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  • Jasmine Crockett tells Jimmy Kimmel she will ‘absolutely’ take IQ test against Trump after prez rips her

    04/23/2025 3:09:04 PM PDT · by DFG · 9 replies
    Fox News via NY Post ^ | 04/23/2025 | Fox News
    Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, told late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday that she would “absolutely” take a head-to-head IQ test against President Donald Trump. “He also called you low IQ, I’m sure you’re aware of that. Would you be willing to take an IQ test publicly head-to-head against the President of the United States?” Kimmel asked. “Absolutely!” Crockett responded. Kimmel played a clip of Trump talking about the Democratic lawmaker, during which he called Crockett the Democrats’ “new star,” and suggested the party was in trouble if that was the case. Trump made the comments about Crockett during the National...
  • California High-Speed Rail Reaches 'Momentous Milestone'

    04/23/2025 3:05:33 PM PDT · by cuz1961 · 6 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Apr 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM EDT | Theo Burman
    ... The City of Millbrae and the California High-Speed Rail Authority reached an agreement on Tuesday, resolving a legal dispute that could have blocked the project from building train stations in the area... ..In a statement following the decision, Anders Fung, the Mayor of Millbrae, said: "This is a momentous milestone for Millbrae. This historic settlement represents our commitment to realizing our true potential – where high quality public transit integrates with housing and economic development to energize the future of a thriving city. "Millbrae is committed ... ...The Millbrae stops are critical to the first phase of the rail...
  • Goodbye Social Security payments for retirees and disability beneficiaries in April

    04/23/2025 2:58:49 PM PDT · by cuz1961 · 15 replies
    Goodbye Social Security payments for retirees and disability beneficiaries in April More than 72 million Social Security beneficiaries will not receive payments in April
  • Trump Slams Zelenskyy for 'Inflammatory' Crimea Comment

    04/23/2025 2:51:58 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 13 replies
    Newsmax ^ | April 23, 2025 | Charlie McCarthy
    President Donald Trump lambasted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for saying his Eastern European country "will not legally recognize" Russia's occupation of Crimea. Zelenskyy made the comment during a press conference on Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported. Trump used a Wednesday post on his social media platform to chastise Zelenskyy for the comment, which came at a time when the U.S. president is trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war. "Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is boasting on the front page of The Wall Street Journal that, 'Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea. There's nothing to talk about here.'...
  • Trump DOJ Responds to Livid Judge Xinis Demanding More Discovery in Kilmar Abrego Garcia Case

    04/23/2025 10:52:10 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 42 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | April 23, 2025 | Christina Laila
    The Trump DOJ responded to a federal judge’s order demanding more details on its decision to deport MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador’s CECOT prison. On Tuesday evening Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, erupted on the Trump Administration after a conference to address the government’s dispute over discovery in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case.
  • An MS-13 member was sentenced to 12 years in prison for kidnapping and brutally assaulting a federal witness who testified against the gang. This was a direct attack on the rule of law and justice was served.

    04/23/2025 1:51:08 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 23 replies
    X.com ^ | 4:42 PM · Apr 18, 2025 | Todd Blanche✓ @DAGToddBlanche
    MS-13 Member Sentenced to Over 12 Years for Kidnapping, Witness Retaliation, and a Firearms Offense https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ms-13-member-sentenced-over-12-years-kidnapping-witness-retaliation-and-firearms-offense An MS-13 member and Honduran national, illegally in the United States, was sentenced today to 147 months in prison for kidnapping, retaliating against a federal witness, and unlawful possession of a firearm. According to court documents and statements made in court, on Nov. 5, 2023, Bayron Wuifredo Santos-Recarte, 27, of Honduras, together with other associates of La Mara Salvatrucha 13, better known as MS-13, kidnapped a former federal witness at gunpoint in the parking lot of a laundromat in Nashville, Tennessee. The witness was...
  • Socialists AOC, Bernie Sanders took $15K-per-hour private jet to attend ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ rally

    04/23/2025 1:44:29 PM PDT · by DFG · 26 replies
    NY Post ^ | 04/23/2025 | Chris Nesi
    For socialists, they’re sure a couple of high flyers! Far-left New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was spotted exiting a private jet with her comrade in arms, Sen. Bernie Sanders, after shuttling between stops for a campaign dedicated to denouncing the wealthy. Video from Fox News shows AOC and Sanders exiting a Bombardier Challenger 604 — despite both railing against flying private planes and the people who own them — a luxury aircraft with a lofty $5 million to $7 million price tag and costing an eye-watering $15,000 per hour to charter. The duo hopped the swanky ride to attend a...
  • This is the hill the Democrats in our country have chosen to die on…

    04/23/2025 1:35:33 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 16 replies
    X.com ^ | 3:20 PM · Apr 23, 2025 | James Woods✓ @RealJamesWoods
    Gary Tapperson 🇺🇸✝️✓ @tap_gary If Democrats can keep Trump from deporting the worst of the illegal aliens, then they’ll be able to stop Trump from deporting any illegal aliens… that is clearly their play; and they will die on that hill because it’s all they have left… 30-50 million illegal aliens… that’s their new base.
  • Joe Rogan Slams CNN for ‘Force-Feeding Me Morons’ Instead of Delivering News

    04/23/2025 12:57:03 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 7 replies
    New York Post ^ | April 22, 2025 | Alexandra Hall
    Podcaster Joe Rogan and comedian Tim Dillon slammed CNN over the network’s biased personalities and its misunderstanding of the podcast world. Dillon was recently interviewed by CNN and told Rogan it was an interesting experience that helped him learn about the media. “Their whole thing now is that podcasters are the most powerful people in the world,” Dillon said, later claiming the CNN interviewer was surprised that he appeared for the interview at all. “She goes, ‘I can’t believe you would show up. People have said that they can’t come on because Joe Rogan would get mad at them’ and...
  • MSNBC Host Jen Psaki Makes Stunning Admission About Liberal Network’s Coverage of Trump

    04/23/2025 12:54:04 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 21 replies
    New York Post ^ | April 22, 2025 | Anna Young
    MSNBC host Jen Psaki admitted Tuesday that her cable news network’s liberal-leaning audience only tunes in to watch coverage of President Trump that is “typically not going to be positive.” Viewers of the embattled network don’t expect to hear favorable news coverage or commentary about the commander-in-chief, Psaki, the onetime press secretary for President Joe Biden, revealed during an appearance on “The Grill Room” podcast. “There’s obviously a rooted value in the kind of … that MSNBC viewers expect of like we’re going to talk about the opposition, and we’re going to talk about what the opposing party is up...
  • US Can Produce Rare Earths If China Stops Exports–But There’s a Catch

    04/23/2025 9:18:21 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 46 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | April 23, 2025 | John Haughey
    It could take up to five years to develop a domestic supply chain to supplant China’s global monopoly in processing rare earths into materials needed to produce everything from iPhones to F-35 fighter jets. While the United States has most of the 17 rare earth elements and 50 critical minerals underground, it has no industrial capacity to refine them into processed metals and magnets, according to Melissa “Mel” Sanderson, American Rare Earths board member and Critical Minerals Institute co-chair. “Currently in the United States, we have zero magnet manufacturers,” Sanderson told The Epoch Times. She said that’s why China imposed...
  • Behar: Trump’s Baby Bonus Plan Meant to Increase ‘White Children’

    04/23/2025 12:36:15 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 52 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/23/2025 | Pam Key
    Joy Behar told her co-hosts Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that President Donald Trump’s plan to offer financial assistance to new mothers is to increase the number of “white children.” Partial transcript as follows: SUNNY HOSTIN: I want to reframe the issue a little bit because when I look at something like this, these proposals, I want to know why and I want to know who is making them. And so when I looked into that, they’re saying that the U.S. birth rate is declining, however, in 2024 there was a 1% increase in U.S. births, but that increase was...
  • Gen Z grads say their college degrees were a waste of time and money as AI infiltrates the workplace

    04/23/2025 8:31:11 AM PDT · by libstripper · 62 replies
    NY Post ^ | Apr.21, 2025 | Marussa Malozo
    Four years of classes, thousands of dollars in tuition and one freshly minted diploma — all to be outdone by a chatbot. As artificial intelligence floods the workplace, nearly half of Gen Z job seekers say their degrees have already been made obsolete by the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT — and they’re wondering why they even bothered hitting the books in the first place. It’s a waste of time and money, according to respondents to a new Indeed report, which found 49% of Gen Z job hunters think their college education has lost value in hoen defective...
  • Cory Bowman, Vice President JD Vance's Half Brother, Runs for Cincinnati Mayor

    04/23/2025 12:19:24 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 13 replies
    Local12 ^ | Wed, April 23rd 2025 | Julie Carr Smyth
    Cory Bowman was feeling inspired in January as he headed home after watching his half brother, JD Vance, be inaugurated as vice president. The 36-year-old Bowman, who shares a father with Vance, was already active in the community, starting an evangelical church in Cincinnati's West End and later opening a coffee shop. But he hadn't thought politics was his calling. Now, suddenly, he did. He decided to launch a campaign for mayor. "There was nobody that pushed me into it, nobody that told me that this is a pathway I should go," he said in an interview one recent morning....
  • Longtime Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin will not seek re-election in 2026

    04/23/2025 12:14:08 PM PDT · by BlackFemaleArmyColonel · 15 replies
    NBC News ^ | April 23, 2025
    Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., announced Wednesday that he will not seek re-election in 2026, ending his decadeslong career in Congress. The decision from Durbin, who is the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate and the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, will open up a leadership position in the chamber and is expected to set off a competitive primary for his seat in solidly blue Illinois.
  • Trump gives Zelensky dire warning on Russia-Ukraine war: Accept peace or risk ‘losing the whole country’

    04/23/2025 12:13:28 PM PDT · by bimboeruption · 58 replies
    New York Post via MSN ^ | 4-23-25 | Diana Glebova, Caitlin Doornbos
    President Trump issued a stark warning to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, saying Kyiv’s leader was in a “dire” situation and “can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country.” Trump, 78, was responding to Zelensky telling reporters Tuesday that “Ukraine will not legally recognize the [Russian] occupation of Crimea” — a key part of a US-proposed peace plan under discussion in London Wednesday, and a condition that has long been a red line for Kyiv. “This statement is very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost...
  • Vaccine-Wary Slovak PM Pauses COVID-19 Shot Purchases Pending Review

    04/23/2025 12:09:47 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 2 replies
    Reuters ^ | April 23, 2025
    The Slovak government halted purchases of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday pending a review of their safety by the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Prime Minister Robert Fico said. Fico, a populist who has himself declined coronavirus vaccination, has long criticised the COVID policies of the previous governments, including vaccination campaigns before his return to power in 2023. Fico told a televised briefing that based on a 2023 agreement signed by a previous administration, Slovakia was still due to receive 300,000 more vaccine doses for around 5.7 million euros ($6.48 million). He did not name the suppliers. "We have an expert opinion...
  • Tribal activists stand up for LI town’s Chiefs mascot after Trump pledges ‘fight’ over NY Native American logo ban

    04/23/2025 12:02:08 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 8 replies
    New York Post ^ | April 22, 2025 | Alex Mitchell
    High-profile tribal activists backed a Long Island school in its fight to keep its team name despite a state ban on Native American logos – joining a President Trump rallying cry. Frank Black Cloud, a member of the Spirit Lake Nation in North Dakota, said Tuesday that rebranding the Massapequa Chiefs would be a “terrible thing to do.” “Historically, we are Chiefs, we are Warriors,” said Black Cloud, 60, referencing neighboring Wantagh’s Warriors team — which may also have to drop its name. He pointed to a pair of 2004 and 2016 polls that found nine in 10 Native Americans...
  • Nolte: Tim Pool’s First Question Humiliates White House Press Corps

    04/23/2025 11:56:15 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 9 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/23/2025 | John Nolte
    Podcaster Tim Pool took full advantage of his New Media seat in the White House Briefing Room to humiliate the corporate media to their faces … and it was glorious… “Many of the news organizations represented in this room have marched in lock step on false narratives, such as the ‘very fine people’ hoax, the Covington smear,” Pool said, prefacing his first official question to Awesome White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “And now, the ‘Maryland man’ hoax, where an MS-13 gang member, adjudicated by two different judges, I believe, is simply being referred to as a ‘Maryland man’ over...
  • Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Pushes More Gun Control for Michigan

    04/23/2025 11:40:24 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 25 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/23/2025 | AWR Hawkins
    On Tuesday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) pushed for more gun control in her state, claiming, “Guns are the number one killer of young people in America.” Whitmer made the comments in Lansing, with members of the gun control lobby gathered behind her for Annual Advocacy Day. For years the left was called out for claiming guns were the number one cause of death for children in America. Breitbart News showed this claim to be false when President Joe Biden first made it on June 2, 2022. We noted the claim was based on reported 2020 CDC data, then dug...