Zelenskyy And The Future Of NATO—Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s childish histrionics and ultimatums in the Oval Office reflect the European delusional mindset of self-serving expectations. – The major purpose of NATO was to deter an aggressive and despotic Soviet Union from attacking Western Europe and, by extension, the US. – However, it has evolved into the US effectively assuming the role of military protector of nearly half of the European continent…

Breitbart: Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday he is willing to return to the White House to discuss “serious issues” if invited. – Zelensky spent much of the weekend in the United Kingdom. – Zelensky, “We are worthy of an equal dialogue.” “If Trump offered such a “constructive dialog, to solve real problems, for serious issues and real, decisive actions and answers, I will arrive.”

Chadwick Moore: Shell-Shocked – From bird flu to egg inflation to mass chicken slaughter, the damning impact of the cage-free agri-industry. – Virtue signaling may be in part to blame for the sky-high price of eggs across the US. – California’s 2022 cage-free law is typical of liberalism’s low-information, feel-good priorities that often come with devastating consequences…

Issues & Insights: The Resistance To Climate Alarmism Grows – A study published by the Stanford University School of Sustainability, no less, found that “resistance to climate action has become a global movement that strengthens after governments implement climate-related policies.” – Let’s add something, The resistance is also based on a growing skepticism after being bombarded by global warming scare stories for more than three decades…

American Thinker: One Health, The New Godless Quasi-Religion that Puts Humans Below Nature – World elites at home and abroad are pushing hard for this, and currently, Trump and RFK, Jr. are the only bulwark against it. – The WHO has been promoting One Health, the mutualism of humans, animals, plants, and other aspects of the natural environment, and aims to implement it through a proposed pandemic treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations…

Vigilant News: Trans Surgeries Increase The Risk of Suicide – Data from over 107,000 patients diagnosed with gender dysphoria suggests those who pursue such procedures face a markedly higher risk of mental health challenges. – The study, which focused on adults over the age of 18, compared two matched cohorts: individuals who had undergone sex-change surgery and those who had not. – The findings were stark…

March 2, 2025

Focal Points: It Is Interesting To Learn That Zelensky Met With The Democrats Before He Met President Trump – Senator Chris Murphy encouraged Zelensky to reject the deal with Trump, confirming my suspicion Democrats have been acting as agents for the Ukrainian oligarchic state. – As I wrote in my piece on Friday, ”Zelensky’s Conduct Indicates He is Accustomed to Ukraine Calling the Shots”…

Epoch Times: The UK Has Pledged Support for Ukraine’s Air Defense As Leaders Discuss Plans to End War – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on March 2 that Europe must continue to provide funding for Ukraine to sustain its position during peace negotiations. – Starmer added that ‘Intense discussions’ to obtain a security guarantee from the United States are one of the three components of lasting peace…

The Free Press: What Average Americans Think of Trump’s Showdown with Zelensky – Most voters weren’t horrified by the president’s treatment of an ally but rather agreed with it. – The Wick Insights poll is consistent with others that suggest cratering support among the American people for the war in Ukraine as well as its president, Zelensky…

American Thinker: Are the Europeans asking for another European war? – European politics are driven by a fusion of leftism, arrogance, and a desperate desire to avoid a repeat of WWI and WWII. – However, the national character may be destiny because if British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has a say, they’re lining up for a repeat. – With the Trump-brokered plan currently off the table, Europeans are talking about putting boots on the ground…

Epoch Times: Trump Seeks to Boost US Lumber and Timber Industries — According to the White House, increased timber production will be directly tied to improved land management. – Peter Navarro, senior counselor on trade and manufacturing, “Our disastrous timber and lumber policies, a legacy of the previous administration, trigger wildfires and degrade our fish and wildlife habitat.”…

Epoch Times: HUD Terminated An Obama-Era Housing Rule – The Obama-era housing rule was terminated by the first Trump administration and revived by the Biden administration, has again been canceled. – Decisions related to home building and zoning will now come under the purview of local leaders.

American Thinker: Where Trump Is Coming From On Zelensky – Trump knows that Barack Obama and Victoria Nuland staged the “color revolution” coup that overthrew Ukraine’s duly elected president and installed Zelensky to be their puppet from the get-go, hence Biden’s commitment to “however much and however long” it takes to defeat Putin. – I expect Trump’s long game is to move Russia closer to us and further from China in the event of a likely inevitable superpower conflagration…

Breitbart: UK Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer said ahead of a Lancaster House summit on Sunday that Britain and France will work to craft a Ukraine ceasefire deal that would be presented to the United States. – Despite the tough talk from Starmer and Macron, it is unlikely that they alone could actually provide the security guarantees needed to prevent Ukraine from being invaded in the future…

Zero Hedge: Europe’s ‘Sound And Fury’ After Jaw-Dropping Pivots In US Policy – Pretty plain speaking, the U.S. clearly is cutting away from Ukraine and intends to normalize relations with Russia. – Defense Secretary Hegseth, at the Munich Security Conference, gave four ‘noes’: No to Ukraine in NATO, No to a return to pre-2014 borders, No to ‘Article 5’ peacekeeper backstops, and ‘No’ to U.S. troops in Ukraine. Plus, U.S. troops in Europe are not ‘forever.’…

Townhall: Pro-Ukrainian Protesters Disrupt The JD Vance Family Ski Trip, Prompting The VP to Move Locations – Hundreds of protestors gathered in Vermont on Saturday to protest Vance’s visit to Sugarbush Resort, holding signs that read “Nazi scum,” “traitor,” and telling him to “go ski in Russia.” – Others held signs that read “Trump serves Putin” and “Stand with Ukraine.”…

Breitbart: Speaker Johnson, Elon Musk Is In the ‘Belly of the Beast of the Bureaucracy’ – What you’re going to see is very, very careful attention paid to ensuring that the essential programs of the federal government, the things that make sense to American taxpayers and it follows common sense, will be sustained and supported and funded, but that the fraud, waste, and abuse will not…

Info Wars: The Internal Revenue Service has refused to provide data on 700,000 individuals suspected of being in the country illegally. – Department of Homeland Security officials asked the IRS on Thursday to connect the names of potential illegals with data on their last known addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. – A similar request was made two weeks earlier…

Breitbart: The DOJ announced Friday that it is sending the Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism to ten university campuses to conduct investigations, headed by civil rights lawyer Leo Terrell. – The move is the latest step by the Trump administration to fight campus antisemitism, which exploded after the Hamas terror attack against Israel on October 7, 2023…

American Thinker: DOJ, Who Really Runs The Executive Branch? – Pam Bondi is an appointee and employee of Donald Trump. – He appointed her because he believed she believed in and would implement his agenda, the agenda that caused the American people to vote for him. – On her first day in office, AG Bondi announced the creation of a ‘Weaponization Working Group,’ purportedly intended to root out ‘abuses of the criminal justice process’…

American Thinker: DEI Universities Across America Are Defying Trump—Despite Trump’s Executive Order, many universities continue to reinforce their ideological grip on academia, prioritizing DEI over federal law. – A sampling of prominent universities openly defying the executive order includes Harvard, the University of California System, the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Colorado Boulder, Western Michigan University, and others…

Center Square: February southwest border illegal entries plummet to lowest in documented history, along with a significant drop in unaccompanied minors. – Only 8,326 apprehensions and encounters were reported at the southwest border, “the lowest documented by U.S. Border Patrol.” – That’s down from 189,913 in February 2024, 156,630 in February 2023, and 166,010 in February 2022, excluding those who illegally entered and evaded capture…

Dr. Panda: The Lab-Grown Dairy You Didn’t Ask For Is Here — Boston startup Brown Foods has produced UnReal Milk, the world’s first lab-grown whole cow’s milk made without a single cow. – The company believes cows are the cause of global warming. – It claims its production method slashes carbon emissions by 82%, water use by 90%, and land use by 95%, all without relying on livestock…

Laura Dodsworth: When Do Vaccine Incentives Become Coercive? – On March 9, 2025, the government wants us to reflect, but only on approved narratives. – A panoply of persuasions has been deployed to encourage the hesitant, the slow, and the complacent. – Missing from their script are the long-term consequences of lockdowns, mandates, economic devastation, and social division…

March 1, 2025

Breitbart: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that Israel will be halting all movement of goods into Gaza, following Hamas’s apparent rejection of a ceasefire proposal suggested by President Donald Trump’s envoy. – Trump has said that Israel has a free hand to respond to Hamas, has expressed shock at the treatment of Israeli hostages by Hamas, and has invited some of the freed hostages to visit him at the White House…

Breitbart: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed an order on Saturday that will expedite the shipment of $4 billion in military aid to Israel — Since taking office, the Trump Administration has approved nearly $12 billion in major foreign military sales to Israel. – This important decision coincides with President Trump’s repeal of a Biden-era memorandum that had imposed baseless and politicized conditions on military assistance to Israel…

Western Journal: Trump Gets The Last Laugh on The Mar-a-Lago Documents – He Loaded Them Onto Air Force 1 and Has Special Plan for Them All – “They are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library.“ – “Justice finally won out.“ – “I did absolutely nothing wrong.“ – “This was merely an attack on a political opponent that, obviously, did not work well.“

One America News: NATO Chief Rutte Told Zelensky To ‘Restore’ His Relationship With Trump – “You have to find a way, dear Volodymyr, to restore your relationship with Donald Trump and the American administration. – On the phone call, Rutte went on to remind Zelensky that “we really have to respect what President Trump has done so far for Ukraine.”

Western Journal: Zelenskyy Issued a Statement After Being Kicked Out of the White House — Zelenskyy offered nothing but gratitude, with not one word about a dispute the whole world saw. – “Thank you, America. Thank you for your support, thank you for this visit. Thank you, @POTUS, Congress, and the American people. – Ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are working exactly for that.

Epoch Times: Federal Workers Get 2nd Round of ‘Pulse Check’ Emails Requesting Their List of Accomplishments – Roughly 1 million of the 2.3 million federal workers responded to the first email. – “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets describing what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. – Going forward, please complete the above task each week by Mondays at 11:59 pm ET,” reads the email sent during the evening of Feb. 28…

Red State: Stephen Miller Crushed It by Describing The ‘Remarkable and Disturbing’ Things Zelensky Said That Led to Epic White House Blowup – He repeatedly rejected President Trump’s statement that we should pursue a ceasefire. – He kept saying Europe’s doing so much more than us. – He looked entitled, ungrateful, and narcissistic, but he also looked somewhat shocked that he was taken to task. – Remember, he’s used to dealing with Joe Biden and the Euro-weenies…

One America News: Former Governor Andrew Cuomo Announced His NYC mayoral bid in a 17-minute Video Posted To X. – In the video, he highlighted his accomplishments during his time in office: he legalized same-sex marriage, led the state through the COVID-19 crisis, and rebuilt the LaGuardia Airport.

Cillian: BREAKING, Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Dubinsky just called for an Emergency Session of Ukraine’s Parliament to initiate IMPEACHMENT Proceedings against President Zelensky after the Oval Office shouting match. – This is HUGE. – Zelensky’s Regime is collapsing in real-time.

American Conservative: Trump Took On The Blob In The Oval Office – The president did not just confront Zelensky but the entire American foreign-policy establishment. – The blob hates Russia. – Zelensky was elected to hopefully negotiate and calm the civil war between Russian-identifying Ukrainians and their foes. – But the Biden administration quickly schooled him to be anti-Russia was the key to winning American support and aid.

Breitbart: Zelensky Refuses to Apologize After His Oval Office Outburst, ‘I’m Not Sure We Did Something Bad’ – Zelensky’s answer came after Brett Baier stated that Trump said Zelensky had “disrespected him,” Vice President JD Vance, and the American people, and Baier questioned whether or not he felt he was disrespectful…

New York Post: Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky says he still wants the US minerals deal. – “We are ready to sign the minerals agreement, and it will be the first step toward security guarantees,” Zelensky said Saturday morning. – “But it’s not enough, and we need more than just that. A ceasefire without security guarantees is dangerous for Ukraine. – We’ve been fighting for three years, and Ukrainian people need to know that America is on our side.”…

American Thinker: Why Arab Countries Do Not Want Gazans – For decades, Arab nations have positioned themselves as staunch supporters of the Palestinian cause, yet their actions suggest otherwise. – Arab regimes do not want the Palestinian issue resolved because doing so would strip them of one of their most potent political weapons. – The Palestinians and their cause have become the scapegoat for Arab regimes…

American Thinker: Trump’s First Cabinet Meeting—Trump’s refreshing, creative, and transparent approach to his cabinet meetings is a breath of fresh air. – The unique feature of his first cabinet meeting was the ingenious way Trump invited reporters to leap in with questions. – Trump’s message: The press should be heard and respected if possible, but it should not be allowed to split or attempt to undermine Trump and his teammates.

Zero Hedge: A Secretive Movement Known As ‘#AltGov’ Is Openly Rebelling Against Trump And Musk From Inside Our Federal Agencies – The federal workforce has always been more liberal than the population as a whole, but in recent years things have gotten really bad. – Most people don’t realize this, but the “#AltGov” movement was very active during the first Trump administration…

Geller Report: Soros’ Giant Graft Machine Uses NGOs, ‘A Hack to The System’ – Elon Musk explains the Soros racket. Soros doesn’t spend his own money. He gets his hands on yours through NGOs. – He then makes you pay, through the government, to fund your destruction.

American Greatness: DEI Was the Biggest Con of the Century – I first heard the actual acronym DEI spoken while I was in a 7-11 on the campus during the early days of the COVID pandemic. – It was a conversation between two masked graduate students discussing the wonderful employment possibilities this new initiative would bring about…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, High-Five Edition – I’m torn this week between listing the five things I accomplished this week or keep going in my high-five mode over every day’s delicious news of the latest Trump accomplishments…

February 28, 2025

Epoch Times: 5 Takeaways From the Explosive Trump–Zelenskyy Meeting – Zelenskyy Pushed for Arms and Security Guarantees – Zelenskyy Refuses Cease-fire on Trump’s Terms – An Argument Breaks Out as Zelenskyy Doubts US Diplomacy – Trump and Vance Say Zelenskyy Lacks Leverage – Trump Threatens to Pull US Support If Zelenskyy Doesn’t Make a Deal – After a heated exchange, Zelenskyy was asked to leave early…

Geller Report: Zelensky called VP Vance a “Bitch” During The White House Meeting – The microphone captured Zelenskyy calling JD Vance “Suka,” Russian for “Bitch,” during their argument…

Western Journal: This Photo Captures the Reaction of ‘The Only Ukrainian in the Room Who Understands How Much Damage Zelenskyy Just Did.’ – Ukraine Ambassador Oksana Markarova appeared to know, better than the Ukrainian president himself, just how badly things had gone as she covered her face.

Vigilant Fox: Elon Musk Exposed the “Biggest Scam Ever” During His Joe Rogan Interview – The government handed the Navy $12 billion to build new submarines, and not a single submarine was built. – When lawmakers asked where the money went, Navy officials shrugged and said they had no idea, a revelation Musk heard firsthand from Senator Susan Collins.

The Federalist: It Isn’t A ‘Crisis’ For Trump To Fire Flag Officers, It’s A Crisis To Think He Can’t – The claim that it’s outrageous, unprecedented, and a crisis to fire flag officers is laughable. – “How and why did we lose the longstanding practice of relieving generals for failure? Why has accountability declined? And is it connected to the decline in the operational competence of American generals?”

Dr. Peter and Ginger Breggin: Armies have slipped across our borders and are waiting for the signal to attack – In 2023, we began hearing about young Chinese men crossing the border in large numbers, dressed and acting as a group, and we suspected it had to be a secret army. But we did not fully face the implications, even when expert Gordon Chang warned in July 2023, “There is now a Chinese invasion of the U.S. homeland.”…

Daily Wire: The White House Released Up-Close Footage Of Our Military Bombing An Islamic Terrorist – Dan Scavino, “In President Trump’s first week back in office, he told the world that we were going to find the Jihadi terrorists that mean to do Americans harm, and bring them ultimate Justice.”

Hot Air: Highlights From Joe Rogan’s 3-Hour Interview With Elon Musk – People always saw Trump as a disrupter of the status quo, but now it feels like every person he’s got in his cabinet is a disrupter as well, which makes for interesting times. – $12 billion for non-existent submarines. – George Soros set up NGOs to attract government funds. – The legacy media puppet show…

Newsmax: The Department of Education Offers $25K Buyout to Many Employees – The “voluntary separation incentive payment” offer came in an email Friday from Chief Human Capital Officer Jacqueline Clay. – The email noted that employees were receiving the offer before the department underwent “a very significant reduction in force.”…

The Daily Fetched: Disturbing Data Emerges Suggesting Would-Be Trump Assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks Had ‘Help’ From An Accomplice—The elephant in the room remains the FBI’s lack of transparency in handling the investigation. – A source recently spoke with The New York Post, claiming that the FBI has been obstructing local law enforcement’s efforts to investigate the case, leaving authorities in the dark as they attempt to determine Crooks’ motives…

Western Journal: Trump’s Statement After Meeting with Zelenskyy: ‘He Disrespected the United States.’ – “Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure.” – “It’s amazing what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations.” – “I don’t want an advantage, I want PEACE.”…

Fox News: Conversations about a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia came to a screeching halt Friday after a tense meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy led to a canceled press conference, a minerals deal off the table, and Trump asking Zelenskyy to leave. – Trump accused Zelenskyy of “disrespecting” the U.S. during their Friday meeting and said the Ukrainian leader was not ready to secure peace for his country…

Focal Points: Zelensky’s Conduct Indicates He is Accustomed to Ukraine Calling the Shots – The Fiery exchange in The Oval Office raises suspicion that Ukrainian operatives have been in charge of U.S. policy for the last four years. – I cannot think of a single instance in U.S. history in which a foreign head of state, never mind one who is petitioning the U.S. for assistance, has acted in such an impudent and imperious way…

New York Post: Pro-Ukraine Senator Lindsey Graham slammed Volodymyr Zelensky for arguing with President Trump and VP Vance during the Oval Office meeting Friday, saying Zelensky should consider his political future. – Graham, “What I saw in the Oval Office was disrespectful, and I don’t know if we could ever do business with Zelensky again,” after Trump canceled a scheduled joint press conference with Zelensky and ordered him out of the executive mansion.

Townhall: The Ukrainian Ambassador’s Reaction to Zelensky’s Meltdown Meeting with Trump Says It All—During a tense moment in the Oval Office, the Ukrainian ambassador was seen covering her face as President Volodymyr Zelensky repeatedly attempted to speak over President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance.

Wall Street Journal: A Secret U.S. Drone Program Helped Capture Mexican Cartel Bosses – Intelligence provided by the unarmed drones was essential to the arrests of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, one of his sons, and other top drug smugglers. – Strains have emerged in the U.S.-Mexican security partnership since President Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico unless it stops fentanyl trafficking and migrant smuggling…

Townhall: Mexico Hands Over Drug Cartel Leader Omar Cuenca-Marino To Face Federal Charges – Between approximately 2013 and 2016, Cuenca-Marino’s cartel was responsible for importing large quantities of heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine from Mexico into the United States, specifically in the state of Georgia.

Zero Hedge: Americans’ Savings Rate Soars As First Official Signs Of DOGE Success Emerge – The Fed’s favorite inflation indicator dipped as expected, but all eyes were on the sudden surge in incomes and plunge in ‘spending’ in January – So, to clarify, no, mainstream media, the drop in spending is NOT reflective of a nervous consumer terrified by Trump’s policies, it’s how the machine is supposed to work (as all that money-laundering abroad evaporates).

Gateway Pundit: FBI Director Kash Patel Responds To Pam Bondi’s Requesting For All Jeffrey Epstein Documents – “The FBI is entering a new era—one that will be defined by integrity, accountability, and the unwavering pursuit of justice.” “There will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, and no stone left unturned.” – “If there are gaps, we will find them.”- “If records have been hidden, we will uncover them and will bring everything we find to the DOJ.”…

AMUSE on X: Justice or Cover-Up? – The FBI, Southern District of New York, and the Epstein Files – At the outset, the peculiar handling of this case by the SDNY and the FBI raised disturbing concerns about whether justice was truly objective or whether the prosecution was carefully engineered to shield powerful men who benefitted from Epstein’s crimes. – After Epstein died, many assumed the government would dismantle his network, but instead, the prosecution focussed on a single individual, Ghislaine Maxwell…

American Conservative: The CIA Is Hiding Something Big Regarding The JFK Assassination – It has been nearly 62 years since the assassination of JFK, and yet thousands of National Archive records and an untold number that have not yet been turned over by the FBI, CIA, and other federal agencies remain classified, so are beyond the sunlight of public scrutiny. – Nevertheless, the gradual declassification that began in the late 1990s has brought a disturbing picture into focus…

American Thinker: DOGE Is In The Constitution – At least the most important part of it is covered. – The Constitution obligates the Feds to tell us where the money went. – Those expenditures have been concealed from us for decades. – DOGE is the reporting agency envisioned by Article I, § 9, Clause 7…

American Thinker: Trump closes the border, and suddenly, Mexico’s cartel problems are nowhere to be found in Tijuana – Trump has apparently brought peace to cartel-wracked northern Mexico, according to a resident. – No car burnings. – No blocked roads. – No machine-gun shootouts. – No bodies splattered across the pavements and in residential doorways. – No shakedowns. – No innocent Mexican citizens chased across the border into the US…

Epoch Times: California Senior District Judge William Alsup Finds Mass Firings of Federal Probationary Employees Likely Unlawful – He ordered the immediate reinstatement of some employees and ordered OPM’s request be rescinded because of the possibility of more workers being let go. – All union-representative employees who were terminated, he ruled, had to go through administrative processes like the Merit Systems Protection Board and the National Labor Relations Authority.

Epoch Times: The individuals who leaked information about immigration enforcement operations have been identified and face termination, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. – “I have found some leakers,” Noem said. “We are continuing to get more. They will be fired, and there will be consequences.”

Epoch Times: The Social Security Administration is planning to lay off many employees, and workers will be offered incentives of up to $25,000 for voluntary separation. – Offices that perform functions not mandated by statute could be prioritized for workforce reductions, including staffing cuts, reassignments, and abolishing positions and complete departments.

Red State: Tulsi Gabbard, “Joe Biden Admin Knew About the Perverted Chats at Our Intel Agencies for Years, But Didn’t Give a Damn.” – “I’ve had whistleblowers come forward just in the last few days who work in the [National Security Agency] and who said, ‘Hey, we saw this, and we reported it through official channels under the Biden administration.’”…

Epoch Times: Attorney General Bondi Released The First Phase of Declassified Epstein Files – The release contains documents that have largely been circulating in the public domain for years and did not include significant revelations about Epstein and his operations…

Forbidden News: Jeffrey Epstein’s client list is a distraction from the potentially larger scandal of Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell.” – More than just sex videos, there is also a copy of a secret $4.5 billion agreement signed by Hunter Biden, General Secretary Xi Jinping, and Vice President Wang Qishan, with a $1 million tip plus a $10 million signing bonus paid out to Hunter immediately after he signed it…

Wall Street Journal: According to White House officials, President Trump is planning to sign an executive order making English the official language of the US. – In its nearly 250-year history, the U.S. has never had a national language at the federal level.

February 27, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: Israeli plans to resume the Gaza war in four to six weeks to conquer the entire strip in a single coordinated offensive against Hamas. – Under the plan, Israel will deploy more than 50,000 troops to Gaza before relocating the civilian population to humanitarian zones and waging a ruthless ground campaign against Palestinian terrorists across the rest of the strip…

Breitbart: Trump Inherited a Biden Economy Riddled with Hidden Weaknesses – The latest GDP report confirms what many economists had been quietly warning: beneath the surface, the economy is weaker than it seemed. – The fourth quarter 2024 data shows real GDP growth slowing to 2.3 percent, down from 3.1 percent in the third quarter, showing a clear loss of momentum…

Breitbart: The Latest Rasmussen Poll Shows Americans’ Trust in Mainstream Media Is The ‘Lowest Point’ in Over 50 Years – Trust ticked back up to 45% in 2018, but it has continually descended since then, reaching 40% in 2020, 36% in 2021, 34% in 2022, 32% in 2023, and 31% in 2024, President Biden’s last year in office.- See the chart…

One America News: The Pentagon has ordered all transgender military service members to be removed from the military unless they are granted a waiver showing they’re fit for “war-fighting capabilities.” – According to a new memo filed on Wednesday evening, it was revealed that all service members who have “a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria” are no longer eligible for military service.

Just The News: The FAA to Raise the Salary of Candidates for Air Traffic Controller Positions Amid Staff Shortage—This staffing shortage has been known for over a decade. – Candidates who attended the FAA academy will receive a 30% salary increase when they start work. There are also calls for increasing the rate at which candidates are hired and reducing the current eight-step hiring process to a five-step process.

AMUSE on X: The FAA’s Air Traffic Control Network Is Failing, And Elon Musk is Stepping Fix The Issues – The Biden administration signed the deal in 2023 for Verizon to modernize air traffic control communications, but almost immediately, the FAA realized Verizon’s communications network was failing and jeopardizing flight safety. – Musk’s decision to provide Starlink terminals for free exposes the absurdity of the government’s negative response.

Cal Matters: Here’s how a California sheriff is planning to break the state’s sanctuary law. – Amador County Sheriff Gary Redman says he’ll contact immigration authorities after he arrests someone who is in the country illegally. Redman is planning to test the sanctuary law as President Donald Trump promises the largest deportation program in U.S. history.

One America News: Attorney General Bondi Demands To See All Epstein-Related Intelligence, Accusing The FBI Of Withholding Documents – Bondi first became suspicious after looking over the released documents, noting that there was “nothing of substance” included in the papers. – She then demanded, “By 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, February 28, the FBI will deliver the complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents, audio, and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained.”…

US Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs: Attorney General Pamela Bondi Released the First Phase of Declassified Epstein Files, which are available here.

Daily Signal: The Federal judges ruling against President Trump’s recent executive actions have been almost entirely appointees of his two Democrat predecessors. – Some were previously activists, others were steeped in Democrat politics, and one is a former clerk for then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor. -These judges have issued rulings to block Trump’s policies on immigration, federal spending, the DOGE, and other matters.

The Free Press: The U.S. Mint has hidden its five DEI personnel from President Trump’s axe and has even deleted the chief DEI officer’s background from its website. – Mint employee Brian Martin is personally aware of these moves. – DEI officers Luz Sullivan and Vicky Best-Morri are now doing the PR duties that include writing and distributing educational content for children, conducting outreach to schools, and supervising public affairs contractors…

Breitbart: Chief Justice John Roberts paused a lower-court order Wednesday requiring the Trump administration to pay $2 billion in frozen foreign aid before a midnight deadline. – The ruling comes after the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to block the release of USAID funding, which the federal judge had required by midnight. – Officials said they would not be able to comply with the judge’s order….

Daily Caller: Federal immigration authorities have arrested more than 20,000 illegal migrants in President Trump’s first month back into office. – DHS confirmed Wednesday The number marks a 627% increase in monthly arrests in comparison to the roughly 33,000 at-large arrests made during President Joe Biden’s last year in the White House.

Just The News: President Trump now says he plans to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting Tuesday after previously saying he would delay them until April 2nd. – Trump also said he was doubling the 10% universal tariff charged on imports from China.

Daily Wire: Congress Moves To Undo Bogus Biden-Era Methane And Water Heater Rules. – The House voted 220-206 on Wednesday to pass a joint resolution that provides for congressional disapproval of the EPA’s methane emissions fee on oil and gas facilities. – The House voted 221-198 to pass a similar measure aimed at the DOE rule on energy conservation standards for gas-fired instantaneous water heaters…

Daily Wire: The Trump administration has rolled out an “End DEI” portal for parents to submit reports of alleged racial or sex discrimination to the DOE for potential investigation. – The portal allows parents to submit the name of their child’s school or school district and list “concerning practices” they would like the DOE to investigate.

James O’Keefe: U.S. Border Patrol Agent Monica Cruz Blows The Whistle on Juvenile Smuggling Network – She Reveals That Teenage Cartel Recruits Aged 14-17 Are Apprehended 20 Times by CBP, Then Released Back to Cartel Without Consequences. – “No One Has Been Prosecuted, And No One Is Being Held Accountable.”

Zero Hedge: Trump’s Bold Plan, Boost Egg Imports To Reverse Biden’s Bird Flu Blunder That Tanked Nation’s Hen Population – The US Department of Agriculture will import between 70 million and 100 million eggs over the next two months in an effort to cap egg prices. – This initiative is part of a five-part plan, backed by $1 billion in funding, aimed at addressing the bird flu crisis and fixing the Biden administration’s mass culling policies…

Daily Wire: AG Pam Bondi Dismisses DEI Lawsuits Filed Against Police And Fire Department During The Biden Administration – “This is an early step toward eradicating illegal DEI preferences across the government and in the private sector.” – The DOJ said the lawsuits went after police and fire departments for using standard aptitude tests in the hiring process. The DOJ said there was “no evidence of intentional discrimination…

Daily Wire: President Trump Signed An Executive Order Wednesday Giving DOGE More Power. – The order requires agency heads to advise DOGE on how to reduce federal government spending and/or “reallocate spending to improve efficiency.” – Musk, “The overall goal is to address the enormous deficit.” – “We simply cannot sustain as a country with two-trillion-dollar deficits.” – “Just the interest on the debt now exceeds the Defense Department spending.”…

One America News: After constant journalist questions regarding how the Trump administration’s Cabinet members feel about Elon Musk’s frequent presence at the White House and his involvement with the president’s initiatives, President Trump expressed that the entire Cabinet is “extremely happy” with him. – “Musk works in tandem with DOGE to root out government waste, fraud, and overspending.”…

The Daily Fetched: DOGE found that a top Joe Biden aide received $millions for a facility intended to house recent migrants, yet the facility remained empty throughout the country’s crisis. – Family Endeavors saw its “cash and portfolio of investments grow from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023,” with the federal government as its sole source of funds…

Daily Wire: On Wednesday, Senate Republicans defeated an attempt by their Democrat colleagues to undo President Trump’s day-one national emergency declaration. – Members voted 52-47 along party lines. – Senator Jim Risch, “President Trump’s energy emergency declaration takes the necessary steps to reverse Democrats’ Green New Deal and prioritize our domestic energy and natural resources.”…

Epoch Times: – Trump Says A 25% Import Tariff on EU Will Be Announced Soon – Currently, the EU has a 10 percent tariff on passenger cars, four times the rate of the U.S. passenger car tariff of 2.5 percent. – U.S. officials have also criticized European value-added taxes of at least 17.5 percent.

Epoch Times: Elon Musk And The White House Respond To Media Reports of 21 DOGE Employees Resigning – Trump created DOGE by renaming Obama’s 2014 United States Digital Service. – “These were Democrat political holdovers who refused to return to the office.” – “They would have been fired had they not resigned.”…

Western Journal: The DOGE Staffers Who Resigned Left a Mistake in Their Letter That Proves How Bad They Really Were – In their letter, they basically agreed that, when they swore their oath to the Constitution, they were lying. – “We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the staffers wrote in the collective resignation email. – “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”

Victor Davis Hanson: Who Caused The Counter-Revolution? – Trump’s first month is a shock treatment to decades of spending, open borders, and bureaucratic bloat while critics decry the cure and ignore the disease. – It is easy to run up massive debts but hard to pay them back. Politicians profit by handing out grants and hiring thousands using someone else’s money or creating new programs. – Yet, say it is “mean” to spend only what you have and to create a lean, competent workforce.

American Greatness: V.P. Vance in Munich: ‘Does Europe Have America’s Back?’ – Vance’s Munich speech warned Europe to uphold democracy or risk losing America’s support in the new Cold War because a weakened, authoritarian-leaning Europe helps no one but our shared enemies. – Vance was not suggesting the end of America’s partnership with Europe but rather challenged European elitists to stop ignoring their people and to trust in democracy…

American Thinker: House Resolution 166, introduced by 150 bipartisan lawmakers, reaffirms their support for the Iranian people’s struggle for regime change. – It backs the NCRI 10-Point Plan, which envisions a secular, democratic, and non-nuclear republic in Iran. – Additionally, it condemns Tehran’s oppressive policies and calls on global leaders to intensify sanctions against the regime…

American Thinker: Kash Patel Will Reshape the FBI — Patel’s appointment is a victory for anyone who believes in the need for accountability and reform in government institutions. – While firm, Patel’s action before even entering the Hoover building is consistent with his message to the FBI workforce: that he will “always have their backs” but will also take necessary steps to restore integrity to the Bureau…

Zero Hedge: Pursuing President Trump’s vision of a fighting force focused on readiness to wage war, the Pentagon is about to initiate a fast-paced program to ferret out transgender military members and discharge them from the military. –
“Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria will be processed for separation from military service,” according to a recent memo…

Daily Wire: All The Blue State Attorneys General Are Meeting Daily To Find Ways To Undermine Trump. – U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has already predicted that their efforts will fail. – Trump currently enjoys higher favorability and approval ratings than he did in 2017, and a majority of Americans support many of the agenda items his administration has already begun to implement.

Townhall: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Explains How Much Money Trump Proposed ‘Gold Card’ Replace For The Inexpensive EB-5 Green Card Program Would Bring to The US – Lutnick, “250,000 people are waiting in line now, which equates to $1.25 trillion.”

New York Sun: The White House Correspondents’ Association Chief Gets A Big Job at MSNBC, Lending Weight To The Liberal Bias Accusations Against The Embattled Reporters’ Group – Eugene Daniels has a history of calling Republicans racist and his move to MSNBC comes as the ratings-challenged liberal network is in the midst of a historic staff shakeup.

February 26, 2025

One America News: President Trump has answered an astounding 1,009 questions from reporters in the first month of this administration. – Former President Biden’s first-month total of 141 press questions answered is blown away by the tabulation, which was gathered by George Condon of the National Journal that was released on Tuesday. – During the first 31 days of his first term in 2009, former President Obama took only 161 questions…

Wall Street Journal: President Trump Reverses Biden’s Action on Venezuela By Revoking Chevron’s Oil License To Drill There – This move ends Chevron’s work in the oil-rich country and was triggered by what Trump said was a failure to accept illegal immigrant deportees back to Venezuela. – Trump’s announcement came nearly a month after senior White House envoy Richard Grenell met with Maduro in Caracas to strike a deal that would restart deportation flights to the country…

Epoch Times: The White House Orders Agencies to Accelerate Large-Scale Firings of Federal Workers—Federal agencies must prepare and submit “Phase 1 Agency RIF [reductions in force] and Reorganization Plans” by March 13th. – Trump’s workforce optimization initiative includes both large-scale reductions in force plans and agency-wide reorganization efforts…

Reuters: US Attorney General Pam Bondi hopes to release Epstein-related flight logs and names on Thursday – She said her department was working on protecting the personal information of over 250 victims connected to Epstein. – Bondi said she hoped to release a “lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information” on Epstein…

American Spectator: 31 Days That Shook The World – Trump’s first month of countless wins made the Left see red and dizzied the Right with delight. – Year-on-year illegal border crossings are down 94%. – DOGE already identified at least $65 billion in often mind-blowing federal extravagance, incompetence, and graft. DEI is banished from the federal government and is now comatose in the private sector. – And the list goes on…

Epoch Times: A Massive Sting In Arizona Nets 25 Arrests and 1.7 Million Fentanyl Pills – Officials say the latest enforcement effort marks the next level of cooperation among state and federal agencies. – The joint investigation discovered a transnational criminal organization operating in both the United States and Mexico, trafficking millions of dollars worth of illegal drugs…

American Thinker: The Education Exodus – Homeschool co-ops are emerging as America’s last bastion of liberty. – Public schools, once cradles of civic virtue, have morphed into laboratories of progressive conformity. – Curricula steeped in Critical Race Theory cast the Founding Fathers as villains, not visionaries, along with gender ideology that supplants biology with fluidity, causing childhood confusion.

Uncanceled News: These Are the 15 Largest Defense Budgets in the World – In 2024, the U.S. spent nearly $1 trillion on its defense budget, equal to 3.4% of GDP. – In contrast, NATO members in Europe and Canada spent an average of 2% of GDP on defense. – While NATO’s defense budgets have declined since the Cold War, Russia’s military spending has surged by 227% since 2000, and China’s has skyrocketed by 566%…

Breitbart: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will fly to Washington D.C. to sign a rare earth mineral deal with President Trump on Friday – This will formalize a future economic relationship between the US and Ukraine to ensure a return on investment for America’s large spending on the Ukraine war.- President Trump described the deal as a way of recouping the billions of dollars the United States has spent on supporting Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion…

Focal Points: NATO Admits Casus Belli was NATO Enlargement—This September 2023 video Shows NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg telling the EU Parliament that Russia invaded Ukraine to prevent it from joining NATO. In the autumn of 2021, Russia actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign to promise no more NATO enlargement. – That was what they sent us, and that was a precondition for not invading Ukraine. – Of course, we didn’t sign that.

Center Square: House Republicans’ $4.5 Trillion Budget Resolution Passes Providing MASSIVE Tax Relief for Ordinary Americans. – The bill passed strictly along partisan lines, with 217 Republicans voting in favor and 215 Democrats opposed. – Now, the House budget bill will head to the Senate, where Republican lawmakers will need to adopt it to begin the budget reconciliation process.

Fox News: President Trump asked Elon Musk to speak at the top of the first full Cabinet meeting on Wednesday to discuss the progress made by DOGE. – Musk, “I think that email was perhaps interpreted as a performance review, but actually, it was a pulse check review.” – “Do you have a pulse?” – “And if you have a pulse and two neurons, you could reply to an email.” – “The task was “not a high bar” and should be something “anyone could accomplish.”…

Western Journal: Karoline Leavitt Says ‘A Lot of People in This City’ Should Be ‘Very, Very Nervous’ About Dan Bongino’s Appointment as Deputy Director Of The FBI. – He is both a former special agent at the Secret Service and an outsider to the nation’s federal government, and both realities make him formidable. – “This is a man who loves his country and who has honorably served our country in ways that many people have not.”…

Populist Times: Trump Has Revoked the Security Clearances for Covington & Burling LLP, the Law Firm That Assisted Jack Smith. – The revocation follows a similar action targeting 51 intel chiefs who signed a letter downplaying Hunter Biden’s laptop story as possibly a Russian disinformation campaign.

Newsmax: The Trump Administration Directs Large-Scale Federal Layoffs – Agencies were directed to submit by March 13 their plans for what is known as a reduction in force, which would not only lay off employees but eliminate unnecessary positions. – The result could be extensive changes in how government functions.

Liberty Daily: Recently Fired USAID Staff Are Given 15 Minutes to Collect Their Belongings, And Told They Will Be “Escorted To Their Workspace” And Will Undergo “X-Ray Screening Upon Entry” – USAID’s instructions come after a federal judge allowed the Trump administration to move forward with its staffing purges Friday, rejecting a union-led effort to temporarily halt the president’s plan to dismiss virtually all of the agency’s worldwide staff.

Townhall: The White House announced that Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). – This came after the White House said in a court filing that Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is not an official employee of DOGE and “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself.”

Washington Examiner: As President Trump convenes his first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the intrigue will be on Elon Musk, who will also attend. – One camp believes the president is effectively using Musk as a “shield” or a “lightning rod” to draw the media’s attention amid the administration’s quest to shrink the federal bureaucracy and slash alleged wasteful or fraudulent spending…

Washington Examiner: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired the federal intelligence employees over their sexually explicit work chats while on the job. – Gabbard announced Tuesday she would fire over 100 workers in the federal intelligence community and revoke their security clearances after an investigation reported they used a National Security Agency chat system to send “obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit” messages…

Geller Report: US Intel Chief Tulsi Gabbard Declares Islamic Terrorism Most Urgent National Security Threat – Gabbard dismissed the declaration made in 2021 by then-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that white supremacists pose the greatest national security threat to the United States. – Instead, Gabbard asserted that Americans face a greater safety threat from “radical Islamist terrorism.”

American Thinker: Donald Trump And the Art of Political Warfare – Trump and his MAGA army are in the process of soundly routing the Ruling Class on the battlefield of political warfare and permanently replacing the current Republican Party Establishment. – 2,500 years ago, Chinese philosopher, general, and military strategist Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War, noting, “It is the unemotional, reserved, calm warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune…

Gatestone Institute: It’s Time to Bring Down the Curtain on Iran’s Terror Axis – Many people may have forgotten Iran was found guilty of supporting the 9/11 attacks. – Recently, Iranian state agents have been trying to murder senior US officials in the Trump administration, various dissidents, and Donald Trump himself. – If the Trump administration allows the mullahs to stay in power, there will be no peace for the foreseeable future in the US, Europe, or the Middle East…

American Thinker: Citizens stop armed attackers, while the FBI lies – If blue cities and states don’t report crime to the FBI, and the FBI doesn’t accurately compile and publish crime data, that allows those on the Left to claim they’re tough on crime, setting the terms of political debate and keeping campaign and federal funds flowing. – The FBI’s lack of accuracy on this issue is no surprise…

American Thinker: A Cultural Cycle Is Upon Us Again. The old guard seeks to defend what the majority sees as indefensible. Still, we are finally exerting political will to address the dysfunctional institutions at the root of the problem. A new populist majority has finally had enough, and its leaders are unafraid to make radical changes by swinging a wrecking ball into our dysfunctional institutions.

Resist The Mainstream: The Trump administration is poised to launch an online registry for illegal immigrants as early as this week, requiring them to submit personal information or risk substantial fines and possible imprisonment. – The mandatory system will require illegal immigrants over the age of 14 to provide fingerprints and home addresses…

The Federalist: USAID Blew Hundreds Of Thousands In Taxpayer Slush Funds On A Ukrainian ‘Pickle Maker’ And Pet Accessories – Senator Joni Ernst’s staff uncovered the secret slush funds when, after months of enduring the agency’s excuses to justify its resistance to oversight, they were finally permitted access to “very limited data.”

Daily Wire: On Thursday, the GOP House Committee on the Judiciary revealed that the IRS confirmed that under the Biden administration, the agency leaked taxpayer information of more than 405,000 Americans, including Donald Trump. – Former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn, who leaked the information, is currently serving time in a Florida prison.

Zero Hedge: Washington Post Reporters Melt Down And The Opinion Editor Quits After Jeff Bezos Makes A Hard Pivot Towards Future “Personal Liberties & Free Markets” Editorials. – Jeff Bezos, “I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning: I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.” – “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” – “We’ll cover other topics too, of course.”…

February 25, 2025

American Spectator: China’s War Is Here, But Most Americans Are Blind to It—While policymakers focus on military buildups, aircraft carriers, and troop deployments, China is waging a war that doesn’t require a single soldier, tank, or missile. – It’s called Unrestricted Warfare, and its premise is devastatingly simple: War in the modern age can be waged through economic coercion, cyber infiltration, information control, and technological dominance.

American Spectator: Mr. President, Sir, Our Heads Are Spinning From So Much Winning. – Donald Trump entered the Oval Office for the second time on January 20th, but this time, America had seen the full implications and dire consequences of the Obama-Biden-Pelosi-Harris-Ocasio woke agenda. – Americans don’t want DEI but are being shamed into silence by Virtue Signalers and Cancel Police. – They know there are only two genders and are terrified of what their children are being taught in school. – This is a must-read.

Fox News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has agreed to a draft of a minerals deal with the White House. – President Trump told reporters that the Ukrainian leader plans to travel to D.C. on Friday to meet with him after the officials agreed to the terms of the deal. – The U.S. president added that the two leaders are “just in the process of negotiating.”

Liberty Sentinel: Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Congressman Chip Roy of Texas reintroduced legislation that would completely remove the US from funding and involvement in the UN. – President Trump has already taken steps to withdraw from the globalist organization, so this is a historic opportunity to do so.

Breitbart: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr will brief the Republican Study Committee on Wednesday on how the Democrat-controlled FCC approved a licensing deal to deliver leftist billionaire Soros over 200 Audacy radio stations. – Soros reportedly took foreign investment to make his bid, which covered 40 media markets, and asked the commission to make an exception to the normal review process, which includes a national security review.

Washington Free Beacon: The Red-District DOGE Protests Cited As Proof of a Broad Musk ‘Backlash’ Were Organized By Left-Wing Groups—In one case, a former Democrat county board candidate and self-described ‘political activist’ helped organize a viral demonstration in Georgia. – The George Soros-funded groups Indivisible and MoveOn were at the center of the demonstrations.

Breitbart: ICE special agents and other state and local law enforcement officials arrested 118 illegal aliens during a Monday immigration raid inside the Colony Ridge Subdivision near Houston, Texas. – According to ICE, the multi-agency immigration raid netted migrants charged with a myriad of criminal charges and criminal convictions…

Breitbart: The FBI is investigating a secret “honeypot” operation that former FBI Director James Comey launched in 2015 that targeted President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. – This comes after a report in October 2024 that the House Judiciary Committee was looking into a whistleblower’s claims that the agency “targeted” Trump “soon after he announced his presidential campaign in June 2015” in what was “described as a fishing expedition to find something.”…

Daily Signal: An improvised explosive device killed a Texas rancher last month, according to Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. – “This shocking act of violence highlights the growing threat posed by cartel activity along our southern border.” – A Tamaulipas state police spokesperson said that cartels use IEDs to protect their territory from opposing criminal organizations.

AMUSE on X: Contempt and Consequence, The Case For The Court-Martial of Insubordinate Flag Officers – The Uniform Code of Military Justice is the bedrock of military discipline and the safeguard of democratic governance. – It now stands as the last barrier between order and chaos as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth faces a defining test. – The issue at hand is not a minor breach of protocol but blatant insubordination that strikes at the heart of civilian control over the military…

Epoch Times: The Social Security Administration announced it is eliminating its Office of Transformation – A webpage-based manual said the Office of Transformation was responsible for providing “strategic guidance and oversight of enterprise-wide initiatives, addressing policies, business processes, and systems.” – President Trump previously said the Office of Transformation was a prime example of wasteful and inefficient offices.

American Greatness: No, Trump’s Tariffs Will Not Cause Inflation – Tariffs won’t break the bank—history shows prices stay steady, and buying American is always an option. The media’s panic over Trump’s tariffs is just another round of misplaced hysteria. – Every time President Trump threatens to raise tariffs, the media claims that American consumers will pay the price. – This did not happen last time, and it is unlikely to happen now. Consider the great washing machine debacle of 2018…

Epoch Times: Trump Says He Wants the Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Built Now—President Barack Obama first rejected it in 2015. The project was ultimately blocked by the Biden administration just hours after Joe Biden took office as president in January 2021, leading to thousands of lost jobs…

One America News: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that he will be taking his first trip to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday. – While there, he will receive a rundown of briefings on all mission operations at the base. – The Guantanamo Bay Naval Station serves as a forward operating base vital for regional stability and maritime security and also facilitates the temporary detention of illegal aliens who are pending return to their country of origin or other appropriate destination.

Zero Hedge: Bloomberg reported that Elon Musk’s SpaceX subsidiary, Starlink, is preparing to deploy terminals nationwide to upgrade the Federal Aviation Administration’s national airspace system. – Musk responded to the report on X by indicating that the current ground-based internet, managed by Verizon, “is not working and is consequently putting air travelers at serious risk.”

Real Clear Politics: The Trump Admin Takes Control From The White House Correspondents Association – “Moving forward, the White House press team will determine the White House press pool.” – KAROLINE LEAVITT: As you all know, for decades, a group of DC-based journalists, the White House Correspondents’ Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the President of the United States…

Slay News: President Donald Trump and DOGE chief Elon Musk have both issued endorsements for Vivek Ramaswamy’s run for Ohio governor. – 39-year-old Ramaswamy, who ran against Trump in the Republican 2024 presidential primary before joining forces with the president, announced his gubernatorial bid on Monday.

American Thinker: Along with Illegal Immigrants, Infectious Diseases are Crossing America’s Border – While not every illegal immigrant crossing our border is a criminal, everyone crossing the border could be an unintentional carrier of infectious diseases no longer prevalent in America. – A recent highlights New York City, The leading destination for illegal aliens, the incidence of TB is 2.5 times higher than the national average. Additionally, 89% of TB patients in NYC are foreign-born…

Twitchy: Michael Shellenberger Dropped ANOTHER Bombshell—The FBI Employees Are Destroying Evidence—A source inside the FBI said FBI employees were destroying evidence on servers, and he informed Kash Patel. – Shellenberger has exposed so much corruption over the past several years that we’ve learned that when he drops a bomb on Twitter, it’s usually worth paying attention to, and it is usually huge.

American Thinker: President Trump Is Sick of the Government’s Ever-Growing Patronage—The vast majority of government workers have patronage jobs to pay constituents for supporting Democrats. – According to Open Secrets, between 93 and 97% of all political donations made by government employees go to Democrats, with 3 to 7% going to Republicans. The government doles out cushy, high-paying jobs, and workers and unions kick back donations to party supporters…

Newsmax: The U.S. Senate has confirmed Daniel Driscoll, an Iraq War veteran and adviser to Vice President Vance, as Secretary of the Army by a vote of 66 to 28. – Driscoll served in the Army for 3 1/2 years, including a deployment in Iraq from October 2009 to July 2010. – After leaving the military, he attended Yale Law School, where he met Vance and worked in finance.

Newsmax: According to a court filing by FPB Acting Director Russ Vought, the Trump administration intends to maintain some version of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but in a capacity more aligned with new efficiency mandates. – The CFPB was conceived by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., after the financial crisis of 2008. It was established in 2010 as part of the Federal Reserve System.

American Thinker: Yosemite is in the news because of Donald Trump’s federal government personnel cuts. – For example, Vince’s job as the park’s sole key-holder required him to keep track of the hundreds of keys and locks. – Yosemite staffers hoping to draw attention to sweeping workforce cuts hung an upside-down American Flag on El Capitan to draw attention to that monster Trump. But wait a minute, only eleven out of 1,151 have been let go, or ~1%.

American Thinker: Susan Rice misleads Americans again – Susan Rice was the UN Ambassador and behind-the-scenes Democrat/socialist/communist whisperer who blatantly lied about the Benghazi attack. – Honest, patriotic Americans know to disregard everything Rice says. – With the recent and long overdue dismissal of USAF General Charles Brown, Rice demonstrates she, like virtually all of her ilk, is incapable of learning from her mistakes.

Brownstone Institute: Donald Trump Was Right about Autism – Conservative estimates are that there has been a 1,000-fold increase in diagnoses of autism in children since the turn of the millennium, in the UK and the US at least. – It has risen from one in 100,000 children with autism to 1 in 100 children with autism in 25 years.- The range of idiosyncrasies in the hall of the autism social club is like nothing else on earth…

AMUSE on X: How DEI and Mismanagement Turned Obama’s Legacy Project into a Billion-Dollar Boondoggle – What was once a $500 million project is creeping toward the $1 billion mark. – Years behind schedule, plagued by worksite racial incidents, lawsuits, and shocking quality concerns, Obama’s library embodies the tragic reality of DEI in action…

February 24, 2025

Western Journal: Americans Give Trump a Big Thumbs Up and Democrats A Big Thumbs Down – A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released Monday found Trump maintains a 52% approval rating after his first month in office, including high marks for nearly all of his policies. – However, Democrats have plummeted to an all-time low approval rating of only 36%. – Also, 58% of respondents credited Trump with a better job performance than former President Joe Biden.

Julie Kelly: The Left’s Meltdown Over Our New FBI Dream Team – Barely recovered from the swearing-in last week of FBI Director Kash Patel, the media and Democrats were dealt another blow with the announcement of Dan Bongino as the bureau’s number two. This former NYPD cop and Secret Service agent who authored three books on government corruption is perfectly suited to help his new boss, FBI Director Kash Patel, root out the bad actors at the 37,000-employee bureau and hold them accountable…

American Spectator: Trump Has Already Achieved Major Wins In His Full-Throttle First 30 Days — Even if he later loses some battles in court. – Just through Feb. 14, the Federal Register lists 68 Executive orders. – One of these, of course, was the creation of DOGE, which has cut hundreds of federal contracts, so far claiming $55 billion in savings…

Just The News: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says the state will establish a DOGE task force, similar to that of the Trump administration, to eliminate wasteful government spending at the local level. – “Florida has set the standard for fiscally conservative governance, and our new Florida DOGE task force will do even more to serve the people of Florida,” DeSantis said in a statement on Monday.

AMUSE on X: The DEI General, Or How CQ Brown Made Identity Politics the Top Military Priority – Brown’s tenure embodied the triumph of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) over military readiness, transforming the Armed Forces into an institution where identity trumped merit. In doing so, he made himself a liability to the very institution he swore to serve, forcing Trump’s hand in removing him to restore the military’s foundational principles.

AMUSE on X: Woke Spies Gone Wild – American taxpayers should be furious. – While they work hard to feed their families, government intelligence officers in the NSA, CIA, and DIA sit in taxpayer-funded offices swapping graphic tales of genital mutilation, fetishistic role-play, and polyamorous sexual escapades, all under the guise of “DEI.”…

Zero Hedge: An LGBT Activist Has Been Arrested As The Ringleader Of International Pedophile Network – The criminal syndicate had been operating between the northern French province of Loire-Atlantique across the country’s border with Belgium. – Its horrific crimes are reminiscent of the Dutroux affair, one of the most infamous episodes of child sex abuse to ever come to light in modern European history…

Daily Signal: Governor Mike Dunleavy, “Trump Has Rescued Alaska” – “Everything has changed for Alaska’s energy and natural resources production under the Trump administration.” – On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order unlocking the “bounty of natural wealth” in Alaska, from oil and gas to minerals and even timber. – “Whatever Alaska has is now open for business.”…

Breitbart: Joe Biden’s airport security agency opened up fast-track lines for illegal migrants in 2021. – The heretofore unreleased 2021 policy allowed illegal migrants to use a variety of “DHS-provided documents” to walk quickly through security checkpoints that held up many Americans. – The TSA document says the policy was adopted to reduce the delays caused by migrants seeking to get through airport security without normal identification documents…

Breitbart: The apprehension of migrants along the southwest border with Mexico fell to a historically low level on Friday, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. – Their agents encountered 199 migrants on Friday, compared to 4,393 one year earlier…

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Ukrainian Tightrope – Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 because he saw weakness in the West. – But now, both he and the world want an end to the war, and Trump may be the only one willing to cut an imperfect but necessary deal. – To find an impossible peace between Ukraine and Russia, we must understand the recent history of the war and the European and American roles in it…

American Thinker: Unmasking Comedian Zelensky’s Deception and His True Role in the War on the Global Stage – Beneath his image as a brave wartime leader lies a far more complex and troubling reality. – Zelensky’s rise to power and subsequent actions indicate that he is not merely the victim of an unjust invasion but a figurehead influenced by external forces. – Trump pointed out the reality that Zelensky’s actions portray him more as a puppet of the West than a true statesman…

New York Sun: Zelensky Is Furious About The Minerals-for-Security Deal as Ukraine Prepares To Sign Over Resources to America – Ukraine’s president was exuberant in his opposition to a proposed deal between America and Ukraine, but financial and security commitments could accompany an end to the three-year war with Russia. – Zelensky originally came up with the idea of an American security guarantee in exchange for oil, gas, and other natural resources last September when he visited Mr. Trump in New York…

Townhall: Are CIA Officers Plotting Treason in Response to DOGE Looking Into Their “Ultra-Sensitive Payments?” – On the CIA’s 7th floor, home to top leadership, some officers are also quietly discussing how mass firings and the buyouts already offered to staff risk creating a group of disgruntled former employees who might be motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service.

News Busters: The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks are freaking out over the Trump administration’s cuts of their beloved big government programs with sob stories of federal workers losing jobs and fearmongering. – But they’ve hidden how Elon Musk and the DOGE have already saved the hard-working American taxpayer billions of dollars. – From February 8 to February 24th, ABC, CBS, and NBC (on their evening and morning shows) spent a total of 1 minute, 53 seconds telling this side of the issue…

American Thinker: Meet the Cartels—Marco Rubio just designated a slew of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and here is what we know about each of them. – The cartels named in Rubio’s declaration are Tren de Aragua, Mara Salvatrucha/MS-13, Cartel de Sinaloa, Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, Carteles Unidos, Cartel del Noreste, Cartel del Golfo, and La Nueva Familia Michoacana. These are some of the most brutal organizations operating in the United States, Mexico, and Central and South America…

Zero Hedge: Musk Tells Fed Workers To Return To Office Or Be Placed On Leave – Musk, “Those who ignored President Trump’s executive order to return to work have now received over a month’s warning.” – “Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave.”. – Musk referred to the “Return To In-Person Work” executive order Trump signed on day one of his second term…

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration announced on Sunday that it is cutting 2,000 positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development and putting nearly every other USAID employee on paid administrative leave. – There’s no indication of how long those leaves will last or what the ultimate fate of people in that category will be. – The leaves took effect at 11:59 EST on Sunday night.

The Federalist: Institutional Resistance To Trump Proves The Left’s Disdain For Democracy – Those condemning President Trump’s firings of resistance officials are not attacking him; they are attacking our democracy. – Donald Trump is not acting like a dictator. And he’s not acting like a king. He’s governing as the chief executive, the position to which a majority of voters elected him…

Breitbart: A Recent Rasmussen Survey Reveals Trump’s Mass Deportation Policy Has 62% Approval – 62% said they strongly (41%) or somewhat (21%) approve, while only 36% said they somewhat (14%) or strongly (22% disapprove. – Hispanic voters support the mass deportations by a margin of 63 to 37%. – Black voters support Trump’s deportations by 59 to 37%…

Gateway Pundit: U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman of Maryland, a Biden appointee, forbids the Education Department and Office of Personnel Management from sharing sensitive information with Elon Musk’s DOGE, claiming it violates federal privacy laws. – As many know, Boardman is one of the judges who issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against Trump’s birthright citizenship order earlier this month…

American Thinker: If Trump Wants Canada, Here’s How He Gets It—Under the cumbersome Canadian constitution, it is virtually impossible for Canada to join the U.S. in with a single action. – But Trump can acquire Canada piecemeal, faster than anyone imagined, by making these deals with two provinces to start with. – First, Trump should simultaneously invite the rich, conservative province of Alberta and the poor, liberal province of Newfoundland and Labrador to join the US…

American Thinker: Dan Bongino’s Life, Fortune, and Sacred Honor — We’ll discuss his sacred honor in a bit, but first, we need to appreciate what this man has done now that he has accepted the appointment of Deputy Director of the FBI. – His podcast has a larger audience than most of the networks, and one can easily presume the money is pretty good, but he has walked away to serve an institution that will test his sacred honor…

Daily Wire: Dan Bongino Chokes Up On Air Announcing Plan To Exit Radio, ‘It’s A Lot To Walk Away From’ – “I got a call from the president, and he couldn’t have been nicer,” Bongino said. “Obviously, I’ll keep the contents between us, but I think you get the gist of what it was about…this is now real.”…

American Conservative: The Inside Story of DOGE’s State Department Reforms – Trump’s February 12th Executive Order states: The Secretary [of State] shall, consistent with applicable law, implement reforms in recruiting, performance, evaluation, and retention standards, and the programs of the Foreign Service Institute, to ensure a workforce that is committed to faithful implementation of the President’s foreign policy…

Western Journal: Dan Bongino To Join Kash Patel at FBI as Deputy Director—A top podcaster, former Fox News host, New York City Police Department officer, and 12-year veteran of the Secret Service, Bongino is a close friend of FBI Director Kash Patel and will now serve as his right-hand man at the FBI.

American Thinker: The Democrats’ Failed Anti-DOGE Narratives – Nothing the Democrats have said about what Trump and DOGE are doing passes muster under standards of constitutionalism, law, logic, or morality. – Democrats say Trump can’t let them have access to executive branch data! Yes, he can. – Article II of the Constitution vests all executive authority in the President. – He can use some of that authority to his appointees to do the work of the Executive branch…

One America News: Apple Announces A Historic $500B Investment In U.S. Manufacturing & Innovation—The massive investment includes building an advanced AI server manufacturing factory near Houston, Texas, and increasing the company’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund from $5 billion to $10 billion. – Additionally, Apple will establish an Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit and hire 20,000 new employees to work on R&D silicon engineering, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Washington Free Beacon: A Biden Environmental Justice Adviser Received Millions in Taxpayer Funds After Personally Applying For EPA Grant
– LaTricea Adams’s group received a $20 million ‘environmental justice’ grant while she served on Biden’s Environmental Justice Advisory Council…

The Daily Fetched: The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) is warning Americans about traveling to the United Kingdom amid reports that the country’s leftist government can now prosecute them for social media posts—even if they were written while in the U.S. – The legal organization has posted an online analysis of the UK’s ideological leftism and the threat it poses to those who enjoy First Amendment protections…

New York Post: The drama at MSNBC intensifies as the network axes shows hosted by three more left-wing anchors in the wake of Joy Reid’s ouster. – MSNBC’s new president continued to shake up the embattled network on Monday, canceling shows hosted by left-wing anchors Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang, and Jonathan Capehart.

Slay News: Federal government immunologist Dr. Paul Offit admitted that Joe Biden’s administration suppressed evidence showing the benefits of natural immunity against COVID-19 to push mRNA vaccines onto the public. – Offit, a member of the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, is one of America’s most prominent mass vaccination advocates.

February 23, 2025

Epoch Times: Zelenskyy Says He’s Willing to Resign in Exchange for Ukraine Joining NATO—The Trump administration is negotiating a deal with Ukraine to access the nation’s rare earth minerals in exchange for continued U.S. military aid.

Epoch Times: Understanding The Impending Reciprocal Tariffs In Trade – President Trump is using tariffs, essentially taxes paid by foreign companies to access the U.S. market, as a primary tool to achieve his America First agenda. And it has delivered results for him so far. – These charts provide the context behind the president’s demand for fairness and order to restore steel tariffs by removing exclusions…

AMUSE on X: A Government Shutdown Isn’t the End, It’s a Reckoning – The predictable wails have begun. The chattering class warns of imminent doom as another government shutdown looms, a consequence not of Republicans’ refusal to negotiate but of Democrats actively using a shutdown as a tool to obstruct President Trump’s agenda. – Government shutdowns happen with some frequency, and the Republic has yet to crumble…

AMUSE on X: Restoring Merit, Why the Civil Service Exam Must Return – The shift away from exams was not a minor administrative tweak; it was a fundamental transformation of federal hiring. With the elimination of standardized testing, agencies turned to subjective hiring criteria, such as resumes, interviews, and essays—tools that, while valuable, lack the objectivity of standardized exams. – To maintain a competent, professional, and accountable federal workforce, America must return to a system of meritocratic hiring…

American Thinker: It’s A bad day for the hate-filled left now that MSNBC canceled Joy Reid’s wretched show – Good riddance to the most offensive leftist on television – MSNBC canceled her show due to poor ratings. – On her lame show, ‘The ReidOut,’ she constantly attacked Americans and white people while defending illegals and other criminals….

New York Sun: Trump and Intelligence Community Are on a Collision Course as Deadline to Release The JFK Files Looms – In 2023, a Gallup poll found that 65 percent of Americans believed that the murder of Kennedy “involved a conspiracy.” – The keepers of America’s secrets are scrambling with two weeks to go before the deadline.

Newsmax: Jordan Belfort, entrepreneur and subject of the 2013 movie “The Wolf of Wall Street,” said losing track of trillions of federal dollars doesn’t happen “by accident,” and he credits Elon Musk for saving the country from “going broke.” – He added that waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government had reached “biblical proportions.”…

Washington Examiner: Having confirmed 18 of Trump’s 22 Cabinet-level positions, the Senate will soon shift its focus to legislation and judicial nominees. – The Senate adopted a budget framework early Friday morning that will unlock some $340 billion in border and defense spending. – The Senate adopted a budget framework early Friday morning that will unlock some $340 billion in border and defense spending.

American Greatness: The Three Amigos Give a Progress Report – Trump’s team delivered a historic first-month briefing, touting DEI’s demise, economic gains, and global diplomacy, leaving the mainstream press stunned by their candor and transparency. – Stephen Miller spoke first, setting the tone when he described the culture of DEI as the “illegal” practice of discrimination based on race and/or sex, which is a more toxic form of “affirmative action.”…

Washington Examiner: Fourteen state AGs filed a lawsuit this month alleging that President Trump gave Elon Musk unchecked authority without the approval of Congress in hopes of stopping DOGE. – But after seeing the sensible cuts coming from DOGE, people are calling for accountability at the state level, and the pushback from Democrats is fierce. – Democratic AGs seem to want to shut down any further review of waste, fraud, and abuse….

American Thinker: Trump Must Speak Out- As long as he remains silent about DOGE’s startling results, the American people will not understand the scope of corruption and incompetence, nor will they see the possibilities now open to America. – In the span of a few weeks, Donald Trump has carried out one of the most sweeping political revolutions in modern history. Using DOGE as his battering ram, he has crippled the Democrats and exposed machinery of corruption that would have beggared the imaginations of Boss Tweed…

American Thinker: It’s Time to deactivate the activist judges – The Democrats are down to this one card: activist judges. – In other words, shop for a judge who will write an opinion, put the Trump plan on hold, and hope 2026 gives you back the House. – It’s the only plan that will work, or so they think. – So it’s up to the Supreme Court to stop this nonsense…

Breitbart: Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced an audit focusing on the more than $4 billion in federal funding spent on the project to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles via a three-hour so-called “bullet train.” – The project is a decade late and projected to be $100 billion over budget by the time it is completed.

Breitbart: California Governor Gavin Newsom asked Congress for $40 billion in funding for fire relief, just two weeks after approving $50 million in spending to fight the Trump administration on immigration and other policies. – Newsom has made no offer to the federal government in return. — No changes in forest management, no changes in water management, no changes in emergency services, and no commitment to drop the $50 million in negative spending…

Amy Gallagher: Why Women Love Woke – Woke makes women go mad and sad. – There is now a growing ideological gap between men, who are more likely to be conservative, and women, who are more likely to be woke progressives. – This gap is not widening because men are becoming more right-wing; it is widening because young women are increasingly adopting radically far-left political positions…

February 22, 2025

New York Post: How USAID squandered billions in Haiti and around the globe – It is no surprise that the “government industrial complex” will resist every effort to bring transparency and accountability to how those funds are spent when the system is ripe with problems. – I’ve had first-hand experience with USAID and other international aid organizations, such as the World Bank, UNESCO, and even the Red Cross, during my 40-plus trips to Haiti…

Zero Hedge: How Many Federal Government Workers Has Trump Fired So Far? – The federal government employs 3 million civilian workers today, a massive number. – Trump’s federal cuts, if he follows through as he has promised, could mean the smallest federal government apparatus in almost a century. – Here is a list of agencies and their number of pink slips so far. – USAID, It is expected that Trump will ultimately keep less than 300. – Deferred Resignations, about 75,000. – Probationary Employee Layoffs, up to 220,000. And the list goes on…

One America News: According to the annual CPAC straw poll, Vice President JD Vance is the most wanted Republican from the Party’s list of potential presidential nominees in the 2028 election cycle. – On Saturday, Vance was the choice of 61% of CPAC attendees in the annual straw poll conducted to determine who should be the next GOP presidential nominee.

AMUSE on X: Why Dan Caine is the Perfect Chairman of the Joint Chiefs – President Trump made the right decision in firing Gen. CQ Brown Jr., who had allowed divisive and destructive DEI policies to undermine the effectiveness and unity of the armed forces. By choosing Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as his replacement, Trump signaled a return to meritocracy, operational readiness, and a military focused on warfighting rather than political activism…

Just The News: Democrats reject decades of policy as they fight against Hegseth’s Pentagon changes – Attempting to combat media narratives and obstructionism, Hegseth has insisted that he is merely moving money around in the Pentagon’s budget to other internal priorities, and that does not constitute a cut at all. – Hegseth: “It’s not a cut, it’s refocusing and reinvesting.” – But to critics, it doesn’t matter.

Western Journal: Pam Bondi’s DOJ Strips Administrative Judges of Their Legal Shield – The DOJ issued a letter saying that many removal restrictions for administrative law judges are unconstitutional, so the administration “will no longer defend” the removal restrictions in court or litigation. – A 2010 decision from the Supreme Court said that granting “multilayer protection from removal” to executive officers “is contrary to Article II’s vesting of the executive power in the President.”

Washington Examiner: FBI Director Kash Patel will also be serving as the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to multiple reports. – This follows U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s firing of the agency’s chief legal counsel, Pamela Hicks, on Thursday. – Hicks served in that role under the Biden administration…

One America News: U.S. District Judge Adam B. Abelson, a former President Biden appointee, granted a preliminary injunction that blocks elements of Trump’s orders that attempt to terminate government funding for DEI-related activities, as well as the Trump administration’s cancellation of contracts that they believe promote DEI. – Abelson ruled that parts of the executive orders likely violate the Constitution and free speech…

Epoch Times: The DOJ Has Filed A Misconduct Complaint Against the Judge Overseeing A Challenge to the Transgender Military Ban. – The complaint cites two instances in which Reyes questioned the attorney about his religious beliefs and used him “unwillingly as a physical prop” in a rhetorical exercise during the hearing.

Western Journal: A federal investigation of Maine’s refusal to comply with Title IX is underway hours after Maine’s governor told President Donald Trump the state would continue rejecting his executive order on keeping men out of women’s sports. – “State laws do not override federal anti-discrimination laws, and the MDOE and its schools remain subject to Title IX and its implementing regulations.” – Trump said he would not back down.

American Thinker: Trump needs to end the carrot that lures illegal immigrants – It’s not enough to punish and deport the worst of the worst; it’s time to ensure that there are no jobs for the rest of them. – If you really want to see the economy explode in growth, enable blue-collar Americans to earn a decent living by removing this glut of workers and the wage-reducing effect they have on employment…

Zero Hedge: With DOGE, It All Comes Down to Accounting — Every institution has two portals of money: money coming in and money going out. Keeping track of both is the key to operations. – The final number can reveal profits or losses, surpluses or deficits. – Regardless of what detractors say, the accounting books are the beating heart of every institution.

Dr. Owen Anderson: The Argument Against DEI – If you oppose DEI, you’re a racist, and if you’re against inclusion, then you’re a fascist. – DEI Uses Positive Language to Mask Discrimination – The Reality Behind “Equity” – The Double Standard in DEI – The Truth About “Inclusion” – Inclusion Means Unequal Treatment – Why DEI is Called Social Justice – The Liberal Christian Justification for DEI – The Injustice of Social Justice – Why DEI Must Be Removed…

Epoch Times: President Trump said Friday that a deal with Ukraine to grant the US access to the country’s rare earth minerals in exchange for continued U.S. military aid is nearly finalized. – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also expressed optimism, confirming that negotiators from both countries were working to finalize terms that would be fair to Kyiv.

Washington Free Beacon: Trump vs. Xi, The Brewing Battle Over the Indian Ocean – Houthi attacks on ships traveling through the Red Sea deeply disturbed a region that depends on maritime trade, and the Biden administration essentially ignored it. – China’s special envoy to the Middle East, Zhai Jun, made clear in his remarks that his country’s interests are not just related to economics. “The Indian Ocean is an indispensable part,” he said…

Zero Hedge: The U.S. Air Force sent two B-52 bombers on a high-profile “force projection” overflight across the Middle East on Feb. 17 in a bid to send a clear warning to adversaries and reinforce deterrence against escalating threats.

Zero Hedge: On Thursday evening, the Secretary of Air Force Public Affairs published the first-ever in-orbit image captured by Boeing’s X-37 spaceplane. – The top-secret spaceplane, built by Boeing and operated by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and the Space Force, has spent years in space quietly conducting classified missions. Its real purpose has yet to be revealed.

Townhall: Hamas Releases Five More Hostages in Exchange for 600 Palestinian Prisoners – Hamas paraded the hostages in front of cheering crowds, further highlighting their ruthless tactics. – Critics argue that such exchanges embolden Hamas, as they use human lives as bargaining chips to strengthen their position…

Liberty Daily: Woke Air Force General Charles “CQ” Brown Jr. Is Out As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. – He is being replaced by ISIS-busting Air Force Lt. General Dan “Razin” Caine. – Trump, “During my first term, Razin was instrumental in the complete annihilation of the ISIS caliphate. It was done in record-setting time, a matter of weeks. Many so-called military “geniuses” said it would take years to defeat ISIS. General Caine, on the other hand, said it could be done quickly, and he delivered.”

American Thinker: Make Jordan Palestinian Again – President Trump’s proposal for resettling Gazans in other countries brought to the forefront a long-forgotten truth: Jordan is Palestinian. – Defined by its geography, demographics, history, culture, and identity, it reflects the shared heritage of its people as Arabs on both sides of the Jordan River were called “Palestinians Arabs” until 1948…

American Thinker: Kash Patel, The FBI’s Needed Reformer-in-Chief – The confirmation of Kash Patel marks not just a changing of the guard but a seismic restoration of accountability to an agency that has long been adrift as its level of public trust languishes at a historic low of 41%. – His authorship of the 2018 Nunes Memo exposed the FBI’s misuse of FISA surveillance against Trump campaign aide Carter Page, peeling back layers of institutional rot that had festered under the guise of national security…

Breitbart: A Recent Economist/YouGov Poll Shows More Americans View DOGE Favorably than Unfavorably – Overall, 39% view DOGE favorably — more than the 36% who do not view it favorably. – Republicans view DOGE the most favorably at 70% approval, with just 12% viewing it unfavorably. – A majority of Democrats are against DOGE at 63%, compared to 16% who view it favorably.

American Thinker: Trillions in Graft – DOGE is the corrective counterbalance to an abusive and rogue Treasury Department. – When trillions of dollars routinely go missing under the government’s stewardship, the money doesn’t just disappear into a nebula or black hole. The unaccounted-for money goes into people’s bank accounts. That’s why anodyne terms like “waste, fraud, and abuse” are wholly inadequate descriptors…

American Thinker: DOGE Is Nothing New—Structurally, DOGE is simply a renaming of President Obama’s 2014 United States Digital Service, a group reporting to the Executive tasked with providing updated I.T. services to the federal government. – Only Republicans have articulated their concerns about the effects of the federal government’s unchecked growth on the Constitutional Republic and its citizens.

American Thinker: The Education Department, Death by a Thousand Cuts? – Here are a few examples of how the Trump administration is putting pressure on: The first spending waste found by DOGE was $900 million for the Institute of Education Sciences. – IES claims to be “research-based, neutral, fair, and non-partisan,” but encourages educators to use the Gloria Ladsen-Billings Marxism-infused Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, creating student leftist activists…

FAR: Responses To False Allegations Against DOGE – Many conservatives have had this same series of discussions with their leftist friends in the last few weeks. The rhetoric is incredible, as is their faux sense of panic. – As such, here is a guide to assist you in responding to their outlandish concerns.

New York Post: Kathie Lee Gifford explains how Donald Trump saved her and her newborn daughter from a ‘psychopathic murderer’ in the ‘90s – Gifford, along with her baby daughter and a nanny, was about to leave in a van to drive three hours to Atlantic City when the FBI warned her husband Frank that the murderer was on the loose. – Since she always stayed at the Trump Plaza and Casino when she was in Atlantic City, her husband Frank called Donald Trump…

New York Sun: Kathy Hochul Is Emerging as New York’s Kamala Harris, And She Deserves a Similar Fate – A February poll by Siena reckons that 57% of New Yorkers want ‘someone else’ as governor. – Kathy Hochul and Kamala Harris’ inadequacies are almost as identical as their initials. – Both have demonstrated political weakness, a lack of preparedness, unpopularity, poor communication skills, and an alarming deference to the radical left…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, 1 Down, 47 to Go – Trump has finished his first month in office. The good news for liberals is there are only 47 more months to go! – But will liberals make it? – Right now, it seems unlikely…

February 21, 2025

Zero Hedge: Nearly 2 Dozen Trinitarios Gang Members Were Arrested In Massachusetts – The Trinitarios gang members face various federal charges, including racketeering conspiracy, in connection with several murders, attempted murders, shootings, kidnappings, and robberies. – Authorities confirmed that factions of the Trinitarios gang have been identified in the cities of Lawrence, Lynn, Boston, and Haverhill…

Red State: Kash Patel Orders 1,500 FBI Agents and Staff Out of the Building on Day One. – They will be transferred from the FBI’s Washington, DC, headquarters to various locations across the nation. – Some 1,000 agents and staff will be reassigned to cities the Trump administration has designated as having higher crime rates, where they can fight crime rather than engage in political shenanigans.

Townhall: Attorney General Pam Bondi is carrying out President Donald Trump’s directive to clean house at law enforcement agencies across the federal government. – ATF Chief Counsel Pamela Hicks was served official notice that she was being removed from her position as the Chief Counsel of ATF, and her employment with the DOJ terminated.

Washington Times: EPA officials are preparing to ditch the fiction justifying the Green New Deal – The EPA is about to bury the unscientific idea that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. – Dropping this “endangerment finding” represents the beginning of the end of the great global warming hoax. – The Socialist measures flopped 57-0 in 2019 before being crushed 99-0 in the Senate two years later. – Undeterred, President Joe Biden implemented the deal’s main provisions administratively.

Zero Hedge: Mapping The Growth Of Government – As DOGE continues searching for and flagging waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government, American taxpayers are hearing about a lot of outrageous spending – and obscure agencies and projects, for the first time. – Here are some telling graphs regarding government employee counts and monies spent…

Daily Wire: Schools In Maine Are Sticking With Their Trans Sports Policy, So The Trump Administration Is Taking Action – The U.S. Department of Education has launched Title IX investigations into Maine’s policies. -On Thursday, Trump said that he’d be withholding federal funds from Maine following the news of a transgender-identifying boy taking first place in girls’ pole vaulting at Maine’s Class B state championship…

Epoch Times: President Trump has suggested that the United States Postal Service (USPS) could soon be merged with the Department of Commerce. – The agency reported a $9.5 billion loss in 2024. – His comments came immediately after Howard Lutnick was sworn in as the new Secretary of Commerce.

Breitbart: Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK after the government demanded backdoor access to user data worldwide. – Earlier this month, the UK government invoked the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) to compel Apple to provide access to user data. – The demand was called an “unprecedented attack” on privacy by security experts.

The Daily Fetched: Three officials from the Democrat Party in Pennsylvania have been indicted for conspiring to unlawfully manipulate elections by illegally adding individuals to voter rolls. – Vice President of the Borough of Millbourne Council, Md Nurul Hasan, Council Member Md Mansur Ali, and former Council Member Md Rafikul Islam were each charged with 16 counts of election fraud for falsifying voter registrations.

Townhall: The Hostage Bibas Children Were Murdered – The young brothers were not killed in an Israeli airstrike, as Hamas claimed. – ‘The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys; they killed them with their bare hands. – Afterward, they committed horrific acts to cover up these atrocities…

National Pulse: Trump Cancelled The 18-Month Biden-Era Extension for Haitians, Clearing the Way for Deportations. – Consequently, the estimated 500,000 Haitians covered by TPS will see their protections expire in August instead of next February. – While the Trump administration has revoked the TPS extension, Sec. Noem has yet to decide whether the protections for Haitians will be renewed once the August deadline is reached.

American Thinker: The Trump Strategy for Ukraine – Trump never reveals his strategy, either before or during negotiations, and it is usually unconventional. – I believe he intends to make a ceasefire and give Russia almost everything it has already managed to seize. – This will allow Putin to look like a winner and “save face.” – This will be painful for Ukraine, but it’s better to amputate than slowly bleed to death…

Gateway Pundit: Secretary Of State Marco Rubio Reveals the Big Lie Ukrainian President Zelenskyy Told Him and VP JD Vance in a Recent Meeting – Zelensky said, ‘Sure, we want to do this deal. It makes all the sense in the world. The only thing is I need to run it through my legislative process,’ Rubio added. “I read two days later that Zelenskyy is saying, ‘I rejected the deal,’ but that’s not what happened.”

Breitbart: Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Is Pushing For Changes In Their Constitution That Will Protect The Cartels from The U.S. Government. – The changes would essentially block any investigation or action by foreign law enforcement agencies without their previous permission. – The provisions could enable Mexico to criminally pursue anyone involved in such investigations.

Resist The Mainstream: Kash Patel Vows to ‘Hunt Down’ Those Seeking to Harm Americans in First Statement as FBI Director – “The FBI has a storied legacy—from the ‘G-Men’ to safeguarding our nation in the wake of 9/11.” – “The American people deserve an FBI that is transparent, accountable, and committed to justice. – The politicization of our justice system has eroded public trust—but that ends today.”…

Slay News: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has suggested that she’s about to release Jeffery Epstein’s infamous “client list” to the public. – During an interview on Fox News, AG Bondi revealed that the list of sex trafficker Epstein’s powerful clients “is sitting on my desk right now to review.” – Bondi noted that releasing the client list to the American people is “a directive by President Trump.”

Slay News: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Launches Aggressive New Strategy to Speed Up Arrests & Deportations of Illegal Aliens—Noem has just signed a memo deputizing up to 600 State Department officials as immigration officers. – The agents will help with the arrest and deportation of illegal migrants.

Daily Mail: Caleb Vitello, the acting director of ICE, was reassigned on Friday. – He will be replaced by Madison Sheahan, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, a senior Trump official said. – Sheahan worked with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem while she was governor of South Dakota.

Newsmax: The Defense Department reportedly will delay firing civilian probationary employees so that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon’s Office of General Counsel can learn if and how U.S. military readiness could be affected. – Hegseth, “We’re starting [cuts] with the poor performers among our probationary employees because it’s common sense that you want the best and brightest.”…

Deseret News: Senator Mike Lee pushes to remove the U.S. from the United Nations – The Utah senator, along with other Republican lawmakers, introduced legislation calling for a ‘complete withdrawal’ from the international organization. – The DEFUND Act would specifically repeal statutes that tie the U.S. to the group, including the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and the United Nations Headquarters Agreement Act. – It would also cease “all forms of U.S. financial support” to the United Nations.

American Thinker: Musk To The American people, “Look what the feds are doing with your money!” – The U.S. population is 335 million, and SS payments are being made to 398 million. – The DOGE report shows there are 3.5 million people between the ages of 140 and 149 years that receive SSA benefits. – If that’s not enough to make you wonder, there are 1.3 million people receiving benefits who are between the ages of 150 and 159. – The report also revealed that there are over 1,000 citizens over the age of 220 and one lucky soul over 360 years old receiving benefits…

Western Journal: Trump Breaks Down DOGE Dividend—President Trump is considering returning some of the money the DOGE is saving to American taxpayers. – On Wednesday, He spoke at the Future Investment Initiative Institute Miami 2025 summit, where he estimated that 20 percent of those savings could be given back to Americans.

Washington Examiner: The nearly 200 migrants detained at Guantanamo Bay have been cleared out of the military base, with all but one person flown back to Venezuela following successful negotiations with the South American nation’s leader. – The detainees are illegal immigrants, most of whom had serious criminal histories, gang affiliations, or had been ordered to be removed from the U.S. by a federal immigration judge.

American Thinker: Can Bounty Hunters Help Solve Our Immigration Crisis? – Two high-level state officials, Missouri Senator David Gregory, and Mississippi Attorney General Matthew Barton, have come up with this idea. It is not about rounding up the innocent but targeting the guilty: illegal aliens who have defied rap sheets, warrants, or deportation orders. – The bounty amount should be determined based on their crime.

Epoch Times: A Federal Judge Vacated The Trial For New York City’s Mayor But Didn’t Dismiss The Charges. – The judge is appointing an outside lawyer to address the motion to dismiss charges against Eric Adams. – The DOJ charged Adams in 2024 with accepting illegal campaign contributions and perks such as luxury travel from foreigners.

Breitbart: The FTC Is Launching An Investigation Into ‘Un-American’ Censorship By Big – “Big Tech censorship is not just un-American, it is potentially illegal. – The FTC wants your help to investigate these potential violations of the law,” Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said on Thursday, saying, “We are asking for public submissions from anyone who has been a victim of tech censorship…

Epoch Times: The Senate Passed a Budget Resolution as ‘Plan B’ in Case of House Failure to Pass a Bill—Trump has rejected the budget resolution, but a senator describes it as ‘Plan B’ in case the House cannot pass its plan. Republicans have turned to the budget reconciliation process to authorize funding for Trump’s plans because the method bypasses the Senate filibuster rule that requires 60 senators to advance legislation.

American Greatness: The Trump Administration Is Serious About Combatting Global Censorship – Vance’s Munich speech made it clear that the Trump administration is taking a stand against global censorship by defending free speech at home and abroad. – Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) would make every European social media user subject to the censorship regime and potentially export that censorship throughout the world, including America…

American Conservative: Out of Europe to Save Europe – Durable peace on the continent can only arise out of European security cooperation. – Despite deeply disingenuous protests to the contrary, NATO expansion to include Ukraine was the primary cause of the war now ravaging eastern Ukraine. So the time has come for the Trump administration to begin to think about what had for 80 long years been unthinkable: America’s withdrawal from NATO. – Far from being radical, such a withdrawal would be in keeping with the wishes of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958…

Center For Immigration Studies: On February 19, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders.” – Among other things, it will place so-called “means-tested public benefits,” including but not limited to Medicaid and food stamps, under an oversight microscope “to ensure that taxpayer-funded benefits exclude any ineligible alien who entered the US illegally or is otherwise unlawfully present in the US.”

Washington Examiner: Trump is putting the screws to increasingly Western-hostile South Africa – In early February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he would boycott a G20 conference meeting this week with South Africa, citing the host country’s support of “anti-Americanism.” – Daniel Silke, director of the Cape Town-based Political Futures Consulting, “I don’t think the African National Congress has ever embraced the United States…

Center Square: The Department of Education is empowering states by cutting red tape for charter school authorizations. – The Biden administration required a federal review of “how states approve authorization of charter schools in states where they are already lawful authorizers.” – The department announced that it had removed that requirement Thursday in an effort to promote state autonomy in educational decisions and make more schools readily accessible to students and families.

February 20, 2025

One America News: Following a forensic investigation, the IDF has confirmed that the body said to be that of Shiri Bibas, a Hamas hostage, is not hers, nor is it the body of any other hostage taken by Hamas. – Meanwhile, the remains of her two sons, the youngest victims kidnapped by the Islamist terrorist group, have, in fact, been positively identified.

Western Journal: Hakeem Jeffries Is Cooking Up a Scheme to Undermine Trump’s Address to Congress—According to a news report, House minority leader Jeffries is plotting with fellow Democrats to fill the audience with those affected by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Fox News: Stephen Miller gave the White House press corps a “civics lesson” on presidential powers at Thursday’s press briefing, to the delight of conservatives. – The White House deputy chief of staff for policy responded to a question comparing media concerns about Elon Musk serving as an “unelected bureaucrat” while ignoring former President Joe Biden’s declining mental state.

Epoch Times: President Trump Says Social Security And Medicaid ‘Won’t Be Touched’ – ‘Social Security won’t be touched, other than if there’s fraud or something. It’s going to be strengthened,’ the president said in a recent Fox News interview. – The president also vowed not to cut Medicare or Medicaid, two federal health insurance programs for elderly people and low-income people respectively.

Sharyl Attkisson: Media Mistakes in the Trump Era, The Definitive List (Updated) – 170. February 2025 – Numerous media outlets claimed Elon Musk “doesn’t have a security clearance” and shouldn’t be accessing certain government records. – However, Musk has long had a security clearance, and multiple sources say it’s currently at the “Top-Secret” level.

Daily Wire: United States District Judge Carl Nichols Clears The Way For USAID Restructuring – The judge said that initial reports of the harm caused by the restructuring were “overstated.” – Attorneys representing unions for USAID employees argued that key programs have been halted and numerous employees placed on administrative leave, contending that such moves undermine the agency’s day-to-day foreign development functions…

American Thinker: The DOGE FAQs – Tips for responding to people suffering from TDS regarding DOGE – “DOGE has no legal authority to do what it’s doing.” – “Actually, it does because Obama established the U.S. Digital Service. – President Trump merely renamed it and gave it a more sweeping mandate.” – “Trump and Musk have ordered government workers to show up at the office, which puts an undue burden on them and is unfair.” – “Federal workers were allowed to work at home because of the COVID crisis. – “No one elected Elon Musk!” – “True, however, all the cabinet members weren’t elected either.” – And the list goes on…

Breitbart: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has identified about $20 million a year in savings for taxpayers by ordering her department’s staff to cut all DEI programs. – Additionally, she ordered ODNI staff to stop attending any conferences not central to the ODNI mission or that do not have “defined deliverables,” per her administration.

Vigilant News: A Secret Dept. of Education Operation Is Exposed In An Undercover Video – They’re hiding the use of the encrypted “Signal” app from DOGE and Congress. – Travis Combs told the undercover Project Veritas reporter that federal employees in the DOE are evading Congress and oversight. – “The one nice thing about the program that I work in is that we don’t ask [citizenship] status, and we’ve been able to keep that out of our federal statute. So, we don’t ask them when they enroll what their status is.”…

Epoch Times: A Federal Judge Allows The Trump Administration to Continue The Layoffs of Federal Workers—Unions representing hundreds of thousands of federal workers filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the heads of several government agencies, saying they were overstepping the executive branch’s authority.

AMUSE on X: How Citibank Helped Hide a Massive NGO Slush Fund – The EPA transferred the massive sum into escrow accounts controlled by eight nonprofit organizations, effectively putting the money beyond reach before President Trump took the oath of office. – The implications of Biden’s last-minute maneuver extend beyond the immediate $20 billion at stake. – Setting up these financial instruments ensures a continuous flow of climate investment outside of direct government control…

Western Journal: Panicked Adam Schiff Went to The FBI Building for One Last Attempt to Derail Kash Patel’s Confirmation, But It Didn’t Work – Adam Schiff totally lacks integrity, and Republicans in Washington clearly know it. – Schiff was among a half-dozen Democrats to gather outside the FBI, as Schiff managed to further disgrace himself in the annals of American politics.

JD Rucker: Kash Patel Is the New FBI Director—He won with no votes from Democrats and two RINO dissenters. Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted against Patel’s confirmation, making the final vote a nail-biting 51-49. Former Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was a question mark but voted in favor of Patel.

Daily Wire: Pete Hegseth Is Considering Removal Of Top Generals Involved In ‘DEI Woke Shit’ – Rumors of pending dismissals have circulated for several weeks, but a list containing the names of officers who could be let go was recently sent to Republican lawmakers. – Several high-profile generals, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, could be on the chopping block.

Western Journal: Trump Announces Someone Will Ft. Knox ‘To Make Sure the Gold Is There’ – That does not necessarily mean Trump. – It could mean a visit from Musk, Pete Hegseth, or some other trusted member of the administration. – It should also be noted that, according to the U.S. Mint, the last time a gold vault was inspected by anyone other than authorized personnel was when President Franklin D. Roosevelt inspected the Bullion Depository in 1943, 82 years ago.

Washington Examiner: Senator Mitch McConnell has announced he will not seek reelection in 2026. – He was expected to retire in early 2024 after resigning under pressure as Senate Republican Leader. – The longest-serving party leader in Senate history has held on through numerous falls and health issues, including moments when he froze for almost half a minute.

Gatestone Institute: The U.S. Sent Over $3 Billion to Hezbollah’s ‘Army’ – The State Department spent nearly two decades selling the myth that empowering the LAF [Lebanese Armed Forces] will weaken Hezbollah. – But after $3 billion in spending, Hezbollah is more powerful than ever, with American taxpayers stuck with financing its auxiliary force in the hopes of defeating it. – Hezbollah won’t disarm, nor will the LAF disarm it or prevent it from attacking Israel…

Tucker Carlson Interview: Donald Trump recently called Zelensky a dictator. – Human rights lawyer Bob Amsterdam has worked in Ukraine for the past couple of years and confirms that, if anything, what Trump said is an understatement. – Topics covered include USAID’s Fake Church Operation, Mike Pompeo’s Involvement, Why the US is bending the Knee to Ukraine, is Zelensky Totally Cocked out, The Push for Sanctions, China’s Role in Undermining the US, and The War’s Impact on the Middle East, and more…

AMUSE on X: The Dictatorship of War, Or Why Zelensky’s Rule Cannot Be Called Democratic – Since the Russian invasion, Zelensky has declared martial law, suspended elections indefinitely, banned opposition parties, consolidated control over the press, and refused to negotiate a peace deal. – A dictator need not wear a military uniform or govern with undisguised brutality; sometimes, the most effective dictators are those who claim necessity, invoking crisis as justification for indefinite rule…

John Daniel Davidson: If The Drug Cartels Are Terrorist Groups, Then Mexico Is Their State Sponsor – The naming of the Sinaloa Cartel as a terrorist organization might mean the collapse of the Mexican government. – The naming of Sinaloa, in particular, is important because it implicates the Mexican state at the highest levels. – Former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his ruling MORENA coalition are closely connected to the Sinaloa Cartel, as is his protégé and successor, President Claudia Sheinbaum…

American Thinker: Kash Patel is poised for a Senate confirmation vote to become the FBI’s director, marking a dramatic shift in the agency’s leadership and mission. – For years, the FBI has faced mounting scrutiny over its politicization, weaponization, and failure to remain impartial. – The American people have watched as the bureau targeted political dissidents, interfered in elections, and prioritized ideology over justice. – If confirmed, Kash Patel would signal a long-overdue course correction and a return to true justice.

American Thinker: Democrats Are Defending The Indefensible – In America, we currently have a major political party that finds itself in the political wilderness. – Ordinarily, eliminating blatant examples of waste, fraud, and abuse would be welcomed by both sides of the political aisle. – However, it is the exact strategy that the Democrat Party has officially adopted as it bemoans practically every action Trump has taken thus far, including the long-overdue cost-cutting measures that are so obviously warranted…

Breitbart: Polling shows that Congressional Democrats have hit a record-low job approval rating with voters, while Congressional Republicans currently enjoy a record high. – Twenty-one percent of voters approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their jobs, while forty percent approve of the way the Republicans in Congress are handling their jobs, which is a record high.

American Thinker: DOGE takes on the Social Security monster – Waste and fraud at Social Security uncovered by DOGE highlight that the system should have been privatized years ago. – WHISTLEBLOWER: They were incentivized to qualify illegals for “LONG-TERM DISABILITY” to qualify illegals for Social Security FOR LIFE, “So they were set for life.” – “That doesn’t sound like a refugee to me. Just being honest, that sounds like someone who’s planning on staying here forever.”…

Western Journal: The Trump Administration Made An ‘Extremely Concerning’ Discovery About Biden’s EPA—Billions Were Set Aside for A Stacey Abrams-Linked Group—DOGE found that Biden‘s EPA set aside $2 billion for a grant to Power Forward Communities. – The grant was awarded in April 2024 through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program.

Gateway Pundit: President Trump wastes no time proving his second term will be a game-changer for America. – Trump revealed he’s seriously considering a proposal to give 20% to every American taxpayer, funded entirely by the massive savings the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has accumulated.

Rapid Response 47: A Non-Comprehensive Extensive List of Wins So Far In President Trump’s Second Term – President Donald J. Trump hasn’t even been in office for a full month but has already had one of the most significant and positive impacts of any president in modern American history. – This list includes declaring a national emergency at the southern border. – Illegal border crossings have hit lows not seen in decades. – Illegal aliens have started turning around in droves…

AMUSE on X: Members of Congress Make Millions Funding Foreign Wars – The moment a congressman’s career ends, his service to the public should, in theory, be complete. – Their time as a steward of the people’s trust should conclude with a record of upholding national interest over personal gain. But in Washington, careers don’t end; they simply transition from the public sector to the private, often in the most lucrative way possible…

Victor Davis Hanson: Saturday Night Live and EU elites mock Trump supporters, yet their cluelessness further fuels the populist rise they so fear. – Democrats should ask: Who is truly slow-witted? Is it the stumbling Tom Hanks caricature or the real Joe Biden and his ilk? – Of course, the stunned European ministers in Munich sat aghast at Vance’s tutorial. – None refuted what he was saying, namely that European elites’ efforts to delay or cancel elections that might bring national conservative populists to power are contrary to the European enlightenment…

The Daily Fetched: House Oversight Committee Chairman Eli Crane (R-AZ) revealed that former NIAID chief Dr. Anthony Fauci authorized a staggering $241 million in taxpayer funds for transgender studies and treatments on laboratory animals. – The funding was revealed during recent congressional oversight hearings, with experts suggesting it is merely a baseline figure for these unconventional studies.

Zero Hedge: A Boston University Employee Who Called For Death Of DOGE Team Now Under Investigation – Jared May, who works as an assistant media technician at Boston University, shared a post online identifying six young members of DOGE with the caption, “Wanted for Treason, Dead or Alive.” – Under federal law, threatening government officials is a felony…

Resist the Mainstream: The IRS is preparing to terminate approximately 6,000 employees beginning Thursday, marking a significant reduction in the agency’s workforce during the peak tax filing season. – The layoffs are expected to primarily affect recent hires and probationary workers who lack the job security protections of their more senior colleagues…

Resist the Mainstream: HHS Declares ‘There Are Only Two Sexes’—After years of nationwide debate, the Department of Health and Human Services set the record straight on Wednesday. It reaffirmed a binary definition of sex, aligning with an executive order signed by President Trump on his first day in office.

Epoch Times: Delta Offers $30,000 to Each Passenger Aboard The Plane That Crashed And Flipped in Toronto – A Delta spokesperson said the payments are a good-faith gesture with no strings attached. – Communications between the tower and pilot were normal on approach, and the cause of the crash is still under investigation. The airport’s fire chief has said that the runway “was dry, and there were no crosswind conditions.”…

February 19, 2025

Epoch Times: Six Takeaways From Donald The Trump-Elon Musk Interview – 1. Musk Would Have Endorsed Trump Even Without Assassination Attempt. – 2. Trump And Musk Are Not at Odds. – 3. Musk on DOGE-Related Conflicts of Interest: ‘I’ll Recuse Myself.’ – 4. Musk and Trump Talk About The DOGE Workers. – 5. Musk and Trump Discuss Bringing The Astronauts Home. – 6. On DOGE, $1 Trillion Will Be Found…

Vigilant News: During his conversation with President Trump and Sean Hannity, Elon Musk delivered an emotional message to the rich people who have lost their love for America. – “What do you think’s gonna happen to your business… if the ship of America sinks?”- “If America is the central pillar holding up Western civilization, that pillar must be strong. – If that pillar falls, the whole roof comes crashing down, and there’s no place to run.”

Sharyl Attkisson: A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that 56% of likely US voters say that “partisan judges abusing their positions is a threat to democracy.” This includes 35% who say they strongly agree. – Meanwhile, 36% say they disagree, including 27% who say they strongly disagree.

Dallas Ludlum: The Associated Press Just Got Caught Lying AGAIN – AP’s Version: “Trump said at a press briefing in Florida we have millions and millions of people over 100 years old receiving Social Security benefits.” “They’re obviously fraudulent or incompetent.” – Trump never claimed millions of centenarians are actively collecting Social Security checks. He pointed out that millions of people in the system are listed as over 100 years old and that the government needs to investigate…

Emerald Robinson: The Biden Era Center for Internet Security Gets Cut – Trump’s team at DHS has partially defunded this censorship wing. – It was also at the very center of the illegal Biden regime’s censorship efforts against American citizens. – In fact, CIS received $70 million in grants from the Department of Homeland Security’s sub-department CISA, which is actually much more infamous…

American Spectator: California Eyes Takeover of Oil Refineries – In its latest move to echo Venezuela, California’s energy commission touts government control of the state’s once-booming petroleum industry. – If you think gas prices are high under the state’s absurdly regulated market-based system, just imagine this. California’s leaders don’t want us driving, so they could arbitrarily raise prices rather than indirectly through taxes and regulations to force us into short-range EVs…

Breitbart: President Donald Trump believes the Ukrainian people should get a say in whether and how the war against the Russian invasion ends. – “Well, we have a situation where we haven’t had elections in Ukraine. – “Where we have martial law, martial law essentially, in Ukraine, where the leader, I hate to say it, but he’s down to four percent approval rating.” – That’s not a Russia thing. – “That’s something coming from me and coming from many other countries also.”

New York Sun: Zelensky Accuses Trump of Living in a ‘Disinformation Space’ as Tensions Rise Between Washington, Kyiv – ‘If someone wants to replace me right now, it’s not going to happen,’ Zelensky said. – The Ukrainian President also said he is yet to receive an answer from Washington on his request to increase the number of Patriot missile systems “despite raising the issue repeatedly.”

Epoch Times: 30 Takeaways From Trump’s First 30 Days in Office – 1. Trump’s sweeping policy actions are reshaping DC, foreign relations, and the authority and scope of the executive branch. – 2. The president has issued more than 100 executive actions affecting the economy, national security, federal government, immigration, foreign policy, energy, health, and education. – 3. There are more than 70 lawsuits challenging Trump’s actions as of Feb. 17…

Center For Immigration Studies: The Declining Education Level Of Newly Arrived Immigrants – This trend was driven by the huge increase in illegal immigration from Latin America under the Biden administration.

Slay News: DHS Will Conduct Lie Detector Tests to Expose Source of ICE Raid Location Leaks – The DHS chief was responding after it became clear that agency officials are leaking details about the location of upcoming illegal immigration raids. – Leaks derailed attempts at removing illegal aliens in Aurora, Colorado, and Los Angeles. – President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, previously said the leak could only have come from someone on the inside.

Washington Free Beacon: GOP Senators Put Red Cross on Notice After The Supposedly ‘Neutral’ Aid Organization Participated In A Hamas Propaganda Ceremony. – When Hamas gunmen paraded emaciated Israeli hostages across a stage in Gaza earlier this month, they were flanked by two representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross. – ‘Where was the Red Cross’s increasing concern for the safety and well-being of the Israeli hostages the last 493 days?’ Ted Budd asked…

Zero Hedge: “President Trump signed an executive order Friday to defund schools and other education agencies that require COVID-19 vaccines for students and staff. – By cutting off their federal funding for non-compliance, Trump effectively outlawed COVID-19 mandates at the remaining fifteen colleges and universities that still cling to the policy as a prerequisite for students and staff to participate in higher education.

Zero Hedge: DOGE Is Expected To Hit the Defense Department With Mass Layoffs—On Tuesday, DOGE staffers were reportedly at the Pentagon and given lists of probationary employees in compliance with an end-of-business-day deadline. – Though it’s not clear how many DOD employees are probationary, the Pentagon has about 950,000 civilian employees. – Along with the lists of probationary employees, officials were also asked to identify any employees they wanted to spare and provide a justification.

JD Rucker: Leftist Rag Axios Rolls Out RINO Lawmakers Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Bill Cassidy, and Don Bacon to Manufacture a Supposed GOP DOGE Revolt – It isn’t often that I cite a publication without linking to or even quoting from it, but Axios wins that distinction today. Their recent article, “Trump faces growing DOGE revolt from GOP lawmakers,” is such a blatant attempt to manufacture an agenda by faking a narrative that I cannot recommend even reading it for laughs.

Western Journal: Trump’s FBI Nominee Clears Huge Hurdle, Secures Major GOP Endorsement – Kash Patel, a former federal prosecutor, was seen as one of the nominees the Democrats thought was the most vulnerable to an attack. – The Senate voted along party lines to advance his nomination to replace Christopher Wray. – The vote came after Louisiana GOP Senator Bill Cassidy, formerly on the fence, confirmed he would be advancing the nomination.

The Federalist: Kash Patel Is Perfect for FBI Director Because He Already Fought The Deep State And Won. -Kash Patel was targeted not due to a lack of qualifications but because he has the necessary qualifications to challenge the Deep State. President Trump was elected in no small part as a rebuke to a national security apparatus and intelligence agencies that have been weaponized and politicized against dissenters from ruling-class orthodoxy.

The Federalist: Whistleblowers Say FBI Weaponization Is Real, And Here’s Proof – FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes. – These include allegations that at least two of the fired officials manipulated the security clearance review process to punish conservatives, COVID-19 vaccine skeptics, and January 6 whistleblowers…

The Daily Fetched: The Biden Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services spent $20 billion on grants to help migrants purchase cars and homes and on loans for start-up businesses, among other services. The giveaway ultimately became a “giant magnet” for those crossing the border and claiming asylum.

American Thinker: Trump Is On Point About The 14th – The purpose of the 14th Amendment was to recognize blacks born in U.S. territory who had no legal status, not hand out citizenship to every illegal border crosser or ‘birth tourism’ traveler. – So here comes President Trump putting the issue on the front pages with an executive order and potentially heading to the Supreme Court. I want to hear what the court has to say about this. – I think that the Court will agree with President Trump.

Slay News: Democrats Panic After Elon Musk’s DOGE Exposes ‘Biggest Fraud in History’ in Social Security System – A DOGE audit found millions of people in the Social Security system who would be over 100 years old. – As of the 2020 census, only about 80,000 centenarians exist in America. – Their published table showed 20 million people listed with ages over 100, including more than 1.3 million people aged 150-159. – “The logic flow diagram for the Social Security system looks INSANE,” Musk said…

New York Post: Karoline Leavitt blasted ‘irresponsible’ Chuck Schumer for blaming the Delta plane crash on Trump – “This unfortunate crash took place in Canadian airspace with Canadian air-traffic controllers overseeing it.” – She went on to blast the Biden administration for sitting “on their hands when it came to aviation safety for four years.”

American Thinker: How Not To Protest For ‘Immigration Reform’ – Arrests of illegal aliens are way up, and leftists are literally losing their minds. – The troglodytes of the left cannot stop their self-destructive meltdowns, as evidenced in so many videos online documenting the utter stupidity of the protesters against ICE or government accountability. – Even the legacy media talking heads are spinning, with some getting downright bitchy…

American Conservative: Twilight of the Fourth Estate – Legacy media gatekeepers are losing their grip on the public conversation, and they don’t like it, even though they mostly deserve it. – That’s one of the reasons Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference was so well received. – It is telling that there is less consensus around government anti-disinformation efforts at home and the much more sweeping restrictions on freedom of speech in Europe…

American Thinker: Guardians of Liberty, Trump, and the Constitution—Like the Founders, Trump has faced relentless attacks on his character, family, and legacy. – His upbringing in Queens, New York, and later his work in Manhattan real estate gave him an uncommon understanding of middle-class struggles and the inner workings of elite power structures. – His father, Fred Trump, instilled in him a tireless work ethic and a belief in the American dream, emphasizing the value of persistence and entrepreneurial spirit…

American Thinker: Democrats Wonder In the Wilderness – Obama has been the power behind the curtain running the DNC since he was President. As a result, progressive fascists occupy all important positions. – The party cannot turn back, which means Democrats openly espousing their party’s positions will be less and less popular in the polls. – Message refinement, lying, dissembling, distortion, misrepresentation, and projection are the recourses open to Democrats…

Daily Wire: Hakeem Jeffries Debuts A New Trump Nickname, “Captain Chaos,” Proving He Learned Nothing From ‘Cocaine Mitch.’ – Jeffries then suggested that because prices had not yet gone down after Trump’s first month in office, he had already failed to deliver on his campaign promises. – He also claimed that Republicans were “implementing the most extreme parts of the Project 2025 agenda.”…

NBC News: The Trump administration has terminated the approval of New York City’s congestion pricing plan. The plan charged motorists $9 if they entered central Manhattan between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekends. – In a letter to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the federal government has jurisdiction over these highways leading to Manhattan and that these additional tolls posed an unfair burden to motorists outside the city.

February 18, 2025

Vigilant Fox: Elon Musk Eviscerates RFK Jr. Critics With One Powerful Statement – “I think he’s unfairly maligned as someone who is anti-science, but I think he isn’t,” – “He just wants to question the science, which is the essence of the science.” – “The scientific method, fundamentally, is about always questioning the science,” Musk declared and also disclosed when he decided to endorse Trump for President…

CNBC: The Senate has confirmed Howard Lutnick as Secretary of Commerce. – He will oversee ~50,000 employees who do everything from collecting economic statistics to running the census. – Lutnick is likely to help Jamieson Greer, Trump’s nominee to be the top U.S. trade negotiator, with the president’s aggressive plans to impose import taxes on U.S. trading partners, including allies and adversaries alike…

Daily Signal: Kash Patel, Elise Stefanik, and Linda McMahon Are Among These Picks Awaiting Senate Approval – Kash Patel for FBI Director has been as difficult as any. – Elise Stefanik for Ambassador to the UN has been delayed not due to obstruction by Democrats, but rather by Republicans. – Linda McMahon for Secretary of Education, with President Trump saying, “I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job.”…

Fox News: Trump orders all Biden-era US attorneys to be fired – Terminating U.S. attorneys from previous administrations is generally standard procedure. – Typically, a new administration will request the resignation of a U.S. attorney being replaced rather than issuing a termination letter.

Slay News: Biden’s $500 Million Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Has Been Shut Down by An Appeals Court – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey originally sued the Biden admin over its half-a-billion-dollar effort to wipe student debts. – The scheme was known officially as the SAVE plan. – The court’s Tuesday ruling found that Biden’s administration didn’t have the authority to wipe the depts.

Slay News: EPA Chief Lee Zeldin Tells Remote Workers to ‘Return to the Office Full-Time’ – Zeldin noted that the average occupancy at headquarters on Mondays and Fridays since January 2024 has only been “in the single digits.” – “In fact, the highest single day of attendance since January of last year was only just over a third,” Zeldin said.

Focal Points: The USDA spent $1.25 billion on Mass Culling for H5N1 Bird Flu, With Disastrous Consequences. – The strikingly large sum of indemnity payments not only incentivizes farmers to comply with the state-run mass killing of their animals but also represents a serious misuse of taxpayer money, as mass culling triggers a cascade of severe downstream consequences, such as skyrocketing egg prices.

Zero Hedge: An Airline Pilot In The Area Captured This Dramatic Video Of The Delta Regional Jet’s Crash Landing At Toronto Airport. – All 80 souls aboard the CRJ900 aircraft survived after the regional jet crashed on the runway upon landing. – While 18 people sustained injuries, miraculously, there were no fatalities.

Daily Wire: Bad Weather Or Human Error? – A Retired Airline Captain Breaks Down The Delta Crash – ‘I do not believe that weather was a factor,’ the pilot told The Daily Wire. ‘Any pilot should be able to handle that. It’s no big deal.’ – The pilot landing the CRJ900 in Toronto on Monday “hit the right main landing gear with such force that it snapped the gear off.” – “I hate to say it,” the captain said. “This is pilot error.”…

AXIOS: America’s Drone-Swarm Crisis – Ask U.S. intelligence experts their biggest fears, and you’ll inevitably hear dire warnings of drone swarms, domestic or foreign, targeting American soil. – Probe deeper, and you’ll learn that China makes the vast majority of these drones and, therefore, they are conceivably controllable by America’s greatest adversary. – TikTok is accused of being a security threat, but it can’t spy or drop bombs on us…

Breitbart: Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have met to discuss the future of the Ukraine war. – However, even before sitting down, Russia made clear it was approaching things with a hard bargaining mindset. – Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that from a Russian perspective, the primary purpose of today’s talks is “restoring the whole complex of Russian-American relations” and organizing a future leader meeting.

Tucker Carlson’s Jeffrey Sachs Interview: Can President Trump actually end the Ukraine war? – Jeffrey David Sachs, an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, thinks he can. The interview discussion includes, at (0:00), Jeffrey Sachs’ Story on How He Met Viktor Orban. – (2:55) Bill Clinton’s Shadowy Deep State Project. – (11:13) The Three Most Important Things Donald Trump Has Done So Far…

Breitbart: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that Hamas has agreed to release the six remaining live hostages on Saturday from the first phase of the ceasefire agreement and four dead hostages on Thursday. – As of Monday, there were 14 hostages still left to be released under the first phase out of 70 overall hostages.

Slay News: President Donald Trump’s showdown with the administrative state has already reached the Supreme Court. – The president’s lawyers have called on the high court to uphold his power to fire executive branch officials. – The case is a test of Trump’s power and the willingness of the Supreme Court to let him exercise the full scope of executive authority granted by the U.S. Constitution.

Gatestone Institute: How USAID Shipped Bags of Hundred Dollar Bills to the Taliban – Planeloads of cash with zero accountability. – $40 million on the tarmac was part of a much larger scheme under which USAID and the State Department provided over $1.7 billion in funding to the UN, which then shipped $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan.

2nd Smartest Guy: DOGE Just Discovered That $4.7 TRILLION In Taxpayer Money Has Totally DISAPPEARED And Cannot Be Traced – This is because the federal government did not record where the money was going. – The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (a standard financial process). – As of Saturday, this is now a required field…

Slay News: Acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Michelle King, resigned on Sunday after a standoff with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency over access to sensitive government records. – This is the same day Musk described what could be the ‘biggest fraud in US history‘ in which millions of ‘people’ over the age of 100 are currently collecting monthly payments. – See the chart…

Daily Signal: President Trump Placed An Anti-Fraud Expert in Charge of Social Security After Acting Chief Quits in DOGE Clash – Leland Dudek, who manages SSA’s anti-fraud office, will serve as acting commissioner while the Senate vets Frank Bisignano, Trump’s nominee for permanent commissioner.

Zero Hedge: With the Trump administration cutting off billions of US taxpayer funding for the USAID international slush fund, formerly flush NGOs are now begging woke EU nations for money to continue operations, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. – “The USAID files exposed the dark practices of the globalist network.” – “We will not take the bait again!”

Epoch Times: A Federal Judge Has Declined To Block DOGE’s Access to Student Financial Aid Data – The case revolves around data submitted when college students applied for financial aid. – U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled that the plaintiffs had not shown sufficient irreparable harm to warrant emergency injunctive relief.

Resist the Mainstream: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Dismembered the Leftists’ Outrage Over DOGE By Throwing Democrat Words Back in Their Faces. – Leavitt has thrust past statements by Democratic leaders Barack Obama and Joe Biden into the spotlight, highlighting an apparent contradiction between their previous cost-cutting rhetoric and their party’s current opposition to government spending reductions.

Woke Spy: Has The Democrat Party Been Sabotaged? – Its “Stunningly Stupid” Decisions Have Convinced Leftist Political Strategist James Carville. They Are Doomed If They Don’t Change Direction. – While Democrats are fixated on woke politics, Carville notes that Trump’s America First agenda is smoothly sailing through, leaving them overwhelmed. He attributes Trump’s success to Steve Bannon’s strategy of “flooding the media with sh*t.” – As Bannon observed, Democrats are nothing without the Leftist media, and curbing its power leaves them helpless.

Daily Wire: Hegseth Says Biden Admin Hit Him With Politically Motivated IRS Audit – Hegseth, who was confirmed last month in a 51-50 Senate vote, posted a photo on X showing a letter informing him that he was being audited and owed the IRS a balance of $33,558.16. – Trump has tapped former Missouri GOP Rep. Billy Long to be the next commissioner of the IRS. Long has worked as a tax advisor since he left Congress in 2023…

Washington Examiner: Out Desperation, Democrats Return To Their Old Favorite, Class Warfare – Somewhere along the road from their November 5th election defeat to the January 20th inauguration of President Donald Trump, they decided to tamp down discussion of race and gender and revive good old-fashioned leftist class warfare against the rich, by going after Elong Musk. – Never mind their old buddy, Alex Soros, and the many $millions he spends supporting Democrat efforts…

Newsmax: Federal agencies have been told to stop considering a company’s DEI practices when deciding whether to procure its goods or services, according to a GSA announcement on Tuesday. – This policy reverses the Biden administration initiative that considered a company’s internal DEI practices when deciding whether to buy that company’s products or services.

Daily Wire: The Department of Education Has Slashed $600 Million in Grants to Promote ‘Divisive’ Ideologies. – The Grants had been used to train teachers in Critical Race Theory and gender ideology. – According to the department, the sessions included titles such as “Building Cultural Competence,” “Dismantling Racial Bias,” and “Centering Equity in the Classroom. “

Washington Examiner: Where was 60 Minutes when Rust Belt jobs were cut? – Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly furloughed 5,000 workers in a single day. – Within months, 16 U.S. Steel plants shut down. – National newspapers buried the story, and if the New York Times wrote about it, it could not be found in its archives. The people there, it seems, were expendable to the elite. They had no college education, did not live in the right zip codes, and, besides, someone overseas could do what they do.

The Federalist: Elbridge Colby Is The Right Man To Carry Out Trump’s America First Mandate – Colby will actually do what Americans have given Trump a clear mandate to do, and for that reason, the D.C. blob is desperate to stop him. – Unlike military-industrial complex devotees, he embraces a foreign policy of genuine peace through strength, one that avoids wars while protecting our authentic interests, gets our allies to do their part, and focuses on the top threats to Americans rather than irrelevant distractions…

American Conservative: Trump’s Transgender Orders Are Well Within Executive Authority—The lawsuits challenging them confuse several aspects of congressional and executive powers…

American Thinker: Why Would Anyone Want To Be A Democrat Nowadays? – Even after they suffered a devastating loss, they continued to fight against all the issues that Trump ran on and that voters overwhelmingly supported. – Democrats need to find a leader who is bold enough to take on the pernicious gang of extreme leftist reprobates that have turned their party into something that would horrify Dems of a few decades ago.

Bari Weiss: Against the Vandals—What happened on the left over the past decade is a cautionary tale for a right that wants to ignore the danger ahead. – If we have learned anything over this past tumultuous decade, it is that determined human beings are the only thing standing in the way of unraveling. – -People are the only ones guarding the border between civilization and its enemies, both from without and from within.

Western Journal: Ultra Elite Americans Face Painful Hit as Trump Is Set To Initiate A Change To An Insane Tax Break For Billionaire Sports Team Owners That Never Should Have Existed – This is because current tax laws treat them much like any other form of corporation, even though the way they operate are completely different. – “Treating pro sports as if it were a normal business — where machinery and computers wear out and depreciate — is ludicrous.” – “It needs to stop.”…

Powerline: The enthusiastic 60 Minutes segment supporting censorship in Germany reminded me of Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes segment on President Trump in advance of the 2020 presidential election. – In Leslie Stahl’s interview with Trump in 2020, they cut out all the facts about Joe Biden and his underhanded dealings in Ukraine. The result was that Trump sounded incoherent in the edited version, and the public remained unaware of the extent of the Biden scandal.

American Thinker: Trump and Hegseth Are Literally Killing It—Their message is clear: only warriors are wanted. – Puppet president Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spent four years transforming the U.S. military into a woke joke, causing morale and recruitment to plummet. – President Trump and Hegseth have rededicated the military to its essential mission: maintaining a fearless fighting force capable of safeguarding the American people.

American Thinker: This Is Not Your Grandfather’s USAID – How Internews and the Listening Post Collective are hijacking American journalism. – It’s critical to understand Internews because this NGO operates less like an independent media organization and more like a taxpayer-funded propaganda machine embedded in media ecosystems.

Townhall: Here Is What RFK Jr. Said On His First Day At HHS. – “My mission at HSS, and I hope you all will join me, is to reverse the chronic disease epidemic in America.” – “We’re going to work together to launch a new era of radical transparency.” “Only with radical transparency can we provide Americans with true informed consent.” – “Our health shouldn’t be a political issue, but rather an issue of science and basic human compassion.”

WH Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Expands Access to In Vitro Fertilization By Executive Order – The Order recognizes the importance of family formation and that our Nation’s public policy must make it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children. – The Order directs policy recommendations to protect IVF access and aggressively reduce out-of-pocket and health plan costs for such treatments…

Headline USA: The CIA Is Flying Drones over Mexico to Hunt for Fentanyl Labs – ‘The purpose of providing the intelligence to Mexican authorities is not to kill cartel members, but instead to disable the lab.’ – The drones have proved adept at identifying labs because Fentanyl labs emit chemicals that make them easy to find from the air…

Zero Hedge: Gen Z Job Seekers Face A Difficult Labor Market Due To AI And Their Bad Habits. – When Gen Z (born during or after 1997) prospects are required to engage an employer during in-person interviews, many struggle with social interaction. – Around 20% have even reverted to bringing their parents to interviews as a security blanket…

February 17, 2025

Washington Times: The Senate Needs To Confirm Kash Patel as FBI Chief – The FBI must return to the mission of fighting actual crime. – In recent years, the FBI elevated a liberal agenda over their traditional mission of locking up crooks. – As a former DOJ prosecutor, Mr. Patel is controversial because while serving as an investigator on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, he revealed the FBI’s complicity in a “Russia Hoax” plot to undermine then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Slay News: DHS Chief Kristi Noem Blasted The ‘Corrupt’ FBI for Leaking Data On A ‘Large Scale’ ICE Raid To The Press. – Noem vowed that FBI agents would be prosecuted “to the fullest extent” for doing so. – Critical corporate media sources have nicknamed Noem “ICE Barbie” for her frequent appearances and the way she dresses.

Western Journal: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin revealed on Wednesday that former Biden administration staffers established a $20 billion slush fund to advance their interests once President Trump took office. – Biden’s EPA parked these tax dollars at an outside financial institution. – This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rushed job with reduced oversight.

Breitbart: DOGE stopped millions of U.S. tax dollars from going to outlandish overseas programs, including $10 million to “voluntary medical male circumcisions” in Mozambique. – Other examples include $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop “a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise-driven skills,” – $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” including $22M for “inclusive and participatory political process” in Moldova and $21M for voter turnout in India…

Slay News: DOGE Eliminates Another $370 Million in Taxpayer-Funded DEI Grants – In just 48 hours, DOGE slashed the use of taxpayer dollars being blown on far-left DEI initiatives at the Department of Education. – The DOE has been cracking down on DEI practices in education since President Trump returned to the White House. – Last week, the DOE ordered all 50 state education departments to remove DEI policies within 14 days…

American Spectator: Margaret Brennan and the Good Germans at CBS News – It appears that CBS thinks it’s cool for the government to censor speech it doesn’t like. – It’s relatively clear that JD Vance struck a chord with the common people in Europe as he has with Americans in speaking truth to the power elite of their countries. – But he definitely didn’t strike a chord with Brennan, who said this… That CBS News is treating Brennan as its star reporter is awfully instructive…

American Thinker: An internal memo suggests the City of San Diego’s government could be employing illegals. – San Diego City Hall just issued a guide to its employees on how to stall, deny & stonewall ICE. – Oddly, City Hall seems to be most worried about ICE asking about city staffers. – Are there employees working for the city illegally? – What is Mayor Todd Gloria trying to hide from Border Czar Tom Homan?

American Spectator: Big Pharma’s Reign Is Over – RFK Jr. is game to take on Big Pharma. – Those on the left have long pretended to crusade against Big Pharma, promising to finally rein in drug companies like Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, but at the confirmation hearings for RFK, this was exposed as the farce it is.

One America News: ‘Sleepy Joe’ Biden Spent More Time On Vacation Than Any Other President In Modern U.S. History – ‘Biden reportedly spent 577 of his 1,463 (39%) days in office on vacation, which is more vacation days than any other president in modern U.S. history. – Former President Biden’s vacation time beat out George H.W. Bush, who previously held the record after spending 37% of his time as president on vacation.

Breitbart: Top Russian and U.S. officials are readying to meet Tuesday to address a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine and preparing a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump. – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov would fly to the Saudi Arabian capital later in the day to take part in the talks.

Daily Wire: National security adviser Mike Waltz, “Trump Is ‘Deadly Serious’ About Stopping Iran From Obtaining Nuclear Weapons.” – “How we get there, I’m not going to get into the details here, but the president has also expressed a willingness to take whatever action is necessary.” – Waltz’s comments come after reports from last week revealed Israel is planning an imminent strike on Iran.

Daily Wire: A shipment of 2,000-pound bombs arrived in Israel from the U.S. over the weekend, the first such shipment since former President Joe Biden put a hold on the heavy munitions. – President Trump lifted the hold on the MK-84 bombs when he entered office, restarting the flow of the heavy bombs to Israel.

Conservative Brief: The Secret Service has “deep flaws” that allowed the attack at the Trump campaign rally, according to an independent panel that reviewed the July assassination attempt against then-candidate Donald Trump in Butler, PA. – The panel noted in a letter signed by all four members that it had discovered “numerous mistakes” during its investigation that resulted in the attempted assassination of Trump, but also “deeper systemic issues that must be addressed with urgency.”…

Daily Wire: Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is welcoming a team from SpaceX to the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia on Monday. – The FAA is looking to Elon Musk’s company for advice on making “a new, better, modern and safer air traffic control system. – SpaceX, the leading rocket and spacecraft company in the world, is visiting shortly after multiple deadly plane crashes sent shockwaves through the United States in recent weeks…

Geller Report: Somehow, The Social Security Administration Is Paying Benefits to a Mind-Blowing 8,952,476 People Aged 110 to 369 Years Old – Even if each of these “super seniors” is raking in a minimum **$1,800 a month**, that amount to a staggering **$193,373,481,600** annually.

Epoch Times: Trump Administration Fires Thousands of Government Workers—The EPA has terminated 388 probationary employees, and 1,165 employees at the National Institutes of Health were let go. – Several hundred workers on probationary status have been fired at the FAA. The Department of Agriculture announced on Feb. 14 that it is “eliminating positions that are no longer necessary” as part of “an aggressive plan” to optimize its workforce, and it continues.

Red State: ’60 Minutes’ Aired an All-Timer, and the Depths They Sank to Will Blow Your Mind – Star anchor Margaret Brennan kicked the day off by claiming that “weaponized free speech” was the cause of the Holocaust, leading to a segment on why Free Speech is bad. – During the same episode, they ran a sob story segment about USAID workers being fired, with someone named Kristina Drye being interviewed, who it turns out is a contracted consultant…

Daily Wire: Border czar Tom Homan revealed a statistic on Presidents’ Day that indicates the US is successfully cracking down on illegal crossings in a way not seen in decades. – “In the last 24 hours, the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. – That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under former President Joe Biden’s watch,” Homan said.

The Daily Fetched: Speaker Mike Johnson says Elon Musk Cracked the Code for Defeating the Deep State. – “Musk is helping Congress perform its constitutional duty to keep the Executive Branch in check by providing a much-needed level of transparency.” – “The oversight job has been hindered because the deep state and the bureaucracy have not turned over the data that was requested.”

Zero Hedge: Rand Paul Supports a Fort Knox Physical Audit—One of the biggest questions over the past 50 years has been whether the gold at Fort Knox, Kentucky, is really all there or has been plundered. – What we do know is that the last ‘audit’ of America’s gold stash was conducted on Sept. 23, 1974…

Townhall: The Latest Polls Show The Trump Agenda Is Pleasing The American – On mass deportations, acknowledging that there are only two genders, expanding oil and gas production, and declaring the southern border crisis an emergency, all are supported by a majority of the American people…

Victor Davis Hanson: Is There a Democrat Blueprint to Regain Power? – Democrats seem stuck in a cycle of rage and resistance, recycling failed anti-Trump tactics while losing ground with voters and donors alike. – During the recent cabinet confirmations, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Tim Kaine lost their minds in impotent rage at the nominees and played the fools—furious at a few timid Democrat suggestions to tone it down…

Western Journal: Democrat Lawmakers Are in Chaos Three Weeks Into Trump’s Presidency, Pulling Chuck Schumer in Opposite Directions. – Many have observed that the Democrats lack a clear national figurehead or platform from which they can oppose his agenda, as there is a significant internal divide on how to navigate the next few years…

Washington Examiner: Senator Ted Cruz says the Democrat lawsuits to stop Trump and DOGE ‘aren’t going to work’ – We are going to see hundreds of lawsuits from Democrat attorneys general, from left-wing activist groups. The lawsuits aren’t going to work. The president is going to follow through on the mandate that came from the voters this November.”…

American Thinker: Are Democrats Preparing For The Big House? – Politicians and bureaucrats may be searching for ways to cover their tracks before they leave their positions or if they believe they may soon be investigated for past deeds. – I came across a story wherein the author reported spikes in internet searches on terms like “RICO laws,” “criminal defense attorneys,” “statute of limitations,” and “offshore bank accounts.” – Guess where these spikes occurred? Right, in Washington, D.C.

Washington Examiner: Border Czar Tom Homan is focusing on eradicating illegal drug cartels in the US – “They have a strong foothold here, and that’s why we’re concentrating on drug cartels, concentrating on TDA, Tren de Aragua, I’m not going to be happy till every single one of Tren de Aragua is out of this country.”

Washington Free Beacon: A Taxpayer-Funded Immigration Group Is Working To ‘Disrupt Trump’s Deportation Machine’—The Amica Center filed suit to block President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Protecting the American People Against Invasion. ” – The order paused funding for several Justice Department programs that provide legal services for illegal aliens.

American Thinker: Government Downsizing and the Left’s Instinctive Outcry – One of the more interesting reactions is the shedding of tears over government workers losing their jobs. – Where was the outcry over the myriad of workers fired or out of work due to Biden administration policies?...

American Thinker: The Myth of Income Inequality – Bernie Sanders loves to pound the table about this, but the fact is that America’s problems are far removed from ‘income inequality.’ – So much wealth has accumulated in our country that the government can provide $41,000 a year to millions of families because they choose not to work. – However, millions of jobs are available for the taking...

American Thinker: The Democrat party is now the biggest threat to world peace and freedom – Democrats were once the party of slavery, the KKK, and even segregation. – They are now the party of fraud, disunity, lawfare, political intolerance, open borders, and numerous other calamities…

American Thinker: Canada On Ice – The Canadian people need to understand that it is not Canada or the Canadian people that we oppose, but extreme leftism. – Justin Trudeau has literally destroyed Canada. – Economically, the Bank of Canada even expressed concerns going back to last summer. – Trudeau, like Joe Biden, imposed draconian vaccine mandates and summarily shut down his entire economy…

February 16, 2025

One America News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he refused to accept the United States proposal to provide the U.S. with Ukraine’s rare earth minerals in exchange for military aid. Vice President JD Vance pitched the proposal on Friday at the Munich Security Conference. It would give the United States access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals “as compensation” for support previously provided by the Biden administration and for future military aid.

Just The News: Newly disclosed emails from former President Joe Biden’s Treasury Department show coordination between the administration and left-wing organizations on tax policy and messaging. These emails raise concerns about the influence of special interest groups over the previous White House. PPT Director Michael Chamberlain says that these nonprofits had too much influence over the Treasury Department.

Vigilant News: Judge Jack McConnell, Who Halted Trump’s Temporary Spending Freeze, Received $128 Million in Gov’t Funding for His NGO – Maybe that’s why he wanted the money to keep flowing. – He’s expecting several more million this year! – This is the same judge who called Trump a ‘tyrant’ and decried racism as a ‘white people problem.’

Epoch Times: Republicans Want To Unleash The President’s Power to Not Spend – Doing so will require lawmakers to repeal a Watergate-era law that reins in the president’s ability to decline to spend funds appropriated by Congress. – Known as impoundment, the practice of declining to spend funds provided by Congress dates back to President Thomas Jefferson…

American Spectator: Trump Is Displacing the Old Ruling Class – Trump’s instincts are Machiavellian in the best sense of the word, and his massive changes have produced great resistance from the old order. – He is striking quickly in many areas, leaving opponents angry and confused…

California Globe: Gavin Newsom’s Ban on Gas-Powered Cars is Dead – EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin just sent California’s vehicle emissions waiver request to Congress for review. – This is big and kills California Governor Gavin Newsom’s ban on gas-powered vehicles.

American Thinker: MAHA, HHS’s RFK, Jr. Has Gotten Off To An Impressive Start—Vaccine injury registries, ending government-paid junk food, and finding ways to help farmers are just the beginning. – He’s also on board with DOGE, targeting the junk science enthusiasts inside the bureaucracy…

One America News: The Ramaswamy Campaign Filed Paperwork For The Ohio Governor Race—Vivek Ramaswamy has not formally announced his run for governor but has hinted at it several times.

Powerline: Why No One Respects the Legacy Media – CBS’s chief foreign affairs correspondent. – Margaret Brennan tried to tell Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the problem with Nazi Germany was that they had too much free speech. – It tells you something when the media outlets formerly known as “mainstream” are opposed to free speech, hence the Holocaust. – Marco commendably keeps his composure in responding…

AMUSE on X: Political Incitement, Democrats Are Reviving Nazi-Era Tactics – U.S. law recognizes that speech can cross into incitement when it meets the three-prong test established in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969): There is intent to incite violence, the violent act is imminent, and the act is likely to occur.

Epoch Times: Europe Will Not Participate In The Ukraine Peace Talks. – European leaders are set to hold an emergency summit on Ukraine as the United States and Russia meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss the Russia–Ukraine war. – France President Emmanuel Macron “will convene the main European countries to discuss European security,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told France Inter radio. Barrot described the meeting as a working session and emphasized it should not be “overdramatized.”…

New York Post: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine has a ‘low chance’ of survival without US support and insists he trusts Trump. – To woo Trump and appeal to his more transactional instincts, Zelensky has pitched a deal for the US to tap into Ukraine’s vast mineral resources as a means of paying for American support.

Epoch Times: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Pledge to Curb Iran. – After they met, Netanyahu said he and Rubio had a “very productive discussion” on several issues, “none more important than Iran.” – Rubio, “Iran is behind every terrorist group, every act of violence, …and everything that threatens peace and stability for the millions of people that call this region home.”

Wall Street Journal: President Trump Steamrolls His Critics With A Flood-the-Zone Strategy – His style may some allies but draws a strong contrast with Biden’s noted absence during his Presidency. – His strategy is to show supporters he is eager to keep campaign promises, strike a contrast of stamina with former President Joe Biden, and disrupt Washington to a degree he fell short of in his first term…

Wall Street Journal: This 27-Year-Old Press Secretary ‘Speaks Trump Fluently’ – Karoline Leavitt’s rapid rise to the White House showcases both her precocious skill and expected confrontations with the traditional media. – Leavitt is fast on her feet, brisk and forceful, fielding questions on a variety of topics without consulting notes or a briefing book. Her tone with the so-called legacy media, a hate object among many Trump supporters, veers from no-nonsense to outright contempt…

American Thinker: Week Four Shows No Rest For The Grifters — The creation of the Department of Government Efficiency has exposed the often archaic bookkeeping and computer systems and the enormous waste and grifting in the federal government’s operations. – At this point, a rough estimate is that about 10%, or 275,000 federal employees, are no longer on the payroll. – About 200,000 probationary employees were laid off, and 75,000 took the payout option…

Slay News: The Texas Supreme Court has dismissed a politically motivated ethics complaint against the state’s Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. – The complaint sought to target Paxton as an ally of President Donald Trump. – The ruling finally closes a chapter on a significant legal dispute.

Slay News: A U.S. Army Black Hawk crew may not have heard critical air traffic control messages instructing it to fly behind the regional jet it ultimately collided with midair at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Jan. 29, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. – Additionally, the helicopter crew may have received inaccurate altitude data inside the cockpit…

February 15, 2025

Breitbart: 3,600 probationary Health and Human Services workers are reportedly out of a job as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) shines a light on government waste. – The move is estimated to save approximately 600 million dollars every year, the outlet said, adding that over half of HHS’s probationary workers remained with the agency.

Declassified With Julie Kelly: The Hammer Drops At The DOJ. – New leadership and new rules are too much for sanctimonious DOJ employees, who resign rather than follow orders to depoliticize the department. – Americans voted for Donald Trump in a partial repudiation of overzealous government lawyers, the sort perfectly embodied by temporary U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon, and a company that used their unchecked power to imprison those they consider to be on the wrong side of the political aisle.

Slay News: Joe Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas has extended the block on DOGE investigating Treasury payment systems. The extension comes after 19 Blue State attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over DOGE’s access to the payment system.

One America News: 3 Hostages Have Been Returned To Israel As The Ceasefire Deal With Hamas Continues – Sagui Dekel-Chen, Iair Horn, and Sasha Troufanov have been released to the International Committee of Red Cross. – They were then transferred to the Israeli military and brought back to Israel, where they have since been reunited with their families.

Julie Kelly: The Hammer Drops at the Department of Justice—New leadership and new rules are too much for sanctimonious DOJ employees, who resign rather than follow orders to depoliticize the department. – The exodus represents another in a series of forced and otherwise purges at the DOJ since Trump took office.

Breitbart: Fire-Ravaged California Is Spending Nearly $10 Billion on Health Care for Illegal Aliens – Newsom recently traveled to Washington to seek federal aid for addressing the impact of the recent fires. – He also signed $50 million in new spending to fight President Donald Trump’s policies.

Townhall: Every Show Has Been Cancelled at the Kennedy Center in Protest of Trump – Once celebrated for its commitment to artistic expression, this arts institution has allowed partisan politics to shape its programming decisions…

New York Post: Brazen Canadian ‘coyotes’ that are smuggling migrants across the northern border, even advertising on TikTok – For close to a year, the Canadian “coyotes,” who largely target Indian nationals, promise a hassle-free trip to the States for as much as $5,000, with new border-crossing accounts popping up every time others are removed from the platform…

Daily Wire: What President Trump Did In Week Four – Trump signed a proclamation declaring Sunday Gulf of America Day. – Trump imposed 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, then ordered a review of each country individually to determine reciprocal tariffs. – Trump spoke to and met with several foreign leaders. – Trump and Musk appeared together in the Oval Office to discuss their progress on slashing government bloat, waste, and fraud…

Newsmax: President Trump said Friday that he wasn’t involved in the resignation of DOJ prosecutors involved in the federal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams. – It is typical for most U.S. attorneys from the previous administration after a new president takes office. – “So, when you say resigned, they were gonna be gone anyway,” Trump said

Townhall: Trump and Musk Shut Down the Media’s Efforts to Drive Them Apart – Recently, Time Magazine showcased Musk behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office on the cover of its latest print issue. – They both recently told Hannity that the mainstream media’s attempts to create a rift between them would fail. – Musk and Trump firmly asserted that their bond remained strong.

American Thinker: Trump is just following Bill Clinton’s bureaucracy-cutting example – Let’s not forget that Bill Clinton oversaw a large reduction in the federal workforce. – It is easy to see that federal spending and debt are out of control. – Here are a few things Bill Clinton did in the 1990s because of what he considered a bloated and inefficient federal bureaucracy…

Washington Free Beacon: The Inspector General Scandal That Wasn’t – President Trump’s firing of 17 inspector generals puts him on the path to fulfill a campaign promise: making inspector generals independent from the people they investigate. – The president only appoints about half of the federal government’s 74 IGs. – Agency heads appoint the other half, that is, by the very people who should be in the crosshairs of the IGs…

American Thinker: A Warrior’s Secretary of Defense – Former, frequently AWOL, SecDef Lloyd Austin assured us DEI, drag queens, trans, pronouns, and the like were our strength and had no role in suppressing recruitment and retention lied to us. – Now that respect has been restored, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the US Army just achieved its “best recruiting numbers” last month, its highest since 2010…

American Thinker: The Department of Education hasn’t just been failing kids; it’s been destroying them – Whether your children are in kindergarten or a junior at college, they’re being taught that America is evil, heterosexuals, whites, and men are toxic oppressors, everyone who is not an oppressor is oppressed, parents are the enemy, and sex work is a noble calling…

Resist The Mainstream: The U.S. Army announced a major policy shift on Friday, stating it will no longer allow “transgender-identifying” individuals to join the military. – This decision also halts all medical procedures related to gender transition for current service members.

Resist the Mainstream: DOGE Finds $1.9 Billion In Taxpayer Funds ‘Misplaced’ by the Biden Administration. – These funds, earmarked for the administration of financial services within HUD, were found to be unutilized due to a ‘broken process.’ – HUD has now initiated measures to improve financial oversight and ensure that allocated funds are properly utilized.

Forbidden News: With USAID Funds Gone, Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley Solicits Donors to Help “Censor” Americans In Order To Advance “Progress” – JD Vance, “What no democracy will survive is telling millions of voters that their thought and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered.”…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Xmas Morning Month – It seems like every day is Christmas morning. – You wake up to find yet another Trump Administration triumph, usually involving firing someone, cutting spending, or beating down on our weak “allies” around the world…

February 14, 2025

American Thinker: Trump Establishes The “National Energy Dominance Council” To Be Led by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. – The Council will advise President Trump on strategies to achieve energy dominance by improving the processes for permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, and transportation across all forms of American energy…

Powerline: The Great DEI Cheat – The Wall Street Journal has reported on “How Colleges and Universities Get Around State DEI Bans,” and it isn’t exactly missile science. – Administrators hide behind vague standards of “accreditors” and/or simply change the names of programs and job titles like this…

The Defender: President Trump signed an executive order to defund schools, universities, and other education agencies that require COVID-19 vaccines for students and staff. – The order directs HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Secretary of Education to create a plan to end these mandates.

Washington Examiner: A federal judge denied the immediate reinstatement of eight inspectors general who were fired by President Donald Trump last month, opting for a slower time frame to consider the case. – Judge Ana Reyes reportedly raised her voice, cut off one of the lawyers representing the fired inspectors general, and found the plaintiffs’ arguments insufficient for quick action.

New York Sun: Trump Turns Up the Pressure on “60 Minutes”—His Legal Team Is Demanding Reams of Private Documents from CBS News in their $20 Billion Lawsuit Over the Harris Interview—Trump’s team has submitted a detailed list of document requests from the 60 Minutes leadership and any communications between CBS, the Biden Administration, and the Harris Campaign.

Zero Hedge: Ukraine President Zelensky accused Russia of launching a drone equipped with a high-explosive warhead at the now defunct power plant, site of the April 1986 nuclear disaster and meltdown. – The Kremlin strongly rejected that it was behind the incident. – “There is no talk about strikes on nuclear infrastructure, nuclear energy facilities; any such claim isn’t true; our military doesn’t do that.”

Hot Air: World leaders, tech moguls, and others gathered in Paris this week for the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit. – After a charming opening quip about being there ‘for the good company and free wine,’ Vance delivered a brilliant speech with an America-first twist that had to set some European teeth on edge. – Compare it to former VP Harris’ explanation of AI, and your jaw will drop…

Zero Hedge: Wall Street Thoughts On “The Method In Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs”—The initial scope of the reciprocal plan is broad, with Trump’s memo taking into account not only tariffs but also taxes and non-tariff barriers to trade, a critical distinction. – The good news for the market, which promptly rallied on the news, is that the reciprocal tariffs could take several months to develop. – Therefore, the long lead time and expansive scope may be aimed at negotiation rather than implementation.

Issues & Insights: Isn’t 46 Years Of Failure Enough? – It’s Time To Kill The Department of Education. – In her testimony before Congress to be the head of the Department of Education, Linda McMahon openly and proudly outlined a plan to not just get rid of her job but take the federal government out of the education business. – For instance, McMahon noted that aid for disabled students would likely be better handled by HHS rather than the DOE...

American Thinker: We’re Living Through The Biggest Scandals of All Time – The cover-up of Joe Biden’s decline, Lawfare against Trump, The cover-up of Hunter Biden’s influence-peddling, and now $billions wasted, by not just USAID, but also many other agencies being uncovered by DOGE. – But the worst example is the issue of vanishing migrant children…

The Daily Fetched: Maxine Waters Says Quiet Part Out Loud on the DOGE Audits – Waters, “Well, you know what happened at Treasury, and you know what happened over at the CFPB.” – “The people of this country are being violated because Elon Musk and Trump are taking up all of our privacy, and we don’t know what all they have on us, our bank accounts, everything in our lives.”…

Just The News: The New York Times says Musk has no ‘proof’ of fraud, but simple Google searches show otherwise. The Times concluded that because Musk did not provide reporters with screenshots, receipts, and specific documentation at a single press conference which means, such fraud and waste never happened. – Several inspectors general and the GAO have already proved the Times wrong, and there’s more to come…

Zero Hedge: The US Treasury’s Department of Inspector General is launching an investigation into “alleged fraudulent payments” found by Elon Musk’s DOGE team. The IG will also review the system’s security controls after Democratic senators freaked out over Trump’s access to Musk and DOGE.

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration has intensified its efforts to streamline the bloated government. – It has directed federal agencies to terminate 200,000 probationary workers, those who have been in their roles for less than a year or, in some cases, up to two years. – The move comes shortly after 75,000 federal workers accepted buyout offers.

Daily Wire: Health and Human Services Spent More Than $22B On Illegal Immigrants, Including Home Loans And Cars – News of this comes a year after it was discovered the agency had lost track of nearly 300,000 illegal immigrant children – HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) was found to have also assisted in building up credit to start businesses…

Charlie Kirk: What Is Democracy? – America is not a democracy and never has been; we are a constitutional republic that holds democratic elections. – So, who is undermining democracy, DOGE or the people trying to shut it down? – Can you name a single thing Trump is doing right now that doesn’t match what he promised to do before being democratically elected?

American Thinker: Policy Entrepreneurs Raid the U.S. Treasury—Exorbitant federal grants and contracts are noncompliant with IRS charity laws. – The military-industrial complex functions through a revolving door system, enabling retired military officials to transition seamlessly into high-paying positions with defense contractors. – This pattern is also prevalent in NGOs and nonprofits.

American Thinker: High Crimes or Bad Behavior? – There’s more than one way to remove judicial tyrants – Trump reacted philosophically to Engelmayer’s ruling, noting, “The affair provides proof his people are over the target.” – TDS triggers Leftist and RINO self-immolation. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were early offerings on the funeral pyre. During Trump’s second term, they are lining up…

Breitbart: Border Patrol agents have arrested multiple criminal aliens who illegally crossed the border into the United States. – Many of them have previous convictions for sex crimes and crimes against children. – Other arrests during the week included criminal gang members, drug traffickers, and human smugglers...

American Thinker: High Electric Bills Are the Tip of the Iceberg – A look at who owns our electric companies and what they fund globally will make you recoil. – While these companies are publicly owned, they are just a tiny fraction of the American electric companies working to appease their top shareholders: BlackRock and Vanguard. – Solar power has a dirty record, as roughly 80% of solar components are manufactured in China using slave labor…

FAR: The Never Ending Constitutional Crisis – There has been a barrage of scare tactics from Left Wing media sources claiming we are experiencing a “Constitution Crisis” because Donald Trump is carrying out the agenda he promised while he was running for his second term as President. – If these claims sound familiar, they are, as you can see below…

The Federalist: Why An ‘Education Background’ Makes An Education Secretary Worse—Homeschool parents are generally more effective than the average person with a teaching degree. – Our elementary school teachers typically come from the bottom third in academic ability. – Competing foreign nations ensure they draw teachers from the top quarter in academic performance. – College “Education Departments” are perhaps the most communist of all college departments, and they have been so for decades…

February 13, 2025

New York Post: EPA head Lee Zeldin revealed there was no real oversight of the shocking $20B that the Biden administration funneled through Citibank. – “So this was an all-in, top-priority effort that has instantly been yielding very important results for the taxpayers, and we’re just getting started…

One America News: Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI Director, Kash Patel, was approved by a Senate panel in a party-line vote Thursday, which moves him to a final confirmation vote possibly next week. – All 12 GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of Patel, with all 10 Democrats voting against him.

Breitbart: The Trump Administration Has Sent 53 Venezuelans to Guantánamo Bay – The 53 criminal illegals were not identified by name but are now being housed in the military-operated detention center where some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists have been kept since the attacks on our homeland in 2001. – The number of Islamist terrorists now being held in the facility has dwindled to 15…

Focal Points: Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission – With RFK Jr. being confirmed as HHS Secretary, President Trump just signed the following executive order to establish the MAHA commission. – By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered…

Vigilant Fox: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. announced plans to launch a vaccine injury reporting system that will overhaul or completely replace VAERS. – Kennedy cited a study that was never officially completed due to CDC noncompliance. – In it, Harvard collected over three years of data on 715,000 patients and concluded that fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse effects were reported.

American Spectator: The Judicial ‘Resistance’ Is Setting Itself Up for an Epic Smackdown – These lower court judges are acting unconstitutionally. – This is a familiar phenomenon. – Black-robed Trump nemeses emerged as a menacing force during the first Trump administration. – As then-VP Mike Pence noted in a May 2019 speech, the first Trump administration “faced more nationwide injunctions than the first 40 American presidents combined.”…

Epoch Times: USAID Employees Sue DOGE and Elon Musk, Arguing He Needs Senate Confirmation. – The White House position is that Musk is a special government employee, meaning he is not beholden to the same rules as other federal workers. – So far, neither Musk, DOGE, nor the Department of Justice has filed court papers in response to the latest lawsuit.

Victor Davis Hanson: Mythologies About Musk Musk’s role in DOGE is misunderstood. – He’s an appointed auditor with legal authority to find waste, not cut programs. – Musk can propose program cuts, but Trump has the authority to approve or reject them. – Musk is as legally legitimate as the national security advisor and his National Security Council, none requiring Senate confirmation.

AMUSE on X: DOGE Explained, or How Trump Outsmarted the Deep State – Contrary to popular belief, Trump did not invent DOGE from scratch; rather, he repurposed the USDS framework initiated by President Obama. – Unlike previous administrations that used the agency primarily for technical support, Trump kept the existing funding and operational framework intact while dramatically expanding its mission…

Epoch Times: Trump Says The IRS Is To Be Audited by DOGE – He continued, saying just about DOGE will examine every federal agency. – “They’re doing a hell of a job. It’s an amazing job they’re doing,” Trump said. – Trump said he did not expect the IRS to be shuttered…

Western Journal: A Secret Pact Between 22 Democrat AGs Has Been Discovered – This agreement, just 3 days after President Trump’s landslide election win, shows that these resistance actors began, as a matter of absolute urgent top priority, plotting their resistance to President Trump’s anticipated actions to end birthright citizenship.

Washington Free Beacon: Trump Shut Down Biden’s Climate Corps Work Program – The program was a direct outgrowth of the Green New Deal. – Far-left lawmakers, climate activist organizations, and Green New Deal sponsors like Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had spent years calling for a $30 billion federal climate work program…

Breitbart: The Obama-Era Ivanpah Solar Plant, The ‘World’s Largest Barbecue,’ to Close 14 Years Early After Billions in Loan Guarantees – The Ivanpah facility works by using mirrors that concentrate sunlight on a central boiling tower, which then heats water to power turbines. – Ivanpah joins Solyndra in the roster of failed Obama-era “green” energy projects.

American Thinker: It has long been obvious that remote work hurts productivity. – A recent Fortune article explains why private businesses require employees to work at the office. – It is hard to coordinate work when the workers aren’t at the same location. – Many employees aren’t working a full day. – Productivity is lower when no one is watching…

American Thinker: All you need to know about atmospheric physics. – Greenhouse gases affect heat transfer but much less than clouds. – A decrease in low cloud cover of only a few percent could largely compensate for the impact of a doubling of CO2. – This is the same impact the world has been fretting about for the last fifty years. – What does your BS radar tell you? – Mine says since Al Gore first opened his mouth on the subject in a 1976 Congressional hearing, he was full of it…

Vigilant Fox: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed as the next US Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Senator Mitch McConnell is furious. – Kennedy was confirmed by a vote of 52-48, with the sole “no” Republican vote coming from Mitch McConnell, who issued this bitter statement…

Epoch Times: President Trump Announces Reciprocal Tariffs to Counter Global Trade Barriers – Trump, “Whatever countries charge the United States of America, we will charge no more and no less.“ – According to a senior White House official, the president’s reciprocal plan will customize tariffs on a country-specific basis and be implemented in the coming weeks to months.

Epoch Times: ~75,000 Federal Workers Accepted The Buyout Offer Before Tuesday’s Deadline—The offer was originally to expire on February 6, but a federal court challenge led by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), representing about 800,000 civil servants, extended the deadline through February 11.

Redstate: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Found ~$20 Billion the Biden Administration Tried to Jettison Before Trump’s Inauguration Day. – Roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. – This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposely designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.

The Federalist: Federal Judge Didn’t Even Read Final Complaint Before Enjoining Trump – Engelmayer is the first judge ever to grant a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the president of the United States that also forbids a cabinet secretary from accessing his records without allowing these parties to respond. – He offered zero analysis of his constitutional authority to make such a radical ruling…

Conservative Brief: The Trump Administration Is Set To Declassify Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Client List’ Among Other Secrets – Representative Anna Paulina Luna, appointed by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer to lead the task force, announced that the declassified files would include information related to the September 11 attacks, the origins of COVID-19, President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, UFOs, and a contact list tied to the disgraced financier.

Slay News: Democrat Insider Lindy Li Confirms Biden’s Presidency Was ‘Obama’s Third Term’ – She also pointed to members of Biden’s inner circle, specifically mentioning Anita Dunn, senior advisor and longtime Democratic strategist, Ron Klain, Biden’s former Chief of Staff along with others within Biden’s White House team who maintained deep ties to the Obama administration.

Issues & Insights: 5 Trillion Reasons Why DOGE Should Have Access To Treasury’s Payment System – Musk pointed out that the Treasury doesn’t employ “basic controls that should be in place. – Checks often don’t have a payment categorization code describing what the check is for, which is needed to pass financial audits. – The comment field, where there’s supposed to be a rationale for the payment, is typically blank…

The Federalist: Trump And Vance Aren’t Defying The Constitution, They’re Following It. – VP Vance received an onslaught of criticism for suggesting that federal district judges “aren’t allowed to control the chief executive’s legitimate power. – Democrats and pundits have exaggerated his remarks into a ‘constitutional crisis.’ – But these usual suspects would be wrong. – For the right answer, we go to John Marshall, the greatest chief justice in Supreme Court history.

America First Legal: An FOIA Reveals The Documents Case Against Trump Began With A Special Access Request From The Biden Administration…

Powerline: Matt. Taibbi Appearance Before the House Judiciary Committee – $476 million from USAID is just a tiny piece of a censorship machine Michael, and I saw across a long list of agencies. – Collectively, they’ve bought up every part of the news production line: sources, think tanks, research, “fact-checking,” “anti-disinformation,” commercial media scoring, and when all else fails, censorship...

Focal Points: The House Foreign Affairs Committee Exposes Outrageous USAID and State Department Grants – $15 million for condoms to the Taliban through USAID. – $3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean” through USAID. – $3.2 million to help Tunisian migrants readjust to life in Tunisia after deportation through the State Department…

Liberty Daily: DARPA Paid Reuters’ Parent Company for “Large Scale Social Deception” About COVID in 2018 – Why did they have a program set up to fight COVID disinformation before COVID was known to exist? Why were they tasked with social engineering and “large-scale social deception” by DARPA? – What will DOGE and the Trump administration do about this?

February 12, 2025

Epoch Times: Federal Judge Allows The Trump Administration Buyout Program to Continue—Massachusetts Judge George O’Toole ruled on Feb. 12 that the plaintiffs lacked standing and the court did not have subject-matter jurisdiction over their claims.

The Center Square: Luxury hotels in New York City, recipients of $59 million from FEMA to house immigrants, were a base of operations for the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and served as a residence for the convicted killer of Laken Riley. – DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shared the startling revelation Wednesday afternoon, just 48 hours after the DOGE team led by Elon Musk revealed the payments.

Slay News: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Ends Biden-Era Climate Spending – “The Pentagon Should Be Focused on ‘Deterring and Winning Wars.” – He declared that the Pentagon is not in the business of “solving the global thermostat.” – Hegseth added that Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, will begin reviewing the Pentagon’s spending “very soon.”

Breitbart: President Donald Trump expressed that he wants the Department of Education to be “closed immediately,” describing it as a “big con job.” Trump criticized how the United States education system was ranked 40th compared to other countries but ranked number one in terms of “costs per pupil.”

Western Journal: Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the DOJ is suing New York for its efforts to shield illegal immigrants. – “New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops. It stops today,” Bondi said. – Bondi announced that the lawsuit targets Governor Kathy Hochul, AG Letitia James, and Mark Schroeder, the state DMV.

Breitbart: On Wednesday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said she has “clawed back” the full payment made by FEMA for hotels to house migrants in New York City. This comes mere days after the DOGE announced the discovery of a $59 million payment made last week.

American Thinker: How much power does Elon Musk have? – The answer reveals the true genius of the Trump team’s strategy. – Despite Democrat claims to the contrary, Elon Musk and his whiz kids have no policymaking authority. – They are part of the White House executive staff and exist to advise the president. – All they do is ask questions and share their findings with the President.

AMUSE on X: The Retirement Mine Elon Musk Found Is A Monument to Bureaucratic Failure – $Billions were wasted on botched modernization efforts. – Yet, overworked clerks continued to process retirements by hand. – Elon Musk’s DOGE team is doing what they never could: modernizing federal retirement processing.

Just The News: Critics decry Musk’s influence with Trump but ignore the impact of billionaires in the previous White House. – The Biden administration worked closely with billionaires like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. – Still, Democrats and the media warn Elon Musk’s cooperation with Trump is unprecedented, even though Trump announced Musk’s involvement long before the election.

City Journal: How USAID Funded Hamas – People shouldn’t just be enraged by USAID’s wasteful spending. – They should also focus on what that spending supported. – A new multiyear study of USAID by the Middle East Forum identified $164 million in grants to radical organizations, including $122 million to those “aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters.”…

Zero Hedge: Elon Musk joined Dubai’s annual World Governments Summit via video link. – “We Need To Delete Entire Agencies.” – “We need to remove the roots of the weed.” – That’s not to say there won’t be an increase in future bureaucracy from another administration, but it will be from a lower baseline.

Washington Free Beacon: The Trump Administration Formally Ends Biden’s War on Gas Stoves—The Consumer Product Safety Commission is formally ending a review initiated during the Biden administration to assess the potential health risks of gas-powered stovetops.

Slay News: Trump & Putin Agree to ‘Start Negotiations Immediately’ to End War in Ukraine – Trump said he and Putin discussed ways to end the war in Ukraine and improve relations between Russia and the United States moving forward. – Trump, “I believe this effort will lead to a successful conclusion, hopefully soon!” – Following his conversation with Putin, Trump said he would contact Ukrainian President Zelensky to inform him of the progress.

Townhall: Pete Hegseth Lays Out the Trump Administration’s Plan to End War in Ukraine – Hegseth, “As the war approaches its third anniversary, our message is clear: The bloodshed must stop, and this war must end.” – “Trump intends to end this war by diplomacy and bringing both Russia and Ukraine to the table, with the help of the Defense Department.“ – “Each party “must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective.”…

The Right Scoop: BREAKING, Tulsi Gabbard Has Been CONFIRMED as President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence – The final vote was 52-48, with turncoat McConnell joining Democrats to make their vote 48.

Washington Examiner: Trump is right on birthright citizenship – At the heart of the legal debate over President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship is the interpretation of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause. – The issue is related to this, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”-There are various ways illegal immigrants are not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the same way citizens are…

Jeffrey Tucker: Here is the federal government org chart. – Note what the president controls vs. what the judiciary controls. – These are executive agencies, the actions of which only the president is held responsible. – POTUS needs to print this out and show it to the media. The president is held responsible for what these agencies do, so he needs control of them. – Otherwise, this chart and this system make zero sense…

Business Insider: The federal retirement paperwork mine in DOGE’s crosshairs is real and bizarre – Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the government stores key retirement paperwork in a converted mine. – The US government started storing records in underground facilities in the 1960s. – Musk, “We were told the number of people that could retire possibly in a month is limited to 10,000 because all the retirement paperwork is written down on a piece of paper, then it goes down in a mine.”…

Mises Institute: Why They Hate Elon Musk So Much – The establishment’s problem with Elon Musk is not that he’s willing to upend norms and test or break rules, which they enthusiastically do themselves. -Their problem with Elon Musk is that he threatens their power, and to them, that is unacceptable.

Western Journal: Legal Expert Jonathan Turley Says Courts Are ‘Intruding’ on Trump’s Authority in a Way That ‘Can’t Stand’ – First, Turley correctly explained that those buyout offers fall under the president’s Article II authority. – “They went way too far in shutting down Treasury officials from looking at certain things, ultimately that can’t stand.”…

New York Sun: Google Searches for Criminal Defense Lawyers Surge at Washington, D.C. With Trump in the White House – People in Washington, D.C., appear to be very nervous about their potential legal exposure with President Trump back in the White House. – Search results for defense attorneys are roughly five times higher in America’s capital than anywhere else in the US.

Western Journal: Trump Comes Up With A Perfect Punishment for An AP Reporter After The AP Rejects Renaming of The ‘Gulf of America’ In Their News Coverage. – This afternoon, an AP reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing.

Vigilant Fox: Mike Benz Exposes How USAID Funds State-Sponsored Hit Pieces to Crush Political Opponents – For a mere investment of $20 million, USAID’s state-sponsored hit pieces were able to Generate at least $4.5 billion in fines against targets of these hit pieces, and influence over 548 policy changes across foreign governments and private sectors.

Dailey Fetched: President Trump’s DOE demands NCAA strip transgender athletes, such as Lia Thomas, of women’s titles and records they won while competing in women’s sports. – The ED Office of General Counsel also sent a letter to the NFHS, demanding that the move be implemented at the high school level as well, where biological men have won women’s titles.

Washington Examiner: The General Services Administration is the latest part of the federal government targeted by Elon Musk’s DOGE. – The GSA manages government contracts and the federal government’s real estate and is widely viewed as a prime place for DOGE to make cuts. – Over 12,000 people work for the GSA, with a total budget of over $61 billion, up $2.2 billion from 2023….

American Thinker: No, Trump Does Not Have to Abide by a Mythical ‘Judicial Supremacy.’ – Here are several examples. – The simplest one is that the US Government is divided into three branches: the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. – The answer is the Founders’: No branch can intrude into the others’ spheres.

The Federalist: Yes, We’re In A Constitutional Crisis, And It’s Democrats’ Fault – The American people need more than just our elected President to be engaged in this fight. Congress needs to wake up and step up. – Democrats claim we’re in a constitutional crisis because President Trump acts on the belief that the chief executive should control the executive branch. – It is a crisis Democrats have forced on Americans for the last 125 years.

Breitbart: ‘It’s Not Just Bragg’: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Indicates More Military Base Names Will Be Restored.- It’s about that legacy. It’s about the connection to the community and to those who served, and we’re not, as the president has said and I’ve said, we’re not done.

Breitbart: President Trump could claw back $4.3 billion in unspent federal funds for California’s high-speed rail project, just as he froze $1 billion for the perpetually delayed and derailed project during his first presidential term. – President Biden restored the funding in 2021 and added more federal funding. – On taking office, however, President Trump vowed to investigate the project…

February 11, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: Israel Fires A Warning Shot at Hamas, Release Our Nine Remaining Hostages By Saturday or Face ‘Intense Combat’ – Hours earlier, Trump said ‘All hell is going to break out’ if Hamas does not release hostages this week. – Netanyahu, “In light of Hamas’ announcement of its decision to violate the agreement and not release our hostages, last night I ordered the IDF to gather forces inside and around the Gaza Strip.”…

Epoch Times: At Least 70,000 Federal Workers Have Accepted Buyout Offer To Date. – Among his many efforts to downsize the federal government, President Trump released his “Fork in the Road” plan to give federal workers deferred resignation with eight months of full pay and benefits if they are willing to leave their jobs.

Vigilant News: Elon Musk said on Tuesday that DOGE would investigate federal employees whose net worth has exploded despite their comparatively low pay. The announcement came after President Trump signed an executive order calling on federal agencies to work with DOGE and a bombshell report that Samantha Power, former head of USAID, saw her net worth explode to $30 million despite an annual salary of under $250,000.

Vigilant News: Seven NGOs, partially funded by American taxpayers, appear to be key players within the so-called Deep State Uniparty. – These organizations have shaped public discourse over the past decade through radical propaganda. – The report is titled “THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They are all dedicated to advocating Democracy and have redefined ‘Democracy’ to mean themselves.”…

Western Journal: ‘They Forced Us To Do This’—Tom Homan Is Warning Sanctuary Cities They Are About to ‘Get Exactly What They Don’t Want’—Specifically, Homan says sanctuary cities will now have “more agents in the neighborhoods and more non-criminals being arrested.”

Western Journal: Mainstream Media Blackout? – FEMA Under Trump Handled 80% of The Cases in Western NC in Just 5 Days – Biden Had 116 Days With Little Success – $54 million was secured for needy families, and 2,600 families that needed assistance were registered…

Populist Times: USAID Funneled Millions to Fund “Designated Terrorists” – The Middle East Forum’s multi-year study of USAID and State Department spending has uncovered $164 million of approved grants to radical organizations, with at least $122 million going to groups aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters.

Epoch Times: A new list from the White House assesses DOGE’s financial impact so far at more than $3.4 billion, with substantial savings realized through DOE cuts. – The list also includes a variety of DEI contracts and grants, many in DOE, as well as moves against DEI-related directives and policies deemed out of step with the new administration’s priorities.

Breitbart: Democrats threaten to shut down the federal government during next month’s spending fight because they are enraged over DOGE’s financial audit of government spending, particularly USAID. – This puts the Democrats in the precarious position of supporting waste, fraud, and abuse, three items DOGE is tasked with cutting.

Washington Free Beacon: During the Biden Administration, American Universities Received Nearly $1 Billion From Mystery Offshore Donors, Including Some Linked to China. – Trump has pledged to crack down on foreign influence on college campuses.

California Globe: California’s New Fuel Standards Hurt the Poor, With Little Environment Benefit – Although CARB claims that its LCFS decisions contribute to “clean air improvements that bring public health and climate benefits to California’s communities,” it offers no hard or even semi-hard, data on these benefits. Moreover, it provides no data on the current or future costs of achieving any specific health or climate target.

Washington Examiner: BREAKING, Elon Musk joined President Trump in the Oval Office regarding a new order to clarify DOGE power – Trump has signed an executive order directing federal employees to comply with DOGE as it seeks to cut the size of the government’s workforce. – “I campaigned on this,” Trump said Tuesday. “I campaigned on the fact that I said the government is corrupt. And it is very corrupt. It’s also foolish.”…

New York Sun: President Trump Issued an Ultimatum to Hamas After It Delayed The Further Release Of Hostages – Trump, “All hell will break loose” if the remaining hostages in Gaza aren’t released by Saturday at noon. – “Releasing the hostages ‘in dribs and drabs’ is not viable going forward due to their physical and mental conditions.”…

Daily Wire: King Abdullah of Jordan Agrees to Accept Some Gaza Refugees During His Trump White House Meeting — Abdullah offered to take 2,000 sick children from the Gaza Strip almost immediately. Trump called the gesture beautiful and said, “We appreciate it,” which was “music to his ears.”…

One America News: President Donald Trump and his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff announced that Mr. Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American whom Russia detained. – The State Department said in October 2024 that Fogel was determined to be “wrongfully detained.”

Townhall: Former Major Democrat Donor Drops More Damning Allegations About the Biden Presidency – After Joe Biden’s disastrous CNN debate, Hunter Biden commandeered the White House and sat in on sensitive meetings without a security clearance. – Also, Joe Biden was doped up for campaign events…

Slay News: Ukraine Is Reselling Up To ‘Half’ of U.S-Supplied Weapons to America’s Enemies – During a Tucker Carlson interview with Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis, a retired United States Army officer, it was revealed that “half” of the weapons are now in the hands of Mexican drug cartels and other criminal organizations…

Daily Signal: 4 FEMA Employees Are Fired as Trump Calls for Termination of The Agency – The four employees being fired for making payments for housing illegal aliens in luxury hotels in New York City include FEMA’s chief financial officer, two program analysts, and a grant specialist.

Daily Wire: President Trump Is Dead Serious About Our Southern Border – Our U.S. Military Is Using High-Tech Spy Planes To Watch the Cartels – Border Czar Homan: “I think the cartels would be foolish to take on the military.” – At least 18 missions have been flown over the southwestern U.S. and around the Baja California Peninsula in the past two weeks…

Gateway Pundit: The FBI has just miraculously “stumbled upon” a whopping 2,400 previously undisclosed records tied to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. – This revelation comes mere days after President Trump signed an executive order mandating the release of all classified documents concerning the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

FOX Business: Peter Navarro, “It’s a new golden age for American steel and aluminum.” – To strengthen and reinvigorate our pillar steel and aluminum industries, President Trump has reinstated his across-the-board 25% tariff on steel imports and raised the aluminum tariff from 10% to 25% while eliminating all country-specific exemptions and alternative agreements…

Daily Mail: Bizarre twist in the Chinese spy balloon saga – Investigators found the balloon that hovered over the US before it was eventually shot down over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina on February 4, 2023. – Military analysts who dismantled the balloon found it was loaded with American-made satellite communication modules and sophisticated sensors from at least five US companies…

Gateway Pundit: JD Vance Proclaims The U.S. Will Lead Global The AI Race During The Paris Summit – Vance said that it’s troubling that foreign governments are reportedly considering ‘tightening screws on US tech companies with international footprints.’ – He stated that the Trump administration would not accept that. – In what appeared to be a warning shot at China, Mr. Vance also said the US would ‘safeguard AI and chip technology from theft and misuse…

Issues & Insights: The Big Lie About Trump’s NIH Cuts – The Left is in an uproar because Donald Trump is choking off a slush fund that colleges and universities have used for decades to finance left-wing causes. – Colleges accept research grants from the government and the private sector. – All include money to pay for “indirect costs.” In other words, overhead and the amounts are substantial…

Vigilant News: Elon Musk Just Made A Strategic Move to Take Over OpenAI – Never one to sit idly by while AI takes a turn he doesn’t like, has just dropped a staggering $97.4 billion bid to purchase OpenAI. – Yes, the same OpenAI he co-founded in 2015 before leaving after great frustration over its direction in 2019. – Backed by powerhouse investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Baron Capital, Atreides Management, and his own AI venture, xAI, this could upend the AI landscape in ways we’ve never seen before…

Gateway Pundit: Tom Homan Confirmed The ICE Operation Leak Points to The FBI — ” A Criminal Investigation Is Underway.” – “Not Only Will This Person Lose Their Job and Their Pension, but They Are also Going to Jail.” – Tom Homan revealed someone leaked to Tren de Aragua gang members that ICE was raiding Colorado apartments. When ICE agents showed up, the apartments were empty.

New York Post: Four FEMA employees will be fired Tuesday for sending $59 million to New York City to house and care for illegal migrants. – They are being fired today for circumventing leadership and unilaterally making the egregious payment for hotels for migrants in New York City,” according to Department of Homeland Security officials.

Daily Wire: The First 2026 Senate Forecast Spells More Bad News For Democrats – Republicans are heavily favored to keep control of the Senate and have a good chance to build on their majority. – For Democrats to regain control of the Senate, they will have to pull off upsets in the three races where Republicans hold an advantage and pull off a major upset in one of the 19 seats considered safely Republican.

Washington Examiner: Trump adopts Biden’s legal playbook to challenge sanctuary cities – The Trump administration filed a lawsuit against Illinois, Chicago, and Cook County, challenging local sanctuary laws that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities by obstructing federal enforcement efforts and preventing agencies such as ICE from carrying out their duties effectively.

Epoch Times: DOGE Cuts Are Now Into The Billions – Amid Democrats’ pushback, lawsuits, and threats to DOGE employees, the cuts keep coming, including almost $1 billion announced yesterday. – Some of the biggest savings reckoned by the White House stem from the cancellation of more than 100 contracts relating to DEI. – DOGE also ended a $748 million contract for a new embassy in South Sudan…

AMUSE on X: Judicial Tyranny As Democrat Judges Assault Trump’s Article II Powers – The Constitution was designed to prevent this crisis. – We have a judiciary that no longer merely interprets the law but has positioned itself as the supposed master of the executive branch. – A coordinated, ideologically driven assault is unfolding. – Democrat-appointed judges in New York, Rhode Island, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C., are working feverishly to nullify the legitimate, constitutional authority of President Trump systematically…

JD Rucker: The Activist Judges Blocking President Trump’s Agenda Will NOT Prevail. – Their attacks on executive actions, particularly those associated with DOGE, will fail spectacularly because the Supreme Court will not subvert the Constitution for the sake of corrupt government agencies.

John Daniel Davidson: After Being Ousted From Power By American Voters, Democrats Turn To Activist Judges To Defend Trump. – Lower federal court judges have no constitutional authority to govern by injunction and undermine the executive branch. – By doing this, Democrats and their allies in the judiciary turn the Constitution on its head and effectively govern negatively through injunctions…

FAR: DOGE, Inside The Revolution Rewiring American Power – If you want to understand what they are up to, this is the best article I’ve read about the takedown of our trillion-dollar bureaucracy. – To say it is mind-blowing is an understatement.

Victor Davis Hanson: Sorry, Liberals. DOGE Is 100% Legal, And Here’s Why. – USAID was created by John F. Kennedy in 1961 by executive order. – Trump created DOGE with an executive order. – There is a statutory authority for DOGE to go through agencies to find waste and fraud…

Washington Examiner: The Left has descended into madness opposing Trump 2.0 – In a collective frenzy, a large group of House Democrats and several Senate leaders converged outside of the Treasury Department building. – With Maxine Waters grinning at her side Representative Ayanna Pressley even referred to Musk as a “Nazi nepo baby.”

The Center Square: Lawmakers push legislation to abolish USAID entirely – U.S. Representatives Gregory Steube and Majorie Taylor Greene have introduced bills that would immediately halt all federal funding to USAID and transfer its essential responsibilities to the U.S. Department of State.

American Thinker: A United America Is The Democrats’ Undoing – Of all the things I loathe about the Democrat party, its celebration of victimhood takes the cake. – As is true of all political parties infected with virulent Marxism, it does not seek to help those truly in need. – It does the opposite by seeking out people who might never have seen themselves as victims and convincing them otherwise...

February 10, 2025

Wall Street Journal: Trump Outsmarts China on Green Energy – He is ramping up economic pressure on Beijing by dismantling the net-zero agenda. – The net-zero agenda, a set of targets and strategies by Western governments and climate diplomats to arrest global warming by limiting emissions, is the most audacious international effort in diplomatic history. – Climate warriors will regroup, but for now, Mr. Trump’s attacks on net zero are working.

Daily Mail: DOGE uncovered a farcical $2.3 million program that trains soldiers to ‘speak and act in a DEI friendly’ way – The Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command had a virtual reality created to enable soldiers to interact with an avatar that would help them speak and act in a DEI-friendly way. – It allowed the participants to have realistic and difficult conversations,’ an Air Force soldier wrote alongside a video testimonial.

California Globe: DOGE Accountability 101 – The Left is Freaking Out With US Taxpayer Gravy Train Being Cut Off – San Francisco’s nonprofit sector is the largest per capita of any California county with $9 billion outstanding in federal grants and loans – It gets worse, as Daniel Greenfield reported today, “USAID Sent $9.3B to Islamic Terror States That Killed 3,000 American Soldiers, And over $18 billion to Islamic terrorist states.”…

American Thinker: Democrats decry Trump’s cancellation of ‘green’ subsidies. – You can’t call a product or service “low-cost” if it is, in fact, expensive, and you use large amounts of taxpayer dollars to subsidize it. – Let’s look at some numbers for reference…

Washington Examiner: According to FOIA documents, the Obama administration may have skirted the law when it approved the unionization of TSA screeners in 2011. – Title 5 of the United States Code authorizes most federal employees to bargain (unionize) collectively.” – “Some parts of TSA are included in Title 5, but TSA screeners are not.

Townhall: The Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hamas announced Monday it would not comply with the next stage of a previously negotiated hostage deal, falsely claiming “Israeli violations” as the reason for the decision. – The deal Hamas agreed to requires the release of three more hostages this week, which now isn’t happening, while 73 hostages remain in Gaza.

Resist the Mainstream: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed openness to striking a deal with former U.S. President Donald Trump, potentially exchanging Ukraine’s vast rare earth mineral deposits for continued American financial and military support. – The Russia-Ukraine conflict has raged for over two years, and the Biden-Harris administration allocated approximately $175 billion in economic and military aid to Kyiv.

Powerline: Trump On The Hostages – The Israeli press indicated the appalling emaciation of the hostages is easily explained; they were deliberately starved – Trump, “I watched the hostages come back today, and they looked like Holocaust survivors. They were in horrible condition. They were emaciated. It looked like many years ago, the Holocaust survivors. I don’t know how much longer we can take that…We’re going to lose our patience.”

Breitbart: Israeli hostages are being tortured and deliberately starved by Hamas in Gaza, with some being denied treatment for wounds they sustained during the terror attack of October 7, 2023. – The new information followed the release Saturday of hostages Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi, and Or Levy, who returned to Israel dangerously emaciated. – They were said to have gone for days without food and then only given a single rotten pita bread to share…

American Thinker: President Trump addressed his largest TV audience during a FOX News’s Bret Baier interview before the Super Bowl yesterday. – A modified interview transcript is provided below for brevity and clarity. – After the question regarding DOGE, the president’s plans for tariffs and relations with Canada and Mexico came up next…

Western Journal: Everything You Need to Know About Post-Woke America – Forget the players on the field: The two most famous people at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday were President Donald Trump and pop icon Taylor Swift. – One got booed, the other roundly cheered. – If you can’t guess properly who got which response, you haven’t been paying attention to the way the cultural wind has been blowing lately.

New York Post: Elon Musk discovered that FEMA sent $59M last week to luxury NYC hotels to house illegal migrants. – Musk, “Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order.” – “That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals.”

American Thinker: Lawfare 2.0, Obama Appointed Federal District Court Judge Paul Engelmayer’s Coup—The DOGE team and the US Treasury agreed that all outgoing government payments must have a payment categorization code to pass financial audits. – This code is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible. – I learned there are over $100 billion a year of entitlement payments to individuals without Social Security or even temporary ID numbers, which makes one wonder what they are hiding…

Washington Examiner: Trump challenges the order barring DOGE from accessing Treasury expenditures – “Basic democratic accountability requires that every executive agency’s work be supervised by politically accountable leadership, who ultimately answer to the president,” DOJ attorneys told Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, calling a judge’s weekend order barring DOGE personnel from accessing the payment system “impermissible” and “anti-constitutional.”…

Slay News: A USAID Whistleblower Says Employees Are ‘Psychologically Frightened’ About What Elon Musk’s DOGE Will Expose – Speaking to CBS’s “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan, the anonymous employee said they and their co-workers have been “psychologically frightened” and would only speak on the condition of anonymity out of fear of putting their family “at any more risk.”

Washington Free Beacon: At USAID, Funding for Terror-Tied Groups and Internal Hostility Toward Israel Goes Back Years – A former State Department official described ‘the lack of embarrassment among some USAID staffers about being associated with terrorist organizations.’ – “For those who believe in a strong U.S.-Israel relationship, elements of USAID have been problematic for years”…

The Daily Fetched: Just 294 Out Of The 14,000 USAID Employees Have Been Identified as ‘Essential’ – The internal review appears to have been initiated by President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, currently serving as the agency’s acting director. – The news came as Secretary Rubio began transferring the few core programs within USAID intended to serve U.S. national interests into the State Department.

The Daily Fetched: – Stephen Miller, Deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, “Yes, the USAID was a slush fund, first of all, for left-wing projects around the globe, like gender surgeries around the world, diversity, equity and inclusion policies, crazy Green New Deal, climate scams and every other lunatic left-wing project that is bankrupting this country.”

American Thinker: Homeland Security Secretary Noem accuses FBI of leaking news of impending ICE raids to the press. – If what Noem says is right, this is an amazing breach of professionalism at the FBI, leaking news of raids to the media to undermine another federal agency.

Washington Examiner: Trump’s Military Recruitment Surge – It was no surprise that the U.S. Army announced last week that recruitment had reached its highest levels in 15 years during January. – This showing was built on a strong December, which saw its highest numbers in 12 years. – Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, “America’s youth want to serve under the bold & strong ‘America First’ leadership of @realDonaldTrump.”

New York Post: President Trump mass-fired the military academies’ ‘Boards of Visitors’ in a purge of ‘woke leftist ideologues.’ – “Woke Leftist Ideologues have infiltrated Our Service Academies over the last four years. I have therefore ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard.”

American Thinker: Trump Has The Taxpayers’ Back And Democrats Are Freaking Out – As DOGE continues to dig, it now appears three early actions were warranted. At Treasury, there were reports “that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed to always approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.”…

American Thinker: Trump’s Chess Game Is Improving – Democrats are howling because DOGE findings caught them flat-footed – Does Chuck Schumer believe that $20 million for Sesame Street in Iraq will somehow benefit the U.S.? – Or $7 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica and Uganda helps America? – He must have forgotten that Uganda enforces the death penalty for gay people…

American Thinker: Our Media Titans Are Being Rattled by Lawsuits—Repackaging the news to push their agenda is becoming increasingly problematic and expensive for the media. Here are some examples…

Victor Davis Hanson: How To Commit Democrat Party Suicide – The Democrats’ radical overreach, election losses, and Musk-fueled government exposés have left them flailing, doubling down on failure instead of recalibrating for a political comeback. – If they were mentally stable, then they might renounce political suicide and perhaps return to something akin to the Clinton efforts of 1992 and 1996…

Center Square: Economic growth will slow further, and inflation fears may be overblown. – When consumers believe prices will rise rapidly, they don’t wait; they spend now. – Big-ticket purchases, long-delayed vacations, and front-loaded demand can put additional upward pressure on prices. – But perhaps these inflation fears are overblown, and here’s why…

American Conservative: Hawaii’s Demented Democrat Resistance – Instead of addressing the Aloha State’s many dysfunctions, the government has prioritized fighting President Trump. – Hawaii is one of the bluest states in the union. Some 34% of registered voters are Democrats, versus only 18% Republican. – While 43% are officially unaffiliated, they usually vote Democrat…

American Thinker: Tribalism Is The Key to Understanding Islam – Decoding Islam’s notorious resistance to assimilation in the West is as simple as understanding the doctrine’s relational values. – The entire appeal of Muhammad’s call to the Arabs of his time lay in its perfect compatibility with their tribal mores, three in particular: loyalty to one’s tribe, enmity for other tribes, and raids on the latter to enrich and empower the former…

February 9, 2025

Daily Mail: Trump sent the Super Bowl crowd wild as he took to the field with Ivanka and Eric and made history as the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl game. – He posed for photos with family members of victims in the New Year’s Eve ISIS attack on Bourbon Street and emergency responders and waved to the cheering crowd…

Washington Examiner: Four takeaways From President Trump’s Pre-Super Bowl Interview – His push for Canada as the 51st state appears to be ‘real’ – The Difference between the 45th and 47th administration – The Judge’s decision to restrict DOGE ‘crazy’ – He Picks the Chiefs to win…

Fox News: Fox News: President Trump predicts Elon Musk will find ‘hundreds of billions’ in waste in the next DOGE directives – “He’s not gaining anything personally. I wonder how he can devote the time to it,” Trump said. – “I will tell him to check the Department of Education very soon. He’s going to find the same thing. – Then, I’m going to go into the military.

American Spectator: Nobody Wants the Palestinians – A ‘Palestinian Two State Solution’ is no longer feasible, yet Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Iran want nothing to do with the displaced Gazans. – Two things can be deduced from all this. The first is that the Arab nations don’t want to spend a dime on rebuilding Gaza. – Second is the fact that those nations believe — quite correctly — that the Gazans are a lot more trouble than they’re worth…

American Spectator: Most Americans Support DOGE and ‘Never Tiring’ President Trump – Democrat antics and media mendacity aside, a clear majority favor paring down the government. – In addition to the antics of the Democrats, corporate media is contributing to the hysteria. – NBC News, for example, ran an article on Saturday with the following title: “Inside DOGE’s takeover of the Education Department.”…

Washington Examiner: Trump Ordered The Treasury To Stop The ‘Wasteful’ Production Of Pennies – Trump pointed out that the minting of a penny costs more than the actual value of the coin, adding that this is part of his goal of rooting out wasteful spending in the federal government.

Focal Points: Rand Paul Questioned Samantha Power About USAID Contribution to China for SARS-CoV Research—USAID gave Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance $207 million between 2009 and October 2019, right when SARS-Cov-2 began to spread.

Breitbart: The 115-Year-Old Boy Scouts of America Ditched Its Name to Be More ‘Gender-Neutral’—The organization officially changed its name to Scouting America.

American Greatness: Trump, Musk, and the Deep State: The Battle Over Transparency Begins—Trump and Musk are unraveling the deep state’s secrets at record speed, and the left is panicking, wielding emergency orders, judicial overreach, and legal theatrics to stop the exposure. – Elon Musk and his lieutenants quickly uncovered a pyramid of waste, fraud, and abuse. – There were no committees, approvals, or red tape; there were just four young coders with unprecedented access and algorithms ready to run.

Breitbart: On Saturday, a federal judge blocked Elon Musk and DOGE from accessing Treasury Department data and records. – U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer received an application for a temporary restraining order filed by attorney generals in 19 states.

Townhall: A federal court has ordered the DOJ to furnish all available files on any communications between former Special Counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis related to President Donald Trump’s prosecution. – Judicial Watch sued in October 2023 after the DOJ failed to comply with an August 2023 FOIA request for records.

Tucker Carlson’s Mike Benz Interview: The USAID Rabbit Hole Runs Deep. – Is USAID Truly a Humanitarian Operation? – Joe Biden and USAID’s Role in Social Media Censorship—The interview covers these and other important topics.

AMUSE on X: Trump’s Second Chance, Dismantling USAGM and Ending Its Propaganda Machine – The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) is not a journalistic entity but rather a state-run propaganda machine that manipulates public perception while pretending to be an independent voice. – This agency, which once defended American values, now actively undermines them…

Wall Street Journal: Behind the Oil Industry’s Biggest Divorce, Chevron Versus California – Chevron sank the state’s first successful oil well that kicked off a boom that powered California’s economy for over a century – Now, that goodwill has gone dry. – Chevron CEO Mike Wirth, “Putting bureaucrats in charge of centrally planning key segments of the economy hasn’t worked in other social states.” – “I doubt it will be any different in California.”…

February 8, 2025

Washington Examiner: President Trump said on Saturday night that he has already spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone about ending the three-year war in Ukraine. – Zelensky is expected to meet with Trump and VP Vance next week before the Feb. 14-16 Munich Security Conference.

Epoch Times: Hamas Released Three Israeli Hostages, Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami, and Or Levy, in Emaciated Condition – The hostages’ emaciation and scenes of them being forced to speak in a staged ceremony have caused outrage in Israel, further threatening the already fragile cease-fire brought into effect last month…

Epoch Times: Freed Jan. 6 Prisoners Speak Out as They Begin to Rebuild Their Lives – A half-dozen former Jan. 6 prisoners share what they say has been suppressed and distorted for the past four years about how they were treated.

Zero Hedge: The Ayatollah Shuts The Door On Negotiations With The US After Trump Restores ‘Maximum Pressure’ Via Sanctions – The JCPOA called for Iran to limit its nuclear energy program and agree to routine inspections. – The US is now worried that given last year’s tit-for-tat exchange of major strikes with Israel, Tehran leaders are more incentivized than ever to develop a nuke secretly.

Zero Hedge: Afrikaners Respond To Trump’s Historic South Africa Executive Order – Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 enables the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation. – The US shall not provide aid or assistance to South Africa and shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation…

Just The News: Current and former air traffic controllers say FAA hiring practices and the “immunity program” led to problems, like those related to the recent midair collision near Reagan Washington National Airport. – Former Air Traffic Controllers say that the FAA’s focus on DEI hiring practices has resulted in less qualified air traffic controllers and a staffing shortage.

Slay News: A leading scientist from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology has spoken out to blow the whistle by claiming that the U.S. taxpayer-funded Chinese lab “engineered” COVID-19 as a “bioweapon” to reduce the population of humans around the world. – This comes as damning evidence has emerged revealing that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) used taxpayer money to fund the development of COVID-19 as a bioweapon in the same Wuhan laboratory.

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny: What is USAID and What Are They Funding? – During the Fiscal year 2023, USAID distributed $72 billion. The largest amount, $16 billion, went to Ukraine. – The second largest, $1.7 billion, went to Ethiopia while the Houthis continued to shell civilians. – USAID has funded 6,200 journalists across over 700 media outlets (and 279 media NGOs)…

AMUSE on X: How USAID and Internews Orchestrate Global Media Control – Internews is one of the most insidious forces in global information warfare, boasting the training of 100,000 journalists in over 100 countries. – Internews operates as an international media cartel, shaping narratives that align exclusively with far-left ideologies while undermining conservative movements worldwide…

Washington Examiner: DOGE probes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as Musk paints a grim picture for the agency. – The CFPB’s charter is to protect consumers by analyzing the practices of large financial institutions like banks, lenders, credit unions, and debt collectors to ensure they are not improperly targeting consumers. – Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Keith Self previously introduced legislation to eliminate the CFBP...

Zero Hedge: Flight tracking data from Flightradar24 shows a US Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft conducted its second signals intelligence (SIGINT) operation near cartel-controlled territories within Mexico this past week. – The SIGINT mission coincides with remarks from US Border Czar Tom Homan, who warned on Thursday that he “expects” a hot confrontation between the US military and drug cartels.

Geller Report: Democrats were nonplussed when the Communist Chinese successfully breached US Treasury Department workstations in what was a “major incident. – There was generally no media or outrage, nothing. – But now they are in complete meltdown at the idea of an audit, of transparency. – What are they hiding?

Slay News: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Skewers Democrats for Violent Rhetoric Over Trump Shutting Down USAID – During the White House press briefing, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy pressed Leavitt on comments made by some elected Democrats. – Three minutes of profound excellence. Just think back about the Gobaldeguck Karine Jean-Pierre used to come back with…

Daily Wire: DOGE Scored A Legal Win After The Labor Unions Sued To Stop Access To View Potential Waste – The unions failed to provide any evidence of legal injury, the judge said. – The AFL-CIO, a union representing around 800,000 government workers, called the ruling “a setback, but not a defeat.”

Independent Sentinel: Is USAID Humanitarian or a Rogue CIA Operation – Mike Benz’s Interview With Tucker Carlson – “Right now, the people who are trying to defend US aid are stuck between a rock and a hard place.” – “They want to defend it on humanitarian grounds, and then they get deluged with all the ways that it has gone wrong and all the horrible things that it’s funding, so in response, they turn to layer two.”…

AMUSE on X: How USAID and Internews Orchestrate Global Media Control – The dissemination of information has long been a battleground for ideological and political power because if you control the narrative, you control the minds that shape the future. – Internews’s funding sources betray its true objectives. It is no accident that USAID, the CIA’s tool for ideological influence operations, provides up to 90% of Internews’s budget…

American Thinker: The CDC’s Big Mistake—President Trump’s first week in office included an order suspending all CDC, HHS, and NIH communications, including regulations, announcements, reports, advisories, updates, and online posts. – The Alleged COVID Pandemic wasn’t the first time government actions, laws, or regulations imposed dire consequences on ordinary, law-abiding Americans.

American Thinker: When Words Ignite – It’s been said that we don’t change until the pain of change becomes less than the pain of not changing. – Some folks may be approaching that point through their rhetoric and actions. – Five examples of things that are not free speech so are unlawful and fall outside 1st Amendment protections: Speech inciting imminent lawless action – Fighting words that provoke immediate violence – True threats aimed at instilling fear of bodily harm or death…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Mar-a-Gaza Edition – Everyone knows the “two-state solution” is never going to happen as long as Hamas and Hezbollah are in existence, so why not blow up this whole hypocrisy?

February 7, 2025

Daily Wire: ICE Arrests 11,000 Illegal Aliens In First 18 Days Of Trump Administration – This included the capture of Fernando Vasquez-Mendoza in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, with ICE explaining that the man, a previously deported Mexican national, is a hired killer working on behalf of the Gulf Cartel…

Zero Hedge: Fentanyl Is Swiftly Moved to Schedule 1 Drug—On February 6, 2025, the House quickly passed the HALT Fentanyl Act with significant Democrat support. – If the legislation is supported in the Senate, it will permanently move fentanyl from a Schedule 2 drug to Schedule 1 under the Controlled Substances Act.

Zero Hedge: An Official Says More Government Workers Are Accepting Trump Admin Buyout Offer – The number of workers who have decided to accept the buyout offer from the Trump administration has risen by about 25,000, according to a White House official, with some 65,000 government employees now having signed up for the generous offer.

Center Square: Trump eyes ‘reciprocal’ trade deals instead of flat-fee tariffs. On Friday, the president announced he would announce reciprocal trade agreements with multiple countries next week during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

Daily Wire: Trump Brokered A Compromise For Japanese Investment In U.S Steel instead of Acquisition – President Donald Trump announced that Japan’s Nippon Steel would invest heavily in U.S. Steel rather than purchase the company, reversing a $14.9 billion takeover proposal blocked by the Biden administration.

JD Rucker: You thought the news about USAID funding Politico and the BBC was big news. – Now we learn that USAID has paid nearly half a billion dollars to Internews Network, a secretive government-funded NGO that spreads propaganda and controls the media narrative worldwide.

Western Journal: USAID Is Utterly Obliterated—Marco Rubio Announced A 97% Staff Cut—A report from Reuters, based on inside sources, said that when the cuts are complete, 294 people will work for an agency that previously had about 10,000 employees.

Gateway Pundit: Elon Musk announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) wasted a staggering “$100 billion of taxpayer money.” – Musk’s DOGE team and two senior veterans from the agency have been meticulously reviewing the CMS’s payment and contracting systems, which are crucial for managing health insurance for approximately one in four Americans.

Daily Wire: Elon Musk And JD Vance Stepped in To Get DOGE Staffer Back After A Journolist Tried To ‘Destroy’ Him – “I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life.” – Musk ran a poll on Thursday, asking X users to weigh in on Elez’s ouster, to which 78% of respondents said the staffer should be brought back to the DOGE team…

Gateway Pundit: The DOJ is launching an inquiry into individuals and networks stealing government property and threatening government employees. – Earlier this week, US Attorney Ed Martin announced his office would charge and arrest individuals who threatened Elon Musk’s DOGE team. – When he announced the coming arrests and charges, Mr. Martin did not name any names. It is unclear which laws were violated.

American Spectator: The Foreign Aid Racket Funds RINO Grifters, Not Just Democrats – Here are a few profiles of senior USAID presidential appointees in past Republican administrations who have lived on Easy Street for long careers, and most of them never worked a day in a for-profit private enterprise. – Andrew Natsios – Kate Almquist – James Kunder – Patrick Cronin – Mark Green…

Epoch Times: President Trump signed a memorandum on February 6th ordering a review of all funds going to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from federal agencies – Trump, “It is the policy of my Administration to stop funding NGOs that undermine the national interest.”

One America News: HUD Secretary Scott Turner declared that the agency will no longer condition funding for homeless shelters and other federally-run facilities based on whether or not they accommodate a person’s “gender identity,” as opposed to their biological sex. – Turner noted that the move is part of President Donald Trump’s plan to “restore biological truth to the federal government.”

Epoch Times: A Coalition of 22 States Sues New York Over AG Letitia James’s Climate Superfund Law. – Their suit contends that the new law forcing a small group of major energy producers to pay retroactively for the costs of alleged climate change damage is unconstitutional.

Fox News: President Trump revoked Biden’s security clearances and intel briefings – “He set this precedent in 2021 when he instructed the Intelligence Community (IC) to stop the 45th President of the United States (ME!) from accessing details on National Security, a courtesy provided to former Presidents.”

The Hill: Trump Is Naming Himself as The New Kennedy Center Board Chair And Terminated Several Board Members – “Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP.

American Spectator: Examples Of How These Companies Are Responding To DEI Backlash With Even More DEI – Salesforce – The NFL – Ancestry – Coca Cola – The Big Banks…

Western Journal: The Best Clip You’ll See Today – Tucker Carlson Asks A Lib Reporter ‘How Do They Get People This Stupid in the Media.’ – She continues to misquote him, and he throws it right back in her face to the pleasure of the audience…

American Thinker: Trump 2.0, The First Month—Clearly, Trump knows how to keep the opposition guessing by making move after move in rapid succession. – Trump was elected because a majority of Americans wanted a sea change in their economy, immigration policy, culture, and the way politics was run in the country. – The Trump team knows that most of the change Trump wants must come before the U.S. midterm 2026 election. – The iron is hot. – When and where will it strike next?

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Liberty Daily: RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard Have Been Advanced To Floor Votes – Next week, we will know if President Donald Trump gets his most controversial picks, including Kash Patel for FBI Director. – It’s looking good across the board, but with RINOs lurking, we need to keep the pressure up.

Zero Hedge: Pharma Tool Elizabeth Warren’s Corruption Is EXPOSED Big-Time By X Community Notes – “Warren has received donations from Pharmaceutical companies and PAC organizations amounting to millions of dollars.” – Warren takes more pharma cash than almost any Congress creature, playing second fiddle to only to supposed anti-corruption crusader Bernie Sanders.

Daily Wire: Will Mexico Face A Hot Shooting War With The Cartels By Positioning 10,000 Troops Between Cartels And Their Drug Trafficking Operations? – This time, Trump demanded that Mexico “dismantle transnational criminal organizations, halt illegal migration, and stem the flow of fentanyl and precursor chemicals from China.”

American Greatness: President Trump is Forcing the World to Face Its Hypocrisies on the Gaza Palestinians Problem – The hypocrisies Trump is focused on include: “Gaza is a hell hole.” – No one wants to save the Gaza Palestinians. – Allowing Gaza to be ruled by Hamas after the war ends so it again becomes a platform to launch terrorist attacks against Israel is unacceptable. – The two-state solution is dead…

Geller Report: The DOJ is going after Hamas’ financial backers with a newly launched task force that will investigate and prosecute U.S.-based individuals, entities, and NGOs that fund Hamas’ terrorism. – Hamas is a Muslim Brotherhood group, so every Muslim Brotherhood group in America should be investigated, such as Students for Palestine, ICNA, ISNA, American Muslims for Palestine, and all the domestic terrorist groups.

The Federalist: DOGE Is Deadly To The Swamp, But A Ray Of Light For American Taxpayers – Badly defeated and desperately trying to crawl out of the political wilderness, Democrats are choosing to die on the government-waste-is-good political hill after holding a four-year orgy of waste. – “What we are witnessing here is the biggest heist in American history,” deranged Sen. Chris Van Hollen said at a protest Wednesday near the U.S. Capitol…

Vigilant News: Musk’s DOGE Team Has Uncovered $100 BILLION in Medicare and Medicaid Waste After Gaining Access To Financial Data. – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) processes over one billion Medicare claims annually, oversees healthcare quality through hospital and nursing home inspections, and disburses billions in matching funds to states for Medicaid programs. The narrative has quickly escalated from lack of efficiency to rampant waste and potential fraud accusations.

Just The News: President Trump has directed all executive branch departments and agencies to review all funding for non-government organizations (NGOs). NGOs often receive government funding and are regarded by many as vehicles for left-wing social causes.

Newsmax: Senator Ted Cruz has accused the Biden administration of financially supporting the Hamas militants. – Cruz recently shared a Daily Caller article about more than $1.3 billion in taxpayer funds provided during Joe Biden’s administration that aided groups that sponsored or committed terrorism. – “USAID secretly poured uncountable hundreds of millions of dollars toward Hamas, including tens of millions of cash they could never account for…

Breitbart’s Exclusive Interview With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu On His Summit Meeting With President Trump – “It Was The Best Meeting’ Ever Between Israeli And American Leaders.” – Netanyahu has visited DC many times and met with many different American presidents over the years. – Netanyahu said this particular meeting with Trump was special for various reasons. – “The winning team that brought us the Abraham Accords will bring us an expansion of the Abraham Accords.”…

Zero Hedge: Pam Bondi Begins Crackdown on Sanctuary Laws—A Department of Justice lawsuit asserts that sanctuary laws in Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois have obstructed federal efforts to enforce immigration policy. Courts are expected to side with Trump.

American Thinker: USAID’s $53 Million Problem As Trump’s People Follow The Money – Recent investigations reveal as much as $53 million and counting in U.S. taxpayer dollars were funneled to Wuhan through USAID, the NIH, and the EcoHealth Alliance. – The American people have a right to know how their money was spent, who authorized it, and what consequences those responsible will face, if any.

John Daniel Davidson: We Still Need Answers To The Many Unanswered Questions About January 6th – The Select Committee’s report, issued in December 2022, omitted important information about January 6 and failed to address many lingering questions about the government’s role and response. – Its partisan (specifically anti-Trump) purpose can be deduced from its recommendations…

Lawyer Lisa: USDA Inspector Phyllis Fong is one of the key players behind the artificial inflation of poultry and egg prices in the U.S. – She ordered the culling of MILLIONS of healthy birds, using the FAKE excuse of “mutating bird flu” and allegedly threatened farmers with jail. – But the truth of the matter is there was NO pandemic.

American Thinker: Maybe CBS Stands For Clearly Bull Shit – Does anyone doubt now that CBS was in the tank for VP Kamala Harris? – During the 2024 campaign, many were happy that VP Harris would finally sit down for an interview. – Unfortunately, we only got the edited version. – After watching the unedited video, it is hard to disagree with then-candidate Trump, who said that CBS was out to make the VP look good.

Western Journal: Federal Elections Chief Ellen Weintraub Refuses to Leave After Trump Fires Her, And Vows to Dig In and Cause Trouble – FEC commissioners are supposed to serve six-year terms. – She was appointed by George W. Bush, which means her term should have ended long ago. – If her case goes to court, it could have ramifications for other dismissals the new administration wishes to pursue.

Washington Examiner: Trump escalates the war on the Green New Deal by cutting the $5 billion government EV chargers program. – In Trump’s executive order on the Green New Deal, federal agencies were directed to “immediately pause the disbursement of funds appropriated” through the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, “including but not limited to funds for EV charging stations…

Washington Examiner: Sixteen House Democrats voted to help pass a bill that would ban the prohibition of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking. – House lawmakers on Friday voted 226 to 188 to pass the Protecting American Energy Production Act. – This aligns with the Trump administration’s promise to boost domestic oil production.

Fox News: California plans to continue allowing trans athletes to compete in girls’ sports despite Trump’s executive order – The state has faced multiple controversies over trans athletes competing against girls in the last year. – The NCAA amended its policy on gender eligibility after Trump’s EO, but unfortunately, at the youth and high school level, girls may still be at the mercy of state law.

American Thinker: Fake Insurance Courtesy Of Gavin Newsom’s California – California’s “FAIR PLAN” state fire insurance lives up to Gavin Newsom’s reputation for sheer incompetence. – Since 2018, FAIR plan policyholders have grown from 150,000 to more than 450,000 as commercial insurers have left California due to premium adequacy issues. – What is most tragic is that most people insured by the plan have no idea how weak it is.

February 6, 2025

American Spectator: Trump’s Gaza Gambit and the Art of the Ultimate Deal – It is unclear whether we should take Trump seriously but not literally or literally but not seriously. – He negotiated an impossible Middle East peace deal in his first term, which was said to be impossible. – As Trump told the WSJ back then: “As a deal maker, I’d like to do…the deal that can’t be made, and do it for humanity’s sake.”…

City Journal: We’re In for a Rude Awakening on Cybersecurity – The Chinese Communist Party is now the world’s preeminent practitioner of cyber warfare. – The CCP’s hackers have become stealthy and sophisticated. – They’re intercepting the calls and texts of our leaders and infiltrating servers at our ports, power plants, and water treatment facilities. – Unfortunately, nobody seems to be doing anything about it…

One America News: Senate Democrats delayed a key vote to advance the nomination of Kash Patel to lead the FBI, holding back President Donald Trump’s anticipated pick for FBI director until next week. – A similar move was made on Attorney General Pam Bondi’s nomination in January. – However, the new potential leader of the FBI is still in a strong position to get the go-ahead from Republican senators when it’s all said and done.

AMUSE on X: The Myth Of Nuclear Disarmament Exposed, Ukraine Never Had Nukes to Give Up In The First Place – The widespread belief that Ukraine voluntarily surrendered a vast nuclear arsenal in exchange for ironclad security guarantees is a mischaracterization that has gained undue traction in public discourse. – The warheads and delivery systems stationed on Ukrainian soil at the time of independence were always under Moscow’s control...

Epoch Times: Border Chief Tom Homan Says The Raid on Tren de Aragua Gang Was Leaked, And He Vows Accountability. – Homan said his team has already identified the source of the leak and suggested that future media access to ICE plans could be limited if the leaks continue because they put law enforcement in danger.

Gatestone Institute: How Hamas Plans To Foil Trump’s Gaza Plan – Hamas does not want any US intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, fearing that it will disrupt their Jihad (holy war) against Israel. – Hamas is saying that if the Trump administration dares to implement the relocation and reconstruction plan, they will unleash a wave of terrorism against Americans and Palestinians…

Fox News: A Federal judge has delayed the Trump administration’s buyout deadline for federal workers to at least Monday. – Several labor unions have sued over Trump’s plans. – Trump is trying to downsize and reshape the federal workforce.

Reuters: The White House is preparing an order to cut thousands of federal health workers. – Officials have been told to prepare lists of probationary workers who have essential roles and must be retained and those who don’t. – The White House denied on Thursday that it is drafting an executive order to cut workers across federal health agencies.

Daily Wire: Karoline Leavitt Revealed The Trump Administration’s Massive Tax Cut ‘Priorities’ – Priorities include no tax on tips, no tax on seniors’ Social Security, no tax on overtime pay, a renewal of Trump’s 2017 middle-class tax cuts, an adjustment of the SALT cap, elimination of tax breaks for billionaire sports team owners, closure of the carried interest loophole, and tax cuts for products made in America.

Issues & Insights: Trump’s ‘Revolution Of Common Sense’ Is Bringing Out The Worst In Democrats—Trump meant it when he said in his inaugural address that “we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.” – The first weeks of the Trump administration have been a whirlwind of common-sense orders: Sending troops to secure the southern border, Requiring federal workers to return to their offices full time, and several more as shown here…

Daily Wire: Americans Support The DOGE Mission And Want Congress To Pass A Border Bill – The “DOGE’s agenda is wildly popular across the political spectrum, and so is the rest of President Trump’s agenda.” – McLaughlin and Associates conducted the poll on January 28th, which has a margin of error of 3.1%.

Fox News: The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago for allegedly interfering with federal immigration enforcement. — This is the latest escalation in the battle between the Trump administration and Democrat-led cities and states over the administration’s mass deportation operation.

Daily Caller: Check Out The Corporate Media Outlets Raking In Taxpayer Cash – Politico, $35,018,269. – Dow Jones & Co Inc., $4+ million. – The AP and its associated Press Association, $50+ million. – The NYT, $3,107,520…

Epoch Times: President Trump Announced A DOJ Task Force to ‘Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias’ – The mission of the task force is to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, the IRS, the FBI, and other agencies.” – He also announced the formation of a new White House Faith Office, led by Pastor Paula White, and a Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty.

Western Journal: Pam Bondi’s First Day Is Over, Showing Liberals Are in for a Total Nightmare – The list of mandates Bondi ordered should send chills down the spines of the Democrats who engaged in the shameless political persecution: Special Counsel Jack Smith – Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg – Prosecutors of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protesters – FBI personnel who targeted Catholics as “potential terrorists” – New York Attorney General Letitia James…

Newsmax: More than 40,000 Government Workers Are Taking The Buyout Offer As Thursday’s Deadline Approaches. The buyout encompasses not only employees at the Department of Labor, which has traditionally drawn the ire of Trump’s Republicans, but also intelligence agencies like the CIA.

Epoch Times: The Federal Government Is Restricting DOGE’s Access to Treasury Department Systems – Lawmakers from the Democrat Party called for the access to be revoked. Following this, a coalition of unions sued to block the access on Wednesday. – Elon Musk previously described it as “a wood chipper for bureaucracy.”…

The Free Press: Betsy DeVos, “Shut down the Department of Education.” – “As the 11th U.S. secretary of education, I know it’s beyond repair.” – Since its creation in 1979, the Department of Education has sent more than $1 trillion to schools to close the gaps between the highest and lowest performers. Today, those gaps are as wide as ever and, by many measures, even wider.

Newsmax: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that the DOGE personnel would assist in upgrading the FAA’s Air Traffic Control Systems. – Changes could include upgrading from radar maps to 3-D maps and some level of automation. It is not immediately known what changes will ultimately be implemented.

American Thinker: USAID Helped Fund The ‘Soros Prosecutors’ – The people who have allowed crime to destroy America’s cities and who went after Trump got a boost from tax dollars funneled through USAID. – The story begins with the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, a grant-giving organization. – By donating to Tides, the donors aren’t seen as having a direct connection with radical groups…

FAR: USAID Is Used To Fund Left-Wing Efforts – Trump’s team is exposing the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the left-wing propaganda and regime change operation that it has become and to shut it down. – @DataRepublican created a searchable database of federal government grants that’s helped uncover even more outrageous projects funded by USAID. – Check it out as I did, and you’ll be astonished…

Slay News: Liz Cheney Lashes Out at Elon Musk Amid Backlash as Her Ties to USAID Emerge—Cheney spent time at USAID working in embassies related to efforts in Poland, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine.

Washington Examiner: USAID feeds its alumni to left-wing activist organizations – From interns to chief administrators, former USAID employees currently serve in various positions at nonprofit organizations with strong links to the Democratic Party and the broader liberal movement…

American Thinker: Tulsi Gabbard, the Smear Machine, and the Battle for America’s Intelligence Integrity – Tulsi Gabbard dared to question the abuse of the intelligence community, and that’s precisely why the establishment so fears her. – This tried-and-true tactic of the political class and their media acolytes is as dirty as it is effective. – The accusation doesn’t need to be true—it just needs to be repeated and spread by friendly media…

American Thinker: Restoring the FBI’s Mission—The FBI was once the envy of law enforcement agencies worldwide, but now, it’s a cautionary tale. – Instead of focusing on terrorism, violent crime, and border security, leadership diverted resources toward politically charged investigations. – If America is to believe in federal law enforcement again, reform isn’t enough; it will take a reckoning, and Kash Patel is the man to do it.

Victor Davis Hanson: What Are Trump’s Tariffs Actually About? – Trump’s tariffs aim to curb unfair trade, illegal immigration, and fentanyl smuggling while forcing allies and rivals to stop exploiting U.S. generosity. – China is a special case because its entire 20th-century ascendance was based on stealing U.S. technology, dumping its products on the U.S. market below the cost of production to capture market share, and forcing American corporations to relocate, offshore, and outsource…

The Federalist: Now that the full ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris is available to the public, it’s even clearer that the media were “all-in” on assisting her failed campaign. – One highly suspect omission from the final cut was an extended portion in which Harris wasn’t asked some convoluted question but simply asked why she wanted to be president.

Cal Matters: California’s surge in EV sales has stalled, so what happens to its landmark mandate? – About 25.3% of all new cars registered in California in 2024 had zero emissions, just slightly more than 25% in 2023. – Under California’s mandate, approved in 2022, 35% of new 2026 car models sold by automakers must have zero emissions. This leaves considerable ground to make up, considering some 2026 models begin rolling out later this year…

February 5, 2025

Revolver Feel-Good Story: A 10-year-old shielded his little sister from flying PA crash debris. – After waking from brain surgery, he asked, ‘Did I save her?’ – What an incredible kid. – And in true Philly spirit, he’s also pretty pumped that the Eagles are heading to the Super Bowl.

Redstate: The U.S. Wins A Major Concession Regarding The Panama Canal, With Trump Picking Up Another Foreign Policy Win—Secretary of State Marco Rubio successfully negotiated a new deal with the nation of Panama that would grant U.S. vessels the right to pass through the waterway without being charged fees. – The move, the State said, will save the U.S. government millions of dollars annually.

Washington Free Beacon: ICE Raided The Infamous Colorado Apartments Overrun by Venezuelan Gang Accused of Torturing Residents – “100+ members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua were targeted for arrest and detention in Aurora, Colo., today by ICE and its partners, listing several federal agencies that assisted with the raids…

The Daily Signal: After an escalation in political violence over the past several years, including protesters at the homes of Supreme Court justices, several United States senators introduced legislation on Wednesday to increase the penalties for those that threaten federal judges, including Supreme Court justices. – The bill would increase the maximum penalty for violating 18 U.S.C. § 1507 from one year to five years. – The bill would increase the maximum penalty for violating 18 U.S.C. § 1507 from one year to five years.

Breitbart: The Trump Effect Leads To A Manufacturing Bounce Back. – According to S&P Global, the purchasing managers index for U.S. manufacturers recorded a surge in confidence about the future and a return to growth for new orders and output. – This reflected improved customer confidence in the economy, fueling rising demand.

Vigilant Fox: USAID and The CIA Secretly Worked to Impeach Trump from Office – Journalist Michael Shellenberger blew the lid off the scandal on Jesse Watters Primetime, exposing how the deep state worked behind the scenes to take down Trump. – Back in 2019, Democrats rushed to impeach Trump over a whistleblower complaint claiming he pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden…

Celia Farber: Did You Ever Wonder Who Was Behind The Hollywood/Zelensky PR Ops? – USAID Paid At Least $4 Million To Ben Stiller and $ 5 Million To Sean Penn Just To MEET Zelensky – This Is Important Because The Truman Show/War/Hollywood Propaganda Machine Is Being Exposed Like Never Before

Western Journal: The Latest NTSB Update Confirms The Black Hawk Helicopter Made A Crucial Error Before The Plane Crash — The agency found that the Black Hawk was positioned at 300 feet on the air traffic control display, 100 feet higher than the ceiling of 200 feet for helicopters in the National Capital Region.

Geller Report: The “Dastardly” Democrat Party of Treason Has Filed Articles of Impeachment Against President Trump – It took longer than expected, 16 days. – Let the clown show begin. – We are now watching the death throes of the Democrat party. – Democrat Rep. Al Green just announced he is filing to IMPEACH Trump for “dastardly deeds” (whatever the hell that means)…

Fox News: Pam Bondi’s DOJ Day 1 Directives: Fight weaponization of justice, eliminate cartels, and lift the death penalty ban. – Bondi is establishing a “Weaponization Working Group” to review the activities of all law enforcement agencies over the past four years to identify instances of “politicized justice.” – Joint Task Force Vulcan, created to fight human trafficking, will be “further elevated.” – The DOJ is pausing all federal funding for sanctuary cities, among other actions.

Just The News: Mexico has deployed 10,000 troops to its northern border with the U.S., making good on President Claudia Sheinbaum’s vow to President Trump to bolster border security in exchange for Trump pausing a 25% tariff on Mexican goods.

Zero Hedge: First There Was The Spy Plane, Now A US Navy Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier Has Been Spotted Off Mexico’s Coast. – The USS Nimitz was spotted off Mexico’s northern coast on Wednesday afternoon. – It is transiting international waters off the coast near the northern section of Baja California and underway at 8.8 knots.

The Center Square: Trump Has Signed An Order Barring Men From Women’s Sports. – His Executive Order will stop “dangerous and unfair” situations, allowing males to compete against females in school and amateur athletics. – Schools that fail to comply will face U.S. Department of Education investigations and could lose federal funding.

Slay News: The Federal Government Has Been Funneling Millions in Tax Dollars to Leftist News Outlets Politico and The New York Times. The funding was exposed after Politico staffers complained their paychecks hadn’t been received. The “payroll issue” emerged shortly after DOGE froze USAID funding, leading many to question whether tax dollars were propping Politico up from USAID. – Things went from there.

The Federalist: Norm Eisen, the founder of multiple anti-Trump groups that participated in at least four lawfare attempts to throw Trump off the ballot or in jail during his 2024 presidential candidacy, is now running an op against Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel. – Eisen, who was counsel for Democrats’ first attempt to impeach Trump, is the co-founder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington…

Breitbart: Senate Majority Leader John Thune – “Trump Has ‘Decisive Mandate,’ And The Senate Is ‘Moving as Quickly as We Can’ to Confirm Entire Cabinet.” – “At the moment, at least, despite the Democrat delays and stalling, the Senate is currently confirming nominees at a double pace between 2017 and 2021.”…

Tablet Magazine: The End of ‘Palestine’ – Trump just reminded the world that ideas have sell-by dates – Yesterday, President Donald Trump single-handedly collapsed the most destructive idea of the last hundred years, Palestine. – Palestine was a misshapen idea from the very beginning, engendered by an act of pure negation. – What if they won’t go, or if the Egyptians and Jordanians won’t take them? – They’ll take them, said Trump…

American Thinker: Donald Trump’s Gaza Proposals Is The Equivalent Of A Negotiating Nuclear Bomb – A lot of people, ranging from sensible American patriots to hard-left Hamas supporters, are in a tizzy because Trump said the U.S. would take over Gaza and remove the entire Gazan population. – I’m not worried because I think this was the brilliant opening for negotiations with the Arab nations surrounding Israel and with the Gazans themselves.

American Spectator: Trump’s Gaza Proposal Is A Profile in Courage – Palestinian children surely deserve better than being raised in Hamas’ incubator of hatred. – It is evident that he means once the Palestinians are gone, they’re never coming back. – His proposal is meant to resolve the nearly eight-decade-long conflict that has repeatedly roiled the Middle East, and it is time to end it once and for all…

Fox News: President Trump urged Iran to begin negotiating with the U.S. for a “nuclear peace agreement,” downplaying the possibility of a devastating military strike on the Islamic nation. “I want Iran to be a great and successful Country, but one that cannot have a Nuclear Weapon. Reports that the United States, working in conjunction with Israel, is going to blow Iran into smithereens ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED”…

American Thinker: A former Newsguard operative opened the door to the leftists’ doxxing of Elon Musk’s young DOGE software engineers – What is it about NewsGuard’s name popping up every time the Deep State needs a dirty favor? – If you recall, NewsGuard is the censorship outfit that seeks to deplatform news and commentary outlets to advertisers by creating blacklists for clients as to which sites are supposedly reliable and which sites are not, according to their Leftist values…

Wall Street Journal: DOGE Aides Are Searching The Medicare and Medicaid Agency Payment Systems for Fraud — DOGE representatives are also examining the agency’s organizational design and staffing…

American Thinker: The FBI Still Refuses To Provide Information On The Murder Of Seth Rich, The Alleged Source of DNC Emails Released By WikiLeaks. – The FBI wants a court to allow another 66 years before being forced to reveal what they know about the mysterious murder. – This is just another example of a massive DNC-weaponized agency protecting itself and the Democrat party...

AMUSE on X: Trump Fired Chopra, And Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Has Frozen The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Overreach Machine. – From the moment he took the helm, Chopra ruled the agency as an unaccountable overlord, brandishing the regulatory hammer to bludgeon financial institutions into compliance with a progressive economic agenda…

Reuters: Argentina has decided to withdraw from the World Health Organization. – Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said Milei ordered Argentina’s withdrawal because of “deep differences” regarding the WHO’s management of health issues, notably the COVID-19 pandemic. Adorni cited Argentina’s months-long lockdown under the previous leftist government. Trump withdrew the US from the WHO on his first day in office, January 20th.

Axios: The USPS said it would resume accepting inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong Posts just hours after suspending service from those regions. The agency didn’t give a reason for the suspension.

American Thinker: Our Healthcare System Is Severely Broken. – Talk to anyone who grew up in the 1940s through the 1970s and see how different things were back then. – The same group of politicians that have done nothing about the exploding obesity rate, our declining health, and chronic childhood diseases is defending Big Pharma while screaming at the guy who’s trying to reverse those trends.

Hot Air: The FCC Has Opened A Probe Into A Soros-Funded Radio Station That Exposed Undercover ICE Operations – The FCC has begun an investigation into the license of KCBS in San Francisco after one of its hosts began broadcasting the locations and descriptions of undercover ICE agents looking for violent illegal aliens…

California Globe: President Trump announced on Tuesday that he would launch an investigation into the high cost of California High-Speed Rail. – Originally estimated to cost $33 billion in 2008, the cost ballooned to $128 billion and $135 billion more, with an estimated partial completion sometime in the late 2030s. – Trump addressed the absurdity of the plan’s high cost, saying it was mind-boggling and has been nothing more than a boondoggle.

Powerline: From Mainline to Sideline—Following Bishop Budde’s egregious hectoring of President Trump at the National Cathedral right after the inauguration, it has emerged that she headed an organization that received over $50 million in federal funds in 2023 to help “resettle” migrants.

February 4, 2025

Fox News: Trump says the US will ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip, then rebuild it to stabilize the Middle East – He envisions a ‘long-term ownership position’ of Gaza Strip – “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, yet to be discovered bombs and other weapons on the site.”…

Western Journal: Rubio’s Bombshell, El Salvador Willing to Jail Our Worst Criminals in Their 40,000 Super Prison – Our new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced that, after a meeting with El Salvador President Bukele, a noted law-and-order stickler, he agreed to “house violent U.S. criminals and receive deportees of any nationality.”…

Sharyl Attkisson: According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 77% of voters say photo voter ID should be required for election integrity. – Most voters also reject claims that voter ID laws are discriminatory, with only 30% saying such laws discriminate against some voters, while 60% do not.

Fox News: The Senate confirmed Pam Bondi, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, voting 54-46 to install the longtime prosecutor and former Florida attorney general to head the U.S. Department of Justice. – Senator John Fetterman bucked his party to make the vote bipartisan. – He was the only Democrat to join Republicans in support of the nominee.

Washington Examiner: State attorneys general look to prosecute Fauci despite Biden’s Federal pardon – “As state attorneys general, we possess the authority to address violations of state law or breaches of public trust.” – “We are fully committed to investigating any malfeasance that may have occurred to the fullest extent of our authority…

Axios: Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard has wind in her sails ahead of Tuesday’s Senate Intel Committee vote. – Senators Susan Collins and Todd Young announced their support for Gabbard ahead of the vote. – They were considered the crucial swing votes at the committee level.

One America News: The Senate has confirmed Doug Collins to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. – He was confirmed following a 77-to-23 vote, one of the widest bipartisan votes of any Trump Cabinet nominee. – Collins formerly served in Congress from 2013 to 2021.

Just The News: On Tuesday, the CIA sent a buyout option to its entire workforce, mimicking the one President Trump’s administration sent to federal employees last week. – Both offers give employees eight months of pay and benefits in exchange for their resignations.

Breitbart: Senator Joni Ernst Exposed USAID’s ‘Anti-American Agenda’ In Detailed Letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio – She concluded in her letter to Rubio, “As I’ve said before, sunshine is the very best disinfectant, now is the time to get to the bottom of USAID’s shady practices once and for all.

The Center Square: Of the billions in questioned USAID spending, millions went to fund terrorism. – A multi-year investigation brought by the DOJ and U.S. Attorney’s Office for DC reveals the scope of how funds were used in one recent terrorism-related case. – “The case represents one of the most significant diversions of USAID-funded humanitarian aid that USAID-OIG has investigated,” USAID’s Office of Inspector General said.

John Daniel Davidson: Defunding USAID Isn’t About Reducing The Deficit; It’s About Shutting Down Left-Wing Propaganda – USAID isn’t just a ridiculous scam on U.S. taxpayers; it funds leftist causes that erode Western civilization and destroy traditional values. – The common theme in many of these grants is that they push LGBTQ, green, and woke ideologies under the pretext of fighting poverty and promoting democracy abroad…

American Thinker: Trump’s Decision To End USAID Is Constitutional And Legally Solid. – Congress never made USAID an official agency, so irate Democrats must now live with the consequences. – The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 merely granted the President broad discretion to structure foreign aid programs as he saw fit.

AMUSE on X: From Critics to Cheerleaders, Media’s Sudden Love Affair with The US Agency for International Development (USAID) – President Trump’s return threatens the administrative state. – Nowhere is their panic more evident than in the mainstream media’s frantic efforts to rehabilitate USAID. – This bloated and unaccountable agency has long been the CIA’s wallet and Washington’s tool for political meddling abroad.

Western Journal: President Trump Rocks Bill Gates As The USAID Shakeup Squeezes Out The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Clearly, Bill Gates needs access to avenues to distribute money and global reach to export his grand schemes, two things, just coincidentally, that USAID, the government agency currently in the process of being shuttered by the Trump administration, provides his charity.

Vigilant News: Even Trump-Hater Bill Kristol’s Group Was Receiving Millions From Inside the USAID Matrix. – As suspected, Bill Kristol has been paid handsomely for sh*tting on President Trump for over eight years now. – Kristol’s group, the Defending Democracy Together Institute, received big money indirectly from USAID through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors…

Epoch Times: Democrats lay out a roadmap to take down Elon Musk – Senate and House Minority Leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries of New York unveiled legislation they are calling “Stop the Steal” that aims to prevent supposed “unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department’s payment systems.”…

Dayton Daily News: China countered President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports and announced an antitrust investigation into Google and other trade measures. – Beijing University of International Business and Economics professor John Gong, “The Chinese response was “measured, I don’t think they want the trade war escalating. “

Center Square: Trump’s China crackdown may end tax loophole for retailers like Shein and Temu. – There are ongoing questions about these Chinese companies’ business practices, including whether they use slave labor and the exemption to avoid U.S. regulations. – During the Biden administration, their tax loophole drew bipartisan criticism. Trump’s executive orders have explicitly stated that its new tariffs apply even to them.

Zero Hedge: Ukraine Is Open To Trump’s Demand To Exchange Rare Earth Elements For Arms—Trump’s ‘Victory Plan’ for Ukraine involves the war-ravaged country agreeing to grant the US unprecedented access to its rare earth elements in a more ‘equitable’ quid pro quo. – The only problem for Kyiv and Washington is that the bulk of Ukraine’s main rare earth deposits are currently under Russian occupation in the territories annexed by Moscow.

Slay News: President Trump has temporarily cut off U.S. funding to South Africa while his administration investigates the nation’s new land expropriation law. – The law seeks to boot white farmers from their land in South Africa. – Land expropriation has led to murder, rape, and theft.

Breitbart: During a Monday appearance on FNC’s “Special Report,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the Trump administration’s move to wind down the US Agency for International Development (USAID) functions. – According to Rubio, Trump administration officials who attempted to reform the agency quickly discovered evidence of “rank insubordination.”

Western Journal: Karoline Leavitt Pulls Out ‘Insane’ List of USAID Expenditures as Reporter Frets About ‘Humanitarian Aid’ – Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Leavitt responded to a snarky question about Musk’s level of expertise in “humanitarian aid” first by defending Musk as a common-sense businessman and then by citing a list of totally “insane” overseas projects funded by USAID.

Breitbart: Secretary of State Marco Rubio received a warm welcome from President Nayib Bukele and his family at the presidential palace in San Salvador, El Salvador. – Bukele received Rubio in the company of the First Lady of El Salvador and their two daughters. The exchange occurred entirely in Spanish, an unprecedented moment for American diplomacy as Rubio is the nation’s first Hispanic-American secretary of state.

Daily Wire: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced she was revoking a Biden administration policy that gave 348,202 Venezuelans living in the U.S. who were given work authorization and shielded from deportation in October 2023. – She said conditions had improved in Venezuela and that it was not in America’s interest to maintain the program.

Geller Report: Trump’s Probe Into USAID Spending Reveals Obscene And Outrageous Wrongdoing – USAID funneled $53 million to EcoHealth Alliance, which then used U.S. taxpayer funds to support gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab research that likely led to the creation of COVID-19. – And that’s not all…

Dan Bongino: George Soros’ Fingerprints Are All Over USAID – At long last, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a political organization masquerading as a development program, may be deleted. – The Soros Foundations Management Training Program (“SFMTP) received and signed Cooperative Agreement HEUR 0045 A 00 4007 00 from “USAID” on November 19, 1993…

Resist The Mainstream: Platform Services Manager Brandon Wright faces imminent termination after being caught on undercover video vowing to obstruct incoming Secretary Kristi Noem’s border policies and launching personal attacks against her. – Wright spoke candidly to an O’Keefe Media Group undercover journalist in footage that has sparked internal investigations…

American Thinker: The Top Five Failed Democrat Initiatives That Cost Americans a Fortune – 1. The CHIPS Act was designed to provide the domestic semiconductor industry with $79 billion in subsidies and loans. – 2. The Broadband Connectivity Act, with its Affordable Connectivity Program, is a $42 billion initiative aimed at improving broadband internet access for households across the country. – 3. The $1.2 Trillion Inflation Reduction Act…

New York Post: At least 20K federal workers are taking Trump’s buyout offer, with more expected to accept. – They accepted the Trump administration’s offer of taking eight months’ pay and benefits in exchange for walking away from the government workforce. – Employees have until Thursday to decide whether to accept the buyout offer that is believed to apply to at least 2.3 million federal employees.

Tampa Free Press: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has Cleared The Committee Vote, Putting Him on Track to Become Health Secretary – The panel voted 14-13 along party lines, with Senator Cassidy of Louisiana voting Yes despite expressing concerns last week about Kennedy’s history of anti-vaccine advocacy. – Next, the full Senate will vote on whether to confirm Kennedy

VOZ: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Confirmed The Migrant Flights to Guantanamo Have Begun. – In addition, Leavitt recalled that the federal government is in negotiations with the countries of origin of most of the immigrants with the objective that they accept the return of their nationals. – Some countries, such as El Salvador, have offered to lend their infrastructure to meet the administration’s objectives…

American Thinker: Trump Takes On The Octopus — Most people don’t understand the depth and breadth of the grift, graft, and corruption in the federal government that was bequeathed to Trump. – It is not just low-information voters who are uninformed. – The staggering level of corruption to be exposed by the Trump administration and its DOGE will be both mind-blowing and sickening.

American Thinker: DOGE Walks Among Us – The federal leviathan is undergoing a full MRI scan thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. – DOGE will play a key role in dismantling the Deep State. – Once DOGE’s results are publicized, the verdict will come into focus. – Entire agencies will no longer exist, and those surviving will be substantially curtailed.

Gateway Pundit: Under Musk’s leadership, young prodigies are leading a transformative project to slash federal spending. – Just two weeks into its formation, the DOGE operating team has already made significant inroads into reforming how the government operates under Musk’s leadership. – Here is updated data on DEI-related contract cancellations, in full detail, totaling over 1 billion.

Townhall: A Reporter Highlights the One Paragraph That Shreds the Entire NYT Hit Piece on Elon Musk – Forty-three paragraphs into the NYT’s latest hit piece on Elon Musk, the by-lined reporters reveal that the federal government lost $236 billion to apparent fraud (“improper payments”) in 2023 alone…

Revolver: It Turns Out The ‘Deep State’ Used USAID To OUST Bolsonaro From Brazil – Plenty of politicians love USAID, especially crooked ones like Ilhan Omar, whose third-world hellhole of a homeland raked in $2.3 billion of our tax dollars. – USAID is operating with basically zero accountability and a mind-blowing $50 billion budget, which is insane, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently pointed out…

American Thinker: On Trump’s Tariffs, The Pain Is Already Subsiding – Preliminary evidence is that tariff pain is dulled and, at least so far, worth the price. – The “Art of the Deal” is beautifully basic and magnificently congruent with human nature; perhaps the methodology works well. – President Trump is resolute but also quite reasonable and flexible…

Gateway Pundit: The US Launched Reconnaissance Aerial Monitoring Aircraft Over The Mexican Border in Run-up to A Potential Cartel Strike – On his second day in office, President Trump officially designated drug cartels on the southern border as terrorist organizations. – This was followed last week with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announcing “all options are on the table” regarding the Mexican cartels.

American Thinker: Trump’s attack on the Deep State is spectacular and almost certainly legal – Sit back and enjoy the screams and lamentations of the leftists as their taxpayer-funded boondoggle finally comes to an end. – In just a few days, “DOGE” has effectively put an end to USAID, gelded the GSA tech division, the Office OPM, and the Treasury, along with firing corrupt people in the FBI, and this is just a short list…

Townhall: Here’s How Many FBI Employees Were Involved In Taking Down Trump—The FBI has submitted over 5,000 agents and staffers who worked on his cases. – The FBI has 38,000 total employees, including some 13,000 agents.

The Daily Fetched: FBI agents involved in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case were escorted from their posts over the weekend after refusing to release the names of agents connected to the January 6 investigations and the probe into President Donald Trump. – Entire squads of FBI agents were removed from the New York, Miami, and Washington, D.C., field offices after Trump appointed Driscoll to lead the agency.

Vigilant News: The Jaw-Dropping Disparities in The Biden and Trump Pardons – The cases against the Jan. 6 defendants overwhelmingly involved legal system abuses. A politicized DOJ brought charges before juries in the District of Columbia that were heavily biased against Republicans and a circuit court that Democrats heavily control. – The jury pool was from a district where Biden had received over 92% of the vote in 2020.

Daily Wire: Trump Will Be the First Sitting President to Attend the Super Bowl. – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem assured the public that “there are no credible threats” that DHS has on the “radar” for the big game. – While president-elect, Trump attended multiple college football games, an NFL game, and the Army-Navy game.

Daily Wire: The NFL has reportedly sent the word to remove the message “End Racism” from the end zones for Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday. – It will be the first time since February 2021 that the message “End Racism” has not appeared in a Super Bowl end zone…

Daily Wire: The Army Is Set To Expand Basic Training Amid Flood Of New Recruits – Recruitment has surged since President Trump’s election in November. – Former Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said, “What’s remarkable is the first quarter contracts that we have signed are the highest rate in the last 10 years.” – “We are going like gangbusters, which is terrific.”

Western Journal: New York Democrat AG Letitia James sent a letter to hospitals in the state on Monday, threatening them with legal action if they comply with President Trump’s executive order against transgender procedures on children. – Earlier, Trump directed all federal agencies in his order to make sure that hospitals receiving federal grant funds “end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”

Newsmax: The Trump Administration Has Opened An Antisemitism Probe Into Four Medical Schools—The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the investigations target the medical schools at Columbia, Brown, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard.

American Thinker: Hillary Clinton’s Hypersonic Hypocrisy – The next time Hillary Clinton or her media allies wag a finger about “Russian interference,” remember this: Hillary Clinton’s State Department helped arm Russia with hypersonic missile technology. – Yes, the same Hillary Clinton who branded Tulsi Gabbard a “Russian asset.”…

American Thinker: The Threat of Carbon Capture — Climate change isn’t ending the world, but policies intended to combat it rob people of choice, often their property, and increase their living costs. – CCS is one such policy.

American Thinker: The Kids Are Not Alright – Our educational system is failing students big time, and the students are failing themselves. – As just one example, according to The Nation’s Report Card website, just 30% of American public-school 4th graders are proficient in reading according to government standards as of 2024, which is two points lower than in 2022…

February 3, 2025

Fox News: Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Canada for a month – Canada will implement a $1.3 billion border plan and appoint a fentanyl czar. – Canada will also reinforce its border with new helicopters, technology, and personnel and enhance coordination with American authorities…

Wall Street Journal: Trump Advisers Are Weighing A Plan To Dismantle the Department of Education By Shutting Down Key Functions—The order would be a step toward fulfilling a Trump campaign promise to eliminate the department, limit federal involvement in education, and give more authority to the states.

Washington Examiner: Authorities are investigating threats against Musk and DOGE employees – An initial review of the evidence indicates that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law. Authorities have contacted the FBI and other law enforcement partners, and prosecutors are preparing to proceed.

American Spectator: Three Cheers for Kash Patel. – It is time to retire the FBI’s left-wing politics. – For all of the back-and-forth in the last seven years, the iconic Federal Bureau of Investigation members have not been playing by the rules but rather pursuing straight-up law violations.

American Thinker: Big-Tech God Marc Andreessen Boards The MAGA Train – Take a look at these tidbits: Half of the Blacks admitted into a place like Harvard were not American-born Blacks; they were foreign-born Blacks, specifically Northern African, and generally Nigerian or West Indian…

One America News: Chris Wright Has Been Confirmed as The New Secretary of Energy – Wright will run a department that oversees energy research, loans, and the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal.

American Spectator: The Democrats Are Hogging the Wilderness. – The Democrat Party’s selection of Ken Martin and David Hogg as their new leaders proves that they haven’t learned anything and still need to spend time in wilderness timeout before trying to be relevant again. – Antigun David Hogg’s sole source of political relevance is that he was not killed in the Parkland, Florida shooting…

American Spectator: Trump Was Right About California’s Wildfires – Throughout his first term, Trump repeatedly begged California’s Governor Gavin Newsom and other boneheaded Democrats to reduce vegetation and increase water storage and infrastructure to prevent and, if necessary, defeat the flames.

The Center Square: California’s largest property insurer, State Farm, demands a 22% rate hike due to the wildfires. – Proposition 103 in 1988 empowered state regulators to approve rate hikes, which has led to rates not keeping up with rising claims and risks. – State Farm says it has lost $5 billion over the last nine years in California and had no option but to stop underwriting new policies in 2023.

Reuters: Trump orders the creation of a US sovereign wealth fund, saying it could be used to buy TikTok. – If created, the sovereign wealth fund could place the U.S. alongside numerous other countries, particularly in the Middle East and Asia, that have launched similar funds to make direct investments with government dollars.

Conservative Brief: Russian President Vladimir Putin Says Trump Will ‘Restore Order’ Throughout The European Continent Amid Talk of Ending The Ukraine War – “Trump, with his character and stubbornness, will restore order quickly. – And all of them, you will see, it will happen swiftly. – Soon, they will all sit at the feet of their master and gently wag their tails.”…

American Wire: Now He Tells Us—Zelenskyy says Ukraine never received the over $100B supposedly sent by the Biden regime. – During a weekend interview, the leader of the notoriously corrupt Eastern European country revealed that the money never made it to the battlefield. So where did the money go?

Daily Wire: Trump Will View Footage Of The October 7 Attack Ahead Of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Visit – The footage includes videos of beheadings, houses, people set on fire, and unarmed people shot at point-blank range.

Daily Wire: Trump To Withdraw The United States From UN Human Rights Council – The factsheet announcing the withdrawal accused the UNHRC of not fulfilling its purpose and being a “protective body for countries committing horrific human rights violations as well as demonstrating consistent bias against Israel. – The president also withdrew from the council during his first term in 2018.

Daily Wire: Hospitals Across U.S. Stop Transitioning Children After Trump Signs Order Protecting Kids – “It’s already having its intended effect, preventing children from being maimed and sterilized by adults perpetuating a radical, false claim that they can somehow change a child’s sex,” the White House said in a Monday release. – ‘President Trump will always protect American children…

Western Journal: Shocking Testimony At The Kash Patel Hearing – Senator Ashley Moody Confirmed That The FBI and DOJ Obstructed The Investigation Into The Second Trump Assassination Attempt – She detailed the absurd levels of resistance to her investigation mounted by federal law enforcement as she questioned Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, during his confirmation hearing.

Conservative Brief: The Trump administration fired a group of prosecutors involved in the January 6 criminal cases on Friday and demanded the names of FBI agents who worked on those investigations, potentially paving the way for their likely future removal. – These actions reflect the White House’s efforts to assert control over federal law enforcement and purge agencies of career employees identified as not executing their duties appropriately…

Reuters: Rubio tells Panama to end China’s influence over the canal or face US action. – Rubio says Trump sees the status quo at the Panama Canal as unacceptable, and sovereignty over the canal is not up for discussion. – The U.S. believes China’s influence violates the neutrality treaty…

JD Rucker: That Was Fast – China Is Reportedly Preparing Trade Talks With Trump After The Weekend Tariff Shock – China aims to restore a trade agreement with the US and reaffirm its pledge not to devalue the yuan for a competitive advantage in global trade. – The so-called Phase One deal required China to increase American goods and services purchases by $200 billion over two years…

The Federalist: Trump Pauses Tariffs on Mexico After It Agrees To Send Thousands Of Troops To The Border — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that she is moving 10,000 members of the country’s National Guard to the U.S./Mexico border to stop drug trafficking. – Sheinbaum’s announcement came after speaking earlier in the day with President Donald Trump following his decision to hit the country with 25% tariffs for not doing more to stop the flow of fentanyl into the U.S…

Daily Wire: The EPA Put 1,100+ Employees On Notice And Warned They Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’ – An email was sent just days into Lee Zeldin’s tenure as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. – “As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to terminate you immediately,” the email says…

Zero Hedge: Trump Grand Strategy, What All This Has In Common – There’s a common thread between President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China (and perhaps soon on the EU), his deportations of illegal aliens, his threat to take back the Panama Canal, and his aggressive overtures to buy Greenland. – It’s not normal for the world to have one unipolar power. – We’re returning to a multipolar world with multiple great powers in different parts of the planet…

I&I/TIPP Poll: Trump’s Executive Orders Have Solid Voter Backing – Deploying the U.S. military to secure the southern border received 57% “support. – Banning federal funding for gender identity programs and recognizing only biological sex received 53% support. – Requiring federal workers to return to the office full-time received 56% support. – Looking at responses by party affiliation shows how far apart the major parties are at the onset of the new Trump administration…

James O’Keefe: An AGS-14 DHS Official Admitted That Department Employees Will Defy Trump Appointed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s “Marching Orders.” – He Revealed Their Tactics Of ‘Interpreting Priorities We Don’t Agree With.’ – “By the time the actual marching orders get to me and below, we can filter it in a way that steadies the ship.”…

Center For Immigration Studies: Kristi Noem Stops Taxpayer Funding Of Illegal Immigration – Security Secretary Kristi Noem, “We have stopped all grant funding that’s being abused by NGOs to facilitate illegal immigration into this country.” – “I’ve taken action to stop those funds, to re-evaluate them, and to make sure that we’re using taxpayer dollars to strengthen this country and to keep people safe.”

Real Clear Politics: A 13-year veteran of the Secret Service agent is, for the first time, publicly speaking out against the agency’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, which he says contributed to the first assassination attempt against President Trump last summer. – Rashid Ellis, a graduate of The Citadel, a prestigious military college in South Carolina, believes agendas have taken priority at the Secret Service for a long time, which got Trump shot…

Resist The Mainstream: The administration has been cracking down on DEI initiatives, which have faced widespread criticism for promoting divisive identity politics over merit and efficiency in government operations. – According to reports, Federal employees at the Department of Education have been placed on administrative leave after previously participating in a diversity training program.

The Federalist: Trump’s Executive Orders Are Only the First Step In Destroying DEI. – Too many public universities are choosing indoctrination over education. – As a former professor, I have seen firsthand that academia remains the nerve center for the poisonous ideology behind DEI.- Classroom-based DEI indoctrination in universities will not end without additional outside pressure.

Slay News: Trump Orders All Federal Agencies To Reject Biden’s Last Minute Collective Bargaining Agreements – Many of the CBAs struck with the Biden administration included terms for remote working, something Trump has sought to end. – Biden’s Social SS Commissioner, in December 2024, agreed with the American Federation of Government Employees, guaranteeing that the agency’s 42,000 employees would not have to work in the office during the Trump administration…

Zero Hedge: The USAID Website Goes Dark As Trump Reportedly Plans To Shift Agency Under State Department—Trump has made it very clear to Democrats and their Deep State counterparts that flooding taxpayer dollars into shady NGOs would end under his ‘America First’ agenda. – A post from Elon Musk’s DOGE account on X clarified that USAID went on a woke spending spree in third-world countries.

Daily Wire: Elon Musk said early Monday morning that he had received President Trump’s approval to eliminate the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). – Musk commented during a discussion with Senator Joni Ernst about the work Trump has called on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to accomplish.

Discern Report: The Purge Begins With Mass Carnage as Trump and Musk Ruthlessly Gut Corrupt Government Agencies. – The largest and most bloated bureaucracy in the history of the world has been thrown into a state of complete and utter chaos. – That being said, let’s look at some of the highlights at the U.S. Treasury, Office of Personnel Management, USAID, the EPA, and the FBI…

Washington Free Beacon: The Biden Administration Quietly Funneled $3 Million to Palestinian Government ‘Security Forces’ for Weapons Training After Its Members Carried Out Attacks on Israelis – The Trump administration ‘must conduct rigorous oversight of this type of funding, which the Biden administration quietly noticed at the 11th hour,’ according to Representative McCaul.

The Daily Fetched: A Soros-Owned Radio Station Put ICE Agents in Danger by Exposing Their Identities And Locations – KCBS 740 AM radio host Bret Burkhart provided descriptions of the unmarked vehicles used by ICE agents and even shared specific locations where they were operating…

Victor Davis Hanson: Ten Problems with DEI That Frighten the Public—Recent disasters have scrutinized DEI policies, raising concerns about their impact on competence, meritocracy, and public safety. – The first issue is whether hiring, retention, and promotion in the airline industry or the military are fully meritocratic.

The Federalist: 5 Shocking Reasons Trump Should Exit The U.N. Now – The UN is the Largest Global Purveyor of Gender Ideology – UN Agencies Promote ‘Sexual Rights’ for Children – The UN has a History of Horrific Child Sex Abuse – UN Officials are Immune to Prosecution – The Current Secretary-General of the UN is the Former President of the Socialist International

American Thinker: Trump’s Tariff War – First off, Mexico’s President says Americans can solve the fentanyl problem by combating “the sale of narcotics on the streets of our main cities. – However, Democrat mayors and district attorneys run them, and they don’t care much about crime unless it can be pinned onto someone in the MAGA world. – Then there is the situation with Canada…

Breitbart: A recent Gallup poll shows that Americans are more bullish on the U.S. economy and the stock market while being more hopeful about crushing inflation and borrowing costs than in 10 years or more. – Some 53% of Americans predicted the U.S. economy would grow over the next six months. – Some 61% also see stocks rising, the most since Gallup began asking the question in 2001.

FAR: What We Know and What We Don’t About January 6 – Many ordinary Americans want the truth about the happenings on that eventful day. – With those Americans in mind, it is helpful to sift through what we have learned about January 6 over the past four years and note the things we still don’t know.

American Thinker: This Paper exposes the pseudoscience behind the methane war on farmers – Farmers are not the villains of the climate story; they are essential stewards of the land who provide food for billions. – First published in 2020 by the CO2 Coalition, Fairfax, Virginia, the updated paper meticulously dismantles the prevailing narrative that methane emissions from agriculture threaten the planet…

Zero Hedge: It’s A Big Club, And You Ain’t In It – Not that long ago, George Carlin and Paddy Chayefsky encapsulated the dystopian nature of our society by accurately portraying who truly runs the show. – You don’t have to be cynical to acknowledge ruling class elite members of “The Big Club” are pulling all the levers, reaping all the wealth, and wielding all the power in our corporate fascist world, run by authoritarians. – There are reasons and strategies behind everything…

Fox News: The Senate Republican campaign committee’s January haul was record-breaking as it aimed to expand its majority. – Republicans flipped four Democrat-held Senate seats in the 2024 elections and now hold a 53-47 majority in the chamber. – The NRSC announced on Monday that it raked in a record $8.5 million in January, its best-ever off-year January haul.

Geller Report: Illegals Shut Down the 101 Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles In A Massive Anti-American Protest Response to ICE Raids—The protest began on Olvera Street and grew to a few thousand people who marched to City Hall before walking onto the 101 Freeway.

California Globe: It’s Time Former ‘Acting’ Labor Secretary Julie Su Faces Heat For California’s Pandemic Fraud – Now would be a good time for President Trump’s new DOJ to investigate California’s $55 Billion unemployment payments that were lost during the COVID pandemic…

February 2, 2025

Breggin Alerts: Was President Donald Trump right to blame the FAA’s woke DEI hiring practices for the January 29th mid-air collision? – The agency is entrusted with protecting our lives in the skies and airports. – Let’s examine various facts showing the federal agency’s utter disregard for human life.

Daily Wire: Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino said on Sunday that his country would withdraw from communist China’s predatory Belt and Road Initiative after meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The victory on Sunday comes after Trump scored a major victory last week over Colombia’s president after he tried to stop deportation flights.

President Donald J. Trump: The “Tariff Lobby,” headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades-long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both concerning TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to flow into AMERICA so freely…

One American News: The White House Slams House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries For Calling On Americans To ‘Fight’ Trump’s Agenda ‘In The Streets’ – Jeffries’ “call for violence” came during a recent press conference in Brooklyn on Friday, where he called on Americans to fight back against Trump’s “extreme” agenda “in the streets,” seemingly implying a notion of violence.

Townhall: Elon’s DOGE Just Took Out Another Career DC Bureaucrat – A career ⁦USAID ⁩official tried to reverse a DOGE decision to place 60 senior agency officials on administrative leave earlier this week. DOGE immediately took punitive action for the attempt, and now that official is on admin leave, too.

American Spectator: Trump Fumigates the DOJ—The stench of corruption emanates from every crevice of this thoroughly politicized agency. – Representative Raskin hilariously referred to the terminated and reassigned individuals as “non-partisan professionals.” – He conveniently forgot that these “career prosecutors and federal agents” did their level best to sabotage President Trump’s first term by launching numerous illegal investigations of the President and several members of his administration.

Gateway Pundit: Female Helicopter Pilot Rebecca Lobach’s Entire Social Media Scrubbed Before The Army Released Her Name – So What Are They Hiding? – The US Army and Rebecca’s family scrubbed her social media accounts for three days. – They don’t want the public to know anything about this female pilot. – It is not just that Rebecca Lobach is gone from social media; her sisters and parents were scrubbed as well…

Zero Hedge: Trade Wars Begin – Trump Tariffs On Canada, Mexico, And China Triggered Immediate Retaliation – Just hours after Trump unveiled double-digit tariffs on the three largest US trading partners, Canada and Mexico announced plans for retaliatory tariffs on the US. – Canada will place a 25% counter-tariff on C$155 billion ($107 billion) worth of American-made products. – Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said she also instructed the economy minister to kick off a response plan that includes retaliatory tariffs…

Geller Report: A Big Mistake – Trudeau Announces 25% Retaliatory Tariffs on American Goods – The United States is Canada’s largest foreign direct investment source. – Canada is largely dependent on our market. – This is not going to end well.

Just The News: ICE ramped up arrests and deportations of criminal aliens in Trump’s first two weeks – As of January 31, ICE-led operations have resulted in the arrest of more than 8,000 illegal immigrants, based on a collection of data the agency’s social media posts have disclosed since January 2023…

Slay News: Trump Established A Watchdog to Tackle Corporate Media Propaganda—President Trump’s administration is taking a bold step to tackle “fake news” and propaganda from the corporate media. – The Trump administration has launched a new social media account, Rapid Response 47. The watchdog aims to challenge what it perceives as “fake news” disseminated by the media.

American Thinker: Trump’s Second Week Is A Turning Point in American Governance – For the Democrats, Trump’s second week has been worse than they ever imagined. – For the rest of us, it has been better than we ever hoped. – In the second week of his second term in office, President Trump has asserted the right of the Chief Executive to manage the Executive Branch…

Geller Report: Trump Signed an Executive Order to Slash Federal Regulations—The new order requires federal agencies to repeal “at least 10 existing rules, regulations or guidance documents” for every new rule or regulation created.

American Thinker: The Uncivil Service Objects To Trump’s Work Ethic – Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution says: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. – Trump is demanding that federal employees, many of whom have been out of the office since the COVID lockdowns, return to their offices and work 40 hours a week…

American Thinker: What is Trump Doing With All the DIE Stuff? – There’s the truth, and then there’s what the leftist media reports. – The Trump administration has made it a top priority to eliminate any programs that promote Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the federal government, but that’s not how it is being reported…

American Greatness: Senator Schumer Is Under Investigation While Trump Works To Reshape Washington – Schumer faces scrutiny over past threats to Supreme Court Justices while Trump dismantles DEI, deports illegal migrants, and strikes ISIS, signaling a shift in Washington’s priorities.

American Thinker: Why Trump’s firing of the HUD Inspector General was Justified. – The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is tasked with investigating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). – However, the HUD inspector general has been failing the public in terms of its oversight of the department.

American Thinker: We Need A “Great Reset” In Our Dealings With China. – Thankfully, Trump knows that and undoubtedly has a whole series of plans to realign how China’s power is growing at America’s expense. – Trump has a different vision. Instead of giving away our national sovereignty, subsuming the interests of our citizens in favor of equity, and effectively abolishing our Constitution, Trump intends to lead the world into a new era of prosperity and peace…

American Thinker: The Decades of Lies from the Left – The ideological leftist infection grows at many of our institutions of so-called higher education, brought on by a blind spot created by a simple lack of gratitude for the opportunities afforded us as American citizens. – How do you convince the most fortunate people on Earth that they should hate the country they’ve benefited from their whole lives?

Brownstone Institute: Science’s Turn Towards Darkness—In light of RFK, Jr.’s confirmation hearings to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, it is important to remember that much of what is presented as science stems from vested interests and an outdated mechanistic worldview.

February 1, 2025

Daily Wire: President Trump said on Saturday that he ordered a strike on Islamic terrorists in Africa that resulted in the deaths of “many” terrorists. – “The strikes destroyed the caves they live in and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians,” Trump continued. – “Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did!”

Zero Hedge: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Announced Friday that all options, including military strikes against cartels on Mexican soil, are “on the table.” – Hegseth asserted that nothing is out of the question “if we’re dealing with what are designated to be foreign terrorist organizations who are specifically targeting Americans on our border.”

One America News: The terrorist group Hamas has released three more hostages as part of its current cease-fire deal with Israel. – The hostages that returned home during this release included a U.S./Israeli dual citizen from North Carolina, a father whose children were captured and released in a 2023 ceasefire-hostage deal, and the father of the youngest hostage…

American Thinker: Pete Hegseth Punishes Mark Milley For Arrogantly Defying The President. – If President Trump had known in 2016 how arrogant Mark Milley was, he might never have appointed him to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. – Milley’s treasonous behavior, spectacular incompetence, and rebelliousness against the president justify the punishment now being administered…

Western Journal: Trump Is Right, Obama’s FAA Policy Penalized ‘High Aptitude’ Applicants – Even The Chicago Tribune Was Worried Back in 2021 – This is what the FAA’s webpage said back in 2013. – “Diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond,” the page read.

Western Journal: Another Obama-Biden Chinese Spy – Harold Rogers, a former senior advisor to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the International Finance Division, was arrested for allegedly leaking sensitive information to the Chinese government while receiving large payments and going on fully funded trips to the country.

American Spectator: President Trump’s Extraordinary Firing of the Inspector Generals – In the challenge Trump has posed to the Senate over the power to dismiss officers, we are seeing a remarkable resurrection of constitutionalism. – What stands now is something extraordinary: the Supreme Court acknowledges an Executive power based on a decision made by Congress to affirm the power of the Executive Branch against its own…

Breitbart: The DNC Goes Hogg Wild – Gun Control Activist David Hog Elected Party Vice Chair – “Who’s ready to take the fight to the Republicans and win this thing? Are you guys ready to fight?” Hogg asked during his victory speech.

The Daily Fetched: President Trump confirmed that he will impose tariffs on the European Union. – Trump has long criticized the EU for its unfair trade policies, arguing that they disadvantage American businesses while allowing the EU relatively open access to U.S. markets. – The announcement comes as the Trump administration prepares to implement tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada.

Just The News: Venezuela has released six American male detainees after President Nicolás Maduro met Richard Grenell, the Trump administration’s special envoy. – Earlier in the day, the White House urged Venezuela to release the hostages and agree to accept Venezuelans deported from the U.S.

The National Pulse: Trump’s FBI Cleans House, At Least 20 Senior Officials Dismissed. – Several top officials with the FBI either left or were forced out of their positions late last night. – At least 20 director or assistant director-level employees were dismissed or resigned across the country, impacting several major field offices, including Miami, Las Vegas, and the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Slay News: Two Illegal Aliens Have Been Arrested Over The Brutal Murder Of A 63-Year-Old Man in Chicago – The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy that determined Levin died of multiple injuries after being savagely assaulted by the killers.

Red State: The Friday Night Smackdown at the DOJ—Dozens of J6 Prosecutors Sent Packing – While we wait for Attorney General Nominee Pam Bondi to hopefully be confirmed, Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. isn’t sitting around sipping tea, and on late Friday afternoon, he axed about 30 federal prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases over the last four years.

Zero Hedge: Musk Reveals Treasury Has Been Auto-Paying Everyone, ‘Even Known Terrorist Groups’ – “The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed to always approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.” – “They never denied payment in their entire career and triggered their longest-serving, highest-ranked career official to quit in a huff.

Zero Hedge: The man who led the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section has resigned. – Corey Amundson, who had been in charge of the section for years before the Trump administration recently reassigned him to work on immigration issues, has stepped down.

American Conservative: The Real Meaning of the Fight Over Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence—Gabbard threatens the self-protective national security clique. – The “threat” Gabbard poses to their ongoing series of worldwide covert regime change operations that benefit only the Pentagon and IC budgets is indeed a serious one, and sensible Americans should welcome it.

American Thinker: Why DEI Policies Threaten Our Safety – The push for DEI, while noble in intent, has, in practice, led to what can only be described as a quota system in disguise. – Where once merit was the sole arbiter, now there’s a shadow of doubt cast over every hire, every promotion. – This doubt isn’t about the individuals themselves, many of whom are undoubtedly capable, but about the system that prioritizes diversity over aptitude…

American Thinker: Farmers Unite For Robert Kennedy, Jr. – The assault on Robert F Kennedy. Jr.’s confirmation for Secretary of Health and Human Services reveals more about his accusers than the man himself. – A recent letter of support signed by over 130 farms across the nation displays exuberant agreement that this cause should be a greater priority for the Senate Committee on Finance than Bobby’s abortion views or his justifiable skepticism about vaccine safety…

American Thinker: The weaponization of government hasn’t died as an issue. – Those of us who believe that the Biden/Harris regime’s weaponization of the American government was one of the most important issues of the 2024 election have been heartened to see that the issue has sustained its energy. – Even if Biden pardons immunize some of the perpetrators, a thorough investigation of their pattern of abuse still needs to be conducted to expose the truth about past transgressions.

The Center Square: Nearly 80 percent of Americans don’t want men playing in women’s sports—The New York Times and polling company Ipsos Surveyed nearly an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, and the results show that the majority of Americans do not want transgender-identifying men in women’s sports.

The Daily Fetched: The Trump White House has reiterated that it does not endorse transgenderism or gender ideology by ordering the State Department to remove the letter ‘T’ from LGBT on its official website. – “LGB” stands for lesbian, gay, and bisexual, while the “T” represents transgender individuals.

American Thinker: Eighteen Blue-State Attorneys General Betray America – While the actions of these AGs likely don’t precisely fit the text of the federal treason statute, it’s not a stretch to consider them treasonous and surely anti-American. – This disdain for the law has given Mexico an opening to sue, claiming American gun makers are liable because they know at least some of their lawful products are used by cartels to commit crimes in Mexico…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, “I Don’t Care Margaret” — In week two, it has become apparent that the Trump Administration has decided to treat the media and its political opponents like the dogs they are…

January 31, 2025

Breitbart: Trump Doubles Down on The U.S. Retaking Panama Canal – After signing executive orders, Trump spoke to reporters about how Secretary of State Marco Rubio would visit Panama during his first international trip.

WNCTP – A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother, and four others aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff Friday evening, exploding in a fireball that engulfed several homes. – All six people aboard were from Mexico. – The child had been treated in Philadelphia for a life-threatening condition and was being transported home.

New York Post: The Army will not identify the female Black Hawk pilot killed in DC collision – At the request of the family, her name will not be released at this time,” according to Army Public Affairs. – The Army formally identified Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, were the two other service members who were on the Black Hawk helicopter when it went down in the fiery crash into the Potomac River.

Sharyl Attkisson: Senators Johnson and Grassley have released the whistleblower records on the DOJ and FBI plot against Trump. – The records are linked below as Exhibits 1 through 9.

American Spectator: What if Greenland Isn’t Denmark’s to Sell? – Wording in the 1916 Treaty of the Danish West Indies could help justify an American claim to Greenland. – President Trump may not have to purchase Greenland to establish sovereignty over the world’s largest island. – The American explorer Charles Francis Hall claimed this vast land mass (or at least the northern third) for the United States on September 5, 1871.

Vigilant Fox: Bill Maher Went Full RFK Jr. in a Scorching Takedown of America’s Failing Healthcare System – Something is wrong with how America does health. – Bill Maher just dropped the receipts to prove it in a few succinct comments.

American Spectator: Trump Protects Children From Woke Abuse – His New Executive Order Bans Chemical and Surgical Mutilation of Children – In effect, so-called “gender-affirming care” is a form of child abuse that results in “maiming and sterilizing impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.”…

Lumen News: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Delivered The Truth On The Incentivized ‘Mass Killing’ of Over 100 Million Chickens That Caused Our Steep Egg Prices — I would like to point out to every one of you that in 2024, when Joe Biden was in the Oval Office, or upstairs in the residence sleeping, egg prices increased 65% in this country. – Not only that, but…

Western Journal: Watch Karoline Leavitt Take Apart DEI For Air Traffic Controllers—This Short Response To A Reporter Question May Have Been the Single Best Line in the History of WH News Briefings. – Leavitt noted that many would-be air traffic controllers sued the Department of Transportation and the FAA in 2015 regarding the decision to add a biographical questionnaire to the air traffic control application process.

Hot Air: California Democrats Walk Back Their $50 Million Effort to “Trump-proof” the State Now That They Need The President’s Help – As Donald Trump prepared to take office, Democrats in the California state legislature returned in a special session to launch La Résistance 2.0. – Never mind that wildfires ripped through northwestern Los Angeles, and the infrastructure to fight them had failed…

One America News: CBS staffers are outraged as the network prepares for a settlement in Trump’s $10B lawsuit against them. – The lawsuit revolves around the network’s previous “60 Minutes” interview with failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. – The lawsuit accused the outlet of deviously manipulating the interview to prop her up and make her sound more intelligible through editing and splicing methods during production.

Breitbart: CBS says it will turn over an unedited transcript of its October interview with Kamala Harris to the Federal Communications Commission. – This is related to President Donald Trump’s ongoing fight with the network over how it handled a story about his opponent during the 2024 election campaign.

Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation: With President Trump’s support and in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the FAA will restrict helicopter traffic around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport effective today. – This decision will immediately help secure the airspace near Reagan Airport, ensuring the safety of airplane and helicopter traffic.

Western Journal: Stunning Footage From New Angles Showing The Military Helicopter Flying Directly Into American Airlines Flight 5342 Raises New Questions. – The helicopter was well outside its approved flight path, which lets helicopters fly at a low altitude along the bank on the east side of the Potomac, a location that would have let it avoid the American Airlines plane…

Courageous Discourse: One Day Before The Fatal Collision, There Was A Near Miss With A Helicopter On A Final Approach To Reagan Airport – A Traffic Collision Avoidance System alert prompted the commercial aircraft’ evasive maneuver and go around just 24 hours and 40 minutes before the collision the next day. – It should be noted that helicopters are FAR MORE maneuverable than commercial jets are, especially when the latter is on a final approach...

Western Journal: Yes, Obama and Biden Had The FAA Hire People with Intellectual, Psychiatric, and Severe Physical Disabilities – Let’s start from an archived 2013 version of the Federal Aviation Administration’s website and its “diversity and inclusion” page. – “Diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.”…

Vigilant Fox: – Karoline Leavitt Forced The Media to Eat Their Words In A Brutal White House Smackdown – For once, the smug press had to sit down, shut up, and face reality as Leavitt made them look in the mirror. – As described below, not even a shred of media spin could land a blow on Trump today. If this is just the beginning, the press will be in for four very long years.

News X: Federal employees across multiple agencies have been ordered to immediately remove pronouns from their email signatures, marking the latest rollback of diversity initiatives under the Trump administration. – The mandate aligns with two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office, which aimed to curb diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs within the federal government…

Gateway Pundit: WINNING! Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urges All Of His Country’s Illegal Aliens to Return Home ‘Immediately’ – Petro, “Wealth is produced only by working people.” – “The Department of Social Prosperity, DPS, will seek to provide productive loans to returnees who enroll in its programs.” – “Let’s build social wealth in Colombia.”

Twitchy: During a Megyn Kelly Interview, Marco Rubio Explained Why Trump’s Purchase of Greenland is not a laughing matter. – After Trump’s fiery call with Denmark’s Prime Minister, Rubio explained that Trump is approaching this acquisition like a businessman, not a politician. – American adversaries China and Russia are competing against us for strategic advantage, and Greenland is an important piece needed to maintain America’s safety.

Daily Fetched: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has stopped all grant funding for non-governmental organizations aiding mass illegal immigration into the U.S. – The DHS funneled almost $400 million into far-left NGOs under the Biden administration, assisting illegals with housing, food, and job placement.

Daily Wire: President Trump is taking further action against the 50 former intelligence officials who falsely suggested Hunter Biden’s laptop was “part of a Russian disinformation campaign,” instructing agencies to ban them from stepping foot in secure U.S. government facilities. – This order expands Trump’s executive order barring former officials, including John Bolton and Leon Panetta, from entering secure government properties…

Daily Wire: The Trump administration has reportedly told top FBI officials that they should resign or expect to be fired by Monday. – The dismissal came after President Trump had promised dramatic reforms to the FBI and the Justice Department, which he says were weaponized against him and his supporters during the Biden administration.

The Federalist: Team Trump Is Winning The Media Battle By Treating Left-Wing Press As The Propagandists They Are – The reason the entire Trump administration is successfully fielding absurd questions so well is because they understand these ‘journalists’ are just the propaganda wing of the Democrat party, so that act accordingly. – “I don’t really care, Margaret,” is a line that has now reverberated throughout the country, and for good reason…

Breitbart: President Trump warned Thursday night that his sweeping 25% tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico would begin in 48 hours, adding that he’s still considering whether to include oil from those countries as part of his import taxes. – “That decision will be based on whether the price of oil charged by the two trading partners is fair.”…

Zero Hedge: On February 1, the Trump administration will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on China, as announced during Friday’s press briefing by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. – Leavitt further explained that there would be no delay, selective targeting, or slow rollout of phased-in tariffs, as Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank speculated.

American Greatness: Mike Pence’s Evil Alliance with Big Pharma Won’t Stop RFK’s Confirmation—Mike Pence and Big Pharma make a perfect pair. – Both will say anything to protect their interests, even if it means sabotaging RFK’s nomination. – Big Pharma has perfected the art of playing both sides, donating to Democratic and Republican political figures that they deem able to help protect its affiliated drug companies’ bottom lines.

American Thinker: RFK Jr. vs. The Establishment’s Trained Seals – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walked into his confirmation hearing expecting a grilling. – Instead, he gave a master class in Washington’s most predictable theater, politicians masquerading as public servants while performing for their real benefactors, Big Pharma. – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. carries a storied name in Democrat politics, but his break from the party’s establishment is undeniable…

American Thinker: Hegseth Crushes DEI In The Military – “The President’s guidance is clear: No more DEI @DeptofDefense.” – “The Pentagon will comply immediately.” – “There will be no exceptions, name changes, or delays. – “Those who do not comply will no longer work here.” – Crushing it is what Trump and his team have been doing since 47’s swearing-in. – Ask the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, a clueless lefty-globalist thug…

American Thinker: President Trump Is Right About The Current Plight of Aviation Safety—Trump quickly noted how the prior Biden administration and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg turned our nation’s aviation system into a DEI hiring program. – This included pressuring airlines, air traffic control, the FAA, and the military to favor people based on factors outside strict qualifications. – That included hiring programs for those with cognitive disabilities into critical safety roles.

Geller Report: President Trump Is Unfazed By Pushback And Insists Egypt and Jordan Will Take In Gazans – “They Will Do It.” – Why won’t Muslim countries take in Muslims from Gaza? – Why is it that only Western nations are taking in these terrorists? – No civilized population should be expected to tolerate this barbarity on their border. America certainly wouldn’t. The ‘Palestinians’ in Gaza need to live elsewhere. Enough!…

Washington Free Beacon: Republicans in the House and Senate are finalizing legislation that would formally recognize the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria,” applying Israel’s official term for the region to all American government communication. – ‘The U.S. should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel. -Senator Tom Cotton cosponsored the bill with Representative Claudia Tenney.

Daily Wire: The Trump Administration Announced It Will Enforce 2020 Title IX Rules, Not Biden’s Revised Version – The Trump administration called Biden’s policy “an unlawful abuse of regulatory power and an egregious slight to women and girls.”

American Thinker: California Dreamin’ – Every day, we learn more about the monumental ineptitude of California’s elected officials. – At the peak of the L.A. wildfires, the hydrants dried up. – Green lawyers and their representatives blocked the construction of new reservoirs for the past 46 years. – Permits to clear away flammable vegetation sat on the desks of bureaucrats awaiting approvals that never came. – Governor Gavin Newsom stopped a plan to pipe water from the lush north to the parched southland…

American Thinker: Don’t Neglect Sovereignty in Higher Education—Understandably, Universities seek ties to China, as Beijing offers funding, lavish trips, and a river of foreign students willing to pay to attend America’s colleges. – Iran, a prominent state sponsor of terrorism, is very active in American higher education. – Higher education is known for foreign espionage activity. Higher education cannot be ignored if the Trump administration is serious about sovereignty.

Woke Spy: A Recent Quinnipiac Poll Finds That The Democrats Are More Unpopular Than Ever Before – Only 31% of respondents had a favorable opinion of the Democrats, compared to 57% who did not. – Interestingly, 15% of Democrat respondents held an unfavorable view of their party, as did 59% of independents. – Women (39%) were more likely to have a favorable view of the Democratic Party than men (22%).

January 30, 2025

Fox News: President Donald Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders appointing a new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) deputy administrator and ordering an immediate assessment of aviation safety. – The orders came after an American Airlines plane carrying 64 people and an Army Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers crashed in midair at about 9 p.m. Wednesday. – Trump noted that the Biden administration encouraged the recruitment of people with ‘severe intellectual disabilities.’…

Breitbart: Pilots have long worried about DC’s complex airspace contributing to a catastrophe – “This was a disaster waiting to happen,” said Ross Aimer, a retired United Airlines captain and chief executive officer of Aero Consulting Experts. “Those of us who have been around a long time have been yelling into a vacuum that something like this would happen because our systems are stretched to extremes.”

Washington Examiner: Four takeaways from Kash Patel’s Senate hearing where Trump and past FBI bashing dominated – 1. There is a clear partisan divide. – 2. A wandering focus as lawmakers argue among themselves. – 3. Plans to close FBI headquarters and distribute people across America to fight crime. – 4. There was a wide range of attendees…

Western Journal: Democrats Boycott Trump Nominee Vote, But It Passed Anyway—The Senate Budget Committee voted 11-0 to send Russell Vought’s nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget to the full Senate.

Epoch Times: ICE Arrests Guatemalan, Salvadoran Gang Members – Hundreds of criminal aliens are being arrested daily by ICE officials as part of enforcement operations. They include Luis Adolfo Guerra-Perez, a Guatemalan gang member charged with drug and weapons crimes, and Anderson Geovany Romero, a member of the MS-13…

American Spectator: Five Quick Things Regarding The Unfolding Commonsense Revolution – This week, the return to common sense has been felt. – 1. I Don’t Care, Margaret – 2. A Horrific Plane Crash Kills 67, and Government Bureaucracy Could Be Both the Assailant and the Ultimate Victim. – 3. The Tucker Carlson–Piers Morgan Interview – 4. The Very Wrong Phyllis Fong – 5. The Need For New Conspiracy Theories Because All Of The Old Ones Have Come True…

The Federalist: Here Is A “Dirty Dozen” List Of Wasteful Federal Grants You’re Paying For – The State Department — $100,000 for “Building Palestinian girls and young women’s resilience through weekly running and wellness sessions. – National Science Foundation — $1.5 million to Florida State University to fund “Black Feminist Building a Sisterhood in Computing.” – Department of Agriculture — $717,000 to Ohio State University to solve the “cultural resistance in the USA and Europe that impedes the acceptance of insect proteins as food sources.”…

Western Journal: Chilling Audio Reveals Air Traffic Control’s Final Instructions Black Hawk Helicopter – Air traffic controllers instructed the Army chopper to move away from the jet coming in for a landing. – “PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ,” an air traffic controller said, using the call sign for the chopper and referring to a Bombardier CRJ-701 twin-engine jet as CRJ.

Daily Wire: A Report Suggests Airport Tower Understaffed At Time Of Collision, Had Been For Years – A Controller had to deal with helicopters and instructing planes, doing tasks usually meant for two people. – An internal preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said staffing at the tower was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic.”…

Daily Signal: President Trump Held A Press Conference On The Midair Collision Of An American Airlines Commercial Jet And An Army Black Hawk Helicopter – Trump said that a thorough investigation in the Federal Aviation Administration and within the military will take place and that the public will be appraised of the findings of that investigation. – Here is a video of what he said…

Western Journal: Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River included figure skaters returning from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and two of their Russian coaches. – There were 60 passengers and four crew members on the American Airlines flight on Wednesday and three soldiers aboard the training flight on the Blackhawk helicopter.

New York Post: Everything we know so far about DC plane crash victims – Those who boarded the flight, which went down over the frigid Potomac River late Wednesday, included at least 14 members of the US Figure Skating team along with their Russian coaches. – One of the American Airlines pilots on board his family identified the downed jet as Sam Lilley — a 28-year-old first officer who was engaged to be married…

AMUSE on X: How DEI Policies Are Compromising Air Traffic Control – Previously, Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) were selected through rigorous training programs, ensuring that only the best and brightest sat at the helm of our nation’s skies. – However, beginning in the Obama era and accelerating under Biden, a seismic shift occurred: meritocracy was abandoned in favor of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandates.

Populist Times: Daily Border Encounters Are Plummeting Under Trump – See The Graph

Issues & Insights: Trump’s Gaza Truth Bomb Re-Flips The Script On Gaza – To wit: “I’d like Egypt to take people, and I’d like Jordan to take people. You’re talking about probably a million and a half people; we clean out that whole thing.”

Red State: The Kash Patel Hearing Starts With a Bang As The Future FBI Director Cooks Democrats – Senator Chuck Grassley began the hearing by reading never-before-released emails exposing the FBI’s malfeasance over the last several years. – Senator, this may be one of the scenarios that most uniquely qualifies me to take command of the FBI. Having been the victim of government overreach and a weaponized system of justice and law enforcement, I know what it feels like to have the full weight of the United States government barreling down on you…

Geller Report: A radio station owned by George Soros reported the live locations of undercover Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents operating in San Jose, California, an area known for violent gang activity. – This is incitement to violence and murder against law enforcement. – PULL SOROS LICENSES.

American Thinker: A pocket guide to why Trump is correct on birthright citizenship – As Barack Obama once said, “Words matter,” but leftists don’t want you to see that. – The predicate for this discussion, of course, is this clause from the 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. (Emphasis mine.)…

Numbers USA: Tell Congress to End Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens! – Contacting your elected officials is one of the most powerful actions you can take to push for sensible immigration policy!

Breitbart: Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence nominee, addressed her opponents’ “lies and smears” during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. – Certain committee members oppose her because she refuses to be their puppet. – Gabbard then listed many other examples that need attention, many of which occurred under President Joe Biden’s watch.

American Greatness: RFK Jr.’s confirmation hearings show us which senators Big Pharma owns. – Kennedy’s harshest critics and defenders of the status quo are publicly revealed, with their pharmaceutical industry donations scrutinized. – This list of donation amounts from the Big Pharma community should open people’s eyes.

American Thinker: Just how disgusting were Democrats to RFK, Jr. at his hearing? – Here are some more doozies from the party of Big Pharma. – Here’s what kind of creature Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is as he preens on the Senate floor, piously intoning, “You frighten me.”- Frightened? Really? – It’s his old pal Bobby. – What kind of creature could even do such a thing to someone he’s known for years, who attended law school together and even attended his wedding?

American Thinker: A whistleblower beats the Garland DOJ – Sane Americans would consider exposing physicians and others doing permanent harm to mentally confused kids necessary and a good thing, but not under Garland’s DOJ. – Dr. Eithan Haim was the subject of an ongoing criminal case brought by Biden’s DOJ after he leaked documents to the media revealing Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston was performing transgender medical procedures on minors through May 2023…

Victor Davis Hanson: Is Mexico Our Friend, Enemy, Neutral, or Something Else? – After years of U.S. appeasement, Mexico exploits open borders, drug trade, and remittances—it’s time for America to enforce real consequences and reclaim control. – Rather than worry about who is sending remittances, why place a 20% tax (about $12 billion) on all cash sent from the U.S. to Mexico? – We could also slap tariffs on imported assembled goods until the two-way trade is roughly balanced.

John Daniel Davidson: It’s Time We Start Treating Mexico Like The Hostile Foreign Power That It Is – We’re never going to have peace and security on our southern border until we deal with the corrupt and criminal elements that run Mexico. – Earlier this week, suspected Mexican drug cartel gunmen fired on U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas, who fired back. – This took place on a strip of land in the middle of the Rio Grande called Fronton Island, also known as “Cartel Island,” because it was previously used as a staging area for cartel smuggling operations.

Washington Free Beacon: ‘No Immigrant Should Be Detained,’ Says The Left-Wing Nonprofit With $769 Million Federal Immigration Contract – Acacia Center for Justice, based in Washington, D.C., is one of the largest federal immigration contractors, overseeing a $769 million program that provides lawyers for unaccompanied alien children and adults in immigration court hearings and deportation proceedings.

American Greatness: There Is Mounting Disobedience in Our Schools—School discipline is declining, and the education establishment is clueless about improving the situation. – The problem in Los Angeles is particularly grim. In the 2023-2024 school year, the district’s School Experience Survey shows that just 58.5% of elementary students, 55.2% of middle school students, and 51.6% of high school students reported feeling safe in their schools—a significant drop from previous years…

American Thinker: Is the climate doomsday cult finally losing power? – It seems the public has higher priorities – Their credibility gap has only widened with extreme actions by groups like Extinction Rebellion and Stop Oil, whose theatrical protests, from destroying priceless artworks to blocking ambulances by gluing hands to roads, have alienated potential supporters and raised questions about the movement’s priorities.

Zero Hedge: The Trump-Vance administration’s DOJ sued to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. – The DoJ argues that the tie-up, which would leave Juniper and HPE with control of 70% of the enterprise wireless equipment market, would “eliminate fierce head-to-head competition” in the US.

Daily Wire: The stories of a dozen de-transitioners, medical professionals, and mothers whose children were caught up in gender ideology are highlighted in a powerful docuseries by IW Features, a project of the Independent Women’s Forum. – ‘They were willing to step up, be extremely vulnerable with us, and contribute their voice to bring about needed change.’

FAR: Was JFK A Democrat or Republican? – Today’s Democrat party is much different from when I was young. – It has moved so far to the left that it is unrecognizable.

January 29, 2025

Wall Street Journal: Kash Patel Explains How He Will Rebuild Public Trust in the FBI—Two foundational steps are necessary. – First, let good cops be cops. – Second, transparency is essential. – My commitment to these principles is deeply rooted in my family’s history, as my father fled Idi Amin’s genocidal dictatorship in Uganda…

Victor Davis Hanson: Why It Makes So Much Sense That The Left So-Fears Kash Patel, Who Is Patently Qualified To Be FBI Director – #1. One is he was the point man for Devin Nunes’ House Select Intelligence Committee investigation of the FBI. – #2. Kash Patel comes from a different background. He’s an Indian-American immigrant. He went to schools that the Left did not, so he is an outsider…

One America News: Trump Announces Preparations To Move 30,000 Illegal Aliens To Guantanamo Bay. – Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust their countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back,” Trump explained, “We’re going to send them to Guantanamo.” – Guantanamo Bay, also known as GITMO, is a U.S. military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

One America News: The Trump Administration Is Revoking Student Visas For Anti-Israel ‘Hamas Sympathizers’ On College Campuses – President Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to deport foreign students who took part in anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protests on U.S. college campuses, as his crackdown on anti-Semitism across the nation commences.

Epoch Times: President Trump shook up the NLRB on Monday by firing its union-friendly General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, and board member Gwynne Wilcox, a move that will likely be challenged in court. – The NLRB enforces the country’s labor laws and oversees union elections. – The NLRB is left with two members of its five-seat board; a quorum of three is required for decision-making.

American Thinker: Democrats Put Lipstick On A Pig – Democrats continually mislead the public to win and retain power. – Because of Trump’s mandate, they must agree that the crux of his positions on important matters is correct, but they won’t do that. – Instead, they will change their talking points. – Here, a Newsweek contributor says that Democrats need to start pretending to support some of Trump’s policies so they can win…

Vigilant Fox: Watch Bernie Sanders Squirm as RFK Jr. Calls Out His Big Pharma Money Contributions To His Face – This is about as satisfying to watch as it gets. – When confronted, Bernie became visibly uncomfortable, shouting, “Oh no, no!…” But Kennedy didn’t let up, hammering him on how much money he took from the Pharma community…

Western Journal: Senator Elizabeth Warren Completely Loses It When RFK Jr. Points Out She’s Shilling for Big Pharma. – After interrupting him for the third time, Kennedy had had enough, so he exposed her insidious motive behind her questioning. – “You’re asking me not to sue drug companies, and I’m not gonna agree to that, senator,” he said…

Populist Times: The Sneaky GOP Senator Behind Pete Hegseth’s Last-Minute Domestic Abuse Allegation Identified – “Senator Thom Tillis personally assured Danielle Hegseth in a call on Jan. 19, witnessed by two other people, that if she signed the statement testifying that she believed her former brother-in-law Pete Hegseth has an alcohol-abuse problem and was abusive to his second wife, it would carry weight, and potentially move three votes, his own, along with the votes of Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.”

Washington Examiner: Trump short-circuited the funding controversy by canceling the EO Freeze – It’s unclear where things go now. But what seems most likely is that Trump will go on to other actions on Thursday and keep his administration’s extraordinary momentum going rather than get bogged down in a fight over a poorly drafted OMB memo that Democrats want to turn into the most important document in the world.

Breitbart: Trump’s strategy of overwhelming Democrats with hundreds of executive orders and actions in the first days of his second presidency is working and frustrating the opposition. – Former White House adviser and former Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon articulated the “flood the zone” strategy.

Fox News: Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law as the first legislative victory of the new administration. – “This horrific atrocity should never have been allowed to happen,” Trump told reporters.

Center Square: President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Tuesday restricting transgender drugs and surgeries for minors. – The order lays out a litany of concerns, from the potential harm done to children to the lifelong medical bills, and says the U.S. government will no longer support “maiming and sterilizing” those age 18 and younger.

Daily Wire: Ted Cruz Gives A Legal Argument For Why The U.S. Should Retake The Panama Canal – “They committed the Panama Canal would remain neutral, that it would not allow another foreign power to have control over it, or have military access to it, and they would charge fair and equitable fees.” – Both promises have been broken. – And China has way too much control over the area.

Gateway Pundit: Billionaire Philanthropist Nicole Shanahan Puts Senators on Notice — There will be consequences if you vote against RFK Jr. – While Bobby may be willing to play nice, I won’t. – If you vote against him, I will fund challengers to primary you in your next election and enlist hundreds of thousands to join me. – Big Pharma and Big Ag have exploited us for far too long.

Vigilant Fox: RFK Jr. Stunned His Critics With A Masterclass Senate Confirmation Performance – In his opening statement, he expertly broke down the nation’s health catastrophe, exposing the alarming trends plaguing millions of Americans. – WARNER: “Will you commit not to fire anyone in the health arena who currently works on protecting Americans from cyberattacks in their healthcare files?” – KENNEDY: “I will commit to not firing anybody doing their job.”

Courageous Discourse: RFK Jr. Stands for Truth And The Confirmation Hearing Prove It – He Set The Record Straight on “Conspiracy Theories,” SSRIs, the Samoa Measles Outbreak, and the Chronic Disease Epidemic – Here is the proof.

Conservative Brief: South Carolina GOP Representative Lindsey Graham said he’s “ready” to vote to confirm Kash Patel as the next FBI director. – During an interview on CBS, Graham praised Patel and said he believes the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate will confirm him.

Daily Wire: ‘The New Era Of Accountability, Hegseth Strips General Mark Milley’s Security Detail – Milley is accused of attempting to “undermine the chain of command.” – Multiple senior administration officials confirmed that the Pentagon will remove a second portrait of Milley, meaning his image will no longer be displayed in the building.

Zero Hedge: The Pentagon To Investigate Milley And Possibly Demote Him – The IG investigation will center on allegations that Milley worked to “undermine the chain of command” during the first Trump administration. – The probe is certain to scrutinize two calls Milley made to senior Chinese officials in the last days of Trump’s first term.

Zero Hedge: There is “substantial evidence” that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek “distilled” knowledge from OpenAI’s models. – DeepSeek’s model generated responses that indicated it had been trained on OpenAI’s GPT-4, which poses a massive national security risk. – Over the next few months, our leading AI companies will take steps to prevent distillation.

Epoch Times: The Trump Administration Is Offering Buyouts to Nearly All Federal Employees—The buyouts are offered through a new ‘deferred resignation’ initiative, which allows employees to resign while receiving pay until September.

Geller Report: Netanyahu Is The First Foreign Leader Trump Invited To The White House – Trump has always treated Israel with enormous respect and dignity. – What a difference from the Democrat Party Senators, who voted to allow the ICC to issue arrest warrants against PM Netanyahu.

Geller Report: BRILLIANT, The White House Is Issuing Press Releases “Debunking The Fake News Press’ Hoaxes” – First, the OMB ordered a review of funding to NGOs, foreign governments, and large discretionary contracts. – It explicitly excluded all aid and benefit programs. The Left-wing media outright lied, and some people fell for the hoax.

American Thinker: How Trump is Already Cleaning Up Things in Ukraine – Three Ukrainian vloggers offer a clearer picture of the situation in the wartime state. – Is This The End of the freebie era? USAID is on pause, which puts grant-seekers in panic mode! – A judge of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a Russian Ministry of Defense lieutenant colonel…

Daily Wire: The White House received over 7,400 new media requests after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the White House is making room for “new media” in the press room. – The White House will also restore the media credentials of over 400 journalists who lost access during the Biden administration.

Daily Wire: Trump Asked Elon Musk To Get NASA Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, Who Have Been Stuck On The Space Station Since June. – A mission to return Wimore and Williams was pushed back from February to “no earlier than late March,” NASA said in December…

Breitbart: California, which prides itself on leading the effort to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, is emitting massive amounts of carbon due to wildfires, losing six times more carbon from federal land than any other state in the past 17 years. – In another irony, the fires have caused hazardous waste from damaged lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles, the same vehicles Governor Newsom compels Californians to buy.

New York Post: Kristi Noem announced that the Trump administration is ending temporary protected status for 600,000 Venezuelan migrants. – “The new order would allow federal agents to “evaluate all these individuals that are in our country, including the Venezuelans that are here and the members of TDA (Tren de Aragua),” Noem said.

American Thinker: As Democrats engage in performative weeping, illegal immigration’s real victims celebrate the round-ups. – Unsurprisingly, it turns out that ordinary people don’t like having foreign criminal gangs take over their neighborhoods. – In New York City, minorities who are American citizens or legal immigrants are cheering on the ICE raids…

Breitbart: The cartel members who fired at U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas this week were able to avoid capture because Mexican authorities left the area, allowing the gunmen to walk away. – Mexican authorities have since begun to deny the shooting in an attempt to minimize the violence in the region.

The Federalist: New York Magazine Cropped Out Minorities In Their Young Conservative Hit Piece – ‘They had an agenda, and that was to slander the MAGA movement as some white supremacist cult,’ CJ Pearson said of the magazine. – The hit job was supposed to be a first-person account of inauguration weekend parties filled with “young, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on America.”

American Thinker: The January 6 Pardons, It’s The Brownshirts! – With any luck, we’ll soon learn the truth about the January 6 prosecutions. – The DOJ so stretched the law it’s certain many charged with “violence” did no such thing or were forced to admit to the DOJ’s overblown definitions in plea bargains necessary to avoid decades in prison for what would have amounted to nothing more than misdemeanor trespassing with a small fine and no jail time elsewhere…

Slay News: President Donald Trump is preparing to cut off taxpayer funding to public schools that teach radical gender ideology and Marxism-rooted Critical Race Theory (CRT). – Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday to enforce the new rule.

Daily Wire: Senator Josh Hawley introduced a bill Wednesday to allow children harmed by transgender procedures to sue the doctors and hospitals that carried out the operations. – Hawley’s bill would enable individuals to sue the pediatric gender clinics and doctors who gave them cross-sex hormones or performed transgender surgery on them when they were minors.

American Thinker: America’s Un-American Culture Of Disabled Workers – Somehow, in today’s much safer America, the total of people listed as disabled and receiving disability payments has skyrocketed: The government spends more on disability than on food stamps and welfare combined. – This is not a biological or safety problem. It is a problem of perverse incentives that must change before America can reinvigorate itself.

CNN: Regularly Updated Status Report On Trump’s Cabinet Picks

January 28, 2025

The Hill: The Senate confirmed Sean Duffy to lead the Department of Transportation – President Trump’s Cabinet nominee received bipartisan backing and was confirmed Tuesday with a 77-22 vote.

Conservative: The Senate Confirmed Scott Bessent as Trump’s Treasury Secretary. – Senators voted 68-29 on Bessent’s nomination. The Democratic caucus approved the confirmation, and 16 members voted for it. Three Democrats abstained from voting.

Just The News: Jimmy Patronis and Randy Fine won their special election primaries to replace Mike Waltz and Matt Gaetz – Trump endorsed both Fine and Patronis in their respective races Republican districts.

Western Journal: Outrage Erupts As The Initial Tulsi Gabbard Confirmation Vote Is Set to Be Held in Secret – Some of Gabbard’s allies believe that particular panel members would vote differently if their decisions were made public. – Since the panel comprises nine Republicans and eight Democrats, even a single Republican flip could stop her confirmation process from advancing to the Senate floor.

Zero Hedge: According to a Wednesday memo, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded an order freezing federal grants. – On Monday, the OMB paused all federal spending, including grants and leases, pending a thorough review to ensure that programs align with the Trump administration’s priorities.

Red State: Trump Halts $3 Trillion in Federal Grants Pending Review of Compliance With His Executive Orders—The 90-day hold is well within the letter of the Impoundment Control Act and is sure to inconvenience some grantees. – It prevents the federal government from directly funding activities, like abortion and alien smuggling, that are against the administration’s stated policy.

Epoch Times: A federal judge temporarily blocked part of President Donald Trump’s directive to pause federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance on Jan. 28. – The judge said the ruling would “maintain the status quo” and does not prevent the Trump administration from suspending funds for new programs, nor does it require resuming expired funding.

Western Journal: Karoline Leavitt Laughs at NBC Reporter’s Question And Then Teaches Him a Lesson About Illegal Aliens. – The NBC reporter then insisted entering the country illegally is a mere “civil” crime, but Leavitt corrected him, saying it is a “federal” crime. – “We want to deport illegal criminals, illegal immigrants from this country, but that doesn’t mean that the other illegal criminals who entered our nation’s borders are off the table.”

Breitbart: The White House held the second Trump administration’s first official press conference on Tuesday, January 28. – Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed reporters in the press briefing room at 1 PM Eastern – A full video is provided.

Western Journal: Trump Officially Calls for End to Income Tax And May Be First POTUS in History to Do So – Trump recounted that from 1870 to 1913, tariffs funded the federal government, and “it was the richest period in the history of the United States.” – “Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.”

American Spectator: Insurers Aren’t the Problem, Government Is – Government meddling to further policy goals, and not insurers are to blame for increased prices and dropped coverage. – Insurance companies undertake rigorous actuarial and financial analyses and write policies designed to ensure the income they generate exceeds that expended to pay claims and overhead expenses and earn a return on capital consistent with the risk underwritten. – Capping premiums, particularly in a rising claims environment, makes this math unworkable…

American Spectator: Biden’s FCC Let The Biased Media Off the Hook At The 11th-Hour, But The New Trump Chair Says No – The FCC dismissed three significant media bias complaints under the guise of “freedom of the press.” But, Trump’s new FCC chair, Brendan Carr, delivered the message that the legacy media is not above accountability. – A striking example of this biased coverage involved ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, who inaccurately reported that President Trump had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll…

Western Journal: Veteran Michigan Democrat Senator Gary Peters Announced He Will Not Seek Reelection, Setting Up a Battleground State Showdown for His Seat—Consequently, Democrats will have to defend an open Senate seat while trying to recover ground from a Republican Party that holds a 53-seat majority in the chamber.

Epoch Times: President Donald Trump signed new executive orders restricting openly transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, as well as eliminating DEI programs and practices within the military. – According to White House fact sheets, the orders are to address concerns that transgender individuals in the military are not physically capable of meeting the demands of military service during and after gender-transitioning surgery.

Real Clear Politics: Trump Places More Than 50 USAID Officials on Leave – This was done after receiving information that they may have been conspiring to circumvent Trump’s executive orders requiring the halting of federal aid funds to overseas programs and all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs within the agency.

AMUSE on X: Federal Workforce Reform, Ending Remote Work – The American taxpayer has long endured a bloated federal bureaucracy that seems more adept at evasion than execution. – The pandemic may have subsided, but the habits it cultivated in federal offices linger like a fog, stifling accountability, efficiency, and the public’s trust. – So, it is time to end telework as the default for federal employees…

Epoch Times: The Trump administration is freezing nearly all federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance starting Tuesday afternoon. – According to Matthew Vaeth, the acting director of OMB, the lone exceptions are for Social Security and Medicare payments.

Slay News: Top Republicans are calling on President Donald Trump to unseal the classified files on Jeffrey Epstein that the Democrat elite has been battling to keep hidden from the public, with Senator Marsha Blackburn and Representative Tim Burchett leading the charge. – These calls follow Trump’s recent executive order to release the long-classified government files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Daily Fetched: The Trump administration’s brutal crackdown on DEI is rapidly reshaping three-letter federal agencies in a push to focus more on national security issues by axing all “affinity groups.” – CIA employees were told all resource and affinity groups are canceled. – There will no longer be Black History Month, MLK celebration, or other ethnic recognition months. – DEI shall be fired rather than allowed to rotate to any former positions.

The Federalist: Senators Who’ve Raked In Millions From Big Pharma Will Question RFK Jr. In Double Hearings Thursday and Friday – Kennedy’s persistent antagonism of the pharmaceutical giants led to a shock in their stocks upon his nomination to lead the nearly $2 trillion agency in charge of regulating the drug industry.

Washington Examiner: The group suing DOGE was awarded millions in DEI funding. – The American Public Health Association joined five others in accusing Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency of violating transparency rules. Federal spending records list a $4.2 million grant from HHS to APHA for a “health equity” initiative.

Washington Examiner: House Republicans are eager for Florida’s special primaries on Tuesday to decide the replacements for former Representatives Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz, whose resignations from the House left Republican leadership with a razor-thin voting majority. – Trump has made endorsements in the primaries for Florida’s 1st and 6th congressional districts, with the Republican winners almost guaranteed to hold the seats…

Breitbart: Director of National Intelligence Nominee Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard is scheduled to testify before the Senate this Thursday. – Meanwhile, Democrats and their media allies have been publishing lie after lie about her record. – Gabbard has long opposed U.S. military involvement in regime-change wars. – She traveled to Syria in 2017 on a fact-finding mission, cleared by the House Ethics Committee before and after the trip, to meet with Assad…

American Thinker: Decoding the DC Democratic Establishment — The ultimate goal of the D.C. elite is to legalize corruption and cronyism. – For example, during the final weeks of the Biden administration, the DoE earmarked billions of dollars in green energy loans to utility companies in Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s home state of Michigan…

American Thinker: What The Democrats’ Real Problem With Pete Hegseth? – Perhaps this is the reason Democrats were so outraged by the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. – He won’t send money to Democratic supporters like the rest of the federal government.

Breitbart: ICE deported 7,300 illegal migrants in its first week, according to a statement by the Department of Homeland Security. – Most of the deported migrants were criminals guilty of or facing charges of robbery, rape, assault, domestic violence, drunk driving, and/or reckless driving.

New York Post: US Border Patrol and Mexican cartel members traded gunfire at Southern border – DPS drone operators captured the gunmen fleeing Mexico due to military. – Meanwhile, the migrants who were trying to cross at the time of the ordeal reportedly didn’t make it into the US. – No injuries were reported, according to authorities.

American Thinker: National Socialism was a leftist ideology, so that’s why the Hitler slur isn’t sticking to Elon Musk – The Hitler accusation doesn’t work anymore because people are aware of the historical fact that he was on the far left of the political spectrum.

City Journal: Gender Medicine Is On The Ropes – Trump said that he would ask Congress to pass a bill declaring that there are only “two genders,” which are “assigned at birth.” – Presumably, he meant two sexes, determined at conception and recognized at or before birth.

Newsmax: On Monday evening, President Trump stated that Microsoft is one of several U.S. companies considering taking control of TikTok to help the popular app avoid a potential ban that could take effect in April. – Trump also mentioned on Monday that other companies are interested in purchasing TikTok, but he did not provide a list of those companies.

Zero Hedge: Since 2018, Over 75,000 Canadians Died Waiting For Health Care – If you think Canada has such a great nationalized health care system, you need to reconsider.

January 27, 2025

Epoch Times: The Senate confirmed Scott Bessent’s nomination for Treasury secretary in a 68–29 vote. – This puts him in a key position to implement Trump’s tariff and growth agenda. – Bessent will spearhead Trump’s plan of cutting taxes and curbing deficits while creating a tariff plan that facilitates growth.

Blaze Media: The Trump administration has empowered ICE to revoke the legal status of foreign nationals allowed into the US under two Biden-era parole programs: the CBP One app and the CHNV. – The CBP One app enabled 1,450 foreign nationals per day to schedule appointments at a port of entry to claim asylum. – The CHNV program allowed 30,000 individuals per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the country with temporary legal status for two years.

Epoch Times: Trump Advised That He Would Sign An Executive Order Creating An “Iron Dome” for America. – The executive order will cover a range of advanced missile and air defense capabilities. – The president described the new effort as an “Iron Dome” for America, borrowing the name of a counter-rocket and artillery system that comprises a key component of Israel’s aerial defense network.

Just The News: House Oversight Chairman James Comer launched an investigation into sanctuary cities, requesting documents and communications related to their policies and their impact on public safety. – The Committee is investigating sanctuary jurisdictions across the US, their impact on public safety, and the effectiveness of federal efforts to enforce the country’s immigration laws.

Epoch Times: Chinese AI app DeepSeek is heavily biased toward the CCP. – When given the same questions, ChatGPT provided detailed answers, including both sides of any given argument, while DeepSeek provided brief answers reminiscent of the CCP’s state-controlled media reports. Also, it outright refused to answer questions about human rights.

Wall Street Journal: Acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin Has Initiated A Review Of The DOJ’s January 6 Cases – Lawyers who worked on the matters are asked to turn over files, notes, and other records…

Fox News: The DOJ is firing more than a dozen key officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team prosecuting President Donald Trump after Acting Attorney General James McHenry said they could not be trusted in “faithfully implementing the president’s agenda. – The names of the individuals were not immediately released.

Washington Examiner: Vivek Ramaswamy denies Elon Musk ‘fired’ him from DOGE. – In an appearance on Fox News, Ramaswamy dismissed reports that they had bad blood, saying they had different, complementary approaches.

VOZ US: The Trump administration ordered the CDC to suspend all collaborations with the World Health Organization effective immediately. – This decision is in response to President Donald Trump’s strategy of withdrawing the United States from the UN agency.

Foundation For Freedom Online: How Microsoft Helped Build the Censorship Industry—Microsoft not only participated but actively funded and partnered with several key initiatives aimed at controlling online content, including the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public and the DHS-born Election Integrity Partnership, to which it belongs.

Zero Hedge: Russian troops have been exponentially gaining ground on the eastern front, with the key city of Velyka Novosilka nearly encircled and ready to fall. – Ukrainian officials are finally confirming that the area has been overrun, and some reports indicate that Ukrainian soldiers were nearly surrounded during the retreat.

AMUSE on X: Is DeepSeek A Chinese Psyop? – With the release of its R1 model, DeepSeek claims to have achieved this breakthrough with minimal resources. – Experts and analysts are concerned about the company’s rapid ascent and potential ties to the Chinese government. – China has explicitly stated its ambition to become a global leader in AI by 2030 and is actively pursuing the following strategies: Investing in AI research and development, Developing domestic AI infrastructure, and more.

American Conservative: Under Trump, American Energy Is Unleashed at Last – The 47th president’s first round of executive orders shows he is serious about energy policy. – One of his first orders, “Unleashing American Energy,” set the framework for addressing the nation’s energy challenges. – Alaska, in particular, stands to benefit from this policy shift, as Trump declared Alaska “open for business.”…

Zero Hedge: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun filling gaps in the nation’s border wall left by the Biden administration. Filling existing gaps with concrete-and-steel wall sections is the first of several measures by the Trump administration to beef up border security, including deploying more border guards and a scramble to place military units across the country at the southern border.

Lumen News: Vice President Vance Responds to The Catholic Bishops’ Condemnation of Trump’s Deportations of Illegal Immigrants – “If they’re worried about the humanitarian costs of immigration enforcement, let them talk about the children who have been sex trafficked because of the wide open border.” – “When they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? – Or are they worried about their bottom line?…

Breitbart: President Trump is expected to sign two executive orders Monday prohibiting transgender service members and eliminating DEI programs from the military. – Trump had signed an order on his first day in office revoking the Biden administration’s 2021 directive that allowed trans people to serve openly in the military, but the incoming EOs will go further.

Daily Wire: Target is the latest major company to reverse its DEI initiatives. – According to a new memo made public on Friday, the Minneapolis-based retail giant will join large companies, including Walmart, McDonald’s, and Meta, in phasing out its DEI focus. – This means ending the three-year DEI goals that were previously laid out.

Dr. Owen Anderson: Arizona State University sent an email today announcing significant changes in handling federal grant applications and funds related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. – The real question is whether this action will spark a genuine reexamination of DEI’s role in higher education and its discriminatory practices or result in a game of semantic musical chairs. – Unfortunately, for now, the latter seems more likely.

Zero Hedge: The DOGE people in the Trump administration are considering shedding a large portion of the massive government-owned office space and terminating three-quarters of leased office space. – Due to lacking funding, much of this office space is vacant, underused, and poorly maintained.

New York Sum: The Remaining Trump Nominees Prepare for Bruising Confirmation Fights, with Gabbard, Kennedy, and Patel Sitting for Hearings – These three nominees are seen as the most vulnerable of Trump’s team. – Ms. Gabbard is considered by many to be the most imperiled of Mr. Trump’s choices. – The top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Senator Warner, said he still has serious “questions” for Ms. Gabbard, even after meeting with her…

American Thinker: Trump Told The WEF His Policies Will Always Favor America – Trump, “From now on every U.S. domestic action will be for U.S. benefit and every U.S. foreign policy action will include a calculation to evaluate how it benefits America.” – Trump referred several times to the U.S. as a sovereign nation, which flies in the face of the WEF’s freedom of migration policy, which holds that freedom of migration is essential for global development…

The Daily Fetched: Italy’s deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, was inspired by President Donald Trump‘s bold move to withdraw the U.S. from funding the World Health Organization (WHO). – He has now introduced a bill to withdraw Italy from the health body, proclaiming, “Let’s use those 100 million to support the sick in Italy and fund our hospitals and doctors!”

Breitbart: Trump Strengthens Israel’s Bargaining Position vs. Hamas And Hezbollah – The Trump administration agreed to a ceasefire extension until February 18, which will allow Israel an additional three weeks to secure its borders. – Trump has also re-floated that some Palestinians should be relocated from Gaza to other Arab countries, which might prevent future rounds of conflict in Gaza.

Townhall: JD Vance Sat Down With CBS News’s Margaret Brennan and Quickly Ruined Her Day – Like Trump, Vance knows their playbook. – JD quickly slapped down Brennan’s questions, especially on the economy and immigration. The facial expressions say it all—Brennan was supremely annoyed that she couldn’t corner the VP. – Vance is also Ivy League-educated, so he’s been around these types for years…

The Federalist: Judge Cannon Body Slams The Biden Administration DOJ’s Last-Ditch Lawfare Effort Against Trump To Release Volume II of the Special Counsel Report. – Judge Cannon’s order not only ruled against the DOJ but eviscerated the department for its litigation strategy.

The Daily Fetched: Republican Representative James Comer, ‘We Have Evidence Banks Are De-Banking Conservatives’ – “We want to know if this a process of the bank’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policy, or is this our government stepping in like what we found with Twitter and Facebook, where the government stepped in and said they wanted certain conservatives de-platformed and censored.”…

Breitbart: The “Committee to Protect Health Care,” widely cited in the media as opposing the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, turns out to be a Bill Gates-backed “Astroturf” organization that accepts fake signatories. – The Committee to Protect Health Care is a 501(c)4 organization, meaning it does not have to reveal its donors…

January 26, 2025

Western Journal: The President of Colombia Lost Playing Chicken with Trump, And Offers to Fly Back Illegals On A Government Plane – It all began when, as part of the Trump administration’s expansive deportation effort, two flights of criminal Colombian nationals illegally residing in the U.S. were scheduled to fly back to their native country, and Petro refused to accept the criminals, or even allow the planes to land on Colombian soil.

American Spectator: Why Democrats Still Defend Illegal Immigration – Blue states have bled too many citizens for them to survive politically without an influx of ‘illegal immigrants.’ – Keep this in mind: the Census Bureau currently counts people rather than citizens, and that includes “illegal immigrants.”…

Daily Wire: The DEA Busted Dozens Of Illegal Aliens And Tren De Aragua Members In Colorado Raid – The DEA raid took place at an “invite-only” event at a “makeshift nightclub. – Drugs, weapons, and cash were seized in Adams County, along with nearly 50 illegal aliens who were taken into custody…

Breitbart: Joe Biden’s Deputies Smuggled Many Indian Migrants into U.S. Jobs – Biden’s ambassador to India approved more than two million visitor visas for Indians in 2023 and 2024 – Once they get to the United States, there is nobody that’s ever going to question them,” said Jay Palmer, founder of the Forced Labor & Immigration Compliance Advocacy Group., who has conducted much research on the B-1/B-2 visas.

Washington Examiner: Pete Hegseth sets out to eradicate DEI from Pentagon – Hegseth, “The President’s guidance (lawful orders) is clear, there will be no more DEI at The Department of Defense.” – “The Pentagon will comply immediately, with no exceptions, name changes, or delays.”…

Breitbart: CIA Director John Ratcliffe Says The CIA Still Needs To Determine If The COVID Wuhan Lab Leak Was Intentional or Accidental – “President Trump needs to have the very best intelligence so that, when he’s negotiating with President Xi and other adversaries, he’s able to confront them with the things that we know that our intelligence tells us about what our adversaries have done to us.”…

New York Post: Trump used his finite political capital to pardon the January 6 riot defendants – Too many people still don’t understand that it resulted from a four-year propaganda campaign led by the Democrat Party’s biggest liars, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Jamie Raskin, and their GOP patsy Liz Cheney. – Of all the crimes and threats to the US, terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, espionage, and drone attacks, why did the DOJ and FBI single out a four-hour DC demonstration become the biggest investigation in their history?…

American Thinker: The left is misrepresenting Trump’s decision to fire Inspectors General – Trump is completely within both his Constitutional and statutory purview to do so because the IGs aren’t there to oversee him. – Executive Branch IGs are supposed to be independent of the Agency they oversee, not independent of the U.S. federal government in general or the Executive Branch in particular…

Just The News: NPR, PBS, and Voice of America are being considered for defunding and reform amid concerns about reporting bias. – Politicians and those who have worked in the public broadcasting industry have criticized these organizations, claiming that they promote leftist propaganda on the taxpayer’s dime.

Fox News: New CIA boss Ratcliffe says Biden-era report backing lab-leak theory released to ‘restore’ trust – COVID ‘MOST LIKELY’ LEAKED FROM WUHAN LAB, AND SOCIAL DISTANCING WAS ‘NOT BASED ON SCIENCE…

American Spectator: Culture Shock in Trump’s Second Term – Trump’s Inauguration was an embarrassment to Democrats early on with the blessing of Trump by Detroit pastor Lorenzo Sewell. – Watching a young black preacher say a passionate prayer for the Hitlerian racist they fabricated stuck in their craw. Especially when he combined the two beings most repellant to them, God and Trump, with their hero, Dr. Martin Luther King, whose most famous words they’ve perpetually betrayed.

Epoch Times: Secretary of State Marco Rubio told his Chinese counterpart that the Trump administration would prioritize American interests in its relationship with communist China. – Rubio conveyed this message during a phone call on Jan. 24 with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, marking his first publicly known formal exchange with Wang as the top U.S. diplomat.

American Thinker: When US media Carry Water For Mexican Drug Cartels – So they are telling us that Trump going after the cartels will make things…worse? – They say it will destabilize things. – Cartels making billions each year committing crimes is destabilizing. – Why would we want to keep things stable?

Townhall: Mass Deportation Raids Have Begun in Los Angeles – The Trump administration utilizes a decades-old but never invoked power that authorizes “willing state and local enforcement officers to carry out “any of the powers, privileges, or duties” of an immigration officer. – Border czar Tom Homan, “The deportations will continue nonstop.”

Fox News: Trump vows to get answers on the mystery drone sightings as an expert predicts: “You’re going to see a lot of drone incursions.” – When asked about the drones, Trump responded, “I would like to find out what it is and tell the people.” He then told House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, “Could we find out what that was, Susie? Why don’t we find out immediately?”

Townhall: DEI Offices Get More Bad News From The Office of Personnel Management – “OPM’s initial guidance required agencies to submit written plans no later than January 31, 2025, for executing a reduction-in-force (RIF) action regarding the employees who work in a DEIA office.” – “However, agencies can and should begin issuing RIF notices to employees of DEIA offices now.”

American Thinker: The Communist Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Give Away the Panama Canal – Carter didn’t conceive the idea alone; it was the product of a hardcore leftist think tank and, especially, Robert A. Pastor. – During Carter’s presidency, Pastor played a major intellectual role in shaping the administration’s dominant ideology that U.S. capitalism was the culprit, not the solution…

Lawyer Lisa: Analysis of the snowmelt and rainfall from the Sierra Nevadas shows almost 30 million cubic acres of water went into the Sacramento River Delta since October 1st. – Only 23% was sent to productive use in farmland irrigation and homes. – 77% was sent to the ocean, showing horrific mismanagement. – This is another example of the California government’s green agenda.

January 25, 2025

One America News: 4 More Hostages Returned To Israel As The Ceasefire Deal With Hamas Continues – On Saturday, Daniella Gilboa, Liri Albag, Naama Levy, and Karina Ariev were released to the Red Cross. – They were then transferred to the Israeli military and brought back to Israel, where they have since been reunited with their families.

Daily Wire: President Trump announced Saturday that weapons purchased by Israel that Joe Biden was withholding are now being shipped. – The new administration instructed the Department of Defense to release the hold that it placed on the 2,000-pound bombs that Israel ordered. – The Trump administration also announced that it is pausing all foreign aid to other countries except weapons support to Israel and Egypt…

Epoch Times: Mexico has accepted the first four deportation flights of illegal immigrants from the United States. – White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the flights set a new record for deportations to Mexico in a single day.

Epoch Times: The Senate confirmed South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as Department of Homeland Security secretary on Saturday with bipartisan support, a key position in the Trump administration’s mandate to secure the border. – Noem was confirmed on Nov. 25 in a 59–34 vote on January 25th.

Gateway Pundit: President Trump Fired 17 Inspectors General In A Friday Night Purge. – It was reported that many of these IGs, who are in a position to identify and clean up waste and abuse, have long histories of whitewashing reports and playing politics. – In his first week in office, Trump has sidelined more than 150 national security and foreign policy officials.

Epoch Times: 59% of Americans Don’t Have Enough Savings To Cover A $1,000 Emergency — 73% of survey respondents blamed inflation, high interest rates, or a change in income or employment status for their inability to save enough to meet unforeseen expenses, up from 68% last year.

Slay News: Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have passed a bill that would force doctors to save newborn babies who survive abortions. – The bill passed along party lines, with only one Democrat voting in favor.

Forbidden News: Trump’s Full Speech Presented To The 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos – This is a full transcript of the live stream from President Trump’s teleconferenced appearance at Davos on January 23rd. – Love or hate him, but you cannot deny that this man is an absolute powerhouse.

Amuse on X: Justice To Be Restored – The DOJ is finally being reclaimed from the grips of partisan weaponization. – The abrupt sidelining of over 20 long-serving DOJ officials marks the death knell of what conservatives rightly decried as the “Merrick Garland Reign of Terror.” – Trump’s team is not just draining the swamp; they are dismantling it, brick by brick, to restore fairness and accountability…

American Thinker: The Decline and Fall of the US Senate’s Left—These hyper-partisan Democrat senators are fundamentally vile, destructive people. – The founders assumed that senators would be accomplished people who would represent the interests of their states in the federal government but also understand and adhere to America’s founding principles.

American Thinker: Will The Supreme Court Ultimately Invalidate Birthright Citizenship? – Under all known rules of legal interpretation, the idea of birthright citizenship has no validity and fails the common sense test, too. – #1: Did the drafters intend to require that the mother be lawfully present in the United States at birth? – #2: Did the drafters intend that the newborn child must not be subject to the jurisdiction of any nation other than the United States?…

Center for Immigration Studies: How Many Births Have There Been To Illegal Immigrants? Based on how births to illegal immigrants have compared to births to noncitizens in the past, our back-of-the-envelope estimate right now is that there were 225,000 to 250,000 births to illegal immigrants in 2023, amounting to close to 7% of births in the U.S. We will revise these numbers as we obtain more data.

American Thinker: The ATF Tried Saving Their DEI By Rebranding, But GOT Caught. – What’s clear is the Trump Administration is going to have to be relentlessly ruthless in ferreting out every DEI true believer, every DEI mechanism, and every DEI boobytrap laid by Biden’s handlers.

California Globe: President Donald Trump visited Los Angeles on Friday, flying in to view the destruction of the Pacific Palisades fire from Marine One and meeting with several state and local leaders about wildfire recovery. While Trump said earlier in the day that there would be conditions on federal funding, he announced that all federal permits for rebuilding would either be waived or expedited, noting how important California is to the United States.

Slay News: Two former top Politico reporters have blown the whistle to reveal that the outlet helped Joe Biden’s 2020 election campaign by killing stories that could be damaging for the former president. – Anyone who paid attention during and after the 2020 election knows that the media suppressed stories about the Hunter Biden laptop. – Facebook and Twitter shut down the New York Post’s bombshell report on the laptop for a week…

New York Sun: Trump’s War With Elite College Campuses Could Portend the End of Diversity Efforts in Higher Education – Billions of dollars lost in funding for research grants. – No more access to federal student aid. – A massive endowment tax. – That’s what’s at risk for public and private universities nationwide if the Trump administration finds them noncompliant with the president’s crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion policies on elite college campuses.

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, 100 Hours That Shook the World – Donald Trump Broke Five Decades of Leftist Drift, Crushed the Democrat Party, and Drove Liberals Out of What Little of Their Minds They Had in the First Place.

Zero Hedge: Despite efforts to reduce dependence on China for critical materials, Europe remains heavily reliant on Chinese resources. – This Visual Capitalist graphic shows the percentage of the EU’s raw material supply sourced from China for 12 important raw materials used in various industries.

January 24, 2025

Slay News: Border Czar Tom Homan, “ICE Has Arrested 1300 Illegal Aliens, Including Child Abusers, Gang Members, And Terrorists.” – Homan went on to explain that “collaterals” were illegal aliens who had not necessarily committed additional crimes other than entering the country illegally, but got caught up when ICE agents arrested someone else who should have been held by local authorities but was not because they were in a “sanctuary” jurisdiction.

Washington Free Beacon: The Frantic Memo Eric Holder Sent Clients After Trump Declared War on DEI – Actions: #1. Shred and burn all documents bearing the name of “Eric H. Holder Jr.” and the “Covington & Burling” law firm. – #3. Cease race-based hiring practices that classify Asians, non-Latinx identifying Hispanics, and Native Americans who voted for Donald Trump as “privileged whites.”…

New York Post: President Trump had a “firm” phone conversation with Denmark’s prime minister last week to convey his serious intentions of acquiring Greenland, according to a report citing officials privy to the talk. – Trump has aggressively desired to make Greenland a US territory to bolster national security in the Arctic region. – He has even refused to rule out using “military force” to get it.

Geller Report: Crowds Lined the Streets as President Trump and First Lady Melania Toured North Carolina Hurricane Helene Damage. – The optics of this are astonishing. Usually, most presidents’ first trips are somewhere glamorous, but this trip was to Western North Carolina to comfort victims. Biden abandoned these good folks but finally arrived with Trump, who is slashing all red tape and sending the Army Corps of Engineers to help.

New York Post: Trump rips Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass at wildfire briefing, noting, “You have emergency powers, just like I do.” – Trump blamed Democrats, including those present at the meeting, for causing the crisis by failing to clear parched vegetation, inadequately supplying water to the area — allowing fire hydrants to run dry — and creating a situation where many fire insurance providers pulled out of the region last year…

Fox News: Pete Hegseth Confirmed As Secretary Of Defense To Lead The Pentagon After VP Vance Cast The Tie-breaking Vote – As expected, the Senate’s two RINO women, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins from Maine voted no, along with Mitch McConnell from Kentucky.

American Thinker: John Brennan Should Be Prosecuted – Is John Brennan the most above-the-law Democrat operative yet? – Ex-CIA Chief Brennan’s Security Clearance Should Have Been Revoked Long Ago – He repeatedly lied under oath to Congress and should have been prosecuted for perjury. – Somehow, he and others like James Comey, Merrick Garland, James Clapper, Myorkas, Fauci, et al. lied to Congress and have been above the law.

Newsmax: Trump Tariffs Won’t Be Inflationary – Peter Navarro, “Tariffs are not inflationary.” – “How do we know that?” – “Because Donald Trump instituted the most aggressive tariffs on China, steel, aluminum, dishwashers, and solar panels.’ – “We had zero inflation.” – We’ve done it before.”

Bloomberg: What Happened To Biden’s $43 Billion For Broadband? – More than three years after the infrastructure bill, new broadband connections remain elusive, and there are reasons for that. – In doling out the funds, the NTIA imposed guidelines tailored to partisan priorities, imposed a panoply of climate-related measures, prioritized certain demographic groups, consulted with “community-based organizations,” and preferred government-owned networks over private ones…

Zero Hedge: The Trump State Department halted spending on almost all foreign aid grants for 90 days, which appears to apply to funding for military assistance to Ukraine. – Secretary of State Marco Rubio told all diplomatic and consular posts and all department staffers to issue “stop-work orders” on nearly all “existing foreign assistance awards.”

Western Journal: Panicking Chuck Schumer Calls All-Hands-on-Deck Meeting for Senate Democrats – Democrats lost big in the 2024 election because they have taken indefensible positions on important issues. – Republicans are already teeing up their next tough vote, and Schumer’s members want a clear strategy from the top to protect traditionally Democrat-controlled states where Trump made big gains…

Epoch Times: A January 6 Defendant Was Re-Arrested Two Days After Trump’s Pardon Even Though He Was Never Released From Prison – Gun charges were shown as the reason, even though that discovery was made on the same day he was arrested on January 6 charges back on May 2, 2023. – His lawyer, Collins, said this new case should be dismissed under Trump’s pardon.

Amuse on X: Judge Mehta’s Overreach Challenges President Trump’s Clemency Power – President Trump recently commuted the sentences of eight individuals convicted of offenses related to the January 6th Capitol protest. – The commutations explicitly stated that these sentences were commuted to time served and without release conditions of any sort. – After Congressional Democrat pressure, Judge Mehta acquiesced, imposing restrictions on two individuals at the behest of Congress, effectively contravening the President’s clemency order…

Daily Wire: Trump Restored The Mexico City Policy, Ending Taxpayer Funding For Abortion – The orders will prevent taxpayer dollars from subsidizing abortions at home or abroad. – The Biden administration rescinded the Mexico City policy, though Biden could not overturn the Hyde Amendment.

Townhall: De-banking is real and “coincidentally” always goes in one political or religious direction. – When President Donald Trump addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he didn’t mince words when describing problems with big business and big government pressure. – The comments from Trump come after a slew of bank account closures, including of Indigenous Advance Ministries.

Brownstone Institute: Will Any Federal Officials Pay for What They Did During the Pandemic? The outbreak of COVID-19 spurred one of the most brazen cover-ups in modern US history. – First, the NIH financed gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. – Anthony Fauci speedily enlisted a handful of trusted scientists to write a paper to “prove” that the virus could not have originated in the lab…

Fox News: Trump signed an executive order to declassify the files on the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations – “Everything will be revealed,” Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office of the White House. – “Our government, led by corrupt bureaucrats, has hidden this information from the American people for far too long…

One America News: Trump Has Revoked The Security Detail For Anthony Fauci – “When you work for the government, at some point your security detail comes off. And you know, you can’t have them forever. So, I think it’s very standard,” Trump told reporters in NC. – “They all made a lot of money. They can hire their security, too… I can give them some good numbers of very good security people,” Trump continued. “Fauci made a lot of money; they all did.”

Townhall: Pro-Hamas Foreign Students Are About to Be Deported – “To protect Americans, the United States must be vigilant during the visa-issuance process to ensure that those aliens approved for admission into the United States do not intend to harm Americans or our national interests.”…

Western Journal: Trump’s Labor Department Terminates Biden Appointee Secretly ‘Burrowed’ Into New Administration – Elizabeth Peña previously served in President Joe Biden’s White House Presidential Personnel Office, working on his transition team. She also worked on former Vice President Kamala Harris’ transition team. – “Elizabeth Peña was terminated, effective today. The Administration is actively working to remove other political operatives from the Biden-Harris administration…

Townhall: Remember ‘Mostly Peaceful Protests’ Back In 2020 and 2023? Well, Here We Go Again. – Antifa in Portland has been rampaging over Trump retaking the White House, with Antifa militants attacking an ICE facility, smashing up an elections office, and vandalizing downtown Portland businesses. – However, how local media covered the multi-day uprising would have made you believe their activities were “mostly peaceful.”

Townhall: This Is How Long LA Has Known About Its Shoddy Water Systems. – It probably won’t shock you that local officials were warned about failing water systems long ago, but no one did anything about it. – Reports on the deficiencies date back to 2013.

Newsmax: Although Uninvited, Governor Newsom Will Meet Trump ‘On The Tarmac’ Upon His Arrival – Trump did not invite Newsom to his meeting with almost a dozen local elected officials, including Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and eight members of Congress from California. – Newson said he communicated with many folks around Trump who have his ear and referred to the meeting as a sideshow…

American Thinker: Tom Homan Is Right When He Said Babies of Criminally-Present Aliens Are Not Citizens. – Authors of the Fourteenth Amendment never dreamed of the lengths to which future Democrats would go to twist the authorial intent of the amendment into a wrongheaded policy harmful to Americans.