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- Will be looking at the IRS - Car tariffs are coming soon - Would love to have Russia back in G7 - Elon Musk’s DOGE is doing a great job - Deadline to ban TikTok could be extended - Taiwan took our chip business—we want it back - Not concerned about countries shifting business to China - Wants talks on military spending cuts with Russia & China - No need for producing or stockpiling new nuclear weapons - BRICS nations playing with the dollar could face 100%+ tariffs

@RandPaul Today, we dove into the reckless and wasteful spending of our federal government. The United States should not be the sugar daddy for the entire world, especially not for countries and organizations who act contrary to our nations’ beliefs. [6 min video]

CHICAGO — A woman accused of shooting a man who became “disrespectful” on a Red Line train in downtown Chicago was given a four-year sentence on Monday. Erica Berry, 39, pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated discharge of a firearm before Judge James Obbish. Prosecutors dropped four counts of attempted murder, a more serious charge that Berry faced. In May 2023, prosecutors said Berry was sitting alone on a northbound train when a 35-year-old man strolled over and started a conversation around 8 p.m. Berry later told police that the man was flirting with her and that she “tried...

House Republicans brought the receipts to this week's "USAID Betrayal" hearing exposing the U.S. international aid agency's widespread waste and abuse of American tax dollars. Amid intense examination of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)'s spending spree, Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), a majority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, listed off more ways USAID has wasted taxpayer money. [snip] According to the congressional committee's findings, USAID spent: $11.75 million on measuring the effectiveness of DEI promotion efforts in Nepal (Award ID #AID367C1500001); $750,000 on Princeton University's DEI survey in the Middle East (Award ID #7200AA21C00087); $859,000 on hiring...

Lawfare hasn’t stopped since Donald Trump became president again, but has been repackaged into civil litigation to stop his second term agenda—and most of the civil lawfare can be traced to groups affiliated with a coalition known as Civil Service Strong. Members of the coalition scored federal court wins in recent days to temporarily block Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, to delay a federal employee buyout, and to halt the shuttering of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The member groups have also been involved in numerous other lawsuits against the Trump administration, including challenging the Schedule F executive...

Explanation: Riding high in the constellation of Auriga, beautiful, blue VdB 31 is the 31st object in Sidney van den Bergh's 1966 catalog of reflection nebulae. It shares this well-composed celestial still life with dark, obscuring clouds B26, B27, and B28, recorded in Edward E. Barnard's 1919 catalog of dark markings in the sky. All are these nebulae are interstellar dust clouds. Barnard's dark nebulae block the light from background stars. For VdB 31 the dust preferentially reflects bluish starlight from embedded, hot, variable star AB Aurigae. Exploring the environs of AB Aurigae with the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed...

...on any country ripping off America.

Former Biden Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Ana Cabrera Reports” that the United States had gone from a democracy to a monarchy under the Trump administration. Cabrera said, “Let’s talk about what we know of that’s happening inside your old building. CNBC reports that Elon Musk’s DOGE team has taken over some of the departments highest officials offices. In fact, they describe it as what’s happening in there rearranging furniture, setting up white noise machines to muffle their voices. DOGE says it’s already terminated roughly $900 million worth of contracts, writing on social media that it’s terminated...

RFK Jr.’s swearing in ceremony is scheduled for 2 pm ET following an executive order signing and press conference by President Trump. The Gateway Pundit reported that President Trump is signing an executive order and speaking to the press about reciprocal tariffs. This was scheduled for 1 pm ET but did not start until shortly after 1 pm. RFK’s swearing in ceremony will likely begin shortly after 2 pm ET. Watch live below:

Biden’s Office of Refugee Resettlement funneled $10B in 2023 alone to nonprofits, incentivizing more illegal crossings - NYP

Ken Paxton: George Soros Controls 70% of Texas Through Elected DAs

BRUSSELS (AP) — Close to 100,000 protesters thronged the center of Brussels on Thursday while airports and public transport were largely paralyzed as trade unions took their ire to the streets over drastic plans of the new center-right government to revamp some of the foundations on which the nation’s welfare state was built.Reductions in pensions and cuts for public service personnel were central themes as the country’s three main unions joined hands to confront the new government of Prime Minister Bart De Wever, whose program to take on massive government debt includes measures that weigh heavy on the lower-income working...

I cannot imagine why it would not be broadcast live.

Every week for several years, Abortion Free New Mexico’s (AFNM) sidewalk counseling team has interacted with a security guard at the UNM Center for Reproductive Health (UNMCRH) abortion center. Some days, he has been aggressive and hostile, other times he actually seemed supportive of our efforts. Due to the AFNM team’s public opposition to the University of New Mexico’s radical abortion agenda, he appeared to be struggling with a crisis of conscience. He shared at one point, after being educated by the AFNM sidewalk counseling team about the dangers to women posed by this facility, that he would at times...

The Georgia Department of Agriculture has lifted the suspension of poultry activities in Georgia, one of the country’s top poultry-producing states, after bird flu testing, depopulation, cleaning and disinfecting were done in the area and no new cases were found. Bird flu variant found in Nevada cows shows signs of adaptation to mammals In January, all poultry exhibitions, shows, swaps, meets and sales in Georgia were suspended after positive bird flu cases in Elbert County were identified at two facilities by the Georgia Department of Agriculture and the US Department of Agriculture. The cases were the first in a commercial...

They protested his visit because they’re upset he got rid of wokeness and DEI.

US President Donald Trump's proposal to relocate Palestinians from Gaza and then redevelop the Gaza Strip has sent shockwaves around the world. Rejected by the Arab world and much of the international community, it has been hailed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an idea that "could change history," "worth listening to carefully," and "the first original idea that's been raised in years." However, to one man in Washington, the proposal Trump unveiled when he hosted Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday was not shocking. George Washington University professor Joseph Pelzman, an expert in economics and international relations and...

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry wants to hold a New York abortionist accountable for illegally mailing abortion pills to his state that are killing babies and hurting women. As LifeNews reported, a New York abortionist has been indicted for illegally selling abortion pills to people in the pro-life state of Louisiana, where babies are legally protected from abortions. The indictment came after officials learned that a minor girl was gvien the abortion pills that Margaret Carpenter and her company Nightingale Medical sold to the teen’s mom. The mother of the minor, who according to reports coerced the minor to take the...

Frank Herbert thought so. He wrote the "Dune" books; he wrote about blowback from the Irish "troubles" in which a virology scientist, engineers a disease that kills all women, of all races. The books is called White Plague. Current bio-warfare policy is not to wipe out tens of millions of people, notwithstanding the Spanish flu (accidental) and Dr. Ralph Baric's insertion of the furin clevage site into the Sars Covid 2008 that formerly could not surpass the blood-brain barrier until deliberately engineered (non-accidental). Current bio-warfare policy is toward high-infectious, low-lethality organisms, to cause economic injury to countries like China and...