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  • President Trump's decision to fire the Democrat Puerto Rico financial oversight board members has just been totally vindicated.

    08/21/2025 10:50:31 AM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 11 replies
    X ^ | 08/21/2025 | Eric Daugherty
    HOLY CRAP! President Trump's decision to fire the Democrat Puerto Rico financial oversight board members has just been totally vindicated. The attorneys and consultants overseeing the Puerto Rico bankruptcy have spent millions on luxurious properties while everyday residents are dealing with dilapidating buildings. This comes after the board spent over 5 TIMES as much as estimated - over $2 billion on these "consultants," when $370M was expected. The waste, fraud and abuse has gone too far. It has to be cleaned up. 📽️ @street_gonzo
  • Director Zeldin: Obama, Biden Officials Used EPA To Launder $20 Billion In Clear Corruption

    08/21/2025 8:22:08 AM PDT · by lasereye · 42 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | August 20, 2025 | Tim Hains
    EPA Director Lee Zeldin told Miranda Devine, her podcast, that $20 billion was laundered through a network of "pass-through" NGOs from the "Inflation Reduction Act" to groups controlled by former Obama and Biden administration officials. EPA DIRECTOR LEE ZELDIN: When I was going through the confirmation process, this video comes out—it was done through Project Veritas. It was of a Biden EPA employee who was talking about how the agency was “tossing gold bars off the Titanic,” rushing to get billions of dollars out the door before Inauguration Day. He was also talking about the desire to get themselves jobs...
  • Trump vows admin won't approve wind or solar: 'Days of stupidity are over'

    08/20/2025 12:35:15 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 103 replies
    Just the News ^ | August 20, 2025 12:39pm | Ben Whedon
    Earlier this week, he called for stopping windmill operations due to an energy crunch. President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed that his administration would not approve wind or solar projects, calling the alternative energy sources part of the "scam of the century!"Trump has long criticized the alternative energy forms, notably pointing to the impact of wind turbines on the bird population. Earlier this week, he called for stopping windmill operations due to an energy crunch."Any State that has built and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTS," Trump posted on...
  • DEVELOPING: Trump is proposing a two-year cap on fraud-infested Section 8 housing subsidies, which currently have no time limits or work requirements.

    08/19/2025 4:01:55 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 49 replies
    Paul Sperry on Twitter X ^ | August 19, 2025 | Paul Sperry
    Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ DEVELOPING: Trump HUD is proposing a two-year cap on fraud-infested Section 8 housing subsidies, which currently have no time limits or work requirements. Studies show at least 1.4 million have been freeloading off tax-supported Sec. 8, which brings more crime to neighborhoods... 12:11 PM ¡ Aug 19, 2025
  • CA City crowd-sourcing tracking/reporting of Fed Immigration "following best practices by trying to note size, uniforms, vehicles, time, equipment and other critical factors. Federal immigration enforcement uses deceptive tactics..."

    08/19/2025 4:06:12 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 7 replies
    Anaheim.net ^ | August 19, 2025 | City of Anaheim
    Skip to Main Content Pay & ApplyFind & ReportCommunity InfoDepartments HomeDepartmentsCity AdministrationCommunicationsAnaheim ContigoClick the bottom right to translate to another language • Haga clic abajo a la derecha de la página para traducir a otro idiomaImmigration enforcement: timely updatesANAHEIM, Calif. (Aug. 19, 2025) — We are watching for any federal immigration enforcement in Anaheim Tuesday and continue to advise caution.We looked into a report in the area of Gilbert Street and Lincoln Avenue around midday Tuesday with no indication of federal enforcement activity, based on a canvassing of the area, talks with area businesses and consultation with our police.We are...
  • Hoover gang members pimped out women, girls as young as 14: DOJ

    08/13/2025 5:41:47 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 17 replies
    KTLA ^ | August 13, 2025 | by: Cameron Kiszla
    Eleven alleged members of a street gang based in Los Angeles are facing federal racketeering and other charges for their roles in a suspected prostitution and sex-trafficking ring. Members of the Hoover Criminal Gang are accused of forcing girls and women into prostitution on the Figueroa Corridor of Los Angeles, resulting in a 31-count federal indictment, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release.
  • Scientists Warn Of Climate ‘Tipping Point’ After Marine Heat Waves Hit 276-Year Extremes

    08/01/2025 7:01:12 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 49 replies
    Study Finds ^ | August 01, 2025 | Tianyun Dong (Eastern Institute of Technology) Zhenzhong Zeng (Southern University of Science and T
    In A Nutshell * Marine heat waves in 2023 reached record-breaking intensity, duration, and global coverage, affecting 96% of the world’s oceans. * The North Atlantic experienced a 525-day heatwave with a 276-year return period, and similar long-lasting events occurred in the Southwest Pacific and Tropical Eastern Pacific. * Researchers linked these events to region-specific drivers such as reduced cloud cover, weakened wind systems, and El Niño conditions. * Scientists suggest these extremes may represent an early warning sign of a potential climate tipping point. ================================================================================= ZHEJIANG, China — The world’s oceans experienced their most extreme fever ever recorded in...
  • Energy Dept. Attacks Climate Science in Contentious Report

    07/31/2025 11:41:02 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 20 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 31, 2025, 11:52 a.m. ET | Maxine Joselow and Brad Plumer
    The agency asked five climate skeptics to write a report criticizing the consensus on global warming. Scientists are pointing out its errors.Sea level rise is not accelerating. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will be good for plant growth. The computer models used to predict global warming tend to exaggerate future temperature increases.These arguments, routinely made by people who reject the scientific consensus on climate change, were included in an unusual report released by the Energy Department on Tuesday. The report, which is meant to support the Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to roll back climate regulations, contends that the mainstream...
  • Boom fades for US clean energy as Trump guts subsidies

    07/24/2025 10:26:40 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 34 replies
    Reuters ^ | July 24, 202510:41 AM CDT | Nichola Groom
    Summary Policy shift risks $373 billion in clean energy investments New tax credit rules could make even fewer projects eligible for incentives Solar manufacturers concerned about demand for U.S.-made products once credits expire July 24 (Reuters) - Singapore-based solar panel manufacturer Bila Solar is suspending plans to double capacity at its new factory in Indianapolis. Canadian rival Heliene’s plans for a solar cell facility in Minnesota are under review. Norwegian solar wafer maker NorSun is evaluating whether to move forward with a planned factory in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And two fully permitted offshore wind farms in the U.S. Northeast may never...
  • Fact Checking The Climate Claims

    07/23/2025 8:09:11 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 26 replies
    Issues & Insights ^ | 22 Jul, 2025 | I & I Editorial Board
    The climate alarmists regularly seize on weather events they believe will help them exploit their narrative. Naturally, they ignore contradictory information. So we see it as our duty to fill in the gaps from time to time. Following are a few examples that show why the global warming story is less scientific theory than conjecture in the service of a political agenda. - Let’s begin in the West Arctic, where the Northwest Passage is experiencing its third-highest level of sea ice extent in the last two decades. In 2009, Al Gore said, with his usual galling listen-to-me certainty, the Arctic...
  • End of transgender care at Children’s Hospital L.A. signals nationwide shift under Trump

    07/23/2025 8:26:58 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 30 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | July 23, 2025 | By Sonja Sharp
    Facing pressure from the Trump administration, Children’s Hospital L.A. officially ended care for transgender patients Tuesday. The closure of the renowned program signals a wider unraveling in the availability of care for trans youths across the country, experts said.
  • Who’s behind the anti-ICE protests?

    07/17/2025 10:55:34 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 10 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 07/17/2025 | Susan Quinn
    On a daily basis, ICE officers battle protesters who oppose the enforcement of immigration law. These attacks are coming from multiple sources, and challenge not only the effectiveness of ICE, but endanger the agents’ lives. June 9 was the onset of the protests in Los Angeles, which are actually being funded by our tax dollars:Los Angeles descended into turmoil this weekend as left-leaning activist organizations, funded by taxpayer dollars, are believed to have intensified protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). What started as a relatively small demonstration opposing the Trump administration’s crackdown on criminal illegal immigrants rapidly escalated into...
  • ‘They Coming For You’: Jasmine Crockett Suggests Cutting USAID Could Cause Another 9/11

    07/11/2025 6:47:58 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 59 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | July 10, 2025 | Mariane Angela News Reporter
    (Screenshot/YouTube/The Official Jamal Bryant Podcast: Let's Be Clear) Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett said in an interview Thursday that cutting the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) could pave the way for another 9/11-style attack. President Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing foreign aid funding in January, while Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency worked to dismantle USAID due to spending money on projects like Peruvian transgender comic books and a transgender clinic in Vietnam. During an interview with Jamal Bryant on the podcast “Let’s Be Clear,” Crockett said that cutting USAID funding could lead to a...
  • The Climate Of Misinformation: Why Business Must Now Defend The Truth

    07/11/2025 5:52:56 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 15 replies
    Forbes ^ | July 11, 2025 | ByFelicia Jackson
    When the world’s top climate diplomats gathered in Bonn earlier this year to prepare for COP29, one issue cut through the noise, not just the usual challenges of finance and emissions, but something more intangible and potentially more corrosive: the rise of targeted misinformation and disinformation in the climate space. In 2024, the World Economic Forum identified misinformation and disinformation as the world’s top short-term risk. Disinformation doesn’t just delay climate action; it destabilizes the institutions, policies, and coalitions needed to deliver it. Dr. Fredrik Bertley president and chief executive officer of COSI, the Center of Science and Industry (COSI)...
  • Black Lives Matter Day Reeks of Blood

    07/10/2025 9:46:56 AM PDT · by Angelino97 · 12 replies
    Catholic League ^ | July 10, 2025 | Bill Donahue
    Black Lives Matter Day is July 13. BLM was founded in 2013 after the death of Trayvon Martin but did not become a national force until 2020. Today it is nothing but a shell of an organization. It not only ripped off corporate donors, its legacy is one of blood. In July 2020, Patrisse Cullors became BLM’s executive director. Less than a year later she resigned after it was reported that she “used her position as the charity’s leader to funnel business to an art company led by the father of her only child.” Before she left in May 2021,...
  • ‘It’s Blatant Consumer Fraud’: Inside The FTC’s Workshop On Transgender Procedures

    07/10/2025 10:28:20 AM PDT · by Twotone · 7 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | July 9, 2025 | Mary Margaret Olohan
    WASHINGTON—In a major move against the transgender medical industry, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a workshop Wednesday in Washington, D.C., examining the dangers of so-called gender-affirming care. The FTC’s workshop, first reported by The Daily Wire in late May, has sparked the ire of leftist activists and Democrats, who argue that the focus is inappropriate. Yet the academics, commentators, detransitioners, parents, and doctors present at the workshop argued that the transgender medical industry is pushing ideology upon American children who are not able to fully consent to these life-altering procedures. “The issue of gender medicine has shattered political boundaries,” said...
  • Trump can shatter the abortion pill cartel

    07/08/2025 5:41:06 AM PDT · by Morgana · 2 replies
    The Hill ^ | July 7, 2025 | Gavin Oxley
    The abortion pill is the only life-ending drug that does not require consultation or any assurance of accurate identifying information. In fact, for a drug that is intended to end a pregnancy, distributors do not even have to confirm pregnancy at all. Anyone not looking through the rose-colored glasses handed out by the abortion lobby can see this lack of regulation for what it clearly is: a recipe for rampant abuse. Several women have already come forward, sharing how their partner ordered the pill and drugged them, forcing abortions. Victims of sex trafficking have also come forward, recounting how they...
  • Union members threaten and harass residents who dare drop off garbage during Philadelphia strike: 'This is disgraceful'

    07/03/2025 2:49:55 PM PDT · by DFG · 40 replies
    The Blaze ^ | 07/03/2025 | Carlos Garcia
    On the third day of a union strike of municipal workers, garbage is piling up in Philadelphia, and some workers are resorting to threats and vandalism against residents who dare to break the strike. The City of Philadelphia is negotiating with members of the AFSCME District Council 33 union, who are asking for a wage increase of 8% per year. The city has offered to increase wages by 7% over three years, which led to the worker strike beginning Tuesday. Since then, residents are reporting that garbage is piling up and threatening their standard of living. "This is a nightmare,"...
  • Bush teams up with notorious Trump foes to trash ‘colossal mistake’ shuttering USAID

    07/03/2025 8:54:15 AM PDT · by thegagline · 60 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 07/03/2025 | Emma Colton
    Former President George W. Bush joined up with former President Barack Obama and U2 singer Bono to comfort United States Agency for International Development employees Monday, while also taking shots at President Donald Trump and his administration for shuttering the agency plagued by accusations of fraud and abuse. “Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it’s a tragedy,” Obama said in a video that was shown to departing USAID employees Monday, according to the Associated Press. “Because it’s some of the most important work happening anywhere in the world.” Obama summed up the decision to shutter the agency as “a colossal...
  • It’s official: ActBlue busted — and they’re cornered with nowhere to run…

    07/01/2025 7:50:23 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 41 replies
    Red State ^ | Staff
    The walls are finally closing in on one of the Left’s dirtiest operations, and it’s about time. ActBlue, the Dem Party’s prized fundraising platform, is now officially facing serious heat after years of allegations about shady donations, money laundering, and foreign interference. Top executives have now been subpoenaed by Congress. There’s nowhere left to run. It appears that massive amounts of taxpayer money have been funneled through USAID and Dem-aligned NGOs. The money is missing, and allegations are that Biden’s Treasury Department was trying to cover it all up. It’s a really scary notion: the artery of the Dem fundraising...