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What’s happening right now is that Democrats, having been thrown out of power by American voters in a landslide victory for Trump, have decided they’re going to deploy a widely-used tactic from Trump’s first term to thwart the president’s agenda: use the federal judiciary. Under the false pretext that the lower federal courts are part of a “coequal branch of government” with the executive, they’re aiming to shut down Trump’s reform efforts with a fusillade of preliminary injunctions.In recent days dozens of lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration by Democrat attorneys general and various left-wing groups. These groups...

A Los Angeles County teenager was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday after admitting to making more than 375 "swatting calls" in which he made false reports of bomb and mass shooting threats at locations around the U.S. Alan W. Filion, an 18-year-old Lancaster resident, admitted in a plea agreement to carrying out calls targeting places such as high schools, colleges and universities, religious institutions and people such as government officials, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal prosecutors said he intended for the calls to result in major emergency responses by law enforcement. This led to some...

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump Administration to restore the gender ideology webpages it deleted. US District Jud7ge John Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, a George W. Bush appointee, ordered Trump to restore the pages by midnight tonight. Last month, President Trump scrubbed public health websites of all things related to “gender ideology.” A group dubbed Doctors For America sued the Office of Personal Management and numerous government agencies, claiming the removal could prevent doctors from helping patients. Judge Bates agreed with Doctors for America and ordered the extremist ideology to...

...Announces Bert And Ernie Are Now Straight

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is freezing funding for several programs despite a federal judge telling President Donald J. Trump’s administration not to. On Monday, Stacey Street, the director of FEMA’s Office of Grant Administration, issued a directive halting funding for multiple grant programs. The directive calls for freezing all open awards from fiscal years 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. The action allegedly violates a court order by U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell, who claims that federal grants are being blocked contrary to his earlier restraint.

I perused one or two threads that indicated he had purchased time to air the progress of doge. Did they air?

Executives at the Walt Disney Company are reportedly worried that soaring prices are alienating families from its theme parks, with internal surveys showing a decline in guests who are planning return visits to Walt Disney World and Disneyland. The price of attending a Disney park has skyrocketed in recent years, with the typical price of a four-day stay inside the park rising by $1000 between 2019 and 2024, a new study conducted by The Wall Street Journal showed. The vast majority of that increase — nearly 80 percent — comes from new charges for services that were once free. This...

400,000+ Views During the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing...... The first 7 minutes show a fierce exchange between Shifty Schiff and the Honorable Kash Patel. _______FBI nominee Kash Patel said in his 2023 book that Adam Schiff was one of Washington’s “corrupt actors of the first order.” Thursday, Schiff, now a U.S. senator and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was given the opportunity to grill his detractor. And he did so, relentlessly.______

...on DEI as it relates to the “musical mission” of the Air Force.

The US government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has been funnelling millions of dollars into student and professional media outlets across Europe mainly in Eastern and Central Europe, data from US government spending has shown. This long-term financial support has been framed as part of Washington’s “commitment to supporting democratic values and civil society in the [European] region” under the Assistance to Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia/Economic Support Fund (AEECA/ESF PD) programmes. The scale and scope of the funding have raised questions about the extent of US influence in shaping media narratives and civil society in...

Joe Rogan knocked Democrats in a recent podcast episode, accusing the party of failing to connect with voters even after President Trump’s victory last fall. “They’re not course correcting at all. Ya know, they’re saying stupid s‑‑‑. It’s all nonsense,” Rogan said. “Their understanding of social media and the dynamics that you set up by having completely state-controlled mainstream media where they only said the narratives that you guys wanted,” he added. “They all said it in step so you could watch different programs repeat the exact same words, exact same phrases.”

A Democratic congressman is facing heat from conservatives on social media after promoting the idea of a "street fight" at a protest pushing back against Elon Musk’s recent efforts to slash government waste through the newly created DOGE office.

Credit card records obtained by the auditors show Scott used her Education Explosion credit card for at least $130,494 on trips taken by the Scott family to places like Egypt, Disneyland Paris and others. The report also says $166,520 in charter school funds were for the lease and/or purchase of a 2017 Acura MDX and a 2021 Land Rover Velar from August 2017 to April 2024 in the report. Other personal expenses noted in the report accuse Scott of withdrawing $42,371 from the FICS bank account on May 27, 2023, to buy a cashier's check payable to NOLA Motorcars. Records...

... on current minor patients even after Trump issued an EO banning funding for "gender-affirming care" on minors. They should be stripped of their funding immediately.

A popular and controversial drug used for weight loss is among others that could potentially have extremely serious side effects. According to multiple studies, patients taking drugs such as Ozempic may experience conditions that cause inflammation and the blockage of blood flow to their eyes. That could result in severe and possibly irreversible vision loss, the Daily Mail reported Monday. “Now, researchers have detailed nine new reports of US patients who went blind after taking semaglutide or tirzepatide, the active ingredients in Ozempic and Mounjaro, respectively,” the article continued: The researchers wrote in JAMA Ophthalmology last month that it’s not...

“Based on what I've seen, the initial hearing held in Congress was FAULTY. I believe there were TWO SHOOTERS.”

At the end of Trump's first term, he pardoned Bannon for the exact same case, immediately afterwards, The State of NY charged Bannon, given how various Trump supporters went to prison for bogus charges, this was probably the best Bannon could hope for in the State of NY.

“Not only is this person going to lose their job, they’ll lose their pension, they're gonna go to jail.”

An e-bike battery that exploded is being blamed for an apartment fire in the city of Ithaca Monday morning. When firefighters arrived on Cherry Street at around 6:40, they found heavy smoke coming from the fourth floor of the five-story building. They determined a battery was burning in the apartment, which ignited other materials. The three people who were inside the apartment were able to escape safely. The building sustained moderate smoke and water damage. The sprinkler system activated and prevented the fire from growing larger. The Red Cross was called to help those residents who were displaced and no...

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