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Long Island Rep. Laura Gillen is urging the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to hold an emergency hearing on the nationwide “surge” in deadly traffic accidents — after an unsettling investigation revealed that a serious car crash occurs every seven minutes on Long Island. “The failure to secure our roads has led to thousands of lives being cut short, families being ripped apart, and a terrible void being left in too many communities,” Gillen wrote in her letter compelling the committee to take action. The Democratic lawmaker’s campaign comes after an investigation by Newsday revealed that Long Island drivers get...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has committed to ending affirmative action and DEI in education — but top universities’ scofflaw behavior means that new Attorney General Pam Bondi will have a tough fight on her hands. In her first day on the job, Bondi announced she will require compliance with Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the 2023 Supreme Court decision that banned affirmative action in college admissions. “Educational agencies, colleges and universities that receive federal funds may not ‘treat some students worse than others in part because of race,’” Bondi wrote in a memo. What a welcome change: For...

According to a leaked government document reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, a “large-scale” immigration enforcement action is planned for later this month in Los Angeles. The action is reported to involve law enforcement officials from multiple federal agencies. The Los Angeles Times reviewed a federal government document and spoke with an anonymous source not authorized to talk to the media regarding a planned immigration enforcement operation planned for later this month. The enforcement action is reportedly being headed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

President-elect Donald Trump said he will act with “historic speed and strength” to fix the country’s problems as soon as he takes office Monday. “We have to do it. We’re not going to have a country left,” Mr. Trump said during his Victory Rally on Sunday at the Capital One Arena in Washington. “Before even taking office, you are already seeing results that nobody expected to see,” he said, adding that the changes are being called “the Trump effect.” “Since the election the stock market has surged and small business optimism has soared a record 41 points to a 39-year...

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) called for his House colleagues to “stand up to gun manufacturers” following reports of a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School (ALCS) in Madison, Wisconsin. Breitbart News noted that Madison Chief of Police Shon Barnes indicated the suspected shooter was a juvenile. The juvenile is believed to have used a 9mm handgun in the attack, according to FOX 13 Memphis.

White House climate adviser John Podesta on Monday sought to reassure the world that the U.S. would move forward on combating climate change despite the election of President-elect Trump, who has long cast doubt on the science behind the issue. “While the United States federal government under Donald Trump may put climate action on the back burner, the work to contain climate change is going to continue in the United States with commitment and passion and belief,” Podesta said during a press conference at the COP 29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. “Here at COP 29 and moving forward, the...

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Up to 1,000 Florida National Guard troops will be sent to the Texas border to stop the influx of migrants, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday morning. The soldiers will be deployed “based on Texas’ needs,” according to a press release on the Florida governor’s website. The Florida State Guard will also be sent to Texas to support Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to repel migrants at the border — which is the first time the group has been deployed out of state, the release noted. These deployments are in addition to officers from the Florida Highway Patrol, Florida Fish and Wildlife...

Former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that if the climate continues to warm, we “would lose our capacity for self-governance.” Anchor Jake Tapper asked, “What happens if the world doesn’t react? What’s the worst-case scenario?” Gore said, “The scientist who has warned us of these mega-storms and the floods and mudslides and droughts and the ice melting and the sea level rising and the storms getting stronger and the tropical diseases and climate and migrants crossing international borders in large numbers. They were dead right when they warned us about this, and so...

We need a National org / States / LOCALs Forums. Hierarchical directory. (cities/districts/user defined down to the school if citizens want/need) groups to inform, unite and call to action locally. imo. Off the controlled Big Socials. So we can address stuff like this and Primary out RINOs in each district and region. Any time there was a call to meet at Lansing MI it would show up on my feed the day after. https://www.facebook.com/groups/michforprincipledgovernment/posts/1325667701661224/ So that citizens can unite nationally and locally in a safe trusted web domain, and start becoming effective against the controlled media/big tech. Given the folder,...

WASHINGTON — President Biden implored colleges and universities Thursday to consider applicants’ socioeconomic status and their experience with overcoming adversity — including racial discrimination — after the Supreme Court ruled that race cannot be used to determine who is admitted. “Today I want to offer some guidance to our nation’s colleges,” Biden said at the White House shortly after the ruling. “What I propose for consideration is a new standard where colleges take into account the adversity a student has overcome when selecting among qualified applicants.” The Supreme Court ruled in lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North...

2:22 President Joe Biden slammed the U.S. Supreme Court for its decision striking down racial preferences in college admissions on Thursday, declaring in the White House: “This is not a normal court.” Biden scheduled a press event to react to the decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, in which a group representing Asian-American students sued Harvard and the University of North Carolina over their affirmative action programs. The court struck down racial preferences in college admissions that could not meet the “strict scrutiny” standards of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment.

MSNBC host Al Sharpton said Thursday on “José Díaz-Balart Reports” that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action programs for college admissions was a “dagger in our backs.” Sharpton said, “Well, I think that this is tantamount to sticking a dagger in our back because what they have said now is that it is unconstitutional to even consider race. And given the racial history of the country, let’s not act like blacks are behind because there’s something in our genes that made us behind. It was against the law for us to even read and write until 160 years...

Threats from Moscow. Rampant inflation. A deadly disease resisting eradication. Worries about the replacement of American workers. Sly. Ahnold. Looking at the news of the past several years, we might think we’ve been rocketed back to the 1980s, just with less neon and fewer Rubik’s Cubes. History is repeating itself, and not only through fractured politics and the threat of a new Cold War. In the ’80s, a parade of one-man armies marched into movie theaters, dispensing justice and obliterating the baddies — and all the real-world anxieties those villains represented. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and the action stars who...

In 1776 South Carolina, widower Benjamin Martin (Gibson) finds himself thrust into the midst of the American Revolutionary War as he helplessly watches his family being torn apart by the savage forces of the British Redcoats. When his oldest son's wife is ruthlessly killed, and his young son is shot through the back before his eyes, Martin is unable to suppress the soldier within that he tried to bury with his own military past.Unable to remain silent, he recruits a band

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will launch its “Summer of Action” in South Carolina on Saturday as part of a Black voter education and mobilization effort ahead of the 2024 elections. Beginning Saturday, the “Democracy for the People” event will kick off in Charleston, South Carolina and take place in at least 10 cities around the nation — including cities in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Tennessee. Charleston and places in the South were selected because “the South matters,” Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), chair of the caucus, told reporters on Friday.

On the three-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd and one year after President Biden issued reforms for federal officers, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) laid out its work in increasing police accountability while also calling for more to be done. “In the year since President Biden issued the executive order on policing, the Congressional Black Caucus has been leading the effort in Congress to improve public safety and promote police accountability,” Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), chair of the CBC, said in a statement. “The CBC has worked to ensure the Department of Justice would make progress on implementation...

President Joe Biden on Monday is set to announce executive actions to increase renewable energy production while continuing the war on the American fossil fuel industry. As gas prices reached an eighth consecutive day record high, Biden has focused on more costly and inaccessible green energy. According to Reuters, Biden will “help bridge a solar panel supply gap and kickstart stalled U.S. projects after an investigation froze imports from key foreign suppliers.”

President Joe Biden traveled to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday, meeting quietly with grieving families and first responders after the horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. The president and first lady Jill Biden visited the school, paying their respects at the memorial for the 19 children and two teachers who were shot and killed by a deranged gunman.

While speaking at Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the Texas elementary school shooting by saying we, as a nation, must have “the courage to take action.” Harris said, “Enough is enough.”