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President Biden's nominee for governor of the Federal Reserve has said repeatedly that she supports reparations, the controversial proposed policy of financial compensation for Black Americans as a form of atonement for slavery and discrimination. "Everybody benefited from slavery. Everybody," Lisa Cook, a Michigan State University professor, said in a September 2020 "EconTalk" podcast. "So, I think that we absolutely need some sort of reckoning with that. There are many proposals on the table to study the possibility of reparations, many economic proposals being put forward, and I think they should all be taken seriously." Biden said during the 2020...

The Florida Department of Education on Friday sent a scathing letter to Alachua County School Board Chair Sarah Rockwell in response to her social media post celebrating the death of Hulk Hogan as “one less MAGA,” and the board’s attempt to silence a parent at Thursday’s school board meeting. “Your recent unprofessional conduct has been brought to my attention. You made disparaging comments about the death of a conservative public figure, leading the public to lose confidence in your ability to treat all students and families fairly,” Commissioner of Education Anastasios Kamoutsas wrote. That concern has now been reaffirmed by...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations Washington, D.C. field office investigation led to a Washington, D.C. woman’s arrest in connection with an assault on federal agents who were helping transfer an alleged international gang member at the D.C. Central Detention Facility. Sydney Lori Reid, 44, of the District of Columbia, was charged July 23 in U.S. District Court with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers or employees. “Sydney Lori Reid actively and intentionally assaulted federal law enforcement officers while they were taking custody of two apparent gang members and dangerous individuals,” said ICE HSI Washington,...

Disperse order is given in Donald Trump voice. Feds and Portland cops confront rioters, who mock them. One woman in ninja black pulls up her shirt and dances around showing her boobs to a Disney song. Boobs are blurred. Police and Feds make arrests, spray tear gas, and roll up the riot. Transcript linked below video.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just made a stunning move inside the Department of Health and Human Services, terminating two top officials. Heather Flick Melanson, his Chief of Staff, and Hannah Anderson, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, are OUT. According to ABC News, the dismissals were sudden

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo XIV warns ‘world is burning’ from ‘global warming’ at first ‘Care of Creation’ MassPope Leo highlighted a supposed need of 'conversion' for those who do not yet prioritize 'the urgency of caring for our common home.'CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated the newly composed “Mass for the Care of Creation” today, marking the first use of the liturgical texts he approved a few weeks ago.With just a small congregation gathered in the gardens of Castel Gandolfo this morning, Pope Leo offered the votive Mass “for the care of creation.”Leo was joined by a...

Where is Tulsi Gabbard? The country’s Director of National Intelligence has been glaringly absent as the biggest national security story in years continues to develop. In both the lead-up to and the aftermath of President Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear sites, Gabbard has barely been seen, or heard. It’s a strange time for the chief of the US intelligence community to go silent, leading to a growing number of questions that Americans – particularly MAGA Americans – would like answered. It’s Gabbard’s now-infamous testimony to Congress in March – and a video posted to social media earlier this month...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka filed a lawsuit against the US Attorney for New Jersey on Tuesday over his arrest last month while protesting outside an ICE detention facility in his city. Baraka accused interim head attorney Alina Habba, who is also a personal lawyer of President Trump, of “malicious prosecution” and violating his Fourth Amendment rights following the May 9 arrest. “Defandant Habba issued the defamatory statement and authorized the false arrest of Mayor Baraka despite clear evidence that Mayor Baraka had not committed the petty offense of ‘defiant trespass,’” the lawsuit stated.

President Donald Trump said Sunday that his tariff policy will substantially reduce, even completely eliminate, income taxes for some American workers. “When Tariffs cut in, many people’s Income Taxes will be substantially reduced, maybe even completely eliminated,” Trump wrote in a 6:06 a.m. post on Truth Social. “Focus will be on people making less than $200,000 a year.” Trump continued, “Also, massive numbers of jobs are already being created, with new plants and factories currently being built or planned. It will be a BONANZA FOR AMERICA!!! THE EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE IS HAPPENING!!!

First lady Melania Trump encouraged the President to start shaking hands with other world leaders during Pope Francis’ funeral Saturday. At one point during the three-hour Catholic mass, attendees were invited to share the “sign of peace” by shaking hands with one another. “Donald, look left,” Melania whispered, according to forensic lip reader Jeremy Freeman. Following the first lady’s lead, Trump turned to Estonian President Alar Karis and Spain’s King Felipe VI, saying, “Great to see you, great to see you,” while shaking their hands, Freeman said. Turning to his right, Trump then shakes hands with Finnish President Alexander Stubb,...

Mahdawi was arrested after arriving at a citizenship center in Vermont, The Intercept reports. ICE’s database appears to confirm Mahdawi’s detention. The database says Mahdawi is in ICE custody, listing his birthplace as Jordan. Mahdawi was born in the West Bank, but the ICE database does not have a category for the Palestinian territories. Several Columbia University anti-Israel activists have been targeted by the Trump administration, starting last month with protest leader Mahmoud Khalil. Mohsen Mahdawi’s Calls for Israel’s Destruction, Justification of Hamas Terrorism and Support for the Pro-Hamas Encampment at Columbia University (Columbia). Mohsen Mahdawi’s Calls for Israel’s Destruction,...

Despite official action to essentially wipe migrants out of the Social Security system, a new report said one bureaucrat refused to go along. Greg Pearre, a manager who according to The Washington Post oversaw technology experts, was refusing to put names of migrants into what’s known as the “death master file,” which is usually used for Social Security recipients who have died. As a result, on Thursday, security guards arrived at Pearre’s office at Social Security Administration headquarters in Woodlawn, Maryland, and escorted him out. As with all Trump administration innovations, blocking access to migrants’ Social Security numbers has its...

US President Donald Trump has shown a callous disregard for the checks and balances that have long protected American democracy. As the self-described ‘king’ makes a momentous power grab, much of the world watches anxiously, aware that his administration’s growing illegality and corruption is eroding not only the US Constitution but what remains of the post-1945 international order. A return to great-power spheres of interest looks increasingly likely. But foreign governments, businesses and civil-society groups have more power than they think in the face of a revisionist United States. They can take five steps to create external checks and balances...

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...

On March 13, 2025 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the Office of Net Assessment was going to be "disestablished" and its personnel re-assigned within the Pentagon. (See Link: (From BreakingDefense-Hegseth ‘disestablishing’ Office of Net Assessment, Pentagon’s strategic analysis specialists)Many people don't know the key role that the Office of Net Assessment (ONA) at the Pentagon had in the RussiaGate scandal and the political persecution of General Michael Flynn. The key person linking RussiaGate and the Flynn political assassination is Stefan Hapler, a relatively shadowy Deep State entity with ostensible Republican ties, but deeper ties to the Deep State...

Democratic Oregon Rep. Maxine Dexter screamed out during a rally Monday the party faithful need to “*&*&” President Donald Trump. The Daily Caller reports the obscenity came as the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) gathered on Capitol Hill and rallied “to save the civil service” and oppose Trump’s push to reduce the size of the federal government’s workforce through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Dexter was seen at the podium addressing protesters before calling out Trump and teasing her supporters to not “tell her children” before she spoke. “I’ve been told I have 30 seconds, so I am...

And he appeared to set his sights on scrutinizing the nation’s top elected Democrat, sending what he called a “letter of inquiry” to Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) about his quickly walked-back statement in a March 2020 rally that two of Trump’s recently nominated Supreme Court justices, Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh, would “pay the price” for a vote against abortion rights. “We take threats against public officials very seriously. I look forward to your cooperation,” Martin wrote Schumer in a Jan. 21 letter obtained by The Post.

Washington — FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell said Sunday that L.A. officials were "very prepared" for devastating wildfires, noting that the area is prone to fires. But "they have never seen 100-mile-an-hour winds that are fueling the fire," she said. "Those winds and that weather condition is what really impacts, you know, where this fire is going to go, but more importantly, how they're able to try to contain it in those first few hours and days," Criswell said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." Communities in Los Angeles have been engulfed in wildfires in recent days, which have killed...

One blogger in China said, this isn’t China’s Spring Festival travel rush; this is China’s children’s hospital. Another blogger shared: the places crowded with people right now aren’t shopping malls or supermarkets, but various children's hospitals across Beijing. He saw so many children getting IV drips, many of whom silently developed pneumonia. Their symptoms weren’t obvious, which caught the parents off guard.

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