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House Armed Service Committee (HASC) Republicans announced on X this morning that service members and military families will be prioritized in the FY2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
The FY25 #NDAA will put our servicemembers and military families FIRST
— Armed Services GOP (@HASCRepublicans) May 6, 2024
For many, last year’s NDAA was an abject disappointment, failing to recognize Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s 2021 shot mandate was unlawful. It remains to be seen whether this year’s version will call a spade a spade or hide behind similar weak language.
One thing is certain: Thousands of service members, veterans, and their supporters will be watching, laser-focused on the statement made by HASC. Earlier this year, 231 active service members and veterans signed the Declaration of Military Accountability (DMA)—an open letter seeking accountability over the harm caused by the implementation and enforcement of the now-rescinded COVID-19 shot mandate. Nearly 34,000 others, including civilians, have pledged their support alongside the original signatories of the letter.
Brad Miller, a former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who previously served as a battalion commander in the 101st Airborne Division, is one of the original signatories of the DMA and a voice for accountability. In October 2021, after nearly 19 years of honorable service, he was unjustly relieved of command for refusing the jab.
For service members like Miller, Congress, and DOD must acknowledge the unlawfulness and harmful effects of the once-mandated COVID-19 injection.
Neither Congress nor @DeptofDefense are putting *our servicemembers and military families FIRST” until they acknowledge the covid-19 shot mandate was unlawful and harmful to the health & readiness of the force. https://t.co/ngIeHG3uyL
— Brad Miller (@BradMiller1010) May 6, 2024
“The mandate has disillusioned untold numbers of American service members and their families,” Miller told The Gateway Pundit. “Many have come to feel alienated from their former comrades-in-arms.”
“Service members suffered coercion and the deprivation of rights all because they refused to subject themselves to a shot that many believed was potentially harmful,” Miller explained.
“The impacts of the mandate have been far-reaching and continue to plague our force,” he said. For Dr. Crisanna Shackelford, “the mandate for COVID-19 injections represented a forced toxic exposure with catastrophic implications for our national security and defense readiness.”
Miller wholeheartedly agrees with her conclusion, also adding that “aside from the myriad physical problems that have resulted from this toxic exposure, many troops and veterans now also endure lingering moral injuries.”
“In other words,” he said, “they witnessed military leaders act in direct opposition to the exact values the military purports to hold in the highest regard: honor, integrity, courage, and more.”
He also pointed out that “Service members witnessed their superiors and/or peers violate their oaths to the Constitution.” Interestingly, he added, “Some service members even feel conflicted about their own role perhaps in ensuring that others complied with the mandate.”
For this reason, Miller said, “They may now feel they operated in ways that violated not just the law but their own sense of morality.” And according to him, “These feelings, which can lead to a sense of guilt, shame, or even disgust towards oneself or others, are often the result of moral injury.”
“It is no wonder that our ability to both retain quality troops and recruit more to join the ranks has suffered,” he said. “These retention and recruitment problems are likely to continue until the military can successfully account for these severe and widespread injustices and right itself moving forward.”
For the tens of thousands of service members and veterans watching, it remains to be seen if the FY2025 NDAA will offer the appropriate language to right these wrongs. Will the Armed Services GOP really “put our servicemembers and military families FIRST?”
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CAs reported earlier, crooked far left Judge Juan Merchan threatened President Trump on Monday with contempt of court violations. Merchan also threatened to throw President Trump in prison.
The far left judge told Trump he has until 2:15 PM today to take down posts on Truth Social.
This is how communism works. The prosecution and fake news can spend thousands of hours trashing President Trump on a non-crime. But Trump is not allowed to defend himself.
This is how democracy dies.
BREAKING IN NEW YORK COURTROOM: Donald Trump has again been found in contempt of court for the 10th time over gag order violations by Judge Juan Merchan and fined $1,000. pic.twitter.com/gMXhljNIrP
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) May 6, 2024
President Trump again spoke out about Judge Merchan’s daughter who is making millions from the court proceedings in her work in liberal politics.
President Trump: As you know, they’ve taken away my constitutional rights, so I’m not allowed to answer that question. This has never happened in this country before. It’s a ridiculous thing. It’s a ridiculous case. I did nothing wrong, absolutely nothing wrong. Take a look at Gregg Jarrett this morning. He went on. Take a look at Andrew McCarthy or Jonathan Turley or Mark Levin. It’s like they say there’s no case here.
And yet the judges gagged me, and I’m not allowed to talk about, I guess. He’s in total conflict. The judge is totally conflicted, and you ought to take a look into it. And I’m not supposed to be talking about it, but I am allowed to say that the judge has a conflict that like nobody’s ever had before. You ought to take a look at it. He’s taken away my constitutional right to speak.
I was in Miami this weekend, and reporters are asking me questions, the same questions like you’re asking me. I have to say, I have a gag order. I can’t speak about it. This has never happened before, ever. Number one.
Number two, it’s a fake trial. They have no case, and it’s been absolutely proven now. They have no case whatsoever. This is Alvin Bragg doing it for political reasons for Biden. This is a Biden trial. He’s a crooked President.
Now, it just came out, Columbia just canceled their commencement. Via Axios. Columbia just canceled their commencement. That shouldn’t happen. And it also came out that the many of the protesters are backed by Biden’s donors. Okay, are you listening, Israel? I hope you’re listening, Israel. Hope you’re getting smart. But they’re backed by Biden donors. That’s where the money is coming from. I’m not surprised at all.
There’s many other articles, many of them having to do with the gag order and the unconstitutionality, having to do with the gag order. And it is unconstitutional and it shouldn’t be allowed. I wish people could move a little bit quicker, the appellate courts, because the whole world is watching this and they see what’s happening. More importantly, frankly, they have no case. They have absolutely no case. It’s a political hoax. It’s election interference. Anything they can do, and even the witnesses they want to bring up, they have nothing to do with the case. This is a ridiculous situation. Not fair, not fair, but we will fight. Thank you.
Via Midnight Rider.
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On Wednesday, nine victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians filed suit against U.S.-based pro-Hamas groups in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of Virginia in Alexandria, Va.
The plaintiffs say they continue to “suffer mental anguish and pain,” which is made worse by the “defendants’ provision of material support” to their attackers.
Seven of the nine plaintiffs directly experienced the Hamas attack on Oct. 7.
David Bromberg barely survived the Nova festival massacre. He fled and hid in the bushes for more than 12 hours until he was rescued, and the complaint notes, “Mr. Bromberg’s friends were murdered, and one is held hostage by Hamas.”
The complaint targets some of the organizations participating in the anti-Israel and antisemitic encampments plaguing college campuses in the U.S., including AJP Educational Foundation Inc., also known as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP).
The suit alleges these groups have violated the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Alien Tort Statute and that AMP “serves as Hamas’s propaganda division in the United States” built on “the ashes of disbanded organizations created by senior Hamas officials after those organizations and related individuals were found criminally and civilly liable for providing material support to Hamas and other affiliated terrorist groups.”
The suit seeks compensatory damages.
AMP founded NSJP, which coordinates hundreds of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters across the country. “Through NSJP, AMP uses propaganda to intimidate, convince, and recruit uninformed, misguided, and impressionable college students to serve as foot soldiers for Hamas on campus and beyond,” the complaint states.
“In the NSJP Toolkit, AMP and NSJP identify themselves as ‘part of’ a ‘Unity Intifada,’ governed by Hamas’s ‘unified command’ of terrorist operations in Gaza,” it continued.
“The plain text of the NSJP Toolkit confirms that AMP and NSJP do not merely assist Hamas’s ongoing terror campaign abroad—they perpetuate it in the United States,” the complaint notes.
“Defendants act as Hamas’s public relations division and recruit domestic foot soldiers not only to disseminate Hamas’s propaganda but also to foment violence, chaos, and fear across the United States to intimidate citizens and coerce change in American policy,” it said.
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The top U.S. House committee charged with tax law and oversight has launched a formal investigation into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its affiliated foundation, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
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Guest post by Joe Kovacs
The political activism of celebrities was mercilessly mocked on this weekend’s edition of “Saturday Night Live.”
The late-night NBC comedy series aired a fictitious commercial for “Teeny Tiny Statement Pins,” voicing messages often worn by the stars of movies and music on the red carpet.
“With so many complicated issues out there, it’s hard to know when to join the conversation, and how,” said singer and episode host Dua Lipa.
Another celebrity says: “It’s wrong to stay silent, but it’s also wrong to say too much. I just wish there was a way to split the difference.”
An announcer then provides the solution: “Introducing Teeny Tiny Statement Pin, the new red-carpet accessory that’s so small, it’s barely visible.”
One celebrity indicates: “This way, not everyone has to be bombarded with my opinions. But if they want them, they can just zoom in. Way, way, way, way in.”
Lipa noted: “I can say whatever I want and no one has to know.”
“It’s the perfect statement piece to style it with any outfit because it’s invisible. I’m even wearing one right now,’ says an Anna Wintour lookalike, sporting her tiny pin reading: “‘The Devil Wears Prada’ is not about me.”
Some of the tiny messages in the ad proclaim:
“Love is love.”
“Protect democracy.”
“Free Ellen.”
“Ceasefire now.”
“Pay teachers more.”
“We have the meats.”
“Or for vegans, ‘We no have no meats.'”
One celebrity says, “I feel very confident in my opinion. But unfortunately, it is a bad one, and I don’t want people to know that.”
Her Teeny Tiny Statement Pin indicated: “I hate paper straws. Trump is hot.”
If you don’t know what to say but want something that sounds like it could be important, the commercial also touts a “Vague Collection,” with items including a random flag that belongs to no country, a cat and baby together that just says “no,” a li’l pretzel, and messages stating: “It has to stop” and “It has to start.”
Reaction online to the fake spot includes:
“This was genius.”
“This joke is actually so good.”
“Cat and baby and the word NO. That’s a cause I can get behind.”
“That sums up how much your opinion is worth nowadays.”
WATCH THE SKETCH:
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Crooked far left Judge Juan Merchan threatened President Trump on Monday with contempt of court violations.
Merchan also threatened to throw President Trump in prison.
Merchan also threatened President Trump’s team with contempt of court for speaking out publicly in his defense.
Democrats hate when conservatives and Trump supporters refute their lies and push back against their lawfare attacks.
BREAKING IN NEW YORK COURTROOM: Donald Trump has again been found in contempt of court for the 10th time over gag order violations by Judge Juan Merchan and fined $1,000. pic.twitter.com/gMXhljNIrP
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) May 6, 2024
Crooked Judge Merchan still has not allowed the defense team to know the witnesses that will be called before the court.
The far left judge told Trump he has until 2:15 PM today to take down posts on Truth Social.
President Trump again spoke out about Judge Merchan’s daughter who is making millions from the court proceedings in her work in liberal politics.
As President Trump arrived for another Monday in court, he spoke on Judge Merchan’s conflict of interest. As Loomer first reported, Merchan’s daughter works for a firm contracted out by the Biden campaign. Trump is right. The Biden trials are rigged. pic.twitter.com/tLwqyIKLMb
— Charles R Downs (@TheCharlesDowns) May 6, 2024
The post BREAKING: Crooked Leftist Judge Merchan Says $1,000 Speech Fines Against Trump Are Not Working – Finds Trump in Contempt of Court – THREATENS JAIL appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of watching “Unsung Hero,” a film that may not initially grab the attention of the mainstream audience but is unequivocally a hidden gem.
“Unsung Hero” is far from the “woke” Hollywood narratives. Instead, it offers a refreshing focus on traditional values, emphasizing the power of faith, prayer, and family unity during hardships.
The film has a 63% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, but an impressive 99% audience score. And after watching it, I can see why.
At the heart of the story is the Smallbone matriarch, Helen Smallbone (portrayed by Daisy Betts), whose unwavering faith serves as the guiding light for her husband, David Smallbone (played by real son Joel Smallbone), and their seven children.
When David’s successful music promotion business in Australia collapses, the family is forced to uproot their lives and embark on a perilous journey to Nashville, Tennessee, armed with little more than their love of music and unshakable belief in God.
Nashville becomes more than a setting in this movie—it illustrates how the community embraced the Smallbone family with open arms. The community helped the family stand on their feet.
As the plot unfolds, we watch as Rebecca Smallbone (now Rebecca St. James) rises to become a celebrated icon in the Christian music world, while her siblings, Joel and Luke, find their calling with For King & Country.
The film does more than follow their careers; it delves deep into the heart of what makes their music resonate—unwavering faith and the power of a supportive family.
I am not a huge fan of Christian music, and I am not fond of sappy Christian films. But this film is something special. Please comment below if you agree.
This movie is a gem. It’s so well done. I hope you see it.
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The information war is raging in the US-Brazil axis, as the Censure Industrial Complex is doing its best (or worst) to keep information from spreading and to silence conservative voices.
Famed X podcaster Mario Nawfal interviewed former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro on the X/Spaces platform, with the participation of tech billionaire and freedom of speech advocate Elon Musk.
Musk posted ahead of the broadcast: “Whether you agree with Bolsonaro or not, the people of Brazil have a right to hear him speak.”
But, of course, the ‘powers that be’ in Brazil, emboldened by the support of American liberals, did not agree – and the live broadcast was censored by Brazilian Supreme Court, so that people down here would have to use a VPN to listen to it.
Bolsonaro had to go to the Northern region of Brazil, in the Amazon, a region that is covered by Elon Musk’s Starlink, to be able to participate.
AGORA – Bolsonaro se preparando para o space do @MarioNawfal com @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/4FnstbkQAC
— SPACE LIBERDADE (@NewsLiberdade) May 5, 2024
He was in a floating hotel in the Rio Negro, in the state of Amazonas, a state in the northern region of Brazil which with full coverage from the Starlink network platform.
AGORA – Bolsonaro diz que só está podendo acessar o Space do @MarioNawfal porque está usando Starlink!
Lembrando que o Presidente está no Amazonas! pic.twitter.com/NAgyMemTMN
— SPACE LIBERDADE (@NewsLiberdade) May 5, 2024
Bolsonaro asserts that only conservative accounts have been censored by the rogue Brazilian Judiciary and claims that the Biden Administration did not collaborate to promote freedom of expression in Brazil.
“The censorship continued and was intensified, and this is the objective of the [Lula] government, which seems to want to destroy the right in Brazil. […] This concern of ours, fortunately, a force from the United States emerged, because the Biden government did not fulfill its part so that freedom of expression could prevail here in Brazil.
These people [on the right] are persecuted. Some managed to seek asylum in the United States, others were detained, others have the Federal Police (PF) raiding their homes to silence the voice of the right in Brazil.”
AGORA – Presidente Bolsonaro explica que apenas contas conservadoras foram censuradas e diz que Biden não colaborou para a liberdade no Brasil! pic.twitter.com/1u5dZNWfmw
— SPACE LIBERDADE (@NewsLiberdade) May 5, 2024
In the meantime, during the X/Spaces broadcast, Brazil was suffering heavy cyberattacks:
Bolsonaro further said that the leftist censorship regime is supported by the traditional press, as they fear losing space on social media:
“First, I arrived at the Presidency with just a cell phone in my hands. My son was my marketer. Nobody expected this possibility in Brazil because I was just a congressman without a party or party funding. The press was against me. This alerted the system against me, so that someone of my profile would not become president. All accusations against me are just a narrative.
The left has the support of the official press, and we don’t. Only social media remained for us. The mainstream traditional press is favorable to the left. For us, social media remained. To silence us once and for all, they discredited right-wing politicians. This happened during the elections, with the cancellation of pages.
And influential people on my side [conservatives], almost all of them, were censored. We have several examples, like businessmen who were accused of being coup plotters for chatting on WhatsApp. Luciano Hang was never a coup plotter, but they managed to take him off the air. They inhibited other businessmen from participating in the elections.”
AGORA – Presidente Bolsonaro fala sobre a censura no Brasil!
“A mídia brasileira sempre foi parceira da esquerda – a única coisa que a direita tem para se opor a isso são as redes sociais.
Meus seguidores tiveram suas páginas desmonetizadas antes, durante e depois da minha… pic.twitter.com/D1JArSTepT
— SPACE LIBERDADE (@NewsLiberdade) May 5, 2024
The day after the broadcast, Bolsonaro was taken to a Manaus Hospital suffering from symptoms of Erysipelas, a skin bacterial infection. The army captain and former President has had frail health, ever since he was stabbed in the abdomen in 2018, during the presidential campaign, by a leftist deranged man, in an investigation that was never fully carried out.
ATENÇÃO – Bolsonaro está internado no Hospital Santa Júlia em Manaus (Quadro de erisipela)
Entre hoje e amanhã ele será transferido para Brasília! Força presidente pic.twitter.com/dxZqVNGHiI
— SPACE LIBERDADE (@NewsLiberdade) May 5, 2024
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On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee released an 800 page report on the Biden White House censorship regime.
The report included numerous times the Biden regime threatened social media companies to censor, silence and take down information on the COVID origins and the COVID vaccines.
Here is the full 800 page report released by the House Judiciary Committee on the Biden Administration’s Censorship Industrial Complex.
On Thursday, investigative reporter Mike Benz revealed “10 flaming examples” Facebook, YouTube and Amazon explicitly said they only passed censorship policies because they were threatened by the Biden government.
Here are 10 flaming examples of times Facebook, YouTube & Amazon explicitly said they only passed censorship policies bc they were threatened by the Biden government https://t.co/90Gv2q2UrW pic.twitter.com/iAkx3z9olk
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) May 3, 2024
Here are the screengrabs from the Judiciary Report and from Mike Benz’s website on the “10 flaming examples” of the times the tech giants admitted that passed censorship policies because they were threatened by the Biden regime.
The Biden White House forced tech giants to censor these five COVID claims – that all turned out to be accurate.
Claims that COVID was:
1.) manmade,
2.) manufactured,
3.) bioengineered
4.) a bioweapon
5.) created by an individual government
6.) modified through gain of function research
The Biden White House forced Big Tech to change their content moderation policies.
7.) Amazon employees admitted they changed their content moderation due to pressure from the Biden regime.
8.) Amazon changed its bookstore policies due to criticism from the Biden regime.
9.) Facebook employees admitted Facebook censored the man-made theory due to pressure from the Biden regime.
The Biden Administration targeted truthful information and even satire that went against their beliefs.
10.) The Biden regime pressured Facebook to block content that was negative about the vaccines.
And the Biden Administration pressured social media to “do more.”
It should be noted that The Gateway Pundit reported on all of these topics. Our reporting was accurate. And we were censored and our content was not allowed on these platforms.
In 2021, Twitter shut down our account after being the most widely read websites in the country at the time.
Our social media accounts have never recovered.
And the Biden regime was 100% pushing misinformation to the masses while blocking the truth.
Currently, The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft is involved in the Murthy vs. Missouri lawsuit that was heard before the Supreme Court in March. This case will decide if the government has the right to censor Americans under the guise of preventing misinformation, disinformation and mal-information. We will soon find out of America is still America – where its citizens still hold the right to free speech.
We certainly are living in dangerous times.
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UFC President Dana White is no stranger to controversy or speaking his mind, and he proved it yet again at the Netflix special, ‘The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady.’
White delivered a knockout punch, not to a UFC fighter, but to the woke streaming giant Netflix.
White was part of an elite gathering of celebrities who were brought together to roast NFL icon Tom Brady.
Kevin Hart hosted the event on Sunday, which featured an all-star lineup of surprise roasters.
However, the UFC mogul’s excitement turned into indignation when he learned he was given only 60 seconds to deliver his roast of the NFL legend.
The UFC chief didn’t mince his words when he accused the woke streaming service of “liberal f*cks” on their own live special, questioning if his name wasn’t “trans enough” for the platform’s executives.
“Let me get into this real quick,” White said, addressing the star-studded audience filled with liberal elites. “It pisses me off! I flew all the way out here, and you guys give me 60 seconds?”
“My name is Dana. Is that not trans enough for you? Liberal f**ks,” White added before proceeding with his roast.
WATCH:
Dana White was pissed Netflix only gave him one minute to roast Tom Brady
“You guys gave me 60 seconds? My name is Dana! Is that not trans enough for you liberal f*cks?” pic.twitter.com/rSJEBPSyci
— Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) May 6, 2024
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The ongoing season of protests in Georgia shows us once again the workings of a ‘Color Revolution’ in motion, where the US Intel Community and Globalist NGOs join efforts to topple unfriendly regimes, or at the very least strong-arm them into compliance with the planetary Globalist agenda.
In the case of Georgia, the controversy revolves around the ‘Foreign Agent’ bill – approved in two votes in Parliament, with the last one expected in mid-May.
The objective of the legislation – already tarnished as the ‘Russia Bill’, is to force NGOs and ‘independent’ media to disclose their funding sources if they receive more than 20% of their resources from abroad.
Sure enough, Russia has a law like that – as well as the US and many other countries. In fact, what kind of country would not want to know who funds organizations that interferes in its political landscape?
In Georgia, now, there is a situation where NGOs and ‘independent’ media are staging mass protests against legislation that would make them disclose their Globalist backers.
Now, reports have arisen that show that the Georgian government’s effort to restrict foreign influence through non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is more than necessary.
Sputnik reported:
“It has been revealed that the leaders of these protests are politicians and public figures who are bankrolled by NGOs like USAID and the George Soros-funded ‘Civil Society Foundation – Georgia’.
USAID has been operating in Georgia since 1992 and has already handed out more than $1.9 billion in funding. There are more than 39 ongoing projects supported by USAID “with a total value of approximately $373 million, and an annual budget of more than $70 million.”
USAID has long been widely considered to be a front for the Central Intelligence Agency. Through IREX, it is implementing the ‘Georgian Media Partnership Program’.
A whole range of opposition media outlets are financed by this program: TV Pirveli, Radio Marneuli, Formula TV, and Mtavari Arkhi.
And that’s not all. The ‘Civil Society Foundation – Georgia’, which was set up by Globalist super-villain George Soros, keeps urging people to flock to the mass protests through its official website.
“The ‘Civil Society Foundation’ has been operating in Georgia for approximately 30 years “promoting and developing civil society in Georgia”. The foundation claims to have poured more than USD 100 mln into “the development of an open and democratic society in Georgia.”
The Civil Society Foundation – Georgia also backs Nika Gvaramia, who is the founder of Mtavari Arkhi (a media outlet) and has recently assumed the role of leader of the ‘Ahali’ party, which is actively participating in the ongoing protests.”
Apparently, if a country wants to be a part of the ‘European’ landscape of nations and integrate with the west, it has to be willing to be freely infiltrated by foreign interests, and it better not want to get informed about which interests are mobilizing people against them.
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The world’s largest floating solar power plant, located at Omkareshwar Dam in Madhya Pradesh, India, was obliterated by a storm on April 9, 2024. , just days before its scheduled grand inauguration.
The ambitious project faced the wrath of nature as strong winds reaching speeds of up to approximately 31 miles per hour tore through the installation, uprooting and severely damaging the high-tech solar panels that floated on the backwater of the dam.
This floating solar plant claimed to be the largest globally, represents a joint venture between the Madhya Pradesh Government and the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), according to Lokmat Times.
“Omkareshwar Dam is built on the Narmada river. This is our hydel project and in this, we produce energy from water, but it is spread over about 100 square kilometers [38.6 square miles], there is a very large water body where the water level remains normal,” said Sanjay Dubey, Renewable Energy Department Principal Secretary.
A 600 MW floating solar project promised to significantly bolster the power generation capacity of the state. However, this ambitious experiment ended in a spectacular failure.
The project was supposed to be the world’s largest floating solar PV plant, but instead, it’s become a stark reminder of the limits of renewable energy and the dangers of prioritizing grand ambitions over practical realities.
Madhya Pradesh, India
Storm damages Worlds largest floating Solar Panel Farm.
If it’s not hail destroying Solar Panels then it’s storms – but sure keep thinking these things will help ‘make the weather better’. pic.twitter.com/WrK2XRCvCO
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) May 4, 2024
#Nature & #Narmad #River ‘s fury disrupts one of the largest floating solar panel plant on Omkareshwar #Dam reservoir which was being opposed by Fisher people for causing disruption to their fishing rights. Clip shared by @NarmadaBachao activist @iAlokAgarwal pic.twitter.com/Cvx5nSJ0Ku
— Nandini K Oza (@OzaNandini) April 10, 2024
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A shipment of U.S. ammunition bound for Israel last week was halted by the Biden administration for reasons yet to be made clear, a report Sunday claimed.
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"Privacy and dignity" will be protected by new regulations which means a host of commercial and public buildings must have separate loos.
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An anti-Israel protester interrupted a commencement ceremony for Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, on Saturday evening.
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Meanwhile in the Democrat hellhole of Chicago…
The Cinco de Mayo parade in Chicago’s Southwest Side was canceled on Sunday amid gang-related fights.
“The Cinco de Mayo parade has been canceled to protect the safety of all in attendance, including families and children,” police said. “The decision, was made by in agreement with CPD’s 10th District, elected officials and parade organizers.”
— Chicago Police Communications & News Affairs (@CPD_Media) May 5, 2024
A large fight broke out between the Latin Kings and rival gang Satan’s Disciples near S. Rockwell Street and Cermak.
VIDEO (language warning):
UNEDITED RAW VIDEO: Large fight between gangs Sunday, May 5, 2024 near the cancelled Cinco de Mayo parade in Chicago, Illinois near S Rockwell St and Cermak. Be advised that there is foul language and viewer discretion is advised, there were arrests by Chicago Police. Several… pic.twitter.com/EQQrXcm6it
— Kyle Mazza (@KyleMazzaWUNF) May 5, 2024
Gun arrests were made, according to police.
WATCH (language, violence warning):
VIDEO: Fight between two groups Sunday, May 5, 2024 near the cancelled Cinco de Mayo parade in Chicago, Illinois Sunday in front of Pete's Market near S Rockwell St and Cermak. pic.twitter.com/FFJWlSfth1
— Kyle Mazza (@KyleMazzaWUNF) May 5, 2024
ABC 7 Chicago reported:
The Cinco de Mayo Parade on Chicago’s Southwest Side was rerouted on Sunday after reports of violence in the area.
The parade has a history of disruptions. From the COVID pandemic to a series of disagreements between organizers and city officials, it wasn’t even held from 2018 to 2022. The parade only made its return last year.
There is still a great deal of confusion surrounding what exactly happened to disrupt the parade.
At a glance, Sunday’s Cinco de Mayo parade was like any other. It was vibrant and colorful, with entertaining musical acts representing different parts of Mexico.
“We actually found it just walking to the National Mexican Art museum earlier,” parade attendee Jennifer Vasquez said. “We asked somebody earlier. We weren’t even aware it was happening.”
What many parade-goers failed to notice was the behind the scenes drama that began around a half hour before the parade was supposed to take off at Noon from Cemark Road from Damen Avenue in Heart of Chicago. It was supposed to traverse a 1.2 mile route, ending at Marshall Boulevard in Little Village, just south of Douglass Park. Instead, a large fight in the area of the parade led police to issue a cancelation notice.
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The majority of Donald Trump supporters do not care if the former president is convicted of a crime by the corrupt legal system.
When casting their ballots in November, Americans place economy, inflation, and crime at the top of their lists.
A new ABC News/Ipsos survey released on Sunday shows 88 percent of voters place the economy at the top of their list of issues when they head to the ballot box this fall – and Trump is favored by 14 percent to handle the issue over President Joe Biden.
Eighty-five percent of voters also say inflation is important to them in this year’s election and crime and safety comes in third place with 77 percent of voters claiming it is a top issue.
On nearly every election issue in the top 10, voters say they trust Trump more than Biden to handle it.
Additionally, 80 percent of Trump supporters say they would still cast their ballot for the former president if he is convicted before the election, the latest poll reveals
Following a trial in Manhattan court for three weeks in which Trump was accused of falsifying business records related to payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged extramarital affair in 2006, the latest results come after three weeks of Trump’s appearances in court.
Only four percent of Trump supporters say they would no longer support Trump in the 2024 presidential election if the Republican is convicted in any of the four federal cases against him.
And 16 percent say they would at least reconsider supporting him.
Among the 2,260 American adults polled April 25-30, 44 percent say they would vote for Biden compared to the 46 percent for Trump. This means that the four percent of Trump supporters who would abandon the former president if convicted of a crime could be statistically significant to the results in November.
Trump and Biden have been nearly tied in most recent polls, with margins of victory in hypothetical head-to-head matches usually falling within the survey’s margin of error.
However, the ABC News poll shows that Americans are becoming more optimistic about Trump’s ability to deal with issues that matter.
This includes a 17 percent gap on those who trust Trump to handle the border and immigration over Biden and a 14 percent gap on handling both the economy in general and, more specifically, inflation.
Trump beats Biden by eight percent of crime and safety and the same gap exists on handling the Israel/Hamas war.
Let’s pray the country can hang on until November 5th.
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High schools used to be safer back in the day. Something has changed.
Prosecutors say a high schooler in North Carolina is being charged as an adult for allegedly attacking two separate teachers on school grounds.
Aquavis Hickman, 17, a student at Parkland High School in Winston-Salem, was indicted on assault and kidnapping charges last week and charged as a grownup in the two horrific attacks, including an April 15 assault where he slapped a female teacher twice, Fox affiliate WGHP-TV News reported.
“Our message to our community is simple,” Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill told the outlet. “We stand with teachers. We will fight to protect those teachers. And if you lay a hand on a teacher and assault a teacher, you can expect that the punishment will be swift and severe.
“Promise made,” O’Neill said as he announced the indictment Thursday. “Promise kept.”
Hickman was charged with kidnapping and misdemeanor riot in the first incident on Feb. 1, although prosecutors said he was not the sole attacker.
The substitute teacher, Larry Edwards, said he was “appalled” after being pushed in the hallway by several students, including Hickman.
“I walked up to the desk to get my phone to call the office and he mockingly walked behind me, and I happened to turn around and see him and the students started laughing,” Edwards said in a report last week. “The next thing I know he had taken his hand and smushed my head and everybody started laughing and he ran out.”
It was revealed last month that the aggressive teenager smacked the female teacher twice, with video of the attack later going viral – though cops didn’t release it.
“That video went viral nationwide and it put us on the map in a negative manner,” Winston-Salem Police Chief William Penn told the outlet. “I am so glad today that the rest of the nation will also hear that we do not tolerate that in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County.”
A grand jury voted last week to indict the teen, transferring the case from juvenile court to Superior Court.
Officials from the district declined to comment on the case or Hickman’s arrest.
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ABC News president Kim Godwin announced Sunday evening that she is stepping down from her post and retiring from broadcast journalism.
Godwin stepped down after a corporate restructuring.
“I have decided to retire from broadcast journalism,” Godwin said in the email sent to staff Sunday night, according to the Wall Street Journal. “Anyone who’s passionate about what we do knows there’s no other business like it, so this was not an easy or quick decision. But after considerable reflection, I’m certain it’s the right one for me as I look to the future and prioritize what’s most important for me and my family.”
The Wall Street Journal reported:
ABC News President Kim Godwin stepped down Sunday night, months after a corporate restructuring that effectively stripped away much of her management autonomy.
No successor has been named for Godwin, who was named president of the division in 2021.
Godwin’s retirement comes after a restructuring in February that gave her a new boss in Debra OConnell, who serves as president of parent Disney’s news group. OConnell is a company veteran who is familiar with ABC News, having scrutinized operations across Disney’s networks as part of a corporate review.
When Godwin joined ABC News from CBS, she had her work cut out for her. Though the news division was a ratings leader, many in the news division said it was suffering from a cutthroat and toxic culture.
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The Gateway Pundit reported on the hero’s welcome President Trump received at the F1 Grand Prix in Miami on Sunday, where he received thunderous applause while the crowd chanted, “USA! USA! USA’!”
Trump fired up the crowd outside the McLaren Garage on Pit Lane.
Ultimately, McLaren driver Lando Norris won the race, his first-ever F1 win.
President Trump spoke with Norris following his victory.
Watch:
BREAKING: Trump congratulates Lando Norris at the Miami F1 Grand Prix.
— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) May 5, 2024
Norris benefitted from a well-timed safety car for a crash involving Kevin Magnussen and Logan Sargeant and drove away from Max Verstappen over the second half of the race to win Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix.
Norris found himself in sixth in the race’s opening laps but his car had some serious race pace. Norris moved his way to second as the cars ahead of him made pit stops and was clicking off fast laps on his medium compound tires.
He took over the lead after Verstappen pitted just before Carlos Sainz and Norris’ McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri did. Once Piastri pitted, Norris took over the race lead when Magnussen and Sergeant collided in the first sector.
The F1 crowd absolutely swooned over Trump, including a group of young people who were absolutely ecstatic at the chance to meet the President.
Trump IMMEDIATELY walks up to my best friend at F1 as she fangirls over him. This video is TOO GOOD
— Michelle Backus (@michellebackus_) May 5, 2024
As he arrived at the race, law enforcement lined the street to greet him, and officers waved and applauded as Trump’s motorcade passed by.
President @realDonaldTrump arrives at Miami International Autodrome to warm welcome from Florida Law Enforcement!! pic.twitter.com/KfNch9qQGw
— Margo Martin (@margommartin) May 5, 2024
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The Chicago Teachers Union is demanding a $50 billion contract with provisions including free abortion services, cash to migrants, LGBTQ concessions, and a big hike in pay all despite falling student enrollment and worsening student proficiency rates.
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Republican Senator Tom Cotton was on “This Week” on ABC with host Jonathan Karl earlier on Sunday.
Senator Cotton had said that college administrators should have involved law enforcement early on rather than waiting until things got out of hand. He also said that the students participating in these encampments should be held in contempt.
“These students on campuses, they deserve our contempt. They also deserve our mockery,” Cotton said.
“Liberal administrators, and liberal politicians refused to send in the police to clear them out the very first day they set up their tents,” Cotton continued.
Watch:
On campus protests, GOP Sen. Tom Cotton tells @JonKarl that college administrators should have sent in law enforcement "the very first day they set up their tents."
“These students on campuses, they deserve our contempt. They also deserve our mockery.” https://t.co/vCkyrG8MPq pic.twitter.com/BxoJkFEIbP
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 5, 2024
Senator Cotton continued saying that foreign student agitators should have their visas revoked and that Biden has not taken any action regarding that.
“Where is Joe Biden’s administration demanding that universities turn over the names of any foreign students here on a visa, revoking those visas and deporting them,” Senator Cotton said.
“We should not have tolerated this for a moment. You have Jewish students who have been assaulted on campus, Jewish students who have been told it’s not safe for you to come, go back home,” Senator Cotton continued.
Watch:
Sen. Tom Cotton pushes for an even stronger police response to pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.
“Where were the liberal administrators and liberal politicians sending in the police on the very first day?" https://t.co/vCkyrG8MPq pic.twitter.com/JzwMGbGNad
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 5, 2024
Jonathan Karl had asked Senator Cotton about being Trump’s running mate. His response was that speculation over Trump’s VP choice was not helpful.
“I don’t think it’s particularly helpful to Donald Trump,” Senator Cotton said.
“Would you serve as his running mate if asked?” Karl asked.
“Jon, it’s not helpful. What Donald Trump is focused on is winning this election. What I’m focused on is helping him win and making sure Republicans win the congress,” Senator Cotton continued.
Watch:
When asked if he would serve as the GOP running mate, Sen. Tom Cotton tells @JonKarl that he is focused on is helping Trump win and “making sure Republicans win the Congress.”
“When he's ready to make his decision about vice president, he will.” https://t.co/CtruztNiAr pic.twitter.com/UXLlaDhJtU
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 5, 2024
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Houghton University's President spoke out against allowing transgender athletes play in women's sports, saying it is a "moral position."
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This past week J6 political prisoner Jake Lang passed 1,200 days of incarceration without a trial. This is Joe Biden’s America.
Languishing in pre-trial detention for years with no end in sight “feels like ‘an eternity,’” Lang told The Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview.
“If not for God, I never would have made it this long as a POW,” he said.
Lang was apprehended by the Federal Bureau of Investigations on Jan. 16, 2021, for his alleged role in the Capitol riot.
He went to the Capitol intent on peacefully protesting and ended up saving lives.
In footage from the scene that day, Lang was seen pulling Phillip Anderson and Tommy Tatum, off the ground while they were being trampled and carrying them to safety as police indiscriminately fired on the crowd with rubber bullets, tear gas, and flash grenades and beat even the most peaceful demonstrators to a bloody pulp with nightsticks.
Jake told The Gateway Pundit this past weekend, “They basically removed the voices of dissent from the Brooklyn federal prison and took us both and put us in a solitary primate chamber on the rooftop of the prison here.”
It’s the same goal that they have in mind for President Donald Trump. If I could see their wish for President Trump it would probably be something like wearing the same pair of underwear for over a week without them giving you clean underwear and an extra pair of socks or shampoo or bath towel to dry yourself with. These are the living conditions that, you know, are basically in store for any political dissident in America today or for Trump supporters.
“I’m just at my 1,200 day mark, if you can believe that. I just passed 1,200 days incarcerated without a trial, without being afforded the right to have bond or mail. Even though we filed twice and were rejected.”
“My legal team and I have now filed a lawsuit. It’s called a habeas corpus motion. It’s a lawsuit against Merrick Garland and the Brooklyn NPC prison here and assistant warden and the warden basically alleging, which is true, that they’ve been violating my constitutional rights and my human rights and I’m being tortured. And you know, this has been going on for three weeks now. The first two weeks of solitary, I was by myself and now they just added Ryan Samsel. So we’re fighting back. We’ve got a habeas corpus motion before the court right at my 1,200 day mark. So we’re not stopping.”
“I think we all in the January 6 community are kind of just sitting back and wondering when this will stop. When will the Republicans in Congress make a real stand for us? When will the Speaker of the House call together a new January 6 committee and let January 6ers such as myself go and tell our story?”
“We are praying for a Trump victory, when we know that the Democrats are up to the same nefarious scam, the mail-in voting. You know, the scam that they did and everything they did in 2020. We have to use every means at our disposal. So, you know, definitely, we are calling upon the Republicans in Congress to put the checks and balances in place against the Bureau of Prisons that’s torturing us, against the US Marshals whose are complicit in our torture and solitary confinement and lack of basic human sustenance that they’re providing us here. Congress needs to put a check on these federal abuses of power.”
There is a protest planned on Wednesday May 8, 2024 at the MDC Brooklyn Federal Prison at Noon Eastern.
Jake’s father Ned Lang will be there as will Cowboys for Trump member Couy Griffin.
Couy will be there with his horse.
The protest will be livestreamed on Rumble.
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An American man and two Australian brothers were murdered during a surfing trip to Mexico. Three suspects were taken into custody this weekend.
According to police, Jack Rhoad, an American man from San Diego, and Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson were last seen in the Mexican state of Baja California on April 27.
The men were surfing about 70 miles south of the US border when they disappeared.
Jack Rhoad, 30
The three men were targeted by Mexican thieves for the tires on their truck, according to Mexican authorities. The white pickup truck was set on fire.
The bodies were dumped in a remote 50-foot-deep well. It took authorities 20 hours to extract the bodies from the bottom of the well.
Three suspects, one woman and two brothers, have been taken into custody in connection with the murders.
The woman was found with one of the Australian surfer’s cell phones.
suspect Ari Gisel García Cota, 23
suspects Jesús Gerardo Garcia Cota and Cristian Alejandro García
The Daily Mail reported:
Mexican authorities said thieves killed two Australians and an American on a surfing trip to Mexico in order to steal their truck, particularly because they wanted the tires.
Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson and American Jack Carter Rhoad were last seen on April 27 in the Mexican province of Baja California.
Prosecutors released grisly details of the slayings, but have not yet officially confirmed the identification of the bodies. They said family members of the victims are viewing the bodies to see if they can be identified by sight.
The corpses were decomposing after the thieves dumped them into a remote, 50- foot deep well. If relatives can’t identify them, further tests will be conducted. The well also contained a fourth cadaver that had been there much longer.
The US State Department previously issued a series of travel advisories over cartel violence, kidnappings and grisly murders in Mexico.
The State Department urged US citizens to avoid the following six Mexican states due to high crime and violence: Colima, Guerrero, Michoacan, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas.
Several Americans have been murdered in Mexico over the last year.
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The Biden regime has cut off ammunition supplies to Israel as they attempt to appease the growing anger among the left of the Democratic Party over America’s support for the war against Hamas.
According to a report from Axios, the decision to put a hold on the ammunition shipment caused panic among the Israeli security services and is intended to prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from proceeding with an invasion of Rafah.
Axios notes:
The Biden administration last week put a hold on a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to Israel, two Israeli officials told Axios. It is the first time since the Oct. 7 attack that the U.S. has stopped a weapons shipment intended for the Israeli military.
The incident raised serious concerns inside the Israeli government and sent officials scrambling to understand why the shipment was held, Israeli officials said.
The report adds that Biden took the decision in response to the “sharp criticism” that he is facing from Americans, particularly among Muslims and other demographics key to the Democratic coalition:
President Biden is facing sharp criticism among Americans who oppose his support of Israel. The administration in February asked Israel to provide assurances that U.S.-made weapons were being used by Israel Defense Forces in Gaza in accordance with international law. Israel provided a signed letter of assurances in March.
The Biden administration is highly concerned Israel will invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah where more than one million displaced Palestinians have been taking shelter.
Over recent weeks, many American colleges have been brought to a standstill amid widespread demonstrations from anti-Israel activists. Many of the protests descended into violence and required law enforcement to bring an end to the mayhem.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, issued a statement on Sunday for Holocaust Remembrance Day insinuating tensions with the U.S. and declaring that Israel will act alone if necessary.
“In the terrible Holocaust, there were great world leaders who stood by idly; therefore, the first lesson of the Holocaust is: If we do not defend ourselves, nobody will defend us,” he declared. “And if we need to stand alone, we will stand alone.”
In the terrible Holocaust, there were great world leaders who stood by idly; therefore, the first lesson of the Holocaust is: If we do not defend ourselves, nobody will defend us. And if we need to stand alone, we will stand alone.
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) May 5, 2024
“Therefore, we will defend ourselves in every way,” he continued. “We will overcome our enemies and we will ensure our security – in the Gaza Strip, on the Lebanese border, everywhere.
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A three-year-old girl was killed Friday in the southeast area of Democrat-controlled Washington, DC, when she was hit by a stray bullet.
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Lara Trump was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo to discuss President Trump’s campaign fundraising.
“The majority of the time is in a courtroom. How are you raising money and putting President Trump in front of donors if he’s got to be in New York all day long?” Bartiromo asked Lara Trump.
“They want to keep Donald Trump trapped in a courtroom and not able to go out and campaign and their hope is that somehow that helps Joe Biden,” Lara Trump said.
“Donald Trump’s poll numbers continuing to go up and at the RNC and Trump campaign we announced that are April fundraising exceeded our expectations. We raised 76 million dollars and the beauty of that is the average donation Maria, is under $30. That means the people of this country understand what’s at stake,” Lara Trump continued.
Watch:
Today on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo, RNC Co-Chair @LaraLeaTrump spoke about the Trump’s campaign fundraising exceeding expectations amid his trial. pic.twitter.com/WftuJE3GFT
— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) May 5, 2024
They also discussed the importance of a debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden on stage.
“People want to see one on one Trump, Biden, on stage for a debate with enough time to put their vote in but I believe the first debate happens after the early voting begins,” Bartiromo said.
“We’ve called for more debates; Donald Trump said ‘anytime, anywhere, any place’ he will debate Joe Biden,” Lara Trump said.
“It is imperative to see these two men on a stage, to see these two candidates who want to not just lead our country, but be the leader of the free world, head-to-head, face to face, on a debate stage,” Lara Trump continued.
Watch:
Today @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo, RNC Co-Chair @LaraLeaTrump, spoke about the presidential debates.@FoxNews pic.twitter.com/zrfuF8cG1M
— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) May 5, 2024
Lara Trump also discussed lawsuits to prevent ballot counting after election day. The RNC and the Trump campaign sued in Nevada to prevent counting after election day.
“I see the RNC and the Trump campaign filing a lawsuit in a battleground state to stop counting ballots past election day. What are you doing with suing Nevada right now?” Bartiromo asked.
“You cannot have ballots counted Maria, after elections are over, and right now that is one of the many lawsuits we have out across this country to ensure that just that happens, that we have a free, fair, and transparent elections,” Lara Trump continued.
Watch:
Today on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo, RNC Co-Chair @LaraLeaTrump, spoke about RNC and Trump campaign filing lawsuit against Nevada to stop counting ballots past Election Day. pic.twitter.com/1Y9GQV0tVA
— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) May 5, 2024
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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Jeff M. Smith
Real Clear Wire
Four years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan, what do we know about the origin of the SARSCOV2 virus?
We were presented at the outset with two competing theories: natural-origin spillover from animals to humans, and accidental lab leak. And at the outset, a cadre of elite scientists passionately argued that the evidence overwhelmingly favored a natural origin. With comparable fervor, they dismissed the possibility that SARSCOV2 leaked from a lab as a “conspiracy theory.”
With a few notable exceptions, mainstream media outlets and the larger scientific community vehemently nodded in agreement. NPR said the lab-leak theory was “debunked,” Vanity Fair called it a “right-wing coronavirus conspiracy,” and Facebook banned posts suggesting the virus may have been manufactured in a lab.
Four years later that narrative has begun to crack—and rightly so.
It was always a lie; one of the most consequential lies of the 21st century. Like all great lies it perfectly inverted the truth: the evidence supporting natural spillover has always been thin. Conversely, the evidence pointing to a lab leak has always been compelling and has grown substantially more persuasive with time.
A coalition of elite scientists and complicit media outlets have proven remarkably effective in suppressing the truth for this long. But in recent months, as congressional investigations have intensified, honest scientists and journalists have begun challenging the false consensus with greater alacrity as new revelations have tipped the scales toward lab leak even further.
The clique of elite scientists propagating the natural-spillover theory have always had several problems on their hands. Despite an exhaustive four-year search, no intermediate animal host has ever been found. The closest natural relatives to SARSCOV2 are found in bats in Laos and in Yunnan Province over 600 miles away.
Two of the more popular arguments advanced by spillover partisans—that pandemic began at the Huanan wet market in Wuhan and that it jumped to humans from raccoon dogs and pangolins—have withered under scrutiny. The academic papers supporting both arguments have been hollowed out by fatal challenges to the underlying data, methods, or conclusions.
To date, a natural-spillover explanation for the COVID-19 pandemic remains little more than a distant theoretical possibility.
The Lab-Leak Theory
The most obvious piece of incriminating evidence for the lab-leak theory has always been the existence of a biolab in Wuhan just miles away from the initial outbreak. This wasn’t just any old biolab—the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was an advanced research facility studying coronaviruses that “collaborated on publications and secret projects with China’s military.” And this wasn’t just any old coronavirus research—the WIV was conducting the riskiest viral research in the world.
Gain-of-function research of concern—which can make viruses more transmissible to humans, ostensibly in order to create vaccines—was so risky, and the chance of causing an accidental pandemic was so great, that the U.S. government banned funding for this research in 2014. Nevertheless, U.S. agencies continued funding this dangerous research at the WIV, even before the moratorium was officially lifted in December 2017.
This was a spectacularly irresponsible decision. U.S. authorities had visited the WIV and found it to have wildly inadequate safety protocols. In a truly Strangelovian twist, we later learned that the WIV was conducting virus research that theoretically could end human civilization in BSL-2 conditions, roughly the equivalent of a dentist’s office safety protocols. “That’s screwed up,” responded Dr. Ian Lipkin, an early proponent of natural spillover, after learning of the WIV’s safety protocols. “People should not be looking at bat viruses in BSL-2 labs. My view has changed.”
As well it should have. Mere miles from Ground Zero of the coronavirus pandemic, in chronically unsafe conditions, a government lab collaborating with the Chinese military was doing extremely risky research on coronaviruses—including the closest known relatives of SARSCOV2.
Brace yourself, there’s more.
The Chinese Coverup
If the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t the product of a lab leak, one might reasonably expect the Chinese government to provide a degree of cooperation with the international community, if for no other reason than to clear its name.
China, of course, did the exact opposite. It swiftly arrested doctors and whistleblowers. It ordered labs to transfer or destroy any related viral samples and “not to publish any information related to the unknown disease.” And shirking its obligations to international health regulations, it refused to provide key data to international investigators.
When the World Health Organization requested to do an audit of the WIV and the wet market, China again refused. It also refused to turn over vital pieces of evidence, such as the blood samples of the lab workers or the animals at the wet market.
Adding to the mystery, a few months before the acknowledged outbreak in December 2019, “several researchers inside the WIV became sick.” The WIV changed its security protocols, ordered an expensive new air incinerator and ventilation system, and – in the middle of the night – mysteriously took down an online database of 22,000 bat virus samples.
And let’s not overlook the fact that Beijing was inexplicably able to produce a vaccine in record time, with a patent filed in February 2020. Most scientists believe the timeline to create a vaccine implausibly short – unless someone in China had access to SARSCOV2 before December 2019.
Notably, this mystery vaccine was created by a Chinese military scientist. Rather than being hailed as a hero for creating a vaccine with improbable speed, Mr. Zhou Yusen suspiciously died months later and was virtually scrubbed from the record by the Chinese Communist Party. At least one report claimed he “fell” to his death from the rooftop of the WIV.
In sum, rather than providing any semblance of cooperation or transparency on the origins of the deadliest event of the 21st Century, China acted pretty much exactly as you would expect from a paranoid communist country trying to cover up a lab leak.
Brace yourself, there’s more.
The Smoking Gun
This list of giant red flags grew even longer with the discovery and examination of the “DEFUSE” proposal, submitted to the Pentagon in 2018 by a group of organizations led by Peter Daszak and his EcoHealth Alliance.
Under lab examination, SARSCOV2 was always a bit of a mystery, adorned with some peculiar characteristics. The virus appeared better designed to target humans than animals, “fully optimized for interaction with the human ACE2 receptor” and “consistent with a laboratory optimized coronavirus which entered the human population fully evolved.”
An even more consequential peculiarity was the presence of a Furin Cleavage Site (FCS), which has the unfortunate property of enhancing a viruses’ transmissibility. The presence of an FCS was particularly puzzling because none of the over 1,500 of known sarbecoviruses (the sub-genus of SARSCOV2) has ever been found in nature with a FCS. On the other hand, it’s not uncommon for virologists to insert an FCS while doing gain-of-function experiments in a lab.
For a while, it looked like the presence of an FCS in SARSCOV2, located at the S1/S2 boundary, would remain a vexing, unsolved mystery. Then we learned the details of the $14 million DEFUSE proposal. One year before the pandemic, Mr. Daszak and his collaborators requested funding from the Pentagon to conduct gain-of-function research at the WIV. Specifically, they proposed inserting a FCS into a coronavirus at the S1/S2 boundary—precisely the never-before-seen characteristics present in SARSCOV2 that aided the virus’ rapid transmission.
The Pentagon wisely declined to fund the DEFUSE proposal, but a growing pile of evidence suggests this research went ahead in some form anyway—or was already being conducted—and likely escaped from the Wuhan lab and started the COVID-19 pandemic. “If you study hundreds of different bat viruses at BSL-2 [safety protocols], your luck may eventually run out,” admits one of the godfathers of gain-of-function research and a frequent WIV collaborator, Dr. Ralph Baric.
Of the two possible theories of COVID-19’s origins, only one stands atop of mountain of increasingly persuasive evidence. Natural-spillover proponents have nevertheless sought to dismiss this damning indictment as merely a chain of misinterpreted coincidences. The proximity of the WIV, the gain-of-function research, the dead PLA scientists, the mysterious vaccines, the dentist-office security protocols, the Furin Cleavage Site, the deleted databases, the silenced doctors, the DEFUSE proposal, the lack of an animal host are all just … coincidences.
Any one of them would have been a legitimate cause for inquiry and concern. A dozen of them, by the laws of probability and basic common sense, constitute a smoking gun.
The Real Conspiracy
Which begs a final question: How could this group of elite scientists have gotten this paramount question so horribly wrong?
The inevitable answer is: they didn’t. They weren’t wrong. They were lying.
We know from leaked internal communications that some of the same scientists most ardently dismissing the lab-leak theory took one look at SARSCOV2 and concluded it was, in the words of biologist Kristian Andersen, “so friggin’ likely” the virus escaped from a Wuhan lab “because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.”
The virus seemed “pre-adapted from the get go,” observed virologist Edward Holmes. The presence of an unprecedented Furin Cleavage Site in SARSCOV2 kept scientist Bob Garry “up all night.” The SARSCOV2 genome was “inconsistent with evolutionary theory,” concluded Dr. Andersen on January 31, 2020.
One day later, some of the same scientists held a phone call with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Dr. Anthony Fauci and rapidly did an about-face, condemning the lab-leak theory as a “crackpot” conspiracy and viciously attacking anyone questioning their fabricated consensus. A larger network of scientists and science journalists quickly fell in line. The coverup had begun.
The Coverup
A tight network of elite scientists soon engaged in a remarkably effective effort to deceive the world. They collectively briefed the U.S. government, World Health Organization, and any media outlets that would listen: The science was settled, this wasn’t a lab leak. Some of them went on to publish the now-infamous Proximal Origins paper in March 2020 in Nature Medicine, ranked as the most impactful science article of that year. “We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible,” the paper’s authors asserted.
Their efforts to discredit the lab-leak theory were aided substantially by EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak. He had been involved in multiple collaborations with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including the now-infamous DEFUSE proposal which included a veritable blueprint for creating SARSCOV2. The experiments were so dangerous, and the WIV safety protocols so poor, Daszak intentionally sought to deceive the Pentagon by suggesting the research would be conducted in the U.S.—not China.
(Shockingly, Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance are still receiving tens of millions of dollars in U.S. government research grants, including a seven-figure grant awarded in December 2022.)
After the pandemic outbreak, Daszak conveniently avoided disclosing his personal connections to risky coronavirus research at the WIV as he organized and co-drafted a letter in The Lancet to “strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”
“The idea that this virus escaped from a lab is just pure baloney. It’s simply not true,” Daszak proclaimed in an April 2020 interview.
Daszak also managed to get himself appointed to join the World Health Organization’s (WHO) investigation into COVID’s origins. The investigation produced a March 2021 report that concluded it was “extremely unlikely” SARSCOV2 leaked from a lab. (Under growing scrutiny, the second phase of the WHO investigation was “quietly shelved.”)
Daszak also positioned himself to lead The Lancet’s “COVID-19 Commission.” The following year, chairman Dr. Jeffrey Sachs disbanded the commission over “concerns about the conflicts of interest of one its members and his ties…to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” Sachs later lamented how Dazsak was “not telling me the truth” and was “filled with misdirection,” admitting “it’s time to fess up [SARSCOV2] might have come out of a lab.”
“We don’t have definitive evidence of either hypothesis,” Sachs posited. “But what we do have is definitive evidence that officialdom has tried to keep our eyes away from the lab leak.”
Dr. Fauci was also working overtime to deflect attention from the lab-leak theory. In multiple bouts of congressional testimony, Fauci engaged in semantic games to insist the U.S. wasn’t involved in funding dangerous gain-of-function research at the WIV. (It was.) On several occasions, Fauci publicly argued the evidence “very, very strongly” leans toward natural origin. (It doesn’t.) Those challenging Fauci on these questions, he famously told CBS’s Face the Nation, were “really criticizing science, because I represent science.”
Fauci also tried to explain away China’s stunning lack of cooperation with the international community and elaborate coverup that cost the world countless lives by blaming the Trump administration’s “accusatory nature” for China’s deadly obfuscation.
Fauci also led an effort to brief other U.S. government agencies on COVID’s origins, reportedly leaning on the intelligence community, White House, and State Department to conclude a lab leak was unlikely. One whistleblower later claimed Fauci’s “opinion substantially altered the conclusions that were subsequently drawn.”
Oddly, U.S. intelligence agencies proved largely split and indecisive in their conclusions, with nearly all submitting “low confidence” assessments it was either a lab leak, natural origin, or the evidence was inconclusive. Only one agency had a “medium confidence” assessment in either theory: the FBI is convinced SARSCOV2 is the product of a lab leak. So too is former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who explained in 2023: “a lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science and by common sense.”
The Conspiracy
This was the real conspiracy. Many of the elite scientists seeking to discredit the lab-leak theory knew all along it was the most credible explanation. Not only did they intentionally deceive the world, they slandered any scientist or journalist that challenged them. For daring to question this fraudulent consensus, scientist Alina Chan was viciously attacked as an “intellectually dishonest, manipulative conspiracist with very little subject matter expertise who has…compensated for her mediocrity by pursuing personal profit.”
So, why did the scientific establishment act with such disgrace and deception? Their motivations were multi-causal.
First, some of these scientists were direct collaborators with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Dr. Peter Hotez had channeled U.S. government funds to five coronavirus research projects conducted by the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences and the WIV between 2016 and 2019. Mr. Daszak’s DEFUSE proposal included a veritable blueprint for SARSCOV2. They were rightly concerned they could be held personally accountable.
Second, some of these scientists had for years been quietly waging a behind-the-scenes battle to defend risky gain-of-function research over the considerable objections of other virologists. If the pandemic was, in fact, the product of a lab leak, it might deal a fatal blow to their crusade to preserve this controversial research. Even worse, from their perspective, it would mark the death knell for scientific cooperation with China.
Third, some of these scientists had strong financial and reputational incentives to suppress the lab-leak theory, especially after Dr. Fauci weighed in. Dr. Andersen, for example, had a roughly $9 million grant pending with Fauci’s government agency at the time—a grant that was approved two months after he co-authored the seminal academic paper supporting natural spillover, Proximal Origins. “There were people that did not talk about [the lab leak], because they feared for their careers,” Dr. Filippa Lentzos of King’s College later admitted. “They feared for their grants.”
Fourth and finally, the lab-leak debate was hyper-politicized from the outset. Once President Donald Trump suggested a Wuhan lab might be responsible, scientists felt compelled to pick a side. Supporting with the lab-leak theory was “siding with President Trump” and nothing—not science, honesty, morality, credibility, or public health—was more important than opposing the “racist” conspiracy theory adopted by Trump, even if it was likely to be true.
The Conclusion
Presented the evidence objectively, the American people can now decide for themselves whether the natural origin theory of COVID-19 represents the most implausible string of coincidences imaginable or the lie of the century.
Jeff M. Smith is the Director of the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation.
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The New York Times has admitted that Donald Trump is increasingly popular with young voters and that many prefer his policies to those promoted by the Biden regime.
In an article published this weekend, the left-wing newspaper notes that its own polling has Trump and Biden tied neck and neck among young voters, contradicting the narrative that his appeal is solely among older voters:
The report states:
Although President Biden continues to lead among 18- to 29-year-olds in most polls, several surveys in recent weeks show Mr. Trump performing much more strongly with young voters than he was at the same point in 2020, and more strongly than he was against Mrs. Clinton at the same point in 2016.In the latest New York Times/Siena College poll, from last month, Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden were neck and neck among 18- to 29-year-olds. In the latest Harvard Youth Poll, conducted in March by the Harvard Institute of Politics, Mr. Trump trails by eight points.
Mr. Della Volpe and other pollsters note that these findings come with a wealth of caveats. Mr. Trump’s relatively good standing with young voters is at odds with their broadly liberal views on most issues, which have led them to favor Democratic candidates for decades.
…
In polls like Harvard’s, Mr. Biden performs much more strongly among registered or likely voters than he does in polls of all adults, suggesting that he is weakest with those least interested in the race. Young people, who are often late in following elections, appear to be especially disengaged from this year’s race, a contest between two familiar candidates in their 70s and 80s.
Still, the Trump campaign sees opportunity in the signs of shifts in the demographic. A stark gender divide has emerged in young people’s politics in recent years, in which Republicans enjoy an advantage among young men.
In a Times/Siena poll in February, young voters were far more likely to say they were personally helped by Mr. Trump’s policies than by Mr. Biden’s, and far more likely to say they were personally hurt by Mr. Biden’s than by Mr. Trump’s (though in both cases, about half said neither president’s policies had made much difference either way).
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Nearly 70 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested outside the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday as anti-Israel protests continue.
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As many universities and colleges around the nation are preparing for summer break and commencement ceremonies, anti-Israel protesters show no signs of giving up.
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A “possible leader” of the anti-Israel protesters, who broke into and barricaded themselves in Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall last week, is reportedly a 40-year-old heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune and repeat provocateur.
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When Democrat politicians in New York passed the Adult Survivors Act to punish Donald Trump and provide the ability for E. Jean Carroll to go after Trump 30 years later, their Trump Derangement Syndrome blinded them to how it might impact them.
The now-expired act allowed alleged victims to file civil lawsuits against their accused attackers within a specific window, even if the state’s statute of limitations had run out on their claims.
In November, The Gateway Pundit reported on allegations of sexual assault against embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) stemming from an incident in 1993.
Now, Kevin Parker, a Democrat state senator representing Brooklyn, is calling the Adult Survivors Act unconstitutional, and yet he voted for it.
The accusation against him occurred just before the law expired and stems from an incident in 2004.
The state senator, along with every other member of the state Senate, had voted for the legislation in 2021.
Parker even touted his support of the law in a statement in which he denied the rape charges against him shortly after they were levied in November.
“I voted in favor of the [Adult Survivors Act] to ensure all New Yorkers can seek justice and be heard,” Parker wrote of the legislation, which was also passed by the assembly, signed into law by Hochul in May 2022 and expired in November 2023.
“These allegations are absolutely untrue. My work and advocacy will continue,” Parker said.
Olga Jean-Baptiste alleges that when she was working with Parker on relief efforts for Haiti in 2004, he grabbed her by the wrists and forcibly raped her at her home.
Parker’s behavior has caused concerns in the past. In 2018, he tweeted to a GOP staffer to “Kill yourself.”
Candice Giove, who was the New York State Senate Majority’s deputy communications director, tweeted about Parker abusing his position after discovering that a placard found in a car parked in a bike lane belonged to Senator Parker. However, the license plate number on the placard did not match the vehicle.
Giove said on X, “It got to the bottom of this. The placard is assigned to @SenatorParker. However, the license plate # on the placard does not match the vehicle. So he either used it in another car or gave it to someone to use, both of which are not permitted.”
Although Parker deleted his reply to Giove, someone was able to capture a screenshot before it was removed.
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The aviation giant Boeing is facing a growing number of whistleblowers coming forward with safety concerns following the recent deaths of two previous whistleblowers, the New York Post reported.
The first whistleblower, John Barnett, a 62-year-old former Boeing quality control manager, was found dead in March in an apparent suicide. Barnett had been in the midst of giving depositions, alleging Boeing retaliated against him for complaints about quality lapses.
Barnett was found in his truck “suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.” A suicide note was reportedly found next to Boeing whistleblower John Barnett. However, his lawyers are questioning whether he took his own life.
According to the New York Post, police dusted the inside of John Barnett’s vehicle, which is an unusual move in a suicide investigation. Also, according to The Post, hotel workers who saw Barnett the night before he committed suicide say he seemed totally fine.
Barnett’s lawyers are asking for a thorough probe because they don’t believe he committed suicide.
“John was in the midst of a deposition in his whistleblower case, which finally was nearing the end,” Barnett’s lawyers said. “He was in very good spirits and really looking forward to putting this phase of his life behind him and moving on.”
Less than two months, a second Boeing-linked whistleblower, Joshua Dean, died at the age of 45 after a sudden and severe illness. Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, was one of the first to raise the alarm about potentially dangerous manufacturing defects on the 737 Max jets.
According to reports by the Seattle Times, Dean succumbed to a fast-spreading infection that led to multiple complications, ending his life at the age of 45. Dean, a resident of Wichita, Kansas—where Spirit AeroSystems is based—was previously in good health and known for his healthy lifestyle.
Both their attorneys, Robert Turkewitz and Brian Knowles, are pushing for an in-depth investigation into their deaths.
“It’s an absolute tragedy when a whistleblower dies under suspicious circumstances,” Turkewitz stated.
Last month, Quality Engineer Sam Salehpour, Ed Pierson, Executive Director of The Foundation for Aviation Safety and former Boeing Engineer, Joe Jacobsen, Aerospace Engineer, Technical Advisor to the Foundation for Aviation Safety, and former FAA Engineer, along with Shawn Pruchnicki, Ph.D., Professional Practice Assistant Professor for Integrated Systems Engineering at Ohio State University, testified before the Senate.
One whistleblower, Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour, testified before Congress that he had faced “physical threats” from his boss after raising concerns about structural issues with the 787 Dreamliner. He claimed that debris was found in the unfilled gaps between aircraft parts “80% of the time.”
“I have analyzed Boeing’s own data to conclude that the company is taking manufacturing shortcuts on the 787 program that may significantly reduce the airplane safety and the life cycle,” said Salehpour during the hearing. “Since 2013, there have been serious issues on the 787 program not properly closing thousands of gaps in its assembly of the fuselage on major joints.”
Another whistleblower, former Boeing engineer and senior manager Pierson, alleged there was a “criminal cover-up” at the company, claiming records related to a door blowout incident on a 737 Max plane did in fact exist, contrary to Boeing’s claims.
“Records do in fact exist. I know this because I personally passed them to the FBI,” Pierson said during the hearing, adding, “For the last couple months, there’s been talk that there’s no records, and that’s obviously not the case. It has been available for months.”
Now, it appears that at least 10 more whistleblowers have come forward with safety concerns about Boeing’s aircraft.
The whistleblowers have painted a troubling picture of Boeing, alleging the company prioritized profits over safety, ignored problems, and retaliated against employees who spoke up.
Boeing faces 10 more whistleblowers after two die: ‘People’s lives are at stake’ https://t.co/5Wv6eA8kUb pic.twitter.com/rPi5mugV9L
— New York Post (@nypost) May 4, 2024
New York Post reported:
The attorneys for both men hope their deaths don’t scare away the at least 10 other whistleblowers who want the company to clean up its act.
Brian Knowles, a Charleston, South Carolina, attorney who represented both Barnett and Dean hope their deaths were not in vain.
“These men were heroes. So are all the whistleblowers. They loved the company and wanted to help the company do better,” Knowles told The Post.
“They didn’t speak out to be aggravating or for fame. They’re raising concerns because people’s lives are at stake.”
Knowles and others inside the Boeing scandals are hesitant to speculate about conspiracy theories swirling around the two whistleblower deaths.
Knowles pointed out that the Charleston, SC police are still wrapping up their investigation of Barnett’s death — and that it may take some weeks for tests to reveal more about Dean’s passing.
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A Wisconsin elementary school teacher was arrested on charges of first-degree child sex assault Wednesday after the victim’s parents found text messages with the 11-year-old 5th-grade student discussing their touching and “making out.”
Police also reportedly found a folder with the boy’s name on it, which contained handwritten notes between the victim and the teacher, Madison Bergmann, talking about their kissing.
Bergmann reportedly told police that she received the child’s phone number during winter break after the family invited her on a vacation to the Afton Alps. Per the New York Post, Bergmann’s social media shows that she became engaged to Sam Hickman the same month as the trip.
Bergman has since been put on administrative leave and barred from contacting any minors, including the victim.
Via Kare 11:
Right now, 24-year old Madison Bergman is out of jail. She’s out on a $25,000 signature bond. She’s charged with first degree child sex assault. Now, here’s how we got to this point. Police say that Bergman’s abuse of this fifth grade student came to light really just in a matter of days. The male victim’s parents found text messages between him and Bergman on Monday morning. Then on Wednesday, the parents brought those texts to River Crest Elementary School Administrators. Those texts include conversations about the two kissing, touching, making out.
Bergman was questioned on Wednesday. She told investigators she was given the child’s phone number after a trip to Afton Alps with the child’s family. She was then placed under arrest that very same day. Bergman’s been ordered to have no contact with the victim or with anybody under the age of 18. She’s also been ordered to wear a GPS monitoring device. She’s due back in court here in St. Croix County on May 30.
Sam Hickman, who was engaged to Bergmann this July, described the situation to a friend as “f*cked up.” The soon-to-be newlyweds have called their wedding off.
Per the New York Post:
Madison Bergmann and her betrothed, Sam Hickman, were due to tie the knot in July — but the revelation of her sick love affair with one of her 11-year-old students has halted any plans of a flowery ceremony.
“He says it’s f–ked up that she cheated with a little kid,” the friend told The Post.
“He’s really really hurt. Not talking too much about it, just like ‘this is f–ked up’.”
The 24-year-old teacher was busted after the victim’s parents found texts between the pair, according to charging documents.
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Republican Senator Marco Rubio was on “Fox News Sunday” with Shannon Bream earlier Sunday to discuss a few topics including the pro-Hamas agitators on college campuses.
The Florida Senator called for the visas of foreign students who support Hamas to be revoked.
“If you are on the streets of the United States you are here as a visitor on a visa. Ok, you are not an American, you are here on a visa. You are here to teach or, you are here to go to school and you are out there and are chanting on behalf of Hamas and Hezbollah and these terrorist groups who by the way also hate America, we should revoke your visa,” Rubio said.
“There’s a bunch of Democratic donors, major Democratic donors who are behind the groups that are funding all this,” Rubio continued.
“They are committing acts of violence, not just acts of anti-Semitism, acts of violence, of vandalism, threatening people,” Rubio continued.
Watch:
WATCH: Senator @marcorubio calls for foreign students supporting Hamas to have their visa revoked. pic.twitter.com/MWi1S3eMBk
— Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) May 5, 2024
Numerous college campuses have been overwhelmed by these well-organized and well-funded groups of pro-Hamas thugs. They even built a wall around the area where they were protesting at UCLA.
Last week police took action and cleared out encampments at UCLA with riot gear.
Watch:
#UCLA: In a lightning-fast strike, law enforcement launched its second offensive, blasting through the Hamas terrorist perimeter and sending the terrorists reeling as command posts were reduced to rubble. #LAPD #Hamas #HamasTerrorists pic.twitter.com/aeNQD7Ff0M
— XOOAA (@X_O_O_A_A) May 2, 2024
This is Joe Biden’s America.
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Court documents showed Kandic had multiple responsibilities, including recruiting foreign fighters (ISIS photo)
On January 4, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) called for worldwide targeting of Jews and Christians, which it later claimed resulted in 610 people wounded or killed in 110 attacks across 12 countries.
Avril D. Haines, the Director of National Intelligence, told a Senate panel, “The threat from ISIS remains a significant counterterrorism concern,” while noting that the majority of its attacks have been carried out by “parts of ISIS that are outside of Afghanistan.”
The main body of ISIS is active in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, but it is also absorbing other groups. In the Philippines, Abu Sayyaf has been the primary terrorist organization.
However, in 2014, a faction of Abu Sayyaf pledged allegiance to ISIS, and in 2016, a new branch was formed called ISIS-East Asia or ISEA-Philippines. ISIS also has affiliations with groups in West Africa, including factions of the Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram.
An ISIS faction, the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), has been rising in infamy and is believed to be responsible for the Moscow concert attack, as well as an attack in Iran that killed 100 people. Director Haines warns that ISIS-K may be ready to launch attacks in the U.S. and the West in as little as six months.
Established in 2015, ISIS-K comprises mainly fighters from Central Asia, along with members of the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Its prominence escalated into a global jihadist organization after the Taliban seized control of the Afghan government in 2021. Named after “the Khorasan” territory, encompassing Afghanistan, parts of Pakistan, Central Asia, and Iran, ISIS-K aims to establish a caliphate there. It receives funding from ISIS in Syria and anti-Taliban sources in Afghanistan.
The Taliban and ISIS-K are both Islamist groups, but they have significant ideological differences. ISIS-K follows a much stricter and more violent interpretation of Islam. They see the Taliban as insufficiently extreme and have clashed with them for control of territory and influence.
Both groups seek control of Afghanistan and its resources. ISIS-K considers the Taliban’s rule as illegitimate and aims to overthrow them. This competition for power prompts some Afghans to support ISIS-K in opposition to the Taliban.
Additionally, some former Taliban members, who either disagree with the group’s leadership or perceive them as not radical enough, join or support ISIS-K. The group also exploits local grievances against the Taliban, such as perceived corruption or heavy-handed rule, to garner support.
The Taliban has been fighting against ISIS-K in Afghanistan but has been unable to eradicate the group, which is also active in Pakistan and Iran. ISIS-K has been implicated in a number of thwarted terrorist plots in Europe. Members of ISIS-K networks have been arrested in Germany and the Netherlands.
ISIS-K claimed responsibility for an attack on a Roman Catholic Church in Istanbul, resulting in one fatality. The Turkey attack highlights the observations of some terrorism experts, indicating that ISIS-K has predominantly relied on inadequately trained individuals, with many of their attacks either failing or being thwarted.
However, the group is progressively gaining experience and augmenting its capabilities through the integration of other terrorist organizations. Conversely, if ISIS-K is indeed accountable for the Moscow and Iran attacks, it signifies them as one of the most lethal terrorist organizations currently active. Both of these attacks demonstrate a significant level of planning and competence.
ISIS-K’s recruitment strategies have proven notably successful, which is evident in its rapid growth. The group targets disenchanted Muslims across South and Central Asia, capitalizing on various local grievances such as poverty, government corruption, or ethnic tensions. These grievances are woven into a singular narrative, attributing blame to external forces or weak local governments while positioning ISIS-K as the sole solution.
They employ sophisticated online propaganda, often tailored to specific regions. ISIS-K emphasizes sectarian divisions, particularly targeting Shia Muslims, to stoke anger and fuel their narrative of oppression against Muslims.
This propaganda utilizes social media and messaging apps to disseminate their message and glorify violence. They also distribute publications in local languages to reach those who may not be active online. The group provides a sense of belonging and purpose to the marginalized or isolated. They exploit feelings of hopelessness and promise an opportunity to combat perceived injustices.
ISIS-K detests Jews, Christians, Shia Muslims, Iranians, and even terrorist organizations that it deems not extreme enough, like the Taliban. Essentially, if you exist and are not a member, ISIS-K hates you and wants to kill you. With wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and looming threats from Iran, China, and Russia, the resurgence of Islamic extremist terrorism and ISIS-K presents yet another threat for America to deal with.
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Google is reportedly censoring a new pro-Trump MAGA PAC ad that exposes Joe Biden’s prioritization of illegal “newcomers to America” over Americans being crushed by inflation.
According to Trump surrogates and supporters who are calling on supporters to make the video go viral, Google took down the ad, claiming it violates their guidelines.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the State of Michigan, under Biden-ally Governor Gretchen Whitmer, is offering $500 in taxpayer money to house illegal aliens as it struggles with the pressure of Biden’s invasion.
“The Newcomer Rental Subsidy program provides Refugees and other Newcomer population-eligible households with rental assistance up to $500 per month for up to 12 months, with eligibility based on immigration status and household income,” The Office of Global Michigan’s website states.
Per Daily Mail, “Congresswoman Lisa McClain of Michigan sent a letter to Biden calling the scheme a ‘slap in the face’ to the state’s taxpayers and a way of ‘rolling out the red carpet’ for illegal migrants.”
This news comes as the American economy is failing. GDP dropped faster than expected in the first quarter of 2024 and came in at half the rate of Q4 2023, while inflation rose to 3.7% in the first quarter.
Yet, Joe Biden says it’s India, Japan, Russia, and China who are failing economically “because they’re xenophobic,” but the US economy is “growing” because we roll out the red carpet to illegal immigrants paid for by you.
According to a recent poll, 70% of voters in swing states say that the United States economy is on the "wrong track." 51% of voters say they trust Trump more on the economy, while just 36% say Biden.
The advertisement shows a Biden phone banker calling a voter who is upset that "everything costs more," including rent.
The Biden volunteer then looks to her talking points, which read, "Biden is helping to pay rent for newcomers to America [do not say immigrants]."
The voter responds, "You mean illegal immigrants? I'm struggling to pay my bills, but Biden's paying rent for illegals? They get handouts, and I'm paying for it!" He continues, "Things were better before Biden. I'm voting for Trump.
Watch below:
You can help this ad be seen by sharing this story and the tweets below:
Google banned this ad!
Please make sure that you don’t REPOSTIT… pic.twitter.com/cZ4ynX8AcI
— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) May 4, 2024
Google is censoring this pro-Trump ad to protect Biden.
Let's make it go viral. pic.twitter.com/1qDH5QzkbJ
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 4, 2024
Google has taken down this Trump ad on the pretext of violating its guidelines. The real reason of course is because it’s pretty effective. Let’s teach Google a lesson by sharing this widely! pic.twitter.com/YJJcf2UK2Q
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) May 4, 2024
GOOGLE TOOK DOWN THIS TRUMP AD, saying it “violated their guidelines.”
More big tech censorship to help crooked Joe Biden!
Watch and share this ad!
— Alex Bruesewitz (@alexbruesewitz) May 4, 2024
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President Trump on Sunday traveled to Miami ahead of the Formula One Miami Grand Prix 2024.
WATCH:
President @realDonaldTrump en route to Formula 1 Miami pic.twitter.com/gE1l4Sz56u
— Margo Martin (@margommartin) May 5, 2024
Law enforcement lined the street to greet President Trump as he arrived at Miami International Autodrome.
Officers waved and applauded as Trump’s motorcade passed by.
WATCH:
President @realDonaldTrump arrives at Miami International Autodrome to warm welcome from Florida Law Enforcement!! pic.twitter.com/KfNch9qQGw
— Margo Martin (@margommartin) May 5, 2024
“Hello everybody,” Trump said as he waved to attendees at the third Formula One Miami Grand Prix.
“Welcome, Mr. President! Thank you! Well done, Mr. President! Make America Great Again!” attendees shouted as Trump walked by.
WATCH:
Nos separaron en un pasillo sin saber que pasaba y aparece Donald jajaja. pic.twitter.com/CNauV7dMyg
— Momo (@momorelojero) May 5, 2024
President Trump arrived to thunderous applause on Sunday.
The crowd chanted, “USA! USA! USA! as Trump waved to the crowd outside the McLaren Garage on Pit Lane.
WATCH:
Crowd chants “USA!” as President @realDonaldTrump arrives outside the McLaren Garage on Pit Lane pic.twitter.com/JzioZeUNPJ
— Margo Martin (@margommartin) May 5, 2024
Additional footage of Trump firing up the crowd:
President Trump fires up the Formula 1 crowd as chants of “USA” welcome him to the race track pic.twitter.com/nhw73gaiPs
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 5, 2024
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The United States Military Academy at West Point is introducing a new curriculum that includes courses on “deconstructing patriotism,” “cross-dressing in the military,” and other topics related to gender norms and representation.
These courses are part of a broader initiative by the Biden regime to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) propaganda into the curriculum over duty, honor, and country.
Former Navy SEAL and Representative Scott Taylor (R-VA) tweeted his concerns after the curriculum was reportedly shared with him, stating, “This was sent to me, classes at U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Quite sure China and Russia are not teaching this nonsense to their officers. Fix yourself.”
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton also weighed in, calling out the Biden regime for “abusing cadets at West Point” through indoctrination.
Biden administration abusing cadets at West Point. https://t.co/xKkWOBc35P
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) May 5, 2024
The controversial courses are as follows:
The point of contact for these courses is Dr. Morten Ender, Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Studies Minor at West Point.
Dr. Ender has published on related topics, including a paper titled “Dinner and a Conversation: Transgender Integration at West Point and Beyond,” and “Inclusion in the U.S Military: A Force for Diversity.“
These courses are a distraction from the Academy’s mission to produce leaders capable of winning wars.
The Pentagon suggested that the United States military entered 2024 with its smallest size and lowest qualification levels in nearly eight decades. This development raises significant concerns about national security and military readiness in an era of evolving global threats.
According to Daily Mail, the total number of active-duty personnel has dropped to levels not seen since the early 1940s, a period before the U.S. entered World War II.
The emerging challenges in military recruitment are becoming increasingly evident, as seen in this year’s significant shortfall of 41,000 personnel. This gap highlights the widening disconnect between the military establishment and the younger generations.
Recruiting has been hampered by the COVID-19 vaccine mandates as well as an increasingly woke military atmosphere where trans soldiers are give special privileges while Christian soldiers are persecuted, bases host drag shows, and leaders with a history of anti-white statements are hired.
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth claimed that ‘woke’ criticisms of the military hurt recruiting. Over the last three years, it has been widely reported that recruiting is way down across all branches of the U.S. military.
It’s fascinating that this official is claiming that woke criticisms are the problem, not the woke policies that have been put in place.
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Jeremy Clarkson, a popular British broadcaster, journalist, and writer best known for his role on the BBC TV show Top Gear, hit back at woke content warnings being placed on different forms of entertainment in the UK.
Clarkson said that the recent influx of trigger warnings before various forms of entertainment is worlds away from the Britain he grew up in, where nudity and potentially controversial content was displayed without a care.
Writing in The Times, he said: “Today, we have warnings before every show about all of the horrors that lie ahead. We’re told that we are going to see nudity and smoking and that there may be drug ‘misuse.’”
He added, “Today we are told on an hourly basis that our children are subjected to far too much online titillation,” however, he suggests that it is worse now than what he grew up.
Clarkson’s comments come on the heels of reports that Shakespeare’s Globe in London recently issued “content guidance” for its productions of Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar.
Leftists ruin everything, even great literary works.
Ahead of Antony and Cleopatra, the theatre warned audiences of “depictions of suicide, scenes of violence and war and misogynoir references”.
Misogynoir is a relatively new term for describing discrimination against women and black people.
The Telegraph reports that a warning for Midsummer Night’s Dream contains “misogyny and racism.”
The inclusion of a warning on preview material for the play comes after education experts at the Globe Theatre critiqued it for its misogyny, and as part of a series of “Anti-Racist Shakespeare” seminars intended to “decolonise” the Bard’s work.
The Globe hosts Anti-Racist Shakespeare seminars which is “a series of free webinars that brings together scholars and artists of colour from a wide variety of backgrounds to examine Shakespeare’s plays through the lens of race and social justice.”
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The pro-Palestinian, antisemitic protests on university campuses across the nation are funded by President Joe Biden's own political donors -- which could explain why he hesitates to condemn them and won't investigate them.
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Despite referring to Joe Biden as “Genocide Joe,” anti-Israel protesters receive much of their financial backing from wealthy Democratic donors, an analysis has revealed.
Politico reported on Sunday that despite Biden’s lukewarm support for Israel, many of his biggest donors, including the Bill Gates, George Soros and the Rockefeller and Pritzker families, are also funnelling money towards the pro-Palestinian protesters that have dominated headlines over recent weeks.
“The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Gates, Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.”
Who is funding the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University https://t.co/Qqg3eIPsyu via @politico
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) May 5, 2024
The report states:
Two of the main organizers behind protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and it in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change. (Gates did not return a request for comment, and Soros declined to comment.)
Another notable Democratic donor whose philanthropy has helped fund the protest movement is David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2022, the fund gave $300,000 to the Tides Foundation; according to nonprofit tax forms, Tides has given nearly $500,000 over the past five years to Jewish Voice for Peace, which explicitly describes itself as anti-Zionist.
Several other groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire — and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns, including $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than $300,000 during the 2020 campaign.
It goes on to note how these donations emphasize the “blurred lines when it comes to liberal causes and Democratic politics,” which includes “conflicting agendas and tactics” and a “small group of wealthy heavyweights are often playing an outsize role funding many of them.”
Although Biden has so far refused to fully condemn the protesters, he has argued that they are breaking the law and not abiding by the norms of peaceful protest.
“Destroying property is not a peaceful protest, it’s against the law,” Biden said. “Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduation, none of this is a peaceful protest.”
Biden, a few moments ago:
“Destroying property is not peaceful protest. It’s against the law.
“Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes & graduations …none of this is peaceful protest.” pic.twitter.com/onz9bgYQie
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 2, 2024
Despite these contradictions, there can be little doubt that Israel’s war in Gaza is proving to be an enormous headache for the Biden regime, which is increasingly alienating the hard left of the Democratic Party who oppose the existence of Israel altogether.
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President Trump this weekend called for Jack Smith to be arrested after the Special Counsel admitted in a court filing that he lied to the court about the classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
“ARREST DERANGED JACK SMITH. HE IS A CRIMINAL!” Trump said in a Truth Social post this weekend.
Jack Smith admitted he lied to the Court about the classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago in a motion filed late Friday night.
Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday evening responded to Trump’s co-defendant Walt Nauta’s motion to extend a deadline for disclosures in the classified documents case.
Recall that Walt Nauta, a former White House employee and Navy veteran who worked valet for Trump and served as a personal staffer at Mar-a-Lago was indicted along with Trump last year.
In a motion filed late Friday, Jack Smith admitted the FBI messed with the boxes containing “classified” documents they seized from Trump and can’t be sure the order or the placement of the documents.
In a May 1 filing, Walt Nauta’s attorney claimed he had difficulty in cross-referencing materials in classified and unclassified discovery because “certain items in the seized boxes he reviewed were in a different order from where they appear in the scans of the boxes’ contents produced in discovery.”
Jack Smith in his Friday night response admitted the FBI moved the classified documents around.
According to a footnote in the motion reviewed by The Gateway Pundit, the FBI messed with the boxes containing the ‘classified’ documents they seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
The DOJ previously assured the Court that the placement of classified documents as originally found had been maintained – THEY LIED!
Footnote 3: The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court. See, e.g., 4/12/24 Hearing Tr. at 65 (Government responding to the Court’s question of whether the boxes were “in their original, intact form as seized” by stating “[t]hey are, with one exception; and that is that the classified documents have been removed and placeholders have been put in the documents”
The DOJ in August 2022 lied to the Court when they claimed the red, blue and yellow sheets shown in the viral photo of the classified documents indicated their classification status.
It turns out they were “slip sheets” the FBI used to replace the so-called classified documents.
The FBI admitted they messed with Trump’s documents! The FBI used cover sheets as placeholders for the classified documents.
“After the boxes were brought to WFO, the FBI created an index to correlate the documents with classification markings to codes (e.g., document “bb”) and labeled the classified cover sheets in the boxes with the codes for the seized documents. The FBI also generally replaced the handwritten sheets with classified cover sheets annotated with the index code, but regardless, any handwritten sheets that currently remain in the boxes do not represent additional classified documents—they were just not removed when the classified cover sheets with the index code were added. In many but not all instances, the FBI was able to determine which document with classification markings corresponded to a particular placeholder sheet.”
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RNC Chief Counsel Charlie Spies is reportedly leaving after he was apparently “pushed out,” according to sources.
As reported by Joe Hoft, Spies is a rabid Never Trumper, who joined forces with Hillary attorney Marc Elias in 2016 to label Trump a threat to Democracy, called Trump a grifter, accused him of trying to make money by being president (remember Trump didn’t even take a salary), repeatedly claimed there was no fraud in the 2020 election, celebrated Biden’s 81 million vote heist, and supported those campaigning against Trump in this election cycle.
Spies has appeared on CNN and on an election integrity panel at CPAC in 2021, claiming that elections "can't be rigged." He also admitted that Marc Elias is a friend and that he said elections were secure at the request of Elias before Hillary Clinton and the Democrats pushed their Russian Collusion hoax in 2016.
Via The Absolute Truth With Emerald Robinson:
Good riddance!
This guy would not pair well with RNC Chair Michael Whatley's pledge to ensure that the 2024 presidential election is not tainted by the widespread voter fraud that occurred in 2020 and 2022. It is unclear why the RNC hired him in March.
NBC reports,
Spies was previously described by a campaign official as “the best at what he does, knows the FEC loopholes better than anyone” but a “gun for hire."
However, Spies was not a fan of the former president.
He previously worked for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during the GOP primary. The longtime Republican lawyer is known for expanding the use of super PACs after the landmark Citizens United decision.
Spies was also behind Right to Rise, the super PAC that Jeb Bush used during the 2016 cycle to raise a record-breaking $100 million in the months before formally announcing his candidacy. Spies filed a complaint in 2015 with the Federal Election Commission against the Trump Organization while in his super PAC role.
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The Gateway Pundit previously reported that far-left actor Mark Hamill made an appearance at the White House press briefing Friday to lavish Joe Biden with unwarranted praise. It also turns out that Biden invited the infamous “Star Wars” actor into the Oval Office for an embarrassing photo-op to mark the day fans celebrate the sci-fi saga.
Hamill has been one of Hollywood’s most vocal supporters of Biden despite the White House occupant having an approval rating hovering below 40% while regularly bashing President Trump on social media.
In a video posted on Biden’s White House X account, the elderly Biden stares into the camera and says, “May the 4th be with you,” before Hamill appears to complete the lame clip.
“Always!” Hamill replies in a deep voice.
The portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen hanging on the Oval Office wall while both Biden and Hamill embarrass themselves.
WATCH:
We had a very good feeling about this.
May the 4th be with you, America. pic.twitter.com/uZVS5qHkcG
— President Biden (@POTUS) May 4, 2024
The lame attempt to pander to the “Star Wars” community backfired completely as social media users unleashed a series of savage responses.
A vote for Biden is a vote for war.
CC: @TryloTheCreator pic.twitter.com/JDhUTmXnGM
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) May 5, 2024
A dementia patient and a homeless drunk.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) May 4, 2024
The most hilarious thing is that Joe is in Delaware right now and has already forgotten he said this.
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) May 4, 2024
May the fourth be with you. pic.twitter.com/Dg5SCoI3jf
— Baad Sheep (@thebaadsheep) May 4, 2024
Idiots, these two are. pic.twitter.com/ciL9ASKGJN
— Planet Of Memes (@PlanetOfMemes) May 4, 2024
The only thing that’s missing is Hunter! pic.twitter.com/OTCXvZL838
— DK (@1Nicdar) May 4, 2024
When you ask the Biden administration how much inflation they want pic.twitter.com/C63WShocAJ
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) May 4, 2024
OMFG!!!
May the force be up yers…. pic.twitter.com/ad8VgfuFGS— MAGA Patriot
Well that was dumb. I think Joe actually came up with this one himself.
— Billy Rhodes (@Bill_Rhodes54) May 4, 2024
This is not the first time Hamill has humiliated himself on Biden’s behalf, either. As the Hollywood Reporter notes, he appeared in an ad for the Biden-Harris campaign toward the end of the 2020 Presidential campaign where he engaged in fear-mongering over what would happen in a Trump second-term.
Hamill specifically cited Trump’s warning of a rigged election, opposition to Obamacare, and “climate change” skepticism.
Thank you for your support, @HamillHimself. May the force be with us this election season. pic.twitter.com/GlgnKz8q96
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 28, 2020
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The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has many demands in their latest salvo in negotiating a new contract with the public schools system.
While the union’s demands have not been made public, Fox News reports a leaked document “sheds light on the eye-popping demands.”
The $50 billion they are asking for includes a 9% wage hike, fully paid abortions for its members, new migrant services and facilities, and a myriad of LGBT-related requirements.
According to Fox News, the total base tax receipts for the state of Illinois last year were $50.7 billion.
The excessive demands come despite Chicago public schools failing their students, and academic rigor in Illinois continues to slip lower and lower.
A recent Illinois State Board of Education report card is dreadful.
In 30 schools in Illinois, not a single student can read at grade level, 22 of which are in the City of Chicago.
In 53 schools, not a single student can do math at grade level, 33 of which are in Chicago.
Maybe that is why Stacy Davis-Gates, President of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) sends one of her children to a private Catholic high school in Chicago.
But let’s throw more money at a failing system.
The union’s demands have not been made public but a leaked document sheds light on the eye-popping demands.
Union President Stacy Davis Gates’ audacious plan calls for members to bank at least 9% wage increases each year through fiscal year 2028.
The average salary of a teacher in Chicago Public Schools is $93,182, according to research by the Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative nonprofit think tank. Therefore, the average teacher’s pay will increase by half to $144,620 in the 2027-2028 school year, it says.
That figure would equate to more than double the median household income in Chicago, according to Census Bureau statistics.
The demands include money to convert unused school facilities into housing for illegals and provide each migrant student with $2,000 to help with various services.
The contract also asks that all counselors, clinicians, social workers, and school psychologists are ‘queer competent’ and that they should be ‘trained annually on LGBTQ+ issues as a qualification of their job description.’
Each school must also have at least one gender-neutral bathroom.
All this while Chicago’s public pension system is in dire straits.
According to a report from Equable Institute, Chicago’s core public pensions, which include municipal, laborers, police, fire and the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund, hold more debt than 44 states with a combined pension debt of nearly $48 billion.
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At least 23 people were shot, two of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning in Mayor Brandon Johnson's (D) Chicago.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived on Sunday in France for a state visit with Emmanuel Macron and talks with EU leadership.
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President Trump went off on his enemies colorfully and discussed potential VP picks during a fiery speech at the Mar-A-Lago Saturday afternoon.
As the Daily Mail reported, Trump hosted around 400 donors and lawmakers for a $ 40,000-a-head fundraising lunch at his home. NBC News notes this luncheon was part of the Republican National Committee’s spring retreat.
Trump slammed Special Counsel Jack Smith as a “f**king a**hole” for trying to throw him in prison for speech crimes.
He then went on to blast Smith as an “evil thug” and “deranged.”
He also brutally mocked Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as a “real beauty” and “Mrs. Wade” during his speech. The latter is particularly biting because of her notorious and corrupt affair with former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
Trump also compared the Biden regime to Nazi Germany, accusing them of running a “Gestapo administration.”
However, the 45th President was not content to slam his political opponents. He also took time to tease who might select as his running mate.
NBC notes that several potential GOP vice presidential candidates are in attendance for the retreat. These include South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.
“I’ve got 50 people calling me, begging me, ‘I’ll cut off my right arm, sir,'” Trump said. “‘ Please, I want to be the vice president.'”
Trump gave a shoutout to Stefanik, who fiercely defended him during his impeachment trials and completely destroyed woke Ivy League presidents over their handling of anti-Semitism on their campuses.
“Everybody said she’s going to be the vice-presidential candidate,” Trump teased.
Trump previously described Stefanik as a “real killer” during a Mar-A-Lago dinner back in January.
But the 45th President also praised several other rumored candidates. He described former presidential “rival” Scott as “one of the greatest surrogates” and called Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) “incredible.”
He also had kind words for Burgum, another former “rival” during the GOP Presidential primary, calling him “really impressive.” Trump went on to praise Rubio as a “talented guy.”
Trump also offered to let donors come up on the stage if they donated $1 million on the spot. Two donors took Trump up on his offer, and one told the crowd, ‘Donald J Trump is the person that God has chosen.’
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On Saturday night, comedian Katt Williams performed his “Woke Folk” set live on Netflix.
Williams’ take on the FBI’s non-investigation into a bag of cocaine found inside the White House, was hilarious.
Showing a giant photo of a baggie labeled ‘Hunter’s Blow, Williams launched his take.
“The truth is crazy enough, you ain’t got to make up no sh**. I’m gonna say something to you that sounds like a m’fer made it up…and it’s really in the news.”
“The FBI, OUR FBI, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, said they don’t know whose cocaine was at the White House….whaaaat?”
“What type of investigation did you do?! I don’t know what the fu** is going on. ‘We don’t know whose it is.’ It was in Hunter Biden’s room. It said ‘Hunter’s Blow’ on the bag.”
“What do you mean whose cocaine? It’s crazy.”
“Hunter on crack….Joe is doing the best he m’fing can…we done lowered the bar so low for Joe, as long as Joe don’t fall, we’ll be fine….’go on and get up them stairs, Joe..there you go, that’s a boy.'”
“Hunter on crack…Joe asleep. The only person really working at the White House behind the scenes is Joe Biden’s German Shepherd named Commander.”
He then showed a photo of Biden with his dog while pointing out the many times Commander has bitten Secret Service agents at the White House.
**Language warning***
Watch:
Katt Williams WOKE FOKE
2024Cocaine in the White House Joe and Hunter Biden
( I’m dying ) pic.twitter.com/FXBcOWI8ld
— 1776 (@TheWakeninq) May 5, 2024
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Guest post by Paul Dabrik
Terry Newsome of Behind Enemy Lines podcast has been covering the ever-expanding issue of illegal immigration in the city of Chicago. The sanctuary city crisis has become a burden too heavy for the blue states to carry. In recent months, Chicago citizens have flooded city council meetings lambasting the Johnson administration for continually catering to the illegal immigrant population while housing them in facilities across the city. As the Gateway Pundit reported in March, migrant facilities in Chicago appear to be hot spots for imported crime of myriad sorts.
Illinois taxpayers are on the hook for everything from transportation, to food, shelter, phones, and childcare. The multiple modern ghettos that pose as migrant facilities have put an undue burden on both the emergency responders and the Cook County taxpayer. So much so that Mayor Brandon Johnson has recently asked the Chicago City Council for an additional $70 million to manage the illegal immigration crisis. This is on top of the $300 million already spent to sustain the crisis.
The irony is that Chicago faces record crime and violence in recent years due to the Illinois Safe-T act passed in 2022. The Act puts violent criminals back on the street through cashless bail. As Newsome covered in January, the homeless are left to freeze in the sub-zero temperatures of Chicago while migrants are housed, fed, and cared for on the taxpayer dime. The juxtaposition of increasing crime and cost of living with the uncapped spending on illegals has stressed the political tension to a breaking point. Recently an African American voter chastised the City Council while wearing a MAGA hat. The concerned citizen observed that previous funds going to illegal immigrants came from an opiate settlement fund. The harrowing story of a mother who lost her child from a stray bullet, and turning to opiates for solace is not out of the ordinary in Chicago.
It would seem that the situation in Chicago could not be more chaotic. However, the Freedom of Information Act is always bearing fruit. As previously mentioned, a FOIA to the Chicago Police Department in March for the period between January 2023 and February 2024 showed multiple criminal referrals from the Inn of Chicago migrant facility. Crimes such as assault, burglary, robbery, sexual assault, child abuse, child abduction, and endangering a child were exposed. Terry Newsome’s latest FOIA request regarding the migrant facility in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago has brought forth more troubling revelations.
Many similar criminal offenses were found at the Pilsen migrant facility, however it was a non-criminal report that is most concerning. Event number 2405108322 details the case of a lost phone. When examined, the phone showed recognizable evidence of human trafficking via WhatsApp messaging. The report also details a curious description of the phone itself. The phone is described as “1 Black Vortex Cellphone.” The model number is listed as “Vortex.” Interestingly, there is a company called Vortex Cellular. More interestingly Vortex Cellular has a government issued phone initiative. A recent LinkedIn article notes, “In this era, getting a phone for free has become possible, especially if you qualify for government assistance programs.” The article goes on to say that the phones are, “… funded by the government and facilitated by various wireless service providers.”
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SDS, ANSWER, MoveOn, Code Pink, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, anti-Israel encampments….the names may change over the years, but the puppet masters, funders, tactics, and goals remain the same.
The great Andrew Breitbart told a CPAC crowd in 2012 how these organizations morph over the years.
“The community organizing that crafted the anti-war movement for the purpose, the sole purpose, of getting Barrack Obama and progressives elected, which disappeared and did not hold the anti-war president to task for maintaining ‘George Bush’s wars’ is the exact same organism that created the Occupy movement in order to defend this president and to get progressive officials elected.”
“It is not the story you will see on ABC, CBS and NBC…they try to act as if this is organic. It’s organic the way the anti-war movement was….the exact same people, many of whom want to overthrow this government.”
Watch:
He also detailed a telling conversation with Bernadine Dohrn at a dinner she hosted with her equally radical husband, former unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist leader Bill Ayers, where she confirmed the left’s tactics.
Breitbart asked Dohrn, “If you care so much about protesting the war, why don’t you protest the war when Barrack Obama is president? Whatever happened to the anti-war president?”
“And this has always been my thesis on Occupy…Bernadine Dohrn said, ‘Well, the anti-war movement is more or less the Occupy movement.'”
“And that is the untold story of Occupy…it is the organized left of which Bernadine and Bill are a central component and community organizers, and they transformed for cynical political purposes, the anti-war into the Occupy movement with the same purposes….to put conservatives and people in flyover country, and the good and decent in this country on the defensive.”
“And it works with the aiding and abetting of the American mainstream media.”
Watch:
The only thing that has changed since Breitbart’s prophetic words is the name the professional America-hating bagmen for Democrats call themselves.
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When NYPD began arresting protestors at Columbia University, it confirmed what anyone with eyes knows.
College campus protests are being infiltrated by outside forces and supported by professional agitators.
One such alleged professional agitator is James Carlson, who was arrested inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall and has no affiliation with the University.
A group stormed the building while smashing windows and fortifying their position by barricading doors and covering windows, effectively taking control of the academic building.
A Columbia facilities worker recounted the harrowing experience of being held against his will by the protesters. “They held me hostage,” the worker disclosed to the Columbia Spectator after being released.
They’re stacking objects on both sides of the doors at Hamilton Hall of Columbia University in order to force controlled entrances and exits.
This is highly illegal and dangerous if people needed to escape in a hurry.
Police need to shut this down now.pic.twitter.com/RUc9AgkZ1S
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) April 30, 2024
When Carlson was arrested inside the building, he was already under investigation for grabbing an Israeli flag from a man near campus and setting it on fire in April.
But who is Carlson? He is the privileged son of a millionaire with a long history of violent protests.
And while Carlson “fights the man,” and rages against capitalism, which he can afford to do since it has benefitted him and his family, he goes home each night to his lavish $3.4 million Brooklyn brownstone property.
Another “shocker?” America haters stick together. Carlson’s stepmother is reportedly romantically linked to vocal leftist singer John Cougar Mellencamp.
Carlson is a rabble rouser and an attorney by trade, according to sources.
He is being looked at as a “possible leader” of the anti-Israel protesters who broke into Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall Tuesday night and barricaded themselves inside, a City Hall source said.
Emergency Services Unit cops used a military-style truck to get inside and arrest the rioters, including Carlson, early Wednesday morning.
He was charged with burglary, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, conspiracy and criminal trespassing.
“I observed the defendant inside the location with several other individuals,” a police officer wrote in the arrest report. “I did observe doors with shattered windows, doors off hinges, broken desks and exits blockaded by piled-up chairs.”
NEW: James Carlson, one of the primary agitators in the recent Columbia’s riots, turns out to be a millionaire’s heir with a long history of violent protests.
A lawyer and self-styled anarchist, Carlson is the son of late ad mogul Dick Tarlow.
Despite his privileged… pic.twitter.com/WkXBQohtJC
— Hank (@HANKonX) May 4, 2024
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Reprinted with permission by Joe Hoft and People’s Audit.
Well, I made a business out of eliminating waste and fraud along with scaling organizations. I believe you can always find ways to improve processes. With constant improvements in technology, it is just a matter of leveraging the latest proven technology to make things simpler and reduce costly errors with better monitoring of the transactions.
Along with better monitoring of those processes, you typically find some bad apples that need to be tossed because they refuse to stop wasting money or worse, get caught stealing it.
Every one of our business endeavors typically was self-funded in less than 3 months and it was a win-win because the waste we eliminated resulted in FAR MORE MONEY in the pockets of our shareholders than they ever had to pay to us for eliminating it.
Also, the employees of those same companies learned to love us because once they got over the habitual fear of change, we showed them how easy we could make their jobs by eliminating problems caused by recurring issues.
So how does that relate to elections?
Well, here is my Lake County, Florida Supervisor Election and former Florida Senator, Alan Hays proudly standing next to a baker’s rack full of undelivered voter information cards back in June 2022.
We know there were exactly 27,774 pieces of undelivered voter information cards in that rack because the Ladys of Lake County Election Team scanned every one of them. All the while Mr. Hays removed the chairs from the room so they couldn’t even rest while feeding them through the scanner.
I wish I could say he is a model public servant, but he has a nasty habit of blowing his top and yelling at you if you ask him questions.
So let’s say conservatively, the county paid $3 to print and postage each one of those voter information cards. That is $83,322 of Lake County taxpayer money this dentist-turned-mail-in election expert hauled off to the dump.
Was that one of the reasons why Hays got $195,000 in Zuckerbucks in 2020?
Keep in mind. This was just one mailing and I’m not considering storage, handling, transportation, and shredding of this mail because that all depends on your local rates. I do hope they securely dispose of these since they could be used to steal votes. But he told us he wasn’t going to look at them till after the 2 election cycles (Aug 2022 Primary & Nov 2022 General) were complete.
We counted about 572 primary voters who were somehow still able to vote by mail in the Aug 2022 Primary while their voter information card sat in that rack as undeliverable.
Think there may be a problem with waste and potential fraud here?
As for mail-in ballots, you could conservatively estimate $5-$10 per mail-in ballot if you consider the special paper, folding, and stuffing into envelopes.
But it’s a good thing Leon County’s Supervisor of Election, Mark Early is married to Stacey Early who heads the elections division of Cathedral Printing in Orlando. Catherdral, a New York-based company whose CEO was a monthly contributor to ACT BLUE, purchased Fidlar Elections in 2017. Do you think Earley gets us all a FAMILY DISCOUNT on the 2/3 of the state’s mail-in ballots that are printed at Cathedral?
You would think when Mark Early was president of the Florida Supervisors of Election, Inc. he would be promoting best practices on dealing with bulk mail since his wife is a long-time expert on the topic. I would have no problem with nepotism if she were training other countries on these best practices because large printers are typically experts on them.
That is because major print companies must follow USPS CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System) processes to qualify to send bulk mail.
In late September 2022, less than 2 months before the November General Election, The People’s Audit found about 100,000 undeliverable voters requesting mail-in ballots in that election. It was probably even higher than this number because this was just days before Hurricane Ian flattened and flooded parts of Florida.
Printers know which voter is undeliverable using the same type of software that we use. It works with the US Post Office to determine if the address is deliverable or not. It also corrects and correctly formats the address and most recognizably adds an extra 4 digits to the zip code.
If you ever bought anything online you probably saw a step asking you to confirm your address. This is the CASS Verification step most online retailers and Internet companies do. Here is an example from Google.
The software the printers use also has the capability of doing NCOA (National Change of Address) checks because the Post Office requires you to do these checks on your mail lists every 90 days to qualify for discount postage.
But in the printer’s contracts that we looked at in multiple counties, the printer will state that if the address cannot be verified, they will just print the address as is and cannot guarantee it will be delivered.
But the one thing you can guarantee is the printer still charges the counties to check that address along with printing the item and applying postage to it. EVERY TIME THEY ARE ASKED TO BULK PRINT ANYTHING FROM THE ELECTION OFFICES.
So let’s go with a conservative estimate of $5 per mail-in ballot time for 100,000 requests that were showing to be undeliverable. That is about $500,000 that the printers still charged the state. Our election officials then haul around the bakers’ racks continuing the cycle of waste each election cycle. I wonder if the election officials get any donations from the printers to keep business as usual running.
On top of all this waste, there is a return service fee charged by the US Post Office on every piece of returned mail.
Strangely, when you try to reconcile what the USPS charges the county for being undeliverable vs what the county records as undeliverable, it never seems to balance. Wherever we looked, the USPS seems to be charging for more items than the election offices are recording as undeliverable.
Is it because some ballots get harvested and counted in the elections or is the county office staff poor at manually reviewing all those envelopes and properly recording them?
Something does not add up here.
First and foremost, local election offices MUST adopt the same practices that companies use when dealing with bulk mail.
I AM NOT PROMOTING MAIL-IN BALLOT VOTING!
I still think mail-in voting is prone to fraud, but those election offices still need to mail out voter information cards, sample ballots, and notices along with keeping our voter rolls clean.
In my +20 years of building systems that clean organizational data, fixing addresses not only saves a tremendous amount of money that would otherwise get wasted, it also gives you more accurate ways to compare your data to other systems.
For instance, the people who are stored in the NCOA database are stored in CASS format.
If you have an address like “123 Main Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida” in your database, even though a human may see it is the same address, A COMPUTER WILL NOT MATCH the CASS formatted address which is: “123 MAIN ST, FT LAUDERDALE, FL.” Unless you tell a computer to ignore the case of the letter, it might not match just for being in a different case. That is why CASS CAPITALIZES the address. This makes it faster for the mail scanners to read them if they are all uniform and standardized.
So to reiterate, standardize your address for better matching:
If all your addresses are in CASS Format, the record matches with address changes, deaths, and felony charges will match more accurately.
So this small change will domino out into multiple areas. How do I know this? The reality is anyone who does anything with addresses in business and online retail knows this and has been doing this for nearly 20 years.
That is why it was so shocking to me to see election officials promoting mail-in ballots without even understanding the basics of mail. This is Fortune 500 standard practice in the private sector.
In the bulk printing industry, this knowledge would be the equivalent of a plumber knowing how to use a plunger to unplug a toilet. But you also don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see how the waste allows for mail ballots to be stolen as well as a LOT OF TAXPAYER MONEY to be spread across multiple government agencies and vendors.
When we started with the Nov 2020 voter rolls, Florida had 694,187 Active Registrations with both of their addresses UAA (Undeliverable As Addressed). Or unreachable by mail because both their residential and mail addresses were bad.
Fast forward to today, and with the grassroots efforts in Florida using The People’s Audit, we cut that number in half to 356,548 Active UAA Voters.
So just think about how much Florida is now saving with this reduced amount of undeliverable mail throughout the state. If we go back to that voter card example and $3 per mail piece, that is over 1 MILLION DOLLARS PER MAILING!
But wait…there’s more…
ERIC is now irrelevant. Why do we need to share our data with 3rd party left-leaning vendors when the election offices could easily check NCOA (National Change Of Address) in-house because all their addresses are already stored in the correct CASS format?
If the locals simply store the addresses using US Post Office CASS standards, they can easily acquire the same software they are currently paying the printers to charge them to use for EVERY SINGLE MASS MAILING.
That postal software requires you to do an automatic NCOA check every 90 days to qualify for discount postage. So the election offices would also know who has moved without the need for ERIC.
Also, this same software allows you to generate tracking IMB bar codes that will track that individual piece of mail to see if it is delivered or not..MOST IMPORTANTLY RECEIVE AN ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATION WHEN IT DOES OR DOES NOT ARRIVE!
The USPS discontinued the previous system in which these bar codes we optional on some mail in late 2023 and now ALL MAIL is being tracked with these IMB codes. So either we are having our elections office use them directly OR we are paying the 3rd parties to apply them to every mailing.
Why on earth are we also paying 3rd part left-leaning organizations to do our mail ballot tracking when this can all be done SECURELY within our county election offices?
And why are they wasting resources manually documenting returned mail MONTHS AFTER AN ELECTION HAPPENS? The election notification on returned mail would come back during the mail ballot stage weeks before the election and could immediately VOID THAT BALLOT so it can’t be harvested.
After reading this I hope you understand how wasteful and frankly unprofessional what elections officials are currently doing.
So in summary, what can local election offices do?
NO EXCUSES! Not only does this save taxpayers MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY, but it also cleans our voter rolls and secures our election mail.
And there should also be enough left over to pay your staff more and hire some cybersecurity experts at the state and local levels.
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Senior Italian government officials admonished French President Emmanuel Macron for raising tensions in the war in Ukraine.
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Guest post by Joe Hoft at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission
On Saturday in Springfield, Missouri, conservatives took back the Republican Party.
Like many other states, Missouri’s America First citizens don’t have a voice in their government. Although they are the super majority in the state, they are not being heard, and what they want for their state is not happening. Even though the GOP runs the state with a huge majority, key conservative policies and beliefs are pushed aside.
Leading up to the event, platform amendments were passed at county and district caucuses to be reviewed by the platform committee and implemented at the convention. The draft presented by the GOP completely ignored every amendment passed and watered down the current version of the platform.
Because of the disenfranchisement of the conservative base in Missouri, the grassroots rose up against the RINOs at the convention. They planned to unseat every RINO, swap the RINO agenda with an America First agenda, and force a revised platform to be voted on.
When the convention began, the effort to bring MAGA back to Missouri started. The RINOs in the party were shocked and spent the next three hours talking about all sorts of nothing while they tried to figure out ways that they could overcome the conservative coup.
Let the shenanigans begin. These stalling tactics aren’t going to work. Let’s get this show on the road #MOGOP #mograssrootstrong pic.twitter.com/BOv40Yw1GG
— Kristen Haftrak (@Kristen_Haftrak) May 4, 2024
The stalling from the GOP RINOs went on for three hours as they tried to figure out how to overcome the grassroot majority’s effort to take back the party.
https://t.co/tLDXVz8rDq pic.twitter.com/M0koAJedlv
— Kristen Haftrak (@Kristen_Haftrak) May 4, 2024
Eventually, Sophia Shore was voted in as the GOP Chairwoman of the convention. This was a win and the beginning of the grassroots efforts in taking back their party.
#mograssrootstrong https://t.co/NQWJpz41qZ
— Kristen Haftrak (@Kristen_Haftrak) May 4, 2024
GOP conservatives cheered when the grassroots supported GOP Chairwoman was elected to her new role instead of a RINO.
What an incredible day for Missouri Grassroots and bad day for the establishment. This is what a grassroot revolution looks like. We flipped the chair, committeeman/woman, the slate, and we voted down the RINO platform draft. #letsgomo #mograssrootstrong #grassrootrevolution pic.twitter.com/xHAZ47Yp0J
— Kristen Haftrak (@Kristen_Haftrak) May 5, 2024
And just like that, the RINO platform was voted down!!!
And the RINO platform was voted down!!! But those amendments were just suggestions, right? #mograssrootrevolution #weredone #mograssrootstrong #cleansweep pic.twitter.com/wPQPohwvAe
— Kristen Haftrak (@Kristen_Haftrak) May 4, 2024
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Business titan Elon Musk is now seemingly fully awake on the issue of election fraud and is urging whistleblowers to come forward to report irregularities ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
On Saturday, Musk retweeted a video from the Fair Election Fund to his 182 million followers, attracting some 1.6 million viewers at the time of writing.
The newly formed non-profit organization is seeking to compensate whistleblowers for exposing Democratic attempts to steal and subvert America’s electoral process.
If you are an election worker, organizer, or concerned citizen who has seen corruption in our elections firsthand, we want to hear your story.
Those who report fraud or abuse are eligible for payment from our $5 million fund. pic.twitter.com/JBKdj8uzbp
— Fair Election Fund (@FairElectFund) May 4, 2024
The ad states:
Free and fair elections are the bedrock of our American experiment. It is part of our core. But we can only have confidence in the result if there is trust in the process. Across the country, there are real cases of fraud and abuses of the system that have eroded our trust. From executive orders opening the door to non-citizens voting, while some cities look to make it commonplace. Unions rigging the game through unethical ballot harvesting. And some leaders are outright refusing to follow the law when administering elections.
This is happening in plain sight. But those in power look the other way. They lie and dismiss and then demonize common sense steps to ensure our elections are free and fair. And they are still lying. That is where the Fair Election Fund comes in. We are making a major investment to compensate those who expose cheating in our elections.
If you have knowledges of abuses in the system, your story could be what helps preserve our democracy. If you are an election worker, organizer or concerned citizen who has witnessed this corruption first hand, we want to hear from you. Those who report fraud from our $5 million fund. With your help, we’ll shine a light on the corruption and stop it. This is how we restore trust.
In a press release this week, the Fair Election Fund expanded on its plan to promote election integrity across the country following the fraud that took place in the 2020 and 2022 election cycles.
“The bulk of the group’s budget will be devoted to paying whistleblowers like election workers, organizers, and concerned citizens who have witnessed this corruption firsthand for sharing their stories,” the release read, according to Fox News.
“All claims will be vetted by Fair Election Fund’s team of experienced election law attorneys. The group will highlight these cases through aggressive paid and earned media campaigns, the first of which will begin immediately.”
Find out more about the Fair Election Fund at thefairelectionfund.com.
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Last weekend on Saturday night St. Louis area Police wasted no time in quashing an anti-Israel, Pro-Palestinian protest at Washington University in St. Louis after the protesters marched onto the Washington University campus and refused to leave campus.
The Israel-bashing Marxists formed a line on campus and locked arms as the police approached them to break up their encampment.
As the young leftists were chanting, “Hold the line!” Police moved in and dragged them away by their feet.
Here is video from WashU campus of police breaking up the illegal protest.
Via Catturd2
“Hold the line! Hold the line!”
Lasted 5 seconds – lol. https://t.co/jYyxe2Wazd
— Catturd
Green Party candidate for president Jill Stein was arrested at the anti-Israel protest.
What does Gaza have to do with the green agenda?
BREAKING: Jill Stein and her Campaign Manager and Deputy Campaign Manager, Jason Call and Kelly Merrill-Cayer, have been arrested at Washington University in St. Louis while supporting a protest against WashU’s ties to the war on Gaza.
Video from @KallieECox pic.twitter.com/rkUYC9b5Qx— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) April 28, 2024
St. Louis Alderman President Megan Green was also in the crowd and refused to leave campus.
Last week, following the protests, the far left St. Louis City official was reportedly suspended from her position at the university where she taught kids techniques of the radical left protest movements.
St.Louis BOA President Megan Green leads protests. She was caught holding 2 teaching jobs at 2 St.Louis Colleges on how to be activists. The City pays her $90K a yr for a full time BOA Pres ! She was fired from Wash U. this week.
In retaliation for being fired, she set this up. pic.twitter.com/RD4E3ZlOJK— MAGA 100% ••American FREEDOM •#TRUMP (@0708America) May 4, 2024
The protesters were trespassing at the university and asked to leave.
Following the illegal protests the President of the St. Louis Board of Alderman was suspended from her position at the university where she brainwashes kids on how to hate America and take down the system.
KMOV reported:
100 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested over the weekend, as Washington University states it will pursue trespassing charges for those who remained on campus Saturday after being asked to leave; and it appears one prominent protester that was not arrested has been punished by the school.
St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Megan Green, who was not arrested, is an adjunct professor at the school but now says she’s being punished.
President Green was among the hundreds marching on campus. She told First Alert 4 she’s been put on administrative leave due to her presence on Saturday.
“It’s a very authoritarian, heavy-handed response,” said Green.
Green said she is now barred from the Washington University campus, as she says six other faculty members were put on administrative leave due to their presence on Saturday.
“I was able to teach my class via Zoom,” said Green.
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The Gateway Pundit reported that Hims and Hers CEO Andrew Dudum sparked outrage when he praised anti-Israel protestors and encouraged them to apply to his company, claiming that companies would want to hire them for their “moral courage.”
Dudum posted on X, “Moral courage > College degree. “If you’re currently protesting against the genocide of the Palestinian people & for your university’s divestment from Israel, keep going. It’s working.”
He continued, “There are plenty of companies & CEOs eager to hire you, regardless of university discipline.”
X users were confused and angry upon seeing this tone-deaf post, with many threatening to boycott the company.
You are about to be Bud Lighted. pic.twitter.com/SsXkydkcsT
— The Defiant Jew מרדכי
Can’t wait to read about how you’re new hires occupy and shut down you’re business because you said, or did something wrong in their little minds. For instance, calling your company “HIMS”. Good luck sir!
— kornfed (@GeeWillyQue1) May 3, 2024
According to the New York Post, the company’s stock is tanking company price dropping by eight percent on Friday and losing $210 million in stock value.
NEW: HIMS stock is going flaccid after founder & CEO Andrew Dudum praised pro-Palestine protesters & encouraged them to apply for jobs at his company.
Hims stock, a male ED brand, was down 8% on Friday after Dudum said he was “eager” to hire these students.
“Moral courage >… pic.twitter.com/chzXWz22Qi
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 4, 2024
The market cap of the company opened at $2.62 billion and closed at $2.41 billion, and share price continued to slide in after-hours trading on Friday and Saturday.
Trading volume was also more than double the average for the stock — indicating that some shareholders were rushing to get out.
$200 million in market cap decline today
IYKYK pic.twitter.com/AU1Ulk49vB
— Mark Suster (@msuster) May 3, 2024
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Pro-Palestinian protesters involved in an encampment at the University of Chicago issued a wide list of demands, including calling for defunding the campus police and reparations.
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This May May 27–June 1, 2024, global elitists and world leaders from across the West will gather in Geneva, Switzerland, for the WHO’s 77th World Health Assembly (WHA).
Attendees from all 194 WHO member countries are set to vote on major amendments to the International Health Regulations that would effectively strip all power away from sovereign countries and turn it over to the WHO’s global health board in the event of a pandemic.
If the ratifications are agreed to this month, the WHO will also be granted sole authority over what constitutes a pandemic.
As we have seen over the past years, just about anything qualifies as an ‘existential threat to public health,’ including, but not limited to, misinformation, parents protesting at school boards, free speech, and—of course—racism. The fact that the WHO is on the cusp of unrestricted authority to decide these measures should terrify every American.
What’s more, the changes also include plans for a mandatory and universal vaccine passport system that’s overseen by the WHO. In fact, the globalist organization has already contracted a German-based company, called ‘T-Systems’, to develop the technology.
It can be recalled, “On 1 July 2023, the WHO took up the EU system of digital COVID-19 certification to establish a global system that will help protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats, including pandemics. This is the first building block of the WHO Global Digital Health Certification Network that will develop a system for global verification of health documents to deliver better health for all. The WHO will facilitate this process globally under its own structure with the first use-case being the convergence of digital COVID-19 certificates.”
From the joint WHO and T-Systems announcement:
“The World Health Organization (WHO) will make it easier for its member states to introduce digital vaccination certificates in the future. The WHO is setting up a gateway for this purpose. It enables QR codes on electronic vaccination certificates to be checked across national borders.
It is intended to serve as a standard procedure for other vaccinations such as polio or yellow fever after COVID-19. The WHO has selected T-Systems as an industry partner to develop the vaccination validation services.”
Aside from the fact that the WHO is an international, unelected, and unaccountable body with absolutely no concern for individual freedoms, the organization is led by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who repeatedly pushed outright lies and crippling restrictions throughout the China virus pandemic.
Now, 44 Republican senators have sent a strongly worded letter to Joe Biden, urging him to reject two forthcoming international agreements under consideration at the World Health Organization (WHO) that would compromise U.S. sovereignty.
Sen. Ron Johnson wrote on X, “Two international agreements are being considered at this month’s World Health Assembly that surrenders U.S. sovereignty to the WHO. [Biden] should reject them, or at least submit any agreement to the Senate as a treaty. The entire Senate GOP conference has signed onto my letter to Biden demanding just that.”
In their collective statement, the senators criticized the WHO’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it an absolute and predictable failure that caused significant harm to the country. They assert that the United States must demand comprehensive reforms within the WHO before considering any amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) or engaging in new treaty negotiations that would extend the organization’s authority.
The letter reads:
“Next month, during the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly (WHA), your administration is expected to commit the United States to two international agreements that would strengthen the World Health Organization’s (WHO) authority to declare public health emergencies of international concern and expand the WHO’s authority over member states during such emergencies. This is unacceptable.
The WHO’s failure during the COVID-19 pandemic was as total as it was predictable and did lasting harm to our country. The United States cannot afford to ignore this latest WHO inability to perform its most basic function and must insist on comprehensive WHO reforms before even considering amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) or any new pandemic related treaty that would increase WIIO authority. We are deeply concerned that your administration continues to support these initiatives and strongly urge you to change course.
Article 55 of the IHR requires the text of any IHR amendment to be communicated to member states at least four months before the WHA at which they are to be considered. As the WHO has still not provided final amendment text to member states, we submit that IHR amendments may not be considered at next month’s WHA. Some of the over 300 proposals for amendments made by member states would substantially increase the WHO’s health emergency powers and constitute intolerable infringements upon U.S. sovereignty. As such, it was essential that the WHO abide by the four-month notice period to allow member states time to ensure that no traces of such proposals were included in a final amendment package for consideration by the WHA. Having failed to do so, amendments are not in order.
The WHO’s most recent publicly available draft of its new pandemic response treaty is dead on arrival. Instead of addressing the WHO’s well-documented shortcomings, the treaty focuses on mandated resource and technology transfers, shredding intellectual property rights, infringing free speech, and supercharging the WHO. Moving forward with a new pandemic preparedness and response treaty ignores the fact that we are still unsure of COVID-19’s origins because Beijing continues to block a legitimate independent investigation. We strongly urge you not to join any pandemic related treaty, convention, or agreement being considered at the Seventy-seventh WIIA. Should you ignore this advice, we state in the strongest possible terms that we consider any such agreement to be a treaty requiring the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senate under Article II Section 2 of the Constitution.
In light of the high stakes for our country and our constitutional duty, we call upon you to (1) withdraw your administration’s support for the current IHR amendments and pandemic treaty negotiations, (2) shift your administration’s focus to comprehensive WHO reforms that address its persistent failures without expanding its authority, and (3) should you ignore these calls, submit any pandemic related agreement to the Senate for its advice and consent.”
It is not just US. The Gateway Pundit previously reported that a significant demonstration took place in Japan’s Ikebukuro district last month, drawing attention to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) proposed Pandemic Treaty.
The treaty has sparked controversy and fear among citizens, leading to one of the largest protests in recent Japanese history, according to Aussie17, a former Big Pharma employee.
The march began in Higashi-Ikebukuro Central Park, where thousands of participants gathered with banners and chants expressing their opposition to the treaty and the WHO’s overreach, Yahoo reported.
Protesters voiced strong opposition to mandatory vaccinations and the potential infringement on Japan’s sovereignty. “We strongly protest against the WHO for forcing people to be vaccinated, ignoring Japan’s sovereignty where vaccines are voluntary,” declared one of the banners leading the march.
Here is the revised draft of the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty:
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As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Former Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Constitutional Coalition filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on the question of presidential immunity.
As we are all aware, this case concerns the issue of whether a subsequent president may criminally prosecute his (or her) predecessor and current political rival for official acts the previous president took while in office.
The Friend of the Court brief was filed back in early April to defend the constitutional principle that a President of the United States, as the Nation’s chief executive, must have immunity from criminal prosecution for those official acts the President takes. Otherwise, fear of a subsequent political rival bringing a criminal prosecution against the President will impair the President from making those decisions necessary in the President’s best judgment to protect our national interest and discharge the duties of the office of Chief Executive.
How the Supreme Court decides this case will affect the Separation of Powers between the three branches of our government and will determine how future presidents fulfill their duty as Chief Executive. The brief provides a historical context for the Supreme Court to consider. It is not hyperbole to suggest that the United States v. Trump case is of a constitutional magnitude equivalent to Chief Justice John Marshall’s decision for the Court in Marbury v. Madison.
The oral argument in the United States Supreme Court took place on April 25th. A decision is expected before Independence Day.
Attorney Thor Hearne, outside counsel for the Constitutional Coalition, provided an analysis of the Trump vs. United States oral arguments. This was a blistering rebuke of the Biden administration's ham-handed defense of their actions to take down their political opposition in the upcoming election.
Via Attorney Thor Hearne:
Every Justice understood that the Supreme Court is deciding a landmark case that transcends the immediate issue of President Trump and the 2024 presidential election.
Given this, I was somewhat surprised by the quality of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s work. During my thirtyyear career I have had opportunity to argue before the Supreme Court and I have represented hundreds of amici parties, including the leadership of the United States House and Senate in matters before the Court. In most Supreme Court cases the Solicitor General represents the United States. Irrespective of whether it be the Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, or Biden Administration, I have found that the written briefs and argument by the Solicitor General and the counsel in the Solicitor General’s office is of a very high quality. The Solicitor General has its own Style Manual for Supreme Court briefs. Given this, I was surprised when I read Jack Smith’s briefs that were not of the high quality the Solicitor General normally writes.
I did not find that quality of the briefs Jack Smith filed, nor the argument Mike Dreeben made, to be on par with what the Solicitor General customarily presents in cases before the Supreme Court. I found this surprising, but then I noticed that the briefs filed in the Supreme Court were not by the Solicitor General’s office but were an in-house product of Jack Smith’s “Special Counsel” team. I anticipated that when this case of such importance was argued in the Supreme Court, the Solicitor General’s office would direct the briefing and argument. But this was apparently not the case.
Attorney Hearne also offers his prediction for the case.
MY PREDICTION OF THE OUTCOME
Two of the more challenging intellectual tasks one can undertake are forecasting the path of a hurricane or predicting how the Supreme Court will rule. With that caution thrown to the winds, I offer my prediction.
I expect Chief Justice Roberts will author the majority opinion that overturns the D.C. Circuit’s categorical holding that the president has no immunity from criminal prosecution for any official act. I anticipate the Supreme Court will remand the case to the district court for a fuller record of what specific “official acts” (as opposed to “private acts”) are the basis of Jack Smith’s indictment. The remand will direct the district court to develop the specific facts and allegations underlying Jack Smith’s indictment.
Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett did not seem inclined to favor a blanket rule that the president is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for every official act the president takes while in office. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett seem inclined to develop a more limited doctrine of immunity addressing the distinction between “official acts” (directing a drone strike that killed American citizens) and “private acts” the president engages in pursuit of the president’s private interest. (Bill Clinton’s act with Monica Lewinski is not an “official act” even though President Clinton engaged in the act in the Oval Office, nor is President Clinton’s subsequent denial of inappropriate conduct at an official press conference held in the White House.)
Justices Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Alito appeared favorable to a broad rule recognizing presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. I anticipate they will join the Chief Justice and Justice Barrett’s opinion reversing the DC Circuit’s. Justices Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Thomas also appeared to be sympathetic to the argument made in our amicus brief that bringing a criminal prosecution against the President for an official act requires that the President first be impeached and convicted by the House and Senate.
Justice Thomas (as he is wont to do) focused on the constitutional source of presidential immunity and wanted to have a fuller sense of the constitutional text and history underlying the immunity doctrine. Justice Thomas is a celebrated textualist and originalist who looks to the words of the Constitution (or a statute) that is the subject of the dispute so that the Court may faithfully interpret and apply the Constitution or statute as the drafters intended. This is similar to the philosophy the late Justice Scalia brought to the Court. I anticipate Justice Thomas will embrace the principal of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. But I anticipate Justice Thomas will write a separate opinion explaining the historical context and constitutional text underlying this doctrine.
Read the full analysis below.
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According to a poll by the Pew Research Center, Biden is losing the Catholic vote.
The poll shares that if the election were held today, 55% of Catholic voters say they would vote for Donald Trump, or lean toward voting for him.
Only 43% say they support Biden.
A similar poll conducted by Pew before the 2020 election found that Catholics were almost evenly split between the two candidates, with 50% saying they’d support Trump and 49% reporting that they would vote for Biden.
Daily Caller News Foundation reports:
The shift toward Trump was most pronounced among Hispanic Catholics, according to Pew’s polling. Biden only leads Hispanic Catholics by two points in Pew’s most recent poll, within the margin of error, a significant drop off from the 32-point lead he enjoyed in Pew’s 2020 poll.
Hispanic voters on the whole have been moving toward the Republican Party, a trend that worries some liberals. The Biden campaign, for instance, is focusing on courting Latinos, and George Soros, an ally of the Democratic Party, has given tens of millions of dollars to left-of-center Latino advocacy groups.
Although Biden likes to boast about his Catholic faith, many of his actions in office go against some of the Church’s most sacred tenets, including his continued support of pro-abortion legislation.
At a rally in Tampa in April, an abortion promoter voiced complaints about Florida’s six-week limit for abortions, during which Biden turned his back on his faith and his God and made the sign of the cross.
He also insulted millions of Christians when he declared “Transgender Visibility Day,” which fell on Easter this year.
In a March appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Wilton Cardinal Gregory, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington since 2019, commented on Biden’s faith and tried to explain how he sees his Catholic faith.
“I would say that he’s very sincere about his faith. But like a number of Catholics, he picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or even contradicting other parts. There is a phrase that we have used in the past, a ‘cafeteria Catholic’ — you choose that which is attractive and dismiss that which is challenging,” the Archbishop said.
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Deported terrorist Sami Al Arian was invited to speak to the Hamas-endorsed anti-Israel protesters at the University of Chicago.
Al Arian, a former University of South Florida professor, was indicted in February 2003 on 17 counts under the Patriot Act. A jury acquitted him on eight counts and deadlocked on the remaining nine counts. He later struck a plea bargain and admitted to one of the remaining charges in exchange for being released and deported. He was deported to Turkey on February 4, 2015.
Al-Arian was accused of aiding terrorists. In February 2003, he was charged with racketeering for Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
The Gateway Pundit reported that his wife, Nahla Al-Najar, was pictured protesting at Columbia University campus.
UChicago United for Palestine, which organized the campus encampment, announced Al Arian’s participation in a Zoom meeting on their Instagram.
”Today, we will have the honour of being joined by Dr. Sami Al Arian, a former professor of computer engineering, prominent speaker and human rights activist and US political prisoner,” the group wrote. “Dr. Al Arian has since relocated to Turkey, where he is the Director of the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) at Istanbul Zaim University.”
If the Palestinian Arabs really wanted a state, they would have accepted one of the many offers that have been made to them to establish one, going back to 1948. What they really want to do is destroy Israel utterly, in accord with the succinct Qur’anic command: “Drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191). It is actually a historical myth that the Israelis drove the Arabs out; the Arab Higher Committee told them to leave, but that fact has been obscured by decades of propaganda. Now, however, no less a luminary than Sami al-Arian, a former U.S. academic and darling of the Left, has revealed the truth: the goal of the Palestinian jihad is not a Palestinian state, but the demise of the Jewish state.
Speaking on Al Jazeera on July 30, al-Arian said: “In my view, the Palestinian cause is not about creating a state, like everybody says. It is not about a one-state solution or a two-state solution. The Palestinian cause has to do with the very presence of Zionism in the region. Therefore, our greatest strategic goal, in the meantime, we can take steps, but the greatest strategic goal is to dismantle the State of Israel, which means uprooting Zionism from Palestine.”
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Al-Arian has been quite clear about his views for decades. In 1991, during a speech in Chicago, al-Arian screamed: “The Quran is our constitution. Jihad is our path … Victory to Islam… Death to Israel… Revolution… revolution till the victory.” Showing he hadn’t changed, in mid-December 2020, al-Arian spoke via Zoom at the Fourth International Conference on the Muslim Ummah. There al-Arian also called for “defeating and dismantling the Zionist project,” adding: “We cannot pursue an ummah project without actually attaining our real independence. We cannot attain our real independence without dealing with the problem of Israel….As long as Israel exists, the ummah will stay weak and fragmented, and disunited and divided and dependent and under control.”
Many have warned that the protests on college campuses have nefarious elements behind the scenes pushing their radical agenda.
Adams has alleged that protests at Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY) were infiltrated by “outside agitators” affiliated with “terrorist groups.”
In an interview with Vladimir Duthiers on CBS Morning, Adams detailed the city’s response to the chaotic scenes that unfolded at both institutions, where nearly 300 individuals were arrested Tuesday night.
“These were not spontaneous student movements but calculated disruptions by professional agitators,” Adams explained, noting that a significant portion of those arrested had no affiliations with either university.
Officials at Stanford University sent a picture of a protestor on their campus wearing a green headband, similar to what is worn by Hamas terrorists, to the FBI.
Those cheering on the anti-Israel protests include Hamas leaders and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Three things you need to know about what’s happening on college campuses right now:
1) It’s not peaceful.
2) it’s not grassroots.
3) It’s not true.Let me explain. pic.twitter.com/X6BDP4OoJV
— Noa Tishby (@noatishby) May 2, 2024
One bright spot in the mess on U of C’s campus is that not everyone at the school is a brainwashed terrorist sympathizer.
Counter-protestors marched on campus with Old Glory flying while chanting “USA, USA, USA…..”
Patriots at University of Chicago break up the path of the pro-Palestine protesters and waive the American Flag.
This trend is spreading!
There’s hope!pic.twitter.com/lLN71hXImx
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 3, 2024
NEW: Counter protesters are blasting ‘Born in the USA’ while waving their USA flags at the University of Chicago.
The Chads are taking over the country
Tensions grew on Friday as a group of frat bros marched on the university with USA flags, chanting “USA, USA, USA” at… pic.twitter.com/Q1Rzc5k5Jf
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 3, 2024
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This article originally appeared on Leo Hohmann’s Substack and was republished with permission.
The eminent Professor Masayasu Inoue at Osaka City University Medical School in Japan recently warned that the Japanese government became the first in the world to approve a new type of jab called the “self replication replicon vaccine” that is being rushed to market as we speak. The goal is to have it ready by this fall or winter.
In the video below, the professor, who specializes in molecular pathology, condemns the COVID “pandemic” as propagated by the U.N. World Health Organization, for the purpose of driving genetically modifying COVID jabs into the bodies of all peoples worldwide. He also condemned the U.S. “Warp Speed” project under then-President Donald Trump, which rushed mRNA toxic injections to market that were used to cover up problems with the gene-based shots. The false pretext of Warp Speed was “saving time.” The professor then states that the Japanese government’s rush to market of its new injection will be similar and must be avoided at all costs. We are seeing deception magnified in the world today like perhaps never before. Jesus warned this would be the case in Matthew 24 of the New Testament.
It’s not often such a prominent scientist goes public with a warning of this magnitude. Please share this important 8-minute video with all your loved ones.
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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By W. Caffey Norman
Real Clear Wire
Concerning new reports reveal that the drug shortage in the U.S. has reached its highest level since the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists began tracking data. In total, 323 medicines are now in short supply.
However, the problem is about to get worse because of government regulations on an entirely different issue. Counterintuitive measures from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are set to effectively ban the domestic production of chemicals that are used in the process of manufacturing vital prescription drugs and vaccines.
Shortly after Congress amended the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) in 2016, the EPA began the rulemaking process on 10 chemicals currently in use in the United States using a broad and overreaching definition of “unreasonable risk.” Now, the EPA is expected to release a final rule on methylene chloride under TSCA.
Methylene chloride has several applications, including in the process of manufacturing hundreds of medicines and vaccines like those that treat Hepatitis B and HIV infections, mental illnesses and epilepsy, heart failure and high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.
If this rule goes into effect, it will exacerbate the drug shortage by bringing domestic manufacturing to a halt while making our supply chains more reliant on foreign nations like China for pharmaceuticals. This runs in direct contradiction to the Biden administration’s “Investing in America” agenda, which aims to onshore supply chains critical to our economy and security.
For example, methylene chloride is used to make hollow fiber cartridges which are used in the manufacture of monoclonal antibodies and vaccines, including the COVID-19, HPV, Hepatitis B, and flu vaccines, as well as therapies for arthritis, migraines, osteoporosis, and autoimmune diseases. In a letter to the EPA, the company that produces these cartridges wrote their product is used in at least 190 human therapeutics and vaccines. Their supply is so essential that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Defense Department awarded the company funding to expand its manufacturing capacity here in the U.S.
While HHS and DoD give taxpayer money to this company to operate in the United States, the EPA is simultaneously regulating out of domestic existence the necessary ingredients for their products. Ultimately, the final EPA rule could “impact millions of patients worldwide.”
Another company warned the EPA ban “would disrupt the critical infrastructure of biotechnology, including medical uses such as vaccine manufacturing and industrial biotechnology.” While the EPA would argue that pharmaceutical usage is exempt from the rule, the upstream supply chain of products necessary to manufacture these medicines is not.
The biggest winner with this new EPA rule will be China, which has grown to be the largest chemical producer in the world and the top exporter of methylene chloride. In the last decade, the U.S. has imported 17% of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from China. Even countries like India, which supplies approximately 40% of generic pharmaceuticals used in the U.S., rely heavily on China. According to a 2021 U.S. Department of Commerce report, India imports nearly 70% of its APIs from China. By effectively banning the domestic production of methylene chloride, the EPA ensures that even more of the drug supply chain is dependent on China.
Despite the Biden administration’s stated goal to reduce “reliance on high-risk foreign suppliers” for medicines, the EPA is actively stifling the domestic production of ingredients needed to manufacture life-saving drugs that Americans rely on. The administration must carefully reevaluate what’s at stake.
W. Caffey Norman is a senior partner at Squire Patton Boggs. He has represented and advised American chemistry producers and associations for years, particularly in connection with evolving EPA chemical regulations.
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A vehicle crashed into a White House barricade at high speed on Saturday night, leaving the driver dead, per Secret Service.
According to a statement, a Secret Service investigation is ongoing, but there was no threat to the White House. An investigation into the fatal crash “will be turned over to the Washington Metropolitan Police Department Crash Investigation Unit.”
It is still unclear what caused the car collision.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, another vehicle crashed into the White House gates in January. The driver was taken into custody.
Per Travis Media Group on X:
"JUST IN: A vehicle has crashed into the White House barricade and the driver has passed away. Secret Service has turned the investigation over to DC Metro Police, but they will also continue their own investigation."
JUST IN: A vehicle has crashed into the White House barricade and the driver has passed away. Secret Service has turned the investigation over to DC Metro Police, but they will also continue their own investigation. pic.twitter.com/vvP3Qfe4rI
— Travis Media Group (@TM1Politics) May 5, 2024
Chief of Communications for the United States Secret Service Andrew Guglielmo notified the public that "there is no threat or public safety implications."
Limited traffic closures remain in effect as Secret Service teams, @dcfireems & @DCPoliceDept investigate a fatal vehicle crash that occurred at an exterior perimeter gate by the White House. There is no threat or public safety implications and our preliminary statement is below pic.twitter.com/zGTVDuZV5E
— Anthony Guglielmi (@SecretSvcSpox) May 5, 2024
The statement from the Secret Service reads,
STATEMENT ON VEHICLE CRASH AT WHITE HOUSE
Shortly before 10:30pm on May 4th, a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed collided with an outer perimeter gate on the White House complex. Security protocols were implemented as officers cleared the vehicle and attempted to render aid to the driver who was discovered deceased. There was no threat to the White House. The fatal crash portion of this will be turned over to the Washington Metropolitan Police Department Crash Investigation Unit and the Secret Service investigation continues.
Komo News reports,
WASHINGTON (7News) — An investigation is underway after a man died in a crash near the White House on Saturday evening, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
At around 10:45 p.m., D.C. police said they responded to the intersection of 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Northwest, D.C. for reports of a crash. When they arrived, they located a man and pronounced him dead on the scene.
A vehicle had crashed into a security barrier around the White House, police said. As of now, the incident is being investigated as a traffic crash.
This is a developing story...
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Darius Morris, a former NBA player known for his time with the Los Angeles Lakers, among other teams, has died at the age of 33. The news was first reported by Shams Charania, Senior Lead NBA Insider for The Athletic and Stadium.
“Four-year NBA veteran Darius Morris has passed away at the age of 33. Morris played for the Lakers, 76ers, Clippers, Grizzlies, and Nets from 2011-2015,” Charania tweeted.
Four-year NBA veteran Darius Morris has passed away at the age of 33. Morris played for the Lakers, 76ers, Clippers, Grizzlies and Nets from 2011-2015.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 4, 2024
The circumstances surrounding his death are currently unknown. TMZ reported that Morris’ body was discovered in the Los Angeles area on Thursday.
“With great sadness we announce the passing of our dearly beloved son, Darius Aaron Morris,” Morris’ family told TMZ.
“During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace,” the family added.
The Los Angeles Lakers shared their condolences via a post on X, expressing their heartbreak over the loss of Morris. “We are heartbroken by the passing of Darius,” the post read.
We are heartbroken by the passing of Darius Morris pic.twitter.com/jkTs2VrKb6
— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) May 4, 2024
University of Michigan Men’s Basketball also shared their condolences, “The Michigan Basketball Community mourns the passing of Darius Morris.”
The Michigan Basketball Community mourns the passing of Darius Morris pic.twitter.com/cZLf4t5636
— Michigan Men’s Basketball (@umichbball) May 4, 2024
“Morris was a second-round pick of the Lakers in the 2011 draft. He averaged 3.3 points in 132 career games (17 starts) with the Lakers and four other teams in four NBA seasons. He went on to play professionally in China and France, last playing in 2019-20,” ESPN reported.
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A bunch of UNC fraternity brothers went viral – for a good reason – this week when they saved an American flag by preventing it from touching the ground.
Now they are being recognized in a new Trump ad.
American needs more young men like these students, willing to step up and defend America from the radical left.
RedState reports:
Trump Releases Soaring Campaign Ad Honoring UNC Frat Brothers Who Protected Flag
Former president Donald Trump released a rousing campaign ad Saturday on his Truth Social account featuring the UNC fraternity brothers and others across the nation who stood up against the radical pro-Hamas protesters on their campuses.
Despite what it can seem like when you turn on the news, not all college students are anti-Israel and supporters of terrorists—in fact, there’s a whole bunch of them who don’t like what’s going on either.
Trump has been paying attention, and his new spot shows video clips of many of these events set to soaring music. “While campuses struggle to get control of their students, at UNC-Chapel Hill, they are bringing order back,” the video begins.
In the ad, we see the violent pro-Hamas mobs across the country, but then we cut to students like the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill frat brothers who protected the American flag at their campus’ demonstration. The brothers from the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity are now famous, and country star John Rich has announced he will play a concert for them to honor their patriotism…
Watch the video:
The newest Trump Campaign ad celebrates the fact that not all college students have gone woke pic.twitter.com/I1FcS1zJ73
— Julia (@Jules31415) May 4, 2024
People have been disgusted by what has been happening on college campuses in recent weeks. These young men are being hailed as heroes and for good reasons.
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The Virginia State Police cleared an anti-Israel protest at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville on Saturday and reportedly took over two dozen protesters into custody.
The post Police Clear Anti-Israel Encampment at University of Virginia, Over 2 Dozen Arrested appeared first on Breitbart.
Democrat FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan has ties to a Marxist organization, the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project, which supported the pro-Palestinian protesters involved in the encampment at Columbia University.
The post FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan Linked to Marxist Organization Supporting Columbia University Protesters appeared first on Breitbart.
Massachusetts Democrat Governor Maura Healey has just approved hundreds of millions in new spending for illegal immigrants, even as people are fleeing the state for greener pastures.
Massachusetts is a sanctuary state where homeless migrants must be housed, no matter how badly it works out for citizens.
The state is spending an insane amount of money on people who entered the country illegally.
Townhall reports:
Democrat Massachusetts Gov. Approves $400 Million In Freebies for Illegal Immigrants
Despite residents fleeing Massachusetts, Democrat Gov. Maura Healey (D-MA) signed a bill welcoming hundreds more of illegal immigrants into her state.
Healey signed the state budget this week that includes an additional $426 million to house illegal aliens in correspondence to the state’s “right to shelter” law that requires the government to put illegal immigrants and homeless people into homes.
The Democrat governor’s move comes as Boston declared a state of emergency after it exhausted its resources last year due to the massive influx of illegal immigrants coming to the sanctuary state.
According to a report, Massachusetts currently has more than one million illegal aliens residing in the state. It is expected to cost taxpayers over one billion dollars by 2025 to house them.
This number doesn’t include the 14,000 illegal Haitian immigrants Massachusetts has funded since 2022. CBS News noted that there are more than 3,500 illegal immigrants just in the state’s shelter system— which has been at capacity for months.
It’s like American citizens are the last consideration.
Is Governor Healy going to kick out more black Americans from their community centers to accommodate illegal aliens??
Mass. Gov. Healey Approves $426 Million More to Welcome Migrants, Push Out Citizens https://t.co/RCUBEkLqIt via @BreitbartNews
— lbgage 1776
There are still illegals living at the airport.
It’s Saturday and illegals are still living at Boston Logan airport.
She spent $1B on emergency shelters to house illegals. Putting them in 4 star hotels and giving them $100 everyday of taxpayer dollars and still wants more money for this.@MassGovernor it’s time to resign!!! pic.twitter.com/6EKigemFWo
— Bostonians Against Mayor Wu (@AntiWuCoalition) April 28, 2024
It’s such a disgrace. Healey should resign.
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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Adam Andrzejewski
Real Clear Wire
Topline: The federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion to fraud every year, according to a new study from the Government Accountability Office.
Key facts: The fraud losses represent 3 to 7 percent of the $40 trillion the federal government obligated from 2018 to 2022, a ratio the GAO says is comparable to other large governments like the U.K.
The dollar figure includes only crimes that cause the government to lose money it already has — not tax fraud or other ways the government loses potential revenue.
It does include over $100 billion lost to unemployment insurance fraud and $200 billion in fraudulent business loans from the Small Business Administration during the pandemic.
The lowest estimate, $233 billion, is still larger than the 2022 budget of all but eight federal agencies.
Only $4.41 billion to $7.31 billion was reported as “confirmed fraud” each year with an official court ruling. The rest was settled out of court or, more likely, never recouped at all.
Some of the biggest risk factors for fraud are expanding government programs or adding new ones, allowing state governments to control payments, and relying on officials with limited training or experience, the GAO wrote.
The report does not necessarily predict how much will be lost to fraud in the future.
Background: The federal government arguably does a poor job of getting money back once it’s lost to fraud.
The Justice Department announced in April that it recovered only $1.4 billion of money stolen during the pandemic, less than 1% of the total amount. OpenTheBooks contributed to a report in the Washington Times detailing the process, explaining that tens of thousands of businesses on the Treasury’s “Do Not Pay” list received loans anyway.
Critical quote: The Office of Management and Budget said the GAO report was “misleading” and will “create confusion” because it relies on projections and estimates and not just hard data.
Even the GAO admitted “we cannot eliminate the possibility that the actual amount of fraud could be outside of the range of our estimate.”
The #WasteOfTheDay is brought to you by the forensic auditors at OpenTheBooks.com
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Pop megastar Selena Gomez apologized after she was viciously attacked by fans after posting an image of her drinking Starbucks.
Gomez posted an image to her 428 million followers on Instagram of her handbag and a Starbucks cup. She made no comments about the company or the situation in Israel.
Students in the US are risking suspension from elite universities fighting for Palestinians and then there’s people like Selena Gomez who says she doesn’t wanna speak on Palestine, plays victim and then goes to buy and advertise Starbucks to her 428 Million followers.
Some risk… pic.twitter.com/ApT2zid2DQ— Sabrine (@whoisitbad) May 3, 2024
The photo provoked a furious reaction from many of her fans and pro-Palestinian activists online, who slammed her for failing to adhere to the Starbucks boycott.
“I did not know,” Gomez later replied to one of her critics. “So apparently I am that stupid. I’m sorry.”
Selena Gomez apologizes after being called out for posting photos with Starbucks to her Instagram story:
“I did not know. So apparently I am that stupid. I’m sorry” pic.twitter.com/AO0iWWM68i
— Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) May 4, 2024
Selena Gomez can’t speak on palestine to her 428 million followers because “it makes her sick” and she wants to “change the world, but she can buy and advertise for starbucks that gives lots of money to israel to kill children. Selena once again proves how disgusting she is https://t.co/p86jpK3hah
— Hajar (@mindofhajar) May 3, 2024
selena gomez with a following of 428M+ posting starbucks on her story…. i’m so done with these zionist celebs and their useless platforms pic.twitter.com/tPmnxXLlDI
— firouzeh (@SPOTLESSMlNDS) May 3, 2024
Selena Gomez promotes Starbucks on Instagram next to her Zionist boyfriend amid boycotting going viral. pic.twitter.com/RTWqy4UXpw
— Selena Gomez Charts (@selenagchart) May 3, 2024
selena gomez turning off/restricting her comments since october & posting starbucks on her story … what a fucking loser omg how embarrassing
— king yas (@yassmeeenn) May 4, 2024
Even though Starbucks does not operate in Israel, activists remain furious at how the company filed a lawsuit against one of its unions for trademark infringement after it tweeted its support for Palestine following the October 7th Hamas attacks.
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Democrat strategist and Biden Deputy Campaign manager Quentin Fulks was on MSNBCs “The Weekend” to discuss Joe Biden’s 2024 strategy.
NBC reported that Biden’s campaign is looking to shorten Joe Biden’s speeches. Of course, this is to hide Biden’s obvious cognitive decline.
Biden campaign spox Quentin Fulks insisted it’s about “quality over quantity.”
“Our campaign believes in quality over quantity. We believe that these touches, these smaller things that are getting to the point about what is going on in the stakes of this election are gonna be easier for the voters to tap into,” Fulks said.
Watch:
NBC reports Biden's handlers are "looking to shorten his speeches" to limit his public displays of cognitive decline.
A Biden campaign spokesman insists it's about "quality over quantity." pic.twitter.com/GreyaVbgN6
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 4, 2024
The Biden campaign knows that Joe Biden is declining and unable to string a sentence together.
On Thursday, Biden made off-handed comments about Japan, an ally of the United States, of being “Xenophobic.” He claimed it’s because Japan does not want mass immigration for their country.
When Biden toured the area of the Francis Scott Key Bridge which collapsed in March, he didn’t have a clue where to stand. He delivered remarks in early April and looked confused while being told where to stand.
“You want me right here?” Biden asked as he shuffled over to a giant X taped on the ground.
Watch:
A confused Biden is guided into place — despite giant Xs taped to the floor: "Right here?" pic.twitter.com/36pNl1Df1W
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 5, 2024
Last month Biden claimed that his “Uncle Bosey” was eaten by cannibals. He made a lot of false claims in his story.
Watch:
Biden, for the third time in less than 24 hours, tells the dubious story about his "Uncle Bosey" and "a lot of cannibals" in New Guinea before repeating the debunked "suckers and losers" hoax.
He also claims D-Day was on a Sunday (it was on a Tuesday).
HE IS NOT WELL. pic.twitter.com/iqeOjjFY0v
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 17, 2024
Biden’s cognitive decline is evident.
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FBI agents have taken possession of Senator Lindsey Graham’s phone following concerns of a security breach, the senator revealed during a recent discussion on artificial intelligence regulations at The Hill and Valley Forum.
Senator Graham (R-SC) reported that the issue occurred after he received a deceptive message from someone posing as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
“You know, my phone is in the hands of the FBI now,” Graham said during Wednesday’s panel discussion.
Graham recounted receiving a message he believed was from Senator Schumer, only to realize it was not. He stopped short of detailing the incident, reflecting on the vulnerability of digital creations to hacking.
“I get a message I think is from Schumer; it isn’t from Schumer, and next thing you know, my phones—I don’t know, anything you create apparently—can be hacked.”
Details about whether the security breach involved a phone call or a text message have not been disclosed by Graham’s office, The New York Post reported.
CNN reported:
A spokesperson for the Senate Sergeant at Arms, which investigates cyber threats to senators, did not respond to a request for comment.
Similar hacking attempts were reported on other Senate staff this week.
“Reports of a text-based phishing attack on Senate mobile devices are increasing,” states an email obtained by CNN that the Senate Sergeant at Arms sent Senate staffers on Monday. “The message impersonates a trusted source to start a conversation,” the Sergeant at Arms warned. The hacker then tries to get the target to install the Telegram messaging by clicking on a malicious link that “results in the device behaving abnormally,” the email states.
The incident with Graham, however, was on his personal phone, not a Senate device or Senate network, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the hacking attempt. Lawmakers and their staff face an array of cyber threats, from state-backed spies to cybercriminals.
One risk with hacking activity like what Graham experienced is that it is an attempt to gain broader access to targets in the Senate for future operations, the source said.
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The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) have filed their first election integrity lawsuit of the 2024 presidential election.
Following the massive voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election that rigged the election in favor of Joe Biden, the lawsuit is seeking to block the counting of mail-in ballots received after election day.
“Dilution of honest votes, to any degree, by the casting of fraudulent or illegitimate votes violates the right to vote,” the lawsuit states. “By holding voting open beyond the federal Election Day, Nevada violates federal law and harms plaintiffs.”
“Counting mail ballots received after Election Day doesn’t just dilute the valid ballots—it specifically and disproportionately harms Republican candidates and voters,” it continues. “These harms are irreparable.”
The lawsuit is a response to legislation passed by Nevada’s Democratic-controlled legislature back in 2021, which allows the tallying of mail ballots received up to four days after Election Day so long as the envelopes are postmarked before the end of the day.
“Nevada’s ballot receipt deadline clearly violates federal law and undermines election integrity in the state,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement. “Ballots received days after Election Day should not be counted.”
Nineteen U.S. allow the counting of mail-in ballots received after Election Day. The law’s claim they allow more voters to participate, although they are commonly used as a way of giving Democratic operatives enough time to “find” the necessary votes to ensure victory.
During the 2022 election cycle, Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt had his victory stolen from him after leftist Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto after days of mail-in ballot counting. As soon as Cortez-Masto took the lead, mainstream media networks called the race.
Although this is the first lawsuit filed by Trump’s presidential campaign, the RNC has already filed five separate lawsuits targeting election integrity across six state.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene joined Breitbart News Saturday to discuss her effort, as host Matt Boyle expressed it, to "expose Speaker Mike Johnson's power-sharing agreement with the Democrats."
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Arne Duncan, former President Barack Obama's Secretary of Education, was photographed at an anti-Isrel encampment next to a Chicago alderman who has received criticism for speaking in front of a burned American flag.
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NYPD's Kaz Daughtry reacted to Columbia University protests by noting "tools" found were not those of organic protesters but those of "agitators."
The post NYPD Deputy Commissioner: ‘These Are Not The Tools of Students Protesting,’ They Are Those of ‘Agitators’ appeared first on Breitbart.
The American drug company Moderna has posted a first-quarter loss of $1.2 billion after demand for their dodgy COVID-19 vaccine collapsed.
Sales of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine were a mere $167 million over the first quarter of 2024, compared with $2.8 billion over the same period last year.
The company said in its earnings report:
This decline aligns with the anticipated transition to a seasonal COVID-19 vaccine market. In the prior year period, the company recognized revenue primarily from delivered doses deferred from 2022.
In the U.S., the company is reaffirming its 2024 product sales outlook as it enters the second year of the commercial endemic COVID market. Moderna’s focus is on working with public health officials, health care providers and pharmacies to increase vaccination coverage rates to reduce the substantial burden of COVID-19.
Yet according to The Epoch Times, the company sought to reassure investors with the promise of a “next-generation” COVID vaccine that will allegedly help combat different strains of the virus.
The outlet reported:
Moderna touted the results of Phase 3 clinical trials of its “next-generation” COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1283), boasting higher immune response against both new and original virus strains than its original formula. Clinical trials are also underway on a combination one-shot vaccine against the flu and COVID-19, which Moderna has dubbed mRNA-1083. Data from the study are expected at some point in 2024.
The drugmaker also reaffirmed that it expects to receive approval from regulators for its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine in time for it to be included in this fall’s vaccine campaign in the United States. The company has expressed hope that its experimental shots—including for RSV, flu, and cancer—will compensate for dwindling COVID-19 vaccine revenue.
Modern is far from alone in feeling the pinch. The German pharmaceutical giant Pfizer also saw its profits decline 40 percent compared with the first quarter of 2023, with the company similarly blaming the fall in demand for COVID vaccines on their disappointing results.
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A San Diego jury on Friday convicted two Antifa militants of felony conspiracy to riot in connection with a brutal attack on Trump supporters in 2021.
In 2022 a San Diego grand jury indicted 11 Antifa and BLM militants for attacking Trump supporters during a “Patriot March” demonstration in Pacific Beach in 2021.
In January 2021, a mob of Antifa terrorists assaulted a small group of Trump supporters in San Diego, California.
Antifa goons attacked the Trump supporters with pepper spray after a verbal confrontation escalated on the boardwalk in Pacific Beach.
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According to the San Diego Tribune, there was a heavy police presence on the boardwalk and law enforcement declared the gathering “unlawful” by early afternoon on January 10, 2021.
Police arrested several violent protestors that day and a grand jury in San Diego indicted 11 defendants on Tuesday, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office.
The indictment actually calls out Antifa by name and alleges all defendants “are all affiliated with Antifa” and used “force, fear, and violence to further their interests and suppress the interests of others.”
In 2022 the grand jury brought 29 felony counts, including conspiracy.
On Friday, a San Diego grand jury convicted Brian Cortez Lightfoot, 27, and Jeremy Jonathan White, 41, both of Los Angeles.
“We want to thank the jury for their service and for reaching their just guilty verdicts on the two remaining defendants in the Antifa conspiracy case. This was a complex case with 11 defendants indicted and now all convicted — nine by guilty pleas and two by jury verdict. The DA team worked tirelessly on this case in order to be sure our community remains safe, and that the rule of law is followed.” – San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan said.
CBS 8 reported:
Two men were convicted Friday of conspiracy to commit a riot stemming from a 2021 Pacific Beach protest that turned violent, with prosecutors alleging the men joined other self-identified anti-fascists with plans to violently attack those on the opposite side of the political spectrum.
Brian Cortez Lightfoot, 27, and Jeremy Jonathan White, 41, both from the Los Angeles area, were prosecuted along with nine others in connection with the Jan. 9, 2021, “Patriot March” that devolved into brawls and violence.
Lightfoot was additionally convicted by jurors of five counts of unlawful use of tear gas. The jury, which began their deliberations more than a week ago, also acquitted the men on one assault count each, but hung on numerous other counts of assault and unlawful use of tear gas.
Lightfoot and White are slated for sentencing late next month. Their nine co-defendants pleaded guilty to various charges prior to the trial and some have already been sentenced to prison.
A jury in San Diego has convicted two So Cal Antifa members of felony conspiracy to riot following a brutal attack. This brings 12-for-12 convictions of Antifa members, effectively breaking up the group cluster. Read my new report cowritten with @EvaKnott:https://t.co/142vefp4aa
— Andy Ngô ️ (@MrAndyNgo) May 4, 2024
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The Gateway Pundit reported that the Biden regime proudly announced that women will be forced to allow men in their locker rooms and bathrooms with a new 1577-page Title IX ruling.
Because the Biden Regime won’t do it, lawmakers in states throughout the country have been stepping up to protect women and girls.
In Ohio, the Ohio House Higher Education Committee passed House Bill 183 , which mandates that Ohio K-12 schools and colleges enforce bathroom and locker room usage based on students’ sex assigned at birth.
The Ohio Capital-Journal reports:
State Reps. Beth Lear, R-Galena, and Adam Bird, R-New Richmond, introduced House Bill 183 which would require Ohio K-12 schools and colleges to mandate that students could only use the bathroom or locker room that matches their sex assigned at birth. It would also prohibit schools from allowing students to share overnight accommodations with the opposite sex.
HB 183 now awaits further consideration in the House, which is next scheduled to be in session April 24.
Proponents argue that HB 183 addresses safety concerns, while critics contend it discriminates against transgender individuals. State Rep. Gayle Manning expressed hope for further discussions on the bill but ultimately voted in favor, citing concerns over potential legal liabilities and rising tuition costs in higher education institutions.
Biden’s dismantling of Title IX, meant to protect women and girls in sports, means women will be forced to compete against men annd women will be forced to accept men on their sports teams.
Women and young girls will be forced to share locker rooms and bathrooms based on gender identity rather than biological sex.
Young girls everywhere will be subject to the type of sexual exposure allegedly faced by the female athletes forced to share a locker room with trans swimmer Lia Thomas.
Preferred pronouns are also now mandated, and even the single use of the “wrong” pronoun can require discipline.
And, as May Mailman, Director of Independent Women’s Law Center, notes, Title IX is not a college law. This will impact girls as young as those in the Headstart program, geared to children from three to five years old, those in daycare, and those in Kindergarten through 12th grade.
Other states stepping up to protect women and girls is Florida.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had strong words for Biden and his attack on women, “We will not comply.”
“Florida rejects Joe Biden’s attempt to rewrite Title IX. We will not comply, and we will fight back.”
“We are not going to let Joe Biden undermine the rights of parents. And we are not going to let Joe Biden abuse his Constitutional authority to try to impose these policies on us here in Florida. We stand with opportunities; we are not going to let Biden get away with it.”
Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters condemned Biden’s recent rewrite of Title IX, labeling it as “radical and illegal” and a direct assault on the rights of states, families, and specifically young women and girls.
Walters made it clear that Oklahoma does not intend to comply with the unconstitutional federal mandate.
“President Biden deciding to rewrite Title IX is one of the most radical and illegal moves we’ve ever seen from the federal government. It’s an attack on our states. It’s an attack on our families. And it’s an attack on our young women and girls. We will not stand for this in Oklahoma,” Walters.
In addition to Florida and Oklahoma, other states that have taken steps to protect single-sex spaces include Utah, and Alabama.
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It is encouraging to know that in the midst of pro-Hamas thuggery on college campuses, that patriotic American students are starting to speak out in support for our Nation.
Students at Rutgers University showed their support for the United States this past Thursday, countering the protests by pro-Hamas agitators.
Students who were fed up with pro-Hamas thugs on their campus took a stand by chanting “USA” while waving an American flag.
Rutgers students who went viral for waving American flags at a student rally responded to the school administration caving to demands from student protesters.
Anti-Israel protesters on campus at Rutgers University were countered by a large group of patriotic students waving an American flag and chanting “USA!” on Thursday.
Video from Thursday afternoon showed two competing groups of students chanting pro-American and pro-Palestinian slogans on Voorhees Mall in New Jersey.
“As the anti-Israel group yelled ‘Free, Free Palestine!’ and ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’ the patriotic group could be heard repeatedly chanting ‘USA! USA! USA!'” Fox News reported.
Students can be seen showing their support for the United States, countering the anti-American protests that have invaded their university.
A Rutgers student named Ben was interviewed by Fox News for being one of the many students who stood up for the US and his university.
“Ben was the student holding the American flag high,” Fox and Friends Pete Hegseth said.
“How did so many people show up? Was it coordinated?” Hegseth asked Ben.
“It wasn’t really coordinated at all. My friends and I just sort of came with the flag more as just to go. We didn’t really think much of it at the time,” Ben said.
Watch:
Another BASED chad frat bro at Rutgers, LOL pic.twitter.com/JIf2zlJOMi
— Posted (@PostyGroyp) May 4, 2024
Stephen Wallace, who is a junior at Rutgers University, spoke to Fox News about how college students are not happy with the anti-American culture on campus.
“We’re tired of it, We’re fed up with the anti-Americanism. We just want to be patriotic again and that’s what I hope for the rest of this country,” Wallace told Fox News Digital in a video interview.
Watch:
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In a deeply moving moment during Kristan Hawkins’ “No Abortion, No Exceptions” Tour at Florida International University, Tommy Kearns, a grieving father, shared his heart-wrenching story over the loss of his unborn daughter, Clementine.
Kristan Hawkins, the CEO of the Pro-Life Generation, is advocating for the abolishment of abortion. Her tour is a direct challenge to the exploitation of tragic personal stories by “abortion-loving politicians” to push their “anti-woman, anti-baby, and anti-life agenda.”
Kearns, who drove three hours to speak, recounted the painful experience of his daughter Clementine’s abortion.
Kearns recounted his desperate pleas to the mother of his child not to proceed with the abortion. Despite their five-month debate and his unconditional love for both his child and her mother, his pleas were in vain.
“Before I get into my question, I just wanted to say my daughter’s name is Clementine,” Kearns began. “She was five months along when she was aborted. My daughter was healthy. I begged her mother not to go through with the abortion. For five months, we went back and forth. I don’t hate her. I love her, and I’m working on forgiving her.”
“She was confused, she was uncertain, and she had doubts. Mike Tyson has doubts before he gets into a ring. This was an option, and she took that option, and she regrets it now. ”
“This is just a thought that just came into my head; why do you think that people dehumanize my Clementine? Why wasn’t she human enough for people to help me mourn? Why wasn’t she human enough for people to talk about?” Kearns asked, struggling to understand how society could disregard his grief and the humanity of his unborn daughter.
He drew a personal comparison, noting that his mother was born prematurely at the same stage of pregnancy at which Clementine was aborted, emphasizing the potential for life that was extinguished.
Kearns expressed his devastation over not having the chance to say goodbye to his daughter or mourn her as one would with a born child.
“My daughter was five months. I didn’t get to say goodbye to my daughter. I didn’t know about the abortion until after it happened… She was ripped apart. My daughter doesn’t get a funeral. My daughter doesn’t get respect… How much money did they make off of my daughter’s body?”
“My daughter was a person. My daughter is an angel, and I pray for her every single day. I talk to her. I still feel like she’s there. I feel like on July 20th, my daughter is going to be there.”
Kearn expressed his deep connection to Clementine, emphasizing that she was more than just a biological term; she was a growing life that held significant emotional value to him.
“I have her sonogram picture the first time I heard her heartbeat, and I bring this up to people, and I say, ‘Well, she had a heartbeat. Wasn’t she a person?’… For five months, I’m told by my friends, I’m crying over somebody I never met before,” he said, confronting the dismissive attitudes towards his mourning. He reveals the isolation he feels, surrounded by people who diminish his daughter’s existence to merely being “a fetus” and not a “person.”
“My daughter not only matters, but I do not want my daughter to be forgotten. I want my daughter’s story to be talked about. I want her to be remembered. She wasn’t just a fetus.”
The agony is palpable as Kearns recounts the haunting images and nightmares that linger after researching the medical procedures associated with abortion.
His speech also touched on the wider political and societal implications of abortion laws, calling them “evil laws” that need to be challenged and changed.
“My question is really for society. Why doesn’t my daughter matter? Why wasn’t she enough? Why didn’t she get a chance to live? And ultimately, no, I’m not blaming my ex. She had doubts, and she regrets it. Ultimately, this is our government’s fault. We’ve stopped evil laws in the past, in America and in Germany… We came together and we stopped evil laws. This is an evil law that killed my daughter,” Kearn said.
The speech ended with a plea for remembrance and a call to action, urging society to think of Clementine and to keep her memory alive.
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As of now, the old and tired saying that the war in Ukraine was in a perpetual stalemate has been long forgotten and discarded.
Russian Federation forces have ‘liberated’ more than 547 square kilometers (or 211 square miles) of territory just in 2024, Reuters reported, citing Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu.
It’s well over a dozen cities and villages, and the expectation is that after the expected upcoming fall of Chasov Yar, the defensive lines will crumble even worse than they are now – because Ukrainian corrupt officials did not build the defensive lines of fortifications, but preferred to embezzle the money.
In this context of a rapidly weakening Kiev regime, it arises that President Volodymyr Zelensky has been put on a Russian ‘wanted list’, and a criminal case was opened against him.
Reuters reported:
“Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and put him on a wanted list, the state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, an announcement Ukraine dismissed as evidence of Moscow’s ‘desperation’.
TASS reported that the Russian Interior Ministry database showed Zelensky was on a wanted list but gave no further details.”
Ukrainians – as one would expect – called the news ‘worthless Russian announcements’ and stated that the International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant for the arrest of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on suspicion of war crimes ‘is quite real’.
Reuters further reported that “Russia has issued arrest warrants for a number of Ukrainian and other European politicians since the start of the conflict with Ukraine in February 2022.”
Russian police have also indicted many foreign politicians, and issued an arrest warrant for the International Criminal Court prosecutor who prepared Putin’s war crimes warrant.
Associated Press reported:
“As of Saturday afternoon, both Zelensky and his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, featured on the ministry’s list of people wanted on unspecified criminal charges. The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Gen. Oleksandr Pavlyuk, was also on the list.
Russian officials did not immediately clarify the allegations against any of the men. Mediazona, an independent Russian news outlet, claimed Saturday that both Zelensky and Poroshenko had been listed since at least late February.
[…] Russia’s wanted list also includes scores of officials and lawmakers from Ukraine and NATO countries. Among them is Kaja Kallas, the prime minister of NATO and EU member Estonia, who has fiercely advocated for increased military aid to Kyiv and stronger sanctions against Moscow.
Russian officials in February said that Kallas is wanted because of Tallinn’s efforts to remove Soviet-era monuments to Red Army soldiers in the Baltic nation, in a belated purge of what many consider symbols of past oppression.”
Some of the prosecutions of Foreign Leaders are tied to legislation against the resurgence of Nazism. In their insistence to cover up for Ukraine until the bitter end, AP wrote the following ridiculous paragraph:
“The Kremlin has repeatedly sought to link Ukraine’s leaders to Nazism, even though the country has a democratically elected Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust, and despite the aim of many Ukrainians to strengthen the country’s democracy, reduce corruption and move closer to the West.“
Who ‘repeatedly sought to link Ukraine’s leaders to Nazism’ but themselves, who venerate as National Hero Stephan Bandera, Nazi collaborator who massacred Jews and Polish citizens!
AP says that ‘the country has a democratically elected Jewish president’. OK, to begin with, Zelensky cancelled Presidential elections that should have happened in March. By May 22nd, his mandate will be over and he will be totally autocratic.
As for him being Jewish and endorsing the Nazis from ‘Azov battalions’ and ‘Right Sector’, that is yet another failing by the former leader that General Zaluzhny called ‘Frodo’.
You may ask, what about ‘the aim of many Ukrainians to strengthen the country’s democracy, reduce corruption and move closer to the West’, so let me leave you with a nice collection of Ukrainian sporting Nazi paraphernalia:
Ukrainian Nazis in full display pic.twitter.com/zy6ey2IxSE
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 4, 2024
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Pro-Hamas agitators at UVA were petulant when police arrived to remove their tantrum encampment.
As police entered the area, the protestors taunted police as they hysterically shrieked, “UPD, KKK, IDF, you’re all the same,” likening the police to the Ku Klux Klan and Israel Defense Forces.
Virginia State Police were dispatched to campus to remove the Hamas cheerleaders from their encampment, which, according to University officials, violates school policy.
When the agitators refused to dismantle tents and leave, officers in full riot gear began spraying pepper spray.
Although reports at first suggested tear gas was used, Virginia State Police said, NO law enforcement in Virginia have or deploy tear gas, by its defined chemical composition.”
Protesters are being taken into custody and Virginia state police in full riot gear are spraying tear gas. @29NewsWVIR pic.twitter.com/Be2JYthUHA
— Anahita Jafary (@anahitajafary_) May 4, 2024
In this video you can see one man being taken to the ground by Virginia State Police and another being tear-gassed. @29NewsWVIR pic.twitter.com/eVE46mbAoY
— Anahita Jafary (@anahitajafary_) May 4, 2024
#update pic.twitter.com/4QXjJgDAd3
— Anahita Jafary (@anahitajafary_) May 4, 2024
According to University officials, the encampment is in violation of a policy. While officials expressed support for peaceful protests on the UVA campus, they do not allow setting up tents and prohibit the use of electronically amplified sound, which includes electric megaphones.
The nasty chants can be clearly heard coming from a banned megaphone.
UVA officials said in a statement on Tuesday, “UVA has seen an increase in peaceful expressive activity on our Grounds this year in response to the ongoing Middle East conflict. As an institution committed to free expression and the open exchange of ideas, we strive to ensure these activities can take place safely, and in a manner that permits all parties to make their voices heard.”
“The University is prohibited by the Constitution and our own values from restricting speech based on its content, even in cases where the content is hurtful or offensive,” the school said. “We do, however, enforce reasonable restrictions on the time, place, and manner of expressive activities, so as to assure the safety of our community and to avoid disruption to University life or the rights of others. As we become aware of planned expressive activities, University officials engage with organizers to inform them of these policies.”
The policy regarding tents specifically states:
Although students are whining and whinging about “a sudden change” in the policy, Daily Progress reporter Jason Armesto reports that the ban on tents has been communicated to students dozens of times over the past few days and “Chief Longo and student affairs have both communicated it to protestors, ‘In any interaction with folks down there this has come up.'”
UVA says there has been no ambiguity about the policy.
“This has ben communicated to them dozens of times over past few days.”Say Chief Longo and student affairs have both communicated it to protestors. “In any interaction with folks down there this has come up.”
— Jason Armesto (@rmest0) May 4, 2024
State troopers were called in to deal with the unhinged mob.
This is why state troopers were called into UVA.
Students blocked local police from tearing down the Hamas camp.pic.twitter.com/uRdV4yWb57
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 4, 2024
Happening right now at the University of Virginia.
Hamas campers given a 10 minute warning before arrests begin.
As a UVA grad, it’s good to see that young terrorists in training are not allowed on school grounds.pic.twitter.com/pb3lBOeKNz
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 4, 2024
The screaming shrews who would not comply were hauled off by police.
Pro-Palestine activist at UVA gets dragged away by police like a sack of potatoes.pic.twitter.com/0XkebE2UrM
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) May 4, 2024
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Microsoft has strengthened its stance against the use of generative AI for facial recognition by U.S. police departments through its Azure OpenAI Service, a managed enterprise solution built around OpenAI's technology.
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Representative Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, was recently implicated for accepting a $600,000 bribe from an oil company in Azerbaijan. He is being charged with working as an agent for a foreign entity while a U.S. government official because he lobbied Congress on the company’s behalf. The bribe was tied to a money laundering scheme that cycled through a bank in Mexico. Cuellar is also being accused of attempting to weaken US money laundering rules, particularly those that would hurt Mexican banks. Frighteningly, Cuellar is the leading Democrat on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee.
Cuellar being coopted by foreign forces is a serious national security concern. Sadly, this is just the most recent case of a foreign entity or foreign government buying influence with elected officials in the US.
Last year, Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, along with his wife, was charged with accepting bribes from corporations in Egypt.
In 2013, the government-owned State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) provided $750,000 for 10 members of Congress and 32 staffers to go on a junket to Baku, the country’s capital. In addition to the all-expense-paid luxury trip, the invitees also received thousands of dollars in gifts. Among the beneficiaries of Baku’s largesse were three former top aides to President Obama.
Apart from the obvious violation of ethics and the public trust, there was a national security angle to this trip as well. At that time, SOCAR was partnered with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), and they needed the US to provide exemptions from US sanctions against Iran.
In 2020-2023, Utah lawmakers became the targets of investigation when it was found that they had accepted paid trips to China and later pushed legislation that would benefit the PRC. Similar allegations were made against two Utah lawmakers who accepted trips to Qatar.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) poses the greatest and most persistent threat to US national security. Additionally, China has deep pockets, and the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is actively engaged in co-opting American officials. As far back as 1997, the FBI warned Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) and five other members of Congress, that the PRC was targeting them for illegal campaign contributions funneled through foreign corporations.
The granddaddy of all foreign influence scandals involves the Biden family. In 2013, Hunter Biden traveled to China with his father, who was then vice president. On that trip, Hunter and a Chinese banker, Jonathan Li, formed a state-backed private equity fund, Bohai Harvest RST (BHR Partners). Chinese government shareholders controlled 80% of the company.
In the spring of 2014, Hunter Biden was appointed to the board of directors of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. At that time, his father was leading US policy efforts toward Ukraine. Hunter Biden was paid $1 million per year, and there are allegations that his father received some of the money.
In 2015, BHR partnered with the Chinese state-owned military aviation contractor Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) to purchase an American technology company, Henniges, which manufactured dual-use components with military and civilian applications. Perhaps BHR’s most concerning investment was in China General Nuclear Power Company (CGN), a state-backed nuclear firm.
Companies controlled by Hunter Biden entered into several deals with Chinese entities, including China’s state-owned banks and other companies that had ties to the CCP. He was paid at least $4.8 million, and once again there were allegations that Joe Biden benefited from these transactions. While proving definitively that money flowed to the president may prove difficult, Hunter’s activity — funding dual-use technology, aviation, and nuclear projects in cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — raises significant national security concerns.
Some US officials make trips to foreign countries that appear unnecessary, lacking clear justification or mandate from their roles. While not directly accused of corruption, these trips seem to stretch beyond their duties and may run counter to US foreign policy objectives. Additionally, these travels, funded by US taxpayers, raise concerns about potential corruption or undisclosed agreements. This was the case with California Governor Newsom, who recently visited China; New York Mayor Eric Adams, who went to Mexico, as well as Greece and Qatar; and New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, who had trips scheduled for Dubai and Kenya. San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed also visited China, as did Menlo Park City Councilwoman Kirsten Keith.
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In April, Joe Biden unilaterally canceled another $7.4 billion in student loan debt in his latest vote-buying gimmick ahead of the 2024 election.
“Today, President Biden announced that 277,000 more Americans will get their student debt canceled, bringing the total debt relief approved by the Biden-Harris Administration to $153 billion for 4.3 million Americans through various actions,” the White House announced at the time.
Biden has used a series of workarounds to circumvent the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down his student loan bailout program.
On Friday night’s panel discussion on “Real Time,” host Bill Maher was joined by Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway and Bloomberg Businessweek correspondent Joshua Green.
During a discussion of the anti-Israel protests raging on college campuses across the country, Maher said he gets “so incensed” at how many of the students participating receive federal aid.
“I’m so incensed about some of this stuff because when I read about the college loans… Biden administration’s student debt cancellation will cost a combined 870 billion to 1.4 trillion.”
“So colleges constantly raise tuition, then the kids take out more loans, then the government comes by and pays those loans. Okay, so my tax dollars are supporting this Jew-hating? I don’t think so.”
Conway said the student loan handout was unfair, telling Maher, “You can’t have plumbers and pipefitters playing for the student loans of doctors and lawyers.”
She continued, “I’m all for the government trying to help people who need it, but he did that as a political play and everybody knows it. He’s bleeding young people support.”
“And it hasn’t worked,” Green added. “If you look at issues that young people care about, Gaza is like 15th out of 16th. And the only thing that comes in lower than Gaza is student loan forgiveness. So it hasn’t worked as a motivator for the youth vote, you know, half of which are out there chanting ‘Genocide Joe.’ So it’s backfired not just in terms of public policy, but in terms of the politics, too.”
“Yeah, I mean, Trump is winning the youth vote by I think 11 points, that’s pretty astounding to me,” Maher said, referring to a recent CNN poll.
Watch:
NEW: Bill Maher says he is “incensed” that his tax dollars are going towards paying off the student loans of “Jew hating” students.
All this criticism of Biden and he will still vote for him.
“I’m so incensed about some of this stuff, because, when I read about the college… pic.twitter.com/XCKR6bU6RC
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 4, 2024
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Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday evening responded to Trump’s co-defendant Walt Nauta’s motion to extend a deadline for disclosures in the classified documents case.
Recall that Walt Nauta, a former White House employee and Navy veteran who worked valet for Trump and served as a personal staffer at Mar-a-Lago was indicted along with Trump last year.
In a motion filed late Friday, Jack Smith admitted the FBI messed with the boxes containing “classified” documents they seized from Trump and can’t be sure the order or the placement of the documents.
In a May 1 filing, Walt Nauta’s attorney claimed he had difficulty in cross-referencing materials in classified and unclassified discovery because “certain items in the seized boxes he reviewed were in a different order from where they appear in the scans of the boxes’ contents produced in discovery.”
Jack Smith in his Friday night response admitted the FBI moved the classified documents around.
According to a footnote in the motion reviewed by The Gateway Pundit, the FBI messed with the boxes containing the ‘classified’ documents they seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
The DOJ previously assured the Court that the placement of classified documents as originally found had been maintained – THEY LIED!
Footnote 3: The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court. See, e.g., 4/12/24 Hearing Tr. at 65 (Government responding to the Court’s question of whether the boxes were “in their original, intact form as seized” by stating “[t]hey are, with one exception; and that is that the classified documents have been removed and placeholders have been put in the documents”
The DOJ in August 2022 lied to the Court when they claimed the red, blue and yellow sheets shown in the viral photo of the classified documents indicated their classification status.
It turns out they were “slip sheets” the FBI used to replace the so-called classified documents.
The FBI admitted they messed with Trump’s documents! The FBI used cover sheets as placeholders for the classified documents.
“After the boxes were brought to WFO, the FBI created an index to correlate the documents with classification markings to codes (e.g., document “bb”) and labeled the classified cover sheets in the boxes with the codes for the seized documents. The FBI also generally replaced the handwritten sheets with classified cover sheets annotated with the index code, but regardless, any handwritten sheets that currently remain in the boxes do not represent additional classified documents—they were just not removed when the classified cover sheets with the index code were added. In many but not all instances, the FBI was able to determine which document with classification markings corresponded to a particular placeholder sheet.”
Jack Smith also claimed the FBI found so many classified documents that they ran out of ‘slip sheets.’
“The investigative team used classified cover sheets for that purpose, until the FBI ran out because there were so many classified documents, at which point the team began using blank sheets with handwritten notes indicating the classification level of the document(s) seized,” Jack Smith laughably claimed.
“Yet more reason to throw out this sham prosecution,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in response to Jack Smith’s filing.
EVIDENCE TAMPERING? Biden DOJ/Jack Smith just admitted they messed with boxes supposedly containing “classified” documents they seized from Trump and can’t be sure the order or placement of the documents as originally found has been maintained — which is contrary to what they…
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) May 3, 2024
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Anti-Israel protesters interrupted the main graduation ceremony at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Saturday.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices should be "abolished" within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the intelligence community, Cliff Sims, who served as the deputy director of national intelligence under former President Donald Trump, said during an interview on Breitbart News Saturday, adding that he was surprised to see the DEI office in the CIA headquarters and by the "politicization" inside the intelligence community.
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Violent anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American protests are taking place on campuses across America. Many of the individuals who’ve been arrested are not students but instead paid protesters by outside groups who are essentially agitators for hire. Jewish students and even faculty have expressed concerns or outright fear over their safety when walking through these campuses where large mobs of hate-filled individuals, many of whom are wearing face-coverings, shout at them or block them from walking through areas where they’re protesting.
Only last week, a female Jewish student was taken to the hospital after she was violently beaten on the UCLA college campus by a mob of pro-Palestine supporters.
Conservative Collin Rugg shared the horrific video.
JUST IN: Jewish girl at UCLA sent to the ER after being beaten unconscious by pro-Palestine protesters.
The incident reportedly happened at Dickerson Plaza.
According to ‘ThatKoreanJew’ on IG who is a medical student at UCLA, the girl was surrounded by 5 people.
She suffered a concussion and was unable to recognize her family when she initially woke up.
Thankfully, she is in stable condition now.
Some students on these campuses are beginning to fight back, while others are outnumbered and are living in fear of being physically harmed. Renowned Constitutional Attorney Alan Dershowitz and Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School, has had enough and has announced a plan during a recent appearance on Newsmax, telling the conservative news network that he has a plan to deal with the “anti-Semitic” student protesters.
JUST IN: Jewish girl at UCLA sent to the ER after being beaten unconscious by pro-Palestine protesters.
The incident reportedly happened at Dickerson Plaza.
According to ‘ThatKoreanJew’ on IG who is a medical student at UCLA, the girl was surrounded by 5 people.
She suffered a… pic.twitter.com/ctv1hAl6Wu
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 30, 2024
Here is a clip of Alan Dershowitz’s appearance on Newsmax, in which he explains how he plans to use lawfare against these students for their actions.
“In massive defensive and offensive warfare against the anti-and potential violent terrorist act, we are going to be engaging in massive offensive and defensive lawfare against bigots, anti-Semites, and potential violent terrorists.
We’re going to take many, many kinds of legal actions.
We’re starting a group called “Hurt a Jew, we sue you!” in which, if you send us the name of the Jewish kid it could be a Christian Zionist too that was hurt by one of these bigots, we will sue them. And we will get their dorm rooms taken away, and we will take their cars and their boomboxes, and we will bankrupt them. We will do whatever is necessary under the law. And we will bring these lawsuits, bring them successfully deter Oct 7th.
Remember, there are people out there who have promised they will bring 10,000 October 7ths. That’s genocide!
Ten thousand thousand October 7ths is genocide!
It’s the end of the Jewish people!” Dershowitz warned.
Watch here:
Alan Dershowitz vows he will engage in “massive offensive lawfare” against allegedly “anti-Semitic” student protesters. He threatens to have their dorm rooms taken away, take their cars and boomboxes, and “bankrupt” them. He says this is necessary to “deter” the return of Hitler pic.twitter.com/I4D4xgCbsV
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 4, 2024
As universities and colleges tip-toe around the issue of Jewish students and students who support them being terrorized on their campuses, isn’t it about time someone stepped up and sued them?
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Slowly but surely, voices in favor of common sense energy policies are starting to emerge. It is true that, at this juncture, these voices do not yet confront the ‘Church of Global Warming’, and their criticism is still confined to matters of the feasibility of the ‘Net Zero’ failed, crippling policies and regulations – but that’s a start, anyway.
UAE’s energy minister Suhail Al Mazrouei is the latest in this trend, stating that long-term predictions need to have a reality check’.
Al Mazrouei lent his approval to a recent article by JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon. He wrote that US delays of liquefied natural gas projects were done ‘for political reasons.’ According to him, Biden means to cater to those who believe oil and gas projects should be stopped altogether — a position that he calls ‘wrong’ and ‘enormously naïve.’
Bloomberg reported:
“The head of JPMorgan Chase & Co. made the comments […] in his annual shareholder letter, in which he touted replacing coal with natural gas as one of the best ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions for the next few decades. Dimon also called LNG exports a ‘great economic boon’ for the US as well as a ‘realpolitik goal’.
‘Our allied nations that need secure and affordable energy resources, including critical nations like Japan, Korea and most of our European allies, would like to be able to depend on the United States for energy’, the chairman and chief executive officer said in his letter.”
Now, the UAE Minister has come out in agreement with Dimon.
CNBC reported:
“JPMorgan’s calls for a “reality check” on the world’s energy transition goals and pathway is ‘sensible’, the UAE’s energy minister told CNBC.
‘We need always, whenever we put up predictions, especially long term ones, to have a reality check’, Suhail Al Mazrouei told CNBC’s Dan Murphy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.”
JPMorgan warned that a move from fossil fuels to renewables could take “generations” to reach present net-zero targets.
High interest rates, inflation and wars are setting back efforts to reduce the use of fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas.
“’I think it’s a very sensible article’, said Al Mazrouei. The minister, however, highlighted that the circumstances and financial capabilities of each country on undertaking the energy transition goals will vary.
‘The world is not the same … Some can afford it. They worked on fiscal changes, they adjusted their energy costs. Others have not, [they] cannot afford to do it’, he added.”
We are still far away from the point where authoritative voices will state unambiguously that the 2015 Paris Climate Goals were prompted by bogus science alarmism.
For now, they blame a ‘higher interest rate environment’ for making it costlier for the world to transition.
“’The higher cost of borrowing negatively affects renewables and nascent technologies, compared to more established oil and gas, and metals and mining sectors, which remain somewhat insulated’, [Al Mazrouei] said.”
We have seen Scotland’s government scrap its 2030 climate target, and major oil companies such as BP and Shell trim back on climate targets.
Read more:
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The New York Police Department (NYPD) has uncovered alarming discoveries within a pro-Palestinian encampment on a college campus. According to reports, the police found weapons and a book on terrorism while clearing the encampment.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry shared a concerning update from Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall on X.
“Pencils, books, laptops, those are the tools of students and what you expect to find on a college campus. But here’s what the NYPD found in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after we were able to arrest the protestors and agitators for commandeering and barricading themselves inside the building. Gas masks, ear plugs, helmets, goggles, tape, hammers, knives, ropes, and a book on TERRORISM,” he wrote.
“These are not the tools of students protesting, these are the tools of agitators, of people who were working on something nefarious. Thankfully, your NYPD was able to prevent whatever they were planning and stop them before they could do it. Continue to peacefully and lawfully protest; but know that if you engage in illegal conduct, the NYPD will hold you responsible and hold you accountable—someone has to,” he added.
Pencils, books, laptops, those are the tools of students and what you expect to find on a college campus. But here’s what the NYPD found in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after we were able to arrest the protestors and agitators for commandeering and barricading themselves… pic.twitter.com/EKQV6nJySu
— NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry (@NYPDDaughtry) May 3, 2024
Speaking to reporters, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry expressed concerns about the sophisticated organization behind these protests.
“I just want to say—and I’ve said it before—there is somebody behind this movement. There is some organization behind this movement,” said Daughtry.
“The level of organization that we’re seeing in both of these camps, here and at Columbia, is evident from the leaflets on how to protest, how to commit civil disobedience, what to do when you get arrested, and what to say to the police when they question you,” he added.
The NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Counterterrorism and Intelligence is reportedly taking a proactive role in investigating these concerns.
“There is somebody funding this; there is somebody radicalizing our students. Our Deputy Commissioner of Counterterrorism and Intelligence will find out who it is,” Daughtry said.
According to Fox News, some of the groups involved in the protests are associated with far-left organizations backed by George Soros. These groups, including National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), have been accused of using anti-Israel rhetoric and promoting radical views.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that New York City Mayor Eric Adams has alleged that protests at Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY) were infiltrated by “outside agitators” affiliated with “terrorist groups.”
Adams asserted that the protests were “hijacked” by “outside agitators” with ties to “terrorist groups.” He cited intelligence reports identifying individuals with professional backgrounds and connections to terrorism among those arrested.
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This is Joe Biden’s America—a daily invasion of the border with no end in sight.
Per CBP, over 200 Chinese illegal aliens were apprehended at the San Diego sector of the southern border for two days in a row.
According to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, May 2nd reported 223 Chinese illegals, and May 1st reported 262.
To give perspective to these numbers, in those two days alone, the combined amount is more than all Chinese illegals that came into the US for fiscal year 2021. The Chinese government has been less than cooperative in receiving their citizens back upon deportation attempts.
NEW: Per CBP source, for the last two days in a row, Border Patrol’s San Diego sector apprehended 200+ Chinese nationals.
May 2nd – 223 Chinese
May 1st – 262 ChineseThat means more Chinese were caught crossing illegally in the last 2 days than in all of FY’21 (342).…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 3, 2024
Illegals coming in from China have been a problem for quite some time. In February, a Chinese illegal alien admitted, on camera, that he was here to “take the money.”
Watch:
NEW: This Chinese migrant tells me why he illegally crossed into the U.S. in Jacumba, CA – to “take the money” adding he wants a job @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/mFBKnRfWRp
— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) February 17, 2024
The border has remained intentionally open by the Biden regime. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has forsaken his responsibility under the US Constitution to protect the US from invasion.
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.” Article IV Section 4 of the United States Constitution.
In February, on “Meet the Press,” Secretary Mayorkas plainly stated that the Biden regime was not responsible for the border crisis.
“Do you bear responsibility for what is happening at the border?” Kristin Welker asked.
“We don’t bear responsibility for a broken system,” Mayorkas continued.
Watch:
WATCH: DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas says that DHS doesn’t “bear responsibility” for the “broken” immigration system.@SecMayorkas: “The system has not been fixed for 30 years. … Congress is the only one who can fix it.” pic.twitter.com/dzDH0GQPQW
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) February 11, 2024
The border policy has remained the same. As a result, an estimated 10 to 12 million illegal aliens have invaded the US under Biden’s open border.
That number is approximately equal to the population of 41 individual states.
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Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous black book, which has hundreds of associate contact information, is going up for auction.
The New York Post has reported that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s black book is going up for auction, and bidders who participate in the auction are being promised their identities will be held secret.
The book was discovered in the 1990s by a female musician in New York’s East Village, but how it got there remains a mystery.
It’s estimated the black book will rake in over $200,000.
The book contains 349 names in total, 221 of which were never listed in Epstein’s more famous and widely reported “little black book.”
Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘black book’ with 221 additional high-profile names is being sold to a secret bidder https://t.co/xrRDKrTfoJ pic.twitter.com/tvZOrNRrcA
— New York Post (@nypost) May 4, 2024
Per The New York Post:
A mysterious “black book” believed to belong to the late pedophile financier, which revealed the names and addresses of 221 previously undisclosed people, is going up for auction — and bidders are being assured that their identities will be kept secret.
It could fetch up to $200,000 — or more, the auction house owner told the Daily Beast, which first reported the story.
The book was reportedly found on Fifth Avenue in the East Village by a female musician in the 1990s, but how it came to be there remains unclear to this day.
What is clear is that the book names 349 people — 221 of whom were not named in a later, more famous “black book” that Epstein kept.
The book was the subject of an in-depth investigation by Business Insider in 2021.
Jeffrey Epstein’s “little black book” of contacts, which includes some of the world’s most powerful people, has been put up for auction
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) May 3, 2024
The auction will occur on May 15 and be held by Alexander Historical Auctions.
All bids in the auction will be sealed.
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James O’Keefe on Friday released a video of himself confronting CIA project manager Amjad Fseisi over statements he made about the CIA withholding information from President Trump.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released part one: Exposing the CIA: A project manager working in cyber operations told OMG’s undercover journalist that the Director of the CIA would keep information from Trump.
He also said the CIA spied on Trump’s presidency and is still monitoring him to this day.
“So the agencies kind of, like, all got together and said, we’re not gonna tell Trump…Director of the CIA would keep [information from Trump]…” Amjad Fseisi, a project manager working in Cyber Operations for the CIA with top-secret security clearance told an undercover journalist.
“We kept information from him… he’s the biggest f*cking idiot.”
Amjad Fseisi said Trump is a “Russian asset” – “He’s owned by the f*cking Russians,” he told the undercover journalist.
When O'Keefe played the undercover footage in front of him and asked, "That's you, is it not?" Fseisi responded, "It looks like me," but would not confirm that it was him. He further claimed that he never said what he's on camera saying!
Fseisi just denied everything, including his top secret security clearance, and claimed he is not privy to the information he previously shared and that it's all "unbeknownst to me."
Eventually, he walked away from O'Keefe until driving off in his car.
Watch below:
Full conversation with CIA Program Manager Amjad Fseisi who said the CIA withheld information from President Trump pic.twitter.com/e1RI0S60h1
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) May 4, 2024
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Disgraced former CNN anchor and vaccine pusher Chris Cuomo disclosed for the first time that he has been suffering from side effects he attributes to the COVID-19 vaccine.
While Cuomo did not specify the exact nature of his symptoms, he expressed concern about ongoing abnormalities in his and others’ health.
This admission came during an in-depth interview with nurse practitioner Sean Barcavage, who was also featured in a New York Times article discussing similar vaccine-related injuries.
Barcavage shared his alarming experience with vaccine side effects that began just minutes after receiving his first dose in 2020. Symptoms included heart palpitations upon standing, numbness, and persistent tingling that quickly spread from his arm to his face and eyes, which got worse after his second dose.
“We know that vaccines can have unintended consequences, a.k.a. side effects… But nobody’s really talking about it because they’re too afraid of blame, and they just want it to go away,” Cuomo said.
“But the problem is people like Sean and me and millions of others who still have weird stuff with their bloodwork and their lives and their feelings physically are not going away,” Cuomo added.
“As soon as I was injured—15, 20 minutes into my first dose—I experienced numbness and tingling up and down my injected arm, which spread over the day to my face and my eyes. I consulted a neurologist who ran some tests and remarked, ‘Well, this is all new. We don’t know much about it, but the hospital is going to mandate it. You should get a second dose.’ Everything in my medical mind and in my bones was telling me, ‘No, if you have a reaction to something, don’t do it again,'” Barcavage said.
“However, the pressure was immense. Then, three weeks later, I received a second dose, and after that, everything blew up. I went from being a healthy, 100% healthy, fully functioning nurse to a complete downward spiral of health. I developed a myriad of symptoms,” he added.
Barcavage expressed his disappointment with the lack of support from various health agencies and from vaccine manufacturers.
“I thought there would be people ready to help me after my injury,” he explained. “I reached out to political representatives, the NIH, the CDC, the FDA, but I received no answers. No one wanted to touch it.”
With medical professionals in the U.S. offering no assistance, Barcavage took his quest international, sending blood samples to Germany, where he found scientists willing to aid his investigation.
“I sent blood samples to Germany and connected with German scientists who were more willing to help than those in my own country. The tests showed I had developed several autoantibodies, some of which scientists believe are related to this positional tachycardia you mentioned, where my heart rate spikes every time I stand up.”
“My autoantibodies resemble those seen in people with long COVID, although I never contracted the virus. This was confirmed through immunological studies of my blood. They found no viral antibodies,” Barcavage said.
Barcavage expressed his expectation of support from his pro-vaccine colleagues, who he believed would assist him in his time of need. Instead, he encountered a starkly different reality.
“I thought my pro-vaccine colleagues who championed me would lift me up and help me. Instead, they turned around, dismissed, denied, and tried to censor and bury me,” Barcavage said.
His situation, he argues, is exacerbated by the political implications of vaccine side effects. “They’re afraid that by showing my face, I’ll drive vaccine hesitancy. But what they don’t realize, and what I have come to realize, is that the censorship and concealment are actually fueling vaccine hesitancy,” he added.
Barcavage critiqued the Biden regime’s handling of vaccine reactions, suggesting that a more transparent approach acknowledging the novel nature of vaccines and setting up dedicated support programs could have fostered public trust.
“If the government had just said, ‘Hey, these are novel vaccines. There will be reactions. Let’s set up a program to handle them, establish a fund, and oblige the manufacturers to provide help or research,’ I think the citizens would have appreciated that.”
Barcavage, along with many Americans, experienced censorship on major social platforms, where his posts were often tagged as misinformation. “When I tried to reach out online, platforms like Facebook and Instagram would tag my messages as misinformation. Yes, that’s right. I’m just a desperate person to whom something bad happened, and I’m reaching out and pleading for help,” he said.
Cuomo, who was part of the censorship regime, admitted to Barcavage that he also suffering from side effects he attributes to the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Sean, I can’t help you because I’m no clinician. I’m sick myself. But I’m working with people who are working on this, so I’ll make sure that we’re in touch right after the show, and I’ll help any way I can. You may be ahead of me. I’ll connect you with my clinicians, and maybe you can share different protocols and things that may help. But I will never stop reporting on this. All I’m doing is just beating the drum for a 9/11-style commission to figure out what worked and what didn’t and what questions need to be answered because it’s not over,” Cuomo said.
Must Watch: Chris Cuomo interviews Nurse Practitioner, Sean Barcavage, who was featured in the NYT article today about vaccine injuries.
During the interview Cuomo offers to share his doctors’ info with him since he is also suffering from a vaccine injury as well. pic.twitter.com/xOeble3Y3I
— TeasLindsay
The irony and karma here are incredible. The New York Times and Chris Cuomo, who finds himself among those affected, are now acknowledging and reporting issues many have voiced concerns about for the past three years.
It can be recalled Chris Cuomo mocked and insulted anyone who refused to take the experimental vaccine.
In 2021, Chris Cuomo and Republican Texas state Rep. Michael Burgess engaged in a heated debate over the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy that is prevalent among some members of the GOP and conservative media.
“You’re OK with this kind of jackassery that has absolutely led to a deficiency among Republican people in this country taking the vaccine, and now they’re getting sick? And now we’re seeing what we see at the hospitals. And now the age is reducing and the variant is spreading. You’re OK with this?” Cuomo asked.
“The people showing up at the hospital who are very sick are, almost without exception, unvaccinated. The people who are dying, 99 percent, are unvaccinated. You have people who are connected to your political party that you are not speaking out against who are telling people not to take it. You’re OK with that?” he added.
Burgess responded, “Don’t listen to people on political talking shows. That’s not where you should get your medical information.” When Cuomo queried about the stance of GOP members of Congress who discourage vaccination, Burgess firmly stated, “I’m telling you to take it, so buy that. What about people who say otherwise? Well, they’re wrong. Take the vaccine if you’re in the age group where you could be devastated by the illness.”
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The radical anti-Israel protests happening on college campuses across the country have been brutal for the Biden Regime.
Joe Scarborough recently shared his fear that these displays are going to help elect President Trump. He even called the progressives in his audience who don’t see the impact this is having on the electorate ‘stupid.’
James Carville cursed at young voters, saying, “If they get ahold, there will be no government left, no rights left, you will live under a theocracy, you’ll end up with Christian Nationalism. But that’s all right you little f’ing 26-year-old, you don’t feel like the election is important.”
Leftists have a reason to be concerned.
In an interview with Sky News, a student at UCLA, shared that while he had been intending to vote for Joe Biden only a few weeks ago, he now said he is “certainly not’ voting for him now.
He added that he believes very few people in the encampment are going to vote for Joe Biden in November.
UCLA was the scene of violent clashes on campus on Tuesday night between protesters.
Interviewer: If I was to ask you two weeks ago before this encampment was formed, before you were part of this, if I was to ask you two weeks ago, who would you vote for in November, what would you have told me?
Student: Joe Biden.
Interviewer: And what do you say now?
Student: Now, I’m certainly not voting for Joe Biden.
I’ll probably vote for either Jill Stein or Cornel West. He was part of the People’s Party, and then he left the People’s Party. Jill Stein is part of the Green Party.
I think very few people in the encampment are going to vote for Joe Biden in November. I think beforehand, and maybe before October seventh, this consensus among the progressive left was generally, Joe Biden is the lesser of two evils. He is a, he’s neoliberal. He’s not very progressive, but he’s the best that we can get.
Since October 7, and especially since over the past couple of days, what has become abundantly clear is that he does not actually care about his base.
He does not actually care about the people of Gaza or the people of the West Bank. And so even just checking that box next to Joe Biden’s name, it’s too much to ask of anybody, even if the alternative is worse. I think the best that we can hope for is that somebody who actually cares who cares about humanity, who actually cares about… Honestly, somebody who actually cares about the American people as well is actually elected to office.
Watch:
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On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that even though the University of Chicago has been “pretty tame here compared to a lot of the other places” things are bad enough there the school is sending
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Oregon's Portland State University (PSU) library has shut down after anti-Israel protesters occupied the building and damaged it.
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President Joe Biden's seemingly unassailable "blue wall" appears to be crumbling in the wake of former President Donald Trump's greatest political comeback in history.
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The most significant antitrust trial in 25 years is drawing to a close in Washington, with Google making its final stand against the DOJ's efforts to break the tech giant's death grip on online search.
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Imagine how it must feel to be a young Jewish student who is forced to walk through these protesters, many of whom are fellow students they sit next to in class, as they spew hatred for Jews and call for the extermination of the Jewish state of Israel.
Over 15% of the undergrad population at the far-left University of Michigan is Jewish. The two largest donors to the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross and Ron Weiser are Jewish. So what did the University of Michigan do to protect their students, most of whom didn’t have a graduation ceremony because of ridiculous COVID lockdowns, and their families, many of whom traveled from other states, to ensure they all could enjoy a peaceful and celebratory atmosphere for their graduation ceremony today?
Unfortunately, not enough…
Last night, as they prepared to destroy the graduation experience for tens of thousands of students at the “Ivy of the Midwest,” pro-Palestine/Hamas protesters were seen hoisting a MI State Police bike into the air as they surrounded the police officers trying to keep the unruly mob under control. An Al Jazeera-affiliated Twitter account did what Palestinian/Hamas propagandists do best: they turned police trying to get the angry mob under control into a lie created to evoke emotions and gain sympathy for their “Hate America” and “Hate Jews” movement that’s sweeping across colleges and universities.
“American police assaulted pro-Gaza demonstrators in front of the University of Michigan Art Museum, protesters were arrested outside the art museum on the campus of the University of Michigan.
الشرطة الأمريكية تعتدي على متظاهرين مناصرين لغزة أمام متحف جامعة ميشيغان للفنون#حرب_غزة #فيديو pic.twitter.com/Jyq9XNMh8H
— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) May 4, 2024
As graduates of the University of Michigan and their families entered the stadium where their commencement ceremony would be held, a banner attached to a plane was flying overhead that read:
“We stand with Israel—Jewish Lives Matter.”
It didn’t take long for the selfish and disrespectful pro-Palestine/Hamas protesters, who’ve been making Jewish students afraid to walk through campus since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, to disrupt the ceremony for tens of thousands of students. The pro-Palestine/Hamas mob, many of whom wore masks over their faces, attempted, once again, to become the center of attention and ruin the day for so many young adults who have worked incredibly hard to get to this special day of recognition.
A guest inside the ceremony has reported that sharp-shooters could be seen posted at all four corners of the commencement ceremony. A top U of M official told the Gateway Pundit that plans for a large presence of law enforcement would be on hand, including those who would be obvious, like the MI State Police, and others who would be not-so-obvious.
Graduates at the University of Michigan demonstrate for Palestine at the commencement ceremony in Ann Arbor today.
Today, during what was a first-time graduation for thousands of U of M students, pro-Palestine/Hamas protesters gathered in the center of the main floor with Palestinian flags and began marching and chanting
BREAKING: Palestinian flags flying high during the University of Michigan’s commencement ceremony in Ann Arbor, MI, today.
— sarah (@sahouraxo) May 4, 2024
“Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.”
— Adam Y. Abusalah (@adam_abusalah) May 4, 2024
Students standing nearby can be heard drowning out the protesters by shouting, “Shut the f**k up–Shut the f**k up!”
as pro-Palestine/Hamas protesters threatened everyone in the stadium by shouting, “We will not stop—we will not rest!”
Watch:
The pro-terror mob is currently ruining graduation day at @UMich pic.twitter.com/IG49Dbpo1i
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 4, 2024
As Palestine/Hamas supporters were being removed from the commencement ceremony by law enforcement, U of M students could be heard chanting, “USA! USA! USA!” and “Get them out of here!”
#UofM students chant “USA! USA! USA!” and “Get them out of here!” as pro-Palestine/Hamas protesters are removed from commencement ceremony today. pic.twitter.com/v96cztYPdy
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) May 4, 2024
The Gateway Pundit wrote an extensive piece on the unrest and hatred that is being fomented on college campuses across America by these leftist anti-Jew and anti-American protesters as students spend their final months, weeks, days, and even hours at a place they’ve called home for 4 or more years.
The University of Michigan heralded as the Ivy of the Midwest, is among the largest and most prestigious public universities to have effectively ceded control of its campus to an increasingly menacing mob. Demonstrators there, as at Columbia, NYU and other colleges, have set up a tent encampment on the Diag, the central intersection of the Ann Arbor campus.
Expanding the encampment at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor!
Sound on! #GazaSolidarityEncampment #UniversityofMichigan#FreePalestine— Free Palestine (@WildernessWypt) April 29, 2024
A “surveillance network” that exposes antisemitism on social media shared images of propaganda that are reportedly being shared on the campus of the Univerisity of Michigan:
NOW: “Death to America”
Startling pamphlets distributed at the University of Michigan @UMich equate “Free Palestine” with calls for American genocide.
LIKE & REPOST to EXPOSE their true intentions.
FOLLOW… pic.twitter.com/H6w3jzFjHV
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) April 22, 2024
Only last month, following a blanket death threat to Israel-supporting students on campus and the defacement of the local Hillel chapter with swastikas, protestors disrupted and shut down the spring Honors convocation ceremony. Now facing rising tensions on campus and trying to head off the cancellation of the May 4 commencement in its iconic Big House stadium, UM just released its commencement policy:
“The University of Michigan does not attempt to prevent peaceful protests or other speech protected under the First Amendment. Many ceremonies will have a designated area for protests outside the venue.
Our goal is to limit substantial disruption, ensure safety, and support a successful and celebratory event worthy of the achievements of our extraordinary graduates.”
After an initial wave of disruptive demonstrations and subsequent abrupt termination of the honors convocation, the UM administration disclosed that it was considering a “disruptive activity” policy that provided for the suspension and expulsion of students, which was found to violate the policy. UM’s leadership has yet to move forward with implementing any visible, substantive changes.
“We all must understand that, while protest is valued and protected, disruptions are not,” UM President Santo Ono wrote in a letter to the community following the shutdown of the honors convocation. “One group’s right to protest does not supersede the right of others to participate in a joyous event.”
“It was painful for everyone who had gathered, and especially so for members of our Jewish community,” Ono added.
There is no doubt a growing climate of fear for Jewish students on campus. Many news accounts have detailed the intimidation, harassment, and violent rhetoric spiraling out of control at UM. Just this year alone, two federal complaints have been filed against UM for violating the civil rights of Jewish students under Title VI protections. The Anti-Defamation League gave the university a failing grade for its unwillingness to enforce policy safeguarding the security and well-being of Jewish students on campus and in the classroom.
No Arrests For Hateful Hamamy…
Salma Hamamy, a senior and president of SAFE (Students Allied for Freedom & Equality, an offshoot of SJP – Students for Justice in Palestine) posted on her Instagram (which has since been deleted), “Until my last breath, I will utter death to every single individual who supports the Zionist State, Death and more. Death and worse.”
Hamamy appears to have deleted her post, but a post showing her leading students in a chant demanding the University of Michigan divest from Israel can be seen here, as the students shout at President Santa Ono:
According to a top official at U of M, Salma Hamamy has not been investigated for hate crimes by the FBI. The university has not revoked the radical student’s Martin Luther King award, and she is still enrolled as a student at U of M. To date, Ms. Hamamy has not been arrested for hate speech.
“Ono, Ono, you can’t hide! You are funding genocide!” the protesters chant as they fill the hallways of a University of Michigan building.
The University of Michigan website addressed the graduation ceremony, claiming it would respect the right of free speech for peaceful protesters.
Commencement ceremonies have been the site of free expression and peaceful protest for decades and will likely continue to be. The University of Michigan does not attempt to prevent peaceful protests or other speech protected under the First Amendment. Many ceremonies will have a designated area for protests outside the venue.
Our goal is to limit substantial disruption, ensure safety, and support a successful and celebratory event worthy of the achievements of our extraordinary graduates.
Commencement for schools, colleges, departments, and cultural celebrations will include:
Security screening
Required ticket or registration at the vast majority of events
Prohibition of banners, flags and anything that obstructs sightlines
Staffers who will respond to disruptions, beginning with warnings and requests to respect the importance of the celebrations for our graduates and their families
Please remember: U-M is committed to free speech and freedom of expression. Deans and directors will generally be patient with lawful disruptions. If protests significantly impede the program, leadership will take steps to de-escalate and address the interruption.
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Think about Haiti for a second.
A situation as dysfunctional as they have, with this extreme poverty and rampant violence, does not happen overnight – on the contrary, it is a work of decades.
And while the heavily armed rebel gangs are in the spotlight for their unrelenting attacks, the extreme societal collapse was caused by the utterly corrupt political elites.
The last elected leader in Haiti was President Jovenel Moïse, who was assassinated on 7 July 2021 in the capital Port-au-Prince.
Since then, unelected Prime Minister Ariel Henry extended his ‘transitional powers’ until the wave of gang attacks was unleashed while he was abroad and was unable to return.
While the situation on the ground deteriorated, elegant leaders negotiated a political solution from outside the country at the regional CARICOM community.
Their political solutions do not take into consideration the reality on the ground, and also, as they try to implement it, is impossible not to recognize how the various unelected elite players jockeying for political power are very much part of the problem.
In the words of the former police officer and current gang rebel leader Jimmy Chérizier, a.k.a. Barbecue: “It’s not just people with guns who’ve damaged the country but the politicians too.”
Gangs exchanged gunfire with police for hours in neighborhoods near the main international airport.
Associated Press reported:
“An armored police truck patrolled the streets, rolling past charred vehicles and cinderblock walls where someone had scrawled ‘Viv Barbecue’, a reference in Haitian Creole to one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders.
[…] [Chérizier] and other gang leaders have been blamed for coordinated attacks that began on Feb. 29 across the capital, Port-au-Prince. Gunmen have burned police stations, opened fire on the main international airport and stormed Haiti’s two biggest prisons, releasing more than 4,000 inmates.
The attacks eventually forced Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign and led to the creation of a transitional presidential council whose majority unexpectedly announced a new prime minister on Tuesday: Fritz Bélizaire, a former sports minister. The move is threatening to fracture the nine-member council, which was sworn in last week.”
Yes, you read it right. Just one week after the unelected transitional council was installed, they are already at each others’ throats.
Haitian citizens demand a return to normalcy, while rebel gangs are still more powerful and better armed than Haiti’s National Police, but are not included in any negotiations.
Fox News reported:
“A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti’s new prime minister is threatening to fracture a recently installed transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for the gang-riddled Caribbean country.
Four of seven council members with voting powers said Tuesday that they had chosen Fritz Bélizaire as prime minister, taking many Haitians aback with their declaration and unexpected political alliance.
The council members who oppose Bélizaire, who served as Haiti’s sports minister during the second presidency of René Préval from 2006 to 2011, are now weighing options including fighting the decision or resigning from the council.”
Some council members are reportedly considering other choices as potential prime minister.
The council was scheduled to hold an election and choose its president. But not only a council president was chosen, but a new prime minister as well.
“A document shared with The Associated Press and signed by the four council members who chose the new prime minister state they have agreed to make decisions by consensus. The document is titled, ‘Constitution of an Indissoluble Majority Bloc within the Presidential Council’.”
The council must prepare for eventual general elections, but most of the council members are longtime politicians, and multiple analysts point out that some of the parties represented on the council are the same ones responsible for the current chaos in Haiti.
Michael Deibert, author: “The council is dominated by the same political currents who have spent the last 25 years driving Haiti over a cliff, taking advantage of impoverished young men in the slums to be used as political bludgeons before – bloated on the proceeds from kidnapping, extortion, drug trafficking and other criminal enterprises – these groups outgrew the necessity of their patrons.”
Read more:
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A new report suggests that risk of getting COVID rises with each shot an individual takes, according to a new study.
The report comes from an analysis of data from Cleveland Clinic that found people who received two or more doses were at higher risk of COVID-19 based on a comparison was against “people who received zero or one dose of a vaccine.”
The researchers said in the paper, “The exact reason for this finding is not clear. It is possible that this may be related to the fact that vaccine-induced immunity is weaker and less durable than natural immunity. So, although somewhat protective in the short term, vaccination may increase the risk of future infection.”
The risk of contracting COVID-19 was 1.5 times higher for those who received two doses, 1.95 times higher for those who received three doses, and 2.5 times higher for those who received more than three doses, the researchers found. The higher risk was compared to people who received zero or one dose of a vaccine.
The work of Dr. Naabin Shrestha and others was used in the report and found, “The risk of contracting COVID-19 was 1.5 times higher for those who received two doses, 1.95 times higher for those who received three doses, and 2.5 times higher for those who received three or more doses.”
Even after adjusting for variables, the elevated risk remained.
“The exact reason for this finding is not clear. It is possible that this may be related to the fact that vaccine-induced immunity is weaker and less durable than natural immunity. So, although somewhat protective in the short term, vaccination may increase risk of future infection,” the researchers said in the paper, which was released as a preprint.
The latest study comes after the news that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials found evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines caused multiple deaths before claiming that there was no evidence linking the vaccines to any deaths.
According to the documents obtained by The Epoch Times, CDC employees conducted investigations into reported post-vaccination deaths, particularly focusing on cases involving myocarditis, a known side effect of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
“COVID misinformation.” “Conspiracy theories,” they said.
#13 – Repeated COVID shots weaken the immune system
#12 – Ivermectin worked!
#11 – The unvaccinated were scapegoated for failure of COVID vaccines
#10 – Mask wearers paradoxically had an increased risk of contracting… pic.twitter.com/tbobqY5Hcm
— Dr David Cartland (@CartlandDavid) May 2, 2024
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ZPMC is the largest manufacturer of cranes in the world. Its assembly yard is a vast facility on Changxing Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in Shanghai. The massive yard has ample layout space to fabricate and assemble the iconic container cranes seen at ports around the world. Typically, the cranes are shipped assembled, and the ZPMC yard has a large wharf to load them onto specially designed, heavy-lift ships and then deliver them all over the world.
The ZPMC cranes are replete with similar cameras that analysts in China could use to count and examine shipments. Signals could also be sent to the cranes to make them potentially unsafe or inoperable.
In the new guidance, the Coast Guard “will have the express authority to respond to malicious cyber activity in the nation’s MTS [Marine Transportation System] by requiring vessels and waterfront facilities to mitigate cyber conditions that may endanger the safety of a vessel, facility, or harbor.”
In May 2023, the first reports of a Chinese cyberattack on critical infrastructure were made public by Microsoft, which said in a statement that the “Volt Typhoon campaign is pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises.”
The DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) made initial comments, and then a quiet time ensued—most likely because the U.S. government was convening working groups to study, assess, and make recommendations.
Starting in December 2023, the public comments of CISA Director Jen Easterly, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and the new Cyber Command/National Security Agency Director General Timothy Haugh began to reveal the outcome of this analysis period, and the officials were ready to share the findings in a loud, vocal, and unequivocal manner in multiple appearances before Congress and in public statements.
Mr. Wray was more precise when he said, “It’s difficult to know the intent of the preparation, but it was aligned with China’s broader goal to stop the United States from defending Taiwan.”
The removal of Chinese “spy cranes” and the fortification of American ports have led the Chinese to surge Volt Typhoon to ensure that they have diversity in all possible aspects of U.S. critical infrastructure.
All viewpoints are personal and do not reflect the viewpoints of any organization.
This article first appeared in Epoch Times and was reprinted with permission.
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The well-known Source magazine founder and rapper Benzino, who also appeared on VH1’s Love and Hip Hop, believes R. Kelly has been mistreated after being sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2022 for sex trafficking minors.
On Wednesday, the media mogul spoke about redemption in relation to black male artists who have sexual relations with girls under the age of consent during an appearance on the We In Miami podcast.
Benzino says R. Kelly deserves a second chance: “The legal age is 16 but he’s doing all this time because they’re two years younger” pic.twitter.com/dPGIlNGJHg
— SAY CHEESE! (@SaycheeseDGTL) May 1, 2024
“Everybody deserves a second chance,” he said when asked about the Chicago native. “The legal age is 16 years old, so does that make it right if a n-gga does it, yes or no?”
When the women around the table all collectively agreed that it’s still wrong, he continued: “Alright, but it’s legal in America, so why the fuck is R. Kelly doing all this time? Because you know why? Because they’re 14 and 13 — two years younger — but you don’t think that the people who cleared it for 16 years old didn’t know that they’re fucking with 13s and 14s, too.
“Like even to make [an] age that young to be the law, you already know they’re going under that. I’m not condoning n-ggas fucking with little girls — it’s sick, alright, it’s sick, it’s sick — but I don’t think R. Kelly should rot in jail for 30 years either.”
WHAT THE NECK?! | Benzino says says he believes R. Kelly deserves a second chance:
“Everybody deserves second chances.” pic.twitter.com/PNiUPcKY44
— KenBarbie
Side Note: For many years, I have talked about how hip-hop and gang culture prey on teenage boys and girls. This industry sees a broken human and exploits that wound by dangling a carrot of “getting out of the hood” when it’s really a door to glorified sex work and pornography.
The 58-year-old added: “What about R. Kelly getting molested when he was a kid? They didn’t take [that into] consideration […] They exploited him and made all these documentaries that all these people made money off of.
“Them parents of them girls knew what they were dealing with, with R. Kelly — a lot of people knew that shit, y’know what I’m saying? — but R. Kelly wasn’t educated, man. Like when does that come in play?
See what I mean?
Additionally, Boosie Badazz, another well-known, established black male rapper, was upset over Kelly’s three-decade sentence. Though he conceded the R&B veteran did wrong and deserves time in jail, the Baton Rouge rapper also argued his crimes did not warrant such a lengthy sentence.
Boosie Badazz is most known for his affiliation with Lil Wayne’s record label, Cash Money Records, which is owned and operated by Birdman.
“People getting 15/20 years for murder n he get 30!!” he tweeted. “Yes he was wrong af for manipulating young girls n sexing them but he didn’t kill anyone,aggravated rape anyone .N no blame on the parents who knew everything. Resentence this man!! College professors get probation for this shit.
“Get this man some help n some jail time but don’t give him a death sentence ,30 years !!Maybe he can one get out one day n warn these young girls about older predators n make a difference ?but 30 years like Come on world!!”
He even pointed the finger at the parents of Kelly’s victims, posting a screenshot of a court document that alleged one of the underage girls’ mother “engineered [her] relationship” with the singer and “actively misled [him] about her age.”
It’s rather interesting right before an election, two extremely prominent hip-hop figures have come out in support of sexual misconduct with minors.
Could someone have paid the owner of Source Magazine to randomly come out and say he thinks sex with minors is not that bad? His daughter has now disowned him over his statements.
I am asking these questions because with all the Diddy news coming out, you would think black men in the hip-hop industry would be walking a fine line and not want to appear to sympathize with sex trafficking.
FREE RKELLY pic.twitter.com/WQoSI7eNCV
— Boosie BadAzz (@BOOSIEOFFICIAL) April 26, 2024
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Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O’Leary, joined Fox & Friends Weekend and shared bad news for the terrorist apologist protestors throwing tantrums on college campuses across the nation.
He warned that high-tech AI is capturing everyone, and their behavior will “come back to haunt you.”
Pete Hegseth: Anarchy on college campuses continuing through the weekend with student activists pushing their pro-Hamas sentiments. And now, Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary is sounding off with a word of caution for those agitators. O’Leary warning that student protesters are’ trashing their job chances,’ adding them when it comes to their futures, ‘they are screwed.’ Shark Tank investor and O’Leary Ventures’ chair, Kevin O’Leary, is here with us now.
Kevin, thanks for being here. Why are they screwed? Is it because a lot of them are wearing masks, they’re trying to hide their identity. Do you think that’ll work?
Kevin O’Leary: It used to work back in the ’60s and ’70s because it was only recorded on 16-millimeter film. Today, all of this video security cameras are at a 1080p and 4K resolution. Extremely high resolution that allows you to use AI protocols to identify people by the iris or just a partial exposure of the face.
Do you ever wonder how they captured every single person that marched on the hill in the insurgents? Now, whether they were arrested or not didn’t matter, but every single individual on that hill eventually was identified using this AI technology today, it’s very available. It’s inexpensive.
And I use it as an employer every time we have a candidate in the executive suite. We do a deep dive and we find out where you came… We’re looking for what you say on your resume matching your reality of your life.
Obviously, I don’t care what side you’re on in the protest, but if you’re fighting police, burning flags, wrecking properties, breaking in, breaking through windows, I’m going to know that. And so is the government, so is everybody else. So think about that. That’s all I’m telling these young people.
Think about it because it’s not free.
Pete Hegseth:Do you think they’re thinking about it or do they think this will pay off? I mean, everything in their incentive structure, Kevin, in academia says become an activist, agitate. That’s what their universities are telling them to do. Wouldn’t they want their best opportunities in mind?
Kevin O’Leary: Well, universities and the concept of tenor for professors is allowing people with different thoughts and ideas to flourish. That’s what our institutions are all about. But I’m just going back to a simple fact. When you break the law of the land, you become a criminal.
If you think by putting a mask on or wearing sunglasses is going to protect you, it doesn’t. That’s all I’m telling you. I think when you’re in your 20s, you’re very passionate, and Everybody get that and everybody goes through that process. But think about it. Think about what happens next. In 10 years, why didn’t you get that job? Why didn’t you get on that board? Why can’t you get a loan?
I’m telling you why right now, because I saw you do it, and you lied to me on your resume that you never broke the law. Well, you did. Whether you get caught or not doesn’t matter to me as an employer. That’s why you should really think this through. I teach this in colleges now. The world has changed because we have AI and we’ve got high-resolution imagery, and it’s being captured every day, and it goes on the dark web within 48 hours. I can see it anytime I want.
Watch:
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A horrifying video has emerged showing a large transgender (biological male) student attacking a smaller and weaker girl in a New York high school women’s restroom, which resulted in a bomb threat being sent to the institution after the clip was discovered online.
While the assault at Greece Arcadia High School in Rochester reportedly took place in February, it was only uncovered on Thursday by the feminist website Reduxx. The outlet also noted the school refused to share any details regarding the awful beating.
The clip captured by Reduxx shows the transgender teen storming into a restroom stall and laying a beatdown on the innocent girl while other students record the assault on their cell phones.
The trans student then grabs the helpless girl by her hair and violently drags her out along the floor and into the hallway. The victim can be heard screaming in terror.
The transgender teen lands several more punches on his victim before a school staff member finally arrives to help break up the one-sided fight. Another person then picks the girl up and carries her away.
WATCH:
A girl was reportedly assaulted in the female restroom at Arcadia High School in Rochester, New York.
According to another student at the school, the attacker is a boy who identifies as a girl. He was allegedly retaliating for perceived insults.
Reduxx reached out to Greece… pic.twitter.com/f7Mt0AZfT6
— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) May 2, 2024
WXXI News reported the school received an “anti-transgender” bomb threat loaded with profanity just after 6 a.m. on Friday, the day after the video went viral.
According to WHEC, the threat message accused Greece Arcadia High School of failing to ensure a safe learning environment. It also claimed the district was encouraging “mentally ill” and “degenerate” behavior in students, explicitly referencing the brawl.
School officials evacuated both Greece Arcadia High and Middle schools following the threat. Classes were delayed from opening for two hours as police investigated the bomb threat.
Superintendent Kathleen Graupman called the bomb threat a hate crime and claimed outside forces were using the brutal assault to advance an agenda.
“It is clear that this is being used for an agenda, whether it’s a personal or political agenda, it is being used. That fight that occurred was significant and very, very upsetting and disturbing, and also, I want to be very clear: it involved minors, and it involved minors that deserve respect and privacy. We don’t get to share videos and names and peoples’ personal identities out there,” Graupman said.
As WHEC notes, Graupman went on to say the school district is helping authorities find and prosecute the individual or individuals who sent the bomb threat.
There is no word on whether the vicious attack on the innocent girl by the transgender student will be investigated and prosecuted, however.
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A Texas dairy farmer suffered the first reported case of bird flu transmitted to humans from farm animals.
The man developed pink eye but no respiratory symptoms.
Dairy worker with bird flu developed pinkeye but no respiratory symptoms
A Texas dairy worker who caught bird flu from a sick cow did not have any usual symptoms but did have a bad case of pinkeye, causing concerns that the virus could mutate as it spreads from animals to humans.… pic.twitter.com/SVtzSrJwmV— Camus (@newstart_2024) May 4, 2024
The Mirror reported:
The first image of a Texas dairy farmer who caught bird flu from a cow – with his eyeballs seen bleeding.
Thankfully, the man had “very mild” symptoms after contracting HSN1 virus, but the stark image shows how the virus caused bleeding on the surface of his eyeballs. This is because the blood vessels in his eyes popped.
Experts at the CDC say that they think he caught the virus from an infected cow in March. In an official case report, published on Friday, the CDC said that they found “strong evidence” through genetic data that pointed them to this conclusion.
This revelation shows the first sign of HSN1 virus spreading from mammals to humans. The World Health Organisation said that this is a “milestone” that is of “enormous concern.” The images of the patient, plus further details about his case, were published in a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
So far, nearly 900 people in 23 countries have been infected with the H5N1 strain of avian flu over the last 20 years. However, they were all linked to wild or kept birds.
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Have you EVER seen a presidential poll worth its salt with this large of a gap between candidates?
Rasmussen reported this morning – President Trump’s 12 point lead over Joe Biden may be TOO BIG TO RIG!
With a 12-point lead, is Trump’s impending victory now “too big to rig?”
We explore it in detail.
Plus Biden loses the youth vote and the @BLS_gov is probably lying about unemployment.
Here:https://t.co/w29CxPxnth pic.twitter.com/wXkYmmeJ79
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) May 3, 2024
Mark Mitchell, the head pollster at Rasmussen Reports, released the following video to go with this thermonuclear poll.
Mark Mitchell: Today we’re going to be covering this month’s new Thermonuclear 2024 presidential election result. And those results show Donald Trump increasing his lead to almost insurmountable numbers. But if your name is Joseph Robinette Biden or you’re one of his supporters, there’s news for you in here, too. Unfortunately, it’s not good. Joe Biden has the lowest support he’s ever had amongst 18 to 39-year-old voters. And that’s really big news since they usually vote left…
…If you look at Democrats, only 70 % of Democrats say that they would vote Joe Biden today, and That’s 10 points less than the Republicans who would vote Trump. And 16 % of Democrats say they would vote for Donald Trump. So that adds up to a 16 point crossover advantage for Donald Trump, which is stunningly large. But check out that independent line… Joe Biden is only getting 26% of independents. That’s an 18 point lead for Trump, which is quite a bit bigger than we’ve seen in our recent polling…
…Joe Biden is losing by two points among 18 to 39-year-olds. Now, a good portion of them are going Kennedy, and Trump only has 36 % of the vote. But that 34 % number from Biden is the lowest he’s had this cycle. And again, 18 to 39-year-olds are usually all in for Democrats.
Watch the video here.
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On Wednesday morning, The Gateway Pundit reported on the heroic University of North Carolina fraternity brothers who protected a fallen American flag from a pro-Hamas mob despite a violent onslaught from the radicals.
Their patriotic actions inspired Americans across the country.
A GoFundMe was started with the modest goal of throwing these young men an ‘epic rager.’
But their actions resonated so profoundly with their fellow Americans that that goal was epically surpassed. The fundraiser raised more than $500,000 in 24 hours.
Country music legend John Rich announced his plans to join the brothers for the upcoming party dubbed ‘Flagstock.’
Rich shared, “I just wanted to give you a little update on the free concert offer I made to the folks at UNC, to those students for their bravery and their patriotism by not allowing our United States flag to hit the ground.”
“They stood there while they were being hit with bottles, and rocks, and sticks, and they just stood there. They did not let Old Glory touch the ground.”
“So we are going to find a date to do this show, we are calling it ‘Flagstock.’ I’ll keep you posted.”
Watch:
I have an update on the concert I offered to the frat boys at UNC! VOLUME UP! #FlagStock pic.twitter.com/Qr7dbKVbrb
— John Rich (@johnrich) May 2, 2024
An update on the GoFundMe page shares, “We have been overwhelmed by the sheer force of patriotism on display here. What started as a modest request to buy a few kegs for some great young guys has ballooned into an American cultural moment, with millions of people paying attention: blue and red, left and right, all of the above.”
“First, people should understand that we organized this fundraiser independently. That has been misreported by certain press outlets. We aren’t brothers ourselves: just Americans who admire young people like the men of UNC fraternities — members from at least eight different houses, by our count, many of whom we’ve now met.”
The organizer also shared that funds will be distributed to multiple fraternities involved in protecting Old Glory from protestors to support charitable causes “that are consistent with the fundraiser’s patriotic theme.”
The willingness of these young men to stand up to the destructive forces has been echoed on college campuses across the country.
Thursday afternoon at Ole Miss, HUNDREDS of male students gathered at the Pro-Hamas camp and began singing the National Anthem.
Pro-America students at LSU drowned out pro-Hamas protesters with chants of “USA! USA!”
Even students in liberal New Jersey at Rutgers University have had enough of the terrorist apologists as students countered the anti-Israel agitators on campus and waved the American flag, chanting, ‘USA! USA!’
In a twist no one was expecting, patriots rallied at the liberal hotbed of The University of Chicago.
Patriots rallied at the University of Chicago. pic.twitter.com/PLq7rSNVxT
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 3, 2024
Students at GWU, where a statue of George Washington was covered by a Palestinian terrorist rag and flag, unfurled a massive American flag right in the faces of the protestors.
Three GWU students unfurl massive American flag.
The Hamas student leaders are not pleased.
Video from @BorderHawkNewspic.twitter.com/CiABI9MEp8
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 4, 2024
At a time when it is easy to despair about the younger generation, there is also much to be hopeful of.
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Due to the Biden administration’s significant funding boost, the Internal Revenue Service plans to dramatically increase audit procedures for big corporations, partnerships, and multimillionaires over the next three years.
In a recent press release, the IRS said it aims to nearly triple its audit rate to 22.6% for corporations with upwards of $250 million worth of assets in the 2026 tax year.
Audits in 2019 were 8.8%, a steep decrease over the 9.0% in 2018.
For complex partnerships with assets topping $10 million, the IRS said it intends to increase audit rates nearly 10-fold, to 1% in tax year 2026 — up from 0.1% in 2019.
The IRS also said it is targeting a 50% increase in audit rates for individuals with a total positive annual income exceeding $10 million.
By the 2026 tax year, 16.5% of these wealthy individuals will be subject to an audit — up from 11% in 2019.
Why did I leave the IRS? In 2017, they took away my stack of rich person audits and gave me a stack of poor people audits. I couldn’t stomach auditing poor people. My health collapsed. I tried to keep going, but finally after weekly hospital visits I quit. #taxtwitter
— Howard Knudsen CPA (@howard_knudsen) May 3, 2024
In a blatant display of leftist pandering, the IRS has shamelessly revealed that it won’t dare to hike up audit rates for hardworking individuals and small businesses making under $400,000. While it sounds nice, this plan fits right in with President Biden’s socialist agenda of coddling the masses and punishing achievement. It’s just another step towards the destruction of our economy and the disintegration of Christian values.
As the owner of a #SmallBiz, you understand the importance of getting things right for your employees. #IRS changes made under the SECURE 2.0 Act may affect the amounts you need to report on your Forms W-2. For details: https://t.co/0p1uW7P4cx
— IRSnews (@IRSnews) May 2, 2024
The federal agency was bolstered by $80 billion in new funding directed by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which Biden signed into law in 2022.
When the IRS conducts an audit, individuals or heads of businesses must meet with an auditor, who then reviews that a federal tax return was filed correctly. The official may ask for additional documentation to support the claims like reductions and credits cited in the return.
If there’s discrepancies, consequences can include tax evasion charges, which carry a civil fraud penalty of 75% of the understated tax and in the worst cases, the possibility of jail time.
The forthcoming changes were outlined as part of the IRS’s update on its so-called “strategic operating plan” in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, which vowed to modernize the IRS’s antiquated computer systems, improve taxpayer services and ramp up enforcement to close the “tax gap” between taxes owed and those collected.
According to the IRS, a total of $7.25 billion will be spent from these funds in fiscal 2024, up from $3.4 billion last year.
“The changes outlined in this report are a stark contrast to the years of under-funding that deteriorated taxpayer service and tax enforcement, frustrating taxpayers, the tax community and IRS employees alike,” IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a statement.
With Inflation Reduction Act funds, the IRS hired 13,661 employees in fiscal 2023, including 10,518 taxpayer services employees and 495 enforcement personnel.
The number of hires is expected to increase to 16,314 in fiscal 2024, including 4,088 enforcement personnel.
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London’s leftist Mayor Sadiq Khan has won a third term in office, according to exit polls.
Khan, who is known for his ties to Islamism and far-left rhetoric, defeated his Conservative rival Susan Hall by a comfortable margin.
The Financial Times reports:
Labour has claimed victory in the London mayoral contest with Sadiq Khan set to comfortably win a third term in office, adding to the electoral gloom hanging over Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives.
Early results from different parts of the capital suggested that Khan had comfortably seen off a challenge from his Tory rival Susan Hall, in spite of rumours the contest could be tight. With counting complete in four out of 14 areas at 2pm, Khan had secured 52 per cent of the vote compared with Hall’s 24 per cent, prompting Labour to claim victory.
There had been speculation that Hall could pull off a shock win in the contest after figures showed that voter turnout was higher in the capital’s outer boroughs, where Tory support is strongest.
The results are another bitter blow to those who love the city of London, which has been effectively ruined by mass immigration, high levels of crime and astronomical prices.
Unlike most in the British Conservative Party, Tory candidate Susan Hall was a supporter of President Donald Trump and openly admired the controversial politician Enoch Powell.
Come on Donald Trump- make sure you win and wipe the smile of this man’s face @realDonaldTrump @SebGorka https://t.co/6yqflClQhA
— Susan Hall AM (@Councillorsuzie) November 4, 2020
Khan, meanwhile, has repeatedly attacked Trump since he first ran for office in 2015. Just this week, Khan responded to Trump’s comments that London is now “unrecognizable” under his leadership.
“Today is an opportunity to show Donald Trump and my Tory opponent that London will always choose hope over fear and unity over division,” he said this week.
“I’m happy to meet President Trump and to explain to him, in a respectful, courteous manner where I think he’s wrong on a number of issues, to hear him out, see what his explanation is for holding me responsible for the attacks we saw in London last year,” he later told HuffPost.
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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Chris Clem
Real Clear Wire
If the majority of Americans agree on something, you may want to pause and learn more. If almost 90% of Americans agree, that’s a gamechanger. When it comes to border security and immigration, Americans are much more united than you might think.
A new poll commissioned by Americans for Prosperity, where I’m an advisor on border security, reveals 87% of Americans say they would like to see immigration policy that:
As a former border patrol agent with over 27 years of service under my belt, I believe in each and every one of these reforms, and know that without them, our southern border will continue to be in a state of crisis.
In nearly three decades of service, I’ve never seen Americans so concerned about their border. And there’s a reason why. Since President Biden took office, over 8 million people illegally crossed the southern border, creating an unprecedented crisis for the country.
Immigration reform isn’t a Republican or Democrat issue. It’s an American issue. Clearly Americans from all points of the political spectrum are fed up with the status quo and ready for meaningful reforms. Over 80% are pessimistic about the security of our southern border. Yet, like me, they are fairly optimistic about the options available to turn things around.
According to the poll, Americans nearly universally support improving inspections at ports of entry, increasing screenings of the guardians of young migrants, and improving Border Patrol agents’ working conditions. The poll also found specific legislation, like making it easier for foreign doctors who studied in the U.S. to stay in the U.S., garners 90% support from all Americans.
While these actions may seem more obviously nonpartisan, actions to secure the southern border aren’t partisan either. In the poll, 89% of Americans said they would like to see the U.S. government hire more Border Patrol agents and raise their pay. Additionally, 85% supported hiring civilian personnel to monitor asylum seekers so Border Patrol can focus on securing the border itself. And 90% want to see monthly data on the number of migrants appearing on the Terrorist Screening Database.
Clearly, what the American electorate wants is immigration reform that benefits both American citizens and immigrants coming into the U.S. What’s holding up meaningful immigration reform isn’t a lack of solutions— it’s inaction by Congress and lack of leadership from the White House. President Biden loves to blame everybody but himself for this border crisis. But I remember his 100-day deportation moratorium and cessation of all border wall construction on Day 1 of his presidency. And I also remember the message his actions and rhetoric sent to migrants – come on in, the border is open. It’s no surprise that there were almost 100,000 more apprehensions in March of 2021 than there were in January of that year.
But Congress has also turned a deaf ear to the concerns of their constituents, not only by failing to pass these specific reforms but also by standing idly by as the dysfunctional system helps cartels and smugglers at the expense of everybody else. For example, Congress hasn’t demanded that DHS disclose the number of migrants it has lost track of within the US or that it disclose the number of people who have evaded border patrol (known colloquially as “gotaways”), even though the vast majority of Americans want these statistics publicly shared every month.
If Congress can’t hold the executive branch accountable to reforms that are as basic as sharing monthly data or pass solutions that nearly all Americans can agree on, are they really working for the American electorate?
This new polling reveals what I and others in this space already knew – border security and immigration aren’t nearly as divisive as politicians and the media would have us believe. The majority of Americans are united on securing our borders, reforming immigration rules to be clearer and more predictable, and creating a system that benefits the United States and those who want to come contribute, while removing threats to our security and the rule of law.
We will be a stronger, safer, more prosperous country for having those reforms in place.
It’s high time Congress listens to the American people by securing the border, by being transparent about the crisis, and by making meaningful, lasting reforms to the immigration system.
Chief Chris Clem is a retired Chief Patrol Agent who served as a U.S. border patrol agent for over 27 years.
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John Rourke, a veteran and the CEO of Blue Line Moving, has stepped forward to help the citizens of East Palestine, Ohio, something the Biden Regime does not seem eager or willing to do.
Rourke has pledged to bring a water filtration system unit to every single home in East Palestine after the ecological disaster that struck the small town.
Rourke is working with Sentryh20 , and the company is donating the 2000 systems needed to help the community.
It took Biden a year to visit the community where a Norfolk Southern train derailed near the Ohio border with Pennsylvania.
During his February 2024 visit, Biden was greeted by angry protestors.
Rourke joined Daniel Baldwin on OANN to discuss the motivation and details of his remarkable pledge telling Baldwin, “The reason why I want to do this is because I am just tired of people not putting America first and Americans first.”
He told The Gateway Pundit, “This Country needs to start putting Americans first. We have to worry about East Palestine more than Palestine.”
Watch:
VIDEO: Blue Line Moving CEO To Donate Water Filtration Units To East Palestine, Ohio Residents https://t.co/4IKxRKShXY #OAN
— One America News (@OANN) May 3, 2024
In January, Rourke partnered with Big Dog Ranch Rescue and other rescue organizations to travel to Colony Ridge in Texas, an area is a sprawling development that’s become a magnet for illegals, to rescue animals facing inhumane conditions that have been abused, starved, and abandoned.
Rourke is also the founder of We Fund The Blue Foundation and the Great American Cleanup, which helps clean up the mess left by illegals in border towns. The organization also provides disaster relief to areas across the country impacted by natural and man-made disasters.
Following a cleanup, the nonprofit raises funds to support, honor, and recognize the local law enforcement community.
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The Islamic regime in Iran has held talks with Cuba's communist Castro regime to renovate 160 run-down sugarcane factories in Cuba, the Iranian state-run Tasmin News Agency reported Wednesday.
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Pop icon Britney Spears was seen being escorted by emergency services outside the luxurious Montrose Hollywood Hotel in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Wearing only her underwear and wrapped in a blanket, the “Toxic” singer clutched a pillow tightly as she walked barefoot alongside paramedics, police officers, and her reported ex-boyfriend, Paul Richard Soliz.
Eyewitnesses reported that Spears appeared disoriented but was compliant with the emergency personnel guiding her to an awaiting ambulance.
According to Daily Mail, a fight had allegedly broken out between Spears and Soliz, leading to the involvement of emergency services.
Paramedics were called to the hotel after a woman matching Spears’ description was said to be “harassing and threatening hotel employees and guests.”
However, when police arrived, they found no signs of trouble. Despite this, Spears appeared agitated and visibly upset as she left the hotel.
Daily Mail reported:
LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey told DailyMail.com: ‘Emergency services received a call at 12.42am with reports of an adult female injured.
‘At 1am an ambulance arrived on the premises. I can confirm no-one was transported. Services left the scene at 1.17am. The police department were not called.’
TMZ reports Spears arrived at the hotel late Wednesday night – with police called after a ‘disturbance’ with a woman matching the singer’s description reportedly ‘harassing and threatening hotel employees and guests.’
The pair then returned to their room around 11pm where they ‘partied and drank.’ They are said to have got into a ‘huge physical altercation in which Spears ‘may have hurt her leg.’
It was claimed Spears was ‘screaming and out of control in the hallway of her suite’ with and ‘several guests’ thinking she was having a mental breakdown, so paramedics were called.
Spears did not get into an ambulance and is said to have left with her security and without Soliz.
The troubling scene drew immediate comparisons to Spears’ well-documented mental health struggles in the past, including her highly publicized breakdown in 2008.
That incident led to the singer being placed under a conservatorship, which was only terminated in 2021 after 13 years.
In the aftermath of the hotel incident, Spears took to Instagram to address the situation, claiming the news was “fake” and that the photographs were of “body doubles.” She also alleged that paramedics had “showed up at [her] door illegally” and that she felt “completely harassed.”
Spears wrote:
Just to let people know … the news is fake !!! I would like respect at this time for people to understand I am getting stronger everyday !!! Truth sucks so can someone teach me how to lie ??? Goddesses out there, I’m reaching my higher power and furthermore, I hope you guys are too !!! I need a new toothbrush right now. PS … I need an espresso!!! PSS …Not sure why I feel the need to share this … I guess I’m just a girl and I’m on my period so I’m bitchy … shit!!! I also twisted my ankle last night and paramedics showed up at my door illegally. They never came in my room but I felt completely harassed. I’m moving to Boston !!! Peace
This latest incident has once again raised concerns about Spears’ well-being, with some close to the singer reportedly claiming she is “completely dysfunctional” and in a worse mental and financial state than when she was under conservatorship.
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Marxist tyrant New York AG Letitia James has notified pro-life pregnancy centers in the state of possible lawsuits over allegedly misleading statements about ‘abortion pill reversal’ (APR) protocols.
On April 22, James’ office sent “Notice of Intention to Sue” threat letters to at least a dozen pregnancy help organizations that offer or share information about the APR protocol, and the centers were given just five days to respond.
A collective of pregnancy help organizations are now suing the AG to block the threatened prosecutions.
“Abortion pill reversal,” or APR, has a mechanism of action which works by supplementing the pregnant woman with the hormone progesterone to outcompete the effects of mifepristone (the first drug in the abortion pill regimen). Mifepristone (brand name Mifeprex) starves the preborn child of the nutrients it needs to survive by inhibiting the pregnancy-sustaining action of the woman’s naturally occurring progesterone.
Progesterone has been used safely in pregnant women for decades. Live Action News has previously reported on APR’s safety and efficacy and has published numerousstories of women who were able to save their children’s lives by following the APR protocol and also previously documented how the pro-abortion American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (ACOG) and others within the abortion industry already know that progesterone can interfere with the action of the abortion pill.
CompassCare CEO Jim Harden wrote in a press release, “New York Attorney General Letitia James began a carbon-copy notice of litigation against Christian pro-life pregnancy centers. Ten pro-life pregnancy centers have been served so far for alleged “misleading statements or omissions in the advertising of the Abortion Pill Reversal (“APR”) protocol.” Similar allegations were filed against pro-life groups by abortion advocate and Attorney General Rob Bonta of California in the Fall of 2023.”
He continued, “This is only the most recent move by pro-abortion political extremists in a two-year, multi-layered, blue-state, pattern of attack against pro-life pregnancy centers—similar to Marxist-style allegations of misinformation leveled by Jane’s Revenge terrorist group against pro-lifers. The attacks on pregnancy centers began on June 7, 2022, with the firebombing of CompassCare’s medical office in Buffalo, injuring two firefighters. Firebombing of pro-life groups is now deemed domestic terror by the DOJ. One week after the firebombing, NY Governor Kathy Hochul weaponized legislation by signing a bill to investigate the victims, alleging misinformation while referring to pro-life people as Neanderthals. Shortly after, New York Attorney General Letitia James conspired with big tech like Google to censure pro-life pregnancy centers, keeping women from finding them on map features. James applauded Google’s illegal compliance in August 2022. The timeline of attacks including vilification of pro-life pregnancy centers through negative PR and activist litigation can be found on CompassCare’s webpage.”
Harden added, “You know, being sued by New York State for ‘misinformation’ oddly gives us the platform to educate the nation concerning the stubborn facts abortion industry puppets, like AG James, seek to hide; abortion is attended with a 44% increased risk of breast cancer, a 52% increased risk of future preterm deliveries, and a 5-fold increased risk of suicide. If it takes being sued by Letitia James to save women and babies from being used and victimized by a mercenary abortion industry, come and get us!”
Now, Heartbeat International, CompassCare, and a collective of pregnancy help organizations, represented by Thomas More Society, are suing the AG to block the threatened prosecutions.
Thomas More Society attorneys are requesting court intervention against the Attorney General’s threatened legal action, to safeguard the constitutional rights of Heartbeat International and the collective of pregnancy help organizations—many of which are part of Heartbeat International’s Abortion Pill Rescue® Network, or otherwise provide information about APR. At its core, James’ threatened litigation seeks to illegally silence Heartbeat International and its network member organizations from sharing their science-based, life-affirming message about the benefits, success, effectiveness, and safety of APR.
Peter Breen, Thomas More Society Executive Vice President & Head of Litigation, said, “This is a political witch-hunt against small nonprofits that have selflessly served New York’s pregnant women and their children for over 50 years. Letitia James should be heralding these charities, not launching outrageously false claims against them under laws that don’t apply to their noncommercial speech. For decades, doctors have been prescribing supplemental progesterone for pregnant women at serious risk for miscarriage—but because this safe and long-established practice may actually reverse abortions, ideologues like Letitia James now want to squelch it. Ms. James’ Notices of Intention to Sue are a transparent attempt to harass small pro-life charities into silence, targeting her political opponents because of their beliefs, in flagrant violation of the First Amendment. We will fight back as long as it takes against Ms. James’ efforts to jeopardize the Christian and life-affirming missions of Heartbeat International, CompassCare, and all similar pro-life ministries in the State of New York.”
You can read the Verified Complaint in Heartbeat International et al. v. Letitia James, filed by Thomas More Society here.
Read a representative “Notice of Intention to Sue” sent from the AG’s office here.
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in April the House Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing with National Guard whistleblowers who stepped forward to correct the media lies and dishonest narrative by Democrats on the January 6 protests and riots.
Four members of the National Guard testified that they were ready to be deployed on January 6 but THE PENTAGON held them back!
This directly brings General Milley’s actions into question!
Kash Patel tipped us off last month that there were more reports like this coming.
National Guard whistleblowers: Command Sgt. Major Michael E. Brooks, Colonel Earl G. Matthews, Aaron Dean Retired, and Captain Timothy Nick stepped forward and testified before Congress to correct the record on January 6.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser were both warned about the security situation prior to January 6th, and both turned down National Guard troops at the US Capitol that day.
Pelosi and Mayor Muriel Bowser turned down thousands of National Guard troops at the Capitol on January 6 for political reasons.
Chris Wray’s FBI also refused to notify the Trump administration and his cabinet secretaries that they believed there could be violence like the mass protests at the Capitol that took place that day.
Nancy Pelosi also refused the National Guard at the US Capitol due to politics.
Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund said he asked House and Senate security officials for permission to request that the D.C. National Guard be placed on standby in case he needed quick backup. But they both turned him down.
John Solomon from Just The News released an explosive report in 2022 that revealed Capitol Police were first warned about possible violence at the January 6th protests TWO WEEKS before the planned rallies.
Pelosi, Mayor Bowser, and other government officials turned down the National Guard anyway. It is clear they were counting on an “insurrection” to blame on President Trump when they were the ones who allowed the violence to occur and continue that day!
But now there is more disturbing news on the military leadership on January 6th.
According to Colonel Earl Matthews, who testified before Congress in April, US military leaders revoked President Trump’s Commander-in-Chief powers that day and refused to move in the National Guard – because it might look bad.
These military leaders should have been arrested and court martialed.
The Daily Mail reported:
Donald Trump’s authority as commander-in-chief was ignored by senior military leadership on January 6, 2021, claims the chief legal advisor for D.C. National Guard on that day.
Colonel Earl Matthews came forward as a whistleblower to the House subcommittee reviewing the January 6 Select Committee’s investigation.
He sat down with DailyMail.com two weeks after the public hearing to explain what he saw happen that day.
He claims that Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, and then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, were plotting to disobey any orders handed down by Trump because they ‘unreasonably’ assumed the then-president was going to break the law and try to use the D.C. National Guard (DCNG) to stop certification of the 2020 presidential election results.
A lot has been made about the breakdown in military and administration communication when it came to the timeline of deploying DCNG to the Capitol.
But Matthews claims senior military leadership was solely focused on getting the heat off of them and putting it back onto Trump.
The Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, Matthews claims, was more than happy to lean into this narrative and blame the entire ordeal on the then-president.
But Matthews says that senior military leadership essentially stripped the president of his authority as commander-in-chief by preemptively planning to go against orders because they didn’t like the optics of uniformed soldiers at the Capitol.
‘I think a very plausible argument can be made that through no fault of his own, President Trump’s command authority over both the D.C. National Guard and the U.S. Army itself had been surreptitiously curtailed by the senior leadership of the Army on January 6, 2021,’ Matthews told DailyMail.com.
He continued: ‘Army leadership had unreasonably anticipated an ‘unlawful order’ from the President, an order that the President had no plans to issue, and were preemptively seeking to curtail his discretion to issue such an order.’
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The U.S. Army has reported a 39-year-old basic trainee died at Fort Jackson on Monday during an exercise.
In a statement, Fort Jackson officials reported that Veronica L. Wynn, 39, from Hurtsboro, Alabama, became unresponsive “during structured and disciplined pickup in the company area.”
Emergency personnel attempted to perform life-saving measures on Wynn and transported her to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Fort Jackson Commander Maj. Gen. Jason E. Kelly, in a statement, shared, “Today is an especially sad day for Team Jackson after the loss of one of our newest Soldiers. We extend our deepest sympathies to her family, friends and loved ones. We are providing comfort and assistance to her family and fellow trainees,”
39-year-old basic training trainee, east Alabama native, dead after exercise at Fort Jackson, Army sayshttps://t.co/iKGKgzOZsf
— WSFA 12 News (@wsfa12news) May 3, 2024
Per ABC Columbia:
A 39-year-old Fort Jackson basic combat training trainee died after becoming unresponsive on Monday, says the Army.
According to a statement from Fort Jackson, Veronica L. Wynn, who is originally from Hurtsboro, Alabama, became unresponsive during structured and disciplined pickup in the company area.
Emergency personnel performed life saving measures and then took her to a local hospital where she was later pronounced dead around 2:30 p.m.
“Today is an especially sad day for Team Jackson after the loss of one of our newest Soldiers. We extend our deepest sympathies to her family, friends and loved ones. We are providing comfort and assistance to her family and fellow trainees,” said Fort Jackson Commander Maj. Gen. Jason E. Kelly.
39-year-old basic training trainee died after exercise, Army says. https://t.co/Q1hcAbHADN
— WBRC FOX6 News (@WBRCnews) May 3, 2024
A spokesperson for Fort Jackson shared that the exercise was the very first exercise on base, and the goal of the exercise is to focus on team building.
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In November 2023, socialist Pope Francis removed Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas.
Strickland, appointed in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI, had been vocal in his criticism of the Vatican’s approach towards LGBTQ issues, abortion, and the discussion around allowing priests to marry.
But despite Pope Francis’ efforts to silence him, Bishop Strickland continues to speak out.
On Friday, Bishop Strickland published his latest letter warning of a confused understanding of authority’ that has invaded the Catholic Church.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
“Roma locuta; causa finita est!” “Rome has spoken; the matter is finished!”
In these pastoral letters that I have been publishing, I have been writing about many issues that we are facing in what is an ever-growing crisis in the Church and in the world. As a Catholic bishop, my primary concern is always the Church—the Mystical Body of Christ—but it is clear that the present crisis in which we find ourselves touches not just the Church, but every aspect of humanity. When the Church is weak and her earthly leadership is seriously corrupted, it leaves every aspect of the human community vulnerable to evil, and we are seeing that vulnerability at every turn. As serious as all the issues are about which I have written, there is nothing more serious than the distorted understanding of authority and obedience which we now find so rampant. When we lack a clear understanding of the source from whence legitimate authority flows, then obedience is in grave danger of becoming arbitrary and compromised. When this happens, the very obedience which was divinely-instituted by God to point all people to truth may actually be weaponized by some to serve their own interests and to lead the unsuspecting away from truth. Therefore, we must always remain in the truth and be on guard for such a deception.
The history of the Church is replete with accounts of incidents and events in which a conflict arose, and Rome, with the proper use of authority, spoke out and settled the matter. “Roma locuta; causa finita est.” Catholics have wisely held onto this anchor of divine authority in the Catholic Church. Divinely-created authority, which is fully present only within the Catholic Church, should be a refuge for the faithful. Obedience to divine authority is obedience to Christ, as He is the one who has called that person into that position of authority. Obedience to divine authority is necessary within the holy structure of the Church, and it is important in helping us to grow in holiness. Unfortunately, however, the fact that divine authority has been viewed as “a given” in the Church has also served in many cases to make the faithful lazy or complacent in their obedience, and many have forgotten that, as St. Thomas Aquinas declared, God is to be obeyed in ALL things, but human authorities are to be obeyed in CERTAIN things.
As significant as this erosion of authority is for the state, the family, and society in general, when it afflicts the Church it takes us to a whole new level of concern. The Catholic Church is established on the Truth that comes from Almighty God and is fully revealed in Jesus Christ, His Divine Son—Truth Incarnate. When a confused understanding of authority invades the Church, then the very foundations of civilization are shaken, and we are now witnessing these tremors every day.
Jesus Christ tells us that “all authority in heaven and on earth” has been granted unto Him; thus, we must recognize that all earthly authority must look to Christ for its light because ultimately this light flows from a single source—the One who is the source of all authority in heaven and on earth. Only with this proper understanding of authority can we establish a firm foundation for obedience. Simply put, all obedience must always find its source and its end in obedience to Christ and the truth that He reveals. Authentic obedience to truth ultimately brings us to God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—the ultimate authority. As we navigate the path of obedience, if we ignore the truth that Christ has revealed to us then we short-circuit the very meaning and essence of obedience.
Today we find ourselves immersed in a culture which, influenced by postmodernism, is unable or unwilling to recognize valid authority. We are in fact immersed in a culture influenced by Nihilism, and this can be traced back to the fall of our first parents in the Garden of Eden. Nihilism, a philosophy that proclaims all values are baseless, focuses on the use of the will to dominate. It is a rejection of absolute truth, and it puts forth the false idea that “truth” is merely the expression of the will, and pure & unadulterated truth does not exist. In this context, each person can make up truth as he sees fit, or he can determine that truth is whatever the authority figure he recognizes determines it to be. This deadly belief (or similarly, the belief that each individual is an authority unto himself) has even invaded the Church, and it has become a festering, purulent wound within the Mystical Body today.
This twisted view of authority and obedience has been a brilliant but deadly weapon of the fallen, for they have been able to influence men in the hierarchy of the Church to use their accompanying “authority” to cause immense harm to souls. By proclaiming that obedience is still due to these who serve falsehood and who have forfeited their God-given authority, obedience has been used as a weapon and has forced tolerance of situations such as the horrific sex abuse scandals that have so devastated the Church and have caused harm to so many individuals who have fallen victim to these men who abuse power.
One thing that has been lost in the confusion regarding authority and obedience is the fact that whenever the use of authority causes harm to a divine truth, such as when a priest or a bishop calls into question the Deposit of Faith (which includes the immutable Dogmas and Doctrines of the Church), then anyone has a right, in fact even a solemn duty, to resist that error—regardless of the potentially negative consequences they may face. And rather than violating the Catholic tenet of obedience, this resistance to an abuse of authority actually solidifies and strengthens the tenet of obedience because it is obedience to the highest authority—Jesus Christ.
Something else that is often misunderstood regarding authority in the Church concerns papal infallibility and submission of faith. Papal infallibility is present only in the face of an infallible pronouncement regarding faith and morals which emanates from the Pope or from a doctrinal council with the approval of the reigning Pontiff. Such an infallible pronouncement is always, in simple terms, an affirmation of truth that is already a part of the Deposit of Faith—and to which there have been no additions or changes since the close of Public Revelation with the death of St. John in the First Century A.D. When an infallible pronouncement is made, such a proclamation requires submission of faith by the faithful, i.e., the faithful are assured of the truth of such a proclamation and are obliged to hold this belief as a matter of faith. Other statements made by the Pope, the bishops, or other authorities—though they may be true—do not fall under the very narrow charism of papal infallibility. As such, prudence dictates that we may and must evaluate all statements in light of the divinely revealed truths contained in the Sacred Deposit of Faith. If a statement from anyone appears to contradict these unchanging truths, we must first seek clarification. If clarification is not given, or worse, if error is confirmed, we must refute the error and look to the Deposit of Faith as our sure guide to truth.
When addressing the issues of authority and obedience in today’s Church, we must remember that the ultimate source of authority and truth is God. The dilemmas we face will always find their answer in the truth that God has revealed to us. We must constantly ask, “Is this authentic to Christ?” and “Does it correspond to what He and His Church have always taught?” When we answer these questions affirmatively, then we arrive at the truth we must obey. However, if one in “authority” has not received his authority from Christ, then no obedience is required. We should remember that authority is given by Christ to those in the hierarchy of the Church for the sake of the souls entrusted to their care. It is never given for the sake of the person himself who is in authority.
There have been many saints and doctors of the Church who have told us of a time that would come when it will be necessary for the faithful to oppose those who seem to be in “authority” within the hierarchy. If we complacently continue to obey without asking the source of the authority, then we will find ourselves in a dangerous place.
On October 13, 1973, our Blessed Mother appeared to Sister Agnes Sasagawa in Akita, Japan. This occurred on the 56th anniversary of our Blessed Mother’s final apparition at Fatima, Portugal in 1917. Our Blessed Mother spoke these words to Sister Sasagawa: “The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres… churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises . . . “
Archbishop Fulton Sheen said in 1948: “He will set up a counter church which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ . . .”
Pope St. John Paul II said in 1976: “We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel.”
For those who might think this could occur in regard to the hierarchy of the Church but surely never in regard to a Pope, history reminds us of Pope Honorius I, who was pope from 625 to 638. The Council of Constantinople condemned him posthumously, and Pope Leo II condemned him by stating that Honorius “did not attempt to sanctify this Apostolic Church with the teaching of Apostolic tradition, but by profane treachery permitted its purity to be polluted.”
Therefore it is important to realize that it is possible that members of the Church’s hierarchy—which does not exclude even Popes—can indeed cause harm to the Church and the faithful, even if unintentionally. Furthermore, as we look to the words of saints, scholars, and in particular the words of our Blessed Mother in numerous Church-approved apparitions, we must also recognize the possibility that a member of the Church’s hierarchy could intentionally seek to destroy the Faith and the Church. For this reason, we MUST NOT become lazy or complacent in regard to authority and obedience, even when it involves the Holy Father.
Francisco de Vittoria, a Dominican friar, canonist, and theologian from the Sixteenth Century, stated: “If (a Pope) desired to hand over the treasury of the Church . . . if he desired to destroy the Church, or other similar things one should not permit him to act in such a manner, but one would have the obligation to resist him. The reason for this is that he has not the power to destroy. Therefore, when it is known that he does so, it is licit to resist him.”
St. Robert Bellarmine wrote: “Just as it is licit to resist a Pontiff who attacks the body, so it is licit to resist him who attacks souls, or who disturbs the civil order, or, even more, who tries to destroy the Church. It is licit to resist him by not doing what he orders, and by impeding the execution of his will. It is not licit, however, to judge him, to punish him, or to dispose him, for such acts belong to a superior. Catholic obedience to a superior, therefore, should never be what has been called ‘blind obedience.’”
Also, just as we should be aware of the warnings we have been given about a counter church that will have been emptied of its divine content and over which the Anti-Christ will preside, we must also be aware of the possibility that at some point God may permit that an imposter might sit upon the chair of Peter. We must be on watch always that, should this occur, we obey Jesus Christ alone who is Truth Incarnate and who has revealed His Truth to us in the Sacred Deposit of Faith which is unchangeable. Authentic obedience dictates that we must not obey anyone who opposes Truth and whose desire is to destroy the Church. We can be assured though that even if this dire situation were to occur, the true Church will remain intact, although perhaps it will, for a time, return to the catacombs.
As we discuss the dangers of false authority and misplaced obedience, it is important to note that the laity in the Church do not exist for the sake of the clergy in the Church. The clergy exist to provide the sacraments necessary for salvation to the laity. The paramount concern of all clergy should always, ALWAYS, be the salvation of the souls entrusted to them.
I would also note that bishops are called by God to be shepherds of their flocks, as well as “fathers” to the priests. However, in a profound abuse of authority, we now see situations in which bishops attack and silence priests who are simply speaking truth and defending the Sacred Deposit of Faith. Consequently, many priests remain silent rather than preaching the fullness of Christ’s truth, and many have distrust and even fear of their bishops. We must always remember that a father is called to lead his family by love, not to rule over them by fear.
Furthermore, we have recently seen situations where religious communities throughout the world have been put under duress by their bishops in what sometimes even has the appearance of a “land grab” or a desire to control, rather than a genuine concern for the souls in their care. We have also seen situations where bishops, in being notified about purported messages and locutions from heaven being given in certain locations and communities within their dioceses, immediately attempt to shut down these communities and declare messages false without a thorough and proper investigation. In many of these cases, the lack of proper investigation has given rise to questions regarding authority and disobedience. We must pray that bishops—with prudence and discernment, but also with hearts of supernatural faith—prayerfully and dutifully perform thorough investigations when such situations arise so that the faithful will have a sure guide and know they can look to their shepherds with trust and confidence.
In closing, let us pray without ceasing for the Church, the prelates who lead her, and the faithful who belong to her Mystical Body. May we seek authentic obedience to the authoritative truth that Jesus Christ has revealed to us, and may we recognize and resist any authority that has not Christ as its source as we walk always in profound obedience to Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
Bishop Emeritus, Diocese of Tyler
This letter originally appeared on Bishop Strickland’s Substack page. It can be found here.
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By Michael R. Shevock
Real Clear Wire
DEI is a bad idea. It is divisive, racist, and anti-meritocratic. Coleman Hughes, Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Elon Musk, and a host of other first-rate minds have vigorously come out against it. Yet, our Coast Guard leadership continues to promote it without discussion or debate. For an objective observer, that should be the first clue that something is very, very wrong.
Supporters of this ideology are fond of the term ‘cultural competence,’ which they seem to believe is obtainable in a seminar or a classroom, but there are other paths to knowledge. For example, I enjoyed twenty-eight years in federal law enforcement, which, among other things, afforded me familiarity with the inside of a crack-house. Here are are some things I learned first-hand:
(1) Underclass black America is indeed suffering unacceptable levels of violence and generational poverty;
(2) Malcolm X was absolutely correct when he identified white liberals as an impediment to the progress of black America;
(3) the most pernicious condition afflicting underclass black America, yielding drug use, poverty and crime, is the lack of fathers in the home; and
(4) the dominance of the progressive/postmodern agenda, of which DEI is a cornerstone, is almost solely to blame for the pitiful state of our urban poor.
For the first hundred years after the Civil War, black America made the astonishing transition from chattel slavery to the beginning of a thriving middle class. This amazing achievement hit a stone wall, concurrent with the advent of Lyndon Johnson’s welfare state. Eminent economist Dr. Thomas Sowell documents how, after a century of black families remaining basically intact, the 1960s saw a sharp (and continuing) decline in the number of black, two parent families. Dr. Sowell could not put it more clearly when he says, “The welfare state is no favor to the blacks.”
The original manifesto of Black Lives Matter specifically stated, “We disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages.’”
Our credentialed DEI experts, products all of the grievance studies pipeline in academia, are promoting a deeply flawed narrative. The bedrock assumption upon which all their ideas rest is that certain communities of color are being held back (oppressed) by patriarchal white supremacy. As per philosopher Eric Hoffer, a movement can succeed without a god, but not without a devil.
As it turns out, their guiding belief melts in the presence of the little-known fact that black immigrants from Nigeria are outperforming the U.S. national average both in terms of education and earned income. There are also compelling claims that they’re underrepresented in the prison system.
Additionally, using the same criteria of educational achievement and earned income, of the six main ethnic/racial groups in the U.S.: whites, Hispanics, blacks, East Asians, West Asians (Indians & Pakistanis), and Native Americans, whites do not even land in the top two.
One would expect so-called advocates for underclass black America to trumpet these facts from the mountaintops, as they clearly and thoroughly destroy any suggestion of racial superiority of whites, but that would only apply if said advocates were actually interested in the welfare of the people they claim to care about. The boogey-man of white supremacy is a terrific gravy-train.
At the University of Virginia in 2023, the Chief Diversity Officer and the VP for DEI both received annual compensation packages valued in excess of at $520,000.
To demonstrate the degree of scholarly rigor in the DEI community, I draw on the Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association. It maintains a website with a DEI section. Despite my repeated complaints over a period of years about factual and grammatical failings in said website, one can still find the following definitions:
“Systemic Racism: Systems and structures that have procedures or processes that disadvantages (sic) African Americans(.)”
“Minoritized: … As used by the Coast Guard Academy, an adverb (sic) deliberately used to describe cadets of color or underrepresented minorities (URM) that refers to the actions (intended or unintended) taken by institutions that lead to the socially constructed minoritization of racial and gender and other groups that make up our diverse community.”
“Race: A social construct, meaning the notion of race was created by people. As a scientific tool for categorizing different types of human beings’ “race” has no value (sic). …”
According to the Centers for Disease Control, the sickle cell anemia trait is inherited, and is present in babies born of Sub-Saharan African heritage (i.e. black) at a rate over ten times higher than babies of Hispanic heritage, over twenty times higher than babies born of European (white) heritage, and over thirty times greater than babies born of Asian heritage. Apparently, our DEI experts do not know medical research qualifies as science.
(And, finally, this nugget that our social justice experts mysteriously believe belongs on the DEI portion of the website.)
“Intrusive Leadership: A leadership style that is not about analyzing your direct reports and reading them and jumping to conclusions. It is simply about getting to know them. This is a skill but can be developed with practice. It is important to be patient because you are also establishing trust and rapport with them. Intrusive leadership is not about analyzing your direct reports and reading them and jumping to conclusions. It is simply about getting to know them (sic).”
These examples are not offered merely to show that many of our social justice experts could not pass for competent fourth graders, but also to highlight how the magical stamp of ‘DEI’ inoculates flawed scholarship from being challenged. Cue the Coast Guard Academy’s new initiative, the CGA Diversity & Inclusion Action Plan 2024-2026. It runs the gamut from cringe-comedy to disturbing.
A line edit would have helped – there are instances of inconsistent spelling and capitalization. Small ideas are camouflaged with academic buzzwords such as, “effective modalities” and “robust pedagogies.”
The real humor, however, is how too much DEI is never enough. Every conceivable component of the academy is relentlessly tasked with making DEI a prime objective. Finally, we’ll have an “Athletic Cultural Competence Initiative.” In addition to mysteriously demanding input from academy components not directly involved in sports, it will require coaches to hold “Cultural Competence sessions.” No, really: in the plural. I’m trying to picture how this would go. “Hey guys, I mean, ‘team,’ I’ve been noticing how some of you come in different colors, which is okay because we’re inclusively inclusive, and diverse diversity is our strength, and also really diverse, which we all know is an imperative for victory. And equity. We’re all about equity. Lots and lots of equity. Any questions?” One thing for certain, it won’t be awkward.
Just kidding. It’s going to be awful. Only someone pitifully disconnected from reality could think this is a good idea. Much of private industry is already backing away from ad nauseum diversity training because it has been shown they make interracial relations worse, not better.
The CGA initiative is suffering from a common failing among the over-educated, and that is confusing quantifiable effort with progress.
But amidst the clown-like silliness, the plan turns dark. In addition to setting a goal of attracting prospective cadets who are “DEI-mature” (whatever that’s supposed to mean), it states that candidates for prospective faculty positions shall be assessed “on cultural competence including their diversity, equity & inclusion philosophy.”
Stalin and Mao would laughingly recognize this demand for intellectual conformity, and it is evil. Reasonable minds must be allowed to disagree, at least privately. Mandating that faculty candidates provide in advance a declaration of mental obedience absolutely guarantees we’ll be hiring liars. Lying is poison to the soul. It’s a one-way door, through which one surrenders his or her capacity to stand up for principle. Is this the type of officer we’re hoping will populate the service? I fear we’re already halfway there.
Perhaps the worst thing about the Coast Guard’s position on DEI is how it does not allow for discussion or examination. I wholly appreciate the sentiment behind the movement, but the idea breaks down and turns sour when we assign the absurd goal of massaging standards to immediately yield proportional representation of all ethnic/racial groups.
According to the Brookings Institute, on the SAT math exams in 2019, only 7% of black test-takers scored at least 600, contrasted with 11%, 31%, and 62% of Hispanic, white, and Asian test-takers, respectively.
What this means, is that for every black high school senior with at least minimal academic qualifications, there will be at least three Hispanics, four Asians, and eighteen whites. To expect the Coast Guard Academy to attract proportional-to-population numbers of black high school students (i.e. 13%) who are also qualified to be admitted in the immediate short term would require individual members from the qualified pool of black candidates to apply with a greater proportional frequency than the other groups by a factor of three. This will never happen.
The service academies are competing with all the other elite institutions for qualified applicants, especially those that improve their optics. There are simply not enough qualified black and brown minorities to satisfy the demand. It’s tempting to bend entry standards, but, contrary to the fashionable myth, performance on the SAT exams is the best indictor of academic success in college.
Aside from degrading the effectiveness of the service, dropping standards for minority cadets will yield the perverse effect of casting doubt on the capability of all minority officers, increasing resentment on both sides, guaranteeing the opposite overall result of what DEI was originally supposed to accomplish.
By making a commitment to DEI a career imperative, the Coast Guard has disincentivized both honesty and common sense. The collective and damning absence of those qualities can be found in the Coast Guard’s reprehensible and ongoing Fouled Anchor scandal. God help us.
To erase the glaring disparities in achievement of certain groups, America needs to honestly address the root causes of dysfunction and failure, and that will require our leaders in academia and government to acknowledge that the current set of assumptions is bogus. Any objective examination of the numbers bears that out. Instead of studying grifters like Ibram X. Kendi, leaders of every stripe would be well-served to read the life story of Robert Smalls, who escaped slavery in the Civil War and, through amazing heroism, became a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy. After the war, he opened a school for former slaves, got elected as a state senator, and worked to make free education available to all South Carolina children. He earned the rank of major general in the state militia and was elected 3to five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. His monument in the Beaufort cemetery bears this quote which he spoke to the South Carolina legislature:
“My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be the equal of any people anywhere. All they need is an equal chance in the battle of life.”
The sons and daughters of Africa have already performed amazing feats, with many more to come. DEI is a counter-productive insult to everyone.
Michael R. Shevock is a 1976 of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Following graduation, he served three years afloat in the Bering Sea, and four years with Coast Guard Intelligence. From there, he worked as a criminal investigator/special agent with the Naval Investigative Service, the U.S. Customs Service, and the Department of Homeland Security.
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Guest by post by Bob Unruh
Authorities claim there’s no need for sentencing hearing, bail option
A state legal action in Pennsylvania is sparking outrage, online and elsewhere, for the result it demanded: Two farmers arrested and jailed on 30-day sentences with no sentencing hearing and no option for bail.
Authorities say that’s the process they use for contempt charges, for which Ethan Wentworth of Airville, York County, and Rusty Herr of Christiana, Lancaster County, have been serving time since last month.
Broadcast outlet WPMT in Harrisburg reported the government’s complaint concerns their company, NoBull Solutions, which offers to help dairy farmers with their reproductive management of cattle.
Here’s a video podcast, by Yanasa TV, explaining the conflict:
Their lawyer, Robert Barnes, charges, “This is the craziest thing I’ve every seen.”
The fight apparently stems from allegations the two were practicing veterinary medicine without a license for running ultrasound test on cattle, a procedure that is common for farmers to use for various reasons.
The result was an investigation by the state of Pennsylvania, where officials demanded that the two turn over their records.
They failed to do what state officials demanded, and the report notes that resulted in contempt orders against the men.
The state’s court officials told the broadcast outlet that there is no option for bail, and no “sentencing hearing” required for contempt charges. Authorities simply arrest the suspects and jail them, the report said.
Eventually, a judge signed arrest warrants for the two, as well as orders to jail them in their respective counties, warrants that just recently were executed.
A critic of the two say there was ample due process, but Barnes issued a statement:
This is an unlawful civil contempt order. There are certain procedures that must be followed in a civil contempt action and to our knowledge those were not followed here. Even if they had been followed, the maximum allowable punishment is 15 days in jail which must be conditional, with keys to your own jail cell – meaning there is a condition you can meet to immediately end your incarceration. None of that is true in this case.
The state claims this is a punishment for not complying with a subpoena to turn over documents, but an agency can’t just order anyone to turn over any document they please. For a subpoena to be valid, the jurisdictional validity of the subpoena must be established, and it has not been in this case. Both men had sought the advice of an attorney regarding the case and had been told that the Veterinary Medical Board had no jurisdiction over them, that the subpoena was therefore invalid, and that there was nothing Ethan and Rusty needed to do.
There is no evidence that Ethan or Rusty ever saw the order the state claims to have mailed to them last August which threatened them with arrest if they did not comply. Ethan and Rusty were unaware that this was a possibility. It was a complete shock to them and to their families when they were arrested.
He explained his clients were “denied the ability to see the case against them or NoBull Solutions because the state had the docket sealed and hidden – a highly unusual move.”
He said, “It gives the appearance that the intent was to secretly establish an excuse to arrest them and shut down NoBull Solutions without due process.”
He said he was pursuing an emergency motion to reverse the imprisonment order.
Copyright 2024 WND News Center
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Anti-Israel protesters projected President Joe Biden's face over an American flag that was hanging from a building behind their encampment at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted a commencement ceremony that took place at the University of Michigan (UM) on Friday.
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Columbia University President Minouche Shafik broke her silence days after the New York Police Department (NYPD) conducted a raid on pro-Palestinian protesters who had taken over an academic building. In a video posted to X on Friday afternoon, Shafik described
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During his opening monologue on Thursday night, Greg Gutfeld mocked Democrats and the city of New York for their sham case against Trump as only he can.
Greg spared no one, from Stormy Daniels to Michael Cohen and Joe Biden.
He made the point that New York City can’t keep violent criminals in jail but want to lock up Trump for talking about his case, while all the Trump-haters are allowed to say whatever they want.
Partial transcript via FOX News:
On Tuesday, Judge Merchan held Donald Trump in contempt of court and fined him $9,000 for violating a gag order. Trump should have reached into his wallet, grabbed the $9,000 in cash and thrown it at the judge and said: “Here, go bang Stormy Daniels eight times.”
It’s funny: A city that can’t keep violent felons in jail wants to lock up a president for talking. Their priorities are more out-of-whack than a morning show hosted by people who hate each other.
Meanwhile, Judge Merchan’s daughter… a progressive political hack, is sending out solicitations invoking the Trump trial, raising millions for her clients. Among them: Adam Schiff, lead prosecutor in Trump’s first impeachment, who will hopefully use the money for a neck transplant. So Trump’s not allowed to talk. How did he react? Is the gag order unique? Unconstitutional? Corrupt?
Now let’s have a look at the people the judge hasn’t silenced, like Stormy Daniels. Usually when she opens her mouth, it only affects five dudes in a motel room with a camcorder. But these days, Stormy’s not taking things lying down.
Watch the whole thing below:
~ GUTFELD ~ Monologue
Trump trial ~ Hilarious! pic.twitter.com/zmRPx1m0Me
— Gary D (@KMGGaryde) May 3, 2024
You won’t hear anything like that on the Colbert or Kimmel shows.
Gutfeld is the only late night host who has been willing to mock Biden and the Democrats and that’s why his ratings are through the roof.
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You have undoubtedly heard the classic song ‘Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)’ by Allan Sherman.
The song has now been updated to reflect the radical, anti-Israel protests on college campuses.
This is fantastic.
Lyrics via Twitter/X:
Hello Muddah, hello Faddah
I have joined Camp Intifada
Camp is very instigating
And they say the quad sprinkler will soon stop rainingThe tuition is so pricey
To attend a Poison Ivy
You remember Ilhan’s daughter
She’s now homeless for defending Jewish slaughterAll the comrades hate the Zios
Who lack pronouns in their bios
And we want to charm the Houthis
So we hold hands and chant ‘Death to the Yahudis’I’ve made new friends who are less white
And my Hebrew is now left-right
And when Jew kids, start to roll in
We demand that they all go back home to PolandLet me stay, oh Muddah, Faddah
Globalize the Intifada
Don’t bring me back to the suburbs;
Cancel my tuition for next yearLet me stay, I’ll proudly wear my Keffiyeh
And loudly shout “Death to America”
I know everything to say
I’ve been here one whole dayDearest father, darling mother
I’ll stay one way, or another
You paid thousands to this college
So our camp could make the janitor a hostageWait a minute, cops are coming
We’re uprising, they are stunning
Kindly send some food and water
Mother, father, I’m expelled from your alma mater
Listen below:
These two Twitter users are the talent behind the song.
I may have had something to do with this… https://t.co/JDGejEBiO7
— Liron Kopinsky ️ Let My People Go (@ldkop) May 2, 2024
You don’t often get to see or hear such carefully crafted parody. It really captures the moment we’re living through right now.
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We are not being led by the best and brightest.
Jared Bernstein, an economic adviser to Joe Biden, was recently interviewed for a new documentary film and struggled to explain the relationship between the government and the money supply.
The clip is below and it’s really painful to watch.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
WATCH: Biden’s Economic Adviser Tries and Fails To Explain How Money Works
A viral clip of an interview with President Joe Biden’s economic adviser Jared Bernstein shows the official struggling to explain why the U.S. government chooses to borrow money when it can just print more.
“The government definitely prints money, and it definitely lends that money … by selling bonds. Is that what they do? They sell bonds, yeah, they sell bonds. Right? Since they sell bonds, and people buy the bonds and lend them the money,” Bernstein, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, said when asked why the federal government borrows currency it can print.
“I guess I’m just, I can’t really, I don’t get it. I don’t know what they’re talking about,” the economic adviser to Biden added. “Like, ’cause it’s like the government clearly prints money; it does it all the time. And it clearly borrows. Otherwise we wouldn’t be having [this] conversation. So I don’t think there’s anything confusing there.”
Were you able to follow any of that? Watch the video:
NEW: Biden economic advisor Jared Bernstein turns into bumbling mess after he's asked why the government borrows money if they can just keep printing it.
We are so screwed.
Question: They print the dollar. So why does the government even borrow?
Bernstein: Well, so the, I mean… pic.twitter.com/CrOUvYGaul
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 3, 2024
This would make a great campaign ad for Trump. https://t.co/FWpKgdmX0w
— LorieByrd (@LorieByrd) May 4, 2024
EVERY Democrat in Bidens cabinet and appointees are a Hot Mess. NONE of these people have any business working in their roles. #Bidenomics https://t.co/KTmrFFRWAv
— RyanRipz The Left (@RipzRyan) May 3, 2024
It would be funny if it wasn’t absolutely terrifying.
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Lefty actor Mark Hamill made an appearance at the White House press briefing today for some reason. He apparently had just met with Joe Biden, again, who knows why?
If you’ve spent any time on Twitter/X, you know that Mark Hamill is more famous for his hatred of Trump than for his role as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies.
His attempt to make Joe Biden look cool was beyond cringe.
The Hill reports:
Mark Hamill calls Biden ‘Joe-B-Wan Kenobi’ in White House press room appearance
Mark Hamill says the force is with President Biden — the actor made a surprise visit Friday to the White House briefing room and offered a “Star Wars”-inspired nickname for the commander in chief.
“How many of you had ‘Mark Hamill will lead the press briefing’ on your bingo cards?” Hamill, sporting a pair of sunglasses, told reporters at the top of the White House’s press briefing.
“I just got to meet the president, and he gave me these aviator glasses,” added Hamill, known for his role as Luke Skywalker.
Asked about his Oval Office visit with Biden, Hamill said, “I called him ‘Mr. President.’ He said, ‘You can call me Joe.’”
Then Hamill quipped, “I said, ‘Can I call you Joe-B-Wan Kenobi?” offering a Biden-inspired play on the name of the famed Jedi master character in the intergalactic franchise.
Touting Biden’s legislative accomplishments, Hamill exclaimed, “I want to say, once again, how grateful I am, and that just shows you that one person can be so influential and so positive in our lives.”
Do Democrats really think this is going to help Biden?
Mark Hamill looks and sounds like he had a few too many at the Cantina. pic.twitter.com/n4ovcs0ebE
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) May 3, 2024
Michael Douglas. Mark Hamill. Man if one more haggard dude who hasn’t made a good movie in 30+ years endorses Biden I might just be convinced to vote for him! https://t.co/F5IEgF5tfY
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 3, 2024
Mark Hamill is at the White House press briefing today making cringe Star Wars jokes.
Not like there’s anything important going on in the world at the moment!
pic.twitter.com/Qjryh8Wx1M— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 3, 2024
The Babylon Bee weighed in:
Mark Hamill Joins Death Star Press Conference To Say What A Good Job He Thinks The Emperor Is Doing https://t.co/HPK4bqcWBU pic.twitter.com/StALnNgVsy
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 3, 2024
The good news for Biden is that he still has the preachy Hollywood liberal vote locked up.
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A former government official has been charged with making multiple false statements implicating his former colleagues in the January 6th Capitol event, according to court documents.
Miguel Zapata, a former government official, was arrested Thursday and has been accused of misusing the FBI’s anonymous tip website.
Special Agent Cole Ashcraft, who is assigned to the FBI’s Washington Field Office Cyber Task Force, indicated that the false statements were made between February and April 2021 through the FBI’s online tip portal.
The agency began scrutinizing these tips after noticing similarities in their wording and the dates they were submitted. Investigations linked the submissions to IP addresses owned by a service that provides anonymous web access, eventually tracing them back to Zapata.
Zapata allegedly submitted false claims suggesting that various government employees and contractors, some of whom are affiliated with an unnamed intelligence agency, were involved in or supported the events of January 6.
Zapata’s tips included accusations that these individuals were physically present at the Capitol during the protest, participated in violent actions, or shared classified information with protesters to help them overthrow the U.S. government.
He accused former colleagues of connections with groups such as the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.
The FBI’s investigation revealed that all individuals named by Zapata were verifiably elsewhere during the events of January 6, primarily at work in Virginia, thus debunking Zapata’s claims.
The detailed probe included interviews with the accused individuals and examination of their electronic footprints, which showed no participation or presence at the Capitol during the riot.
Here are the excerpts from the seven false tips that Zapata submitted to the FBI between February and April 2021 according to the affidavit:
1. February 10, 2021 – Victim 1 and Victim 2
On February 10, 2021, ZAPATA submitted the following tip to the FBI about Victim 1:
[Victim 1] . . . was actively engaged in attempting to overthrow the government of the United States. [He/she] actively took part in the riot on January 6 2021, that lead to the deaths of 6 people.
Additional Info: Has espoused […] conspiracy theories and actively retaliates against colleagues that do not share [his/her] political views.
What was the exact crime that occurred? Involvement in the Capitol riot and insurrection.
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? Washington, DC
[Victim 2] . . . was actively engaged in attempting to overthrow the government of the United States.
[He/she] actively took part in the riot and insurrection on January 6 2021, that lead to the deaths of 6 people.
Additional Info: Has espoused […] conspiracy theories and aligns with colleagues that share similar views.
What was the exact crime that occurred?: Actively took part in the riot and insurrection at the Capitol.
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? Washington, DC
2. February 16, 2021 – Victim 3 and Victim 5
Victim 3 On February 16, 2021, ZAPATA submitted the following tip to the FBI about Victim 3:
[Victim 3] attended the US capitol riot and insurrection and was present when storming the capitol.
What was the exact crime that occurred?: Took part in insurrection at the US capitol
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? US Capitol
How is Contact Known: Colleague
[Victim 5] attended the US Capitol riot and insurrection. [He/she] took an active role in leading the riot and storming the US Captiol [sic] to hunt for politicians and execute them.
Additional Info: In addition to attending the riot and insurrection at the US Captiol,[sic] [he/she] espouses extremist ideology in the work place and has bragged about [his/her] association with the Boogaloo Bois, ProudBoys and Oath Keepers. While serving as a contractor at [an intelligence agency], [he/she] has accessed classified Agency resources to foment terror and incite violence by sharing this information with other conspiracy theory based personalities […] [He/she] has often talked about “sharing classified information with these groups and individuals as being a [sic] [his/her] duty to ensure the United States Constitution is protected.”
What was the exact crime that occurred?: [Victim 5] attended the US Capitol riot and insurrection
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? US Capitol
How is Contact Known: Colleague
3. February 17, 2021 – Victim 6 On February 17, 2021, ZAPATA submitted the following tip to the FBI about Victim 6:
[Victim 6] attended the capitol riot insurrection. [He/she] was directly involved in coordination of the riot that lead [sic] to the deaths of 6 people. Additional Info: […] [he/she] uses [his/her] clearance to continue supporting [an intelligence agency] and accesses classified information.
What was the exact crime that occurred?: [Victim 6] attended the capitol riot insurrection.
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? Washington DC
How is Contact Known: Colleague
4. April 11, 2021 – Victim 7 and Victim 8 i. Victim 7 On April 11, 2021, ZAPATA submitted the following tip to the FBI about Victim 7:
[Victim 7] attended the riot insurrection at the Capitol that lead [sic] to the death of multiple people and the wounding of multiple police officers. [He/she] also provided support to domestic terrorist groups like the OathKeepers, Proud Boys and Boogaloos. [He/she] used [his/her] position of trust in the intelligence community to share classified information with these groups in an effort to assist them succeed in overthrowing the government. [He/she] currently works for [an intelligence agency][…] and is actively engaged in leadership meetings that grant [him/her] higher than normally expected access to classified information. [His/her] actions on January 6 directly lead [sic] to and actively contributed to the successful breach of Capitol police barricades through his encrypted communication techniques used on that day.
What was the exact crime that occurred?: Attended and provided support to the January 6 insurrection riot
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? Washington DC, Capitol
How is Contact Known: Colleague
[Victim 8] provided material support and coordination by way of [his/her] position of trust with access to classified information to domestic terrorist groups like the Proud Boys, Oathkeepers, and Boogaloos. […] [he/she] shared classified information with terrorist groups in hopes that this information would lead to the overthrow of the United States government. [His/her] position of trust within the intelligence community led to these groups breaching police barricades by encouraging a flanking maneuver on the barricade that resulted in the overrun of police lines on January 6 2021. […] [he/she] has maintained access to classified data, senior executive service employees and managers with connections to [an intelligence agency] and grown a social network of classified personnel from which [he/she] has exploited to support insurrection. For over a decade [he/she] has quietly plotted a “change in government” leading to the downfall of United States government and other institutions through [his/her] legacy position of trust and access.
What was the exact crime that occurred?: January 6 insurrection riot at the Capitol
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? Capitol, Washington DC
How is Contact Known: Colleague
Zapata is charged under 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2) and (3), laws that criminalize knowingly making false statements in matters within the jurisdiction of the federal government.
According to abc News, Zapata “has not yet entered a plea and was released on bond following a hearing before a federal magistrate judge in Washington, D.C.”
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During the debate over Obamacare back in 2010, then-President Barack Obama solemnly vowed before America illegal aliens would never have access to his healthcare proposal. In response to the pledge, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) screamed, “You lie!” and was booed by the House of Representatives.
Remember this?
Democrats lied to the American people when they said Obamacare wouldn’t be used for illegal aliens. Now you’re paying the bill for that lie.
This is a disgrace. https://t.co/TE2GlmtRSW pic.twitter.com/sJWnGhLRfQ
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 3, 2024
Wilson’s words have now proved prophetic. On Friday, the Biden regime issued a final rule change to expand Obamacare coverage to younger illegals (Dreamers) who have been allowed to stay in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
As Gateway Pundit readers know, DACA was illegally created in 2012 by the Obama regime in a ploy to win over Hispanic voters in the 2012 Presidential election. The program provided work permits to illegals who entered the U.S. illegals while still minors.
Roughly 500,000 illegal aliens were protected from deportation thanks to DACA, but none received healthcare coverage until now.
The White House issued a news release that illegals covered by DACA can start applying for coverage in Obamacare and state healthcare marketplaces in November, just in time for the 2024 election.
They also boasted that more than 100,000 illegals would qualify for the program while bragging about the unconstitutional DACA policy.
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is expanding access to affordable, quality healthcare coverage to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. In 2012, President Obama and then Vice President Biden created the DACA policy to transform the lives of eligible Dreamers – young people who came to this country as children—allowing them to live and work lawfully in our country. Over the last decade, DACA has brought stability, possibility, and progress to hundreds of thousands of Dreamers.
While President Biden continues to call on Congress to provide a pathway to citizenship to Dreamers and others, he is committed to protecting and preserving DACA and providing Dreamers with the opportunities and support they need to succeed, including access to affordable, quality health care coverage. Thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration’s actions, today’s final rule will remove the prohibition on DACA recipients’ eligibility for Affordable Care Act coverage for the first time, and is projected to help more than 100,000 young people gain health insurance. Starting in November, DACA recipients can apply for coverage through HealthCare.gov and state-based marketplaces, where they may qualify for financial assistance to help them purchase quality health insurance. Four out of five consumers have found a plan for less than $10 a month, with millions saving an average of about $800 a year on their premiums.
President Biden and Vice President Harris believe that health care should be a right, not a privilege. Together, they promised to protect and strengthen the Affordable Care Act, lowering costs and expanding coverage so that every American has the peace of mind that health insurance brings. Today’s final rule delivers on the President’s commitment by giving DACA recipients that same peace and opportunity.
Today’s rule also reinforces the President’s enduring commitment to DACA recipients and Dreamers, who contribute daily to the strength and vitality of our communities and our country. On day one of his Administration, President Biden committed to preserving and fortifying the DACA policy. While only Congress can provide Dreamers permanent status and a pathway to citizenship, the Biden-Harris Administration has continued to vigorously defend DACA against ongoing legal challenges and strengthened DACA by codifying the 2012 policy in a final rule.
The New York Post estimates the unconstitutional rule change will cost taxpayers up to $300 million. All of this while our southern border remains open and millions of Americans struggle to keep a roof over their heads.
However, under the Biden regime, Americans always come last.
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The Internal Revenue Service is demanding a further $20 billion from Congress in order to hire another 14,000 more employees as part of an effort to better “serve taxpayers.”
According to IRS Commissioner, Daniel Werfel, the agency needs the money in order to fund technology upgrades and improve its customer service:
The IRS will continue focusing on making improvements and efficient use of funding. But to stress the importance of continuing this momentum, the IRS will continue working to make a difference for the nation’s taxpayers. At the same time, it’s critical that the IRS has stable, secure funding to allow technology modernization and taxpayer service improvements to continue into the future.
Werfel added that he plans to hire a further 14,000 employees over the next few years, with an estimated workforce of 102,500 by 2029.
We believe that figure represents a ‘right-sized’ IRS, reflecting the needs to serve taxpayers and responsibly enforce the law given the complexity of the nation’s tax laws. That number won’t even be a record high for the IRS workforce. It’s still well below the numbers from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
His pleas come less than two years after Congress passed the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which included a staggering $80 billion windfall for the agency to expand its operations.
Meanwhile, Werfel also pledged to take steps to address the significant dispraity audit rates between Black taxpayers and other filers, arguing this “degrades trust in our tax system.”
“We are overhauling compliance efforts to advance our commitment to fair, equitable and effective tax administration and hold ourselves accountable to taxpayers we serve,” he said.
“We have taken swift initial action to dramatically reduce the number of those audits,” he continued. “We have also made changes to the selection criteria for those audits.”
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The fraternity boys at UNC-Chapel Hill who stood up to protect the American flag from a swarm of anti-Israel protestors have a new fan -- the renowned country music singer-songwriter John Rich.
The post Exclusive — John Rich Praises UNC Frat Boys Who Protected American Flag: Tens of Millions of Young Freedom-Loving Patriots Are Ready to Stand Up and Defend America appeared first on Breitbart.
The Japanese Embassy on Friday reportedly highlighted concerns with the Biden Administration, calling Biden’s recent comments about Japan’s economic and immigration policies “unfortunate.”
Per Politico, “The comments were not based on an accurate understanding of Japan’s policies,” the embassy said. “We have raised this point to the U.S. government and explained Japan’s positions and policies once again.”
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Joe Biden said India, Japan, Russia, and China are failing economically “because they’re xenophobic” during a fundraiser on Thursday, but the US economy is “growing” because we’re not.
REALITY:
NEW: Biden says that US is prospering because of immigrants, unlike “xenophobic” Japan.
BIDEN’S “XENOPHOBIC”
AMERICA: JAPAN: pic.twitter.com/WSFiu2OeE0— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) May 2, 2024
Former Department of Defense Chief of Staff and Deputy Director of National Intelligence under President Trump, Kash Patel, shared the report from Politico, slamming Biden for his history of attacking foreign allies and “mocking” Indian Americans:
Patel: @BidenHQ slams India’s economy as a failure, and calls Indians Xenophobic… this is after his racial slurs against Indian Americans, mocking our successful heritage and assimilation as Americans.
Just wondering where all the brown folks in the US are slamming Biden for his baseless hatred and incendiary comments?
Happy to lead the charge
It can be recalled that 17 years ago, Biden said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”
I am a proud member of the Indian community and have endured numerous racist death threats throughout my career. Let me be clear: these cowardly attacks and deflections are utterly unacceptable,” Patel said in a statement provided to The Gateway Pundit. “They are a stark reminder of the divisiveness being stoked by the left. We must confront and dismantle this toxicity. Our movement stands for the strength and dignity of all Americans, and we will not tolerate hatred or intimidation against anyone, period.”
Biden on Thursday characterized Japan, a key U.S. ally, as “xenophobic” for its reluctance to embrace mass immigration. He also raised questions about the economic challenges faced by China, Japan, and Russia and attributed these difficulties to their “xenophobic” policies and resistance to illegal immigration.
“Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan having trouble? Why is Russia? Why is India? Because they’re xenophobic. They don’t want immigrants,” he said after falsely claiming “our economy is growing,” and it’s “because we welcome immigrants.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre later addressed the media, first telling reporters, “The president was very clear,” then later trying to walk back and struggling to defend Joe Biden:
These comments come as the GDP dropped faster than expected in the first quarter of 2024 and came in at half the rate of Q4 2023. Real GDP increased just 1.6% after rising 3.7% in the fourth quarter of 2023. Meanwhile, inflation rose to 3.7% in the first quarter, squeezing consumers already strapped in the Biden economy.
Additionally, In a recent poll, 70% of voters in swing states said that the United States economy is on the "wrong track." 51% of voters say they trust Trump more on the economy, while just 36% say Biden. And our border is wide open, with American tax dollars going to housing, feeding, and transporting illegal immigrants in every major city across the country.
Kash Patel told The Gateway Pundit,
President Trump’s administration showcased real economic growth and stability, not the smoke and mirrors we see from the Biden administration. When Biden claims that our economy is thriving “because we welcome immigrants,” it's not just an oversimplification; it's an outright lie. Let's look at the facts: while there’s a slight uptick in GDP, it's overshadowed by soaring inflation, which is crushing American families under the weight of unbearable living costs. This is not growth; it's desperation.
The so-called economic growth Biden touts is nothing more than a façade, especially when you consider the disaster at our open border, which has only worsened under his watch. This unchecked border crisis is a drain on our resources and a clear threat to our national security and economic stability. Under President Trump, we had stronger borders and a booming economy that truly benefited the American people. It’s high time we return to policies that secure our borders and ensure genuine economic prosperity, rather than settling for the deceptive narratives pushed by the current administration.
Biden should get his own country in order before criticizing our allies for their sensible immigration policies.
The post EXCLUSIVE: Kash Patel Shows Americans Biden’s Past Racism Towards Indians Continues After Japanese Embassy Rebukes Biden for Attack Saying Japan’s Economy is “Having Trouble Because They’re Xenophobic” Along with India, China, and Russia appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
This article originally appeared on WND.com
Guest by post by Bob Unruh
Now credited to Uzziah, who built ‘towers’
Over and over again, archaeological discoveries have confirmed the biblical accounts of portions of history, and now it has again.
A report from the Daily Mail blasts out that there are ruins “that could prove the Bible was TRUE: Stretch of wall in ancient Jerusalem vindicates the holy book’s account, archaeologists claim.”
The controversy involves the new confirmation about one piece of wall in Jerusalem.
Until now, experts thought a stretch of wall in the original heart of the city was built by Hezekiah, King of Judah, whose reign straddled the seventh and eighth centuries BC, the report said.
At that time, Hezekiah had seen the Kingdom of Israel, to his north, destroyed by Assyrians. It was thought he built the wall in defense.
“But now an almost decade-long study has revealed it was built by his great-grandfather, Uzziah, after a huge earthquake, echoing the account of the Bible,” the report said.
The wall is at a site in the City of David that was part of the original Jerusalem.
The report notes Joe Uziel, from the Israel Antiquities Authority, explained that it’s long been assumed that Hezekiah built the wall, to “defend Jerusalem during the Assyrian siege.”
“But it is now becoming clear that it dates back to the days of King Uzziah, as hinted at in the Bible,” he said. “It is now apparent that the wall in its eastern part, in the area of the City of David, was built earlier, shortly after the great earthquake of Jerusalem, and as part of the construction of the city.”
In 2nd Chronicles, part of the history of the ancient peoples, it states, “Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate and at the angle of the wall, and he fortified them.”
Hezekiah is explained in the report as being considered one of the greatest kings of Judah, reigning from about 715 BC to about 686 BC after his father, Ahaz, died.
It is Hezekiah who is credited with throwing off the oppression of the Assyrians, who had beleaguered the nation.
“The Hebrew Bible also describes how Hezekiah made a miraculous recovery from a sickness after praying to God. He went on to live for another 15 years,” the report said.
The Bible also clearly outlines “seismic activity,” documenting for the time frame for one prophet as being “two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah.”
The research project involves the IAA, Tel Aviv University, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Carbon-14 dating was used partly to set the time frame. Tested were organic artifacts found at the site, including grape sees and date pits.
Copyright 2024 WND News Center
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Joe Biden on Friday awarded 19 Americans with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“The diverse group of recipients ranged from political trailblazers like Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn to activists like Opal Lee and Judy Shephard as well as Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky and Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh.” ABC News reported.
“Today we have another extraordinary honor to bestow the nation’s highest civilian artist of mine to 19 incredible people whose relentless curiosity, inventiveness, ingenuity and hope have kept faith in a better tomorrow,” Biden said heavily slurring through his remarks.
Biden gave Nancy Pelosi a Medal of Freedom for her actions on January 6, 2021.
“She used her superpower to pass some of the most significant laws in our nation’s history,” Biden said. “On January 6, Nancy stood in the breach defending democracy … Nancy is a brilliant, practical, principled and determined leader.”
What a joke!
Back in December 2022, The Gateway Pundit reported that House Republicans had collected emails and text messages implicating Pelosi in the failed January 6 Capitol security operation.
Recall, it was President Donald Trump who recommended 10,000 National Guard troops at the US Capitol on Jan. 6. Pelosi turned him down.
It was never Trump’s fault. It was always Pelosi’s fault.
She was too busy lining up the film crews who were going to come to film her that day. She had that set up beforehand as if she knew something big was going to be taking place.
WATCH:
Nothing important is happening in the country and world right now, so Crooked Joe Biden is giving Nancy Pelosi a Medal of Freedom pic.twitter.com/XnhAZ1qgzI
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2024
Biden also gave climate fraud John Kerry a Medal of Freedom.
WATCH:
Biden presents a Medal of Freedom to climate extremist John Kerry: “[He] forged the historic Paris Agreement” pic.twitter.com/7zAMNpi3PR
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2024
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Democrat state lawmakers in Arizona are under fire for hosting the “first ever” drag story hour, presented by “gender-nonconforming” Rep. Lorena Austin and Planned Parenthood Arizona, in the basement of the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Rep. Austin reportedly goes by “she/they/ella pronouns.”
OnenTen Phoenix, a group that purports to “serve LGBTQ youth and young adults ages 11-24,” also hosted an “LGBTQ+ Youth Day” for children as young as 13 years old at the Arizona Capitol on Wednesday. According to Fox, Austin helped organize this event.
According to Arizona House Democrats, who celebrated the sexualization and indoctrination of children, “Around 30 kids and teenagers” were in attendance.
ICYMI: Yesterday was LGBTQ+ Youth Day at the Capitol! Around 30 kids and teenagers came with their parents or guardian to #azleg to learn about the legislative process and how to be involved in their House. #lgbtqrights pic.twitter.com/AMS0odLbEu
— Arizona House Democrats (@AZHouseDems) May 2, 2024
A video of the drag event posted on X shows what appears to be a male drag queen telling a story about New York-based transgender activist Pauline Park while urging drag story hour-goers to “listen to your kids” and explaining his unscientific opinion that adults can change their gender on a whim multiple times in their lifetime.
Watch below:
“When is it time to choose a new name? Why does someone become an activist? How does one begin? Who? Pauline Park. What? A Korean American trans activist. Were? New York City. When? From the time she was five. Why? To ensure rights for herself and others. How? One step at a time.
That’s one of the things when the whole topic of kids being trans, come up. ‘Don’t listen.’ Listen to your kids because I can tell you, I knew from a very young age, very, very young age. And had the resources been there, had the language been there, had all the things that are available today been there, things might have been very different for me — instead of waiting 35 years. And adults change pronouns all the time. Adults, as we grow, and as we mature, and as we figure sh*t out, we may go from identifying as, you know, within the binary, and then we decide, ‘You know what? That doesn’t fit me.’ I think I’m agender. I don’t really identify as a gender. So, please use they/them pronouns.”
Arizona Senate Republicans reacted on X, saying, “WARNING: THIS CONTENT MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. Arizona Democrat lawmakers teamed up with Planned Parenthood to host ‘Drag Story Hour’ at the Capitol to encourage parents to transition their kids. This is ahead of LGBTQ+ YOUTH Day at the Capitol tomorrow. Your taxpayer dollars are hard at work to push child indoctrination and woke ideology onto our citizens. The madness must stop.”
State Senator Justine Wadsack slammed the Democrats for using tax dollars to host this desecration of the Arizona Capitol Chamber and called on House Members to file an ethics complaint and expel Loreta Austin. Senator Anthony Kern responded, “I second that motion!!”
I second that motion!!
— Anthony Kern (@anthonykernAZ) April 30, 2024
“This is a desecration of the people’s house. I am LIVID!!!” said Representative Rachel Jones:
This is a desecration of the people’s house. I am LIVID!!! https://t.co/DPaKNSXTUK
— AZ Representative Rachel Jones (@RJ4arizona) April 30, 2024
House Speaker Ben Toma also chimed in, saying Rep. Austin “deliberately misled House leadership” with her event and announced that Democrats no longer have the privilege of using House meeting rooms until further notice.
Democrat Rep. Lorena Austin deliberately misled House leadership to reserve a conference room to host a drag story hour with Planned Parenthood.
Use of House facilities for radical activism to promote dangerously perverse ideology will not be tolerated while I am Speaker.
As… pic.twitter.com/yuOnkjn8zR
— Ben Toma (@RepBenToma) April 30, 2024
In response to criticisms from GOP Lawmakers, House Democratic Whip Nancy Gutierrez cried “discrimination.”
PRESS RELEASE: ‘Not the people’s House after all’ — House Democrats respond to outrageous retaliation for hosting drag story hour #azleg pic.twitter.com/MZ6dDzbVWr
— Arizona House Democrats (@AZHouseDems) April 30, 2024
Rep. Lorena Austin, the lawmaker who organized the event, also played the victim and claimed the event was educational while claiming to “stand up to hate and bigotry.”
PRESS RELEASE: Rep. Austin responds to retaliation over drag story hour #azleg pic.twitter.com/xhkwIrzxXS
— Arizona House Democrats (@AZHouseDems) April 30, 2024
Fox reports,
In a statement posted to X, Planned Parenthood Arizona said in response to Toma that it’s another example “of Speaker Toma showing how out of touch he is with the values of Arizonans & their support for the LGTBQ community.”
“At Planned Parenthood Arizona, we are proud to offer gender-affirming care services and provide essential health care to everyone,” the group said. “We thank Rep. Lorena Austin for being a staunch ally and for their continued support in our fight for reproductive freedom. We will be sure to invite Speaker Toma to the next Drag Story Hour.”
State Sen. John Kavanaugh told Fox News Digital that it was the first time anything like the drag event had happened at the Capitol.
“And it wouldn’t have happened had they been truthful and said they wanted to have a drag queen story hour,” he said. “I mean, that in and of itself, is so inflammatory and controversial, which is probably why they didn’t mention that. So, it was the fact that they were deceptive in the explanation.”
Per Breitbart, “The event coincides with the Biden administration’s attempts to push gender confusion on children and adults alike. President Joe Biden’s deputies are trying to force transgenderism into workplaces via updated federal workplace guidelines that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released. Under the guidance, employers who adhere to biological reality will be committing workplace “harassment” if they refuse to allow employees to choose restrooms based on their gender identity rather than biological sex. Employers will also be committing workplace “harassment” if they “repeatedly misgender” employees.”
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An organizer involved in the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas encampment at the University of Chicago released a list of needed supplies.
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NYT Columnist and Duke Professor Frank Bruni said Friday on PBS's "Firing Line" that a lot of young progressives never acknowledged how horrific the October 7, 2023 terror attack in Israel was.
The post Bruni: Young Progressives Never Acknowledge Horrific October 7 Attack, They Advocated for Hamas appeared first on Breitbart.
President Trump spoke with reporters on Friday following his fourth day in court this week in New York City.
President Trump is charged with crimes that have yet to be explained to the jury. This latest lawfare suit is taking place in front of corrupt Judge Juan Merchan whose daughter is making millions off of the case. It is a complete travesty of justice. But this is what happens when far-left lunatics are allowed to break down societal norms and go after their political opponents by corrupting the justice system.
On Friday former Trump associate Hope Hicks testified in court. It was another nothing-burger. She said nothing that would incriminate the president.
Following the testimony today President Trump spoke with reporters outside the courtroom.
President Trump pointed out the obvious. The Democrats are ruining people’s lives. They are using the courts to go after their political opponents.
Reporter: What was it like seeing Hope Hicks again?
President Trump: I’m not allowed to comment on any of that. As you know, I’m under a gag order, which is very unprecedented. But I will say this, that the government… What they’ve done to people in my company, they’ve been after us for years. You take a look at what’s happened for years. The Democrats, the radical left, they’ve been after us for years, and they’ve destroyed people’s lives. They’ve gone out, hired lawyers. – They’ve been sucked dry. It’s a shame what they’ve done to this country. It’s a shame what they’ve done to a lot of great people that have been absolutely ruined and destroyed, not only here, all over…
…These are vicious, vicious radical left lunatics. The DA here… They shouldn’t be wasting time on this. Look what they do to so many people. They’re all lawyered up. That’s all they do, lawyer up In the meantime, you can’t do anything in the country. The country is going to hell
They have no time. They have no anything left because they’re always under siege. It’s a terrible, terrible thing happening in our country. And hopefully, on November 5th, the most important day in the history of our country, in my opinion, that’s called Election Day. Hopefully, it’s going to change because these people are destroying our country, whether at the border, whether the horrible reports that came out today, or jobs numbers, we’re going to hear, whether inflation, which is destroying us, Afghanistan, allowing Russia to attack Ukraine, would have never happened.
Then you take October 7th in Israel, that would have never happened. All of these things happening, and all they do is they go after people. They destroy people, and it’s a shame. I just want to wish everybody a very good weekend. I was very interested in what took place today, but I just have to say we have a country to build. We have to rebuild it. Our country has gone to hell. We’re a nation in decline, and we cannot let that happen to the USA. Thank you very much.
Via Trump War Room.
PRESIDENT TRUMP on the BIDEN TRIALS: It’s a shame what they’ve done to this country and it’s a shame what they’ve done to a lot of great people that have been absolutely ruined and destroyed. pic.twitter.com/I8sgRC4Mn7
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) May 3, 2024
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A new poll released by the Independent Center/Bullfinch Group suggests that former President Donald Trump is currently leading Joe Biden by a slight margin of one percentage point in Washington state, a state that has reliably voted for Democratic presidential candidates since 1988.
The poll, conducted between March 29 and April 3, included 250 registered voters and shows Trump with a 1-point lead:
BREAKING: New poll shows Trump leading by 1 point in liberal Washington state. No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you
Of course this poll with only 250 registered voters means nothing but it proves how unpopular Joe Briben really is
I really believe Trump could flip states like WA… pic.twitter.com/DPjZOlEW94
— George (@BehizyTweets) May 3, 2024
#NEW POLL: 2024 Election in Washington
Trump 46% (+1)
Biden 45%250 RV, March 29-April 3, Independent Center/Bullfinch Group
Read more: https://t.co/Q6hXWhUQSJ pic.twitter.com/eUlloEXP8x— Independent Center USA (@Independent_Cen) May 3, 2024
This result is certainly an eye-opener given Washington’s staunch Democratic voting record in presidential elections for over three decades. While the poll’s small sample size calls into question its significance, it has nonetheless sparked a conversation about Biden’s lack of popularity and the potential for traditionally blue states to swing red.
In the past five years under Democrats’ leadership, the state has seen an alarming 20% increase in violent crime. As of 2022, Washington’s violent crime rate hovered just 1% below the national average, at 375.6 violent crimes per 100,000 people, according to the data from the state’s House Republicans.
More alarming still is the sharp increase in the murder rate, which has nearly doubled since 2019. Aggravated assaults have jumped by 30% during the same timeframe, painting a grim picture of public safety in the state.
The clearance rates for these violent crimes remain disconcertingly low; 47% of murders, 55% of aggravated assaults, and a staggering 74% of robberies in Washington went unsolved in 2022.
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Arizona rancher George Kelly, 75, sat down for an exclusive interview with NewsNation’s Ali Bradley after state prosecutors decided not to retry his murder case.
George Kelly told Ali Bradley he and his wife lost their life savings fighting the lawfare murder trial.
“I don’t feel that I was treated fairly in the investigation,” George Kelly told NewsNation in an interview. “I think I was arrested without cause, without probable cause.”
“You can’t put somebody in a situation and try to tell them, ‘oh you’ll be fine here.’ No you won’t be fine here…” George Kelly told Ali Bradley.
He said he slept on the floor in jail before being taken to a cell block where he spent 22 days. Other inmates who were Mexican cartel members would threaten Kelly and say “dead man walking” as they walked by him.
“I’ve had a, you know a good life, but I’ve had a hard life. Those 22 days… If… If hell is anything like that, I’m gonna do everything I can not to go because that was the worst 22 days of my life…” George Kelly said of his time in jail.
Kelly said he and his wife plan to move from their ranch in Kino Springs.
He also maintains that he didn’t kill Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea on January 30th last year. Kelly says someone else is responsible.
WATCH:
State prosecutors on Monday said they will not retry Arizona rancher George Kelly after a judge declared a mistrial following a hung jury.
Judge Thomas Fink last Monday declared a mistrial after an Arizona jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the murder trial for Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly.
Jurors deliberated a couple of weeks ago and were unable to reach a verdict. Deliberations continued pn the following Friday and after more than 7 hours the jury sent a note to the judge and informed him they could not reach a verdict.
Kelly was arrested for killing Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, on his Arizona ranch in Kino Springs just outside of Nogales, Mexico on January 30, 2023.
According to reports, Gabriel Cuen-Butimea has a history of illegally crossing into the United States and multiple deportations.
According to the defense lawyers, Mr. Kelly fired warning shots after he saw a group of men dressed in camouflaged clothing point an AK-47 right at him.
The rancher later discovered the deceased illegal alien, who is likely a cartel smuggler, when he went to go check on his horse.
The bullet that killed Gabriel Cuen-Butimea was never recovered so authorities were never able to conduct a ballistics test to see if it matched George Kelly’s AK-47.
Kelly’s defense attorneys argued cartel bandits shot and killed Gabriel Cuen-Butimea and robbed him.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters taking part in an encampment at Princeton University began a hunger strike to raise awareness for starving people in Gaza.
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More than 20 suspected illegal immigrants docked at an upscale southern California marina before jumping fences and escaping.
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South Carolina’s Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of legislation that protects children from transgender-related child sterilization and mutilation.
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The communist regime in Cuba sentenced 22-year-old Mayelín Rodríguez Prado to 15 years in prison this week for filming peaceful protests in the town of Nuevitas in August 2022.
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Republican Representative Byron Donalds was verbally accosted by an individual hurling racial slurs and accusations during his visit at George Washington University.
The Daily Caller released footage of Donalds being confronted by a man amidst anti-Israel protests at George Washington University on Wednesday.
The vile leftist, with a noticeable accent, was filmed challenging Donalds with inflammatory remarks, questioning his integrity and allegiance.
“How much is AIPAC paying you, you bastard?” he questioned, referencing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The situation escalated when the same man called Donalds a “race traitor” and an “Uncle Tom.” His tirade continued as he accused the Congressman of working for a foreign entity.
Despite the provocation, Donalds responded calmly, making a light-hearted comment saying, “That guy’s really old to be in college.”
WATCH:
Protester who shouted racist slurs at Rep. @ByronDonalds as he called on DC police to clear The George Washinton University Pro-Hamas encampment REVEALED to be terrorist-sympathizing PROFESSOR Zein El-Amine at GWU, Georgetown, and American.
Why do Universities act surprised at… pic.twitter.com/LUj6dculVM
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 3, 2024
The protester was later identified as Zein El-Amine, a professor at Georgetown University with Marxist views and Lebanese heritage.
According to the Canary Mission:
Zein El-Amine has spread anti-Israel terror propaganda on social media, specifically including images promoted by the terror group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
El-Amine is also a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and shared a video by the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP),promoting BDS.
El-Amine has promoted the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD)’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
El-Amine co-hosts the weekly Arabic culture radio show Shay wa Naa Naa (Tea with Mint) on the local radio station, WPFW. He uses the show as a platform for various anti-Israel personalities to spread their propaganda.
El-Amine’s LinkedIn page says that he studied for his MFA in Creative Writing, at UMD from 2007- 2010.
El-Amine is a lecturer in Arabic Language and Comparative Literature at UMD. He serves as a student advisor in the Arabic Studies program.
These Marxist professors are radicalizing their students.
Rep. Ronny Jackson decried El-Amine’s behavior in strong terms, labeling him a racist and antisemite while calling for scrutiny over his teaching history.
“HORRIBLE! Zein El-Amine is a RACIST and an ANTISEMITE. Zein should be on a LIST for his MANY years of pushing Pro-Hamas, ANTI-American GARBAGE to young minds across America. I stand with my friend Byron Donalds in condemning anti-semitism across this great country.”
HORRIBLE! Zein El-Amine is a RACIST and an ANTISEMITE.
Zein should be on a LIST for his MANY years of pushing Pro-Hamas, ANTI-American GARBAGE to young minds across America.
I stand with my friend Byron Donalds in condemning anti-semitism across this great country. https://t.co/ofAHvZRKHk
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) May 3, 2024
Virginia Congressional candidate Derrick Anderson appealed to Georgetown University to take swift action concerning El-Amine’s behavior and rhetoric, expressing deep concern over potential anti-Semitic views and support for terrorist organizations.
“What other anti-semitism and support for terrorists is Professor Zein El-Amine spewing??? As a law schoolalum, I implore Georgetown to immediately address this professors racist comments and support for terrorist orgs, and consider his resignation immediately.”
What other anti-semitism and support for terrorists is Professor Zein El-Amine spewing??? As a law schoolalum, I implore @Georgetown to immediately address this professors racist comments and support for terrorist orgs, and consider his resignation immediately. https://t.co/XVVGJVdMlM
— Derrick Anderson (@DerrickforVA) May 3, 2024
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The pro-Hamas agitators appear to have met their match in SEC country.
As Jim Hoft reported on Thursday, hundreds of Ole Miss students gathered at the Pro-Hamas camp and began singing the National Anthem while also chanting “We want Trump!”
Today, it was LSU’s turn to overturn the agitators. As WBRZ reported, protesters gathered on the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge on Friday to air their grievances against Israel’s defensive actions against Hamas and to demand LSU disclose all of its financial ties to Israeli entities.
But footage quickly emerged showing hordes of students hijacking the pro-Hamas protest and overwhelming the agitators in short order.
There are more counter protesters than Palestine protesters. pic.twitter.com/HpvHueIVC1
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
Watch the pro-America and pro-Israel patriots chase these terror apologists to a different part of the school campus while serenading them with “na na hey hey goodbye” chants and “warm up the bus!”
WATCH:
Pro – Hamas protesters are retreating from LSU! Victory from America. pic.twitter.com/9K1RRjza95
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
The patriots followed the agitators until they stopped. The pro-America students soon exploded in extremely loud “USA! USA!” chants, drowning out the noise from the other side.
USA pic.twitter.com/S7wfJDX4D7
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
According to Mason Batts, a political consultant covering the protest, the patriots also started singing “The Star Spangled Banner” to drown out the agitators further.
The Star Spangled Banner drowning out the Protesters at LSU! pic.twitter.com/azswgJCjSp
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
The pro-America crowd continued to grow in massive numbers as time went on.
Crowd of Patriots is swelling to a massive size, dwarfing the protesters at LSU! pic.twitter.com/vZvGo931Vm
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
The protesters and counter-protesters did find common ground on one thing: Joe Biden. Like at Alabama, both sides briefly erupted in “F**k Joe Biden!” chants.
One student even asked the agitators if they were voting for Trump. They only responded with “F**k Joe Biden.”
Palestine and Patriots combine to say “FJB” pic.twitter.com/yXZKZRCjPc
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
Unsurprisingly, the individuals leading the pro-Hamas protests appear to be non-students. This begs the question of who is paying them to agitate.
This is the person leading the protest at LSU. She looks to be over 40 with grey hair. So obviously she’s obviously a paid protester. pic.twitter.com/17gyuGI3M8
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed a series of bills into law Wednesday, including the Georgia Criminal Alien Track and Report Act.
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Palestinian American CEO Andrew Dudum is offering jobs to college students participating in the anti-Israel campus protests across the U.S. as other entrepreneurs announce their refusals to hire anyone from Columbia University because of the massive encampment demonstration.
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Sunny Hostin told her co-hosts Friday on ABC's "The View" that if Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) were chosen as the Republican vice-presidential running mate, it would not help former President Donald Trump with black voters.
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Two police officers were shot and wounded Thursday in the Saint Teresa neighborhood of San Jose, California.
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A Walmart Deli worker has qualified for the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Oregon.
Hurdler Dylan Beard qualified for the Olympic trials after placing first in the 60m hurdles at the Millrose Games in February.
Unlike other Olympic athletes who train full-time and are sponsored, Beard is not sponsored yet and supports himself by working as a deli worker at Walmart.
Beard’s Walmart manager, David Davis, shared, “Dylan’s work ethic is next level. He provides excellent customer service all the time. He goes above and beyond, just like he does on the track.”
One of the Top Olympic Hopefuls Trains Between His Shifts as a Deli Counter Worker at Walmart https://t.co/2EkS8tZwxV
— People (@people) April 26, 2024
Per AOL:
Beard is a hurdler who will compete for a spot on the United States Olympic team heading to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. He also happens to work a full-time job at the deli counter at a Walmart.
Beard emerged as a surprise winner while competing in the 60-meter hurdles at the Millrose Games in February.
“I think I went in a lot more relaxed, like nothing to lose, a lot to gain,” he told TODAY in an interview that aired April 26.
His performance in the race made him the third fastest hurdler in the world and landed him a spot at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Oregon, in June. Following his performance at the Millrose Games, Beard returned to his normal routine.
Here’s Beard in action:
An unsponsored Walmart deli worker is a contender for the #ParisOlympics.
Make no mistake — Dylan Beard is legit. And he’s laser-focused on making @TeamUSA.
Latest for @NBCOlympics: https://t.co/YGQHxFzTT4 pic.twitter.com/pX93vc6AvZ
— Sam Brief (@sambrief) February 23, 2024
Last week, Walmart presented Beard with a $20,000 check to support him as he trains to make the Olympic team.
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The White House went into damage control mode after Joe Biden called India, Japan, Russia, and China as “xenophobic” nations.
India and Japan are members of QUAD, a strategic security dialogue that also includes the U.S. and Australia.
The remarks were made during a fundraiser on May 2, where Joe Biden drew a stark contrast between the immigration policies of these countries and those of the United States.
Biden characterized Japan, a key U.S. ally, as “xenophobic” for its reluctance to embrace mass immigration. He raised questions about the economic challenges faced by China, Japan, and Russia and attributed these difficulties to their xenophobia and resistance to immigration.
He emphasized the value of immigration and described immigrants as a source of strength for the United States.
“This election is about freedom, America and democracy. That’s why I badly need you. You know, one of the reasons why our economy is growing is because of you and many others. Why? Because we welcome immigrants,” Biden said.
“We look to — the reason — look, think about it. Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan having trouble? Why is Russia? Why is India? Because they’re xenophobic. They don’t want immigrants,” he added.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre addressed the media, trying to walk back and struggling to defend Joe Biden.
REPORTER: “The word ‘xenophobic’ is a very pejorative and negative word, particularly to use against an ally. Is that what [Biden] meant?”
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: “The president was very clear!”
REPORTER: “He wasn’t very clear — that’s why we’re asking you.”
REPORTER: “The word ‘xenophobic’ is a very pejorative and negative word, particularly to use against an ally. Is that what [Biden] meant?”
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: “The president was very clear!”
REPORTER: “He wasn’t very clear — that’s why we’re asking you.” pic.twitter.com/EbEa9qEmsV
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 2, 2024
“The broader case that he was trying to make, which I think most leaders and allies across the globe understand, is he was trying — he was saying that when it comes to who we are as a nation, we are a nation of immigrants. That is in our DNA,” KJP said.
Karine Jean-Pierre tries (and fails — badly) to walk back Biden’s remark smearing Japan as “xenophobic” pic.twitter.com/OONOAY44N3
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 2, 2024
These remarks from Biden have the potential to strain diplomatic relations, especially given Japan’s standing as a significant ally of the United States . While there has been no official response from the Japanese government, the statement has significant implications for the relationship between the two countries. Also,
REALITY:
NEW: Biden says that US is prospering because of immigrants, unlike “xenophobic” Japan.
BIDEN’S “XENOPHOBIC”
AMERICA: JAPAN: pic.twitter.com/WSFiu2OeE0— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) May 2, 2024
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Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) completely lost his mind during a House Judiciary Committee field hearing Friday after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) dared to invoke the name of far-left, pro-criminal billionaire George Soros.
The field hearing, “Victims of Violent Crime in Philadelphia,” was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and headed by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). The purpose of the hearing was to examine how Soros-backed Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s soft-on-crime policies embolden criminals at the expense of innocent Philadelphia residents.
As The Gateway Pundit readers know, Soros-funded prosecutors across America have declared war on law-abiding citizens by refusing to prosecute violent criminals and allowing this country’s famous cities to resemble scenes from “The Purge.”
During the hearing, Gaetz began reading headlines about these pro-crime district attorneys letting bad guys off the hook when Nadler opened his mouth. He loudly accused Gaetz of promoting anti-semitism by mentioning Soros, who is culturally Jewish but does not believe in God, in connection to violent crime.
Gaetz calmly responded to Nadler’s outburst by giving him a simple reality check: Not everything about Soros is anti-semitic, and these critiques focus on matters of public policy that affect everyday Americans.
Moreover, Gaetz said he did not know anything about Soros’s faith.
WATCH:
TRIGGERED: @RepJerryNadler wildly lashes out and calls criticism of George Soros “antisemitic” at @JudiciaryGOP‘s hearing on violent crime.
Newsflash: not every criticism of George Soros is antisemitic.
The criticisms deal with public policy and the matters of rising crime… pic.twitter.com/NHugvDM5nD
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) May 3, 2024
GAETZ (reading): George Soros prosecutors wage war on law and order, Heritage.org. Philadelphia District Attorney deceived court to get murderer off death row from the Washington Examiner. George Soros’s bad and unprogressive DAs from the Philadelphia Citizen.
JORDAN: While we are keeping Mr. Kline waiting…If you need a break, just let us know…
NADLER: Mr. Chairman, I want to say with all of the anti-semitism we’re seeing, we’re seeing the anti-semitism of using George Soros again, it’s DISGUSTING!
GAETZ: Point of privilege. Mr. Ranking chairman, not every criticism of George Soros is anti-semitic. The criticisms deal with public policy and the matters of rising crime with the (Soros-backed) DAs.
I don’t know anything about Mr. Soros’s faith.
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