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A Cuban customer this morning, knowing I speak Spanish, asked me if I knew of someone to rent three RV trailers he has empty. He has two at $750 each and one at $900 per month (to give one an idea of RV rents in the poorer part of Austin). I asked him why they were empty. He said, "¿No ve? Están huyendo." (Don't you see? They're fleeing.). It appears the administration's efforts at immigration control here are having a tremendous impact and causing more widespread self-deportation than previously reported. Also, my wife has been trying to sell two lots...

Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has slammed the Trump administration for using federalized National Guard troops from Texas to 'invade' liberal states. In a late night X post on Sunday, Pritzker revealed 400 members of the Texas National Guard will be deployed to Illinois and Oregon, among other locations, to deal with anti-ICE protesters and Trump's so-called war on crime. 'We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion,' Pritzker said. 'No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate. 'It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the...

No-nonsense Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents in Portland wheeled a protester away from a demonstration on a flatbed cart when he refused to walk himself. The agency shared footage of the shock interaction after President Donald Trump noted the city is 'burning to the ground' as demonstrators take to the streets to rail against the administration. In the video shared on Sunday, a protester wearing a black hoodie is face down on a metal cart, with his hands restrained behind his back and his feet leaning over the cart. The cart is pushed by agents as the song 'Ridin'' by...

@KemiBadenoch We have listened, we have learned and we have changed.

Six Flags Over Texas is raising the bar for thrill-seekers with the announcement of Tormenta Rampaging Run, a record-breaking roller coaster scheduled to open in 2026. Billed as the world’s first “giga dive” coaster, the ride will have a peak of 309 feet, launching riders down a one-of-a-kind 95-degree drop from 285 feet high, and eventually reaching speeds of up to 87 miles per hour. Along the way, passengers will flip through a 179-foot vertical loop, the world’s tallest, and twist through a 218-foot “Immelmann inversion” (a helix track named after maneuvers pulled by War War 1 pilots). In total,...

Tyler Robinson’s transgender furry boyfriend Lance Twiggs isn’t the only deranged moonbat to enjoy dressing up as a cartoon animal. Check out some of the Antifa freakazoids who have been laying siege to an ICE facility in Portland: *Two videos on link* Nothing to see here, folks. Just Portlanders keeping Portland weird: At this point, liberals are welcome to Portland. It’s our job to keep the rest of the country not weird.

A woman was shot by US Border Patrol agents in Chicago after officers were 'boxed in' by multiple vehicles. Patrolling agents were in the Windy City's South Side near 39th and Kedzie on Saturday when they were 'rammed by ten cars,' according to Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers included a woman 'armed with a semi-automatic weapon', which prompted officers to fire defensive shots. The female in question was part of an internal threat bulletin circulated after allegedly doxxing law enforcement officials online. The posts, made under the name...

The New Jersey teen driver accused of intentionally ramming into two 17-year-old girls revealed a dark obsession with one of the victims and her family in a recorded livestream leading up to the fatal crash. Vincent Battiloro said on a Sept. 23 YouTube video viewed by The Post he had a “vengeance” against Maria Niotis and ordered a pizza to her house to prank her, claiming she leveled accusations against him that got him in trouble at school. He also appeared to admit on the same video he lurked outside her house a previous time.

It seems like the Total Fertility Rate collapse is a mega-trend that is not being incorporated into conservative expectations. In addition to the economic problem of a system historically based on perpetual growth, we are going to have to come up with a practical answer to entitlements like Social Security. I don't think our present system can accommodate this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GeVG0XYTc

The “emergency” special session called by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ended this week with all five Democrat-sponsored bills passed, some on party-line votes. However, the real headline was the deep partisan divide and the governor’s furious reaction to Republicans for opposing her vaccine legislation. The two-day session, which cost taxpayers an estimated $250,000, was ostensibly meant to offset federal funding cuts. But much of the time was consumed by heated exchanges over decorum and the content of the Democrats’ agenda, which Republicans said was drafted in secret and offered little room for participation. House Minority Leader Gail Armstrong (R-Magdalena) told...

Seattle Democratic Mayor Bruce Harrell said during a mayoral debate Thursday night he has “no desire” to put repeat criminal offenders in jail, and he doesn’t know how to answer the question on whether the city is “too lax” on repeat offenders. “So, let me make something very clear. I was the one that sponsored the ‘Ban the Box’ legislation when everyone opposed it because the criminal system has had a disparate impact on Black and Brown communities, let me lead with that,” Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said in a mayoral debate Thursday night when asked a follow-up question about...

A prominent Bangladeshi business leader from Queens is turning his back on Zohran Mamdani after repeatedly backing the socialist lawmaker — and urging his community to now block the prostitution-boosting pol from becoming mayor. “Supporting prostitution means supporting human trafficking,” said Fahad Solaiman, who lives near the infamously sex-worker-riddled Roosevelt Avenue. Solaiman, who plans to vote for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, urged members of his mosque to also reject the progressive Democratic nominee in an exclusive interview with The Post Friday. “Come over here in the evening, after 8 o’clock, after the sun sets, you will see that you cannot...

Your Friday night entertainment of Pantifa losers getting arrested. See the world's biggest crybaby get arrested by ICE. The man goes by she/her pronouns and cries rape after being held by the feds. "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" Someone even dubbed the Imperial March into the video at one point. Much love to Nick Sortor.

Homeland Security Investigations Dallas led a multi-agency operation that targeted suspected human trafficking and unlawful employment at a Dallas-area strip club. Agents executed a criminal search warrant at Chicas Bonitas Cabaret in Dallas. The enforcement action resulted in 41 illegal aliens taken into custody by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Dallas for administrative immigration violations. **SNIP** ICE reported that at least five of those arrested have prior criminal convictions after entering the United States illegally. Juan Carlos Salas Medina, 30, a Mexican national, has illegally entered the country 10 times. He has convictions for aggravated assault of a family member,...

CNN's Jake Tapper confronted House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., on Wednesday about Medicaid funding for "noncitizens," as the Democratic lawmaker argued his party was trying to save healthcare. Tapper asked Jeffries about the extension of Obamacare subsidies after the government shut down on Wednesday when Democrats and Republicans in the Senate failed to reach a spending agreement before the end of fiscal year 2025 on Sept. 30. The CNN host said Republicans "characterize it as you want to give health insurance to undocumented immigrants. I understand that's not really an accurate depiction." Jeffries responded, "It's a lie." "It's a...

“As a longstanding protest, we believe strongly in the power of people, and love that Portlanders use bikes (and sometimes their bodies) to stand up for justice and community,” the official Portland World Naked Bike Ride said in a statement on Thursday.”

The Israeli Navy on Wednesday evening began to intercept the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is attempting to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, activists aboard the vessels claimed. Footage posted to social media showed a Navy vessel near one of the boats. Al Jazeera reported that IDF troops had begun to arrest participants...

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping told his Politburo on Monday that tougher law enforcement in religious affairs was needed to complete the project of “Sinicizing” all faiths, which means making them all subordinate to the authority of the Chinese Communist Party. “Governing religious affairs in accordance with the law is the fundamental way to properly handle various contradictions and problems in the religious field,” Xi told a Politburo study group, as reported by Chinese state media. Xi told the Politburo to “enhance relevant laws and policies, carry out in-depth legal publicity and education, and implement strict law enforcement” to achieve full...

Violent Antifa criminals have laid siege to the ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon, for over 100 days. Every night the encampment of wackos – some dressed as a unicorn or a chicken – blast loud music, engage in anti-government chants over loudspeakers and megaphones, and when they violently clash with law enforcement officers it reverberates around the neighborhood. Since the protest started on June 2, neighbor Cloud Elvengrail has barely slept. Assaulted and bullied by the Antifa goons, she describes the area as a “war zone” and “terrifying.” On paper she’s exactly the type of person the mob claim...

Harvard University hired a drag performer as a new professor — who is expected to teach a class on TV show “Ru Paul’s Drag Race” in the spring semester, the Ivy League school announced over the summer. The institution welcomed Kareem Khubchandani in a July message to the college community and revealed the visiting professor from Tufts University will teach in the Studies of Gender and Sexuality program thanks to the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus. Khubchandani is perhaps better known by his stage name, “LaWhore Vagistani,” — a persona that the academic has made an integral part of their...