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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill) railed against the Department of Transportation (DOT) proposal to give $10,000 bonuses to only the air traffic controllers and FAA technicians who worked everyday without pay during the government shutdown. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced a similar bonus for TSA screeners who worked all of their assigned shifts during the government shutdown. "It's not fair to the thousands of other government employees who for one reason or another opted not to work without pay," Duckworth complained. "The problem with these selective bonuses is that it weakens the solidarity that labor unions need...

Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, and his wife Susan are donating $6.25 billion to fund investment accounts for 25 million American children. "It's designed to help families feel supported from the start and encourage them to keep saving and investing as their children grow," Michael said. "We know that when children have accounts like this, they're much more likely to graduate from high school, from college, buy a home, start a business and less likely to be incarcerated." Their donation will be coordinated with a new federal government program that allows parents to open tax-advantaged investment accounts...

VIDEOIs Dasha Burns of Politico planning on doing what many non-narrative journalists have already done and go independent? The question has to be asked because during her newly released interview with President Donald Trump she AGREED with him on immigration, specifically on the stark contrast between Trump shutting down the border versus Third World immigrants that continue to flood Europe. It was so surprising to hear her agreeing with Trump on this that upon first hearing this I thought it was due to a wax buildup in my ears that I have an upcoming clinic appointment to get flushed out.How...

VATICAN CITY — Catholics and Protestants around the world expressed concern this week, as Pope Leo XVI gave his recommendation that Christians pray the rosary while facing in the direction of Mecca. The pontiff made the proclamation after visiting Turkey and Lebanon, stating that not only should the West be less fearful of the spread of Islam, but all Christians should seek to live more peaceably by facing toward the holiest of Islamic sites when they pray the rosary. "This is an important step toward helping the Muslims conquer us all," Pope Leo said. "I do not think that Christians...

Hundreds of social service workers at the Minnesota Department of Human Services have identified Gov. Tim Walz (D) as the reason why fraudsters were able to steal over one billion dollars of public funds intended to feed the hungry, saying "Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud. Instead, he systematically retaliated against whistleblowers and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Meanwhile the perpetrators of the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme stole the money that was supposed to feed children during...

VIDEORichard Gere opened up his piehole recently at the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico and blasted President Trump by claiming he was "deeply ashamed" of him. He then went on to praise Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum for somehow being able to tame Trump as if he were some kind of wild animal. Mr. Gerbil is obviously completely ignorant of Mexican politics because Sheinbaum is now widely despised in Mexico because she has declared herself unable to do a thing to fight the cartels that plague that country. This attitude about Sheinbaum was on full display for Gere because a...

In a test, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) created 20 fake applications for Obamacare subsidies. Despite the absence of documentation to verify that the Social Security numbers (SSN), citizenship, and reported incomes were valid, 18 of the applications were approved for a total of $10,000 per month subsidies. Other avenues for fraud included subsidies for dead people and multiple subsidies to identical SSNs--one of which was linked to 125 insurance policies and an aggregate coverage of 26,000 days in one year. These subsidies were paid to insurance companies on behalf of the fictitious and deceased individuals--none of whom ever filed...

VIDEOO’Keefe sat down with Olmert who thought he was going to be meeting with his date, and asked about his hidden-camera comments claiming he tore down portraits of President Trump, VP Vance, RFK Jr., & NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, Joseph Olmert attempted to distance himself from the incident, calling his actions a “foolish mistake.”During our interaction, Olmert provided a fake name, gave a false phone number, denied working for NIH, & even asked O’Keefe for a job & dating advice.Our reporting independently confirmed with NIH that Olmert is, in fact, a contractor within the agency.Following the release of our investigation,...

VIDEOThe only thing worse than an incompetent FBI official is an FBI official who is incompetent on purpose so as to avoid identifying a suspect that he doesn't want to be identified. Such was the case with the former assistant director of the FBI DC field office Steven D'Antuono who LIED to Congress about the pipe bomber's cell phone data supposedly having been corrupted when it wasn't.So when will D'Antuono be indicted for LYING to Congress?

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Amid national outrage over Somali immigrants in Minneapolis raping people all the time, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz held a press conference to assure concerned citizens that not all Somali rapists are bad people. "I'm friends with a lot of Somali rapists, and they really aren't all bad," said Walz while prancing back and forth across the stage to the delight of his voters in the press. "Somali rapists are some of the nicest, smartest, most polite people I know, and many of them contribute to the economy somehow. Anyone who is prejudiced against them should be ashamed...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — A remake of the popular 2001 war film Black Hawk Down was reportedly in development at Columbia Pictures, with producers eyeing downtown Minneapolis as the primary filming location. "I got stuck there on a layover once, and I thought I'd landed in Somalia, but it was just Minnesota," producer Jerry Bruckheimer said. "I've never been more scared in my entire life. And I'm from Detroit." The original film, based on the true story of two U.S. military Black Hawk helicopters that were shot down during the Battle of Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War, was filmed using...

VIDEOApparently Klaus Schwab owns nothing and he is NOT happy. Otherwise why would the former head of the WEF act like a common TV pitchman for his Academy grift. Schwab is definitely giving off Vince Offer vibes with the difference that the latter TV pitchman offers better products.The big question is how did Schwab go broke to the extent that he is now definitely grifting with his dopey Academy? My guess is he blew all the money he scammed at WEF via some crypto that went bust or got suckered into pouring his grift money into some futuristic scheme that...

With accusations flying of war crimes on the high seas, you may find yourself asking: what really constitutes a war crime? Let us help unpack this complex issue and break down what does and doesn't make someone a war criminal: A soldier using more than one bullet: WAR CRIME. Shooting a gun a second time is why the Geneva Convention had to happen 'Wonderful Christmastime' by Paul McCartney: WAR CRIME. Straight to gulag. Bioengineering a virus in a Chinese lab that kills millions and shuts down the entire world: Nah, it's cool. Microwaving fish in the office break room: WAR...

VIDEODo you want to offend a liberal? Just yell "Six-Seven" at them. They won't know what it means but there is a good chance they will take offense as you can see in this video. Just yelling "SIX-SEVEN!" at them could end up classified as the latest Hate Crime.

NEW: Raccoon gets drunk at an ABC liquor store in Ashland, Virginia, and passes out in the bathroom. Hanover County Animal Protection says the raccoon "ransacked" the store before passing out next to the toilet. "Officer Martin safely secured our masked bandit and transported him back to the shelter to sober up before questioning," Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter said in a statement. "After a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury (other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices), he was safely released back to the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking and entering is...

VIDEOIt's 1963 all over again. A very very angry former CIA Director is clandestinely working with the off the books CIA to undermine a sitting president. At least two times in 2024 they tried to duplicate the 1963 extreme measure they took in 1963 with President Trump before he entered office for the second time. Failing that (by less than a fraction of an inch in the Butler attempt) the off-books CIA led publicly by CIA Senator Slotkin and her cohorts have shifted to replicating a Color Revolution here in the USA. The CIA has had a lot of practice...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Newly released results of a medical exam proved what many had suspected for years, as an MRI confirmed that President Donald Trump suffers from incurable advanced-stage patriotism. The results of the scan affirmed speculation that had run wild throughout the nation's capital and across the country for the last decade, with lawmakers and journalists alike alleging that Trump was riddled with love for America that had spread throughout his entire body. "It's far more widespread than anyone thought," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in a briefing. "His liver, his lymph nodes, even in his...

Elon Musk asked "why does the United States have the worst voter identification laws of any nation?" He went on to list more than 100 countries with stricter voter ID laws than we have in this country. He also pointed out that "both California and New York explicitly prohibit voters from showing their IDs in order to vote." He said "the only reason to do this is fraud." Newly declared Democrat candidate for governor of California Rep. Eric Swalwell holds the opposite view. "Look, we've already outlawed IDs for voting in California," he pointed out. "We need to take the...

Rep. Eric “Fang Fang” Swalwell (D-China), not known for being overtly masculine, made a grave error on Monday while trying to mock FBI Director Kash Patel’s manhood and ended up with egg on his face. Patel came under fire in a recent New York Post article for supposedly running the FBI like a “rudderless ship.” The piece, authored by Miranda Devine, quoted several anonymous FBI agents in a recent report who trashed Patel’s supposed “lack of experience”, “insecurity,” and “unfortunate obsession with social media.” FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino also received scathing reviews from active-duty and retired FBI agents. One...

In an effort to shock Democrats out of their romantic delusions regarding what socialism has done to humans around the world, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) introduced a resolution to denounce socialism. In the "whereas" section, the resolution listed the evil accomplishments of this ideology which included: "its collapse into totalitarian dictatorships that repressed individual liberty and resulted in the famine and mass murder deaths of over 100 million persons, and the widespread poverty of the survivors." Contrasting the dismal history of socialism with the values for which the United States of America was founded: "the sanctity of the individual,...