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The order requires: ✅ Cutting federal funding to states who REFUSE to take steps to secure elections ✅ DHS resources be used to ensure illegals are NOT voting ✅ A citizenship question on the voting form for the first time ✅ DOJ to vigorously pursue election crimes, especially in states not compliant with federal law around election integrity

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell revealed on Wednesday night that he was exhausted by covering President Donald Trump and that he was taking a week off from hosting his show, “The Last Word,” lamenting that it was only day 52 of Trump’s second term. “I know you’ve pledged to cover and be here for the first hundred days of the Trump presidency. I hope you noticed that I did not make that same pledge,” O’Donnell told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Maddow, who usually hosts her show once a week on the network, recently committed to hosting her program daily for the duration...

The former U.S. pardon attorney, Elizabeth G. Oyer, was terminated Friday after she opposed restoring actor Mel Gibson’s rights to carry a gun, her spokesperson and two Justice Department officials familiar with the matter told NBC News. A spokesperson for Oyer said that she was not told why she was terminated but that because of the sequence of events she believes her refusal to carry out a request from officials in the deputy attorney general’s office to add Gibson’s name to a list of people to have their gun rights restored may have played a role. Gibson, a supporter of...

President Donald Trump issued a pardon to former Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, just 15 days after that Republican began serving a 21-month prison sentence for a campaign finance conspiracy criminal conviction. “God used Donald Trump to save me,” Kelsey, 47, told CNBC in a phone interview Wednesday, a day after his release from a federal prison camp in Ashland, Kentucky. “His election saved me from the Biden” Department of Justice, Kelsey said. Kelsey, a lawyer who lives in Germantown, Tennessee, announced that Trump had given him “a full and unconditional pardon” in a tweet on the social media site...

The sky is falling. The United States federal government is being illegally dissolved before your very eyes. The workers you rely on to ensure that you don’t eat ground beef tainted with paint chips are being laid off en masse. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided your office last week and asked for your papers, even though you were born in Fremont. A fire tornado is due to touch down in your backyard next Tuesday. Your parents are terrified to board an airplane. Your gay nephew is terrified to go to school. Your 401(k) is in the toilet. MEASLES. Measles have...

Trump also pointed out a 13-year-old boy in the gallery who is battling cancer and has been made an honorary police officer. The president said that he was making the child an agent of the Secret Service. "Joining us in the gallery tonight is a young man who truly loves our police. His name is DJ Daniel, he is 13 years old, and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer," Trump said. "But in 2018, DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer, the doctors gave him five months at most to live. That was more than six years ago....

A BlackRock-led consortium has agreed a $22.8 billion deal to buy two major Panama Canal ports owned by a Hong Kong-based conglomerate following intense pressure from US President Donald Trump over alleged Chinese interference in the critical trade route. The sale is a victory for Trump, the Financial Times noted. The president had repeatedly suggested the US could take the Canal back, citing national security concerns: The waterway is controlled by Panama, but the ports at either end are privately owned. This deal brings two at either entry to the Canal under US ownership. The BlackRock-led group will acquire a...

As discussed in a couple of recent posts here and here, the so-called Endangerment Finding (EF) was an EPA regulatory action early in the Obama Administration (December 2009) that now provides the foundation for all government efforts to restrict and suppress the use of hydrocarbons in our economy. In one of his first day Executive Orders (“Unleashing American Energy”), President Trump directed the incoming EPA Administrator to submit, within 30 days, “recommendations to the Director of OMB on the legality and continuing applicability of the Administrator’s findings.” Lee Zeldin was then confirmed and sworn in as EPA Administrator on January...

The White House yanked a reporter at a left-leaning news outlet from the rotation of journalists given special access to President Trump, making good on its pledge to rip control away from the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA). HuffPost’s White House correspondent S.V. Date had been slated to serve as the daily print pool reporter Wednesday, but the Trump administration booted him in the wee hours of the night and replaced him with an Axios reporter. The administration also kicked Reuters out of the spot it enjoyed as a wire service. In the past, Reuters, the Associated Press and Bloomberg...

On Sunday 23 February, NBC News reported that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had dismissed his Senior Military Advisor, Air Force Lieutenant General Jennifer M. Short - “effective immediately.”Following the dismissals of General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Slife, Air Force vice chief of staff, and Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations, as well as the three service Judge Advocate Generals. This level of turbulence in the military’s top ranks is unprecedented.This is not normal or routine – and while these appointments are naturally approved by the President, they are not political appointments,...

The US Senate has confirmed Kash Patel as the FBI director, with lawmakers voting 51-49 in favour Trump's controversial choice to run the nation's top law enforcement agency has previously been a fierce critic of the FBI

The Senate has officially voted to confirm Kash Patel as the new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). On Thursday, in a 51-49 vote, Patel was confirmed to be the ninth director of the FBI. He will serve a 10-year term. In order to have been passed, no more than three Republicans could have voted “no” or “nay” on his confirmation. One of the two Republicans that voted “nay” in relation to Patel serving as the FBI director, was Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). Additionally, she also voted no on Donald Trump’s now-confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Additionally, as...

Meanwhile, Leftists are like “I KNOW TONS OF TRUMP VOTERS WHO REGRET THEIR VOTES.” When asked who these Trump voters are, they’re all like “trust me, bro…” So… are any of you Trump voters regretting your vote, or are Leftists, as usual, crazy?

Donald Trump had the last laugh on Saturday night as America defeated Canada in a brutal hockey match that saw fans in Montreal boo the US National Anthem again. Anarchy broke out on the ice as three fights in nine seconds saw the game descend into chaos with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau watching from the stands. It comes as tensions continue to flare between the two nations and close neighbors after President Trump recently threatened to impose tariffs on Canada. Trump also suggested the country could become America's '51st state' and called Trudeau 'governor', prompting backlash from the close...

The International Organization for Migration, or IOM, sent out pink slips — notice of dismissal from employment — to 3,000 employees working on a United States resettlement program, including hundreds based at home in the latest blow to an aid and development community reeling from the Trump administration’s foreign aid funding freeze.

A culturally significant development has been lost in the flood of news. In September of 2021, the National School Boards Association sent a shameful letter to part-time President Joe Biden demanding that aggressive parental criticism of local school boards be coded as threats and treated as criminal behavior. If you’ve forgotten that letter, the NSBA specifically asked the Biden administration to use “the PATRIOT Act in regards to domestic terrorism” against parents. Attorney General Merrick Garland quickly gave the NSBA what it wanted, issuing guidance to federal law enforcement to investigate parental criticism as potential federal crimes, under the premise...

President Trump has just fired all 93 federal prosecutors appointed by Biden.

Vaccine policy, Medicare drug negotiations and a potential DTC advertising ban will all fall under Kennedy’s purview as HHS Secretary.. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was confirmed as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday morning. Kennedy was confirmed by the Senate in a full floor vote. The Senate advanced Kennedy following a key procedural vote of 53 to 47 on Wednesday afternoon. The confirmation came weeks after a pair of Senate committee hearings in which Kennedy was interrogated by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle over his controversial views on vaccines, public...

Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence. In a party-line 52-48 vote, with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) crossing the aisle to vote with the Democrats, one of President Trump's more problematic nominees accomplished what was thought impossible only three weeks ago.

President Trump has pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of corruption-related crimes, including trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat vacated by former President Barack Obama. Blagojevich served as the state's governor from 2003-'09. It was a political saga toward the end of his time in office. In 2008, federal prosecutors accused Blagojevich of turning Illinois' government into a moneymaking operation for himself by trying to, among other things, shake down a children's hospital and racetrack owners. When prosecutors charged Blagojevich with corruption over the Senate seat, they presented as evidence a profanity-filled telephone conversation he had...