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The Department of Homeland Security told Fox News that "four employees are being fired today for circumventing leadership and unilaterally making the egregious payment for hotels for migrants in New York City." The firings come after Elon Musk wrote on X Monday that "The DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants." "Firings include FEMA’s Chief Financial Officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist," the DHS also said. "Under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to...

PBS fired two diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) executives and scrapped the department after Bari Weiss’ online publication Free Press was tipped off that the broadcaster was ignoring President Trump’s executive order eliminating the controversial initiative. On Monday, PBS CEO Paula Kerger informed staff that it was parting ways with Cecilia Loving, senior vice president of DEI, and Gina Leow, director of DEI. In the email, Kerger explained that the departures were necessary in order to adhere to Trump’s executive order from Jan. 20, which mandates the elimination of DEI-focused positions and funding in federally supported organizations. “I know you...

President Donald Trump is waging war against former President Joe Biden’s green energy regulations on Americans’ household appliances.Trump made the announcement in a social media post at 5:57 a.m. on Tuesday and said he was instructing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Secretary Lee Zeldin to oversee the matter, Fox News reported.The president wrote in his post:I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards...

Martín López is an Argentine landlord, but in recent years he felt more like a nervous fugitive. Now based in Madrid, he spent much of 2022 and 2023 mired in anxiety and paperwork—not because he did anything immoral, but because Argentina's rental laws made being a landlord a liability. "Martín López" is an alias. Until late 2023, he rented out his two-bedroom apartment in Buenos Aires' upscale Belgrano neighborhood through a tangle of short-term contracts, never fully sure whether his actions were legal. Argentina's 2020 rent control law, repealed by President Javier Milei in December 2023, had loaded aboveground landlords...

Statement from National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz...

If you have followed the arc of Tech, Peter Thiel recruiting JD Vance, the creation of Palantir, the funding of Vance’s senatorial run, and eventually the roadmap to connect Vance to Trump, this is a video speech you absolutely must not miss. JD Vance was sent to the AI Summit for a reason.JD Vance talks at the AI summit in Paris, France, about his core mission, his core purpose inside current political influence. This is the very origin of his legacy, unfolding in real time. Vice-President JD Vance talks about Artificial Intelligence, the future and the Trump administration position.Vice President...

EXCLUSIVE: More than 100 congressional lawmakers have lined up behind the goal of cutting government waste, as Republicans and Democrats wage an aggressive ideological battle over the merits of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The Congressional DOGE Caucus was founded shortly after President Donald Trump tapped Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an advisory panel on where the federal bureaucracy could be trimmed. That effort is now being led by Musk alone, and it's attracted fierce criticism from Democratic lawmakers who call him an unelected bureaucrat with too much control over the federal government despite no prior experience...

[Catholic Caucus] 11 February 2013: One of the saddest days in the history of the Catholic Church and larger modern society.One of the saddest days in the history of the Catholic Church and larger modern society. One of the saddest decades. Twelve years ago today. The confusion, pain and division caused by this is still untold.

BMW’s conservative approach to EV adoption, investing in platforms that can accommodate internal-combustion, hybrid, and electric powertrains, is now paying off as the company navigates the uncertain transition to electric vehicles. Inside EVs reports that as the automotive industry grapples with the challenges of transitioning to electric vehicles, BMW’s strategic decision to invest in flexible platforms is proving to be a wise move. Unlike some of its rivals, such as Mercedes and Audi, who have focused heavily on dedicated EV platforms, BMW has taken a more measured approach by developing architectures that can support multiple powertrains, including internal-combustion engines (ICE),...

At a protest against the policies of President Trump, Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) urged a mob of her fellow Democrats to "shut down the city because we are at war." She was particularly incensed that "hundreds of thousands of the federal workers we have brought into the government could lose their jobs if the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) succeeds in reducing the so-called waste and corruption that has ballooned the public debt. We Democrats aren't opposed to efficiency as a concept, but a line must be drawn if anyone has to lose his or her job to achieve...

Former high school teacher Shannon Marie Quinn has pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation after admitting to sex crimes against two 17-year-old students. Quinn, also known as Shannon Greffe, was 40 at the time of the sexual offences against the two minors and was employed as a teacher at St. Francis Xavier High School in Gloucester. She pleaded guilty in an Ottawa courtroom on Jan. 22 where she was represented by criminal defence lawyer Sean May. Ontario Court Justice Michael Boyce authorized the release of an agreed statement of facts entered into the court record by Crown attorney...

That’s a basic premise of American democracy, as US Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, pointed out Monday during a press conference with fellow Democratic members of Congress, where Musk’s assault on USAID—the federal government agency that is responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance—was decried as “a constitutional crisis.” Musk may say that he is going to feed the agency into “the wood chipper,” but Congress has a bigger say, explained Omar. “We get to decide, we have the power of the purse. We get to decide where money is allocated, and it’s the executive’s power to make...

JD Vance talks about his core mission, his core purpose inside current political influence. This is the very origin of his legacy, unfolding in real time. Sundance

Public schools are indoctrinating the three murdered girls' former classmates with woke BS about refugeees and Islam, as well as LGBTQ blather that has no place in primary schools. Transcript linked below video.

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Jeff Parker, the CEO of the small Florida-based technology company ParkerVision, spoke to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Jan. 30 to discuss tech giant Qualcomm's alleged theft of one of the most revolutionary patented innovations in U.S. history with the help of elements of the Obama administration — technology that ended up in the hands of Americans' communist Chinese competitors. It turns out Parker's interview with Beck got under the right people's skin. Qualcomm, which has contested ParkerVision's allegation that it infringed on ParkerVision's patented technology for roughly 11 years, unsuccessfully filed a court motion on Feb. 4 requesting...

US envoy Steve Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American who was detained by Russia, the White House announces. Developing

Pro-life professor worries exhibit is ‘misleading,’ says ‘no herbal abortifacient has been approved for use by the FDA’ An exhibit at Barnard College about the “changing conditions of reproductive rights in the United States” includes dried herbs and an outdoor garden with plants historically used to induce abortions. The “Trigger Planting 2.0” exhibit debuted in October. On-going events connected to the display include an information session Tuesday on “self-managed abortion” and the “abortion pill.” Together, the projects seem to imply that women may use the plants to abort their unborn babies if they want to. At the event Tuesday, participants...

Simple things were left blank: --Payment categories --Payment rationales --Basic audit controls The kind of fields any small business would require. The kind that let you track where money goes. The kind that stop a billion dollars of fraud. Every week. (snip) This isn't about spreadsheets anymore. This isn't about waste or controls or management. This is about who controls the machine.Because when you find something like empty fields in Treasury's payment system, you're not just finding missing data. You're finding purpose. When basic controls sit blank while billions vanish weekly, that's not incompetence. That's design.

In March 2024, the Metro Council voted to refuse a proposed settlement of $105K with Turner for what he posted on social media in 2020.. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The attorney for former Nashville firefighter Tracy Turner has announced a victory in his civil rights case against the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. Turner, who was demoted following posts made on his personal Facebook page, was awarded nearly $1.8 million by a federal jury on Friday. His attorney says that the $1,775,513 in damages comes from the retaliation against Turner based on his exercise of free speech. “He...