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  • Famed Investigative Journalist James O’Keefe Drops Cryptic Message: “I am Not Suicidal… Please Pray for Me”

    04/30/2025 4:05:34 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 43 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | April 30, 2025 | Jim Hoft
    James O’Keefe, the fearless journalist who rocked the political establishment with undercover exposés of ACORN, Planned Parenthood, and Big Tech, has just released a cryptic and chilling message that’s raising alarms across social media. In a video posted to X, O’Keefe appeared visibly shaken as he stated, “I’m going dark. I’m not suicidal. Pray for me. This one scares me, guys.” The message was accompanied by the ominous caption: “T-minus seven days.” “T-minus seven days” is a countdown expression that means seven days remain until a specific event occurs. Watch:
  • Trouble With The Trees: Vandals chainsaw dozens of trees across downtown L.A.

    04/20/2025 4:13:07 PM PDT · by rottndog · 68 replies
    LA Times ^ | April 20, 2025 | Susanne Rust
    L.A.'s fragile urban canopy was dealt a vicious blow this weekend when a chainsaw-wielding vandal cut down a number of shade trees along South Grand Avenue and other areas of downtown, according to media posts and photos uploaded to Reddit and Instagram. The Los Angeles Police Department told The Times it had no information about the tree destruction, and an email and phone call to the city's Urban Forestry Division went unanswered Sunday.
  • Judge Blocks Trump From Retaliating Against Another Top Law Firm

    04/15/2025 4:14:40 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 70 replies
    The New York Times ^ | April 15, 2025, 4:43 p.m. ET | Zach Montague
    It’s the latest setback to the president’s efforts to wield government power to punish the legal industry. A federal judge called it “a shocking abuse of power.”A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Trump from punishing the law firm Susman Godfrey, calling the retribution campaign he has waged from the White House against the nation’s top firms “a shocking abuse of power.”Ruling from the bench, Judge Loren L. AliKhan of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia said that the executive order Mr. Trump signed last week targeting the firm stemmed from a “personal vendetta.” Susman Godfrey represented...
  • RFK, Jr. Laying Off Entire Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy

    03/30/2025 8:55:38 PM PDT · by cgbg · 86 replies
    Forbes ^ | March 29,2025 | Bruce Y. Lee
    The U.S. is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic with more and more long COVID cases emerging. Bird flu is a growing threat. Measles outbreaks have been occurring. Antibiotic-resistant organisms continue to spread in healthcare settings. So what do you do next if you are in charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is supposed to protect the health of humans in the U.S.? How about lay off the entire staff of the U.S. government’s Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy?
  • Trump administration moves to end union rights for many federal workers

    03/27/2025 7:56:33 PM PDT · by cgbg · 48 replies
    The Hill ^ | March 27,2025 | Rebecca Beitsch
    The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said Thursday that President Trump signed an executive order limiting numerous agency employees from unionizing and instructing the government to stop engaging in any collective bargaining. The OPM memo references an order from Trump that has yet to be publicly posted, but a fact sheet from the White House claims that the Civil Service Reform Act that allows government workers to unionize “enables hostile Federal unions to obstruct agency management.”
  • BREAKING: SCHUMER CAVES

    03/13/2025 3:51:55 PM PDT · by cotton1706 · 148 replies
    X ^ | 3/13/25 | Townhall
    Republicans just took a total victory over Democrats under the leadership of Donald Trump. Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer just took to the Senate floor to admit TOTAL DEFEAT! "Unless Congress acts, the government will shut down tomorrow at midnight. There are no winners in a government shutdown — but there are victims...I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option."
  • Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules

    03/13/2025 10:39:54 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 186 replies
    Politico (Yeah, I know) ^ | March 13, 2025 | Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney
    A federal judge on Thursday ordered federal agencies to reinstate tens of thousands of probationary employees who were fired amid President Donald Trump’s turbulent effort to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy. U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office to sidestep legal requirements for reducing the federal workforce. Alsup, a San Francisco-based appointee of President Bill Clinton, ordered the Departments of Defense, Treasury, Energy, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs to “immediately” offer all fired probationary employees their jobs back. The Office of Personnel Management, the judge said, had made...
  • BREAKING: Left-wing protestors just took over Trump Tower, NYC by force.

    03/13/2025 9:54:35 AM PDT · by Vendome · 147 replies
    Eric Daugherty via X ^ | 03/13/2025 | Eric Daugherty
    BREAKING: Left-wing protestors just took over Trump Tower, NYC by force. They've overtaken the first floor. They won't leave. They are chanting "free Mahmoud, free them all" - reference to the pro-Palestine man from Columbia University.
  • Canada is Worried All Its F-35 Can Be Disabled With a Push of a Button in Washington: How Realistic It is

    03/10/2025 11:48:36 AM PDT · by buwaya · 129 replies
    Defense Express ^ | 3/7/2025 | defense express
    Canada has ordered 88 F-35A fighters for $14.5 billion, and now they are really discussing whether the Pentagon can press a special button and turn all those aircraft into scrap metal if necessary The fear of being left unarmed and defenseless against armed aggression is exactly what the Trumpists have sown among their allies with their latest actions. Canadians, who have repeatedly heard threats from Donald Trump about the "51st U.S. state" and face the tariff war unleashed by Washington, have become anxious about their security. So, Canadian expert circles have expressed concerns about the ongoing acquisition of American F-35...
  • Billionaire investor Mark Cuban warns ‘this is how recessions start’ as federal cuts ripple through the economy

    03/09/2025 11:14:46 AM PDT · by Jim W N · 56 replies
    Yahoo Finance ^ | 3/8/25 | Jason Ma
    Mark Cuban warned the federal government's abrupt and deep cuts are having spillover effects across the economy, eventually leading to a downturn. The latest jobs report showed solid gains, but it pointed to early effects of DOGE cuts and didn't capture the wave of layoffs that have come more recently. Meanwhile, Wall Street is pricing in greater odds of a recession.
  • Bondi makes BOMBSHELL announcement, a "truckload" of Jeffrey Epstein files have arrived. "We got them all Friday at 8am."

    03/03/2025 7:04:15 PM PST · by hardspunned · 132 replies
    Fox ^ | 3/3/25 | Pam Bondi
    "Thousands of pages of documents." "I have the FBI going through them." "It's now in the possession of the FBI." "Kash is going to get me a detailed report as to why all these documents and evidence had been withheld."
  • President Trump: Europe has spent more money buying Russian Oil and Gas than they have spent on defending Ukraine —BY FAR!

    03/03/2025 12:13:17 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 52 replies
    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Europe has spent more money buying Russian Oil and Gas than they have spent on defending Ukraine —BY FAR! Mar 03, 2025
  • BREAKING: House Passes Trump-GOP Budget

    02/25/2025 8:49:34 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 75 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 02/25/2025 | Paula Bolyard
    The House floor was the scene of some drama tonight—what else is new?—as Republicans launched a last-minute push to drag a few GOP holdouts over the finish line to pass the budget resolution. Earlier in the night, Republican leadership brought the resolution to the floor, only to pull it back before voting could be completed, reportedly because the GOP had a few more votes to whip. Once those were secured, the resolution came to the floor again. The party-line vote was 217-213 in favor, with three House members abstaining. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the lone Republican holdout. He had...
  • Trump continues federal purge, gutting cyber workers who combat disinformation

    02/07/2025 4:20:12 PM PST · by RandFan · 34 replies
    politico ^ | Feb 7 | By John Sakellariadis and Maggie Miller
    The Trump administration has moved to push out a swathe of federal workers previously involved in combating election-related disinformation, according to three people familiar with the matter, amid allegations from congressional Republicans that their work unfairly targeted conservative speech online. Roughly half a dozen employees from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who once worked in its Election Security and Resilience division were notified Thursday night they were being put on administrative leave, said the three people, who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.
  • Trump and allies make more moves to wrest control of USAID

    02/03/2025 12:06:45 AM PST · by ransomnote · 80 replies
    Washington Post ^ | February 3, 2025 | John Hudson, Ellen Nakashima, Missy Ryan, Mariana Alfaro and Faiz Siddiqui
    The Trump administration and its allies moved to tighten control of the U.S. Agency for International Development over the weekend, signaling an intent to act forcefully to bring the U.S. foreign policy apparatus in line with the president’s “America First” approach to engaging with the world.SNIPVoorhees was put on leave after he did not allow officials from the “Department of Government Efficiency” to access a sensitive compartmented information facility — commonly known as a SCIF — an ultra-secure room where officials and government contractors take extraordinary precautions to review highly classified information, according to three current and former USAID officials.SNIPWhen...
  • US foreign aid freeze sends shock waves around the world

    02/01/2025 11:19:47 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 62 replies
    Deutsche Welle ^ | 01/31/2025 | Peter Hille
    “It was a surprise to us,” said Roshan Pokhrel, Nepal’s secretary of the Ministry of Health and Population. “We really did not expect all the programs to stop.” He told DW that the phone call had come early this week, announcing an end to all US-funded programs in Nepal. “The programs in nutrition and in maternal health will certainly be affected. It’s definitely a worrying sign to us,” Pokhrel said. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending US development aid on his very first day in office. Funds have been frozen for 90 days while his administration reviews...
  • Trump issues shock threat to 90,000 new IRS staff as he reveals where they may end up working under him

    01/25/2025 5:38:39 PM PST · by Morgana · 91 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | January 25, 2025 | ISHITA SRIVASTAVA
    Donald Trump has revealed what could be the fate of nearly 90,000 newly hired Internal Revenue Service (IRS) staff, suggesting he might 'move them to the border'. Hours after he was handed over the presidency, the Republican leader signed an executive order to stop the hiring of all federal civilian employees until 'his Administration can determine that it is in the national interest to do so'. Apart from the IRS, the decision is temporary for all other federal offices. He also froze funding for the Inflation Reduction Act commonly known as the bipartisan infrastructure law. President Trump's order has since...
  • Trump signs executive order to withdraw from the World Health Organization

    01/20/2025 5:28:52 PM PST · by janetjanet998 · 74 replies
    Trump signs executive order to withdraw from the World Health Organization
  • Recall effort against Newsom underway in California following alleged mishandling of LA fires

    01/13/2025 10:28:05 PM PST · by Libloather · 50 replies
    NY Post ^ | 1/13/25 | David Propper
    A recall attempt to knock California Gov. Gavin Newsom out of office is underway as he faces sharp criticism for his handling of the Los Angeles wildfires – with opponents labeling his leadership as a “series of catastrophic failures.” Organizers against Newsom vowed to file papers in the next two weeks in hopes of jumpstarting the process that could lead to the Democrat’s ouster in the middle of his second term in the governor’s mansion. The state leader – along with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass – is fighting for his political life as the wildfires have torched more than...
  • Special counsel Jack Smith resigns from the Department of Justice

    01/11/2025 2:30:45 PM PST · by CFW · 37 replies
    Just the News ^ | 1/11/25 | Charlotte Hazard
    Special counsel Jack Smith resigned from the Department of Justice following the completion of his cases against President-elect Donald Trump. Smith resigned on Friday, according to a court filing that was submitted Saturday. Officials at the DOJ urged U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon not to extend the court order issued by her to block Smith's final report, according to Politico. The two cases that Smith oversaw were the so-called classified documents case and the federal election interference case.