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A Maine Republican says that her state’s transgender athlete policy is so “extreme” that it will cost the state millions in federal funding. Maine Republican state Rep. Laurel Libby is blasting Democrat Governor Janet Mills for refusing to obey President Donald Trump’s Title IX rules banning transgender athletes in girl’s sports or risk a loss of federal education funding. Maine’s Principals’ Association maintains that its state rules take precedence over the new rules written by Donald Trump’s administration, and the state’s schools will continue to allow transgender athletes to compete in girl’s and women’s sports, Fox News reported.

The New York Times acted like getting former IRS commissioners to bellyache over President Donald Trump’s cuts to one of the most hated agencies in Washington was some kind of a flex. Commissioners from both Democratic and Republican administrations penned a February 24 guest essay lambasting Trump for daring to initiate cuts to the IRS workforce: “Trump Just Fired 6,700 I.R.S. Workers in the Middle of Tax Season. That’s a Huge Mistake.” Former IRS chiefs Lawrence Gibbs, Fred T. Goldberg Jr., Charles Rossotti, Mark Everson, John Koskinen, Charles Rettig and Daniel Werfel were up in arms over Trump allegedly not...

Now she’s crying because Trump spokesperson @kleavittnh shared Jake Tapper’s own words and Kasie thinks this is “an attack” Wild that Kasie still even has a job after those disgraceful remarks about @SenRandPaul.

In one of her first interviews following reports that she was being unceremoniously fired by MSNBC, Joy Reid repeatedly broke down in tears while insisting she was "proud" of her work at the network. Reid, whose show “The ReidOut" has been a staple of insanity on the network for five years, will take a curtain call with a final episode sometime this week. The controversial race agitator spoke with WinWithBlackWomen founder and CEO Jotaka Eaddy about the heartbreaking news. Reid admitted she was simply "trying to get through it." Whether the "it" refers to the firing itself or the interview,...

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It has been 1,243 days today that retired Green Beret Master Sergeant Jeremy Brown has been incarcerated in the federal prison system after he was handed guilty verdicts in a case that arose from a search warrant after his involvement in the Jan 6 protest. It has been 35 days since President Trump issued a blanket pardon for all offenses related to January 6th. MSG Brown was asked to provide personal security for a permitted speaker’s mother on January 6th. The Oath Keeper and retired Special Forces veteran traveled to Washington, D.C., to do just that. But after the Metropolitan...

The look on his face is priceless

A 16-year-old boy let out a keening wail as he collapsed in court after being told he would be tried for murder as an adult and denied bail. Sean Simpson is charged with the shooting murder of 16-year-old Zaquavious Dawkins last month in Gastonia, North Carolina. The alleged teen killer broke down in court, sobbing and screaming as he learned he would not be released on bail and will have to face the law as an adult. Simpson began wiping his eyes as the judge could be heard saying 'hold without bond,' footage obtained by QueenCityNews shows. The teenager, whose...

In December last year, Sen. Joni Ernst tweeted, “On its way out the door, the Biden admin is locking in telework for 42,000 @SocialSecurity bureaucrats until AFTER President Trump leaves office! Unacceptable!” It wasn’t only Social Security bureaucrats; it’s across the board. President Trump was vilified for ordering people back to work or be fired. The union fought the order. As it happens, under 50% have returned to the office. They had a month to return. As leader of the DOGE, Elon Musk said any workers who have not returned to the office will be placed on leave. Musk posted...

A Collier County-based TikTok influencer known as “Island Boy” is facing charges after being caught with drugs and a firearm. According to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, 23-year-old Frank Venegas was taken into custody after a traffic stop on Sunday. Officers found Venegas as a passenger in a yellow Corvette that failed to stop at a posted sign on Oil Well Road. During the stop, officers discovered a plastic bag containing white pills on the passenger side floorboard. The pills, identified as Oxycodone, were not in a prescription container, leading officers to search.

Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who leaped onto the back of President John F. Kennedy’s limousine after the president was shot, then was forced to retire early because he remained haunted by memories of the assassination, has died. He was 93. Hill died Friday at his home in Belvedere, California, according to his publisher, Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. A cause of death was not given. Although few may recognize his name, the footage of Hill, captured on Abraham Zapruder’s chilling home movie of the assassination, provided some of the most indelible images of Kennedy’s assassination...

A 15-year-old boy shot his mother and sister multiple times soon after calling cops to say he was going to kill someone while having a “bad reaction” to “a bunch of edibles,” according to police. The suspect took the marijuana edibles on Saturday night with another teenager and an adult when he began to have physical issues and called an ambulance in a panic, according to police in Houston, Texas. He then grabbed a gun when the two others started to laugh at him — and called the cops threatening to kill himself or someone else, ABC 13 reported. When...

Patton had a lot to say about Russians.

Claim: A photograph authentically shows former first lady Jill Biden as a young woman. Rating: True A black-and-white photograph supposedly showing a young Jill Biden has circulated online for years, often with the claim that it was taken in the 1970s. The photo of the former U.S. first lady spread on social media platforms including Facebook, X, Instagram and 9GAG. In short, the image is authentic. It was taken in 1974 by artist and professional photographer Tom Stiltz, who posted the image on his Instagram account in 2020. Apart from Stiltz's, the earliest known post featuring the image was...

These are the sort of gremlins J6ers had to fight in court. Sara Levine: “The Justice Department is under attack.” ... They were temporary prosecutors on Capitol Siege unit who were made permanent after Trump won. Trump DOJ busted the scheme and dismissed the temporary hires. Also—note how the 100% conviction rate is supposed to demonstrate the strength of the evidence rather than a rigged, biased process that involved jurors in the most Democratic city in the country. These two aren’t even employable at the local DMV.

We had a limited-purpose government in place at the national level That began to change when, on April 12, 1937, the Supreme Court lawlessly “amended” the Constitution Mario Nawfal✓@MarioNawfal ELON: WE NEED TO GET THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF PEOPLE’S LIVES “I've had many conversations with President Trump, who is very much aligned in thinking that we need significant government reform. We need to get the government out of people's lives. And have America be the land of liberty, which is what has made America great. It's the land of liberty and opportunity. You maximize people's personal freedom, and make sure...

mmigration enforcement officers have been directed to track down and deport migrant children who arrived in the United States without their parents. It comes amid heightened pressures to reach President Trump's lofty deportation targets as part of his election commitment to solve America's immigration crisis. According to an internal memo seen by Reuters , agents at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will now direct their focus to unaccompanied minors. The memo cited a 'planning phase' to begin on January 27, followed by three more phases of implementation, to begin at an unspecified date. Trump signed an executive order upon returning...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — America's new golden age came screeching to an unexpected halt today, as news broke that President Donald Trump had been fired for forgetting to reply to Elon Musk's email. Trump reportedly missed the deadline to respond to the email from the Department of Government Efficiency requiring all federal employees to list five things they worked on last week. Despite Trump accomplishing an impressive list of tasks, he failed to reply to the email. "A rule is a rule," Musk said when asked by reporters to comment on Trump's abrupt departure. "He was the one who signed off...

President Trump's nominee to head NASA, Jared Isaacman, is the first commercial astronaut to walk in space. ... Isaacman is known for commanding the first all-civilian spaceflight mission to orbit Earth in 2021 and plans to set ambitious new goals at NASA once he’s confirmed. He also founded Draken International, where he built the world’s largest private fleet of fighter jets. “You only get one crack at life. To the extent you have the means to do so, you have this obligation to live life to the fullest. You never know when it’s going to be your last day.”

LONDON — Tech consumers across the pond were recently startled to learn that the Apple Watch being sold in the UK would now warn when wearers' heart rates react inappropriately to a racist meme. According to Apple, the smartwatch will monitor your biometrics simultaneously with your meme consumption and issue warnings any time you view a meme determined to be racist without a proper response of anti-racist rage and white guilt. The watch will then report its findings to the local authorities. "I accidentally scrolled past a meme of Pepe the Frog and my watch immediately started sending me notifications,"...