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Honest to God, it makes you wonder if this is how the Left has been paying off their border-crossing shock troops.If you'll remember back to last week, when Elon and the DOGE team made their first official appearance together on Bret Baier's show, I said the segment on Social Security should be required viewing for every little old recipient squawking about a billionaire 400 times over trying to steal their $1500 a month check.The reason SS recipients now have to personally come to an office to change their banking info if they wanted a bank deposit address changed was because...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk and conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair publicly feuded on X on Monday after she accused the world’s richest man of withdrawing childcare support and refusing to take a paternity test. Musk defended himself against those claims, saying he has given St. Clair more than $2 million and is open to a paternity test. “I don’t know if the child is mine or not, but am not against finding out. No court order is needed,” Musk said in a post on X, responding that a court has ordered Musk to take a paternity test. “Despite not knowing...

The world’s population apex is in sight. The United Nations predicts the global population will peak at 10.3 billion by the mid-2080s and cap off. Once speculated to be centuries away, the peak is now within grasp due to declining fertility rates across the world. Last year, the U.S. fertility rate hit a historic low. Between 2014 and 2020, the fertility rate consistently decreased by 2% each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most notably, women between the ages of 20 and 39 are not having as many children as prior generations. The economy...

"That sounds very much like this country," the US president emphasizedWASHINGTON, April 1. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump believes that the sentence of Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Rally parliamentary faction, is very similar to the prosecution to which he himself was subjected to in the United States. "That's a very big deal. I know all about it, and a lot of people thought she wasn't going to be convicted of anything," the US leader said, referring to Le Pen's sentence. "And I don't know if it means conviction, but she was banned for running for five...

Republicans could be poised to deal a symbolic blow to President Donald Trump’s trade policy, with several GOP senators indicating they planned to join Democrats in a Tuesday vote to block blanket tariffs on Canada. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Monday that she plans to back the resolution led by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) that would terminate the national emergency Trump declared last month, citing fentanyl trafficking and illegal immigration. Trump has used that declaration to justify 25 percent across-the-board tariffs on America’s northern neighbor and leading trade partner — duties that Trump has threatened to start levying later this...

A panel of judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday denied the Trump DOJ’s request to pause a lower court’s block on the administration’s transgender military ban. A second federal judge last week temporarily blocked President Trump’s ban on transgender troops. In January President Trump signed the “Restoring America’s Fighting Force” executive order and the “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” executive orders, which direct every element of the U.S. military to “operate free from any preference based on race or sex” and root out gender insanity and made up pronoun usage, respectively. US District Judge Benjamin Hale...

Democracy is dead because Trump killed it by being elected to a second presidential term. But could he kill it even more by serving a third term as president? It's possible. Here are 11 feasible ways that Trump could serve a third term. Here they are. Read, and shudder. Trump could appoint himself as a Federal Judge and unilaterally proclaim himself the Forever President: Federal judges can do anything they want and no one can stop them. He might change his name to Bill Trump, making him legally eligible to run again: The Founders never accounted for a despot who...

An Arizona congressman introduced legislation Monday to remove the federal judge who has blocked President Donald Trump's efforts to deport Venezuelan gang members, offering a novel path that avoids the impeachment process and the need for two-thirds support in the U.S. Senate. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., filed a resolution that would remove U.S. District Judge James Boasberg for “failing to maintain the standard of good behavior required of judges" under Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution. You can read the resolution below: [embedded link to resolution] “Most Americans believe that there is lifetime tenure for a federal judge. That...

Progressive groups including The Legal Aid Society are putting the squeeze on New York lawmakers to reject Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposals on involuntary commitment and discovery reform – and helping hold the state budget past its April 1 deadline. “Governor Hochul’s insistence on exploiting the budget process to push through policies, including repealing New York’s modernized and widely successful discovery statute, is misguided and delays the critical fiscal policies New Yorkers need... State Sen. George Borrello (R-Chautauqua) argued that Legal Aid has a conflict of interest in its opposition to the discovery laws, which were passed in 2019 and require...

Man posts video urging people to 'shoot at ICE agents on sight'. TikTok user belal_donq said 'You might as well shoot them [ICE agents] on sight and have your day in court'. Stepheny Price By Stepheny Price Fox News. March 30, 2025. User belal_donq appeared to take down the video Sunday evening after Fox News Digital reached out to him on TikTok. National Border Patrol Council Vice President Hector Garza told Fox News Digital that this type of message is not only dangerous, but that it also "incites real-world violence." "This kind of rhetoric is not only dangerous, it incites...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an amazing new photo of the spiral galaxy NGC 4941. This Hubble image shows NGC 4941, a spiral galaxy some 67 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. The color image is composed of near-infrared, optical and ultraviolet observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Six filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker. ================================================================== NGC 4941 is located approximately 67 million light-years away...

Never mind blocking workarounds to sign in with a local account, just give us a straightforward choice in the installation process. Microsoft just blocked a popular workaround to install Windows 11 with a local account Some people like to avoid having a Microsoft account linked to the OS due to privacy (or other) concerns While alternative workarounds remain, it’s likely they could be cut off too – and Microsoft is very much going down the wrong path here Microsoft appears to be moving to block Windows 11 users who want to install the operating system using a local account, meaning...

Hamas operatives kidnapped, tortured and executed a 22-year-old Palestinian man who participated in last week’s wave of protests against the terror group, according to his family. Oday Nasser Al Rabay’s body was left in front of his family’s home over the weekend. On Saturday, many dozens were filmed participating in his funeral procession, shouting, “Hamas out!” Hamas has reportedly been threatening Palestinians who participate in the protests against the terror group, but this appears to be the first time that anyone has been killed in connection to them. The protests were held for three straight days last week, but none...

A nanostructured copper alloy, Cu-Ta-Li (Copper-Tantalum-Lithium), could be a groundbreaking new high-temperature material for aerospace, defense, and industrial applications, combining properties of several materials into a useful hybrid. Developed in a collaboration between the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Lehigh University (LU), the alloy is one of the toughest copper-based materials ever devised due to its high thermal stability and mechanical strength. Arizona State University and Louisiana State University scientists also contributed to the creation of this new heat-resistant alloy. Cutting Edge Material Science “This is cutting-edge science, developing a new material that uniquely combines copper’s excellent conductivity with...

The makers of hit Netflix show Adolescence have sparked a conversation in Britain and beyond on how to protect children from violent misogyny and other harmful content on social media. Now they have the ear of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who welcomed the filmmakers to Downing Street on Monday for talks on child protection. Starmer’s office said he backed an initiative by Netflix to stream the drama series for free to secondary schools across the country, so that as many teens as possible can watch it.

The court highlighted the 'central role' played by the far-right in the system set up to embezzle money from the European Parliament by using funds allocated for parliamentary assistants to pay for staff working for her party. It was a decision eagerly awaited for Marine Le Pen's political future. The Paris Correctional Court handed down its decision on Monday, March 31, in the case of her party's fake assistant jobs at the European Parliament.Convicted of "embezzlement of public funds" and "complicity in the embezzlement of public funds," the leader of the Rassemblement National (RN) four-year prison sentence, including two years...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlY3jFDMshM God do i miss the 70's..

Woke New York Attorney General Letitia James made a social media post in which she pathetically tried to criticize President Donald Trump for making changes to Social Security, which she claimed would harm vulnerable seniors. However, the comments on her post were filled with principled conservatives taking her to task for her political bias and poor arguments. For context, Letitia James has pursued legal actions against the president, such as a civil fraud case to financially ruin him. After the 2024 election, James congratulated President Trump on his win but warned that her office was “prepared to fight back” against...

Pharma stocks tumbled today after Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the agency within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responsible for authorizing vaccines, resigned under pressure from his new boss, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "If Peter Marks does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at FDA under the strong leadership of Secretary Kennedy," an HHS official said in a statement. Shares of Moderna, BioNTech, Novavax and Pfizer declined 11%, 7%, 6% and 2%, respectively, on the news, Fast...

In 2019, scholars at Cambridge University Library discovered an extremely rare 750-year-old text on the legends of King Arthur hiding in plain sight. A fragment of the fragile manuscript had been repurposed in the binding of a 16th-century property record, making it almost impossible to study the medieval text without dismantling and certainly damaging the record’s cover. Almost impossible—but not completely. An interdisciplinary team of scholars from the University of Cambridge used various advanced imaging techniques to create a virtual copy of the binding, allowing them to digitally unfold the rare text without having to damage it or the property...