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  • MARK GREEN has resigned from the House. He hasnt voted in a few weeks.

    07/21/2025 12:59:38 PM PDT · by george76 · 30 replies
    X ^ | Jul 21, 2025 | Jake Sherman
    MARK GREEN has resigned from the House. He hasnt voted in a few weeks. . House is now: 219 - R 212- D 4 vacancies ... How/when do these vacancies get filled? By whom? ... They trigger special elections but often governors play games with when to schedule them depending on whose party the vacancy favors ... Special election for Tennessee - not an appointment. So usually several months from governor declaring the writ and the election ... Two Dem elections are in September. One in Virginia and the other in Arizona 7th. .... 3 of those are D vacancies...
  • Former WaPo Reporter on Russian Collusion Docs: 'Jaw-dropping...Slam-Dunk Evidence of a Conspiracy'

    07/21/2025 8:51:36 AM PDT · by Az Joe · 37 replies
    Townhall ^ | 07/21/2025 | Matt Vespa
    Last week saw a massive document dump that reconfirmed what we knew about the Russian collusion hoax. It was a deep state, legacy media, and Democrat plot to undermine the first Trump presidency. Former CIA Director John Brennan and ex-FBI Chief James Comey are now subjects of investigation over their conduct regarding their operation. The next question is when James Clapper and Barack Obama will be roped into that probe. Obama especially since his fingerprints are all over this mess.
  • Senate Takes Critical Procedural Vote on Rescissions Package

    07/15/2025 10:38:47 PM PDT · by Texan4Life · 19 replies
    Red State ^ | July 15, 2025 | Susie Moore
    Senate breaks second hurdle to formally begin debate on rescissions bill, 51-50. Vance breaks tie. Collins, Murkowski and McConnell again vote no
  • D.C. Council adopts ranked choice voting, affirming November ballots

    07/15/2025 5:52:32 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 23 replies
    Washington, D.C. council members voted to approve funding for ranked choice voting July 14 in the first of two votes on the District’s budget. The measure, known as Initiative 83, would allow unaffiliated voters to participate in the party primary of their choosing and gives voters the option to rank candidates on the ballot from their most desired contender to the least. The winning candidate must receive more than 50 percent of votes to advance as the elected official. If no candidate wins that majority, then an “instant runoff” occurs: The candidate who received the fewest first-choice rankings is eliminated,...
  • ( Washington ) Post Editor to Staff: Get on Board or Get Out

    07/12/2025 1:35:31 PM PDT · by george76 · 32 replies
    Jonathan Turley ^ | July 12, 2025 | Jonathan Turley
    Since his arrival at the struggling newspaper, Washington Post publisher and CEO Will Lewis has fought to reverse the plunge in revenue and readership to save this great American newspaper. His greatest challenge has been the staff itself, which seems willing to embrace bankruptcy rather than give up its bias. This week, Lewis sent another warning to his intransigent staff: get on board or get out. I have written about Lewis’s fight to save the Post from itself over the years. Many writers and editors seemed to believe that owner Jeff Bezos would run the newspaper as a type of...
  • D.C. Resettled Refugees Everywhere Else Except In It

    07/11/2025 5:47:21 AM PDT · by Salman · 8 replies
    Daniel Greenfield ^ | 2025-07-10 | Daniel Greenfield
    From 2018 and 2024, the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington D.C. arranged for the ‘resettlement’ of 6,299 ‘refugees’ in Maryland. Nearly 1 in 5 of them came from the Islamic terror state of Afghanistan and 1 in 10 came from the equally violent and dangerous terrorist state of Syria. Nearly 70% spoke no English. The second most common language was Arabic. However in Washington D.C., once part of the state and likely to be part of it again if retrocession reform advocates get their way, only 73 ‘refugees’ were resettled in 6 years. ... D.C. is small, but Vermont, which...
  • Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize ahead of private White House dinner: ‘You should get it’

    07/08/2025 5:41:01 AM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 28 replies
    The New York Post ^ | July 7, 2025 | Victor Nava
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Monday that he’s nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize — presenting the commander in chief with the letter he sent to the committee responsible for bestowing the honor. “I want to present to you, Mr. President, the letter I sent to the Nobel Prize committee,” Netanyahu told Trump at the White House. “It’s the nomination of you for the peace prize, which is well-deserved. And you should get it.” Netanyahu then reached across the table separating the US and Israeli delegations to hand the letter to Trump.
  • Kamala Harris Ripped Dem Governors Who Expressed Concern About Biden: ‘This Is About Saving Our (Expletive) Democracy’

    07/07/2025 12:49:13 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 34 replies
    New York Post ^ | July 7, 2025 | Steve Nelson
    Then-Vice President Kamala Harris demanded that Democratic governors worried about Joe Biden’s mental acuity fall in line behind the commander-in-chief because “this is about saving our f–king democracy,” according to a forthcoming book. Harris’ vulgar message found a loyal listener in New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who proceeded to incorrectly tell reporters on the White House driveway following the July 3, 2024, confab that “all of us said we pledged our support” to Biden. “Many of the governors were deeply skeptical that Biden could continue his campaign, and they were furious with Hochul for suggesting otherwise,” write authors Isaac Arnsdorf,...
  • The first rule in Trump’s Washington: Don’t write anything down

    06/29/2025 11:37:44 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 14 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | June 289, 2025 7:00 AM EDT | Hannah Natanson
    A new culture of secrecy in government is taking root – among career staffers and new political appointees alike.At the Department of Veterans Affairs, some employees had to sign nondisclosure agreements before reviewing plans for firings and organizational shake-ups. At the Administration for Children and Families, career staff were told not to respond in writing to panicky grant recipients whose funding had been shut off to avoid a “paper trail,” one employee said.And at the Environmental Protection Agency, several months after Elon Musk began requiring federal workers to submit weekly emails detailing five things they’d accomplished, some managers began calling...
  • Crews are putting up large anti-scale barricades around the White House and the Treasury tonight

    06/28/2025 6:22:05 PM PDT · by george76 · 131 replies
    X ^ | Jun 27, 2025 | Nick Sortor
    Crews are putting up large anti-scale barricades around the White House and the Treasury tonight.. Big news coming this weekend? ... Any guesses? ... Lisa Murkowski, who had a high chance of voting NO, just voted YES to advance the Big Beautiful Bill after she spoke with Vance 3 to go! ... JD Vance is on the Senate floor lobbying Republican holdouts to vote YES on the Big Beautiful Deal
  • Morale craters at State Department as mass layoffs loom

    06/28/2025 8:24:17 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 77 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | June 28, 2025 | Adam Taylor, John Hudson, Hannah Natanson
    The Trump administration’s plan for mass layoffs at the State Department has left much of the workforce exasperated and embittered, tanking morale as extra demands were made to assist U.S. citizens seeking to flee the Middle East amid Israel’s war with Iran, employees say. At the direction of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the State Department informed Congress in May that it planned to reduce its U.S. workforce by more than 15 percent — almost 2,000 people — as part of a sweeping reorganization intended to streamline what he has called a “bloated bureaucracy that stifles innovation and misallocates scarce...
  • Dem Congressman Tells Jewish Stephen Miller to Go Back to ’30s Germany

    06/28/2025 5:00:06 AM PDT · by george76 · 39 replies
    Frontpage mag ^ | June 27, 2025 | Mark Tapson
    <p>To paraphrase the late Freedom Center founder David Horowitz: scratch a tolerant, inclusive, compassionate “liberal” and just underneath the surface you’ll find a raging, totalitarian racist and antisemite. Wisconsin Democrat Congressman Marc Pocan is the latest example of this ugly truth.</p>
  • Washington Post journalist busted by DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro for allegedly possessing child porn

    06/27/2025 5:26:35 PM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 23 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | June 27 2025 | Victor Nava
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist was arrested and charged after authorities allegedly discovered child porn on his work computer, DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Friday. Thomas Pham LeGro, a 48-year-old video editor at the news outlet, was taken into custody on Thursday after FBI agents raided his Washington, DC, home and discovered a folder on his work laptop which contained 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse material, according to Pirro’s office.
  • Award-Winning Washington Post Editor Arrested and Charged for Possessing Child Pornography

    06/27/2025 3:13:44 PM PDT · by george76 · 32 replies
    Gateway Pundit, ^ | Jun. 27, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    A Washington Post editor who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Senate candidate Roy Moore and his alleged attraction to minor teen girls, was arrested for possessing child pornography. Thomas Pham LeGro, 48, was arrested on Thursday and made his first appearance in US District Court on Friday. According to federal prosecutors, a review of LeGro’s laptop revealed a folder that contained 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse material. Thomas Pham LeGro’s bio at the Washington Post bragged about his coverage of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore. Recall that Roy Moore was lambasted over his alleged attraction...
  • DEVASTATING BLOW: Unelected Harry Reid-appointed Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough just STRUCK DOWN the DEFUNDING OF MEDICAID FOR ILLEGALS in the Big Beautiful Bill...AND defunding "gender-affirming care" under Medicaid and CHIP!

    06/26/2025 6:34:29 AM PDT · by george76 · 73 replies
    X ^ | Jun 26, 2025 | Eric Daugherty
    DEVASTATING BLOW: Unelected Harry Reid-appointed Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough just STRUCK DOWN the DEFUNDING OF MEDICAID FOR ILLEGALS in the Big Beautiful Bill...AND defunding "gender-affirming care" under Medicaid and CHIP! No, I am not joking! A 2012 Democrat lackey is gutting the bill right before our very eyes! She says the provisions that limit federal dollars for states that give illegal aliens Medicaid benefits require 60 votes, not 50+1. She also struck out limits on Medicaid, Medicare and ACA premium tax credits for non-citizen immigrants, per Punchbowl. IGNORE THIS, OR FIRE HER, Mr. Thune ... The Senate Parliamentarian must be...
  • Jury orders man to pay $500K for assaulting police officer who killed himself after Capitol riot

    06/23/2025 1:59:40 PM PDT · by Responsibility2nd · 25 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 06-23-2025 | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal jury on Monday awarded $500,000 to the widow and estate of a police officer who killed himself nine days after he helped defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of rioters, including a man who scuffled with the officer during the attack. The eight-member jury ordered that man, 69-year-old chiropractor David Walls-Kaufman, to pay $380,000 in punitive damages and $60,000 in compensatory damages to Erin Smith for assaulting her husband, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith, inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. They awarded an additional $60,000 to compensate Jeffrey Smith's estate for his pain...
  • Court Decision Could Spell Disaster For DC Law Allowing Noncitizens Ability To Vote

    06/22/2025 3:16:21 PM PDT · by CFW · 14 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 6/20/25 | Jason Hopkins
    An appeals court on Friday revived a legal challenge against a Washington, D.C., law allowing noncitizens, including illegal migrants, the ability to vote in local elections. An Obama-appointed judge in March 2024 dismissed a lawsuit challenging the district law giving certain noncitizens the right to vote in elections within the District of Columbia, ruling that the plaintiffs did not have standing to sue. However, an appeals court Friday breathed life back into that challenge, finding that the law could dilute the voting power of citizens. “As long as each person can be said to have suffered a distinct and concrete...
  • Capitol Police Arrest Man Accused of Running a Republican Congressman Off the Road and Threatening Him

    06/21/2025 7:19:35 AM PDT · by george76 · 11 replies
    Western Journal ^ | June 20, 2025 | Jack Davis
    An Ohio man was hauled into court Friday after a Thursday incident in which Rep. Max Miller, a Republican from Ohio, says he was run off the road. The driver of the other car allegedly shouted anti-Semitic slurs at Miller. Feras S. Hamdan faces a misdemeanor charge of menacing with an ethnic intimidation specification, because Miller is Jewish .... At Hamdan’s arraignment, Rocky River Municipal Court Judge Joseph Burke set the suspect’s bond at $500,000. Rocky River Prosecutor Michael O’Shea had sought a $25,000 personal recognizance bond. “Threats against elected officials — I’m just not gonna tolerate that,” Burke said,...
  • Rep. Abe Hamadeh Fires Off Letter to DOJ Requesting Investigation into Runbeck Election Services’ Breach of Protocols in 2024 Election in Several States – Blank Ballots Mixed with Voted Ballots in Runbeck Warehouse!

    06/19/2025 4:42:41 AM PDT · by george76 · 6 replies
    Gateway Pundit, ^ | Jun. 18, 2025 | Jordan Conradson
    Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday, asking the DOJ to investigate “credible claims” of election security violations involving the Arizona-based ballot printing firm, Runbeck Election Services. Runbeck provides ballot printing and mail-in ballot services in 31 states and 54% of the nation’s voters, according to its website. The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on this shady private entity, which was founded by leftists and transports and scans Maricopa County mail-in ballots with no oversight or chain of custody before they are processed and counted by the County. As revealed in Trump-Endorsed former...
  • Trump would have ‘carte blanche’ to reorganize agencies, lay off feds under Senate reconciliation bill

    06/17/2025 3:19:20 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 14 replies
    Government Executive ^ | 17/6/25 | Erich Wagner
    Aprovision added to the Senate iteration of Republicans’ proposed budget reconciliation package would give the White House $100 million to reorganize federal agencies as President Trump sees fit, without congressional input in what critics decried as an “abrogation” of Congress’ power and responsibility. The measure appeared in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s portion of the legislation aimed at reducing federal spending in order to partially pay for tax cuts for the ultrawealthy and increased immigration enforcement, alongside proposals to make future feds pay more towards their retirement benefits, particularly if they wish to retain protections against being...